Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1903, Page 4

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Evenin the month F- rurr was as oSws. trrees . 29,100 15 16. Net average sal GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. esence and sworn (o of Fehrunry,r B oty Pumlu. Subscribed in m. helcra me this fl!g fi If municipal home rule is good for Denver, why not also for Omaha? — Now to stop guessing about the Audi- torlum and to get down to business. ———— When last heard from Senator Mor- gan still had the floor, with no signs of running short of wind. His late nccldanv.v Eara P, Bavage, s reconnoitering vacant livery barns in Tacoma for a permanent location. S— There are a good many things the leg- islature ought to do. There are alto a good many things it ought not to do. SEm——— The time 18 at hand for honest men in the legislature to stand up and be counted. The shéep must separate from the goats. ———— Onedmflmmofmm of the Nebraska wolf bounty. law will be to put a decided damper on & thriv- ing Wyoming industry. 3 ‘While the evrp-hfln% bby b eqk mpungmunu.mnmmm agents are busily engaged In fabricat- ing justifieations for the sellouts. —— The prosperous condition of bullding and loan assoclations In Nebraska is a pretty good sign that Nebraska people are enjoying their full share of prosper- ity. e If Chicago grand juries so far forget themselves as to indict aldermen of that city, St. Louls may be compelled to yleld the palm to its lakeside rival in this department also. e —— Plenty of bills are on the legislative files down at Lincoln that ought never to have been Introduced, but yet there are several that ought to become law that bave not even made an initial ap- pearance. —— The demand for habitable houses at reasonable rents in Omaha continues to bé steady. The capitalist who wants £ood returns on a safe investment will be building moderate slzed dwellings the coming season. “the raliroads of Nebraska” may be expected to affix their signatures to anything John N. Baldwin and his man Friday may write for them. That's what they are pald for. S The constitution of Nebraska contem- plates a state census in 1905, But we will let th‘n pass In view of the straight- ened financial condition of the ‘state if the legislature will see that we get re- apportionwent in another way. ‘With the present contingent tax levy, the various departments of the city gov- ernment will have to sall close to wind for the next twelve months. If the rall- road assessment should finally be de- clared valid, they will then be on easy street, ewith a feast following the famine. em——————— And now the chief issue of the fight against seating Sepator Smoot of Utah is declared to be not the charge of polygamy by his position apostle in the Mormon chureh. Sifted down to brass tacks, the real lssue 1s whether Mr. Bmoot shall be allowed to represent the state In the United States senate or. be compelled to make way for someone clse who wants the job and needs the woney, e Colonel Bryan insists that the Kansas Clity platform democrats will be at the next democratic national convention. No one will undertake to contradict this assertion. Some are still in doubt, how- ever, whether the Kansas Oity plat- form démocrata will be there with ere- dentials entitling them to the floor or merely with admission tickets to the snectators’ allecies . ABUSE OF TRE KMERGENCY OLAUSED At least three out of four of the bills introduced into the present session of the Nebraska legislature are fitted out with an emergency clause. The word- ing of this clause is to the effect that whereas an emergency exists with ref erence to Its subfect matter, the bill shall take effédct and be In force from and after Its passage. Bills without the emergency clause go into effect as laws under express provis fons of the constitution only three calen- dar months after the adjournment of the sesslon at which they were enacted. The manifest object of the delay in the en- forcement of new laws Is to give the people affected by them time to acquaint themselves with the changes they will work and to conform to new conditions they are designed to establish. That it is no more than fair that the public bave reasonable motice of the creation of new laws goes without saying. The loophole left by the constitution framers for the immediate enforcement of emergency leglslatiod adopted by in- creased majorifles was never Intended to. cover all leglslative measures indis- eriminately. - It was seen that emergen- cles might present where quick action would be necessary, but the emergency contemplated was to be real and not fictitions. There Is no emergency that makes Imperative the alteration of school laws, the change of charter pro- visions, the