Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1909, Page 4

THE ©OMAHA DAny BEe FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. MTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR postoffice as wecond clamn matter = | administered “,"'Tllln tour of the states established 600 | such a’ clorc TERME OF CRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday) Daily Bee and Bundny. one year P DELIVERED 1 ARRIBR Jally Bee (Including Sundav), per wesk. 1 Dafly Teo (wiskout Rundny), por weeh Evening Beo (without Aunday), per week b Evening (with Bunday), per week. 1% Rurday Bee, one year . 9.9 Baturday oo, one year ... Address all complaints of (Freghiarities in @elivery to City Clreu ation Lepartn OFFICES, Omaba—The Hee BOIAINE. 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Treasusvi Bubscribed I my plenence And swern (o before e this 1at day of December, 1w, (Beal) M. P, WALKERL otary Pubiic. Not 7 Ihers lenving the efty tems y ahould The Be malled (o them. Addrews will be wed mn often aw requested, have “Agltation,” says Lafe Young, “Is a habit,” and it would bo a mighty good one to swear off on right now, The attoruey general has another puzzle put up to him by gome peop who are unable to determine what the late legislature meant in one of fts many cryptic enactments. When Mr. Thompson gets through with his work cn these laws he will have a reputa- tlon as an Interpreter almost equal to that of Joseph or Danlel, Governor Shallenborger is taking to himself much credit for the success of the corporation tox. It would have been remarkable if nope of the laws passed by the late leglslature had stood the tests of the courts and proven bene- flofal. They bave a big score on the other side, so we will cheerfully give them the credit they require for this ono, even If It was due more to good luck than to grod management. The 40 per cent dividend on the stock of “Fort Sherman," as the First Natfonal bank of New York s called, {8 worrying the editor of the World- Herald mightily, He figures out that it is something like 800 per cent on the original Investment, and demands to know who pays this. By the samo process of reasoning he can go back to the Nebraska farmer, who came to the new country about the time “Fort Sherman" w belng established and received his quarter section of land as & gift from the government. That land fs now wcrth more than $100 per acre and 18 produeing divi- dends at a rate almost equal to those of the bank complained of. An the farmer started with no invest- ment but his time, bow much greater 18 hia profit than that of Banker Mor- gan and his assoclates, and who pays for it? What about the fortune in- herited by the World-Herald's owner, which was buflt up under conditions similar to those that have brought about the prosperity of the farmers and the banks? If the editor of the World-Herald is really anxlous to know who pays, let him examine into affairs much closer to the Paxton hotel than is "Fort Sherman, I 's Proposals, Official Washington understands that the new ambassador from Japan is the bearer of a dispatch from the mikado to the president, defining the attitude of Nippon In the far east. It is re- ported that Japan will pledge its sup- port of United States' avowed inten- tions {n the Pacific, and the intimation s that we shall be oxpected In return to admit Japan's soverelgnty over Korea, side with Japan In limiting Germany’s territorial aggrandizement in the Yellow sea and restricting its paval plans 0 Kiao-Chau, join fn a ! definition of the maritime zones east of Japan and west of Hawall and reach an understanding whereby Japaneso fmmigrants wmay find refuge In the Phillppines. A very pretty plan, and well thought out vance by the Japanese before thel Mur sot sall, The matter ot X immigration to our terrl- tory s, of coureo, our affair, but when At comes to raking Japan's chestnuts out of the range of Germany's fire, that Is another matter, The warning against “entangling al- ‘llll\.l" applies to Japan equally with Bl other rations seeking to involve the United States, whethor under the open amo of pact or whether disguised un- (Qer the alluring title, “entente cordi- #le." Our State department has need 100 1 71 THE BEE OMAHA | The Administration's Progres One of the chief remsons for cheer and contentment among the Ameriean people as they appromch the holiday | sensom this year Is the realization that the nation’s affalrs ar wisel at Washington ir boud of confidence with the publie that sinee Nis return to |ha[ | White House the entire country has cftled down (0 a steady gait of prog- tess and The of all parties ha | dally ehrouicied .the testlmony of de- velopments showing thit the present adminisiration of the wisest, | satest and mont successful in tory of the be e Mr. messmge demonntrated the of conditions which merk; achlevement. It was an inspiration to congress, which bej fta sosston with an impetus for zealous under the guldance of a coherent plan otit- lined by the presfdent and his cabinet The minimum of expenditure wi the maximum of efftcleney Is the ksynote of the leglulative session, and It the exeentive that rounded it Both in his message