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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
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C. f Rosewater, secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, belr-t duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Ren printed during the
month of May, l'JOj, was as follows:
1 2K.04O
2 2H.400
1 2M,010
4 3N,ir,(
t 2N.U40
t zn.ono
7 81. BOO
8 28,1110
9 28.4BO
10 a,ioo
n ao.aoo
U 28.U40
13 80,2:10
14 ai.suo
10 HS.7HO
10 2S.400
Total UlT.JMM)
Leis unsold copies lO.OUU
17 ,20.870
18 2M.llt
it 2H,8S(
20 30.2TH)
21 81.7O0
211,020
23 2M,fl80
24 2M.B10
26 28,75(1
28 SHMMO
27 BO.IBO
28 20,110
29 aii.Knu
jo aa.ooo
Jl 2U.02O
Net total sale 107,804
Dally average SiO,2s4
C. C. ROSEWATER.
Secretary.
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before me this 3lat uay of May, 19u6.
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Notary Public.
WIIE.M OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tm.
porarily should have The Ilea
mailed to them. It la better than
n daily letter from lioiue. Ad
dress will be chanaed mm often as
requested.
School Is out and the school house
janitor will take Lis nuuual vacation.
Philadelphia revelations are sugges
tive of municipal graft In other cities.
The Zaliuskl guu Is trained on Fort
Omaha, although the signal corps Is
not yet in sight.
Chicago teaiUHters and team owners
seem to have un Idea that the closed
tthop means "all tor us and nothing for
anyone else."
The 'Panama Cunal commission will
confer a favor by holding that order
for 7,000,000 brick until the local short
age is supplied.
Chicago employers who paid to have
strikes called on other people have no
right to complain If they get some they
do not pay for.
the avssux poixt or view.
There Is, on the whole, a good deal of
conservatism and common sense In the
comments of the Russian press in re
gard to the peace movement In the
first place there has been a very gen
eral expression of confidence In Presi
dent Roosevelt, whose initiative in be
half of peaceJias leen as cordially com
mended in Russia as elsewhere. There
Is manifested an unqualified faith In the
friendliness and the impartiality of the
United States, ample warrant for which
Is found in the perfectly fair course
toward each belligerent which our gov
ernment hus pursued throughout the
war. The conditions of neutrality an
nounced at the opening of hostilities
have been faithfully observed. While it
Is true that American pubHc sentiment
has been overwhelmingly in sympathy
with Japan, so far ns the government Is
concerned It has done nothing to indi
cate that it was In accord with this sen
timent, nor has there been a public
utterance of any responsible official of
the government partial to either of the
belligerents. Henco the selection of
Washington as the place for the meet
ing of the peace conference Is regarded
with apparent satisfaction by the Rus
sian press and especially by those pa
pers which are understood to reflect of
ficial opinion.
These papers point out to the Rus
sian government the expediency of hav
ing a settled policy respecting the terms
of peace for presentation at the confer
ence and also the importance of select
ing the ablest men available as plenipo
tentiaries. The real nature of the sit
uation seems to be at last realized at
the Russian capital and It is an encour
aging fact that there is no longer be
ing shown a disposition to put any ob
stacle In the way of arrangements
toward peace. If there Is any; element
In Russia that Is opposed to ending hos
tilities it is not publicly manifesting Its
opposition, while on the other hand the
advocates of peace are not hesitating to
make themselves heard in no uncertain
way.
There appears to be a feeling In Rus
sia that in the event of the success of
the peace negotiations there will ulti
mately be brought about something In
the nature of an alliance between that
power and Japan by which the destiny
of eastern Asia will be determined. It
Is by no means unlikely that the Rus
sian government may seek something of
this kind, but It seems improbable that
Japan would be willing to enter Into
an alliance with her present enemy. Her
relotlons with Great Britain appear to
forbid anything of the sort at present
and there seems to be no reason why
she should not prefer to continue the
alliance with the most powerful of
naval nations rather than enter Into
one with a power incapable of being In
any way helpful to Japan. Moreover,
an alliance with Russia, lnsteod of aid
ing in deciding the destiny of eastern
Asia, would probably only lead to new
complications and disturbances.
