Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1903, Page 6

B mu:vu'mn. EDITOR. PUBLISHED IVIRY !0'!""0. e e, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. [ Bee (without Sunday), o Year 9 DAl Be oa Sange va- ] lllustrated Bee, One “.m’fl’ Bee, One Y!lr - ay Bee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer. DELIVERED BY CAIR]IR Patly Bee (without Sunday), per o Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week U‘n’i Bee lnclumn. sunuv). per weel lay $ i .00 0 160 A Complaints of Irregularities in delivery thould be addressed to City Circulation De vartment. OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Bufldl South Omana—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M streets. Couneil Bluffs—10 Pear] Stroet. Chicago—1640_Unity Buildi New York—23% Park Row Building. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torfal matter should be addressed: Omaha ee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. ba Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bes Publishint Company. Unly 2-cent -umlr Jud In p-yuan o( mnal ll:co\l'lll 'erson: checks m&‘l BEE PUBLIBH‘T COHPA“Y n'u'nux'r or ClmAflO'. #ays that complets The Vivening lunaur Bee ;‘u month of September, 290,120 ly M ;‘-gu? . 28,030 28,010 ..28,870 28.860 26,448 28,880 28,880 128,530 28,780 28,730 29,206 27,440 28,700 29,010 863,230 0,486 852,744 28,424 B B, TZSCHUCK. Y, Presence o -l sworn to day of Beptember, A. M. B, GAT! Notary Publl Never mind, we will have congress with us by next week. \ — It is all over but the voting, and that wlll be over by tonight. E———— Coroner Bralley may confidently count on a commission to continue to look after the dead. 4 E— Don't overlook the importance of the county board. Vote for M. J. Kennard for county commissioner. ——— Vote early in the morning. Take no chances on fosing your ballot by being crowded out in the closing hours. S It has boen a long time since Douglas county has indulged in a third-term cheriff. Does it want to begin again now? Eee— ¥rom now until Thanksgiving the; col- Irge foot ball players may monopolize the lmelight of publicity all to_theth- solves. E—— No one has complained that politics this year has disturbed business. The Gumpaign has been too apathetic to dis- turb anything but the candidates. EE——— Why are all the railroads for Barnes? axks the World-Herald. The railroads ure not all for Barnes and no one knows this better than R. E. Lee Herdman. A political campaign in Nebraska would not be the genuine article if the Liquor Dealers’ association or the Anti- Saloon league did not insist on occupy- ibg a front seat on the platform. EE—— The public schools of Omaha have been under the management of a repub- liean school board ever since the school board system was inaugurated. It will not be different this year or next. E——— Harry D. Reed is by far the ablest and by far the most competent and rellable candidate for county assessor and every lome ow: in Owaha should not only vote for Him but see to it that his neigh- bors also give him their support. Experienice counts over luexperience W the management of the county treas- urer’s ofice, The republican candidate, Robert O. ¥ink, Is an experienced man, No one undertnkes to make the same clalm for his demoeratic opponent. It will not do to attach any signifi- cance to the fact that the Vatican has suffered a visitation of fice 50 soon after the advent of the new pope, The fire might have broken out there just the same if Pope Leo were still the ocen- pant. When the sham reform organ dubs the three emotional members of the Kea) Estate exchange fax committee, who have taken it upon themselves to en- dorse Judge Nullivan, as “stalwart re- publicans,” it cihibits its usual lack of veracity. JIudge Bullivan pledged bis democratic aud popullst friends to a clean cam. paign. indulged at Judge Barnes during the I the mud-slinging they have | brought to justice, OMARA'S DUTY T0 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Three prominent real estate agents, who were identified with the movement to raise the aesessment of the fran- chised corporations, have ullowed them- selves to be decoyed Into an appeal for the re-election of Judge Sullivan In rec- ognition of the services rendered to Omaba in the decision sustaining their contention before the supreme court. These well-meaning but credulous gen- tlemen throw a bouquet at themselves in claiming credit for originating the move- ment to compel the corporations to bear their share of the burdens of municipal taxation, seemingly oblivious of the fact that an educational campaign in favor of corporate taxation has been carried on for nearly a quarter of a century by The Bee, and battle after battle has been fought in this community to en- force the provisions of the constitution against the raliroads and the allied cor- porations. It s a matter of history that the rail- road tax clause for which the Real Es- tate