Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1903, Page 6

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A b _ _ . ] If any mgre plumbing is to be done in the county hospital the commissioners had better let the job to a jeweler. — —— 1 All that new market house needs now to insure per t prestige 18 a fow people to buy and sell goods in it. e All the democrats and assistant demo- _crats are unrecohicilably opposed to any- thing that savors of harmony among the republicans. Ep—————— - The ghost of John Irwin has appeared in Washington county through the meédtum of several spirit laiwyers, who are gunning after woodehuck. E————— Interest in the officlal advent of the president of the Chicago Great Western into Omaha is secondary only to our in- terest in the advent of tie road itself Ere— The business men of Omaha who are interested jn the success of the Ak-Bar Ben carnival will tolérate no more tom- foolery about repairing the street pave- ments. SEET——— The wonder 18 that Bilen M. Stone Bas kept so qulet when she might be bréaking into the public prints with her opinions of the Macedonlan and Bul- garlan troubles. © ee—— The double-shotted appeal of the local popocratic organ for nonpartisan judges in all republican districts and demo- eratic judges in all democratic districts 18 strikingly disinterested. S— The pobtmasters of Wisconsin have or ganiged themselves into a union on the community-of-interest plan, with the mental reservation that no membar will #0 on @ strike unless he is invited to re- algu. The electric light company has given 1t out semi-officially that 700 old poles &re to be pulled up by the reots and re- placed with 1,400 new pojes if the com- pany can secure the proposed monopoly of public lighting. S————— The National Wholesale Druggists’ as- soclation has again denounced the cut- Tate retallers, but all the résolutions it can pass will not prevent people from buying their pink pills and tired-teeling tablets wherever they can get a dollar box for 85 cents. E—rE——— Recelpts from sales of publie lands from Nebraska during the past fiseal year foot up $118,838, The private sales of lands in Nebraska duriig the same time would probably foot up many times that sum, a pretty good showing of real estate activity after all, . e—————— The annual report of Pefision Commis- sloner Ware Indicates that the high- ‘water mark of civil war pensions has beén passed. If anyone had predicted, however, at the close of the war that it would take thirty-four years to reach this point he would have been laughed out of countenande in iucredulity. ——— Nowy that the restraining order.tylag the Hands of the mayor and counell in enteftalning proposals for gas lighting fot the coming year has been modiied and virtually dissolved, 1t I8 10 be that the electric iight company and the #88 company will uot keep the people mieh longer in with . RULING THE FILIPINOS. When Governor Taft retires from his position in the Philippines to become secretaty of waf he will be sicoecded by General Wright, who acted as gov- ernor of the archipelago during the ab- sence of Taft. The prospective new gov- ernor of the Philippines is politically a democrat anfl a good deal of jaterest is haturally felt ag to, the attitude which he may take in regard to theé govern- ment of the Islands. In the brief time that General Wright was acting gov- ernor of the Philippines he of course purstied thé polley which the commission had established and he manifested no disposition to make any departure from the course that had been outlined by that body. It appears that the American elemvent in the u¥chipelago has raised the ques- tion whether the fair and equitable policy inaugurated by Governor Taft is to be continued by hig successor, or a policy instituted which will diseriminate in favor of American exploitation of the fslanda. Thete Is now 4 good deal of opposition to Governor Taft because of his ‘policy of giving the Filipines an equal chance in the affairs of govern- ment, of recognizing the right of the people of the islands to a proper share in the government. It is alleged, doubt: less upon substantial grounds, that efforts have been made to itduce the Philippine commission to show special favors to Amerieans, particularly in industrial &nd commercial whys, and that such éfforts havé uniformly meét with refusal. There {8 no question a# to the wisdom and the justice of this policy. There should be no discrimina- tion between the people of the islands, all being given dn equal chance, accord- Ing to eapacity and fitness, in every re- lation, governmiental and otherwise Only in this way can equal justice be done and the confidence and content- ment of the natives be assured. General Wright hae shown hitiself to be in full accord with this view. There 18 ample authority for the statement that he and Governor Taft have been from the outset and at all times in per- fect agreement as to the