Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1902, Page 6

W T E OMAHA DAILY BE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 902 THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE . ROSEWATER, EDITOR. { | PUBLIBHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ‘Dally Bee (without Suncuy), One Year. Daily Bee and Bunday, One Year. ¢ Tliustrated One "Year und: e Yea: DELIVERED BY CARRIER, Dally Bee (without Sunday), per cop: 3 iDally Bee (without Sunday), per weel D-fl’y Bee (‘ncluding Sunday), per weel Bunday Bee, per copy.. oxssssias B0 i ‘Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Bee (ncluding Sunday), per week . o 100 | Complaints of irregularitics in_deiivery | should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES, Omtha—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—City Hall Ballding, Twen- ty-Afth and M Streets. Council Blufts—10 Pear] Street. Chies 1640 Unity Building. New York—21% Park Row Hullding. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- Qorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Edjtorial Department. p BUSINESS LETTERS. i Business letters and remittances should d: The Bee Publishing Com- REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or po V payable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent l(lmgl .ccerled in payment of {mall accounts, Personal checks, except en | Omaha or eastern exchange, not u:cc,gnd. } THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA Y; STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s George B, chuck, secretary of The Beo l’\fl)"lhln‘ Company, being duly sworn, says that the tual_number of Tull an complete coples of The Dalily, Morning, +Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1902, was as follow: L.81L470 28,435 PEEREES coanaonsnmm Total 1 Less unsold and returned cople Net total sales.. . Net average sales.... o . 30,755 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. N d_sworn to ot November, A. D, B. HUNGATE, Notary Pubil A deposit of hard coal is getting to be pretty near as valuable as a deposit of gold., oy Epp— b Equitable taxation is just now the ¢ paramount issue before Omaha tax- X rophoagy » ' It is Senator Quay's opinion that the omnibus should carry all the territories to statehood. | L Competition between Carnegle and Frick in public benefactions is a form of industry that everybody will approve of. ] Pat Crowe has reported for duty from Johannesburg, South Africa. No rich Boer or uitlander seems to have a $25,- 000 boy to ransom. The Burlington is about to enter upon a more extensive newspaper and maga- zine campaign, and it 1s to be hoped that it will draw the line at politics. | | If Unpited States senators were elected By popular voté In the several séntes, no such ‘scandalous situation as is threat- ened In Colorado would be likely to arise. e S | | The big corn crop of 1902 is making i trouble for the rallroads, and the rail- roads are unloading their trouble on i the farmer by raising freight rates to the full extent that the traffic will beam e— Something unheard of in practical pol- itics has developed in Fillmore county, Minnesota, where a campaign committee has a balance left over after paying all bills and is actually returning the same pro rata to the contributors. The holdup of passengers by masked train robbers is not a circumstance to the attempted holdup of the liquor deal- ers and drugglsts of Omaha by news- paper bandits who do not even try to cover their faces with a handkerchief. —— When independent mine operators of hard coal turn over their product to the big companies for 60 per cent of what the latter ‘get~ fur it, there skems to be no good reason why an‘increase of miners’ wages should be saddled onto the con- sumer. President Roosevelt has served notice on all whom it may concern that Ne- brakka has more than its quota of rep- resentation in the diplomatic and con- sular service, and, since few die and none resign, the prospect for any more con- sular appointments from the state of Ne- braska for the next twelve mopths is decidedly slim. e ——————— Y, S ——eeee e e e | The Board of Review of Omaha has been requested by John N. Baldwin of ! Council Bluffs to note down an excep- tion to its unheard of proceedings that foreshadow a disposition to assess the propetry of the railroads at a fair valu- ation for municipal taxation. It would have been decidedly exceptional if such an exception had not been presented for notation. & to Siam, was apprised of the well-defined rumor that his confirmation would be opposed by Senator Hanna he promptly cabled from Calcutta that he would not accept the Japanese mission with a sal- ary of $12,000 a year, but preferred to continue on his orfental tour of prome- tion for the St. Louls exposition at $500 ‘ When John