Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 8, 1903, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA DALY ITOR. BEE. B ROSEWATER, E PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN —_—— . TERM® OF 8URSCRIPTION Iy Bee (without Sund One Year.$4.00 y Bee and Sunda e Year SR Baturday Bee, One Year Twentleth Century Fari DELIVERED BY CARRIER. E:"’ Bee (without Sunday), per copy ily Bee (without Sunday), per week..l Daily, Bee (Including Sunday), per week.lic Bindhy Bec. per cops il Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Bes (ncluding Sunday), per, we Complaints of frreg: shoul be addressed to partment. OFFICES. Omaha--The Hee Bullding Bouth Omana—City Hall ty-Afth an M Streets, Council Bluffe—10 Pearl Street. Chicago- 1640 Unity Building. New York—2828 Park Row Building. Washington—al Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to ncws and ed- ftorlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Itorial Lepartment. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George 1. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Pubiishing company, being duly sworn, cays that the actual number of full and com- lets coples of The Daily, Morning, Even- ng and Sunday Bee printed dur(ng the month of December, 1802, was as follows: ities in delivery Jutlding, Twen- EREEEEEapannsmnn 262,640 10,181 Total 4 ssgen Less unsold ard returned coples.. Net total sales ... .D42,464 Net average sales opes L 80,402 GEORGE B. TZSCHU Subseribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3ist day of December, A, D. 1002, M. B. HUNGA'TE (Seal) Notary Public. The passing of “Savage” Is accentu- ated by high winds. This is Jacksonian day, and all*who worship the patron saint are expected to celebrate. I e — It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. The plate glass men have their unings now. Legislative committees are presumed to be organized to expedite legislation, mot to obsiruct it. — In spite of the high and dry winds the state capitol is in great danger of being flooded with Dbills Governor Mickey will not dance to- night, but he will allow all Nebraska to Join in the inaugural hymn. It would be agreeable alike to coal miners and coal consumers if the arbl- tration commission would cut it short. The federal petit jury that will con- wvene at Lincoln on January 10 to assist the legislature In its impending wood sawing contest has been drawn. e————— Governor Van Sant of Minnesota not only has the courage of his convictlons, but also the nerve to keep up the fight against the Northern Securities merger. e The twenty-elghth session of the Ne- braska legislature I8 aow in full blast, but there is not sufficlent reason to sup- pose that the session will differ ma- terlally from those that have gone be- fore. A — il Wil the outgoing governor of Ne- braska turn over to the incoming gov- ernor of Nehraska that mystic cigar box with its historic contents, or does he propose to hold on to it as a souvenir of better days? Improvements in the Nebraska tele- phone system are In sight. Whether this I8 to be attributed to the menace of a competing telephone company or to natural evolution Is quite immaterial. Improvements are always welcome, In dlscussing the Nebraska grazing land problem it should not be forgotten that the small ranch owners outnumber the big ranch owners a hundred to one, and If concessions are to be made to the cattle barons by revision of the grazing land laws the rights and interests of the small ranchmen should be safeguarded and protected. epm— Bix members of congress rose to their full height on the tloer of the house of representatives Tuesday to deny public yeports to the effect that they had jolned with other members to pool their clerical work. In other words, the honora®te members of the house want it undesstood that they have not organ- ized a letter-writing merger. A single stenographer doing the correspondence of six ccugressmen would, of course, be very unpuarlismentary. There Is, how- ever, a weli-defined rumor around Wash- fngton that some mcmbers of congress pool with themselves and pocket the en- tire $1,200 a year salary allotted to them for clerk hire. A Washington man n a letter to the New York Times says the republican party should nominate Speaker Hender- son lu 1904 for vice president. He writes in most complimentary ternis of the ser- vices of General Henderson to the coun try and tle party, all of which is fully merited by the distinguished lowan. It will not be guesticped that General Hen- dersob has every qualifics vice presidency except one—he is a na- tive of Scotland, having been born at nearly 63 Old Deer in ‘that eountry, paper as the Times, ity Circulation De- | lon for the THE OMAHA DAI LY BEE HURSDAY, JANTUARY 8, 1903. THE FIRST DUTY OF THE LEGISLATURE. | to the requirements of their positions. |1v«|nn, s a samiple brick of Haseallity. | The The first duty of the legislature is to live up to the letter 1 spirit of the constitution, which member has solemnly sworn to obey. The failure of former legislatures and state admin { Istrations to conduct the affairs of the state