Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: e — ——————— oo THE ©MAHA DALLY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Editor, — PEBLISHED BVARY MORNING TERMS OF S8UBSCRIPTION, ily Beo (without Sunday), One Yéa pally Bee and Bunday One Year.... ustrated Hee, One Year eiie Year The Bee Bulldin South Omaha: City Hall Buflding, Twen- ty-Aifth and N streets. Council Bluffs: 10 Pear] Street. Chicago: 1840 Unity Bullding. New York: Temple Court or| ‘Tem| - ow. ourt, ashington: (1 Fourteenth Street. Bloux City: 611 Park Btreet CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi. forial matier ehould be addressed: Omaha , Bditorfal Department. BUBINESR LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addremsed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft express or postal order, gayatle to The f3ee Publiahing Company nly 2-cent stamps accapted in payment of mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchahges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY " STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebrasku, Douglas County, k, secretary of The Bee mplete coples of Daily, Morning, vening and Sunday Hee printed during the month of November, 100, wa 8 ..28,040 ..28,080 28,560 Less unsold and returned cople Net total sales. GFO. B. TZSCHUCK Subscribed {n my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December. A 1900 M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Publle — Wanted—A sympathetie reporter. Ap- ply at once to the Omaha Woman's club, Of course, “the best people in town” are eclamoring for prize fights, but they prefer to attend incog when they go. EpR——— Miss Omaha to Santa Claus—-“How nice it would be to find a full-grown auditorium In my Christmas stocking.” It Tooks as It Omaha for once were going to dispense altogether with a charter revision committee this year. According to the local paper known as the Prize Fighters' Own “everything is in fine shape” for another pugllistic bout in Omaha next week. Where are the ministers who are shocked at naughty billbeard pictures? ——— An arbitration agreement would he the most acceptable thing for Oom Paul to find In his Ohristmas stocking, but from present indications Santa Claus bas none of them In stock and John Bull has the market cornered. Officlal tabulation of the popular vote on president last month shows that McKinley has a clear majority over all competitors close to 280,000 and a plu- rality over Bryan of more than 850,000 Bignificant figures these. The days are getting shorter and the nights correspondingly longer. "It is really too bad that the popocratic office- holders, whose careers are drawing to a close, should have thelr last hours en- veloped In an excess of gloom, Omaha's 4 per cent bonds elicit bids for good round premiums from the bond brokers. As the brokers are never ac- cused of being in the bond market simply for their health, the high stand- ing of Omaha In the money world needs no further proof. When the popocrats began howling previous to the recent electlon about al- leged republican registration frauds The Bee at once characterized it as a stop-thief cry. The convincing dis- closures of fusion frauds In the South Omaha registration and election clinches the argument. — The sultan of Turkey Is a man of ex- traordinary resources. He did not rel- ish the visit of the battleship Kentucky to Smyrna, but he did not dare to com- mit any overt act of hostllity. He got even with the officers and crew, how- ever, by sending them a quantity of clgarettes. According to cable advices Lord Rob- erts made “an eloquent address” on the occaslon of his reception and sword presentation at Capetown. Lord Rob- erts has made his reputation on the battlefield and if he profits by the ex- ample of other great military leaders he will be extremely cautious about in dulging in elogquence. Congressman Stark s always active, It you can believe his friemds, in be- balf of Nebraska. This activity 1s only noticed when he wants a re-election. Bince he reads his title clear to another term he is the one member from Ne- braska who Is not assisting in the fight to retain for the state its present mem- Bership in the house, —_— It Is announced that the house com- mittee on rivers and harbors has de- cided to abandon the effort to control the Missour! river. [t is too old to send to the reform school and too much confirmed fu its bad bablits to reform, There appears to be no other resource than for its nelghbors to put up with its antics with as much grace as possible, e—— The only hope of the fuslonists in Ne- braska lies in mistakes by repub- licans re-invested with responsibil- A COLUSSAL CONSPIRACY. While the testimony in the leglelative ‘contest cases Is not yet completed, enough evidence has alfeady been ad- duced to prove conclusively that the whole election In South Omaha was one colowsal swindle perpetrated by a con- spiracy In the Interest of the fusion ticket. The donspirators, of course, will not come to the front to testify against themseltes, but the corroborating storles of varlous witnesses to the tangible evidence of the conspiracy leaves no scintilla of doubt that the normal democratic majority in South Omaha was doubled only by the grossest violation of law, Including nearly every specle of election fraud. The evidence shows that the registra- tion books were systematically loaded with dummy names of men planted on vacant lots or translents without any right to the suffrage. To cover up this colonlzation the registration books were kept in & way to prevent its