Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY . > 4 ISDAY, DECEMBER_ 31, 1901. THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF 10N Dally Bee (without Daliy Mee and Sun Ilustrated Bee, On Bunday biee, Ofie Year Baturday e, One Year . Twentleth Century Farmer, One Yeat.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee (without Sunday), per co Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week Dally Bee (including Sanday), per week.lic Bunaa et “opy Even i (without sunday), per week Evening Bee (including Sunday), per week | asn . 160 Complaints “of "irregularities in delivery ®houia be addressed to City Circulation D partment SUBSCRIP inday), Ono Year.$6.00 y, Une Year 800 Year 2w 1w 1w 100 OFFICE Omaha~The Beo Bullding Houth Omaha City ~Hall Twenty-f(th and M streets Councl Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—154 Unity Bullding. New York—Temple Court Washington—#i Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTEF Business letters und remittanc addressed. The Bee Puplishing Com Umaba REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, pa to ‘Ihe lee Publishing Company Only Z-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Fhraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchunges, not nccepled THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. wska, Douglas County, 88 Btate of Neb George B. Taschuck, secretary of Lhe being _duly sworn, Publishing Company, Y says that the actual number of full an complete coples of The Dbaily, Mornin Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 100, was as (ol Bulldin # should be ny, ... 81,000 1. _ 80,260 18 19, « 2 2 “. “. 25, .. oo ... ot 0,010 - 10,000 .80 - 80,700 30,760 30,500 80,710 130,330 Total svEisrsuondiis Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sa Net daily average GEO. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this Wth day of November, A. D. 1 M B HENGATE, Notary Publie. John Bull s hoping the Boers will swear off on New Year's day. The year 1901 seems hound to keep up its record for death-dealing disaster to the end. The aftermath of the holidays prom {ses to keep the merchants busy longer than usual this time. What If, after reading those resolu tlons of regret, Judge Baker should de- clde to stay right here in Nebraska? King-Edward has decided that there will be no court jester at the coronation ceremonies. Walting so many years for the crown s a serlous matter, Latest reports are to the effect that Admiral Schley considers his case closed. Not so with Maclay—he has contracted to write a muagazine article, Towa was fifty-five years old Saturday. Though a few days Jate, the nation re- celved u fine Ohristmas present fifty-five years ugo, which hus been growing bet- ter every year. ————— The New Year would be a good time for the county treasurer to turn over a new leaf and begin to credit up to the taxpayers the interest enrmed by the bauk deposits of county funds, command the best prices on the stage, as in trade and Dbusiness. That s why the great lish tragedinn now touring this section gets twiee the price of admission uc- corded cheaper imitators. The best things Mewmbers of the school board secin to slgn tinancial exbibits prepared for them with the same ngnchalance that they aftixed thelr signaty o that grand Jury resolution preferving grave charges against wunicipal oficers, Statisties have heen compiled to show that what are known as industrial ¢ porations in this countey are capitalized At SGH0.000.000. How mieh v ncluded in this is not stated, hecause it 18 beyond the power of the statisticians. e is Judge « on to the police beneh, fact t majority pressed theausclves agaiust him at the fon, Hix' te is conviuced that good thing, w i splte of 1he of the voters ex ity only shows he is losing a SantosDumont Is coming to this coun try with his flving wachine, in the hope of taking In enongh money at exhibi tions to endow 4 flying wachine insti tute to the extent of $1,000.000, Aweri can highfliers do not need any. institute to teach thew how to muke slon. an uscen Scientists again prediet that the coal supply of Great Britain will be ex hausted © the end of the present century, it the present rate of mining is gontigued. By that thue the Nebraska man who claiws to be uble to make fuel out of common dirt may bave bis iu vention perfected, — A contrally located market house in which the common people might have the advantage of varled selection at competitive prices would do much to make Omabu more attractive as a place for wage workers to live, And the wage workers constitute the backbone of every cowmunity, — London papers are trylng to scare up a war between Germany and the United States over the trouble In Venezuela The story ma 18 no necessity of anyone gettlug down o the old faguily musket for the presént, | questions should be dropped. The whole | justitication for 'Tha ruling powers In neither country bave thelr war paint wixed yet, 1 s still sehieming to hane good reading, but there | €ral weeks the THE CLOSING YEAR. The year that ends with today has been somewhat lese eventful than the preceding year, or indecd than several previous years, but its contribution to history has been considerable and important. For this nation it has been a year of record-breaking pros perity and mmaterial