Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1901, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROS! 'ATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$6.0. Laily Yiee ana sunday, Otie Y . dliustraed e Bunday bee Buturday b r Y ‘Awentieth Century Farmor, One Year MICKS: Omaha: The Bee Buliding. Bouth Omana: City Hai Building h and M Streeis, Counail pluits: 10 Pearl Street. Chicago: 164 Unity Bullaing. New York: Temple Court Washington: i F'ourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENC Communications reluting o news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Umiana ee, Editorial Departmeni. BUSINESS LLTTERS. Businoss letiers and remittances shouiu be adaressea: The Hee rubishing Lom- pany, Umana. REMITTANCES, Remit by drafi, express or postal ordet Payuoie 10 dthe Bee Puoiishing company. Unily 1L STAMpE dccupien in pay et Il accounts, Personii checks, vxcept Vlali OF FRytern exchunuges, no. nccopte THE bBEe PUBLISHISG COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULA Btate of Nebiasks, Douglas County, 88.: George i, )z Ok, #ecretary ol ‘The Bee Fubiiss company, being duly sworn, Sayu Lhit the actusi mumber ol tull and complecn The aily, Morning, nday Jsee printed during e v BONth 0L March, 1), Was 48 LOHOWS. 20,890 » Less unsold and returned cople Net total sales. Neot dally averag, G i1 Subscribed in my presence and before me thiy Ist day of April, A M. B HUN Notary Publle. That self-confessed Texas kidnaper must be In hard lines, e cannot even produce evidence enough to econviet himself, That weather man ought to know better than to-interfere with the house- cleaning operations of so many good housewlves, e ] President Kruger is to be Invited to visit Omaha, but President McKinley will be allowed to go past us without an invitation stop. The railroad that is not swallowed u.ll by a syndicate octopus persists in play- fng for the snme amount of free ad- vertising by telling how its owners have resisted the temptation to sell. — The democratic governor of Missourl has vetoed the compulsory education law. Governor, Dockery evidently had in mind keeping coming generations of Missourlans in the democratic column, One house of the Arkansas legislature has passed a bill requiring everyone who drinks intoxicating liquors to take out a license. If enforced such a law would he a great revenue producer—in Arkan- s, e Construction work on Sir Thomas Lip- ton’s cup challenger is behind hand. Sir Thomas s a first-rate sort of a fellow, but for all that Americans hope to see his boat still behind hand at the end of the races, 'Auomfl' snowstorm I8 in progress In the cattle country and the correspond- ents are busy killing off all the cattle on the ranges. Most of the storm-killed cattle, however, will come to life about market time, The mnew battleship Maine is to be launched on Memorial day. No ocea- slon could be more appropriate, for with it are memories of the dead and the momentous events which followed in the train of the wreck of its predecessor. m—— We have not yet learned whether the two “little boys"” who were prevented from attending church on Easter be- cause incarcerated In the city jail for violating the ecity ordinances took ad- vantage of thelr freedom last Sunday to attend divine services. The man who leaves a good Nebraska farm to take chances in the new country about to be opened up in Oklahoma will probably regret the change it he lives a year. Nebraska s a tried and tested country and the man who has a good farm here had better stay. e———— The #tory which comes from Chicago that several of the great packing com- panies propose to make war on a couple of others because they have been cut- ting the price of meat needs confirma- tion. People who buy meat have seen no evidence of a cut in price, me———— ‘The next census test Omaha will un- dergo will be the school census, That the enumerators will find more children of the school age this year than last goes without saying, especially when it is remembered that last year's school census was plainly defective, The Burlington and the Santa Fe ronds are to have an fnterchangeable mileago agrecment whereby mileage books l1ssued by either will be accepted on both. Whether this arrangement ex- tends to free passes Is not disclosed, Information on that subject will be awaited with extreme anxlety by a large number of pasteboard holders in this state, eemm——— The possible couflict between the new steel combine and organized labor Is of more than passing Interest. The people of this country do not look with any too much favor upon these giant com- binations, If at the outset of lts career the ‘steel trust Indulges in a conflict with organized labor which results in the stoppage of the great steel Industry at this perfod it will prove a sorry day for the corporation, even though it win in u tight agalust labor, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDN ESDAY, APRITL ny THEIR WORK THEY JUDGED, It i to he hoped that these judges and commissioners will go to work and clear the docket during the two years that this commisgsion Is provided for, but the In- dependent has no falth that they wiil, These lawyers"know their own interests and the sources of their own incomes too well to do a thing like that. 1t i& more likely that at the end of two years they will he asking for three or four more commission- ers instead of reporting that they bave cleared the docket and acking to be dis- charged.