Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1903, Page 14

THE E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. OMAHA DAlp{ BEE._ PUBLISHED TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ally Bee (without Sunday), Qne Year.$4.00 y Boe and Sunday Year...... 8.00 lustrated Bee, One Year . . b day Bes, One Year o vesss DAY turday Bee, One Year... . ) ntieth Century Farmer, One Year. 1.0 DELIVERED Y CARRIER. y Bee (without Sunda; ly Bee (without Sunday), per wel ly Bee (Including Sunday), per week. 0, POF CODY oviiis ive.sss & Bee (without Sunday), per Gucluding Sunday), per o i of irreguiarities in deiivery addressed to City Ciroulation De- OFFICES aha—The Bee Bullding. uth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Arth and M streets. Gouncil Bluftslo Pearl atrest. fcago—it0 Unity Bullding, ork—2328 Park Row Bulldl ‘ashington—601 Fourteenth Stree! CORRESPONDENCE. i Communications relating to news and edi- matter should be addressed: Omaha Bditorial Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by dratt, express of postal order ble to The ublishing Company. 3-cent stamps accepted in payment of Sl i Ve e M or eastern exchi o8, NOt Al B BEE rumlfllfia couluxgt STATEMENT OF cmcux.A'l;loi of Nebrasks, Douglas County, 8s.. B Taachuck, secretary of The Bes ng. t of The Dally Morning, ng and Sunday Bee prirted durl month of -h.n{m. u& ‘was as fol- 1 QATE, Notary Pubilo. International arbitration scems to bave gained several laps on industrial arbitration. } Ss———— It you have not already registered don't fail to do so next Baturday. It will be your last chance. eme——— Xelser declares he 18 running for dis- trict judge against any and all candi- dates who stand in his way. Clear the track for Yelser! f———— The canine {nhabitants of the country will doubtless bark a liberal applause to the Chicago sausage makers, who have voted to go on a strike. e 010 —— Coming events cast their shadows be- fore. That explains why democratic eampaign managers in these parts are depressed by gloomy forebodings, s — Prices of farm products and farm ani- mals may go up and down, but the old exploded story about silver and wheat being linked together cannot be re- vamped. A — The last congress, the last legislature and the last city council are always the worst we have ever had, while the last state, county and city tickets are always the best. o ——— Charles M., Schwab may be entitled to ecredit for the whole job in the Ship- bullding trust deal, but the results show that he has more discredit than credit coming to him. Don't forget that Judge Barnes was twice appointed to the supreme court commission by unanimous vote of the three sitting judges of the supreme court. He must be a pretty good man after all. Emm———— Omaha ia the natural market place for the grain that is grown in Nebraska and immediately adjoining states. The grain market can be established and built up it our enterprising people will only go after it right and stay by it. CEr—— For once Tammany was wise in its day when it refused to nominate Lewlis Nixon as its mayorality candidate in the New York municipal campaign. It must have scented the wind of the bursting shipbuildiag combine. Alphabetically Bingham will preceds Broadwell on the official ballot, and mathematically he should be ahead of bim by from twelve to fifteen hundred when the Douglas counfy returns have been canvassed and summed up. e Business conditions throughout the ‘west are. pronounced by all competent observers to be thoroughly healthy and unaffected to any extent by shakiness in eastern money centers. The back- bone’ of the country is all right. —_—— The outgoing member of the county board was elected as a republican, and if & republican 18 not chosen to succeed him the board of five members will be wade up after January next of four dem- ocrats and only one republican, That would hardly be a safe proposition for Douglas county taxpayers. em————— The other Chicago-Omaha llnes have discovered that the Chicago Great West- ern has shaded the graln rate and are considering whot actlon they must take te ‘mest the sithtion. Information on this bubject should by _this time have reached the local papers that tried to discredit The Bee's announcement of the cut. . o—— 1 Colonel Bryan says he has made no recommendation as between the two leading candidates for the dewmecratic gubernatorial nomination In Missourl because both of them supported the Kansas City platform. If both of them DUTY OF NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS. Nebraska is a republican state and Omaha a republican eity. While party lines cannot be so tightly drawn in an off year us in a presidential campaign year the outeome of this year's election cannot fail to have potential bearing upon the position of Nebraska in the struggle for