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TL? OMAHA DAILY HEE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1004. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROStiWATF.R, KDITOR, PUBLISHED EVER V MORNING. TERM 3 OF RrHW.'RUTION. Dally Pee (wlthont Sunday), oni Year. .U no Dally Bo and Htindnv, One Year .) Illustrated lif. One Year 2 Fundny He, One Year 2 00 Saturday Bee, one Year J .50 Twentieth Century Kurmer, One Year.. 1.00 TKLI VKRED BY CARRIER. Pally Ree (without Sunday), per copy... 2c Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week. ..12c lHlly Bee (including Sunday), per week. .17c. Sunday Bee, )er copy c Evening Bee (without Sunday). pT week 7c Kvenlng Bee (Including Sunday), per week 12o Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should t5 addressed to City Circulation De part men t. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth arid M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 104 t'nltv Building. New York i't'S Park Row Building. Washington Sol Fourteenth 8treet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Dee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. TUB FEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 8TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. : George B. Tzschtick, secretary of The Hee rubllshlng Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number uf full and complete, conies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of Julv, 1904, was as follows: 1 se.Tr,o 17 jm,:mh 2 ai,i7 is :w.2.v 3 aH,Tno 19 rvoo 4 tHMtlft 2" SO.070 6 l.!Hh 21 SHI.Kr.O 6 2,20 22 . 7 SS1,770 2.1 r.MR X ai).Srt 24 a7JI5( t .31.210 ' 25 2,o5 tO...'. 2tH,320 26 21.4KO U :SI).I(H) 27 2W..V40 12 .K.7! 28 :MMWM 13 2t,4Ur 2!) 31,700 14 2,7tm .IIMWO 15 an.sao 31 t.wjw 16 , Total 7.W Less unsold and returned copies.... 10.10M Net total sales 17.I7 Dally average 2;,rWt GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of August, A. I). 19o4. (Seal) . M. B. 1IUNUATE, Notary Public. THE BE12 will be mailed upon request to subscribers leaving the pity during; tlio n m m ? r months. Chaigfi ol addresa rill be nadt aa frequently aa desired) notices of inch Chang mast girt both the old and new addresses. To fuse or not to fuse that will bo the question for tle next ten days. General Ilenneukampf may b given an opportunity to revise his opinion of Japanese marksmanship. Russian newspapers are demanding a responsible cabinet, but what they really Deed Is nn efficient one. When there is a strike 011 any hobo can become a skilled workman over , night, provided he Is willing 10 become .ft strikftrepker. Comparison of the conflicting state ments Issued by the strikers and by the meat packers will quickly convince that some one Is prevaricating. The only thing now lacking to All Russia's cup of trouble to the brim Is a general strike, but possibly that inven tion of civilization has not yet reached there. , l-i 1 Failure of the civilized nations to agree upon whaleiliay be considered con trabuud'of war may make it necessary to refer the question to the crop of next year's high school graduates. The Russian writer who lays the blame for the eastern war upon the American trusts must have conversed with Mr. Bryan during the hitter's visit to Euroie. Trance Is ajralu beginning to show that Its friendship for Russia Is not nUoii the surface, the latest evidence of good will being an attempt to show that Coreans are ready to rise against the Jupanese. Who says the St. Louis fair Is not well advertised when even the birth of a FillplnO baby Is proclaimed through all the world by the Associated Tress as an event to he chalked down on the World's fair calendar. Pennsylvania coal lnliies are being shut down because cars cannot be se cured to move the product. This would Indicate that storage room at the mines 1s full, but In the west anthracite still commands strike prices. L. Whatever the facts may be It will be hard to convince Omaha people that the advance In coal rates is not one method of reprisal taken by the railroads to make the campaign for honest taxation unpopular lu this community. We have made great progress In the direction of more equitable taxation, not only lu Omaha locally, but also in Ne braska generally. That Is all the more rousou why we should keep at the good work. Twenly-one members or the Jack sonlan club have given the present democratic congressman from this dis trict a unanimous endorsement for re nomlnatlon. That is uu endorsement as la an endorsement. The man at the popocratlc bellows Is Working very hard night unci day to get up enough heut to bring the refractory Hryanite elements to fuse, but It will take an awful amount of wind to bring about perfect fusion by August It). The statistician of the state labor bureau bus made a forecast of Nebraska crops, although coru U only in tassel as yet and the grape and pcu-h crops have not yet been gathered. Rut the statistician of the state lubor bureau doesn't mind doing a heap uf guessing lilt refutation la safe. THE CHIEF BATTLKQBOVyD. New York Is again to be the chief battleground of the campaign and while that state is not necessary to the elec tion of the republican national ticket, of course no effort will be spared by the republicans to carry it It Is recognized by both parties