Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1902, Page 6

6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR, PUBLISHED EVERY MORN TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year. Maily Bee and Sunday, Une Year.. istrated Hee, Uhe Year.......... Bunaay Hee, Une Yelr Viessess turday see, Une e o ‘wentieth Century Farmer, One Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dafly Bee (without SBunday), per copy.. 2c ally Mee (without Bunday), per week..lic ily Bee (inciuding Sunday), per week.l gy ) . . 34 14 0 0 w w o () ev!nlnl Bee (without Bundaay), per week.lue gvening Mee (Inciuding BSunaay), per Compial of " very guouid be addressed City Circulation partment OFFICES, maha—The Bee Building. jouth Omaha—City Hall Hullding, Twen- ty-nith and M streets. Councli Blufts—10 Pear] Btreot. Chicago—isey Unity Building. New York—Tempie Court. Washington—wi Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter shonla be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha, REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, payacie to The Bee Publishing Company: ly 4-cent stamps accepted in payment of B::hl:fl)unll( )'tl’lullrlll checks, except on or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ula to -— BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, : George B. Taschuck, secretary of ‘the Boe Publishing Compeny, being duly sworn says that the actual number of full and eomplete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month af May, %02, was as follow! 29,560 Total o Less unsold and retu Net total sales Net dafly average. sonce and sworn to of May A D i1, B, HUNGATE, Notary Public. e ———— Omaha's city council has evidently adopted as a new motto—“Let there be light.” Eubscribed tn my e me this 3ist (8eal.) & If the days of rallway pools are past, congress may as well ring off on all those bills to legalize pooling. E——— ‘We trust it will not come to the need of armed Intervention between the war- ring officers of the local Boer relief league. S——— President Loubet has eleven places in his cabinet to fill. Here is where the French president gets ahead of the Amer- ican president. —— Our supreme court commissioners are complaining that they are overworked. ‘We note, however, that none of them are threatening to resign. s Benator Dietrich evidently does not yet fully appreciate the necessity of swathing his remarks in cotton so they will not collide too forcibly with the senate rules. As the court remarked In the recent decision in the Omaha police commission case, all litigation must eventually have an end—but the end is sometimes ex- ceeding long drawn out. Mayor Moores should not stop with vetolng ordinances that create overlaps. He should refuse to sign any warrant for claims against the city in excess of the limits fixed by the charter. The passing of the Philippine bill by the senate demonstrates one pleasing lesson. It shows that that august body can cut off the oratory of its windy members if it once makes up its mind to do so. City Treasurer Hennings' enumera- tlon of the various extra services he ren- ders the public for his regular charter salary entitles him to the top place on the roll of honor of consclentious public servants. The government crop report continues to give favorable account of Nebraska's crop conditions, assuring prosperity for the farmers in all our surrounding ter- ritory. The trade of this section for the coming season s golug to be something worth competing for. —_— American horsés had little show to win out in the Derby against the en- tries from the British stables. Con- sidering the triumph of the American mule in South Africa, however, the Britishers may count themselves still behind in the international score. According to the report of the state auditor, more Insurance companies are working the Nebraska fleld and more fnsurance business is being transacted in Nebraska than ever before. Put this down as another straw pointing the way the prosperity wind is blowing. A piteous lamentation comes from the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company for fear it may have to pay city taxes on tl same basls other property The Bridge and Ter- 2 the head of the concern in his pas- for yacht racing. But these share- overleok all the free advertls- Thomas has gotten in whose they are to reap. If the Lipton paid for one-tenth of this ad- at régular newspaper rates, all dividends for some Ht il | i THE STATE TREASURY EXHIBIT. Btate Treasurer Stuefer's exhibit of the financinl condition of the state for the six months ending May 31, 1002, conveys Interesting Information to the taxpayers of the state as to the recelpts and disbursements during the last six months and the balances remaining in the various funds. For purposes of comparison with the balances in the treasury December 1, 1901, which Mr. Stuefer has placed side by