and In his in- augural Mr, Taft emphasized the pub- lic needs for fulfilment of platform agsurances, such as the postal savings banks and remedy of abuse by Injune- the the presperity DEWRpRDErS s one work, vas , and measures d pledges signed to effect ady are alr being con- silered for presentation to the session | | American The the at an early dato president’s dafly confol vorking leaders of congregs are shaping various forms | of propesed lnws to m welfare along these and other ences with | 4 of adjustment by the munner in which | pansfon of its activities, especially | yrnd Massasolt and Tecumssh had h(;‘qw;‘y}alnng the lines of administration of its | lived far into the era of the telephone |all enterprises have galned al | :r’rvw\lh The eountry has shown its readiness | with the | wavered, we again exerted our good offices and restored their squilibrium We have generously spent our millions and sacrificed the Iv and our Wariags, in humanity's cause, and the old world has marveled at the manifestation of such morsl herolsm a it had not been betore privileged ever to sea Our hand har been wise and tirm o Centra) Amorican affaire, bringing sta billty to the Pap in eount ma r 4 where we fve on, and e h have not hud to take an n part we an | by our fa- caleulable power for of Do put en end | fluence bee geod. As \inistrator minfean reveines to the fnccssen log | try, and Ing Its 1 Toese have ¢ have of that coun- now ar further- thinge own borders 1d patience to- ward chronl rs, and abeolutely | | tive of conque: | onee | Intenttons, | fréana; | natton now « | in our footster withent hope of profit gave the seer int ot trenquiliity for the eontis By thls time whole have come to see thet ot ent the world must we have no mo- 1t {8 because Al foe 1t understood us, has come to fathom ous that it Is now yal a 4 1t 1s the pratseworthiness of our work among | the lew that Diaz and . 80 carncetly to follow afntaining a god- p over the € sxico, ouy bitter be o mis- 80 | because peoples his in fatherly guardians repnblice | | Two Pressing Problems. was incvita that the | of the state and the develop-| | its resources would come 6x-| It with ment of of our soldiers | RED CLOUD AND | Nattonal Dever Chiet's New York Times The death of Red Cloud, th tain, at the age of ears, further aiment. When he | thice-quarters of the terr | pled by the republic | whderness. When he had attained hood and chicftainship the work of explor tion had mearcely beg for a full ton, as the lite of man is computed by he of the north before nguere pment Within Litetime Bloux ehlet ™ sugge co was born now oec man n r genera the varies, H wiiite red was had passed the man had c the Indlan. His right to rule all his power and ergft o ch coming of the Invading doubted while rematned say 0f Red Clovd that he | the Hopelensneas of the st vigited the cast. In Washin fell from his e He returned to retirement a few ye by rer west ag npletely ¢ to use stra v Into peacef and a pensiower. Fe woifare kept for was ohl by hat than by 1ana of their fathers old ehiet clos of t a 1k desire But o8 to the mmediate the galr the pre before er otld haa reckoned with ard, and problem Red Cloud's lifetfme tales dealt with a s The Iddian was dre: end ldealized In the breath poets and dramatists treated of him as hero, demon or Nemesis. Stene's “‘Meta- mora” and Lorgfellow's “Hiawatha” were both of hiy time. The whites trated his fartnesses held thelr hands. They fought their step by step. Wagon tralns of the settlers, guarded by armed horsemen, found thelr way westward and sl further westward in #pite of his strategy and force, and the ror ralln were lald In thelr wake. Tha telegraph went with the st and the old Phillp rule . the he Incian cearcd to be He had d i ed catlc and be " al and economle Cooper dian erest pitied he of livin d and h same ted, who pe their llves in way m, chief who ruled In his time as Kin under the aperation of the new tariff | business affairs and its educational in- | ®lectric raliway, the wireless telegraph remembered, was the product of the |entire congress ofter the fullest and | freest discussion coupled with advice from all the trale Interasts of the ecountry Any need for further adjustment of the turlff s to be con- cldered by the ecommission appointed | |under the law for that purpoze, and | {0 the meanttme Indvstry and com- | merce are precceding on a definite | bawls, o a1l of no disturbing Monctary reform s Hkewise exhavative con oxpert ole- { ment | | being glven the raost slderation without with existing condftions, the commis-| {sion quietly studying the feeds of the | case from every point of view with no lother purpose than to devise such remedies as the detafled research shall Alaclose the fiscal Interests-of the peo- ple as needing and advocating. In the matter of the rs-.;ulfin\un of combines, effort at the correction of abuses 18 steadily belng pursued, and the old offenders have been browght up with a round turn, notwithstand- {ng the abgence of brass band methods The judgment angalnst Standard Oil |and the conviction of the sugar ring | thiaves are directly attributed to the pertinacity of an adminfstration which | is