Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1902, Page 6

IR— _THE OMAHA DALY BEE. B RUHE‘VATHR‘ EDITOR. TERMS (rr luum.m?nou y Bee (without Sunday), One Year. lly Bee and SBunday, One’ Year trated Bee, One Yea: Bun Bee, Une Year Batur Bee, One Y. Twentleth Century Farmer, One DELIVERED BY CARRIER. y Bee, Evening Bec tvithaut Bunday), per week.100 Evening Bee (ncluding Bunday),’ per ek Cnm laints of iivi v be addressed” o Luy urvulnlon —rlmonL orrlcl:l. aha—The Bee Buildl uth Omaha—City ‘Hall SButiaing, Twen- t-fifih and M Streats. uncil Blufts—10 Pear Street. hicago—iti0 Unity Bullcin u{ ork—Temple Court. ‘ashington—o0l Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. oo Communications relating to news and edl- I_matter should be addressed: Omaha Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REI‘H’I‘ANCIBA Remit by drate, ex or postal order, able to The Bee } PEublishing Company’ m 3-cent stamy ted in payment of accounts. Perso .F checks, except on Oimana or castern exch , not Aocepted. THE BEI:. PUBLISHI. CUHPA STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, plcerge B. Taschick, secretary of £irhe l‘ oompl-u opies of Morning, Sunday Bee printed during the month of July, 1002, was as followa: 29,630 Total.. Net total sules. Net dally average. Subsceibed 1n my preacage nad AWOrD. to this 3ist day of July, A, L. 102. by Y Rl s W NaATE, ® Notary Public. e— . Oalifornia is another great state that 18 enjoying the luxury of a ome-term governor, h King Vigtor Emmanuel can get even when Emperor William comes to re- turn the visit at Rome. — Members of the County Democracy are expected to feel like 30 cents when they see the Jacksonlan procession move on. Governor Savage Is aching for another drubbing, and he will get it good and plenty in next Sunday's issue of The Bee. New actlvity is being manifesied in the Wyoming oil flelds. Wyoming has the oll, Itisonly a quemon of making ll marketable. - it the promised rumpus over the Fair will is really all smoothed over, what a lot of disappointed lawyers there must be out on the Pacific coast. — President Roosevelt s said to have shown white socks up in New Hamp- shire. No one, however, has accused him of showing the white feather. e—m——— Tow state fair is proving a great success from every point of view. Ne- braska comes next with its falr and should go Iowa one or two points better. A malleable iron combine is an- nounced as the latest development of trust formation, Presumably the mem- bers of this new trust pin thelr faith in fusion. — Cuban papers are demanding the im- peachment of President Palma. Presl- dent Palma must be just beginning to appreciate the pleasures of office-hold- ing in & new republie. Eptee—pm——y Just walt till the council and school board have an opportunity to demon- strate which is the better on the base ball diamord and then watch the ugly rumors fly around the umpire. —aa————1 And now General Barry, up In the NO COMPROMISE WITH TRUSTS. “As far as the anti-trust laws go they wiil be enforced,” sald President Roose- velt. “No suit will be undertaken for the sake of seeming to undertake it. No sult will be compromised excepting on the basis that the government wins.” That & the spirit in which the adminis- tration has entered upon its duty of en- forcing the law of 1890 and the Ameri- can people have every reason for con- fidence In the sincerity of the president and his advisers. Before departing for Europe Attorney General Knox stated that he was heartlly in agcord with everything Mr. Roosevelt had said in his speéches on the trust question and expressed the opinion ‘that after what he had sald something in regard to the trusts will be forthcoming, at the next sesslon of congress, adding: “If the American people want the trusts done away with, they will be done away with. It would be shameful for the American people to admit that they could not do anything they wanted to.” Opponents of the administration will continue to assert that the president is not honest In his attitude toward the great combinations, but fair-minded men will see in the utterances of Mr. Roosevelt a consclentious purpose to enforce the law as it stands and to seek to secure whatever additional legisla- tion may be necessary to the proper regulation and supervision of the great combinations engaged in interstate business. The president leaves no doubt as to what he means and what he hopes to accomplish. He has given a definite and clear exposition of what he thinks should be done. He does not expect that all that Is to be desired can be had at once, but he believes that a good beginning can be made and he in- tends to exert all the influence and au- thority that belong to him for making this beginning. All the administration can do is to ask the courts to enforce existing law. It has shown its purpose to do this. If the law shall be found inadequate it is the duty of congress to provide additional legislation and the president is unqualifiedly on record