amendment of civil or erim- inal codes just dn the say-so of the pro- méter of the proposed legislation. The abuse of the emergefcy clause is run- ning riot in both houses of the legisla- ture at Lincoln. The brakes should be put down on the wheels before tie speed gets too! fast. e ——— CARRYING OUT ITS PROMISES. Ouba s acting' In 'good. faith toward the United States. The promises given this country are belng carried out. Ak though thes ome_hesitation about granting a haval station and a coal depot fu the fslands we are to have them, a treaty giving these privileges having been signéd the past week, ithe question of compensation being left for future determination. The naval sta- flon at Guantanamo will be on an ex- tensive scale and of course will be of great Importance.” Having a naval base on one side of Cuba and a coai- ing station on the other side the United States will practigally command the north and south pagsages to the Gulf of Mexico and will hold mastery over all that reglon..Cuba has recognized the desirability of having this country in a\ strong position there, ‘since that will count for its protection against any out- side epemy and ajso for, the preserva- tion of domestic peace. The tendency of this should be to strengthen friendly relations and with an fncreased commercial intefcourse the two republics will find mutual benefit 1 ® whole doing ‘government fs being admin- lmanncd_, Intelligently » 80 that the expenditures within nn income. There fs some w.olflhu to'the administration, but it is not very serlous, the ‘people generally belng very well satisfied with the course and policy of President Palma. Cuba has a very earnest friend in President Rooseve)t and he can be depended upon to do all that is practicable for the pro- ‘motion of good will and the establish- ment of close commercial intercourse between that country and thip. - CUNGRESSMEN ON' COMMISSIONS. There was & dlscyssion in. the United States senate a few. days ago in regard and it was shown that senators gen- erally are opppsed to the practice. The subject was for the first time before the ‘senate, having been discussed at the time the Hawallan commisslon w appointed, and so strong was the feel- ing ip regard to the selection of sen- ators as commissioners that their ap- pointment was not confirmed and they acted as the personal representatives of the president, Reference was made to the selection of t¥o members of the sen- ate to act on the Alaskan boundary commission and while there was of course no objection made to those sen- ators—the term of one of whom, Mr. Turner, expires with the present con- re was evidently a feeling that the president should . have ap- pointed men not in the public service. Senator Hale was particularly earnest in deprecating the appointment of mem- bers of congress on commissions, while Sematbr Bacon ®.expressed. the opinion that it is.distinetly In opposition to the express policy, ‘If mot to the express command, of the ' constitution of the United States.. ‘‘The policy of the con- stitution and the design of the consti- tation,” said the Georgia senator, “Is that no man occupylng & seat in this chamber or in the other house shall ex- ercise any other function in the sha of an office under the government. Senator Hoar was of the same opinion saylng: “During the term for which a senator s ‘elected he cammat be ap- polnted to any place which has beed created or the salary of which has been increased by sixpence during the whole slx years. 8o careful were the framers of the constitution of executive influ- ence and control. It is the question of the relation between the legislative power and the executive power. There were two things of which our fathers, ‘When they framed the constitution, were. especiallly afraid. One was cor- ruption in office—and that was provided for by impeachment—and the other an executive Influence over legislation.” Mr. Hoar thought that at some con- venient time the question will bave to hmflpflntfluunm‘otmmu can settle 1t Undoubtedly there w be circum- stances in which a president will feel the public interest recuires she an- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: polutment of congressmen on commis- slons. Perhaps a very good example Is the case of the boundary commission and no one will question that the sen- ators who served on the Paris peace commission were wisely chosen, Yet it Is manifestly a practice to be discour- aged, for there can be no question that it is in opposition to the policy of the constitution, even If not to the express command of that instrument. The dis- cussion of the subject in the senate and the earnest deprecation of the practice by prominent senators will undoubtedly recelve due consideration from Presl