Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1902, Page 6

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STATEMENT OF cmcuu-:-mn Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.! George B. Teschick, “-{cnury of The Bes Quly swori says e aDtual numbpr Of £l An comblets coples of The Duu,“rd i { accounts, Evening anc Bee prin the month of July. , was as fol . lows: 29} .Total. vaiaeen Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sale: Net dally average GEO. B. TZICHUCK d t T T Yy Public. e——-——?' King Corn doesn’t have to ask if his orown is on straight this yea Sir Thomas Lipton still has his eye on that America’s cup. That is all he has got on it o far. Pl S Tilinols erain dealers in convention have been discussing plans to prevent corners.- Round them off. Catuprdiregnt— Omaha soclety has discovered that Italian music is not all embossed on the barrel of the Italian hand organ. emeee—sss— The session of the plumbers_in this city seems to have made no noticeable difference in the outflow of the water- Germany's meat inspection fees are evidently levied on the Donuybrook fair theory of hitting a head whenever you see it. Spm————— ‘When our navies are transformed into fleets of submarine boats, the spectacu- lar part of a naval demonstration will completely disappear. ————————— If the Real Estate exchange Intends to swap the compliments of the season with the head of thie Union Pacific rail- road, the sooner they get at it the better. == OQur nonresident congressman must be in hard lines when he has to import out- side rooters to work up enthusiasm for him in what he professes to call his home ward. Eefe——— The well-defined rumor that President Burt is-getting good and ready to confer with the Union Pacific strikers has yet to be verified. We will believe it when we see Mr. Burt spit on his hands. msheesve———— It is safe to say that neither Governor Bavage, Congressman Mercer nor Pom- ing Laber demonstration in this clty. o E——— Those Texas whitecaps whose hospi- h the blll was made out. trust prices eyidently prevail in TAX BUREAU QUACKERY, Whenever a man “glves up the nowadays the doctors charge ft up to heart failure. On the same theory the rallrond tax bureau quacks have figured it out that delinquent taxes have caused the state debt. The state debt at this day aggregates over $2,000,000 and has for the past ten years been growing at the rate of-from $100,000 to $150,000 a year. The rail- road tax agents place the amount of de- linquent taxes at $1,096873 for the whole state, of which amount they say $157,747 has been delinquent for thirty years or longer. In other words, more than one-sixth of the delinquent tax as- set conslists of cats and dogs that cannot be galvanized into life by any known process. That would leave $939,126 of live delinquent taxes, ‘which would be about $1,100,000 short of paying the state debt If all delinquent taxes were collectible. No rational business man conversant with the true condition of af- fairs would contend that 50 per cent of the taxes delinquent for more than five years are collectible. . Everybody knows that these delin- quencies represent town lots that have been turned fnto corn flelds and could not be sold for the taxes. It represents sand hills that were palmed off for fer- tile farm lands upon the unsuspecting investor during the boom times and are in about the same position as the child that cannot discover its father. Nobody clatms to own them and nobody is willing to pay taxes on them. The delinquent tax list moreover represents hundreds of thousands of dollars of per- sonal taxed levied upon bankrupt or de- funct business concerns and parties who are out of the reach of the tax collector. In Douglas county, for example, the aggregate delinquency is represented as $220,042.20, or 10.12 per cent of the taxes levied. How much of this $220,000 is collectible? We venture to assert that it is not 10 per cent. The railroad tax quacks know well that under the law the tax levied is always 10 per cent higher than the estimated amount of col- lectible taxes, Everybody in Nebraska familiar with state finances knows that fully one-half of the state debt has been caused by bank wrecking aud embezzlement, Everybody knows that the state lost $236,000 In Charley Mosher's Oapital National bank depository. Bverybody knows that the state lost nearly $600,000 by Joe Bartley's benevolent financiering. Upon these losses the state has been paying from 4 (o 7 per ceil lnterest uud the total loss now aggregates more than $1,000,000. ‘Was this part of the state debt caused by tax delinquents or by bank wreckers and public thieves? Is it not about time for the tax bureau ehnrhum to quit their bunco bulletins and come down to the two maln points: First, what 18 the actual value of rail- road property in Nebraska, and, second, what proportion does its