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

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S ——————— Now for the bandages and liniments. - e It's all In the spelling. Plece work plays havoc with peace work. — Nebraska corn celebrated the Fourth by shooting an inch or more out of the ground. Aguinaldo may congratulate himself that he has been treated better than he deserved. o To the recalcitrant Filipinos: Step up to the counter and get a certificate of amuesty under Uncle Sam’'s great pre- mium offer. The small boy and the giant fire- eracker are now engaged in presenting another series of living pictures {llus- trating that well known classic, “Before and after.” | July Fourth is the most trying day in the year for the fire department men. ‘Without the ever-ready fire laddles the cost of celgbrating would be multiplied several tinles over, | ! Put down the Pinkerton yarn as a fake pure and simple. No more Pinkertons will be imported into Nebraska by any railroad company. The Burlington strike and the legislation growing out of it sets tled that for good. e———— The Bee observes three holidays an- nually by interrupting the publication of 1ts evening paper for the day—Fourth of July, Christmas and New Years. The morning paper is published every day in the year without interruption. e Just to remind us that they are still enlisted for the fray, Nebraska prohibi- tlonists have issued a call for a state convention to bé held August 7. It will take more than this, however, to make people believe the prohibition question, s a live issue in this state. . sremm—m———— Bull fighting in Oklahoma must be very much like bull fighting in South Omaha, BEveryoue connected with the enterprise insists that the bulls run no “more risk of harm than the spectators and that the entertalnnent is as innocu-. ous as & Sunday school pienic. - e The Louisiana Purchase exposition has now been postponed by official lamation of the president. Had President Jefferson only been advised of 1t he might have postponed the purchase of the Loulsiana tract so as to make the 100th anniversiary come at the right ———— ] The Jacksonians have ratifled and the of the ple, . -— Our amiable popecratic contemporary still insists that we broke faith with Aguinslde notwithstanding the fact that Admiral Dewey has testified under oath that no pledges whatever were made to Agulndldo that could be broken, When it comes to a question of veracity be- tween Admiral Dewey and Agulnaldo, the American people will prefer to be- lieve Admiral Dewey, ——m— . The next meeting of the Transmissis- sippl congress has been called with Bt, Paul as the meeting place, The biggest credit mark on the record for the Trans- mississippl congress is that made by the original resolution for a Transmississippl expesition, which materialized with such great success at Omaba in 1898, The Transmississipp! congress has not scored Dbefore oF after that notable event, STILL AT THEIR GAME OF BUNCO. The raflroad tax bureau persists In keeping up its game of bunbo by which it 1s trylng to make the people of Ne- braska belleve that, In comparieon with other taxable property, railroad property has been assessed altogether too high notwithstanding the fact that the rail- roads have notorlously controlled a ma- Jority in every assessing board since the first mile of railroad was built in Ne- braska. The latest bulleting, Nos. 17 and 18, are, If such a thing could be, tore mis- leading and deceptive than any of the bulleting previously issued. It will be remembered that in a previous bulletin the rallroad tax bureau has asserted that the railroads pay 15 per cent of the taxes of Nebraska, which, if true, is still out of all proportion because the rail- roads represent fully 25 per cent of all property values In the state. As a mat- ter of fact, however, the 15 per cent claim holds good only for a few sparsely settled counties. According to bulletin No. 17 the aggre- gate assessment of Douglas county was $21,745,! in 1800 and the railroad and telegraph property altogether was as- sessed for §713,026. Fifteen per cent of that amount would be equal to $3,261,805 instead of $718,026. Instead of paying 15 per cent of the valuation in Douglas county the rallroads pald on only 3% per cent in 1900, In 1901 the aggregate assessment of Douglas county was increased to $22,- 881,792 and this year the aggregate will exceed §25,000,000, while the railroad as- sessment for 1002 s $745,531, or less than 8 per cent of the total valuation in- stead of 15 per cent. And this notwith- standing the fact that within the past two years the railroads have expended over a million dollars In enlarging and improving their trackage and terminal facilities and building viaducts, and last, but not least, that the west half of the Union Pacific bridge, which was formerly assessed at $125,000, has been dumped Into the general pool at a mile- age rate equal to §1,568. Yet the bureau fog distributers still