Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, BDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNINC TERMS O RUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$8 Dally Bee and unday, One Year s iliusirat One Yoar Sunday Bee, One Year Baturday Ree, One Year Twentleth Century Farmer, Orie Year DELIVERED BY CARRIE Dafly Bee (without Sundayy, per copy... 2 DAlly Bee (without Sunday), per week...12c Dafly Bee (including Sunday), per week. 17 Bunday Hee, per Evening Bee (without S:ind Evening Bee (ncluding waek Compiainis should be addressed to partment © o 20 Ton 1.50 Ll . e | per week . 10¢ unday), per, « i delivery of irregulari Irculation De- Ity OFFICES Qmaha~The Bee Building South Omaha City Twenty-fitth and M streets. Councll Bluffs—1v Pearl Street. leago~1610 Unity Bullding. w Fork—Templa Court. ashington—%1 Fourteenth Street, CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Edltorfal Department. Hall Bullding, W BUSINESS LETTERS, esn letters and remittances ghould be The Hee Publishing Company, REMITTANCES, Remit by draft express or postal order, ayabie to The Hee Publishing Company. nly 2-cent stamps accepted 1n payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss George 1. Taschiick, secretary of The Hee Publishing Company, being duly aworn, ¥ave that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, ¥veniug and Bunday Bes printed during the month of November, %1, was as fol- lows: Husi 1aressed Omaha 140,820 20,940 0,410 40,770 16 1 18 Total ' « unsold and returncd coples 911,554 OGNS TZ8CH and_sworn to ven HUN Notury Net total sales Net duily average GEO. B presence y of N M. B, Subseribad in my before me this 30th o 19 (Seal,) e wheels of congress are once more grinding. Speaker Henderson will continue in the role of the man behind the gavel. I'hat Towa legislature way be hehind suggress in starting, but it will not lose much thme in eatehing up. It is settled thet the chief deputy ofl inspector of Nebraska is to be the new postmaster at Lincoln. Now, who wants w0 be chief deputy oil inspector? Don't all speak ut onee, In the burning of Denver's eity hall were destroyed public records of great value, Soveral Denver people wish the five could destroy all of the public rec- ords wade in the city hall, A enstodian of pablic funds in Kene tucky committed suicide when he read in the newspapers that an investigation of his ‘accomuts was impending. | They do not do it that way in Nebraska. If it is only a question of more money 10 complete the new federal building n # manner that comports with Ms archi- tectural design, the Nebraska delegation to congress should not be backward in asking for it. No matter what President may say in his fortheoming message the opposition orators and org: may be safely depended on to find enough in it to keep them busy attempting to mannfacture politieal ammunition out of it Roosevelt Unseasonahle weather scems to be playing havoe with the hauk clenrings in all the large cities of the country, al- though the totals are still good reflexes of prevailing prosperity. It requires a fall fn the thermometer to produce rise In the business barome! o German Kefchstag has declined to enact a prohibition upon transat lantic steamers from commencing their journeys on Sunday. As the voyage takes at lenst seven days for most of the vessels, what difference would it make whether the Sunday is consumed at the beginning or the end of the trip? The effort to have the democratie coun gresslonal cuneus adopt a program for legisintive tion fell by the wayside hecanse it construed to be a re pudiation of the Kansas City platform, As the people repudinted the Kansas City platform _at the election, why should democrats in congress he so so- Ucitous about clinging to dead issues? Our Dave was In such a hurry on the home stretch of his globe-girdling Junket that he did not have time to stop off in Omaha even between tralns. Knowing the embarrassment congress would have had to endure had it been called to order without his presence, his ezustituents here will do their best to bear up gracefully under the disap- pointment. ——————— Chicago and St. Louls chemists who have been carrying away chunks of water served to Omaha by the Missouri for use in demonstrating the degree of pollution by the time the stream reaches i4s outlet into the Mississippi are wel- come to all the sumples they need, 1t there is apy one thing that Omaha is amply supplied with for the benefit of its guests it is the water freely fur nished by the far-famed Missouri, —— The Assoclated Press seems to fur- nish & mest attractive target for popo- eratic politics-expounders to practice on. ‘While the oclated Press may be open to criticism, the charge that it is & part of the republican political wa- chine will hardly hold water. The grlevance of our popocratic friends is was | in his annual report, earnestly advo- TAY. FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, The first session of the Fifty-seventh congress will bogin at noon today. The organization of the house of representa tives will be the same as In the last congress and there will probably be no fmportant change in the committees, The rules that have been in operation will continue with some slight modifi- cation, so that the business of the house will be absolutely in control of the ma Jority and not subject to unnecessary delays. The organization of the senate will also contivue as in the last con e sessfon promises to be a very busy one. As was said by Speaker Hen derson ju his speech to the republican caucus, the duties before this congress | will be onerous. Great responsibility rests upon the party in power and the way