Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1903, Page 6

| | THE OMAHA DAIL THE OMAHA !)Aux ‘BEF. BE. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. BRAMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Y Dally Bee’and Sunday, One Yea: Tliustrated Bee, One Year. Bunday Bee. One Year Baturday Bee, One Year. § Twentieth Century Farmer, Ofe Year.. 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee. Evflhmu Sunday), per copy.... 2¢ B-ny Bee (without Sunday), per week..,12c ally Bee (Including Sunday), per week i Bunday Bee, per copy o o ven 06 (Withou Evening Bee (ncluding Bunday), per Complaints of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Clrculation De- partment, OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omana—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. Council Blufts—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—16460 Unity Building. New York—2j2s Park Row Bullding. Washingtor 1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENC Communications relating to news and ed- {toria) matter ghould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, yable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha_or edstern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dou County, ss. George B. Taschuck ary of The Be Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the sctual number of full and saomplete coples of The Dally, Morning, kEvening and Bunday Bee printed duiing the month o January, 198, was as follows 30,420 80,480 80,650 28,760 ..80,570 ..80,470 ‘Total Less unsold and retus Net total sales Net average sales. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to b S1st d f Janui , A, D. e me M 8 HONGArE (Seal) ‘Notary Publlo. ————————— A tax rate as low or lower than that of any other eity of the same size will be the best advertisement Omaha can have. Those valentines that were to have been distributed by the republican city convention will come later in the form of Easter cards. | On careful students of American his- tory a Jefferson-Jackson-Lincoln league must make an impression chiefly as a merger of misnomers. | ‘Which school book trust is paying the expenses of the attorney of the Omaha Board of Bducation as member. of the legislative lobby at Lincoln? No arbitration for the little differ- ences between Bolivia and Brazil Bolivia simply yields unavoidable ‘com- pliance with Brazil's demands. et Lafe Young has discovered ‘that the trusts are only a fleeting show to vain {llusion given, Lafe has always been endowed with a ralubow vision. Before belng recognized as the repre- sentatlve of the Almighty, President Baer should be required to show up something in the nature of credentials. Any Omaha sports who got caught playing the races through sure-thing tips of middlemen will have to nurse their »wn losses without expecting sympathy. ——————————— John N. Baldwin could have spoken from the ripeness of experience had he talked on “How to Manipulate the Legislature” rather than on “Tariff and the Trusts, E—— Colonel Bryan calls on democrats who are democrats from prineiple to assert themselves. The trouble is too many of them are democrats for spoils first and principle afterward. —————r Young Mr. Armour has inspected his properties in South Omaha and South Omaha has inspected young, Mr, Ar- mour, Both are satisfled with the re- sults of the inspection. The omnibus statehood bill Is to be offered as a rider on the postofice ap- propriation bill. That is reversing the usual conditions, for riders generally attach themselves to the omnibus. An inequality in taxation pronounced by the supreme court of the state to be “repugnant to the meost rudimentary principles of justice” cannot be ignored by our lawmakers. Inaction on thelr part is the same as endorsing injustice and inequality. e Democrats In congress find themselves in an embarrassing predicament on the Elkins antl-rebate bill. Having fulml- nated against the trusts so loudly, when confronted with the necessity of voting for or against a republican measure all they can do is to indulge in explana- tions. — An increase of capital stock from $1,800,000 to $2,400,000 would seem to Justity the impression that the Ne- braska {Pelephone company is a pros- perous concern. How much of the cap- ftal stock represents tangible property and whiat proportion of it represents franchise value based on surplus earn- ings is not yet divulged. “Local Self-Government for Citles” was the, subject selected by Tom L, Johnson for his response at the Colum- bus banguet, This is only a circum- locution for “Municipal Home Rule,” which is coming to the front as an fssue In every progressive common- wealth. Nebraska should get into the forefront tq practicing home rule while others are merely preaching it SEND FOR PERSONS AND PAPERS. When Ezra P. Savage liberated the embeszzling ex-state treasurer, Joseph 8. Bartidy, on parole in July, 1001, he coupled his extraordinary action with the assurance that conditions Had been {mposed upon Bartley that would, when fulfilled, fully satisfy the people of Nebraska. - In several interviews with representatives of the press the gov- ernor sought to make it clear that resti- tution of a very large amount of the embezaled funds would be made within a short time. While