Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1909, Page 4

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One more week before the gavel pounds at Washington. e — Tennesseeans are only asking the oil of executive clemency to save their Shipp. — When the sugar trust gets what is coming to it, it will. not be sugar- coated. S — Newest Polar Puzzle—Locate the man who claims to have first located the pole. Mr. Taft is a ponderous man and may be expected to produce a ponder- ous message. From the player's viewpoint, to eut the harm out of foot ball might also eliminate the charm. . e Never ming, che coal man and the weather man' will be close chums be- fore the winter is over. S ————— Now approaches the year when Oberammergau grows long hair to draw the tourists’ long green. —_— Speaker Cannon refuses to realize the possibility that a Cannonade may do most of its damage at the breach. — Now that Mr. Taft has forsaken golf for equestrianism, congress will have to reckon with a president in the sad- dle. The government's warning of a ekate pest that preys on lobsters is, of course, a specific recognition of a gen- eral condition. Those pay-as-you-enter cars are likely to be most unpopular with pas- sengers who have a habit of getting off without paying. The Alabama voter, casting his bal- ot on the question of permanent pro- hibition, will deubtless reflect that never is & long time. Garden county, the newest addition to the circle of Nebraska county sub- divisions, is to have a speclal election. And now its trouble begin: It is to be observed that by dint of Ereat struggle Ig Dunn has so far re- strained his frresistible impulse square himself by apologizing. to When the coming Corn show at Omaha appeals to the railroads strong enough to induce them to put on a special excursion rate everyone may know that it is a good thing. —— San Francisco will find the nation still nervous whenever it relapses into cllence. Unlike a good child, San Francisco should maintain public as- surance by being heard if not seen. Dr. Parkhurst's warning to the mil- itant suffragette that woman cannot get more than half what she wants if she fights for it as though she were a man, may be interpreted to mean that if she is real womanly she can have anything she sets her heart on. In a little bit of autobiography Mr. Bryan confesses that he expected to win out when he was running for United States senator from Nebraska in 1894, Our political history does not reveal anyone chronically more hopeful in the face of certain defeat ithan Mr. Bryan, 00 |about Mexican peonage and Mexico—Its Assailants and Defenders Simultaneous attacks on Mexico in books and magazines are bringing out, as was naturally to have been ex- pected, various rejoinders defending the government and people of Mexico againgt charges of being Inhuman and barbarous. The numerous stories slavery, resort to abuse and violence upon help- less unfortunates and rigid suppres- slon of political opposition go into such details to give the impression that they are based upon some foundation of truth, although doubtless either highly colored and exaggerated or em- phasizing the exceptional rather than the customary practices. No doubt some Mexican could, if he wished, devote a few months to visit- ing different parts of this country and of lawlessness, cruelty and outrage, make an equally heart-rending show- ing about “‘barbarous United States, picture of the life and habits of our people. Much depends, therefore, upon the attitude and the purpose of a critie, whether alming to remedy merely to attract attention by sensa- tional statements. Mexico without question appears barbarous to us in many of its aspects and has a long way yet to travel to reach the level of the most advanced and clvilized countries. Gross iniqui- ties are frequently perpetrated there and the common people stand for much oppression which would not be tamely tolerated here. But Mexico has also made tremendous progress in the last twenty-five or, thirty years and, despotic as the Diaz government may be denounced, it is universally ad- mitted to be a great improvement over what went before. Mexico is just now enlisting the activities of+ American energy and American capital in the development of its natural resources and in many branches of industry, and this leaven will surely In a short time exert a potent influence against the barbarous customs that still linger. Defining State Line: The proposal to enact legislation in congress this winter to deflne the limits of state from national authority i8 apt to prove one of the most diffi- cult as well as most interesting efforts of the session. So frequent have the discussions been of late concerning the overlapping of state rights by federal authority that some such movement is not to be regarded as unusual. Although the broad safeguarding of state powers is provided for in the constitution, some specific subjects seem to call for {llumination. The question of the extent of the obligation of governmental treaties with foreign nations is still a possible source of