Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY . BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 1902, ‘THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. BLlBH&U BV A.RY MORNING. TERMS OF SBUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), Une Year..$4.00 Dally Bee unu sunoay, Une Year.... o lliustrated bee, Une 1ear Bunuay pee, Une Year Baturuay Bee, Une Year.. Twenueth Century karmer, One DELIVEKED BY CARKIEY Dally Bee (without Bunday), per coj Daily bee (without Sunday), per week Duily bee (ncluaing Sunaiy), per week Bul y 1see, per copy ... ug Bee (without Bund ing Bee (including Sunda ver, Complal fes I delivery should be aadressed Lo ity Citculation De- partment OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullaing, Bouth OmanacCity Hall “Bullding, Twen- tyzntth and at Stre 1 Siifte—1y Pear] Street. nity Bullding. Yorkozais Park How Sullding. Washington—w1 Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to ne torial matter snould be addressed: Bee, Laltorlal Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by dratt, express or postal erder, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company; centstampe in payment of mai \accounts, _ Fersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acce THE Bes"PUSTIRIHING' COMPARY. and edi- Omaha STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. e ot Nebraska, Douglas County, 88 PSR B Taschuck, sccretary of The Be 'ublis] Company, g ul L i, Bayy that the aétusl numbr of *full and complete coples of The Daily, Mornin Evening and Sunday Bee printed duri ths month of August, 1902, was as foliow L . 16, pEEzEs EEERNERRY Less unsold and returned coples.. Net total sales. Net dally average....... . GEO. B. TZSCHULK Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 1st duy ot Eeg‘lember._rg D, (Seal.) Notary Public. Any more final curtains to be dropped on the great Transmississippl exposi- tion? We are walting for the school board to challenge the city council to a match game of ping pong. ‘With fads running to the antiques, an old-fashioned wood pile is likely to come into great favor again. ] Omaha is soon to entertain thousands of visitors. First lmpressions go the furthest. Help make Omaba look at- tractive. e——————— As a stopping place between trains Washington still manages to maintain its place as the official residence of the president. S———— It seems that there was something more than merely well-defined rpmors In St. Louis. That is the strong con- trast between St. Louls and Omaha. Fusion has gone a-glimmering in Colo- rado. That's always the way whenever the democrats reach the point that they believe they do mot need the populists to win, Two thousand Mormon missionarles are sald to be spreading the gospel of the Mormon church in continental Eu- rope. Presumably this Is part of the American peril. Omaha got $45,000 out of Our Dave's omnibus building bill, while the District of Columbla came in for §2,125,000. That's the way that wonderful chair- manship works. ‘Whatever else they may bring back, the American generals enjoying the hos- pitality of Emperor Willlam will bring home with them some tall stories about royal entertainment. 1taly now proposes to suppress dueling part of the code of honor of the army officer. It may take some time yet, but eventually dueling will be found only on the code of dishonor. Total national bank circulation out- standing at the present tlme exceeds that of any period in American bistory. | Totals are just now at top notch in everything that goes to make up the sum | of national prosperity, Governor Stone of Pennsylvania should not be discouraged in his efforts | Ao secure a settlement of the coal strike. It may turn out that the differences can | be adjusted without walting for the aid | State of affairs under the last demo- | istration. or consent of J. Plerpont Morgan. e oo 8t. Louls is simply Indulging in municipal housecleaning preparatory to its great Louislana Purchase exposition | that will hold the boards in 1004. Every little exposition city bas a housecleaning party in anticipation of such an event. Only fifty versons will be lnvited to participate In the dinner given to Presi- | dent Roosevelt during his wvisit to Omaha. That means that several times fifty will be wanting to know who Is responsible for the omission of their pames from the chosen list. ] Only six Nebraska cities will be tavored with stops when President Roosevelt swings round the circle. But that will not prevent the entire popu- lace along the line from turning out at every station to speed the president on | his way as the train passes. Unlon Pacific fikm say they are ‘the way things are golng. N if Union Pacific officlals will say that they are also satisfled the way things are golng, everybody ought to be satisfied except the general pllhllc appear from the dispatches that Amer- | platform this year for Colonel Bryan of the road. | into effect. 