Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSD Y, NOVEMBER 29, 1900 _THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor, MS OF SUBACRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year. aily Bee and £unday, One Year. llustrated Bes, One Year. Bllll'llf Bee, One Year aturday Hee, One Year. eekly Bee, One Year OFFICES Council Bluffs Chicago: 164 Unity Bullding. New York: Templa Court. Vushington: ] Fourteenth Street. Bloux Clty: ‘611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to torial matter should be addressed: Bee, Editorlal Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. fness letters and remitances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha, Nassi REMITTANCES. Y emit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee PubIshing Company, nly Z-cent stamps accepled in puyment (f mail accounts. Persona: checks, except cn Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Guorge B. Tzachuck, secretarv of The Bee Publishing Compang. beiug duly, sworn, #avs that the actual number of fuil and complete coples of The Dally, Mornin Evening and Sunday Bee printed dur month of Octoher. %0, was as follow ss 27,220 ..27,460 27,010 27,800 .. 28,330 27,470 ..27,010 27,670 .. 28,600 27,960 g the ..27.870 .. 47,420 ..20,720 ..27,400 Total Less unsold and returned coples NIV 11,841 Net tota, sales... Net daily average GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my pressnce and sworn to efore me this first da’ of November, A. 1900, M. B, HUNGATE (Seal.) N Pubif [ oot SO LA S What would Thanksglving be without turkey ? Now for the annual feast of foot ball and turkey. The man with the chrysanthemum bair is In peribelion today. The fact that Chicago speculators are short on does not worry the Ne- braska farmer a bit. His cribs are full and he does not care how high the price 18 forced, The official figures of lowa’s election make McKinley's majority in the Hawk- eye state 98413, That Is close enough to the 100,000 mark to satisfy the most fastidious, A committee of fifteen has undertaken the task of purifylug New York. The task imposed upon Hercules was as nothing compared with that of this committee. Omaha women have just been edified by a lecture from one of the ploneers of dress reform, so we may be on the look- out for the projection of novelties in feminine apparel at any moment. Masked bank robbers have cleaned out a little Illinols bank to the tune of $4,000. The masked bandit is not in 1t with the slippery bank clerk who does the business by juggling book bal- ances. Another renson for which we have cause to give thanks is that more peo- ple are able to regale themselves with turkey since republican prosperity has set In than during the hard times that preceded. Em—tte—— The eity of Kearn eb., has had more bad luck than any other comu- uity in the state, the ruination of its power plant by flood from its artideial lake capping the climax. Kearney ought to change its luck. Nebraska fusionists evidently had all of Edmisten's advice they wanted during the campalgn and are not in- clined to take up with his governorship contest scheme, They burned thelr fingers once before with one of Edmis- ten's recounts. At last the final remnant of the city hall construction fund, consisting of $10.11, is to be transferred to the gen- eral fund and used for the current ex- penses of the city. That city hall con- struction fund could tell several stories if the figures could talk. The activity of the troops In China whenever it s rumored there is treas- ure to be found might create the as- sumption that it was loot rather than Justice the allled powers were seeking. The United States has doune itself credit in withdrawing from these later opera- tlons. ‘With all due respect to the sclentific character of the alleged glove contests that are being held in this city The Bee suggests that they are closely akin to the ordinary prize fight and that a halt should be called upon them. Omaha is not anxious to achleve a reputation as a center of pugilistic industry. Outgoing fusion state officers are sald to be planning to devote their energies to various enterprises in Indlan Territory. ‘Would they not show their gratitude to the people of Nebraska, who have cov- ered them with honors and emoluments, 1f they devoted their attention to the de- velopment of their own state? Under the present legislative appor- tionment Douglas county has twelve members as against Lancaster's seven. On the basis of the new census Douglas county would have seventeen members as against Lancaster’s eight. This would be more like it in point of com- parative population and wealth, The figures complled by the State Bureau of Statistics show that during the past year Nebraska sold outside its borders products of the farm to the amount of $173,849,207. Nebraska has been doing well during the past few years and Is rapidly increasing its bal- ance on the right side of inm ledger. | has pread THANKSGIVING. Tn his Thanksgiving proclamation Presldent McKinley pointed out the blessings with which the natlon has been favored