Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1902, Page 6

AEEE——— ‘THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MOKNING. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Yei jbaily Hee and Bundag, Une Ye lllustrated Beée, Une Year. Bunday Bee, Ohe Year Baturaay Bee, One X “Twentieth Century Farme DELIVERED BY CAKMIE! “ Dally Bee (without Bunday), per cop} Daily Bee (Without bunday), per wee Lully Bee (Inciuding Sunda; Bunaay Bee, per copy.... . Evering Bee (without Bunday), per week.lu: Lvening Bee (mciuding sunaay), per week. Complaints of irregular; shoula be addressed to Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bul.ding, Bouth Omana—Ulty Hail Bullding, Twen- ty-nith and M Streets. Council Bluits—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—164 Unity Bullding. New York—Temple Court. Washington—501_Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and loditorial matier _shouid addressed: maha Bee, kditorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. letters and remittances ghould The Bee Pubiishing Com- ear.. R. ToEY 38ssss Bus!nes be adaressed: pany, Umaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by dratt, express or postal order, yable 1o The Bee Pubishing Lompany, ly 3-cent stamps accepled in payment uf mall accounts. Pummchwn.‘lxun‘:: or eastern exchanges, not acce| THE BEE PUBLIsSHING COIPA:Y. ITATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas Co George B. Tzschuck, ’l“oc‘rowy ol blishing Company, being ouly Rays that the sbtus numier o1 fuil and iy, Morning, 16... BURNRBRRPUREREESR TOtal cecirerrunnennns Lees unsold and returned \ | Net total sales. Net dally average. . TZSBCHUCK. Beore e this TR day ‘of Tue oA B isE ) %) it AT Notary Publle. . Judging by the scramble for places on Rthe police commission, one would im- ‘agine they pay out better than a gold anine. A legal nut to crack: How long does ph rule of res judicata hold good in any 'case before -the Nebraska supreme ‘court? e ! Invading the enemy's country Is OColonel Bryan's strong role, but some- ‘thow the same country has to be invaded every year. s As usual, both the big bruisers express confidence that they will win out. They are both sure to be winners at the ex- pense of the public. Se————— Oats this week is playing the top lige parts on the Board of Trade vaude- wille stage. Its antics are making the fraders feel their oats. Having gotten his j t tnto the plcture papers, the new sultan.of Zansl- bar may rest satisfled that he has reached the pinnacle of glory. —— Of course, the train robbery in Mexico that resulted in & haul of $50,000 was perpetrated by Americans. A job like that requires American foresight and ingenuity. E—— ‘When the Filipino insurgents stoop to the murder of school teachers sent over to assist them to better education they show how much need they have for the Instruction they refuse. aae——1 Dates for the congressional races in the ‘Second Nebraska district have not et (peen fixed, but entries are aiready registered that insure a fair start and e e —— Resolved, that none but business men put of politics are fit to manage the Omaha fire and police. Resolved, further, that we are business men out ot politics who want to get in p. d. q. e—— That military officer who s belng court-martialed for tmmersing Filipino patives in a pond must have been read- ing up omn the ancient history of the Omaha Claim club in palmy pioneer EEm—— If the line Is to be drawn at politiclans In the appointment of a governor's po- lice board for Omaha, It can be easlly proved that lots of people who count themselves In that class are no politl- clans at all. 1l SerETe——— When we bad municipal home rule the local cuttlefish organ was vehe- mently against it. Now that the right of municipal homde rule has been declared & shadowy myth, the cuttlefish organ is frantie for it. ‘L Emr———— If the governor will only sublet his board appointments so that one Is pamed by the Real Estate exchange, one by the Commercial club, one by the Bullders’ exchange and one by Tom Blackburn, he will be sure to keep the fire and police departments out of politics. | EEm—— The democratic campalgn in Missis- #ippl has just been opened with a speech by Senator D. H. Money, arraigning the n party-and appealing for dem- ocratic unity. Nothing in the dispatches indicates, however, that Senator Money sald anything about suppressing impor- tunate street car conductors. SEmsym——— Sir Oharles Dilke wants to encourage Amerjicad capital 1o embarking onter prises In Great Britain and in other British dominions, satisfied to rely on government supervision to keep in check sny evil disposition of these combines. As soon as the Americau promoters show them how the British capitalists will be adopting American plans. ANOTHER PROPHET WF KEVIL. Mr. Vilas of Wisconsin, who was in President Cleveland's cabinet ahd at that time prominent in the counclls ef the democratic party, is another prophet of eviL. To him the outlook for the country is gloomy and the only hope of the people Is In the democratic party. The