Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1903, Page 18

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I oy L oy S A D 'y m“:f the aotusl_number of full and k month o coples of Dally rning, nday Bee printed during ber, 1908, was as follows: 1. 1 28,830 Net average sales. GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to Pytore me. thia b4 &,lu Octobers X' D, . B, HUNGA’ - From now on until after New Year's the bears will have the right-of-way of ‘Wall street. er——————— ~ What effect will the Republic of Panama have on the price of Panama hats next spring? Nebraska senators have not yet secured a doorkeeper in the House of the Lords. Yea, not even a messenger. o ——— ~ Beasonable weather for planting fire ~ escapes is the forecast of the state labor - commissioner for Omaha and South ‘Omaha. ———— It 1s along about now that the horny- tillers of the soll sit down to comfortably on the folly of in town, wheng men must hustle year through. * gE—— tinen Stickney’s thousand-dollar con- tion. to the Omaha Chamber of ce 18 of small consequence un- President Stickney shall continue to d up for Omal: f e _ The people of Nebraska will be dé- d ‘to learn through the Omaha n reform mouth organ that District Sumers returns from Wash- ~with a pleased and at the same . time an aggressive look on his face ‘which disfigures his mobile mouth. E——— The New York Independent inelines to ‘the opinion that the effort to have the copal church pronounce all remar- after divorce, even of the inno- party, unlawful will meet serious itlon. An instance stri) ly in is the remarriage in the family of inderbilts a few hours after the was granted last Friday. —— That the whirligig of times brings t a great many chauges is again y emphasis in the fact that Rev. B, Fay Mills, who ten years ago stigm i Omaha as “the wickedest city, " more recently left his membership ~with both the Congregationalists and . Presbyterians to join the Unitarians on £ ;:ult of their more moderate views, ‘bas turned back to the work of an evangelist and may In the no dim and distant future resume the onslaught on Omaha where he left off. & ¢ esm——————— - The men who measuce the velocity of . the winds, the density of the clouds and 9 5 iptensity of the frosts are not all nbuefl in the observatories of the ‘weather bureau. Notice, for exawmple, the hindeast and the forecast of the & Co. commerclal agency, which tells the country that “continued cold PM has offered a needed stimulant 10 trade in all seasonable lines, but par- _ticularly in clothing and wearing ap- parel, and this seasonable demand has given stronger tone to cotton goods and ~ ereated a Dbetter feeling In wooléns.” ~ WIll anybody deny that we are living in an of marvelous intellectual evolu- tlon? EEm— Frank J. Sadilek is ‘the first repub- Nefin candidate for state office in 1004 to shy his castor in the ring. Mr, Sadi- Jek aspires to become the next secretary ~ of state, for which position he is emi- nently qualified by experience in various positions of honor and trust, which he has filled with credit to himself aud his . party. Twenty years ago Mr. Sadilek ' represénted Raline county in the legls Jature that elected Charles ¥. Mand son United States senator, and since then the people of Saline county have ly eloeted Mr. Sadllek as treas- and registrar of deeds of thelr In 1896 Mr. Sadilek was a can- 4 NEW DEPARTURE. A national board of helpful informa- tion has just been started in the city of New York that promises to minimite the cost of experience and multiply the fund of human knowledge gathered from practical observation. The basic prin- ciples of the bureau are embodied in the inaugural address of its president, Dr. Josiah Strong, in the following declaration: 1t any manufacturer or merchant wishes to know what other employers have done to better conditions for their cmployes in any direction he can write to the institute and recelve descriptions, and often photo- graphie fllustrations, of the most successful experiments in. that direction. If a city wishes to Improve municipal conditions in any direction it need not send junketing expeditions to learn what has been done at distant points, but can secure from the institute accurate information as to what has been done at those points. If churches wish to know how other churches have met a changed environment they can secure from the institute information upon this point. If philanthropists or social reformers in any state wish to know what has been done by legislation In other states in re- gard to the problems of pauperism, crime, child labor, industrial accidents and all kindreéd matters the institute is prepared to answer such inquirles for all its mem- bers—as it keeps up to date an accurate record, not only of the legislation of the forty-five states of the American union, but 4lso of the progressive