Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1902, Page 6

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The bill passed by the house of repre sentatives, providing civil government for the Philippines, is in some respects an Improvement upon the measure that passed the senate. In the first place it provides a more comprehensive system of clvil government and one which would doubtless be more favorably re- garded by the Filipinos. For the very conservative plan of the senate bill the house measure substitutes a liberal pol fey. It provides that whenever insurrec- tion shall have ceased and a condition of géneral and complete peace shall have been established and certified by the commission, that body shall call a eral election for the choice of dele to a popular assembly of the people of the Islands, which shall fe known as the Philippine assembly. After such elec tion all the legislative power heretofore conferred on the Phillppine commission shall be vested in a legislature consist- ing of two houses—the Philippine com- mission and the Philippine assembly. There would thus be an upper house ap- pointed by the president and a lower house chosen by the natives. Whether or not this arrangement would have bet- ter results than the senate plan is of course problematical, but there can be no doubt that it would prove more satis- factory to the people of the islands, which Is certainly an important consid- eration. . In respect to the currency provision the house bill is unquestionably an im- provement. The coinage clause of the 'senate measure would continue the sil- ver standard in the Philippines and per- petuate existing currency conditions there, which are now causing no little disturpance to the business of the islands. The house Dbill provides for putting the currency in the Philip- pines on a gold basis, with the gold dollar of the United States as the standard unit of value. This is con- sistent with our financial policy and it is believed would remedy the now trou- blesome and disturbing conditions in the Philippines regarding the currency. The principle recognized by the house bill is that the United States should not have the silver standard in any of its territory, that while it is necessary to have a silver currency in the Philippines it should be based on the gold standard, and It is somewhat surprising that a dif- ferent view should have prevalled in the senate. In regard to the very important matter of franchises the house bill im- President Roosevelt has time enough to get in several vétoes yet before con- gress adjourns, if occasion warrants, and then have time for a few pocket vetoes later, e Let us note again that preparations for the proper celebration of the glorious Fourth are going on just as If the im- mortal declaration were still cherished among the archives. — “Only one more year of fusion,” said & prominent democratic leader in Ne- braska in 1809. “Only one more year of fusion” has now become the slogan of all the democrats in Nebraska. Those Chinese Boxers must have short memories or the recollection of what happened a year ago would serve more effectually to repress thelr new out- breaks against the “foreign devils,” e The consensus of democratic press opinion seefs to be that a compromise might be acceptable if it cut out both Grover Cleveland and Willigm Jennings Bryan from the list of eligibles for the next presidential race, e According to the testimony of Admiral Dewey, describing the surrender of the Spaniards in the Philippines, Aguinaldo was only the fly on the wheel instead Jof the propelling force which he has fmn- agined himsel to have been. SpE————— The referee in the Omaba tax case Is to recelve a fee of $500 for his services. Inasmuch as the court hy completely re- versing his findings and recommenda- tlons declared that his services were not satistactory, this must appear to be more than a lberal reward. * e — 1] A rival to the Steel trust Is in incuba- . tlon under the name of The American Steel Foundries. It is a question, how- ever, whether the stock market will stand for another flood of steel trust securities. The Carnegle combination | cleaned up the platter pretty well, e—— Who would deny that the late silver republicans are not the shrewdest poli- ticlans of the bunch? Here we have the fusion reform state ticket giving siiver republicans two places out of eight. ‘When it comes to landing the spolls, the late silver republicans deserve first prize, S If the Real Estate exchange committee in charge of the tax reform campalgn does not repress its compromise proclivi- 5 tles It will stand in great danger of for- feiting the confidence of the people, who Bave been ready to belleve that the Real Estate exchange was in the fight In ‘earnest, with no favorites to play. . e—r—— South Omaha corporations dissatisfied with the assessment of their property made by the South Omaha Board of Re- viéw threaten to carry the matter into the courts. The hoard should call this _bluft promptly. If these corporations want to go nto co they should be #peedily accommodat Unless we