great peril, -in the opinion of Mr. Vilas, is in protection of course. That policy, he urges, is responsible for the combinations and the people must strike it down. That was the advice of his party in 1802 and the people heeded it and elected a demoeratic president and congress. The result is not forgotten! Industrial and commercial disaster came. During the ensuilng three years it has been estimated that more than 3,000,000 people were unemployed and nearly an equal number were employed only part of the time, while wages'in every de- partment of Industry were reduced. Never before in our history was there such & period of financial and business demorallzation. There were trusts then, the real thing, but the democratic party did not at- tempt to Interfere with them. On the contrary it favored In its tariff bill of 1804 one of the most obnoxious of them, the Bugar trust. It enacted no legisla- tion against the trusts and. it made no effdrt to enforce the law enacted by a republican congress. The administra- tion of which Mr. Vilas was a member declared that law to be defective and inadequate and treated it as & dead letter. It is true that there has since been a great growth of combinations, but the Wisconsin statesman is perhaps aware of the fact that there are also combinations in England, where there is no protection. Mr. Vilas should also know that while the combinations have been multiplying here there has at the same time been a steady growth of in- dividual enterprises and that these are more numerous today than eight yeurs ago. The attempt to suppress industrial competition has thus far failed and it is the judgment of some of the most astute political economists that it can never be entirely successful. Mr. Vilas fears that all agriculture will be helplessly en- snared, “as it already is to no small ex- tent” How ensnared? Has there been a time when the agricultural pro- ducers of the United States were as. & whole better off than they are at pres- ent? All the products of the farm com- mand good prices and a ready market. Farm lands throughout the west bave materially advanced in value in the last few years and there is today an active demand for them. Tens of thousands of western farmers are out of debt and have money on hand_who five or six years ago ‘were paying interest on mort- gages and found it difficult to do that. Striking déwn protection in order to destroy the trusts would be much harder on individual industrial enter- prises than upon the combinations. In- deed it 1s doubtful if it would have any serious effect upon the latter, but there is no question that it would be damag- ing to the former. The republican plan is not to destroy, but to regulate. It proposes governmental supervision of the great combinations, not a policy of extermination that would be disastrous to all industries and immeasurably harmful to labor. One would rave the industrial structure, which has cost so much to build up. The other would pre- serve it under regulations that will in- sure its sound and healthy expansion. ————e—— MR. MERCER HAS THE FLOOS. In the recent public discussion of the candidacy of David H. Mercer for a sixth term in congress his champion, ‘Willlam F'. Gurley, failed to answer cer- tam specific questions put to him in the course nf the debate. Mr. Mercer has now fully recovered from the fatigue incident to his journey from Atlantic COity to Omaha and, doubtless, will cheerfully enlighten us on the.points that baffled Mr. Gurley's ingenuity and fertile resources. Calling Mr. . Mercer's attention to the questions propounded to Mr. Gurley and his evasive answers, it may not be%out of order to ask him to give us something more definite. Question—Will Mr. Mercer ltve in Omaha it he is not re-elected, or will he locate permanently in Washington and resume his old business as professional lobbyist? This question Mr. Gurley parried by declaring that he is not a mind reader. Question—Will Mr. Mercer be satisfled with a sixth term in congress, or will he want a seventh term, an eighth term and as many more terms as he can fll during the balance of his life? This question Mr. Gurley met by the bold declaration that the people of this district needed Mercer more than Mer- cer needed them. In other words, Mer- cer needs them only two months out of the year and they ought to be satisfled. Question—Is it true that Congressman Mercer pockets the allowance of $100 per month for clerk hire instead of giv- ing some Nebraska boy or girl a chance to earn the salary? About this subject Mr. Mercer’s cham- plon seemed to be dazed and the people still remain absolutely in the dark. Question—Why does Mr. Mercer make political deals for West Point and An- napolis cadetships while other congress- men leave these appolntments open for competitive examipation so that every boy who aspires to such an education can have an equal chence? This also staggered Mr, Gurley and falled to elicit & response. Question—Why did Mercer displace two Nebraska grand army veterans who were employed in the capitol building and substitute for