. While It cannot now be confidently
asserted that peace is assured, there Is
very good evidence that Russian pub
lic opinion Is favorable to ending hostili
ties and this Is In Rome measure a re
flection of official onlnlon.
Mexico made progress before, but
doubtless she would have gone forward
more rapidly bad she been on A gold
basis at the outset of her Industrial and
commercial revival. No country that
has gone from the sliver to the gold
standard has ever found reason 'to re
gret the change.
A FALSE ALARM-
The alarm sounded by the local red
letter sheet over the alleged prevalence
of typhoid fever In Omuba is absolutely
groundless. Typhoid fever is no more
prevalent In Omaha at the present time
than it has been during previous years.
There is neither sense, rhyme nor rea
son in trying to make people believe
that Omaha is menaced with typhoid
infection. This is the consensus of
opinion among tho very best medical
practitioners in Omaha as well as the
health office.
There are and always will be some
cases of typhoid fever in n city of
Omaha's population. The fact that one
particular physician claims to have
treated twelve cases within five months
affords no proof that all physicians in
Omaha have had a similar number of
typhoid patients. The only menace of
typhoid to which people are subject in
Omaha comes from the use of water
drawn out of wells that are In the neigh
borhood of cesspools and isolated dwell
ings that are In the neighborhood of
stagnant water.
Missouri river water, whether settled
or unsettled, is the healthiest beverage
anyone can drink. The rapid current of
the Missouri, constantly permeated
with sand, Is self-puiifylng. Missouri
river water below Omaha and as far
down as St. Louis, after it has absorbed
the contents of the Chicago drainage
ranal, still retains its purity. No harm
can, of course, come from boiling all
drinking water before it is consumed,
but there Is no ground for apprehension
that the consumers of unboiled drinking
water will run the risk of typhoid.
The New York legislature has been
called to meet in extra session June 22,
so Paul Morton may earn that f 150,000
a year sulary protecting the Equitable
reserve.
Reports from the east indicate that
the rainy season will do as inucf as
the peace negotiations to force an im
mediate truce or a long armistice iu
Manchuria.
New York subway cars should be
equipped with life preservers if they are
to become popular with visitors, who
fear they may encounter a broken
water main.
Council Bluffs has ulso a grievance
and n protest against railroad tax shirk
ing. Baldwlnvllle prides Itself on being
submissive and not inclined to resent
ordinary impositions.
The expression "dolug things brown"
will take on a new meaning in the First
Nebraska district this year whllo the
democratic heelers try to "do" Brown
before he is counted out July 18.
The payment of $100,000 from the
United States government to the Omaha
Indians will not be received with the
same Joy in some quarters that it would
have created a few months ago, before
the new commissioner of Indian affairs
took charge.
The real reason for the resignation
of those two hlghi Russian admirals is
probably a lack of ships In the navy
equal to the dignity of their positions,
Hio Russian navy doesn't need ad
mirals nearly as badly as it needs guns
and gunners.
An Ohio banker lms pleaded guilty
nd received a sentence of seven years
In the penitentiary. If this thing con
tlnues a branch bankers association
might be formed behind the prison
wall to teach members ou the outside
bow to stay there.
The Irrepressible coufliet between the
Water board and the water company
has simmered down to a question of
pressure. In the meantime the old
water rates still prevail and the hydrant
tar for 1005 has been flxed by the
Water board at flOO.Otrt).
PROPOSED COMMERCIAL TREATY-
It is announced that the German gov
ernment will soon send to Washington
a draft of its views on the proposed
commercial treaty with this country.
American agricultural producers and
manufacturers will be equally inter
ested in learning the views of Germany
as to the kind of trade treaty that
country is willing to make with the
United States. Under the tariff that
will go into effect early next year there
will be a very decided discrimination
against a number of American products
unless something is done in the mean
time to give these products the benefit
of the minimum rates.
Tho German government is disposed
to enter into a commercial treaty that
will place our products on a favorable
footing with those of other countries
with which it has treaties, but it Is
doubtful If this con be consummated, so
strong Is the opposition to granting any
tariff concessions. Perhaps the execti
tlve branch of the government will
frame a commercial treaty, but then
there Is the seuate to reckon with.
