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

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Our peaple are inevitably interested in every fact that bears upon the question of future relations between the wheat production of the United States and that of other % | conntries, with particniar reference to | that of the Dominion of Canada, which during the last few years has been stead- ily growing as a competitor of this coun- try aud which there Is reason to think 2\ oming Bae (witnout Bunday); S ~ier © | will increase still more rapidiy in the wiek g -10¢ | vears to come, very largely by reason of Complaints of jrregularities partuent. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buildin South, Omaha—City Hall Funaing, Twen- ty-nfth and M Counell Streets. Bluffeyl0 Pearl Street. Chicago—160 Unity Buflding. New York—2328 Park Row Bullding. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torfal matter should be addressed: Omahe Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. puyavle to The Bee Publishing nl ent stam ae-—ernd in payment mall ‘accounts. ersonal Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss George that the ‘actual number of full and in delivery shou\d be addressed to City Circulation De- mit by draft, express or postal order Company. checks, except on 3. Taschick, secretary ‘o'( )‘{"xr;a-g;: Fublishing company. being duly . says the migration of Americans to the Can dian provinces of the northwest. In regard tb this some valuable in- formation is supplied by a contributor to the New York Evening Post who seems to be very well informed in regard to what he writes. He says that there has been a good deal of exaggeration in regard to the grain production of the Canadian northwest and he presents fig- ures to attest his position. In regard to the exploitation of the Canadian .| northwest as the finest and largest wheat country under the sun, this writer says that the single state of Kansas has produced this year about six times as much wheat as the new Canadian north- of plete coples of The Daily Morning, Evening | west with its area of a milllon square a0d, Bunday e printed oaat '® MM | miles. A favorite comparison in the ¥ v 1 20,660 | Canadian boom literature, says this 13 1. :‘.fm writer, who evidently talks of what he :‘ ;’, ] ‘20,360 | knows, is between the wheat producing L] .. .. 20,370 | capacity of Minnesota and Manitoba, 6. 2 20,880 and the yield in Manitoba is always 1 2. ...26,600 3 3 [ 2 ..29,280 | glven as twice as great. It is alko stated 9 2 20,830 | thyt the wheat lands of Minnesota are . 2. - 40,380 | wearing out, “and yet Minnesota this 2 year produces twice as much’ wheat as 1 Manitoba and as many bushels per -y acre.” 2 That is a fact which it is well to “Total.. Less unsold and return Net total sales. Net average sales. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of August, A, D. M8 HONGATE, Notary Public. 805,070 . 28,903 bear in mind, for it shows conclusively that there has been more or less misrep- resentation in regard to the comparative fruitfulness of the Manitoba region, the effect of which has been to induce many thousands of Americans to go to that PARTIES LEAVING THE CITY, leaving the eity at any time may have The Be t to them re rly by stitying The Bee Busin office, in per The address will be ch: as often as desired. —_—— The weather clerk evidently thinks we are raising ducks for market. The great Amerfcan corn belt crop. Judge Sullivan is old enough to have This is an off year for known better. popocrats. The summer of 1903 has passed in hi checks and we shall probably never see bis like aguin. e————— Man makes the town, God makes the country. What Omaha needs above all things Is more meu. A How would it do to call another grand Jury to clarify the atmosphere of a good many well-defined rumors? President Stickney is eminently cor- rect when he declares that a market town is not an accidental production. If the Weather bureau will reserve Its fair and warm forecast for Ak-Sa Ben week, it will be forgiven, if not forgotten. If Abrabam Lincoln needs any monu- ments in bréhze or stone, why isn't the city of Lincoln the most imposing and enduring memorial that could be built? Before the county board proceeds with the plan for straightening out the be well for it to stralghten out the kinks in the bridge Elkhorn it will building record. Sir Thomas Lipton has once more learned by experience that there many a slip between the cup and the This time it was not the American racing cup, but an informal cup of lip. Oyster Bay broth. —_— That democratic, nonpartisan judicial masquerade 18 after- all not likeiy to| prove a drawing card. Nebraskans are | credited with a high degree of intelli- gence. They know a hawk from a spa row when they see it. — It requires an inexhaustible fund of optimism to figure out a population of 32,000,000 for Nebraska in the dim and decade distant future. For the Nebraskans