Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1909, Page 4

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P, WALKER, (Seal) Notary Publl e ——————— WHEN OUT OF TOWN. ving the city tem- porarily should .00 6.00 changed as often as requested. Strange, but jokers in are too often no joke, ——— The summer car and the end seat hog will soon be with us again. legislation Never mind the restless natives in Africa. The big stick will help settle things Emma Goldman's husband is to be deported. That is less expensive to Emma than a divorce. Four million cubic yards of earth and rock were moved on the Panama | canal during. March. Going some. CrAzZy, §ffke Tad taken to the | wilderness, but Haskell is still on the | warpath. “There must be something doing in Oklahoma every minute. e | No more deputy judges on our su- | preme court bench, but the deputy Judges would, doubtless, be glad to be promoted to the real judicial jobs. If the habit of dropping $10,000 bills on the plate at Washington churches becomes chronic it may be necessary to put the collectors under | bond. Presumably the 8 o'clock closing bill still permits Lincoln to ring the curfew at 7 o'clock, except when the State fair is on or the legislature in session. According to the official count one of the nominees on the republican city ticket gets his nomination by a plural- ity of seven votes. That's too close for comfort. The servants have testified they never saw Mrs. Howard Gould drink | liquor to excess. If the servants did not see it, there Is a fair presumption it never happened. The Annanias club bids fair to be- come an international organization now that a French newspaper corres- pondent has been presented with a fully paidup membership by ex-Presi- dent Roosevelt. Attorney Gegeral Wickersham ad- mits that he made $300,000 a year practicing law. The president must have secured him on the bargain counter, for his present job only pays $12,000 per year. The indictments against Governor Haskell have been quashed on ac- count of irregularity in the composi- tiog of the grand jury. For a fan so anxious for a vindication, the gov- ernor is pursuing decidedly dilatory tactics. Whether Nebraska new deposit guaranty law s a wise one and whether it is a constitutional legal measure are two different questions. 1f the law is invalid in whole or in part the sooner it is ascertained by proper legal proceedings the better Among the other legacies of the late demo-pop legislature is the ‘mu- tilated primary law. If anything is calculated to discredit the system of direct nominations this wide-open bal- Democratic Impotency. The history of congress from very beginning fails striking an example of impotence on the part of-the mihority as that just presented by the house democrats in the present session. It is axiomatic that an etfective minority constitutes a meost helpful brake on legislation, but the tariff bill which has just been passed by the house goes through without a single imprint of democratic statesmanship. In the campaign which preceded the last election, the democratic platform declared for immediate revision of the tariff and insisted that the democratic party was the only organization capable of performing the work. Dur- ing this campaign, Mr. Bryan as the democratic standard-bearer, explained the party’s tariff policy to be a gradual and piecemeal reduction of schedules with all articles manufactured by trusts placed at once on the free list. Every member of the house elected as a dem- ocrat was elected on the same ticket with Mr. Bryan and on the same plat- form with him and presumably in duty bound to put forth at least an effort to write the democratic tariff plank into law. Assuming tha the minority could not be united upon a democratic tariff bill as a whole, it would naturally be ex pected that they would present some sort of an amendment declaring that the present revision was only a part of a scheme of gradual reduction and enlarging the free list by the addition of all trust-made articles. Fallure to offer these amendment goes to show that the house democrats are as much at variance on these proposition as on any other and that they regard the tariff plank of the Denver platform as a vote-getting sop, just as they regard deposit guaranty and the 50 per cent trust remedy as proposed in the same platform. The fact is that the democrats in congress are most fortunate in having been spared the responsibility of pass- ing a tariff bill, which would have devolved upon them had they carried the country and found themselves the majority Instead of the minority. The debate on the tariff has disclosed most widespread disagreement among the democrats, not only on details of the schedules, but 2lso on the broad prin- ciples of protection and revenue rais- ing. There are free trade democrats there and tariff for revenue democrats and high protection democrats. For a side light on this diversity, read this ex- tract from the Congressional Record from a speech delivered by Arseno its to disclose 8o cratic members: In a spirlt of falrness to the membership of this house, and in order that my position may be thoroughly understood, I want to ay in advance that T am not a free trader. And I want to say further that I bellove thut a tariff should be levied upon imports which will not only produce a revenue sufficlent to defray the expenses of the government and provide means for its proper Internal development, but also, that lue regard should be paid to the equlties of citizens of the United States. 