assessed value bear to its actual value? Manifestly, if the railroad property in Nebraska is worth §325,000,000, as may be proved by their own bulletins, its as- sessment for $26,500,000 is scandalously below the ratlo of assessment of all other property returned by the assessors, The property which the assessors have failed to return can cut no figure in these computations any more, than the testimony of 100 men who did not see a man steal sheep can offset the testimony of two witnesses who did see him steal the sheep. E——— MORGAN IS KEEPING BUSY, The return of J. Plerpont Morgan to the United States is expected to be speedily followed by interesting devel- opments. The speculative world 4s said to be waiting with no little anxlety for some further disclosure of the plans of the “Colossus of finance.” Traders have hesitated to take any pronounced position in the market until they could discover which way the Morgan cat was going to jump. There is no definite ormation as to what was accom- plished by Mr. Morgan in Europe ia regard to his international schemes, but it s safe to assume thut his efforts were not without practical results. He was a guest of King Edward and of Bm- peror Willlam, but pald no atten to lesser monarchs. It is said that he carefully prepared the rulers of Great Britaln and Germany for what i¥ com- ing and that instead of having thelr an- tagonism he will probably secure their eo-operation. Mr., Morgan has plenty of work to do in this country, There are great schemes yet to bé carrled out. Oné of these 1s the scttiement of the Loulsville & Nashville rallroad deal, inyolving tne gpnsolidation of several lines. It !5 uzn derstood that all the details were ar- ranged while Mr. Morgan was abroad and that a plan has been drawn by a rallroad expert which the financier will pass upon. If he approves the plan the public will be given another opportunity to add a few millions to the Morgan fortune. The complete detafls of the steamship combine are yet to be nade doing so. Secmmm——— It the attack of an invading forelgn navy would really create no more com- out here than the mimic war- fare of the naval maneuvers off the New England coast, we may rest un- disturbed that Nebraska 1s at safe dis- mxu':hu-ummta-be_ Y ] than J. Plerpont Morgan, - public by Mr. Morgan, if he purposes According to the terms the public has thus far heard, Morgan has arranged to pay $160,000,000 for one group of steamships that can be dupli- cated with more modern ®agchinery for $50,000,000, yet there is no doubt he will profit handsomely by the operation. It was hoped that Mr. Morgan would make some effort to bring about a set- tlement of the anthracite coal strike, but it appears that he approves of the course of the operators. Nobody will this, since his sympathies are necessarily and from self-interest with monopoly. There has never been a financier who cared less for the public interests and Avelfare A New York dispatch says that what Wall street expects him to do imme- diately is to start & new movement in stocks. Many are carrylng & load of at very much higher prices than are now. prevailing in Wall street and they nré hoping he will enable them to un- lond. He will doubtless do the best he can in this direction in order that the confidence necessary to the carrying out of his other schemes shall be main- tained. No one will question the finan- clal Ingenuity and resourcefulngss of Mr. Morgan, but there are many who re- gard him, perhaps events will show justly, as & most dangerous enemy of the public interests and welfare. — THE DEMUCRATIO HOPE. The hope of the democrats, according to Washington advices, is in the dls- satisfaction of the industrial classes. They are not counting upon the farm- ers, for the reason that with good crops the agricultural producers are well satls- fled and people who are in this state of mind do not support the democratic party. Democrats at the national cap- ital admit that the favorable crop con- ditions are injurious to the party's pros- pects, but they profess to believe that this loss will be more than counter- balanced by the dissatisfaction among the Industrial classes “arising out of the present high prices and the fallure of wages to keep up with them.” They say+ “The bad condition In the coal mining region and in a good many manufacturing centers where the people, although occupled, have hard work to get along, will do a great deal. We are not looking to the agricultural states for our gains. They will be republican anyhow, but it is In the congested dis- tricts, where political conditions are more nicely weighed, that we shall en- croach on the opposing party.” It is the usual thing for the democrats to base their hope of success on popular dissatisfaction and it is quite probable that the party will profit to some extent from the existing unrest among the In- dustrial