Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1902, Page 6

L] ‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. — . E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISBHED EVERY MORNING. — vz - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ly Bee (without Suncay), One Year.$4.00 nday e B0 , One sosees e Year Rt ; Farmer, One Year.. D BY CARRIER. ut’ Sunday), per copy. out Sunday), per week. luding Sunday), per week.1 dncluding Sunday, per Complaints of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Clrculation De- partment OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Bullding Bouth Omaha—City Hail ty-fAfth and M streets ouncll Bluffs—10) Pearl Street. Chicago—160 Unity Building New York—Temple Court Washington—il Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omah Sutiding, Twen- REMITTANCES. Remit by graft, express or postal order, paysble to The Publishing Company. ly 2-cent stamps acc mail accounts. Person; ©Omaha or eastern exc THE BEE PUBLISH ted In payment of checks, except on e, not mcceptes G’ COMP. !TA)EHENT OF CIRCULATION. Ptate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: o T A T R Bays that the sotual numper of full and gmpleu coples of The Dally, Morning, vening Sunday Bee printed during the month of March, 1902, was as follows: 29,070 a1 49,760 29,430 29,770 20,630 20,600 29,520 20,450 29,700 .%9,450 .29,500 2v,370 .29,640 29,620 49,670 29,600 Total . Less unsold and retu Net total sales. Net daily ave i GEO. B. TZBCHUCK. Bubacribed in my presence and sworn to fore me this 3ist day of March. A. D. GEORGE RABMUBSEN, (Beal) Notary Public. — The coal dealer has had his day. Now the ice man will bave his innings. Brittanla formerly ruled the wave. From now on it will be Morgania. Walking is good in 8an Francisco just now. All of the trolley and cable car men have taken a vacation. DeWitt Talmage is dead and burled, but his son still supplies ready-made germons under the old contract. The camphored ulster and the fumi- gated fur cape have been put into cold storage and the linen duster is called into requisition once more. The merger of Atlantic steamship companies has not created as much of # sensation on the other side of the Atlantic as it bas on this side. The foundation of the auditorium will #00n be laid, but the superstructure can- not be finished unless a few more public- spirited citizens come to the front with subscriptions. — Two miles a minute is a very com- fortable gait for rallrond advertising agents, but ordinary passengers travel- ing at that speed might have to be strapped down to thelr seats, Chicago labor federationists want the tariff on beef repealed, but how will the repeal of the tariff on beef reduce the price of meat when the demand for the surplus cattle and beef exported to Europe from Canada, Australia and Argentine Is greater than the visible supply ? County Attorney Shields has finally concluded to recognize Judge Berka, but that will not prevent Judge Gordon from golng through the motlons of calling the Police court to order in the vestibule of the police station just to keep up his practice and file his salary claim with the city council. The Chicago Janitors' Protective as- soclation has established a set of rules, the first of which is as follows: “Mem- bers of the Janitors' Protective assocla- tion shall keep themselves as clean and £1dy as circumstances will permit.” The last four words are the saving clause that may save a good deal of soap. King Edward has placed $150,000 at the disposal of the lord mayor of London to pay for a good coronation day din- mer for half a milllon of London's poor. This royal gift will enable the impov erished population of the British capital 0 enjoy a feast one day this year with & starvation dlet for the remaluing 864 days. [ Five buffaloes have been slaughtered to make a holiday for the confederate wveteraus now assembled at Dallas, Tex., to fight over the battles of the gray agalust the blue. If you want to know why the forlorn shorthorn buffalo wi sacrificed to gratify confederate voracity instead of the frisky long-horned Tex: steer, just ask the Beef trust why it has made ox meat so dear and buffalo steaks so chea| e— The Intimete relation of the Sugar trust to the Cuban relief bill was shown by the serious break in the price of Sugar trust stock on the New York ex- change immediately after the news from Washington announcing “the mishap" had been received. The president of the sugar refinlug company s quoted as saylug: “If the bill as passed by the house becomes a law the loss to the ‘American refiners of sugar will be be- tween six and elght milllons of dollars anpvally.” The question is, Will the consuler or coupon clipper pay the GOVERNUR SAVAGE AND THE SPECIAL SESKION. The threat of Governor Savage to call an extra session of the leglslature to revise the rallroad taxation laws unless the rallroad managers and republican leaders who Induced him to pardon Bart- ley make good their promise 18 not taken seriously by the rank and file of the Ne- braska republicans. With the present temper of the party all the raflroad man- agers combined and all the leaders who favored Bartley's liberation could not deliver the goods. If the governor's reprieve of Bartley was procured on the strength of pledges made by parties that claim to dominate