Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 7, 1902, Page 6

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Bubscribed 1 betore me lhll mh (8eal) Revivals are in order, but we can readily spare the revival of the train- robbing Industry. e When a man asks you whether it is warm enough for you, a prompt and vigorous application of the arguments of “Pitehfork” Tillman or Balley would be in order. ———————— President Roosevelt may take a few days off to visit with his family in his Long Island home, but presidents are not among those who are favored with real vacations. Those tax bureau men are on yearly salaries, They may, therefore, be ex- pected to continue grinding out bunco bulletins as long as they think there are gullibles to swallow them. Epe——— The Nebraska state fair is incorporat- ing into its advertisements glowing ref- erence to the “extraordinary agricul tural promise” held up before the state. Unless all signs fail the fair will be a prosperity exhibit. SReE——— Striking employes of the Union Pa< cific at this point have so far made an enviable for orderly behavior. They should see to It that this record 18 not marred by a single lawless act at any stage of their contest. S Now that the rallroad tax bureau has fired all its skyrockets and Roman candles, it would be well for it to come down to brass tacks and face the cor- rect figures and unpalatable facts of rallroad tax shirking and undervalua- tion. e In precipitating a strike in the dull month of July instead of the brisk months of October and November, when crops are moving, President Burt has shown a good deal of cleverness, but the danger is that the strike may be pro- tracted beyond the dog days. Nebraska democrats generously con- cede to their populist allles the fusion nomination for congress in the Sixth district. They argue that the populists would get it, anyway, and then after the nomination is made any fusion can- didate will have to take desperate chances, mT—— A Chicago firm boasts In publie print that It sold 1,758 bottles of its particular brand of fine old whisky on the day be- fore the Fourth to private parties in- tending to spend the day out of town at summer resorts and fishing. No wonder these out-of-town excursions are so pop- ular with Chicago people. The rallroad tax bureau has discov- ered that taxes are being paid on a few miles of branch roads that are being operated at a loss. As If that were anything wonderful. Plenty of people have been losing money on empty build- ings and vacant lots, but the tax bills came regularly, just the same. — The census bureau report of the pack- ing house business of 1899 makes very Interesting reading—only it is nearly three years old and can scarcely be classed with fresh news matter. If the census bureau could be induced to grind oyt its statistics within six months after they are culled this enterprise would not be better appreciated, but would prove of greater value to the student of peolitical economy. ——— ©Our amlable populist contemporary, the Nebraska Independent, frankly admits thiat both sides are confident of success in the coming Nebraska campaign. This is a great concession, coming from that quarter, as the Independent always has the republicans discomfited and discour- aged by the vision of certain defeat even hefore they get fairly started. For it to allow that anyone can be confident of republican victory is almost the same as camseding Lo vielory. iiseld, ¥ INTEREST ON PUBLIC FUSDS. The local republican organ very well un- derstands why the county has not profited by the payment of any Interest on the de- posit balances kept in the banks. Under the law, County Treasurer Elsasser fs not permitted to recelve the rates of Interest which the banks have agreed to pay.— World-Herald. The Bee very well understands why the county has not profited by the pay- ment of any Interest on deposits of county money, although the same baunks are paying 2 per cent on deposits of city money. The reason is that the county treasurer Is content to loan this money out to'the banks without covering any interest for its use into the treasury, and the banks have entered into an unlawful agreement not to pay the rate prescribed by the law. Nobody for a moment belleves, how- ever, that If the county treasurer, with the proper backing of the county at- torney and the other county officials, un- dertook in earnest to compel the banks to pay interest on the deposits they have accepted he would fall to accom- plish his object. A few vigorous measures would soon bring the banks to time. Does anyone imagine that County Treasurer Elsasser would turn this money over to the banks without Interest if the Interest could lawfully be appropriated to his own use, even though the law fixed the minimum rate at 8 per cent, as it does now? If the money to the credit of the county in its balances belonged to the treasurer in his private capacity, we may be sure he would be collecting interest upon it The innuendo of the World-Herald in its question why The Bee has said noth- Ing in condemnation of the republican state treasurer for falling to make re- ports of the state finances, as demanded by the republican platform, is decidedly gratultous. The Bee has not hesitated to condemn State Treasurer Stuefer for his fallure to make these exhibits, but neither has it hesitated to