as of the first Impor tance to nominate for governor and other state officers men of the highest char acter and having the strongest claims to popular confldenoa, and it seems that each party is having trouble to find men of this class who arc willing to run. If Mr. Root could be Induced to accept a nomination for governor the repub licans would have no further concern, but he does not want office and is averse to entering into a political contest of so strenuous a nature as will be that In the Empire state. There is reason to think that with Root as the candidate the republicans would carry New York by a laree majority, but with any of those who are seeking nomination the state would be doubtful. On the demo cratic side Mayor McClellan appears to have the best chanco of being named for governor and he Is understood to be quite willing, but there is opposition, some of the older men in the party thinking that McClellan has hardly yet established a claim to be considered for the governorship. However, he la un doubtedly more available than anyone else who Is being talked of, having shown as mayor better Asggutlve ability than he .was supposed tu-pusscss. The political flgurers are classing New York among the doubtful states. Ter haps that Is correct, though the reasons that make Pennsylvania surely repub lican arply equally to the Empire state, the great industrial Interests of which would not be helped by a democratic victory. . EXLAllUIXO OPERATION'S. Although It was stated a few days ago that Russia would modify the course of search and seizure against which pro tests had been made, It now appears to be the Intention of the government not only to continue lu that course, but to enlarge operations. It Is announced that more merchantmen are to be converted into warships and employed In search ing for contrnbund goods, bq that within a short time Asiatic waters and the Northern Pacific may literally swarm with ships commissioned to search neu tral vessel. The effect of this would of course be to put a stop to trade with Japan and It Is a serious question as to how long the' nations Interested In that trade would tolerate such Interference. Whatever may be said as to the right of search, which is recognized in inter national law, if Russia persists in the extreme course she is pursuing It will inevitably create such a general feeling of resentment toward hpr as she . will find operating to her disadvantage when the times comes for negotiating a treaty of peace with Japan. The Russian gov ernment hus declared that it will permit no Interference from uny -power with its negotiations with Japan, but the indig nation which Its course is arousing is well calculated to cause strenuous oppo sition to any settlement at the end of the war that would leave Russia a foot hold in Manchuria. In the end Russia may make reparation for any wrongs done to neutral commerce, but much will have been done in the meantime to alienate the good will of other peoples and governments and the opportunity to manifest this will come when the fight ing Is over and peace terms are to be made. Russia cannot continue In a course that is offensive to neutral na tions without engendering a feeling of hostility that must ultimately find ex pression and necessarily to her disad vantage. A CHARGE OF POSITION. The democratic platform of 18S4 did not denounce protection as roblery, as is done in the 1904 platform. The former said that from the foundation of the government taxes collected at the custom house have been the chief source of federal revenue and such they must continue to be. It recognized the fact that "many industries have come to rely upon legislation for successful continu ance" and declared that "any change of law must be at every step regardful of the lubor and capital thus Involved," that "the process of reform must be sub ject in the execution to this plain dic tate of Justice." The platform of twenty years ago further said that "the necessary reduction lu taxation can and must be effected wfthout depriving American labor of th (ability to com pete successfully with foreign labor In this particular manifesting on interest In the welfare of the wage worker which Is not shown in this year's plat form. The democratic national convention of 1S.H4 was not dominate by the free trade element, as the St. louls conven tion was. There were conservative men in the latter convention who did not want such a deliverance on the tariff as was made, but they were overruled. The tariff plank as first drawn was con servative, in Its terms. It did not de mand a sweeping revlslou tlMtt would disturb the Industrial Interests of the country and do enormous injury to the Industrial Interests of the country. That was not acceptable to the foes of pro tection and they were strong enough to substitute a plank denouncing that prin ciple and favoring revision that would destroy protection. It is stated that Mr. Henry (1. Davis, the democratic candidate for vice presi dent, docs not think well of the tariff plank of the St. Ixuis platform. He owes a great deal of Ms large wealth to tariff protection aud he bus interests that would lose a considerable part of their value if dcpi'lVril of protection. He knows what that policy lias done for the development of the Industries of Ms state and