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chised need not signify their perpetual exclusion from political privileges enjoyed by other citizens. Personally, I do not believe that any man has a moral right to say that any other man, born a citizen, sane and not a criminal, shall not vote, no matter what the extent of his book learning or his prosperity. Judging from the statutes of the states on this subject, I hold this opinion with a minority so small as almost to be "one with God" quoting our friend Mr. Baer of the Reading. Wherefore, it appears, the best thing for the colored brother South to do is to get suddenly busy in pursuit of the white man's learning and the white man's property. The generation that forcibly annexes foreign territory has no sentimental pity to expend upon anyone. Our national motto just now reads, "Root hog or die."

land where Britain and Germany have recently been doing their best to throw their South American trade to the merchants of the United States. Ostensibly, they wished to terrorize the Venezuelan government into paying disputed debts. Really, they made a test of the Monroe doctrine, and they found it still stout as a steel bow. "Divine right," in the person of the Kaiser, has carried a chip on its shoulder for Uncle Sam's eye for a long time past. Uncle Sam is too smart to pay any attention to dares. But he will call a swift and certain halt to the first step across the Monroe Doctrine. There is room and a most cordial welcome on

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many Germans and other Europeans as wish to come here and exchange the station of Subject for that of Citizen. There is no room here for "divine right."

As for the German and British claims against South American countries-the Hague arbitration court is the proper place to settle them. Uncle Sam will see to it that the other American republics obey the decrees of that court, if they are to enjoy our protection.

POLITICAL barometers indicate an

infectious tide of fraternity and reconstruction sweeping over and enveloping all Europe. While royal embraces are being exchanged at Sandringham, at Reval and between the less distinguished rulers of Balkan states, the diplomatic forges appear to be in full blast to cement stronger international relations. "Newspaper wars," as Bismarck termed the periodical scares circulating through the press and picturing the dread approach of violent international disturbances, come and go, but to all keen observers of contemporary affairs in Europe, the conviction grows stronger from time to time that rational men control the helms and preserve peace despite popular grumblings and new international enstrangements. But it is nevertheless true that while the diplomats of the European courts find their task an easy one these days, the domestic and colonial affairs of the big nations flame up lurid and threatening.

While Mr. Chamberlain is destined for South Africa on the magnificent warship Good Hope, determined to analyze the South African embroglio at close range and further the policy of imperial federation, the British isles are in a state of turmoil rarely witnessed. Ireland is under martial regime. Nearly one-third of Redmond's fellow Irish parliamentarians are under lock and key, and the coercive policy of the British government, to solve the Home Rule issue of Ireland, promises once more to be abortive. The Balfour government trembles before the popular revolt against the educational

struction" passes from rank to rank in the British empire. It gives the cue to the policy of the Balfour regime and the trip of the colonial minister to South Africa. "Reconstruction" is the word passed to the war office, to the colonial office, to the ranks of industrial and commerical representatives who witness their prestige gradually slipping away alongside the gigantic strides of the United States and Germany as industrial and exporting nations. King Edward and all England crave peace. Although from now on England will take a more aggressive attitude in world affairs, as indicated in the cooperation with Germany in a naval demonstration before Venezuela and the revival of a stiff policy in the Balkan states and Orient, it is with a view of repairing the fences that have

LATEST PHOTOGRAPH OF KAISER WILLIAM II., IN THE UNIFORM OF THE DEATH HEAD" REGIMENT

been trampled down while all energies were concentrated upon South Africa.

Kaiser William's visit to King Edward at Sandringham was a signal success in so far as it revealed the genuine friendship between uncle and nephew, as well as the abilities of the Kaiser as a Nimrod. From a political viewpoint, the visit was impotent and a failure. William's visit was an earnest attempt to patch up the rents in Anglo-German relations caused by the pro-Boer agitation in Germany. It escaped general observation that Delcassé, the French minister of foreign affairs, recently entered into mutual negotiations with Lord Lansdowne to submit all issues between France and England to arbitration. But it had not been overlooked by the lynx-eyed German Kaiser, who is jealous of any approaches made by England toward its traditional enemy. The Kaiser had not come to England to intercept the King of Portugal and together with King Edward discuss the secret treaty regarding Portuguese territory in South Africa, although it is now certain that England will take advantage of this treaty to make sure its lordship over Delagoa Bay and the Portuguese territory bordering its new South African domain. Kaiser William had no intention of discussing the evacuation of China by foreign troops, as this proceeding is already in progress with the Japanese as the first to leave. Kaiser William's purpose was to test the political and popular relationship between his empire and England,

The German monarch returned to Potsdam, realizing more clearly than ever that hopes of a closer alliance with England must be abandoned for the present at least. He had hardly stepped from the royal train when the tragic news was conveyed to him of the death of Privy Councillor Friedrich von Krupp, the famous descendant of the

line of "Cannon Kings" of Essen. It is not often that a nation is so deeply stirred as was Germany by the announcement of von Krupp's sudden demise under circumstances, which aside from their purely pathological aspects, must make the leaders of the empire call a halt to the policy of the social democratic and revolutionary propagandas of Germany. The death of Krupp was due without doubt to the sensational attack of the Vorwaertz, the mouthpiece of the social democratic party, edited by Bebel, Singer, Stadthagen and other luminaries of the party. For months the press of Italy had hinted at strange proceedings on the island of Capri, where Krupp spent several months each year. Then came the alleged "expose" of the Vorwaertz. Suicide was the thought which passed through all minds when Krupp's

death at Essen was first made known. But the medical bulletins left no doubt that death had been caused by apoplectic strokes. The funeral cortege, winding its way in the darkness of the night and by the light of flaring torches with the Kaiser and notables of the empire marching solemnly behind the funeral carriage from the heights of Villa Hugel to the humble shanty in which the first of the "Cannon Kings" labored night and day against poverty and mishaps, was a picture for the painter. Krupp lies in the quiet, lonely little churchyard beside his father, and soon other matters will turn attention away.

But the tragic Krupp incident serves to inflame once more the bitter feud between the reactionaries of the empire and the loyalists. The Reichstag election are drawing near and the Kaiser himself has taken the field to destroy the social democratic propaganda, which he regards as the greatest peril endangering the security of the throne. The social democrats expect to corral 3,000,000 votes at the next Reichstag elections, and, des