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TTIE OMAITA DATLT BEE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1902. Tiie umaha Daily Bee K. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Wee (without Sunday), One Year. .14 00 J 1 1 y hew arm tjuwluy. One Year .M Illustrated iter, one xar KW t-unuay hee, one Vrr if-W J Paturuay he, one ear Ii twentieth Or tury r'armer. One Year.. l.W DfcLlVEKKD ilY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy... 1c Daiiy l)ee (wltnout buntuy), per w.K...lio Dally lies (including euiiuayi, per wcek..l.c ttunuay hee, per copy 6c fcvenlng Wee (Without hunday). per ween be Juvenilis he ilnciudlug bunday, per weea 10c Complaint of Irregularities in delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation L partrnent. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building:. South Omaha City Hail ttulldlng, Twenty-nun and M Streets. Council hlurfs li Pearl Street. Chicago i(M l.'nlty Builmng. Jew lork 12 furk Kow Building. Washington M fourteenth Street. CT)RRE8I'O.NIENCE. 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Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Puolishlng Company, being duly sworn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete copies ot The Dally, Morning, Evening ana Sunday Be printed during the month of September, 1SK, was aa fol lows; 1 80.130 It 31,160 1 au,T40 17 31 ,020 SO.OSO 18 81,14V 4 IMMI10 IB 31.1UO i B1.ST0 20 81.400 80,420 21 SV.UTO J JW.M70 22 81,000 80,U1H 23 34.5O0 30,rtH 24 82,240 10 ... 81,050 2u 31,200 11 80.H20 26 80,770 12 ..81,250 27 80,030 U 31.21KI 28 2,U2S 14 20,500 29 30.MOO IS 81,050 SO 81,100 Total 028,225 Less untold and returned copies.... 10,144 Net total sale t 018,081 Net dally average ao.ttOil OEORQE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 3(Uh day of September, A. t., 1902. M. B. HUNOATE. (Seal.) Notary Public. The free and unlimited colnnKe of Campaign oratory is again at full blast. t In thee dnys men do not get political Offices on a silver platter not even that of city councilman. Mercer's love for the worklngmen Is an Intermittent malady that seizes him only at two-year periods Just before election. To show that they mean business, the Btrlke arbitrators will be expected to grade right in and buckle down to work Without delay. Will wonders never cease? Several days have passed without any proclama tion from Savage. But Thanksgiving flay Is coming. On his campaign tours nowadays Sen ator Hanna aoes not have to invite his auditors to take a good look at him to make sure he does not wear horns. People . living In the vicinity of Boufrlere have finally come to the con clusion that they do not like the neigh borhood. Too much smoke nuisance, we presume. Perhaps those Danish legislators had a hunch that J.a Plerpont Morgan was contemplating a merger of oceanic Islands and might raise the price on Uncle Sum. Blnce Job a N. Baldwin has stepped In as head dol's of the Union Pacific and all the states that road traverses, no wonder Geueral Manager Dickinson fends nothing left for hliu to do. The Christian church convention will go to Detroit next year. But- Omaha people need not fear that their hospital ity will suffer by comparison with that offered by the Michigan metropolis. Those Chicago tax fixers appear to be op against It They should have organ ised u tax bureau and hired a few slick lawyers, like the tax-shirking railroad of Nebraska, and kept out of the law's .rasp. The scheme U already broached to extend the life of the supreme court Commission, but wjtb the number of commissioners reduced from nine to three. That would Impose on the court a Job of condensation it would hesitate to tackle. Debate on the tariff bill before the German Itelchstag is said to disclose a depressing array of empty benches facing the Sxakers. The (lermau law makers ought to adopt the glorious American parliamentary practice of giv ing leuve to print. Registration officers should look out for repeaters. It is a penitentiary of fense In Nebraska for any man to regis ter who has not lived in the state six months, In the county forty days and in the precinct ten days prior to election day, and those ivhe advise, procure or assist such Illegal registration or squally liable to prosecution. Chicago la about to take steps for the protection of asphalt pavement by the passage of an ordinance that requires all omnibuses and express wagons to be equipped with rubber tires, and forbids teamsters tracking the pavement by driving one wheel on the street railway track. .thus forcing the other to help form a nit In the pavement. Such an ordinance would not be out of place In Omaha. The heavy wear and tear on asphalt pavements Is largely due to the lack of proper regulations to do away rith abuses by practices similar to those la Chicago. THB MAflUrACTUHMO WKST. The manufacturing Industries of the west are much more extensive than Is commonly supposed. According to the last census lu what may properly be called western' states there were two years ago a total of 22.1.287 manufactur ing establishments, with an aggregate