Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1902, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1902. THE OMAHA DAILY Bu:m E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly Bee (without Sunday), One Year..440 Dally bee and sunoay, Une \.u! lllustrated Hee, Une Yea Bunday Bee, Une Year. Baturaay uvt. Une Year. ey I'wentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (without Bunday), per copy... ily Bee (Without Sunday), per weex. Daily Bee (nciuding 8 Bunday Hee, per copy. Evening Bee (without Evening Bee (nciuding BSunday), per week 50 Complaints of irregularities in deiivery should be addressed to City Clrculation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulding, Bouth Omaha- ity Hail Bullding, Twen- -fifin and M Streets. Council Bluffs—1o Pear] Btreet. Chicago—1649 Unity Bullding. ew York—Temple Cou ashinglon—wl_Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- rial matter shouid be addressed: Omaha e, Editorial Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances sbould be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Umaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payavle to The Bee Publishing Company. nly Tosnt stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts, checks, except on Omaha, , Bt accepted. Wit B Puau-nnfi.o COMPA STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate ot Nebraska, Douglas County, s.; George B. cnuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Com| Quly sworn, Says that the actual numer Of full and complete cof Evening an the month of July, 1 20,630 GRASPING AT A STRAW. A drowning man grasps at a straw. It 1s given out by the backers and ad- mirers of Congressman Mercer that his visit to Oyster Bay would bring about a change of fiont on the part of The Bee with regard to his eandidacy for a sixth term through the Intervention of President Roosevelt. If Mr. Mercer's mission to Oyster Bay had no other object in view, it Is des- tined to prove a dismal fallure. Presi- dent Roosevelt is not in the habit of interfering in local political contests, whoever may be involved. Only Satur- day his influence was invoked to bring about an amicable settlement of the factional Delaware senatorial feud, but he has positively declined to mix in, al- though it involves tWwo senatorships, and Delaware is in the same condition that Nebraska would have been in today if Mercer had succeeded in his desperate effort to prevent the election of any republican senators unless he was one of them. It is not likely theréfore that the president will change his policy of non-intervention just for the sake of Mr. Mercer, Up to this time at least President Roosevelt, so far as:we know, has not shown the slightest solicitude for the nomination of D; H. Mercer and will doubtless be just as well satisfled with any good republican.’ The editor of The Bee has had four interviews with the president within the last six months, but at no time was the name of Mr. Mercer even mentioned by the presi- dent. If Mr. Mercer's only hope s to save his political life by grasping at a straw from the White House, his chances of landing on shore are uwtully slim In- indeea, THE SHIPYARD TRUST. The combination of shipbuilders, known as the United States Shipbulld- ing company, the organization of which was completed last week, has for its 126 | object to put American shipbuilding es- Net dally averag: hfltuhirrlbfilm"l:\l J gy and -wom&tu ore me s cf Jul (Beal. %% J(.v GATIE, . Notary Pul King Corn distributes his titles of no- bllity by conferring on his devoted sub- Jects decorations in the order of pros- perity. E— It should be distinctly understood that every democratic politiclan reserves & woman's right to change his mind on shortest notice. Second wind for the clalmants to the Falr estate means a second windfall for the lawyers who succeed in break- ing into the litigation, o If our coming state fair is a faithful reflex of the present condition of agri- culture in Nebraska, it will be a lhow worth going miles to see. . — If Omaha had all of the market houses In brick and stone that have been “erected on paper, it would have a mar- ket house on every other corner. S Senator Hanna is quoted as saying that he s very sure no extra session of the senate will be called to pass on any Cuban reciprocity treaty. Senator Hanna usually knows what he Is talk- ing about. The reunion of the Soclety of the Army of the Philippines has been re- freshing in this—that it has disclosed the fact that there are still a few vet- erans of the Philippine war who do not claim to have been anything more than privates. EEm———— Governor Savage's honeyed Labor day proclamation will not wash away the bitter taste of his insulting letter to the union plumbers. The proclamation is an official formality, while the letter uncovers the man's real sentiments toward labor. " 1 The democratic congressional conven- tion may rest under a cloud of a few trifiing irregularitios, as gauged by the requirements of the election laws, but in the demobratic coples of the statute books the election laws are made appli- cable to republicans only. e —— ] If Charles M. Schwab should