Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1901, Page 6

6 THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR -— PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year Tliustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee, One Year Baturday Bee, One Year Zwentleih Century Farmer, One OFFICES. Omaha: The Bee Huflding Bouth Omaha' City Hall Bullding, Twen- gy Afth and M Streets Council bluffs: 10 Pearl Street. Chicago: 1640 Tnity Bullding. New York: Temple Court Washington: w1 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENC Communications relating to news and edi- torial matier should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be @ddressed: The Beo Publishing Company, Omaha. MORNING. ar.86.00 .00 2.0 2.00 .60 1.0 year REMITTANCES, Remit by drart 48 or postal order, gayable 1o ‘e iice Publishing Company nly 3-cent stamps accepted in payment o mail ac Personai checks, except on Omaha . not nccepted TH COMPANY BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO State of Nebraska, Douglas County, George 13, Tzachuck, secretary of The lies Publishing Company, being duly sworn, 8ays that the actual number of full and coinplete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Hee printed during the month of August, 1901, was as follows: 46,800 25,870 ints T eastern exchang: BEE PUBLISHIN 25,450 20,610 27,210 25,190 27,010 25,110 Suspui iy ) Total Less unsold and r Net Net 7,855 urnad coples total sales NN, 086 dally AVErAge. .. ..oeserer BB AR GEORGE B TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed n my presence ana sworn to Defora me this S1st day of August A D 101 M B AUNGATE, tary Pubilc. Presidents are mortal, but the republic 18 perennial. In the hour of distress the resolution of sympathy knows no party, no creed, no color. The popocratic hubbub about the per- secution of Schley by McKinley has been Indefinitely postponed, suth Dakata holds the hoards for its | state fair this week and It may be de- pended on to do eredit to itself. Manipulators of politienl horoscopes are admonished to possess themselves | in patience until the atmosphere is clearer. The Transmississippl exposition at Omaha was fortunate in more ways than one when compared with the Pan-Amer- fean at Buffald S———— The annual salaries of the county auditor's office aggregate $3,850, but the actual value of the office to the county | 1n dollars aud cents does not exceed 38 cents, The United States has of late years lost more vice presidents in office than presidents, but the vice presidents have had the advantage of succumbing to natural causes, —_— Newspaper patrons in lowa and Ne- braska who bave been in position to make comparisons cannot fall to note the Incomparable superiority of The Sun- day Bee over all other papers published this side of Chicago. Because the assassin assumes to him self full and sole responsibility for his deed {8 no reason why the quest for co- conspirators should be abated. A man | who would commit unprovoked murder would not stop at Iylng. ———— Last year, when destitution in this clty had reached its lowest stage and the winter was milder than any we bave experienced fn years, $4,000 more was expended in charities than in 1809, What became of all this money and who' were the beneficiaries? Five yenrs ago the expense incurred for taking care of the court homse and grounds aggregated $2,800 a year, Dur. ing the past three years the expense has averaged nearly $5,000 a year for the same work, Can anybody explain why more than $2,000 annually should be squandered in this way " — The next Boae of County Commis- sloners will be republican. The first act of the new hoard should be to abol- ish the office of county auditor and do away with the sinecures and super- numeraries, who are absorbing 3,500 annually of the money of the taxpay- ers without rendering any appreciable service, — In 18090 the aggregate amount ex- pended fu the reliof of the poor by the commissioners of Douglas county was $11,702.80, n 1900 the pense In- curred for the relief of the poor amounted ta § vhody explain why $4,000 more was expended for poor relief last year than In the preceding year? The efforts of Recelver DeLong of the ast Omaba Land company to force the Council Bluffs Suburban Street Rail- way company to maintain its car sery- fce in East Omaha would perhaps be commendable were it not for the sus- piclon that Recelver DelLoug's grentest anxiety Ix to prolong the recelvership and indefinitely extend the time within which a salary shall be pald to the receiver. B the years of the greatest distvess { anty companies, like all Insurance com REPRESSION OF ANARCHIS. The attempted assaseination of Presi. dent McKinley has revived and inten slfied the feeling that something should be done for the repression of anarchism in this country, where there Is no rea son or excuse for its existence. But it is a problem mnot so ensy of solution | A8 WAy appear to some at first glance Every eivilized country has had fo cousider the question of dealing with anarchists and in some of them very drastic measures have been adopted against anarchism, yet it has adherents | in most or all of thes untries, who manage in spité of the most careful and | assiduous police surveillance to keep up thelr soclet nd to maintain inter- national communication. If the drastic measures of European governments have failed to repress an- | archism what can be done under our | republican_system for the prevention | of anarchistic organizations, snarchistic | teaching and anarchistic conspiracies?