Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 4, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAlLY BEE ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF &1 Datly Bee (without & Dally Bee and Sunday, Une Tllustrated Hee, Une Year Bunday Hee, One year Buturday Bée, One Year Twentieth Century I'armer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee (without Sun Ellly Bee (without Sund ily Bee (nciuding Sundiy), per week Bunday Hee, per copy ... Evening Bee (without Sunday) Evening Bee (including Sunday), ‘week Complaints whoula be addressed to City partment SCRIPTION One Year. $4.00 Year 6.0 day) 1.60 L per weck 6 er " 100 of irregularities in delivery “irculation De- OFFIC Omaha—~The Bee Buildin Bouth Omaha—City Hall #y-fifth and M Streets. Counell 8luffs—10 Pearl Street Chicago—168 Unity Bullding New York—2i2y Park Row Bullding. Washington—#1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Commubications relating to news and ed- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha ee, Editorial Department REMITTANCY Remit by draft, express or postal order, yable to The Hee Publishing Company. Bhly 2eeomt stamps wceepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha_or eastern exchang e THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY £ Building, Twen- NT OF CIRCULATION. e of Nebraska, Douglas County, s George B. Taechuck, sect ary of The Bee Publisning company, belng duly sworn, says that the aclual number of full 1 compiete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee pginted during the month of January, 19, Was as follows: 180,420 17 80,250 30,790 25,800 30,500 ..30,600 ..28,920 0,540 ..130,680 550 28,700 20,560 ...80,550 .. B0, 80,570 80,470 30,530 30,570 Total Less unsold and returned coples. D41,485 9875 Net total sales Net average sales. .. EOR( Bubscribed In my pre before me this 3ist day of Janu 1908, M. B, HUD (Seal . 30,051 B. TZSCHUCK That groundbog evidently knew his ‘business when he dodged back Into his hole to escape the impending blizzard. iy The Natlonal Editorial association must have fixed on July for its Omaha convention to make sure in advance of enjoying a hot time. At command of his physician King Bdward has abandoned a visit to Chats- worth, Who says monarchs are mas- ters of all they survey? heeeee—— Omaha club wowen will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the club's found- ing. That is one feminine birthday they bave no hesitation in uncovering. . —_— e If Colonel Bryan's new park is to be held at the free disposal of picnic par- tles we presume political pienies will be given right-of-way whenever dates clash. It's a trifie early for reports of Klon- dike gold strikes, but the publicity de- partment of the Alaskan transportation llnes seems to be already unlimbering for action. Our American minister to Colombia has resigned to return to newspaper work. He knows by experience that such a place in the diplomatic service is no promotion for a working newspa- per man. 1t our High school puplls could be taught to operate a typewriting machine skilifully, the stand them accomplishment would to produce legible handwriting. If the Yaquis are such good soldiers as all that, they ought to go into the occupation. But | then, It is more thun likely that thelr trast with the poor fighting qualities of the Mex- military business as a prowess shines only by c fean soldiers. ‘Why should we have an edict against the wine rooms from the police board With the great Baldwin- Broatch reform board in the saddle for at this time? slx months, how Is it ‘possible the wine rooms should still be in operation in Omaha? Those New Jersey men conv! sending threatening letters to J. Pler- pont Morgan to extort money from him | deserve the prisou sentences they got They ought to try some more modern scheme of gold-bricking merger propositions him on fake The railroads prefer making of the city tax I its collection because holding up levy ordinance will create wore embar. rassment to the city government. If they count on forcing # compromise they will be fooled. m—— enjoin the And now a delegation of democrats is golug from New Mesico to Washington to intercede for Statelood. If the om nibus statehood bill Is effectually block. aded, democrats and republicans wil both bie entitled to sbare the blame or | credit as'the poiut of view may be. e ] Nebrdska newspape know by this time that they cannol afford to sell editorial space to the rail road tax bureau, or to anyone else fo that matggr, irrespective of the offered. puts up & “for sale” si, chasers. Emp—— An Illinols legislator wants to put a end to perlodiq cur famines by lmpos ‘ng a pemalty on the derelict railroad: thet faf¥ite meet dewands of the ship- pers. This uld be followed up with on the car and locomo- similar penalt! tive quakers who fall to