that all this
horrible suffering, resultant from poverty and its natural associate,
crime, may be abolished, or at least reduced to a minimum?

_Answer_. In the first place we should stop supporting the useless.
The burden of superstition should be taken from the shoulders of
industry. In the next place men should stop bowing to wealth
instead of worth. Men should be judged by what they do, by what
they are, instead of by the property they have. Only those able
to raise and educate children should have them. Children should
be better born--better educated. The process of regeneration will
be slow, but it will be sure. The religion of our day is supported
by the worst, by the most dangerous people in society. I do not
allude to murderers or burglars, or even to the little thieves.
I mean those who debauch courts and legislatures and elections--
those who make millions by legal fraud.

_Question_. What do you think of the Theosophists? Are they
sincere--have they any real basis for their psychological theories?

_Answer_. The Theosophists may be sincere. I do not know. But
I am perfectly satisfied that their theories are without any
foundation in fact--that their doctrines are as unreal as their
"astral bodies," and as absurd as a contradiction in mathematics.
We have had vagaries and theories enough. We need the religion of
the real, the faith that rests on fact. Let us turn our attention
to this world--the world in which we live.

--_New York Herald_, September, 1893.

CLEVELAND'S HAWAIIAN POLICY.

_Question_. Colonel, what do you think about Mr. Cleveland's
Hawaiian policy?

_Answer_. I think it exceedingly laughable and a little dishonest
--with the further fault that it is wholly unconstitutional. This
is not a one-man Government, and while Liliuokalani may be Queen,
Cleveland is certainly not a king. The worst thing about the whole
matter, as it appears to me, is the bad faith that was shown by
Mr. Cleveland--the double-dealing. He sent Mr. Willis as Minister
to the Provisional Government and by that act admitted the existence,
and the rightful existence, of the Provisional Government of the
Sandwich Islands.

When Mr. Willis started he gave him two letters. One was addressed
to Dole, President of the Provisional Government, in which he
addressed Dole as "Great and good friend," and at the close, being
a devout Christian, he asked "God to take care of Dole." This was
the first let