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TITE OMATIA DAILY REE: TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1903.
Tiie Omaha Daily Bee
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
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C. C. Rose water, secretary of The Bee
t'uh'ishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of April, IMS, was as follows:
l at. oho n en.ooo
2 81,Or0 17 88,3(10
I 8M.180 It 8ei,370
4 2H.1BO It 87,060
1 8H.10O 20 ZH.100
t 8K,10l 21 28,8(50
1 2t.t80 22 80,1 HO
t 80,820 23 81.TTO
t ao.HBO 24 28,000
10 ST.070 26 8,OBO
II 28,170 26 8H.OBO
12 28.400 27 2K.160
II 814,160 28 88,300
14 8o,ooo 2t ao.ioo
li 80,800 0 88,100
Total BH,4!M
Less unsold copies t),783
Net total salea 8T,3T
Daily average 80,381
C. C. ROSEWATF.R,
Secretary.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before mo this 1st day of May. 1906.
(Seal; M. B. HUNUATE.
Notary Public.
The owners of private enr lines seem
to be the latest champions of the "closed
shot' Idea.
That municipal asphalt paving plant
will have to work overtime to catch up
wheu It once gets into action.
Ibsen declares he cannot find pleasure
in children, and no one doubts full reci
procity of sentiment on the part of the
little ones.
If all the states make live pigeon
shooting a crime, contraband birds may
have to sail under another name ou the
menu cards.
After taking possession of that Mexi
can land It will devolve upon "Elijah"
, Dowle to prove his title by making the
rain come on demand.
Japanese laborers have gone on a
strike in Hawaii and troops have been
called out The "boycott" at South
Omaha may now be raised.
If all of the rumored cabinet changes
take place this year President Roosevelt
will have no excuse for not securing an
official family fully In sympathy with bis
Ideas of the "square deal."
' Kussla Is again showing signs of awak
ening and appears to begin to realize
that something more than Cossack bru
tality is necessary to win battles In the
present day.
Mr. Her Is now ambitious to make
the elevators in his projected hotel
mount up twelve stories, but Omaha
will be content with elevators stopping
at the tenth.
Now that a Japanese statesman has
expressed himself as to the terms of
peace to be insisted upon by that country
Itussia may obtain a fair idea of why the
car is continuing the war.
President Khea of the Teamsters' union
has demonstrated that the trouble at Chi
cago 1 not continued by the "leaders."
The leaders were ready to quit, but the
members voted them down.
South, Omaha's tax commissioner Is
said to be talking about a $20,000,000
valuation for the 1905 city assessment
This talk bag been beard before. Ac
tions speak louder than words.
Omaha built Its Auditorium with a
purpose to provide a hall In which to
entertalu great conventions of big na
tional organizations. The thing now Js
to capture a few of the conventions.
By the time South Omaha has plas
tered Itself over with mortgages for the
special benefit of grafters and real es
tate speculators, it will be ready to yield
to the Inevitable merger with Greater
Onittha.
Since the passage of the bill for the
ale of the Philadelphia gas franchise
there Is not so high an opinion of the
power of the press In that city. All of
the newspapers opposed the deal or
steal as they termed it.
The decision of the Presbyterian
church of the northern states to permit
separate presbyteries for negroes may be
the first real step to a consolidation of
the northern and southern branches, but
Governor Vardaman may be permitted
to display a smile.
The people who expressed pleasure
when they believed lubor for the Panama
canal would he purchased in the cheap
est market do not approve the idea of
buylug supplies according to the same
rule. It may be that congress ran be
prevailed upon to satisfy the champions
of both American labor and American
manufacture, but In this case another
stliuate of expenM may be necessary.
the pa sa ma roLcr.
It appears from statements which
may be accepted as authentic that the
tirst reports regarding the policy to be
pursued in iMirchiiMing iiuiu-rlul and
supplies for the Isthmian ciiuiil were
not altogether accurate. It fc now
stated that no foreign-built ships will
be purchased nt present for uxe. iu con
nection with the work on the canal, but
such ships limy be chartered if Amer
ican vessels of the required capacity
cannot be secured. It is further an
nounced that no materials for the canal
construction will bo bought in foreign
couutrles beyond such as may be re
quired for Immediate use. It Is ex
plained that it never was the Intention
of the administration to go into the
markets of the world for canal materials
unless there wus a tendency ou the
part of home manufacturers to combine
to force the prices of supplies to ex
orbitant figures.
