Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1901, Page 6

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The regular session of the Twenty- seventh Nebrasks islature has passed into histor) Another Omaha. open and e along, the door is always W enough for all, Whisky I8 appa going down more rapidly than common, for the price continues to go upward The late h-glfiulun- perpetrated a huge Aprd fool joke by winding up the legislative day of Thursday last on Mon- day. Speaker Sears deserves credit for v cating his chaiv rather than incur tl disploastré “of hi§ constitutional suc- cessor, 2 4 Ruksia fs having a& much trouble in- ducing China to sign the Manchurlan treaty us a base bull magnate after a star player, No change in the paving laws. Prop- erty owners who want streets improved during the coming season should turn I at once and start the ball rolling. Nebraska republicans can now look ahead and begin figuring on what is necessary to maintain the party ascend- ancy so laboriously regained at the elec- tion last fall. Aguinaldo says he likes his present qguarters, He has one consolation—he will not be called upon to move as un- ceremoniously as he has on several pre- vious occasions. Emperor William should come to Omaha and join the Knights of Ak- Bar-Ben. After he has been through that he will not get frightened the nest time someone throws a brick at him., The State Barbers' Examining board has been legislated out of existence and the pretty diplomas that smile on the victim while his face is being scraped will now be relegated to the rubbish plle, Omaha Is ready to extend open arms to all the new railroads that may be disposed to seek an entrance. And it will not be bothered whether the new pallrond is a competitor of existing roads or not — Governor Dietrich has a two-for-one shot when he gets ready to resign. He can give up either the senatorship or the governorship, but there is no danger that he will relinquish the greater and keep the lessel The authorities should at once take precautions to see that the storm sewers are unobstructed. The popocrats have commenced to shed tears by the bucket- ful ov Aguinaldo, with every indiea- tion of a deluge. Sir Thomas Lipton is getting the blocks and other gear for his chal- lenger yacht from American manufac- turers. If he fails this time in his effort to secure the cup, he might get his next boat built on this side. The fact that a large percentage of the members of the upper branch of the state legislature had senatorial light- ning rods exposed s reflected in the legislation or lack of legislation that Lhas come out of the session just closed. advices ters as well as the czar are fearful Russian indicate the minis- of assassination, They might try the ex- pedient of wearing corsets. A St. Jo- seph woman has again demonstrated thelr value as a means of stopping bul lets, The London court of appeals has de- eided that the school board has no legal right to use the woney of the public schools for the class of studies known as “tads.”” Possibly that court might be induced to wove to this side of the At VETO TH E BARTLEY COMPROMISE BILL One thing Governor Dietrich owes to the people of Nebraska before he out of the executive chair to the bill, railronded through the legisla ture in the dying hours of the session to create a commission to compromise the obligation due the state from the Bartley bondsmen, This bill is vicious in character, bad in construction and unquestionably uncon stitutional. It purports to commission, consisting of the attorney general, auditor of public accounts and state treasurer, vested with authority, in their discretion, to compromise any suit now pending upon any official bond or debt due from any depository bunk. The influences behind this bill ema- nate solely from the sureties on the for feited Bartley bond, who had been figur- ing upon such proposed legislation from a time even before the legislature was clected. They procured the nomination and election of the pald attorney for the principal bondsmen to the state senate from this county for t e pur- pose of eng wring this deal to shift a burden aggregating nearly $750,000 from their shoulders onto those of the taxpayers at large, The dangerous character of this legis- Iation lies in the continuing power it at- tempts to create in the commission. Although the commission, with its pres- ent membership, might be relied on to protect the interests of the public, there is nothing to prevent the bondsmen from refusing to accept their decision | and to appeal to their successors for! more favorable treatment. Not only this, but they conld repeat the operation until some pliant coinmission agrees to can the entire obligation. The bill, as drawn, generously provic that the debtors shall in no event released goes veto be from paying the costs of the litigation alrendy accrued. The point of constitutionality alone, however, demands a veto. Section 15 of article & of the state constitution of Nebraska reads: “The legislature 1l or special laws in any of the following ecases, that is to sy (and among the cnumeration) Remitting fines, penalties or forfeiture The obligation due from the sureties of Bartley is a forfeiture upon their bond. The legislature could not constitu- tlonally pass a law remitting this for- feiture; neither can it indirectly, by cre- ating a commission, do what it cannot do directly. o far as the present proposal is con- cerned, it is as much a local or special act as if it mentioned the names of the bondsmen who were to be relieved. 