progress and | the happiness of our people in the enjoyment of this prosperity has been marred by but one calamity—the death of the great and good president of the republic. That was an event which under ordinary conditions might | | have been followed by disaster, but ‘fortunately his successor was prepared to carry out the policles that had been formulated and there was no disturb- ance of confidence and no halt of the financial and commercial affairs of the country. All pessimistic predictions at the beginning of the y 0 n set | at naught by the extraordinary achieve ments, to be told in the summing up of the final totals of the year's busi- | ness. The great task that came to us from the war with Spain has been met | and progress has been made in the insu- lar possessions. Hostllity to American rule in the Philippines continues and in the opinfon of some familiar with con- ditions there 18 likely to continue for a considerable time, yet there has been a steady extenslon of civil government and the work of education has been well advanced. There has also been indus- trial and commercial lmprovement which 18 exerting a good effect upon | the people. The conditions in Porto | Rico have very much fmproved and the | people of that fsland appear to be well ited with American rule, Our oc cupation of Cuba I8 drawing to a close and thus far every promise given to the Cuban people has been fafthfully ful filled. The political conditions th not altogether satisfuctory, but our gov- | ernment has properly declined to futer fere and will not do so as long as peace and are mafutalved. A leading | event of the year was the negotiation und ratification of a treaty with Great | Britain removing all obstacles to the construction of an isthmian canal and of equal oF even greater fmportance was the success of our efforts in connection with the settlement with China. The United States Is richer and stronger at the close of this first year of the twen tieth century than it was at its begin | ning and the outlook is faverable to a contlnuance of progress and prosperity. This cannot be said of the nations of the old world. Great Britain not only expended hundreds of millions of dollars during the year in the South African war, but her industries and com merce have experienced a material de cline, which Is causing no little anx to her statesmen and ) statements of British statistic gard to the course of trade g culated to alarm the industrial and com- | mercial interests of England and to jus- | tify their efforts to find a way to re- | cover what has been lost. It | haps not extravagant to say that Great 1 Britain has lost in wealth during 1901 almost If not quite as much as this countsy has gained. Business de sion has prevailed throughout the y in Germany and that country is strug gling with economie problems as never | before in its history. Many of its in dustries and hundreds of thousands of its people are idle, yet the government is serlously proposing to Increase . the duties on foodstuffs, Other European | countries are not much if any better off, | 80 far as their material conditions ure concerned, Aseribing the situntion to American competition, some of thewm are “fully studying - our industrial business methods with a view to learn- | ing how to meet Amerlcan competition, | Mexico and two or three of the other | southiern republics have progressed dur [ing the year, but some of them coutinue | to suffer trom political disturbances und | revolutionary wovements, which keep them financially distressed and retard | their development. There is reason to | hope that th 88 Of representa- | tives of these republics will be able to upon plan of arbitration and also upon a plan of commercial urrange- ments which will be couducive to the welfare und advancen.ent of all of them. Except the settlement of the Chinese | question there have been no very tm portant events in the Orient during the unl Koon cont order i s in re- | well enl- | i per ar and a | year, s the as yer unaccomplished designs of Russia regarding Manchuria arded. Japan has experienced Wil and husiness erisis, hut ap. it from recovered from | rs to have abont | slowly Chiu, her trouble, is recovering world Stutes Is seen to be hy Burveying the the United fur the wost o Mall that mukes for the improvement, the elevation and the Bappiness of a peopl i advance of every vored of nations. o this country is other, WOULD KENEW ARGOUTIATIONS The British government, it appears, I8 desirous of renewing negotiations in regard o the questions i controversy between the United States and Canada, 1\ wost lmportant of which relates to | the Aluskan boundury, This question is | the vock on which the negotiations of the [ Jolnt igh commission foundered. - Alto- | gether, the out tweive distinet | points before the commission for consid- L eration and practically all but one were | arranged to the purtinl satistaction of the comwissioners. There were a great wany differences all along the line, but the question of the sherles in the Great Lakes aud in the Atlantic ocean, of the urmament of the war ships on the | to'an explanation on this point | of the sult brought against the Sty stre | the trusts « | enaeted hetore Mr. lakes and other watters had been patched up and placed in such sbape that the comumissioners would sign