Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 5, 1901, Page 6

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Bl Notary Chieazo has a deme m a republican eity council which will keep u check upon him. It might be worse, With all these prospective boundary commissions to watceh it, the Missouri river will to be on its good be- havior for a little while at least. It looks like a deadlock in the su- preme court on the appointment of su- preme court commissioners, This dead- lock, however, cannot resist so stub- bornly as did the senatorial deadlock. Each of the elght teams in the West- ern league has already won the pen- nant, according to the manager. The only object of playing out th edule is to prove that the seven other fellows are mistaken, 3 8¢ A Dubuque company has projected a new line to the Pacitic coast. By the time It s completed the railroad pur- chasing syndicate Is expeeted to have recuperated suffigiently from fts pregent efforts to be able to buy it in. Kansas has decided to sue the state of Colorado for diverting the water of the Arkansas river from its natural channel | and appropriating it to its own use. With Carrie Nation smashing the joints, the question of water Is a vital one to IKans=as. The Hawalian ture must be the slowest on record. Its sesslon is half over and its own salary appropriation Dbill has Just been puss 1t has kept up one of the traditions, however, in get- ting that through ahead of auy other measure, What Omaha needs worst just now Is guitable buildings to accommodate the expanding business of its large retail ¢ tablishments, The eapitalists who come to the front in response to this demund will have good profits guaramteed on their investments. Our popocratic contemporary is trying to find out what made Governor Diet- rich change his position on the appro- priation for the salaries of supreme court commissioners, Strange that it does not arrogate to itself the responsi- bility for what it calls the governor's “flo] The iron market foreshadows bullding operations of all kinds on an unparal- leled scale this coming season. More and larger mills are in operation now than ever before in the history of the country and still the demand for the product is in excess of the capacity of the mills to suppl ‘Thers are two times in the year when the world hears of the Kanawha and Blg Sandy rivers—when the river ana harbor approprintion is before congress 1 when the spring floods come, At other times even the people who dwell in the neighborhood do not think them worth talking about. The Chieago Board of nde specula- tors pinched by young Phillips in his former grain jer are now trying to get even. As Phillips is interested in boosting the price of May corn, the farmer is on the side of the young specu- lator. The farmer bas the corn this time and if it goes up he will share the profit. Just about the time humanity con- gratulates itself it is improving ma- terfally some crime like the murder of Milllonaire Rice comes to light, dis- playing depths of barbarie cruelty which almost shakes faith in the race, As a cold-blooded, caleulating murder the story told by the witness has few parallels and none exceeds it. In the death of Judge Learn Omaha loses a capable and eflicient public offi- cer, Durlng his brief control of the powers, police court Judge Learn had revolution- jzedd the methods in vogue there, He bad the right conception of his duty, realizing that he was on the bench to administer justice tempered with mercy, but not to encourage vice and crime. 1t will be a long time before Omaha has a police judge who will give ter sat- isfuction than the late Judbe Learn, CHINA'S REFUSAL T0 SIGN. The formal refusal of the Chinese gov crnment to sign the Manchurian con vention, while not wholly unexpected, brings to a conclusion au lssue of the most gerfous character, We sald a few days ngo in ference to this matter, that the probability was that China would yield to the pressure of the Rus sian government, for the reason that there was no certainty, in the event of r taking a different position, that she mld recelve anything more substantial than the moral support of the other | There was nothing better thau | this promised in the attitude of the | powers. Several of them had, indeed, | protested against the manifest scheme | of Russia for the absorption of Man churla, the threat of which imperilled | the security of Japan, but they had | given no assurances of anything beyond | a protest by way of contravening the Russian program, the alleged nature of which was that it was simply a modus vivendi, intended to normal | conditions that had been disturbed by the conduct of the Chinese. This protest, however, appears to have been sutficient to induce the Chinese government to take a determined stand against the Russian demands, 1t has taken the position that in view of the attitude of a majority of the powers it feels ealled upon to respect the opinion of these powers rather than to yleld to the demand of a single nation, The de< sire of China is to keep on friendly terms with all the powers and in order to do this she thinks it ¥ to grant no special privilege to any one of them. She declines urt the triendship of one power by alienating | the sympatnies of all the others, There can be no question as to the abstract wisdom of this attitude, but whether China can maintain it or not will de- pend upon the support she receives from the powers which have induced her to take this position. Will they stand by her when the emergency comes which appears imminent, or will they leave ber helpless to be dealt with by Russia? This question appeals as strongly to the United States-as to any other power, for the reason that this government has been as influential as any other in inducing China to vefuse to sign the Manchurian convention. 