Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1901, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI NG TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION, {ly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.. Jally Bee and Sund e Lilustrated Boo, One Year .. o 8Bunday Bee, One Yea turday Beo, One Year wentieth Century Farmer, One Year i OFFICE aha: The Bes Ballding. South Omaha: Cit fall B ing, Twen- ty-ifth and B Btreats oS Cpunadl Blufta: 10 Pear! Streat, ago 0 Unity Buildin, New #nrkv Templa Court. © Washington: 501 Fourteenth Street. d CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed!- forial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order, Fl)’lbll 10 The Hee Publishing Company. Inly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. ersonal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING f'U\".’\NV $6.00 8.00 " OF CIRCULATION, Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s8.: Guorge B. Tzachick, secretary of The Boe Publishing company, duly sworn, #ays that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Daily, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January, 191, was as follows 25,500 17 26,240 26,820 18 20,500 26,330 10 ....26,210 20 ..26,410 2 2 2., 26,720 ..26,050 26,410 ..20,820 29,180 26,410 20 26,815 26,180 770 29,840 26,1560 ..26,410 26,380 ..26,240 26,440 26,240 26,420 20,700 26,650 26,450 26,320 26, 1 .. 3. ", 18.. 1 28 ... . a N40.085 10,007 Total Less unsold a® returned coples Net total sales Net dally average. 26,776 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Sabscribed {n my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst day of January, A, D. 1501, M. B, HUNGATE, (Heal.) Publ And there are doubtless some people in Kansas who still insist that prohibi- tlon prohibits. 10,068 fe. The republican senatorial caucus may be short, but it is not quite so short as the fusion senatorial ¢ The English coronation oath has been changed several times and it can be changed again to meet twentieth cen- tury conditions. The National Civic Federation an- nounces its arbitration committee made up of a startling array of eminent names. The next thing is to arbitrate. Nebraska has been enjoying a surfeit of murder trials which are not particu- larly edifying to its citizens. Nebraska could get along nicely without any cases of this kind. The bill to establish a branch mint at Omaha has passed one or the other houses of congress several times before. If 1§ gets through both houses this time we will all celebrate. If South Omaha develops any more prospective mayors it will suffer a com- plete exodus when they all go down to Lincoln to supervise the enactment of the new South Omaha charter bill. Just remember that the same kind of storles were circulated two years ago about the then existing senatorial dead- lock. But the deadlock was broken and Senator Hayward elected just the same. It 1s to be hoped the striking dress- makers in Paris will not take Mrs. Na- tlon as an example, otherwise the Paris- fan dressmaking establishments will soon be strewn with splinters of French plate glass. The Iowa gubernatorial race is open- ing up with a lively lot of republican entries sure to be Increased betore the convention heaves in sight. lowa re- publicans always have the best talent to choose from. The South Dakota legislature has sent a memorial to congress urging a con- stitutional amendment that the election of United States senators be by direct popular vote, South Dakota must be ‘watching Nebraska. Omaha presents a fine showing on the increase side of the clearing house table this week, which is remarkable for the dull season of the year. Business con- ditions in Omaha and tributary terri- tory are constauntly improving. Ell Perkins, the great humorist, has just passed through Nebraska and missed the opportunity of his life in fail- ing to stop over to visit the Nebraska legislature, in imitation of Mark Twain's visit with the Austrlan Reichstag. A few prosecutions of physiclans who willfully neglect to report cases of con- | taglous disease us required by law would doubtless soon put an end to the dangerous practice. A physiclan, above all others, should realize the necessity of reasonable precaution to prevent the spread of such discas: We do not belleve the city will have any dificulty in securing all the em- ployes needed in the various depart- ments at the salaries fixed by the clty council. In fact, the city could recruit a double set of officluls and ewployes at the present salary schedule without | even advertising for application: Not content with mastering the trans portation systems of the Unlted States the syndicate belind the recent colossal railway counsolidations is reaching out for European property, making a start on an electrie traction company in Lon- don. The United States is becoming a world power In ludustry as well as di- plomacy. e Governor Dietrich proposes a soclal reundon of all Nebraska ex-governors as his guests on Washington's birthday. Nebraska is especlally fortunate fu the number of living executives who can meet this requirement and in whose ad- ministrations are Included the larger part of the state’s history, It 1s doubt- ful whether an equal number could be THE SPUONER PROPOSITION The bill of Senator Spooner, confer- ring on the president all military and clvil powers necessary to govern the Philippines, it is proposed to attach to the army appropriation bill, as the best way to secure action upen . 