assert that the glaring discrepancies and flagrant discrimination be readily explained by the process of distribution. In view of the fact that the railroad as- sessment has shrunk in every county of the state, while the rallroad earnings have enormously increased and the value of railroad stocks has doubled and trebled, the mystery of distribution would puzzle even .a Philadelphia lawyer. The juggle with figures and persistent imposture is strikingly shown by bulle- tin No. 18, which tries to Institute com- parisons between the tax pald by three or four insignificant branch lines in Ne- braska with blanch lines of the same class in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Mich- igan and Maine. The figure mixers of THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: Indication of a willingness on their part to learn. The pacification of the archipelago is very properly signalized by the granting of amnesty and pardon to all who par- ticipated In the insurrection and all po- litieal offenders. This gives liberty to Aguinaldo, who has had a very com- fortable time a& a prisoner, and to the men who were deported to Guam for having given, after they became prison- ers, aid and comfort to the insurgents. A condition of the amnesty and pardon 18 that those accepting shall take an oath of allegiance to the United States, which it Is probable none of them will reject. The president most appropri- ately Improved the auspicious occasion to thank the army for the great work it accomplished, thereby expressing, as stated in the order of Secretary Root, the sentiments of all the loyal people of the United States. ‘With peace restored in the Philippines there should soon ensue an industrial and commercial improvement that will glve prosperity to the islands and con- tentment to the people. The provision of the act of congress relating to fran- chises is perhaps less liberal than could be desired, for attracting capital, but nevertheless it is to be expected that a conslderable amount of capital will now seek investment there and that develop- ment of the resources of the islands will make steady if not rapld progress. Ershem———— SPEAKER HENDERSON'S PUPULARITY Advices from Washington are to the effect that Speaker David B. Henderson will take an active part in the impend- ing congressional campaign in response to the urgent demand of the campalgn managers, who have decided to assign him to stump all of the close and doubt- ful districts that can be convenlently reached. The requisition upon Speaker Henderson for assistance in the cam- paign is the best answer to the critics, both republican and democratic, who have insisted that Speaker Henderson's popularity has been waning and that he has lost his grip not only upon his asso- clates In congress, but also upon the peo- ple at large. ‘A few months ago evidences were at hand of a systematic and organized ef- fort to discredit the speaker throughout the country by threats of opposition at home and alleged revolt among the re- publican members in the house through certain organs professing to represent both political parties. Nothing was omftted to bring the speaker into a false light by holding him up as an arbitrary tyrant wantonly blocking meritorious measures and interfering with the execu- tion of the administration policy. That the inspiration for these attacks could be traced to certain large special inter- ests, which hoped to benefit by legisla- tion of questionable character in whose the tax bureau may be able to fool some people some time, but they can't fool all of the people all of the time. The rallroads of Wisconsin pay taxes not on thelr assessed tangible value but upon their gross earnings. The' trunk lines pay 4 per cent of their gross earn- ings and others a less rate. For the year 1902 they will be compelled to pay an aggregate of $1,650,000 into the state treasury for distribution and the tax of $6 per mile of the Marinette & Wiscon- sin road cuts no figure in the general proposition, although it is decidedly cool as a citation. The corporations of Pennsylvania pay a fixed royalty, or license, for their prop- erty and franchises, and the aggregate recelved from the corporations more than pays the entire expense of main- talning state government. In Michigan, as in Minnesota, the as- sessments of rallroads are according to thelr earning capacity. The railroads of Minnesota paid $1,658,000 into the state treasury for 1901 and this year an in- crease to 4 per cent will be voted, so that in 1008 they will be compelled to pay over $2,210,000 into the state treas- ury exclusive of taxes paid on propertles outside of thelr right-of-way, or double the amount of taxes pald by the rail- roads in this state, assuming that thelr claims and figures of taxes paid are cor- rect. - STmsmu———— PEACE IN TBE PHILIPPINES.