Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 10, 1901, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE 5. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Be One Year.$6.0) Daily Be ®0, Alustrate v Butiday e FICES: Omaha: The Bee Buliding. Soutn Omana: City Hali Building, Twen- L-ntth ana sl Streets, Councit Bluffs. 1o Pearl Street. Chicago: v Unity Butloing. New aork: Temple Court Washington: on (rteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to news and edi- tter showa addressed: umana rial Departmen: BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The dee Pubishing Lom- pany, Umaha REMITTANCES. temit by dratt, express or postal order, pay 10 e b Ublishing . ompuny Only (L Stumps accepiea in payment vi WAL ACCOUNTS, Fersonar CHUCKE, CXCepe ot ihi OF EStCrn exChanes, DL necepted BhE PUBLISHING COMPANY OF CIRCULATION Dougias County, 88 K, secretary ot ihe Bee beink dduly sworn, number of full und The batly, MOFDii, ; Bew printed duning toe 0, Wus 48 LOHUWS Tio. 1. State of Nebt Gcorge B, 1asc Pubiisiing compa ys that the uctuai v o8 of 1ug and sund n oL March, 20,04 L.26,820 27 800 ), 580 29,830 (39,330 2,440 807,878 12807 SN1.0TH “Fotal 0 b Less uusold and returned copie: Net total sales....... Net datly average.. N GF ICHLU Bubscribed In my presence and before me thix Ist day of April, A. D, M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Public or flood have always proved equal to the emergency. Ee——e—— And to think that the smelter trust has all along been the special care of Bryan and the other anti-trust champions of free silver, After Inhaling deeply from the rivu- lets of the north the Big Muddy's chest expansion is once more decreusing to the normal. Governor Dietrich is to be feasted by his military staff as a testimonial to his new promotion. Here is another chance to raise the cry of militarism, —_— Omaha men are engaging i big things these days. An Omaha man has just hecome plaintiff to a lawsuit for §500,000 damages for breach of contract, In slgning the peace manifesto Agui- naldo has thrust a bodkin into the effort of sentimental Americans to set him up as & second George Washington. The appearance of a city can be won- derfully enhanced by the embellishment of the*home. A little attention devoted to the front yard in the spring months will bring returns all summer. The unknown admirer who yielded up the duchess of Devonshire's portrait after twenty-five years must have suf- fered either from a decayed Infatuation or a tardy qualm of conscience, n taking kindly to Uncle Sam's guid- ing hand at this point in its career the young Cuban republic will demonstrate its worthiness all the more speedily to walk alone in the nursery of natlons. L} An assassin so adroit as to find his way through 10,000 French soldiers to President Loubet might be backed to win as a candidate for appointive office under a newly installed Nebraska gov- ernor, Local barbers want to enforce a regu- lation requiring a clean towel with every shave. In this laudable ambition they should have the material and moral sup- port of everyone who serves as a subject for the tousorial artist. It President McKinley accepts his Intest visiting invitation, that of the Hawallan congress, together with others extended him, he will be ebliged to spend a large part of his new term in hand- shaking. — ‘The American Agriculturist reports the winter wheat crop In virtually perfect condition, With granaries prospectively loaded with cereals bringing prosperity prices the western farmer need ask odds of neither pri nor potentate, It is related by cable that Emperor William bas been taking instruction from an American boy in the art of roller skating. The kaiser may find the gyrations of the little wheels more in- ricate than the wheels of government, According to the popocratic organ one of the leading candidates for supreme court commissioner is barred from the place because “he has not been allied with the true democracy since 1896, It this does not tmpair his legal qualifica- tions, what will? m—— The leglslature has appropriated $10,000 for Nebraska's participation in the Buffalo exposition. A creditable ex- hibit can be made within this lmit it the money is devoted to the purposes for which it was Intended. 1t will de- volve on the commissioner in charge to see that none of this money Is diverted or wasted, Nebraska's - exposition commissioner, Mr, Vance, proposes to proceed to Buffalo to ascertain what can be done for braska and arrange for a Ne- braska exhibit. Inasmuch as the expo- sition I8 advertised to open May 1, and doubtless will be fn full blast by May 15, no time is to be lost. Nebr: hibit will be agricultural and horticul- tural. Whatever products are to be ex- ‘hibited should be collected at once and gotten ready for nl}\lpmem‘ Y FUTURE OF THE POPULIST PARTY The future of the populist party in Ne braska Is to be discussed before the Pe May 7. by William J. Bryan, who is exp lists fn the field as a fighting force in the campaigns of 1901 and 1902, It is a matter of notoriety that Bryan | predicted two years ago that after 1900 there would be but two great political parties contending for supremacy-—the del tic and the republican party. This prediction was made by Mr. Bryan in the belief that he would be the next | president, As president of the United Sta Bryan proposed to be a democrat above all things. Every populist who had any ambition to fill a position under his administration would