Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1901, Page 6

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B_HUNGATE, Notary ubli ————————————— It is a safe prediction that the resolu- tion of thanks to the volunteers will not be vetoed this tin W, but the paring for s men know wha Net total sales dally average GEO. B Bubscribed in m before me this {th da (Seal.) is only a makers are T on. T building Is in prosy —— ling a baby's traveling wardrobe | 1s about the limit of sueak thievery. That enlprit should be turned over to a committee of mothers for punishment. Omaha Missour! prop to show Buffalo what a real live western state can do when it sets about it. Missouri has fair of its own on the stocks, you know, e—— The gentle shepherd has been given to understand that the cowboy doesn't care to play with him. The sheep has both the broneho and the loug horn on the run just now Five-dollar hogs are comiug to market at a rate that is keeplng the packing houses busy. And the farmer is just now whistling as me as a blackbird at the promise of the spring. Jim Hill has undertaken a pretty big iy If he proposes to secure control of the Burlington. The jump in price of the stock shows that its holders know & good thing when they get it, The battleship Nebraska is to be built at the Seattle shipyards. Here's hoping that the builders may construct a ship that will be a credit to thew and to the state whose name it is to bear, Eleven millions of dollars are held to the credit of individual depositors iu the Oma bauks, and the entire per- sonal sessient of the city is but §7,000,000. Here Is more work for the tax commissio — General Kin of praise in Lonor of the I*irst Nebraska reminds us that the members of that gallant regi- ment are as modest as they were brave. They are heard of everywhere save from thelr own mouths, i A detail of English officers is going to Abyssinin to help that country fight the religious fanatics. Judging from the past, King Menclik aud his men do not need to take lessons in tighting from any Europenn countr, The fuslonists were anxlous for the report of the “ugly rumors” committee and nd¥ that It has been made they are not satisfiedd with it. The only trouble with the report, from their polnt of view, I that It catehes some of the “re- formers.” slug announcements of spring season is that from the emerg Lospital to the effect that its population is rapldly disappearing. Qumaha got off very lightly in the mat- ter of smallpox, despite the sensational announcements of thoughtless people, One of the ple the The Indiana legislature hus passed an anti-lynching bill. The object of the weasure is good enough, but a far bet- ter way would be to afford prisoners such protection as would render lynch- iug Impossible, and follow this up with speedy trials and prompt administration of justice. Anotber Omaha ploncer aud business wan has passed away. Fred Metz was & typleal western business wan in many ways He was one of Omaba's carliest settlers, and was closely identitied with | the growth of the city. His connection with its business affairs was fotimate, and his death will be felt by a wids cirele of business and soclal acquaint- ances, The spring campaign of the park board has opened and the work of im- provement will continue steadily within the lmit of the means provided. Omaha haus already a park system of which any city might be proud, but the steady ex- penditure of woney i its betterment is bringing it to a degree excellence that will at no distant time challenge the admiration of all. There can be no better evidence of public taste than a well-designed and carefully maintained system of parks, and Omuaba has just 70 ABROGATE THE TREATY The desire of Senator Morgan for the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is unquestionably shared by a great many Amerienng, but it is entirely safe to say that the resolution he bas in- troduced in the United States senate, claring the treaty abrogated, will not ‘ted upon at present The Alabama senator takes the posi tion that the convention negotiated in 1830 between Great Britain and the United States, in relation to an isthmian canal, does not stand in the way of this government legislating for the NI ragua canal. He is by no means alone In this view. It is held, among others, by so ewinent an authority as ex-Sen- ator Edmunds, who, writing on the sub- Ject a short time ago, sald that it ap- peared to him to be clear that the Clay- ton-Bulwer treaty, whatever it may have meant when it was concluded in 1850, does not now stand in the way of the canal being bullt and operated by the United States with the coneurr of the republic of Nicaragun and pos sibly of Costa Rica. He expressed the opinion that in view of