within the bounds of the constitu tion each is responsivle for the overlap of L 10,000.40 the state debt. Section 19 of artlcle iil, entitied “Leg- Islative,” reads as follows Each legislature shall make appropria- tions for the expenses of the government until the expiration of the first fiscal quar- | ter after the adjournment of the next regu- |lar session, and all appropriations shall end with such fiscal quarter. And when- ever It Is deemed necessary to make fur- | ther appropriations for defielencies the same shall require & two-thirds vote of all | the members elocted to each house and shall not exceed the amount of revenue authorized by law to be raised in such time. The meaning of this section of the constitution s very plain. It I8 an ex- press prohibition of all expenditure by fcers of the execufive department in excess of the revenues authorized by |law, and it furthermore contemplates | that the legislative appropriation of ane session shall be ample to cover the cost of maintenance of state government and | state institutions for the period covered by thie session of the succeeding ilofl!luturo. In other words, the ap- propriations made by the legistature of 1901 were presumed to be ample to meet all the demands for salaries, {supplies and Incfdental expenses of | state government up to April 1, 1903, The only legitimate deficlency which | the constitution contemplates is the ex- pense incurred In extraordinary emer- I such as might be caused by the destruction of state institutions or some unforeseen calami It goes with- out saying that no state board or state officer has a right to deliberately create deficlencies by purchases of materlals or merchandise not specifically author- ized by law. But this is precisely the il'(lnl"[k"l that has confronted nearly every legislature within the past twenty years, ) According to the Lincoln Journal, the secretary of state has incurred liabili- ties amounting to from $5.000 to $7,000 for vrepairs, furniture and materials purchased to méet the wants of the leg- islature, although there is no appropria- tion authorizing the creation of this debt. Part of this expenditure, according to the Journal, “consists of the most ex- pensive furniture ever brought into the state house. Among the items are five settees, or davenports, each costing $75. Each of these pleces of furniture is solid oak, upholstered in leather, and will form luxurious resting places for the tired lobbylsts. Three of the set- tees have been taken to the house and two to the senate.” Only two years ago Secretary Porter bought new carpets and new furniture for both houses and expended several thousands for beautifying the halls of Tegislation. This also was'‘a ‘recklegs violation' of the constitutions If a com- pletely new set of furniture, garnished with carpets, only survives a single ses- slon of the legislature, that fact should be made patent to the appropriation committees of each legislature, so that it may insert the amount deemed neces- sary for the purchase of furniture and repairs of the chambers in succeeding legislatures, The extent to which this perfodic dis- regard of constitutional limitations 1is carrled, and the rank abuses for which it is responsible, was strikingly brought to light ten years ago, when the legis- lature impeached three state officers for reckless expenditure of public moneys, It was found in the investigation of the inventory submitted by Secretary of State Allen that he had bought carpets, hardware and lumber from a leading Lincoln druggist at druggists’ prices; that he had invested in two solid silver inkstands for the use of the speaker and chief clerk of the house, and Indulgéd in other luxurles at the expense of the state. . While nobody charges the present sec- rétary of state with any intentlonal wrongdoing, it is manifest that he has overstepped the boundary of the con- stitution and the law In incurring Ifa- bilitles in advance of an appropriation. It stands to reason that merchan- dise bought on credit, with no assurance of payment except by the caprice of ap- propriation committees, will be charged up at installment house prices. The present legislature can render the state invaluable service by putting a stop to willful creation of ‘deficlencles by makipg appropriations for whatever is deemed necessary to keep the eapitol bullding in repair and replace worn- out furniture in the legislative halls two years hence. Any other method {s lia- ble to become an incentive to extrava- gance and a link In the endless chain of deficlencles that have caused .the enor- mous incregse in the state debt. | nes | SOUTH DAROTA'S PROGRESS. The message of Governor Herreld of South Dakota shows that state to be in a highly prosperous condition and mak- ing rapld material progress. He says the past two years ha contentment and happiness for the peo- ple of that commonwealth, The state has had a wonderful growth in this time, all industrial and commercial en- ergles having flourished under most fa- vorable conditions. There has heen ad. force of the state. ve been a pericd of vance also in the intellectual and