Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1902, Page 6

[:] THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF $UBSCRIPTION, Dally Bee (without Sanday), One Year. Daily Bee and Sundag, One Year. . lliustrated Bee, One Year. Bunday Bee, Onhe Year Baturday Bee, One Year. Twentleth Century Farmer, One Yea DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy Patly Bes (without Sunday), per week ally Bee (including Bunday), per wee Bunday Bee, per eopy.. . Evening Bee (without Bun Evenin; week 3 * Comp of gul should be addressed to City Department. OrFICES. Omaha—The Beg Buliding, South Omana—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Afth and M Streets. Council Blufts—10 Pear] Street., Chicago—i6w Unity Bullding. New York—Temple Court. ‘Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances ghould be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, yable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 3-cent stamps accepted in payment ot mail accounts, ~Fersons ke, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not ac THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. in delivery Circulgtion STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nepraska, Douglas Couty, sa. George B. Tuschuck, secretary of The Bes ing Company, being duly sworn sayn that the actual number of full and omplete coples of The Dally, Morning, vening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of June, 1902, was as follows: Total ... Less unsold and returned copies GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in_my presence and sworn to before me this 0th A. D., 1902. (Beal.) HUNGATE, ’ Notary Publle. Nebraska sofl can take more rain and more sun without evil effects than that of any other state. Governor Bavage should hurry home to pour oll on the troubled waters of his oll inspection brigade. Notice to visiting base ball players: Keep at a safe distance from the umpire when cavorting on the Omaha dlamond. The Civie Federation will try again to see If 1t can devise a plan for settling the miners’ strike. Persistence may yet find the way. The Bee has alwapys conceded that Buperintendent Pearse ranked far higher as a political wire puller than as an educator, g eE——— It turns out that Towa beats all the states in the number of rural free de- livery routes it has corralled. Iowa takes a back seat for none. King Ak-Sar-Ben to President Roose- velt: Come to my coronation and I will guarantee you one of the best enter- talnments ever set before you. According to the calendar, the Par- islan fetes next week commemorating the o ing of the Bastile offer the mext outlet for patriotic ebullition. e ‘When inclined to become restless under the recent rains, just recall the protracted heat and drouth that we were suffering during the month of July of last year. A Too bad the law does not permit members of the Board of Education to distribute the election of officers and employes so that they might have a free lunch after each meeting. W _ - President Gompers of the National Federation of Labor satisfied himself of one thing while in Omaha—that Omaha has as intelligent a body of wage work- ers as are to be found anywhere in the United States. Oklahoma s making a serious mis- take In trying to get notoriety through stories of menacing volcanoes at a time when it Is knocking at the door for ad- mission into the union as a state. The volcano route to statehood has not yet become popular. The re-election of Mr. Pearse as su- perintendent of schools should be fol- lowed by a reconsideration of the proposition for another teachers’ lecture course next year. The_teachers will not dare go agalnst It agaln when brought to amother vots et Hogs have made another . topnotch price on the South Omaba market. It will take a plausible talker to make the farmers believe that they are not shar- ing in the prosperity that has enveloped the country since republican policies were restored in the nation. ] J. Plerpont Morgan is sald to have put his tlae In Berlin entirely at in- #pecting museums and looking over pal- aces. Our German friends may make ready for a proposition to syndicate thetr publie buildings and contents and manage them through a trust. The announcement is made that the fuslon state committees will meet next week to select’“a working chairman.” The chalrman will have to work over- time through more than one campaign 1€ he expects to keep the fusion candl- dates out from under the landslide. : — Cord 1 ‘also’ making ‘a try tor' high- water ‘murk, but'the ehapces are that the peice gaunot stay vp. As S00n the cornfields of Nebraska, lowa and Kansas give assurance of the goldea barvest the quotations will settle down 1o ‘& point fxed by the nermal supply, PHILIPPINE POLICY AS AN ISSUE. Benator Vest of Missour! sald In a recent interview that “It is useless to protest against the Philippine policy now,” yet it is the Intention of the democratic congressional campalgn managers to keep this subject before the people. For this purpose they will send broadeast hundréds of thousands of the speeches delivered in congress against the Phillippine policy of the government and doubtless democratic orators everywhere will thresh over this straw during the progress of the cam- paign. The republicans will be