~ The announcement of Acting Governor ‘Wright that civil government has been established over all the civilized people of the Philippine archipelago and that acceptance of American authority and general pacification are complete, was most welcome news, though not alto- gether unexpected. The Insurrection practically ended several weeks ago, ‘when one of the most influential and ac- tive of the insurgent leaders surrendered and there only remained for the comple- tion of pacification the establishment of civil government in a single province. That was accomplished five dayd ago and brought under American authority all the civilized people of the islands, This consummation termidates mili- tary rule in the Philippines and places full power in the hands of the clvil au- thorities, to be exercised as provided in the act of congress approved July 1. Hereafter the military will be every- where subordinate to the civil authorl- tles, just as 18 the case in the United States. General Chaffee’s functions in command of the troops in the Philip- pines will be just the sam the func- tions of & department commander here— that is to say, the troops will be em- ployed to enforce the mandates of the civil government only when the con- stabulary and the other civil forces are unable to cope with the situation. In the establishment of civil government the Filipinos are given liberal recogni- tion, which will be made more liberal in the future. The purpose of the legisla- tion of congress is to give the natives of the archipelago large participation in the administration of affairs. They will after a time have a voice In legislation and they will be appointed to positions of responsibility in the government. In a word, the policy is to advance the Fili- pinos as rapidly as possible in a knowl- edge of civil government according to American principles and there is every way the speaker had taken a firm stand, was all along apparent. This is made more patent now with the adjournment of the session, at whose close the mem- .bers of all parties Jolned in testifying to the fairness, efficlency and abllity of their presiding officer. Instead of being discredited, Speaker Henderson is, without doubt, the real leader of the house wielding an influ- ence not excelled by any of his prede- cessors in the speaker’s chair. When he goes upon the stump in support of re- publican principles and policies he will command public confidence as could no other member of the house. —_—ee In his Fourth of July pardons Gov- ernor Savage has again overlooked the provisions of the law, intended to hedge about the indiscriminate exercise of ex- ecutive clemency. The law, conferring on the governor the power to grant Fourth of July pardons without the cus- tomary hearing upon an application of which due public notice has been given, reads, “that on the 4th day of July in each year the governor of the state may in his discretion grant and issue an un- conditional pardon to two convicts in the penitentiary, who have been confined thereln for ten years or more, and whose conduct while incarcerated in the peni- tentlary has been such as to entitle him, or her, to the benefits of the good time act” None of the three men liberated by Governor Savage has been confined in the penitentiary for ten years, and only one of them was serving a sentence that would have kept him there longer than ten years. Governor Savage will probably seek to justify his action on the theory that what he has done is not to issus a pardon, but to commute a sentence,.and that the latter does not require a formal application and hear- ing. That the law makers had no such {ntention, however, does not have to be argued. S The editor of the Rallway Age, who eays that in point of railroad prosperity the year 1902 bas so far been the most remarkable period in fifty years of rail- way history, must have missed all those hard luck statements issued by the Ne- braska rallroad tax bureau to prove that the rallroads cannot today afford to pay taxes on as high a valuation as ten years ago. Before he reviews the rail- road -situation again the editor of this great rallway journal should call in the tax bureau bunco eteerers and let them convinee him that the roads are all going to wreck and ruln. —— Georgla democrats have neglected to incorporate a specific declaration of fealty to Bryan and the Kansas Oity platform into thelr state platform this year, Georgia, by the way, is the home of the chairman of the national demo- cratic congressional committee, whose selection for that position by his fellow congressmen was halled as a personal victory for Mf. Bryan. e Omaha is pretty well supplied with charity institutions of various kinds. ‘What it needs is co-ordination of these institutions that will prevent them from duplicating ene another's work. The aim should be to reduce the cost of ad- ministration to the lowest possible per cent so that the largest parf of the char SATURDAY, ity contributions be devoted to actual rellef work. Indtanapolls Journal. ’ The excess of governmental recefpts over expenditures during the fiscal