Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 28, 1902, Page 4

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Remit by draft, express or postal order, yable 10 The Bn Publishing Compuny; nly d-cent stamps acoe n payment mall accounts, THODAL emu, except on ©Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted, THE Blk PUBLISHING COMPANY. e B STATEMENT OF CXRCULAT]ON. tate of Nebrasl las Coun 3 Gesrgs B Firehucn secrotary 1 The Hee Publishing Company, being auly “wmd says that the actual number ol full an gomplete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee pnmed during the month of June, 198, ollows: s 33433 SERNERPBBEEEE fess unsold and returned coples. Net total sales. Net datly -m-u.,. TZBCHUCK. AM sworn_to b-ron me mu e f R D., 1902. (Beal.) %8 'fl"t'lxm-r'b Notary Pul , Isn't Congressman Mercer running up & rather heavy bill with the hold-up press? \ While the market house question is in the courts, the market house is In the street. . Another eruption from Judge Gordon Is needed to fill the cup of the season's Rovelties. @ e ——— The campaign in Nebraska is not yet started. The politicians have to wait on the crops. ‘When the oleomargarine law gets into the courts there should be no need of greasing the wheels of justice. p——— Raflroad_¢éarnings for July increased 25 per cent over the same period of 1901. And the tax bureau Insists the railroads .are overtaxed. S——————— It this keeps on, it will take balf a dozen lawyers and several judges to stralghten out the kinks in our county bond refunding muddle. e Senator Beveridge of Indlana and Benator Balley of Texas are billed to speak from the stump in the same Texas district. The referee has not yet been appointed. e—— The Omaba Indians plainly object to the benevolent assimilation of their property by the Indian land-leasing’ ring operating on thelr reservation with _tho collusion of the agency officers. EE—— Six men were executed last| Friday in Arkansas, each for murder of which they had been convicted. The notable feature of this wholesale hanging bee 18 that two of them were white men. e———— No jolnt campalgn committee for the Nebraska fusionists. That might inter- fere with the pretense that the allied reform forces continue to be a union of separate and distinct political parties. p———— Give Acting Mayor Karr credit for performing the exacting duties of chjet executive of this great and growing city for nearly a month with consclentious vegard for the demands of the position. EEr—— Gossip about probable candidates for the speakership in the event the demo- crats should gain control of the lower house of the next congress is slightly premature. First catch your hare~and then cook it. E——— Missouri democrats have this year re- afirmed the Kansas City platform In two successive state conventions. They are evidently afraid that the people would not think they meant it if they declared themselves only once. Co———— If Omaha is to have a live newspaper in the shape of an officlal Rallroad Ga- mette, the soomer it puts in an appear- ance the better. Experiments in that direction, however, have not proved very remunerative or effective. seEmm————— The salary of members of the fire and police commission is fixed by law at $800 & year. Under ordinary conditions such a position would not be attractive Assurances have been secured of an elaborate officlal exhibit at the Loulsi- ana Purchase exposition by the Chinese gevernment. Tha other henevolent DOES DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTE? The latest bulletin of the raliroad tax burean presents an exhibit of compara- tive values between census takers' esti- mates and assessors’ returns in Dawson county, together with tables showing the dependence of the settlers in that tegion upon the forced contributions exacted from the Unlon Pacific toward maintaining county and school govern- ment. Assuming this exhibit to-be cor- rect, the Union Pacific pays over $12,500 in school taxes on its main line in Daw- son county and pays an average of 46 per cent of the entire taxes of the school distriets through which it runs. It Is also asserted that the total taxes pald by rallroads in Dawson county in 1803 was $20,108.06, as against $34,080.88 paid In Dawson county in 1801. These figures are cited as striking proof of the benefits of distribution to the western countles and the emormity of the de- mand for the higher assessment of rail- road property in the state at large. One-sided comparative exhibits may satisfy the raflroad tax bureay, but they will scarcely deceive in t taxpay- ers. Thxes under the tution , of Nebraska are imposed upon property in proportion to its value. Dawson county is in the semi-arid regiom, sparsely set- tled and devoted chiefly to cattle raising. The Union Pacific main line in that county 1s a fraction over forty-five miles long and its actual value, exclu- sive of its land grant, upon which it is expected to pay taxes the same as the other owners of lands, excegds by far the value of all other property in the county. The bunco game of distribu- tion must be apparent on & glance at the following figures. In 1891 the Union Pacific was as- sessed In Dawson county for $515,600. The same mileage was assessed in 1801 for $441,686, or a shrinkage of $73914. ‘Will anyone In the rallroad tax bureau explain why the Union Pacific assess- ment in Dawson county should have shrunk 14 per cent since 1891, when the road was on the verge of bankruptcy, while today it is gilt-edged at $100,000 per mile for every mile? Forty-five miles of{Union Pacific road are worth not less than $4,500,000 and, assessed at one-sixth as the average of other property in Dawson county, it should be paying taxes on $750,000 in- stead of $441,000. Where does the dis- tribution of the value of the terminals, depots and other improvements made since 1891 come in? It is a matter of record in the maxi- mum rate case that the terminals of the Unlon Pacific at Omaha are valued at not less than $10,000,000 by the owners of the road and are leased out for joint use by other roads on about that basis. The Union Pacific bridge, which was formerly assessed at $125,000 in Doug- las county, supposed to have been dis- tributed since 1000, now figures in the assessment as one-sixth of a mile, or $1,566. Auditor Weston admitted on the witness stand that the value of this bridge was not considered in the grand distribution, but no evidence exists that anything has ever been distributed to Dawson county or any other county. The juggle with census takers' esti- mates s hardly worth noticing. The census enumerators wanted Dawson county to make a good showing of wealth and they returned it. The as- sessors on the other hand returned what they actually found. Suffice it to say that, while the assessmerit of all other property in Dawson county has beéen raised in 1002 over-1901, the property of the rallroads is assessed at the same old figures and way below its assessments of ten years ago, notwithstanding its constantly increasing value. - In Douglas county the rallroad assess- ment for 1001 was $004,704, while the assessment In 1891 was $772,611 In other words, notwithstanding that sev- eral million dollars had been expended since 1891 for improvements, there was a shrinkage in the assessment of $77,007. It all these millions invested in Dmldn county terminals have been distributed, will anyone point out where? e A SOUTHERN OPINION. Mr. Hoke Smith, who was secretary of the interior in the Cleveland admin- istration and who supported Bryanism in 1900, is no longer a follower of the man who twice led the democratic party to disastrous defeat. In a recent inter- view he sald that in 1806 the Chicago platform barely represented a majority of the democratic voters of the south. “In 1900 it represented decidedly a mi- nority, but it was deemed best to let Bryan have his remomination without opposition and & platform to suit him- self,” sald the Georgla democratic leader. “His utter fallure,” he added, “after getting both, to accomplish anything was the most effectual way to relieve the democratic party from his influence. The democrats of the east may con- fidently rely upon cordial co-operation in 1904 from the democrats of the south. In our own state convention we adopted a platform omitting all ref- erence to the Kansas City platform or to the last candidate, It was a distinct triumph for conservatism, & distinet abandonment of the platform and can- didate of 1896 and 1900.” We noted a few days ago the state- ment of a prominent southern demo- crat that the south was steadily drift- ing away from Bryanism and getting ready to'repudiate the leader in the last two presidential campaigns. The statement of Mr. Hoke Smith empha- sizes fact. The intelligent and the progressive men of the south, there is abundant evidence, want nothing more to do with the financial and political here- sles and the populistic doctrines em- braced in the term Bryanism. They bave learned from the logic of events the utter fallacy of the principles and policies championed by the popocratic leader of the democracy for the past six years and they are not disposed to follow him any longer. He still has ad- berents in that section, as shown by the fact that the democratic conventions of three southern states have reaffirmed alleglance to the Kansas Oity platform, but there is no doubt that a majority of inteligent and conservative southern THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: democrats are heartily tired of Bryan- fém In all {ts phases and will be found two years hence, in the national conven- tion of the party, working earnestly and determinedly for its renunciation. It is already apparent that the utter- ances of Mr. Bryan in the east are strengthening the opposition to him. His speech at Nantasket demonstrated anew his implacable hostility to those demo- crats who did not support him in the campaigns of 1806 and 19000 and his conceited idea tbat he alone represents the true principles of democracy. In view of the antagonism to Bryanism al- réady developed in the democratic party it seems an cntirely safe prediction that the “peerless leader” will not be an important factor in the democratic national convention of 1004 In that case will he support the candidates of the cpnvention or become the leader and candidate of a bolting faction? S——— PARTISAN COLUR BLINDNEMNS. Fusionists should appeal to the sober and enlightened judgment of the people to support their principles and candidates, and nothing is to be gained In adopting republican methods of characterizing t candidates of the opposition as per- sonally dishonest and unworthy of bellef because they do not agree with us. There are honest men in all political parties and the journal that constantly asserts that all men who fall to agree with the party of which it is an advocate, are dishonost, can- not exercise a very wile Influence aimong thoughtful men.