moral The financial gdpiinistration of South Dakota appears t6 hive been conducted in & most satisfactery manney, with the result that the bonded tadebtedness was ‘cohsiderably reduced” turing - the last years ago. ¥t may not be remarkable [vear. The charitable and penel institu- that a resident of the natlonal capital, [ tions haye been well mapaged and in who shows famillarity: with the public |#hort the governor-voints out that in all record of General Henderson, shoyld be | departments of the state goverpment the unaware of his forelgn birth, but it is a'| offictals have Ueen diligent and faithful. little purprising that that fact should | He edrpestly commends the law giving have been overlooked by such a news- | the governor. pewer to unceremoniously ‘fremove wfliclals who do net weasure up | Governor Herreld strongly urges the i | portance of maintaining a national | | guard, Lelleving this to be a patriotic anty South 1 to be in as favorable condition as any of |the states, with promise of continued prosperity and progress On the whole kota seems THE ARMY STAFF BILL. The passage by the house of repre sentatives of the army staft bill gives favorable promise that it will become a {law. The retirement of Senator Bur- rows of Michigan from the senate com- | mittee on military affairs in the interest {of his collengue, Senator Alger, made a | decided change in the prospects of the | staft bill. Mr. Alger has expressed him | selt as favorable to jt and If the three | | ex-secretaries of war now in the senate, | two of them on the mili committ |and one outside, ean get Into lir favor of the bill its chance of passage | will be exceedingly good. There Is still opposition to the meas- ure in army circles, but It is not so strong as when the change was first pro- posed and probably will not now be | very vigorously asserted. The thorough discussion which it has recelved and es- | pecially the strong arguments in support | of it presented by Secretary Root, have | convinced many of the early opponents of the proposed system that it would re- sult in improving the military estab- |lishment where improvement Is most necessary. In his last annual report the ary of war said that our military | system Is exceedingly defective at the | top, that while we have a personnel uu- | surpassed anywhere and our adminis trative staff and supply departments, as | a rule, have at their heads good and | competent men, faithful to thelr duties, | “when we come to the co-ordination and direction of all these means and agenci of warfare, so that all parts of the ma- | ckine shall work true together, we are | weak. Our system muakes no adequate | provision for the directing brain which every army must have to work success. | fully.” The purpose of the general staff | bill is to correct this defect and there 18 no doubt it would accomplish that most desirable result. The bill would establish harmony of administration, which, according to General Corbin, is | not possible under existing conditions of law and regulations—an admission of a competent authority that ought to be | conclusive in favor of the proposed re- form. in | | | | sec ! | SENATOR HOAR EXPLAINS HISBILL. | Senator Hoar is a learned and able | lawyer. He knows as well as anyone the ilmitations upon the powers of con- gress imposed by the constitution. He framed his anti-trust bill in the fuil light of this knowledge, with care and deliberation, and those who question the constitutionality of its provisions, as Representative Jenkins, chairman of the house committee on judiclary, and some others have done, must be prepared to glve very conclusive reasons for their opinfori. The country will not accept a hastily formed judgment adverse to the anti-trust measure of the eminent Massachusetts senator, who is in the frent rank of constitutional lawyers, In his speech Tuesday explanatory of his bill Senator Hoar did not claim for it perfection or infallibility. He said it | was tentative and experimental, as any | legislation of this nature must neces- sarily be. No mortal wisdom can dis- cern at once all that is required for the proper and adequate supervision and regulation of the great industrial com- binations. It is a comparatively new question, arising from an extraordinary | evolution in industrial and economic conditions the import of which is not | yet clearly and perfectly understood. | “We should proceed safely, step by step,” sald Senator Hoar. That is the view of thoughtful, conservative men. They see the danger inherent in the con- centration of vast financial, industrial and commercial power in combinations controlled by a few men. They realize that such a situation Is pregnant with possibilities of very great evils and | abuses, some of which have been already developed. But in seeking a remedy men like Senator Hoar, who un- derstand the obstacles and difficulties, endeavor to find a way that will cor- rect evils and avert danger without shat- tering the entire industrial system and halting progress and prosperity. The conservative and rational plan, the only plan that can be certainly and perma- | pently effective, Is that of regulation and control. This will not be destructive, | nor will it interfere with legitimate in- dustrial progress on sound and safe eco- nomic lines. As was sald by .