1 am not unmindful of the strength of the argument that it Is the duty of a repre- sentative of the people to legislate in favor of the consumer and net in favor of the producer. Yet when the touchstone of com- mon sense is applied to this proposition, it leads to a conclusion diametrically opposed to the soundness and logic of such a post tion and would, in the very nature of things, destroy the object sought to be accomplished. It must be ‘borne in mind that if condi- tions are made so onerous that a com- modity or necessity of life can only be pro- duced at a loss its production will cease and the consumer will not have it to consume. The only open question is whether the democratic minority in congress is as hopelessly helpless on other issues as it hag demonstrated itself to be on the tariff. Can the democrats get to- gether on' any other subject of party policy, and if they cannot, as is most probable, how can they go before the people next year with the face to ask to be given full control of our national law making? No More Depuby Judges. The final windup of the supreme court commission, whose remaining members have drawn their last pay checks and pulled up stakes, leaves our Nebraska supreme court once more to stand on its own feet. With the extinction of the court commission, the highest judiclal tribunal of the state is again constituted of judges, each with the same responsibility and each deriving authority from the same source of power. For the first time in years every decision of our su- preme court will be the decision of the duly constituted bench instead of appointed proxies. The makeshift of the supreme court commission has never been satisfac- tory. It was admittedly resorted to in the first place to relieve an accumu- lation of appealed law suits which pre- vented prompt adjudication and which delay was equivalent to a denial of justice. The real demand was for an enlargement of the supreme court, but, strange to say, the creation of the commission as a temporary bridge over the chasm in reality worked to postpone that consummation. When the constitutional amendment increas- ing the number of supreme court judges was submitted in 1896 the ad- verse influence of the commissioners unquestionably prevented its ratifica tion at that time. When the constitu- lot with which the demo-pops have in- flicted us is pretty sure to do it. —_— A New York commission has figured it out that that eity can legally borrow $106,000,000 more. If our American cities would put in part of their time figuring how they might pay some of the money already bor- rowed, the ultimate burdens of the taxpayess wowd be decreased. tional amendment enlarging the su- preme court was finally adopted last year and made effective last December it was supposed that would terminate the activity of the commission, but a part of the salary appropriation still remained and, as a consequence, four of the commissioners continued to hold on for four months after the new court had become operative, with the same old excuse that the additional Pujo of Louisiana, one of the demo- | help was needed dockets. Nebraska's experience with its su- preme court commission has been far from satisfactery and it is to be hoped that it will never again have to submit to a supreme bench of deputy judges, to clear up Lesson of Recent Fires. The month of April, yet young, has furnished three forcetul illustrations of the wasteful fire loss. At Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex., and at Man- chester, N. H., conflagrations, which started in small bufldings, defled the efforts of firemen to stay their pro- gress until large areas had been swept clear of buildings and many people were rendered homeless. American cities, as a rule, admittedly, have well equipped and fairly efficient fire de- partments, yet fires destroying many bufldings are frequent here and com- paratively unfnown in Europe. The reason for this is not difficult to find. In Europe buildings afe al- most universally of brick and stone, and constructive methods are better, while in the Unfled States block after block is covered with flimsy inflam- mable structures. Fire-trap buildings, which on their exterior present the appearance of solidity and Indestruca- bility, offer small resistence to the progress of fires. In contrast to this, the great fire at Fort Worth furnishes a notable ex- ample. The best efforts of the fire- men were unable to even check the spread of the flames until the