dent Roosevelt, who very likely will not again go to congress for members of any commission he may be authorized to ap- point. — HOME RULE FUR DENVER. From now and henceforth the city of Denver will enjoy the privileges and prerogatives of home rule in its Broad- est sense. The supreme court of Colo- rado has declared valid the constitu- tional amendments adopted at the late November election, that creates the city and county of Denver out of the territory of the city and half a dozen surrounding towns and gives absolute home rule in municipal affairs not only to Denver, but to all Colorado citles of the first and second classes, These Colorado municipalities are given complete power for merging city and county offices, making And amending their own charterss by popular vote and placing the government of the fire and police departments and the man- agement of public works under civil service, subject to supervision by offi- cers chosen by the people. The very first step under the Colorado home rule amendment will be the con- solidation of the offices of city and county treasurer of Denver under one head, which will effect a large saving to the taxpayers and materially im- prove the tax collecting machinery, The consolidation of city and county gov- ernments and the guarantee of home rule cannot fail to prove an Immense advantage to the city of Denver, not merely by lightening the burden of tax- ation, but also by removing the bitter strife engendered by legislative inter- ference with purely local affairs, which arrays against each other elements that would otherwise harmoniously work for the upbuilding of the city. The example set by Colorade In granting home rule to cities s yuld by all means be emulated by Nebraska. The periodic turmoil in Omaha, Lin- coln, South Omaha and the larger towns of Nebraska over charter amend ments that take up much of the time' of every succeeding legislature shoyld be done away with. There 18 no good reason why cities 'of Nebraska should not enjoy the right of self-government as much as the cities of Colorado, or of California and Missouri, which have been clothed with charter making powers and have effected considerable aving to the taxpayers by the”consol- idation of county and city governments. MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1903. — THE LARGE IMMIGRAZION. In the twelve months ending Decem- ber 81, 1902, 739,289 immigrants arrived on our shores. This was more than 200, 000 in excess of the number that came in the previous calendar year. There was thus added last year to the number of consumers in this country nearly three-quarters of a million of- people. This means so many more needing food and clothing, so many more added to the workers of the country and so many more people engaged In enlarging the nation's productive capacity. +The large immigration movement con- tinues and s likely to do so as long as the presént prosperous conditions here prevail. It is not a new experience. ‘Whenever our industries have been ac- tive and there has been a demand for good people they have come here freely from Europe. Besldes, in most foreign countries during the last year or two there has been industrial depression, which of course stimulated emigration from those countries and the United States offered the best invitation, in the opportunities and the higher price of labor. It seems that this largée tm- migration has been fully absorbed and provided for. There is no complaint anywhere of a great excess of labor and it Is quite probable that in_portions of the country it will soon be found that the demand for labor exceeds the supply. There is a vast amount of work to be dene the coming spring and sum- mer that calls for such workers as are coming from Europe and there is no doubt they will all find abundant em- ployment. It may be true that some of these immigrants are not of the most desirable class, but there is a demand for the unskilled labor which could not be met If the advecates of restriction could have thelr way. E——p———— Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth's sugges- tion that passenger trains be equipped with materials needed for first aid to the injured, as well as with apparatus to extinguish fires, will appeal strongly to the traveling public. The great trouble encountered in a railway wreck, however, is that people lose their self- composure and in their excitement for- get to make use of the facilities at hand to relieve distress. Yet a supply of bandage: arnica, chloroform, ete., would be a boon to suffering humanity in such railway disasters, and it is not king too much of the railroads to do this for protection of both patrons and of themselves. Apropos of the candidacy of Judge Parker for the democratic