be dls- placed from his $1,000,000 job at the bead of the Bteel trust before his new $3,500,000 residence In New York is finished, a half bullt palace may be thrown on a market which only multt- millionalres can patronize. ete———— In their zeal to convince the public that the rallroads of Nebraska are over- taxed, those rallway tax bureaucrats are Just llable to prove that the roads are really entitled to am annual sub- sldy out of the state treasury and total exemption from paying anything into it. Colonel Bryan declares be is not anx- fous to be conviuced that he is the man needed to lead the democratic hope next time, but he is convinced that sev- eral other self-styled democrats who are anxious to lead the democratic hosts are neither needed nor wanted on the ticket. The necessity for the republicans of the Becond Nebraska district to nom- Inate for congress a man who mukes his home here and whose Interests arve identified with thls district 1s now more urgent than ever, The people will no longer stand for a non-resident con- gressman, S————— In the aftermath of the sham battle crowds at Lake Manawa the collection of empty pocketbooks, In evidence of the activity of the pickpocket brigade, con- stitutes o striking reminder of ‘what John J, Donahue, have had chargo of the police force, tablishments upon such a basis that ships can be built here for foreigners. In order to do this the American ship- bullders must be able to compete in the matter of cost with Europeah ship- builders and if the combination can effect this without reducing the price of labor, which now makes the differ- ence in the cost of ship construction between the United States and Europe, it will be a good thing for the ship- bullding industry of this country. According to the statement of an offi- clal of the company, it is bullding the largest cargo carrying steamships in the world and has a fleet in course of construction of the value of $31,000,000, composed of every known type of ves- sel, and the total contracts in hand aggregate $50,000,000. The combination therefore starts under highly favorable conditions. Enlargement of the ship- bullding ndustry of the United States is certainly to be desired and there ap- pears to be no reason why the so-called Shipyard trust should not be highly suc- cessful. E—— GREAT BRITAIN'S NAVY. The disclosures regarding the weak features of Great Britain's navy, brought out by the review of the cha nel fleet, are really not new. For sev- eral years English naval officers have been telling the government that many bt ite:vessels would be found almost useless in case of war. The statement of a naval critic In regard to the home fleet, that a majority of “might as well be bullt of cardboard, as they are mere dummies, too feeble to fight and too slow to run away,” has been sald In effect many times before. But none the less Great Britain's navy is by far the most powerful in the world and would still be so if all the ships which are deemed to be too feeble to fight were put out of commission. Omitting these from consideration and the British navy still is equal in fight. ing power to the combined navies of France and Russia, in both of whick are ships that may be classed as dum- mies, too feeble to fight and too slow to run away. And Great Britain is in- creasing its sea power as ‘rapidly as any other country. She is building she most powerful battldships and crulsers ever constructed, thus maintalning her policy of keeping her naval strength about equal to that of any two Kuro- pean nations. This she may not al- ways be able to do, but there is no doubt that 1s her position at present and will continue to be at least untll the French and German programs of naval construction are carried out. The fact is that warships bullt fifteen or twenty years ago have become an- tiquated and would be useless against the latest battleships and crulsers. Great Britaln has a number, of such vessels, but she also has enough mod- ern ships to make her position as a sea power secure. CRUSADE AGAINST CHILD LABOK. The movement agalnst child labor in the mills of the south cannot fall to have good results. The facts in regard to the employment of children under 12 years of age and the depidrable con- sequences have aroused a feeling in the south that must result in remedial action and it is safe to assume that there will be legislation in the southern states for the correction of the wrong that is belng doue to thousands of chil- dren in depriving them of opportunity for schoollng and subjecting them to a slavery which eught to be impossible in this country. Bome of the southern papers claim that the statements which have been published as to the number of children employed in the mills and their con- dition are exaggerted. Thus the Trades- man of Chattanooga says that all who have written on the subject have been oither ill-informed or {ll-advised. Hav- ing instituted an lovestigation that paper asserts that the employment of children below the age of 12 years is not so large as has been charged and that the conditions are not geuerally so bad as'has been represented. It admits the ships | that In some Instances