classes, but the result may show that the democrats are greatly overestimating ‘this advantage. Intelli- gent wage earners, who consider po- litical conditions rationally, will ask themselves how they can be benefited by giving their support to the demo- cratic party. In what respect could the condition of the industrial classes be bettered If the next house of representa- tives should have a democratic majority? It would not be able to accomplish any- thing. It could carry through no legisla- tion not acceptable to the republican senate and president. The only effect the election of a democratic house of representatives would have would be the creation of a* fear of democratic ascendancy’ in the government, which would certainly not be conducive to the maintenance of financial and business confidence. Grant that the industrial classes have reasonable ground of com- plaint in the fact that wages do not increase with the rise in the price of commod} the election of a demo- cratic hot of representatives would not remedy this condition. On the con- trary, If it should have the effect reason- ably to be expected, an lmpalrment of confidence through apprehension of the demociatic party securing control of the government, the situation would prob- ably become more serious for the in- dustrial classes. At all events it as- suredly would not be improved. There 18 no promise of betterment for the wage earners in democratic success and any one of that class that belleves there 18 Is deluding himself. The policy of the democratic party is hostile to the Interests and the welfare of the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, | Morgan industrials which were bought industrial classes. This ought to be and undoubtedly is well understood by all intelligent workingmen and it is therefore most improbable that any con- sferable number of them will at this time be drawn to the support of that party. / A correspondent writes us to suggest that something more ought to be done to procure for Omaha equal treatment at the hands of the railroads with that ac- corded Kansas City. He tells us that for the Priests of Pallas festivities Kan: sas City has secured a one-fare rate on all raliroads for a distance of 200 miles extending over twelve days, while for the Ak-Sar-Ben carnival Omaha Is to have Its oune-fare coucession only for thréé days and a smaller radius. As a result Kansas City can invite Omaba people to visit the Priests of Pallas at reduced railroad fave, while Kansas City people cannot come to Omaha Ak-Sar- ‘Ben week except by paying full rates. If these conditions are as represented, complaint ought certalnly to be entered and an effort made to equalize the rail- road concessions to the two citles. ——— The republicans of Douglas county are entitled to the same treatment in the selection of delegates to nominate a suc- cessor' for David H. Mercer as is ac- corded to the republicans of Sarpy and Washington counties. They have no right to ask for more and they will not be satisfied with less. The republicans of Washington and Sarpy counties have been allowed to elect the number of del- egates apportioned to them without the infervention of the ‘congressional com- mittee and the republicans of ¢his county should have the same privilege. em———— We shall presently see whether the re- publican congressional committee of this district represents the rank and file of another at each other's capital. The medal makers. will be kept. working overtime to turn out the souvenir decorationis their majesties will bestow. on énch bthér's subjeét: The ralnmakers have gone out of busi- ness In Nebraska this year and the weather prophets who predicted terrible scorchers between July 17 and August 21 have lost their reckoning, But cabbage put in the pot s in cold and comes out hot, Away down south in Dixie. the same as before the “wah.” Philadelphia Ledger. A Cuban editor declares that this coun- try is not the father of the Cuban republie; only the ce Backward. Indianapolls Journal. Probably ihere was not a single trust formed In this country during the panic of 1893 to 1806, caused by democratio legisl tion and misgovernment, but there were hundreds of mills and factories closed. Moving the Corn Crop. Indianapolis Journal. It would take a rallway train girdling the world more than three times to move the wheat crop of the United States this year, with the bumper corn crop to hear from. The job will be neatly handled by breaking it into sections. A Signifioant Sign. Minneapolis Journal. Tha fact that the steel trust refuses to sell rails to a raflway company which re- fuses to explain its purpose to the trust s indeed protoundly significant. It indicates that the trust is in alliance with the great railway systems of the country to prevent the bullding of new and independent lines The company must go abroad for its