countries in Burope, Here is an opportunity for gathering information that cannot be found in public libraries, academies, colleges or other institutions established for the dissemination of useful knowledge, AK-SAR-BEN—AUDITORIU M. It is an open secret that the delay in the construction of the Auditorium is chiefly due to the very material increase in the cost of the structure above the original estimates and the consequent shortage of funds necessary for its com- pletion. It is of great moment to Omaha that the Auditorium shill be opened as early as possible during the coming Jjubilee year. Crediting the executive committee and the directory of the Auditorium with abundant public spirit and energy in the prosecution of their task, it still re- mains a very serlous question whether they will be able to achieve the hoped for results without the co-operation and substantial support of the organization that has made Omaha famous. We re- fer to the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, who constitute the most progressive element of Omaha’s business community. The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben are notori- ously without a home—not even a den— and the time is propitious for a merging of Ak-Sar-Ben and Auditorium under one general management. The details of such a merger will suggest them- selves. The community of interest is there and we confidently believe that public sentiment will be overwhelmingly in favor of bringing together the men who “do things.” As a matter of fact, a large proportion of the members of the Auditorium directory are already in the ranks of the Knights, while a very large proportion of the Knights would become very valuable ‘adjuncts to the active force now endeavoring to complete the Auditorium. Looking to the future, it must be ap- parent that the Auditorium building under joint management with. the Knights could be made to pay its way, whereas a division of the forces and resources of the separate bodies would tend to weaken both and make both a constant drain upon the community at SENATUR HALE'S PREDICTION. In the course of the debate in the United States senate.on the resolution to invite Cuba to come into the United States on an equal footing with the states of the union, Senator Hale of Maine, speaking in opposition to the resolution, said that we would not in- vite Great Britain to let Canada join the union and in this connection made the prediction that men listening to him will see the time when Canada will be- come an integral part of the United States. He declared that if the plan of the most adventurous of British poli- ticlans, Mr. Chamberlain, is carried out, a tarif war will be inaugurated be- tween Great Britain and the United States and this English pelitician will seek to set Canada up as a great agri- cultural rival to us. “Out of that,” said the senator, “will arise conditions, dis- cusslons and considerations that will end in the union of the two peoples.” Mr. Hale stated what a considerable number of Americans, particularly in the stutes bordering on the Dominion, believe to be inevitable and a consum- mation of the not distant future. The opinion that Canada will in time be- come a part of the United States is not new. It has long obtalued and has had the countenance of some of our most prominent statesmen. There was also, not many years ago, a considerable sen- timent in the Dominion favorable to annexation with the United States. ' But existing conditions do not appear to warrant the prediction of Senator Hale, The dissatisfaction of the Canadian people with the Alaskan boundary de- cision has not increased the annexation feeling, though it probably has some- what strengthened the sentiment in favor of Independence. This seems to be shown in the proposition to ask the imperial government to grant Canada treaty-making powers. There Is, how- ever, no indication of any general desire among the people of the Dominion to throw off alleglance to the empire and discard the protection whieh it gives them. There is no doubt that the great majority of them feel that they are more secure as subjects of Great Britain than they would be if | independent, while doubtless most of them believe that no benefit or advantage would be galned by apnexation to the United States. 