1t was the opposition of the United States perhaps wore than that of any other nation that influenced the Chinese government | to tuke the position it has in regard to | the Manchurian convention aund most | naturally China will look to this eountry for support in its future dealing with Russia. What shall we do in respect to such a complication? It is a very serfous question. To abandon China is to leave her a prey to Russia, for there is no assurance that any other power will aid China if the United States does not. To give material support to China would perhaps involve the United States in serious Buropean complications. 1t is apparent, theretore, that the situation presented by the fssue between Russia and China has an interest for this coun try of the wost vital character. We have assumed a degree of responsibility in the watter that may compel us to take a larger part in the adjustment than was anticipated. restore necessy THE FRAUDS AT MANILA. The latest advices from Manila arve to the effect that the first reports regarding frauds there in the commissary depart ment were exaggerated. This is by no means improbable. Prom the statements made by officials of the War department at Washington it « to understand low an exaggerated report of frauds could have come from Maunila, particu- larly in view of the fact that some of the correspondents theve are only too ready in such a matter to make a moun- tain out of a molehill. Genernl MacArthur says that the al- leged frauds are apparently due to “ir regularity of sales savings,” which Is ex- plained by the Washington authorities to mean the sales of rations saved by the soldiers. Each military company, it ap- pears, is authorized to sell any surplus of supplies which it may not need for its own use. The captain is the ofticer through whom the sale is made and the money goes into the company fund for such luxuries as it may desire. For this reason, says a Washington dispatch, it would not be surprising if considerable quantities of commissary bacon and flour had been sold to private parties, for there {8 no other bacon to be had in Manila and first-rate American flour is always in demand there, It will prob ably turn out that there have been no such wholesale frauds as reported, Meanwhile General MacArthur ports that a thorough investigation is being made and there can be no doubt that the matter will be probed to the fullest extent and If fraud is proven those guilty of it will be punished as they deserve. Pending the result of the investigation common justice demands a suspension of judgment regarding the official responsibility for affairs in the Philippines—a principle which we regret to say 18 not belng so generally observed as it should 1 — THE CUBANS UNDECIDED. The Cuban constitutional convention 1s still considering the question of future relations with the United States, with little promise of anearly solution. This is disappointing in view of the fact that a short time ago it uppeared probuble that the conservative sentiment in the island, which is understood to be prac- tically unanimous iu favor of the Ameri- can conditions, would prevail and that the issue would speedily be settled. Senator Proctor, who returned a few days ago from Cuba, stated in an inter- view that the better classes of the peo ple of the Island are anxious for peace and the establishment of a stable gov- ernment that will glve assurance of pro tection to life and property, but it | ut primar would seem that the inthy » of this element is not as great as it should be, either because it does not make the proper effort or for the reason that it is too subscrvient to the politicians, who are persistently active, According to ctor there is a general dis- position among the people favorable to the Platt amendment, but some of the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY APRIL 5, 1901 strained futerpretation the amend ment and are endeavoring to convin the people that the United States in tends to do them serious Injustice, He said, however, that no progress is being m by this class, Perhaps this is true, yet it would seem that the ol structive element holding its own and it is a serious question whether it will not continue to do so. There seems to be nothing to do but to wait patiently for the deliberate con- sideration of thé American terms on the part of all the Cuban people, The most trustworthy testimony is that the JMe generally are favorable to the terms, the opposition being confined to the politiclans, There is reason to think that in time the latter will be compelled to yield to popular sentiment. on HAVE I Governor Dietrich has signed the bill for a commission to compromise the Bartley bond claims, alleging as reason that it is better business to take what one can get on a bad debt than to risk losing it all