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before me thla 3lat day of January. 1906.
(Seal) M. tt. HUNOATE.
Notary Public.
When doctors disagree, who shall de
cide? The legislature, of course.
Nebraska's compliments to New York,
and how do you like the weather?
ICoosevolt rnllroud regulation In now
In the air all over this country.
What would happen If that parlia
mentary committee should some day And
another fluy Fawkes in the cellar?
When they have I'clow ro tempera
ture In Oklahoma ond Texan, we do not
mind a drop of 10 telow In Nebraska.
A more systematic and less sympa
thetic, distribution of relief to the poor
of Dongas county has been a lotiR-felt
want.
The city council Is wrestling with
the problem bow to All an Impending
vacancy In its own membership before
there is a vacancy."'' '
Kansas calls upon IjiwhoIi to help It
fiKlit the 8tandanl Oil company, but so
far has not designated the miignz'ne for
which It desires him to write.
the ha e- rnnni CM
The address delivered In New York
on Monday by President lloosevelt, In
which he discussed the race proWem In
the south, was one of tlie most important
uttcranepg made by ihe chief esecullvn
and will command the enrncat atten
tion of the country. The keynote of the
address was a plea for fairness and jus
tice between the races, A policy of hon
est treatment of the Inferior by the su
perior race. He declared that the prob
lem Is that of "so dealing with the man
of one color as to secure him the riglits
that no one would, grudge him if be
were of another color." He urged that
to solve this problem it Is necessary to
educate him "to perform the duties a
failure to perform which will render
him a curse to himself and to all around
him."
The president expressed the opinion
that the north should appreciate the
difficulty of the problem and sympathize
with the embarrassment of the south In
dealing with It. He said that the atti
tude of the north toward' tlA? negro Is
"far from what it should be and there
is need that the north also should act
in good faith upon the principle of giv
ing to each man what is Justly due him,
of treating him on his worth as a man,
granting him no special favors, but de
nying him no proper opiortunlty for
lalmr ami the reward 'of labor."
President Roosevelt's dominating
thought was fair and equal justice to
all. The effort should be to secure to
each man. whatever his color, equality
of opportunity, equality of treatment he
fore the law. This statement of a fun
damental American principle absolutely
essential to the preservation of our Insti
tutions, It is to bo presumed will le ac
quiesced in by all of our people who are
not tinder the influence of a prejudice
against the colored race. Speaking not
as a party man, but as a representative
of the whole people, Mr. Roosevelt urged
that "to deny any man the fair. treat
ment granted to others no better than
he, is to commit a wrong upon him a
wrong sure to react in the long run upon
thoae guilty of such denial."
What is needed, In the view of the
president, is such an adjustment of the
relations between the white and colored
races as will not abridge or Jeopardize
the rights of either. He thought that
the working out of this problem must
necessarily be slow, but he believed that
It could be solved through the application
of the principles of elemental Justice.
The solution may be long deferred, bnt
It. is possible of attainment and alove all
else "we need for its successful solution
the sober, kindly, steadfast, unselfish
performance of duty by the average
plain citizen in his every-day dealings
with his fellows."
President Roosevelt's address was a
conservative and statesmanlike discus
sion of one of the most important and
vital questions confronting the country.
Tt will not. satisfy everybody In his own
party. It will probably not be accept
able to a majority of the f eople 6f the
south. But It will very strongly appeal
to the fair-minded and unprejudiced
opinion of the country.
will of course count in favor of the gov
ernment, though It Is by no means cer
tain that it can 1m made available to
avert the dissolution of Parliament and
a general election. Perhaps the strong
est influence In behalf of the government
la recognition of the lmtortanee of the
ministry remaining in power during the
continuance of the war In the far east,
so that Japan as Oreat Britain's ally
shall get fair treatment In the terms of
peace. The Balfour ministry can be de
petMled Umn to safeguard Japanese in
terests, having made the alliance with
the eastern power, and this a new cabi
net might not do. It is this considera
tion quite as much a any other that
gives Interest to the preseiit session of
the British Parliament.
If Representative AValmsley of Mis
souri changes his vote often enough he
may yet have the honor of first naming
the next senator 'from Missouri.
Massachusetts newspapers are protest
lug against a repeal of the natloual
bankruptcy law. tint west the fact that
therels such a law has leeii almost for
gotten. .
Europe may be ahle to palm oft spuri
ous art on America, but when It comes
, to unloading spurious Industrial securi
ties and mining stocks America can more
than play even.