the agreewent, There was a hopeless disagreement, however, on the Alaskan boundary, and after struggling over this Issue for sey- commission adjourned, with tanding that the other the unde argument of the Canadian representa- tives was lu e direction of gettg o Pacific for their but our cominis: water outlet on the northwest territory, sloners were not convinced of the right of Great Britain to this, Subsequently, serious trouble between Canadisus and Americans in Alaska being threatened, the matter became a subject of diplo- watic negotiation between the two gov ernments, with the result that a modus vivendl wus agreed upon and 18 now operative, This, however, while it bas served prevent the threatened trouble, is but a temporsry arrangement aud it s sald that both governments realize the lmportunce of a final settle went of the If that is the there will of course | by ditticulty renewing negotla- tions aud it seems to be the idea that these should be carrled on directly be- tween the governments through their diplomatic representatives and the result subiuit to the to is Issue use no in 10 & commission to give form | of agrecment. This would be an unusual procedure and it I8 HOt cusy to see what advan there Oue obvious effect would age would be iu it be to delay settlewent, unless the gov ernwents should direct their sloners to approve the argeement sub- witted. However, it is certainly most desirable that the boundary and other matters n controversy shall be settled and doubtless our government will readily respond to overtures for reopen- Ing negotlations, comnis- TRUST-SMASHER SMYTH. t Smasher Smyth rushes into to refnind the Standard Ol magn the utter extermination they woul surely encountered had not Smyth mischance had to evacuate his office re the Al order to charge Omaha Bes, This is the only answer which t republican organ has to make to the serious | charges made by former Attorney General Smgyth. Certainly the people have a right Mr. Smyth charges.— Tru; print es of have by Just local bas made some World-Herald From the point of view of smusher Smyth the charges he tured to prefe dereliction of duty and mismanagement dard Oil company may have some foundation, but his arraignment of the present at torney general smacks altogether much of self-laudation and political | demagogy and has a tendency o gthen the suspicion that he delights in playing to the grandstand, Mr. Smyth says “he had but little to do to win; all the means of success had 0 placed In his hands by me 4 The frults of more than a year's hard and honest labor to uphold the dignity of my state and vindicate the honor of her violated laws were cast to the winds by wy republican suc g The Bee cannot be teuthfully charged | with having ever been the champion of 1 apologlst for the abuses from which the people suffer at their lands, But The Bee detests humbug aud hypoericy in any form, and that is why It cannot approve the methods by which Mr. Smyth ba$ sought to project limself to the forefront of the political arcua as the encmy of monopolies en- trenchied in power in the shape of trusts, The anti-trust laws of Nebraska wel S, we attor- general. Why did be not begin the reution of the trusts during the tirst year of his te Why did Le not begin it during the second’year? Why did he single out the Stundard Oil trust for at tack when he wust ha known that that was the wost invulnerable of trusts? Why did he make his famous attack on the Argo Stareh company of Nebraska City in the midst of a second term campaign? Why did he allow the Ol Coal trust to exact tribute from our people without remonstranc Why did he not seek to demolish the Fire 1n surance trust which tixed arbitrary rates for insuring business blocks, mer- chandise and dwellipgs? M nyth kuows that the most dan- gerous of trusts are the local trus cepting so far us they overcapitalize and by excessive intlation promote fiuancial panics and endanger the stability of our tinancial fostitutions. Suppose he had actually suceeeded in driving the Standard OIl trust out of Nebrasku, what benefit would he have conferred upon the consume of petrolens and other oils of which the Standard Oil company Las the monop oly? Can Mr. Smyth be iguorant of the fuct that the urts of Nebraska conld not prevent the Standard Ol company very serious Trust ven- | aguinst his successor for too i ssor” o ey pros mt 5, X 5 from shipping goods in original pack ages from Connell Bluffs, Sioux City and other points in lowa to the N braska deald®s? Does he not know that Nebraska would Lave been compelled to pay the same price in Nious City and Council Blufts that they now pay in Omaha and other Nebraska | points and pay in addition the loeal vates of transportation from Towa to the Nebraska polnts? Pl career of Mr. Smyth as attorney general has demoustrated that be s neither slncere nor consistent. Mr, Smyth deserves credit for the successtul prosecution and conviction of ex-Treas uker Bartley and The Bee commended consumers | meet the competition of rivals by | possible reasc him at the time for his efficlent and ew ergetic work in the erlminal court, but when It came to a question of the re- of the money embezzles v Bart- ley Mr. Smyth failed most lamentably. He prosecuted the Bartley bondsmen, but did pot make the slightest effort to protect the state when they deliberately commenced to teanster their real estate and other tangible property with the mauifest fitent to evade their responsi bility and render worthless any judg ment which might finally be recovered aguinst thew. When the sureties on the Burtley bond began to get their property out of thelr bands why did he fall to take the first step necessary to protect the state against this conspiracy of the Bartley bondsmen? Fire lusurance organs are making great ado over terrible fire conditions in this country, to which they polnt as istantd, Increasing rates. We are told that “nearly 1,200 fire lugurauce cowpanies bave quit busl- L - ness in the Dy, S and to prove it the names of ’h..’,.rc.