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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s.:
C. C. Roaewater, secretary of The Bee
Publishing Coaipany, being duly sworn,
ay that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month or April, iau, was a lonuwo.
1 S1.0NO
2 81,050
3 M,lKO
4 2M.1&0
t 2M.10O
2H.100
7 BH.OSO
1 80,320
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12 as, -too
13 sm,ibo
14 20,000
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Total 8S,430
Less unaold eopie 0,73
Set total sale. .
Vally average ..
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17 2H,ano
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19 27,050
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21 2S.SRO
22 30,150
2 31.7TO
24 28.0O0
26 2H.050
28 JI8.OW0
27 2H.150
28 iia.aoo
a .,..30,100
JO 32,100
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C C. ROSE WAT t'rK,
Secretary.
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WHEX OCT OF TOWS.
Subscribers leaving; the city teiu
porarlly should liave The Bee
Mailed to them. It la practically
a dally letter from home. Ad
dress will be changed aa oftea as
reqaeated.
Boost for Greater Omaha by putrouiz
lug home industry, but dou't stop merely
at that.
A pur food show is ou the future
event boards for Ownhu. Slave your I just criticism.
paper bags.---
C.IVF. THEM A t.L A SQVARK PtAL.
TIih rnllronds of Nebraska are entitled
to H square deal in the asspssim-ut of
their proierty by the State Hoard of
K.iunliziition. I nder the constitution,
all taxable property of the state la to
be appraised at Its true value regardless
of its ownernhip. This principle should
be constantly held lu view by assessors
and boards of ctunillr.ation without par
tiality or discrimination.
In the assessment of railroads the
executive officers of the state are In duty
hound to set the example for all other
Assessors and equallxation boards.' If
county assessors and county boards shall
have failed to do their sworn duty, the
state loard is empowered to raise and
equalize the taxes so that every class
of property shall bear its proportionate
share of the burdens of state govern
ment.
It is conceded on all hands that the
railroads of Nebraska have not been
assessed heretofore at their true, or even
their approximate value, based on their
capitalization and earnings, and it ia
also conceded that up to last year other
property has not been assessed In propor
tion to its true value. That fact should
not, however. Influence the action of the
state board this year.
Its plain duly Is to assess the railroads
at their true value, based on their earn
ings and murket value of their storks
and 1 winds. When it meets as a Board
of Penalization its plain duty will be to
adjust all other property to the standard
established by it for the railroads. This
is the only course left for the board, if it
desires to make an equitable distribu
tion of the tax burdens as contemplated
by the constitution and the revenue law.
As between the different railroads the
board should be absolutely impartial.
The showing mado last year that the
railroads of Nebraska, ou the most con
servatlve estimate, represent $325,000,
000, computed ou earning capacity and
capitalization, has been fully borne out
by their returns for 1904. As a matter
of fact, a very marked Increase in tqe
earnings of the railroads for 1904 over
1903 is shown by their returns. As
sessed at one-fifth of their true value,
they should by rights pay taxes on
$tiT.000,000 instead of $ 46,500,000.
With the returns made by the respec
tive railroads as to their capitalization
and earnings, with the market quota
tions of their respective stocks and bonds
equalized on the basis of highest and
lowest price during six months or even
a year before It, the board should have
no difficulty In appraising each of the
systems that are operated In Nebraska
without favor or disfavor to any. Any
other course would subject the board to
the government shall pay for the ma
terials and supplies which it shall buy
for the Panama canal. That is an es
tablished fact from which there will be
n departure. If American manufac
turers and merchants are willing to sup
ply the government with what it re
quires on fair terms they will be given
opportunity to do so; otherwise
they must expect to encouuter, perhaps
to their disadvantage, foreign competi
tion, at least until congress shall take
action on the question.
The administration Is not Intending
to strike a blow at protection. Presi
dent Hoosevelt and his advisers are not
unfriendly to American industries. They
are simply desirous and determined of
what they believe to be their duty un
der the law.
FVSTAL OFFICIALS ANV POLITICS.