1f it passes the president will have full an thority, untll otherwise provided by congress, to establish civil government in the islands and to wake the military | power subordinate to the civil as the Taft commission has out, Is most essential to the improve ment of conditions in the Philippines, particularly in a commercial way, sinc 4l under existing circumstances capit will not go into the islands hnd nothing | I8 being done for their industrial and | commercial development. It is the | opinjon of the comnmission that with eivil government established, as contem- plated in the Spoouer bill, there would | be a very general change of fm-llnu‘ among the people toward the United | States and it seems most rensonable fo | belleve that such would the cnse, They now have before them only the military power—a continuance of their experience under Spanish rule. Sub- | ordinate that to civil authority and it | 1s not be doubted that the change would have a good effect upon the people. It is pointed out that mediate effect of the | would be to to the chief im- oposed change harmonize differences which recently have been rapidly in creasing in gravity, Th Washington | correspondent of the New York Tribune says: “The exercise of the president's high power through a civilian rather than a military v sentative s ex pected to create a wholesome lmpression on all clagses of natives and there is a general conviction that this notable in dication of the fixed purpose of the United States will eause another dem- oustration of loyalty like that which followed the awnesty proclamation last year." It given the authority proposed the president will of course appoint Judge Tatt governor of the islunds, what he has done there having fully justitied the confidence reposed fn him by the presi dent, With the limited powers the commission now has and its subordina- tion to the military authority, it has undeniably accomplisbed much in the direction of pacitication. Given broader authority there is every reason to be- lleve that there would be most gratif ing results, The establishment of a civil government which could grant fran chises would be immediately followed by large investments of capital in the Philippines, giving employment to many of the people and affording them an ob- Jject lesson in industrial development that could not fall to have a most salu- tary effect. There s no doubt that capital will go to the islands as soon as it shall be given satisfactory assur- auce of protection and security. It was recently stated that a large amount of German capital will be invested there whenever the desived franchises can be secured. Steady progress is being made In ex- tending American authority in the Phil-| ipplues and undoubtedly the task would | i be rendered less difficult uuder a ¢ government with comprehensive power KLEP 10 THE All interests concerned in the pros perity of Omaha should keep constantly to the work of upbuilding the city and promoting its material welfare. When all work in harmonlous co-operation along a program embracing development in every direction, gratifying results ave sure to be accomplished. The first number on the program is the expansion of Omaha's Industrial activity by widening the scope of the establishments already here and by en couraging the location of new business houses. The extension of the territory tributary to Omaha trade, through the development of rallroad facilities radi ating from this point, gives a capital for such a campalgn never before at the command of the city. The success that has crowned recent efforts of the Cow- mercial club along this line should en- courage still further work. The second number on the program calls for improved conditions of living for the great mass of the laboring peo- ple who coustitute the foundation for the prosecution of industrial ventures, The working classes should be .enabled to live cheaply and in comfortable dwellings, with easily accessible oppor tunities for recreation, in addition to the educational advantages within reach of themselves and their families. While Omaha 18 favorably situated with v erence to good schools and cheap Hving compared with its commerefal rivals, to suy nothing of many other benefits which the workingmen enjoy, these con ditions can be still further improved. By keeping all the clements in the community alive to every opportunity and united fo the work before them, Omaha's forward march will continue uniwpeded. RUNSIA'S SUMMARY ACTION The Russian winister of fluauce promptly responded to the decision of Secretary Gage in the sugar case by ordering that additional duties, thought to be practically prohibitory, shall be tmposed on iron and steel products of American manufacture, Such sumwmary action was not expected, though it was apprehended that Russla would retall- ate, Even the ambassador of that government at Washington scoffed at the idea of a tarlff war, yet this is what the action of the minister of finance amounts to. The purpose is to shut out American manufactures of iron and steel from the Russian market. The de cree is distinet in its discrimination agatust this country. The trade affected is said to have amounted last year to $30,000000. It was a growing trade that promised to reach very large proportigns. A Wash- ington dispatch suys it is realized that u grave crisis has been reached In the trade relations between the United States and Russia and there Is danger WORK “This, | pointed | that there will grow out of the action of the Russian government a movement in Europe to form a combluation of gotten together at any ether time, . several countries, as has been urged, HE for mutual protection against Ameri can competition in their home markets It is very likely that the course of Russia will stimulate the element in Germany which is agitating for higher duties on American products, It 1& not probable that our ment will take any action in the r ter at on m of