the changes in the situation that have taken place since the treaty was concluded half a century, ago, there is no just ground hesi- tation in regard to the immediate duty of the United States in arranging with Nicaragua and Costa Riea for the con- struction of a canal absolutely free from any obligations to other countrles other than those that from time to time shall commend themselves to our sense of in- ternational good neighborhood and jus- Protocols have been entered into this country with Nicaragua and sta Rica and it is one of the conten- tions of Senator Morgan that this action in effect abrogated the treaty. That there was no such intention on the part of the y ident, however, will hardly be seriously questioned, for when the protocols were entered into full recogni tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty bhad been given by the executive depart- ment of the government in the negotia- tion of the Ha nuncefote convention, It is certainly most desirable to got rid of the old treaty, but this should be done fu a proper, legitimate and amleable way, as honorable govern- ments are in the habit of doing such things. It is to be regretted that the Hay-Pauncefote convention was allowed to lapse, but there must be regard for the original position of the Salisbury government on that treaty and this untry cannot go ahead roughshod and override all the international reciproci- ties of the case. It is not to be apprehended that there will be any very grave ditficulty between the United States and Great Britaln over this matte 1t is understood to be the intention of President McKinley to renew negotiations on the basis of the agreements i the Hay-Pauncefote treaty of primary necessity in establish- ing the rights of the two countries in the use and control of the proposed canal. An earnest effort will be made to secure the removal of the differences that have thwarted an agreement and there is son to think that it will be successtul, THE PHILIPPINE SITUATION. The report from Commlissioner Taft regarding conditions in the Philippines Is wost encouraging and reassuring. 1t conclusively shows that a rapid change of feeling toward the United States is taklng place among the natives of Luzon and contaius the promise of an ecarly ending of all serlous resistance to Amerlcan authority in the fisland. It appears that the fmproved situation is to a very considerable extent due to the efforts of the federal party, whose lead- ers have been laboring most encrget- teally to convince thelr countrymen that thelr interests and welfare will be pro- moted by accepting American sov- dgnty. Judge Taft bears carnest testimony to the effective work done by this party and evidently has full faith in Its sincerity of purpose. The work of establishing provinclal governments goes steadily forward and is proving eatirely successful. The dis- patch from Judge Taft states that tive such governments have been organized during three weeks, under the most satistactory conditions, The report says the people are anxious for provincial governments and manifest enthusinsm at their oragnization. The commission is arranging to establish more of them at once and there Is reason to expect that within the next month or two at least n dozen provinclal governments will be added to those already organ- ized. The report concludes with the state- ment that the conditions have never been so favorable to the restoration of complete peace and the accomplishment of the declared purposes of the presi- dent, which is attested by the fact that a number of the leaders bhave overtures to surrender. This statement of the situation be depended upon as absolutely ac- curate aund trustworthy. Judge Taft and his assoclates on the Philippine commission are not the men to mislead | the American people. They are men of the highest honor and integrity, who are giving to the task they have in hand the most faithful and conscientlous de- votion. Judge Taft accepted the posi- tion from a sense of patriotic duty, as did all the members of the commission, and they are entitled to the utmost con- fidence. As was sald by President Me- Kinley in his inaugural address: “The government's representatives, eivil and military, ave doing faithful and noble work in thelr mission of cmancipation | and werit the approval and support of thelr counrymen.” This they will bave, The preseut promise is that within a year, possibly in mueh less time, pacifi catlon will be complete in the Philip- pines and everywhere in the islands American soverelgnty will be accepted Under the enlarged authority given th president by congress clvil government will be established there with power to promote Industrial and comwmercial development, which canuot fail to prove & most potent agency in restoring peace and order. “The settled purpose, long ago promulgated,” sald the president, “to afford the inbabitants of the islands self-government as fast as they were can that sort of thing, L] (ready for it, will be pursued with made | | | | | I carnestness and fidelity.” When to this assurance is added effort to improve material and soctal conditions 1t is hardly concefvable that any consider able number of the Filipino people will continue to reject American rule. NOT ACCEPTABLE Colonel Sanger of New York Is not ac ceptable to the senators from that state | for the position of assistant secretary of war. Senator Platt has formally pro- tested against his appointment and Sen- ator Depow expressed hig opposl- tion. If it be true that President Me- Kinley made the selection entirely upon recommendation of the secretary of war it 18 a very radical departure from the course he bas pursued during the last four years in the matter of appoint- ments and it must be admitted that there s justification for the resentment manifested by Senators Platt and De- pey The fucident will call to mind the con- flict between President Garfield and Senators Conkling and Platt in 1881, but it is safe to say that in the present the New York senators will not feel called upon to resign and that Presi- dent McKinley will recognize their right to be consulted regarding appointments, which Is the chief point at stake, though it is alleged that Colonel Sanger has not been a consistent republican. The issue may result in the selection of an assistant secretary of war from some other state. THE COURSE OF STUDY, The course of study in the Omaba publie schools is coming in for its share of comment and debate just now, One of the patrons of the schools in dis- cussing the matter calls attention to the fact that there is a wide disparity between the course of the grades and that of the high school, aud urges the elevation of the grades to close the gap. On the other hand, some of our citizens who are interested In educa- tional topies insist that the high school course is too severe and that the strain of keeplng up is too great for the aver- age pupil. It is admitted by all that sowmething s wrong with the course of study. Omaba’s high school has been ralsed to a high standard during recent years, its graduates being admitted without other preparation to the best universie ties In the land. This status is nat- urally 1. source of pride, and Omaha people will ponder long before consent- ing to any step that will lower the standard of efficiency of the high school. In the grades it scems the re- form must come, The patron who writes to The Bee on this matter cites the instance of a class of forty who were being sent from the Sighth grade to the high school of whom their teacher sald only three could correctly construct an English sentence, If this is true, there is some thing radically wrong with cither the school or the scholur, After eight years spent in the training supposed to be furnished by the graded system of our public schools, the child should be so thoroughly grounded in the fundamental principles of English coustruction that further elementary instruction would not be needed. An admission that only three in forty bave an idea of the rudi- mentary rules for the use of the lan- guage 18 a confession of failure, It re flects no credit on the teacher making it One of the difficulties met by the teacher I8 to inculeate a thorough under- standing of the subjects being taught. It 1s not so much kow to do it as why to do It that educates. Kunowledge gained as a parrot gains speech, by | dint of constant repetition, is of no more value to the child than words are to the bird. The object to be attained Is to give a thorough understanding of what is being learned. Any revision of the course of study that does not | comprebend this idea and attain its de- velopment and application in practical use, will fall short of what is apparently need Eight years in the grades, from the primary to the high school, ought to equip the 1ge child with tairly thorough knowledge of the funda- mentals of education, Any system of teaching or course of study that does not provide this is faulty and should be changed, —_— Every move of the United States in China has been another stone in the foundation of a better understanding be- tween this country and the Chinese when the present trouble is at an end. The Chinaman can chank this country wore than all others for the wodification of the extreme terms which It was origlnally proposed to demand of the orl- entuls. Now when all of the powers have determined to own thelr own lega tion property in Pekin the United Stat is the only one which will buy the land required