Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1910, Page 14

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It is up to Edgar Howard to tell us who's who in his directory of corpora- tion “fixers."” The Missour{ Valley doctors who re- fuse to rescind the resolution congrat- ulating Dr. Cook are real standpatters. No need to remind Mr. Roosevelt to look out for muckrakers and na- ture fakers when he tells of his expe- riences. “Ty"” Cobb and Hans Wagner each gets more salary than a member of perhaps congress, but harder. ol LA s Perhaps if the laymen had charge all the time, the preachers would not have to ask why folks do not come to church, Two candidates are already com- peting for the democratic nomination for congress in this district, both of them by the silver republican route. Congressman Latta i8 quoted as saying he will vote against the postal savings bill in spite of the Denver platform pledge. When is it binding? —_— Jndge Alton B. Parker is golng abroad for a few months. Some peo- ple have to get licked, leave the coun- try or die to get their names into print. —_— A New York magistrate says it costs a man more to live than it does a woman. Has he seen the plans and specifications of his wife's now spring outfit yet? Any connection between the adop- tion of the gold standard in Central American states and the recent visit of a once rampant free silver coinage statesman? A movement has been started in ministerial circles to oppose the clergymen engaging in secular work. Are they going to stop a down and out preacher from making a living? Colonel Roosevelt admits that he almost wired his congratulations to Dr. Cook. If he bad his second tele- gram to the “Doctor” wouvld have been one of the wonders of the world. An eastern professor has produced a lengthy manuscript proving that we e paying too much rent. Someone will be ting & book yet to tell us that it is warm in sumwner and cold in winter. It is sald that the floods in Paris rvined several book publishers. Whether or not that was a good thing depends on which of the French liter- ary masterpleces the publishers were exploiting. —_—— Jack London's next book will tell his reasons for becoming a socialist. To be frank with you, Jack, you would do a great deal better if you would write another book like “The Call of the Wild" instead. —— When the school board is reaiy to submit its bond proposition it will da well to incorporate in it a bill of par- tieulurs as to what school bulldings are to be erected, and where, and how much money is ta be spent on cach, That big statue of an American In- dian which s to be placed in New York harbor should not be placed too near the Statue of Liberty. There has not been much liberty for the Indian in this country since Pocahontas res- The Commotion in Congre: With kaleldoscopic chauges taking rlace In rapid succession it is difficult to take a survey of the situation in congress becanse what may appear to be settled one day may be entirely un- settled the next. This much, however, Is clear, that the democrats are en-| deavoring skillfully to take advantage of the factional differences that have developed among republicans and by putting their votes at the disposal of the smaller group of insurgents ro give them the whip hand in their contest with the regulars. Conceding the determination of the insurgents to carry on their fight for what they cont:nd Js a principle, no one will claim that the democrats are actuated by any other motive than the desire ‘‘to put the republicans ia the hole,” go to speak, and while holding the republicans responsible for what- ever legislation Is enacted, or for failure to enact promised legislation, to render the republican majority im- potent fur effective law-meking. While co-operating with the insurgents to take a fall out of Speaker Cannon and the republicans who made him speaker, the domocrats are by no means to be counted on to assist the insurgents to carry out any construc- tive program of republicanism, but, on the contrary, are sure later to use whatever advantage they may gain in this skirmish to combat any and every republican policy, whether formulated and presented by regulars or by in- surgents. The rules committee in the house corresponds most nearly to the sifting | committees which we have In our legislatures, and the control of that committee should be lodged with the party which 18 to be held resgponsible for the record which each congress mukes, Whether that control would be best exercised directly by the mem- bership of the house or i{ndirectly through the speaker, is open to de- bate. But any plan which completely overturns responsible party govern- ment by tending to make the work of the governing committee that of merely holding a grab-bag, would be worse instead of better. The commotion in congress {8 farther stirred up Dy the personality of Speaker Cannon, who has unques- tionably lost popular confidencas, and who, as we sald months ago, should make way as house leader for some cne in closer touch with the president and the republican rank ani file whose views the president volces. It may be desirable to make sure that Mr, Cannon will not be continued as speakor after this congress, but to do that it should not be necessary to de- stroy the whole mackinery of responsi- ble party government. American