wisdom and expediency of the policy which has been observed and which there is every reason tor expect will continue to prevail. As a détnocrat General Wright has views ra- garding econotic policy that dlffer somewhat from the opinlons of & ma- Jority of the commission and of the fational administration. It I8 the under- standing that he favors absolute free trade with the archipelago, that he would spect as Porto Rico. But he has fot been aggressive in urging his opinion in this regard and probably will not be so 8 governor of the Philippines. In short, General Wright, although a southern democrat, will undoubtedly prove to be & most capable governor of our far-east. ern possessions, loyally conserving the interests of the governmtent. in those islands and promoting native confidence in American rule. NO 41D TO REVULUTIONISTS, It 1e to be hoped there is no truth in the statetiient of some of the Washington correspondents to the effect that our government may“be called upon to sup- port a revolutionary movement in Pan- ama and possibly may give serlous con- sideration to such an appeal It is said that many public men of prominence privately express themselves as in favor of intimating to the Panama revelution- ists that if they will maintain resistance long enough to be respectable this gov- ernment will see to it that they are not run over by the superior forces of Co- lombia, This Is said in a dispateh to the Boston Transcript, whose correspondent is one of the most careful and well-informed fhewspaper men at the national THE OMAHA DAI LY BEE: SATURDA SEPTEMBER 12 1903 event that their leader in the last two national campaigns ties up with the gold democrats? Will they not He in a quandary, from which they will have to extricate themselves hs best they can without even the aid or consent of Mr. Bryan? —————— HURRIED TAX ASSESSMENTS. The Chicago Real Bstate board, which in that ¢ty occupies the position the Real Estate exchingé holds in Omaha, proposes to appeal to the legislature to change the revenue law so as to permit of mioré timé in which to make the an- nual asséssments ‘of real and personal ptoperty, and more particularly in whi¢h to hear complaints before the Boatd ot Review, seekihg to correct ef- rors in the assessment roll. The objections of tie Real Estate board to the present methods are summed up in the stitement that whén the Board of Review in Chicago fol. lowed tp the assessors’ work there were 40,000 complaints filed by protesting real estate owners and that it was mani- festly impossible for the reviewers to glve proper consideration Yo all of these cases. What is true of Chicago in this respect is true of Omaha, although in a less aggrdvafed form. Our experi- ence had shown that. it is absolutely im- possible for the boards of review to do | 8 It now stands is true, thé United States doek not seem to be greatly concerned. It Is deplorable to have Turks killing Chris- Uans in Byria. But so Jt is to have white men kifling black men fn Americd. 1t ahy of hose Killed in Refroot are Americhn cltisens our government will demand and exact satisfaction. If not, this country bas no more business .to interfere In the domestic aftairs ot ‘Turkéy than Tutkey has to interfere in ours. Impoe ! ® i 8t. Louls Qlobe-Democrat, Seoretary Shaw 1s right in his words at the mining congress at Deadwood. Although the mining Interest dbes not’ figure any- Where near so large in_the return ome Of the other activities do, the things which the miner produces Ile at the basia of most of the great Industries. Without ceal and Iron, manufacturing on modern iines would be impossible. The miner I8 a man who stands for a pretty big interest in the econ- omy of the world ot today. Moreover, the Ameriean miner stands first in his fleld in the world. The United Btates leads in the total of its mineral products, as it does in many other activities, e chance that the mining interest may, at ah early period, get @ representative in the cabinet may be con- sidered to very favorable. ry. Take Your Clothes ai Saturday Evening Post. Thousands of Americans live in Etrops. Every considerable city on the cohtinent has its American colony and year by year theae colontes grow apace. Nearly all these expatriated Americans are people of means; mahy of them are rich. They lead lives of Industious idleness and get consideration Go. reashnable justice to their duties in the thirty days timé aliottéd by the law for the performance of the work. Af, the same time It must be remem: bered that many, 'in fact the greater part, of the complaints made before the assessment bodles are purely frivolous, being filed with the hit-or-miss idea on the part of the taxpayer in the bellef that he has nothing to lose and every- thing to gaih by asking for a reduction far beybndl their dues, simply bécause they are Americads, It fs natufal that they should dislike Ariérita It Is fortunate that thelr dislike has been