side, the ex- hibit is of little or no value. It simply shows that there is now over $300,000 more money in the state treasury than there was December 1 last year, and that fact is due to Increased remittances from county treasurers. Incidentally Treasurer Stuefer's exhibit shows that the state has received $4,730 In interest on deposits and has invested $766,622.38 in county bonds and interest-bearing state warrants. Of a total of $5,121,600.73 now held by the treasurer in trust securities for the public schools and university $1,926,- 001.96 represents interest-bearing se- curities purchased since the advent of the present republican state administra- tlon, or an increase of over §860,000 in- vested by the preceding administration during the same period. This creditable showing was made possible by the col- lection of $657,233.72 from the sale of school lands and the redemption of more than $200,000 of county bonds held by the state for the permanent school fund. While Treasurer Btuefer points with pride to the fact that the Interest placed to the credit of the state by him on funds deposited In banks since January 31, 1001, amounts to $12,377.45, and ex- ceeds by $2,087.02 the Interest pald on deposits for a similar period by his pred- ecessor, he does not disclose in what banks the state funds are deposited and the amounts deposited in each bank. The exhibit also falls to show the ac- tual debt of the state and the total amount of state warrants held by the state treasury among permanent school fund investments. The statements of the state treasurer should be just as ex- plicit as regards the resources and lia- bilities of the state as are the perlodic statements of the secretary of the treasury concerning the national debt. m— A GUVERNMENT CABLE. The bill providing for a transpacific cable will soon come up for considera- tion In congress, this being one of the matters which the president Is under- stood to be particularly anxious to have disposed of at the present session. In regurd to the question whether the ca- ble should be laid and controlled by the government or by a private corpora- tion opinlon In congress has appeared to be about equally divided, but we are inclined to think that a further discus- slon of the subject will strengthen the support for a government cable. The welght of argument 1s certainly on that side and perhaps the strongest reason, as the New York Tribune points out, is that it Is necessary to make the entire cable system a purely American one, which would not be the case with either of the private companies which are ask- ing congress for a contract to lay the cable. “From California to Luzon,” says the Tribune, “the cable must be under ex- clusive American control and at every landing place it must be on American soil and under the American flag, and it must be free to be extended at will from Luzon to China and Japan. No charter should be granted to any com- pany that is not free from even a suspi- clon of ‘standing in with’ alien con- cerns. If no private copany can com- ply with that requirement, then the United States government should itself take the enterprise In hand.” Nelther of the companies proposing to lay the cable under contract with the govern- ment meets this requirement and it is manifestly one that congress should con- sider. Inany event, however, the proper thing is for the government to lay and control a transpacific cable. PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION. The biil that passed the senate, tem- porarily to provide for the administra- tion of the affalrs of civil government in the Philippine islands and for other purposes, will probably be passed by the house of representatives without ma- terlal change and without unnecessary delay. The measure has been most thoroughly discussed in the senate, the country is famillar with its character and purpose, the necessity for such legislation, If American sovereignty in the Philippines is to be maintained and American principles of government es- tablished there, is very generally con- ceded. There I8 no apparent reason, therefore, for giving prolonged consider- ation to the bill in the house. That this legislation will prove benefl- clal to the Philippine islands and people there cannot be a reasonable doubt. It will extend civil government there, it will promote industrial devolopment, it will induce the Investment of capital and stimulate trade, it will advance pub- lic improvements and Its influence will be In the Interest of peace and order. It is an essential step leading toward the establishment of a popular and rep- resentative government. The measure passed by the senate extends to the Filipinos the bill of rights of the con- stitution of the United States, with the exception of trial by jury and the right of the people to keep and bear arwms. It contemplates a liberal participation of the