Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 1, 1902, Page 16

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Net total sales Net dally average Bubscribed in my before me this Sist (Beal.) resence and sworn to B NGATE Notlry Public. 00— 1 Western rallroads will now undertake to show their eastern rivals what fast rallroading really is. e——————— With the striking teamsters it is not & question of long haul or short haul, but of not haul at all, —— Now that he has received the stamp ot @isapproval of a Chlcago Jury, Balzac may as well retire to oblivion. ——— Mont Pelee may rest assured that we all have every confidence in its ability to kick up a muss without requiring any further practical demonstrations, S—— London s preparing to celebrate the announcement of final peace in South Africa. If the joy shall have increased in ratio to its postponement, it will know no bounds. e With its outdoor sport and general forgetfulness of the solemnity of the oc- easion, Memorial day observance is gradually degenerating into Thanksgiv- ing and Fourth of July jollification. S Bryan was for Allen when a sena- torial vacancy was to be filled by gu- bernatorial appolntment and now Allen is for Bryan for the gubernatorial nom- ination. Turn about is only fair play. ii———1 ' Members of congress who have felt ¢alled on to vote themselyes dry by ex- cluding the sale of liquors in the cap- itol are reminded that there is nothing in thelr oath of office to prevent them taking elther the pledge or the cure. T In view of the accidents™ attending them, our French guests who came to America for the Rochambeau monument unvelling must have a hoodoo with them. The right thing for them to do 18 to advertise at once for a mascot that will drive the evil charm away. e A Chicago alderman is figuring on be- coming & mfllionaire as the beneficiary of the estate of a deceased relative who dled In far-away Indla. Most Chicago ' aldermen are presumably figuring on becoming millionaires, but have selectéd different routes to reach the goal. em—— Sir Thomas Lipton denles haviag is- sued another challenge for the America's cup. Sir Thomas' devotion to sport will in all lkelihood spur him on to try again for the cup with a new yacht, but he need be in no hurry, but can remaln confident that no one else will take it away from us in the interval. C ] Popocratic organs that for years out- themselves to decry Senator Hanna in type and picture are mow exerting themselves to proclaim his popularity with a view to playing him against President Roosevelt. This political game s too transparent to fool anybody, least of all either the senator or the t ' % e Perhaps the proposed amendment of constitution to provide for the elec- tion of United States senators by direct popular vote would not be so unpalata- ble to the senators if it embodied = specific exemption for all the present members of the American house of lords and confirmed them In thelr seats for the remainder of their natural lives. E WAS TRERE ANY PRINCIPLE INVOLVED? Intelligent men who listened to the re- publican debate that took place at the Creighton-Orpheum Thursday night could not have failed to be impressed with the fact that during all that w not one public question w one principle waa considered. indesd a regrettable reflection that & mag- nificent audience would assemble to listen to this debate where not one-tenth of the number of people could be persuaded to at- tend a serious discussion of questions af- fecting the lite and welfare of the peop Sometimes one is tempted to suspect that there fs somsthing wrong with “tbe peo- ple” and that they would prefer & quarrel to a principle.—~World-Herald. In the discussion of the candidacy of David H. Mercer there may have been a waste of words, but no intelligent man or woman who heard the debate, or who vl take the trouble to read it and pon- der it, will fall to be impressed with the fact that a great principle, a principle vital to the perpetuation of free govern- ment, was involved. The Alscussion over Mercer's candidacy involved the basie principle of a government by the people, of the people and for the people. In the last contribution of Benjamin Harrison to the political history of our country that patriotic statesman made this declaration: In every representatlve government such as ours the people either directly or indi- rectly at popular elections choose the per- sons who make the laws. Our dependence must always be chiefly upon the educa- tional consclence of the people. The leg- islators under our state make the laws and if they are unwiee in the opinion of the majority of the people they can be changed. This is the basis of our civil system. In the election of a member of the house each voter in his proper district puts his own ballot into ghe bailot box for the person he desires to have chosen, while in the cholce of senator his vote is glven through members of the state legls- lature with more or less information as to whom the member, if elected, will sup- port for senator. The logic of this declaration is, that the whole fabric of representative gov- ernment rests upon the consclentious discharge of obligations assumed by leg- islators to their constituents. The most sacred