Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 19, 1909, Page 4

mmuuDAanm 'OUNDDD BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. v vt aensl " VICTOR ROBRWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- s _matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without D-II; n( Address all ¢ livery to City Omaha—The Bes Bouth Omaha—T 1-fwflh and N. Councll Bluffs—15 ite Bt Linegin.1p Titie n‘_ o oy X v YorkeRooms ' West Thirty-third Street. Washington—72 Fourteenth Street, N. W. comlummmcl. Communicatinng news and edl- torial ThALLer BHOU b Sadressed: Omana Department. Bee, Bottorial ANC“ postal order, Pnbll-hln: Company. received payment of nal chpcll. -lnn cn exchanges, not accepted. .':.\‘ % The J-cént st Inrch XIB. wlln f:';;s'is;;is:sm ; l-lll Illleld and K. in m; to before me this 10t aky of Averr 1000 WALKER, (Seal) Nflu" Publl WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Subseribers 1eaving the ofty tem- porarily should have The Hee d to them. Address will be nged as often as requested. The sultan of Turkey is being dis- turbed entirely too much at night for a sick man. —— There is one invasion which never worriey the English public—that of the Anférican tourist. Indiana is experimenting with the shotgun cure for night riders. Con- Istently applied it should be a success. ) Under the new law the city collector of 8t. Louis will be compelled to give A bond of $13,000,000. That should hold him for a while. Ex-President Ellot's list of the six best bgoks dges pof inglude the revised foot ball rules: Does he think the modern university a failure? Don't get scared and think it is an earthquake if you hear something un- usual. It is about time for the explo- slon of some base ball phenoms. s joined the Opti- Strange what an effect adjournment of the legislature v8 hag on reilroad magnates. George Gould mist club the alw, Just think what Castro must bs suf- fering at present, marooned on a slow boat when there is 80 much he would like to say where it could be heard. A Philadelphia educator says chil- dren are all liars. How often have we wished visitors at the family home would take that view of children’s re- marks. Missouri reports an earthquake. Possibly the tremble was only ' the collision of the prohibition resolution from the legislature with St. Louis sentiment. ——— “Dick” Croker pitched the first ball of the league season in New York. He did not stay the game out, however, as New York long ago “‘got onto” Rich- ard's curves. Bryan has declared that Secretary of War Dickinson does not represent the south. Just when or how did Mr. Bryan acquire the right to be the spokeésman for the south? Wrestler Gotch is sald to have re- ceived $14,000 for his fourteen min- utes' work in disposing of the Turkish wrestler. That beats a wheat corner if he could keep up the gait. New York papers insist that the politicians are knifing Hughes. For a man who has been knifed so often he manages to have good success in keep- ing out of the political hospital. Patten’s wheat corner continues to draw money Into the pockets of the in- #lde manipulators, but a few days of growing weather in the wheat belt will take a lot of the support away from thig clique of gamblers. The democratie councilmen who re- cently voted down ordinances levying an occupation tax against the public service corporations in Omaha sre now asking re-election on a platform prom- Ising to levy such a tax. This is the normal demoeratic idea of consistency. “Dollar Gas” was a mighty shout when the democrats went into power in Omaha three years ago, but the con- sumers and the city as well are paying the same figure that prevailed then. The only reductions that have been made in charges for light in Omaha have been brought about u r repub- lican administration, and vealize this. - A Faithful Servant. The sudden death of City Engineer Andrew Rosewater deprives thé people of Omaha of a faithful servamt. Prac- tieally the whole of his professional life was devoted to the service of the city and he was engaged up to the very last moment in attending to the omer- ous duties of that most responsible office. The dosigning and construction of all the public works of Omaha, a task particularly difficult in view of its rapid growth from an overgrown town to a metropolitan city, is to be credited to him, and the future growth of the city, so far as respects the extension and perfection of these public works, must needs be along the plans which he has outlined and for Which he has laid the foundations. In the case of City Engineer Rose- water, as so often happens, the value of efficlent and conscientious public service has not beer appreciated at the time of rendering it, but will be meas- ured at.its true worth in later years. As city engineer Mr. Rosewater stood unflinchingly\ for the interests of the public and kept on the firing" line whenever those Interests were menaced by selfish schemers or unscru- pulous contractors. Even his worst enemies will concede that he was abso- lutely incorruptible