\'elmlnr‘ Hoar, “great wealth should be controiled | as the servant of man 2ud of the gov- | ernment and should not be given the | reins of control. We must keep control over agencies which can make L‘llll'fl“ grow or wither.” | It is necessary In dealing with this! complex problem to avold whatever would be essentially revolutionary in its | operation. It must be borne in mind that if it were practicable to destroy the combinations this could not be accom- plished without more or less injury to | { the entire Industrial system of the coun- try. Every independent enterprise tha now competes with the combinations | would be unfavorably affected. It not a revolutionary but a remedial pol icy that is to be desired and it is this | which Is provided in Senator Hoar's bill Some changes and modific measure may be found expedient, but as we have heretofore said, it is in its eral terms the most practieal 15| | en- regulation of the corporations and as sociations to which it applies thus far submitted to congre It's a cold day when Ike Hascall ean't turn & political trick. His resolution directing the city attorney to withdraw from the police commission case now pending before the supreme court, on the plea that the legislature is now in { preme court sald: | of “every man.” | sheep in a few years tions of that | western and com- | prehensive bill for the supervision and | pompadour councilman from the First knows very well that the Mercer delegation in the legislature is not In the least inclined to disturb the Mercer- Baldwin police board, and he knows, that the title of the police commission hangs by a very slender thread. moreover, Favored on the Inside, Chicago News. The theory of Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce commission that pub- | licity is no real remedy for bad trusts un- doubtedly has the thorough approval of a large number of gentlemen intimately con- nected with stch trust Where Much Learning Brooklyn Eagle. Vermont is undergoing a process of edu- Needed. | cation in prohibitory laws, and after the | process is completed, it might take up the matter of education in its schools. They are open from sixteen to twenty weeks a year, 8o it ought not to lecture the south Idealizing the Daily Springfield Republican. Somebody has sald that life is all in the day's work. So it {s. To do one's best every day, In business, in the home, in all the incidents and burdens of the soclal re- lationship, until nightfall and sleep come, 18 to live well. 8o to do for 365 days is to make the year pretty nearly what it ought to be. Turn on the Water. Indianapolls News. Governor General Taft of the Philippines is of the opinion that it may be possible to induce the sultan of Jolo to part with | some of the rights he claims to the Jolo group, and thus obviate many obstacles now encountered. Possible? Why, it would be easy! We didn’t have much difficulty in making Spain let go, did we? Fine Record in Goyernment Business. Minneapolis Journal. In one particular at least business man- agement by the government compares fa- vorably with that by private persons or cor- porations, and that is in the fidelity and in- tegrity of its employes. The postoffice money order system last year handled $602,- 596,930, involving 34,127 postoffices and 78,- 619,705 different transactions; yet the total loss from dishonesty or carelessness of.em- ployes was $251. It {s'doubtful whether any private business management in the world can show 80 good a record as this. Valuable Suggestion for Legislato: Portland , Oregonan. In deciding a suit upon a franchise tax | Justice Brewer of the United States su- “‘Whatever property ls worth for the purpose of income and sale, it is also worth for the fuarpose of taxation. To deny the existence of intangible prop- erty is to insult the common {ntelligence In another case Chiet Justice Fuller of the same court held that the value of a franchise s found by adding the market valug of .the stock and bonds and deducting the assessed value of the tangible property. -Herein i a valuable suggestion for Oregon legislators. Moving Upward Steadily. Detrolt Free Press. There was never a time before when so great a part of the energy of all mankind was. devoted to peageful pureuits. To be sure, this conditiop, is not permanent, and no man can say. when this peace will be shattered and the,ammles of the nations meet on a new Armageddon, but a condi- tion 1s a condition, and whoever carefully exaniined the map of The hemispheted today must ¢arry away with him the convietion that, howeyer crude the method may be, the peoples of the garth are slowly work- ing their, way toward the parliament of mankind and the federation of the world. Selsing Cofil In Transit, Philadelphta North American. During the anthracite strike the railroads commandeered coal in transit which had been sold to dealers,’ belonged absolutely to the purchasers and had been entrusted to the railroads