THE IW.il: OMAHA. MONDAY. FKHRUARY 13. 1911.
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tSeal.l KUHERT HUNIBR.
Notary fubilu.
Sabscrlhrr leav:ag taa city I'm
porarlly ahoald hav The Bra
Millra to t a r n v Address will he
clmaird aa often aa raratd.
Have you seen tha robin yet?
"Got your Queue, yet?" is a popular
(juration in Shanghai.
Will the poet laureate write one on
"The Passing of the Lords?"
In Kansas City Mr. Course married
Miss Reef. Cupid's coral strand. .
The next day the sun shone again
somewhere between Antelope and Salt
Creek. 1 .
Morgan's band on tha Independent
telephone may result: in quick action
by central.
The capital removal, bill followed
the example of toe. tafr and came back
immediittely. .'''
If the democrats want a real in
surgent leader, why do they not send
for General Oroico?
Worries for. Jury service In divorce
cases suggests- soma interesting frills
to our. prosaic civil procedure.
In all' this talk about the Illinois
legislature's jackpot, nothing has
been said about who got tha kitty. ,v
Has anybody thought to consult
tha Southern hotel register In St. Louis
for arrivals from Springfield, 111.7
.
At any rate, the president was able
to give a reason for the faith that
was in biiu on that reciprocity plan.
Later It became known that all that
prevented General Blanco's advance
was the annihilation of his regiment.
The democrats will do well to re
member that republicans never quar
rel among themselves In national
years.
Now that Miss Gould and Lord De
fies have bein quietly married, tha
country may lapse back where It was
before. 1 ' '
Senator Bailey evidently forgot he
bad started out aa a reformer when
he Jumped! 'fnto' the Lorimer band
wagon. Losing their queues will not annoy
those Chinks so much as the Itching
pata when tha Xront hair begins to
grow batii, . c,
If President Dlai could hire Jack
London to read some of his novels to
those Insurgents he might end the
war at ouce.
The question of the hour seems to
be, what will the First congressional
district of Minnesota do with Its ex
congressman? It develops" a fine question of the
right of eminent domain when afun
eral procession 'and a wedding crowd
meet In New York.
Bishop Beecb-r will make a fine
figure of a soldier and ought to look
ell in a chaplain's uniform, If they
tan get one big enough.
Now for tha Panama exposition,
the senate having ratified the action
of the house. Let the first Invitation
be sent to Miss New Orleans.
Now, we know what those Mexican
Insurgenta mean by pressing so bard
against tha Taxaa line. They are af
ter torn of Mr. Carnegle a peace pud
ding. Now, the king has been sworn in,
has addressed parliament; all that re
maina to complete his kingship is to
crown him. Why ba la a hurry about
these things?
Auother recess has been taken In
tha so-called Donahue ouster suit. The
defest of county option lo the Ne
braska legislature may have the effect
of ending the farce.
If Omaha really has a chance for
that postal division headquarters, no
time should be lost in going after it.
The pogtal aervUa ran ba well admin
istered from Omaha.
Wilson and New Democracy.
The question has been ratned s to
the expediency of Governor Woodrow
Wilson's course In adopting the Ore
gon idea ot government. Will it tend
to strengthen or weaken his presiden
tial candidacy? He lias been men
tioned as satisfactory to the conscrvs
tive, not to say reactionary, element
of democracy. How will this action
on his part suit '.hat element? Some
of these old-llnors already have ex
pressed disappointment at the gov
ernor's step The discussion serves to
deepen the IntereBt centering about
blm as the chief rival of Harmon for
the democratic nomination next year.
Hut Dr. Wilson has not begun his
political career with an apparent ef
fort to cater to any class In particu
lar; that is, any class of politicians.
He has been almost defiant thus far in
ignoring safety valves and distress
signals and he Is likely to continue In
that courst. At letist one of the old
guard. Colonel George Harvey, has
failed to find fault with him for It,
too. Colonel Harvey, always an anti
Bryan democrat, does not even waver
in his sjpport of Dr. Wilson because
the doctor stood for the radical Bryan
apostle, James E. Martlne, as against
James Smith, Jr.. an old-liner, for
senator from New Jersey. The col
onel thinks very little of Senator-elect
Martlne as a statesman, but be does
not allow that to dissuade him from
his devotion to Governor Wilson,
whom he halls as "The knight er
rant of the new democracy," and says,
"and as such will be nominated for
president in opposition to William H.