Barrett, former minister | | | | | or $600 a month. | o Two colossal New York life insurance companies have organized an octopus that is to absorb the various trust com- panies, banks aund financial concerns that have beretofore figured as feeders and brokers for the insurance magnates. Whether this combination has been brought about by a desire for greater economy or greater profits has not yet transpired. A QUASTION OF WAGES. There is little probability that any- thing will be done at this session of con- gress In the interest of a merchant ma- rine for our foreign commerce. It is even likely that the question will not come up for consideration, since It Is reasonably certain that in the few weels of the session after the Christmas holi- days it would be hardly possible to secure action. The matter is one, however, of such great importance, in its relation to our foreign commerclal Interests, that publie discussion of it is always timely. There 18 o common misapprehension in regard to the measure pending in con- gress, known ae the subsidy biil, which is that'it would benefit only the capital invested In a merchant marine, leaving entirely out of consideration the ad- vantage that would accrue to the labor employed in the shipbullding Industry. A fact not generally understood is that the real reason for the lack of American shipbullding forsthe forelgn trafe is the wages pald to‘Am(-rl('nn labor, which are about 50 per cent higher than the wages pald to British labor in British ship- yards. This explains why the cost of an American ship, gnite regardless of the cost of the ‘materials entering into its construction, is about 30 per cent higher than the cost of a similar forelgn-built ship. It Is because of this difference, due to the higher wages of American labor, that a great deal of American cap- ital has been invested In ships built abroad. A writér on the subject says: “It myst be clear'that ft I8 the wages paid to American labor in the shipyards that prevents the building in American shipyards of a large proportion of the shipping required for the carriage of our foreign cominerce. If American labor would accept enough less wages than it now recelves to enable owners to have ships buflt in the United States as cheaply as in Great Britain, doubtless they would be built here. But our labor will not accept less—it demands profit- able employment—and so the American with capital to favest (he, too, seeking profitable employment for his capital) puts it into foreign-built ships. There 18 another thing and that is it costs more to run a ship under the American flag, because of the higher wages paid to its oficers and crew than are paid to-the officérs and crews of the ships of any other’ mation, and also be- cause of the greatpr quantity and better quality of food served.to the men on board of American than'is served to the men on foreign ships. It is estimated that this is fully 80 per cent greater than the cost of running & competing ship under a foreign flag. When these facts are considered it. must appear clear that the chief reason why we have not an American merchant marine for the foreign trade is in the better com- pensation of American labor, both that employed in the bullding ‘and in the running of ships, so that in order to create a merchant marine, 8o necessary to our commercial expansion and inde- pendence, -there must be § faterial reo, duction in the compensation of labor or such’ governmental ald ak'will eqhalize the difference betiveen American and foreign wages. Until there is one or the other only a very small fraction‘of our commerce Wil be ‘carried in Amierican-bujlt ships.. t e b VENEZUSLA WiLL RESIST. President Castro is preparing to wig- orously resist the selzure of custom houses by the British and Germans and although the resistance will undoubtedly be futile, it Is not doubted that he will make the best effort in his power against invasion of Venezuelan territory. Not to do this Would be to forfeit what- ever popularity he still has with his people and to compel him to flee the country. His course thus far appears to have the enthuslastic approval of the Venezuelans. It appeals to their patriot- ism and their sense of national honor and it is not improbable that the effect will be to put an end to the relellion in Venezuela and unite the people for defense of the republic. The American consul at one of the Venezuelan ports, who is now in the United States, i8'quoted as saying that Castro 18'a good fighter and will resist the Germans and British to the last diteh; that leaving the three principal seaports out of acpount, the country could fight invaders indefinitely and the conflict would be worse than the Boer war. There is very little likelihood, however, of so serious a conflict between the European powers and Venezuela. It is