have had to become a full-fledged democrat the same as Towne, Dubois, Webster Davis and other new converts to the doctrines of the Chicago and Kansas City platforms, In other words, the program of Mr. Bryan last wis to baptize every populist into the demoeratic fafth and | posed legislation and this influen er Cooper club at a dollar banguet | The keynote Is to be sounded | ed | to unfold a plan that will keep the popu- | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1901, of the railroads has prevented the pro- v will less poworful under the consolida- m of railway interests that Is taking plice The Interstate Comerce commission has been of little use thus far and it is not likely to be of greater service to the public incthe future, The question whether it should not abolighed merits serions consideration. —_— REFUSES TO COMMUNICATE overnment has refused ommunication with the ment in regard to Man huria. "T'his de not necessarily mean that all diplomatic relations between the | two governments are to be broken off, but simply that negotiations so far as Munchuria is srned will be fn abey- though it ix possible, of course, this may lead ultimately to the complete of diplomatic in-| tercourse, It is easy to understand that Russ should feel indignant at the course of China in yielding to the pro- (st of the powers after having negoti- be The Russian to hold furth Chinese gove ot those who would not be baptized were to be fenced out of the prowmised land. | The failare of Bryan to land in the | White House muay havy seviously | nged his position. While as a na- | tional party the populists have no foot- | hold or fut they yet count for mueh | in the democratic program for Nebraska, The democrats have no possible chan to ride Into power unless the rank and file of populists either become democrats outright or continue to act as pack | mules to the democratic van, Naturally it will remain for each in divid to decide for himself. The ma Jority of Nebraska populists woere orig inally republicans, They started a new party because they would not athl with democracy. They were dragooned into fus ause they believed that a combination with the democrats would fnsure the reforms they demanded. In this belief they have been sadly disap- pointed. The promised legislation wus not enacted, the assessment of raflrond property was not ralsed, but ually re- duced; the State Board of Transporta- tion played into the hands of the cor- porations until it was declared unconsti- tutional and abolished by the courts, The conclusive proof of the total fail- ure of fusion reform has just been fur- nished. The most dangerous man who ever occupied a seat fn a Nebraska leg- islature is Frank Ransom. Clever, crafty and crooked, a smooth worker in the lobby, a peerless parllamentarian, Ran som was in his element on the floor and in the chair. Notoriously a corporation manipulator and jobber, Ransom was aceepted as the recogunized leader of the fusion forces, who through him were made the instruments for the passage of vicious legislation and the defeat of good legislation to which they were commit- ted by thelr platforms and pledges. The alliance between democracy and popu- lism could not bave been made more subversive of good government and re- form. Is anything better to be looked for from such an alliance in the future? A USELESS COUMMISSION. The latest decision of the supreme court of the United States upon the action of the Interstate Commerce com- mission in a case involving the long and short haul clause of the interstate con merce lnw strikes another judicfal blow at the authority of that body which seems to render it practically use The fourth section of the law provide: “That it shall be unlawful for any com- mon carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or recelve any greater compensation in the gggregate for the transportation of passengers ov of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer diswnee | over the same line, in the sawme direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance; but this shall not be construed as authorizing any common carrler within the terms of this act to charge and receive as great compensa- tion for a shorter as for a longer dis- tanve, Complaint was made to the Interstate Commerce commission that this section of the law was violated by the Ten- nessee & Georgla Rallrond company in charging a lower rate on freight carried to Nashville than was chafged on freight to Chattanooga, the distance to the first point being 151 miles greater than to the latter. The commission declded against the railroad company aud the decision was sustained by the United States clr- cuit court and the circuit court of ap- peals, though on different grounds. The supreme court reversed all the decisions in this case, as it did others on the same lines, but still allowing the commission “to proceed upon the evidence already introduced before it upon such further pleadings and evidence as it may allow to be made or Introduced, to hear and determine the matter in controversy ac- ding to law.” While from the meager report at hand of the decision of the highest tribunal it s not possible to accurately determine how far-reaching its opinion is, it seems a fair inference that it is practically destructive of what little usefulness re- mained to the commission and suggests the question whether it is not desirable to abolish that body and let all questions arising under the interstate commerce