strong enough to take them dway trom hote and to keep them therel it is a pity that the migrating impulse does not seise upon mors of thelr kind, The world has room for fdlers—it has room for ail sorts 6f people. But Atiériea has no rodm for thesf. That OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The slight Incfease #fi the population of Australis and the rapld Inerease in public Indcbtedness is giving berious concern both to the commonwealth and the mother cout- try, Great Britain. At the present time in Victoria, it Is stated, the population is declining, the excess of births over deaths belng more than counterbalanced by the emigration, o that in 102, according to the census thers was & net loss In population of 3192. . The state debt is now $212.50 a head, or considerably more than,that of any other country in the woMd.” These figures, which apply aloné to Victoria, which is the worst off in these respects of all the Australlan states, Are measureably applica- ble to the others, for the increase in popu- lation has. been small and the public debts are large. The debt statement, while a: barently dlarming, 18 hot really 8o, fof the greater part of it is represented in state- owned public wotks which are returning an interest bh the debt And the taxpayers are not burdened with its payment. The population question is more serious, and Statistics show that it is not a recent dé- velopment. o Not untif January 1, 1868, was ‘the number of lunatics officlally registered in Great Britain, At that date there were 96,762 in- Sane preons, a proportion to the popula- tion of 1 to §%. Today th&y number over 112,964, a proportion to the population of 1 to every 8. Not I8 this all. The tendency of much of the {nsanity which comes under treatment foday In England Is to end In dementia and to becpme Incufable. It was computed & hundred years ago that the r covery rate among cases of mania was 67 per cent. Last year in all the London asy- lums the recovery rate amounted to né more, than, 38,4, per cent. This In spite of all the means of treatment which a cen- tury's progress in the sclenced and in thera- peutle mrt has placed at the disposal of phykiciahs. Even a quartef of a ventury ago the prevalling type of insanity in Eng- land was different from that most conspic- uous today. : great workshop wants no idlers of what- ever kind obsthicting the alsies ahd hinder- ing the toilers at their tasks. That will be n dofty day for America when the of his assessment, even though he has no good grounds for doing so. It thére 18 to be reforin in the methods of tax reviewing, there sbould also be some way provided to sif#out in advance complaints that are not made in good faith, Our new Nebraskasreverus law makes no substantial changes in the system of asdessment reviewing and the first amendments required after it has been put into practical operation should in- clude some provision covering -these pbifits. There 18’ no question, however, that more time should be allowed not only tof the property owners to ascertain and investigate the assessments placed upan their property, but &lso to review- ing nuthorities to consider bona fide complaints. Yeyor general of Arizona for question- able practices uncovered by an investi- gation made under the direction of Sec: retary of the Interior Hitehcock may. be taken a8 assurance that there will be some official decapitations in’ the tndian service when the inquify isto the Indian agency frauds culmifintes in & report to the department. A few examples of this. ‘Kind;* miaking object lessons of crooked officials, will prove nore ef- Ve in fhie interest of reform than all other precautionary measures, e The hotel stewards, in their national convention, . have joined in a request upon Booker T. Washington to éstablish at the Tuskegee institute a training school for kitchen and dining room em- ployes. After this new departure 1§ well inaugurated the hotel employers may be expected to come in with a simi- lar request for the inauguration of -a training school for hotel stewards. It's a poor game that cannot be played at by more than one. Smeee—— Perhaps the best way to get the Bogd county land dispute finally settled 1s to have the courts pass upon it. This 1s a case in which there is some merit on capital, thus giving the statement & character which it would not have if appearing in what are known a8 the “yellow” journals. Who are the prominent public men in favor of the United States promoting and support- ing a revelution agalnst the govern- ment of Colombia, in order thereby to force that' government to ratify the Panama canal treaty? It is not easy to believe that anyone who has a proper regard for the dignity and the integrity of the United States would faver a course which could not fail to bring upon us the reproach and contempt of the eivilized world. It is certainly #afe to say that no one of officlal responsi- bility in Washington