will | next satisfled with ru ning up the population to the two-mil- lion point. —_— Senator Carmack of Tenmessee a nounces his intention to Introduce negro disfranchisement bill repealing the fifteenth amendment. There 18 ju about us much chance for the paséage of such a bill as there would bhe for bill restoring slavery through a repeal of the thirteenth amendment. —— It may be iuteresting for Governor ball Mickey to learn that reform in room manners and gound dancing s a vocated by’ New York dancing master and we may safely anticipate that the squaring of the circular dance and the rounding of the square dance will reach Nebraska before the next inaugural ba Charles Joseph Bounaparte has been se- lected by Mr. Hitehcock to take charge of the fuvestigation of the operations the Indian land speculators and crooked Indian agents in Oklahoma and Indian Territory. If the man with the Napo- leonde ancestry had been detailed to pay a visit to the Omahe and Winnebago reservations in Nebraska he would have found a state of affairs just as scan- dalous as has subsisted In the southe) Indian settiement. has reached the crftical stage for the corn country who could have found just as available opportunities in their own country. There is no doubt that the Canadian northwest {8 to become a strong wheat competitor with the United States, but there is no reason to apprehend that this competition will become 8o serious as to materially interfere with the position of this country as the foremost market of the world for supplying the nations with breadstuffs. We shall only cease to_occupy that position when our own population is so great as to need all the breadstuffs we are able to produce and that will be in the very remote fu- ture. e——— RUSSIA MODIFIES PROPOSAL. According to the latest advices Russla has modified her proposal regarding the evacuation of Manchuria. As originally is | stated she was to withdraw her forces from the Chinese province early in the coming month and there was no quali- fication or reservation connected with this promise. The evacuation, as then announced, wag to be complete. It now appears that the Russian goverpment has changed its policy and proposes a, plecemeal policy of evacuation, the end of which will be a year hence. “In the meantime Russia will undoubtedly avail herself of every opportunity to strengthen her position in = Manchuria and augment her power in that quarter in every practicable way. There ouglt to be no surprise at this apparent change of attitude. It is quite in accord with Russian policy and its meaning is obvious. ‘There will doubt- less be a withdrawal of Russian troops from Manchuria next month, but the extent of the evacuation will not be so great as to materfally weaken the mil- itary power of the country In that pro- vince. A few months later another with- drawal of troops will be made, but still leaving a sufficient force there to main- tain the Russian domination. Then will ensue a year during which Russia may become even stronger in Manchuria ¢han she is today. All of which simply evidences the 18| shrewdness and sagacity of Russian methods. Meanwhile the United States makes no objection and perhaps is not warranted i& making any, although the policy of Russia, according to the latest announcement, i8 obviously not favorable to the principle for which this country las been contending. - TIME FOR ACTION. ™} Four months ago the mayor and coun- cll were elected on specific pledges in favor of municipal ownership of public utilities, including light and water. These pledges cannot be fulfilled unless the pcople of Omaha are given an op- n- | Portunity to carry them into effect. The proposed extension of the electric light- ing contract, confessedly designed to head off munieipal ownership of public n- | lighting, has brought the issue to the a | forefront. If the proposed scheme concocted by st | M. Nash receives the sanction of the mayor and council the clty would abdl- a | cate its right to establish and operate a lighting plant of its own, if not for ten years, at least for five years, with the chances that at the end of five years the electric lighting monopoly would pro- cure another extension. d- Manffestly the only way the mayor re | and council can redeem their pledges 1s to submit the question of municipal ownership to the peoble at the coming election in tangible form through an or- Il | dinance authorizing the issue of a suffi- clent amount of bonds to establish an electric lighting plant and to either erect the necessary poles and build the neces- of | éhry conduits or acquire the conduits and poles of the electric light company by conder:nation process. If the citizens of Cnaha actually favor the proposal of the electric light company for an extension of its con- tract they will vote the hond propos!