year just closed was $02,192,300. This is the largest revenue in fourteen A Peerless Hi Minneapolis Times. Mr. Cleveland 1s expected to make at least one speech in the New York cam- palgn. If the Emplire state goes overwhelm- ingly republican next November there is an editor out in Nebraska who will know ex- actly what did gt Not a Pleasant pect. Baltimore American. In case the CoAl trust is treated to a governmental injunction, then those who see their meat bills retaining the same glgantic proportions so consistently will throw up their hands in despalr at contem- plating the prospects for coal prices next winter, b Givl Hunch, ‘Washington Post. Pension Commissioner Ware exhibits this communication, which he recelved from a plous Ilitnols widow, who belleves that faith “‘Dear Mr. without works s not enough: W I am tru my pension, but I need the money I do hope you will give a little help yourselt.” New York Mail and Express. The strange news is cabled from Parls that “the game of poker has ejected piquet ecarto and three-hand whist to such an ex- tent that the government manufacturing packs of cards with a joker.” If the French have gone to playing poker with a joker fn the deck, men who knew the game will look Do further for the causes of the next revo- Tution. Making Too Much of Agsle. Chicago Chronicle (dem.) In the course of his testimony before the senate cofmittee Admiral Dewey sald to Mr. Patterson, populist-democrat of Colo- rado: “I think you are making altogether too much of Aguinaldo.” This is true not only of Senator Patterson, but of a good many other so-called democrats in and out of congress. If the democratic party —even the democratic party of Messrs. Bryan, Patterson and others—were In power today Agulnaldo would be treated with as scant courtesy as was shown to Bllly Bowlegs in the everglades of Florida many years ago. The attempt to make a Geor; hington out of this contemptible little plunderer and assassin has been a dismal fallure and men of sense ought to be lllh'lmod of the part that they have played n it Dewey as & Writer of Histary, Loulsville Courfer~Journal. “This has never been printed,” sald Ad- miral Dewe: that I was reserving to write myself.” casual words spoken by the admiral in the course of his statement may be few in number, but they are full of Interest. For, to begin with," Admiral Dewey Is to write a history! And, again, there are still lusclous savors from the Manila campaign that have not yet reached the public! When his promised history appears, it is to be hoped that the story, ridiculed in some quarters and utterly denied in others, that the admiral ‘9n that historfc May morning ordered hiw men to stop fighting, for breakfast, will be there. Whatever se it may contalfi, it the admiral's his- tory vindicates th§ romantic tale of 8o dramatic an incidént; it will have been worth waiting for. ' * Absurd: Libel Suits. Leslie's Weekly. The recent decision of Justice Gaynor of the New York supreme court that it is not Itbelous to publish of a person that he has consumption or that he once had it, may well serve to call attention to the need of more liberal treatment of the news- papers In libel legislation. It ought not to be possible to bring a newspaper owner into court on a charge so manifestly ab- surd as that upon which Judge Gaynor's decision was passed, involving, as such ac- tions always do, a great amount of annoy- ance and expense to the accused party, even If he is acquitted, as in this case. Newspaper publishers have sufficient dif- fleulties to contend with in the regular course of business, without being subject to the harassment and loss of time and money consequent upon libel sults having no basis in justice or common -sense. INTERNAL IRRIGATION, Value of the L n the United Sta Philadelphia Ledger. From Census Bulletin No. 180 some no- tion may be got of the extent of the Mquer busin by the mere statement that for the year ended May 31, 1900, the sum of $467,674,087 was employed as capital in the production of malt, distilled and vinous liquors in the United States. The number of establishments fer the three olasses of liquors was 2,885, which manufactured 1,825,368,094 gallons of liquors, valued at $384,000,000. The total estimated home con- sumption, allowing for the excess of ex- ports ever imports, was 1,822,166,685 gallons, or over seventeen gallons for every man, woman and child in the country. Great as domestic consumption appears to be should be noted that the distilled liquer produced and consumed is small in com- parison with that of the malt product, co sisting of beer and ale. For the census year there were manufactured of the distillates 103,380,423 gallons ouly, against 1,198,602, 104 gallons of malt liquors and 28,425,667 gallons of wine. . Moreever, while the value malt liquor produced increased in the from $182,781,622 to $237,269,713, or nearly 30 p ent, the value of the distilled liquors shows an actual decrease from $104,- 197,869, in 1890, to $96,798,433 for the year 1900. 