Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1902, Page 6

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Company, nt stamps acoe| ment of accounts, Person: nh , except on L TOSERNG SOMPINT" JEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Less unsold and returned coples.... Net total sales. Net dafly Avarm x c: n&ulm thh i &y of ,}?‘M‘Tfi‘ If most of this superfluous rainfal were only being stored in reservoirs until needed. The Winnebago land grabbers are be- ginning to feel uncomfortable. They cannot stand the searchlight of pub- Uelty. Sep—— Ohlcago 18 waging relentless war on the smoke nuisance. In Omaha the anti-smoke ordinance remains a dead letter, e—p——— The sultan of Zanzibar is dead. Any- body who wants his job must apply without delay to his royal majesty, King BEdward VIL 'To use a homely expression, the Wis- sonsin state convention has put Senator mer In a position where he will ve to fish or cut bait, Governor S8gvage and his party of Ne- braska colonels are seelng Chinatown. And Chinatown is also sceing the gov- srnor of Nebraska and his colonels. King BEdward’s coronation has been definitely fixed for August 9. But the postponement to midsummer has al- ready taken all of the starch out of the function. e————— Germany need not be alarmed over the prospect of & meat famine. Uncle Bam will be glad to honor requisitions sccompanied by the market price, when- ever Germany relaxes its exclusive reg- alations. S New regulations and rules are to be promulgated by the Omaha Board of Mealth, which are said to cover some thirty pages of typewriting. The first rule to"observe during all seasons of the year is, keep your head cool and your feet warm. e———————— Mr. Mooncalf has taken his revenge. He now declares that the president was absent from Washington when the ed- Itor of The Bee was his guest at the temporary White House. Mr. Mooncalf s & genlus and was by nature de-lned (1) eluot factotum of & fakery. e Another prince is to invade the United States. This time it is Prince Chen, who was to have represented the great dragon in the coronation midway procession that failed to come off on schedule time in June, owing to the in- terference of meddlesome British sur geons. EE—— It we are to belleve the strike break- ers, all 1s serene at the Union Paclfic shops and all along the line from Omaha to Evanston. It“we are to believe the strike makers, all is confusion in the shops and everything is out of gear on the line of the road between Omaha and Evanston. —w_ . A belated search among his papers has uncovered the Tilden club banquet Invitation that was addressed to Colounel Bryan, about which there has been so much dispute. ‘The only regret now is that Mr. Bryan d1d not receive the docu- ment soon enough to send a prompt response. while his ire was at the fever point and he could have done fuller jus- tice to his rutfled feelings. TEST—— Consul Gederal Bragg may have been Indiscreet in deseribiug the impressions made upon bim by the.Cubans in a let- ter fo his wife in his blunt and honest way, but that should scarcely furnish sufficlent reasons for his recall as con- sul general of Havana, where he Is nothing more nor less than the commer- clal agent of the United States. But the old commander of the Iron brigade ought to have known that a woman can't be expected to keep a sterét even if she has beep married forty years. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1902, TRADE CUNDITIONS REALTHY. The fact that in the fiscal year just closed our exports declined and imports increased, thoreby reducing the trade balance,is not t6 be regarded as a seri- ous reaction fromn the conditions that have prevalled for several years and given this country an énormous advan- tage In the International trade account. 1.60 | Even with a decrease in exports of $105,- 000,000 and an increase In imports of nearly $80,000,000, the trade balance amounts to $480,000,000 in round num- bers, which s certainly a very com- fortable balance, which can safely be relied upon for the liquidation of the greater part of the transactions between the United States and BEurope. It has been exceeded, but it brings the aggre- gate of our apparent international bal- ances for the last six years up to the colossal figures of $2,700,000,000, or al- most as much as the national debt at the close of the civil war. Those who carefully study trade sta- tistics find no cause for alarm in the ap- parent loss to this country of $185,000,- 000 as compared with the figures of a year ago. 