as common carriers under con- tract to deliver it to the owners. The rall- road managers had no more right to seize that coal than they-had to confiscate the baggage of passengers. The farmers of Kansas have learned the trick of com- mandeering from the.railroads. They hold up trains and take what coal they need, and sometimes they offer to pay for it. Retri- bution overtakes the wicked in one way or another in the long fun. - —— DECLINING MEAT SUPPLY. tics on Available Stock and the Effect on Price Philadelphia Pres The prospects for much lower prices for meat products are not good, and some of those interested In the packing busines as- sert that higher prices will rule in the not distant future. This prediction ls based largely on the fact that live stock statistics of the world show a steady decline, while the human race i constantly increasing. This is more partigularly true of those countries in which mezt Is largely con- sumed. Asiatic races are chiefly veget rian, probably due to the fact that meat in those countries long ago became compar- atively scarce, which made it necessary to consume o.her kinds of food in its place. Buropean countries, excluding Great Britain, have less than 300,000,000 head of cattle, sheep, goats and hogs with which to feed 310,000,000 persons. The United States, with a population only about one- fifth that of all Europe, has 65 per cent as many cattle, 45 per cent as many sheep and nearly as many hogs. The live stock supply of Europe is much less now than formerly, while the population fs much greater. France had 15§ head of live stock in 1875 for each 1,000 acres of land, while now she has only 164, although there has been an increase in population. Denmark has dropped from 197 head to 115. Germany has only one-third as many sheep as she had twenty-five years ago, and has lost in cattle per capita. Holland, Switzerland and some other countries make a worse showing. Even where there hds been an increase in live ‘stock it has beer much less propor- tionately than the incr in population. This deficiency In live stock in Europe has caused a great demand on the United States, Australia and South America to make up the supply. - But Australia has had a remarkable decrease n the number of its The United States bad more milch cows in 1592 than it had in 1900, and over 9,000,000 more “oxen and | other cattle” in 1890 than in 1900, There ha peen & large decline in sheep and swine, and at the same time there has been a very large Increas in the population. The lands used for live stock have been taken up largely by farmers, and al- together there s no prospect of such a surplus of animals for food as formerly ex- isted, and this situation will not improve much, as the land can be used for greates profit than that of stock ralsing Many new articles of food have come into common use in recent years and therc 18 no fear of & lack of fogd. That may inerease greater than the population. But the supply of meat is not Mkely to increase to any considerable extent, while it Is cer- tain, judging from'tbé experience of other uations, to be less in the future in pro- portion to population than is now the case. That means higher prices. But that will Bot come immediately, I ROUND AROUT NEW YORK, Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropol Persons who dropped into the church of Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhirst on Sunday morning and profaned the contribution box with G-cent pleces, heard from that gentl man with vigor and suddenness that curled thelr hair. ““These_drifters, these dead-heads,” sald Dr. Parkhurst, “come into the church of a Sabbath morning and drop a nickel in the plate while occupying a seat in a pew pald for by some other man. These a except the words, ‘without money and with- |out price Thelr sttitude savors of so- clalism. A socialist, you will understand, is mot a man who wants to divide his money with his neighbors, but a man who with him." One frequently hears the query: becomes of the unsold Christmas trees?" It some of the persons curious on this point had been on Vesey street, near Wash- ington Market, on New Year's morning, the answer would have been apparent, re- ports the Evening Post. Nearly 100 trees, large and small—the unsold stock of “the Farm,” as that particular Christmas tree market s known—were there, piled up orderly. Soon a few small children ap- peared, and began to appropriate the un. graded trees. Within fifteen minutes the little ones were as plentiful as sparrows, all working methodically in piling the spruce and hemlock in a big heap. The final result was a bonfire, such as the city child seldom has the opportunity to enjoy. The policemen on that beat looked on laughing, unmindtul of the ordinance pro- hibiting bonfires in the streets. “Sure, i's only onct a year was his comment. Two men were walking behind an ele- gantly dressed woman on Fulton street the other day, relates the Brooklyn Eagle. “DId you, ever see me hypnotize woman?" asked one “Nonsense!" the other sneered. “Bet you $2 I can make that woman ahead of us touch both her ears before she has gone half a block.” Do you know her?" No. Never saw her before. “What would you do to her? “Nothing but walk behind her. touch her.” . “What would you say to her?" Nothing; not & word.” “And you'll make her put both her hands to her ears without touching her or speak- 1nz to her?” “Yes, sir. “Well, 1t'll be worth §2 to see you do it. Tl have to go you.’ “Very well!l Watch now!” In a tone loud enough for the woman to hear he said to his comphnion: “Charley, how do you like the new fashion the women have of wearing only one earring?" Instantly the woman clapped one gloved hand and then the other to her ears to,see it she had lost one of her sparklers. “It'll work every time,” sald the winner. “You can make good wages betting on it it you can find suckers emough to take you up.'” I won't The bounding ambition of the department store knows neither pause nor fatigue. The oftering of free high-class concerts in some of the New York stores reached such an altitude that Manager Grau was compelled to Interfere to prevent the participation of Mme. Sembrich, Mme. Schuman-Heluk and Messteurs Companari and Bispham. The department store has already extended Its sphere and its ultlities until it has pro- vided for every utilitarfan feminine need, and 1t now proposes to furnish every means of entertaining; instructing and edifying its patrons. The day is near at hand when the morning street car will bring both husband and wite down town to the business centers, he to betake himeelf to his office, she to enter the welcoming portals of the depart- ment store, where all day long there will be provided countless means of keeping busy and interested and of tlyvarting the approach of ennul. There wii® be lectures on art, pn cookery, on fashions, on litera ture; there will be gymnasiums with calfs thenics and Instructions in Delsarte, in the preservation of beauty, in hairdressing, in house decoration, the care of house plants, sanitation and health; there will be con- certs, there will be libraries, museums, picture galleries, reading rooms, tea rooms and Turkish baths; there will be a newspaper with editions every hour. All this, we promise for the department store of the of things become the home of all woman- hood during the daylight hours, we see no hindrance to the erection of a department five storles high, with thousands of apart- ments and an immense population, with a roof garden as large as & city park, churches and schools wherein the popula- tlon may find every convenience, each con- ducted with that magnificent attention to detail which distinguishes the department store, Insuring the comfort, health and en- joyment of its patrons, night and day. The industry and sagacity that bullds up these wonderful hives is worthy of a wider fleld 2ad a loftier aim. Antonfo Caesoba, & fireman on the steam- ehip Mexico, was severely pained yester- day, relates the Tribune. Not at being put in & cell, although that caused some sad reflection. It was loss of faith in humanity, sorrow at the dousing, to speak nautically, of the light of truth as issuing from his lips. Arch-traitors had conepired against him, and his story of their fell machina- tions recelved no credence. 'Twas & sad day for truth Customs Inspector G. T. O'Nell was on the pler at Wall street, alongside which Mexieo lay, when he saw Antonlo approach- ing. A Samson, a Gollah, a Sandow, seemed Antonio, with bunches of gnarled muscle lumping out his clothes. “You're. s chesty guy,” mused O'Neil “That chest expansion would put Fitzsim- mons or Sharkey out of business. g Then he noticed that Antonio's legs, too, were those of a Hercules, 80 much so that Antonlo walked as if muscle bound. “Maybe he's swelling with dropsy, thought O'Neil Perhaps he has ele- phantiasis, Anyhow, he's in a bad way. I'll investigate.” O'Nelll led Antonfo into the customs office on the pler and began to probe the swelllngs. He put his hand under An- tonlo’s shirt bosom and drew out a package of cigarettes, imported, but mot in the regular way. He continued doing so until his arm ached, and the pile of cigarette boxes had increased to 500. Antonio's trous ers, too, were fertile with cigarettes. They ylelded another crop of 600. As the cigar- ette pile grew large Antonio grew small By eliminating the bunches O'Nell reduced bim to a normal girth Antonlo was astonished, astounded and almost asphyxiated “How getta I dese? he replied to the inspector’s question. “Quien sabe? Sancts Maria! Agaiusta mis dey conspiro. “I sleepa In mia bunko. I waka. L feela blg. 1 have da stomack ake. I feel dese buncha. 