condemn his predecessor, the great reform state treasurer, Mr. Meserve, not only for re- fusing to make exhibits of the money in his possession, but for pocketing Interest upon the public funds to which he had no lawful claim. How does it happen that the World- Herald has had nothing to say in con- demnation of ex-State Treasurer Me- serve for falling to turn back to the school fund the interest earned on school money? Why does not this local popocratic organ waste some of its en- ergy in persuading the late fusion state treasurer to put back Into the school fund the interest money he has pocketed which by rights belongs to the school children of Nebraska? SE— AN ISOLATED LAND. By what is known as the Platt amendment relative to Cuba, the Isle of Pines was not included in the constitu- tional boundaries of the new republic, the title thereto being left to future adjustment by treaty. Oonsequently when the American occupation of Cuba ended it left the people in the Isle of Pines without any form of govern- ment and it is said they are now prac- tically in a state of chaos far as civil order in concerned. For over a month, says a Washington dispatch, they have had no government except such as is exercised by the petty authorities of a little old Spanish town on the south coast of the island. The schools have been closed for want of revenue to con- tinue them and every other public func- tion has been abandoned. The civil af- fairs of the island are at a standstill. The Americans who have gone there have taken up over half the island and are prospering with their farming en- terprise. They believe they have the finest cattle country in the world and are In every way satisfled with their prospects. But they are Isolated so far as their political condition is concerned and the American settlers have appealed to our government to take such actlon as will give them the machinery to govern themselves, in order that they may have roads, schools and other needed public institutions and works. Of course noth- ing could be done until diplomatic rela- tions were established between Cuba and the United States and this having been done the disposition of the Isle of Pines by treaty will doubtless be speed- fly effected. This small plece of insular territory is of no great value or lmpor tance, but it was the opinion of con- gress when the so-called Platt amend- ment was adopted that the island should come under the jurisdiction of the United States and as there is a consid- erable number of Americans among its inhabitants there will probably be no objection on the part of Cuba to giving this country title to the island. It is a peculiar cireumstance that this little spot should have been isolated and left without any form of government when American . authority was withdrawn from Cuba, but it will not continue much longer in this condition. PHILIPPINE CURRENCY SITUATION. Pacification in the Philippines and the establishment of civil government there will certainly be followed by lmprove- ment in industrial and commercial con- ditions, but there is good reason to be- lieve that lmprovement would be more rapid and more substantial if the bill which passed congress had made pro- vision for a change in the currency sys- tem of the islands. The continuance of the existing system threatens to retard the work of development in the archi- pelago and delay that prosperity which is deemed to be so essential to perma- nent peace and popular coutentment, ‘What was urged by the financial and commercial iuterests in the Pbilippines was that the currency system be placed upon a gold standard basis. They wanted the extension of the American currency system to the islands and this was recommended by the Philippine commission and by the special commis- sion sent to investigate tinancial condi- tions in the archipelago. The proposi- tion to do this was incorporated in the bouse bill and most ably advocated by the majority of the committee on in- affairs, but it was stubberaly op- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 7 posed by the senate, with the result that the Philippine currency system was al- lowed to remain unchanged. According to reports from Washington, those who are conversant with present conditions at Manlla predict that within the néxt six months conditions will become so much worse that an absolutely inevita- ble necessity for actlon will be forced upon congress. They say this is the more likely because under the new leg- fslation a great deal of American cap- ital will probably be lnvested in the Philippines and the owners of this eap- ital will demand that business conditions shall be rendered as stable and rellable as possible. It Is stated that the opin- lon is widely prevalent that next winter there will be legislation of some kind on the Philippine currency question and the general belief is that there will be an extension to the islands of the American system. That this 1s the proper thing to do there seems to be not a reasonable doubt. The maintenance of a silver cur- rency in the Philippines Is unquestion- ably necessary. That is admitted on all bands. But there is no sound rea- son why this sllver eurrency cannot be based on the gold standard, as was con- templated’ in the house bill. Such a policy would work no hardship to any interest and would give rellef from the difficulties