| Can with a due vegard for the | fundamental priciples of our system of government, go even as far as Euro- pean governments have gone in their efforts to repress anarchism? These are questlons that need to be thought. fully cousidered, instead of hastily con- cluding, as many are apt to do when the devilish spirit of anarchism has shown itself as at Buffalo, that any- thing can be done, no ‘matter how In- conslstent with the character of our in stitutions. Granted that the anarchist 18 a public enemy, but o many regard | the socialist and there are political demagogues who advoeate doctrines hardly less dangerous than the tenching | of anarchism. Manifestly, however, anarchism can- not be permitted to flourish in this coun- try unrestrained. It is certainly pos sible to break up such an organization of anarchistic conspirators as that at Pa terson, New Jorsey, and the governor of that state Is to he heartily commended for his determination to proceed against this band of conspirators, who holdly and defiantly proclaim thelr purpose and who are known to be in constant communication with ke organizations in Europe. If the governor of New | Jersey shall succeed in brenking up | this association of would-be assassing hissexample may be followed wherever in this country similar organizations exlst, we, | | TREASURERS MUST COMPLY. The demand of the an state convention that the state trensurer and every county treasurer, every city, town or village treasurer and every school | district treasurer shall take the taxpay ers into his confidence hy making publie as often as once a month the amount of public funds In his custody, the names of the banks in which they are deposited and the amounts on deposit in each ghould he complied with without reserve, The demand s not frivolous, nor is it almed at any particular individual or banking institution. It is inspired by vonsciousness that publicity affords the surest safeguard not only against de- falcation and embezzlement, but also against the furming out of public funds for private gain and excessive deposits in banks propped up by such favoritism The plank was inserted In the repub- | liean platform and unanimous| irred in by the convention be the Irresistible convietion that a lack of such publicity was largely responsible for the tremendous losses the taxpayers of Nebraska have sustained within the past few years by treasury shortuges and bank failures. So far only one excuse has been offered for the delay of the state treas- urer in complying with the resolution. That plea, laborfously presented by the State Journal, simply amounts to this First. that various treasuvy experi ments designed to protect the taxpayers against the misuse of public moneys held by state treasurers have proved faflures. Kecond, that it is unreasonable to ex pect treasurers to disclose the where- abouts of funds in their custody so long as their integrity is guaranteed by ample honds and so long as the guaranty com- panies which furnish the bonds and run the risk ave satisfied. Third, that the guaranty companies are at the expense of guarding the treas ury and therefore they alone should be | consulted as to the places where the money 1s deposited. Mhese plens are searcely worth dis- cussing. The laws that require treas urers to keep the identical funds ¢ lected In thelr vaults were repealed when the state depository law went into effect, That law has been fgnored and eriminally violated hoth befe and since Bartley. Had the depository law lmiting publie deposits to 10 per cent of the actual pald-in capital of each Dbank been observed the taxpayers would have saved hundreds of thousands of | dollars, The bonding of treasurers by guaranty | companies differs In no respect from the bonding by individual suretles. Guar- 5 panfes, hire good lawyers by the year and are just as'likely, if not more likely, to resist collection on thelr bond in case of default than individual bondsmen. They are just as likely to take advantage of techulcalities, even though their e perts are supposed to make periodic in spection of the treasurer's accounts. Custodlans of public funds are ac- countable to the people whose money they hold and not to the bonding com panies, which are paid for insuring the people against loss. The interest on public funds belongs to the people and not to either the treasurer or his honds- men. The only security the people have against the farming out of their money for private gain is periodic pul lieity, and they Lave a right to insist that every treasurer keep them fully iu- formed concerning the funds they holgd and destitution in Omaha the county vellef to the poor was managed success- fully by onv agent. Now when pros. perity is universal, the county employs an agent and two assistants to dis pense relief to the poor. What excuse can be given for this dssipation of the county funds? If there is money in the treasury for the rellef of the poor why not give it to the poor instead of dis- tributlng it to the political ple-biters? | in trust, This Is the position of the republican party, promulgated through its state convention and from