law go divectly to the courts, instead of being first passed upon by a commis- sion whose decisions have been almost uniformly reversed. It would save the and expense, while the public would be uo worse off, in the mat of railvoud abuses, than at present, The Interstate Comume commission has repeatedly asked congress for additional legislation that would render the law more effec- tive, but congress has failed to comply with the request, although there |Is abundant evidence that the law needs strengthening. ‘This was very fully and clearly pointed out by the commission in its last annual report, in which it was said: “Knowledge of preseut conditions and tendencies increases rather than lessens the necessity for legislative ac tion upon the lines already ludicated, and in such other divections as will tur- nish an adequate and workable statute for the regulation of colmnerce among the several stutes,” But the lnflucuce A the Manchurian convention, but will hardly go further at this time Iready Indicated. Were Russia to all diplomatic relations it would her withdrawal from the vt of the powers and she has too interests at stake to do that. She has her clafm for indemnity and she is also deeply concerned in the question of commercial treaties with China as well as in the arrangements for the preserva- tion of peace in that empire and the protection of foreign interests there, How the Chinese government will re. gard the refusal to communicate further respecting Manchuria remains to 1, but it was probably pre such an eventuality when it yielded to the protest of the powers and will tl fore aceept this new complication com- placently, relying upon the protesting governments for moral support, there being no immediate danger of aggres- sive action on the part of Russia, All that the latter will do at present is to retain the hold it has on Manchuria and awalt events, The Russian army now in that provinee numbers 175,000 wen which is an ample f o retain pos- sesslon, even in the event of another Chinese military movement there, which is possible though hagdly to be appre- hend Russia is in a position to go steadily forward with railroad construc tion in the provinee and it is to be pre sumed this will be earried on with all possible vigor. Thus Russia will con- tinue to strengthen her hold upon Man- churia, so that when she gets ready to renew negotlations regarding that terri- tory she will be in better position than now to insist upon what she wants, A former consul general of the United States in China who is now a resident of Shunghai, in a letter to the New York ‘Times expresses the opinion that a mere protest against the dismember- ment of China or the infringement of present treaty rights will not defeat the policy of Russin, He says a protest may delay the execution of that policy, but when Russia completes her railroads through the territories of China and Siberta, all converging toward the Pa- citic, she will be prepared to make north- ern China impregnable and command the markets of that part of the Chinese empire for her merchants. “The navies of Great Britain, Germany and th United States may anchor in the waters of China, but their cannon canuot reach the Cossacks, as in thousands they are concentrated into northern China by Russian-owned railroads.” There is no doubt that Russia’s desigus in China are far-reaching, but at least a temporary check has been given them and there is nothing more for the powers to do at present. The integrity of Chinese terr tory is for the time being secu Mean- while Russia understands that she is under the survelllance of the civilized world. than sever necess| con e THE DARKEY IN THAT WOUDVILE. The Boe seeks to make light of the fact that two young men were sent to jail be- cause they tried to earn an honest dollar by hauling some brush from the premises of a citizen and a taxpayer. The public will not lose sight of the fact that the garbage contract which The Bee so persistently de- fends puts a premium on filth and disease and makes honest efforts to earn a livell- hood a crime punishable by imprisonment and fine. So thoroughly is the police force controlled by the vicious elements that it is impossible to secure protection against footpads, highwaymen and burglars, but the man or boy who seeks to haul a few ashes or a little brush in order to earn money to buy bread is thrown into jail. The McDonald garbage contractor has more influence in the management of municipal affairs than all the taxpayers combined, and the whole police force is at his beck and call, while burglars, footpads, highwaymen, thugs, thieves and short- change workers flourish without let or hindrance.