presidential pomination, Harper's Weekly signifi- cantly remarks that it rests with ex- Benator 'HIll' whether the desired en- dorsement can be had from the next state convention. As to Mr. Hill, it adds, “be must know that his own nomination for the presidency is out of the question and that the utmost he can logk £o¢ i the post of segrelary 9f | state in a democratic administration.” But what would a New York candidate have to expect from the Bryanites if they understood that he had secured the backing of his own state only by pledging the chief cabinet position to Mr, Hill? Would not the prospect of Hill as secretary of state have about the same effect on Mr. Bryan and his friends as Hill as the presidential nominee? Suppose Mr. Bryan should conclude later that he was cut out for secretary of state himself?. Democ- racy’'s path is still rock Towa democrats are going to get into the political game early this year by holding their nominating convention in June. There is really no occasion for them to hold back with a view to learn- ing first who is to head the republican ticket, because they can safely proceed on the assumptidn that Governor Cum- mins will be renominated without any substantial opposition. The call for an early convention on the part of the dem- ocrats is more plausibly explainedgon the ground that the gold men who are in control of the party machinery think they can thus head off the Bryanites by cutting short the time in which they might organizd to regain their former ascendancy within the party. So far as candidates on tie democratic ticket in fowa go, they will have to be drafted, as usual. On the basis of the elght and three- fourths mill levy the west half of the Union Pacific bridge, which was as- sessed by the State Board of Equaliza: tlon for $1,506, will contribute the munificent sum of $13.74 into the city treasury of Omaha—equal to the wages of one policeman for about six days, or the cost of one electric street lamp for about fifty days. This is uniforwmity of taxation, a la Baldwin. EEp—— ‘The #ay to banish the corporation lebby from'the capital is to start a Jog- islative investigation that Wwould cori pe! ench lobbyist to teil by whom he is hired and the nature of his business, wth an itemized statement of the amount of boodle circulated and dis- tributed by him or her. Et— Colorado’s municipal home rule amendment has been upheld in the courts. It might not be a bad idea to submit an amendment to the constitu- tion of Nebraska in substantially the same pPhraseology as that which has withstood the ordeal of attack in Colo- rado, —— A Problem in Colors. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. America has had a hard color eme to work out. It already includes the white burden, the black burden and the red bur- den, and it will sodn be time for the blue burden. Chant a Lay of Bestasy. New York Tribune. Sound the lojil’ t{mbrel and chant a lay of hanor to the American hen. The faithtul creature has been working overtime of late, in the face of every discouragement, and has sent the wholesale price of eggs In western markets down to figures whi¢h de- light the consumers, [, mon of Carrent Events. Mintieapolis Times. The ghoul casés at Indlanapolis, the life insurance freuds in New York and else- where add the county burlal swindles at Knoxville Tenn., show that the humblest of us may be made useful without our knowledge or consent and that there are not half enough people in the peniten- tiaries. L Hush, Suckers, Hush! Baltimore American. The decision of the St. Louls court that all who voluntarily invest in gambling schemes are partmers in the business is logical, though desperately hard on the poor, babylsh suckers, who, with eyes wide open, stick their fingers Into the glowing fire and how] when they feel the burn. MONEY AS AN INDICATOR. A Great Revealer of Personal Char- - meteristics. 0. 8. Marden in Success. Perhaps there is nothing else which re- weals one's real character like money or the lack of it. The moment a young per- son begins to get money, he shows his true mettle by the way he uses it—by the way he saves it or the manner in which he spends it, Money 1s a t blab, & great revealer of personal history. It brings out all one's weaknesses. It indicates his wise or fool- ish spending, or wise or foolish saving; it reveals his real character. It you should give $1,000 to each mem- ber of a class of this year's graduates, and could follow each in disposing of it, with- out knowing anything else about him, you could get a pretty good idea of his prob- able future, and judge whether he wjll be successful or will fall, whether he will be & man of character and standing, or the reverse. One boy would see, in the $1,000, a col- lege education