Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 16, 1903, Page 4

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REMITTANCES. g Remit by draft, express or postal order yabls to 13 The oo Publisning Compesay, t stamps accepted in payment of Dhadl s orsonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accept THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s Publisking Company. sgireiary ot ¥he Des sy m:«.‘m aetnal_number of full and s of The Dally Morning, l:v-ntu and Bunday Bee prln d_during the month of October, 1003, W 00 @;su::n:;nps-; GEORGE B, TZ8CHUCK. Subecribed tn my presence and sworn to hloh me this 4th day of October, D, M B HUNGATE. m Omaha’s new grain exchange is a go. Get. In on the ground floor while you eartf Eppy————— King Ak-S8ar-Ben has wound up the year with money in his pocket. No wonder he is popula Gfe————— Now that the Methodists have found that we can give them good weather it is to be hoped they 'will feel like coming again. EE——— The pipe line between the United States district attorney's office and the local popecratic yellow journal appears 1o be In fine working condition. S——— Again we have an exhibition of the “nothing to arbitrate” spirit in the Chi- cugo street railway fracas. When Dpeo- ple want to flzht it ll pretty hard ‘to w +.Btop them. ———— Pregarations for the annual Jacksonian blowout are about due. It is a safe guess that neither Willlam J. Brysn nor Tom L. Johuson will be the stellar ‘oratorical attraction. E————————— Omaha showed up nicely in the report of comparative weekly bank clearings. Omaha is on the increase side of the tabje, while most of the other large cities are recorded In. the decrease column, { Omaha is not the only city in which ‘gamblers are waging a fight upon one lmnvr. «As between the supremacy of one of two sets of gamblers, however, ‘the public has little concern and less sympathy. ] Nebraska bests Kansas on the foot ball fleld. But then it must be remem- bered that over in the Philippines the Kansas boys got the brewery while the Nebraskans had to be content with the water works. e Country publishers are complaining of the exactions of the “patent inside” trust. If this should force the squeezed papers to put more original matter on the outside the trust might be a public benefactor as well as an oppressor. emeee— The new congressman from the Second Nebraska district will have a chance to distinguish bimselt by helping to land an army purchasing and supply depot for Omaha. There is more prospect of success 1In capturing this than in lassoing another mint. ———— The purchase of one of the leading newspapers of St. Joseph, with the pur- pose of changing its politics from demo- cratic %0 republiean, shews which way the wind is blowing even in old Mis- sourl, where democracy is presumed to be mmly entrenched. ——————— “The Sioux Indians charged with par- ticipation in the recent fight out in Wyo- ming have all been released, the wit- nesses beilng unable to identify the prisoners as having had a part in the trouble. The popular song will have to be re-written, “All Indians look alike.” e The wealthiest man in England is re- ported in the cable dispatches to be planning a big game shooting expedition into the Rocky mountains next spring. ‘We will be pleased to have him come over and leave some of his money in the west, but there is no assurance that gold and silver bullets will bring down more animals than dirt-cheap lead used by common sportsmen. L ————————o___ ] Over jn lIowa the democratic news- 'papers never even took the trouble to ‘explain how it happened in the recent election and the democratic candidate for governor, who 'was golng to cut the republican majority in half, has not WOULD AMEND THE TREATY. The agreement of the house demo- crats to vote for legislation to make effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty assures the early passage of the bill presented a few lays ago by the chair- man of the ways and means committee, The democrats desire the treaty amended so a®'to abolish the differential duty and strike out the five-year clause, but it is not at all probable that this will be done. The democratic conten- tion is that the five-year clause at- tempts to bind the hand of cougress against changing the tariff on sugar for a period of five years, thus protecting the Sugar trust to that extent against foreign competition. The paragraph te which the democrats are objecting was added to the treaty as a senate amend- ment, and provides that “while the con- vention is in force no sugar imported from the republic of Cuba, and being the product of the soil or industry of the republic, shall be admitted into the United States at a reduction of duty greater than 20 per centum of the rates of duty thereen, as provided by the tarift act of 1897.” The same amend- ment makes a similar provision for the sugar of “any other foreign