—~World-Herald. The hue and cry about the two young men who ave languishing in jail for try- ing to curn an honest living now proves to be a plece of arrant demagogy. The appeal to Christian sympathy has not been sincere, The two honest toflers could have been liberated by giving bail for $30 for their appearance and it would not have taken fifteen minutes to procure the bail bond if an honest effort had been made in their behalf, But that would not have served the purposes of the demagogues and impostors, be- cause the real da in the woodpile was the garbage contractor, who is credited with controlling the police and held responsible for footpads, highway- men and burglars, The Bee has no defense to make for the garbage contractor or the garbage contract. It opposed the contract when it was before the council, while the pa- per that now goes into spasms over the alleged iniquity had not a word to say about it. It will be remembered also that Mayor Bemis vetoed the ordinance as a rvesult of The Bee's protest. The validity of the ordinance was attucked in the courts, but the ruling sustained the contract as legal. Under that de- cislon the contractor the exd ] lege of collecting and hauling gar- + and vefuse, which he is required to deposit at points designated by the health board, 1f be fails o ea out his part it is the city’s business to en- force the contr: have it abrogated, | Its co-operat Whether the city bad u garbage contract " v ) or not, it would have to enforce the rul of sanitation fn the interest of the pub- lic health. The garbage question is not a matter of sympathy, and sentimental gush about the sufferings of people who persist in violating the sanitary regulations will not hoodwink an intelligent community, even when the subject is sought to be dragged into politics. —_— The announcement of the subj the commencement oration of the State university places new emphasis on the fusion management of that institution through its board of regents and chan- | cellor. The subject is “The relation of a written constitution to an expanding empire and the position which the next neration will hold to nineteenth cen- tury ideas,” The suggestion of an em- pire in connection with the enlarged ter ritorial possessions of the United States is simply a reflection of the last cam- paign made by the popocratic candidate. The commencement orator should be asked to revise the expansive subject of his oratlon, — The forestry division of the Agricul- ture department promises to make spe- cial Inquiry during the coming summer | of the conditions of tree growth in Ne braska. Nebraska has made wonderful progress in tree culture, working a | noticeable transformation over the orig fnal praivie, and what has been done here can be done in other prairie states. If the Agriculture department can asgist the Nebraska farmer by its experiments n will be appreciated. Missour! valley marksmen take their usnal precedence in o the Al Ameriea team which proposes to teach the Britons Low to shoot, four of the ten being “Indians” from this viclnity, To western shots seems to have descended the gift of Cooper's Leatherstockings, “Iinger, lightning, aim, death.” ‘T'hie handsome statue to General Logan and similar tributes contemplated for Grant, Sheridan and McClelland show that an “nngrateful country” is still able to appreciate occeasionally the work of patriots of courageous arts and ready hands, Comrade New York JPress, Spain and the United States are negotiat- ing a treaty of peace and friendship. It Is, therefore, unanimously agreed to let by- gones be bygones, Merry Time in Prospect. Cleveland Leader. The trust problem is growing bigger all the time. When congress gets ready to tackle it, it that time ever comes, it may be too big to handle. Moving Toward the Go: Washington Post. The proposed combination of all the rail- ways of the Upited States under the man- agement of one company will undoubtedly be a step toward putting them all under government control. ry Loves Company. Boston Globe, The kaiser ‘qulckly wired the sultan re- cently: “It 18 ‘with deep emotion that I have just Jearfled what danger your maj- esty was in at the time of the feast of Bairan, and how manifestly God ha: tected your majesty's preclous life."” happened that the Kalser was badly scared himself at the time. Some Statistics Omitted, Boston Globe, The Bell telephone corporation reports that the subseribers on the various tele- phone lines of the United States made 1,8 000,000 calls last year. No statistics are given of the number of times they were monotonously informed by graphophone: “The line is busy; please call again!" End Justifies the Means, Brooklyn Eagle, People who are complaining about Gen- eral Funston's method, because it was not specified In tactics and was irregular, should remember that he was dealing with an enemy who was so irregular himself that there was no other way to get at him. When you are gunning for rabbits you do not adopt the methods needed in hunting ele- phants. The Day of the Horse, | Boston Post, Simultaneously with the opening of the horse show comes the announcement of the withdrawal of the automobile company, which has done a large business in this city and is still doing it. Although the two events have no possible connection, it may be sald that the horse has scored another point against the machine that came in as his rival. The horseless era is not yet in sight. The world will never see it, indeed, until a new civilization comes in. The develop ment of the horse is bound up with that of the human race and has gone on paral- lel with it through the ages. We have produced machines that serve our uses of business and of pleasure in some respects better than the horse and these machines have come to stay. But the horse was here before them and he, too, will stay with us. PR GREAT NATIONAL THIRST, Money Required ke It, The American (irocer estimates the total expenditure of the people of the United States for beverages of all sorts in the year 1900 at $1,228,674.925, of which over $1,00( 000,000 was expended for alcoholic bever- ages. The estimated consumption was as follows Alcoholic drinks Coftee s Tea Cocon Huge to In volume cousumed coffee led beer Gallons. 001,257 6 +11,221,500.160 B 16,515,885 Spirits and wi . 