Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1902, Page 4

HE OMAHA DAl LY BEE: MONDAY, EPTEMBER 15, 1502, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE { E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF Daily Bee (without 8 SCRIPTION y), Une Year..$1.00| Year S| 1w L Saturday HBee, r s Cwenticth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER ut Sunday), per coy | per week. .. 14c per week. . lic| Sundiy), per week 6 per | 10c Complaints of irregularities In’ delivery should be addressed to Clty Circulation De- partment. pe Kvening Bee (withou Evening Bee (Including Sunday), OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Building. N South Omaha—( Hall Bullding, Twen- arl Street, 2 York—i2% Park Row Building Waghington—iul Fourteenth Street CORR CE. Communications relating to news and edi- torlal mattér should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorisl Department BUSINESS L Dusiness letters and rem be address e Bee | pany, Omaha, 8, ances shoald hing Com- CES. Remit by draft, express or postal erder, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of malfl accounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nabraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Compuny, being duly sworm, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of August, 102, was as follows: 26,720 16 88,770 17 28,638 1§ 19, ESERNRREERES Total Bissssoannne s unsold and returned coples. Net total sales Net dally average. EO. B, UCK. Subscribed in D'?nco and sworn_to before me this tfl'fl-y o lefiuwu. A. D, M. B.h UNGATE, 1802, (Seal.) Notary Publle. ———————— That packers’ combine had better not be too hoggish. The corn crop sometimes has a nine- lived career, too. Mercer may be able to buy off some candidates, but he cannot buy off all the republicun voters. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson takes it all back, and admits that Nebraska Is in the corn belt. emmT——es——— Mercer has worked the business inter- est racket for five terms In congress, but it won't work any more, Sttty ‘The afmtial by-play over the proposal to purchase guns for the High school gadet battalion is about due. The advance agent of the meat-pack- ers’ combine seems to have gotten quite a distance ahead of the show. If many more democratic state con- ventlons “stake down silver,” &olonel Bryan will begin referring to “the crime of 1902.” E——— Prices of bottles have been put up 10 per cent by the Indlana factories. Prices of bottled goods, however, remain as yet unchanged. Those business men's juries are still on the tapis, but the business man with- out an excuse to offer to get out of serv- ing will be a rarity. Wonder if a member of the Commoner staff was put on the democratic ticket in Lancaster county to hold that paper in line for the nominees. Unless & brake is put on the deadly automobile we are likely to be disap- pointed over the figures of population growth disclosed by the next census, It is announced that Prince Henry may return to the United States next spring. Speak early, for front places at the free distribution of decorative souve- nirs, “Oolonist excursions® is now the polite term for what were formerly ecalled homeseekers’ tours, The name makes no difference so long they bring set- tlers to the west. ' A Chicago woman proclaims her abil- ity to cure dogs by Christian sclence treatment. If the system can be extend- ed to quieting cats on their midnight peregrinations, its eficacy will be be- yond dispute. Pennsylvania people appear to be un- able to make up their minds whether convening thelr legislatures In extra ses- slon to tackle the coal strike problem would relieve them of their troubles or simply add to them. e si—-—1 Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, but it takes something more sub- stantial to soothe the civilized man. That explains wby the auditorium directory proposes to merge a dinner with their meetings to make sure of the attendaunce of & quorum. Empee———— Councfl Bluffs is doubtless disappoint- ed over its fallure to prevall on Presi- dent Roosevelt to stop off in that city, but there is pothing to prevent Council Bluffs people coming over to Omaba and TIME FOR PLAIN TALK, Labor strikes are nothing more nor less than industrial wars, which carry in their train all the horrors of a des- perate life and death struggle. In this respect the strike of the Unlon Pacific shop men does not differ materially from all similar conflicts between working men and their employers. Nearly every strike in which large nambers of work- ingmen are engaged Is accompanied by turbulence and bloody encounters be- tween the strikers and the men who have taken their places, and frequently between sympathizing union workmen and nonunion workmen. The fray in which a nonunion machinist imported by the Union Pacitic from Chi- cago lost his life in a shocking and de- plorable but by no means an exceptionul incident. Up to this time The Bee bas re- frained from discussing the merits of the Unlon Pacific strike, but the time has now arrived for a little plain talk. With the internal management of the affairs of the Union Pacific the public has no