the se tary of sury will of cour stand. It is presumed that the import ers of beet sugar from Russin will take the question whether they ghould be re. quired to pay the countervailing doty to the courts, and in the event of a ju dicial decision against the opinion of the secretary of the treasury doubtless the Russian government would modify its Therefore our government will wait until the question shall bave been passed upon by the courts, In the meantime, which may be a year or more, American trade with Russia will suffer and oue competitors will be bene tited German manufacturers will doubtless get n large share of the busi l Ame 1 manufacturers will lose, As to whether the United States should retalinte by tarlff discrinination againet Russian products it Is not ap parent that anything would be gained by such a Our importations from Russin are not large and shutting them out would not be fous v ter to Russlan producers. In a tarift war the advantage would be maivly with Russi govern t i oo s that Is conrse. BANKING FACILITIES IN THE WEST Whether the reduction in the mini mum eapital for national banks has proved successful in extending banking facilities in the is the subject an inguiry, the results of which are set forth in an article in the current Quar- terly Journal of Economics, The author, Thorton Cooke, tries to trace the effect of the new currency law on banking in a group of five neighboring states, em bracing the two Dakotas, Nebraskd Kansas, Towa and Missourd, and un takes to show that in this territory the opinion of Secretary Gage that the res duction of the-capital lmit to $2 “hax enabled mauy of the remoter sec- tions and smaller communities to secure necessary banking facilities” s not Justiied by the facts, By ranging the statistics in tabular form and taking into account the conversions of old banks Mr. Cooke draws these concla- slons west of ctual gains under the new law are noteworthy. The gains range only from $35,000 in South Dakota to $160,000 in Kansas—from 4 per cent of capital already existing in South Dakota down to fifteen- hundredths of 1 per cent in Missouri, Kor the group the increase of capital Is $473 000, a growth that is insignificant in states where the banking capital alveady eggre- gated $75,000,000. It is not likely that the increase in banking capital due to the new law Is even so much as these figures show because besides its capital almost every converting bauk had avallable towards making up the capital of the national bank that replaced it considerable undivided profits and surplus. More to the poiut is the gain in the num- ber of banks. Here, too, the advocates of small national banks must be disappointed by the analyzed facts. The new law has not given North Dakota an additional bank. Scuth Dakota and Missouri have each one additional Lank and Nebraska and Kansas have each two. By the act of March 14 these five states have together gained six banks. Except that it occurred under a new law, this slight increase in banking facilities would excite no comment. Six more banks count for little in a region that has 1,500 already. If these states are typical for the west, the small communities that can support only small banks with small capital must be supplied by institutions organized under state laws rather than as part of the national banking system, That this is the case is indicated by figures produced by the same author that show that in every state of this Missouri river group except South Da- kota the in se of bank capital due to state banks only is greater than that due to national banks, Agalust six ad- ditional banks there traceable to the new currency law, there are eighty-five new state banks and ten not unimpor- tant private banks. The need in the west of bunking facilities that national banks caniiot supply he insists has been demonstrated by the existence of nu- merous little banks in small villages And by the fact that the organization of little banks still goes on. Mr. Cooke advocates the adoption of some scheme for branch banks to meet the requirements, but advances no argu ments in support. Plainly the problem demunds more caveful and close study to veach the right solution. The Pat Crowe story from Waterloo, ., reads beautifully and is a worthy produc of the pen of the editor of a country weekly, but it will take some roboration to make the general pub- lie accept it. Crowe Is very likely to throw himself upon the merey and grat ftude of an old friend he had not seen In years with a $25.000 reward out standing for his delivery to the authori tles. If his associates have been able to protect him this long they are not likely to go back on him now. The pretense, too, that he has 820000 of the ransom planted and is waiting only for a chance to get it and muke his exit from the country Is too gauzy to go down, a8 no one would believe that his confederates would let him take four fifths of the booty and leave them a paltry §5,000 to divide between them. The publicity given the story, however, may be relled on to make re- appear again with fantastic confessions 1 a dozen different parts of the coun try. Crowe The latest is a slot machine invented Iu Parls which not only prepays the postage stamp, but licks it and aftixes it to the envelope. A mechanical letter writer is yet needed for the salvation of Americans seeing the sights abroad, Nebraska will have no trouble in fur- nishing all the commissioned oficers under the new army bill that may be allotted to this state, It is always easier to get men to fight with shoulder straps than to march in the ranks Bryan's Omaha organ Is frantically endeavoring 1o guide the republican wembers of the legislature in thelr se lection of United Ntates