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E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
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complete copies of The Dally Morning,
Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during
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1 n sa.sao
t 28.O0O 11 Stf.100
I Ztt.TAS It 80.80
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88.80O t3 30,T0
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It 28,340 29 SW,(MO
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16 98.300
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From now on until after Nevr Year's
the bears will have the right-of-way of
Wall street.
What effect will the Republic of
Panama have on the prlco of Panama
bats next spring?
Nebraska senators have not yet
secured a doorkeeper in the House of
the Lords. Yea, not even a messenger.
Seasonable weather for planting fire
escapes Is the forecast of the state labor
commissioner for Omaha and South
Omaha.
It is along about now that the horny
banded tillers of the soli sit down to
ponder comfortably on the folly of
living In town, whet men must bustle
fell the year through.
Citizen Btlckney'a thousand-dollar con
tribution, to the Omaha Chamber of
Commerce) is of small consequence un
less President Stlckney shall continue to
stand up for Omaha.
The. people of Nebraska will be de
lighted ' to learn through the Omaha
fusion reform mouth organ that District
Attorney Summers returns from Wash
ington with a pleased and at the same
time an aggressive look on his face
which dlsfljrura bis mobile mouth.
Tho New York Independent Inclines to
the opinion that the effort to have the
Episcopal church pronounce all remar
riages after divorce, even of the Inno
cent party. Unlawful will meet serious
opposition. An instance strikingly in
Mint Is the remarriage In the family of
the Yanderbllts a few hours after the
divorce was grunted last Friday.
That the whirligig of times brings
about a great many chauges is again
given emphasis -in the fact that Uev.
It. Fay Mills, who ten years ago stigma
tized Omaha aa "the wickedest city,."
and more recently left his membership
with both the Congregatlona lists and
rresbyterlans to Join the Unitarluns on
account of their more moderate views,
baa turned buck to the work of on
evangelist and may In the no dim and
distant future resume the onslaught on
Omaha where be left off.
The men who measure the velocity of
the winds, the density of the clouds and
the intensity of the frosts are not all
stationed in the observatories of the
weather bureau. Notice, for eiample,
the hludcast and the forecast of the
Pun & Co. commercial agency, which
tells the country that "continued cold
vyeather has offered a needed stimulant
to trade In all seasonable lines, but par
ticularly in clothing and wearing ap
parel, and this seasonable demand has
given stronger tone to cotton goods and
created a lietter feeling in woolens."
Will anybody deny that we are living in
an age of marvelous Intellectual evolu
tjon?
Frank J. Kudllek is the Bret repub
lican candidate for state office la 100
to shy bis castor in the ring. Mr. Sadl
lek up Ires to become the next secretary
of state, for which position he is enil
nently qualified by experience in various
positions of honor aud truxt; which bo
bus filled with credit to himself aud bis
party. Twenty years ago Mr. Sudllek
reprveeuted Valine county in the" legis
lature that cliH-ted Charles F. Mander
son I'ulted flutes senator, and slnco
then the people of Saline comity have
repeatedly elected Mr. Sadllek as treas
urcr and regixtrar of deeds of their
county. In lSisl Mr. Satlllek was a tan
dUlata for presidential elector on the
ticket for McKInley and Hobart, and
during that cminiulu he rendered effl
cleiit service to the republican party on
the stump. ' Ills iKilltlcal record aud
popularity afford the assurance that bis
nomination would constitute ao Vleuient
tt strtnitti for the republican ticket
' A StW DtPAHtCRB.
A national board of helpful informa
tion has Just been started in the city
of New York that promises to mlnlmlte
the cost of experience and multiply the
fund of human knowledge gathered from
practical observation. The basic prin
ciples of the bureau are embodied in
the inaugural address of its president,
Ir. Joslab Strong, In the following
declaration:
It any manufacturer or merchant wishes
to know what other employers have done
to better conditions for their employes In
any direction he can write to the Institute
nd receive descriptions, and often photo
graphic Illustrations, of the most successful
experiments In. that direction. If a city
wishes to Improve municipal conditions In
any direction it need not send Junketing
expeditions to learn what has been done
at distant points, but can secure from the
Institute accurate Information s to what
has been done at those points. If churches
wish to know how Other churches have met
a changed environment they can secure
from the Institute Information upon this
point If philanthropists or social reformers
In any state wleh to know what has been
done by legislation In other states In re
gard to the problems of pauperism, crime,
child labor. Industrial accidents and all
kindred matters the Institute Is prepared
to answer such inquiries for all its mem
bersas it keeps up to data an accurate
record, not only of the legislation of the
forty-five states of the American union,
but also of the progressive countries in
Europe.