this there can be uo receding, either before or after the elec tho For twenty months County Treasurer sasser has kept the taxpayers in pro- found ignorance as to the whereabouts | duction of the Philippin | the public THE OMAHA: DAILY BEE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 1901, less have continued to maiutain silence in this respect but for the demand of the republican platform that treasurers keep the taxpayers informed n ing the disposition of public funds en trusted to their eare, —— MODIFIED HIS VIEWS Senator Hoar, by far the ablest among those who have opposed the policy of the administration regarding the Phil- Ippines, has modified his views., 1n an address a few days ago Mr. Hoar sald | that the adoption of the Spanish treaty made it the constitutional duty of Pres ident MeKinley to do everything he has | dove &ince, including the foreible re-| people to sub | must, what may think of the Philippine | question, as brave and patriotic ' men 100k to the future rather than waste our time fn idle regrets for the past.” Senator Hoar still thinks that the Fil- ipinos should ultimately be given Inde- pendence if they desire it. He believes that when they have capacity | for self-government, under the presi dent's policy, no power on earth can | hold them in subjection against their will, and Le fully approves of the policy of encouragiug that people in civiliza- | tion, In education and in all the arts | of peace. “In this matter,” said the| senator, “the part of true statesman- ship is to proceed carefully, without haste and without rashness, making the best of the future and not pausing to lament over the past.” ‘That this Is the feeling of an overwhelming majority of the American people not to be doubted, A proposition to abandon the Philippines would now receive the sup port of a very small fraction of our people. When the question was first presented the opposition to holding the islands was very strong, but it has de- creased to cedingly small propor- | tlons, due the fact that President | MeKinley's policy has demonstrated that nothing In the nature of imperialism wus contemplated, but on the contrary that the purpose was to do everything possible to fmprove the condition of the 1Milipinos and to prepare them for self- government, for which they are not now, in the opinion of those best qualitied to Judge, fitted. In this work as favorable and rapid progress is being made as could be ! I3 ly expected. Clvil government | In the islands is being gradually ex-| tended, competent natives are given offl clal positions, educational work s | steadily advancing, in ¢ way the | Filipinos are being assured of the be neficent intentions of the United States and the testimony is ample that they are rapidly learning the substantial ad- vantages and benefits of Awerican rule. The latest dellverance of Senator Hoar gives assurance that he will be one of the most earnest supporters in congress of the administration's Phil- ippine policy, which will probubly be continued indefinitely, Readers of The Bee need hardly be re- minded of the noticeable superviority of this paper In the work of providing prompt, complete and accurate informa- tion nbout the all-absorbing, subject of the hour. Not only was The Bee first to give Omaha and Nebraska the news of the shooting of the president, but at every stage it has kept far in advance of all competitors, The Bee's pres- entation of intelligence from Buffalo and the national capital and from the various points all over the world from which messages have come will compare with that of the foremost papers of the great news centers, while other papers printed In this vieinity could not aspire to the same class, That has appreciated The Bee's enterprise and recognizes its reputation for promptuess and rellability has been amply proved by the extraordinary de- mand for coples of its su ive edi- tions. Al The Bee hopes for in this connection 1s that it will continue to| merit such patronage by leading the newspaper procession, e Publicity is, as a rule, the best remedy for public abuses. Public officers in- clined to pervert the authority veated in them cannot defy public sentiment aroused by the searchlight of publicity. Had all the innermost transactions of their offices been open to the public gaze, | Nebraska would have had no Bartley and Omaha no Bollu. 1f publicity could | have prevented past embezzlements it | will be the most effective safeguard for the present and the future. No officer has | any right to complain of the exercise of | rensonable precaution for the protection | of the public interest or to regard 1t as | indicating a lack of confidence in any pacticular case, | | cone: mission. ever we Therefore “w shown Harry Deuel enjoys the respect, esteem and contidence of everybody in this community who has made his ac- quaintance, but as county auditor he is like the fifth wheel to a wagon. This fact is so patent to Mr. Deuel himself that be Is anxious to exchange the sinecure for an office that Is more useful than ornamental, ern Gallantry Aroused. Wer Cleveland Plain Dealer. Out in Nebraska a woman irled to com- mit sulclde and failed, and right afterward she recelved a number of offers of marriage. This shows how advertising pays im Ne- braska. A Wine Prophet, Chicago Record-Herald, Another prophet has arisen. He