in which it meets this respon bility will command the profound in- terest and attention of the people. Ques- tions of momentous importance to the country’s future are to be considered | and determined. Among these are the construction of an isthmian canal, the Pacific cable, reduction of revenne b, removal of war taxes, supervision and regulation of Industrial combinations dolng an interstate business, river and barbor improvement, Chinese exclusion, antl-anarchist legislation, interstate commerce, creation of a department of commerce, trade relations with Cuba, admission of territorles to statehood, legislation for the insular possessfons, ship subsidics, increase of the navy and reclamation of the arid lands in the public domai An effort will be made to have duties on certain articles made by the trusts removed or reduced, but as now indicated this will not be suc- sful, leading republicans in both the house and senate belleving that such a proposition, it consldered, would Lave the effect to open up the question of general tariff reviston and thus caus wore or less serious disturbance to the business of the country. It i8 improb. able, also, that there will be any cur. rency legislation other than perbaps an amendment to the act of March, 1900, | providing for the exchange on demand | of gold coin for standard silver dollars. No congress in the past decade has met with larger amount of public business prepared for immediate con sideration. There failed in the last ses sfon a number of important bills which will be renewed and which need hardly occupy the house for more than a few days in deba Of these such meas- ures as the Nicarngua canal bill, the Pacific cable bill and even the river barbor bill, may be considered as per- fected measures, The great danger t ifronts congress, as pointed out 1 Speaker Henderson, is the treasury sur- plug, which Is steadily growing. This is a v strong invitation to extra gance and conniossmen have shown a disposition to measure appro- printions by the present and prospective slze of the surplus. As to this Speaker Henderson said: “The Amerfean | ple do not expect any niggardliness in the treatment of the matters they re- quire. T do not counsel that, but I counsel that conservative consideration of every question which should be ob- served at all times without reference to the $100,000,000 that we are soon to have, | | son| ——— PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S WAY. The summary action of President Roosevelt In naming a new governor of Oklahoma to take the place of the for- mer incumbent, who had been hope- lessly involved in an official scandal, Is striking evidence of the president’s de- termination not to tolerate dishonesty in any form in any branch of the fed- eral serviee, The president in this instance has not | been content merely to Impose the | alty of misconduct on the offender and cover up the delinquency by maklng the change quietly in the form of an accepted resignation, but bas attached to the papers a clear-cut statement of the conditions prompting the step. The facts seem to be undisputed that the displaced governor had exerclsed his power to contract for the care of the territorial insane wards to reward po- litical proteges by the free distribution of stock In the favored corporation. President Roosevelt concludes his no- tation with this forcible and pointed language: The governor's confessed relations to the matter disclose such an entire lack of ap- preclation of the high fiduclary nature of the dutles of his office as to unfit him for their further discharge. A sound rule of public policy and morals forbids a public servant from seekfig or accepting uny per- sonal benefit in a travsaction wherein he Pas a public duty to perform. A chancel- lor would not for one moment retaln a trustee who, in dealing for the trust, re- served an advantage to himself. The thought s not to be tolerated that the president can be less vigilant and exacting in the public interest. With a president setting up for him- self and his subordinates this high standard of officlal conduct and public morals, there need be felt no apprehen- slons of degeneracy in the public serv- fce so far as the officers are responsi- ble and accountable to him. — MAKE INDIANS SELF-SUPPORTI, The commissioner of Indian affairs, cates a policy for making Indians self- supporting. He urges that it is time to make a move toward terminating the guardianship which has so long been exercised over the Indlans and putting them upon equal footing with the white man so far as their relations with the government are concerned, “Under the present system,” says Commissioner Jones, “the Indlan ward never attains his majority. The guardianship goes on in an unbroken line from father to son and generation aftor generation the In- dian lives and dies a ward.” He thinks the Indian should be given opportunity for self-support and afforded the same protection of his person and propert as is given to others, That being done, says the col issioner, he should | thrown entirely upon his own resourct mot so much that it is belng used as & political agency by republicans, but that the efforts to use it for the manu- facture of volitical capital for the pop- ocrats have not met with the success that they had hoped. to become a useful member of the com munity in which he lives, or not, ac- cording as he exerts himself or fails to make an effort. “He should be loeated where the conditions are such that by THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1901. prudence he ean support himself and family. He must be made to realize that in the sweat of hix face he shall eat his bresd. He