Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 3, 1903, Page 12

i 12 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 1903.” e oo b~ - - _Tue OmAHA DALY BEE T B ROSEWATER, EDITOR. P~ S . PUBLISHED EVERY vomnu TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$4.00 ly Bee and Sunday, One Year...... 8.00 liustrated Bee, Ono Year. 2.0 lunday Bes, One Year. ”05 iturday Bee, One Yeal . entieth Century Far: e Year. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIBR ly Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. 2c afly Bee (without Sunday). per week..12o ally Bee (ncluding Sunday), per week.17o ay Hee, ning Bes nl:l Bee = or copy.... ‘without Sunday), umludm( suminy; dv of irreg should bo addressed to (‘I\y Llrculnlon "Dew partment. OFPICES, Qmaha_The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M streets, Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—i0_Unity Bullding, New York—2328 Park Row Bullding. Washington—601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- gorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorfal Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, expres tal order B-anls to The Bee 'x ulyll-hmzm:‘flmp\n\ 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of accounts, Personal checks, except on * Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. _ THE REE PUBLISHING COMPANY. " “BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Doug'as County rge B. Taschiick, secretary of ” Publishing’ Company, being duly says that the actual number of gomplete coples of Tho Evening and Sunday Ree the month of September, 1 | lows: sworn, full_and Dally Morning, printed during was as fol- 28,030 ...28,010 28,870 28,880 26,445 28,880 28,880 28,530 28,730 .. 28,720 20,206 7,240 28,760 EiHEomuansus sBRRREERRE Total Leoss unsold and refurned coples Net total sales.. Net average sdies. 28, GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to bt!on me this 0th i;i) of BQK!nmber, Al NGATE, (s-u.) Notary Public. PARTIES LEAVING THE CITY. Parties leaving the ecity at any time may have The Bee sent to them regularly by IO'IMI. T Bee Business ofe won or by m The Aldre. will be changed as often as desired. A Ak-Sar-Ben deserves better of the Wweather man. In the interval the~ Marine band is still piping peacefully away. —_— . It seems that Bulgaria and Turkey are both eager to fight ono another, but neither wants to begin. pE—e—— . Tt 18 Just beginning to be apparent that Joseph Chamberlain was the biggest M of the Balfour ministry. e — Judge Vinsonhaler is a very plausible lar, but his memory 1s not good enough to make him a success in the art. —— Peter denled the Master and Judge Vinsonhaler denies his own signature, But the truth will prevail in the end. — The British flag' has made its reap- _,-pearance in Boston. But it comes as a flag of friendship instead of as a flag of oppression. ‘Whenever The Bee exposes a crook, an embezzler or a fraud, it is invariably charged up to personal malice and po- ltical persecution. ET—————— ‘Well, now, is young George B, McClel- lan with his Tammany brand effough of a democrat to elicit an endorsement from Colonel Bryan? Tomorrow's Sunday Bee, dedicated to King Ak-Sar-Beu, will be a record- breaker in every way. Place your orders for extra coples early. e e —————__ | Prepare to keep open house next week for your out-of-town friends who are about to swoop down on Omaha for the autumn carnival festivities. "It will take several Philadelphia law- | yers to interpret the fine points of the new primary rules ordained by the re- . publican county committee. Som— _The shades of John Bright and Rich- ard Cobden must be having a very un- quiet time of it, if the talk of the work- a<day world percolates into the celestial cabinet room. e Str Thomas Lipton declares he is not n the race for the vacancy in the posi- tion of British ambassador to the United States. "That is a race 'in which he might win out if he would only go in for 1t If ho were just an ordinary gambler instead of one who disguises his profes- slon, & man whose imagination could produce such a fine ussassination story would be suspected merely of hitting the pipe. e————————— ‘The question puzzling the politiclans in New York is whether a candidate for office can be really nonpartisan if he ac- €epts a place on the Tammany ticket and on the anti-Tammany ticket at one and the same time, s> " Omaha could unquestionably have bet- ter lighted streets at smaller outlay with & municipal lMghting plant than under contract with private corporations. As long as it continues to deal with the private lighting corporations it must ex- peet to be charged all the traffie will © bear, 2 S ————— Massachusetts democrats managed to . condemn in their platform about every- /“Il' and everybody on the calendar, | even going so far as to set up a few W men into the bargain to make a ‘ eap political l.'wul against the N g could illlustrate real dasuos to Bght on, 18 THE TRUST ERA ENDEDY This