Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1901, Page 6

8 THE OMAILA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, APRIL 4, AH'OOI. WHERE THE BLAME BELONGS The great ontery from the lawyers against the threatened veto of the ap propriation for the supreme court com- | t misslon has apparently induced Gov ernor Dietrich to modify his intention and the commission will be allowed t the law WHEN RELIEVED OF WAR, the Phillppines roblems to Face, Buffa Expre With Aguinaldo a prisoner and the war supposed to be at an ond, the position of | the United fn the Philippines be- | comes somewhat less logical than it was be [ fore. While a state of war is in existence people are apt not to think of much beyond winning the fight. It s made a patriotic | The Retort Conr virtue to sustain the government, because Springtield Republican {1t 18 at war and because the honor of the “Treat them Kkindly,® was Aguinaldo's|country demands that it triumph. This de« last order whe he was told that Americau |Dand on patriotism has been exacted to the |y HECEUR BT 00 g D uncetote prisoners were coming in. The “savage! utmost in the Philippines affair. And it {treaty was unquestionably a blunder and it [t must be acknowledged that the public has | [[ETE SIS SRS ERERE B Ol S otlowed Grent Shake In Sight. responded generously. The theory that we |\ f01 (e rable, chat 8 BRCEIC de by the Chicago News must not think of such a thing as with- | °¥ BHO'0¢ “ibe British Forelgn office President McKinley has been invited to |drawing because it would look cowardly to |FePresentative of the British Forelgn office visit 1,000 towns and cities in his coming | withdraw while there was an enemy in|!D Parliament was curt and St trip to the Pacific, all of them Promising |arms, and that we must compel the Fili- (08, It did not create the lmpressioh LAt | him the glad hand. And right there is the |pinos to acknowledge our flag because their [* renewal of negotiations wa: "m"nflé a H rub. [ country had been legally ceded to us, has |fOf thie Featon, 1t for no ners Ahert T ‘::"::”"':::‘m;;m""" in quieting opposition | iinin's communication in which the | "But that theory cannot do duty much |treaty was rejected llnnu'r What is to succeed 1t7 When we W Irn:s.;lie;:nryml;vq::.- ;;\:::r“‘:::rm'-l no longer have a war to justify us in re- (havi »h b d maining in the Philippines, what is to jus- | %44 "’n;““:";:,-"":""‘:"‘:M!:-l' :y*:rzln e tity us? We may plead ss of | 8ibly arise fro publication, and the v;\[,‘ |.m“.|no.~‘ (f::’“l‘l*l(”;ulf‘ ‘ll\l\:' :I::‘V”:\( lvlw(l retary’s recent failure ‘fl‘"kf‘# it politie must be as temporary an argument as the '{;‘r"-r* ‘“h"knu':l':'m:\;:‘ :nh(:«\:u‘l'y”.]‘l‘h"l' ""; war. For if we em local self-rule, | fore he makes ) oro .u”\u\ l;.‘J.;f;_\- n‘.f:-“hn::":"u: '1,;! .T I.(,,;'.:‘. | no reason to suppose from what is known but a short time before they will develop :»‘:;Mm: :11:ln'in;"I'-';-‘l"::\_:::"":"ll‘:\r:"_"‘l:{:‘ll‘\_fi fitness for natio self-rule. O a asis e yton- e prin ml.f <rnn “:» Tn‘m- |l«' (r..”.mm i \,,‘,,h:; but the terms in which the rejection of the | we are not going to deny it to them when | Hay-Pauncefote treaty was expressed may they are fit, why not hold out the promise | $hed some light on the subject. There s a of eventual independence now as a spur to | Much stronger reason, however, for al- exertion and a safeguard against future in- | 1OWIng 'Thh" """“ r to I"‘" l“‘"fl‘;'l‘m';::"";;‘ surrection during the necessary period of | meets ere ls scarcely a p ¥ t our cocupetion? AT perlod o | e secretary can negotiate such & treaty The Philippines have been only a con- | A8 Will be acceptable to the senate. It 18| | stant expense in blood and money since |Safe to eay that there never was a more |they were acquired, and they can never | astonished official than the secretary when Ibe anything clse than an expense. Hardly | the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was condemned publican institutions more dangerous than |any of our soldicrs are remaining there | DY the senate. This astonishment, how- the degradation of the city boss. This is & |t settle, as many inevitably would if the | eVer. did not extend to the publlc. patent fact. and yet we are constantly pre- | country were suitable for white coloniza-| It 18 Dot apparent that the secretary has sented with the spectacle of legislatures | tion, mor is any other class of immigra- | changed his views, and unless he has done undertaking to regulate the most vital|tion of any consequence entering the |80 any treaty made with England, and affalrs of the cities, with little knowledge |islands from the United States. Practically | based upon the Clayton-Bulwer couvention, of the different conditions that prevail in |the only profitable investments that have | must fail. There is opposition not f:"h' ,"' town and count been made there have been {n army con- :hn sishts :1:1 R)\:I:\“:r :r:fl\ynl(-dfl;;a:;‘:‘.