con- flict, as witness the recent case when the national ndmlnlltr’uon had to seek an adjustment of local legislation with San Francisco governiig"” the Japanese in the schools. In this con* nection it is suggested that ¥rate™or municipal authorities should.be. held to account as offenders against §the United States if they enact regulations infringing upon treaty rights or obliga- tions. With the existence of such wide lo- cal variations of sentiment, it would be well to have it finally understood how far school or other laws may go affecting racial feeling, for ¥t would be unfortunate to have another such dilemma arise as that In California. The treaty powers of the nation are well defined, and no state need have any real fear that its commonwealth rights will be Infringed, yet any pro- posed law to punish city or state au- thorities for violating treaty oblig: tions will surely be combatted by those fearing a restriction of commonwealth authority. Certain state prerogatives will be vigorously asserted, such as water power rights, whose conservation each state will continue to regard as largely local, and the very thought of federal encroachment on states rights will ellelt hostility from many quar- ters. The fact, however, that Senator Root, who is supposed to be fathering the proposed legislation, has already recorded himself firmly for no sur- render of state rights, should have a reassuring effect. Probably all that will be sought in this attempt to define a line of cleavage between states and federal government will be a mutually satisfactory understanding which shall serve to prevent unnecessary friction from overlapping state and federal in- terests, N = = A Man of Mystery. The mysterious vanishing of Dr. Cook, quondam explorer of peaks and poles, affords a theatrical revival of interest in a personality that of late had become . somewhat submerged. ‘There would be nothing strange in the fact that the Peary controversialist had sought sanctuary with the knowl- edge of his intimates, but when those who have been his most loyal sustain- ers show that they are nettled by his conduct, the doctor can hardly blame the still skeptical public from making cynical comment. After the campaign he had under- gone Dr. Cook was undoubtedly en- titled to quiet and rest, and even his doubters would have left him undis- turbed if he had calmly confided his The Japanése imitation of the Amer- ican sugar scandal must be a great ad- vance over the original, so far as ras- cality can be considered an advance, Some of the accused Nippon ringlead- ers held cabinet positions, which goes to show that the lower down a fraud Is the higher up it can reach \ A plans to his intimates and gone into seclusion. His strange manner of dis- appearance, however, must be regarded as unfortumate, even though charge- able to the fact that he is unstrung by his harrassments or else to the eccen- tricities of genius. In this latest episode Dr. Cook has reminded the public how much of a by picking up here and there examples | | Thanksgiving | change but that still would not be a correct | evils and redress grievances or seeking | {known to the public with that careless THE BEE man of mystery he is. His Mount Mc- Kinley and North pole claims followed disappearances which continue to strike many as decidedly queer, and the dublous ones will be ready to hafl his new departure as putting not only himself, but also his endorsers, in an equivocal position, since his proofs are still under official investigation and as the chief witness in his own cause he Ought not to remove himself from the Jurisdiction of his court. Where Improvement is Possible. Strangers can sometimes see things more clearly than folks who are con- stantly on the ground, and well- directed criticism from abroad may open our eyes to faults that can be cured. The following from the Lin- coln Journal contains sorhie suggestions that could be useful to us in Omaha It we would only act upon them: Many Lincoln people visited Omaha on | day in the nelghborly ex- of dinner clvilities between the state's capital and metropolis, and some of these bring back appalling tales of the con- dition of Omaha streets. Sald a lady: “The streets of Lincoln have been muddy, but they are like palace floors com- pared with those of Omaha. I had been walking about the streets at home without rubbers and It never occurred to me to pro- vide a protection for my shoes. In conse- quence we were obliged to hunt up a boot- black before going to the friend's home where we were to dine, as it was impossi- ble to keep out of the thick gravy-like mud which covered all the crossings. The Omaha cars, too, made me less grouchy about those furnished to our own oity. We may have happened to get seats in the oldest ones, but however that may be, we rode in thos: of the old-fashioned style Wwith seats along the sldek and a stove In the middle, which Lincoln began to discard ten or more years ago.” There is no question but that we in Omaha are often too careless about the things which are first seen by a stranger and make the