1llinols, with an output of 32,608,435 gal- lons, was the leading producer of spirits. Kentucky was second, with 21,709,873 gal- lons, and Indlana, Ohio, Penusylvania and Maryland followed in the erder given. Peniwylvania's product for the year named was 7,189,666 gallous of spirits. The lead- ing states in the production of malt lMquor 'were, in the census year: New York, with 9,603,085 barrels, valued at $56,137,854, Pennsylvania, 4, 72, valued at $29,162,743, and I1Nnols, Wisconsin and Ohio In the der named, each with a production of over 8,000,000 barrels for the year. The bulletin says, as the statistics show, that the brewing industry bas had “practl- cally an uninterrupted growth™ for the last half century. In the malt liquor industry during the census year there were 1,509 es- tablishments, with a capital of $415,000,000, mploylng 39,632 wage earners and turning out & product valued at more than §287,000,- 000, but even in the brewing industry, where the increase s large, the rate of increase 1s much less than duriug previous decades. For instance, the increase in the value of the brewery product from 1890 to 1900 wae less than 30 per cent, while the increase in the two previous decades was about 80 per cent; from 1860 to 1870 it was 161 per cent, and during the decade 1850 to 1860 the in- crease was 272 per cent. The estimated domestic consumption of seventeen gallons per capita makes it appear that we are a nation of drinkers, but this is much ) than the comsumption in England and other countries of Europe, and the .polsonous liquors which are sald to be sapping the vitality of France have small sale here. Extent a: n JULY 5, 1902. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. It is confidently predicted in the most recent writings on South Africa that the revival of the Rand gold industry will be- fore long be followed by the creation of extensive coal and iron indystries, as well as by a considerable development of agri- culture. It these predictions are well founded, and if the latest estimates of the extent and value of the Tranevaal gold- bearing reglons are substantlally correct, that colony will be by far the richest and most Important member of the coming federation. This s an additional reason why it should contain the mew capital of South Africa. Whether that eball be Pre« torla or Johannesburg cannot be known Just yet, but, according to reports and dis- cussions, Pretoria has the better claim. It has already been a capital, i 8o near Jo- hannesburg that the latter's and wealth re less important than they would be if Pretoria were distant, and for many reasons would be more acceptable to the prejudices of the Boers. ' o Paris newspapers are disposed to mini- mize the Importance of the renewal of the triple alllance between Germany, Austria- Hungary and Italy. This, however, is but natural, and may be regarded ae a cloak Wwherewith the French politiclans seek to hide their disappointment at the failure of their efforts to coquet with Italy and tempt her to desert her old allles for a friendship with Russia and France. Con- ditlons in-Italy.rather favored the plans of the Parls and St. Petersburg diplomats. There was a growing feeling of resentment against & German tendency to put heavy customs duties upon imports from Italy, some mistrust of the actual power of the triple alliance because of the internal dis- sensions of Austria-Hungary, and diesatis- faction ‘with the requirement to maintain a large standing army and a good navy in the face of Italy’s heavy debt. All these factors, when taken with the existence of a considerable party that has always been opposed to the alllance and with the reported pro-Russian activity of Queen Helene, gave rise to a bellef In some circles in Europe that the alllance would be do- serted by Italy. Berlin diplomacy has, how- ever, triumphed at the Quirinal, and the moves upon Europe's chessboard will con- tinue to be played from the same points as for several years, with the Zweibund of France and Russia watehing the revital- ized Dreibund, and both together endeavor- ing to malntain the peace and commerce of Europe. oee According to all reports, the domestic political situation with which Chancellor von Buelow finds himself confronted in Ger- many 1s peculiarly embarrassing. His offi- clal tariff policy has alienated the lib- erals, the Polish policy has incensed tho clericals, while the conservatives feel themselves rebuffed by the manner in which he declined to listen to their arguments in the Prussian Diet In favor of duties on grain still higher than those which the imperial tariff bill proposes. In this last instance the chancellor might easily have by sheltering himself official position and declining to answer any questions on constitutional grounds. He adopted a more aggressive course and so stirred up additional ani- mosities. As a natural consequence of-his political disagreements, he