the republican party, he has been bun- coed. If, however, the governor is in dead earnest about raising the railroad assessments he is in position to inaugu- rate the reform without an extra session of the legisiature. The State Board of Bqualization, composed of the governor, trensurer and auditor, I8 empowered to fix the value of the property and fran- chises of the railroads, and their assess- ment stands for at least one year. When the state board convenes on May 7 it will be the duty of the governor and his assoclates not only to appraise the prop- erty of rallroad corporations, but to equalize the assessment of all other tax- able property so that each Individual and corporation shall bear its just pro- portion of the tax burdens. The comparison of the rallroad assess- ment of 1001 with the assessment of the preceding years affords ample justifica- tion foy a material increase in the val- uvation of rallroad property’ this year. Within the past few years the rallways of Nebraska have expended many mil- llons of dollars In betterments, exten- sions and rolling stock. The earning ca- pacity has not only been increased, but thelr earnings have been larger than ever in the history of transmississippl raiiroading. No fair-minded person asks or éxpects that the railroads shall pay a higher proportion of taxes than owners of other property, but railroads should not ask, nor expect, the Board of Bqualization to discriminate in their favor and against the owners of other taxable property. While there is no need of an extra ses- sion of the legislature for revision of railroad assessments there is imperative necessity of a special session of the leg- islature to devise a measure for straight- ening out the tangle In state finances and taking steps for the safe Invegtment of the permanent school fund. Above all things is the crylng need of speedy con- stitutional revision by the submission of amendments to enlarge the supreme court and the reorganization of the ex- ecutive department based on experience and commensurate with the growth and resources of Nebraska. Whether such a special session shall be called this spring or later on remains for the governor and his immediate advisers to determine. Suffice it to say that whire the consti- tution limits the debt of this state to $100,000, the aggregate state debt now exceeds $2,000,000 and is growing at the rate of $100,000 a year. That condition must be faced and provision must be made for funding this debt and the pre vention of future Increase. Steps must be taken to prevent the farming out of public funds for private gain, whether by bond deals or by private deposits: If Governor Bavage would courage- ously step forward and give the people relief he would reinstate himself in pop- ular confidence and in a great measure wipe out the odium which attaches to the Bartley pardon. — THE TARIFF ON MMATS. There is a demand for the repeal of the tariff duties on meats, as a means of correcting the increased prices for which the alleged Beef trust is sald to be responsible. The Dingley law pro- vides that bacon and hams shall pay 5 cents per pound; fresh beef, veal, mut- ton and pork 2 cents per pound; meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for in the act, 25 per cent ad valorem; lard, 2 cents per pound; poultry, live, 3 cents per pound; dressed, 5 cents per pound. It is urged that iIf these duties were repealed "the effect would be to compel the alleged trust to reduce the price of meats, the supposition of course being that the removal of the duties would have the effect to increase the importa- tion of meats. It is a question, however, whether such would be the result of repealing the meat duties. Where would the meats ¢ome from? During the fiscal year 1901, according to the offi- clal statistics, the importations of meat products were to the value of about $400,000, a very large part of this being in the form of meat extracts. The amount of meat imported was extremely small, not because of the tariff, but for the reason that the production in other countries is but little in excess of the home demand and there is no profit in exportation at the cost of transportation and the risks involved. This is why there has been such an extensive de- mand in Eurepe for American meats. Cattle raising is an important industry in Argentina, but that country has not been able to successfully compete with the United States in the European mar- kets. Australla, also, is a meat grow- ing country, yet it has not been able to secure any considerable ‘share of the European tradé in competition with the United States. yIn ‘view of these facts, therefore, how would a repeal of the meat duties bepefit American, consum- ers? If it be sald that ik would have the effect to bring mope eattle Wto the United States fram Canada, it 18 neces- sary to show that there are cattle enough in the Dowinlon to make any impression upon the price here and also that the Canadians would be disposed to sell them at figures which would break down the price in the” American market, which is quite improbable. However unjustifiable the duties on meats may be, it is by Do means ap- parent that their removal would have any material effect upon the present price or tend to correct what is com- wmonly regarded s an extortion on the M rewrs 2 poe THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1902 part of the packers who are belleved to control the cattle market and regu- late the price of meats. It Is very much to be doubted whether repealing the meat duties would lower prices so long as there is a foreign demand for our surplus and no other country can com- pete in our home market. PHILIPPINE CONDITIONS. No American citizen can be or will be Indifferent to the facts which have been brought out in regard to conditions in the Philippines. The most insistent advocates of American authority in the archipelago will demand "that” the ex- ercise of the power of our government shall be characterized by such justice and such absolute regard for the princi- ples of our Institutions that there can be no controversy or question In regard to the purpose of our government to carry out the established policy of Amer- fcan institutions. There has not up to this time been a single act or a single proposition that has not been absolutely In line with the republican character of American institutions. The whole course of our government from the inception of the conflict in the Philippines to the present moment has had reference to pacifica- tion under conditions that would have been absolutely in the Interest of the natives of the Philippines. There has never been an hour since the United States, by virtue of its treaty rights, declared sovereignty over the Philip- pine islands, has not been prepared to give the people of those islands a reason- able measure of self-government and to promote In all legitimate ways their desire to govern themselves, under such fair and proper conditions as the United States might require. The right of this nation to rule and govern the Philippines 18 today absolutely unassaflable, It I8 not questioned by any government In the world and will not be. It is acquiesced in by a majority of the Filipinos them- selves. According to the latest advices practically all of those people are most willing to accept American control, hav- ing become convinced that the purpose of our government is absolutely hu- mane and has reference wholly to the improvement and betterment of the is- lands and their people. In view of this, what reasonable ex- cuse is there for opposition here to the policy of the government in regard to the Philippines? Considering the good results already attained through the application of that policy and the prom- ise of still better conditions, why should it not be continued? Pacification in the Philippines s today almost an accom- plished fact. Only a few days ago the most persistent and active of the in- surgent leaders surrendered and un- qualifiedly took the oath of alleglance to the United States. There 18 every reason to think that this Is practically the end of the resistance to American authority In Luzon and when we shall have made friends of the people in that island there will be little difficulty in bringing under our control the rest of the archipelago. According to the Chicago Chronicle, which can see nothing good in anything that may be done, or left undone, by President Roosevelt, the anti-trust zeal of the administration is a mordant re- flection upon previous republican ad- ministrations, and especially that of Mc- Kinley. Put In a nutshell, this means that you will be damned if you do and you will be damned if you don't. If President Roosevelt had done nothing to check the aggression of the trusts and consummation of the rallroad mergers, he would have been denounced. Now that he is trying to protect the country from rapacity of combines he is being denounced. It is to be hoped that the members of the city council will not attempt any grandstand play in the effort to bring about the reopening of the Union Pa- cific foundry. Whatever action is de- cided upon should be taken only after a full conference with the Union Pacific managers and a careful inquiry as to the relative legal rights of the city and the obligations of the rallroand under the contract recently entered into. Boston has goue New York one bet- ter by the attempted enforcement of the Massachusetts blue laws. As a consequence the sale of soda water and temperance drinks by drug stores was effectually stopped while whisky and beer could be sampled freely by pur- chasing a 5-cent sandwich. An Incentive to Peace. Philadelphia Press. The bread tax in England will probably prove the most effective blow yet struck in making an end to the Boer wer. Thoughtful Friends of Newspapers. Boston Globe. The Nebraska man who wrote the sermon for his own funeral knew a thing or two. ‘The newspapers would never lack for copy it public men w allowed to write their own obituari As G They Bulld 'Em. Philadelphia Ledge Fast trains are indications of material progress. Prairie roads on which trains can make ninety-elght miles an bour must be composed of something more than the traditional “right of way and two streaks of rust. Foresees His Own Fi Chicago Post. Mr. Ware certainly takes a philosophical view of the duties he s soon to assume a&s pension commissioner. The fact that he expects to see his hide decorating the back yard fence would indicate that he in- tends to wear the sturdy footgear of Mr. Evans. —— “Am Awful Hardship.” Washington Star, The solemnity with whick the possibllity that the opening of the St. Louls exposi- tion