for himself or for a crip- pled or otherwise handicapped brother or sister. Another would see, in his $1,000, a “good time" with vicious companions. To one, the money would mean a chance to start a little business of his own. An- other would deposit his in a savings bank. A poor girl would see, in her money, an opportunity to help an invalid mother or a dependent brother or sister. In no two instances would the money mean the same, perbaps, or develop the same traits of character. To one it would mean nothing but selfish- Dess, to another an opportunity to help oth- ers. To one it would mean a chance to cure preclous, long-coveted books, consti- tuting a fine library. To another it would suggest a home of his own. To the boy who s naturally selfish, hard, grasping, mean and stingy, the making of money simply emphasizes his characteris- ANALYZED BY A FOREIGNER. Amerioan Democrsey Caustically Sketched In Three Chapters, A well known European diplomat unofi- clally resident in Washinton for a time, recently contributed to Colller's Weekly his observations on society at the national capital, illustrating the “love of empir that mingles with the American democ- cacy at Washington. g 1.~POLITICAL. 1 am just arrived n your country and at your national capital. A president is about to be inaugurated—a most interesting and Instructive event for the forelgn observer. The president-elect is for the moment resi- dent at the hotel at which I am staying. The day before the inauguration I have small glimpses of him, a dignified, not too self-conscious man, not unlike what my fm- agination had pictured as the probable kind of person for the chief place in a democ- racy. Ke is always surrounded by distin- guished-looking men, respectful and eager, but not obsequious, much like the familiare of a monarch. In the evening a vast and agitated throng pours into the streets round the hotel. Bands ard playing: there is much shouting, singing, laughing, a great deal of what you call “profane swearing,” but no anger or even lli-nature. The throng press intq the hotel, into the corri- dors leading to the suite occupled by the president-elect. They find his door. They beat, they kick upon it. “‘Speech! speech!” they shout. “Cowe out, old boy! Come out, old man! We see you hiding there!" 1 look on amazed. I say to myselt: *The soldlery appear and sweep the corri- dors clear.” The door presentiy opens. In it appears the president-elect. Is his face angry, frowing, displeased? On the con- trary, his eyes Jance; his lips wreathe in smiles; be waves his hands deprecatingly. “You're too good to me, boys,” he says—a curlous, attractive mixture of famillarity and dignity. And he submits with apparent delight to the coarse caresses of the crowd. “This s indeed democracy!” I exclalm. I1.—8O0CIAL. It is perhaps eix wecks later. 1 am a guest at dinner at the house of a mem- ber of the cabinet. We are all assembled in the profusely decorated drawing rooms, waiting for somuthing to occur which is evidently to be of the highest fmportance. The agitation of my host and hostess is visible, carefully though they strive to conceal it. Presently the musicians—an orchestra, almost—begin to play “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Or, perhaps it is the British national alr— King"—to which ycu sing !Tis of Thee.” Everyone rises and his majesty—pardon me the slip—I mean his excellency, the president, and her excel- lency, his wife, appear in the doorway. All bow, the women courtesying, some ct them with a depth equal to that required in a throne-rcom. Thelr excellencles ad- vange to a white-and-gold sofa placed no- ticeably apart and further marked by an embowering mass of palms and ferns. The scene le simple, sylvan, but almost royal. Indeed, It is royalty in the hours when court etiquette is relaxed, not latd aside, The ceremony of greeting and presenta~ tions which follows is in all esserfti except ome—what I have often seen at private entertainments to royal persons in RAILROAD TAX SHIRKING, Broken Row Beacon state leglslature authorising the ity au- thorities to assess railroad terminals for and also authorizing the elty purposes, board of equalization to order them as- sessed for county and state purposes. railroads are strenuously opposing measure, but it is eminently just glve value to their terminals aad are en- titled to some benefit in the way of taxes. Springfield Monitor: There {s no doubt that the people have a just right to think | that whenever a corporation takes a case before a federal court it will get the best | It seems that In instances | of the decision. of this kind in the past this has almost invariably been the case, until now people look upon it as a rule. The rail- road tax case in Omuha just