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whole of last year and most of the others show considerable increase.

It must not be forgotten, however, as the Treasurer of our Missionary Society reminds us, that we need an increase not of $60,000 but of $210,000 if the pledges and appropriations of the Board are to be met by Sept. 1. Where is this to come from? It will be remembered that we have still 4,279 congregations to hear from. If these would give on an average $35.30, the full amount required would be in hand and they would each have given, even then, only a little more than a third of what the congregations already heard from have given. We know that among those as yet silent congregations are those that are poor. We know also that there are others among them that are rich. Their average ability may not be up to the average ability of those that have already contributed, but it is considerable. No congregation is doing its duty that makes no offering..

It is simply impossible that two-thirds of all our congregations should be willing wholly to neglect so fair, manly and open a proposition as this of Apportionment. It offers simply the privilege of knowing and bearing what is a reasonable share in the work of the Church. It needs only that the matter shall be brought rightly before them for their own good and for the Church's good. At the present rate of progress not more than half the congregations of the Church will have contributed to this general work at the close of the year. An unjust burden is laid upon these, but that burden should be easier to bear than the burden that will lie upon those who have the spiritual oversight of the others, if there be any, that shall have brought no offering at all.

renders it impossible to organize plantations of a profitable size. Of 76,000,000 acres in the Philippines all but about 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 acres are to-day public lands, but a fair development of the region has been impossible because of restrictions upon the entry of capital. No mistake can be greater than to prevent the use of natural resources on account of an absurd fear that some one will make some money out of it. All civilization is based upon the prospect of profit. Free ownership of the material resources of a country which, as the United States has done, makes their acquisition the most easy, develops the most rapidly. Australia passed through a generation of restricted development until a land system more or less modelled upon our own was adopted, and experience has shown there, as it has shown everywhere, that all restrictions on the free development by capital of public lands is a loss both to the government and the public which imposes it.

Reports in regard to cruelties in the Philippines by isolated officers and men, which have been in possession of the War Department for nearly a year, but had not been transmitted to Congress, have been published, after being surreptitiously obtained, by Senator Culberson, of Texas. The most grave breach of faith was displayed in this publication, but it would have been better and wiser for the Government freely to publish any charges that it had received, and have shown, what is true, that all the authorities of the Government have systematically worked to redress this serious evil. (One of the charges now published having been sifted is found baseless.) Fortunately, President Roosevelt, by his speech and sound public sense, has brought the public to a thorough appreciation of the fact that cases of cruelty in the Philippines were isolated instances, such as always occur where a large army is brought in contact and conflict with savage and treacherous races. The spirit

and as peaceful as any tropical territory anywhere. Nor must it be forgotten that there is in progress there a most efficient system of education and a larger number of Americans teaching than has ever been seen in the history of tropical colonization. When the work is over, the Philippines will meet the same approval from the American public as has been given to our work in Porto Rico and Cuba.

Governor Taft has been received with cordial respect by the Pope, Cardinal Rampolla, and the members of the papal hierarchy in Rome. Negotiations have begun with regard to the terms on which the friars' lands will be bought, with every prospect of a successful termination. It is a remarkable proof of the same liberal justice with which the United States confronts this difficult question that it is the first country since the problem of monastic property had to be solved, to propose a money purchase upon a fair value, conditioned upon such a change in ecclesiastical policy as would In the solve the problem presented. elsewhere, there is a Philippines, period in the early elevation of a savage race when the monastic system and a mission clergy organized in brotherhoods are useful.

In the Philippines, the friars have for a time done work most valuable both for civilization and for religion; but it is also true that there is a period at which this particular agency can longer be used, and at this juncture the property amassed in one spirit comes to be used in another. The papal Camera made an effort, which fortunately failed, to lead Governor Taft into diplomatic recognition of the Vatican. It will probably make a second effort to secure, under some concordat, disguised or explicit, recognition of the Roman Church as occupying a special position in the Philippines. It will fail, and the Pope's speech to Governor Taft shows an appreciation, at least on the part of the head of that Church, that it is better off under the American system of liberty and equality

The House is about to consider the government of the Philippines and will probably substitute its own Bill for that passed by the Senate. The essential difference between the two measures is that the House Bill provides for the early organization of a representative chamber elected by Philippine voters with a high property qualification and limited powers. Governor Taft and the Commission strongly urged this, and while it will have its dangers, it is a step in training for self-government, which is wise, just and essential.