9| urged trust regulation and supervision 1ot HOW IT WOULD OPERATE. It cannot be too often pointed out that the individual manufacturers of the country, who compete with the com- binations, would in all probabllity suffer very much more than the trusts If the proposed policy of taking the tarift du- tles off trust-made goods should be put A paper that has strongly and s not favorable to high protection, the New York Journal of Commerce, points out that the protective system is not the only, or the necessary, cause industrial combinations and at- { tempted monopolies. Furthermore, it says, every article that is produced by a trust is also produced by outside par- ties, some of them of comparatively small caplital, and it is Impracticable to rewove protection from the combinations it 1s desired to regulate without remov- ing It from their independent com- petitors. “Besides,” adds that paper, “price is not the only element involved in the trust question, but it is the only point at which a reduction of duties would touch it. The revision of the tariff, whenever it comes, must be to relieve our own customers and to open the way for a larger export trade, but not to punish trusts.” The Boston Transcript remarks that the proposed “easy way" of reducing or abolishing the tariff on trust-made goods would land us in the quagmire of deeper business depression than that from which we emerged five years ago. “The trusts by no means make all the goods made in their line. The indi- | vidual manufacturer would be the first to feel the blow. The trust, with its greater organization and capital, would have more time to protect itself, but even If it were ultimately ‘downed’ it would pull down the business of the country with it in its fall. To demolish the tariff protection utterly would be to throw our markets wide open to the manufacturers of Europe, to pay what prices they should see fit to dictate; that 1s, assuming that the business de- pression left us with enough money to buy on any other scale than from hand to meuth.” The Individual manufacturers are numerous. They are doing business in most of the states, have in the aggregate hundreds of millions of capital invested and employ an army of labor. They constitute a most important part of our industrial system and contribute very largely to the general prosperity. These individual manufacturers are entitled to consideration. The country cannot af- ford to adopt & policy that would seriouely Injure and possihly rnin the enterprises they represent. It cannot afford to take a course that would re- sult in throwing hundreds of thousands of workingmen out of employment, de- moralizing the business of the country and checking prosperity. The important point to be kept in mind is that while the individual manufacturers could not survive the removal of protection, hav- ing to contend against the competition of the home combinations and foreign manufacturers, that policy would not necessarily destroy the trusts and prob- ably would Increase their opportunity for creating monopolies. SE— A BTRONG FINANCIAL PUSITION. For the last few years, under repub- lican administration of.the government, the country has become so familiar with large treasury balances that little at- tention Is given to the regular reports of the condition of the financial depart- ment of the government. Thus probably very few persons outside of banking circles gave even passing notice to the statement given out a few days ago showing the amount of gold in the na- tional treasury. There was at the close of last week $573,936,194, exceeding that of any previous time in the history of the country and, with one possible exception, exceeding the gold heldings of any country at any time in the history of the world. The single reported -ex- ception is that of Russia about eight years ago, when that country was pre- paring to resume specle payments and |18 sald to have accumulated $598,000,000 in gold. The stock of gold in the treasury is being added to at the rate of from $200,- 000 10 $300,000 a day, with no imme- | diate prospect of a cessation In the rate of deposits. This condition is sald to ury officlals, who regard It as the best possible evidence of prosperity and of confidence in the financial stability of the country. Thut Is the rational view to take of it. In the last few years | rest of the world that gold has been coming In large volume to the United States. It s necessary only to polnt to the enormous trade balance during the last tive years in order to explain why ! our stock of gold is so great and is still growing. There was a different | cratle administration, when bonds were sold to get gold into the treasury. The sitnation is one that should command the attention of every citizen and sug- gest the wisdom of avoldiug policies that would produce a change. S THE SUTUATIUN AT PANAMA. Our government has an interest in the situation on the Isthmus of Panama, | where the revolutionists appear to be !pfic(lclll’ in eontrol, that does not grow entirely out of relations to the canal. It has a treaty obligation that requires it to prevent the Isthmus being closed to traffic. As matters now look this may necessitate very vigorous ac- tion regarding the revolutionists, but only so far as their course In regard to the traffic on the isthmus is concerned; that is to say, there will be no inter- ference with their operations against the Colombian government that de not | interrupt the freedom of commerce. The state of affairs is regarded at Wasbington as sufficlently serious to warrant the sending of additional war ships to Panama and Colon and orders to this effect have already been made by the Navy department. It does not the revolutionists, but this is a danger be eminently satisfactory to the treas- ! | we have been selling so largely to the | to be apprehended. The revolution- ary party in Colombia has been reported to be rather adverse to the United States in regard to the canal and as it is mak- ing a pretty formidable contest against the government, with more than a pos- sibility