certain that the former have contem- plated no such eventuality. Their pur- pose is slmply to establish what is termed a “peaceful blockade” .and tak- ing possession of the custom houses at the principal seaports collect the rev- enue from this source. It s not be’ lieved there will be any invasion beyond this and it 1s ‘quite probable that our government has recelved assurance to this effect, with a view to satisfying the United States that nothing is In- tended in contravention of the Monroe doctrine. It is safe to assume that were the Washington authorfties not fully as- sured that the British and German pur- pose goes no further than the collection of claims in accordance with established precedent, the. United States would be represented by more than a gunboat in Vehezuelan waters. It is of course pos- sible that there may be developments that will call for and justify the inter- position of our government, but as the situation now stands neutrality is our proper position. Should anything arise requiring a change from this attitude the government will be ready to meet the contingeney and will not hesitate, it can be coufidently said, to do so. After all this trouble may turn out legs seriously than is now threatened. Presldent Castro must understand the utter futility of resistance and if so he may, after having done what he deems sufficient for the “honer” of his coun- try and his own security, offer terms of settlement that will be satisfactory to Great Britain and Germany. It mighit be a little mote difficult to effect an ar- rangement than before the action of those powers, but the longer settlement is put off the greater will be the de- mands upon Venezuela, which are al- ready so large that it would take many years to pay them under the most fa- vorable conditions. THE CULORADO EMBROGLIO. Elaborate prepatations are in prog- ress for revolutionary and scandalous scenes at the opening of the Colorado legislatyre. The bone of contention will be the United States senatorship. The defmocratic managers have arranged to go to any desperate extreme to prevent control passing from their hands. Hav- ing a majority in the state senate by vir- tue of hold-over members from the last legislature, the democratic managers are resolved to unseat outright all the re- publican senators, without a shadow of right or justification, . Notices of contest have been served on every republican senator-elect, including members who have recelved overwhelming majorities cast in districts where the elections were absolutely fair. On the other-hand, the republicans, who have control of the house, propose to oust the fifteen demo- cratlc members from Denver, or Arapa- hoe county, where the election was no- torlously corrupt. 8o outrageous were the frauds perpetrated in registration and in the election that a large element of the democracy joined in protest at the time, and subsequently in the move- ment to develop the evidence and pros- ecute the participants. This has been done thoroughly and in an orderly and legal manner and the proof piled moun- tain high that the fifteen members were not in fact elected. The threat of the democratic managers is that if fifteen candidates who were not elected to the house are excluded, they will arbitrarily exclude fifteen or more members of the senate who were legally elected beyond all question. ‘The upshot of the whole matter, it is bellieved by those who have studied it on the ground, is almost sure to be a split of the legislature into two rival bodies, and two claimants representing themn appealing for admission to the United States senate, with a seat therein belonging to Colorado remaining indefi- nitely vacant. TOO MUCA DIVERGENCE. For many years the valuations of property by county assessors, which have ranged from one-sixth to one-seventh of the actual value, were accepted as the basis for city taxation. Even during that perfod just complaints and remon- strances were made against the rank fa- voritism displayed toward the railroad corporations in permitting them to evade taxes by nominal valuations of their property through the State Board of Bqualization. Six years ago the tax commissioner of Omaha changed the valuation ratio to 40 per cent of actual value instead of 12 to 16 per cent, but the property of the railpoads continped as in previous years, thus widening the margin of divergence In favor.of the railroads. This year the tax commissfoner has assessed all prop- erty at its true value, as near as pos- sible, but the raflroads Insist that their property shall still remain at the nomi- nal valuation fixed by the state board. The rank injustice of an assessment on this basis is not even denied. Two years ago all the rallroad property in Omaha, including right of way, depots and depot grounds, trackage and ter- minal