and unswerving in fidelity to the city, and it wae this very characteristic of incorruptibliity that ralsed up against him the succession of antagonism and opposition and cul- minated in the enactment of a law making the office efective in order to harass and embarrass him, if not to end his official career. His premature *death has been, doubtless, hastened by the overwork devolved upon him by the failure to give him sufcient help and the excite- ment necessarily - ariging from these constant contests. Whea a public servant serves the people faithfully and efficiently more than a quarter of a century in a public office of such im- portance and dles a poor man, as he has died, he has earned a popular tribute to his memory. Increased Gold Output. Figures compiled by the London Statist show that for the year 1908 the world’s output of gold was $409,- 000,000, the largest since any record has been kept of the yield of precious metals, and without doubt the greatest in the history of the world. It is more by $9,000,000 than for the preceding year and by $19,000,000 than for the year 1906. The outlook is for further expansion, as there has been no serious working out of present fields and pres- ent methods of mining and extracting the gold have greatly decreased the loss of metal in the process of milling and reduetion. The figures.of gold production are especially interesting as bearing upon the high prices prevalling all over the civilized world. Increase of consump- tion in food products in the ratio ‘it bears to production plays a part, but it is the. general verdict of political economists that inflation of circulating medium {is always accompanied by higher prices. As gold has become by common consent the circulating me- dium of all the great commercial na- tions, this vast influx of that metal can scarcely fall to have had its effect. Substitution of silver confessedly would not remedy the matter, for the possibility of its production is prac- tically unlimited. Time will work a readjustment of the relation of' all things measured by money, but all artificial means are bound to fail now as they have in the pi | | A Masterpiece in Figures. I railroad managers err in any direction, which is not to be admitted, the ripe judgment shown in placing experienced newspaper men in charge of their publicity bureau makes ample amends. In that particular line their wisdom outshines an arc light in a fog. Any doubter open to conviction can readily convince himself by an exam- ination of the latest brochure from the rallroad publicity bureau at Clifcago. It bears the imprimatur of Slason Thompson, together with some relevant remarks of an edifying and enlighten- ing character. Mr. Thompson is an artist among figures. He is charmed with their company, and generously conveys slabs of the charm. to the reader without price. But the only figures exuding genuine charm are railroad figures, Thompson is justly famous. All others are base deceivers. To institute com- parisons would be a waste of time and space. A mere outline of the reasons whick inspired the artistic production will serve to whet the edge of curlosity and give the wide circulation its merits deserve, in a heedless moment the statis- ticlans of the Interstate Commerce commission put out a set of figures showing railroad earnings for a series of years past. The figures were grouped by calendar years. The ex- hibit for 1907 included nine of the most prosperous months in railroad history and three months of the de- pression following the Oectober panic. The figures for last year did not look as blue tearful prophets predicted, and the railroad losses by this group- ing were not sufficiently imposing to paralyze offensive agitation. Instantly Mr. Thompson leaped into the breach. With the skill of an expert and the enthusiasm of a revivalist, he smote the official deceivers hip and thigh and tossed the fragments on the dump. Then began the joyful task of making rallroad figures trumpet the truth. Choosing October, 1907, as the basing point of ealamity he developed pyra- mid after pyramid of figures, stretch- ing like signal towers over main lines and sidetracks, until the group picture grouped In imposing arrays, for which- THE BEE: OMAHA MONDAY, of disaster was as gruesome as a head-on collision. Mr. Thompson's showing of losses outshines all records of calamity end leaves the official fig- ures hopelessly in the rear. That was the intention. Second only in im- pressiveness s the delicate inginuation that the railroads were the only suf- ferers by the panic. None else lost a dollar. ‘or delicacy of touch, effective grouping, and matching of colors, the figure work of the bureau is a master- plece. If Mr. Thompson's salary does not rise to the level of his skill the public must conclude that rallroad managers dd not fully appreciate ary for art's sak Education in the South. A recent meeting at Atlanta is sig- nificant of the progress being made in the new south. That the south has set about solving the industrial