Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1903, Page 6

B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY "MORNING. "TERMS_OF BUBSCRIPTION. Bee (without Bunday), One Yeas Pally Bee dnd Bunday, One Year Diistrated Hee, One Ye Bunday Bee, Ohe Year . 3 ne Yea H 'T'.":l:ll‘e{h (’:n!ury Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER ly Bee (without Sunday), per cop (without Sunday), per weel §§" Bee (Including Gunday), per "ek 17 y Bee, per cop; g Bee (without Sunday Hncluding - Bunasyy. irregularities In delivery dreuofi :guCMy Circulation Dé- m-‘ncr.! ha—The Bee Bulldin ot Omaha—City Hail Bullding, Afth and M Streets. Y eunetl Blufts—10 Pearl Street. Chie o-Atdg Unity Bulldiny ork—238 Par! ulldln Jashington—o1 Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE - ymmunications relating to news an l:lonl atter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES WA it by draft, express or postal orde m:':la Yo Tho Bee Publishing Company, 2-cent stampy accepted in payment o Personal checks, except, on , not ace TUBTISHING COMPANY Bun Evening Evening Bee weok .. Complia should be partment. Twen- account Omaha or ea THE BEh PL ITATIIDN’T 0!“ ClfiCULATlON ka, Douglas County, b E’ B ameiick. -o::rleuna\:a‘xyf:"ar;o ishing Company, ng Nyh-l "that the actual pumper of full an Sorapleks e oa of The Morning Evening and Bunday Bee prinied during { Tonth of July, 1906, was as llfllowl. Net average sales. GHORGE B. TZSCHL M Bubscribed in fly prml‘luumuud sworn to 10T this st aay of July, A. L M’. B. HfihuAH& (Beal) Notary Public. E——— PARTINS LEAVING FOR SUMMER. Parties leaving the eity for the summer may have The Bee seut to them regularly by titying The Dee fce, in person or by matl. The address will be chang aé often as desired. e———— It was an awful downpour, but the damage might have been greater. i — In the Ohio political foot ball game incinnati was done up by Cleveland. It is a little too early in the state campalgn for tinpan thunder and sky- rockets. . e—— A caretul reinspection of every old brick building in Omaha would not be out of order. Lee Herdman has now formally opened Jis.campalgn te hold on to his $12,000 office. ———————— Jsa't it awfully imprudent for Vesu- wius to throw stones'into :llu houses ‘without warning? Returns from minor Nebraska nomin- ating conventions indicate that the dead- lock is again coming into favor. A little more of this weather and the problem of street pavement repairs will solve itself. There will be no pave- + ments to repair. Why can't the retall grocers and ‘butchers invoke Brother Mickey to pray for a dry spell? The governor has in- fluence with the celestial sprinkler. -The Montana sheriff who has issued invitations to a necktie party will still have a hard time to popularize this style of entertalnment as a social func- tion. i Omaha still maintains its place as the . .second pork packing city of the world, leading Kansas Oity by 240,000 in the aggregate number of hogs packed since March 1. e— It Colone! Bryan is really grooming Charley Towne as a dark horse for the presidential race he should have taken better precautions not to let the cat out of the bag. The Real Estate exchange will do well to keep its eyes open to unnecessary expenditures of public money, but in fts eagerness to watch the city hall it must nét'turn its back-to the court house. ;An Jowa man whose father and { grandfather committed sulcide has just followed suit. - If he has left any chil- dren, they wmay ex . to find them- selves on fhe life insugance blacklist. Around the yorld in fifty days is the l.ut globe girdling record. Jules Verne will have to have several reefs . /taken im his elastic imagination that ouly a few decades ago fixed elghty days as the height of absurd improb. ability. R Governor Poynter declared at the \Grand Island convention that the re- ynlllnhl of the Denver manifesto ¥ /would be the same as for the populist .party to vote itself off the political map. * /And thereupon the delegates voted down i the endorsems 't of the Denver confer- | ~ence. o According to our Washington dis- patches General Humphrey is anxious A YUESTION DEMUCKATS AVULD. Democratic utterances ure unstinted In condemnation of republican policy in the Philippines. Notwithstanding the fact that the people of the islands are enjoying a greater mjeasure of lib- erty than they ever before knew, that they have nearly all the rights guaran- teed by the constitution to our own people, that in the administration of justice they are impartially treated and that everything practicable is being done for the promotion of their material wel- fare, the democrats assert that the Fillpinos are deprived of their liberty, are oppressed and are being outrage- ously wronged. This is the major note in every democratic speech and plnt- form. The chairman of the Ohlo damo— cratic convention said, “let us not lower or surrender our high ideals on the subject of human rights; let us maintain that not only here shall there be shelter to the oppressed of all natlons, but that there shall not cease to go forth the sub- lime doctrine of liberty to all men every- where. All Americans will acquiesce in this sentiment. No republican will find fault with it, because