may be postponed until 1904 is dis cussed is becoming smusing. Those famil- lar with the circumstances of the case an- nounced more than six months ago that it would be a physical impossibility to open it xt yéar, and that in all likelibood it would not open before 1905. Meantime it 1 to be hoped that the various government commissioners and other salaried officers of the exposition will not become restive under the delay. Live Nebraska Towns Suptrior——Su;;rlor in Fact and in Name. needed to make Superior a This question, propounded to anyone on the streeta of the town will fetch a sar- donic grin and a laconic reply: “Rain." And it's the truth. Rain—evenly dls- tributed moisture throughout the crop- growing period—would, if assured year after year, make Superior Croesus among towns. Superior is situated so that crops are absolutely necessary to its continued prosperity. But In the absence of any as- surance that the rain gods will get busy at the proper moment the people are golng ahead to make the best of thinge as they are. The town has enough of the usual Iines of business. There are enough groceries; bet- ter dry goods stores are not to be found in any of the smaller cities; medicine, the law and other professions are well repre- sented. But there {s one unusual line of business which Superfor would welcome with open arms and there s a strong faith among the business men that it will at some time not far distant be located here. That {s a cement works. In 1894 & cement factory was located at Yankton, 8. D. A censtruc engineer who was Interested In the plant had the idea that the shale from which the Port- land cement is made was deposited in nearly stralght ridges across this con- tinent. Following this idea he made a trip across Nebraska, finding here and there outcroppings of the shale. Four miles southwest of Superior the first large deposit was found, together with a clay which is necessary In making good cement The Commercial club has been working on that proposition ever since, Portland ce- ment of fine quality has been made In small experimental quantities, shafts dug to ascertain the depth of the shale banks, analyses made, plans drawn. In fact, all the preliminary work is accomplished, and there are now high hopes that the one thing needful—meney to build the plant, will soon be forthcoming. Portland cement s a great proposition to a capitalist seeking & money-making venture. The government reports show that the imports of cement from Europe have not diminished during the past fifteen years. During that time a number of large plants have been erected in the United States, but the increased use of the cement has kept pace with the in- creased productien. Small factories of all kinds will receive hearty support of the right kind from the active commercial club of this town. C. B. STINE. The Packers’' Defense Chicago There are two sides to every case of im- portance and there are more than two to the controversy now raging about the beet question. The Tribune has no particular affection for the trust or the packers. It heartily approves of the inquiry about to be made by the government authorities into the workings of this combination, if there is one. Still, it s only fair to state the packers’ side of the case, which the Tri- bune understands to be about as follows: The price of the cattle on the hoof is higher than It has been for twenty years. The greatest advance has taken place in the last five weeks. The supply has diminished 1% per cent in number and 5 per cent in welght. There has been a decrease in the visible supply of marketable cattle of elght million pounds per week. In the meantime, the consumption demand is greater than ever before. The people of the south, for example, Lave been educated in the use of fresh meat, and whereas formerly they lived mainly upon “hog and hominy,” they now have beef. The big packing houses in Chicago have established branches all over the south, where formerly they had none. The export trade, until quite lately, has been larger than ever before. The failure of the corn crop put a good many farmers out of business as far as cattle raising is concerned. There are as many cattle in the country, but not so many in marketable condition. Cattle cannot be taken from ranges for immediate consumption. Feed- ers and stockers do not help to supply the abnormal demand which exists at present. In a word, the demand has finally over- taken the supply. Cattle on their merits as an investment are higher than ever be- fore and they are likely to continue so for some time. Live stock recelved at the six principal markets during the last six months has netted the farmer from forty to fifty million dollars more In money than last year during the same period, »nd last year wai a high average year. The advance price has corhe out of the consumers. It has made the farmers more prosperous. Ten years ago there was an investiga tion to diecov: the reason for the low price of cattle, and the packers were held responsible for it. It was charged that they had combined to “depress prices” by controlling the markets and refusing stock- ralsers and feeders a fair price for their products. The complaint now is that the same packers have combined to produce exactly the opposite result—namely; to raise prices. The conditions are reversed. The farmers