- tion down. If the people still hold fo ™ the convietion that municipal ownership of public lighting is desirable either for TH OMAH ' DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 reasons of economy or because they want to put an end to the tampering with city councils and municipal offi- cials and the debanchery of the public service, and at the same time insure more efficient public lighting than we have had, then they will vote to endorse the bond issue In view of the fact that less than eight weeks intervene between now and the day of electjon, is it not high time that the preliminary steps for submitting the bond proposition be taken without further delay’ DENUUNCING PEONAGE. The governor of Alabama, in his mes- sage to the legislature, takes a very de- clded stand against the peonage system, which has been practiced in that and same other of the southern states. He states that in least one locality in Ala- bama several farmers have been work- ing men and women under guard with- out legal authority to do so and that some of these “have been sinners for a dozen years; they have acted without the shadow of a right and have been plain violators of the statute law He therefore urges, as becomes the ex- ecutive of a state who has a proper re- gpect for the observance of the laws, that these offenders be properly pun- ished for their crimes and there seems to be reason to expect that he will cause to be taken the proper course to bring them to punishment. It is certainly gratifying to find a southern governor willing to consider this matter of peonage, which is a sys- tem of slavery even more reprehensible than that of the old form, in its proper charneter and to eall for the punishment of those who are guilty of it. The dis- closures that have been made regard- ipg the practice of peonage in some of the southern states are a reproach to the country and its complete abolition, with the condign punishment of all who have been guilty of it, is imperatively demanded. Under no circumstances can such a policy be tolerated In this land. The Colorado state board of assess- ment, which is now in session, is con- fronted with an urgent demand for a material increase in the railroad assess- ment. Public sentiment in Colorado has been aroused to a high tension by reason of the favoritism shown to the rnllrond’ corporations in the assessment last year and the indications are that the state board will yield to public opinion. As usual, the railroad attorneys and tax agents threaten to appeal to the courts in case the board of assessment resists the pressure of the corporations. The outcome will be watched with interest not only in Colorado, but also in Ne- braska, because the Nebraska assess- ment, which is outrageously inequita- ble, is cited by the raliroad attorneys as an example which Colorado is expected to follow. Political campaigning in Kentucky is always full of startling sensations and exciting incidents. The opening melo- drama in this year's Kentucky campaign was signalized by the appearance on the stump of General Simon Bollvar Buck- ner in support of the republican state ticket and in specific opposition to the democratic candidate, Governor Beck- ham, whom he accuses of issuing alto- gether too many pardons. General Buck- ner was the veteran in gray who capitulated to Unconditional-Surrender- Grant at Fort Donnelson, eventually be- came governor of Kentucky and in 1896 was vice presidential candidate on the gold democrats’ ticket headed by Gen- eral Palmer. —— If the new home rule charter formu- lated for the government ,of the city of Denver is ratified at the coming elec- tion, all poles and overhead wires, ex- cept trolley wires and poles used in op- erating street railway cars within the business district of that city, will have to be removed by the telegraph, tele- phone and electric light companies and the wires placed underground’ within five years from January next. Denver always has been a metropolitan city and Omaha must emulate its example with regard to the wire and pole nuisance if it wants to keep up with the procession. Pecull to the Trade. Detroit Free Press, The oath of the Typographical union ls being taken more seriously than it deserves. The printer has always been a facile and fluent swearer. Gl House Folly, Chicago Tribune. 1f Uncle Sam picks up an unappropriated fsland now and then we know of no European relative that can afford to throw ones at him, etting Up to a War Plteh. Washington Post. With a record of 50,000 killed, 150,000 in hiding and several hundred villages burned by the Turks, the Bulgarians are getting almost up to the point of losing their temper and declaring war, Chicago Record-Herald. We can bear up under Senator Beveridge's loss of his pocketbook and his $0 while he was enroute to speak at ‘the Indiana bank- ers’ convention. But manuscript of the speech in which he settled the money guestion this nation might not have survived the shock it he had lost the Is Reform P e T Clicago Chronicle What we need to prevent wild speculation crazes, ending In