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

A PAN-AMERICAN PROJECT, The fdea of a Pan-American railway connecting the rallway s«ystems of North and South America, which has recefy the approval of most of the delegates to the Pan-American of those grand projects present which atteact th without much feasibility ROSEWATER, EDITOR UBLISHED EVERY MORNING. congress, 18 one of the attention of the regard to the expenditure lerstanding BUBSCRIPTION, ¥ ERMB OF ar.$6.0 At Bee and Sunday, One 'Y trated Bee, One Year Hee rday Bee, O Twenticth Cent DELIVE, | time put questions It fact | that we do not ordinarily think of what A proposition will Ihe habit to et the question of cost depend upon clrcums That to be connection with the Isthmian canal. Al of mates made in regard to the prob cost of bullding the proposed canul and congress has no means of judging | as to the ultimate outlay of the carry ing out of that project. The whole thinz et te off in t of what it than it e the last | canal commission had made its report and It would geem that congress has to | denl with the sawe diticulties that con frouted it in the last session, with the le exception of the trouble that has 1 cleared away treaty now before the senate No far as the question of a Pan-Ame fean railway s concetned, to which the conference now In session In the City Mexico bas glven a pretty cordianl approval matter of the future which is worthy of serlous considera tlon. The task would be a great one, | fnvolving an expenditure of perhups 0,000,000, and yet not beyond the pos sibilitles of the present, which halts nothing. Oune thing Is absolutel I8 that the American pe onward march to the conque world’s trade, should not halt Wherever there Is a chan bility to conquer commerc fcan enterprise and the should be u evidence, and nowh more should this be the fact than in our trade with the countries to the south of us. Year of ARRIER, per is common cost, is \hces seems the idea today in project of building indelivery slation De- #houid be addressed to Ci artment s OFFICES, osth Rutld 1M strec 10 Pearl Strect Unity Building New York- Temple Cour Washington- 1 Fourte CORRESPONDI Communicatic torial matter should be add Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Buniness letter: nd mitta 8 should be wddr ed. TRe Bee Publishing Company, Umaha an Sorts | | | | The Om fifth il Blu Omaha 8outh € i | | Bullding k. | able | th Btreet NCE | and edi- Omaha | t is 1o will v respe cost wis REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. | Only 2-cent stumps accepted 1n payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except or Omaha or eastern exchanges, ot accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEME b by the T OF CIRCULATION. tate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8.1 S Storgs Henran: ‘sceretary of Ahe Bee Putlishing” Company, belng du worn, says that the actu mber of full and plete coples The bally, Morning, Evening and Sunday HBee printed during the month of November, 1), was us fol- v r it is a true and that in their t of the nywhere, fu posst , there Amer. American tia Sortto | o210 ion 0110 80,790 80,700 80,500 be Less unsold and roturned coples Net total sales Nt dally e . 1 R ZRCTUCR presence and mworn (o CHINESE EXCLUSION AND TRADE Bubscribed in my A good deal of before me this Wth day of November, 1901 M. B, HUNGA'T (Seal) Notary Public. e ———— Those eastern rivers managed to mahe a raise without mortgaging anything. The new Board of Education that takes possession in January will find a nice bi# overlup awaiting it as a New Year's gift. solicitude Is being shown by Ameriean merehants identitied with Chinese teade as to the possible ef: fect of a continuance of the policy of ex clusion upon our commerclal relations with China. The matter is one which way wean much more than {8 commonly supposed in to the door principle for this country has contended in and eastern mer chants doing in that empire are considerably ied about it. While they make no objection to regu latious for excluding American merchants a that there shall be of the exclusion law it less severe in its operation respecting Chinese merchants, travelers and stu dents coming to the United States. It is pointed out that under existing conditions a Chinese merchant coming to the United States Is liable to be sub Jected to inconveniences and even In diguities which if practiced by the Clinese government woward American werchants in China would cause a sever ice of diplomatic relations, yet it seems to be expected that China will tolerate this treatment of her citizens without complaint. Particular exception is taken to the bill introduced in the house of representutives by Representative Kahn of California and refeiced to the foreign affaivs committee, which Is more drastic in ity provisions than the existing law, This mensure provides, among other things, that every Chinese person or per son of Chinese descent seeking admis slon at any port of the United States or its territory upon the ground that he is an official of the Chinese govern- ment, a teacher, a student, a werchant, or a traveler for curiosity or pleasure, shall be required, as a prerequisite to such admission, to deliver to the diplo matle representative of the United States at the port or place from which e comes u certiticate, in duplicate, in the English language, of the govern ment of which Le way at the tin cltizen or subject, with his photograph attached, identifying him and glyving all details as to himself. 