save the world will come to an end in a thou- sand years. That's the kind of a prophet to be. No living man can prove that he doesn’t know what he is talking about. Do Without. Washington Post, Mr. William K. Vanderbilt claims that in- herited wealth does not bring happiness, Mr. Carnegle contends that it would be dis- graceful for one to dle with any sort of wealth, and Russell Sage continues to grab it oft and soak it away. So what is the poor layman to do? ely Information, - Washington Star. The battle of Santiago has broken out in in Spain. Commandant Concae, fer- merly captain of the Viscaya, rail ct a tan quet at Bilbao that the politicians were ie- of the county funds, and would doubt. sponsible for Cervera's defrat. Senor ‘LGelvun, mayor of Biibao, declared that-th | tions, Spanish naval officers were to blame view of the doubt which exists in naval circles as to who was responsible Cervera's defeat, these suggestions Spain may be of value Supply Greetn the Demand. Philadelphia Record The cry for cheap money has been answered by a heavy increase in the volume of sound money, There is no complaint n any part of the country because every dollar In circulation has been kept at par with gold, and apparently there 18 no longer a fear that there will not be gold enough to meet demand. In Amerfean | for from Cleveland Leader, Good authorities say that the farmers of the west will not feel poor or be compelled | o restrict thelr purchases materially b the shortage of 500,000,000 or 00,000,000 | bushels in the corn crop. That is eloquent testimony to the progress toward complete | financial independence and forehandedn:ss which has been made in the past few years. No one, however sanguine, would hav: ventured to cherish any such opinion ia 1806 or 18! Don't Break Up the Ship, Springfield (Mass.) Republican. | Mr. Lawson should reconsider his lowery | determination to break up Independence for junk. But if he persists in ending the yacht's existence, the program for the finale might well be changed for the sake of a mere dramatic effect. No more hu- millating a fate for a racing yacht of Independence’s name and tonnage could be | conceived than the prosalc diemantling which fs accomplished in the marine junk yard alongshore, Set the mainsail, the balloon §ib topsail and the spinnaker, lash its wheel and send it In solitary gran- deur to sea, there to find a grave in the depths o'er which it had skimmed in eerie flight. And send Constitution with it It is a bad year for yachts named Indo pendence and Constitution fn the United States of America If the one had been | named Glory and the other Destiny, things | might have been different in yachting cir- | cles. Holmes had the right iden when they talked of breaking up “Old Ironsides’ | “Nal to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sall, And glve h to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale." [ ————, DIVIDEND DISBURSEMENTS, Substantial Increase Over September Last New York Times. The substantial prosperity of the coun- try ix perhaps better lllustrated by the | satisfactory returns from investments than by any other fact. Spptember is not con- sidered a large month for either {nterest or dividend disbursements, but the pay- ments scheduled for the present month in- clude $10,563,314 Interest on railroad bonds, $1 21 dividends on rallroad stocks, §20,176,348 dividends on Industrials and $2, 475 interest on mliscellaneous bonds. This foots up to the considerable sum of $46,627.458 and is about $9,000,000 in excess of the interest and dividend disbursementa of the corresponding month of 1900. The tables above summarized are neces- sarily incomplete and relate only to the disbursements on account of securities which_arc of epeculative interest on the New York Stock exchange or are known anl recognized here as acceptable bank collateral. - The disbursements on account of stocks and bonds not known or quoted | in the market reports would swell the total by a large figure, for under present condi- tions the prosperity is by no means lim- ited to the concerns with great capitaliza- upon which -public attention ls fo- cused by reason of the magnitude of their operations. Some relatively small under- takings are very profitable and as no one holding their securities cares to sell them they are never heard of in a public way. Altogether, we have had a very satisfactory summer in a businees sense, and only the corn shortage and some uncertainty about cotton in partd of the south serve to re- mind us that the lmmediate outlook might be what the farmer would describe as *'jist a leetle better than it is. v CALIFORNIA FILES A KICK, The Land of Sunshine Attacks Cor- rectness of Vital Statiatics, San Francisco Chronlcle. So much Is claimed for the showing made by the vital statistics gathered by the censys bureau that a doubt s naturally cast upon their value because of the many ele- ments of uncertainty entering Into thelr compilation. It is assumed that, because an apparent decrease in the death rate is shown in the comparison made between the statistics gathered last year and those col- lated in 1890, improved sanitation and ad- vancement in medical sclence have creatad a new health record and lengthened human life in this country within a decade in a perceptible degree. If the statistics of both years under