Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA * DAILY BEE. B, it s St Sl e E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. afly Bee (without Sunday), D D Bee and Sunday, One Bee, One DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. 26 Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week..12e Bee (Including Sunday), per week.17c unday Bee, per copy Lo B0 without Sunday). per week 6 (ncluding Sunday). per Comy irregularities very #hould be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Bulldll 1l ng. South Omaha—City Hal slllldlnl. Twen- ty-ifth and M streets. roe i Ty T g n 3 New York—2338 Plyrfi Rfl"&ulwlu. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. o odl Communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be“-'ddr-lod. Omahi Uee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by d express or postal order payable to The Publishing Company. onl{ 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of maifl accounts, Personal checks, except on OUmaha or eastern e: h‘nfi!fl. not Mmfl- THE BEE PUBIrIHl G COMP. it steomitmims i STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Oounty, w8 number ‘The o8 of Dally irening SoF Sunday Boo privied Sici 18... 1. BURSEREBEEEESE sales. ey BORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Last chance to register tomorrow. General Prosperity is the best cam- vaigner enlisted in the services of the republican party because he never stops working. S— If the Missourli Pacific should decide ‘o keep all its trains off the Belt line the receiver of the Belt line would have [ttle to receive. \ President Parry of the National Manu- faeturers’ assoclation 1s talking again. I'he manufacture of public sentiment seems to be his specialty. X This is the year when there are more disgruntled and ‘dissatisfled democrats in Omaha and Douglas county than there are dissatisfied republicans. Emp———— Every judicial distriet in Nebraska, MISSISSIPP! VALLSY PROTRCTION. The action of the convention at New Otleans, urging that the national gov- ernment should at once undertake the protection of the Mississipp! valley from floods, will undoubtedly be in due time brought to the attention of congress and should receive earnest consideration. When it is stated that the floods of last spring, by far the most disastrous in the history of the west, destroyed property approximating $40,000,000, the import- ance of the subject can be realized. The convention favored the construction of levees and while this is undoubtedly es- sential it is not all that is necessary for the protection required. In an article In the October number of the North American Réview, Senator Burton of Kansas makes a forcible ar- gument for the prevention of floods by storing the waters high up along the tributarjes of the streams that drain the continent, where the extended catchment areas collect the rainfall. He saye that there is the place where the most effect- ive measures may be taken to prevent flood destruction, for there the excess of water can be conserved and the flood itseif averted. ‘‘This does not mean that we should abandon our artificlal em- bankments along the lower Mississippi, nor that we should cease constructing levees. It may be necessary to go on with that work, for a time, until we have adopted-the better plan of getting control of the tributaries and head- waters, by means of dams, reservoirs and cut-offs, in the great catchment areas higher up.” 8enator Burton re- gards prevention of floods and irrigation as twin ideas, . which should be treated together. The lower country should be protected from overflows and the upper country shduld be given the water for irrigation’ and power. Mr. Burton concludes his article as fol- lows: “We have subjugated the Missis- sippl valley, developed enormously our agricultural, manufacturing and mining resources, but we have reached a point where there is no frontier. - The millions of acres of land now uncultivdted, if they are to be utilized, must be irrigated. Other millions of acres in the lowlands, if they are to be safe from destruction, must be protected from foods. If this solution be practicable, it promises greater good than any single form of de- velopment undertaken by us as a nation./ That it is practicable is belleved by the leading scientific engineers who 'have given the matter careful consideration. To harness the rainfall, thereby at once protecting the lowlands from desolating floods, utilizing the waters for the benefit of man and extending the farming area to meet the needs of an ever-growing popu- lation, forms a task worthy of the most earnest endeavor of our government.” Admitting the practicability of Senator Burton’s plan and not questioning that it would result {n great benefits, yet its adoption is not probable at least in the | near future, because of the great ex- pense involved and the fact that the pledge be gave to carry out the policy of his’ predecessor and his coursé in all respects has been strictly in line with republican principles, We belleve his nomination to be as certain as any future political event can be. Sel— THE COUNTY BOARD. With the possible exception of the newly