in favor of this being done. He thor- oughly believes that the great corpora- tions, as the creatures of the state, should be subject to, a sovereign au- thority whose orders they would have to obey and he thinks that authority &hould be the national government. There s nothing uncertain, equivocal or ambiguous in the position of Presi- dent Roosevelt regarding the trusts and combinations and fhiere is no doubt that the great majority of his party is In full accord with him. Eme—— AFTER US THE DELUGE. And now the judicial committee pro- poses to dip its oar into the pool for the purpose of sharing control over the proposed county primary election with the regular county committee. A meet- ing of the city committee has also been called, and it will surprise nobody to hear that members, of the school board want to insert their paddle into the row- boat In the interest of the non-resident congressman. ‘This only goes to illustrate the politi- cal monstrosity sought to be perpetrated by the Mercerites in order to folst their man on the party against its will. The law expressly vests control of primary elections in the hands of the governing body, or committee, which in this in- stance is the county committee. Con- trol carries with it responsibility. If the county committee is to be held respon- sible for the legal and fair conduct of the primaries, it cannot sublet the job to the congressional committee, the ju- dicial committee and the city committee. Such a jumble would make ‘“confusion worse confounded.” If all these different organizations were to have a hand in the location of polling places, the appointment of judges and clerks of election, in the printing of the ballots and in the sypervision of the returns, whose directions would the elec- tion officers obey? What proportion of these officers is to be designated by the congressional and what proportion by the judicial or city committees? What would such a mess lead to? Evidently Mercer reads the handwrit- ing on the wall. He knows that his electioni has been made impossible by the Union Pacific strike and his alliance with Baldwin and Savage and their po- big Sixth, has started out to bombard Judge Kinkaid with questions. Ques- tion marks constitute-all the ammunition in the fusion ordnance wagons, but most of them are blahk cartridges. ——————m ‘We do not believe the people of South Omaha need any non-resident importa- tions to tell them how they want their clty conducted. Municipal home rule s the thing for South Omaha, as it is for every otber community capable of self- government. CEmEpESmses—— The Assoclation of Nebraska County Officers has evidently raised a pot of money to be used In furthering its,ob- ject, which is to legislate themselves into office for two years longer than they were elected for. That In itself is likely to queer the deal. ——_—_______J Senator Tom Patterson of Colorado 1s to visit Omaba again, but he need not expect another invitation to speak at a meeting of our municipal reformers. The damage wrought by him to the scheme for a benevolent city goveran- ment of five has not been forgotten. — No wonder Baldwin of Iowa finds Aimself busy. To the duty of appointing police commissions, calling out the militia and forcing a non-resident con- gressman on us for a sixth term has now been added the function of acting a8 chlef spokesman for his rallroad em- ployers. ] President Roosevelt has pald his tribute to the farmer. He will ua- ‘questionably seize Labor day as the oc casion to pay equal tribute to the brawn and muscle of the laborer. The farmer and the laborer are the twin bulwarks of the republic and they furnish the motive power thas propels the car of prosperity. lice commission even if the rank qnd file of the republican party were willing to condone his treachery, duplicity and selfishness. Mercer, therefore, with in- evitable defeat staring him in the face, if nominated, still prefers to force him- self on the republican ticket because an endorsement by the party would entitle him to recognition for some appolntive federal position, which would not be given to him if he were turned down. This is the secret of the desperate ef- fort he 18 making to capture the repub- lican nomination by stratagem or down- right fraud. Mercer knows that the congressional committee has no right to supervise or eoutrol precinet and ward primaries in Douglas county any more than has the city committee or judiclal committee. He knows that the only legal function of the congressional committee is to fix the time and place for holding the con- vention and to apportion to each of the respective counties In the district the number of delegates to which they will be entitled in the congressional conven- tion. But in his desperation he s bound to override all precedent and law with disastrous consequences to the entire re- publican ticket in the coming election— state, county, city, congressional and ju- diciary. “After us the deluge” is the motto of