are getting more for their cattle than since 1882, Whereas the pack- Tribune. ers ten years ago were accused of manipu- lating prices so as to rald the farmers, they are now accused of putting up their prices in such a manner as to enrich the farmers and rob the retallers and consumers. The packers claim that they are between two fires, and whether prices go down quite low or up quite high they are equally held to blame. They allege that in Chicago, for example, there are twenty small packers who have gone out of business since January 1 be- cause they cannot meet existing competion. Formerly these small packers killed 2,000 head of cattle per week, whereas now they kill only 200 or less. Beef is sold 8o cheap it pays the small packers to buy directly from the big ones rather than to do business for themselves. This means that the big packers'are doing business on a small mar- gin of profit or at a loss. There claim they are doing business at a loss. There Is no patent on killing cattle, no secret about the business. Cattle can be bought in the open market and anyone with ordinary skill can butcher them and offer them for sale. The big packers make more out of their by-products than the small ones. Con- sequently they can carry on business when the small ones are obliged to stop. On the other hand, if the blg packers put up their prices too high they lnvite the competition of the small ones. ‘There is one thing more to be considered with reference to the price of beef. Only 56 per cent of the live welght of cattle is beef. The rest is hides and offal. If the big packers pay & cent a pound more for cattle on the hoof than they formerly did the cost of dressed beef per pound is nearly doubled. The price of hides and offal does not increase In proportion to the cost of cattle on the hoof. The same is true to some extent with retailers. If they pay & cent a pound more, submitting to an ad- vance, say from 9 to 10 cents, they must put up prices to consumers about 2 cents & pound, as a large part of their purchase goes to waste in the shape of bone and gristle, trimmings and scrap. The Tribune sets forth these statements the views of an intelligent packer whom it belleves to be a fair, candid, truthful man.” The public should have both sides of the case, and while the Tribune is pub- lished it is determined that both sides in every case shall have a hearing as far as it is possible. This is simple justice. But we shall be glad to glve space to the views of some intelligent man contrdverting the atement of the packers, and ehall accord much publicity to one side as to the other. e — — ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Rip Metropol! A pathetic plcture of shadowed life grad- ually approaching the inevitable tragedy - to be observed almost every day in Ever- green cemetery, Brooklyn, when Jonathan | Reed, with feeble, tottering eteps, makes | his way to the tomb where rests the body of his wife. There have been few days since she died, nine years agp, that he has not made the journey, but his long pllgrim- age e near an end. It took all of his strength to open the granite door and en- ter the vault one day last week. . Nearly every day he lifts the silk crazy quilt that covers the cofin and looks through the glass cover upon the face that has lain there still and dead for so long. t as pretty as ever,” he sald. always the prettiest woman in the world. Death will not be unwelcome to the old man. He says he is 69 and will be with Mary soon. His coffin is ready for him by the side of the one in which she rests. For the nine years since they were parted by death he has made his home in her tomb. He would sleep there if he could get permission, but this has been de- nied. Sometimes he remains until nearly midnight. All the pretty things, all the trinkets she had, he has carried to the tomb. Tapestries and hangings, paintings, curlos, books and cushions fill nearly all little cage, is the canary bird. Ofce bulldings in lower Manhattan mul- tiply their wonders for the ordinary New Yorker who does not go about much, says the Evening Post. One of the new ones embraces this varfety of convenlences in every-day service: Newsstand, tobacco counter, cafe, restaurant (with music at lunch), drug shop, press buresu, physi- clans, stenographers, barber (with his mod- ern assoclates, the chiropodist and the manicurist), dentist, laundry agent, cable, telegraph, automobile information, theater agent, obituary bureau, notary public, ete., etc. You can take an elevator to a man who will draw & will or one who will ar- range a funerai; without golng from under your own roof you may liquidate a corpora- tion or buy a locomotive. There are ten elevators in a bewildering row, which an- nounce their coming by electric signal some going thirteen floors at & jump. Hav. ing all this so mear is what spoils the New Yorker for any other city in the world—unless he is trylng to get away trom it. e The southeast corer of Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street was bought today by a syndicate as a preliminary to fts im- provement with a hotel which 1o luxury of equipment is to vie with Delmonico's and Sherry's on adjacent corners of the a pue. The syndicate ls controlled by Per- cival W. Clement of Vermont, who is aleo the leading spirit in the recently incor- porated New