in the courts. That may be good practice in ordinary business affairs, where the man com promising is giving away his own mon but it does not necessarily ap ply to a state, which represents the ag- gregate of the taxpuyer: We believe the best commission to compromise the Bartley bond, as well as all other similar obligations due to the state, would be a jury of twelve men drawn in the same manuer as juries in elvil To impose the responsi- bility of settling a claim amounting to some three-quarters of a million dollars on three elective state officers is unfair to them, because sure to place them in @ position where thefr action will be se- verely eriticised. All this is frrespective of the question of the unconstitutionality of the law, which seems so plain that nothing but the wost refined legal quibbling can con- strue it out of the constitutional prohibi- tion of sy legislation, Before the so-called commissioners un- dertake to act under the authority of this statute th court it will be fruitless for them to waste their time if the lawmakers have no right to confer such authority upon thew. cases, Minnesota has adopted a new plan 6f nominating candidates. The new law provides for all nominations to be made elections and all are to be nominated on the same day. The re- sult of this attempt to regulate the nominations for office, which is designed to head off trades and machine politics, will be watched with interest. With the same safeguards which ave thrown around an election it is hoped the prob- lem of clean nominations has been solved, so farus it can be by law. Peo- ple in other states certainly wish the Minnesota plan success, In extending the police patrol service in our residence districts the police com- nission will' carn the gratitude of a ze body of houselolders. ory one police service has been coufined to the central and business portion of the city, because of the insuflicient numbers in the de- partment, due to the shortage of funds at its dispe While the department is still considerably under its maximum strength, a systematic disteibution of the men ought to cover the greater part of the territory in the city limits that is fully populated. In the last report of exports and im- ports of the island of Porto Rico, the United States motopolizes over 50 per cent of both the export and Import busi- ness of the island. Before it came un- der American rule the United States oc cupied a secondary place, particularly in the matter of fmports, What is true of Porto Rico will without doubt be true of our other island possessions, as soon as order and civil government is tored and the energies of the country can be turned into commercial channels, The total vote on mayor in the ety election just held in Linecoln s 4,284, which is considerably less than was polled in South Omaha at last fall's election. South Omaha’s vote on tax commissioner Tuesday, however, was only 2,147. These two Nebraska tow evidently have good grounds for a dis- pute as to their exact relative popula- tion positions, notwithstanding the cen- sus. S——— be trustees of the Methodist hospital | are figuring on the erection of a new building. It is to be hoped that they will congider nothing that does not contem- plate a fireproof structure, In view of the lesson of the narrow escape of the present hospital from five a few months ago. The community owes it to itself not to endanger the lives of the sick and helpless in fivetraps. Russia has been defeated for the time in its endeavor to force China to sign the Manchurian treaty. Unless the Rus- sian has changed recently, however, he will pick his flint and try again, China Is the most artful diplomatic dodger of all the nations, but Russian persistence will sooner or later prevail, unless the powers as persistently back China up. Ain't He n Peacht” Washington Post. There s a consensus of opinion to the effect that, notwithstanding the fact that he didn't take a tabasco course at West Point, General Funston is quite a warm member. Rooting Into the Tre. Springficld Republican The British deficit for the fiscal year ended with last mouth is only $270,000,000, and this notwithstanding that revenues con- siderably exceeded the estimates. It repre- sents what the Boer war is costing every twelve months. ey, The Soldier and the ¥ Philadelphia North Am C It was Kitchener, the iron-handed soldier, who advised that terms to the Boers in- clude amnesty for Cape Colony rebels and representative government for_ the Boer states, and it was Chamberlain, the com- mercalizer of political office, who spurned the advice and derided Kitchener as a fool for making such preposterously peaceable proposals. The hardest fighter is usually the most generous foe and the mpst im- his | | a8 1t was not when iu Cuba Chamberlain's public censure of Kitchen places that soldler in a new and more favorable light and proves that the secre tary himself {s the chief obstacle to peace in South Africa Tenching Manners. Chicago News, In addition to her quarrel with this coun- try, Venezuela will be asked to pay for the destruction of certain British vesaels. If she refuses the Briton will probably have a free hand this time in teaching the obstrep- orous Venezuelans a lesson in interna- tional good manners Some Comfort for Regulars. Philadelphia Record. All the persons