1t purports to authorize the commission to compromise “suits now pending.” These sults are eapable of exact a tainment, and it might just as well have stated in the bill what the suits are, namely: State against B: the others, as to refer to them as the “suits now pending.” We are satisfied that no court, no mat- ter what its pelitical complexion, would uphold this law in face of the express constitutional prohibition. But the gov: ernor has no right to force the t payers to go into court to head off at- tempted legislation known in advance to be beyond the authority of the legis- lature, Governor Dietrich can carn anothe big credit mark and still further en- hance his reputation for fearless devo- tion to public duty by exercising his voto power on the Bartley bond com- promise, no matter what influence is brought to bear on him to sign it. E—— 1908 DEMAND FOR GOOD HORSES. Only a few years ago we were told that the days of the horse had passed The bicycle was to take his place as a mode of recreation, the traction engine, the trolley car and the automobile truck were to supercede him in tratfic and/ as burden bearers. The horse decreased in value and breeding was either dis continued or less care taken to rear good animals, The various devices which were to take his pluce have been in large measure perfected and today the horse is as indispensible in the affairs of man as ever. Good horses bring good prices and the demand is in excess of the supply. Particularly is this true of animals combining size and quality. The English government is scouring the country for horses of this class to mount its soldiers in Africa, and the United States Is having difii- culty in securing enough for the new regiments of cavalry. In the case of the United States, par- ticularly, is it found difficult to secure enough which come up to the standards required. The government is unneces- sarily particular in this regard, but for all that a few years ago it would have been an easy matter to supply the de- mand. There never was any excuse for breeding inferfor horses, even when they were cheap, for a good animal is always worth wore than a poor one and costs no more to raise. Once before in the world's history the demand for horses for this same purpose brought about the evolution of the most valuable breeds of horses in the world today, and possibly it may be repeated. European countries found it impossible to secure animals which possessed the size, endurance and activity required. The result was that governments undertook the task of rais ing the standavd. The heavy and slow horses of that day were crossed with the fleet and tough Arablan, which pro- shall not pass la | which are of partly accomplished and are proceed- ing to complete in their line must be done by the horseman. There is no more, excuse for ralsing poor horses, little or no value, than the would be for doing that which the farmer knew in advance wounld re- sult fu a crop of corn or wheat of poor qualit Now, when there Is a growimg market for good anfmals, is the time to commence lmproving the quality, The man who does this will find that when there is an active demand he is the galner by the increased price and if the market should again turn to the bad he will still be able to dispose of Lis animals, while the man of less fore- thought will have on his hands horses who are eating their heads off and which he canuot sell. THAT AMERICAN COMPETITION. The resolution passed by the man Diet a few days ago, demanding of the government protection for agri- culture in the shape of increased cus toms duties, has received the endorse- ment of the government in so far as the chancellor is concerned. That official is quoted as saying that he is entively in favor of a tariff policy that will ¢ the duties on importa- tions of agricultural products and ac- cording to the latest advices he is in accord in this respect with the entire agrarian eleme That element is ab solutely determined to fix a tariff rate upon agricultural products that will hive the offect of angmenting the prices of the home products, but the special purpose is to diserimin against Ameriean products, Congequently Americans have a partienlar interest in this tariff arraugement of Ger- many. Count Von Buelow, the German chan- cell in discussing the resolution, said that he considered an adequate inerease of the agricultural duties absolutely nec- v. He stated that in preparing the F Bl the government would ad- here to the principles set forth by the Ger- advocates of agricultural duties, In other words, they would make the dut such as would discriminate in favor of not only man products, but of such as did not compete with the products of Germany. Of cour such a policy would mili- tate against the agricultural interests of the United States, and in fa it is chiefly directed against these interests, but Germany cannot pursue the cours indicated without bringing upon her- self the danger of reprisals from other countri In fact, she is already threatened by half a dozen Furopean countries with a retaliatory policy if shall earry out her proposed tariff igement with regard to foreign grain, Russia, for instance, has already in effect given notice of re- Is if the p I German tariff 1in goes into effect. United States has a v large st in this matter, since our grain