prob- Mem in an energetic manner has long been apparent, but up to the present it has lagged behind in an educational way. Statistics pf illiteracy make a sorry showing for that section and un- til the fault is corrected thoughtful students of political lite will see slight hope for the elevation of its people. Its labor is largely ignorant and there- fore inefficient, and social conditions on the whole anything but encourag- ing. The Atlanta meeting was called for the purpose of evolying a strong and uniform system of universal education and it brought together the most ad- vanced thinkers of the south as well as educators from the north to contribute from their experlence. One meeting cannot be expected to solve so great a problem, but the recognition of the fact the problem éxists, together with a desire to solve it, will make this gath- ering a milestone in the progress of the south, There is no sentiment so difficult to change as the comservatism of ignor- ‘ance, and neither the prime movers in this enterprise nor outsiders should be disappointed if immediate results do not appear. The entire country is in- terested in the question almost as much as the south so closely linked are the interests and welfare of all sections. It 18 a small beginning on a great task, but a little energetic leaven can permeate a whole loaf. Bigns of the Times in Trade. One of the most encouraging signs in the trade situation is the large number of orders for structural steel being placed with the mills. The steel industry has long been regarded as the most seusitive and reliable of trade barometers and these reports will lend encoyragement to other branches of business. The most favorable feature of the situation s the fact that the orders { being placed are not confined to any one particular line, but indicate a busy season in all branches of the steel in- dustry. The railroads, which have been ' chief among the pessimistic forces, have joined the ranks of the optimists and are large buyers both of rails and of bridge and other kinds of structural steel. Next in point of sig- nificance, and greater even in volume, is the great demand for structural ma- terial for new buildings. . In neither of these lines could orders have been called out after a perlod of depression except as a response to an immediate and gertain demand. Men | of small means agd limited knowledge of conditions often invest under ad- verse conditions, but seldom or never is it the case that large sums can be drawn ‘out for constructive investment without a practical assurance of a re- turn based on a knowledge of condi- tions, The orders furthermore come from all sections of the country. Other industries, if they have not already done so, are sure to fall in line with these two great factors, and there can be no reasonable doubt a general return to industrial and trade activity is alreadv on (he way. The west has Kopt up its courage and gone ahead through it all and welcomes the evidence the east is falling into step. The platform adopted by the repub- licans of Omaha is a fair, frank and honest pronouncement on the matters which are chiefly concerned in the city campaign, and in which the citizens are most interested, and the record of the republican party for redeeming its platform pledges is a guaranty of the good faith in which the promises are now made. Governor Shallenberger should re- member the fate of the man who kicked the ladder by which he climbed. When the governor was a candidate his references to Omaha were very much different in tone from those he is now indulging in at meetings in the smaller cities of the state. _— Editor Scott of Portland says he does not care to be ambassador to Mexico. He knows how much fun there is in directing a great public in- stitution like a daily newspaper and does not care to play second fiddle, even with the trappings of an ambas- sador. Washington women have cleaned up the streets of the capital city, Omaha women may save their efforts until after election. The present adminis- tration could not find work for all the political pluggers if the work were accomplished now. A German professor asserts whale's milk is the ideal food. If wheat con- tinues to go up some substitute for bread will be a necessity and as all of us have whales in the family rain- barrel the information is timely. The democratic ery of “Dolldr Gas" sounds a little silly when taken in con- Al nection with the record of the demo- eratic council during the last three —_— y Ha t the Plow. Boston Herald. Happy farmers who can go ahead with their planting and crop raising unhindered by tariff prospect An 1 niary U Chicago Tribune. Experlence shows that resembling an un- popular member of the Turkish cabinet is fully as dengerous as tickling the left hind foot of a temperamental mule. Keeping Up with the Procession. Baltimore Amerlcan. More atfention should be pald by this government to aeronautics. Trance, Ger- many and Ttaly are all ahead of the United States in this respect. & Cuickens Before Hatehing. Louls