flll orders of nce and sworn to | more in service in these | twentieth century days than the ability ted of rather than the But | editors ought to price he newspaper that sells its editorial opinions to the railroads simply ‘ to all pur- A GLARING DISCREPANCY. Under the constitution of Nebraska all | corporations and | taxed for state, individuals are county, { afelpal government in just proj {the value of their respective property The flagrant disproportion between the | municipal taxation of raifronds and - | nicipal taxation of all other classes of | | property I8 strikingly shown by a com- | parison between the taxes imposed upon the owners of private property in Omaha and the owners of the Union Pacific| | railrond to be and mu | tlon to | loenl | All the taxable property, real and per- | | sonal, exclusive of rallroads, located | | Within the ity of Omaha approximates | £100,000,000. The aggregate value of the Unfon Pacific raflroad in the state | {of Nebraska, based upon the selling | price of its stocks and bonds, or its earn- Ing capacity, approximates $100,000,000. | In other words, thie property of the cor- poration known as the city of Omaha and- the properties of the corporation known as the Unlon Pacific railway in Nebraska are of -about the same value fi dollars and cents, the ouly differruce between them being that the property | of the Union Pacific Is marketable for | eash, while the bulk of the real estate | | within the limits of Omaba Is not mar- | ketable or scarcely exchangeable for its | assessed value. | In his speech before the legislative | revenue committee last week John N. Baldwin, as representative of the Union Pacific, declared that the total amount | of taxes, state, county, school distri city and village, paid by the Unfon cifie railroad for the year 1002 aggre- lkllll-:« £300,000. The amount of taxes, state, county and city, paid by the prop erty owners within the limits of the city of Omaha for the year 1902 will aggr gate $1,630,000. 1In other words, the owners of $100,000.000 worth of real and personal property within the corporate limits of Omaha have been compelled to | pay more than five times as much taxes, | state, county and city, as has been paid by the Unfon Pacific raflrond for the same perfod on property of about the same, or greater, value. To be more specific still, the taxpayers within the city limits of Omaha have pald $150,000 of state taxes, $330,000 of county taxes and $1,150,000 of muniepal taxes In the year 1902, while the Union Pacific railrond has only paid $300,000 in taxes all in all. And yet John N. Baldwin had the audacity to assert that the Union Pacific raflroad with:its $100,- 000,000 worth of property in Nebraska is contributing just as much toward the expenses of malintaining state, county and munteipal government in Nebraska as any other interest representing prop- erty of equal value. | L FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG AND MIS- CHIEVOUS. The assurance by the World-Herald that the genmeral provisions of the Howell water works bill had the cor- dial endorsement of such mupicipal ownership champions as W. 8. Popple- ton does not disprove the assertion that the bill contravenes a vital principle of self-government, If municipal owner- ship of public ultilitles cannot be brought about without a .surrender of the right of every community to choose its own public servants and manage Its own affairs, then municipal ownership had better be abandoned. The viclous feature of the Howell bill is the attempt to saddle upon the citi- zens of Omaha a governor-appointed commission that will not be responsible to the corporation for which it Is to exercise prerogatfves that involve an expenditure of wmillions of dollars of public funds. If it is right that gov- ernors shall appoint our water commis- slons it would be right for them to ap- point our boards of public works, and for that matter our wayors, city coun- | cils and school boards. The argument that the government of | Omaha cannot be trusted by the citi- zens of Omaha is an indictment of the | whole community. Tt is practically an | admission that Omaha is not fit to gov- ern itself. Mr. Poppleton has been by inheritance and natural choice a democrat and | democrats have always professed devo- tion to the ,principles of local self-gov- ernment. If Mr. Poppleton has changed his views for the sake of bringing about | the early purchase of the water works Ms démocracy 18 only skin deep. But | | democrats are not the only advocates of | | " home rule and local self-government. {The republican party from Lincoln to McKinley and Roosevelt has cham- ploned popular sovereignty in its broad- est sense, and every departure from that principle by republicans whether they are legislators or governors s i con- | flict with its fundamental doctrines