exchange Is now fighting was em- bodied in the first charter for citles of the metropolitan class introduced by Senator Lininger in the legislature of 1887, After this charter had passed the senate it was referred in the house of representatives to the committee on cities, of which C. J. Smyth of Omaba was the chairman. When Mr. Smyth ‘was about to recommend the passage of the. charter as passed by the senate it was wrenched from his hands at the instance of the corporation lobby and placed for amendment in the judiclary committee, of which Judge Sullivan- was a member. Wheh the charter was reported back from the judiciary committee the pro- vision requiring the rallroads to pay their taxes was eut out, and so was the provision giving Omaha the,right of eminent domain to acquire public parks. In that form the charter was railroaded through iIn the last hours of the session and Omaha was crippled not merely by the exemption of rallroad property from municipal taxation, but by the park pro- vision that forced the city to bond itself for $400,000 for the purchase of park land, when it could have decured park grounds in the center of the city by emi- nent domain for less than half that amount. For this blow at Omaha’s prosperity Judge Sullivan was justly held respon- sible. Crediting him with making some reparation for the injury to Omaha in his decision on franchised corporation tax assessments, we fail to see where Omalia is specially obligated in view of his refusal to give.its property owners rellef when It‘ was within his power so to do in th’e rallroad tax decision last year. . -o———— THE PUBLIC LAND FRAUDS. That there has been fraud in connec- tion with the disposition of the public lands is not to be doubted. The in- vestigations made very conclusively show this and justify every effort on the part of the lnt-flw department to determine who ‘are gullty of such frauds and bring them to justice, It is quite possible, however, that there is some exaggeration in regard to the ex- tent of the frauds and that accusations have been made which cannot be sus-) tained. Referring to the matter the San Fran- clsco Call says there is something sus- piclous in the- effort to inflate the land frauds into a. gigantic measure. It as- serts that “the holders of ldnd serip have an organized campalgn to procure’ the repeal of all existing laws by which public land may pass into private own- ership,” and that if this is done the outstanding land scrip becomes. very valuable, since by Its location only can land be secured. “The best way to pro- cure the repeal of the land lgws,” says that paper, “is by making tife country believe that they are the means of fraud. To this end the preposterous theory Is propagated that when an owner sells land that has been patented to him that act Is evidence that bis inteitions were fraudulent.” That paper regards as purely sensational some of the state- ments that have been made in regard to land frauds. A like view is taken of the matter by the Portland Ore- gonian, which makes a vigorous defense of the senators and representatives of that state who are alleged to be di- rectly or indirectly involved in land frauds. “After pointing out what it be- lieves to be the injustice of such a charge;, the Oregonian says: “Corrup- tion must be apprehended and punished where it exists, but indiscriminate charges of fraud and venmality against public. men not only sacrifice truth to senaation, but create a false atmosphere of suspicion apd ¢ynicism which is un- friendly to the growth of private and public virtue. They who are ever ready to imagine faithlessness and ve- nality in others hear very poor testi- mouy to the qunlity of their own na- tures."” The Interior departinent has been pur- suing its fnvestigations, begun nearly a year ago. with all proper zeal and en- ergy, and it is authoritatively stated that the bellef is that the guilty parties will be apprehended and speedily There can be no doubt as to the earnest purpose of the Dast few weeks Is thelr Idea of u clean | department ‘to aseertain who have been campalgn, deliver vs from one that is balow that standard —— “o bhave made noticeable progress in the countiag of the vote In recent elec- tions due-ghlefly to the bigher standard of election officers. Let the judges and clorks make a still better rvecord this time for prompt, efiiclent. and intelligent discharge of their duties, The attenipt of R. E. Lee Herdman to stampede Douglas county republicans ®uilty of frauds and far as possible to hold them tq an aecountability. There 1s evidently no sabstantial ground, how- ever, for the semsational reports that have beeu published in regard to public land frauds, partienlarly those alleging that western members of congress have made many millions in this way. There bave been frauds, unquestionably, but there is no doybt that their extent has bLeen very' much exaggerated. —_—— Don’t forget that Judges Read apd [ from Judge