s a question which cannot be definitely answered and yet conditions at present appear to justify the opinion that the era of the formation of great industria™, combinations, commonly designated as trusts, has passed and that we are not likely to witness a’ re- newal of this process for a very long time, perhaps net within a generation. We recently noted the fact that forty- five corporations orgarized under the laws of New Jersey had gone into the hands of recelvers, the aggregate capital of these corporations amounting to many millions of dollars, while their as- sets were comparatively small, In the case of some of them practically noth- ing. The great fall that has taken place In the market price of industrial securi- ties bears evidence to the public dis- trust and gives assurance that it would not be possible at this time to float the bonds of any combination, however fa- vorable its promises might be. Remarking upon the stock situation the New York Evening Post says that the most obvious conclusion to be drawn from it is that the “syndicate plan,” as concelved in the theories of 1001, has broken down completely. This is notably illustrated in the extraordinary decline of British consols, due to the fact that the $600,000,000 new consols damuses. We have had injunctions and counter injunctions in the interest of paving contractors that have prevented the city from repairing its streets. We have had injunctions to restrain the designation of an official paper. We have had injunctions to restrain the pay- ment of wages to city employes. In fact, injunctions to restrain everything and everybody so that the government of the city is now in the court house and not in the city hall. Very naturally Mayor Moores anticl- pated another restraining order and an interminable legal contention in the courts over the publie lighting. That he was correct in his anticipations was shown by the fget that almost at the opening of the city hall doors the day following the passage of the gas con- tract resolution a restraining order, pro- cured by an employe of the electric lighting company, was served upon the mayor, not in the interest of the city or gas consumers, but in the interest of a corporation that has exerted all its in- fluence and power to secure a monopoly of public lighting. The only way to prevent a recurrence of the periodic railroading of public lighting contracts is through municipal ownership. When the city does its own lighting there will be no need for schem- ing and counter scheming by public lighting companies. issued in the past three years were for the most part placed with banking syndicates. The great combinations in this country have been promoted largely upon this plan, though not precisely in the same way, yet the results are show- Ing that the effect is similar. There has been in both cases an overestimate of the ability of the public to take bonds and securities and the necessary conse- quence is liquidation and a decline in market values. Can it be safely assumed from the existing conditions, that the trust ques- tions is In a falr way to settle itself? That is the view of some sagacious financlers and there would certainly seem to'be good ground for it. There is no doubt that the investing public has becomey distrustful of trust securities and does not want them, even at the present low range of market prices, and it is altogether probable that this feel- ing will long prevail. It is this which glves warrant for the view that the end of the era of trust organization has. been reached and that the syndicate plan has broken down. LOW AND M'CLELLAN. The battle for the mayoralty of New York City will be between Seth Low, the present mayor, and George B. Mec- Clellan, now a representative in con- gress. So strangely mixed is the politi- cal situation there that no confident pre- diction can be made at this time as to the result, but the probabilities seem to be favorable to the re-electlon of Mr, Low, who has given the city a good administration and should be able to rally to his support all those who voted for him two years ago in order to rescue New York from the corrupt control of Tammany. It has been impossible, of course, for Mayor Low to satisfy every- body, but the record he has made is in the highest degree creditable, and con- ditions in New York today, as compared with those during the Tammany regime, ought to insure an overwhelming suc- cess for the fusion ticket, or at any rate for the head of it. George B. McClellan is largely indebted for his political preferment to the fact that he is the son of General McClellan, As a representative in congress he has not shown any remarkable adbllity and he is by no means to be classed as a democratic leader. Indeed he has mani- fested no quality of leadership thus far, but it is possible that lie may do so as the democratie candidate for mayor of New York. That he will be in full affiliation with Tammany s to be re- garded as a foregone “conclusion. The New