8o far as the policy of colonial belng urged by Mr. Chamber- lain Is concerned, its intended effect is strengthen' the alleglance of the and if it should be sdopted | fn the agricultural develop- 0 THE OMAHA DA ment of Canada, even in the improbable event of a tariff war—which Great Britain would certainly make every pos sible effort to avert—Canadlans would not be any more disposed than now to favor annexation to the United States. The natural effect of the development of thelr country under such a policy would be to make them more loyal to the empire of which they are a part. Granting that the ultimate absorption of the Dominion by the United States is Inevitable, it is extremely doubtful if it will come within the time suggested by Senator Hale, which does not reach beyond the present generation, or indeed cover more than a couple of decades. In fact it is not easy to discover in present conditions any real tendency to- ward a union of Canada and the United States, e THE PANAMA PAYMENT. It appears that there is some unenasi- ness im eastern financial circlés in re- gard to the possible effect upon the money market of the large payment which our government will have to make to the Panama Canal company and to the new republic for canal con- cessions, the total of which is $50,000,- 000. There really seems to be no neces- sity for any concern on this score, since the financial resources of the govern- ment already in hand are more than ample to meet’ the demand for the Panama payment without at all dis- turbing the money market. There is today in the national treas- ury, in round numbers, $144,000,000 of actual cash and the government bas $159,000,000 on deposit in banks and subject to demand. This makes $318, 009,000 available at once for the pay- ment of the Panama engagement and tha amount can be taken from the treasury without making the least im- pression upon the money market. That this will be the course of the govern- mwent in the matter may be safely as- sumed and consequently there i no reason to apprehend that the Panama payment, which may not have to be made for some months to come, will work the least hardship to the national treasury or to the money market. —— THE CHAMBERLAIN CAMPAIGN. The world is watching with no little interest, if not real concern, the prog- ress of the Chamberlain campaign for the reform of the British fiscal policy. It is not to be concealed that the advo- cate of a change in the economic re.s- tions of the British empire is making some progress. Those who at the outset of his movement advanced the opinion that he wouid meet with no encourage- ment from the English people and that the agitation which he started wotld be briefly disposed of, have certainly learned to take a different view of the situation. They have become fully con- vinced not only that Mr. Chamberlain is most determinedly in earnest in advo- cating his policy, but that there are hundreds of thousands of very thought- ful men in Great Britain who are in- tensely in sympathy with the Chamber- lain idea. Striking evidence of this has recently been given. . Addresses by Mr. Chamber- lain at several points, at which working- men were especially conspicuous, were received with the utmost enthusiasm. Nowhere is it recorded that the dJdistin- guished leader of the fiscal reform move- ment has falled to receive the most cor- dial demonstrations in favor of his policy. Wherever he has appeared he has been greeted by great and enthusi- astic audlences, some of which have passed resolutions heartily commending his course and policy. Mr. Chamberlain is certainly making a very great cam- paign. It is in some respects the most remarkable canvass ever made in the United Kingdom, very much mere ex- traordifiary than thé famous Cobden campaign in the interest of free trade, because the conditions and circumstances are widely different. . We will not venture to predict what the outcome of the Chamberiain cam- paign will be. That aggressive and able statesman is undoubtedly making headway and it is certainly among the possibilities that he will carry his policy to victory, though he would be more than ordinarily venturesome who would wager upon such a result. The out- come will be determined by the com- mon sense of the British people. Those who are opposed to the Chamberlain policy are making an utterly trifling and inconsequential fight against It, which so far as can be discerned is hav- ing very little effect upon the public| mind. Amerlcans have no little Interest in this contest between the British free traders and the men who belleve that the salvation of British interests de- pends upon a radical change in English fiscal policy. Perhaps such a change would prove inimical to American in- terests, but it is in line with a principle which this country has long cherished. A bill has been introduced in the United States senate making the laws for the suppression of lotteries applicable to letters, postal cards, eirculars, pamphlets and other publications concerning any business contracts, or life, fire or other insurance policies trasmitted into any state or territory by concerns or persons not authorized to transact such business in the state or territory from which the same afe transmitted. This measure is aimed directly at bogus and wildeat con- cerns that collect premiums that afford no protection to policy holders. Scores of sueh concerns that are operating