Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1903, Page 6

e 6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 19 1908. W—————_--—-——--———-——'_“—_——_m _THE OMAHA DALY E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without S8unday), One Yeor. ally Bee and Bunday, One Year. . llustrated Bee, One Year. =:ndn' Bee, One Y\'e" turday Bee, One Year . Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday,, per copY.... aily Bee (without Sunday), per week aily Bes (ncluding Sunday), per week..17c unday Bee, per COpy........ Evening Bes (without Bunday), per week. 6c Eyening ‘Bes (including Bunday), per WORK ......iiiiiiniis i . . Complaints of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha~The Bee Th Building. Bouth Omaha—City Hall $unaing, Twen- ty-fitth and M Btreets. Chitagb-ibin Tates, Bt “hicay nity ul ng. Now Fork 20 Park Row Hutidin. Washington—501_Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. ' = Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. ik Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bes Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps lcclrted in payment of mail accounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha or castern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. George B. Taschiick wflflfizmm ol ] A€ the actual pumber of full complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 103, was as follows: 1. 30,990 BERERPBREREES Total. . Less unsold and returned copl BEE. | vanaEr FOREIGN MARRETS NEEDK) Net total sales.. Net average sales GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence und eworn to o b U, HUNGATE, (8eal.) Notary Publle. Y Wanted—Bridge bullders. Apply to Governor Balley of Kansas or to the Kansas legislature when it convenes in extra session. ———— If the abolition of the city claim agent would carry with it the abolition of the damage clalmants, we could get along nicely without them. But it doesn’t. King Peter does not know of any message of congratulation he would rather have more than that from the czar—except possibly one from Uncle Sam. em———— It is just possible the unions that make up the bullding trades council may find it necessary to resort to an arbitration committee among them- selves. ] With E. H., Harriman in Europe for two months we may expect all kinds of periodical rumors about the manipula- tion of the Harriman roads during his absence. If Comptroller Lobeck’s estimates of prospective deficits In the various city funds are all no more reliable than his figures for the library fund, his mathe- matics wiil need revision. Omaha's experiments with wooden block pavements in the past are hardly such as to warrant putting much money into macadam unless it 18 the kind of macadam that wears and that kind does not come cheap. The Chicago waiters' strike is to be adjusted by arbitration. Arbitration has met some setbacks, but on the whole it has made substantial progress every- where us the most practical means of settling labor troubles. In the mind of City Attorney Wright the question whether Another assistant 18 needed in the city attorney's office depends for Its answer on whether the position is to be filled by Mr. Wright or by the mayor and council. If the courts are to be invoked for blanket injunctions against ticket scalp- ers every time the rallroads put in ex- cursion rates, other litigants will have to take back seats and be thankful to squeeze into court between excursions. Ten minutes rest on a cracker box has cost a police officer thirty days pay, but an hour’s rest in a beer garden mwould not have entailed the cost of a new set of brass: buttons. Moral: Omaha pollcemen must keep the seat of their pantaloons off cracker boxes when on duty. The Bee has consistently opposed the gambling slot machines from their very first introduction whether the winnings take the form of coin, checks or mer- chandise. The element of chance is what constitutes the gambling device whether the game is played for money, chalk or marbles. According to the state engineer, the annual June rise in Nebraska's rivers and streams is yet to put in its appear- ance and in all probability will be a July rise this time, owing to the late melting of the snows in the mountains. The water will be much more acceptable in July than it would be now, anyway. It is an {ll ‘wind that blows nabody good. The floods that have mbmorg«i' the Kansas City stock yards have turned the tide of the live stock industry toward South Omaha and increased the distance between Omaba and Kansas Olty as a pork packing center. While Kansas City has fallen 20,000 behind in | doubt that we shall in time accomplish Noting the fact that last year the manufactured products of the United States were valued at $15,000,000,000 and that the exports of such products were only about 3 per cent of that amount, the New York Sun points out | that we need larger foreign markets and unless we