facilities, as well as the west half of the Union Pacific bridge, were re- turned by the state board for city taxa- tion at $103,000. The tax rate for 1900 was 84 mills and the total tax pald by the rallroads aggregated $6,472. In 1901 the levy was reduced to 30 mills, and as the assessment was not increased the railroad taxes aggregated $5,790. This year the assessment of all the railroad property in Omaha, exclu- sive of headquarters buildings and ma- chine shops, is placed at $205,000 by the state board, and the total tax with a 10- mill levy would amount to $2,050, or with a 12-mill levy would aggregate $2,460, or $4,000 less than the railroads were taxed two years ago. And yet the railroad managers assert that the corporations are willing to bear their just share of the burdens of taxation. ——————— ON THEIR GOOD BEHAVIOR. The refusal of Judge Read to grant a permanent injunction restraining the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners from designating any newspaper as the medium for advertising notices of ap- plication for license to sell liquor w in the main, founded on the presumption that the police board would refrain from all improper and fllegal action in the premises. In his opinion Judge Read expressly declares that “a mere call for state- ments of circulation does not anticipate that the board will pass on them, and such statements, fairly made, would not prejudice the plaintiff or anyone else.” If the board should undertake from these statements to determine In ad- vance where the greatest circulation was, it would be an improper action. Further on Judge Read says: “The pre- sumption must be in regard to an officer or to A member of the board acting bffi- clally under the solemnity of an oath that he proposes to act fairly, and the court cannot infer any disposition: in that particular matter from that resolu- tion. It is expressly and specifically de- nied by all four members of the board that a conspiracy in regard to directing or advising applicants for liquor licenses has been entered into, or that any dis- erimination is intended, or that any in- jury to the interests of The Bee Is in- terded, but on the contrary respondents have given assurance that the board as a board, or as individuals, were not in- tending to act in any way other than the obligations imposed upen them by the law demanded that they should.” With the presumption that the board will act fairly and impartially in its faver, It remains now ealy for the board to justify the confidence expressed in its good intontions by the court. The application of The Bee for a restraining order was based solely upen past ex- perience, coupled with the more than well-defined rumor that a repetition of the arbitrary course pursued by the Broatch board of 1805 and 1896 would be repeated in 1002 and 1903, Now that the board is on its good behavlor, it Is to be hoped that no further occasion will arise for appeals to the courts. The law requires applicants for license to eell liquor as a beverage or for me- dicinal use to publish their notices in the daily paper that has the largest circula- tion in the county in which the applica- tion is made. For more than twenty years The Omaha Evening Bee has maintiined that position and no applica- tion published in that paper has ever been rejected on account of illegal pub- lication. (Fhe newspaper census taken in the month of November affords con- clusive gioof that the bona fide circula- tion of The Evening Bee by carrier de- livery overlaps by more than 3,000 the carrier delivery circulation of either of its contemporaries. But that does not prevent them imposture and m persisting in their navery. The announcement that the American Olgar and Tobacco trust is negotiating for a controlling interest in the largest grocery firms of New York will create no surprise. The next thing we hear of will be the annexation of all the prin- cipal hotels of the country by the Olgar and Tobaceo trust, and the amal- gamation ‘of the Cigar and Tobacco trust with the Distillery trust and the Brewery trust. When that is accom- plished the American people #ill be able to get their refreshments and pro- visions from the same stall and drop their nickels into the same slot. E—— The bullding inspector of Chicago has been ordered to make the rounds of all the hotels, apartment and lodging houses within the next thirty days, with a view to compelling the owners to pro- vide fire escapes and other safeguards for the protection of the inmates from disastrous conflagrations. A holiday roundup of the hostelries and lodging houses of Omaha would not be out of place. Soree——— Light on Dark Places. New York World. One-halt the world is learning from the Scranton dispatches something about how the other halt lives, and the knowledge is not_edifying. i How the Welghty