mod- ern, fireproof depot of the Texas & Pacific railroad was reached. The company realized on {its Investment by the saving of its own property, and also that of other large business interests located further on in direct line of the fire. If those investing in new buildings are Inclined to be short- sighted as to the risk they are foreing upon others by poor construction, here is a forceful object lesson of how thelr own interests can be conserved. Trade Conditions. New York is commonly looked upon as the trade barometer of the country and while recent events may have shaken that opinion somewhat it is none the less certain the metropolis today is the center of what remains of the retarding influences of the panic of 1907, Conditions in'the west jare such that if New York and the east can remove its business uncer- tainty the country will proceed on the highroad to general trade activity. Indicative of the conditions prevail- ing in New York are a series of inter- views with a large number of manu- facturers and wholesalers all uniting in asserting that spring trade has been | thoroughly satisfactory, and the out- look for the fall and summer fis equally encouraging. More conclusive still are the figures of postal receipts and bullding operations. The revenues of the New York postoffice for March show an increase of 16.9 per cent over 1908 and 12.5 per cent over the flood |tide of March 1907. In building, the permits were 88 per cent larger in amount involved than last year apd 13 per cent more than for March, 1907, Railroad men admit that earnings are increasing, taking the country as a whole, and that the period has passed where dividends are kept up | by the expedient of curtailing expendi- tures. Whenever the east decides it has completely recovered from its scare, the west stands ready with !its great resources to help make the financial flurry only a mem- ory. Consclous of its strength, the west has gone bravely along and |18 more than willing to help out the timid east, which has been the chief handicap the west has felt, through the withholding of money for invest- ment in new enterprises, If the $3,000,000 of water bonds "voled in 1900 are illegal, how soon will we have to vote them over again for betterments and extensions after the $6,500,000 is handed over to the water company? the $500,000 of accumulated hydrant ‘ranull which are right now drawing | 7 per cent interest? Having gone out of the revolution business as a means of attracting at- hold an international fair in commem- oratioh of the one hundredth anniver- sary of kindly tutelage of the United States those southern republics ‘are progress- | ing. Everybody is for municipal owner- ship of water works under proper con- ditions, but not everybody is for mu- nicipal ownership of water works with | the plant so loaded down that a deficit must be made up annually by taxes whether levied on foot frontage basis or apportioned to valuation. Our old friend, the redoubtable Charley Wooster, has staked his repu- tation a prophet on this prediction: “If Shallenberger signs the daylight saloon bill either Jim Dahlman or a refublican will be the next governor.” Better place your money on the repub- lican The frequency of collisions on inter- urban trolley lines would indicate that {operating methods on these lines need revision as much, if not more, than on | the steam railw We cannot bring ourselves to be- lieve the rumor that fashion has already decreed the basket hat must go before the spring millinery bille have been paid. Large E tor Twe. Boston Transcript It is unlkely that Mr. Falrbanks In his round-the-world tour will arrange to How are we going to pay | tention to itself Ecuador proposes to | its independence. Under the | meet Colonel Roosevell at any point on his journey. Each would agree that the world was large enough for both A Hopeless Task. Chicago Record-Herald There probably never will come a time when 1t will be possible to convince a man who owns six or seven sheep that it would be possible to reduce the tariff on wool without shattering the bulwarks of the republic Trying to Start Some: Washington Herald If Mr. Harriman s seeking to start something while the former president ls away from home base, he will probably succeed. Ultimately, however, he ma) be calling strenuously for help in his ef- fort to head it off. Always Someth Doing. Baltimore American. Much jeering comment was caused In a noted college because In the college paper the death of an aged alumnus was put in the news of “alumnus activities” It certainly fs a very suggestive mdvertise- ment of a college, coming from itself, that there is something doing when an alumnus dies. Frank Recognitio Philadelphia Pre: The shade of the superb Hancock look- ing down on the debates in congress must smile wistfully at the frank recognition of the fact that “the tariff is a local issue.” While the great and abiding prin- ciple continues to be of national applica- tion, each vote on the schedules is local. The tariff will