‘ Pl —— i > o n- . A Sease of Hamor. :;.' ';‘ ;"M” "”;'MM‘ ekttt LR :n: llon()l/'lvul\' which recognizes the Clay Woman's Home Companion | {he development of iNe country eventually. | on-Bulwer convention will be acceptable 1¢ you are fortuniate enough to have even |ut the United States surely cannot adopt | t0n-puiwer €onver'on o o Si®ng the germ of a sense of humor, cherish that | the policy of maintaining great eastern| o tie teRel ©ol OE LAGTO 6ouy carefully. It is the very salt and savor of COlonles merely asa place of investment for | /a7y ioimaric tashion may not be so lite. Learn to smile over the foibles of | ® f¢W rich men. That would be a foolish pleasant with another agreement embodying your frieuds, loving them none the less, but [ C0Urse. putting all moral questions aside, | [ ionijally the same features, for such more, because of their little weaknesses. | {07 e necd all our capital for our OWD | pypey must be preserved if the State de- Do not take people too seriously, and, above | J¢velopment here at home. 1t would be 48| o nont wishes to propitiate England all, do not take yourself too seriously. You |\f the city of Buffalo should tax its cltl- | Top oy aiion (s really a simple one. The are only an atom in an incomprehensible | 208 generally to promote an investment| . cion Bulwer treaty, as has been fre- universe, after all. Why find fault during |PY Somwe of its rich men off in California, f o oneyy pointed out by the American, con- your brief moment with the other atoms by | [DStead of trying to keep the capital at| e n."% “provision for fts abrogation by your side? 1t sutely witl not pa: home and build up its own industries. Now | G T BOUETR (B otice. This s |that the Incentives of war and patriotism | S o iq0n applies to the canal, but with the Strength of the Army. are removed from the question, s it nOt| .,;qa) ajjminated the United States need not Chicago Record. time for a return of sanity on this subject |\ oyl figelt further about the matter ANOTHER CANAL TREATY. A Simple Way Ont of the Controversy. Baltimore Americar It is reported from Washington that ne gotiations will be renewed with Great Brit ain for a canal treaty to take the place of that which the British government has J rejected This scems to be ill-ad- vised. 1t would be better policy for the State department to publish the communi- cation of the British government rejecting the treaty, so that the American people can percelve what the situation really is s and Santa Clara provinces sampliog every restaurant along the r and charging the government only about $300 & week or $1,500 in all—for his part in the exped tlon? Comes, come! Do you ask what the expedition accomplished and what there s to show for that $1.500° Well intend to discuss that matter, how bas nothing to do with the case now stamds Wa return from these flowery digressions give o'er our fond endearments with a ewest it lurid past, and so get back to Rube The news concerning him is that he bas been relieved from duty as goverament counsel in the postoffice cases at Havana The War department, in fact, has decided to do sometbing in Cuba without the as sistance of Don Horacio Rubens. And there we are. We have not yet lost Quesada, bowever, and so long as he stands by the government—which he will do to the last dollar in the treasury—all is not desolation and despair. Let us brace up. We have Quesada still, and, as for Rubens, well—the cat came back, didn't it? accounts for a loss of about £4.800,00 for eihgt months, Sowe items f iron and ture continue but others tendency where there decline. When it is con our of and tucts during the last two years been it rather sur- that keep up so well. A | year conservative manufacturers predicted reaction within a couple of years, by which time, it was assumed, the extraordinary de mand for the products of iron and steel would be supplied, It appears that the demund hag not yet been fully met, an examination of the export figures for the elght months ending with February of the present and last year showlng an for the later period In the ex- ports of agricultural implements, steel rails, structural fron and steel, electrical | machinery and miscellaneous machivery. It is also shown that in most other lines | the demand is well maintained, as in the < of sewing machines and typewrit ing machines, Viewed as a whol port statistics of the y authorities from giving away franchises. Paxpayers and property owners made an exbibition of ropes at the critical mo: ment and ch member of the council was compelled to take an oath that would against the granting of the obnoxious franchises, and the mayor that he would veto them if passed. This beats the lujunction system all to pieces, ‘THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE. EDITOR, Peace in and the Isthmian E. ROSEWATER steel manuf; a healthy pro a stationar actual that -— show FUBLISHED EVERY MORNI BSCRIPTION One Year. $5.00 he - { show Is | sidered TERMS Bee (with Bee of not vol wo don't ' and, any Rubens as Dally al Bur Baturday Bee, One Year Ewenticth Century Farmer, OFFICES The Bee Bullding. Omaha; Clty Hall Bullding, Twen- | h and M Streets Council BafTe: 10 Pear] Btreet Chicago: 164 Unity Buflding. Few York: Temple Court Washington: i Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating (o news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omana Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS letters and remittances should The Bee Publishing Com- ates exports iron set up in business under | steel pre | ha prising paasse In this councction it not of pl to recall forgotten facts and to polut out where the blame really belongs for the critical condition of supreme court litigation that demands | entailing such an extraordinary burden | on the taxpayer The original supreme court commission created to the overburdened docket was proceeding with its work in a satisfactory mapner when Governor uter interposed a veto upon the bill outinue it in existence, The veto mes- was transmitted to the last legisla- | ture under date of March 14, 1800, and | read as follows LINCOLN, March 14, 1806.