them men who are not old soldiers and moreover are re- puted to bail from Minnesota? This inquiry stirred Mr. Gurley to most profound: indignation and in re- spomse he wanted to know why the editor of The Bee does not wear wooden shoes, dress In rags and go forth into the woods to make penance for the rest of his life. When Mr. Mercar condescends to en- lighten the voters of the Second district on all of these points & few more ques- tion through more equitable assessments the price of Omaha realty was largely ering of the tax rate would cause a cor- tend to stimulate capitalists to invest in Omaha property. pointments is peither the function nor any more than it would be the prov- ince of the Auditorfum association or the Biks lodge. Ostensibly police com- missions are presumed to be non-partl- san; In reality they are strictly politi- cal. Upon that rock other overambli- tious organizations have been stranded. confirms the well-defined rumor that vidually to bombard the governor with advice or remonstrance in connection 000, the United States contributes 30,000. produced 62,000,000 bushels. The same bushels, or about the yleld of Minnesota. ‘been s0ld by the Drexel estate to Adolph tions equally pertinent will be pro- pounded even at the risk of creating a corner in wooden shoes and bulling the | original with General Test, but would-be rag market. PLUNGING INTU THE POLITICAL FUDDLE Success, even In a moderate wey, has a tendency to swell some people’'s heads and make them long for new worlds to conquer. This is again forcibly illus- trated by the ill-advised effort of the Omaha Real Estate exchange to project itself Into the political arena by a plunge into the police commission puddle. Public sentiment, created by an un- divided press, enabled the Real Estate exchange to launch a successful move- ment for municipal tax reform In Omaha. The campaign for tax reduc- was perfectly legitimate and In line with the alms and purposes of the Real Estate exchange. The depreciation In due to excessive taxation and the low- responding rise In realty values and Meddling with police commission ap- the province of a real estate exchange If the Real Estate exchange foollshly its most active leaders have political axes to grind its Influence and useful- ness is sure to be destroyed within a very short time. To be sure, every good citizen s In- terested in good government. Every citizen bas an inallenable right indi- with the impending appointment of a new police board, but the Real Estate exchange as a commercial body would scarcely be justified In making frantic appeals to the govermor to make his choice from its own list of membership or from the membership of any other commercial organization. ol ¢ AMERICAN EMIGRATION TO OANADA, The recent large emigration from the United States to Oanada has attracted a good deal of attention. It is moted that in 1898 fewer than 10,000 Amer- icans crossed the border, while this year it is estimated that out of a total immigration into western Canada of 50,- A correspondent of the New York Even- ing Post says it has been predicted that we shall soon be pouring Americans into Canada at the rate of 200,000 a year, as we have so long been pouring them into our own northwest under a similar economic stimulation—the agri- cultural possibilities of western Canada. It s pointed out that last year Manitoba raised as much wheat as North Dakota and with the three territories of Al- berta, Saskatchewan and Assinibola, section will produce this year 75,000,000 The railroads to this portion of the Do- minfon are active In promoting its de- velopment and it has within the past year made notable progress. There is some speculation as to the ultimate effect which this emigration may bave upon the question of reciproc- ity with Canada. It is thought to be highly probable that the Americans who are settling In the western part of the Dominfon will in time become active agitators in behalf of reciprocity, and it is certainly reasonable to expect this, as they will naturally want the Amer- ican market for thelr products. It Is also believed that there may be devel- oped in our own northwest a much stronger sentiment than at present in favor of closer trade relations with our nucthern neighbor. There is not likely, however, to be any marked movement in this direction in the very near fu- ture, unless the question of reciprocity with Canada should become a subject of negotiation between the governments sooner than there is now any indication of. 