Souvenir Hunters. The disappearance of the plece of ‘‘the auld sod” from the banquet hall in Chicago on which President Taft was to deliver his St. Patrick’'s day address recalls a statement by ‘Fight- ing Bob” Evans that “‘the American people will steal anything but a cellar full of water.” It now looks as though they would even take the cellar If the excuse of souvenir hunting could be found for it. In times past it has made no difference what it happened to be, if it could be carried off as a souvenir. Even visiting foreign bat- tleships have been stripped of silver- ware, table linen, dishes and other necessary equipment, and the officers’ quarters have been ransacked and—as happened In one case—an officer’s dress uniform was torn to shreds and carried away in pleces. Hotel men, especially those along the coasts and in summer resorts, say they have to make allowance for at least three com- plete new sets of table silver annually to replace what is stolen by these “faddists.” No good excuse exists for such wholesale pilfering on the part of the | American faddists. Although the| souvenir habit started as a fad, it be- came a profitable trafiic in condoned larceny. It must be profitable, too, “for the valuable articles are the ones which go every time,” remarks a vic- tim who ranks high in naval circles. { But, happily, this state of affairs has been resulting, quite frequently, in | publicity and an ocasional prosecution by the officials of the law. The habit loses its humor under those circum- stances and when the humor is lost the abuse may be abated. Our Immigrants and Emigrants. Emigrants to the number of 558, 1410 left the United States for Canada between the years 1897 and 1909, ac- |cording to the reports of the Canadian | immigration bureau, of whom over 50 |per cent were farmers and farm la- borers. These peopte have gone largely from the northern border states, although many from Jowa, illinols, Nebraska and Kansas are among the number, During that surie penod of time the United States hi recelved at her ports of entry from Nuropean countries several mil- lions of forelgn-born people. It fis |true that in this great horde are many |of the worthy middle class, but the | majority of them are of the laboring or peasant cl | The contrast between our immi- grants and our emigrants is, perhap: /not to our advantage, because those | who are leaving our high-priced lands for cheaper Canadian farms are of the sturdy stock of the second or third eneration of prior immigration waves, The type of the Immigrant we are getting to flll their places are not, as a rule, up to their standard !and will require a generation or two | to be brought to that standard. A peculfar feature of the situation cued Captain John Smith is that the Canadlan government is| THE BEE: actually paying a bounty on overy im migrant from the United States, and aleo pays a commission to the sub- agents who Induce them to make the move. That I8 one reason why Can- ada has succeeded In drawing from our agricultural classes, while another reason is the chance at a cheap farm with a slightly lower cost of llving. In this same connection all the big| steamship companies of Europe pay the bounty as well as the commission on the immigrants whom agents can induce to come to the United States, which, however, is offset by the head tax imposed by our government. Younger Officers for the Navy, The recommendation of President Taft that the age requirements for na- val promotions be reduced in order to secure more general proficlency in commanding battleships and battle- ship fleets is meeting with general ap- proval. The exact proposition s that the age limit for promotion to the rank of rear admiral be reduced from sixty and one-half years to fifty-five, with a corresponding reduction “all along the line.” This change would make it possible for every officer ralsed to the highest naval rank to have actual experience in commanding a fleet, which is not always the case at the present time. The age at which officers now reach that rank gives them a shorter term of service than is the case with any other naval power in the world. These reasons, together with the constant increase in the size of our navy, has prompted our chief executive to propose the change to be made as soon as convenient. There was a time in the history of the United States when our isolation from the nations of the world was in itself an almost complete protection. But that time is past and our coasts are within reach of the “fighters ‘of the sea’’ by a few days, ‘We have possessions across the Pa- cific and commerce everywhere. All this calls for the very best and the|' most effective protection, With a pro- gram of naval expansion, it is neces- sary to glve to our naval officers of all ranks as much experience as possi- ble at as early an age as possible. It | is a responsible task to command a fleet which requires sclentific knowl- edge backed up by actual experience. A navy is an essential In our present affairs, even though we are not an- ticipating trouble with foreign powers. We do not want trouble with other nations, yet that does not warrant a course which {s llable to handicap us in protecting our possessions, our coast line and our commerce, should trouble actually arise. Railroads’ Cost of Living. Like others, the railroads