Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 30, 1902, Page 6

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STATEMENT OF CIRCHLATION. Btate of Nebraska, las County, 8e.: George B Taschuck, sesretary of ‘he Bee Publishing Company, being ‘duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and gmplll. coples of The Dally, Mornl vening and Sunday Bee printed dui the month of April, )90z, was as follows 1 29,600 BEEERE mng- . 20,22 EORGE B. TZSCHUCK. nm::a u:r' wmpuunn and sworn to day of April, A. L. M. B. HUN Notary fuvil Fears and flowers for the dead—char- ity and sympathy for the living. Each suceessive Memorial day finds more graves to be decorated. Such is thie frresistible decree of time, e Now that the High school cadets in summeér cdmp have been reviewed by the governor, the war may go on. — Omaha people would know that sum- mer is at band if they had nothing else to go by except the opening of the sum- mer recreation resorts, e In hunting for an issue for the coming campalgo, the democrats in congross are chiefty” feh il thé§ ntay unearth some- thing they would rather not find. % ———————— Every public holiday, no matter what the oceasion, cinches the argument stronger that the Amerlcan people are becoming steadily more and more de- voted to outdoor sports. T The Bowersock 2-cent-per-acre land lease bill has been indefinitely placed on the shelf by the house committee on public lands. Hence those steers on the ranges ‘of the cattle barons. ¢ —— ‘Walt till the statisticlans begin to figure out how mueh King Edward's coronation welighs in dollars and cents, or rather pounds and shillings, fn order to answer the question whether it Is worth the money. ——— The Woman's club of Sloux Falls is going to pleces owing to internal dissen- slon. The Omaha Woman's club has very wisely concluded to adjourn for a vacatlon over the heated season to avold internal dissension and external conten- tion. e Memerial day should be observed not only by the surviving families of war veterans, but by all our people. No more beautiful and Inspiring custom has ever been cherlshed than that which calls for an annual tribute to the be- loved dead. eyemse— While the county attorney Is explain- ing his policy on policy, why not ex- plain why he is always struck with 'wisual bllndness whenever he passes the boundarles of South Omaha? Most geographles place Omaha and South Omaba both In Douglas county. Sr—— On the Harriman theory that railroad men alone know how to leglslate on rallroad matters, a leglslature composed +of rallroad magnates and employes will have to be elected whenever the people want new laws, governing rallroads and thelr relations to public and patrons. » R Althoughhover a thousand citizens of Omaha have already paid their taxes on real and perdonal property for 1902, City Treasurer Hennings may still be found at the old stand willing to recetve in- voluntdry contributions from all who bave been listed by the tax commis- sloner. =—rssmm—— Our ren h ‘\l_gl‘.l\'fll bave no more cause - 8% American hospl- tality than did Prince Henry and his party. The only efiticism they will be tempted to psss is that their hosts ‘,'N’,Mvm“ a succession of attentions that they will have to take a vacation \iftiey. return home to yPresident Palma starts out with a package of trouble due to the pre- tion of his message to the woongress. That is indeed serlous, it will be remembered that the pro- chedings of precutive of the senate. MEMORIAL DATY. This day, sacred to the memory of the defenders of the union, favokes the grat- Itude and appeals to the love of country of all loyal Americans; Time has not impaired ‘the significance of ‘Memorisl day or weakened the sehtiment which it Inspires. We think a# affectionately and as gratefully pow as ever of the patriotic men who gave their lives for the preservation of the government and we hold in honor and esteem the veter- ans who survived that mightly struggle and are yet among us. The sacrifices they made and the hardships*and suffer- Ing they endured are mot forgotten and we sorrowfully realize that they are rapldly passing away and not iany yenrs hence all will have gone to the eternal camping ground. The republic has never shown ingrati- tude to its defenders. : The American people, more than any other, have al- ways honored the soldiers who upheld the flag. They do so still and those who have given their lives in a far distant land to maintain the national-authority and the men who are faithfully per- forming their duty under a troplc sky will share in the homage and respect that are today pald to the dead and the living soldiers of the republic. THe men who have fallen in the Philippines have an unimpeachable claim to be affectionately remeémbered by their cout- trymen and