concern, and nobody In the com- munity has a right to interfere. It is only when the pence and public safety are menaced, or endangered, or when the lives and property of the patrons of the great railroad are put in jeopardy that the state and the community would be justified in entering a remonstrance, or calling a halt. Ordinarily, strikes are precipitated by a demand for higher wages, resistance to wage reduction or a demand for re- dress of grievances, real or imaginary, but in this instance no such condi- tion existed. In reality, the so-called strike of the Unlon Pacific machinists and Dboiler makers is not a strike, but a lockout. Up to the time when Prest dent Burt issued his mandate, substi- tuting plece work for day work, there was not the slightest disposition on the part of the men to guit their jobs. Mr. Burt's piece work edict was practically an order for every member of the ma- chinists’ and boiler makers’ union to cut loose from the union or leave the com: pany’s employ. In other words, it was a declaration of war against the ma- chinists’ and blacksmiths’ ynion, Mr. Burt knew that under the rules of the international union its members are prohibited from doing plece work, and his order was nothing more nor less than a dellberate effort to break up the machinists’ and boller makers' union, Mr. Burt certainly must have known that the motto of trades unions Is “An injury to ome is an injury to all” In attempting to destroy the blacksmiths’ and machinists' unlons at one blow Mr. Burt also siruck a blow at every trades union in the land and assumed respon- sibility for all the natural consequences, including destitution by starvation, as- saults and bloody riots just the same as the ruler of any country who de- clares war against another country as- sumes the responsibilities of all its ter- We pledge him our personal devotion.” [ This volces the general sentiment of western republicans toward Mr. Roose- velt. At a conference of leading New York republicans on Saturday It was decided unanimously that it was not only wise to endorse the administration, but to en- dorse Mr. Roosevelt for 1004, While there is said to be no precedent for such a course in that state, it is yet highly probable that the convention will accept the decision of the leaders who were present at the conference and declare in favor of the nomination of the presi- dent two years hence. In that event there will be vey little doubt as to who will be the republican candidate for president two years hence, if Indeed there is any at present. Nothing ap- pears to be more certain than that the west will be solid for Roosevelt in the next national convention, and it is not apparent that he is likely to meet with opposition anywhere. He is at this time exceedingly strong with the republicans of the entire country, who not only ad- mire his sterling qualities and great abil- itles, but regard him as the logical can- didate for 1904, INTERNATIONAL COMBINATION. In his speech before the Utah repub- lican convention, Semator Beveridge of Indiana urged that removal of the tariff would not destroy trusts, but would merely create international trusts. He held that American, English and Ger- man trusts would combine instead of comipete, and said that “until American industries shall dominate the industries of the rest of the world; until the Uni- ted States becomes the permanent bank- ing house of nations; until we have grown so great that we are the con- trolling Influence in international com- mercial policy, American trusts are bet- ter for us than international trusts.” It should be borne in mind that there are industrial combinations in Germeny and England and that the tendency abroad in this direction Is very strong. Recently there has been organized in Germany a trust which includes all of the coal, iron, steel, wire, sheet metal, girders and structural iron manufactur- ers and interests in the empire—a trust compared with which the United States steel corporation Is a cheap affair. This German combination s based upon an agreement that its members shall con- tribute to, pay to such members as ex- port their products a bonus equal to the difference between the current price of the merchandise in the German mar- kets and the price actually obtained for it abroad. The organization of this trust was largely with a view of meeting the encroachments of American manufactur- ers. In England the tendency toward combination was never so strong as at present. The report of Mr. Bell, a Brit- ish commercial agent, on industrial con- ditions in this country, has aroused the interest of English manufacturers to an rible consequences. Whether Mr. Burt is acting on his own motion or under orders from higher authority is problematic, as is also the generally accepted opinion that the lock- out of the machinists and boiler mak- ers was part of a plan to get rid of all the old men In the shops without any apparent design for such cruelty, Pub- lic opinion in this regard may be ground- less, but it {s nevertheless supported by the fact that the men locked out by Mr. Burt's edict were pald off with checks that canceled all obligations of every nature the company