Barnes to Judge Sulllvan will prove a dismal fallure. Republic- ans in these parts understand Mr. Herd- man's unselfish motives, Few patriots would allow tifemselves to be pried lwose trom a $12,000-a-year job. Dickinson ounly sought and secured dem- ocratic nominations after they had en- tered the Msts for republican favor and had falled of nomination In the repub- lican convention. The unwritten law of politics is that when a man is fairly THE OMAHA DAILY BEE 'I'UESDAY, heaten for a nomination at the hands of his own pariy he shall give the same loyal support to his successful com- petitor that he would have expected had he won out and his competitor been rele- gated to the ranks. PUT THIS PREDICTION ON RECORD, In a campaign symposium in the last jssue of the Nebraska Independent, the officlal populist organ in Nebraska, one of the contributors, over the signature of Elmer E. Thomas of this city, among other things declares: I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet. I have had the gravest fears that we would be defeated this fall until very re. cently, but I say now that if we are de- feated we will be defeated in the house of our friends. The republicans will do their tull duty by Judge Sulllvan. 1 have talked to a very large number of Omaha repub- licans, and everyone of them who has com- mitted himself has told me that he In- tended to vote for Judge Sulllvan. There were 5,100 Independent votes cast for Mr. Benson for mayor last spring; 3,000 of these were republican votes, and I firmly believe that a very great majority of all these in- dependent republicans will vote for Judge Sullivan. ‘While we do not put any faith in what Mr. Thomas says, it will be well to record several things in this connec- tion before the votes are counted. Mr. Thomas, who writes the article quoted, 18 a populist lawyer, for some time sub- sidized by the democrats with the posi- tion of deputy county attorney. In the municipal contest in Omaha last spring he was one of the managers of the Ben- son mayoralty campaign and actively associated with the leaders of the anti faction of republicans. When Mr. Thomas refers to conversa- tions with a large number of Omaha re- publicans he means that he has been talking with the Bensonians with whom he worked a few months ago, and the republicans whose votes he confidently expects to be cast for Judge Sullivan are the republicans who refused to support the Yegular republican nom- inee for mayor because his name hap-| pened to be Frank E. Moores. As already noted, we do not believe Mr. Thomas’ prediction will pan out, if he proves to be a true prophet we want the blame put where it belongs, HIS UNPAKDONABLE CRIME. ‘When W. G. Sears declined to support G. M. Hitchcock's father-in-law for United States senator he committed the unpardonable crime and subjected him- self to unrelenting persecution at the hands of the World-Herald. From the day he was nominated for district judge no pains have been spared to belittle and besmirch him and make him appear as an incompetent, a traitor to. his con- stituents, unworthy of the support of honest men, Invidious comparisons have been in- stituted by the Hitchcock organ between Mr. Sears and Judge Dickinson, when it is known to all men who know anything about the relative standing of these two men in their own eounty that Sears has always been recognized as the abler lawyer of the two and has always en- Joyed the respect and confidence of the people of Burt colmty. while the con- trary {8 true of Judge Dickinson, ‘Wwho had lost the confidence of the republican rank and file to,the extent that they re- fused to give him countenance or sup- port for a third term on /the district bench. But why should Mr. Sears be stigma- tized and sandbagged because of his re- fusal to support Mr. Hitchcock's father- in-law for senator? It is an unwritten law that representatives in the legisla- ture are morally obligated to carry out the will of their constituents whenever it has been volced eitfier in convention or through the ballot box. The prefer- ence of the republicans of Burt county, as expressed through the ballot box, officially certified to the secretary of state, credited Bdward Rosewater with 806 votes and Lorenzo Crounse with five votes. What right had Mr. Sears as a representutive of Burt county to stpport a candidate who had received only five votes in his district as against a candidate who had recelved almost a majority of the entire republican vote east for MeKinley in that county? 'And yet Mr. Sears did cast several votes for Lorenzo Crounse at the outset of the senatorial balloting as a compliment to a neighboring county which bhad not re- corded a solitary vote for Mr. Hitch- cock’s father-indaw for United States senator, although he was a resident of that county. Taking the vote cast for senator in this judicial district, in which McKinley received 18,727 votes, the offi- cial records make’ this showing: VOTE OF PREFERENCE. For 1. nusewm:”\ For L. Crounse: Burt county..... urt eounty.. Sarpy county.... 