York City eampaign is cer- tain to command the attention of the entire country and all the indications are that it will be full of interest from start to finish. E— THE MAYOR AND THE GAS CONTRACT, Mayor Moores' approval of the resolu- tion extending the contract of the gas company to the end of 1005, when the electric light contract also expires, s de- nounced by the junior afternoon sheet as a flagrant disregard of the rights and interests of the taxpayers to pay a po- litical debt alleged to have been con- tracted at the last spring’s election. We are told that $30 per year per lamp is double the price paid for like service in other cities, which, it true, would make a net overcharge of $10,000 & year or $20,000. for the two years' extensivn. As a matter of fact, the average charge per'lamp in forty American cities sup- plied with gas by private corporations is $27.50 per year per lamp supplied ‘with Welsbach burners, ‘and not $15 a year, and the excess at that rate would, therefore, amount to $5,000 in two years, providing that the cost of fuel and labor in Omaha were the same as in the prin- cipal cities of the country. If the cost of labor is 8 to 10 per eent higher in Omabha than in cities east or south of — MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TARIFF. Referring to a recent editorial in this paper, in which it was urged that in view of tariff conditions abroad it is im- portant to carefully consider whether it would he the part of wisdom to make any great departure from our tariff policy, the Philadelphia Press suggests that the safe course would be to follow the other countries and adopt maximum and minimum rates. “When that is done,” says that paper, “France, buying annu- ally from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 less of this country than it sells to it, would cease very quickly to impose its unjust maximum rates on American products. But if it continued the maximum rates the American law would cut off its wines, silks and other things, which arti- cles would then come from countries having the lower rates in this country und which gave the United States simi- lar rates in return. To reduce the tariff without some method of self-protection in that way would evidently not be ex- pedient.” The suggestion of adopting the Eu- ropean plan of maximum and minimum rates is not new, but it has never met with much favor in' this country, al- though there is a great deal to be said in support of it. It is certaiuly an en- tirely practicable plan, as its operation abroad conclusively shows, and there does not appear to be any sound reason why it should not be adopted by the United States and operate to advantage. It 18 quite possible that in the future conu'ldernllnn of the tariff the plan of maximum and minimum rates will re- ceive more attention than has yet been given it. PLAYING CUTTLEFISH. ‘Whenever the searchlight of publicity is turned on a public official who has farmed out public funds for private gain or pocketed money he is required to pay over into the public treasury he almost invariably tries to becloud the issue by playing cuttlefish. This 18 precisely the role Judge Vinsonhaler has assumed to meet the grave charges that stare him in the face. In defense of his failure to pay over into the county treasury uncollected wit- ness fees and other. fees held by him in excess of the disbursements made to pay his own salary and the salaries of his clerks, Judge Vinsonhaler declares that the accusations against him are inspired by malice and disappointment. In sup- port of this allegation' he declares that he at one time refused to grant a con- tinuance in an ejectment case against Julius Cooley, asked for by Edward Rosewater, and at another time had de- clined to approve a loan of funds in the ‘hands of an administrator on stock and ‘life insurance collateral offered by Ed- ward Rosewater. How would such a defense be received in a court of justice? Would it vindi- cate Judge Vinsonhaler in the eyes of an impartial jury from the undisputed charge that he has failed to report and pay into the county treasury uncollected witness fees paid him by his predeces- sor, and uncalled for witness fees col- lected by himself within the last three and one-half years? How would it explain away his re- fusal to take the public into his confi- dence concerning the deposit of large sums of money held by him in trust for owners of real estate whose property was taken by railroads in condemnation process, and funds held by him for va- tious estates in process of probate? Take for example the single item of $15,104 awarded to S8arah N. Stanwood for land condemned by the Unlon Pacific rail- road, which was placed in his hands by his predecessor, Judge Baxter, and has been held by him for three years and elght months. The only information Judge Vinsonhaler has so far conde- the Missourl river the $30 per lamp charge would not be flagrantly excessive. The assertion that a Cleveland gaso- line company would