rai And it wHl have to pay & tariff on them, too. National Game Tabooed. Philadelphia Press. Secretary Shaw has done & wise thing In punishing clerks found gullty of playing poker. Not only have their familles suf- fered for a long time, but there was con- stant fear of government loss. As a result thelr sal re reduced and their work transferred so to make it impossible for them to take anything valuable, even if they tried. That is proper. The secretary retained the men only because of their fam- illes. Philadelphia Record. Irrigation is a process by no means con- fined to the efforts of promotems who are owners of arld lands, , The irrigation of stocks is an active mmy. A sharp- tongued contemporary “When a rail- road becomes prosperol n ‘never cuts down rates; it waters its gigok until dividends are reduced to nopMj@¥ proportions.”” The trick is as old as thahills. There are even | potitical pnuowphmguo fnsist upon irri- gating the coin of thi T« Better Salaries ":ll Be Pald, Minneapolis Journal. Nebraska schoo] re likely to remain closed because t can’t be obtalned. will lead to an in- § in that state. If tollers that desorves school teachers the state a service reclated impor- better pay It is tl everywhere, who of supreme but ‘tance. It will b it to the Nes AUGUST 23, braskans if they, in their prosperity, close thelr schools uxrm\ Teluctance to raise salaries. ———e Success in Life. San Francisco Chronicle. There are scores of living men who might be mentioped who have attained to all that oes to make up success as it is commonly timated. They have wealth, soclal and political influence and popularity; they have everything that heart can wish, and yet the man of the world of the average sort would not for a moment admit that their success is to be compared with that of the man who has lost everything yet has served his coun- try as a patriot, has made the foundations of the state a little stronger, the life of the common people a little sweeter and happler, has given to his family and his friends an of unspotted rectitud things has missed personal ad- vancement aid pleasure. THE “TIDAL WAVE” SCARE, Apparently Sensible Pe enced by a Foolish Pro) Philadelphia Press, The fact that once a state of general ap- prehension is created, through no matter what sllly Influences nsible people will yield to its meaningless menace is proved once again in the mattér of the Atlantio City tidal wave scare. Whilé no one of the thousands who took the scare serlously would have been affected by it at first in- stance if they had heard Rev. Andrew Jones uttering his absurdities on the street corner, they were affected after the vague prophecy of ac ignorant and foolish man had been merged into a general rumor of impending danger, originating one knew not ‘where. Now that it is all over the whole episode 18 & commentary on the curious, halt super- stitious attitude that eo many otherwise counted as well-informed and. well-educated people maintain toward all natural phe- nomena. To them all the doings of nature mysterious has always in it more or less of threat, more or less of that which is in- exorable and malignant, as well as inex- plicable, they are fearful of phenomena that are as orderly as the movement of the earth on its axls and beneficent in effept. 1t, for instance, the mass of those—I ing out the avowedly ignorant who were of the same race and color as the false prophet —who were apprehensive over the so-called “ttdal wave” had had the slightest idea of wave causation they would have had no oc- i for fear. If they bad knmown the stmplest facts as to the conditions favorable to earthquake waves or the factors in the making of storm waves that move outward from some great storm center they would have kuown what {ncredible folly lay in the alleged abllity of an itinerant religlous mountebank to predict a “tidal wave.” But, unfortunately, though our schools fuss over nature studies to & marked degree, neither the older nor the younger gemeration has the slightest grasp on nature in its larger aspects. ) Our faulty elucation is responsible, there- fore, for whatever degree of importance was attached to the rumors of death and de- the party or the nonresident congress- man. While Mercer was allowed to name the committee as the candidate of the republicans of this district, the com- mittee 1s expected to ‘represent the re: publicans of the district and not simply Mr. Mercer or his man Friday, who has assumed to be the “whole thing” and gives out his own program for the whole committee, of which he is only one of the nine members. Emperor William of Ge—rmlny and King Victor Emmanuel of Italy are about to exchange courtesies by visiting one struction that took on so vital an aspect to so many people. Even the weather is taught in some of our schools, but by teachers who have no idea of weather causa- tion and elmply repeat old errors, while the children idle away tdelr time with kinder- garten exercises in the making of weather records. Nothing is apprebended of the broad prin- general i smatteringly. And, efil“flllllfl’, being but little above & The poor Indian, whose untutored mind l—-mu cloud and bears Him in the listened to With WmOULh AELPS, any idlot barking st the cressroads s 1802, Nebraska’s Bumper Crop ... 