during the past year. The harvests have been abundant; labor and the great industries of the people have prospered; our commerce over the world; we have extended our power and influence in the cause of freedom and enlightenment over distant seas and lands; the works of religion and charity have everywhere been manifest. Rarely have the American people had more or better reagons for thanksgiving. Since the last observance of this day we have made honorable progress along all lines, The natlon is greater In both material and moral power than a year ago. Its influence in behalf of those things that make for the bette ment of mankind has grown and broad- ened. There has been a splendid vin- dication of the integrity and patriotism of the people, giving renewed assur- ance of the security of our free institu- tions. The pride of Americans In their country s stronger than ev as is also their faith in a future of even more wonderful achievement than has al- ready been realized. There Is still a great work to be done for the correc tion of evils and abuses and the amelloration of unfortunate soclal conditions, but there can be no doubt that there Is a steady improvement in the soclal life of our people—a more general aspiration for those things that are uplifting and elevating. This annual expression of a nation's gratitude is an inspirapon to all that is best in human nature. It especlally brings an awakening of that sentiment which is too little cultivated by most of us—the sentiment of gratitude. In its soclal aspect Thangsgiving Day is the most graclous of the year in its restivity and its hospitality, and while there may be some excesses the social ob- servance of the occasion 1Is on the whole beneficent In its effect and in- fluence. S COUNTY DOUGLA REPRESENTATION. Under the constitution of Nebraska it devolves upon the coming leglslature to make a new apportionment of legislative representation among the various coun- ties in the state. The platform adopted by the republican state convention pledges the republican majority to make this apportionment on the basis of the census of 1900 “that will accord fair and equal representation to the people in all sections of the state” Although the publication of the detailed census fig- ures by counties leaves considerable lat- itude to the lawmakers In the makeup of different legislative districts where two or more counties must be joined to- gether, the number of senators and resentatives to be accorded to Douglas county is a plain problem in arithmetic. The population of this county is given at 140,500, while the population of the state s 1,068,539, With 100 members of the house and thirty-three members of the senate, which is the maximum number under the constitution, the pop- ulation required for each representative 18 10,685 and for each senator )85, By process of division this gives Douglas county thirteen members of the house and four members of the senate, with the possibility of an additional repre- sentation In the senate in the shape of a float with some neighboring county. The Douglas delegation, therefore, after this year should consist of not less than seventeen members, instead of twelve mewmbers, as at present, or a little more than one-eighth of the entire legis- lature. Not until the new apportion- ment will it have a volce In the legis- lature commensurate with its share of the state’s population and its contribu- tion to the state’'s wealth. The refusal of the legislature of 1891 to reapportion the legislative districts has kept Omaha and Douglas county out of their due representation for ten years, aud they have a right to expeot this Injustice to be remedied at the hands of the incom- ing legislative body BANKING REFORMS URGED. The aunual report of the comptroller of the currency makes some lmportant recommendations regarding the national banks, One of these relates to the loan- ing of money to directors and other bank officiyls. He urges that a restric- tion should be placed by law upon such loans and the substantiul reason for this 18 found in the fact that on June 20 last, the date of the comptroller's call for a statement of condition from the banks, out of 28,700 directors 18,534 were di- banks under their management. It is also pointed out that sixty-two bank failures were caused in the past year by louns to bauk officlals, or 17 per cent of the total for that period. The aggre- gate sum owed by these officials ex- ceeded $202,000,000, or more than 32 per cent of the capital stock of the national banks. The comptroller thinks these facts show clearly the great importance of ad- ditional vestrictions and safeguards around these loans and he recomumends the passage of the bill introduced at the last session of congress, which provides that no national bank shall loan to its ofticers or employes until the proposi- tion for the loan shall have been sub- mitted In writing to and approved by the directors or executive committee It further provides that the directors may fix by resolution the limit of credit to a director and within this limit the executive