capital of $3,477,W7,240 and an annual product of $5,252,311,020. Ia New Eng land there were only about one-quarter as many manufacturing establishments as In the west, less than half the capital Invested and an annual produc tion of less than two-fifths that of the west The census figures give Nebraska 5,414 manufacturing establishments, with $71,082,127 capital and an annual pro duction of $143,990,102; Iowa 14.819 establishments, $102,733,103 capital and $204,017,877 product; Missouri 18,759 establishments. $249,888,581 capital and $385,492,784 product; Minnesota, 11,114 establishments $165,832,240 capital and $2l2,655,881 product; Kansas 7.830 estab lishments, $0(3,827,362 capital and $172, 129,398 product; South Dakota 1,639 establishments, $7,578,805 capital and $12,231,239 product; Colorado 8,570 estab lishments. $02,825,472 capital and $102, 830,137 product All these are Independent Industries, many of them manufacturing the same line of goods that are produced by the combinations. They give employment to a great deal of labor, which greatly benefits the agricultural producers of these western states. These industries are the competitors In their field of the combinations and as such constitute a bulwark against monopoly. The repub lican party believes that these independ ent Industries should be sustained and it insists that In order that they shall be It is necessary to give them tariff protection. It holds that the democratic policy of free trade for trust made articles would Inevitably result in driv ing out of business most of the inde pendent Industries and while it might at the same time weaken the combina tions would not necessarily destroy them. It Is the Judgment of many who have given the subject thoughtful con sideration that the application of the democratic policy would result in creat ing International trusts, or combinations, which has been shown to be practicable. The people of the west should be pro foundly interested iu the question of maintaining their manufacturing in dustries. They are of great value and are adding hundreds of millions annually to the wealth of the west. The free trade policy of the democratic party, if it should be carried out would be fatal to most of theae Industries. CARSKQIVS HKJaARKABLS. VTTIIiANCC The address of Andrew Carnegie on being Installed as a director of St An drew's university, Scotland, Is of Inter national interest at least so far as his remarkable utterance respecting what European countries must do In order to protect themselves industrially and com mercially against American competition. Talk about repelling the American in vasion by means of an alliance of Euro pean countries has been heard from statesmen and economists of Europe, but It carried with it no such force and impress! veness as the appeal of Mr. Car negie for the creation of the "United States of Europe under the form of a political and industrial union," as the only way by which Europe can conquer the foreign markets and repel the Amer ican invasion. When one thinks of the great Interests that Andrew Carnegie has in the United States, the future prosperity of which depends so largely upon foreign markets, it seems surprising that he should offer such suggestions to the leading govern ments of continental Europe as he did, evidently with the most earnest feeling. Why be should make an appeal to the emperor of Ger niacin behalf of an alli ance against American competition it is not easy to understand. It Is hardly conceivable that he seriously desires the curtailing and crippling of American trade, yet this is what his appeal sug gests. He seems to fear that "this giant Gulliver, the American union," may con quer the commercial world and Is anx ious to have something done to prevent this. While this utterance of Mr. Carnegie will perhaps have the effect to revive and Intensify European interest in the question of an alliance to- repel the American invasion, it is not to be ap prehended that anything more than this will come of It The wiser European statesmen and economists do not regard the proposition of an alliance as prac ticable. Recently a member of the Ital ian ministry urged that European gov ernments should unite for their indus trial and commercial protection, but it received no atteutlou. Aa to Emperor William, It Is the understanding that he has never beeu favorable to the alliance Idea, which would manifestly be of no advantage to Germany, lie Is now op posing the demands of the element which wants tariff duties raised so high as to check or shut out American coin- petition. There are conflicting Indus trial and commercial Interests between the countries of continental Europe w'Meh make practically Impossible such an alliance as Mr. Carnegie suggests. Nevertheless, his utterance in regard to this will undoubtedly command wide attention, as that of a tuau wh' great business success entitles bis opinion lu regard to Industrial and commercial af fairs, evrn of International extent, to more than ordinary consideration. It Is very certain, also, that nhut he said re spectlng a European alliance will be more favorably regarded ubroad than lu this country. The republican candidate for state treasurer of Illinois has publicly pledged himself not to convert to his own. use Interest on state funds under his con trol. The democratic candidate has cop pered the pledge of bis competitor with the following: "I shall not run the state treasurer's office as a private bank. I shall not use the state's money for my own business and I shall not loan it to others for use In their business. 