seuators. The ' OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FE BRUARY 18, 1901 Bryan organ exerted itself all it could to make the legislature fusion and | might have been consulted the fusionists in control, but under the cfr cumstances the republicans can hardly see the necessity of going to the eneiy for advice, —_— The Time Mny Com Washington Star If Nebraska continues to achieve note as o political storm center the time may come when it will want to take some of the of fices away from Ohio were Solnce for 010 Maids Washington Star roegle is sald to have |young men to fall in love with women {thirty years older than themselves. Who 1s going to compel the women to confess? An Unkind Remar! Maitland Express. Mrs. W. J. Bryan angrily contradicts the assertion that her husband was at one time on the stage. As we understand the matter all the acting he ever did was in a tent, Mr, C ) advised u Home to Ito Washington Star Some of the eastern temperance advo- | cates are in doubt whether to regard Mr Nation as a genuine reformer or as sim ply @ retribution Kansas has earned by persistent violation of liquor laws, Judicial Paternnlism. Loufsville Courter-Journal A Wisconsin judge has decided that ex- cessive cigarette smoking on the part of a husband is sufficient ground for granting the wite a divorce. No similar decision has yet been made in a case where the smoking | s done by the woman, though one judg the other day did go to the length of rul-| ing that a husband could not be compelled to pay his wife's cigarette bills. Not Unlike American Conventions. Indianapolis Journal Cuba has an irresponsible constitutional conventlon because the property owners as a whole did not take any part in the elec tion. If they had they might have elected a conservative element which would have been influential. It is sas that not a mem- ber of the convention is worth $1,000. In the larger cities of this country councils are unsatisfactory because men of influ- ence and ability take no part in the selec- tion of candidates. The er of the Slipper. New York Mafl and Express It has become much the fashion in these days to decry the use of the slipper as an active factor in the moral development of | young chfldren. The king who preferred | wisdom above nll possessions uttered the maxim, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” | It is a controversy as long as the tale of | domestic life, as to the literal application | of this fnjunction. It will be an endless | controversy, because it is impossible to | generalize absut a problem that requires in- | dividual consideration and treatment. Most parents, however, would probably | agree that this part of home discipline, at least during the earlier years of infancy, should be allotted to the mother. The ma- ternal instinct s tender and merciful, but it is likely to e thoughtful enough about the child’s future to ute a modicum of cor- rective measures in training. Appeal to reason may be made at different ages in fifferent children, Much depends upon an- cestry and environment, but the slipper cannnot be wholly abrogated nor the rod entirely banished. Their judicious use In the education of & prince may make a bet- ter king. It is not surprising, therefore, that a woman, guest of the New York Mother's club, which opposes corporal pun- ishment, told that amliable organization that it was in error. *'I brought up my boys on the slipper,’ she vallantly de- clared. The value of this as a premis might have been enhanced if the matron hed brovght along her lads for exhibition, but courtesy, of course, compels the reas- onable assumption that these are very good boys, indeed. No, the slipper is with us to stay and those old emough will say, “Long may it wave! Co LEGAL TESTIMONY OF WOMEN, In Vo Degree L Worthy of Credit Than the Testimony of Men. 1 Philadelphia Inquirer, Is there any reason to suppose that the testimony of a woman is in the slightest e less worthy of edit than the testi- | of a man? We ask that seemingly | superflious question because a Chicago judge has recently produced something of u | sensation by granting a new trial in a case before him upon the grouud that the ve dict which it was sought to set aside had been based largely upon the testimony of | women. He did not, In expressing this | surprising opinion, go so far as to charge the fair sex with a greater tendemcy to mendacity than the sex whose testimony he preferred. Indeed, he was good enough | to admit that women are undoubtedly upon a higher moral plane than men. : His objection to the female witness was based upon the theory that women are of a more highly imaginative nature than men. They are so imaginative in the opinion of this judge that they are actually able to decelvo themselves with the creations of their own fancy. They don't utter willful falsehoods. Perish the thought. But cording to the explanation of the Chicago jurlst, they exhibit a chronic incapacity to discriminate between things thal the {magine and things that they really know. They are, furthermore, he says, open to | the criticism that when they have educated | themselves up to the point of accepting as true what at first they bad only imagined, they will maintaln that mental attitude to | the end in spite of all the contrary evidence | that can be brought to bear against it These are surprising charges and no less | grave than surprising. 1f they are to be ac- | cepted as true there is no escape from the | conclusion that from at least one point of view, the point involved in the opinion of this Chicago judge, women are not entitled to be regarded as responsible human beings. The person who Is not able to distinguish between what is fancy and what is fact s a person whom it is hardly safe to allow to be at large. It cannot be admitted of sucha person that he or she is in the full possession of his or her senses To mistake illusions for realities is one of im.