Mr. Mercer. ——————— Years ago Nebraska was criwed with an accidental governor, wiio danced in bis stocking feet in the saloous of Lin- cols while filing the office of chief wag istrate. His name was James the First and Last, and he moved himself away from Nebraska within a few months after he had passed Into oblivion. Our latest accidency, who has become ra- wous as & bull whacker, bull fighter, poker player and conviet pardoner, hai reached the conclusion that he would be better appreciated in Texas, Louls- fana or Oregon, just as former Con- gressman Kem I8 appreciated In Colo- rado and Dave Mercer will be appre- ciated in Minnesota or the District of Columbia. None of these officlal migra- tions will cause Nebraskans to hang crape on their doors. NO INTERNATIONAL COMBINATION. The reports sent out from this coun- try that Mr. Schwab’s visit abroad was for the purpose of effecting a combina- tlon of American and European steel and iron interests, while ; acquiring plausibility, from the fact that his de- parture followed immediately the return to this country of Mr. Morgan, was prob- ably without substantial foundation. A New York dispatch a few days ago stated that Mr. Morgan was undoubt- edly perfecting a plan for an interna- tional combination involving an agree- ment with the iron and steel manufac- turers of Germany, Great Britain and the United States, but on the other hand a London dispatch said that the report of such a scheme excited amusement among the leaders of the steel and iron industry there. In order to make a combination with the British manufac- turers it is necessary that they should combine and efforts to bring this about have falled. It is possible that some sort of international agreement might be effected as to markets, but this is improbable. Meanwhile Mr. Schwab has stated that his trip is'purely for rest and recupera- tion. Of course if he has a business pur- pose he would not be likely to disclose it, but the reported plan of an international iron and steel combination seems go im- practicable, if not impossible, that it is easy to discredit it in spite of the great success of Mr. Morgan in the combina- tion line. THE PANAMA NEGUTIATIONS. Attorney. General Knox, who is on the way to Paris to Investigate the title to the property of the Panama Canal com- pany and also the treaty between that company and the Colombian govern- ment, said he had no doubt that every- thing will go through all right, as in- dicated by advices from Paris. It will doubtless be found that so far as the question of property title 1s concerned there will be no difficulty, but some may be encountered in the making of a treaty with Colombia. It appears that the draft of the convention sent to the Colombian government is not wholly ac- ceptable and a number of changes in it will be suggested by that government. How important of vital these may be cannot be known until the communica- tion from Colombia is recelved at Wash- ington, but it ‘would not be at all sur- prising if some of them shall be ob- jected to by our government. I'he trouble to be apprehended is some sort of extravagant demand on the part of Colomfibla Mhich our government-cannot In justice to itself .concede, .for . al- though that country has indicated a strong desire to have the United States go on with the construction of the canal it may be depended upon to make every effort to secure the best poldble bargain. The revolutionary situation in Colom- bia 18 a somewhat disturbing factor, because of the uncertainty as to how long it will continue. The revolution has been in progress for a couple of years or more and the present opera- tions are chiefly In the reglon of the canal. The revolutionary party appears to be stronger now than ever and it is possible that it will have successes which would render it inadvisable to conclude a treaty with the present Co- lomblan government. It is evidently a rather mixed condition of affairs, the outcome of whld.l cannot be clearly foreseen. e—— One of the railroad bureaucrats has turned away from his work of compiling bulletins “issued under authority of the rallroads of Nebraska” long enough to pay his compliments to the Interstate Commerce commission in the following language: The Interstate Commerce commission is looked upon by business men of the coun- try as being a stupendous farce, costing the government a vast amount of money with no good results whatever, except to make & fine salary for played-out politiclans. How the interstate commission will be able to survive this arraignment time alone will tell. How business men of Nebraska look upon the tax-shirking bu- reau maintained by the railroads at a great expense, made good by unloading their legitimate taxes on other taxpaying citizens, 1s not so much of a mystery. The tax bureaucrats may not be able to fool the people, but they have no doubt succeeded in making the railroad man- ‘agers believe that the fine salaries they are drawing are a paying Investment |y for the