Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1903, Page 6

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HUNGATE. 4 (Soal) Notary Public. e PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties ving the elty for the summer may have The Bee seut to them regularly by notifying The B office, in person or by mail, Omaha wants all the light it can get on the public lighting question. 01d Vesuvius is breaking loose again apparvently without the slightest appre- bension for the consequences of his dis- ‘orderly conduct. 2 P L — Omaha went through one era of cheap pavements in the old wooden Dlock days. It does not want to repeat the experiment. The Standard Bridge company ap- pears to have a very firm grip on the domilnant majority of the Douglas county board of commissioners. e ——— Of course the simultaneous reunion of thie Grand Army veterans and the fistic encounter of the professional pugilists at San Francisco are only a coincidence. — Having reached the position where his state of health is bulletined in the press dispatches, John W. Gates, like Alexan- ‘l_or of old, will have to yearn for other ‘world's to conquer. U — The Lincoln Star has discovered a full ‘grown senatorial boom planted out in Hall county alming at the Dietrich suc- cession. It's a trifle early, however, for anyone to be stampeded over this dis- closure. —_— _Irrigation Is the most promising and practical means of building wup the t states to the west of us and any- &x that makes the west strong engthens Nebraska and Omaha as ‘!l metropolis. “lt the power canal project shall ma- terialize in the near future Omaba will be in position to buy its electric current for lighting at first cost instead of get- dug it secondband through an electric lighting company. Bpecial Architect Henry Ives Cobb as his only comment upon his removal by iBecretary Shaw explains that it is bet- iter for the secretary to work with some lpne who has less professional reputa- tion at stake. It is now up to Supervis- Ang Architect Taylor to break into the “game. * —— The merger of the Standard Bridge ‘gompany and the American Book trust 48 in order. The consolidation af these goncerns would effect a large saving in #xle grease and enable the consolidated +0 manipulate and control the school "Bourd as well as the county board with oue business agent. 4 ¥ te % In the Chicago drainage canal case ‘Witnesses are now trying to prove that INSteAd of deterforating the water sup- “Ply af St. Lonis the drainage of Chicago awage Into the Mississippl has actually proved the quality of the aqueous | Muia with which St. Louls is served. If Bt. Louls people are mot careful Chi- fago will come in next with a bil! of gxpenses and ask to be relmbursed as a benefactor of their eity. § —_— 'Gofl'rmol’ Mickey has sized William ’ul‘ul Bryan up as a real farmer and ‘Sommissioned him as & delegate to the Farmer's National congress, which will dold a week's sesslon at Niagara Falls Deginning September 23, to plow up po- Nitical gravel beds and pull up political ips. In appreciation of the compli- ment and to verily Governor Mickey's mate, Farmer Bryan has invested & spanking $1.200 team which will sarry him over to Niagara Falls, down | 'fhe eataract and beyond the rapids with r«mflhw # L9 - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: AN IMPORTANT ARMY CHANGE. Today the army general staff law goes into effect and one of the most impor- tant achlevements of the present ad- ministration will be an accomplished fact, possibly to remain as a permanent teature of our military establishment. This measure was long under discus- sion and met with a very determined opposition. Old army officers and men in congress who had served in the army during the civil war vigorously and per- gistently fought the proposed change. their chief objection being that it was not necessary, though some opposed it on the ground that it it an imitation of foreign methods and therefore not suit- able to our army. Secretary Root made a most earnest effort to secure the passage of the gen- eral staff measure and to him largely 18 due the credit for the new law, which it is now quite generally believed among army officers will prove highly bene- ficlal. There are some distinguished opinions in support of it. Nearly twenty years ago General McClellan said that one of the greatest defects in our mill- tary system was the lack of a thor- oughly instructed staff corps, from which should be furnished chief of staff of armies, army corps and divisions, ad- jutant general and aldes-de-camp and recruiting officers. That eminent mill- tary authority, unexcelled in his knowl- edge of army organization, said: “Our own experience and that of other arm- fes agree in determining the necessity for an efficlent and able staff. To obtain this our staff establishment should be hased on correct principles and extended to be adequate to the necessities of the service and should include a system of staff and line education. Moreover, the officers of the staff should be required occaslonally to serve with