created position of county asses- sor, the taxpayers of Douglas county are more vitally interested in the makeup of the Board of County Commissioners than they are in any other office to be filled at the coming election. The county board disburses more than half a million dollars of the taxpayers’ money every year. It is an open secret that for some years past, and especially since the board has been under demo- cratic control, thousands upoa thousands of dollars have been voted away and squandered on favored contractors and ple-biters who render no equivalent serv- ice for their pay. There ig a crying need for reform in every branch of the county government now under control of the board, but no radical change is to be hoped for until the board is reorganized on a business basis. The"first move in that direction must be taken by the election of M. J. Ken- nard, the republican candidate for com- missioner, who possesses not only the requisite business qualifications, but stands pledged to a thorough overhauling of the county payroll and -a general cleanup. While his opponent may have good business qualifications, his intimate relations to the present county board combine leave nothing to expect from him in the way of reform or retrench- yment. What the people of Douglas county want Is full publicity of all transactions that involve the expenditure of public ynoney. There should be an end to star- chamber sessions and the letting of con- tracts for public work without cowpeti- tion. This cannot be done by simply substituting one member of the combine with a man who stands in with the com- bine. We can make sure of breaking the combine only by the election of M. J. Kennard next Tuesday and following up his election by the election next year of another equally competent and- equally honest business man. Every little while the old state sov- ereignty spook bobs up in Dixie land as if it had not been buried forty years ago. Its latest zppearance at the Mis- Bissippl levee convention held in New Orleans during the present week was grotesque as well as ludicrous, The state soverelgnty extremists that repre- sented the lower Mississippi expressed great anxiety to secure an appropriation of many millions from the national gov- ernment for reconstructing and improv- ing the great waterway, but they did not propose to surrender their states rights to the national government in the expenditure of the money. In other words, they want the people of the whole '7ith posstbly ‘two exceptions, went re. | €overnment has already entered upon it | country taxed for improving the Missis- 1ublican last year and every one-of them | VASt work of irrigation that will re-|gippi river, but want the states traversed vught to go republican this year. o] o It is suggested that the legislature he alled to spttle the. copper war at o, Mopt. As if the people’ of Montana were not affiicted sufficiently now. EE—e—— Every good republican owes it to his party not only to register for election himself, but to see to it that every other rvpublléln of his acquaintance is duly reglstered. E———— The fusion reform organ must be hard up for campaign ammunition when it is reduced to the necessity of filling its columns with fake interviews with dis- tempered antls. b ’ emmm— Don’t delude yourself with the idea that because you registered last year It 18 not necessary to register again this time. Last year's registration is as dead as Noah's giraffe. E— Nebraska's national guardsmen man- nged to get through the ordeal of fire at Fort Riley without serious loss. It is no discredit io them that the cartridges used were all blanks. E— Omaha still retains second place among American pork packing citles with. an excess of more than 200,000 hogs packed since March 1 above Kansas City, which is third in the race, ———— The Canadians are still sore over the Alaskan boundary award and Great Britain does not know which Iiniment to apply, The soreness. however, will wear off by itself in the course of time. Judge Doane does not mince matters when fe refers to the patched-quilt Judicial ticket as a bogus nonpartisan ticket. Judge Doane knows the ring of a genuine coin frous the spurious coln made up of gulvanized brass, A court verdict down at Lincoln is belng attacked on an afidavit alleging that some of the jurors drank beer along with their meals. What would the de- < foated litigant have them drink when Salt creek whater Is so unpalatable? The forecast for Nebraskn dor Tues- day, November 3, is a shower of heav, republican galns In the castern half of Nebraska, with a republican clean sweep in the western half of the state and heavy frosts on fusion reform territory. There are still more than 10,000 voters In the city of Omaha and fully 2500 in South Omaba who have mot taken the trouble to register this fall It you de not register tomorrow you will lose your vote for Tuesday's elec- tion. a————— When holding river conventions de- wanding congressional appropriations for protection of the banks of the L’yl the resolution committee should remember that the Mississippl is ot the oy, quire an enormous expenditure. Doubt- Jess at some time in the fature the propo- sition urged by Mr. Burton will receive serious consideration and in the mean- while the levee system must be con- tinued and enlarged. The action of the convention at New Orleans will have the earnest support of the people of the Mis- slssippi valley. emme——— WHO ARE RIS OPPONENTS? The Washington correcpondent of the New York Evening Post says that ques- tions much discussed in the political clr- cles of the national capital are whether President Roosevelt's opponents can pre- vent his receiving the nomination next summer, or whether it is too late for any adverse combination to accomplish hiis overthrow. 