42Sarpy county Washington Co.. $47Washington Co Douglas county. 3,179Douglas county Pl i 1,348 Total. ...... In the face of these figures why nhouhl any elector, whether he be a republican or democrat, withhold his support from Mr. Sears on account of the course he pursued in the senatorial contest? e What do the democrats of Omaha think of the contemptible sell-out of Judges Ferguson and Doane by the sham reform organ of nounpartisanship that is devoting all its energles to, the election of Judge Dickinson, who claims to be a republican and has been an un- compromising opponent of the nonpar- tisan judiclary both when he ran for the first term and when he ran for the second term? The squabble over the bequest to Colonel Bryan in the Benuett will is but another object lesson reinforcing the declaration| of Mr, Carnegie that the only way to make sure of posf-mortem bequests is to hand the cash over while the donor is alive. e—— The death of Theodore Mommsen takes away the unquestionably greatest historlan of the day. Mommsen's works will go down to future ages as classics and will command, by thelr scholarly character, the adwiration of v historical students for all time to come. The genius of Mommsen is sure to be appreciated more in the future than it has been during his lifetime. — The United States is exporting boots and shoes nowadays to the value of $6,500,000 a year, while its imports of shoes_have become unimportant. For this reversal of the situation of a few decades ago the country has to thank the republican protective tariffs, which Mhave bullt up this home industry to its present colossal proportions, S—— The only safe plan for republicans who waat to insure the election of their judicial ticket is to vote for the seven republican nominees and for no others either by putting a cross in the party circle at the top of the official ballot or in each of the squares opposite the first seven names on the judicial ticket. “The police judgeship of Omaha has cut little' figure in the current campaign. The administration of the police court since the advent of Judge Berka has shown 'such marked improvement that everybody but the petty criminals who go up against him is eager to let well enough alone there. Will Maker, Par Excellence, Chicago Chronicle. Anybody who wants his will drawn In such a way as to prevent the possibility of bis relatives dying rich should spend a few days at Lincoln, Neb, Will Nebraska Except? Philadelphia Press. The matrimonial *wave now sweeping over the United States senate is something that no member of that body above the age of 70 feels able to dodge. Foot Ball Growing Tame. Chicago Record-Herald. Less than forty boys have been killed on the gridiron so far this fall. Foot ball will be getting itself referred to as a young woman's game the first thing it knows, Lucky Canada. New York World. Sir Wilfrid Laurfer says he “often re- gretted that Canada was lying alongside a grasping and powerful nation like the United States.” If the United States really were the grasping nation Sir Wilfrid says it is Canada would not now be “lying alongside” it. It would, like the lamb with the Jion, be reposing inside. Danger in Great Corporations. Minneapolis Journal. It there is any need of an object lesson to show to all men that It is possible for corporations to grow so great as to be a source of danger to the state, It can be found in the plight of Montana. It is a waste of breath to deny that a power that controls the business life of a state cannot and will not control the polities of the state. Prolonging the Squeese. Phtladelphla Press. It is a cause of deep regret that the an- thracite coal companies find it necessary to resort to the old methods of closing the mines, to curtail the production of coal. Some 30,00 employes of the Reading com- pany ‘are laid off for a week for that pur- pose. :Many persons persist in thinking. that a reduction In the price of coal would be a much’ better and wiser method of meeting the difigulty. e ',n,;- “Iridercent Dream.y | /Loulsville Courler-Journal. “Independence without separatién” might be a, _good thing for Canada, but where would Great Britain come in? With her laborers taxed on their bread to protect Canadlan grain growers she would be asked 'to stand by unheard while Canada got into trouble with some other power and then to step In and take the quarrel off her hands. Independence without sepa- ration is an Iridescent dream, but it is in- teresting to note that both parties in the Dominion seem to be cherishing such a dream. ——— Where Despotism is Effective. Philadelphia Record. Despatism has its advantages. An epi- demic .of cholera having broken out at Kabul, the ameer ordered his army into healthful camps on high ground and for- bade his people to eat vegetables or fruit or drink unbolled water. The penalty pre- scribéd. for