no specific amount was named, it was a commoh belief at the state caplital that the governor had an agree- able surprise in store for the taxpayers of the state in the shape of ‘a reduction of the state debt by from $100,000 to $200,000. When the republican conven- tion requested the governor to cut short summarily the Bartley parole the action of the convention was deprecated on the ground that the return of Bartley to prison would prevent him from col- lecting large sums of money for which he held I 's. Before B r‘y was pardoned outright the hope was still held out to the tax- payers of Nebraska that a large part of the Bartley defalcation would be made good in due time. In attempting to justify the final pardon of Bartley, Governor Savage clalmed to have In his possession a cigar box full of obliga- tions from parties who had obtalned loans from Bartley and had not re- pudiated them. Bartley has been out of prison now for more than a year. He is reputed to have investments in mining properties in Colorado and real estate of consider- able value. There is a well-defined rumor that most of his time and talents have been devoted to speculation in grain options with funds recovered from the wreck of the state treasury. How much Mr. Bartley has been able to col- lect and how much he will eventually be able to recover is as profound a mystery as are the contents of that historic cigar box. The effort now being made to release Mr. Bartley and his bondsmen from all further Hability to the state on the pay- ment of the costs of the suit on the bond makes it the imperative duty of the leglslature to institute & thorough and searching inquiry Into the deals between Bartley and Savage, with a view to recovering for the state moneys loaned by him to parties that are solvent before any settlement is made with his bondsmen. It is the manifest duty of the legis- lature to summon Savage, Bartley and all other partles who have been mixed up in his financial transactions and speculations and compel them to pro- duce all the I-O0-U’s, whether outlawed or not outlawed, with a view to having them placed for collection in the hands of the attorney general. The Bartley defalcation entailed upon the taxpayers of Nebraska a loss of more than $600,000 and it is not asking, or ng, too much at the hands of the legislature that an effort be made to recover at least & small fraction of the enormous sum. Another duty the legislature camot shirk 1s an Investigation into the Meserve absorption of interest on school fund deposits and the Stuefer bond deals, which have never been satis- factorily explained to the people of Ne- braska. Such an inquiry is demanded, not merely in the interest of the tax- payers, but also on behalf of Mr. Stuefer, who has always clalmed that all the bond purchases made by him as treas- urer were perfectly legitimate and square, If injustice has been done elther Meserve or Stiefer they are en- titled to vindication at the hands of the legislature, which is the only body that can make an Impartial investiga- tion of all the facts connected with the deposit and investment of state funds. If, however, any money belonging to the state has been diverted to private pockets by their transactions, proceed- ings should be Instituted for its re- covery. — THE EUROPEAN WAR -CLOUD. The indications of & war in Barope are very strong and while a conflict may be averted the conditions are such as to justify the most serious appre- hensions. The latest advices are of a nature that seem to make an outbreak inevitable and threaten to Involve nearly every European country. The trouble in Macedonia and Bulgaria. is not confined those countries, but 1s far-reaching and will have, iIf a revolu- tion breaks owt, an effect upon all of Europe. There Is the possibility in this trouble of inflaming every European country and thus drawing all of them into & conflict of the most disastrous nature. / The latest advices say that Russia expects war and the preparations that are being made by the powers plainly show that this Is the general' feeling. Both Russia and Austria are massing | troops on the Macedonlan frontier and in other ways preparing for what they seem to regard as an inevitable struggle with Turkey. It is possible that these preparations may be meant only as a warning to the Macedonians and to assist Turkey In keeping order while diplomacy is endeavoring to arrange for a better future, but the aggravated character of the trouble’ does not prom- ise that it can be settled except by resort to arms. The people who are protesting against Turkish rule, pro- verblally oppressive and unjust and never more so than now, will not be easily induced to forego the opportunity which 18 now presented to relleve themselves of a burden that has been weighing heavily upon them for years and which retards their ma- terial and moral growth. The people who are revolting against Jurkish rule are wholly without sympathy with the moral and political principles of the goverument to which they are compelled to give alleglance. There is nothing in common thwr‘nn them and the Turks who are their rulers. There are not only raclal differences, but also religlous and soclal antagonisms of the most radical nature, It is absolutely impossible, therefore, that