it is entirely in accord with republican principles. But the democratic party does not apply it to our colored citizens in the south who aré denied that lberty which the con- stitution of their country gives them. In at least eight states of the south colored men are not only deprived of the right of suffrage, but of nearly all civil rights, and this southern demo- cratic policy respecting the negro is beéing steadily extended. This denial‘of liberty to American citizens, in distinet violation of the constitution, the demo- cratic parfy takes no notice of. It avolds the profoundly important ques- tion involved in a policy on the part of the southern states which is far more threatening to our political institutions than is our occupation of the Philip- pines. That policy is a grave injustice not only to the disfranchised colored citizens, but also to every state that places no such restriction upon the suf- frage, since the disfranchising states have a representation in congress and in the, electoral college to which they are not fairly entitled. The democratic party avoids this ques- tion because it is in sympathy with the southern policy of negro disfranchise- ment. The party as a whole has no respect, never has had and never will have, for the rights of the colored race. When it talks of liberty it has no thought of the negro citizens of the United States to whom liberty is being denjed. Such democrats as the chair- man of the Ohio convention, and they constitute at least nine-tenths of the party, care nothing about the political or civil rights of the millions of negroes in the south and would not trouble themselves in the least if every one of them should be deprived of all the rights which the constitution bestows on them. If the democratic party were to show some interest and solicitude in behalf of the people here at home .who are not allowed to exercise their con- stitutional rights their professed concern for the Filipinos would carry more ‘welght. SE———— THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION. Next week the Alaskan boundary commission will meet in London, the American commissioners being Benator Lodge, Secretary Root and former Sen- ator Turner of the state of Washington. Canada has two representatives on the commission and Bngland one. The American and Canadian commissioners were selected because of their pro- nounced views on the question in dis- pute and it is thought probable that the English commissioner will stand for the clalm made by Canada, although it is said that the Canadians themselves are by no means confldent of this. A Washington report says that wml- there is hope that a satisfactory out- come may be reached, there is little ex- pectation of such a result. One thing may be confidently assumed, and that is that the contention of the United States will be firmly maintained by our representatives. There will be no con- cession made, we may be sure, that would Involve the surrender of a single foot of American territory which has been recognized as belonging to this country under the treaty with Russia. Down to 1878 Canada did not question the delimitation of the boundary as set forth in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Rus and but for the discovery of gold there would not now pe any controversy. What the American commissioners are expected to Insist upon is that the boundary de- limitation which was so long acquiesced in shall stand and it {s not doubted that they will be able to show the entire fair- ness and justice of the American con- tention. It is of course quite possible that no agreement will be reached. Yet the fact that the lord chief justice of England is a member of the commission holds out a promise that a decision may be reached favorable to the American side. The deliberations of the commis- slon are likely to extend over two or three months, as there is a vast amount of matter relating to the controversy to be examined and it is needless to say that the examination will be made with the greutest possible care and thorough- ness. Doubtless everything bearing upon the issue has now been collected and so areanged that there will be no diffi- culty in making the examination and no delay in getting at any facts that may be required in the deliberations. Our own Department of State has spared no effort in this direction and undoubt- edly the Canadian government has been no less careful to obtaln all data that _to I" the Omaha quartermaster's sup- " ply warehouse under roof before the .snow fiies, but there is a hitch in per- » ‘fectlng the title to the lots on which *.the structyre Is to be erected. There Is always a , alwi h in the erection of gov- ernment and no exception was % to'have been expetted in the Omaha could be secured. Meanwhile, it is reported from WIIh.