must be brought to recognize the dignity of labor and the fmportanc f building and maintain- ing a home,” The commissioner he- leves that in this way the vace wonld be fmproved and uplifted. He admits there arve difficulties be overcome, but he does not consider them insuper- able, Senator to of Wisconsin, who will be chairmau of the senate com mitt; on Indian afairs, is said to be in full accord with Commissioner Jones, He thinks the ultimate goal of the In dian should be complete citizenship, it is therefc be expected that con gress will be asked for legislation look- ing to the innuguration of such a poliey as the commissioner of Indian affairs suggests, It is certainly a matter that 1s worthy of serlous consideration. Quarles to IMPRACTICAL REFORMERS Why are would-be reformers as a ruie 80 impractical? Why s it that those who constantly declaim against exist- ing abuses and demand measures for their corroction are so often found op posing with equal vehomence every proposition looking to a practical reall zation of reform? These questions are suggested anew by the uncompromising antagonism to an extra session of the legislature of the very people who have been making the most noise in advocacy of varfous plans for improvement in different branches of government that can bhe fnaugurated only after first receiving legislative sanction. The inconsistency, for example, of advocuting mor qual taxation and blocking the only means by which reve- e law revigion can be secured is plain on its face, The support of schemes for consolidat- ing duplicated paris of the machinery of local government, which is absolutely fmpossible without amendiments to the constitution and charter, is simply a waste of energy unless the law-making body is called into action to co-operate In the movement, The protest against and unsatistactory Judicial system, by which the decisions of the highest court of appeals are made by commissioners without legal responsibility or constitu- tional standing, just remain un- answered until a legislature submits a nstitutional amendment enlarging the supreme court and that amendment be. comes effective by ratification of the people at the polls. Yet we see the men who profe dent devotion to all th reforms de- ying as politicians all who favor an extra session of the legislature for the purpose of putting desived reforms into practice. Would not a little more practical poli- tics on the part of the reformers pro- duce more tangible results? our cumbersome s ar s praska retall merchants ave said to ganizing in opposition to the pr posed pareels post for fear this exten- ston of postal facilities would build up the mail order houses to their detriment. Every lmprovement In the postal service has doubtless worked to the dis- advantage of rtaln classes, but the benefits have been more than made up to the people as a whole, This is truc for example, of the rural free mail ( livery, which at first encountered vige ous objection from the country, postmas- ters and crossronds merchants, but it has none the less continued to find con- stantly greater favor. We belleve the country merchants exaggerate the da gers to them to he apprehended from the parcels post. The parcels post is in operation in European countries, taking the place of the service rendered here by the express companies, who would be the chief sufferers by its introdue- tion and whose opposition to it is to be expected. The prompt action of Chief of Police Donahue in suspending a patrolman pending an investigation into charges brought against him of attempted black- mail is the best evidence that could be given to the vendors of well-defined rumors that corruption and grafting are countenanced in our police department. If this species of blackmall were com- mon among the police office we may be sure that they would all be trying to protect one another. The fearless de- termination of the chief to stamp out crookedness at its first appearance is proof positive that it has never gained any foothold. We are inclined to wonder whetlher if the shady bond deals had been per petrated under the management of a populist state treasurer, the fusion press would have been as ready to expose and denounce them as has The Bee and other republican papers with a repub- lican treasurer. Perhaps they would, but we seriously doubt it. We remen ber how almost all the big and littl pop guns rushed into the breach as de- fenders when the insurance holdups were uncovered three years ago under the late populist state auditor. e The city bullding inspector 1s making another campaign agalust dangerous structures and has asked the Advisory board to condemn several of the most flagrant examples. The city ought not to be compelled to walt for some accl- dent involving loss of life or limb be- fore the building ordinances are forced, yet it has been the invarlable experience that owners of dangerous bulldings resort to every legal techni- cality to evade the condemnation ed Omaha may not be permitted to fur- nish Nebraska with & governor, but it accepts the privilege of furnishing the governor of Nebraska with a private secretary. And Buy “Gold Brick, Washington Star. Don't laugh at the childres for writing letters to Santa Claus. Some grown people write letters in answer to green goods ad- vertisements. t v Minneapolis Journs! The rural carrier who has feared tbal the extension of the classified civil service 1o Anzlety Inhes. the exercise of ordinary Industry an‘lwcluh bim will make it necessary lorluy for lite [him to pass an examination in Latin, chi- rography, pelling, geography and tranepor- tation methods may now rest in peace. It Is announced that the carriers