Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, o APRIL 1902. THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. RO!EWATER EDITOR. * PUBUHI ED hVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ly Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$4.00 ly Bee and Sunday, One Year. ‘ nllrnlcd Bee, One Year. Bee, One Year y Bee, One Yea 'lenh Century Farm Iy xe- (without Sunday), per copy. ly Bee (without suna-m per_week. Dall; Sunday), per week Bunday Bee, per copy | Bvening Bee (without e zvemng Bee (including Sunday), iatats of iy regularities In deiivery be addressed to City Clrculation De- nt. OFFICES. Omlhl—Tha Bee Bull 1ding. uth a—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ‘I-mth -fl Gtreets T ree Gounell Blufts—io Pear] Street. 01640 Unity Building. ork—Temple Court. Bee (includin, lhoul partme wu ngton—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. unications relating to news and edi- wfl-l atter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business lettcrs and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaba. REMITTANCES. 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It 18 to be noted that Senator Jones of Arkansas is on his way to Washing- ton, having left Hope behind him. —— Another good omen for Omaha s to be seen in the actlvity of the paving con- tractors at the beginning rather than at the end of the season. The price of meat has been screwed up a few notches with the conclusion of Lent, but nothing prevents people from getting even by continuing their Lenten diet. S——— It doesn’t take much of a prophet to predict that the next chalrman of the democratic national committee will not respond to the name of Jones nor hail from Ark: 8. S The rallroad community of interest should not be allowed to Interferd with the renewal of the annual rivalry be- tween east and west for the summer tourist business. Republicans regain the executive man- agement of Council Bluffe' municipal government after two terms of a dem- ocratic mayor. Council Bluffs people are to be congratulated. E——— With two such noted humorists as ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed and Mark Twaln visiting Cuba at the same time, our southern neighbors ought to be enjoying a hilarious time. | e The decree for the impending French general election fixes election day for Sunday, April 27, Just imagine the outery if an American elec- tion were called for a Sunday. S— Predictions are made that the tax mandamus case before Referee Judge Ryan will close Thursday. Can it be possible the lawyers engaged In that protracted word battle are running out of wind? —— Let Denmark decide first whether it waats to sell its West Indian posses- slons and settle afterward with the middlemen who have been trylng to gouge out a slice of the cash consid- eration. SE— Henry Watterson has now discovered that the whole republican party is made up‘of men on horseback. The exuber- ant Kentucky ecolonel should change without delay from the balloon to the parachute. In the discussion why beef has gone up, do not overlook the fact that it takes more beef to feed prosperous workingmen Insisting on three square meals a day than It used to require when labor was idle or qp half time and eating only enough to live, i Of course as iaterpreted by popocratic organs every municipal election contest carried by republicans turned on purely locak or persbual issues, while every one in which republican candidates met de- feat attests the popular aversion to re- publican prineciples and policies. — The Interstate Commerce commission threatens to enforce the law that pro- hibits rallroads from granting rebates to favored shippers, but such threats do not seem to frighten the trafic man- agers. The commission should either proceed to enforce the law or stop threatening. rmm——— A plea comes for government aid for destitute natives in the Nome gold district,, where the usual food supply from the fish catch has falled and the RAILWAY PROBLEM CAUSING ANXIETY. According to Washington dispatches rafllway men who have been at the na- tional capital since the proceedings in- stituted by the Interstate Commerce commission have expressed gloomy views of the situation and manifested a good deal of anxlety as to what may be the result of the commission's course, It seems that the rallway managers generally had thought that the agitation regarding rate cutting and rebates was merely sporadic and' wguld soon dle out, but now that they see it is the purpose of the authorities to enforce the law they are apprl‘hrnuhn- of the consequences, The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says: “That an unexpected crisis in the rail- way world is at hand is felt by every one in Washington who has investigated the situation and who realizes the ele- ments of disorder which are now rap idly gathering. It may be taken for granted that legislation of some sort altering the present contradictory pro- visions of the anti-trust law and the interstate commerce act can be - the only possible outcome.” Such legislation cannot be passed without correspond- ing enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Commerce commission.” This I8 what the rafiroads fear and yet if the statements some of