with which the financial and commercial interests at Manila now contend, necessarily to their disadvan- tage and detriment. The position of the senate in this matter is not easily un- derstood, but there is no doubt that it will have to be abandoned in the near future. The United States Is a gold standard country. Its currency is upon that basis and it should not have a dif- ferent standard in any of its possessions. It can be confidently predicted that the existing Philippine currency system will not be long maintained. A LAST WORD WITH THE SCHOOL BUARD Every member of the Board of Educa- flon assumes a grave responsibility when final action is taken in the choice of school superintendent. The efficiency of the public schools of Omaha depends upon the character and capacity of the man charged with their supervision. Partisanship and personal favoritism should have no place in the selection of the candidate or the retention of the present incumbent. The superintendent of our schools should be not a politiclan, but an edu- cator. He should be above petty schem- ing and intrigue and devote all his tal- ents and time to the task devolving upon him. For several years our public schools have been handicapped and crippled for lack of competent super- vision and intelligent direction because Superintendent Pearse has sought to build himself up through activity In lodges, clubs and organizations outside of the educational field. He has, more- over, scandalized the schools by his no- torious relations with the school book trust that seeks to promote its interests at the expense of the taxpayers and to the detriment of the schools. Coupled with these influences has been the sys- tematic barter of favor or disfavor in the appointment and promotion of teach- ers in ratio to the influence they and their friends wield with school board members. It is a matter of notorlety that Superintendent Pearse does not enjoy the contidence of the majority of the board any more than he does the respect of the teachers who have been terrorized and demoralized by his meth- ods, Under such conditions it is lmnlng that a single member of the board should be willing to go on record in favor of continuing Mr. Pearse In his position for another year. His re-elec- tion would reflect upon the integrity of the board and justly lay it liable to the suspicion that its members either lack the courage to do right or bave become automatons in the hands of salaried subordinates who have pooled issués to keep themselves on the payroll. The proposed re-election of Mr. Pearse could not be justified under any plea. It is not a question of displa ing & capable man to save money. A competent educator at $4,000 or $5,000 a year might earn his salary, while an incompetent man is dear at any price. It is not a question either of unjustly depriving & man of a position without & falr test of his ability and reasonable notice. Mr. Pearse expected to be re- lieved three years ago, when he was pleading for only one year more, and ample time has elapsed to demonstrate his incapacity to meet the requirements of a city of Omaha’s population and ed- ucational aspiration em— Admiral Dewey has certainly fallen from grace with the popocratic papers, which, while counting on playing the Philippine question up high in the com- ing campalgn, have found their whole store of political capital ruined by the admiral's testimony and his destruction of the halo they bad set over the head of Aguinaldo. One Bryanite organ re- fers to the hero of Manila bay as “the most determined follower of Annani and “a worthy successor of Nicholas Machiavelll,” to say nothing of several other equally cholce expressions. The disappointment of the popocrats over Admiral Dewey's statements must be very keen to prompt such defamatory at- tacks. This onslaught, however, Iis printed in the same popocratic paper that denounced the late President Mc- Kinley as “the villain of all the ages," 80 that its ravings will not pass current very far. e——— Among the first requests of King Ed- ward gratified by his attendants was that for permission to have access to the newspapers. The dally newspaper has come to be indispensable to every intelligent person of highest as well lowest rank. Without the newspaper or some means of gaining Information of its contents a man feels cut off from the world and lost in darkness, and no deprivation caused by sickness is more keenly felt. No more natural desire could be manifested by the convalescing king than to be brought again iato close touch with the current of human life through the newspaper as the most serv- iceable medium, —_— Results of the vigorous campalgn for immigration under way in Canada are shown In an officlal report for the year figuring the Increase in settlers for 1002 at over 15,000 more than in 1001. The significant part of the table is that which discloses the source of immigra- tion as between Great Britaln, the United States and continental Burope. Of the 64,634 Canadian settlers recorded for 1902 the Unjted States leads with 24,000, as against 17,000 for Great Britain and 23,535 for all other countries, The United States, moreover, contrib- uted 6,112 of the 15,285 increase, or con- slderably more than & third. It is plain that the Canadian government has set about It In the right way to induce newcomers to settle up