- most constant and characteristic indi- cations of insanity, so that the statement of the Chicago judge is equivalent to an as- sertion thai women as & body are what the lawyers call non compos mentis. We don't belleve that there will be any considerable or respectable body of assent to that prop- osition We should be inclined (o say that women make at least good witnesses as men, if not better, and that for several reasons They are naturally more observan(, they are apt to have a better memory for details and they are more consclentious about stating in court what they believe to be true. This Chicago judge himselt admits that they are wpon a bigher moral plane than men and if that doesn’t mean among other things that they have a more scrupu lous regard for the truth the Chicago man 1% loose in his use of language. Of course there are women who cannot be trusted upon thelr oath just as there are men, hut it may well be questioned whether upon the whole women are not the more truthful of the two. What has come over our judicial friends lately? They have been making all sorts of bad breaks which have a tendency to impair the popular respect in which the Judictary should be held. The judge cannot be too careful what be says. His words are sure to be noted. ac- | been TRIBUTE T0 LA L. Schuyler Sun: In the death of Judge Maxwell of Fremont, ebraska, loses one of its best and purest-minded citizens. His was a life well worthy of emulation Neligh Yeoman: In the deach of Judge Maxwell Nebraska loses one of her most extent than any other man, has left his imprint upon the jurisprudence of our state. { we think, that tha husband of the |r||nx;t>q This Ilan and Neapolitan brench of the fam- the become King Falls City Journal Hon. Samuel Max well died at his home in Fremont Monday The death of Judge Maxwell will be keenly felt by the Nebraska bar He was one of the state's most ablest lawyers and his legal works in the form of text books are recognized authority. York Times: Judge Maxwell was natur- ally He became somewhat prejudiced in his later years perhaps, but it is only fair to award him the highest praise that can be bestowed. He was an honest man. Many people in Nebraska regret his death. Kearney Hub: The venerable Judge Max- well, one of Nebraska's oldest landmarks. has passed to his long account. Ha had a long and honored career, lived with an unbleniished reputation, and died with tie respect of his fellow citizens. Erratic in some (hings, he was in all sc’entious und his integrity was never ques- tioned St. Paul Republican for more than the Nebraska home in Samuel Maxwell, twenty years a member of supreme court, died at his Fremont Monday, at the age of 8 vears. No western jurist has ever at- tained the eminence of Judge Maxwell as an expounder of the law. His legal treat- ises will a lasting monument to his memory. Neligh Leader: The death of Judge Maxwell at his home at Fremont this week I8 a source of sorrow to people of all classes in the state of Nebraska. While of late years he had been somewhat eccentric in political matters, yet his positions were the source of very little criticism, as the personal esteem in which he has always held was of such high character as to bring the greatest consideration from his opponents Norfolk News: The death of ex-Con- gressman Samuel Maxwell of Fremont re- moves one who has done much to bave his name remembered in the state, his logal learning and accomplishments having been of espectul value to the people. He i the author of severdl works of importance to the fraternity and courts. Although peo plo have differed from his political bellefs all are willing to concede that he was o man of strong character and his ablility won for him recognition that profited many besides himself. Scribver News: Few men not blessed with eloquence or a magnetic personality have succeeded in impressing their influ- ence upon the destinies of a state to a degree that the late Judge Samuel Maxwell did. Though compelled to begin life at the very bottom of the ladder nature had en- dowed him with a rare judicial mind and he cultivated and expanded it by the ap- plication of persistent and conscientious study and an honmest construction of the law. He always applied the law as he found it, regardless of the effect on his political tuture, Papiilion Times: The death of Judge Samuel Maxwell, at his home in Fremont, removes from the sphere of action one of the strongest men that ever graced Ne- braska. For twenty years a justice of the Nebraska supreme court and for one term a congressman from Nebraska, his life was one of activity and helpfulness. Men may have differed from Judge Max- well on matters of politics, but no man ever questioned Judge Maxwell's Intogrity or honmesty. He leaves as a legacy to the young men of today an example of industry, honesty and ability that they would do well to follow. Columbus Telegram: yet he lives—lives and hearts of all Nebraska and right. Viewed from a technical stand- point he was not a great lawyer; that is to say he had not that fine sense which enabled him to enter the realm of specula- tion and weave a web of justice and right about & lawyer's technical point in behalf of wrong. Viewed from the standpoint of equity he filled to the full the best definition of the term—a just, judge. Dur- ing his long life-work on the bench he strove to make a trulsm of Nebraska's state motto quality before the law." In his eyes the humblest citizen in the state was as much entitled to the pro- tection