Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 493, 10 January 1902 — EDITORIAL COMMENT [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL COMMENT

i It is said that Andrew Carnegie's bt ncfactions now amount to 552.000.'"Mi, last accounts Russell Sage’s grand total was “S cents. —Chicago Record Herald. • * • Mr Bourke Cockran has not yet satisfied many of his admiring auditors that it would be possible to stop the war in South Africa without risk of starting a bigg>r and worse Quarrel Washington Sta- • • • * Those who have be*n just on tht point of inventing wireless graphy for some time but haven't quite perfected the thing yet can see several features in which Marconi's device will come short of uiti mate success—Chicago Tribune. • • 4 The doubts expressed as to the genuineness of the Marconi experiments rtcal! tne time when cautions people believed the first Atlantic cable was a failure, and the operator. He Sauty. who sent the first message. k ®yth.—New York Kevening Post. • a • The South Americans are flighty and contentious, but they will grasp the idea before long that the con quests of the twentieth veentnry will be made with the factory and the plough, and not with the sword —Philadelphia Public Ledger. a a a Why should the Berlin paper ima Sine that it is possible to induce us.

under existing circumstance*, to intervene in behalf of the Boers? W® are not exactly In a position just now nor do we desire to intervene at the risk of war with a first class power in behalf of anybody —Chicago Chronicle. • • • The future of baseball, particularly of the National league variety is not especially roseate if the mag nates get through quarreling before spring and the courts will decide who is really in control of the National league there may be some prospect of a prosperous season. At present it looks more than doubtful. —Chicago Chronicle. • • • The fact that a Vanderbilt declined to run against a Belmont fer Congress in New York city surrounds the practical politicians of the district with an atmosphere of regret over a good thing that has escaped. Nevertheless. they find consolation in the thought that the Vanderbilt corpora tions are not likely to lose all interest in their political relatione. — Pittsburg Dispatch, | • • •

i By the time that the epoch-making address at Chesterfield is thoroughly r digested it will be discovered that . it is a string of disappointments, and . it will be interesting to see whether the fiction of Lord Rosebery's greatness survives. It has already outlived a series of rude shocks, but there is a greater cause for disillusionment now than ever before.—Chicago Rec ord-Herald. • • • The trouble with grand opera is that the stars are so well paid they feel they can afford to gratify their whims. Their most frequent whim is not to sing when they are billed to sing. The fact that the public roars and their manager raves makes not the slightest difference. They are a pampered lot. and need what, unfortunately, they can’t get—an occasional good spanking.—Kansas City Journal.

• • • It is a favorable sign that men prominently identified with large industrial affairs as employers are taking a keen interest and showing anxiety to come to a clear understand ing with the leaders of labor for the security of their common interests. Understanding is what is chiefly needed and lack of it is in most cases the cause of conflicts, which must always result in loss for one side or the other.—New York Mail i and Express. * * « The report that the Pan-American congress, in session in the City of Mexico, has failed utterly to arrange for a practicable scheme of arbitration can hardly be considered surprising. It would have been truly remarkable if the various South American republics, with their divers and conflicting interests, had consented to* accept arbitrtion of their difficulties. —Chicago News. •. • - Probably Great Britain would not oppose fortification, but the question is whether, even so. it would be worth while. As has been frequently pointed out. the most effective protection of the canal would have to be furnished bv the navy. Probably when the country makes up its mind upon the matter, the decision will be that extensive fortification of the canal will be useless and inadvisable. —Sioux City Journal. • ♦ *

The plan proposed by the conference held in New York between the leaders of capital and ’ahor. for the appointment of a supreme committee to investigate and determine all controversies which mav hereafter occur between empiover and employee in any of our great mining and manufacturing industries, commends itself to the approval of all wise and good citizens. It is a most palpable step toward the just sett'ement of the unhappy differences which have hitherto existed, and the prevention there by of the costly and bitter fruitage that all extended “labor strikes" inevitably produce—Kansas City World. • • • There were no operators on duly on the Illinois Central railroad when the accident at Rockford occurred, during the night, and this is probab'y the ca§» on most roads after nightfall. The pecuniary loss resulting from such collisions as the one on the Wa bash, in Michigan, and the smash-up on the Illinois Central railroad near Reck ford, will be large enough in the aggregate to pay for a great deal of help, and if the money had been spent in that way precious lives would have been saved.—Milwaukee Wisconsin.