A Washington report to the Philadel
phia Ledger quotes un oiticial as saying
that the intimations recently given out
by Secretary Tnft, with the full an
proval of the president, were admoni
tory rather than declaratory, being in
tended to admonish American material
men that all supplies wanted by the
government in constructing the isthmian
canal must be furnished at the prevail
ing market price, otherwise recourse will
be had to foreign markets. It was not
intended to declare that the policy will
be to seek foreign markets in quest of
cheap material, but that foreign mar
kets will be resorted to rather than sub
mit to unjust combinations made to com
pel the payment of exorbitant prices.
This gives the matter a quite different
aspect, and, if a correct statement of the
Intention of the administration, will be
entirely satisfactory to tne country. It
was not conceivable that the president
and secretary of war would favor any
discrimination sgulust American manu
facturers, being as friendly as any of
our citizens to home Industries, but it
is plainly their duty also to see that the
government is protected against com
binations to force up prices. Tills the
policy announced will undoubtedly ac
complish. Indeed it is said that already
the president has received assurances
from the Steel trust and other combines
that they have no Intention of holding
up the government.
Of course there was no foundation
for the report that the president or sec
retary of war would take advantage of
the fact that congress had failed to leg
islate on' this subject to load up with
supplies between now and the meeting
of congress, which it is expected will
be in October. On the contrary the
commission will merely make pure-hoses
as needed and the probability is that
most of these will be made in this coun
try. The understanding Is that the
president believes congress should pass
a law explicitly denning the conditions
upon which contracts should bo placed
and whether they should be restricted
to the American market or whether for
eigners should be given an opportunity
in certain contingencies to compete.
Speaker Cannon is said to favor the
passage of a law which shall specifically
limit purchases to the American mar
ket. The question Is manifestly of such
great importance as to require action
by congress and it will undoubtedly
have prominence in the attention of that
body early in its opening session.
THE CHIC J GO STRIKE.
There appeors to be no prospect of an
early ending of the Chicago strike,
though efforts to bring about peace are
still being made. A few days ago it
seemed that a conclusion of the conflict
was near, but the refusal of the express
companies to restore striking drivers
changed the situation and yesterday it
became more serious than ever, so fur as
the number or men involved is con
cerned. There has been less manifesta
tion of the spirit of violence for a week
past, a result in some degree due, It is
not to be doubted, to what President
Roosevelt said to the labor leaders In
deprecation of that spirit and the cer
tainty that it would not be permitted to
triumph, but the determination of the
strikers appears, to be as firm as ever,
while there is no indication of any abate
ment of purpose on the part of the em
ployers to fight It out.
Under such circumstances, with neither
side disposed to make any material con
cession or enter Into any oorrmrnniis.
the plea for peace by those who deplore
the wasteful and dangerous conflict ex
erts little influence and efforts in that
direction are necessarily futile. Of
course the issue will be settled sooner or
later, but before this Is accomplished
there mny be recurrence of violence and
loss of life, necessitating the services of
a military force to restore and preserve
order. In the meantime every Industrial
and commercial Interest of Chicago Is
suffering loss, to the detriment of all
classes of labor, and the vast business of
that great city is thrown Into demoraliza
tion at a time when it should be most
active and prosperous. There ought to
be a way found to settle the controversy
on a Just and equitable basis and put an
end to the most unfortunate and disas
trous situation, every day of the exist
ence of which is pregnant with danger
ous possibilities.
A 1XDCSTMAL PAHUAMKXT
What is termed the Southern Indus
trial Parliament will meet In Washing
ton city today and be in session three
days. The purpose of the parliament is
10 consider industrial conditions in the
southern states and discuss methods for
their advancement and for the more
rapid development of that section com
mercially and industrially. A large at
tendance of manufacturers, planters,
merchants, bankers and others from the
south is assured aud the deliberations of
the body will be of national interest,
since fhe entire country Is concerned In
the material progress and prosperity of
the south.