very well sat- isfled to have thelr opponents make this an lssue. The Philippine policy has been successful. The civilized people of the island are satisfled and have accepted American sovereignty. Clvil government has been established and I8 in satisfactory operation. The mill- tary autbority is subordinated to the civil-and the army in the archipelago is to be further reduced. The legislation passed by congress provides for giving the Filipinos, as soon as practicable, a large participation in thie government of the islands. It also makes provision for public improvements, for increas- ing educational facilities and for In- dustrial development. That legislation extended to the people of the Philippines most of the rights enjoyed by our own citizens. It carries the principles of republican government Into the Orfent. The Filipinos are given opportunities for improving thelr condition they have never before had and this is under- stood and appreciated by the more In- telligent of them. They will have peace and order, they will have schools and sanitation, they will have protection to life and property and a proper adminis- tration of justice. Above all they will learn the lesson of true liberty—of lib- erty restrained by law—and if they shall be loyal and faithful to the gov- ernment the time may come when they will be given independence. The republican party, therefore, will be found ready to defend its policy in the Philippines. It Is a successful pol- icy that gives assurance of the highest beefits to the Filipino people. It will in a few years work a regeneration, it is not to be doubted, that will most amply vindicate it. The people of Porto Rico are entirely contented with being under American rule. Their condition was never more satisfactory than now. Why may not similar results come to the Filipinos? Why may it not rea- sonably be expected that they also will, under the improved conditions certain to follow peace, become contented with American rule? It has cost heavily in men and money to accomplish what has been done and the American people will not consent to the relinquishment of anything we have achleved. They will insist that the Philippine archipelago shall be retained and governed by the United States at least until such time as the people are qualified for self-gov- ernment. This I8 unquestionably the overwhelming popular sentiment today and we do not believe it can be weak- ened by any efforts of the opponents of the Philippine policy of the republican party. SEe— SAMPLE OF CHEAP DEMAGUGY. Republican government in cities has re- sulted in the most abominable corruption ever known to mankind. We have onlv to take a glance at Philadelphia, St. Louls and Minneapolis to be assured that this statement is true.—Nebraska Independent. This is a sample of the cheap dema- gogy by which popocratic organs seek to make political capital. They would have their readers belleve that the only in- stances of corruption in municipal gov- ernment exposed to light are to be found in cities where republicans are in con- trol. They cite Philadelphia, St. Louls and Minneapolis, but are careful not to mention New York, Chicago and other cities where similar disclosures of cor- ruption have been repeatedly made un- der democratic administrations. ‘While pointing to the upheaval in Min- neapolis, they are careful also to cover up the fact that the beclouded mayor was elected originally as a democrat and that the democrats are primarily respon- sible for him, although having bullt him- self up by democratic ald he has since professed to be a republican. Further- more, if we remember correctly, Mayor Ames was foisted on the republicans of Minneapolis as their candidate last time by democrats who took advantage of a loophole in the Minnesota primary elec- tion law to cast thelr votes at the repub- lican primaries and determine the iden- tity of the republican candidate. When it comes to responsibility for the corrup- tion of Minneapolis the democrats of that city will have to bear the chief brunt. A survey of the records shows that honesty and dishonesty are not monopo- lized by any political party. The Ameri- can people are too intelligent to be de- celved by such partisan clap-trap as that we Lave cited. RE-ELECTION OF PEARSE. By again loading the schools of Omaha down with Carroll G. Pearse juperin- tendent, the Board of Education has ex- hibited a singular disregard for the vital interests of our public school system and the welfare of the children who must get their education in the pablic schools. The retention of Mr. Pearse simply means the continued degradation of the teaching force under Incompetent super- vision. It means the subjéction of the schools to Influences outside the educational fleld. It means the continuation of the prac- tice of barter and trade of favor for ap- pointments and promotions by which the pay rolls have been weighted with rela- tives and attaches of school board mem- bers and other people possessed of a pull. The Bee is confident that after they once fully realize them the people of Omaba will not tolerate these conditions a moment longer than necessary. The true friends of the schools who want their standard raised and their efficiency improved “will net be rebuffed by