Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 14, 1902, Page 6

E. ROREWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF SUBSCRIPTION. ally Bee (without Bunday), One Y. aily Bee and Sunday, On llustrated Bg. 0§l unday Beg, turday Bee, One Year Twentleth Century Farmer, One DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ly Bee (without Sunday), per cop; 1y Bee (withaut Synday), per wee ally Bee (ncinding Bunday), per weel iy . un gvmln' Bee (without Bunday). vening Hee .(inciuding . Sunday) !n‘-':?{'-f- to City Circulation OFFICHS. ! L D Y ow Yoi Court, llhlhlr '¥wn«nth Street. NDENCE. unfeations relating to news and edi- T iy ness lectérs and remittances should Bee Publishing C B be g ‘om- pany, ] by ex 8 %l O ‘castern exs E BEE PUBLISHI P o R o B s el et Btath of NeDFaRka, Doilaias County, an: B. Tzschick, uonurs of The Beo Coi being duly sworn, u:#n{‘_ pumber of tull 026 | section of land, Net total sules. Net dally average. 29,208 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. S LINDY Lo et o . by % e W N TE e otary Public. started in at lpeoqhmnm‘. . ms their grand bave to turn oo e Fhilippine veterans no less cordially than Councii ster_0ity on the opposite Under the new wuo’m;. & patrol- man must keep his temper-or take d lay- off, but a pollce ,eomwhcgner may lose his temper on the sligh especially it My naitle Ts Texas populists: have put up a state ticket all thelr gwn. In states like Texas, where mog its. have things them, the invitation provocation, teh. The middiemen in the .neighborhood of the Winnebago and Omaha Indlan reservations, who are banded together to despoll the Indians in the leasing and purchasing of reservation lands, still continue at their raseally work. The recent exposure of the conspiracy by which the competing bidders who pre- sented themselves at the sale of Omaha Indian lands at O'Nelll were bulldozed and bought off ‘and the lands were knocked down to members of the ring at a ridiculously low price does not seem to deter the gang from fresh Attempts to rob the Indlans. Although the fraudulent sale at O'Nelll is sure to be annulled by the seécretary of the interior, the gang of favored speculators are making a fresh onslaught on the Win- nebagoes in the sale of lands belonging to the heirs of dgceased members of that tribe. The high-handed méthods by which these depredations on the helpless and ignorant Winnebagoes are belfig con- ducted, by and with the connivance of Agent Mathewson, are a matter of pub- lie' notoriety. Instead of protecting the Indians by placing them in direct communication with intending pur- chasers, the middlemen are given every advantage and allowed to intervene be tween the Indians and the purchasers, so as to make enormous profits with com- paratively no outlay and no risk. Two cases in point bave just been reported, one of these by an old resident of this eity, who makes the following state- ment: About the 6th of August I went to the Winnebago reservation and called at the agency for Information as tov the Indian lands that are to be sold under the recent order authorising the sale of deceased In- dians’ lands. The agent, Mathewson, was away at Pe d bis clerk Introduced me to an Indian interpreter, who, he said, would, on the payment of $100 for his serv- ices, show me a tract of land that was for sale. I accepted the proposition and was told by the Indian that I could get the quarter 160 mores, for between $2,000 and $3,400. When we reached the farm we found one of the speculators with another Indian on the ground, while the owner, an Indian woman, was absent. We returned to the agency and when the Indian woman reached there I was informed that the land was sold. Upon inquiry, | learned that the land had been bargalned for on the same day by one of the middlemen. I then made an offer of $4,000 for the tract, but they hustled the woman into the agent's office and had her sign the deed with a crossmark for $2,800 or $3,000. One of the Indians spoke up and sald: “This is & shame. This man is willing to give $1,000 more than she is getting,” but the man at the office said it was all done. The same afterncon the middleman who bought the land offered to re-sell it to me at §30 per acre, which would be $4,800, but 1 declined to take it at that price. The second is even a more. flagrant case of downright rascality. One of the tenants living on the Winnebago reser- vation, who had improved an elghty- acre tract and erected several bullaings thereon, was anxious to buy the land. compelled the tenant purchaser to sign an affidavit that he did not pay any bonus to anybody in making the pur- chase. Strange that such rascality can be perpetrated with impunity under the very eyes of the Indian agent. For- tunately, the secretary of the interior has the last word to say, and we feel sure that he will set aside all these deals, a8 he is certain to set aside the con- spiracy by which