Globe-Democrat. expects to be the next senator from Nebraska if the demovrate can carry the state In 1910 and the present republican member, a strong campalgner, can be re- tired at the end of one term. Nebraska is normally a ropublican state, and may con- clude that it has done enough for a favorite son on whom three strikes have been lled. CHEAP FLINGS AT JUDGE. Reflections Resented South, News and Courler. Senator Balley's assertion that “there is scarcely a federal judge of twenty years' service in the United States who had not become arbitrary, irritable and somewhat tyrannical” will scarcely be received seri- ously in South Carolina, whose sovereign rights have been sustained In the last woek by a decision of efght of the nine justices of the supreme (federal) court of the re- public The truth is that the south has every Teason to be satisfied with the declsions of the federal courts since the war between the states. The “eivil rights” decisions and the policy of the courts in regard to the southern suffrage laws have been the south's main defence when sectional and partisan feeling ran highest sgainst the south. Not all federal judges are perfeo neither are all state judges; but the whole people of the United States have every Teason to trust the federal and state judicl- aries so far as any instrument of human government can he trusted. The opinion of Justice White, a southern man, in the dispensary case is no new revelation of that gentleman's admirable equipment for service in the highest court of the land. Mr. Balley's expression is simply echo of the nonsense that a clai of so-clled statesmen have indulged du: ing the last fourteen years. Mr. Bafley heard a man named Bryan say something of that kind at some time or other and is not consclous that he is not original when he repeats it in different words. SPECULATION IN COMMODITIES. Baltimore American. On the Chicago Board of trade every year more than four times as wmuch wheat s sold as was ever grown during any year in the whole world. The same thing, with cotton as the commodity gambled In, happens on the floor of the New York Cottom exchange. In both wheat and cotton the price has often been advanced, to, lnflated proportions by transactions thes . have been purely gambling transactions—that s, in the finals; n6 wheat or cotton has actually been transferred from seller to buyer. The main evil of gambling in products which enter Into dally consumption fis that the price of the commodity is really advanced by the process. Millers have already felt obliged to make a ralse in the price of flour because of the greac ralse In the price/ by the manipulation of wheat “futures.” Of course, those who are managing the speculative deal are putting out the talk that there is a world shortage in wheat; that there lsn't. enough of the bread grain to go around, etc. That sort of scare has been worked so often thal it is surprising that it should ever be heeded. Bully worked cotton up to 17 cents per pound by continuing to buy and keeping up the ding-dong that there was not enough cotton in the world to supply the demand for shirtwaists. Suliy fin- ished his campaign “busted” and there has been enough cotton to go round ever since. Joe Lelter sent wheat up to $2 and there was an early rumor that he had colned milllons. When the truth was known it was found that his father, who went to his: rescue, was out $4,000,- 000 A LESSON FROM GERMANY. River Improve: s as & Booster of Commerce. Philadelphla Inquirer. There are pbject lessons coming odt of Germany which are of great interest to Philadelphia locally and to the United Btates at large. Germany is adding to Its artificlal water- ways & canal which will connect the Rhine with the city of Hanover. The canal will eventually be extended to the Bibe. To understand the significance of this under- taking 7t must be remembered that three large rivers reach the coast from the In- terior of Germany—the Rhine, which pro- vides the bulk of the traffic in freight for the Netherlands city of Rotterdam; the Elbe, which gives to Hamburg its great shipping port, and the Oder, which, passing to the eastward of Berlin, reaches the Baltic at Stettin, Between these rivers run the Bms, which enters the North sea at Emden, and the Weser, which gives Bre- men its commercial importance. When the proposed canals are completed the German traffic on the Rhine which goes to Rotter- dam can be diverted to German ports. In- deed, a barge from the Rhine could be towed to Emden, Hamburg, Bremen, or Btettin The present commerce of the German rivers is greater than that pf Germany on the ocean. This has been made possible because the. rivers have been improved at government expense. Barges carrying. 