—Nebraska Independent As the new supreme court comimis- stoners have thus far only begun to get ready for business, this is plainly pre. Judging them and entering a verdict agnlust them i adeance on general principlos, The Bed helioves the commissioners will write thelr own success or fallure in the decisiong they render and in the work they perform. They will them- selves have to shoulder responsibility for the duties they are called on to dis- nrge, To elear up the clogged docket of the supreme court i one of the objects for wh the commission was created, hut the docket is not to be eleared to the detriment of exact and even justice a ministered In each ense. Remembering that the court is the court of last resort, from which the litigant has no appeal and no redress, the fmperative demand on the judges and commissioners s to review enses brought before them with absolute falrness and jmpartiality, test- Ing the judgments of the lower courts by the established rules of law applied In the light of common seunse, Before the selectlon of the commis- sloners was made The Bee tried to im- press upon the judges the lmportance of the task and the opportunity it pre sented elther to strengthen or impale the standing and Influence of that body. If the commission sets about It in est to give litigants the promised relief and to do it honestly nnd con- sclentiously, they will earn merited ap- proval. If, on the other hand, they dally along with the evident purposé to pro- long thelr own tenure or permit personal ot political favoritism to enter into thelr deciglons, they will come in for con- demnation long and loud in which the Whole court will share without escape. WILL BE AN INDINCREET MINISTER. It is understood that the American minister to Venezuela, Mr. Loomis, will be called to account when he reaches Washington for certain statements he i& reported to have made in regard to President Castro of Venezuela. He is said to have stated that the chief ex- ecutive of the southern republie, whose sulary is $12,000 a year, has In eighteen months acquired $1,500,000 worth of property, made possible by a system of blackmailing through which forelgners chietty suffer. There were other reflec- tions upon the character and integrity of Castro contalned in the reported in- terview of Minister Loomls, Of course iIf the minister made such statements as are credited to him he should be called to account. There is no doubt that Castro is very far from being a model of honesty and upright- ness. . Statements coming from trust- worthy sources show him to be utterly unscrupulous and quite eapable of doing anything to advance his personal inter- ests. He Is a typical South American politician, But all this is not for public expression by the diplomatic vepresenta- tive of a friendly government and Mr. Loomis, iIf correctly reported, has com- mitted an impropriety which warrants the opinion that he is unfitted for any diplomatie position. It is to be hoped, for the credit of the diplomatle service, that he has not been correctly reported. In any event, however, Mr. Loomis will not return to Venezuela as Amer- fcan minlster. We think there can be no reasonable doubt that he has faithfully followed the Instructions given him from Washington, but the feeling against him in Venezuela is such that he could be of no further service there. At present there is some uncertainty as to whether we shall be represented by a minister at the Venezielan capital for some time to come and It 18 possible there may be a complete severance of diplomatic re- lations. Much will depend upon the future conduct of the Venezuelan gov- ernment, and its course thus far is not reassuring. —— A NEW DEMOCRATIC LEADER. “With Bryan receding and Johnson looming," says the New York Sun, “the radical democrats of the country have a pew leader at hand.” A great deal of Interest Is being shown as to the po- litical future of Tom L. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, who has suddenly come to be regarded as a man llkely to play a very large part in natlonal democratie politics. The course and policy of Mr. Johnson in administering the affalrs of the city of which he s the chief execu- tive are recelving general attention and it is certain that no municipal adminis- tration in the country will be' watche with as great interest as that of Cleve- land during the incumbency of its pres- ent mayor. He has already done some things quite out of the ordinary and is applying practical business methods with a force and firmness not common in municipal adminstration, It is very well understood that John- son desired to be mayor of Cleveland as a stepping-stone to higher political honors and there is more or less con- Jecture as to what his ambition alms to attain. Ohio will elect a governor next fall and it is surmised that per- haps Mr. Johnson is after that office, There will also be elected in Novewber a legislature that will choose a suc- cessor In the United States senate to Mr. Forak whose term expires in 1903, Possibly Mr. Johuson wants to serve Ohlo fn the natlonal senate, It is sald that he has long been ambitious to secure a seat in the senate, but his ambition soars higher now. He be- leves, it is asserted, that things will so shape themselves as to make possible his nomination as democratic