Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1909, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Dee Publishing Company Only 2 cent stamps recelved in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. $4.00 690 BTATEMENT OF CYRCULATION. State of Nebraska Douglas County George B Tsechuck, treasurer o1 The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of ull and compgieze coples of The Daily, orning, Eventns and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, follo . 28900 171, 9,080 . 29,450 37,500 41,300 40,540 41,800 . 41,480 41,880 . 41400 . 37,300 41,300 41,440 40,530 . 40,600 40,500 ples. .. Net total. Daily averag GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, ‘Treasu er. Subecribed In my presence and sworh to vefore me this ist day of May, M. P. WAL l\h Notary Publl 2.iiann 28, Total. . 1,236,410 WHEN OUT OF TOWN, the city tem. porarily Bee chaaged as oftem as reymested. Free lumber seems to have gone by the board. —_——— The British army 18 to be equipped with taxicabs. Possibly it is thought the enemy could not stand the charge. — And now John D. Rockefeller has written a poem. Otherwise age does not appear to have dimmed his facul- ties, The Child Saving Institute build- ing fund campaign i8 coming down the home stretch in sight of the goal. In the language of Mayor Jim, ‘‘Jar horse won the great English derby. His horse has evi- dently taken up the pace the king set in his younger days. — I8 it possihle that the break in the Tllinois legislature was the cause of the tremor which shook the country around the foot of Lake Michigan? ‘Milwaukee Is the latest city to ask the state legislature for home rule. Omaha has some of a brand which it will gladly permit Milwaukee to have. —_— In writing his new opera, it is to be hoped Riehard’ Strauss will not go on the theory thay because the public stood for Balome it will submit to any- thing. L The senaté indulged in seven hours of discussion on the sugar schedule and some of the talk would indicate that ‘a portion of the sugar had fer- mented. A Nebraska man has landed an ap- pointment as consul at Mauritius. Get out your atlas and go on a searching expedition Into the Indian ocean and you may find it, Omaha High school students have been having a taste of strenuous politics over the election of the staff vof their school paper. No need of a special course in citizenship there. The defense in the San Francisco bribery cases will hardly insist that it Wi necessary to put money in the soap dishes in the bath rooms to in- duce people of that city to indulge in the bathing habit. — New York is to blow in $1,600,000 on the Robert Fulton celebration next September. Still, it was much easler to raise this money than to secure the comparatively smiall amount to con- struct the first steamboat. Those democratic ity councilmen are certainly ungrateful. not fer Mayor “Jim" not one of them would have known that he was run- ning three rs ago and not one of them would have been re-elected this year. Cuba bought $3,600,000 worth of shoes abroad in the last year, of which the United States furnished over $2,000,000 worth. Up to 1908 the bulk of this trade went o Spain. This | from the leadership of the cen | reau will not entitle him to any public | Mr. It it were | THE The Census Bureau. Although his ability as a statistician is recognized and apprecited, the en- forced retirement of Director North bus sympathy. Mr. North's involuntary resignation is the outcome of differ- ences with Secretary Nagle of the De- partment of Commeérce and Labor, un- der whose jurisdiction the census bu- reau Is placed, but to whose superior authority Mr. North declined to sub- mit. No matter how efficient a man may be in the public service, one essen- tial qualification s due —~subordination to the responsible officér above him. North was imbued with the idea that the census bureau was an.inde- pendent department ‘of the govern- ment, answerable alone to the presi- dent and congresa ifistead of to the sec- retary of the Department of Commerce and Labor, to which it was assigned the same as various other bureaus. In insisting on complete control over all the bureaus in his department Secre- tary Nagle was clearly in the right and the president could do nothing but up- hold him, even at the risk of losing the services of an experienced census man. Dana Durand, deputy commissioner of corporations, has been nominated to succeed Mr. North. His former duties were similar to those of the census bu- reau and there is no reason to believe the work will suffer serfously from the resignation of - Mr. North, as Mr. Durand will have ample fime to fa- his task before the actual business of taking the census begins. .The census i8 too costly and too important a work to have ite