'He states that the possi- bility of a sensational reversal of today's apparent program finds not a few sup- porters and observes that proponents of the theory that Mr. Roosevelt will yet fail of the nomination hold that no op- portunity will be given his opponents to show their hand until_this year's elec- tions are over. ‘Who are these dppoments of ‘the presi- dent? Where are they to be found? We know of no republican leader who is not in favor of the nomination of Mr. Roose- velt next summer, séme of the strongest among them having so publicly declared themselves. The correspondent says it is asserted that six men could get to- gether and decide that Roosevelt was not to be nominated and he would not be. Who are these leaders powerful enough to set aside the will of the masses of the republican party, who demand that | Theodore Roosevelt shall be nominated? | They cannot be named. They are not | among the recognized republican leaders. It is not uncommon to see the intimation that Senator Hanna I8 secretly hostile to the president. No greater injustice, {we think, could be dome him. Mr. Hanna has declared that be favors Mr. Roosevelt's nomination and during his political career he has never given any cuuse for doubting his candor and sincer ity. We believe the president Las no more earnest supporter for the nomina- tion than the Oblo senator. So far as known there is no republican leader in the eastern and mjiddle states who is an | opponent of Mr. Roosevelt and there cer- {(nluly is not one in the west. And every- where the president has the hearty and unqualified support of the rank and file of the party. This is the situation today and there seems no reason to doubt that it will un- dergo no change before the meeting of the republican national convention next year. 'The opposition to President Roose- velt on the part of certaln corporate in- terests may become more pronounced, but it bas done him no harm with the people and is not likely to. ‘Whatever republicans there may be who are i sympathy with this opposition, and of course there are some, are without welght or Influence in the party. Mr. by the Mississippi to boss the job and disburse the taxes.” —_— All democratic hopes of success in the Douglas county campaign appear to be centered upon South Omaha, but even if South Oméha should give its old-time democratic majority of five to six hun- dred ti.c prospects for democratic suc- cess are awfully slim, for it may be set down as a foregone conclusion = that Omaha will cast its old-time republican majority, which will overlap the South Omaha vote by two to one. Attorneys for an immigrant under or- ders for deportation as an anarchist have made a plea in court that anarchy is a religion and that the constitution forbids discrimination on account of religion. The next thing we know the champion of some clever criminal will be arguing that forgery is a religion and invoking the constitutional guaranty of free thought to keep the culprit out of the penitentiary. To get the grain shipped to Omaha the grain dealers will have to divide up the differential secured from the Chicago Great Western with the grain growers. When the farmers of neigh- boring territory share in the benefits they will appreciate the effort to make Omaha a grain exchange and bring them a home market at their very gates. e—— It is certainly a pretty how-de-do when a democratic war horse like Judge 'Donne has to go on the official ballot labeled a populist while the democratic ticket is loaded up with candidates who have always declared their uncompro- mising opposition to every principle and everybody belonging to the democratic party. — Word comes from Washington that President Roosevelt's Thanksgiving proclamation will be issued to the pub- lic by tomorrow and that he will desig- nate the last Thursday In November as the ' national day of thanksgiving. Strangely enough, the calendar makers ‘have anticipated the president’s action. If there is any way for Tammany to get the election of Greater New York by hook or crook it may be depended on to go the limit. The Tammany tricksters, however, will have to be smoother than usual to work their scheme successfully with the friends of Mayor Low warned and on their guard. eEr—————— The plans are about completed for the visit of the Russian czar to Emperor Willlam of Germany. The czar has thoughtfully spared his host a great deal of trouble by ignoring the example set by King Edward for royalty to travel tncog. s Tmpap—— Means to Reackh the Sea. Roosevelt has done nothing which honest | tnability of ouly river that is proue to over: |and loyal republicans can reasonably find " i i s e s o e Canada. National consent alone necessary and both rallroads are peace- makers. Ceol Spot to Rest In. Washington Post. It Becretary Root and Benators Lodge and Turner are looking for a place where they will not be disturbed by dinner in- vitations for a few weeks, we suggest that they visit Ottawa, Canada Completing the Collection. Chicago Tribune. The Alaska boundary decision gives Uncle Sam possession of Chilkoot, Skagway, Chileat, Dyea and several other equ: interesting places. He already Puyallup, Snohomish, Wallula, Yakima, Stellacoom, Issaquah, Chehalls, Whatcom and Conconully. ——— ting I1-Gotten Weal Minneapolis Journal. 