panic and disaster, is not ma “elastie’ currency or even an emergency curraney 2o much as honesty and truthfulness in corporation ma ment. Whoever will bring about reform in this respect will be a public benefactor worthy of immortal renown. ret Feats in Mimic War. Philadelphla Record. What feats of arms may not be done in mimic warfere when the doer is a kaiser and the umpires are his obedlent servants! Kaiser Wilhelm's charge on Tuesday at the head of 12,000 Prussian horses on the Saxon Latterles #nd entrenched Infantry near Helle, where the annual fall maneuvers are now in progress, would have been an act of madness in real warfare. The dust raised from the dry flelds by the horses' hoofs revealed every movement of the cavalry of the “enemy,” who was enabled to point 10,000 rifies and hundreds of ma- ! chine and field guns at the charging troop- ers; nevertheless, the judges decided that the “enemy” was routed, and the kaiser won, The March of Empire. Boston Herald ““Go west, voung man, and grow up with the country” is a bit of advice that the young men of Canada are heeding with a vengeance. A recent harvest excursion to the Canadian northwest was made up of 600 young men from Prince Edward Island and 00 from the eastern section of Nova Scotia One of the local Nova Scotla newspapers says: “This is certainly an enormous drain on our country, and. the chances are that it will be an annual drain. Of the 1,30 who went, at the outside not more than 0 will.return. The others will prob- ably remain to bulld up the west at the expense of the east. The young men who went are the pick of the country, the best blood and sinew in It, and they did not belong to the idle class. They went west to spy out this much-talked-of land and to select homes. It is Indeed unfor- tunate if the home land is to be robbed this way every year. And have we not right here the best conntry under the sun? But It Is the old story of the human foot and its westward roving.” And now, as ever, westward the course of empire takes its way. CONTROL OF TRUSTS, Government Ownerahip Promo the Best Method. New York Independent. Thres possible means of controlling the #o-called trusts were suggested by the com- mittee of the American Bar association One is by severe taxation: another is by further interstate commerce laws, and & third Js by government assumption of the business of these trusts—that is, by the extension of the mocialistic features of our government. Of these the first, destructive taxation, seems oppressive and unfair, We doubt If it will be very much applied. The second provision, legislation for interstate commerce, ought certainly to be developed. The Interstate commission has asked for further power. Railroads ought not to be allowed to give preferential rates which will foster monopolies. But it is to a cer- tain extension of the third method, that of government assumptfon of certain indus- tries, that we look for speediest important control. The other nations of the world have set us the example, even the most conservative, We lag far behind Great Britain or France or Germdny or Austria. Enormous combinations of railroads and trolley lines are now being made here which would not be allowed abroad. Our government ought to hold these means of transportation, which have been the fos- terers of unfair wealth. The same i3 true of the express business and of the lighting Industry. This amount of soclalism, al- ready begun In the postoffice, Is safe, and should be developed. — A NORWEGIAN TRIUMPH. ced Descendants of the Vikings Carried Rellance to Vietory. Chicago Tribune. Sir Thomas Lipton, in one of his inter- views, made the remark: “The smartest rallors T aver saw in my life are salling Re- Mance.” Sir Thomas was correct, as the re- sult proved. As compared with the crew of Shamrock I11 they were quicker and more Intelligent, and quickness and Intelligence In obeying orders count for success in a race. They were men who anticipated Cap- tain Barr's orders and were ready to obey them before they were given. In other words, they were experts in navigation spe- clalties, and each man was selected for spe- clal work. Captain Wringe's sallors wers not so quick because they did not antici- pate orders, 8ir Thomas Lipton's remark has been ac- cepted as a compliment to American sea- manship, and there has been much boast- Ing over “a Yankee boat and a Yankee crew.” Rellance fs a Yankee boat. It was bullt at Bristol by Herreshoff, who s, in spite of his name, a Yankee, born in B fitol. But, alas, Rellance did not have a Yankes crew. There was not an’ American on board of it nor a person born in America. Its cap- tain 18 a Scotchman, who has taken out his first papers. The first, second and third mates are Norweglans. Of its crew of forty- two men thirty-seven are unnaturalized and two naturalized Norweglans, two unnatural- ized Swedes and one an unnaturalized Darfe. Rellance therefore was a Yankee boat manned by a