value fmpaired by disagree- ments and discord between its director well for all concerned that the decks have been cleared for action at this early day. The Georgia Strike. The strike in progress on the Georgia rallroad must not be mistaken for a labor disturbance in the ordinary acceptance of the term. The trouble is racial with a slight admixture only of the issues which ordinarily obtain in strikes and other labor disputes. The engineers are all whites while the firemen {nclude whites and blacks. Though technically not on strike, the engineers have refused to run trains for the alleged reason that they are in danger of personal injury from mis- siles thrown at the negro firemen, but it is apparent that the real reason is sympathy with the issue raised by the white firemen. The white population of the towns, though suffering. from the suspension of operations, are with unanimity supporting the strikers, and the greatest present danger {s that the racial feeling may lead to wide- spread disorders. This outbreak of race antagonism comes as an unpleasant revelation just at a time when a more tolerant era was supposed to be dawning upon the south, bringing the two races upon the threshold of a better understanding which presaged harmony and mutual advantage. The Géorgia strike and its developmentd make it plain that, while the south has advanced to the point where it realizes that the negro is a neceseity as a laborer, the whites in the south who work are determined or more highly-paid occupations. Fur thermore, it {8 a demonstration that racial prejudice has not so far sub- sided as to render it possible for whites and blacks to work side by side in the same occupations, \ people who have been reared with dif- ferent ideals to comprehend the posi- tion of the south, but it is not to be expected that traditional prejudices will be easily wiped out by abstract rea- soning. In spite of all efforts to bring the races to a better understanding of each other, such outbreaks are bound to occur from time to time and the well wishers of both should not lose hope of a full solution of the problem being finally reached. Problems for Cuba. There are lndications that the ma- chinery of the Cuban republic is not that the government at Washington 1s watching the drift of affairs with inter- est if not concern. When Uncle Sam | turned affairs over to the Cubans he left the island in peace, its administra- | meod and with well-matured plans for tuture development. According to the best estimates the necessary expendi- tures would be approximately $24,- 1 000,000 and the revenues $30,000,000 Included in the estimate of expendi- tures was a liberal amount for sewers in' Havana and other cities and for-the prosecution of sanitary work under- | taken during American occupation and absolutely necessary for the well-being of the country. Instead of following the disinter- ested advice of the outgoing American officials, the Cuban government has squandered its revenues in the pay- ment of a horde of useless officials, an army has been created far beyond the requirements and the legislature itself has absorbed an undue proportion of the government's resources. Malad- ministration has catsed a decrease in revenues and these wasteful expendi- illustrates what the American manu- facturer can do if he will only make the effort. By holding an appraisement sym- posium, the Real Estate .“::::f has marked up the lots under dera- tion 50 per cent as compared with three years ago. It makes a lot of difference whether a real estate man is figuring or sale or on purchase or weiely for the asseanor. tures have brought the republic face to face with a deficit of approximately $10,000,000. There {8 evidence that some of the native leaders appreciate the situation, but they are apparently powerless to stem the tide. The long period of un- rest and revolution in the island has created a class of adventurers who can be appedsed only by making it more profitable for them to be peaceful than to be resolutionists. These leeches, if | pointment | ting of more elasticity ther changes in our currency system to miliarize himself with the detajls of | and his superior, and it is doubtless | to preserve for themselves the h)ghor‘ |crats who have been loudest in their | It is difficult, perhaps, for northern | running as smoothly as was hoped and | | tion well ordered, its financial outlook | permitted, will milk the treasury dry and when no more plunder remains | there they will become revolutionists | again. It is such a condition which Is | feared in Washington and which would render it necessary to intervene unless the local government should develop real strength, Cuba was restored to the people with | the best ‘wishes of the United States, and a condition demanding