we shall still honor for theif courage, their fidelity and their patriotism the men who are upholding the flag In those islands. It has been well urged that Memorial day should not be regarded as a mere holiday for recreation. It ought to be an iuspliration to the best sentiments, particularly such as tend to strengthen loyalty to the government, patriotism and a sense of our duty as citizens of the greatest of republics. em— A COMPROMISE BiLL PROPUSED. A compromise measure amending the interstate commerce act s now pro- posed. According to New York papers business Interests in that city which have been co-operating with the com- merclal interests throughout the coun- try have received reports from Wash- ington leading them to belleve ‘that a compromise will be reached at this ses- slon of congress on the bill to_give the Interstate Commerce commission greater powers. It is understood that this com- promise will include the acceptance by Senator Elkins of the chlef provisions of the revised Nelsop-Corliss bill in ex- change for the addition of a clause au- thorizing pooling. The revised bill, while permitting pooling, seeks to place about It safeguards and to make the pooling subject to the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce commission, com- prehensive provision being made for this. Aslide from this the Nelson-Corliss bill alms to restore to the commlssion the powers it was supposed to possess and which it exercised for some years after the act creating 1t was passed. It pro- vides for making the rulings of the commission effective untll reversed by the courts. While it confers no- rate- making power, it gives the commission authority to correct a rate which has been found, after full heariug, to be unjust or discriminative and gives ample protection, through appeal, from all pos- sible injustice. The Nelson-Corliss bill as originally introduced had”the sup- port of the commission, but whether or not’ the commission approves the re- vised form with the addition ‘of the pooling provision is not known. Per- haps it has not been consulted in re- gard to this feature, though undoubt- edly the commissioners will be asked for an expression of opinion on'so im- portant a matfer, which has been the crux of most of the dissensions be- tween the shipping and the carrylhg interests. So far as the shipping Interests are concerned, we think It may confidehtly be sald that they will be found as strongly opposed now as at any time in the past to legalized pooling, how- ever full and comprebensive the com- mission's authority over it. The publie conviction that it is unsafe to allow the rallroads to enter into pooling agreements is undoubtedly as rai now as it has ever been-and it fs there- fore very questionable if a bill . per- witting pooling can be passed In the present congress. The popular opposl- tion to further concessions to the rail- roads must be respecfed and the demand for better vegulation heeded. This is to be effected by strengthening the powers of the commission in the direc- tions where these have been shown to be inadequate. The revised measure still provides for this, but the addition to it of a pooling provision will un- doubtedly weaken it with the shipping interests. It appears very probable that nothing will be done at the present ses- slon, yet congress ought to have the courage to meet this question sguarely und determine it as the publfc interests clearly require. Eaa———— NO UVERLAPS WANTED. The city tax levy for 1002 has now been made and it can be computed with approximate exactness just how much money will be avallable for each de- partment of the municipal government. The intent and purpose of the city ghar- ter in fixing limits upen the appropria- tions for each specific fupd was to keep the expendituris within those lmits, No ome will guestion the lfl,hnl were twice the present reso at hand the money could be spent on pub- lic works and improved service with more or less beneficlal repults to *the public, nor that each municipal 3 ment will be somewhat eramped uné the allotment subject o its drart. Yet neltber is there any question that with . careful economy and prudence the levy as fxed can be made to cover'all’ the pressiug legitimate Jefhands. The gar ment can be eut according to the eloth and the taxpayers will- look to : the various municfpal officers to follow the lines of the pattery. = ' o the city “with THE OMAHA DAILY BER: FRIDAY, MAY 30, still greater force to the &chool board and the school fund. The increase in the assessment roll brought about by the tax fight of the Real Estate ex- change has-actually Increased the re- sources of the school board, which will recelve another substantial sum, not anticlpated, from the increased state apportionment. The school board has