112,675,573 The theory of the American Grocer s that in prosperous fimes the consumption of alcoholic liquor increases. Yet this gen- eralization does not seem to be sustained beyond dispute by the subjoined figures of per capita comsumption in the United States, as reported by the bureau of sta tistics at Washiugton Spirits. Wine. Beer. Total s Gallons.Gallons. Gallons, A5 15 17 1 1’ 16.4 16 10 1 Coffee Beer Tea 15 15.28 16.01 17.6 1t will be observed that the highwater mark of Individual thirst for alcohol was reached, not In a season of national pros- perity and buoyant hopefulness, but in 1803, the year of President Cleveland's sec- ond ipauguration; that is to say, in the first of the “four years more of Grover." In that memotable year the average Amer- lcan citizen took in eighteen and one-fifth gallons of alcoholic stimulant and then stood up and faced the bard times. ] | the Shearing the Lambs United States I Let us, however, say a word or two to those who are wise enough to listen. This whole stock market craze is based on the United States Steel corporation. This con- cern is one of the exigencies of the situa- tion. It was organized to put new life into a speculative movement which was ap parently getting onto its last legs. It was in short, a make or break operation, with the chances that it would make rather than break, by reason of the previous success of the promoters, Something had to be done and be done at once, and the result is t(he United States Steel corporation. The en- tire Insane speculation today belng made possible by this enterprise, it is highly necessary, in order that the country may not suffer the worst financial crash in its history, that the United States Steel cor- poration realize to the full the predictions of its promoters. On the chances of its doing or its not doing this hangs the fate of all our industries. What are the chances? The outcome can- not be predicted in detail, but it can he hinted at in a general way. The task is easy because we have an instance of the #ame sort of thing right at hand. If any- one wants to know what is going to happen to the United States Stecl corporation hie can do no better than to turn his atten- tion to the United States Rubber company Up to a few months ago this was consid- ered a pretty big affair, but it looks dimin- utive in comparison with the latest prod- uct of Mr. Morgan's genius. The principle is the same, however, in both cases. The rubber trust is as legitimately capitalized as the steel trust. It controls a relatively greater portion of the output: it has had a8 much brains enlisted in its service as the steel trust is likely to have. But what fs result? Read the following item of pews, which appeared in the mewspapers early this week “The United States Rubber company yes- terday announced a further reduction in its price list of 5 per cent. The annual price list was made public. In comparison with the price list of April 1, 1900, it shows a total reduction of 28 per cent, as cuts amounting to 23 per cent were previously made from the 1900 list. The above reduc- tion in prices applies to all goods on hand in the stores of the jobbers on February THINGS WORSE THAN WAR, Shady Side l It is customary to put great stress upon the carnage of war. It i in its aspect as a destroyer of life that war presents its abhorrent feature. We have bad a large army fighting In the Philippines for more than two years. The deaths in that army in the islands number 6,000, It is a large list and serves probably to give point to many an argu- ment agalust war. Each of those lives has & fixed economic value to the country. That value is so much lost energy, so much capital destroyed, so much force gone out of the body politic never to return. But, going to the criminal records at home for the same two years, It appears that in the United States there were com- mitted 10,000 murders. Ten thousand lives were ended by knife, plstol and poison! Close to twice as many lives lost by crime at home as by war abroad. If the death penalty had followed in each case nearly 10,000 murderers would have been hanged, bringing the total casualty list up to a still larger excess over the casualties of war, Among the victims was one governor of a state, a state attorney general, and a large number of minor officers of the law. | In numerous lynchings twenty men have been burned at the stake, and several women have been shot to death. In no other country in the world is there as much murder, as much taking of human life in the commission of other crimes. and for other causes, many the m trivial Soon the question may be asked, “What s the matter with the United States? We bave been unsparing critics of other countries and have sent missionaries among the heathen. May it not well be that others | may object on good grounds against iv- | ceiving a system that makes no better showing at home? It is the habit of a people to look to the soclal state from which propagandists emerge in search of proselytes. If that state is found {nfirm, if life is disregarded, bloodshed is common, the law is displaced by savage mob violence, it is but natural to reject the missionary it sends forth, ‘We have shown great zeal and have en- countered great troubles in carrylng Chris- tianity into Chioa. The Chinese, looking upon our domestic record, have the right to say that the missionaries must have car- ried Christianity away from this country. In that view of it we should recall