iermany are considerable, and it is a very serious question as to what tbe policy of this government should be in regard to German prod- ucts in the event of Germany placing duties upon agricultural products that were designed to shut out American grain. It may be admitted that we have no right to object to any fiscal poliey which Germany shall be pleased to adopt, but we certainly have’ the right to retaliate if that policy shall seem to be designedly against our in- terests, sl urr: inte exports to The article which appeared in the edi- torial columns of The Bee with refer- ence to the time allowed the governor o sign or veto bills after the adjourn- ment of the legislature incorporated one mistake that should be corrected. The constitution allows the governor five days after final adjournment to pass on bills and these five days do not begin to run from the nominal day of adjourn- ment, but from the calendar date when the last bill is presented, This construc- tion of the law has practice and pr dent to sustain it. It Is plain that any other construction would nullify the in- tent of the constitution-makers, which was to give the governor five days after the conclusion of the legislative session to consider the measures poured in upon him during the final hours. The legis- lature might otherwise, for example, fix upon a certain day, and then, although the day had passed, remain in session for ten days thereafter and thus de- prive the governor entirely of power to exercise his discretion for approval or disupproval. The point made that the legislature has no right to delay im- portant legislation so long as to cut off careful consideration through the vari- ous legislative stages lolds good just the same, and its disregard is account- able for many illadvised and ill-di- gested laws injected into the statute books. E— A monument to General John A. Logan is to be unveiled in Washington April 9. Logan was one of the most dashing and picturesque figures of the civil war as well as a power in the political life of the country. America is slow In recognizing in an enduring manner its great men, but in this in- stance one at least who deserves it has been remembered. “Black Jack” Logaun was the typleal voluuteer, e earthquake shook a few square ng off the palace of the v while a reception to An yards of plast sultan of Tur duced most of the valuable strains of { ) T oy gmbassadors was in prog: today. Kuropean governments still exercise control over these matters and on the continent particularly, both the quantity and quality are kept up. In the United States the work must de- volve upon the individual, the only aid glven by the governwent being educa- tional. It 1s not only possible, bu. probable, however, that the demand fo military purposes may again cause » revolution in this matter. The Ameri cun farmer s not slow {o take advan- tage of opportunities to make money and will doubtless not only raise more horses, but better ones. Outside of the driving and saddle breeds the Unlted States is far behina the countries of the old world In this ress. The ambassadors were consider- able frightened, but the sultan is accus- tomed to more exelting events than a secoud-class earthquake and was not in the least disturbed. The “Ugly Rumors” ¢ mmittee heaved into &lght on the home stretch with the report that the ugly rumors were ugly in print ouly, because every legislator was like Caesar's wife—beyond suspl- clon, Armed with this endorsement, the home-coming member should feel perfectly safe Pinanciers are beginuing to speculate what will be done with the surplus in the national treasury. It may be used matter, for which there is no legitimate lautic, © v s | eacuse. W to retive the bonds of the government, bat the cattle breeders h“"’l which can be procured ouly av'a pre- mium on the open market, or allowed to | REPUBLICAN PR accumulate until the bonds are due, eral yeu hence. While the problem may he a little perplexing, it is one that democratic administrations never have to deal with—they never have a surplus, but are noted for deficiencic Send for Funston, Philadelphia Ledger. It begins to look as it Dewet might yet lead Kitchener from the Cape to Cairo. Cost You Five, Ent ashington Post The advent and spread of the so-called Order of the Buffaloes but goes to show that all that is required for the ordinary man to make an idiot of himself is a half a chance. —_— Get Ready for Promotion. . Success, The greatest requisite for advancement Is to be fitted for the place above you. Many a’young man has failed of promotion because he was not fitted for the opening when it came, and had not tried to see how much good he could do for his employer, but how little, —— L) ng ood B ndlanapolis News, Denmark is thrifty, It is understood that her West Indlan possessions are a source of expense rather than of revenue to her, aud they are of no military or naval advantage to such a power as she Is, and yet she wants $4,000,000 for them. Well, we do not have to have them. Te —_— & Talea Out of School. 