may have assumed to each individual. Men who had been maimed in the company's service, men who had lost an eye, a foot, or part of their hand, were compelled to sign away all the privileges that had been granted them or claims they might have had by reason of injuries, and all the obli- gations the company may have assumed toward them. Mr. Burt insists that the change from day's work to plece work 1s in the inter- est of the workingmen, but it is pass- ing strange that he has not been able to convince the workingmen that it is thelr interest rather than the company's interest. People who are mot famillar with the intricate questions Involved would naturally ask themselves how me- chanles who bave had an experience of more than thirty years with day work should be so oblivious to their own in- terests if by changing to plece work they could better their condition. To the community at large the priva- tion to which several hundred old citi- zéns, who have erected homes in this city, who have raised families in this city, and who have contributed to the upbuilding of this city, have been sub- Jjected without provocation, Mr. Burt's policy certainly cannot commend itself. It is equivalent almost to an order of expulsion and extermination since Mr. Burt has declared positively that he will not recede nor arbitrate, not accept any suggestions that would lead to a har- monlous settlement of the difficulty be- tween himself and the company's em- ployes who are locked out. S—————— PLEDG. 0 ROUSEVELY. Not only has every republican state convention endorsed the administration in strong and unqualified terms, but a number of them have declared in favor of the nomination of President Roose- velt in 1004. The conventions that have done this are those of Kansas, lowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Del- aware, California, Idaho, Washington, Colorado and Utah. The latest of these conventions, that of Utah, thus refers to the president in its platform: “In Theodore Roosevelt we recoguize his worthy successor. We do declare our loyalty to him and our unqualified approval of nis administra- tion. He has met the many problems jolning in the reception to the president on this side of the river. CmEr—— Paving work that should have been completed, much less started, by this time is still engaging the attention of the counell. One of the crylng needs of Omaba which the coming legislature should heed s the demand for a revision of the laws relating to paving petitions, assessments and coutracts, that have confronted the country with splendid courage and statesmanship. He has, by his generous and fearless advo- cacy and support of western interests and weasures, justly earned the grati- tude of the great west. He possesses that rare combination of qualities, cour- age, tact, scholarship, loyalty to princi- ple, clvic and personal honesty, united with profound statesmanship, that wakes bim the ideal Awerican president, extraordinary degree. British newspa- pers urge that England must completely modernize, upon American models so far as these are applicable, her whole industrial system, so that she can be in position to meet the tremendous com- petition which is surely to come from America for the command of the for- eign markets. This means that there must be industrial combination there as here and in spite of the conservative character of British manufacturers they will undoubtedly come to this. The removal of the tariff would open our market to the foreign combinations, with certain disaster to Individual manu- facturers, and there would come a bat- tle between the American and the. for- elgn trusts. There cannot be a reason- able doubt that this would result, at least In many cases, in international combinations and the creation of abso- lute monopolies. We should then have presented a far more difficult problem than at present, for not only would com- petition be completely throttled and ren- dered practically impossible, but we could not deal with international trusts a8 we may do with those exclusively domestic. Under existing conditions there 18 competition, and it 1s largely successful. Nearly 60 per cent of the iron and steel manufactures of the coun- try, for example, are by individual or independent companies. The democratic proposition would destroy most or all of these companies and open the way to international combinations and world- ‘wide monopoly. MERCER AND THE WOKKINGMEN. David H. Mercer pretends to be a friend of the workingmen and looks to them for assistance In his quest for a sixth term in congress. But how has Mercer ever shown his friendship for the workingma As chairman of the public buildings committee, our non- resident congressman claims speclal ownership in all measures appropriat- ing money for the erection of public buildings. He poses the inventor of the omnibus bill, as applied to the dis- tribution of public bullding pork, and boasts that his position as chief dis- tributer of this patronage enables him to get anything In congress that he chooses to go after. When has he used this powerful lever to go after anything for the workingman? Has he not, on the contrary, ignored