detection until after the mischiet had been com- mitted, while to shield them the voters were not sworn as the law requires, The evidence shows further that the colonized dummies were voted, not only on the fake names, but in some lnstances by assuming the names of other voters or by fraudulent certiticates. To wake sure the goods were delivered to the fusion candidates, the endless chain scheme was put Inf® operation, the bal- lots being taken out of the booth and marked for the voter on the outside, The exact number of these colonlzed voters, repeaters and illegal ballots will probably never be known, but it is cer- taln that they aggregate Into the hun- dreds. On a fair ballot and an honest count every map on the republican ticket in Douglas county was elected Dy a sufe majority and those who failed to get thelr certificates of election were slinply counted out by a most audacious und shrewd conspiracy to nullify the true will of the people. —_— HAZING AT WEST PUINT. The house of representatives has or- dered an investigation of the devth of Oscar L. Booz, formerly a cadet at West Point, who 1s alleged to have dled from the effects of Injuries elved lessen the there at the hands of other cadets, The young man himself asserted that his illness was due to hazing and his parents aver that when he entered the military academy he was sound men- ! tally and physically, but after the treatment he was subjected to he be- came despondent and his health was impaired. They charge that the dls- ease from which he died was superin- duced by the severe treatment he re- celved. This Is denled by the authori- ties at West Polnt. The circumstance has recelved a great deal of attentlon from the news- papers and the action of the house of representatives In ordering an investi- gation will be very generally approved. It such brutality s practiced at the West Polnt Military -academy as s al-| leged to have taken place In the case of | Cadet. Booz measures should be taken to put an end to it. Representative | Driggs of New York declared in the | house that the practice of infamously | hazing ‘“plebes” at West Polut was no- torlous, while on the other hand Repre- sentative Clayton of New York, a grad- | uate of the military academy, asserted that he knew from his own personal | experience that the reports of hazing were greatly exaggerated, that the sen- timent of the cadets was against bru- tality or doing anything unfair. A con- gressional investigation should deter- mine which of these statements Is the correct one and It 18 very much to be desired that the Investigation shall be thorough. iy DISCUSSING TAX REDUCTION. Consideration of the bill for the re- duction of war taxes was begun in the house of representatives Tuesday. The president in his message and the secre- tary of the treasury In his report recom- mended a reduction to the amount of $30,000,000. The bill framed by the republican majority of the ways and means committee provides for a reduc- tion of about $40,000,000. The demo- | cratic minority favors a larger reduc: tion. The democrats of the ways and means committee, in their report on the bill, express the oplnion that the surplus for the flscal year 1902 will be very much larger than the estimate of the secretary of the treasury, If proper economy in expenditures shall be ob- served, and they urge that the reduc- tion In taxation should not be less than $70,000,000. Of course they argue for a modification of the tariff and also fa- vor an income tax. In opening the debate on the bill the chalrman of the committee on ways and means, Mr. Payne of New York, said the committee felt that it had gone to the farthest llmit In the amount of reduc- tlon with due regard to prevention of deficits. He pointed out that the rev- enue from war taxes after the proposed reduction would not equal the extra ordinary expenses sure to follow as a result of the Spanish war. The Inter- est on the war bonds and the Increased army he stated would augment expendi- tures to the extent of $60,000,000, to which must be added $10,000,000 for in- crease in naval expenditure, There Is the possibility of forelgn complications and also of a decline In revenue from business depression that should be taken Into account. Neither condition, it 1s true, appears at all probable, but they are not impossible aud sagaclous states- manship will not leave them out of consideration. Regarding the propositions of the dem- ocratic minority, Mr. Payne id that to abolish the war revenue and substi- tute an income tax would cause an f- mediate deficlency, siuce the enactment of a new Income tax luw would not fur- nish a dollar of additional revenue. As to abolishing the additional tax on beer, the chairman of the ways and means ity. That Is why the fusion organs are so eager to tell the republicans what to do at the coming legislature, That 18 why, too, the fuslonists are so clamor- ous for the republicans to refuse recog- nition to men whose leadership they fear would be fatal lo‘lullw hopes. committee said that while reducing the revenues $28,000,000, it would at the same time produce the grossest injustice and he urged that the beer tax should never be wiped out until every other vestige of the war taxes is removed, 'ments of it to the Philippines | auest will have tull co The republicans in congress desire to burden of taxation to as great an extent as it Is prudent and safe to do so. They do not want an ac- cumulating surplus, while on the other hand they wish to avoid a deficlt. It is stmply & question of practical states- manship. If the