would give :the slightest countenance to a proposition to encourage the revolutionists of Panama and the idea of our government assist. ing them in any way s not for a mo- ment to be ent ed. We want to build an isthmian canal. Upon that question the American people are prac- tically unanimows, But we do not de- sire to acquire the right to construet a canal through revdlution and the dis- memberment of a sister republie. If Colombla has not the wisdom to see the advantages and benefits she would de- rive from the construction of the Pan- ama canal by the United States and persists in the attitude she has taken, we should turn to the alternative route, however regrettable the necessity of do- ing so. Those who counsel or favor any sort of coercive policy on the part of,the United States in eobnection with the interoceanic canal project do this country an injury of a very serious nature. They fuvite distrust of our national integrity which gannot be otherwise than harm- ful, particularly in its effect upon our relations with the southern republics. Let us keep clean hands in this matter, whatever the outcome, Smeeeege—y ‘Bastern démocratic papers insist that it Colonel Bryan cam endorse for the United States senatorship a wan from Obio who stémped the staté agalnst him Hin 1808 be ¢an bHog himself to accept any eandidate who may be proposed for nse awaiting pros | the ‘presifency in the national conven- posals, providing' that they are wadv|tiop. What becomes, then, of Mr. ‘Bonotable lotentious. | Bevan's tosmer powaijst alltes 1 the both eides, but Land Commissioner Foll- mer can not be discredited for standing up resolutely for what he believes the rights of the state and. the irfterests of the state school fund demand. It will be up to the courts elther to uphold or to reverse the commissioner of public lands. . Ee——— The drift against the proposed asset currency is exemplified again by the at- titude assumed by Senator Beveridge of Indiana in expressing the opinion that the coming session of congress will en- act no radleal or sweeping financlal leg- islation. Senator Beveridge has had his ear to the ground and ascertained that the pretended demand for curfency in. flation is confined almest exclusively to a few speculators in Wall street. The cattlemen propose to establish & packing house of their own to correct the existing injustice of low .cattie and Yigh meat. They prefer to have high cattle and high meat. How Justice is Halted, 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. A teeling of surprise Is expressed through- out the United States over the fact that there have been nineteen boodle convictions in Missourt with no arrivals o far in the penitentiary. Wil Persistence Be Rewarded?t Chicago Inter Ocean. Whatever it is that has impelled Lisuten- ant Peary to try another dash for the North Pole, the heart of the country will be with Rim In the enterprise. The North Pole itselt should warm up to such a persistent wooer. Labor Day Address. New York Bu; The president's Labor day addrdvs, de- livered at Syracusé, Is a sound and con- servative utterance, befitting the oeccasion and the times, and the ideas and prin’ ciples which ft Inculcates ure those which ablde at the foundutions of American Iib- erty the commo~ weal. Those who may have lodked for a deliverance of a more sensational order, and perhaps of a political or partisan significance, will, hap- plly, be wholly disappointed. Mr. Roose- velt's spesch is to be commended witheut reservation of any kind whatsoever. Good Time 10 Saw Wead. New York Tribuhe. Let us keep cool over the Beyroot affalr. It may be that there hes been another mistake, as In the roport of the murder of the American vice consul. But If the news leisure class finds it an agreeable place of residence. 5 THIRTY-FIVE THE DEAD LINB, Men of Two Score Years or Mofe Un- desirable Workmen, New York World. Is & man necessarily a final fallure at 857 Bvigently the Erfe railroad fanagers think #0. They have juit issued an order that ail clerks of that age or above it who have not advanced in the service since they first en- tered it are to bo asfied to resign, “Here- after,”" says President Uniderwood, no mani| who has reached the age mentioned will be allowed to enter the road's empldy as a clerk,” The secretary of the company declares, in Justification of the order, that “men who have become 35 without succeeding at some- thing else have little chance to take yp raliroad work.” This s plainly equivalent to saying-that unle: man has found an occupation in which he can succeed before he is 3 he is not likely to find it at all. Burely a hard doctrine! Under this rule Ulysses 8. Grant would have beén barred from command of the armies that saved the union, for at 4 his ership was unknow The Erle railroad' clerks 48, however, general trend of th country. Speaking at & prémium, old &-year Umit 18 not Secretary Thomas 1. ers’Intérnationatn shops