of being ultimately successful, it may prove a serious obstacle to canal negotiations. Meanwhile our govern- ment is taking all necessary precautions to protect American Interests at Panama and to fulfil its treaty obligations. THOSE P Although TINENT QUESTIONS. Congressman Mercer has been invited to address nearly every ward meeting that bas been held in Omaha since his return on his every- other-year visit, people are still waiting for replies to the very pertinent but un- | answered questions originally pro- | pounded to his champlon, William F. | Gurley, and repeated again and again to our nonresident congressman himself. Mr. Gurley said he could not answer be- cause he Is no mind-reader, but that ex- cuse does not hold good for Mercer. Will Mr. Mercer tell us whether he will be satisfied with a sixth term in congress and quif there, or will be in- slst on a seventh term, an eighth term and a perpetual lien on the district until he gets a more lucrative job? Mr. Mercer has not lived in Omaha during the last six years. He has paid no personal taxes in Omaha since 1895. Will he become a resident of Omaba in case he fails to secure renomination or will he continue to live in Washington and resume hig old vocation as legisla- tive lobbyist on a larger scale? It is a matter of notorifety that Mr. Mercer has treated cadetship appoint- ments to West Point and Annapolis as personal perquigites, to be distributed to sons of favored politiclans, instead of throwing them open to competition, so that every boy In the district—the poor man's son as well as the rich man's son —should have an equal chance to secure a military or naval education. Will Mr. Mercer pursue this policy in his sixth term, as he has in all his previous terms? Every congressman is entitled to draw $100 a month for clerk hire and every house committee has a salaried secre- tary. The secretary of the committee on public buildings, of which Mr. Mercer is chairman, receives $2,000 a year for his services. Instead of giving employ- ment to some deserving Nebraska re- publican as his clerk, Congressman Mer- cer has pocketed the $1,200 a year clerk hire and made the secretary of his com- mittee perform the duties of personal clerk without allowance for the extra work. Will Mr. Mercer continue to pocket the $1,200 besides his regular salary of $5,000 a year and othtr per- quisites in case he secures a sixth term in congress? In the month of May, 1900, the senate passed a bill establishing & general quartermaster’s depot in Omaha, which would have given our merchants the long-desired army supply purchasing station Instead of a mere storage ware- house. This bill was referred by the speaker of the houde to Congressman Mercer, but he kept it in his pocket until March 4, 1901, and deliberately killed it. The only explanation Mercer's cham- plons have seen fit to offer for this be- trayal of the interests of Omaha is that the bill was designed to keep the army headquarters in the Bee building, which would have exposed Omaha to the risk of losing the army headquarters alto- gether. Inasmuch as the army head- quarters were removed to the old post- office building in June, 1000, elght months before congress adjourned, Mr. Mercer must invent a more plausible story to satisfy Intelligent voters. What is the true story? Was it because the bill bad been introduced by Senator Thurston or was it because Mercer did not want the editor of The Bee to have credit for doing a good thing for Omaha? In the winter of 1809 a draft for $200 was handed to Mr. Mercer, to be used in promoting the Greater America ex- position. That draft, now in possession of the Merchants’ Natlonal DBank, is en- dorsed on the back by George Sabine, who holds a position at Washington as part of Mr. Mercer's patronage. Why did Mr, Mercer have to have a middle- ! man to cash that draft? Is that the | | way business is done at Washington? Proceeding on the brazen assumption | that the people of Omaha need him more than he needs the people of Omaha, our lordly nonresident congressman evinces a disposition to ignore these pertinent questions. But the people will not be | satisfied with contemptuous silence. It is up to Mr. Mercer to answer. STEADFASTNESS OF NEW ENGLAND. The elections in Vermont and Maine | indlcate no abatement in the steadfast- ness of New England to the republican party and President Roosevelt's admin- It was anticipated that the off-year vote would as usual fall off, but in Maine the republicans carried the ! four congressional districts by majori- tles approaching the high water mark of presidential years, while the legis lature s almost unanimous. In Ver mont, it {8 true, the campalign was com- | plicated by the local liquor Issue, about | | one-half of the republicans supporting | ';n anti-prohibition ticket, but the demo- cratic party practigally disappeaved. The republicanism of Vermont and | Maine is of the stalwart type. There | i Is absolutely no sign of dissatisfaction among the masses of the party with the conduct and purposes of the administra- tion, nor ground for hope for democratic | propagandism. It has not been vigor- ously attempted in these two states. President Roosevelt's courageous course has been a help to the party, and these election returns are the first fruits. The enthuslastic reception accorded the | president during his recent tour through New Epgland was a genuine expression of publie conviction, and the closely fol- lowing elections are a good augury for the national