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hile there ts Life there's Hope.” VOL. NLVIL MARCH 22, 1906. No. 1821 17 West Trawry-Fosst Street, New York. HE sand ging in Sen- ate Committee of the Philippines Tariff bill is so inful a. subject that we apol- ogize for al- luding to it The purpore of the Lill was to help Philippines trade and dif- fuse an ap- proximation to prosperity among some pines by granting them free of the Fil trade with this country except as to and to reduce and co and sugar, those commodities xether after three years By a vote of ) five the Philip- pines Committee of the Senate refnsed bill, Republicans voting fer it and The to the bill was that it the to report the three five inst open objection meddled with the sacred tariff, 1 dissatisf, 5 with the ction of nators President's views about railroad r: its defeat but making also contributed Some day this bill will be passed when, no man can tell. and meanwhile tariff wan tonly to strangle the prosperity of the Live the existing will continue Heaven | has Philippines ows never coveted remote barrassing possessions, and will wel he day that sees the string ent cts them with this repxblic but it would like to see them get some- square deal while our re sponsibility for them lasts, and. that the existing tariff denies them. Let the Senate go on now and refuse to fortify Perhaps in time may ng like the Philippine ports some juster nation than ours capture them The Philippines Tariff bill was one of four measures the Administrati especially wanted to pass. The others the Statehood bill, the San Do- mingo bill and the Railroad Rates The last will probably be- come a law in some form, and may be the end for long over it in the Senate. The the Senate to the bill by Mr. Hepburn and ¢ is not only stron; Whether the bill, as finally amended and passed by the Senate—ié it do ure measure the better in the wrangle oppos architected ion in passed by the He but exceedingly. respectable S pass—will be good fer anything, is, of course. some- hing that only a seventh son could predict, but it is certain that our ex- tensive railroad industry will survive any measure that survives the Senat Meanwhile the spring comes on whooping. and, so iar as appears at this crop that is known to have been harmed by our crop, and the more urgent anti-ice-trust newspapers insist that there was not_ much amiss with that. writing, the only queer winter was the i TH free r and independent Ameri Mr. Saturday in cans who met at Sickes’ the compare country house first March to ideas about the progress and destinies of the American advertisement that rice got rather more than they needed. Burt did _ no harm, Some amusing stories were written about them, but the stories did They were not able to agree on sudden methed of ameliorating human destinies, but that Only the of Socialists who were of their num- no harm, either. any handful s not surprising. her had a definite ready-made remedy for everything to offer, and to the ma alists yet, that All the same, had a first-rate time ard of any recent gith- the conditions were more for enjoyment. We did not es of Mr. Stokes’ yuests any people of recognized stu- Phey were all people who had jority, who are not Se remedy did not appeal they have We have n where orable notice among the n pidity ideas, and wanted to talk about them. Some of them may have been long- winded—there may have becn trouble about that, but we surmise that on the whole they had a lot of fun, and justi- fied their gathering. There is no bet- ter fun than good talk, and there are no ideas that are better adapted to make good talk than such as concern pprovement of society, and the promotion of human happiness. the i UR over-the-border contemporary, the Canadian Magazine, depre the charm- ing and all-conquering American gitl.” and that “the attractive American is she educated abroad, who imitates the voice of the English ud the dress of the French woman, and who the cates the fuss made about avers most who is woman money acertting from Chicago pork or New York stocks to buy, so far as ch things may be bought, the old world graces of speech and attire.” The F ant cernment. ish woman's voice is pleas- To imitate it shows a wise dis- The French woman's dress fter it is ie Ameri- and to pattern to use the hest model. Give credit then for taste in bor- rowing the English woman’s voice and not her clothes, and in borrowing the French clothes instead of some of her other properties—her hus band, for example. It is a wise girl that having the treasures of the world knows what to take and what to let alone woman's to choose from Mereover, not tell whole American girls. cpinion that our contempo about the We disagree with its most attractive of the story the them: those who are educated few of them are educated vbroad that they hardly count. ‘The abroad. qualities (besides. money) that have American attractive to Europeans are homebred, the fruit of made women cur own atmosphere and institutions. The American girl is the product of a freer social condition, and of more abundant liberty of thought and behav- ior than is experienced by any of her Europe. Therein the 1 difference between her and them. It is a difference that is not always profitable to her, hut when it is prof- itable it is highly significant and helps a great deal to make her interesting. sisters in lies comicbooks.com