been carrying from year to year a colos- sal overlap which has been increasing rather than diminishing. The oppor- tunity to reduce this deficit is now pre- sented and the board will disappolnt the taxpayers If the rellef Is not afforded. Nothing is more demoralizing and subversive of economy ' in the ex- penditure of public funds than deficit financiering. The taxpaying citizens of Omaha want no overlaps. A lower tax rate this year would be of no real benefit I it merely meant a higher raté next year to make good shortages and deficits. The only way to keep the tax rate down is to head off overlaps In ad- vance, T LUOKING TO THE CORN CROP. The financial writer of the New York Sun, in his weekly review of conditions in the stock market, says that the great and legitimate reason for the upward tendency of values {s the very flattering outlook for the country's corn crop and the improved condition generally of growing grain. He remarks that “the signal and pecullar value of a good corn crop in: the 'United States this year needs no emphasis. Possibly we may only- have a wheat ‘crop of between 500,000,000 and 600,000,000 bushels, as agalnst 750,000,000 bushels last year, but such a falling off will be wholly incon- siderable If the corn crop turns out as it now promises. An enormous corn acreage, far exceeding any ever before known, has been planted and the weather has been all that could be asked for the germination of the crop, although it was not wholly favorable at the planting season.” It Is of course too soon to judge with any degree of certainty what the corn crop will be, but all present conditions are so favorable as to warrant the hope that it will be abundant and the realiza- tion of this means a great deal for the continuance of prosperity. Nowhere s this better understood than on the New York Stock exchange. E——— A GRUWING INDUSTRY. The statistics of the growth of the shipbuilding industry of the United States during the last decade are ex- ceedingly interesting. There is now in- vested in this lmportant industry over $77,000,000, one-fifth of which is in ship- building on the great lakes. The value of the products for the last census year was over $74,000,000 and there was pald for labor nearly $25,000,000. The spe- clal census report says that the growth of the industry during the last ten years exceeds that of any preceding decade and the tonnage constructed in the last census year ending May 81, 1900, was greater than during any preceding year in our history with the possible excep- tions of 1854 and 1855, when of course only wooden vessels were built. -The product’ of merchant ships during the decade was largely employed in the do- mestic commerce of the country. The Industry is stiil' expanding and one can readily understand what its possibilities will be when we shall con- struct a merchant marine for our for- elgn commerce, which will certainly In time be dome. When that comes the shipbullding Industry will expand to two or three times its present proportions and all the industries which have rela- tion to 1t will of course increase in equal degree. An interest that has so large an amount of capital invested and employs so much labor is certainly en- titled to all proper encouragement, such as can be given through»>a reasonable measure of protection. 5 _ _—___} . The saline lands in the neighborhood of the capital city that have scandalized many legislatures and brought humils tion and disgrace on many state official who have paddled in the speculative brine have bobbed up again. A few years ago one of our, legl prevailed upon to authorize a lease with a prospective beef packing concern that has packed its beef in the shape of hay and grain upon lank and lean hungry cows. Now it is proposed that the state make an outright sale of the salipe lands to a syndicate that promises to redeem the promise made heretofore of establishing a large packing house on the premises. How eéxtenslve or ex- pensive these packing houses are to be has not yet transpired, but there is evi- dently a good deal more speculation in land in sight than there is of canned or refrigerated beef. Whether a legal title can be codfveyed to lands originally sct apart for the development of the adlt interest is an open question, even if the syndicate were willlng to take the chances of an adverse decision by the supreme court, ety Sclence has made marvelous strides in recent years in unfolding the previously hidden mysteries of nature, but every now and then comes & sudden upheaval of natural forces, like that of Mont Pelee, which proves how much more sclence must achleve before we can fully ynderstand conditions that surround us. 1t will be many centuries before any one will be able to say that we hage satls- factorily solved all the