Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1902, Page 6

‘THE OMAHA DALY BEE E. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLX!HED EVII(Y MORNING. TERMS OF IU'B!CRIPTION y Bee (without Sunday), Ume Year..4.00 Y kee tna Bunaay, Une’ Year. llustrated ksee, One Yea bunday bee, Une Year. Baturaay isee, Une Year. ‘I'wenueth Century Farmer, One DELIVERED BY CARRIER. B::ly Bee (without Sunday), Pfl WFY Bee (without Sunaay Ditiiy wee U oluding | uumu Vper wee unday ssee, gvamnl Beeé \'flhuul Bunday), per week. lw vening Bee (inciuding Sunuay), per . WOOK ......ccis. p laints ‘of ‘irregularities in deiivery Comp] rr'ouln be addressed to City urcuuumx partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding, South Omaha—vity Hail Butlaing, Twen- tysnith and M Stre Gouncil Bluffe—i0 s Fear) gtreet. ago—164y Unity Building. u’-w York—Temple Court. ‘ashington—oul Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. * Communications relating to news and ed!l hsi matter should be uddressed: Uman Eoitorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should addressed: The bee Publishing Com- pany, Um: REMITTANCES. Remit by ‘l‘lflh:.lmlb. or postal order, able to The ishing Company. iy S-cent st ced in payment of Y checks, except on accoul maha or outurn exchanj THE BEE PUBLISHL STATEMENT QF cmcuu-rmn. State of Nebraska, Dougias County, b Tasohiick, ucnury the Bes duly swor! pumber of full un ) Of The Daily, Moring, Bee prln!!d -iurlnl was as follo 1. 4 20 aoL lcc‘pufl EERENEREREREOE: 3 H Subscribed in my nce and sworn to before me this 3lst ny o( ”""Nu‘.(m ‘ Notary Pubile. The best part of the naval battles fought between our own squadrons Is that the casualty list appalls no one. Now that the head of the packers’ combine has been agreed on, it looks as if the combine were coming to a head. eEmste——— This weather may be too cold and too ‘wet for the corn, but, like a much sung insect, it will get there just the same. ——— Once in a while the coroner discovers through a homicidal epidemic that his office carries with it a few official duties. ot One thing In favor of the automobile— it is not troubled whether or not its horses wear shoes bearing the union label. . , South Omaha has again broken the record of cattle shipments received in a single day. South Omaha always was & record breaker. | President Roosevelt has again de- clared himself unequivocaily for legis- lative regulation of trusts. But the democrats will insist that he does not wean it Russia threatens to become real ugly over the chilly reception accorded by other European nations to its sugar pro- posals. In the international arena, it's a rare game that more than one can't play. Becretary Wilson is pretty safe in hig prediction of cheaper beef as a result of the great corn crop now maturing. It takes time, however, to convert corn into meat and it will take time also to brivg down the sky-high meat prices. South Carolina democrats may belleve in negro disfranchisement, but they in- sist on majority rule in party primary nominations. No minority candidate can come up under the South Carolina con- stitution. That is one redeeming feature. Rates on flour transportation from Minneapolis to Chicago and St. Louls are to be reduced with reductions ef- fective September 1. Has snyone heard of any reductions in transportation rates announced by Nebraska rallroads very recently? Suppose William F. Gurley, who was a member of the congressional commit- tee two years ago, was asked to hold up his hand and swear that he voted the straight republican ticket in the presi- dentlal election, could he truthfully an- swer yes? Emrm—— The conviction of two newspaper men in Manila for libeling a Filipino serving as'one of the native members of the civil commission ought to be taken as proof that the Filipinos are fast learning to avall themselves of the privileges of American civilization. E—————— That New York judge who has just ruled that gross extravagance on the part of a wife affords the husband no ground for divorce should remove to one of our western equal suffrage states. He should have a future before him in any community where women vote. ——— —— Republican candidates for congress in this district should not be backward in coming forward with their $50 contribu- tions to the Mercer campalgn fund. Mercer will need every dollar he can scrape up to secure the nomination, but £100,000 would not elect him If he had the nomination. m— WFleld Marsbal Lord Wolseley, who is at the head of the British land forces, s quoted as saying that the American army is “the best in the world.” 