its unoccupled territory. Vast areas of the west in our own country are waiting on settle- ment that should be promoted by sim- ilar systematic effort and would bave no difficulty in competing successfully for a large share of the stream of imml- gration now directed principally to Can- ada. Perusal of the platforms promulgated by conventions of various political hues in different states affords striking proof of increasing strength of the demand for the election of United States sen- ators by direct popular vote. Planks to that effect are to be found in quite a number of the declarations for this year, both republican and democratie, whereas a few years ago such a de- mand would be so exceptional as to at- tract special notice. Popular election of United States senators may be retarded, but the people will not stop short of its achievement no matter how long it may be necessary to fight it out along that line. ‘When the story of the steelclad battle- ship Nebraska comes to be written a truthful historian will not omit that at the laying of the first keel the staff of the governor of Nebraska completely out- shone the staff of the governor of Wash- ington in their gorgeous uniforms and superb decorations. And they were colonels, every one of them. Passed Trouble to the Lawyer: Philadelphia Record. In view of the showers of injunction and other legal proceeding of which the Beef trust is the object it appears to be doing remarkably well. They Keep it Dark. Philadelphia Ledger. A man arrested at the White House as a crank declares that he has ‘‘the power of telling where Uncle Sam is belng robbed.” There are lots of that kind of cranks in Washington, but they are shrewd enough to keep quiet about it. Valug of Good Roads. New York Press, The New Jersey commissioner of public roads authorizes the statement that there are several reglons under his supervision to which improved roads have been pri- marily, the means of attracting wealth to the extent of from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000. The Alien and the Native. Detroit Free Pres: ot 573 pe charged with commit- ting offenses against the federal stat- utes last year, 413 were of American birth. This ought to interest the persons that are eternally worrylng about {he demoral- izing forelgn elements in our population. Searcity of Farmhands. New York Tribune. The demand for laborers on western farms 1s now urgent, and the pay offered is excellent. It s deplorable that idle men in congested districts cannot be trans- ported in great numbers to the agricultural districts, where they are so much needed. ‘Washington Post. ‘Whether or not Mr. Bryan was a bolter when he entered the Chicago conventioh of 1806 is not a matter of great moment, since he was a good enough democrat to be twice nominated for the presidency by that party. But it s generally understood that after the Hon. Charles T. O'Ferrall, a gold democrat, had been nominated by the Virginia demo- crats for governor a year or two before the Chicago convention, Mr. Bryan promised to stump the state for a populist candidate ainst O'Ferrall, The Nebr: some difficulty dissuaded from carrylng out that plan. This statement has been made by ex-Governor O'Ferrall, and its accuracy bas not been questioned 1 Ph Kansas City Star. General Chaffee, whose position as mili- tary governor of the Philippines has been discontinued by the proclamation of the president making civil rule in the Philip- pines supreme, has given conspicuously able service, and presumably he will be con- tinued at the head of the insular army, pro- vided he d to remain in that posttion. General Chaffee has displayed a high order of executive ability and bas also reinforced his reputation as a commander. His fine, soldierly qualities have endeared him to the rank and flle in and out of the army. Not the least of his merits as a factor in bring- ing about order in the Philippines has been his frankness in estimating the weakness and unreliability of the average Fillpino, Cleveland Leader. It takes so long to bring cattle to the best age for fattening that the effect of more and cheaper corn upon the supply and price of beeves must be felt very gradually and Indirectly. Meanwhile the population will be increasing, and if prosperity shall con- tinue the general scale of living will rise so that any fall In prices of such a staple as beet will be less certain than it would bave been a few years ago, under similar condi- tions. Broadly speaking, and ignoring tem- porary changes in the markets, this country is passing into a period of more costly ani- mal food of nearly all kinds. That ten- dency may be checked, now and then, but it will continue as an undercurrent of eco- nomlc changes. e Rio Grande. Modern Mexico Americans bave little patience with for- eigners who attempt either to visit or to o business in the United States without a knowledge of Englieh. This fact makes it m all the stranger that Americans should come to Mexico and not fully realize that in this country it is equally incumbent upon them to know Spanish. Mexico welcomes travelers of all nation: and nowhere in the world will bad Spanish be received with such careful politeness. It excueabib, then, that scenes oc scted here should occur, in which Ameri- cans are heard saylng very unkind things because some native hackdriver or police- man