Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DATLY BEE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 190 -—_——_——— e 'I‘m; OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f:lly Bee (without Sunda .;}ne Year.. W liy Hee ana Sunday, Une liustrated lee, One Xear unday pee, Unie Year. uturday Bee, Une Year. wentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. aily Bee (without Sunday), per week.. 1ic Daliy Bee (inciuding Sunuay), per week Bunaay Bee, per copy ... oc Kveniug fes (without Bunday), per wul o Evening Lee (Including »una.y; Tompiai should be partment. of 'irregularities in’ dressed to Clty Circulation {4 OFFILEB maha—The Bee Buildin, uth Omana-CAy Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Afth and M Streets. Jouncil Blufts—10 Pear] Street. hicago—i6i0 Unity Bullding, ork—232% Park Row Bullding. \shington—1 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and e orial matter should be addressed: Umaha ee, Editoriul Department. * BUSINESS LETTERS. Bus! letters and remittances should ads The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, exprees or postal order, payscie “yl buPP biishing Company: -oent hanges, not aoct HE IEE PLBLXBIU G CUHPA.S STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate ot Neb Douglas County, ss: s £ chucl secretary of Thi Company, being duly sworn, says lhll the actual number of full and complete c‘rkl of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday B printed during the month of August, 1%2, was as foliows: 1 133333 T RIS REBENEREEBRBEESE Total . Less unsold and nlumed coplll Net total sal Wet dally average. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this lst dly nt Ee tember, A. D, 2902 gIUNOATE (Beal) houry Publie. The Baldwin political Iommonva rushing to a head-on collision. ————— Oorn worth 50 cents a bushel may yet prove a cheaper fuel than hard coal. Is It not about time to make it a crim- inal offense to escape from blood- hounds? It is easy enough to see why the rail- roads wanted to own the Omaha police board through the Baldwin-Mercer al- Uance. Trades unlon workingmen of Omabha should keep off the grass on Jefferson square at the peril of being injuncted and incarcerated. It may be necessary yet to require pul- pit orators to subwit thelr manuscript when they are to speak with a president in the audience. —— It can be said for Colonel Bryan that It he does throw brickbats at the Iowa democrats, he keeps out of the state when throwing them, How many members of the school board would run their own private busi- ness the same way they are running the business of the public schools? Government by nonresidents seems to be the new order o. the day. Our revo- lutionary forefathers hit the first vital blow at nonresident government. French naval critics say that Ameri- Jcan warships are too large. Spanish mnaval critics are on record as holding that American gunmery is too accurate, ey The requisition of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing company in support of Our Dave has been received, but the amount of the contribution is only known to Mercer's Pooh-Bah. r————— And every member of the Baldwin- Mercer police board subscribed to a solemn oath that he would not be Influ- enced by political considerations in the discharge of officlal duty. It 1s extremely dangerous, under the injunction of Judge McPherson, to in- sinuate that the lockout of the Union Pacific shopmen, which is ordinarily called a strike or combine, could and should have been settled long ago by arbitration. Judge John M. Cralg, in accepting the democratic nomination for congress in the First lowa district, declares that he is right on all the great issues. Per- baps he means to say that he would rather, in the democratic sense, be right than be congressman. mTT— Possibly ex-Governor Boles may ask the democratic nomination for president on the ground that he s now trylng to undo some of the monetary mischief that he advocated when an aspirant for that honor in 1896. At any rate, that would be the strongest plea he could possibly make for himself. e — If you want to keep out of jall, do not mention it above a whisper that Mr. Burt's plecework mandate to the Union Pacific shopmen is a lockout to force the workingmen either to forswear thelr alleglance to the unlon or to quit work and expose themselves to all the hardships and privation incident. ——— It is gratifying to note in the census returns that among all the states of the union Nebraska continues to head the list for small per cent of literacy. ‘Of its population between the ages of 10 and 14 years 99.66 per cent are returned as able to read and write. Iowa comes mext with 90.63 per cent. The lowest s Louisiana, with 67.12 per cent THE STATES AND THE® TRUSTS. There Is nowhere a disposition to de- prive the states of whatever authority they possess to deal with the trusts. The democratic assumption that this s the purpose of the republican party is absolutely unwarranted. In his refer- ences to the trust problem President R velt has never suggested or intl- mated any desire to restrict the author- ity of the states. ‘No leading republican has done so. The president, In his first message to congress, Rald there is utter lack of uniformity in_the state