'The falling off in exports was due to a considerable extent to the partial failure of the cotn crop last year, there being a decreade of $62,000,- 000 In the exports of corn, or about three-fifths of the total decline as com- pared with the previous year. As to the increase in imports it 1s to be re- garded with satisfaction, since it was due chiefly to the great activity of our domestic industries. Our manufactur- ers have been importing steel billets and plates because the domestic production could not supply the demand. In- creased imports are in part explained also by the larger demand for luxuries which the growing wealth of the coun- try has created. The aggregate of im- portations for the last fiscal year is the largest ever recorded and there is noth- ing remarkable in the fact when the abounding prosperity of the country is considered. A very large number of our people are now able to buy imported articles who could-not do 8o a few years ago and as the trade statistics show they are doing so. On the whole, mentore. it is apparent that forelgn trade conditions, notwith- standihg the changes as compared with & year ago, continue healthy and there seems to be nothing in the situation at present to disturb confidence. The promise for good crops s favorable and our exports of breadstuffs and provi- slons during the ensuing year are likely to be at least as large as those of the past year and perhaps larger. The for- elgn demand for.our manufactures is well maintained. A considerable addl- tion within the yedr to our stock of gold is assured, It being estimated that Alaska slone will furnish about $30,- 000,000. If all of which thefe 18 now favorable promise shall be realized there appears to be no reason why this coun- try should not have for the mext two or three years even greater prosperity than it has yet known. 4 LOSING DEAL. The recent purchase for the state school fund on a 8 per cent basis of $268,000 twenty-year Douglas county bonds, just refunded by the commis- sloners of this county at 8% per cent in- terest, is a losing deal for the taxpayers. ‘The fact that it is a losing deal has al- ready called forth an alleged explana- tion printed in the Lincoln Journal, to justify the handsome profit pocketed by the bond brokers who negotiated the transaction. This explanation is as fol- low! This arrangement saved the county be- tween $30,000 and $40,000. By waiting for the expiration of the five years when the bonds mature the county might not be able to refugd at such a low rate as 3% per cent inte Even if they could make such terms years, the present bargain is sald to show & saving of at least $26,800 to the county. Five per cent interest on $368,000 for five years would amount to $67,000. Add to this the 8 per cent interest for twenty years would &t total of $227,800. Under the present arrangement .the interest on the same amount of bonds at 8% per cent for twenty yoars would be $201,000, or $26,800 less than under the first proposition. The only proper way to characterize this statement is “important if true.” A resort to grammar grade math- ematics, however, entirely - disproves these figures. The $268,000 of bonds refunded by the commissioners of Douglas county had five years to run at 5 per cent, when they would have been payable or refundable without any pre- mium to the bohdholders. Under the proposition made-by the brokers acting for these bondholders the unexpired five years were walved and new twenty- year bonds bearing 3% per cent Interest were exchanged for them. Assuming that the state board would have been equally ready to have in- vested the school money directly with the county on a 3 per cent basis, Doug- las county taxpayers in these twenty years will have gafhed for five years the difference between § and 3% per cent In interest payments and lost for fifteen years the difference between 8% and 8 per cent in interest payments. Striking the balance and counting nothing for de- ferred payments, the gain to the tax- payexs of this county is 6% per cent and the loss 113§ per cent, making & net loss of 5 per cent on $268,000, or $13,400. In other words, the tramsaction will cost the taxpayers of Douglas county $13,400, although the profit to the brokers and the bondholders whom they répresent ls still greater because of their advantage in the rate of exchange. : 8o far as the state school fund is con- cerned, it 1s no poorer and no richer than it 1t had been able fo buy § per cent bonds divectly from the qounty, and its inability to deal direct s due to the fact that it did pot hold the old bonds and was thus in no position te surrender them for 1 If the state could have bought the old bonds on a 8 per cent basis and then exchanged them with the county for funding bonds run- ning a longer term, the taxpayers of this county would bave been saved thelr loss, while the school fund would nu- had the same investment. tween this Douglas county bond pur- chnse and the Burt and Cuming county bond deals, however, will not hold water. In npeither Burt