or walter does not understand Eng- lish, notwithstandfng the fact that orders are delivered in tomes comsiderably abovi the conversational pitch. lnnn! THE REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Benkelman News: It was clearly demon- strated by the Lincoln convention that the republicans are not to be bulldozed and bul- 1ied by corperations nor managed by a slate. Honesty prevails in our party and it etood against every political combine till the right man was brought forward, then the conven- tion went over to Mickey In a headlong rush. Bayard Transcript: The republican state nominees are good men and true. This is & republican year everywhere and the re- publican candidates from governor to con- gressmen will be elected, as they should be in Nebraska. Fusionists of the demo- popocratic brand will not be in it. Cheyenne county republicans will give a good account of themselves In November. Héldrefe Citizen: The republican state ticket gives evident satisfaction to the re- publican voters and a vigorous and united effort should be made by Phelps county republicans to give it even stronger en- dorsement than was given the republican ticket last fall. Fusion as exemplified in Nebraska means a combination of political parties, at the sacrifice of principle, for the purpose of obtaining office. Falls City Journal: It fs amusing to watch the opposition in the frantic efforts to find something upon which to base a fight against J. H. Mickey. It le evident from the very tone of their expressions that they realize that they are up against the real thing. The statement that Mickey is an up- right and honorable man is one that will not admit of successful contradiction, and Do one realizes that more fully than the Nebraska fusionists. Scotts Bluff Republican: 0. B. Brown, who llves east of town, is well pleased with the nomination of J. H. Mickey for governor, having known him for years. A man who has the endorsement of Mr. Brown must be all right, else he would not say so. Thousands of other good men endorse him and say the republican party could not have found a better or cleaner man. With the support of such men as Mr. Brown, he s sure to win. Geneva Signal: The ticket is in many respects one of the strongest ever momli- nated by the republicans of Nebraska. Sev- eral of the candidates are already serving first terms in a highly satisfactory manner. The several candidates will be discussed in- dividually as the campalgn progresses. It 18 a little early yet to worry too much about politics and the republicans of this county ought doubtless to be allowed to recover somewhat from thelr spring slege. North Platte Tribune: Not for a numebr of years has a republican ticket been so strongly and unanimously endorsed as the one which the voters are asked to support next fall.* There is not a candidate on the ticket who will need a defense; not one for whom an excuse s necessary. It is a ticket of which every republican may well teel proud, and one which appeals strongly to all Wwho want the affairs of state transacted in a fair, competent, business-like manner. Wayne Republican: The ticket nomi- nated by the republican state conven- tion is an unusually strong one. Especlally is this true in regard to the nomination of John H. Mickey for governor. The nomi- nee is & man of most excellent qualifica- tions, thoroughly fitted to flll the position with credit to the state and honor to the party he represents, a man who will not be puffed up by being nominated to the position, but will recognize each and every citizen the same every other citizen. Mr. Mickey is a farmer, a banker, an old soldfer and a ploneer of Nebraska and his election is just as sure it is that the sun rises in the mornin, —_—— PERSONAL NOTE:! Cincinnatus was twice called from his plow to lead a Roman army. Cronje has @ecided that once will be about enough for him. Even it King Edward makes the improve- ment hoped for, some of those coronation gowns are likely to get a little out of before the great event comes off. Stephen Sinding, the Norweglan sculptor, has completed two groups of casts for the Sherman statue to be erected in Washing- ton. These groups are allegorical, repre- senting war and peac There were two Richardsons—one from Alabama and the other from Tennessee— in the house last session and they were constantly being mixed by Inexperienced correspondents, the Tennessee man getting a great deal of credit which belonged to his colleague of the same name. The latter, In view of his own experience, had much sympathy for the four Smiths ia the house. A member of Parliament is said to Be eirculating about the London clubs & type- written copy of an epitaph, which he solemnly declares fs intended for John Plerpont Morgan, and should be taken by him as a warning not to push his world- grabbing enterprise too far. The epitaph is as follows “Here lles his head at last upon this eart He now belongs to what he made his ow: He bought the world for what he thought it worth, And God once wore is running things alone!" N. Chew, a second deputy auditor in the Postoffice department, Washington, does little but sign his name for about ejght hours every day. It is sald that he o his appointment largely to his having a signature containing but five letters and that can be written with great rapidity. Somebody sent Semator Burrows