- ington to be the intention of the ad- ministration to have the boundary line belween Canada and Alaska delimipated in place, whether the boundary com- missioners come to an agreement over the matter or not. Referring to this the Seattle Post-Intelligencer re- THE OMAH marks that in the event that there is a deadlock In the commission the duty is still incumbent upon the United States to deliminate the boun- dary, with or without the consent of Cannde. It urges that such a step is abrolutely necessary to avold further friction along the boundary line, since as it stands there is nothing, at any pl officially established, to .show where Canadian territory commences and American territory ceases, under any construction of the boundary treaty. OMAMA'S INDUSTRIAL POSSIBILITIES Omaha's future growth as an indus- trial center depends largely upon its ability to convert the raw materials of the farm and cattle range into finished products for general distribution and consumption within its trade territory. Flouring mills, cereal mills, starch factories, glucose mills and beet sugar refineries would fill a long felt want by transforming the products-of Nebraska's fertile soll into the necessarles of life. The millions of hides and pelts an- nually shipped from Omaha to be con- verted into leather and leather goods, more especially boots and shoes and gloves, should be handled as by-products of the South Omaha packing houses and redistributed from this point to the territory - supplied by our jobbers and manufacturers. The shoe industry alone could afford employment to thousands of working- men and working women and give Omaha a greater impetus us a manufac- turing center than any other single in- dustry that could be developed. Ag an example of the magnitude the shoe industry has assumed of late years we need only to point to St. Louls, which has become one-of the greatest boot and shoe manufacturing centers In the world. According to the St. Louls Republic, one shoe manufacturing firm of that city, which enjoys the distine- tion of being the largest shoe house in the world, now operates five separate factories, furnishing employment to more than 5,000 people, whose yearly pay exceeds $2,800,000. The output of this concern exceeds 81,000 pair of shoes daily, or between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 pair a year. ‘While Omaha can not hope to overtake Lynn, Mass., or 8t. Louis in the manu- facture of boots and shoes, it has al- ready made a very fair beginning and could ‘'with the proper encouragement become the great leather and shoe cen- ter of this region. It remains only for Omaha to put its shoulder to the wheel and concentrate its efforts on fostering and stimulating its home Industry. The National Municipal league is en- deavoring through a committee working in connection with the National Educa- tignal association to extend the instruc- tion in eivics in the public schools to a special study of municipal govern- ment. There is no question but that a knowledge of the government under which they live will conduce to the making of good citizenship for the pu- pils and that they are more directly con- cerned with municipal government—at least those in city schools—than they are in national and state government. At the same time great care will always have to be exerted to prevent the public schools from being used for the propa- ganda of particular isms or the promo- tion of partisan ends even though mas- querading in the disguise of nonpartisan- ship. It would be better to let the chil- dren learn about city governwent in the school of experience than to have the schools perverted from their true func- tions. The success of a course in mu- nicipal government will therefore de- pend chiefly upon how it 1: taught. Where was the Douglas County Democracy at the Columbus convention? The Douglas County Democracy flaunts at its masthead a declaration of princi- ples uncompromisingly opposed to fu- sion with any one, but yet its members sat silently by while two populists crowded onto the ticket and made them- selves comfortable as democratic nomi- nees for university regents, Colonel Bryan has a spaclal invita- tion to speak in Ohlo in support of the platform declarations promulgated by the democratic state convention. If he confines his efforts to states where the democrats eny Bryanite doctrine in their platforms this year, he will not have to make such long trips as hereto- fore. L — ___ __}] Appeals in High Favor, ‘Washington Post. The score of Missourl boodlers whose ap- peals are pending in the state supreme court are picking all kinds of flaws in Justice Brewer's contention that the right of ap- peal should be abolished in criminal cases. Compo: ot Civilization. Chicago Chronicle. Considering the hysterics into which eivi- lization was thrown by the relatively small affair at Kishineff civilization retains its composure wonderfully well, while whole towns are being obliterated and their people tortured to death by bashi-bazouks. Civill- zation evidently is cultivating selt-control. The Remedy, if Ap Baltimore American. The frown of the national and state executives, the merciless application of the penalties of the law and the prompt action of the courts in punishing the original of- fenders will do much to discourage and to prevent the mob demonstrations in various parts of the country. The South Hits Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Speaking about southern barbarism, we observe that there are 21,000 saloons in the south and 84,000 in the state of New York alone, and there are three and a half times as many people In the south as in New