-.m-u are printed, with dates of mortality going back to 1850, all of which is charged up to hos tile legislation. This would be terrible, if true, but it does not prove the case. There 1s no reason why a poorly or fraudulently muanaged fire insurance company should survive collapse any wore than any other pootly or fraudu- lently managed business institution We venture to assert that other lines of enterprise fnvolving approximately the number of concerns and same amount of capital will show no better failure record for the past fifty years than the fire insurance business, —te Omaha wants more factories and mills that give constant employment to work- ingmen and working women. Capital- sty who have money to Invest in such enterprises will come to Omaha provid ing the conditions under which their con same ns are to be operated are as good or | better than they are in other industrinl This means that Omaha must ¢ lower taxation and cheaper 1iving expenses. Omuha is in the heart of the reglon that centers. | produces meat and bread for the mil- llons and by rights meat, bread and all food products should be cheaper here than at points fn the states that have to fmport the products raised here. What Omaha needs {s to bring the consumer and producer nearer together. Chinese diplomats broke over an old tradition when they attended a dinner given by Minister Conger, in which Amerlean women participated. For- merly it was considered degrading to dine with foreign women. When the Chinese nobles expose themselves to captivation by the charm of American womanhood, it Is easy to see a finish for the musty traditions of centuries, e Japane the troops of officer who commanded that country during re- cent operations in China has resigned from the army, because he was accused of participating in the loot. Evidently the Japanese have not yet become thoroughly civilized. None of the offi- cers of the truly enlightened countries have found It nec SYIrY to resign on account of these charges. People who want to keep posted on the status of the ditficulty between Chile and Argentine are forced to purchase every edition of the newspapers. One for the delay in opening that neither has felt equal to the task of commencing busi- ness before Creelman, Harding Davis and the other war correspondents are on hand to direct affairs, ————— A young New Yorker jumped from the Brooklyn bridge just to see whether he could do it and survive the quences. 1t will be several days before the problem is definitely solved by verdict of the physicians and in the meantime it is not necessary to watch him to prevent a repetition of the per- formance. hostilities is onse- ng for Prophets, Louisville Courler-Journal. It Is a great deal safer to predict that wireless telegraphy will supersede the carrier pigeon than that it will supersede the wire telegraph. et Passing It Up to Congre Brooklyn le. Governor Taft favors civil rule for the Philippines and Gemeral Chaffee believes in a military government. Congress, which is the competent ruler under the supreme court decision, will take its cliolce of either | or neither. Restgnations by Installment, Kaneas City Star. Oue thing that the American people have to be grateful for fs that not resign in a body as they frequently do in Buropean countries. It is mot pleasant to contemplate what might happen in the rush If elght cabinet vacancles were created at once in the United States of America. The Spectacie of Chicago Chronicle (dem.) It was a picturesque scene In the senate when Jones of Arkansas, the founder of the round cotton bale trust, brought all his eloquence In debate and skill in leadershio to bear for the purpose of defeating the ap- pointment of Attorney General Kmox on the ground that Mr. Knox had been a trust la yer. The democratic trust magnate pro- tested by @ beated inquiry against the con- firmation of Mr. Knox. “Can he ox- claimed, “confide to an attormey of the trust the duty of enforcing the statute against trusts?” Let the round cotton bale trust answ The Growing Surplus. Philadelphia Record Seeretary Gage is reducing the surplus cash In the treasury as fast as possible by buying bonds—thus decreasing the public debt, adding to the money in circulation and diminishing the temptation to extravagant appropriation on the part of congress. In desplte, however, of the bond purchases, the surplus continues to grow, and the de- wand for tax reduction becomes more im- perative. The savings by the government in anticipating the payment of its indebt- edness are trifing s compared with the loss inflicted upon taxpayers by unneces- sary taxation and