as repeatedly enunclated in national and state platforms. The fact that the Howell bill passed the legislature without dissent reflects no credit on the legislature. Tt simply | shows gross disregand of the plain duty of all law-making bodies to discuss and | digest the prineiples and consequences of every measure that comes before | them. Courtesy to the Douglas delega- | tion should not have exempted the How ell-Gilbert bills from judiclous serutiny, If wembers from outside districts con curred with the delegation that a legls- | lative mandate was uecessary to secure for Omaha the benefit of the municipal ownership of water works, the Dbill should have been o framed as to re quire the mayor and council t0 exercise | the power conferred upon them by con demmation or arbitration on constitu- tional lines—that is, on lines that would not have involved the ¢ty in a breach of its existing contract, It the legislatare deemed & water com- mission and a water commissioner es- sential to the management of the works it should have left the city the privilege of electing a boand of commissioners at | 3| o | | | L t r | they | | erentes THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1903, ing them appointed by the governor to draw if not years, be fore the plant is acquired and before will hiave any duty The fact that the H first after it salaries months, to perform. vell bill on the ne into effect nfusion and in the thx affords proot that the legisiature did not know what it was about, and evidently was willing | to let the Douglas del the responsibility for the ine sequences of ill-digested legislation, in spired primarily by the ot Mr. Howell to find a job out of which he can make a living. IN A FALSE PUSITION. We think that &hould be given to reports coming from Washington intimating that there is ap- prehension in official circles of trouble for the United States in connection with the Venezuelan affair. It is altogether improbable that this puntry will be come involved in any difficulty with the allies, neither of which, the is every reason to belleve, has the slight- ire to quarrel with the United Sooner than have any serfous misunderstanding with this country Great Britain would withdraw from the alliance, whichi is extremely unpopular | in England and would become more in- | tensely so if there should De veal dan-{ ger of any impairment of Anglo-Amer- | fean relations. In that event the lkrlt-; ish ministey would find it impossible to withstand popular hostility the al- liance. It is equally safe to say that Germany will not press her demands to such an extent provoke trouble with the United States. There is not enough at stake to lead her to do this and it is not to be doubted that Em peror: William realizes how utterly fu-| tile it would be to quarrel with this country. The inevitable result would | be that Germany would not only her claims against Venezuela, which she can now collect if a falr and reason- able course be pursued, but would greatly imperil her commercial interests in this hemisphere and weaken herself in | other respects. Germany requires for | the restoration of industrial activity and | the promotion of her commerce the main- | day has « rehy | | city ovy conclusive gatlon assnme all able con | | | i necessities no serious importance | one States. to lose tenance of peaceable relations with all | countries and with none more than the | United States, which is in a position to practically destroy thé commercial in- terests ‘of Germany in South and Cen- tral America. The talk of serious trouble between the United States and | the allies being feared in official circles at Washington is undoubtedly ground- less, but its tendency is mischlevous. There is no doubt that the allies have taken a false position in demanding that they shall have preferential treat- ment in any arrangement that may be made for the payment by Venezuela of the elaims against her. Such a demand I8 clearly unfair to the other nations whose claims are equally as just as those of Great Britaln, Germany and Italy and are entitled to equal consid- eration, France, .for instance, has a treaty . with Venezuela which pro ides for the payment of her claims and her government I8 manifestly right in urg- ing that this shall be respected and that France shall not be placed at any dis- advantage, Other countries, whose clalms Venezuela has acknowledged, stand as France does and reasonably object to the preferential treatment proposition of the allles. The United States will enter into no alllance with the other creditor nations, but she may properly support their position. It ap- pears probable from the latest informa- tion that a compromise arrangement will be effected. At all events it can be confidently assumed that neither Great Britain nor Germany will quarrel with the United States over the Venezuelan ity. — 1f the representatives of the water works company had joined with other corpora- tlons in the effort to elect the tepublican legislative ticket, this bill would probably never have passed. The truth is that the water works company is the one corpora- tion which the republican members from Douglas county are free to attack and to | the appeals of which the'republican gov- ernor is free to be indifferent.