obligation of the legislator Is faithfulness in redeeming the pledges made directly by himself, or made for him indirectly by his party in its plat- form. The greatest menace to rep- resentative government such as ours is a fallure of representatives to represent the people Whether it is in the making of laws or In the election of United States senators. In fact, a betrayal of trust In the elec- tion of United States senators is a thou- sand times more reprehensible than would be the failure to enact good laws, or the failure to repeal bad laws. Bad laws and unwise laws enacted by one legislature can be readily repealed by the following legislature, but the sub- version of the popular will of the people cannot be rectified within twenty-four months. The failure to enact state laws de- manded by the people, or the enact- ment of mischievous laws, affect the people of but a single state, but defi- of the popular will in the election nited States senators affects the whole nation, and inasmuch as the United States senate is the treaty-mak- ing power of the United States, it may even affect international relations be- tween this country and foreign nations in time of peace or war. ‘We cannot hope to perpetuate the free institutions of this republic under a rep- resentative form of government unless the principle of responsibility of the peo- ple’'s representatives to carry out the known and expressed wishes of the elec- tors and the pledges made before elec- tion is faithfully lived up to. If it is political Infamy for representatives to sell out the people, it is equally infamous for men to seek o Incite them to a be- trayal of their most sacred trust. To reward men known to be gullty of either offense is to put a premium upon polit- ical treason in its most odious form. S DEALING WITH THE COMBINATIONS. The declarations of recent republican state conventions are In accord with the position of the national administration in regard to the supervision and regula- tion of combinations engaged in inter- state commerce. The Indiana repub- lican platform declares opposition to all trusts or combinations of capital whose purpose or effect Is to restrict business or control prices, especially denouncing those whose tendency is to Increase the cost of living and the necessarles of life, and it favors legisiation to prevent such abuses. The Ohio platform declares that all combinations that stifie competition, control prices, limit production or un- duly increasé profits or values, and es- peclally when they ralse the prices of the necessaries of life, are opposed to public policy and should be repressed with a strong hand. These utterances reflect the sentiment of republicans everywhere. They ap- prove the view expressed by President Roosevelt, that in the interest of the whole people the nation should, without Interfering with the power of the states in the maltter itself, also assume power of supervision and regulation over all corporations dolug an interstate busi- ness. There 1s practical unanimity among republicans in support of this position and that belng so the rep- resentatives of the republican party in congress should give heed to it. The ad- ministration s doing Its duty in endeav- oring to enforce the law against copbl- nations believed by the federal authori- ties to be unlawful. If it shall be sue- cessful In these cases there is no doubt that It will proceed agulnst other com- binations. But the course of the admin- istration in this matter does not preclude action by cougress looking to super vision and regulation, which existing ey ‘Where else could a ealamity such as the eruption of Mont Pele¢ have worked such destruction of human life in this twentleth century era without entalling law does not provide for. The public demand is for legislation that will give the federal government, without inter- fering with the power of the states, the right to look into the affairs of combina- tions engaged in interstate trade and to exercise & certaln codtrol over them. There is Bo doubt as to the authority of congress to do this. Discussing this subject Prof. Hawkins trust under such legal restraint and limitation as will prevent abuses in over- capitalization, concealment of facts that should be known to stockholders and in- vestors, the fixing of unreasonable prices and the extinguishment of competition. Compel the publication of the facts of organization and operation. Set a limit to the proportion between tangible as- sets and capitalization. Prevent the temporary and local lowering of prices by the trust for the purpose not of meet- ing competition, but of preventing com- petition. When the trust lowers the price for that purpose, compel it to do 8o uniformly and everywhere it sells in this country. “Do these things,” he says, “and we will compel gigantic in- dustrial organizations to live and do bus- iness solely on the basis of economic superiority. The trust will be forced to compete fairly and if it survives in the struggle it will survive because it can be of greater benefit to its stockholders and the public, to labor and capital, than its competitors.” The present congress must deal with this question. The people expect it to do 8o and the party In power cannot