interven- tion again would be a source of disap- | and regret. The United | States, however, is sponsor to the ' world for peace and order in Cuba and ! cannot permit it to sink to the old-time level of Hayti and San Domingo, where | political chaos was constantly the rule. Proposed Emergency Currency. | The inherent weakness of our cur- | rency system came so prominently to | the fore during the panic of 1907 that a demand was made upon congress for the immediate passage of a bill permit- to meet just such conditions as then existed. After much discussion an emergency cur- | rency law was finally passed and a | commission created to recommend fur- make it conform with modern require- ments. Immediately after the passage of the bill the Treasury department set about preparing the plates and print- ing the emergency notes, which task after a year's labor has been com- pleted. There is now in the treasury $500,000,000 in currency subject to | requisition—an amount approximately | equal to the present national bank cir- culation The banks are repeating the story of the man with a leaky roof—when it | was raining he could not fix it and when It was not raining it did not need fixing.. With the single exception no banks have taken any steps to avail themselves of the privileges of the new law. With the passing of the panic flurry and its attendant pressure for money the whole matter has passed into history and the bankers are wait- ing for the monetary commission to report and for congress to provide a permanent system of currency re- spongive to the needs of business. It is to be hoped that there will be no need at any time to draw on the $500,000,000 of emergency currency now reposing peacefully in the treas- ury vaults, but the mere knowledge that it is there should be helpful in preventing any call for it. In Illinois. The long-drawn senatorial deadlock in Tllinois has resulted as such dead- locks most often do—in the election of a dark horse candidate who was not in the original list of entries. | In Illinofs the possibility of a dead- | lock was supposed to have heen fore- | closed by the enactment of a primary law providing for a preference vote on | senator to determine the nominees of | the respective parties. The result of the primary was to give former United States Senator Hopkins a decisive plurality on the republican side, and had the primary vote proved effective he would have been promptly re- | elected. Yet after futile balloting for | niore than four months the senatorship | has been awarded to Congressman | Willlam Lorimer by a coalition of re- | publican and democratie votes. Under these conditions | the demo- | talk about letting the people rule will | {not be able to chide the repuhlicans | for ignoring the preference expressed at the primaries of their own party. In his speech of acceptance Senator Lorimer reaffirms his party alleglance as a republican, so that the democrats who voted for him can labor under no delusion as to his political affiliations past and futnre. Senator Lorimer has had a remarka- | ble political career, climbing from the | bottom to the top of the political lad- | der by his own almost unaided efforts. He has been a politician, taking part in every fight, accumulating most de- voted adherents and also most bitter | enemies as he went along. He has not distinguished himself particularly by his service in congress, nor does he measure up to the grade of statesman- ship which Illinois would be expected | to contribute to the senate. And yet he will not suffer by comparison with Senator Hopkins, whom he succeeds. The Fire and Police board is republican, the police judge is Yepublican; if the ci prosecutor should also be a republican, what chance would the democratic party have? 1t would mean the turning over of practically the entire machinery of law en- forcement to the republican party.—World- Herald What's the matter with the demo- cratic county attorney? 1sn’t he able | with the help of all his democratic | deputies to take care of the duties of | his office? One street rallway patron has seen fit to write us & communication com- mending Omaha's street rallway serv- ice in comparison with the service in other cities. One of the best wi to learn to appreciate things at home 18 to find out how much worse they are some other place. That, however, should not prevent us from trying to improve. Omaha and South Omaha bankers have carried their differences to Wash- ington. If the two cities were only consolidated, the national banks here would:- all be en the same level, en- joying the same privileges and subject to the same responsibilities. Consoli- dation is the ultimate solution of this bank squabble, Owing to a war between ice com- panies, artificial ice is being sold in New