Here is an opportunity for gathering
information that cannot be found in
public libraries, academies, colleges or
other institutions established for the
dissemination of useful knowledge.
AK-8AH-BE1S-AUD17UIUUS.
It is an open secret that the delay in
the construction of the Auditorium is
chiefly due to the very material increase
in the cost of the structure above the
original estimates and the consequent
shortage of funds necessary for Its com
pletion. It is of great moment to Omaha
that the Auditorium sbttll be opened as
early as possible during the coming
jubilee year.
Crediting the executive committee and
the directory of the Auditorium with
abundant public spirit and energy in
the prosecution of their task, It still re
mains a very serious question whether
they will be able to achieve the hoped
for results without the co-operation and
substantial support of the organization
that has made Omaha famous. We re
fer to the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, who
constitute the most progressive element
of Omaha's business community.
The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben are notori
ously without a home not even a den
and the time is propitious for a merging
of Ak-Sar-Ben and Auditorium under
one general management. The details
of such a merger will suggest them
selves. The community of Interest is
there and we confidently believe that
public sentiment will be overwhelmingly
in favor of bringing together the men
who "do things." As a matter of fact, a
large proportion of the members of the
Auditorium directory are already in the
ranks of the Knights, while a very large
proportion of the Knights would become
Very valuable 'adjuncts to the active
force now endeavoring to complete the
Auditorium.
Looking to the future, it must be 'ap
parent that the Auditorium building
under joint management with the
Knights could be made to pay its way,
whereas a division of the forces and
resources of the separate bodies would
tend to weaken both and make both a
constant drain upon the community at
large.
ZtXATUA HALE'S PREDICTION.
In the course of the debate In the
United States senate. on the resolution
to invite Cuba to come into the United
States ou an equal footing with the
states of the union, Senator Halo of
Maine, speaking in opposition to the
resolution, said that we would not in
vite Great Britain to let Canada Join
the union and in this connection made
the prediction that men listening to him
will see the time when Canada will be
come au Integral part of the United
States, He declared that if .the plan of
the most adventurous of British poli
ticians, Mr. Chamberlain, is carried out.
a tariff war will be inaugurated ' be
tween Great Britain and the United
States and this English politician will
seek to set Canada up as a great agri
cultural rival to us. "Out of that," said
the senator, "will arise conditions, dis
cussions aud considerations that will end
In the union of the two peoples."
Mr. Hale stated what a considerable
number of Americans, particularly lu
the states bordering on the Dominion,
believe to be inevitable aud a consum
mation of the not distant future. The
opinion, that Canada will in time be
come a part of the United States is not
new. It has long obtained and has had
the countenance of some of our most
prominent statesmen. There was also,
not many years ago, a considerable sen
timent in the Daininlon favorable to
annexation with the United States. But
existing conditions do not appear to
warrant the prediction of Senutor Hale.
The dissatisfaction Of the Canadian
people with the Alaskan boundary de
cision has not increased the annexation
feeling, though it probably has some
what strengthened the sentiment in
favor of Independence. This seems to
be shown in the proposition to fink the
imperial government to grant Canada
treaty-making powers. There is, how
ever, no indication of any general desire
among the people of the Dominion to
throw off allegiance to the empire and
discard the protection which it gives
them. There is no doubt that the great
majority of them feel that they are
more secure as subjects of Great Britain
than- they would.be If . independent,
while doubtless most of them believe
that no benefit or advantage would be
gained by . annexation , to the United
States. So far as the policy of colonial
preference being urged by Mr. t'haatlier-
laln Is concerned, it lnt'Ul.-J effect is
to strengthen' the allegiance of the
colonies and if it should Ik 'udopted
and result in the agricultural develop
tnent of Canada, even in the improbable
event of a tariff war which Great
Britain would certainly make every pos
slblo effort to avert Canadians would
not be any more disposed than now to
favor annexation to the United States.