them bave made that they really desire to conform to the law is genulne It is not easy to understand why the course of the com- mission should caus€ them any anxlety, or why they should obfect to legisla- tion for making the interstate commerce act more effective. The larger railway companies assert that the smaller lines are responsible for rate cutting and fmply that but for them the practice would not exist. The larger roads in- timate that they are opposed to cutting rates and paylng rebates. Why, then, do they object to leglslation for pre- venting these abuses? Solicitude for the welfare of the smaller roads is not a satisfactory explanation, though this has been urged. » Meanwhile it is annouriced to be the intention of the commission to employ every means within its power to secure an absolute observance of the law. It does not propose, it is said, to cease operations looking to the enforcement of the law, pending judicial decisions on the injunction suits that have been brought. The commission 18 now prose- cuting an investigation to ascertain If the law 1s belng violated, as is alleged to be the case, and undoubtedly the investigation will be thorough, for the commission knows that it has the sup- port of the authorities at Washington and also that its course is sustained by public opinion. There does not seem to be any sound reason for anxiety in rallway circles in regard to the course of the commis- sion. If the railroads will comply with the law instead of persistently violat- ing it they will not be trombled, while the demand for additional.legislation would perhaps disappear. — . OUTLOOK FOR CONSULAR REFORM. Representitive Adams who has a bill providing for reform in the consular service, does not regard the prospect as bright for such legislation at the predent session of congress. There Is strong opposition to it on the part of the spollsmen, of course, but possibly this could be overcome if the business in- terests of the country would exert them- selves properly in behalf of the measure. It 18 pointed out that while it is all very well to pass resolutions, as most of the business organizations have done, ap- proving of consular reform, these well- meant efforts have little or no effect on congressmen generally. It is neces- sary that they should be subjected to the spur of direct personal letters from constituents. Senator - Lodge also has a measure for consular reform and he is most earnestly In favor of such legislation, but he has not yet pressed the subject upon the attention of the senate, though he may do so later on. The two bills differ in detalls, though the pur- pose of both is the same. Congress ought to pass one of these measures at the present sesslon. Reform in the consular service 1s perhaps less impera- tively needed now than It was twenty years ago, since which time the serv- icé has been very greatly improved, but the reform proposed, which would di- vorce the service from polities and place it upon a basis that would insure greater efficlency and usefulness, is still most desirable, OVERCAPITALIZATION DANGEROUS. That there is danger in the overcap- italization now so general is well under- stood and it Is therefore somewhat sur- prising that the corporations which are known to be largely overcapitalized are able to readily market thelr securities. It would seem that investors would avold the stocks of such corporations, but so long as dividends are paid, whether earned or mnot, most people having money will not trouble them- selves about the matter of overcapital- izatlon, even though they may under- stand its dangers. At present the conditions are favor- able to the overcapitalized industries. They are dolng a large business at fair profits, some of them indeed finding it dificult to keep up with the actual demand for consumption. While this continues the question of capitalization will not be seriously considered. But let depression come and the dangers of overcapitalization will be painfully realized. As the New York Journal of Commerce correctly observes, overcap- italization is a direct Invitation to losses sooner or later and losses, if sufficlently general, check business, impalr confi- dence, curtall credit and through a com- resources of the miners to relieve dis- tress have been overtaxed. But the same tempting allurements for a new crop of gold seekers will be held out as soon as the navigation companies get ready for the next installment of Alas- kan trafiic. y | plicated credit system sowetimes cause disastrous results at a long distance from the polnt where the trouble began. “The practice,” says that paper, “of cap- itallzing the possibilities of the future, the interests of the promoter and the ignorance of the investor or speculator, \ of issulng preferred stocks in excess of the value of the properties and com- mon stocks in volume depending simply upon the disposition of the public to absorb them, or of covering the value of the business with a mortgage and adding large volumes of preferred and common stocks as a bonus to the bond holders, is pretty certain to result in loss.” It woéuld seem that such must be the inevitable result. Manifestly there should be legislation to prevent overcapitalization of stock companies and