country,” except that it is stipulated that such sugars shall not be admitted at a rate of duty lower than that provided by the act of 1897, This provision and also the differential duty, which was put into the tariff act to apply to sugar®from countries that pay a bounty, afford protection to the beet sugar industry and therefore it is entirely safe to say that they will be retained. A nlember of the minority party in congress is quoted as saying that while present agitation about changing tariff schedules will possibly amount to nothing, in the second session the democrats expect to get through a bill modifying some of the present duties. “If the Cuban treaty is passed in its amended form,” he added, “ne change can be made In the sugar schedules when we come to making up a new tariff bill.” It is difficult to understand what the democrats base the hope on of passing a bill modifying the tariff. The republicans have distinctly declared that there will be no tarift legislation at the extra or the regular gession and so far as appears they are unanimous as to this. The decislon of the house democrats to vote for the Cuban treaty even If they fail to have it amended as they wish will undoubtedly be quite generally commended as marking a departure from the policy of obstruction that has been so persistently followed by the minority party In congress. e ABRIVGING TRE SUFFRAGE, The resolution introduced in the house of ntatives by General Dick of Ohlo, providing for a congressional in- vestigation in regard to the abridgement of the suffrage in some of the states, is general i its scope. It calls for an in- vestigation to examine conditions in all the states to determine what, if any, proportion of the number of male eiti- zens 21 years of age In any stafe, to whom said state denies or abridges the right to vote, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, bears to the total number -of male inhabitants of such state. If such a condition exists, the basis of representation in congress and the electoral college shall be re- duced proportionately, according to the terms of the fourteenth amendment and the revised statutes of the United States, ‘While the resolution is not a partisan measure, since it provides for an in- vestigation in every state where any number of male citizens are disfran- chised by state legislation, It will of course be treated by the democrats as partisan and antagonized by them ac- cordingly. Of course there will be no action on the resolution at the extra session, but it will probably be given attention in the regular session. Its passage, however, cannot be confidently predicted. Resolutions bearing on the same subject were introduced in the last congress, but failed to command much interest. That the matter is im- portant is very generally recognized, yet there appears to be a strong indisposl- tion to give it that consideration which it undoubtedly should receive, as a mat- ter of plain and simple justice to a very large number of disfranchised citizens. That the question cannot be always ignored may be positively asserted and perhaps there will never be a more favorable time than the present to make the Investigation which the Dick resolu- tion proposel, S—— BRITISH AGRICULTURE. The fact that agriculture in the United Kingdom is declining has long been known, but the figures just presented in the report of the British Board of Agrigulture show conditions rather more serious than had commonly been sup- posed. There has been a shrinkage in the dkreage under cultivation for erops of almost every description, the diminu- tion in the land under corn crops ex- ceeding 124,000 acres. As recently as 1804 the extent of land under corn crops was a million acres more than at pres- ent. In 1869 the area assigned to wheat extended to near 4,000,000 acres. It is the wheat crop, far more than any other, that has been sacrificed in the withdrawal of land from cultivation. The area under what are called “green crops” has also declined and it appears that only in the cultivation of small fruits was there any lucrease in acre- age. There was a moderate increase in the number of cattle, but a considerable decline in the number of sheep, the latter fact being especially significant, for the reason that wool is the chlet raw materiul produced in Great Britain outside of winerhls. , These facts show the increasing de- pendence of the United Kiugdom upon other eountries for foodstuffs and can hardly fail to make an impression upon the public mind unfavorable to the pro- posal to place a tax on foodstuffs which 1s & feature of Mr. Chamberlain's flscal B o 3 guge b kg i THIE UMAHA reform plan. It is a part of the conten- tion of that statesman that under the operation of the polley he advoeates British agriculture would be stimulated, but if this be admitted it is still certain that it could not be developed to an extent