Unless all signs fall the flood of legis
lation at Lincoln will reach high tide the
last of next week, when the fortieth
day of the session closes the gates
against the further introduction of bills.
That Colorado county clerk who es
caped from u constable when on the way
to secure a ballot box may have desired
only to throw the peace officer off the
scent until he found out what had been
done to the ballots.
New York democrats are speculating
as to the successor of Kavld Bennett
Hill, which would Indicate that some
New York .'. democrats have persuaded
themselves that he would leave some
thing to succeed to.
Kugfiuul expresses surprise to learn
that the president has decided not to
present the amended arbitration treaties
to the other contracting powers. This is
not the first time an American states
man has surprised England.
The dcUlon of Japanese naval officers
to Are on any collier found with Russian
warships, regardless of nationality, may
be Ihe means of spreading the tone of
war, but it la far more likely to cause
a shortage of coal In Russian bunkers.
Russian employers and employes are
to ctlect a Joint commission to settle labor
troubles, but If they do not couforin to
the' ideas of the bureaucrats it is prob
able that some ulterior political design
will be discovered In the findings which
will nullify the entire proceedings.
King Edward and President Roosevelt
should feel a degree of sympathy since
each has a lawmaking body "on his
bauds." The chief dlfferem-o la that the
king la expected to look pleasant no mat
ter what happens, while the president Is
given the privileges of expressing his
feelings.
It was to have been expected that
the railroad lobby would opitose ajl leg
lalation that tends to do away with re
bales, drawback end other methods by
which special rrHU?ges are granted to
favored shippers la exchange for no
litlcal support, but why should the legls
lature-aUew Itself to be Influenced!
THE PRIVATE PF.XSION FLOOD
The present session of congress will
surpass the record of any of its prede
cessors in the passage of private pension
bills. It Is thought that the number of
these bills will be fully 3,000 and may
perhaps exceed that number, which
would be nearly twice as many of such
acts as the previous highwater mark.
This large drain upon the national treas
ury Is a matter In which the public gen
erally has perhaps taken too little inter
est, though It has not failed to receive
some attention from the press at every
session of congress. Tills, however, has
failed to have the desired effect of check
ing the introduction of these bills.
Unquestionably some of these private
pension measures are meritorious, but it
Is a well-known fact that a considerable
number of them are uot and that if the
proper consideration were given to all
these bills many of them would be re
ected. This has repeatedly been pointed
out by members of both houses of con
gress, but apparently without making
any impression, since the flood of private
pension bills continues to grow. The
number already passed at the present
session will add very materlnlly to the
demands upon the treasury and will eon-
stltute no small part of the expected
deficit.
AS TO THE ritoruSF.D WAQQX BHIDOF.
OMAHA, Feb. 14, l!. To the Editor of
The He: A week ago It was announced
from Washington that the committee of the
senate, which has under consideration the
granting of a charter for a wagon and
street railway bridge ncroaa the Missouri
river, bad reported against the passage
of the bill on the strength of arguments
presented against It by Senator Millard.
Thla la a project In which the people of
Omaha and Council Bluffs are vitany ln
tereated, but up to this time The Bee has
said nothing editorially to Indicate whether
It la In favor or against the proposed Im
provement, we always look to The Hee
to aland up for Omaha and want to know
Just where it stands on the bridge hill.
J. R.
The Bee lias always favored every
project and every enterprise calculated
to promote the growth and welfare of
Omaha, and especially every project that
ould Improve the facilities for bringing
Onmha in closer relation to the people
of Council Bluffs and western Iowa.
Before encouraging or endorsing any
ncasure that Involves the grant of spe
cial privileges to public carriers, It must,
however, have assurance that the enter
prise Is bona fide in other words, that
its promoters are in condition to carry
It to successful completion.
It will be remembered that a charter
was granted by the last congress for
the erection of a railway and wagon
bridge across, the Missouri , between
South Omaha and Council Bluffs, adja
cent to Lake Manawa. Against the
grant of this charter The Bee made ear
nest remonstrance on the ground that
no tangible proof of ampis financial
backing had been furnished, and there
was moreover a well grounded suspi
cion that the object of the promoters
was simply to procure a charter for
speculative purposes. The sequence ha9
fully sustained those suspicious.