laws about the large corporations, and, as no state has any exclusive Interest in or power over the acts of the corporations, it has in practice proved impossible to get adequate regulation through state action. This 1s a fact with which everybody is famillar who has given the matter any consideration. The president said that therefore, in the interest of the whole people, the natlon should, “without nterfering with the power of the states in the matter it- self, also assume power of supervision and regulation over all corporations do- ing an interstate business.” He urged that this is especlally trme where the corpo;ltion derives a portion of its wealth from the exiétence of some mo- nopolistic element or tendency in its business. Referring to conditions at the time the national constitution was adopted President Roosevelt said: “At that time it was accepted as a matter of course that the several states were the proper authorities to regulate, so far as was then necessary, the compara- tively insignificant and strictly loecal- 1zed bodies of the day. The conditions are now wholly different, and wholly different action Is called for. I belleve that a law can be framed which will enable the national government to ex- ercise control along the lines above in- dicated, profiting by the experience galped through the passage and ad- ministration of the interstate commerce act. If, however, the judgment of the congress is that It lacks the constitu- tional power to pass such an act, then & constitutional amendment should be submitted to confer the powel There is nothing in this that suggests depriving the states of any of the power now belonging to them for the regula- tion of the great industrial’ combina- tions. Nor has the republican party ever contemplated, as charged by the democrats, any abridgment of the powers of the states in this direction. The proposed amendment to the con- stitution, submitted by the judiclary committee of the house In the Fifty- sixth congress, giving congress power to define, regulate, control, prohibit or dissolve trusts, monopolies or combina- tions, whether existing in the form of corporations or otherwise, there was a clause that “‘the several states may con- tinue to exercise this power in any man- ner npt in conflict with the laws of the United States.” The allegation of the democrats, that the republican proposi- tion to amend the constitution of the United States so as to give congress greater power ‘to deal with the trusts, contemplates an invasion or Infringe- ment of the rights and powers of the ate, is wholly without warrant or justi- fication. e— THE FOREST FIRES, The forest fires in Oregon, Washing- ton, Wyoming and Colorado, which have already destroyed a great deal of prop- erty and many lives and threaten to be yet more disastrous, again call at- tention to the question whether ade- quate precautions are taken to prevent these fearfully destructive visitations. From present indications the fires now raging promise to be the most disastrous in many years. The losses in Oregoun thus far are estimated to exceed a mil- lion dollars, and the destruction in the other states is not less than that amount, but the graver fact is the loss of life, while hundreds of people have been made homeless. The reglons where these fires prevail have for the past sea- son, or indeed for the last two seasons, been remarkably dry, so that there is more than the usual amount of com- bustible matter for the conflagration, which in some localities s beyond con- trol. The Washington authorities are tak- ing active Interest in the matter and have made such grovision as they can to stay the devastation, but it does not appear from the latest advices that much can be done, at least beyond bet- ter protecting the timber on the gov- ernment reservations, ———— PROTECTING GOVEKNMENT EMPLOYES. The civil service commission has taken steps to protect employes of the gov- ernment against persecution and intimi- datlon, well as from political assess- ments. It appears that the commission has recelved a great many complaints of violation of the civil service rules and it proposes, very properly, to put an end to this sort of thing, particularly so far as politics 1s concerned. The law and the regulations are very specifie and clear and all that the commission intends to do is to see that they are ob- served. It has therefore notified the heads of departments that the eivil service rules must be strictly complied with, especially with reference to as- sessments and the actlve participation of federal official In political affairs outside the plain limitations of the rules. The right of government employes to interest themselves in political affairs is not denied, but there is a restriction upon such participation, as, for instance, they may not take an actlve part in po- litical conventions or in thé Qirection of other parts of political machinery. The commission has requested the heads of against intimidation or forced assess- ments. The law should be falthfully ob- served and the civil service commission 18 to be commended for taking steps to have this done. ———— A POLITICAL EMERGENCY. The Mercer-Broatch police commission has resolved to appoint thirty additional policemen to serve temporarily, begin- ning