that would come anywhere near meeting the home demand. As has been well said, if England should re- verse the policy which grew out of her natural conditions and the energy of her people, instead of being the cause of them, she might become less of a workshop and a trading center, but she would hardly become more of an agri- cultural country without going Iinto decay. THE BOARD UF REVIEW. The task before the Board of Review, which is about to begin the work of revising the assessment lists made up by the city tax commissioner the bagis of the municipal tax levy for 1904, while perhaps not as important as that which has devolved upon the boards for the last two years preceding, it is still of vital concern to Omaha property owners, Under the stitutes the Board of Re- view has plenary power to raise or lower any assessment return with or without a complaint on the part of some other aggrieved property owner. Limited, however, to a session of thirty days, the reviewers cannot possibly do more than rectify and correct the most glaring inequalities that necessarily ob- trude in any assessment roll that is made up by more than one assessor. It will pay uneither the board, therefore, nor our taxpaying citizens to fritter away valuable time on trivial coma plaints. It Is the big problems of tax- ation with reference to the valuation of various classes of property that the board should grapple with, and particu- larly the taxshirking proclivities of the larger corporations rather than the petty mistakes made in the returns of small householders. Several important questions are pro- Jjected to the front by the new revenue law under which the tax commissioner has undertaken to act in advance of its application to other cities' and counties in the state. This is all new ground and it will devolve on the present Board of Review to ratify or reject the interpre- tation put on obscure or doubtful por- tions of the law by the tax commis- gloner. The Bee has already indicated its idea that in these matters Omaha should not discriminate against Omaha, that the assessment fixed for the city tax levy this year will necessarily be the basis of the assessment to be made by the county assessor next year, and that nothing should be done to put Omaha at a disadvantage in the dis- tribution of the state taxation as com- pared with the taxable property outside of the city and county. At thq same time it must be remem- bered that the prime object of our as- sessment machinery is to produce reasonable equality and uniformity be- tween property owners subject to the taxing power. Every one agrees that there has been vast improvement in the direction of more equitable taxation in this city during the past few years, but still further progress must be made, The campaign for tax reform must con- tinue to go.forward and never back- ward. The geologists of the United States geological survey declare that there are geological indications that conditions within an area 250 miles in length, vary- ing in width from two to six miles, stretching through the three states of South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, are similar to those in which oil and gas have been found in other parts of the country. We have had rumored finds of oil flelds from time to time in varlous parts of Nebraska, but none of them, so far as we know, in the strip located by the geologists as most favor- able to its diseovery. The resources of this section have not begun to be fully developed. If we have oil and gas underlying any part of Nebraska we may be sure it will be brought to the surface before many years. The rallroads are still endeavoring to enlist the help of the courts to head off the ticket scalper, particularly at St Louls, where excursion traffic is ex- pected to focalize next year while the Loulsiana Purchase exposition 1s on. The raflroads want to scalp their own tickets for that occasion, and they na- turally prefer to have no competition in it. Elsewhere where the scalper exists he lives with the toleration, if not the connivance of the railroads. When the latter are really in earnest they will have no frouble in repressing the scalper, ey m— The democratic members of cohgress have agreed to support the administra- tion’s Cuban reciprocity policy, but not without opposition from three demo- cratic members from Louisiana, Texas and California, champloning the sugar interests in their states. It is to be noted that no mention of dissent is found from the loume democratic con- gressman from Nebraska, which is also a sugar producing state. The report of the secretary of the Douglas County Agricultural soclety shows that the entire receipts for mem bership fees amounted to the munificent sum of $34, which served as a nest- egg for the appropriation of $3,000 ount of the county treasury. We know a lot of people who would like to do a similar busineds on the same