of the country are complaining at the ‘‘in- creased cost of living. The presi- dents of the several great systems have joined in issuing bulletins to tell how they are oppressed. Nearly every item of railway expense has Increased during the last twelve years. One item consists of $200,000,000 spent in 1tigation with federal and state-regu- lating bodies. This is dwelt upon gomewhat at length and the impres- sion {8 given that it reflects an injus- tlee. ] It is only natural to suppose that the railroads have really been, to a certaln extent, made to feel high prices the same as individuals. The cost of equipment and labor has in- creased appreciably. But in spite of that fact and the large acquisitions of* property and the increase in taxes, the roads have been paylng good- sized dividends and building up sur- pluses. The cost of litigation in which it has been declded that the roads were In the right has not been any- thing like the cost where they have lost out. The railroads themselves have been to blame for more of the litigation than they have ever pub- liely admitted. No one wants to load any railroad down with unnecessary expense, It is just apd right that the roads should have a fair profit on money actually invested and the business done. And yet it is not to be expected that the| railroads should be exempt from the higher prices which beset the people generally in the matter of the cost of | living. Prosperity and adversity, in-| creased profit and the increased bur- den of expense are not distributed by favor, While it would be a tremend- | ous calamity to have the rallroads| tail, it would also be a tremendous calamity for conditions to be such that the rallroads should monopolize all the prosperity at the expense of everyone else. This is a free coun- try, but its motto is live and let live, the greatest good to the greatest num- ber and the majority rules, Last time Mr. Bryan toured in for-| eign parts he brought his new para- mount issue of government ownership home with him, and then back-tracked before the week was up. This time he left his new paramount issue of county prohibition in cold storage be- | fore his departure and had it sprung during his absence, and, presumably, | will have fortitied himself sufficiently to stay with it when he gets back. | The scales for welghing diamonds are so delicate that an eyelash wulf turn the balances, but that is nothing | to the scales of American prices, which are so delicate that the yell of & erop killer who has discovered a chiniz bug down in Texas will swing the balances in Chicago. Our amiable democratic mtem- porary is lambasting Banker Gurney for taking the banker's end of the postal savings question, and says he “talks llke a republican.” We sug- | the question as gest that it direct its persuasive elo- Quence to Banker lLatta, who Is the democratic congressman from Banker Gurney's district, and has a vote on the question, but is talking the same way. The Lincoln Star seems to be worry- ing for fear locations for saloons may not be found In case the town goes wet. Why borrow trouble? The license to sell liquor will find plenty of accommodating landlords willing to rent at two prices, even in Lincoln. Stopping the deposit of store sweep- ings in the streets is all right so {ar as it goes. But ralsing dust there will not cover inefficiency of the city street cleaning department mnor {naction of the municipal asphalt strect repalr plant. President Taft {s now trying cotton seed cookles. Well, if President Taft can eat 'possum and make a go of it, cotton seed cookies ought not to bother him a bit. Consoling Awm nee. Indlanapolis News, Not only will the census enumerator keep as a profound secret the date of & lady's birth, but If he 4s a really polite enumerator he will assure her most con- vincingly that she doesn’t look it. Evenly Divided Court. Springfield Republican The continued absence of Justice Moody 1s proving quite effective in exposing the United States supreme court to the judg- ments. Two of the cases passed upon finally this week divided in court equally— four to four; which left binding the de- clsion of the court next below. \ Hands Across the Chasm. New York Tribune. It is a notable illustration of the growth of a good understanding between the north and the south that the two completest, ripest and fairest estimates of the charac- ter and services of John C. Calhoun pro- nounced at the' unvelling in the national Capitol of Calhoun's statue were thoss of Henry Cabot Lodge and Samuel W. Call of Massachusetts. — ) One Indian Off the Reservatiom. San Francisco Chronicle. The peace pipe went round, Indeed, when Massachusetts joined South Carolina in celebrating the virtues of John C. Calhoun. There was only one brave off the reserva- tion at the time, and that was Heyburn of Idaho. At last accounts he had just got Into action against the south, and found the game so safe that he didn’t want to come back to camp. \ —— Not a Whoop Heard. Chicago Inter Ocean. The dispatches say that Khartum was disappointed at its first glimpse of Mr, Roosevelt. Even to that remote city the legend of his rough riding had found its way and the crowds were expecting him to live up to his reputation. But instead of an exhibition of rough riding, they saw nothing but a man clad in worn clothes who walked