has been sailed on all sides by the opposition press of every degree. All this has Induced him to accuse his critics—through the lips of an assoclate—of pessimism. For this, he says, there s not the least justification. In fact, Germany, of all the great powers, alone has cause for content. England, France, Russia and Austria-Hungary all have press- ing troubles of thelr own, from which Germany 18 happlly free,” owing of course to his enlightened policy. e According to the latest reports from St. Petersburg, several prominent literary or scientific men, expelled during the last few years for political reasons, have been al- lowed to return. This has created an im- pression that the new minister of the in- terior, M. Plehve, wishes to adopt a pol- fcy of concillation. It s sald that onme of the first things which he did on his appointment was to ask for a list of all those who had been exiled from the prin- cipal cities during M. Siplaguine’s thirty months of office, The total is eaid to have reached 60,000, including workmen sent back to their villages. M. Plehve was as- tonished, and at once recognized the danger of scattering such a number of disaffected persons among the villages. The dis- orders in the governments of Kharkoff and Poltava were malnly the work of stu- dents expelled from thelr universities and sent to live in the country. Since the mur- der of M. Siplaguine aund the appointment of M. Plehve as his successor, manmy of the protessors, doctors, lawyers and writ- ers who have been expelled have been ad- vised to petition for reconsideration of their cases. The return of some of them proves that the petitions get a fayorable hearing. It is thought, however, in Bt Petersburg that any efforts on the part of M. Plehve to introduce & more liberal policy will be blocked, or at all events greatly hindered, by the influences which for so long supported the reactiomary pro- ceedings of M. Siplaguine, Lately quiet has prevailed in the capital, but rumors of disturbances in the provinces continue to be frequent. o §1d1-Al, the bey of Tunis, who died re- cently, was a benevolent despot somewhat on the order of the remowned Haroun-al- Raschid of devoted memory. Although Tunis {8 now and has been for many years a dependency of France, Sidi-All relgned in fact as well as In name, for the French left to him supreme authority over the native population. He was 85 at the time of his death, and left behind him the repu- tation of having been one of the noblest of his kind. It was through his wisdom and liberal ideas that Tunis has for so long been free from all religious troubles be- tween the Mohammedans and the Chris- been a rich man in his own ved an income of $400,000 & year from the Fremch government, but he died poor. His palace was like a feudal castle. No beggar was ever turned away from his door, and every day between 700 who s #ald to be a man of intelligence and good character. Prosperity of the Country. New York Evening Post. The United States treasury begine its new fiscal year under pleasing auspices. The r the twelve-month just com. passed all expectations. When revenus reduction bill went into force in July, 1801, it was commonly esti- mated that its remission of taxes would cut off $40,000,000 from the nation's annual in- come. The internal revenue has, in fact, short some $35,000,000 from the p: ceding fiscal year; but, in the meantims & quite unlooked-for expansion of the cus- toms revenue has produced on that account $16,000,000 more than in 1901. In other words, taxes producing $40,000,000 annually have been abolished, and sti the country’s wealth and consuming power have increased 80 rapidly that the revenue yleld has turned out only $24,000,000 short of the year pre- ceding. A Growing Necessity. Chicago Record-Herald. There should be a twenty-four-foot ring staked off in one corper of the senate cham- ber 1o be always ready in cases of emerg- eney. RECORD OF THE CONGRESS, Minneapolis Times (ind.): It may have been a $1,000,000,000 congress that adjourned yesterday, but it was also & congress of glant deeds. Boston Transcript (rep.): Congress has done a considerable amount of good work and the élections alone can show whether the public regards its sins of omission as grave enough to offset it. Chicago Post (rep.): But the Fifty-sev- enth congress has enacted a Philippine tarit measure, a civil government bill for the far-oft lslands, a business-like canal bill and a war tax repeal bill. These are important and creditable achlevements. The Chinese exclusion act belongs to the category of doubtful legislation, while the oleomargarine and irrigation acts are more than questionable. 