The natural effect of the development
of their country under such a ivolley
would be to make them more loyal to
the empire of which they are a part
Granting that the ultimate absorption
of the Dominion by the United States
is inevitable, it is extremely doubtful if
it will come within the time suggested
by Senator Hale, which does not reach
beyond the present generation, or indeed
cover more than a couple of decades.
In fact It is not easy to discover in
present conditions any real tendency to
ward a union of Canada and the United
States.
Tfl PANAMA PAYMENT.
It appears that there is some uneasi
ness ia eastern financial circles in re
gard to the possible effect upon the
money market of the large payment
which ' our government will have to
make to the Panama Canal company
and to the new republic for canal con
cessions, the total of which Is $30,000,-
000. There really seems to be no neces
sity for any concern on this score, since
the financial resources of the govern
ment already In hand are more than
ample to meet' the demand for the
Panama payment without at all dis
turbing the money market
There is today in the national treas
ury, in round numbers, $144,000,000 of
actual cash and the government bag
$159,000,000 on deposit in bank and
subject to demand. This makes $313,
000,000 available at once for the pay
ment of the Panama engagement and
the amount can be taken from the
treasury without making the least Im
pression upon the money market. That
this will be the course of the govern
ment in the matter may be safely as
sumed and consequently there is no
reason to apprehend that the Panama
payment, which may not have to be
made for some months to come, will
work the least hardship to the national
treasury or to the money market.
TBS CHAMBERLAIN CAMPAIGN.
The world is watching with no little
Interest, if not real concern, the prog
ress of the Chamberlain campaign for
the reform of the British fiscal policy.
It is not to be concealed that the advo
cate of a change in the economic re.tt
tions of the British empire is making
some progress. Those who at the outset
of bis movement advanced the opinion
that be would meet with no encourage
ment from the English people and that
the agitation which he started would be
briefly disposed of, have certainly
learned to take a different view of the
situation. They have become fully con
vinced not only that' Mr. Chamberlain
Is most determinedly in earnest In advo
cating his policy, but that there are
hundreds of thousands of very thought
ful .men in Great Britain who are in
tensely lu sympathy with the Chamber
lain idea.
Striking evidence of this has recently
been given. . Addresses by Mr. Chamber
lain at several points, at which working
men were especially conspicuous, were
received with the utmost enthusiasm.
Nowhere is it recorded that the distin
guished leader of the fiscal reform move
ment has failed to receive the most cor
dial demonstrations In favor of bis
policy. Wherever he has appeared be
has been greeted by great and enthusi
astic audiences, some of which have
passed resolutions heartily commending
his course and policy. Mr. Chamberlain
Is certainly making a very great cam
paign. It is in some respects the most
remarkable canvass ever made in the
United Kingdom, very much more ex
traordinary than the famous Cobden
campaign in the interest of free trade,
because the conditions and circumstances
are widely different.
We will not venture to predict what
the outcome of the Chamberlain cam
paign will be. That aggressive and
able statesman Is undoubtedly making
headway and It Is certainly among the
possibilities that he will carry his policy
to victory, though he would be more
than ordinarily venturesome who would
wager upon such a result. The out
come will be determined by the com
mon sense of the British people. Those
who ore opposed to the Chamberlain
j)olicy are making an utterly trifling
and inconsequential fight against it
which so far as can be discerned is hav
ing very little effect upon the public
mind. Americans have no little Interest
in this contest between the British free
traders and the men who believe that
the sntvatlon of British interests de
pends upon a radical change in English
fiscal policy. Perhaps such a change
would prove inimical to American in
terests, but it Is in line with a principle
which this country has long cherished.
A bill has been introduced in the
United States senate making the laws for
the suppression of lotteries applicable to
letters, postal cards, circulars, pamphlets
and other publications concerning any
business contracts, or life, fire or other
insurance policies tras mined into any
state or territory by concerns or persons
not authorised to transact such business
In the state or territory from which the
same are transmitted. This measure is
aimed directly at bogus and wildcat con
ceriks that collect premiums that afford
no protection to jwlicy holders. Scores
of such concerns that are operating in
various parts of the country will be
wiped oft the map if this bill becomes
a law. . )
The Nebraska state labor bureau is
laboring very hard trying to find some
thing to do.ii) order to convince the
next legislature that Its maintenance at
the expense of the taxpayers is justified.