1t is urged In regard to this extraor dinary requirement that it will have the ffect to prevent a great wany Chinese | merehunts, anxious to do business with | American merchauts, from coming to this country to investigate and to enter into trade arvangements, with the result | that our with Chinn will be fously injured and a material advan tuge given to our competitors for this valuable trade. This view of the matter seews to be entively plausible and while the United States may be able to main taln ghie open door poli follows thut we shall be able, If the extreme policy of exvlusion now pro posed 15 earried out, to secure that shave | of the Chinese trade which we might | bave under a policy less unfriendly to the ple of China, particularly the werchunt and student classes, The United States has beeu the largest - loser commercially, the | A New York paper has come to the | treasury statistics, from t dis conclusion, after a study of the police | turbunce I China, but the of statlstics, that Birmingham, Ala, is the | our government in regard to that trouble toughest clty In the country. By redue- | hus won the friendship and contidence tng the matter to record the paper has | of (b government and people. spolled & good thing for the traveling | There is favorable promise of a growing evangelist, who always asserts the town | trade with that empire, but whether or be Is then working in Is the worst ever, | not this Is realized may largely depend upon our future policy toward China, especially 1u respect to the treatment of | her peopl respect which China business open ) promises more cold cong o he weather 1 weather, There Is working overtime to accommod fee and coul man, The treasurer of Doy pald out more thun on county warrants, ‘This shows what 1t costs the taxpayers to run the county on the credit system. — The new congressional directory again bears evidence that you can tell nothing of the Importance of the con gressman or senator by the length of the biography he writes for that publi- catlon. his the no necessity Chinese coolies, very some moditication which will render ' 18 county has 000 in interest Andrew Carnegie has been attempting to get rid of part of his surplus by en dowling libraries and universities, 1t he really wishes to discover how a surplus can be dissipated the great fron master should observe how congress works. Politiclans and officeholders around Washington are surprised at the amount of work President Roosevelt com plishes. If anyone imagined President Roosevelt would ha a sub on duty any portion of the time that person did not know the president. If any lawyer in Omaba has not yet presented his claims for the vacaney on the district beneh, now is the | time to do It. While Judge Buker has not yet resigned, the governor has al ready begun to wrestle with the ap polutment of his successor EE— This year all clusses of business men have enjoyed the benefit of seasonable weather for Christmas, Tl and the fce man, the furrier and the | clothier, the hatter and the milliner all are having their innings before Santa Claus puts fu his appearance. A Bulgarian wandered over | the boundary into Turkey, was captured | and bebeaded. Bulgaria now demands | the restoration of the soldier, As the | speeific performance of the econtract would be dificult Turkey might offer another soldier “Just as good,” possible be a coul man | soldic comierce 1t by no means The stock on the western ranges is 5 undergolng its annual extermination at the hands of the neéwspaper corre spondents. WIth plenty of feed and the animals in good condition to into | winter, the animals will be found in the usual places In the spring, ready to | nip the first tender blades of grass, — according to Ia course Chinese Latest statlstics show that the United Btates furnishes over one-third of the imports into Cuba and takes over half of the total exports of the island. Aside from the Monr doetrine this country has the paramount interest in the set tlement of affaivs in the island and, ob Jeetion or no objection, seeeding to exerc| the right that interest glves, The five franchised corporations Owaha—namely, the street railway com pany, water company, gas company, clectric lighting company and telephone compauy—are earning at least ¢ per cent on a caplitalization of $13,000,000, Thelr net earnings above operating ¢ penses are fully $1,000,000 a year. Towards this income the elty con- tributes $175,000 for water, gas, electric lights and telephones. The aggregute of the five corporations us fixed by the Board of Review and exclusive of thelr real estate assessument, which does not exceed $: 000, I8 $1,7518100 In round figures the of se which ——— The commercial agencies huve finished the compilation of the wage statistics for the year and the result shows that the avera wauges paid to labor is (he bighest ever pald in this country and greatly In excess of that paid in any other country. This would appear con clusive to many that the laborer is se- AssessIIent | ated from time to time to pay oft politl | useless appen | guibling THE OMAH with et inc sossed for $2,000,000, of over $1,000,000, are as At 40 per cent on 13,000,000 their assessment would Deen £5,200,000, that their actual proportion toward the burdens of municipnl government instead of being 40 per cent, as s that fmposed | on real property, is only about 131y per | cent tigures speak for them selves, have These MUST APPLY THE PRUNING KNIFE, When all is said and done about the | undervaluation of the property of the franchised corporations and the evasion | of t by railroad corporations and wealthy tax-shirkers, the only overburdened taxp velief that | yers can reasonably | expect must come through a vigorous | use of the pruniug knife here scores of sinecures on the county, city | and school board pay rolls that could be abolished of are These places have been cre cal debts and give soft tives and personal friends commissioners, councilmen the school board and otl tunctionaries who with the appointing powe Il supernuieraries have been increasing from year to year and cannot be pried loose from their Jobs without concerted | effort on the part of taxpaying citizens to bring about a revision of the pay rolls. Tax reform should not, however, stop short with the use of the pruning knite on salaried do-nothings. In order to bring about a material reduction in taxes the whole systew, that is now covered with rank growth of tax-eaters and s to the machinery of loeal government and publie school edu catlon, should be subjected to a search Ing iuvestigntion and the abuses exist iug loeated and pointed out to the heads of depurtiients and governing bodies with a view to the rational reduction of expenses all along the line, without dis turbing etficiency of the various branches of the public service, The greatest saving in this direction can doubtless be effected by the incom ing Board of Education, Our school | system Is notoriously top-eavy, as well | us overspread at the bottom. Many thousands of dollars can be lopped off from the annual expenditures of the school - board without fmpairing the | standard of education or injurionsly af fecting the patrons of the schools It certainly is not unreasonable to ask the men entrusted with the management i of the varlous branches of government o take the taxpayers into their conti dence and advise with them concerning the employes that are actually necessary and that can be dispensed with | without detriment to the public service. — Now that the Board of Review has completed its revision of the assessment roll, the ouly readjustment or equaliz tion of tax burdens that can be looked for must come through the council, which within the next ten days or two weeks will hold special sessions as a Board of Equalization. The functions of the council, bowever, are limited (o the power to low or ralse as sessments without Increasing the ag- gregated valuation of all the taxable property. If the councll, for example, should decide to raise the assessment of any corporation or individual tax- payer, it must lower the assessments of other taxpayers to correspond. berths to rela- | of county members of otficials and | xercise au intluen u the those | Washington dispatches announce that | Senator Dietrich has introduced a reso. lution of the State Medical society of Nebraska “In favor of an establishment of a psycho-physical laboratory in the Departiient of the Iuterior for the prac. tical application of physiological psychol- | ogy to sociological and abnormal data.” It was referred to the committee on education and labor. It the resolution had been referred to the committee on internal improvewents it might have re- celved more prompt and favorable at- tention than muy be expected from the | casy-going commitfee to which it has been referved. Western seunators and representatives are sald to have agreed upon an irviga tion biil to be presented and pushed through congress if possible. It pro vides for' the work being done by the geueral government and the money to be raised from the proceeds of the sale of public lands in the states where the | work Is done. It the general govern ment makes appropriations from (he general revenues for the improvement of eastern rivers and harbors the mem bers from