treasury estimates are approximately correct a reduction in taxation to the extent of $40,000,000 is as far as congress should go at this time. It Is understood to be the opin- fon of the administration that the amount is too large. As to the demo- cratle position, it is manifestly unsound and untenable, To wipe out seventy mik lions of revenue at this time might re- sult In serlous embarrassment to the government and the talk of providing revenue through an lncome tax is at present utterly idle, while any modifica- tion of the tariff law at this session of congress Is quite out of the question. REVIVAL OF LHE IKISH PARTY. The conventlon of Irishmen that met In Dublin Tuesday, described by Mr. John Redmond, who presided, as “the parlinment of the Irish people,” evi- dences the fact that Irish patriotism has lost none of its ardor and that there 18 no abandonment of the de- termination of the people of Ireland to secure the political rights for which they have been contending for gene- rations. The object of this convention is to unite Irlshmen for the promotion of home rule and for securing needed reforme. The leaders In the movement seck to do away with the factional con- troversies and conflicts which have proved disastrous in the past to the cause of home rule and inimical to neurly every reform demanded by the Irish people. If this can be accom- plished and a strong party is formed and held together, there is reasonable | tope that it will be able to secure from the British government compliance with some of its demands for reforms, | though the realization of the foremost aspiration of Irishmen, home rule, is doubtless still remote. The time would seem to be auspi- clous for such a movement. Never has Great Britaln’ been in greater need of the loyal support of all her people than she Is at this time and perhaps never before was the nation's obligation to ‘the Irish people stronger than it now is. They responded freely to the call for soldiers and thelr services have been distinguished by the gallantry in war for which the race s proverbial. This renewed evidence of loyalty and fidelity hus greatly strengthened thelr claim to consideration. Irlshmen everywhere and all who sympathize with the cause of Ireland will regard with interest the deliberations of the Dublin convention and will earnestly hope that the object 1t has i view will be attained. —_— The senate might emulate the ex- ample of the house in the matter of dls- posing of business. While the house sometimes rushes matters through with undue haste, the senate goes to the limit In deferring action. Aside from wmatters of legislation pending in that body it has so delayed action on many pending treatles that 1t has been found necessary to negotiate supplemental agreements extending the time fixed for ratification by one year. The sena- torlal mind 1s undoubtedly a ponderous affair, but there should be some way of getting it In motion once in a while. Richard Oroker, who resides in Eng- land and draws on New York for a living, has been assessed In England on an Income of $100,000 yearly. The only way in which Richard can avold payment is to prove that his income is less and to do so must disclose the source of every dollar of it. Mafly peo- ple In New York would be willing to chip in and help pay the tax, provided Croker would make an accurate show- Ing of all his income and the actual source from which it is derived. There 18 no danger ot his doing so, however, —— Since the early duys of Boston common Young America has not been backward in asserting his rights or clalming his | privileges. Young Omaha does not pro- pose to be behind, and when the coun- i ell decided to drain his skating pond he rose up with a protest which was loud enough and strong enough to carry his point. You may fool some of the old ones regarding what they want, but not Young America, American Skill, Talk of sending coals to Newcastle! America I8 shipping cabbages to Germany for sauerkraut. —_— “For 1t 1 Written,” Ete. Baltimore American. President Kruger finds the necessity greater than ever to rely upon the prom- lses of the Old Testament for* consola- tiom, Now You're Talking. Portland Oregontan. Browers have petitioned for reduction of the tax on beer. Inasmuch as thelr product s & powerful clvilizer, as attested by ship- thelr re- ideration. Time for C on Too Short. Loutsville Courler-Journal, Towne, within a few months republican, silver republican, popullst, democrat, goes to the senate through appointmeat by a popullst governor. His short term will protally cxpire betore he ean be properly clasnif 1, ¢ One of the Big Leaks. Globe-Democrat, Postmuster General Smith again calls attention to the fact that from $12,000,000 to $20,000,000 & year can be saved by re- forms In carrylng second-class mall matter, which largely consists of penny dreadfuls. Congress could cut war taxation more treely by looking after this long-needed re- vislon. the Bar Be Lowered! Indianapolis Journal, The Zolnt resolutivi of cougress, under which the war against Spain was beguvn, declares “That the people of the island of Cuba are and of right ought to be' free and independent.” That will make it very difficult for the United States to establish any sort of yrotectorate over the lsland, as some are proposin, ‘The government is considering & propo- | depends upon us. with 60 cents’ worth of silver in it and exchangeable for gold at the rate of two silver dollars for one gold dollar. Such expedlent would raise anew the ques- tion of the status of the Inhabitants of the Islands. The scarcity of coln at Ma- nila and other fsland ports seriously in. terferes with business. The Mexican dollar I8 the standard coln of the natives. Two Ditches Acroas the Springfield (Mass.) Repub The offictals of the Panama Canal com- pany proclaim their purpose to bulld the caral, notwithstanding the certainty now that the United States government will bulld by way of Nicaragua. Their project will not, of course, be lightly abandoned. Tens of millions of dollars have been sunk in it already and, while much of this money has been wasted, there Is still solid schiovement to show for the vast expendi ture. A third of the proposed work Is firished and the engineoring difficulties pre. sented by the rest of it have been solved. 