The Omaha beautiful is already here. we think there will be practically tint
The Omaha more beautiful Is What We I versa I r.oniilm- H.niilesien.e in the warn-
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must all work for unceasingly. lnR against political activity which the
pohtiuuster general has given to the offi
cers and employes of his department. Ho
points out by quotations from the laws
and civil service rules regarding govern
meut employes engaging in politics just
what conditions and restrictions are iiu
posed by these enactments aud insists
that they shall be observed. "As to po
lilical activity," says the instructions of
the postmaster general, "a sharp Hue Is
drawn between those In the classified
and those in the unclassified service,
Postmasters or others holdiug uuclas
sitled positions are merely prohibited
from using their offices to control pollt
ieal movements, from nec-lectinir tholr
With all its crudeness Chicago has dmlps and from caU(ilng pubic caU(lul
by political activity. A person in the
classified service has an entire right to
vote as he pleases and to express pri
vately his opinions on all political sub-
1eets. but he should take no active rmrt
That New York trust company which . nolltleal management or in nolitical
failed was examined in December and campalgus."
Perhaps there Is still one ray of hope
for the striking Chicago teamsters.
Liebs says that their -causo Is lost.
mmm mmm mmmm mmmmma
When it comes to trade excursions,
Omaha Jobbers are past masters at -the
business and the others only novices
and imitators.
Since becoming a member of the In
terstate Commerce commission . former
Senator Cockrell has likely discovered
the point at which senatorial courtesy
ends.
demonstrated, in the Hoch trial, that It
can manage some matters better than
New York the Patterson trial, for example.
car to take plate with Impunity. The
lesson of the late tragedy ought to Insure
the public safety from a repetition of
uch a catastrophe.
Plllnsr Work on Kaalaeers.
Cleveland Leader.
Sundry electricians are enthusiastic about
the prospective use of the wireless tele
graph to prevent wrecks on railways. The
descriptions of the apparatus to be used are
Interesting, but not Illuminating to the
layman, and the thought Is suggested that
It Is possible to give locomotive engineer
so much to do that they will be not only
overworked, but so confused In the doing
as to bring about a state of mind In Itself
dangerous to safety.
THE AMERICAS POSITWX
Assuming that the .secretary of the
treasury correctly states the position of
the administration in regard to the for
eign commercial policy of the govern
ment, there is reason to believe that the
Influence of the administration will be
exerted with Uie next congress to bring
about legislation intended to meet the
tariff policies of foreign governments
that may be prejudicial to American
commercial Interests. In an address
made at Cleveland a few days ago Sec
retary Shaw clearly intimated that at
the next congress an amendment to the
tariff will be proposed providing that
whenever any country grants to the
people of any other country privileges
within its markets which are withf-
Uolden from the people of the United
States, then this country shall impose a
higher rate of duty upon all merchan
dise Imported from the couutry dis
criminating against the United States.
As we noted a few day ago, Presi
dent Roosevelt Is said to be favorable
to a policy of this kind and is expected
to recommend It in his annual message
to congress. It contemplates, the crea
tion of maximum and minimum
tariff rates, as exist in several
European countries. The proposi
tlon that this be done is by no
means new, but It has not hitherto met
with any general advocacy or encourage
ment in this country. There has taken
place in the past year or two, however,
some changes in the relations of for
eign tariffs to American trade that have
given a new complexion to the situation
which may exert n great deal of In
fluence upon the next congress. The
German tariff policy in its effect upon
American trade Is especially significant
The subject Is one that merits serious
consideration and It is interesting to
learn that the position of the adminis
tration seems to be favorable to the
Idea of a maximum and minimum tariff.
Chairman Elklns of the Interstate com
merce committee of the senate desires
the country to understand that the com
mlttee had summoned all the men whose
names had been furnished In the interest
of the proposed railroad legislation and
that the expenses and per -Clem had been
allowed all who appeared. Wonder vho
furnished or suggested the names of the
eminent Nebraskans who appeared be
fore the committee In opposition to the
proposed legislation, and how much any
or all of them together paid for trans
portation from Nebraska to Washington
for which they drew mileage.
Specious Defense of Crime.
Bnltlmore Amartcan.
The man who, urged by his "psychic
aura." committed murder In Pew jersey
has been sentenced to thirty year In
prison. He .should have been put out of
the way of mischief for life, for he not
only took a life without provocation, but
he Inaugurated another line of specious
defense of which criminals who wish to
Indulge their vicious propensities without
having to pay the penalty of the same
will be quick to avAll themselve.
fOMMMT O BI.Af KAII F.RS.
Two Flaying)- the same Game.
Chicago Chronicle.