secure them there must come a curtallment of production, for great as the domestic market Is it can- not indefinitely consume 97 per cent of the products of our mills and factories, even though there should be no great increase in productive capacity. That paper observes that American manufac- turers are coming into more and more direct confrontation with an ever- increasing surplus of manufactured wares beyond the requirements of the home market and it says there are two lines of possible determination of the question—one limitation of output, the other an extension of markets. The Sun points out the obvious fact that there must be an even greater pros- perity than that of the last few years, and even bigger crops, with a profitable market for them, if the -everincreasing mills are to find a domestic market for their ever-increasing production. Large as has been the increase in exports of manufactures in recent years, reaching more than $400,000,000 fn 1802, foreign markets must be secured for a much greater amount than this in order to maintain even the present production. Of course American manufacturers fully understand this and are actively seeking to enlarge their exports. They are represented in the foreign markets by experienced and energetic agents and salesmen, who are undoubtedly doing all that is practicable to secure trade and how effectively is shown In the fact that our exports of manufactures have nearly quadrupled 1in the last dozen years. This increase has been mainly in the markets of Europe and possibly we shall not be able to add to it materially. In order to increase the amount of exports we shall have to find the markets in Asia and In South America. Trade with the Oriental countries has been growing, but with the countries south of us, with two or three exceptions, no progress is being made. To obtain the trade of those countries several condi- tions are necessary. Perhaps the most important of these is direct communica- tion. There must be American steam- ship lines running between our ports and those of the southern countries. This was pointed out by President Mc- Kinley, who said: *“One of the needs of the time is direct commercial lines from our vast flelds of production to the flelds of consumption that we have but barely touthed. Next in advantage to having the thing to sell is to have the convenience to carry it to the buyer.” Another requirement {8 that American n_ununcturerl shall more carefully con- sult the pecullar wants of the people of the southern countries. European manu- facturers make goods especially for those markets and our manufacturers must do the same in order to get the trade. That larger foreign markets are needed, in order to maintain our in- dustrial activity and go on developing our manufacturing resources, is per- fectly obvious. To acquire the markets we must be able to compete in the price and quality of goods with any other country. At present the cost of produc- tion here is higher than with any of our competitors in the world’s markets, which necessarily places our manufac- turers at a disadvantage. es————————— WHERE WE HAVE DONE WELL. American administration in Porto Rico has been greatly successful and conditions in that island were never be- fore so good as they are at this time. According to Governor Hunt, who is now in the United States, there has been continued development in the island, business has steadily improved and commercial relations between the Porto Ricans and the people of this country have become greatly extended. This is seen In the trade statistics, which show e heavy increase during the past year In the exports of coffee, sugar and tobacco from the island to the United States. While this trade development has been going on there has at the same time been a very marked advance in public improve- ments. Educational conditions are also making steady progress. Under such circumstances it is perhaps needless to say that the people are peaceful and contented and regard the American plan of administration, with unqualified favor. There is a .very great contrast between the conditiens in Porfo Rico and those in the West Indian posses- sions of European powers. While the task in the Philippines is infinitely more difficult than was that in Porto Rico, yet there can be no a change in the archipelago that will have results as satisfactory and as cred- itable as are those in our West Indian island. The advance 'already made gives ample promise of this. et NOCIALIST GROWTH IN GERMANY. The socialist party In Germany h grown rapidly during the last few years and will have a much stronger repre- sentation in the new Reichstag, for which an election was held Tuesday, than in its predecessor. At the last general election in 1898 the sociallst party cast 2,107,100 votes, out of a total of 7,752,900. It had fifty-seven repre- sentatives in the Reichstag then elected, while it is expeected to