impression which the visitor carries away with him. Omaha invariably strikes the stranger forcibly as a live, bustling, growing city, and this favorable opin- fon should not be marred by petty an- noyances and drawbacks that could and should be remedied. Those Dimples on Fair Luna. Entertaining, if not convineing, is the latest official theory emanating from the naval observatory at Mare Island regarding the shadows on the face of the moon. Prof. See, the as- tronomer in charge, has been appar- ently living up to his name, and what his eyes have discovered he makes disregard for old-established theories characteristic of the true American spirit, It appears that that prosy old per- son, Galileo, is out of date, so far as the dimples of fair Luna are con- cerned, for Galileo was unkind enough to style earth’s luminary a pimply, faded beauty, and was ungallant enough to ascribe those dark spots to the scarrings of eruptions. Not so, as- serts Prof. See, politely, but firmly. And he relates how the fair goddess of the night is the victim of misplaced energy on the part of her celestial ad- mirers. Every so-called crater, he in- sists, 1s the mark left by a huge bou- quet thrown at her from the florist's shop somewhere among the great white lights of the milky way, and man on this footstool is hereafter to con- sider the shadows not as defects, but as beauty spots. A local pastor appeals to his friends to contribute a brick apiece to build a new church. Some people in this vicinity remember the campaign for bricks at a dollar a throw once con- ducted by the Auditorium promoters, and still others have recollections of gold bricks and of brickbats. Of course, these various kinds of bricks have no necessary relationship. Although he was elected as a repub- lican and would have been beaten had the democrats had their way, County Commissioner Bruning last year tied up with the democrats and handed over to them the principal patronage of the county board. It's up to Mr. Brunjng to discover where he I8 at. What a relief to know that the cur- taln was wrung down on that Knife and Fork club banquet at Kansas City without a personal collision between Mayor “Jim"” and “Unele Joe." Rejoice and Fill Up. Baltimore American. | Who has not ca for thanksgiving when he reflects that the American turkey snd pumpkin ple supplanted the roast beef |and plum pudding of effete England? | Renewing the Pxercise. Baltimore American | The trust magnates may have to do some |dodging again. Formerly they grew quite |agile from this exercise, and now that they are comparatively out of training it seems hard they have to begin all over agaln. In Chivalry & Memory? San Francisco Chronlele. The president has annulled the appoint- |ment of the poor widow of a lighthouse keeper on tThe Potomac, who was to have had the vacancy, because she ls too fat to squeeze through the manhole to reach the |lens. And this from Taft! It probably hasn't yet occurred to a beneficent goven- ment that it might have enlarged the man- | hole. Putting Up Storm Shutters. Sloux City Tribune. The big corporations are anticipating s federal incorporation act that may base capital on value of properties, just as the two local corporstions are doing. The |Adams Express company “cut a melon” a while ago and now Wells Fargo convert surplus earnings into a 300 per cent stock dividend. Thelr weather bureau predicts an area of low barometer com!ng their way and they prepare for it as best they can. The Great Corn Show. Charleston News and Courler. The National Corn exposition is to be held at Omaha, Neb., next month, Decem- ber 6-18 It will be a grand affair. At the exposition last year fifty thousand ears of corn were on exhjbit, one thousand special displays of the smaller grains and five hundred exhibits of farm Iimplements. | elected president | the Pan-American road, which is now in OMAHA, MONDAY Twenty-nine states were represented in the | show. The exposition this year promises to be equally as large. The Union Pacific railrond 1s promoting the success of the enterprise. w THI the Bnd Comes, Washington Herald Those all-too-eager enthusiasts in the mattér of glving proper credit for the @issolution of the ofl octopus will do well to go slow, we think. It is not altogether impossible that the octopus may not dls- solute, Deserves the [ St. Louls Globe-Democrat The cashier of a plutocratic Chicago club, arrested for embezsling, says “auto- moblles and women" wrought his downfall The public declines to abolish either temptation. The only practical method of | dlscouraging theft is to give the limit to | the thief who tries to fix the blarae where | It does not belong. 