Surprise and pain, mingled with Indigna
tion, are manifest on the Pacific coast
because China shows an unmistakable in
tention to boycott American manufactures
and food products. Tet If any other na
tion but China were Involved the boycott
would have been Imposed long ago. At the
Instance of the people on the Pacific slope
we have Imposed and maintained for years
a stringent and unexampled boycott against
Chinese Immigrants. The long suffering
heathen Chinee now proposes to retailiate.
Can we reasonably blame him?
Governor I.aFollette'a Trlnmph.
Springfield Republican.
It appears as an Interesting chapter In
Governor La. Kollette's now triumphant
railroad rate struggle in Wisconsin that,
when the railroads seem likely to force
through their substitute mrasure making
the railroad commission elective, the gov
ernor promptly gave them a Roland for
their Oliver and announced that If such
a measure were passed, he would resign
the governorship and be a candidate for
the railroad commission. Apparently that
settled the matter. La Follctte's bill was
bad enough, from their point of view, but
La Follette aa a commissioner was worse.
and the roads emulated the historic coon
and climbed down. The Wisconsin senator-
elect appears a shrewd a well as a cour
ageous tighter.
V Wry Clear ase.
Butt Gaiette.
At this distance from the scene of action
It look aa though Edward Rosewster had
run up against a very clear case of black
mail. To An Impartial Reader.
Papllllon Time.
To an Impartial reader It looks a though
the Rosewater-Algoe case Is a blackmail
ing scheme pure and simple. Tt doe look,
however, as though the venerable editor
of The Bee did fall Into a trap deftly laid
for him. He is old enough to know better.
Consummation of Many Charars.
Beatrice Sun.
Kditor Rosewater has been charged with
a great many crimes during the last thirty-
five years. He has been sued for libel,
pounded by a nigger and maltreated In
many ways, hut that Is the first time, to
our knowledge, that the foxy gentleman
has had to answer a charge of "flirtation"
with a woman.
Simply a Well .aid Trap.
Kearney Hub.
Regarding the sensation In which Edward
Rosewater and Chief of Police Donahue
of Omaha are for the moment Involved. It
Is not out of the way to note that the
srheme that was set to trap Mr. Rose,
water and exact blackmail. If so It should
appear, Is quite an old one, with which
the public la quite familiar. A great many
attempts have been made to trap and to
compromise Mr. Rosewater. and attempt
have even been made on his life, hut he
has always been and. we Imagine, will
continue to the end, to be too much for ene
mies and blackmailers.
The water works company has en
Joined the water board and the water
board proposes to fight It out If it takes
all summer, in the meantime, the city
pays the lawyers, the consumers pay for
the water Just the same, and the ap
praisement Is not yet, neither Is the end
In sight.
pronounced sound. Fatal financial dis
ease can evidently run lta course in less
than five months.
It was a Texas man who first ae
cused witnesses on behalf of the rail
roads of riding to Washington on passes
And the senate committee decided to during the present administration.
ciuse tne neariug me next uay.
It is needless to say that this ex
presses the position of the administra
tion and that the rule which applies to
employes In the postal service Is equully
applicable to those in other branches of
the public service. It Is a good rule and
will undoubtedly be strictly enforced
Nevada has reached the poiut in its
rejuvenation where sufficient funds are
leposlted In a bank to warrant the In
stitution in failing. Goldflelds may now
consider itself officially on the map.
"Birds of a feather flock together."
Blackmailing lawyers and editorial
blackmailers have a community of In
terest and a natural sympathy for men
and women who thrive by blackmail.
NOT A BLOW AT PRUTECTKJX.
The idea seems to prevail among
those who are hostile to the policy of
protection that the declared policy of
the government to buy materials for the
Panama canal abroad under certain
conditions involves an attack upon our
protective policy aud means that that
policy is altogether wrong. There Is no
ground for this notion. As already
noted, the administration does not con
template making any attack upon home
industries, but simply insists that Amer
lean manufacturers shall supply the gov
eminent with materials at a price that
clubs.
The most regrei table thing about the
redisricting of Omaha is that with the
total number of wards limited to twelve
a special ward cannot be created for U not ( n,urh ln eJC,M of the pl,'e
enrh of th n...itit,ti, .. uiai can ne secured anroau as to ie un
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rennounuie.