have at least elghty In the new body, which means in the towns, where it has drawn to its support many workingmen who have found it difficult during the period of depression to earn a living. The social- Ist vote 18 a popular protest against increasing the price of bread, which the tariff demanded by the agrarians involves, and also against adding to the burden of militarism, which would result from the policy contemplated by the government. There are 303 mem- bers of the Relchstag, representing six- teen parties or factions. As now In- dicated the socialists will be second in strength among the factions and of course will exert a greater influence than- ever before. Though it may not be able to defeat any of the policies to which it is opposed, its growth should admonish the emperor and his advisers that they may not always be able to carry out plans which involve greater hardships to the masses of the peopls. THE MAYOR'S CABINET. In an interview concerning the coun- cilmanic deadlock over the confirmation of his appointments Mayor Moores is quoted saying: My appointments have not been ques- tioned heretofore, either three years ago or six years ago. What a foolish propo- sition It would be if a majority of the senators wers to say to the president: “Teddy, you can't name your cabinet un- less we select the names.” It is the same here, in a measure. These appointees con- stitute my cabinet and I should have the right to name them. Mayor Moores entertains some very queer notions about what he is pleased to call his cabinet. Think of the pound- master, the welghmaster, market in- spector, elevator men and janitors being reckoned as members of the mayor's cabinet. But, turning from the ridiculous to the sublime, the mayor’s comparisons between presidential cabinets and mayoralty cabinets, and between presi- dents and the senate and mayors and councilmen, are not supported by historic facts. Presidents do consult senators, or at least the leaders of the dominant majority in the senate, with regard to the cholce of cabinet officers and their confirmation is not a mere matter of form any more than is the confirmation of other presidential appointments. Real cabinet officers nominated in de- flance of pronounced opposition of the senate have been turned down by the senate or held up in committees until their names were withdrawn. ‘What would be the object of requiring confirmation of presidential appoint- ments if the action of the body required to pass in judgment upon the choice of the executive was a mere matter of form? If presidents are expected and obliged to consult the wishes of senators in making appointments, why shouldn't the mayor also consult the wishes of the councilmen, who are equally re- sponsible with him for appointments sgubject to confirmation? Why should Mayor Moores pursue a different line of policy at the opening of his third term than he pursued in the beginning of his first term? Then he did consult the council and went so far even as to ap- point three or four personal enemies to the most important ‘“‘cabinet’” positions, including Charles Unitt as boller in- spector and John Butler as bullding in- spector. There is certainly nothing unreason- able or humiliating for the mayor to consult with and accord recognition to the council in the selection of his so- called “municipal cabinet” and the other minor appointments subject to confirma- tion. After all, the mayor and council are only public servants clothed with limited powers to administer the affairs of the municipality and are expected to pull together and not pull apart, not only in matters of general policy, but in appointments as well. Much pressure is being exerted on Governor. Mickey on behalf of a con- victed murderer, who would have been executed nearly a year ago except for a reprieve issued by Governor Savage. ‘At the time of the reprieve the gov- ernor’s action was explained on the ground that he did not belleve in capital punishment and was willing to hold the case in abeyance until the legislature should have an opportunity to modify the law If it saw fit to do so. It is needless to say that had the friends of the young man'been able to touch Gov- ernor Savage's “big heart” as effectively as some other criminals of assorted character the reprieve would have been a commutation, if not a full pardon, and Governor Mickey would have been spared the unpleasant necessity of pass- ing on a clemency petition at this time. 8ir Thomas Lipton comes over to this country with a royal rescript wishing him in the name of King Edward a pros- perous journey and all possible good luck for the great race. When he returns he will likewise carry with him all kinds of wishes for a prosperous journey, coupled with regrets that so gentlemanly a sport should not be entitled to better luck. With Street Commissioner Hummel's order against Interruptions of street work to relieve the sufferings