instead of grabbing it. With the present foothold of American trade in that country as a starter the United States sbould soon be able to lead all others in China. Good will is a big lev- erage in such matters, s The wanner in which the democratie senators laid down and refused to op- pose the Philippine resolution must sorely grieve the late presidential candi- date of the party. His personal appeals were useless where only a few short months ago his dictum was law in the democratie fold, Others realized some time ago that Bryan had ceased to be a potent force in the democratic party, but the Nebraska man was slow to com prehend the fact, if it has dawned upon him yet., 1, has declared and fought another war with England, Iu | spite of Morgan’s doleful prediction | there s no probability that either the | United States or England will ever so far forget or overlook their own inter ests as to provoke a war which would be disastrous to both countries, no wat ter what the wilitary ontcome of it should be, Senator Mor; All orts, both fal and private, from the Philippines indicate that order is being d there and the authority of the United States generally recog nized. 1t must wot be inf I that a week or @ month, or several of thew n | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, fact, will bring about that quiet and general respect for law which exists in this country, but order is being brought out of chaos more rapidly than the most sanguine had expected. It would be too much to expect opposition to the au thority of this country would eutirely or settled ditions prevall so soon in a land which has been in a fer- ment for centuries, in portions of which the authority of Spain bas never been recognized. cense pe —_— After all the airing the fnsurance de partment received during the incum bency of Auditor Cornell, it appear not all the “grafts” were uncovered, It was bad enough for the examiners to work the insurance companies, but tak- | fng double salary on top of that is a little steep, even for professional re- formers, Where Diplomacy is Needed. Minneapolls Times, Perhaps it would be the proper thing to send a minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to Mr. Crowe. Dema Party Dwindll St. Louls Globe-Democrat It is intimated that the next democratic national convention will not be held in Kan- sas City. A town with a much smaller hall will probably answer the purpose, The Thrust Sarcastic, Washington Post. The Hom. E. Ben Andrews has made a place for Prof. Ross in the faculty of the University of Nobraska. This fnstitution is rapldly developing futo a retreat for the higher grade of cranks he Old Salute. Washington Star. The assemblage of so mamy governors from different parts of the country makes possible on a large scale the exchange of courtesies which links the governor of North Carolina and the governor of South Carolina 8o closely in national tradition. No Cabinet Changes, Chicago News. President McKinley's cabinet remains the same, his renominations of the members of his previous cabinet having been promptly confirmed by tho senate. This is the usual and courteous form. When a change in the president's official family is made it comes by way of resignation and thus every- body's “face” 1s saved. Theft nteel Guine, Philadelphia North American The forelgn ministers, in reply to Mr. Rockhill's protest against the arbitrary selzure of private property for legation uses, say they do not intend to steal any- thing. They merely propose to take what they want and then compel the Chinese government to pay for it What the Big t M St. Louis Republic. The American Steel trust, capltalized for $1,100,000,000, will bo heard from fin the uext presidential election. It will also make its power felt in American legisla- tion. For what are its master minds striv- ing? For more millions. Millions for them- selves at the expense of the people. Will this mean good government for the people? Not on your life. It means good govern- ment for the trusts, Master ¥ e Maker, Indianapolls Journal. None of our presidents has been more a master of style than President McKinley. Tho power to state a proposition clearly and {n good English fs common enough, but President McKinley adds to this a sort of epigrammatic quality that makes his state papers unusually readable. He bas what Macauley called “terse, lnminous and digai- fled eloquence.” His inaugural ade: as not long, but it contained many sentences that expressed a completely rounded thought in the best possible for nw. A Outgeneraling the British, Springtield Republican Dewet's ready escape from the British troops In Cape Colony ought to be re- garded as a serlous reflection upon the British generals. Their immense superior- ity