county nor Cuming county was there any excuse for the state treasurer to deal through brokers at all, as in the one case the middleman used school moémey to buy the Burt county bonds and then sold them back to the state at a profit, while in the other case the school fund held the Cuming county bonds that were sur- rendered and replaced with funding bonds, but allowed the middlemen to clip off several thousand dollars of coupons while the new bonds were in transit. The blame for the present loss to Douglas county will have to be shared by the county commissioners, who have been short-sighted, and the state treas- urer, who might by a little extra effort have bought the old bonds from the original holders. EEp——— COMING HOME (1) AT LAST. WASHINGTON, July 17.—(Special.)— Congressman Dave Mercer of Omaha re- turned tonight from Atlantie Ofty and wiil leave for home tomorrow. He will visit the supervising architect in the morning and see what can be done toward hurrying | the work of constructing for the mew In- dian warehouse at Omaha, for which an appropriation of $75,000 was passed on the last day of the session of congress. Mr. Mercer says that he will have no difficulty In securing a renomination in the Becond district and will, he believes, be elected by a larger majority than ever. He belleves the republicans will carry svery distriot in Nebraska in the congressional election. This plece of news out of the Lincoln Journal should make the Mercerites re- joice. Our Dave is coming home (7) at last, not because his presence is of any moment in the !mpending campaign, since he Is already as good as renom- inated and re-elected for a sixth term, but out of pure habit, just to keep his promise to visit Omaha this summer as he has done once every two years. - 'The fact that Mercer has torn himself loose from Atlantic City contradicts the former reports that he has been detained at Washington in the heated season by important department work that re- quired his personal presence. There is also a slight inaccuracy in the explana- tion that Mercer’s home run from Atlan- tic Oity by way of Washington is for the purpose of visiting the supervising architect to see what can be done to- ward hurrying the work of constructing the new Indian warehouse for Omaha, for which an appropriation of $75,000 was passed on the day congress ad- Journed. There 18 to be no new Indian ware- house built in Omaha, but the $75,000 was appropriated for a quartermaster’s warehouse, with the erection of which the supervising architect has nothing whatever to do. Army bulldings, in- cluding quartermasters’ warehouses, are all planned by army officers and con- structed under supervision of army offi- cers and under direction of the War de- partment. Under ordinary usage the chief quartermaster of the Department of the Missourl, who is right here in Omaha, .will exercise supervision over the construction after the plans are ap- proved. \This fact is as well known to Mercer as it 18 to anyone else, so his return from Atlantic City via Washington un- der pretense that he had to call on the supervising architect to expedite the construction of a new warehouse has the same elements of deception and humbug that has characterized every step In Mercer's sixth-term campalgn up to date. Egmemee——— 4 NEW ANTI-TRUST SUGGESTION, The suggestion reported to have been submitted by the Russian minister of finance to the British government and the powers that signed the Brussels sugar bounty convention, proposing the consideration of means to protect in- ternational commerce against the artl- ficlal depression of prices. by the processes of trusts, is novel. Russia, so far as we are aware, has no combiba- tions of the trust kind, but the govern- ment has pursued a policy regarding beet sugar by which that article was #old cheaper abroad than at home. The action of the Brussels conference inter- feres with the Russian sugar policy and at the same time the manufacturers of Russia, la spite of a considerable tarift protection, are being undersold in their own markets by foreign manufacturers. This is a situation which is naturally causing the able finance minister of the empire, M. de Witte, a good deal of anxlety., He Is of course most desirous to bulld up the industries of Russia and as he sees in the growth of com- binations an increasing menace to those industries he would inaugurate a com- mon movement, embracing the indus- trial nations of Eorope and perhaps the United Btates, to prevent what he terms the “artificial depression of prices”—that is to say, he would put a stop to the manufacturers of any country selling cheaper abroad than at home, It is needless to say that this is a proposi- tion which, while coming naturally enough from the Russian government, is mot