the lands worth $30 to $40 an acre were knocked down at $18 an acre at the O'Nelll land sale, that arrange- fi"_fi_fl'filllu the Canadian tariff. Canada arranges her own tariff, giving preferential duties, at presemt 83 per eent, on British, goods. This w,flfl in favor of the manufacturers 0f England has not proved of any material advantage to them. Thelr trade’with Canada has not THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST' 14, 19082. ean rely upon the colonies for soldlers and: there is no reason to doubt that it may do so in future, The fact that Mr. Chamberlatn -did not wholly succeed In effecting what he desired through ty colonial confer- ence evidences no lack of devotion to the mother country. The imperial sen- timent s strong in the colonies, perhaps stronger in some of them than ever be- fore, and certainly the British empire as a whole was never more solld and firmly united than now. Whatever ex- ternal difficulties there may be to men- ace its peace, theré are no Iinternal troubles to cause its rulers apprehension. .. ] DEFENSE OF THE ARMY. In his address to the Boclety of the Army of the Philippines its president, General Hale, sald that one of the rea- sons for maintaining the organization | is defense of the United States army, “which has been made a chopping block by hostile politicians in their attacks on the administration.” “Let us stand together,” he sald, “for the honor of our commander-in-chief, the president, the army and navy, and the flag.” The men who served in the Philippines and bravely and patriotically performed their duty to the government are right in resenting the Indiscriminate calum- nies that have been directed against the army by democratic politiclans and in doing so they are certaln to bave the approbation of all falr-minded citizens. The men composing the Soclety of the Army of the Philippines know that the sweeping charge of cruel and bar- barous acts made against the Amer- ican soldiers in the Philippines is false. They know that such acts were excep- tional and that thie rule was to treat the enemy humanely. They know that the army observed the rules and usages of civilized warfare, although these were utterly disregarded by the treacherous foe, who committed unspeakable cruel- tles and barbarities upon our soldiers. The politiclans who for & partisan pur- pose denounce and traduce the army can have no -influence with right-thinking people in the face of testimony of men who attested their patriotism in fighting to uphold American sovereignty in those distant islands. The word of any one of them outwelghs all the diatribes of the defamers of the gallant Philippine army. ] % THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION. The overthrow of the Castro govern- ment in Venezuela appears certain and is perhaps mow an accomplished fact, the signal success of the revolutionists at Barcelona having probably decided the fate of the government. The revo- lution has been in progress for a consid- erable time, or nearly ever since Castro attained power, and Its success ought to resnlt to the henefit of the country. which has made little progress under the present government. The rule of Castro has been corrupt and oppressive and his administration has been doml- ,NnYmfllnufly tion of Brooklyn. t revolution would very much improve conditions, however, is problematical, In the division of the spolls new troubles may arise, for Venezuela is not unlike other South American countries in re- spect to the character of its politiclans. It is never certain that peace and order wil be malntained for any length of time. Meanwhile the revolutionists are preparing troubles for themselves with other countries, in the event of thelr organizing a government, if it be true that they are responsible for the pillag- ing of the consulates at Barcelona, That is & pretty serious matter, for The railroad tax bureau has fived sev- eral bulletins in succession at the tax- payers of Nebraska, in order to make invidious comparisons between tax- shirking money lenders and people with heavy deposit books and the tax-shirk- ing railroads. But how will those com- excuse the state board of as- sessors from omitting the assessment f rallroad franchises from the assess- ment of the tangible property of those ? ¢ [ Congressman Mercer's application to become an assoclate member of the Tri- City Press club has been favorably re- ported and accepted. Now it will be in order for Our Dave to make applica- tion to 'join John N. Baldwin on the staff of President Burt's forthcoming dally Railroad Gazette, which is to be a better newspaper and more widely cir- culated than any other daily that has ever been published in Omaha. i at the national eapital, without the aid of the Unfon Pacific railroad constabu- lary? CEE———— Many of Ome Mind. Chicago Tribune. Bditor Bryan thinks the “money question s still important.” It is, Mr. Bryan; it