There has been some talk of recourse
to retaliation, which would bring on a
tariff war very damaging to bothr coun
tries. We are doing a large trade with
Germany and the question of preserv
ing It is certainly important It will
doubtless be urged upon the attention of
the next congress.
rumor Is unfounded and Mr. Ryan actu
ally owns every dollar of the stock in his
own right, and the stock was acquired
by him with his own surplus, the policy
holders very naturally still will want
to know what difference it will make to
them whether Mr. Ryan is the owner of
the stock or Mr. Hyde, so long as Mr.
Hyde remains the mainspring of the
Equitable mechanism.
It is announced that all of the right-of-way
for the Omaha & Nebraska Cen
tral Electric railway project from Has
tings to Omaha has been secured ex
cept the stretch between Millard aud
Omaha and the franchise through
Wahoo. This Is very gratifying, pro
vided always that the promoters of the
enterprise have the necessary financial
backing to make good within a reason
able time. The Beatrice, Lincoln &
Omaha Electric seems to have temporar
ily gone into w'.nter quarters.
There was a time when Eighteenth and
Farnam was all the rage. Now it Is
Seventeenth and anything. The Young
Men's Christian association has pur
chased the corner of Seventeenth and
Harney and the Young Women's Chris
tian association the corner of Seven
teuth and St Mary's avenue, and both
of the organizations propose to run a
race for subscriptions, catch Mho catch
can.
Chicago has asked that the peace con
ference be transferred to that city If
Washington be found to be too warm.
Chicago must want to learn how wars
are terminated. It needs no lesson as
to how they are produced.
A MATTER OF PL AllS FACT.
Let us be (air and truthful about this
matter of paying taxes and state the cuse
as it is. Nothing Is to be gained and only
harm can be done by misrepresenting the
facts, fia some newspapers are doing.
The railroad companies believe that the
last assessment was unfair and wrong as to
them. They submitted the matter to the
courts for settlement as to the part be
lieved to be wrongful, promptly paying the
other part, which is about 75 per cent of
the whole. A railroad company, precisely
the same as any other taxpayer, has an
absolute constitutional, legal, moral and
natural right to have the question whether
they are wrongfully assessed settled by the
courts. That Is what the courts are for.
Other taxpayers have the right, and exer
cise the right, to have such questions set
tled. Lincoln Star.
As a matter of plain fact, last year's
assessment of the railroads was not un
fair and wrong to the railroads, but un
fair and wrong to the other taxpayers.
According to the computation made by
former Land Commissioner Follmer,
who was not hostile to the railroads,
the assessment of real estate for 1004,
gauged by the recorded real estate
sales, which are generally higher than
the actual cash transactions, represented
01 per cent of the true value of the
lands and lots, as near as could be as
certained, while the railroad assessment
represented only C4 per cent of the mar
ket value of those properties.
As a matter of equity and Justice, the
railroads should have been assessed lust
year for not less than $00,000,000 In
stead of $46,500,000, and the railroad tax
agents and attorneys had no ground for
assuming that the last assessment was
unfair and wrong to the railroads. If
tho railroad companies sincerely be
lieved that the last assessment was un
fair and wrong to them, they should
have paid the whole tax under protest
and Invoked the power of the courts
for redress instead of trying to scale
their taxes by paying 75 cents on the
dollar, while other taxpayers are com
pelled to pay dollar for dollar or have
their property sold from under them.
What standing would any other tax
payer than a railroad have in a state or
federal court if he refused to pay more
than three-fourths of the tax levied on
his property? Would not his petition for
redress be thrown over the transom
were he to repudiate the tax levy under
pretext that it was not fair, after he
hod enjoyed every opportunity to im
press the assessor and Bonrd of Equal!
ration with his own idea as to the value
of bis property? Is it not a matter of
plain fact that the railroads, by reason
of the tremendous political Influence
they exert, insist upon enjoying privi
leges and immunities that are denied to
every other class of property owners?
If it is any consolation to Captain
Kirknian he may know that while he
is serving his three years at Fort Leav
enworth he is associated with a num
ber of eminent bankers who got longer
terms with fewer trials.
Diplomats at Washington who will be
compelled to lose their vacations be
cause of the peace conference unfortu
nately belong to no union which can
enforce a demand for extra pay.
A Killina- lime.
Philadelphia Ledger.