the mis- sionaries and refuse to permit further ex- port of the stock until it has accumulated enough for howe consumption. PERSONAL NOTES, The 100th anniversary of Daniel Webster's graduation from Dartmouth col- lege I8 to be celebrated at that institution on September 24 and 25 mext. John W. Gates, the steel magnate, has made quite a hobby of the collection of arms and armor and will doubtless add to his store during his visit to Europe. Gabriel d’'Annunzio, the Itallan poet and novelist, lives in a handsome villa near Florence. He is & small, dapper man, bald, though young, and rather the dandy. After fighting two years the Bradley- Martins must now pay $15,000 in personal taxes assessed for 1899, though they could spend $100,000 on a single ball or dinner party without a murmur. It iy said that Judge George E. Baldwin, United States consul at Nuremberg, Ger- many, nominated in 1868 President McKin- ley for the first public ofice he ever held that of prosecuting attorney. A colored clergyman of New York ap- peared before a Morrisania court recently and applied for a warrant to arrest one | of his race on a charge of “atrogeous, scan’lous an' remedial activities | William Richard Warner, the wholesale Aruggist who died of apoplexy iu Phila- delphia a few days ago, was the orlginal manufacturer of sugar-coated pills. He | was for gany years a member of the Phil- adelphia College of Pharmacy. Count Tarnowski, the secretary of the | Austro-Hungarian legation at Washington who was wounded in a duel at Monaco last week, is considered onme of the best swordsmen In Austria. “He has been brought up,” says a friend, “with a sword in his hand and has wom many fencing | prizes.” With the retirement «of Colonel McClure from the Philadelphia Times Dr. Alfred C. Lambdin, who has been his associate in the editorial direction of the paper from \ts first issue, has become the editor. Dar- win G. Fenno, who has been the managing editor for many years, continues in that responsible position A humorous result of Emperor William's recent visit to England is evident in the mustaches of the inhabitants of the west end of London. That upward and outward | twist so assoctated with the kalser's mus tache hus been extemsively adopted. espe- cially by those having pretensions to wil- tary appearance Interviews with west | end barbers reveal the trouble they are encountering in transforming lifelong | than the present incumbent wants. |for the congestion of litigation in the su- | for the balance of the siate | princely vestor, April 6 1 and all shipments since then. A director of the United States Rubber company sald We have thrown down the gauntlet to our competitors. We are going to sell our goods and retain our business independent of the action of any of the outside con cerns.’ It is Agured in the trade that the additional 5 per cent cut in price means & loss of $2.000,000 to the United States com pany on ite rebates and orders on hand The import of this will not be gathered unless we recall to the mind of the reader that after paying § per cent annually for a long series of years on its preferred stock this company a few months ago was obliged to reduce the rate to 4 per cent and that this week the directors passed the dividend altogether. What has occasioned this? Why, simply this: The company has had one or two open winters and some of the people who sold out to the truat at the start have started new and competing plants. In other words, temporary demaud for goods aud additional competition have done the business pretiy effectually in this case. Simpler conditions than these could not be fmagined, mor ones more certain to confront every industrial trust from time to time. The fact that the steel trust five or fhirty times as imposing as Tubber trust amounts to very face of such conditions. Possibly It takes longer time to starve an elepbant to death than a spaniel—we are not of a naturalist to say. The important fact however, is that lack of sustenance means death sooner or later. So far as we can &ec, in no particular are the conditions swerning the United States Steel cor poration more favorable than those which faced the United States Rubber company at the period of its greatest prosperity. I fa we should incline to (he view that natural conditfons were in the long run more favorable to the rubber than to the steel trust. We presume that the promoters of the ste ing on account of the spectacle presented by the rubber trust, for they probably in- tend to gather in their profits from the United States Steel project long before natural conditions begin to reveal the real nature of the enterprise to the lambs in Wall street, is twenty- TAKE KINDLY TO VEW GOVERNOR, Wayne Herald (rep.) Lieutenant Gov- ernor Savage will make one of the best governors Nebraska ever bad Heo's the right stuff from top to bottom and dou't you forget it. Callaway Courier (rep.): We have al- ways maintained that Custer county is full of statesmen who are qualified to fill any office from pathmaster to president. Colouel Savage will slide into the governor's chair and preside over the destinles of the state with ease and grace. Columbus Telegram (dem.): age, who will become governor of Ne- braska, is not a brilllant statesman, but he is a good man. As a governor he may prove a failure, but we predict he will do well. He is honest and courageous. At present he is free from dictation. If he shall fall, his fall will be due to misplaced confidence, rather