are mistaken, the present temper of the poses greater restrictions than that of the senate and perhaps goes farther than Is expedient in this respect. It is desirable, of course, to prevent the ex- ploitation of the islands by rapacious corporations and syndicates, but there must be a reasonably liberal policy re- specting franchises in order to invite capital for the development of the Phil- ippines. Doubtless compromises will have to be body should be restored, but there are not a few who believe that the present rules could be liberalized without any disadvantage to legislation and with no detriment to the rule of the majority. However, it 1s probable that any propo- sition to radically change the house rules would be overwhelmingly rejected IMPOLITE AND UNFAIR. It s to be regretted that The Omaha Bee | has decided that the underwriters’ points are not “well taken.” But it is very much the practice of the day for able editors to set up as supreme judges on underwriting questions. The number of men in the United States who know how to run the in- surance business fs much larger than the number of citizens who know how to run hotels. The day is coming, however, when the enlightened condition will prevall ef accepting the judgment of fire insurance men on fire insurance questions. The Bee allows itself to be skeptical respecting the g00d faith of underwriters and is o impg- lite and unfair as to intimate that Omaha policy holders may not get any benefit in the shape of reduced premiums if all the things the insurance people desire come to pass. The answer to that is that cities that are less hazardous than Omaha have lower basis rates.—New York Insurance Press. This is the only answer so far made to The Bee's discussion of the thirteen points of discrimination marked up against Omaha by the fire underwriters’ imposed upon Omaha policy holders, The policy of the fire insurance com- panies toward Omaha seems to be to cry continually “Give, give,” but never to give anything iu return, Year by year the demands of the rate makers have been met in greater or less degree by the improvement of our water service, the enlargement of our fire departmeint and its equipment with better and more modern apparatus, the enforcement of stricter building regulations, the burying of overhead wires, but with no conces- sions worth mentloning in the schedule of fire Insurance rates. When it is suggested that the efforts and money expended by Omaha to re- duce the fire hazard should meet with some recognition by the fire underwrit- ers, we are told that we are impolite and unfair to think of such a thing. Whenever the Insurance companies meet with extraordinary losses in any part of the country they undertake to recoup themselves by slapping on a horl- zoutal raise in the rates enforced in all citles that will stand the increase, and Omaba, already burdened by unfair dis- crimination, is called upon to pay an ad- ditional 15 or per cent not only on the basic rate, but on the thirteen points of discrimination besides. The soft impeachment that we are im- polite when we protest against this in- Justice Is altogether too weak. According to advices from Washing- ton, Our Dave has come to the con- clusion that the action of the Washing- ton and Sarpy county conventions, in selecting congressional delegates in ad- made, but probably no great difficulty will be found in reaching an agreement between the two houses, notwithstand- ing the somewhat. rad: differences in their measures. — VETOING APPRUPRIATIO. A New York.representative has intro- duced in the house a proposed amend- ment to the constitution giving the pres- ident power to veto any item or items of which he does not approve in an appro- priation bill. The amendment proposed provides that “if any bill presented to the president of the United States, passed by congress, contains several items of appropriation of money, the president may object to one or more of such items, while approving of the other portion of the bill.” The objections of the executlve would be subject to recon- sideration by congress, as in the case of a veto, the constitutional provisions in relation to bills not approved by the president applying. s The proposition is certainly worthy of consideration and there Is much to be sald In support of it. It is not to be doubted that if the president were given the power to veto an item or items in appropriation bills it would be the means of correcting some abuses and saving something to the public treasury. Take, for example, the river and harbor vance of the call for the congressional conventlion, is illegal. Both of these con- ventions were put up to the selection of congressional delegates by Mr. Mercer's managers, and while they succeeded in slipping a Mercer delegation through the Washington county convention by stealth, they fell down in Sarpy county, where the people had been waked up to the issue, with the result that the Sarpy county delegation was instructed for Mr. Cornish, Had the Mercerite trick succeeded in Sarpy county as well as it did In Washington county, Our