another means of pro tecting the public is to require of all such companies reasonable publicity in regard to their affairs, There appears to be, however, a good deal of indiffer- ence respecting this matter and perhaps nothing will be done until there is a crash 8o severe as to arouse interest in the question. —— TW0 ARRANT DEMAGOGUES. At the closing democratic rally at South Omaha speeches were delivered by Gilbert M. Hitchcock and Constan- tine J. Smyth. According to the World- Herald, Mr. Hitchcock asserted that he had not come from Omaha to discuss the personal side of the campaign, be: cause he knew little of the personality of the candidates, but it was enough for him to know that the democrats had se- lected Mr. Loechner for their standard bearer. From the very reasonable re- ports that had reached him, he declared, there was an effort being made to annex South Omaha to the Omaha machine and ventured to assert that the South Omaha democrats are not content with compulsory annexation to such a cor- rupt machine as was behind the repub- lican candidates in this contest. “Reasonable reports” indeed. Just about as reasonable as was Mr. Hitch- cock’s assertion that he knew nothing about the personality of the candidates. Perhaps Mr. Hitchcock had never heard of the uprising of the South Omaha tax- payers against boodlerism in the man- agement of their public schools. Per- haps he had never heard of the indict- ment of the man chosen by the demo- crats to head their city ticket. But he did hear about the pretended attempt to annex South Omaha to an alleged corrupt Omaha machine. He had never heard, of course, about the rottenest machine in all Nebraska that was over- thrown by South Omaha republicans at their primaries when they repudiated Mayor Kelly and turned down Kellyism. For a man of his calibre it was easy to close his eyes upon the festering cancer that had been gnawing at the vitals of South Omaba and was trylng to con- tinue its deadly grip, but it was reason- able to belteve that the corrupt Omaha machine was linked in with the reform element of South Omaha that was seek- ing to purge South Omaha. Was it not also just as reasonable to assume that Omaba republicans are anxious to bring about the annexation of South Omaba as a partisan measure in the face of the fact that South Omaha is a democratic stronghold, with from 600 to 900 ma- Jority? A still more rank exhibition of polit- ical demagogy was the speech of Con- stantine J. Smyth, who likes to pose as a great reformer. According to the World-Herald, Mr. Smyth devoted much time to making plain to hearers the con- sequences which would arlse from the enthronement of the corrupt machine, which he declared would rule South Omaba with a high hand if it ever gained g foothold there. Continuing, Smyth is reported to have sald: This so-called machine is well under- stood by almos’ everyone. It is the curse of Omaha, and is backed by the most in- famous men and the most corrupt influ- ences available. As it now is and has been the curse of Omaha for several years, so also will it be the curse of South Omaha if you let it have control here. Continuing, Mr. Smyth- bitterly ar- raigned the late grand jury and pald his compliraents to the judge who was re- sponsible for it, and who, he declared, was the worst ever on the bench, add- ing: I have heard many say that they re- garded an indictment by that grand jury as & compliment rather than & condemna- tlon. This jury, with an anxious public witnessing the commission of crime on all sides and hoping for justice from the jury, simply turned a deaf ear to the gambling, and jury-bribing and other crimes known to be transpiring, and came to South Omaha to find & man who was about to enter the campalign for mayor. The curse of Omaha consists in just such arrant demagogues and sham re- formers as C. J. Smyth. Who are the infamous men he had in view and what positive knowledge has he of corruption in the city government of Omaha? Has the city treasury been looted by any- body connected with the present city government? Have any public funds in the city treasury been farmed out for private gain? Does he know of any city officer who has defrauded the city, or levied blackmall upon anybody? Does he know of any city officer who has ac- cepted bribes from anybody? If so, why has he not placed the facts in the hands of the democratic county attorney and insisted upon the prosecution of the offenders? If Smyth has been shocked by the alleged corruption of the Omaha city government, why has his conscience never been disturbed over the notorious and admitted organized band of bood- lers and blackmallers that has preyed upon tie taxpayers of South Omaha and held yp almost every interest dependent upon municipal favor or subject to po- lice supervision in South Omaha? If anything, more despicable than this arrant partisan demagogy is Smyth's arraignment of the grand jury and Judge Baker. The grand jury was con- vened in November and adjourned in January. Could Smyth pretend that the indictments found against members of the South Omaba school board were almed at the candidate for mayor whom the democrats nominated in Mareh? Was the South Omaba Taxpayers' league, at whose instance .the Indict- ments