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

5 Iy BEE EDITOR. ot 0 De- g Hall ts, Kireet Butlding. Businses addresned Omaha & REMITTANCES, Remjt by draft, express or postal order, o yab) The HBee Publishing Company, nly 2 wtamps mecepted in payment of nall b tn, Personal checks, except on MANG OF bastern exchanges, not sccepted. HE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Dou County, »s.} George B Taechick, secretary of The Tes {Publishing Compuny, being Quly sworn lsays that the actual number of full an |gomplete oopies of The Daily, Morin \Bvening and 8 nted the month of wis Hows 1 2 vember, | | | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1901. BILLS RELATING TO TRUSTS. Representative Littlefield of Maine, one of the best constitutional lawye congress and an earnest advocat ot trust regulation troduced in the One of measures blicity, requiring all cor- ugaged o interstate | merce to returns with the y trensiry declaring thelr true ancial condition and eapital stock and poses a tax upon such as hav ing to trusts these e for p v com ry porations f ,- the out | No sentimental cons standing capital stock unpatd in whole | or in part. The | facts that sha measure speciies corporations to which in ding organization and mpanies, authorized capital stock w the amount issued, outstanding and p in, total indebtedness and nature same, with purpose for which it incurred, assets and labilities, total earnings and income, operating ex ws, salaries of officials and wages of This appe ielently comprehensive to meet the recommenda tion of President Roosevelt that the public should bhe given full knowledge of the condition of the great industrial co: porations. Whoever swears to a return falsely 13 to be deemed gulity of per jury and punished according to the fed eral laws governing that offense. The other bill proposes amendments to | the Sherman anti-trust law along the | same general lines as those adopted by the house of representatives last winter, but they go somewhat farther. The most important of them provides that no per- it applies. 1 constity > b of was employes % 1o be su 30,6560 | 0,370 | o | 30,210 140,330 30,268 30,140 | 40,210 40,000 30,160 0,110 30,240 Total g g 21,808 | Less unnold and raturned 10,301 LB11,684 30,884 | B TZECHUCK. | ribed In_my presence and sworn to this th day of November, A. D M. B HUN ; ‘otary Public Net total sales Net dally rage GED, Bubs betors m 191 (Beal) The movement to secure a more equa distdbution of tax burdens Is worthy | the best efforts of every patriotic citizen of Omaha Taking the fire and police board out of politics by vestlng the appolntment | of its members with the governor is the very funnlest yet The entries for the next meeting of th National Live Stock association show a | full fleld and no favorites. Omaha ought to land it—if not this time, cer "tainly next time. A committee of the Methodist church i now engaged in revising the hymnal. Up to the present time the illustrious {Prof. Triggs has not been requested to act with the committec —_— by making your holiday purchases In Omaba. You will find no better bargains anywhere than those offered by Omaba werchants in the ad vertising columns of The Bee, A Kansas Clty man who that he bud been following of burglary for thirteen years re fifteen-year sentence, Two ye 18 certaloly not usurious interest, John Redell 13 reinstated for the mo ment as fire chief, but only long enough it have a clalm for seven months' back pay, which his lawyers will take pleas ure In absorblug us soon as the mouey s in sight Queen Willelmina might adopt the ex pedient tried with eminent s v others. 1t the family jars are to up and the servants continue to gossip, | let them and do |housework for a tim confessed the trade her dismixs her own | he Colomblan government now holds | Colon with u firm grip. Out of respect for our readers we shall refraln from wmaking the Interrogation point that the period ought soon to be reached to put a Tull stop to the troubles in that vieinity, Now that the umpire 18 out of reach for the season and the ball pls takjng a rest, the magnates all the noise. Thy before the public months, even if i leagues must | be born und killed off in the interval, A Sfoux City cluirvoyant who ndver: tlses to loeate missing treasure for other \people Is axking the police to assist her i recovering stolen from her apartments. She Is evidently in the same class with the doctor who take his own medicine, ——— Council Blufts merchants are moving tor lower fire lnsurance Omaha content to refer the mat ter to a Cowmnercial club commit whose action, or rather inaction, Is dic tated by a little coterle of Insurance agents looking out for themselves, game