of the law's strong arm as was the mightiest corporation that ever bought a legislature or stained the ermine of court. Corporation lawyers said Maxwell was a demagogue. That's what they say of every judge who will not do their bid- ding. They feared him on the bench Jvery rogue fears every hemest man who is in position to give the rogue his dues. We grant that Samuel Maxwell was not as erudite as some jurists, but God and many men know that In his judgments he wus equitable, in private life pure and clean. The name of Samuel Maxwell will be spokcn in accents of respect in Nebraska long after the names of the greatest cor- voration lawyers, who called him dema- gogue, slall have been swallowed up by deserved oblivion . Fremont Leader: The sudden death of the Hon. Samuel Maxwell brings to us all the fact that death always stalks near to us all, and when we least expect il reaches out his gaunt arm for us and we go down to the grave. Few men bad a cleaner vecord than our old friend, Judge Max- well. He was a man who never allowed his left hand to know what his right hand did, and his charities were always generous. He was a constant, busy worker up to the He dead, and will live in the who love justice is hour he died, not because he loved money, | but he wanted money whereby he help others who could not help them- selves; This was the spirit of the man, and it was grand in him. This was demon- strated in his vouth, and it continued in him through all his life. JLet a stranger tell him a plausible story of distress, he immediately had a sympathetic friend fn the judge. He served his state with the same honestness of purpose that marked his private life. His political life was could | marked with noble purposes, such as should beat in every true American breast. He has shown a devotion to public dutles that should be a mark for the youth of our country He came to Dodge county in 18 and ever since then has been a respected citizen of Fremout and made his home with the Presbyterian soclety of this city. His life for forty-five years was so closely identified with the history of our state and territory that the passed Aiting resolutions of condolence to be engrossed and forwarded to his family. Not only. the state, but the whole com- munity can voice the same sentiments that are so ably set forth in the resolutions by the Hon, George L. Loomis of this city, New York Evening Post “Bad government,” was Macaulay's short and easy way of describing the causes of Spain's woful decline. But what are the significant particulars wrapped up In this vague generalization? Why should the ap- parently natural and inoffensive marriage of the princess of Asturlas to Don Carlos de Bourbon be made the occasion of seditious cries and violent outbreaks? Just how does fLin event link ftself with and exemplify “bad government? The explanation commonly given is that the royal bridegroom s tarred with Car- lism. His father, the count of a Carlist by both profession and practice— a conscientious Judge and did a deal for | the jurispradence of Nebraska in his time. | things con- | church | legislature | both word and sword ¥ A8 the Spanish say. in arms against the reigning dynasty this is not the whole story. Carlism, such, is not so immensely unpopular | Spain. The church has been openly for it {and probably 1s for it now in its secret heart (palabra But |not convulse Spain. The real trouble is, | 15 a Bourbon of the reactionary type 8i |ily is inbred on both sides, o that young Don Carlos, who mey | consort of Spain, is a Bourbon pur |To Spanieh apprehensions this means | the type of Isabella and of the retrograde | style of government which led the country |to rise in successtul revolution in 1867. it is the return of the narrow, bigoted, Ul tramontane Bourbons which excited Spain sees threatened in the royal nuptials. The fear is no doubt heightened by the ap sang health of the young king, who may not live to reign CUBAN INDE Condi i Seek ons Wh o Impose Upon th Chicago Record 2 the comstitutional couvention now e Sam Wil Republic, Wh the unddretanding that its m perform a twofold duty were to de vise a safo and stable governing system and they were to define the relations to sub sl nited States. ter requirement the execute fully the purpose for which it called out, its falluro obliges the in self-defense to ask for nbers sbould status as supervisor of the island's interna tional relations. President McKinley has now drawn up a statement of the stipulations which he be its independence the United ¢ These stipulations give ates the right to intervene in 1o the permanent malntenance of the island government and the negotiations of forelgn treaties, both commercial and political. One of the clauses also provides that the United States Is to be permitted to maintain at leasy two coaling and naval bases in con venient harbors. Whether or not the terms a8 formulated by the president are some- what broader and more vague than need be. the demands which the Cubans are thus asked to meet are in essence just and proper. This government does not mean to break Its promise of Cuban independence in a single regard or to infringe a particle upon Cuba's essential right to real liberty and complete control of its own affairs. But it is obvious that the United States cannot be expected to grant to any people occupying the position and relation of the Cubans the privilege of contracting foreign relations which might endanger our su- premacy in the Caribbean sea and would surely subject us to the constant menace of foreign entanglements. The terms which President McKinley has framed are to be submitted to congress in the form of a resolution, and that body fs to be asked to pass upon the matter at the present session, There can be little ques- tion to the duty of congress in this matter. However it may modify incidental features of the president's plan, it should #tand ready to hold up his hands as regards the chief point at issue. This is no party question. It is a matter of national wel- fare and safety as against future possible aggressions, not from Cuba alone, but from other and truly formidable powers. The president asks for a reasonable measure of protection of national interests, and It is as such that his propesal should be considered and acted upon with disinterested patriot- ism by the members of congress. 