disobedience or the - nfringe- ment of any sanitary regulations was death, and in order to leave nobedy with an excuse for noncompliance those ' who pleaded poverty recelved rations of the right sort of f00d to be eaten when cholera is ‘abroad. The pestilence was stamped out. Where Responsibility Lies. Philadeiphia Ledger. It fs the national habit, nowhere more commonly displaved than in this great commonwealth and city, to invelgh angrily againss: dishonesty in polities and ofclal life, but they whose ralling accusations are the loudest,are too often not unlikely to be those who make no practical protest on election day aghinst the prevalent wrongs, The people themselves are re- sponsible for the political dishonesty which flagrantly, Insolently despolls them of their substance and which seeks to control the very fountainhead of the safeguards of our liberties, prosperity and happiness—the courts of justice. If the people would re- form the situation they must act—-do some- thing—not impotently rail Ex-Slave P Scheme. ‘Washington Star. In denying further use of the mails to the ex-slave pension schemp the postmaster gencral has probably put an extinguisher on that malodorous enterprise. There never was the slightest reason to suppose that congress would vote a dollar for any such purpose. The absurdily of the proposition was promptly exposed by men of both po- litical parties. Btill, tens of thousands of ignorant negroes had their hopes aroused and many were induced to contribute of their little savings toward “pushing the good thing along.” In this day of graft this is one of the very worst specimens of that industry, as the victims were such casy marks and so little able to stand a drain of that kind on their small hoardings. Rami@ications of Land Grabbing. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. The land frauds brought to light in Ore- gon are found io have extended into Idaho, Montana and Nevada, and indictments have consequently been returned for forgery and various forms of fraud. In considering the rush for public lands under false pretenses it would be well for congress to look into the evasion practiced under the homestead law by which a title is completed In four. teen months by the payment of §L35 an acre, after which the land speedily finds its way into the possession of large com- panies. The homestead law was intended to benefit individual settlers, not land mo- nopolists operating covertly on a large scale. What is left of the public domain should be reserved for the people, not for the enrichment of syndicates, In cases whers frauds are practiced the govern- ment should take Vigorous measures to re- NOVEMBER 3, 1008. AFTFAIRS IN THE ARMY, Matt of Current Interest Gleaned from the Army and Navy Register. Tt is likely there will be an attempt made during the coming séssion of congress to change the law so as to make it possible to pay in Mexican currency troops, espe- clally native scouts, at isolated points in the Philippines, when such exchange Is desired. It has been found that troops located in this way are seldom able to get the full benefit of the discount of this kind of currency, and, consequently, they re- gard themselves as not on the same footing respecting pay people more fortunately situated. The army paymasters who have to do with this matter interpose no objec- tion to the project, and would, indeed, pro- vide for these payments now were the action not prohibited by law. The payment of troops in the Philippines has been made bi-monthly except in instances where the stations were remotely located and difficult of access, and In such places the payments have been monthly. The general staff of the army has had under consideration the project of estab- lishing a general service corps, to which shall be assigned employes of the army, such ag wagoners, clerks and others who may not be regarded, strictly speaking, as having military duty to perform. The dis- cussion of the project by the general staff led to its rejection. The statistics of the army subsistence department show some interesting sources of supply. San Francisco supplied the largest portion of the articles of the ration and many sales stores. Chicago furnished the bulk of the salt meat and meat prod- ucts, while Kansas City and Omaha were also drawn upon for packing house prod- ucts. St. Louls furnished a few articles which that market could most economically supply. New York furnished the greater portion of the articles for sales to officers and enlisted men. The policy of the sub- sistence department s to purchase in the most advantageous market, considering cost and quality and the interests of the government, and always favors the home or local market, everything being equal In pursuance of this policy the following articles were purchased at Manila: Fresh beef, fresh mutton, rice, potatoes, onions, teas, issue sugar, lce, matches, butter, cheese, cigars, clotheslines, ginger ale, Australian milk, Pear's toflet soap, table salt, cut loaf sugar, granulated sugar, powdered sugar, Tansan water, tollet water, stewards' stores for transports and exceptional articles. 