The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1904, Page 12

‘Published by.the Press Publishing Company, No. 88 to @ at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. ———— MOLUME 44........0 wseesseseeeees NO. 18,499, — THE CHIEF ALLY OF THE TRUSTS. ‘At last Mr. Bryan has made his position perfectly ar. He thinks that the overshadowing evil in Amer- life to-day is corrupt commercialism. He de- se the robbery of the people by predatory trusts, the sale of franchises by treacherous public servants, the purchese and sale of votes, the duppression of liberty 4n distant islands in the name of trade, and the enrich- ment of favored interests through the abuse of the ustional taxing power. And his plan of campaign againet these evils is to scatter and demoralize their opponents by throwing among them the bomb of free silver at 16 to L He proposes to intrench the trusts and the tariff Darons in power by driving into a reluctant alliance with them all their strongest and eanest opponents— all tho men who would be the natural leaders of a party ot reform. By th{s means he has already succeeded in the public plunderers eight years of unrestrained loot, and the collapse of his fatal leadership is the only thiiig thet threatens to bringytheir merry revel to an ends s + AUTHORSHIP IN THE SCHOOLS. “The reffort of Comptroller Grout's experts on the pur- Chases for the schools of text-books written by persons |: 4 Department of Education is an interesting docu- It shows that seventeen living authors, whose “have: been bought for the schools within the past , ate carried on the payrolls of the depart- Of these the most liberally patronized is City Maxwell, whose works have been bought extent of 97,852 volumes, costing $36,790.59. The “Bold to the board 46,664 copies of his books, ‘at $15,765.80. The other transactions are ins! it. "Now, of course, the schools of New York ought to Rave the best. books, no matter who may write them. College professors are expected to write books, @nd there js no reason why teachers and esuperintend- ents should not do the same. It is a little curious, however, that the authors connected with the New ‘York Department of Education seem to be. patronized in pretty direct proportion to the extent of their official authority. : Mr, Grout's experts should pursue their researches @ little further, Before we can decide whether there is any basis for the charge of favoritiam in our schools|. ‘wo must, know the answers to such questions as these: “Are the books of Supt. Maxwell and Associate Supt. Walsh as popular in other cities as in New York? In the case of the lesser authots—the principals amd teachers who sell a few thousand books apiece—are the sales general, or are they confined chiefly to their own schoole? THE CAUSE OF BIG GAS BILLS. ‘The State Inspector of Gas Meters says that of the ‘meters tested on the complaint of consumers, only ‘about 20 per cent. run fast. And yet most people feel Siite that there ts robbery somewhere. Their first im- ule is to lay the blame for extortionate bills on the meter, and tie gas companies are very glad to have af take that line, because they can generally prove that their meters rogister a trifle under rather than! aver the actual consumption. i - Inspector Alexander probably hits the real trouble when he attributes the high bills to poor gas and ex- edssive pressure. The companies may be right when they say that their meters register correctly the cur- rent that passes through the pipes, but they overlook the point that what the consumer pays for {s not current. but gas, A current of alr—and not even hot alr—would Keep the meter at work just as well as one of the Durest illuminating fluid. What the consumer aciually | gets appears to be a mixture, of coal gas, cheap and| Poisonous water gas and air, all forced through the pipes at a pressure that spoils the light, but makes the meter spin. For the quality of the gas there appears to be no re- Uet short of an immensely improved inspection service ofa municipal gas plant;/but the customer may moderato ‘the evil of over-pressure to some extent for himself by keepiug the gas turned down just below the whistling 4 point. Where Trust Promotion Goes Hard.—The end of a trial. the Judge's charge, a verdict of guilty, a sentence to the Umit of the law and the death of the prisoner, all in one day, make a@ pretty fair specimen of the colerity of British justice. If all the American Whitaker Wrights should end in the London fashion there would he a procession of funerals that would extend from the Sub-Treasury to Woodlawn. A LESSON FOR OFFICIALS. The presentation of Mayor Carter Harrison by a Coroner's Jury as one of those responsible for the Iro- quols disaster may be taken as the end of the Harrison Presidential boom. Possilly this thought may have had something to do with the verdict. Whether just or unjust. such a presentment would be a fatal handicap to a candidate in a campaign. Probably the question of the safety of the Troquois never crossed Mayor Harrison's mind. He was