TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE; MONDAY, JTTNE 3. 1907. 5 ! s f i '; Hie Omaha Daily Bel FOUNDED 'BY KDWARD ROB SW ATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflc a second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, rally Be without Sur.day). one .year ...W HO Dally Bee and Sunday on year " Sunday Doe. one year..... 2jJ Saturday Bee, one year Lou DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..!6e Dally Bee (witlwut Sunday), per wk,..10o Evening Pee rhdut Sunduyi. P"r week. So Evening He (with Hunday per week. ...loo Adrlreavall complaint of Irregularities In delivery t4 CUy Circulation Deparimeot , - OFFICES. OmahaVThg' Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs la Scott ffcreet, Chlreg--Ite-Cnlty Building. . New fork laH Home Life Insurance Bldg. , Washington itl Fourteenth Btrt. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating' t neWs and edi torial matter should be addreaaed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. , REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall account. ,1'eraonftJ LcMMka, exrepton Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 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, General Manager. 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.