these people can remain perma- nently subject to Turkish rule and whether or not the impending conflict against that rule shall be successful it is but a question of time when the Christian countries will be separated from the authority of Turkey and Mohammedanism. The existing relation- ship Is wholly anomalous and no such unnatural connection can endure for- ever. Perhaps the time is now at hand for severing it and if this shall be ac- complished there will be a very posi- tive gain for the cause“of civilization and intellectual and moral progress. The American people have an indirect interest in the European situation. A general war in Europe would mean a great deal to this country and there- fore we cannot be altogether indifferent to the conditions which threaten a con- flict that may involve all the continental powers. GROWTH OF THE CABINET. The constitution of the United States does not provide for what is known as the cabinet. It says simply that the president “may acquire the opinion, in writing, of the principal officers in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.” The cabinet, there- fore, is not a constitutional body and is simply an advisory board, so to speak, which is absolutely under the authority of the president, having no authority except as prescribed by law. When the new Department of Com- merce and Labor is organized it will be the third time within a century that congress has created an additional member of the cabinet. The state, war, treasury and postoffice departments were established by law under the con- stitution. The navy! interior and agri- cultural departmeats were established by act of congress ‘as additions to the original establishment. The Stafe de- partment, established in 1789, was at first called the department of foreign affajrs, the name subsequently being changed by congressional enactment. The War department, organized the same year, also had jurisdiction over naval affairs, but in 1708 a separate de- partment was authorized by congress. The Postoffice department was a small affair in 1789, The Interior department was established in 1849, and the De- partment of Agriculture just forty years later. There is no limitation upol\x the power of congress to create executive depart- ments and thus increase the cabinet, but there has always been an unwil- lingness to do this, from the fact that an unwieldy cabinet meang divided coun- sel and responsibility. There has been, however, no serlous difficulty on this score. There are now niné executive departments and it is quite probable that the number will be increased in;| the futare, though it may be several decades before u{other cabinet office is created. TRE PUBLICITY CLAUSE. The publicity clause of the bill cre- ating a Department of Commerce and Labor is a very ‘mportant feature, though in the opinion of some it does not go as far as is to be desired in requiring corporations to acquaint the public with their financial condition and business operations. Provision is made for a bureau of corporations, the duty of which is to investigate the or- ganigation, conduct and management of the business of a corporation engaged in Interstate or foreign commerce. The information thus obtained is to be re- ported to the president, who may make it public in his discretion. The com- missioner of corporations is given the power to subpoena and compel the at tendance of witnesses and the prodye- tion of documentary evidence, and to administer oaths. Objection 1s made to this that it does not adsure publieity, that the people must depend upon the.president for ob- taining knowledge of the condition and operations of the corporations reached by the law. We do not think there need be any apprehension that the of- ficials will fail to do their duty toward the people In this matter, The plan provided for in the creation of the new department s practically the same as is pursued in regard to the investigation of mational banks and this has been found entirely satisfactory. We have no doubt but the publicity provision of the Department of Commerce and Labor law will fully meet its intended purpose. The Douglas delegation, we are told, has reached an agreement to increase the number of wards in the city from nine to ten. Why not make it twelve while they are about it? Denver has sixteen wards and Kansas City elght- een, as we are informed. If the new ity councll is to be made up of only one member from each ward, twelve councllmen would not be too many. What Omaha really ought to have Is eighteen « councilmen, twelve to be elected by the wards and six at large regardless of residence. These council- men should be chosen for one, two and three years, so that one-third of the council would always hold over. Buch an arrangement would always leave six members in the council with practical knowledge concerning the affairs of the ¢ity and municipal legislation during the previous year instead of haying the entire council made up of raw recrults. Em——— At every succeeding session of the leg- islature bills are Introduced to dupli- Y BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, provisions was enacted twelve years POLITICAL DRIFT. ago. Another bill just Introduced pro- poses to prohibit the sale of liquor to habitual drunkards and make the sa loon keeper responsible for damages in- curred by such sales. This feature was embodied in the Slocumb law years ago and is now on the statutes. A portrait of Grover Cleveland is to be placed in the capitol of Montana. That 1s shbundant provocation for a double-colemn “call to arms.” Ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis, a fugitive from justice, has beer located at the home of a relative in Massachusetts and is said to be a mental and physical wreck. Boston has an alderman who bas con- tessed to swindling, and his associates will During the past ten years Douglas county has pald Into the state treasury not allow him to be expelled. *“What's a $1,660,000 in state taxes, or an average| little thing llke that, between friends, of $166,000 a year. Of this colosgal con- | buh?" In Texas, the state which glves the larg- est democratic majority, the republican vote is larger than in Loulsieha, Miesis- sippl, Georgia, Alabama, South O&rolina and Florida combined. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks ot Indiana was a graduate of Hanover college at Madison in that state, and his widow has given $25,000 for the erection of a li- brary In his memory there. Of those taking civil service examina- tions for appointment in federal depart- ments last year, 69 per cent recelved the required percentage and 31 per cent fell short of it. Of those who passed the ex- aminations 25 per cent were, and 75 per cent were not, appointed. The term of Mayor Harrison of Chicago éxpires on May 1 and the municipal election i that city will take place in April. There is a factional division in the democratic ranks which makes this year's contest again a triangular one. When OChicago does not have a trlangular municipal con- test it Is because there are four rival can- didates in the fleld. “‘Honest John" Mahoney is dead in New Orleans. Mr. Mahoney's chiet claim to fame was his relentless exposure of official crooks. So great was his dislike of public grafting thet he spent much of his time in and about the city hall of New Orleans pry- ing loose crooked contracts and deals, and made life exceedingly disagreeable for the crooks. He recelved mighty little help in his work during life, but there was an un- commonly large “concourse of people” at tribution toward maintaiaing state gov- ernment Omaha has paid four-fifths, or about $1,380,000, equal to $133,000 each year. In the face of this showing the proposition to take from Omaha its due sharg in the apportionment of the tem- porary school fund, based on the num- ber of school childrep in attendance in its public schools, would seem nothing less than the most rank injustice. ———— In Pennsylvania the new governor is insisting that the legislature tackle the question of legislative redistricting, al- though there, as in Nebraska, this work is supposed to be done immediately after each census. If the legislative apportionment is wrong and operates to disfranchise a large part of the voting population, leaving it stand unchanged affords no remedy. E— The constitution of Nebraska requires the legislature, to provide by general law for “an equitable distribution of the Increase of the fund set apart for the support of the common schools among the several school districts of the state.”” No method of distribution that gives one section of the state the advantage over another section can be called equitable. his funeral. ——— One of the proposed changes in the New A Prophecy Fu ed, Hampshire constitution, which the voters of the state will pass upon on March 10, relates to the phraseology of the bill of rights of New Hampshire, adopted in 1783. After reciting the necessity of morality and plety, section 6 of this bill of rights em- powers the legislature “to authorize, from time to time, the several towns, parishes, bodies corporate or reiigious socleties within the state to make adequate pro- vision, at thelr own expense, for the sup- port and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of plety, religion and morality.” The proposed amendment is the omission of the word “Protestant.” The detalls of the voting in Vermont on February 3 on the proposed high license substitute for the former prohibition law of the state show curious results and at the same time exhibit the peculiar tenacity of Vermont cltizens to traditional notions. The majority against prohibition in 1903 was very little different from the majority in favor of prohibition in 1853, half a cen- tury before. There are in Vermont four- teen countles, of which some are on the New York state and others on the New Hampshire border line. All the countles on the New York state line gave majorities for high license; all the counties on the New Hampshire state line gave majorities against high license and in favor of prohi- bition. A majority of the counties of Ver- mont were for prohibition; so were a ma- jority of the towns of the state, but the vote of a few of the large citles turned the scale.against them. COST OF INDUSTRIAL STIMULATION, Kansas City Star. The St. Louis bookmakers must be con- vinced that James J. Hill knew what he was talking about when he predicted that a financial crash is coming. Reward of Perseverance, Chicago News. Bverything comes to him who waits. After a