Dave would have insisted that the action of both conventions was perfectly regular and legal. In other words, If they had both instructed for Mercer they would have been legal, but since one Instructed against Mercer they are illegal. The New York Tribune prints a story to the effect that the protest of the Fre- mont Tribune against the plank in the platform adopted by Nebraska repub- licans in their recent state convention, endorsing the president’s Cuban recip- rocity pelicy, Is part of a well laid plan to embarrass President Roosevelt's ad- ministration and injure his prospects for nomination in-19004, and that the editor of the Tribune, who occuples the office of postmaster, was lnviting reprisals so that he might pose as a martyr to an enforced resigunation. All of this would bill, which as everybody knows who is familiar with the history of this legis- lation uniformly contalns useless appro- priations and some that are excessive. If the president had power to veto such ftems féwer of them would get into the measure and a material saving of public money would be made. The same Is to be sald of the bills for public buildings. Under existing conditions there is much trading among congressmen in the mat- ter of certaln appropriations and this would undoubtedly be largely remedied if the proposed power were given the ‘president. We think there would be no difficulty in obtaining the ratification of such an amendment by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. S—— THE RULES OF THE RUUSE. _ A short time ago Congressman Cush- man of the state of Washington made a vigorous attack on the rules of the house of representatives, which attracted widespread attention and no little ap- proval. He charged that the power of the speaker of the house is autoeratie, declared that the,comiittee on rules has too much authority and »ileged that members were not given w air oppor- tunity in the matter of introducing measures of legislation. A few days ago Mr. Grosvenor of Ohlo spoke in strong and earnest defense of courts is not specially favorable to tax dodgers. emymbee— Nebraska populists went clear back to the Ommha platform of 1892 with a specific reaffirmation of that document, together with the St. Louis platform of the house rules, urging that they are necessary to the proper conduct of the business of the house, that they are fairly administered and that there I8 no ground for just complaint as to their op- ération. The Ohio congressman has served a number of terms and bis 1896 and the Sioux Falls platform of | opinion respecting the house rules is cer- 1900. The populists want it distinctly understood that they never miade any declaration upon any subfect of national impogt, that they are not willlng to stang by mow. The changing conditions of a tainly worthy of respectful considera- tion, yet there are some, republi § a8 well as democrats, who think that no harm ‘would be done if the rules were somewhat modified. Of course no one decade and the logic of syccessive events | would seriously urge that the system in the national arena have no influence | which prevalled In the house before d became speaker of that Toomas B K be instructive if true, but it overlooks the fact that the Fremont postmaster is under pledge to resign before the erd of the year as one of the conditions by which his reappointment was secured. If he is looking for martyrdom he will have to hunt it by another route. Douglas county democrats profess to be sadly disappointed that they should not be able to plant an Omaha man in the governor's office, The only way for them to gratify an ambition to see an Omaha man in the executive chair is to help elect the republican ticket and rely on Governor Mickey to permit Lieuten- Aant Governor McGilton to sit at his desk temporarily from time to time, \ Empee——— The tax reform compromisers propose to endorse an assessment for the South Omaha stock yards and all the five great meat-packing establishments that would glve them altogether a smaller valua- tion than that put on the street railway company alone. The very suggestion exposes what a discrimination such a compromise would work. ETEEm— The raflroad tax bureau is busy figur- ing out how much the raliroads of Ne- braska pay in taxes for each mile of their road in this state. They are care- ful, however, not to mention that while the value of the roads has Increased twice over within the last ten years, the taxes pald per mile and in the aggregate have actually decreased. —————— If the railfoads of Nebraska only had a few more bridges, depots, terminals, locomotives and cars to distribute in their gawe of bunco, they would soon be able to reduce their assessment for taxation to a minus quantity and issue a bulletin proving to the other taxpayers that the state owes the rallroads money. E—— Passport to PubMe Favor, Detrolt Freo Press, “I was shamefully treated in Cuba by | ex-Governor General Wood,” My, Rathbome ! combine to eXcuse the excessive rates’ JUNE 28, 1902. 