will be chosen for manifest fitness for the work from the vicinage of the route he is to serve. roRFensive Improvement. Boston Herald It 1o the opinion of the secretary of the interior that the only good Indian is the kind that has been trained to work for a 1iving. On the whole, this is an improve- ment on General Sheridan'a somewhat | tamous definition. Journ, Apology Below Par. Neligh Yeoman, The Omaha Bee accuses the State Journal of rushing to the defense of Stuefer just as it excused and defended Bartley when he was golng wrong. Certainly those of us who remember the persistency with which it stood by Bartley and insisted that the atate treasury was all right then will re quire other than Journal evidence to con- | vince them that all is square at present. Onr Living Ex-President. New York Bvening Post We have only one llving ex-president. A pecullar interest thus attaches to the health of Grover Cleveland. The ex-president has now been long enough retired from active public life for the acerbities of political controversies to soften, and even his most earnest opponcnts in the past are steadily coming to recognize the sincerity, courage and patriotism which always dictated his course. Mr. Cleveland &hould have many years yet before him and he already has the assurance that old age will be rendered happy by the gemeral recognition that he was one of the strongest executives the na tion has ever had. Tobaceo ns & Revenue Produ w York Herald Toternal revenue returns for the last fix cal year show that more than $62,000,000 on account of the “weed” were turned Into the treasury, being an Increase of $3,000,000 over the previous year's receipts. There was u notable decrease in the con- sumption of the cheapest class of cigarettes, The domestic production of tobacco in its various forms (Including 8,500 tona of snuff) was 180,000 tons. We state it in this form because the figures given in pounds seem almost incredible, A table published by the United States Tobacco Journal, giving the production of cigars by districts during the calendar year 1900 shows that fn the New York district alone was converted more than 11,000 tons of the herb into 1,201,000,000 of cigars, big and little. The cigars, big and little, made lin the whole country that twelvemonth | numbered 5,565,000,000. This was an {ncrease of 13 per cent over the preceding year and reflected the freer consumption due to gemeral prosperity. “WHERE BULLETS WHISTLE ege of Pekin Legations ‘“‘a Com- paratively Trivial Thing " “Really, I was astonished to find what a comparatively irivial thing that ‘siege of legations' was,” says Dr. Nevins in a New York Sun interview. “Staying as I was at the British legation, I was in the place in which all the foreigners took refuge. I g0t up one morning before breakfast and looked around the place. It is a large square inclosure of about thirty acres. At Aiagonally opposite corners 1 found some traces of hombardment. But there was no sign of any attack upon the old terple in which most of, the people were, nor was there anywhere about the legation build- ings. 1 asked the minister how he had man- aged to have Yhe place so successfully re- paired. No oneé would dream, I told him, that the place had ever heen hombarded, To my utter astonishment I found that none of the bulldings I had been examining had been hit at all; fhey had not been fired on. The Chinese had every opportumity to fire on them, but did not “Take Into consideration then the fact that no non-combatant was killed or wounded, and that no ome died of disease during the ‘sioge,’ and I think we have a new and less romantic view of the whole proceeding. 1 had women—who did not know what exceptional opportunities I had for confidential conversations with the au- thorities—tell me most thrilling stories about the whistling of bullets which came through the windows. Some told how their children became accustomed to the whistling of bullets and really enjoyed the sound. T do not doub hut that the women really belleved the stories. They certainly en- joyed the relation of them. But—" The clergyman waved his hand back and forward as though he wero blowing away smoke that had obscured his mental vision, PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE St. Louis boldly challenges superstition by deciding to break ground for the fair on Friday, December 20. Captain John B. Ford of Pittsburg, “the father of American tinplate making,” ha Just celebrated his ninetieth birthday. The late Governor Pingree of Michigan kept all the printed comments about him- selt and hig scrapbooks contain 45,000 col- umns of newspaper comment. John F. Carroll, who may be the mext leadet of Tammany hall, is sald to be worth $5,000,000. Carroll was as poor when a young man as was Croker himself. Score heavily for the pipe. Experiments o the Swiss army have revealed advane tages in aiscipline, cheeriness and endur- ance among the soldiers who smoked on the march, Sancho Panza invoked a blessing on the man who invented slecp, and the Indiana scientist who has discovered a method of storing up sunshine for use in winter will deserve a great many of them if his in- vention works. Prof. Payne of the University of Michi- gan, in a recent lecture, said he had com- mitted to memory while following the plow in his boyhood days Pope's “Essay on Man" and could, if called upon, recite the whole classic from memory now. The sulclde of a Colorado judge, who lay on the ground with a stick of dynamite under him and lighted the fuse with the clgar he was smoking, has put another weapon into the hands of those who claim that the use of tobacco shortens life. The mother of the Chicago