small capital. The “hats o order in theaters is meeting with opposition from the women over in London, although it was quickly and willingly complied with by all our American women. We will give eredit to the American women for haviug more consideration for their escorts than their British sisters. cEmmm—— Real estate men all agree that the local market i3 more active now than it has DAILY BEE: MONDAY been for some time and that the pros- pects are for better still. A city like Omaha, on the up grade as a result of the advent of new raflroads and the inauguration of new iIndustrial enter- prises, is sure to give its real estate increasing values, There is money to be made in Omaha real estate invest- ments. American Investments, The west is giving Wall street a great laugh these day ——————— Wonders Troop Along. Philadelphia Record. Who could have fmagined that such a great volume of water could be squeezed out of 8o impermeable a substance as steel? bt Doing Business at Home, Springfleld Republican. Spain's surplus this year is $00,000,000, which was stmply unheard of in the palmy days of empire before the late war. Spain now has a future, for she is attending to business right at home pubtiioias 2 — An Impertinent Suggestion. Kansas City Journal. Congress has not yet adopted the rule re- quiring members to show their rallroad passes before being allowed their mileage. It takes it for granted that they havi them. The Wetort Harpoonle. Chicago Chronicle. Before taking ship for Europe, Mr. Bryan indulged in a little further blackguardism of the gold democrats. It fs to be noted, however, that the gold democrats are not contesting anybody's last will and testa- ment. In the Attitude of Kmockers,” Minneapolis Journal. If the democrats could only tell which way the Panama cat would jump, they would know what to do. They don't care much whether the president's course has been right or wrong: what they want to know is what the public thinks about it. A Vent for Hot Air. New York World. Our Canadian friends failed to get Alaska, but they are taking it out in hissing the American flag. It doesn't hurt the f and it gives the same sort of real devilish comfort that one gets in exclaiming “Oh, fudge!” when he has pinched his finger in the door. Characteristic Conceft. Baltimore American. Apropos of the Goelet-Roxburghe wed- ding, the London journalists sneer at the display of wealth by rich Americans, but say nothing of the way in which British hands are eagerly grabbing at that same wealth. They take American fortunes with a dignified disdain of its importance on this side, and with quite as dignified ignor- ing of the virtue of consistency. —_—— The Right Thing to De. New York Sun. Fair-minded men on this side of the At- lantic will concur in the unanimous verdict pronounced by European onlookers as to the propriety of the,position assumed by our national government toward the new Republic of Panama. All attempts to dis- credit the motives or impeach the conduct of our Btate department will prove futile. ‘We have simply dong gur duty in the prem- ises. There was nothing else for us to do. e PERSONAL NOTES. There must be & Qre?endnul hullabaloo in Hoo Hoo circles In Oklahoma. Bleven lum- ber dealers have been indicted for violating trust laws. Ex-8enator HAH!)I\ Butler, of North Carolina, chairman of the national popullst committee, says he cannét form any opin- {on of the recent elections. It doesn't make any difference. 3 Mary MacLane wouyld like to attach her- self to a husband If she could conveniently #hake him in a year. One who has lived in Montana ought to be familiar with the superior advantages the Dakotas offer In cutting loose from ehcumbrances. Dr. J. Wilson Swan, the inventor of the incandescent electric light, has just entered his 76th year. It is nearly a gen- eration ago since Dr. Bwan first publicly exhibited the electric light which has now become universal. T The city council of Chicago has passed a law banishing the toy pistol from the list of Fourth ot July killers. If other municipalities follow the example and en- force it, the problem of ‘‘race sulcide” would take several leaps toward solution. It appears to be pretty well established that the New York ple trust has crumbled to pleces. The fact is, people, if absolutely compelled by exorbitant prices to do so, can manage to rub along without ples, or can hire help competent to make some sort of substitute for them. An Australasian chemist who has con- tributed a patent feeding bottle to the con- veniences of civilization explains how it works in this style: “‘When the baby is done drinking it must be unscrewed and lald in a cool place under the tap. If the baby does not thrive on fresh milk it should be bolled.” Louls Richard Schoenheit, who com- manded the guards at Lincoln's bler and was one of the twenty-one bearers of the martyred president's casket, is