accused of complicity in | the frauds on the government perpetrated in the Philippines appear to be civilians and volunteer officers, and this, so far as it goes, 1« a feather in the cap of the regular establishment. They do seem to teach hon- esty and honor at West Point. Well Fed, Anyway, Buffalo Express The commissary department of the army in the Philippines may have been dishonest, but, at least, the army there has been fed And the diffi- culties of supplying the soldlers in tle Philippines were very much greater in Cuba. These facts do not lessen the oftense of any dishonest officers, but they do offset somewhat the discredit which the alleged frauds reflect on the general man- agement of the department. Corn Prices nnd Prospects, Indlanapolis Journal Farly in the season, when the greatest corn crop the country ever harvested was assured, many predicted very low prices. The prediction has not been verified. The price of corn has been well maiotained, and is now at a figure which may be called high A fow years ago such a erop as that of 1900 cut the price to a figure which made corn a profitless crop. This year, with a larger crop, prices have been maintained. The reason Is obvlous—corn/ s much more largely used in this country than ever and the export demand is increasing. The ex- perience of the past two or three years makes corn the most important crop throughout the corn belt LANDSCAPE DISFIGUREMENT, Shocking Trall of the Sign Dauber Throughout the Country. Boston Herald. In a country where the newspapers are so widely circulated as in the United States thero Is small excuse for the man who goes about the country defacing its natural beau- ties with paint pot and brush to chronicle the merits of this or that—all the way from axle grease to a grand plano. Of course, the man cannot be blamed; it 1 his employer and the condition of public taste which tolerates such disfigurdment of tho landscape. In a recent trip through the west, a part of which led through southern Canada, it was observed that this riot of painful advertising mostly prevails in the vicinity of the larger cities. In the sub- urbs of Indianapolis a beautiful little cottage had every inch of its root space covered by a meat-ax sort of an advertisement because the railway embankment, being high, passed the housetop on a level. A man who would subject the home he loved to that sort of indignity ought to be compelled by fate to domicile in a sodhouse the rest of his days. The better class of farmers will not per- mit their outbuildings to be disfigured in this way. It is only the shiftless sort, and it 1s a safe conclusion where one sees barns and corncribs so decorated that the farmer who permits it has no pride in his possession. Indecd, one involuntarily looks around to find his plow and drills and other farming {mplements reposing In. the fence corner: and one is scldom disappointed. To the traveler on tho railway there is mo fairer sight on the landscape than a farm house with well-kept lawns and neatly painted outbulldings attached. It argues a pros- perous condition of that man's affairs and at once fills the beholder with profound re- spect for him. The traveler through southwestern Can- ada, however, if he be an observant one, will note two pecullar facts in copnection with the landscape. One is that between Windsor and Niagara Falls he will not see a single advertisement painted on a farm outbuilding. The other is that he will not see a single outbuilding bearing a coat of paint of any description; even the art of whitewashing appears to be unknown over there, EN IN RETIREMENT, Taking a Rest or Playing the Game to the End. Kansas City Star. “I have always felt,”” sald Mr. Carnegle fn his open letter to the citizens of Pitts- burg, “that old age should be spent, not, as the Scotch say, in ‘making mickle mair,’ but in making good use of what has been ac- quired, and I hope my friends of Pittsburg will approve of my action in retiring while #1111 in full health and vigor, and I can rea- sonably expect many years of usefulness in fields which have ather than personal aims.” These words of Mr. Carnegie's contrast strikingly with what Roswell P. Flower said to a friend shortly before his death. “I don't need to keep at work any longer, he remarked. “I have 4l the money that I want and much more. I don't care about making any more money, simply for the sake of being & richer man. There is no reason why I should not retire, except that I should not enjoy life 1f I were not in the thick of it. T could not get any satisfaction out of existence without playing the game to the end.”” No doubt Mr. Flower ex- pressed the prevailing American sentiment, There s no leisure class in this country as there is fn England. Most Americans want to “dle in the harness.” As Mr. Flower says, they would not be comfortable if they were not at work. So long as this feeling exists it Is a fact to be reckoned with whether it be alto- gether approved or mot. In many ways the community benefits from it. The great captaing of industry are doing immense service to the country in thelr business It Mr. Carnegie had retired twenty years ago steel would not have the part in mod- ern life which it takes today. The ma Jority of able men in mctive business ar valuable contributors to the material wel- fare of the country. But