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QOETHALS’ TA8K.
(.Scuttle P.-L)
Halliard cut, In the Panama canal,
in to behave itself In the future. The
master builder, Maj. Gen. George W.
Hocthals, Intimates us much when he
withdraws his resignation as governor
of the canal zone and hastens back to
l.is work from his vacation.
.N'early one hundred ships have been
oelayed by the recent stupendous
Slides of earth, and the emergency de
s -rves the attention of the man who
s overcome the greater problems of
construction. Goethnls knows his task
. .id he has the ability to meet It.
The present problem of Panama
arises from the Insistence of a neigh
boring hill to seek the canal bottom,
'i his has delayed commerce, made the
p. sage of the waterway an adven
and prevented its free use. Goe
i hals has gone back to Panama to
ekle this hill. Commerce will be
heartened by his return to work. It
..ill know that at the earliest possible
moment the canal will be freed from
s incubus and returned to the ser
\ ice of the commerce of the world.
THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.
(Boston Record.)
The Armenian atrocities were first
denied and are now “justified” by the
ingenious Count von Bernstorff. De
nials of the murderous campaign of
the Turks is futile. So is the effort
at justification. The simple truth is
(let the Turkish government, encour
aged by German support, feels secure^
tn pursuing its traditional policy of
...I s acre and outrage upon a people
whose chief offense is not being Mos
lems The Turkish program of atrocity
’ id been discouraged by and since
Gladstone's courageous arraignment;
ut with the accession of Kaiser Wil
helm's moral and military support
there came a recrudescence which has
been accelerated under the war condi
tions and the alliance between Ger
many and Turkey. The sins of Abdul
Hamid did ont die with his elimina
tion. For the present abominable
course of the Turks against the Ar
menian people responsibility rests
upon Germany in no small degree. And
the T'nlted States timidly accepts the
contention that the Turkish govern
ment could endure no interference from
outside with its “domestic affairs." For
shame.
THE FUTURE OF MR. TAFT
(New Haven Journal-Courier.)
Kvents appear to have reached a
point where a brother of Prof. Taft
has felt called upon to state that the
former president is not a candidate
for the presidency, and that, if ap
proached, he possesses the strength to
resist capture. This is in keeping with
what has been known by his friends
..f his privute resolution.
on the other hand, it is Prof. Taft’s
own fault that mention of his name
i . nnt connection has been made from
time to time. We warned him months
ago that, if he did not cease talking
sense, he would inevitably have to
meet the issue in some form. Here
he has been traveling about the coun
try, visiting organizations of a colle
giate, religious and fraternal character
anil actually considering in their pres
ence policies of government and prac
tices of a free society in a sane man
ner. What penalty is there for a man
who insists upon talking common
t nse and disclosing no personal re
.i.t whatever over his failure to be
I. -elected to the office he held?
There are a whole lot of us In this
country who do not want William
Howard Taft to return to the limita
tions and vexations of political life,
not. that we want withheld from him
honors which he might enjoy, but
(hat the country needs the more or
!c: >• constant advice of a man who has
bad his political experience and es
caped from it with unimpaired diges
II. n. Our retired public officials
usually scold the life out of us and
bore us to death with their rejected
philosophies. In Mr. Taft we have a
■. n, saturated with official experi
ence, whose views are radiant, whose
eptimlsm is strong and whose general
measurement of human life and am
.
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.onions is accurate. Now that we have
gut the very accuiate instrument we
.iced to aid us to keep in the straight
and narrow path of political rectitude,
.n heaven's name why should we
chuck it? No, siree.
WOMEN AFTER THE WAR.
(Boston Record.)
Women, in the proportion of their
numbers to men, will occupy a posi
-ion after the present war which al
ready excites apprehension. In coun
tries where women outnumbered the
men before the war, the disparity must
■e tremendously increased by the war's
mortality. It has been stated that
.ne excess female population, above
.he number of males, before the war,
was, in:
..ruled Kingdom.1,297,501 i
Germany . 845,661
r'rance . 645,211
Total excess of females in
three countries.2,788,372
What iiuve been the losses of men
,n the war? It is impossible to say
• uti accuracy. But making allow
ances for duplications in reporting and
-or recoveries of those badly injured,
>ve ure safe in saying that at the end
of the war the excess of women over
men in the three countries above-nam
ed will be nearly or quite doubled.
There’s the problem. It is not a
•vliolesume situation. It offers one of
.he indictments against war. We sug
gest no solution; we have seen no
Honorable solution suggested. We have
.cen mention of the possibility of tacit
recognition of polygamy. We have
seen mention of the possibility of the
slate’s standing sponsor for children
ooin out of wedlock. We have seen
mention of the possibility of assisted
emigration of women from Europe to
other countries where the supply of
men is larger.
But we have thus far seen no seri
ous mention of an intention to consult
.r.e women themselves. It seems to us
.hat one thing the iigures and the fu
.ure possibilities show is that war is
something besides "men’s business.”
«ve think it is emphatically women’s
.oneern, too. What do you think?
ALL NEUTRALS CONCERNED.
(.Seattle P.-I.j
In the position it has taken, both
with the government of Germany and
that of Great Britain, the United
States is not speaking alone for Itself
but for all the others neutral countries
of the world. Any abandonment of the
position which this country has as
sumed would be an abandonment not
alone of American rights, but of the
lights of all other countries now neu
tral or which may be neutral in fu
ture wars. It is an attitude which
uemands the supremacy of law above
force.
These are points which are brought
out in a lengthy editorial In the Nlewe
Jourant, one of the leading Journals
of the Netherlands, which expresses
its warm approval of the American
altitude and of the latest—possibly
.ust—American note to Germany on the
jubject.
If the neutral nations of the world
should abandon their present conten
tion that warring nations must at all
limes and under all circumstances re
train from Interference with the sov
. eign rights of neutrals, they sur
. ender the whole case of neutral rights
and also the supremacy of the law
-hove force. The Dutch paper does
not hesitate to declare that If the Unl
-td States and other neutrals abandon
-ne position which they have thus far
.aken they surrender practically all the
rights which neutrals now have.
The Netherlands, it believes, would
..ave to recognize as valid even the
.nvasion of Its territory, should Ger
many assert that It is necessary to
ommU such an act in order to maln
aln its existence. Nor is this as far
etched as Borne may conceive. The
.vaters of the open ocean are as neu
-nil, under the settled laws of nations,
.3 is the territory of any neutral sa
lon. An invasion of the rights of neu
trals on the open waters of the ocean,
in which all have a common interest,
is identical in effect with the invasion
f neutral land territory. If one is
permitted to pass without protest the
Jther must be.
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