1s reportéd to have sald. Every day some- thing happens to increase the public's re- spect for General Wood. Truths Demolish Th Indianapolis Journal Bome of the wise people who the newspapers have discovered present very high price for hogs is due to a scarcity, shown by a shortage of 100,000 this year to date. Not long since one of these wise persons ridiculed the theory that supply and demand naturally make rices, en. write for that the Taking a Fresh Hold. New York Tribune The land of Cervantes is taking a new lease of life since the reign of the young king was begun. A Spanish loan amount- ing to some $67,000,000 in American money has been subscribed for almoet ten times over. It is plain, then, that financiers and capitalists have not lost faith in the future of Spain, Gets There Just the Same. Minneapolis Journal. The American invasion has aroused John Bull's patriotism to such an extent that it is now considered tactful to keep tha American label off our goods. Pulling oft the label under such conditlons is some- thing Itke pulling down the flag, but it is comforting to know that we keep on sell- ing more goods to John, just the same. Shocking Perversity of Nature, New York Sun The Nebraska crops must seem oftensively and even indecently large to the Nebraska democrats and populists. The harvest ls great and the laborers are few. A state which insiets upon Being prosperous in spite of trusts and imperialism and in the face of democratic and populist platforms, must be a perverse and cross-grained state. It is time for a set of resolutions denounc- Ing the fertility of the soll and the growth of agricultural plutocracy. The Root of the Trouble. Springfield Republican. The riee In the cost of living s a real grievance underlying much of the labor struggle for Increased wages. The presi- dent of the Illinols Steel company, in an- nouncing an advance of 10 per cent in the pay of employes the other day, took oc- casion to say that the action of the man- agement was “In recognition of the ad- vanced cost of living.” The fact of the matter s that such advances of wages as have been made on the average do not equal the advance in commodity prices. CONCERNING THE HAS-BEENS, Bunch of Millstones on the Neck of the Democratic Party. Philadelphia Press (rep.) Mr. William Jennings Bryan has ceased to be a public leader of the first and fore- most influence and authority, but he has behind him the only vote by which the democratic party can carry any contested state in the south, southwest and west. Mr. Bryan has a small opinfon of Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland has been ponder- ously telling the country to drop Mr. Bryas This is natural. Both are ‘has-beens. Both are remembered for their failures and loved by republicans for the defeats they made. But there s this to be said about Mr. Bryan, defeated, discredited, pushed aside in New York, ostentatiously omitted from democratic platforms in Indiana, Illinols and other states, he still represents and controls the marginal vote necessary for democratic success from Ohlo west. In 1892 Mr. Grover Cleveland could never have been elected without this populist vote. His manager made a coalition in Oregon with the party of open repudiation. It made a like alliance with anarchy in INi- nois. In all the states outside of New England and the middle states the very vote which nominated Mr. Bryan in 1896 and again in 1900 gave Mr. Cleveland his western majorities in 1892. This vote is today less than then. In many of these states it is small. But it remains in existence. It adores Mr. Bryan, Its members regard themselves cheated by Mr. Cleveland after 1802. They are abso- lutely necessary, not merely to democratic success but to a fighting chance for the party. Without this vote it cannot carry any state west of Mississippl, three south- ern states, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, become doubtful and the demo- cratic organization has no chance even to make a fight for the house next fall. Mr. Bryan knows this. So does Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Watterson expresses the same view In his attack on the New York statesman he helped make great enough to be ungrateful to all his friends, includ- ing the Kentucky editor. When Mr. Bryan attacks Mr. Cleveland, as he did yesterday, he does not help himself or brigg himself nearer power, but he ends all hope of suc- cess for the New York program launched by Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Hill and all the Honorable Has-Beens of eastern democracy. WAGES AND PRICES, Condition of Wage Earners Vastly Improved. United States Investor. It is hardly open to question that the cost of llving has advanced much more rap- 1dly than wages in recent ye: The weekly income of the average man, for instance, will probably not obtain for him as large a measure of commoditles and services as they would have obtained in some previous periods. Such being the case it would seem as If there should be striking evidences or hardehip among the masses, but this is far from being a fact. It certalnly ie a great many years since the bulk of the people of the United States have