4 Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.): The most gtriking feature of the session from a par- lamentary point of vlew was the impotence of the house as a legislative body under the great and growing domination of com- mittee rule. In the senate the possibilities of successful obstruction enabled a disrep- utable minority representing the beet sugar interests to hold up a majority who were willing-to respond to the popular wish. Ni York Post (ind.): Senator Hanna's remarks in the senate show that he, like Pitt at one time, has ‘‘received some of the secret warnings that forebode the cyclone In which governments £0 down' and that he foresees the defea of his party for its sins. As to that we make no prediction, but we are certain that If ever defeat was richly deserved it is by a party which has made such a rec- ord for weakness, cowardice and dishonor as the republican party has made in the first seselon of the Fifty-seventh congress Chicago News (ind.): The session has been noteworthy for the immense amount of the appropriations made, the sum total of the expenditures provided for aggregat- ing nearly $1,000,000,000. Partly a: sequence of our recent national stead of $1,000,000,000 congress 80 much complaint was made a few years ago. It can only be confessed with re- gret that the need for broader and more expens! administrative policles is not met by a broader conception of public duty on the part of congressmen. The sesslon Just closing has given some disagreeable evidences of the fact that servile defer- ence to selfish private interests can pre- vent needed legislation. ! POLITICAL DRIFT, When the tumuit and the shouting dles comes the time for fence bullding. Some members of congress have a task ahead. “The most dignified legislative body In the world” should put up a respectable scrap or go out of the business. Scrub bouts arouse contempt. This is an off season in Ohio politics. Affairs are so easily one-sided that the rank and file are permitted, undisturbed, to draw intellectual pabulum from discussions on the relative merits of ple and ice cream. There appears some basis for the report that Dick Croker is coming back this fall. When the report got across the pond that Bourke Cockran would be invited into Tam- many Hall, Richard flung resolutions to the winds and declared “they will have to show The tiger chief does not hail from url, but his epinal column leans that M way. Speaker Henderson and Congressman Hepburn are both Iowa men, but they do mot follow the same rules as to the pro- nunciation of proper names. The other day Mr. Hepburn had the floor and Mr. McRae desired to ask a question. “Mr. Speaker; I yleld to the gentleman from Arkansas,” sald Hepburn, pronouncing the last two syllables of the state name as though It were Kansas. “The gentleman from Ar- kansaw has the floor," id the speaker. Some new and at least striking meta- phors are belng sprung in congress these days. Representative Corliss of Michigan is responsible for this query: ‘‘Shall the wheels of progress be shackled by t ble octopus?” One critic ventures the sugges- tion that it weuld be dificult to use an eight-armed cephalopod for shackling pur- poses on & wheel at the bottom of the Pa- cific. Senator Proctor spoke the other day of “holding out the buit end of the olive branch.” There are thirty-five candidates in the democratic race for state officers in Bouth Carolina, and thirty-two of them were present and took active part in the first public meeting of the palgn, which was held at Sumter on Tuesday last. The meeting began at 11:15 in the morning. The candidates for governor began the speaking in alpbabetical order, each being allowed thirty minutes. All of the can- didates for governor oppose trusts and favor good roads, the liberal support of colleges, liberal pensions for confederate veterans, improvement of public schools, the child labor law asd the maintenance of the dispensary. Mr. Watterson is not alone in his an- tipathy to Cleveland. Mr. Clark Howell, the member of the democratic national committee from Georgla, says that Cleve- land is personally responsible for all the woes of the deirocracy of the last six years. Other couspicuous democrats of the south and of the west pay their respects to the ex-president in the same sort of terms, and the New Orleans Times-Demo- crat, the leading democratic paper of the gulf states, says that the insult which was cast on the recent leader of the democracy by Cleveland and Hill at the Tilden dinner “did not touch Mr. Bryan alone, but applied well to the voters who put his name on their bal- lots.” It may be that | A LAUDABLE PURPOSE. Self-Sacrificing Parpos the Gov- ernor of the P Minneapolis Journal In his spoech at Harvard recently Presi- dent Roosevelt sald that he had told Gov- ernor Taft of the Philippines that if & va- cancy should occur in the supreme court the latter would not be appointed to It be- cause the president wished him to stay in | the Philippines. To this Governor Taft re- plied: * “Mr. Preaident, it has always been my dream to be in the supreme court, but it you should offer me a justiceship now, and same time congress should take off ly my salary as governor, I should go straight back to the Philippines neverthe- less, for those