In other words, the position of tlM-ad
ministration is that the government
must be treated fairly in the matter of
supplies and If our manufacturers do
not propose or are not willing to do
this they must expect the government
to go abroad to get such supplies. There
Is nothing arbitrary about this. It is
simple proposition to secure the gov
ernment against auy hold upon the part
of the trusts and combines, and this will
be approved by the country
It should be understood at the same
time that President Hoosevelt and Se
retary Taft are not antagonizing and do
not nronose to antagonize the orotnctlt-A
The senate committee ou Interstate policy. In other words thev are not di.
1-oiuu.rrc UH, eiose., ns neanugs, nut posed to place American Industries and
tne senate w prouaniy near at least a UN at the merer of foreign competl
luo world Herald insists that its
championship of the Algoe blackmailers
should not be considered dirty Jourual
Ism because It could have made It so
much dirtier. That's an excuse as is an
excuse.
Uovernor I -a rollette aud Colonel
Bryau will set on fireworks together on
the glorious Fourth as speakers at Ne
braska City. Pulling off two big shows
under one tent would lie the fitting way
of billing the attraction.
Just as soon as the new ward bounda
ries have been ordained by the city
council, candidates for councllmanlo
honors will spring up like mushrooms
at every street crossing. Fifteen hundred-dollar
a year Jobs, with plenty of
leisure, are mighty attractive.
REARISO CHILDREN lit CITIES.
Disadvantage Are Many, bat the En
vironment Are Benenclal.
Chicago Tribune.
City people talk so much about the ad
vantages of rearing children In the country
It is no wonder many country people have
concluded It must be Impossible to bring
them up properly ln the centers of popula
tion. "I get tired of hearing people ob
jurgate the city all the time." ald Bishop
Potter, referring to this subject in a recent
ermon In New York. "The life of the
country is apt to be slothful. That
of the city Is one, pre-eminently, of atreaa
and struggle, and that's the kind of lire
that will produce a strong, virile manhood."
There Is fresher, more invigorating air in
the country. The sunshine does not have
to struggle through fog and smoke there,
and more of It reaches the earth. Children
have plenty of room ln which to play. But
most city children get a fair quality of air
and sunshine when parents encourage them
to get outdoors. It la harder but it Is pos
sible to rear ruddy, 'healthy, vigorous chil
dren in the city as well as In the country,
as Is shown by the troop of them to be
aeen coming from school ln Chicago in the
afternoons.
Children are surrounded In cities with
many temptation. But children In the
country and In towns are not without them.
Boys learn to drink, gamble, fight and
teal at crossroads as well a in Gotham;
and they are also reared to manly strength
and honor and womanly virtue and loveli
ness in both places. More parental intelli
gence and vigilance are required to safe
guard morals as well as health In the city;
but it can be don, and generally is done.
It is a trite remark that a large majority
of the great and good men of America have
come from the farms and towns. A main
reason is that most of the men of every
kind have come from the farms and town.
Only ln recent year has a large pro
portion of the country's population begun
to live in cities. Twenty years hence the
proportion of men born and reared In them
who attain prominence ln Industrial, com
mercial, professional, and political life will
be far. greater than, It Is now. The country
will cease to be the almost exclusive
nursery of leading men It has been.
Exploited by F.nemles. '
Beatrice Sun.
The embarrassing predicament Into
which Mr. Rosewater of The Bee has been
led affords food for scandal, and Rose
water's enemies will not be slow to use It.
From all appearances It Is a clear case of
blackmail. Mr. Rosewater is rather an
old man to be charged with Indiscretions
of the character contemplated ln the case,
and while he may find It difficult to ex
plain to the satisfaction why he was there
In the room with the woman In the case,
we are charitable enough to believe that
It was more an Indiscretion than a crime
and that he was the victim of a well laid
plot.
Scheme of Deepest Dye.
Crete Vedette-Herald.
Mr. Rosewater lias been arrested by one
Algoe on a very serious charge. Mr. Rose
water, In turn, has had Algoe arrested
charging him with blackmail of the deep
est dye. Mr. Rosewater ha been charged
during the last thirty-five year with all
sorts of political crimes, but we have
failed to note where and when any charge
was ever sustained which reflected upon
his personal Integrity or his domestic life.
Few public men have as clean a moral
and social record as Edward Rosewater,
and he Is the last man on earth that
would subject himself to the lash of a
blackmailer.
I Hombi and Blackmail.
Grand Island Independent.