silently through silent files of soldiers and disap- peared In the house prepared for his recep- tlon without emitting so much as a whoop. ' —— PIERPONT MORGAN’'S POWER. FProperties Owned and Infl Worth Ten Billion Dollars, Indianapolis News. A few days ago the New York World showed that the properties owned or con- trolled or influenced by Mr. Morgan were worth §10,336,462,000. He directly controls railroad, Industrial, banking and insur- ance corporations capitalized at $5,133,487,- 000. He Is a power In the management of the New York Central rallroad, the Pull- man company, Central, Harlem, Atchison, and other rail- roads which are stocked and bonded for $2,036,085,000. Other companies in whieh he is a power are the American Telephone and Telegraph, the Guggenhelm Alaska syndi- cate, several great New York banks, the Chinese rallroad syndicate, the General Blectric company, the Adams Express com- pany, and the republics of Honduras and Panama. The stocks and bonds of these concerns aggregate $716,000,00. The total, as we have seen, is more than $10,000,000,000, The four great Morgan banks in New York, Philadeiphia, London and Paris are, as the World says, believed to command resources amounting to $1,000,000,00. And there are sald to be other properties in which he is Interested through his part- ners capitalized at about $500,000,000. The World sums the Morgan holdings up thus: Morgan’s own companics.. Morgan’s affiliated companies . " Morgan's banking inte Morgan's partners ... Grand total Now, as we say, this Is not a question of dollars, but a question of power, And It is a question of power In its relation to government'and to the command by the Individual citizen of the necessities of life. We can limit and destroy monopoly, but can we limit bigne: If not, are we usge of such vast power? This is the real Issue before the American people. Within certain limits fixed by law men haye an undoubted right to buy whatever property they are able to pay for. But there is stil] to what they do with it, The Morgan Interests we know re powerful. They are ail the while reach- ing out for more power. Our State de- partment strove hard to open a way for them in China, actually going so far as to force the Chinese government to bor- row money of them. Naturaily these in- terests are much concerned about rallroad legislation. As far as we know the Mor- Ban people are not greatly interested in tariff legislation. But their relation to the government is nevertheless always Ifkely to be close. Here then is the question. It Is now money, and not that gives men power. Some way we must find means to prevent its abuse, Our Birthday Bookl March 19, 1910, Willlam Jennings Bryan is celebrating his tiftieth birthday today somewhere In the vieinity of South America. Mr. Bryan was born In Salem, Ill., and came to Nebraska in 1887, locating at Lincoln, where he started his remarkabls career as a candidate for office. By profession he s a lawyer, by nature an orator and by acquisition an editor. Moortield Storey, lawyer, former presi- dent of the American Bar association, wus born March 19, 1845, at Roxbury, Mass. Mr. Storey Wwas once private secretary to Charles Sumner, and figures prominently nowadays as a political reformer. James G. Martin, of Martin Brothers, live stock commissioners, South Omaha, was born March 19, 18684, at Kirkwood, Il He has the title of colonel by virtue of appointment on the governor's staff, and is also & member of the Board of Governors for Ak-Sar-Be the Lake Shore, Michigan | 82,000 | trong enough to control and regulate the | propose to | military prowess | In Other Lands Fide Tights on What is Trans. piring Among the Near and Far Nations of the Barth. The proposed reform of the House of Loids by Its friends entered the discussion stage during the week with the address of Lord Rosebery in support of his reform resolutions. The essence of the three reso- lutions s embraced in the third. which declares “that a necessary preliminary to such reform and reconstitution is the ac- ceptance of the principle that possession of a peerage shall no longer in ltself give the right to sit and vote In the House of Lord This means the substitution of an elective for an hereditary membership. The reduction of the total membership is also contemplated, so that the body so con- stituted would be stripped of dead branchs and repres:nt, not one orly, but all the best Interests of the empire. Lord Rose- bery dld not clearly indicate on whom the elective power should be conferred, but the direction of his propoeal s inferred from bis remark that the new House of Lords would “‘derlve new strength, new grace and new dignity by assoclation with the cor- porations (municipalities) and the county councils formed into elective bodies all over the country.” Popular election is not to be considered, the vital object being to maintain an upper chamber which will be a bulwark against hasty and fll-advised “popular clamor.” The bald proposition of Lord Rosebery amounts to thi A ma- jority of the members are invited to vote themselves out of power and glory. Con- sldering the enthuslasm shown by these members in flouting Lord Rosebery's warn- ing against rejecting the budget last No- vember, it s hardly concelvable they will now change front and vote themsclves out of office. No scheme of