lifetime of earnest labor and cheer- ful performance of humble duties Grover | Cleveland has been made president of a fishing club. It Would Not Stick. Philadelphia North American. There is & law forbidding officials of the United States government to accept *‘deco- rations” from foreign powers. Will it be- come necgssary to extend it so as to in- elude “orders” from domestic corporations. A 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. In the last eight months in Nebraska and ‘Wyoming have paid bounties on 44,000 wolf scalps, yet the beasts are reported to be more numerous than ever. Perhaps some of the ranchers have gone Into wolf culture & prpeaution against dry seasons, Victor and Vanquished. Philadelphfa Record. Again Colonel Bryan has declined to at- tend a democratic bafiquet lest the over- shadowing presence -af ; Grover Cleveland should disturb his serenity. Grover Cleve- land, at any rate, is too large a man to decline to attend a democratic banqiet be- causk of the. preserice’'of Mr: Bryan or any- body else. 1 Age of Cabinet Positions. Springfield Republican, Five of the executive departments of the United States government date back to fts Treasury, War, Justice rofitable Industry. 4 w—— Labor as Injurious to Industry as Morphine to the Consumer. * Chicago Tribune. Child labor as a national habit and mor- phine eating personal habit are about on the same level. The person that eats morphine experiences a temporary mental exaltation, followed by permanent mental debllity. The nation that uses its children as wage-earners experiences & temporary industrial stimulation, followed by a per- manent decrease in industrial efliclency. Tiis fact is gradually coagulating out of the welter of child labor investigation and ar- gument. In New York, for instance, the plans for the reform labor law are based not so much upon sensibility as upon seusi- bleness, and have the approbation of men like Bishop Potter, Felix Adler and Wil- liam H. Baldwin, jr. Ohi added in 1798, the Interior department in 1849 and the Department of Agriculture in 1889. The latest addition, a department of commerce and labor, Increases the cabinet membership to nine. Another Call to Arms, Loutsville Courler-Journal (dem.). There fs to be & blg barbecue of Iow “gilver” democrats on Jefferson’s birthda; the object being to form a strong organiza- tion for recapturing the party machinery | The fault found with the law is that, first, in the state, nominating General James B. | there are large numbers of children not in. Weaver for governor, sending a silver j cluded within its operation. These chil- democrat to the national democratic con- | dren the child labor committee calls “‘out- vention, and making another fight for silver. [ 1aWs." Meesenger boys, newsboys, boot- And silver today at the ratlo, not of 16 to | blacks and hawkers are the classes of chil- 1, but 43 to 1! dren indicated. Mr. Poole of the University Settlement has made it his business to know Somebody § “outlaw” child labor thoroughly. He has New York Post. learned things that so unemotional a paper All organs of public opin‘on in congress, | as the New York Tribune regards as start- the press and the bar ought to take notice ling. He has found hundreds of boys sleep- of the Doblin-Quigg case at Washington | Ing in the strets, in stables, in condemned and not allow it to pass off as a mystery, | buildings, in the halls of tenements, and in still less as a matter for jest or sarcasm. | the back rooms of low saloons. He has It is perfectly certain that perjury has |found that street life leads boys to an ex- been committed of & pecullarly brazen and | ceptionally early and unrestrained use of damaging kind. It is probable that cor- coffee, tobacco and liquor. He has found ruption of a congressman was attempted | that the strcet boy with his unnatural, su. in order to get money from the public | perficlal, undisciplined “smartnes treasury. Moreover, the dignity and au- | all boys, the one that shows in thority of congress have been insulted and | studies the least evidence of substantial flouted in the most glaring manner. 1t and comprehensive qualities of intellect. such things can be done without somebody | He has found that the money earned by the going to the penitentiary there is not much street boy is in no proportion to the use in havidg laws and a system of jurls- | Amount of time he spends earning it. Fi- prudence. nally, his account of the vices into which ot I, some street boys are led is too hideous to be more than hinted at. “Outlaw” child labor, however, is only One of the books that will be written a | 0N feature of the situation. The child la- generation or so hence will be “The Pass- | DT committee has at least four other fields {ug of the Golden Wedding” with several | Of ttempted reform. First, it wants to chapters devoted to showing how the silver | Prevent perjury by giving up the parent wedding and even the tin wedding fell into | Adavit system and introducing a birth desuetude. For one pronounced result of [ Fecord system. Second, it wants to forbid this giving and taking of divorcements with | Yacation work for children under 14, for s0 little 8do will be the elimination of the | the Teason that it is difficult to get the term “half a century