The hearing of the charges brought by
Kdward Rosewater of the Omaha Bee and
Chief Donahue against one Algoe, having
dropped Into a room generally occupied
by him and his wife at an Omaha hotel
when the editor and she were talking over
a matter of rental of a space ln The Bee
building, and demanded 2,0CO to prevent
him from making a scene, and the aged
Omaha editor emphatically declaring, with
many features of the case strongly ln hi
favor,' that the whole scheme had been
carefully planned and arranged ln order to
levy blackmail the hearing of the case Is
on before a crowded police court. Bombs
and blackmail
Omaha.
seem to be the vogue In
The Russian fleet Is said to he off the
Island of Luzon, but Admiral Rojest-
vensky doubtless realizes that It will be
impossible to establish a rendezvous un
der the American flag without being
discovered by the Yankee Mar correspondent.
A special investigator complains be
cause Great Britain Is being "crowded
out" of Silurian markets by the United
States and other countries. This Is the
first time Uncle Sam has been held re
sponsible for the Anglo-.Tapanese alliance.
One of the racing yachts has been
passed by an outward-lound pa'cket
steamer, which reported the fact by
wireless telegraph. Is this International
contest really au advertising scheme of
steamship and telegraph companies?
uV
That government official who
nounces "speculation as the curse of the
day" evidently believes with Russell
Sage that Investors should buy outright
and sell when the price warrants
part of the people's side of the case be
fore the committee reort Is submitted.
a the . president's message will have
precedence.
j tlon. Kvery utterance ln recent years
, of Mr. Roosevelt In regard to the tariff
has shown that he Is lu favor of pro
jection to our manufacturing Interests,
while there is no more earnest and con-
The Brooklyn Eagle Intimates that It slstent friend of that policy than Sec
will not support Leslie M. Shaw for retary Taft. It la Incredible, therefore,
president If he accepts a. complimen
tary membership in the bricklayers'
union before laying the cornerstone of
the new postofflce at Cleveland; but It
falls also to promise support in case he
refuse the "card."
that either the president or the secre
tary of war should favor any policy
that might prove Inimical to American
Industrial Interests.
Trusts and monopolies will not be
permitted to control the prices which
Touching- a Tender Point.
Washington Star.
The railway officials who foresee danger
to the public in government control of rate
are doubtles sincere. Every man feel
that there I danger ahead when his sphere
of activity 1 restricted.
price. Since the above article was written
ths parties were given a hearing In court
snd the man who tried to levy blackmail
from Mr. Rosewater lis been held to the
district court for trial on a blackmail
charge. The Telegram otter congratula
tions to the Omaha editor particularly and
to the Omaha people generally. H Is not
too much to hope that the action of the
court may have a tendency to tlrlve out
nt Omaha a few of the many profes
sional blackmailers.
Case of Misplaced Confidence.
Lincoln Ji urnal. '
If people would stop talking about It the
recent deadly episode at the Murray hotel
In Omaha will fade from public recollection
until It Is dim as a gas light tinder low
pressure. Already the edict of a vast ma
jority of the people Is that Editor Rose-
water was the victim of misplaced con
fidence; that he was trapped and betrayed
by a pair who seem to have been engaged
In securing an honest living by very doubt
ful, not to say, dangerous methods. Mrs.
Algoe. whose husband Is playing the role
of one deeply aggrieved, has testified that
Mr. Rosewater patted the back of her
chair and called her bv her first name, and
that he never made an outcry when abfl
lorked him In room 8. Naturally she
would testify In a way not to make her
husband appear In a ridiculous attitude
and to give the .Impression that Mr. Rose-
water Is still Inclined to be Just the least
bit coltish when turned out to pasture.
But Mr. Rosewater Is a man of Intelligence,
of refinement, of broad culture, and
would not be fool enough to beat his brains
out against a stone wall of his own voli
tion. He has worthy and high political
ambitions which he could not afford to
sacrifice for the sake of the trivial pleasure
of hearing the bird-like voice of a strange
woman whispering fond nothings In his
listening ear. Taking Into account all the
circumstances of the case the verdict of the
people of Nebraska can be but one thing
nd that Is. "he never."
Rather Coarse Work.
York Times.