England Hotel company. The site was purchased at $1,000,000. The hotel will probably cost es on the Current of Life in the | $1,500,000 more, although persons inter- ested {n the project said that the detalls of the plan have not been matured. One of the rabbls of New York City discovered a most undignified error in the Columbla university seal some time ago. On the present seal appears the biblical quotation, “In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lucem,” “In Thy light shall we see light.” At the time when this rabbi took up a printed copy of the seal, gazed at it a mo- ment and found in it eomething amusing, the Inscription was in Hebrew. It had been used on the seal for many years and had been printed on the catalogues of the university and on other official documents. There was an inaccuracy In the Hebrew characters. “As it is printed here,” sald he to the university authorities when he went to see them next day, “your motto eays: “Have a plece of cold ple."” ““How preposterous is a budget of $100,- 000,000 for New York City may be judged by comparison with national expenditures, says the New York Press. ““The cost of maintaining the government of the United States in the fiscal year of 1901 was 3$510,000,000. This sum was pald for the public business in the nation of nearly 80,000,000 people, with the enormous cost of our armies and fleets, our diplo- matic and consular representatives all over the world, our colonial operations, our United States courts in every state and ter- ritory, our interest on the natlonal debt, our river and harbor improvements, com- struction and maintenance of public bulld- ings, conduct of the postoffices of the coun- try and the thousand and one items which figure in the national appropriations. “For performing the business all over the world of 80,000,000 peopte, expenditures of $600,000,000! For performing the business of 3,600,000 people in the few square miles of New York City, $100,000,000! “Im 1901 the customs recelpts of the United States government were $138,000,000. The democrats and free traders denounce those tariff duties as a ‘tax upon the peo- ple.’ If the customs receipts were a tax it would be & tax on 80,000,000 people of only twice as much as the municipal tax in the New York City budget of $100,000,000 on 3,- 500,000 people! “The national expenditures of Belglum are §83,000,000 & year, of Canada $43,000,000, of China $73,000,000, of Denmark $20,000,000, of Japan $120,000,000 (with one of the finest armies and ope of the best navies in the world), of Mexico $26,000,000, of Turkey $81,- 000,000, and of the Netherlands $60,000,000. “But for the 3,600,000 people of New York City a municipal budget of $100,000,000!" Tender-hearted persons in the Harlem police court were shocked when Francisco Gorgla, an aged, shriveled and miserable- looking Itallan organ grinder, was fined $5 for begging. The white-haired old man looked appealingly about the room and from long babit put out his band, but quickly recovering himself and glancing uneasily at the magistrate, be brought forth a grimy old bag and counted out pennles, nickies, imes and quarters until he had pald his fine. Then be paid 5 also i change to Baking Made of Pure Qra RoyAL Powder Cream_of Tartar. his lawyer. By this time a crowd was about him. To the tonishment of the court attaches and dismay of those who had eympathized with him, he produced a package containing $150 in biils and a bank book on the Bank of Rome, Italy, showing he had $12,000 on deposit there. Gorgla, who s 60 years old, says he will retire from “business.” He thinks a man should retire at 60. The beggar also volunteered the information that he recently gave his daughter $2,000 as a wedding present. Nearly four years ago Mrs. John G. Carlisle, while being driven with her hus- band in a cab home, had her sealskin saque stolen. The ex-secretary caueed the arrest of the cabman, who was tried for larceny, but was acquitted. Then he sued Mr. Carlisle for false imprisonment, ask- ing for $10,000 damages. The first trial re- sulted in a verdict of $1,000 for the plain- tiff. The second came to an end last Fri- day in a dieagreement of the jury. Bleven voted for the plaintiff, but one held out for Mr. Carlisle. There will be a third trial. ONE OF THE INCIDENTS OF WAR General Dodge on the Cruelties in the Phil- ippines, Alleged In the New York Evening Post of Friday appeared the following: NEW YORK, April 17.—To the Editor of the Evening Post: As one who has had some experience In the necessities, usages and crueltles of war, which always prevail during a campalgn in an enemy’s country, am surprised at the position of your journal, and its bitterness against the Al- leged detion of Major Glenn, Lieutenant Conger and Assistant Surgeon Lyon. The testimony of Sergeant Riley, which you base your attack on these offi- cers, goes to prove that they gave the water cure to a Filipino, who had been made presideénte in one of ‘the provinces b our government, who had taken tha oath of alleglance (o our country, and then used his official position to cover his acts as captain of an insurgent company which way acting in arms against our army and within our lines. Therefore, he was a traltor and a epy, and his every act was a violation of the laws of war, and branded him an outlaw and guerrlila. If these