is. Always collect from your subscribers in ad- vance. : At & Sate Distance. Brooklyn Eagle. Manhattan is to have & baby show and the homeliest young one ir to win & prize of §76. The committee that makes the d will thereupon immediately adjourn sine dle, Canse af the Rush. Springfieid Republican. The rush of emigration to the United States 18 not confined wholly to southern abd eastern Burope. Every American- bound ship now. leaving Scandinavian ports Is crowded with emigrants. The cause sald to be “the unprecedented hard times" now prevailing throughout Norway, Sweden and Denmark and 'the more stringent con- ecription laws ot Bweden. —_—_— Giving 0ld Muddy the Shake. Mt Journal. The Old Muddy {s about to be left slone to its snags, its decreasing volume of water and its pastime . of ,changing its channel. Uncle Sam has about made up his mind to abandon it to the limbo of unnavigable streams. If it reaily be true that the river 18 really feeding the thousands of artesian wells that do such good service in Bouth Dakota it is more yaluable in that capacity than it ever could be as an artery of com- merce. Sugar Beet Orop in Nebraska. 8t. Louts Globe-Democrat. ‘ A farmer residing in ‘outhwestern Ne- braska writes that the yleld of sugar beets in his neighborhood this year will be from fitteen to twenty-five tons an acre, accord- ing to care given, and that the oontract price, delivered, is $4.25 a ton. He adds that there are ten-mcre patches . of land whose crop of sugar beets this season will pay for 160 acres of good land. The addgess of this tarmer is Willlam Coleman, MeCook, Neb., and as he has been a tiller of the soil fifty years, he is not likely to rr in his estimate of the value of a crop. The New Associate Justice. Kansas City Btar. Judge Holmes, whom President Roosevelt has nominated for the supreme court, has the reputation of being one of the fairest, soundest and most learned judges in the United States. The decisions of the Massa- chunsetts supreme gourt over which he has presided are recognjied as good law. A “Holmes opinion™ carries immense weight. His reputation is more than national. The late Lord Russell, while lord chief justice of England; once referred to Judge Holmes' book on “The Common Law” as the classic work om that subject. The president’s cholce for Justice Gray's successor on the supreme bench of the United States will be regarded as admirable by lawyers throughout the United Btates. To people generally the appolntment has the addl- tional sentimental interest of recognizing the worth of ibe som oi ibe genimi wad popular “Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.” — Street Car Advertising Prohibited. Leslie's; Weekly. The leading newspapers of the country will be interested in’thé'fact that the con- tract for the constréietion of the Brooklyn part of the ‘great raApld transit system of !'1?“4 Ahst o, por- 0 el or its cars shall be used for adyertl Jpurposes. The alert Brooklyn lc-plqulhnvuu to it that their interests in this matter were care- fully safeguarded. They have shown greater diligence and 0p_sense than the news- papers of the borough of ttan and of many others of our large oities. The Troy Times, in its thoughtful comment on this fact says—and we commend its utter- ance to the attention of the press gen- erally—that “this'prohibition is significant because it indicates the growth of the con- viction that the proper place for advertising fe in the newspapers and not on street bill- boards or the walls of conveyances. The opinion is galningférce that there is es- sential Injustice in permitting owners of franchises for the purpose of public con- veyance to turn their vehicies or routes into advertising mediums and thus to-en- croach upon & funetion toward which the publishers of periodicals have:contributed much time and. effort and-to the use of which they are legitimately entitled.” [ — WHEELER ON ROBERTS. s Geieral Jos Appraises the Military Prowess of Generml Bobs. ' 1t would have been worth while to attend the Anglo-Am¢ Pligrims’ banquet In London Friday it, if only to hear our General Joé Wheeler eulogize Lord Roberts | a8 the “greatest of modern Christian sol- diers,” To be wire, the event was at- tractive in many other ways. Such great Englishmen as Lord Kinpard and’ Lord Charles Beresford 'and Lord Roberts and puch eminent Americans as Mr. Henry ‘White, Mr. Jostah Quincy and General Joe ‘Wheeler were thére to be looked at. The basquet hall ‘was,' of course, a thing of beauty and the 1654 both solid and abund- ant. But the spectacle of Lord Roberw 85 the greatest living military commander, with General Wheeler as the only complete appraiser in that line, was a spectacle to witness which a good man might well have traveled half across the world. ‘We confeas that, until General Wheeler's declaration appeared, we had enteriained a somewhat different estimate of Lord Rob- erts. His brief campalgn in, South