TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE; MONDAY, JTTNE 3. 1907.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
BtVf "f Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.
Charles C Roacwater, general manflfrer
of The. Bee, Publishing- Company, betnir
duly inm, says that th actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee print Hi
during the month of May, 1907, waa na
follow:
35,650
38,810
38,290
38,410
. .V 34,800
38,689
. .... 35,480
,ifi 88.J90
18 85,780
-19.-.".. 83,800
20 35,370
21 38,620
12....... 38,810
13.......... 38,600
14. ......... 38,890
5....v.... . 38,800
26...: 34,600
27 38,460
28.,., 38,810
29...;. 36,010
SO..... 38,620
II.: 33,810
38,730
10 38,290
11 35,390
12 84,880
tl 38,420
(4 38,380
15 88,830
18 38,400:
17 38,300
Total... L096.620
Leaa ufiaold and returned coplea 9,667
Net total 1.086.P83
Dally average. . , ............ x- .. . 35,063
CHARLES C. ROSE-WATER,
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Subscribed in my pretence and iwom to
before me thla Slat day of May. 1907.
(Seal) M. B. HUNG ATE,
. Votary Public.
WHE Ol'T OF T.OWJI.
Subscribers lenTlna; t elty tens
porarlly , should .kar' The Bee
mailed t them. Address will be
changed aa often aa requested.
Incidentally, the man who started
the story about a cat having nine lives
wag something of a "nature fakir."
The ducking of two seniors by the
under classmen at a Nebraska college
Is another evidence that the worm will
turn. 1 r t s 'H (
Tho president should, In common
Justice, take time to define, the dis
tinction between "nature fakirs" and
natural fakirs.
The Department of Agriculture has
discovered a green rat Tne depart
ment should get on the water wagon
before It begins to discover ptnk ele
phants. i ' :v
r .f
"Where do you people put your
money?" thundered a Detroit preacher
who promptly stopped to wonder why
every woman In the ' congregation
blushed. .. ' ' .
It might be different If the official
scorer' would give the top of the
column to the fellow who hits the
highball instead of the' one that hits
the base ball.
One million dollars actually In hand
In cash Is the condition of tho Ne
braska state treasury and the public
Is told by the treasurer where the
money Is kept.
While wages have been advanced
considerably, the prices quoted at the
corner grocery furnish sufficient guar
antee that the wage earner will escape
tha disgrace of dying rich...
: A silver dollar In the vest pocket
if a New York man stopped a bullet
and saved his life. I the life ot a
man who carries silver doJlarB in his
test pocket, worth navlngt .
"The Knox, presidential boom ' la
being taken seriously In Pennsylvania"
layB the Washington Post.. Sure. The
Pennsylvania politicians will take any
thing that Is loose at one end.
The man .who. stole t eight clocks
from school rooms in Kansas City was
I r res ted and booked as "John. Doe."
lie should have been booked as "John
Procrastination," the thief of time.
The Missouri river is making a fee
ble attempt to attract attention away
from the weather.. "It -will bo several
day 8, however, before the Big Muddy
cam kave the' top head oa the front
sage. ' " . , ;
That Chicago woman, who testified
in court 0at her husband took 2,385
drinks In one year, stubbornly refused
to admit as a mitigating circumstance
the fact that the poor fellow had to
'Jve In Chicago.
Kansas City has a man who has
ilept eight weeks without a break. A
man of that kind would be elected
mayor without a contest If he lived la
Philadelphia Instead of In a town west
f the Alleghenles. . '
Increased traffic demands slower
time, according to the railroad sched-.
lie makers. The logic of this Is about
is clear, as tbe stUtaoe of tho mag
nates on some ether quyttlons in which
'he public Is Interested.
"The country could well have af
forded to pay Joe Cannon a salary
f $1,000,000 a year for the last
years" saya Congressman Charles K.
Scott of Kansas. Occasionally you
strike a Kansas congressman whoa
head Is so full of surging thoughta
that It aches all the time
MR. BRTAN AXU TBI RATt LAW.
If there Is anything In the theory and
adage that "a fellow feeling makes us
wondrous kind," Senator Foraker
Ought to write a nicely worded letter
cf congratulation and thanks -' to
Colonel W. J. Bryan, Falrvlew, Neb.
Senator Foraker Insisted, while the
present railway rate regulation law
was demanding the .consideration of
the senate, that the measure was In
competent, Irrelevant, unconstitutional.
Hot proper cross-examination and
inimical to the vested' Interests spe
cifically represented in the senate by
the gentleman from Ohio. In spite of
such protect, the law waa passed and
Senator Foraker went Into mourning.
His first message of consolation comes
from Mr. Bryan, who, , in a recent ad
dress, said:
What la the .effect of our new' rate law,
which waa so hard to get? There are two
effects ao far. One la It stopped rebates.