soon be out of politics as a factor in presidential campaigns. Effect of an Eye-Opener. Pittsburg Dispatch. The announcement is made in Washing ton dispatches that the proposition to ad- vance the duties on gloves and hoslery above the Dingley rates 18 to be abandoned. It 1s a lttle significant that the report of the senate finance committes makind® this declsion comes the same day as the state- ment that the house leaders will agres to that change before the bill goes to the semate. It looks as though something struck the two bodles at about the same time. Veoters Supply the ¥ Cleveland Leader. Tt is the commonest delusion of voters to imagine that they have no interest in taxa- tion because they have no property on the tax duplicate. They do not understand that they would be able to obtain cheaper rent, cheaper clothing, cheaper food If the burdens of government were not 8o heavy. Long ago a cynical French statesman de- fined the sclence of taxation as the art of obtaining the largest possible quantity of feathers with the least possible squawking of the geese. The rule stlll holds, especially in respect to the millions who pay taxce without knowing it. They are the maln dependence of the tax wasters everywhere. Our Liberal Givers. New York Globe. Men and women lfttle known out of an immedlate and small soclal acquaintance glve away more money than the richest man in America possessed in Washington's time. A few families have not yet cornered the wealth of the country, and there is much more distribution than the stump orators would have us believe. Lists of milllonaires are printed, but these lists are remarkable for omissions as inclusions. It is a mistaken notion that every rich man in Amarica is ostentatious and s con- sumed with a desire to hold a diplomatic post or to marry his daughter to a foreign nobleman, or even to have a villa at New- port. ¥t 1t for the S Philadelphia Record The tariff tax on refined sugar is pro- hibitory. So little is brought into the country that the resulting revenue is a negligible item. But this tax enables ihe Sugar trust to add 2 cents a pound to the price of refined sugar. The con- sumption of sugar last year in the United States was nearly 6,400,000,000 pounds— showing a per capita use of eighty-two pounds—38 for the average family. The tax on raw sugar contributes heavily to the revenue; but the tax on refined goes to swell the profits of the trust. Why should the prohibitory tax on refined be maintained, since the sole object thereby attained is to fleece the people and feather the nest of an insolent, thieving, un- scrupulous monopoly ? e WHAT THREE INSECTS COST. Raks Trust. Distributers of Malaria, Yeilow Fever Typhold. New York Mall. What do the insects which disseminate malaria, yellow fever and typhoid cost us? | What is the lability side, from our stand | point, of the anopheles and stegomyia mos- | quitoes and the common house fly? Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the bureau of ento- mology, et to answer the question in a government bulletin. Malaria has rendered western Africa, part of India and many other tropical re- glons uninhabitable by civilized man. It has hindered to an incalculable degree the development of Italy. It is belleved to have caused the degeneration, in classical Greec of one of the strongest races of the earth. It retarded our own expansion | through the middle west and in the gulf states. It keeps the Yazoo delta, the best | tarming land in the- world, e the Nile valley, sparsely settled, and land there down to $20 an acre or less. Our country | has an annual malaria death rate of 12,000, {and there are about 1,550,000 Americans | suffering from the disease. Italy has at | least 2,000,000 persons afflicted by it. The | annual loss through deaths, doctors’ bills | and decreased earning power in this coun- try, 1s perhaps $100,000,000. About $10,000,00 1s spent each year in screening houses from the Inroads of the malaria mosquito. It is | declared that directly or Indirectly | disease produces ‘one-half of the entire | mortality of the human race.' Yellow fever registers its economic waste [not so much in_its death list, which, com- | pared to other diseases, is smail, as { through the terror it Inspires. Says Dr. Howard: “The disease once discovered In epldemic form, the whele country has become alarmed; commerce in the affected region has come virtually to a standstill; cities have been practically deserted; people have died from exposure In camping out {in the highlands; rigid quarantines have been established; innocent persons have been shot while trying to pass these quar- antine lines; all Industry for the time has ceased. The commerce of the south during {the epidemic of 1818, for example, fell off % per cent, and the hardships of the popu- lation cannot be estimated In monetary terms."” The house I “the typhoid fly, Dr. Howard rechrist it—has to its credit 8 per cent of the total deaths in (he Bpanish- American war, and it infected about one- fitth