that section should be willing to devote the revenue from lands which would otherwise comparatively to rendering the soll pro- be worthless ductive. chifef of police of Lincoln issued a . proclumation against the woney slot machines that lhave been i unmolested operation fu the capital city because he hud reached the conclusion that they eame unde classification of gambling devic had been led to believe all along that was not tolerated in any form within the city limits of the only truly good town In Nebraska. —_— Whe th ofit Comes | Chicago Record-Herald, The verdict in the Schley tiful It vindieates both sides and the prize money in possession of Sampson The has sage the We case is beau- ves Kling t Kansas City Journal The wideawake woman is not going to buy her husband clgars tied with blue ribbon this Christmas. That old joke played out, She Is golug to present him with some nice table linen and a new rug for the front hall vish the Though Chicago Post There is a base libel in circulation to the effect that the rallroads are fighting the {sthmian canal project. Surely everybody knows that the rallway companies fairly yearn for the completion of this waterway Flghting 1t? Preposterous! Huiny Day nd. Philadelphia Pres Savings bank deposits In this country are now the largest In the world, reaching 10,660,000 These deposits have doubled in about ffteen years rmany 5 the next e 0 is o | curing a good share of the present pros- perity, five franchised corporations, earning in- . terest and dividends on $13,000,000 and largest, $1,800,000,000 Austria-Hungary $1 240,000; France, $554,220,000, and the United Kingdom, $525,020,000. Comparisons DAILY | | 1ana 2, | Thirty | do not express any opinion radically | Dewey BEE: TUESDAY, Comment on An examina; exchanges, newspapers on of forty-four of The Bee's comprising the leading daily of the north, from Denver to the Atlantic coast, furnishes an instructive reflex of public sentiment on the divided Judgment of the court of inquiry in the case of Rear Admiral Schiey. The list in ludes Denver p Kansas City Minneapolis 8, St. Paul 2, Mil Chicago 6, Indianapolis 2, Cleve- Clncinnati 1, Pittsburg 1, Philadel phia 5, New York 3, Detroit 2, Atlanta 1 Washington 1 and other localities 7 two of this number criticise the dict of the majority of the court and con mend that of Admiral Dewey; six approve the majority verdict; three hold the divided court the {ssue unsettled and three Of the papers verdict twenty democratie and four apers 3 2, 8t Louis 3, waukee 1 [ ver leaves approving Admiral Dewey are republican, elght Independent. All but one of the six ap Proving the majority verdict are reput lican, the exception being independ ent. The six hard-and-fast opponents of Schley are the New York Sun, Buffalo Ex press, Buffalo Commercial, Chicago Inter Ocean, Philadelphia Press, Minneapolis Times. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican anti-Schley, and the Philadelphia Inquirer regard the fssue tried as unsettled as be- fore, and the Washington Post urges a Hbel =ult 4 Inst Historian Maclay as tho best means of exposing what It terms the naval conspiracy against Admiral Schley.” AS to a congressional Investiga tlon very few papers reward the suggestion with favor, pended are selections from editorial opinivns on the famous contro- vorsy Chicago supposing Post tha Thero s, for be no reason popular opinfon will affected by the result. To the people Schley will remain the hero of antingo and any minor shortcomings will be forgotten and forgiven. i Ledger: The of interest is the victory it It? The entire court conduct during the glves him the man iiladelphia central el commends battle and such credit in actual and point Who won Schley's Admiral for 1t as falls to absolute command Min best eapolis Journal: Schiey gets the Of it, after all. Who {8 there who would trade the verdict of the minority for that of the majority—who would not ratAer have the approval of than that of the two members of the court, it he couldn’t have both? Washir Post Dewey othe on Meanwhile, we have | heard from the man who has established an Hsputa are ble claim to our confidence and we profoundly convinced that he has spoken for truth, justice, right. The ver- dict the people want is De verdiet., That s enough for them. Baltimore American Admiral Schley who the verdict ha 1ay in prison five done him. the country miral ey's To those friends of may be dismayed by only to say: Dreyfus years before justice was Justice, as Admiral Dewey and know it, will yet be done Ad- Winfleld Scott Schley News: The opinion of will have more weight the judgment of a car lot of other naval men. He has been through it and he knows. There are always real conditions to meet in actual hostilities that are not to be found in the text books and which cannot be covered by theorfes Post: Al honor to Dewey, the of Manila bay, who stands forward like & man and gentleman to uphold the