officers may loan to directors without other action by the board. Un- less the limit of credit has been thus fixed an application for a loan by a di- rector must be in writing, approved b two other directors. The report says: “In formulating pro- visions of law restricting loans to exe utive officers and directors, it is impor- tant not to make them so unreasonable as to drive from such service the active, responsible and honest business men of the country. The problem s to devise such restrictions for the safety of the depositors as will discourage. improper loaning to directors while not injuring the depositors by discouraging to too great an extent the assumption of the rectly or Indirectly Indebted to national | duties of bank directorship by the ac- tive and responsible members of the business community. Primarily, the law ghould have in view the safety of the depositors.” Another recommenda- tion Is that the law be so amended in regard to reserve funds as to require the banks to keep more money in thelr vaults, The provision of law authoriz- ing banks in the smaller reserve citles to keep one-half of thefr lawful money reserve in balances in central reserve citles the comptroller thinks should be repealed. These recommendations show that there is still opportunity for reform and improvement In the national bank sys- tem and there will be no better time than the present to correct whatever faults there are and to increase the safeguards to depositors, whose Inter- ests, as Comptroller Dawes points out, the law should have primarily in view. WHY OMAHA SHOULD BE THANKFUL. Omaha has special reasons to give thanks this year: Because the census man did not take all Its population away. Because those auditorium bricks are promised ss soon as the kiln can be heated. Because it saved the day for the re- publican state ticket. Because Mayor Moores continues to hang his starry flag from the city hall window. Because Ak-Sar-Ben has nearly $10,000 as o nest-egg in his treasury. Because there are still a few keys to the city left. Because its police court is no longer advertised as the vagrants’ paradise. Because the new High school building already boasts a cornerstone in the right place, Because it has in The Bee the most rellable and best newspaper published in the whole western country. DEATH OF SENATOR DAVIS. In the death of Senator Davis of Min- nesota the country has lost an experl- enced and able statesman. Eminent as a lawyer, thoroughly familiar with pub- lic affairs and especially well-informed as to our foreign relations, Mr. Davis was one of the most valuable members of the United States senate. As chair- man of the committee on foreign re- lations he is sald to have been the only member of the committee thoroughly familiar with the treaties awaiting action by the senate. These are the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the French rec- Iprocity treaty and the treaty with the sntine Republic Mr. Davis, it has been stated, was the only member of the committee on foreign relations who had mastered the complicated details and could explain the effect upon our commerce and in- ternational relations of the ratification of these various conventions. Hence he was. so far as our foreign relations are concerned, perhaps the most impor- taut man In the senate and will be missed by that body at this time as few others would be, particularly in view of the fact that it Is hardly pos- gible during a single session for any member of the committee to familiar- ize himself with the intricate manifesta- tions of the provisions of the reciprocity treaties. The death of Cushman K. Davis is, therefore, a national loss, while Min- nesota is deprived of the services of its most distingulshed citizen and the republican party of one of the ablest and staunchest advocates of its prin- ciples and policles The Nebraska census figures present some Interesting facts concerning the state. The most notable one is that every county which contains a town which in 1800 was struggling for the honor of being the “third city"” shows either a decrease or only a trifling In- crease. It remained for the smaller towns and the agricultural section to hold up the position of the state. An- other section which shows a decrease is the sandhill country, which is now given over altogether to stock raising, while ten years ago deluded people were attempting to convert it into farms, Nebraska is now down—a tub on its own bottom—and ten years from now will show its true rate of increase. The Georgla court in which was resurrected the doctrine of states rights is reopening a question which can do the south no good. Whatever stum- bling blocks have M recent years been placed in the way of a complete wiping out of the sectional feeling engendered by the war have been the work of the south Itself. The states rights issue was settled once for all and not even the supreme court of Georgia can bring it to life again. Japan has trled the experiment of having some war ships built In this| country and is so well pleased that it| has sent over experts