That sect Inn has made a notable ad
vance within the last quarter vt a cen
tury. There has been a large growth in
manufacturing and commerce and n
great Increase in wealth. But the men
of nffoirs there appear to have leconie
convinced that something more needs to
le done to further promote the material
welfare of the southern states and they
will tell at the parliament what they
deem to Is1 essential for the accomplish
ment of this. Addresses will be deliv
ered by the secretaries of ugrlctiltur
and of commerce and labor, the staple in
dustries of the south will receive atten
tion, and not the least important matter
to be discussed Is immigration. The
southern producing and manufacturing
Interests have become thoroughly
aroused to the necessity of securing more
white hilwr and efforts are being made
to induce Italian Immigrants especially
to go to that section. Therefore this sub
ject will command perhaps greater inter
est In the parliament, since it is second
to none in Importance to the industrial
future of the south. The movement
which this assemblage of practical south
ern men, earnestly and patriotically de
voted to the advancement of their sec
tion, is intended to inaugurate cannot
fall to have good results.
i'STE-V) THE PIPE USE TO OMAHA.
The announcement Is made by the
Standard Oil company that within ten
days its system of pipe lines from the
Kansas oil fields will extend across one
half of the continent to its Atlantic sea
board outlet in New Jersey. It Is also
announced thut the pipe lines of the
Standard Oil company from the Kansas
oil fields will be completed to Kansas
City during the present week.
Natural gas has been piped to Kansas
City for manufacturing and illuminating
purposes for several mouths past and
the city on the Kaw is in position to
compete with rittsburg, Cleveland and
other Industrial centers that have been
built up within the past quarter of n
century by the almost unlimited supply
of cheap fuel and cheap lllumlnants.
While there is no doubt that Omaha
will, In the no distant future, be able
to secure pipe line connection with the
Wyoming oil fields, there is every in
centive to the Standard Oil company and
even local capitalists for the construc
tion of a pipe line direct between Omohu
and the Kansas natural gas and petro
leum fields. The distance between
Omaha and the Kansas oil fields is not
very much greater than the distance
from the oil fields to Kansas City, but
even if there were insurmountable ob
stacles to the construction of a pipe line
between Omaha and the Kansas oil
fields, there certainly would be no such
obstacles encountered In the laying of a
pipe line from Kansas City to Omaha.
The distance between Omaha and
Kansas City by rail is 200 miles or
therealwuts, and the capital required for
the construction of such a line would
not be half as large as the estimated
cost of the Platte river power canal.
A pipe line from Omaha to Kansas City
would not, however, block or antagonize
the construction of the Platte river or
Loup river canal projects. On the con
trary, it would tend toward its promo
tion. The pipe line from the petroleum
and natural gas fields would stimu
late the manufacturing Industries In
Omaha and the creation of a larger de
mand for cheap power would in turn
stimulate capitalists to investing In the
power canal.
In any event, a pipe line into the
Kansas oil fields is feasible and almost
imperative for Omaha's Industrial expansion.
In the first round between the rail
roads and the stoto of Michigan, the
state of Michigan has come out first
best. Two years ago the Michigan leg
Ishiture enacted n law whereby the as
sessment of railroads was changed from
a percentage on gross earnings to an ad
vnlorem tux, namely, a tax on the actual
value of the property, based on capital
ization. This change doubled the in
come of the state from railroad taxation
and the twenty-three railway corpora
tions affected by the law invoked the
power of the federal courts and secured
a temporary injunction restraining the
state from collecting the taxes levied.
Last Saturday Judge Wanty of the
I'nlted States circuit court dismissed the
bill of complaint filed by the railroad
corporations, thus affirming the right of
the state to levy the taxes, which for
the year 1004 exceed $4,000,000. While
it Is predicted that an appeal will be
taken to the I'nlted States supreme
court, the attorney general of Michigan
evidently expects the decision of the
circuit court to be affirmed. That the
final decision in the Michigan tax case
will have a direct bearing upon the Ne
braska railroad tax case will be con
ceded. The principle Involved is identical.
The difference letweeu the credit of a
city of llo.OOO and u city of 23,000 popu
lation is strikingly shown in recent sales
of Omaha bonds and of South Omaha
bonds. Although Omaha has an aggre
gate bonded debt of nearly $o,0i0,000 a
block of twenty-year 4 per cent refund
ing bonds amounting to $loo,(K) was
dlsimsed of at a premium of nearly
$i!,0io, while a block of $70,000 of South
Omaha city hall bonds, bearing 5 xr
cent interest, brought only $000 pre
mium. In other words, at the end of
twenty years Omaha will have paid
$74,000 interest on $100,000 of Ixinds, de
ducting the premium, while South
Omaha would have paid $0S,7r0 on a
$100,000 5 per cent loan, deducting bonus.