important prob- lems of earthly existence. ] The denlal of the chief deputy of the county attorney that he ‘would' under any circumstances become a candidgte for promotion even If the nomindtjon were oftered him . on a 16 to 1 silver platter, may excite the suspiclon that the present incumbent may have bo cobscientioud scruples against the third- term idea. With the opening of Elr new Carne- gle bullding, the Lincoln lbrary finds that it has shelf room for several times as many books as It has to put upon the 1902 Rhetoric and Truth San Francisco Chronicle. Senator Hoar hae made a great speech on the Philippine question and received the applause of supporters and opponents. The lor senator from Maseachusetts is a gen- tleman whom everybody respects a4 man and a senator. He particularly represents the consclence of the nation, and if we grant his premises we must accept his con- clusions. Unfortunately, he cannot escape the faults pecullar to the most estimable class of which he is a foremost representative, and whom we speak of as “sympathetic” if we wish to be respectful, “emotional” if we are less careful to be complimentary, and “mushy” if we wish to intimate lack of confidence in their judgment. He assumes his facts and accepts any kind of evidence to sustain them. Sometimes he does not bother about evidence, as when he says For the Philippine islands you have had to repeal the Declaration of Independence, For Cuba you have had to reaffirm it and luster. For the Philipp lands you have had to convert the Moh- doctrine into a doctrine of mere selfish- ness. For Cuba you have acted on it and vindicated it. Tn Cuba you have the eternal gratitude of a free people. 1In the Philip- pine islands you have the hatred and sullen people. . From ght home nothing but From the Philippines you brought othing of glory. Now, this brief paragraph contains seven misstatements and one truth. It Is true that in Cuba we have acted on the Monroo dpctrine and “vindicated” it, if by “vin- dlcating” the senator means demonstrat- ing our power to enforce it in that e In bis other statements the senator errs. We have not “repealed” the Declaratfon of Independence in the Philippines, but, on the_ contrary, have recognized it far more fully than did our forefathers in dealing with Africans and Indians. In the case of Cuba_we have neither affirmed nor denied it. We have simply “vindicated” the Monroe doctrine and left the Cubans to themselves—or possibly not quite so much to themselves as a strict construction of the celebrated declaration might really sug- gest. We shall not have “cternal” gratl- tude In Cuba, and it we do not give the Cubans what they are crying for we may not get any gratitude. We have not the “hated and sullen submission” of a sub- Jugated people in the Philippines, but, on the contrary, the very hearty good will of a people who are very much more con- tented and prosperous than they would be it we had left them to cut each other's throats, and who will become as good American citizens as any Asiatic people are capable of becoming it we will only give them—as we shall in time give them—the commercial rights of such citizens. In addition to what “glory” we have brought home from Cuba we have brought in our baggage a most importunate demand from the Cubans that, after freelng them, we should support them. From the Philippines we have brought home the glory of brave deeds, honest administration, sanitary and educational improvement, a far greater measure of self-government than they had ever dreamed of and a promise of all that they shall prove fit for. Had we given the islanders thelr commercial rights our na- tional glory would be wholly undimmed. Rhetoric has its uses, of which the fn- culeation of truth is not one. No speech on a political question ean be both rhetori- 1 and truthful. Why men are so created s to.be more moved by rhetoric than by plain statements of fact has never been offictally ~determined. Semator Hoar's speech on the Philippines was an admir- able bit of rhetoric. only so far as it serves to house the books that constitute the library and to provide facilities for those who wish to consult them. Many a fine library has been bullt up in unpretentious quarters and the possession of a beauntiful lbrary building can prove fruitful of results only as it stimulates the collection to be stored in it. rr——— A contributor to a leading democratic paper tersely sets forth the needs of his party as follows in a printed communi- cation under Chicago date: The democratic party needs the services of the foolkiller first, then new leade: who will make a democratic platform, a convention in which none but democrats are delegates and candidates who are dem- ocrats, if it is to be anything more than it bas been since 