campalgu. | There will not be room on the same who has just been nominated by the democrats for congress in the Second Towa district. Judge Wade is an un- compromising gold democrat and was | nominated for that reason, and in his | speech accepting nomination counseled democrats “to return to the teachings of Grover Cleveland.” The Ninth congressional district in Iowa is another district that now be- longs to ‘“the enemy's country.” The democratic convention there dropped the Kansas City platform with a sick- Ieuln(r thud, and roughly refused to listen to a long-winded free silver tirade that | a Bryanite spellbinder undertook to per- petrate. This district, too, borders on Nebraska. ——— The raflroad tax bureau Is taking a brief breathing spell by using a scissors on a few country papers that have pub- lished articles of their own on the rail- road side of the tax evasion question and paying other papers to reprint them. If they were not paid for originally, they ought to have been. Senator Teller will shed no more tears that the republican party has left him. Having espoused the democratic faith in full’ without a whimper to make sure of democratic backing in his campaign for re-election to the senate, he has nothing more to gain by masquerading in repub- lican clothes. The Towa State Weather bureau plays a sure game. It does not venture into the hazardous field of prophecy, but issues a monthly bulletin telling what the weather has been. The way for Dave Mercer to save the district is to stay out since he has moved out of it. Take 'Em and Be Happy. Minneapolis Journal, We haven't figured just what percentage of comfort the democrats are able to get out of the Maine election with a 25,000 re- publican majority, but we are willing to throw in the fractions. Another Buneh of Frost. ‘Washington Post. The Hon. David B. Hill has arranged to have a certaln Nebraska gentleman com- pletely ignored in the platform of the New York democrats. Are the New York democrats to follow their Iowa and Wis- consin brethren? A Chronic Condition. Baltimore American. The democratic campaign book con- demns the fallure to give reciproeity to Cuba and then goes ahead in another para- graph and condemns reciprocity. How- aver, this eturn to the true demo- cratie yrlnclp. of “condemning every- thing.” A Lesson Remembered. Boston Globe. There’s a lesson in an incident of Presi- dent Roosevelt's return from Chickamauga. While he was driving along Missionary ridge Sunday afternoon there came a trolley car down the side of the mountain toward a crossing _which his carriage had not reached. It was observed that the driver was stopped by the secret servico men and the trolley car was, respectfully allowed to go its way befpre the carrlage was taken across the tracks. Reecalling an 014 Anecdote. Boston Herald. The resolution just passed by a populist convention out west that reads, “While the republican party does something and raises h—I, the democratic party ralses h—1 and does nothing,” recalls & verltable anecdote of the earlier days of politics. A whig and a democrat were disputing, and the whig challenged the democrat to show what tho democrats as & party had ever done. “Done!” says the democrat—"Do; —we have done everything. We have killed the United States bank, passed the sub- treasury bill, enacted the tariff of 1846, and we have—we have—'" here the demo- crat stopped and stuttered to think of something else, and finally wound up by saying, “We've raised h—I| generally.” The whig agreed that he was right in the latter statement. Gold in the Treasury. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. The breaking of a record In the gold hold- ings of the treasury does not attract the attention today which it would have done a few years ago, when the government was selling Interest-bearing bonds to get gold enough to, protect its greenback redemption fund. The treasury's gold stock now fis $574,000,000, which is by far the largest sum held in the depository of any government in the world, Of course, a large part of this s trust gold, held by the government for the redemption of notes outstanding. The existence of this vast hoard of gold, however, steadies the country's currency and gives it a strength not equaled by that of any other government in the world. In the country at large the gold stock must be in the melghborhod of $1,100,000,000 now. It has been above the $1,000,000,000 mark for a or more. The country which comes nearest to this total is France, with $800,000,000. A MILITANT PRESIDENT. “His Advice Goes for the Maki the Best Citizenship.” Detroft Free Press (dem.) A good deal of concern has been expressed over the president of the United States be- cause of the freedom with which he is speaking his mind before the people of country. By these protestants his soclal philosophy 1s condemned as heretical and revolutionary. The offense of the president is found in the fact that he has gone at the questions of domestic relations, Industeial ameliorations and educatiocal and political reforms as one who is of and for the people. He enjoys the fresh and original results of personal observation, experience and study. There was unconsclous egoism expressed by Mr. Roosevelt when he sald to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen: “I want to see the average American & game man._ an honest man and a man who can handle himself and does handle himeelf well under difficulti This was the voicing of & personal aspiration that supplies in force and in