a blg bunch of roses one day recently and he had them taken to his committee room. The senator refused to tell who sent the flowers, saying mysteriously: “They are from an admiring friend. A colleague raised a roar of laughter by remarkin “Oh, bought them yourself, eh?" FINE FIGURES FOR STUDY, Marvelous Advance in Values During the Last Eight Years. Boston Transcript. Analysis of the semi-annual interest and dividend payments on public securities shows Interesting contrast with the panic years, less than a decade ago. Here are some striking fgures: Par value of bonds paying Interest in July, 1902, $3,651,000,000; par value of bonds which paid interest in July, 1894, the year after the panic, $2,444,000,000; elght years' increase in par value of bonds paying $1,207,000,000, or 50 per cent. These bon pay in July, 1902, $71,264,000, agalnst §5t 268,000 elght years ago; increase, $21,000,- 000, or 42 per cent. Par value of stocks paying dividends in July, 1902, $1,874,000,000, against in July, 1894, $870,000,000; increase, $1,004,000,000, or 115 per cent. Amount pald in dividends July, 1902, $48,752,000, sgainst $19,884,000 eight years ago; increase, $23,868,000, or 121 per cent. Total par value of public securities pay- ing interest and dividends July, 1902, $i 625,000,000, against in July, 1894, $3,314,- 000,000; increase, $2,211,000,000, or 66% per cent. Total of interest and dividends paid July, 1903, $115,000,000, against $70,000,000; increase in elght years, $45,000,000, or 64 per cent. In elght years there is 663 per cent in amount of invested capital in railways, mines, manufacturing, bank, industrial and other stocks and bonds which pays in- terest and dividends to Investors, and the latter recelve practically as much more now than they did then. Two-thirds as much more earned and paid in only eight Let Dominle Sampsos furnish the comment, “Prodigiousl" ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Carrent of Life in the Metropolts. John M. Burke, a hachelor merchant of New York, has transterred $4,000,000 of his real and personal estate to a corpora- tlon for the help of worthy men and women who may be In need thfough sickness. His idea is not that of cold charity, but rather a means of help for worthy persons temporarily In financial straits. The deed of gift provides: “The directors of the foundation shall establish a thorough, care- ful and kindly system for choosing as beneficiaries men and women who beyond all reasonable doubt are within the pur- poses described In the trust deed, but the founder, appreclating the frequent suffer- ing caused by tardy action in giving rellef, urges that the methods to be used, so far as they are consistent with propriety, shall be as expeditious as possible. * * ¢ In carrylng into effect the objects specified the instrumentality of other charitable and philanthropic organizations may be availed of by the trustees, and arrangements may be made with the city of New York for the care of malignant cases either by the erection of suitable bulldings or by assum- ing the cost of treatment in such cases.” Mr. Burke wants to see the Institution soundly established and well under way on its mission of philanthropy while he still lives. His charity is especially designed for persons discharged from hospitals as cured, but still too weak at once to re- sume thelr usual avocations. Dr. George T. Stewart of Bellevue hospital says that tully 5 per cent of all persons diecharged from public hospitals are worthy and yet in need of help. The city makes no pr vision for these convalescents. Mr. Burke's charity will, therefore, meet the wants of this large class of people now unprovided for. Mr. Burke celebrated his 80th birth- day last week. Although a millionaire, he lives with the simplicity of a man of mod- erate income, In the '70s of the last century what a dull monotony of ugly “brownstone fronts" was seen In block after block of Fifth ave- nue and the cross etreets between Wash- fngton square and Central park! What a transformation has been wrought since then and how extensive are the changes now In progress! The varlety in the de- signe of the bufldings constructed in Man- hattan within twenty-five years impresses every New Yorker and every visitor to the city. The old order changes, giving place to new. The Low city administration is now turn- ing its attention to the matter of street light- ing and has discovered that a monopoly practically holds control of the lighting of New York. The commissioner of water sup- ply, gas and electricity makes the an- nouncement. ‘‘The city of New York," he says, “pays to the gas and electric light companles for lighting its etreets, high- ways, parks, other public places and pub- lc buildings more than $3,000,000 per an- n nfortunately, under existing business conditions the city is subject to monopoly rates in awarding these contracts, for there s no genuine competition for bids.” He names the compantes that can possibly sup- ply the demand and adds that they ‘“are without rivals in their particular fleld and the city is forced to pay whatever price these corporatione decide to carge it.” About a month ago a ragged little girl, about 9 years old, was caught by a po- liceman in the act of stealing flowers from Central park, right across the way from a block of houses of exceedingly rich peo- ple. The little