8o long as foreign military men are lmbued with this conviction the other nations of the world will think twice before mmu a muss with Uncle Sam's soldiers, | B v THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1902. A POLITICAL BLUFF. The challenge of the fuslon campaign managers to the republican state com- mittee for a serles of debates on the rallrond assessment question, with John | N. Baldwin as representative of the republican party defending the under- valuation of Nebraska railroads as agalnst M. F. Harrington speaking for the fusionists in favor of raising the assessment, is anadroit effort to place the republican party in a false light. There are railroad democrats and rail- road populists as well as railroad re- publicans. The fusion state boards from 1807 to 1900 have nothing to brag of in comparing records with the repub- lican assessment boards, both before and after, The rank and file of the repub- llcan party are just as much in favor of raising the railroad assessments to an equitable basis as are the rank and file of the fuslon parties. The demand made upon the State Board of Equalization to assess the raflroad franchises as well as their tangible prop- erty was made by the editor of The Bee, and Mr. Harrington's co-operation in the suit brought before the supreme court was by Invitation of the editor of The Bee with the express understanding that the prosecution of the case should be divested of all partisan flavor. The intrusion of John N. Baldwin into the suit was not at the instance of the re- publican party, but as the pald attorney of the Union Pacific raflroad. Mr. Baldwin Is not a citizen of Nebraska and did not veice the sentiment of the republicans of Nebraska regarding rail- road assessments. It goes without saying that the fusion committee did not issue this challenge with any expectation that it would be accepted, but with the manifest purpose to make political capital out of it. While it is true that revenue revision | and rallroad taxation are legitimate issues In the present campaign, repub- lican candidates stand on their party platform and In any event cannot be held responsible for Mr. Baldwin's atti- tude in defense of tax-shirking and tax- evasion. Em———— CRUP STATISTICS. It is manifestly important that crop statistics should be as nearly as pos- sible accurate. This has not been the case in the past and there is a contro- versy between the census bureau and the Agricultural department in regard to the statistics of recent years, There is to be an investigation to ascertain which is the more nearly right in its report of crop statistics, which will be begun early next month, the Natlonal Board of Trade having for this purpose appolnted a committee which wiii act | in conjunction with representatives of the Census bureau and the Agricultural department. The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says the scope of the proposed inquiry in- volves the reputation of the census of 1890, of the census of 1900 and of the methods and conduct of the statistical division of the Agricultural department. It will not suffice to say that discrep- ancles of the kind which have been ob- served are unavoidable. There is a screw loose somewhere and it Is the duty of those concerned to find where the trouble is. If, however, it should be determined as the result of the in- vestigation that no screw s loose, then the conclusion will inevitably follow that steps should be taken for combin- ing the agricultural work of the per- manent census bureau and the crop es- timate work of the Agricultural depart- ment, in order that our government sta- tistics may be harmoxious and that they may be so gathered as to avoid a re- currence of the dispute over thelr rel- ative accuracy. Both the grain pro- ducers and the dealerd in graln will await the result of the investigation with a great deal of interest. NU PROSKELYTING IN PHILIPPINES. The report of the acting general super- intendent of public instruction for the Philippive islands ought to be sufficient to satisfy everybody that there s no proselyting in connection with the schools there. The charge that this was being done has been denled before and by authority that ought to be unques- tioned—that is, the authority of the gov- ernment officlals themselves, but still prejudiced people, who are anxlous to work up sentiment against the govern- ment both here and in the Philippines, have continued to insist that the teach- ers sent out by the United States govern- ment to the Philippines have engaged in the work of endeavoring to induce the Filipinos to relinquish their religious faith and become Protestants. Mr. Bowen shows that there is abso- lutely no ground for this charge. He points out that In selecting teachers the question of the religious bellef of appll- cants and appointees was never consid- ered until late in 1901 and only then be- cause of the fact that a special lot of applications, gathered by the authori- ties of the Catholic church in the United States, was sent to the civil governor of the islands and transmitted to the gen- eral superintendent. This caused some AiMculty, for the reason that the teach- ers sent were not all of them qualified for the duties and consequently some of them had to be rejected. There was no dlscrimination except in the matter of abllity. The report of the acting superintend- ent says that “not only is no proselyting allowed or attempted in any of the pub- le schools, but inquiry of the leaders of the four principal Protestant denomina- tions at Manila brings out the fact that so far as 1s known by these leaders there is not one native Protestant Sun- day school teacher in the entire archi- pelago.” The simple fact is that our government has from the beginning pur- sued the same policy In regard to public education ip the Philippines that it ob- serves in this country—that is, keeping the educational system - entirely free trom religious influence. Any rational m— person can understand that If the gov- ernment were to tolerate proselyting, to say nothing of being an active party to | it, the effect would be disastrous to the effort to establish American