consideration had been col- lected by the same men under the same conditions aud methods aud the sources of information were absolutely trustworthy in both Iustances, there would have been bet- ter grounds than exist for accopting the de- ductfons made without question. But this was not the case. New men, methods and conditions have figured in the collection of the vital statistics of the nation at every taking of the census. Thus, when we are assured By the chief of the vital statistics division that the decrease in the general death rate of the nation Is nearly 10 per cent and that the reduction in the death rate of 271 registration cities durlng the last decade has been equal to 2.4 per 1,000, while there is a difference of 4.2 years in the average age aU death in the statistics of 1890 as compared with those of 1000, to the advantage of the latter, we must accept the statement with a mental reservation as to its value. | The deductions to be drawn from vital statistics are no more reliable than those | made by criminologists and insanity experts and on which they base their respective theeries. Much depends upon uncertain quattities drawn into the subject and the point o1 view occupied by the observer. Be- sides, the comparisons are invariably mad. with statisties for the absolute correctness of which no one can vouch. If the premise is, therefore, false or doubtful, the con- clusion reached cannot be unimpeachable. It fs 50 with vital statistics The record of vital statistics in cities where a registration system is in force is not perfeet. Many errors are made in the deductions drawn from them. It would be| absolutely unfair, for example, to assume | that the death rate in many Callfornia | citles was due to local conditions. This| state is a great sanitarium to which the sick frcm all parts of the country flock in the hopes of securing health. Unfortunately for most of these invalids the change is made when the diseases with which they ars aficted have passed beyond the curative power of a health-restoring climate. East- orn cities thus escape responsibility for| mortality which properly belongs to them, | and California cities are charged with deaths for which they are In no sense re- sponsible Yet the vital statisties of the census bureau charge California with a mortality which, if properly credited, would be, in a liberal measure, distributed among other states and other countries, reducing materfally our legitimate death rate. When vital statistics ere thus analyzed, the whole carefully constructed fabric of the effec 8| of improved sanitation and the sudden ad vancement of medical scieuce crumbles into Tuins, se in | offera to clean that | are 1n circulation | him he had nothing hetter. | us that ere long we should be able to dis- farmer tary Wilson. QFt are not produced here at all, ABOUT TEACHERS WHO TEACH. Chancellor Andrews has drawn the line between lies and white lles, the Times desires to ask him, merely as a matter of education and not necessarily for publication. if a man tells you he is for you and in fifteen twenty minutes 18 | sticking his gaff into the soft and unpros tected parts of your anatomy this af “white lie,” without pe or 18 it | just & plain old-tashioned with a guaranteed fnterest “in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone.’ li us that, Dr. Andrews, if you can Auburn Granger: Chancellor Andrews of | the State university writes himaelf down | as not a very distant relative to those who plied the rack and the thumbscrew days when a more severe punishment thau soclal ostraclsm was in vogue when he d clares: “Preachers who preach for salary alone Are too mean to live, ought to be | hanged, quartered and burned, and then blographles written by thelr worst enemies.” And then he declares that he has sympathy for the preacher who does not be leve all his creed, as there are few who do believe all their creed ERSONAL NOTE! York Times: Since 1s alty, Ite any James McGarry, the original of Dooley,” is dying in a Chicago hospital Mrs. Nation, after looking over Coney 1s- 1and, has taken a large contract when she Augean stable Score one for the New York pollceman who descended into & gas-laden manhole and rescued several men from death President James B. Angell of the Uni- versity of Michigan Is a graduate of Brown university and says tbat his four years there cost him only $600. | Dr. J. H. Hollander Rico, has resigned that office and will soon | return to his former post, as professor of economics and finance in Johns Hopkins uni “Mr | treasurer of Porto | | versity Several Montana bank bills, $100 size without the autographs of the bank officlals. Nebraskans should | watch out for these mavericks when making | change. The old home of Francis Parkham, the historian, near the pond at Jamaica Plain, 1s now Included in the park system of Bos ton. The spot s to be marked by a memorial. Hoshi Taru, the former Japanese minister | at Washington, who was assassinated a | short time ago, left a library of 100,000 books, worth over $25,000, among which is a Buddhist Sultra of more than 1,000 volumes Truxton Beale, formerly minister to Persia and son-in-law of James G. Blaine, has written to the San Francisco Examiner sux gesting the fnvestigation by representatives of both capital and labor of profit sharing as | a means of ending labor