Judge — August 12, 1905 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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DRAWINGS and all contributions sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and address written plainly on each and every separate shetch. The accompanying tobe or descristtoe letien press should in very instance be wrtien upon ts tndvokdaal pictore, and NOT upon a separate sip of pacer. nctosare of stames Wo the fall amount of postage ls also trout. 10 tnsure safe and prompt return of material not accented. SEEKING IN PORTSMOUTH FOR PEACE IN ASIA, iu IS RATHER ODD that the Japs and Russians should have come away off here to the shore of the American continent to settle a scrap ‘on the other side of the world. Since wars began it has been the custom, when both sides had their fill of fighting, to send forward envoys under truce into some common meeting-ground between the armies to seek an agreement. Diplomacy has sometimes moved in devious paths to heal the ruptures of states, but it would be hard to find anything to match the peace pow-wow at Portsmouth. Of course there is a reason why ‘the envoys have journeyed so far out of their orbits, but probably none can fathom it to its depths. The new era of world politics gets an illuminating flash from the incident. There is no longer an insulated nationality. An ever-grow- ing network of intimacies binds the peoples of the earth together. Another consideration is the jealousy of European states and the fear of secret diplomatic in- terference. But a major reason, one which is flattering to our pride, is the American influences at work in behalf of peace. President Roosevelt is the magnet that has attracted the envoys to this side of the world. There ought to be something in our very atmosphere—an elixir of freedom and justice and a love of peace that will mightily dispose the commissioners to fair- ness and sweet reasonableness in their de- liberations. Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng recently remarked in a speech at Amherst College that Washington has become the centre of world politics. Let us hope it has become the inaugurator of a world peace as well. AND MAYOR DUNNE still procrastinates while the world waits. [F JAPAN gets that billion—wel, it will almost look as if war has been put on a paying basis at last. | Ciicaco is slowly filling up again. The beef-trust fugitives in Can- ada are drifting back one by one. slele ANOTHER Washington crop leak: Kansas corn in fine condition ; wheat 10,000,000 bushels ahead of last ‘year. A “FAD AND FANCY”: Let me write the scandals of a city and I don’t care who has the jobs in the legislature. eee ND NOW Dr. Joseph Simms has found that man doesn’t think with his brains at all. We still clung to the idea that some did. ND MR. FOLK is being trained for 1908 by a certain wily Nebraskan ! ‘Such a useful young man to see his finish so near at hand! eee HY CAN'T Senator Mitchell slip away quietly again and under some other name repeat his former success in a new neighborhood? eee AYBE what the kaiser said to the czar was something like what that governor of North Carolina once said to the governor of South Carolina. elerse TALK about phitanthropists! look at that Indianapolis justice who adver- tises to wed couples for fifty cents and give meals and lodgings for a day to boot! Bae ee A PITTSBURG DISPATCH says: ‘+A sign reading, ‘ Men’s overalls, Io cents; men’s shirts, 10 cents,’ caused a stampede of 3,000 women in a store, and many fainted.” Something queer about this. Was the stampege away from these masculine things or after them? SECRET OF OUR WOES OUT AT LAST. THe EXPLOITATION of the follies of the rich in the press of late has stirred the social reformers and dreamers of equality to fresh strivings to impress the public with the merits of their several utopias. As one gropes his way among the multitude of schemes expressing the vague as- pirations for a juster and happier social state, it is with a sinking of the heart that he discovers the confusion, the irreconcilable differences, everywhere man- ifest. After all the theories we have had in recent years, here comes a new econo- mist, who declares that at the root of all ‘our troubles is the street-sewer. Civiliza- tion is going to seed, wealth is anaemic and poverty base, the very heart’s blood of the nation is paling into watery fluidity because of our sewerage system. Crime increases, moral stamina is weakening, the stout traits of the fighter and winner in life’s battles are no longer apparent; edu- cation grows faddish, women are losing the old domestic virtues, men are side-stepping the serious duties of life because our cities are drained through pipes into the rivers and the sea. The argument is that in dumping the sewage into the ocean we are robbing the land of its vigor, which is nitro- gen. Nitrogen exhaustion is the explanation of the evils that beset civili- zation. Now that it is all made so plain there is no reason why the sewer systems shouldn’t be ripped out and civilization saved in short order. With such a simple remedy at the door, the nations hesitate, and meanwhile the millionaire has got the pie and a good start, while the hungry mass pursues in vain and helplessly bangs the air with unavailing cries. eee GOOD FOLKS WORRIED BY THE EXPOSURE BUSINESS. GINCE the exposure business has become rampant and spread to every corner of the republic and into all our public affairs the good, plain people have taken alarm, and two widely divergent views of the moral sig- nificance of it all are taking shape in many quarters. On the one side is a state of panic over the graft hullabaloo. ‘* Everything is rotten !”’ exclaims a lot of Christian folks. ‘‘ No,” reply the more optimistic; ‘the public conscience is aroused. A great civic and industrial house-cleaning is on.”” The latter view is undoubtedly nearer the truth, but it is not all the truth. There is always a background of revenge, of personal spite and disap- pointed ambitions, in every‘ awakening.” The tail-end grafters “peach”? on the gang, the embittered briber squeals, the beaten corruptionist discovers a conscience. Then, as some one has said, the graft- kettle just naturally boils on so merrily that periodically it slops over and the pub- lic sees the smoke and hears the hiss of steam. The hopeful sign about the pres- ent commotion is that the lid has been pulled off by a larger contingent of respect able citizens than usual, and with the sole Purpose, apparently, of playing the hose of publicity and cleansing wrath on the secret ways of grafters and plunderers. MONTANA comes forward, timidly but with pride, and offers the world a potato-incubator. In layers fifteen feet deep, they grow, yielding 30,000 bushels to the acre. Gog JN ONE Kansas county there is a man and seven-eighths to every gil, and a Massachusetts town shows three and one-sixth babies to a fam- ily, while New York's aristocracy has only three-fifths of a baby per house- hold. Population ’s getting choppy. comicbooks.com