natives in the administration of c'vil affairs. It provides for the protection of the people in their property rights, enables them to secure homesteads and safeguards the public lands from ex- ploitation by corporations or ndi- cates. In a word, the bill provides a most elaborate system of clvil adminis- tration for the government of the Phil- Ippines, which In its practical opera- tion it 1s belleved will develop the ma- terfal resources of the islands, advance the Industrial interests of their in- babitants and promote the civilization, peace and prosperity of the whole peo- ple under American soverelgnty. The opposition to this legislation de- mands that the United States shall re- linquish all claim of soverelgnty over and title to the Philippines and shall continue to occupy and govern the Islands only until the people thereof have established a government and given sufficlent guaranties for the per- formance of our treaty obligations with Spaln and for the maintenance and protection of all rights which have ac crued under the authority of the United States. This is a poliey which there is abundant reason to belleve is not ap- proved by a majority of the American people. Indeed it may be confidently asserted that it would be overwhelm- ingly rejected if submitted for a popular verdict. The people of Oregon have just shown what they think of it and we venture to think that the judgment of the people of that state reflects the opinion of most of the country. The democrats in the senate have labored most assiduously to make political capl- tal by denouncing the Philippine policy of the government, even attempting to dishonor the army which is upholding American sovereignty in those islands. They have failed and upon this issue their party will continue in the minority. E————— PELAGIC SEALING AGAILN. Again the practice of pelagic sealing Is receiving attention at Washington, a bill having been introduced in the house of representatives In regard to the mat- ter. This provides that if the United States and Great Britain cannot agree upon a plan to suppress pelagic sealing the secretary of the treasury shall be authorized to have all the seals on the Pribilov islands—excepting 1,000 males and 10,000 females—killed, the proceeds from the sale of the skins to be covered into the treasury. A proposition of this kind was made several years ago, but did not recelve much consideration. Now it Is favored by the ways and means committee of the house and is therefore likely to recelve serious atten- tlon. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer thinks killing the seal not the most satisfac- tory method of settling the matter. It says that the position which the United States has heretofore taken in regard to pelagic sealing has not only proved untenable, but its only effect has been to destroy a thriving industry in which American citizens were engaged and to transfer the seat of that Industry to British Columbia. Laws were passed substantially forbidding American ves- sels or American hunters to engage in sealing on the high sea, with the re- sult that the industry was transferred to the Canadians, who It seems have recently been carrying it on with more than usual vigor, threatening the ex- termination of the seal herds at no very distant time if a stop is not put to the practice. This matter has long been a source of more or less irritating controversy and it would seem that our government should take some firm and decided stand for the protection of its rights. The proposition to slaughter most of the seal on our islands sounds like a surrender and should not be adopted except as a last resort. The piratical operations of the Canadfan seal hunters, in their Indiscriminate slaughter, it should be possible to put a stop to and every effort should be made to do this before seriously considering the proposi- tlon introduced in congress. THUSE THIRTEEN POINTS. Representatives of the fire insurance companies assert that Insurance ratings In Omaha can be improved by thirteen points providing the causes for high rates are removed. The thirteen points scored against Omaha are as follows: 1. Water works not commensurate to demands by reason of insufficient stor- age capacity—three points. 2. Fire hydrants too far apart, as schedule requires them to be 150 feet apart—two points. 3. Insufficlency of equipment—two points. 4. No fire coroner—two points. b. Black enforcement of building laws —two points. 