right and denounce the wrong; all honor to Admiral Schley, who suffered long in sl- lence, the victm of an Infamous cabal, which can no longer withhold from him the fadeless glory which s i, York World: The findings of the board will commend themselves to the com- mon sense of the great mass of people. They will be particularly gratified that Ad- miral Dewey so earnestly and so generously mitigated those adverse findings in which he felt compelled to concur by laying stresa upon Admiral Schley’s splendid conduct on the day of the battle, New York Sun: The court of Inquiry which Admiral Schley was forced Into ask- Ing for has justified his fears. In sub- stance its opinion wmounts to a verdlet of guilty as charged.” The great Schley myth that has been fabricated by ingenious ro- mancers is smashed, and a fatal blow Is glven to Schley's reputation as a naval we dianapolis miral Ad Dewey than Denver hero New DEC Schley Case officer. The curious opinion Admiral Dewey seems to show that y plung he expressed by he still triumph 1 into of the Another over experien Philadelphia Press The unanimous find- ing of the court of inquiry pleasant reading. Nearly all of the criticlsm of the admiral's conduct in the Santiago cam paign Justified by the verdict gf the court It is only fair to say that this find fng demonstrates beyond question that th late President McKinley and Secretary Long treated Commodore Schley with leniency Chicago Tribune The public knows Dewey better than it does the two rear ad mirals on the court. He commanded a fleet He won a decisive victory the enemy When he gives Schley the credit due for the glorfous victory” at Santiago he &peaks as an expert. The retired rear ad mirals speak from theory, Dewey from the knowledge gained by practical experience In twentleth century warfare. Chicago F ord-Herald We have doubt that the splendid vindication Admiral Dewey the highest and be beloved authority on naval affairs and conduct, will be accepted by the American people as thelr flnal conclusion. And It should be accepted by Admiral Schley as sufficient salve for all the “stings and ar- rows” of abuse which his vacillation be- fore May 20, 1898, invited and seemingl Justified Kansas Clty Star: Admiral Schley has come out of the inquiry, which he should never have been forced to ask for, without the shadow of a reflection on his courage or loyalty to the navy, and he can well afford to rest on the vindication which he recelved at the hands of a judge so capable of con sidering all of the and | of forming a fair and just conclusion as s | Admiral Dewey, whose magnanimity well | becomes a man who enjoys his splendid fame. Chicago Chronicle: History, sald the great | Napoleon, is a lle agreed upon. The par- | Uteular e which Interested persons u|--} king to establish as the history of the | fight at Santiago has yet bern| upon except by its authors. One man | on the side of truth Is a majority, and when that one chances to be George Dewey of Manila {t matters little what may be the agreement between the small souls who, in Schley court of inquiry, humbly registered the foul falsehoods of their su- periors. The case is still open Denver News: Dewey and Schley are the two commanders who won . the greatest American naval victorfes since the war of 1812 Dewey says Schley's management of the flect at and near Santiago was com mendable and that he s entitled to credit for the victory, The two men who did the work are on one side of the controversy. Other men who were from fifty to 3,000 miles away may think it should have been done wome other way. The country will side with Dewey and Schley. What Schley did and what Dewey approves is good enough for the people. Detroit Journal Your 'nele George Dewey can be commended by the most pro nounced Sampson advocates for writing a report in the Schley case of which every | word s true. It s true that the passage of the Schley squadron from Key West to Clenfuegos was made with all possible dig- vatch. — There was never any serious questlon of that. It Is true (hat the block- ade of Clenfuegos was effective, though It effected nothing because (here was no | enemy there. It is true that the progress | of the Schley squadron from Cienfuegos to | Santlago was as fast as possible if the squadron, colliers and all, was to be pre- served as a unit. No one questioned that. It 6 true that the blockade of San- tlago was effective. No one ever qu tioned that, either. It is true that Schley was the senlor officer in command of so much of the battle of Santiago as wis fought during the absence of Sampson from the theater of war. No one ever questioned | that, either. It I true that Schley should | have credit as commanding officer, and that the recommendation of President McKinley Fave such credit. Hence, the good-natured, | large-souled Dewey comes out right on | every count, and, avolding such trivial mat ters as the retrograde movement, he soars above all technicalities and lights on the topmost peak where he can bask in the sun of popular opinfon ce hope & not no by | pects of the case 8¢ son agroc not of this kind are not conclusive, because sav- ings In Germany are placed in co operative banks. Bullding assoclations both in this country and In European lands carry also a large share of savings. In this country these hold $700,000,000 of savings. 