the state needs the service of men of ability In other than business relutions. A man who retires at Mr. Carnegie’s age not only has time for travel, reading and reflection—the “making of the soul,” Mr. Carnegle calls it—but he can devote himself to public affalrs. A class of able and public-spirited men of leisure would be Invaluablo to a community. The late Senator Morrill of Vermont fur- nished a striking illustration of this type of citizen. At the age of 28 he decided he had made cnough money and that he could retire from business and devote him- self to gaining the education and culture for which he had not had lefsure in bis youth, Six years later he was elected to congress and begau the long and uninterrupted serv- ice of forty-four years which ended only at hls death. It would not be necessary for the elderly man of leisure to go into party politics in order to be of service to his town or state, It such a course were distasteful to him. He might be a force in his com- munity for public improvements and for promoting the public welfare in many ways as a private citizen. He could serve with credit, as Charles Dudley Warner did, on park boards, or he could make his influence felt in municipal leagues. There is abun- dance of opportunity for a progressive man to make hls declining years count for the £00d of his community while he 1% enjoyfng # well-earned rest from the straln of bus- tre-cating class are swiviug (0 pluce @ | plscable encmy iv the Bon-coudatant. [ lucss. than | L n PINES, incidents Ske Soldiers the Spot. A soldier In the Philippines, writing to his people at St. Joseph, Mo., says: “When 1 first came to Cebu it was certainly a very much rundown city and far behind the times, but now they have got far enough along to play golf and foot ball. There is also & bicyelo club formed here, and it has over 500 members. A bleycle which costs one in the states $25 can readily be sold here for 150 or $75 in gold. All money, you understand, is reckoned at Mexican value in silver, a peso being worth 50 cents. Twenty-five schools are now run ning in Cebu, and there {s a large attend- ance at each. 1 presume this will cause them to look forward to the blessings of a democratic government. There is noticea- bly a large number now who wear clothes who did not a year ago. 1 saw at that time well-to-do business men whose wear- ing apparel consisted of a ‘G-string' and a smile. This is yet true of a large num- ber, but those Americans who are in power Lere are after the coming generations.” Scenes and ed by pesos, “In the first place,” writes Frank Hoff- man from Manila to his .olks at Kinsley, Kan., “I am no longer a soldier. 1 have been appointed on the new metropolitan police force at Manila, and the pay s Patrolmen, $75; corporals, $50, aud ser- geans, $100. My pay Is $75 a month, and pay $10 a month for board, leaving $65 clear. 1 have not touched a drop of liquor since I came to the army. I find it much nicer to pass my evenings at the Young Men's Christian assoclation reading room than in a saloon. It was my hard work and sobriety that got me this place. Only twenty-four men were picked out of each regiment, and most any man would be glad to stay here awbile at $65 a month. 1 would ltke to see Kinsley all right, but when I do I don't think I will come look- ing for a job on a farm unless the United States breaks and 1 lose my money." John H. Burwell of Vance county, North Carolina, one of Uncle Sam's boys in blue, in a letter to his brother, gives his impres- slons of the Philippines in the following sarcastic fashion: ““The Philippine islands are a bunch of trouble gathered together on the western horizon of civilization. They are bounded on the north by rocks and destruction, on the east by typhoons and monsoons, on the south by cannibals and earthquakes and on the west by hoodooism and smugglers. The climate is a combination of electric changes well addpted to raising cain. The soll is extraordinarily fertile, producing large crops of insurrections and trickery. The inhabitants are very industrious, their chiet occupation being trench building and the manufacture of bolos, knives and reioading Remington cartridges. Their amusements are cock fighting, monte dealing, thieving and cheating. Thelr diet consists of rice— boiled rice, stewed rice, fried rice, cooked rice and rice. “The Fllipino marriage service s very impressive, especially the clause wherein the wife is given the privilege of working as much as her husband desires. The beasts of burden are carabous; on a three- mile journey only ten days' rations need be taken, but it the journey is 100 miles the driver would die of old age before reaching his destination. The rivers are serpentine in course, the current running in opposi- tlon to all known laws of gravitation. Ma- nila, the capital and principal city, fs situated on Manila bay, a large land-locked body of water, full of fillth, sharks and Spanish submarine boats. Cavite, the next city of importance, is noted for its natural facilities for a paval station and for its large number of saloons and Chinamen. “The principal exports of the islands are rice, hemp and war bulletins. The princi- pal imports are American soldiers, arms, ammunition, beer and tobacco. “Melaria is €0 prevalent that on varlous occasions the islands have been