Injustice and, possibly, cruelty is shown, but says they are exceptions. It is to be hoped that the Tradesman's information Is correct, but If so there is still shown to be a situation that calls for radical and effective remedy. There are 50,000 children estimated to be now employed in the mills of the south, most of whom bave had little or no schooling, who are worked twelve and sometimes four- teen hours a day and whose condition Is that of practical slavery. We think no one will question that this is an intolerable state of affairs, which should be promptly and thoroughly corrected. The mill owners are not likely to do this. Possibly a few of them may make some concession to public opinion, but the great majority will continue to em- ploy child labor until there is legislation prohibiting it below a certain age. This labor can be had for a mere pittance and is therefore profitable. It is also submissive and may be worked to the full limit of endurance. The agitation against this wrong must not cease until the wrong Is remedied. DOUBLE-BARRELED 04 MPAIGNING. The democrats and the populists have each opened separate state headqua ters in this city, from which they will conduct the fusion campalgn in Ne- braska this year. Speaking of the work of the fusion committees, the chairman of the populist organization declares that the populist campaign will be conducted entirely independent of the democrats, although the manage- ments at both headquarters are to be In constant consultation “for the good of the ticket.” This double-barreled campaigning 18 one of the unique products of fusion as practiced in this state, and part and parcel of the systematic deception prac- ticed in order to keep up the fusion farce. Although there Is but one fusion Mcket in the fleld, the name of every candldate on it will appear on the offi- cial ballot labeled both democrat and populist. In order to make the popu- lists belleve that there is a populist ticket in nomination, all the campaign work dealing exclusively with populists will be cofiducted by the populist state committee, while to convince the demo- crats that the democratic ticket is not talnted with populism, all their ad- dresses, communications and literature will come out of democratic headquar- ters. When it comes to raising the wind, the theory of fusion is that two solicit- ing agencies, operating under different names, can gather In more contribu- tions than one acting by itself. When it comes to footing the Dills, however, the connecting pipe between the two reservoirs will be found clogged, in case either 18 confronted with a deficit. Requisitions “for the good of the ticket” will not be honored by the democratic financlers if drawn by the populist cam- paign managers, nor by the populist treasure-keeper if drawn on democratic letterheads. ; Double-barreled campaigning great thing. everybody, except those who load the guns. o The specially commissioned astrologer of our local popocratic contemporary has discovered by the aid of a long- distance telescope that the entire semi- arld reglon of the western bhalf of the | continent is the penalty pald for the destruction of the forests that previ- ously covered the whole of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. The crime of the sixteenth century over- shadows even the crime of 1873, and | the barbarity of the Spaniards calls for severer condemnatiou than the avarice of the money power. In the interval, the only thing left for us to do is to plant trees and look happy, no matter how we feel, e The new police board is already un- dergoing an irresistible impulse to trans- f.act business behind closed doors, in ex- ecutive session. As The Bee has re- peatedly remarked, no public body, act- ing in a representative capacity, has any excuse to conduct its proceedings In se- cret to avoid the enforcement of re- sponsibility. Public officers who insist on meeting behind closed doors will bear watching. w——— Nothing stands in the way to pre- vent Aguinalde from coming to the United States on a lecture tour except the prospect of falling down .on the gate receipts. If the wily Filipino Is as shrewd as he 1s credited, he will in- sist on a guaranty as a condition of his contract and see that the money to cover it is deposited in the bank before he walks out on the stage. e Central Labor union will favor Gov- ernor Savage with another communica- tion, telling him what its members think of his repudiation of his promise to them under dictation of Baldwin and Mercer. This will give the governor opportunity to favor the public @ith another expression of his remarkable views upon the character and claims of organized labor. All the river craft calling at the port of Omaha have been placed under an em- bargo and navigation has been com- pletely closed by the seizure of the one vessel that plies along the riyer front. Strange to say, this sudden interference with our shipping Industry has not, so far as the uaked eye can see, had any tendency to stugnate commerce or par- alyze industry. ] St. Louis is in raptures over the prom- ise of President Roosevelt to partici- pate in the dedication exercises of