next Saturday, until the erisis has been passed. This action I8 taken under the pretext that an extraordinary emergency has arisen demanding an im- mediate increase in the police force for the maintenance of law and order. In reality, the proposed increase of the police force is a bold and brazen at- tempt to purchase several hundred gullible political - workers with promises of $70-per-month positions, which at best they could hold only for a very brief time. If a real emergency exists, /the thirty additional police appointments should have been made at once, but Broatch, Mercer & Co. could only bunco thirty men by pinning stars to their coats in- stead of four or five hundred men whom they expect to rope in. Therefore the prizes in the police appointment lottery are not to be distributed until the day after the republican primary. That in itself is a dead giveaway and shows that no such emergency exists as is pre- tended by the nompartisan, nonpolitical police commission. The prospect of keeping the thirty new appointees on the pay roll for any length of time Is decidedly slim. The police force as it now exists is very nearly up to its full quota. The police funds are scarcely more than sufficient to pay the men now on the pay roll. Consequently, the additional police appointments will create an overlap in the police fund or thirty of the old policemen will have to be dropped and the new men will take their places. Such work is not only scandalous, but tends to demoralize the whole police force and make it worthless. But that old political desperado, William J. Broatch, will stop at nothing. When he was mayor he enrolled 400 political street sweepers to capture the primaries and paid them out of the city treasury. The tactics adopted by the new reform board are in keeping with this record and only show the more the necessity of home rule. ‘When the people are allowed to select thelr own police commissions and hold them responsible for the abuse of power and usurpation of authority the looting of the city treas- ury for political ends will cease. As a matter of fact, the charter makes the mayor the conservator of the peace, and he 18 justly held responsible for the meintenance of law and order. 1If an emergency for additional police appoint- ments really does exist, the commission should have notified the mayor and re- quested him to appoint the necessary number of special policemen. But that would not serve the purpose of Mercer and Broatch in the present political emergency. TO DISPOSE OF SENATOR TELLKER. The growing prospect of republican success in Colorado carrfes with it the prospect of the compulsory retirement of Senator Teller. It is true that he has been endorsed by both the demo- cratic and the populist conventions sep- arately, but those parties fell apart for | general fusion purposes after having been united for six years. They now have rival state tickets in the fleld and their antagonism reaches out into and necessarily affects politics In the legis- lative districts. Thousands of Colo- rado republicans who allowed them- selves to be swept away by the free silver excitement have long ago returned to thelr old allegiance, satisfied as prac- tical men with prosperity and existing business conditions, and many of them now thoroughly convinced of the mone- tary error on which they left their party. Senator Teller had been a republican on his own statement since 1856, and in office as such since Colorado became a state. He had been in the senate or cabinet since 1876. His spectacular withdrawal from the party in 1896 was based on the sole ground of 16-to-1 silverism. He therefore now puts him- self in direct antagounism to the multi- tudes of republicans already returned or returning to the old party w years ago followed hiwm out of i clally when he declares himself finally and formally to be a democrat. He makes this public declaration, too, in the face of a strong possibility, If not indeed a probability, that the demo- cratic party at its next national con- vention will recede from the monetary position taken in 1806 and 1900. It is a significant fact that the silver republican party even in Colorado has dissolved, the wmore radical elements of it having been absorbed by the demo- cratic and populist parties. With the silver issue fadiug away, and with the evil record the fusionists made in the administration of the state government, the way Is hopefully opening up for the republicans this year to dispose of Sen- ator Teller, the most obstinate and rad- ical champlon of & once dangerous finan clal heresy, and for Colorado to realign itself where it naturally belongs as a republican state. The Unfon Paclfic raflroad pald $46.98 in taxes for the year 1902 on the west half of its bridge, which is assessed at $1,566. Forty-six dollars and ninety- elght cents will pay for the services of about three-fifths of one policeman for the period of one month, and yet At- torney John N. Baldwin insists that the Union Pacific pays its full share of taxes departments to have mnotices posted in all the offices throughout the country under their control setting forth the re- quirements of the law. The propriety this course will not be questioned. @ eivil service law s based upou sound prinelples. It