5 The transfer of officers between the field and coast artillery in the army will not be mdde at present as was intended. It has been found necessary to postpone this action. No orders will be issued now. The general staff of the army is now in possession of tie reports filed by speclal inspectors and others detailed to visit col- leges during the last year to ascertain if the provisions of general order 8, A. G. O, prescribing the course of military instruc- tion and Imposing other conditions have been complied with. In many instances these reports show that the colleges have ¢losely observed the provisions of the or- der, especially as to practical and theoret- fcal instruction. It is also stated that every facility, encouragement and aid are granted the professors of military sclence and tactics. It is observable, however, that there are a few Institutions which do not come up to the required standard. It is sald also that the purely military colleges find no difficulty in fully meeting every requirement of the War department, as their special and particular aim is to turn out men educated for the profession of arms. One consideration to which the gen+ eral staft has been glving its attention j8' of the arming of this body of instructed youth. Students of mill- tary colleges now recelve from the government the caliber .46 Springfield cadet rifies, an antiquated weapon that does not compare with the modern rifle and must necessarily hamper the young men in thelr work. It has been recom- mended to the general staff that a more up-to-date rifie be furnished the military colleges, it being pointed out that these students should be as well armed as the national guard and that when the latter is supplied with the latest and best weapon the military colleges should be also simi- larly equipped. Some interesting statistics will probably be presented in the annual report of the quartermaster general of the army on the subject of blindness in army animals. There has been an appreciable decrease in this affiiction, there being only 211 animals during the last year presented for inspec- tion as against 411 of last year and nearly 00 of the year before, This marked de- crease in the blindness of public animals 1s ascribed to the withdrawal of troops from Cuba and from Porto Rico, where blindness or diseases of the eye appeared to be epldemic among the public animals not foaled there. The officers of the quartermaster's de- partment who have to_do with the detalls of the army clothing report continued dif- culty in acquiring what is known as fast colors in the shades of cloth adopted for chevrons and facings of the military uni- form. There has always been more or less trouble in this respect and It seems tha the Imported goods are no more virtuous in this respect than the domestic product. Recent experiments have been made under direction of Major I. W. Littell, in charge of the clothing branch of the guartermas- ter general's office, for the purpose of as- certaining what effect the laundry test has on the colors. The exhibit is impressive and shows the need of some method by which the dye manufacturers will produce enduring colors. It is known as the “soap- boll” test, In which the bit of colored cloth is bolled in water impregnated with soap and has proven speclally destructive to t 1 shades. This is notably true of brilliant colors which are converted into all sorts of degraded shades by this pro- cess. The experts in the quartermaster general's office have found, however, that goods of the same shade, although not so brilliant in color, will stand the severe Jaundry test. This is by using a dye which has been discovered and which is believed to afford a shade of the desired durability and sufclently near the standard to be acceptable for all the purposes of official dress. PERSONAL NOTES. As the situation appears at this distance the wurst is yet to the striking sausage makers in Chicago Since the introduction of asphalt in the French capital the Paris mob must content itself with throwing epithets instead of paving stones. ‘The next transport to the Philippines will be & trying ship for old bachelors to travel in, a8 it will carry out nineteen newly mar- ried couples, all of the army, on their wed- ding journey across the Pacific. In the opinion of the editor of the Mhor, & paper printed In English in British India, “American womanhood s admittediy the finest, the very best, physically and intel- lectually, of all the woemanhood of the world."” Rear Admiral Schley, retired, Is writing his memoirs and has reached that period of the Chillan rebellion when he and his ship were ordered to the scene of trouble. The admiral's story of the fight off Santl- ago will be a straightforward narrative, backed