the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Plainly the Hi-fated star of the Buffalo show is haviug no deterrent influence on President Roosevelt. —————— Two of a Ki Chicago Post. Russell Sage now stands shoulder to shoulder with Senator Hanna as a friend of the laboring man. “I feel that the bet. ter you treat the employes the better re- sults a corporation will obtain.” And uncle Russell is certainly looking for “results.” Consider the Pri ‘Chicago News. Chancellor Andrews must think young men have a lot of nerve when he asks them to plunge into matrimony while meat and provisions are at the present prices. , Doe. A Curb Bit Needd. Indianapolis News. Trusts go forming. One might well try to stop the laws of gravitation a8 to stop this economical and industrial evolution, but some direction and control 1s dally becoming more imperative. A Refuge for Orooks. Springfleld Republican, It {8 & great pity that that precious pair of fugitives from American justice, Gaynor and Greene, should npave the Capadlan courts on their side in the extradition pro- ceedings. Two more impudent offenders against the laws have never snapped their fingers at the American authorities from the best hotels across the frontier. It is a long chase, but Gaynor and Greene may yet be landed before a United States judge on American soll. Gush for Foreign Consumption. Washington Post. General Joe Wheeler is qu and wants us to send our study the English army. general’s judgment has been slightly warped by the herolc entertalnment he has recelved on the other side. The Eng- lish army gave us ample opportunity to study it during the recent affair in South Africa. And, then, our forefathers had two seasons of most practical study In that particular branch and succeeded In grad- uating with the highest of honors. enthusiastic Relleving F t Their Money. Minneapolls Times, Another get-rich-quick scheme has come to grief in Boston. The conmcern was known as J. M. Fisher & Co., and it of- fered marvelous profits to investors. The dangerous character of so-called invest- ment enterprises that promise 60, 100 and 200 per cent a month has been shown so often by their collapse with the per cent all made by the proprietors, and can be deonstrated so eacily by the application of the rules of arithmetic and the laws of probability that it is a wonder they find such Iiberal support. Mr. Barnum's maxim in other matters than the show Hot Alr on the Ocean. Checago Chronicle. “Dy a singular coincidence, Thurston, who is ex-Queen Liliuokalani's attorney in her claims agalnst the United States for crown lands, salls for Honolulu ‘with Senators Burton and Mitchell, who are charged with investigating those claims. Mr. Thurston is happy in these coinci- dences. When he was in the senate he al- ways happened to be around when any- thing was up affecting the Union Pacific road, of which he was likewise the attor- ney. In the present cas Mr, ‘Thurston Will likely come to gri result of his devotion to the interests of his employers. It is & nine days’ trip from Ban Francisco to Honolulu, and in that time Burton will talk him to death. SAMPLE OF WATERED CAPITAL. Mr. Schwab’s Latest Deal in the Game ot Bunco, Philadélphia Pre Mr, Charles M. ld:wn has “made” $18,- He bought the Bmhlehem steel works for 87,600,000, 80 it is reported. He has “‘sold” lt to the shipbuilding trust for $26,000,000 in urities, or, as the report runs, for ;m 000,000 of trust deed certificates, $8,000,- €00 of preferred and $8,000,000 of common. This is the way people once “made'’’ money in the tullp mania in Holland. Everyone concerned “‘made” & lot of money until some foolish man tried to realize. Even Mr. Schwab cannot eat the shares and bonds of the shipbuilding trust. They will not do for wall paper. The trust can make no more money than the business of its- separato plants can make united, and there s not one of them but, to the knowledge of all men, has had—and not long ago—the driest of dry years, This money can be “made” only by sell- ing these socurities to the publio. Will the public buy? It has seen asphalt smash, it has watched rubber go down and it sees even the great steel trust hanging at prices which-are ridiculous if people really believe that full years in iron and steel can last. If the public does not buy this money will not be “made.” It will go where went the money “made” in tullps, (n South Sea se- curities, in mines and the New York realty craze and the western realty booms about Indianapolls and other western citles in 1873, In California lands in 1883 and in & great array of southiern land sites and mines in 1898, It 1s designed to fool | 500,000 FARMERS TO COMBINE, Dakota Movement to Comtrol Market Farm Products. Milwaukee Sentinel. The Farmers' National Co-operative Ex- change compeny was recently incorporated in Plerre, 8. D., and its capitalization fixed 8t $50,000,000, The purposes of the organiza- tion are to buy and deal In grain and other farm products and to bulld elevators and warehouses, sto; plants and stocl yards. The information is glven that the stockholders will largely consi of the farmers of the middle western states and that