8t. Paul Ploneer-Press, The business men of lowa City and mem- bers of the faculty of the University of Towa are said to be talking of establishing a press censorship to control the out-of- town correspondent who, they allege, are sending out too much truth to suit them. Is there no reformatory in lowa in which to place people who are ashamed of the truth? ‘ondescension. an Francisco Call, In his communication to our government setting forth reasons why Great Britain cannot accept the Nicaraguan treaty pro- posed by the senate, Lord Lansdowne says: “His majesty's government throughout these negotiations gives evidence of its earnest desire to meet the views of the United States,” and we can all be glad he was considerate enough to say it, for we would never have known otherwise, New York Tribune. This happy and prosperous republic Ie likely to be still further enriched by a fructifying and spaclous flood of immigra- tion this year. A single German steamship this week brought almost 2,000 pas- sengers in its steerage, nearly all of them sturdy Teutons, who intend to stay here and to become patriotic American citizens. They are the sort of sound and sterling stuff of which we cannot have too much. Scant riotism at th Boston Globe, When Queen Victoria died Bostonians were prompt in displaying their flags at halfstaff to do honor to hef memory. It was quite noticeable to many people that the national colors were hung out very scantily, considering that an American ex- president had just died. Is an English mon- arch more worthy the homage of the flag than an American president, who helped to defend it? Is sentiment fading out in this mammon-hunting country, or shall we con- fess that republics are becoming more and more ungrateful with the growth of ma- terial allurements? Huob, Woes nnd Ways of K Wichita Eagle. In Kansas when a man begins exhibiting a shattered equilibrium a half dozen peo- ple gather around and encourage him by listening. This makes seven. Where seven are gathered together 200 believe that there must be something doing worth the while and congregate. That makes 207. The crank’s talk then becomes a ‘‘move- ment.”” The “movement” gets into the newspapers. Kansas is advertised discred- itably and the progress of the state is impeded. But the fact remains that Kan- #as I8 the only state in the union where free speech prevails, And that is some- thing. Hawa Load of Debt. Philadelphia Record. Hawail when annexed to the United States was in debt nearly $5,000,000, not including about $750,000 due on account of the postal savings system of the islands. Under the terms of the resolution of annex- ation $4,000,000 of the debt and the postal system accounts are to be paid by the United States, and the Treasury department has already set about the task. By the end of the current fiscal year the Hawallan debt will bave been reduced to a trivial $600,- 000 or $700,000, and the speculative island financiers will have a clear basis for fur- ther schemes involving the issue of public obligations. Political Grafting In Cuba, Havana Post, March 21. An old fashioned fight over the spolls of politics seems to be going on in the city government of Havana. The na- tional party, whose members are at pres- ent In the crib, does not propose to allow the republicans, who at present happen to be drawing salaries from the city, to continue to do so any longer. They are to be bounced to make room for the friends of the aldermen of the national party. This Is 1ike old times at home. A contem- porary said recently that there are 250 employes in the city buildings, where, in the most reckless days of Spanish rule, there were not more than eighty or ninety. —_— Congressional Sced Time, Philadelphia Record. The time has come for the usual spring distribution of seeds by the Agricultural department through the postoffice. Sena- tors and members of the house have left at the department thousands and tens of thousands of addresses of persons to whom packages of vegetable and flower seeds are to be sent. One day last week not less than 1,200 mail sacks, each containing 200 packages of seeds, were dispatched from the Washington postofice. It is estimated that the total cumber of seed packages this year will amount to 11,000,000, or 2,000,000 more than last year. Fach year the volume swells like a rolling snowball. The sending of the seeds will prove of a vantage to those postmasters whose salaries will be fixed by the weight of packages delivered from their offices between Feb- ruary 20 and March 20 this year. in and Awmerle Chicago Chronlele. Treatment of the dead is one of the tests of civilization. During the Pekin siege an American marine who had fought to death heside a Russian bad to be buried without a coffin. His Russian comrade leaped into the trench and with a woman's tenderness ar- ranged the earth softly so as to give the head a pillow. Wednesday the bodies of six marines were removed from their tem- porary resting places for shipmeat to this country. Two Russian companies partici- pated in the ceremonial and rendered Rus- slan military honors to their late com- rades. General Chaffee made suitable ac knowledgment to the Russian government. From the beginning of our international relations Rusgia has shown a sincere and disinterested kindliness to Americans. But for the readiness of the Russian fleet to ald the union if the British warships inter- vened during the civil war for its destruc- tion American bistory would read differ- ently today, . BEE: TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1901. | s ON ATORS, Howells Journal: George D. Meiklejohn now finds himself a statesman out of a job. Another man holds down bis job in the War department and his senatorial aspirations have gone glimmering. As a statesman he was one of the lightest weights that Ne- braska has