of thirst- affiicted shovelers and team drivers strictly enforced, it will make no differ- ence whether a street gang is assigned for duty in the midst of a suburban desert or in close proximity to a down- town life-saving oasis. Over In Iowa the next legislature s to be importuned to create a State Board of Auctioneer Examiners, to pass upon the fitness of applicants before licensing them to practice the profession In that that during the last five years it has increased its vote more than 1,000,000, The gain made by this party is due 1ts aggregate output of slaughtered hogs from March 1 to June 15, Omaha has inereased its output by 55,000 during the same period, and its total output of packed hogs during the same period is 25 per cent greater than that of Kansas City. N to its aggressive opposition to the new tariff law and to the policy of military and naval extension urged by the gov- ernment. It has been alded also by the industrial depression which has pre- valled in the empire for several years. The strength of the soclalist party is state. Just what the prerequisite quali- fications of a mallet-wielder should be are unfortunately not stated. —— Awful Record of Disaster, Cincinnat! Tribune. And the Breathitt and the Servian horrors are to be added to it Great Risk. Chicago Record-Herald. The new king of Servia became greatly excited when he was informed of his elec- tion. We can't blame him. Being elected king of Servia Is no laughing matter. Still the World Moves On. Indianapolia News. Now that “Fighting Bob" Evans has called on the dowager Empress and that lady has had a good, square look at this epitome of the United States navy, per- haps China wijl be good for a while. There Was Something Doing. Washington Post. The Strvian tragedy was brewing for a long time, but the conspirators did not think the occasion ripe for action until Richard paper that there was nothing doing and had started for home. Extravagance in College Sports. New York Tribune. Official figures confirm the general im- pression that this is an era of extravagance In the management of college sports. Plain living and hard work should be the guid- ing principle for undergraduate gladiators. They ought not expect to be treated like princes or prima donnas Is Consclence Stifled? New York Tribune. “All quist at Belgrade,” say the dis- patches. Yes. “Paris is tranqufl” was the report just after Louis Napoleon's coup @'etat. “Order reigns in Warsaw" was also announced on a memorable occasion. Cer- tainly the last of the Obrenovitch dynasty is quiet enough, for all time. Whether the volce of conscience is hearnd in Beigrade is doubtful. If not, so much the worse for Bervia. —_— Just Plain Human Nature, New York World. “Scratch a Russian and you find a demon,” says Dr. MacArthur. Oh, no; you Just find & man with about the ordinary lowance of human nature. Put a Missis- sipp! negro-burner in Russia, with the muzhfk's particular brand of ignorance, and he would probably want to kill Jews. Put the muzhik in Breathitt county, Ken- tucky, and he would be likely to shoot his enemy in the back from behind the court house door. Rainmaker's Hard Lin, Philadelphia Ledger. One of the cruelest things that ever h: pened to a sclentist was the occurrence of a violent thunderstorm In the Adirondacks just as Prof. Myers, the rainmaker, w: about to send up his balloons. The profes- sor had been imported from Texas, at great expense, to break the drouth, and but for an unfortunate delay in the arrival of the apparatus he would have discharged his bombs in afr before the storm arrived and would have thus earned Dr. Seward Webb's honorarfum and demonstrated the efMclency of his practice. We think that he is as much entitled to reward as he would have been had the storm followed and not pre- ceded the experiment, but to reflect upon the chance of a happy sequence 80 nar- rowly missed must be heartbreaking. —_— ADVANTAGE OF PUBLICITY. ces MNlustrating the Futility of & in the Dark.” Baturday Eyaning Post. ROUND AROUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropol Five Pointa, one of the famous haunts of crime In New York, follows Mulberry Bend to destruction. The last of the bulld- Ings In that locality Is being pulled down, and In a few years the ground will be transformed iInto a park. The Five Points park will connect with Mulberry Bend and Paradise parks, forming a group of breath- ing spots In what was the most congested district In the big city. Waltham The name is free apon request. American Waltham ‘The fact that the Jewish boys and girls of New York capture a large majority of the prizes and medals offered In the public schools s again made apparent in the list of honors just made public by the faculty of the College of the City of New York. ““The Perfected American Wi of inferesting information about wwatches, will be sent Waltham, Mass. Watches a guarantee. ** an WWustrated Book Watch