In round figures, Omaha can borrow
fNsi.WK) for twenty years at $23.2oO less
than South Omaha rui a 5 per cent loan,
with its present credit.
The world Is watching America's bat
tle with the "yellow peril" on the Isth
mus of Panama, and our "white man's
burden" may resolve Itself Into the prob
lem of making the natives of the tropics
keep clean.
Of course the World-II era Id Is not
chanjploclug the- A Igor blackmailers. It
says so itself. It would open Its col
umns Just as wide to any other bunch
of common criminals, provided only they
Mere attacking some one by the name
of Rosewatcr.
From the noise raised over the alleged
theft of $!H,000 In Jewels in New York It
would appear that money Is the only
thing which can be stolen without com
ment in Gotham and that to be really
safe the deed should be committed on
Wall street.
One necessary factor in the upbuild
ing of Omaha Is thorough advertising,
and the way to get the city thoroughly
advertised Is to support the local news
papers that are day in and day out call
ing nttentlou to Omaha's superior ad
vantages for homeseekers and investors.
More than 300 Nebraska lumber deal
ers will start shortly on a Junketing
tour to the red shingle region. A low
estiinote of their transportation and re
freshment expenses would be $100 per
man. or $;),000 in the aggregate, but
Jones will have to pay the hoo-hoo.
The main object of the charter pro
vision requiring Omaha to be redis
tricted into twelve wards was not
merely to Increase the number of coun-
cllmen, but also to safeguard the inter
ests of the city against Jobbery by pos
sible council combines.
Heading; Off Deficits.
Washington Post.
Even the political opponents of Senator
Hemenway will have difficulty In refut
ing his assertion that one way to reduce
federal expenses Is to quit spending so
much money.
Symptoms of Progress.
Bt. Louis Republic.
China seems to be affected at last with
the mania called civilisation. It declares Us
purpose to boycott American goods. And
there can hardly be any question that re
taliation is one of the evidences of a ca
pacity to assimilate and progress.
Hie Tim to I.anah.
Baltimore American.
It Is an ancient rule that every letter
deserves a response. Therefore Secretary
Taft can afford to laugh at those members
of congress who are now criticising him
for his Panama policy, as they refused to
notice his letter requesting information on
that very point
Sislna lp the Pomps.
Philadelphia Press.
A western railroad is having the heads
of its clerks examined by a phrenologist
to determine each one's peculiar abilities.
All that a Bmart clerk has to do is to select
the Job he most desires, find out from
phrenologist data what part of his brain
corresponds to It, bump his head In that
spot and butt In.
Appallnar Waste of Fire.
New York World.
One thousand million dollars, said Presi
dent Washburn of the board of fire under
writers at its meeting In this city, is tho
country's loss by fire in six years. The loss
for 1904 surpassed . all previous records,
reaching $215,000,000, of which $90,000,000 dis
appeared In the Baltimore blaze. But that
Is not the real total of destruction. It does
not Include all lonely, uninsured farm
houses of small value burned. It does not
fully cover the losses of household goods
In general less adequately insured than
buildings. It takes no note of forest fires.
the most Irreparable of all calamities. The
figures might almost be doubled without
exaggeration. The true annual Are tax of
the nation Is doubtless $25 per family. No
other civilized nation knows such an ap
palling waste.
Where I-awmaklnar Falls.
Leavenworth Times.
As one result of Folk's campaign In
Missouri the papers published at Leaven
worth, In the prohibition state of Kansas,
are demanding that Joints of that place bu
closed on Sunday. Omaha Bee.
Xn treating the prohibitory statute the
Times does not beat about the bush. As
for the application of the law to Leaven
worth county and to thirteen other coun
ties in the state, it is Impossible and im
practical. Despite any attempt to close
the saloons In these districts. Joints or
saloons will exist and their patronage will
be such as to enoourage them to a con
tinued violation of the law. The prohibi
tory statute Is not the form of treatment
of the liquor problem that Is needed or
that suffices In this state. Iowa, another
neighbor of Nebraska, found this statute
unsatisfactory and substituted the form of
license by permission of the voters." Kan
sas needs local option and high license.