ever been called upon to answer for. Blair Courter (rep.) come for the republicans of Nebraska. Governor Dictrich was indorsed by the people of the state at the last election and has proven himself to be a man of iutelli- gence and force. J. H. Millard is one of Omaha's leading business men and will make a first-class senator. Columbus Times (rep.): United States senators, Joseph H. Millard and Charles H. Dietrich. After all the long weeks of per- sistent contention we are glad to announce the election of the above gentlemen on Thureday. While not our first choice they are certainly worthy and able men and we are more than pleased that the legislature finally got down to business, even if it was the last hour. Neligh Advocate (rep.): The agony is over and Nebraska republicans will not have to apologize over the senatorial issue At an early hour yesterday, the last day of the session, the opposing forces dropped all the prominent candidates and the ¢ tlon of Governor Dietrich for the short term and Joseph Millard of Omaha for the long term was the result. It has been a long and bitter fight, but like a love tale has a happy ending. Republicans can take heart again over the outcome, Norfolk News (rep.): The republicans are geweraliy pleased and the fusionists disappointed over the action of the legisla- ture in choosing two United States senators on the last day of the session. The party 's under obligations to the candidates who have been before the body during the ses- sfon for withdrawing and making an elec- tion possible. The fusionists have persist- ently dreamed of the party being dis- credited either through the selection of men who bave been bitterly fought by members of their own party or in that mo cholce would be made, and their disappointment at the result must be indeed kneen. Crete Vidette (rep.): On the last of the session the republican majority in the legislature came to its senses. No re- publican member dared go home and say to his people, “We had the majority, but failed to elect.” Had that beem the result we do not believe the rank and file of the party would have rallied to the support of a republican majority in the legislature for the next ten years Fortunately better Judgment prevailed, which resulted in the election of Governor Dietrich for the short term and Joseph H. Millard of Omaha for the long term. Inasmuch as it was abso- lutely impossible to elect the two leading candidates, Messrs, Thompson and Rose- water, a more happy denouement could mot have resulted. Lincoln News (rep.): It was 100 to 10 Wednesday evening that there would be no election of senators. But by one of those curiously quick turns that often occur in politics it was made apparent two hours be- fore the time for balloting that the dead- lock had been smashed. And smashed it was. The senatorial contest was the fiercest and most prolonged in all the turbulent political history of the state. It was marked by a great deal of acrimony and by many charges of unfairness and deceit, of falsehood and treachery, but in the era of good feeling that preceded the final electton these all seemed to be swallowed up. That they have been forgotten or even forgiven is not likely, but the great eroder, Time, will attend to that. Beatrico Express (rep.): The most hope- ful and sanguiné of republicans had come to the conclusion that the legislature would not elect United States senrtors and there was a good deal of bitterness in the bosoms of the faithful yesterday until the news came that the solons had risen nobly to the occasion at the eleventh hour and had elected two good mem to the senate. * The members of the legislature should be congratulated upon the success- ful outcome of their painful and wearisome effort to elect senators. The people should be congratulated that they will have such admirable representatives in Washington, and of course Dietrich and Millard are be- It is a happy out- day ing congratulated by everybody. It is a time for congratulation. Grand Island Independent (rep.): The election, at the eleventh hour, of Joseph B Millard of Omaha and Governor Charles Dietrich as United States senators, the for- mer for the long term and the latter for the short term, is certainly a happy solution, particularly as it came at an hour when republicans over the state generally had already come to the firm conclusion that the mixup at Lincoln was so complete that no election could be expected. The candidates who retired at the last moment in order that the state should mot go represented for the next two years and that the republican party should not be robbed of its well earned victory of last fall are certainly -entitled to the gratitude of the rank and file. This culmination of the long struggle should and undoubtedly will unite the factions which have been formed during the struggle. PERSONAL NOTES, President Hadley of Yale Is being urged to run for alderman in the Eighth ward of New Haven. The democratic candidate for mayor of Madison, Wi is Storm Bull. He is a professor in the University of Wisconsin and a nephew of Ole Bull, Lord Strathcona will be chairman of the Canadian Young Men's Christlan assocla- tion delegation to the jubilee convention of the association, which will be held in Boston on June 11. A son of Lieutenant General Miles {s among the cadets soon to be admitted to West Point Military academy. Charles Dudley Daly, captain of Harvard's foot ball eleven last year, is