is not designed to prevent federal employes from taking a proper part in political affairs, but it excludes them from “per- nicious activity,” while protecting them for police and fire protection. The Towa equal suffragists are about to hold a state convention and to start a new crusade for a constitutional amendment. This has happened regu- larly for over twenty years. In lowa a constitutional awendment, before |t goes to popular vote, has to be passed by both houses of two successive leg- lslatures. There is nearly always suf- ficlent gallantry to pass a woman suf- frage amendment through one or both houses of one legislature, but it is a dif- ferent matter when it comes to action in the succeediug legislature. The lowa equal suffragists, perennially hopeful, but ever bafiled, are likely to have a strenuous campaign ahead of them. Wanted: Five hundred political ward workers to scour the city at next Friday's republican primaries. Bach worker will be given a guaranty of appoint- ment on the police force when the thirty places for temporary policemen are filled by W. J. Broatch & Company. For further particulars apply to David H. Mercer, Millard hotel, or Tom Black- burn, Paxton block. The amount of subsidiary coin taken from the sub-treasury in New York for use in the west for several months has been 20 per cent greater than during the corresponding period of last year. This Is not alone for use in crop movements, but reflects the growth of gemeral busi- ness and activity In the retall trade throughout the interlor. e If the democratic campaign book is to be believed, the return of prosperity has really been a calamity to working- men and wage-earners. This seems to be the central idea of the elaborate tables compiled to persuade them how evil is their improved condition—ang, in- cidentally, to get them to vote for dem- ocratic candidates. Dave Mercer’s palatial residence, for which bids were taken from Omaba con- tractors two years ago, is still on the stocks, owlng to the advance in wages of carpenters, bricklayers, painters and plumbers, but the plans for this im- aginary structure are open for inspec- tion at Architect Kimball's office in the McCague building. —— The One Thing Needed. Washington Post. It 1s sald that President Palma may bring on a revolution if he vetoes the bill providing for a $35,000,000 loan. Well, a revolution at this particular time might simplity matters wonderfull; Approved at the Ballot Box. Springfleld Republican. The truth is that the president’s trust speeches actually helped the republicans ef Maine, and one nice little demonstration of the fact is that the greatest down east trust regulator, Mr. Littlefleld, ran better tha: any other republican candidate for congress. Things that Might Be Avolded. Chicago Inter Ocean. Despite many apparent drawbacks in the way of labor troubles, the commercial agen- cles report a general increase in industrial activity. The raiiroads find it difficult to handle the business offered them. This is another reason for resreliiug thai Lhere should be any drawbacks, and especially any that might be avolded, The Show of Playing War. Philadelphia North American, Kaiser Wilhelm's charge at the head of | his cavalry was magnificent, but it was not war. If it had been war the kaiser would not have been at the head of his troops; neither would the artillery forces he routed have been firitig theoretical shots. But, as General Corbin remarked with unconscious humor, it was a fine military spectacle. Shortening Distance to the Coast. Boston Transcript, The plan to bore a tunnel seven miles long through the Siérra Nevada mountains at a cost of $14,000,000, in order to shorten by twelve hours the trip over the Central Pacific, is an illustration of the immense resources of our great corporations and the wonderful wealth of our country as a whole. Were it a task proposed by the national government all sorts of complica- tions would follow the Introduction of the proposal into the realm of political dis- cussion, but a board of directors Intrusted with power by thousands of stockholders can order it done, and the work is at once under way. Modern inventions make the task less formidable than was the five- mile cut through the Hoosac tunnel a gen- eration ago, and the loss from accident should also be much lighter. The advan- tages gained by the railroad should be tre- mendous. Not the least important will be the abolition of its forty-two miles of snow- sheds in the mountains. Those Funny Fusionists. Ashland Gazette, One of the funniest things in the present campaign is the attempt of the fusion bosses to make capital out of railroad assess- ments. It occurs to us that we have heard the same sort of a tale before. Did not the windsmiths tell us several years ago that if their party was only put in power they would see that the railroads paid their share of the tax? Did not the popullst ora- tor wax eloquent in assuring the dear people that they would do this very thing? Well, the populists got control of the state in all its branches, legislative, executive and ju- die What did they do? They lowered the rallroad tax. This is a plain matter of history. When the republicans came into power again what did they do? They raised the rallroad