prinéiples | in the Philippines. The absolute separa- tion of church and state in the Philip- pines is a cardinal policy most essential to the establishment of American rule there and it is needless to say that per- mission of proselyting would be wholly Inconsistent with this. Moreover, if such & thing were tolerated by our govern ment it Is most improbable that the au- thorities at Rome would have entered into any negotiations for disposing of the lands of the friars and the with- drawal of such of the friars as are ob- Jectionable to the natives. The charge of proselyting has been made for political effect in this country, but while it may have some influence upon the prejudiced, we do not believe that many will be affected by it. NU PRIMARY TEST OATH. The right of every sovereign American citizen to cast his ballot according to the dictates of his conscience {s the most sacred feature of the elective franchise. In order to safeguard that right the Aus- tralian ballot system has been engrafted upon the statutes of every state in the union. The extension of the Australian systein to primary elections is simply carrying out more effectively the prin- ciple of the secret ballot. In order to prevent abuses springing from the promiscuous participation of voters of different parties in primary elections, most prevalent in cities, the legislature has enacted into the election laws provisions for the declaration which is to furnish prima facie proof of the right of the voter to participate in the primary election of the political party with which he affiliates. Under the law the enrollment of voters for each political party is limited to those who have registered as affiliating with that party at the preceding election and those who would be entitled to vote at the general election by special registra- tion. By section 119 of chapter xxvi of the Compiled Statutes the only legiti- mate questions that can be asked under oath of any duly registered voter who may be challenged at a primary election are as to his name, residence and quall- fication as a voter in that particular dis- trict, ward or precinct. Any other ques- tions that tend to destroy the protection each sovereign voter enjoys under the Australian system is at variance with the fundamental principle of a secret ballot. A test oath, such as the Mercer com- mittea proposes to exact under its law- less rule, by which the voter would be compelled to disclose for whom he voted at a preceding election under penalty of being distranchised, is absolutely at va- riance with both the spirit and the letter ot the law. When a man records his party affillation under oath before the registration officers, he cannot be law- fully deprived of his right to cast a vote at the primary election of ‘his party by any otber challenge than as to his iden- tity and residence.’ The committee may prescribe the penalty of disfranchise- ment at party primaries for overt acts, but that can be jmposed only after charges are filed and due hearing given before the primary election day. It will be remembered that many working men who wore the McKinley button voted for Bryan and some who wore Bryan buttons may have voted for McKinley. Suppose the proposed test oath had been enforced in 1898 and vot- ers compelled to disclose whether they voted for the McKinley or Bryan elec- tors, would not that havé been an:un- warranted invasion of the secrecy of the ballot? Is not the same principle in- volved by propounding the question in 1902 as a condition precedent for a reg- fstered republican to vote at the coming republican primary? If such a test can be applied going back two years, why could it not be applied going back ten years? If it can be applied with regard to the presidential electors, why not to the candidates for the legislature in 1900, on whom depended the election of two United States senators? Such a test would probably bar out Mercer and the greater part of the Mercer following. —ee A GROUNDLESS CLAIM. The Canadian claim regarding the Alaskan boundary has repeatedly been shown to be utterly groundless, yet n] is persisted in, notwithstanding the fact that it may cause serious trouble be- tween the United States and Great Britain before a final settlement Is reached. In a letter to the New York Tribune, Mr. Frederick W. Seward, son of Wil- lam H. Seward, who when secretary of state megotiated the purchase of Alaska, says that Great Britain had no more claim to a port on the Lynn canal than she has to Boston harbor. “The treaties are clear and explicit,” says Mr. Seward. “The boundary named in them is a natural and well defined one. It is & line running along the suw- mits of the mountain chain, ten marine leagues from the coast. The pretense that the mountains sink down just there, leaving no well defined ridge, is nonsense, They are gigantie, precipitous clifts, trom 38,000 to 6,000 *feet high. The White Pass itself, chosen as the lowest avallable point of passage, 1s lit- erally a rallway through the clouds,” It is lmpossible to say whether the Brit- ish government will continue to back up Canada in the preposterous claim to Alaskan territory the American title to which has been questioned only within the last few years, but in the interest of peace and good relations that claim should be abandoned, for it will cer- tainly never be conceded by the United States. It must be