The Far Eastern Tropics: Studies in Colonial Administration By Alleyne Ireland, F.R.G.S. Temperance Reform: The Difficulties with Current Methods By Professor W. 0. Atwater The Outlook is a Weekly Newspaper and an Illustrated Monthly Magazine in one. It is published every Saturday-fifty-two issues a year. The first issue in each month is an Illustrated Magazine Number, containing about twice as many pages as the regular weekly issue, and many pictures. Price.—The subscription price is Three Dollars a year, payable in advance. Ten cents a copy. Postage is Prepaid by the publishers for all subscriptions in the United States, Hawaiian Islands, Philippine Islands, Guam, Porto Rico, Tutuila Samoa, Canada, and Mexico. For all other countries in the Postal Union add $1.56 for postage. Change of Address.-When a change of address is ordered, both the new and the old address must be given. The notice should be sent one week before the change is to take effect. 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Looking to this discussion, a sub-committee has been appointed to visit the Territories, carefully investigate the situation on the ground, and report to the Senate. This committee contains. representatives from both the political parties. We believe that this is the first time that any committee of either the Senate or the House has given so serious study to Territorial conditions before voting on bills for the admission of Territories, and we welcome the fact as an indication of the purpose of the Committee, of which Senator Beveridge is Chairman, not to allow the Statehood Bill to be rushed through without careful consideration, although it is probably true that, if the report of the Committee should be unfavorable to the admission of New Mexico and Arizona, its report would be strenuously contested in the Senate. While we await with interest the report of the subcommittee, the facts at present before the country do not justify the admission of either New Mexico or Arizona. CAn immense majority of the population of New Mexico are Spanish-speaking Mexicans; the laws are still published in both Spanish and English; nearly all cases must be tried by the aid of an interpreter; in very many cases jurors cannot understand one another in the court-room, or reach a verdict without the aid of an interpreter; and it is only within the last few years that English has been adopted in the schools of the Territory. This is not the kind of population which should be invited in to help elect our Presidents and our Con No. 12 gress, and determine our National problems for us. The Alabama Machine Rebuked Last week President Roosevelt made two appointments which will have far-reaching consequences—the one we are sure for good, the other we fear for evil. The first was the appointment of Joseph O. Thompson as Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Alabama, to take the place of Julian H. Bingham, removed for activity in organizing the white Republican party, whose recent State Convention excluded negro delegates for no other apparent reason than their color. The President's attitude in this matter, as defined by PostmasterGeneral Payne, is that "neither the Administration nor the Republican party in the North will stand for the exclusion of any section of our people because of their race or color." This is precisely the attitude which the President has taken toward the appointment of negroes to office, namely, that they should be neither appointed nor rejected because of their color. This is the fundamental American principle of equal rights, and the President's insistence that this principle shall be upheld, even if it requires him to remove from office the leaders of the Republican organization in Alabama, will be received with applause by all believers in equal rights. The effect of the action reaches far beyond the boundaries of Alabama. In North Carolina, in Mississippi, and in Louisiana, also, the attempt to reorganize the Republican party on the basis of ignoring the claims of negro Republicans has recently made startling headway, and the activity of Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, in this movement led to the false assumption on the part of men who did not know President Roosevelt that the |