—Ex-Senator Allen's Mad- ison Mall. This is refreshing coming as it does fromi a source high In the councils of the fusionists who have constantly gone to the extreme of personal abuse In their political compaigning. Every re- publican candidate for office and every- one championing republican candidates in Nebraska Is regularly blackwashed by the principal popocratic organs under an arraignment that runs the whole gamut of the vocabulary. Even now, although the republican press has been singularly respectful in referring to the personal characteristics of the men on the opposition ticket, the popocratic pop guns have already begun to shoot away at the republican candidates and indulge In viliification .according to methods peculiarly popocratic rather than republican. There are honest men in all political partles and there are dishonest. men in all political parties, but ne more hidebound, color-blind par- tisan press seeing everything bad and nothing good outsidé of its own party is to be found anywhere than right among the fusion organs in Nebraska. E———— CANADIAN CUMPETITION. There appears to be substantial foun- dation for the report that the Canadian Pacific rallroad is prepared to enter into ecompetition with the Atlantic steamship combine, if it shall recelve encourage- ment from the British government in the way of subsidies. The proposition submitted by the officials of the Cana- dian railroad through the representa- tives of Canada now in London is evi- dently faken seriously by the British government and there is every indica- tion that it {s proposed to give it care- ful consideration. The plan is accorded cordial commendation by the leading London newspapers, some of which profess to see in it an adequate offset to the so-called American shipping trust. The profound Interest that has been shown In England regarding the At- lantie shipping combine and the appre- hension created there that it would prove disastrous to British trade, war- rants the bellef that the proposition of the Canadian Pacific railroad to es- tablish a competing line of steamships from Canadian ports will be encour- aged by the British government. It is obviously a practicable way out of the dllemma that s confronting the govern- ment by reason of the absorption of British steamship lines between the United States and England by the Mor- gan syndicate and the British govern- ment could very well afford to pay a liberal subsidy for its realization. The railroads expect to keep rallroad taxation out of the Iowa republican convention through the fact that the State Board of Assessment will not have finished its work and the argu- ment that the convention should make no declaration in ignorance of what action the board may take. The as- sessment will have been made, however, before the democrats hold their state convention and should the railroad as- sessment be made In defiance of the general demand for more equitable taxa- tlon the democrats can inject the issue into the campalign whether the repub- licans take & stand on it or mot. If the Iowa republicans do not meet the fssue this year, they will surely have to face it next year when the present state officers will seek re-election. Colonel Bryan in the backwoods of Maine says he denounces the doctrine that a nation or & man can go so far a8 to be unable to retrace the step. In this he has special reference to the American policy in the Philippines forced on us by the peace treaty which was ratified ounly by the active efforts of Mr. Bryan himself in its bebalf «ith democratic and populist senators with- out whose votes the islands could not have been annexed. The trouble is that the step taken when this treaty was ratified cannot be retraced any more than the election of 1806 can now be reversed. Our Philippine policy of course could be changed, but it could be changed only so far as conditions permit and present conditions will not permit any radical change. Nebraska voters will express them- selves in the coming election for or against the constitutional amendment agreed to by the last legislature against which Governor Dietrich under a mis- taken idea attempted to Interpose & veto. At the time this veto was pro- claired The Bee called attention to the questionable exercise of the veto pewer citing the constitution and the decisions in support of the contention that the amendment has properly passed all the preliminary stages and must be duly MONDAY, JULY 28, 1902. submitted on the official ballot this year. The position of The Bee has been fully sustained by the opinion given by the deputy attorney general In response to inquiry by the secretary of state and the proposed amendment will soon be up to the voters. Governor Bavage is now being impor- tuned to select as members of a new police commission parties who can be depended on to antagonize The Bee and the majority of the