safely disappoint this popular expectation. A NOTABLE DECORATION DAY ADDRESS. The address delivered by President Roosevelt at Arlington on Decoration day 1s notable In several respects. It pays an eloquent tribute to the men who fought to preserve the union, whom it declares “did the greatest and most necessary task which has ever fallen to the lot of any men on this western hem- isphere.” It vigorously defends the army in the Philippines against the in- discriminate assaults that have been made upon It, saying that they are en- titled to the support of all men who are proud of what the union soldlers did. It reasserts in unmistakable terms the purpose of the government to go on with the task of giving just and responsible civil government to the people of the Philippines. ‘What the president said of the soldiers who are upholding American sovereignty in those distant islands will be approved by all fair-minded citizens. Cruelties there have been, but they were excep- tlonal and do not justify the sweeping condemnation of the army that has been made by the opponents of the govern- ment's policy. The president pointed out that there were abuses in our civil war and that those who were then op- posed to the government slandered the defenders of the union. They have their heirs today in those who traduce our soldiers in the Philippines, *“who fix their eyes on Individual deeds of wrong 80 keenly that at last they become blind to the great work of peace and freedom that has already been accomplished.” The president’s arralgnment of the re- vilers of our soldlers is most incisive and of the soldlers he sald; “They are doing a great work for civilization, a great work for the honor and the inter- est of this nation, and, above all, for the welfare of the inhabitants of the Phil- ippine slands. All honor to them, and shame, thrice shame, to us if we fall to uphold their hands.” Not the least lmportant feature of this admirable address, in every line charac- teristic of the courage, the earnestness and the patrotism of its author, is that in which he says that when the people of the Philippines have shown their ca- pacity for real freedom by their power of self-government “then, and not till then, will it be possible to decide whether they are to exist independently of us or be knit to us by common ties of friendship and interest.” No one can now foretell when that day will come, but it will be put back If we yield to the counsels to turn loose the Islands and give them over to murder and anarchy. The president rightly declared that this should no more be a party question than the war for the union should have been a party question, yet it 1s being made 80 by the same political element which during the civil contiict persistently as- salled the government and gave aid and comfort to the enemy. e ECUONOMY OF POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. In the current number of Harper's monthly magazine Dr, Richard T. Ely, one of our foremost American political economists, discussing a novel industrial experiment declares: Having recently traveled some 8,000 or 9,000 miles, and baving constantly in mind this question put to me in San Framcisco, “What is the greatest present economic need?” I am inclined to believe that no one measure would do more to cultivate the economic virtues and to promote the eco- nomic welfare of the people of the United States than postal savings banks. While some may disagree with Dr Ely that postal savings banks would fulfill our greatest present economic need, and others might even deny that they are Decessary to answer any pres- ent demand, there is almost general agreement that postal savings banks could be made a most vital factor in promoting economic welfare. The economic virtues to which refer- énce is made are, thrift, prudence and foresight. A people that lives only for the day is subject to disturbance by every wind and storm. The most pros- perous peoples, on the contrary, are those which have cultivated to the full- est extent the economic virtues that pro- vide against the stress of misfortune and disaster. It has been argued and fairly proved that nothing serves to arouse among the comion people so strong an interest in the stability of the government as does the wide-spread patronage of postal savings banks, giviug each depositor n direct goncern in the faithfulness of the government as custodlan of his funds. It 1s as & stimulaot to the economic virtues that postal savings banks over- shadow all financjal considerations. The chief objection en! is that such In- stitutions could not be made to pay out, and while this can be controverted, yet even If they did not pay out in dollars and cents, in promoting the economic welfare of the people their value would be incalculable. It i certalnly an encouragilg sign be | Whau political econcmiste, who look at . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1902. the subject from an entirely dispassion- ate and disinterested standpoint, urge the establishment of postal savings banks as an economic measure. L — THE UNION PACIFIC BRIDGE TAX. For more than twenty.five years the Union Pacific railroad bridge has been assessed and taxed for county and city purposes as a separate property. Now the Union Pacific lawyers contend that the bridge i part of the maln line and, therefore, is included with its mileage and can be assessed only at the mileage rate, which has been fixed by the State Board of Equalization at $9,800 per mile, ‘with the west half of the bridge reck- oned as one-sixth of a mile. If the contentlon of the Unlon Pacific attorneys 1s sound, the collection of spe- clal bridge tolls is an imposition un- warranted by law. The laws of Ne- braska fix the maximum passenger rate at 3 cents per mile. The distance be- tween Omaha and Council Bluffs, as re- turned for taxation by the Unlon Pa- cifie, being less than three imiles, the legal rate would be 9 cents per pas- senger, but 25 cents is exacted from every passenger that crosses the river)| when he pays in cash, and if he travels on mileage ten miles are torn outof his mileage book for transporting him three miles. It is passing strange, too, that the Union Pacific bridge is assessed sepa- rately from the main hne in Towa, but must be treated as a part of the main line in Nebraska. In Iowa the east half of the bridge I sessed at $84,000 and in Nebraska the west half Is assessed at $1,688. If this double shuffie is per- sisted in the managers of the road will compel our citizens to test the question in the courts by proceedings to restrain the collection of special bridge tolls. It is a plece of rank injustice to com- pel thy taxpayers of Omaha and Doug- las county to bear the burden that should in justice be borne by the Union Pacific, especially in view of the fact that Douglas county has donated $250,000 in bonds to aid the construction of the Union Pacific bridge and more than $500,000 has been collected to meet the Interest on the bridge since the do- nation was made. —eee 18 TRERE A REMEDY FOR LYNCHING? A resolution is before the senate judi- clary committee directing it to make in- quiry into the subject of lynchings in the United States and to report to the senate whether under the laws and con- stitution of the country there is any remedy for the evil. The author of the resolution, Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire, submitted statistics show- ing that during the seventeen years end- ing with 1901 there were 2,658 lynchings in the United States and there have been several since that time, one of the most revolting and fiendish in the an- nals of this crime having occurred re- cently in Texas. While lynchings have occurred in other than the states of the south, it is needless to say that that section has furnished by far the largest number. Senator Gallinger sald that all over the land there 1s an {ntense interest in this matter, many good people bitterly complaining that the strong arm of the federal authority should be used to sup- press the evil. It appears very ques- tionable, however, whether the federal government can do anything In the matter. Senator Hoar, chairman of the judiciary committee, expressed doubt as to whether congress has any constitu- tional power over the matter and noted the fact that the committee had already had the question In one of its branches before them, in the form of a bill pro- viding for the trial and punishment of this class of offenses in the courts of the United States, and had reported in favor of the indefinite postponement of the measure, which was done by the senate. It is probable, therefore, that it will be decided that nothing can be done by the ftederal government, the power of deal- ing with the evil being lodged entirely in the states. Lynching is a terrible re- proach to the country, but how to pre- vent it or properly punish those who commit the crime 18 manifestly a most difficult problem. e——— Commencement exercises are agaln being held all over Nebraska and the surrounding states marking the ended school days for those who have finished thelr courses of instruction. Few, if any, of us appreciate the full sig- nificance.of this annually recurring event. The public schools constitute the greatest and most important soclal mechanism of modern civilization, im- pressing upon each generation the stamp of their influence and work, which be- come steadily more and more far-reach- ing. Commencement marks the end of the school days, but not the end of the school influences. The leaven continues to work and to determine the scope and character of the citizen, which in turn reacts on the schools and so on im- definitely. Neither the serfous side nor the gay side of the commencement season should be overlooked. = 1f Chancellor Andrews does not want that $10,000 place walting to be filled at the Wisconsin State university * there be a chance yet for Omaha's pro- found and {llustrious educator whose light 1s now hid under a bushel in the position of superintendent of our city schools. Mr, Pearse's educational capa- bilities have been altogether too long hampered and hemmed in by the nar- row limits of & school superintendency. A man who could expand over night from a $1,200 village employment to a $3,600 city Job could certainly ‘make the next step to a $10,000 university ppesi- dency without winking & lash. ——— ‘The increasing frequency of automo- bile accidents throughout the country serves as a reminder that