the company intends to aggressively enter into competition with the companies and corporations which have practically controlled the marketing of western farm products. Fifty million dollars, the capitalization of seemg & small sum when $1,000,000,000 capitaliza- tion of the steel properties or of the hun- dreds of millions of capital stock of other combinations of corporations and compa- nies, but it may be sufficient to give the project a fair trial. This new plan may afford a solution of a mooted economic question. It is asserted that the farmer has always been the victim of adverse con- ditions imposed by the aggressions of cap- ital and has always in one form or another been paying tribute to capital. Possibly a combine, first of farmers of South Da- kota and later of the farmers of th itire country, Is contemplated, with a view to syndicating all their resources to comtrol production and the sale of all farm com- modities and thus turn the tables upon the sb-called industrial enemies of the farmers’ prosperity. It the owners of steel mills, of ha vesting mwachinery factories and other in- dustrial plants have a right to combine, the American farmers have the same right. The probability of an American farmers’ trust is, of course, remote, but its formation is no miore lmpossible or improbable than was trol the price of wheat, corn, oats and other farm products, and it must be admitted that & well-managed sym- dicate of farmers, having the power to regulate and control the production of com- modities, as well as their sale, would be & powerful as well as novel lndustrial agent in the field of commero | legal and political world has I BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. mts Noted at the De- Announced changes in the personnel of the supreme court started a flood of gossip about the august tribunal, and gave Wash- ington correspondents a chance to shake off tho midsummer dullness. The chief fea- ture of the gossip worked off on a large number of newspapers as a recently re- vealed truth is that Gray, and not Justice who executed a somersault in the income tax decision. One of the traditions of the supreme conn is that no afirmation or de- nial s ever given by members of the se- cret a-mm-unqb or conclusion in the con- ference room. During all these years the ored un- der the impression that it was Justice Shi- ras of Pennsylvania who at the eleventh hour changed his vote so that the court stood five to four against the income tax. Since thd retirement of Justice Gray and the probable early retirement of Justice Shiras, the statement is made that “it was not Justice Shiras who changed his vote, and his colleagues on the bench will not say s0." It is possible that no official statement from the court on this subject will ever be obtained, but there are cer- tain circumstances recalled in exclusive clr- cles which throw a mew light upon what has heretofore been a dark secret. When the case was first argued only eight justices sat in the case. When the decision was announced in open court the chief justice stated that the court was equally divided. No explanation of the vote is customary, and the public was left to guess as to the detalls of the vote. All the Justices, except Gray, Shiras and Brown, delivered individual opinlons. Thus the con- clusion was reached that those who voted in favor of the income tax were Associate Justices Brown, Harlan, Gray and White. Those agalnst it were supposed to be Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Fleld, Brewer and Shiras. A rehearing of the case was ordered be- fore a full bench, and Justice Jackson, a democrat, who had been {1, sat in the case on its second hearing. When the decision was rendered it was found that the tax had been declared unconstitutional by a vote of 6 to 4. Justice Jackson announced the rea- son for his vote, 80 there was no doubt as to the views of at least six members of the court. Justices Gray, Brown and Shiras re- mained silent, and as the final result could only have been reached by a c of one of those three votes, suspicion was put upon Justice Shiras, because it was sald that he was a corporation lawyer. As a clincher to the story the Washington gossipers say that when Justice Harlan was referring in vigorous and emphatic terms to the sudden change of heart upon the part of a member of the court, who had previously favored an income tax, he turned and stared at Justice Gray. The force of this circum- ce 1s drawn from th ct that at that time Justice Gray sat on the left of the chief justice, ~ith Justice Harlan, while Judge Shiras . . on the right of the chief justice with Justice Fleld. The new liquor law of Washington boosts the license feo from $400 to $500 a year, and It is expected the raise will reduce the number of barrooms from 513 to about 800. The ratio will be about one saloon for every thousand people. A great many Washington saloons—and some that are most proBperous are those which cater to the colored people. It s Interesting the promoters of the law to see its effect on these saloons. Unless the groggery is mak- ing considerable money it will not be able to continue business and