1804—an ald to the re- publican party. Democrats should not allow them- selves to be misled into expecting too much all at once, There certainly must be some mistake about that well-defined rumor concern- ing the call from Wisconsin to the chan- cellor of the Nebraska university. That $10,000 position 18 evidently belng held for Superintendent Pearse until he shall be able to come to a positive conclusion whether he canbe Induced to remain in Omaba for another year. Pass It Up to Time. i Detrpf} Free Press, Great Britain 'May have peace for the coronation, but even peace will not erase the bloodstains trom the veldt. A'Startling Possibility. ‘Washington Post. The extraordinary silence of the Hon. Ben Tillman gives rise to the hope that the gentleman may have cracked his cra- ter. \ Sets & Good Example. Kansas City Star. Even the United States may learn some- thing from Cuba. President Palma, with every temptation to be diffusive, kept his first message within the space of a col- umn, He: 1y Rewarded. Chicago Record-Herald. The duke of Marlborough has recelved the Order of the Garter, probably in recog- nition of the masterly way in which he handled his chafing dish while campalgning in South Afric et the Time ‘Minneapolis Times. The democrats are coming over to the re- rgpublican party eo fast these days that #t will be quite immaterial pretty soon whether the democracy succeeds or falls in finding an issue for the t campalgn. Loutsville Courfer-Journal. A theory is that irrigation in the arid reglons will temper the heat waves sweep- ing eastward and that rainfalls will be In- creased. It it could be demenstrated that irrigation would prove a water cure of this Kkind it would have more friends through- out the country. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP, Pusiness Enterprises Ma Citles in Great Britain. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Mr. James Boyle, the American consul at Liverpool, an old newspaper man and private secretary to McKinley during his terms as governor of Oblo, takes ‘‘Mu- nieipal Soclalism” as a text in & recent report to the State department. He finds that ninety-nine municipalities in Great Britain own their street rallway systems, forty own their plants and 181 supply electrical light. Halt the population of London uses municipal gas. Both Glasgow and Liverpool own their street rallways. In Glasgow street rallway fares range from 1 cent to 2 cents. Universal 2-cent fares will shortly be adopted in Liverpool. From street railway profits Sheffield has appro- priated’ $75,000 for the erection of shops and business premises to be rented. Liver- pool has demolished 8,000 slum houses and private owners 4,000 more. Improved teme- his district to the number of 2,200 bullt or are under comstruction. The policy is to have new blocks ready for dispossessed tenants. Americans are surprised to find the extent to which the municipal ownership idea has spread out in Great Brit Bradtord, like Liverpool, owns a hot Manchester owns & ship canal; Alexandra palace, Lon- dom, s municipal property; Torquay ow: @ rabbit warren, Colchester an oyster fish- ery, St 's & sterilized milk depot, Hull & crematorium, Doncaster and Chest a race course, Bournemouth & golf course, West Ham a stone-flagging factory and Leamington and Harrogate own Turkish baths and give free fireworks exhibitions. Numerous British cities supply free con- certs. Liverpool supplies gas, and, to some extent, hot water, on the slot principle. Two cents pays for gas sufficient for four hours' consumption by one burmer. When public ownership s taken for & text in the United States it is well to admit that the British municipalities are immensely akead. Consul Boyle is evidently impressed with American backwardacss 18 the whole mater. { GOD'S PROMISE REDEEMED. Eloguent Memorial Day Address by Colonel Henry Watterson. Beslde the mounde which mark the rest- ing place of the union dead In Cave Hill cemetery, Louisville, Ky., Colonel Henry ‘Watterson stood three years ago today and addressed the multitude assembled, there, paylng the tribute of the living to the sol- dler dead. The dust of soldlers who gave thelr lives for the liberation of Cuba had been mingled with the sofl already sacred, thus increasing public Interest in the cere- monies and lending fresh inspiration to the gifted orator of the occasion. Mr. Watter- son's address was brief, eloquent and en- nobling, one of the classics of Memorlal day. “The duty which draws us together,” he sald: “and the day—although appointed by law-—come to us laden by a deeper mean- ing than they have ever borne before, and the place which witnesses our coming in- vests the occaslon with increased solemnity and significance. Within the precincts of this dread but beautiful city—consecrate