disputes Camille Saint-Saens, the French composer, has been made a knight of the German | Order Pour le Merite for his services to art through his contributions to musical litera- ture, This recognition of a French artist by Germany has given great satisfaction in France The state of Kansas will on September 20 hold a notable celebration to unvell a monument commemorating the occasion and the spot where Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pil on September 26, 1806, at the Pawnee vil- lage lowered the Spanish ensign and raised the United States flag. This historic spot 1s in Republic county, Kansas. An English “Tommy" captured by Gen- eral Dewet complained of the food, whi‘h | consisted chiefly of mealies. Dewet told | “But,” sald tha Boer leader, “I'll capture a convoy In a few days and then you shall have better food.” Dewet did capture a convoy and the complaining ““Tommy" received full rations, according to promise. One of the notable exhiblis at Buffalo | during the week was o man of commonplace appearance who has played the role of | husband for at least twelve women. All of them are living and none of them hold a degree of divorce. The industry and en- terprise of this matrimonial hog caused the authorities to put him under cover and save his place from enraged better halves Skipper Charley Barr of the cup de fender Columbla {8 accounted the smoothest sea jock in New York. The World says of him: “He has a keen nose for a wind and has often startled rivals by turning his ship about and sailing off the course, appdrently giving up the race. But nine times out of ten he finds a new breeze com- ing up In another direction, which wins | him the race, because he gets it first. In brief, Barr is the cleverest, trickiest, wisest | skipper in America today and he has made old Columbia win many a time when an- other man would have been beaten.'" CLE SAM AS A C DMER. Snug Bunch of Milllons Pa Forelgn Goodw, Chicago Tribune. Much has been said concerning the splen- a1d growth of our export trade, and about the extraordinery balances in our favor since 1893, But Uncle Sam is by no means a bad customer, and it is interesting to glance at the officiai tables setting forth his purchases and the countries to which he extends his patronage. The Agricultural department is suspected | of an “ulterior metive” in publishing il statistics of our imports. Secretary Wil won is fond of dwelling upon the economi “independence” of the United States and upon the prospect of a heavy reduction in our purchases abroad. Recently he told Out for pense with foreign sugar, if not also with forelgn coffee, tea, etc. He forgets that a nation cannot sell without buying, and that a “saving” in imports entails a loss in ex ports. But pending our complete isolation and “emancipation,” the figures will be studied with interest It may surprise many to learn that con- siderably more than half of our imports consist of agricultiral products. In calendar year 1900 these imports valued at $420,139 288, This represents a larger amount than that credited (o any | year since 1805. Here Is the classification by continents Burope South America Asla North America Oceantca Africa Total . $420,129,288 Strangely enough, Europe was the most important source of our agricultural im- | ports. Brazil holds the first place among the countries supplying us with these prod ucts, her total for 1500 being $39,257,000, and the United Kingdom stands next to Brazil | with $32,608,000. The Dutch st Indies supplied us with products ued at $27 500,000, The leading items of the agricul- tural import trade are as follows the | were $128,087, o K vi Frolts and nuts Ten Tobacco Wines Vegetabie olls and the affect of But i The annexation Philippines will in time materially this eltuation, while the incorporation Cuba would wipe out the sugar bill apart from sugar and little in the list to Arouse alousy the dissatisfaction he American and his ardent champlon, r Many of the things we im- of Porte Rico tobacco, there | World-Herald have been curlous to know | how | plied with, they perhaps would come to the | lican party with being in league with de- into an endorsement of the policy. | tested against any condonation of the treas- | urer's offense and asked for an immediate | Ing the people of Nebraska were worrying 0 SYMPATHY FOR DEFAULTERS, Auburn Post (rep.): The republican state convention voted, 508 to 165, in faver of moral sentiment. The fusionists will not be ble to get much campaign consolation out of that vote Syracuse Journal (rep.): Bartley has resumed his old duties in the penitentiary green house and another chuok of political thunder is exploded, greatly to the detri- ment of the demo-pop campaigners Alliance Times (rep.): It's terribly dle- appointing to the pops tbat Bartley was sent back to the pen by the republicans It deprives them of all gheir campaign thunder, and they don’t know what in thun- der to do for thunder. Wood River Interest (rep.) It was sudden” about expresses the situation reference to the return of Joe Bartley his work of caring for the green bouse the state penitentiary after the meeting the republican state convention. Emorson Enterprise (rep.): The fusion editors of the state, who have been flling up space with yards of editoriul condemn- fng Governor Savage and the republican party for pardoning