600 tons are towed by powerful tugs and make #0od time even against strong currents. Freight is picked up at numerous river ports. The rallways run directly to the Quays and warehouses, discharge goods for the barges, recelve goods in return and the river transportation rates 80 low that the great steamship lines running from the German seaports take aboard, cargoes that have been handled so inexpensively that they can be laid down in forelgn countries &t & profit in spite of tariffs and all com- petition. Germany is making all possible use if its rivers, and this is where comes in the les- #on which the United States has not yet learned. The inland waler routes of our own country are stupendous. They offer cheap transportation. If we are to extend our commerce they must be developed. A commission has at last been autherized by congress to consider the whole matter. What is needed is progressive, systematic development—that and & bond issue to prosecute the work. / \ AP'RIL lQ 1909. The passage of the census bill with a clause transtering from the congressional ple counter to the Civil Service commis- slon the appointment of enumerators pro- duced gobs of grief among the army nf office seekers in Washington. It is es- timated that about 2,000 persons, men and women, have had shattered their hopes of finding some way to reach the federal treasury without the annoyance of a civil service examination. But congress could not averleap one véto and the certainty of another to please the faithful. ““Wash- ington,” writes a correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle, full of persons who claim legal residence in New York, Ohfo and elsewhere. Perhaps they were born in those states or thelr fathers were residents there before them. Hundreds of so-called New Yorkers In Washington have not been in the Empire state for five or ten years. When the government needs a large army of fresh employes these so-called New Yorkers, who have lived in Washington nearly all thelr lives, step to the front and grab the plums. It Is figured that the limitations in the census bill will put an end to this ‘hogging’ of government jobs by Wash- ingtonians.” In the blue book on “Foreign Rela- tions" made public by the State depart- ment last week appears some corre- spondence showing that on July 14, 1906, Assistant Secretary Bacon made inquil- ries of the Itallan ambassador rezarding the status of an American girl who should marry an Italian nobleman. Officlals of the State department posi- tively deny that the interrogation had any reference to the prospective marriage of the duke of the Abruzsi and Miss Katherine Elkins, that international romance having not been started when the inquiry was made. Any specific statement as to the persons then Inte ested and whose marrfage was probably under consideration is refused by the of- fielals, It is known that r. when the court- ing of the duke of the Abruzsi was ap- proaching a crisis that Senator Elkins re- quested friends in Russia to ascertain and advise him what would be the status of his daughter if she married Into the royal family. He was notified that the marriage would be considered morgunatic unless the Itallan Parliament could sub- sequently repeal its legislation, leaving the marriage In the same position as If the act of recognition had not been passed. It is understood here that Senator El- kins did not make any request of the State department to ascertain for him the status of American women marrying either a member of the royal family or n Itallan nobleman, but had the investi- gation conducted by one of his personal friends at that time in Rome. Merchants of Seattle, aroused by a report that the special issue of stamps being pre- pared to commemorate the Seattle exposi- tion are to show a cake of ice on which 1s a seal dormant, have entered protests A dispatch was sent by the Chamber of Commerce to Secretary of the Interior Bal- linger urging him to make an effort to have the design changed, for one of the objects of the falr is to show the world that Alaska can raise other things besides icebergs. The dispatch says: “A scantily clad Indian picking straw- berries or a miner with his head enshrouded in mosquito netting while he works under a blaziiig sun would not be amiss, but & seal cooling his flippers on a cake of lce is as inappropriate a fur lined coat fn the Panama canal zone.” “That the sale of Intoxicants under proper regulation helps rather than injures the cause of temperance has a practical ex- emplification in England,” remarked T. J. Brune of Omaha, quoted by the Washing- ton Post. “While traveling in Cheshire my attention was called to the efforts of some | persons to prevent the installation of a bar in & new workmen's club in Middlewich, and 1 was told of the experience of a simi lar organization in Winnington. The latter club was started in 1891, on teetotal princi- ples, with a desire to serve the best in- terests of the men, and §13 became mem- bers. In 1892 the number fell to 619, the following year to 32, and the next year to 81l The men had been in the custom of going to Norwich for amusement, and it was to counteract the mischief caused by these visits that the club was started, but no sooner had the novelty of the club worn off than the men resumed their old habits, “In September, 180, at the