party supremacy that will take place in 1904, No state in the union has enjoyed re- publican prosperity in a greater degree and In no section of the country is the contrast between lean years and fat years more marked than it is in the state that flaunted the banner of calamity to the world toward the close of the last national democratic administration. The strenuous effort belng made by the ban- ner republican state of Towa not only to hold but to increase its republican ma- Jjority during the present year affords tangible proof that the party leaders of Towa realize and recognize the potential efforts of republican majorities in the national councils The stimulant of Iowa's example should Inspire Nebraska republicans not only to emulate but to excel their neigh- boring state in rolling up once more the old-time Nebraska majority. There is every prospect now that the most san- guine hopes of the party leaders will be realized not only in the state at large but in this judicial district and in Doug- las county. With the rank and file of the party lined up in support of thelr standard bearers—state, judicial and loeal—the election of the republican ticket by decisive majorities is virtually an accomplished fact, and with Douglas county heading the republican column a larger majority in the state may be looked for than has been cast in any year since 1800, S————— AN ENEMY OF PROGRESS. This is the characterization that is given to Russia by some writers and there appears to be substantial warrant for it. Recent events in the course of the Russian government have made quite evident the fact that the whole policy of that nation is one of abso- lutely sordid and mercenary motives, in which there is not the least intention to recognize, beyond what is impera- tively necessary, the rights and interests of any other power, The whole Russlan scheme in the far east, as it has thus far been developed, is that of aggrandizement by every process that greed suggests or diplo- macy can effect. The evidence at hand is that Russia has from the very begin- ning been playing a game of duplicity and subterfuge and that she has de- stroyed every claim which she may have had to the respect and confidence of the nations to which she has given as- surances, Washington dispatches say 'that our government still believes that the promises of Russia to the United Btates, in regard to the open door in Manchuria, will be observed. It is dif- ficult to see upon what ground this faith 18 based. Nothing that Russia has done can be reasonably regarded as implying a disposition on the part of that power to show any speclal consideration to the United States. On the contrary the fair supposition is that the purpose of Russia, so far as Marchurla 1s con- cerned, 18 to ultimately control the en- tire trade of that reglon, regardless of any treaty rights which this country has there. It is manifestly the Russian idea that Manchuria, the richest and the most promising of Chinese provinces, is for Russia and that in the course of time— a pot very remote time either—every other country will be shut out of that region. Subh being clearly the case, the question arises as to what the United States should do in order to maintain its rights and interests in that quarter of the world. It is a very serl- ous question, which is sald to be receiv- ing most careful consideration at Wash- ington. That the present attitude of Russia is one of hostility to human progress can easlly be demonstrated, but what power or powers shall undertake to say to her that she must change her posi- tion? Can the United States, as some are urging, assume the responsibility of doing so? There is no question that from a commercial point of view this country has a large stake in China and that we cannot afford to lose it, but how far can we expediently go in in- sisting upon the recognition of ounr rights and interests there? The ques- tion is one of commanding importance and must recelve the earnest attention of our government. DELIMITATION OF TAE BOUNDARY. The decislon of the Alaskan bound- ary commission, which defines the meaning of the treaty of 1825 between Russia and Great Britain, under which this country purchased Alaska, clears the way for the delimitation of the boundary in place, remarks the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and this should be done without any further delay. That paper says that the commission has merely settled the manner of proceeding to establish the boundary and that the actual work of surveying and marking it remains to be done. This, it urges, should be done as promptly as possible, to the end that all possibilities of frie- tion along the border may be completely eliminated. “For example,” it is pointed out, “at the head of Lynn canal the situ- ation is one which requires the