of the soldiers in the national en- campments in this country. The number of bacteria on a single fly may vary from 530 to 6,600,000, This insect may also spread tuberculosts and cholers, as well as typhold germs. It is the little things that count, and when these little things are disease-breed- ing insect pests of a preventable sort, they count just as big as we will let them. this | A Tariff Wizard Basis of the Power of Sena- tor Aldrich in Mandling Rev- enue Legislation in Congress. ——— This week the United States senate will begin consideration of the tariff revision bill passed by the house of representatives Tentative consideration of the tariff ques- tion has been In progress since the begin- ning of the extra session by the senate committee on finance, to which the house measure will be referred. The chairman of the committee 1s Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode 1sland, accounted one of the ablest members of the senate. On questions of finance and the tariff his knowledge s con- sidered masterful. Hence the measure of 1908, as it leaves the senate, is likely to bear the impress of his Influence to & larger degree than that of any other mem- ber of the body. The reason for his power and the characteristics of the senator possess timely Interest, and are set forth instructively by the Washington corre- spondent of the Brooklyn Eagle. “Do vou want to 'know how the hides schedule and lumber schedule will be fixed asked a wise looking individual. “Yes," replied the disputants in a breath. “Go ask Aldrich." That's it. Go ask Aldrich. Those three words supply the answer to nearly afl the tariff pussies of the present day, says the writer. The corridors and lobbles of the house are filled every day with tired look- ing men who are buttonholing congressmen and telling them of the outrages which the Payne blll will perpetrate. Those who know the ropes pay no attentipn to the wordy, nolsy house. They take tReir briefs to the little room on the main floor of the capitol next to the senator's elevator. This i the private room of the senate from Rhode Island. A word epoken to him there, under favorable clrcumstances, Is worth more than a three-hour speech on the floor of the house or the senate. Nobody has given a satistactory explana- tlon of Aldrich's remarkable mastery over the senate when currency and tariff are up. He executes some mysterious influence over the other senators beyond doubt. Men of acknowledged ability and leadership in other issues, for some strange reason, bow to the superior domination of Aldrich when the subject of schedules and rates is men- tioned. A well known senator gave this explana- tion the other day: “T hate to admit it, but it's the truth,™ he sald, “that Aldrich knows more about the tariff than all the rest of us put to- gether. We don't oppose him because we don’t know enough about the subject to argue with him. We raise a question and he comes back with a string of statistics of Imports, exports, manufacturing values, wages, forelgn rates and other detailed knowledge that makes us look foolish by comparison. Rather than he shewn up we stay In our seat: There 18 a great deal of truth in this statement. Bverybody admits that Aldrioh 18 without a peer In congress in the matter of tariff knowledge. . He has been in con- gress for thinty years. He knowns all about every tariff bill that has been en- agted in that period. He can tell you offhand the rates in every important sched- ule fn all the tariff laws of the last quar- ter of a century. Furthermore, he can tell you how each important schedule has worked out in the matter of furnishing revenues and protection. The feeling of helplessness before Aldrich when tariff is debated, cropped out the other day. The democrats were all “het up” because Aldrich, Hale and the other republicans of the tinance committee were examining witnesses without admitting democratic senators. Bacon protesetd against the violation of constitutional priv- lleges; Rayner thundered against the throt- tiing of public liberty and the venerable Danlel lost his temper, In the language of the street democrats ‘ran around in cir- cles” giving vent to their rage, and all the time Aldrich sat smiling, calm and un- perturbed. Finally Senator Daniel let the cat out of the bag when, rising and shak- ing his fist at Aldrich, he crled out in a hopeless wall: “You are the only pne who knows what is going on." Senator Aldrich is one of the simplest men in congress. The popular idea that he s a senatorial “high-brow,” with so much dignity that it hurts, given to stiff and formal ways, is all wreng. He Is the one senator who never wears a frock coat. He looks more itke a keen, wide awake, successful broker than a United States senator. He has a tall, well bullt athletie figure. What little halr he has is dark gray. His mustache is white. The Aldrich eyes are the color of steel and as clear and direct as a hawk's. As an orator, Senator Aldrich would rank at the foot of the senate list. When