in various parts of the ceuntry will be wiped off the map if this bill becomes a law. E———— The Nebraska state labor bureau is, laboring very bhard trying to find some- thing to do .in order to convince the next legislature that its maintenance at the expense of the taxpayers is justified. Its latest scheme of self-employment Is to establish & to distribute har- vest hands the farmers for next year. In’ the state labor ‘ \ LY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1008. burean proposes to turn Itself into a farm hand employment agency. As A plece of emotional usefulness a harvest hand labor bureau might commend it self, but from the practical point of view it will not prove very attractive. When the demand for harvest hands is greater than the supply of farm laborers there will be no demand for middiemen to find employment for the unemployed and when the demand for harvest hands is smaller than the supply all the labor bureaus of the state cannot create em- ployment for the overflow of farin hands out of a job. Now that Grover Cleveland has pub- licly announced his unalterable and con- clusive determination never again to be- come a democratic nominee for the presi- dency, Willlam J. Bryan may be ex- pected to abandon his explorations of Greaf Britaln, France and Switzerland, give up the Carlsbad liver cure and return to America with unimpaired lung power and enlarged digestive apparatus. Overdid the J Saturday Evening Post. There is no doubt that the trusts which set out to peesess the land and sea got some of the water, but they did not succeed in salting it down. Chuckles ot Happy Pops. Baltimore American. Could President Roosevelt have foreseen the number of letters he would receive from the proud parents of whole herds of chil- dren he woula have felt neither the neces- sity nor the inclination to say anything about race sulcide. Progre: Democracy. 8t. Louls Republic. Another princess has succumbed to royalty's old habit of running away with the coachman. The increasing frequency of such elopements may be viewed as a con- cession from royalty and as the advance- ment of democratic institutions. The Beam Scoldi the Mote. Minneapolis Times. It has taken three or four decisions of the supreme court of Nebraska to stop the reading of the Bible as a religious ceremony in one school district of the state, and at that it doesn’t stay stopped. If Nebraskans fought as well In other matters of con- sclence and law what a heavenly common- wealth it would be! Oft with the Pr New York Tribune. Official figures seem to indicate that Brother Jonathan has been competing vig- orously with his revered uncle, John Bull, for profitable trade in SBouth Africa. Amer- jean exports to that quarter of the globe are by no means insignificant. May mod- est, coy and blushing Yankees be permitted #o express the timid hope that the better man of the two may carry off the prizes? Backbone of the Republic. Detroit Free Press. Forty years ago the farmers owned (5 per cent of the wealth of the countfy; now they own only 21 per cent. But possibly this relative decrease is due to the fact that the farmer cannpt capitalize his farm on the basis of the value of the land and the profits from last year's crops and the esti- mated profits from next year's crop. The farmer is the backbone of the republic, but he is wofully ignorant of high finance. ———— Doling Foollsh Things. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Parry, president of the National As- soclation of Manufacturers, has sald a great many foolish things about labor un- jons, but probably none of the things he has sald are as foolish as the things he is doing to protect himself from the as- sassination and his children from the kid- naping which he professes to belleve are Iimmiment in revenge for what he has sald: about unions. Probably he has had threat- ening letters; a great many people have had threatening letters, but the iron gates and the guards armed with rifles who make Mr. Parry as inaccessible as the ozar are rather a plece of self-advertising than anything else. Mr. Parry is a tempting to be an industrial czar, and he probably feels it necessary to keep up all the appearances consistently with the part. — Ninety Per Cent Who Fail. Saturdey Evening Post. A while ago'it was Chicago that first dls- covered thatpad cooking was responsible for most of the divorces out that way. And now it is a Chicago woman who pro- poses that women be admitted to the suf- frage wherever they can pass a satisfac- tory examination in housekeeping, and she suggests that the quallfication would ex- clude most of her sex as effectually as the present barrier. Considerably re than 90 per cent of the men who eny In business fail; rarely is there a man of any age who has not been discharged at least once In his life for incompetence; where s there an employer of male labor who s not brimful of stories of his trials with help who don't ki their business and won't learn? 