reform within the lords holds the shadow of a hope of giving equal representation to the progressive ele- ments of the electorate represented by the Iiberal party and its allies. That must come, it at all, from without. o Khartum, the Sudanese city now particu- larly conspicuous on the map, {8 destined | to be a city of great commercial power. Major A. E. Stanton, former governor of the city, expressed the opinfon in & recent lecture that Khartum would become the metropolis of Africa, and the center of an enormous cotton trade. The Sudan, he says, will in fifty years provide all the cotton that Lancashire can take, while wheat, sugar, rice, gum arabic, rubber, hides and olls will be among 4ts exports. The population is Increasing enormously, for the Sudanese are a prolitic race, and already the hundreds of children to be seen in every village born since the reoccu- pation, and called by thelr elders “children of the government,” testify to an adminis- tration of peace and prosperity. Already Khartum boasts of splendid government bulldings, educational establishments un- equalled in North Africa, hotels, shops, electric light, steam trams, water works, broad avenues, etc., and every creed is rep- resented by a church or mosque. But the cathedral to the memory of Gordon is still only a few feet high, for want of sufficlent funds to complete it. Among the draw- backs to be reckoned with must be men- tioned the prevalence of malarial diseases. The regions south of the city swarm with anopheles mosquitoes. Black water fever and the sleeping sickness occur in certain localities, and a new diseass, called ka- la’aza, which has proved fatal to several Buropeans, is caused by the bite of a bug which infects native houses. o~ Henry Studniozka, special agent of the Department of Commerce and Labor, who now in England Investigating indus- trial conditions, declared to the London correspondent of the New York Herald that the laboring man in the large citles of America “is just about 100 per cent Detter off than the working man in London or in any of the other large cities in Eng- land. I have been astounded at labor con- ditions here,” he sald. “I have visited the homes of men who work very hard every day to make a weekly wage of from § to $6. The condition of the home and of the children has been found pitlable in count- less cases. It is surprising to see how the wives and other members of the fam- ily dress practically In rags and economize in order that the wage earner may be en- abled to have such ‘luxuries’ as may tend to conserve his health and keep him fit to stick to his dafly task. Yes, I have ob- served the new labor exchanges which have just been blished by the present government, They are all right In theory, but in actual practice they have accom- plished almost nothing. Men out of work | have jammed the various exchanges and had their names registered, but there the matter has ended. 1 have found that very, very few situations have been supplied the unemployed a result. There could be no other outcome, for work Is not to be had.” o ., Dr. Karl Kumm, an African explorer, who has recently been journeying between {the Niger and the Nile, says that the spread of Mohammedanism among the na- tive tribes is likely to prove a troublesome problem in the future. That it is spread- ing, as a result of European conquest, there can, he says, be no doubt. Moham- medan traders and religlous emissaries, without having any definite Mohammedan missionary organization: behind them, are penetrating into the southern parts of the Sudan and extending their influence in West Africa, East Africa and South Africa, and this may end, he thinks, in | the whole of Africa becoming a Moham- medan continent, with only Bouth Africa, parts of British East Africa, Uganda and Abyssinia_nominally Christian. New con- verts to Islam are apt, he adds, to be| | tanatical. Both French and British gov- | ernment representatives In Central Africa are beginning, he says, to realize the prob- lem with which they are confronted through the spread of the Mohammedan | faith; and men who, while representing a Ohristian government, hold the Moslem faith as the most suitable for the African, | are getting few and far between. If the | pagan tribes of the Central Sudan, among whom the prestige of the white man at | the present moment 18 enormous, could be | won for the Christian faith, an effective | bulwark against the Crescent faith would, | he thinks, be established. | i o Modern progress Is making such mighty strides In aerlal navigation that Ifttle sur- [prise is mAnifested over the launching of passenger-carrying airships in Germany. Aeronauts of the kalser's empire have not been diverted from the Zeppelin alrship plan by American and French feats with aeroplanes, regarding the former as the most practical method of air navigation. The success of Count Zeppelin prompts capitalists to back several airship enter- prises designed to carry passengers who care nothing for the cost when novelty ean be had. One company announces that, be- ginning May 15, there will be regular p: senger service by means of a dirigible bal- loon between Munich and Oberammergau, where the Passion Play is to be held this year. corps will act s captain of the dirlgible, which, in addition to its crew, has accom- modations for twelve