troops as offi- cers of the line and when the time of each comes for promotion it should be determined not only whether he is fit for promotion, but whether he is fit to remain in the corps.” The plan adopted will reduce to the minimum the chances of Interference of political or personal influences and in the war college the system of details from the line and pro- visions for maneuvers of large bodies of trcops seems to have met the features which General McClellan emphasized as so important to practical efficlency. General Samuel B. M. Young, who succeeded Miles as lleutenant general, will today become chief of staff, the rank of lientenant general ceasing and with it the title of commander of the army. The fact that the senior officer will not be known as the commanding general, observes the New York Trib- une, will not bar his way to glory in’ the United States any more than that circumstance stood between Moltke and his laurels in Germany. On the other hand, the new order of things will make impossible that embarrassing situation which might result from disagreement between the head of the government and the commanding general of its army. There is every reason to expect the most satisfactory results from the general staff law. Em— A COMMERCIAL CONGRESS, A congress of the chambers of com- merce of the British empire will assem- ble in Montreal today. The meeting of this congress is regarded as important not only to the Dominion and to Great Britain generally, but to the entire com- merclal world, since it will consider matters of universal interest. Most prominent among these will be the ques- tion.of commercial relations between England and her colonles and dependen- cles. This is a subject which is just now engaging the most earnest attention of the people of the United Kingdom and of all the British colonies, while it possesses very great interest for the countries having trade with Great Brit- aln. The policy champloned by Mr. Cham- berlain, the colonial secretary, which contemplates more firmly cementing the British empire by a tariff system which will give preference to the colonles, is the foremost subject in British thought. Those who oppose the policy, and they undoubtedly at this time constitute a majority of the English people, insist that the tariff proposals of Mr. Cham- berlain are utterly hopeless. Still the colonial sectetary, a man not easlly dis- couraged or dismayed, is keeping up the fight for his policy with undiminished vigor and a recent London dispatch sald that he never meant fighting more than now. He has within the last few weeks Mterally flooded England with docu- ments setting forth the asguments in support of the tariff policy he advocates and there is reason to believe they have not been withdut effect. It has very recently been stated that in the fiscal controversy the ministerialists are he- ing driven to realize that their only sal- vation as a party lies in compromise. Prime Mlpister Balfour has admitted that Chamberlain’s impeachment of the fiscal policy was well founded and there are other prominent men who, while not desiring to entirely abandon free trade, admit that some modification of the existing system may be expedient. Meanwhile industrial and commercial conditions are affording arguments for discuss the policy proposed by the colon- ial secretary and the result of thelr discussion will undoubtedly have a de- clded Influence upon British publie opin- fon. KANSAS CITT'S EXAMPLE. Omaha business men frequently point to Kansas City as a rival that has se cured concessions and favors from the railroads that have enabled its jobbers and manufacturers to invade the terri- tory naturally tributary to Omaha. The supremacy of Kansas City as a grain market has time and again been ascribed to favoritism on the part of the rallroad traffic managers who are charged with deliberately diseriminating agalnst Omaha and in favor of Kansas City. As a matter of fact, Kansas City has had to fight for every inch it has gained in the race for commercial supremacy, and the concessions that have been made to Kansas City have not been vol- untary, but compulsory. In discussing the true eource of Kansas City's com- mercial growth the Kansas City Star, which has never been regarded as hos- tile to the transportation companies, has this to say in a recent issue: The Board of Trade and the grain deal- ers of Kansas City have demonstrated again that they can overcome by vigllant and aggressive action the injustices which the railroad lines entering Kansas City are always ready to practice against this market. The Santa Fe system's embargo against connecting lines and its refusal to deliver grain without discrimination have been withdrawn as a concession to the vigorous protests of the grain merchant: and ths Board of Trade. The condition proviso that there will be fair dealing only 80 long as the other :allroads return promptly the cars received from the Banta Fe should induce a like energetic survell- lance of those connecting lines. In spite of the favors it has bestowed on