1 Joe Wheeler has announced that he will be a candidate for a seat in congress from his old district, the Eighth Alabama An organization is said to have been formed, with headquarters In Wisconsin and Washington, to nominate Senator John C. Spooner for president in 1904 Ex-Secretary Whitney will take a thor- ough rest from business when he visits Alken, S, C. A number of his best saddle- horses will follow him there and for fiv weeks or two months he will devote his time to riding and hunting. | They tell in London of an impecunious nobleman who once wrote to the late Sam Lewis, the money lender, inviting him to dinner. Lewis replied thus: “Dear Lord ——: 1 am sorry that I shall not be able to accept your invitation to dinner. 1f, however, you will tell mo the amount you require I will kee what I can do for you." While Mascagnl was arranging for the simultaneous production of his new opera in six Italian cities he spent twenty suc- cessive nights in rallway cars. He was un- shaved and looked the worse for wear and generally unkempt—not gaunt, however, for it seems that the composer Is decidedly fat, 0 much so that he grows angry when twit- ted about his corpulence Andrew Glassell, who died recently in Los Angeles, Cal., witnessed the growth of that city from a Spanish pueblo into a busy modern city. Mr. Glassell was born in September, 1827, in Virginie, was grad- uated from the Unlversity of Alabama, took up law as a profession and went to Cali- fornia in the rush of '49. e was for many years depuly United States district attorney for California do with the development and its Interests. Kansas newspapers of Los Angeles do not agree as | recent army shakeup that he has been over the reaction has set in view: when he was exploring the Arctic reglons | and investigating the Death valley in forc One is of the opinion advertised and that Another takes this Point innocents he wauld be rewarded with army now.” It 18 a rarp privilege to Le permitte visit any of the kaiser's palaces that he Is entitled to al least as much pri orders in regard to visitors are strict others a haven of rest, few permitted within its sacred precinets. This palace 18 one of the most beatiiful in the world, It was built by Frederick the Great for the cxpress purposs of giving the lfe {o those enemies who spread reports of the | hopeless bankruptey of Prussia Former Chie? Justice Logan B. Bleckley of Georgla, greatly 1o the surprise of his friends, has matriculated at the State uni- | versity for a spec course in wathemat- | tes. The fudge {8 now 76 years old. He | {s writing a book in which he treats of mathematics, but finds that he is somewhat rusty on the subject. It 1s for the purpose of “brushing up,” as he says, that he is at- versity, and after he has finished Lis course he will reture to his home in Clarkesville. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, has been serving as a speclal agent of the census bureau in charge of the enumeration of the deaf, dumb and blind population of the country, and is now pro- paring his report. Mr. Bell is a milllonaire several times over, but is entitled to § & day from the government while he is em- ployed in this work. In his early life he was an insiructor in a deaf and dumb usy lum, and a large part of his time is now spent in the investigation of mesus for promoting the education of deal mutes and sightiess people. espada), He has actually been as in Ta set up a legitimist monarch, it distinguished citizens, one who, to a greater |the thing could be managed deftly, would of parently well-founded rumors of the fragile in session in Havana was called it was with In future between the republic and the In failing to meet this lat- | convention fafled to wag As the Record has already pointed United States amendments which will give this country at least some leves Cuba should approve before assuming the adjustment of certain matters relating to | why Fred Funston did not fare well in the | |in,’ “It Fred Funston had spent the time | tending college. He will room on the cam- | pus while in Athens, the seat of the uni- | P He had much to |hae glen him an awfu’ d ADE WITH SOUTH AMBRICA. Have Yot Increased aring the Decade, Milwaukes Sentinel 1n spite of trade conferences such as the Panamerican congress and later the Inter- national trade congress at Philadelphiu. at both of which delegates from South Amer lca were especially courted, our trade in that part of the world does not exhiblt any expansion of importance. We ara selling |about the same amount of goods in South | American countries that we did ten years |ngo. This, too, though our exports have | had a remarkable growth during that perlod |to other countries. A comparison of our eXports in 1890 and in 1900 shows their | value as distributed in different parts of the world to be as follows 18 $ 638, 730,30 .10/ 410 Jurope n orth South Asla Ocennioa Africa 24 America 1 America Total 28,684 From this exhibit it appears very cl that we have made no headway worth speaking of In our trade with South Amer fca. The natural increage in trade to