'The people who are golng from the northwest to Canada are of & class that will push the development of the country and exert a good influence both industrially and socially. The Philadeiphla Public Ledger has 8. Ochs, chief owner of the New York Times, Philadelphia Times and Chatta- nooga Times. The Public Ledger bas long enjoyed & national reputation as an able, clean, trustworthy newspaper, Since the death of George W. Childs, who gave the paper its high character, it has been under the editorial man- agement of George W. Childs Drexel, who fully meaintained its reputation and augmented its value as a property. The new owner, Mr. Ochs, who has shown a high order of ability as a newspaper publisher, announces that there will be no change In the character or policy of the Public Ledger, so that those who have long known and esteemed this valuable journal will still find it worthy of confidence and support. Aeccording to the Lineoln Journal, Con- gressman Mercer has been undergoing the fatigue of a continuous ovation ever since he arrived in Omaba. Why the Omaha organ of the non-resident de- fendant fatled to take note of the fatiguing ovation is a mystery nobody in Omaha has been able to discover. eE————— Benator Bailey thoughtfully sent a let- ter to be read at the banquet of the New England Democratic league in- exhibition of forciNe language. It Is least equally welcome. ———mr—— According to Quartermaster General ".est, “the sun, moon and stars were set in the heavens for signs and for seasons and for days and years; the sun and moon also to give light upon the earth stead of attending in person to give an to be presumed thal Cae letter was at and to divide the day from the night.” This Information may not be strictly scientists who have not yet been able to prognosticate and diagnose the cause and consequences of the eruption of Mont Pelee and other unearthly nolses and noxious vapors will do well to take note of this and govern themselves ac- cordingly, always bearing in mind that there is nothing new under the sun, Senator Hill declares that the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Tilden does not need to be reorganized. Of course not. It Is the party of Bryan that Hill, Cleveland and their assoclates are try- ing to reorgnize. ———— Politics cut no figure in the member- Brookly: ‘We hear a great deal about the enormous prosperity of the trusts and we hear it especially from orators who tell the tarmers that the trusts are absorbing all the monay in the country. The census report tells another story, however..It shows that there are $20,000,000,000 of capital invested In farms and farm equipment, and that the income upon this investment averages 18.3 per cent. There is just one $1,000,000,000 trust In the country, the much dlscussed steel trust, and it would take fifty of the blggest combinations in existence to equal this capital of the farmers, while the truste whose dividends equal those made from the farms, are denounced from one end of the country to the other as octopl and various other Indigestible and noxious con- ship of the Omaha and Winnebago In- dian land grab combine. Democrats with a pull are just as eligible as repub- licans with a pull. E——— Still Not the Champlonship Beit. Milwaukee Sentinel. The most expensive belt of the season ls Jowa's rain belt, which bas cost the $6,000,000. Look Out for the Omelette Trust. ‘Washington Star. An Indlana man has invested $18,000 in eggs and intends to hateh 3,000,000 chiekens by means of incubators. The omelette trust is evidently at hand, What's the Matter with Traocy. Chicago Record-Herald. Owing to the fact that he is tired out and can’t run as fast as he could at the start, fen’t getting many Recognizing the progressive spirit of the age, the Haytians have brought their revo- lution industry up to date. It is now a continuous performance instead of semi- annual. God Save the Corpse. New York World. The silverites are threatening all sorts of disaster to the democratic party unless it follows their bidding. It was bad enough for populism to steal the democratic or- ganization; it is ungrateful of them to treat it so cruelly. After leading it to two over- whelming defeats they should at least have mercy enough not to jump on the remains. Kitohener's Rare Qualities. New York Times. Lord Kitchener passes next to the com- mand of the army in India, and his path would seem to be clear to the post of com- mander-in-chief. The office has never seen, not even in the time of Wellington, a man who, #o far as his career discloses, combines ig such degree the qualities of a commander, an organizer and a states- man. An Interesting Situatiom. Indlanapolls Journal. The statement issued by the participants in the New York conference shows that we are to have two reorganized democratic parties—on reorganized democratic party from which populists and Bryanites will be excluded, and the other a reorganized democratic-populist party from which Grover Cleveland, David B. Hill and all former sound money democrats who do not publicly recant @re to be excluded. This will make an Interesting situation. i What Texas ie ing This Year, Chicago Chronicle. Texas bas a traditional reputation for wildness and woolliness, but it must be said to the credit of its fruit growers that they are above the ‘contemptible small rascality which characterizes the horti- culturists of some supposedly more en- lightened nelghborhoods. The Texas peafhes which are coming into this mar- ket are good, honest fruit and they have no pink mosquito netting over them. TI same thing cannot be sald for the Michi- gan product, which out