Where a community favors the open saloon
thry should have It, with power to fully
regulate It. Where they are opposed to
It they should have the constant co-opera
tion of the law to keep It out.' Saloons
will continue to exist In Leavenworth. The
Times does not favor the dramshop, but
it admits this fact. But though they will
exist, they may be closed on one day In
the week. One day In the week Is some
thing, and so the Times is urging It.
KXORMOIS HEW BOSIJ ISSUE.
Four Hundred Millions Since tho
First of Janoary.
New York Journal of Commerce.
New bond Issues since January 1 have
been enormously heavy. A careful com
pilation made by this Journal shows that
the gross amount issued since that date,
period of four and one-half months. Is
$fiffl.57.000. Of this sum about $I35,24.0'iO
was for refunding, or merger purposes,
leaving the net amount of bonds represent
ing new capital issued during that period
at the unusual sum of $S9J.654,000. Details
are not available of previous years, but the
probabilities are that the above are record-
breaking figures.
Of the gross Issues, $628,578,833, no less
than $4j)7,&Jft,000 were railroad Issues and
19ii.91!. Ci3 Industrial bonds. To explain
the magnitude of the bond Issues during
the four and one-half months of the pres
ent year It should be remarked that for
railroads alone the total was $37,000,000
larger than for the entire twelve months
ended December SI. 1904. when the Issues
aggregated 4fin.orO,flV As was said In these
columns last December, the revival of busi
ness prosperity has been taken advantage
of for floating new Issues, many of them
for refunding purposes or the taking up
of notes. A mucn larger proportion, how
ever, than might be supposed has been
for betterments and improvements. While
It Is impossible to absolutely differentiate
In each Issue the amount for refunding pur
poses and that for new work, a very close
approximation has been reached.
Although the bond market has shown re
markable absorbing powers within the past
month, there have been Indications that
the market for bonds has become tempora
rily glutted, particularly for issues not
strictly first-class Bonds which because
of the collateral behind them are a little
more than stock, and Issues made by less
well known roads for new construction,
have not found ready buyers. In some
cases bonds have been offered at too high
a rat preventing what might Otherwise
have been quick absorption.
I HIGH TIDE OF IMMIGRATION.
Over tine .Million Kipected to Land
This Tear.
One million Immigrants will he added to
the population of the United States this
year, If the calculations of the New York
Herald are verified. There Is every reason
to believe that they will be, Judging from
tho records of months, and the demands
made upon steamships for accommodations.
Steamship companies are taxed to the nt -termost
to accommodate the hoi dp of
peasants pouring Into the great European
ports scrambling for the privilege of buy
ing berths In the crowded steerage quite
ss strenuously as the native born Amer
ican woman Is wont to scramble at a Mon
day bargain counter. So great Is the de
mand for passngo that the steamship com
panies could afford to exercise the most
arbitrary process of selection and rejection,
so that the fortunate ones were of an ex
ceptionally high average intelligence, and
good health.
The high water mark of tho year s im
migration always occurs in April, suys the
Herald, and tho month Just passed has
broken its own record. In one single day
of that month there walked through the
gate at Ellis Island almost 12,000 people. To
be explicit, the precise number was ll.JKiS,
and had the barge office been able to ac
commodate all those who sought admission
that day these figures would have been
swelled to a little more than 13,000. As
it was, the overflow wure obliged to re
main on board their ships until the Immi
gration commissioner and his army of 460
assistants had disposed of a sufficient num
ber of the earlier arrivals to make room
for those left on shipboard.
Whatever may be his prejudices pro or
con regarding the wisdom of admitting
these alien hordes, It is difficult to imagine
any American citizen worthy the name
who must not feel a certain compassion,
and In that compassion a strangely new
thrill of patriotism, at the spectacle which
these picturesque peoples present ns they,
pass through the various processes pre
liminary to their admission to the country.
Russians, Hungarians. Finns. Lithuanian.
Greeks, Germans, Magyars, Italians, Turks
tney pass rrom the barges In one long,
continuous and altnaether snlnndld nrnres.
slon, which might well be taken as a model
ay any sculptor who wished to reproduce
one of those commemorative friezes with
which the ancient Greeks and Romans
ornamented the triumphal arches through
which their general passed coming home
from barbarian wars.