shaken with a chill. Luzon, the largest of the group, resembles one of Cy Green's cast-off boots. Communication has been established be- tween the numerous islands by substituting the mosquito for the carrler pigeon, the mosquitoes being much larger and better able to endure the fatigue of the journey. The native costume consists of a flour sack tied around the walst. Children 12 years of age wait till the mext year for their clothes. The towns are an aggregation of shacks built of bamboo and full of filth, fleas, cur dogs, cats, horses, chickens, pigs, flies, bedbugs and lice, The family all sleep on terms of equality. The pative drink is bino, concentrated tarantula poison, cactus Julce, barbed wire and forked lightning. The Philippines are an appropriate present for a deadly enmemy. The natives are friends at the point of a gun. The climate, pleasant and healthful for roaches, tarantulas, alli- gators, scorplons, centipedes and snakes. The soll, adapted to raising foul odors and diseases. The islands, a God-forsaken, can- nibalized, Aguinaldo-infested blot on the face of God's green earth.” PERSONAL NOT! Secretary Root has become quite an au- thority on army tactics and has collected one of the best private libraries on military history and science in the country. A Texas professor has hypnotized two subjects by telephone, at a distance of eighty-five miles. But that distance is & mere step in Texas. John E. Roll, who died in Springfield, 11., last Saturday night, was an intimate, life- long friend of Lincoln and assisted in the building of the now historic Lincoln flat- boat. L. . Austin, the present editor-in-chiet of the London lllustrated News—a post last occupied by Joseph Payne—is an American by birth and the author of & blography of Henry Irving. Edmund Clarence Stedman has been selected to write the commemorative ode for the Yale bicentennial mext October Justice David J. Brewer of the United States supreme court will deliver the commemo- rative oration. The death of Theodore Butkievitch is re- ported from Buda-Pesth. He was once one of Russia’s most brilllant artists. For twenty-four ycars he was a prisoner in the Siberian lead mines on a charge of insulting Alexander 11. He finally escaped and after numberless sufferings reached Buda-Pesth, He became an habitual drunkard and was frozen to death while intoxicated, The Honolulu Republican of March indulges in a loud chuckle over the Omaha dispateh concerning the Hayden fortune in the islands. The Republican calls the for- tune story a hoax, and expresses sympathy for those on the mainland who were taken in. Isaac Newton Hayden died at Hono- Julu slx months ago, and o far as known his “great fortune’ looked 1k Sir Edwin Arnold, upon whom a terrible calamity has fallen, is not dismayed or disheartened by afiction. He writes to a friend in this country: “My condition would be a sad one without patience and resignation. 1 am now totally blind and able to work only with assistance. But I never despalr, and go on with my work, thauking heaven for my unimpaired mental powers. Major Burnham, the American scout, has sulled for West Africa, where he has been engaged to lead an expedition through part of the country where hitherto no white man has ever been. So far as bis British reputation and services are concerned, Major Burnbam made his career by winning General Baden-Powell's admiration dur- PARTISAN ALLIES NEEDED, Fermer President About Civil Service Heform, In an article In the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphla, on “The Strength and Needs of Civil Service Reform,” Grover Cleveland says The most important labor yet to be performed In behalf of civil service reform remains to be mentloned. It consists in a constant attempt to galn the support of those who are willing to concede that po- sitions in govern glven to the incompetent and unworthy, but Wwho are loath to abandon the notlon that party service should count something in an applicant’s favor. Many of these are young men Who are active and efficient in polit- fcal service; some of them of unquestioned merit and capacity, would be glad to do work under the government, and no more valuable allies can be won in support of the merit system. “This contingent should not be kept at arm’s length and obliged to gain all their ideas of the advantages of civil service re- form from distant and indistinct praise of its sentimental excellencies. They should rather be approached with the assurance that there 18 a practical side to the ques: tion, which is of Interest to them, and they should be invited to its examination in a spirit of friendly counsel and without un- necessarily or oftensively antagonizing their prejudices or thelr ideas of self-interest. Their {ntelligence can be relled on to bring them to an appreclation of the fairness and Justice of the reform when they are per- suasively presented to them, and their American love of fair play will be stimu- lated to the approval of & plan by which the advantages of place-holding are justly equalized. The practical suggestion should be made that the eligible list is constantly open to the members of all parties.” Further along in the same article Mr. Cleveland makes this reference to George B. Cortelyou, the Long Islander, who is secretary to President McKinley A number of years