of wedded bliss” from | children back to school after a summer of our stereotyped expressions. Perhaps, | ®mployment. Third, it wants to stop the though, by the time this specles of con- | Practice of putting chifdren under 14 to stancy becomes quite extinet the govern- | WOFk, mot as employes, but as “assistants™ ment will offer large prizes to those who | o thelr older brothers and sisters. Fourth tan make up thelr minds to dwell together | It Wants to compel children under 14 for & quarter or half a century, and some- | 8ttend school throughout the school year where in 2000's there will be a golden wed- | Instead of, as at present, for only eighty ding revival. Such legislation would be |d8YS. quite as sane as that which proposes to tax | The document on which these demands baghelors and splnsters for their single | fOF Teform are based deserves espectal no- blessednes: tice. Tt is a document whick ls not made up of ‘ournalistic accounts of tours through horrid factories. It is a document carefully prepared through months of hard work by the child labor committee, and consisting largely of a minute study of 1,000 child laborers, their wages, hours, homes, physique, morale, etc. This is the kind of social economie invesiigation which pro- vides the leglelator with the kind of in. formation he needs. There is & time for tears and a time for facts. In the matter of child labor in this country we have rived at the time for facts. New York bas brought forward some facts of great significance. Passing of the Golden Wedding. Boston Transcript. THEY LOOKED ON QUIETLY. “ihe Placid Home The peace loving inhabitants of Waterloo, Neb., who gathered about and gazed wist- fully while s gang of burglars blew open the town safe and carried off the contents, exhibited & phllosophics! resignation with respect to untoward happenings which is somewhat rare in the dashing and ad- venturous west. They looked on with mild interest as the robbers 100k possession of the property, but were not rude enough to interfere with the bagsing of the booty. A peaceful, idyllic haplet that of Water- 100, Neb., although it bas & warlike name. Discreditable Supremacy. Philadelphia North American. In proportion to mileage covered, English cate laws already In the statute books. Thus we find In the present session a bill to prohibit nonresidents from per- forming police duty in Nebraska, when an autl-Plokerton law covering these rallroads in 1901 carried twice as many passengers as American lines. Yet not a single passenger was killed In England, while the death roll in the United States was 249. This is one instance of American supremacy which is not creditable. The sexker of unruffied ea of unbroken calm, could not find a more than this western Waterloo. The lotos blooms is probably the principal in- dustry in that placld bome of languid dreams. Its Meaning Dolliver. speech which Senator Dolliver vigorously espoused what has come to be known as ‘“the lowa idea.” That idea is itself rather indefinite. pends chiefly Charles Emory Smith tn Saturday Evening | ost What the “Iowa Idea” means in the by- play on the tarift—for it wi incident to the exigent coal question—the speech on the republican side which ar- rested most attentlon was that of Senator Naturally, since it was the one THE I0WA IDEA. Depends Chiefly on the Interpreter. only by-play struck out the fixed lines 1t de- In the on the interpreter. Fif'y Years the Standard translation of Governor Cummins it means one thing; in that of Secretary Shaw quite In the one case it means early and signal tarift revision; in the other it actlon | Under the one leader- ship it signifies reciprocal trade arrange- ments which shall give 214 take even at some sacrifices; under the other it signifies reciprocity agreements with tull home pro- another. means delayed and at the chosen time. conservative tection. Senator Dolliver Governor Cummins. which is not without political significance Governor Commins s the leader of those republicans who hold that some of the | tarift rates are too high and openly advo- cate a reduction. They inferentially admit that these rates sustaln monopolies and | tmply that to strike at monopolles we should strike at the tariff. There is noth ing in the terms of the Iowa platform, they stand, to which all republicans can- But Governor Cummins puts upon them an interpretation which makes Perhaps not assent. them mean more than they say. the interpretation of others makes them say less than they mean. republican Governor Cummins, but, that there is nothing that revision should be regulated economic and partly political. party in Iowa. is more political than economie. he gives new force to his view. than the senior. construction of interpretation plain whose methods would avoid an {ssue. But Sena- tor Dolliver follows Governor Cummins and plants himself with the advanced re- visionists. He is a vigorous and courage- ous advocate and adds strength to any cause he accepts. On one phase of the question he was partly right and partly wrong. He was right in contending that the Dingley law was framed with a view to reciprocity and in repelling the charge that the contem- plation of such a purpose in fixing the rates was a reflection on Mr. Dingley's honor and good faith. Certainly there