the sympathy that It attracts far more than is lost because of fallure to fawn before the power of concentrated wealth that has latterly essayed to hold the reins of government. Threat from that quarter becomes impotent when it is real- ized that the president is bent upon serv- ing the entire country in & way that will give to all the fruits of prosperity and keep open the avenues of competition. It is a crisis in which we meed a fighting presi- dent; a man who is not afraid to bid the encroachments of a favored class to cease and to advise the masses to proceed by legal process to regain their own. We have in him & scholarly, able and combative re- former. Taking into consideration the forces with which he contends and the purposes he alms to attaln, he shows an admirable conservatism. His entire advice ican interests are belng threatened by | and Judge M. J. Wade of lowa City, | goes for the making of the best citizensbip. {Ir!lrlPAL GRAFT IN ST. LOUIS, 8t. Louls Republic: For many years the | boodlers in the house of delegates have | 1aughed at all suggestions of the likelihood of their being made to answer for thelr crimes. It now seems that the people's turn to laugh has come—and he laughs best who laughs last. St. Louls Globe-Democrat: All the bood lers took an oath never to divulge any facts connected with their bribery operations and { called upon “Almighty God" to witnese their | fdelity. After the scoundrels serve their | terms In the penitentiary they should be taken to an asylum for moral idiots. Chicago Chronicle: There is reason to belleve that the St. Louls boodlers were doing & more lucrative business than some others of thelr kind in other cities. The statement that the average price of an derman who {s disposing of a franchise worth a million is $2,600 may not be far from the mark, but the small fry probably get 0o more than $500 each, while the gen- tlemen of “‘Influence” get $10,000 or more. Aldermen come pretty cheap on the whole. | Chicago Inter Ocean: St. Louls Is en- | titled to the hearty congratulations of every community in this country that is cursed by a boodling combine. The prospect ahead of the world's fair city 1s certainly bright. It has seldom fallen to the lot of an Ameri- can municipality to be burdened as St. Louls has been with such a powerful gang of conscienceless thieves, but, on the other hand, it has seldom fallen to the lot of an American municipality to be presented with such a splendid opportunity of sending so many of them In a batch to state’s prison. Detroit Free Press: There are two things in connection with the expose that are sur- prising even In these days of officlal corruption. One is that nineteen delegates, a large proportion of whom were rated as respousible and honorable citizens, should combine for a purpose that is criminally fraudulent and should boldly meet in the city hall to perfect their schemes of black- mail and robbery. The other is that the people generally of the afflicted city have known the character of the men who were serving them in public office and the meth- ods by which they were enriching them- selves. Tolerance had gone so far that the boodlers felt comparatively safe and made little effort to conceal their doings. Another effect of popular Indifference was to produce moral stupefaction on the part of the offenders. The fact that they were doing wrong ceased to impress them. They sold what they had pledged to the people and 414 not regard it as a crime. This is positively startling, and yet it is the danger threatening every large city in the coun- try. The peo have been hammered and looted 5o long that they promise to grow complacent under the treatment. STRANGE CAREER OF ROACH. Passing of a Former United States Senator from North Dakota. Buffalo Express. ‘Willlam N. Roach, former United States senator from North Dakota, dled In New York on Sunday. Roach had one of the most remarkable careers of any man who ever figured in American public life. He was born In Virginia in 1840 and begaa his business 1ife in Washington, first as an em- ploye of the government and later as cashier of the Citizens’ National bank. In 1879 Roach suddenly left Washington under a oloud. It was alleged that he had been using the funds of the bank for his own purposes and that| the shortage amounted to $64,000. For some reason no attempt was made to follow and arrest him. He au peared from sight and was forgotten. Much to the amazement of the people of ‘Washington who remembered him, he re- turned to the capital in 1893 an accredited United States senator, having been elected as a democrat after a prolonged deadlock. It was learned that for the preceding twrelve years he had been one of the most emi- nently respectable and highly esteemed citizens of North Dakota; that he had ac- cumulated there a comfortable property and that he had been a candidate on the demo- cratic ticket for congress and twice for gqvernor without a suspicion having been entertained by the men who trusted him that his record was anything but clear, There was a nine-day session over the revelations. Senator Hoar proposed ap In- vestigation with a view to the expulsion of Roach from the senate. Roach A8 he would welcome Investigation and some of his friends alleged that there were other men in the senate whose early careers would not bear the light any better than Roach's. Perhaps because of this the mat- ter was allowed to drop and Roach served out his term. He headed a Bryan dele- gation from North