republican party of this city which for thirty years has firmly supported its course. It is not claimed that those who advocate such a course are inspired by a desire to fos- ter harmony and bring about republican success in this year's campaign. No- body will blame the demo-pops for mani- festing deep Interest as well as great anxlety to foment diseord and encourage factional strife among the republicans. That is good politics from the demo-pop standpoint. e———— Republicans of the Second Nebraska district are still patiently waliting for a frank and specific response to the perti- nent questions propounded to their non- resident congressman which his plat- form champion fafled or was unable to answer. Em—— Don’t Forget the Watchword, Cleveland Leader. “Keep on letting well enough alone™ That is to be the watchword In this year's campalgn. Waste of e Eloquence, Philadelphla Ledger. Only about a dozen congressional speeches are to be distributed as campaign litera- ture, showing what an immense amount of eloquence was wasted in congress last ‘winter. Fruits of that Omnibus BilL Loulsville Courfer-Journal. The office of the supervising architect of the treasury is crowded with work on the plans of 185 new government bullding Evidently there is to be throughout t country an epldemic of architectural ugli- ness. Color of Colonel Bryan’s Glasses, New York Tribune. Colonel Bryan is still trying to look at national prosperity through thick blue glasses, but for so emineritly flourishing a publisher and farmer as he describes him- self, it must be a constant effort to keep the color in the glasses always at the propgr depth of blu Getting Their Eyes Open. Philadelphia Inquirer. That our British friends should be ap- pointing commissions to find out why they are losing trade and how they can regain it is an' indication that they are at last gotting their eyes open to the fact that something is wrong with them and that it behooves them to wake up and “‘get a move on them™ if they wish to avoid being left hopelessly behind in the commercial race. That s something. It is not, however, enough. It is only a beginning. There re- mains to discover and apply the remedy. ‘With the start he has got in South Africa, as elsewhere, Uncle Sam may be trusted to glve Cousin John a good run for his money. The Only Aristoer: Buffalo Express. Evidently Mr. Bryan s not so much afraid of aristocrats as he pretends. The truth is that the only aristocracy in Amer- ican politics was fostered by the demo- cratic party and the Felics of it still con- stitute the principal element of democratic power. It was the aristocracy which was baged on negro slavery. It tried to disrupt the union in order to maintain {teelf. And the remnant that remains of it is still working for the restriction of the franchise and is claiming and enjoying a representa- tion in congress in which the vote of one of its specially favored citizens counts for as \much as four or five ordinary men. If Mr. Bryan is golng to weed aristocracy out of the democratic party, that is the element for him to begin with. Yet he has stood hand in glove with that element through two campaigns. . Keeping 16 to 1 Green, Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The dublous distinction of singling out the 16 to 1 plank of the Kansas City plat- form for special indorsement has been re- served for the democrats of Missourl. In this strange performance they are at least true to the memory of the late Mr. Bland Governor Stone' desire to succeed Benator Vest in the United States senate. Presumably no dem- ocrat could hope to enter the senate from Missourl who was not true to the monetary principles still embraced by the rural de- mocracy of that commonwealth. If there are many men in the south who still be- lieve in African slavery—and Editor Wat- terson says that there are—it may be premature to expect the heart of the Mis- sourl democracy to grow cold toward the sacred ratlo so soon after the great d feats which it has sustained In national politics. FORECLOSURE ERA PAST. Trafio in Western Farm Mortgages No Lenmer an Active Industry. Minneapolis Times. A few years ago trafic in farm mortgages was & thriving industry throughout the west and, in fact, in every agricultural section of the union. The agent who loaned other people's money on farm land security and the lawyer who officiated at the obse- quies—that is to say, the foreclosures thrived and fattened. Kansas ‘was the typical farm mortgage state. The epldemic first made its appear- ance in that community, raged there a little more flercely than.it did clsewhere, and the farmors were longer in recovering from its effects. Good crops and good prices have worked wonders, however, and now business is dull for lawyers who 'make mortgage foreclosures a speclalty. In one county in the central part of the state—an average county with a population of about 22,000—there were 136 mortgages foreclosed In 1892, In 1893 there were 96; in 1894, 57; in 1895, 72; in 1896, 40; In 1897, 67; in 1898, 36; in 1899, 16; in 1900, 24; In 1901, 10, and thus far in 1802 only two. So runs the record all through the state. There is an lmmense amount of money loaned on lands in Kansas, but it is offered on long time at low interest rates. Ne comers and the younger gel tion of mative-born are borrowers, but their mort- gages are released by payment and not through the courts. The “mortgage history” of Kansas i» greaily similar to that of pearly every other western state, except that the Sunflower state was a little more heavily burdened than any of the others save, possibly, Ne- braska. In very many cases the value of the land was less then the money loaned on it, and the “poor farmer” was not the sufferer, but the man who surrendered his and sister west have passed the farm mortgage fore- closure stage and the farmers of the Mis- siseippi basin are the most prosperous busi- ness men in the Jand. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Lynch Journ: Who Is Mickey? The next governor of Nebraska and as fine a man as ever turned a furrow on a Nebraska farm. Monroe Republican: Fusion papers say that Mickey is a better man than his party. ‘Which goes to show that the republican state convention made no mistake in se- lecting & standard-bearer. Kearney Hub: John H. Mickey has un- doubtedly struck a popular chord or struck the popular fancy as & candidate for gov- ernor. People are learning that Mickey is one of the real men that we sometimes read about, but who are about as unattatnable as the pot of gold at the base of the rain- bow. Chadron Journal: John H. Mickey, the republican candidate for governor, delivered an address at Bordeaux which “took™ with the people who heard him. His words proved him to be a scholar and a patriot, and that he will make a governor of whom Nebraska may well feel proud we have every confl- dence. Mullen Tribune: The republicans of this part of the state are very enthusiastic and they will go iInto the campaign this fall with a determination to elect every candi- date on the ticket. With J. H. Mickey for governor and M. P. Kinkald for congress, you cannot make a mistake to vote ‘er straight. Tekamah Herald: The republican state ticket is receiving strong endorsement from the republican press. Those who have served one term have made exceptionally g00d records which insure their re-election. As to Mickey, McGilton and Mortensen, the new candidates, they are all good men and sure winners. ~Ord Quiz: Republicans all over the state are well pleased with their ticket from top to bottom. On the other hand, the fusion- ists are a little at loggerheads and not all enthusiastic over theft list of official pirants. The hardest dose is for the pop- ulists to stand having a democrat on the yhead of the ticket. O'Nelll Frontier: In the race for the governorship stake the candidates both got a falr start. The first lap has been co and Mickey is running splendidly ahead of the fleld and leading Thompson by several lengths and still pulling away from him. ‘Thompson seems to be overloaded and run- ning with difficulty and will be shut out on the last heat. Falls City Journal: The people who vote for J. H. Mickey will be voting their ap- proval of honest business methods and ex- pressing their appreciation of conservative industry. Mr. Mickey is, and of right ought to be, the people’s candidate. He is one of the common people—the only thing about him that is uncommon is his business abil- ity and good judgment. Oakland Independent: The talk whether Mickey is a farmer or not is all tomfoolery. competency for the governorship. The ques- tion in {ssue is whether or no he has the brains, education and training to fill" that position, and as long as the opposition has at no time denied his ability and honesty, it should be admitted that this farm ques- tion amounts to less than nothing. Arcadia Champlon: To be real honest about it, we do not know anything wrong with Thompson, the fusion nominee for governor. From all we know he is a pretty fair man. But there is not one thing the matter with Mickey. He is an old soldler, an old citizen of Nebraska, able, honest and in every way fitted to be an ideal governor. Is it necessary to have an acknowledged rogue on the ticket to elect an honest man? Broken Bow Republican: J. H. Mickey, the republican nominee for governor, began his residence in Nebraska in 1868, as a homesteader, and has built up a fair compe- tency by bard work and good management, while his opponent on the democratic and populist tickets has mfade his living by prae- ticing law and defending the co tions. Both are good .men as far as we know, but which one is most deserving of the public patronage? Red Cloud Argus: Those who cast thelir ballot for G. D. Follmer for land commis- sloner two years ago can feel justly proud of the fact that they assisted in the elec- tion of the best land commissioner this state ever had. The impartial manner in which he is conducting the duties involved upon him and the strenuous manner in which he is discovering and reclaiming school lands that have heretofore been lost to the state s a gain of many thousands of dollars and record to which the re- publican party should call the attention of every voter this fall. Falls City Journal: J. H. Mickey will come to Falls City to speak at the emanci- pation celebration on August 2. We trust that all of our people will turn out to hear him. He is a typical Nebraskan, a success- ful man and a man whose success is the result of honest and consclentious effort. He