in numbers and equipment was rein- forced by the rise of the Orange river, which made its crossings by Dewet and his men unusually dificult at this time. The Boer leader seems at least fo have demon- strated his ability to raid Cape Colony for three weeks and then return to his own country with impunity. Decreasing Exports of Bleycles, New York Tribune. American exports of bicycles were more than $7,000,000 in 1898, ouly $1,820,000 in 1809, and a trific over $3,000,000 In 1900, Does that indicate a decline in popular in- terest in the wheel? Or that other lands are making their own? Or, perhaps, thut @ certain over-enthusiasm has at last sub- sided, and the bicycle is coming down to @ practical and permanent status? What- ever be the explanation, the bicycle has dono a warvelous work for good in the last dozen years, ard is doubtless to be regarded as a perpetual feature of American life and sport. — A Statesman in Retirement. New York Sun. Hon. James Stephen Hogg of Texas, the tallest amateur ostrich rider In the world, takes the trouble to say that there is no offico within the gift of the people that he would accept if it were offered to him. There seems no immediate danger that any office will be offered to him. The Lone Star shines on him rather balefully at pres- ent. But he has hopes and ambition sings #00thing lays to him. When Colonel Bryan is elected president Mr. Hogg will have the satisfaction of knowing that he is one of 1,000 men who are sure of having a seat in the cabinet. Good Word for the | Buffalo Express The house of representatives is to be congratulated on having had its way In the more important features of the revenue reduction bill. It is the first time in a long period that the judgment of the popu- lar branch has been permitted to triumph over the dictation of the senate. The bill as finally agreed on by the conference com- mittee meets most of the public demands, The decrease in the revenue amounts to about $41,000,000, Prove too great in view of the large appro- priations of the present congress. Cer- tainly there will be as much revenue left as ought to be spent by the most liberal congress, ou No One Jokes Now. Philadelphla Press Four years ago when President McKinley was inaugurated there was a widespread disposition among democratic papers 1o joke about his being the advance agent of prosperity. No one makes that joke now. Prosperity has come with such a flood, there has been such u tidal wave of expanding exports, ris- ing wages, increasing wealth, swelling sav- ings bank deposits and advancing comfort, prosperity and happiness that nobody makes | any more jokes about the “advance agent of prosperity.” No president has so completely met his promises, filled his program and done the work to which he was called by tbe people. Called once more to the same task, the success of the last four years is an earnest that every promise made yesterday will be found made good four yeara hence, Pros- perity was promised in 1 It bas come Peace and the solution of colonial problems © promised now. They also will come. MARCH 8, that | It is hoped this will not | 1001, TOM CARTER'S “SWAN sONGY Chicago Nows: Senator Carter's swan song in the United States senate saved the country nearly $60 May the live to sing again! Indianapolis N Senator Carter re tires from the senate, but he goes out in & blaze of glory. He has cost the country but $30,000 and has saved it nearly $50,000,000, to say nothing of the good example he set Chicago Post: The foiling of the villain in melodrama is a perpetual sour light and Sen: r Carter's epilogu sup: plied impromptu, to th tragic farce accords with the fitness of things. Had he done nothing else in his seoatorial carcer this ten-hour speech against a measure reeking with fraud would have made his service memorable. Boston Globe of de senate When a senattor, whether he “hails” from Montana or Mississippi, is able, almost at the end of his term of service, to “talk to death” in the closing hours of a session a measure which un- questionably commanded the approval and €upport of a majority in the upper branch of our national legislature, a “victory” in- deed has been gained in name, but oue of an exceedingly doubtful character. It is not in the least in the line of popular leglslation New York World Senator Carter of Montana certainly gave a dramatic finish to his otherwise undistinguished career in the senate. 