must be Kept durlng the cold money refuses (o rates The “exclusive tip” given to the demo. pop paper by o member of the supreme court commission does not reflect eredit upon the court. When supreme court declslons can be tipped off to favored Imewspapers & month in advance the courts the respect to which they are entitl . e Nebraska has $0,500,000 invested in public school bulldings and property used for educationsl purposes. This does not Include the lurge snms invested in privaie and denomivational educational tnstitutlons. For a young state contain Wng Nttle over L0000 population this s a record to be proud of. The best tiunnclers of Mexleo now as- sert that couutry must lnevitably get upon # gold basls, as the depreciation in sliver 1s demoralizing all business, par sticularly the export aud lmport trade, Of the really progressive countries Mexico alone has been steadfast to sil | who furnishes evide son shall be excused from attending or testifying iu proceedings-against a trust | or monopoly, or from producing in court books, papers, contracts, agreements and documents, on the ground that such ac tlon might incriminate him. Any person | e of this kind is made exempt from prosecation. It is a | question, of course, whether legislation | of this kind would be sustamed by the courts, but it appears to be obviously necessary if the anti-trust law i t wade fully effective. Another proposed amendment provides that any civil or rimiinal proceeding wuthorized under the act may be beguu by any person, firm or corporation in the name of and in behalf of the United States, This proposed legislation is in general aceord with th sstions of the presi- | dent, who said in bis message: “It is no limitation upon property rights or dom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privi lege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, und enables thew to call into their enterprises the capitul of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful represe fons as to the value of the property in which th to be Inves be sug fress | | | | the | annually returned by | it | | not unconstitutional. | tionlzing the the southern countries. It ought to be apparent to any one who will give in telligent attention to the matter that in order to get our proper of the commerce of the 53,000,000 people in the Spanish-American republics must have closer relations with them, particu larly in th ation ferations will bring It can be had only lication of business prin share matter of commun us this trade through the apy THE POLICE COMMISSION DECISION The decision ren in the Redell anomalies of Nebraska jurisprodence that would puzzle and perplex a Phila delphia lawyer. The only issue made in the Redell case was as to whether the police board appointed by the mayor and couneil could remove an officer filling a position created by the charter. The district court, through Judge Es telle, had held that the board of police commissioners hed no right to try and d by the supreme court case Is one of the | remove the chilef of the fire department because the charter provided other meth of removing charter officers In other words, Judge Estelle held that the mayor and council alone had authority to depose Redell or appoint bis succes. sor and that power could not be dele- ods | gated to the police board. The supreme court has reversed Judge Estelle's decision, holding that the ex- 1sting police board has the right to ap- point, discipfine and remove all officers of the fire and police departments. Incl- dentally the supreme court has gone out of its way to express the opinion that the charter provision that authorizes the appointment of members of the fire and police commission by the governor Is In taking th sition the majority of the that its former decision on this ques was erroneous and 18 therefore re While the supreme court doubtless has the right to change its mind concerning priticiple or construction of the law right of the court to reopen any on which a final decision has been rendered and rehearing denled by any | possible substitution of parties to th suit cannot be exercised without revolu- whole system of judicial government. Carrled to its natural se quence, uo judgment rendered by a court f last resort could ever be considered final. The death, resignation or removal f a single judge might reopen the most vital decisions, destroy vested rights in property aud jeopardize the stability of government. There certainly could be I bility of our Institutions if they we subject to with in the persounel of supreme st change o every change courts, Thix was the position taken by The capital is | Bee at the time Governor Poynter unde Corporations enguged in | took to appoiut a fire 1 police com- }1and 414 not | mony with these institutions.” lin | that In spite of highe interstate commerce should be regulated | wission for Omaha in spite of the final if they ure found to exercise a license | Judgment rendered by the supreme court working to the public injury. Great | establishing the right of the mayor and orporations exist only because the couneil to appoint the board and affirm- created and safeguarded by our fustitu- | Ing the titles of the present commission. tions and it is therefore our right nnd! % While the supreme court consid our duty to see that they work in har- | ered the discussion of the case sought to be brought by the late attorney general —_——— as an attempt to Influence its final ac- GERMANY'S TARIPF NTRUGGL m and fmposed a tine upon this paper. What 18 spoken of as perbaps the | for alleged contempt, it nevertheless re- greatest parliamentary struggle that | 4rmed its former decision and upbeld Germany has ever faced was inaugu- | the position of The Bee that to reopen rated 1u the Reichstag last Monday, | !¢ case and set aside the original judg- when the imperial chancellor opened the | 0ent would be judicial anarchy. debate ou the new tariff bill. No coun-| The view expressed i the Redell case try has a greater Iuterest in the result | MG to the valldity of the charter of this struggle than the United States, | PFOVIsions granting the appointing pow- since it the proposed measure becomes | “ £ the governor must, therefore, be Jaw our agricultural products will suffer | Ousidered in the light of the former from it wore than those of any other | TWHNE Of the court and not necessarily country. 1t Is distinctively designed to| % Affecting the rights of the present protect the agricultural interests of Ger. | COWMIssion to continue in oftice. wany, for which purpose it provides for | u rul advance on foodstuffs of from 30 to 300 per cent. Such an increase dutics must Inevitably have a v serfous effect upon our trade with Ger muny in foodstuffs, for although the secretary of the imperial treasury suid duties on cereals | the government hoped to come to an| understanding with the United States, | L I% Dot eaxy to see what sort of under- | standing could be reached that would be of any advantage to our trade and | at the same time give German agri- | culture the protection the agrarians de mand, There 18 a very strong opposition to the bill, which is said to be more power ful outside than inside the German I'ar lament, but It appears improbable that it can compass the defeat of the mens- ure, notwithstanding the fact that ex isting Industrial conditions in Germany are most untavorable to legislation that will ralse the cost of food. One Berlin paper declares that the proposed tarif will drive a large proportion of the working classes back to a diet of bluck bread and potatoes, According to the World-Herald “the acknowledged leader of the more repu- table element of republicans in Douglas county” w closeted for three hours with Governor Savage a weck ago to im- press upon his excellency the advantage that would accrue to the party and the state by the selection of a-uew police hoard from the so-called “more reputa- ble” faction of the party, as distinguished from the less reputable faction, It is a most significant commentary upon the brand of republicans that love to style themselves “reputable” that its leaders have been actively identitied within the pust twenty years with crooked state house officials, treasury embezzlers and party wreekers who made it a four years' task for honest republicans to redeem Nebraska and bring it back Into the re- publican column. 1t is also very signifi- [ cant that this self-styled “reputable” faction of the republican party always finds a champlon In the demo-populist an that has stood In with recreant republican officials whom the party has been compelled to repudiate, The Missourl snpreme court has just ruled that the franchises of the privi leged corporations are proper subjects to assessment for taxation even where the corporation does an interstate business, The value to be put on it, it says, can be ascertalned by au estimate on some Just rule of the part of the whole sub- Ject to the local Jurisdietion, The eva slon of taxes on valuable franchises cannot be carried on much longer, sy We are promised four high-toned way-up business men on the governor's new fire and police board. We have had several high-toned police commissioners | In the past appointed under the Russell Churchill regime, including Paul Van- dervoort, Captain Palmer and W, J. Broateh, but so far as we can remember there was no perceptible difference in publie morals, the soelal