another. William Harper, who for some years has been the chief of the statistical bureau of the Commerclal Museum in Philadelphia, has resigned and will become connected with a similar enterprise to be founded in London. Verdi's tomb in the chapel in the asy- lum for decayed musiclans erected by him at Milan will be a plain owne, with the simple inscription, “Pray for the souls of Giuseppe Verdl and Maria Strapponi Verdi, his beloved wife," Buffalo Bill has imported’ the battle of Tien Tsin and a few picked engagements of the Boer war for the delectation of Americans who were too busy to be pres- ent at the orlginal engagements. He has likewise secured a number of soldiers from Strathcona's Horse, The president has appointed a son of General Miles a cadet-at-large at West Point. His entrance will increase the num ber of prominent generals' sons in the corps at one time to four—Sheridan, Mac- Arthur, Grant and Miles. Miles and Ma Arthur, srs., are not West Poloters, Dr. Horatio C. Wood, one of the known authorities on country and a professor in the medical department of the Pennsylvania university, has been compelled temporarily to give up his practice and lectures and to retire from active work. He has broken down from the strain of overwork. Heory Clews, jr., has no taste for busi- ness. His father put him in his banking house for some time, but the young man showed no Iliking for Wall street. Now he bas gous in for art. He is studying paint- A best therapeutics in this SHALL WE DO WITH HIM? wHA Chicago Post: It s safe to say there will be no disposition on the part of American authorities (o deal harshly with their cap- tive, He has shown himself a leader of more than ordinary ability; he has given our troops in the Philippines enough to do to keep them from rusting through inaction. The United States has no St. Helena for such opponents, and our traditional policy of conciliation and fair dealing will not be departed from in this instance. Boston Transcript: The question of what to do with Aguinaldo now that he is cap- tured remains something of a problem. It would certainly not be good policy to take extreme measures. The circumstances of his capture at least invested that event with more dignity than attended the taking of Jefferson Davis. Yet we did not hang Jefterson Davis, though he had cost us a larger expenditure of blood and treasure than Aguioaldo has done, and that with less apparent reason. Minneapolis Tribune: Our government will hardly dignify him by persecution The best thing to do is to shut him up in jatl with the other rabble of Filipino in- surgents who have been deceived into fol- lowing him, until orderly and stabla gov- ernment has been established “throughout the archipelago—then release him on con. dition that he will keep awa$ from the islands, on penaity of prompt-arrest’and punishment as a seditious disturber of the peace, If he returns. 8t. Paul Globe: As a prllfln!‘ Aguinaldo can render his people more service than it has been possible for him to render to them for many months past. He will doubtless recognize this truth. If he should be fully convinced that the purposes of the American government are as they have been represented, and he should not take steps to bring his people to an acceptance of the inevitable, he will really have done something substantial to justify the state- ments that have been made as to the sordid influences which have controlled him throughout. New York Evening Post: Tne fate of Aguidaldo, however, is not the matter of chief interest which his capture brings be- fore us. The destiny of the United States is now as it has been from the beginning the subject of the greatest concern. The po- litical future of the Filipinos is of little con- sequence to the United States except as it is connected with the question of whether the spirit of the American republic is to be pre- served as it was handed down to us. Can a free people govern an empire and maintain the institutions which distinguish them from monarchial governments and privileged or- ders? All history says no. Indianapolis News: There is little dan- ger now that justice and even moderation will be construed as weakvess. On the contrary, with the insurrection hopelessly crushed, and with its chief in captivity it would seem as though generosity and magnanimity ought to have a good effect. The islands are ours. We have bought them from Spain and conquered them from Aguinaldo. Our title is indefeasibie as against the world. But they are ours to do with as we please. And in answering that question, we must think what s best tor us and for the Filipinos. We hope that it will be dispassionately considered and fairly decided without reference to what imperialists call “duty” and ‘des- Cincinnati Tribune: In their disposal such disturbers of peace as Aguinaldo rarely in these days of modern Wercies get their deserts. In consequence, there s sacrifice of better lives and many of them. A case in point: When Santa Ana's first insurrection in Mexico was put down and bis capture acomplished mercy and maudlin sentiment spared his life and gave bim his liberty. The sanguinary scquel was the Alamo. Had Santa Ana got his deserts, either death or life confinement, there had been no massacre at the Alamo. There is no probability of an Alamo in the Phil- ippines, but in disposing of Aguinalde it is just as well to have in mind the treach- ery of Santa Ana and to remember the