1In the very last day of his service he won for himself a unique fame as the only senator who ever cut down the appropriations of a congress by $50,000,000 by the use of his own unalded eloquence. And besides this Mr. Carter’s killing speech on the river and harbor bill deprived several democratic senators of the rewards of thelr surrender of principle on the Philippine and Cuban amendments. New York Times: It is well that Senator Carter's valedictory should have been such as to make all men say that nothing In his service in the senate became him like the leaving it. Doubtless there are, in the thus defeated bill, projects which are im- portant and essential to the elopment of our wate But in most river and harbor bills, and very particularly in this, theso things are as two grains of wheat to two bushels of chaff. It Is, upon the whole, a very good thing that the scnator from Montana should have been inspired by any worthy or any unworthy motive to talk the bill to death, Detrolt Free Press Thomas Henry ( who talke Hats off to the Hon rter of Montana, the man the infamous river and harbor bill to death in the last hours of an expiring congress. What the democrats in hcuse, frenzied by the odor of pork, refused 10 do, & republican senator from a western mining state did, and did nobly. In spit of the sneers of his collcagues, democratic and republican alike, Senator Carter talked —and talked—and talked. He talked through the cold gra hours of the morning; he talked through the warmer hours of a spring-like forenoon. He talked until it was {mpossible for the senate to remain in v longer, and when he had fin ished the river and harbor blll was an un- consummated steal. It makes little differs ence what the senator sald. Nobody le- tened to him except the officlal reporters and tho curious correspondents. It makes 1o differonce whether his speech was elo- quent or tedious, whether his periods wers beautifully rounded or as fagged as a plece of Montana quartz. He talked the bill to death, and that was enough. It was the most valuablo speech made in the Fifty- sixth congress, and the man that made it deserves well of his kind. SONAL NOTES. Tt is estimated that the inauguration cost the government and peoplo $4 Postmaster Chipperfield of Belleville, W. Va., bas just been naturalized after hold- ing office a week and having been a notary for years. Frank Doster, chief justice of the Kansas supreme court, started out in life with the intention of being a railroad engineer, nest a soldier, next an actor and finally a lawyer. Mr. Roosevelt does not wish to be called overnor” or “Vice P ' but just “Colonel Roosevelt.”” “I earned my own coloneley,” he adds, ““the other things came to me. M. Paul De: nel, president of the French Chamber of Deputies, is somewhat of a dandy. His neckties set the fashion for Paris, and the faultless cut of his garments have become a legend The bible on which President McKinley Wwas sworn is a new one, 62x9 inches, from the Oxford university press, printed in pica bound in Levant morocco, with flexible cover and edges of red under gold Prof. Robenan, the Berlin electrical ex- pert, who is studying the applicability of electric traction to the trans-Siberfan rail road, states that within ten years one will be able to travel around the world in twenty-two days. Senator Wolcott of Colorado is heavily in- terested in a recent rich strike in the Cripple Creek district. It is in the Last Dollar vein and runs 1,000 to 1,500 ounces to the ton. This is said to be by far the richest vein in the district. George N. Brown, who began his duties last week as assistant attorney general at Washington, Was a newspaper man in his younger days. For three years city editor engaged In journalistic work Kansas City and Peoria, 111, Captain Thomas Sherman of Chelsea, Mass., who died the other day, was able (o recall incidents counected with the embargo of hipping during the war of 1812. He was fond also of telling of his personal intimacy with Dantel Webster, and of his frequent convivial meetings with that statesman Ho led a moderate life, but always said that his good health and longevity were due to a reasonable use of alcoholic liquors. A son, Dr. James Sherman, years survives him, in Denver, e DEMOCRACY, Attempts to O of the Wheel Pro . » Nnugh Salt Lake Tribunc The democracy did not want any provision made putting limitations on Cuba. They did mot want any code tablished for the Philippines. They wanted to leave the whole matter to the president, and then to charge that he was working without authority and usurping power that never attached to his Ligh office. o when the bill came up in the senate for final ad- justment they tried to kill it by amend- ments and delays. The republicans simply let them talk, voted down their amend- ments, kept still, let them exhaust them- slves and finally carried the day, as they ought to have done. And now their news- papers gnash their teeth and declare that the republicans could not answer the argu- wents, It must have been bard for a great many of them to keep still. They