Orleans at from 7% to 15 cents per hundred. If they can keep that | ate up for loug without going broke BEE { Island, New | volves contracts s far awarded exceeding lor | georgic la Da OMAHA it will certainly prove that there is big money in the ice business at customary rates | The New York police until she announced an address on The Modern Drama,”” whereupon they drew the line at that. The modern drama embellished with her flow of language would certainly be warm. Henry Watterson Is disgusted with the democratic senators who are vot- ing for protection prohibition wave in Kentucky Is enough to make any true Kentuckian | wish he had died while yet filled with happiness and hope. The Metropolitan opera house in New York is preparing to devote $2,000,000 to pay salaries during the coming season. Next to the industry of marrying American heiresses, the most prosperous one is that of the for- eign singer. —_——— What's the difference whether Governor Shallenberger buys his mileage books out of the left-over al- lowance of his predecessor or out of his own appropriation? The same taxpayers will foot the bills either way. — Dangerons Imi n. Pittsburg Dispatch. The report that Cuba is in danger of spending more money than her revenue will furnish evokes disapproval from some of our governmental authorities. The latter seem to overlook the adage that imitation is the sincerest flattery Where the Gulf Begins. Boston Globe. The Mohonk Lake conference is fairly | unanimous on the point that international peace is desirable. So Is the rest of the | world. But between its idea of the best way of preserving that peace and the idea of those in power there is a wide gulf tixed. A Difference Worth Kansas City Journal The present occupant of the White House treats his “running mate" more cordially than his predecessor did his. Mr. Taft invites Mr. Sherman to play golf, but when did Mr. Roosevelt ever invite Mr. Fair- banks to put on the gloves with him or g0 tree-chopping? oting. Industrial Uplift in New England. Springfield Republican. New mill construction this year in textile Industries and others in the state, Rhode Hampehire and Maine in- $54,000.000. Here Is substantial evidence of the faith of those who are behind these | investments that business is reviving. Interest in the Indian Momument. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Rodman Wanamaker's proposal to erect in New. York harbor a monument to the aborigines is arousing a good deal interest. It Is a picturesque idea to perpetuate in art the memory of the race that inhabited this country before the white man came. It might be regarded | also as in M6 sense. a penitential aet, | for the treajinent pf, the red man as of | the black mén, is a deep stain on the history of white civilization. It was wan- ton, too. With all their savagery the In- dians were overawed by the white men, and when treated honestly and kindly were friendly -and helpful. The Quaker government of this colonly found it pos- sible to live peaceably with all men, even Indians. In other parts of the country t00, the Indlans were little disposed to | resist the Invader exceépt whén infuriated by personal outrages, frauds and the dis- possession of their lands. WORKING TIME OF FARMER. estern Senator's Panegyric on the | Toiling Tille New York Sun Every good senator's heart bleeds for the oppressed and unuplifted farmer. Sat- urday the heart of the Hon. Porter J. Mc- Cumber of North Dakota dripped most | pitifully as he compared the lot of his| friends with that of the mechanic “Mr. President, 1 can appreciate the dif- ference between the farmer who rises at 4 | or 6 o'clock in_the morning, keeps on with | his work continuously until 9 or 10 o'clock | at night, and the laborer in the mines or | mills of West Virginia, receiving his $3| or 84 or 6 a day for eight hours of labor. | 1 have compared the work of the laborers upon the great public bulldings with the labor on our farms. Before the chime of the hour of 4 o'clock had died upon the lstening ear I have seen the uplifted ham- mer fall, with. the nail half driven its course, the hoisted mort dry in the hod while the sun was still high in the | heavens." With so does the rich and mellow an eloquence the senator sing his variation of immoral “I've Worked Eight Hours ' He has put the farm worker with his long hours by the side of the highly organized and protected laborer the workman on government buildings who, llke the senate, has a leisurely and independent way of doing things. If the farmer gets up at 4 a. m. he is a lucky man, at this season of the year anyway and presumably healthy, and wise all the | round. John Wesley, who didn't care for money except to give it Rway, was up at ¢ most of his life, often preaching at 5 and because or in spite