1t 1s thus quite possible that the work will g0 on, though the prospect of two ca: where one would have hard work to pay a fair return on the investment cannot be alluring to French or other Investors. —— AMHERICA'S NEW * “Merry King Conl" Annex the Old Worl Leslie's Week!: Strangest of all, however, is the thought that America is at last “tarrying coals to Newcastle,” or dolug something very llke it. A few weeks ago a ship steamed up the Thames with a big cargo of American coal. The quality of that shipment has proved to be good, and the price low enough. Eng- lish and Welsh coal operators have pro- posed to double the price of their output during the coming winter. If they carry out their threat, this actlon should open the best of all forelgn markets to our sell- ers of coal. If America Is able to soll coal ING. a Slice in England for less than ls asked for the | native output, all that will hinder a com- merclal triumph will be lack of transpor- tation. Unfortunately, at this time of the year about all of the bottoms that could be made available for coal transport will be employed to their full capacity in carry- £ the enormous quantities of beef, cotton d wheat for which the old world already This obstacle, however, is not likely to last long. Now that we are out-exporting every natlon on earth, it will not be long before American capital will realize the vital necessity of having our own ships to carry our trade. Glven the huge fleet which we must soon have, American coal will take its place beslde our other great commodities for ex- port. All that is meeded is a realization of the wonderful possibilities abroad. With one coal transport line started, and the abllity to quickly get other similar fleets in being, nothing more than ordinary com- mercial wakefulness is needed to add mil- llons annually to the dividends on Ameri« can capital and the wage-earnings of American workingmen. —— BRYANISM IN THE SOUTH. Effect of the Populistic Alllance on the Total Vote Cast. New York World, In no other cection of the country are the figures of the popular vote so sigaificant upon thelr face in the twelve states con- stituting the large remnant of the ‘“solid south”—Viriginia, North Carolina, South ne Misslssippl, Arkansas, Texa The figures of thelr popular vote fn the three last presidential elections are: 1892— Democratic . Republican opullst .. 1,491,000 000 1896— . Democratic-Populst tuslon.. 1,796,000 $11,000 Republican ... 2,607,000 000 2,408,000 A glance at these figures shows that some powerful force has been attacking the demo- cratic party in the south. It is idle to eay that the decline in the totals of the popular vote is due to the disfranchisement of the negro, for the republican vote was greater in 1896 thian in 1892, and its Increase in 1900 over 1896 was no less than 182,000. If the south was indifferent as to the result, it the disfranchisement of the negroes in sub- stitution for former intimidation affected the totals, why did the republican party make theso gains? It the democratic-populist alllance of 1896 had been a success, the total Bryan vote of 1896 would certainly have been at least about equal to the sum of the demo- cratic and populist votes at the election of 1892—that 18, about 2,245,000, But the Bryan vote of 1896 was only 1,795,776, nearly 500,- 060 under what it should have been. And at the last electlon it fell to 1,475,000, 750,- 000 under the combined vote of 1892, actually less than the democratic vote in that year, elght years ago. SILVERISM ON THE WANE, 1900~ Democratic-Populist. fusion.. 1,4 Republican ........jc......... 993 nt Features in the Vote of orado Pointed O 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. ‘The official vote of Colorado, which hal Just been announced, tells a significant tale. Tn 1896 Bryan received, In round figures, 161,000 votes In Colorado and McKinley 26,000. In 1900 Bryam's total in that state was 122,000 and McKinley's 93,000 Bryan's plurality in Colorado over McKinley four years ago was 135,000 It is only 20,000 in that state this year. It is pretty easy to point out the moral in this shrinkage of the Bryan vote in 1900 in the state which incited Bryanism in 1896. It was the bolt of Senator Teller from the republican convention in St. Louls in June, 1896, which nerved the democrats to declare for free silver in the Chicago as- semblage & month later, without walting for the ald or consent of any other nation. Tellet took the lead in the bolt, and he was @ blg factor in the calculations of the western and southern element of the de- mocracy—the faction which captured the convention of four years ago and which got possession of the machinery of the democratic party all over the country— from the hour in which he walked out of the republican gathering in St. Louls four years ago until the voting took place a little