girl was just helping her- selt to the flowers in one of the park flower beds, nor 4id she appear to make any effort to evade the eye of the cop. When the officer grabbed the young one she began to cry piteously, clinging tightly to her stolen flowers all the time. She didn't know that she was doing anything wrong, she said. She told the policeman that she was taking the flowers for a little sick girl friend, and she begged hard to be al- lowed to take the blossoms to the sick child before being conveyed to the police statlon. Her walllngs were so plercing that they attracted the attention of several wealthy and sympatbetic women who had observed the incident from the windows of thelr homes across the way from the park. The women appeared on the scene in time to listen to the child's story. Thelr intercessions with the policeman were so effectual that he released the child. Then the women asked the child to take thein to the bedside of the sick child. The young one with the flowers unhesitatingly did so, her alleged sick girl friend being found In bed In an East Side temement. The wealthy women promptly took up a collec- tion among themselves, with the result that the child who had been caught stealing the park flowers was made pretty nearly $100 better off, the money being handed over to her mother, who clalmed to be a hard- working washerwoman. The little girl al- leged to be Il was also liberally taken care of. Three days later the same little flower thief played her game again at & point far- ther up, and she got away with it this time, too, with equal financlal success, so the police say. Another bunch of wealthy and gympathetic women appeared and got her ot of the policeman’s clutches, and opened their purses generously when the #irl led them to the bedside of her sick” girl friend. Then the child with the knowing scheme got to crowding her flower-stealing dates a bit too close, al- though she contrived to work her dodge with vast success until last week, when a roundsman who had seen her do it once before nabbed her and took her to the eta- tion. The police say that the child's mother profited to the extent of nearly $500 through the crafty young one's sympathy- tnciting scheme. GOING AGAINST THE REAL THING. me to “Down’ Union Telegraph Com Chicago Chronicl Western v. That the Western Union Telegraph com- pany will be “downed” even by such finan- cial strategists as J. Plerpont Morgan and “Jim" Keene 18 & contingency that does not appear at all certain to people who have some familiarity with the history of that organization. The Western Unlon is probably the old- est example—in this country at least—ot the now fashionable policy of consolidating interests. In the case of the Western Union the lamb has always laid down in- side the lion, but the purpost of keeping the telegraph business of the country ua- der one management was successfully maintained until Messrs. Mackay and Ben- nett organized the Postal company. Prior to that time the Western Union had ab- sorbed all its rivals, one after another— usually to the financial advantage of the stockholders of the competing concerns It used to be a profitable speculation, starting opposition for the Western Union to buy. The United States company was the first opposition of any consequence to euter tho fleld. The Western Union reached out and took it in about 1865. The Pacific and At- lantie was absorbed in 1572. The Atlantic and Pacific—a different aud stronger or- ganization—lasted until about 1878. In 1880 the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tele- graph system was amplified and enlarged by Jay Gould, who used it to fight the Western Ucion. He succeeded in gett control of that organization, but it the Western Union which absorbed the Baltimore & Ohlo—not the other way. Then came a lot of small concerns—the American Rapld, the Franklin, the Bankers' and Merchants' and similar telegraph en- terprises, all of them assimilated, more or less benevolently, by the Western Unfon. It is probable that, in the last forty years, the Western Unlon bas taken In two-score telegraph companies—some of them opposition, some of them subsidiary. Its only fallure has been with respect to the Postal. That very formidable institu- tion probably is not for sale. But while the Western Unlon has been unsuccessful in buying off or fighting oft the competition of the Postal compaay, it by no means follows that another opposi- tion company can do business successtully, much le: run the Western Union out. Whatever may be its faults and weake nesses, the older organization has the ad- vantage of being intrenched in railroad systems and rights of way all over the country. It has the old heads of the tel graph business in its management. It ha the prestige of age, name and reputation. The contemplated opposition may win, but it will have to met up early in the morning in order to vanquish the concern that bas been swallowing opposition com- panies for almost half a century. BEYOND TRUMP OF RESURRECTION. Democracy's Retired Prophet, as Viewed from Af: Portland Oregonian. The language of Bryan concerning the recent speeches of ex-President Cleveland and David B. Hill is entirely free from ambiguity. Mr. Bryan may not be a demo- cratic statesman of historlc worth, but he s at present a very vigorous, alert and pugnacious political figure, and