railroads. A fusion contemporary exhibits curl- osity to know how it happens that the Nebraska state penitentiary is running behind to the tune of $3,500 a month. We can't say that this is so—in fact are unwilling to belleve it. The impression has been fast galning ground that all the inmates of the state penitentiary had been pardoned out by Nebraska's great pardon dispenser. A strike has been called a peaceful war, but unfortunately the tendency for it to become real war is not always successfully repressed. The strikers know that clashes with the authorities hurt thelr cause more than anything else. If thelr most intelligent leaders bad their way the contests would at all times be peaceful. —_— The St. Clair couuty bond case is still being batted back and forth in the courts, its latest turn calling for the imprisonment of the judges who refuse to enforce the repayment to the bond- holders of money from which the people there recelved no bemefit. Plug pong lsn't in it with this historic Missouri lawsuit. Sp——— Behind the Times. Philadelphia Ledger. The mest surprising thing about the Phil- ippines to the Nebraska editors was a town of 13,000 inhabitants and only one dally paper. Genesls of & Weep. Minneapolts Journ Steel trust profits for this $150,000,000. r will be Instead of rejoicing the pro- moters are weeping because they didn’t use | ! the hose more freely while making stock. Some Home Thrusts. Nashville American (dem.) If the party abandons Bryanism, what be- comes of Bryan? If it fatuously adheres to Bryanlsm, is not Bryan the natural and logical leader? If not the candidate, would he not be a Warwick? Portland Oregonlan, Becretary Wilson is undoubtedly correct in his doctrine that the big corn crop is an indirect but certaln promoter of cheaper beef. Another potent influence is to be the fact that high prices have brought into be- ing the largest number of calves ever con- tained in the United States at one time. No meat trust can permanently nullify the operation of these natural factors. The col- lapse of the corn corner prove: 3 Destroy! Pop Springfield Republican. A man named Jelks, the present acting governor, will be the next governor of Ala- bama with a four-years' term. A natural result of the new constitution is that while only about 2,600 negroes are voters, some 62,000 white men failed to register, largely because all political power is immovably lodged in one political party. A vigorous ‘white man’s republican party will have to arise In order to keep the politics of the state out of a deathly paralysis. Listening Now—Will Vote Later. New York Press. Because President Roosevelt has an- nounced the issue of the day—the “trust’ issue—and because he pledges himself to try to be true to what is his conception of his duty, “to give to each man his rights; to safoguard each man in his rights,” are the American people trooping out to catch his words and to ponder their meaning. They burn with eagerness now to hear the chief of the republican party and the head of the nation talk on the question—the “trust” question—on which later they in- tend to vote! A Democrat Hypnotized. Chicago Chronicle, John J. Hanrahan, deputy grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and F. W. Arnold, the grand secretary, went to Oyster Bay to see the president and ask him to attend the convention of the Brother- hood at Chattanooga on September 8. Han- rahan was hypnotized by the president and sald after the interview: “I am a democrat and the president is my kind of a man. He is just as good a democrat ybody I ever laid eyes on. He had all kinds of people up there today, Senators And that sort, Uid it make any difference? Did we feel queer? Not with him entertaining us. I came out here a demoerat and I am one still, but it's a good thing to know that the wrong. party occasionally hits on the flnt sort of a man. 1 like bis style first DII’I:INCE LEN the Mis- St. Louls Glohe-Damm:rll The possible abandonment of the Missourl river in the mear future, so far as regards appropriations for its improvement by con- gress, is a humiliation for that stream which nobody could have dreamed of in the earlier days. This one of the world's greatest waterways, physically, scientifically and historically. Measured from its source in the Rocky mountains down to the mouth of the lower Mississippi—and this is called by some geographers the main stream, with the upper Mississippl as the afluent—the distance is about 4,200 miles. The Missouri itself, reckoning it from its rise at the con- tinental divide to its entrance into the Mis- sissippl, has a length of about 3,300 miles. It is about 300 miles longer than the Mis- slssippl, of which it is the I Of the 1,200,000 are miles in the water- shed of the M ipp! and its tributaries the Missouri, its principal branch, contrib- utes 528,000. In the high-water stage of the spring and early summer the Missouri is navigable for light-draft steamboats up to Fort Benton, In Montana, a distance