Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1903, Page 4

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P CORRESPONDENCE. =~ ommunications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha ce, Rditorial Department. ik REMITTANCES. = emit by draft, express or postal order, gayable 15 The Bee Tublishing Company, = 2-cent stam, -cc-rua in payment of malil accounts. ;:rlofll checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. .I'TA"I'"II.:’IH;_OI' CIRCULATION. o B. Tusoh ucmrv'd :z'nu Publishing Cor beli says that the acous! mumber of ful plei Morning, Bubscribed in_my before me this Sist (8eal.) E———— Beveral gasoline stoves hereabouts seem to be trying to celebrate the Fourth prematurely. CEE————— Governor Mickey evidently believes the pardoning power gathers no strength by too frequent use. I ——1 Republican candidates for judicial honors are as thick as strawberrles in May and blackberries in June. —— Nebraska soclalists will put a_state ticket in the field. The call of the pro- hibitionists may be expected to come next. ——— The coal dealers’ blacklist is just a obnoxious as the team drivers’ boycott. Public sentiment in Omaha will stand for nelther. ; Sm—m— | Joseph Chamberlain declares he ‘stands by his tariff plan. His trouble is that in all Great Britain he stands ‘practically alome. * ° e e .71t the crown prince of Sweden wants sell his ancestral palace at Stocl he will soon find out that the [ snobocracy offers the best ‘harket. p—— Union labor must. respect the sanctity of contract obligations, whether the con- tract is 4 good bargain or a bad bargain from the union labor standpoint. Any other course would be suicidal. E—— The new time schedule for the Dodge street car line will soon become oper- ative, but the patrons of tho line might not mind traveling by the old-time schedule if the company would substi- tute new .cars for the old ones. Senator Millard will try to revive the work of improvement on the Missourl river, but he will not try to resurrect the defunct Missourl river commission. The commission wi great graft while it lasted—too great to.last long. Tt is to be feared t Towa demo- crats will again have to forego the as- sistance of Colonel Bryan's oratory in the campalgn they are about to wage for tiMs year. He draws the line at speaking from anything but a Kansas Oity platform. e———— Emperor Wiiliam has persuaded him- welf that the American skippers brought him the luck that enabled his American- bullt yacht Meteor to win the race. The next thing the German imperial yachtsmun will be trylng to lift the America's cup. An oceasional rallway rate war is worth the money it costs as an adver- vertising feature. But whenever it ap- proaches the point where the returns are incommensurate to the outlay, the head besses may be relied on to get to- gether-and call it off. e———— The danno infortation that the bar- tenders in Omaha bave concluded not to strike should bring a great gob of relief to the army of thirsty mortals who might have been driven to resort to desperate means in the face of the fast approaching area of high thermometer. ——— What about the proposed regulation forbidding the promiscuous distribution of patent mediclue samples at door- steps where they are apt to fall in the hands of children ignorant of the char- acter of the contents? The patent medi- cine men can reach their patrons with- out endangering the health of the juvenile members of the community. — The South Omaha Board of Review reminds us of the mountain that labored and brought forth a mouse. It will take the members of the South Omaha Board of Review several months to explain why ‘they burned midnight oll In execu- tive session to lower the assessments of the corporations more than half a mil- lion dollars after they had raised them n THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 29, THE TREND OF TAX REFORM. The demand for tax reform 1s not confined to one American city or to any particular section of the country. Pop ular sentiment has been roused to the anjust and unequal distribution of pub- lie burdens in the states and cities on the Atlantic seaboard as well as In the states and cities in the middle west, in the south and on the Pacific coast. In many of the states the abuses by which wealthy corporations, and especially railroads, have enjoyed special priv- fleges and immunities in the assess- ment of their property have been of long standing. It requires an active educational cam- paign to awaken public opinion and formulate the general demand for tax reform into Jaw. Rome was not built in a day and it will take years of time before a system of uniform and equita- ble taxation will be devised, introduced aund enforced in every state in the union. The battle is not merely to be fought out before municipal and county assessors and stite boards of equaliza- tions, but before legislatures and in the courts. A very eminent corporation at- torney 18 quoted as saying: “Give us the courts and we will let you make the laws.” A judge with corporation leanings can thwart and undo by a turn of the wrist and the twist of a sentence the work ‘of a sixty-day session of a legislature. The trend of tax reform im the large cities, and for that