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“While there is Life there's Hope” No. 1451 VOL.LVI, AUGUST 18. 1910 ablished by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY A. MiLtRR, Sey amd Treas. NAL Mironens, Prev. 1 West Thirty-first Street, New York. - I Tis to smile at the vehemence _ with which Secretary Ballinger repulses the mrimation that he will retire from the Cobinet. It may not be true that Sena- tor Crane pointed out to him as proper tor rmitation the glorious and renowned example of Quintus Curtius, who jumpe¢ into the hole that was bother- iog Rome. But anyhow, there is no Curtius in Bailing “There is no resignation on the card,” he said, “I am simply on my way to the coast for a little rest.” He is willing, it seems, te go down with the ship, but not to be jettisoned ; no, not much. It is to smile at Brother Taft. One tikes his fide of course, but it might be more profit- ably employed. Nearly every one applauds the Presi- dent’s resolution not to spend so much of his strength this year in anybulation and oratory. He is a pleasant man and makes an agreeable personal im- pression wherever he goes. But it seems not to be a very deep or profit- uble impression. popular chiefly with persons who were crested in the gate receipts that were swelled by his presence. Judging by lowa they have done him much more harm than good, while the labors that have helped him have been those he has done in Washington or in Bev- erly, working at his job. His fidelity to Ballinger ane his unnecessary !auda- tion of the Payne tarift will cost the Republican party something this fail, but it must be understood and remem- bered that his fault has oeen not that he got the Republican party nto a scrape but merely that he has failed, His travels have been so tar, aE REE to get it out of one. Mr. Taft is a lot better than his party, as a President ought to be, but he has not managed, so far, to drag his party up to his own level. The party was in a scrape the moment the attempt began to reform the tariff. No doubt any party that attempts to reform the tariff is in a scrape. Mr. Roosevelt in 1904 plead with the voters to entrust that work to the Republicans who believed in pro- tection. It was so entrusted and then laid on the table for four years, when Taft came in and it had to be lifted off. But it would have been a great boon to Republicans if it could have been left to be done by Democrats. @ Tpae desires of the Spanish Govern- ment in the matter of the re- ligious orders and of giving full rights of public worship to’ non-Catholic wor- shippers, scem~so*moderate and rea- sonable to us Americans that we are apt to be surprised at the refusal of the Vatican to consent to them. It is comprehensible, however, that the Vatican should think it better politics to have privileges that are out of date taken from it against its protests, than to consent to give them up. At any , the present Pope is not likely to give anything up, whether it is politic or not. He and advisers make lit- tle account of the spirit of the times. If there is to be a readjustment and concession of what is gone, or even of what may wisely be conceded, it will have to wait, no doubt, until the course of human events has brought about another college of cardinals. It may be assumed that the Spanish Government, represented by the cheer- ful young King and Premier Cana- feias, has not been stirring up the Vatican out of election by the mere restlessness or any wanton hunt for What they are after is to satisfy the party in their own country, wants Spain to become a modern nation. To rouble. which that end they would have more com- plete freedem in religion, more secular education an1 some limit to the num- ber of religiots persons and societies who can take r*fuge in Spain and live there without paying taxes and doing their share of the work that other citizens do. It is to see whether Sefior lejas can carry through his progra:n against the opposition of Rome. Sp: is, of course, overwhelmingly Catholic and considerably religious, and in what the government attempts it must rely on Catholic votes. And Spain’s popu- lation, we read, is still 7o per cent illiterate! TTORNEY-GENERAL WIGK- ERSHAM gives opinion that under the act of July 2, 1864, which provided for the assemblage of sta in the old Hall of Representatives, no objection can lawfully be made to placing in that hall a statue of Ger Robert E. Lee, clothed in the Confed erate uniform. We don't see how any body can read the act and come to a different conclusion. izes the President to invite the States to send in not more than two statues apiece * The act author “of deceased persons who have citizens thereof and illustrious for their historic renown, or from dis- tinguished civil or military such as each State shall deem worthy of this national commemoration.” Un der this statute General delegate from Virginia to “ Statuary Hall” and Jefferson Davis is a fit delegate from Mississippi, and we don't doubt will be from that State Also old John Brown is a proper dele gate from Kansas, and if Kansas hasn't furnished her quota of should like to see her send old John along. atic as he was, he is one of the great country, been sery Lee is a fit sent heroes we historic figures of the renown will He really be- and one whose increase with the years. longs in that hall. When Utah sends in Brigham Young, of course there will be a snort, and perhaps about that time Congress may conclude to disband the e It is likely that that will have be done some time or other, but m while there is no valid objection to | or Davis or old John Brown, TI were all conspicuous figures in a great tion, crisis of the country’s history. ‘Comicbooks.com