Company, The following are the names of the honor Harding Davis had cabled his | students who are to deliver orations at the commencement exercises to be held in Car- negle hall: Arnold Jacobnits, Morris Weis- enberg, George Frankenthaler, Gratzer, Henry C. Moses and Simon C. Grudburg. There I8 a lonesome looking Samuel W. Paterson In the list and people are wonder- ing how he got there. A Brooklyn man who was struck by light- ning one day last week says the experience is not half so terrifying as the contempla~ tion of it. “It was as though someone sneaked up behind me and hit me with a plece of two-by-four,” he says. "I had just gone under the tres to walt for the shower to pass, and my son was under another and smaller tree about fifty feet distant. Suddenly I felt as though I was going up, up, up. I could neither speak nor move. And there I lay, unable to do & thing. My son, who had been felled to his knees by the shock, was soon up and came running to me. I could not move a muscle. They brought me home in a carriage, and after a time my speech came back. I have not yet, however, recovered the full use of my legs.” | A gas company has discovered that it is not running New York. It shut off the gas of Walter E. Cransdell because he would not pay 70 cents charged against the man who had oocupled the apartment before him. Mr. Cransdell sued for $180, which was the amount of penalty for the period during which the service was denied him. The gas company fought the case, but it has now pald him the $180 and enough in costs to bring Its loss up to $500. Mr. Cransdell pocketed his check with the remark, “There is no law for highway rob- bery In this country whether the bludgeon is used or a gas meter. There 18 no subject about which the aver- age New York magistrate is not able or willing to give advice. The arrest of a boy for snatching a woman's chatelaine bag led Magistrate Crane to suggest In a lecture to the complainant that all women wear their money in little bags hung about their necks, or in pockets made on the left side of thelr walsts. They cdn have the pock- ets on the inside, if necessary, and they should get over being 80 ultra-fashionable as to subordinate the safety of their prop- erty to considerations of style, the magis- trate sald. It seems that the woman in the case was not certain that the little fel- low who was hauled to court was the boy who had taken her chatelaine, and this caused the worthy magistrate thus to an- imadvert upon feminine fallings: “Women's carelessness s thc cause of a great deal of trouble in the world. They have no idea of Isadore A dlamond neckiace that cost many tens | oy, and they rush their troubles into of thousands was stolen from a New York | court on the spur of the moment, and in- residence not lonk ago. "As soon as the de- | yolve innocent parties through their care- teotives arrived they maid: “S8ay nothing | jessness. Women should be made to think, of this to the reporters. Don't let anybody | ahd they should be compelled to wear their hear of it. If it gets out we can do noth- ing.” After they had worked for several weeks without accomplishing anything, the newspapers happened 9n the facts and pub- lished them. The day a pawnbroker came forward with some of the jewels; the next day the thief was caught and the rest db the jewels wers found: Why? Be- cause with the newspaper publication the search for thief and plunder began to be made not only by two or three thick-headed “sleuths” but by millions upon millions of human beings, each casting about in his own nelghborhood for some clue to the mystery. , Several years ago Russia began to move into Manchuria, The “diplomats” of the other European powers began to tunnel under Russia's tunnel. “Not a word of this must get out. The public makes a mess of everything. Just let us’alone to burrow in the dark and Russia will soon be re- treating.” Finally the matter was unco ered accidentally. But it was too lai Russia, calmly disregarding the silly lttle mole tunnel of the diplomats, had got its long claws well planted, and though pub- licity has made it impossible for it to move as rapldly as it was doing, as long as the diplomats let it work iIn secret, diplomacy’s blunderings cannot be set straight. There are no exceptions to the rule that honesty and honest purpose of every kind seek the light and thrive best in it, while skull-digging 1s never better pleased than when it can induce honest men to say: ““Yes, publicity is a dangerous thing. Let's fumble about in the dark." —— MACARONI WHEAT GROWING. Succe al Experiments Western States, Philadelphia Press. Becretary Wilson of the Agricultural de- partment, has accomplished another ‘vals uable thing for the farmers of this country by the introduction of macaron! wheat, the growth of which has met with great suc- cess In some of the western states. The secretary, in his report for 101, stated that the imports