is one of our eminent citizens, one whose eminence is not based upon political record, but upon achievements in the busi- nees world, upon the results of good judg- ment. He is the man that the people of Nebraska are going to make their next governor and you will all want to bear him and to meet him. Norfolk News: Some of the leadifg pop- ullsts fear that it will be impossible to get voters of that party in line for the fusion ticket headed by a democratic candidate for governor. They not ounly fear there will be a slump of populists, but y know it Past campaligns of a similar character teach them what to expect from fusion this year and the majority of them will not be dis- appointed when the returns show that Mickey has been elected governor by a fine, large plurality. Many of the populls have found that they can support the publican ticket without injury to themselves or the state, and they whl do it this fall. St. Paul Republican: W. H. Thompson, democratic candidate for rnor, indig- pantly resents the charge that he is - road attorney, declaring that he 1s “not now, and never has been at any time, en- gaged by a rallroad corporation, either di- rectly or indirectly, as attorney or other- wi and has never recelved cent of fees. The denlal seems to be sufficlently explicit on the polnt in question, but falls to explain how Mr. Thompson compensates the railroad for the annual pass which be carries. Has the service been already per- formed, or was the pase issued on the pos- sibllity that the “little glant” might some time be elected to an office which would make his friendship worth while? Scotts Bluff Republican: It is & strange thing that nearly all the poj and fusion organs Jn the state are howling about Mickey being a railroad man. When- ever the republicans put up & good mau a lot of Jim Crow editors start out to do him. The pops shout “Railroad man!" The wholesale liquor dealers cry “Prohibition- ist!” The ~prohibitionists yell “Liquor man!” and the commonest of all, the fusion democrats, bawl anything but a re- publican. The facts are that Mickey is no more a rallroad man than any man they have put on their ticket. It is true he does not cuss the raflroads every th he speaks erying against the corporations you ean bet he is trying to attract their attemtion. ‘When the pops started out and got control of the i their whole cry was against the raflre They passed laws, but fallsd to enforce them. Rosewater 1s now before the supreme court, which fs composed of fusion members, and we predict that the result will not give the pops anything to crow about. The facts are that while the state was in control of the fusionists they were absolutely under control of the rail- roads id the people found it out and ousted them, and they will stay out. Broken Bow Republican: Had ex-Senator Allen sald that W. H. Thompson, the fusion candidate, was better than his party he would have been nearer the truth, and it would not have been much to say either. But when he sald J. H. Mickey was better than his party it was saying a great deal more than the wiley ex-senator intended. Republicans accept the assertion great compliment, as we regard the success of the principles of greater moment than that of any man, But when you come to look upon Mickey as an old soldier, a ploneer home- steader, farmer, successful business man and Christian gentleman we are not sur- prised that his political opponents are com- pelled to acknowledge his superiority as a man, Fremont Tribune: Had Mr. Mickey let his corn plows and rakes and harrows stand out In the weather and rust the year round; had he let the pigs root up his frent yard; had he permitted his fences and barns to go to rack and ruin; had he done these and other things and proved himself a fallure as a farmer and been reduced to a renter instead That question has nothing to do with his |, of a farm owner with banking on the side, it is probable the calamity organs would Aow view him with a good deal more ad- miration and respect. They insist now that he is not & farmer and that he was never in sympathy with farmers, though he owne some big farms, which he used to cultivate with his own hands. These same calamity organs declare W. H. Thompson is a sue- cessful lawyer, and they gloat over the fact. ‘Will they not inform a waiting people why it is a virtue to succeed as a lawyer while it is a disgrace to be a sucdessful farmer? COentral City Nonpareil: A certaln dem- ocrat expressed the opinion in conversation with the writer that Mickey would be de- feated for governor because he is a temper- ance man. The writer takes exception to the opinion. Everyone admires a truly con- sistent temperance man, and it certainly should be no grounds for casting a vote agalnst him. Every drinking man has re- spect for the man who leads a consistent temperance life and has no quarrel with bim for leading such a life. Mr. Mickey has never posed as a temperance reformer nor led any Carrie Nation crusades, but has done more good to the cause of real tem- perance by his life and example. The sa- loon keeper has little respect for the cus- tomer whose face is all day long reflected in the mirror behind the bar. The constant boozer is no pleasure to him. He thinks more of the serene, consistent temperance