4 The litigation over the remains of the Ship trust is affording a means of distrib- uting some steel trust wealth. The law- yers are the encles of distribution and their pockets the receptacle. Young man, ponder long before you decide whether to be a corporation or a corporation lawyer. Dintri] Imagine It if You Ci Indianapolts Journal. Imagine Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland or any lawyer with & high sense of professional honor drawing up & will be- queathing $50,00 to himself, having himself appointed one of the executors, and then writing a letter to the testator's widow, censuring her for trying to break the will! —_——— “Have Been Good to Him.” Kansas City Star. In no other state has the decline of popu- lism been so marked as in Nebraska. The popullsts: became strong enough in Ne- braska to do a lot of things in'a political wa although they never were numerous In Mr. Bryan's town, ward or precinct. But the head of the popullst movement does not need to worry If his followers are on the decline. They certainly have been good to him. They have honored him politically, they have paid thelr money to hear him leoture, they have bought his books and subscribed for his paper. He is well fixed, because he ald his harvesting before the clouds gathered. e —— Secrets of Trust Finance. Philadelphia Record. Ultimately the country will learn all the secrets of trust finance. Besides all the rich information developed in the hearing on the appointment of a permanent re- ceiver for the Shipbullding trust, the tem- porary receiver Is about to make a report which will disclose much of the early his- tory of the combination, and a foreclosure suit In California has already caused some highly interesting charges. Of course, this trust is worse than most of the others, or it would not have failed, but the system of forming and financing trusts is substan- tially the same for all, and the men who worked it early In the boom not only made fortunes, but they made great reputations as financiers. Good Time to Woe Canada. Chicago Tribune, Canada is feeling a bit put out with Great Britain because of the Alaska boundary case. For the moment the imperial ties are loose. Now is the time for Uncle Sam to catch the snow lady's heart on the rebound. By making himself indispensable at this particular moment he can do much to bring to a final consummation that mar- riage which all their friends say would be the best thing in the world for them both. In other words, ipt America offer Canada trade advantagesi'and let the offer ke made now. A close irade ‘riendship will event- ually lead to political union in the case of Canada and the United States. The time to make this alllance is now, for Joseph Chamberlain across the water is busily preaching the imperial-zollverein, and it Uncle Bam walts, too long he s apt to see Miss Canada turn her engagement with old John Bull into marriage. ——— RURAL MAIL CARRIERS, Some Reasons Why They Should Re- celve Better Pay. Detrolt Free Press. Tn asking for more pay the rural mall carriers have a cause that merits the se- rious consideration of congress. The car- riers now recelve 3600 a year, out of which they must provide a horse and wagon and care for the horse: Their routes vary from twenty to fifty miles, over roads that are usually bad and frequently worse. The work {s hard and exacting. In winter they are subjected to much exposure, and it would seem as & matter of justice that they deserved at least as good pay as the city carriers who encounter fewer hardships. The rural! delivery of mail has become one of the most successful experiments ever undertaken by the postal department. It has brought the farmer into dally touch with the world, and has destroyed the ele- ments of {solation that narrowed the lives of himself and his family despite the greatest resistance on their part. With the extension of the service there should be reasonable compensation for the carriers. They began thelr work as an experiment, and theif salary was fixed agbitrarily at a very low figure In comparison with the sal- arles pald in general in the government service. They are doing their work faith- fully and well, and the man who covers a fifty-mile route six days in the week, rain or shine, should certainly be pald much as a government clerk who never works more than eight hours a day and has thirty days' vacation every year. UNCOVERING THE RASCALS, President's Dete ation to Stamp Out Graft of All