5 Meddiers R Brooklyn Eagle Aguinaldo begs the people who are trying to secure his releaso to save their trouble. He is getting better board at the hands of his captors than his friends can give to him. And his captors also secure him against assassination and other unpleasant conduct from certain people that he is willing to suppose his friends, WiIL Otliceholders Striket Loutsville Courler-Journal, 1es from fusion Nebraska ullst officlals in Douglas 1 ordered to strike because the new democratic regime refuses to ap- point more populists.” The outcome of this order will be awaited with interest. 1t will be generally agreed that if officeholders can be made to obey an order to strike, then there 1s 1o limit to the power of the strike makers, om, ked. The news that “all the county have be po The Year's Combinations. Buffalo Express ose who are anxlous to force the anti- front in the present T trust discussion to the session of congress will have a good deal of material to work with if they confine their attacks only to the larger industrial organizations of 1801 During November the incorporation of companies with a capltalization in excess of $1,000,000 represented a capital of $508, 860,000, or more than that for any month except April, which had a total of §1,314, 150,000 The total the year is 075,000 in 1900. It Was n Great Speculation, Pittsburg Post The members of the syndicate formed to firance the United States Steel corporation have already received back all the money paid in by them, and enormous profits are yet to be distributed. These profits a understood to amount to about $60,000,00 or 30 per cent, on the nominal capital of the syndicate, and 240 per cent on the actual money put into the undertaking The New York Journal of Commerce claims to have reliable authority for placing the profits at this figure as & minimum prob- ability, and the financial history of the syndicate is accordingly summarized as fol n months of for the first el 5,605,000, a8 against $: some lows minal capital which pald in 12} Returned 124 per c Undistributed, being ma So far unbroken It has been the it profite (esti #,00,000 s the game. magnificent examplo of stock-watering ever known. The infla tlon Is probably not than $100,000,000 par value of the watered stock. success most is less PERSONAL NO Mme. Nordica's claim of $3,000,000 against the United States government for the losses | at sea of her ancestor, Ichabod Norton, ap pears to have been flled about ten years too | late, | Willlam Waldorf Astor I8 to be invited to accept the mayoralty of Maidenhead for the coronation year. The retiring mayor {s W, H. Grenfell, M. P., whese place at Taplow court adjoins Mr. Astor's, Mr. Lafeadio Hearn, the author, who is at present lecturer on English literature in the mperial university of Tokio, was edu- |cated in America, and for ten years did editorial work in New Orleans, President Roosevelt, ft is rumored, will spend Christmas at General Bradley T. Jobn. | son’s home, the Woodlands, near Richmond, Va. Tho friendship between the prosident and the geueral Is of long standing, A Rochester (N. the name Y.) woman who annexed Damm at the altar, grew weary | of the name and the owner and committed | suiclde. And she left little Damms to bear tho name in sorrow to the grave. James LaBarre, a Kentucky veteran of the civil war, of Loulsville, will start his long walk to Washington in a few days. It will be remembered that he walked this distance of over 600 miles last winter. Dr. Moses Merrill, head master of the | Boston Latin school for more than forty- | | three years, has resigned on account of de- |clining health. He is one of the best known educators in the country and famous a8 a disciplinarian. Prof. F. Seribner, agrostologlst in the Department of Agriculture, will go | to the Philippines in February to establish a bureau of agriculture In that country, modeled as far as possible, after the de- partment o this country. President McKinley was characteristically good-natured with photographers, never ob- Jecting to the ublquitous “snapshooter,” but Mr. Roosevelt is giving them the reverse experience. He positively refuses to have a picture taken of himself and the cabinet Ex-Senator Peffer of Kansas has hit upon & new scheme for getting money out of con- gress, He has prepared a topical index of all the debates in congress up to 1561 and proposes to make the work complete to the present time. Now he wants to sell result of his labors General George H. Steuart, confederate brigadier general, has