1 ~ Thomnson and Hiv Railronds. Springtield Republican. | Now that David E. Thompson, United States ambassador Mexico, has been | of the Pan-American | rallroad, his retirement from his aiplo- | matie position is to be promptly expected. | It will be remembered that Mr. Thompson recently secured a controlling inferest in to operation from Gambc Tehuantepec National, southeast to Ma- | riscal, on the Mexican-Guatemala border 284 miles, and it is planned to use the road ak a link in the proposed all-rail route between the United States and South America. The propriety of combining our ambassadorship with so much outside busi- ness is open to challenge. An Interesting Doctrine, New York Tribune. Mr. Gompers promulgates an interesting doctrine of test cases when he says: “We protest against the sonception that a law Is broken until it is finally and fully de- cided what 1 the law.” That reminds us of an eminent judge who once sald: “Ot | course, every man has a right to his own Buess as to what the law fs, but if he guesses wrong he goes to Jail.” Any other doctrince would leave every statute prac- tically suspended (i1l the objection of every pettifogger had been passed upon. The ob- Jector's guess might be mere nonsense put forward for the purpose of delay, but Mr. Gompers wouldn't let him be punished for disobeying the law pending the disposi- tion of his absurdities. That would make the law an ass fndeed! Mex., on the —— TAFT AND JUDICIAL REFORM. re Which Reflects Credit on His Admintstration. New York Tribune. We are glad to see that Mr. Taft gives & prominent place on his program to the reform of judiclal procedure. He will seck to have a commission appointed to remodel the processes of the federal courts in the hope that an example may be set in them Which will be followed by the states. There 18 no reform more needed, and if Mr. Taft should accomplish that and nothing else In the course of his term of office he would deserve to rank among the greatest presi- dents becauss of the frultfulness of his administration. President Taft himself once sald that in respect .to the enforcement of public and private rights in the courts this country had fallen further short of fdeal conditions of government than in any other respect. further short even than in municipal ad- ministration, That is a grave Indlctment to bring against the judicial system of the nation, but It s _brought by a judge of wide experfence ahd great ability, and we are disposed to belleve that it Is in no de- gree wxaggorated. Justice is slow and far fremislsé The fmportance of technicalities hae sbeen “emphasizéd at the expense of comiom 'sénse. Appeals that are not neces- sarywite! gocomplish fustice are easy and frequent; - Retrials are ordered when to the mindofian intelligent layman no retrial Is neededs'sCourts of the first Instance have been-subordinated and need reinvigoration. procedure has heen complicated until it is aln.ost impossible either for pleaders or Jjudges to avold making mistakes in it. Three or four years ago a case was de- clded finally in the court of appeals in this state which had been before the New York courts twenty-two years. It had been tried before seven juries and had been in the appellate courts ten times. The first time Iz reached the court of appeais the learned court sald that even on the testimony of the plaintiff himself he had no case, but Instead of throwing it out of court it or- dered a new trial. That, of course, was a rare example of the law's delays, but ex- cesslve and unnecessary appeals are the order of the ddy. And their effect Is, as Mr. Taft has pointed out, to give the man with the longest purse the advantage. He can wear out his poorer adversary's pa- tlence Or exhaust his substance by dilatory practices and through expensive resorts to the higher courts. Me ACKNOWLEDGING THE CORN, Some O1d Ideas Banished from Ratl road World. Cleveland Leader. Let no man say that the crusade against the raliroads which have been using their power arrogantly and selfishly has falled to bring. results. Read what E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe raliroad, sald at the first annual ban- quest of the Rallway Business assoclation in New York. “The old idea of ‘the public be d—, " sald Mr. Ripley, “has passed out. In this country the people rule—and in the long run that system, that method, or that personality which does not meet the appro- bation of the public cannot succeed. We must realize, as I think we all do (after & series of very hard knocks), that the raliroads are strictly private property, but subject to regulation by the public through its regularly constituted authorities—that the government may reduce our earnings and increase our expenses has been suf- ticlently proved. i “To meet this situation we must endeavor to get in touch with public opinion. We must avold action serlously counter to pub- lic opinlon except for compelling reasons, We must have the disposition te explain those reasons through officers and em- ployes of all gades. We must improve service in many cf without hope of re ward and for the deliberate purpose of win- ning public approval, such as better sta- tions, improved heating and lighting de- vices, better equipment, better terminal tacllities, separation of grades, etc.