evil, the lquor traffic or Sunday eclosing. A BARRIER Senator Depew, ju his address at the | opening of the Charieston expositic ald that our tallure to eapture or hold | trade with the countries to the south of s Iy due o the fuct that we have aban- | He declared that until ships under the American flag are carry- ing Amerlcan merchandise and estab lishing routes and ports and banking fa cllities for Amerlcan commerce, we can- not possess and enjoy our inheritan, that is, the souther trad which should be ours. The New York senai expressed the opinfon that when the isthmian canal {s built and opened by the United States our poverty on the ocean will make It the opportunity of ourerivals, That, however, will be at least ten years hence and perhaps a con slderably longer time, and in the mean- time It is to be expected that we shall fmprove our position on the ocean. There is no doubt as to the correct ness of Senator Depew's view that the lnck of Awerlean ships under our own flag In the ocean-carrying teade is largely responsible for our failure to obtain mpre of the trade of the countries of South und Central Americ That was poluted out years ngo by representa tives of those countries who attended first pan-American terence and some of the delegates to the conference now In sesslon in the City of Mexico TO TRADE. doned the se Democratic national express the opinlon that the national platform adopted at Kansas City will stand until the next convention meets in 1004 and that congressmen have no right to tamper with it. Possibly e building the structure would be Irregu lar and contrary to law, hut ne vepairs might made to | from falling to the ground — The bills Introduced into congress for the deportation of foreign aunarchists committeemen SRary vent it ntirely, he wer up to the present, but the logle of oveatls s tuo stroug for sentiment, have referred to the fact in explanation of our slow progress in gululug trade In now here aud the exelusion of this cluss in the future may be all right as far as | Loowening Monarchical Grips. Indianapolis News. Denmark retires from this side of the ocean and the American eagle gives another scream for the Monroe doctrine. 4 Kida Get Gay, agn Record-Herald Sir Henry Irving at 63 says: “I am not old. In England we count & man young until Sir Henry's words will no doubt make the boys who are hovering around 50 | teel quite chipper again i A Forta Safety Valve, | Chicago Post Ireland continues to hold the European | record for low percentage of crimes. The | Irish laugh and the Irish joke are great safety valves for impulses which are often langerous when repressed The 014 Rule Sticks. Globe-Democrat A new rule has been adopted by the west. ern raliroads for the treatment of the bag- gage question, but the old rule of carry- ing trunks the top of the car before dropping them on the platform will never be abrogated Lop Off the Danger. B: Express. Speaker Henderson did not put it too strongly when he spoke of the treasury surplus as a great danger. A reduction in revenue which would at the same time in- crease American export trade would be the | most creditable record this congress could | make Filing & Useleas Kick. York Tribune Our Canadi lends have now and then been open to a suspicion of obstreperous- ness. But in the suggestion that the Do- minion should turn the cold shoulder to the | mother country for revenge because Eng- ame the new Isthmian canal | treaty to Canada’'s liking they beat the record all out of sight w Trick of the Sugar Trust. New Orleans Times-Democrat The sugar trust cut its prices in the northwest to kill the beet sugar industry | of that section, while it advanced them elsewhere to make good the losses thus occasioned. This i one of the favorite | tricks of trusts and any legislation that will check or prevent it will prove a practical reliet and benefit in these times, | when it seems so difficult to frame a law against the s ‘that the officers elected | by the people or the courts will put in| operation = Large Truth in One Sentence. | Kansas City Star. President Roosevelt says in his message: a single instance in which a masterful race such as ours, having been forced by the | exigencies of war to take possession of an | alien land, have behaved to its Inhabitants | with the disinterested zeal for their prog- | ress that our people have shown in the | Philippines.” Contrast this truthful dec- | measure that | sectidas not direc | progect | enor andie such matte) | “History may sately be challenged to show | BOUSH to handie such matters | ating revelations concerning the Moutana i they go, but they overlook certain im- portant facts, All three of the presi- deuts aseinated up to date met their