of macaron! exceeded 16,000,000 pounds annually, worth nearly $80,000. The | product is made from a special class of wheats, which had never been given a thorough trial in this country. He secured a quantity of the wheats and distributed them in the Dakotas and in Kansas and Nebraska. To his gratification their culti- vation was a complete success. They yielded one-third to one-half more per acre than any other wheats grown side by side with them, and when other wheats were almost a complete fallure in the Da- | kotas the macaroni varleties produced a very good yleld of excellent quality. The vield is from one-third to one-half more than that of any other standard wheats in the same locality. The macaron! wheats can be grown successfully In localities where it was not considered possible to grow any kind of wheat before, owing to the lght rainfall. Over 2,000,000 bushels were produced last year, and the average this year has been largely increased. in Several the supply, the macaroni made from the wheat being of the highest quality. Besides there s a good market abroad for the wheat. The importation of macaron! has already largely decreased, so that the suc- cess of the Industry is assured. While this wheat is chiefly used for macaroni, bread is made from it which is regarded as very nutritious and palatable. The introduction of Japanese rice by the department has resulted in a great increase in rice production, so that the importation of that article has greatly declined. More hardy winter wheat has been brought with The demand for this wheat has exceeded | BEight hundred and ninety lives lost by floods and cloudbursts, 65,000 people home- less and property of the value of $36,000,000 | the world, all of great value to the farme: completely destroyed is the record of Kan- | and planters. The Agricultural department sas, lowa, Missouri, Oregon, Georgia and | was never so well managed as it is at the Bouth Carcline within the past four weeks. | present time. success from Russia, oats from Sweden and other cereals and fruits from other parts of money and jewels in secret pockets. ‘If these two things were carried out we would have fewer cases of mistaken ldentity and filched pocketbooks on the docket.” William Dean Howells—the “dean of American letters” he has lately been called —strolled one evening through the “‘tender- loin" of New York. Stout, broad and look- ing very well dressed in his loose English clothes, Mr. Howells glanced from right to left incessantly. He seemed to wish to see everything. A policeman whom he knew saluted him and said: “I suppose you're strolling about here, Mr. Howells, picking up character, eh?” “Well, no, not exactly,” returned the author, ‘‘though plenty of that is lost about here, I'm told.” If you feel like Indulging in the extrava- gance of a # cigar there s a dealer who can supply it to you. He has just recelved & consignment of 1,60 of them, on which he pald a duty of 6 cents each. The tobacco of which they are made 1s grown In the Vuelta Abajo district of Cen- tral Cuba, and the plant is the result of years of cultivation. Perfect leaves only are used, and the cigars, each sixtéen inches long, are rolled by experts, who make only elght a day. City officlals in New York whose dutles require them to visit various places are taking to the automobile as a means of lo- comotion, the city paying the bills in some cases. Police Commissioner Greene ‘makes his rounds regularly in one of these ma- chines, as do several other department heads. An auto has been purchased for one of the water department engineers. . PERSONAL NO' «Bridge” has become 8o popular in Wash- ington soclety that you may frequently see animated -gambling parties scattered about the lawns at Chevy Chase. Now that the stain of blood has been washed from the palace at Belgrade it is perfectly clear that the Georgevitches have much the best of the Obrenovitches. “Golden Rule” Jones of Toledo, it is learned, sleeps on the roof of his home. | But his political career gives us reason to believe that he knows enough to come in when it rains. The Gladstone memorial for Edinburgh, from the design by Mr. Pittendrigh Mac- Gillivray, has received the approval of the | committee charged with the matter, and work will be commenced forthwith. Mayor Studley of New Haven, Conn., is using strenuous effort to get President Roosevelt to visit the city during the an- nual reunfon of Spanish War veterans, to be held there the latter part of Septem- ber. John Gollmar, formerly editor of & Servian newspaper, but expelled from that country for exposing the bogus baby scheme of Queen Draga, has been residing in Janesville, Wis., for some years past. Since the tragedy at Belgrade he has re- celved intelligence that his sentence will be revoked, and intends to return to Servia at an early date. Assoctate Justice Alexander Burton Hagner, recently retired from the District of Columbla Supreme bench, was born in Washington D. C, July 13, 18% and graduated from Princeton in 186 with the degree of master of arts. Judge Hagner wes admitted to the bar of Annapolis in 18, and practised in that city, in Balti- more and other parts of Maryland. General Charles King finds it necessary to explain that he uses the phonograph not to turn off copy faster, but simply to provide a convenient record in case of the loss of & manuscript, & misfor- tune which has happened to him once or twice. He plans his work carefully and then dictates to the talking machine, from which the record is taken by & typewriter. 