the growth of population. ought | amount to more than the two and a hait millions that are shown by a comparison of our South American trade at the perlods. Instead of making a gain might be asserted that we havo been losin ground, inasmuch as the total trade c South America must have grown very stderably In ten years and we bave secure ouly a small percentage of this increased trade. A statement of our exports to the different South American countries in 1890 and in 1900 shows that we have actually lost trade tn some of them, as the following table shows Argentina Bolivia Rrazil Chill Colompin Ecuador Gulana, Brit Gulana, ¥ $ 8,887,417 2 11.472,214 226, 41 ish 2,108,145 nch i 1858 Venezuela 016,762 How to increase our trade fn South Amer fen {8 one of the important problems befors the exporters of the United States, and it should receive a very large share of their attention during the next few yoars TELL 1T Nor 1o Recent De of t Federal Su- preme Court Gives Lo New Status. *hicago Inter Ocean The United States supreme court's cision sustaining the act of 181 with regard to Indlan depredations must tend to er courage outlawry more than a cen- tury the federal government, on the theory that the India inors for whom thelr guardian sponsible, has compen- safterers by Indlan outbreake. About ) such cases are now pending in the court of clalms. In 1891 congress ¢ ed that the government would not be lable for In jurles fnflicted by Indfans at war with t} United On the basis this the government resists many of thess claims on the ground that the depredations were committed by the publle enemy in war. The supreme court has sustained this entlon. The result is an absurd conflict between law and facts. Whatever soverelgnty any Indian tribe once may have possessed over any of our territories, that soverelgnty long since has been extingulshed. Certain Indlans still hold their lands in common, but the na- tlon's dominlon over their persons and property s as complete as it is over those of white men. Such @ the facts, yet ac- cording to the laws of congress, as inter- preted by the supreme court, any Indian tribe can make war upon the United States with the same privileges as would be en- joyed by a politically independent state and with the same effect upon the legal status of sufferers by the conflict The decision 1s said to have saved the ury about $3,000,000, but it will prob- Cos! n y Indians their lves. It virtually compels white settlers near Indlan 8 to take the law into their own hands 1 their red neighbors attempt to plunder, RED MAN, ar States of ac SMILES, Chicago Tribune: Teacher—What function of the fron in the blood? Tommy ~Tucker—It's what makes finger nalls. Puck: Mrs 'rozen 8t is the the Goodfriend—Are you hurgry® ¢ Hungry! “Heavens, mum' I'm 8o hungry dat 1 could eat health food: Plain Dealer: Mre. Cliff—1 see that w fashionable woman's club in the east haw ated some excitement by bluckballing a prominent lady who was® proposed as member M h Mrs, Cliff It {s sald that she was hand- some and disagreeablly popular with the sterner sex Mra. Cragg—Dear me, how glad I um that I came into our club a% a charter member! Cragg—What was the objection to Wanted, a Law Bar- vou must framo a Lylaws," "~ advised tho asked how t) start ogressive Shakespeare Newari Advertiser: gain Counter.—"First constitution and matron, Who hi the Yoing Lad! elub “Oh, yes," chirruped th have a nice frame for th whera shall we buy laws’ Tit-Bits ing at D ne up he committee, “'we constitution, but A local band was one day play- ifermline, when an old weaver and asked' the bundmuster what i was they were playing. That is “The Death of inly replied the bandmnster Ay, man.” remaried the woaver, th'* thi Nelson | ing dried prunes down the throats of West | a commission as brigadler In the regular | 1 E0l dTen Eo ey todnss 4 totar T He thinks |y A 1 Plitsburg ¢ you often wish fleld ™" sked your Why, no, of cours veplied’ the girl aph Miss 1 i Flizgo onfcle Teleg were a min Mr. Fitz not, M Do yon Boston Transcript: Fogg—It fs evident that Misy Singleton Is very anxious to get married Buss- Any particular reason to think eard ner remark, evenlng, that she wouldn't man that ever lived the have ths othes Detrolt Tres P Wife-Tlenry, ean't Husband - What did you d vou huve last (ood naturedly)-—-Well had to new 1 et and a heavier wrap, and and Willie Katle needed new shoes with that dol week? Wit 1 vacy as the lowest of his subjects and his i and John had to have & new suit and Frank As the Neues palace is regarded as above all lan tourists are |1 w hat, and Caroline needed w new i and Mary a padr of gloves and David ercoat—and—and -and. really, Henry t 1emember what 1 did with 1ha a change Times-Herald: An_ Omarite ford, 111 ‘ers this quatrain show what can happen The dirty tramp who stops at your back dooy and cries breakfast of good doughnuts, and ples Was once some boastful mother's darling boy, The worshiped sweetheart of some matden just to For milk HE UNKNOW John Barker in Smart Set, one, the slow years come and g0 4 11l we are apart! know not cach the other's face, Though deep within the heart ng eyermore the flame of hope The fever and the smart, o LOVE, Deur times within (he nether mind memories arlse ot ¢ times und other climes, Of lips and brow und eyes Bomeilmes it seems the murmuring brees Is heavy with your sighs. T hear your voice wheno'er & bird Pours forth {ta heart in song, And in the moaning of the sea. When nights are drear and long, [ Atrain my eyes to ind your vyes In overy pasedng throng. Somawhere 1 know vou lis tonight And dream fond dreaws of me; Oh, t carthly voll might fall And the §pirit me! Perhops ‘tis but o single wall That hides you, aear, from me,