he Is not willing to denounce is aa robbery. While not averse to a revision of the tariff he would have that done on conservtillve lines and not car ried so far as to destroy protection.. How the candidate for president. Judge Parker, stands on this question will per haps be known next week, when be is formally notified of his nomination. It has been stated that he Is a free trader, but New York Is a great manufacturing state and it is absolutely necessary to democratic success. It is therefore not probable that Judge Tarker will an nounce tariff views that would be likely to array against him the capital and labor In the vast Industries of the Em pire state. The views of the candidates, however, are not what the people should be gulfed by, but the attitude of the party. The! platform declarations of the na tional convention are the only true and safe guide ss to the beliefs and purposes of the party at this time.. The tariff plank proclaims It the enemy of that policy under which the United States has become the leading industrial na tion of the world and the maintenance of which is necessary to continued prog ress and prosperity. Democratic vic tory in November would give renewed hope to the foes of protection and would Inspire them to greater efforts for the overthrow of that policy. That It would hate a more or less depressing effect upon our Industries is not to be doubted. MAN AT TIIE BOTTOM OF THE WELL The pictorial and pathetic appeal made by the World-Herald to Nebraska populists and democrats to splice their broken ropes to pull up the man who went to the bottom of the well will meet with no responsive sympathy from any man who is honestly lu favor of emancipating Nebraska from corporate misrule. That rope has been spliced five or six times within the past decade, but the man at the bottom of the well found it to be a rope of sand. When that rope was spliced ten years ago men of all parlies and no party Joined together to pull the man out of the well, and they expected, and had a right to expect, a divorce of state gov ernment from corporate control. They expected, and had a right to expect, that the odious corporation lobby would be expelled from the legislative halls, that laws would be enacted affording relief from the excessive burdens Imposed upon the producers by public carriers, and, lastly, that the railroads would be compelled to bear their Just and due proportion of the burden of taxation. Hut the rope so eagerly spliced and swiftly thrown to the man at the bottom 1 of the well broke before the man coulcJ get half way up, and the poor man fell back to the bottom of the well badly bruised and awfully ' disappointed. The rope had proved to be a rope of sand. The oilroom lobby proved to be as much In evidence at the state capital as it ever had been prior 16 the uprising of the embattled producer, and so it proved every time the rope was spliced In the eight years following. The fusion reform state officers, the fusion reform lawmakers, the fusion re form. Judges, of the supreme court, elected on pledges to accept no gifts from' the railroads, either in the shape of passes or any other valuable thing, violated their pledges with impunity, and the poor old man at the bottom of the well was left to lament his fate. Worse than all, the fusion reform state boards of railroad assessment proved themselves to be Just as pliant and vulnerable as the very bad or very worst republican boards of railroad as sessment. While It is true that rail road stocks and bonds were not so valu able In the world's markets and their earnings were not so large In the early '90s as they have been since the era of prosperity has set In, they were fully as valuable In any event as they had been In the '80s. In spite of prayer and protest the popocratlc state board turned a deaf ear to ail appeals for an equitable re adjustment of taxation by raising the railroad assessment. Whatever relief the old man at the bottom of the well has got, and we regret to say he has not enough yet, he has received from n republican state board acting in re sponse to the force of public sentiment, created by republican newspapers. To the man up a tree it looks as if the ,man at the bottom of the well has very little to hope for from the splicing of the broken rope of sham reform, unless a new, sounder hemp is put into that rope than has ever been used before. It was reported the other day that a Russian war balloon had been observed hovering over Hai Cheng. It will be remembered that the end of July was also the end of the terra agreed upon by The nague conference regarding the dropping of explosives on hostile armies from balloons. This limit was put on the term by one of the American dele gates. If to the other horrors of war we are now to see dynamite, shells of lyddite, bombs and other similar infernal machines dropped on each other by the contending armies, there will be a hungry market for all the air ships that can be turned out And the honors de scribed in "Caesar's Column" may be realized. Elder Warren wants everybody In these parts to prepare for the millennium, put their bouses in order and Invest In 5-cent unbleached muslin for appropriate ascension robes.' Pointing backward, the millennium prognostlcator tells us that the sun was darkened May 19, 17S0; that