prompt- eost action. There, merely for conveni- ence and to avold the certainty of a conflict of jurisdiction, a temporary boundary line was accepted between Canada and the United States, with all rights reserved to both sides. The boundary line so established is far within the limits of what is found by the bhoundary commission to be Amer- lean territory. Canadian customs offi- cluls are established on American ter- ritory and Canadian mounted police are enforcing Canadian mining laws in dis- tricts which belong to the United States." - Of course this is & condition of affairs THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, which cannot be permitted to long con- tinue and it is eafe to say that the Washington authorities will take such early action as shall be found practl- cable to fix permanently the boundary over which there has been so much controversy. The Canadian resentment regarding the declsion of the boundary commission is unfortunate, but it is absolutely without justification and will not, it 18 presumed, have the least in- fluence upon the authorities at Washing- | ton. So far as English sentiment is concerned, judging from the expressions of the leading London papers, the de- cision of the boundary commission {is regarded as entirely sound and just, so that the feeling manifested in Canada need not be seriously considered. Ob- viously the duty of our government is to proceed at once, or as soon as it can conveniently do so, to make a survey which will establish unmistakably the delimitation of the boundary and thus remove all danger of frictlon or future difficulty. It is to be presumed that the authorities are fully alive to this obli- gation and will not neglect it. In the highly responsible position of county treasurer for Douglas county, upon whom devolves the handling of hundreds of thousands of dollars of pub- lic money, the taxpaying citizens will prefer experience over Inexperience. That is why they will vote for the re- publican candidate, Robert O. Fink; in preference to the democratic candidate, young Mr. Bauman, e e President Roosevelt will of course be pleased to have the advice of the Manila business community as to whom he should name as the successor of Gov- ernor Taft, but he wiil also remember that the responsibility for the appolnt- ment rests upon him. Judge Sullivan pledged himself and his partisans to a clean campaign, but the viliication circulars concocted against Judge Barnes In the interest of Judge Sullivan are already out. But then what else was to bave been ex- pected? . In the political chariot race that will come off the first Tuesday in November the republican judicial and county tick- ets are sure to run a good many laps ahead of the patched quilt ticket that is ornamented with the democratic label. SE——— Joseph Chamberlain evidently got out of the British Colonial office just far enough ahead of the Alaskan arbi- tration award to save his popularity with the Canadian provinclals. e Seeing Promotes Courage. Washington Post. Mr. Charles Emory Smith has just re- turned from Iowa, where he looked the Iowa Idea squarely in the eye and de- livered an address on the subject, “Who's Afraja? Some Liberty Rema! “Baltimore American. It has taken the supreme court of the state of New York to decide that an in- tending voter cannot be arrested because he declines to tell election supervisors ‘whether or not he is married. This Is a free country, but the greatest liberty in it seems that taken with the individual free- dom of citizens. There's No Kick Coming. Philadelphia Press. The way in which the Canadians talk about ylelding some of thelr land to fhe United States is amusing. They have ob- tained two islands of value whioh they never before owned and they have not ylelded anything because there was noth- ing for them to yleld. They werg grab- bing for some thing that was never at any time in their possession nor in that of Great Britain. It was the most {m- pudent grab game the United Btates ever encountered. tion of Philadelphia Record. General Funston reports that it will be necessary to increase materially the pay of enlisted soldiers in order to get and retain desirable men. Of course, this situation 1s in part due to the unusual prosperity of the country and the present high level of wages. But the pay of the enlisted men, especially those who are intelligent enough to be noncommissioned officers—a very im- portant class—is not very tempting in any except the most depressed times. In twen- ty-five years a good deal has been done to improve the condition of the enlisted men, but they probably still need more attention from congress than they get. Get-Rich-Quick Schemen, Kansag City Star. As & matter of fact, the duke of Rox- burghe has some right to find fault with the newspaper reporters who waste time op