Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1910, Page 12

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Remit by draft, express or postal order payabls to The Bes Publishing Company, 3-cent stamps received in _payment of mall accoun ‘ersonal checks, except on Omaha or emstern exchange, not uccepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, 88 Georike Tasohack. - troasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning Evening and 8unday Bee printed during the month of April, 1910, was as follows: 150 100 Total ......e6 Returned coples . Net towal. GEORUR B. TZSCHUCK, Troasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sword to before me this 2d of May, 1910 mll.. P. WALKER, Notary Puolie —— — ————— ——————— Subscribers leaving the city teme« porarily should have The B matled 10 them. Addresses will b changed as often s req ed. f—————— e ——— Piscatorfally speaking, biting ought to begin to get good. ——eee More litigation over the water works. Will those lawyers ever let go? That Cuban who tacked down the 1id of a dynamite box- literally drove nails in his own coffin. When a man gets on real intimate terms with himself he is more inclined 10 deal gently with others. The Chicago Tribune says the earth weighs 13,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. On Sugar trust scales? Missouri offers $1,000 for @ state song. Set ome of Champ Clark’s speeches to music and save the money. e Perhaps if they would change the name of Bluetields, Nicaragua, those war clouds would pass over it now and then. The Brooklyn judge who asserts that “all women are not angels” should be made to tell how he found it out. Governor Shailenberger's Memorial day proclamation is out at last. It is up to Mdyor “Jim" to scatter a few flowers. 4 ——— Jdf Ambassador Bryce does retire y his successor also be a man who asks that his country call him plain “Mister” and not ‘‘Lord.” —— If the weather should warm up June will huve its hands full with the bride, for certainly April and May have kept their hands off. Perhaps Elmer Thomas has been trying to reform all those ex-convidts he has taken to his bosom. But, if o, he seems to have made a sorry mess of it. Senator Burkett has gotten his bill through the senate making an appro- priation for enlarging the Lincoln postoffice. We pause to hear from Mr. Whedon once more. Zbyszko says he will throw Gotch in straight falls; that Gotch is a very much overestimated man. That is what Hackenschmidt once professed to think, but thinks no more. Report has it that Senator Balley of Texas wore a silk hat the other day for| the first time in his life. Having got rid of that prejudice, perhaps he will now make further progress. A St. Louis alderman is out with an awful protest because 'somebody”" tried to bribe him with $50. His is a righteous protest. Why, $50 is less than the Pittsburg standard. According to the Kansas City Star the Brooklyn man's plan to shorten the alphabet by eliminating the letter " will never receive the approval of Kansas Sity or Shikago. How about Siusinnati, . The democrats of Custer county are preparing for a dollar dinner blowout, but for some unexplainable reason no- where on the program do we see any- ane scheduled to respond to a toast on “‘Nonpartisanship. Help to Develop the West: One of the contingencies against which our government must guard in {ts system of conserving natural re- sources 18 the unnecessary retarding of western development. Important as is the conservation work, it is no more important than the conquest of the vast unsettled areas still remain- ing in many states of the west. Un- questionably there is a manifest ten- dency ‘for thé government by withhold- ing certain tracts from settlement to delay the peopling of those tracts and establishing of new homes. It is on this theory that mountain states are urging the right to throw open to set- tlement agricultural land contained in forest reserves. Representative Taylor of Colorado pointed out in a recent speech in the house that only 8 per cent of his state was subject to irrigated cultivation and that nearly 50 per cent of it was actually withheld from settlement. No argument is yequired to show the injustice and. hdirmful effects of mak- ing this condition permanent, not only to Colorado, but to the entire coun- try, for the opening up of new terri- tory is a matter of national concern. What is true in Colorado is true in Wyoming and probably other adjoin- ing states. This condition imposes a heavy burden of taxation on that part of the state subject to colonization, and on this basis Mr. Taylor asks con- gress at least to raise from 26 to 35 per cent the amount of the state's share of the revenue derived from the government's sale