recently will have a tendency to strengthen this beliet. But why the court should lean that way is the question. Hebron Reglster: The corporation inter- ests have a strong and able lobby at Lin- coln and it is putting forth its best efforts to seo that the new revenue bill will not increase the taxes of its masters. The people need not expect to get the needed legislation along this line until they elect lawmakers who cannot be controlled by the pald hirelings of those who are deter- mined that the. common people shall pay more than their just share of taxes levied for the support of the state and its losti- tutions. Ord Journal: The revenue bill that a special committee has been working on for some time has been Introduced in the legislature. The proposed bill will u doubtedly have hard sailing, as it provides absolutely for an increase in the valuafion of all classes of property except rallroads, and (h\l part of the law is left about as it is now." However, the state board is to be made up of five members instead of three, and they may look at matters different than the parties who have made up that board for the last few decades. Kearney Hub: The fate of the pénding revenue bill is apparently as uncertain as it Is in some respects unsatisfactory. Sev- eral weeks were needed by the joint com- mittee to produce it and it will be atill longer before the public will be able to pass even tolerably intelligent judgment upon it. The measure is drastic in some particulars and will doubtless go a long way to.even up the inequalities of tax- atlon of personal property. It even takes an advanced step in the matter of corpora- tion taxation, but thefe is more or less of a suspicion that it will not add anything to the proportion of taxes paid by the rail- ways, and will not ultimately be the rev- enue producer that was intended. Some of this, however, is surmise, and a great deal' depends, of course, upon the admin- {stration of the law should it be enacted. Columbus Telegram: Nebraska laughed when Edward Rosewater, many years ago, declared that the very atmosphere in Lin- coln was contaminating. And yet Rose- water saw the situation better than those who laughed. There is a mysterious some- thing in the atmosphere at the state capi- tal, an indefinable influence which bhas made servile corporation puppies out of men who in their home communities were regarded as strong and clean. I belleve the average man elected to the legislature Europe. The only lacking essentlal i ease, It is amusingly-—but by no means ludicrously—apparent that the effort at court ceremony is an effort, honest and determined, but hampered by ignorance. (Yes, and as now know, by a certain ehame-fadedn that I did not then know.) Once more I stare, amazed. Democracy—perhaps,” 1 say to myselt, “but (democracy with passionate yearnings for monarchy." 111.—OFFICIAL. 1 am at the White House, a guest at an informal lunch. When we leavo the table the president leads us into a hall, where we stand in a group round him, he and all of us smoking. He ig'talking—his atti- tude toward us and ours toward him that which characterizes distinguished host and flattered guests anywhere in the world. An attendant in livery pushes through the group with small ceremony and places him. self beside the president. He walts with some impatience until the president finishes the sentence. Then he says—his tone that of teacher correctng pupll: “Beg pardon, Mr. President. not allowed here.” 1 stand amazed for the third time, used as I am by this time to social and political nud official Incongruities at your Washing- ton. The president looks confused for an instant—rather, as it seems to me, because his train of thought has been broken than because a menial has been gullty of a trighttul, an incredible insolence. Then he says, with an apologetic smile: “Oh, is it? Very well. Come on, boy He leads us into a room. “I guess they'll let us alone here,” he “I'm new to the place and don't know the rules Yot “An arletocratically inclined demoeracy, Smoking 1s perhaps,” 1 say to myself, “but empkat- ically a demo Common AMictions Overlooked. Chicago Chronicle. A learned medical sclentist rises to an- nounce that he has a sure cure for St. Vitus' dance, another submits that he has found & specific for leprosy and a third casually remarks that he can cure any- thing from fits to bubonic plague by stim- ulating the pituitary gland. In the mean- time the citizen who has a cold in the head continues to sneeze and snuffle along in the old way and not a medical sclentist can do a thing for him. This seems anomal- ous. “One 1 a-Plenty.” Springfield Republican. The supreme court of the United States 1s still somewhat in the uature of a de- bating soclety. The last comspicuous