—World- Herald It what the World-Herald says con- rning the animus of the Douglas dele- gatlon in rushing through the 1ll-dig water works bill of questionable « tutionality is true, it is not very ¢ itable to the Douglas delegation. Mem- bers of the legislature are chosen to rep resent the interests of the whole people and not merely to redress personal | grievances or vent their spite upon in dividuals or corporations who have op posed them or refused to contribute to their campaign fund. The delegation will searcely feel complimented by the intimation that they are the creatur: of other franchised corporations and committed to do thelr bidding regavd less of the interests of the taxpayers of ested nsti- red- | | Omaba. | In his communication to the Board of Education urging action to improve the handwriting of pupils in the High school, | by instruction in correct penmanship, Superintendent Pearse says among other things: i These, and the copsiderable number of | puplls who leave school before they grad- | uate writlpg a poor hand, give many times | & bad pame to the instruction of the school | trom which they came. | With this grammatical monstrosity as | an object lesson, suggest to the board that it take some action to p vide our schools with a superintendent able to use correct English, | { we The Ink on the signature of Governor Mickey to the Howell-Gilbert water works bill was not dry before the dis covery wus made that the bill blocks the way of levying a water tax for the year 1903, That does not mean, however, that the city will be relleved from pay- the coming city election, with the pro- Viso that their terms of office should not 4 ing water hydrant rental, which it is bound by its contract to pay so long as the rallroads for pew rolling stock | begin until the purehase-of the works|the water company remains the owner bad been cousummated instead of ba of the works. No law cuacted by the | Bach wreck's | wa | growing bigger. | ers, legislature that contemplates the viola tion of contracts would stand in any conrt of justice, and consequently the Howell law at pnce enibroiis the city in costly litigation at the expense of the taxpay with no possible advantage to anybody. If the council cannot levy a tax the court will surely register a Judgment for the water rent against the ety with interest from the day it was due — The World-Herald promptly denounces the republican papers that opened their columns to the Baldwin paid editorials to work up sentiment against the Omaha scheme, but it has not told whether the communication on the editorial page of its Monday's issue, making a labored de- fense of the railroad position over the signature “M.” was paid for out of the same ilroad slush fun Was that communication furnished to the World- Herald by Frank Harrison, or did it come direct from Baldwin himself? It is pointed out that the author of the | Howell water works bill is barred by the constitution from the erioluments of the salaried position of water commis sloner by the clause prohibiting any member of the legislature accepting a civil appointment from the governor. But the place is not to be filled by ap- pointment of the governor. The man who framed the bill was careful to see to Peacet There is None. Philadeiphia Prees. Don't take it for granted the settlement of the Venezuela affair will restore peace throughout the world. The baseball war threatens to loom up again. Heroes of the Wrecks. Raltimore American The herolsm of railroad locomotive en- gineers and firomen grows proportionately greater as the number of wrecks increases. list of dead starts off al- ys with the names of the engineers and firemen. Shallowness of the Shout. Philadelphia Record. “A big navy means peace! A small navy means war!” shouts a New York paper. During nearly all of its history this coun- try has had a small navy, and its com- merce has grown, 'Its honor has not been impaired and the Monroe dootrine has been The same people who are shouting for a big navy are predicting, and trying to precipitate a war with Germany. Where Trade Prospers. Philadelphla Record. Trade obstinately refuses to follow the flag. According to the treasury’s statistical report for February, of which the advance sheets are at hand, our business with for- eign countries during the year 1902 footed up to $2,330,022,888. Of this grand total over $1,900,000,000 represented trade