living at Old Fort, the historic residence at German Valley, N. J,, which during the revolution, ary war afforded alternately shelter for the Continental and British soldlery. Congressman Landis was introducing his brother Fred to some colleagues on the floor of the house at the opening of con- gress. A western man, by way of making talk, asked the newcomer: “How did you happen to come to congress, Mr. Landis?" “To tell you the truth,” was the half- laughing answer. “I was out of & job and 8o I went out for this one.” Joseph G. Fulton, for over half a century & forage master in the United States army and one of the best known men In Virginia, died at Old Point Comfort a few days ago. With him the office of forage master passes out of emistence. It was abolished several years ago, but as Mr. Fulton was the only person holding such a position he was al- lowed to continue for life. He entered the United States army in 1850. Strange things happen in unexpected places. Colonel A. K. McClure, former editor and publisher of the defunct Phila- delphia Times, has been appointed clerk of the supreme court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. The clerk is paid by fees, which are said to amount to between $12,(00 and $1500 a yea The appointment is a gratifying tribute to a distinguished jour- nalist who is nearly 76 years of age and is said to have lost a fortune by the collapse of the Sault Ste. Marie Industrial scheme. Benator Vest of Missouri is dictating a serics of reminiscent articles to his steno- grapher. The veteran statesman is much enfeebled physically, but his memory has lost none of its wonderful retentiveness. His eyesight is so bad that he cannot look up references, but it is found that the dates and minutest circumstances he gives from memory are absolutely correct. He re- cently drew on his memory for verbatim reproduction of a letter which he received from Jefterson Davis nineteen years ago, though he had not seen, the document for many months. , NUOVEMBER 16, 1903, ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. m the Current of the Metropo! The Tammany tiger has abundant cause for smacking fts chops and throwing a fit of joy as it contemplates the approach- ing feast. Scores of unfinished public en- terprises go over to the Fourteenth street 200. They Include the municipal bullding and down-town terminal, tunnel connec- tlon of East river bridges, extension plers in the North river, second tunnel to Brook- lyn, east side tunnel on Lexington avenue, and the moving platform enterprise. The total cost of these and minor enterprises reaches the enormous sum of $160,000,000. Contract graft Is eliminated from most of these big jobs, as the awards have already Dbepn made. The new source of water sup- ply will also be a problem for the McClel- lan administration. At a cost of thousands of dollars a commission, headed by Prof. W. H. Burr of Columbla, has recently completed a survey, and has made a par- tlal report recommending the purchase of the watershed in Ulster county. Decision will be left to the incoming administra- tlon. Ripples Life in Attorney are searching New Jersey towns for Miss Carew, a young nurse, formerly employed In a New York hospital, in or- der to pay her $10,00 under the will of Frank J. Edwards, a civil engineer of Pasadena, Cal Bdwards fell {ll in New York three years ago and was cared for at the hospital by Miss Carew. He wished her to become his wife, but she was in no hurry to desert her profession, and after corresponding with Edwards at Pasadena for a long period she disappeared. The other heirs of the estate are pushing the search be- cause the estate cannot he divided until she shall have been found. Charles Becker, the “King of counterfeit- ers,” who has been serving a term of elght years in a California prison for rais- ing a check for $12 to $23,000, has returned to his home in Brooklyn. Becker Is one of the feared criminals In the country. Since his release from prison, more than a month ago, hé has been constantly shadowed by secret service men, though he had said frequently during his recent term in prison that he had reformed, and was putting his talents to none but lawful uses, ‘While in prison in California Becker in- vented a process for treating paper so as to make it impossible to erase figures, change stamp marks, or alter the printing thereon without detection. He is sald to be anxious to start a legitimate business of manufacturing such paper. Becker is known all over the country and in all the big cities of the world as an ex- pert engraver, as well as a clever counter- feiter. Beveral years ago he put in circu- lation & number of 100-franc bank notes on the bank of France. They were admitted to be perfect facsimiles of the originals, and only because of duplicate numbers was the fraud discovered. New York has made an important addi- tion to its ownership of