passengers. Vai 7. v The reclamation of Mesopotama by irri- An officer of the German Aeronautic |, e Indispensable For Home Baking than any undertaken in the United States, is described by American Consul Slmpich at Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey. The consul says that “If it should succeed only In part it promises to revoluticnize commerce and shift trade balances in this part of the world.”" Four thousand coolles and the necessary engineers are already at work on the initlal projects In northern Mesopo- tamia, and agricultural benefits are ex- pected in two or three years. About 12,500, 000 acres of land are to be Irrigated, the work to occupy six or seven years. The Turkish government has submitted figures which estimate the cost of reclamation of the land at $18 an acre, and which fix the value of the land when reclaimed at $15% per acré. Wheat, barley and cotton can be grown on the land, and the present population of 3,000,000 souls Is expected to be greatly Increased as the project pro- gresses, \ — e OUR NATIONAL WEALTH, Comes from Fertility and Inventive- ness De e Prodigality. Wall Street Journal, It sometimes seems as If this country had become so glgantic & proposition as to make it necessary to stand outside in order to realize its vastness. Wo areb be- £inning to outgrow_ that childish self-con- sclousness that made us resent any crit- folsm from outsiders which was not all compliment. We may beneflt, therefors, by one of our most intelligent forelgn oritics, the edltor of the London Statist. Ho savs “Does anybody seriously belleve that the United States owes Its prosperity to its fiscal system? The United States raust have prospered whatever fiscal system It | had adopted. It makes grievous mistakes, nét In customs duties only, but in banking, In currency and In many other things. Yet, costly as its mistakes are, they do not keep it back for any length of time, because the land sroduces wealth in such abundance that all these losses are rapidly made good. Moreover, owing to the popu- larity of education and the recognitfon that science can minister to business, the Ameri- cans are exceptionally inventive. Need we say that invention s the most powerful in- strument of progres: Here, In a large measure, is the socret of our successes and faflures, our eston- ishing crises and equally astounding booms, We extract from the soll proportionately one-third of the crops produced in Belgium or Denmark. We destroy by fire elght times as much of our fixed wealth as the countries of Europe. Far too many cf our people are living up to the last cent of their Incomes. Our domestic servants waste for us more than the food neces- sary to sustain us. It would not estab- lish an unfair ratio to say that dishonest administation In our cities has wasted $17 to steal $3. This list could be extended indefinitely, but in the face of it all, na- ture has so bountifully blessed us that in spite of repeated financlal crises, there | has been no general liquidation fn the country since the depression which fol- lowed the panic of 183, It is only In the great cities that we | really parallel conditions in England or other older countries. England and Wales had in 1901 & population of 32,627,843 per- sons, This meant 558 people to the square mile. At the same time, in a population of 87,189,392, we were only called upon to support twenty-four persons to the square mile, As the Statist points out, every square mile in England and Wales has in some form or other to provide a liveli- hood for twenty-three times as many peo- ple as the square mile in the United States, It ought not to be necessary to say that there are economlic laws which apply to all people In all conditions. It will be seen, however, how enormously our re- markable conditions can modify such laws. We should not allow ourselves to forget that these unique conditions themselves create our own difficult set of problem: LET THE GOVE MENT KNOW, What to Do When the Census Man Comen Arow Cleveland Leader The proclamation In which President Taft asks courtesy and falr treatment for the census enumerators.and all H‘Auunlbh| assistance In obtaining the informatioh they are sent out to get, ought not to be passed over lightly. It is no mere incldent of the day. Every enumeration of the people of the United States is accompanied by trifiing with the census takers and not a little serlous opposition to their work. They are unfairly dealt with, in 00 many instances, and their task is needlessly hindered and made less satisfactory than it ought to be. This 8 folly. It interferes with the collec- tion of information which is the basls on which much government work has to be mapped out and carried on. It detracts from the value of statistics which are yital to the intelligent management of the coun- try's business. The nations which are most advanced and are most competently and wisely gov- erned have the most acourate and com- plete census records. The farther down the scale of national development the student of governmental and economlic conditions carries his Investigations the worse he finds the statistics collected by the public authorities. At last there ceases to be any census, and statistics become mere estl- mates, often representing the guesses of forelgners. Make the census as perfect as possible