6. Overbead points. Each point.represents 2 1-7 per cent in the rating; therefore the removal of all the defects would cut off 276-7 per cent of the standard. Most of the points raised, however, do not seem to us to be well taken. The storage capacity of the water works i1s ample. The settling basins hold 90,000,000 gallons and in case of fire water can always be pumped di- rectly from the river. There is no dan- ger that all the pumps will at any one time be disabled, hence the 10,000,000 gallons in the high pressure reservoir afford no ground for an extra charge. In the greater portion of the business center of Omaha fire hydrants come within the distance fixed by the schedule, but Inasmuch as intermediate hydrants can be placed at $10'a year the lack of hydrants within the business section can be supplied. It s an open question whether a fire coroner is of any special benefit to pol- icy bholders even with the promised re- duction of 4 per cent. A fire coroner acting for the Insurance companies would be a detriment to the insured. In any event the city is in no position to create an additional salaried office. The more strict enforcement of the building laws s desirable and the build- ing inspector is endeayoring to enforce them as far as the law permits. It is doubtful, however, whetber the fire un- derwriters will ever be satisfied either with the bullding laws or their enforce- ment. For the present and for some years to come the abolition of the overhead trol- leys is out of question, so that the two points charged agalust them must re- maln. The efficiency of the fire department fire department trolley system—two has been materially improved and the equipment will soon be increased up to full requirements. It remains to be seen, bowever, whether Omaha policy holders will get any benefit in the shape of reduced fire rates. es—— If that moss-grown clalm of Tom Kenpard's which has run the gamut of legislature and courts In Nebraska for nearly a generation has been given a final quietus, the attorney general will have earned a vote of thanks from all taxpaying citizens, who have no sym- pathy with jobs and grafts of the kind represented In this claim. It is to be hoped the failure of Kennard to get his hand Into the treasury will operate to discourage similar attempts by other clalmants with trumped up bills for pay for services never performed. Just because ex-Senator Allen first un- furled the banner of Willlam J. Bryan for governor, Judge Edgar Howard dis- countenances the suggestion with unre- lenting firmness. If the populist veteran should come out for Judge Howard, the latter would doubtless indignantly re- sent the proposal. When ex-Senator Allen took issue with Judge Howard on the color of the halo circling over the head of T. Jefferson’s immortal shade, he committed the unpardonable offense. Krupp, the great German steel mas- ter Is sald to have perfected a projec- tile that will plerce and destroy the best and thickest armor plate he has ever turned out. Herr Krupp is an up- to-date manufacturer. First he devises an armor plate no shell can pierce and then a shell to plerce the armor plate and will then again work up an armor plate that will resist the new projectile. This beats ping pong to say nothing of the profits. An Illinols man has been found will- ing to accept the post made vacant by the death of the American consul who succumbed to the outpourings of Pelee that inundated St. Plerre. Had there been any difficulty In securing an eligi- ble volunteer, we feel sure that Iowa would have come to the rescue as a last resort. While explaining where it stands, tife local reform organ might define its posi- tion on the action of a handful of Omaha populists appointing themselves without caucus, primary or convention to cast 128 votes in the state convention that is to determine the makeup of the “reform” ticket for Nebraska. —— One Thing Agreed On. Chicago News. At any rate, everybody is agreed that the Philippines must never be admitted to the unfon. That is about all that has come out of the debate in the senate. ——— Where the Statistician Comes In. Indlanapolis News. To demonstrate how severe the British- Boer war has been the statistician shows that the Boers had a fighting force in all of 50,000 men and that they lost 75,4001 P —— Trying to Follow Our Dave. Chicago Chronicle. Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson will find that he can’'t kiss his way into congress. Numerous though his admirers may be they uaforunately have no votes. Man on the Toboggan Slide. Brooklyn Eagle. The keynote.of the current play or novel je the incapacity or humiliation of man. Woman domjnancy is the theme of drama and the foible of fiction which is not very far off from fact. e Magnanimous Crooks. Washington Post. It is so noble and magnanimous in Mr. Gaynor and Mr. Greene to offer to return to this country and stand trial provided they are permitted to select the court. They probably have their eyes on the tribunal in which those Philadelphia ballot box stuffers were so handsomely vindi- cated. Mercer's “Pork” Barrel. Philadelphia Record. As agreed upon in conference committee the omnibus public building bill carries $19,435,450, or nearly $4,000,000 more than the original measure reported to and passed in the house of representatives. No log- rolling ‘“‘ple” legislation of earlier days can match this. Public bullding “graft- ers” in congress twenty or thirty years ago were content with a bill carrying $7,000,000 or $8,000,000, but that was the day of small things. When the looters survey the fleld and measure their opportunities they a doubtless astonished llke Warren Hastings in India, at their own moderation. B Growth of Postal Business. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. Nearly 1,000,000,000 more postage stamps have been issued to the postoffices of the United States since July 1 last than were fssued during the whole of the previous fiscal year. This is not necessarily indica- tive of & great increase in the postal busi- ne: From lack of other facilities for the transmission of small sums of money by mail, stamps have come to be extensively used. But the extraordinary increase in the demand for stamps must reflect not only the existence of improving conditions of prosperity among the people, but a marked tendency of small trade through mall orders to expand. —e Shelve the Pooling Bills. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Congress evidently might as well drop all pending bills legalizing rallroad pooling. The question is already moved back into the past as one of practical interest, for even the rallroads now manifest no great concern in the matter. They have found something more effective for the abolition of competition. As E. H. Harriman sald the other day at Omaba: “The days of peols and combinations are past. Other conditions are coming to take their places, and the principal of them will be the cen- tralization of ownerships.”” And he might bave added that over the centralization of private ownership will stand & closer gov- ernment control than ever. i “PORK” BARRELS IN DANGER, Logroliers in Congress Fear the Pres- tdent's Wra Philadelphia North American (rep.). The political grafters in congress, who purchase support in their districts with public funds, are perturbed by rumors that the man in the White House may head up the “pork barrel” by vetoing the river and harbor grab and the public bulldings The promoters of these rotten swin- scurrying around for votes to pass them over the president’s veto and “teach bim & lesaon.” There s no other possible issue between a log-rolling congress and the executive on which President Roosevelt could better lord to go before the peopl If he will veto the bills, and give hie reasons in good, plaln, Roosevelt English—calling things by their right names and roweling the ribs of thieves who exploit the public treasury for political profit—public opinion will back him up and teach cougress s lesson that it sadly needs Spartans of the Veldt Loss and Gain. Chicago Inter-Ocean. England won has won possession of the South African republics at a fearful cost; the Boers have lost their Independence, but have won the sympathy of the world, and in the end may be stronger in South Africa than the victors of today. Something Dolng All the Time. Minneapolis Times. Well, the Boers have the satisfaction of knowing that they brought England to a tull realization of the fact that there was a fight on. Every little while for nearly three years there has been something dolng and the Boers were doing their share. A Noble Sacrifice. Baltimtre American. The Boers have been conquered, but the world will always award them the highest Lonor for their noble struggle against such awful odds. They have made a ncble sacrifice in the cause of human liberty, end have taught Great Britain a lesson which will never be strickey from the pages of her history. Possibilities of the Future. Minneapolls Tribune. Why should not the future be theirs some day, when the British empire has begun to weaken under repeated shocks, and some sea power has grown up which may do for them what France did for ua? The beautiful dream of the United States of South Africa has been eclipsed; but observers of history regard such eclipses with the eye of science, rather than with the superstition of savages who look upon the sun as blotted out forever. Britain’s Loss of Prestige. 8t. Paul Ploneer-Press. The llon of famillar fable whose paw has been caught in a trap, too petty to do serious harm, but just strong enough to hold, is not for a season more help- less than has been the British Empire for thirty-one months. The loss in men, money and material is as nothing to the visible loss of prestige. This is all balanced by the loyalty of the colonles, the proof of their readiness to support the empire and the new coheslon of a vast fabric which, as In all welding of states, could only be made one by blood, iron and the blows of battle on war's smoking anvil. The galn is much. The loss also is great. Seeds of Racial Hate. ! Minneapolis Journal. The great mistake in the terms of peace in South Africa is the