Africa— and that was his first and only experience with an enemy in trousers—impressed us sather painfully than otherwise. As we saw the matter, Lord Roberts simply comcen- trated an immense army and marched through a thinly populated country in & great hurry, hastened fondly back to Eng- jand with the utmost expedition and left the sltuation absolutely unchanged save for the capture of Cromje and his force. Of many things he might have done to effect to that procession, he did not one. When Kitchener reached Pretoria as the successor of Lord Roberts he found the situation as ugly and the difficulties as formidable as though Lord Roberts had never left Londgn at all. He found, we must admit, his predecessor's solemn proc- lamation of British victory, but he could see none of its frults. As for occupation of Boer territory, there was none, nor did he ever achleve it in any proper sense of the term until the Boers, a few weeks ago, im- pelled by some reason which is still mys- terious, abandoned the confiict and lafd down their arms. Lord Roberts did not lighten Kitchener's task. He merely ia- tensified and complicated it. He did about as much toward subduing the Boere as General Wheeler did toward checking the operations of Sherman and Thomas in our own little rumpus of forty years ago. However, we shall now amend our views with reference to Lord Roberts and his military achievements 1in South Africs. General Wheeler is & hero of large experi- gnce—a soldier whose brilliant record in w0 momentous wars lends welght te his A GROWING QUESTION. Buffalo Bxpress: If the anthracite mine awners could be imbued with & little of the #00d sense and spirit of fairness expressed by Senator Hanna the strike could be ended o & day. The operators seem mot to be Able to answer the senator's . questfom, namely, 1f the bituminous operators find it profitable and satistastory to recognize the union, why should net the anthracite opera- tora? Cleveland Leader: A majority of the people of the United States would not at present favor such an experiment in soclal- ism as the purchase and control by the gov- ernment of the coal mines and the rail- roads, but if the methods of the hard coal trust are copied by other large empl of labor it will not take long to create & publio sentiment which could be counted upon to favor a momentous change in gov- ernmental polioy. Arrogant and obst{nate employers of labor are doing much to es- tablish conditions that will piague them in the future, Indianapolis News: The anthracite mines of Pennsylvania have been shut down now for three months, simply because their own- ers will not consent to.a reasonable con- ference with the miners and the submis- #lon of any points in dispute to djsinter-. ested arbitrators. The whole country is made to suffer because of the stubbornness, stiff-neckedness and tion have suoceeded in gaining an absolute monopoly of the anthracite fleld. It seems to us that Pennsylvania ought to be doing something more than preserving order by the use of the militla. The civil power of. the ‘state ought to be trylng “to get into the game.” It is monstrous that any halt dozen men should be able to paralyse the industries of the country, increase the lv- ing expenses of millions of people and sub- fect the state to vast unnecessary expendi- ture to maintain order and security. PERSONAL NOTES, Philadelphia journalism is having an up- set with the consolidation of the Ledger and Times as a penny paper. Senator T. C. Platt is running s Sunday #chool on the piazza of the Oriental hotel at Manhattan beach. The -attendance is not large, but the proceedings, are interesting. Milwaukee finds that the cremation of municipal garbage is a very costly luxury. About $10,000 a month goes up with the smoke of the crematory. In recognition of his efforts for the de- velopment of French art in Agerica. Henry Dunveen of New York has been made a chevaller of the Legion of Honor by the French academy. Kentucky is wounded In its pride because Judge Penn er, candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, sald Senator Quay is a bigger man than Clay or Webster ever thought of being. Most any old place in the middle west can mow substantiate its claims as & eum- mer resort. - Even Indlana may do so with- out being suspected of overstocking the market. for. historical fiction. A man and a boy, a team of horses, a wagon and forty ten-quart cans of nitro- glycerine rolled out of Bradford, Pa., 'a few days ago, bound for a magaszine. = A hole in the ground eight feet deep by twenty feet across marked the spot where the cara- peared from sarth. The gallant cavalryman, Lord Dundonald, who relieved Ladysmith and is now about to become head of the Canadian militia, is not in favoy of the present system of gar- risoning colonies with regiments from the Unjted Kingdom. He would have each colony. ralse its own troops.and look after its own fortifications. - m&ou‘;{: yet!in Portland any monu- ment_to lam t. Fessenden, ] United States mmrwtrom Maine and .,,,."f tary of the treasury under President Lin- coln. MY, Fessenden was bofn in Port- land, and the citizens of his native ‘town are at last talking of erecting a well-de- served memorial to him there. - : The sultan of Turkey is anxious to win the good graces of the csar of Russia. He has recently given the Muscovite ruler a present of two large porcelain vases and a tea service made in his own factory. One of the vases, intended for the empress, is covered with Oriental ornaments, the her with scenes from Oriental street life and plctures of Turkish palaces. Lord Edmund Talbot, who becomes helr presumptive to the dukedom of Norfolk through the death of the aficted earl of Arundel, {8 the conservative member for the Chichester division of Sussex. He was born in 1855 and was educated at the Oratory school, Edgbaston. Like his father, he is a Roman Catholic. He assumed ame of Talbot in place of his tamily na: of : Howard by royal license in 1876, entered the Bleventh hussars and during the recent campalgn saw servise in'South’ Africa, obtaining mention {n dispatches. He was private secretary to Mr. Brodrick in 1896 and is now assistant private secre- tary. DANGERS OF INFLATION. Enormous Increase of Loans National Banks. Chicago Tribune, The comptroller of the currency finds cause for satisfaction in the excellent condi- tion of the national banks as revealed by the reports made to him last month. The: in- creases which he finde in most of the items of the conmolidated bank statement ar m- slstent with the universal reports of the prosperous condition of business and the in- crease in its volume all over the country." * The comptroller, whilo mentioning the more gratifylng features of the statem: does mot fall to mention one fact which is not altogether gratifying to him. It is the contin- ued increase in loans. There is an increase of $265,000,000 over the statement of July, 1901, and of $49,000,000 since the statement of April 30 last. The comptroller admits that by ‘| the Increase is based In part on a selld growth of values, but “‘there must also be some - inflation,” eays he, “and there Is danger of golng too far in this direction.' Warnings of this kind often bave been glven In the past and seldom have been heeded. Few were willing to belleve that there had been inflation until the bubble burst. Probably the hint of the comptroller will not lead to any taking in of ealls. Comfort may be derived from the reflection that while there doubtless {s some inflation new there Is not so much proportionately as there has been in past prosperous seasons. The country does get wiser as it gets older it does not speculate so wildly and so much beyond its resvurces as it did at an earlifer day. It is customary for the men who suffer from each panic or revulsion hich follows on the heels of the specu- lative excesses begotten by prosperity to look on that era of panie or depression as the worst the country ever kuew. In reality the “hard times” periods of the last third of & century have not been so crushing as those of the earlier years of the last cen- tury, The country has much more-capital than it had then and a little more common. sense. A reaction is likely to follow this perfod of prosperity, of the rapid creation of over- capitalized enterprises and of credit infla- tion, but It will not be so serious a reaction as those of other years. Judging from the yresent dourishing condiiivn of e lLioa and steel industry there is no Immediate danger of industrial depression. Neverthe- less it 15 well to take to heart the sugges- tion of the comptroller and sbun inflatign. RITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scewmes and Imol ts Skotohed on the Spot. A fine bunch of old barnacles have been pried looss from the pay roll of the penaion biireaw. They loved thelr work and the Pay attached to'it, and they loved booss a lttle ‘more. . Force of babit and official lenienoy made them think their lapses were for the ‘good ‘of the service. When, how- éver, the few: égmmissioner, fresh from prohibition Kansas, found them booxing and #mooiiig during working hours, a warning sigual ‘Was holsted: “If you like your job, tors bottl The old boys wcoffed At the signal,and proceeded to irrigate with fresh vigor. Then the ocommissioner's wrath rose to the emergency and a large bunch of boozers were turned out into the cold world, and fo ome was allowed to come back. Oge result of the bounce is the ‘absance of cftive and lemon peel odors in the bureau. Besides the Jolt given the boozers, the commissjorier served notive on his clerks that they must pay their legitimate bills or seek employment ‘¢lsawhere. Boozihg and beating will:seon be among the lost arts of tite bureau. The much.coveted medal of homor be- stowed oo eMoers @nd enlisted men of the army for’ kxteptional acts