Whether the promoters of the proposed
charter mean business or whether they
simply want a charter to sell, either to
a "new company or to the existing com
panies, is not clear. It has been
barged by the opponents of the bill
that the Incorporators of the proposed 1
new bridge are not rated altogether as
commanding more than $.1,000 of capital.
On the other hand, it is claimed that
ample capital is ready to embark in the
enterprise as goon as the charter Is
granted, v, . f. ,
It Is a serious question whether con
gress would be Justified In granting new
bridge charters without some guaranty
that the projected improvement will le
made and completed within a reason
able time. This Is doubtless the view
that has Inspired the senate committee
la making an unfavorable report.
THE BHITISH PABLlAMF.ST.
With quite the usual ceremony and
celebration the British Parliament yes
terday eutered upon Its sixth session
during the reign of King Kdward. The
speech of the king was Iti about the
usual vein, little mure than a statement
of facts, without any special indications
of governmental Intentloua or iollcy
this ordinarily perfunctory proceeding
was varied slightly in the present In
stance by the announcement that the
Balkan situation Is a sonruetof anxiety
to the British government 'and also to
the expression of a hope for Improved
conditions In the Transvaal.
This session Is spoken of in Loudon
dispatches as perhaps the strongest of
recent years. The ministry which
started this Parliament with a majority
of 134 now has a nominal majority of
only 87. That majority, may vanish In
a moment at the will of a man who is
not a minister. It is said that if Mr.
Chamberlain should say dissolution It
will certainly come. In view of the fact
that the lender In the cause of fiscal re
form has publicly declared that dlssolu
tlou cannot come too sooiv, It Is the lm
presslon that It will come and that there
will be a general election within a few
weeks. . The government's program for
the session, tt Is remarked. Is singularly
uuexcltiug, consisting V hietiy of tin anil
Immigration bill, a rVottlsh education
bill, another workmcu's comiwiisatlon
bill and a bill to facilitate an appeal I
criminal cases. It Is not ou bllU, how
ever, but on the budget that the session
hangs. Britivb trade la said to 1 reviv
tug. so that there la le danger of
deficit than has len apprehended. Thi
ferent thing from what It was even a quar
ter of a century ago. The many new In
ventions of thla age of progress will aid
greatly In checking the present drift to
cities.
Shrewd lorea for the Poor.
Ronton Transcript.
Mr. Bryan's wish that the democrats
should help President Roosevelt seems to
be bused on his calculation that by so
doing they will help themselves more,
rather than on any suddenly developed ad
miration for the chief executive.
Washington Post.
The Standard Oil company has dis
charged WO employes In Kansaa on account
of action by the legislature adverse to the
trust's Interests. The surprising feature
is that the company Vented 1t aplte upon
Its employes Instead of discharging the
legislature.
getting; a (Jood Eiample.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Congressman Hepburn of lows thinks
there will be a bloodless revolution in this
country unless some of the captains of in
dustry go a llttlo slower. Perhaps it
would be well to have a bloodless revolu
tion here some time Jusf to set the 8outh
American repuhllra a good example.
A Senatorial Joke.
Springfield Republican.
The petition for the expulsion of Senator
riatt of New Tork from the senate, which
a Michigan manufacturer has sent In. will
be regarded ae a Joke. One can Imagine
Mr. Piatt's face cracking Into smiles, an
he reads It. Vet the petition, novel aa tt
ia, probably has a very" pertinent bearing
upon the queatlon of the senator's real
constituency. The Michigan- man prays
that Mr. Piatt be expelled because he la In
a conspiracy, as president of an express
company, to kill all bills coming before
congress looking to the establishment of a
parcels post system. Conspiracy or no con
spiracy, every one understands that Mr.
Piatt represents the express companies in
the senate.
PF.RSOfll. OTK.
The Dark Side Ptrtared.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The statistic! of crime are depressing,
yet the criminals form a very Inconsider
able portion of the population. Crimea are
a matter of record. They figure formidably,
In the census returns. The virtue of a
community is not computable. It diffi
cult to determine whether thert is more
crime relatively to population now than
there was 100 years ago. We know that
more publicity la given to crime in these
days, owing to the wonderful activity of
the newspapers and modern facilities for
gathering newa. We hear more about
crime and criminals than our forbears did.
Honesty and fidelity are expected of men
and cut little figure in the publio prints.
For this reason exaggerated importance
Is given to crime and the unthinking are
persuaded that the world is grow '-ia- worse.
HOW TIMES IIAVR CHAXGED.