interesting to aptiquarians 1002. This relic of nineteenth century darkness, lingering in the lap of the twentieth century, is probably a last survival of the 16 to 1 craze, whose con- stellation reached its height in 1806 and has now receded completely from sight except by the use of the most powerful telescope. Nevada seems to be the only spot still reached by the fading rays of silver light. The production of precious metals, both gold and silver, seems to have fallen off in 1901 as compared with the previous year, according to figures cowm- piled by the director of the mint. But the money famine has not yet made itself apparent. With an annual output of nearly $80,000,000 of gold and $33,- 000,000 of silver Uncle Sam manages to supply himself with pocket money and still have a few dollars avallable to help out his cousins across the water. Governor Nash Is admonishing the Ohio legislature, convened in extra ses. sfon to re-enact the municipal incorpora- tion laws declared invalld by the Ohio courts, that this is no time for expeti- ments in municipal government. Mu- nicipal government is an evolutionary growth, and, while new departures are being constantly undertaken by different cities, the municipal Utopla 1s still sev- eral lengths ahead of us. The Baldwin-Mercer police commission has summarily dismissed a police of- ficer charged with failing to see an assault by strikers upon a scab work- man in the Union Pacific shops. The question is, Would the same penalty | Divinity of Coal Kings Epringfleld (Mass) Republican. President Baer of the coal combination has succeeded admirably in stirring the depths of American newspaper ridicule by his now far-famed assumption of vice- gerency of God for trusts in gemeral and the Coal trust in particular: “The rights and Interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for—not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God In his infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country, and upon the suc- cesstul management of which so much depends. Do not be discouraged. Pray earnestly that right may triumph, always remembering that the Lord God omnipo- tent still reigne and that his reign is one of law and order and not of violence and crime.” The commedt is widespread and almost without exception bitterly sarcastic in character. It may be sald In this connec- tion, judging from the amount and kind of comment appearing in the press on the coal situation, that mever before has pub- lic feeling been so profoundly moved by any single episode in the warfare of capl- tal and labor as In this case. Never have the organs of comservative public opinion been brought eo near to the open advocacy of applying extreme soclalistic doctrine to the solution of a desperate difculty. In- terest in whether this party or the other party to the strike 1s to win has now been lost sight of in the apprehension felt by every individual householder over the fuel problem of the approaching winter. The country verges on a state of panle, which will deepen into a resort to des- perate measures unlese the coal mines are goon put in operation. Why, however, after the nation itself has been rioting in plous pretension and cant- ing hypocrisy for a considerable season In justification of an attitude and course that have been inflicted had the assault been | COUld not well be justified otherwise—why, committed by scabs with the victim one of the strikers? The Heiress in Action. Chicago Record-Herald. The heiress who hasn't driven some man to suicide or jlited a prince is finding it difficult to be accepted as the real thing. More, Ever More! Saturday Evening Post. Some men say that a hundred thousand, some that a hundred million, dollars is enough. But while a lot of men get a hundred thousand and & few a hundred mil- lion, no one ever gets enough. That Peaceful Game of War. Chicago News. In congratulating Admiral Higginson on his well earned victory it is to be hoped the Navy department will not forget to thank and compliment Commander Pillsbury for the skill with which he conducted the hated enemy’s attack. Cubans Catch Chicago Chronicle. President Palma of Cuba s now begin- lng to taste the joys of his exalted posi- The Havana ef Rhave started in 0 “arraign” him. When they begin to ‘“brand” him he will be due to announce his candidacy for a sécond term. Limits to Money's Power. ‘New York World, Dying on a Pittsburg railway station plat- form, Steel Magnate JHenry oftered $100,000 for lite. Foodless and about to be home- leas, Max "Cohen of New York refuses a $5,000 museum offertdor his deformed child. ‘What trash these doliars are—sometimes! “Strenuo Running Abroad. Springfield. Republican. The magle word “strenuous,” which our president brought Into great prominence in America, fs said to be having a tre- mendous run in Bngland, where it sur- passes in popularity even that darling word, “bloomin’.” This s not the least of Mr. Roosevelt's achlevements. Laws Favor the Wicked. Philadelphia Record. Under a recent ruling of the comptrol- ler of the treasury soldiers of the United States army who are dishonorably dis- charged must be furnishéd free transpor- tation to their homes, just as though their military conduct bad been flawless and immaculate. Thus the renegade troopers who have married Filipino women and de- serted them and are, therefore, menaced by General Chaffee with