historic landmarks and notable pleasure grounds in the buy- ing of the Jumel mansion and the lands surrounding it. For Interesting assocl tions the house and its environment are well worth frequent visits, and for ple- turesque scenery they will be preclous to future generations. The views of the Har- lem valley, of the Fordham helghts, of great stretches of varied plctures on both sides of the river and of the bridges which span the stream hold the observer spell- bowhd. New York tobacconists are following the European custom of discouraging tobacco chewing by not keeping the article on sale. It 1s not a matter of morals, but of profits. Between Twenty-third and Forty-second streets on Broadway a dozen dealers have dropped plug and finecut from their stocks. “When you cut off a man's chewing you increase his smoking capacity,” sald one dealer today. “Besides, chewing is every- where conceded to be a disgusting vice, while smoking is generally held 16 be legitimate. In Berlin and Paris no first- class dealer has the stuff on his counters. Tobacco chewing is almost exclusively an American vice. ‘While there is a marked decrease in the demand for the weed in this form, I regret to say that the paper- covered clgarette s gaining ground. Of course, there is money in it, and there is no danger that it will fall under the ban placed on chewing tobacco.”” On the east side, that abode of the immense foreign population of New York, chewing tobacco finds little favor. It is only the half-civil- ized American who keeps the vice allve. On the other hand, the avowed tobacco chewer is a stranger to many deadly vices which are generally practiced by the for- signers who eschew the filthy weed. This 1s so in New York, at least. “A great deal is heard about the swarms of allens that pour into this port,” writes the New York correspondent of the Phila- delphia Ledger, “but when the tide turns the other way, as it occasionally does, it s hardly noticed. Thousands, of foreign born persoris are for various reasons returning to their native land just now. Foot ball rushes and old time cavalry charges could not be compared with the crush yesterday afternoon when the Itallan legions swarmed around the pler at the foot of Amity street. Tehre were about 1,500 men, a few women and children, all bound to get back to Genoa or Naples on the steam- ship Patria, of the Fabre line. A decreaso in the demand for labor is said to be one of the causes of the present rush for Eu- rope. There are hundreds of gay young Lothr- los hanging around New York. They usu- ally make thelr headquarters in the grill rooms of fashionable uptown hotels. Most of them have fallen into money by in- heritance and seem to be continually try- ing to prove the old saw about “one gen- eration between shirtsleeve and shirt- sleeve” by blowing in their patrimony. They are the beaux of this modern Baby- lon, striving, as & recent magasine writer says, “to outdo eachother In the ignoble contest a8 to which of them might soonest part with the attribues of manhood.” Congressman Perkins happened in & downtown New York office the other day and called upon an old friend, an alderman. During the chat an Italian couple came and asked in broken English if the alderman would unite them in marriage. The alder- man performed the ceremony, and after accepting his modest fee politely handed to the bride an umbrells. The congress- man eyed the proceedings gravely, and after the couple went out asked: “Do you always do that Charles “Do what? Marry them? Oh, yes." “No, I mean be- stow a presént upon the bride. “A pres. ent! Why, wasn't that her nmbrella? gasped the alderman. “No it was mine," replied the congressman, sadly. m—— Onuse tor Gratificat New fork Evening Post (ind.) It would be & strange historic reversal if the republican party, which began its lifte with & denunciation of the democrats tor proposing to rob a neighbor, should be turned out of power for attempting the same thing. -Yet that s not impossible. A thoughtful republican was heard to yesterday: “This Panama blunder is t kind of tiing which defeats presidents.” The next few days will decide whether the democratic party is alert enough to seize its great opportunity to oppose President Roosevelt in the name of the national BEET SUGAR INGUSTRY. Tta Relation to the Cuban Treaty n Viewed from Boston. Boston Transcript A correspondent in Omaha, Neb., ing to portray the profitablences farm industry of beet ralsing, gave out some revealing figures. It is the far- thest from our desire to Injure or belittle any progressive Industry. But in our study of the beet-sugar problem we have lear to discriminate between the vaiue of beet culture to the farmer and the profits which are coplously garnered by the beet-sugar refining companles, The Nebraska farmers, our Omaha dis- patch says, reallze somo $800,000 for thelr ©rop in n year, and the three