pressing re- quest of the members, the club began the sale of intoxicants, and has continued to do so. It is & fact that from that time on, 1 am told, the men of Winnington became steadier. Their wives and children were taken better care of, and their homes were better equipped with furniture. It is a remarkable fact also, that the brewer's dray is ravely seen on the streets of Win- nington, and the men no longer spend their off hours in Norwich, but frequent the club, where they can get all the amuse- ment they want, and if they care to drink can get whatever they desire, Winter, of Chicago, while in ashington, expressed the bellef the Windy City will within a few years out- llrlv New York in population and resour: said Mr. Winter, “is boun: to be bigger than New York within the next decade. It 18 almost there now and srowlng rapidly. It is true seaports have an advantage over inland cities, but even with that handicap, the great metropolis of the west, Is rapldly overtaking the city in Manhattan. Nothing can hold back Its progress. “There are other citles in the west that are forging ahead with giant strides, like Denver, Om Seattle, and 'Frisco,” added Mr. Winter. “The east is played out, compared to the west in the matter of growth.” John J. Boobar, librarian of the house of representatives, is preparing a card index of the Congressional Record. To index the speeches of the Fifty-ninth congress alone required more than 20,000 cards. It is faith- tul even to the smallest detall, and' the cross-references are abundant enough to enable even the amateur to find that for which he Is seeking. Mr. Boobar took up this work more as a pastime than anything There will be no jokers in the tariff bill when completed. Too many conflicting interests are involved. Too many experts are on guard. Every day's work in the senaté will be cast up and & balance struck that evening by men capable of doing it. Particular care will be taken with the propositions submitted to the conference committee. And after the conference is over the men advising the president as to details will know their business and his wishes thoroughly the public would be expensive to the re- publicans, and many sharp eyes are on the lookout Washington Herald. An interesting sequel to the remarkable rallroad war of nearly two vears ago in Alabama, wherein the contending forces on one side were Governor Comer and the legislature, and on the other Judge Thoma G. Jones of the federal court and tie Loulsville & Nashville and other rafircad companies, has been written In a recent opirion of the United States court of ap- peals for the Fifth judicial circuit. In 1907 the Alabama legislature undertook the re- Quction of rallway passenger fares to i cents a mile and the establishment of lower frelght rates, besides providing an elaborate system of enforcement, with heavy penal- tles, the whole warranted injunction proot by provisions designed to place the mechan- fsm of enforcement outside the jurisdiction of the federal courts. Judge Jones, a man of strong will and positive views, when applied to by the rallroads, ccunsel for which set up the usual pleas of confiscation and destruction of property rights, enjoined the new staiu- tory rates in sweeping decrees which af- fected In their terms every stato officlal charged with the execution of law. For & time it looked as If there would be open conflict between the federal crurt and the state officlale of Alabama, but, after a war of words, the matters in controversy were left to the arbitrament of the courts. Now comes the court of appeals to wipe out every one of the Injunctions lssued by Judge Jones in pursuance of what he be- ileved to be his sworn duty, and in accord- ance with his conception of the law then existing. Since 1907. however, much water has flowed under the judicial bridge, and ex parte injunctions against the regulation and fixing of public service rates have be- come less frequent and less approved of in our higher courts. The opinion of the court of appeals under consideration shows strongly the influence of two recent decl- slons of the United States supreme court, both strongly upholding the right of public regulation of public monopolies and depre- cating the Interference of the federal courts with such regulation cn ex parte elaims of confiscation. We refer to the opinfon of Justice Peckham, in the New York Gas company case, and to that of Justice Moody | in the Knoxvlile Water company case. Fol- lowing the precedent and the reasoning of | these two decisions, the court of appeals dissolved the injunctions against the Ala- bama raflway rates on the broad ground that no real case of confiscaticn had been made out, that no satisfactory evicence had been presented to the court that the lower rates would have affected the property rights of the complainants, and that the new rates were not on their face so un- reasonable as to warrant their Injunction without a trial. The evidence before the court consisted merely of affidavits giving | opinions as