That la good, but what waa the pecuniary
effect? Why, the railroad Tteep the money
they paid to the favored ahlppera. What
waa the other effect? It .stopped paaaes.
What did that do? It nave to the railroads
th money that the fellows Ueod to save
that rode on paaae. ; So far we have In
creased ' the revenuea of . the roaxla, and
that Is all that lawvhaa done thus far.
Mr. Bryan, who has emitted volumes
ot eloquent protest against placing
"the dollar above the man," Is hardly
consistent In Inquiring Into the dis
position of tho pecuniary benefits of
the pernicious system of railroad re
bating. The railroads, it Is true, profit
by theabolltlon of rebates, but .the
evil of the system rested In the fact
that It gave favored shippers a dis
criminating rate which ,was used to
stifle competition and to lend the aid
of transportation companies to the
plans of gigantic .combinations to con
trol the trade In Bpeclal lines of com
modities. The abolition of the system,
coupled with the power of the Inter
state Commerce commission to abolish
unreasonable rates and fix' reasonable
ones, is the severest blow the trusts
have received at the hands of the pres
ent republican administration. If Mr.
Bryan does not appreciate this fact
ho must confess that ' his mental
acumen has become dulled.
The peerless leader's argument that
the only purpose served by. the aboli
tion of the free pass system has been
to give the railroads "the money that
the fellows used to save who rode on
passes" Is another sample of the ar
rant demagogery to which Mr. Bryan
occasionally descends. Aside from the
pernicious Influence of the free pass In
business and politics, the most potent
argument in support of the agitation
for the removal of the pass has been
that by making the "fellows who rode
on passes" pay their fare the railroad
companies would be able to reduce the
rate of fare to the fellows who pay
their way. The 2-cent passenger fare
law has been a companion piece In
c early every state In the union of the
law abolishing the free pass. The aboli
tion of the Tree pass has been followed
by a reduction In" passenger rales, just
as the abolition of the rebate system
has resulted In a reduction and re
adjustment of freight rates. 11 Every
paying patron of the transportation
companies has been benefited by the
rate law. In attacking the measure
Mr. Bryan has simply picked out an
other windmill and challenged It to
battle. . .
DIRECTOR ROBERTS' FINANCIAL PLAN.
, George E. Roberts of Iowa, director
of the United States mint, has made
the most notable contribution of recent
years to the ever present discussion of
plans of reforming the national cur
rency system. While the Bentlment of
the country Is against any "tinkering"
with financial laws and while congress
Is remarkably reluctant to give con
sideration to bills looking to changes
In existing laws,. the students of finance
generally admit that the present sys
tem la defective In several Important
respects. Every session of bankers and
financial agents that has been held In
the last few years has called attention
to these defects and suggosted reme
dies. Most of these remedies have been
rejected by congress. Mr. ' Roberts,
who gained his position In the govern
ment service by his answer to "Coin"
Harvey in the campaign of 1896, has
made a thorough study of the subject
and, his recent magazine article, sug
gesting the establishment of a central
bank of the United States as a correc
tion of the evils and defects of the
present currency system is attracting
wide attention ' and much favorable
comment.
The proposition as outlined by Di
rector Roberts Is that the stork of such
central bank should be held by na
tional and state banks in proportion to
their capitalisation; that Its capital
should not be less than $50,000,000.
with" authority to Issue notes to the
amount ot $100,000,000, and, it neces
sary, more, but under a tax provision
similar to that obtaining in Germany;
that this institution should be a bank
for bankers only; that It should estab
lish a branch In every city where there
Is now a subtreasury, and, at least,
one In each state; that the present
functions ot the subtreaBurles should
be turned over to It, and that it should
handle the receipts and disbursements
for the-government; that the stock
holders, that Is to say, the state and
national banks, shall select a board
of directors, due regard for territorial
representation being observed; that an
executive board of five should be
created, of which the secretary of the
treasury, the controller of the currency
and the treasurer of the United States
should always be members, the other
two to be chosen by the directors.
wAlch executive board should deter
mine the policy of th bank; that the
executive officers should be named by
the .secretary 1 of tha treasury Irom a
list supplied by the directors, and that
there should be a corps of inspectors
and auditors appointed In part by the
secretary of the treasury and In part
by the directors.
The plan is by no means new, as
both the Bank of France and the Im
perial Bank of Germany are modeled
along these lines. Many strong argu
ments may be urged In favor of the
proposition. Such a bank could not fall
under the control of any one locality
and through it elasticity, so much
needed In the present currency system,
could be provided. The note-Issuing
power oT the bank would, It Is con
tended, make the country Independent
of financial conditions,, abroad. Per
haps the strongest argument in sup
port of the plan Is that under such a
central bank the power of a single
bank, or a combination of them, could
not be used to Inflate or depress securi
ties by manipulating Interest rates, as
Is done by the Wall street banks today.
In the discussion that must come be
fore any final action looking to a
change in the currency system, Mr.