matter in all the older communities, 18 toward the ax- sessment' of all property at its full value. In New York City, for example, real estate has been assessed up to re- cently at 67 per cent of its full value, instead of 100 per cent as provided by law. This pernicious practice of under valuation has been abandoned during the present year. In his message rec. ommending the enforcement of the law Mayor Low very pointedly declared: The assessment at full value makes equality and justice In taxation. Nobody can reach a percentage of full value such as 67 per cent or any other per cent with- out first determining full value and taking the percentage of it. When, however, there is no standard for the percentage to be taken except the whim of the dep- uty assessor, immense variations in the sessment are inevitable. Incapacity and dishonesty both tend fo agsravate the trouble. ‘Nobody,k has a right to fix a standard other than the standard fixed by law itself and that standard is full value. Full value Is something upon which the courts can much more readily form an opinion than they can upon questions of comparative value such as have here- tofore been presented to them. What 18 true of Greater New York would apply with equal force to all other American cities, and for that mat ter to all countles and echool distriets. The new Nebraska revenue law, which Koes Into effect next Wednesday, re- quires an’ appraisement at full value and an assessment at ome-fitth of the appraisement, but that is only the first step forward in the direction of tax re- form. Now that we have inaugurated a radical change in the methods as- sessment, we are bound to make pro- gressive changes until we have redelied the sound and solid basis'of uniform as- sessments of -all property at its true value as near as it can be ascertained. COLOMBIA' AND THE TREATY, The message of the president of Lo- lombia to the congress of the republic is favorable to the ratification of the Panama canal treaty. He points out that' detriment to the sovereignty of Colombia 1s sinvolved, but urges that even at such a sacrifice obstacles should not be put in the way of so great an undertaking, because it will be im- mensely beneficlal to the country and also establish more intimate and ex- tensive relations with the United States. He sees {n the consummation of the en- terprise an incalculable gain to the in- dustry, commerce and wealtlr of Co- lumbia. He leaves the full responsi- bility for the decision of the matter with the congress, but the reasons he gives in favor of ratifying the treaty most conclusively show that he earn- estly desires that result. Discussion of the convention is in progress, but no confident prediction can be made as to the outcome, though there is a pretty strong ' indication in the fact that the objection of the government to trans- mitting to congress docyments relating to the treaty was sustained in the house of representatives by a large majority. A potent factor in the situation is the practically unanimous demand of the people of Panama that the treaty be ratified. They understand the enor mous benefit that would accrue to them from the construction of the camal and they are entirely indifferent to any con- siderations relating to sovereignty. The question is regarded by them, so it ap- pears, wholly from a practical point of view. ‘There have been intimations that in the event of the treaty being re- jected the people of Panama will start a revolution and this 18 by no means improbable. Under the severe disap- pointment they would feel from a de- feat of thelr wishes it would nof be a dificult matter to organize a revolt against the government, probably more formidable than any with which it has yet had to deal. Panama is = large part of Colombia and’ were its people to unite in a revolt they could gife the government great trouble, particularly if assisted, as undoubtedly they would be, by those in other portions of the republic’ Who #fre favorable fo the United States constructing the canal. A London dispatch states, on the author- ity of an alleged agent of the Colom- bian government, that American pgents have been secretly at work ameng the people of the isthmus for menths in. spiring them with a desire for inde- pendence. Undoubtedly there is no substantial foundation for this state- ment, which very likely is put out by opponents of the canal treaty in lLon- don. It 1s needless to say that our gov- ernment is doing nothing and will not do anything to influence publie senti- ment in Colombla. The United States is prepared to carry out without delay the terms of the treaty, which are be- lieved [to be entirely fair and just, and there fill be no pressure whatever ex- erted this government upon Colom- bia. — CAPITAL FOR THE PHILIPPINES. According to report from New York a number of financlers are seriously considering the question of construct- ing railroads in the Philippines and there appears to be a probability that at no very remote time plans will be formulated for this purpose. Sir Wil liam Van Horne, president of the Cana- dian Pacific, is said to be at the head of the movement and it is stated that he expects in the course of a few years to have opened up much of the islands to rallway communication and in addition to that to have established coast line and interisland steamboat communica- tion, belleving that following develop- ment of this kind there will come not only such prosperity as will tend to the peace and contentment of the peo- ple, but also to the development of the natural resources of the archipelago. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says it is the un- derstanding there that Secretary Rcot warmly approves the general proposi- tion that the Philippines be opened to American capital to the end that trans portation facllities may be as well perfected there as 1is to be ' the case In Cuba, when the railroad enterprises in the latter are com- pleted. Mr. Root is stated to be of the opinion that not only would there be great material advantages from the construction of transportation lines in the Philippines, amply remuner- ating the capitalists investing, but that the moral effect would also be great and so far as the United States government is concerned the chief advantage. With peace prevailing in the archi- pelago and the people very generally satisfied with American rule, the con- ditions there would seem to be favor- able to the Investment of capital in transportation enterprises, which must be the first step toward developing the resources of the islands. Progress in this direction, however, is likely to he slow and it will doubtless be a gener- ation at least before projects now sald to be in contemplation are fully real- ized. Capital will not go there freely until there is more satisfactory knowl- edge than at present in regard to the natural resources of the islands. These may be even-greater and more valnable than is generally supposed, but capital will require as aGeurate information as it is possible to obtain. Meanwhile re- ports from the archipelago show that progress is belng made and that op- portunities for the profitable invest- ment of capital are increasing. e —— In granting amnesty to all persons convicted of newspaper offenses King Peter is showing a level head. 1f he is to make his reign successful he will have to have the Bervian newspapers with him and the best way to insure their support is to inspire them with confidence in his intentions by safe- guarding the liberty of the press, A free press, too, is the safest outlet for governmental opposition, while a shackled press forces a people to look to revolution to relieve their grievances. We do not violate any confidence in ferecasting the publication of an exclu- sive dispatch from New York in the ex- clusive Omaha hyphenated announcing with a grand flourish of trumpets that the promoters of the Fremont power canal have secured all the money needed for pushing the enterprise to completion and are ready to proceed with construc- tion if Omaha will grant certain con- cessions and indefinitely postpone mu- nicipal ownership of electric lights. EmE— There is evidently a screw loose some- where in the fire alarm telephone. If it takes seven minutes to turn in an alarm, the 'phone alarm will have to be turned off and the ecity will have to resume its own fire alarm telegraph, ‘which was discarded because the tele- phone company gave assurance of more efficient service at less expense. In the matter of fire alarms, however, efficiency must not be sacrificed to economy. Governor Beckham 1s' getting alto- gether too touchy about the reputation of Kentucky as a law-abiding, péaceful state. Kentucky used to boast that fts men were ready to fight at the slightest infringement of their honor or veracity and never considered an insult atoned until the feud exterminated one family or the other. Some of our populist friends are grievously wrought up against the two outgoing university regents in spite of the fact that they were elected as popu- Itsts and declare that their officlal terms must not be extended. There is little danger that they will be re-elected even if they should be renominated. This is not a populist year. But Promoters Ave at Large. Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat. People are begiuning t» wonder what the next get-rich-quick schetne is going to be. All of the 0ld avenues to basty wealth seem to have been successfully plugged. ing it Washington Post. It seems like rubbing it in to engage Mr. Cleveland's former solicitor general to prosecute crooked employes of the postal service who were also appointed by Mr. Cleveland. Kiok! New York Tribune. Where's the Noah of today? Is it not almost time for the laying of the keel of & pew ark? This June of ours is so and sodden that the old rhyme comes to mind: In went the animals, two by two, The elephant and the Kangaroo. And also the mosquito. \ Short, Sharp amd Conclusivy. Springfield Republican There is just one formula that means business in declining a nomination far the presidency or vice presidency, and M, Honna uses it when he is suggested as\the 1903, running mate of Mr, Roosevelt. “I would fnot accept it were the nomination given to me.” That I8 sharp, decisive and easily understood. Don't monkey with Uncle Mark. Towa Planks in Favor. Philadelphia Record (dem.). The demtocrats of Iowa, who in the ap- posite lingo of Devery are ‘“touchin’ on and