were brought, in collusion with the Omaha machine? Did not Smyth wilifully and deliberately falsify the facts when he asperted mt.m grand Jury turned a deaf ear to gambling, jury- bribing and other crimes, when he and every lawyer in this community knows that Indictments were brought against every known gambling house keeper in Omaha and South Omaha, Including four or five bflls againkt Tom Dennison? Was not the grand jury's only offense In the eyes of this great reformer ita failure to in- dict Mayor Moores on some {ll-defined rumor? Is not also the chief ground of his hostility to the grand jury due to the fact that it indicted Meserve, his former colleague in the state house, for pocketing $3,000 of interest gathered by ioaning out state school money? And why should Mr. Smyth vent his spleen on Judge Baker, through whose co-operation he was enabled to gain whatever reputation he made as attor- ney general in the prosecution and con- viction of Bartley? Was Baker a Danlel come to judgment when he ruled with Smyth in the Bartley trial and did he become the worst judge Nebraska has ever seen in advising the grand jury that Meserve was indictable for milking the school fund? Why should Hitchcock, Smyth or any- body else go out of thelr way to array the citizens of South Omaha against those of Omaha by raising false lssues and attacking people who had no rela- tion whatever to the South Omaha cam- palgn except as members of a political pagty? E—— The committee representing the Doug- las County Agricultural assoclation of farmers, who farm the taxpayers, wants to know what the county board pro- poses to do toward helping to arrange for the next fall's county fair. In other words, the close corporation that car- ries on an annual squash and pumpkin show and calls it a county fair has started out early in the season to ascer- tain how much it can draw out of the county treasury this fall to enable the embers of the combine to have a good time at the public expense. Omaha and Douglas county have outgrown the county fair years ago. These perlodic ralds on the county treasury are not much better than legalized plifering. The real farmers of Douglas county and taxpayers generally have nothing to gain by such 3x4 ghows, elther from an advertising or educational standpoint. The embargo laid upon the issue of city warrants by the pending tax man- damus suit i8 becoming more and more of a hardship to city employes, who have been unable to secure salaries earned since January 1. If any business estab- lishment held up its roll for more than three months, requiring its em- ployes to draw on their own credit, its action would be dénonunced as the height of cruelty, It must be remem- bered, too, that many eity employes are men and women drawing very moderdte compensation and @ependent not only for themselves. but for their families on thelr earnings. This-ébndition of affairs should exert some iafitience for a ore speedy dewmluuon of the lssues in the tax cases Reliable information on the victory of the Bryanite candidate for chairman of the democratic congressional commit- tee discloses the fact that the chairman- ship 18 to be purely ornamental, while the real power and responsibility 1s to be lodged with the chairman of the ex- ecutive committee in the person of Ben T. Cable, a staunch relict of the Grover Cleveland era. The new Cable is ex- pected to bind togethér the discordant elements of the national democracy, but grave doubts are expressed whether Bryan and his most intimate followers will permit themselves to be embraced within its folds. That Civie federation arbitration’ board might have a chance to get in some good work just now between the sheepmen and cattlemen a-warring in Wyoming. It would be perhaps as well, however, to let the belligerents re- lleve their high pressure first upon one amother for a while, It would be much more sensible for the county commissioners to vote aid to the women who propose to promote the cultivation of Pingree garden patches than to vote money to the men who pro- pose to exhibit big squashes, pumpkins and onions under the pretext of holding a county fair. “Stay om the Farm, Boys.” Philadelphia Ledger, Mr. Bryan has decided to stay on the farm, thereby setting & good example to thousands of ambitious but misguided young men. The Charity Racket. Detroit Free Press. We gather from J. Plerpont Morgan's testimony that the railroad merger was a specles of organized charity, and that lke & great deal of other charity, it began at home. Who Got the Momey? Indianapolis News. The asphalt companies which have gone into bankruptey, were capitalized at $58,- 000,000, had fixed charges of $2,150,000 and showed net earnings of only $250,000. This 1s rated as “shrewd financiering. Size Not- All Boston Transcript. Speaking of empire bullding and Cecil Rhodes, it is recalled that Carlyle said that he would rather surrender Indla than Shakespeare. “‘Size 1s not grandeur,” sald Huxley, “territory does not make a pation.” Doing the Right Thing. Springfield Republican. The president is exactly right in his re- fusal to sign bills relieving deserters of thelr stigma, yet the house of representa- tives, which gayly passed 215 private pen- ston bills in almost as many minutes