death at the hands of men born this ountry IRRIGATION SENTIMENT. Enstern Congressmen Unde &e for the Bett A marked feature of the trend of publie sentiment observed at the openin, | gress is the change front of | representatives on the subject of re | the arid lanas the D closing days of the preceding eastern representatives were opposition to all irrigation plans appropriations argument and a ring the ongre ed to assist in per will best conserve the inter- ests of the pation in the west. The Wash ington correspondent of New York Evening Post reflects the prevailing sent ment and discusses the subject as foliows opponents of this project that it | thoss inevitable things which it to resist, and that perhaps the best cou sel for thoughtful representatives of the tly intérested is to try to control irrigation expenditures, keeping them In the right direction and along hon- est and intelligent lines, rather than oppose them altogether. This view cropping out very widely in personal con. versations, and will doubtiess make itselt telt in legislative action 1 “Few subjects have ever summoned the attention of the American people in which there was so distinctly a right way and a wrong way, an honest policy and what would probably be a dishonest one years the battle has been raging in the west, in the country to be affected by the development of irrigation, and the east has assumed that in the quarrel it had no part This view, too, is changing and many eastern members now feel that they can as in | | the alternatives offered over irrigation. For 0 | of con- | in | arrying | Now they are ready to hear | € a | day a feeling is creeping over former | one of | useless | Oceans of Hair! Long, flowing tresses! Rich and heavy braids! Beauty, splendor, elegance! Ayer’s Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. Tt always restores color to gray hair, stops falling of the hair, keeps the scalp clean and healthy. “T have tried many kinds of hair tione, Dut pone of them.will restors natural color to.gray hair equal.to Ayer's Hair r” Mrs. M. J. Mancrw, Somoer, Mise. J.C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. - $1.00. Al drugeists. afford to have some share in the irrigation | in order to participate in the de- cision as to ite methods, and so join the better element of the west In its warfare the lower. One phase of the con- test is that between state control of irri gation and national control. For m: years an effort has been making to brir about the ceesion of the public lands by th national government to the states, but t has raised such an earnest protest on the part of those who have realized how un- fitted the Rocky mountain legislatures were for dealing with large property in that the old demand has oblige assume a new and disguised form the politico-epeculative Interests now Is & “state engineer syste: by which the tederal government, while nominally trolling irrigation for which it would pay In reality would be turning the actual m agement upon which local land values pend, over to the state politiclans been to “In the arid west, to control the water is to control the land, and hence room is afforded for unlimited scandal if the ex- penditure of government money be turned | over to what is called the state engineers There i6 no use mincing words. The Rocky | mountain legisiatures not - honest the nause- legielature are fresh in the public and yet in spite of them and the fin of the eenate committee, that stat promptly re-clected W. A. Clark senate, mind, dings b to the | 18 said to be more reasonable in its terms | | tion | The Arizona territorial legislature | But 1t majority of be to their then wers may be open to question seems plain that the great m favor the change, and of the present generation islands thus lying off ¢ might without the lea in E offense to us remain | possession forever, they we objects of barter n powers, but whe sent owners sh There is 1o reason | suppose tha power is inclined the propr of that tates has'no desire to ou nds from thelr West In g the sale possessions. And there is no indl that any of them want to But if in the fut any of them get Tid of such precedent now set by Denmark will doud commend itself to their friendly con- siderati nge y holdings. It their COMMENT ON THE WMESSA §t. Louls Globe-Democrat message is mprehensive poluted and eminently satis the expression of a sane, public virile American. (rep.) st I Louie Republ cates that Mr. Ro; (dem.) s tone indi- tevel ready come | ¢ laration with that made a few days ago by | han that in Montana; a gentleman in this Mr. Bryan, who called the United States occupation a “despotism.” Texa#¥and the Trusts. Chieago Tribune. A year ago Texas authorities