Taft."
Colonel Harvey even goes further
and declares that James Smith, whom
Governor Wilson beat badly, will not
harbor a grudge or seek to subvert
the governor's administration, Imply
ing that he will not oppose him in the
presidential race. This all goes to
show that Governor Harmon must
reckon with Governor Wilson to the
last and that 1012 Is to be an old
fashioned year, so far as the demo
cratic national convention goes.
Wall Street Buying; Magazines.
If if is true that Wall street inter
ests have gobbled up several of the
so-called reform magazines, soma of
which have been classed as muck
rakers, for the purpose of moulding
and controlling public sentiment, we
may have an opportunity of viewing
the effort of predatory wealth to do
with magazines what it has failed to
do with the daily press. Admittedly,
Wall street has tried and failed to
bay up enough dally newspapers to
promote its schemea of politics and
business. Now, let us see If it falls
or succeeds In doing with its chain of
magarlnes all It counts on doing
granting It has secured control of
them." l t ; . '
Not disputing that; corporate Inter
ests may hava soma money 'Invested
in daily newspaper property, it is true
that wherever a paper is known to be
owned by special privilege-seeking
corporations, that minute the paper's
Influence begins to decline and It gen
erally winds up with very little. The
Investment has not been a paying one,
for proof of which the extinction or
sale of several papers once owned by
these men or interests might be cited.
Mr. James J. Hill at one time owned
the St. Paul Globe. The Globe Is not
In existence today.' Its influence died
a long time before it did and it never
was a paying proposition under the
Hill ownership. Had It been, Mr.
Hill probably would not hava stuck ft
in his vest pocket, as he did without
warning one evening.
A paper that exists purely for the
promotion of special privilege is soon
found out and soon discredited. It
will be strange if the same thing does
not hold true with these magazines.
Conserving; Our Phosphates.
One of the big Industries yet to
be developed from natural resources
in the west is phosphate mining and
marketing. It is impossible to con
ceive ot the possibilities of this pos
session, but from discoveries aud tests
made by tha United Statea geological
survey wa know they are tremendous.
Great fields of phosphate have been
founc n Montana and Wyoming and
other western statea. Analyses of
some of the samples recently taken
from deposits near the canon of Big
Hole river, on tha Oregon Short Line,
thirty miles from Butte, show rock of
tha highest grade and beds of great
commercial value.
This proximity to tha big smelters
where sulphide ores are reduced
opens up a new channel of value and
usefulness for reduction of phosphate
rock by means of sulphuric acid, and
according to geological eurvey experts,
afforda a means of untillzlng an ele
ment that now goes to waste In tha
volumes of sulphurous-acid fumes at
these smelters. This, however, is
only one of tha by-product uses to
which these natural resources may be
put. The direct commercial value ot
the rock runs from $4 to S a ton f.
o. b. at the mine In the east and
superphosphate retaila at about $10 a
ton in the east and $17 on the Pacific
coast.
Tba question now arises, why do we
delay in developing such resources,
and the rovernment makes tba answer,
because of insufficient transportation
facilities and markets. But the time
is believed to be not fsr off when
both of these barriers will ba re
moved and the deposits developed.
President Taft has Just recently with
drawn from puolie occupation mil
lions of acres of this kind of lsnd so
that it cannot fall into tha hands of
private investors. In taking this ac
tion, tha president explained:
Tli time ill come hen Ameiican farm
er lll ntrti thTn. We have no porr
fot hirl rxim1tlrn or to charge a d'lty
on export, but If the government on the
nei.urce It will he poesltile fur the govern
ment hi th letisor to cnntrol the product.
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Democracy and Tariff Board.
It has remained for Hon. William
A. Cullop, representative from Indi
ana, to discover and disclose the fatal
fallacy In the proposition for a tariff
board or commission. "It violates ell
established and venerated principle i
In the doctrine of the democratic
party," he says This, we submit, j
ought to settle the matter and line
up every republlcau In congress
against the bill How could a republi
can conscientiously enact a law that
would violate any "well-established
and venerated principle of the demo
cratic party?" It is the keenest, most
penetrating Javelin of logic that has
yet pierced the proposition. Some re
publicans have wavered In their sup
port of this measure, some have
openly opposed It. T.hls final word
from this Wabash democrat should
serve to steady and confirm convic
tions on the adverse side of the bill.