hoarding. Hoke Smith Wus There, Atlanta Journal, Unless & man be possessed of surplus wealth he can hardly serve as a cabinet officer without serious eacrifice of his ma- terial interests. A member of the cabinet recelves $8,000 a year, which the ordinary citlzen would consider a handsome allow- ance. But it {s a very rare thing that a cablnet officer lives 1ike an ordinary citizen. Custom 1s & tyrant to whose dictates we all bow, to a greater or less extent, and cus- tom dictates that the heads of the execu- tive departments in Washington shall live in & style and indulge in expenditures that very soon absorb an fucome of $8,000 a yea Social Exaction of Cabinet OfMcers. Indlanapolts Journal Now that it Is barely possible that Secre- tary Long may leave the cabinet, Washing- ton gosslp attests that many persons in official circles will be glad to have him leave because be has never entertained Thus It appears that emfertaining is one of the qualifications of an able secretary. Secretary Long iv a man of limited means with an (nvalld wife For more than a year a daughter was an lovalld and finally died Iustead of thinking weanly of the secretary of the navy for not assuming ex- penses for entertalning which he could not moet without harming himself, most people will reapect bis manly fudopendonces the cabinets do | Great Dead of 1901 Chicag The year now so nearly at been quite as notable as any predecessors in the loss of those who have been consplcuous in their various art menta of labor and have made their name widely known. The polttical world has lost Williem McKinley, musdered during presidency by the assasvin Czolgosz he Pan-American exhibition; Benjamin Harri on, the eminent lawyer and ex-presiden Willlam M. Evarts, also a great lawyer and ex-secretary of state Hohen lohe, the German ex-chancellor; Francesco Crispl, the ex-premfer of Italy, and Li Hung Chang, the smartest and sanest man of s time in China. Among the rulers ot the world Victoria, queen of Great Britain has passed away, likewlse the Dowager Em press Frederick, Abdur Rahman Khan, the ameer of Afghanistan, and Milan, the dis solute ex-king of Servia The world of literature suftered severely. Ame 5o has s recent Prince von nd the arts has & the prominen Tribune John Youge, Robert Willtam writers who have passed away are Fiske, the historian; Charlotte M and Sir Walter Besant, novelista W. Buchanan, the British poet Ellery Channing of the famov group of writers; Maurice Thompson, th story writer and essayist, and Ignatius Donnelly, the romancer and Baconian cipher inventor. Music has lost Verd! the last of the old school Itallan opera com posers; Henoft, who was the chief repre- sentative of the Flemish school of compo- Sir John Stainer, the organist and author of the best dictionary of terms vot produced; Franz Rummel, the planist; Al fred Plattl, the ‘cellist, and Audran, th French light opera composer. In art France loses Jean Cazin, one of its great painters; England, Kate Greenaway, the delightful illustrator, and the United States McD. Hart and Edward Moran, two of the best representatives of the old school painting sition; James Power in the West Washingte Pride in federal influence fs great under our form of government. Hence the exuber- ance across the Mississippl these days over an enlarged bouquet of political favors The star of high office holding has been con- stantly moving far from the east on Ohio In recent months has been left be- hind, the while lowa rejolces with more seats In the supreme council of politics. Party favor is too fitful to hover cone stantly over one locality or commonwealth and the jubilant sentiments, fully warranted by the sturdy republicans they produce, transterred from Buckeyedom to lowa. wholesome evidences of ambitious achleve- ment. Tho history of the republican party In recent years has been of stronger grasp of administrative affairs by the west. Maine, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania used to prevall. Atlantic coast interests were predominant; the Mississippl valley and the reglon beyond had an inferior share. Now the bulk of chairmanships in the national house s with men from the soltdly republican states of the west and northwest. Presidential elections are fought out and determined in that section In general legislation the pendulum swings as western men dictate, and the states on now aro on Post the eastern assuming fits Despair need hardly sit on the faithtul from Ohio because the scepter has departed There may be & firmer clutch on places already secured and faintness of heart to clamor for more. Ability in politics, as in other realms of activity, will carry prestige. Nevertheless, western influence will not wane when lowa's leaders have retired from and house and the places of her cabinet members are filled by others. The great commerce of the Pacific const and the movement of trade that way mark develop monts which New York will heed, as she m forced to do with Chicago. In years to come a master of finance from be yond the Mississippl will to be a prodigy, one to be recelved with suspicions of provinciallsm. President Roosevelt is himwelf very much of a western man accord with western sentiments may be far distant when a chief magistrate will be chosen from west of the Mississippt but th sway of the republican