refusal to grant com- plete amnesty and citizenship to the Boer rebels in Cape Colony. The day will como when this refusal will be bitterly regretted. It will keep alive more than anything else the hatred of the Boer for Briton. If all causes for trouble between the races could be removed England might hope to amalga- mate the Boers and British in South Africa. But with & perpetual cause for batred of the British the Boers will keep themselves separate from the Britons. Politics in the reconstructed s will follow ractal lines. A Calamitous Struggle. / Springfleld (Mass) Republican. The British triumph over a people that all counted did not equal the population of a third-rate English city, has been won at a terrible and unprecedented cost. The Boer war has cost England in hard cash nearly twice as much as did all her wars against Napolcon, the present estimate reaching the vast sum of over $1,000,000,000. Her sons have been slain by the thousands. Her fiscal needs have finally compelled the making of a breach in the commercial sys- tem under which she controlled for a cen- tury the foreign trade of tho world, and she faces the economlic struggle of the future with less of strength, compared with her great rivals, than ever before. Finally, and worst of all, England in these two and a half years has come to be hated by Europs as she had not been in a century. And even in America, where the old animosities were being forgotten, this war has done nothing but inflame popular feeling against every- thing British, and it {s the cold truth to say that by crushing a republican nationality that had the stalwart Teutonic beginnings of a vigorous and noble civilization Eng- 1and has made two enemies In the vast body of the Amerfcan electorate where one existed before. There are those who say that England comes out of the war stronger than she was at the beginning. But that cannot be, unless water may run up- hill and men have lost all sensitiveness to the moral law. The war has been a c mity to the whole English-speaking race and to the world, and no amount of gold dug from the South African mines can ever efface the fact. It may be hoped that the tuture has in store for the British empire no similar relapse into barbarism. A War of Conguest. Philadelphia Record. ‘Whatever provocations may have been given by the Boers, the war of Great Britain on the Dutch republics was e sentlally one of conques: undertaken by a strong, bullying power against a small and heroic if retrograde and uncultured people. Civilized public opinion has put such exploits under taboo, and the war was deplorable as a lapse into the inter- national immorality of the elghteenth century or earlier periods of human history. Great Britain can clean herself of the dis- honor incurred only by the most honorable after-treatment of the conquered people; and even In that case a stigma will remain upon her name. Problem of Reconstruction. Chicago Tribune. Great Britain has disposed of the first great problem, that of compelling the Boers to lay down thelr arms. There now awalts it the second great problem, that of gov- erning the men whom only the direct need has driven to submission. It {s a problem the solution of which calls for the greatest tact, delicacy, gentle firmness, and many other qualities needed for the successful government of an unwilling people. There have been occasions when the British gov- ernment or its agents have been lacking in these qualities. Until it shall have been demonstrated that the English are able to Anglicize South Africa it will not be ex- pedient to assume that Boer Independence is dead. It may be merely sleeping. Opening Africa to Trade. Loutsville Courler-Journal. The sympathy of nations has always been with the burghers and the memory of their herolsm will mark a permanent place in history. Economically considered, however, British domination will give an impetus to the civilization of the dark continent that promises much for it and for the world. It means free trade in Africa, and it means that anyone is welcome to help In the task of development under fair and liberal laws. The work that has been done In Egypt and the Cape will be pushed further, and in time we shall learn if so large & part of Africa 1s adapted to clvilization as has been claimed by Cecll Rhodes and other ex- ploiters of its vast resources. J A Costly War. Philadelphia Ledger. The Boer losses cannot be ascertained, but they probably did not have more than 70,000 men in the fleld, and at least 8,000 of these remain, and there are many thousands of prisoners in the hands of the British. Up to January 31 last the 1 British by death or permanent disability numbered 25,303, and the total of casualties included 5,240 offiters and 100,701 men, The war, instead of being a “pig shooting pic- nic,” lasted for two years and nearly eight months; brought mourning into