the interests of labor where he might have promoted them most? . The principal point in the labor pro- gram io this country is the adoption of a uniform eight-hour working day. Mr. Mercer's omnibus bill carried appro- priations of $17,000,000, of which two- thirds, or nearly $12,000,000, is to be spent in the erection of public bulldings. How easy it would have been for con- gress, if Mr. Mercer had insisted upon it, to have inserted a provision in this bill stipulating for the eight-hour work ing day in all public bullding contracts. A few lines added would have done, but the workingman will seek in vain for anything in Mercer's omnibus bill re- quiring an eight-hour day, or, for that matter, safeguarding the interests of labor in any manuer. It is true that a separate bill is pend ing in congress establishing the eight- | bour duy for wll work o govesawent contracts, but there has been opposition to it, particularly from the shipyards, who argue that they must compete with foreign shipyards and would be at a disadvantage if limited to eight hours a day. But there is no foreign competi- tion in the construction of public build- ings and no reason whatever to prevent the enforcement of the eight-hour day on publie building contractors. Inspection of Mr. Mercer's omnibus bill discloses the fact, however, that he has carefully safeguarded the real es- tate dealers and agents of public build- ing sites in their real estate deals with the government; that he has carefully stipulated for the remission of ligui- dated damages for delay when the con- tractors fail to come under their time limits, but not a word for the benefit of the workingman. With Mr. Mercer it is everything for the real estate specu- lator and the building contractor, but nothing for the workingman. Is this the kind of friend workingmen of this district want to keep in congress? What good can come to them in holding him in a committee chairmauship to be used in logrolling raflrond rights-of-way, fat mail contracts and big bills for transporting troops for the railroad cor- porations, but nothing for the working- man? Why should the workingmen of this district send a man to congress to pull chestnuts out of the fire for District of Columbia real estate speculators and turn a deaf ear to their just demands? Does Mercer take the workingmen for chumps, or does he think he can keep on buncoing them forever? An attempt will be made by the police to repress all sorts of uncouth behavior at the coming Ak-Sar-Ben carnival. The chief incentive to ruffianism unquestion- ably lies in the throwing of confetti, against which The Bee has repeatedly entered protest as a dangerous and un- necessary form of hilarity. It is given out that confetti-throwing will be per- mitted only inside the street fair grounds, but it is just as dangerous and objectionable there as it would be out- side of those limits. A year ago the plea for just once more was made on the ground that money had already been in- vested in a supply of colored paper and that to forbid its sale would entail hard- ship on the dealers and the bars were let down with the express promise that that should be the last of it. It ought to be the last of it. — Now that there is a somewhat pan- icky feeling in financial circles, the value of a treasury surplus can be appreciated. The secretary of the treasury has am- ple currency resources which can be used In & variety of ways to relieve the situation. If there were now a deficit instead of a surplus, and if the treasury were hard put to it to meet its own obligations, as it was in Cleveland's days, there would be real peril. An ex- cessive treasury surplus is of course an evil, but it Is not ®o great an evil as a treasury deficit. Only a little more than haif of the leg- islative candidates have been nominated in Nebraska by the respective political parties, leaving the others to be named within the next three weeks. The Bee wants to reiterate its words of caution to republicans throughout the state o look well to the qualifications of their legislative nominees. The coming legis- lature will be expected to grapple with measures of vital concern to Nebraska's future welfare and progress and safe, honest and far-seeing law-makers will be in demand. Do the republicans of the Second Ne- braska district want to be represented in congress by a pald commerclal agent who is identified by residence and by property interests with the district of Co- lumbia, or do they want to be repre- sented In congress by a man who makes his home in Omaha and Intends to live in Omaba and share Its fortunes, come what may? If the value of that chalrmanship were 80 great and Mercer so indispensable in it as Mercer's champions would have us belleve, how is it Mercer was so anxious to throw it aside when he imagined two years ago that he saw a chance to jump into the United States senate? Was the chairmanship less valuable then or is Mercer more Indispensable now ? ————— No danger that we will not have our full quota of foreign prodigies tour- ing the United States this winter on concert stage and lecture platform. Our reputation for being easy mondy is too well established