York. Wonder it we can't do something to reform that benighted state. A Missouri Industry, Philadelphia Record. Governor Dockery of Missour! speaks lightly of the boodling exploits of the mem- bers of the Missour! legislature. He says “they sandbagged the corporations,” as if that were something tolerable. The corpo- rations only allowed themselves to be sand- bagged in order that they mpight procure de- sired legislation enabling them t6 more ef- fectually sandbag the good people of Mis- sourl betrayed into their hands by their own trusted representatives. A Genuine Alr Line. Indianapolls News. This scheme to run a rafiroad from Hud- son bay to Colombia Is probably another one of the things that will have to be re- vived a good many times before anybody will be able to make a trip over the line. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Judge Taft, who is to be secretary of war, is the son of another Judge Taft who held the same position in the cabinet during Grant's second term. The elder Taft was also successively minister to Austria and Russia by President Arthur's appointment. —_— They Have Linge! Too Long. New York Tribune. The crossing of the Hellespont iInto the Orlent would round out the career of the Caliph. At Bull Run the veteran who was a little lJame started early. Could there be a better example for the autocrat of Islam? In 1453 the city of Constantine was carried by assault. In few chapters of literature may be found more vivid and plcturesque descriptions of the capture of one of the greatest towns of all the ages than In the pages of Gibbon whereupon the renowned historian of “The Deciine and Fall of the Roman Empire” recounted the overthrow of the splendid metropolis on the shores of the Bosporus. The Turks under Mahomet II made them- selves masters of eastern Hurope and wéstern Asla in the fifteen century, and, had they not been turned back from the walls of Vienna by gallant Sobleski, their tidal wave gf conquest might have reached the Rhine, and even engulfed finally Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Five conturles and a half have gone by since the Ottomans gained foothold westward of the Propontic Sea. Furopean civilization is weary of them. IMPROVING THE PUBLIO SCHOOLS. Vast Room for Betterment in Rural Communities. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A country paper in Missourl congratu- lates the people of the state on the fact that fn many rural localtities the public school house is becoming “'a place of com- fort and refining influences, contributing to the development of robust bodies and mental vigor." Suitable desks and seats are provided, and heating, lighting and ventilation are scientifically considered. Everything 1s kept clean and wholesome and the walls are fittingly adorned with pictures. All this progress {s commend- able and gratifying. But, taking the sta- tistics in the state superintendent's latest report as a guide, one serious defect in the public schools of Missour! remains to be remedied. In nineteen counties the av- erage pay of all teachers employed fs less than $30 a month each, and in forty- one counties female teachers receive less than $30 a month for their important and arduous labors. More than a third of the counties are embraced in this list whefe teachers are underpald. A teacher's work is thus held to be far less valuable than that of the lowest grade of manual labor. Custom must be largely to blame In this matter. There 18 no Justice in such a scale of salaries for téachers. In two countles all teachers get an average of only $25.06 each a month. In one county the average of all, men as well as women, is $26.25; in another, $25.85. One drops to $25.06. When achool improve- ment s the theme here is a good place to concentrate attention. Another leading subject is the constitutional emendment providing. for free text books in all the public schools of the state. It will be submitted at the November election of next year and its adoption is practically certain, though not a single state official has sald a word In its favor. The school book trust is still a powerful institution In the state and continues to take its extra toll from the pockets of parents, GAUGES OF PROSPERITY, Statistical Bvidence of the Country's Industrial Strengt Baltimore American. Two tables just made public give a very fair gauge of the prosperity prevalling in the United States. In one of these tables are summarized the statistics of the iron and steel production of the leading coun- tries of the world for the year 12 as com- pared with the year 1901 In the other a) pears the statlstics of our jmportations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903. These two tables are issued by different authorities; but, appearing almost simul- tanegusly, they have & bearing in relation to each other which cannot be mistaken. By the first it is shown that there were produced during the calendar year 1802 44,567,991 metric tons of pig iron, as against 40,889,358 metric tons in the preceding year, the exact increase being 3,665,638 metric tons. Of this amount 18,003,448 metric tons were produced in 1902 by the United Btates, the increase for this country over the year 1901 being 1,871,040 