Republicans who have been looking
for some pretext on which to bang
their opposition need look no longer.
Let them come td the rescue of the
democratic party and preserve, invio
late, this venerated principle in its
doctrine by defeating the tariff board
proposition outright.
The next most logical and effective
argument urged by the democrats is
the danger that Instead of being sim
ply a board, the body might become a
commission. "A board," says Web
ster, "is a council convened for busi
ness or an authorized assembly or
meeting; a number of per
sons appointed or selected to sit In
council for the management or direc
tion of some public or private trust."
The same authority defines a com
mission, in the sense here used, as
"A company of persons enjoined to
perfoitn some duty or execute some
trust a body of commissioners."
And a commissioner, it says, is ''A
person who has received a warrant or
commission to perform some office or
execute some business for tba gov
ernment or corporation or person em
ploying him."
Think of creating this board, which
might later be called or become a
commission! The peril of it Is re
flected as plain aa noon-day in Mr.
Cullop's declaration that commissions
are "Inimical to. the underlying
principles of the republic and a men
ace to Its perpetuity." Any man with
half a vision can see this in the na
tion's tottering tread beneath the bur
den of the Interstate Commerce com
mission. Only look back to our
power and virility in 1887 and com
pare them with our wasted energies,
our emaciated resources, our dissi
pated strength ot today if you would
know how completely a commission
can sap tba vitality and undermine
the integrity of a nation.
How can congress, with such a
warning ringing In its ears, proceed
with thla measure?
Uses of Committees.
When the Nebraska legislature was
being organized a great flourish was
made by the majority over the fact
that it wr.s adopting a "popular"
method of naming tba standing com
mittees of both houses. The senate
and house each named a committee
on committees, and these special
bodies worked zealously along to pro
vide the suborganlzations that would
look after the detail work for the
benefit of tha whole, and popular gov
ernment was supposed to have thereby
gained a great triumph. A little later
on In the session the principle was for
gotten when it came to naming special
committees, and the presiding officers
of either branch of the general assem
bly were permitted to resume tha
function, and now we get a still
further illustration of that plan. Com
mittee after committee has brought
in its report on matters referred to it
and has been reversed on the floor by
the body at large, and only this week
did the house In committee of tha
whole reverse the action of one of its
subcommittees and recommend for
passage a bill that had been reported
adversely. On the very next day,
when the measure came up for pas
sage, tha house turned upon Itself and
reversed the action of the committee
of the whole.
Verily, the present session of tha
Nebraska legislature furnishes a most
vivid and impressive Illustration of
the general uselessness of committees,
or else it abows its own incompetence.
A London minister wss called to a
New York church and offered $12,000
a year salary. He was getting $t,
866.50 in England. He wrote in ac
cepting the call: "1 am sure I shall
not need the large stipend you so
graciously offer me." He will proba
bly change his mind when he gets his
first month's gas bill.
Mayor "Jim" sayt he la waiting for
"Doc" Breed to resign before be
names bis successor. Why should
Breed resign? Can't be manage a
theater in Brooklyn and draw hia
salary from Omaha with tha same
grace that be managed a local theater
here while on the city pay roll?
The serious side of Mrs. Carrie Na
tion's nervous collapse which haa sent
ber to a sanitarium Is that this is
but the logical outcome of long time
spent In standing on tba tip ends of
one's nerves.
Governor Aldrich has recalled one
of the prisoners Governor Shallen
berger paroled during the last few
minutes of bis term. Tha responsi
bility for the mistake will naturally
be put where it belongs, but thla does
not remove the danger of similar mis
takes being made in the future. If
clemency is to be shown to convicts It
should be under the administration
of a board' and not be laid entirely on
the governor.
That new member of the Baltimore
Sun's editorial staff, Charles J. Bona
parte, ought to be assigned to the De
partment of Justice In Washington.
He mignt be able to land some good
scoops there.
Insurgency In the Douglaa county
delegation at Lincoln is beginning to
wear a serious aspect. Wa tremble
to think what may happen unless the
recalcitrants ran ba coaxed back on
the reservation.
Weary nf the .loh.
New York World.