the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1902. subserviency of the present board to the combine of salaried employes. They will continue their efforts until the man agement of the schools is placed in the hands of educators of standing and real ability. WILL URGE TRUST LEGISLATION. It appears that President Roosevelt is very much in earnest regarding leg- islation for the supervision and regula tion of corporations doing an interstate business. It was stated a few days ago that he had been In consultation with Representative Littlefield of Malne, one of the ablest lawyers in congress, whom he had invited to prepare a bill for the regulation of the combinations to be introduced in congress with the endorse- ment and influence of the president back of it. It Is now reported that Mr. Little- fleld Is engaged in drafting a measure and will shortly have a conference with Mr. Roosevelt respecting it. This evidence of the earnest desire of the president to have enacted legisla- tion for carrying out the views he ex- pressed in his first message to congress and bas repeated several times since, ought to remove any doubt that may exist as to the president's sincerity in the matter, as well as silence all those who would discredit his utterances. Mr. Roosevelt has, very clearly defined his position respecting national supervision and regulation of the great industrial combinations and nowhere more ex- plicitly than in his Pittsburg address. He does not propose a war of extermina- tion against the combinations. He does not propose reckless and revolutionary measures that would result In general injury to the business of the country. What he desires is reasonable and prac- ticable legislation that will remedy the evils and abuses now complained of, protect the interests of the public and not interfere with industrial progress and prosperity. That is a policy which will have the approval of all rational people. Mr. Littlefield has shown a great deal of interest in this matter and it may confidently be expected that he wliil frame a bill, with the assistance of the president and Attorney General Kuox, which will meet the requirements of the situation. WISCONSIN KEPUBLICANS. There is apprehension that the fae- tional strife among the Wisconsin re- publicans may result in the retirement of United States Senator Spooner, whose term expires with the present congress. Some two years ago the sen- ator announced that he should not be a candidate for re-election, but his friends in Wisconsin and republicans very gen- erally feel that he ought to remain in the senate and it is understood that he is now disposed to do so, though prob- ably he will make no great effort for re- election. This should not be necessary. Mr, Spooner is one of the ablest and most valuable men in the national senate. He has in a high degree the qualifica- tions of the statesman and there Is not in public life an abler exponent or de- fender of republican principles. Hardly any great question that has come up since the beginning of the Spanish war has been disposed of without his active and usually controlling direction and support. He has consequently attained national distinction and has been looked to by the leaders of his party and by both Presidents McKinley and Roose- velt for counsel and guidance. Upon him have largely devolved in the senate the responsibilities of leadership as the representative of the administration and his party. The retirement of Senator Spooner would be a distinct loss to the senate and would be greatly regretted by republicans throughout the country The party in Wisconsin cannot afford to dispense with the valuable services of John C. Bpooner and it will not if it consults the wishes of the party gen- erally, The summary of rural free mail de- livery compiled by the postal authori- ties discloses a remarkable expansion of that branch of the postoffice. Although the first experiments were made less than six years ago, 9,461 rural mail routes are now in operation, supplying mail daily to the people residing in the adjacent vicinity. If each of these routes accommodated only 100 families it would mean nearly 1,000,000 families brought into direet contact with the business world by mail facilities and five or six times that number of indl- vidual persons. The time will come when the farmer will feel lost without his daily mail service just as much as the city business man. s Senator Beveridge volunteers to re- lieve the political atmosphere by in- forming the public that he is not a can- didate for the vice presidency on the republican ticket of 1004. It is to be presumed that Senator Balley will feel better at this assurance that the sen- ator from Indiana will not seek promo- tion to the position of presiding officer of the upper house. e It is a cold day when the deputy United States marshals cannot find a few bootleggers selling firewater to In- dians on the reservation to make a show of keeping themselves busy and piling up mileage charges against Uncle Sam. Without this business the rallroad be- tween Omaha and the reservation might have to go back to twice-a-week trains. Coronation in August would bring the event right into the most uncomfortable part of the London summer seasor. ‘The only object In having It at that time would be to hold