Kinds, Chicago Inter Ocean. Several members of the cabinet, accord- ing to a Washington dispatch, are sorely discontented with the president’s method of hunting rascals out of the Postoffice depart- ment. They are said to have ‘“‘almost openly criticised the dragnet policy which has involved men accused of irregularities only with those known to have been crimi- nal.” An interesting concrete Instance of this resentment s given. It seems that the investigation made by Assistant Postmaster General Bristew re- vealed that a member of the cabinet was interested in property rented by the gov- ernment, of which the rent had been in- creased by irregular methods. “There was no evidence,’ the dispatch explains, “that the cabinet official had any knowl- edge of the deal, but he naturslly resented a line of investigation which touched him even remotel Why should he resent knowledge that his agents were dishonest, and were therefore likely to swindle him as they has de- trauded the government? Why thould his wrath be visited on those who brought truth to light? Men who resent disclosures of their per- sonal negligence of the management of thelr private business may be personally honest, but their honesty can hardly be considered of the fibre that compels hon- esty In public affairs. Nothing that the president has done has won him such abiding confidence as his manifest determination to stamp out graft of all kinds in his administration, no matter who might be hurt. And the sooner all members of his cabinet support him in that determination the better for themselves and their prospects of contin- uance in public lfe. {the invocation of Dis de Bar. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1908. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, Ripples on the Curremt of Life in the Metropolis, True friendship, unaffected and sponta- neous, often develops a material side. By the settiement of the estate of Maximlillian Hernchell, once a tobacco peddler, Mrs. Willlam George of New York City Is to re- celve $200,000, a tribute to the friendship and kindness of herselt and famlily. Herschell came to New York from Germany about forty years ago with only a small sum to tide him over until he got a foothold here On the steamer he met Mr. and Mrs. Wil llam Simons, the parents of Mrs. George. and they struck up an acquaintance schel became a peddler of cigars. Then he opened a little tobacco store on the East side. He slept M the stord and lived on a few cents a day. Fifteen years ago he had enough thousands saved up to give up the store. After that he sought brokers' offi- ces, and made shrewd Investments. From the day he landed until his death he kept on accumulating money. He lived In a hall bedroom, ate in the cheapest restaurants and often walked down to the financial district to save car fare. But he kept up his acquaintance with Her- | Waltham free apon request. Sir Frederick Treves, the famous English surgeon, who has just retired, established a record in performing 1000 consecutive operations for appendicitis without a death. Willlam Muldoon, the once famous wrestler, has transferred his home at Belfast, N. Y., to Bishop Charles H. Col- the Bimonses. When their daughter, now Mrs. George, was married twenty-two years ago he gave her away. Last summer his visits suddenly ceased and Mrs. George, going to look for him, found him Il in his room. Bhe had him removed to St. Luk hospital and visited him there every day. When he dled she was at his bedside. Just before the 0ld man died he gave her the key to a safe deposit box in the Mercantile Trust company and told her that he had se- curities there which he wanted her to have, a8 she had been his only friend. The se- curitles are worth $090,00. Mrs. George traced the living relatives of Herschell, four In number, and they, with Mrs. George have. agreed on an equal division of the property, each getting one-fifth. Members of the medical profession in New York are greatly interested in the case of a Patchogue young man by the name of Henry Price, who has survived one of the worst attacks of lockjaw that the local physiclans have ever treated. The recovery of Price is attributed to the use of antitoxin, $100 worth having been for- warded from Albany for the use of a local surgeon, Dr. M. B. Davis, when the case as reported, about a week ago. Price is now able to sit up in bed and to move his mouth and arms, and it Is thought that fn & short time he will completely re- cover. Dr. Davis contends that this case is one of the most remarkable ever heard of, and he has sent a history of it to various prominent surgeons and medical and it 1s recelving widespread at- Two trucks locked and Chambers street. “What's the blanked matter with you, you blankety blanked blank!" ehouted one of the drivers. “It you would Kindly back your horse & foot or so," sald the other, “we could become untangled.” “What's that, you white livered—'" “Pleaso back up a little, and I can disengage my vehicle.” “What! Who! Bay that again it you dare!” “I only asked you, as one gentleman would of another, to back up a little bit.” “Well, I'm blanked! Been driving here for twenty years!” driver No. 1 glared, and