had less difficulty in keeping soul and body together than at present. How is this incongruity to be ex- plained? Probably & number of factors have con- tributed to the result. While it is true, np doubt, that prices have advanced faster than ‘wages the hardship to the wage earner has unquestionably been In considerable meas- ure offset by steadler employment. For some years past the industries of the na- tion, as a whole, have been kept so busy as to necessitate the steady employment of a maximum working force. In me for- mer periods, when the disparity between prices and wages was less striking than it Is tod: ch was not the case. At such times the wi earner was frequently in danger of having to tide himself over long intervals of enforced idieness. Though a dollar then would at any given time procure for him more of the necessaries of life than It will now he did not have the doMars coming to him month after month and year after year with the regularity that has been the case in the four year: In other words, though & week's way at the present moment will nog obtain as many necessaries and comforts of life as previously, there are more weeks' wages ‘coming 1o the average man 3n-the courke of,a period of several years than formerly. This_is a very important copsideration for the wi earner, much of whose income In past years has gone to pay for ‘‘dead horses.”" In perigds of less industrial activity than the present, the wage earner trequently found himself in a position where he had to live for weeks, and possibly months, at & time “on tick.” That is, his landlord and the local storekeepers had to carry him over intervals of enforeed idle- ne Much of the wage earner’s energlos in the past has been devoted to clearing off arrears of this sort. It i entirely safe to y that never in the last generation has there been less drain of this character on the resources of the average American than there 18 today, \ oTy "R LANDS THAN OU There is no romance in the mating of kings, and Alphonso XIIL is to be no ex- ception. Barely 16, and with his crown not yet well settled on his head, he is al- ready hunting a bride, by proxy. The pope has been called upon by the queen dowager to suggest an eligible wife for the hoy monarch, and it s probable that his cholce will be welcomed at Madrid. The fleld for selection Is not a wide one. Princesses of the Roman Catholic faith, belonging to royal houses of sufficlent dignity to pre- vent the marriage from being a diplomatic mesalliance, are not numerous in Europe. The royal sultor can look only toward Munich or Vienna, and the Bourbon blood, already weakened by generations of inter- marriage, will be further vitiated by in- termixture with the nearly related strains of Austria or Bavarla. It would be well it the example of the king of Italy could be followed and a princess from some such minor state as Montenegro, with more health, though fewer crosses, be chosen for his consort. But, aside from the fact that the pope would oppose the following of a Quirinal precedent, the dignity of the Spanish throne would forbld any such wise proceeding. " Striking evidence of the bitter resent- ment excited among the Finns by the with- drawal of the autonomous rights which they had so long enjoyed, and the remorseless process of Russianization to which they have been subjected, may be found in the emigration figures, which prove conclusively that thousands of them are going Into voluntary exile rather than endure the new condition of affairs at home. According to the latest official statistics, it appears that from 1891 to 1898 inclusive—that is, under the old system—the yearly average number of emigrants from Finland was 3,378. 1In 1899 the number was 12,357; in 1900 it was 10,642; and in 1901, 12,659, During the first two months of the current year, no fewer than 5,057 Finns emigrated, and the volume is now greater than ever, owing to recent events in Finland. It is computed, by those who have the means of knowing, that by the end of this year at least 35,000 Finns will have emigrated within the twelve months. This number would probably be larger, but for the authorities refusing to allow young men to depart whose ages make them liable to military conscription. o A correspondent writing from Constanti- nople to a Vienna newspaper says that Turkish supremacy in Yemen has never been In such danger as now since the great rising of 1867. The Iman Hamid-ed-Din, who has proclaimed himself Caliph, is con- stantly gaining more followers among the Arab tribes, who are the more ready to recognize him, as the Arabs in general ob- ject to tho Sultan’s claims to the Caliphate because he is not an Arab. The Turkish troaps were formerly more than a match for the Arabs, owing to the superiority of their weapons; but the Arabs are now well armed, thanks to the smuggling of; modern rifles into the country which goes on from Aden. The Turks could easily suppress the smuggling, if they had any seaworthy men-of-war at their disposal to send to the Red Sea. The forces under the command of Abdullah Pasha, the chief of the