In ten years 1,100 persons were killed and
5,593 Injured, more or less seriously, on In
dependence day In ten cities. The Are
losses reached the snug sum of 85,659,000.
The tribute paid by noisy patriotism to the
country's natal day ts rather costly.
Working; a Good Thine;.
Indianapolis News.
Mr. Morton's neatly constructed circular,
In which by a skilful turning movement he
transforms the Equltablc's troubles Into an
advertisement for the company, suggests
that perhaps literature has lost a great
deal by his getting the wrong start In life.
Crop Report Scandals.
Chicago Chronicle.
Scandals like that which has arisen over
the government cotton crop report Justify
doubts as to the advisability of government
crop reports of any kind. Those reports
naturally affect speculative prices and spec
ulators who lose money are naturally dis
posed to question the Impartiality of the
government statisticians. If the gathering
of these statistics were left to private en
terprise the speculators wculd have no
causa of complaint. They could make up
their own figures and draw their own conclusions.
Things that Make for Peace.
Minneapolis Journal.
One of the best ways to bring about peace
would be for the mikado to start from
Toklo and the czar from St. Petersburg,
meet half way and do It. It would be well
for the czar to carry a small bottle of su
perior vodka from the lmporial cellars, and
the mikado to bring along several bags of
the royal tobacco. While the czar was
pouring out about three Angers of the stuff
the mikado could busy himself filling a
couple of long-stemmed pipes. It seems as
If peace could be made In a few minutes
thereafter.
The Grand Duke Alexis, who, a good
many years ago, made bis visit to
Omaha memorable by tendering a silver
dollar at a tip teethe geueral superin
tendent of the Union Pacific Railway
company, has resigned from his position
aa the admiral of the Russian navy.
PR0FIT1XQ BF GOLD STANDARD.
According to a report from the United
States consul at Muutamoras, Mexico,
that country is already realizing the
benefits of the gold standard. He
states, from information furnished by
bankers, importers and commercial
houses in his consular district that the
adoption of the gold standard has
served to stimulate the inauguration of
new business enterprises, as well as to
strengthen confidence and credits. With
a flxed rate of foreign exchange, says
Consul Griffith, the logical sequence of
an unvarying monetary standard, im
porters are making lower prices and
many exporting firms in the United
States and Europe who had withdrawn
their traveling salesmen have notified
old customers that the sending of these
agents for the promotion of business
will be resumed at ouee. It ia further
noted that business on the American
side of the Rio Grande has also ex
hibited a more healthful and confident
tone since the establishment of a flxed
monetary standard by Mexlcp.
There Is nothing extraordinary In
this, yet the fact that our neighbor re
public has so soon found the advantage
of having the gold, standard Is Interest
ing, If only as additional evidence of
the fallacy of those people in this coun
try and elsewhere who have persistently
fousht that standard. It la true that
The anti-cigarette law enacted by the
late legislature will go Into effect ou
July 1, but the anticipation of the
friends of the measure may not be tully
realized. A similar law enacted last
winter by the legislature of Indiana U
now being evaded by the organization
f cigarette clubs, whose object it is to
provide its members with cigarettes
purchased in bulk outside of the state,
and thousands of original packages are
now coming into Indiana through the
malls and by express. The decision ren
dered by an Indiana court that cigar
ettes so bought may be smoked in the
state and that the right to buy outside
the state and smoke Inside the state
cannot be interfered with makes
the law In Indiana practically a
dead letter. It does not take a prophet
to forecast the same effect in Nebraska
Just as soon as the original package deal
ers are enubled to organize the con
Burners into cigarette clubs.
Mr. Ryan assures tho policy holders
of the Equitable society that be has be
come the sole owner of the 502 shares of
stock formerly owued by Mr. Hyde and
that uo other person or interest has the
right to contribute a single dollar to
ward Its purchase. This statement is
doubtless given out to allay the rumor
that Mr. Ryan, who has close relatlous
with the Standard OU corporation,
slmnlT represents the "system." It thU
Prosperity la Business.
Springfield Republican.
Insolvencies became very large In the
latter part of 1303 and .in the early part of
1901. With the revival of business they
fell off materially, and while the liabilities
of Insolvents In May were a little larger
than those of April, there has been a
pretty steady diminution of these liabilities
from December last. Dun's figures show
that the liabilities In May were less than
In the tame month of the three preceding
years; they were larger than those of May,
1901, but not much more than a third as
large as those of May, 1900.