all inventions of new transportation methods have at the start worked unnecessary injury to persons and property. It was so with fhe steamboat, with the locomotive, with the cable car and electric trolley and with the bicycle. Untll the devices are perfected and we become accustomed to their employment and the observance of ordinary rules of precaution for pas- bengers and pedestrians, the accidents will continue, although In decreasing ratio. Automobile locomotion does not relieve anyone from exercising common sense to avold mishaps. ———— That grand jury report exposing the appalling corruption of St. Louls muni- clpal officers Is sure to have sympathetic readers In Chicago. E—————————— Give the Girls a 8 Baltimore American. It the congressmen will kindly stop talk- ing for a few days the sweet girl graduates will take the floor and settle public ques- tions. What Oil Wells Will Do. Washington Post A boller explosion in the house of a Texas millionaire resulted in the death of two persons. A few years ago bollers could have exploded all over Texas without hit- ting & million Senators Fear Po) Elections. Minneapolis Times. Once more it is palnfully apparent that the senate, or the majority thereof, is well pleased with the present method of elect- ing members of that body and will grant no encouragement to the proposition to give the people a right to choose their servants in the upper house without the intervention of legislatur Rules of Boston Transcript, “No nation, no matter how glorious its history, can exist unless it practices—prac- tices, mind you, not merely preaches— civic hon civic decency, ecivie righteousne: says President Roosevelt; “no nAtion can permanently prosper unless the Decalogue and the Golden Rule are its guldes in publie net. Let! Springfleld Republican. A fow rumblings of protest against erect- ing the statue of a king in the capital of the United States may be heard, but the kickers generally think it politgr to keep their feelings to themselves. The statue business ought to be a reciprocal matter, however, and the suggestion gstands that Washington a bronze George raised in Berlin should be Nebraska's Fake Gusher. Philadelphia Record. The attempt to get up a volcanic out- break somewhere in the Nebraska back- woods shows an enterprising spirit and a determination that the Lesser Antilles shall not have a monopoly of subterranean disturbance. Thus far, however, the news lacks the deadly sulphureted hydrogen gas and hot mud quality that carries terror and confirmation along with it. It might be judicious for Nebraska to stick to vol- canie politics. Another Shattered Trust. Bpringfield Republica: More characteritic trust financiering fis revealed in the report of expert account- ants on the affairs of the International Power company, whose stock fell through the bottom a while ago. It is shown that while the trust declared dividends of 10 per cent last year, the met earnings amounted only to 5.7 per cent. Before this report was published the stock had dropped from 199 to 75% bid, and yesterday it dropped to 556 bld, with no s . The trust record grows worse as it grows older and it is still of few years. SPEAKING OF OPPORTUNITY. 0lda Notions "Dissipated by Modern Conditio; New York World. In the college commencements which begin this week and will continue for al- most a month the most popular subject of the orators is “Opportunity,” and we shall have the favorite word presented to us from many points of view. It will be well if the subject is treated without regard to the old myth that opportunity goes around knocking &t doors, that it calls once on every man, like a velled lady or a princess incognito, offering a wand of en- chantment to all: who show the proper recognition. Opportunity is not that sort of thing at all. It is as much a physical fact as the tide that flows or the wind that blows. It s not to be walted for in an idle boat far from the deep channels; it is to be sought, and when found there must be some good steering. In the really large successes of this matter-of-fact world the men who win are th who first prepare themselves to uso an opportunity, then work for and create the opportunity and seize It on the instant. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. The insurance companies of the United States pald out last year on account of Meir policy contracts $200,000,000; for taxa- tlon, $7,250,000; for services, $103,000,000; for 1oans, $160,000,000. Four hundred Masons from all parts of the state gathered at Austin, Minn., the other night to witne: the initiation of six brothers—Charles, James, Andrew, Willlam, Dayld and George Aultfather. The Portuguese woman who left her nftney to a rooster no doubt felt cocksure the bird would get it; but one of the heirs- at-law was equal to the occasion. He simply killed the wealthy fowl. Mistaking Mrs. Lulu Thurman for a black woman, & conductor on the American Southern rallway made her ride in the “$im crow” car. At Lexington, Ky., the lady has been rded $1,000 as & solatium for the indignity. J, H. Hale of South Glastonbury, Conn. a large peach grower and generally cepted as good authority, estimates that the peach crop of Connecticut this year will reach 1,000,000 bushels, which