quadruplets, whose hushand fled, says marriage is a fail- ure. In this instance there came first twins, then triplets, then quadruplets—nine babies in three vears. How anyone can figure this record as a faflure is a problem passed up to the congress of mothers, The military service institution of the Unitod States has awarded the seaman prize for 1901 ($100 in gold) for the best essay on “The Utilization of Native Troops in Our Forelgn Possessions’” to Captain C. . Rhodes, Sixth United States cav- alry, and the essay submitted by Colonel J. W. Powell, U. 8. A, was found worthy of honorable mention Once in a great while a bunch of farmers get @ chance to show thelr regard for policemen who Jolly country men as “Rubens” and “hayseeds.” A New York policeman, charged with crooked work, se cured a change of venue from New York City to Albany, expecting to obtain & brand of Justice superior to the home article. Ho was not mistaken. 1t took a Jury of farmers only an hour to soak him with a fine of $1,000, with imprisonment in default of pay- ment. The wonder is they did not send him The recent elections have been discussed by the Commoner. It finds consolation in them nowhere. 1t makes a special effort 1o break the force of the blow in Nebraska because in that state the editor of the Com moner made a special effort prevail againat bis adversaries. He was signally unsuccessful. As a prophet he is now without honor in his own country more particularly. Not only has he heen twice repulsed all along the national line, but the commonwealth in which he lives has treated him with particular severity. He accounts for it by saying that the repub llcans furnished frea transportation to the voters. That should be remembered in Nobraska. Those who accept a pass fn ex change for a vote, take a bribe. The chares Is that thousands of Nebraskans sold their votes. The (nference is that those who #old their votes would, but for the s have supported the ticket Bryan sought to elect. In other words, he impeaches those who share his views, but who were not honest enough to give expression to them at the polls. It is a strange bid for con- solation. However, there are fortunately others wave of accounting for what hap pened. There Is no necessity for assuming that wholesala corruption brought about the result. If the people of but a single state had gone to the polls, the Common- er's explanation might have been accepted by some of the Commoner's subscribers, but there were olections elsewhers, N braska lined up with other states. That 1s to say, It kept its place in the line, It kept 1ts face turned against one of its own sons. I8 sentence was a crushing climax. It was withering. 1t was the seal upon a condemnation which has almost lterally no qualifying feature. Never has it fallen to the Tot of a standard bearer to be so une quivocally and so universally cold-shoul- dered. Nor has it ever been the evil for tune of such a man to be 5o impoverished in_explanation “Surely,” says the Commoner, “no man who earns his living can pofnt to any ad- vantage which the republican party brin, or can bring to the masses of the people.” This makes its appearance im cold type. That 15 to say, it was the outcome of de- liberation. Nothing could more clearly tako the measure of the writer. Many milllons of citizens of the United States voted for McKinley. They went to (he allot box as representatives of the masses. They largely outnumbered those who voted the other way. There were few among them who do not earn their own living. A vast majority of them earn their living by manual labor. They belong to what the Commoner calls the masses. They were persuaded that it was safer to vote for McKinley than to espouse the cause of Let Us Debate Brookiyn Fagle (ina. dem.) Bryan. They saw, or thought they saw, an advantage im voting against him When he says no man who earns his living can point to such advantage he makes a thor oughly characteristic statement It & a epecimen of Bryanlsm. 1t s so rankly ridiedlous and so ridiculoualy rank that the difficulty fs to accept it with other than A smile, & smile of sympathy. For five yoars the administration has been in re- publican hands. In the interval the masses have found something to do. They have been paid in money as to value of which they have had no misgivings. Incidentally, they have been paid more rather than less. It may bo atated as a fact indisputable that they did not vote to their own disadvan- tage. It cannot be atated as a fact indis- putable that had Bryan been elected, they would have fared so well. The organization of debating societies all over the country is suggested by the Commoner. 1t says that a large amount of educational work must be done, that the large dallies cannot be relied upon to do it and that it cannot he done en- tirely through the democratic and popu- listie weeklies True enough The large dailies cannot be relied upon to do any edueational work such as Bryan would advocate. They know too much. They know better tham to clamor for the money of the Mexicans. They know lhetter than to clamor for the suppzession of all truste. Even the least enlightened them has discovered that combination may possibly he a good thing. Indeed, most of Bryan's political intimates have made the discovery and taken advantage thereof for a consideration. As to expansion, imperfalism, that is as a story that is told. 1t is a fact not only accomplished, but ir reversible, Tts irreversibility is now being conceded by even the democratlc and popu- lstie weeklies. It fs not out of place, in passing, to quote the prime minister of England “We need such encouragement, for England, 1 believe, is the only