Roberts' plan is certain to play a con
spicuous part.
Tilt GARBAGE QUESTION.
The collection and disposition of
refuse and offal of all kinds ls'an ever
present problem in city administra
tion. It Is absolutely essential that
bo rue arrangement for this be made
and that the operation be carried on
continuously that the. health of the
citizens may be preserved from the
menace of epidemic disease. Experi
ence has demonstrated to the satisfac
tion of all that this matter cannot be
trusted to private enterprise. It must
be done under control of some central
authority, and that authority must be
vested In some man sufficiently Inter
ested and sufficiently courageous to
secure rigid enforcement of the law.
Omaha has suffered for many years
through the operation of private col
lection and disposition of garbage.
Disputes of various kinds have arisen
and at times the attention ot the
courts has been -occupied In the settle
ment of arguments over the matter.
All this disputation and contention has
been of little avail as regards the defi
nite adjustment of the question.' Those
who have given the matter thought are
agreed that the only solution is the as
sumption of the duty by the city.
A step In this direction has been
taken In the contract recently made
which provides for the collection with
out cost to the householder of kitchen
refuse that can be rendered, but a
large amount of household refuse, such
as ashes and the like, still remains un
disposed of. . It Is proposed by the
clty'B health officer that a uniform
system for the collection and disposal
of this class ot garbage be adopted, the
expense to bo borne by the house
holder. Whether the new plan can be
mado to work more successfully than
any of its predecessors is problematic.
It has the merit, however, of being one
Btep further toward the goal of public
collodion and disposal. The necessity
for the reform needs no argumeut.
ART AKU TUK LAWTKB.
St. Louis recently voted to tax its
citizens $100,000 for the support and
promotion of an art museum,, the out
growth of the Impetus given to the
artistic sentiment of the sU'dyeld city
by Its recent exposition. In the midst
of ihe congratulations that were being
exchanged among the elect of the city
over the result at the polls came a
discordant note from Lawyer Ander
son, city attorney. Lawyer Anderson,
it appears, in viewing the room he was
to occupy In the city building, was
shocked by the sight of a perfect figure
done In bronze that was a part of the
decoration of his new quartets. As
soon as he had temporarily recovered
possession ot his faculties he declared
that the bronze figure must go, and
that, furthermore, one of his first
official acta would be to ask the courts
to decree that all such statues and
figures used in decorative purposes
should be properly clothed and made
fit to be presented In polite society.
The rest of the world may not share
Lawyer Anderson's prudery and may
fall to find even an evil suggestion In
the unadorned sculptured form divine,
but the rest of the world does not
know St. Louis. In a town where prom
inent citizens on reception committees
wear evening dress at breakfast func
tions it may be all right to put petti
coats on Venus, baggy trousers on
Apollo Belvldere, and an Atlantic City
bathing suit on Psyche. It is the St.
Louis way.
THE GROWTH OF A NATION.
There is a very romance In the sta
tistics just Issued by the federal gov
ernment showing the rise and develop
ment of the American nation along
different lines. For the first century
of the national history, from the sign
lug of the Declaration of Independence
to 1850, the records of .achievement In
various directions is Imperfect, but for
the. last sixty years the statistical ma
chinery of the government has been
employed in recording an advance
ment beyond historic precedent In the
material prosperity of the nation. From
an estimated puliation of 6.000,000
in 1800, the country has Increased
twenty-fold In a century, the estimated
population of the United States, In
cluding Its Island possessions, now
being more than 100,000,000. The
population per square mile has grown
from six and a half persons In 1800 to
twenty-eight In 190C. In other words,
the country Is taking care of tour
times as many people, according to the
area, as it did a century ago, and
serves them better in every way.
The value of all property in 1800
was $7,000,000,000. Today it Is about
$111,000,000,000. The wealth per
capita has Increased from $$07 In
1860 to $1,316 In 1807. The total
bank deposits in 1876. the earliest
records available, were $2,000,000.
000. while In 1906 there were more
than $12,000,000,000, an Increase of
about a billion dollars a year In the
last decade.
In the Industrial and commercial
lines the Increase has been even more
marked. Imports of merchandise In
1880 amounted to but $90,000,000, as
compared to $1,266,000,000 In 1906.
Exports grew from $71,000,000 In
1880 to $1,744,000,000 la 1906.
American manufacturers employed
1,000,000 people In 1850 and paid
them $237,000,000 In wages. They
employed 6,500,000 persons In 1906
and pa!dthem more than $2,626,000,
000 In wages. The total product of
American factories In 1860 was valued
at less than $1,000,000,000, while the
output In 1906 was In excess of $16,
000,000,000. Even the citizen to whom statistics
are always classified as "dull reading"
must find a source of pride In this
record of achievement that has cot
been equalled or approached by any
other nation under the sun, and which,
by the very nature of physical limita
tions of the globe, can never be duplicated.