of timber and graz- ing lands as a means of alding the state in meeting the costs of maintain- ing its government, schools and its roads. It is worth while noticing here a state- ment made by the Colorado represent- ative to the effect that the strongest opposition to these pleas of the west comes from those eastern congressmen who know less than anyone else about conditions in the newer western states, who perhaps have never seen a forest reserve. It opens up to candid con-| sideration the suggestion of Speaker Cannon that in his judgment the gov- ernment could well afford to pay the expenses of every new member of con- gress to make a tour of the country, g0 as to become acquainted with its resources and needs before taking his seat. That the country suffers from the lack of praetical information which might be obtained this way there can be no doubt. Trade With Panama. In 1904, which was the first year of the Panama republic, the total value of expofts from that country to the United States was $440,747 and two years later it was $1,065,887, while last year it had reached $T,676,994. But encouraging as is this increase, it is not comparable with that'in the ex- ports from the United States to the young republic. In 1904 they were $979,724; in 1906, $12,724,289, and in 1909 they had reached $16,797,530 and (‘)r the present fiscal year, ending June 80, they are expected to go to $20,000,000 and the Panama exports to this country $2,000,000. The building of the canal, of course, has served to stimulate this trade and it will continue to do so, but what its ultimate full influence upon the com- merce between the two countries will be no prudent man would venture to estimate. These flgurés, in fact, do not include the total exchange of busi- ness for this perlod of seven years, for material and supplies shipped by the United States in such vast quan- tities into the canal zone for exclusive use there are not comprehended and it is impossiblé now to tell what they would amount to. Hence the statis- tics cited give only an approximate tdea of the Panama-United States trade. But it is fair to take these figures as an Index showing how commerce between this country and Panama and all the other central and southern neighbors adjacent to the' canal will be quickened when this great water- way is completed. Just one thing will be required to conserve the possibili- ties to the fullest degree and that will be the personnel of the industrial and commercial Teaders sent from - this country down there, and that will be taken care of. Reading Them 0|;t. Some Doubting Thomases have pre- sumed to question the accuracy of the statement so often reiterated on the floor of the present congress by demo- cratic members that their party is more thoroughly united today than it has ever been. If these sinister skep- ties will take the trouble to Inform themselves they will see just how far from the truth their implications are. Let them turn, for instance, to Mr. Bryan's Commoner and there read the leading editorial, which under the sen- tentious caption, ‘“To Governor Har- mon,” takes the governor to task for failing to follow out the Bryanic dic- tation in the recent Ohio primaries and concluding with this ultimatum: It you falter prepare to stand aside. The democratic party is In no mood to be trifled with. It has suffered s6 much from the secret manipulation af the predatory Interests that it demands daylight methods and honest politics. It is up to you, gov- ernor. Or, if this deliverance does not con- vince him of the solidarity of his party, let him scan Norman E. Mack's Na- tional Monthly for June, where, in the Automobile accidents are again be- coming tog frequent in Omaha. Some dt our automobdlle drivers seem to l.,l'. the mistaken notion that pedes- trlans have no right to use the streets except at their peril. course of ‘4 long editorial, the chair- man of the national democratic com- mittee and.director of the last Bryan campaign says: It is idlé to think of Mr. Bryan as ever again belng the party candldate for the Ppresidency. could ‘be more conclusive? Here we have Bryan, the self-appointed dicta- tor and thrice-chosen leader of his party, reading out of it the democratic governor of Ohio, who is his most con- gpicuous rival for the presidential nomination, and at the same time Mr. Bryan being read out of the running by Chairman Mack. Now the question arises, who will make Harmon ‘“stand aside” if he “falters” and who is the “‘democratic party that is in no mood to be trifled with?" If, as Mack says, “It is idle to think of Bryan as ever again being the party candidate for the presi- dency,” is it not also idle to suppose that Mr. Bryan will allow any one else to run without hig