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

THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE. . WYERY MORNIN One Year. ), One Yea: Century Farmer, One Yea DELIVERED BY CARRIER. The poliey of Mr. J. J. Hill of confer- mlmmmnm@rhnm results. His recent meeting. with farm- ers of the state of Washington promises this. At this conference Mr. Hill as- stired the farmers present, representing connties which are expected this sea- son to yleld 20,000,000 bushels of wheat, that he would act in accordance with the joint interests of the raflroad com- pany and its patrons and he urged that 150 | they would serve their own interests rl Street. ing. rt. _Fourteenth Street. more effectually by co-operating with the rallroads. “We will try to act in such & way,” sald Mr. Hill, “that you will realize that we are doing some- thing fair and in good faith.” If that promise is fulfilled ng doubt the farm- ers to whom it was made will find it to thefr ‘advantage to: co-operate with the companfes. It 1s well known that Mr. Hill is en- His aim' is to encourage on | this trade and in order to do this he is STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. N £F i ih disposed” to make farorable transporta- | withont ¢ Mer. Hill a8 & rallroad manager Is pow ‘While public will not wholly surrentier right to some reguiation and the people ggim l i £ ] i HE i g : i | % i | giif E £ % | £ H > ] | ? i i : [ £ ; I ¥ ] Gy STEEL TRUST COMPETITOR. A Canadian competitor to the United Btates Steel carporation is projected. The Dominion Steel compamy and the Nova Scotla Steel company are the ik R H] iz £ i ! ; i i | i §5i £ £ : § | i ! i i it I f i i i i : - i i kS k. last fow years and there is no. resson why it should not continue to advance, a8 the country has vast deposits of iron ore and an abundant supply of coal. A considerable amount of American cap- ital is invested In the Canadian Industry. e—— BROATCHISM IN TRE POLICE. The new police board has been in the saddle just three days. On the first day its members proclaimed to the law- abiding citizens of Omaha that their intentions were pacific, that they had no disposition to disturb or derange the police or fire departments as then or- ganized. On the third day they sum- marily deposed the two police captains and appointed in their places two men who had previously been retired from the service for good and sufficlent reasons. Before assuming their duties each member of the police board w: re- quired to subscribe to a solemn oath that “In making appointments or considering promotions or removals he will not be guided or actuated by political motives or influences, but will consider only the interest of the city and the success and effectiveness of sald department.” It was not expected that a political desperado like Willlam J. Broatch would have any regard for an official oath, but the other three members, or at least two of them, are presumed to appreciate the responsibilities they have assumed. It Is amazing therefore that they should Eave alfowed Broatsk {5 lead them into a flagrant violation of the law govern- ing the police, both as reg .rdu the degradatl: . «f officers before charges kave bes preferred and proved and 4 Loaring, and especlally 18 e aproningnt of men whose con- durs whiiy - .. the police force was repre- he 28ible or disreputabie. Had the majority of the board taken the treable to acquaint themselves with the record and career of Captain Hage, they certainly would not have stultified themselves by appolating him to any reformatory for girls. Under this order transportation was sécured for the girl from Otaba to Milford by the police a thorough inquiry into his fitness for the place. R bl wee many of the heretofore dreaded scourges of humenity rendered practically harmiess. ——— Tigh Praise Weil Deserved. 0. Lovls Globe-Democrat. Archbighiop Iréland pronounced the Amer- lean govesnment to be the most reasonable and faly-minded In the world. This is high praise, boldly spoken and well deserved. —————— Big Opportunities at Home. San Francieen Chronicle. It is gratifying to American pride to learn of the vast amount of American cap- ital now belng Invested In Great Britals, but it-would be better business to invest it in the west and bulld up our own coun- try. ——— Prophets Without Honor. south is lkely to go republican this fall. There Is still o chance for somebody to get into the papers by proclaiming that the democrats will sweep New England in November. _ —_— Western States in Lipe. New York Tribune. Senator Stewart is predicting that the republicans will ecarry Nevada this fall. After the reversal two years ago in Utah, ‘Washington, Wyoming and South