The passing of the Chicago Chroni
cle is another evidence that a paper
dependent for support on mere party
prejudice Is foredoomed to failure. The
Chronicle wss In appearance one of the
handsomest papers In the country. It
was carefully edited under the direc
tion of a journalist of wldo experience
and unquestioned ability, but It was
primarily devoted to the exposition of
party politics of the hide-bound order.
It was democratic In Its tone for the
greater part of its existence and then
flopped over and called itself repub
lican. As a result It had not the re
spect' of either party, and neither
friend nor foe cared much for Its opin
ion. Those It supported gave it no
support In return, while those It op
posed merely Ignored It. The result
Is the demise of the Chronicle. It is
merely another of the long list of simi
lar publications that have como to a
similar epd. .
Railroad attorneys found It a trifle
more difficult to "make up the record"
for the State Board of Assessment this
year. In times happily past the rail
road attorneys have secured what they
wanted with so little effort that the
attitude of the present board is any
thing but pleasing to them. It will be
remembered that last fall notice was
served on the ralhoada of Nebraska
that the people propoeed to put "hick
ory" Into the state bouse instead of
"willow."
The police surgeon of Terre Haute,
Ind.,' Is convinced that tragedies are
suggested by moving picture shows.
Perhaps. The average peaceful citizen
who sits through a modern moving
picture show wlthoutojoslng his eye
sight has to exercise "rare self-control
to keep from whipping1 his wife-when
he gets home. ,.'''.''
The dispute between tho packers
and the commission men over the
"she stuff" has one singular phase.
Doctors of men are insisting on life In
the open air as a preventive, at least,
if not a cure for tubercular troubles.
Whose life Is more largely spent in the
open air than that of the range cow?
France formally announces that It
entertains no objection to the purchase
of the Danish West Indies by the
United States. All right for France,
and very kind of her at that, but the
United States objects. The gold-brlcked
child dreads the bunko' steerer.
The Washington correspondents
havo already completed the message
which President Roosevelt will send
to the Sixtieth' congress. Work of this
character must be appreciated by the
president, who Is a very busy man.
Famnni Prophet-lea rteemlled.
MlnneODolls Journal.
Eleven yeara ago Mr. Bryan predicted !
dollar wheat. We have It. He also pre-1
dieted ll.zy anver wnico wa umn i get.
What Conxrrta Overlooked.
Waahlngton Herald.
The end of the government's fecal year
allows a aurplua of something- like 8i5.CW.000.
Congrcaa never will be able ttf forgive It
aelf for this.
Effect of a Tight Lid.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat."
Sines the banishment of the breweries
and the tightening of the Interstate lid
It has been found expedient to abandon the
fast mall trains between. Missouri and
Kansas points.
' . Stolen Hour of Dllaa.
Louisville Courter-Joutnal.
Thomas A. Edison rlsee at t.W every
morning. What doe It profit a man If he
Invent fifty-seven varieties of talking ma
chine and yet knowa not the Joy of telling
the bell boy and the alarm clock where
they may go while he enjoya another hour
of blessed repose T
Claims of Grain Speculators.
Detroit Free Presa.
No gambling about It. Just a straight,
legitimate transaction. Men dea( In grain
aa In horsca or government bonds. Thla
is the assurance of thoae who "put, call
and margin," and there la nelthor time
nor space to explain how closely they ad
hered to the rule while buying and selling
more wheat within the last few wceka than
the country haa raised since the pilgrim
fathers used Plymouth rook aa a landing
dock.
When Drmneraey May Win.
Philadelphia Record.
Dr." Miller of Omaha, lor-.g a member of
th democratic national committee, haa re
turned to hla home from an eastern vuilt
In the course of which ho visited Mr. 1
Cleveland and describes him aa In fine
condition, physically and mentally, and
aays: "Mr. Cleveland deeply deplores the
socialistic tendencies now observable In thla
oountry, and he especially doplore Condi
tions that exlat at this time In th demo
cratic party." When the democratic party
ahall get ready to aupport a man Ilk Mr.
Tllden and Mr. Cleveland, and platforma
that embody the historic doctrine of the
party. It caa win another election. Until
tiiea It wul now
hits or WAfHimroi Lire.
Minor eeaea and laeldaate Sltelehed
the Spot.
"In the original makeup of human na
ture." says tho Cincinnati Enquirer, "there
niuat have been a large proportion of gulli
bility, for there are few people ao experi
enced or Instructed that they are without
atreak of It In their compoeltton. The
most callous worldling of them all baa a
an ft spot somewhere, and. no matter how
sophisticated, haa credulous aide which
can be reached If he Is skillfully handled.
Few are free from some pet euperetltlon,
no matter how much they boast exemption
from anything of the sort. Nothing In hla-
tory la more surpiialng then the peralat-
ence of some forma of delusion.
"Striking proof of the quoted assertions
la aupplied by the owner of the Enquirer.