more than four months later. Senator Teller declared a few days ago that the sllver question was still a live fssue, and that he would stick to it until the cause triumphed. The recent vote of his state makes a highly impressive com- mentary upon that statement. Colorado, which ereated the bolt at St. Louls among the republicans four years ago, and which thus incited the Bryanite eruption fn Chi- cago & few weeks later, has declared that the silver fssue is settled and that it Is settled In a way contrary to that which Mr. Teller desired. Nearly everybody in orado In 1896, of all ages, both sexes and all races, was a Bryanite. In the elec- tlons since them the Bryanite plurality has been steadily shrinking. In that of 1000 ft almost touched the vanishing point. Thero f8 no room for doubt that in the col gressional election of 1902 the republican vote will exceed the democratic in Colo. rado, and that fn 1904 the republican can- didate for president will receive a goocd- sized majority in thut state. The immense shrinkage In the Bryanite vote in Colorado, the great increase of the republican vote and the chanee from the Bryanite to the republican side in Utah, Kansas, Wyoming, Washington, South Dakota and Nebr: in 1900, as compared with 1596, shows that the sliver issue Is dead in the United States. Senator Teller will be making sition to coln for circulation in the Phil- ipplue archipelsgo a Filipino nlvtr dollar #peeches for the republican nominee for president in 1904, THUREDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1900, HAZING OF CADET BOOZ. Brutal Treatment the Primary Cause of the Youns Man's Death, Philndelphia Times The recent death of Cadet Oscar L. Booz of Bristol, Pa., has brought out before the public a condition of affairs at West Point that should be exhaustively inquired into by a committee of congress and the evil cor- rected by the most stringent legisiation. Many complaints have been given to the public about the brutality of hazing at both West Point and Annapolis and it Is quite time that congress should absolutely elim- irate the brutal featuro from our naval and military education. It is a well known fact that a Hebrew cadet at either West Point or Annapolls is subjected to every conceivable indignity and every possible form of brutality that can be Infilcted anywhere In sight of the ordinary methods of hazing, and it is equally true that a cadet of either of those institutions who 18 a sincerely religlous man and who aims to live a consistent, religlous life Is subjected to Insult and brutality at almost every turn. In other words the cadets of West Polnt and Annapolls, who are the bem- eficiaries of the government, assume to make unwritten laws for themselves, which practically excludea from the ordinary bene- fits of these institutions both the Hebrew and the religious Christian. Colonel Mills, the superintendent of the military academy, bas made informal inves- tigation of the charges of the brutal hazing of Cadet Booz by his associates and he is compelled to confess to the public that the accusations are substantially true. Booz was hated and brutally hazed by his class- mates chiefly because he chose to live a consistently religious lite. For that offense to his classmates ho was insolently spoken of as “Bible Booz" and when Booz was forced Into a dispute with one of his asso- clates, who challenged bim to a fist fight, & ring was pitched outside the precincts of the academy and Booz was hounded as a coward because he refused to fight his class- mate and was forced to drink a flery liquid that blistered his throat as a punishment. The fact that such brutality can be prac ticed at tho military and naval academios of the nation and that the right of redress and protection for those who are thus brutally treated cannot be had clearly shows that the officers In charge of our naval and military academies are either derelict in thelr duty, or are without power to enforce decent conduct on the part of the cadets. A complaint of Cadet Booz to the com- mander of West Point that he was per- sistently and mallgnantly insulted by his classmates because of his religlous convie- tions and that he was denounced as coward because he refused to emgage In & rowdy flst fight should promptly bring the sevorest punishment to the gullty parties, but it is obvious that there is no such protection at elther of our maval or mili- tary school GENERAL CHAFFEE 18 RIGHT, Chicago Inter Ocean. The Pekin correspondents of the London newspapors do not approve of General Chaffee and his American methods. They complain of the guard that he posted to prevent looting. They report that the min- isters are offended by General Chaffee's individual assumption of authority in lssu- ing orders to prevent looting and that Fleld Marshal Count von Waldersee is not pleased with the independent tone of General Chaf- fee's communications to headquarters. They report also that General Chaffee has created dissatisfaction by his refusal to Join the other governments In giving in- creased ealaries to officer: gned to duty in the provisional government at Tien Tsin. This 18 a British view. The correspond- ent of the Inter Ocean.at Pekin takes a different view. He reports that the pro- vislonal government at Tien Tsin is cum- bersome, expensive and unsatisfactory; that its chief object seems to be to supply sinecures for military officers; that the high salaries pald condemn western govern- ment in the eyes of the Chinese and that the provisional government has made & demand for unlimited power regarding pub- lie