The House provides also for a gold standard for the Philippines instead of silver, a foolish concession made in the Senate bill to the prejudices of silver republican Senators. India has been forced to abandon the gold standard; China has just suffered an increase of $70,000,000 to the amount of its debts, owing to its maintenance of a silver standard and the falling of silver exchange on the sum which must be paid under the war indemnity. Every Asiatic country retaining the silver standard is in a deplorable commercial condition in consequence.

Both measures limit the amount of land which can be taken up by corporations in the Philippines to 5,000 acres. This is a concession to the agitation made in this country against any sales of land until the Philippine government is fully organized. Governor Taft urges that this limitation

waged is best expressed in a private letter from General Bell, which meets the charge with regard to the concentration camps at Batangas and Tayabos. He says, what is little understood by critics at a distance, that in a tropical country the food supply is always narrow, being constantly reproduced. The result is, that when hostilities commence there is an instant interruption of the supply to a degree unknown in temperate regions. The United States authorities, acting with a merciful efficiency, provided camps to which great masses of the public came and where they were better fed than they ever were in their lives. This population was also aware, which critics in this country are not, that those who were struggling against American supremacy, while they included some who showed independence, included also that large number of lawless men in every Asiatic and tropical country, who find it easier to live upon blackmail than to submit to lawful authority and engage in ordinary industry. As the work of restoring order went on, an increasing portion of the population aided in the work, exactly as in South Africa for the last six months the number of Boers enlisted in the British service who had previously been opposing it was one-third as large as the entire number in the commandos now surrendering. By the end of the year the American army in the Philippines will be reduced to 18,000. The islands are now fully pacified,

The anthracite coal strike has continued over another period with daily displays of isolated cases of violence, due in general to local and personal friction between idle miners, laborers, "breaker boys" and the guards at the various mines. These guards, who number now nearly 4,000, are employed, paid and directed by the various railroad and mining corporations affected by the strike, but have the same powers as a city police. Enlisted for a temporary purpose, this body of men has a very large proportion of characterless adventurers. It is a disgraceful failure to discharge public duty and a deliberate invitation to public disorder for a great State like Pennsylvania to maintain a system under which, on occasions of great strain to local order, no state agency is provided for its preservation.

The miners have thus far shown singular self-restraint, and their leader, Mr. John Mitchell, is exerting himself in every way to prevent demonstrations leading to disorder. There has been some rioting however. All signs point to a long cessation of work in the anthracite district, though some still believe in a speedy settlement. The present status of the strike here is the practical stoppage of work everywhere but in the Lackawanna mines, where two-thirds of the engineers, firemen and pumpmen remain, and a few small washeries are supplying domestic trade.

In the Wyoming district most of the pumps are kept going in a makeshift fashion. In the Hazleton district more difficulty is experienced and in Shamokin and Pottsville water has already done considerable, damage. Fully a third of the striking miners are said to have left the region in search of work elsewhere, so that even were the strike to cease the normal output could not be reached for some time. President Roosevelt is doing all in his power to bring about a settlement, but silence is observed as to the result of his conferences with the Commissioner of Labor and representatives of capital. The situation has been somewhat complicated by the reluctance of railroad employees to handle trains carrying deputies, special policemen or non-unionist miners. bituminous coal miners of the New and Kanawha River districts of West Virginia have ceased work and the strike is slowly extending throughout this State, but as yet without disorder. The number of miners involved is about 30,000, chiefly negroes or Italians. The Union organization here is recent and incomplete.

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the labor union. The first two pleas were conceded and the third waived. The men struck, as they had a right to do. They received aid which would not have been extended at any other time, by sympathetic strikes among the ice men, retail butchers, department store employees and a number of subsidiary branches, and, it is scarcely too much to say, the general public.

The Beef Trust, by their illegal proceed-. ings, which are now established by sworn testimony presented by the Federal authorities, have forfeited public confidence and sympathy. So far as public sentiment goes, they have placed themselves in the position of outlaws. The result was-and it is a striking proof of the extent to which all men and all corporations are liable to find that the protection of the laws is closely related to their own willingness to obey them-that the meat packers found themselves unable to secure protection for the men which they have put in to take the places of the striking teamsters. The brutal, heart-breaking side of the matter is that every one of the new men injured-some 150-was a man who needed the work, who was willing to work, and who was seeking to earn an honest livelihood, and found himself without the protection of the laws, beaten, stoned, a number being maimed and severely injured. After a week of turmoil, at a secret conference, the strike was compromised upon a scale two cents an hour less than was demanded by the men, with a recognition of the Union, through the joint signature of an agreement which was negotiated by the Mayor.