John It. McLean la constructing In Wash
ington a new realdence on the site of hla
old one. Fearful of the auperstltlon that
a man who bullda a new home after pass-
Ing the age of SO will die soon after occu-
granltexthe walla of the old home. Thus!
he hopes to exorclae the evil auperatltlon,
secure a new home, and goea about with
a light heart rejoicing at the Ingenuity of
hla fairy akiddoo. There Is no reason to
expect he will top off his happlneaa by
joining the Thirteen cluhw
For several weeke Secretary Oarfleld has
had a 'firm of expert accountants going
over the hooka end records of the great
Interior department, wtlh the object In
view of reducing Its bookkeeping methode
to the modern aystem. It haa been many
yeara elnce anything like this haa been
done In any of the departmenta, aaya the
Waahlngton Herald, Snd It la believed that
Secretary 'Garfleld'a example will be fol-lom-ed
by other members of the cabinet.
Scores of millions oldollars nearly $1M.-
000,000 by the pension, bureau alone are an
nually disbursed by the Interior depart-
ment, while many millions also are collected
by the department In the sale of public
landa, etc. The old aystem of bookkeeping
la thorough enough, but It la said to be
too slow In Its oivratlon to meet the In
creased requirements of the time. It Is
not even vaguely suspected that anything
of a criminal nature will be found aa a re
sult of( the work now being done by tfa j
expert accountants, though It Is thought i the rallroada of the atate are at liberty to
not Improbable the unnecessary leaks will j conceal all arrangementa which may have
be discovered and etopped. It Is under- , been mado with certain parties to furnish
stood that one of the private recommends- j transportation- at lcaa than the 2-cent rate
tlona made by the Keep commission to the , required by law, the atatute will be In
presldent was that Juat such an Investlga- j operative and might aa well never have
tlon and checking up as is now being made , terl paased. Now Is the time aomething
by Secretary Garfield be undertaken by J mugt be done to mke lhe worK o the
experta In no way connected with the gov- j ie88atorB effective.
ernment service, sir. uarneia waa mem
ber of the Keep commission, and naturally
lie would be the first cabinet officer to In
augurate the work.
The tipping of dining car waitera haa
now been formally recognised as a neces
sity by the national government. After
July 1 there la to be an allowance of 40
eents a day for tips to waitera In the ex
pense accounts of government officials who
are traveling on public business. Some
time ago tips to porters and others were
authorized, but the waitera were lcrt out.
A protest waa made and the coming change
la the .result It Is said that on the aver-
-t .mrmt officials are on the
road dally which would mean an annual
cost to the government of $105,830. or $30
day. Just for tips to waitera.
President Roosevelt haa Issued an order
setting aside the Devil's Tower, a peculiar ; slr-e-e," objected the owner, "you can t
geographical formation In northeastern assess It. Don't you see It's marked non
Wyoming, as a national monument and a assessable r "
federal reserve. . Nearly 2.000 acres of land Columbus Journal: Nowadays no one
also are set aside with the tower. Thla re- J rldea on railroad passes except employes
serve will be under the care ef the general and their families. In former yeara every-
land office of that district, no entries win
be allowed on It and .every e.Tort win te
made to protect the tower from Injury.
This Devil's TOwer Is S chlmnny-llke
mountain of rock that rlsee 803 feet atmve
the aurroundlfig country tond for almost 800
feet la nearly perpendicular and devoid of
any growth or vegetation. The top of the
tower Is large enough in area for a base
ball team to play a good gamo and Is cov-
ered with a scant aoll formed from tho
disintegrated rock and bearing moas, ca :ua
and ferns.
Two men are known to have climbed this
tower at the risk of their lives. One of
them was Jack Rogers, an Old cowboy, and
the other was Arthur Jobe. a young en-
gmcer for the Homestake Mining company.
The tower atands on the bank of the
upper Belle Fourche river and has bee,,
for year, one of the landmarks of tha eoun-
try. It was at one time Included In an
entry made by Miss Kent, an Engllah
woman, who filed on a homestead Including
this mountain. This entry afterward waa
canceled
In the Judgment of Secretary" Wllsfin.
some members of the cabinet should write
the life of Theodore Roosevelt. In order
that future generations of Americans, and
mankind In general, may have the oppor-
tunlty to secure a truthful Insight Into the
remarkable character and achievements of
the nr.iM.nL Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cortel-
vn., .re th.. nnlv enhlnet rfflrers whoso
service annns the entire period of the pr1-
flenf. lne.:mhencv of the White House, and
as Mr. Cortolyou is not as practical In tho mce- Bna 14 d"" nt matter whether the
art of writing as Mr. Wilson. It Is su?- reform he advoeatea la a fake or not,
gested that the a-retary of agriculture nor whether or not It la successful. The
himself may essay the task he has pro- , reformer Is still a fake If he advocates
I the measure from the motives above
' stated. The real reformer goea into It
Secretary Ellhu Root Is supposed to he because there ar wrongs, or there seam
one of the best rM sttomevs In the ! to hlm to be wronga, that ought to be
Vnlted States. When he was s-rrctarv of . righted, and without considering the eon
wsr he frequently went horseback riding : sequences to himself, nor the chanoea of
with Genersl Henry C. CorMn. the ad- ,' "ory or oeieai. ne waaej in ana gives
Jutant general of the army. Secretnry battle. Such a man la a genuine re
Root never spoke once during their many former, even though his measures, may
rldea. The silence beenmo embarrassing be tlat onJ Billy as Colonel Bryan's, and
. . mini, r.ll A 1 b m a 1 ! .. l ... . .