grew red in the face. “Who be you? One of them Dowleltes from Chicago?” “Peace be to thee, sald No. 2 with a smile, The old East Bider was speechless. He wiped his brow. He glared about him. Then he backed up and drove on. But not another word was heard out of him. heels at Broadway One of the greatest swindles of the age was recalled in New York last week, when the famous “spoak plctures” of Ann O'Delia Dis de Bar were placed on show at the Fifth avenue art galleries. They are the plctures for which Luther B. Marsh, the leader of ‘the New York bar during war times, gave a fortune. Under the strange spell cast upon him by the woman, who Is now in an English prison, Marsh declared that he had seen the canvases executed by Verboeckhoeven, Van Dyke, Bartel, Vel- tens, Paulus Potter, Cigoll, Jordans, Salvator Rosa and other great artists under Persons out- side the influence of Dis de Bar sald the plctures were the work of her husband, who was a‘'good painter. The pictures are now chiefly valuable as a relic of one of the most remarkable deceptions ever practiced. As such they are fattracting not a little in- terest, and a few who call at the galleries declare their bellef that the pictures are originals, as claimed. Charles M. Schwab, former president of the Steel trust, has ubandoned, at least temporarily, the resort which he announced last year he would bulld for the poor chil- dren of New York. It was to be a place where they could go for a day’s outing and enjoy It with all the advantages of the most luxurlous seaside resort. Mr. Schwab purchased sixty-five acres with a lake on |* Staten island, and there on the borders of the lake he proceeded to erect the bulldings, which contemplated an outlay of perhaps $1,000,000, to say nothing of the cost of main- tenance. The work was begun June 6, and half a million dollarg would be a conservative esti- | mate of the amount spent on the project o | far. On Thursday, October §, John Donlan, the superintendent, received verbal notifica« tion from the general manager of the insti- tution, Frank Tucker, that he had received instructions to dispense with his services and with the services of all the men under him. Hereafter Schwab's magnificent charity will be under the care of a night watchman and a caretaker until such time | as it is deemed advisable to resume the bullding and grading operations. No ex- planation has been given except that the work might as well walt till next spring. The merchants of New York are about 1o | take concerted action against the vastly overworked custom of returning wedding presents and getting back the money paid for them. There are many high-grade sec- ond-hand firms in New York that openly proclalm the fact in their advertisements that they give liberal prices for “duplicate wedding gifts.”” Not only that, but for sev- | eral years past a certaln Fourth avenue “agent” has been driving & flourishing trade in the queer business of “‘identifying wedding presents,” as he calls the work. This chap has some sort of & method whereby he can tell at a glance, or at least find out, at what establ ment any wed- ding present submitted to his inspection has been purchased. He 1is therefore enor-| mously ueeful to those persons who would eagerly return wedding presents if they | only knew at what establishments the same ‘were purchased. The “ldentifier’” mal all this easy. If you get a silver chafing' dish, | for instance, for a wedding gift, and feel | that you could use the money the chafing dish cost to a great deal more advantage than the chafing dish, you take the gift to | the “identifier,”” leave it with him for a day | or so, and then he infallibly tells you the | name of the establishment at which it was purchased—he never makes a mistake, either, Then you take the chafing dish back to the establishment at which it was purchased, put up a dolefyl tale to the ef- fect that you have been victimized to the extent of recelving just seven chafing dishes of almost the same kind as wedding gifts and you get the money that the chafing dish cost from the dealer. The merchan now going ton of Buffalo, to be used for a convent, charitable or educational insMtution. There is a great scarcity of servants in Evanston, Ill, and Mayor Barker, whose household was servantless for three dayi went Into his own kitchen and cooked a dinner. It took him two hours to prepare the meal. Mayor McLane of Baltimore is generally conceded to be about the best-dressed man in that city. In the hours devoted to his dutles as head of the civic government he is rarely seen in anything but gray clothes. Mr. McLane is not partial to jewelry. Dr. August Greth of San Francisco, will, it is thought, be a formidable rival of Santos Dumont and the other erack flying machine men at the St. Louls fair. He recently salled over San Francisco in a ship, showing. It to be dirigible to an amazing degree, and otherwise a most wonderful affair. John Redmond, M. P., in his anxiety to discourage emigration from Ireland as- serts that the poorest laborer in County Kerry is better off than the average Irish- American workingman in the United States. Mr. Redmond has been here, and should know whereof he