man, who minds his own business and re- forms by precept rather than by force. Beaver City Times-Tribune: The fusion- ists would have it appear that J. H. Mickey, the republican nominee for governor, is posing as a farmer for political purposes Mr. Mickey lives on his farm of 240 acr He farms by the sweat of his brow, and not by the perspiration of his jaw. I s true that he is president of the Bank of Osceola, but he is not ashamed of it. He has not denled it nor will he try to evade it. How much different is his attitude 4 farmer and a busin man than that of Banker Shallenberger. s In the campaign of 1900 the latter professed to have sold his interests in the Bank of Alma and his name was removed from the bank's advertising. He dressed in a rough rider costume, with sombrero and buckskin leggings, and had his picture printed in the World-Herald, which expatiated at length concerning the “farmer candidate” for congress. As soon as election was over the name of Cashier Shallenberger again went into print and the ranchman’s suit was returned to its owner. The fact is that our congressman’ record as a “farmer” is based on a dro of muley cows and & kennel of St. Bernard dogs. VAGARIES OF THE WEATHER. Chicago News: Cheer up; we may not have a wet Christmas. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph: plenty of winter this midsummen 8t. Paul Globe: The weather man must be an osteopath, the way he is rubbing it in on us.. Minneapolis Times: What a pity It s that the surplus rain of the current sum- mer couldn’t have been judiciously ais- tributed over two or three seasons. Chicago Inter Ocean: The man who has There's been waiting for the clouds to roll by t summer must lost comsiderable time he might have saved between showers. Boston Globe: It was so cold in New- port last Sunday that fires had to be bullt in nearly all the aristocratic cottages. There were not a few chilly receptions doubtless. St. Louls Globe-Democrat: Don't worry about the cool summer. It may be over 100 for three weeks in October. Do not for- get the climatic vagaries of the upper Mis- sissippt valley. PERSONAL AND GENERAL, Springfleld, Mass., has just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary as a munlelpality, The crusade against the billboard nuls- anc making headway in Buffalo, N. Y. The Detroit river is the outlet of the greatest body of fresh water in the world, aggregating $2,000 square miles of lake surface. spring wi called to the presidency of Willamette university, Salem, Ore., has started for the west to enter his new. field of labor. The queen of Belgium says she is dying t loneliness. This is a complaint 'which will never cause the death of her/frisky old spouse. Pennsylvania has 6,328 lawyers, or judges. They are distributed in about 284 places, nearly half of them being in:Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The late John W. Mackay; dld not know within $207000,000 of how much he was worth, thereby setting an example to am- bitious young men. Mr. Cleveland knows what should be done with men who have dome time as president of the United States. He thinks they should be let alone. There are 2,850 dlind persons in the Bast End of London, many of whom have to beg for a living, states the sightless presi- dent of the National League of the Blind. Buenos Ayres has issued its criminal statistics for 1801. They include 90 m ders, 244 attempted murders, 2,710 eaults and over 5,000 thefts, burglaries and swindles. John D. COrimmins, who is as good ax Irishman as New York can boast, has just returned from his native country and says the people of the Emerald isle are happy and prosperous, He should hasten to get out from under at once. Colorado is & great honey producing state. One Colorado apiarist keeps his bees busy collecting honey all the year around by turning them loose in his alfalfa felds in the summer and in the winter shipping them to a plantation in Florida. M. Combes, the new French premier, is only five feet three inches tall. He was at ope time & schoolmaste: and is a lead- ing suthority en Fremch educational affuirs. His scholarship snd literary activity have for years been large and comprebensive, embracing such topies as the Latin poet Virgil, Kant's metaphysics, the philosophy of Bt. Augustine and the soclal theories of 6t. Stmoa. STATE PRESS POT POURRL Kearney Hub: When the gueriilas get through saying mean things and false things about Senator Dietrich ft will be found that he has mot been harmed fin the least and that he stands solid with his conatituency all along the lime. Emerson Enterprise: The Omaha Bee is publishing some very warm articles now on resevation matters. The Bee is on the right track. For elght years, ever since the days of the Flournoy company the Enterprise hae opposed the leasing of Indian lands to middlemen. Baneroft Blade: In another column of the Blade will be found an editorial from the pen of F. Rosewater denouncing in strong language the scandalous methods resorted to by Agent Matheweon and the Hutchens gang in their manipulation of the reservation affairs for personal gmin. Mr. Rosewater's denunciation or warning to the Interfor department, as it might be called, is timely, for it has come to light that the gang has been working secretly for