Reversing- the Conditions.
Minneapolis Times.
Had Russia been victorious what would
Its peace terms have Included? Kouropat
kln threatened to make peace In Toklo, but
It was a vain boast. It Is pobable that
Japan might have been permitted to exist,
but that It would have been shorn of every
vestige of power and placed under the heel
of the conqueror would have unquestlon.
ably have been the price of peace. Japan
knew this; therefore It did not take the
Initiative bef orfTt, was prepared; then It
struck with such force that there was
little chance for aught but victory. Hu
manity demands that the war shall end.
Justice, however, dictates that Russia shall
pay the price.
RAlLBOAOa AS TAX DODGERS.
False Report for "Taxation Par.
poses" Filed by the Managers.
Chicago Record-Herald.
What are Illinois railroads worth a mile?
That question Interests the State Board
of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
which is- meeting at Springfield to decide
on the general level of freight rates In the
state. Rates must allow a reasonable
profit, and one of the faotors In determin
ing reasonableness 1s the value of the prop
erty on which profits must be earned.
Former Attorney General Hamlin has
been unkind enough to Introduce In evi
dence on this point the railroad companies'
own figures of the value of their property
per mile as they presented them last winter
to the Btate Board of Equalization.
The railroad lawyers were astounded at
his simplicity. What had those figures to
do, with the case? They had only been
prepared "for taxation purposes." As for
"reasonable rates purposes" the values were
ever so many times bigger. ,
There used to be a saying that the power
of taxation Involved the power of confisca
tion. No one would guess it today. It
would be truer now to say that the power
of escaping taxation and the power
of confiscating a nice little percentage of
the value of all traffic go- hand In hand.
How long will the railroad be permitted
to play both ends against the unfortunate
publia la the middle?
OTHER LASDS THAN Ol R.
Apropos the Sweden and Norway con
troversy ot which Kins Oscar Is the cen
tral figure to the world, how many people
realize that his name Is evidence ot the
influence of Napoleon. The name Oscar
does not occur In the list of Swedish kings
until 1844, when Oscar I. mounted the
throne. He was the son of Bernadotte,
who, to please his Swedish subjects took
the name and style of Charles XIV. (John)
on becoming king. Oscar I. was born when
his father was simply General Bernndotte,
In 1799, and his name was selected for him
by Napoleon, who was an Intense admirer
of Osslan and the Ossiatilc literature cf
which Oscar Is one of the heroes. Napo
leon's approval gave the name a great
vogue. It Is to this day not uncommon
In France, and has been eagerly adopted
by Norse people. If there was an Oscar of
flesh and blood, he was Irish, for in Ire
land Is the scene of the Osslan poems, not
only those of Macpherson, but the ruder
lays and fragments of eplos on which the
Scotchman bullded. Possibly It is Norse
In Its root, however, for the Norse peoplo
were once dominant In the dim and
shadowy Ireland of the remote past.
A bill has Just been submitted to the
Belgian Parliament, providing for a com
plete reorganization of the defences of Ant
werp and Immense Improvements In Its
port accommodation. The total cost of the
military works Is estimated at more than
$20,000,000. In the port Itself there will bo
an Immense Increase of the quay space
and warehousing accommodation, one
branch of tho river being locked off anJ
converted entirely Into a long canal dock,
whllo many other docks, wet and dry, are
to be constructed. Of the latter there will
be a group placed close together of vary
ing size, one at least having an effective
length of S50 feet, capable of receiving the
largest vessels. For these magnificent har
bor works no less thnn 10,560 acres of land
are to be appropriated, and the total cost
of the land and of the works Is estimated
at more than 136,000,000. The state expects
to recover enough by the re-sale of land
to reduce this expenditure by $10,0(10,000 or
so, and the town of Antwerp will defray
the cost of the dock canal, estimated at
about $9,000,000, so that the total expense
to tho state for these commercial Improve
ments is likely to be something less than
$20,000,000.