the rallroad companies and of the wealth it has contributed to them, Kansas City has to fight for common civilities and fair play. Nothing is gained by being mealy-mouthed. Unless the railroads are made to suffer in their selfish interests they will continue their policy of slighting thelr public duty for their private gain. ‘While Omaha has no special complaint at the present time against the rall- ronds in general or any rallroad in par- ticular, its l'usiness men should profit by the object lesson taaght by Kansas City. Kansas City has compelled con- cesslons from rallroad companies by vigllant and aggressive action on the part of its Board of Trade and Com- merclal club, while Omaha has, time and again, met with repulse and humili- ation because its Commercial club has persisted in fighting battles with feather dusters. Omabha, like Kansas City, has bestowed favors on the railroad com- panies and contributed untold wealth to them, but for all that it must emulate Kansas City and must be prepared to fight for fair play and common civili- tes. The principal argument in favor of an early convening of congress in exfra session rests on a plea for an early ad- Journment In the spring In advance of the great national nomindting conven- tions so that the lawmakers may par- ticipate In the work of president-mak- ing without interfering with their legis- lative duties. It seems not to occur to the members of congress that the party conventions could be successfully held without their presence. But if it really comes to a pinch, the convention dele- gates might agree not to interfere with congress, providing congress refrains from interfering with them. The re-election of Father Dowling as president of Creighton university will be recelved with appreciative favor hy all the friends of that institution and particularly by the people of Omaha, who are interested in the continuance of the broad progressive policy he has been pursaing as its L bead. Father Dowling has demonstrated a high order of abllity both as an educator and as an administrator and his retention as president insures for Creighton univer- gity a constantly growing position in the educational world and a usefulness fully up to the scope permitted by its resources. em—— It 1s announced that representatives of Douglas county in the republican state convention will present the name of Hon. William G. Whitmore for a place on the state ticket as one of the candidates for university regent. Mr. ‘Whitmore's high qualifications will be conceded by all and his capacity for usefulness on the board is unquestioned. Of all those mentioned for the place his name on the ticket would contribute most materially to its gtrength, and.it is to be hoped the convention will see its way clear to endorse the Douglas dele- gation’s recommendation. The smooth agents of the bridge com- pany manage to get in their work by first coutracting for short and narrow bridges under certain specifications and then having the bridges lengthened and widened at their own figures without competition. In this they recall the camel who worked his way through the fence by inserting first his nose, then his head, then his bump and finally his whole body. the Chamberlain policy. The London Times recently said: “Our exports of manufactured goods to protectionist countries are steadily decreasing. Our fmports ‘of manufactured goods from these very countries are steadily rising. The protected states not only shut our goods out of their markets, but are shutting them out of our home market. The workingman's occupation is going and occupation is income. Capital is also going. That is a serious condition of affairs for all of us and most of all for the workingman.” Statements of this character must have an influence with manufacturers and wage earners. As to the colonles, there seems to be no doubt that they are willing to aceept the policy of Mr. Chamberlain, The representatives of the epmmercial bodies of the British empire who wiy' meet at Montreal are expected to fully em——— There is nothing surprising in the in- timation from Servia that King Peter is not finding the royal road smooth trav- eling. Even the most optimistic mon- arch is likely to find a seat on a throne that vacated in such an uncere- monious manuer as by his immediate predecessor decidedly uncomfortable. g Captain Hobson is utilizing his lecture engagements before Chautauqua meet- ings and similar assemblies to plead for a larger navy in the lnterest of peace. To keep the balance of power in the military equipment the army will have to send out a few vocalists to talk in the interest of the land forces. —_— Things Coming Our Way. Boston Transcript. Considering Its status earller in the season. the cOrn crop is sald 0 be amas- ing. If only the crop of freight cars turns out half as well the west will be moved to universal good nature. Indlanapolis Sentinel (dem.). The report that Mr. Bryan favors the nomination of John W. Bookwalter of Springfield, O., as the democratic nominee for the presidency s the last straw. The