sue- ceeded in depriving of the right to do bus ness in Texas the local corporation which represented the Standard Ofl company. has now defeated a brewers' combine. These are Indeed victorles. No other state can show such a record. This s not so much that Texas has & rigid anti-trust law as it is because state officials think It can be and ought to be enforced. two brewing companies cannot do business in Texas, the Texans who like their beer Its shipment to them Nor s it likely that beer will be any cheaper in Texas because of the expulsion of these two companies. In this case it will be difficult to see what Texas will have gained by this “famous victor: Some the state will be withdrawn, but there will be no gain. Texas needs all the capital it can get. PERSONAL NOTES, Indlan summer has December. Harvard's fresbman basket ball team had a deficit of 25 cents, but foot ball netted $36,122.41. A statue of Christlan Dewet was un- veiled last week at Schiers ein on the Rhine. The funds for the monument were collected throughout Germany by the Chris- tian assoclation State Senator M. P. Warner of Cuyahoga county, Ohlo, is framing a bill to Introduce into the next legislature providing that bar- tenders must pass an examination and re- celve a license from the state before being permitted to dispense liquld refreshments. Robert Johnson, & former millionaire, who owned & handsome mansion at Mount St. Vincent-on-the-Hudson, and twelve years ago was worth $2,000,000, is now liv- ing in one room of the barm, cooking his own meals, washing his own linen and mending his own clothes. Ex-Governor Llewellyn Powers of Maine, who is the successor of Congressman Charles A, Boutelle, served in congress more than twenty years ago, when Sena- tors Hale and Fryo were among his col- leagues from Maine. Mr. Garfield and Gov- ernor Powers occupled adjoining seats. When Senator Aldrich went to Washing. ton twenty years ago he was a compara- tively poor man with a large family. Today he 18 reputed to be several times a mil- lonaire. The toundation of his fortune was lald In consolidating the strest rall- ways of Providence, which he stlll con- trols. What s said to be one of the earliest known maps of America has been discov- ered in the Mbrary of Wolfegg castle, which belongs to Prince Von Waldburg-Wolfegg. The map was drawn In 1507 by Martin Waldses Muller, by whom America is said to have been named after tho explorer Amerigo Vespucel Mrs. Jenkins, the wife of Governor Jen- Kins of Oklahoma Territory, Is a Quaker preacher and 1s noted for her charitable acts, She fills the pulpit of the local Quaker church every Sunday and visits regularly the United States jall in Guthrie and ministers to the material as well as the spiritual wants of the prisoners The McKinloy National Memorial Arch assoclation, at Washington, which proposed o bulld a memorial arch In that eity in memory of President McKinley, will dis- band because of confiicting interests with the association that means to bulld a na tional memorial at Canton. The Washing- ton effort will lend fts ald to secure money to bulld the Canton memorlal President Roosevelt and Governor Odell are planning to have about 5,300 Indlans living in New York state become voters, but because this right the franchise would carry with it the payment of taxes lapped over {into on 87,000 acres of productive farm land many of the Indians, entirely satisfled with exemption from taxation without repre- scatation, are opposed to the propesition. | But while these | can send to St. Louls or Milwaukee for it. | nnot be prevented. | foreign capital which has been Invested in | | clty who is famillar with the local situg~ | | tion, aseerts that he has been told in Arl- zona that a majority vote could be pro. cured for any measure for an expenditure | of $4,000. Other tales sbound of the low | standard of public morality in these mewer | states, and 0 far as Montana is concerned they are of very open and notorious record. | It & evident that it will not do to turn the | irrigation project over to these states in | | any form. “The United States Geological survey is | the body which ought to do this work; it fs a scientific, non-partisan body, adminis- | tered on strict civil service reform princi- ples, and it would be able to employ such outside talent In the way of skilled en- gineers as occasion may warrant Were the irrigation plans to be carried out by the survey It Is safe to say that very little money will be wasted. If it be done by pre- tentious commissions, made up of defeated and discredited politicians, with a lot of | high salarled retalners, or if irrigation | money be turned over to the states, tho | very word will come to be synonymous