only the more thriving establishments will survive. Al- ready the saloon men have put the ban on the G-cent growler; nothing less than a dime’s worth will be sold in a pail. In a number of places bottled beer has been raised from 10 cents to 15 cents a pint and a general understanding has been reached which abolishes the free lunch counter. Crackers and cheese is all that is served on the side. Attorney General Knox is credited with a desire to leave the cabinet. He sald to a friend at Atlantic City the other d left a law practice of $70,000 & year in Pitts- burg to come to Washington to take a cab- inet place that pays me $8,000 a year. In Pittsburg 1 had my city house and a little place out in the country where I used to go d romp. In Washington I have just one place, and to get out of doors and have some fun I come to Atlantic City, where I pay $72 & day for the board of myself and my family. Oh, I am getting rich at it. ‘The joy of be- i0g In the cabinet is wonderful.” PERSONAL NOTES. Megsrs, Gaynor and Greene appear to have climbed into the right side of the Canadian scales of justice. J. N. Casanova, proprietor of the Ha- vana Post of Havana, Cuba, is in New York. He was formerly the mayor of Phillips burg, this state. Prof. Reginald A. ?nnndon of the ‘weather bureau has been granted patents on en different parts of wireless tele- graphic apparatus by the patent office. Prince Heury of Prussia s insured against assassination. The policy is for $900,000, which sum is not payable in case of death from any other cause than that atipulated. . Ex-President Steyn of the 0 nge Free State is recovering his health at Schwen- ingen, Holland, where he intends to spend the remainder of his days. He is still “un. reconstructed.” Commandant Moller, lately of the Boer army, was not born to be shet, During the conflict with Great Britain he had tweanty- one horses shot under bim, but never re- celved a seral Governor Crane of Massachusetts takes no long vacations, winter or summer, He did go home one day earlier than usual last week, and even that bit of relaxation ‘was cons! ed something unusual at the statehouse. Barrett Browaing, son of the two emi- nent poets. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, bas bought a new residence in Italy, the city of his birth, where ded in an anclent palace Eliza Cook, the oldest “old lady” of the American stage, is dead at the age of 0. Although it is some time since she was In active service, she did not by any means ag superfluo upon the earth, for her dlsposition was sweet and cheerful to the last and her word of eucouragement wal never wanting. - Several more Prussian nobles will visit tils country. They are Count von T Winckler, Count Acelbert von Sierstorpff, Count A. von Pcurtales, Count von Verns- torff and Baron von Ruhle, representatives of asistocratic Prussian houses, who are coming with the emperor's consent to study soclal conditions and observe the methods used here in educating the sons of leading American families. James B. Conolly, whose stories of sea adventures bave given him high rank among the younger American writers, is off on a Eurcpean trip in search o weas to conquer. His Gloucester yarns are well kuows. Last year he wee living with the fisher folk of the North sea and the Baltie. Now he has turned bis face southward, and will cast his lot with the sallors and fish- ermen of the Mediterranean and other | southern seas. SAVAGE AND THE POLICE BOARD. Kearney Democrat: So far as some of the funcfions are concerhed, Governor Sav- age Is the biggest and busiest mayor Omaha bas ever had. Blair Pliot: The new Fire and Police board in Omaha seems to be upsetting things generally and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Beatrice Sun: The letter recently sent to bor orgunizations by Governor Savage Wwas not copied from a book on polite letter writing. It was original with the writer. Ord Journal It would seem that there are some people in Omaha who do not like the Fire and Police board appointed by Gov- ernor Savage, nor the fufluence that brought about the appointments. Beatrice Sun: When Governor Savage in- that a large sum of money would been pald if he had appointed the men that certain Omaba Interests desired he leaves the people in doubt. He should be more epecific, Kearney Hub: Governor Savage's recent epistle to the head of the labor unions. of Omaha s simply still further indubitable evidence that as a letter writer he is a monumental fallure. His epistles kick back Iike an old-fashioned army musket. Weeping Water Republican: Governor Savage has announced his probable in- tentions of locating in Oregon after his official term expires. He says he has had some flattering offers to engage in the lumber manufacturing business in the west, Blue Springs Sentinel: The labor unions of Omaha have passed some very warm resolutions against Governor Savage ap- pointing the fire and police commission he did. They clalm that the governor invited them to submit names from which he would give them a representation and then turned them down. Blue Springs Sentinel: The governor has taken his pen In hand to let the fellows who are