with Buropean and North American countries. Latin-America and Asla have not re- sponded very liberally to our flag-planting and other fmmensely costly advances. Our entire trade with Asia, for instance, amounted to little over one-tenth of our business with Eurdpe and our North Amer- ican neighbors. Lohrndd Profemsions. . Philadelphla Telegraph. President Eltot"d? Harvard has been gra- clously pleased tofgraut patents of nob'™''y to architects, englueers, electriclans and landscape gardeuers. Members of these four vocations are entitled to be regarded professional men, and their callings are hereafter to be classed as among the Tearned professions. With all due respect to President Eliot’as the head of one of the great institutions of learning In Ameri vested with the power of granting univer- sity degrees which distinguish members of the learned professions from the ordinary laity, it is to be sald that architecture was a learned profession thousands of years before college and universities were dreamed of. Costly Experiment in Co-operatio: Springfiéld Republican. The great ap-operative manufacturing, distributive and educational movement in- | stituted In the west some time ago by Wal- ter Vrooman is reported to be falling of success. Only two. of 12 stores started at Trenton, Mo., remain, and those recently ‘opened in Kansas City are sald to be fall- ures. So far the project is reported to haye cost Mr. Vreoman and his brothers $40,000. The idea back of it bas been that there is practically no limit to which com- bined effort can be carried, with econoty increasing directly with the increase in extent of the undertaking. This is the principle or suppoésition upon which the trusts are buflding. It is likely to prove a mistaken one. PERSONAL NOTES. An editor down fn Pennsylvania refers to the Stapdard Ofl Croesus as ‘“John D Rockybaptist.” A Chicago millionalre at a charity ba- zaar paid $1,000 for three sausages. Won- dertul how civic pride will stir a man at time General Funston has fully recovered his health and expects that ere long he will be assigned to duty in the Philippines again Gharlemagne Tower, the new American ambassador to Germany, has rented ® princely mansion on the Konigplatz, close to the Reichstag, in Berlin. Emperor Willlam having offered us a statue of Frederick the Great, it 1s sug- gested that an appropriate return might be made by sending to Berlin a life-size branze figure of President Monroe. Edgar A. Bancroft was elected president of the Union League club of Chicago last week by a vote of almost two to one, after the Tribune says, the warmest contest the club has ever known. Mr. Bancroft was a republican elector in the Harrison cam- palgn and is sald to be a close personal friend of President Roosevelt John T. McDonough, former secretary of state, labor comm! of New York, may be chief judge of the Philippine islands if he can arrange his do mestic affairs to sult the position. Presi- dent Roosevelt has tendered him the posi- tion, which is a lite office, at $10,000 a year. Judge MeDonough is one of the president’s close friends “There are two occasfons in a congress- man's life when his friends give him flow sald Colonel “Pete” Hepburn when he saw & great bunch of roses on the desk of Representative Hopkins of Illinols, who has just been elected to the senate. “What are they?” inquired John Sharp Williams When he dies or when he 18 elected to the | United States senate.” Levi Ankeny, senator-elect from Wash. ingion to succeed George Turner, is a mil- lMonaire banker and farmer. Mr. Ankeny ts awkward and difident, so it Is quite upn- lkely that be will take 8 prominent part in senatorial deliberations. It is generally believed that but for the active and dex- terous campsign conducted by his wife he could not have been elected senator. Mrs. Ankeny s & daughter of ex-Semator Ne- smith, sioner and county judge | OF WASHINGTON enes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. Shopkeepers of the national eapital have { been obliged to form an association to pro | tect themselves against the increasing ex actions of a lot of grafters employed wealthy houscholders. For many past the stewards of homes have celved tips from butchers, grocers and other tradespeople in return for their orders The tips gradually grew into a regular com- mission on sales, and the commission grew into a grievous burden. To rid themselves | of the necessity of puying this tribute the | dealers have organized a soclety, which is preparing a plan behind closed doors to wage warfare against the stewards. It is proposed to work in the name of the as sociation and directly with employers. The dealers are making up statements of facts | with regard to each individual steward who | has béen a claimant for pay, and these will be laid before the employers particularly | Interested, in the hope that they will co- operate to destroy the practice 1 Senator Dietrich perpetrated a pun dur- | ing sterday's proceedings, reports the | Washington Post. In giving notice that he should epeak at an early date on a reso- lution—to discharge the foreign relations | committee from consideration of the Cu- ban reciprocity bill, passed last winter by | the house—he observed: | ““The Cubans are suffering for the want | of reliet from trade conditions, but in the face of this distress and suffering the | senate remains in statu Quay (statu quo), and no effort is made to relieve the sit- uation."” Not a senator cracked a smile at this | lberty the Nebraskan took with an an- clent and respected Latin phrase. There s a growing disposition among high officials in the executive departments | here to object the employment of women. So strong is this sentiment that it was alleged that the recent action of | the Postofice department officials, which | | tound approval fn a pre-emptory order is- | sued by Postmaster General Payne assert- |ing that any woman clork in the depart- | ment who married should forfelt her posi- | tion, was the result of the increasing antip- |athy to women clerks. The p clals say this fdea fs not correct, but they {admit there is a prejudice in favor of male clerks for most positions. 1t 1s a matter of considerable interest to note to what extent the employment of women In the executive department has | been carrfed since it was introduced in the | Treasury department before the war. The latest statistics of the government service here shows that of more than 25,000 em- ployes in the departments here nearly 7,000 are women. The Treasury depart- ment outranks all other executive offices | In the proportionate number of female | clerks, but it s close pressed by the In- terior department, which, with the addi- tion of the new census bureau received a decided addltion of women employes. In | the Treasury department there are about 3,200 male clerks and 2,300 témale clerks The number of male clerks in the Interior department, which Includes many side bu- | reaus scattered throughout the elty, there | are 4,800 male employes and 2,800 females. The smallest proportionate number of fe- male clerks {8 in the War and Navy de- partments. Of the nearly 5,000 employes in these departments, less than 400 are females. The White House forces and tho interstate commerce commission are prac- tieally the only. government establishments there wherein no females are employes in the clerical force. A sturdy Kansan was sightseeing in ‘Washington and called on his congressman, ying he wished to attend the president's reception to the judiclary. “Have you your evening clothes here?’ sald the con- gressman. “You don’t mean my night shirt?" “No, no; your dress clothes—swal- lowtall, and so on.” “Well, I should say not. Out where I live my mornin’ clothes | ia my afternoon clothes, and my afternoon clothes {s my evenin' clothes, and that's all I've got. Besides, T don't approve of | no president who makes anybody put on | that outlandish rig just to shake hands with him. T guess I don’t want to go to your reception anyhow. “When I first came to the senate,” sald Senator Cullom to those lunching at the same table in the scnate restaurant the other day, “I had great ideas about a greater United States. My eyes were not turned to the southward, where everybody seems to be looking nowadays, but north- | ward. 1 was just as sure as sure can be that before this time we should have gob- bled up Canada. I did not think that we were golng up there and make a conquest of the country, but I could mot see any chance of its getting away from us. Why, when I was elected the second time and went out to Illinois to make my bow to the legislature my little speech was filled | with the annexation of Canada. Since that time I have watched Canada slipping far- ther and farther away from us, until now it takes a brave man even to suggest that some day the Stars and Stripes may float beyond our northern boundary. 1 have often wondered If any of the members of that legislature remember my speech. It they do they must think that Y am a mighty bad prophef “Yes,”” sald Senator Burrows, who had listened as befitted a man 8o much Mr. Cullom's junior, u could not pry Can- ada away from Great Britain now with a jimmy." to tal off- | Representative Shattue of Ohlo was mak- ing an earnest and tearful plea for a pen- | slon for & constituent. i Mr. Speaker,” he said, “this man is to- tally blind. He is dependent on what the government glves him for sustenance. His sight is Eone, and I recall that one da he came and saw me''— Shattue doesn't know yet why the house Inughed. Senator Platt of New York was opening a telegram as he entered the Marble room the other day. He stopped in front of Senator