is more then in any previous year. In municipal government the European citles continue to leave ours far behind. Liverpool is engaged In tearing down 22,000 unsanitary houses und replacing them with sanitary ones. Twelve thousand of the number have already been rased. Pittsfleld, Mass., which s itself the ““gem city of the Berkshires," has been the home at various times of many literary celebrities, among them being Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Hawthorne and Herman Melville. On East street stands the house in which Longfellow wrote “The Clock on the Stalr The people of certain blocks in Brooklyn took it upon themselves some months ago to plan and perfect harmonious improve- ments in thelr premises. As & result they have made their section of that city fafous throughout the country. It is sald, too, that these improvements have been gquite inexpensive. It is the complete application of the plan to a given pajt of the city that has distinguished the effort. Statues to the memories of DeWitt Clin- ton, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay will be erected in the New York Chamber of Commerce, adorning its new home in ‘Liberty street. The three dead men were assoclated with the early history of the chamber, and the three living men to per- petuate thelr names and looks are Morris K. Jesup, John 8. Kennedy and Willlam F. Dodge, present members, who ddefray the expenses. The cost of each statue is estimated at about §12,000, and the sculptors doing the work are Daniel French and BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. The church I8 the creature and not the creator of Christianity. To employ a revivallst will not help us evade our own responsibility. The world is not a see-saw in which you £0 up by sending another down. One hypocrite may eclipss the sun to some, but he cannot hide it from all. He who does not bear the burden of souls now will not bring his sheaves then. Men are nearer to God than the angels, as the sons are closer than the servants. It is sometimes easier to avold offenses ourselves than to forgive them in others. Reputation is the shadow cast by charac- tor and dependent on the light in which it een. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Trains are moving so fast nowadays that Missourl road agents find great difficulty in living up to their reputations. Let us be thankful for small favors. Visitors to Mount Pelee cannot erupt in the magazines for at least a month. The rotten sidewalk accident in New York City indicates that there are a fow Buddenseiks outside the walls of Sing Sing. The New York elephant which swatted & man who pushed a can of stale beer under its trunk furnished cheering evidence of the fool killer on duty. ‘The success of Chicago in cinching the authorship of “Cyrano de Bergerac” encour- ages the Baconites to give Shakespeare an- other fall. The most popular works of art in Chi- cago at the present moment are still-life plctures of dining rooms showing large Juley porterhouse steaks on the tables, The imitative faculties of the Filipinos are working overtime. Labor unions are thriving in Manila, and a llvely strike glves an Americanized atmosphere to the town, The meanest mortal whom an inscruta- ble Providence molded to the likeness of a man has been found in Chicago. He pawned his wife's false teeth to ralse money for a can of beer. ‘The action of the lower house of congress does not banish ‘““cold tea” from the na- tional capitol. Not much. The senate may be depended on to sit down hard on “‘hys- terical innovations.” Some clerics are killing time arguing as to the relative wickedness of Chicago, London and Hong Kong. Meanwhile New Yorkers assume a virtuous face and breathe not & word about the tenderloin. Grover Cleveland discourses eonorously on the perplexities of managing the fed- eral ple counter. Still the distinguished fisherman did not lose much flesh during the years he distributed the spolls. The esteemed exile of Haitl, President Simon Sam, displayed marked talent as a surplus demolisher. Although his de- parture was somewhat hasty he took $80,000 cash solace for the pain of parting and left an empty treasury as a reminder of his reign. Russell B. Harrison, son of the late Ben- jamin Harrison, expects to deed to the United States the tract of land known as the burial plot of Willlam Henry Harrison, at North Bend, O. The government will take care of the lot and erect a statue to ““Tippecanoe” Harrison. Bourke Cockran thinks that there must be something in the Irish air that tends to the manufacture of “bulls” by sons of the green isle. He is also credited with turning out this fine specimen: “If Eng- lishmen were born there they would doubt- less make bulls themselves. DIVORCE LAW REFORM. Most Important and Urgent of Social Reforms. Chicago New: In appointing & committee of ministers and laymen to co-operate with the commit- tees of other churches in securing uniform divorce laws the Presbyterian general as- sembly has given ald to one of the most important and most urgent of soclal re- form A grave menace to the eanctity and se- curity of the marriage institution is to be found in the discrepancies among the di- vorce laws of the different states. The