stands considerably shocked by the executive titude. ————— Destiny’ Unchan, Baltimore American. Cecil Rhodes left bis millions to foster by an educationa! system the imperial idea, which was the dominating one of his life. But destiny s shapiig iteelt on its own lines, and not even a man of Rbodes' strong character and masterful will, backed by col wealth, can turn the future into & channel of bis own preparing. ROUND AROUT NEW YORK, ex on the Current of e in the Metropol The shortest legislative session New York state has enjoyed in 108 years came to close last week with a pardonable dizplay of oratorical pyrotechnics. Last year the wession lasted until April 23. Yet the ses slon just ended was a fruitful ome, and from a political point of view, decidedly favorable to the repuplican administration Most significant of the measures put through were tax bills by which the bur dens of state government are provided for almost entirely by indirect taxation. Direct taxation has been reduced to thirteen- hundredths of a mill, and that amount is likely to be wiped out next year. Besides this splendid showing, the state treasury has a surplus of $700,000. Peter Murphy, a young builder of New Rochelle, who 1s known as the hero of the Park avenue railroad tunnel collision, set- tled his claim for damages for what is eaid to have been $18,500. Mr. Murphy sald he recelved something in the neighborhood of $20,000. The only thing he seemed to regret was that his case might be taken as the basis of settlement with others who might have better claims. His only permanent injury is the loss of his left leg below the knee. He has already ordered an artificial limb. Placards outside a little restaurant which opened for business at City Hall Place and Pearl street last week announced ‘“meals for 1 cent,” and the placard told the truth. Inside & person might procure for a copper coln & large bowl of thick pea soup, hom- iny, oats or barley. The restaurant is an experiment, which its proprietor, Bernard MacFadden, says that he has established to show how cheaply the human body can be ably and satistactorily nourished usiness at the restaurant opened with a rush. The place was 8o crowded with per- sons, prosperous and otherwise, that within an hour the supply of soup was exhausted. There were a great many who ate there for the novelty of the thing and a great many more who appreciated the low prices. To the newsboys and the street arabs of the vicinity the establishment appeared to be a boon. Théy came in droves and went away happy to tell others of their kind about the new ‘“eat joint,” where the “grub” was great and cost but 1 cent. They didn’t care what the intention of the foun- der was; they wanted good cheap, and they ot it. Among the other things on the bill of fare—which the managers say they will vary slightly each week—were beans, peas and potatoes prepared’with milk and whole- wheat bread, which cost a nickel. Bertha Schilling, 12 years of age, of 490 Courtlandt avenue bad an odd experience Sunday when she was knocked down by a car and had her hair cut off almost as clean as If by a palr of ecissors. She was cross- ing Third avenue behind a southbound car when a northbound car confronted her. She stepped back to let it pass, but the side of the fender caught her and threw her heav- ily to the ground. In falling her long halr fell across the rail, although her head and body were out of danger. The forward wheels passed over the hair, cutting it off close to the scalp. Part of the scalp was pulled off. The accident was witnessed by a large number of persons, many of whom supposed the girl had been killed. After the car passed by a dozen men rushed to her as- sistance and raised her up. The girl smiled, but burst into tears when she reallzed that she had lost her hair, of whivh she was very proud. The severed curls were gathered up and handed to her. With them tucked securely under her arm she ran to tell her mother. “There were many moments during the prolonged perlod Pierpont Morgan occupled the witness chalr on Wednesday In the Northern Pacific-Northern Securities ex- amination proceedings, when it was evident he was impatient,” relates the New York Evening Post. “This was not apparent in his manter while speaking, but from time to time, at the close of a sentence, he threw himself back in his chair and looked ‘mad clear through.' His method of letting oft steam, as it were, consisted, first, in taking a deep inhalation; second, in turning as much of his back as the position of his chair permitted upon Mr. Lamb, the inquisitor; third, in expelling the overcharge of air through his stubby mustache, glaring mean- while with wide eyes out of a distant win- dow. He did this most often after answer- ing & question which, apparently, impressed him as needless rather than leading or dis- comfiting. “Mr, Morgan's energy was patent in his every word and gesture, the latter seldom varylng from a nervous fumbling with an envelope which he constantly knocked against the table, finally crushing it in his hand. He seemed unable to understand why Mr. Lamb found it necessary to ask him 80 many questions to elicit'one fact, saying more than once: ** ‘Now, if you will let me, I will tell you all about that.’ !"He would then begin at a point three or four answers back, and carry the recital probably ten ‘or twelve questions In ad- vance. After this, he would settle back in his chair as if feeling sure Mr. Lambd could not rake up another question. His answers were unhesitating, even when he cut one short to draw in a great quantity of air, and to the point above all else. His willingness to answer was evident. That be impressed the attorneys who had gath- ered to question him was obvious. When be stated his intention to go to Europe within a short time, and hoped he might bave ample notice in case his presence should be necessary again, the attorneys vied with one apother in assuring him, with bows and smiles, that he should, of course, be consulted before being called. And, really, it did seem that Plerpont Mor- an was doing those attorneys a favor that day.” PERSONAL NOTES, General Miles Is now a grandfather for the first time. He ought, regard the baby as a consolation prize. The union veterans of German birth are to ralse a fund for & monument to General Friedrich Wilhelmn von Steuben of the American revolution, to be erected in Washington, D. C Gonzales de Quesada is mentioned as Cuba's first diplomatic representative at Washington. He was a prominent member of the Cuban junta and of the Cuban consti- tutional convegtion. Ceell Rhodes left the burden of his wealth for the purpose of educating young men along the lines of ambition and ad- venture which he followed. But.such men are born, not educated. The maharajah of Jeypore, India, will at- tend the coronation of King Edward in a manner quite in keeping with his luxuriops mode of life. He has chartered an ocean steamer for his private use. His suite will number 120 persons. A minister in a suburb of Chicago has been frozen out of a job. by the women of | the congregation. It seems the unfortunate man is several degrees removed from an Adonis, through no fault of his, but when he attempted to improve his personal ap- | pearance by affecting the pompadour style | of hair dressing, the congregation, unable | to maintain & solemn face, simply stayed away from church. There are several Don’t Grab If you do, you wil substances. Don’t Don’t waste time ¢ has ever used a better medicine for colds, 25c., 80c., $1.00. at Shadows| and that thing and every other thing you see advertised as a cough medicine. Better follow the advice of eminent physi- cians and grasp the real substance, — Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Ask your own doctor if he coughs, bronchitis, croup, asthma. “ For five years 1 bave been saffering with bronciitis. F' months it has eonfinsd me to the house.. or the past two Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and only two bottles en 1 surely lose try this thing hasing shadows! A fow woeks ago L began to take !{cnnd me.” Dasins B, Lrors, Alta, W, Va, J.C. AYBRCO., Lowell, Mass, PENSION COMMISSIONER EVANS, Indianapolis News: People that honor a man that does his duty in office will sin- urn Iy regret the retirement of Henry Clay ns, commissioner of pensions, who ten- dered his resignation to the president. The fight that has been made on Mr. Evans bas finally been crowned with success. Weary of the persecutions and opposition to which he has been subjected, he retires from the office which he has administered 80 creditably. Chicago Post: The commissioner's sur- render is to be profoundly regretted. Honest veterans had no grievance nst bhim, while the fraudulent claimants are not entitled to any consideration. It is interesting to know that the Evans policy will be “‘continued by hie successor’—pre- sumably by the explicit direction of the president. This will make the victory of the anti-Evans forces utterly barren from the standpoint of the looter and spoilsmen— the patriots for revenue only. Philadelphia Ledger: If the commissioner has been displaced to placate the “adven- turous” element that have been so in- dustriously and clamorously demanding his retirement, it would be meet and fit that they should select his successor, for in no other way can their uproar be silenced. In this view of the case, as the Ledger has heretofore remarked, Commiasioner Evans' successor obviously is Corporal Tanner, whom nobody accused of a too punctillous fidelity to his duty as pension commissioner. New York Times: It is clear that his appointment to another and more remuner- ative place would be an indorsement of hia previous service. That s to say, it would be, In effect a denial that there is any reason, connected with the service, why he should be retired. With such an indorse- ment from the president It seems to us that it is neither proper nor even excusable to retire him. For retirement it is, what- ever form It may take. He has held his post steadily and faithfully, with patience, fidelity and courage. Philadelphia Press: Mr. Evans was & soldier in the civil war, and it would have been most consonant with his sympathies and preferences to meet even the extrava gant expectations of his old comrades and construe the pension law with the most liberal elasticity against the government and in favor of all pension claimants. He had precedent for such a course, but his idea of duty was mot of that character