metric tons, or more than one-half of the world's total increase. Of the aggregate production hearly 40 per cent is to be credited to the United States, which alone produced nearly 1,000,000 tons more than the combined production of Germany and the United Kingdom, its closest competitors. Almost identically the same conditions prevail in the steel trade. The world's production of steel during the year 1502 ‘was 36,479,788 metric tons, an increase over 1801 of 5,444,914 metric tons. Of the total production 16,186,406 metric tons, or more than 40 per cent of the whole, are credited to the United States, while the aggregate production of the United Kingdom and Germany exceeded by little over 12,600,000 metric tons. These figures are quite suffi- clent to show that we occupy a position from which we can arbitrarily exercise the rights of commandership, in the iron and steel trade of the world, and, while it is too much to expect that our ratio of rapid increase will be maintained indefinitely, the figures show, using iron and steel sta- tistics as the recognized standard gauges of prosperity, that we are more fortunately situated than is any other country, This fact is amply verified by the sta- tistics of import trade, which show that during the last fiscal year 41.73 per cent of the total impbrts into this country were of raw or partially worked-up materials for use by our manufacturers. What this means can be realized when it is known that as recently as 1890 manufacturers’ ma- terials formed only 3¢ per cent of our im- ports. This shows that in thirteen years we have been able to supply nearly 14 per cent of the former demand for foreign products with home-made goods, while In the same length of time our manufacturers have advanced to that stage at which they consume not only all of the avallable ma- terialy of home production, but go abroad for 50 great a volume of raw material that their trade alone amounts to nearly 60 per cent of all our importations. With the production of iron and steel in this country, as compared with other na- tions, standing at its present figures, and with our manufacturers calling upon other nations for materials for manufacture, our prosperity can be put down as having a surer and more substantial foundation than it ever enjoyed before. Changes will come, of course, but, with these conditions pre- valling, the change will have to be a veritable upheaval before it can seriously affect um DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 1003 ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolia. “When woman wills she will,” and when one of the sex possessing the requisite nerve and determination wills to capture a man the victim might as well surrender at once and save himself a needless waste of energy. Occasionally a man overburdened with conceit chooses to disr gard his fate, exposing the stratum of fully In his makoup. One of this class, while doing a burgling stunt in a New York house, rudely laughed at the commands of a servant girl and made her do a toboggan slide down the stairs. But the plucky mald was not easily balked. She wanted that particular man and was bound to have him. Striking a Dan Patchen pace and yelling “‘Stop, thief!” she led the procession on the burglars trall. A shot from the burglar's pistol scattered the crowd, but the maid képt right on and chased the crook into the arms of & policeman. When the ex- cltement subsided she 414 not faint mor ery. While trying to resous his dog, which was being carried away by a swift current, Rudolph Tausch was drowned in the Har- lem river last Sunday. The dog, a large Scotch collle, sank with its master, cling- ing to his left shoulder, where it had fastened its teeth in the death struggle. Tausch was amusing himself by throwing a cane in the water for the dog to swim after. Coming back the last time the animal had a strong current to swim againet and it became exhausted. Sud- denly it let go its grip on the cane and floundered | about as though in agony. Tausch, seeing the dog was drowning, plunged in. Swimming rapidly toward the dog, Tausch called to him and seeing his master approaching the dog made a final effort to keep his head above water. Tausch attempted to grab the collar, but missed it and the brute was upon him, fighting desperately for lite. Tausch tried to fight the dog off and for a couple of minutes a terrible struggle ensued. Tausch was completely exhausted when finally the dog, In an effort to climb upon him, tors his faca with its claws and sunk its teeth in his shoulder. With a cry of pain Tausch sank. He came to the surface a few yards further down stream with the dog still clinging to him and then sank for the last time just as a skiff with a couple of men in it reached the spot. One of the passengers on the last trip of Kalser Wilhelm II told some things which seemed to explain why Captain Hogenmann of Kaiser Wilhelm II did not take more stringent action against Maurice Levy, the passenger who was accused of swindling his fellow passengers in a card game. “Within a day or two after we started,” sald the passenger, “Mr. Levy had won gll the ready cash that Robert Hill of the United States Qeological survey and a young army officer had and