candidate for the presidency in 1004, Many be- lieve that he will run for the office of governor néxt fall, In the hope that he may follow the example of McKinley and other chief executives of Ohlo, It Is not 0 be doubted that if Johnson should be elected g would be a prominent fignee in the nest democratic national convention But whatever the political aspivations of Tom L. Johnson, the fact must be recognized that here is a forceful and resourceful man who i< certain, if he 0 desires, to become a very strong fac tor fn democratic politics, with the | sibility of attaining the national lend «hip of the democracy. He has great wealth and the personal qualities that win popularity, He is in accord with most of the teaditional principles of democracy, The policies he advocates he s capable of defending. He s not i mere agitator and has never shown himself to he a demagogue. The demo- tic party is in need of a new lend If it is ever again to secure control of national affairs it must have a leader who can command the confidence of the substantial interests of the country. That the present twice defeated leader will er do is patent, while politiclans like il and Gorman could mever resene the den racy from its lized condition, Tom L. Johnson may not be able to attain to the national leadership of his party and possibly he does not aim to, but that he will become a powerful factor In the party Is most probable and this promige {5 a very distinet menace to the present leadership, vernor of Ohio he CAN SELL T0 BELLIGERENTS. The decision in the suit brought at New Orleans for an Injunction to pre vent the shipment of horses and mules to the British in South Africa was in necord with the repeated rullngs of the State department, maintalning the right of American eitizens to sell munitions of war to belligerents, The court h that the transactions ‘between cltiz of the United States and the British gov- ernment were conducted under the order of private cltizenship and the courts Iave absolutely no jurlsdiction to inter- The horses and mules, the court were bought In a neutral te adding that the prineiple that neutral citizens may lawfully sell to belligerents has long since been settled in this country by the highest judicial authority. It is a prineiple that has been adhered to since Mr. Jefferson was sec- retary of state, he having been the first to declare it. It Is sald that the attorney general of the United States will investigate the question as to the right of individuals to institute such proceedings as that at New Orleans, it being the opinion of some of the officials that if such right exists some legislation by congress is needed to prevent its being exercised to the detrlment of our commercial in- terests. At all events, those who have made so much outery about the selling of horses and mules, as “munitions of war,” to the British government, should now be convinced that in the view of the government and of the courts it is perfectly legitimate and therefore not to be interfered with. It Is .not prob- able that the attorneys of the com- plainants in the case at New Orleans serlously expected any other result of thelr attempt to prevent the shipment of the property bought of our citizens by the British government. There are some pecullarities about the financing of the present day combina- tions which are not altogether clear to the investor who stops to think. Take the talked-of Great Northern-Northern Pacific-Burlington consolidation, for in- stance. The Great Northern pays 7 per cent dividend. The Northern Pacific pays 4 per cent on the preferred stock and 3 per cent on the common. The Burlington dividend 18 6 per cent. All of the old bonded debt of the three com- panles is to stand and the stock of the Burlington Is to be traded for cent trust bonds at the rate of & bonds for each $100 in stock, an equiva- lent of a small fraction less than 8 per cent. Just where the investor In the stocks of the Great Northern and North- ern Pacific are to reap any benefit from the practienl increase of 2 per cent in the Burlington owners' dividends Is hard to see—but the promoters will doubtless make millions out of the speculation in- cident to the deal. e — The wisdom of Governor Dietrich in selecting for appointment to the position of ndjutant general one of the officers of the regular militia Is seen now in the promotion of the subordinate officers all along the line. When the men en- listed n hxo national guard know that they have an opportunity for promotion whenever the prizes of the service are dealt out, the incentlve to continue in the service and exert themeelves for its improvement must be materially in- creased. A school janitors’' permanent list can only be made successful by the applica- tion of striet civil service rules to their admission to the corps. 