thinking| Te the © of otber things, and it never oecurred to him to look after the enforcement of the laws there, any more than im a thousand other places where they were being vio- Jated every day. The head of a city of 2,000,000 people cannot attend personally to every detail of its govern- "| Ment, but he can determine whether the spirit of his administration shall be one of conscientious devotion to ity or one of laxity and graft. If Mayor Harrison had given the right general impulse from above, he would ‘not have had to go personally toa theatre to see whethor the exits were unlocked and tie skylights working— be, would have had subordinates who would have at- d to these matters as part of their day’s work, as un- n, and pleads for “Aspinwall.” Well, perhaps the yne of Christopher Columbus may be un-American, but Mi Christopher's fault. He wasn't born on and even Mayor McClellan could do no more, “#2 THE # EVENING w WORLDS » HOME Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office | reat and Only Mr. Peewee. G The Most Important Little Man on Earth. (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Car®oonist Ed Flinn January 31, 1903.) Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Mr. Peewee Tries to Get Miss Sixfoot’s Gas Bill Reduced. The How England Handles the 99O96S9-999-92-99- 99609 is. Aseccinte Supt. 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KING, 360 No, 2—LOUiS WEIL, 116 Market Street, Newark N. J.; No. 3—DENIS T. LYNCH, 7 Garnet Street, Brooklyn, Neg Ga aae NOVEL:-READING NELLIE M’GEE » Py ’ o o? \ * w w a al al ad She Receives a Timely Jolt from “The Busy Blue Ambulance.” 2 LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Dec. 25, roof The Evening World I would like to know whether prizes have been awarded in the “Girl in Blue” contest and if the names of the winners appeared. If so, please state the date they appeared. PRIZE SEEKER, “Mr.” In Correct. To the Editor of The Evening World: Does the prevailing style of ANTED-A BUNK} UP IN HEAVEN FOR A GOOD Dge:) man's viviting card have "Mr ing the name, or is the “Mr.” omitted? MON. A Chance for Rural Experts, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: What country reader with experience can tell me this: How many cows per hour can be milked py one man consid ered a good milker? DANIEL H. No. 3% Broadwa The Evening World Where Austrian Consul's office in New Yorw City? 8. G. He In Eligible to Presidency. To the Kdltor of Tho Evening World: is any m person born in America of foreign parents entitled to run for President of the United States, or must his parents be also American born? F. M, The Cold + Car, To the Buitor of The Evening World Cannot the ed railroad people put some more heat in their cold stor- age cars on the Second avenue line? VICTIM, —— o Horse-Power, FATAL POSITION, “So you are absolutely sure that she! ‘I thought vou Said the doctor told] «phat tast speaker,” said the first} “I told you she would dismiss you if I TRUE LOVE, INDEED. HOW HE MANAGED IT. EARLY HABITS. To the Editor of The Evening World Kindly advise me how horse powe: ves y jove th rev tn't drink except at your ‘ _ between.” One horse power is the force required |to give up anything for hor sake."—Cin-| “wep tertaining.”* s i , rR bs to ift 23,000 pounds one foot in one |cinnatt Times-Star, “Well, what wre you doing in this sa-| “Yes,” replied the other, ‘and he's &/ dead one, too. minute, i BETWEEN THE HORNS. oon?” self-made man, too,’ “Why? Atlantic, but he got here as.fast as he| Tothe Editor of The Evening World: Amelia Bingham, Nellie—Harry declares he will never| “Obeying orders. Don't you see the| “I thought his delivery rather slow, “gpe told me everything between us be happy if I do not marry him, | tree-lunch counter over there? I can| though. . — Bee. ‘WAX, he is in!—Boston Transcript, _. PI Tribune, ‘an end."—Cinoinnati Commercial Who played the heroine in “A Modern | Bella—Poor fellow! What a dilemma|get a meal here with every drink.—| ‘That's natural, He began life as a| was et incinnet! Comm: Qagdalen?’ ROCKA) hiledelphia Ledger. messenger boy."—Philadelphia Press, ‘*Financier.”? gave Whitaker Wright, the promoter, seven years in London for running fake companies he dropped dead.” “If a few of the fakirs in Wall street who make Whitaker Wright look like a philanthropist were even Pinched everybody in New York would drop dead,” re- plied the Man Higher Up. “They havea peculiar, brutal way in England of putting the kibosh on a crook, no matter how much of the mazuma he has cleared up. In this country we take oure high-class whiow-robbing crooks as fine examples of American business men, and stand like spectators at a fire while they pile up all the best of it. “Whitaker Wright was wise to all this. The last time be was here he said he made a mistake in ever leaving the United States and starting up in London. The Eng- lish people, he said, are squealers. “*You Americans,’ said Whitaker Wright, ‘are good gamblers. When yon lose you keep quiet about it.’ “This was no dream on the part of, Whitaker Wright. He had us analyzed to a whisker. It 1s all due to the conquest of cush. Money and the power of money have flattened the spirit of the American people until you can see through it. If you haven't got callous marks on your hands from clipping coupons, you stand no more show than a one-legged man at a masquerade ball unless you go into politics. Unfortunately; most of us have consciences, so the game of politics is barred to us. “Expert financial blood-letters will get their hosks into @ property that pays dividends and, by a process of razzle-dazzling the books, put the dividends on the blink. Naturally the stocks go down. People who have been holding the stocks for the dividends have to sell out at @ loss. Do they make a holler? Not on your watered stock “Oh, well,’ they say, ‘what’s the use? These people have got all the dough and all the big lawyers and the law. The best thing we can do is put on our bustling clothes and try to accumulate enough to keep us fp food.’ “In England they hold the main squeeze of a finan- efal stunt that goes wrong criminally responsible. Here they put the blame on the women that scrub out the Offices. The only thieves that get soaked good and hard in this country are those who stegi from the rich.” “You'll have to admit that the stockholders are mak- ing @ strong fight against the Shipbuiiding Trust bust- ness,” said the Cigar Store Man. “That's what!" agreed the Man Higher Up, “But wait till you see the bills the lawyers are going to put in.” a | SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that when they Citizens, Beware of Love. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ce EWARE of love. It ie in ambu: overywher starts at you every corner, all its nets its perfidies pre- pared. Beware of love, more danger- ous than influensa or bronchitis or pleurisy.” Every year before the coming of spring, governments shoutd erect large bulletin boards in the public squares and on them place these words: “Return of Spring—Citizens, beware of love.” Just as pri- vate individuals place before their freshly colored fences the warning sign: “Beware of Paint," So M. Guy de Maupassant’s little {dyl, called “In the Spring,” a disgruntled victim of the tender passion inveighs #gainst the madness and the lure of love. But though all who in recurring spring times feel the bud- ding impulses of passion, push their way like so many snowdrops through the long sleepy winter of content, must realize that Cupld’s deadliest arrows are the first shafte of April sun, no serious attention has been patd to the invective of the Mrench novels. Yet what comedies of error, what tragedies of fact that the coming spring st!!! locks within its breast, might be averted if acting upon this suggestion, New York's muntel- pal government should blnzon an electric warning against love to the susceptible within its gates. “Return of Spring—Citizens, Beware of Love.’ might grect the eyes of the newly arrived emigrants streaming from the liolds of overfrvighted harges off Kilis Island for a first glimpse of the promixed land. ‘There should perhaps be another at the Battery, but the Wall street district might, safely left to itself, since among the many hearts that have thore learned to beat time to the ticker, there are few indeed responsive to the voft influences of spring, and in these the flowers of senti- ment soon shrink and wither lke the dandelions that push thelr furtive way between the cobbles of the street that starts at Trinity Church and ends in the Fast River. Where should be-many for the great east side and the far west side, where people live and love and in the spring time find in each other's eyen the woodland violets they never see. And on the Idle avenues, where love is a hot- Kouse passion and 1s made to bloom at all seasons like the ripwers in the numnberless conservatories that adorn them, there should be written "Beware of Love,” In fact, everywhere the sign should greet us in friendly warning of spring's return. 4 ©. But having read it and shut our eyes and hearts to love, would there be any spring since the weason ts one that regiaters itself more in our veins than on the almanac, and would not a general following to the admonition not to love rerve as a second Joshua and halt the aun? ferhaps before auch a peril, the comfort of the inai- vidual should be sacrificed and we should all go on lovina, for the good of the body politic and the weather. At any rate, it is best to think #0, since we must all go (a Soving for one reason or another or one after the other, The Cost of War. Wars of the last 3,000 years are supposed to have £600,000,000,000, Each man who falls on the battlefield costs 42,740 to kill, and the countries of Europe to-day are paying to maintain an “armed neutrality” the small sum of $30 « second. An “Ad” Church. In Taranaki, Australia, is a church labelled in large tet- iers on its outside walls with the names and trades of « grocer, a draper) @ painter and a miller, These ‘built the church in return for the advertisement they obtaia, '