abroad. em—————— There'll Be a Hot Time. Philadelphla Record. There will be some fun in the Orient soon. Fighting Bob Evans will assume command of the Asiatic squadron some time in Oc- tober. Some Effort in Line. Baltimore American. Mr. Bryan wants to know if it would not stop horse stealing to imprison all the horsethleves. We believe such an effort is constantly being made. Sure Enough New, Atlanta Constitution. There Is something sure enough new un- der the sun. Senator Teller now says he al- ways has been a democrat, except on the slavery issue and, perhaps, the Jonah and whale puzzle. Hard Coal Substitutes. Chicago Chronicle. It is to be hoped that some of the ex- periments upon substitutes for hard coal— soft coal and coke, Texas oil, Admiral Some body's coal dust bricks or something else —will prove successful. If the anthracite output should be reduced 50 per cent or more in consequence no t harm would be done except to mowopolists upon whom we ueed not squander sympathy. Cradijng Intant Movements. Boston Transcript Faneull ball was the cradle of liberty some century and a quarter ago and it bas been the cradle of & good many Infant movements since. Fortunately for the country, most of these children have not survived long afer being forced into the protecting walls of the cradle. It takes more than b unding rhetoric and a ric ball to make & proposition practi- vl SAVAGE'S LAST KICK, Hildreth Telescope: Rosewater and Sav- age should be suppressed. There is work enough ahead fighting the common enemy without scrapping within our own ranks Fremont Tribune: Mr. Rosewater prom- ises another reply to Governor Savage's latest. Isn't it about time for the Humane soclety to butt in and put an end to this brutal business? Hardy Herald: Governor Savage and the wily editor of The Omaha Bee are hav- ing a war of words that will hardly repay the effort. People over the state expect The Bee's apology in campaigns and pay little or no heed to it. Calaway Tribune: Governor Savage calls Rosey a d—n fool, Rosey calls Savage & llar, thief and a general all around scoun- drel. We for one would like to know how Ezra got possession of that treas- urer's note, Who stole it? Beatrice Sun: In closing his letter to Mr. Rosewater Governor Savage says that he is done with letter-writing, and that it Rosey bothers him any more he will simply take it out of his hide. There is nothing diplomatic about that sort of language. Norfolk News: Governor Savage has taken another slash at his antagonist and the return mancuver from the editor of The Bee is anxiously awaited by a reading public that delights in the polite billings- gate being employed on both sides North Platte Tribune: Governor Savage has indicted another letter to Editor Rose- water, and the latter promises to make one of his characteristic replies. The gov- ernor and the editor have evidently a long letter-writing campaign ahead of them. Dakota City Eagle: Governor Savage has told how he was offered money to name certaln men to the Omaha police commis- sion. He says the bid was $7,500, but that $20 gold pleces could not be piled up high enough to do the business. Strange, but how high was the pile offered on the Bart- ley pardon? York Times: Governor Savage intimates that when he is out of office he will adjust his differences with Editor Rosewater, It would have been just as well if he had thought of that before he entered the arena with the elusive bull of Bashan. A governor must necessarily forego some of his digaity when he goes into a bullfight. Dakota City Eagle: Strange as It may appear that every time Governor Savage opens his mouth he gets his foot in it. His relgn In office has been one contimuous blunder. By the time his term expires and The Omaha Bee gets through showing him up in his true light there will not be enough left of his political corpse to skin. South Omaha Independent: Governor Sa: age has partly opemed that ‘“mysteriou clgar box tormerly owned by Defaulter Bart- ley. Judging from the artistic manner in which Editor Rosewater handled the exposed portion of that cigar box in The Bee last Sunday leads us to believe that the governor will withhold what other “mysterious” con- tents that wonderful box may contain. | North Platte Tribune: If tho historic and frequenily referred o “cigar box” ai Lincoln contains such great secrets that it can be used to hush up the mouths of certain ones, it is time that Governor Sav- age turn the box open to the public gazo, let the result be what it may. If there 1s a skeleton in the closet it might be best for the party and the state that it be exposed. Blue Springs Sentinel: That was a bril- liant closing sentence of the governor's in his Sunday’s letter informing Mr. Rosewater that if there was any mere of it he would settle with him after stepping out of the governor's chalr. Say, Savage. Draw a mental picture of how your long, bony, six teet of stature will loo® when you go after Rosewater. People once in a while make mighty blg mistakes. Sidney Republican: Governor Savage has busled himself recently making some in- sinuations about Rosewater's connection with some shady deals, and now the little editor of The