of wastefulness and scandal. Between such conflicting interests the fight is now waging | in the west. he more conservative irrigationsts maintain that $3,000,000 a year with the ac- cumulations from the profits of irrigation, | elther assessed on the beneficlaries or col- | lected as rents, would be sufficient to set the enterprise into motion. This is nhl\\ll] the sum for the first year which the speciflc | projects recommended by Secretary Hitch- cock call for. This would accord with the recommendations of the president's mes- sage and with the announced policy of the republican party. When it is considered how small a part the expenses of our army or of the navy, $3,000,000 a year, with the accumulation thereon would be, many peo- | ple think that the demand of the arid west should no longer be disregarded. In time, on this basis, irrigationists maintain that | they could reclaim 100,000,000 acres of the public domaln, or about one-sixth of the | arld reglon. “There was an irrigation attachment to five bills in the last congress, and Senator Carter's death-dealing speech against the river and harbor bill was ostensibly | charged to its disregard of irrigation. Its | promotors have an active organization, with a membership, particularly among makers of agricultural implements and other artl- cles, reaching into every state in the union. It looks as if the irrigation project was about ready for the enacting clause, If so it 18 to be hoped that this will be done in & distinct bill and not as a rider to the river and harbor appropriations; in the latter case the sums would be llable to partake of the “give and take" system of the rest of the bill, which would be dis- astrous to any far-reaching scientific plans. be Another Monarchinl Hold on the Now World About to Let Go. New York Tribun Word comes from Copenhagen that a full agreement has been reached between Den- mark and the United States for the sale to the latter of the former's West India possessions. It is added that the treaty to that effect will probably be signed at Washington this week It {s an arrangement upon which both parties to It are to be congratulated, for it 18 to the evident advantage of both The islands are of little value to Denmark Indeed, some have plausibly argued that Danish possession of them was a detriment both to Denmark and to the islands. They will be of value to the United States; in some respects of more and in some perhaps of & little less value than they would have been before we obtained possession of Porto Rico. At any rate, they will be of value to us, and will prove well worth their cost which, according to present report, Is to be considerably less than the sum which was proposed to be pald for them & gen- eration ago. Whether the people of the {slands are as upanimously in favor of transfer to United Btates possession as they | to thetr views. | ness of a trained intelligence. | may mention the paragraph which rela under the restr leade & influence of the p s and is largely surrendering himse Boston Globe (dem.): word to apply to the message. No one will deny that President Roosevelt makes a strong argument in favor of national irri- gation in the arid regions of the west. Chicago Tribune (rep.): President Roos Velt's message is like the man—practical business-like, stralghtforward, earnest and strenuous. Though a literary man as well as statesman, there is no attempt at fine writing in it. Chicago Inter-Ocean (rep.): The message 1s like Roosevelt. It is thoughttul, vigorous, | well written and markedly fndividual has the charm of his personality, the strength of his character, the fair-minded- Vigorous is a good Philadelphia Ledger (ind.): It is a formi- dable state document, but it is readable throughout. The message 1is thoroughly American. It departs altogether from the stereotyped form and one looks in vain lnr‘ the ordinary arrangement of topics. Every | American ought to read it Minneapolis Journal (rep.): It is the| message of & man so intent upon the affairs which tradition compels him to discuss in & formal manner, that he has little time to | consider the literary form of the s ment. To put it in homely fashion: says what he has to say and quits. New York Post (ind.): Except in a few features President Roosevelt's message is lacking in definite recommendations, but these few are of first-rate importance. As instances of vagueness in the message we to reciprocity and the one in reference to ship subsidies. Chicago News (ind.): President Roose- velt’s messago to congress will strengthen the public confidence in him as & man of broad outlook, high purpose and common | senso. His language s notably clear and | direct. It has the accent of personal