signalized his willingness to take thelr drafts, and they went on playing. He got a draft from Mr. Hill for something llke $400 and one not quite o large from the army man. They complained to the captain, the captain had Mr. Levy up and demanded the return of the drafts. Later the young soldler cor- nered Levy in the smoking room and told him-he would have his draft or take satis- faction out of his hide. Mr. Levy then re- turned the soldier's draft. Hill next de- manded his draft, and threatened to send a wireless dispatch to the New York police if he 14 not return it. This settled it, and Mr. Levy also returned his draft. Jack, the big African lion at Glen Island, had a tooth extracted one day last week, and it required the united efforts of four strong men to accomplish the task. Ten days ago Jack became very {irritable. At times after eating he would fly into a paroxysm of rage and dash about his cage roaring viclously. Head Keeper Frlnk Healey dlscovered the cause of the trouble—a jumping tooth- ache. The lion suffered so that he had o be removed to the animal hospital. There ‘was but one thing to be done. The tooth had to come out. Early yesterday morning Jack's cage was wheeled out and after a great deal of ma- neuvering & noose was slipped over the llon's head. Ropes had been attached to two sides of the noose and while these were tightened and held to the floor Mr. Healey slipped In the door. In an instant he had put over the lion's head a large peach bas- ket containing sponges saturated with chloroform. Before Mr. Healey was safe out of the cage the llon had demolished the basket with his paw and the attempt to administer the anesthetic was made half an hour later. This time a rope was run under the llon and with the rope about his neck he was holsted to the top of the cage, when It took but & moment to twist a few colls of rope around his legs. When he was lowered to the floor he was helpless. Then he was chloroformed. Two men pried open his massive jaws and Inserted a block of wood. The decayed tooth was found, the forceps applied and the big molar pulled out. Then an antiseptio was placed on the wound and when all was completed the ropes were loosened and the cage wheeled out in the open alr. ‘Within fifteen minutes the lion had re- vived and was sniffing about the cage. His actions showed that he was aware that something had happened, but did not real- ize what it was. REFERENDUM IN OPERATION. First Teat of the Plan Embodied in the Constitution of Oregon. Philadelphia Press, Oregon 1s working out the principle of the referendum. Illinols has adopted it in & modified form, but Oregon has it in its entirety. By an amendment to the Oregon constitution, recently adopted, new legisla- tlon does not become operative until ninety days have elapsed after its approval by the governor, and these ninety days give the objectors their opportunity. During that time § per cent of the voters by sign- ing & petition can compel the submission of any act, to which they object, to the people voting at a speclal elevtion, and only when endorsed by a majority of thém does it go into effect. This year's Oregon legislature passed the usual amount of law, subject to the possi- bllity of its being submitted to the arbitra- ment of the ballot, but thus far, though some acts have awakened hostility, the necessary 6 per cent of the voters have not petitioned for & reference. Some of the labor unions tried to get a vote on the question of making an appropriation of $600,000 to the Lewis and Clark Exposition company, but only 3900 signatures could be obtained for the petftion for a reference, which Is 400 less than the required 5 per cent of the voters. Even if references under the provisions are rare It is manifest that its existence must be a curb on, unpopular and Inde- fensible legislation. - The recent Pennsyl- vanip legislature tried to indulge In & homeopathic dose of this principle of the referendum. A prohibition law applicable to the township of Snyder, in the county of Jefferson, was repealed, provided a ma- Jority of sald township should vote in tavor of such repeal at the coming November election. Governor Pennypacker ‘vetoed this bill and showed his opinion of the referendum by his declaration that “legls- lation depending upon the determination of an uncertaln futyre event is not legis- lation at all’ WILL COLONEL BRYAN BOLTY And if He Should, How Large Weuld Be His Following? Philadeiphia Bulletin. Editor Henry Watterson's political proph- ecles, If not always Instructive, are usually entertaining, and his latest printed remarks concerning Grover Cleveland and Willlam J. Bryan do not form any exception to this rule. The Kentucklan journalistic philosopher occuples a position which Iin one respect at least is essentially different from that of nearly every other member of the demo- cratic party. He is & sworn foe altke of the Princeton sage and the Nebraska ora- tor. Both in his estimation are equally re- sponsible for bringing the democracy to its present low estate, and he is absolutely in- tolerant of elther. With respect to Mr. Cleveland, the gallant colonel observes that all talk of his fourth nomination and third election “is too wild to be considered by