due. Returning Immigrants, Philadelphia Record. Those who profess so much concern about immigration do not reflect that twenty years ago, when the volume was as great as it is now, there were few immigrants who returned to their homes. Now nearly every steamship returning to Europe car- ries back considerable numbers of these immigrants goltg bome, some of them for a permanent stay. Through cheap steam- ship transportation the world's intercourse is increasing, to the great advancement of civilization. e e ‘ PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, John Willis Baer, for many years secre- tary of the United Soclety of Ohristian Budeavor, has resigned to accept the post of associate secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. Alejandro Oarland, who has just been elected by Peru ae its representative at the St. Louls World's fair, represented that country in the first congress of the Philadelphla Commercial museum. There are 139 Methodist Episcopal churches in Chicago; ninety-eight congre- gations are English-speaking, eighteen Swedish, thirteen German, eight Norwe- glan and Danish and two Bohemian. The report that comes from Washington of the resuscitation of a boy who had been under water at Anglesea, N. J., nearly half an hour, shows the importance of not g'v- ing up in attempting to restore life to & person apparently drowned. Albert W. Payne of Bangor, Me., is pos- sibly the oldest practicing lawyer in the country. He is 90, still writes a legible hand and docs his own office work. Be- sides his regular law practice he is com- nected in an official capacity with many corporations. Prof. J. H. Beale of the Harvard law school has been granted a leave of ab- sence sufficiently long to undertake the work of organlzing & new law school founded at the Chicago university by John D. Rockefeller. It will be on lines similar to those of Harvard. Ralph Voorhees, the blind philanthropist of Clinton, N. has informed Coe col- lege, & Presbyterian institution at Cedar Rapids, Mich., that he has 000 for then. He has also just closed a deal for 300 acres of land in South Carolina, om which he will establish an. industrial school for boys. . Trephining the skull is known as a prob- able treatment used by preh! ric sur- geons. The anclent practice still survi in Helanesla, & Rev. J. A. Crump ports that nath of New Britain treat fractures from slingstones by trephining with a plece of shell or a flake of obsidisv. In 50 per cent of the cases recovery fol- lows in two or three weeks. Secretary Shaw was one of the ploneers iz the development of the rice-growing Industry in western Loulsiana and eastern Texas. The governor and his associates purchased large tracts of land in the vi- claity of Beaumont (where still owns & half interest in a rice plantation of 8,000 acres) and when the oll boom came & year ago the land values Ilemu:‘ by lemps and bounds. It is sald that the boom has already brought Governor Shaw ® fortune of more than $800.000. traptions. This prosperity is shown to be a steady and rapid growth on a bedrock foundation which all but & few of the trusts must envy. There are four times as many farms in the oountry as there were half & century ago, and there were a quarter more in 1900 than in 1890, while for the last twenty years the average size as well as the number of farms bas steadily in- creased. The value of farm products has grown even faster than the number of farms. The value s five times mow what it was in 1850, while the increase during the last dozen years has been considerably more than a quarter. The value of farm products for 1399 was almost $5,000,000,000 and the increase over that reported for 1880 was over $2000,000,000, although a good part of that is accounted for by the more careful emumeration required under the Iatest cemsus. A detall which shows the extent to which the American people are meat eaters is the statement that nearly $2,000,000,000 of this output was of animal products, while a little over $3,000,- 000,000 was of crops; the percentage being 26 of animal products to 64 of vegetable. These are mighty figures. This piling up of capital and product in billions would IN SEARCH OF A PLATFORM. Distressing Dilemma in Which the Democratic Party Finds Itself. Milwaukee Wisconsin. David Bemnett Hill's celebrated dectara- tion, “I am a democrat,” is a definition that needs defining. Almost any balf-dosen of democrats of national reputation, selected at random, and asked to say what a demo- crat s, would give half a dozen radically difterent replies. William Jennings Bryan is now on his way to Boston, where he will epeak at a banquet to be given next Thursday night by the New England Democratic league. His subject will be “The Basis of Har- mony” and it is an open secret that he will sall into the speech which ex-President Cleveland addressed to the democrats of the Tilden club at New York a fow weeks ago. Meanwhile another well known demo- crat, Henry W. Watterson, is freely uttering his mind from time to time in the columns of the Leulsville Courier-Journal. * From