Its latest scheme of self-employment is
to establish a bureau to distribute bar
vest Lands among the farmers for next
year. Ia vthef words, the state labor
bureau proposes to turn itself into a
farm band employment agency. As a
piece of emotional usefulness a harvest
hand labor bureau might commend It
self, but from the practical point of view
It will not prove very attractive. When
the demand for harvest bands is greater
than the supply of farm laborers there
will be no demand for middlemen to find
employment for the unemployed and
when the demand for harvest hands Is
smaller than the supply all the labor
bureaus of the state cannot create em
ployment for the overflow of farm hands
out of a job.
Now that Grover Cleveland has pub
licly announced his unalterable and con
clusive determination never again to be
come a democratic nominee for the presi
dency, William J. 'Bryan may be ex
pected to abandon bis explorations of
Great Britain, France and Switzerland,
give up the Carlsbad liver cure and
return to America with unimpaired lung
power and enlarged digestive apparatus.
Overdid the Job.
Saturday Evening Post
There is no doubt that the trusts which
set out to poeses the land and sea got
eome of the water, but they did not succeed
in salting it down.
Chackles ol Happy Pep a.
Baltimore American.
Could President Roosevelt have foreseen
the number of letters he would receive from
the proud parents of whole herds of chil
dren he would have felt neither the Neces
sity nor the inclination to say anything
about race suicide.
Projrrcaa of Democracy.
St. Louis Republic.
Another princess has succumbed to
royalty's old habit of running away with the
coachman. The Increasing frequency of
such elopements may be viewed as a con
cession from royalty and as the advance
ment of democratic Institutions.
The Beam BcoIdlnaT the Mote.
Minneapolis Times.
It has taken three or four decisions of the
supreme court of Nebraska to stop the
reading of the Bible as a religious ceremony
in one school district of the state, and at
that It doesn't stay stopped. If Nebraskans
fought as well In other matters of con
science and law what a heavenly common
wealth it would be!
RanalnaY Off with the Prises.
New York Tribune.
Official figures seem to indicate that
Brother Jonathan has been competing vig
orously with his revered uncle, John Bull,
for profitable trad In South Africa, Amer
ican exports to that quarter of the globe
are by no means Insignificant. May mod
est, coy and Mushing Yankees be permitted
(to express the timid hope that the better
man of the two may carry oft the prises?
Backbone of the Republic.
Detroit Free Press.
Forty years ago the farmers owned CB
per cent of the wealth of the country: now
they own only 21 per cent. But possibly
this relative decrease Is due to the fact that
the farmer cannpt capitalise his farm on
the basis of the value of the land and the
profits from last year's crops and the esti
mated profits from next year's crop. The
farmer is the backbone of the republic,
but he is wofully Ignorant of high finance.
' Deilas; Foollah Thing's.
Philadelphia Record.
Mr. Parry, president of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers, has said a
great many foollah things about labor un
ions, but probably none of the things he
has said are as foolish as the things he Is
doing to protect himself from the as
sussinatlon and his children from the kid
naping which he professes to believe are
imminent In revenge for what he has said1
about unions. Probably he has had threat
ening letters; a great many people have
had threatening letters, but the Iron gates
and the guards armed with rifles who
make Mr. Parry as Inaccessible as the
czar are rather a piece of self-advertising
than anything else. Mr. Parry Is at
tempting to be an Industrial csar, and he
probably feels it necessary to keep up all
the appearances consistently with the part.
Nlaety Per Cent Who Fall.
Saturday Evening Post
A while ago1 it was Chicago that first dis
covered thatad cooking was responsible
for most of the divorces out that way.
And now it Is a Chicago woman who pro
pones that women be admitted to the suf
frage wherever they can pass a satisfac
tory examination in housekeeping, and she
suggests that the qualification would ex
clude most of her sex as effectually aa the
present barrier.
Considerably mpre than SO per cent of the
men who engage In business fall; rarely is
there a man of any age who has not been
discharged at least once In his life for
Incompetence; where Is there an employer
of male labor who Is not brimful of stories
of his trials with help who don't know their
business and won't learn? Bo, we see that
If the women as a rule fall short of giving
satisfaction In their chief line of endeavor,
their husbands, fathers and brothers have
small right to sit In Judgment.
FIXDIXG THE RBAL IXDIAIf.
Mtatnfuls Discover the True Article
nd Stake aa Exhibition.
Indianapolis Journal.