1f the school Jjanitors had to pass an examination in practical . work as severe as that r quired of the school teachers the way might be clear for cventual permanency. The civil service plan, however, should be begun at the bottom instead of at the top. The Treasury department 1s still b ing in bonds and reducing the interest account of the government, In this re- spect the United States stands unlgque among the nations of the world, every one of which with this exception is add- fng yearly to the burden of debt and intevest, 3 Pace. Kansas City Star. From all accounts the Filipinos are as Bwift in peace as they were In war. What Congresamen Found Out, Washington Post. Members of congress returning trom Cuba are relating all sorts of stories concerning the situation down th All of which but goes to show that a man can find out almost anything he prefers to belteve if he will but be persistent. n Orde New rk Tribune. It is to be hoped that Mr. Loomis, the American minister to Venezuela, now re turning to this country under instructions for a consultation with the State depart- ment, will have no dificulty In proving (hat be bas wot said the things which be Is publicly quoted as having said on Thurs- day tn San Juan, Porto Rico, concerning President Castro and his administration. It would be unfalr to conclude that he had been guilty of such an indiscretion except on ample evidence. —_— Retorm by . Baltimore American As @ result of the anti-canteen law, it WAS Necessary to turn in a riot call after the roldiers at Fort Sheridan had been paid off. The trouble with these great reforms is that the reformers quit work- Ing after they get their pletures in the papers rogress Philadelphia Record. ‘‘Where combination (s possible compe- tition I« impossible.”” This is an economic commonplace entirely familiar to the American publie, who manifest not the slightest objection, however, to the process of consolidation, Jfurther concentration of steel Industries, for example, as indicated in an apparent effort to bring coastwise establishments within the charmed circle, would merely simplify the situation from the popular point of view. Nero's vain de- sire for a Roman populace with a single head may yet find realization in the history of New World monopoly Gratifying Discoverien, Philadelphia North Amerlean. The Philippine commieslon, which dis- covered that slavery is mot pernicious in our Mindanno colony, has also made some other gratifying discoveries in its tour of investigation. The committee Joyously announces that the strength of the Moros has been greatly overestimated; that they have no ammunition to epeak of; are not skilled In the use of fireatms, a bdued more casily than With this reassuring information we can proceed confidently with our mission of benevolent assimilation of the Moros. n London Saturday Review. When Mr. Kruger was reported to say that If the Britisi wanted to take his coun- try he would make them pay &£100,000,000 for it, we laughed pleasantly. But it was the laughter of fools, and is already erack- ling like thorns under the pot of the ex- president at The Hague. The facts are that we have already spent on the South African war £146,000,000, and as it 1s ad- mitted that our expenditure is at the rate of £6,000,000 a month, and we shall have to pay large sums for compensation and assistance to ruined farmers, that the total probable cost will not be far short of £200,- 000,000. This would be five times what the Crimean war cost us, and nearly a third of the debt incurred in the great struggle with Napoleon. It 18 too late now to ask whether South Africa is, commercially or morally, worth this gigantic outlay. Time alone can show whether or not we have again put our mopey on the wrong horse. Some people think that the Yangtse val- ley would have been a better investment, but three powerful individuals—Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Chamberlain, and Sir Alfred Milner— seem to have decided that the future of Great Britain lies in Afriea, not in Asia. 8o let us hold our pea d pay the bill. WHY OUR BONDS ARE HIGH. Limited Debt and U mited Resources of the United States. New York Mall and Express. The debts of European nations are rela- tively much larger than ours, they have a constant tendency to increase, and the gov- ernments are liable to future complications from which we are likely to be free. There is an element of risk in this that inevitably affects credit, The debt of the United States is small in proportion to population and is diminishing, while its resources are large and increasin That condition puts its credit out of all shadow of doubt. Be- sides, the reduced volume of its bonds is absorbed as ‘‘securities” in the highest sense. They secure bank circulation and trust funds, and are in demand for uses in which safety and not income is the prime conslderation. But it is a curlous fact that bonds sub- ject to redemption at par in from three to seven years are selling at a premium that reduces the income from thelr purchase beldw that of the 2 per cents that run until 1930. That the 5s of 1904, of which there are less than $23,000,000 left, should sell at a price to yleld only 1.03 per cent is a real anomaly, and can only be ac- counted for by the supposition that they are held by those io whom the nominal rate seems alluring, or by those who ex- pected a preferential demand for them from the treasury, to reduce the surplus or relleve the money market. The 3s, which the government may redeem any time from 1908 to 1918 at Its optlon, are held at a price to yleld only 1.34 per cent as an In- vestment, and it is only the 4s of 1907 that have been offered to the government at a that did not put them above the Of the 3 per cents there are less than $100,000,000 outstanding, while of the short 48 there are over $270,000,000, which doubt- less affects the marked price; but all these subject to refunding before and may be still more in de- mand as