Re-
Sylvester Scovllle. the newspaper man
who achieved notoriety at the surrender of
Santiago as "ih man who struck Shatter,"
died In a hospital In Havana lust Sunday.
Kraalus O. Wolcott. a policeman at
tached to the Oak street station. New
York, has amassed a fortune of over $1'0,
( In eight years, and no one thinks or
Intimates that thete Is a penny of graft
in It.
Word comes from Chicago that the mi
gration to Rrltlsh Columbia seems to have
turned about nnd to be heading now for the
southwest. Nothing surprising In that at
thla time if the weather reporta are to be
believed.
The Kenmot-e estate near Fredericks
burg. Va., at one time the home of Betty
Lewis, the sister of George Washington,
now belonging to the estate of W. Key
Howard, has been bought by Clarence R.
Howard, one of the heirs.
James Riley, a veteran waiter of Sacra
mento Cal., died the other day, leaving a
bank account of several thousand dollars.
It was Riley's boast that though he had
been a hotel ,and restaurant waiter many
years, he never accepted a tip. He used
to say that when his employer refused to
give him enough montv to keep him above
"that sort of grafting" he would go into
some other work than waiting on table.
In an address the other evening Governor
Herrlck of Ohio showed that one feature of
the cares of office haa Impressed itself
upon him fully. "Th man In public of
fice," he said, "and the editor In a news
paper office are much alike In one respect.
The critic of a newspaper Is St all times
ready to admit that he could do much bet
ter than the editor. It ia very easy for
the citizen, while not wearing the often
galling harness of respectability, to call
down hla editor or his representative In
public office, viewing, as he does, their acts
only from his own standpoint and environ
ment, not appreciating, becauae ne does
not take the time to make a study of the
situation and all that surrounds them In
their positions."
The only explanation that is made by
the supporters of the Dodge water bill
of the provision authorizing the water
board to Issue a mandate to the mayor
and council to levy n hydrant rental tax
of $100,000 a year Is that it will compel
parties who pay no water rent to con
tribute their full share toward the ex
penses of fire protection. While there
may be some semblance of Justice In
such a tax levy upon the owners of fac
tories, warehouses and dwellings that
get their water supply from artesian
wells and ordinary wells, It should also
be borne In mind that It will Impose
taxes on property owners who pay for
water and who, moreover, will be com
pelled to pay their share of $."7,000 a
year of taxes which the water company
now pays after the city shall acquire
the works. Conceding that the com
plaint alout excesalve hydrant rentals
Is Just, where will we get the relief If
the hydrant tax is to be kept up?
And now It transpires that the bills
to save the people of South Omaha from
going to the exense of a special elec
tion, or being put to the trouble of ex
pressing their wishes with regard to the
proposed Issue of $2."0,000 of sewer
bonds, is. In reality, au attempt to abro
gate a contract now in force between
the city of South Omaha and the atock
yards company, whereby the latter had
obligated Itself to pay one-half of the
cost of sewers to be hereafter con
structed. This may explain whr a bond
election is not so much desired as a
bond Issue without the aid or consent of
South Omaha taxpayers.
Modern Legal Kthlos Call for
strlctlve- Legislation.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Western newspapers are giving much at
tention to a bill which haa passed the Mis
souri house of representative providing
that any person who solicits a law suit I
against another shall be guilty of a mis
demeanor punishable by imprisonment or
line. The legislation is aimed particularly
at lawyers who solicit business and who
arc known In this portion of the country
as "ambulance chasers." The west has Its
own vernacular and characterises the Mis
sour', measure as the "anti-snltching" bill.
Those who are Interested In terminology
are Informed that Jhe western "snitching"
lawyer la the counterpart of the "shyater."
The "sultcher" has tiocomt ao obnoxious In
Missouri that it Is thought expdient to
brand him as a criminal.
The old common law of barratry, or the
bringing of unjust and "vexatious" law
suits, is a statutory . offense In all the
states, but the law la rarely enforced and
is practically a dead letter. The snitch
ing" or "shyster" lawyer who encourages
law suits trmy be technically exempt from
the penultles against barratry. Missouri
is probably the first state which haa at
tempted to reach huckstering attorneys by
special penal legislation. The modest
"shingle" beside his office door was the
only form of solicitation practiced by the
reputable lawyer of the old school of legal
ethics. Foraging for clients in person or
by authorized agent has always been re
garded as-hlghly unprofessional, but It Is
doubtful whether the "Shyster," unre
strained by ethical 'considerations, can be
reached by a penal statute.