to view the latest improvements since then with a view of ordering more. If you want the best and most up-to-date mechanical ap- pliances, from a sewing machine to a man-of-war, the United States is the place to come for them. An attorney bas just been formally admitted to practice in the federal court who has been trying cases there for twenty years past only to discover that he had never been legally qualified to practice there. This Is in contrast with those who have been admitted for twenty years and never had a case to try. After scrutinizing the election figures the Kansas City Star gently insinuates “that tombstones, old hotel registers and old city directories did their full duty in arriving at the grand total of St. Joseph's population.” If an Omaha paper Indulged Itself as caustically it would be accused of sour grapes. Bfacing Up Liberty, 8t. Louls Republic. While France is shouting “Vive la Liberte” in welcome of Paul Kruger it might not be inapt for the American gov- ernment to replace some of the rusted struts and truss Thanksgiving in Manila Leslle's Fivery regiment or every battallon that is stationed in the city will have its forenoon program of athletic events—boxing, wrest- lirg, runniug and the like. In the late after- noon there will be a band concert on the Luneta. Canteens wlill be strictly closed; the saloous, too, will be legally shut up, but there aro always men who will risk conflict with the law for the sake of pander- ing to holiday thirst. By early evening the soldiers will be in their quarters again, at the various cuartels, or else will run the risk of trouble with the guard. Uncle Sam's fighting men in the Philip- pines will have a chance to buy turkeys— cold-storage birds killed months before In the states. There will be tinned cranberries on sale at the commissary depots, with all the ordinary vegetables, also in tins. Uncle Sam supplies neither the turkeye nor the cranberries as rations, but he furnishes his soldiers no liberally with the plain articles of food that they are able to dispose of the Weekly surplus and thus establish ‘“company funds It 18 out of these funds that the cold-storage turkeys and tinned cranberries will be bought. Vieiting soldlers from “up the line’” will have to “pay their chow’ in some favored company mess, or else have to de- pend on a comrade’s Invitation. As the evening cool follows dark the men will sit out fn the cuartel courts or on the parades and talk about—well, the things that sold generally talk about, For those garrisoned in the clties or who are able on account of “good conduct” to got into a town of considerable size, the day will pass pleasantly enough. With the men actually engaged in the fleld against an aglle foe Thanksgiving will be a different affair. The day's menu for them will be Breakfast—coffee, bacon and hardtack; dinner—a few gulps of water; supper—they will be lucky who do not get Mauser bullets for that meal. New York harbor to elevate its sinking arm to a posture of enlightenment. Hoth. Boston Globe. Is mind or muscle to become the para- mount issue In these United States? — Poor 0Old Demoeracy. Washington Post. Mr. Bryan traveled all the way from Lin- coln to Chicago to confer with two former republicans concerning the future of the democratic part; Enough for Emergencies. Minneapolis Journal. The Nebraska legislature now shows & re- publican majority of nine. That is a good working majority even it two or three are “‘took siel at the critical moment. Right Kind of Expansion, Cleveland Leader. American manufacturers are now said to be invading the markets of South Africa, in | That 1s a kind | spite of British competition. of expansion to which Americans cannot object. McKinley's Towering Strength. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat McKinley's popular plurality 18 unofficially estimated at 850,000, the largest ever re- celved by a presidential candidate. There 18 a large falling off in the aggregate of southern democratic pluralities 1t He W Pay Up. Indianapolls News. The sultan might, perhaps, retuse to allow an American consul at Harpoot with better grace if he had paid that little bill, now many years overdue, for the destruction by a mob of American property in that region. Another Jeremiah. Minneapolls Tribune. Senator Teller has emerged from his cave of gloom long enough to reiterate his faith in the future of free coinage—which is per- feetly natural in the nature of his enwiion- ment—but he has very little faith in the future of any other question involving the welfare of the country. However, there have been other Jeremiahs in the past who have lived to see their doleful prognostica- tions come to naught. What Might Have Heen. New York World. It 1s really distressing to learn from Lord Rosebery's address that a slight cir- cumstance might have averted the revolu- tion and left us all subjects of a real sov- erelgn, with a real court and a real arls- tocracy. The thought s enough to cast a cloud of gloom over society, but them there 1s a possibility that it Lord Rose- bery's dream had been an