1 shall receive, safely keep and pay out tho state's money as the law directs, and shall give to the discharge of these du ties the same attention that I give to my private business, and when my successor Is elected I shall turn over to him every dollar belonging to the state." This Is specific enough for all purposes. It is safe to predict that Illinois will not be afflicted with treasury scandals for the next two years. VRtO-8 KtTT MUaiVlPAL CODK. The Ohio legislature, which convened on August 25 to enact a code of uniform laws for Ohio cities, has completed Its work. The new code draws the line be tween cities and villages at 5,000 popu lation. All cities over 5.000 and under 25,0fK) are to have boards of public serv ice aud boards of public safety, the former to consist of not less than three or more than five members, and the lat ter to consist of not less than two or more than four members. The term of the service board Is to be two years and the safety board four years. Under the new code the mayor is to be the head of the police and fire de partments, while the board of safety has the business end of both departments and makes all contracts. The chief of police and the fire chief must be mem bers of their departments before being appointed. The merit system will pre vail In both departments, the board of safety acting as a merit board to pass on all men admitted to the departments. This home rule approaches perfection. The only place where the governor of Ohio will dip into the municipal affairs Is In the Impeachment of mayors, agalnst whom the governor may file charges, and who are removable by the governor on conviction. This is a ques tionable experiment because there is no more reason why mayors should be Im peached and removed by governors for misdemeanors in office than county offi cers or school superintendents. The power of impeachment should be in vested In a legislative or Judicial board, or both combined. The only redeeming feature of the provision giving the gov ernor of Ohio power to Impeach, try and remove mayors Is that they cannot ap point their successors; otherwise, Ohio might Just as well have adopted the French code, under which the mayors of cities are appointive federal officers who hold their commissions from the national authority, the same aa army and navy officers. Under the new Ohio code cities of 5,000 population will have a council of seven members, three elected at large and four by wards; cities of 25,000 and over are to have two additional members and one additional member for each additional 15,000. This would give a city of Omaha's population fourteen councilmen. Some of the features of the new Ohio municipal code are practically the dupli cates of provisions embodied In the char ter for municipal cities of Nebraska. The city auditor, or comptroller, is re quired to submit a statement of balances to the mayor once a month. Public service directors, who in reality are members of the board of public works, have charge of all municipal property work in the letting of contracts. City officers ore required to submit annual estimates of municipal expenses to the mayor and auditor. The mayor may raise or reduce any Item in this estimate. but not the total; the council alone has the power to change both, but the mayor may veto the council's acts, thus requir ing a two-thirds vote before the levy be comes valid. The new Ohio code will go into effect on November 15 of the present ye"ar, but those elected under It will not take office until the first Monday In May, 1903. One advantage of the new code will be a degree of uulformity in mu nicipal regulation and government which Is most desirable in every state. This country may not yet be prepared to assume control of coal mines, but the argument that it would cost the govern ment 25 per cent more to run the mines than it would private Individuals and private corporations will scarcely frighten anybody. If It would actually cost 25 per cent more to mine the coal, the additional outlay would be distrib uted to the mine workers and they would put it into circulation among the merchants whose wares they must buy and the farmer whose products they must consume. Heavier wages would Increase consumption and that means better prices for the producer. Under existing conditions the 25 per cent goes into the capacious pockets of the coal barons and coal mine trusts. The most logical objection to government owner ship is the risk of launching such a colossal undertaking, the enormous In crease of the national debt and the excessive price that would have to be paid for, the mines even if acquired by condemnation