Several very appropriate amendments
to the Indian appropriation bill have
!een made by the special committee of
the United States senate. One of these
directs the secretary of the interior to
vacate and cancel all leases for Indian
lands heretofore made wheu he is sat
isfied that they were secured by fraud
or for an Inadequate consideration. We
apprehend the secretary will have no
difficulty In discovering quite a number
of such lea ses within the territory ov
ered by the Winnebago and Omaha reservations.
tin Sore Spot Revealed.
Nw York Times.
The house of representatives has some
times sunk as low aa It did when on
Thursday It passed the president's railroad
rate bill by a vote of tX to 17, but ia has
rarely If ever sunk lower.
Haral Chances for tha Metier.
New York Tribune.
Farmers in the middle west are begin
ning to appreciate the advantages of ilio
motor car. and their orders have given an
exceedingly optimistic turn to the automo
bile market. With good roads, which will
be a necessity In every farming community
in the near future, an automobile, rural
free delivery and the telephone, farming
life in America will soon he s vastly dlf-
CHRISTIW SClKJlCE 1 NEBRASKA.
Pending; Legislative Rill (alia Forth
Severe CeaiBte,
Chicago Chronicle.
No one will conceive any higher opinion
of tho Intelligence of the Nebraska legisla
ture from the fact that It la making war
on the Christian Scientists. What it pro
poses to do Is not entirely clear, but the
dispatches say that' a bill has been re
ported from the committee of the whole
which provides that "It shall be unlawful
for any person to attempt to cure mental
or physical aliments, real or Imaginary, for
pay. without first obtaining a license to
practice the healing art from the State
Board of Health."
Thla ia called in the dispatches "a knock
out blow for Christian Scientists," probably
bees use the stste board, being composed of
regular physicians, will refuse licenses to
Christian Science haglers. That this Is the
expectation is likely from the fact that the
bill was originated and promoted by the
regular physicians, who crowded the hall
of the legislature when it was agreed upon.
The Chronicle, without meaning to In
dorse Christian Science, characterizes this
proposed action of the Nebraska legislature
aa oppressive. To require Christian Science
healers to take out licenses Is unobjectiona
ble, but to require them to obtain licenses
from people who are at swords' points with
them la aa unjust as If the caae were re
versed and the regular physicians were re
quired to obtain licenses from the Christian
Sciences.
The Nebraska solons do not appear to
have noticed that this bill will apply, If
carried to an ultimate conclusion, to Chris
tian mlniaters and to all religious teachers,
if not to school teachers and managers of
reformatories, as well as to Christian Scien
tists. There is nothing more widely be
lieved than that sin and Immorality are
diseases of the mind. tht religion la the
cure for It and that the teachers of religion
are the physicians wtio prescribe the cure.
Vnder thla bill, if it becomes a law, every
preacher in Nebraska who preaches without
a license from the state board should be
arrested.
The truth Is that many physicians prac
tice Christian Science to some extent, and
one of the foremost physicians In this city.
whose specialty Is nervous diseases, makes
his boast that he does so.
This world Is exceedingly tired of the In
tolerance of the medical profession. We
do not deny Ihe value of medical science
nor the great progress it has made In recent
times, bue we do know that It la aa
changeable sa the akles, and that with It,
as much as with any other science what
ever, "the sclents of toduy is the Ignorance
of tomorrow." A profession which has In
turns pretended to cure everything by
bleeding, by purging, by sweating, by cold
water, by hot water, by allopathy, hv
homeopathy, by eclecticism, hy antiseptics.
by sleeping out of doors and by artificial
surgery Is in no way to say to anybody:
You ate a charlatan and shall not treat
disease."
SCIEMIKIC BILLDOXINU.
Kansas Waters Agitated by an Oat
burst of Standard Oil.
Chicago Tribune.
The Standard Oil company has not for
gotten how to administer summary punish
ment to those who are audacious enough to
question its right to control the oil business
of the country. It makes no difference
whether Its would-be competitors are prl
yate individuals or state governments.
The state of Kansas has aroused the en
mity of Standard Oil. It Is to be punished.