sensible people.”" As for Bryan, he jauntily predicts that the twice defeated nomines “will not carry corporal's guard with him into the next convention, and when he bolts—as he will— there will be few or none to follow him." That Bryan is insisting on a degres of dictatton in democratic affairs which s highly distasteful to great numbers of the intelligent members of the party is unque! tionable. That he will have his way in framing the next democratic national plat- form or in naming the candidate is a mat- ter yet to be decided—with the odds at pres- ent apparently on the negative side of the proposition. Whether a bolt will follow it he is “turned down” is likewise an open question. It must be remembered that Bryan actually did vote for Weaver, the popullst presidential nominee, in 1892, al- though he declares that he did so in order to facilitate democratic success in his own state. If Gorman and the ‘reorganizers’ get the upper hand In next year's conven- tion, 1t is not beyond the bounds of possi- bility that the Nebraska man will set up the standard of revolt. This, however, 1s a contingency that 18 too remote to require discussion at length. The only certain thing about the matter is that the conservative and radical factions of the democracy are still as wide apart as ever, and that there seems to be no basis in sight on which they can unite. THIS IS THE LIMIT. Ingenious Defenve of Ju r Merger Decision. Detroit Free Press. Numerous defenders of Justice Lochren In deciding that the Northern. Securities company had not violated the laws of Minnesota have put in an appearance. Some of them are identified with great corporations, some of them are great pro- moters and some of them are the organs owned and controlled by such influences. But the silliest and most puerile attermpt at vindication is by a Massachusetts law- yer, whose source of income it would not be difficult to ferret out. His contens tion is that the Northern Becurities com- pany was created in New Jersey, that it operated in no other state and that the lawfulness of what it did depended entirely upon the statutes of New Jersey. This ‘would be important If true, but in the light of the facts it positively damns the act that leans upon so flimsy a defense. The company obtained its charter from New Jersey, had its office there and kept its books and papers there, where it did its planning and had its clerical work done. But to say that it confined its acts to that state s flying In the face of a conceded fact of record. The two great lines that it merged do not touch that state; yet the compuny with the New Jersey charter in- vaded Minnesota and openly violated a law as clearly expressed’ and as clearly sanctioned by its constitution as any plece of legislation it has ever enacted. It is settled as a prineiple of law that no state can grant a valld charter contravening & national law. This charter set at naught the Bherman act. It is just as well settled that no state may grant a charter which will confliet with the valid law of another state. It was also embodied in the charter that the power granted was to be employed only to the extent of “any lawful purpose.” Upon three counts the judge Is oon- demned. The use of franchise eonfticted with the laws of the United States and with the laws of the state of Minnesota. The company also exceeded Its charter rights in the fact that it sought to use them for an unlawful purpose in a sister state. If this can be legally done, one state like New Jersey can, if so disposed, nullify every act restriotive of corporate power in every other state. In other words, it could make the corporation laws for the unifon. The reduction to an absurdity could not be more complet TWO-MINUTE TROTTER HERB. Queen of the Turf Achieves the Longed-for Record. New York World. There is again a queen of the trotting world. Cresceus, the 2:024 wonder of 1901, is dethroned. Lou Dillon relgns and tbe two-minute trotter is here. The track at Readville, Mass., on which the little Call- fornia mare knocked the 0dd seconds from the mile record is a fast one. It is the same upon which Star Pointer re- duced the champlon pacing figures to 1:69% ~—the record recently lowered by Dan Patch. Nevertheless, all glory to the plucky fiyer from the Pacific coast who has reached the long-coveted mark in fast harness work. Lou Dillon is years old. She first felt the touch of the bridle twenty months ago. Her speed was with her from the start of her career, and 80 great has been the gen- eral confidence in her abllity to outdo all previous efforts that her trotting of a mile in two minutes flat is almost the accom- plishment of the expected. Allx, with her record of 2:08%, made In 1884, was the last of a long succession of queens of the trotting turf. Since she was beaten the soverelgnty has lain with the other sex. The new queen | allant per- former, who has never made a break in her public exhibitions and has seldom needed the urging of the whip. In making her record of 204, at Terre Haute, Nancy Hanks covered 4268 feet per second., The requirements for a two-minute trotter, met by Lou Dillon was 4 feet per second. Cresceus did 43.01 feet in the six- tieth of a minute. It does not seem possible that living turfmen will see a further quickening of the stride from the,two-min- ute pace of the new queen—yet trotting his- tory has made prophecy in this line utterly unsate. CIRCUS TRAIN | IS WRECKED ight 't Dashes Into it and Persons Are Injured. PITTSBURG, Aug. #1.