of 2,700 miles. ‘When Joliet and Marquette on their jour- ney from Canada by way of the Great Lakes and the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, went down the Mississippl in 1763 to the mouth of the Arkan: they were surprised and alarmed whe passing the Missouri. The torrent of yellow mud which they saw at a certain point on the west side of the maln stream surging across the smooth blue surface of the Mississippi, carried with it, in the few minutes which they viewed it, enough trees to stock a small forest. When its current made their canoes dance and whirl lke dry twigs in a mountain brook Marquette sald: “1 pever saw anything more terrific.”” The old misslonary re. marked thit he would return there som day and go by way of that ri to A The Missourl may be sald to have a contin- uous history from that day, twe and & third centuries ago, to this. Moreover, there is & chance that its annals began even earlier than that time. Coronado, the Spanish con- quistadore from Mexico, chasing Quivira's golden myth, was in Kansas more than a century before Marquette and Joliet went down the Mississippi, and some of the anti- quarians have figured that he either reached the Missouri or came very close to it. Thus, when Lewis and Clark, about 100 s 880, were working thelr rowboats up ageinst the Missouri's turbulent and tortu- ous current that river had much more than a century of & background of history behind it. In the days of the Fremch dominion prospecting and exploring parties were up that river as far as the mouth of as early as 1705. The Verendryes we its upper waters, in the present state of Montana, in 1743. The Otoes, Sioux, Omahas, Mandans and Aricaras, whom Jefferson’s first explorers saw when on their way across the continent, were not altogether unac- quainted with white men at that time. From 1807, when Manuel Lisa of the Missouri Fur company went up the big river to the mouth of ihe Yellowstone and then ascended that stream to the confluence of the Bighorn, ‘where he erected the first trading post on the upper waters and the first house in the present Montana, onward until long after the end of the fur trade's great days, the Missouri was the scene of much activity. In 1819 the first steamboats to enter that river, Independence and Western Engineer, went up several hundred mile The Amert- can Fur company's Yellowstone steamed as tar as the company’s post at Fort Plerre, in the present South Dakota, in 1829. After- in the days ot \he early settlers in lowa, Kaosas, Nebraska and the Dakoias and from that time until long after the com- pletion of Oakes Ames' and Huntington's Pacific rallroads, the Missouri swarmed with steamboats. But the glory of the great river bas departed. The rallroads have taken away its business and its picturesqueness and romance bhave passcd 1ulo blstory. Redeeming the Far West New York Tribune (re) Two state campalgns, to which an interest altaches quite out of proportion, perhaps, to their Intrinsic consequence, are to be fought this fall in the tiny Rocky mountain commonwealths of Idaho and Nevada. Ranking forty-third and forty-fifth re- spectively in the list of states, Idaho and Nevada exercise no commanding influence onal politics. Each has at present but a single seat in the house of representa. tives and neither has much hope of bettering its representation in the next census or even in the census thereafter. Joining the other Rocky mountain states in their revelt against the gold standard declarations of the St. Louls platform they have, with Mon- tana and Colorado, clung persistently since 1896 to the southern alllance forced upon them through their mistaken adherence to free sliver coinage theor! Ith the abate- ment of the silver craze there has been a steady drift of sentiment in all the mining and mountain states toward older and more natural political alignments. Of the far western group temporarily lost to repub- licanism in Colonel Bryan's first presidential campaign, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, ‘Wyoming, Utah and Washington returned in 1900 to their traditional republican associa- tions. In Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Ne- wada the reaction, though powerful, was not complete. This year's elections for congres: will therefore serve to measure afresh the ebb from democratic theories and sentiment 80 noticeable in 1898 and 1900, and the re- sults in 1daho and Nevada, at least, are now counted on to show that the far west has become again substantially and normally re- publican—that the bond which held together the southern-western coalition constructed with so much care and confidence by the, free coinage leaders has proven as brittle and unserviceabl rope of sand. legislature elected is to choose a United States senator to succeed Henry Heitfeld. Two years ago the republican electoral ticket polled 27,198 votes, against 29,414 for the democratic. Since then the so-called ellver republican organization has