—all with due regard to the rights of those whose money we are spending.” There Is the lesson which Is being forced home on the rallroads. Not all great rail- road operators have yet recognized the de- termination of the people as clearly as Mr. Ripley and some who do have not accepted it In the cordfal spirit he mani- fests. But Mr. Ripley's statement of the situation is absolutely correct. He was not merely “throwing bouquets” to the public to disarm resentment and leave the way clear for the old order of things. He was talking to other railroad men and he and they know that “the government may re- duce their earnings and increase their expenses.” The day when the rallways will, in return for the privileges the people give them, act in accordance with the rights of the people seems to be at hand | salaries $4,000, stating their belief that they | Farmer Edwards, and as he peered out he Around New York Ripples on the Ourrent of Life a8 Seen in the Great Amerioan Metropolis from Day to Day. The judiclal liking for the technicalities of the law is strikingly shown In an lssue pending befors the Board of Estimate of Greater New York. A constitutional amend- ment Increasing the salaries of judges of the state supreme courts by $4,000 a year was approved by the voters at the last election. The increase s from $6,000 to $10,000 a year, and goes Into effect on the first of the year. The amendment is not as specific as it might be in limiting the increase to the low-salaried upstate judges, but prohibits increases in salaries “now' greater than $10,000 a year. The judges of the supreme court of Greater New York, whose ‘salaries amount to $17,60 a year, teel sadly in need of a ralse, and are espe- clally anxious to get It before the constitu tional amendment goes into effect. The Bcard of Estimate provides the difference between the upstate salaries and the §1 %0, To reach the prize, therefore, the judges petitioned the board to Increase thelr were entitied to it, and that provision for it must be made ‘‘now"—or before the 1st of annuary. The quoted word is taken to m @1 before the time when the amendment goes Into effect. The board was willing, but the action of the judges has ralsed such eriticlsm that the board will meet again today to reconsider its action. Frompted by a desire to be “accommo- datin' an' obligin’ to a fellow bein' In distress,” Arthur Edwards, a farmer of Water Mill, L. L, got out of bed about mid- night and, goirg cut into the highway, helped a thief to steal his own favorite mare and his own family carriage. It was the nolse made by a horse pranc- ing outside his window that aroused saw a stranger struggling with a horse that had apparently kicked itselt out of the harness. Slipping on his trousers, he quletly slid downstalrs and out into the highway to help the surprised Intruder, who was on the point of taking to the woods. He was reassured by Edwards, who said he could manage the horse, which suddenly b came quiet at the sound of thie farmer's voice. When the harness was adjusted the intruder got into the rig and drove away, without as much as a thank you, Bdwards did not discover until in the morning that it was his own horse and rig that he aldsd the thief in stealing. While he was getting together a posse of farmers to run down the thief his horse was spled coming down the road, bent for home, with the remnants of the rig drag- €ing behind. It was evident that the ani- mal had got away from the thief. “Well," efaculated Farmer Bdwards, as he saw the horse coming toward him, ‘1 always did say that that critter knew more than I do." The death of an old comrade, with whom he had been associated in the State Volun- teer Firemen's association for twenty years, S0 affected Willlam McCabe, 68 years old, that he fell dead from apoplexy in St. Bartholomew's church in Elmhurst, L. L, as the pallbearers were entering the church with his friend's coffin. McCabe, who lived at 143 Ludlow avenue, Elmhurst, was dazed by grief when he learned of the death of Edward F. Kelly, his closest friend, on Friday morning last Kelly was superintendent of public buildings in Queens, and for several terms president ot the Firemen's assoclation, o? which Mo Cabe had been a member. Tears coursing down his cheeks, Me- Cabe arrived at the church. For ahout an hour he knelt in a pew, praying continually. At the sound of the arrival of the funeral cortege he gave a cry, half rose to his feot, and fell in the center aisle senseless. Sev- eral men carried him outside the church and attempted to revive him. Just as the palibearers passed him with the coffin containing Kelly's body on their shoulders, McCabe opened his eyes, sighed deeply. and quietly passed away. A minute before a priest summoned from the church had administered the last rites for the dying. The leader of a gang of young cut- throats in Brooklyn was convicted of manslaughter. The judge before whem he was tried was threa‘ened in several anonymous letters that unless he was lenient in his sentence, he would be killed by the remaining members of the gang. A score of them 2ad been In con- stant attendance on the trial, and & more villainous appearing collection of young toughs could never be found outside of New York. For answer the judge went into co\n't; and gave the prisoner aineteen