country In which during a great war eminent men write and speak publicly as it they be- longed to the enemy.” His lordship has made & mistake. He overlooked comparas tively recent history fn the United States. However, the debating society suggestion Is excellent Not that the trusts will ever be suppressed: not that 50 cemts will ever settle a dollar's worth of indebted nees in this country: vot that expapsion is debatable, but that discussion sharp ens the faculties, gives clearer outline to ideas. enlarges the vocabulary, strength- ens the mental grasp and above all places Bryanism still further beyond the pos- #ibility of resurrection. By all means let us have the societies LOOKING BACKWARD AT FUSION, MeCook Tribune (rep.): The fusionists of Nebraska lack cohesion, and the indications point to decreasing power and Importan wise and just policies to permanently hold together considerable or large bodies of thoughtful men. Temporary victories may offices, but there can be in the nature of the case nothing permavent in fusion—anything to beat the republicans. The democratic tall is destined to wag the dog. Bloomington Echo (rep.): The year pre- vious to the time the people’s independent and democratic parties fused in this county the populists cast on the county ticket from 800 to 850 votes and the democrats cast from 150 to 200 votes. At that time the populists were electing about all the candi- dates on their ticket. At the present time the little vote of the democrats has grown until the populists next year will only have one simon pure populist in the courthouse, viz., the clerk of district court. The bal- ance of the county officers are old-time democrats. The same state of affalrs holds good over the state. Heatrice Democrat: Some years ago the republican party held unquestioned sway in this state. Their great strength was the cause of their undoing. The only fight of consequence that a candidate had to put up was in the republican convention. But the party became so corrupt that the better ele- ment rebelled, and the result was the or- ganization of the alliance, which became the pop movement. This disintegration in the republican camp was very properly couraged by the democrats, but instead of standing out and saying “Here, gentlemen, we have nominated honest men for office, while your party has selected dlshonest men; take your choice,” a few democratic manipulators slid over into the pop camp and tried to strengthen the new organiza- tion by according them all the offices and simply asking democrats to vote the pop ticket. What we should have done was to win those republicans who became popullsts to believe in the principles of democracy as the correct theory of government. Instead of that, we told them that the eastern Qemocrats and western republicans were alike dishonest, and bullt a bull chip fire that raised a blinding smudge, and then all foined in a ghost dance, while a few of our leaders mixed medicine and parceled out the prospective offices among themselves. Tnstead of teaching the pope to respect democrats and democratic principles wo alded them in the formation of a creed that we did not believe in and that they them- selves deserted as soon as the craze for office wore offt. Now they have gone back to the republican party. Kearney Democrat: Several fusion states- men, including Mike Harrington, Edgar Howard and W, H. Thompson, passed jud- ment upon Nebraska fusion in The Omaha Bee last week, D0 two agreeing upon auy one proposition, except that a few wheez- ened-breathed, politically knock-kneed and broken-down republican soft-snap hunters had found a profitable stool to sit on around the public crib. Harrington and Thomp- son want to continue the shell game until they locate the ball, but Howard, having tried 1t along honest democratic lines and got 1t squarely in the neck, is satisfled that while it kept a few republicans out of office, fuston has been a sad and sorrow ful experiment to the democratic party. None of these statesmen have touched the vital spot. Fuslon has mot only been a party disorganizer, but it never offered any- thing fn return. It did not even have a sentiment in common with the democratic party. It began life with the sorest and hardest-headed class of defunct republican officeholders In the country as leaders and organizers. These men started thelr new organization by beaping vituperation and vilification upon the democratic party and its administration. They vilified the dem- ocrats ten times to where they thought of the republicans once. To them Cleve- | land was @ hideous ghost, stalking in the barnyard of prosperity. They bullt up populism, and then fusion, on the political body of Cleveland's administration, when they knew that Cleveland had inherited a bad mess from his predecessor and made the very best out of it. But It was demo cratic, and that suited their purposes, and they made the most out of it. When Bryan and his followers first thrust fusion upon the democrats in Nebraska in the person of Holcomb for governor and a score of other pops for other state offices, it was not done with any political principle or political party in view. The conglomer, tlon had no principle, neither had it any party. The only thing it had in view was r “office, salary and provender.” It takes great and righteous principles and | be won and temporary advantages held for | A season by the rewards and perquisites of | | corruption The move- ment met with temporary favor solely be- cause the republican machine had become disgustingly corrupt and disregarded the interests of the state and of the people and willfully defied the law, and a feeling pre- vailed that