have given Omaha cheaper light if it had been allowed to bid is a mere surmise, The same com- pany, if we are correctly informed, en- tered Into a contract with the city of Lincoln only two weeks ago for a service pructically the same as that furnished in Omaha by the Omaha Gas company at an annual rate of $41 per lamp for a minimum of 800 lamps, which is more than 30 per cent higher than the prices pald under the extended contract. Under ordinary circumstances, the mayor would for all that be justly cen- surable for being too hasty in approving the contract, but conditions are not nor- mal in Omaba. It is a matter of no- scended to give concerning this money 1s that it is deposited in some bank to his credit as county judge without in- terest. Does any intelligent person fa- miliar with the methods pursued by cus- todians of public funds belleve for a moment that the banks do not in some way credit back at least 2 per cent on these deposits? And this is only one of the items that have been uncovered by The Bee In its recent investigation of the records of the county judge. With a good deal of bravado Judge Vinsonhaler declares that those who are familiar with the work of his office know that the books are open at all times for inspection by those having business with the office, but he does not tell that the people who have business with the office are chiefly bridal couples, administrators of estates and lawyers representing liti- toriety that the mayor and council have | gants in eivil suits, Those people never dearth of the democracy for | been hampered at every step with re- straining orders, injunctions aud wan- trouble Judge Vinsonbaler with a re- quest for an luspection of his books. Why should not all the books in his office be open to the public, and espe- clally to representatives of the press? If these books are correctly kept, why should there be any mystery about the funds entrusted in the judge's keeping? Is not the assurance that he will need a few days to be able to make a statement for publicity concerning the funds in his keeping proof positive that his books are not in order? If the judge hfs kept the moneys be- longing to the county and the moneys belonging to litigants and estates sep- arate from his own money, as the law requires, why could he not tell in ten minutes how much money he has on de- posit and how much he has in his cash drawer belonging to the county? Why did he not take the public into his con- fidence at least once every six months, or once every year, or once every two years? Does anybody belleve he would have done so now had it not been for the disclosures made by The Bee? Keep it before the people that Judge Barnes, the republican candidate for su- preme judge, was twice appointed su- preme court commissioner by unanimous vote of the present judges of the court, in which Judge Sullivan, the opposing fusion candidate, concurred. If he did not possess all the requisite qualifica- tions for the judicial position to which he aspires, would Judge Sullivan have Joined in making him a supreme court commissioner, not once, but twice? If faithful and conscientious service as a member of the supreme court commis- sion deserves promotion, Judge Barnes is entitled to election. —————— rough the Motion Baltimore American. Those Iowa republicans, with an assured majority of something less than a hundred thousand, actually belleve they are having a campalgn Knew When to Let Go, Cineinnati Enquirer. The present rapid decline in some of the big stocks was no doubt expected by the original promoters, but we do not see them now going about the streets in tears. They probably took care of themselves long a Epoch in Irish History. 8an Francisco Call. The first of land, a great part of the domain of the duke of Leinster, has been made under the Irish land act. This cer- tainly should mark the beginning of an era which in Irish history should be the bes one that will signal for many generations a reign of good feeling, good will and happi- ness for a race that has suffered much. Securities of Two Nations. Cleveland Leader. About the weakest spot in the London stock market has been the bonds of the British government. Nothing of that sort has taken place in New York. The bonds of the United States have been conspicuously free from the general fall in prices, in .the last few months. If government securities were as weak in this country as they have been fn England there would be far more anxiety and nervousness in Wall street, and the outlook would be much less favorable than it Is now. It Is not strange that Lon- don specylative circles have been enveloped in a fog of gloom. Desertions from the Army. « Philadelphia Press. The number of deserters from the army continues to be large. General MacArthur reports 1,344, or more than 20 per cent of the enlisted strength of the Department of California, during the last fiscal year. He cannot give any reason, as the men are better fed, better pald and better treated than those in any other army. But the opportunities for profitable employment are better in this country than in any other, and many of those who enlist get tired of army.life and the chance of successful escape leads them to desert. It is an unfortunate condition of things, and it all is as represented in the army, the only solution of the trouble is to increase the pay of the men. Gospel of Good Clothes. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Tailors seem content to remain supine and permit the dressmakers to hold all the dress conventions, but {t will in time be made elear that in order to induce peo- ple to dress well and to make a broad breach in the multitudinous army of shabbiness there will need to be exhibitions of dressing. Contempt of good clothes fs a weakness which it is to the taflors’ in- terest to overthrow. No falser sentiment ever was disseminated than “Don’t judge a man by his clothes.” Carelessness of clothes i3 carelessness of character. Shab- Piness goes with dirt, and dirt goes with shiftlessness, and shiftlessness goes with a weak intellect, and then you begin to t close to crime. A clean collar is an ald to Integrity, and a new suit of clothes insures happiness for twenty-four hours, Twenty-four hours of happiness is not to be looked on with contempt in this mel- ancholy world THE UPWARD STRUGGLE, Strife of Capital and La to Better Conditions. Minneapolis Journal. Selfishness against selfishness, more for me, less for you—that is what all these strikes and industrial quarrels look like near at hand—nothing but a fight of the hogs for control of the trough. Each side is sure that the other is brutal, hoggish and unthinking. You are trying to run my business, eays the employer to the rebel- lious employe. You are a grinding capital- ist, says the employe to the employer. And they go on with the war, for that is what a strike or lockout is, and the time often comes when one or the other has to capitulate and take what it can get. And after the battle is won or lost there are months or years of bitterness, humiliation, hatred and then another figh Neither side knows nor can tell all the truth. Rellable history was never written by a soldler In the heat of a campalign. Fifty years after comes this historian, u born when the war was fought, and knows more about it than the men who were there, What will the historian of fifty years hence gay of the battles that are being fought all around us today, these battles for the products of industry? Why, he will say that they were all mere incidents and episodes in the work- ing out of a tremendous industrial prob- lem, precipitated by the diffusion of educa~ tion and enlightenment and the incessant pressure of those below, climbing up on those above, fearful of losing their places. We who are In the struggle or following the camps can't see much more than the fighters but we may rest assured that this fighting s leading somewhere and will evolve something. Man does not mold his destiny out of clay; rather he knocks it out of the hard granite.* Confiict Is pro- gress. The old order never gives place to the new without a battle. Somehow in this chaos and this struggle of class agalnst class & new order is belng worked out. Leading POLITICAL DRIFT, Governor Van Bant of Minnesota an- nounces that he is not a candidate for United States senator to succeed Senator Clapp. Former Senator Wolcott Insists on har- mony among Colorado republicans. Con- siderable physical exertion was necessary to banish discord, Political affairs in Hawall are taking on the real Amerfcan tone. A grand jury is in- vestigating charges of crooked work by members of the territorial legislature. Former Governor Hogg declared in a public address that there is corruption in Texas. This, too, In a state wherein the party of “plain people” has 100,000 ma- Jority. In one of the congressional districts in New York the campaign seéems to hinge on a question of socks. Thought this issue was fought to a fraszle a few years ago in Kansas, The city hall of Chicago, filled with ex- emplars of the plaln people, is sald by Mayor Harrison to be “full of graft.”" Mr. Harrison is competent to give expert testi- mony on Chicago graft. The Alabama legislature has passed a two-edged law which will not please either unfair employers or unfair employes. Both boycotting and blacklisting are made tatutory offenses for which suitable pun- ishments are provided. Washington - dispatches assert that the republican national convention will go to Chicago instead of St. Louls. It is also an- nounced that the convention will be held THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure not later than the middle of May. Both statements depend on the action of the na- tional committee, which meéts some time in December. The constitution of Tennessee provides that, whereas ministers of the gospel are by their profession dedicated to God and the care of souls and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions, therefore