likely to receive serious oconsid- eration from oy other government, Neither Great Britaln nor Germany, for example, would consider a proposition for governmental interference with the business of thelr manufacturers in for- elgn markets. If a British or German manufacturer finds it expedient to sell his products for less money in Russia than in his home market that is no affalr of the government. This applies as fully to combinations or trusts as to individual manufacturers. It may be entirely compatible with the Russian system for the government to undertake the regulation of the prices of commo- dities, but no other European govern- ment will attempt to do this. It is therefore entirely safe to say that If the governments make any respouse to the Russian suggestion the general an- swer will be that it is an impossible A St. Petersburg paper says that if an international agreement, a8 proposed by the finance minister, cannot be effected, the only remedy is increased customs dutles. This is the course that Russia will, be compelled to adopt if she wants to keep out fofeign competi- tion and aMlow her industries to grow, but that might be a serlous matter for the masses of the people, who are In no condition to pay higher prices for what they need. At all events the Russian plan for dealing with trusts will cer- tainly not be adopted. Governor Cummins of Iowa persists in asking pertinent questions of the rallway attorneys, who are pleading for low as- gessments of rafllway property in lowa, using the same bunco stories put for- ward in Nebraska. It has been discov- ered In Iowa that the officlal returns of the railroads to the assessment board do not tally any better with the official re- ports of thelr stockholders than they do in Nebraska, where flagrant discrepan- cles are admitted. It does not matter in which state, the railroads are all a unit in trying to get as high rates as possible on their traffic and at the same time- to evade as much of their due share of the tax burden as possible. et According to reports from St. Louls, negotiations are In progress for the absorption by the company which owns the present terminal facilities centering in the Union station in that city of the proposed new St. Louis Belt & Terminal Railway company, the consideration amounting to more than $20,000,000. Rallroad attorneys and tax bureaus, however, will continue to maintain that when it comes to assessment for taxa- tion the valuable terminal facilities en- joyed by the railroads in the great cities are to be counted as a mere bagatelle without any real value except as dis- tributed over the whole mileage. —— The City of Venice has decided to tax itself $200,000 for rebuilding the col- lapsed Campanile, that stood in the square of St. Mark as a monument of Itallan art. It will take several years, however, before the Omaha Board of Education will spend $50,000 for the lone tower that looms conspicuously on paper over the roof line of the new High school building and was to have been made such a striking object of ad- miration for all tourists. Omaha is not anclent enough yet to venture into the Oampanile business. Railrogd hold-ups are becoming so frequent that pretty soon every locomo- tive will have to bé converted into an arsenal and every baggage and express car will have to be ornamented with gatling guns, while male passengers will have to wedr side-arms and female pas- sengets carry bottles of sulphuric acld to use while the highwaymen button their galters. §/ will present the of the city and.lils tblephone number in case he shoyld get into trouble during his blennisl ‘80; between congres- slonal primaries and election day. CE— Again the managers of the Nebraska state fair promise the greatest agricul- tural show on earth in their forthcoming exhibition. - What is better yet, how- ever, is that with faverable weather conditions, insuring crops already in prospect, the premise will unguestion- ably be fulfilled. WEE—— Cause and Efect. Philadelphia Press. Colonel Bryan, & month afterward, finds that he has an invitation to the Tilden club dinner, and though he could not at- 111 suffering from the indiges- Indianapolis News. Things. usually even themselves up. Great Britain is making a smeak” on our markets in Cuba, but, on the other hand, the steel building material needed in the Transvaal is being furnished by American contractors. —e Misdirected Sympathy, Philadelphla North American. Sympathy extended to the short specu- Iators caught in the corn squeeze would be misdirected. They sold what they did mot have, and their losses do not affect the legitimate business of the country. If the farmers profit by the advance in corn, the gamblers’' woes ueed grieve nobody. Much Meth: Philadelphla Pregs. o8¢ who cannot explain the exploits of the outlaw Tracy In any other way are arguing that he 1s insane. A more reason- able explanation would be that the people along his route of escape and the men who are trying to capture him are insane. He outwite them so casily and gets the “drop” on them o quickly that they and not he seem to be troubled with a disordered mind. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. The 2,680.000,000-bushel- corn crop which is promised will make short work of the remaining’ farm mertgages in the prairie states If it comes. This will be 1,000,000, 000 bushels in excess of the yleld of 1801. A orop of anything like this size will mean cheaper food for the country, too, and will help to put the pork and the beef prices down. Corn is the biggest of the country's crops and when it is large there is usually prosperity in the agricultural reglons as well as elsewhere. Americans Winning in Afriea, Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. English observers who have been sad- dened by the invasion of Europe by Amer- fcan business men have now another cause for sorrow. The British trade commis- sloners who went to South Africa to look futo the business prospects express thelr amazement that their fellow coudtrymen bave been so slow to 3rasp the o) 1- ties for peaceful conquest, so now that the clash of arms s . War bas been followed by an immediste and en- ergetic refurs to busibess. In all the principal cemters of British South Africa there i3 remewed activity. They are ting up steel skyscrapers I wa, Johannesburg and other cities &nd in many ways making preparations to keep up with the world's progress. The British commis- sioners are thoroughly disgusted to find that English firms are unprepared to take sdvantage of the great business cppo: tunities offered, while Americans are book- ing orders st exellent prices and .r—h- lng expeditious dglivery. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The renewal of the triple alliance is re- garded in Belglum as a decided diplomatic victory for Germany, whose allies have been ‘compelled to subordinate their economic interests to their political neces- sities. The Independence Belge malntains that there is no illusion on this point either in Rome or Vieona, and adds that it France is disappointed at her fallure to induce Italy to withdraw from the com- pact, she must have been foolish in think- ing that anything of the sort was likely to happen just yet. It does not belleve, how- ever, that the agreement will outlast ite present term. It says: ‘“Thero Is every reason to belleve that this s the last time that the triple alliance will be renewed; for seven years hence the situation as re- gards Germany will be materially altered. At 1s impossible, as M. de Szell recently afirmed, that a political alllance -should not involve an economic alllance, and the triplice will crumble of its own accord on the day when it is clearly proved that Germany, desirous a®fve all of satisfying the agrarians, has become the commercial and industrial ememy of the natlons who are now her allles. In view of tho tenden- cles which are now manifested in Berlin, this day is not far oft.” - There are indications that Russia s be- coming uneasy concerning her naval posi- tion in the far east. The Sviet of St Petersburg publishes a noteworthy article in which it declares that the Russsinn squadron in the Pacific ocean ia completely at the mercy of Japan on account of the difficulty which the Russian ships would experience in that part of the world in recoaling and reprovisioning. Moreover, it says, there would be many obstacles even to their carrying out many necersary re- pairs, inasmuch as the docks at Vladivos- tok and Port Arthur are insufficlently equipped for the purpose. The Russian ves- sels, it remarks, are obliged to winter in Japanese ports, Viadivostok 1s almost inaccessible during the cold months, while at Port Arthur there is not sufficlent mo- commodation. Moreover, there s not a sufficient depth of water in the inner basin, and the outer basin, which is somewhat larger, is dangerously exposed to every wind. - The Sviet also foresees the danger of the ships of the Russlan fleet being blockaded by the Japanese in Viadivostok and Port Arthur In time of war. The ar- ticle concludes by saying that, In view of these many and sinister possibilities, it 1s absolutely necessary that Russia should ob- tain a fresh point d'appul on the Pacific coast, and for this purpose Ma-san-pho, in Corea, would satisty all requirements. It does not seem to have occurred to the writer that this was one of the plans which the Anglo-Japanese treaty was designed to defeat. - It s only a few years ago that England monopolized eastern commerce, 80 fa least, as the carrying was concerned. vast inroads