—To the Mem bers of the House of Representatives—Gen- tlemen: 1 herewith return to you house roll 114 without my approval, tor the following reasons First—The law creating the supreme court | commission was enacted because it was | thought the interests of the people de manded it. It only infended as makeshift to help out the supreme court until the people themselves could amend the state constitution o that the number of supreme court judges could be increased. The proposition for such an amendment has been submitted to the people twice for their ratification and they have both times | failed to ratify such an amendment, thereby | clearly demonstrating that the increase in the number of supreme judges was not a popular demand. We should recognize the will of the people as supreme law. If they do not desire an increase in the number of the members of the supreme court it seems that my duty Is clear to prevent such increase being forced upon them Second—The law, as in operation the last | six years, has a tendency to lessen the weight and lower the dignity of our su preme court decisfons. Two members of | the court constitute a majority and thelr agreement constitutes the opinion of the court. It has happened that an opinion so written has been met by a dissent by the other member of the court and all three of the commissioners. What weight can such an opinion possess when quoted | in the courts of the other states? They | only bring our supreme court decisions into | disrepute. if not into open contempt. | Third—The public service does not de- mand the services of this commission. The appropriation of sufficient funds to enable the supreme court to employ expert clerical belp, or, when the question demands, ref- they is One Year lowever, is out “ wome or 0 sone e Business be addressed pany, Omaha REMITTA temit by draft, express or postal order, able to The Bee Publishing Company. | ent stamps acceptea in paymer marl accounts. Personai checks, exeept on Umaha or Justern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY TATEMEN ¢ Nebraska, Doug unty George B. Taschick, s ry of The Bee Publishing comp being duly sworn, | says that the & number of fuli and | complete ew The Dally, Morning, | Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of March, 1Wi, was as follows Biosisers 5040 2 i 820 s . increase —_— Enough to Go Around. Indianapolis News, 1t is to be hoped that the $5,000,000 con gress has appropriated for the St. Louls exposition will be sufficient, at least, to pay the salaries of the numerous commis sicners that have been appointed Rising In the Ranks. Philadelphia Record Not the least gratifying result of Gen- eral Funston's daring exploit in capturing Aguinaldo is the assurance that goes with it that a private soldler may hope to risc from the ranks to high place in the mili- tary service and to have his desert knowledged POINTED PLEASANTRI Somerville Journal: Two smokers they get to talking politics together, g erally emoke more matches than they OF CIRCULATION i Daotroit Journal: “How do you know you have the grip?’ ‘Why, man, haven't I read every blessed think the papers have printed about the disease” therefore, the ex past cight months unsatisfactory and while it would be gratifying to note a general Increase instead of a decline, there i no reason why American manu- fact should find uny discourage ment in the tigures. They are consid erably beyond the figures of two years ago. It i to be expected that in some lines of manutactures a further falling off in exports will tuke place, but this may be wade up for by increases in other lines. A settlement of affairs in China will be followed by 1 enlarged demand for cotton goods, bringing the exports of these up to or beyond the amonnt of twa years ago, while the end ing of hostilities in South Africa, whe ever that shall come, will open a ma for a number of our manufactured prod uets, The establishment of peace and order in the Philippines should also be followed by a considerable demand for American manufactures, At all events, there is nothing in existing conditions, i as revealed by the export statis- . that should disturb the confidence of Awerlean manufacturers or cause the least abatement of the enterprise which ! has been so greatly successful in win ning foreign trade. SELLING MUNITIONS OF WAR. are no means 18 19 2 n Did you give Henry my love Yos. 1 told him you safd he needn yme home from China and look his poor old mother in the face without a cloisonne vase under each arm.” uek was a 27 50 26,800 20,580 26,040 25,040 27,360 27,540 28,205 27,620 27 680 27,600 27,050 28,150 28,120 ac- Plain Dealer: “There of increasing the army of Holland think that with #,00 fighting men could snap thelr fingers at Europe.” oh! 1 guess they'd rather finger their echnapps.' Cleveland 20,310 veland 20,280 20,180 20,430 ie talk They they e Rule to Cltie ville Courler-Journal A city s entitled to exactly the sort of government it people want and so is a state. Any attempt on the part of the state to direct the city 1s a blow at re- a Indianapolis Press hackneyed expresston,” tor. “What hackneyed expression?’ reporter he jury acted as a body Well, "hully gee! Would Jury to act as & brain? Philadelphia ~ Press: “What 17" crfed the falr ‘voung girl ou are only an apology for a man." “True,” he slghed, "but you are not so ‘I‘.v'"klhak in courtesy as to fall to accept an Her boarding school ctiquette forbade her fiying in the face of convention, so she re- signed herself to her fate T dow't lke that d the city edi- asked the you expect a Less unsold and returned coples Marry Net total sales Why, Net dafly average GEO, my y 14 | ¥ i 1ce and Kworn. to April, A D. 1901 B HUNGATE Notary Publle. Subscribed in House-cleaning and stre order of th Chicago News: Tw iversing with an n asked t, which of us do you think is the old- “ajth.” replied the gallant vou'both 10k younker than each otr foung women woi ; rishman, when one of Who wants t rin, Don't all speak at once. r than each other Municipal ownership was the trump card played by Mayor Harrison of Chi cago. s Press: “The name of Moroceo ‘is Abdul Azziz, marked the snake editor. “Thanks for the information,"” | horse editor Don't mentlo wish to add Abdul as was Indianapo the sultan of . re. replied the it. my dear ‘The annual report that the fruit t sir. 1 only that after he - dies he will be have been damnged or entirely killed is | ubout due, Kt Louis will have democrat its Wi without aid or a gold standard rld's fair mayor consent of W. I, the erees of unquestioned legal ability and fit- | ness. would meet all requirements of th: public service. Fourth—The The United ways v length of time for which | the commission appointed under this | bill is excessive. Moreover. the appoint- Ly ligerents, The peatedly passed upon by ites government has al- guized the right of its citizens to sell munitions of war to foreign bel- question his been re- American sec The recently enacted army law makes mandatory upon the president to maintain a force of at least 68,924 men, but ieaves it to his discretion to augment this force when necessary to 100,000, It is now an- nounced that the president believes there wlll be no immediate necessity for enlisting | of the Philip nes RISE OF A F mense » Outp New York an ine's Hogus RETENDER, High ¥ ardine: Commercial e ot | country would care to question the inter- Neither England nor any otber European ests or policy of this country in elther of the American continents. To abrogate that portion of the treaty applicable to the canal would require but six months, and « l;'\-lulhl Plain has a perfect mania for condensing everythin DIA you hear how he x.n.,.n.,fi' 4 » “ie held up un_enga the girl's eves and said “And what did she say Dealer: “Blinks gement ring before Eh? " Those enterprisiug sons of Matne whose | habitat is in the region lying all about the mouth of the St. Croix river and whose privilege and delight it is to capture the young and unwary menbaden by the mil- lions and to imprison them in oil, stil per- sist in their adherence to that pleasing flction of trade by which the brevoortia tyranmus and the clupea harengus are made to masquerade as the clupea pil- chardus. The commercial agents at Ban- gor of these misnomering canners have aused it to be announced in the mews- paper press of this country that “‘the larg- est shipment of sardines ever made from the Maine factories” is now on its way to New York and other points of distribution —thirty-cight carloads, or 35,000 cases of the fishes, and all from Eastport How have the mysteries of the Ameri- can sea food industry and a changing popu- lar taste in the last quarter of a century elevated these litle denizens of the deep! The Narragansett Indians npamed them munnawhatteaug, ‘“fertilizer.”” because with their decayed carcasses the corn felds of the atorigines were wont to be manured at rogular intervals; but now be- | hold them traveling over the whole wide | world bathed in the oil of the American cottonseed and posing before princes, presi- dents and politicians as the lordly but dellcate pilchard of France, Spain and | Portugal! They are in self-asserting evi- dence wherever men or women meet to eat—at the plenic, at the secret midnight feast of the girl sophomores, on the lumch counters of cafe and buffet, and even now they are fast pushing to the wall the Americn chicken that once held the place of honor in a club sandwich 1s this sort of thing never to stop? Must the epicures of the twenticth century be buncoed by mossbunkers, hardheads, flat- backs, pogies, cheboge and schoolies in this disgraceful fashion? Has the pis- {catory crown of the sardinians been | knocked oft for all time? Is the clupea chardus hopelessly incapable of recoro- “She just nodded. Puck: Aunt Dinah—Heah's a lettah from de fu.