con- vietion, but it is everywhere temperate and restrajned | Minneapolls Times (Ind.): As to the re- | ception of the message with the people | there need be no doubt. It will not sult | the billionatre, nor the radical popullst. It | will please, unreservedly, almost, that vast | majority of citizens who occupy the planes | between those of the mighty rich and the discontented agitator. Kansas City Star (Ind.): No document | ever put forth by a chief executive of the | United States has been more thoroughly balanced or conservative. The president in- sists upon the most absolute efclency in the conduct of public affairs and the firm | repudiation of everything in the shape of | doubtful policies as expedients to the end of partisan success. Indlanapolis Journal (rep.): The Ameri- can citizen who cannot feel pride, even exultation, in the utterances of the presi- dent must either be a very dull man or | lacking in that patriotism that is the foun- | dation stone of all good and lasting go ernment. 1t will be read with keenest in- st and approval by millions of Amer! and is certain to attract much atten- tion abroad New York Tribune (rep.): 1f there are| persons who have been sympathetically awalting an impassioned denunciation of trusts addressed to a low order of intelli- gence and mischevious propensities, they will be greatly disappointed in the presi- dent’'s utterances on that subject. Ile dis- cusses it in a thoroughly temperate man- ner, with clear discernment of the natural causes which have made combination the most conspleuous feature of modern indus- trial development Chicago Chronicle (dem.): If we were to select the best sentences in the message they would be those in apswer to the in. tolerable populistic ery that the country and the people are worse off now than they er w before. “It 18 not true,” he #ays, “that as the rich have grown richer the poor have grown poorer. On the con- P ore trary, never before has tho average man, the wageworker, the farmer, tho small trader been so well off as in this country and at the present time.” It is an answer to the calamityltes which Is truthful and conclusive. Hempstead Bunker megapho: Philadelphia Pre what, Fouse, 1pop does three months ago £ Jenkine to bri =0 1 nd we've bee baby mb and comp to rem prandial oratio; precede the repast — WARRIOR'S REDEMPTION d THE James Barton Adams in Denver Po On a tr By the wing its destination Cause it's 'guinst the law of nature For the waters t Dally strolls 3 Genevieve d Bull-That Bellows, Ghewing pine tree gum and thinking. j.face there rests an cager d-to-gosh-he'd-come expression, And a sigh oft rends her bosam As the sighing of the breezes Through the undraped trees reminds her By the mournful sighs they're sighing 8he has something. too, to sigh for. Just a year ago this winter She had told her dusky lover, Simon-Guess-Which-Shell-T's-Under, That he was no longer worthy Of ‘a place in her affections; He no longer was a_warrior, In his soul no longer panted For the warpath of his fathers, As the dog from country panteth After racing with a tin can stened to his rear extension om the town to which he'd ventured; He no longer kneit before her Begging her to pick the bird-shot From his auburn epidermis, Sent there by the watchful settier Who was guarding well his horses In the shadows of the nighttime As they fed upon the ranges In the past diys of their wooing Not a scalp had he brought to her, Not a roof from off a paleface, But the game of whisky poker, And the savings bank of faro And the craps d' Africanus And the iittle ball that danceth Round the roulette wheel had pecim "rom the helght of warrior manhood To the level of the paletace Then, with dusky hand uplifted, Bware he by the tribal Rlood-God He'd regain his reputation On the fleld of blood and carnag And had oozed into the fc T'ward the nearest railwa. Followed by her malden Now she wanders by the river, By the storied Stream aforesaid, List'ning for her darling's footprints. In her hands she holds a letter Which she often spots with kisses, For. In words misspelled and awkward has brought to her the tidin “That the foot ball season's over And his salary's in his stocking And on Umplrg limbs he's speading O'er the raflway ties toward her Flecked with blood and sadly crippled Bearing many scars of baitle, And the dandlest assortment Of inflamed, red skin abrasions And blg swollen bumps that ever, @) Your Money Back snatched prayers It you are not thoroughly satisfied with the glasses we meke for you We make a spectalty of examining children's eyes, so don't aliow the lit- tlo ones to sart with life's greatest handicap—poor sight J. C. Huteson & Co. Consulting Opticlane, 1520 Douglas St., Omaba.