the moon, though at its full, the night of the same day did not give Its light, but apis?ared as a ball of blood In the heavens; the stars fell November 13, KK, and that men and women who are 70, 80 and 00 years of age shall yet hear Gabriel blow his horn. Here Is a chance for Mr. Gassaway Davis. For him the millennium Is at hand; It will come on the 8th day of November. The Ancient Order of Hibernians has decided that the "stage Irishman" must be taken from behind the - American footlights. When the Afro-American league has taken the same steps regard lug the "stage nigger," the PlattdeuUch Verien relegated the "stage Dutchman, similar societies of vnrlous races and nationalities called off the "stage Jew," the "stage Swede" and the "stage Yau kee," the chances for a real revival of stage humor may be brighter. Voluntary arbitration Is receiving a set-back lecause of the Inability of the anthracite coal miners of Pennsylvania to enforce the decision of the arbitration board which provided that check weigh ers might be employed by the miners to see that the company weigher perforins his duty honestly, although the refusal of the mine owners to permit a check uion their employes' work seems to be proof of its desirability. Under ordinary circumstance the death of General Keller in the battle at Hal Cheng might have little effect upon the campaign In the far east, but as he was the only Russian general who had succeeded lu even a small undertaking against the enemy his death removes the only man who has given more than verbal promise of waging victorious war. A campaign for safe and sane political conventions Is In order. The death of former Governor Pattlson of Pennsyl vania is attributed to strain incident to his work as ft member of the resolutions committee at St. Louis and at least six deaths are said to have been the direct result of the protracted republican state convention in Illinois. ' Property owners of many American cities will be pleased to learn that there Is one place where asphalt companies do not have everything their own way, and just for the name of the thing will be inclined to sympathize with Venez uela In Its attempt to make one asphalt concern live up to the terms of Its con tract. State Treasurer Mortensen has over $;tOO,(XX) of state "funds In his custody, but every dollar of It Is properly de posited under the depository law to draw interest for the taxpayers. No farming out of public money under the present republican state treasurer. From present Indications It will be necessary only for Mr. Rryan to elabo rate lils scheme for state ownership of railroads a little in order to cause the New York,- Sun to come out openly in support of Judge Parker. Sasareated by Solomon, New York Tribune. This Is a good time to remember that "better la a dinner of herbs" than a stalled ox at strike prices. Important I'olnt Overlooked. Washington Post. Curl' Schun says he approves Judge Parker's opinions on imperialism. It would add Interesc to the statement If Mr. Schuri would let us know, what opinions Judge Farker holds on the imperialism question. Joyous Funeral Sendoff. Indianapolis News. Five thousand JJusstuns celebrated von Plehve'B death tiy cheering themselves hoarse ut Cooper union, New York. 'Tlsn't every man who gets such an enthusiastic send-off from his compatriots in a foreign luni Where Money Failed. Chicago Chronicle. This notion that the democratic ticket can win through sheer weight of money may ' be accepted by some people, but It will not go with Brother Hearst. He has several reams of canceled checks to show that the money system does not work out. - , Inviting the I'eraonal Isane, Philadelphia Press. Let the personal Issue come. Roosevelt Is no decorous nobody, no negative figure head, no stuffed prophet. He is picturesque, ardent, wholesome, the biggest boy on the playground, the biggest man in the barTle. Underneath the roughness of the plains, underneath the eagerness of the cabinet, la the substance of greatness and the fineness of the lofty ideal. -The people like his fiber and his' quality. THI5 LAW AND THE LADY. Woman Scorea m Hit at the Expenae of Judife Parker. Bultlmors Sun. It has remained for a woman, the victim of Judge Parker's logic and his rigid ad herence to the letter of the law, to score a palpable hit at the expense of the- demo cratic nominee for the presidency. The Judge Is a ood-natured man, according to all accounts, who believes In the principle of "live and lef live." Consequently when Esopua was Invaded by a host of photo graphers, eager to take the picture of the candidate, he raised no protest. They took snapshots of the Judge on his lawn, in his hayftelds and In restful poses on the ve randa of his country home. They photo graphed him on horseback and they took pictures of him playing with his Interest ing dog "Teddy" or fondling the pet calf. He adapted lila feuturts to any expression that they desired now grave, now gay, now serene. At last the Judge grew weary undwould fain have a rest. But the photo graphers continued to flock to Eaopus and there 'was no peuce for him. Finally they followed him to his bathing place In the Hudson river so that Ills fellow-citlsens might be enabled to have pictures of a presidential candidate taking a morning swim. The Judge has drawn