process. Where billions are involved the mine owners would readily pay hundreds of thousands, or millions, to appraisers. The selection of Charles S. Loblngler to fill the place on the supreme court com mission made vacant by the transfer of Judge Day to the district bench should give satisfaction not only to the bar and litigants, but to the public at large, be cause it Is a recognition of a young at torney who has achieved advancement solely by assiduous devotion to his pro fession. Although without Judicial ex perieuce, the new Judge has In addition to his practice done much In the line ot legal literature, attracting attention to his authorship by its merit aud pains taking accuracy. He certainly has all the qualifications to make a valuable member of the commission. i If, as Mr. Carnegie says, the creation of a United States of Europe under the form of a political and industrial union is the only way of withstanding Amcr lean competition, then the outlook Is gloomy for Europe. Its political and Industrial union is a chimerical scheme. For a thousand years every effort to unify even a considerable portion of Europe, whether on the basis of re ligion, politics, commercial Interest or any other motive, sometimes backed by military despotism, has utterly broken down. The power of Home Itself broke down under the pressure of local Inter est and race antipathies, and Home never united all Europe. The condition Mr. Carnegie lays down Is an utterly Im possible one. The course of true lova rarely runs smooth, neither does the course of woman's suffrage. A striking Illustra tion In point Is furnished by the report from Denver that three women were more or less Injured during a rush of suffragists In the county clerk's office on the last day of registration, last Monday. The particulars of the report from Den ver are as follows: The clerk's office was crowded with heel ers of bott parties. The panic was caused by an altercation between Alderman Pat ten and Billy Greene, a vote herder. Blows wers exchanged, after which the alderman was chased through the, crowd by Greens, who flourished a big pistol. Mrs. Ellia Kellogg, a cripple, who had been Induced to leave home to register, was trodden under foot and had to be taken home la an am bulance. Two other women were more or less bruised. Comment Is unnecessary. In his statement to Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright Incorporated Into that officer's report to President Roosevelt President Baer explained how the coal operators had recouped them selves when the last miners' strike was adjusted by screwing up the price of coal to the consumer to make good all and more than the advance the miners secured. The question will doubtless present Itself again, in case the arbi trators of the present differences favor any material concessions to the miners. when the operators will be tempted to unload upon the consumer once more. The next arbitration may have to be between the coal baron and the coal burner. By decision of the supreme court of Nebraska there Is nothing in the consti tution to prevent registrars asking vot ers with what political party they wish to affiliate, nor Is there anything In the constitution to prevent voters enrolling themselves with their preferred political party and voting down deadheads and bunco steerers who have stolen the party label Out In the Fifth Nebraska district Judge Norrls, the republican candidate, Is fearlessly taking issue with his op ponent Congressman Shallenberger, In a series of joint debates. Judge Norrls has the courage ot.hls convictions and ought to win. By the way, has any one ever heard of Our' Dave standing up In joint debate with anybody? Good Idea to Follow. Chicago Record-Herald. Pension Commissioner Ware has promoted a clerk for doing his work well and not ask ing for favors. It Is to be hoped that every employer la the land will take the pension commissioner's plan under advisement Who Will Lead ! Prayer f Philadelphia Press. The democrats ot this country ought to pray night and day that they won't carry a majority ot the next house of represent atives, for if they did carry it they would be compelled to have some sort of policy, and where on earth could they expect to get any such thing. No Ve (or Crtea. Cincinnati Tribune. Mr. Cleveland's fear that the republican party will "steal the cry of tariff reform" need not extend to himself in the least degree at any rate. The republican party has no particular use for cries, anyway, delighting rather, in the jollity of doing, when there is anything to be dons. Nebraska's Fuel Ball Trtasaph. Minneapolis Journal. Nebraska took a critical game from Min nesota Saturday by playing better ball. Clearly the best team won. It is a satisfac tion to be beaten without the assistance of He." So decisive was Nebraska's victory that even it there had been no score, no one would have had any doubt thai the Ne braska eleven was the better last Saturday. Who Will Foot the Bills r New York World. Mr. J. B. Blanchard of Omaha, address ing the National Live Stock association at Pittsburg, said the new