appertalnin’ to” the pecullar stamping ground of the kreht Nebraskan, have re- fused to renew their indorsement of the 16 to 1 platforms of 1896 and 1900. It begins to look as If the east, the west, the north and south may manage to get together in the next natlonal convention. Iowa has made a good start. Distinetion Without a Difference. Chicago Chronfcle. Gentlemen connected with the ship-bulld- ing trust, the cest iron pipe trust, the steamship trust and divers similar organ- irations might be expected to hear with alarm that the New York Stock exchange means to Inaugurate a campalgn against get-rich-quick schemes which have their headquarters In Wall street. The gentle- men mentioned will have no apprehension, however. It Is only the @inancial schemes which fall to recelve the approval of the Stock exchange that are branded as swin- dles. A “listed" institution which goes to pleces of its own rottenness is not a swin. dle, but “a case of unwise financing. KANSAS AND ITS SUFFERERS, Governor Hailey’s Conrse. Kansus City Journal. A number of the newspapers of Kansas ara severely criticising Governor Balley for calling for contributions to the flood. suf- ferers from outside the state. This call may have been an error in Judgment, but if 50 It was prompted by sympathetic feclings and a knowledge that the aid must be im- mediate. However, it is not so easy to ex- plain or reconcile the attitude which the governor has since maintained. He con- tinued to issue appeals to outsiders, de- claring that “hundreds of thousands would still be demanded after the generosity of Kansas had been exhausted, and even after convening the legislature in specal session begging proclamations were issued from the governor's office. At the sime time Mr. Balley opposed the appropriation of a single dollar by this speclal session in aid of the sufferers, and we must suppose that he has entirely overlooked the appear- ance which these circumstances will wear to people outside. The thought that must come to the mind of every outsider is that Kansas has either overrated her own material condition, through officlal reports and otherwiso, or else she would not ask and accepl other people’s, money without being willing to glve of her own. The fact fs that Kansas has nelther overrated her own wealth nor is she less willing to contribute for charity than the people of other states. The trouble is that the coterle of politiclans surround- ing the governor made him get off on the wrong foot. They concelved that it would be “bad” politics to contribute of the tax- able wealth of the state to the needs of the state's unfortunates, and they led him astray. However, the “badness” of the morals which can prompt an opposition in the legislature to an sppropriation for this purpose, while appealing to the charlty of outside states and peoples, is rather more conspleuous Preaching and Practice. Kansas City Star. The sedulous efforts put forth by Gov- ernor Batley to prevent the enactment of a relief appropriation by the Kansas legisla- tute entitle him to copious felicitgtions over the result of his undertaking. ‘It Is understood that he has scarcely eaten or slept since hé entered upon the task of finding authority in the constitution' to prohibit the state from providing for its own people the ruccor which he was :lmmm to solicit from outside communi- es. Now, as Governor Bailey is by no means Indifferent to the blessings of sleep, which knit up the raveled sleeve of care, nor yet to the pleasures of proper dietetjc indulg- ence, he may be expected to experience a Breat wave of contentment as he addresses himself anew to slumber and to the de- lights of a bountiful table with that gratifi- cation and zest which triumph inspires. He may rest now, without the haunting fear of a raid on the oppressed taxpayers of Kansas, and he may composedly as- similate all of the good things with which the public' may be assured—to drop into the Kansas vernacular—the gubernatorial board groans, in. the hope that assistance for Kansas will continue to pour into To- peka from the various sections of a sym- pathetic republic. In this crisis the buoyancy of Kansas is a pleasant thing to think about. Whatever it may be today, there is a strong chance that it will be something else tomorrow. Already the ‘‘watéf waste in the Kaw valley” upon which the governor took a mournful pleasure in dilating in his ap- peals for ald to the country, has subsided and the dry land appears with an incip- fent robe of verdure. Chaos s glving place to order. The fruits of industry be- &in even now to obliterate the tokens of destruction. There are still a large num- ber of people in the Kaw valley who are destitute, but the American people are kind and easily touched and the formal declaration by the governor of Kansas and the legislature that the state cannot help tself will ellclt generous assistance from all over the land. Governor Bailey will now eat and sleep with all of the relish and profoundity that were habitual to this hearty and unener- vated son of the prairie before the flood; the fruits of the husbandman will soon smile in the flelds that were recently swept by the devastating flood; the bridges across the Kaw will be rebullt