certificate of char- acter. Post Mortem Advice. It is a trite saying that ‘‘hindsight is far better than foresight,” and this evidently applies to some of the mis- guided zealots who have worked them- selves into a frenzy of uplift in these parts. Last week's issue of the offi- cial organ of the Anti-Saloon league in Nebraska, among other things, says: Our experfence with detectlves has mot been satisfactory; while we have had re- ports from many localities that speak of success, even the best men have acted in such a way as to make us skeptioal regard- ing the wisdom of this office even naming men for detective service. And in another place it reinforces this sad lesson with the declaration: Sooner or later detectives demonstrate their helplessness, or worse; ill-advised law enforcement work and clumsy detective service are calculated to hinder our move- ment. We think so, too. But here in Omaha the advice comes a trifle tardy. Our professional reformers have had experience with detectives, not only unsatisfactory, but reflecting decidedly upon their own honesty and good faith. 2 Why should any decent man with a laudable purpose have taken up with a desperado like Shercliffe with his prison record? How could real reformers have gone into t‘b‘o penitentiary to purchase the assistance of a professional thief like Burrier ‘'with a promise of pardon? What good could be accomplished by paying money collected in churches over. to a scalawag like Wetmore? How can the cause of reform be ad- vanced by setting at large a notorious criminal like Erdman, and inspiring him with the idea that he is divinely commissioned to commit murder in its most dastardly form? Would such witnesses hesitate to swear anyone into jail for a price? . Yes, “our experience with detectives has not been satisfactory,” but it is because of the kind of detectives with which we have been afflicted. It is because of the apparent preference of our go-called reformers for peniten- tiary birds, and their reckless disre- gard of the consequences of going good for hardened rogues ready to do anything in the category of crime. The Nebraska editors in their reso- lutions censure the postoffice authori- ties for exacting full postage for trans- mission through the mails of a county option sermon delivered by a preacher at Pender disguised as a newspaper supplement in order to get free deliv- ery within the county and secondclass postage rates without. We do not know the particulars in this instance, but we do know that second-class post- age rates are freely accorded to legiti- mate newspapers and to supplements that are a legitimate part of such newspapers without question, but are invariably~denied to pamphlets, tracts and other printed matter which should properly pay higher rates. In all these cases it comessdown to a ques- tion of purpose and intent as evidenced by the circumstances. A - sermon printed as a newspaper supplement to get under the postoffice rules might be properly barred from newspaper priv- ileges, not because it is a sermon, but because it is no part of the nelspaper. All the spasms of resolution and all the paroxysms of indignation will not change the facts in any specific case nor obviaté the duty of the postal au- thorities to pass upon them fearlessly and impartially. Why are base ball cranks’ called fans? Real fans make no noise, but accomplish something. Base ball fans are noisy and do nothing.—Boston Herald. It base ball fans do nothing, who is that pays $26,000 for the release of a Bresnahan, or who is that pays the $10,000 salary of a McGraw, or a Chance? Who is that walks up to the boy office in droves of thousands every day and planks down his money? Oh, the fan is doing a thing or two. The excursion boat which is to ply on the Missouri this summer adver- tises that “no liquors will be sold on the steamer,” as if that were turning over a new leaf. Where were our anti-saloon sleuths last summer who make a business of nosing around teacups? P The people of Tennessee have joined in making the anti-Patterson crusade nonpolitical and republicans and dem- ocrats alike have united for the over- throw of the governor who pardoned the man who killed his political rival. Good for the people of Tennessee. The convention of the National Con- ference of Charities and Corrections in St. Louis has resulted in an order by the mayor for a thorough cleaning-out of the tenement district. Well, that mayor has put up to the people of St. Louis & real man's job. (——8 Mr. Bryan's Commoner prints what purports to be Mr. Bryan's Washing- Party unity, barmony, peace—what ton hall speech, but it does not print \J what Mr. Bryan said, but only what he wrote out in advance to furnish to the newspapers. What Mr. Bryan really