dominated by a judicial tempera- | ment combined with ceaseloss activity of the silen, gort that accomplishes re- gults without swinging the hat in advance. To be sure, Mr. Taft is not suiting Mr. Bryan, nor should he be expected to, for he was elected on princlples Alametrically opposed to the platform of Bryan, who has been repudiated so often at the polls that an exocutive need pay no attention to his disap- pointed clatter. With the vague and shifting delusions of a visiomary, the president has nothing to do. Calmly, unostentatiously, honorably and with fidelity, Mr. Taft pursues his course of glving the country a serfous, sustained business administration, remedying governmental and corporate evils with- out any disturbance of the industrial peace, and pursulng the even tenor of his way toward achieving the required legislation for the general welfare. By M solld character and persistent energy Mr. Taft s developlng an exemplary administration, and in the eves of his sober, substantial and ap- preciative fellow eltizens, he 1s pre- eminently “making good any Interference United States Guardianship. Development of events in Nlearagua has proved the far-seelng wisdom of the administration as volced by Secre- tary Knox fn what will go down into and epoch-making documents ever issued by the State department con- cerning International affairs. Inter- vention against the barbarity of Zelaya was inevitable as a part of our Ameri- | ean poliey, and it was only because the administration was better informed | than the public that the-Knox pro- nunelamento seemed at first so star- thing. From United States nothing ls to bé feared by an honest | and upright government among the peoples who might foadily be crushed und abscrbed by a less generous and honorable neighbor, Our clear as to our attitude toward these lessor republics and the struggling subjects of tyrrany within our zone of control, In the eyes of the old world | such conduct Is quixotic, yet we de- liberately went to war with on ancient monarchy of Europe ta liberate an f6land In our waters from a terrible yoke, and {n aehleving our purpose we also wrested Spanish control from a people in_the far P tic who had been | struggling vatuly for generations | agalust mis 1 The quality of oyr service 1s highly exemplitied in the cases of Cuba and the Philippines. Out of chaos we have restored order, and have unselfishly interoference record |s history as one of the most remarkable | law, a imensure which, it must be|stitutions, | state house that will be large enough | to | for the untversity, and may go on with | that would look to its return must be | #ot the inhabitants rejolcing on thelr Oubans, unused to standing alo way to peace and pleaty. When the | ing ched no | This growth has res where the bulldings are longer capable of hou properly the | state officers the university. Large sums of money have been ox- pended by the people of Nebraska in | the conatruction of bulldings that have | been outgrown, and we are now con- fronted with two problems that are calling for careful, if not immediate, consideration. One of a polnt or state these is the erection of a accommodate the varlous officers of the people who must reside therein. This is probably the more pressing of | the two, and its consideration eannot be postponed a great while longer. The capitol building at Lincoln is a dis- grace to the state and should be re- placed by a modern structure as soon as possible. No one who is familiar with the conditions of the building will serfously dispute this. It {s doubtful it it would stand as it i{s at present until a new building could be erected. More money will have to be expended in repairing it in order to make it safe and habitable while the construction of o new capitol is under way. The needs of the university are not #o immediately urgent, and yet the time is almost here when Nebraska must provide better for the great in- stitution that has grown up under the public charge. These problems are not for the sole determination of the people of Lin- coln, for the citizens of the state are personelly concerned in their solution. The discussion that 18 now being car- ried on by Lincoln people is in the right direction, but their decision cannot be final, nor is it assumed that anyone en- gaged In the public consideration of these subjects believes that it will be gettled in Lincoln. The Lincoln folks may rest assured that the state of Ne- braska is deeply interested in the erec- tion of a new capitol buflding, and also in providing proper accommodations their discussion assured that it will do no harm and may result in some good. Nebraska's Revenue Laws. The afirmation of the corporation tax law by the supreme court of Ne- braska is hailed as the beginning of a new system for levying taxes for state purposes that must sooner or later be adopted. The argument is put forth that it Is necessary to separate the tax collected for state purposes from the tax collected for municipal purposes. There may or may not be sound rea- soning to support this contention, but the chief argument agalnst it will be the complexity of any system that con- templates such a