and com- merce will resume its former mctivity. It will not be long until things will seem just as they did before, but, in reality, that will not be within the memory of the present generation While the physical scars which Kansas shows now will heal within a year and disappear, alas, there are other scars which will endure to restrain the old-time ex- uberance of the state for & long time to come. You may note even now a curious and unwonted timidity in the Kansas news- papers in speaking of the great wheat crop this season. What heart is there for mer- riment about plenty In a state that has consented, through the obstinate action of \ its governor, to become the reciplent of charity? What point of flavor would there be now to the pleasant little quips about the bursting granaries in Kansas and the clamor for more room td pile up the wheat? How sad and cruel it was in Governor Balley to place an embargo on all of this innocent and gladsothe Jocularity! How could he have killed it all with the pro- tests of the most loyal friends and ad- mirers of Kansas sounding In his ears? It 18 too mournful to contemplate without tears. Golden harvests without a note of ex- ultation! Bank statements showing a fab- ulous per capita of deposits without single facetious allusion to the Kansas farmers who have made Croesus go 'way back and sit down! Oh, the measureiess pity of it all! Oh, the unavalling re- gret that will surge up in ell the days to come in the hearts of the erstwhile spon- taneous Jayhawkers when they are re- minded with every smile of kindly forture that Governor Balley has sealed with & perverse and obstinate hand the sparkling fountain of humor which has hitherto leit grace and engaging plquancy to the Instinet for acquisition in Kansas! ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. % on the Current of Life fn the Metropolt, The process of consolidation of banks in New York cily, which began about two years ago, 18 steadily growing and prom- fses to result in the largest Institution in cash capital in the world. New York is the second of the world's cities in size and the first In the amount of business. The total of its bank clearings has led that of London for several years. The gap between them must grow wider and wider as time passes. More millionajres reside in New York than in London and Paris together. Within a quarter or a third of a century New York, at the present relative rate of increase of the two towns, will lead Lon- don in population. Long before that time the world’s financial center will be on this side of the Atlantic. That $100,000,000 bank which is soon to be established in the American metropolls will probably have many counterparts within the next ten years, Here is & subject for the women's clubs of the country. A Mrs. Fitspatrick, of Brooklyn, got Into a dispute with a nelgh- bor, a Miss Story, and applied to her the epithet “‘old maid.” The case got Mto court, and Magistrate Furlong, in holding the nccused for tha court of special ses- slons, said: “It is a very serlous thing to call & woman an old matd. If a woman Js unfortunate enough to reach the age of 30 without being married it is an annoyance to her that amounts to disorderly conduct 16 call her an old mald.”" But suppose that Mies B. is unmarried by cholce. Suppose that sho had many offers and refused them all. Suppose, even, that she expressed & dislike for matrimony. Surely evidence should be admitted on these points. And would it not be an adequate defense? Hero the point arises, why is it not an offense to call a man an “old bachelor?" ““There’s lots of tricks {n the wine trade,” sald & man about town quoted by the Sun, nd I want to call attention to the latest. It is practiced by & man whom some de- scribe as having his office in his hat. This chap gathers together one or two thousand bottles of 0odd makes of French champagne of a second or third grade, sticks on to them a label with a name almost similar to that of a first-class make of wine and introduces them into the second-rate res- taurants of New York City. He gives all Borts of bonuses for the introduction of his wine, and when you go into these second- class restaurants and ask for the cham- pagne which this fellow with the office in his hat is attempting to injure, the waiter will bring you this spurious wine. The waiter flashes the label before you and it is almost similar to the meritorious article; he pops the cork and you immediately find that you have been swindled. But the cork is out and you don't want to injure the walter, and you don't know whether he Is responsible for the swindle and so you keep quiet. It is an ingenious scheme, but it won't work much longer. Mark Twain is disappointed because the burglars who have been working his nelgh- borhood steer clear of his house, although he was prepared to extend his hospitality to them. He has had a longing to meet a real expert at the trade. “You know," says he, “all we literary people and second story men have a good deal akin. We all travel in groups. We work one neighbor- hood untll we feel that we have sapped the lemon dry and then we move on to more fruitful soll.”" A real, scientific bur- glar, according to Mr. Clemens, should be treated