1 say I go to da doc. Enamee, dey poota dese in while I sleepa. Bimby I go. Dey say we catcha him, knocke him down, taka de cigarros. Mia innocenta. He put his band ou his heart. “Carrabo, carrambo!” he sald flercely. Begorro to lmbo!" sald O'Nell grimly the people who hear nothing In the gospel | wants his nelghbors to divide their money | “What | vaudeville and moving pictures; | future, and, as it must in the natural order | store covering four to eight blocks, twenty- | UNWRITTEN LAWS OF DBUSINE! OMAHA, Jan To the BAitor of The Bee: The wild roar of the menacing appeal to the infernal flat of the “Be It enacted" {curse of all good government Is again sweeping over the country in full and dis- cordant chorus. Statutory remedies for in- cidental evils, which are inseparable from all great expansions in commercial and Indus- trial development, are as thick in the air semble in thelr blinding offect upon the people. Presidents and ex-presidents, statea- men of all ranks and parties appear to be | hot rivals in thelr vain attempts to prevent | by legislation over-issue of stock and the | making of large money by the great corpd- | rations. Anti-trust laws are exhausting the | genius of invention by large and small politiclans and amateur Napoleons of fin- ance in vain attempts to choke down and hold down American enterprise by means cf obstruction. It strikes some observers of the madness of the times that when these roaring philosophers pass laws in restraint of corporations that fssue more stock than their public guardians deem necessary, it would be in perfect order to enact one to abolish the fools that invest in it. The country needs nothing so much at this in the United States as it needs a radical and effective anti-fool law. acted and promptly repealed or amended by Wisconsin and othor states, for the regulation of railway freight rates, the un- written laws of business under the influénce and controlling power of competition have blessed and enriched our country with the cheapest rates of transportation which the world has ever known. No better proof of | the fact, which no informed man will ques- tion, can be found than is seen in the total failure of the Interstate commerce law to accomplish the main object of its enact- ment. The essence of it was to 80 regulate railway freight rates tha: no higher rates could be charged for a short haul than w charged for & long haul. I think there can be no successtul contradiction of the fact that It has utterly failed, after many yeirs of trial, to do more than to vex and harass business from the beginning. And why? { The ready answer is, simply because no statute can be devised which can override the res'stless Unwritten laws of busine I was much pleased with an oditorial arti- cle iu The Bee of last SBunday wherein its readers were told of the independent busi- ness in our country which declares to all men that competition s as flerce now in all walks of business, including steers and steel, as it ever was in any day of our history. And, by the way, what has be- come of that monster, the meat trust? Strayed, or stolen? The {dea that any wix men or number of men, including J. P. Mor- gan and Edward A, Cudaby and his power- ful packing associates, can control, put up and put down at will, the prices of aither steel or steers in this country is equally impossible and absurd. What this country wanmts is commerclal freedom from the hindering and artificial burdens of tariff taxation and blind fool statesmanship, whose real foundation rests upon governmental paternalism. GEORGE L. MILLER. PERSONAL NOTES. The renovated White House has thirty- | one miles of wire. A good many would like to pull it who can't. | Justin McCarthy proposes to bring his “History of Our Times” down to the accession of King Edward VII and subse- quently to write his Irish reminiscenses. Frank Mitchell of Akron, O., the negro as a London fog, which they somewhat re- | period ot wholly unprecedented prosperity | Since the so-called grangor laws were en- | POPULISTS NEARLY ALL GONE. Dee! of the Party Since it Nomi- nated General Weaver in 1898, New York Sun, Ten years often bring about a great change In American politics, but it is to be doubted whether any similar period has scen #o sweeping & change as marks the practical effacement of the people's party (populists), organized In 1802 In that year the popullst candidate for president, General Weaver, polled more than a milllon votes. He was put in nomination at a convention held at Omaha on July 4, 1902, and the delegates who nominated him, {mpressed with the im- portance of the movement they were inau- ating, declared in thelr platform that ‘assembled upon the 116th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the people’s party In America, In its first na- tional conventlon, invoking upon its action the blessing of Almighty God, puts forth in the name and behalf of the people of this country the following declaration of principles.” The 1,000,000 votes cast for the populist candidate for president were well dis- tributed throughout the states of the coun- try and In only two of them Delawaré and Vermont, no populist electoral ticket was run. The party received its highest vote In Kansas, 168,000, and the states carried by | the populists were Kans: Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. In Oregon and North Dakota | the populist candidates received a portion | of the electoral vote. | No outside pa.iy for many years had polled so large a vote and it was accom- panied with populist representation in both | bouses of congress. | In 1896 the popullsts became a part of the fusion on Bryan. In 1900, after disas- trous political experiences meanwhile, the surviving members of the organization nominated Wharton Barker for president and he received 207,000 votes—one-fifth of the total cast for General Weaver. At last year's election the populist party, maintaining its organization and neminat- ing candidates In eight states only, polled 20,635 votes, as follow: Colorado Georgla Idaho Tllinots India; Kansas Minnesota’ Tennesses , Total On the sliding scale of political dismem- berment shown by the populists during ‘the last year, there will probably be no popu- list party in the United States in 1903, and certainly none in 1904. POINTED REMARKS, Briggs—1 hear you are prince. Griggs—That's right, old man. most of the time.