just had returned to him by Abraham Smith of Long Branch, Cal., a bible which he carried through the civil war and which the latter took from a | co federate wagon a few days before the | surrender of Lee's army. Senator Danlel of Virginia lives modest style in Washington and thirty years spent nearly all his money in paying off debts incurred by relative in the panic of 1873, The senator was not at all bound by law the financial burden, but did so of his own free will, and Lamson the In has very for to assume | can | abroad {tbat In 1891 our exports of corn amounted | food, | turkey dinner PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, m View Callfornin the Natlon's Chief Bxecutive, su Editor Lummis In Land of Sunshine to With ¢ day that goes over our heads it becomes plainer that we have stumbled upon that extraordinary phenomenon, a president who presides, Porhaps nothing could remind us more vividly how far our politics have drifted from the old anchor- age than our surprise at reading the new ne For this is Just what Washington would have done, if there had been in his time any politiclan with brass enough to request bim to do what we have come to expect the presidents to be asked. Dut Washington {8 a long way back—and the politicians are equally “forward.” But here is the president of the United States telliug the reverend senators that | g he won't appoint a man they recommend | be unless he's fit to be appointed! The face | * of him! What does he think we elect presi- | dents for, sxcept to pay the dirty debts of | congress? What does he imagine vote for senators for, except to reward thelr heelers? The man must think that prin- ciples haven't changed since he was a lice commissloner, ‘ Well, he can afford to think so, and we afford to protty careloss, ent government know what it Is, have 1 e they love a man ery th w a te | w [ v cn have him. Americans ar: but they really prefer de and in their hearts they no matter how they may t politics prosper. And They admire a president with a soul of his own. They will forgive almost anything to that sort of a person And the more stubborn he fs (with reagon- able tact) In reminding the politiclans what this government 15 really for, the more solidly be will have at his back the Ameri- can people. ‘ o b in m of. w o lin wing ond for t « Loulsville Courfer-Journal A government publication combats the | fir notlon that American corn 18 not popular | On the contrary, it is asserted | it 1s not only very popular, but that increasing in favor every year | support of this assertion it is shown Cerenl, | ¥i he that it s In tic bushels, of the value of $17,000,000. Since that time there has been an enormous increse. In the fscal year 1900 the exports were nearly 210,- 000,000 bushels, and in the fiscal year 1001 nearly 178,000,000 bushels. For the pres ent calendar year, up to September 1, that fs, for elght months, the exports we about 126,000,000 bushels. The exports before September 1 were, of couree, of crops prior to that of the current year. The short crop of the present year and the consequent rise in prices will, of course, make the exports for the remain- der of the fiscal year much smaller than they would otherwise have been. The opinfon is expressed, however, that, owing to the higher price, the money value of the exports may not be decreased It is an Interesting question what is in- creasing the demand abroad for corn. Efforts that have been made to teach the people of foreign countries to eat cors bread have not generally been consldered very successful Svidently, however, Europe takes nearly all our exported corn ie finding use for it, if not human in wome other way. Great Britain, the largest Importer, took 85,000,000 hushels last year, Germany 46,000,000, France i 000,000 bushels. Whatever the reason, corn has become a very important article of ex port and Is manifestly in no disfavor. For | the present shall not have so much to | spare, but good crop will correct that to only 80,000,000 W “ W T [ T [ He me 80 we anothe A GENEROUS GOVERNOR. i 1l « Clevelund Leader There was u special Thanksgiving day in lowa last week which was celebrated under a special proclamation from the goy- ernor of that state, at the request of one lttle girl This child, Inciden the Life of an Town I3 [“n | T 1 8 who was {ll on smber she asked If there could mot be another | F Thanksgiving day. She told the governor | that she had been ill on the day apart for prayer and feasting and had her “1 ain't very big," she said “but 1 lke turkey.' The governor of that great state turned | A aside from his regular dutles long enough | 4! to write a special proclamation in which he recited that, inasmuch Mary had been 111 on Thanksgiving day was thereby prevented from joining in the fes missed on dof d when you ear up your as and J Al That's what we offer you, New York City. should fit. R. 8. 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