works, the levylng of taxes, contribu- tions, import duties, ete. To all this General Chaffee, commanding the American troops, objected. He opposed the proposition to give the Tlen Tsin pro- visional government unlimited control of the territory. He declined to approve the proposition to inaugurate new public works except such as were temporarily necessary and he Instructed Captaln Foote, the American representative in the govern- ment, not to accept any remuneration be- yond his army pa. In all this General Chaffee was clearly right. He was acting up to American standards and in accordance with American procedents. He declined to permit his cwn men to do any looting and he declined te permit any Jther soldiers to loot the terrl- tory under American guard. He insisted that American officers in China should act under instructions similar given to officers in Cuba and the Philippines. Every position he has taken s warranted by his own in- structions and by the policy of the gov- ernment, In contrast with the complaining tone of the British press is the spirit of the Ri slan press. One of the leading journals of St. Petersburg, speaking of the satisfactory situation at Pekin, says: “The credit for the existing entento roally belongs to America. England begrudges President Mc Kinley his just prestige because he ha manifested his friendship for Russia. However this may be, General Chaflee is right In holding his soldiers and himself to a strict line of conduct in China. A Satirical Ro: Eminently Philadelphia N Mark Twain, h-American, in addressing the St. evening, overwhelmed tha members—most of them opulent and eminently respectable persons—by the ardor of his praises of their city. He concluded with this glow- 1ng peroration: “‘Gentlemen, you have the best municipal government In the world, and the purest and most fragrant. The very angels envy you and wish they could establish a govern- ment Itke 1t In heaven. You got it by a noble fidelity to civie duty. You got it by stern and ever-watchful exertion of the great powers with which you are charged, by the rights which were banded down to you by your forefathers, by your manly re- fusal to let base men invade the high pla of your government and by instant retalla tion when any public officer has insulted you n the city's name by swerving in the slightest from the upright and full per- formance of his duty. It Is you who bave made this city the eavy of the cities of the world. God will bless you for it. Why, the angels of heaven, when you approach the final resting place, will gather at the gates aud cry out: * ‘Here they come! Sbow them to the archangles' box and turn the limelight on them!" " The rich and elderly gentlemen applauded this heartily, until some one whispered “sarcasm,” and then they stopped thelr hand-clapping and grew red. But thelr wrath was only passing. When it broke upon thelr able intellects that the humorist had rebuked them by placing the blame for bad municipal government where it be- longs—on the doorsteps of the ‘‘good" citizen, the “leading” citizen, the “better classos''—they applauded again. That was to the credit at once of the intelligence and_conscience of the §t. Nicholas roclety of New York, which everywhere in the United States has an enormous unorgenzed |and unnamed bonorary membership. Nicholas soclety of New York the other ¥y D R e 4 WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION Rushville Recorder. Edward Rosewater Is nelther as well known nor as popular here as In the eastern part of the state. He 18 a man of many parts, able, shrewd and energetic, while as a newspaper man we consider him the peer of any in this half of the Unlted States. His polley and re- publicanism are not of the brand to please all sections of the party; nevertheless, there is one thing quite clear, and that is, he favors measures of a far-reaching and publie-spirited character, While Mr. Rosewater 1s a small man in stature, he 1s undoubtedly a large man in ideas. Encrgetic - and somewhat bumptious, he fights manfully for Omala and the state generally. He bas conducted The Bee to a proud position and the time is at hand when his efforts us A public-spirited man should be recognized. Whatever mistakes he may have made in the past, they are not to be the criterion of his present fitness for recognition. All men bave and do make some mis- takes, but falling to recogniz thelr good qualities will not elther do them justice or help the public weal. At this time the claims of Mr. Rosewater are worthy of dis- passionate analysis and fair rec- ognition. ANNEXATION OF CUBA. A Qnestion for Futare, Not for country that the future welfare of Cuba depends on annexation to the United States Is ovident. Frequent arguments in that line are found in print and they are often heard where people gather. Events in Cuba in the last year probably have had much to do with creating this sentiment, based on a belief that the Cubans are not steadfast enough In purpose, are not actuated by the best of motives, are not fair-minded enough to create a government that shall work for the best Interests of tho residents of the feland. Much sald and much was done prior to the election of delegates to the constitution convention to strengthen the feeling. There was plainly manifest on the part of many leaders in Cuba an inten- tion of make a rule in which Spanish in- terests of whatever nature should have practically no consideration. And there has been, t0o, no particular gratitudo expressed for what the United States has done and Is still doing for Cuba. We have forced all sorts of ugly problems upon ourselves by interfering in the name of humanity,with affairs in Cuba. So, it is but patural that such expressions as this from the Nashville American should be heard: “In no way can Cuba be placed in the position that is rightfully hers save as an integral part o the United States. The methods that have obtalned there since the yoke was plucked from her people by this WHAT PINGREE WISHES DONE Informa State Leglaintnre that clal Seaston Should Spe e Devoted roblems. LANSING, Mich, Dec. 12.