his standpoint, neither Cleveland nor Bryan can be relled upon to truly state the faocts as to what democracy is, or to frame a policy for the party in the next national campalgn. The democrats are split on the money question and on the question of {mpertalism, so-called. In regard to the trust fssue, the administration of President Roosevelt, using the weapon of the Sherman law, long ago supplied for such emergencles by repub- lican statesmanship, 1s challenging the meat trust and the raflroad trust to show cause why they should not.be punished when they disregard the law's plain mandate of “Thus far shalt thou go and ho further.” What chance will the democratic party have to make an issue against the repub- liean party on the subject of trusts? There 18 only one thing which the demo- cratic party if restored to power eould bo depended upon to do and that is to play hob with the tariff, thereby playing hob with American industrial prosperity. Its blundering, mischief-making propensities are so well known that the peopls will give it no chance to exercise them. The discussion of “What Is a democrat?™ 1s ltkely to “hold the boards” for some ttme. The most recent contribution to the sub- ject s & letter of learned lemgth and thundering sound addressed by ex-Senator Willlam F. Vilas to A. F. Warden, chair- man of the democratic state central com- mittee. In four newspaper columns of fine ‘type the ponderous ex-senator gives a pass- ing glance to other topics, but concentrates his powers for.an attack upon the tariff. It was by an assault upon the protective tariff, in which Senator Vilas led, that the democratic party succeeded in carrying ‘Wisconsin for Grover Cleveland in 1892, and now, ten years later, remembering his former success, but forgetting what fol- lowed it, the ex-senator comes confidently forward to Tepeat his old play. But the people hi a very keen recollection of the consequences that they Jbrought upon the country and themselves by accepting the political leadership of Willlam F. Vilas in 1892, Like a nightmare there rises before them a vision of smokeless chimneys and closed factories and broken banks, of un- employed workmen and starving women and children, of free soup houses, where such as had previously been too prosperous and too proud to think of accepting alme, were glad to take from the hand of charitv what was required to stay the gnawing of hunger. That is the grewsome picture which rises before the mind's eye when an intelligent workingman listens 'to the volce of ex- Senator Vilas assalling the American pro- tective tariff. The policy for which Vilas and Cleveland stand has been tried and found wanting. It the democratio party wants to attract votes it must put inte its platform something more alluring than that. RECALLS OVERLAND TRAIL. of Fort Laramie, Which Fig- Famously in Earlier Days, Louis Globe-Democrat. The opening of the Fort Laramie reserva- tion, which was dealt with by an act of con- gress at the recent session of congress, will recall to the memory a jandmark which bundreds still living saw and which tens of thousands still alive knew lu the Indian stories of & third or a balf a century ago. Fort Laramie, situated in the eastern part of the present Wyoming, an Laramie riv close to its entrance into the North Pl X was bullt in 1834 by Willlam L. Sublette of 8t. Louls and Robert Campbell, well-known fur dealers of their day, bad ral names and several successive owners, was bought by the government in 1849, was garrisoned maoy years as a protection to immigrants pessiag through that reglon, but was abcadened when the appearance of the rall- loads and e disappearance of the Indians in their savage state abolished its occup: tion. It was the best known fromtier post, fur trading or army, of the old days of the Santa Fe, Oregon, California and Salt Lake trails, except Fort Leavenworth or Beot's Fort, on the Arkansas. Fort Laramie was familiar to everybody who in the 40s, 60s or 80s of the recent century traversed th regon or Salt Lake tralls. Over in the western end of the present Wyoming Jim Bridger bullt & fur trading post in 1842, on Black’s fork of the Green river. On the Oregon trail between these two polats, but & little nearer to Bridger than to Laramie, at an opening sep- arsting the Bweet Water from the Wind Passts ured Prosperity of the Farmer n Bagle. open the eyes of farmers in amasement If it were mouthed forth in sounding periode by a grange orator about the trusts. The design of the gOR! to convince the farmers that the trusts are orushing the lives out of plain citizens, ought to be made difficult by this census report. There are indications, indeed, that the facts which these figures tell have made agitation un- popular. Free silver is dead, the popu- lists are no longer prosperous enough to divide Into hostlle camps, d agitation against the rich is now morp largely con- fined to large cities and to regions where many men are employed by corporations than It was in either the campaigns of 1896 or 1900. This is because the farmers have felt this