he rises he talks. There rhetorical flights, no fancy speech and no gesticulations tricks of the orator. “He talks just like a business man would tigures of or other at a meeting of the board of directors of | & natfonal bank," was the comment of a man in the gallery the other day, as Al- | rich was explaining the intricacles of the metal schedule In the tariff bill, Aldrich * talks directly at and his words count. MHis simple addresses carry more weight than all the florid speeches of Beveridge, Dolliver and other real orators put together. Aldrich belleves in concentration. The tariff and currency are his specialties, and he believes in acquiring every bit of knowledge about them that he can A democrati¢ senator sald recently that he belleved Aldrich had read more on these two subjects than any other man in the United States He not only intimately knows the currency and taritf laws of the United States, but is acquainted with the same kind of laws In practically all the clvilized nations. When a new work by a financial authority is published, he buys it and reads It He talked a veteran correspondent into a se- vere headache cne afternoon when he was asked to give his viows upon the r organization of the national banking act. his listeners, The Rhode Island wisard generally as an aristoc he 1s one of the best mixers in the senate. He has mastered the knack of controlling men. He knows the subtle art of persuading your opponent to vcte with you “That man Aldrich spends more time on the democratic side than in his own seat,” remarked an observant gallery attendant a week or 80 ago It 1s the Aldrich habit Balley, Rayner, Bacon, others of the minority whenever imper- tant legislation s pending. He flits from democrat to democrat. telling them infor- mally what is being done and getting them to agree to his program. Unlike Champ Clark. he belleves In compromise and cillation. Senator Allison sald of Aldrich: “Not once in all the years of our asso- ciation has there been anything like a jar in our relations; not once has there been Is regarded yet to hobnob with Tillman and the 1s np attempt at| u suggestion of dictation from Aldrich. The Rhode Islander is the antithesis of Hale of Maine; yot the two are closo trien Hale I8 gruff, abrupt and super- clllous with almost every one save Ald- rich. The Iatter finds It just as easy to be good friends with Hale as with the peppery Tillman and the punctilious Ba- con. is A rich man. But his tastes are simple. He could buy A string of au- tomobiles stretching from Washington to New York: yet he walks to the capitol when it rains or snows. Until this year he has lived in an apartment at the Ar- lington. Now he owns a handsome home on Massachusetts avenue, in the fashion- able quarter, He has a beautiful summer residénce at Warwick, R. 1. He has no taste for soclety and dislikes evening functions. His name is never seen in the list of senator who accept dinner invita- tion six nights every week. Aldrich finds his diversion in the winter evenings in reading. Aldrich is looked upon by many people as the personal representative in the sen- | ate of the Standard Ofl trust and the Wall Street interests generally. This Is due in part to the fact that he Is the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, jr. Alrich has been roasted scores of times by muckrakers because of this relations ship. The Rhode Islander is never wor- ried by newspaper criticlsms. He never takes the trouble to defend himself or correct popular misapprehensions regard- ng his motives as a senator. He once smilingly made the following statement to a friend: “They say T represent the Ofl trust be- cause my daughter married Mr. Rocke- feller. The fact of the matter is, 1 have never meen John D. Rockefeller, sr., but three times in my life. The first time was the occasion of the marriage of his son and my daughter. Subsequently, 1 met him twice, and the extent of our con- versation was some casual remark about the weather and our health.” Aldrich AICOHOL'S FUTURE. Rival of Electricity, Gasolene Steam. Chicago Tribune. The word alcohol has suffered from its {| Quack Cure-Alls Conditions Which Make Pa- thetioally Absurd Panacean for Ilis of the Body Politic. —— Theodore Roosevelt in the Outlook The best lesson that any people can learn is that there s no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politle Is at best a fool- ish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack. Nelther doctrinaire sociallsm, nor unrestricted Individualism, nor any other {sm, will bring about the millenium. In the last analysis the welfare of a nation de. pends on its having throughout a healthy development. A healthy soclal system must of necessity represent the mum of very many moral, Intellectual and economic forces, and each such force must depend in ita turn partly upon the whole system: and all these many forces are needed to develop a high grade of character in the individual men ahd women Who make up the nation. No individual man could