of that and his continual ridings and post-chasings lived to be almost 88 KEarly rising and life in the open are assoclated with and conducive to health and virtue, and we must decline to pity the farmer for being virtuous and healthy But let us hear from Mr. McCumber as he tells us of the agonies of his man with the hoe or steam plow or whatever it is “What i% the farmer on the plains of North Dakota and South Dakota and In Maine doing when your laborer here stops work In your mills at 4 o'clock in the after- noon? 1 can see him out on the prairies, the beads of sweat trickling down his | sunburnt face, with &t least six or seven hours of hard labor be accomplished before his tired limbs can rest,” To bed at 11 p. m; up at 4 a. m. Too long @ day. How many farmers keep those hours? It Is no hardship to have to go to bed at 11—one does that in Boston: but there the cows are no longer visible on the common, we believe, as on the “old" blue Staffordshire plate, and you don't have to be tumbled out of bed at the hour when the zephyrs and the heifers their odoriterous biesths compare. The farmer on the plains doesn't sweat more coplously nor is he more sunburned than the young gentlemen who study athletics in the col- leges, but his time card ousht to be vised if hours are such Mr Cumber would have over. or re- its as Me- us weep permitted | | Emma Goldman to talk all she pleased This on top of the | Around New York Ripples om the Ourre of Nife As Seen in the Great Ameriean Metronolis from Day to D One of the lawyers who defended Har: | K. Thaw starties the profession in general and the Thaw family in particular by de- claring in an affidavit filed in court that he spen: 000 of his own gobd money in hushing storfes and witnesses during the | two trials of the Pittsburg rounder. The {lawyer admits with professional candor that he becaine so enthusiastic in behalf of his client that he did not bother about | making drafts on the Thaw millions at the time. He simply dug into his own pile on the spot, confident that hls forethought good" as soon as the bill was handed in But the Thaws accumulated such a sur- | plus of bills from the same case that they are inclined to be finicky, and have ac- tually expressed a doubt of the lawyer's good will. They want to know two things: Where did the lawyer get the $70,00 to spend? If he had the money to spend who got it? The Thaws insist on a bill of particulars An answer I8 promised | Meanwhile the lawyer I suffering the sting of outrageous ingratitude. Peter Donnelly sprung a new one on Magistrate Hermann in the Yorkville court when arraigned on a charge of conducting himself in an abusive and insulting manner toward his wife, Susan. “I admit 1 was pretty rough in my lan- guage toward Sue,” said Mr. Donneliy, “but the truth is I had a Jag." “A laughing gas jag!" exclaimed the court. “That's what {t was, your honor," re- plied Donnelly, “and that's the worst kind of & bun a man can annex. Saturday af- ternoon 1 had four teeth pulled. And for every one of those teeth they gave me a Joit of that laughing gas stuff. it's good, soothing dope all right, and 1 didn't feel & bit of pain while those teeth were com- ing out. The dentist's assistant told me 1 laughed all the while, “But when 1 got home that laughing gas had the reverse effect. 1 got mean and ugly and snarling. 1 rough-housed the fiat and when Sue went out I tore into them something fierce. But you got me, judge, it was that gas.” The court prevailed upon Mrs, Donnelly to overlook the “gas jag" and to forgive her husband. Henrietta Crosman's garter buckles brought only 76 cents at public auction in New York, but her silver shoe hotrn netted $350. A big, fat woman bought the garter buckles, and a tall, thin man bought the shoe horn. It may have been that the gar- ter buckles were not Intrinsically worth more than 75 cents, but it seemed a shame to many that the glittering, bronzy affairs, set with brilliants, should be so sacrificed Several men xald afterward that they would have gone in for bidding If there had not been so many sharp-eyed women bidders in the auction rooms. Every time they started to say something their eour- age failed, and in a jiffy the buckles were gone. The embarrassment attending their disposal was shared even by the tousled haired man who held them aloft while they were being sold. The Belnord, in deference to architectural etiquette, must be known as an apartment house. In reality it & a community, a vil- lage—and number of houses welded into one. It is going up in the block bounded by Broadway, Amsterdam avenue, Eighty- sixth and Eighty-seventh streets. Inci- dentally, it will occupy the entire biock, will bé twice as large as Madison Square Garden and will cost $3,000,000. “Listen to this" sald one of the