—For the third time In two years the state leglslature con- vened here today in special session called by Governor Pingreo. Consideration of & measure taxing rallroads, telephone and tolegraph companles, express companies and other forms of corporation property on the cash value of their property instead of specifically upon their earnings, as under the present law, I8 the object of the session. In his message to the legislature Governor Pingree urges, In explaining his reasons for calling the special session, that this leglslature s more famillar with the sub- Ject of taxation than the next leglalature will be; that therefore the debate need only relate to the provisions of the law under consideration; that they have passed the Atkinson bill (which was declared un constitutional by the supreme court), and thelr work at this session Is meraly the r enactment of that law, with such changes as may be deemed advisable. The gov- ernor asserts that a conservative estimate of the taxes that would be paid by rail- roads under the proposed law, if assessed on actual cash value at the average general rate of taxation In the state as the con stitutional amendment adopted at the last election provides, will be more than 2,250,000, as against $1,240,845, the taxes fecelved for the year 1899, which were as- sessed specifically on the roads’ earnings The governor then submits the report ot the expert appralsers, who have been at work for the last three months, on the physical property of thirty of the smaller rallroads in the state, explaining that the appraisers have not yet finished their work. Representative Sever of Detroit will in- troduce the tax bill tomorrow. It is mod- eled after the former Atkinson bill and provides that the state tax commission shall constitute & board of assessors and that all tranchises and Intangible property shall be taxed, & well ph; al property. TO CHOOSE QUAY’S SUCCESSOR Pennsylvanin’s Legislature Will Try to Select United States Se ator Janunry 28, HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 12.—Announce- ment is made today that the republican eaucus to agree upon a candidate for United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of M. 8, Quay will be called to meet on Tuesday night, January 1, at 8§ o'clock. meeta in blennial session at noon that da; The republican caucuses to select candidates for speaker of the house of representatives and president pro tem of the senate will meet, it 1s stated, the previous night. The republicans have a majority in both branches, but both factions of the re- publican party are claiming control of the legislaturo, the anti-Quay republican lead- ers asserting that they will be in the ascendancy by reason of an agreement with the democrats. The leglslature will vote for senator on y 25, — BRBEZY REMARKS, Detrolt Freo Preas: call actresses by thel the; 'lrle married " h “That, my son, ia the only wi . serve thelr identity sl ol ‘Papa, why do they r first names when country show only too plainly that the mongrel race which is most eager to seize the reins of government s in no degree fit to be trusted. Ingratitude is the most strik- ing characteristic so far shown; next to that & barbarous desire for revenge. Are these the attributes that fit & people for self-government? Were American control to be withdrawn tomorrow, by the time the Christmas bells were ringing there would be bloody civil war raging from Havana to the eastern cape, and the civilized world would demand, and rightly, that we step in and put an end once for all to a state of affairs #o intolerable. Annex Cuba, give her tion that every territory in the unfon ha thus, and thus only, will Cuba be free in the literal and lofty meaning of that glorious word." In some respects this is doubtless an exaggerated view. Conditions are not likel to become as bad as the American profess to belleve. And yet the view that Cuba would be better off as a part of the United States s general. It is but little more pronounced than the view that ultimately that s what will happen. But Cuba will not be annexed right away, whatever hap- pens in tho future. The United States has pledged itself that Cuba shall be free. That pledge it must and will keep. If there- after events shall prove to Cubans the wisdom of annexation them the United States may properly comsider the ques- tlon. e PERSONAL NOTES. The medical skill of certain members of tho Chicago police was brilifantly ayed tho ether day whem they diagncsed eumonia tho case of & negro suffering trom two bulletholes {m the back. At the same time the duke of Manchester 1s debarred from occupying his seat in the British House of Lords because he doesn't pay his debts, he is reported as paylng $3,000 for prize bulldogs in New York. Marshall Oliver, professor of mathemat- fcs at the Annapolls Naval academy, who died & few days ago, had been connected with that place since his appointment as stant professor of drawing in 1869. Heory H. Rogers, the New York million- aire and copper king, was, fifty years ago, selling