the Una on this phase of the photographic campaign and has asserted his right to privacy while bathing. Mark now how court decisions, like chickens, come home to roost. A certain young woman of Rochester sued a business firm In her native city for pub lishing her picture 011 an advertisement. Her prayer for relief was denied by the New York court of appeals and, worst of all, Judge Parker wrote the opinion of the majority of the court. The plaintiff in this case now has aweet revenge. She has written a long letter to the Judge, In which, after noting his assertion that he has cer tain tights which photographers must re spect, she saucily observes: I take this opportunity to remind you that you have no such right as that which you assert. I have a vrry high authority for my statement, being nothing lens than a decltilon of the court of appeals of the state wherein you wrote 'the prevailing opinion. The action whs one In which 1 win the p'slntlff and th Rochester Folding Hoi company and another corporation wera the defendants, arid was reported In the 171 N. V.. at puKu &M. The young woman eeerns to have put the Judge In an embarrassing position, from which he cannot extricate hlms!f without reversing bis own decision. Certainly she has given the photographers a very valua ble pleca of Information. If they act upon her suRgestlon they will arm themselves with copies of Judge Parker'a opinion (171 N. Y.. page MM, snd when he protests against their Invasion of his privacy they cau answer him convincingly with his own logic. The Rochester woman has tha best of the controversy thus far. ARMY GOSSIP IX W ASHIX1TOX, Carrent Rrenta Gleamed from the Army and Xavy Register. A new condition In the army requiring that the revolver shall be Issued to all bandsmen, trumpeters and musicians when they take the field, those enlisted men will be expetced to take the full course In pistol practice. Company commanders are ad monished to exercise care In the Issue of revolvers to sergeants snd ether enlisted men of the foot troops whenever It becomes necessary to make such Issue on the spe cial occasions authorised. It Is desirable that those arms be Issued only to the men who know how to handle and fire the re volver. v It Is not commonly known that Inspector General Burton of the army Is the author of the plan of holding out an Inducement to honor graduates of leading military col leges. One of the first official acts of that officer after his appointment as the head of the Inspector general's department was to recommend to Mr. Root the recognition and reward of Institutions where the mili tary departments were conducted In ac cordance with the War department's re quirements. Mr. Root approved the Idea at 'once and laid the suggestion before the president, whJ authorised that the honor graduate from each of the six leading col leges should be regarded each year as eligi ble to examination for appointment as sec ond lleutennnt In the army. This is the first year the system his gone into effect and 'it Is destined to have practical and beneficing results. The reports received at the War depart ment show that army desertions, continue at least, if they are not on the Increase. There are the usual theories advanced to explain the causes which lead to this il legal separation of the enlisted man from his military occupation. It Is believed that desertions are mora frequent at the posts where large numbers of recruits are received at one time. This fact will prob ably sustain the theory that newly enlisted men discover that army life Is not what they Imagined It would be and probably they are of the class of men who would be discontented with any sort of work which requires them to live up to rules and regulations. Men who go Into the army with the expectation that they are going to loaf and be cared for during their enlistment are destined to disappointment and they take the quickest means of rid ding themselves of responsibility and labor. It Is also found that the largest percentage of desertions Is at those posts where there are neighboring opportunities of dissipation, which fact Is an additional argument, of course, in favor of the re-establishment of the army canteen. Pretty much every-, thing leads back to the virtue and neces sity of that system which operates so suc cessfully toward:) keeping the soldier at home and contributes to his contentment with the life within the garrison limits. General F. C. Baldwin. rnrrrninn.llTii th Department of the Colorado, has Instituted a system or instruction which will be of the highest value to the enlisted men In his command. Perhaps this Is the first serious and systematlo effort made to familiarize soldiers with the means of cooking field rations. Soldiers do not lack for oiordu In the manual of arms, but few of them have been instructed in Individual cook ing and in the method of preparing ra tio is in the field. General Baldwin is noita right when he anticipates that a careful training ana an adequate knowledge in that 'direction will sxeatlv reduce nirim,.. In campaigning;. It Is of If the soldier Is to maintain his efficiency I on me nnng line, that he shall know how to prepare food which Is furnlnho.i him i sufficient quantity and of good quality. Uncommon Interest will attach tn th velopments In the "campaign" of an army cnapiain who Is actively engaged In ob taining for himself advancement to the grade of major, under the provision of the law enacted during the late session of congress prescribing certain qualifications which shall govern promotion In ihni branch of the service. In this particular Instance the officer has been found without the necessary requirements, save that of length of service, of course, but he Is un daunted at the estimate placed upon his record by the military authorities and is putting political, personal and relitrlnim in. fluences into operation in his own behalf. Among other methods adopted Is that nt obtaining letters from those Dromlnenilv and otherwise connected with his church and having the authors of this commenda tion of him send the productions they are likely to do the most good. This, of course, is a mistake from whn rDv, standpoint the Incident may be viewed, but 11 wouia be a greater mistake If such means of obtaining undeserved promotion availed anything. We imagine that the effort will be futile, unless, of course, the War department Is willing to open itself to the suspicion of doing- what Is known to be without warrant because the Influ ence is great enough to make virtuous con. slderatlons a secondary matter. The de partment has Interpreted the law with some severity In Its restrlctlvs operation and perhaps there are chaplains who are entitled to advancement to the grade of major who are lacking only In the con temporaneous documenturv evidence nf their merit; but it is not possible the department will go to the other extremity and let down the burs to such a notoriously flagrant exception. PERSONAL NOTKS. II. H. Vreeland. president of the Vew York Street Railway company, never uses a free pass on his line, but Invariably pays his rare. General Wood Is now teachlna- the sol diers In the Philippines to swim. The general, It will be remembered. Is a ni-Attv successful floater himself. . Isaac W. Barnum. Inventor of the hnni. mlnST attachment for aewlns- machine,. and one of the most picturesque characters In Brooklyn, has Just died. As a good many bald headed men use tn. bacco, a medical authority has declared that tobacco causes baldness. Does It make the mustache grow, too? Miss Justine Ingersoll burled her pet monkey at New Haven, Conn., and placed over It a monument with an Inscription stating that man has no superior over the beast. A man who was boring for oil In Kunsas struck a thick vein of rock salt. The salt Is worth more-than the oil, but the man Is disappointed because he cannot start a $1,000,000 company on It so readily. As a result of the visit of several Ger man educators to Chicago lust March, when they were the guests of the fnl versify of Chicago, Kmperor William has conferred decorations on Dr. W. R. Harper, Prof. Harry Pratt Judaon and Prof. Starr W. Cutting of the university. Tom Tuggart, chairman of the demo cratic national committee. Is 4ft years old and a hotel keeper. He Is stout, has u merry chuckle and smokes incessantly. They say he cun size up a guest with pre cision and seldom makes a mistake In lo cating him in a room. He hrunn politics running for a trusteeship In iiilun county and has been mayor of Indianapolis three times. Politicians say he sets a good table and has always been accommodating with the boys who might wish to while away a damp day lu au Innocent game. Front! STATF, rilKM OPIMO. Kearney Hub: It Is a new wrinkle In American politics for a rsrty to ssk the voters to aupport a Western I'nlnn tele gram. Fremont Tribune: Kvery state In the union should adopt the Mlssiunl platform against boodlers, whether It Is afflicted with them or not. Pender Times: Last Sunday's Bee In sn editorial took exceptions to Court Commis sioner Sloan acting as attorney for Silas Wood. The Bee's Idea of propriety In this Instance Is "far-fetched." Auburn Grsnger: President Roosevelt Is not, In our estimation, the sage and phi losopher of the century, but when address ing a lot of editors he said: "What we need Is to have the exact truth told," he distanced a large number of the philoso phers of the day. Kearney Journal: How can any populist have faith In W. J. Bryan? For eight years they were loyal to him, heralded him as the greatest leader on earth. Hut how has he returned that loyalty? Why, by supporting men and measures which are directly opposed to everything they men advocated. Wood River 8unbenm: No small amount of dissatisfaction has been caused by the change of time of the mail trains on this portion of the fnlon Pacific. From all along the lino complaints are being heard. The farmer who lives on the rural route now gets his dally paper a day late, while the people living in town now receive their morning mail a half hour later than for merly. The biggest kick Is being heard from the people living on the Kearney At Black Hills railroad. It Is very likely that there will be a change of some sort In the Service before long. Central City Democrat: Speaking of the Rosebud stampede, a friend said to me the other day, "If I had a tract of land So poor that I couldn't raise a disturbance on It, and all attempts to give It away proved unavailing, I would try to get the govern ment to quarter some Indians on It for a few years and then have It thrown open for