Alamo. GOVERNVENT HORSES. nimals to Fit the Specifiea- Where Awn t ons May Be Found. Salt Lake Tribune. In Omaba Uncle Sam is advertising for §00d horses at $145 per head for cavalry and artillery service. That is 100 per cent above the price pald even five years ago The government wants something over 400 for the Fourteenth cavalry, now being organized at Fort Leavenworth. We are told by the eastern papers that bids are asked from all parts of the country, but only six persons were found willing to attempt ing under a well known artist and has, it is said, displayed much talent. He is a handsome, manly looking fellow and is pop- ular with bis assoclates, ' to furnish the horses to suit the specifica- tlons of the department. They are very strict, and the paper says that the present predicament of the government in being un- able to secure enough mounts for its new cavalry regiments is a sad commentary upon our farmers and stockraisers. We think that is not falr, because farmers sand acres of land on the Bay of Hon- duras, and incidentally to reside at e lize, where they made a small settlement. The fact that there was such a settle ment was not known in those days of slow communication, even to the British government, until after the treaty had been ratified by the etate. Then, by some frregular deal with Secretary (lay- ton, a memorandum was tacked on that the clause quoted by Lansdowne should not be construed as preventing the con- tinuance of the settlement at Belize. Af- terward this settlement was erected into a crown colony, now known as British Honduras, and its limits were widely exe tended, regardless of the terms of tbe treaty. While we were busy with the civil war the British government regarded the treaty as dead. Since we came out of that trouble stronger than ever the British government has reached the conclusion that a free band In Central America would be greatly to the advantage of the United States, and chooses to regard the treaty as very much alve. The time may come when we shall want the shadow of this treaty off our path for even more serious reasons than the Nicara- gua canal. There is no better time to give honorable notice of its abrogation than now. —_— THE ROYAL EGO. Republican Refle on Monarchy's Etern Am Minneapolis Tribu There is not in all Europe a hereditary sovereign who begins to have so much real power as the president of the United States. Even the czar, who reigns un- trammeled by a constitution and is popu- larly supposed to be absolute, is &0 ham- pered by his ministers and by fear of the revolytionists that his authority falls far short of that delegated to Mr. MeKinley by the recent congress. But in reading the speeches and manifestoes of the heads of even the most democratic monarchies, one would imagine that every crowned head in Europe was the supreme owner and auto- crat of his country. Even Queen Wilhelmina, that mere slip of a girl just elevated to the throne of the most liberty-loving of continental nations, in her addresees to the Dutch Parliament and people uses the royal ego im a way which would lead to the conclusion that she owns everything and everybody in the Netherlands, and that the people are but the pliant executors of her will. His sovereign majesty, Edward VII, who lived for sixty years close to the British throne without being allowed the slightest voice in public affalrs—a priviloge granted to the humblest Briton—even this man, whose sole functions have beem those of ar- biter in the world of fashion-—if the speeches written by his ministers and glibly delivered by him from the throne speak truly—has rigen almost in a moment to be sole proprietor of the British empire, with its fleets, its armies, its boundless ma- terlal and mental resources and its 400, - 000,000 of human souls. In these speeches the royal ego occurs ad nauseam. It is “my government, my empire, my army, my mavy, my people,’ my universal supremacy, power and glory. This constant intrusion of the ego seems absurd in the nominant ruler of a country in which more than any other monarchy on earth the people are soverelgn and where the king is but little more than an ornamental figurchead. Kalser Wilhelm, with all his assertion of the eternal ego, is about as much hampered by the German Reichstag and Relichsrath ag King Edward is by the House of Com- and stockraisers raise what sells best, and for the last three years beef and wheat and corn have had much quicker and surer sale than horses. No one could ralse what was called a common horse five years ago and pay expenses. That is, the horse when fit to break was not worth what he had cost. Naturally stockmen quit raisingg horses, for they did not know the government would suddenly advance the price 109 per cent or more, about 125 per cent indped, and so they went out of the business. 