prosperity which the census now records. Wbhen dollars were jingling in the farmers’ pockets they did not want them of the Mexican variety. That good crops killed free silver has been apparent for some time, but the extent of the pros- perity of the farmers has not been known in detall before. This census showing only comes down to the year 1900, and in- cludes the dull years In the early part of the Iast decade. Other reports indicate that the growth since the census was taken ‘was even more rapid than In years preceding. The country is passing through an era of wnexampled prosperity and thes figures show that the farmers are’ getting fully their share of good things. That is as 1t should be, and the effect of it upon colning political campaigns must be great. Change for the sake of change is not popu- e thess, and the calamity would be laughable in the face of such figures. An anti-trust eam- paign is foreshadowed for two years hence, but these figures indioate that to be nue- cessful it should be a campaign for mend- ing rather than ending these combinations; & demand for regulation rather than aboll- tion. river mountains, sectfons of the great Rocky mountain chain, stood the South pass, the gateway to the Pacific slope. Through that portal—made kmown popularly to the world through Fremont's report of his ex- ploration of 1843, which had been visited by many other white persons long before Fremont's time, including Dr. Marcus Whit- man and Rev, H. H. Spalding and their ‘wives In 1836, and which was probably trav- ersed for the first time by white men when some of Andrew Henry's trappers went through it in 1824—passed most of the buman tide which surged from the east and the Mississippi valley futo the present states of Oregon, Washington and California by the overland route in the early days. Most persons who went over the Oregom, Salt take and California tralls knew Fort Lara- mie. Beyond it on the western course the mountainous region began. It was the last fitting-out place of importance wntil the con- tinental divide was passed. Fremont, who visited it fn his explora- tion of 1843, gives a good description of Fort Laraniie in his report. One of the other things which Fremont did in that report was to destroy that myth of a great American desert, which was based on the reports of Pike, Long and one or two of Irving’s books. Fremont made a careful record of distances between fording places in rivers, pointed out good places in which to camp, showed that cattle could thrive on the alleged American desert, and men- tioned the physical advantages of the lo- cation of Laramie as a fur trading post on the route of immigration toward the Pa- cific slope, The most vivid pictures in Parkman's ‘‘Oregon Trall’’. are those .of Fort Laramie as be saw It in 1846. 'riters of Indlan ‘tales from Fremont's and Park- man's time often made this post a promi- nent rallying point in their storfes. It was the center of many romantic amd tragic events in the history of the fron- tler, some of them more remarkable even than the story writers of its located in and around it. it was the site of a reservation for many years, and this, too, is soon to disappear. Fort Laramie has dropped out with the buffalo and the In- dian, but the passing of the reservation at that point will recall to the memory of the few survivors of those who saw it in its great days and to the memory of many thousands of those who read of it when It was the center of the wild life of the plains, one of the most interesting of all the landmarks of the vanished frontier. Fun Ahead in Nebraska. ‘Washington Star. Mr. Bryan is to take the stump in Ne- braska. He will add materially to the spirit of the campaign. He did right in declining to make the race for governor, but he owes to his friend who was nominated the full -aseistance of his name and eloquence. PBryanism, in fact, is the lssue. Through Mr. Bryan's influence the popullsts have again cast their fortunes with the demo- crats, and now if fusion has left in it the power of control the sage of Lincoln must bring it out. . Mr, Bryan was not able to hold his state in 1900, but he contends that the situction is more favorable now. We shall see. If he falls sgaln at home he will necessarily suffer in prestige. His greatest remaining strength s where democracy is mixed with populiem. If he carries Nebrasks this year he will take full credit for the yictory and may be expected to lupge st the Clevelandites with mere vigor than ever. . Meanwhile he is to tour New England, and probably he will sound in the enemy's country the nmote we shall hear with variations later in the region of the Platte, MORE CROPS THAN POLITICS, Why the Western Farmers Favor Letting Well Encush Alone. Baltimore American. The director of the United States mint, Mr. George Roberts, having just returned from & western trip and from a visit to Towa, declares that, while there is a fair supply of politics In that region this sum- mer, there is much more interest in the crops. It is diffcult to realize the wonder- ful change that has taken