as such. “There is such a thing as despolling even the fatted ealf, and these fellows understand that as well as we do. I'd Mke to meet the gentlemen who have this foute now. I would treat them well. In fact, I fear I might succumb to the temptation to treat them too well.” Perhape these experts are afrald that Mark wants to turn them into copy.. That would be enough to keep away the most daring and reckless of housebreakers, The white steam yachts, that cost from $5,700 to §15,000 & month to keep in commis- sion, are beginning to skim down the North and East rivers along toward 10 o'clock in the morning to their downtown private New York slips, cariying their sybaritic owners 10 their offices from thelr country places up on the Hudson or on the waters of Long Island sound These trips are pretty nearly the acme of luxury, as viewed by the humble rider on a 8-cént ferry ticket across the stream whose waters are plowed by the beautiful white steam yachts. The Wall street owner of the yacht steps on board the vessel, gen- erally quite alone, at 8:30 in the morning, say, from his country house pler. A breakfdst as is a breakfast awaits him, steaming, iu the rose-tinted breakfast room, or, if the skies be clear, aft, under a Roman-striped awning. The yacht gets swiftly under way, with its prow pointing toward New York, while the owner of the yacht begins his breakfast in comfortable, solitary grandeur. The run te the private New York slip takes from an hour to two hours, generally the former, for the steam yachts of these waters are mostly twenty- knotters nowadays. All hands of the crew line the gangway as the owner steps ashore. A coupe from his New York stables awaits him on the dock. He steps into it and is whipped away to his office in the financlal district. At 2:30 or 3:30 in the afternoon, when he 18 through with business for the day, he is conveyed down to his private dock again in his coupe or automobile, and generajly finds a number of invited guests, men and women, walting for him there. They &80 aboard, and fiud the elaborate luncheon ready to be served. ‘The yacht steams down the bay as far as the owner and his guests elect to &0, and then its nose is pointed toward the country place, arriving there, as a rule, at the din- ner hour. At an expense of from $,000 to $15,000 a month the white yacht is kept In commission primarily for the purpose of conveying the owner to and from his office, a distanc® of from fifteen to tw, nty miles. PERSONAL NOTES, The temptation to the royal assassins in Servia has been reduced one-half. King Peter s a widower. Lieutenant Hobson took the precaution to resign from the service before beginning work on his history of the United States navy. Captain Alfred Johnson, who was the first man to cross the ocean in a small boat, in 1576, is still Mving at Gloucester, Mass. District Attorney Jerome has discovered a “dirt trust" in New York. The trusts have long been suspected of wanting to own the earth. Mrs. Rebecca 8. Nichols, one of Indiana’ earliest literary lights, has just died in Indiankpolis. In 1840 she published two books of poetry of Cincinnati. Without exception, the crowds that gather to see the liberty bell on its travels over the country agree on the point that it 1s all it is cracked up to be. Colonel Willlam D. Snyman, one of the best known of the Boer fighting men, is in Chicago, on his way to Mexico to ar- range for the coming of about 100 Boer families. Genera! Lee Christmas, the American sol- dier of fortune, who commanded a detach- ment of revolutionists in ten desperately- fought engagements In Spanish Honduras during the receht insurrection, has ssrived at his home in New Orleans, \ e TALK OF THE STATE PRESS. Stanton Plcket: Omaha 1s endeavoring to unload fts oplum flends upon the coun- try. It won't work. A man who has once contracted the dope habit will never remain long in & harvest field Beaver City Times-Tribune: The Linceln Star is eminently correct in its contention that the republican state conventions are too large, Bix hundred delegates make a convention amply large. More results in confuston. Bradshaw Republican: Our governor now belng a doctor of law, it is hoped that A number of our laws that have been so long neglected that they have grown sickly will Have attention given them and such restoratives applied as will bring them to Pthe full vigor of their usefulness, or kill them, as fa the custom with all doctors. Lyons Bun: The judiclal convention of this distriot convenes at Omaha July . Hon, W. G, Sears of Tekamah is eminently qualified for a place on the district bench, and we would be pleased to see him chosen as one of the judges. His nomination would strengthen the ticket and his election would bring to the bench an able man, one well fitted by education and experi- ence to discharge the responsibilities of the office. Norfolk Press: The fact that the demo- cratic and popullst conventions are to be held in two different towns is hardly sig- nificant. The populists who are still attend- ing conventions are mostly democrats, but hate to own up to it. The populist con- vention will be connected by wire to the democratio convention, and whatever the democrats do will be endorsed. Of course