said, as taken down by the stenographer and printed in The Bee, varies materially by additions and in- terpolations from what he intended to say merely for publication. ' Omaha's returned trade boosters re- port an unprecedented trip through a cowntry bulging with signs of growth and prosperity. Our local calamity contemporary will please take notice. A Problem in Patriotism. Baltimore American, The harrowing question how suggests itselt whether if congress holds over until the middle of July, the nation can enjoy a sane and safe Fourth. anse and Effect Philadelphla Record. The peace proclamation of our great pacificator at Christiania has already pro- duced a partial result In the appropriation of $23,000,000 for two more dreadnoughts. A Long Time Coming. Cleveland Plain Dealer. At last George Washington's heirs are going to get the money the government has owed them for the last 100 years or more. How pleased George would be to hear of it! A Foreeast. 8t. Paul Dispatch. Colonel Bryan declares that he will not be a candidate for United States senator from Nebraska. The colonel must have a premonition that the next legislature of Nebraska will be republiean. Signs of the Times, Chicago Record-Herald. Forty million dollars' worth of dltamonds and other precious tones have been brought into New York from abroad during the paz ten months. Are there any further rerharks about the cost of high living? “Mysterious Disappearances.” New York World. Now Sugar Trust records and books, like Metropoliton and Standard OIll papers in the past, have disappeared. As proof of innocence this sort of thing is not al- together convineing, though it may help to retard conviction. 11-Timed Greed. Philadelphia Record. The result of the present ill-judged in- crease of frelght charges by the railroads is quite likely to be an Increase of the power of the Interstate Commerce commis- slon to veto Increases. The rallroad com- panies were mistaken in believing that they had got the public scared out of demand- ing further restrictive legislation. Common sense would have dictated that the increase should be deferred till congress adjourned. PULLMAN WILL FIGHT, Will Not Tolerate a Reduction of the Upper Story. Washington Herald. Did you fondly imagine, gentle and, per- haps, unsophisticated reader, when you read a few weeks back that the Pullman company had been ordered to reduce its upper berth rates in certaln territory that it would do it without a struggle? The 0dds are heavy that you did not—knowing the Pullman outfit s you do—and you were right. It is going to resist the, sug- gestion to the limit of its resources. Why, if the Pullman company submitted at this crisis, by and by somebody would be ad- vancing the idea that it ought to pay its porters ltving salaries, instead of look- ing to the public to foe them generously and handsomely as it travels. The Pullman company knows, as surely as the traveling public knows, that it is an outrage to charge the same fare for an upper berth that it does for a lower. And as the fare for the lower is, In nine cases out of ten, utterly unreasonable, the fare for the upper is unspeakably so. And yet the Pullman company is not golng to tol- crate the proposal to reduce its upper berth fee—not this side of the very ulti- mate court of resort, at least. We can only hope the courts will force it to do the right thing. in spite of itself. We belleve this is a good time to bring the. Pullman company to' its senses, any- way. And we belleve, morcover, that it will be brought. This is not a good day for bad trusts, and It may not be any too too good a day for good omes. It would help some to see one of the worst of the lot made to behave ftself. And we say this without taking much stock In corporation baiting, either. NEW HEALTH EPIGRAMS. Logle of Modern Experience Com- prised in Pithy Semtences. Loulsville Courier-Journal. The Chicago health department has issued a clrcular in which It sces proper to devote some space to refuting some of the old- time household saylngs affecting human health. It is Insisted that it is not desir- ablo that one should “eat a peck of dirt” In the course of a lifetime. It is denled that ‘“the stout child is healthy;" that “people were healthier in the good old days;" that “a goat kegps a stable health- ful,” and that “gas works are good for consumption.' In justifying its edict the department says tho peck of dirt idea is capable of doing great harm, especially in the feeding of children. Referring to th siout child it is said that the child who plays In i} streets hecause there s no other place to play “stands the poorest chance of surviv- ing.” Tho death rate in such parts of the city Is said to be “frighifully high as com- pared with otfier