Héntinel has never wavered in.its loyalty to the democratfe party, but If asked to support any member of the Bookwalter famlly for any office, its loyalty will be put to & terrible strain. And if one of the Logadons is put in for vice president we will not answer for the consequences. ——— Congervatism of Gorman, Philadelphia Ledger. Benator Gorman would not disturb the tarift; he would not hurt a hair of the head of a single monopolistic trust. He would not invoke the law against blanket mergers, nor rall at the ssuance of indi- gestible securittes. He would not look unkindly upon Wall street, nor would he invite the coal operators to a conference with John Mitchell. Gorman would be an 1deal candidate for the presidency in the eyes of the vested Interests, and he knows it. But in 194 he would be nothing more than a candidate. Disgruntled capital would give him generous support, but the people will give their support to Mr. Roosevelt, and the representatives of the trusts are few, while the representatives of the people are many. Keeley and Bryan Ow New York Press. The aching vold in Philadelphia created by the destruction of the Keeley motor after the death of its Inventor is about to be filled by the establishment of a large plant for the transmutation of metals. A Mr. Hunter, on whom the mantle of Keeley seems to have fallen, says that he will bulld a factory costing $500,000, in which silver will be turned into gold as rapidly as he thinks it safe to do it “and not upset the economic fabric of the wofld.” You will have to bring the alchemist only one silver dollar in order to get back forty golden ones. This making one silver dollar equal to forty dollafs of gold beats even the political alchemy of which Mr. Bryan, & well known Nebraska politician, is an advocate, and throws into the shade Mil- ler's get-rich-quick scheme! Three Speculator: Cleveland Leader. Within & week three men have gone wrong as the result of speculation. A man in Boston embezzled nearly $80,000 of a church fund and fled to Canad: the cashler of a bank at Canton has con- fessed the embeszlement of more than $20,(00 and a4 bank cashier In North Caro- line has misappropriated a large amount of the filnds entrusted to his custody. The fever of speculation led these men to com- mit crimes. They took money which had been entrusted to them, not with criminal intent, perhaps, for in each instance the speculator belleved, doubtless, that he would replace the amount taken out of the proceeds of his speculation. In each case, however, the punishment following convi tion will be the same as if there was a criminal intent when the money was :..ronl!ully taken. Furthermore, it should The Captain of Maine. Philadelphia Ledger. Rear Admiral Sigsbee, who today enters into the enjoyment of a new title, is said to take no particular pride in the fact that his name fs popularly connected with the battleship Maine and the disaster in Ha- vana harbor. Admirable as was his con- duct on that trying occasion, the modest sea captain. feels that it was not very different from what might have been ex- pected from any other officer of the navy. It is the most grievous thing that can happen to a commander to lose his ship, and though Captain Sigsbee could have done nothing to save Maine, he may feel o certain incongrulty in belng made @ hero of by a disaster, however dramatic and ccmsequential. The fact is that th new admiral had served his country long and well before Maine was ever heard of. While, perbaps, his most - valuable work has been of pacific, sclentific nature, he participated with credit, as a young ensign, in the action in Mobiie Bay, and in both attacks and the final assault on Fort Fisher, While tn the Spanish war his luck in capturing the collier Restormel cut off the last hope of Cervera's squadron.” But Sigsbee has leen one of the foremost of deep sea explorers. Our chart of the Gulf of Mexico was made by him, and his name 1s attached to one of the greatest depths | yet sounded in the ocean. — HAS MADE THEM FEAR HIM, the President’s Course. Baltimore American. The great danger of the money power in this country has been its disposition to In- terfere with the natural course of politics. In this way it has created a popular bellef that its meddlesome hand is likely to be thrust into every election. The activity of the money power, as such, has been pushed to such an extreme of late that a natural revulsion of popular feeling is likely to neutralize its operations in the future. A ery of indignation arose when it was an- nounced that the money power is opposed to the' re-election of Mr. Roosevelt. The feel- ing in some quarters was not due to any special love for the persontity of Mr. Roosevelt. It was exclted by the reasons assigned by the money power for its oppo- sition. Just after President McKinley was lald in his grave Mr. Rogsevelt gave utter- ande to conservative sentiments for which he was extolled by the money power as a fit successor to the presidency. That opin- fon continued long as Mr. Roosevelt stood aloof and permitted