1An attache of the War department at Omaha says it s next to impossible to find apimals that will meet the requirements. gland and Russia have scoured the country and taken the pick of the best, and then there ha been a dearth of medium weight horses ever since the cities began to change their lines some seven or eight vears ago from horse cars to cables and trolleys. The ones asked for now are merely for one squadron, and the regiment will require 1,284 horses In all. We think we know a stockraiser in Nevada that could easily sup- ply one-third of that number, and they would answer the requirements perfectly, PRACTICE AND PRETENSE, How Great Bri Worked a Graft in a Famous Trecty. Indlanapolls Press. It is evident from the language of the British reply on the subject of the canal treaty that the British government {s not disposed to budge an inch from the rights it imagines itself to have acquired under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Entire changes of conditions, present equities and past favors seem to make mo difference to ft. There are certain things there set down in black and white, which it proposes to cling to, if possible. The first objection raised to the modification of the treaty is described in the dispatches thus: Lord Lansdowne shows that under ar-' ticle 1 of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty the two parties agreed that neither would oe- cupy or fortify or colonize or assume or exercise any dominion over any part of Central America, nor attain any of the foregoing objects by alliance with . any state or people of Central America. There 18 no similar agreement in the convention. If, therefore, the treaty were wholly ab- rogated, both powers would, except in the vicinity of the canal, recover entire free- dom of action in Central America. This change, he thinks, would certainly be of advantage to the United States, and might be of substantial importance.” It is interesting to compare this state- ment of the Intent of the treaty with a statement of facts occurring before and after the treaty. Before the treaty was negotiated a company of Englishmen had obtained from one of the fly-by-night Cen- tral American governments a license for cutting hardwood timber on & few thou- mons. When he exhorts the people to fol- low him, their sovereign by divine right, their supreme lord and ruler, even to the death, Thelrs not to question why, Theirs not to make reply, he knows that ail this is mere rhetorical nonsense, and that the people will do no such thing. In view of the fact that in all civilizod monarchles, it is the soverelgn people whs rule today, and not the hereditary kings, queens and emperors, it would be well foq these exalted but far from autocratic pere sonages to show a little more modesty 13 the use of the royal ego. How ridiculoud Mr. McKinley would make himself if, in his public addresses, he were to say ‘‘my gov- ernment, my army, my'navy, my congress, my people,” and claim this whole great re- public and everything belonging to it as his own personal property! SMILING S, Detroft Journal: A man never gets thor- oughly to understand his importance rela- tively to ultimate ends of Providence until he puts the lighted end of his cigar in his mouth. Philadelphia_Times: [ couldn’t make fire In the heater the whole winter,’ grumbled the tenant “Then you must on coal.” I'm afraid rent.” o saved lots of money I'll have to raise the Judge: Mrs, Jones (reading)-—People who make match: quire a fatal disease of the Jaw. DId you know that? Mr. Jones—No, but I know the poor chap who falls a victim to thelr match-makin usually gets it in the neck. y ‘Washington Star: “Do you appreciate music?” “‘Sometimes,"” answered the young man with wide ears. “The other evening 1 went to hear a big chorus and I dozed oft and thought the home team was making home runs that drove the bleachers crazy." Philadelphia Press: Towne—That was a horrible break you made talking to Wedden yesterday. Browne—What do you mean? Towne—You asked him If he wasn't ting tired of the new woman. Browne—-Well? Towne—~Well, he has and has just married Detrolt ot~ been divorced twice his third. Free Press: ant. asked the manicurist ‘We have got to at rlt‘l(hx for Mugge, the prize fighter's, hand ho !h}e‘ leading soclety woman for a fac le: Sorry to trouble you, n Chicago Tribune: madam, but vour husband fell from fuulrtlhulory window he was cleaning today and “Oh, my poor husband!" “Your husband is all right, madam, but he fell so blamed awkwardly that he broke my awning all to pieces and got away before 1 could see him. Here's the bill for damages and you tell him that if he wants to save trouble he'd better set- tle it right away."” Plittsburg Chronicle You may talk as you please,” gald the public-spirited subur- banite, “but ‘our town is all 'right, "Why, look 4t our remarkubly low death rate. That's an argument.” 7 “Yes, that's an argument,” interrupted the caustic city man. "It shows how very few people would care to be found dead there.” AR AN HORATIUS, Baltimore Americal (While the Britlsh and Russian troops confronted each other at the rallway sidin in Tien Tsin the Russian general is u.lfi to have ealled for volunteers to hold the switch. The result is told below.) l'r spake the Ru lmnmt neral, n ringing tones cried he: “Now, who will stand at my rl’hl hand And guard the track with me?" The serried columns murmured e the Tien Tsin switch ‘When stralght there rose before the foes The Il‘nr,:n of Ivan Popoloffoscdevalosoffitls viteh, Beslde the Russian general, All stralght ho stood and proud And like the breeze 'mid bending (rees, His name swept through the crowd Uncertain stood the Britons, Not knowing which was which, And there were those with trickiing nose At sight of Ivan Popoloffosedevalovoss offitivitch, Now write his name in marble, Within_the Hall of Fame, But ere you do be sure that you Bulld an L to the same. And up and down the hallway, Through the curve and bend ‘and nicle, Lat thete repoto in future glows = he namo of Ivan Fopoloffosedevaloyvose oftitivitch,