separation. For an illustration we need but refer back a matter of ten years to the time when Omaha was Msted for city purposes of taxation at more than $100,000,000, while the entire state of Nebraska was Msted for purposes of state taxation at less than $175,000,000. At that time Douglas county, containing both Omaha and South Omaha, as well as a number of other presperous and thriving communities, was returned for state purposes of taxation at less than $21,000,000. The absurdity of this method is so apparent that any system | rejected as ridiculous. It might be possible to support the state by taxes indirectly laid, but the expedieney of such a course can well be questioned. Six hundred corporations of Ne- braska have settled with the state un- der the corporation tax law, but the pet collections are something less than $70,000, leaving & long stretch be- tween this and the promised $300,000. This 1s about as near as the demo- cratic administration has come to re- deeming any of its pledges. e —— If Bellevue college wanrs to go it | trom | eitlen Jurisdietion of the committee, "The power he had exertcd had disappeared the ecalculations of man. Thriving stood where his campfires had gleamed. Tralley cars ran through miles of productive farms over his tralls. A peaceful, productive, ind rlous race, in- spired by high tdeals, carrfed on the arts of civillzation where his followers had #laughtered their predecessors invading the wilderness, A REMARKABLE WITNESS, Corporation Captain Cheerfully Gives Information Asked. Wall Street Journal Poth remarkable and refreshing wis the testimony given Thursday before the spe clal Investigating committee of the New York legislature by Theodore N. Vail, presi- | dent of the American Telephone and Telo- graph company. It has not been customary for high officials of large corporations, when testifying, to combine complete knowl- edge of the facts with the ability and will- Ingress to testify fully. Mr. Vall showed a mastery of the prin- ciples, functions and operations of the entire telephone business, mechanical, operating and financial, and a remarkable grasp of detalls In each division. To appre- clate what this means one must recall the worderful development of the telephone buginess and the fact that his companies aleno require the service of ever 100,000 en:ployes. Equally remarkable was Mr. Vail's will Ingness to tell the committee everything pertainitig to the bBusiness. Being a resi- dent 6f "driother state, and outside the he volun- tarily wppeared without subpoena; gave an ertire @dy' to the inquiry and sald be would appear at such further times as the com- mittee: desired. He also sald he would gladly. Instruct all officers and employes of the various companies with which he was connected to produce for the committee all books, contracts, records, etc., they might desire and to appear before the committeo and tell anything within their knowledge. Not once dld he hesitate in answering questions and not once did he refer to counsel. In addition to answering all ques- tions he enlarged upon the subject and volunteered Information whenever possible. His testimony was absolutely devold of such oustomary and well-known phrases as “I do not remember,” “My memory fs hazy on that point,” “My answer would tend to incriminate or degrade me," I re- fuse to answer on advice of counsel. ' ' Check to Hasty Marringes. Boston Werald The Rhode Island leglslature took a step iR the right direction when it passed a law making marriage licenses obtained in that state inoperative until five days after thelr issue. Hasty marrlages are the cause of many divorces. Leglslature might as well go still further and require a certaln amount of publicity before a marriage contract may be legally made. The law of ‘he Roman Catholie church requiring the pub- lication of marriage bans Is worthy of itation in the civil law. The best preven- tive of marital Infellcity {s not to make divorce more difficult, But to make mar- riage a more serious and more deliberate undertaking. m- Famous Bubles of 1810, Boston Globe. Although not so illustrious gs the seven men—Lincoln, Darwin, Gladstone, Holmes, Bdward Fitzgerald, Chopin and Mendels- sohn—born in ‘1309, there were a dozen tamous Americans born In the following year whose names are familiar to the older generation at least. They include Cardinal McCloskey of New York, Andrev P. Pea- body, clergyman and author; James Free- man Clarke, clergyman and author; Mar garet Fuller Ossoli, author; Horatlo § mour, governor of New York; P. T. Bar- num, the showman; Robert Toombs, south- ern statesman; Theodore Parker, clergy- man and author; Ormsby M. Mitchell soldier and astronomer; Gray, bot- anist; Elthu Burritt, the black- smith sa learned Every One to Philadelphla Record If anybody wishes to retain consciouss while the surgeons are removing his ap- pendix or his stomach or patching up his broken vertebrae he ts welcome to the new anaesthetic. To most persons, having some imagination and some capacity for nervous excitement, the most valuable tunction of an anaesthetic is to suspend consclousness during an operation and ‘not to prevent pain, of which the surgeon's