the visitors from forelgn countries, who would hardly be expected to return in such numbers at a later date. But then one must make hay while the sun shines. If they are mot careful the rallroad tax bureaucrats will prove too much. They are strenuously exerting them- selves to show that the railroads of Nebraska are flagrantly overtaxed, not- withstanding fue Lact that the tax bureau officials have all along them- selves made the rallroad assessment and had it O. K'd by subservient assessment boards, both republican and popocratic. If it were true that the railroads have been overtaxed the blame will be traced right back to the tax bureau. As a matter of fact, however, the bunco game is intended to fool only the people and not the rallroad managers. Detrolt Free Press. Of 22,022 bills and joint resolutions in- troduced at the recent session of congress, 1,603 were passed. The country owes a great deal to & congress that did not pass the other 20,519, Hailsto 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. . There has been in Nebraska a fall of pleces of lce so large that they are pro- nounced “unworthy of the name of hall- stones.” But 1s it to be inferred that they were bigger than the eggs of the great auk? Labor Gets a Dividend. Indlanapolls News. No wonder the United States Steel Cor- poration voluntarily increased the wages of its employes. Its quarterly statement shows earnings of nearly $40,000,000, an increase of over $11,000,000, as compared with the same quarter last year. No Returm on Investment. Chicago Record-Herald. It seems that most of the cities of Ohlo have been governed contrary to the provis- fons of the constitution during the past ten or fifteen years. It isn't likely, however, that the people will be able to get back any of the money pald out to the office- holders. Foot 11 of Folly. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Long before China wipes out the prin- cipal of the indemnity of 450,000,000 taels, upon which $8,013,600 of inte has re- cently fallen due, she will realize that it would have been much cheaper to have boxed the Boxers in the early stages of their frenzy. Eleme: of Fame. New ¥ork Tribune. Here s a definition of fame given by ex- Speaker Reed at the Bowdoin commence- ment dinner: ‘“Fame,” he, “is largely a matter of accident. Being in the right place at the right time, and doing the right thing, or, better still, making people think there is to fame.” much in effectiveness when “fame” is pro- nounced with the ex-speaker's well known drawl. Hope Renew: Refreshed. Philadelphia North American, One ray of light plerces the lowering clouds of trust domination. Mr. Morgan has denounced poker as a dishonest and wholly undesirable institution, So we need not fear a poker trust, anyway. No one could derive any ehjoyment from & game when he was haunted by the fear that at any time his modest stacks of chips might be swept into the rapaclous maw of the poker octopus. If Mr. Mo would only disclaim any intention of absorbing the ping pong interests the nation would take another long breath and press onward with renewed hope. Malevolent Gossip Philadelphia Record. Now thiat Kihg Bdward’s physicians have pronounced their patient to be out of dan- ger the tradens in unfounded rumors con- cerning bis majesty’s health may be obliged to shut off the current of their malevolent gossip. As long as lying pays there will bo found persons mean enough to circulate prevarications regardless of the pain they give to those mear to the subject of their base Inuation: An afirmation by the greatest medical authorities in England of King Edward's assured recovery should, however, reduce the price of their inven- tions to & point which would make the game of the sensationallsts mot worth the candle. t om. The Marriage of the Leaves. John Ruskin. You will fipd that, in fact, all plants are composed of essentially two parts—the leat and root—one loving the light, the other darkness; one liking to be clean, the other dirty; ene liking to grow for the most part up, the other for the mast part down, and each having faculties and purposes of its own, But the pure one, which loves the light, has, above all thingh, the purpose of being married to another leaf and having child leaves, and children’s children of leaves, to make the earth fair forever. And when the leaves marry they put on wed- ding robes, and are more gorgeous than Solomon in all his glory, and they have of honey, and we call them “Flow- DEMOCRACY’S THREE ISSUES, Tanglefoot Policies Which Will Pave the Way to Defeat. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Ostensibly the democracy will have three issues in the congressional canvass of 1902, Some of their leaders, that is to say, are urging the party to make a fight on trusts, imperialism and tariff reform. Ex-Presi- dent Cleveland favored tariff reform in his great harmony speech at the Tilden club dinner, but nobody has been able to find that the recommendation has aroused any enthuslasm except among the democratic enemies of tthe ex-president, who cast de- rision upon him for his tariff record, as they do for everything else which he h sald or dome. Cleveland skipped imperial- ism, but some of the other democratic mag- nates pretend they want that for an lssue. Trustism, of course; will come in for as- sault In the canv On all these issues the democracy can be easily beaten. On the tariff reform there is no approach to harmony among the demo- crats. It is certain that the country is ot seeking any tariff reform, or wants any tinkering with the tariff in any direction. On the trust question the republicans have a far better record than the democrats, for the republicans the only anti-trust bill ever enacted by congress and the republic- ans enforced that act and are enfore- ing it now. The republicans will be ex- ceedingly glad to see the democrats bring the question of imperlalism forward. That is an issue om which there -are hundreds of thousands of mew votes for the repub- lican party in the country at large. There is no issue in sight on which the democrats have the faintest chance to win. The most disastrous of all these three issues for the democrats would be that of imperialism. The people of the United States do not believe that there is any im- perialism in the policy which the Roosevelt administration and the republican party ia congress are pursulng in the Philippines. That pollcy is unquestionably favored by at least two out of three of the 15,000,000 voters of this country. It is & policy which is to be pursued and which is to result in greater good for the country than even that which is foreshadowed at the present time. The United States has made immeds- urable advances, soclally, industrially and politically, in the five years which have passed sloce the republicans came into power. On its record since March 4, 1897, the republican party cam and will win a grand victory ia A%ed. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. les on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. The exodus of summer reeorters and vaca- tloners from New York City last week sur- passed any similar rush in a generation Cold weather kept the tourist flock in town until the end of June. Then they started with a rush that overwhelmed the trans- portation companies. The climax of the crush, with thres holidaye in sight, simply swamped facilities for getting out of town. To the average New Yorker a change of air and scene i a blessing. “Our climate s hanging,” says a New York correspondent, “and whether our gulf stream is responsible or mot a strange potency, called humidity, dominates us three-fourths of the summer months, undertoning, undermining and re- ducing the strongest to the condition of the weakest. We no longer have our old-time 6 oclock sea breeze, and even at the great resorts near by, when the wind comes from the land rather than from the ocean, the solldest flesh melts into discomfort and un- bearableness New York is a city of contrasts. You can leave the marble and stone palaces of Wall street and lower Broadway, where milllons are heaped upon millions, and in a few minutes stand amid the squalid tene- ments of the lower East side. It is but a step from the fashionable parade of Fifth avenue to the holy calm of St. Patrick's cathedral—one step over a threshhold and the world is gone. Street Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury of New York City has discovered a way of saving money and has put his plan into practice. For years it has been the custom there to dump garbage and ashes Into the same pile, the whole belng carried out to sea at a cost of $65 per load. Commissioner Woodbury separates garbage from ashes and sells the latter for $40 per load to a construction company, which manufactures fireproof materials. The saving promises to be something handsome. g The rapid transit commission of New York City has granted the application of the New York and New Jersey rallroad for a franchise for a tunnel under the North river. It is to be a two-track tunnel be- tween Morton street, Manhattan and Jersey City. The raflroad company will pay somo- thing less than $15,000 a year for the first ten years, $25,000 a year for the next fifteen years and then the charges are to be re- adjusted. The city reserves a llen upon the franchise and real property of the company under the river and streets, in order to secure the payment of the charges. There 1s a growing feeling among New Yorkers that the big city is a good deal better place to leave than to live in. The evening flight from town has assumed pro- portions so great that the transportation companies have admitted thelr Inability to cope with it. A new city is growing around the old—a new and beautful one, lying around it in a ring that some students of urban civilization say will assume a diame- ter of fifty miles before many years are gone, In this new city there are meither factorles nor toll, noise nor dirt, traffic nor smoke. One may drive for mile after mile over asphalt and past lawns with pretty villag standing in seclusion beyond them. Yet with all this growth of suburban lv- ing the demands for apartments in town are 50 Insistent that rents climb up not annually but monthly. It is impossible now to live in New York in style for a rental of less than $150 a month, or gener- ously and well for a rental of less than $70 or at the least $60, or comfortably for less than $50. Below $50 one must assume all the chances of field and flood that threaten the nomad, including raids by the police on one's