Every day of the week one may see for
himself the remarkable transformations
which a short residence within the pur
lieus of democratic civilization is capable
of performing upon these people. When
the immigrant lands at Ellis Island and is
shut off in the particular "pen" to which
he is assigned until such time as he shall
be properly "passed through" to the rela
tives or mends who stand as his sponsers
he is for the most part an outlandish look
ing object outlandish as no stage clown
ever was outlandish. Invariably he has
a bundle and his wife has a bundle a bun
dle done up In anything from the size of
a pocket handkerchief to a large table
cloth. If the bundle is a small one they
carry It In the hand or slung across a stick
over the shoulder; if It is a large bundle
the woman ties It across her back, leaving
her hand free to balance, perhaps, a small
paper trunk on her head with one hand,
and with the other to drag a load of
precious and archaic pots and pans to
which she has clung like grim death since
the eventful day when she left her hovel
far behind. The children, or such of them
as are not babes at the breast, follow In
line, each bearing his own little memento
of old world housekeeping a tea kettle, a
pot. a wooden spoon.
They see nothing to be ashamed of In
all this on the contrary, they are inor
dinately proud of this public parade of
their worldy possessions, and It Is hard
for them to understand the shame and mor
tification which their gaucherie causes their
loving and eager friends who have come
to welcome them. If the Americanized
friend Is a woman, especially if she be a
young woman, one may depend upon it
that her unsophisticated countrywomen has
got to be amazingly "prinked up" before
they set oft together. Not infrequently a
"lady friend" gifted with forethought will
have brought with her an entire new ward
robe all a la mode for the newcomer, and
It is a common occurrence to see one of
these ambitious kinswomen literally forcing
her dazed peasant friend to lay aside her
picturesque kirtle and bodice, her gay
headdress, her long pendant earrings be
loved treasures and don In their stead, in
such privacy, as can be secured in the
doorways of the long exit corridors, cheap
and tawdry black skirts and a white shirt
waist and a picture hat laden with flowers
and feathers.
In a few months the peasant girl becomes
habltated to wearing corsets about her
strong young waist and she blushes to
think of the sight she must have been
when she landed with a bundle on her back,
and when she In turn goes to meet some
one of her friends It Is difficult to realize
how radical has been the transformation.
Probably the most important function of
all the routine through which the poor im
migrant has to pass the most important,
that is, to him Is that which has to do
with his provender. On shipboard he hus
Invariably been more or less "off his feed,"
owing to seasickness, inferiority of food or
other cause. When he steps on to Ellis
Island a Joyous surprise Is in store for
him. Lo and behold he sits down to a
feast such as he had imagined only kings
and nobles were ever privileged to more
than smell meat and white bread and
soup and beans and potatoes and stewed
fruit and butter and coffee or tea or milk,
as he chooses. All these delectable lux
uries at one and the same sitting and all
for the ridiculously low price of 14 cents.
If it be his misfortune to be obliged to re
main over night on the Island, as ten to
one It will be, he sits 'down to a supper
hardly less surprising to his unsophisticated
notions of what constitutes luxurious liv
ing. Assorted according to the countries
whence It was drawn, the immigration for
the last two years presents the following:
1908. J904.
Italy and south Europe 230,622 1D3.294
Austria-Hungary 2.0ll 177, 1M
Russia and Finland IM.OOT 145,141
Sweden 46,028 27.73
German empire 40.(g 4i .10
Ireland 85,310 34,142
England 26.219 88 6
Norway 24 41 S8.S0S
Japan 19.W8 14.24
Greece 14.090 11.343
Portugal 9.3i7 6.715
Roumanla 9,310 7.0S7
West Indies S.170 10.191
Denmark 7.K8 8.62
Turkey In Asia 7.11 6,2.16
Scotland $.143 l.i9i
France 6.578 9.4
Netherlands 8 9M 4 914
Switzerland 8.93 5.021
Belgium S.4.V) 8.74
China 1 2"9 4 108
Spain 2, '0 8,W)
Servls. Bulgaria 1.711 1,325
Turkey In Europe i.b't 4.341
Wales 1.275 1.730
British North America LOSS 237
Australsla l.l.V) 1,4m
Central America f97 0rt
South America 59 1.067
Continent of Asia 677 t.117
Mexico S2R 1.0f
Africa 178 6SS
Philippine Islands 132 52
India 91 2l
British Hondura si 09
South Be Island 67 43
All other countries 25 90
Europe, not specified 5 113
Totals .007,044 8U,70
SE1TIMEST Oy RATE ftEGt'l.ATIOX.