Nobody really believes, nor even mis
trusts, that Mr. Rosewater was guilty of
any Indiscretion whatever In the Algoe
matter. Any man might be caught In
the same way and his only protection
would be his own reputation and the
coarseness of the work of the black
mailers. Even Mr. Rosewater' bitterest
enemies never accuse him of being
sporty." Almost every other charge pos
sible to be nade has been hurled at his
devoted head, but from this one he ha
been exempt. But whatever his former
reputation might have been the conduct of
his accusers Is conclusive proof of con
spiracy. The crime with which he Is
charged by the husband Is not one that
an honest man would compound for
money in any case. Neither would he
and the woman be putting their heads to
gether in the defense. If she were not
conspiring with her husband it would be
as much to her Interest as to Mr. Rose
vater's to prove her husband a black
mailer. If he Is not what kind of a woman
Is she? Some are surprised that so shrewd
a man as he should be caught in such a
way. But he was not caught. A man can
come up to you anywhere and make
charges against you. There was nothing
improper ln what Mr. Rosewater did. If
you recognlxe a lady on the street her hus
band may accuse you of Insulting her, or
he can do so if you do not recognise her.
The thing of It Is to make the charge
tick
PERSONAL MOTES.
Well Founded Rapertatlon.
Brooklyn Engle.
"The complete annihilation of Datto
Palas' band 1 expected to pacify Jolo."
We should think o. You can pacify nearly
anything by destroying It. But a Palas
wa a murderer, fanatlo and thler, tho
fewer of him in th Philippines, the
better.
A Koveltr la 'Sinashnp.
New York Tribune.
That collision made to order at Pitts
burg for the edification of the 0 dele
gate of th International Railway congress
to demonstrate the benefit of "friction
draught gear" la, o far aa the record la
known, the only collision that could be
viewed not only with satisfaction but with
hope. Still, not even when the new draught
gear la ln use on all railroad will It be po
lble for a collision wilh dynamite freight
PRIVATK ('ARM AND RAILROADS.
Rebate Abases Fostered and Con
doned by the Corporations,
Philadelphia Pres.
The private car abuse Is being gradually
laid bare by one Investigation after an
other In Chicago. The law officers of t li
government began this work; the bureau
of manufacture In the Department of Com
merce continued It and tho Interstate Com
merce commission has carried It a step
farther In It recent investigation. The
federal grand Jury is completing a task
which promises to end with the Indictment
nd trial of those guilty, both among rail
road managers and among those owning
private car.
A rebate !s a crime. It Is an offens.;
at common law. It Is a crime by statute.
It is known by every railroad man and
by every shipper to be a crime. The pri
vate car system wa and is an elaborate
system of rebates. Aa the Investigation
In Chicago have shown, the railroads first
made special rates for hauling these private
refrigerator cars and returned them empty
under rates far below those charged for
other empties. They made special rates on
the Ice used, and they reduced these rates
until the traffic carried on by these privala
cars had advantage which paid for the
cars In three year when they were ucd
In general traffic, and enabled those who,
like the meat packing combination In Chi
cago, owned both the car and th product,
to undersell all competitor.
Every tep in this completed chain by
which the public wa cheated, competition
crushed, the railroad deprived of Its far
and a monopoly built up was a crime. It
was contrary to the common law. it wa
penalized by statute.
It wa known to he. all these things by
every railroad officer who made any of these
rates, and every one of his superior who
knew It. Yet In spite of this, this system
has gone on year after year until it ha
built up In Chicago a meat packing monop
oly which practically supplies the great city
popuiatlona In the east with their dally
food. Nothing was done by any railroad to
stop this until the government took up the
task.
It 1 a public experience like this which
ha created all over the country sentiment
which 1 demanding extreme legislation.
Railroad official are roundly declaring that
no rebate now exist, if the railroads had
themselves reformed the private car abuse
they would not face the grave danger that
Penitentiary for the Badaera.
Fremont Tribune.
It looks a little singular that Mr. Rose
water should have absented himself from
his post a watchman in the tower to go
to a hotel to negotiate with a designing
woman for a cigar stand ln The Bee build
ing when the renting is looked after .by a
rental agency; also that a man of his ex
perience and demonstrated fighting ability
should have been scared Into coughing up
1250 of IiubIi money, and that he should
have wanted a note from the scoundrel
who bled him for the money paid and
which the latter could not return when
Mr. Rosewater caught hlB breath and de
manded It. All the same, we do not be
lieve Mr. Rosewater guilty as charged, and
If the frllow who trapped him by the old
badger game isn't sent to the penitentiary
w will have to revise our estimate of the
weight of evidence, expressed and Im
plied. Worse Than Assassination.
Nebraska City Tribune.