beef merger, with Its $S8,000,000 capital stock and its con templated $100,000,000 of wator, would re quire a. dally profit of $250,000 to pay 4 per cent interest. This, he said, would "have to be paid by the producer" that is, the live stock raisers. There be is wrong. It will be mostly paid by the con sumer in the retail prices ot meat. It is always, as in the case of coal, tbe general public that suffers from a monopoly In the supply of a necessity of life. CoBipctltloa Hitting tlo Steel Trust. Philadelphia Record. Cutting of prices on sheets, wire and wire nails by the steel trust is regarded In com mercial circles as evidence that undue profits must be sacrificed In order to keep mills at work. The expansion of Independ ent concerns in this branch ot industry con tinues unabated, and the independent mills, moreover, enjoy a large share of the sym pathy and active assistance of the purchas ing public. While inordinate profits shall serve as a lure to Idle capital it will be Impossible to maintain a permanent ad vantage for attempted monopoly. It has too many vulnerable point- No Remedy for Greed. Minneapolis Times. That greedy, rapacious and capacious monstrosity, the Pullman Palace Car com pany, congratulates itself upon the fact that last year was Its largest ever. Here Is a case of swelling of stock to tbe limit poe sible. of expansion, lest the dividends should appear so atrociously out of propor tion to the service rendered that the public would begin a crusade against the leech. In a general way tbe stock is worth about three tiroes the amount of money ever In vested in it, and cash and stock dividends are about 25 per cent a year, while the sur plus swells until now It reaches tbe $11. 000,000 mark. The saddest thing about tbe whole affair is that there seems to be no remedy. Railway companies hat the Pull, man monopoly, but do not seem to ae their way clear to break iu Four Odious Chicago The anthracite coal trust stands alone among American monopolies In that It con trols not merely production but transporta tion, distribution and sale. The trust mines most ot the anthracite. It transports all that is mined and charges disproportion ately high freight rates for railroad serv ices. It determines where and In what quantities hard coal shall be shipped and the prices which wholesalers and retailers shall pay tor it and shall ask consumers tor It Soma men sitting In an office build ing In New York tlx the price which the Chicago coal dealer shall charge his custo mers, and he dare not disobey his order. The coal trust retains control of Its product from the time It is mined until It has ac tually been delivered to the consumer. No monopoly can be more complete, unlawful and more Intolerable. The completeness of the grip of the trust on a great Industry makes It the object of the envy of other combines. There are othsr trusts, however, which are not far behind the coal trust as regards the ability to dictate terms to the consumers of two products, one consumed by all, tbe other used In immense quantities by the farmers. The products are sugar and barbed wire. The sugar trust has not the monopoly of production possessed by tbe coal trust but it makes so large a percentage of the re fined sugar consumed In tbe country that it controls the market. It has bad com petitors, but It has crushed some, has bought up others and has made treaties of peace with still others. It has no direct monopoly ot transportation. It does not own a single railroad. But it Is suspected, not without cause, that it exerts the same powerful control over transportation that It is well known the Standard Oil company did. It is suspected that the sugar trust has preferential secret rates which give it the advantage over competitors, and which serve to hide its profits. , There is no uncertainty as regards the mastery of the sugar trust over distribution and sale. It determines where sugar shall go and to whom. It dictates to the men to whom It sells the price which they shall ask of their customers. They are not in dependent dealers, free to buy where they ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripple on the Current of Life In the Metropolis. Charitable institutions, of which there are hundreds in Greater New York, an ticipate great difficulty In taking care of the poor this winter owing to the la crease in the cost of the necessaries of life. D. C. Potter, chief examiner of ac counts of charitable Institutions, partly or wholly supported by the city, declare that unless great additions are made to their support most of them will soon be In a critical condition. This ia due mainly to the unexampled increase In cost ot food and fuel. Present rate ot payment per capita for hospitals are 60 to 80 cents and Mr. Potter recommends that they be raised from TO to 90 cents. Mr. Frank W. Skinner of the Engineering Record has a paper in the October Cen tury on the subject of engineering feats in th construction of the New York sub way. In which he describe the running of the subway under the uoiudodus monu ment and the moving of a tunnel. He also gives this