newspapers on the streets of New Bedford, M He then went into a gro- cery store, getting $3 a week and board. Oscar B, Heard has just closed a sixteen- ate's attorney of Stephen- son county, Illinois. In that time he has secured the conviction of 2,241 criminals, amwong the number three murderers, two of whom were hanged. E. Q. Dingley, son of tbe late congres man, I8 looked upon coming ma Malne politics. He has just been re-elec to the legislature, and 1s Bow spoken of as & possible caudidate for govermor at the xt election. Andreas Lang, who, until lately, played the part of Christ in the Oberammergau “Passion Play,” was recently in Rome and, applying for admission to the vatican, con- siderably startled the guards who, owin to his likemess to the Christ plctures thought a miracle was taking place before thelr eyes. The city of Birmingham, Ala., has al- ady begun to make preparations for a “metallic exposition,” to be opened there November 16, 1904, and continue until May 16, 1905 Its charter mame s to be the International Metallic and Industrial Ex- position. The state 18 expected to cons tribute $100,000 toward the expense, and congress 18 to be asked to give $500,000. The war correspondent of the London Daily News, who returned to England in the same vessel with General Buller, that each evening the band played Save the Queen” after dinner om deck. Of course, every Briton stood up and removed his head covering. A number of Holland- however, remalned seated and covered. The Britons were very angry, and it was feared that serfous trouble might follow. The anxious captain privately consulted General Buller. “Sir,"” he sald, “I wish you would tell me what you would do under the circumstances it you were commander of this ship. ““Me?"" replied Buller: “I should ask the band not to play ‘God Save |the Queea.’ " Indianapolis Journal: “Our pindianapo) clergyman &m;':uu'd%na him good ell, it has cu m serve their identit o iscting 49 Now York Weekly: First La Blackstone has poliiteal aspiration Becond Lawyer--Why do-you, think so0? Firat Lawyor-1 notloe. h I k barkeepers gy their first n:m:‘l!. AN the Chicago Tribune: “What seems to be the matter with him asked the doctor, ap- Dl‘lil(‘h'n{ the bedside of the man whi lay e und as eta leak ‘‘He foun an leak," ef' plained the nurse, & Ll Philadelphia Press: *“So you're in busi- pork butcher now, ‘eh? I wish you ‘hanks: I don't see how I can possibly While there’s a market for x's Jowl and plg's feet I'm bound to mike bath ends meat." Chicago Post: onnet {s adorable?" ex- hy do you say that he demanded irritably, That's not the word to use. You might as well say it {s lovable, and you can't love & bonnet.” “You can't)” she replied quietly. “‘but I can. Standard and Times: _“It's easy enough to make frionds,” remarked the dyspeptic- looking man, “but it's hard to keep them." #O, 1 don't know,” replied the othar, who was jovial and wealthy and notoriously “ensy.” "I find that my friends are quite satisfled to let me keep them.'" Philade] Record: Hoax—What are you thinking about? Joax—T wils Jist wondering. Yo an be satd to be oax-—Can o man o be on a te cotta bust when ho's painting the town red? l(?)lllclfn"’l'rlbun:,lz_?bnc," gaia hin dis. ant relative, ‘“‘whaf o o wi ou Hae an awiiiy Sad cotar sl Whereupon the” doctor merely coughed, as if to show him, and extended his hund with the palm upward. Detroft Journal: The Wolf relatod severa) fustances of him having escaped being shot in virtue of wearing shoe othing. “80 far as My own experlence goes," con- cluded the Wolf, “this talk of wool being unsanitary to wear next one's skin is largely faa!" ‘Washington Pos o you let your lead ing man go?" i to," answered Mr. Btormington “'Hé was t00 realistic inhis fdeas."” with your work on the . not on the stage. In the box ofce, He wanted real mone: Somerville Journal: Hoskins—Have a cigar, old man?" faskins—Is it one of the same box that you had last week?'" Hoskins—Yes, I belleve wo. Haskins—No. thank you, 0ld boy; T don't teel like smoking.” THE THREE FOOLS, Josh Wink in Baltimore American, Three souls once met upon the way— The way from Here to There— The way that leads from this old world, And finds its end Somewhere. Three souls—they met, and greeted there, As souls are wont to do And each soul to the others sald: “‘Before this—what were you?" The firat soul drew his airy shape Up to ite proudest heleht, was @ Statesman,” answered he: ‘A man of mind and might. 1 led my people, h 1 held them by my side, T heard their proud acciaims each day, And then—and then—1I dlod.” The next anul smiled sractous smile, With condgscension filled, And sald: ‘I was a Bage. T wrote, And men thought as I willed. 1 wrote, T rpoke—1 taught the world What it should feel and see, My hooks were studled And then—they buried m: The third soul walked in silence on. Then turned the other two, And murmured: “Tell us, brother soul, Pray tell us, what were you?" “I knew no statecraft,” sald the third, “I' dld not head @ school. T only tried to make men smile, I, brothers, was & Fool." “I wang, T jibed, T fiented, too; 1 gave the best T fhad, Yet all the impulse deep'T felt as but to make men giad." The other souls fell back a 3 With manner grave and cool And as they moved with stately tread They scowled, and sald “A Fool!" "Pwas thus they came unto the Ga And craved an_entrance ther They told thelr names and deeds agatn— The Fool and then the pair. wide the gate, eer. The Keeper smiled, swung ‘‘Make way upon the street, And, in & voice of chy Hg crled: Three fools would enter here!" ¢ h) \