The latest reports from the scene of the
Arab Insurrection against Turkish rule are
of great Interest. The area of successful
revolt has spread so far south that only
one place of Importance In the Interior of
Southwestern Arabia, Tals, remains In
Turkish hands, and that Is now blockaded
by the rebels. Ibb and other places be
tween Tals and Sanaa have fallen Into
their handv, so that should Tals be forced
to surrender the territory controlled by
them would become conterminous with the
British Aden Protectorate. An attempt to
relieve Tals Is to be made by a force from
Mocha, but It Is doubtful whether the
European Albanians and tho troops from
the uplands of Anatolia will be able to
operate during the Intense heat of the
Southern Arabian summer. The sultan Is
said to have resolved to reassert his au
thority at all hazards, and has ordered an
army of 100,000 men to be sent Into Yemen.
Apart from the difficulties of climate and
transport which such a force would have
to overcome. It appears that the murder
of some Italians In coast towns of that
province has given the Italian government
a pretext to afford Indirect encourage
ment and assistance to the rebels by send
ing a considerable force of war vessels to
the Yemen coast to enforce the claims of
their subjects. It Is far from Yemen to
Tripoli In Barbary, but it may be safely
surmised that If the moment Is deemed fa
vorable the Incidents that have brought
about Italian action In the Red sea will
furrilsh the opportunity for the long con
templated descent upon Tripoli. Slgnor 1
Tlttonl's last speech on tho unsatisfac
tory attitude of the Turkish authorities
toward Italians of Tripoli and Barca was
of itself sufficient indication of this.
London dispatches say that King Edward
In one of his neatest after dinner speeches
recalled for King Alfonso's benefit the time
when the latter's father was a cadet at
Sandhurst, the British military college.
Probably the dignity of tho occasion pre
vented King Edward from referring to
the fact that the late King Alfonso was
made to learn at Sandhurst that there is
a democracy in even a British military
school that chastens tho pride of a royal
cadet. When King Alfonso was a new
comer at Sandhurst one of the senior
cadets asked him by what name he would
like to be known to his associates. Alfonso
responded by giving a namo of Castlllan
length and dignity. With profane emphasis
the British cadet said that would never
answer. "Don" was too topping and
"Asturlas" not to be thought of. "I'll tell
you what we'll do," said the mentor.
"Weil call you 'Squad Spain.' " "Squad!"
being the comment hurled every minute at
the beginners by sergeants was short,
easily remembered and suited the condi
tion of the sufferer. "Squad Spain" was
the nickname of Alfonso aa long as he re
mained at Sandhurst.
A correspondent of a London Journal de
clares that all the difference between Aus
tria and Italy could be settled quickly If an
end could be put to the mutual distrust
which exists between the two nations. He
therefore attaches great Importance to the
confidence which Count Goluchowskl and
Slgnor Tlttonl seem to have In each other.
There is special need of It Just now, when
the question of founding an Italian univer
sity, or at all events an autonomous Italian
law school, In Austria Is again under con
sideration. The bill for establishing the
Italian law school at Roverto, In the Tren
tlno, has been read a first time In the
Relchsrath, and, after some debate, re
ferred to the Budget commission. Its fate.
of cjurse. Is very uncertain. The only bit
terness shown In the debate was introduced
by German radical and pan-German depu
ties. Dr. Erler, the German radical poll'
tlclan, who was responsible for the dl
turbancea at Innsbruck last November, de.
nounced the idea of establishing any
Italian faculty or college In any part of
Austria as an abomination and a danger
to Germanism. He solemnly appealed to
all Germans of all countiies to rally round
their brethren In the Tyrol and to support
them In averting such a peril. It appears
that an Important antl-Itallan pan-German
association has been founded at Sterling,
In the Tyrol, under the direction -of the
pan-German agitator. Dr. Rohmeder of
Munich, and of the Austrian German rad
leal deputies of the Tyrol. The association
is called the Tlroler Volksbund, and It
alms to unite all the non-Italian Inhabi
tants of the Tyrol, Including the Rhaeto
Latlo elements, Into one great German
league for the purpose of assuring the pre
dominance of German political Influence
down to the Italian frontier.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Reform has reached a point In Philadel
phia where policemen with prison records
are t Id to pack up and go.
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee
Is trying to fiddle himself Into the United
States senate. Bub Is accounted a smooth
fiddler.
Lest we forget. It may be noted that a
man named David Bennett Hill appeared
as counsel In the Patrick case In New
York courts recently.