account of the relocating of a long, thin, high wall: An ordinary derrick will handle compact inni nf three, five or even ten toas; a hun dred-ton load is about the limit of the ca pacity of tbe heaviest steel ordnance cars drawn by powerful locomotive, or ot the largest hydraulic jacks, which will lift it a few Inches o slowly that the motion is scarcely perceptible. A building weighing Kan tons mT ba carefully braced and lifted up or moved literally with rollers on smooth level tracks by the help oi scores of powerful Jacks. It would require Im mense power to push along even a fifty-ton boulder resting on the ground and yet be more difficult to move a long, thin, high wall several feet transversely without cracking, tipping or twisting It, Generally, when uch a wall is to be located it Is taken down and rebuilt, but such was not the case on the subway above One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, where, at the entrance to a tunnel section walls nearly 200 feet long retain tbe bank on each side ot the cut. After the structure was completed it was decided to widen It eleven feet to receive a third track, and, although it wa at first intended to tear down the masonary and build new, it was finally decided to move it bodily and this was successfully accomplished at a saving of several thousand dollars. The walls are of concrete and brisk, thir teen feet high at one end, three feet thick on top and weigh about 400,000 pounds each. The earth was dug away behind them for a width of six feet and to a depth a little below their foundations. In the bottom of each trench a concrete floor was laid Just below the level of the foot of tbe wall. Small hole were tunneled under the wall a few feet apart, and In thorn was laid transverse timbers reach ing to the floor of the trench and having both ends supported on cross sills. Nar row, tbln, greased steel track plate were Inserted under the walls on top of the timbers and extended across the trencn floors. Small steel bearing plate were set on the track pistes under tbe front and rear edges of the walls and pairs of oak wedges, driven between the cross timbers and their sills lifted the whole wall on the steel pillar. Horizontal five-ton jacKscrews were set rinse together against the face of the wall at the base for its whole length and being simultaneously operated the wan in a few hours was moved back five and a halt rt nn the floor In the trench. The pro jecting ends of the track plates were cut off, and the spaces between the platea under ih ll were filled with liquid cement. The work on each wall was done by twenty men In ten days, and the walls were not distorted the sixteenth ot an Inch. A police captain of New York City Who was dismissed from the force a few days ago was responsible for many amusing stories based on his use or misuse of words. Once he asserted that he "never paid any attention to unanimous letters." On another occasion he Is said to have re ferred to his possession of a "veracious" appetite. Third avenue, he told a man one day, "runs paralyzed to Lexington avenue." At another time, one story goes, be was reading to an outgoing platoon a list of some clothing that had been reported stolen. One Item wsa a Kersey coat. "Next on the list, men," he announced, in bis rich brogue, "Is a kerosene coat." It was this captain who directed a patrolman to open a window In the station bouse and "putrefy the air." It was not this captain, but a sergeant now dead, who while testifying in a trial at police headquarters, asked permission of tbe commissioner to correct his testimony, saylDg: "Mr. Commissioner, I wish to re tract tbe veracity of my former statement." New York' greatness, says a writer In Pearson's, U shown by the fact that the port of New York transacts a vast propor tion ot the foreign commerce ot tbe United States; that of letters alone the New York poslefflc bundles 197,771,120 annually, and Monopolies Tribune. will aad dispose of their goods as they see fit. They are merely the agents of a trust, and are punished It they disobey Its orders. The coal trust Is powerful within a limited area. The sugar trust rules from Maine to Arizona, from Oregon to Florida. The city dwellers know little and care lees about the barbed wire trust. It does not directly affect them. It is different with the farmers. They know there Is such a trust and they reaent Its exactions. It Is a trust which, as Governor Cummins says, "has not a particle ot competition." It makes moat of the barbed wire which Is made. It makes so much that it Is an object for railroad to have Its business. It Is not unreasonable to suppose that the trust has Its special arrangements for freight rates lower than those charged Its rivals. That the trust has a monopoly ot dlatrubutlon and sale Is unquestionable. As Governor Cummins says, "It fixes not only the price that the dealer must pay, but the retail price he sells It for as well. Firms have been refused barbed wire by the trust merely because they dealt in other articles bought from Independent steel companies and they were forced to surrender." This Is the