instruments may cause no more than the injury which necessitates the operation. What's the Usef Washington Herald. . There is no use being impatient con- cerning the Brooklyn doctor's whereabouts. It never has been determined exactly, you know, where Moses was when the light went out. U A D fon and ¢ Difference. alone it will find plenty of sympathy and support, but its champions will not materially ald their own cause by mak- eeping allegations of bad faith Loulsville Courler-Journal “Philandering” 1s sometimes & synonym for love making, but the president of Nica- regua would never got that idea by raad- Ing the documents recently signed “Philan- , | and conspiracy on the part of others. |der C. Knox.” ¢ this continent was Ripples on the Current of Life as Seen ip the Great Ameriean Motropolih from Day to Day A philanthropic name of Bostonlan answering 1o M promises (o g0 down to New York and show the Mollycoddies of the big town how to live and glow with exubefant health. Mr Mahoney i & hot person, born of a,hot tribe He Is a life-saver on his reserva Hoston, indulges in ocean scoffs at fogs and cold He proposes to show New York wear 0o much clothes for their 1 will smphasize the point Broadway In a light and tennin shoes and then ge from the Battery. When Malioney, at the age of 38, set out to his own life taking baths all the year round he weighed 12 and ripely experienced in pleurisy pneumonia and rheumatism; he now, at 49, weighs 220 pounds, and “cannot keep I in winter in the house the Sam honey tion In baths every day and weather t they own good, arn n tiannel sul by str tak Mr ng a pl by sea was Some | York's quesr mix-ups oceur in New apartment houses where people know thelr own aeighbors, reports the Tribune. Two families of the same apartment house not far from Eightieth | street One evening last week two men called at one of these apartments, handed their cards to the servant and waited. The who finally came to see the | visitors was a stranger to them, and one of them sald “We must have come to the wrong apartment. We were invited by Mrs. Blank “I am Mr. Blank,” sald the man, “but my wife /s 1ll, and I fancy you have made a mistake.” On a former | occasion an error in the delivery of a | parcel to the wrong Blank had caused | & coolness between the two families, and | the man did not enlighten the callers as to there being another family of the same name in the house. With profuse apologles the men departed. Then the telephone was brought into requisition, the invitations were looked up and the address was found to be correct. They returned to the house, insisting they were right, and the man in the hall cleared up the mystery. The Blank dinner was nearly over when the men ar- rived and the breach between the two femilles has grown no smaller, Some of the executive officers of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration assoclation have recelved what seems to them to he fairly authoritative announcement of the immedi- ate purpose of Mrs. E. H. Harriman to {ransfer to the state of New York at least 10,000 acres, comprised in the great estate purchased by Mr. Harriman, stretching trom the New Jersay boundary line north- easterly almost to West Point. It has, of course, bee. known that Mr. Horriman contemplated a gift of that kind to the state, In the hope that the state would establish with it a public park, and might also be persuaded greatly to increase the number of acres contemplated by those who have recommended that a state park be established, stretching westerly from West Point, through parts of the town of Cornwall, containing some of the most romantic scenery in New York, and having sentimental assoclations with some of the more important strategies of defense in the war of the revolution. Yot there has been wonder whether, in view of Mr. Harriman's death, this purpose might not now be delayed. Officers of the Hudson-Fulton association now are per- suaded that if there be any delay it will be on the part of the state authorities. They look, therefore, for legislation, if any be necessary, at the approaching ses- slon of the legislature, which will make it possible to create, in connection with the glft of Mrs. Harriman, a state reservation, unsurpassed by natural beauties and ro- mantic association man In the Inquiry as to the existence of a Milk trust, which was begun In New York last week, It was testified that the large dealers of New York City had agreed upon a ‘“campalgn of education,” for which $5,00 was to be put up as the first cost. The publio was to be instructed in the uses of milk and its dletetic features, with the ultimate idea of making persons wil- 1Ing to pay a higher price for it. *No, no, not to raise the price.” ex- clalmed Mr. Charles H. C. Beakes, one of the founders of the Consolidated Milk ex- change. “The idea of the campalgn of education was to Instruct the public as to the value of milk as a food.” “What?" exclaimed Mr. John B. Cole- man, who conducted the examination as speclal deputy attorney general. “You men are willing to put up $,000 to teach the public the use of milk? Haven't they used milk from time immemorial? “Yes," pdmitted the