assessment. This, too, 18 a matter of history, Now the fusionists come forward bjandly in face of their broken pledges and have the audacity to pose in their old attitude. Now, for sure, they will make the rallroads pay thelr share of the tax. How do we know they will? Do they take the people for ignor- amuses and fools? A TRUE CHILD OF NATURE. Buffalo Bill Tells How it Feels to Be Really Famous. Philadelphia North American. Age cannot wither nor custom stale the frank simplicity of that picturesque son of the primitive west, Buffalo Bill. Civiliza- tion has put no vepeer of hypocrisy upon that frank nature. Colonel Cody is a fine, upstanding man, a picture of masculine pulchritude, the most grandiose figure on horseback that the world can show, and he candidly admits it. He {s famous beyond all other men who walk or ride the earth and he scorns to pretend that he does not know it. False modesty was left out when nature compounded the elements of Buffalo Bll's incomparable personality. Chatting with an interviewer the other day, the last of the great scouts s I am more sought after than any other man in the country. I attract more notice than the president of the United States and one thing certain {s' that the people are more anxious to talk to me than they would be to Mr. Roosevelt. All this in- creases my work, of course, but I have grown ‘accustomed to beins addressed by practically everybody in every town. Germany's war lord is not much given to self-depreciation, but he never has suc- ceeded in divesting himself so completel of the self-consclousness which manifes itself In & mock humility intended to draw forth flattering contradiction. Buffalo Bill is the only natural, unaffected denizen of the Temple of Fame. his days be long in the land, for we A seo his like again. Tainted Money Indlanapolls News (Ind.) The Omaha Baptist association has raised an old question by resolutions (unani- mously adopted) demanding the repeal of the present law of Nebraska, by which money received from certaln licenses goes into the school fund. The sources are saloon licenses, as well as fines in the oriminal courts and llcenses from thea- ters, pawnbrokers, circuses, peddiers, bill posters, dog owners. The purpose of the resolution s, of course, opposition to hav- ing money furnished by licensing the drink trafic applied to educating the chil- dren. The proposition is not new; but it is just as mistaken as it ever was. It this particular money were applied to other uses, money from other sources would be applied to education, which would amount merely to a shift of bookkeeping that would be simply foolish, while if the licenses were abolished general taxation would have to be just so much the heavier, and this, too, would be rather foollsh as well as unjust. As a matter of sentiment, the euggestion puts the emphasis in the wrong place. It “considers too curiously,” &8s Horatlo sald to Hamlet when Hamlet asked: “Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he finds it stop- ping & bung hole; thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust to earth: of earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop & beer barrel 7 It seems to be the Pharasalcal order of mind that sees things as clean and un- clean. The Master did not ask where the widow obtalned her mite nor where the tribute money came from. He blessed the fmpulse that lay back of the gift, and cut clear to the heart of true political economy by recognizing Caesar's money as due to Caesar's government. To oppose the litensing of the liquor trafic on moral grounds s consistent, but to attempt to trace a moral quality in money rateed by this means as making it unclean for cer- tain uses of the state is surely to “con- elder too curiously’™ and to become entan- gled n the maze where Jowish civiliza- tion was when the Master came to set men free. Do we realize the freedom that Jesus Christ meant to give to men? It was not merely freedom from sin in the sense that we have come to look at almost exelu- sively, but freedom from all of the foolish things that the zeal of the time had led men into, so that it was stopping progress and nullifying ueefulness. Men could not do this, and had to do the other, until a state of suspense was created like unto that which prevails in India and China toda Literalism had so run to seed that regurded as created for the Sab- bath and for an endless lot of other insti- tutions until the whole Jewish economy had become paralyzed. Those that, like the Master, go around doing good and trying to make this world better in His name, should study His mind. “We have the mind of Chri says the apostle. If we have, we may surely see things as He did, and render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and not mix them up with the things that are God's. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. National Board: periment W Strong, robust clerks in the Agricultural department, who have been spotted for a patriotic experiment, vigorously put aside the 'suggestion by Dr. Wiley to betake themselves to the national boarding house, which the department s fitting up, and submit their interior departments to a series of tests to determine the effect on the human stomach of various adulterated foods. There will be no charge for the congress has already provided for d the landlady promises to be all smiles at all times. Boarders will have nothing to do but eat and aleep, and divert themselves in decorous fashion between times. Salarfes will go on just the same. But these tempting inducements have not yet aroused thelr latent patriotism and they House Where Ex- Be Conducted. are disposed to give the boarding house and the doctored food a killing frost. A correspondent of the Boston Transcript who has nquired into the project treats the boarding house experiment as one of the most important undertakings by the gov- ernment under sanction of congress. “‘Ever since clvilization advanced so that people had some cholce as to what they should eat,” says the writer,” the controversy has been fierce over the healthfulness of various articles of every-day diet. It has been sald that aveellent medieal anthority eonld he found for excluding every article on the dinner table as a sure pathway to the grave. Especially acrimonious becomes the con- troversy when, beyond the domaln of matu- ral products, one begins to deal with the devices of the chemical laboratory for the preservation of food,and its “adornment.” Dr. Wiley purposes to find out the rela- | tive hamfulness of various articles as a part of the movement toward pure food legls- lation, question. The German government has pro- fessed ) to believe that our meats treated with |{ are harmful, although its own best medical authorities take the opposite view. Dr. Wiley has always thought that the small quantity of boric acld used In curing meat was not harmful; in fact, decidedly less so than would be the quantity of salt necessary to take its place. “I belleve this,” sald Dr. Wiley. I do not know it. The object of this table is to test-such a bellef in the most practical way.” “Every boarder will be weighed upon ris- ing from bed in the morning. The clinfeal thermometer will three times measure his temperature for a record. A careful ac- count of the quantity of water consumed will be kept, as well as of the food itself. The boarders themselves will have no knowledge of when different things are belng “tried on them;" for at least half the time they will be eating a dlet which is thoroughly pure—a relaxation diet. The object of this will be not only to prevent the: eystem from real injury, but also to| tell how far into & perfod of normal condi- tions the effects of former barmful ones | may persist. At the table at each meal some men will be eating doctored food and some pure food, but they will not know which is which. The quantities of adulterants employed will nowhere be per- ceptible to the senses, although when it comes to coloring matters this rule may not be so easily maintained. No room will be allowed for the repetition of the experlence that a sojourner at a boarding house here last winter gave of his break- fast to a fellow sufferer, when he sald: My plece of meat might have been a good | one had mot the chap who treated it with | his preservatives been such a bungler; he | put on so much more of the acid than was necessary that I lost all the flavor of the meat.’ “The persons who will apply the preser- vative for these experimental tables will be experts, and the quantity employed in each instance will be measured to a nicety. Detalled effects toward which the inquiry will be directed will concern -various organs of the body and known constitu- tional tendencles toward certain diseases. Salleylie acld, for example, will be taken up and put through all the tests which, in the commercial movement of food, it s @éver llkely to make on the physical sy tems of American consumers. Then the tabulated results will throw light upon the degrees of danger and of the limits of safety, If y, in the use of this acld. And so will it be down through the list of the many inventions which man has sought out of articles of dlet. “An attempt will be made to keep the boarders at the same welght during their entire etay at the table, as any fluctua- tions 1n this respect might add a confusion element to the results. When It is dl covered from the dally weighing that a man s gaining a little, his ration will be 80 adjusted in its fat-producing elements that this tendemcy will be corrected, and the food will at all times be so generally wholesome and appetizing that no ome In ordinary health need expect to lose welght.” From Poverty to Al Indianapolis Journal It was only a few years ago that Mr. Cleveland came very npear taking the half of the Central Pacific Rallway company's debt due the United States as a settlement for the whole, so discouraging were the prospects of the corporation. When Mr. McKinley became president conditions rap- idly improved and the whole obligation was paid. Now the same company is reported | to be preparing to construct & tunnel seven Borax has become an International | | concerning Mickey was palpably fil miles through a mountain to save a con- siderable distance and heavy grades at & cost of §14,000,000. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Callaway Queen: The fusionists appear to take great delight In calling J. H. Mickey & Methodist and a teetotaler. As long as they don't call him & fusionist Mr. Mickey does not care. Fairfield Herald: It is a poor argument to bring agalnst John H. Mickey that he is a temperance man. That is just the kind of a man that {s wanted as governor. In any responsitle position suc’ maa is preferred —and why not as executiv Table Rock Argu Everywhere J. H. Mickey, the republ candidate for gov- ernor, goes he makes friends. Indeed, as the campaign develops, it becomes more and more apparent that Nebraska will roll up its old-time republican majority this tall. Plerce Call: Thue far the fusionists have proved only three things against J. H. Mickey, the republican candidate for governor. They are that he is a banker, a Methodist and a good mai Are any of these good reasons why he should not be elected to that office? Beemer Times: Willlam K. Fowler, re- publican mominee for state superintendent of public instruction, will be re-elected by & good majority. He has made the best officer that department has ever known. He is a practical teacher of wide experi- ence and fine ability, and voters, regard- less of politics, will vote to retain him In the office he e0 well fills. Kearney Hub: The fact that the Omaha World-Herald has found a few republicans in Polk county who have no use for John M. Mickey and say mean things about bhim is not at all surprising. Any man with the qualities and character that fit him for a governor will have a few enemies among his neighbors, some of them in his own party. In the case of Mickey, however, the few who say mean things about him are in such & pitiful minority that they are quite lost in the campaign shuffie. Alblon News: The only fight worth men- tioning that is being made against Mr. Mickey for governor is th: is a tem- perance man. Of course, in certaln lo- calities and among certain classes this is an effective argument. While we don’t be- leve it le true, these anti-temperance pa- pers are conveying the id that Mr. Thompson {s just the opposite—that Is, & man who drinks red liquor in abundance and who is in favor of more liberal laws regulating the traffc. If this is to be the supreme test in Nebraska, is there any question as to the result? We should hate to belleve there lis. Falls City Tribune: What a triumph it will be for the better element of Nebraska citizenehip when J. H. Mickey is elected governor. His opponents have Insisted upon throwing political {ssues to the winds and waging their fight upon Mr. Mickey solely upon the grounds that he is an hon- orable, sober and upright man. They want a sport in the guberpatorial chair. They want a man who must take his morning dram to quiet his nerves before he can attend to the affairs of state. They want a man who knows the relative value of two pair and three of a kind. Virtue, hon- esty and eobriety dom't go with them. Again we say, what a proud day it will be for the better element whep they re- pudiate all these things in the high places by making J. H. Mickey governor of Ne- braska. Columbus Edict: Under the gulse of giv- ing Candidate Mickey credit for bel fearless man in daring to father a measure tending to prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquors in the state, the Telegram seeks to play upon public prejudice. The article y a8 an argument to carry out the expressed inten- tion of its author. It was not intended to increase the November majority for the re- publican candidate by showing him to be a sober, conscientious, courageous man, but to flaunt the red fifig of prohibition in the face of the anti-prohibitionists of Platte county in particular and the state in general. “Per- haps a majority would like to see in the chief chair of state a gawvernor who would slgn a prohibition bill." And perhaps a ma- jority would like to see in the chlef chair of state a man who is sald to wear the ear- marks of a sport. People are curiously in- some bank stock, and mamother that his farm is near town, and he is quite point- edly accused of wearing a bofled shirt and riding in a surrey. All this is very flat- tering to the farmers of Nebraska, Ii will no doubt please them to know that tiers 18 a great political ‘power that considore the farmer who has saved and labored unfit to enjoy the fruits of his industry and frugality like other successful men. The farmer is being shoved back into his place and taught that the easy, oushioned seat of a comfortable carriage s not for him, and that it s the height of imperti- nence for him to aspire to any of the com- forts enjoyed by hie brother in town. There are other prosperous farmers in Ne- braska, and it will no doubt be a pleasure for them to learn the fusionists' estimute of Mr. Mickey—and themselve: PERSONAL NOTES. A Philadelphia chauffeur recently wrecked his automobfle to avoid killing a boy. All papers please copy. A replica of the herole equestrian statue of Washington, designed by Daniel C. French, Boston sculptor, and erected in Paris by the Daughters of the Revolution, will be set up in Washington park, Chicago. Marcont 1s coming across the ocean in an Italian war ship, the Carlos Alberto, the use of which has been offered to him for a thorough transatlantic test of his system of wireless telegraphy. He will go first to Cape Breton and then will visit his sta- tion on Cape Cod. Clarence H. Mackay, erstwhile the bom vivant and man of