‘k“l m"\lu\.nmu Says ole Uncle Eph has made three desperate attempt - clde inside ob a4 month b T Aunt Ruth—Deah me! Aunt Dinah—Y S that is the most direct, the simplest and the speediest way of settling the matter Had there been no Hay-Pauncefote treaty there would have been no necessity for even this. The government could have as- sumed the abrogation of the treaty amd car- ried out its plans on the Isthmus. kicked a white man's —_— vote! SAD NEWS FROM CUBA. Chicago Tribune: RBishop Hatto, having successfully engineered his cornier fn cor and got the entire visible supply safely stored away in the clevators, chuckled ex- | ceedingly at his own business sagacity | ““But have you no fear. asked one of the squeezed shoris, bitterly, “that a jndgmen ‘wlll jovertake you for your sclfishness and cruelty > “Judgment overtake Hatto. “Rats!" And even as he sneered one of the at- tendants, pale witlh fear, rushed in to tell him the rats were coming. N CRADLE OF THE | ment 1s made definite. and not at the will of the court. In this way the creature Is made greater than the creator. The peo- | ple may change the court, but neither the popular will nor the court itself may change the commission. In consideration of the foregoing, 1 deem it against the public policy and the best interests of the citizens of Nebraska for this bill to become law W. A. POYNTER, Governor. The present congested condition of the supreme court is therefore to be aseribed to Governor Poynter's inter nce which abolished the original commission at the very time when it most needed. It must be conceded, howe that one of the points urged by Governc Poynter in support of Lis veto las con- siderable basis in fact. There is no question but that the lawyers, including | (e sale of horses and mules to the those occupying positions as suprewe | pritish government and their exporta- y | court commissioners, are to be charged | tion from a port of the United States, it showed additional signs of | With the defeat of the constitutio abandoning the popocratic fold, The|amendment, enlarging the supren democratic tail is evidently golng with | court, that was submitted to the people the hide, at the election of 1896, Not content with this, the lawyers in and out of the leg- islature are chargeable also with the defeat in the recent session of the pro- posal to resubmit such an amendment. Having secured their supreme court commission affording lucrative employ- mont for nine lawyers, they turned upon the amendment, which would have put an end, after two years, to the useful- ness of the commission and reduced the supreme bench from twelve to seven al together and killed it without ceremony. 8o far as The Bee is concerned it ad- heres to its original position. It recog- nizes the demand for supreme court re- lief, but it still believes that the proper method should have been to have called in the assistance of district judges whose time is not entirely occupied and who would certainly be equally compe- tent with any attorneys who may be ap- poiuted to the commission. A commis- sion consisting of district judges who are already on the salary list would have saved the taxpayers at least $40,000 without imposing undue work upon anyone, The new commission has been ac quiesced in on the representation that it I8 @ tewporary arvangenient to be su perseded ax soon as possible by an en- larged supreme beneh, The lawyers will make a mistake it they attempt to make this makeshift permanent or head off the proposed constitutional amendment for the purpose of Keeping the commissioners in thelr places. M ad of hurling thelr nas at vernor Dieteich the m their shafts at Governor Bryan. the full quota of 100,000 troops. the situ- ation in the Philippines and elsewhere being such as to warrant him in maintaining the minimum force. If this is the case the country will enjoy the immediate benefits which were aimed at in planning for an elastic form of organization. The threat of “militarism” involved in the mainten- ence of an army of 100,000 was slight enough, but an honest purpoe to keep the army down to the minimum conslstent with safety still further decreases that danger. retaries of state, whose uniform con- tention has been that a friendly govern- nt violates no duty in allowing the sale of arms and munitions of war to all persons and such arms or wuni- tions, by which ever party to a war purchased, may be carried in vessels on the high scas without liability to ques- tion from any otlier party. This is the position that was taken by our govern- ment in response to a protest from Spain during the Cuban war of 1868 and it embodies the rules whicls have been accepted by the United States courts as applicable to the cases brought before them under the neutral- ity laws. There has been more or less criticism of the administration for permitting Easter comes early this y weeks In enjoy the new comes in. ar, giving which to admire and Do it say how? hat before the bill o ¥s he sto shoat dawg tried to The police court fines for the month ot March aggregate § 0. This is more than was collected during Judge Gor- don's incumbeney in a whol ve Patriot Falls from Grace and from the le Counter, ‘Washington Post The announcement that Senor Don Ho- racio Rubens has been dismissed from the government service at Havana comes to us in the nature of a grief. Not that we | personally belleve, or even have believed, | in the man—far from it; these columns will bear us witness—our sorrow is vi- carlous; we weep for the War department | and the United States officials genmerally who have pinned their faith to him and at his feet and paid for his counsel with liberal, if not lavish, emolument. It is the thought of these that jolts us and folts | us hard. Our immediate withers are un- | wrung. Of course, we always recognized in Ca- ballero Rubens a man of rich attainments. | During the greater part of 1897 he was the legal adviser of the Cuban junta in New York. The success of that body in conque: ing the sympathies and