glit-edged securities. All these remnants of United States bonds are held with a peculiar tenacity that places the credit of the government far above that of any other nation. STORAGH BATTERIES, on's New Invention Said to Have Solved the Problem. Roston Herald, It would be strange indeed if, just at this time when the fluancial success of electric vehicles in every-day business is so much under discussion, Edison should have found, as {8 reported, a new system of storage bat- terles that wili solve the problem sati; torily. It is to be presumed that one of the reasons why the electric delivery wagons have not proved profitable is that the pres- ent system of storage batterles 18 0o heavy for its power. From the time such a wagon leaves the charging point to Its return the store of power is being gradually reduced while the weight remains practically fixed. It then, as it has been claimed, Edison has made a new storage battery that reduces the weight from the present system one- half, it will be a long step toward the eco- nomical running of these electric wagons. To a certain extent the coal stowed in an ocean steamer for her voyage is a atorago system of power. This is, the caloric en- ergy of the coal will make the steam to turn the engines, but as the coal is used the load grows lighter. 1f, however, heat in some form was to be stored in heavy re- ceptacles on board ship sufcient for a voyage the weight of the stored power would remain about the same from one end of the journey to the other In the electric wagon the batteries, when charged so as to give power for a run of twenty-five miles, welgh no more than they do when at the end of the twenty-fourth mile there is but power enough left to run the vehicle one mile. The reduction of welght In storage batteries has long been a subject that h gaged the attention of many of the foremost electricians, and any such discovery as that reported made by Ed- Ison, which, it Is claimed, will reduce the welght one-halt without materially increas- Ing the original cost of the battery, must be u long step toward the solution of the profitable operation of electric vehicles in business. Unquestionably the electric auto- mobile has come to stay, and the electrical problems that now stand in the way of 1ts financial success seem no greater than sonie of those that have been overcome in the de- velopment of the telegraph, telephone anl the many other uses of electricity, Western Prosperity Chicago The influence of the west in the attain- ment by this country of its present financial standing has been prominent. But for the era of good crops and the liberal foreign markets which have been open to them America would not have risen to fts leading position in finance and commerce. The growth of the west In financial power is shown by the enormous deposits of banks in the country districts, Western and northwestern banks have had larger bal- ances than their own communities could make uee of, and this money has been sent to the large cities, gathering in New York and Chicago so rapldly as to lead inevitably to extensive operation in the securities of forelgn countries. Speculation has been promoted by the same cause This movement has occurred inside of elght yeal With the proceeds of the first results of western prosperity the argloul- tural districts were able to take a long step towards independence. For many years in- terest had been pald to eastern lenders who held mortgages on western farming land The farmers took up these loans and dis- charged their local indebtedness as well. In consequence of this prosperity, atill continu- ing, farmers do not have to sacrifice their crops by disposing of them as soon as they are harvested, but can walt for profitable prices. The industrial development of the west Tribune was simultaneous with its commercial growth. In Colorado gold has been mincd more profitably than ever silver was. Zine and copper fndustries have added materially to the wealth of the west, and iron and steel have been utilized on a greater seale than ever before The process of accumulation at the money centers of the surplus funds of the west has gone so far that many country banks have multiplied Mheir deposits several times over. Farmers have let their saving grow. The west has been frugal, and advantage has been taken of every opportunity. The idea that the west could become financially independent of (he east would not have:been believed four or five years ago. The west relied on easterm capital in financing the smallest projec Its growth has been amazing to western as well as New York bankers. The extensive buy- ing of commercial paper in the west fs ovidence that this part of the country has become a creditor of the east instead of its debtor, as formerly. Enormous amounts of eastern paper aro held by western banke. Chicago, the distributive center of the west, has been prominent in the operations result- ing from the improvement in conditions The west has won and will retaln its financlal independence. It will no longer be A borrower, but will bo & lender—to all who can give good security. B S ————T——————— OPPORTUNITIES THE WEST, Henry W Into N ¥ Hovwlern, le Courler-Journal, It 18 an interesting circumstance that the state of Nebraska, which In past years, with Kansas, produced the greatest crop of “ealamity howlers,” 18 now giving effective demonstration of the increase