Have Fallen, ‘Washington Post. The white metal has slumped to such an extent that the man who boasts of having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth may be safely scheduled in the cheap skate Dimipished Meat 14 n polfs Journal. orts of the stock of meats at showing that it is nearly a third less than a'year ago, apply to other meat packing centers the prospect of much cheaper meats {n; the near future {s dublous, merger, or no merger. Pluckifig Father Knickerbocker, ! New 'York Tribune. According to the papers filed in the Pat- rick case the expert testimony cost nearly $35,000 and the total expense to taxpayers of this county fell not far short of $75,000! ‘Was there ever a community anywhere in ancient or modern history which found murder prosecutfons so expensive as they have been for generations right here in New York? , ° Chicago News. A British journal now rises to make the luminous explanation that under thg Mon- roe dotrine the United States is obliged to settle all the debts contracted by South American countries. Possibly this view ac- counts for the enthusiasm with which some of the British publications declared their approval of the Monroe doctrine a few weeks ago. Buckle fo a Gfeat Duty. Indlanapolls News. There is one recommendation of the president’s message which men of all par- ties, creeds and conditions, dlans not taxed,” can hei applaud. He declares that railroad com- panles in the District ought to be required by law to block their frogs.” It is a dis- grace to the country that this great duty has been neglected. Women May Legally Seold. New York Sun. Another “right” of married women has been “vindicated.” A Newark man grew weary of the conversational powers of his wife and asked a magistrate to restralp her. The magistrate rebuffed him and held that Mrs. Caudle can't be interfered with in her own home. There is her castle. There she can brawl, rail and scold to her heart's content and nobody can stop her. Thus is another hook put into the jaws of government by injunction, and freedom of speech 16 safe at its own fireside. “A Grotesque Misfit.” Philadelphia Record (dem.) Mr. Bryah ig occasionally Interesting, though very rarely important. “If there is to be a complete abandonment of the party's position,” he says, “if the party is to stand for an absolutely changed policy, then no other candidate (than Mr. Cleveland) should be considered.” The change that Mr. Bryan alludes to would be to a position and a polfey which generally characterized it before the popullstic elements under Mr. Bryan's leadership captured the organiza- tion six years ago. The mantle of Thomas Jefferson s a grotesque misfit on the shoulders of the gentleman from Nebraska, who has twice'led his party to defeat, and whosé special detestation is the gen- tleman, now domiciled in New Jersey, who has twice led it to victory. e Diminished Meat Supply. Buffalo Express. The news from Omaha that the provision supply In the packing houses of that dis- trict is about 10,500,000 pounds short of the supply at this time last year furnishes further evidence that the meat shortage this season is due to natural conditions. By provisions {s meant the cut and pre- pared meats, excluding beef quarters. Ex- perts In the matter of range cattle say that the ranges were never so depleted as now, (®] that in some of the best dis- tricts only cattle for breeding purposes femain. An important factor in the pro. vision situation ls the shortage in hoge, &8s a result of the inadequate supply of corn last season. Those who have béen looking for lower prices for meats, there- fore, will probably be disappoluted. In taot, it will be surprising it prices do uot go bigher before the wiater ends OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. On a map of Egypt the {le lands might be represented as a green rib- band, a mere fringe bordering upon the river Nile. All the rest would be col- ored brown, the hot and rainless desert. The alluvial lands comprising an area of 10,500 equare miles support a population of nearly ten millions of people, more dense than that of any part of Europe. Three bundred and ninety thousand square miles are a barren and unproductive waste, the abode of meither man nor beast. Natural irrigation has been obtained by the inun- dation of the low lands at the time of high water in the river. During the season of agricultural activity the overflow of the Nile would be excluded from the farming lands by means of dykes and eartlien dams. Primitive machingry of crude construction has also been employed for elevating the ‘water from the stream by the use of buckets and by manual labor. The Assouan dam will impound waters, forming a reservoir 140 miles long, extending south towards the tropical sources of the Nile. With a suite able system of irrigating canals