nearly every household In Great Britain, and cost the people more than $1,000,000,000. For this sacrifice the nation gets possession of the gold and dlamond flelds, and can turn them over to speculators, who will proceed to fleeco the gullible public of whatever the tax collector may bave left them. That is the glorious outcome of the war, so far as Great Britain is concerned. - —— —— "~ VIEWS OF A RAILROAD MAGNATE Significant Utterances of Mr. Harri- man at Omaha. Cincinnat! Commerclal-Gazette. Rallway Magnate Harriman, in an Omaha interview, sees the passing of the day of pools, mergers and combines. “Other con- ditions are coming to take their places and the principal will be the centralization of ownership,” sald Mr. Harriman, and the greater and the lesser rallway magnates with him sald amen to their chief. The| difficulty which Mr. Harriman eees in the | present situation of railway affairs is in the hostility of legis!atures—a hostility not visible to the naked eye of the ordinary, all around citizen—and he insisted that railway legislation should be based on lines of ald, instead of hostility, for, sald Mr. Harriman, “the railroad man is in better position to know what rallroads need than | legislatures generally. There has been no overwhelming amount of stuttering ob- servable on the part of the great railways in making their wants known to legis tures, but that rallway men know what they want—and generally get it—there isn't the slightest ground on which to base a dispute. The statement of Mr. Harriman, outlining & uew and important move by the great rallways, received additional strength from the conference which followed between himself, President J. J. Hill of the Northern Pacific, President Hughitt of the Chicago & Northwestern system and other officials holding high positions In the railway world. It is tmportant in view of the recent state- ment of President Hill of his belief that the suit against the Northern Securities company would be decided in favor of the government and agalnst the magnates in- terested in the attempted merger. It is most important in the fact that it means that rallway magnates instead of mere con- trol of the great trunk lines and all their connections, are aiming at absolute owner- ship—a scheme only to be accomplished by wrecking processes, in which the smaller stockholders will get the worst of it—it they get anything—and that what compet- ing companies may not do, under the law, by mergers they may do becsuse of one common ownership. 1t legislatures will not come down to the demands of rallways, the rallways will rise above legisiatures and congress. If they are to be disturbed in their schemes, no matter of what character, they will ef- fect a change of present ownerships and take & short cut to a merger, which, they believe, will be congress and legislature proof. The rallways are big things, but if they persist in running risks with legis- lative and judicial buzzsaws, they are likely to come to grief in a run that will not be so very long. The Ohlo republican plat- form takes the right view of just such propositions as that of Mr. Harriman. It recognizes the mecessity of co-operation to meet new conditions in the industrial world, “but all combinations that stifie competition and contrel prices, limit pro- duction or unduly increase profits or values, pecially when they raise the prices of the necessaries of life, are opposed to public policy and should be repressed by a strong hand.” And Uncle Bam's band is muscular, PERSONAL NOTES. A large batch of Missouri officlals have been indicted for playing penny-ante on & fishing trip. The late Dr. Thomas Dunn English will have a sultable monument erected over his grave by the Soclety of American Authors, of which he was & vicé president. Samuel L, Clemens (Mark Twain) will have conferred upon him the degree of L.L. D. at the commencement exercises &t the State university, Columbia, Mo. Mr. Asquith, the English statesman, said in a speech at a recent press banquet that nearly every member of the present British cabinet, from the premier down, worked for the pres¢ at ome time or another. Willlam D. Arnold of Ionia, Mich., and Walter D. Arnold of Tonta, his twin brother, a few days ago celebrated their seventy- sixth birthday in the home of the former. Willlam had been a farmer all his life, while Walter has followed mercantile pur- suits. The late Thomas Dunn English left a re- quest that no reference to “Ben Bolt" be made in the inscription that is to grace his monument. And yet nineteen out of every twenty persons who view his grave will say, “He wrote ‘Ben Bolt,’ you know.” Fame of this sort sticketh much closer than a brother. Pension Commissioner Ware has made it a practice all his life to preserve his let- ters. In his office at Topeka he has a great letter file containing more than 25,000 let- ters of a private character