neighbors. Down at Battery park, a few steps west of the Aquarium, reports the World, is a boat landing which, In the course of a day, presents more human contrasts than any other point along the entire water front. Here, upon the little float against which Innumerable small boats touch and Ie throughout every moment of the day and night, millionaires, soclety women, bum- boat women, sallors from clipper' ship and lumber or brick schooner, and boatmen of the harbor, with street boys and idlers, gather and form a strangs and picturesque medley of races, classes and conditions. This place, so diversely patronized, is the newly completed public landing, the only advantageous point in miles of coast line where he who wills may run in his boat and step upon the shore. The work on this landing was begun fif- teen months or more ago, and when sixty feet more of stone wall have been added, the basin will have a breakwater measur- ing 400 feet. The basin has an area of 220 feet by 120 feet, affording accommodations for a myriad of little craft, and the depth of the water at high tide is fifty feet. PERSONAL NOTES, Samuel Eberly Gross and Edmond Ros- tand seem to be pretty good press agents for each other. It would seem to be the plain duty of Major Micah Jenkins to do something hand- some for Lieutenant Governor Tillman. Loyal Langdon Wright, of Middlebury, Vt., walked three miles on his 91st birthday to attend the republican convention in that state. Dr. James F. Hibberd of Richmond, In., is actively engaged in the practice of his profession at the age of 86. He ls an ex- president of the Natlonal Medical assocl- ation. Attilla Cox, who once saved Ole Bull trom being drowned in the Ohlo river, as well as fished from the river his famous violin, s still living in Loulsville, Ky., where he is president of the Columbla Fi- nance and Trust company. Lumar H. Holmes of Springfield, Mo., has refused to adopt the name of Frisble, though for doing o he would have received $12,000. ise Frisble, his aunt, left him that sum condition that he make the change, but he refuses to do so. He had a year to con- sider the matter. Christopher Forbes, who for many years until 1896 hoisted the flag at the Battery on Evacution day, is dead In New York. He was a lineal descendant of Van Arsdale, the soldler who pulled down the British flag, when the English left the city in the revolution. Since 1896 the Soclety of War of 1812 has performed the flag-ralsing cere- mony. Ex-Speaker C. D. Van Duzer of the Ne- vada legislature expresses in Washington, where he is visiting, his confident bellef that his state is about to enter upon a new of prosperity and that it will mever cent discoveries of mineral wealth he pre- dicts, will cause a large Immigration of permanent settlers. A speclal agent was sent to Washington by & New York insurance company with the hope of getting Semator Clark to take out a policy. The Montana man, whose income from copper properties alone is about $2,000,000 a month, listened to the agent’ siren song and replied: “I don’t need the money, and, besides, I don't think your company would accept me as & risk.’t Mr. Clark has been a distinct disappoilntment to Washington soclety, which had expected that on his arrival there he would entes taln in Monte Cristo fashion. Instead he has lived very qujetly, but gossip has it that he is about to/build & splendid mansion in the capital and that in & social way he will then make up for lost time. NEWSPAPERS AND LIBEL LAWS, Grafters in Lewal Profession Excor ated In & Lawyer's Addreas. Judge Lewis B. France of Denver. amperty is defined to be a bargain with & plaintiff or defendant in a euit for & portion of the land or other matter sued | tor, in case of a successtul termination. A common instance of champerty is when an attorney agrees with a client to collect by [ sult a particular claim, or claims in gen- eral, recelving a certain portion of the money collected. This was an indictable offense at the common law. But the first legislature of the territory, in ita—wlsdom | 1t you please—cut out the provision with its “ penalties, and thus threw open the door for | the prostitution of a profession designed by honest men to adjust, rather than in- | vite differences between man and man. The omission of such a provision in the law of any etate will do more, and has | done more, to degrade the profession of the law than any other Influence. And in the commercial spirit of the age (a gentle title for the, demon of avarice), even the courts have become contaminated with the curse and are growing further and further away, it would secm, from the old/ exalted ethics that would have demanded the disbar- ment of a lawyer who 8o far forgot his duty, as to enter Into such bargains; a duty that he owes to the court and his profession; a duty that he owes to him- self, and a still higher duty that he owes to his fellow citizens; a duty that is no less binding today than it was centuries Ago. “‘One of the chlef elements that moves the bringing of libel suits is the ab- sence of the law agalnst champerty. Cut oft the business of contingent fces and you will -save taxes, clerk hire, lawsults and convert the office of judge quite into a sinecure. We all have real grievances enough to wrangle over without setting