it is esti- mated that 2,500 equare miles will be added to the productive area of the country, and that the value of the newly formed agri- cultural lands will be $100,000,000. o M, Jauries, in La Petite Republique, has some significant remarks upon the treaty between France and Siam, which has been the cause of so much political uproar. He says: ““This treaty excites the wrath of the colonlals. There is a great tempest in the lobbles, threatening, it is sald, to knock down everything. The groups headed by M. Doumer, whose watchword is un- limited expansion and aggressive imperial ism, are astir. What will result from all this? Nothing. Nothing will result be- cause the chamber will refuse to be drawn into a policy of adventure and provocation. The treaty is excellent because it settles disputes between Siam and ourselves which were dally becoming envenomed, because it is the only way of settling them, and because it allows the hope that mutual confidence will supersede the sullen, ag- gressive and precarious peace which for ten years has placed France and Slam In conflict.” This is the view taken by tho most experienced French correspondents of English newspapers. They hold that if M. Delcasse holds firm he is eafe of a substantial majority for the treaty In the chamber. It is the colonial group that has raised all the agitation, and their object is the upsetting not of the treaty, but the cabinet. Two large- ships have lately been launched for the Russlan “navy, the first the Kniaz Suvarov, a battleship of the Borodino type, which was laid down last year. She carries a battery of four twelve- inch guns in two turrets, and twelve six- inch guns in six turrets, these latter being o arranged that eight six-inch guns will fire ahead or astern. She will be followed on the stocks by a battleship of a new and far more formidable type, the displace- ment of which is reported to be about 16,000 tons, and which will carry as her secondary armament the elght-inch quick firer. The Suvarov will form part of the Baitic fleet; the other Russian ship launched, the Otchavok, of the Black sea fleet. The Otchakov is a replica of the Bogatyr, whose fine quallties have often been moticed. Though of only 6,500 tons dlsplacement, she is to steam twenty-three knots, carries a battery more powerful than that of the British Hyacinth class, and has considerable armor protection in addition, her funnels belng cased with two-inch steel to the level of the upper deck, and eight of her six-inch guns mounted behind four-inch plate. o The Vatican is preparing for another jubilee, beginning a year, from the 19th of mext month, which will mark the half century ot the Holy Father's cardinalate. Thus it is now the firm beliet of Catholics in Rome that Leo XIII will live to celebrate all possible jubilees as priest, bishop, dinal and pope, a circumstance without a parallel. Although it is estimated that this year's pllgrimage will not number more than 80,000, as against 80,000 during the Holy year, the financial results will be pro- portionately greater, because at the pope's wish few gifts have been given, money belng more acceptable. In the Holy year the pope received 10,000,000 lire in personal contributions from pilgrims. This year the amount will probably not fall much behind this sum. The audiences in which every pil- grim brings his offering in a closed white envelope, are among the most character- istic. Spanish pilgrims are the most gen- erqus and enthusiastic. On one occasion, 80 groat was the rush to get at the holy father and present their envelopes to him that they almost upset the Sedia Gestatoria, which was shaking ominously when the Swiss guards forced back the enthusiasts. It is & very curlous circumstance that Irish pilgrimages, which are always notable for their generous offerings, mever receive a single line of mention in any of the papers published under the auspices of the vatican, o According to a French writer, who has taken great care in tracing the descent of the royal houses of Europe, the crowned heads are mongrel monarchs and possess few claims to race relationship with the people whom they govern. For instance, King Alfonso of Spain is four-fifths Aus- trian; King Victor Emanuel IIT is more Austrian than Italian; Emperor Francis Joseph and his presumptive heir are for a large part Bavarian and Itallan; the king of Sweden and Norway is of Bearnalse and French source; the king of Greece Is a Dane; the king of Servia is half Russian; the prince of Bulgaria has no Bulgarian blood in him; the emperor of Russia is very much Danish or German; the king of the Belgians has no Belglan blood in him; the king of England is Saxe-Hanover, Norman and French. —— FROM WEST TO EAST. Complete Reversal of Policles Com- mon in the Past. Chicago Inter Ocean. Nebraska will have in