de- cision was by & majority of one. The de- ciding vote s declared to have been cast by the newest justice, who, from his former writings, has been set down as an “im- pressionist.”” It would be a satistying thing If the law were so exact that nine great lawyers, clad in the awe of the peo- ple and in silk gowns, could be spontane- ously unanimous, but complete Infallibility 1s only in the imagination and could be personified or idealized only by reposing It by human means in one man. s sl s N fiorace White's Boston Herald. The new chiet editor of the New York Evening Post 1s Rollo Ogden, who has been & member of its editorial staff for nearly twelve years, and may be, presumed to have acquired & thorough knowledge of ils \deals, Its methods and its traditions. He, like many another diligent and trusted in- ties. It makes a small man smaller, a hard man harder, & mean man meaner. A boy who is naturally grasping and mean, if he wishes to be a power in the world, must discipline himself by systematically helping others, in some way, or bis life will become harder and meaner, his affections will be- come marbleized, and he will be of no earthly use to the community in which he lives. In fact, he will make every foot ot the land poorer and meaner despite his quisitions, even if they mount into millions. On the other hand, it makes a generous maD more gemerous, a MAgNANIMOUS man of cheapening the land, his presen ts value, and he is the pride of the community, Do matter bLow much mency bo possesscs. structor of constant readers, is unknown to the public at large. All that we known of him, apart from his work, is that he was born in Sahdlake, N. Y., in 1856, was graduated by Willlams college in 1877, stu- dled for the ministry at Andover and Unlon seminaries, and entered upon the work for which he had prepared. Finding the condi- tions o1 the office of & Presbyterian preacher not wholly satistactory to his ideas, he drew out and entered upon literary and newspaper work. As, st 47 years of age, he takes the office of responsibility and honor in the succession dignified and il- luminated by the examples of Bryant, Good- win, Godkin and White, congratulation, 1s really honest and earnest in his desire to accomplish something for the public welfare. I make an exception of the dele- gatlons from Douglas and Lancaster coua- tive anee by the railroad and other public corporations. These men are as honest as they can be under the clrcumstances. They intend to do right, as they e the right, but un- fortunately they are compelled to , see things through vailrond glasses, and only those measures are right which bear the “o. k" of the grand master of the cor- tion lobby. —eeeee PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, Argument of Stuyvesant Fish Refetes Itwelf. p Springfield . (Mass.) Republican. Nothing is proved against public owner- ship by the fact that the United States Postoffice department experiences a chronlo defleit; and 3o nothing is proved by Stuy- vesant Fish of the Illinois’Central railroad when he says that the e of Illinols lost $100,000 yearly through the old Illinois and Michigan canal, while the rallroad, under private ownership, puts $942,000 yearly into its treasury. If that sum repre- sents a collection from the people for pri- vate profit beyond the demands of a mod- erate profit for services rendered, then an argument is made for public ownership or control of rallroads rather than an argu- ment to the contrary. If the“government should take the raliroads and prove itself unable, at the same rates charged by pri- vate owners, to earn as large & net income, then the superior economy and efficlency of private Ownership are demonstrated. But if, as In the case of the postoffice, & deficit results which may be due to overs liberal rates to the people, nothing is proved against public ownership which will appeal to the public; for the public which meets the deficit in other ways is its bene- ficlary. Works Way. Boston Transeript. More than two-thirds of the immigrants who came hither last year were from Italy, Austria-Hungary or Russia, and pessiml are already wondering how we ever shall assimilate them. As e fact we shall as- gimilate them by making them work hard for us while their children and children’ children attend our high schools and ca) ture the fattest scholarships at Harvard grow. confidence and good will ehould attend bis brave undertaking. ' A bill 18 before the The the The counties through which the railroads pass the | PERSONAL NOTES. “ Peter Berg, a French count, now a Chicago bartendor, has & watch that be- longed to Napoleon. The watch was pre- sented to Berg's grandfather by the gen- eral. General Jacob H. Smith (“Hell-Roaring Jake™) has started on a