and another file containing about as many of a business character., He has these letters indexed in such & manner that he can turn in- stantly to any ope of them by name, date or subject matter. ' WHERE DOCTORS FAIL To Cure WO’III’ Pinkham’s V' und Succeeds, udson Writes : “DEAR Mns. Prxmas : —Soon after my marriage two years I found myself in constant pain, sald my womb was turned, caused the pain with considerable in- flammation. He prescribed for me for e e T four months, when my husband became lmg:dent because I grew worse instead of better, and in speaking to the drug- glstbe ulvlle{lr him to get Lydia s am' 8 eoon}ponn d Sanative Wash, How I wish I ad ‘aken that at first; it would have saved me weeks of suffering. It took three long months to restore me, but it is & happy relief, and we are both most grateful to you. Your Compound has brought to_our home and health to me."— }Mns. PAvrixe Jupso, 47 Hoyt BStreet, Brooklyn, N. Y, = unlo‘o rfelt If abooe testimon/al le not genulne. would seem by this state- ment that wgmen would save time and much sigkness if they would get Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, :: L. 0 write to }nn. Pulz.)xlhn ynn, Mass., for spec - vice. 1t is free and always helps. FLASHE Chi ago Tribune: | “A man Uncle Eph'm, “Is des' like a postage stamp. He ain’t no 'count when he gits badly stuck on hisse'f.” Ohio State Journal: Excited Wife—Wake up, Henry! The house is on fire! Bleepy ~Husband—Great heavens! we'll have to move again! Now Washington Star: “I allus try to be a ntleman,” sald Uncle Eben.” “Mighty ew people succeeds, but de fact dat any- body's makin' de effort counts a heap to his credit.” Detrolt Free Press: hearted man." “Yes, 1 saw him pick a bumble bee out of the water one day." “How lovely of him “Then the bee stung him." “Did you make these ples’ and 1 suppose you are going to say youwll have to get & hammer to break them?" ‘An awtully kind- Judge: “No: there's only one objectfon.” “Pshaw! Perhaps they're not like thos your mother used to make?" “Wrong again. They're not big enough. Philadelphia _ Pre; Gushington—Ah! your wife is a most remarkable woman. Henpeck—Think so? Gushington—Indeed, I do. Don’t you? Henpeck—Well, she certalnly is ‘able to ke more remarka than any other woman now. Baltimore American: to the Interested listener, “is merely accident of birth, and 8o 18 a hod carrie) ‘Doubtless,” puts in the quibbling p won, “you are correct, but did it ever occur to you that the parents of the hod carrier never possess an accident policy?” Ere 1 can frame an answer of sufclent intenseness he has flitted away. “It {s said that y “A king.,” T say n Cleveland Plain Dealer the queen of Holland eats six meals a d a great deal between meals besides “Isn’t that lovely?" “Isn't what lovely?” “Why, to be a queen and eat all you want, or can, without having anybody re- mind you that beefsteak costs money.” Brooklyn Eagle: “What makes him glare in such & painful way? Why, it's worse than the bicycle face of which'we used to r 80 muc -s-h! That's the swellest expression of the day. It's known as the automoblle eye." A PLEA FOR PRUNES, ‘Washington Star. I am walting, sadly waiting, for the very worst to come, I am waiting for the wildest, weirdest woe of all the sum. They've monopolized our bread and they have cornered o beef. r they control be- yond relief, And ‘all the luxuries of life are drifting st our reach, And it doesn't do the s and make a speech, But while the prices soar aloft llke gay and light balloons, We pause and all are glad there's no monopoly on prunes. It 1s_a steadfast friend that clung when fickle fortune straye That stalwart fruit has when others fled, htest good to rise prized! The saccharine embellishment in which it lightly rests, Is nectar for Olymplan gods to place be- neath their vests! et it holds no haughty pose; at morn- nge. nights and noons. board s And 8, The simplekt and most frugal proudly graced with prunes, Oh, mighty men of money, for whose favor kings must sue, Pray, spare this preclous viand for another ear or two! With golden bands our rallroads tle, like ghty sheafs of steel; The ox, likewise the porker, place beneath fant heel; , our joy in fleeting youth, our prop in years mature— @y let us feel that for a little while it is secure! Though all our other comforts iy, and wane the moons, In this one case have piiy! Don't put up the price of prune s wax BARGAINS ON 6 for 26ec. our price, each . 1,000 pleces sll silk tafte 12-16-22, per yard 40 and 60, per yard 4 DELAINE 10 yards best domestic delaines in all sha per pattern ........ v at, each ... . at, per yard .. 50 Beaded Chatelaine Bags, steel and jet beads—regularly sold at 100 dozen ladies’ fast black cotton hose, full fashioned—slightly in manufacture, but all mended—regular 16c quality—our price, per pair . 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