the next five years $12,000,000 to invest in government bonds or state securities. This is the estimate of the state treagurer at Lincoln, who is negotiating for the purchase of $300,000 in Massachusetts bonds. The Nebraska constitution provides that the school fund “shall not be invested or loaned except upon United States or state and, as money 18 pouring Into the school fund In excess of immediate re- quirements, one of the young states of the west is on the market as a purchaser of the bonds of the older states. «This is a complete reversal of the policy of twenty and ten years ago. Then western bonds, municipal and state, and farm mort- gages were hawked about for sale in eastern money markets. Nebraska, Kansas and other states in line with them were in need of money and municipalities and farm- ers were in debt. The flow of money for investment was from the east to the west and never from the west to the east. Eastern capitalists were in the habit of saying that New York or New England money was buflding up ‘western industries, supporting western mu- nicipalities and that thd majority of west- ern farms were really owned by mortgage holders in the east, Al this has been changed. Western cap- ital 1s employed In western enterprise. Mortgages have been paid off. And west- rn money 1s going east for {avestment in eastern seourities. THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE SLAVERY IN THE MINES. Indlanapolis News: Have anthracite coal operators no heafts at all? It makes one's blood beil to read the testimony of women, children and crippled old men that is being presented to the commission. Wonder in- creases that thé' operators did not com- promise. Chicago Post: It this 1s a specimen. of the best of “Christian” management in the anthracite flelds, what may we look for among the others? Truly, “it is enough” to warrant the present investigation, the miners' union, anything and everything the men can do, legally, to better conditions which would have made the old slaveholders of the South blush. Chicago News: These plain stories of what appears to be commonplace. experience in some parts of the coal flelds have their value and they will have their weight with the commission. That body is not com- posed of sentimentalists and will not be likely to disregard the many industrial, economic and commercial factors involved in the management of a great industry. It will, however, be forced to take cognizance of the plain fact that there is a minimum standard of living conditions and that when human beings are required to live below that standard the law of common humanity demands attention first of all. Clearly the limit has been ‘passed in the case of many of the anthracite miners. No one can read the evidence thus far offered without feeling that justice calls for a radical change. Chicago Tribune: Jeddoé is not In Pale- stine, despite the sound of its ‘name. It is not in Ireland, despite the kind of rent slavery which it seems to shelter. It is in Pénnsylvania. ‘about twenty miles south of Wilkesbarre. Mrs. Burns, who testified be- fore the strike commission, lives at Jeddo. She told the commission how she and her two children worked for thirteen years to pay up the back rent on her house. Her husband had been killed.in a mine be- longing to the Markle company. She had received no compensation. son became 14 she sent him to work. His wages were not patd him in cash. Every- thing that he e-n:q-vai kept ‘1n partial payment . of . Mrs. ‘arrears of rent. The ame plan wat {n the case of her second son. For thifteen years, therefore, these three Americans orked for the Markle company without recelving a cent for current expenses, Meanwhile the offi- cer§ of the Markle company, if they were like officers of other companies, may have been heading subscriptions to some widows protective association. " POLITICAL NOTES. Twelve of Boston's aldermen, composing the committee on public improvements, are notably economical with shoe leather. Dur- ing the first half of the year they managed to stick the clty treasury for $9,184.50 for carrfage hire. Dignity comes high, but Boston must have it. A bunch of New York papers with demo- cratic leanings are contributing to the galety of state by telling what might have happened it Dave Hill had nominated Judge Parker instead of Bird Coler for governor. The discussion rivals in interest a scientific analysis of Wyoming fossils. Governor Beckham of Kentucky promptly honored a requisition from the governor of Minnesota for the return of A. A. Ames, the indicted ex-mayor of Minneapolis who is supposed fo' be fn the Blue Grass state for his health. The incident is regarded as a delicate hint to the governor of In- diana. " The socialists of Massachusetts polled at this year's election 912 votes in Cambridge, the most