8!z and seven years ago the biggest crop that Nebrasl ®ould boast of was her “anti-plutocracy” resolutions. Conditions had been good for the sowing and the cultivating, and the spring d summer of 1806 found almost all classes of Ne- braska people’pelting the country at large with platform anathemas agalnst wealth and banks and corporations and railroads and everything if sight that was known to ‘be a single dollar ahead of the game and anxious to keep that dollar honest. Nebraskans were poor, and they were for the most part cohsumed with a burning desire to punch the whole wide world as being responsible for it. Today you probably couldn't get an anti- money-power or free silver resolution through a Nebraska town meeting or any political gathering there, or by any in- fluence persuade more than one Nebraska farmer orator to rise up and denounce things in general, as was t wont. They haven't the time—much I the finclina- tion. They are too busy getting rich themselves. With only inconsiderable mineral resources and few manufactures, Nebraska still has broad and broadening farms that are proving in the long run to be better wealth producers than mines or mills or steamships. The yleld of wheat and ocorn L] unpre- cedented this. year, and the Ne- braska farmers are all overflowing with New York Commerclal. good nature and optimism. From framers of resolutions and populist orators they are turned jokesmiths and money lenders—if they can find anybody to borrow their rplus cash, They are all dangerously near the plutoeracy line. Lots of farmers have. §5,000, $10,000 or $25,000 wheat crops; there are reports of several $40,000 and $50,000 ylelds; and as to corn, all the known Wdjectives out there are powerless to ade- quately describe the crop. The Nebraska editor no longer ‘‘de- nounces.” He laughs—and even tells = harmless whopper or two now and then. A mewspaper in Dawson county soberly dis- cus: the feasibility of utilizing the corn- s to replace the rotting poles of the locai independent telephone company. An- other country sheet nsists that the cord- cobs will go to waste this year because they are too big to use in the ordinary rnaces, and the small number of sawmills the state prev any other use of thém, unless) the rallroad companies will employ them for ties. And #o it goes. Big crops in Nebraska and big prices! That combination can't come every year, of course. But the Ne- braska are belng givenm an opportunity to reflect that it doesn’t pay to fight the benevolent system of government under which they live whenever prosperity doesn’t happen to be quite so overwhelming as at present, R ae—————— L WHO PAYS THE RAKE OFF? Fancy Profits Gathere Underwrit, Chicago Chronicle. Two recent dispatches from New York Show that there is money in some trusts for some people. One of them states that the members of the underwriting syndicate for the Unjted States Steel corporation has recelved . a third dividend of & per cent on the face value of the $200,000,000 for which they liable. The syndicate was called on to advance only $25,000,000 of the $200,000,000 for which it was liable. It has now received $30,000,~ 000 as compeneation for assuming the lia- bility in addition to the cash which it ad- vanced. That s to say, it has cleared 125 per cent on the cash actually advanced, less a small sum in loss of interest. The other dispatch states that the latest underwriting syndicate formed by J. Pler- pont Morgan for the purpose of taking over the Monon raflroad for the Southern railway and the Loulsville & Nashville has recelved a profit of $302,300 without having advanced a dol That was clear profit, or eumpenllfilon for assuming a labllity which invélved po outlay whatever. For the enlightenment of tWe uninitiated in the mysteries of trust financing it may be stated that an underwriting syndicate for a trust is a syndicate whioh undertakes 1o supply a certaln ameunt of cash if it Is found to be necessary fvr ihe purpvse of “taking over” the plants of the constituent concerns. In the process of forming & combine some of the concerns which are wanted or some of the stockholders in some or all of them may decline to take the etock or bonds of the proposed corporation and de- mand payment in cash. To provide the cash which is supposed to be necessary to meet these’ demands a syndicate is organ- 1zed. This syndleate {s promised liberal com- Pensation In cash—an agreed pergcentage of the sum which It undertakes