Day before yesterday the state senate
passed a bill for the establishment of a
state oil refinery. It wiia of the opinion that
a little competition would have a salutary
effect upon the price of oil in Kansas. The
oil wells of the state produce considerable
crude oil and a state refinery would have
the advantage of having its raw material
produced near at hand. Moreover, the state
once found that the price of binding twine
was high, and went Into its manufacture
with most satisfactory results. Legislators
argued: "Why not try the same experi
ment in oil?"
The reply of the Standard Oil people to
this effrontery was swift and to the point.
It did not send its lobbyists to the senate
to persuade the members that they had
acted unwisely. It took from Its arsenal
the first weapon that came to hand. It Is
sued formal notice that instead of taking
the entire output of the state as heretofore,
the Standard Oil company will take none,
The result of this curtailment of consump
tion will be no market for an output of
25.500 barrels of oil dally. Aa there are no
independent refineries In the state, and as it
wijl not pay to ship the crude product east
by rail to the independent refineries there,
this product will have to run to waste, for
there are no adequate storage facilities, of
shut down the wells. Even if the state de
cide to -establish a refinery It will be some
time before one can be started. It Is doubt
ful If the oil producers will want to wait
that long. Many will be ruined. Perhaps
the producers will try to convince the legis
lature that the business of refining oil ia
full of pitfalls. This is where the real
fineBte of the Standard's action is evident.
It saves itself the expense of persuading
the legislators.
The Standard's method of dealing with a
presumptuous state should not be called
punishment. It la an exhibition of scien
tific bulldozing. Mr. John V. Rockefeller,
Jr., haa given expression to a beautiful
thought. He has said that "the American
Beauty rose can be produced In its splendor
and fragrance only by sacrificing the early
buds which grow up around It." State and
independent refineries must be nipped In the
bud, lest they blossom Into competitors of
that American beauty, the Standard Oil
company.
BITS OF WAHIGTO I.IFK.
Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched
the Snot.
M;tir General Corbln draws from his
observations In the Philippines certain evi
dences In support of his assertion that
the marriage of army officers In the minor
grades Is detrimental to th service. He
writes that nrt' account of the cost of main
taining a family complaints have been
filed against many officers unable to pay
their debts. In his accompanying com
ment General Corbln cites an Instance of a
captain, who, while en route to his post,
with his family, was detained by the Ill
ness of a child and for a considerable
period his extraordinary expenses by this
reason amounted to more than II day.
Another case Is that of a junior officer
whose term of duty In the Philippines
was completed, but who elected to remain
there because of the extra pay, which
would enable him to reduce his outstanding
Indebtedness, described as "the result of
sn Improper appreciation of responsibili
ties during the first years of service."
The department has decided to take no
sctlon In the case of officers who are mak
ing honest efforts to satisfy their creditors.
Senator Dolllver was born in that part
of Virginia that afterward became West
Virginia. He made a speech near his old
home In the last campstgn, and, growing
reminiscent, said, with tears in that fa
mous silver voice of his:
"How well I remember this place! This
is where I was born. Over there Is the
chestnut grove where I have gathered
many bushels of chestnuts. Why, I sup
pose when I was a boy I gathered fully
fifty bushels of chestnuts here."
"Yes," shouted a bull-chested man In the
rear, "and you have been peddling them
out ever since."
BR VAX ON ( ORRI PTIOX.
Sal
Into Indiana, bnt Strangely
Omits to Censure Kentucky.
Washington Post.
Political corruption In Indiana attracts
the special attention of Mr. Bryan, and he
flagellates and belabors It with tireless
energy. Without special reference to In
diana, but in a general way, Mr. Bryan ad
vocates an impossible amendment of the
constitution, providing for the election of
senators by direct vote of the people. This
Is one of the remedies he advocates for
corruption in politics, and he does well to
avoid special application of It to Indiana.
for that state has never had a senatorial
election that was touched by the breath
of acandal or a suspicion of corruption.
No state in the union has a better record
In thla respect than Indiana. And we
may pertinently add that few. If any,
states have surpassed the Hbosler com
monwealth in the ability and standing of
their senatorial representation. Looking
at the past, for the present senators from
that state are too well known to require
special mention, the people of Indiana re
call with pride the names of Morton, Hen
dricks. McDonald and Voorhees. and have
no reason to blush for any of their sen
ators for the past forty years. Could
election by popular vote have produced
better results? And if the state were as
thoroughly saturated with political cor
ruptlon as It Is sometimes represented to
be, would not that vile plague have tainted
senatorial elections before this time?