the penalty of dishonorable discharge will be enabled without cost to put 7,000 miles of salt water between themselves ana their de- serted spouses. Great 1s military disci- pline in its application to the soclal order of things! PERSONAL NOTE Davia B. Hill Is In complete control of the New York state democracy. Of course, Mr. Bryan can have anything he wants. Now that Colonel Watterson is no longer a candidate for anything, he is in a posi- tion once more to take care of those who are candidates for everything. Prof. Olsen of the University of Wiscon- #in 18 at present in Copenhagen. He has been conducting researches in the lan- guages spoken in Scandinavia. Both Mr. Frye and Mr. Quay are confl- dent President Roosevelt is not the kind of a man that would call a special slon of the United States senate while the fish- ing was still good. Bishop Pottér s the opportunity for arbitration in the great coal strike has passed. Having just returned from Europe, where he has been for some weeks, the bishop knows all about it. William Byl, the Adams Express com- pany's messenger who once made so brave a stand against the Burlington train rob- bers, near Marcus, Ill, will be presented by the company with $1,000 in gold. Prince Victor Napoleon has just been presented at Paris by the Corsican com- mittee with a silver gilt imperial crown on the occasion of the centenary of Napoleon Bonaparte's appointment as first consul. The governor of New Zealand is a stick- ler for the ceremonial of office. At the r cent opening of his Parliament he wore his chapeau all through the proceedings, only removing it “on mentloning the name of the Almighty or the king or queen.” It is said that the stalwart premier of New Zealand, “Dick” Seddon was offered a baronetcy by King Edward, but refused it. He says he would far rather be referred to by his neighbors as “Dick" than as “Sir Richard,” feeling assured that the ter title would lessen rather than increase their regard for him. Chief Ne-te-ya-ka (the Man-Who-Loves- with some copper colored triends visited every saloon in Lawton, Okl, the other day, bought a drink at every place and then informed the federal officlals. Sell- ing liquor to an Indlan is dealt with se- verely, and thus Ne-te-ya-ka has secured his revenge for a century of dishonor. William C. Whitney is taking a great in- terest in rehabilitating the Adirondack re- glon as a game preserve. shipped twenty elk to the woods, ther: to to know that a silver party has been holding a state convention in Nevada for the’ purpose of putting in nomination a state ticket to be voted on in the year be released. They will be protected from slaughter for several years and the herd will probably number many hundreds be- fore the hunters are permitted to kill any of them. He has recently | after this, the Baer claim of providential guldance and sanction should cause sur- prise or comment, is past understanding It was to have been expected. There has never been a time when tyranny or priv- flege, In the course of establishing itself or in defense of its position already estab- lished, would not set up & clalm to part- nership with God If pressed to a justifica- tion. The masses of the people, In all ages and countries, bad to contend agalnst this plous pretension in the struggle to be free. It was so in the primitive days of slavery, In the progress out of serfdom, in the contests for the political equality of men and in later struggles against Industrial monopoly. Jeftarson Da speaking for the slave oligarchy of the south, sald with all solemnity that ““slavery was established by decree of Almighty God,” and that “through the portal of slavery alone has the descendant of the graceless son of Noah ever entered the temple of civilizatio words singularly like unto those now heard every day in all parts of the country to Justify the holding of an allen people in po- litical slavery, only one step removed from and closely related to industrial slavery. ““We are here by divine order and to do you good'—this is the langu of priv- ‘when you hear it you may know that somewhere back of it is concealed the spirit, it not the a tion, of the tyrant and the slave driver. Some such revealing quality possesses the utterance of the coal monopoly's spokesman, and it is this doubtless which so stirs the organs of public opinion of all shades of thought, from radical to ultra-conservative. The warning to trust monopoly is plain. It ought to avold giving such palpable evidence of ‘the tyrant's spirit as is invariably a torded by asserting the existence of a part nership with God in the business. That is a game which fools only the simple-minded these days and the American people are not all simple. Perhaps it is the cool assump- tion that they are which so ai n the present case, THE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN. York Times: Down in the Firet congres- sional district Howard H. Hanks has been nominated for congress. He is no relation to Nancy Hanks, but he will have to be pretty swift it he keeps in sight of Mr. Burkett. Rushville Recorder: We are not going to hazard a guess as to M. P. Kinkald's ma- jority on his return next November for con- gressman for the Sixth district, but we are not golng to take our inspiration from the popocratic press, either, for these en. lightened journals have been left too much behind lately. Scotts Bluff