there will be some delay about it, for ap- pedrance sake, but the populist program is to endorse. Ashland Gasette: The attitude of the fusion press on the subject of a non- partisan judiclary makes a sublime con- trast with the attitude of the fusion press of the ‘past on the same subject. Only & few years ago the fusionist was in favor of filling every office, from road overseer to president, with a fusionist. Now a change has come over the spirit of their dreams. This change may be accounted for only on the ground that fusionists can- not have things all thelr own way as they formerly dtd. Norfolk Press: There is really no populist party in Nebraska. Whatever there was of principle in the organization at the start has been surrendered to the democrats for the sake of the offices. Those who are keeping alive the populist organization are politiclans, a rule, who hope to profit by trafficking in the votes thus controlled. Until the populist party gets into the con- trol of men who are willing to stand up and be counted for principle regardless of the spolls; it will not be much of a factor in polities, Springfleld Monitor: It it should be d clded that the law under which our legl: tors draw §5 per day for their services for a sixty-day term is unconstitutional it will cause the future lawmakers to hustle to make both ends meet on the paltry sum of $ per day until they can increase their salary. Even $ a day is not enough to keep o legislator in proper style while at- tending a session of the legislature and meet all the extra expense to which a man in this position is subjected. To double that amount would be neArer the proper figure, But then it is claimed that it Is some of the later Jaws that are being aimed at instead of the salary and time 1imits of the sessions fn testing the valldity of the law in question. The court will no doubt uphold the amendment in which the test is being made. Papiilion Times: This paper has been informed that the Omaha, Lincoin & Beat- rice electric rallway people are meeting ‘with strong opposition in some parts of the country where it Is desired to secure right- of-way for the eleotric road. We are sorry to hear of this, because the people of the country are anxious to have the electric road go through. The opposition comes in the shape of some farmers demanding of the rallway people prices for the right- of-way across their land that are unreason- able and exorbitant In the extreme. The rallway people are willing to pay a reason- able price for the land, but they do not like the idea of being “held up.” These farmers are not putting a high price on their land because they are opposed to the bullding of the electric road. Quito the contrary. They all want to see the road built, but they are unreasonable in their demands. We have not’the slightest doubt but what the Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice electric rallway will be bulit. The time has come when the people of eastern Ne- braska demand just such a road, and if the farmers, who are now holding their land at such an exorbitant figure, do not meet the rallway people on fair terms they will eventually be forced to give in and take what they can get. Better put a rea- sonable price per acre on the land and let the road go through without any further delay. Now, friends; be falr. Sell as much of your land as the rallway people ask for right-ofsway at a. reasonable price. Many of the farmers in Barpy county who own their land could well afford to give suffi- clent ground for right-of-way, but they are mot asked to donate it. They can get in cold cash all it Is worth, but the rallway people are not going to buy the entire land that they can use for an electric car line. We sincerely trust that the farmers living near Papillion, as well ns those in other parts of the county, will be fair in this matter. —— JOURNALIST AND THE LAWYER, News, r Men Better Pald Than Law Clerks, Says One Writer, Dr. Albert Shaw in Cosmopolitan, The great thing in journalism, as in any- thing else, is for the individual man to maintain his self-respect, his bigh personal standing and his @étermination to do. the best work he can’ even at.a small salary, rather than do work of a kind that he secretly loathes, for the sake of a larger salary. 1 have known a good many men in inetropolitan journalism whose positions were not’ congenial to them, and who longed to te doing journalistic work of a kind better suited to thelr tastes and ideals. But they consider the present rather than the futufe and are allured by a large sal- ary. I do not think fhat this 4s more necessary in journalism than for a lawyer to take an objectionable line of practie as some lawyers 10, merely because pays well. Mr. Choats is & great New York lawyer, now ambassador to England. He has mad a brilllant success. But in the office of hi firm in New York there have been perhaps thirty or forty (I do not know just how many) excellent lawyers of whom one never hears—micst of them college graduates, too —a few of them, perhaps, sharing in the profits of the firm and ranking as part- ners, but many of them employed at very moderate salariss anl working as luw clerks. Not 8o very far from the great law ofess in New York are the bufldings of the great newspapers. Take the New York Tribune as a typical great newspaper, pre- sided over by Whitelaw Reid. Not so very long ago Jir. Reld was special ambassn- dor to Great Britain; then he was a mem- ber of the board of Ameridan peace com- missioners who made the treaty of Paris with Bpain, and agaln a special ambassa- dor, Before that he Was & nominee for the vice-presidency, he had been Unitéd States minister to France. Mr Reld has made & condpicuous success in farms in order to have a narrow strip of | We Avyers Sarsaparilla Your grandmother’s doc- tor ordered it for your father. It's the same old Sarsaparilla today. Tested and tried for 60 years. If constipated, use Ayer’s Pills; gently laxative, pufely vegetable. 