people need me and expect me back and belleve I won't desert them." There s a refreshing etatement. This generation has so readily pleaded gullty to the charge of commercialism that it should make special efforts to emphasize those in- cidents that show that even with us wealth and position are not everything and that we have still among us men who will sac- rifice ambition and wealth to the doing of duty and the performance of an illy re- warded task. | The man who made such speech cannot be compared to a Roman pro-consul, and it is certain that no government of which | he is the head will lack for an honorable | wnd humane spirit. | _ The problems the Spanish-American war ! has brought us have given us some ple mnt experiences along with their embar- tasements and hard work. The admlinletra- tion of Cuba gave us General Leonard Wood, and the administration of the Phil- ippines has discovered Governor Taft. Both of these men possess in & high degres ex- ecutive abllity and the power to concillate alien races. Both give us promise that we ehall not lack for good, honest material In constructing governmental machines for our dependencles. Both set patriotism and devotion to duty above the more selfish considerations that animate most men and would animate most men In thelr places. LEFT-0VER CRACKERS, Detroit Free Press: “What do you work at when you're out of college, Jack?" ““Same old job—dad.” Chicago ~ Tribune: Landlady—You _are looking at your beefsteak as If you don't like it, Mr.” McGinnis. Boarder—I may not like it, Mrs. Irons, but I trust I am not Incapable of admiring its firmness and its consistency, Brooklyn Life: ?mlom her, my son, 1s & man who has trained f to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of other men. Chicago Tribune: 1 tell you,” sald the doctor, “It's the man who can push him- self along that succeeds best in this world " “'Not at all," replied the protessor. ‘It's the man who can shove others out of his way that succeeds best.” Baltimore World: He—Hello, dere, Miss Smit, She—Doan yo' flag me dat sudden, man. I ain’ never seen yo' in all mah life Befo', an’ ef yo' do it agin a lot o’ people ‘Il be in' slow behin' yo' tomorrer. ton Star: “So you wouldn't ad- to go into poliiics unless he has id the beginner. say that” answered Senator “if you can get somebody else to put up the money for you go ahead by all means."” Waskington Star: “It {s an outrage," exclaimed Colonel Stiliwell of Kentucky. “It is an Inexcusable outrage!” “To what have you reference?” wThis treatment of the Filipinos; this ef- fort to compel them to partake of water in exccssive quantities, Chicago Tribune: “Isn't it dreadful to think that the mere handling of money has been known to give people the erysipelas? 1 should think {01, wouid be atraid on a count of your husband. He glndlll more or, less money every day.” “‘Yes, but r'dnu don’t know my husband. He can't hold money long enough ta be in’aanger of catching anyinirk from 1. L BILL, San Francisco Bulletin, He wasn't purty—nary bitl the wrinkiin' hand o Time > Had written strange and powder grime But prospectin’ his character, there'd erop out everywher Rich streaks ‘o' golden never dreamed was evices in the tan placer that you'd there, And, ,_spite of all his homeliness, somehow his rugged face Jest seemed to brace a feller up and give ‘Im savin’ grace, When times was hard and grub was high an’ the colors far between, And into the starving miner'd life there widened the streak o' lean! There widened the streak o' poverty when 1l o' the world was blue; When ghovel an’ pam were red with rust, with nothing at all to do; I don't fest savey the why of it—and I reckon I never will— That T somehow falled to appreciate the 'lfl.llh of my pardner, Bill, it's shorely hard to understana the ways ST Heman ot For we grow indifferent-like to gold, the more o' the stuff we find, ‘Twas so_with me; I'd lived o long with old Bill at my side That I never jest knew the worth of him il my pardner up an' dled. 9%k loskin' toward the skies— The light o' new discovery a-shinin’' in his eyes— “I see across the great divide, an' lke a golden flame, I catch the gleam an' glitter of my ever- lasting claim An’ then he died—my pardner Billl Thers warn't no better Bills! An' I know he washes gravel on the ever- iastin’ hille— The golden sand in the Stream o' Life— a hundred to the pan! For the Lord won't play him low down, ‘cause my pardner was & man! For fifty year o' storm an’ sun Bill's blan- ket has been mine; And his friendship never broke a strand, though it siretched from ‘49, He loved me! which the same is mighty comfortin' to me, For I know my pardner's grubstaked for a long eternity! old man!" he says, says he, a- e ——— No Clothing Fits Like Ours “Particularly” those Wool Crash, Homespun, Flannel and Serge Suits at $10, $!5, $18 and $20, Straw Hats, 50c to $15, Brownity- g -5~ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers, R. 8. Wilcox, Mauager. G~