tour of the world, accompanied by his wite and two St Louls girls, the Misses Thomson, daugh- ters of an old friend, W, H. Thomson. Bernard Shraft, an aged musician of San Franclsco, a schoolmate and friend of Johann Strauss, the world-fampous com« poser of waltzes, is dylng in poverty at his home in that eity. John Martin, aged is called “the builder of Indlanapoll The old man says ‘‘you can't drive to a place in town where 1 cannot point my finger to A build- ing that I had the contract on.” Senator Hanna's socretary, Eimer Dover, belleves that he gets more “pedestrian ex- ercise” right along than either the presi- dent or General Wood. He gets It in going from department to department on the ds. “I'll bet 1 walk twenty he says. He has just in- vested in a pedometer. Nearly évery pleasant afternoon the jus- tices of the United 8t supreme court walk down Pennsylvania avenue frcm the capito] to Fourteenth street, about a mile. Newcomers on the supreme beuch are e: pected to joln in this parace. Justi Holmes, who recently took his seat, fell into line readily, being fond of walking, but Justice Day, who will suon be onp of the august body, does not like it. It Is quite likely, however, that he will be broken In before a couple of weeks have passed. That rather amusing body, the New York board of aldermen, was shocked at its Tuesday sesslon by a resolution intro- duced by Alderman McCarthy, to indorse the spanking by the Lusband of his wife or grown-up daughters (f thoy should fail to reach home at 10 o'cloek In the even- ing. This was a result of the decision of a Long Island magistrate in the case of a citizen who had enforced this pemalty without warrant of law. %he magistrate | deelded that he was acting within his right head of the household. ut the New York aldermen “threw down" McCarthy. THOUGHTS THAT TICKLE. “It's funny how some men like to blow about how their people brought them up.’ “Yes, but it's equally funny that they never 'blow about the way other people tako them down.’—Philadelphia Press, “I notice," sald the slow wooer, *‘that the extreme culd pweather has been ‘fatal to a .hl’nk. sald the girl, her pationce being about exhausted, ‘ihat you would be afrald to venture out.”’—~Cleveland Plaindealer. Uncle Jed—Do I want to go to the atito- mobile show? 'No! Dad ding the auto- mobiles! What are they good fu Oty Nephaw—Some day. unce, they'll knock out the grasping rafiroads. cle Jed—Gosh! T mever thought o thatt “Where are they holdia: the Show “hicago Tribune. First South Am(‘rk‘nl’—?fiu‘h' Think of that m-n nrelendlnr tesman ! WAy, Re kdows absolutely nothing of polit- feal eronom Second South American—I should say he didn't. Why, he couldn’t tell a revolution trom a North American college yell.— Judge, pBrown—1’ ‘il have to quit this boarding ouse, Jones—Not enough varlety? Brown—Too much. What's the good of nutritious breakfast food if a man has tv learn the name of & new one every day.— Detroit Free Pi oy wrig) m—'flut ~villain play doesn’t act his up to the lines. He [pust wiar & Took "ot "Worry' and despera- Hlnl r—Oh! don't gt excited. TI'll fix that. John, §o,up on the stage and start a rumor that e ekipped with the box flice receipts. altimore News. fn my “Wfllllm now that yowve made your rty over to me I can do as I please Wlt it can't 17" “Well, of cours: law '|VM me a l estate while I liv ““You wouldn't be mean enough t on that, would you, Willlam "—Chl\. ‘o Tribune. JACK UP ¥ as your husband, the hird Interest in the real NRRVE. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. Don't you never weaken, son, when the dworla seems cruel, Don't you never drop’ your lip in despond- ent way) rdice is basest l(one' el That'll light the darkest nour jest afore the day. When 200, flay in rocky Juck If your feet Plfl‘ arder ln you'll soon think (he re all aflam Play delermhlod thu. yuull knock every drawback silly— Give yer nerve a jackin' up an' you'll win the game. courage 18 a Never was a battle won ‘thout a heap o fightin’ Never was a victory didn't cost a plle, Never wes & cloudy day sunshine couldn't 8] frown so dark it could buck W a smi] Keep a- pnl::ldhl at the road leadin’ to the summ! Of your very fondest hopes thoush your t go lame; 1 yom;‘ cfl\arll'"lpfln‘l & Jeak In its tank, why, Give yer nerve a jackin’ up an' you'll win the game, Never see prosperity come jest fur the You, 'h-lve' got to fight fur it in this earthly ’TI'“;:vD e, to hunt you up where you lay In (he sun of idleness; '(llnt bullt that 1t you l¥y to shirk the fight you deserve 1t )”l)l:“l’l it, you've alone got to bear the Git a hul(le on yourself when your troubles thicken— Give yer nerve a jackin’ up an’ you'll win the game. restores color to gray hair, cr’s Hair Vigor Makes the hair Checks