which Germany made in the last ten or fifteen years are famillar to all, but Japan's increase has been even more rapid—and as much as Germany's at the expense of England. In 1870 Japan bad forty-slx vessels of “forelgn” style with a registered tonnage of 17,000. This had increased by 1882 to 614 and 209,000 respectively, and In 1891 to 7,614 and 664,- 000 respectively. As to the increase since then, it is sufficlent to say that In 1891 but four lines received state subsidies, their steamships traveling a total distance of 210,000 pautical milés annually. the number of lines ernment s sixteen -of miles {raveled . ago, when- Japan's 142,000,000 yen, only 14,000,000 yen was oar- | rled on Japanese bottoms. In 1901, when Japan's foreign trade aggregated 500,000,~ 000 yen, Japanese ships carried 148,000,000 yen. To have this remarkable rate of ex- pansion increase becausc of the treaty is naturally more or less disturbing to Brit- ish shipping-interests. - Certain cominents in the German press upon the treatment of the non-Magyar na- tionalities in Hungary have caused no lit- tle ill-feeling in the twin monarchy. Not long ago, the Post of Berlin remarked that In the projected erection of a new univer- sity the Hungarian authorities are not guided solely by educational réequirements, but the desire to promote national aims. It then proceeded to demounce “the ruth- less fashion in which the Magyars endeavor to suppress the minorities belonging to other nationalities,” of which the new uni- ity scheme is a fresh illustration. Magyars, as an isolated race situated be- tween the great Slav and German masses, should beware, it sald, of risking the loss of forelgn sympathy through the violent oppression of other nationalities living among them. This and other similar utter- ances in other journals have not only oftended the Magyars, but have given to the Austrian Slave a rare opportunity of responding with a “Tu quoque” in refer- ence to the policy adopted by Prussia toward the Polish provinces. The Novoye Vremya of St. Petersburg, returning to the subject, repeats its assertion that the Pan- an empire ex- tending to the Mediterrane: free from all non-German elements, is just as menacing to the Slavs as it 18 to the Poles, and will precipitate a Slav coalition. o The dvewhelming influence of the Emperor Francls Joseph in the affairs of Austria- Hungary has been demonstrated once more, in very striking fashion, by the result of the join®) ministerial council held under his presidency a week or ten days ago. Before it assembled it looked as if the re ons be- twi the partners in the double monarchy were strained to the point of open rupture. The two prime ministers were evidently on cool terms, the dnspired newspapers of Vi- enna and Budapest were indulging in mu- recriminations of the bitterest kind, and on both sides there was talk of the estab- lishment of a separate customs frontier at the earllest possible moment. But now grim-visaged war has smoothed her wrin- kled front and put on the smiles of gentle The emperor has declared that the dengerous game of bluff which has been played for so long must be stopped, and henceforth the watchword is to be “recom- ciliation.” Negotlations for the renewal of the Ausgleich and the revision of the aut omous tariff are to be renewed, and nobody seems to doubt that & tactory agree- ment of some kind will be reached, and al predictions of the alarmists falsified. As the old proverb says, “a watched pot never bolls.” —_— Pen Drawing of the Elect. Atlanta Constitution. Spiritually dominant is the greatest condi- tion to which the mortal man attains on earth. He who can keep his body under, mortify the deeds of the flesh and keep bimself unspotted from the world is indeed a freeman among men. And when to this treedom he can add the powers of a clean mind, renewed and regal in its loyalty to righteousness, he s greater than any man who ever took a city or founded an empire! g 5 ks Bty Coddle Nature and Be Happy. Philadel; After long and corn belt in the west and morthwest wel- comes & belated hot wave that comes Just in time to ripen graiw on fertile molsture- laden fields. Only lot Dame Nature con- tinue propitious and all crop records in yoars past may be broken by the coming American baryest. POLITICAL DRIFT, Demoerats ' of North™ Carolina have nominated for congress a mam who sup- ported McKinfey. Judge Parker, Danlel Lamont and John O. Milbufn have in turn declined to con- sider ;the democratic nomination for gov- ernor of New York, Having failed to reach the presidential mantle the peerless leader is about to build & mantel of marble, one plece coming from each of the states voting for him. Senator Thomas C. Platt of New York celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday aoni- versary