anything that would dethrone the machine would be acceptable. Fusion was conceived in the emergency of the situation and prevailed. But no sooner had the fusion machine—which was simp a Kicked-out branch of the republican mi chine—been instated in the statehouse than they began where the other fellows left off and at the close of the Poynter ad- ministration was as brazen-faced in its was ever charged against the Bill Stout gang, only they were some. what more sanctimonious fn dofng it. Had it not been for fusion and its death-dealing effect upon all and everything it has ever touched the democratic party in Nebraska would today be in a solid column and ready to face and defeat any political foe that dared to cross swords with it. As it ls, it has no state leader, no state organization and but little it any hope for the future, and all because it was made a tool to satisty the pop greed and scramble for office by becoming a party to fusion, a thing with- out principle and an incoherent mass with- out a party name. Until the party passes into the hands and is directed by brains that display honest intentions and sincerity of purpose the ranks of democracy will con- tinue to grow thinner and weaker and those of the republicans thicker and stronger. BITS OF WASI hings of Men and Events at the National Capital, On November 1 the Treasury department put Info circulation the first of its new issue of $10 buffalo bills. The note is so ramed because of the central figure, which 18 @ large buffalo, standing in a position as though to charge on an enemy. It le the largest single figure ever placed on a treas- ury note and, at the time the design was adopted, fear was cxpressed by some that it was hardly suitable. It has been founa that small vignettes are more eerviceable, as they take up the ink more readily than a large figure. Altbough the buffalo bills have been in circulation less than four weeks, says the Brooklyn Eagle corre- spondent, a number of them have found thelr way back to the treasury for redemp- tion, being elther too mutilated, smeared or disfigured for further use. In all of the bille thus returned the buf- falo has been sadly disfigured. The ex- planation for the short life of these bills is that they were put Into circulation be- fore being properly cured. Nome of the notes of the new issue (s moro than a couple of months old and some of them have not heen from the pross more than thirty days. When it is possible to do so the treasury officlals subject thelr paper currency to a treatment of six months or a year before sending them out. That much time 18 required to permit the ink to be- come thoroughly absorbed and to let the paper dry out. Thie is called the curing process and it is a very important factor in the life of a note. There was a great de- mand for $10 notes at about the time the new ones came from the Engraving and Printing bureau and the buffalo bills had to 0 out before they were properly cured, Frank W. Bicknell of Des Mofnes, Ia., one of the best known political writers of the west, 18 In Washington. Mr. Bickoell has received an appointment under the Depart- ment of Agriculture to investigate cond!- tions In South America, with a view to se. curing information of value to prospective investors there. He is accompanied by his wite, who will go south with him. He ex- pects to be gone at least one year and pos- eibly two years. “When T left Des Moines,” said Mr. Biok- nell to a Washington Post reporter, “Rep- resentative Hull was very 11l and I under- stand it 1s doubtful if he will be here for the opening of congress. Ho was taken sick early 1o the fall with some sort of lung trouble, but was well on the way to re. covery until he went outdoors to vote. This brought on a relapse and he has been in a serious condition since. “I_do not helieve the claims of the antt- Hull 'men that the captain will have such a hard fight on his hands for renomination next spring. He 18 opposed by Judge Prouty of the district bench of Des Molnes, who has quite a following, but I think ths Prouty men are more nolsy than numerous. In my opinion Prouty doesn't stand oue chance in a thousand. Many of the friends of Mr. Cummins, the newly elected gov- ernor, are opposed to Hull; and, as Cum- mins carried Des Moines and Polk county of | by & big majority, they figure that a Cum- mins candidate for representative can de the same thing. This is where they are mistaken, for many of Mr. Cummins' stanchest supporters are Hull men —tn It President McKinley's portrait is pus on one of the postago stamps of this coun try, as dispatches from \Washington have said is likely to be done in case the Post offico department brings new fasue, his portrait will be the A presi- dent to be uned in that way As the regular seri stamps the Columblan, Transmississippi American exposition fssues. has fn circulation with only slight changes in water marks and the like since 1800, a change of some sort is expected soon by philateliste. Ever since Unclo Sam's postofice began making stamps, in 1847 or thereabouts, the face of Washington has appeared on one of the stamps in every regular issue and with a sjugle exception on a stamp of low value and general Benfamin Frank {lin's face has alwaye adorned postage stamps of low value and has thus becomo familiar to people who send or letters ever since 1847 | Presidents other than faces have appeared Jefferson, Jackson Madison and Taylor Of the stamps of higher values the S-cent stamp now bears Sherman’s picturo, the 10 cent Webster's, the 15-cent Clay's, the 20 cent Jofferson's, the b0-cent Jeffarson’s, tha $1 stamp Perry's, the $2 Madison's and the 5 Marshall's ninth of excluding