—The third section of the Barnum & Balley circus train, com- posed almost entirely of sleeping cars, for the performers, was wrecked at Wildwood, Pa., on the Pittsburg & Western rallroad, early today, and & serious mccident was narrowly averted. As this section of the train was passing on the northbound track a frelght train on the southbound track got beyond control of the crew and came dashing down the grade. Just as the last of the sleepers was al- most clear the runaway train jumped the track and one car crashed Into the rear sleeper, damaging the car badly. BSeversl persons were Injured. PERSONAL NOTES. A printed st of plain and fanay drinks - shows that there are 1,000 difterent kinds of jags for the wayfaring man to bump against. It is ®ald that Emperor Willlam intends to bulld a castle on the fsland of Pichel- werder, In the River Havel, and to fortify 1t against the socialists. Theodore Roosevelt has made application at Dallas, Tex., for enlistment in the navy. He is an Austrian by birth and disavows any relationship with the presfdent. It ever a man needed close affiliation with the “cup that cheers’ it is Sir Thomas Lipton. If it wasn't for the same oup, by the way, he couldn't afford to be here. It 18 said in London that J, M. Barrie has reaped larger profits from fiction than any other contemporary writer. The sithe has been sald of Hall Caine, Mrs. Humphrey Ward and Rudyard Kipling. Leon C. Marshall, who has recently been called to the chalr of economics in the Ohlo Wesleyan university, is probably the young- est man to occupy such a position any- where. He is now 24 years of age. Mr. Cleveland has written friends in St Paul Minn, accepting conditionally an in- vitation to visit Minnesote on a hunting expedition in October. The former presj- ident states that he will go if he can so arrange his affairs H. A. Bigelow, an attorney of Honolulu, to whom was tendered the chair of crim- inal law In the University of Chicago, has accepted the offer and will shortly leave Honolulu to assume his duties. Mr. Bige- low was formerly an assoclate professor at Harvard, ¢ One hundred and twenty-one men who were born and reared in Owenton, Ky., have become cashiers of banks since setting out for themselves in the world. This fact was brought out at the funeral of Walter 8. Gazle, the cashler of a local bank, who dled last week. A majority of the surviv- ing cashiers of the town weré present on the occaston. Colonel Elijah Walker of the Fourth Maine infantry, now residing in & Boston suburb, is sald to be the cldest surviving fleld officer of the Army of the Potomac and he was a marked feature In the Wooker monument ceregionies at Boston recently. He I8 85 years old and on his birthdyy Kins- ley post, Grand Army of the ne:\;mx ot which he is & member, presented!him a handsome chair. \ Captain Henry Hoffman, sele vor of the crew which salled the yacht America in 1881 and brought the oup to this :;‘3"‘ . was among those who witnessed th on Saturd He was a small boy he salled in the yacht America, but he .‘ a vivid recollection of the historic contest fifty-two years ago. Captain Hoftmah has made a large fortune as a coal dealer in New York, where he resides. He owns and salls a fine yacht. Simeon Ford, the New York hotel man and wit, who has just returned from a visit abroad, was discoursing upon the relative merits of European and American hostelries, much to the disadvantage of the former. “Don't you think that our culsines are inferior to theirs?" was asked. “Not at all,”” was the reply, “and our serv- ice in many Instances is infinitely better. Why, the only two warm things that I could absolutely rely upon getting abroad were the ice water and the butter. THOUGHTS THAT TICKLE., “§o Mistuh Erastus Pinkley is gwine to it married,” sald the coffee-colored youth With the large scarf pin. “"Yes,” was the answer. “Somebody dons tol' him dat marriage was a lottery, an' he's lbch a spoht dat he's boun' to llkl “ chance, w-.mnmm Star. Batoheller, Bure none ot "nrwlhd Miss P:hfl. m"'nu donbt 'mu‘n eay ‘the iways gein away ':y d uvw-e't.'h'nt p— ies as well to 'the biggest lobsters." hlhdalphll Press. amuse me, Tty 8 wm’% ll:on—lhmm says I musn't encourage you Ho—That's all right. 1 don't need any en- ooumagenent —Phfladelphia Prose Miss Passa: Y—Yflu may sneer at ofl. but they're faithful ywny I'd ral her ki a pus r. Sharpe—Well, some b‘%n lucky.—Philadelphia Catholic are tand- She—Mamma says I mustn’t encourage you at all. He—That's all lr 1 don't need any en- couragement.—Philadeiphin. Press. Teacher—Why. J .vohnny. I thought you knew your alphabe gl o't know the names of letters nor the way they coma, but when see the alphabot alil together I'know it fast enough.—Boston Transcrip “Poor Grimly! Ho followed w vice ,about putting all his eggs In one bu- ¥’ "'Lhfl‘.'.:'z‘ on'the basiet.“—Detrolt “You can always l." an English said the Briton, proudly. 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