Scotch-American captain and a Scandinavian crew, and the result must | be set down as a Norweglan triumph. Evi- dently the days of the Maine and Deer island American sailors, who figured In the old contests, have passed away. It is sur- prising that 8ir Thomas, with a knowledge of the skill and alertness of these descend- ants of the Vikings on the water, has not manned one of his Shamrocks with Nor- weglans {nstead of Britishers, for the Nor- weglans are the men who successfully maintain the blue ribbon of the seas. —_— THE WASTE OF FORESTS, Time for Action to Prevent Further -San Franelsco Call, The newly Issued year book of the De- partment of Agriculture contains fn the report of the secretary a striking passage upon the waste that has followed the par- tial destruction of the forests at the head- waters of the streams of the Appalachian mountains. That part of the United Btates is far fram California, but not so far but what the lesson of its teaching should come home to us and warn us of the danger tbat threatens our own land from the waste of the woodlands, It Is estimated that during the twelve months ending with April, 192, the dam done by floods resulting from the destru tion of forest along that mountain district approximated $18,000,000. The report goes on to say: “The examinations also show as additional results of the deforestation of these mountain slopes that the water powers along these streams, which have an aggregate annual value of $20,000,000, as a basis for manufacturing enterprises, are belng gradually but certainly destroyed through the Increasing Irregularity in the flow of the streams; that the soil which is being washed down from the mountain slopes Is rendering annually less navigable the Ohio, Mississippl, Tennessee and other rivers of the southeastern states, and that the rate of land erosion on these mountain slopes from which the forest cover has been removed Is now as great in a single year as it was in ten centuries while the slopes were covered with primeval forests.” A statement of that kind emanating from an official source after expert investigation is startling. The attention of the eastern public has been drawn to the evil and a bill is now before congress providing for the establishment of a great national forest reserve along the Appalachlan summits. The maintenance of such a reserve will of course be hikhly beneficial to all the wide region of country through which flow the streams that have their rise In those moun- tains, but great as is the need of a good forestry system in that section of the coun- try, it is probably not so great as the need 'of such a system in California. It s in- deed high time for us to approach this subject serlougly and with a esolve to take action before the destruction of the woods goes much further. Man cannot afford to %0 waste the mountain lands as to bring about every year an erosion equal to that which nature would have caused ia ten centuries 1908 # DOINGS IN THE ARMY, ters of Genmer from the Army Interest Gleaned d Navy Register. The order relating to transportation of baggage of army officers contains the provision, not hitherto recorded In an abstract of the order given last week, for the baggage of a lleutenant general of the army. That officer fs allowed to have 1,600 pounds transported at public expense when on duty in the fleld. The allowance of baggage thus transported, on a permanent change of station, In the case of a lieu- tenant general, is 15,000 pounds. An im- portant provision In the order, which may escape some officers, is the following: “In turning over horses to the quarter- master's department for shipment under the authorization of this regulation, officers can have the privilege of shipping them from other points to thelr new station, provided the mileage In such cases does not exceed the total mileage betweon the old and new station to which an officer is assigned.” This enables an officer to dispose of his horse at one atation and purchase another at his own station, or any other place en- route, where he may happen to have the opportunity of acquiring a suitable animal. The other day an officer who was trans- ferred from Fort Aesiniboine to Fort Sill desired to obtain a horse in Kentucky, but the regulations of the army did not permit this. although the advantage of trans-- portation was entirely on the side of he government, since the distance between the purchasing point In Kentucky and the of- ficer's station was much less than that hetween the officer's old station and Fort 8ill. Under the new provision officers will be benefited materially. The judge advocate general of the army has before him the interesting question whether the badge of the Soclety of For- elgn Wars may properly be worn with the uniform of the army. It seems there are two rosolutions and an act of congress bearing on the authority to wear badges of military societies under such circum- stances. The first