staid and conservative city in the state and relatively the richest city in the country. Last year they polled 174 votes. In Brookling, where there were only 11 votes cast In-1901 for. soclalist candidate for governor, the pumber this year. was 118, The mayor of New York Is a republica: that of Chicago a democrat, of Philadelphia a republican, of Boston a democrat, of Cin- cinnatl & republican, of St. Louls a demos crat, of Lauisville & republican, of Cleve- land & democrat, of San Francisco a re- publican, of Detroit a democrat, of Buffalo a republican, of Milwaukee a democrat, of Albany a republican, of Providence a demo. crat, of Indianapolis a republican, ot Balti- more a democrat, of Omaha &,republican, of Newark a democrat, of Syrdcuse a ro- publican and of Atlanta a demoorat. The republican majority in the next legls- lature of New York will be 34— In the senate and 28 in the assembly—subject to such few changes as the official canvass may make in some close districts. The logislaturo of 1899 (the last to elect a United States senator) had a republican majority of 4 in the senate and 24 in the assembly. The democratic congress apportionment in Missouri was effectively made. In the present congress Missouri has fifteen repre- senthtives; fn the next comgress it will have sixteen. Of these aixteen, fourteen aro demberats ‘and fwo republicans, although the vote of the two parties in this year's élection dn Missour! was 350,000 and 815,000 respectively. The youngest of the new. congressmen in the house is Morris Sheppard of Texas, who is 27 years old, though he looks ten years younger, When he was escorted to the bar of thojhouse to take the oath a lot of people thought,a mistake had been made find that he was a page. Mr. Shep- pard, who was elected to succeed his late ‘When her eldest | father, fs a graduate of Yale and a practic- ing lawyer. v SMIL] G REMARKS, Detrolt Free Press: “What's become of that struggling author friend of yours, Cumso,” asked Cawker. “Oh, he has given up the struggle and gone to work."” Yonkers Herald: Harry—She evidently made an impression with him. George—How do you know? Harry—I saw him developing some snap shots of her. Philadelphia Cathollc Standa Wi ~The first time I rode In a Wi b er sleep- ing car I thought the system was named after the composer. Waggs—That's funny. Wiggs—Oh, T don't ~know: it seemed quite appropriate. All the snoring made such a horrible combination of sounds. Washington Star: * in, achine, sald the inventor, "mul?n&ybl! heavy. “‘Of course not,” answered his business manager. “If it Weighs too much the cost of rallway transportation will eat up all the profiti Kansas City Journal:.“How do you sup- pose Methuseleh managed to reach such a Breat age?” “Why, everything was in his favor. There were no automobiles. or trolley cars, or operations for appendicitis, or health foods In those da Atlanta Constitution: Chrus'mus now, suh?” “'Oh, {t'll soon be here. about it so often?" “Well, suh, I all time wonderin' ef you'll ‘e sober enough we'n hit come, ter know dat 'm still yo' fr'end!" ODE TO AMERICA. “How fur oft is Why do you ask (From the Unpublished Writings of P—t—o M—s—gn—.) Chicago Tribune, Oh, wondrous land of coin and fame, The_ future shall revere thy name, And in my heart shall linger warm The country where attachments form— Attachments at are great and strong, Unchangeable as any rock, ‘Which hold us through the ages long, Unless we skip by 12 o'clock! Oh, -wondrous land! I pull the stops And play a fanfare tb thy cops! (Bass drum_agitato. Tenor drum furiosos. « Trombone fortissimo.) Oh, wondrous land! So:rich, so falr; Abrectative of long hair Imbued with culture; musle fossed— Intent on art at any cost! T praise thy men and maidens, too; 1 praise the cheer that loudly comes— Ithough a shiver rends me through At thought of demon laden bombs! Oh, splendid land! T tune my lyre to thy police! (Bassoon gracloso. Fugel horns crescendo, Xylophone pizaicato.) Oh, land where the Injunction grows Where law and art onfilct clo *'1 lift my feeble voice to thee Each time the ticket booth I see. Oh, wondrous land! I'll ever prize The tokens thou hast given me— Thou taught me how to advertise, And how to gain publicity. It is enough “You are the stuff " appassionata. acoelerando.) Oh, wondrous land! For me to say: (Cash register Steamship 777, e in Browning e 5 The Best is - the Cheapest A perfectly plain proposition, but some persons who ac- cept it as true in theory, do not heed in praetice. demonstrate it in the matter of clothing, if yon will look at our Suits and Overcoats at $10, $15, $20 and $25, deed are quality, style and fit not to be excelled—and at about the same prices as the “cheap” clothing that neither |- wears or looks well. No clothing fits like ours, We can Here, in- R. S. WILCOX, Manager.