despotism which American citizens have submitted to with unexampled patience for an astonishing length of time. The tobacco trust Is striving to attain the same measure of monopoly enjoyed by ths two trusts last mentioned. It has much power, but It seeks to get more. Its Invasion ot England was a failure. It failed to conquer that country, but It hopes to subjugate entirely the United States. It la scheming to make the wholesalers and retailers Its servants and thus to monopo lize distribution and sale. During the last few months popular at tention has been Almost exclusively ab sorbed by tho coal trust. It has been the one which all were anxious to strike down. But In the pursuit of this conspicu ous offender other offenders must not be overlooked. Bugar, barbed wire and to baoco are as much neceosaries of life as hard coal is. Each of these products ia controlled by a monopoly whose illegal power must be broken or government by trusts will take the place of government by the people. that of the total clearances of the United States 67 per cent pass through the New York clearing house, the amount being $79,420,000,000. The police force of the borough of Manhattan is 4,646. The chief of the fire department writes that the fastest time ever made in getting ready to respond to a fire call was one and five eighth seconds at an exhibition at Madison Square garden. The average time Is from two and a half to four seconds. The Croton and Bronx river systems of water supply have cost about $95,000,000. The length of the aqueduct Is seventy miles and of the distributing mains 886.28 miles. The capacity ot the storage reservoirs is 44,700,000 gallons; the average daily sup ply is 275,000,000 gallons, a per capita rate of 134 gallons. The figures are for the Manhattan and Bronx, but mainly apply to the former. Homes on Manhattan are so expensive, owing to real estate values, that a large proportion of the business community lives In the other boroughs of the city or across the river la New Jersey. The New York Central Hudson River railroad and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, which use tbe Grand Central station, handle in round numbers 20,000,000 passengers annually at this polnti the Erie about 13,000,000, the Central Rail road of New Jersey 14,000,000, the Staten Island Perry 8,000,600. PERSONAL, NOTES. Oeneral Firm in of Haytl, having been soundly thrashed ha gone into "voluntary exile." Immanuel Auerbach, editor of the New York "Handels-Zeitung," has Just celebrated his 80th birthday. When M. Loubet, the French president, was in St. Petersburg he left 26,000 roubles for the poor of that city. President 'Roosevelt knows what the people want. He ha Instructed depart ment chiefs to make briefer annual reports. A Mr. Arson of Brooklyn, who was burnt out of house and home the other day begins to think there is something In a name. Armstrong Cornsllk, who was recently granted a pension by the North Carolina Pension Board, Is the only Indian thus pro vided for by the state. The latest trade combination is the Na tional Candy company, composed of candy Arms all over the country. It bid fair to be just too sweet for anything. Clarence Holt, the aged Australian actor, and an early associate of Joseph Jeffer son, ia about to publish his reminiscences, which extend over actlvles of sixty years. Senator Proctor of Vermont has pre sented a photograph of hi grandson taken with a wild boar slain by the boy to President Roosevelt. The boar waa killed by 13-year-old Proctor, in Corbin park, which tbe president visited this sum mer. An Ohio coal operator who knows John Mitchell well say the mine owners ot Pennsylvania and West Virginia offered tbe strike leader what would represent ' hi salary for fifty years if he would prove false to the trust reposed In bim by the miners, but he refused it, although he could not feed his little family six months If hi present salary were stopped. We re very proud of the J2 fact that doc tors so eener ally indorse Ayer's Cher ry Pectoral. There are two reasons for this: First, we send the formula to any physician upon request; and, second, the physician Thai's sees for himself that the medicine is all we claim for it. We make no extravagant claims. We raise no false hopes. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Sixty years of experience make us believe that this is the best medicine in the world for colds, coughs, croup, bron chitis, and all other throat and lung troubles. And the doctors agree With US. Tsrasslusi Uc.Mc.ll M. J.CAYUC0UwU.Mi. LET THEM ALL SPEAK OUT KEARNEY, Neb., Oct. . To the Ed itor of The Bee: As I understand It, ths columns of Tbe Bee ar open for all legla lat .e candidates to state, for the Informa tion of their constituents, how they stand on the important question of equal tax ation, especially In regard to that of rais ing the assessment of the railroads, so that they may be required to bear their Just proportion of the burden of taxation. Being acquainted with Tbe Bee and its editor for many years, I have not failed to note your earnest and able effort In behalf of just and equal