the money power to do as it pleased. It was not long, how- ever, before the new president discovered that the money power was deliberately and persistently robbing the public under the color of law, and was fast buflding up and concentrating its own power coincidentally with this campalgn of oppression. Mr. Roosevelt was sagaclous enough to per- celve what the tendency was. He was also sagacious enough to understand what that tendency, If unchecked, would produce. He tully realized that, if the money power wat permitted to strengthen its clutch on the throat of the public, it would not be long ere the last sign of American individuality would be hopelessly throttied. As a conse- quence he had the manhood to call a halt. He aid more. He turned his courage Into practical action by aitempting to break the monopolistic hold which the money power had undertaken to fasten on the public through a system of rallroad merging. When the money power saw that Mr. Roosevelt was determined to stand between it and the further extension of its auto- eratic dominion it flew into a blind rage. All of its savage wrath was poured out on the president’s head, with additional threats of vengeance. He is now intensely hated by the money power because he was brave enough to warn the people of plutocratic encroachments. His champlonship of the people’s rights has made him an undesirable candidate to these lords of the land of cu- pidity. Their hostility, however, should make him doubly acceptable to the people. His nomination and election would be a notice to the money power that its meddle- some activity in politics is resented as per- nicious. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1903. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The completed census of the church at- tendance In London, underiaken b Dally News of that town, enume: attendance of 1,002,M0 at the 2,63 Christfan and sixty-two Jewlsh places of worship In the twenty-nine boroughs, containing & total population of 4463,49. Th's gives a ratio of one In 4.45 of the popu'ation. This total church attendance as given, howeva masses together the people counted at both the morning and evening services, and it was found that about 35 per cent of the number had been counted twice; the actual number of church-goers in London s re- duced to 820,26, or one In 625 of the pop- ulation—that s, only about 16 per cent of Londoners were: found in attendance on places of worship, though there are church accommodations for one-half of them. Toward a million and a halt people, to use the words of the Daily News, “wilfully ab- sented themselves from public worship.” This Is not a very encouraging showing of religlous interest In the English capital. It appears, moreover, that only about one- quarter of the attendance is of men. The aggregate at the two services included only 266,550 men to 412,693 women and £23,397 chil- dren. The attendance of men was propor- tionally less in the Anglican churches than in the others. Out of a total Anglican at- tendance at the two services of 430,158 the number of men was only 93407 In the nonconformist churches the attendance ot men was 120,782 out of 4152%, in the Roman Catholic churches 23,85 oat of 93,672 o The French soclalists seem to have started a carefully planned attack on the French army, not only from the general point of view, but from the more speclal one of its administration. For example, they are attacking the bands. They want them abolished as being anachronistic. Soldiers do not need the incentive of music in modern battles, and even if they did they could not get it because of the noise that Is made. Therefore bands are ussd only for display, and display, say the so- clalists, is not worth the services of 1 000 men, who could be doing better and more useful work in the ranks. The cus- tom of officers using enlisted men as serv- ants is also attacked. On higher grounds, the army, or rather its utllity, is being tacked systematically. The soclalists are again asserting with vigor that it is folly Yor France to try to keep its army equal to Germany's. They are criticizing the whole organization as costly, archalc and inefficlently bulky. - . Royal governors for the Australlan com- monwealth come and go, or rather go and come home, with extreme rapidity. The new federation began life In 1000, yet in the three years that have elapsed three governors general have been appointed—all lords. The first representative of his maj- esty was the noble earl of Hopetoun, who, after an experlence of a few months, an- nounced that he was being bankrupted in trylng to maintain his office and soclal po- sition In proper styls on the beggarly sal- ary of $0,00 a year. He asked more pay and the Australlans doggedly refused to allow him more than the old rate of wages. The noble earl then struck and salled for home, leaving the discredited Australlans to struggle along without a member of the British aristocracy to preside at their state banquets and their pink t Had the earl of Hopetoun possessed half the brains o an