be kept healthy by living In accordance with a plan which took cognizance only of one set of muscles or one orgauw; WA health must depend upon his general bodily vigor, that fs, upon the general care which af- fects the many different organs according 1o thelr separate needs. Soclety s, of course, Infinitely meve complex than the human body. The Influences that tell upon it are countless; they are elosely inter- woven, interdependent, and each s acted upon by mhny others. It is pathetically absurd, when such are the cendltions, to belleve that some one stmple panacea for all_evils can be found. Slowly, with in- finite ditficulty, With bitter disappoint- ments,, with stumblings and hailtings, we are working our wAy upward and onward In this progress something can be done by conthiually striving to improve the soclal system, now here, now there. Bomething more can be done by the resolute effort for a many-sided higher life. This lite must largely come to esch individual from within, by his own effort, but toward the attainment of it each of us ean help many others. Such a life must represent the struggle for a higher and broader human- ity, to be shown not merely in the deal- associations. It often ls used a syno- nym of evil. Like many other good words in the language it has degenerated because a derived meaning has taken the place, in popular parlance, of the original idea. Un- like some words thus lowered in tone, how- ever, it shows slgns of returning to its orig- inal position of dignity and honor. For the bellevers in its future as a powerful and upbullding factor in life becoming more as- sertive all the time. The latest expression of this bellef was at a meeting called to discuss inebriety and “alcoholism.” The conventional utter- ances about Injury, disease and degenera- tion due to alcohol were interrupted by a speaker who told of a brilllant future for it in the doman of fuel, light and power, using such terminology ‘sanitary scl- ence,” ‘“‘engineers' skill,’ ‘practical utill- zation.” He showed how cheap forms of alcohol may be made from many sub- stances, and predicted a day when the now sometimes debased word would stand forth as a rival in popularity with electricity, gasoline and steam. He called attention to the opportunity for the inventor. The possibilities opening for alcohol are boundless, but the inventor must come forward with the proper boil- ers, lamps and other mechanisms that will enable people to utllize the materlal and make {t a thing of practical commerclal value. Such inventions being furnished, there will be such a demand for alcohol that every industrial organization now oc- cupled with its production in forms against which thefe Is hostile legislation and grow- ing popular outcry will find its facllities taxed to the utmost to meet it. Such thoughts often find expression this era of change. in The customary of yes- terday is cast gside for the new thing of today. Tomorrow may bring something better yet. And there are many signs that alcohol s to play a far more important part in the practical utilities of life in days to come than anyone ever has Imagined. It may become one of the principal factors in the fuel, light and power of the near future. PUBLICITY AND POPULARITY, Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, The other day B. H. Harriman, approach- ing New York City after a 10,000-mile swing over his system of rallroads, ordered a special train fdr reporters, so they could meet him an hour up the line. He had the women folks n his party photograph the riewspaper men, posed himself and then talked pleasantly and freely on every sub- ject suggested, except that of former | President Roosevelt. Whatever slgnificance there fs in the in- cident lies not in what Mr. Harriman did or did not say, but fn the fact that he went out of his way to accommodate the reporters and submit to thelr fusillade of | questions. Tt is not supposed he sald | anything of special value to his rivals in | the rallway world, but every word was of interest to the public as coming from the greatest railway man of the age. Where a few years ago blg men of fi- nance avolded reporters as a pestilence, it Is now quite the common thing to be cordlal and invite a pleasing Interview in the papers instead of a caustle para- | graph. They recognize It as good business | | polley. Mr. Rockefeller was among the | | first to see the lght, and now he Is al-| ways ready with a few platitudes or a | dissertation on the beauties of golf as u | | recreation. . He 1s also writing a story of | his life. Mr. Morgan frequently unbends. Carnegle, Gates, Bchwab and a score of others are frequently In print. And now | Harriman, heretofore a sphinx | | among them all. } The pubdlic is quite accustomed to a few { men acquiring control of the wealth of the {nation, but it is fickle enough to resent | silence on the part of its custodians, not | to mention annoyance when any questions {are asked. | But silence has given away to sociability and annoyance (o