are the facts, under the usages of war these officers were justified in what they did: in fact, If they had shot the tralfor, they wopld never havoe been called to aceount and in all probabllity this is what would have happened to him in the clvil war. An officer has great latitude under such clrcumstances, and it is not safe or fair to condemn one for almost any act that de- tects a traltor and spy in arms against the government which he has sworn to protect and which has put him in a position of trust. You ignore entirely this side of the question, and only treat Major Glenn's acts as cruelties to peaceable Filipino citizens. I can remember when the journals of this country upheld and applauded an officer who, in the civil war, ordered a man shot if he attempted to hatl down the American flag, and cannot understand the present hysterics of gome Journals over the terribia violation of the laws of war in punishing a traitor caught in the act with the water cure only. The treatment may have been severe, but it s not permanently harmful I am astonished that these fearful wrought-up journalg have no word of com- mendation for our soldlers in the Philip- nes, who have suffered untold cruelties, assinations, burning by slow fires, buriai alive, mutilations and atrocities, who have submitted to every Indignity without re- sentment or complaint, and I have been fir!nlly gratified over their excellent be- avior under such trying clrcumstances. In thelr comments, these journals are very careful not to say why these punishments are given to such traifors, knowing well it they aid our people would look upon the acts as one of the necessities of war, and would wonder at the lenfency of Major Glenn and his command. GRENVILLE M. DODGE. upon FLASHES OF FUN, Somerville Journal: Experienced news- paper men are generally sharp—perhaps be- cause they use the files of the paper every now and then. Philadelphia Press He certainly doos worth. Browne-] that today. Towne—How do you mean? Browne—He sent her a $i0 bunch of roses and borrowed the price from me. Chicago Post: ““Why is it vom do mot permit your boy to go fishing?” “I want him to grow up a truthful man.* Towne—Poor fellow! love her for all he's He loved her even more than Somerville Journal: Now look up your lawn ‘mgwer and get it in good running order. ~ Your nelghbors will want to bor- row it pretty soon. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Bluffenheim is giving away a lot of presents with that pew cigar he is just putting on the mar- =l t, “One of them ought to be a can of dls- infectant.” Post: “I think,” she sald, “I e to marry an Imaginative man.” aid ‘her {riend, speaking very vhat other kind of a_man can you ever expect to marry—It he has & Zhance 1o see you in daylight?~ Baltimore American: ‘“When people learn how much money papa has,” tittered the heavy-set heiress, “they alwaye say some- thing about my attractive fl?u." “And,” inquired the foollsh youth, “do they calculate it in pounds Instead of dol- ars? Chicago should I Detroit Free Press. 11 give you agood motto for your fish stories when you comae back,” sald Mr. Bellefleld to Mr. Bloom- fleld, who was arranging to open the trout season. Well 7" “When in doubt, tell the truth.”” Philadelphia Press: Ned—No, I don't see May as much as I used to. “ay—Why, 1 thought F0u mrere, engage Ned—That's just it. The light's always turned out In the parlor when I call now. New York World this hand ever took an a senator from the bou up a stubby right hand. “And how about the left one?* Inquired the admirer, M. “dt 18 the boy,” sald the senator, wise provision of nature that each of s has two hands d. man can say money,” orated o8 west, holding INNUENDO, Chicago Post. When woman talks of woman, see her nt her worst— Not the second, who s talked of, but tho most loquacious first. When woman talks of woman, trouble In the air, Uncertain in its detalls, but you may be sure it's there. ‘When man would talk of woman, or, in- deed, of other men, Why, something that s tangible will find expression then He may not Iltke the person, but he lacks e art to say A harmless thing that has a sting when sald a certain way. “Of course you've tried her cooking,” with a quiet little sniff, As If of something dreadful one had just obtal a whift, “You saw her with young Barker at the dance the other night?" The tone alone would Indicate it was a shameful sight. “Bhe's always changing servants, and I wonder why they leaver: A meaning shrug of shoulders that must make the angels grieve. “The manners of her children—have you noticed what they are?" The thought expressed unspoken would do it to a star. However, this is nothing to the exclama- tion’ heard When of the nelghbor's husband one may chance to say a_ word. then we there is It gives the chance she's seeking and ac- an— cords well with her The essence of unkindliness is the way»she 'oor man!" Don’t Hesitate longer. The weatther you want and have waited for has arrived, and you want to get right into one of our spring suits if you want comfort and perfect satisfaction. They are “topnotchers” of ready-made art, quality, fit and style cannot be beat. Every gar- ment made in “our own factory,” and we know HOW they are made. Don’t have to tell you how some one else said they were. 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