An Illinois representative has refused a
renoinlnatlon because a "congressman Is
nothing except a pension agent and a
solicitor of postoffk-e Jobs."
Although a pair ot bondllng aldermen In
Allegheny, Ta., practically confessed their
crookedness, a sympathetic Jury told them
to go and graft some more.
A large delegation of Milwaukee officials
stand a flrst-ciass chance of following
Banker Blgelow to prison. The famo of
the Crenm city grows by leaps and bounds.
In 1904 New York Invested In Its public
school system $10,531,228. Of this, $16,000,000
we it for enlarging the city's plant, and
$20,000,000 to pay running expenses. No
other city In the country approaches these
expenditures.
Some knockers In Kansas City are
actively knocking a contractor who milked
tho city for $2.C6 per ton of coal, while
selling the same goods to business houses
for $1.50. When the envious cannot butt
Into a good thing they reach for the
hammer.
A recent Investigation shows that most
If not all of the Philadelphia aldermen
Involved In the recent scandal were native
Americans whose grandparents had been
citizens of the United States. The only
foreign born man of prominence In the
proceedings was Mayor Weaver, who pro
tected the city.
New Jersey, the "traitor state," knows
a good thing and works it to a finish.
The revenue of the state derived from
corporations this year will amount to
$2,357,819. One insurance company pays
$204,011. New Jersey Is the hame of giant
corporate enterprises. Eight companies
have a capitalization In excess of $100,000,
000. Among them Is the United States
Steel corporation, with a capital of $S'8,
683,1,00. At the other end of the line Is a
lilliputian affair which pays a tax ot 6
bents on a capital of $500.
I JISTICE TO THE VJXIONS.
Leaders Mar tie Graftera, bnt tbe
Rank and File Are Honest.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Charges and countercharges of bribery
and blackmail in the management of labor
unions and in their relations with various
employer have been coming thick and
fast in the last ten days. In fact, so thick
and fast have they come that the average
man is prone to believe that at least half
of them are true.
There are doubtless some, Sam Parkses
among the labor union leaders of Chicago.
There are probably some employers of the
kind that made a Sam Parks possible.
These aro reasonable inferences.
However, this does not Justify anyone in
saying, as a Chicago newspaper said yes
terday, that ' labor unions are bought." It
is certain that 99 per cent of the members
of Chicago labor unions are In no way re
sponsible for any kind of graft. They are
no more responsible for it than the great
masses of farmers who vote the republican
ticket are responsible for the stealing In
the Postofflce department at Washington.
The rank and file of labor unions, who
work and pay their dues because they be
lieve In the union Idea, never see graft from
one year's end to another and never come
In contact with It. They are not in a posi
tion to graft and do not try to be. Only
those who, become leaders who get Into
the positions of trust have the chance to
betray their trust for money.
Hence it follows that the shameful
charges now bandied about are not a part
of any fight between capital and labor.
They are Just part of the old familiar
human fight between honesty and dishonesty.
With graft neither labor nor capital can
have any sympathy. The grafter is a
friend of none but himself.
What Is wanted In Chicago Is not a fight
between labor and capital over graft, but
a clean-out of grafters on both sides, for
the welfare of honest labor and honest
labor unions' as well as of honest capital
and honest capitalists.
WHAT 19 THB GAMUT
Features of the Kqnttable settlement
Call for Explanations.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
James II. Hyde Sold to Thomas F. Ryan
601 shares of stock of the Equitable Life
Assurance society.
The capital stock of the Equitable
amounts to $100,000, divided Into 1.000
shares. Therefore, It was a controlling
Interest that Mr. Ryan and his syndicate
acquired.
The par value of the 5ol shares Is tVUOO.
Blnce the dividend on the stock Is limited
to 7 per cent annually tho direct Incom
of the syndicate on its holdings canm
exceed $3,507. And yet the purchasers
paid, In round numbers, KOHVOvO for the
501 shares.