Bartley, are now mum. It they could have foresecn the action of the republican state convention these fu- slon editors would doubtless have been on the other side of the question Broken Bow Republican: Governor Sav- age's prompt action In returning J. 8 Bartley without waiting for the expiration of the parole, on the request of the repub- lean convention, proved both wisdom and loyalty to the party he represents. It also proves that the insinuations of the op- position that the governor was influenced by a mcnetary consideration is not true. Kearney Hub (rep.): Readers of 80 fn the it would take the sudden turn in the fortunes of Josoph Bartley, following the holding of tho recent republican state con- vention. ry one knew that it would have reme crocodile tears to shed and it has finally shed them, after walting three days to get {ts grief in proper trim. It harges the convention with being sincere and hypooritical. And, by the way, it has been observed in other localities that the fuston politicians are not any botter pleased than the World-Herald Tekamah Herald (rep): The actlon of the republican state convention on Bart- ley's parole is satisfactory to early all re- publicans. Tho motive or fntegrity of the governor was not questioned. No on» doubted but what the governor sought to serve the state’s best interest by turning into the state treasury a parge portion of the money lost to the state by Bartley's defalcation. The convention doubted the expediency of making a financial com- promise with criminals and favored the im- medate return of Bartley to the peniten- tlary. The governor chesrfully complled with the almost unanimous expression. Blue Springs Sentinel (rep.): If some of thoso fellows who are so confounded sure that 1t was a plece of the basest Infamy to return Joe Bartley to the penitentiary could only get it into their craniums that not one iota of the obligations assumed by the acceptance of this parole had been com- concluslon the the the air that the state convention did right thing in demanding the recall of parole. Bartley's insolence in making statements he did when he breathed free and hls treatment of the committee of the 1807 session of the legislature, when the trouble cropped out, are sufficlent in themselves to condemn him. Arcadia Champlon (rep.): In the con- troversy at the republican state convention over the Bartley parole we belleve that the party representatives did just what they should bave done. They came direct from the great mass of voting people, knew the feelings of a vast majority of them and knew that their action would be watched by the opposition to try and find some one little thing in they could point out and accuse the repub- faulters. They must slink having their hope realized in regard to it away without Even a stlence would have been construed Stanton Picket (rep.): Now that the republican state convention has spoken in no uncertain tones and Bartley has been sent back to the penitentiary, the fusion | press iy plainly dissatisfied. They wanted him released, pardoned by a republican | governor, mot because they believed it to be right, but because they saw in it politi- cal capital for the coming campaign. His parole gave them a chance to exclalm, “Wa told you s0." Now they are censuring Governor Savage for what they allege to| be his lack of faith with Bartley in re- | turning him to the penitentiary before the term of his parole had expired. It is Im- possible to please some people, more par- ticularly one's political cnemies. Aurora Republican: The Nebraska re- publicane, in their state convention at Lin- coln, seem to have broken all recent party records for energy and harmony. At one brief sitting they adopted a platform, nominated candidates for three minor state offices and disposed with skill and firmness of a troublesome incident in local politics which threatened to prove a source of weakness in the approaching campaign. A republican state treasurer, whose embezale- ments had discredited an earlier republican administration, was released on parole not long ago by Governor Savage, and the con- vention, though not assailing the governo motives in granting clemency, strongly pro- recall of This one delegates altogether teellng. the cause accomplished sratifylng ticket-of-leave glven of friction removed, their work celerity and him. tho with | good | Central City Nonparell (rep.): The re publican atate convention, in demanding the immediate return of Joseph Bartley to the penitentiary, followed the sentiments of the rank and file of the party In the state It is no discredit to Governor Savage that | he bowed to the will of the people by fm nediately returning Bartley to his cell he governor made the mistake of think- over the loss of the money Involved in the Rartley embezzlement and that the recovery of the money would condone the crime with the Nebraska taxpayers. No so. The people of Nebraska demand the punishment of Joseph Hartley, because be is a criminal and not because he is keeping them out of their money. The latter is only a sec- ondary consideration. He has betrayed the trust of the people and must suffer for it. If he returned every cent of the money It would not remove the crime. We have no patience with the maudlin sympathy that is being expressed by certain promi- nent newspapers and politicians