ceased to exist. The populist party has also dwindled to a shadow, and the two United States senator elected populist and the other & sllver republican, have formally declared themselves democrats. Poljtical conditions have been greatly simplified, and by virtue of that process the republican party—a hopeless one-third minority only four years ago—Is mow conmtesting on vir- | tually equal terms for the comtrol of the state. Vietory this fall in Idabo will bring the substantia]l gain of a seat not only in | the lower but aleo In the upper branch of congress. In Nevada the outlook for republican suc- cess la perhaps less promising. In 1900 the McKinley electors received 3,849 votesd, against 6,847 for the Bryan electors. Rep- resentative Newlands for congress had a smaller plurality, 1,785, The populist and sllver republican organizations are also vir- tually defunct in da. Mr. Newlands, elected for two terms as & silver repub- lican, is now a democrat, Senators Jones and Stewart, former republicans, but re- elected, one as @& populist and one as a sllverite, have again beeome repub- Means. Mr. Newlands has given up his seat in the house and fs making a canv for the sénatorship as a straightout dem- ocrat; 80 that since the campafkn of 1896 and 1900 party lines have been practically drawn anew. ‘Nevada's natural political affiliations are with California and Utah— both republican states—and it would not be eurprising it mext fall's, vote carried this most retrograde and dependent of all the forty-five commonwealths back in ilne politicolly with §{6 two controlling neigh- bors. Such a reversal, following Idaho's example, would leave to Colorado and Mon- tana the burdens ‘of fighting to the end among thé mountain states the lost battles of the siiver beresy. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Russia is a long time recovering from the panic and depression of a couple of This is satistactorily explained dispatch to the London Times, financier in South Russia is estimating the industrial losses few years at $500,000,000. This, of course, does not Include losses from bad barvests, and presumably it does mot in- clude the profits that would have been made If expectations had been realized, or it business had even continued reasonably good, but simply represents the losses in industrial investment Of all the com- panies formed in the last twenty years to exploit the resources of the country it s stated that two-fifths are bankrupt. Much of the loss has fallen upon foreigners, par- ticularly Frenchmen and Belgians, but very much of it also has been lost by Russian investors. Half a billion dollars is a great deal of money to be lost in a country of very small realized wealth, whatever its natural resources may be. Large bank fall- s have neenrred in Somth R the ron industries were seriously affected by the interruption of railread building by the government, some manufacturers have recelved government loans to tide them ‘over, but many of the leading industries of the country are reported to be in a most unsatisfactory condition still. y o Europeans and Americans who have lived long in China are quite unanimous years ago. 7| incthe opinion that the greatdst couptry of Asla, taking account of area, popula- tion and natural resources, is making steady progress industrially and commer- clally, and the general bellef is that more rapld gains are assured for the next few years. Statistics of exports and imports tell the same story. 8o does the develop- ment of rallways and telegraph lines. The world-wide importance of this progress ls not easily exaggerated. It promises to in- sure the existence of the Clilnese empire as an immense independent state, for it lessens the force of euch pretexts as might have been discovered or invented for di- viding or selzing the country. It also makes the International importance of China 80 evident.and so great that no one European power is likely to find the way open for the absorption of so rich an em- pire, while the more progressive the Chi- nese become the less chance there will be for an agreement between the leading na- tions of the west as to the terms of a possible partitioning of the middle king- dom. oo An officlal report of the conditions of labor in southern Rhodeisa should cause some squirming among the British im- perialists. The methods of the British Bouth Africh company in securing labor for the mines are, in fact, not pleasant to contemplate. The problem is, of course, to make steady workmen out of the natur- ally lazy Africans. No one can doubt that this would be to their eventual advanta but meanwhile the commissioner of Chartered company has felt himself com. pelled to supply extraordinary inducements to industry. Briefly, the custom has been to tax the natives so heavily that they are compelled to werk out the tax at the mines. Even under this incentive the natives do everything to avoid a wervice which is dangerous, unhealthy and sub ditions that recall the days