years at hard labor, He gasped and tottered as he heard it. The listening “gang” were paralyzed. “This is the limit of the law,” said the | Judge sternly. “I only regret that I can-| not make it for life.” The judge has no “fear of harm. The threats made against him will never be carrled out. The thugs who made them | will not run the risk of the chalr or a| like sentence in behalf of a leader who | 18 lost to them forever. In the supreme court in Brooklyn Mrs, | Jennie Caulfield was .trying to convince | Justice Marean that she ought to have a separation from her husband, John, be- cause he was a drunkard and sometimes drank as much as & pint of whisky be- fore breakfast. Justice Marean looked searchingly at @ florid, full faced man sitting at thé right of the defendant's counsel. Having com- pleted the scrutiny he turned to the law- yer and said sharply: “It seems reasonable, It looks as though he was capable of It A queer expression crossed the yer's face and broke into a grin. “That isn't my clieat,” he sald. “‘He fsn't in court. We understood that thls case would be tried in the afternoon.” “I hope your henor is not referring to me,” sald the man who had been taken for & horrible example and {s & member of the bar. Explanations were lost laughter, in which the justice and victim of mistaken identity joined. Cauifield got her decree, N law- in & burst of the Mrs. of Court Deels Philadelphia Press. The present trend of the decisions of the United States courts is clearly against the trusts. The apparent fallure of seme of the earlier decisions to secure any immediate and important benefit to the public does not deter the judges from frowning on the different forms of combinations in restraint of ‘trade. Congress has given them the legislation and the courts are not employ- Ing their Ingenuity to defeat that legisla tion, but are in & most commendable spirit giving effect to it whenever they ean. Tre Wonders oi the Time. Cincinnati Leader. When the wireless operator at Tampa, Fla, was trylng to get news of Colonel Astor's yacht his calls, flung out into space, with especial reference to San Juan, Porto Rico, were picked up distinctly in PASSING OF THE CGWROY. Figure Almost Off the Map. Cleveland Leader Science I8 like poverty. When it steps in, romance pops out, though there are a lot of writers trying to do the impossible and make us glow, symbolically speaking, over the love of the germ for the microbe or the thrilling adventures of the pro- fessor seeking the buttermilk fountain of eternal youth Here we have been walling over the de- parture of the cowboy and, while deep sighs shook our sturdy frames, decrying the clvilization which takes so much of the ploturesque out of lite. And all the time 1t was plain matter-of-fact, exceed- Ingly materialistic sclence that was on the Job. The cowboy has been one of the big pletorial figures fn American lite. He has been the one who has brought the pioneer spirit, untrammeled, romantic and colo: ful, into the drab days of the present He has made ‘“chaps” as symbolical the coonskin cap and he will go down to history pedestaled with the trapper. Remington has pictured him: Wister has set him, alive and kicking and lovable, in the preservative amber of fictlon; and, best of all, Buffalo Bill and all his fol- lowers in buckskin and flowing hair have brought him right to our doors in all his dash and deviltry and boyishness. So we cannot lose him altogether, for which we should be accordingly grateful But it fsn't the march of eivilization, the onrush of people, the swinging of popula- tion from one coast to the other that has conspired to wipe him from the national map, except Indirectly. It has come about because sclence has whispered in the ranch- er's ear and he has listened and acted. The old-time long-horned Texas steer was in the picture with the cowboy. He lent his savagery to the spirit of the composi- tion; he stampeded to give it vigor; his widespread horns furnished curves o beauty and tested the skill of the lassolst But there was too much bravura ahout him and too little beef. He pleased the eve, but he didn't fill the stomach. He was an expensive luxury. So sclence was called in and it hae bred a new animal; squat, fat, short of horn, placid, almost inert. has gone the life and the hues of cowboy life. No longer do we hear of mad, insane rushes, of the frenzy of the stampede, of the dramatic and dare-devil roundups, and of the cowboys riding thelr circles about the herds and singing lullables to them. The new brand of cattle Is docile and bo- vine. It is ruminant rather than riotous. Romance has vanished. There s little need for the cowboy and he will vanish, too. Pleturesque Pashed —— MAIMED WORKMEN. Needed Reforms in antion New John Mitchell ing the Civic Federation conference that not one man in 10,000,000 would cut off his hand to collect damages. to many factories In saying that a man must run risks or lose his job. Yet for years humane judges have been obliged to rule that a man's own careles ness s at fault it he is maimed by dan- gerous muachinery when