Naturally the question arises: Whjr
should the Ryan group pay so largo a
sum for stock yielding only $:t,5 7 in divi
dends? The transaction Is sufficient to arouse
the suspicion that the so-called reorgan
latlon and purification of the Equitable
means, put bluntly, Just a shifting of Jug
glers. Paul Morton has announced that he In
tends to conduct the affairs of the society
"for tho best Interests of the policy hold
ers." It Is a good rule he has set out for
himself, and It Is to bo hoped that he will
adhere to It strictly. But the Ryan syn
dicate consists of too shrewd a group of
business men for the rest of the world
to believe that it will be content with a
measly return of $3,607 on an outlay ot
M.f0,000. The members of the syndicate
may be philanthropists, It is true, but the
suggestion has not the air of plausibility
these piping times of dollars and graft.
Every cent of the profit of the Equitable
above tho sum of $7.0"0 pledged In annual
dividends to the stockholders every
penny above the sum spent In reasonable
salurles and the expenses of conduction
the business brtongs absolutely to tho
policy holders. These have put up the
money. All earnings of that money aro
theirs. These Include Interest on loans
and deposits and profits on Investments,
The stockholders and officers are entitled
to nothing but their fixed dividends and
salaries.
What, then, Is the game to be played by
the Ryan syndicate? Not only the Equit
able policy holders, but the public at
large, would like to know.
LINES TO A SMILE.
"Somebody says the Russians have r.
such word as 'hurrah.' "
"Well, we are a good deal more Inter
estM Just now in finding out whether the
nave any suc h word as 'enough. Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"Are you hnppy, now that you are
rich?'' asked an old-time friend.
"I don't know ns I'm happy.'' answered
Mr. Cumrox; "but I'm dead sure I'm not
as discontented as 1 would be If I was
broke." Washington Star.
Lot and his wife were fleeing from
Sodom.
"He-he," they snickered, "this time we
leave Instead of the cook."
In tho exuberance of her Joy, Mrs. Lot
forgot and looked back. New York Sun.
Jaxon Why do preachers always wea
long coats?
Jonson To cover the patches In their
trousers. Cleveland Leader.
"You never hear ot the Scadwells' family
skeleton nowadays," observed Rivers.
"No," said Brooks. "They have ac
cumulated so many bones that everybody
has forgotten its existence." Chicago
Tribune.
Bosh Blanket stammers frightfully; but
there's one time when he never hesitates.
Josh When's that?"
Bosh When he comes for the rent; he's
our landlord. Detroit Free Press.
1
Shaver Do you believe that "early to
bed'1 makes a man wealthy?
Old Boy Well, er yes. You see If he
goes early to bed It keeps him from
squandering his money at night.' Detroit
Free Press.
Letttaa- Himself Down Easy.
Chicago Chronicle.
Though the cxar may lack something of
complete greatness as a monarch, he has
no superior In the gentle art of letting him
self down easy. His reply to President
Roosevelt's peace representations reads as
though Russia were generously manifest
ing mercy and consideration to Japan. It
reads so much that way, in fact, that
Japan may not like It. In that case some.
thing of the tone of condescension will
have to be abated or else General Llnevitch
will have all the fighting be yearns for.
A Hint of What Mlsrht Be.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The dreadful fate of the torpedo boats
and submarine craft attacking the fortifi
cations at Fortress Monroe are a hint to
Admiral Togo of what he would have been
up against if it had been Uncle Sam he
met in the Tsushima straits.
WIIEX THE RAILROAD DKOITED IS.
Wallace Irwin in New York Globe.
(A .J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsyl
vania railroad, has had a private Interview
with Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia in tho
latter's office.)
When the Railroad dropped In to see
Weaver
It made Just a casual call,
For the Railroad Is not a deceiver
And wily? dear, no; not at all!
It doubtless came round Just to proffer
Its aid In the eauso of reform.
To strangle the grafters and offer
The Cause Its encouragement warm.
When the Railroad sent round Its Head
Spieler
He doubtless evolved a great plan
To make every man a square dealer
With a Square Deal for Every Man.
He doubtless brought specie In bucket
Good government's clalniB to sccuie,
And offered to spend many ducats
To make Philadelphia pure.
But If. when the Railroad saw Weaver,
It flaahed the bright wages of sin
And whispered like Nick, the Deceiver, s
"How much do you ask to come In?"
We'd feel such a scorn for the Railroad,
Such sad disappointment, In fact
But we all of us know that the Railroad
Would never commit such an actl
Browning, ICing & Co
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"Experience has
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