Mason as he took the message from | the envelope and read it. “It says that I have just been re-elected United States senator,” explained Mr. Platt Without a moment's hesitation Mr. Mason selzed the New Yorker's hand and, while glving It ‘& warm clasp, uttered his con- gratulations. ‘I wish I could congratulate you in the same way,” replied Platt, “because the more I see of you the more 1 think you are a great man. There are mighty few men in the senate who are {a your fix but would experlence @ severe soreness If anyone should read such & message in_ their I really believe you meant what you | pres. ence sald.” Man's Wants & Few. 1 'be-Democrat Senator Wellington of Maryland has again fllustrated the fact that man wants but { little here below. The senator proposes an kamendment to the natfonal constitution providing that no person shall be worth more than $10,000,000 QB2 St. Louls | question | be nice if the net | to stand it | ple TIPS FOR THE LEGISLATURE, Greeley Leader-Independent been vent A bill has introduced in the legislature to pre- live bira shooting at the traps. force. Seribrer News providing for the boards in cities by well merited opposition should be permitted to escape the pollut- ing atmosphere of city politics. Fairbury Gaze The wolf proposition in Nebraska je becoming an in- teresting question. The claims filed thus far aggregate $32,000, with several back counties to hear from. This Is a vew In- dustry, which has grown up under the law to pay $1 per head next. Minden News: There is considerable ag- itation of making county officers terms four years instead of two. For a good offi- cer a four-year term would be a good thing, but for a poor officer it would be a bad thing. Before making the change some way should be provided for getting rid of the bad officers before four years. Broken Bow Beacon: Alllance fs mov- ing vigorously for a normal school. This is commendable in the citizens of that vig- orous littie city, but why should our eiti- Speaker Mockett's bill appointment of school | zens fail to get the plum if it comes this way? Who does not concede Broken Pow the advantage in location and resources over any other place west of Lincoln? Springfield Monitor: From the way things look in the legislature the independ- ent telephone companies will win by the enactment of a new law permitting them to enter the large cities of the state. The old companics, howerer, are not idle, and if they can do no better will work for a compromise which will still enable them to rake in the shekels. Wayne Herald: The Herald does not propose to mince matters nor debate the It is an absolute fact that the Norfolk asylum should be rebuilt and with- out delay. Tt is due this part of Nebrask: and there is no valid reason why it should not be rebuilt, and the Herald desires to sce the senators and representatives from this section of the state solid for it. Hebron Register: Among the new bills introduced before the legislature nmow Ia | session at Lincoln is one that provides a different manner from the present law of let(ing the contract for county printing by connty bgards. The proposed ynew law cloarly defines the duty of the officers hav- ing the letting of such contracts and its passage would give the country printers a show to seciire at least a part of the work. Wahoo New E: Senator Hastings of Butler county introduced a bill empower- ing county boards to make an annual ap- propriation of 3 cents for each inhabitant of the county, for the purpose of aiding county agricultural socleties, but provides that the premiums awarded shall be only for agricultural exhibits and none of it to go to pay premiums on horse races. A very £ood provision. If that bill passes we ehall | withdraw our objections to a county fair. Hastings Tribune: The members of the Nebraska legislature have a golden oppor- tunity to make themselves heroes and be- come famous. And it's easy. In fact, it is so easy that we are not going to do much more than throw out a hint in the right direction. For instance: Wouldn't it of law were so con- structed that all the big fish would be caught and prosecuted with the same swiftnezs and dispatch the smaller ones are, and when {t has been unquestionably decided that they are criminals that they be treated as such. Stromsburg Headlight: If a bill which Senator Umstead of this district has intro- duced goes through, the renters of = Ne- braska farms wili be contronted with a “landlords’ lien,” which will grant the “landlords a lien on all crops grown on leased land, and also all personal property used in the cultivation of said lan A nice little measure which undoubtedly 1s prompted by a selfish motive, as Hon. Um- stead is now said to be quite a landlord himself. Should the measure become law there will be more than one renter who will kick himself all over