1 CITY AS A COAL DEALER. Story of the Operatio of Detroit Emergency Coal Yard. Detroit Free Press. There was presented to the Munioipal Coal commission yesterday the final chap- ter of that thrilling romance by the Hon. Willlam €. Maybury, entitled “The Folled Octopus, or Bituminous Blll's Revenge. Lest preceding chapters may have been for- gotten, it may be worth while to rehearse them. Bome time during the cold winter months the mayor discovered that a gang of hardened scoundrels engaged in the coal business were selling fuel at a profit instead of giving it away. Some of the more despicable and desperate of these wretches refused to sell anthracite coal at all, brazenly alleging that they which thelr customers could afford to pay Inasmuch as they persisted in their career of violence and crime, the mayor organ- ized a municipal coal commission to purvey anthracite coal in unlimited and profitiess quantities to rich and poor alfke. Unfortunately, the plutocratic east persisted in taking most of the anthracite coal that was mined, and the commission was unable to purchase any. but not to be folled by the criminals who had found thelr way into the business of selling coal In Detrolt, the mayor borrowed money from various sources and established the munieipal commission in business. By sell- ing coal at cost and having no incidental expenses to pay the commission was able to cut 50 cents a ton under the regular retall rate, which was convincing proof to the mayor and his associates that the local coal dealers had managed to keep out of the penitentiary only by reason of the irremediable blindness of Justice. And 80 the commission continued its noble work of relleving all cases of distress where the distress could pay in advance and was desirous of saving 60 cents a ton. The philanthropy was 8o popular that the question of creating.a permanent commis- slon was serlously discussed, and often persons stared steadily toward the east and could seé the millenntum hiking over Belle Isle bridge. But now for, the final ehapter. The report of the commission's mecretary shows that there 18 a net deficit of §1,072,7. The com- misston bought 3,81 tons of coal and sold 481 The other 400 tons disappeared, that is nearly 11 per cent of the coal purchased was lost in distribution. With no interest charges to pay, with no dividends to pay, with no taxes to' pay, with the clerical hire pald for by the city, and nothing to allow for depreciation, the commission suc- ceeded in selling coal a few cents a ton below the price charged by the local dealers, and earned a deflclt of 6 per cent on the investment. INow the taxpayers will probably be requested to provide enough money to balance the books, and the city government will have acquired another $1,000 worth of experfence in the advantages of minding its own business. ENFORCEMENT OF LAW, for the President’s Remarks at the Tomb of Lincoln, Chicago Chronicle (dem.). At the tomb of Abraham Lincoln Presi- dent Roosevelt discussed briefly the en- | forcement of law. A great deal that he has said on his extended travels this spring has been perfunctory, thoughtless and useless, and some of it, unfortunately, has not been in keeping with his high of- fice, but he redeemed himself most hap- pily in the utterance which follows: “The supreme safoty of our country is to be found in a fearless and honest ad- ministration of the law of the land. It makes not the slightest difference whether the offense against the law takes the form of cunning and greed on one hand or of physical violence: on the other; in either case the lawbreaker must be held aoc- countable and the lawbreaking stopped. when any executive undertakes to enforce the law he is entitled to the support of every man, rich or poor, no matter what form the law-breaking has taken. He is entitled td the support of all men in his efforts. If he is worth his salt he will en- force the law whether he gets the support or not.” Respect for law, obedlence to law, and the enforcement of law are considerations which cannot be impressed upon the pres- ent generation too strongly. Demagogues and cowards have encouraged lawlessness |in many forms. Honest and courageous men must discourage it. Belleving Mr. Roosevelt to be both hon- est and courageous, the Chronicle assumes that if