party way of western {deas for a long time at the seat of government. seaboard are more and more the roll of suppliants for bene- senate has bee continued means the FROM THE NEBRASKA STATE PR Clay Center Sun (rep.): A Lincoln spo- clal to The Omaba Bee gives among the number mentioned to fill the vacancy i the supreme court commisslon caused by the| election of Judge Sedgwick o the supreme bench the name of Hon. 8. W. Ch The mention of Mr. Christy for this position struck a responsive chord throughout Clay county, as well as in many other poriions of the state. Mr. Christy would honor the position. Friend Telegraph (rep.) Have the peo. plo of this state any right to think that those who are so over-officious in an at- | tempt to obtain the pardon of Joseph S| Bartley from the penitentiary have more | than a passing interest in this matter, or that these over-zealous persons had any connection with the looting of the state| treasury, and for which Mr. Bartley s serving a term in the penitentiary? The people of the state are more anxious to know where that enormous amount of cash went to than they are to see Mr. Bartley retained in prison. We believe that Bartley is doing himself an injustice in not glving away where this money went to and we believe 1t would also relieve a good many others from what might at some future time be unjust suspicion. Crete Vidette (rep): We notice that| nearly every county in the Fourth district 1s budding a candidate for congress in the next convention. Mr. Aldrich of Butler Shedd of Saunders, Norval of Seward. Hainer of Hamilton, McCloud of York, Kiug | of Polk, Sloan of Fillmore and Hinshaw of | Jefferson are already talked of, with Thayer and Gage to be heard from. This encouraging sign, as it indicates nomination Is considered equivalent election. 1t J. D is n | that a| Pope 18 a candidate fnr: congress, and we understand he s, there | I8 little doubt but wh he will have a solid and enthusiastic delegation from Saline county at his back. He put up a strong, clean campaign two ears ago, and hils acqualntance and experlence would greatly beuefit him {n amother trial. | NOT PERSONAL s, At least omo New York broker has made | a little fortune on the stock exchang Ho sold his seat for $50,000. | St. Louls Is taking on great airs. Rag- | time {8 now frowned upon and the classic | coddled. Later on the fickle town will | worship at the shrine of the midway spleler. | It 18 said that fire losses this year will amount to $170,000,000 and that the losses | of the last twenty-five years amount to | $2,800,000,000, a sum more than sufficient to have pald the entire national debt George Humbug, an old gentleman resid tng in Lovg Steram, L. 1, has fallen heir to a neat little fortune of $10,000 and de- spite the ominous sound of his mame he ts now besicged by ladies who would lik to marry him. The senate of Georgla rejected the part | of the proposed conetitutional ameudment that would make the term of the governor of the state four years. It refused to strike out the prohibition against banish ment and the whipping post Augustus St. Gaudens 18 at work on the model of the Parnell monument to be er- | ected fu Dublin. The sculptor has bound bimself to complete the statue (o five years. The figure will be of herolc propos tions and will cost from $40,000 to $50,000. Mayor-elect Seth Low ot New York fully in sympathy with the movement build up an anti-Tammany democratic or- | ganization, and with that object in view has been In consultation with John C. 8heehan, | leader of the Greater New York democracy. marquis of Salisbury years ago arose to speak in the House of Com- | mons as Lord Robert Cecil and sat down | Viscount Cranbourne and héir to a mar- quisate. While he was speaking a messen- ger arrived announcing the death of his eldor brother. Edward F. | | 1s o The present Nishwitz, who was discharged | from the w York police force in 1808 for belng absent without leave, has hm‘“‘ relnstated with back pay amounting to $6,- | 000. Nishwitz has been working as a | machinist during the interval and nv)w: that he bas been reinstated and pakl he has resigned from the force. One of the colle the following comm between football at At Harvard a coach lterary lufluences, must cry, ‘Plerce the line with flerceness, gentlemen!' At Yale a coach says, ‘Dive iuto 'em, you lobsters—~ g in your toes and sock it ta ‘em!’ Arthur F. Layton, ing of Detrolt's fands as & British soldler General Grabam and Lord ing the memorable British campalgn in the early 's08. He possesces a number of medals, including the Khedive's star, pre tod Lo Lim by Towlk Pasba 1o 1854, a o pers make nt on the difference Yale and Harvard being surrounded hy weekly p who directs the cleans fought in many principally with W dur- streets | been sett | brive nor LEARY OF GUAW, Boston Globe: Thoroughly eriginal in his ideas of duty and faithful to them Captain Leary scored distinction as a man of cour- ago and coolness in He will be chiefly remembered by his fel low countrymen for as first governor of “our isle” of Guam, under Amerlcan soverelgnty. His career as ruler of that distant fsland was marked by pere sonal qualities and peculiarities of method in dealing with the natives that gained for him wide notoriety, it not lasting fame. Chicage Tribune Leary will go down to fame