to Corbln. who made many fruitless efforts
to enirage Root In conversation. Recomln i
dernorata after his failures. Corbln. In i
speaking of the dilemma, exclaimed: "Why.
the man Is ao accustomed to belne. paid
for talking, that I'll be hanged if I bellevi
be will talk unless he Is pa'd for It. I'll
have to rT him a stiff foe to hear the
sound of his voice."
SOl NfO TALK RT THE PRESIDENT.
Sentiment that Comma ads the
An,
prsnl f the Conn try.
St. Louis Republic.
President Roosevelt will have the warm
approval of the country for the firm, and
at the same time conservative, tone of hla
references to the railroads In the speech at
Indianapolla.
That the roads should be restrained from
overcapitalisation, that no man should be
permitted hereafter to plunder others by
loading railway properties with obligations
and pocketing the money, Instead of spend
ing It for Improvement and In legitimate
corporate purposes, are propositions so Just
that there ran be no dissent from them.
Popular approval will be equally unani
mous for the president's contention that
railroads ahould be held strictly to the
transportation business, and that they be
especially restrained from using any por
tion of their capital or resources In specu
lation. In theac and similar recommenda
tions the president emphasises previous ut
terance of hi well known policy of rail
road regulation.
Th conservatism of th new matter In
the Indianapolla addreaa ta no leaa weloome
than the firmness of his stand on ground
previously taken. That the roada should
be permitted to acquire connecting line
while being restrained from controlling
Competing line la almost an axiom of th
expanding transportation servlc of this
country ef magnlflceal distant;
' .
" 8TATBI rfcEM COMwEIT.
Norfolk Weekly Freae: Tom Allen aays
the Mlseourl Pacific railroad committed a
aerloua blunder In placing hie name In Ita
list of paaariolders. During the last etats
campaign, Tom denied that he was rail
road attorney and he propoeea to stick to
It if It takea all the hair he haa on the
top of hla head. In the place where the hair
ought to grow.
Tork Time: The rhancea are there will
be no democrat ticket In Tork county
this fall, nor any but the republican
ticket. It coats more to get one's name
on the primary ballot than the chance
J cf ,iPCtion la worth. The opposition haa
had trouble to find candldatea In the past.
when It cost nothing. How much would
you give for the chance to run on the
democratic or populist ticket agalnat Bob
Copaey thla fall or any ef the other men
whom the republicans are liable to nom
nftt? If our democratic friends have
j cndda,ei ftt aIl tn,y w, hav io pM,
,h- ha, t t ,h money to MrAy ,he
Alliance Times: Thoae who figure on
being candldatea for county olTlc.- thla
fall should not overlook the changes due
te the new primary law, and the fact that
It Is necessary to place their announce
ment In a county paper. Many of the
(a per a in the eaatern part ef trie state
have a doien or more of theae announce
ments regularly running In their col
umna now, the charge which the presa
seems to be universally making Is ft
cash for an announcement of ten lines,
to run until date f primary election.
Wake up. gentlemen, and make your
wanta known. The succesaful man can
not be too modest In politics and the
beat man win.
Central City Record: Sliver Creek has
had the question of a double telephone sys
tem thrust upon them, the Monroe Inde-
pendent Telephone company having re-
I quested a franchise for the Installation of
! their system. The village board refused to
.' grant the franohlaa by a unanimous vote,
holding that a second aystem would be
"vexations, expensive and undesirable."
Holdrege, Progress: Now that a portion of
the railroad magnates have hurled their
defy against the State Railroad commission.
something may be expected to happen. If
Bell wood Gazette: A new crop of auek
era la ripening every day. Let an oily
atranger come along with any kind of a
proposition and he finds a sure harvest.