he knew of the danger, since he was free to leave if the work was not safe. They have heen ob- liged to rule that even the carelessness of a fellow-workman was & valld defense against the damage sult of an injured employe. Tn reforming the law of compensation for injuries, carelessness, whether that of the injured man or of another, may be left out of consideration. The careléssness of employers who fall to provide proper safeguards for dangerous machinery re- quires more attention. Lawsuits in dam- age cases should be unnecessary. It Is outrageous that a maimed workman should wait for years while his damage case is fought from court to court, and that he should then perhaps have it sent back for retrial because of error. The costly time of courts and juries should not be 50 wasted A maimed workman s as much entitled to amsistance from the community he has served as a malmed soldier. Hhe should need no lawyer to secure it for him. He should get it without delay, in proportion to the gravity of his injury. There would be fewer accidents if industrial damage awards were certain and prompt. LICITY FOR TRUSTS, aw of Compen- r Injuries. York World. PU. Standard Oil's Mistaken Policy of Secrecy. Philadelphia Press. Apart from all legal phases of the ques- tion, one rock upon which Standard Oil has broken is its long policy of persistent secrecy. Here is a monstrously big cor- poration doing a business all over the world and yet it never makes public any statement of its earnings whatsoever. Standard Oll has been earning net $50,- 000,000 or more every year, but no one, not even its own mtockholders except a few high officials, knows how. A defiance of public sentiment for many years brought around the Standard antagonisms such as other and even larger concerns, like the United States steel, do not suffer. Steel's managers saw the vital mistake | made by oll's managens in their policy of | extreme secrecy and went the other way. limit the Publicity has been a charac- | terlstic feature of United States steel, and | its quarterly reports go into the fullest detal The going people like to see and know what is on. They may not read annual re- ports, but they want the opportunity to do s0. Standard Oll would never let even Wall street look Into its books sufficiently to have the whares listed on the stock ex- change. Wa belleve that trust managers will some day learn, what others know already, that publielty Is their safety and not a peril, —— SUGGESTIONS FROM DISA of Sav Mines. New York Post The Cherry mine disaster has wuggested to many people the question whether food supplies should not be carried in every mine for just such emergencies. Canned meats and vegetables stored away in cer- tain places, together with drinking water, and renewed from time to time, might save a life here or there. The idéa is surely worth considering, even though the chances | of reaching the supplies in a moment of | disaster might be slight It might often happen that the place of refuge was cisely where no supplies could be kept. But there have Been 50 many cases in the last few years in which men have been rescued after hope was abandoned and after horrible suffering for lack of food and water, that it seemm as if the experi- ment were worth trying. When the rail- roads In this state were first compelled to carry tools on each car the companies submitted reluctantly, saying that in every serious wreck the tools would be broken up, and the passengers would be unable to use them. But they havg saved many & life since then, and we believe If the law were now repealed, the companies would One Means the vicinity of New York. Only an age of wonders could accept such facts so lightly. With it | 1s probably right in tell- | He is right as| ) at PERSONAL NOTES. Senator Aldrich's tactful confirmation the deth of Andy ofted In the back counties. What Mr. Rox dissolution? Te has larly dissolute, and now Jackson s does kefeller enre never ten't been golng The governor of Kentucky ha An open season for mnight rid ought to attract hunters who ik with a spice of danger In it The Philadelphia girl now in a Lond jafl for smashing windows Is sald to p test audibly, greatly to the distress the sympathetic, agalnst taking food f & machine operated by pneumatic | sure. However, It I8 Impossible to f that she does not have to take way. In Missourl this vear more than the countles are without licensed sal but, according to a report just filed Governor Hadley by the state beer spector, the collections under the 1 stamp law are nearly $19,000 greater t) year than last, when the area of “‘we: territory was much ‘arger An aeroplane embracing in it tlon some ideas different those any other that has yet been huilt is ur construction at Fort Barrancas, near Pe sacola, Fla., Lleutenant A. L. Rhodes Dr. Grossman being the inventor and c structors. One of the distinguishing f. tures will be certain appendages at t end of each plane or wing imilar action to the tips of the buzzard's wing The antl-suffragists of New Y geing to study the condition of women in all parts of the