—Brooklyn' Life, living ke a I'm broke Cora—Are those dangerous microbes that are found In kisses? Her Malden Aunt—They are, my ghen they prove 1o be the germs o mony.—N. Y. Sun. “Th:re {s something elevating in rausi sald the artist “Yes,' ‘answered ceralnly has the e ideals as to salary dear, matri- the manager. ‘‘Music ect of stimulating 107ty '—Washington Star. “T started out on the first to pay up my debts, and I declare 1 never was so tired In my lite.” “How many creditors dld_you pay?"* Pay? 1 didn't pay any. 1 was too tired."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “He called me an artistic lia i didn’t hear him use any such angus, il he Mdn't put 1t in just those who 18 108 years old, has used tobacco just 100 years. A man with the vitality to live more than 100 years can do almost anything. The Canadians are also embracing them- selves over last yea prosperity and dreaming sweet dreams of an even brighter record for the year upon which we have Just entered. A Cuban congressman shot and killed a rival politician, who was also an editor. It is understood that President Palma would not mourn much if about three-quarters of the politicians in Cuba were removed from the scene. Alderman Coughlin has decided to discard his pea-green dress suits and other bits of fancy wearing apparel and to don cowhide boots, blue jeans and wide-brimmed straw hats. In other words, he is going to be a sure-enough farmer. Because the Jurks say “there is no one wise but Mahomet,” the title of Dr. Henry | Van Dyke's “‘Story of the Other Wise Men," | which has just been translated into Turkish, had to be changed to “How the Other | Sclentist Was Left Behind." It transpires that the allment from which | E. J. Baldwin, better known as “Lucky"” Baldwin, s suffering is a malignant cancer. | The nature cf the disease has been con- cealed from his friends for some time. There 18 no hope of his recovery. Thomas A, Cleage, the St. Louls broker who cleaned up about $300,000 In the recent corn corner, is a musician and composer | of considerable ability. His wite is also | musical, as are his three children, two girls and a boy. The five have organized themselves into a little family orchestra, but confine thelr performances to their own | home and invited friends. Philip Matter, the wealthiest citizen .of Marion, Ind., owns a building in which two men have been running a saloon. Com- plaints reached him regarding a side en- trance to the place, so he ordered his ten- | ant to close 1t. The saloon keeper refused to do 80, and Mr. Matter celebrated New Year's day by hiring a carpenter to nall up the door, standing by the mechanic while the work was being done. + coming words, but he said I had the making of a successful diplomat in me."—Chicago Post. ‘Washington Star: ‘Some _ men," a Uncle Eben, “talks #o much dat dey can't think o' nuffin’ wuf sayin’, on account o' deir own disturbanc Friend—You seem to have as many cus- tomers now as during the holiday Haberdasher—Why, thosc are fellows to exchange the necktles their Yives bought them for Christmas—N. Y un. TWO INKY WAYS, Architects and Bullders’ Journal There was & man who advertised But once—a single time. In spot obscure placed he his ad, And pald for it a dime. Ang just because it didn't bring Him customers by score, “All advertising 18 a f: He sald, or rathe wore. He seemed to think one hammer tap Would drive a nail clear in; That from a bit of tiny thread A weaver tents could spin. 1 this reasoning bright applied To eating, doubtless he Would claim one little bit would feed Ten men a century, Some day, though, he will learn that to Make advertisi n! pay He'll have to add ads to his ad And advertise each day. RELIEVES Eye-Strain HUTESON WHO 213 South 16th St. Paxton Block. = of sales and bargains it will over the many good things th clothing we claim quite an ad $1.00 and $1.50 shirts, Toc. § ter underwear at 20 per cent No Clothing F [g)rominz : During These Days be to your advantage to look at are here before you decide “where” to make the purchase. As makers of our own vantage over most retailers— and at our special discount of 25 per cent we claim a de- cided advantage and it would do no harm to compare our values—all classes of clothing included in this sale. Nur Furnishing Dept. has a number of good things also. 50¢ neckwear, 25e. 2.00 ones $1.50 and ALL win- discount. its Like Ours. e 3G R. S. WILCOX, Manager.