Republican: There s no doubt about history repeating itself and Moses of modern times will be as great a benefactor to the people of the Blg Sixth as Moses of old was to the children of Israel when he led them out of bondage. The election of Kinkald is one of the neces- sities of the western people. Sidney Telegraph: While it may not be Just the proper thing to disturb the mourn~ era this early in/the campalgn, the fact is self-evident that M. P. Kinkald is in iine to succeed Congressman Neville. Great apathy in the congressional fight is ap- parent among the fusionists in this district, especially the democrats, who fail to see anything to enthuse over.. Wisner Free Press: Hon. J. J. Me- Carthy s going about over the district and is everywhere spoken of as just the man to send to congress. Even the Plain- view (Fusion) News says: “He is a pleas- ant gentleman to meet and we predict that John S. will have to do a great deal of training to win the third heat in the race for congressional honors this fall. Wausa Gazette: If the people of this district want to be represented in the next congress by a man who is worthy of honor and who can be relied upon at all times to take a bold stand for the interest of his constituents, they should be sure to send J. J. McCarthy. It might be a good thing also to have a man in congress who will stand by the president and for progress— not an obstacle ltke the present incumbent. Such a man is our J. J. McCarthy. Stuart Ledger: Judge Kinkald was re- cently paid a fine compliment by a populist and prohibitionist of Holt county. “Kin- kald will recelve my vote,” said the man, “because when he was a candidate two years ago he passed his card to me and solicited my suffrage, but he never tendered the drinks, nor offered any cigars. The judge don't bribe or employ questionable methods to get votes. He s a clean man and should be supported by clean men of all parties.” Leigh World: John J. McCarthy of Pen-’ der, republican candidate for congress from the Thira district, is galning in popularity with the voters every day. As the people become better acquainted with him they begin to realize what a strong leader he ‘ls. Mr. McCarthy's experience and success in the state legislature is serving him well In this campaign and will serve him better in the halls of congress. A vote for McCarthy will be a vote for an able, honest and un- tiring worker. Tecumeeh Chieftain: The fusionists of this congressional district refused to take republican advice, which had been freely offered, to the effect that the part of wis- dom for them would be to endorse the nomination of Hon. B. J. Burkett. They persisted in nominating a candidate of their own and by so doing threw away their only chance of having their votes amount to something and of riding in the congressional band wagon. It is strange how hard it s for some people to take good advice. Schuyler Sun: If the people of the Third congressional district send Hon. J. J. Mec- Carthy to congress this year they will send a man who will have some influence with the administration and who will have some eay In regard to the administration business in this district. If they send Robinson the administration gets all its advice from Senators Millard and Dietrich, principally from Millard. Millard is a good man to get advice from, but he is not & resident of this district and does not know the conditions as well as McCarthy. Holdrege Citizen: The people showed that they wanted a man of undoubted ability and integrity several years ago when they selected Judge Norris as dis- trict judge in a section of the country ing at full blast Judge Norris is still the same man of prin- ciple and ability and will discharge his duties as congresman with the same faith- fulness and eficlency that he did as dis- trict judge. Furthermore he is in sym- pathy with the present administration and can work with the party in power instead of in opposttion. Schuyler Sun: Hon. J. J. McCarthy is & man of the Roosevelt stripe. He doesn't carry a great big wind bag axound with him and blow about what he has done or what he will do, but it is noticeable that he does things. Before the congressional conven- tion at Fremont we talked to & man who knew McCarthy personally, as did he the other candidates before the convention When asked whom he thought would be | nominated he said he rather believed Young would get it. The writer asked what chance, in his opinion, McCarthy had and recelvs the reply: “Well, now you've struck the smartest man that could be put wp, but I don't belleve be can be momi- \ nated. He is a man who goes ahead and does things and of course makes lots of enemies, and 1 think they will defeat him. But if he could be nominated he would make the best congressman this district ever had."” He was nominated and he will be elected, and he will give this district the beet service it has had for many a day. Valentine Republican: Knowing that a congressman who is at outs with the admin- istration can do nothing for his constitu- ents, no matter who he may be, the people of the Big Sixth district have decided they want a man who can and will do more than draw his ary. Past experience along this line, although dear and a bitter dose to gulp down, may yet result in great good to the people of this district. A congrese- man with the ability that Judge Kinkald possesses and in