globs. Mrs Arthur M Dodge, chairman of the exccutive com mittee, has started on a two around the world to accumulat for their enlightenment. Miss ld: bell, Mrs. Richard Watson Mrs, Helen Elihu Root are among the workers of the ass declared | t in vk are ars’ trip material AN IDEA WOF Not Western Management Wentern Railrondst Denver Republican. Unquestionably it would be a good thi for the railroads and especially for the public if the control of western railroads were divorced from Wall street and placed in the hands of western men. But 8o long | a8 the roads are owned in the east, their control will be eastern, whatever devics for concealing that fact may be adopted. It would be an easy matter to fill the official places of nominal responsibility ‘wllll western men and even to elect as Airectors men who make thelr homes in western states. But there would be no assurance that the policles of the manage- ment would be western. The eastern own- ers would still stand behind the board of directors, and neither the latter nor the | officials they might choose would be Inde- | pendent. he stigma of Wall street attached to | the raflroads has hurt them, and probably |1t has had something to do with the ad- verse sentiment which has found expression |In western legislation. On this aceount | the eastern owners may think it prudent | to keep themselves and their designs as far in the background as possible. But that they will surrender ultimate control |18 not to be believed for a moment SMILING LINES. “Talking of continual prudence, 1 of at least one place wher: guardea in thelr condu ‘What place is that? ‘The penitentiary.” —Baltimore Why for know men are always Americ “Heilo, Tholty-nine senger boy to the otl starting out with a me: e yer got ter go? “Oh, replied “Thoity-nine,”" pull it {his “book, “‘on'y about six ' chanters. 1'm [Just where Handsome Harry gits on the Villain's trall.”"—Cathelic Standard and Times, sald the first » who. was age, “h fur He (facetiously)—Al, thin, Honoria, ‘tis a long journey for wan littlé drop to go td me fut! Honorla—Sure, an' it But, judgin’ from your disgrashful condition last evenin' it's not lonesome It'll be.—Harper's Weekly. 1! Patience—They say she got all her fur- niture on the instaliment plan? Patgce—She did. She has had four bands, and she got a little furniture each one.—Yonkers Statesman. hu with Young Donal—Here, here's a MacGregor—guid- Chinaman! Hoots awa', or I'll be elootin' Bystander. ye young the heeds off “‘She said 1 was good enough to eat; don't you think that was a compliment?” “Oh, I don't know; lots of people ea} lobsters.” —Houston Post, “Did you have any assistance when you de your appearance as a singer? es,” answered the amateur sololst here wag a policeman keeping order in the gallery)'—Washington Star “I have two proposals of marria the practical New k woman. know which to accept.” “I should begi replied Mrs. Worldli wise, “'by marrying the one who can afford to pay the larger alimony."—Chicago Rec- ord-Herald. * said I don't Doctor—DId you give the patient the med- leine I ordered for insomnie? Amateur Nurse—Yes, sir; I was vpry par- | ticular about it. 1 woke him up every hour | to take it.~Baltimore American “Did her father kick when you asked for | her hand “He did." You must have felt all “Rather. He was the | his day."—Cleveland roken up,” champion punter of Plain Dealer. Helen—The friends of the bri €0Ing to give her & linen show Harold—What's a linen showe: -It's @& shower In which the comes down in sheets.—Chicago New de-elect o “Well, you have heard my the aspiring cantatrice. mend it as good securi repald in & year or two?" ‘For the most part, yes, madam® swered the cautlous manager; “but 1 r could not endorse your high notes cago Tribune. volce Can yc n for a loan to be Mrs. Pyne—Mrs. Blank certainly ; ses “‘tact.” | Mrs. Hyne—What i | taet? Mrs, Pyne—Tact is a woman's abllity to make her husband believe he is having his own way.—Lippincott's Magazine, TO THE EARLY SHOPPER. Los Angeles Express. Do your Christmas shopping early; early, mother dear, Do 1t ere’the crowds bargains disappear. Just at present clerks are gracious, will gladly wait on you; In a_month you'll find stores crowded so you can hardly get through. your definition of do 1t rushing and the and T would rise ere dawn is breaking, and I'd natch a hasty bite, Then I'd seek the shops and stay thero il they'd all closed for the night And I wouldn't say, ‘No, thank you, Just looking for a friend,” But I'd “blow myself” as long as there was something left to spend. I'm Do not walt three weeks or longer; do your shopping right away; You'll be saved a lot of wor start right in today. There are bargains simply walting for to pick them up. way from gloves and sippers to & dainty” poodie pup. it you'll 8o, arise while it Is early, while 'tis early mother dear; Snatch a bite and then start storeward ere the bargains disappear. still continue to equip thelr cars with them, Do your shopping with a fervor that is somcthing quite intense, 4 Until_papa‘s roll is meited ol it looks like thirty cents!