segregating the dol- | * lars of an impulsive people is, and will | forever remalin, the object of our respect- ful amazement. Acting under the general | direction of Senor Don Tomas Estrada- | Palma, but really working in couples with Senor Don Gonzalo Quesada, Rubens achieved real wonders in the line of plen- tiful collection. For proficiency in the real quick touch that junta has never been ex- celled and Rubens and Quesada were fts experts. They worked for Cuba Libre, of course. Every cent they gathered went to the cause. We have been told that they even paid their own hotel bills—which were notoriously large—so single-minded were they in their struggles for liberty. If any of the insurgents. or all of them put to- gether, bled for Cuban freedom as fluently as our people did, under the Caesarian ma- nipulation of the junta and if it can be Nebraska's legislature was not the only one to work overtime, rado lawmakers required several extra Lours to complete the business, Huge Capitalisatio Springfield (Mass.) Republican, The rallroad consolidations now going on are bringing about some huge single capi- talizations. Ten years ago there were only three railroad companies in the United States with an outstanding stock capital exceeding $100,000,000—the Atchison, the Pernsylvania and the Southern Pacific— nd their stock issues did not severally rise far above ihat figure. Now a dozen rail- road companies can be named whose cap- ital stock amounts to $100,000,000 or more, and three of them go above the $200,000, 000 mark—the Union Pacific with §: 000, the Pennsylvania with $251,000,000 and the Atchison with $216.000,000. The stock- holders of both the Union Pacific and the Pernsylvania companles recently decided to issue $100,000,000 of additional stock in cach case, and this is included in the above figures, me?" sneered Bishop was CaelotE Nebraska has set the pace for all the other states, » other state can bonst of three governors in the first four months of the twentieth century. THE PLATTE . H. M. Byers in Youth's Companion. A little stream In the canyon ran, In the canvon deep and long When a stoit old oak at its side began To sing to it this song: In the Colorado municipal elections Tuesd 'I‘r:;d‘::;'\"h’(“\'m‘“l‘?”]fl;‘r:\t\“mlmp e For you're only’ a noisy little thing And a great stout oak am I A hundred vears [ shall stand alone And the world will look at me, | While you wiil bubble and babble on And dfe at last in the sea.” being known, of course, that their des- tination was South Africa. Now the matter has been presented for judicial i On a petition filed in the United States court at New Orleans a temporary injunction has been granted preventing the sailing of a steamship loaded with horses and mules consigned to the British in South Africa and on Saturday arguments will be heard by the court on the question of granting a permanent injunction. The petition sef forth that horses and mules are “muni- tions of war,” though, so far as we are aware, they have never been legally so defined. Assuming, however, that the conrt will hold that to be a proper defi- nition, we do not see how, in view of the uniform attitude of the Department of State, it can decide otherwise than that the purchase is legitimate and therefore the purchaser cannot properly be inter- fered with in taking the property out of the country, regardless of its destina- tion, or of what use it is to be put to. We do not think the petitioners will be able to permanently preveut the ship- ment of this cargo of horses and mules, There is no diserimination in the wat- ter in favor of the British, The Boers can purchase munitions of war in this coun try as freely as their enemy if they wish to do so and have the money to pay for them. They have the same right and privilege in this respect as the British have and the fact that they do not or caunot take advantage of it has uo bearing whatever upon the question. So far as the government of the United States is concerned It is absolutely neu tral and impartial, regarding the wat ter as purely a business affair between American eitizens aud the foreign buyer, with which it should not inter An lowa preshytery has decided a wan may marry the sister of his de ceased wife, The sister-in-law has the last say, however, whether she desires to change her relation. 8t. Louis is certainly unkind to the late democratic candidate for president. In spite of the “peerless leader's” hos- tility, Wells, the den atic candidate for mayor, ran ahead of his ticket, EE—————— J. Plerpont Morgan denies that he has purchased or intends to purchase the Panuma canal. The water in the steel and railroad stocks controlled by him should be enough to satisfy his every desire, o proud and lofty?" the stream replicd n're a king of the forest, true, But your roots were dead and your lea all dried, Had I not watered you." HIGH WATER MARK FOR STOCKS. 