In a report" maito Mat week to the Ameri
can Missionary n..clntlon attention waa
culled to the haintai ne material provision
made by the national government for the
Indians "With irwiOOO to their credit In
the governniwivt vaults In Washington and
with mare school houses than they know
what to Jo with, the problem today," said
the report, "Is really how wlaely to do leas
for the Indian, how to give him an appre
ciation of his possessions, based upon char
acter." It1 Is here. It was declared, that the
United States government has failed. "It
has never found the teal Indian. The
Christian church can do for the Indian that
which the government cannot do." It Is
possible that the government has never
found the real Indian, but It has had a
long time in which to get acquainted with
him, and acme of bis "real" attributes
must certainly have come to light In that
time. A good mapy of Its government rep
resentatives must feel that they know the
red man very well indeed. Perhaps be
might have been a different sort of Indian
If less had been done for him, but that is
quite another story. All through the years
his sentimental frienda In and out of the
Indian Rights association have urged the
government to do more for hiin and have
apparently bee a very unhappy because so
little was done. It Is quite refreahlng,
therefore, to learn from another and
equally authoritative source that more haa
been done than necessary, even ' though
some eaaentlal thlnga have been omitted.
Still, why should the missionary associa
tion criticise the government for Its short
comings while It admits in the same breath
that the church can do mora for his re
generation than the state can? And If the
"real Indian" baa not been found up to
this time, why has not the ehurch discov
ered and 'developed htra? No Impedimenta
have been placed la Its way, but quite the
contrary.
The following
ment policy in the
same time protects your family. Take it out
and a load of worry will be lifted from your
will have conhdence
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HE'S GETTING CRACK. ,
Bis Chief Geroaltno Hobbles I'p to
the Moasaers' Bench.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The announcement from Fort Sill that
Qeronimo, the Apache chief, who led Gen
eral Nelaon A. Miles such a merry chase
in I3S6, has joined the Reformed Dutch
church, lfull of suggest! veness. The most
vagrant Imagination could not picture
Geromtmo joining the Methodists, the Bap
tists or the Salvation Army. It would be
relatively eaay to think of htm as a Roman
Catholic. But on the whole there Is no
religious body that oommende Itself more
strongly to the native dignity of the un
spoiled aborigine than the Reformed
Dutch church. The Indian scorns emo
tion. He took naturally to the forms and
symbolism offered by the Jesuit missionar
ies. Neither the doctrine of the Immacu
late conception nor conaubstantiatlon had
any troubles for him. To the man who be
gins by seeing God In clouds and hearing
Htm in the winds, all things are made
easy except -what our civilisation terms
generlcally "revivalism."
Look at a collection of portraits of the
men, who, in black gown and with Im
perturbable gravity and sterling scholar
ship have maintained the reputation of the
Reformed Dutch pulpit; who have stood
for the most undiluted Calvinism, aud
against all that they regarded aa reli
gious hysteria. You will note a striking
proportion of round faces, low, but broad
brows, strong lips and suggestions of the
double chin. Then look at a picture of
Geronlmo, and you will find the same type
of physlogonomy, the same combination of
alert shrewdness and stern, uncompro
mising dignity. Truly. Geronlmo haa
found his place. If, as atated, he has joined
the Reformed Dutch Church of America.
The veteran Apache who fought both
Crook and Miles, and then beat both of
them at compromise bargaining showed at
once Dutch courage and Dutch business
ability. That Geronlmo haa, even In his
old sge, a touch of the dry Dutch humor
Is apparent from the Fort BUI dispatch:
"He attended a mission to the Comanches,
and sat in a front seat" The Apaches and
Comanches are sworn foes.
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A VEXEHABLK OPTIMIST.
Voathfal Buoyancy and Cheery Spirit
of Senater Hoar.
Detroit Free Press.