to ad: vance, even though the desl may be ecar- ried through without its having to ad- van dollar. In addition to this cash compensation it receives stock of the eomhlne in some agreed proportion to.the sum' underwrit- ten, all of which is “velvet.” appears from the dispatches above mentioned, in some cases the underwriting syndicate has to advance only a small part and In other cases none at all of the sum underwritten, while the compensation is In by Trast the same as if it had advanced the entire sum. It will be seen that the profits may ormous and out of all proportion to the capital actually advanced. On the other hand, in some instances the underwriters have to advance every dollar and never get anything out but unmarket- able stocks and bonds. It i1s proper, of course, that compensa. tion should be in somé proportion to the rigk, but it would s that Mr. Morgan's syndicates do not take very great risks, while they rake in very handsome profits. ‘Who pavs? POLITICAL DRIFT. ‘West Virginia has the highest proportion of native-born voters of American par- entage gnd Wisconsin the lowest. When W. C. Whitney remarked that the democracy was without a real leader he must have forgotten the old reliable Adial E. Stevenson. President Roosevelt alarmed the supersti- tious among his friends by making the thirteenth person at table at Oyster Bay. ‘While others of the party exhibited much the president treated the matter with {ndifferen The democrats of Pennsylvania In their support of Robert E. Pattlson for governor are devoting great attention to the lssue of electoral reform, so-called, the adoption of which-is expected to do away with frauds in balloting in Pennsylvani nd thus bris about & political revolution i the state. ‘They depend much upon an expression of popular interest in this issue. There is & plaintive note in Henry Wat- race for the -momination ‘Sometimes I have declared,” he says, “that I would like the people to write ‘governor of Ken- tucky’ on my tombstone. But I should 1l rest in my grave If there were the sus- piclon of a stain upon a letter of that hon- orable epitaph.” Meanwhile the shallow- pated are overwhelmed with joy. New Jersey, small In ares, gets as large an increase in representation under the new congress apportionment as Pennsylvania; twice as much as Massachusel or Con. necticut and proportionately more than either New York or Illinois. The large in- crease in its population consequent upon the great development of its industries ac. counts for a gain which is not evenly dis- tributed among the severgl divisions of the state. Bouth Carolina elects & governor this year | and for the democratic nomination there ar three candidates: James H. Tiliman, now lieutenant governor and a nephew of Sena- . and former superin- State penitentiary, and ' Captain Heyward. Democratic nominations | in South Carolina are declded at party primaries and are ratified by the voters &t the polls at the regular election. The democrats of Michigan at their De- troit convention put up & gold democrat for governor and there has been some threat of p~litical reprisals by the silver democrats. Tt is & somewhat curicus fact that altbough the voters of Michigan have been, unl the voters of Wisconsin, frequently partial to soft money or free silver, the populist party in Michigan never galned any fme portant foothold and Michigan has been unswerving in its support of the republican iy, / . OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. As to the actual comparative efficlency of the British fleet in action there is room for wide differences of opinlon. The fact that with the officers' who fought at Trafalgar, almost 100 years ago, thére died all prac- tical experfence in real sea fighting cannot be cited to the disadvantage of Britain's navy as compared with the navies of France, Germany or Russia, since no great European power has engaged in a serious conflict at sea since the Napoleonic wars. All the powers' except the United States and Japan, which are not likely to be Eng- land’s foes, are destitute of oficers who have experienced the shock of battle at sea. Hence there s mo reason to suppose that British captains and admirals, man for man,, would acquit themselves less creditably than their European opponents. In the British navy, moreover, there exists a body of fighting traditions which must be reck- oned high as an asset of marine warfare. Unless British officers have wotully degen- erated, they are steeped in those principles of the initiative which Nelson so dazzlingly exemplified, and which, other things being equal, would place a British fleet at the outset on the way to victory. The Ger- mans have no salt sea traditions; their naval history is a blank. The French have traditions, but, unhappily, the traditions grown' up since the time of Tourville are those of nerveles Inemcllney