Bee gets after his excellency in real style. He has no terrors for Mr. Rosewater and every time he monkeys with the buzzsaw he wili get worsted. The gov- ernor is small potatoes, few in a hill, and has got discounted by his party and the people in general. Nobody pays any atten- tion to what he says and cares less. Scotts Bluft Republican: As we predicted a couple of weeks ago, Savage has let his mouth run around loose, until Rosewater bas him just where he wants him. Last Sunday's Bee went after Savage in a man- ner that must make him feel like 30 cents on circus day. If the governor has any- thing to prove that Rosewater has in any way defrauded the etate, he is gulity of gross negligence in office in not having him prosecuted. On the other hand if he has not got the evidence, he has made a “damfool” of himself. Columbus Telegram: After the threa made by Governor Savage as to what he would do in the matter of exposing Edward Rosewater, the public had a right to believe that Ezra would fish up something astound- ing out of that famous cigar box. But he aidn’t. His promised sensation was no sen- sation at all. He simply made an ass of himselt and gave Rosewater new opportun- ity to hurl his harpoon into the Savage belly. The result of tho Savage-Rosewater controversy, summed up, does no harm to Rosewater, but firmly establishes Savage in the ranks of the nincompoops. Syracuse Journal: The Rosewater-Savage controversy continues. Governor Savage closes his last loving epistle with the atate- ment that when he retires from official life he will “balance differences fully” with Mr. Rosewater. The Bee still insists that the governor should open that cigar box 1id and expose the contents to the public gaze. “Lay on, McDuff, and damned be he who first cries hold: enough,” about voices the sentiment of the people of the state. There is @& large-sized nigger in some- body's wood pile, and whetber Rosey's or the governor's, the people want him routed out. Kearney Hub: Governor Savage has re- plied to Edward Rosewater's open letter and has produced & very warm roast, but that s all that can be sald of it. He re- iterates some charges against the Omaha editor and makes some new ones, but does not offer any of the proof that he was going to produce, or in other words to flash those cards that he had “up his sleeve.” The letter concludes with the statement that he will pay no further at- {tention to Rosewater, but will attend strictly to' the business of his office, but | it further attacked he will find a way to | settle all scores after his term as a public officlal has expired. This may be con- strued as a threat, but threats don't go, or it may be @ bluff, or it way not mean any- thing at all. Grand Island Independent: A week ago yesterday Editor Rosewater made a stren- uous denial, and suppcrted it by the evi- | dence of Genmeral McBride that he had i never borrowed a dollar of the state funds, as Governor Savage had charged. Yester- | day Governor Savage, through the State Journal issued another letter, in which he tails to disprove that evidence, but charges that Rosewater borrowed from a bank years 2g0 and has failed to pay. Mr. Rosewater announces that he will answer this charge in due time. Governor Savage has so far | tailed to make any showing whatever as |to the man who attempted to bribe bim | in the matter of the Omaha Fire and Po- and Ilkewise as te th: lice commissions L Great secrets the Rlstoric clgar box ls sald to contain and which he sald he would ex- pose. It would perhaps be well for the future of the republican party, were Sav- age to close his administration with a cleansing up of the whole stink, 50 that it could be permanently disposed of and buried beyond reach St. Paul Republican: Whether the note which Governor Savage holds s genuine or not, its history certainly Is not such as to make it a very reliable pieco of evidence. it seems that it has been held for years by men who feared an attack from Rosewater as a club to be used in self-defense. It has not been presented for payment and one of the men who held it stated that he would not part with it for several times its face value. It is for a small sum, enly $150, and it toes not appear probable that such a debt could have been outstanding against a man of Rosewater's prominence for twenty-five years without some effort being made to col- lect it. Savage stands self-convicted of an attempt to silence criticlsm by threats that this note would be produced, until Rose- water gamely called the bluff. Hence the governor s in a bad hole to start with, hav- ing forfeited public respect by attempting to bribe a newspaper. He adds no dignity to his position by bringing several foreign matters into the discussion, such as loans Rosewater negotiated with banks and liti- gation in which he has been involved over their payment. He fails dismally to redeem his promise of taking the 1id off the Bart- ley clgar box, although defied by Rosewater to do so, thus confessing himselt to be a bluffer as well as a bully. Savage has gone the full length in disgracing the office to which he was elevated by a political accl- dent. No matter how irregular any of