of wealth and the opportunities that are offered for poor and unknown young men to rise in the world. Two or three years of good crops have relieved the farmers. from debt and supplied such an abundance of money that there 18 no longer any complaint of the small per capita. The latest movement in politics has been along the same lines and consists in the elevation of two men to the United States senate whose careers have been in their way as remarkablo as those of Andfew Carnegle and the other steel milllonaires. €. H. Dietrich and J. H. Millard, the now senators, have risen from the lowest ranks. Mr. Dietrich & the son of & German shoe- maker and at the age of 9 began to earn his own living. He finished his school life three yoars later and afterward worked on the farm, as clerk in a countiy store, then as blacksmith and as a wood chopper. He Bot a start at last and opened a store in Hastings, Neb., selling goods by day and doing his own delivery with a wheelbarrow at night. Mr. Millard also began as a farm hand, then worked fn a country store and finally got into a bank, of which he is now one of the owners. Both men have made fortunes and now in mature lite have the opportunity for useful public service, The experlence of these two bears out Mr. Carnegle's remark that the young man has as good an opportunity to win in the worid as anyone ever did. It is not the oppor- tunity, however, but the man, that deter- mines success in life. This has been true from the beginning of time and it will al- '8 be true in spite of what socialists say. PERSONAL POINTERS, According to the Hartford Post the Unitel States is disposed to take Agulnaldo just as a person once sald that the Methodist church takes comverts, “for six months on suspicion.” George Willard, who died at Battle Creek, Mich., the other day, bad been a student, teacher, Episcopal minister, mem- ber of a college faculty, newspaper editor and congressman. The Commercial club of Indianapolis has already collected a large sum toward the monument which it proposes to erect in that city to the memory of the late ex- President Harrlson. The crown prince of Germany s going to England to learn English ways and customs. It is thought by the emperor that he will gain valuable knowledge about commercial and manufacturing affairs. A Texas legislator was asked to apologize the other day for a statement affecting the houge unfavorably. “I weigh 130 pounds, said he, nd own all the ground I stand on and take care of myselt here or out- slde.” The apology was accepted. It is said that the sultan of Morocco has become deeply fascinated with Highland music. Ten years ago a piper became one of the institutions of the court, and very recently he commissioned a well known Glasgow pipemaker to furnish him with a set of bagpipes for his own us In excavating for the foundatfon of the new custom Louse in Bowliug Green, New York City, some of the masonry of old Fort Amsterdam, erected in 1626, was un- covered. The masonry was composed of rock and brick. All the Hollanders in town are biddisg for the ancient bricks. In a recent interview Senator Quay sald: “When my term expires as senator I don't suppose it will make much difference to me who s to be on top of earth by that time. 1 am now in my 68th year and I have al- ready llved much longer than my father, mother or any cther member of my family Philander C, Knox is the elghth Pennsyl- vanlan to fill the position of attorney gen- eral of the United States. The first was Willfam Bradbury of Philadelphia, who was appointed by Washington in 1794 and died a year later. He had heen attorney general of Pennsylvania and Judge of the state su- preme court. The tablet in memory of the soldlers of 1812 which Secretary Root and Colonel Mills have allowed the Empire state soclety of the Daughters of 1812 to place in the West Point chapel s of black marble with gilt lettering and will be the second of its kind to be placed in the chapel by a patriotic soclety. In order to economize time and physical effort Secretary Root has reduced his official signature from “Elihu Root” to “E. Root.” Up to this time he has signed his full name to all oMcial documents requiring his signa- ture, but they became so numerous that he has found it necessary to reduce his signa- ture to the smallest possible limit. Rear Admiral “Bob" Evans, at the Mid- Qlesex club dinner In Boston the other night, alluded to the fact that some of the peoplo of Boston were so scared at the outbreak of the Spanish war that they moved all thelr silver back into the coun- try. “Yes,” sald Rev. Mr. Cutler when he got up to speak, “‘we were removing our silver, but It was only done so that we could bet 16 to 1 on the navy. And everybody laughed and applauded. Carrie Natlon played a very brief and costly engagement In Kansas City last Mon- da; Before she could throw an artistic fit of hysterla the police landed her into the Black Maria and chased her before Judge McAuley, the Soloman of the Kaw bench. “‘Missouri s not a good place for short- haired women, long-haired men and wh tling girls,” sald the judge as Le Imposed a $500 A ou may staash saloons in Kansas and raise all kinds of trouble there, but you must observe the law bere. Kan- #as City Is a law-ablding city.” “Yes" retorted Mrs. Nation, “Kansas Clty ships all this hell-broth into Kans: The sen- tence was suspended on condition that the