harmony with the admin- | istration 1s what the people want and they will make us effort to have that particular want sfled this fall. That's one important reason why they are all for Moses. Fairfield Herald: Some of the Third dls- trict exchanges who evidently don’t knmow J. J. McCarthy over well describe him “quiet, unassuming gentleman,” and so he is. But he is a great deal more. Dis- tinctively a fighter, McCarthy when he has a cause to advocate is one of the most a gressive, fearless and tireless champlons of what he believes to be right the state can produce if it were raked from end to end to find him out. We do not know to what heights Mr. McCarthy may rise, but we do know that he has the ability and the sand, the nerve and the backbone to fill be- yond the poesibility of criticism any posi- tion within the gift of the people. He ought to be elected and no doubt will be. Hastings Tribune: Remember that Judge Norris is the coming congressman and the people of this district will con- gratulate themselves upon their choice. He will be in political accord with the best men at Washington and wiil thus be enabled to do much good work for the district. He will represent the hope, the aspiration, the progressive epirit and the honest convictions of the district. Make up your mind now that he is your cholce and thus place yourself along the hope- ful element. There is now no occasion for holding calamity notfons or voting for men who base their expectations on calamity condition. This {s an era of good times and it is right for every voter to get away from any political combination that is not in line with the best thought of the age. Falls City Journal: The opposition will make @& strenuous effort to farm the farmer, on the score that Howard H. Hanks {s a farmer. It is upon this argu- ment chiefly that he will base his claim to a seat in congress. Now it is truly very much to the credit of Mr. Hanks that he belongs to the great agricultural class. It s {odeed something to be proud of, but then this honor 1s not his alone. Hon. Elmer J. Burkett was born and ra on the farm, and although he has risen to & high pl 1n the councils of the nation and has enjoyed many honors, yet he places above them all the fact that he was a farmer and is the son of a farmer. Mr. Burkett attended a country school and there was begun the development of facul- ties destined to make him the big, broad- minded, brainy statesman that he is to- day, big enough to represent Bryan's dis- trict with credit to himself and those he represents. Mr, Hanks must not claim all these honors for himeelf. Butte Gazette: The esteemed Register devoted considerable space to Hon. M. P. Kinkaid, republican candidate for congres in its issue of last week, in a feeble af tempt to prove that he was not the man to send to congress from this distriot (which has been so brilliantly (?) repre- sented in the past by Kem, Greene and Neville). Bolled down, the essence of Plum's argument is that Mr. Kinkald rep- resents the party of trusts and shak hands with the people. On the first propo- sition we enter a decided negative, but admit the truth of his second assertion. Judge Kinkald has kept in close touch with nearly every settler since Boyd county was opened for settlement and in all the years that he has been coming to Boyd he bhas made the acquaintance of mearly everybody and no man was too poor or too insignificant but what recelved a kindly greeting from Judge Kinkaid, and the op- position will bave to trut out & better argument that than before his fri foreake him and vote lor the fusion candi- date. How Freight Rates Are Ju, Minneapolis Times. No sooner do we hear the notes of sat- isfaction over the reduction of rates in grain and flour than they are liable to be { drowned in the discords of dissatisfaction over the news that rates on flax and other coarse grains and on other classes of freight are to be raised to offset the “‘loss" by the concessions on the great cereal and ts manufactured product. Huge dividends on watered stock must not be {mperiled and if Peter is pald Paul must be robbed. | Trust Regulation Must Come. Springfield Republican. Nothing s more certain to come to pass than & great popular uprising against trust domination. It will find expression in pub- lic regulation of & more or less drastic kind, according As the matter is more or | lens delayed. led. THE PRESIDENT ON TRUSTS. Chicago News: There are at least two Important respects in which trusts are un- duly favored at the expense of the publis generally. One Is by means of tariff duties nd the other by discriminating freight rates. Certain trusts wax unduly etrong, prosperous and aggresaive by reason of pro- tection. The anthracite coal trust is an example of A trust that is able to maintain its grip on the situation beca: of its con- trol over the coal-carrying rallroads. Chicago Tribune: Disinterested and rea- sonable men will give their assent to the president’s dispassionate, philosophical pre- sentment of the '‘trust” question. They will agree with him that “much of the complaint against combinations is unwar- ranted;" that the Industrial changes re- cent years have wrought, while regrettable from one point of view, are inevitabl that the changes have brought good as well as evil; that the community must be thank- ful for the good and must labor to root out the evil, not in a