Rose- water's transactfons may have been, the manner in which this little McBride mote has been suppressed for years only to be ex- posed now as & punishment for legitimate newspaper criticlsm of official proceedings is contemptible, cowardly and reprehensible. It it 1s the most conclusive evidence that can be produced against the man it were better to file it away carefully once more in that “mooted” cigar box, along With the other skeletons of former days. Rosey has shown himself able to take care of himselt in a set-to of this nature on former occa- sions and we look for him to come out on top this time. If he neglects not only to clear himself of any wrong doing but fails to Teach a vulnerable point in Ezra’s ele- phantine hide we stall be convinced that the old man's hand has lost its cunning and that his brain no longer performs its ac- customed work. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. the Current of Life the Metropolis. A great many boys are fairly happy and manage to thrive if they are favored with pocket money for Fourth of July and Christ- mas time. Still others require and secure all kinds of money at any old time. It all de- pends on the size of the family purse or whother the youth was born with & golden spoon or nome at all. Francis Marion Whaley is a New York kid of 14, unusually advanced, physically and mentally, for his vears, being six feet tall and in Harvard's preparatory echool. A fortune of $500,000 18 held in trust for him. For some time past his allowance has been $7,000 a year, but it was insufficient to moet his wants and the courts advanced his stipend to $10,- 000 a year. Beside he was allowed to blow $100 for a watch and $350 for a horse. Mr. Whaley knows a good thing and is not elow in pushing it. Ripples on in The real estate men of New York an- nounce a surprising state of things, and that s & scarcity of the very best apart- | ments for familles of large means. Nothing could more thoroughly show the recent in- crease in a certain class of population than this statement of fact. The formation of so many great combina- tions with their headquarters in New York has called here a large number of rich men and others who are in possession of big salaries, Many of these men are not reads to buy homes, while some, like Mr. Schwab, must walt to bulld. As a result, apart- ments that rent up into the thousands are in demand. One {mmense building on the upper West Side, containing over fifty apartments and occupying one frontage of an entire block, disposed of three-quarters of its space on lease long before the building was com- pleted. It has, you may be s 1l the usual modern luxuries and has also in addi- tion & large automobile storage and charg- ing room in the basement. . The landlord does his share of charging on the rent. When one enters the station at Oyster Bay, relates the New York Sun, he always notices the old hack and its veteran driver, “Jake White.” The rig s an old, dilapidated surrey which even J. Plerpont Morgan or any other great man couldn’t buy. The owner ¢f the ancient vehizle has con- stituted himself President Roosevelt's “hackman.” For the past forty years Oyster Bay has known these two almost Inseparable fig- ures. They are the first objects that meet the | eve of the visitor upon arriving ut the bay and the last things seen on departing. And this veteran jehu's vehicle is the one always chosen by the president to take him to Sagamore Hill when his own pri- vate carriage falls to meet him. A story is now golng the rounds of how a self-sufficient city chap, ignorant of local importance, ventured to criticise his rig and as it turned out to his ultimate discomfort. When he entered the carriage and was | about to be seated, he jumped up and ex- clalmed in a dlsgusted tome: “Say, old mam, do you ever dust ark?" Jake grew very angry, jumped up and pointed impressively to the dusty seat. “Do you see that air seat?’ he asked. “Well, you feller, the president of these United States has sot dah time and time again. “Seems to me if it's good emough for him it might be good emough for eich as you. “Then he jumps in back there an’ says to me: | ‘Jake, day aln't mo onme can drive a hack like you. Just take me up the hill' | “An’ he don’t call it an ark, neither, but | when he gets up dah he says to me “ ‘How much 1s It, ‘Ot course 1 allers say ‘one and a half, | Mr. President.’ ““That's not near esough,’' says he. “You'll never get rich, Jake,' and he allers gives me a $5 bill i “By the way Il cost you $5 to ride around the corner {n the president's hack." this | Miranda, a timorous epinster. who Las reached @ “certain age,” has nelther broth- ors mor beaus, reports the Evening Post In Meu of more capable and competent protection, when she goes abroad In the eveniug It is under the convoy of ® messenger boy. She has complained that by some inexplicable law of chance, when- ever the has flowers or notes to be de- livered, her cail i invariably answered by husky youths strong enough to handle & trunk, but when she desires an escort or some ope to carry a heavy bag to the rail- roud station a tiny scrap of am urchin pre- | sents himself at her door Returning