let the democracy burn out its red fire and go down in dissolving views, and the way open now to proceed with the ad Justment of both the East and West In- di And we trust that before congress meets again both will be settled, so th | when the next congress meets the demo- crats will have uothing to assail but the |trusts and the tariff. A good many of the trusts are liable to be smashed before that time, and the people loug ago made up thelr mind on the tariff. The sent! ment of the dominant party is that the present tariff needs some readjustment, but there is no proposition on their part to stop the mighty wave of prosperity that is rolling over this country by instituting again free trade. Most of the democrats in congress are going back to their con- stituents gnawing the bardest kind of a file. very senator the | of the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Sun, he afterward ) old, | | AMERICA'S NAVAL | Formiannie Ships Afloat and on the Stoek as Cit sessfon of the adjourned without providing uction of more battleships A priation for two additional | was de ted by the senate. | would hardly have ventured (5 had it not been for the| | fact that the navy is rapidly reaching su:h proportions as to insure the safety of the United States against attack from any for- | | et power, with the possible exception of England | "Within five years America will havel soventeen first-class battleships. Eight are| already completed, four are building aud five more have just been contracted for. Theso vessels are as good as any in the |world. Only a fleet largely outnumbering them would dare venture to cross the ocean to attauck them. Europe has only four rmidable naval powers—Great Britain, France, Germany and Russta. England | must depend on its fleet to keep from starv- | ing, in the t of war with a power which | might attempt to blockade the British isles. | Its mavy, with thirty-six battleships of the | first-class and twenty-four of the second, i3 | enormously larger than that of any otber power. The United States will probably not attempt to rival the British fleet, but will depend on considerations of commou inter- est to avold hostilities. Agaiust the fleets of the other European powers ‘“our detached and distant situa- tion” {s as secure a defense now as it was in the time of Washington. Only a battle- ship of unusual.coal capacity is capable of crossing the Atlantic. As bunker room I expensive, designers sacrifice it whenever possible. Brassey's Naval Annual shows that & large number of the armorclads of Europe are not fitted for the ocean passage. France has fow battleships which could reach American waters with coal fn thelr bunkers, Tho official bullding program by which the republic will have twenty-eight vessels of this class within six years an- vounces that the ships are intended for servico in European waters. Colliers might accompany a fleet on & long voyage, but they would be such a source of weakness to it that their use against a strong enemy would be practically out of the question. Russia has eleven battleships built and building with sufficient coal capacity to cross the ocean. This number s insufficient |to occasion alarm. Germany expects to | have thirty-four armorclads by 1916. Of theso the twelve in commission have too little bunker room to fit them for anything but coast defense. Nine are building, but thelr coal epace Is so limited that naval authorities hold they were not intended for service far from home. None of the continental navies can seriously menace the oasts of the United States for the present. It will not do, however, to rest at the present staga of the American naval de- | velopment. The country will not be satis- fled with a bare margin of safety from attack The next congress will be expected to provide a further increase for the fleet. K | The second | congres for th house ap armorclads | Congress | take this action Fifty-sixth has DEATH FOR KIDNAPING, Drastiec Punishment for the Crime Proposed in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Press. The laws of Pennsylvania prescribe a maximum punishment of twenty-five years' imprisonment for kidnaping a child under 10 years of age. Had the Cudahy kidnaping case occurred In Pennsylvania, the boy being 16 years old, no statutory crime would Love been committed. The common law was even less explicit against kidnaping unless the person kid- naped was transported beyond seas, when the oftense was punishable by fine, impris- onment end the pillory, on the ground that the king bad been robbed of a subject. The injury to parcnts or to the child ft- selt was overlooked. 