Amerfcan walking delegate, the first thing he would have done after reaching England was this—organize a union among the barons, marquises, earls and duke: whose object should be the maintenance of & proper rate of wages for royal governors in the British colonles. A minimum rate could have been fixed upon, for only mem- bers of the nobility are considered eligibl a8 governors general, and the Australians would have been forced to pay union wages or go without lords in their business. But Hopetoun was not bright; he let slip this great opportunity. The result has been that “me noble” Lord Tennyson has been there for & year on the same paltry $50,000; and now, too, he resigns. Poor Lord North. cote, who will be the next victim of Aus- tralian parsimony, must go out and make the Best of the position. In time, perhaps, the British nobility will ses the point and organize. - International boundaries are disregarded or overlooked in the industrial war which is 1aging In eastern Europe. From Cra- cow, in Austrian Poland, to Odessa, on the Black Sea, the commotion {s universal, it is not confined to any particular trade, but rallway men, bakers, dock laborers and mechanics of all crafts are involved in one huge strike. The flerceness of the en- counters between the workingmen and the troops is proved by the appalling death lists. At Cracow the strike riots resulted in sixty fatalities; at Kieff the killed and wounded numbered 160, and in Odessa and nelghboring citles the casualties run up into the hundreds. Notwithstanding the drastic measures of the military, the agi- tation persists and the strikes continue. It is impossible to regard the phenomena as disconnected and colncident merely by accident. There must bé some common cause for the prevalent unrest in a large area which, though divided by political boundary lines, is industrially and commer- clally one community. - The duke of Wellington, president of the National Service league, has issued a statement in view of the great interest aroused by the recent debate in the House of Lords on the question of physical de- generation. He shows that whether as a nation England is physically degenerating or not, it is quite certain that in the British army, as compared with that of Germany, there is an undoubted tendency to de- terforation in physique and stamina. The same upward tendency shown by statistics to extst in the German army 18 to be found in the armies, and therefore in the na- tional physique, of France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. If it be urged, he adds, that the English army is in no way repre- sentative of the physique of the nation, d that “a better iclass of men do not enlist because a more permanent and lucra- tive prospect s afforded in civil life,” it 1s obvious it must have a better physical basis for its recruiting, and it must recog- nize that the old duty of personal service to the state, which was allowed to lapse during the period when nations were ac- quiring - wealth, must be put into force again. On the Stberian Railroad. Baltimore American. Think of the snap the railroad lunch- counter privileges would be at Irkutsk and the other Siberian points. Even on the dining cars ice cream could be served the year around without the use of refrigera- tors, especlally through Siberla. Simply by stopping the train occasionally to milk a musk ox one could obtain all the ready | favored fce cream necessary to human happiness. And then it would be so pleas- ant to hear the brakeman sing out: “Ber- . Change cars for the North Pole, Pearyville, Walrus Beach, Nansen's Ford, Melville Island and all points north.” @iorror Heaped on Horror's Head. Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat. The island of Martinique may claim to be the most unfortunate spot on earth. Several new villages founded since the catastrophe of Mount Pelee have been de- stroyed by a hurricane and 6,000 people are homeless. The depth of discouragement that prevails on the island can seldom have been equaled. — POLITICAL DRIFT. As long as Senator Tilman has his pitch- fork in working order the lost railroad passes will be renewed promptly. A bunch of United States senators tour- ing Alaska are reported stuck on a Yukon river bar. Doubtlcss bars are few and far between around the Arctic effcle. The launching of the Hearst presidential boom has beep deferred until safe terminal facllities can be provided. The fate of the Langley airship was a timely warning. The aggregate valuation of real estate in Philadelphia under the new assessment 1s $1,162,000,000, amouniing to 2 per cent over last year's figures. The proposed tax rate s §1.65. Notwithstanding the vociferations of self- styled democratic leaders not a cluck comes fiom Wolfert's rooster. When the shal- lows murmur the hills are dumb. Silence 1s an excellent disguise for wisdom. A three-cornered fight for the demo- cratic nomination for governor of Missis- sigpl resulted in a draw at the primary election, nelther aspirant recelving the re- quired majority of a'l votes cast. Another