actuality the ex- 1sting Four Hundred m'ght not be in it. A Curse or n Blessing. San Francisco Chronicle The Philippine fslands will be a curse to the United States If their inhabilants do not acquire an attachment to American institutions and loyalty to the American flag. There is but one way in which ths attachment and loyalty can ever arise, and that is by an identity of commercial in- terests. If they are not one people With us, they will inevitably desire to become ons people by themselves, and can only be held in subjection by American garrisons. It we did not want them ln order that they might in time become assimilated into our tody politic, we should never have taken them at all. P — DISPOSITION. Conclusions Shown to Be Exaggerated. Portland Oregonian. Ambassador Choate, in his recent fine address on “Abraham Lincoln,” delivered at Edinburgh, exuggerated the merciful, philanthropic slde of the great statesman to a degree that lmplied gross executive weakness Lincoln was merciful when he could safely blend justice with mercy. He was not merciful, but hard as flint, when he thought mercy would mar justice. When | Gerdon, the captain of a slave trader, was tried and convicted in Boston and sen- tenced to death as a pirate Lincoln was in vain pleaded with to commute his death sentence, ho sternly refusing. President Jackson promptly pardoned the captain of a slave trader who was sentenced to death in Boston, but Lincoln would not do it. When the confederate firebug, Kennedy, who trled to burn New York City, was convicted and sentenced to death, Lincoln refused to commute his sentence, and he was equally Inflexible In other cases where men were captured executing acts of war after getting within our lines in tha dress of sples. Lincoln as an executive never abused the pardoning power as grossly as many other presidents who had small repu- tation for merciful temper. There was a very stern side to Lincoln's nature. His wercy never degenerated into abusing power on the side of mercy. He was not gentle or lovable at all when his sense of justice was offended. He was & man who Clearly believed that there were times when he did well to be angry, as his stern rebukes of Hooker, Meade and other unsat- istactory generals in his officlal corre- spondence attests. He was benevolent and philanthropic, but his predominant quality was his love of justice and truth, and no public man who is true to justice and truth can always be mercitul, As an executive, Lincoln probably never pardoned a man justly convicted of murder or theft. He pardoned one or two soldiers, raw country volunteers, for sleeping on picket post. He pardoned a few young descrters who he belleved had been de- moralized by reading Vallandigham spceches commending the example of de- sertion from the union ranks and inspiring soldiers with discontent and disloyalty. He pardoned some other youthful deserters who he was persuaded did not, through ignorance and military inexperience, appre- clate the enormity of their offense. He did not pardon any ‘“bounty jumpers" sen- tenced to death, nor any soldier old enough ic years and military experlence and serv- ico to be fairly held responsible for his acts, There has been a great deal written abcut Lincoln that is romance, and the popular impression that he invariably in- terfered to prevent the shooting of de- serters 1s without foundation. He did not Interfere in some cases when he seemed to have just ground for clemency, but there were hundreds of cases where he refused to interfere, and in the cases of men Who, to obtain a large bounty, enlisted, then deserted, enlisted again for another bounty, and were finally caught aud sentenced to in the Liberty statue iu |death, Lincola ver interfered. SOME INCOMING APPOINTEES. Wood River Interests: There is a swarm of hungry pap-suckers beseiging the newly elected state ofcers. These oficers should see to It that none but clean and worthy men be appolnted and that a lot of the old party barnacles and incompetents be given the marble heart. North Platte Tribune: There is talk that Norris Brown of Kearney will be ap- pointed deputy attorney general and it is not too much to say that if he desires the place it should be given him without hes- itancy. He is a bright lawyer, an honor- able man and his republicanism has never been questioned. Tecumseh Chieftain: Governor-elect C. H. Dietrich has appolnted Hon. H. C. Lindsay of Pawnee City as hiv private secretary and the latter has accepted the appointment. No better cholee for the po- sition could have been made. Mr. Lindsay 18 the chalrman of the state republican committeo and In that capacity won a brilliant victory. He was not an applicant for the secretaryship, the honor coming to him without solicitation. Kearney Hub: The policy of Governor- elect Dietrich with reference to his ap- pointments is quite different from that of his predecessor. Dietrich makes up his mind quickly, lets the public into the se- cret, euds the heartache and scheming of scores of aspirants and s getting the ground cleared up just as rapidly as pos- sible