place in agricul- tural conditions through the greater part of the west within the past few years. Bank accounts have taken place of farm mortgages, betfer houses and barns have been erected, better stock purchased, and the farmers have become buyers as well as sellors. Many of them have added new acres to their large farms, and even & eeason that does not come up to ex- pectations faile to, cause those heavy losses which were certain In the days when the same farmers had ha:d work to keep their property away from the hands of the sherift. La#t senson, owing to the corn shortage, was not up to the average of the past four years, but as prices were high the farmers who had any corn at all made money and wound up the year with their finances in good condition this time the whole west w: continued drouth, while thia year there has been too much rain and storms that have swept over a large extent of territory and caused some severe losses. At the same time, unless the unexpected happens, a corn and wheat yield above the average can be looked for, and, with steady de- mand, an assuranee of good prices, the farmer feels sure of a falr reward for his year's work. In view of this, it is no wonder that politics is a secondary consideration in the immense agricultural districts of the west. The sentiment of a vast majority of the people is with the present administration, and there is no desire for any revolution in the national government. Bryan is weil nigh forgotten, as these farmers, with rich crops all about them, decline to believe the as Bryan would tell them, they are tho shackled slaves of some great money power that is ruling this government and all connected with it. There are a number of state elections to be held in the west the coming fall, in addition to the election of congressmen; so long before November things political will become much livelier than they are at present. Just now the farmer is thinking more about the harvest than he is about politics, and it is far better for him that this should be so. ———— JRST IN FUN. Life: Sport—Automobiling is not lkely to_endure as a sport. o #0 shy that it's le ure already luck than skill when any- op matter of y is run do Tit_Bits: ‘“Well, Frits, you got birched in_school today?” “Yes, but it didn’t hurt.” ‘But you certainly have been oryl “Oh, { wanted fo let the teacher Mttie pleasure out of it.” Chicago News: Deacon Johnsing—No, Bredder Smif, we cain’t all be powahful. You must be containted to be a “hewer ob wood an’' & drawah ob watah.” Misto Smif—Laws sabe you, honey, 'tain’t #0 bad as dat. De ole woman does all dem little chores. ng?" ave a Town Topics: “What does Bunting use when he goes trout fishing?"’ asked Cumso. "“Hook and lyin’,”” replied Cawker. Yonkers Statesman: Foot Light—8he has been playing the part of Little Eva ever since she was a little girl, us! alan't know Sue Brette—Gracious “Uncle Tom's Cabin” was as old as that! Phiiadeiphia Press: Tommy—I want some chocolate dro Shopmnn~—] son? Tommy—I want enough; how much'll that come to? Cathoilc Standard: Borroughs—Say, lend me a fiver, will you? ‘Lenders—Look 1t yow'd only save your own money you wouldn’t have to bor- row from your friends. ‘Borroughs—Huh! It's becauss T want to save my own money that I do berrow from my friends. “KEEP-A-TRYIN'” SIGNBOARDS. ow much do you want, my Roy Farrell Greene in Success. “My boy," said Uncle Hiram, *you'll soon starting out, To drive o'er life’s long roadway, and oft & bit of doubt Will pussie you completely, as to which you'd wursue Of, branching ways, when roads fork out, “as they're inciined to do. Bach bears the equal marks of well-worn travel, like as not, And so, one's undecided which he'd better choose to trot; But I have learned the route, my boy, and thus much I'll cohfess— "Keep a-tryin' ' signboards mark the highway to “Buccess 18 such a pretty town—to reach though, growing less ve— rter cuts through ighway that they find it ed, as you go on, by finger o5 ucoess. your mind impress— ‘Keep a-tryin'’' signboards mark the highway to Buccess. “The road that runs through Waitingville has prospects bright and fafr, When first your start, but farther on, it through swamipe of Care, And, after that, you'll have to climb the weary hill of Debt Then, still beyond, there looms®in view the tol gate of Regret. And so, my boy, when starting on the road of Life alone, The route your Uncle Hiram chose I trust you'll make your d e own, lain - directions, if you'd An his quite avold distress; The ‘Keep a-tryin'’ signboards mark the highway to Buccess 25¢, 36¢c and 50c¢ qualities price of 25 per cent and 50 per dren’s department. department. Prowning ANOTHER Friday Special. This time it's sox—fancy ones— and a great bix gelection to choose from. 25¢ a Pair, for Friday Only. - 33 1-8 per cent discount on broken lines in men’s NO OLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. Store closes at 9 p. m. Baturdays. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. 8. Wiicex, Manuger. . All of our included in one lot-at one cent discount in eur chil- — .