and Pan- now been use recetve Washington whoss the stamps Lincoln, Garfield, Grant, on aro Mr. Gorman will meet with a warm recap tion when ha takes his seat in the senate next March, says a letter to the New York Tribune. No matter how much they may eriticise the politiclan, no matter how dis tasteful his methods may be, Gorman, tha man, is warmly liked by his former leagues in the upper house of cong . where he hegan 1ife as a page more than Balf a century ago. In those early days tha political ambition of the future senator from the state of Maryland was born, tha profession, which ho bad the opportunity to study from the inside, appealed to him and he made castlos in Spain wherein he dreamed of himsalf as a great senator clap ping his hands to some small boy to come and do his bldding. Young Gorman pro posed, however, to go west and carve out his fortune. There seemed to him no pros- pect of advancement in his native state, and he piled up his pennies with a hope koma day of waking a career on the other side of the Alleghanies. He would doubtless have carried out his intention had it not beem for the counsel of Stephen A. Douglas, wha took a deep Interest in the boy. “Staw In your own state,” he said, “study politicy and come back to the senate some day: it 18 & simpler matter than it seems.” Tha advice of the “Little Glant” decided him. Young Gorman remained in Maryland, which state, his opponents say, ho has time and again carried in his inside pocket, doing as he chose with fts people and its for- tunes. Serfously, his personal influence can hardly be overestimated. “I went to tha senator,” said one of his followers, discuss- ing the recent election in Maryland, “to protest against a memsare which he was col advocating. 1 was violently opposed to it and believed when 1 sought him out that nothing could alter my opinion. Mr. Gor- man ltstened to me with the greatest cour tesy and let have my say without uttering a word until I had exhausted all my argu- ments. Even then he sald very little, very, very little, and how the little he did say made me alter my whole point of view [ have never been able to understand.' WHITTLED TO A POINT. Philadelphia Press: *“What lov eyes she has," “"Yes; herevitary. h!’ T suppose her mother--* No, her father. He was a puglits New York Sun: “It's a small village." 8o gmall they call a shop « store? “Oh, smaller than that. They call a store an emporfum.’ Chicago Tribune: The guide was showing him the big trees about 2,000 years old. What a twentieth century club it would make!” commented the professor Mrs, ddie-My His buttons are for- s supposed to ha Pittsburg Chronicle: husband'’s so slipshod. ever coming off. Mrs. Goode (severaly)—Perhaps they are not sewed on properly Mrs. Gaddle-That's Just it, He's awfully careless about his sewfng Brookly Mr. ously)—And how " do the butcher, love Mrs. Newlywed—Oh, splendidiy. an, Mortime such a generous order a four-pound ronst he aiw one welghing six or seven. Eagle: Newlywed (soleit you get along with Ho 4 When ¥ sends Chicago Post: “No, it wasn't a_marriage for love. It was simply oue of conven- fe il they'ro tired of 1t Already.” How do you know?"* I asked "her where they spent their honeymoon, and she said they hadn't had any honeymoon—it was all glucose." “I maintain,” sha Indlanapolls News: sald, raising her volce, “that the oid and oft ‘repeated assertion that women talk more than men has no foundation what- ever In fact ““Then why,"” asked the man fn the casa, “Is our common language universally called the ‘mother tongue? " Chicago Tribune: “It seems to me,” ex- postulated the traveler, “vou charge an awfully high figure for a ride across your Mttle isthmus.” “But where will you way,”" argued the ticket sell at Colon, “that affords such a fine view of a revoh tion from the car windows?" Yonkers Statesman: ‘“I'm getting a_littls susplclous of our bookkeeper,” sald one of the partners to the other You are?’ sald the surprised one. Yes; I'm afrald — there's something crooked with his books." “What fn the world gave you that idea?" “Why, yesterday a_band of music passed the office, and the bookkeeper never left his desk for a moment to look out of the window!" find_another rafl- THE SONG OF THE SETTLEME! . A. Bashford in London Spectator I 8ing & song of the West land, Though how shall a song bug taf To capture the blue horizons That swallow the prairie tratl! And how shall letters and paper Tmprison the breadth of life’ They know, who travel the prairie, Who know the song of its strife— The shouting nights, when the blizzard Is reeling across the plain, The lagy hum of the west wind At play with the gleaming grain sigh of the sleeping grassland the low-hung golden moon, The song of the waving wheat (ops Ablaze with the crown of noon. The low hoarss volce of the hun His eyes, and thelr warning gleam, That creep in moccasined silence, The old log-trall to the stream. The sudden rap of the rifle, The fall of a startled moose, The dav-long wult—and at evening The songs In the old caboose. The glint of snow through the shadows, The echo of sharpened steel, The crack of the falling timbers, The poplar's earthward reol, The ring of sleighs on the home-trail, The glimmer of lights afar, The glow of the shanty firelight, The gleam of the evening star The wall of wolves in the darkness, The childron's song i the light, The large sweet grip of the diytiime The awe of the great decp night But how shall letters and pa Hring aught of its life to y The froftiess toll of the man The seant success of the few; The hopes and foars of the prairia, Its word to the sons of men, Nay, how should a velume hold it, Inscribed with & human pen?