resolution was that of 1890, which related to the emblems of the socloties of the wars up to that time. The next legislation was the act of February 2, 1901, which had to do with the badges of the socletles of' the Spanish war and the incidental confilot {n the Philippines. The most recent leglslation was the resolution of January 12 last, which related to the China rellef expedition. The Soclety of Forelgn .Wars embraces a large field of military activify and naturally the opinfon from the judge advocate general's office will be awaited with keen interest Tt is the occastbn of remark that in the designation of army officers to serve in the capacity of umpfres during the army and milltia_maneuvers at West Point and Fort Riley there has been no assignment to duty in that connection of officers attached to the general staff of the army. The omis- sfon from that important list of the names of any general staff officers has created profound surprise. It has been commonly supposed, outside as well as within the army, that general staff officers would find very great opportunity for something be- sldes desk work in the observations of the maneuvers, In Europe the goneral staft officers are especlally active and prominent on such occasions and evidently it is most profitable for the individual officers and for the service generally to detail members of the general staff for duty In the field during maneuvers. It can only be re- garded as a significant indication of the policy of the present administration that the general staff of our®army is not to be personally and actively ldentified with this year's operations, although they doubtless serve very useful purposes In arranging for such exercises and in finally passing upon the reports of other officers who do have the opportunity of personal observa- tlon. Nevertheless, it is found to be the subject of comment and the occasion for surprise that the general staff is pot to be represented In the fleld at Wi Point and Fort Riley. Of course, such comments as are here recorded are based on the assump- tion that the iist of officers to attend the maneuvers is complete and has been pub- lished without the chance of amendment or addition. It Is barely possible, however, that In some way the general staff will be represented, after all, in the Kentucky or Kansas exercises, although there does not appear to be present prospect of such an event, The detail of Major John F. Guilfoyle, Twelfth cavalry, as Inspector of rifle prac- tice is a notable incident. It marks the re- establishment of an important military billet, recreated on the recommendation of the board which has been engaged in the revision of the small arms target practice system and manual, The last officer to discharge the dutles of inspector of rifle practice was Colonel (now General) J. M Lee, U. 8. A., who served for a few weeks at the then headquarters of the army on the staff of General Miles. It is recalled in this connection that the detail of an in- spector of rifle practice was a hobby of General Miles. He never succeeded in inducing the authorities to adopt the idea, although it has always been considered necessary if we were going to maintain a standard of excellence in army marksman- ship. It Is possible that Major Guilfoyle's detall to this duty in Washington will be followed by the designation, in a similar capacity, of officers attached to the staffs of the territorial departmental commanders, The first lleutenants of the Signal corps who were marked for advancement to the grade of captain have been promoted, or have passed their examinations and are ready for promotion. Threo advancements remain to be made. The block In these pro- motions was removed by the return to this country from Alaska of Lieutenant William Mitchell, who has been examined and re- ported as qualified for promotion. These advancements created eleven vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant, and a twelfth vacancy is made by the retirement, on account of disability, of Captain Charles B. Rogan, jr. who is now at the general hospital at Washington Barracks. The problem fs to fill these vacancies. None of the officers of the line is disposed to go in the signal corps where the demands are for technical knowledge and practical experi- ence in signal corps work, and where the additional reward largely consists of the consclousness of duty faithfully performed. The condition indicates the necessity of some very strong recommendations to con- gress, and it is probable this will be made in the annual report of the chief signal of- ficer. Numerous changes are iikely (o be made in the next few weeks in the assignments of officers to regiments, and constant changes are being made in the list of va- cancles in the distribution of the vacant second lleutenancies, as published § few weeks ago In these columns. These changes are due mainly to the desire on the part of the graduates of the Military