taxation, and I gladly avail myself of this opportunity. Having served two terms In th senate, t have had an opportunity to observe th advantage these corporations possess In tbe way of powerful lobbies to prevent any legislation not entirely satisfactory to themselves. I will stat for myself and my associate, William Jordan, that ws have pronounced views on this matter and take this opportunity of communicating them to the voter of our district. We believe all property, whether tangible or Intangible, which Is of value to the owners should be assessed according to It value on a uni form basis. We believe that corporations, especially the railroads, are now assessed at least $15,000,000 lee than they should be; that all buildings and other improve ments on their right-of-way (which vir tually escape assessment, being Included a mileage) should be subject to local taxa tion, so that tbe cities, towns and village oould have the benefit of It, The aggregate assessed value of th rail roads appears to the average maa te be a large sum. But the sum total for whlah these roads could be sold today, and their ability to pay dividends (all drawn from the people), should open the eye of taxpayers and cause them to demand a radical change. Tbe candidates tor the legislature, as well as tbe members of the Btate Board ot Equalisation, towlt, the governor, auditor and treasurer, must not only say they ar in favor ot these reforms, but that they are willing to put their shoulder to the wheel and secure them. A few earnest men in the legislature, without regard to party, who will spurn all personal favors from corporations, can accomplish the needed reforms during the next session ot the legislature. J. B. MILLER, Candidate for Representative, Fifty-eighth District, MinTHFlL. REMARK!. Philadelphia Press: Cholly I wish you'd go driving with me. Its perfectly safe, Eon't you know. Stable man id this horse was afraid of nothing. ...... , , Miss Pepprey Woll. If he Is he'll be likely to run away if he sees you, won't he? Washington Star: "Everything Is getting dearer." said the apprehensive citizen. "No," answered the man who has been rtading about how to circumvent the trusts, "advice Is as cheap as ever." Detroit Free Press; "Yes she's studying to be a trained nursu " "Prospects bright, eh?" "Glorious! Phe's so well trained already that she has made two Invalid sons ot rich old men fall In love with her." Chicago Tribune: "I tell you," said the admiring friend, "Bluffem Is a winner. When he says a thing he sticks to it. No body can make him fake water." "But," commented Bluffem's neighbor, "I saw him settling his milk bill this morn ing." Philadelphia Catholic Standard: "I be lieve I can cure you," said the young doc tor, "but you must drink no coffee." "I never do drink coffee," said the patient, "Don't interrupt ine. As I was saying, you must drink no coffee but purest Mocha. Vcu must drink a little of that every morn ing." , New York Times Prometheus, chained to the rock, was observed lauehlng. "Here I've been," he explained, "fifteen years without paying rent, and th terms of the arrangement are such that-1 can't be evicted." Hereupon he resumed his expression of argulsh to keep up the game. Philadelphia Press: "Now that th church has silenced me," said the recalcitrant min uter, "I shall have to adopt some other profession or trade." "Have you really been silenced?" "Yes." "Then open a barber shop. You'll make a hit." I.O, THE POOR INDIAN. James Barton Adams In Denver Post, Lot the poor Indian whose untutored mind Once heard the voice of Ood in passing wind And in the fleecy cloud-wreaths saw His face, (As per the poet's size-up of the case). That voice has ceased to hear, that face to see; His great ajnbltlon now but seems to be To leave hln reservation once a year And treat the settlers to their annual "skeer." To chase the wild deer o'er forbidden lands And give the laugh to warden's stern com mands. And when the tide of terror reaches flood And soldier men prepare to seek his blood. Hack to the reservation doth he hike, And when the troops come ambling down the pike . With bristling guns and trumpet's brazen notes And gleaming badges on their khaki coats They find no sign that Lo! In savage pride Had wandered from his own fireside. Save but a tortuous trail, long since grown cold, And should the avenging troopers be so bold And ao presumptuous as to nose the trail Down to the agency o'er mount and vale They And a much astonished agent there To hoist his good right hand aloft and swear s That not a redskin has been out ot sight t-'pon the reglar prayer meeting night And to assert with corrugated brow They wouldn't do such doln's anyhow, And Lo! stands near upon his guileless feet. His midst expanded with the stolen meat. And looks as harmless aa a ping pong punch . The very meekest baby In the bunch. I,n! the poor Indian who. in poet's mind, Once heard the voice of Qod In passing wind And saw Htm In the clouds he doesn't see Nor hear things now aa he did then; not he I mU right. Ken m rivta is aim. Nothing bettor." ii u ai u n az ""J9ga r & r rj - is