several weeks to get contracts with the heirs to landed estates that are soon to be ®old, and if it is the intention of the In- terlor department that the land should be #0ld to actual settlers and that the Indlans be protected from a well organized gang of boodlers the department cannot act too quickly. Columbus Telegram: A few yea: when the legislature was attempting to r duce freight rates, the railroad attorneys produced evidence to show that the cost of reproducing the present rallway systems in this state would run close to $100,000 per mile. Last week, while resisting a move- ment for equitable taxation, the railroad people offered sworn evidence to show that the entire Unlon Pacific system in Nebraska could be duplicated for only $30,000 per mile, Including all rolllng stock, depots, side- tracks and bridges. Next winter the legl lature will attempt to reduce freight rates, and it will be well for the legislators to remember this testimony regarding the real value of ‘the railroads. It cannot be sald to be strictly fair for the roads to milk the public for freight charges on a valua- tlon of $100,000 per mile, while Insisting that for taxation purposes the same r are worth only $30,0000. Fact of the ma ter is, freight rates in Nebraska are in some instances more than 100 per cent too high. A general reduction of at least 20 per cent would be fair toward the roads and the public. Passenger rates at 2 cents a mile would be a fair rate. The roads could make more money at 2 cents than at 3 if they would call in all their political passes and make everybody pay the 2-cent rate. Pend- ing the assembling of the legislature, let everybody remember the sworn testimony regarding the actual value of Nebraska railroads. It will come handy some day. Forcing the Tarift Issue. New York Mail and Exprees. Let the demucrats force the tariff issue all ¢ | they Iike and let the republicans stand by their principles, without ylelding or waver- ing at any point, and the result will be what it has always been when that lssue is squarely made. The people a not eager to upset the conditions upon which thelr unprecedented prosperity rests. LOOTED LEVITY. Pearson's Wueklyx The Lady—Jack, why don’t you write a book, or paint a picture, or do something clever e Gentleman—Be clever enough to last a lifetime. Philadelphla Press: Little Jinks—8o you refuse me because I am a mere clerk, Mark mylwordl‘ proud girl, I will not always be tless—Ah! yes, we must all dle Tribune: Tommy—The _farmer caught you in his apple tree, did he? What dlfl he say when you fell and broke your HPlcky—Gee! He aian't have to say nothin’, He just stood there‘enjoyin’ hisself. Chicago News: She—According to statis- tics there are two single men in the peni- tentiary to each married man. He—Yes; and two married men beat thelr wives where one single man does, Yale Record: She—Have you noticed that T have o acuity for falling in love? He—Faculty? No, ficklety. Chicago News: ‘“Nellle says she's only 21, sald the floorwalker. 1 imagined she must be at least 28.” “S80 she was,’” replied the jealous mald who presided over the ribbon counter, *but you know everything in the store was marked down 25 per cent last week." Yonkers Statesman: Mr. Crimsonbeak— Here's an article in the paper about your new tight shoes, dear. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—You're joking. “Well, 1 muu’ht it was." It's headed, ‘Much in Little. 8t. Louls Mirror: Young Husband (to wife)—Didn't I lelmnph you mnot to bring your mother with Young Wite—I now: that's what she wants to ses you about.” She read the tele- gram A ‘BOLD DEFL Pittsburg Chroniele-Telegraph. Tell us not In mournful numbers That the price of meat is m‘, Tell us not lwlll keep on climbing Till we can't afford to buy. For the watermelon season Has advanced to our relief, And our noses we're upturning At the cholcest cuts of beef. ‘Who has appetite so sordid That it yearns for roast or steak ‘When a chunk of watermelon Is so mighty nice to take? Who has such a viclous palate avy it has use oothing liquid Julce? ‘Watermelons! Why, the mention Of the sweet and pulpy fruit 15 enough to make mouths water All along the eating route. And the fond anticlpation Ne'er ls tollowed by regret, For partakers of the me! Bay that it's the greatest yet. ‘When the days are hot and humid hat a joy it is to gaze On_the slice of watermelon That is soon to win its praise! How much greater is the pleasure, Bo the weather e'er so hot, ‘When the edible so lusclous Disappears and hits the spot! Red and pulpy, What a feast the melon makes, Throwing far into the background All the cholcest roasts and steaks! And when In the luscious melon Eaters' faces are immersed They unite in this deflance: Let the beef trust do it worst. sweet and juley, Consdmptlon Nearly all early cases can be cured. Expert physicians tell us they rely largely on three things—fresh air, good food, and Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. If the case is ad- vanced, recovery is more un- certain. Follow your doc- tor’s orders. That’s best. *‘1 had s terrible cold on my lungs. I feared I might have cons jon. Nothing seemed to give me relfef until 1 used Ayer’s Cherry ectoral, It lmd E.':‘E‘.’.‘:h‘i‘u’,“p?r‘. Snel ng, .I!I. J.c.AvER GO, Lowels, Mess