0ak tree rustled its leaves of green o the little stream below; *Tis only a snowbank's tears, I ween Could talk to a monarch so, But where are you going so fast, so fast And what do you think to do? Ta there anvthing in the world at last For a babbling brook lfke you?" “8o fast, so fast, why should 1 wait,” The hurrying water said, “When yonder by the canyon gate The farmer waits for bread” Out on the rainless desert land, My hurrying footsteps go, 1 kiss the earth, T wet the sand, 1 make the hariests grow Some Facts That ol Worth Heeding. Philadclphia Press. The stock market reached last week the | highest average price for twenty years For the third time the crest of a great wave of speculation has been reached The first low watermark came in the New York stock market in the period im- mediately after the panic of 1857, with the war adding another low record. An ad- T vance followed up to 1869, when there wae [Dation on this side of the Mlantic? a break, a reaction and & mew high record | One ray of hope glints from the Bangor was made for stocks and business In 1872 |dispatch. It proclaims that “Eastport sar- T 1878, dincs are now bringing $.13 per case, A decline succoeded which went on until | #Balost $2.68 last vear,” and adds with a 1o e e s "was. reashod |oandor ad:commandable an 1t s uawonted: | DECARIE Gt ARER RO B ok AR B8 in April, just before the railroad strikes | "ldt!le herrings were scarcc in 1900 and| a1 for detected and thrown-out Cuban in July. The average of sixty stocks in ‘:' Dack X "”"”,,,"?“"h accounts for | pyiriots who are in real need 2 April that year was 36.32. An advance ‘;h\‘"'I"m_“:v;l"_.,'"m';"”mw {0 rise until the | TO TESUmE: A% soon as the United States began which carried the average price of 3 army had made it safe for heroes of their St. Croix fishermen all get rich, and the | & : sixty stocks up (o 981 in May, 1881, The ! |type to go to Cuba, Messrs. Rubens and average of sixty active stecks last week | SeRuine sardine, in its own oll of the g euqs hastened fondly thither. Each took k iaet 8 . olive, drives out the spurious product by | JUENAE BARERRT TARELY LARACE: oe was in the middie of the week 80.05 and | OV ATIFel OV LS FREFIOTE B wii an and a salary, to be sure, slightly more at the end. It never was as ik but think what service they were about to high before between 1581 and 1901 render, and recall to yourselt the style in This s as yet somewhat short which they subsequentiy rendered it. Didn't tidemark of twenty years ago; but, on the | Rubens hold down a $5,000 place for many other hand, the present tide is not yer dreary months, and never once quarrel with done rising. It may pass the average his fate? Didn't Quesada—also drawing twenty years ago. Then, again $£,000 per annum—take his lite in his hand not. one day during January, 1899, and go forth The lowest point since 1881 was In 1866 | deciding vote against secession in the state | into the howling wilderness of Matanzas and the advance in 1897 was slight. Thrice, | senate in 1861 therefore, in 1838, in 18 nd in 1896-7, | Three of former low prices have been reached. Twice. | Tyler are still alive. One is a member of 1881 and 1901, high prices have been|ihe Virginia state senate and another is touched, twenty years apart. Twicc president .of Willlam and Mary college. the ‘smash come twenty years apart, Park Mathewson, the well known Detroit 1873 ana 1863, Something of a rcaction |y giness man, who died the other day in came In the summer of 1881, but there was |ynat city, was one of the founders of the a recovery fn 1%52, and, while the average | ropublican party. He began life In New of stocks was never o high again as 14 | york 1881, the volume of general trade, as meas- | (ool Ao e ured by bank clearings, was bigger in 1882 | been formed to erect a monum than It ever was again until 1860 I now ‘neglscted #rave at In 1873 everybody was perfectly sure that o Genorel Danfel Morgan the prosperity of the country was good for | oo nene L ye When Jay Cooke & Co. put up their shutters in September, 18 t| was a bolt out of the blue. When the stock market broke in July, 1581, at the crash of Guiteau's pistol, no one had pre disted disaster; but it was twenty years before prices were back again. In fact prices today are a little lower than in May 1881, for any group of stocks. Those were |De€n Ftate deputy superintendent of public the days when Mr, William H. Vanderbilt instruetion in Indlana, has resigned, with bought Reading over 50. Mr. Sidney Dillc ”‘l!wv- notable purpose of attending college, was advising people to buy Union Pacific |#¢CUTInE & degr nd then becoming a can- at 127 and, what was more, buying it him. | G1date for the position of superintendent | self, ana the astute financlers who wer The first name of Tom L. Johnson, mayor- fnvesting General Grant Trust fund were | Clect of Cleveland not a contraction of putting part of it iato Wabash preferred at | Thcmas, but a family name widely known 96, shortly to go to pot in the south—especially in Kentucky, his The large, round, lighthouse moral native state. Mr. Johnson always feels ng- facts und figures inculcate must be | gricved when he himself referred to to every man. Still, when the next in print as Thomas Johnson or “Tom" John- cial smash comes it will find men ing (with the quotation marks) and drinking, just as Noah's flood found | President McKinley has promised them. We may ald that in all these flood- | point Edwin V. Sumner, son of General E tide years, 1571 1870-81 and 1889-01, the |V, Sumner adetship in the United financial pundits were all proving very | States Military academy s s00n as he shall conclusively that this particular flood, like | have opporiunity to fill a vacancy. There a well-known rootheer, was ‘unlike auy|have beem Sumners in the United States rmy ever since 1975, and the promised ap- other.”” It had no ebb. voiniment will keep up the succession. a Moral “And many a farmer when the sky Has turned to heated brass, And Jlain 18 hot and dry to see me pass; By many a ¢lulce and ditch and lane They led me left and right, For it is I who turn the plain To gardens of delight." e Rixto Lopez says there must be some conditions attached to the oath of alle- glance taken by Aguinaldo. 