is nothing in the idea of reciprocity which is open to eriticlsm. It is a legitimate national policy. The door was opened in the McKinley law. The plan was carried out in the Blaine treaties. And if recipro- cal trade arrangements are right and wise, it is indisputably legitimate to fix tariff rates so as to prepare the way for them. Senator Dolliver's defense of the policy of putting tariff rates higher than was needful in order to use them to trade on was effective and complete. But he was wrong in urging that the obligation of reciprocity involves the duty of ratifying the Kasson treaties. Becaus the Dingley bill was constructed with view to reciprocal arrangements it does not necessarily follow that any partfcular agreements which may happen to have been made must be confirmed. They are to be judged and determined on their own is morally But the merits. The general policy obligatory and economically wise. measures for carrylng it out a of detall, and are to be consl reference to the question whether they are best adapted to the end. If the treaties sacrifice some important interests for the sake of others, it is legitimate to weigh the question whether the gain justifies t loss. If they can be dropped and more advantageous arrangements made, there is no reason why it uld not be done. EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY. Efforts to Exite Official Sympathy for & Condemned Man Fails. Chicago Chronicle (dem.). A Washington dispatch tells a story which appeals in a certain way to publio sympathy, but which reflects no discredit upon the president as it seems to {mply. Bernle Bird of New Orl supposed to be a little girl, appealed to Miss Alice Roosevelt to intercede with the president in behalf of her condemned father in Alaska. She received the following reply from Mr. Cortelyou: ‘‘Miss Roosevelt can- not interfere or intercede with her father in the affairs of the government.' It is stated that the childish heart of Bernie Bird 1s almost broken because she received no reply from Miss Roosevelt. Possibly that young lady might have spared the child’s feelings by writing herself, but she might also have placed herself in an unpleasant 1ight before the publie. It is, on the whole, at least as well that th reply was made, and curtly made, by the secretary. It ought to be distinctly understood, if it is not, that the president’s ofcial duty 1s to the publle. He has power to issue par- dons and reprieves not as persoual favors to peals supported by the intercessions of sympathetic ladies who bave no knowl- edgo of the merits of the cases brought to their notice, but as & means of saving t in his lot fully with This 1s a declaration The prevailing ntiment does not go so far as though holding sacred about the schedules and that they should be gov- | erned and modified by conditions of pro- duction and price, holds at the same time by a conservative spirit and by business se- the Towa idea” may mot be alto- gether harmonious with itself. It is partly Probably Governor Cummins fully belleves in the policy he expounds, and probably also he sees In It a way of making an issue and gaining the leadership of the republican In this respect the contest When Senator Dolliver joins Governor Cummins ‘The junior senator 1s less wary and more positive During the campaign the astute Senator Allison showed that the Towa platform is entirely in harmony with the national platform. So it is upon the its language, but 1s to be followed? Senator Allison, with his great experience, his cautious temperament and his adroft Highest Honors World's F. Highest tests U.S, Ghom PRIOE BAKING POWDER 0O, oHicAGO those who have been improperly con- demned or of promoting the public Inter- est in some way The president is not and ought not to be an autocrat with the, power of life and death over subjects which he may exercise at his pleasure or whim or as his sympa- thies may be stirred by chijdish yleadings. | Such rowers as he possesses have been | given him for public purposes, and it is {his duty to exercise them for those pur- poses only. | 1t may be said that a kindly note from | Miss Roosevelt would have spared the child's feelings and done no harm, but we cannot be so sure of that. Brhind these pititul appeals of children are older heads that know better and that use this method of exciting the sympathy of the executive and the public because they can offer no good reason for the exercise of clemency. It was enur?lv proper for the president to look beyond the little girl who was put to the front in this instance and hit the older and less innocent heads beyond by causingshis secrotary to write and give to the press a very curt note plainly intimat- ing that executive clemency is a publio trust to be exercised only in the interests ot justice and the public good. PA NG PLEASANTRIES, . Madge—She has a lovely complexion. Majorie—No wonder; that girl's studled chemistry.—Smart Set. ' asked the at the hat “Can 1 show you anything young man behind the count store. T guess 80, sald the young man who had dropped in. '“I want one of those disap- Pearing hats you wear when you g0 to the opera. Got any?'—Chicago Tribune. “She calls her cook a ‘chef’ How ab- A E ‘Oh, T don't know! 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