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NOTES

A CENSUS of the world's railways recently compiled gives the following figures: In Europe the miles operated have risen in four years from 141,552 to 155,284; in Asia from 22,025 to 26,890; in Africa from 6,522 to 8,169; in America from 212,724 to 299,722; and in Australia from 12,322 to 13,888, making a total for the world of 433,953, against 395,143 four years ago. These figures show that Africa made the greatest proportionate advance, that continent's gain being over 25 per cent. against 9 per cent. in Europe, 22 per cent. in Asia, 8 per cent in America, 121⁄2 per cent. in Australia, and nearly 10 per cent. for the entire world. The length of the world's railways in 1895 of 433.953 miles is more than seventeen times the circumference of the earth at the Equator. The North American Continent has a greater mileage of railways than the rest of the world combined.

GOING into the question of the profit and loss in the Philippines, the "Boston Herald" (Ind.) says, "On the smallest calculation, it would cost from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year to keep the needed army of occupation at the Philippines, and this outgo: met by the taxes of the people, would constitute a loss several times greater than the profits of all of our sales to the Philippine people. We should, in this way, be putting ourselves in a position which would cause us serious international annoyance and risk, and for every dollar of profit that we made by the Philippine trade the people of this country would be compelled to pay from $5 to $10 in the form of added taxes."

WE have German-Americans and Irish-Americans and English-Americans and ItalianAmericans and Americans of many other foreign climes. On Monday we pick up a newspaper and discover that the GermanAmericans are highly incensed at some policy of national, State, or local government; on Tuesday the Irish-Americans have their innings; on Wednesday the Swedish or FrenchAmericans are heard from, and so on through the list. Particularly is this the case about election time, when stress is laid on the assumption that the German vote or the Irish vote or the English vote, etc., will go one way or the other. We have newspapers printed in the German language, which undertake to dictate the politics of American citizens of German ancestry on the assumption that they have interests at variance with those of the great mass or bulk of American citizenship. And there are others. We suppose the time will never come when race feeling will be eliminated from our politics, but we had reason to hope that just at the termination of a glorious war for humanity, won by American citizens of all classes irrespective of their ancestry, we would hear less than heretofore of racial or sectional animosities.-"Brooklyn Eagle.»

ALREADY we have disgusted Great Britain by proclaiming the trade between Puerto Rico and the United States to be coastwise trade in which none but American ships could take part. If we extend our Chinese tariff and our obsolete navigation laws to the Philippines also, we shall add British resentment to German and French and Russian enmity. Is there anybody in authority at Washington who knows what we are doing? Is there anybody in authority there who has the slightest conception what "imperialism » means and involves?"New York Times."

IF THE acquisition of the Philippines and Porto Rico necessarily involved such an expense ($166,000,000,) it would be the dearest bargain any nation ever concluded. The entire trade of all those islands with all the world -imports and exports combined-amounts to only $60,000,000 a year. If we doubled it, and then monopolized it all, and called the whole of it clear profit, we should still fall nearly $50,000,000 short of paying the cost of Mr. Alger's army alone. The American people are not that kind of business men.-"New York Journal. »