archi- tects quoted by the Tribune. “That cute little house will fit into a hole in the ground 350 feet long by 200 feet wide. | Something ke 1,750,000 cubic feet of ground must be disturbed to make room for it. It will be only about 150 feet high, twelve stories and a mezzanine on one side, but those storfes will be real live ones—not of the continued-in-our-next kind, but thet whole thing under one cover. Even allow- | Ing for the open court about which the house is to be bullt, which will itself be 20 feet by 100 feet and fitted up with a little grass covered park of its own, each of the floors in this tiny little dwelling will contain 50,00 square feet, or about an acre and an eighth. In other words, each floor of the building will cover a greater area than Bowling Green and Greeley Square combined—an area about equal to that of Harlem Lane park, in Seventh avenue at One Hundred and Fifty-third street. The combined area of all floors together, complete and mezzanine, is nearly 13% acres, or nearly equal to the combined area of Tompkins Square, at Avenue A and Seventh street, and of Union Square Practically all of this floor area is of wood. The picture moulding and baseboard are estimated in miles. About seventeen miles of one particular kind of mould- Ing Is required. “Not a few windows will find their way into the new building. My figures show 2780, and that many windows calls for some little glass. Now, T figure the total amount of plate glass to be used In doors and windows throughout the building at 150,000 square feet, or enough to nearly cover the 345 acres in Union Square, and It all the mirrors to be used fn the buila- ing could be worked together in one great, big mirror, Bowling Greeh and one or two other little breathing spots in New York could stand shoulder to shoulder and see themselves all over in it, for it would con- tain 50,000 square feet and would be over an acre in area “There are one or two other little hard- ware items of interest about the bullding. For Instance, 5000 hinges are required for the doors; 12.128 small hinges for cupboards, dressers, otc.. making a total of 21,128 hinges for the entire building. There will be 4765 catches on cupboards. dressers. ete, 1073 small cabinet locks, 1450 ‘pulls’ for drawers in dressers, ete. The bullding has 933 passages which, in compliance with the fire laws, must be guarded by self- closing doors; hence, in addition to the other hinges enumcrated there will be 933 spring hinges. There will be 700 bolts for tastening double doors at the top and bot- tom. The total number of knobs on doors, locks and bolts is 9.486. There will be 122 sliding doors and 47,000 hooks In clothes closets. Libherality and Parsimony, New York Tribune It is announced that, In addition to the $1.500,000 which has been put at Count Z:p pelin's disposal (partly by private scription), at least $1,000,000 more has been supplied to the bureau of studies in Ger- ships. Altogether a sum has been made avallable for immediate use five times us great as a congressional committee wantéd 10 give the United States signal service last winter for similar work. Perhaps the proposed appropriation for the benefit American inventors would have been generous, but the fallure to give Genera! Allen a single doliar stands out in vivid contrast with Germany's interest liberality too | would be appreciated and the family “make | laughing gas | to excuse | sub- | many for experiments with military air- | and | PERSONAL NOTES. The Philadelphin heaith authorities are doing some . wholesale vaceinating among the people of that burgh, who doubtiess find It a pleasant variation of their “tag day" experiences. Charles Green Bush, for years a leading cartoonist of this country, died Friday night at Camden, 8. C., of heart trouble. {after an illness which had (ncapacitated | him from doing but little work for several | vears. He was born in Boston in 1842, | A Chicago woman made her husband buy {her seven hats in & month, her simple | process for accomplishing this being to destroy a hat every time she got Angry and to get angry every time she wanted a new hat. In applying the system the first essential is to get that sort of a husband. Albert E. Herpin, New Jers “sleep- less wonder,” has turned Inventor. He | says his wakefulness hae made hix fortune. He has invented a process for underglaze | photography, by which ha asserts he ean reproduce portraits on chinaware at_about | | the same cost as placing a photograph on | paper. The famous Arab, lzzet Pasha, head of Abdul Hamid's secret police. who fled to | London on the proclamation of the | Turkish constitution last July to escape | the fury of the mob, has now sought re- | fuge in Paris. He may he seen dining in #ecluded corners of the boulevard