But there Is a state Just across the Ohio
river from Indiana with whose politics Mr
Bryan Is intimately acquainted. He knows
Kentucky like a book, but. In hla dis
courses on corruption In politics he al
ways falls to mention it. And nothing In
his publio career more emphatically vindi
cate his discretion than hla avoidance of
such a mention. For the most outrageous
and notorious example of corruption In
politics that haa been witnessed In this
country for more than a quarter of a
century was the Ooebel revolution, which
by carefully premeditated force and fraud,
overturned the government of Kentucky,
putting out the duly elected and putting
In the defeated candidates for office.
There waa not a decent democratic paper
In the flitted States that did cot 1
nounce the villainy of Ooebellam. But
Mr. Bryan endorsed It an "regular" and
made special and great efforts to pro
mote it.
This la history, and, with all due defer
ence t the msu who has been honored
with the presidential nomination of two
parties, and who. by virtue of that duplex
arrangement, polled In 1K5 l.nnp.ofjo more
votes than had ever before been cast for
any presidential candidate It Is fitting to
remind him of It while he Is leading a
crusarte ngulnst corruption in politics.
Speaker Cannon received au ardent com
munication from n woman in Oregon the
other day which has become the subject
of correspondence among presidential
candidates. This woman annouced her de
sire to carry a Roosevelt-Shaw flag to the
Lewis and Clark exposition. It would have
an inscription for Roosevelt aa president
till 190S, when Secretary Shaw should be
Indicated as the country's chlce. Mr. Can
non was evidently expected to indorse the
idea.
Instead of that he referred the communi
cation to Secretary Shaw, with the rerhark
that he had "flushed some very remark
able game." The speaker added: "I send
this to you In confidence; it would not
be pleasant for Tatt, Root and Foraker to
get wind of It."
Secretary Shaw soon replied, expressing
his appreciation of the speaker's confidence.
"But," he concluded, "If you have any
more of thla kind of game, 1 wish you
wouldn't flush it."
One man on the government pay roll
draws his salary but once In two years.
This wonderful officeholder la Congressman
Henry of Connecticut, who, when the na
tional legislature adjourns on March 4 will
receive 110,000, which sum represents his
salary for the Fifty-eighth congress. Mr.
Henry does not need the money and so
ever since the Fifty-fourth congress has
drawn his salary In lio.ooo lumps, thereby
achieving a distinction never sought, It Is
believed, by any other member. There are
men in congress, and especially In the sen-
te, to whom the 15,000 salary Is a mere
nothing, but they draw It monthly never
theless. .
Senator Money of Mississippi haa a 7-
year-old grandson who, though not averse
to a fight, sees no disgrace in being
worsted when the odds are ciiarly against
him. He came home from school not long
ago In bad shape.
'You look as though you had been in a
fight, boy," said his sapient grandfather.
"I have, sir."
"And you look as if you got the worst
of It," pursued his grandfather.
"I did, sir," admitted the bedraggled
kindergartner, "but he was a tenner and
I'm a sevener."
A few days later he waa guilty of some
offense which brought him beneath the
paternal rod of correction. He showed so
little evidence of his fighting blood during
the chastisement that his father was both
perplexed and disgusted.
'You're a great fellow," he said, "to
take a thrashing and make no resist
ance."
"What's the use," replied his crushed but
philosophical son, "when you're a thirty
threer and I'm only a sevener?"
The proposal to admit Chinese immigrants
to Hawaii, which waa agitated in Wash
ington last winter and finally reached a
stage where the friends of the scheme felt
justified In drafting a bill, haa been drawn
again to the attention of congress. The
recommendations of G. R. Carter, governor
of the territory, urging the amendmeht of
the present exclusion law so as to permit
the utilization of Chinamen as laborers In
the cane fields have caused some discussion,
Governor Carter declares that the natives
will hot work in the fields, and the Ameri
cans cannot, hence the preservation of the
sugar and rice industries is seriously threat
ened by ths prohibition of the Importation
of coolies.
When the recent blizzard struck Washing
ton some of the southern statesmen began
to drink apple toddy to keep out the cold.
One very distinguished senator drank
numerous toddles. Usually pale of face.
he became redder and redder aa the toddies
began to get In their work, and when he
went to dinner hi face was the color of a
cardinal's cap. "My dear." asked his
anxious wife aa he hove In view, "what
makes your face so red?" The distinguished
southern statesman paused to reply. He
needed an excuse and needed It badly.