the barnyard for having heiped the measure along by voting for its maker. Wausa Gazette: The committes on In- ternal improvements is considering a bill providing for the sinking of six wells, in different parts of the state, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not coal, ofl or gas can be found in paying quantities. The measure asks for an ap- propriation of $50,000. The bill has so.ne enthusiastic supporters in the house, but it is very doubtful Indeed that the pres- ent legislature, with a $2,000,000 debt star- ing it in the face, can be induced to vote an_appropriation for prospecting in ol wells. A plan for getting the state in- debtedness down to the constitutional limit would be far more seasonable. Gordon Journal: We cannot understand why any man of good, dozen plug normal schools in Nebraska. What Ncbraska wants is one good state normal school, centrally located, that shall take rank alongside of our State university among the ecducationl Institutions of the land, and that we can have If we use com- mon sense and judgment. It stand to rea- s0n that if the state has to support but one normal school, that ome can be better cquipped and pay better salaries to better ers than would be the case if a half dozen smaller schools had to be maintained at the state expense. All this talk about more normal schools ought to be speedily squelched. 1t 1s the sheerest nonsense. St. Paul Phonograph-Press: © House 1oll No. 70, known the Ramsey bill, was adopted by the shippers and independent elevator men as the one bill that offers as | the relief sought by grain and stock grow- 1 nt shippers have been dis. inated against by the rallroads to such an extent that the people are determined no longer, and when the peo as a body speak the corporations know the day of retribution s near at A number of worthy measures have been introduced in the legislature which are in the interest of the producer. And the test will come when the measures are placed on their passage. We believe that that hand. It will be a good bill if enacted and put in | the mayor fs meeting The public schools bounty sound judgment | should advocate the establishing of a half- | Fif'y Years the Standard sl POWDER Awarded Highest Honors World’s Fa Highest tests U.S. Gov't Chemists O BAKING POWDER 0O, oHicAGO the legislature is so strongly dominated Uy corporate influence that nothing can be Cone. We may bo pessimistic in our views. We hope we are, but we are taught that time, patience and perseverance will acoom- plish all things. Ponca Journal: An effort will be made at the present leglslature to pass an act lengthening the tenure of county officers from two to four years. Most of the county officers of the state are in faver of In fact, it s they who are pushing it. On the other hand, nearly all the newspapers are opposed to it. Both are actuated more or less by selfish mo- tives. Of course, the county officers would be benefited by having their tenuro of ofica increased. Newspapers, on the other hand derive some advantages by frequent cam- paigns, but they probably lose quite as much as they gain. It is hard, however, to make most newspapers take that View of the situation. On the whole, viewing the matter from the standpoint of the gen- eral public, public interests are no doubt subserved fully better by frequent rotations of office than by long tenures, although the Journal is free to confess there may be good arguments advanced on both sides of the question. PASSING PLEASANTRIES, No man approves of the consclenceless flirt, of course, but she 1s very entertain- ing.—Somerville Journal, Fussicus—And what would you say, sir, if T were to tell you you were not a gentle- man? Frosticus—I would fmmediately reach the conclusion that you and I really had more in common than I had thought we had.— Baltimore American. DeGarry—You lot the other fellow put his arm around you Dofly—Pshaw! We were dancing. DeGarry—But T can't dance Dolly—Then why_don’t you_take me out for a slelgh 11de?—New York Sun. Tom—How would you analyze abstinacy? Jerry—Well, in the clearest definition— obstinacy is nolseless self-conceit.—Detrolt Free Press. “T am supposed to die of a brokén heart,” sald the unmanageable actress. Now, how am 1 to know how a person with & broken heart behaves? “T'll tell you what to do,” answered the cold-blooded manager. “You study the au- thor of this play after he sces your first performance of {t."—Washington Star. Newitt—Well, there's one thing about the weather. It's alwayes a safe toplc of con- versation. by \ Borroughs—1 thoubht It was today when met Lendham, but. when I started (o speak of it he sald: “Yos, 1t's unsettled, and that reminds me of that noto of yours." ~—Philadelphia Press THE KITCHEN CORN POP, James Barton Adams in Denver Post. 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