1f the oath is violated Aguinaldo will also proba bly be convinced there are conditions tached, ‘Then hurrying on, the dashing stream Into a river grew, And rock and mountain made a seam To let its torrent through; And where the burning desert lay, A happy rlver ran, A thousand miles it coursed its way, And blessed the homes of man. The new free high school law is to be PRPAORAL -BRTRN: tested at once. This will be the third wrestle the legislature and the supreme court have had over the law, and the court has won the previous two falls on a strangle hold, of the —— The name of one of the oldest school buildings in Indianapolis has been changed to the Bemjamin Harrison school The Hon. Thornton F. Marsball, who died at Augusta, Ky. last week, cast the | Vain was the oak tree's proud concelt, Dethroned the monarch lay. The brook thit babbled at is feet ghlnd washed ita roots away il in the canvon's heart there springs AThe deserts dindem s nd shepherds bless the day that brings The snowbank's tears to inem, g precisely { may | | Governor Dietrich has doulitless dis- appointed wauy claimants and some lob- byists by his veto But he has saved the taxpayers more than £160,000 by hi; courageous refusal to concur n tve appropriations. [ sons sident John has in| XCOSS Texas legislaty sure Punston for eapturing Aguinaldo. Funston, with his commission of hriga- dier and the gencral approval of the people of the country n easily stand the rebuff from Texa CLINE IN EXPORTS Tor months there ha noted a decline in the exports of classes of manufactured goods from the United States, as compared with the corvesponding months of last year, The February statement, for instance, shows a quite wmarked falling off and doubtl that for March will show a decline as compared with the same month of 1900, As now indieated, therefore, the exports of manufactures for the current year| o uuve from it. Henee it will fall considerably below those of the | G0 E0TG e efare o | preceding year. It should be remarked [0 (TGl il that the losses of the last few wonths | G (e potitioners are to a considerable extent found under | —— the head of two comparatively crude opresentatives of the Boers products—copper ingots and mineral ofl, | gone into the federal courts to prevent In most other avticles there has been an | the shipment of more wules rein increase of exports, though small in the | force the English army. The mule has aggregate, waited long for recognition of his hn There is nothing surprising in this [ portanee as o fighting uuit of an army, trade situation, the fact being that it is | hut no one who has ever had anything quite as satisfacte as could veasona- | to do with him will question his right bly be expected when all the conditions | to be classed as a bell ut are taken into account, For inst th xports of cotton goods have D affected by the disorder o Ching, which THE D in protested against American cit seve s selling arms and munitions of war the Cubun insurgents, Secretary of State Fish replied that our citizens had lation has ent over the Winchester, Va to the hero of Styles in Men’s Clothes. New York may borrow ideas from London, but all Ameri a right to sell to iusurgents as well as [ "% to the regularly constituted authorities In other words, our government allowed the sale of munitions of war to all who chose to buy. That i the position of the government today and it is not at all probable that there will he any de The private letter books of Robert ris, the financier of the revolution were lost for several generations, brought to light in Washington and have heen deposited In sional library Fassett A, Cotton The captured Chine cannon which Minister Conger sent to Des Moines will be used to five sulutes welcoming him bhome, Like the cry of “Low brid to a canal man, the first crack of tne artillery may be expected to make him duck. Mor which were recent) the Congres- depends on New York for styles in men’s clothing, who for six years has Our is safe to us the federal e decided ctory at New York has a considerable hand styles, and what we manufacture there is as Reports from the conference betw the premiers of Germany and Italy in diente that a satisfactory understand- ing was reached. There probably was uot such a prolonged drouth as existed in the famous conference between the BOVernors. enm—— The Minuesota Indians have tiled a protest with the government alleging they are being defranded of the timber on their lands by the lnmbermen here must be something wrong abont it. No lumberman would ever take a stick of timber that did wot belong to him, in makin good as can be made, 1 Our new Spring Catalogue, “Good Clothes,” to be had for the asking, will show you the latest things in Npring and Summer FPashions. rowning, King & Co., R. S. Wilcox, Manager. SOUTHWEST (ORNER 15TH AND DOUGLAS STREETS, Omaha's Exclusive Clothicrs for Men and Boys have to thes ar finan- | . o to ap- Kansas City, Kan, has a novel and effective method of stopping the u!,\'l L But it had. | [} ’