1In fact, it was no crime at all at common law to steal a nuked child, but it a clothed child were stolen and the clothes removed from it the kidnapers could be hanged for the lar- ceny of the clothes. Our Pennsylvania law needs to be made more comprehensive, and two bills have been introduced at the present legislature for this purpose. A house bill, Introduced by Mr. Fuerth, prescribes life imprison- ment for carrying or enticing away any person with intent to extort money or any valuable thing for the restoration of such person. A senate bill, introduced by Mr. Grady for Mr. Martin and understood to have been drawn up by Judge Thayer, pre- scribes the death penalty for thls same offense. PENA bilities in the way of kidnap- cloped new terrors for parents The crime has increased, is increasing and no one will deny that it ought to be di- minished. Philadelphia, in the Charley Ross case, has had painful experlence and has painful memories of the horrible crime. The man who will resort to such means to extort money ought mot to live. A kidnaper is usually not far from being a murderer. If his crime does not succeed he must get rid of the child to save him- selt from an encumbrance and an acecu Ing witne Such a eriminal in freedom is & menace to every home, and there 1s no certainty tha ven a life sentence means for him long imprisonment A Kidoaper is not moved by sudden pas- sfon or by sudden temptation. He plans out his crime in advarce, precedes it often by threatening letters and carefully pre pares for execution of his scheme. IHa is cool-headed and cold-blooded and he Kknows the danger to himself. That danger is now not very great, but if he saw the gal- lows’ noose swinging betore him we beliove he would select some other jurisdiction for his traffc on the fears and aflections of parents We bave gone too far in lmiting the death penalty to deliberato murder. The deliberate and conaclenceless kidnaper should also be hanged for bis crime. ES OF FUN, Puck: First Leglslator=What do you think of the bill? S nd Legislator—Why, it enough! It will be ve get around that law if it's pu fen't drawn y hard to od, Chicago Record: “People are always glving mo too much change by mistake “Well, doesn’t that make you cheerful?” No; I'm s0 blamcd honest that 1 have to give it buck.” I seo that the ven Cleveland Plain Dealer reorganized army is to have twenty-s dentists,” “That's a good thing s of war in a condition to show their teeth to the best advantuge.” They'll keep the Washington Star: “Some people, Uncle Eben, “Is so satisfied wif deirse't dat dey sympathizes wif de res' o' humanity foh havin' to be somebody else. Detroit Journal: ““That walter fs either a dunce or @ humorist, I'm not sure which.” “What's the matte) “I asked him for some extract of beef, and he brought me milk." Today ays Dukane- Pittsburg Chronicle: Mr. T that we must revise the adag y ds ke succ 3 at fs the new rendering? Mr. Dukane hing succeeds liko & & cessor who succeeds himself, “Your wife doesn't these complaining K Washington Star: m to be one of isas husband ‘times [ it down and complain _peaceably instead of down town with an ax every time sh a little bit riled.” answered the Philadelphia Press: “Mamma,” sald the bright young womun, “I wonder it wo saw all the geysers when we were at Yellow- ne park.” suppose Ko, I heard Mr. Pimpernickel telling a cus- tomer of his today that the ser Wil helm was the greatest of all.' * Detrolt Free Press: Watts—What do yon think of Cas ne's contention that™ he can't live on 00 a year? Potts—1 dunno anything about him, I know I can't. dear. Why but Puck: Huskinby—My son Rube took les- #ons frum a feller who guaranteed to teach hypnotism by mall, Hokorn—An' did he do {t! Tuskinby—-1 guess he did; he hypnotized Rube out of $I before he come to his senses! A BONG FOR MAR Frank Farrington in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. 8ing ho! sing ho, for thoe sleet and snow! For' the stormy March and tho winds that 0w l"rnni the north and eouth, now high, now 0w, Or chiil or warm! Oh, March is the month of months for me; 1ts’ south winds set old Winter free, And tell of tho springtime soon to be, With all its cliarm. Sing ho, for March on the s Where the bracing bri Blow up from the oce: The salty spray! Sing ho, for March among the hills! Melting snows filllng the ico-rimmed rills Streams rushing madly past meadows and mills Day after day. ' bleak shore, evermore i bearing before, for the roughest month of all , 1 o'er the tempest sounds the call w from woodland tree-top tall, Telling of epring! And ho, for the waning winter days When the lingering north winds cold April's coming, and chills the sun rays! Oh, March s king! 13 nover possible when we fit your g Our system of making oy Ir to gives you full assuran. rightness every detall. 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