on the outside of his fire and police board in Omaha know that he is weil and bopes they are the same, or words to that effect. The sparks that are being emitted from his pen are qulite electrifying, but po- litical letter writing has dumped many a man into the pool of forgotten possibilities. Valentine Republican: Omaha has an- other fire and police commission and it is diegusting to see how some papers, trying to throw the ater in connection with the same. Rosewater, as editor of a state paper, is the only man with back- bone enough to fight corruption and In- stead of assisting, the other fellows are always jumping on his back. Fremont Herald: The Beo charges that John N. Baldwin, Union Pacific attorney, dictated the appointment of a fire and po- lice board for Omaha, for the purpose of “‘converting the police force into a rall- road constab ."" Nobody denles that he dictated the nomination of the little man, Mickey, for governor—and the peo- ple are going to tell him next November that he made a g at mistake. Bavage acts as though he had nothing to los Fremont Herald: Mayor Moores speak- ing of the active part taken by D. H. Mer- cer and John N. Baldwin of thke Union Pacific Railroad company, in dlctating the appolhtment of the new police board in Omaha, declared, It will lose Mercer 6,000 organized labor votes, and he will be defeated by 2,500—that is if he succeeds In getting the nomination. Hitchcock or Ransom would have a walkaway with him, and lnyhcd.v running against him will be electe Norfolkk News: It is rumored that Gov- ernor Savage may be given a federal ap- pointment after the expiration of his term of office. In vieWw of the regard in which Savage is held throughout the state, it is considered that a very grave mistake would be made by the gemeral govern- ment in appointing him to a position. The people have already n it out that they have had enough of Savage and they ‘e of the opinfon that any office in the ate or nation will hereafter be too good for him. David City Press: For appolnting a fire and police board in Omaha, opposed to Rosewater, Setatd# Millard, David B. Mer- cer and Baldwin of the Union Pacific have agreed to get Governor Savage a good fed- eral job when his time Is out. He was turned down for pardoning Bartl but that was to fool the voters. The ment is made that the president has al- ready been seen. The president is billed to come here this fall, and endeavor to pur- suade demo-pops they should vote the re- publican ticket. David City Press: Broatch, one of the men Governor Savi appointed on the Board of Fire and Police In Omaha to spite Rosewater has a record. For instance, an exchange offers the following: “As for thrift, at the same time, one of $2,600 a year from the federal treasury as Mis- souri river commissioner, one of $2,500 a year from the city treasury as mayor of Omaha and a third of $800 a year as mem- ber of the police board.” Beatrice Times: Governor Savage, in his reply to the labor union of Omaha, cuts to the quick. He vigorously denles that he lied about appointing & labor union repre- sentative on the Om: police commission. fter the walking delegate and the principle of labor unions in working en- forced idleness upon those of thelr number who, If unfettered, would willingly work. The governor's letter is readable because of its breeziness. His Intimation that the fin letter to bim from the union was written bx the editor of The Bee will probably bring something rich from that paper. Grand Island Independent: The Omaha labor union makes an excellent point in an answer to Governor Sa letter to them, in which ve but little credit to the honmest, Intel manhood, that is sesoclated nearly everywhere with the labor unions. The governor intimated that money had been offered him for the ap- pointment of certain men on the Omaha Fire and Palice Commission. The labor union asks who offered the bri The governor leaves this to be Inferred as the reader may please. It 1s a matter of which the people have a right to the full particulars. The officer of the Omaha labor union wants him to spesk put. Let the governor speak. Norfolk News: The labor unions of Omaha are lately discovering what sort of an individual has been occupying the governor's chalr for nearly two years past, and they are not sounding his praf the skies to any great extent. Wh the appointing of the police board of Omaha, his inexcellency decided that the opportunity was ripe for making a grand stand play, and he did. He recom- mended that the labor umions should get their heads together and make a first, o ond and third cholice of whom they desired appointed on the board. This looked fair to the laboring men, and they made such sclections, with the governor's promise that one would be appointed. But the governor forgot or declined to be bound by his promise to the labor unions, and ‘when the appolntments wi anpounced the other day they were uot long in discovering that they had been made the vici Savage, and that neither of their mendations had been considered. Ti ernor and his friends were particular that his previous lntentions were given wide publicity, but they bave not been so prompt