he has a very large following among the demo- populists of the south and southwest. He does not propose to be “turned down" without his consent, and he makes it very clear that he will never comsent to be turned down to please Grover Cleveland or David B. Hill. Any plan for the restoras tion of the democracy to the harmony and health prefigured by Cleveland and Hill will dle in its birth it Mr. Bryan ts not con- sulted and deferred to. Cleveland's talk about “the democracy of Tilden" s absurd. The democracy of Tilden has been obsolete for ten years in the south and west; it has been replaced by demo-populism, which still prevails in this reglon, where Bryan's views through his paper have a thousand readers and admirers where the views of Cleveland and Hill have one. This may seem dispiriting news to the kid-glove democracy of the North Atlantic states, but it 1s the truth. Mr. Bryan does not intend to be snuffed out, he proposes to be consulted and re- spected In the deliberations concerning the future of the democratic party, and it he is not he will be sure to make the party caldron bubble with plenty of toll and trouble, for while it is pcssible for the organizing and reforming statesmen of the North Atlantic states to refuse him a chance to make a spoon, they are not strong enough to prevent him from spoll- ing the horn. Mr. Bryan is the only man in the democratic ranks today who has an appreciable followjng at the middle west, southwest or south. He is an attractive orator; his newspaper has a large circula- tion; he is a man of energy, shrewdness and vindictiveness. He has not forgotten that Cleveland, Hill and Gorman have never lost a chance to defeat him, and he will not suffer any man of their cult to be nominated in 1904, or, failing In this, he will secure thelr candidate’s defeat. Bryan is determined to be distinctly recognized and a man with at least a million of voters at his back is pretty sure of recognition. Napoleon told Talleyrand when he said Burope would not permit him to march against Moscow: “Bah! REurope is the mistress of any man who has 500,000 men at his back. Cleveland’s vague, ore rotundo ventuosi- tles count for nothing against the plain, dirept, purposeful speech of Bryan. Cleve- land is as venerable and vacuous an orator as Tom Hood's fruit vendor stalking solemnly through the streets of Stamboul crying, “In the name of the prophet, figs!"™ PLEASANTLY POINTED. Chicago Tribun 1. maid the neighbor, “worrles death with his somnambu “You ought to goid Mrs. Lageiing. it some day. Philadelphia Pres ‘Of course” sald the promoter of the {u -rich-quick com- e can only glve the prospective boy Sammy," me almost to take It away {rom him “He'll kill himself with s in round numbe: AD, yes.” "Feplied. the victim, they couldn’'t possibly be square. Chicago Posi “because “Have you read much sbout the historical character you intend roduce?’ they asked of the novelist, "Lennlnly not,” ‘she re led. “I'm afraid it would spoil the novel. Detrolt Fre is the place? lud ‘one of another. “Cert,” was the re you sure this sperate burglar reply. “Didn't I see him buy the roast of beef in the mark and didn't 1 follow him home and never let him out o' my sight a minute?"” Philadelphia Record: Nell—I never knew such an_inquisitive girl as Maude. Belle—That's rixht. If she had & family tree I dare say it would be a rubber plant. Indianapolls New: ‘Stop! Don't fight boys! Can't we arbitrate this thin ed one of the bystanders. “Yes, sir,” panted the fellow who was on T soon as I've blacked his er ey Cleveland Plain Dealer: “I see that the mbassadors of Germany, Austria _and Ttaly have come together and again fixed up their little drefbund arrangement.' 1 joss, they bad to adiourn - tre- beer.” otl “To pre\ ent the proceedings from getting too drel.’ Hrwkhn e e g have tried every- “Not only that, Chicago Tribune: taken this medicine,” sald the physician, “glve yourseif a hot water bath and go to bed at but she has money.” fter you ha: on Y Gosh, doc!” exclatmed the shagey mmd patient.” “Can’'t you make it a mus laster or sumthin’ like thet? I aiways ftch cold when I take a bath!" THE MAN WHO LOVES A JOKE, Minneapolls Times. Though his pedigree he painted ‘Scutcheonless of prince or peer, Though he boast no kin sainted Btretching stately in his rear, Though his funds be slow and slender, "Like of clothes and col broke, All ‘my seruples I surrende To the man who loves a joke, Mark not I his lore nor livin Count I not his tongue nor creed, 8in and shadow all forgliving, Bow 1 gladly to his need, Friends and fathers ranged before me, Clodded head and heart of oak, 1 will give them all that bore me, For one man who loves & joke. Fiaunt his banners fore or after, battles lost or won, Kindly connoasear of laughter, Just philosopher of fun, Lightiler shall beat the bre [ightlier rest the human yol On _the happy co-partaker ‘With the man who loves a joke. Brother to the world around him Fellow with the clod and h and low allke shall sound him or the comfort of r Shurer of Life's 3oy and KOTTOW, Bearer of the erring stroke, Hopeful of the fairer morrow: Lives the man who loves & joks. Clearer syed and broader butlded, Kindller toward his human kind, Vision keen nor fancy-giided, Open heart with ‘open mind, Sell-esteaming, et denying, loak, se! 1 i -pcnd Ty lite relyi On the man whe loves &