settlement." While not wishing to Inti mate that the reservation Is entirely worth less, yet I believe that the tame spirit that leads a cow, while standing knee deep In grass, to reach through the fence and eat ragweed, has animated many who have registered. Weeping Water Herald: When a strike is on among union men, about the first thing the managers of the concern affected do is to employ a lot of nonunion men, and If possible, ship In workmen from anywhere and everywhere to tnke the place of the strikers. This is all right if the employers see fit to refuse the demands of the strikers or unionists. But the great Injustice Is done when In a few days, a settlement Is effected and the nonunion men who have helped the concern out of their trouble are told that their services are not logger wanted and the strikers must be re Instated. A nonunion workman should have the foresight when engaging his services to such a company, to have a contract binding enough to compel them to retain him, If he proves worthy, no matter what may be the outcome of the strike. York Republican: It would be Just as reasonable to enact, an antl-strlke law as to enact an anti-boycott law. It would be Just as reasonable to enact a law prohibiting men from work ing as to enact a law compelling them to work. 8uch matters must eventually ajust themselves outside of court, no matter how much legislatures may tinker with them. Let the laws already enacted be enforced and there will be little trouble arise from labor strikes. Come down with the Iron hand of federal authority on all men and organizations who by violence prevent other men from taking up the work-tools thrown down by, striking workmen and there will be no need of labor legislation. When an organization, no matter how peaceful In Its Inception It may be, as sumes the functions of a mob, treat It as a mob, and there will be fewer mobs. There can be no right under the constitu tion, to attempt to enforce you or me to trade with any business man against our Inclination. There can be no right to pre vent you or me from Influencing our friends, If we can, to keep them from do ing business with any man or company of men. The law can make men keep the peace, refrain from violence, and respect the rights of others. It can do no more. Speech Is free In America, and any citizen has a right to employ his Influence cither for or against any business concern. And the law which shall attempt to restrain hhn can succeed only in bringing Itself and its authors Into contempt. TKXDEXCY OF OCCUPATIONS. Commercial and Industrial Pnranlta Have the Call. St. Paul Pioneer Press. That wo have become In the last twenty years a commercial and Industrial people and have ceased to be a people with whom agriculture Is the predominant industry is indicated by the census report on occupa tions, recently published. The following table shows the proportion of all those In gainful pursuits who were engaged In the five principal classes of occupation la 1S80 and in 1900: 18S0. 1900. Agricultural pursuits . .4n.k9 36 7 9.50 Professional 3.46 4.30 x .M Domestic arid personal.. 00 19.20 .So Trade and transporta tion 10.08 16.30 x6. Manufacturing and me chanical 21.17 24.41 X3.21 100.00 100.00 It will be seen that tn 1880, while 45 per cent of those employed were engaged In agriculture, only SI per cent were engaged In trade and transportation, manufacturing and mechanical pursuits, but that In 11)00 less than 30 per cent wer engaged in agriculture while almost 41 per cent were engaged In manufacturing and commerce. This does not. of course, iudlcutc the ex tinction of agriculture. It merely Indicates a change la Its relative Importance. The number of persons actually engaged In agriculture Increased between 1880 and 1900 from 7,714,000 to 10,382,00 and the number Is likely to Increase fur many years, espe cially If our vast Irrigable domain Is thrown open to settlement and Is settled by bona flilo homcseekers. With the growth In the commercial and Industrial popula tion there is bound to be a growth in the number of those engaged In the business of growing their food supply. In a country auch as this, with Us broad areas of fer tile land unavailable for Industry and with ItH vast resources of the raw material of Industry and of manufacturing power, agri culture Is bound to demand the services of more and more men. To make this clear It Is sufficient to say that In 1880 there were engaged In commerce and the me chanical industries ii.ioO.CxX) persons, who were fed by the labors of 7,714,000 agricul turists, while in 1W0 there were engaged In commerce and the mechanical Industries 11.8i2,0(O persona, who were fed by the labors of 10.3s:;, 000 persons. While It Is atill true that agriculture Is, and for many years is likely to remain, the foundation Industry on which rests the prosperity of the whole country, auch a change In the dlxtiibutlon of occupations aa that which haa occurred since .1X) la of great social and political as well as of economic significance. It Is reflected In the growth of cities. In the rise of problems of municipal government now undergoing Investigation und solution and In ttie fer ment of labor and capital. It hus bad and Is likely to have political effects of far reaching Importance affecting our In ternal policies and our