primary election is to be held. A member of the Georgla legislature thus laments: “Whenever 1 say anything 1 am made to appear a d—d fool the next morn- ing. Iam tired of it.”” No wonder. He s unable to comprehend the wisdom of the modern saw, “Go ‘way back and sit down." Callfornia has a §2,750,000 capitol at Sac- ramento, Colorado a $,600,000 capitol at Denver, Rhode Island a $3,000,000 bullding at Providence and Georgla a $1,000,000 capitol in Atlanta. The only states which have capitols in large cities are Massachusetts, Indiana, Virginia, Minnesota, Georgla and Colorado. Uncle Adlal Stevenson, the sage of Bloom- ington, back in Illinols, remarked to & re- porter in Chicago: “I don't care whom the democrats nominate for president in 1904, Uncle Adlal was petulant when cornered by the interviewer, and the latter omitted the dash word out of respect for age and tormer eminence. The supreme court of Tennessee has de- clared the Adams law, passed by the last legislature, to be constitutional. It pro- vides for local option In towns having a population of 5,000 and under, upon the sub- mission of the question to popular vote. Only elght towns In the state are exempt from ‘the law's operation and under it the prohibittonists have made much headway. 8ix of the countles of Vermont were re- corded In favor of high license at the elec-" tion at which prohibition was abolished and elght were recorded against it. The New Hampshire leglslature has already taken up the question of abrogating the prohtbition law of that state, and one of the witnesses called before the leglslative committee at Concord advocated a high license law with the fee for liquor selling at $5,00. New Hampshire Is a state having statutory, but not consiututional, prohibition, and the de- mand for a high license law as a substitute has been increasing. NO DISCRIMINATION. Equal Punishment of Conspirators and Extortioners. Chicago Chronicle. ‘What Is sauce for the geose is sauce for the gander. What is conspiracy on the part of a trades union is conspiracy when. done by & combination of contractors. If there 18 to be & return to the enforcement of law in this town the law must be’ enforced against all lawbreakers. * It 1s alleged and very strongly substanti- ated that there has been in existence a “‘combine’’ of sheet metal contractors which has extorted extravagant prices by collysion | exercised. terrorism | in bids. This “combl over members who were dlsposed to breal away and do business as individuals. 1t imposed fines on such members. It treated such members very much as the average trades union treats its recalcitrant mem- bers. Indeed, to make the comparison more striking, 1t is alleged, and pretty well veri- fled, that this “combine” actually took (he trades unions into the conspiracy and the unions aided in bulldozing, terrorizing and ruining the business of at least one con- tractor who broke away and attempted to do business independent of the “combine.” It was thus an alliance of two lawless or- ganizations—the contractors and the labor unions—and its object was to deny to the independent contractor and the independent workingman the right to secure work at terms satisfactory to themselves. It way a lawless conspiracy and it has resulted in riot, intimidation and homicide. 1t we condemn the members of the iabor unions what shall be sald of these con- tractors, who have assumed to pose as re- spectable figures In the community, who have many of them ac:umulated wealth | and who enjoy for themselvee and their | property the protection of that law which | they violate and defy by engaging in a| criminal conspiracy? What possible excuse can be made for them? | There can be none. Whatever may be| urged In extenuation for the riotous trades | unlonist urged on to violence by some rant- | ing agitator, not one word can be sald tv excuse the Intelligent and eminently re- spectable contractor who dellbmately enters into & criminal conspiracy with the riotc trades unionist to ruin the business of some man who malintains his right to conduct his business as he pleases. He s a .aw- breaker knowingly and -lelibe-ately, and he is a lawbreaker not through passion or | prejudice, but from cold-hioadad greed and | & desire to destroy a busine al This will have to be ciearly unders cod and admitted before any substantial prog- ress can be made towar1 restoring the re‘gn of law in Chicag: | one—it anything, that he 1s more culpavie It must be understood that all me equal before the law and that the deliberately defles the law iz penitentiary. It must b und short, that a man's actions anl wealth measure his responsibility law. ire to WHITMORE FOR REGENT. High MHome Commendation for the Gentleman from Valley. Waterloo Gazette, It having come to our knowledge that Hon. W. G. Whitmore of Valley is being mentioned by papers throughout the state for the position of regent of the State uni versity, we desire to briefly refer to the matter and mention the qualifications of the gentleman for that responsible and honorable office. It will perhaps be recalled