and defeat. In the course of A few hours the House of Commons tha other day gave formal sknction to - expenditures amounting to *$150,000,000. The legislative machine in Great Britaln has manifestly broken down Wider the weight of business. Nominally every item of expenditure can be discussed in committee ot the whole (ér committee of supply, as they eay in England); in fact, only one {tem in a hundred is subjected to adequate criticlsm. By way of remedy it has been suggested that some of the powers of the House be delegated to subordinate bodies; but this would lead to what the unionist majority in Parliament affects to call “disunion.” An alternativ Juggestio is the delegation’ to appropriate committees of the consideration of various wlasses of supply bills. The adoption of elther method would mean the Americanization of the methods of the British Parliament, and our transatlantic cousine may have to resort to both the comgressional committes system and the devolution of local legislation upon English, Scotch and Irish local legislatures. Parliament can no longer deal effectively with both imperial and parochial affairs. e There is not a promising outlook for the plans to induce the tlement of farmers on the agricultural lands of the Vaal and Orange River colonies. The great draw- back is the aridity of the climate of the Bouth ‘African plateau. Irrigation is a pre- requisite of success in farming on the un- mpted land; even cattle raising can be limited by the Irrigation is expensive and can be re- sorted to by individual cultivators only un- der exceptionally favorable circumstances. Isolated farmers vannot construct {he costl; works required for the impounding and dis- tribution of flood wat The amount of | governmental assistance that would be ' needed by wettlers in the new colonies ‘would be prodigious, and as long as there are wheat lands in the Canadian northwest to be had practically free of cost the tide of emigration will be unlikely to set in for the Cape. Lord Kitchener's prophecy of a new America in South Africa must remaln long unfulfilled, if it shall ever be realized. o The surprising defeat of a conservative member of Parllament for the south' divi- sion of Belfast in & by-election is another indication that the Balfour ministry cannot count with confidence on & normal majority of 140 in the future. The North Leeds de- feat was & warning; the desertion of the unfonist standard in & unlonist stronghold like Belfast is a severe blow. The former ubionist member had twice received plu- ralities of 2,600 and had been three times returned unopposed, while Thomas Sloan, a that the eleetiog has no bearing on the home rule question, but the defeat of the uniénist candidate whs due to dissatisfac- tion with the government's land policy. ‘When strong unfonist districts like Ulster revol the unsatisfactory handling of th AMAZING AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS ma of the Main P ot Ameriean Prowpertty. New York World. Agriculture being the maln pillar of American prosperity the census survey of the nation's farms just published is of un- usual interest. From its final footings we learn that the total value of farm property in the United States in 1900 was $20,500,000,000; that the total value of thelr produ including crope, animals, poultry, eggs, dairy articles and everything, for the preceding year (1890) was $4,789,118,762, and the “gross income on investment” in farming for the whole coun- try was 18.3 per cent, Analysis and comparicon of these huge totals Are necessary to make them in- structive. The number of farme In 1900 was four times as many as {0 1850 and one- fourth larger than in 1800. 'Their total value was five times ag great fn 1900 as in 1850 and 28.4 per cent greater tham In 1890. The total value of their products was very nearly doubled in the one decade from 1890 to 1900. No such a agrioultural progress has ever taken place before in the world's history. Nearly all this immeinise Increass in agri- cultural values has: taken place in the north central and south central groups of states. In the north Atlantto divisfon, com- prising New York, New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the total value of farm property decreased nearly: $20,000,000 in the last decade. The seven leading agri- cultural states are, beginning at the west, Missour!, o Iilinots,. Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York; and Abraham Lincoln's state leads the union in the value of its tarm property at $2,004,315,807, but Towa is & little ahead of all other states In the total yearly value of its fatm products, which is $365,000,000 or $30,000,000 more than Tllinots. New York Is not quite the Empire state in agriculture, but in the total value of its farm property and its annual farm products it 1 all other states save thres only— Iliinols, Towa and Ohfo—and Ohlo and New York are so nearly even that they Almost tie each other for third place, DEMAND EXCEED! PLY, WI' the Price of Meat May Continue High. ) John Gilmer Speed in Buccess. There is another important element that seema to indicate that the price meat will continue to be higher for a long time— there is a falling off in the production of cattle. In the United States, on January 1, 1800, the oxen and other cattle numbered 127,610,064. At a corresponding time, four years earller, thé oxen and other cattle numbered 32,084,409. There is a falling off of something like 14% per cent, during a period when the population increased some- thing like 10 per cent. Here are conditions which were not brought into existence by the beef trust, not yet by the predecessors of the beef trust. Is the beef trust preparing to take ad- vantage of these conditions? That seems very likely, for the men who have combined to form this trust have waited until now to do It, waited until a time when the eyes of the wholé veuntry are turmed upon them to form a combination m..e Intimately connected with the life and the happiness of the people than any of the other great enterprises—the steel, the sugur and the ofl trusts, for instance ° I8 their purpose sinister? That can hardly be, unless it ia sinister to employ, e aggregations of capital in a large way; for, after all, the only security that the futufe holds out to them is good service to the people. The people are just. begluning io loek-inte this matter of trusts, They will understand them very thoroughly = before discussion ceases, and, it they are baneful in their influence, ways will be found to curtail their power. Besides, beef cattle and other animals can be ralsed and killed In the old way in the older parts of the country. But meat s likely to be high, if not as high as present, until the production and the demand are in more harmonious accord. FLASHES OF FUN, Atlants Constitution: '“What de reason Brer Willlams his wen de col- lection basket r roun'? “'He e singin: do him o much good dat he leege ter fall asleep en dream er heayen!" Judge: ‘‘Gentlem ald the new sena- tor from the ofl eouniry “I have not pre- pared a spoech. I do mot consider it nec- essary. I have $20000,000 A n long, n‘nmo the hearers as- similated the tlloll t that money talks. Philadelphia Pl“-l Mr. Ferguson—Yo want to know what good my vacation au me, do you? It nmonuufln of rest. It ofled up the of 7 ind. Mrs. Fergusol dan't‘ llove it. You snore a good deal louder than you fll‘ be- fore you went l'l'. Chicago Tribune: Glrl 'l(h lh. Glbson girt, Neck__And . vo yer thesting: That miuat heve seemed s range, atter ing three weeks at a summer re: i1 with the Juila Mariowe imple—No; it reminded me very much of the summer resort. There were no men thi Philadelphia Press: ~‘“fome | people, Fymumd the tchphfn- fln "-'-i‘:nlg "7 "y° o * sty "Well I ulwcy- have a ‘hello’ my h ts ".-olomu formation?" mg the n4- ve to dig t ‘r:-jh 80 much t l! its roel i Washington Star: gn for your um;a.nflny anyer said ailswered Miss Cayeni, there are tirmes ‘when 1 would enoy B the fence and makis don’t like, instead ol 0 you do, dear? Puck: Clementine—I ma that ; you hi red tape to ! ow land question, it must appear conclusive that the only possible solution of the Irish question will copsist, not in the revival of the crimes act'or bther forms of repression, but in a just and reasonable treatment of the relations of landlord and tenant, which s the basis of centuries of discontent and agitation. o In connection with Russia’s attitude upon the beset sugar bounty question it is inter- esting to observe that with the single ex- ception of Denmark, whose industry is too small to materially, Russia is the only Buropean country that is this year in- cleasing its acreage of sigar beets, all the thers having materially decreased theirs. Russia now has a much larger sugar beet {acreage than any other country in the world, though, owing to her poor soll, primi- tive methods and general Inferiority, her production of sugar {s much smaller than I.Ilt of elther Germany or France, and probably smaller than that of Austria. ts nearly two tons of Russia gets only three- We read that lusi Tuesday Duke Borls played poker and visited Dr. Harpér. Prob- ably there is no counection between the two yot it would be just as wall “segregated” —especially as his royal highness was separated from quite & few rubles at the American national sewe wrote ou had taken me out bel your $5,000 I | g‘u(on»-l'h ln yalued at g0, | lementine—Well to give dear mamma that addi worth of pleasure. Philadelphia Press: The Chinamen had refused to nu'lh'uil% ‘But," the man wh tor ?flhuunfi‘m ‘?fl&‘ *‘Checl 'k all lgh :u.n blmu & mouthful oq iraning. c)uck un ‘\l:'y little man. ou ugly —_— THE MYSTERY. 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