from a theater vue aight this | week with a diminutive specimen, rhe was | compelled 1o stand on a street corner walt- | eaid as much. sured her t's all right, iady. Nobody ever speaks to anybody when anybody sees anybody is with a messenger boy.' Her hired champlon reas- Official statistics of school registration of Greater New York, given out by the Board ot Education, show $34,000 puplls in Man- hattan, 162,000 in Brooklyn and 89,000 i Bronx, a total of 485,000 in thres of the five boroughs of the city. This is an in. crease of 36,000 over last year. The num- ber of children on part time, a comdition due to overcrowding, Is g'ven as 60,000, an Increase of 15,000 over last year. The number actually refused admission ia however, very small. The number ad- mitted to halt day classes is, however, se large as to constitute & very grave cause o public distress. PERSONAL NOTES. General Coxey of ragged ariny fame is no longer chasing the octopus; he is busy training one. A Massachusetts man sent the King ot England some verses on appendicitis, and the king has sent him a Jetter of thanks for them. That is carrying kindness oo far. Hon. Johu D Henderson of New York will deliver the address at the dedication of the Thirty-fourth New York regiment mon- ument on the Antletam battlefield on Sep- tember 17 Captain James R. Mullins of Detroit makes a good living capturing sea lions. He gets most of them on the coast of Mex ico and Southern California. He has just returned from Europe, where be disposed of torty. A recently published pamphlet recalls the old dispute of two friends as to whether the word “news’ was singular or plural. They telegraphed to Mr. Greeley the question: “Are there any news?’ and he promptly flashed back the answer: “Not a new." Captain John R. M. Taylor, Fourteenth fu- fantry, now attached to the bureau of in- sular affalrs of the War department, has been detailed to write the military history of the United States for the last six years, including an account of the Cuban imsurrec- tion of 1896. A man in public life noted for his brusque- ness of speech was under informal discus- sion in cabinet circles. “There's one thing to be sald In his favor, however,” sald Sec< retary Wilson, “and that is he never im- portunes the department to get promotlons or positions for his friends.” “That's read- ily explained,” commented Secretary Root, “‘He hasn't any.” After his retirement from the post of am- bassador at Berlin Andrew D. White will settle in Ithaca, N. Y. He Is now at work on @ book of reminiscences at Berlin in 1879-81, as minister ut St. Petersburg in 1892-94 and as ambassador to Germany from 1897 to his retirement in November next. He is also at work on a volume describing the new Germany of the last decade, which has grown from an agricultural to a big industrial power. His personal remin- lecences will aleo contain much interesting biographical and anecdotal material relat- ing to Mr. White’s personal relations with Emperor William. Blackburn's Gold Brick. South Omaha Independent. The mercorized goods so popular with the fastidious woman of today should mot be confounded with the imitation that Tom Blackburn is trying to make popular with the voters of the Second congressional dis- triot. ———— LAUGHING GAS. Detrolt Free Preas: 'You sald he was & ssional musicla P ol T endeavored to intimate that he professed to be a musiclan. Yonkers Herald: Brown—1 understand the German emperor says he will never con- sent to his £on entering into a morganatio marrlage, i Jones—Great Scott, man! Has Morgan got a corner on royal engagements, t00? “These shoes,” she candor for a woman, e awfull t. 0 wond he replied gallantly. “If I were in their place 1'd be intoxicated, too. Philadelphia Pres: 1d, with unus i The kind of work you have been doing lately,” sald the doctor, Severely, “threatens o overtax your heart YTo hvertax it?’ grinned the professor. wyetl, T Suppose you'll “fix’ 1t for me for & little money, won't you? Chicago Tribune: gard trusts 1 Washington Star: ‘‘So you as positively beneficial? “[46," answered Senator Sorghum, positive knowledge on the sul o th Sheak Miey Rave benented me {mmensely ject. They Baltimore Americai “Have you any articles of value with you?"" asked the cus- nspector. m-'-'x'i'o't'm'n;," answered the returning traveler, “except a wealthy grass widow, whom 1'expect to marry as soon as I land “Well,” mused the {nspector, rubbins his chin thoughtfully, "I guess you can take her through, Seecms to me she wiil come under the ciassification of baled hay, and that 1s free.” Detrolt Free Press 1l engagements, don't you, dear? happy and accepted lover. Hfhort engagements have always been my rule, darling, " replied she. And even then he did not scem happy. Chicago Post: “Alas, alas,” he crled, “it only my three girls had been boys."” In truth, he was in sore trouble, with three young men thrumming three banjos and singing three _different love songs der three windows at one and the sam You believa {n chort " asked the might as well be a victim of Insomnia he walled. PLOWBOY OF THE WENI Charles M. Harger in Leslie's Weekly. 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