in explajning bis final action to those - terested, and the unions have fallen inte the habit of writing bitter letters and adopting biting resolutions which ti groat ploasure in addressing to the gov- ernor's office. Grand Island Independent: Governor Eav- age has penned a letter to the Omaha unlon labor organization in which he tries to ex- plain why he did not appoint a member of that organization or a representative of it on the Omaha fire and police board. Mr. Savage seems to presume that there Is not & member of a labor union in Omaha who would be as well fitted as anyone of the four men he had named, and argues that really it doesn't make any difference—all men are laboring men. It doesn’t concern the people of this section much who wins In this Rosewater-Mercer-Savage-World- Herald-railroad-union labor mixup down in Douglas county, but Governor Savage might Just as well have admitted that there came political demands upon him which made him forget his promise. Superfor Journal: Governor Savage Is out in an open letter to a trade union In Omaha, in which he intimates that Editor Rosewater has been trying to lead him astray. ‘Large sums of money were avail- able in exchange for executive pleasure, says Mr. Savage, In relating that Ros water wanted some of his “pet miniona’ appointed members of the Omaha fire and police board. Notwithstanding the gov- ernor's angry and intemperate utteranc it is hardly probable that Rosewater is guilty of a foolhardy attempt to bribe Gov- ernor Savage. Mr. Rosewater in the past has been accused of about everything fm- aginable, but he has always come out un- scathed when charges against him have been investigated. This parade of great virtuo on the part of Governor Savage in an- nouncing that he had refused a bribe strikes the funny-bone of the people of the state. Tilden Citizen: The everlasting bicker- dng connected with the question of the ap- pointment of the Omaha police commission has been given a new lease of life by the recent decision of the supreme court, which places the appointive power in the hands of the governor. The ruling fs a slap at home rule with a vengeance. No act of tho British Parliament in its dealing with Irish matters could be more arbitrary and un- Just. The opinion is, on its face, a plain intimation that the voters of Nebraska's metropolis are incapable of self-govern- ment. Why the governor of the state should be considered more competent than the chosen mayor to seloct a board of manage- ment for the municipality's fire and police departments {s Inexplleable—except upon the uncharitable charge that political bine or prejudice is recognized as of greater im- portance than representative government To be perfectly consistent it would seem strictly in order that the governor be ace corded the privilege of naming the village marshals of Tilden and all other towns in the state. Frement Tribune: Governor Suvege ‘us taken the public jnto his confidence in ins matter of a reply he has made to plumbers’, gas and steamfitters’ union Omaha. These persoms dcuounced governor for not appolinting candidates en- dorsed by them for members of the fire and police commission, whom the governor has just named. The reply of the latter 1s couched in language that kas smoke on {1t. The governor is not expecting any votes this year, and 8o he is free to say ex- actly what he thinks. He Infarms these persons that he didn't appoint any of their candidates because after he had sifted the aspirants the best men, In his judgment, didn't happen to belong to organized labor. This was merely a circumstance, one of the misfortunes of war. The governor pays a just tribute to honest labor, but he rals some big welts on the labor agitators “who sweat by proxy.” He concludes by saying he was looking fof men who could with- stand the temptations of bribery in the mat- ter of policing Omaha. He insinuates that there was plenty of money to be had if he ‘would have named certain applicants and this confirmed his bellef in the importance of getting men above temptation. He thinks he did, though he admits vllly time will tell. . o i£4 Western Orop Movement. Boston Transcript. The western crop movement promises to be the greatest in the history of the country, and the capacity of the railroads to handle the grain of the western states will be severely tested. Even in ordinary seasons there 18 sometimes difficulty in ob- talning e and every road will make an effort to press all possible equipment into service. There is likely to be considerable complaint about a “‘car famine” before the crop is moved, but the farmers of tho northwest can hardly expect the rajlroads to maintain an equipment to meet the con- ditions of some phenomenally productive year. With an average of 776 bushels to a car, to move the ectimated wheat crop of the United States alone at one time would require a train about 92,000 miles long— enough to put several girdles around the earth. FLASHES OF FUN, (Ehlladelphis Press: Her Mamma—Y certainly were firtl pously. With outrageously with that young man on tfio Doncin e know you're arried wom and. 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