Dakota it does mot seem unreasomable to expeot one more western silver state to slip back year to its long established and astursl political moorings. He Cannot Say “No* —— Old Maxime on Deck. Chicigo Chronicle. We note with gratification that that grand old patriot Maximo Gomes has ac- cepted the chairnianship of a commission to fix and pay the amount due the late Cuban army of liberation. The record of Maximo warrants the assurance that the liberators will be liberally dealt with, especially as Maximo modestly admits and majors, with & sprinkling of eaptains. There was one private, but he dled of in- digestion following the arrival of s 3 Maximo may be upon to take charge of it himself. ———— Greed of thé Hungry Dellar. the removal of the cotton duck mills from New Hartford, it is a most discour- aging and discreditable Eéggghgg!: Millions of Teilers Who Diligently N Stiek to Thelir Jobs. New York World. are dafly et work in it—less the umber of those temporarily on strike. Of this grand tetal 15,000,000 only, considerably , |less than oue-half, are employed in the fn- the police force under the Broatch-Van- dervoort police commission. i - After unselfishly waving aside proffered nomination for governor of Ne- braska on the ground that others in the propriety for Bryan to stand in the door blocking the way to all his friends who are eager to sacrifice themselves In the 1904 competition for presidential prefer- ment. SEe—— Ohamp Olark of Missourl says that dustries that are subject to strikes and lockouts. Here then 15 the gratifying fact that 000,000 workers in these United States ' ways keep working. Included in this great standing army of industrious people who mever quit their jobs are the farmers and their help, about 9,000,000 strong. The peo- ple at work'on Ameriean farms, comprising country, have never goné on strike; the fdes bas never even been mooted among them. Besides our farmers there are over 1,000,- ever strike. Then there are about 400,000 teachers in the country, two-thirds of them i b OMAHA DAH. BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST CONFERRING WITH TA® FARMBRS. has been making good progress In the Jim Hil’s Lullaby Philadelphis Record. President ‘#1111 of (he Great’ Northern of the transportation companies of the northwest to.4 conference at Daven- Wash,, op Monday last, Mr. Hill re. the energy which is characteristic i ‘would be benefited an fncrease of the productiveness of the the diversification of products and %ith new markets. On the of législation to regulate rates and transportation, however, President Hill ENORMOUS TRACTION RECEIPTS. Income of Street Railway Gompasies In American Citfes. - | 24,000 SRRt 2. .fi ééiéfi-’ ] ] : 559 i : 2 ! ot ] ¥ e i § £ $ ? & o E i i { EE i 1 i !l‘i‘ | | 5 F i : } i R matters connected with the business t shoke most vigbrousty. *Aé well attempt to et broken botes by statute” he sa o adjust. rates. You can legisiate until the barn doars Yot off. The best thing to @0 s to act s you have here—with the officials. We will try to act In such a wa that you will realize thkt we are dol something falr and in goad faith.” Thers 15 an echo In these words of the motto .of the first and still unrivaled of President Hill may be likened also to another proverb of mo! “Business is stronger than the law.” In a-senss the Aitterance of President HIll is perfectly ‘trus, Under fréb play of competition the regulation of rates by leglslation would be unnecessary; under existing conditions it is abortive. What he falls to consider, and what he s preciuded by his position from itting, is this—that the business which he 8o strenuously insists ought to be free of statutory restraint is (ncluded by economists in the rubric of “natural monapolies.” And the monopolistic char- acteristies of the overland transportation companies are being emphasized by thelr tendency toward combination and “mergers” on the basis of “community of interest.” The rule of an enlightened despot bas been described as the best possible form of gov- ernment, but absolutism and enlightenment have mever been seen harmoniously come bined in individusl since the world people are\not going to sur- render the Irresponsible and unquestioned control, oyer:- utilities even to the fl;fi‘ deapots. Coesars sbme- ] e mad’ and forgotten thelr dobt to the people. : OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The Julalgter of public communication fn Japan has “just published an interesting stotement.negarding the mercantile marine of thet country. in January, 1898, it com- prised 627 steam vessels sggregating 880,- 000 tons, asd 174 salling craft measuring tonb, ' On S¥pteémber 16, 1901, there wers 