It Is strange that men can be made to
believe that the well-dressed stranger
with promises galore la simply devoting
his time to traveling from place to place
for the purpose of bestowing wealth upon
men he has never seen. Yet that la Juat
what the average promoter professes to
be doing. If you want to play aucker
awallow his bait and retent at your
j le""". Over in Polk county a number
f Prosperous farmers have taken fliers
In the stock of a projected electric rail
t road which sella at li cents on the dollar.
with bonuses thrown in of free trans
portation to buyera. The assessor visited
one such the other day and proposed
to list his atock for taxation. 'No.
one who possibly could get free transports
tlon would gladly do it. Theft there were
no . laws against giving and accepting
passes, - while now there are auch laws on
; our atatute books, and our Nebraaka peopli
as a cIasi are no violators of laws If they
i know t But every now am, then
i democratic editor, who has alwaya used
paMe, an,i free transportation for hlmaelf,
famIly and hi empl,jyea sa long. and aj
ften a, hJ fet lhem w(mU BOm)lb)dv
iomlnate(J for omft offlce DecauM ,hat
' aomebody has never rode on passes. That
, th- ma,n Met hu candldat0 fcM Lgl
y,ap Judg9 0rave w nomlnated for
congre by th, democrat, of thla d!ltrlct
becaulMS u wa, ,aa of hm
a pa .. whM th-
turne(1 on b,m R wa foun1 that
tr
fof an1 an
B & M rauroad
' '
( York Times: There haa been a good
. f efll of '"l 0t reformera" of
' At 1 ,l wa by tho" who were
j not exactly In sympathy with the reform
' ,allt of the tlmes' n distrusted the
Mlf-appolnted Jeadors. but of late It Is
tho lders themselves, axultlng In
; the "uccess of their 'fake reforms," as
j ihV Jocularly call them. When a new
word or Phrase is sprung, we are always
constrained to analyse It If we can, and
nnn out wnai it means, it occurs to us that
fake reformer la one who goes . Into
the reform business from personal and
""n motive, as to gain popularity and
" " tmnpioieiy u
the visionary achemes of the greatest
a'"'Ocrat nave aone. The "fako re
former" is short on sincerity and long on
'""n:. n no ooes not Become a
aenulne reformer because his contentions
prevail, nor because the reforms he ad
vocates are necessary or right.
BROAD . DEMOCR ACY.
Cross-country Walk of the President
nnd Vie President.
Kansas City Times.
It wa a striking commentary on the
broad democracy of this great nation when
President Roosevelt and Vice President
Falrbanka took advantage of a train wait
near Akron, O., to take a cross-country
walk unattended. This" walk covered six
miles along roada, through lanes, over fields
and across timber lots. It was broken by
a stop at a farm house, where th First
Citizen and th Second Cltlsen of the
country Introduced themselves, talked with
the farmer's wife and children and drank
milk. It waa a natural, enjoyable jaunt,
and It waa Intensely democratic. Never
theless, there Is Just enough hero worship,
even In this great democracy, to make that
farmer's wife and children the envied of
the community snd that farm house a
marked place. No matter how old thoae
children grow to be they will repeat the
aury of the visit of tho president and vice
president In the year 10u7.
Crnel snd Billy Canard.
Pittsburg Despatch.
That Csolgo story from Cleveland
proved a silly canard, aa might have been
expected. Assassination rarely run a
family trait and It 1 nothing short ef
cruel to atart a horrible story about a
man who ha gone on aa laudable a mission
as the placing ef flowers en hi deceased
wife s grave.
"HOSTILITY TO RAILROADS."
Aa Overworked rsira.se Deal ta
Deeelve.
. Hartford (Conn.) CouranU
There la a lot of cheap talk about the pre
vailing "hoetlllty to rallroada." It gets Ita
deceptive start among railroad managers,
and It doe nd little harm Id soms circles
where a phraae Is worth mora thao a
thought.
There la not any hostility te railroads la
thla country. There might as well be hoe
tlllty to terra firms, or to the attraction
of gravitation, or to our dally bread. The
railroad has become fundamental and es
sential to our scheme of living. Stop the
railroads and you atsrve the cities and
destroy modem civilisation. The paaaen
gere In a vessel at sea are not hestlle to
the ship; It Is what keep them alive. If
there Is any hoetlllty. It Is against th of
ficers. So. In this ao-called railroad problem, th
hostility that ha developed Is agalnat
those who hav ao managed th roads as
to provoke the wrath of th country. It
strikes us aa a difficult proposition to ar
gue that there could be ao many hoetll
demonstrations and no foundation for
them. There Is a real reason, and every
thinking person knows It. Such a report
as waa published Monday, made by Her
bert Knox Smith, a man personally knowm
hereabouts aa level-headed and Judlclou,
shows how th trust vested In railroad
managers had been abased. It's that sort
of thing that haa caused th feeling. Power
I a dangemua article for any mortal maa
to exercise. Most of us want It and few.
Indeed, know how to us It wisely and
Justly.
Th railroad managers have used It for
speculative purpose In Wall street, and
for the advancement ef one Interest and
the destruction of another through th
country. Forgetting that their roads ar
seml-publlc, they have conducted them
personal operations. The financial Inter
ests of this great nation center In th
speculation In railroad aecurltle In New
Tork. Whether John 8m1th In th gro
cery business and John Jone In the manu
facturing business can borrow needed cap
ital at reasonable rate depends on how
much the banks have tied themeelve up
with the gigantic scheme of railroad ma
nipulators. The bualnesa of railroads It
primarily to carry passengers and freight
for the benefit of the public No Individual
was ever compelled to Invest In them. That
side of the picture Is only Incidental.