foreign relations. IT IS A MATTLR OF HEALTH 111! . Absolutely: Puro THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE WITH THE OPPOSITION PRESS. York Democrat: We hope our republican frlenila will not get too gay over their political prospects. They must remember It Is a case of dog eat dog and It Is no sure thing as to which dog wl)l get to eat. Albion Argus: A dishonest man on a dishonest platform was Bryan's estimate of Farker and the democratic platform. And now the Columbus Telegram says: "Stay by the party, boys!" Some of thej days Tibbies will any something about an other school of "mullet heads" who aay. "Yep, that's so." Central City Democrat; Aside from the moral principle involved, I view the turn affairs have taken with a deep, calm and peaceful Joy. It now seems probable that the big slush fund will go to Parker In stead of Roosevelt this year, and the wry faces that the republicans are making1 over the dose Is balm to my bruised and broken heart. David City Press: Republicans are mak ing the same kind of a fight now for Presi dent Roosevelt that democrats made for Mr. Bryan eight years ago, but many of them do not sufficiently appreciate the sense of decency well enough to admit It. They have sneered at Bryan so long that force cf habit Impels them to keep It up. With no real opposition In the west, re publicans are becoming disgusted with each other. The spellbinder, who haa hereto fore cuddled up to a campaign fund Ukn a kitten to a warm fryingpan Is out of a Job. They need no campaign fund In Ne braska and won't need the spellbinder'! services, and that makes him awful tired. David City Press: The note of bitter ness running through the editorials of bucIi sheets as the New York World, Sun and so on, results from the fact that they promised the south and middle west suc cess. They believed they could kill oft what they have always called insane dem ocracy. They did not succeed. They have not a bright prospect to elect their man. Failure means more than ordinary failure to those eastern fellows. New York, has dominated the choice with almost unanl. mous regularity since 1833. In 1892 ths politicians lost their grip. It was the same in 1896 and 1900. To fail this time put! the party back Into anti-monopoly con trol, at a time when something may hap pen. This country is getting too big for some little ring of selfish politicians In New York. Judge Parker is hostile to every proposition in the democratic plat form. pointed pleasantries. Glffle Yes, Snlffklns is what I call a Japanese drinker. , B pinks A Japanese drinker? What do you mean by that? OlfHe Oh ha tulr.. mA.V.Inn. day. Pittsburg Dispatch. Farmer Jason Did yer hear as how Josh Medders is suln" his wife fer divorce? Farmer Husklnby Gosh, noi What grounds has he got? Farmer Jason Cruelty. She insisted on his eatin th' same kind o" grub she give th' summer bourders! Record-Herald "Some of the necessities of life are ex orbitantly high these days." .i"Ye8'.. 1 wlah they'd raise the prices still higher." "What?" "Yes: I Wish thev'ri t hfcrh A....V. r. fTV8 mv, so, i'd lul1 needing them." Phlladelphla Ledger. Patience She's getting a divorce. Patrice Is that a fact? "It In. t n il ,.., 1 Km, 1 1 , ' I, 1 1 . CTe .. o i a ee- 'How do you know?" "Thn o-l r ! u D t t . t. i , , . . so today." Yonkers Statesman. Rrlro-fl Cantl.lnn ... .... j i . . , , . . '? ' - .... " ' U'lv ill 1 v 1 11(5 win the ldow Grasper the other day when the horse ran away with him, and he's laid up In the hospital. .iar,K,g7, Wei'- 11 n''Kht have been worse- Detroit Free Press. PLAIN OK THE THERMOMETER. J. W. Foley In New York Time. I'm only a thermometer a little tube of , Hvl Stuck up here where the busy folk may sen rrirt n thAv I'm like an individual'; sometimes my spirits lark, And sometimes they are In the dumps. down at the zero mark. Mine is a thank Ichk task at best, for when the sunbeams sizs Folks look at me and swear because I tell how hot It Is; And when I'm down at ten below, they look nt me and scold As If I were to blame because the weather Is so cold. Now, It's the sun that makes the heat, as you can plulnly nee, But thoughtless folks take keen delight In blaming It on me: They seem to think I regulate the world of heat and cold. When, 'tis a faet, 1 simply do exactly aa I'm told. The Iceman comes and glares at me when I am down too low. The coal man fumes and fusses If I'm not sixteen below; Nobody Heems to understand my mission, which, forson'h. Is Just to ilo my duly and to tell the hon est truth. Some day I'll lose my patience, If folks swtar at me this way And run way down to freezing on a boil ing summer day; Then they will come and look at me with drawn and bated breatn, 1 Put up their hats and dusters and He down . and freeze to death. t Or, In the chill midwinter, I'll go up to fever heal, Till people fall of sunstroke In the middle . of the street ; You'd better treat me fairly If you would be weather-wise, ' Or I'll upset all the seasons Just by telling weather llesj KeepC f. i ' FJoetrle fans give rou a coiiHtunt cool breeze a steady sup ply of fresh air In the office, storo or lionic. "' "'s" Kan au, ..-. wrK ran , $10 ftrofan, doable ISt-la i;if Kmrr.on Olllug rs,.JU, fan House Wiring and Klectrlo Light itcpulrlng. 70lfe-L0Vfitt ElMtrivil Ca - m " itiwtir.