924 steamers’ of 657,166 tous measure- ment and no less than 3,190 sailing vessels agErogating 'll-zz‘l tons—an {ucrease in less \nnpn&!,;n 46 per cent for steam ves- sels and tuge tncrease af 2,250 per cent for salling, yessels. These latter, however, do not 100 tons burden aplece, chiefly coast and so forth, So, In this bort period the Japanese merchant serviee bas been increased by 800 steam vessels and 3,000 sailing craft. Ia 1896 Japan had but one steam merchantman of over 5,000 osar to report persomally on the recent Agrarinn outbreaks in Russia, was the only Russian journalist, who, despite oMot wurnings, dared to fell Bthie troth about the /famihe and fewhr makink Mavoo in the provinces. /He qupe trated how fu the pasibort regulatiohs of Russia . He crossed to Rumania and obtained one of the permits required when taking Myestock over the border. Armed with this, he went to one of the less frequented Russian frontler posts and boldly pre- sented the document to the sub-offeer in charge as his warrant to pass. The of- and little W 8 “black 1l grown, with onie sat partly tora The Cocos, or Keell: 18lands, which be- long to the British - are the privata Property of G. Clunis Who lives on them and govern thefs Y tion as an autoorat, A commission which included several in- fluential and well known noblemen, and least one bishop, has been investigating the practice of betting on horses in Great Britatn, and has' made a report taking the yiew that it s impracticable to Suppress the abuse entirely, but that its evils will be lessened by confining it as far.as Ppossible to the grounds of turt organizations. A sort of high license and local option con- clusion, in substance, lias been reached, elthough not fn that form. John “Bull 1s not likely for many & day. to abandon his Wpflmmumu-mrmm favorite thoroughbred. —— CHEERY CHAFF, tons burden; today it' owns twenty-one | are of that class. There is & movement on foot over: there to form an anti-foreign Japanese ghip. combine “a la Morgan,” to merge, it possible, all apanese ship- ping companies under one direction and control, which would be confined to Japan- ese siriotly, Without the concurremce of Baroa Shibusawa,:however, this scheme may fall to seme to anything. On May 16 & deliberative meeting was held to this end ‘Barbarians, my boy.” replied Willle's pa, “are people who bows and B, iars people > Rt he Puck: Indignant m—Confou sirl You M"m:o.td Acl"‘mn.’ nd not a dro he 30 you call thaty " DAt as Ollerat—Ingrowing ‘gusher. ‘Washington Sta in the city of Osgka. At this distance it | 997 Of, ivoks ms if such a consolidation would hardly be practicddie tniess having strong commerefal conmections t other countries. But Japan’s achlevement in putting iis flag e real nama hat, while nis wife roun’ ) " " oot 1 ' on the seas furnishes a striking object les- f"Mnl.m l-hth'ldcn..flflflm The economic policy of Russia, which its foreign markets in it. As the official organ of its great’ finance miniater has declared, Ruasia as a nation may. be behind Great Britain In wealth and America in productiveness, but it 18 “by far the greatest economic unit on the face of the globe.” Its government is greatest and most potent of all trusts, its pelitical power to maintan its own industrial Interests. No wonder it desires to have other governments join with it in restraining dangerous combinations ‘of private capital. Several Eyropean countries have em- ployed all sorts: of devices friendship of Abyssinfa. Russi: of France, has been especially active. She has sent all kindg of delegations and pres- ents to Menellk, as bhas England. The kingdom is Great Britain’s sore spot in mortheast Africa. Had there been an alliance between - France and Menelik’s kingdom when the Faehoda imcident oc- curred there might have been a differeat termination . ,to . it. The Fremch people have pot fopgpiten; that affair and the ad- want 0D, yery aifty e sald Uncle Joshua, ; ~ u_;n“ lighted the new “No,” replied ti.e ol LT won't hev breakfast til Phiiadeiphia Press: =T has such s funny way of abbreviating words. ¥ he's written ‘industr's.’ I lw.pw- h.n mn’:nr: “Industrious.’ ** = gou See he doesn't like to write ,O. U. He has so many out al- —— 0 Chicago Tribune: Unexpectedly the port- ing NDD;SII' had Been called upon to write weddiy he bride." he wrote, ‘‘was envel i dense !olg, b\lllmevflddo'n the le. rely canter and looked inch a winnes y Y Smset Hedle matd it s oot it mald Ith t laugh all day through the tangled e g Better LAST DAY. more day of our 25 per cent and 50 per cent dispount sale i Department. There are seyeral very fine barssins left ‘st HALY . $2, $2.50, $3 50c and 75c¢. $1.75 & $2.00 | A