last Tuesday. Tho event drew & large crowd to the “Amen corner.” Hon. J. Ham Lewls, former congressman from the state of Washington, is fondling his burneides with much fervor. He has Just picked up a law fee of $100,000 Lightning has shattered the wooden In- dian that stood én the roof of Tammany Hall. s the only strike the tribe has achieved since Van Wyck hit the road. Soveral patriots holdidg office tn Virginia bave resigned their jobs as a protest against the provisfon of the new constitution for- bidding the aceeptance of raliroad passes. Robert B. Pattison has been the demo- cratic candidate for governor of Pennsyl- vania in 1882, 1890 and 1002. It is twenty years since his first nomination for that office. * Connectiout has in the present congress four membors; in the next it will have five. The new member will be elected at large, a_provision equivalent to the addition of ong republican member to the delegation. Dave Hili's presidential goose is peril- ously close to the bake oven. Someone has Qug up & letter written by Dave in 1896, in which he sald: “I am a democrat still— very still.” Treason's hideous head de- setves the ax. \ A letter from W, J. Bryan to a bunch of “loyal democrats” at Senaca Falls, N. Y., advises the kickers™lo put their batt soak and fight for the Kansas City plat- form inside the tent. They would be very lonesome outside, ’ Ex-Sénators R. F. Pettigrew of South Dakota and Charles A. Towne of Minnesota have temporarily lcased a furnished house in New York City. “Both radicals in poli- tics, they have both made successful use of the plutocratic regime to fill thelr pockets. A large bunch' of foxy politiclans for years past have enfoyed the fruits of the earth as receivers for insolvent corpora- tions In New York state. With a zeal worthy of their calling they received with great reguldrity, pocketed big fees and mer- rily chased away every thought of winding up. . The attorney gemeral threatens to make them jar loose. In Sumner county, Kansas, one Thomas A. Hubbard is a candidate for county treas- urer. He has issued a great many cards ahnouncing that he is in the fleld, but thriftily makes use of the other side with an’ advertisement that he is & breeder of fine hogs which he offers for sale cheap. Al of which moves an opposition editor to say: “Vote for Tom Hubbard and get a hog." Geauga county, Ohlo, is one of the very strong republican counties in the western tler, originally settled by natives of Con- necticut. Some of the political views and customs of the land of steady habits still pervadeés tho western tler. Henry K. Smith bas served continuously at probate judge there for thirty-five years and as an officer of the court for forty-five years. MISSOURI LIGHTS THE WAY, - : ,. i p Once there was-a vb wued” amother man because the other man's dog chased his cat. He sald his cat had suffered from nervous derangement ever afterwards and that her value as a household pet had been impaired. The attorney for the defendant held that the dog had not chased the cat out of any maliclous desire to derange her nervous system, but simply out of good humor and regard for tradition. He was taking advantage of the inherent, inalien- able, and immemorial right the dog has al- ways had to chase the cat whenever be pleased. A similar right has just been established for the dog in Missourl, Mr. Simon ewned a thoroughly exemplary dog called Jupiter. Mr. Quinn. owned a less exemplary boy called Willle. Jupiter was basking i3 the sun when Willle found him. To Willle's taste basking was rather slow fun. There were other things that would add more west to life. Accordingly, he tled a tin can to Jupiter's tajl. Now, Jupiter was ot a bully, but neither was he a non-resistant. The can annoyed him, He bit Willle. ‘Willle ran home and told his father. His fati prosecuted Mr, Stmon. Fortunately Judge Sidener Was a man of discernment. His decision was that Mr. Quinn was to pay the costs of the trial. The dog was not to blame, for, as the decision most ad- mirably say: *Any dog has a legal and undenlable right to bite any man, woman, or child who pur- posely and with intent to disturb sald dog's tranquillity and peace of mind does attach or cause to be attached to sald dog's tall a tin can or other weight which will impede, or tend to impede, the progress of sald animal. A dog which bites Its persecutor in such & cause ie acting purely and hon- estly in welf-defense, and is as justly im- mune from punishment as the man who strikes at a burglar in defense of his own life and welfare.” This seems no more than reasonable, and it is to be hoped that the courts of other in the union will take the same stand The tincanned dog has rights which deserve recognition. in | [ REAL OPPONENT OF TRUSTS. Oberation of the