The Board of Trade and Transportation in New York passed a resolution drawing the attention of the President to the fact that as railroad and interstate commerce are involved in this strike he has authority, under the Act passed in 1888, to tender the offices of a commission for the purpose of arbitration. This course was taken by President Cleveland in 1894. Nothing was accomplished at that time, and in the end Federal troops were forced to interfere and the Federal courts, through injunctions, took charge of the work of restoring order when both the local and state authorities had lamentably failed. No such breach of order has taken place in York, has added to the legal inhibition

The Supreme Court at Albany, New

laid on the Meat Trust by forbidding its members to carry on the business of manufacture, sale and production of meat. This has been done upon the ground that the evidence submitted shows that the six firms concerned, through their managers, have systematically manipulated prices and acted in contravention both of the

the anthracite coal strike. As the act in question was repealed in 1898, the New York body has dropped the question. The impression is undoubtedly deepening among candid men that while each side is at present within its legal rights, the railroads ought not, being a public corporation, to push their differences to the point of inflicting a vast loss on the gen- special law of New York with reference eral community.

Any public pressure which might be exerted by the President or his officers in order to force the railEroads to reconsider their blunt refusal to negotiate, would be approved by the general body of public sentiment throughout the country.

As usually happens at the close of a long period of great prosperity and high wages, the existence of one great strike Eleads to another. Strikes are in progress in Rhode Island on the street-car lines; a strike or lockout is expected in the bituminous mines; the Chicago strike has already been mentioned, and there is scarcely a city in the country in which there has not been a number of small strikes or lockouts.

to combinations in restraint of trade and the common law which prohibits common vendors from making an unfair discrimination or combining in order to collect their debts. In short, at this point, as at so many others, when the machinery of the law has been set in motion it proves to agree with the general public sentiment, which has resented the attempt of this "Trust" to deal with a necessity of life as a monopoly.

Immigration restriction has received a new form in this country in the proposal in the House Bill, now before the Senate, that no immigrant over fourteen years old shall be allowed to land who cannot read. This provision is already in force in Australia and New Zealand, the latter

the Radicals fell from 178 to 129, while the Radical Socialists rose from 57 to 90 -a clear transfer to the more extreme wing. When M. Waldeck Rousseau resigned, therefore, President Loubet first called M. Henri Brisson, an uncompromising Radical, who in 1898 organized a short-lived ministry after the previous Chamber was chosen, four years ago. M. Brisson declining, President Loubet summoned Senator Combes, who represents the Progressive Republicans. This group carried 111 seats, a third of the Republican vote. It was the centre of the old combination between the Moderates, Radicals and Moderate Socialists. The supporters of the old ministry claimed that the new Chamber had 338 ready to support it in a Chamber of 589. This was an over-estimate, the number being about 290, which their opponents concede. The real issue is, whether the old alliance can secure enough men from more advanced factions for a working majority. The Cabinet organized by M. Combes retains the three leading members of the previous Cabinet-Delcasse, for Foreign Affairs; Andre, for War; and Leygues, for Public Instruction. These members show a determination to continue the same policy that has been carried on with such success during the past two years. If this Cabinet can command a majority, France will continue the highly satisfactory progress in the development of republican institutions which has marked the administration of Waldeck-Rousseau. France has, fortunately, reached a position where, as in this country, the great moderate mass is greater and stronger than either of the other parties. The Radical forces are tolerably certain to be strong enough to force a programme of tax reform, shifting imposts from food to property and to incomes.

The British Government has appointed as its Ambassador at Washington, Sir Michael Herbert. Sir Michael was for

merly Secretary of Legation at Washington, and he married an American wife, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mrs. Ogden Goelet. He has been of recent years First Secretary of Legation at Paris, holding the position of Minister. Younger and of briefer experience than any man who has been British representative at Washington, he owes his selection to the skill, coolness and self-restraint which he has shown during periods of serious anxiety at Constantinople and Paris, and the British Government was undoubtedly not uninfluenced by the circumstance that he has been from early life warm personal friend of President Roosevelt, and has a larger personal acquaintance among those of weight and importance in American life than any other member of the English diplomatic

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the strike among the employees of the American Woollen Company has ceased, textile strikes have been less frequent, and the situation among the iron and steel workmen more pacific than for several years past.