8o, we see that if the women as a rule fall short of giving sutisfaction In their chief line of endeavor, their husbands, fathers and brothers have small right to sit In judgment. —_—_— FINDING THE REAL INDIAN, Misstonnaries Digcover the True Article wod Make an Exhibition, Indianapolis Journal. In a report’ made last week to the Ameri- can Missionary assoclation attention was called to the handsome material provision made by the national government for. the Indlans “With $240.000 to their credit fn the government vaults in Washington and with more school houses than they know what 10 do with, the problem today,” said the report, “Is really how wisely to do less for the Indfan, how to give him an appr clation of, his possessions, based upon char- acter.” It'is here, it was declared, that the United States government has fafled. “It has never found the real Indian. The Christian church can do for the Indian that which the government cannot do,” It f possible that the government has never found the real Indian, but it has had a long time in which to get acquainted with him, and some of his ‘“real” attributes must certainly have come to light in that time. A good mapy of its government rep- Tesentatives must feel that knbw the red man very well indeed. Perhaps he might have been a different sort of Indian if less had been done for him, but that is quite another story. All through the years his sentimental friends in and out of the Indian Rights association have urged the government to do more for him and have apparently beea very unhappy because so little was dome. It fs quite refreshing, Thergfors, to learn from another and equally authoritative source that more has been done than necessary, even 'though somo essential things have been omitted. 8till, why should the missionary associa- tlon criticise the government for its short- comings while it admits in the same breath that the church can do more for his re- #eneration than the state can? And if the why has not the ehurch discov- ‘developed him? No impediments been placed In its way, but quite the “Strongest 1n the World” NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS The following letter is evidence of the fact that an endow- ment policy in the Equitable makes money for you and at the same time protects your family. Take it out with the Equitable and a load of worry will be lifted from your shoulders and you will have confidence i:. the Tuture that nothing clse can impart. value, which November 23, 1903, Mr. H. D. Neely, Manager, Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Sir:—I was very glad to find that my policy in the Equitable was indeed a “Sight draft at maturity.” November 19, 1883, I took a twenty yéar Tontine policy; November 19, 1903, I presented it at your office for its cash was immediately paid. You offered to allow me to continue policy at old rate and withdraw accumulated dividends, which exceeded 51 per cent of the premiums I had paid, but I selected to take its cash value. . However, as I did not want to diminish the amount of insurance I carried or be without an Equitable policy in my safe, I gave yon my application for a policy in an amount equal to the one canceled. This is the best evidence of my entire satisfaction with the splendid results attained by the . Yours very truly, H. J. PENFOLD. Equitable. OUR CUSTOMERS OUR BEST FRIENDS The Equitable Lite Assurance Society H. D. NEELY, MANAGER. Merchants National Bank Bldg., Omaha. HE'S GETTING GRACE. ’ Big Chiet Geron! Hobbles Up to the Mousmers' Bench. Brooklyn Eagle. The announcement from Fort Sill that Geronimo, the Apache chief, who led Gen- eral Nelson A. Miles such a merry chase in 18%, has joined the Reformed Dutch chureh, s full of suggestiveness. The most vagrant imagination could not picture Geromimo joining the Methodists, the Bap- tists or the Salvation Army. It would be relatively easy to think of him as a Roman Catholie, But on the whole there is no religious body that commends itself more strongly to the native dignity of the un- spolled aborigine than the Reformed Dutch church. The Indlan scorns emo- tion. He took naturally to the forms and symbolism oftered by the Jesuit missionar- Nelther the doctrine of the immacu- ate conception nor consubstantiation had any troubles for him. To the man who be- gins by seelng God In clouds and hearing Him in the winds, all things are made easy except what our civilization terms generically ‘“revivalism.” Look at a collection of portraits of the men, who, in black gown and with im- perturbable gravity and sterling scholar- ship have maintained the reputation of the Reformed Dutch pulpit; who have stood for the most undiluted Calvinism, and against all that they regarded as reli- glous hysteria. You