He took the law as he found it, construed it according to precedent and in accord- ance with the terms and spirit of a falr interpretation. GOVERNOR CUMMI VETO. Vigorous and Welghty Objections to a Ratiroad Bill. Chicago Post The Towa leglslature has discovered that it is unwise to reckon without Governor Cummins, an Independent and courageous executive who means to do his duty to the people. The bill to remove the limit of indebtedness per mile imposed by existing law from certain rallroads organized or operating in lowa, passed with extraordi- nary and strange alacrity, is vetoed by Governor Cummins in a message as sound as it is refreshing. It is pointed out that the measure is re- pugnant to the constitution of Towa on count of its artificlal classification of the raliroad companies. In other words, it s not general legislatign, but an instance of speclal lawmaking to further the supposed interests of three or four lines. This ob- jection might be met by an amendment extending the scope of the bill, but the executive Informs the legislature in ad- vance that another veto awaits any meas- ure embodying the principle of the present class of railway.companies to {ncur um- limited obligations without respect to the | amount of their stock or the worth of thelp property. 1 cannot bring myself to belleve that this species, of special legisiation is coneistent with the public weltare or neces- sary for the legitimate development of rail- way property. On the contrary, it is my firm belief that corporate pawer to issue the stocks and indebtedness mecds regula- tion rather than expansion, The Towa bill is not only *‘without paral- lel in modern legislation,” but is.a decided and unwarrantable departure from estab- lished policy and practice. PROF. ROSS ON HIS TRAVELS, - Enstern Greeting to a Nebraska Educaton, Bosion Transeript Prof. E. A. Ross of the University of Ne- braska, who comes to lecture at Harvard university next week, and who, also, will lecture before the Twentieth Cemtury club on Wednesday evening, is the professor whose dismission from Leland Stanford uni- versity called forth so vigorous a formal protest by the professors of other volleges, who saw in his summary treatment by President Jordan a case which raised: the burning issue of academic freedom in Amer~ ican colleges and universities. Prof. Ross’ treatment, it will be recalled, cauped sev- eral other professors of Leland :Stanford to resign; he soon found a chair atthe Uni- versity of Nebraska, which has: E. Benja- min Andrews for chancellor, whose experi- ence at Brown university had not been al- together unlike Prof. Ross' in California; and then came the invitation from Harvard to give this special course of lectures on sociology, as if it were the ancient umiver- sity's way of eaylng to the western mush- room growth that Prof. Ross had not iost caste among scholars by hig collision with Mrs. Stanford. Those who hear Prof. Ross will not be tempted to drowsiness. He 1s brillant, pungent, audacious; ‘does his own thinking on all matters, and wears no man's and no school's collar. He is a westerner whose education was rounded out at the University of Berlin and at Johns Hopkins university, and who taught cconomics at Indfana university and at Cornell university before going to Leland Stanford, Jr., uni- versity. Younkers band a bread Busan—'Deed s; he's won de prize at a ‘dozen cakewalks. & Philadelphia Press: “Beg pardon,” said the suspiclous-looking fellow meeting Sub- “but what time have bubs In a dark street, you?" “Just enough to catel: my train, replied Subbubs, as he hastened on. Chicago Tribune: Oleo Manufacturer—Do you guarantee this coloring matter to be absolutely harmiess? Dealer—1 do. It's the same kind we sell to the dairymen. Puck: “I've got a grand kcheme, old man, and I'll let you in'on the ground floor. “H'm! Are there any exits?" Brooklyn Life:. Mrs. Van Upperton—Yos, ancestors came over on the Mayflower. "Ytre. Suddenrich—How foollsh of thém! ' Mine waited for a ten-day bos Boston Transcript: She—But you must admit that soclety In our r vilfage'is all the, time becoming more cu! He—Yes I hear hat at the minstrel show ne eck Instead of end men they adver- Hee ‘Superior terminal faciiities PLEASURE. Somerville Journal, "Tis sweet to sit in peaceful ease, When howling blizzards blow And watch the toiling man, outside, ‘A-shoveling the snow. "Tis sweet in gentle spring to stand Or 1dly loaf around, bUl. He declares, and rightly, that prin- ciple to be manifestly wrong and incom- patible with public policy. Governor Cummins, it is hardly necessary to say, would approve any measure de signed to enable raliroads to secure proper fliclency or improvement. But he eays: “It 1s one thing to grant to rail- way companies the right:to borrow the money needed to ald in the construction and equipment of their lines of railwa: It is quite another thing to authorize & economy, And watch the man who James his back A-spading up the ground. "Tis sweet In summer time to swing Within the hammock's net, And watch the chap who mows the lawn, His brow all damp with perspiration. again, when autumn comes— t does ‘you good | the hired man at work A-sawing up the wood. 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