ir advance of his inauguration and the meeting of the legislature, to leave his time urhampered as far as may be for the pressing dutles of the first few months of his term. Poynter, on the other hand was never able to decide or to remain of the same mind, hence was harassed and beset on every side and gave satisfaction to no person. Auburn Post b It 1s undersiood that Chair- man H. C. Lindsay is to bo Governor-elect Charles H. Dietrich’s private secretary. This is a well merited selection and shows that Governor Dietrich proposes to select persons fitted for the positions which they are to fill. Now that all doubt {s removed the republicans will come Into com- plete control of the state on the first of January next. The victory has been won by such a small margin that it behooves the republicans to glve the state an eco- nomical businesslike administration. This will restore confidence in the minds of the voters of the business abllity of the re- publicans and it will give them a hold on the people that the anti-republican forces cannot shake off. Norfolk News: The news of the appoint- ment of Dr. Teal will be read with pleasure by many Norfolk people to whom the su- perintendent-to-be is weil known. Dr. Teal made Norfolk his home for several years and was graduated from the Norfolk High school In the class of 1892, Since com- pleting his medical course he has been lo- cated at Omaha and has been rapidly forg- ing to the front in the ranks of his pro- fossion. Although a young man he has shown an abllity in his calling that might be envied by men of more mature years. His friends are ready to predict without | hesitation that under Dr. Teal's manage- | ment the Norfolk Hospital for the Insane | will become a model institution and that the patients will receive the best care and attention possible. Fremont Herald (dem.): There is never evil without good. No matter how demo- crats ag party men may look at the result of the election, in ome respects at least, the state will not suffer from the success of Mr. Dietrich. At least it makes possible to use the professional knowledge and mar- velous medical skill of Dr. J. L. Green of University Place. As a speciallst in nery- ous diseases Nebraska has never in any respect possessed his equal. He has had experlence in insane hospitals, being as- sistant physiclan both at Norfolk and Lin- coln. He s a pronounced republican and has no hesitancy in expressing his views. Even then, and kmowing his strong party inclinations, Governor Holcomb sought hiy services as first assistant physiclan. His pre-eminent fitness would allow the ap- polntment of no one else. Il health pro- vented his long continuance at the Lin- coln asylum But his ability and loyalty to the institution was never questioned, —— PERSONAL POINTERS, North Dakota people want thelr old law, that granted ‘“divorces while you wait ' back again. It was a great thing for hotels and stores. Bishop Potter of New York deplores the decline of home cooking and expresses sor- row for the coming of what he calls the “tinned” era. Roscoe Coukling Bruce, the son of the late colored United States Senator Bruce, will be the head Harvard debater this year in the debate with Yale next month, A competent referee has reported that the services of & New York lawyer in a case for which the disciple of Blackstone put in a bill for $17,000 were actually worth no more than $300. *Charles Francis Adams says that Win- chester, Mass., has “within its limits more natural beauty and a higher average of cly- 1lization than any other place’ in that sec- tion of New England The plague cost the city of Glasgow some 000,000, though there were only twenty- elght dases In all. The cost was incldent to the sanitary precautions which the city was forced to take after the plague ap- peared. A Colorado report is to the effect that there have been seventy-three murders committed in Denver and vicinity since the repeal of the state capital punishment law. Of the murderers but nine have received sentences of life imprisonment. The Havana Post sings a tuneful editorial song about the charms of November in Cuba. “Here we it in offices and dwell- ings,” says the Post, “with doors open; we walk the streets with perspiration and use fans to cool our temples, while the people of the north are hurrying from homes to offices and from offices to homes In order to enjoy the atmosphere of well warmed rooms’ Granted. How much better, though, is the invigorating air of winter, which, stimulating every muscle, tones the system to greater action and produces re- sults impossible where summer 18 a con- tinuous performance. Perpetual summer Is just the thing for physical cripples or as & preparation for future ordeals, but an Omaha winter, with its calms and blasts, sunshine and clouds, is, fn com- | parison, & priceless tonic for live people. i r“ooooonoo-oanuouoco UNCOMMONLY STRONG. Oakland (Cal) Enquirer. Edward Rosewater, editor of The Omaha Bee, s mentioned as a possible senator from Nebraska, since the republicans are known to have the majority in the legls- lature, and