no minister of the gospel or priest of any denomination whatever shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the legislature, James M. Cameron, son-in-law of ex-Sen- ator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania, has gone into politics in Harrisburg and will do what he can to smash the machine which at present dominates the republican party in Dauphin county. Mr. Cameron is 3% years old and until now has persistently | kept aloof from politics. He Is a business | man of considerable means. The statement ls published in the per- sonal organ of Congressman Crumpacker of Indiana that President Roosevelt has dele- gated the representative from the Tenth district to ascertain whether Senator Fair- banks would accept second place on the national ticket. It is sald that President Roosevelt belleves it would be good policy to select a vice presidental candidate from Indiana. In Brooklyn, famed as the “City of Churches,” there was held a republican convention, the other day, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for district at- torney. The apostle of the Sunset Vest, | Timothy C. Woodruff, umpired the affair. The elate candidate was defeated and the man nominated was carried out of the hall unconscious. Mr. Woodruft lost a few sec- tions of his coat and had a beautiful aurora vest sadly mussed. An eminent lawyer of Boston, desirous of a seat on the superfor court bench, was tendered the coveted place by the gov- ernor. Then the prospective judge broke the joyful news to his wife, intimating that the dutles of the circuit would take him away from home the better part of ten months each year. “What have I a husband for?" asked the wife. The judge wrestled with the question for several days and decided in favor of his wife. The commission was returned. SMASHING WORLD'S RECORDS. Spirit of Progress Manifested in Feats of Speed. Saturday Evening Post. In a year of extraordinary interest noth- ing has better shown tho spirit of progress than the feats of speed. Jules Verne taxed credulity when he took his hero around the earth in elghty Jays. Henry Frederick of New York recently completed the circle of the globe in fifty- four days, seven hours and twenty min- utes, beating by two hours an Oregon Jour- nalist who declared that he would have made the trip In six days less it he hhd not missed an important connection in the far east. Bo, practically, we are nearing a fifty-day record for a trip around the mundane circumference. Fo: generations there have been dreams of & horse that would trot a mile In two minutes, Bvery second toward that goal has become more or less of a national event and the animal which reduced the record has enjoyed a fame which a statesman might envy. This year the long-expected really happened when Lou Dillon trotted a mile In two minutes flat—Lou Dillon, & horse which a few years ago could not find a sale at 3160, but whosc owner now scorns an offer of $0,000. Truly, from tha humble the heroes come! Germany has snatched the Atlantic rec- ord from Great Britain and there is new life and excitement in British shipyards. Our own Kearsarge by a splendld dash across the Atlantte mnade the best per- formance in the history of battleships. The automobile has beaten a mile a minute and is now striving for 100 miles per hour. Everywhere and among all classes the ef- fort is for speed, speed, speed—and yet more speed. ‘We find in the recent yacht races a re- markably pertinent illustration of the use of sclence and skill in the utilization of every fact and circumstance that will se- cure greater velocity. In seventeeh years of yacht racing the cup boat has been de- creased 2 per cent, while at the same time its sall-carrying ability has been increased 76 per cent. This was the most extraordi- nary fact about the wonderful Rellance, and the effect of it was seen In the almost incredible performance of a boat salling in a ten-mile breeze and making practically ten miles an hour; in other words, actually going as fast as the wind itself. It 1s an old story about splitting the hours Into minutes. We fre splitting the minutes into seconds. And the fractions of seconds already familiar in the records of speed have passed from halves and quarters to elghths and tenths, and nobody knows where it will end. - THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE PRESIDENT AND THE OPEN SHOP. Chicago Chronicle: To the president as well as to the strike commission is du credit for enunclating and practically up- holding the just and righteous laws of the land, not only because it is his sworn duty, but because “elementary decency” demands it of him. Philadelphia Record: The conclusion has at last been reached that the government printing office shall be an “open shop.” It would be a sad business if & printer should be excluded from working for the govern- ment for want of membership in the union. Yet that is the manifest aim of the union in the government printing