Seventh Army corps, stationed in Yemen, are altogether inadequate to sup- press the rising. Money is also wanting; but when the Vali, Hussein Hilmi, tele- graphed to Constantinople for funds, he was told that the revenue of the province was ample to cover the cost of administra- tion. This revenue, however, is entirely on paper, as the Arabs refuse to pay taxes; and when the Vali tried to collect tithes from the two tribes living in the neighbor- hood of the capital, who had hirtherto not been molested by tax collectors, and had therefore remained loyal, they imme-~ diately joined the rebels. Thereupon, the Vali, foreseeing danger, fled to Hodeidah without warning Abdullah Pasha, who was his personal enemy. Soon afterwards, Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, was besleged and taken by the rebels. This was & severe blow for the Turks, as all their war ma- terlal stored there fell into the hands of the Arabs. The London medical papers are studying the vital statistics of the South Africgn war, which are now. practically complete. According to the calculations of the hos- pital, 5,776 officers and men were killed in action, and 2,019 died of the wounds which they received. The deaths from dis- easo amounted to 13,272, and It 1s sald that these figures, large as they are, compare favorably with those of preceding wai One motlceable fact is the very high pro- portion of officers killed and wounded, and another the high death-rate from disease, among privates. In actlon, one officer Wi killed to every 10.15 men, and one officer was wounded to every 11.34 men. But of those who died from disease, only oue In every 8.5 men was an officer. This is partly accounted for, doubtless, by the reckless- ness with which the “Tommies” drank pol- luted water. The number of invalids sent home during the war was about 70,000, and of these more than 6,000 dled or left the gervice. The vast majority, of course, were restored to health. To prove that the war, after all, was not & big one, the hospital quotes the figures of the battle of Grave- lotte, in which the victorious Germans had 328 officers and 4,900 men killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Japanese government has a summary fashion of dealing with financial evils. In consequence of the demoralizin speculation on the exchanges, of which 82 exist in Japan, about halt being petty concerns with insufficient capital and irresponsible brok- ers, the authorities suddenly issued 1 lations the other day fixing the minimim THE HARMONY CONCERT. Detroit Free Press (dem.): Significantly enough it was the Nebraska popullsts In- stead of the democrats that wished to nominate Mr. Bryan for governor. Philadelphia Record (dem.): Mr. Bryan doesn’t want any harmony that will be satisfactory to Mr, Cleveland. The studied neglect with which democratic conventions cast and west are turning their backs on dead issues appears to have ruffied the temper of the editor of the Commoner. The party will insist on harmony, no matter what any man may say. New York Times (dem.): It has not been expected that Mr. Bryan would so soon and 80 unmistakably confess that he is “‘out™ with the democratic party. He does more than that—he exhibits his mental makeup in & way that will surprise shose who still call themselves his friends. No man who has twice or even once been a candidate for the presidency ever before so violently assailed a member of his own party merely for disagreeing with him. The Illinols dem- ocratic convention, which was gullty of the same offense, he sneers at as “Mr. Hop- kins' convention.” He has not merely lost bis temper; he has lost his head. His loss is distinctly the party's gain. Sincere democrats will pray that he may continue to assail Grover Cleveland. Chicago Chronicle (dem.): The populist, on the other hand, is a man who is always wanting government to do something for him, who {s o lacking In self-reliance that he looks to the government not as his agent, but as his guardian and benefactor; who s s0 much of a vagrant as to insist that the “world,” by which he means other people more industrious and capable than himself, “owes him a living." There Is no room on a Tilden platform for any such cartilaginous person, but there is plenty of room not only for Hill and Cleveland, but for the great mass of the self-respect- ing, self-rellant American people who re- spect the right of others to be free and demand that otbers shall not déprive them of the liberty which is the heritage and the right of every American. Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.): Mr. Bryan appears to be falling into a state of mind—perhaps we should say a state of tem- per—bordering on acerbity, If not on bitter- ness. He is too young a man to yleld to the promptings of resentment with respect to public affairs; he is too successful a man 80 much as to seem to be a disappointed one. But no man at his age has quite reached his wisdom, and Mr. Bryan needs to be told, what he will inevitably learn, that in public life lability is king: that the world will not stop to listen to any man's plaints, or abstractions, and that if he would retain his leadership he must adapt himself to circumstances’ and conditions. From Themistocles to Glad- stone, from Cincinnatus to Clay and Web- ster, from Jefferson and Hamilton to Doug- las, Blaine and Tilden, the rule has held good that the interests and actualities of the present dominate the minds of men, and that the dead past has been always left by wise men to bury its dead. POLITICAL DRIFT, The Tilden harmony banquet brought to 1light a large assortment of political cutlery. Judging “ from the commotion in the troubled waters of democracy, Mr. Cleve- land’s harpoon penetrated the blubber. Cleveland promises to give St. Louls a | warm run for crooked money. There Is this difference: The political crooks of St. Louis fled with the money. In Cleveland the crooks were exposed after putting up the money. That eminent citizen of Minneapolis who was under bonds to stay at home and jumped both bonds and town has been re- captured. He is known to possess a large variety of information concerning municipal graft and is in a mood to squeal. The town e patiently listening for the detalls. Formerly, and until the adoption of the recent amended constitution, state elections in Alabama were held in August. Under the new constitution, beginning this year, they will be held in November, and instead of taking place biennially will occur every four years. Under the new Alabama con- stitution the right of suffrage is much re- stricted in Alabama. The following municipal departments in Philadelphia are consolidated under one head: Police, fire, electrical, health, build- ing inepectors, boller inepection, city prop- erty, fire escapes, inspection of markets, food and milk. The director of the depart- INSURANCE ON THE KING'S LIFE, Specnlative Investments Peenlinr to the Bri sh People. Chicago News. As at the time of the death of Queen Vica torfa the Impending calamity threatened in the critieal lllness of King Edward has brought to light a practice not at all un< usual in England, although quite unknown here. It le the practice of taking out insur< ance policies on the life of the reigning sovereign. These policles are issued to any= body Who cares to pay the premium and upon the death of the monarch thus insured the amount of each policy is paid over to the holder. Many policies of this sort are | carried regularly from year to vear as & | fixed investment, the holders having no “ine | surable interest” in the life upon which they are insuring, but expecting themselyes | to live long enough to realize on their ine | vestment at a handsome profit. Not only | have enormous policles thus been placed om | the lives of soverelgns, but those merchants, | tradesmen and others whose business would | suffer from a postponement of the coronas | tion have been permitted by the English in< | surance concerns to take out policies insur« ing against the risk of such a contingency | The growth of this practice among a peo= | ple whose attitude toward their rulers is notably marked by sentiment is curiously indicative of the mingling of emotionalism | and practical bueiness instinct in the Brit« | 1sh temperament. Insurance policies on the | 11ves ot monarchs are speculations pure and | simple except that merchants and others lose trade in times of public mourning. Apparently the insurance against such “risks” as the postponement of public fess tivals has some justification as a measure of protection against business lobses, though in this respect alone the Britieh compantes seem to have gone far beyond the limit of prudence. Both in thelr ethical phases and as a matter of business the practices are dublous. Americans and the American companies may view with some satisfaction the fact that this form of insurance has not been countenanced here to any considerable extent. ! TO A LAUGH, “1t Washington 8 comes nach'l" sald Uncle Eben, “foh a man to blame all his misfortunes on bad luck an' to gib dit foh all his success to good judg- “Pa,” querled the Philadelphia Pres vhy we have to wear young bass, 1o gcales all the tim ment of public safety, as the officlal s called, is appointed by the mayor and gets $10,000 a year salary and his appoint- ments are subject to the confirmation of councils. The present mayor of San Francisco, Eugene Schmitz, was elected as the candl- date of the union labor party, so that San Francisco, like Hartford, Conn., Toledo, O., Haverhill, Mass., and Bridgeport, Conn., is making the experiment of having a labor mayor. This year's appropriations for the municipal government of Sgn Francisco are $5,958,000. The appropriations for next year are $5,825,000—a reduction. Of this sum $1,280,000 is for schools and $283,000 for parks. ~ George L. Lilley of Waterbury, Conn., who has been mentioned in connection with the governorship of the Nutmeg state, effectually wound up the promoters of his boom. His “‘decline” is sharp and to the point: “I am not a candidate for the nom- ination; wouldn't raise a finger to get it; don’t want it; won't have it, and hepe there won't be any more talk