are supposed to be looking for available timber. Rosewater {8 an uncommonly strong, independent and fearless man, and his election would give Nebraska the right kind of repre- sentative in the United States senate; but no editor accepts pub- lle office without losing some of his Independence, and Mr. Rose- water I8 probably of more value to the country where he I8 than he would be even in the senate of the United States. seccsccsssooce —_— PRESIDENT WKINLEY'S SPEECH. Baltimore Amcrican: If there are any anti-imperialists lett they should make & caretul atudy of President McKinley's Phila- delphla speech. Washington Post: It seems to us that in his speech at the banquet of the Phila- delphia Unlon League club last Saturday night Mr. McKinley was at his best. He was the patriotic thinker and philosopher, the humane apostle, the clear-eyed states- man with whom the country has been familiar all theso years and whom the people have come to love and trust as, since the days of Lincoln, they bave loved and trusted no other president. Indianapolls Press: It President Me- Kinley's epeech at the Union league banquet in Philadelphia is to be taken as the key- note of his next administration—and that would seem to be Iits significance—the country has cause for congratulation. Fully aware, as he was, of “the danger of ex- aggregation on any occasion of exultation over a political victory,” he avolded that danger by an address, remarkable for its sobriety, its dignity and its evidence of the president's patriotic sense of the great esponsibility tmposed upon him by his re- election. New York Times: All voters of reasona- ble and humane disposition will be gratified that the president puts most prominently among the things for which he feels that he has received the authority of the people “peace and beneficent government under American sovereignty in the Philippines.” It 18 certaln that the president weighed these words, and that he understands the responsibility imposed on him. Peace can- not be obtained and maintained by force alone, and beneficent government must go with equal step in all our operations in the islands. The people Wil await with eagor interest the progress of the policy designed to secure these ends. Brooklyn Eagle: The speech is more than a pledge to the country. It is a notice to the present congress and to the congres: elect. It announces the scope and the limit of leglslation. In it speaks not only the executive, a master politician, but one whose assent {s required to all laws to be passed and whose dissent to bills, sent to him for his consideration, equals a two- thirds vote of both houses. The deterior- ation of other second terms will be avolded, it a man who has been slow to make and sure to keep pledges adheres to that habit for the mext four years. The .republ party has heard from the republican pres dent. He regards his re-election s more @ national than & party act, and his obliga- tions as more a moral and’ national than as a partisan bond. Whether as an acknowl- edgment or as an Interpretation or as a notice or as a promise, the speech is of the highest possible value. Philadelphia Inquirer: The salient char- acteristic of the felicitous little address delivered by the president on Saturday evening was the extreme tactfulness by which, from beginning to end, it was dis- | tinguished. This is a quality with which Mr. McKinley has constantly shown him- self to be exceptionally well endowed. He may always be trusted to say the right thing In the most felicitous manner, and, without making the slightest surrender of his own convictions, without at all failing to present or to defend or to maintain his own principles, to refrain from glving un- necessary offense or arousing needless an- tagonisms. It is to this happy faculty, the result of an analytical mind In combina~ tlon with a sympathetic temperament, that the president largely owes his success to which he has in such ample degree attained, It 1s through the exercise of this faculty that he has been enabled to exert so strong an influence over so many different kinds of people. IF THE CZAR SHOU DIE. Rules Governing the Succession the Imperial Throne. San Franclsco Chronfcle. The {llness of the czar has given rise to speculation rcgarding the succession and to the czar's privy councll and as the re- gency in his absence abroad or in the event of the sudden demise of the sovereign The grand duke held this important post during the litetime of Alexander 111, a8 be has since Nicholas 11, ascended the throne. He s now in his 68th yoar Most of the reforms Introduced in Rus- sla during the present and the preceding relgn are attributed to Grand Duke Michael's influence. He has served over ffty years in the Russian army and de- voted much of that perlod to army reforms and to the cause of humanity and philan- thropy. He has been a firm friend of the education of the masses. If, then, death shouli enter the imperial household and carry off the czar, the pollcy of the empire will undergo no radical change and its af- fairs are in no danger, for