generally, well as on the trains and at the switfhes, new bands are reluc- tantly engaged after they have passed this ags, though older men, being in the service, are petained. Carpenters, cabjnet makers and machine woodworkers are, it appears, able to obtain new Employment up to 4 or over 50 years of age~Out of 400 steamfitters in Chieago only four were found working at over 60 yaars of age. An old sallor finds it hatd to get sea employment if & man under 0 s to be-h . Yet there is consolation for older men I the fact that where speclal skill 18 pos- sessed gray hairs are no bar to its employ- ment, and the demana for special akill, only to be acquired by long prattice, is steadily growing gréater. And the practical point for the young man of today is that he must “make hay while the sun shines” and prove himself fit for one thing or andther on the sunny side of 3. h, YOUNg meén até dlssount. The feport’ made by of the Woodwork- that in rafiroad | L ——— COUNTRY HAS PLENTY OF MONEY. All Needed Blasticity to Be Found in Specle and Credi Chicago Chronicle, The Omaha Bee entertains the very rational opinion that the country i4 not suffering from any lack of clreulating nfedium. - It 18 pleased to observe that the people are conservative enough not to be stampeded by the attempt of certain finan- cfers to dreate & money famine seare, The Bee points out the fact that in 1873 the dctive eirculation per awplta was $18.04; in 1893, $2007, and in 1906, $20.66. The total clrculation has inereased, bf course, in a fat greater ratio, There has been an Improvement In qual- ity as woll a8 an increase in quantity. In 1818 not a dollar of gold or silver, not even in the shape of subsidlary coln,’” was in use excepting on the Pacific coast. At present the per capita circulation of metallic money and its representative’ cér- tificates s at least as great as the entire active circulation per capita in 1878, The ihcrease In quantity has Invariably attended Improvement In quality—by re- sumption of specle payments in 1¢19 ana by the establishment of gold as the ac- knowledged standard in 1900, There has been an incréase in national bank circulation, bat, as The Bee shows, this Increase has been small as compared with the increase in eoln, and especially in gold. This inéréasé In gold to the amount of fully a billion dollars has re. sulted from the operation of the laws of demand and supply, and this proves that we can get gold enough and that through that we can have all necessary elasticlty # we do not drive it off by artificially sub- stituting something cheaper. In One respect The Bee is in error. It has. been 1ed by & pretty long ltne of seo. retaries of the treasury and comptrollers of the cufrency to bellevé that % per cent of the business of the country under oraj- nary conditions s transacted by checks and drafts and only 6 per cent by money This error arises from failure to observe that checks and dgafts are mere orders to pay, and their actual volume at any one time cafinot exceed the amount in banks to the credit of the depositors who wrots the checks or drafts. That Is to say, these instruments serve only to transfer deposits and they cannot do the work of & volume of ourrency exceeding the volume of ge. posits. They serve as additional eurrency only to thé extent that the depodits coy. sist of items other tnan cesh actually n bank. ‘Thia error, however, does not diminish - ‘War . between Turkey and Bulgaria, it the present disturbances in the Balkans lead to a declaration of open hostilities, would oh papet at Jeast, be a one-sided struggle. The little principality Is no mateh, 80 far @a thedretioal war strength goes, for the blg Otloman empire. Tuf- key proper has-a population of about 25,« 000,000, and 1t can ralse an army of at least 700,000, and possibly 1,000,00 men, Including its fleld and navel forées, On the other hand, Bulgaria Has a,population of about 8,500,00, and its army on a wat foofing numbers about 200,000. men. Bulgaria has no navy worth mentioning, only a few Small steamers. Therefote the fighling would be mostly on land. If the Turkish army should invade Bulgaria it would find several strongly fortified . towns, Bofia, Shumla and Vidin, each or which is de- fended by a cifele of modern forts. There is also a fortress at Sliistrja, and Varna, on the coast of the Black Bea, is a fortified town. But if war #hould occur in the Balkan peninsuls, it would be difficult to tell where it would end. The Bulgarian army would likely be recruited largely from thé other states In that part of Europe, whose peoplé have no reason to be friendly toward Turkey. On the other hand, énly about 70 pér cent of the people in the Turkish empiré proper are Moham- medans and loyal to the Porte. Bngaged in . Waf With Bulgaria, the ultdn might find, enemies within his own realm as well No Other’ Portion Human of the Body Is So Tortured In the Effort to X Clothe and Pro- _W- CROS weari LEWIS A. CRO! Maker, tect It as the Feet. SETT $.50 SHOE $§.00 A5 comfort from uires rio breaking in s & revelation .