of personal hero- ism is.a five-pointed star of bronse, tipped With trefofl, esch point contalning & crown of laurel and osk. In the center, within & circle of .thirty-four stars, America, per- sonified as ‘Minerva, stands with her left hand’ festitig on the fasces, while with her right, in which' ghe holds & shield .em- blazoned with the American arms, she re- pulses Discord, represented by two snakes trophy of two crossed cannons, balls and & sword surmounted by the American eagle. J. R, Page of the New York government assiy offide and F. W. Bradock of the Mint bureat in Washington during the last month have sounted more:than $26,000,000 in loose ' change which Uncle Sam has stored in the New ‘Orleans ‘mint. Every coln passed through the hands of one or the other of these expert tellerw, and careful tally was kept. ‘Among the other coins’ were 15,000, 000 standard sflver dollars, $5,000,000 in @0ld coins and subsidiary coinage, and about * $6,000,000 worth. of silver bullion. These two men went to New Orleans re- cently ‘and at onos began the task of ac- counting for every dollar in money repre- sented In the atoounts of the superintend- ent of the motey manufsctory.: They have Just completed the work. The - moted dynamite crulser Vesuvius, which, ueed to. cough thunderbolts around Santiago some years ago, is about to be consigned to the maval junk pile. The three.fiftéén-inch pneumatic tubes and all the intricate machinery of the unique craft are to ‘be' taken oyt, discarded as useless and 8014, while the hull of the vessel is put to some other purposs. The vessel in now 0t of comtifiésion. It has been for most ,of the time since the Spanish war, during ‘which it participated in-the blockade oft Bantlago, and. diad work of more or lesa controversy, the Pneumatic Gun Carriage and Power compihy, who own the patents for the dymasite gups, claiming that the craft worked havoc with the coast de- fenses, Wiile many navel officers have not hesitated to eay that the vessel was proved worthless in that campaign. The Vesuvius represents an outiuy.of $350,000. A statémient 14sed by the Civil Service commission giyes some Interesting data of special Interest to people anxious to get on Uncle #aim's pay roll. According to the statement the total number of positions at pbu},ll the exeputive civil service is abot ‘236 436." “OF ‘this mimber 111,140 are ‘classified . competitive, 11,766 classified ex- cepted and 113,420 ynclassified. In the de- partment proper. and, the independent offices in Washington there are about 20,078 posi- tions, of which 18,428 are classified competl- tive positions, classified excepted, 301 unclassified presiden and 2978 below classification. . About 316,248 positions are in bfanches of the service ocutside of Washingtan, :{ h 94,717 are classified competitive, 11,480 ified excepted, 1,111 unclassified ‘preésidential and 108,940 below claséification. Stanificance of the Influted Oapital- isation of the Mook lsland Rond. United ‘States Investor. The Rock Island scheme Involves an in- crease of 170 per cent in the capitalisation without (neredsing thoe assets. t year may be regarded as an index of what future years are golug to be, the company will no aoubt be able to stand the capitalization that 14 to' be placed upon it. But it i hard to convince most persons that the present year is a safe oriterion of future years. Existing conditions as regards railroad earnings are viewed by conservative minds as highly excoptional. Rallrosd earnings may oonceivably never decline to what they were prior to 1898, but that they will remain p-mq:quy at the present level may seriously questioned. In the event of & d recession—euch as might occur at any timeé—the Rock Island might, in order to'turn & sufficient amount over to the New Jersey company to justify the stock market aims of the promoters of the conversion plan, be obliged to resort to measures relating to ratés and transportation facllities which would b re- pugnant to the communities which in the past have claimed jurisdiction of the sys- tem. There are, in faot, many ways in which the policy of the operating company might, by the interposition of the new fore elgn corporation, concervably be modified to the detriment of the local communities. In short, the whole policy of the promoters of the conversion plan s obviously to elimi- nate to the fullest extent pissible all local Jjurisdiction. It sééms to us, therefors, that the Rock Island deal furnishes an immense amount of ammunitién for" the advobdtes of national charters, * * * The deal Is essentially a barefaced one in its details. The caplitalization is expanded from §76,- 000,000 to $203,500,000, but the plan is so arranged that @ little more than $26,« 260,000 of preferred stock will control the whole property, thus opening the way for the promoters to recoup themiselves' for the expense they have been put to in working up the deal, by