anything so inconsequential as himself. As to his position that they meddle in his private affairs, that is not so well taken, eince all of the get-rich-quich schemes are regarded in this country as legitimdte ob- jects of newspaper treatment. Still, when it s remembered how touchy the English nobility are on the question of trade, it is scarcely surprising that Roxburghe feels sensitive about the prominence that the American press is giving to the bargaln he has made with the ald of his title. Positive Party Faith, Chicago Inter Ocean. Those who wonder at the faflure of so many Cook county republican candidates in the past to reach the governorship may here find the suggestion of & reason. The average Cook county aspirant seems to bave lost sight of the necessity of having a positive party faith which he is not afraid to profess openly. He clings still to the political methods of a past generation, when for a politiclan to avoid committing himself to anything in particular was re- garded as a sign of genius, Yet the people of Illinois as a whole, re- gardless of party, are against this kind of politics. They are not impressed with poli- ticlans who are always beating about in the brush, afraid to come out and say what they belleve for fear of offending some- body—of politiclans who try so hard to be all things to all men that they stand for nothing positive to any man. What the people of Ilinols seek is leaders who come out boldly and say: “Here 1 stand, This is my party creed. To this platform I welcome all who will stand upon it with me. Those who will not are my political enemies. First Day of Indian Summer. $t. Louis, Globe-Democrat. In thet gentle and ibdefinable shading off of summer Into autumn, when does Indian summer begin? Is It a genulne, autheritative Indian summer If no frost 1903. THE OLD RELIABLE P Absolutely fiure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE has preceded {t? Or must the woods light up thelr banners to herald its advent? An Indian summer that is not born of a few frosty nights may suddenly backslide and become a reversion to summer itself. We can reconcile no ideals of that perfect season and the casting off of coats. An Indian summer of hot days is no Indlan summer. It can not come scorching and sweltering as July, August and September, but velled in blue mists or gray, every day breaking in the same unvarying tints and tones and likewlse temperature of the one before it, as if nature had saved her best In the bottom of the basket and were handing out an unspotted one every morn- ing. Indlans summer may continue long after the last leat has fallen and gathered to its companions in the brown windrows. It is not perplexing to discover when Indian summer ends. It is swept out and washed away in a long, cold November rain, that stretches its warning streamers across the sky for days before it spreads its dripping wintry pall over the earth. But when does Inlian summer be- gin? i e— BOOMING OF THF WEST. Gigantic Wave of Genuine Prosperity Settled on the Imperial Doma ‘Washington Letter In Boston Transeript. The Washington correspondents who have recently returned from ‘‘the irrigation trip” through the west bring back glow- ing accounts of the prosperous conditions which prevail in that section. After mak- ing all due allowance for the ‘'booming" tendencies of the western people, one may feel sure that the present outlook s re- markably tright, and that the recent de- pression In the stock market has not re- flected real conditions in the heart of the republic. “It is doubtful if the people of the east,” sald one of the party today, “have any conception of what is going on west of the Mississippl. In a five ‘weeks' journey through Missourl, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Indian Ter- ritory I heard not one dissenting wvolce from the universal acclaim of prosperity. 1 talked with men in all walks in life from the tarm hand to the bank president. Trav- eling men said they could not get goods to thelr customers fast erough. Farmers eald crops were bountiful, and prices all that could be wished. Raliroad men said their only trouble was to handle the enor- mous volume of trafic. Manufacturers said their only difficulty was in getting the additions to their plants completed so they could catch up with their orders. The warehouse men had no more room in their elevators; the bankers had vaults filled with deposits and a ready demand for money; contractors and bullders had work in sight for a year ahead; even the cattle fu the flelds and the horses in the streets looked sleek. The mortgage on the farm has been pald off and the farmer has money to loan. Industrials are making money and raliroads are paying dividends. The earth has been prolific; buying, sell- ing, carrying, byilding, developing, all are going