of sides the hut tax, the administration ap- plies pressure in other ways that are mot specified. That native commissioners who Wi ppointed to guard the rights and re- dress the wrongs of their fellow-coun- trymen should turn out to be mere recruit- ing agents for the mines is only natural when the demand for laber is considered. e significent fact that the number of seamen, cadets and officers belonging to Alsace-Lorraine who of their own free will have entered the German fleet has risen during the last eight years from 146 to 1,750. The latter number is nearly twice that which would correspond to the num- ber of the population of Alsace-Lorraine compared to that of the re of Germany. Unquestionably the German school system which prevails in Alsace-Lorraine has con- tributed largely to the change of feeling which is plainly visible. It is true that a tew girl still sent to nunneries and pensionnats in France by the richer fam- illes of the Roman Catholic majority of the population. Among the Protestants who dwell mainly in Lower Alsace there is & different habit. The Roman Catholic clergy, which originally was on the French side, is now divided; the Protestant clergy in Alsace is naturally favorable to Ger- many. It is .. Whatever may have been the reason for the decision to transfer the kalser's head- quarters during the tumn maneuvers from P to Frank -the-Oder the official explanation of the cha ing been the result of considerations of convenience is certainly mot the true ome. The kaiser had announced that he would enter the capital of Prussian Poland at the head of 100,000 men and show tl Poles what it meant to court imperial di favor. What has become of this high re- solve? More than lkely it was coun - tenanced by the czar at the recent meet- ing of the Ruesian and German monarchs, about which such ominous silence has been maintained. Agitation among the Poles is the last thing Russia desires. Possibly also er may have been dissuaded purps by a hint from Austria, in the government of which empire the Poles are very influential. o Having armed the natives for the pur- pose of self-defense during the war, the British authorities in South Africa are now confronted by an aggravated form of the “black peril.” The rumors of out- rages upon white women and of murders by blacks of Boer farmers returning to their homesteads have not been confirmed in any particular instance. The situation is a dangerous one, nevertheless, and the unabimous demand of the white inkabi- tants that the Kafirs be disarmed is doubtless justified. It s easier to pro- pose the remedy, however, than to put it into practice. The armed blacks are scat- tered over a territory nearly one-fourth as large as the United States, and the hunt for their secreted rifies and ammunition would be lon nd baffing. POLITICAL DRIFT, Several patriotic democrats in Towa have consented to run for congress just for ex- ercise. Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland is being talked about again. Evidently there is some- thing doing in gumshoe politics. The election in Maine this year will be held on September 8, and at it congressmen as well as state officers will be voted for. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Long and ex- Becretary of the Navy Olney will be the respective chairmen of the republican and democratic conventions in Massachusetts next month. H. C. Frick of Homestead fame aspires to the United States senator from Pennsyl- vania. ‘Mr. Frick is just the kind of a man to reduce politics to a business ba: and that is what counts in the Keystone stat Next Tuesday Vermont voters will deter- mine which is which. There are three tickets in the fleld for state officers. As a majority of all votes cast is required to elect, many believe' the officers will be named by the state legislature. Sockless Jerry Simpson of Kansas {s now located in New Mexico and diligently dig- ging political postholes preparatory for tatehood, It e very likely Jerry will bump up against Judge Baker somewhere among the sand dunes and cactl, and then sand clouds and cactl will fly as never before. The persistent determination of some Massachusetts democrats to nominate Rich- ard Qlney for , despite his un- willingness to be their an- ewer to the objection of some opponents that he is “too old” to be regarded as an eligible candidate for the presidency in 1904. Mr, Olney was born in September, 1835. He 1s now 67, and at the time of the next presidential election would be in his 70th year. All sorts of people get into politics. A. H. Jackson, the republican candidate for congress in the Thirteenth Ohlo district, was a plow boy in his youth, then became a street auctioneer and a circus manager tor, finally settling down as a and has become wealthy and ambitious of polifical distinction. He is liberal with his money and very popular. WITHOUT A PARALLEL. wwed with Power of Public Expression. Minneapolls Times (Ind.) What other country in the world ever possessed, within a score of Jears, four chiet rulers so gifted with the power of public expression, 8o ready of specch to reach the public ear, as has this union? Garfleld, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt! ench of them a master of public address yet none of them, save possibly the first men- tioned, an orator. 