prisoner would leave town, and she fled promply. | state treasury. WHAT 18 THOUGHT OF VETOES. Kearney Hub (rep.): It would have been Just as well if Governor Dietrich had failed to reconsider his veto on the supreme court commission. As the matter appears It was a big political job at best and the com- mission 1s golng to be an unwlieldy and ex- pensive affalr, to say the least. Rushville Recorder (rep.): At all events, even the enemies of Governor Dietrich ad- mit he has the welfare of the state at heart, and not his own self-aggrandizement, as he bas shown himself a man of unbounded courage and conviction, and takes his own initiative in matters of &tate concern. Pender Republican (rep.): A calm re- view of what Governor Dietrich has donc and what he has saved the state will con- vince almost anyone that Lo fairly earned a senatorship. The only regret there is, 13 that in his election to the senate the state should be deprived of so excellent a gov- ernor. Weeping Water Republican: With gov- ernors who have the nerve to veto appro- priation bills, as Governor Dietrich has done, it will be necessary in the future to kave a lobby purposely to look aftef his excellency. Mr. Dietrich has saved the tax- payers of the state more than $200,000 in his veto of extravagant appropriations. The taxpayers will find no objections to this. Arcadia Champlon (rep.): Whether Gov- ernor Dietrich's vetoes are good ar bad, whether they are just or unjust they have at least had the power of doing one thing. The people of the state know just why he did this and that. He has had a wonderful faculty of placing the facts of the case before the people, and our humble opinion of it is that the governor I8 not the loser by it. If he acts just that way fn the senatorial seat to which he has been as- signed he may expect the confidence of the people in return, and get it. Wayne Republican: After the govermor had declared his intention of knocking out the newly-enacted law intended to create « supreme court commission of nine mem- bers by vetolng the appropriation for thelr (salaries, he prevailed on to so modify his intention as to allow that portion of |the bill to stand. He gave it to the uni- versity appropriation to the tune of pretty nearly $100,000 and caught several other items, 8o that the sum total was greatly reduced. In his vetoing the normal school appropriation and others it is estimated the saving to the state is about $500,000. That's the kind of economy that counts, and it Is of the republican brand. Wakefleld Republican: Aside from his one veto (which he did not carry out) Governor Dietrich put his pruning knife to no appro- priation of state money which there was not evidence to show was either unwarranted, extravagant, or else such a claim as a court in paesing upon would probably instruct a jury was not founded on any lawtul obliga- tion on the part uf the state. Governor Diet- rich saved the state about $200,000 by exer- clsing his veto power. It remains for the next two years to determine who was nearer right, the executive or the legislature, and we are inclined to think the governor, on the whole, acted well within his rights and duties. Bloomington Echo (rep.): Ever since the supreme court commissioners have been under contemplation Lee Herdman, the chiet clerk of that august body, has been putting in about all his spare time tryng to convince the public that with the addi- tion of the commission and the finishing of all cases in that court will only amount to a small figure, and entirely too small to make all this fuss about. The gentlem is pretty smooth and has heretofore Bu ceeded in working some pretty bright men, but he failed to convince Governor Dietrich, who knew that the fees would amount to & large sum and should be turned into the 80 many Interests were at issue before the court that It was hardly wise to cause them to suffer because the legislature failed to do its duty, hence the governor recalled his veto of the commis- sion fund and simply cut off a few thou- sand dollars that had been appropriated for clerk hire, etc. A few years with a man llke Governor Dietrich at the head of the administration in this state and the PRESIDENT'S HEMAND POLICY, Oppost Demand wer Philadelphia North Amerfean President McKinley is Indetatigable and earnest in his humane efforts to dissuade the allied powers from Imposing impossible terms upon the distracted government of China and exacting exorbitant indemnity for the damage inflicted by its rebellious subjects. He has instructed Mr. Rockhill to Insist strenuously that the ageregate fn demnity should not exceed $200,000,000, and to keep 1t down to half that sum if possib The American claims amount to $25,000,- 000, but Prestdent McKinley is willing to cut them down to $5,000,000 if the other powers will make corresponding abatement of thefr outrageous demands, and it is even sald in official circles that the administration would be more than pleased it the powers would agree to accept only fndemnity for actual destruction of property and make no claim for relmbursement of military ex- penses, It is too much to hope that President McKinley's desire to avert from China the danger of foreign spoliation and civil war will be shared by the European powers. Germany dlsplays a greedy and obstin spirit, and the small natlone, whose inter- ests in the matter are trivial, are making praposterous demands because they sco the Jackal's opportunity in following the big Powers that Prey. But no Buropean power will deem it Judicious to ignore altogether the wishes of the American government, and by stren- uous {nsistence that China shall not bo driven to the wall the president may secure substantial modification of the claims pre- wented. There is no excuse but greed for extorting punitive damages. China al- ready has been punished far in excess of her offending. CHASE DULL CARE AWAY, Puck: Josh—-Hiram {s a purty lucky man llsflllll 'rad‘:"!'