up with references to official decu- \ ments {o bear out assertions he may make regarding controverted points. Juar® Navarro has been Mexican consul general in New York City for forty years. Senor Navarro is 80 years old, but is stil in vigorous mental and physical health. He has just returned to his post from the City of Mexico, where he has N a vacation. Mr. F. Augustus Heinze says Mr. Thomas W. Lawson is a mountebank. Mr. Lawson says he will give $25,000 If Mr. Heinze will come to.Boston and “say it again.” Per- haps the public will contribute & much largor sum if they will both suspend con- versation. Senor Arcinlagas, the Colombian dlplo- who is now visiting Washington, is a linguist of notable attainment. He ha mastered nearly all the European tongues, as far as to read them is concerned, his object being to study the literature of the various countries, but has never learned to speak any of them with eage. B WHAT MAKES THE AMERICAN? Nerve, Push iration of Liberty. Indianapolis News. Alfred Mosely, the Englishman of many commissions, to learn “What's what In America,” 80 to speak, is here now, en- deavorfng to ascertain to what extent school and college education in America has affected or will affect our commercial and industrial eficlency. “We wish to find it It Is the American school that makes the American man, or if other factors, climatic, soclal and = economical, have developed him." The true answer to that would interest us as much as any- one on earth. But a full answer it seems to us would have to take into account the similar conditions in the country with which the comparison was made. There is this broad fact: The American in this country during the colonlal period and, broadly speaking, untll 1849, ‘at least, was simply an Englishmap dwelling in this land. The stock was as pure English, Scotch and Scotch-Irish as was to be found on the earth. Since then there has been a great admixture of Irish, Germans and latterly some of all peoples. Another thing is certain: The American Is as different from the Englishman today as two men can be, albeit speaking the same language (If the English will admit that) and llving under practically th Edueati It looking on life in the same light as to ethics and” pretty nearly as to economics. Now, whence, indeed, comes the difference? Is it the common schools, or is it somehing or many things else? Institutions, for ex- ample. Is not here one great fact? We are perhaps the only people that have grown up without the fear of invasion. That Is a fact that neither we nor bthers have per- haps reckoned at its true value. We do not know what it is to live in fear or at least in contemplation of the possibllity of having to fight for our national existence. The vast security of our continent has sim- ply pervaded us like an atmosphere. This must have a profound influence, peclally as to_the status of women, as an acute German scholar has noted. A society in which the man has not the artificial value that the fighting factor imparts must be a different soclety, and one in which women will occupy a different place from that In which the military ideal is a great or an ali-pervading factor. This, taken with the fact of the freedom of democracy; the entire absence of any respect for rank or cast; hereditary authority unknown, and those temporarily in. authority felt to be the creatures and servants of the people, of everyone, made and unmade by them every year or 80, must breed an attitude toward life so different from that which «prevalls in a land where all these things exist as to acgount for much. And this is attested by the fact that an Englishman or German, or whatever forelgner who is not touched by the edycation of the schools, be« comes “Americanized” In a few years tice of those “native and to the manner residence here; takes on all the characteris l We venettes. will choose one of cur make, ete. RBrowning: born.” It Is a subject of whi not easily get too much, and t Mosely finds out about it servios he will do us, as well country. GENIAL GAB, Husband (during. spat)—You shut up now. The foolkiller is| fe-—Oh, fan’t that lovely, A your iits ihsured.~Insurance “Do oy By hellav- that George neyer {old “IE o 3t never wa #—C business man,, anyway. “I don't see why your apart: be '3 cold. Dnn’t they suppl; “Ye.-h(!t - Tt 1is hiow they are going to impro ing facllit! next ; spring.” | Times. Caller—What a besutiful 1 Mr: enjoy my. books, bu converse, don't you knnw'—cl bune. B!rthl—-.Are you and Miss K¢ tiyss. Beasler ¥ i [ no; ppose y¢ ool B8 thu. although' we' haves posed to by the same man.—Bo script. The Pressman of thg Great I you not!cod that the stock we ! now }Ival the paper a very bl® ‘Manager—Fudge!. 1 do a8 long as it's read! Plain Deal o1 want my. stationery to be rll‘ nmnmu”“onld‘ macy’" 16 Hw.;l‘ l.houn light bue pap of gr & so. a dun color appropriate.”’—Philadelphia Pn-’. 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