restau- rants, apparently shunning notice as much as possible A monument to the genulne negro poet | Paul Laurence Dunbar, is to be unvelled | Sunday, June 3, his birthday. Addresses { will be made by Prof. W. 8. Scarborough of Wilberforce university, Bishop David W. Moore and Rev. W. D. Clarke. The mem- orial s & fine granite bowlder, bearing a bronze plate pn which i engraved a verse | trom Dunbar's “Death Song.” President Taft, who will attend the fifth | | annual convention of the Associated Wes- | | tern Yale clubs at Pittsburg next Satur- | day, has also accepted a congregational invitation to attend services next Sun- day morning at the First Unitarfan church, While in Pittsburg President Taft will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. | Laughlin. Mre. Laughiin is a sister of | Mrs. Tatt. i | Emillo Aguinaldo, commander-in-chiet of | the native torces during the period of the insurrection, has left for Bagnio to pass a week as the guest of Vice-Governor W Cameron Forbes at the latter's ceuntry place. This Is Aguinaldo's first visit to the northern mountains since his memorable retreat in that direction with several col- umns of American troops in pursuit. Aguinaldo has been recently engaged in | planting at Cavite, having withdrawn from public life. MBER TARIFF COMPROMISE, A Reasonable Reduction as Far as 1t Goes. Chicago Record-Herald When a tariff provision or amendment fs adopted or defeated iIn & way to emphasize the Aldrich grip or the fanati- clsm of the standpatters the judicious have every reason to grieve. Such a result gen- erally represents the triumph of an ag- gressive “interest” over the interests of the ultimate consumers, so-called, and of the reasonable producers who are satisfied with moderate and legitimate protection. There 8 no occasion for sorrow, how- ever, in the defeat of the free lumber amendment. The vote discloses no sinister division, while the arguments, even If not always persuasive or even Intelligible, ve the right rin A $2 tariff on lumber would be an out- rage on the consumer and a danger to the | compantes ANOTHER LIQUOR DECISION, —_— [No New Principle Invelved in (he | High Co ecision. | Pittsburg Dispatch | No new principle is involved in the liquor shipment t ase decided by the supreme co of the United States against the state of Kentueky. 1t is but a new affirmation of the Interstate commerce prinoiple. first ‘-mieui in the Towa original package case The court holds that a state law Is pow- erless to prevent interstate shipment which is guaranteed by that clause of (he constitution which says that trade between states shall be free, and that no state shall pass any law to the contrary Ken tucky has but given another lllustration of the recklessness of =tate legislatures in | passing clearly unconstitutional bills in the tace of better advice The decision does, however, give point to the position taken on this subjéct in the United Siates senaie by Secretary Knox while a member of that body: He decided that & propesition to prohibit such ship ments would not be sustained. And he pointed out that the most that could be complislied along that line, without an amendment to the constitution, would be to prohibit carriers from completing transaction of barter. That ie, the express could be prevented from ac cepting shipments to indefinite consignors and from dellvering to any but those clearly nominated in the way bill' In the Hght of (his dacision there ean be no doubt that Senator Knax was absolutely right MIRTHFUL REMARKS. “Fortune favors the hrave' remarked the tourist, as the red man raked in the pot with four aces.~Yale Record. Here's an interesting newspaper article headed, “Some Don'ts in Selacting an Auto- mobile.” I wish I'd seen something of that kind with & ‘Don’t buy one' on it, when 1 was looking around for mine."—Chicago Tribune Bill-You say Gill's got a Jill—8ure. Bill-Why, he borrowed $5 from month ago and hasn't paid it vet Jill—Well, that's the reason he didn't ask you today for $10; he asked me today.— Yonkers Statesman. od memory? me a Mr. Simple—That girl (s & perfect pieturef Miss Cynic—O, &he's u finished painting, all right.—Baltimore American “Do you have any literary people your town?' asked a guest of Mr Tarkington out in Indiuna “There goes Hiram Spaydes—that man with the pick and shovel on his shoulder replied Mr. Tarkington. “He has produc some of the best cellars every season Judge's Library. in Booth “1 am afrald to go with you understand managing a boat?" “No," replied the vouth, “but I notice that the fellows who know, all about it are the ones to get drowned.' Taking this hopeful view the girl re- lented and experienced nothing more tragie than a sunburned nose.—Philadelphia Ledger. 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