Omaha Is Just now engrossed with the
details of a crime which to all normally
constituted minds rates In the criminal
scale as worse than assassination, although
the law refuses to take the serious view of
the offense. The case ln which Edward
Rosewater, editor of The Omaha Bee, Is
embroiled with alleged blackmailers at
Omaha Is now familiar to all readers of
newspapers, so far as the facts and state
ments brought out at the police court
hearing are concerned. Edward Rosewater
has many bitter enemies In the state of
Nebraska, but It Is to be hoped, for the
credit of Nebraska manhood, for our
claims to common sense and fairness, that
not even one of these will be so blinded by
the prejudice of real or fancied wrong a
to accept ln the minutest degree the alle
gation of thl pair of wrecker. Mr.
Rosewater made one regrettable yet. un
der the circumstances, probably pardonable
error. In that he did not act at once;
still there Is not a man of character and
standing In Nebraska who might not have
taken, for the same reasons, the same
course of action. The pity of It Is that
Mr. Rosewater's advancing years preclude
h. nnulhtlltv of his administering a sound
thrashing to the fellow when the denoue
ment came.
Concratnlatlona for Flahtlna.
Columbu Telegram.
The public is too quick to believe a
m,irtt-i storv about a man or woman. Thl
fact ha been illuatrated by the attitude
of acme of our metropolitan newspapers
with reference to the eriou charge pre
frrert airalrt Hon. Edward Rosewater
hv an Injured husband ln Omaha. Mr.
Rosewater frankly admit that he paid the
man a um of money-hush money. Granted
that It wa hush money, that I not proof
of crime on Rosewater's part. lis did
Jut what the average man would havo
done under like clrcunntancee. For forty
vear Mr. Rosewater ha lived ln Omaha
He love his wife snd children. He wa
willing to pay money rathr than to be
dragged into a threatened divorce rase and
have the family name bandied about th
streets. The science of blackmail is largely
practiced In these day. The Telegram
doe not claim to know th fact In the
Rosewater case, but we are frank to say
that at this distance It looks like a clear
case of blackmail. On general principles
the work of making rates will be taken out the married man is a scoundrel who will
demand money irom anotner man iouna in
auestionable attitude with, hi wife. The
scar on the face of honor cannot be healed
by the application of money, and the rule
is that In all such case the man who de
mand money had no honor worth ths
of their hand by a public agitation whose
whole force I due to their own failure to
protect their own rates and to avoid rebates
ln these private car rates and ln other
traffic when such rebate wer forbidden
by Uw and laden with a criminal penalty.
fifty Yesa i:
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WHY NOT 0 TUP. ROAD.
Experimental Collision of Steel Cars
Suggest a qneatlon,
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. ,
The delegates to the International Rail
way congress were treated to a stage col
lision at Pittsburg on the Interwork rail
road, operated by the Westlnghouse com
pany. Three steel cars were placed at ths
end of the track more than two miles In
length and another three were coupled
together and placed at a distance of 100
feet In the rear. Then a locomotive was
started from the other end of the track,
the throttle pulled open to It widest and
the engineer Jumped and awaited conclu
sions. The engine was going at the rate of
forty miles an hour when the first steel
tars were struck, the Impact was terrific
and this was the result; "There was a
quiver, the two sections united tutomatU
claly and then settled down on the tracks
without damage having been done, The
same experiment was repeated the Second
time with a single phase electric locomo
tive being used. It was equally success
ful." It was unnecessary to add that th dele
gates were astounded. Naturally they
were. But there is another astounding
part to the program, and It Is singf!
the delegates didn't make Inquiry or tr
subject and ask why were not steel' caA
used ln prictlce as well as In the theorjrt
SMILING REMARKS.
"Are you going to send your boy to col
leje?" "I don't see the use," answered Farmer
Corntossel. "The first thing a college pro
fessor does when he gets a bright Idea Is
to publish it. I'd rather subscribe to the
newspaper. ashlngton star.
Rough Barber Do you often knead,
skin of your face?
Mnnirleri Customer Oh. occasionally.
trnii iu., tn noitfl It mfk much WnrSM tha
do that you might as well take the ri3
or it wnue you re rooui ii nujsinior
American. , ,v
sending
hurled wires in order.
"They ' are
electricity through
to stimulate tne
irnwtli of vegetables."
"I wonder If the current I strong enough
to shock the corn?" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The death of Hiram Cronk orphaned four
children, three sons and a daughter, aged,
respectively, 81, 72, 66 and 71 years.
