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even taxes unless they can live and get money. But all such inquiries have to do with details, and bankers and such expert people will suggest the answers to them if they are still alive when the war is over. Details also are the correspondence between governments about neutral rights and such matters, including the recent remonstrance of the German Government through its ambassador about American activity in selling war supplies to the Allie Complaints of this nature induce cor- respondence and are an incentive to diligence in the State Department, but except that they are a check to medi- tation they do not seem to have visible results. Persons who complained not long since of President Wilson's politeness in wishing the Kaiser many happy re- turns of his birthday, doubtless no- ticed that on April 12th King Albert of Belgium acknowledged with his thanks a similar greeting from our thoughtful President. incidence of blu — UR domestic concerns intrude upon attention, but only get scant measure of it. Wall Street has W. HOHENZOLLERN CANUTE been doing business again. Somehow people have concluded that American stocks will still be valuable no matter what, and have been buying them with a good appetite in rising markets. Nobody seems harsh enough to grudge the stock brokers this relief. The in- ternment of their business for four or five months, followed by sluggish mar- kets, had made them seem almost as worthy as the Belgians. In Massachusetts an effort to amend the Constitution so as to forbid the use of state moneys for support of institutions under sectarian control failed in the Legislature on April 8th hy a vote of 107 to 115. There is still a majority against this measure, but not so large there was last year. To pass it would take a two-thirds vote. The purpose of the proposed amendment is precautionary, the in- tention being to protect the funds of the Commonwealth against the pos- sible inchnation of Roman Catholics to use them for school and other purposes when they get the power, as they probably will pretty soon, But to amend a State Constitution against such a possibility as that seems too much like trying to be wiser than events. We hope the Massachusetts brethren will never do it, but just sit tight and see what happens. The Catholic brethren will probably spend the Massachusetts money with justice if they ever get the power, and if they don't, the old Bay State could be as easily colonized as Kansas was in anti- siavery days, A really heated politico- religious controversy in Massachusetts that would get the whole Union in- terested might be the making of her commercially and sell every abandoned farm in her borders, The real estate interests in Massachusetts, if no one else, should set their faces inst any rash meddling with her Consti- tution, Here in New York, where, under Providence, we were lately freed from the dominion of a Roman Catholic Governor, we could almost bear it to have him back. Governor Glynn was good in state bookkeeping and could add up figures so they stayed so, and would, no doubt, have signed the garbage bill. he Uplift, in) Wisconsin he standing on its head. It was not kind to sinners when it had the right of way, and now some of them have clbowed their way back into office and are inclined to be harsh. It does not do in politics to disfigure sinners too much, even in pitching them out for the people’s good. When they get hack they are apt to be inconsiderate. If the Wisconsin Uplift will just watch what happens to the German Uplift in Belgium they will understand all about it. seems to comicbooks.com