up figures of Imagination over which we may get by the ears. The existence of such a provision In the law (If it did not entirely stop, not only unmeritorious libel sults, but all other speculative litigation) would decrease litigation one-half. Keep gambling where it belongs, In the stock exchange and other places of less preten- tion, but quite as much merit. But in the name of justice and the welfare of hu- manity, keep speculation altogether out of the courts. It is difficult to talk within one's experlence and be impersonal. I have been engaged in the successful de- fense of forty libel suits at least in the last twenty years, And it has taken the creatures of whom I have been speaking twenty years to learn that one paper at least had thousands for defense, but not one cent for tribute. When the paper was wrong it was always willing to make apologies and amends; any man of honor will accept the apology for an uninten- tional wrong. But If he is a blackguard and insists upon a fight—well, self-defense is a right recognized by the law as In- herent in every man, and only one course is left—a fight without gloves to a finish. Compromise is the homorable editor's un- doing; when he s wrong let him say so, like a man; when he is right, let him stay with it “See to It that champerty be made an in- dictable offense, as it was at the common law. Do not listen to the fallacy that the rights of the poor man must be looked to. It is the lawyer's pocket, and not the poor man’'s rights, that forms the keynote of that argument. It is the lawyer's duty as well as the doctor's to work without pay when occasion demands, and under our tute a poor man has the right to pros- ecute or defend without cost, it he will make known his necessity to the court. In forty-five years of practige I have done more work without pay than I have with, insofar as money is concerned. But I ha been well paid, although I have found no dificulty in living up to my income and be- yond it. It is not, however, 8o much be- cause of the poverty of the suitor that liti- gation is multiplied. The wealthy ha fallen into the habit of bargaining and holding out temptation to the weak. That is a mild term for it; most lawyers are up with their environment, some get be- yond or above it. I have always believed that laws were made, not to enrich law- yers, but to assist in the attalnment of justice between man and man. So far in life I have had no experience to change my view, but, on the conirary, my experience has confirmed me in my bellef. Therefore, I say that a law against champerty will diminish litigation and give healthier moral tone to lawyer and layman. Bear the suggestion in mind and when candidates sprout again for legislative homors and emoluments, deny them your support unless they pledge themselves to the re- formation.” STATUE TO A TREE PLANTER. Movement for a National Memorial to J. Sterling Morton. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. A movement has been started to erect a statue to the memory of J. Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor day, in Nebraska City, which was his home for many yea: of his life. The idea seems to be to get subscriptions from as large a territory as possible, so as to arouse s widespread interest in the project. The newspapers all over the country are asked to mention the scheme, 80 as to bring it to the atten- tion of most of Mr. Morton's countrymen. The movement deserves the encouragement of all Americans. The time which has been selected to get up this memorial s especially opportune. Mr. Morton's death took place only a few weeks ago, and the commendations which he recelved from the press of the country then are well remembered. The house has passed one bill and the senate has passed a slightly different one for the creation of a vast forest reservation in the Allegheny mountain reglon, and an agreement will be reached between both branches on this question as soon as congsess meets {n its final session next December. A law han just received the signature of President Roosevelt to Institute a general sy tem of f{rrigation throughout the arid section of the country, which takes in the whole reglon, beginning with the western ends of the two Dakotas, Nebraska, Kan- sas, Oklahoma and Texas and onward to near the westerly border of Washington, Oregon and California. All this is in the spirit of Morton's idea. 1f the person who would make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before deserved better of mankind than the whol race of politiclans, how much greater is the homor which fs due to the man who has made thousands of trees grow over an expanse of the country where scarcely any were growing previously? & copse- quence of the Arbor day observance, of which Morton was the inventor, millions of trees have been set out in the past thirty years in the prairie states in lo- calities where they were a rare sight until that time. Over vast stretches of territory west of the Missour] the whole face of the landscape has been changed through this means in the past generation, the climate has become more humid, and Pik desert has been made to blossom In & way which would surprise him 1f he could see it | The change has been brought about largely through the conception of an idea vhich