academy to ses duty in the Philippines. Numerous re- quests are coming from these officers for as- signment to regiments which will take these officers to station In the islands. Of course, this makes a draft on ‘the regiments at home, but the officers are more needed in the Philippines than at United Btates rrisons It 1s probable that applications of this kind will not be denied. Perniclous Disrespect. St. Louls Globe-Democrat General Bristow must have queer notlons of the public servige. He is trying to run his branch of the Postoffice department without consulting the politicians. NERRASK AN FOR SECOND PLACE. te for Viee Preside Toledo Blade Nebrasks, brought into prominencs dur- ing the two last national campaigne by the fact that the state is the home of the demo- ercratic candidate for the presidency, has again bobbed into notice by the recent action of its state republican convention In advocating the selection of Hon. John L. Webster, of Omaha, for the second place on the ticket to be chosen in 194. By this action it has brought to country-wide prom- fnence a man who has been known throughout the middle west fér years as one of its ablest citizens. This should not be taken to mean that Mr. Webster has not been known beyond the confines of the Missouri valley, but rather that the know- ledge of his ability has been confined prin- cipally to those attorneys who keep in touch with the more important legal work of the country, and those politicians who make the growth of every public man their study. As tife first candidate in the fleld, Mr. Webster's personality is perhaps of more Interest than those of the men who will enter the running later. Of his ability there ia no question. The west knows him as an attorney, one of the cotere of first water men, who have served to whip into shape the sometimes unique, sometimes grotesque, laws passed Ly states still In thelr long clothes, in turm ultra-conservative, railrond ridden, populis- tic and demagogic. To them is due the eredit for whatever protection of property and soundness of state finance came about during the wild-eyed days when the peopls of the plains were led by sockless states- men and divine healers of national wrongs that consisted mostly of grasshopper pests, a lack of rain, and other things that caused crops to fall. To thelr good work the west fs just now awakening. In the framing of laws governing the nation's relations with the red men he has played an important part. One of the first attorneys to be ad- mitted to practice before the interior de- partment and the commissioner of Indian affairs, he has never lent himself to the high-salaried defence of the myriad men and schemes that have looked to rob the children of the plains of their remaining lands. Rather has he done as much, if not more, than any other to put the laws governing this diminishing race on a plane of firmness and justice. Mr. Webster has had experfence fin politics, Several timeg he has been a re- ceptive candidate before the Nebraska legislature of senatorial honors, but his ever present stand against a coalition with and the resultant control by dom- inant railroad forces in the state has kept | him from the goal. But, defeated or not, he has always fought at the front for his | party, and by his example and power both as a speaker and an advisor, has put republieanism again in the ascendant in his state. In person Mf. Webster is a picture in action of the old time courtesy and chiv- alry of the days before the war, combined with intellect of the present day leader. He has frenquently been prominently men- tioned for an ambassadorship to a Euro- pean court, and was lately serlously con- | country; I belleve.” sldered as one of the men to make up the Isthmian canal commission. His honesty in politics 1= as inflexible as in his private | fort business, and has become a motto in Ne- braska. With Mr. presidency a foregone conclusion, it fol- lows that a western man will be chosen as his running mate. Many factors of poli- tical expendiency will enter into the selec- tion for second place, and Nebraska is early in the fleld with a good man. If the other states which will undoubtedly place fav- orite sons in the race, shall name equally capable men with Mr. Webster; the choice of the convention cannot fail to be a wise one. —_— PERSONAL NOTES. Another New York hunter has shot his guide in mistake for a deer. It is wrong to make game of anybody. ; There s a shadow of hope of reform in Kentucky. Fifty years' growth of wh kers was cut from the chin of a politiclan the other day. Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener can not agree as to the result of the South Africa war. Why not leave the guestion to some of the real generals on the other side? The New York Sun has passed its seven- tieth milestone without a wrinkle on its face or a cloud to obscure its fays. The Sun was founded by Day (Benjamin H.), AROR'S GREAT PROBLE] Can a U Be Trusted to Stand by Tts Comtracts? Chieago Inter Ocean Frank Buchanan, natlonal head of the unfon of structural fron workers, on Thurss day revoked the charter of the local branch in New York City, of which S8am Parks is. the virtual head, because he was satisfied that the local unfon had wilfully violated, and was violating, the agreement made last May between the natfonal union and the employers’ assoclation. The local unisn received the revocation of its charter with hoots and jeers. J. W Johnston, secretary-treasurer of the na tional unfon, denied that Buchanan had authority to revoke the local union's charte: without his consent. It fs reported that Johnston and Buchanan had a personal en- counter during the day over the conduct of the local unfon. Thus structural fron bullding in New York, already erippled for weeks by strikes, has become still more uncertain because of a factional quarrel between the workers in the trade, This quarrel, it will be observed is over the point whether or not a local union shall be permitted to annul contracts made with employers by the national or- ganlzation of which it Is a part Fundamentally the question at fssue Is whether or not a labor union can be trusted to stand by its contracts. To get that question answered right Is the great prob- lem befors organized laber. Unless or- ganized labor succesds in answering that question right its whole cause is in Jeopardy. It is comparatively sasy for workers to organize and by watching for a favorable opportunity compel employers to give them higher wages. But when a labor union, having made an agreement on wages and conditions for a certain leng{h of time, re fuses to keep that agreement\it sets about \ i1t sown destruction. Capital, finding that Jabor unfon agreements are worthless, simply refuses to take chances with work- ers who will not keep their contracts Thus work in that industry and allled in dastries ceases. The final result of contract breaking by labor organizations is to leave workers out of work. That is the fact that labor or- ! garilzations have got to face. That is tha fact that makes the amsurance of fidelity to contracts the great problem before or- ganized lahor today. For failure to get such fidelity brings about not only strikes of workers, but strikes of capital, and when capital Is forced to strike labor's op- portunity ceases to exist. sten to that girl's peculiar laugh.” hat fen't a laugh.” No?" “No; she's a Boston girl. That's a cachin- nation.”"—Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. Anger—I can’t see why my husband should be jealous of me. Her Friend—No one can, my dear.—Judge, Roosevelt's nomination for the | befo’ good wiv | s justltke sunshine about the hous but it shines at all hours, Dr. C. Bentley of Chicago has been appointed chairman of the committee on “omse, come, old bo: brace up! You the aggressiveness and more solid ’ know that faint heart ne'er won fair lady. “But she's a brunette.’ ~Cleveland Plain Dealer. “‘SBhe needed res “Then why is she coming home 8o soon? Well, #ha thinks she needs a little com- Chicago Post. “Some people falls,” sald Uncle Eben, “becauss dey tries to eat de persimmon it's ripe. an' some because dey lets aroun’ till it's no good.”—Washington it la Post. “Alas!” said the unhappy woman, “and we were once considered wealthy!" “But, my dear,” sald her husband, sooth- ingly, “we have as much money as ever. “'ONh, yes, T know, but there are so many who Have a lot more that nobody pays any attention to us any longer!"—Brooklyn Life. “I fear,” sald his host next morning, “‘you dian’t sleep well last night. Every fime I wroke up 1 cquld hear you thrashing around in your bed.” Y ught to have told you." apologized the guest, & man from Kansas City, “I've got #0 used to floods that 1 tread water in my sleep."—Chicago Tribune. “Are you training your daughters in the household arts!™ “No. What's the use? Jest as soon as T got one of them trained so's could help me some man would come along an' marry her. An’' men are havin' it too easy thesi days, anyhow."—Washington Star. are so fortunate in securin remarked the man who wante to_be sympathetic. “Yes," replied Henpeck. *No “Some m, my wife “Indeed! Well—er—really. I'm surprised—"" “Yes. She's never there at all at night. Woman's Rights meetings and all that, you know. —Philadelphia Press. A QUARTET. Carolyn Wells, in Life. Clinics for the big International dental con- | He—My dear Miss Smith—or may I call you gress which will be held In 8t. Louls next year, In connectlon with the World's fair. Kitty? )loon—()"l‘hll promises, 1 fear, to be quite tame.) King Alfonso of Spain is about to start|She—You oughtn't, but you make it sound on a tour of Lurope, visiting all the principal courts on the continent. It 1Is said the itinerary is undertaken with the purpose of finding a wife to adorn his palace. Wil fasting cure dyspepsia? 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