pleasure, who arrived trom Burope a few days ago, ie to give up a life of ease and don the harness of his recently deceased father. One of the great- est undertakings which will occupy Mr. Mackay's attention will be the laylng of the Pacific cable by the Commercial Cable com« pany. Great preparations are being made in Dallas, Tex., for the reception of Rear Ad- miral Winfleld Scott Schley on Saturday, October 18. One feature of the entertain- clined, and there is no judging what their will may be until there is some visible show of it. Nebraska had sooner have & temper- ate man in the governor's chair than one whose breath s perfumed with liquor, for Editor Howard virtually proclaims W. H. Thompson an intemperate man when he con- demns the rigorous sobriety of ickey. Will 1t help Thompson to bave it heraiaed far and wide that he enfoys convivial comrades around the flowing cup? It may among the convivial class. But if the intimations of the Telegram concerning Thompson are! wrong, then he has suffered at the hands of & party organ a greater insult than an en- emy ever offered. Nebraska City Tribune: John H. Mickey, | republican nominee for governor, is in no No clique or faction favors at his hands; neither is he on earth for the purpose of accomplishing the downfall of any man or set of men. He means to be governor of Nebr nd all in Nebraska. In the tremendous struggle to bring something out of his past that would prejudice his future, the opposition has resorted to some pratty small politics, but has signally failed to make any of its allegations sf Mr. Mickey is & man who bas the greatest respect for the opinions of others, and the attempt to depict him as & narrow-minded rider of & pet hobby falls flat. There are, however, many crimes of which Mr. Micke stands convicted. In the first place, he has been proven to be & successful man, which telle against him fearfully. Among other horrible disclosures is one that he owns ment s to be a gathering of the echool children, every school, public and private, in the state having been invited to join the schools of Dallas in making the day & nota- ble one. The famous Norweglan poet, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, has caused a great sensation by the severe strictures which he has recently passed on the scandalous treatment of for- elgn tourists by Norwegian peasants. The steady increase of tourlsts, he says, has had the effect of demoralizing the popula- tion and stirring up feelings of speculation, rapacity, mendacity and fraud. When Mr. Labouchere was putting up for his first election his uncle, Lord Taunton, wrote and asked him if he could do any- thing to ald him. The hopeful nephew wrote his uncle back a ietter which is quite ch acteristic of the “Labby” whom we know today: “If you couldl put on your' peer's robes and coronet and walk arm in arm with me down the high etreet of the borough,” he sald, “it might do some good. Other- wise I do not think that your ald would be of much avail.” BRIGHT AND BREEZY. . Chicago Post: “What aid he do during his vacation?" “He sat out on the back porch In the sun and accumulated a tan that made his fishing lies seem plausible.” am told that Jones s that true?" wonita't “hardly say that A leelvi*l,', you know, never gets stuck on him- self. 1s & regular leec! ““No! expression,” replied Miss Quickstep, after a brief inspection. ‘“You shouldn't take yourself so seriou: Indianapolls New: sald Mrs. grunted the practical spouse, might' try a caulifiower, this time." Detroit Free Press: He—You might at least have given me some warning that you were going to throw me over." She—Well, haven’t I been nice to you for over a week? Cinctnnati Tribune: V bo! Von Mlmr—colm-kl hasn't ght an automobile yet, hai Van Major—No, but he's tral a hla horse so that he pulfs nearly as loud as one, every step he tal Chicago Post: “They say she tan's happy, cor:menled the nelghbor, “but I me people never are satisfled.” s right, and it's her own fauit if able to buy her women Puck: ‘You mean the clergyman with whom you exchanged pulpits a few weeks g0t | Oh, yes! Mamma liked him "very much."” es? Bhe enjoyed the sermon?” ‘Oh, yes! She says it does her hear! 00d to listen to a preacher who has noth~ ng to say against the bibl; ONE PAIR OF DEUCES, New York Times. 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The man who wears $12 hats on $7 p: His biuft will work all right enough until it's called some d The politiclan, prating o native land,’ While his hands extended backward, some day we'll see his hand. The man who thinks effrontery 1s. bound to take the, trick Is sure to hear "I call will make him sic Somewhere, somehow, shall merlt colnt, though it may have naught to spare. For & little pair of deuces ls better than no pair 'me own l6ved L fou." and the words Chea Doctors They nevcr pay. Don't employ them. Get the best and pay the price. Cheap doctors don’t recommend Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. The best doctors do. They pre- scribe it for fresh colds, old colds, easy coughs, hard coughs, weak lungs, brons chitis, even for consumgption, ““Your Cherry Pectoral has been s great blessing to me in curin W severe bronchial trouble.”’— Grimes, Newburg, W, V. e, Me, 810, J.C.AVER CO,, Lowsll, Mom.