will note a striking proportion of round faces, low, but broad brows, strong lips and suggestions of the double chin. Then look at a picture of Geronimo, and you will find the same type of physiogonomy, the same combination of alert shrewdness and stern, uncompro- mising dignity. Truly, Geronimo has found his place, if, as stated, he has joined the Reformed Dutch Church of America. The veteran Apache who fought both Crook and Miles, and then beat both of them at compromise bargaining showed at once Dutch courage and Dutch business ability. That Geronimo has, even in his old age, a touch of the dry Dutch humor is apparent from the Fort Sill dispatch: “He attended a mission to the Comanches, and sat in a front seat.”” The Apaches and Comanches are sworn foes. To the political pessimist we cheerfully commend these words of the Hon. George Frisble Hoar, senator from Massachusetts in the congress of the United States: “The lesson which I have learned in life, which 18 impressed on me dally, and more deeply as I grow old, is the lesson of good will and good hope. I believe that today i8 better than yesterday and that tomorrow will be better than today. I belleve that in spite of so many errors and wrongs, and even crimes, my country men of all classes desire what is good, and not what is evil.” Here is & man who has been identified with the history of the United States for a period of more than fifty years. In his autoblography, he is able to say proudly, but without boasting, “I have known per- sonally and quite intimately, or bave known intelligent and trustworthy per- sons who have known personally and quite intimately, many men who have have had a great share in the history of this coun- try and its Mterature, for 130 years.” He 18 recognized throughout the country as perhaps the best representative of ‘“the New England consclence” in the halls of congress. He has come nearer than any other member of the United States senate to obeying in spirit and letter Kipling" injunctions to the English, “Keep ye th faith, the faith our fathers sealed us. Yet in the recollections of seventy years e finds mo reason to be anything but cheerful and hopeful. There is no harking back to “the good old times,” when all men were supposed to be honest, all states- men pure and all legislation digintercsted. ‘The senator himself knows something per- sonally about those good old times. His ) | ment. chain of personal recollections and personal tradition goes back to the war of American independence, and standing in the valley of the shadow he feels that he ought to lift up his volce to say that these days are better than those days and that the days to come will be better than the days that are now here. We' think the senator is right about it, and it is good to find p man who has lived so long and so much, without los- ing the buoyant optimism of his youth. The canker of experfence has corroded none of it. His faith has waxed rather than waned with his years, and when Senator Hoar can see only light In the east, no- body else who is fighting ‘the battle of good government in republican institu- tions has any reason for being discour- aged. — BACK T0 THE TIN PAIL. Restaurant Keepers Remove Potatoes from the Free List. Chicago Inter Ocean. The exigencies of trade are compelling the keepers of downtown restaurants to lop oft gratuities. Music has been omitted already. Modt persons do not care for music with and 80 most people do not re- bsence of the cafe orchestra as a hardship. But now it is potatoes. Potatoes are not to be served unless or- dered, and, it orderqd, they must be paid for. The edict has gone forth. The walter will not hereafter ask you how you will have your potatoes, because, if he asked, you would be likely to take his question as an invitation to have something at the ex- pense of the house. If you want potatoes you must name them in the order. If you do not want potatoes they will not be thrust upon you. Bven this may be borne by the noonday luncher, but 1s this the end of it? Naturally, no. It the removal of the potato from the free Ist is tolerated will not the precedent pave the way for a general revision of (he tariff? ‘What could be more logical than that there should follow an extra charge for gravy? Meat is meat and gravy ls—well, gravy s notSmeat, and if one wants gravy one must order it and pay for it. This is in line with the rule laid down In New York and Boston, and we are following New York and Bos- ton, it is said, in the matter of potatoes. But If we want tea or coffee or chocolate must we also order cream and sugar sep- arately and pay extra for them? Then how about the spoon? How, also, about the nap- kin? In case it happens to be oysters on the shell, must we first order the oysters | and then order the shell, and have the bill itemized? 