in all our hearts and all our homes—for here lie our loved ones—two plots of ground, with but a hillock between, have been set aside to mark the resting place of the dead of two armles that in life were called hos- tile, the army of the union, the army of the confederacy. We come to decorate the graves of those who died fighting for the unlon. Presently others shall come to decorate the graves of those who dled fighting for the confederacy. Yet, if these flower-covered mounds could open and the brave men who Inhabit them could rise, not as disembodied spirits, but in the sen- tlent flesh and blood which they wore when they went hence, they would rejoice as we do that the hopes of both have been at least fulfilled and that the confederacy, swallowed up by the union, lives again in American manhood and brotherhood, such as were contemplated by the makers of the republic. “To those of us who were the comrades and contemporaries of the dead that are buried here, who survived the ordeal of battle and who live to bless the day, there is nothing either strange or unnatural in this, because we have seen it coming for a long time; we have seen it coming in the kinship of ties even as close as those of a common country; in the robust intercourse of the forum and the marketplace; in the sacred interchanges of the domestic affec- tions, but, above all, in the prattle of chil- dren who cannot distinguish between the grandfather who wore the blue and the grandfather who wore the gray. “It is required of no man—whichever flag he served under—that he make any re- nunclation shameful to himself, and there- fore dishonoring to these grandchildren, and each may safely leave to history the cast- ing of tbe balance between antagonistic schools of thought and opposing camps in actlon, where the essentlals of fidelity and courage were so amply met. Nor is it the part of wisdom to regret a tale that Is told. The issues that evoked the strife of sec- tions are dead {ssues. The conflict, which was thought to be irreconcilable and was certainly inevitable, ended more than thirty years ago. It was fought to fits bloody conclusion by fearless and honest men. To |some the result was logical—to others it was disappointing—to all it was final. As no man disputes it, let no man deplore it. Let us tho rather believe that it was need- ful to make us a nation. Let us the rather look upon it as into a mirror, seeing not the desolation of the past, but the radiance of the future, and in the heroes of the new north and the new south who con- tested in generous rivalry up the fire- swept steep of El Caney and slde by side re- { emblazoned the national character in the waters ‘about Corregidor, let us behold | hostages for the old north and the old south blent together in a union that knows neither point of the compass and has flung its geography into the sea. “Great as were the issues we have put behind us forever, yet greater lssues still rise dimly upon the view. “Who shall fathom? Who shall forecast them? I seek not to 1ift the vell on what may lle beyond. It is enough for me to know that I have a country and that my country leads the world. I have lived to look upon its dismembered fragments whole again; to see it, like the fabled bird of wondrous plumage upon the Arablan des- ert, slowly shape itself above the flames and ashes of a conflagration that threat- ened to devour it; I have watched it gradu- ally unfold its magnificent proportions through alternating tracks of light and shade; I have stood in awe-struck won- der and fear lest the glorious fabric should fade into darkness and prove but the In- substantial pageant of a vision; when, lo, out of the misty depths of the fai ay Pacific came the booming of Dewey's guns, quickly followed by the answering voice of the guns of Sampson and Shafter and Schley, and I sald: “It is not a dream. It is God's promise redeemed. With the night of sectional confusion that is gome, civil strife has passed from the sceae and, In the light of the perfect day that is come the pation finds as the first fruit of it new birth of freedom, another birth of greatness and power and renown. “Fully realizing the responsibilities of this and the duties that belong to it, I, for one, accept it all that it brings with it and implies, thankful that I, too, am an American. Wheresoever its star may lead I shall follow, mothing loath or doubting; Help them +" to help thems selves. What better deed ? Then why not tell your friend who is ill just what Ayer’s Sarsa- parilla has done for you? When you see a person weak $190. All Druggists, and pale, nervous and debili- tated, just recommend our Sarsa- " parilla. If in doubt about this,ask your doctor if he knows of anything better. “A neighbor of mine had a child who had suffered from scrofula for & long time, Having used Ayer's Sarsaparilla in my own family for a great many years, and_always with satisfactory results, I recom- mended it to my neighbor. The child was quickly cu'ed, and the parents were greatly delighted.” — N. K. Drax, Spencer, Ind. 4. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. though it guide the fation's footsteps to the furthermost ends of the earth. Belleving that in the creation and the preservation of the American unfon ‘the hand of the Al- mighty has appeared from first to last, that His word bas prevalled; that In the war of the revolution and in the civil war the Incidents and accident of bat- tle left no doubt where Providence In- clined; it the star that now shines over us, at once a signet of God's plan and purpose and a heaven-sent courier of clv- ilization and religion, shall fix itself above the steppes of Asia and the sands of Af- rica, it ehall but confirm me in my faith that ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’ FIGHTING FOR SOVEREIGNTY. A Few Remnarks on Senator Hoar's Sonorous “Keynote.” New York Tribune, “You are fighting for eoverelgnty,” says Senator Hoar. That is the keynote of his arraignment of his government, the grava- men of his indictment of his country. '‘You are fighting for sovereignty.” The sentence has a fine, rhetorical tone. It is as filling to the mouth and may be as satisfying to thé 'mind .as ‘‘that blessed word Meso- potamia.’”” Yet it is scarcely a charge be- fore which the American people will tremble and turn pale. Rather will they be Inclined to thank the venerable Massa- chusetts scnator for teaching them that word, It serves them as an apt reminder that in more than one or two wars hitherto, of which the memory is proud and just, they or their ancestors were llkewlse “fighting for sovereignty.”” It serves them, too, as a potent and convincing assurance of the justice and righteousness of the work in which they are now engaged in the Philippines. They are not fighting for conquest, or for the imposition of tyranny, or for the lust of gold. They are “fight- ing for soverelgnty.” * ¢ ¢ We are fighting for succession to the only real sovereignty they have known for centuries. For three hundred years before Dewey went to Manila there had been no question as to the soverelgnty of those islands. Nelither by allen foe nor domestic insurgent had the legitimacy of Spanish rule been seriously challenged. Without our wish, in the unsought exigency of war, we were compelled to strike down and to expel that Spanish sovereignty. In the name of justice and reason and decency and common sense, what was there then for us to do but set up another and a bet- ter sovereignty in the place of the one we had destroyed? It would have been an in- famous thing to destroy the only sovereignty the Islands had and then abandon them to the anarchy of murder- ous Malays or to the spoliation of what- ever allen powers might covet them. There is an ancient parable of a man from whose mind an evil spirit was cast, but who failed to fill the vacancy with a good spirit; so presently the evil one returned with others more evil than himself and entered In; and the last state of that man was worse than the first. What endless reproach would the United States have in- curred had it dealt thus with the Philippines! We are indeed “fighting for soverelgnty" in the Philippines, as we fought for soverelgnty in 1620 and in 1744, and in 1776, and In 1812, and in 1846 and in 1861. We are fighting for a soverelgnty every whit as legitimate as any for which we fought at any of those times to which Senator Hoar so proudly refers. We are fighting for a sovereignty sanctioned and demanded by international law and by the highest clvic morals, We are fighting for a soverelgnty which means peace, order, civilization and & vastly greater measure of freedom than those islands have ever known. We are fighting for a soverelgnty which is nowhere despotic or sordid, but is everywhere generous and beneficent. The anarchist and the bandit may regard soverelgnty with aversion. Men who be- lieve In law and order and justice belleve in sovereignty as an ordinance for the welfare and the progress of the race and they do not and will not shrink from the record that they are hting for sovereignty.” Arrogance of the Conl Trust. Indlanapolls News. ‘When the coal operators serve notlce that they have nothing to arbitrate and that un- der no circumstances would the Civic Fed- eration be permitted to interfere, they show that they have no faith in the justice of their cause. Their attitude is not a challenge to the coal mines one, but to the sense of fair play throughout the land. To what length will the arrogance of the trust lead it? King Corn's Vast Domain, St. Louls Globe