Ralph Ij. Ray of Lancaster, Wis., is
making preparations to go to Spain as
private tutor to King Alfonso. Ho will
teach the king the Kngllsh language and
American Ideas.
Prof. Eugene W. HUgard of the Depart
ment of Agriculture of the University of
California ha been granted leave of ab
ence for next year. He Is 72 year of
age and ha held his chair ln California
for thirty-one years.
W. K. Vandebllt, Jr., has secured a
Job as superintendent of the New York
Central s trolley lines. It will be noticed
that he Isn't learning the business from
the bottom up by beginning as a con
ductor. J. A. Pettlgrew, superintendent of the
Boston park system, who has perfected a
powerful spraying machine for use ln
the Boston parks, will attempt to demon
strate the possibility of destroying the
caterpillars of the gypsy and browntall
moths.
Ral Keslr, a Hindoo gentleman, who Is
visiting the large cities of the country, is
In Boston. He belongs to Benares, India,
and his mission ln America Is to . In
vestigate the progress made by various
cults In the larger cltle who hav en
gaged ln psychic research.
A memorial church for William McKlnley
was dedicated on Wednesday at Poland, O.,
hi boyhood home. It is erected on the spot
on which stood the church McKlnley Joined
when he wa H year old. Mr. McKlnley
contributed toward It building, and An
drew Carnegie gave the organ.
Joaquin Miller, "the poet or the Blerra,"
I to be signally honored by the Iwl and
Clark exposition of Portland. There I to
be a "Joaquin Miller day," which will
wind up what Is to be called the "western
authors' week." Invitation will be sent
to all author west of the Mississippi of
more than local note and a special invlta
tlon will be extended to Edwin Markham
author of "The Man With the Hoe," who
was born hardly a dosen miles from the
exposition site.
"Is that the Russian fleet oft there?"
"Yep. That's Rojestvensky's."
'My gracious: Just look at the seaweed
hanging along the sides!"
That ain't seaweed, you llly that's th
whiskers of the sailor." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Marco Bozxarls was cheering his band.
"Go for the blondv Turks, boys!" he
yelled. "Give 'em Fits-Greene Haiieck!"
It wa ln revenge for thl that the Indig
nant poet afterward wrote him up as hav.
Ing ordered his men. on the eve of a great
battle, to strike. Chicago Tribune.
the editor, give you
asked the would-be
"Does your friend
any encouragement?
poet s friend.
"He's never said anything really encour
aging but once, and that was yesterday
He saw me In a brown study, and he said
"A penny for your thought.' " Phlladel
phla Press.
'Your old friend Barnes Tormer made his
debut In vaudeville last night," said the
nrst actor.
"Yes, it was a monologue, wasn't It?"
asked the other.
"Not exactly. He Intended It to be but
the audience chimed In with a few choke
remarks before he got fairly started."
Philadelphia Tedger.
IOWA, THK COR M EE.
Minna Irving In I-slle'a Weekly.
An angel came to earth one day.
And, seeking every state,
To each he gave a little gift
Of value small or great.
An ore, a mineral, or a gem,
With color like the morn;
To Iowa he only gave
A single grain of corn.
But while her sister states displayed
Their gold or sliver bright,
Their lumps of lead, or copper red,
Or coal as black as night.
She plowed her fertile acres up,
And ln the mellow mould
She planted In the halmv spring
Her seed of living gold.
It sprouted In the crystal Tain
And ripened In the sun:
It gave her back a million grains
Where she had sown but one.
It cleared away the tangled wood,
And turned the Idle wheel.
And swelled the seas of commerce high
With streams of yellow meal.
A mighty state Is Towa.
Her fame has traveled far;
No fairer lands than hers are seen
Beneath the western star.
And. source of all her wealth and power,
, I'pon her shield Is borne,
Below the eagle and the scroll,
A sheaf of golden corn.
MAKES YOU
TP -HI T N ALL
ar m.
OVER.
Ache all over? Feverish?
Chilly? Just coming down
with a hard cold?' Where do
you suppose it will settle?
In the throat? That means hoarseness, sore
throat, tonsillitis. In the chest? Then bron
chitis, pneumonia, consumption.
Do not let your cold settle. Break it up! Drive
it out! Ask your doctor the best medicine for
this. If he says Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, take it
at once. If he has anything better, take that.
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