1t Harrison who first successtully in- |augurated presidential tours th which the | best thought of the administration was laid before an every-day audlence of American citizens, fresh from the fountain head. M- Kinley, even more than his republican predecessor, believed in the personal contact of the chief magistrate with the masses. The late and lamented president grew and wid- ened marvelously in the years of his stew- ardship and one of the principal factors ot | growth was his contact with the plain people of the republic who put him where he was. President Roosevelt has al been in touch with his kind, has intensely buman sympathies and is more loved as & man than he is as an official. With more culture than McKinley (using the word in its usual university acceptation), but with less than Harrison, Roosevelt has a bappy mean of expression that appeals to those whom he addresses, and influences, as well, those who read his speeches. The point to be made is that no other na- tlon In the world, at present or in its hi tory, can show a parallel with the condition of things outlined above. The kaiser talks, and talks well, but & tour such as that Mr. Roosevelt s now making, would be an im- | poseibility in Germany. No French presi- |dent since Thiers has been capable of a simllar tour, while in England the king must confine himself to a few platitudes at the laying of & cornerstone or the conferring of an order. When Spain's king shows any | human feeling and a desire to get nearer his people he ls labeled “crazy.” Italy's mon- | arch has neither the abllity mor the desire to make speeches and the czar of all the Russias must hedge himgelf about with so many precautions against assassination that the words of his 1ips ¢an be heard by enly a few score of his subjects at one time, —_— LAUGHING GAS. Washington Star: “Ef a man could git u h m over his regular worl p EA sald Uncle ‘aar woulfln t h. near so much hahd as Eben. mes. “Did u _see lain Dealer: yo Cleveland Plal s -‘“P"" % 1% that item to the effect times the carth slze?” 1 e, aay, that must make Plerpont Morgan feel pretty small.” Philadelphia _Catholle _ Standard: = | carrier l’.m on_the wing,’ said t fancler, the very postry of motion. “You' mean," lled the ~unsuccessful rhymster, that Tt has the motion of oetry, don't you? No matter how often t goes out, it always comes back again.” Chicago Post; They were dining out. “But, Henry,” she protested, ‘‘you know vou shouldn't’ drink coffee, at night. It ceps you awake, “Oh, well,” he Yeplied, With a polite bow to the hostess, this coffee wom't.” Fhilageiphia, Keoora: | Gridget, said ihe absent-minded author, “I can't have that gat in the room if it continues to yell #o. e'll Jhov to help me, sor." s New York Sun: Marle Antoinette walked to the scaffold with all the dignity of a queen. As she stepped to the block, how- gyer. 'a horrifled expression crossed her "l’lella tell me,” she begged lha execu- tion he‘d on straight? Philadel Prews: 1 Bay,'paj’: began the nm Cotlecror's little gon. ow, see here, his father Interrupted, “I don't want you to me any foollsh questions.” “I was just going to ask Who collects the weathier man's storms when they'rs “LOOK OVER THE HARNE FIRST.” 8. E. Kiser in Leslle's Weekly. When old Uncle John starts off to town He looks at the straps “For you never can tell 't “What trouble there 'may"be I've saved a runaway many a tim Where worst might 'a’ come to worst By simply not forgettin' to just ok over the harness first. Is, there not & lesson that he who starts atter wild cate away May I from the plan of Uncle John Which will stand him In stead some day? In metting forth on the long trip where There's many a break and burst, Make sure, as nearly as mortal may— “Look over the harness first. And for him and for JDer, who take the step That must lead unto joy The plan that 1 folowed %y Unele John Is a good one on which to go., There are many weary women and men ‘Who are counting themselves accursed Because they didn't, before the start, “Look over the harness first.’ 3 For him and for her who have come to the ace pl Where the waya appear The lesson we Ie’; P ‘Ur;‘nlv‘lnhn May well be taken to T%' ea joys they have lost may lle awhead; hen the hord is In war and in love there are mmy defeats Which lead to shame and despatr, That never had come: if the Duckies ana Had only been kept In repair. Whoever you are, If it's glory or gold fiowar for which you thirst, ncle John's plan, when it's time to Lool ov-r the harness first.” VR BENNETT 162 & HARNEY sTs. IMPORTANT TO EVERYBODY: Labor Day Monday We close Labor Day 10 a. m. 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