portions of the town."” Tho sayings about gcais #as works “‘can do harm and ean do no g In lieu of these discredited eplgrams the health department has substituted a few of its own which are more In accord with modern rules of health and sanitation These it calls “healthgrams,” and thelr general trend may be judged from the following specimens: “Open windows close sumption. “Your lungs can't be washed out, they can be aired. “One fly swatted in May 1,000,000 swatted in July. “Mother's milk for bables; cow’s milk for calves. “Floods of sunshine in the home may fade the carpets, but it puts the bloom health on your cheeks. Take your choice.” Our Birthday Book May 28, 1910 Louls Agassiz, the famous Swiss natural- {st, was born near Lake Neufchatel, May %, 1807. His visit to the United States In 1846 gave the first decided impulse to the study of natural sclence in this country, and he was for many years a professor in Harvard university. He dled in 1573 David Rankin, farmer and capitalist and prominent-in farmers' organizations, wa: born May 2, 1855. He Is a native of Indiana, and now lives at Tarkio, Mo., and owns and manages & farm of 23,000 aore which 1s supposed to be the largest, If not the the door to con- but Is equal to largest worked farm in this country, { Michael Davitt in 1881, and it is & won In Other Lands $ide Lights on What is ‘frans piring Among the Near and Far Nations of the Barth. The whirligig of time presents & notable spectacle in South Africa these days. Out of the storms and ravages of war but nine years past the South African union s ris- ing. At its head at governor general stands Lord Gladstone, #on of the great English- man, who was brave enough to recognize the Independence of the Hoar republic after the disaster to British arms- on Majuba Hill. The active leader of the new government which will be inaugurated on Tuesddy mext is General Louis Botha, prime minister, the idol of the Boers and one of the bravest leaders of the ‘“em- battled farmers” in the last war. The war- ring races of yesterday, now united for peace and progress, through their best representatives stand shoulder to shoulder at the formal launching of the union. The changes wrought within ten years have few parallels in history. Overwhelmed in the war for self-preservation, the depleted burghers accepted the results as graclously as poseible. They returned to thelr homes and their farms, tilled the soll and awaited events. The multitude attracted by the mines and the enriching opportunities of war were as human chaff soon scattered by the winds of years, leaving the sturdy Boars numerlcal masters of the situation. By the arts of peace and sticking to the soll they have regained for all practical purposes the independence for which they fought and fell. o His Bxcellency Shicla All Youssof, prest- dent of the constitutional reform leaguc of Dgypt and publisher of AlMonayad, & newspaper he established in Calro twenty years ago, replies in the current North America Review to Colonel Roosevelt's crticlsm of native -mspirations in his speeches at Khartum and Cairo. Par- ticular objection is made to Colonel Roose- velt's opinion that Egypt would not be tit for self<government for several genera- tions. “Had Mr. Roosevelt been an ordi- nary man,"” says his excellency, ‘‘or had his importance been due only to his intelli- gence, we would have said that he may be right or may be wrong and nothing more. But he I the ex-president of the United States of America and may be again its president, and Americans must share a great part of the responsibility which re- sults from what he says of-us if that re- public shall long ignore his mistake. It is neither wise nor in accord with the gal- lantry of Americans that they should agree that Egypt should be Insulted in thelr name whilst Egypt admires them and loves their clvilization and sings thelr praises. o Glowing reports of the efficlency, equip- ment and vastness of the new army of China are sharply discredited by a Japanese statf officer. In an interview in the Jij! Shimpo, he says a long time will elapse before China has a formidable modern army. The program calls for two divisions for every province, exclusive of Manchuria, but the viceroys, In whom the authority to raise troops is lodged, are hot usually men of initlative and method. In most of the provinces the two divisions will prob- ably remain on paper for some time. The army now consists of four divisions organ- ized by Yuan Shihki, two the creation of Tuan Fang and the late Chang Chihtung, and a brigade here and there. There is no homogeneous army, and judged by the Japanese standard, the troops are not ef- flclent. Conscription Is difficult to enforce for the reason that there is no