Morton expounded with eloquence and put into operation with enthusiasm and persistence. The memory of the old tree planter deserves well at the hands of Ms countrymen. — —— THE RIGHT OF PRIVACY, Doctrine Tarned Down by a Divided New York Conrt. Chicago Tribune. Last year a handsome young woman lv- ing in Rochester, N. Y., applied for an in- junction to restrain certaln manufacturers from using her plcture in their advertise- ments. The justice of the supreme court before whom sulf was brought held that there 18 a “right of privacy” which had been violated and granted the fnjunction. He sald a woman's beauty was her inviolate property and mot public material for ad- vertisers, The opinlon of the justice was com- mented on by the law magazines, some of which took exception to the doctrine of a “right of privacy.” The views of the J tice were concurred in by five justices of the appellate court, but the court of ap- peals, by & vote of four to three, has re- versed the lower courts. It says: “An examination of the authorities leads us to the conclusion that the so-called right of privacy has not as yet found an ablding place In our jurisprudence, and, as we view it, the doctrine cannot now be Incorporated without doing violence to set- tled principles of law by which the: profe slon and the public have long been guided: The court argues that if the existence of a vast, undefined “right of privacy” be granted, not merely the publication of a picture can be enjoined but any mention of an individual in A newspaper or else- where. The nelghbors of a person who does not wish to be written or spoken about may be enjoined from writing or speaking about him, The decision of the court is that the young woman from Rochester cannot have an injunction and must resort to some other remedy. She can bring a libel suit and seek to recover damar-es. After long litigation she may get a verdict which will pay her lawyers’ bills In whole or part. The remedy is inadequate, If all the court of appeals says as to the danger of the admission of the existence of an unlimited, unconfined “‘right of privacy” is true it is possible for a lawmaking body to define that right and confine it within reasonable limits. There may be persons who have so exalted an idea of the “right of privacy” as to feel aggrieved whenever public mention is made of their frivolous or serious doings without their consent, There is no reason why a law should be enacted to enable them to demand writs of injunction. The handsome, modest and re- tiring young woman who finds her features paraded on flour sacks or ¢igarette wrappers Is entitled to a more effective remedy than the one the New York court of appeals says she can resort to. Laws can easily be en- acted forbidding the misuse of a person's features the Rochester young woman com- plains of. The “right of privacy” 1s debatable ground. Judges disagree concerning it. It will be a long time before it is authorita« tively determined whether there is such a legal right and if so what are its bounda~ ries. — FLASHES OF FUN, Chicago Tribune: “Stop! Don't fight boys! Can't we arbitrate this thing? asked one of the bystanders Yes, sir!” panted the fellow who was on top. “Just as soon as I've blacked his other eye!” Cleveland Piain Dealer: “Do you bellev 57 “You bet T do. One was blown off a butlding in that last high gal me half across the !"’Q‘CL"E 9 S Aetwre Somerville Journal: A girl can never be really sure of a young man unleas she feel confident of her abllity to continue to Keep him guessing. Philadelphia Press: Goodman—You cer- tatnly were disgracetylly drunk las{ night Hardkase—was 17 Well, 1t's pretty Hard to do that sort of thing gracefally. Washington Star: ““What is the distinc= tion between a politician and a reformer?” A “politiclan,” answered Senator Sorg- hum, *is a man who is frank enough to contess that he is running for office. A re. former wants to make people believe that the office is running after him.” Yonkers Statesman: Church—What on earth are they ringing that bell so long or? Gotham—That's to call a meeting to- gether. “What sort of meeting?" “Meeting of the Soclety for the Preven- tion of Unnecessary Nolses."” Philadelphfa Record: Mr. Goodman— understand you were at the prize fight lasi night. I'm surprised to hear of you attend- ing such a disgraccful affair, Sportyboy—It was disgraceful, sure . Why, neither one of those big dubs could hit hard enough to dent butter, Detrolt Free Press: Edgar—Well, Ethel, whns did you find at that wonderful fire o7 Bthel—Oh, Edgar, I got some lovely silic stockings at 17 cents a pair! Thers In ot a thing the matter with them, except the feet are burned off. RUBAIYAT OF A. LAZYMAN. ‘W. D. Nesbit, I Wake! For the sun has scattered into ght The stars that flecked the freckle-face of night, nd incense-breathing morn is here lfaln. oh, to sleep some more is my delighti Ir The loud alarum rings above my head And thrills the atmosphere about my bed. Ab. had I but the making of all things, Ere yet the man had made it he were dead! 1L The health-food on steams!” A voice adown the dreams, And through the casement float sounds of feet Ot men who hurry on schemes, Y “Arise! the table hallway rends my the to work their v. 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