# the fi Ing. .2 1f your dealer does not keep them, write me I will direct you to one who does. SSETT, Ine., WEST POINTERS MAY SMOKE, Boys Who Puft in the Datk May Pall in the Open, Philadelphla Press. The relaxation In the rules at West Point Agdinst the use of tobacco matks a very considerable aiteration in the comimunity @6 regards the attitude toward the use of tobacco by bbys over 17 years of age, a# aré all the boys at thé United States Military Acadlemy at entrante. With every ald which military discipline could wive, it has proved practteally im- Ppossible to-prevent the use of tobacco. at West Point. Cobeealment, bred by prohibition, turned the boys . toward cigarettes. Pipes and tobacco are to be pérmitted as a compromise. A century ago the colleges penalized the tse of tobacco in public and discouraged its use fn private. Even half a century ago some rules lingered on this subjeot. They have all disappeared. In college tobacco is freely used, and even the ftting schools are less severs in their rules against its use than they once were. The per capita consimption of tobacco M thik countfy doés not Increase and the aggregate amount imported and used is Very far from keeplig pace with the growth ot population. Vastly more s used In cigarettes and vastly less in chewing to-| bacco, but the pounds consumed do not miueh:increase. Ouf crop has changed lit- tle In twenty years and exports have in- creased. Imports grow because more costly cigars, are used, but the total ithported is in ‘small proportion to the aggregate con- sumption. But people are eéasier over the use of tobacco than they once Were. . More clergy- nien smoke. The open trolley cars permit it. The railroads provide more comfortable qUiafters for smokers. It Is even whispered that the college.girl sometimes smokes and that the traveled young woman uses an oc- casional clgarette. More smoking Is seen on the street thari ‘was once. Yet the num- ber of smbkers s probably less, and the as adross its borders, THe appointment ot Baron von Stengel s Imperial secrel - of etate for the tréasury has naturally caused discussion { ; 6 persénal org: : the opinion tha he was selected {n the hope that he may be able to wean the clerical center from its constant opposition to the government's financial projects. The baron ls belioved to be In favor of the plan formerly ad- vocated by the late Br. Von Miquel of fixing by law the sontributions to be paia in each year by the federated states to the imperial treasury, instead of leaving them to be determined by the exigencies of successive budgets. In that case, the federal states would-no longer have an interest in opposing imperial expenditure in the hope that their contributions might be reduced. 1t i8 thought that such plan would be popular with a large number of clerical deputies, who are apt to be gov- erned by state interests when dealing with imperial finance in the Reichstag. 1t Baron von Stengel can win over these deputies, with whom he is believed to have considerable influence, to the policy of fixed contributions, the clerical opposition to imperial expenditure would probably be less effective. in the Gerian press. Th ot . Inasmuch as the French naval authoritics neglected no precaution for preserving se- cgecy cohcerning the results of the gun. nery experiments against the turret of the man-of-war Buffren, in the neighborhood of Brest the other day, it 18 not surprising that & great many persons profess to know all about them, Or that an infinite variety of confiicting storles should be In circula- tion. The Paris correspondent of the Lon- don Times, Who is apt to be caretul of his facts, says that according to the most trustworthy information, only two shells were fired agdinst the turret, other shots being merely of & trial nature. The first shot did no damage to turret or its internal mechanism. The six sheep placed inside the structure wers not hurt. The turret rotated freely after the shock, and the guns were also moved by the usual crew of fifteen men. Thus far the experis ment had demonstrated the solidity of the turret. The 8econd shell had behind it a much fuller charge than the first. Tt struck the turret perpendioulatly, which is an in- cident requiring & singular eombination of circumstances to bring It about. The shell split into two halves, and rieochetted on both sides of the ship. On examination it was found that two of the sheep in the turret had been wounded, and that though the structure could be moved, it only re- volved through three-quarters of its circle. It had been affected indeed, In what was regarded as the strongest part. It is sald that the authorities regarded the damage as something very serious, and that result of the trial is likely to be the aban- donment of the turret feature in future French