he as president were brought face to face with such a situation as confronted President Cleveland at the time of the Debs insurrection in 184 he would act { with equal promptness and vigor. “If an | executive officer is worth his salt he will enforce the laws whether he gets support or not.” When Mr. Cleveland as commander-in- had none, and could obtaln none at prices | chief of the army removed the embargo upon Interstate commerce and the oh struction to the mail service in Chicago he was criticized by the lawless and by the thoughtless, but he performed a duty which will redound to his credit forever and ever. The occasion for action on his part was the same as that which impelled a similar use of force by Mr. Lincoln in 1861 and the authority under which both acted was precisely the same. Lincoln set great armies in. motlon to repossess government property, to restore govern- mental activities, and to reassert the su- premacy of the federal laws. Cleveland used the troops at his command for ex actly the same purpose. It Is to be regretted that many Ameri- cans who should have known bhetter aa- salled Mr. Clevaland with bitterness for performing his plain duty, but Mr. Lin- coln was similarly criticised in a much graver emergency. Both of these great presidents were “‘worth their salt." They enforoed the laws whether trimmers and demagogues and criminals liked it or not An Impression has been cultivated by some mayors and governors that in the presence of labor strikes laws are of ne- ceasity suspended, and that all manner of violence against persons and property fs to be winked at so long as it appears to make In favor of the contentfon of the strike bosses. Dangerous as all this fs, it never can bear its perfect frult of re- bellion and anachy until some such dem- agogue reaches the president’'s office. Men who are worth their salt will enforce the law. It is to be hoped that no occasion will arise which will put Mr. Roosevelt to the test, but his Springfield speech justifies the bellef that if such an emergency should appear he would prove himself a worthy successor of the great presidents who have preceded him. SAID IN FUN. Trampus—Wot Is your idea about this race suicide business? Scrampus (well versed In turf matters)— It allus comes from playin' too many fa- vorites an’ takin' tips from the bookmak- ers.—Princeton Tiger. “I say, Jones, that's the third umbrella you'vo ‘taken from my office. I wouldn't an were you." “By Jove! Smith, that's the first true thing I've heard you say for a long time."— Columbia Jester. “Dar ain’' no doubt,” sald Unecle 'Fben, *'bout de church doin' good. It does'n’ make any difference how no 'count an' wicked a man 1Is, if you kin get 'Im into church you knows you's got his hands tled foh an hour or so, anyhow."'—Washington Star, *‘At the club today Maria read a paper on ‘Why Are Men Averse to Marriage™ T felt sorry for her.” “Why so?" ‘“Because you flnlg had to look at her to t an_answer to the question."—Cleveland lain Dealer. tard poultice, with red r in 1 1 ala o Pa n Bure for rheumiatiam. After you have had it on & while, you don’ notice the rheumatism.—Somerville Journal. *“I¢t you find it impossible to keep open ur line of retreat.’” said the instructor In 'he military school, “what ought you to do “Open up the line of advance,” was the prompt reply.—Chicago Post. “You say that drink was the cause of your downfall Y sald the kind-hearted vie- t the jail "?'rY:l," nn’lwered Meandering Mike. “T met a gentleman dat was too intoxicated to take care of his money. An’ de tempta- tion was too great.”—Washington Star. Mrs. Ascum—Is your husband serfously 111, Mrs. Flitey? Mrs. Fll(e‘ (tearfully)—Alas! yes. doctor says he cannot possibly recover. Mrs. Ascum—Oh! you poor dear! Mra. Flitey—Ah! “yes. By the way, if you'll send around "I'll give you several suits of men's clothes for your rummage sale tomorrow.—Philadelphia’ Press. AN OPTIMI The Chicago Inter Ocean. “Qh, aged man, pray, if you Now, answer me the truth!— Which of the gifts that the gods bestow 1s the greatest gift of youth? “Oh, aged man, I have far to fare the divers paths of By Earth, Bay which of the gifts that with me I bear Is the gift of the greatest worth? it the might of the good right arm, ‘Whereby 1 shall make my way ‘Where dlng!rl threaten and evils harm, Holding them still at bay? ’ “Is it the strength wherewith I shall elimb ‘Where few before have trod- To the mountain tops, the peaks sublime That glow in the smile of the god? “Is it the never-failing wil, Invinoible in might, Which, armed against oppression still, Bhall vanquish for the right? “Or 18 it the heart, thou aged man'— The heart, impassioned, strong— Which shall' be blest, as naught else cas, In perfect love ere long?" The old man smiled; the listening breeze Grew whist on the sun-lit slope The old man sighed: “Ah, none of these! 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