speaks, yet it is passing strange that so many come and so few return. John G. Carlisle, formerly of Kentucky and at one time a leader in congress, has amassed a handsome fortune since taking up the practice of law fn New York City. He is a notable figure, always dressed in black—black broadcloth suit, trousers. gen- erally very baggy, black silk hat, and black cravat. Taken cltogether, he looks like a print of half a ntux ag MAN OR MOUSE? Absurdity of Newspaper Neutrality on Public Quertio Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Durand (Il) Clipper has changed hands, and the new management assures its readers that the change will be for the better. “It will be the alm of the editor,” he says in his initial announcement, “to con- duct an up-to-date paper, vsing its news columns in the Interests of Durand and surrounding cotintry; to give a falr and {m- partial review of events, showing neither fear mor favor, and in fact to publish a journal that will merit the approval and patronage of the Citizens of this vicinity, avolding anything bordering on the freakish or sensational This 18 a good plank azd we would gladly extend our congratulations and the. right hand ef fellowship to the new editor were it not that he spolis everything by declaring that “from a political star.lpoint the editor will endeavor to remain neu- tral, conducting an independent paper, at least for the present.” . This is where, in our judgment, he makes a mistake. Unless the people of Durand are entirely unlike the people of the state in general, they will not take kindly to an editor who so cautiously withholds his political views, if he has any, “for the present,” or wntil he discovers which side it will be the more profitable for him to take, y We have already 100 many newspppers ip Tilinols that are conducted entirely with a view to the present. They are worse, if anything, than those journals which are conducted with-a view to the past. The public has no confidence in them, and the public is right. A newspaper which Is con stantly on the alert for changes in the weather vane, and ever on the lookout to see which way the cat will jump, is not deserving' of popular support. Perhaps the new editor of the Durand Clipper may speedily see his error and re- form his plan. Possibly his patrons may convince him that it pays either to fish or to cut bait. Ir this age one must, to suc- ceeed, be either a man or a mouse, with all the chances in favor of the former. The people of Illinois are fond of milk, and they are not prejudiced against water, but they do not like a mixture of the two in politics, religion, or journalism, ——— TRUSTS AND VESTED RIGHTS, “Concrete ces of Delibera Financial Fraud.” Baltimore American. The severest blow yet inflicted upon the various trusts has come from the exposures connected with the investigation of the Bhipyard company's affairs. The revoluy tions in that inquiry have generated a sus- picion which, when it becomes more ac- tively operative, is liable to weaken and possibly destroy many of the other combi- nations which were formed on similar prin- ciples. Hitherto the capitalists have de- nled that the trusts in question were financed on cxaggerated lines. They have indignantly contradicted all charges that the companies were capitalized beyond their actual, tangible assets. Whenever threats were leveled at the trusts with the idea of questioning thelr legality a great wail went up from the promoters to the effect that demagogues were seeking to interfere with Watches. Foreign made watches are no longer the fashion. ““The Perfected American Watch,”" an llastrated Book of interesting information about watches, will be sent This affected afr of in-, Jured innocence was successful for awhile, because the American people are very con- servative In their attitude toward vested rights. The desire to avold the prosecution of any charge which is likely to shake the security of established property has en- abled more than one unjust industrial com- bination to escape legal dissolution. The people have permitted some wrongs to con- tinue in fear lest they might hurt some ex- isting rights. Recent revelations, however, have shown that the public has been imposed upon. ‘What the public has been disposed to treat as vested rights are discovered to be un- mitigated swindles, There Is now a sus- picion that all the trusts contain mor ef deception and false representation ¢.on they do of actual, tangible, vested i p- erty. This suspicion promises to devs +> into practical action. It is lkely to pro- voke a series of Investigations which will make possible the differentiation between fraud and reality. It bids fair to force an issue whereby the band of consclenceless organizers will be made to confess the full measure of their wrongdoing. The moment the public realizes that the trusts are con- crete instances of deliberate financial fraud there will be a movement to crush them with the arm of the law. — BRIGHT AND BREEZY, nnynor—wolihlnl yourself? Shyne—Yes. had my vermiform appen- dix removed the other day. I want to see how much difference it has made.—Chicago Tribune. 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