selling their bonds and com- mon” stock. As someone bhas remarked, they can thus eat thelr cake and still have it. This feature, together with smuch fea tures as the provision In the charter where- by the management can use the company’s funds in speculating in the company's se- curities (thereby securing the means to perpetuate their private hold on the prop- erty) and the provision readering it im- possible for the security holders to have access to the baoks of the company, stamp the whole project as one of the most unique pleces of effrontery ever witnessed in con- nection with speculation in this country. RUSH FOR OUR SHORES. Philanthropy and Prudence Exere ecised at the Landing Flgce. Leslle’s Weekly. ) No other country in the world admits wo many immigrants as does the United States and in o other land have such elaborate ar- Tangements been made to receive and care for the forelgners who flock to fts shores. During the year ended June 30, 1002, & total of 648,743 Immigrants, were allowed to enter this great republic. This is the recerd figure for one year, and it exceeds that of the pre- ceding year by 160,825, For the year ended June 30, 1902, as many as 493,380 immigrants port alome, or more than the ous twelve months. ‘Coming as they do in such vast numbers the immigrants would fare badly were it not that on their arrival they become for the tiie belng wards of Uncle Sam. They are:treated with a sort of paternal solicitude and no effort'ts spared slements to our '« which exemplifies this two-sided policy con- tains numerous features of interest, aiid it may be abserved at its best at the chief im- migration station of the union, situsted on Bllis island 1n New York harbor. Y FLASHES OF ¥U| : “Why, I thought you in_Bui U'.B.‘ PI'm touring the United States’ this “No; I'm touring The 765 officlals of the consular service | YO&T; are not included in the above figures. The reason asigned for excepting positions from the operation of tha rules is that the duties pertaining to them are of such character that the qualificatiotis of persons for ap- pointment, cannot be adequately tested in the, manner and: by the examinations pro- vided, by the eivil gervice rules. B ABANDONING THE MISSOURL A OChampion, of the Big Muddy Files || *'al Viggrous Kiok. Chfcago Record-Herald. The abandonment of the Missouri river is sald to be foreshadowed in'the report Ciptaln Ohitf neer, an abstract of which leaves ment 4 for i t Ms curfous i are tol i i 65,385,000 pound¥’ and 11,249 hoad of cattle .,3‘3 Sloux City, (b'1901, as against 8,966,000 . pounds in 1878, ‘This ‘change may fot prove that Bdward Magiijre, in, 1878, was right when he prophesied that the shippers would pre- for “the river to'the railroads, but it cer- tainly shows that there hus been & growth, even if it is only for transportation be- tween railroads. and If there were absolute | 25 stagnatien of trade the waterway would still have its value. This would consist in t, | the menace of competition, which need not be in full operation to be effective. All|an that is necessary, is that it should be imme- diately possible, and having that.fact in mind the more the dificulties of the Mis. sour] Are maguified’ the more impolitic it would seem to be for the government to ledve it to ttaedl. - That tiver commerce s impossible with- out snagging is hardly a poit for abandon- ment Wwhen ‘it: s shown at the same th that snagging has been s0 successful that ouly, four. boats have been wrecked since 1890 by running into snags. The supreme questiofi 1s, how' do the cost of this river and the resulting benefits compare with those ' of other streams and harbors that get into theé river and harbor bills ‘which congress is 8o feally to pass? The ben- efits we bave indiested in the reference to ompetition; the cost of the upper Missours since 1890 hag been but $376,144, which strikes one &s being relatively small when 1t '1s considered that the river is one of the longest in the world. And thot it is very shallow in pasts and very lable, it has & natfodal fmportance unlike many streams which are remembered in the ap- propriations. Cougress should think twice before barring such s waterway from its schemes of internal Improvements—and then continue the appropriation. e Teartul Teller BEmulates Barkis, New York Tribune, Senator Teller of Colorado has long baf- fled the directory makers who have tried to fix his status end afliations in party pel- iticev' ‘But'is campaign for re-election is ndw om, and the other day in Colorado hs was forced to make this rather ingemious declaimifont. “r have Ny coneidoved the question ‘as to whether I ought to be a candidate or not, and I bave decided to leave fhat question (o the democracy of Colo- rado,” $ “What is the reason of that? N nll‘_uo many princes hl!. b"?n tely that ['ve comcluded unt I‘:: nl:m'ei'hlu‘ln this country m&wfl&." 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