factories produce 24,000,000 pounds of sugar; that is, léss than 11,000 tons. The writer says that an acre of beets this year ylelds the farmer 86, and that the farmer who hauls the beets to the factorles at $4 per ton saves the railroad profit and also has the privi- lege of trucking home pulp or pomace to feed to his stock. We are unable to| figure up =0 much as $600,000 for the crop since, taking the yield at 14 per cent In sugar, there would be required for 11,000 tons of sugar 78,571 tons of beets, and thelr value at $4 would be $314,28. This confirms the tmpression that the importance of the beet culture is much exaggerated. A production of nine tons of beets to the acre is shown by the evidence before the committees of congress to be good ¥ 0I(| Nine tons at $4 would yield $, n, The October 16 sugar circular of Willett & Gray, m a report from Leavitt, Neb., states: “About two-thirds of a crop is ex- pected from the acreage in the eastern counties; the high water in August delayed growth for a week or two, besides wash- Ing out parts of the flelds and covering many of the beets with mud. The average yield per acre expected around Fremont, Neb., is not more than six or seven tons, while some fields were destroyed by water and will not be harvested.” The same statisticlans state the estimated’beet-sugar product in twelve states this year, 233,000 tons, which, with the product of eleven previous years, makes the total of the industry 000 tons in twelve years, re- quiring 6,664,285 tons of beets, the value of which to the farmers at $4 would be $%,- 27,640 in the whole twelve years in twelve states. We object to the consideration of the selfish demands of this truly unimportant Industry to limit our discharge of obliga- ation to Cuba or to bind the hands of con- gress for a term of five years or more and subject the people to a heavy tax, all to protect the beet-sugar refiners, while the western farmers are getting but the lean- est of farmers' pay from the raw mate- rial they supply to the trust. Beet-ralsing for sugar requires the great- est care from the farmers and sale at low price. The refiners admit that the manufacture of sugar is profitable to them with the high price of refined sugar pro- tected by a duty of about two cents per pound, and the added benefit in some of the states of one-half cent to one cent per pound bounty. The refineries repre- sent, in New Jersey corporations, some $30,- 000,000 of capital. The beet culture, beyond the crop just harvested, represents no in- vestment for the future, in the event that the deep-tilled soll used this year for beets should be devoted to other crops in 1904, according to the rule of rotation of crops. The American people are earnest to have Justice done to Cuba in a fair reciprocity and their patience is exhausted when thol beet-sugar trust, which has succeeded ln depriving Cuba of the advantages promlled for two long years, now demand a guar- anty for as long a term as the treaty for the continuance of the present high duty on sugar, and a pledge that the petty re- duction of one-third cent per pound shall not be enlargsd. \ OLD KING CORN. Puts Up an Astonishing P Chicago Record-Herald. Two months ago, when the early frosts came, the United States suffered a short spasm of doleful dumps over the outlook for the éorn crop. Now, however, the gov- ernment ptatisticlans see reason to believe that the 1908 crop will be larger than that | of any previous year in the history of the | country, with the single exception of 102 The estimate 18 for a crop of 2,313,000,000 bushels, grown on a little less than 50,000,000 acres of land, with an average vield of about %.8 bushels per acre. Last year the corn growers not only planted a larger’ acreage, but secured a | heavier yleld. On a trifle more than §4,000,- 000 acres 262,000,000 bushels were grown, the average per acre being .8 bushels. | This year has an advantage over last year, however, in the quality of the corn, the general average being 83.1 per cent as compared with 80.7 per cent last year. In 1901 the general average was 75.7 per cent and in 1900 §5.5 per cent. The corn crops of the last decade have varied greatly in size, the worst being that | of 1894, when 62,000,000 acres produced only 1,212,000,000 bushels. Since then the acre- | age has ranged between 80,000,000 and 90.