To the political pessimist we cheerfully
commend these words of the Hon. George
Friable Hoar, senator from Massachusetts
in the congress of the United 6tates:
"The leeaon which I have learned in life,
which Is Impresaed on me dally, and more
deenlv as I trow old, is the lesson of
good will and good hope. I believe that
today is better than yesterday ana mat
tomorrow will be better than today. I
kii. that In aolte of so many errors
and wrongs, and even crimes, my country
men of all claeses desire what Is good, ana
not what Is evlL"
Here Is a man who has been Identified
with the history of the United States for
a period of more than fifty years. In his
.tnhin.rr&i)hv. he Is able to say proudly.
but without boasting, "I have known per-
aonally ana quite intimately, or nave
vnr,wn intelligent and trustworthy per
sons who have known personally and quite
Intimately, many men who nave nave nan
a great share in the history of this eoun
... nA it literature, for 130 years." He
Is recognised throughout the country as
perhaps the best representative or "ine
New England conscience" In the halls of
congress. He has come nearer than any
other member of the United States senate
to obeying lu spirit and letter Kipling's
ini,.nr.iii.m to the Encllsh. "KeeD ye the
faith, the faith our fathers sealed us."
Yet In the recollections of seventy years
he finds no reason to be anything but
cheerful and hopeful. There Is no harking
back to "the good old times," when all
men were supposed to be honest, all states
men pure and all legislation disinterested.
The senator himself knows something per
sonal! about those good old timea. His
"Strongest in
the World
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letter is evidence of the
Equitable makes money
r. the future that nothing else can impart.
November 23, 1903.
Mr. H. D. Ned, Manager, Omaha, Nebraska,
Dear (Sir: I was very glad to find that my policy in
the Equitable was indeed a. "Sight draft at maturity."
November 19, 1883, I took a twenty year Tontine rl'cy;
November 19, 1903, 1 presented it at your office for its cash
value, which was immediately paid.
You offered to allow me to continue policy at old rate
and withdraw accumulated dividends, which exceeded 51
per cent of the premiums I had paid, but I selected to take
its cash value.
' However, as I did not want to diminish the amount of
insurance I carried or be without an Equitable policy in my
safe, I gave you my application for a policy in an amount
equal to the one canceled. This is the best evidence of my
entire satisfaction with the splendid results attained by the
Equitable. . Yours very truly, ,
H. J. TENFOLD.
H. D. NEELY,
MANAGER.
Merchants National Bank Bldg., Omaha.
chain of personal recollections and personal
tradition goes back to the war of American
Independence, and standing In the valley
of the shadow he feels that he ought to
lift up his voice to say that these days
are better than those days aud that the
days to come will be better than the days
that are now here.
We think the senator is right about It,
and it la good to find ft man, who has
lived so long and so much, without los
ing the buoyant optimism of his youth.
The canker of experience has corroded none
of It. His faith has waxed rather than
waned with his years, and when Senator
Hoar can see only light In the east, no
body else who is fighting the battle of
good government In republican institu
tions has any reason for being discour
aged. BACK TO THE TIX PAIL.
Restaurant Keepers Remove Potatoea
from the Free List.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The exigencies of trade are compelling the
keepers of downtown restaurants to lop off
gratuities. Muslo has been omitted already.
Most persons do not care for mualo with
their meals, and so most people do not re
gard the absence of the cafe orchestra as a
hardship. But now it Is potatoea.
Potatoes are not to be served unless or
dered, and. If ordered, they must be paid
for. The edict has gone forth. The waiter
will not hereafter ask you how you will
have your potatoes, because, If he asked,
you would be likely to take his question as
an Invitation to have something at the ex
pense of the house.
If you want potatoes you must name them
In the order. If you do not want potatoes
they will not be thrust upon you. Even
this may be borne by the noonday luncher,
but Is this the end of It? Naturally, no.
If tha removal of the potato from the free
list Is tolerated will not the precedent pave
the way for a general revision of the tariff 7
What could be more logical than that there
should follow an extra charge for gravy?
Meat is meat and gravy la well, gravy Is
notSneat, and If one wants gravy one must
order It and pay for It. Thla la In line with
the rule laid down in New York and Boaton,
and we are following New York and Bos
ton, It Is said, in the matter of potatoea.
But if we want tea or coffee or chocolate
must we also order cream and sugar aep
arately and pay extra for them? Then how
about the spoon? How, also, about the nap
kin? In case it happens to be oysters on
the shell, must we first order the oysters
and then order the shell, and have the bill
itemised?
if we must pay for everything we order
in the restauranta hereafter, are not salt,
pepper, vinegar and tabasco sauce, pickles.
olives, knives, forks, spoons, etc., likely to
be Included eventually In the bills? And
will it stop there? Who knows? We may
be compelled finally to pay an admission
price at the door, and fee the boy who
opens It for us. '
We are making progress. We are making
progress around the circle rapidly toward
the ham, chicken or cheese sandwich, the
flask of cold tea, and the quarter of apple
pie. Soon no bualneas will be profitable
enough-, no salary large enough, to enable
the average man to contribute toward main,
talnlng the costly modem' restaurant.