Chicago has had another great strike, small in the number of men, large in disorder, which neither the police nor the public suppressed, so complete was public sympathy with the men. They were teamsters employed by the meat packers who are united in an organization commonly known as the "Beef Trust." The strike began with a demand for more wages, shorter hours, and recognition of

lish. It has worked well there, and while

injustice will be caused in some cases, there can be no doubt that national safety requires that immigration be restricted from all regions where the standard of public education is lower than it is in this country.

A new French ministry has been organized in the opening of the new Chamber. The defeat of M. Deschanel for its presiding officer and the election of M. Leon Bourgeois, who headed a Radical ministry with Socialist support in 1895, showed the relative though not absolute increase of this element. The total number of Republicans rose to 360 against 230 before; but

resentative that English policy deems wise at Washington, a man facile, unpretending, keen, whose ability it is easy to underestimate, not given to speech-making, and likely to maintain the excellent understanding which now exists between both Governments, less by acts apparent to the public than by the tact with which he conducts the negotiations in which he is immediately engaged and his personal relations at the Capital.

Spain has also sent a new representative to Washington, Senor Ojeda, а descendant of the historian who accompanied Cortez in Mexico. United early in life, while Spanish Secretary in China, to

a daughter of an English merchant in Hong Kong, he has an unusual acquaintance with English, a circumstance which led to his selection as Secretary for the Spanish Commission which negotiated the Treaty of Peace at Paris. He was then Minister at Tangier, a position which he has since held. More energetic than most Spaniards, clear-sighted and a master of affairs, he will prove a useful representative in the difficult task of adjusting the wide number of claims between the two Governments.

England has continued the liberal but not lavish policy of reward which marks the close of its wars. General Kitchener is made Viscount, and receives a grant of £50,000, not a large sum on the present scale of fortunes, either in this country or in England. The most significant declaration made with reference to future policy is the assertion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the first subject for consideration would be the revenue to be obtained from the Rand Gold Mines to provide interest on the war debt. English legislation and public opinion are much more prompt than in this country in levying taxation upon large masses of capital, and there is no question that these mines, which are now capitalized at about $400,000,000, will be required to pay a larger share of taxation, and to meet a greater part of the expenses of the war, than their owners anticipated when they

tion was much worse than he had suspected, that his policy has had the cordial approval of Mayor Low and that radical changes may be expected in the near future. When it is considered that nearly a fourth of the term of office of the present administration has expired and that hope of police reform was the chief motive for support of the Fusion ticket, it is clear that speedy action was necessary, and we note with satisfaction that there has been a transfer of captains this week. It is also gratifying to note that Mayor Low's administration has secured from the Pennsylvania Railroad $1,382,000 for use of streets in connection with the proposed North River tunnel, the largest amount ever paid for such privileges in America. City government elsewhere in America has been recently seriously discredited. In St. Louis, several councilmen have been indicted for outrageous bribery and a Minneapolis grand jury has declared the city government thoroughly corrupt. In Milwaukee there seems to be evidence of collusion between policemen and thieves, and in Philadelphia proof was submitted in a municipal investigation that payments were made systematically to politicians and others by applicants for posts in the public schools. To know such conditions is the first step toward remedying them.

try to raise $12,000 for home, foreign and diocesan missions together, then if the sum were raised, $4,000 should be given to the general board and $8,000 used for work in the diocese. If this plan should commend itself for imitation in the East, the Board's proportion would, of course, be greater. This suggestion of Bishop Edsall in connection with the Apportionment Plan, whose benefit to Church extension is already evident, is worth weighing.

"The Eucharistic Prayer of Consecration in our American Liturgy," is the subject of a learned exposition by the Rev. Henry Riley Gummey, of Germantown, Penn., in the June number of The Church Eclectic, the well-established conclusion of which is that the wording of the prayer to its minute details is meant to mean just what it says, and is in absolute accord with early patristic teaching East and West, with the norm of primitive liturgical tradition, with the use of the whole West till after the twelfth century, and of the East till to-day.

"Any ceremonial therefore of merely Western origin and of relatively recent introduction and development, and involving a late misinterpretation of the text of the Roman Canon Missae, and an ignoring of historical fact, not to mention the setting at naught of the very diction and grammatical construction of the Prayer of Consecration, is ruled out ipso facto. All elevations of either species during the recital of the narrative of in

struggle.