battieships. . Certaln Rights Defined. Kansas City Star The report of Carroll D. Wright, the um- pire to whom the unsettied contentions of the Pennsylvania coal strike were referred by agreement of both sides. asserts as its principal ruling the right of employers to discharge men without stating cause, and the corresponding right of men to quit ser- vice without giving cause, but also de- clares that, where contracts are entered into either dischargé or withdrawal should be preceded by reasonable notice. It seems strange that conditions in any enilghtened country should make such a ruling necés- sary. It is based on the very foundation principles of individual liberty. To compel & man to work against his will is enslave- ment, but it 18 not more inharmonions with the force of the general arugment based on the facts stated by The Bee proving that there is no searcity of curreney ana no need of any eantrivance to give elas- teity to bank note circulation. All needed elasticity 15 to be found in specle and in the credits extended by banks and indj- viduals for facllitating exchanges of com- modities, - t Inciples of .common fairness than to l::(.w. m:n to employ & workman who is incompetént, lazy or otherwise cbjection- able to his employer. Yet the right to dis- charge witbout giving reasons accaptable 10 trades unions has been one of the great contentions of employers and one most stubboraly fought by unions. The Pénnayl. vania riing ought to have & good effect seneralls, number of young men whom wthletics and tPaining keep from smoking is larger than ever. ’ b attods. POLITICAL DRIFT. = PIraburg s “undérefood fo ‘be throwing out a. towiine 1o pull -the :repubitcan national conyentjon. Although the campalgn Nas hardly be- gun, Intimate friends of. Tom Johneon say he has acquired the Shamrock III feeling. Governor Pennypacker of Pennsylvania recently dppointed to office 4 man who had been dead two Years. Govérnor Dockery of Missourl has put the scythe to fila beard. Young folk and old folk' have talked quite vigorously at the governor . lately, and the constant soughing of hot air through Kis whiskers became very amusing. As he could not check the hot alr, off went the whiskers. “‘A prominent peliticlan who does not wish his name to be quoted”. is the authority given by a New York paper for the s ment that President Roosevelt desives to have the next repubilzan presidential con- vention held fn New York Oity. No re- publican national convention has ever been held in the metropolis, The New York defocratio state com- mittee has adopted a resolution tavoring the nomination of & cahdidate for United states senator by tMe next democratie state convention, anticipating aetion by the legislature and Dbifiding democratie members to vole for him. This is an ap- proach to direct popular cholde, “The announcement is made at his home, Hingham, Mass., that Hon, John D. Is willing to sérve In the legislaturs of his state. Mr. Long has been three times speaker of the Massachusetts house, le: tenant governor oncé and thrice governor of the commonwealth, and served in con- gress and in the cabinets of two presideuts, The Intest developments in the New York mayoralty campaign Indfcate that Con. gressman George B. McClellan will *head the democratic ticket with the endorsement of Tammany Hall and that the incumbent of the office, Beth Low, whl head tho fusion ticket. “Big Bill'" Devery, who cut such & wide swath a #hort time ngo, seems to be “out of the running.” LAUGHING REMARK! hahd," sald Uncle Biben, 1t oh Sunday morals ad it %hofi e smile dat "fl" puts'on you gits Youh photograpli ' took."<Washington “It's aiiodd—1 may be defained at'the dmice to- t. rs. Nodd—Then in case I want to call {ou up over the telephone what is Whe hun- or of Your elub I-yookiyn b A Girl with the Gibson Girl Neck—1 wish 1 . had hande us white us yours. Girl with the Julla ' Marlows 'rmor-- You'd be sorry it you Kad. They show dirt #0 easily.~Chicago Tribune. “How do you lfke fy new full hat?" it all paid for?” ” | pertectly beautiful."~Detrolt Fres ¥ 3 Press. - she a good nager " Well,'she manages (o get &l the mone ho hab."“Chicago Post. © . o “Jimmy! Didn't it make you feel cents when the footpads stop oll, 1 guess. And I must, K8 13 & clogkoT "How do you meal “Hands up.”~Phil ““The by het said. . (ke 8 ve looked elphia Press. by weighs twelve ‘pounds " the "proud: youns thother. “Ate Yoji bure the scales are correct?” 'Lorrtc‘t: ellr uwea the oTu.lly vrm; young father, incautionsly. “Of course R T T e A cago o weighing the fish I catch.”: Trib une. "How do you manage to retain the confft d@‘pca o'“ymxr constityents ?" “y t ‘Well,"" answered Benator Borghum, imagine they think they kinow the wors about me Ahd would rather bear the' s they have than fiyto others that J:ay know ot af.”~Washington Sta; (LR e A SHATTERED DREAM. James Barton Adams in Derver, Post. 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