By and by, perhaps, the rallroada will b
conducted according to the purpoae for
which they were chartered. When that
comes, the kicker will be th gambling
element whose opportunity to exploit th
public for personal advantage will hav
gone with the Improvement of commercial
morality.
PF.RSOHAI, JtOTEi.
Greater rittsburg vaulting ambition ex
tend even to the cemeterle. It proposes
to establish a "greater city of the dead"
by merging the graveyards.
Having eaved II. 000 In six years out of
hi pay, a Kansas City etreet ,car con
ductor proposes to take hi wife to Europ
and spend It all. Comparatively few street
car conductors act thla way.
On Monday Julia Ward Howe celebrated
her 88th birthday, and to show how spry
she waa, entered the elevator at her horn
In Boston and ran the machine - up and
down three stories to accommodate a visi
tor.
The Illinois girl who ha made her ac
ceptance of an- offer of marriage con
tingent upon the winning of a race by a
horte belonging to her aultor auggesta sev
eral things, among them that If the maa
haa any frlenda his horse .will go lam tbm .
day of the contest.
When It comes to founding newspaper.
Daniel Frederick Shiner of Dayton, O.,
has a record probably unequalled by any
other man In the country. During his
seventy-one years he haa established
thirty-six newspapers, thirty-two of which,
still survive.
A man who escaped jail in Tennessee
twenty-live years ago, and thereafter led
an upright life, has Just been returned
to his cell, having been betrayed by his
wife, to whom, as a point of honor, h
had told the story at the time of their
marriage. Somehow there will be a feeling
that in not providing her a cell, too, the
slate will not be doing It full duty.
Rarely in American politics does a man
running for office have the honor ot being
elocted without opposition. This unusuui
distinction befalls D. R. Anthony, Jr., who
waa nominated tor congreaa by the repub
licans of the First district of Kansas, and
the democrats of the district met and re
solved to make no nomination agalnat him,
The new congressman ia editor ot th
Leavenworth Times and la a nephew of
the late 8usan B. Anthony,
CHIC ICR Y CHAKK.
"Surely," began the young politician,
who was about 10 propose, "you must real
ize what my frequent visits here mean."
"Why, no, ' replied th bright girl,
"since you are a politician I naturally con
cluded that jour 'visits were without Big-nlih-ance.
" iJhlladt'lphia Press.
"Does your wife object when you stay
out late at night?"
-No."
"Why doesn't she?"
"Because I don't do It. Sh won't let
me." Baltimore American.
Judge Prisoner, have you anything to
aay to the court before sentence Is pro
nounced? prisoner I be? the court to consider th
youthfutness of my attorney. Harper
Weakly. I
"I thought you said May Naxset bad
married a good-natured man."
"o alie did."
"Nonsense! I met hlm yesterday end.
he's a srouch."
"Well, he'e been married to May fo
nearly four moniha now, you know." Cb
cago Record-Herald.
"Do you conelder him a great orator?-
"No. answered Senator. Sorghum, "h
Is one of those men who gut reputations aa
orators simply because they happen ta
have a few audiences." Waahlngton Star.
Redd I see roller skate were Invented
bv Plympton In
Greene Yes, but peoole sat down long
before that. Yonkers Statesman.
"I don't mind telling you," aald th
pretty girl confidentially, "that I- want to
take a thorough course In cok'nej In order
to fit myself to be good wife."
"You are doing the right thing, my
dear." aald the matron In charge of th
cooking school. "Mav I ask how soon you
inert to he married?"
"How should I know?" rejoined the
nreMy girl, dslnttly rolling up her sleeves.
"I haven't found the man yet" Chicago
Tribune.
BIRD NEIGHBORS.
Tn an old tin ran In the apple tree
1.1 ve qiiu a tnrirty rarnlly
There Mr. Wren and hla good wife Jenny
Skimp and contrive to save every penny,
To train the voice of their favorite daugh
ter To warble and trill andto ripple Ilk
water.
So she can Join a troupe In th fall,
To aing down south In the treetop tall.
i
So good Mother Wren, with a aatlsfied
shrug,
Shakes out. one morn, her snakesktn rug.
And Mrs. Robin, who Uvea n.r h
Comes to her door to perk and spy.
jwiu wiiii an caimiy dissects
a bug:
"Pray, where did you get that handsome
rua?
Then good Mother Wren. Is proud a
can be,
For she really wsnted her neighbor to e.
ao says, wun a nippani flirt of her
tall:
"I r' , down there at th rummage
Omaha, Neb. BAYOLL NB TRSUJ.