than desire to harm his state. The democratic Telegram believes well of our new republican governor, and hopes well for his administration of public affairs. | Kearney Hub (rep.): By the election of | Governor Dietrich to the senate Lieutenant | Governor Savage becomes the chjef execu- | tive of the state. There were a number | of lightning changes when the senatorial | deadlock was broken, and it is exceedingly fortunate that we have for leutenant gov- eraor a man who is in every way qualified for the governorship. Colonel Savage is strictly all right and will make a strictly all right governor. Just how soon he will take hold is, however, a question. Gov- ernor Dietrich can serve until congress meets in December, and it is probable that he will not step out for a few.months at least, or untll all of the state departments are in perfect running order. York Republican: Lieutenant Governor Savage, shortly to become governor of Ne- braska, is a man of unquestioned repub- licanism and great force of character, as well as one who {sn't In the habit of get- ting frightened at the frogs. He was the first mayor of South Omaha and a repub- lcan in that town at a time, later, when it was pretty near as much as a man's peace of mind was worth to be an avowed repub- lican there. At one time he was making a republican speech and giving it to the op- position from the shoulder, and they were Roing to mob him. He faced the howling dervishes that were dancing around him and told them that the first man who at- tempted to put his hands on him would count just one fusion vote less in Douglas county, and they kept their hands off. Broken Bow Republican: Governor Diet- rich has shown the part of wisdom in de- clding to vacate the office of governor, that Lieutenant Governor Savage may dtcupy the Bubernatorial chair. Nothing short of that would have satisfled the public. When Gov- ernor Dietrich was honored with elec- tion by the legislature to the high position of United States senator it met the ap- proval of a very large class of those who made him governor. But they would not have been satisfied had he assumed to fill the position of both governor and United States senator and draw the galaries of both. Governor Savage by law and right i entitled to the position and 1s highly competent to fill the executive chair and he should have the place. 1 Ezra Sav- P AL COMMENT OF STATE, York Times (rep.): It seems as though our good democratic friends would weary after while of accusing each other of sell- ing out to republicans. Of course if they are in the market there {s nothing like advertising. and Island Independent (rep.): The Bee makes the very good suggestion to the officials who have been authorized by a bill passed by the legislature to com- promise the Bartley bond to first test the coustitutionality of the measure. It s to be doubted whether the measure will pass the necessary muster. Springfield Monitor (dem.): 1f Herdman, clerk of the supreme court, is net satisfied with the way the governor is whittling down the salary of that office, let him re- sign. There are plenty as good men a# Herdman who will take the office for less There is nothing compulsory about hanging on (o office, Fremont Tribune (rep.): The Omaha Bee very pertinently cites the fact that ex- Governor Poynter was the man responsible preme court. He vetoed a bill passed by & republican leglslature two years ago pro- viding for & continuance of the commis- sion, which was then doing good work in furnishing relief Graad Island Independent (rep.): The Omaha Bee of the 4th states that in dis- tributing the appointments for supreme court commissioners, Lincoln expects three of the placos and Omaba four, leaving two The feature of <his statement s its modesty and the | magnanimity of Lincoln and Omaha. Under the circumstances, we believe it to be the duty of the governor to call an extra seesion of the legislature and have (he mumber of commissicners increased 1o 1 the | little in the | enough | 1 trust are not worry- | no question but that 0 even more than thai | seemingly is that Lincoln is running short on material, as the governor has sent to | Cuba for one of her citizens to come home |-n.| take the position of ofl Inspector There is nothing lke the well filled corn corib for the good citizens of Lin and Omaha. The balance of the an do | the hollering and stand back and admire | Beaver City Tribune (rep Two vears | ago Lincoln asked that the state fair be | permanentiy located in that city, and guaranteed that the site would not cost the state to exceed §$1. Then the Lancaster legation bobbed up in the legislature and | asked an appropriation of $35,000 to pay for Ithe site, and the I ure granted § ever puts brand of nerve they mre entitied The only dificul s pIn 1t Lincoln her food on the market she will soon be rolling in riches Kearney Hub (rep.): The appointment of | Major Kiltian of Columbus to a captainey in the regular army fs a deserved recognition of a brave, big-hearted and brilllant Ne braska volunteer. His popularity was at- tested fn hix appolntment ax wdjutant gen eral of the National Guard in thi¢ state and | his merits have been recognized by the War department in his more recent appotntment to a good position in the ular lishment Hastings estah Tribune (rep.): It has been | given out that the commissioners who are {10 assist the supreme judges are (o chosen from the ex-district judg the state. The Tribune would much o see a thing