Wahon New Era: President Roosevelt Is
not disappointing our confidence In him. Ha
stands pat on Insisting upon railroad regu
lation. He will still further enhance his
popularity among the masses If he will
speedily give Secretary Morton his walking
papers.
Kearney Hub: There la a class of shippers
In this country that has enjoyed special
privileges at the hands cf tho railroads.
These privileges have enabled them to drive
out competition and fortify themselves St
the expense of the public. Very naturally
they "view with alarm" a threatened
change In existing conditions and have
gloomy forebodings as to whst will happen
If the elimination of discrimination removes
these profitable privileges.
Kearney Democrat. The man who is a
heavy shlp-r Is not necessarily a heavy
freight payer. The man who actually pays
the freight is the man who raises hogs and
cattle on the farm. The cost of freight Is
taken from the price paid for his stock.
The other man who buys the bacon and
hams that are shipped hack to the con
sumer again has the cost of freight added
to his purchase. The next man who pays
the freight Is he who buys lumber for his
house, coal to burn, flour to est and sugar
and salt to use. The man who shlpa these
commodities Into the town or city to sell to
his customers does not pay a dollar or the
freight on these articles excepting so much
of them as he and his family consume. Ho
simply advances the freight on his ship
ments and the man who consumes pays
the freight. The interstate commerce com
mittee ought to talk with the actual freight
payers.
Columbus Telegram: The calling of such
men as Jansen, Hord, Miller and Gllcrest
to give testimony regarding the sentiment
of Nebraska people would be amusing,
were it not almost criminally ridiculous.
If this shall serve as a fair sample tf the
manner In which the national senate Is
probing Into railroad rate conditions, then
the result of the probing must be readily
known in advance of any action the com
mittee or the senate may take. The Tele
gram does not presume to call In question
the Integrity of the wltneses above named.
We simply call attention to the railroad
connections of each witness. Each of these
witnesses Is the every day recipient of
railroad favors. Each has a personal In
terest in winning the favoring smile of
the railroad officials. If all the witnesses
before the senate committee shall be of the
type furnished by Nebraska, then we shall
not be surprised If the senate, acting upon
the evidence, shall give the railroads a
coat of whitewash ns white as any ra.'lroad
attorney ever mixed.
Silver rCeek Sand: T. B. Hord of Cen
tral City, the largest shipper of live stock
in the country and also a large dealer In
grain, told the senate committee on inter
state commerce that the present rates on
cattle shipments were not extortional and
that the shippers wanted no change. He
let the cat out of the bag when he said:
We have the railroad ofllcers anions- us
in close touch with conditions, and we
want conditions unchanged, because we are
prospering." This -sounds well, but Mr.
Hord should have specified who are the
we. It Is absolutely true that he does
not want conditions changed, and there are
a few other big cattle shippers who com
pose the "we." but that little word does
not Include the small shippers, who do
want conditions changed. It Is Just such
fellows as Hord and his small coterie of
we that get the benefit of unfair rates.
He and his fellow conspirators are In the
same category as the Standard Oil, the
large fruit shippers, the Beef trust and
other favored monopolies or "big fellows."
They all belong to the "we's" that do not
want conditions changed.
A MATTER OF HEALTH
on
Absolutely Puro
iS HO SUBSTITUTE
EN(;EM)ERI0 si spkiox.
Partiality of the Senate Ilnte Inqnlrr
neromlna Apparent.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
There Is a suggestion of Insincerity In ti e
questions put to some Of the witnesses he
foro the senate committee on Intersta'e
commerce at tho session yesterdty. It
savors of a desire to show that those most
Interested do not demand government regu
lation of freight rates, but the demand
comes from sources entirely foreign to the
shipper.
The suspicion has been growing for some
time that the committee was not mani
festing commendable eagerness to obtain
the facts for each side of the contention
In equal proportion, but rather steered its
course toward Information that would be
of value In a campaign against government
regulation of rates. Friday, however, ques
tions were plainly put to more than one
witness that leave no doubt of the purpoxa
of the committee in the minds of those
who have followed its course from the be
ginning. These questions were of the sort
calculated to bring out what the committee
desired, and In every instance the answer
was an argument against the regulation
of rates by the government.
Whether this policy will be of conse
quence when the question appears as an
Issue in congress, from which there can be
nn t'AlcAit ran nnlv he told bv time, but
the met is rairiv wen estamisnea mat so
fas as eliciting information to assist In thi
guidance of the men who are expected t'
vestigatlon has been something of failure,
not to speak of its work as farcical.