Dakota to the demo- cratic national convention of 1896 and after the expiration of his term he engagnd in business in New York. AN EBB IN PENSIONS, Footprints of Time Visible on the Roll of Homor. New York Tribune. Abundant evidence can be found in the re- port of the auditor for the Interfor depart-, ment, issued a few days ago, to sustain the contention that the nation’s expenditures for pensions are certaln to show from now on a more and more material shrinkage. So much loose talk is afloat about “high water marks" in the pension list and “high tides' in pension payments that the real ebb to- ward a more moderate average of disburse- ments is too commonly lost sight of. Great stress was lald this year by critics who chronically assa!l the open-handed liberality of our pension system on the fact that the total number of pensioners on the rolls had mounted a little pearer than ever to the million mark. On July 1, according to the caleulations of the commfssioner of pen- slons, there were 599,446 names in all on the agency lists. But little or no attention was glven to the fact that for four years past, in | spite of the adjudication of between 200,000 and 300,000 new claims, there has been prac- tically no expansion whatever of the pen- slon roll. On July 1, 1501, the number of persons entitled to draw pensions was 997,- 785; on July 1, 1900, it was 993,525. Nine years ago, long before the rush of applica- tions under the dependent pension act of 1899 had spent itself, the total was 966,012, The slight increases made since 1897 have plainly testified, in fact, to the gradual ex- baustion of the extraordinary pressure for enrollment created by that most lavish and all-embracing statute. It would not be sur- prising if, with a continuance of the bureau's present policy of pushing the ad- justment of outstanding claims, the pension Ist should next year pass the million mark. But indications point decidedly to a reaction thereafter—a drop which will carry the total gradually back to where it stood some ten or even fifteen years ago. In reality, although the pension list grew a little in the last twelvemonth, disburse- meals (hrough the agencies actually de- creased. The auditor for the Interior de- partment reports that the sum actually spent for pensions was $137,400,741. This s BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. * Scenes Incldents Sketohed on the Spot. An uncommonly dull summer at the na- tional capital is drawing to a close. The feeling of languor which spreads over the town whem congress closes shop grows as | the season advances and vacations multiply The closing of the White House for repairs this sumnmer materially increased the dull- neas, which reached high water mark with the opening of September. The coming national encampment of the Grand Army is expected to signalize the return of normal conditions, arousing the natives trom their slumbers and banishing the tired feeling In countless pocket Some of the townspeople already awake and on the jump are banking on an un- usually gay social season during the com- ing winter. By November nearly half a million doliars will be apent on the White House. There will be no air of shop about the new home bullding for the president of the United States. There have been presidents who used the conservatory to grow cucumbers in and another kept his saddles in the east wing, but President Roosevelt has no such ideas. There are to be drawing rooms and verandas, ban- quet rooms amd rooms red, green and blue, where social functions can be given in keeping with the dignity of the office. The president does nothing by halves, and he has left no room for speculation about the coming White House season. The president likes work, but he likep to play equally as well. Until Mr. Roosevelt, with the exception of Arthur, there has not been a president in the White House since the war who knew much about the art of entertaining. Mrs. Roosevelt is still young and Miss Roosevelt is going through an experience this summer which will give her the repose and confidence required from a hostess who must meet the best society of the world. It is also certain that the Hays, socially consplcuous since John Hay became secre- tary of state, will be prominent in soclety circles. The marriage of Mise Helen Hay to Harry Payne Whitney was an elaborate affair. Soon the wedding of Miss Alice Hay and “Jimmy” Wadeworth will take place in the New Hampshire hills. It will be a different affair from the Hay-Whitney wedding. Of course the Wadsworths well as the Whitneys are coming to Wash- ington and besides them there will be Mr. and Mrs. Michael Herbert. Mrs. Herbert was & Wilson of the New York set. Mr. Herbert, ambassador from the court of St. James, unit diplomatic corpe with the New York “400.” Mr. Herbert was the former chum of Mr. Roosevelt. The superstitious may prepare for another shock. A thirteen-cent postage stamp is about to be issued by the govern- ment. The phiz of Benjamin Harrison will ocoupy the center of the fleld. This will be the first thirteen-cent stamp ever lssued by the United States; up to 1879 a stamp of the value of seven cents had been in use ten years, but was discontinued when the rate of forelgn postage was reduced to 6 cents. The new Harrison stamp will be lit- tle used in domestic mails. Its Issuance is the outgrowth of the incres registration service; covering as it will the postage and registration fee upon a letter UNION OF THE SECTIONS. ‘s Southern Trip. Kansas City Star (Ind.) The large gatherings and marked en- thusiasm that have characterized Presi- dent Roosevelt's tour through West Vir- glna, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina are new and gratitying evidences of the patriotic unfon of the United Stat It was not essential for the .president to make this visit to the southern states in order to demonstrate popular feeling toward him in that section. His former visit, when he went to South Carolina in | connection with the opening of the Charles- |ton exposition served the purpose at an earlier date and at a time when there was an attempt to set sectional feeling inst him be of his attitude toward the obstreperous and disorderly Senator Tillman. That visit was replete with evi- dences of patriotism and admiration and the present tour has been attended with every kind of recognition that could be desired. 1t 1s trite and often out of place to refterate the oneness of the union, but it 1s stlll appropriate to comment on the fact that while the presidents for many years have been chosen from the north, the south bas been consplcuously loyal, generous and hospitable toward the chief magistrates who have visited that pection. Even now, when there is a good deal of agitation as to the advisability of selecting the next demooratic nominee for the presidency from among the southern statesmen, the idea has more en- couragement in the north than it has re- celved in the south. The desire to have the southern states participate more largely in national affairs s very genmeral. The progress of the south in all directions, es- peclally along Industrial lines, 1s welcomed everywhere as a slgn of the equable broad- ening and solidifying of the nation. President Roosevelt's addresses have been instinct with the strong regard he has al- ways evinced for the spirit of national- ism and such references as he has made to sections have been in good taste and helpfull to the happy current of feeling. THERE ARE OTHERS. Less Than Half the Steel Ou: trolled by the T Buffalo Express. So much has been said by the so-called trust hunters about the United States Stoel corporation and its alleged control of the iron and steel business in this coun- try that some figures on this point fur- nished in the latest bulletin of the Ameri- can Iron and Steel assoclation possess unusual interest. No one who has at all studied the industry in the United States has taken any stock in the severe criticism of this great organization, for it has been strong from the time the combine was formed and has been growing ever since, When the trust was incorporated it was generally believed that the constituent companies controlled about $0 per cent of the American output. Later reports placed the percentage much lower. The bulletin which has just been fssued gives rates on the various preducts. Of a. tot ed forelgn | prcduction of 28,887,479 tons of ore in 1901 the United States Steel corporation com- trolled 43.9 per cent, while the plants in welghing one-balf ounce anywhere Within|the trust produced 6,803,958 tons of. pig iron, the limits of the postal union, which now includes practically all the organized na- tions of the world. Stamp experts who have examined the drawing for the new stamp say it will be one of the finest specimens of & postage stamp ever produced, mot excepting the famous Columbian series, the Transmis- sippi and the Pa dition to the usual ica” and ‘“Postage Thirteen Cents” inscription, “Series of 1902, together with ‘Harrison” and figures giving the date of birth and death appear upon the design. The portrait was selected by Mrs. Harrison and is sald to have been the late president's orite. A novelty in national coin, typlcal of na- tional expansion, and intended for circula- tion in the Philippine fslands only, will be produced at the mints and shipped to the islands at the rate of $250,000 a month. Designs prepared by native artists have been accepted for use in the dollar and half-dollar silver pleces, and others are under consideration. One is a very orna- mental figure of a Filipino woman, attired | in graceful flowing robes. The other repre- sents & brawny native, with a hammer at a forge, typlfymg the Filipino hammering out the destinies of the lslands. The law requires that each coin shall bear a device and inscription to express the sovereignty of the United States, although in other re. spects they may be as strongly pro-Philip- pine as the designers can make them. The idea of the Washington authorities is to saturate the islands with the mew money, €0 as to dn away with the use of the Mexi- can dollar as much as possible. TERSONAL NOTE It Borls, the Russian, doesn’t watch out, the W. C. T. U. will catch him. Now that Colonel Watterson has de- molished Newport soclety he ought to turn | his rapid-fire vocabulary on the strikes. Secretary Wilson says he has not been tendered the presidency of the Iowa Agri- cultural college and would not accept it it he was 8o homored. Samuel Hawkins Napler, who has just been burled in Upper Ottawa, was the dis- | coverer of the largest nugget of pure gold which the world has ever known. Willlam H. Moody, secretary of the pavy, acted as umpire in & base ball game played at Haverhill, Maes., several days ago be- tween the lawyers and city officials of that clty. Stxkiller, the aged ex-chlet of the Chero- kees, has just died at his home In the Spavinaw Hills, Indian Territory. His death witnesses the passing of ome of the most picturesque figures of the