of this for it is neither justice, politic not | kood poliey to do » thing of that kind Some of the ex-district judges are capable of ofclating as commissioners and some of | them are not, but there uro plenty of first | clags lawyers throughout the state who, i | many respects, are better fitted und capuble of filling the commissioners’ seats [ than are the ex-district judges. Besides, 1 is bad policy to encourage people to con stantly have their hands in the public erib, Papiilion Times (dem.): Nebraska ts the victim of too much politics. Political cum palgns come w0 thick and fast that men who must work for a living are unable to sateguard their political intercsts without sacrificing their business. he result s that protessional yoliticlans menage po ltical aftairs and the state Is in constant turmoll and under aggravated expense. Weo elect supreme judges in the off years and congressmen and state officers in the even years. No sooner is ome campuign culod than another begins and from one year's end to another the state s torn by po- ltical dissensions. The result fs a systen of “‘peanut polit that is an aggravation to the state's business in- be through | out very | done, regret Kind SYMPTOMS OF A STOCK PANIC. ning from Wall Str to Real Estate. Chicago Tribune After the fever comes the chill a period of delirlous excitement in Wall street comes one of painful sobering up. All are buyers in Wall street now and the nominal values of securities are advancing by leaps and bounds. Soon will come tho inevitable crash and contraction of values, and the men who are caught with over- valued securities in thelr possession will be changed In the twinkling of an eye into lame ducks. Nearly every one of the pres- ent holders of these securities knows that their prices are inflated, but he expects to “get out” in time and not be the man who is caught holding the bag. Many of these gamblers will wait a little too long and the deluge will get them. This contraction of inflated values which is bound to come will hit hard some specu- lative people, but it will not necessarily involve any great disaster to the country or et as a serious setback to the interests of legitimate business. The advance in the quotations of the stocks and other securi- ties of the Industrials as well as of the railroads indicates that money is abundant and can be borrowed on easy terms by busi- ness men as well as by speculators. The values of securities have been ad- vanced now to such a point that there is little or no inducement for people to invest in them. Would-be investors have to look elsewhere. Undoubtedly they will turn their eyes to real estate, which has been neg- lected so long. Atter Detroit Btatu quo ante Well, how about ventured the powers o auntle for me!’ protested the Em. peror Kwang Hsu. “I've got about a the female relatives I can swing already the 1 hoy the greatest ad- n behind the gun,' sald Washington Sta miration fur the Mr. Dolan “Meblby Rafferty. you're righ answered M: . “But it always seemed to mw felly in front of it that's takin' the Philadelphia Press: Mrs. Browne—Mrs, Schalpley i# ridiculously vain about her small foot, fsn't she? Mrs. Malaprop—Yes, I hear she's so proud about {t that she's went and had a plaster bust made of it. ew York Weekly: Lawyer—It fs re- ted that you have frequently expressed yourself us opposed to capltal punishment Dencon Highsoul (drawn for Jury duty) I won't have no scruples In that casn, He cheated me on a hoss once. man's trads Boston Transcript: She—I'a I it said that musical people are not —very bright, and sometimes I'm tempted to be- lieve it He—My dear, you them from whai they shouldn’t judge of write about music er: “Did you hear ¢ in which the Diffiety ¢ their pet dog?" Cleveland Plain D about the poetical wi announced the death 0. How was | They wsald: ‘We regret to announce that our litile Perlle has steered his bark for the other shore wil: The count enly laughed. oL sl b left.” he gayvly exclaimed “enough of my patrimonial estates with which to do a neat song and dance!" Baying which, he drew i paper of West- moreland sand from his bovom und scat- it over the stage Oh, Bevis!" faltered the decelved girl, taking heart e—— THE DYSPEPTIC CANNIBAL, Yale Record A cannibal was seated on a green Pacifio isle, With the degrees His dress wis Savage st Biir of Boston garters round his Detroft Jou temperature at ninety-three ather scanty, In & truly But he didn’'t seem quite happy, for now and then a groan Jscaped-which tore his savage breast in (wo And he ¢hanted in a melancholy, tive tone The ditty that T now repeat to you; medita- hostile tribesmen without Jestion on the “I've eaten a singl 1 bro But 1 never have encountered such a fit ot indigestio Ag accompanied the minister from town, bofled Oolah stuffed sted yellow, black and W[ have tried the Uambago, and ousted. baked and fried I huve chewed the woolly with yam; sut {or all the after symptoms from the dishes 1 have tried 1 wouldn't glve a Bi 1 caught this misslonary strolling on the main Cooked and served him mme {1 faut feeling deep within Isngreeably plain the misstonary pallooadam, “But culmly ressed exactly But me makes it That surely 15 de trop, hostile tribesmen with anity 0 the “I have eaten the greatest of [ vellow, black and ffeen. That woukd provide six places for droops 1RO upward Cuii, ) Lincolp and ulae for Owaba, and there is 1 Tourted But to n insanity tn misl was the acme of You cab't Keep @ good man dowm