day, with angry, feverish legislation, but in the long, coming years with moderate legislation patiently devised and firmly executed. Springfield Republican: The president’s speech at Providence yesterday was a more carefully considered utterance than com- mon, and most happy In temper. There is about it that frank, outspoken quality so characteristic of the man, and which draws the people to him. He talks of the pre- valling prosperity, but in what & different manner from that smug, unctuous, undis- criminating phraseclogy #o common with the average political leader. He detects spots on the bright surface of things, and s not afrald to point them out with words of warning. He bas to have the usual word about envy eating into the hearts of the less fortunate, and it fs no doubt proper that he should, but he declines to be dighonest enough with himself and others to maintain that all s well and just as it should be. Consolidating capital where it tends to monopoly must come under state regulation and the national authority Is the only one adequate to the task. But his views on this point have been before given to the public. Buffalo Express: Just how much control may be obtained is the perplexing point. It it becomes evident that the constitution will not permit the supervision required a constitution amendment should be adopted. The administration is doing what it can under the Sherman anti-trust law, but it is not apparent that it cam reach either the merger of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern rallroads or the alleged beef trust. It is possible that a federal incorporation law under which organiza- tions might voluntarily obtain charters, such as has been suggested by James B. Dill, the well known corporation lawyer, would secure sufficient publicity to rob the combinations of much of their evils, but it is likely that if congress does anything at all in the matter publicity will be made compulsory. If regular reports were made, similar to the reports of national banks, the government would be in a better po- sition to know what further remedies were needed, while the public would be able to discriminate between the good and the bad trusts, so far as securities were concerned, Indianapolis Journal: The president, speaking as one in authority whose words carry walght, dnas not healtate to say that great corporations should be brought under a degree of control that will prevent them from plundering or oppressing the people. They should not be destroyed, but they should be regulated, controlled and re- strained. He does not believe this can be done effectually by state legislation with diverse or conflicting laws. He thinks it &hould be done by the national government. “I believe,” ho says, “that the nation must ssume this power of control by legisla- tion, and, if it becomes evident that the constitution will not permit needed legisla- tion, then by constitutional amendment.” He thinks that trusts, which are state cor- porations doing business in other states than the one creating them, should be brought under the control of some supreme power. “Some governmental soverelgn,” he says, “must be given full power over these artificlal and very powerful corporate beings, and in my judgment this soverelgn must be the national government’ This 18 as far as the president could be expected to go in stating his views to the people. It indicates clearly his purpose to recom- mend some stringent leglslation to con- gress, and, if necessary, an amendment to the constitution. WHITTLED TO A POINT, Chicago Post: "Wh’ doesn't she go In bathing this morning?” “There are no men on the beach.” ““Think nf 1t1 Mr Schwab used to drive stakes at a week!" “And now he chews them at 40 cents a pound.” ‘Washington Star: cision," Ekeard Cleveland Plain Dealer: ever reach a de- have never safe to jump at conelu- nom caneernlnl who has the most money." New York Weekly: Judge-—Have formed any prejudice againat the pma& Juryman—{ have seen some "Wr pictures: of him. Judge—You are excused. t Set: “How do you manage to live within your income, Briggs? Don't you feel cramped?” ‘“‘Cramped, did yuu way? Why, I have t g0 out and borrow $10 every ike T wet (o stretch myself.” Detroit Free Pre: “My husband’s so erratic—so fiighty!"” his work hes something to do “Maybe with {t. What is his occupation?” “He's an acronaut.” Chicago Tribune ““How is that £ gold mine f yours out west getti; uon. M AT right, 1 hope. tendent yrites me tiiat when the Stockhoiders have dug up about $16,000 more he'll go to dAlg- ging."” RISE ABOVE IT, Denver News. ‘Whatsoever I'nll’l your life, Whkisoever hrl trife ver brings you st Riso above 1t * " = Whiatacever gives you fes, ‘Whatsoever makes you veer From th- puh of duly clear, Whntwe;ev exluch your growth, Be it selfishness or sloth, Rise abo ‘Whatsoever bars your soul From its kingdom of control Kee, ou tl'orn the final T ey soal, our past has error been? ‘adove it Bet your unto tho ll'l. v n at's’ Rise above it B pone Do you meet the knocking crew? Rise above it Prove it hln by what you do, Gi u?" ove pad strength and lght, ve o v an And the cary spite, AR va I‘:.f. Dot st Rise abo Nilll.lhl 'llhoul can keep you back. a In ournlt ll l\l the lack. Rise above Llh{ere' is .mn;le that can fnar e for you u are. 1# thered any tward s, Rise above it. 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