The restoration of peace in South Africa gives timeliness to figures recently compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics on the Commerce of Africa, whose international imports amounted, according to the latest annual statistics, to $430,000,000. This is $55,000,000 more than those of South America, over $100,000,000 more than those of Oceanica, but less than half that of Asia, hardly a quarter that of North America and barely a twentieth part that of Europe. Only 5 per cent. of African import trade has come from us, but as railroad development has been rapid-and the prospects are that it will be even more so in the immediate future, especially in countries under English control-the indications are that our trade will very greatly increase, especially in machinery. Considerably more than a third of all imports go to British territory. Our own exports to Africa have quadrupled in six years, though England is still, naturally, far in the lead, especially if, as is commercially right, though politically wrong, Egypt be accounted British territory.

Unsatisfactory progress in the reorganization of the police department of New York has tried the patience of many sincere supporters of the Fusion administration and Commissioner Partridge has been subjected to strong, though reluctant criticism, in many quarters where his appointment was hailed with enthusiastic confidence. One judgment may be as over hasty as the other. The greater the need of reform the greater the difficulty of inaugurating it. It is not realized by many how ingeniously what was intended to be a defence of the upright official against political oppression has been turned into a bulwark for the corrupt against justifiable removal. The Commissioner claims that several months were necessary to familiarize him with his men, their associations and inclinations, before he could wisely or successfully attempt reorganization. He says also that the demoraliza

Parochialism never looked smaller than it did after Bishop Francis finished the convention address that will be found reported elsewhere in this issue. He had heard and had not forgotten that his preaching of missions had been popular in some quarters, where feared it would drain away the resources of parishes. They seemed to have been unmindful of the lesson from nature that under-draining was about the only way to make marsh land fertile. Bishop Francis did not tell them that, but he gave them an unmistakable and unforgettable piece of his mind that was sure to strike home, though not addressed immediately to those whom it immediately concerned. "As long as God gives me breath," said he, "I shall preach missions as the essential work of the Church, and disbelief in missions as disbelief in Christ. The Church's mission in the world is for the saving of souls." Till provision was made for carrying on that work efficiently, Churchmen ought to be content with the simplicity of primitive worship. Better the unadorned church, the hard pew, and congregational singing, if that were necessary for a revival of the spirit of missions, than luxurious worship, beautified churches and well-trained choirs, if these things tended to destroy the spirit of self-sacrifice and to nurse the vain fancy that we could supply the wants of our spiritual natures without seeking to supply those of others. No wonder, after this beginning, that the convention was pronounced the "best that we have ever had." No wonder that it endorsed the Apportionment Plan and adopted it for its work.

The blending of domestic and foreign missionary interests into one great missionary cause implies, as its natural sequence, some similar unification of the diocesan with the general work. Acting on this line Bishop Edsall suggested to his diocesan council at Faribault that Minnesota should hereafter make no distinction in its missionary offerings, but

flexions, etc., are barred, being borrowings from the modern Roman rite (in which they have found an authoritative place since 1570 only) and being based upon a misconception and an erroneous view of Eucharistic consecration that grew into ripened existence only in the late mediaeval period."

The late Rev. Dr. A. Toomer Porter, of Charleston, did services to the cause of education in the South under the auspices of the Church that are worthy of lasting remembrance. A fine tribute was paid to them by ex-Captain Wm. A. Courtenay at the memorial meeting of the Washington Light Infantry on May 21. Captain Courtenay was unavoidably absent and his paper

read by Dr. Simons. He spoke from an acquaintance of fifty-three years of this remarkable man's services to the Church and school life of Charleston, S. C., and of the whole section in which he labored. Even before the war he had printed his influence in deep characters itary life, but it was after the war, when upon the city and especially upon its mila whole people were, as it were, "in fettered destitution, wanting bread and aldominant personality most beneficently most without hope," that Dr. Porter's

Two years after the war he had gathered 425 boys and 125 girls at his school, 33 of them fed and clothed in his own home. He inspired teachers with an enthusiasm that made them willing to give their best work for what he could pay, and all that he could ask of the school's patrons was a tuition fee of fifty cents a month. Even this sum he could not collect. For years he sought and found a generous though precarious support for his work in the North. In all over 3,000 boys passed under his molding influence, and more than $1,000,000 was brought to Charleston for the work. gave himself to it so absolutely that when he had to lay it down his friends knew that death must be near. Of few can it be said that they gave so literally all that they had, mind and strength, to their life work. Few leave behind them such a

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