1f we must pay for everything we order in the restaurants hereafter, are not salt, pepper, vinegar and tabasco sauce, pickles, olives, knives, forks, spoons, etc., likely to be included eventually in the bills? And will it stop there? Who knows? We may be compelled finally to pay an admission price at the door, and fee the boy who opens it for us. ‘We are making progress. We are making progress around the circle rapldly toward the ham, chicken or cheese sandwich, the flask of cold tea, and the quarter of apple ple. Boon no business will be profitable enouglt, no salary large enough, to enable the average man to contribute toward main. taining the costly modern' restaurant. Elther he must patronize some place whers the specialty s merving food and not the encouragement of the fine arts, or he must get back to the tin pall of his fathers. ‘Washington Star. And so it will turn out that when the politiclans go check hunting next year both sides will apply to the sugar trust and both FACTS ABOUT LIFE IN‘UI!ANGP? A Life Annuity Policy in.the Mutual Life is the Lest guarantee é I Thanksgiving dinners for you ahe |1 loved ones during life. }w‘s‘ F. W. FOSTER, 'Phones 1817 and F38205. Bee Bldg J. J. HILL IS GRACIOUS, Desires No Hard Feeling Between Himself the United States. | Detroit Free Press. - . President James J. Hill of the Northern Securities company has unbent and demon- strated that he is not entizely devold of the spirit of compromise by concession. It fs not long since he stoutly proclaimed that he would not permit the federal governent| . to interfere in any way with the conduct|. of the merger which he had done so much to bring about. He considerately recogs nized that the federal authoritfes, like the { walking delegate, must make a -m through some course of activity, but notice that they could not practice on ¢ or interefere with plans made by his i poration, the alleged powers and privileges |/ of which are granted by the soverelgn { of New Jersey. ] But Mr. Hill desires no hard feelings be- | tween himself and the United States. Rather than bring about such a misfortune he would prefer to surrender all the rights granted by New Jersey In the company's charter, “excepting that of purchasing such { securities as the management may see to obtain from an fvestment view point. The right to vote the stock of the thres | raliroad systems merged will be surrens | | dered, as will that of the company to have any volce in the management of either of | them. Tt will be declared before the federal | suprme court that the management of each | will be separate, that there will be ¥ | agreement for a community of interest, -:' ¥ that the machinery of control with the ine dividual lines will be as that before the merger. & It is much to have so powerful and astute | a financier openly acknowledge that he willing to concede something to the o ernment, just for the sake of peace Ay good fellowship, but it imposes the unple ant, If not ungracious, precaution of looks ing out that the magnanimous gift of wls leged franchise rights is not a rhetos #0ld brick. There is an acknowledgment that the company Is In control of the th systems. Otherwise it would be In no posis tion to guarantee separate management oF to make any other positive arrangement to the running of them. Mr. Hill and 4 assoclates own' the majority of the in each. Under no other hypothesis co they make the patronizing acknowledg= ment to the government that it may bave some rights which the company is el to respect just as evidence of good This accepted, the separate manag amounts 1o pothing except as it upon the question of expe: which 1s by the patrons of every well-regulated road organization. The main lines involved are just as n parallel as they were before Mr. Hill came %o conmiderate of the govern: ‘The machinery of management may be tained, as he says it will be, yet there but one directing head, and that be the Northern Becurities company. promises made through its president merely to the scheme of operation, not fe the paramount issue ef the right of the people to enjoy the benefits of o b After all it looks as though the an B mous head of the merger is only seeking o sides will be remembered. The democrats will not get & dollar the less for Mr. Wil- tams’ speech of yesterday nor the republic- ans & dollar the more for the refusal of Mr. Payne to accept the Williams amend- Pursuing & course of sweetness and Mght, the sugar trust is Indisposed and really hasn't the time to cherish animosity or take congressional del.tes at all seri- ously. coax the government into helping him the devil around & stump. His plan is ingenious one and It is very sracious Mr. Hill's part to treat the United government courteously: but in the end will be found that his company may ¢ just what the federal courts say it and no more, He and New bined cannot nullify the federal direct their administration. v