to the effect of rates which had not had a day's trial. There had been ne practical test of their influence over in- come, which might concelvably have been favorable. An element of uncertainty ex- isted that could only be overcome by actual test of the mew rates. The practice of re- quiring such & test before granting an in- junction was commended. Speaking gen- erally of the attitude of the courts toward legislative changes in railway. rates, the opinion says: “Such statutes, not apparently extreme or unjust, should not, in our opinion, be sus- pended at all on ex parte opinion affi- davits. The courts cannot, as a rule, yleld their right of judgment to the opinions of interested experts who are mot even sub- jected to cross-examination. If they did 80, In railroad law, the regulation of rates wolld become cbsolete, and in criminal law murder would cease to be a punishable crime.” The opinion, as a whole, is a complete vindication of the right of the state of Ala- bama to regulate rallroad rates, and to have its regulative legislation given a fair trial, free from the intervention of the federal courts. ; e———— HIGHWAYS OF TRADE NEGLECTED Oppertanities in Somth America that Are Passed U Springfield Republican. James G. Blaine will be longest and most honorably remembered for his carnest in- sistence that the United States ought to command the trade of the American conti- nent. There has been brought to light & letter which he wrote to Congressman Mc- Kinley, nineteen years ago, that is wwell worthy of reproduction, as follows “It is a great mistake to take hides from the free list, where they have been for so many vears. It Is a slap in the face of the Bouth Americans, with whom we are trying to enlarge our trade. It will benefit the farmer by adding 5 to 8 per ecent to the price of his children's shoes. Tt will yield a prafit to the butcher (Beef trust) only, the last man that needs It. The movement is injudfclous from beginning to end—in every form and ph: Please stop it be- fore It sees light. Such movements as this for protection will protect the republican party only into speedy retiremant.” The truth of the position then taken by Mr. Blaine is more generally realized by republiezis today than it was then; but, Gesplte the wise efforts made by Elihu Root, when secretary of state, to bind the republics of the continent more closely to- gether, our progress in that work has been less than it ought to have been. By right of propinguity the mills and the merchants of this country. ought to be supplying our nelghbors to the south with the goods they need more fully than is the case. Our peo- ple must learn to cater directly and iIntel- ligently to the trade of Bouth America, and we make discouraging slow progress in this D., April 18.—(8pecial.)— As an indication of the manner in which new settlers are coming into central and western South Dokota this spring, the rec- ords for Wasta in the west and Harrold in the central portion of the sf up as examples in that lin places making practically eq At Wasta for March, forty cars of emigrant goods were unloaded, most of them being for settlers on homesteads in that part of the country. At Harrold, the record for (hat month was thirty-five cars, these being ' the effects of those who had pur- chased deeded lands &t prices ranging from $16 to 335 an acre, But all are coming to help bulld up the state and are showing their faith by bringing the goods to bey active farming life In the state, and help 10 Increase its productivenes [ Dakota. April 18— (Bpe- on the line be tween here and Huron say b, fully 100 power breaking outfits are to be seen from the train between the two towns. This means that there will be an immense amount of prairie sod turned over this year, and whie & part of this will be planted to oats most of it will be put into flax, which will mean the heaviest crop of that grain ever raised in this part of the wtat Te Divide EDGEMONT, 8. D, PIERRE, D. clal.)—Travelers e State, April (1. —(Special.)— the division of the state of South Dakoia has been started and the voters of the state will be asked to sign the petition. Industnal Expo for Gate City ¥ Proposition to Be Discussed at Com. mercial Club Manufacturers’ Committee. — F. E. Sanborn, thairman of the manu- facturers committee of the Commercial olud, has called a meeoting of his commit- tee for early In the week to disouss plans for an Industrinl exposition to ba held In Omaha during the early fall. The éxposi- tion will be & display of goods miade in Omaha. b HOW HEIRS OF ENTRYMAN MAY PROVE HIS CLAIM He Muat Show Both Resldenve on and Ouitivation of Lan Fourteen Montha, A decision has been recelved at federal headquarters from the general land office that Is of general jmportance. 