forward with a hum of industry that can almost be heard. Confidence is strong and faith in the future is firm. “Talk about Wall street makes the west- ern man laugh. A banker and a cattle shipper remarked that there was a time, not many years ago, when a situation like the present ona in New York would have shaken the industrial west to its founda~ tions. But now the values in which Wall street deals seem largely remote and apart trom the real business of the country. ‘Western activities and money are at home. Thelr business is real. Their crops are in sight. Thelr money !s in the bank &r in- vested In local industries, farms, cattle ranches, sugar foctories, irrigation reser- voirs and business blocks. These values do not shrink in a day and are not mat- ters of sentiment ot speculation, “Nothing short of a disastrous crop fail- ure can check the present prosperity. The farmer now is not in the conditfon of 1898, when he was carrylng a heavy mortgage, and had to borrow from month to month and year to year to harvest and move his crops. Today he Is intrenched behind a farm which is paid for, and a bank aecount which is ample, to say nothing of the wheat In his barns and the cattle in his flelds. The farmer s prepared to stand oft the wolf for a long siege, and so long as he is prosperous the rest of the country will do very well. It is the farm, and not ‘Wall street, which supports the country." been | POLITIOAL DRIFT. Tammany is getting it on all sides. Even Dowle thinks the town is affilcted with “stinkpots, beerpots and drugpots.” Boston's registration for the November election is closed. The total number of votes recorded is 109,814, a reduction of 1,678 from last year. “‘Greed, graft and grog” and “loot, lust and lawlessness” are a few af the artful alliterations applied to Tammahyism by the opposition vice president. During the present excit- ing local political campalgn in New York Bird 8. Coler, formerly city comptrolier, vice president. The senatorial eandidacy of Hon. Isador Rayner in Maryland is frowned upon by Senator Gorman., Rayner is independent, courageous and brainy. Senator Foraker thinks the republican majority in’ Ohto will be anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 General Grosvenor says the surplus of republican votes is too great to call for a prediction. Ex-Speaker David B. Henderson is out of politics for good. Bfforts have been made to get him on the stump in Towa, but the general turned them down. He says he is t0o busy to bother with politics. The prohibitionists of the First Hamp- shire county district of Massachusetts have nominated Mrs. Fanny J. Clary of Williamsburg for the state legislature. She was their candidate last year. Her husband is & farmer. It 1s charged that public service eorpora- tfons In New York are throwing all their influence in favor of Tammany, the bar- gain being that, in case of McClellan's suc- coss, city claims against them amounting to $25,000,000 shall be ebandoned. Senator Penrose, chairman of the Penn- sylvania republican state committee, strongly favors Pitisburg as the place for holding his party's next national conven- tlon. ~The city, he Fays is well able to care for the convention, and its business men are far more progressive than those of many other cities. Probably the most extensive “straw vote" attempted for the next presidential election is that of the Chicago Farm and Home, which has been taking a vote among its subscribers to ascertain their preference for president, ard the result was something of a surprise. Nearly all the republican read- ers were for Roosevelt, but the democratie vote stood thus: Cleveland, 12,883; Bryan, 4,921; Parker, 432; Johnson, 4265; HIl, 2133; Hearst, 1,M5; Gorman, 179, and scat- tering, 2,491 During the present exciting local political cempaign in New York Bird 8. Coler, formerly city comptroller, has persistently refused to be Interviewed regarding the situation and has had the same stereotyped reply to all reporters: “I am out of polities.” The newspaper men did not, of course, take this statement seriously. Finally one of them made a re- mark to Mr. Coler which caused that gen- tleman to cease insisting on elimination from the political field. When Mr. Coler met this scribe's request for information as to what was going on, with his usual reply, “I am out of politics,” the scribe replied: *“That's understood. Now tell us what progress you ar: making in your ef- forts to break in again.” Esterbroo stationers Accept no ¥Ysubstitute. The ESTERBROOK STEEL PEN CO. Works, Cumden, N. & 26 John Street, N. Y. NERVE FORCE Nerve force s saved when proper glasses are worn. The eyes control one-tenth part of the body's nerve supply, and when defects exist are a terrible drain upon the nervous system. 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