- 000,000 bushels, except in the two vears 1901 | and 1902, when it was above 90,000,000, and the total yield has ranged from 1,522,000,000 to 2,623,000,000 bushels. The low figure was in 1901 T 1900 the total crop of the world outside | the United Btates was only about 700,000,000 bushels. The good yield of this year, maintaining as it does the purchasing power of the corn-growing communities, will be a help- ful factor in the commercial and industrial prosperity of the country. Waltham the free upon request. American Waltham Waltham, under- | ! i World: | | AS OTHERS SEE Us, Destiny Points to North Amerien | Under the s of 014 Gle Indianapolis News. We commend to our native fault-finders, | the folk that can fever see Anything good or righteous In the action of our govern ment, and are forever holding us down to precise letter pf the law, the follow- ing comment from the World, of Toronto. In it we get that valuable thing—a sight of ourselves as others see us. An especial value of the present view is the note of cynicism that advises us that the “Yan- kee" quality of our procedure is not lost to sight. But what is particularly valuable to us is the largeness of view that our nadian neighbor has. It can feel the large significance of events-—-a thing that our home-grown critics never can, when It concerns ourselves, Says the Toronto “When the United States drove Spain out of Cuba and Porto Rico they made one step in the process of obtaining con- trol of Central American waters. The | recognition of the de facto government ot Panama scems to be another step in the direction. Colombia is to be elbowed out just as Spain was, by alding revolution in the territory over which control {s sought. To obtain complete control over the isth- mian canal, the United States adopted other methods, but with equal stcoess. Negotiation with Great Britain gave it all it required. All these movements point to- & effort to obtain maritime controt of the North American continent for the United States, and we are bound to say they have so far been reasonably successful. The coast line of the gulf of Mexico and the Atlantle is for the most part controlled by the United States. The possession of Alaske gives them the Paclfie coast all the way from the arotic cirole to Mexico, with the exception of the strip of shore of British Colombla, left to us by the ‘grotesque travesty of justice)' The arms of United States are about us; and if the process goes a iittle farther, we need not worry about the question of coast defense, It will be as hard for an enemy to get in as for us to get out." ] ————— LAUGHING GAS. The Husband—Maria, when was It I paid that last insurance assessment? The Wife—~It was on flll Wlh of Oétober. 1 remember it because the our tenth hired girl left Ill —Chlu“ une, “It appears that Dr. W of the Agrl cultura) rtment thinks a lack of hal on the h s a sign af high Inteliige OI. “‘Pshaw!" re, llad 8. Henpes foolish {dea! t H"‘i as bare as an Pll Record-] “When you stahts In findin’' fault,” sald Jncle Eben, “you wants to stop bah dat you's takin’ up a job liable to” never git finished." - tar. d Bulllon Il lhe very soul of old school cour!el\' isn’ Al mAku )ou think so?" “Why, he wouldn't play bridge with his daughter's hushand for fear he might win some of his own money back."~Town Toples. ““The boss asked 80, llred didn’t es. 1 (oh‘l Nm I was up early this morni Hud Huh 1 “I aldn’t say I got up.. I sald T was up.” ~Philadelphia Pl‘glol i " Mrs. Fergu M? falling n! yourl dld”fi?’pra&cher touch on in_his n_this morping? Mr. F lon—What YOou ask mé that ‘l\lfluon recyieon—Be use you havé been as a_bear ince you came rom cllulvh—!l ouls Post-Dis- ;ou ‘what made you look You never got up early in your ‘'Yes, ma'am,” sal 1 ro- A S i, S, e dering her first METiL of subpiten: 1 ve pat lown rlor matches, what next?" “"Well, er, T suppose T ought to have some kitchen' matches, too, oughtn't 17"'—Butte Intermountain. hVllllle—whlt is the matter with Plunger's Green—Yesterday was his wooden wed- ding and he e his wife a rolling pin for & present and when he returned from cele- brating the event she returned the present with a speech suitable to the occasion.— Detroit Free Pres THE BELLS OF LONG AGO, Arthur Lewis Tub! Thmu[h mem'ry they e chlm‘nl still, e bells ‘of long ‘Vllh undulu(lnl tones lhll llke a peaceful At |w|llkh( whon I sit alone beside my window here, They " come. like volces from the past in cadence sweet and clear. Those village bells, those sfivery knells, 1 hear them sounding soft and low, Those bells of long Ago. !"Tis Babbath evenl lofl ‘with June, how opened lc the morn and Diushed 10 st 1ta I Droops now, m a dewy kilss of nature's fond good: o, rm’\‘eotul lnhbnh )al ‘what love your e Sweet aom ‘your music ever flow, Dear bells of long ago. Another plclun Somes to view, a joyous and a bright | T see ; Efl}‘ and happy throng in concourss of de They're mnrohlng to the little church, shy nd bashful swain, White' memu with blossoms strew thelr path—it is a marrtuge train, Glad wedding bells, thelr cadence swells In sweetest tones that hearts may know, Love bells of long ago. But now there comes a sadder sceno that lingers through the years, To touch the heart with sorrow's pang and fill the eves with tears. A grave is in the churchyard made, and, though the earth be fair, One who was more than dear to me at sleep is resting there. 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