of it. I wouldn’t run for the office if they'd give me the capitol. I can't state my position too pald-up capital at 100,000 yen, raising the brokers’ license fees from 10 to 100 yen afd enacting further that half the profits earned above 10 per cent must be carried to re- serve. These changes are to become opera- tive within six monthe. The action, as might be oxpected, caused great commotion on the exchanges, and a heavy depreciation of shares, amounting to 8,000,000 yen in three days. The prs for the most part, approves the spirit of the legislation, but is inclined to think that a little more warn- ing might have been given. The election just held in Naples showed the power of the Camorra, the noterious secret society of that city and viciaity, which elected its full line of candidates. The result is likely to make the Camorra as influential in its sphere of operations as its kindred soclety, the Mafia, is In Siclly. Both are organizations formed for purposes of blackmail and public and private plunder, The Itallan government has been trylng to exterminate the Mafla since 1876, without complete success, but bas rather ignored the Camorra. Now, how- ever, something will have to be donme, or the government of Naples will become bad as that of Philadelphia. —_— & the Grip of Grafters. Philadelphia Ledger. The president supports Secretary Shaw and Secretary Shaw supports the new com- missioner of immigration in his determina- tion to institute radical reforms in the treatment of poor immigrants at Ellis Is- land, New York. This is admirable. The has also been some reformation in the treat- ment of those comparatively rich immi- grants who can afford to travel in the cal ins and bring trunks with them. I time, perhaps, all our immigrants and customs service will be so improved as to be worthy ol & civilized people. Loos: strongly.” “No_doubt, my child,” replied the elder fish, “they are intended to enable us to get 'a welgh quickly.” Richmond Dispatch: Doctor—I am slightly In doubt as to whether yours is a constitutional disease or not. Patlent—For heaven's sake, doctor, have Lot to go to the expense of appealing to the United States supreme court to fing out whether it is or not? Chicago Post: “What is a politiclan?" asked the boy. YA politiclan,” replied the father, bit- erly; “that Is, a successful politician, 13 a man who can evade his promises without seeming to break his word.” Detroit Free Press: Cautlous Customer —Is this a hand-made cigar? Indignant Manufacturer—Hand-made? Is it hand-made? See here, do vou think we got time in this shop to roll cigars with our feet? This is no dime museum. Chicago Tribune: “You have for a llving as soon as you're kald the young robin, “while grub free, “Oh, 1 don't know,” responded the young uvail. “You generally find it in the bill, don't’ you " to scratch d, hatche 1 get my Philadelphia Press: “Here's a lot o' talk in the paper about ‘uniform divorce laws needed,’ " saild Farmer Korntop. *Wonder what that means.” 1 reckon, suggested his good wife, “it's to compel divorced folks to wear a uniform so’s other folks kin rec'nize 'em, an' p'int the finger o' scorn at 'em.” POEMS YOU SHOULD KNOW, S. E, Kiser in the Record-Herald, Whatever kind of a job you may have, you don't get all that’s coming to you it you let a day go by without drinking at the fount in which the muses lave their alry feet. There's nothing like poetry for a man with an empty stomach.—Prof. J. Keats Syphers ROLL ON, TIME, ROLL ON. (By the Sweet Singer of Michigan.) Roll on, time, roll on, as it always has onie Since the time that this world first begu! gun. It can never change my love that I gave a dear one Faithful friend that I gave my heart and hand. Chorus: Roll on, time, roll on, it can never ‘turn back To the time of my happy malden days— To the time of my youth it can never turn back, When 1 wandered with my love, bright and gay. Oh, I was a happy girl then as could ever be, And live on this earth here be- 1 ow— I was happy as a lark and as busy as a e, For in fashion or in style I dd not go, My parents were poor and they could not dress me 0, For they had not got the money to spare, Ana "t Way be better so, for I do mot think fine clothes Make a person any better than they are. Some people are getting so they think a poor girl, Though she be bright and intelligent and gay, ave nice clothes or she is Bhe must nothing in this world, It she I8 mot dressed in style every day. Remember never to judge people by thelr clothes, For our brave, noble Washington sald, “Honorable are rags if a true heart they enclose, And 1 fi:;tl it was the truth when I ‘married. S —— Get the Best This doesn’t mean the most costly in clothing—if you'll come here, If you will pay $25.00 for a suit you will get as good a garment as can be made, 1If $15.00 or $10,00 {s your limit, yon will find the same perfect cut and excellent service in our lines at that figure, No Clothing Fits Like Ours. 7 Now {# the time fo prepare for the Fourth, = Browniny: Kine 3@ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. ' R. 8. Wilcox, Mauager.