as that of the first governor of Guam after it became one of our insular posse What he ac complished in Americanizing the Guam ites and making them peaceable citizens well known. No scandals attached to his administration. On the other hand he @1d much for the education, the morals and the culture of the people, Captain Leary was an eccentrlc officer in some respects, but he was gallant, patriotic and highly esteemed by all who knew him intimately Philadelphia Record: Captain Richard F. Leary was a veteran sea fighter of the Decatur and Perry sort, with an added veln of racy humor and a genulne talent for ofthand administration that rendered his services fnvaluable in many critical emergencies. His plcturesque career as first commander at Guam Island s still fresh in the public memory, while ticthods of enforcing discipline at League Island, while in recent command of the recelving ship Richmond, quickly won for him appreciative admirers in this section of the union. Detrolt Free Press: All who admire an intrepld leader and one equipped with the resources that rise to an emergency give more than the paesing thought and per- functory tribute to the memory of the late Captain R. P. Leary. His record in the navy was a proud one and we question whether the course that he pursued as the governor of Guam was mot required in the founding of better things for her people. Civilization laughed and the rich- est materlal for comie opera was afforded, but the captain knew thoe weaknesses of the island and went at them In a way af- fording delightful contrast to the elaborate indirection of modern political methods, He a man for war and the strenuous life of a pioneer in authorit Samoa however his services slons was PUBLIC OFFICIALS A PASS, Will the Ra Ive OMeeholders n Cold Batht Dy that elim wer Post the ate It is termined “ lines for the coming year county officials. With the pay as they ride it has been a puzzle why these officials should carried freo of charge by the raliroads while the item of milaage plays a very Important figure in th accounts that have to be settled by the people. Why in the first place the rall roads supplied this free transportation to the officials s & question which has never rd to the satisfaction of the tax who are calied upon to foot the of the ofcials that ride on do- freo have of railroads the {ssue vaid to stato and plain peaple who payers mileage hills passcs. Unless the railroads supplied them with annual free transportation as a bribe no {stylng explanation of this unwarranted liberality on the part of the railroads has ever been offered. Why an officfal, when traveling on private business, should do so At the expense of the roads any more than a private individual passes understanding. When on officlal business he is paid his mileage by the people. If the rallroad managers have really concluded to shut down free transportation of this kind it will be halled by the people as a very salutary reform. There should be neither piclon of a bribe by the rail- roads in thelr relations to the servants of the people clothed with brief authority io state and county government CONGRESS AND AL on BANK Time for Friends of the Measure to Heatlr Them Chleago When congrees was belug ured fn 1897 to establish a postal savings bank system Secretary of the Treasury Gage opposed the project. But his opposition Mr. Gage explained in a letter to Senator Wolcott, then chalrman of the senate committes on postofiices and postroads, was based solely on the consideration of the timeliness of the proposed action. To the postal savings bank idea Itself he did not express hostility, but he wanted the question of the standard of value definitely settled before the gov ernment should go into the business of re celving small deposits for safekeeping Alter that should be dowe, Becretary Gage o News, Concord | in| The day | The name of Captain | his | nual transportation over their respective | sald, it would be proper establishment of a postal savings s By act of congress gold has b the standard of value in the United The action which Secretary ered nditlon precedent cal consideration of postal bank leg was taken shortly after his letter t tor Wolcott written thir been done providing adequate s facilities for persons of small m nothwithstanding the fact that the need for such facil continually greater. The reason for inactiv subject 18 to be found, q. fact ne attention of &uccecding ssed with the & to consider e ac to the p ties 1« Rrow no fn that Rresses was engr | American war and the probleme grow out of that conflic it outside matter ought not to continue forever ta monopolt the attention of the nation's lawmakers t the exclusion of problems of domestle con cern. It Is time for congress to give heed to the need for leglslation in the fnteres of the great masses of the peopls, who | would benefit from the establishment of the | pos ings bank system. The friends of this measure in congress should | themselves with & view to securing ear wtion. 