the grand duke is idolized by the army and venerated by the Russian people. —— CRANBERRY SAUCE, Detrolt Journal: 1 prepare ' Che Chef—N, Chicago Record: “Does clogk Klve satisfaction? b ied 8, It keeps such unreliable ti the clerks come and go 4 (hey plonse. "t The Second Cook—Shali S{NK for the horse meat? . & CUFTY, merely. Indfanapolls Journal: “Have !ulr lllll\lld'! this year?" ndeed; I'm glad that some things are so'and that other things are not so. you any Brooklyn Life; Gerald—There' sheep in every family. SILE I ~Why don't you mak family an exception to lhl’ rule? T Chicago Tribune 0. Eph'm,” admitted the Carolina negro to the northern relative Wwho was disposed to crow over him, "l dont have no Vote, bui " T'se ‘rep'sented in ash'n'ton by a en| & Washton by eap mo' congressmen Cleveland Plain Dealor: “Bixby wants to,gun, for mayor.: “Bixby! Why, he couldn' gt i n't earry his own “Carry his procinct! Bixby couldn't carry It own Nousehold. Say, ha couldnt cArey his_own wite.’ "1 should say he couldnt. 300, Detroit Free Press: off one of our turke u don't say o #; and he left a note saying that he left us the other so we would have some- thing to be thankful for." Thoughta of the Day. Chicago News, The Man of the House: She welghs A burglar carried No man in this town—I here safely oplne— Sits down to a better planned dinner than nine. The Hoste: For many things she's grateful, but one boon {8 most In slght; She's thankful that the dinner went oft exactly right. The Small Boy: ““We had to go to church,” says Freddy, with a groan; “Carve th' 'turkey quick, pa; I'm starved clear to th' bone." The Cook: "Nf:lvl none o' yer sauce!' sex missus to e “Exceptia’ yer cranberry souc THANKSGIVING, sez she. 1000, James Whitcomb Riley In San Francisco Calf. 1 Father, all bountiful, With this, our universal voice of prayer. The volce that needs must bo Upraised in thanks to Thee, Oh Father, from thy children everywhere, 11, A_multitudinous volce, wherein we fain Wouldat have Thes hear no lightest sob ot paln— No murmur of distress, Nor moan of lonelinest, Nor drip of tears, though soft as summer rain, in mercy bear 1, ather, give us first to com Lean And, No {il can come from Thes. lend Us clearer sight to see Our boundless debt to Thee, Since all thy déeds ure blessings in the end. v And let us feel and kn. We are inheritors of hear And hands endowed And strength to work And fashion to fulfillment pichend hou and that being Thine divine hoskill, hy will hy desigs o, let us thank Thee. with all self aside, ¢ ‘mortal pride dare uE prayer, tervor of the glorified. V1 We, thank Thee that our land s loved by Mhee The blessed home of thritt and industry— open door Of welcome 1o the poar— Thy shielding hand o'er all abldingly. Vit Fven thus we thank Thee for the wrong that grew Into a right tha With broth: Once m Beneath th Lend it some heroes Fattled to 8 long estranged o a8 brothers ranged red and white and starry blue, VIIT Aye, thanks. though tremulous the thanks expressed— Thanks for the best— For all the clanzing fray Whose dliscord dies away Into a pastoral song of peace and rest. battle at its worst and the future of the Russian empire in the vent of his death. Under the decree fs- sued by Peter the Great, In 1722, each sov- ereign was requircd to select his successor from among the members of the imperial tamily, irrespective of the clalms of pri- mogeniture. But this decieo was annulled In 1797 by one fssued by the Emperor Paul, which defined the succession to be that of regular descent, by the right of primogen!- ture, with prefercnce of male over female heirs. As the present czar 18 without male off- spring, the succession to the throne will fall to the eldest of his three daughters, Olga, who was born November 15, 1895, But s an ancient law of Russia deter- mines that the helr apparent s not of age until the end of the sixteenth year, Olga will not be qualificd to mscend the throne until November 15, 1912, Should the pres- ent sickness of the czar, therefore, prove fatal the empire will be ruled in the in- terim by a regency. The latter will devolve upon the Grand Duke Michael, who is the eldest brother of Alexander IL He has long been regarded a8 the real ruler of Russia. He will be- come regent by virtue of his official position as president of the imperial councll, a body which deals with all great matters of state submitted to the czar. 'The council practically decldes peace or war, acts as wise wearers of spectacles have their eyes tested at intervals to learn whether they need a change of glasses. As u general rule spectacles require changing about every three years, but it is advisable to have the sight carefully tested every two years, We are the providers of all that is best in spectacles and eye glasses—spec- lally made to fit the pecullar defects of each Individual, Anchor Guard Frames for mnose s—can't shake them off. J. C. Huteson & Co. Consulting Opticlans, 1520 Douglas Street. We close at noon Thanksgiving Browning, King & Co., R. S. Wilcox, Manager. 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