Then he was hit by a happy thought. He
Fifty Yearn the SUndvud :
Uado from pure cream of
tsrfsr derived frcn grapes.
gated anlmstedly out at the swirling snoa
and said: "Why, my dear, I hive been
sitting out In the sun for sn hour or two."
Seldom has such s sartorial symphony It
color been observed In the national house oi
representatives as was presented . by Con
gressman Fred Iindls of Indiana the othel
day. A string tie of crimson hsd expansivt
bows, one of which caressed the blushing
leaves of a crimson carnation, resting se
cure in the hoosler's lapel. A mauve wslat
coat furnished a striking background, sug
gestive of the days when Shattuck of Cin
cinnati, now almost forgotten In the retire
ment of private life, flashed upon the hous
with similar, although more rotund, rai
ment. Rut as young Iindls rested philo
sophically In his chair, one foot, slightly
tilted, revealed a vision of hosiery. That,
too, was as crimson as a hsrvest moon.
One of the newly rich In Washington
hss hanging in the library of his palatial
home a water color showing tha little
farmhouse in which he was born, together
with the surrounding fields and the wood
lot. He explained to a party of friends
a night or two ago that this, farm was
the scene of a lively batt'e In the civil
war, and went on:
"There It is, aa true to life as tf it were
a photograph. It brings tears to my eyes
every time I see It. "v-hat is the old farm
house, and there are the fields where I
worked snd played when I was a boy.
Right back there on that hill i where
father, poor father, was killed."
"Did he die In battle?" asked one of ths
sympathetic frienda.
"Oh, no!" Said the newly rich; "he fell
off a load of hay."
WHITTLED TO A POINT.
"I listened to your sermon this morning,
doctor, and It was tha first time I'd heard
you preach since you were our pastor fif
teen yearn ago."
"Well, well! how things have changed
since then."
"Really er I didn't notice the chang of
a single word." Philadelphia Ledger.
g-g-got a
s-sp-spare.
Stammerly H-h-have y-you
q-coupie of hours to
T-t-tohrnnson?
Thompson Why, I don't know what do
you want?
Stammerly I'd 1-1-like a t-t-ten m-m-mlii-ute
t-talk with you. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Soma people say iunch' and soma
'luncheon' and yet both mean the same
thing." . , ,.
"I don't think so. I fancy iunch' Is mas
culine and 'luncheon' feminine." Philadel
phia Press.
Hans Andersen was telling where he got
his training for his fslry tales.
"I wrote the plausible explanations for
the fluctuations of stocks," he boasted.
After this we easily perceived the rest
was mere child's play. New York Sun.
Stlnjay See here, when are you going to
pay me back that dollar you borrowed
Borroughs Why, man alive, I earned that
dollar. I had to work with you for a couple
of hours before I got It out of you Phil
adelphia Ledger.
HERE, TOO, IK A FEW DAYS.
"William J. Lampton In New York Sun
Swear, and the town swears with you'
Don't and the crowd la mad,
For the whole town knows
In the melting snows
That the walking's p. d. bad.
Oh, for a flat in some
Vast wilderness where snow
Is kept alway
In a dry frapp
Until it Is time to go
In a summer rush
Of decent slush,
And not the kind we know.
Slush, slush, slush;
Slosh, slosh, slosh.
Out of the slush
The gutters rush;
Into the slosh
The gum golosh
Ooea with a gllckety-gluck-gsluck.
And out again with a sllmery suck.
Slippery, sloppery;
Drlppery. droppery;
Fllppery, floppery;
Skippery, hoppery
We Jump
On a lumo
Of snow In a hump
TO find that It's only a sloppv slump
A devilish, deceitful, damply dump.
And we get
Our feet wet
From the Icy Jet
That shoots up our
Well, no matter, . , ,,
We get the splatter
Just the same,
And our temper Is hot.
Though our feet are not.
Ixok at our pants, or skirts
Soaked, In the slush that squirts
Out of the beautiful, everywhere.
Thawing fast In the motty air.
Look on us; pity us, . ..
Kindly heaven:
Ijet us say: "Damn!"
And be forgiven.
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Do not undervalue the
services of a skilful phy
sician. Even the best
medicine cannot take the
place of the family doctor.
Therefore we say: Con
sult your physician freely
about your case and ask
him what he thinks about
your taking Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral for your cough.
If he says take it, then take
it. If he says do not take
it, then follow his advice.
Kade T the t. C. Art Oe., Lewell, Mass.
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