Either ha must patronise some place wher
the specialty Is serving food and not the
encouragement of the fine arts, or ha must
get back to the tin pall of his fathers.
Sweeten! a All Ronnd.
Washington Star.
And so It will turn out that wben the
politicians go check hunting next year both
aides will apply to the sugar trust and both
sides will' be remembered. The democrats
will not get a dollar the less for Mr. Wll
lams' speech of yesterday nor tha republic
ans a dollar the more for the refusal of
Mr. Payne to accept the Williams amend
ment. Pursuing a course of sweetness and
light, the sugar trust Is Indisposed and
really hasn't the time to cherish animosity
or take congressional deUitee at all seri
ously. .
fact that
for you
an endow-
and at the
with the Equitable
shoulders and you
FACTS 1
ABOUT IIFE INSURANCE '
A Life Annuity Policy In. the Poi' i
Mutual Life is the best guarantee f .
good ThuuksglvlDK dinners for you
loved ones during life. j
F. W. FOSTER,
'Phones 1817 and F3205. Bee Bltlg
J. J. HILL IS GRACIOIS.
T)s I HVn U-n m.AM nl
- " aM- jt rr m gj DVivrrffn J
Hlmaelf and the lalted States.
Detroit Free Preas. -
President James J. Hill of the Northern
Securities company has unbent and demon
strated that he is not entirely devoid of the
spirit of compromise by concession. It is
pot long since he stoutly proclaimed that!
he would not permit the federal government!
to Interfere in any way with the conduct)
of the merger which he had dons so much)
to bring about. He considerately recog
nized that the federal authorities, like the
walking delegate, must make a showing!
through some courae of activity, but served I
notice that they could not practice on him !
or lnterefere with plans made by his cor-ji
poration, the alleged powers and privileges !i
of which are granted by the sovereign statejf
of New Jersey. ' I
But Mr. Hill desires no hard feelings be- b
tween himself and the United States.
Rather than bring about such a misfortune
he would prefer to surrender all the rights
granted by New Jersey In the company's
charter, "excepting that of purchasing such
securities as the management may see fl
to obtain from an lveetment view point."
The right to vole the stock of the three
railroad systems merged will be surren.
dered, as will that of the company to have
any voice In the management of either of
them. It will be declared before the federal
suprms court that the management of euch
will be separate, that there will be no
agreement for a community of lntereat, and
that the machinery of control with the in
dividual lines will be aa that before the
merger.
It is much to have so powerful and astute
a financier openly acknowledge that he Is
willing to concede something to the gov
ernment, just for the sake of peace and
good fellowship, but It lmpoaea tha unpleas
ant, If not ungracloua, precaution of look
ing out that the magnanimoua gift of al
leged franchise rights la not a rhetorical
gold brick. There Is an acknowledgment
that the company Is in control of the three
systems. Otherwise It would be In no posi
tion to guarantee separate management or
to make any other positive arrangement as
to the running of them. Mr. III1I and Ms
associates own the majority of the stock
In euch. Under no other hypothesis cull
they make the patronising acknowledg
ment to the government that It may have
some rights which the company Is Incline.
to respect just as evidence of good will.
This accepted, the separate management
amounts to nothing except aa it bears
upon the question of expenae, which Is met
by the patrons of every well-regulated rail
road organisation.
The main lines Involved are Just ss nearly
parallel aa they were before Mr. 11111 be
came so considerate of the government.
The machinery of management may be re
tained, as he says It will he, yet there will
be but one directing head, and that win
be the Northern Securities company. The
promises made through lis president go
merely to ths scheme of operation, cot t
the paramount Issue ef the right of tha
people to enjoy the benefits of competition.
After all it looks as though the magnani
mous bead of tha merger Is only seeking to
coax the government Into helping him whip
the devil around a stump. His plan is an
ingenious one and It is very gracious on
Mr Hill's part to treat the United States
government courteously; but In the end It
will be found that his company may do
Just what the federal courts say It may,
and no more. He aud New Jersey com
ulned cannot nullify the federal laws or
direct their administration.