ago, under & demo- cratic administration, a young man who had successtully passed the required examina- tion, and whose name stood on the civil service eligible list, was, in strict accord- ance with existing rules, appointed to a gov- ernment position, involving the discharge of quite confidentlal duty, under the im- mediate supervision and control of an ofi- cial who, though a strong partisan and nat- urally disinclined to civil service reform, was especially cousclentious and faithful in the performance of the work of his bureau. His new appointee was found to be #0 competent and altogether so satisfactory that when he was after a time transferred to the clerical force at the executive man- sion the regret and diseatisfaction of his superior officer were honestly and frankly expressed. In both positions the party aMliations of this employe were unknown, but his ability and loyalty to duty were beyond question. He has remained at the executive mansion since his transfer, and now holds the position of secretary to the president—an office scarcely less honorable and in some respects fully as important as a place in the cabinet.” MARYLAND'S BALLOT LAW. eveland Talks Legislation Designed to Restore the Democracy to Power. Philadelphia Pres The legislature of Maryland has passed the ballot bill it was called together to consider, and it now only needs the sig- nature of the governor to become a law. The bill is not the same as when first in- troduced, the decided expressions of public opinion having compelled many changes. These have all been for the better. As It stands now, party emblems are abolished, the names of all candidates for a particular offico are gmouped under that office and arranged in alphabetical order, and no as- sistance is to be given any voter unless he is blind or otherwise physically disabled. The object of the bill is, of course, to distranchise the colored voters, nearly half of whom are illiterate and nearly all of whom are republican: It is true that it will affect white illiterates also, but as these are fewer in number than the col- ored {llitera the balance will be largely in favor of the democrats. A recent com- pllation places the number of white illiter- ates In Maryland, 21 years of age and over, at 18,307 and the colored illiterates at 26,616, A total of 44,9 It is probable that a frac- tlon of the white illiterates are repub- licans, but very few of the colored illiter- ates are democrats. So it can be generally assumed that the new law will disfranchise nearly two republicans to one democrat. In Baltimore city about ome-third of the colored voters are {lliterates, while not more than ome white voter In twenty is flliterate. The law will accordingly be decldedly in favor of the democrats. The law will go into force, however, un- less declared unconstitutional, and it must be reckoned with. The Maryland repub- licans will be wise if they accept it as a fact, and, instead of spending any time and energy on a contest {n court, begin at once a campaign of education among the {lliterate colored voters. Setting aside the partisan character of the bill and fits nt employ should not be ' democrats s urn Mr, Gore it can be take the enough te Avowed purpose to keep the power in Maryland and to r man to the United States . sald that the man who will trouble to learn to read well mark a ballot properly is not a fit man to be endowed With the privilege of the suffrage. It they will make the effort every llliterate voter in yland can be | prepared by the next election to mark his |ballot and the purpose of the democrats in | passing the taw will be defeated | The colored voters can themselves bring confusion on their opponents iu this mate ter. Let them start evening schools for colored illiterates and in three months' time nine-tenths of them can be taught to read a ballot and mark it properly. It was by the ald of many colored votes that the present governor was elected fn 1899, the democrats having succeeded in cajoling a large percentage of the colored voters into the bellef that their interests would be better taken care of by a democratlo than by a republican administration. The distranchisement law 18 the pay these cols ored voters reccived for their support, They should now make every effort possis ble to retrieve the mistake they made two years ago and to punish those who des celved them. not Philadelphia Press ve constrictsd and now I want an appropriate title far {t. If 1 do say It, myself, {t's quite an absorbing thing, and’-" is, eh? Why don’'t you call it ‘the Sponge,’ then? Detroit Jourpal: Clty nephew (to uncle, visiting New York)—Now, what sort of & show would you like to uncle? Deacon W ck—Why, one of them kind thet the preachers go tew every chance, to gt material for their sermons agin' the theaters, Washingt eandidate, lead the pub “Right shouted whiskers. of them se that!" Cleveland chief looked barrassed. ground. ““This 18 #o sudden,” he murmured. 1t was plain that ho was taken by prise. ‘No one,” she 1se me ' of nos old pal!” hoarsely with the four-day At ever smelt one ars of yourn would swear to ad the trying to Plain _Dealer: The Filipino up. Ho was evidently eme Then his glance sought the sure Indianapolfs Press: Weary Watkina— Comin' down to do ole mill tonight? 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