1t would be a great thing to f | the bill to a roll call, if only in one branch o national legisiature, s bes IHE SQUEBZE IN COPPER. kht on the Interunl Workings of n Noted Combine. Detrolt Free Press. The usefulness of publicity tn dealing with the large corporations is well {llustrated by the statement fssued by the directors of the Amalgamated company. Although the state- ment {s ex parto and everything that could be concealed has been concealed, the infor mation given to the publie, when added to certain information the public already had, elin Ates the last element of mystery from the algamated “equeeze T is old and familiar, now that the tant facts have been brought to light Taking advantage of the unprece- dented demand for copper that followed the revival of industry throughout the civilized world, & combination was formed among | the copper Into the capitalization | went everything that could be gathered up | and tossed into the pool. The combination was capitalized on the basis of {ts maximum prof as the United States Steel corpora- | tion has been, by the way As long as cop- per could be sold for 17 cents and the de- mand equaled the supply all went well. But 17-cent copper meant the operation of a great many mines that could not be operated if the price were lower. Some mines, the Calumet & Hecla, for example, can produce copper at a profit for 104 or 11 cents. In other mines it costs 13 or 14 or 15 cents. The trust held the price of copper up and all the mines outside the combination that could be worked for a | profit were worked. The price was finally | shoved up to 19, conts, all to tho greater glory of all the mines. o production soon exceeded the demand and the trust made an effort to Yold the price at 17 cents. The demand slackened still further and copper | piled up on the hands of the trust managers. They could not dispose of 1t without r ducing the price and the reduction of the price meant the bursting of th bubble | The trust postponed the inevitable as long | as possible, but the explosion finally came. | The price had to be cut in order to market the tons that bad accumulated and copper Is approaching its normal price. What the French syndicate was unable to do a dozen or ars ago the Standard Ol crowd was unable to do in 1001 Had the trust | been able to control all the copper mines in the world it might have been possible to curtall production and maintain an arti- | ficial price, but all the mines in the world form & contract too great even for the | bigh financiers that have manipulated | Amalgamated | The chief sufferers must necessarily be | the people that took the gang's word for | the value of the stock and bought it on the presumption that the earlier rate of divi- {dends would be maintained. Of course, no |body on the inside has been squeezed. Thosa honorable gentlemen got their stock at its { actual value, in some cases as low as 40, it is satd The lambs bought it at its in- flated value and have been properly fleeced. {In of the collapse of the bubble the {deal has unquestionably brought great profits to the men on the | Even | with the collapse they have everything to | which they were legitimately entitled, aside from the f d profits that were made in the operation of shearing the lambs and mulcting the consumers. There seems to ba Do good reason why they should not gather in the stock again at & normal price and repeat the process, allowing, of course, a sufficlent length of time to elapse for the public to forget the details of the previous plucking. imy ry min, 50 y side, LAST sM1 " THE YEAR. Philadelphla Press: Willie—Pa, why I8 i spoken of as “haked? Pa—I don't know, but that may explain why she s 5o seldom seen in pablic life Brooklyn Eagle porter—fere s the notice of two chums marrying two sisters Editor—Head it, “Putting Two and Two Together \Iv' Harlem Life onfons exceilent me rders D Price-— Nonsenge Mr. Phamiiman—F 1 fed thum to n daughter, Who imagines she's old enough » have beatix, and they cured her Phitade) lolar,” begay vant, as he e bid PALTCT Well, 1t doesn't Thit Just ng like d than it log Phamliman-I the cure of cer find man. nonsense! hia Catholic Standard the cashier the cruthnized the coin eh?" interrupted the sour-look K look very bite 1, @ ner 1 ha good if 1t's any [l 1 taste even W 1A W how Howitt the who Half the world other half lives averestimate mind thelr the rumb a1 husines: Philadelphi and hing Mrs. L pricipled drank Mrs. Malaprop-Oh, says he is o regulur ¢ Chicago Tribune sald the girl with the Gibson-girl neck, *I ate so much candy on Christmus day that 1 shan't wu any more for twenty It made sick and I didn't eat ‘a_quarter of wh | was brought to me, either.” “What did you do with the three-quarters yeu couldn’t” eat?” inquir the Julia Marlowe dimple. “I'sent it to a dear old invalld aunt" She—My troussean eginning to khow wear, only been mar Pro that terrible. Wi 1've agitator, Mrs populist heard he but I Malaprop--1 oratur drink was an diin’'t know un ho yes. Our mintster mijohn, th 1t at 4 new don't you worry ahout 1 can make it o good THE VIRGIN YEAR, Pure as an unstained Falr as a'sun-iit day, With hope's bright glimour lasden, The New Year comes this wi What pleasures she's deelding On_mortals Lo bestow, What sorrows she is blding, Vo will not secketo know. den, % mighty hand s bring » childhood, youth and age While New Yvars bells are rir A wmooth, unsullied page. ing, A _page to be recorded with human thoughts and life-aimy, grand or sordi broad or narrow creed and slumber and fear, imber May honor, peace Calm present doubt among our the virgin ye Winslde, Nela BELLE WILLEY GUR