by many that the year when Jack McColl ran for gov ernor Mr. Whitmore was a candidate on the same ticket for regent, and the result of the campaign showed him to be some- thing like 15,000 votes in the lead of the head of the ticket. Mr. Whitmore is a man of education and good judgment and we believe his qualifica- tions for the position are recognized by all; that western Douglas county would be honored by his selection and that the re- publican party could hardly find a stronger candidato anywhere In the state than W. G. Whitmore. We also belleve the country precincts, as well as South Omaha and probably Omaha, will be for him to a man should he decide to stand for the nomina- tion. LAUGHING GAS. “A horseshos s supposed to be a ®ood luck.” “And £o it is,” replied the sport, “if It goes under the ‘wire first on your horse."— Philadelphia Pres lgn of First Statesman—I don't know about put- ting up Burton. He hasn't got any sand. Second Ditto—No, but then he's got a pocketful of rocks.—Boston Transcript. “He 18 not as bad as yau would have me belleve,” sald the enthusinstic evangelist T asked him today if he did not adore and honor his Maker, and he said * B “Exactly. It's ‘his constant boo 1s seif-made.”—Philadelphia Cath ard. Visitor—You haven’t got half as nice a cemetery here as we have in Elmville. Prominent Citizen (of Hawville)~No; I've always heard that the cemetery is the only part of your town that holds out any In- ducements for permanent residents.—Chi- cago Tribune. 'S80 you met the usual fate,’” sald the man who sneers. “You went into' Wall street in- tending to be a bull or a bear and find your- self merely a lamb.” 0, was the answer; “I'm not a lamb. I've been on the losing side persistently for years, T'm'a sheop. - Washington Star. Mrs. T.—What are you making those grimaces in the glass for, my dear? Mr. T.—I'm trying to practice a look of astonishment. Some of my friends are go- ing to make me a present tonight, and I am supposed to know nothing about it.—San Franclsco Wasp. First Lifeguard—How much did he give you for saving his wife? Second Ditto—Fifty dollars. First—He must have been fond of her. Second—Oh, 1 don't know. She had a lot of diamond rings on.—Philadelphia Record. She—Still playing solitatre? Don't you find it rather a dull game sometimes? He—It isn't very exciting, that's a fact, trumps ¥’ —Boston Transcript. ““You seem none the worse for your dissi- pation last night,”” sald the man who had responded to one of the toasts at the ban- uet. “No," replied the other, “I stopped drink- ing just in time: thanks to you." “Thanks to me?” “‘Yes. When you started speaking I eaught myself laughing at. your storles, o T thought, it wae tme to stop,"—Philadelphia Tess. THE LOST ONE. James Russell Lowell. 1 had a little daughter, And she was given to me T0 lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might, in some dim wise, divine The depths of His infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine. 1 know not how others saw her, But to 'me she was wholly fair, And the light of the heaven she came from Sulll lingered and gleamed in her hair; For it was as wavy and golden, And as many changes took, As the shadows of sun-gilt ripples On the yellow bed of a brook. To_what can 1 liken her smiling Upon me, her kneeling lover, How it leaped from her lips to her eyelids, And dimpled her wholly over, Till_her outstretched hands sniiled also, And I almost seemed to sce The very heart of her mother Sending sun through her veins to me! She nad been month, And it hardly seemed a day, When a troop of wandering angels Stole my little daughter away; Or perhaps those heavenly Zingarl But loosed the hampering strings, And when they had opened her c My little bird used her wings. with us scarce a twelve door, But they left In her stead a changeling, A little angel child, That_seems like her bud in full blossom, And smiles as she never smiled; When I wake In the morning, T s Where she always used to’lfe, And I feel as weak as a violet Alone 'neath the awful sk: As_weak, yet as trustful also; For the whole year long 1 see All the wonders of faithful Nature Still worked for the love of me; Winds wander, and dews drip earthward, Rafn falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all-but to prosper A poor little violet. This child is not mine as the first was, T cannot sing it to rest, I cannot Iift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast; Yet it lies in my little one's crad It must be clearly understood tiat the rich lawbreaker is equally culpable with the poor | And sits in my little one's chal And the light of the heaven sh Transfigures its golden halr, NOW We don’ this season’s t want to carry over suits, and we make as near as we can just enough. But it's a late season and what are left are offered now at remarkably low prices, as and windows will show.’ This means a saving anywhere from $5 to $15 for the man who fits them. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. rowning: King §-© R. S. Wilcox, Manager. WE CLOSE SAFURDAY AT 9 P. M.