Democrat. If all the land planted to corn in the United States this year were massed the area would exceed the British isles, Hol- land and Belglum combined, or four-fths of the area of France or Germany. In spite of drouth the corn crop last year fell but little short of $1,000,000,000 in value. The) tavorable reports trom the corn flelds is good news for the country. PERSONAL NOTES. The late E. L. Godkin,was engaged upon a volume of reminiscences when he died. Lieutenant Colonél Andrew Haggard, & brother of Rider Haggard, the novelist, has opened a barber shop. King Oscar 11 of Sweden and Norway has just asked admission as a member of the Astronomical soclety of France. Whenever President Roosevelt goes rid- ing he carries with him a loaded pistel, which he knows well how to use should oc- casion demand. Charles 8. Onderdonk of Lamay, N. M., owns the largest goat ranch in the world. He has as high as 20,000 goats on his 28, 000-acre ranch at one time. James L. Gates of Milwaukee has just closed another large land deal aggregating 150,000 acres. This easily ranks as the larg deal for cut-over lands ever made in the northwest. The United States government fs plan- ning to secure the ground and tombd of Willlam Henry Harrison at North Bend, ©., overlooking the Ohio river, and trans- form It into a burial place. befitting that of an ex-president of this country. Senator Hanna and Secretary Cortelyou are daily in receipt of numerous requests for the autograph of the late’ President McKinley. Both were very close to Mr. McKinley, but neither had many of his signatures, and the few they possessed were long ago given away. Senator Balley of Texas, now acclaimed at Washington the democratic national leader, is one year under 40. It was he who wrote for a Texas conventlon in 1808 the minority resolutions on expansion which have now become the pronounced policy of the democracy. Commenting on the report that he was going to the coronation of King Edward, General Joo Wheeler, says tliere is at least one good reason Why he wilf 4o no ‘such thing. ““Why," says the little Virginlan, “geats at the coronation will cost $1,000 aplece. That lets me out even if I wanted to go, which I don't WHITTLED TO A POINT. Ohlo State Journal: She—Are you going to_church with me today, Henry? He—No; it's too confounded hot; I think I'll play golf. Judge: He (American)—My grandfather fell at Bunker Hill She (English)~Oh, what a for a golf links! But how did fall? Chicago Tribun pretty name e happen to “‘When I hear a man spoken of as having forty or fifty millions in ‘cold ~cash,’' remarked Uncle Allen Bparks, “I always wonder if he didn't get it by freezing out his competitors.” Cleveland Plain Dealer: “They say that 01d maids would do well to reconcile them- selves to fate after they pass thirty.” “Oh, I.dunno. Look at the wealthy Baroness Burdette Coutts. She remained a spinster untll nearly sixty." #Pek; but it's all different when you have to." Cleveland Plain Dealer: “A rich yourk woman of Hartford has just married a motorman.’ “'Dear me, 1 wonder how he found time to court her?” "'Picked her up with his life-saving net, T w'pose, and then proposed to her through the front window." Philadelphia Press: “It's sald the meditative man, Word, insignificant in itselt, may induce an endless train of thought, speaking volumes in (\Ir o wonderful,” “how one small * replled the caustic man. “Take -4 ‘but,’ for Instance, when a woman W “‘Of course it's none of my business, Chicago Post: “Say! that dollar you loaned me was counterfeit,” “Was 117" I ever made you in which there was no loss to me." Detroft Free Press: Mr. Simpsen—Ts your musical director a man of ability?" Miss Jenkins—Oh, yes; at our concerts he places all the prettiest girls in the front row." Chicago Tribune: ‘“This is the funniest town I ever saw,’ said the unsophisticated visitor, who had taken a drive about the city and was looking at things from the top of a skyseraper. fow 807" “Well, you put your bufldings an; your streets.” DECORATION DAY. ravel on the roofs of wooden pavements on Henry W. Longfellow. Sleep, comrades! sleep and rest On 'this fleld of grounded arms, Where foes no more molest, Nor sentry's shot alarms. Ye have slept on the ground before, And start to your feet, At the cannon's sudden roar, Or the drum's redoubling beat. But In this camp of death No sound your slumber breaks; Here s no fevered. breath; No Wouna ‘that bleeds and aches. All s repose and peace; Untrampled lies the od: The shouts of battle ceaso— It is the truce of God. Rest, comrades! rest and sleep! The thoughts of men Ihfluls be As sentinels, to keep Your rest from dangers free. Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. STORE CLOSES AT 12 O’clock DECORATION DAY BROWNING, KING & COMPANY.