for Bart- ley., Let the criminal explate his crime to the full extent of the law A criminal 15 no less o criminal because he steals the respectable sum of & quarter of a million Holdrege Citizen (rep.): The republican #state convention last week not only nomi- nated a state ticket, but it also took hold of the Bartley parole matter In a vigorous manner. It requested in an emphatie manner that Bartley be returned to the penitentiary at once and the governor com- plied with the request with all possible haste. The convention did mot question the motive of the governor in granting the parole, but M had misgiviogs as to his sudgment {n the matter. The majority of republicans felt that nothing should be that would in any way be construed The convention took the higl places thelr deliberations which | moral posltion that who have been gt trusts should not tion of part or all ¢ tepublicans felt that might be called places and grant given to those who feuders would have It will be remombers legally convicted of amount of public mon his own private pocket for the last few weoks have mako poople belleve that repuliicans vored embezzlers and those pulity cality are again shown up in the 1 trylng to decefve the people for f effect The promptness with which ( ernor Savage complied with the roque the convention showed that he 414 not sider himself whole state of Nebr: and would oboy tho demands of the pec Wayne Republican action republican party of Nebraska, In tion assembled, in passin the resolu cousuring, or, rather, condomning the tension of executiy y Bartley or other o commendable and braska republicanism | tirely different than what b to it Governor Savage response to the sentimen the state, as expresscd Ly tives in convention, did mu pelllog the bad opluion that wa ing ground on him. In his Bartley to the penitentiary he with the commands of his party | that will commend him to all par one ready and willing to bo go the wisdom of his party, regardle own ideas. The republican party h. wbat is seldom done by a in col tlon. The rule s that conventions of party In power commend acts of its officers, or. at lent if the administratic miss in fts duties Here a party with suficiont courage to go on rocord as he tion to certain acts of th it was instrumental in gl control. There can bo 1 such action will be recefved by of Nebraska. They love a man that possesses sound moral will not be ready at the hehost demagogues to turn thelr backs that demonstrates by fts actions tha not under the control or guldance corrupt or those mot having the terests of law and order in view Wausa Gazette (rep.) The World-Herald s in a fit over the the republican state cohvention shedding crocodile tears biz a eggs over the sad plight of ex-Tre Bartley. With long harangues about broken up home, the weeping wife honored cuildren this great daily 1s trying to play upon (h of the public and stir up a against the action of the state convent While there was no doubt a | delegates in that convention keenest sympatny with the ruin it can be sald to their honor that not let sentiment get the better of but fusisted that justice take Its No logleal reason can be advane the man whole stole half a miliion l\)l‘ pardoned while thousands of othe | get away with a paltry hundred serye | full penalty of the law. It is safe to « clude that it is not pity fur the ha family that causes the World-Her wail but the fact that the very pe which the opposition had hoped to bui | victory this fall have been removed | always a good plan to f what | enemy wants you to do, and then do very opposite. The violent attacks of {action of the convention in the Har | matter are the best | be coveted moral effe have that embezzl and turnivg The ot con to den means fu hi party I moral no pe n P oura b actior numt [ 1 whe t fam cou a &h 10 compliment that e It is another testimony to | fact that the republican party has take stand for justice and right and stra cned its hold upon the hearts of the pec LAUGHING LINY Detroft ber the dearly That's so a hundred-dollar Free Pre faces of those v 0 save me T ean't tell w bill looks like Roston Transeript: fie the only girl 1 ever loved She—Nonsense! You've same thing to scores of He 8 and you are others; you don't belleve than they did Darling, you abl wirl I told t her Ju me like any m Brooklyn Life the proble “There are several he attention of the thoughtful rea in the world did the authdr ¢ manage to g2t a publisher? “A problem novel? Wh hut the or Baltimore A banks of th looking spirit away when I got into wives at oy Second Sk fean Styx) First Shade (on Who was that fi ho got up and wal begun telling of the trov _the earth by marrying de—Oh, that was Solamon Washington Star: * price,” sald the sad cfti don't you believe a word of ft swered Senator Sorghum. I know geve men that have been walting for for a year or so; and they'll ke ing 1£°1 have my say." Philadelphia ‘.yx.« Gldday luman natire. You say the ave most likely to marry Dotage!" promptly bache. very has man p on Press: “Professor," you've made n stid Now, at what age wo man of intelligence replied Prof. ( Indlanapolls News: “'She breach of promise “Did she win?' “In a way. ~After o the defendant ‘the cent postage stamp MAUD ON T LINKS, sued him arefully looking o jury awarded her a T. A. 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