0. ATER 00, Lowsll, Maes. —_—_—— E Choate has done in law. But employed in Mr. Reid's news- paper office, and engaged In the business of writing and editing, as fully traned Journalists, are probably just as many, if not more, college graduates then you will find lawyers and trained law clerks in one of the large offices like Mr. Choate Thess men in Mr. Reid's newspaper offios at least average a good deal better pay than the lawyers and law clerks In Mr, Choate's law office. In my opinion they are engaged In & much more interesting and diverting sort of work. They are in con- stant touch with all the great movements of the world at large, and their busines: is of a kind that gives them very little chance to think about themselves. I am not a recruiting wergeant for the profession cf journaliam. It I8 an exacting kind of oalling and it offers lttie leisure. But if it allows scant freedom from work It gives more freedom In work than the average pursuit. Its usefuiness and Im portance are increasing all the time. Journallsm, as_Mr. POINTED REMARIKS, ‘Love laughs at bolts and bars,” sald smiling Venus. ““Not when I furnish the bolts,” retorted grim old Jove.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Some men could be mighty useful In a perfession,” said Unel , “if dey'd put As much study in it as dey 'does. on book- ‘makers' oddy un' de previous performances of horses.”—Washington Star. “Wonderful man, that Brackett." “How so?" ““He can remember the names of at least a dozen of the works of fletion that were egll_lll:r five or six years ago.'—New York Clara—P: anr‘ ys he fsn't ha!f good enough to be my husband. Pl,—ll-!ufnp:'!mdfle i Ikhed (oh was plen eno! to ha fu.lhon in-] -w.—-DIlroll'Fru: Pres: Cholly—~Really, I've changed my mind since I s v 1o yesterdny. Molly—Well, it doesn’t appear as_though ‘all had made much of a bargain.—Yonkérs tatesman. ‘“We may not have much summer 1 o latitude,” ‘muttered the professor, lookin at the ‘thermometer and noting 'that the temperature had fallen thirty degrees in twenty-four hours, “'but we have a great deal of latitude in our summers.”'~Chicago Tribune. Briton—Your heroes of the revolution, your so-called patriot generals, were really a common flliterate lot. Most of their cor- respondence was mot only ungrammatical bi “nnkoo—'r e did play hob n:“ll mo elphia @ great ma 1e profited pecaniatiy Yy king's English, suie chough.—! Press. “Don't you think re- as havin by n friend,” sald Senator Sorghum. “I have no doubt they do. And that suspicion s one of the things that help to make eredit so in financlal transas ‘Washington Star. “‘You spoke very admiringly of that man's L “But he never was a soldler or a fireman or a policeman." " Nor “But he eats that he has sathored Himeert L et tar Is it true the jury disagreed in that mur- o " fons. "~ ‘'Yes; they say there was one biamed crank that held out for convictin' the man who done the killin'.”~Chicago Tribune. —_— PARADE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. Forward, came to Light brigade, Who weré very neatly arrayed In white. Shone all thel~ arms and throats so bare, Right ih the evening ajr— l{ ade one shiver! Qnward, marched the chattering set: Onward. marched the deares! t, Carrying the flowers, Deftly holding a vase, with flowers in it, A delicate present for Prof. Senet, Sue wajked proydl onwa Men to right of thef, Men to left of them, ' * Men in front of them. tared and goo-gooed. did her I:Jh slender Leol t with & banana pesl Then all Wlslmk "\.I vase and wers. Fiercely the plece 3 D(e(hey\ll& p'hk‘)l everybody knew Couldn’t stand the pressure. Flashed Shaite T oo g™ I . zzling in e o a4 whe. who whs unfortunate theré Tr;- Syn‘o-urc 0! ! A wout. \'w'l'd glu suffused her brow. he seemed to realise how y the thing was don hy was slippery. embarrassed were these maidens falr, With rosy cheeks and such glorious hair That hang below the walis Their's not for them to stop for #pral mot for them 1o mention a Jthough they kne Although 'they knew Bomeone had blundered. Gathered they the flowers then, That which wae left of them, And retreated homeward. The iInhuman men, ‘Phey laughed the laugh of he Who laughs and hides his laugh Behind a smile. Thus ends the story of the L ‘brigade, Vase, flowers and pretty It ther. AILOBEIREr: P OFFREY HERMAN. Tekamah, Neb. aud Muuunam.-unm Hires Rootbeer 1s pre-eminently ihe home bever- age for hot weather—healthbful bracing, eooling #ad refresbing. And n-:: drink ajl you weat,