mere fact that divorce may be secured under a great number and varlety of condi- tions Is only one phase of the evil. The whole effect of the various provisions re- garding eeparation and remarriage is to break down respect for the marriage rela- tion. When fhe governing power regards divorce with levity it is not surprising that contempt for the solemn obligations of marrfage should be widespread. There are few dissatisfied uples that cannot find somewhere in the union & state whose statutes will fit their case and admit of a gsl” eeparation. A person residing in Maseachusetts, where the laws are strict to five years is required, may go to Idaho, where tho laws are lax, be divorced there and return to Massachusetts. It is entirely possible under the present system for a man to en- ter legally Into a marriage in one state, while in doing so he is constructively com- mitting bigamy under the laws of his own state. Uniform divorce laws for the whole United States are urgently needed. It is right that the churches should strive to se- cure such laws. p and Open Delivery variety of sizes In ‘With either stexm, gascline or elec- Bicycle Repairing. Bewldes engaging ordy the most competent and experienced men, Wwe swround them with conditions (hat énable thern to give us thelr best oe. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Washington Post: Bishop Potter is on the verge of another collapse. The good | man has been overphotographed. Boston Transcript: The clergyman who sald that “ft requires no great amount of | brains to play cards” might have cause to revise his opinion after a little game of draw or bridge. A great many persons have paid dearly for their bellef that bralns |are not a necessary concomitant to card- playing. X Chicago Post: R T. Morgan of St Paul admite that he cannot prove abso- lutely his charge that there was a deal in votes between Senator Hanna and Arche bishop Ireland. In such circumstances the reverend gentleman would have shown the possession of a grain of wisdom In refrain- ing from saying a word. The public s growing tired of gossip started by persons who cannot prove what they say. Minneapolls Times: Nebraska's fighting parson, who dwells at Wymore, manifested a willing spirit, some strength of flash, | but a very poor aim. At close range he fired five shots at his enemy and failed to score. It is a fortunate thing for both th | preacher and his intended victim that the bullets flew wide of their target, but it is | at the same time something of a reproach | to Nebraska, a state once famous for good marksmanship. Brooklyn Eagle: All this movement in creeds Is toward love, mercy and tender- ness, and away from vengeance, rancor, | revenge and tyranny. The desire to reduce dampation In creeds colncides with the effort to abolish capital punishment in law. The kinehip of these propositions is unm- denlable by intelligent men, whether they approve of one or the other, or nelther of them. And what time the Presbyterian assemblies were denouncing the ides of infant damnation and proclaiming against fetishism or fatalism, in the ways men. tioned, the young king of Spain was say- ing that he would like to bring bull fightiug to an end and for it substitute horse racing, cricket and base ball in his kingdom. Churches shy at damnation, Kings shy at barbaric feats of blood and cruelty. Slaughter house theology, slaug house law and slaughter house sports are waning. The world moves and an honest creed’s the noblest work of man. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Philadelphia Press: She—You don't love me as you once did. Before we were married you considered me absolutely per- HeAeqully, and now you're perfectly ab- solute, Chicago News: Youngwed (on brida] toun)—1" would 'like rooms for myself and wife. Hotel Clerk—Suite, I suppose? Youngwed—That's' what. She's the sweet~ est thing that ever happened. Someryllle Journal: A woman has re #on to begin to doubt a man's love her when she finds that it 18 no longer pof sible for her to torment him. Harper's Bazar: May—I had no {dea be- fore last night that Mr. Plicher was & ;gnn of such lofty ambitions and exalted ens. Maud—How did you come to find it out? May—He proposed to me. New York Sun; First Chica oan—What was the reason of their separation Second Chicagoan—They cnuldnl agree on & mutual cuuse for divorce. Smart Set: Prof. Wing—Now that we have discussed the entire feathered kin, dom I wish you young women would la’l me which one of these birds you consider most important to the welfare of the human The Class (In chorus)—The stork. New York World: ]Alflfi Girl—Ma, Uncle la—Uncle as ] C Eflfl to eat wit] a fire shovel if he Emm (ot $ Ph”ldelphla Press: Daughter—I don't see why you dislike Mr. Spooner. Father—Well, for one thing, he's too close and. Daughter—Oh! enough to spy on u Chicago Tribune Were you last evening? ‘Bsmeralda,” asked her father, with some sternnes: ‘what was that young congressman's business here last night? . We ' were merely holding a caucus, plrl, she replied. he rejoined, glancing at some- lhln! lhll ! arkled on one of {mr shapely fingers, yl\u adopted a ringing resoe lution, dld )Du THE GOLDFINCH. 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