by helping the enumerators to do their work well and thoroughly. They dare not and will not make improper use of any information given them. No harm oan come to any citizen from doing his full duty in this respect. . i A Vair inferemee, Washington Herald Mr. Bryan says he will not come to the senate. And, beginning at A and running through to W, we believe the inferenco is falr that the senate will not go to Mr. gation, & project considered more extensive l POLITICAL DRIFT. Detrolt shows symptoms of another s of Pingreylsm. The fever manifests it in hot talk for city ownership of rallways. Scoffers at the efficacy of the praye be offered for the conversion of Boss of Cinecinnati suggest the more practi method of registration and voting for ¢ version. That's what reaches the spot Advance agents of Jc stroot »h Folk's presiden-| tial boom fourneyed from Missourl to Min- nesota to marnage an informal launching| In the Gopher state. Minne has ar abundance of water for launchings anc other purposes. Atter Jawing In several courts for week curfous politiclans at Pottsville, Pa., suc ceeded In prying open a ballot box In court The find consisted of & blotter, a lead pen- cil, Instructions to voters and unused pro- hibition tickets. The other boys got ther first. The honorable state senator of New Yorl who s accused of uncommon thrift as legislator, has had an amazingly sudde attack of forgetfulness. During the laps| of memory he could not tell where tw checks, for $2,000 and $3,000, respectivel: came from or how they dropped into hil bank account. Down in Governor Haskell's baliwiol officially known as Oklahoma, officers witi a penchant for the national game of pok are privileged by u generous state t charge thelr losses to thelr expense ac counts. An employe of the state admitte on the witness stand that he rarely wo but the state treasury didn't squeal on hi| “ncidentals.” The late Senator Platt of New York i #ald to have complled reminiscences of hi lite with the assistance of a newspape friend, which will be printed in book for shortly. Unless the “easy boss” hewe: closer to the line of fact than in his pos thumous dellverance on Harrison's cabinet, the reminiscences will have a fierce tim keeping atloat. A touching compliment to the zeal o Governor Hadley of Missouri In challenging Senator Stone to a recount of the primary ballot, which placed the senatorship In his grasp, came from Washington in the shape of senatorial garden seeds. Gumshoe Bill insists he dld not frank the package, but would cheerfully accommodaté the governor, for the asking. Government seed cost noth-| ing. | SMILING REMARKS. | “When he was a boy he wore a large patch on his trousers without a trace Ol embarrassment.” S “And now that he is a very rich man? “He carries a large blot on his reputa- tion with equal composure.”’—Birminghan Age-Herald. “Our gas meter,” sald the alleged funny| man, who was trying to make lght of hiy bill for Hllumination, “reminds me of al centipede.” CWhats the queried the inno- cent bystander. “It has so many unnecessary feet, you replied the other.—Philadelphia “You said you were golng into some business that would bring you quick re- turns.” | “1 Qid,” answered the young man with ink on his fingers. “I am sending manwe scripts to the periodicals."—Washingtos Star. “I don't see that there {s much of the boasted American sense of humor in our legislature.” i “Why, man, they're full of it “Will you please tell me where they show d Baltl- “Look at the jokers in the bills. mcre American, “Electricity ln't a modern dlscovery. Tt| 1s_as old as the flood.” “How do you make that out?” ‘ “Sure, dldn't Noah have to lights?"'—Baltimore American. have a The man convicted of selling bogus butter looked up at the judge appealingly. “Before you sentence mc, your honor," he said, “remember my wife and little chil dren."” “I am remembering them," replied the judge in his coldest judicial tone, “and I'm oing to put you away where you can't lorce 'em to eat any more of that atroclous stuff! Two years at hard labor.,"—Cleve- al Jand Plain_ ROMANCE OF RUMBLE SEAT. Minna Irving in Leslle's Weekly. A pretty malden tired of golf, And bridge, and tennis, too, Went out and bought & motor coat And filmy vell of blue, And then she got &n &uto car, A model new and neat 1t was & sporty run And had a rumble at. She tled the vell coquettishly Beneath her dimpled chin, And with her slster at her side | Went out to take a spin. | And as they sat in front she cried, In accents sflver sweet: “1 wish & young and handsome man Was In the rumble seat.'” She looked so fair behind the wheel, 8o graceful and so g She captivated old and young Ana &tole their hearts away. And when a dashing college youth One day she chanced to meet, He ylelded to her girlish charms And took the rumble seat. Along the winding country roads They motored far and wide, And soon the ardent lover changed His place unto her side. Loye's old sweet story as they sped He managed to repeat; Her sister always after that Rode In the rumble meat. Three times since then the golden rod Has gllded vale and hill; She drives the r runabout With him beside her still And now to make their rosy dream Of happiness complete A chubby voungster and his nurse Are in the rumble seat Don't Forget Monday, March 21st, the Big RUG SALE HAYDEN’S Bryan. . ’ re