office, Chicago News: That the essential justice and propriety of the president's position will be recognized, not only by trades union- ists, but by all other persons, is to be confidently belleved. Citizens of all classes and conditions must recognize that in the constant and impartial enforcement of the law of the Jand lies the surest guaranty of protection for their own rights, Indianapolis News: As long as we have & country in which every man is as good as every other man, with equal rights before the law, Including the “unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happl- ness,” so long the program announced by those labor organizations that have made this Miller demand is subversive of funda- mental Americanism and constituent of class government. To push this program may put the president in a new light be- fore the country, as defender of the com- mon liberties, and win him adherents “for the enemles he has made.” Philadelphia Ledger: There is no intelli- gent, patriotic citizen in the country who does not know the president was wholly right in respect of the Miller incident, and that he could have acted otherwise only in disregard of his own sworn declaration as president to uphold the law. If he of- fended any by so doing, they were only such as would condemn any loyalty to plain duty. It {s not probable that among intelligent, fair-minded American workmen there are many who will condemn the presis dent for fidelity to his official trust, espe- clally at a time when such fidelity in others is rarer than it should be. St. Louls Globe-Democrat: This Is plain, sane, patriotic talk. The wayfaring man, though a fool, will have no excuse if he makes any mistake about it. The president reinstated Miller because he belleved he had been unjustly turned out. In putting him back he stated clearly that the laws of the land make no distinctions between unfon and nonunion men in the government employ. A person may join or refuse to Join a union without altering his status as a government servant in jhe slightest de- gree. The president has no more right to | discriminate against & man because he does not belong to & labor union than he has on ' account of the color of his hair. The same is true of all other government ofclals. All this will be satisfactory to the vast majority of the members of the unions. It is certainly satisfactory to the masses of the American people labor | MOVING OF MOUNTAINS, Mexicans Show a Strenuous Pace in Industrial Pursuits, Philadelphia Record. The Mexicans have an exalted opinion of American business enterprise, and it is their ambition to achieve the hustling habits and boundless daring of thelr northern | neighbors. 1t was this which led native | capitalists to subscribe to a $10,000,000 fund for the first extensive Mexican steel plant, to be managed by an American, and which is now in full operation. It was easy for a practical joker to convince the ignorant among the Mexicans that the purpose of the Americans who have recently bought the volcanic mountain Popocatepetl is not to mine for sulphur, but that they intend to transport it in all its 18,000 feet of alti- | tude to the St. Louls World's fair. That a Yankee company took the great brick tobacco warehouse known as Libby prison from Richmond to Chicago is well known; that John Brown's fort, a brick bullding at Harper's Ferry, was curried to the same northern city for exhibition purposes hardly caused surprise, and there are Egyptian monoliths, old London houses, Pompelian ruins and other like things on show in this country. There has been talk of bringing over Shakespeare’'s house, of “toting” Ply~ mouth Rock from place to place, and of achleving some vastly more difficult trans- portation feats calculated to inspire Mexi- cans with confidence in the resources of Americun showmen. It was Inconsiderate of nature to place all voleanic mountains of great helght ro far away from the populous sections of this country that was to be. KEven when she placed within the future boundaries of the United States such marveis as the Yellowstone region offers they were still It is not surprising, therefore, that the simple and credulous Mexicans should think Popocatepet! (the peculiar spelling of which has made Its name known to people who have no accurate geographical knowledge) would be a stupendous attraction at the World's fair, with ascent by a captive airship or some new rallway contrivance. At the rate at which such enterprises as the transportation of enormous structures is growing, In the carly future the world may look on the transfer of a mountain as within the boundaries of the practicable, | Much as art can do for u great industrial exposition, it can ofter nothing which could rival in interest a real mountain. Away With the Dollar, New York Sun, “The democratic party,” says Mr. Bryan, “must either be going toward plutocracy or away from it." The man must be ele- vated above the dollar. 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