4 homea- steaders and particularly to such as have taken up homesteads under the Kinkaid mct, who are due te prove up en their claims tn the near future. ‘The decision states that in order to ena- ble the heirs of a homestead entryman to submit commutatien proof of his entry, he must show both residence on dnd cultiva- tion of the land for fourteen months by the entryman or the heirs, or partly by both. ‘The same rule applied In cases whege com- mutation proof is submitted by the widow of the entryman, Herelofore it has only been necessary for an entryman or an heir to show either residence or cultivation of the land tor fourteen manths. PERSONAL NOTES, Russian workmen dissatiafied with the size of their Haster tips killed the tipster on the spot. In this country he is permitted merely to starve. Thirteen jufymen will be selected te try a San Francisco graft case. The thir- teenth is expected to met only in cAse ene of the dosen gets hit with a bomb or something President Gompers of the Ameriean Fed- eration of Labor, will visit Burope this summer to study and report upen the In- dustrial, soclological and economic cond)- tions of the laboring peeple In England, Germany, France, Sweden and Italy. He will sail June 2. Announcement s made that the bronse statue of James J. Hill, which will be placed In the center of the grounds at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacitic exposition in nearly completed The statue is of herole #ize and will be set upon a granite pedes- tal, At the close of the exposition it will be placed permanently on the campus of the State university. Mrs. Louts Herts was the: leading rep- resentative of the California club in try- ing to secure the passage of the equal guardianship bill, which was defeated the other day In the state senate of Californla, and which was designed to give mothers equal control with fathers over thelr child- ren. Becauss of the defeat the suffragisis of California are redoubling their efforts for equal franchise. Gitfora Pinchol, speaking in Providence last week, gave Mr. Roosevelt the credit of having started the movement for the conservation of the country's natural re- sources. Whereupon a man present aroee and sald: “Perhaps Mr, Roosevelt was lthe man behind the gup, but the .man behind the gun was Gitford Pinchot. I have heard Mr. Roosevelt himseif, say that Mr. Pinchot origipated the movement.” The Job and the Pay. New York Press. The human race needs to learn that pay doesn't go with the job. It goes with the service performed In the job. Harriman's job, which Is probably wosth $10,000,000 a year, wouldn't be worth $0 & week if it was held by a man who couldn't fill it. ¢ TART TRIFLES, “What a look of admiration you had on your face while she was singing!" ‘L suppose I did.” “You admire her singing then?" “No, I admire her nerve."—Houston Post. “He tells me his wife has a very strict sense of honor.” “Yes?" sent himself sev- rsonal,’ and he —Cleveland “Just to test her he h eral postcards marked say never reads. them. Pllln Dealer. Book Agent—Madam, here s an admirable work I have on how io munago se Ho Don't want it. ou l.'ln l any help in this town to mas . Book Agont—Then here is a still better series on self help.—Baltimo erican The anclent Egyptian sculptor was chis- eling the mouth J the Sphinx. n makin il that won't some oft,” he s But, alis! He neglected to make & nose that wouldn't come m-Chlcm Trlhnm 1 can't_last much Jenger, my Gear, old Mr. Kloseman, who was nearing ond; “but, aht 1 good <o think that even -fm - death I'll be near you and watch over "Well—fr—rellly" replied the soon-to-be young widow, “if that's true, I'm afraid my exiravagance wnnrln you ter- ribly."—Cath¢lic Standard a “Do you think ' that part of the show which is being brought forward so prom- inently is as good as it seems? must take at it “Wel face valuo anything which 1s featured.” ress. hiladelphia Deacon Hardesty—Mr. must come to our ehurch mnext Bunda Torning The Rev. Dr. Uplitf 1 going 1o preach for us. Mr. Muntoburn—I'm not sure I ha hea: of him. Is he such an preacher? Deacon Hardesty—I that e Muntoburn, P don't know about but he’s the most wonderfully suc- ul—er—chyreh debt ralser there is in country. 4 —— , James Whitcomb Riley. In spring, when the grven gits back in the rees, Ana IIIQ sun comes Dlll and stays, And yer boots pull op with & good, tight squeeze, And you think of yer barefoot days; When you ort to work and you want (9 not, And you and 1 wife agrees It's time to spade up the garden lot, When the green gits back in the trees- Well! work 1s the least o' my Id When the green, you know. m- back Jn the trees! . When the green gits back in the Lrees, and bees Is a-bussin’ roun’ agsin "'ofi‘" ‘una of & lazy go-as-you-pledse gait they bum roun' In: Wh.n lht m:m s all bald whero the hay- stood. And the ercics ris, and the hr“u Coaxes the bloom in the old And the green gits back in the tr 1 like, as 1 say, in sich scenes as The time when the green gits back in the tree: When the whole tailfeathers o' winter time one! And t Ana m -wnt it starts A feller's forred, a-gettin' down At the old spris Jokers bearing against [ The petition to put to the referendum vole | | kindo' I When the its Jest a-potterin’ roun’ as I-gurn—please When the groen, you know, back b the trees.