Inexorable Law of Supnly mnd Demnnd, New York Mafl and Express The enactment of legislation to control “truste” fs & task so formidable that fl‘, doubt whether it can be successfully ac- complished at this time, when the public mind has yet to regard them in more friendly light than ‘‘mecessary evils,” and the trusts themselves have etill to work out thelr own commercial destiny. The effort, of course, should be made and un- doubtedly will ‘be made in congress next winter, for theré are many features of the trust problem that concededly need the restraint of law, but we are also to keep it in mind that “trusts’ after I" an fpdustrial evolution and therefore to be indiscriminately set down and & tacked as a menace to the country’s wel- tare. They have proved a strength rather than & weakness. Instead of being “In restraint of trade” they have been a potential factor in a perfod of unprecedented industrial de- velopment and prosperity. Obviously they cannot be attacked without attacking our entire fndustrial interests and for that rea- son the conservative lines iald down by Presldent Roosevelt in his Pittsburg speech fix the limits to which all reasonable peo- ple will agree, 1t is quite a different task, however, to formulate legislation that will stand the test of constitutionality and at the same time prove responsive to the just demand for proper supervision of these great cor- porations. Most of them would welcome legislation not framed In the hostile apirit of populist ootopus hunters. They desire to organize and conduot their business law< fully and they are as much interested as anyone else In preventing the organization of corporations for piracy or stock-jobbing purposes. The so-called “trust” of today is the partnership of other days—the part- ners being many instead of few. It muet be managed strictly on business prinet- | ples or it will go to the wall. Quite & number have already sunk under the bur- den of over capitalization. Others are sure to follow. ¢ A more Inexorable law than any statute framed in Washington is responsible for the early demise of these corporations-— the law of supply and ~demand. The American dollar frames that law. It is alert to opportunity, eager for investment. hard to beat in competition. It s at wor all the time against the “trust” that in- flates prices or seeks return on watered stock. Apd it will come nearer solvin the “trust”” problem than will any leglsla- tion enacted by congress. Congress can do much and should do something to make ful some of thé present practices of but individual American en- terprise and capital will after all prove to be the real and vital force agaimst them. —_—— ——— FLASHES OF FUN. Chicago Post: “She's one of the mos! remarkable women 1 ever met."t “How is that?” “She doesn’t wish she wers a man." Detrolt Free Press: ‘You were sitting on that young man’ neo last night, May. “Oh, well, pa, he's an uphoisterer, Vana we were testing the furniture.” Philadelphia, Cathiolle Standard: come” ch: he s triend, Do disheariened 8o e "1‘3‘1‘-‘; I'm a'l“" ltlo be bulvn." replied the ate, dismal ¥ onserise! Let your motto be, He who ghts away may live to Fun an- runs and 3 Be t-Do you : ‘who took ki mlflfldfi, - . 2on gy m—”‘" haven't asted a drop for n""’ .nz )'ml are better and happler for Let me gee, the time will be up ln al oul thi weeks. Somerville Journal: City Sportsman— Have ¥ou ‘seert anything WOrh ShOOHRg &t around here? Farmer—Well, no; not tll you came. Philadelphia Press: ‘“That new ofl com- RABY seems to be In trouble,” said the first ancler. I < replied the other, “but there's lan on foot to help * B “A "Plan, 1 "% put some wate? tn the troubled ol stock.” Boston Transcript: t: Roads—What's the matter with that horse of roun' You can hear him breathe half a mile awa. Hireets-There 1sn't & thing the [atter with him. He just makes that noise b cause he thinks he's an automobile, is warning everything off his track. Wl!hln(lfln Btar: D ik that s i can get 1 Doltical lis is, worth whll.' tainly,” answered Senator Sorghum. ““n a mi content to be o penal on the government instead of I\lll"'ll Il\ the interasts of some liberal corporation, he can lay by quite a lit! IN THE STREET OAR. Somervills Journal. She m-“fi at me! A -uad-n mnll'u‘m wu:h. me as T met T e 'y he sumlled at me! A glance from one 0 uir no man eould help bu, prise. smiled at me! My roou-h toou-h heart was filled with ?ha smiled at me! She smiled at me! Her bright, expressive eyes upset my calm repose. She smiled at me! Instinctively T quickly took a more becom- ing pose. Hhe smiled at m, Alas! 1 hesitate the reason In @isclose! She smiled at me! I had + ~veat big streak of black across my nose— Bhe laughed at me! 333 Per Cent Discount. 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