. Ky Josh—Yes, e don't get stuck vory bad. Bomerville Journal: ||H|||‘4\r|n|!4 ‘lll“(;l‘ll==- ut the country are engaged now in b - i the @ust oft the bathing sult and the iceman jokes. Chicago Record-Herald: “The of l'l“ ‘lllluru is going to distribute t 3 that's right; " flower seed, trees—and attor @ while hammocks, fountains and gatden setlees.” ‘Washington S§tal ‘Some men,” vall (‘nl‘lahl‘:bl‘n. ";l"l fl? ‘Yl‘l)ll"‘n'}ofl' l\: hflllll‘\ atient when de troof s dat dey’'s too H olent to stan’ up foh whut dey s entitied to."” Brooklyn Life: “8ho 18 very nice and all that; but she 18 altogether too critical. " anmire yoh he never speaks of you tin the kindliest way." P ph 6 Bt overy time T see her sho glves me the impression that my frock doesn't fit,” Ohlo State Journal: Mr. Newlywed-~Come, won't you break bread with us today? Kk’ Jester—No, thanks, old man; you wee 1 can’t stand manual labor; by the way, i8 1t her first attempt?” Indianapolis Press: She (reading lazily)— "Ry i8I0 that (his newspaper calls it colimn “Through the Miscroscope?” He (lighting a fresh cigar)—Hecause of the — (puff) — prodigious enlargement req- ulsite—(puff, puff)—to sce the point to most of the stuft’ that appears under it. Detroit Journal: The worst impended. “Lead, kindly' light!" murmured the heroine, clasping her hands devoutly. “What's the matter with the leading heavy?' gibbered the comedian. 8 the supernumeraries, their blood opportunely froze in thelr ne, and they gave no sign, elther of grief or merri- ment. — TAX ASSESSOR'S VIEW. 8. E. Kiser, in the Record-Herald The world is goln' to the dogs As fast as it can go: ‘There ain’t a thing but poverty And sorrow here below; 1 start out in the mornin” with A hopin’ heart, but when 1 turn to wander home at night I'm always sad again-— The papers talk of milllonaires And Poiks that ‘ony set Around all day in luxury, But 1 ain't found 'em yet 1 gee folks ridin' past me th Seem all puffed up with But oh I tell you what they" Some achin” hearts insid The horses, with their heads so high, The Kerridges that shine Afn’'t hardly worth a dollar, though They look so mighty, fine— The papers talk famfliarly Of bloated milllonaires, But no such lucky peoplo live Around here anywheres. 1 come to 10ts of houses that T.oom up immense and grand, With trees and things around them and mighty lot of land, Bt oh they're only erpty shells. The wretched people there dinin’ rooms and parlors which Are big and cold and hare— “The papers talk about the rich, There's no such people, thougl We're all a lot of mizzerbul Poor paupers here below. The dimunds that t I 1 gu grand any day, kind enough the things away-— apers talk of people who Make miltions every year, But no such lucky ones as that Are payin’ taxes here 1 100k up at the lofty walls And see the windows shi 1 &ee the stables and the la Are poor like me and you, My heart Is full of pity for “Frem when the day I8 through— The papers talk of people that Have milllons piled away. But [ aln't never found none yet, That's all I've got to say. WHAT state would be out of debt. St. Paul Republican: After scaring Rob- ert 1. Lee Herdman into a conniption fit and incidentally giving a severe nervous shock to several hundred would-be supreme court commissioners Governor Dietrich ro- considered his veto of the appropriation bill and left enough of it standing to permit the organization of the commission. The governor was doubtless prompted by the | best of motives when be framed his veto. There Is no question but that corrupt in- fluences defeated the bill to limit the fees of the supreme court clerk, which will amount to something like $30,000 under the commission system. There is a well-d fined rumor that Herdman held a club over the members owned by D. E. Thompson, threatening to make damaging disclosures concerning that gentleman in case his sino- cure was fioterfered with. It was a vil- lainous plece of business on both sides. It was enough to disgust any decent man who knew the facts, and it Is not surprising that Governor Dietrich in the first burst of his righteous lndignation should have folt inclined to nip the whole schemo in the bud at any cost. But such action would have continued the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs in the supreme court and would have worked inestimable Injury upon thousands of innocent litigants. Sober socond thought convinced the governor that the harm done would be greater than the benefit derived, and he showed his courage and manhood by reconsidering his action. He delivered himself of some forceful lan- guage In doing 50, however, and it is not hard to guess what will happen to states- men of the Herdman stripe If the governor ever gets a shot at them where ho can be sure of not hitting an innocent bystander. 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