a willingness to take the public into thelr confidence. So far as the public Is able to read, th big men are | really good fellows, if a bit fortunate, -with ambitions and tribulations the same as the smaller fry in the money world. Al of which goes to prove that a little publiclty in matters which concern the people goes & great ways In the direction of popularity. comes No Excase for Kieking. New York Post | We see no reason for Americans despondent over these successive athletlc | defoats by members of decadent races. | The Americans the still the only ones who | furnish the blg money prizes for such | contests, and who yell themselves hoarse on the benches. Thus they lve up to the | highest idealn and usefulness of college athletics. to be Are All C ted | Kansas City Journal According to officlal statistics, there are 600 insane people in Oklahoma, not ings of each of us within the realm of the state, but even more by the dealings of each of us in the more Intimate realm of the family; for the life of the state rests and must ever rest upon the lfe of the family and the neighborhood. PERSONAL NOTES. Much annovance would have been pre- vented had the surgeon who operated on Castro been less skilful President Taft has accepted an invita- tion to attend a celebration of the 120th anniversary of the first inauguration of George Washington at Alexandria, Va., the afternoon of April %. After trundling his wife and ehflidren in A pusheart one thousand miles, starting from Waterville, N. Y., last September, golng to Winchester, Del., Willlam W. Bishop obtained work there. All new recruits to the New York police force are to bs put through courses of boxing, wrestling and jlu-jitsu. This will enable some of the ex-champlons to be- come professors of the “manly art,” in- stead of going on the stage Former Vice President Fairbanks an- nounced at Pasadena, Cal, that he would sail from Ban Francisco on May 16 for a trip of one year's duration, to include in his ftinerary Hawail, Japan and China, the Philippines, Australia and Afri George H. Worthington of Cleveland, O. is known to fame as the owner of a col- lection of postage stamps estimated tp he worth half a milllon dollars. Tt will in- terest collector all over the country that Mr. Worthington has declded to wil his collection, the third largest in the world, to the Cleveland Museum of Art, of which he is a trustee. In one of his interlocutory speeches last week Congressman Champ Clark sald that under a republican administration Kansas and Nebraska farmers had utilized their corn as fuel. “I have lived in Nebraska for the last twenty-two years, from 187 up to the present time," sald Congressman Hinshaw, “and we have never burned corn at all, notwithstanding it went as low as 9 cents a bushel.” PASSING PLEASANTRIES. ““What sort of a man is he?" “Oh, one of those fussy fellows who always carry thelr money In a purse and thelr matches in a stiver case.”—Cleveland Leader. “Would you have the trusts, your honor placed at the mercy of the government? exclaimed the attorney for the biggest of the bunch. “Strikes me that would be a simple re versal of present condition,” remarked the attorney for the other side, and calmly watched the c; B0 (o the jury.—Phila delphia Ledger. ‘The cat was looking at the king. ie Isn't 80 very much of a sight, eitner.” mused the ci “I've got elght more lives .than he has. Herein we see that mere rank counts for nothing when compared’' with things that are ranker.—Chicago Tribune. Teacher—Now, boys, here's a little example in mental arithmetic. How old would = person be who was born in 18757 Pupll—Please, teacher, was It & man or 4 woman?—Boston Transcript. Maneger—80 the great critie invited you to dine with him? Actor—-Yes, but his choice of menu was not only uiterly without tact, but also | cruelly suggestive. Manager—Dear me! What was it? Actor (shuddering)—He actually put me down to what he called a g0od roast.- Baltimore American he doctor m looked at the patient. ; very sorry,” he sald, “that yo didn’t let me send for D, Gookins som: time ago. It's scarcely worth while (0 bring him here now. “Oh, well, doetg) wearlly, “‘perhaps you him as an accessary . after Cleveland Plain Dealer. sald the can make the patien t fact “John. dear,” purred hik wife, “what do you think I ought to wear to Mrs. High- more's party week after mext? 0, wear anything yow Hke, answered John “That's awfuily good of you, dear. Ishall like to wear & hew ik gown, trimmed with old point lace, and | thank you ever %0 much.”"—Chicago Tribu CONBIDER. Christina Rosettl impatiently Consider The Illies of the fie. We are as the Lilte them we As doth a leaf. whose bloom I8 brie fade away Conslder The sparrows of the Our God doth view Whether they fall or mount; He guards us, (00, air of small account; Constder The lilles that do neither Yet are most falr: What profits all this eare, And all this toil spin nor toll, .ds that have no barn nor harv weeks; counting those who have been making the laws down there