LI.tEH TO A LAUGH.
"I am of the opinion," remarked the lal
buaruer at tne uieuaiaet laoie, "tlial pio
cevuins snouid un uonuueiicea against mis
conte. '
' vvuy so J" Inquired the landlady, glar
ingly. dt-cauan," answered the fat boarder, "It
retuaes to seme." Mllwausee benunei.
"I wouldn't have supposed that the Well
ophs, witn ail In money tuey nave, wouid
furnish their house so snabouy."
"Huh I Ine Wellophs are so rich they
can unord to buy the cheapest Kind of
furniture for their house." Chicago Tribune.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Mrs. Chadwlok s Cleveland home has been
sold at auction for $35,000.
The people of Warsaw are said to wonder
how any city can be so riotous and dis
orderly as Chicago.
James Henry Smith, the New York
millionaire, talks so little either at busi
ness or in society that he Is generally
known as "Silent Jim."
New Jersey has a law forbidding the sale
of its water to another state, but it puts
no obstacle in the way of the sale of its
applejack or Jersey lightning.
Richard Croker's handsome mansion near
Dublin will soon be ready for occupation.
It commands a magnificent view of Dublin
bay and the Hill of Howth and is quite
close to the famous Leopardstown race
course.
Dr. William Royal Stokes and Dr. John
S. Fulton, of the Maryland State Board of
Health, have, after nearly four years of
careful and painstaking Investigation, dis
covered what they believe to be acuratlve
serum for typhoid fever.
Six million pounds of adulterated foodJ
are said -to have been destroyed during tho
past year by the New York health depart
ment. But Just think of the other millions
of pounds that must have been destroyed
by hungry and uninformed humanity.
Henry Cook Boynton of Cambridge,
Mass., who has been awarded the Carnegie,
research scholarship of $500 by the Iron and
Steel institute of London, Is one of the
younger instructors In mining and metall
urgy at Harvard. He Is 30 years of ago,
a native of Plymouth and entered Harvard
tn 1R9.
T'nder the new primary law of Illinois
the first skirmish for the United States
renatorship will come off In April, 1906,
when the people will express their prefer
ence by ballot. Only two men now are
looked on as positive candidates for the
position Senator Shelby M. Cullom, the
Incumbent, and former Governor Richard
Yates. Both are actively organizing for
the tussle.
Judge One month in Jail.
Prisoner But, Judge. 1 run a summer
hotel and the season is about lo open.
Judge Eight months! PucK.
Bashful Suitor You are my sols aim in
life, Miss Margery.
Coy Maid Well, you won't make a hit
unless you get closer to the target. Puck.
"Graft is surprisingly common," said the
apprehensive citizen.
"That is where you are wrong." answered
Senator Sorghum. "A real good graft Is
getting to be one of the scarcest things In
our once proud and luxurious civilization."
Washington Star.
Jack Koln Is awfully economical.
Bess In what way 7
Jack Well, when he has the rheumatism
he doesn't get his prescription filled until
his wife gets the rheumatism, too. New
York News.
Patience Will says roses are $3 aVdozen.
Patrice That won't hurt his pocketbook
any. He only throws bouquets at himself.
Yonkers Statesman.
A SORROWFIL STORY.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
A bachelor of 40 grew tired of single life;
He looked around a little ana men an
nexed a wife.
She was of a type that's common, was very
nice and prim.
And tilled with an ambition to have things
nice for him.
And so, soon after marriage, he found his
things arranged;
From which It s very certain his mode of
life was changed.
His clot hea were put In order, he found his
slippers, too,
With greatest ease at evening when the re
past was through.
Upon his varied garments the buttons
soon appeared,
And with a frequent dusting his diverse
hats were cheered.
Oh, if I were to tell you the whole twould
take an age.
And make these simple verses Jut o'er the
seventh page!
But did the man enjoy It? Ah, no.' I
grieve to say.
He peaked and pined most plainly, was
very far from gay.
The strange, unheard-of neatness so
so wrought upon his mind
He died at 6 one evening and left It all be
hind. But ere he died he murmured to parties
standing near,
"I want this short Inscription, and want
It chiseled clear:
"He had a wife whose goodness 'twas very
hard to match.
And yet she killed her husband with neat
nessand dispatch!'"
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