witness, “but we thought we could sell more if we taught the public its value.” The succeeding wit- ness referred to Mr. Beakes as follows: Ask any man In the milk business and he'll tell you Mr. Beakes is ‘it 4f you want to get a line on the business, learn anything about it, Mr. Beakes Is the man. He is one of tho brightest men In it, and he has done things for the trade.” The Brooklyn Rapid Transit company today announced the adoption of a pension system for its veteran employes. The rail- road employs 13,000 men, a large number of whom are sald to be In line for pen- slons. ch employe who has served thirty-five years will be entitled to recelve 50 per cent of his monthly pay when he reaches the age of 70 or retired through Incapacity between the ages of 65 and 69 years. The mintmum ltmit of service to entitle the employ to partielpation 15 twenty-five years, the pension being graded down to | 80 per cent for such workers. Provision also 1s made for employes who are less than 6 vears old and have become inca- pacitated after serving thirty more years. or ieal Trust Buster. New York World. Secretary Dickinson has ordered that the War department cease buying for use oils, lubricants and other products ed by the Standard Oll company. A order was Issued last summer against using In the commissary depart- ment the products of the Tobacco trust Mr. Dickinson in this action proves him- self a practical trust-buster tactics as his, If the people were to follow trust could long endure. A cabinet A P mar! similar partment the products of a trust until it has been found to be in a federal court. Such findings exist against both \he Tobacco trust and Standard Oll. But there is nothing to prevent individual consumers from acting upon the common knowledge which the daily press has long furnished. one Senste's Mimority Leader. New York Sun. As a minority leader Hon, Hernando | DeSoto Money may be expected to keep order in the ranks if he does nothing else. Mr. Tillman with his pitchfork, Mr. Balley | with his punch and the flery Stone with his ready right must control themselves in the presence of the Missiasippl senator whose militaney is quicker on the trigger and whose temper is lmperious. white | pounds | | ing interes! the postal savings banks unnecessary. army | | inite, Against such | cannot properly rule out of his de- | WHEAT AND THE WORLD. Groands for Mr, ¥ Warnings snd Exhortations New York Tribune | Mr. James 3. HiN Ings and exhortations, the latest, uttered at the National Corn exposition Omaha,) being to the effect that we shail before long have to fmport wheat if we do not increase the productiveness of our tarms. Coals to Newcastle the face of It seem to be reasonable compared with shipping wheat to the greatest wheat growing land earth, Yet the essential facts are not all on the surface. To those who look deeply into | the matter there fs secn to be only too much cause for Mr. Hill's warnings, for | the fact 1s that the United ates 1s steadily declining in its production of | wheat in proportion to its own population and is very rapldly declining in proportion to the product of other countries. The United States has the unenviable prominence of being the only great wheat country—excepting Argentina, where con- ditions are so different as Mot to be rightly comparable—the population of which ls in- | creasing more rapidly than the production of wheat. In the twenty-five years from 1881 to 196 the thirteen wheat growing countries of Europe increased In popula- tlon 2 per cent and in production of wheat 28 per cent. As for Canadd and Australia, their population increased 61 per ocent and thelr wheat yleld 12 per cent. But in the same perfod the United States and Argentina grew in population 68 per cent, but in wheat production only 6 per cent. In Argentina the growth of popula- tion has been more largely through immi- aretion than in the United States, and the difference between it and the growth In wheat production fs less significant. But here it should be quite obvious that if the population continues to increase consid- erably faster than the growth of wheat it is only & question of time when the heat crop will be insutficlent to feed the people. At the present time the United States produces about one-fifth of the world's wheat crop and is probably still the chief wheat country, though {n some years Rus- a has surpassed it. But Argentina now produces one-fourth as much and Canada one-sixth as much, while Australia’s crop ia at least one-seventh as large as ours. The proportionate exports of some of these countries are far greater than ours. In some years Argenilia has actually e ported more wheat, not only proportion- ately, but absolutely, than the United States. As for the outlook for future growth we have already pointed out that If all the avallable and highly fer- tile wheat land of Canada were cultivated and produced at the same average rate as the present wheat farms of that country they would be ample to supply the whole world. Now, the most !mportant point fn Mn HIil's address was the reminder that our decline as a wheat growing country is due to our faflure to get as great a ylold from the