system of registration, and many provinclal bfficers are opposed to compulsory enlistment. Finally, he says, “glory on the tented tield does not appeal to the Chinese.” e The new French Chamber, according to the official figures, will be mainly com- posed of 124 radicals, 132 soclalist radicals, twenty-four independent socialists, seventy- four unified soclalists, seventy-four repub- licans of the left, sixty-elght progressists, and ninety-nine members of the right. For practical working purposes on all political questions this would normally result in a government majority of about %0, which was virtually the majority of the govern- ment In the preceding Chamber. Even if the right and the progressists were to unite thelr forces with those of the unified soclalists, the opposition could not muster more than 221 votes. The stability of cabl- nets during the next four years will de- pend therefore upon the capacity of the prime minister to draw up a working pro- gram commanding the support of the radicals and socialist radicals. M. Paul Doumer, M. Lasles, M, Gauthier de Clagny and M, Francols Deloncle are the most prominent members of the old Chamber who will be missed n the new. e Men of Irish birth and descent who may join the ‘“home-going excursion” during the coming summer months, will see a far different Ireland than that which they left. Jeremiah McVeagh, M. M, in a slgned statement in the New York Evening Post, says among other things: “The whole face of Ireland has been changed in recent years. The land purchase acts have resulted in the abolition of landlordism over half the land of Ireland, and with owner- ship and fixity of tenure the.peasant pro- prietors have developed to a surprising ex- tent the virtue of self-rellance, and have raised thelr standard of living. Better dwellings are springing up everywhere, and the mud hovel !s almost a thing of the past. The laborers' acts have also re- sulted In the housing of the laborers in comfortable homesteads In lleu of the shameful condition of life to which they were formerly condemned. Then, again, the lockl government of the country has passed from the hands of the landlords to the hands of the people. This gradual soctal revolution has all taken place since the foundation of the Land league by ful example of the power of public agita- tion, Parcels Post as o Remedy. Philadelphla Record, The true remedy for the grosser extor- tions of the express companies would be the establishment of a government pa s post. The express companies have been able to defeat action by congress for years past. Through the bond of & common own. ership on the part of express managers and rallway managers it is casy what powerful pressure may be exerted to de teat regulative legislation. Help cannot bs | expected from the overhurdened and over worked Interstate Commerce commission The express companles defiantly keep up their rates; parcel out the territory of th countyy so that each may b e its area of unrestricted ravage, and laugh their critics to scorn as they cut their melons and swim in the jul to see Eclipse of Unele Joe. Springtield Republican. Eleven of the newly-nominated republican congressmen of Ohlo have pledged them- selves, If elected, (o vote against the re- election of Mr. £annon to the speakership, They are reasonably certain of election, as thelr districts have been strongly repulf- lican. Nine other nomlinees are non-com- | mittal on the speakership question, and they are In less strongly republican dis- tricts. Omly General J. Warren Keifer is openly In fayor of continulng the Can- that this bank has months. Time Certificates of Deposit $2,034,278.61 3% % Interest pald on certificates running for twelve irst National Bank of Omaha The report made to the comptroller under date of March 29, 1910, shows POLITICAL DRIFT. The only doubt insurging through the &ray matter of Speaker Cannon is whether his future halo will be muslin or asbestos. By the latest count sixty-nine American cities have adopted or voted to adopt the commission form of government. Twelve states have enacted permissive laws en- abling municipalities to make the experi- ment. Rev. John H. Booth, not yet 30 years old, is entering with such zest into the contest for the democratic nomination for congress In the Bighth Towa district that the old politicians are sitting up and tak- ing notice, If there is any political sympathy un- assigned a large share should be passed up to Tammany Hall, which has been an irvoluntary spectator to the operation of cutting out $21,000,000 worth of pure pie in New York City. Congressman Havens of New York con- tinues to vote with regulars, insurgents or democrats, as the humor takes him; but he still sits on the democratic side and