southwest. Robert 1. Altken's design has been ac- cepted by the McKinley Memorial Monu- ment committee of San Francisco. On the monument s a colossal figure of the re- public, with a bust of McKinley In bas rellef of stone. } Mrs. Carrle Nation is perambulating about the east, and recelves so little at- tentfon that she might as well have been a defeated vice presidential candidate of some distant campaign. She is seeking e for the wives of City. Her hatchet has boen replaced altogether by her elocu- tion; she emashes no more and merely talks. The fire department at Larchmont, New York's swell suburb, had its annual turn- out & few days ago, most of its million- alre members being present in uniform. And they are not an ornamental lot, either. Everyone of them almost Is an en- (husiastic and well drilled fireman and a| brave show they made on parade, with their white duck trousers, red red helmets topped with emall 1 millicn less than the total for 1900-'01 and 1s the smallest amount disbursed in any year since 1892, Five years ago, when but 993, 714 names were on the rol the payments made aggregated $144,500,000. In 1892-'98, when there were but 966,012 pensioners, the sum pald out reached the record-breaking figure of $166,806,537. In ten years, there- fore, the annual pension charge has fallen over $19,000,000, and it is fair to presume that the influences which have contributed to this decline will continue to operats dur- ing the next decade. Agent Cralg, who was killed in the Pitts- fleld accident, once gave fencing lessons in Chicopee, according to the Springfield | ter, or 42 per cent of the total. The trust out- put of Bessemer and open hearth steel in- gots and castings was §,860,584 tons, which was 66.3 per cent of the production'in 1901. Ot a total of 12,849,327 tons of rolled product, the Steel trust manufactured 50.1 per cent, while it manufactured 65.8 per cent of the wire nails, It is thus apparent that the United States Steel corporation {s much less formidable than some of its. critics, would Lave the public beliove. It is true that the fron and steel business is more active than at any former time in the history of the country and that the real test of strength between the big corporation and the inde- pendent organizations cannot be felt until a period of depression sets in, But is It Dpot reasonable to expect that the outside companies, with their more modern plants, will be thoroughly able to hold thelr own n competition with the United States Steel corporation if it is ever necessary to start a flerce fighw? It s worth bearing in mind that the Steel trust is doing all it | can through holding down prices to prevent such a struggle. SMILING LINES, Philadelphia Prey ou_officeholders," sneered the man who was valnly trying to be, one, “don’t die very often, do you?" “No," replled the man who was one, as he ‘smiled benignly, “‘only once.” Chicago Post: “Has your husband any lMterary abilit “Has he! Well, you just ought to hear the fairy stories’ he tells me the nights hen 1"ask him what kept him ou! ate. Cleveland Plain Dealer: managing editor?’ “V&‘ell 1 wish you'd kindly add my name to .the ilst of those who cannot settle the coal strike." “Is this the Boston Transcript: Foozle—Didn't know I played golf? That's funny. Why, you've seen me in town many & time with & bag of_sticks, Niblick—Yes, but I thought, perhaps, you were & caddle, you know. Washington Star: “Remember,” sald the earnest man, “that wisdom Is more to ve prized than riches.’ “Maybe it fs,” answered the skeptic, “but I can't help wondering why it is, if that is the case, a man can g0 and buy a book full of proverbs for 1 cents.’ Cleveland Plain Dealer: - “Yes, I always do my thinking when 1 walk. Uits a pity you guve It up. “Gave up what?' “Walking." Washington Star: “Which do you pre- horses or automoblles?"’ “Horses. With them . you lose your money, but with the automobiles you're liable to lose your Ilh Chicago Tribune: “What is that sayin about tool IUY & cllent?’ ving “I give it up,'" sdld the man who had been in law, “but I fancy it's to the eftect that every client s & fool because ‘a fool and his money are soon parted.’ Somerville Journal: Wiggles—It that the suit that you got made to order for $157 Waggles—Yes. How do yoa like 1t? 1t hn & great advertise- Y SHAFTOE, Esmeralda Boyle In United States Magagine. In days of yore in Baby lore ‘nl‘l‘he lore of A, B, €3’ - ere runs a tale of Bhatt Across the boundiess sea. o ® YOTSEe His love was t were blue ‘pauli His bright locks In (ho "II::DM He salled away one su HHh heart was light 'I?dm.rn e wore a seaman's blouse, ' And buckies at the knee. U s, The waters lau hed about TR A sbout the cratt nd ran lanced, and upwar As though they might be I’1 4 e, They leaped in sport toward Whereat he stood ful fair 0° Port Thet hultenln’ tg the sandy shore, 'wo white feet there.’ With upraised hand, Witn irtle. red. and whita, e S04 Republican, and exhibited a sword of scimeter shape that he took trom a dervish and he had supposed it of true Oriental make. The name “Chicopee” on the blade was Orfental for apything he knew. He learned the facts, of course, when he came to Chicopee. The sword was one of the lot the Ames people had made for the Turkish government sixty years ago. And watched him sall more, in earl .n that Sallor oy ufil of 'Ill he llfl Blythe Bobby Shaftoe's sweeth: trom sight 4 His sorrow or Hig ship, one day, nlh‘ awer AL striicing a'"n dome peis, eved selarn 'fl;u only history " tella. S—————