acre as our rivals get. Russia alone ranks below us, with less than 10 bushels; but surely we do not wish to be com- pared with a land In which agriculture is in so primftive a state. Our own yleld is less than fourteen bushels, while Austria- Hungary's {s nearly eighteen, France's is nearly twenty, Canada’s fs more than twenty, Germany's in twenty-elght and Great Britain's is no less than thirty-two. Mr. Hill contends, with reason, that we ought to improve our methods of farming 80 as to increase materially our average yield. It ought to be poesible for us to fn- crease our average to, say, twenty bushels, or about the same as that of Canada and France. Certainly we should not lag be- hind elther in sclentific knowledge of solls and the treatment of them, and it would be a sad reproach to us to be their in- ferlor in enterprise and thrift. The vast- ness of our western wheat fields has too much blinded us to the need of malin- taining and increasing their virgin fer- tility. It has been a great thing to meas- ure wheat farms not by the acre, but by the square mile, but it ts the size of the crop rather than the size of the field that counts. continues his warn would on tra on FULFILLING PARTY PLEDGE. Prosident Taft's Insistence om Postal Savings Banks. Kansas City Star. The preliminary and informal lineup in congress on the postal savings bank ques- tion is quite as interesting as that issue In itself. But as to the issue. The revub- lican platform declares for postal savings banks. Mr. Taft favored them in the cam- palgn. The people are strongly for them because of the extended banking fecilities they would afford, because of the security they would give to such deposits as they would draw, and because of the encourage- ment to saving and interest earning they would give. But the banking interests, supported by big business in general, are opposed to this innovation. This opposition, headed by Aldrich and Cannon, is strong and {s well known. The bravest note in the president's message, therefore, was his unqualified recommendation for this legisiation. He regarded It as “necessary” and ‘‘entirely practicable,’ and recited the advantages that would accrue, as demenstrated by its general success in European countries. Thus encouraged, and admonished by the sentiment in their states and districts, many members of congress Wwho are aligned with Aldrich and Cennon on the tarift have manifested their readiness to join with the insurgents and oppose these leaders on the postal suvings proposition. The united strength of those favoring the legislation already is so great that the reactionaries, It Is sald, base their only hope on delay. They urge that action be postponed until the monetary commission shall make Its report, suggesting that the recommendadti; of that commission— which will be quite acceptable to the bank- will offer provislons making But even In this policy of delay the bankers and the interests behind them are forstalled by the president, who, in his message, advised against this very de- lay on the ground that it would be indef- and because there was no reason why the two things “should be tied up together." There 1 & falr prospect, therefors, that there will be postal savings bank legisla- tion in this session in spite of Aldrich and Cannon. And If so, it wil be demon- strated that the president can command an effective following for progressive leg- islation if he takes the lead i ——————— Your B Cuba, New York Sun Cuba must pay the expenses of the last intervention and expects to; in fact, both gratitude and self-interest require a Nqui- dation as soon as revenue over and above actual expenses is avallable. We have no doubt many ardent Cubans would make the debt to the ited States & first charge upon the government's recelpts. Secretary Dickinson of Monday told (he house com | mittee on military affairs that the United | States had ‘not called upon Cuba for the | amount, which s about $,000,000. The | benefits conferred were cheap at the price, but the United States cannot atford to play the dun in the case of its protege. PERSONAL NOTES. Fleld Marshal Ls ra Rot lebrated his gol crsary last th Hale sllect a ¢ th | Francis P tarted 1o ¢ he holds agains: by reason of years ago. Mre. Mary Hane woman In Cineinnat there. As the widow was left a fortune of § wase 01 years old. On the estate. Frederic Harrison o centenarfes. They com that they are a burden to his remedy for the congestion is to limit com orations to the centenary “only of the , not of birth, Charles B. Withingtort. inventor of first automatic grain binder, died in Jar ville, Wis. He was born in 188, In 1570 he patented a grain binder and later sold 1t (o Cyrus H. McCormick of Chicago, Later he was associated In business with the M Cormicks. John P. Hardy of New York selected Messrs. ‘Pujo, Broussard and iistopinal of the Louisiana delegation and Frank Clark of the Florida delegation to give the presi dent, in his name, an Alexander Hawllton pen, because those four congressmen voted for the protective duty on rice. Shoppers are buylng early and are send ing thelr presents by mall and express o Aistant places bearing stamps on the pack