asks no questions. Party fealty nowadays has a long string to It Senator Tillman continues unfit for par- ticpation In the activities of statesman- ship. The fire works go on just the same. Mr. Bryan's famous salutation to the vacant chair in Omaha was characterized, according to an artistic observer, “by de- lightful Insouciance and exquisite savoir taire.” The* democratic primary in Florida for the nomination of a candidate for United States senator resulted In a draw be- tween Senator Tallaferro and his chlef opponent, ex-Governor Broward., The for- mer got 21,45 votes and the latter 21,018, A third candidate recelved 4,660 votes, so a second contest between Mr. Tallaferro and Mr. Broward will be necessary. BELLEVUE A CENTENARIAN, Omaha’s Elderly Neighbor Coming Into the Limelight. Washington Post. It is an interesting bit of information that Nebraska contains a town of white settlement 80 old that the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its founding is at hand. The first white outpost in the region that 1s now a commonwealth was a fur-trading station named Bellevue, es- tablished by John Jacob Astor, who was led into the enterprise that so vastly in- creased the foundation of his fortune through the reports of Lewls and Clarke, following thefr now historic expedition across the country, and whose priority of discovery added vastly to the continental territory of the United States. He founded also for the same purpose what s now the town of Astoria, Ore, which he in- tended to make the Biisis of a direct trade in turs, silk and tea with China. It was one of his expeditions, voyaging up the Missourl river to the present site of Omaha, that camped at the present site’ of Bellevue In 1§10. The town has re- mained. It was, indeed, the first capital of Nebraska. It continued to be a trading post during twenty-five years, until the fallure of the Astoria venture through the desertion of 'agents and the hostility of Indians. Its history goes back to the time when what is now Nebraskh was a part of the Missouri territory. The occasion would seem to Invite the attendance of some of the descendants of the original Astor in the United States. The name‘of the town hap- pily commemorates his foresight, and Is borne by one of the modern hostelries that have added to the cosmopolitan: luxuries of the east. The anniversary will cele- brate another landmarik_for the subsequent and vaster transcontifiental progress of Amerlcan clvilization, Laundrying Paper Money. New York Tribune. Secretary MacVeagh has approved a plan for sending the country’'s paper money to the laundry and relssuing it clean and fresh. It is estimated that laundering solled bills instead of macerating them and re- placing them with new ones will save the treasury about $,00000 & year. Thus is the saving grace of the washtub once more OPPOSING RATE INCREASE. Shippers of the Country Contesting New Frelght Rate, Pittsburg Dispatch. The manufacturers of this country may not be absolutely sure about the rnllrmvl‘ business, but they have a keen perceptio that thelr own business fs not in a condi- tion to welocome an addition of 15 or 20 per cent In the cost of transportation. There fore, they are proceeding to appeal to the Interstate Commorce commission against the Increases in railroad rates made or con- templated by the railroads throughout the country. . The subject is one that requires thorough Investigation. The rallroads are entitled to rates that will yleld a fair return on the bona fide Investment or legitimate cost of reproduction. But how is it to be known what rates will yleld such a return without that physical valuation to which the rail road world is so bitterly opposed? On that point wo meed no more expert authority than that of Mr. H. V. Poor, who asserted concerning railroad earnings in 1883—which were much less satisfactory than at present —that “If the fictitious element could 4 eliminated from thelr (the railroads') counts thelr success as Investments woul have no parallel.” Leaving this and the vast range of othe subjeots involved in this question to be fought out before the commiisslon, one sug- gostion purely in the rallroad Interest is pertinent. Suppose that they should suce ceed in increasing thelr rates, say 20 per cent, and as a consequence the volume of their traffic should decrease, say 30 per cent, where would the railroads come out? Yet it is the history of the subject that the vast multiplication of railroad traffic for the last half century has been secured by the steady reduction of rates, and it Is the economic experience of the world that the reversal of that process by Increases of costs means the dwindling of business. 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