ages requesting that they be not untied until Christmas. And those who carry packages home from the stores will pro- mote peace and good will in the cars it they hold thelr purchases in their laps with as little overhang as possible. a loan ancestor §1x third richest hom o oy Hannh iuherits her f Heury Ha W0, Mrs daughter mplains of too many thick ane fast soul. His of our worthie LOW COST OF LIFE INSURANC Result of Ome Year's Experience Massachusetts. Philadelphia Record. The experiment of combining life in ance with savings banks in Massachuset has now been in operation a full year. A; in the results are not startling, thay are least encouraging. Only two banks huv: opened life insurance departments, but they have agencles in different parts of (e state, and at the close of the first yeur the two had risks amounting to about 1,000,000, represented by more than I policies. Industrial insurance corporat have reduced their rates in order to m: the competition of the savings banis, the rates of the latter are lower thu those of the former, and have been found sutficlently high to pay a dividend of 121} per cent—amounting to & month's premiuin —and to oarry & consderabls amount (., surplus account. No people need insurance so much as (h people of small incomes, who can onl pay small amounds and pay them monthl or weekly. The amount of industrial i surance mow in force in the ocountry is enormous, proving the great demand fo. 4 But the industry of agents leads many persons to take out policies who cannot, or at least will not, keep them up, and tho rate of forfeiture in the first two years is exoeedingly high. Of course, the cost of writing premjums for small amounts and sending around weekly colleotors makes industrial insurence more expenaive than the usual insuranes. But the large profits made by companies in the buai- ness—the capital of one of them being al- most entirely derived from profits and not from contributions by the shareholders— indicates that the “loading” of the policles s unreasonably heavy. The savings banks have no agents or collectors. Expenses are at & minimum, and the effert is to sell insurence at lt- tle above ocost. If you want insurance from these banks you go to them or their agents and get it, and you pay your pre- mium monthly without being dunned. The insurance business of these banks has been pushed through the employes, or by co- operation of the owners of great manufac- turing concerns. The experiment offers a prospect of good and cheap insurance for the working classes. ! LINES TO A SMILE. Man With the Bulbous Noso—Yes, taken to the flowing bow! again. I found I couldn't cut out the booge. But how about your quitiing the chewing tobacco babit? Man With the Bulging Brow—Oh, I'm plugging along in the same old way again, ~Chicago Tribune. “I gubmitted some humorous sketches ther day,” sald Joekley. “They id you kill them?" replied the editor, . _They just dled naturally age.”"—Cathollc Standard and Times. “Will you be my wite™ “I will be a sister to you.” “I never give Christmas presents to my slsters.” “Then we will be engaged.' Post. of old Houston ‘A bald man is like a king with no ehil- dren of his own.” “In what way?* “He has no hair apparent.’. Amerlcan., lmllimm‘a} “I saw you standing under the mistletos with Mr. ‘Hibrow. H 'Yes,” answered the good looking eirl ‘What he said seemed to annoy vou." “It did. He insisted en explaining that the plant is not the real misticzoc of old England, but a varlety with an even more difficult Latin name.”—Washirgton Star. Young Lady—What do you for & brother? Clerk—That depends upon whetlier he's your brather or some other girl's. Young lady blushes. Clerk (watohing her)—That case, right this way, Plain Dealet, END OF THE CAMPAIGN. 8. E. Kiser in the Re We've married sister off at | ma are glad; The troubles that we had are past; we've all quit feelin’ sad; Now mebby I'll have things to wear that wasn't pa's before, And none of us will have to care pense no more. recommeond being the please.~Cleveland ord-Herald. t, and pa and bout ex- They say his father's got a pile; he gave a house to sis, Where him and her will 1ivé in style, with servants, after this; Pa used (o fret a lot about the price o meat and coal, But pow his heart is free from doubt and oy 18 in his soul. put on al egau Lo come, 1 acted as ‘l?my sald I should and pa auil beln' glum; Ma, overy Shiiace she got, would tell about our pedigree, And ‘made nim think we had & swell anc old, old fambly tree. We I the alrs we eould when | We all pretended to belleve that sis was somethin' great, | And that we'd et around and grieve If «h¢ | would meet her fate; Ma often goi him coaxed aside trembliin® tone | Would tell about the boys who'd tried t win her for thelr own. and tu s We went in debl tg ' dréss eourss he never khuw; Gee, but we kept her lookin' swell outclassed by few; Pa cut my hair to save cxper things clean and n And everything was caok he stayed here to her well—ol ; #he way We've got her marr of and ma are gind; | The wroubles that * ha all quit beln' sud K all v uld vai she'd ca prize; The way the plan worked eut I guess ! puys to advertise, 3¢ to e to drevs her s A