The hopeful rumor that Senator Lorimer
will relrn Is especially encouraging to
tlioe of Ills colleagues who would be glad
of the opportunity to dodge voting on his
caae.
Who I lilt Xowf
Plttuburg Dispatch.
Mr. Cuilom thinks Illinois can take care
of Itself and reminds tier rrl tic's that the
purchase of a neat In the senate Is not ex
clusively an Illinois Idea. Now, who Is
going to come forward and defen-l the fair
names of tha rest of the stales thus im
pugned? I'erfectly Safe Rlska.
Houston Post.
Those who are looking for Meriting
things In that Mexican revolution ought to
know that any Ufa Insurance company
could with perfect saTety Insure the lives
of the members of both armies t the
minimum rates without any medical rxam
(nation and make money.' Warfare In Mex
ico la strictly a nonhazardous occupation.
Better Stay at Home.
Philadelphia Hecord.
World rovers who seek health and pleas
ure by expeditionary voyages to other
lands during winter rigors would do well
to make a study of the progress of cholera
and plague before matting choice of routes.
Notwithstanding Improved methods of
sanitary hindrance, there are many parts
of the world where, despite all precaution,
the area of danger seems to be steadily
widening.
"Papallam" la TVew Jeraey.
Springfield Republlcnn.
Governor Woodrow Wilson has not yet
been referred to In certain New York news
papers as a "populist," but he must be try
ing their patience very sorely. It Is a
question how much even the devoted
Harpers Weekly will stand. The gover
nor's bills for electoral reform in New
Jersey are tainted with populism tainted
dreadfully, shockingly. The project for the
Improvement of primary elections contem
plates the choice of delegates to national
conventions by the direct primary system,
and this Is what might have once been
called the Wisconsin nad Oregon madness.
Yet even New Jersey, If that state con
tinues to support her admirable governor,
seems prepared to accept It. Before Gov
ernor Wilson's term ends his common
wealth, once known as the home of the
trusts, may be universally recognised as
the Oregon of the-east.
SENATORS BY POPULAR VOTE.
Philadelphia Record: Senator Lodge Is
violently and vehemently opposed to the
suggested change In the federal constitu
tion providing for the election of United
Statea senators by popular vote. Recent
political upheavala In Massachusetts, show
ing an unstable tendency of the voters In
that hide-bound republican, commonwealth,
are no doubt In some measure responsible
for Mr. Lodge's outburst.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Senator Lodge's
opposition to the senatorial amendment Is
suggestive of a boy's disapproval of the
buss saw which haa Just amputated his
thumb. Lodge had a recent experience
with popular opinion. Hts thumbs are in
tact, but hla dignity was frightfully muti
lated. Naturally, he does not look with
favor upon a plan that would permit the
people of Massachusetts to vote directly
upon the United Statea senatorshlp.
Brooklyn Kagle: Henry Cabot Lodge
made a speech In the senate on Monday
worthy of the state ha represents. He
thinks the constitution prescribes the elec
tion of United Statea senators to the state
legislatures and to no other tribunal. As
the Massachusetts legislature has just re
elected Mr. Lodge, he can add to his sin
cere convictions the pleasure of the comfort
of his personal victory. With principle
vindicated by success, learning la grateful
and courageous conviction la austalned and
soothed by an unfaltering trust In a six
years' senatorial future.
People Talked About
Owners of fine suburban land adjoining
the boundary of Kansas City, Mo., ob
jected to compulsory annexation and went
Into court for relief. They argued against
"the Injustice ot a proposition that meant
the Imposition ot burdensome city taxes
on farm land." The court Intimated that
the land owners steadily profited In rising
values by reason of proximity to the city.
Sharing the Increment with that which
produced It did not work Injustice. By a
vote of three to two the atat supreme
court affirmed the right of annexation,
thereby Increasing the city's boundaries by !
thirty-two square miles.
Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, who at
the age ot 10 has started on another long
fast, announces his intention to get mar
ried after he haa passed the 100-year mark.
Governor Wilson has chaaed all political
lobbyists out of the New Jersey capltol.
On reluctant democratic boss was forcibly
Informed that hla room wa mure desirable
than his company. He vanished. Life In
and around the capltol Is not as noisy as
in former tlmea, but there la something
doing all the time.
The celebrated case, of Judicial tips and
trousers haa been settled In Maine. The
atat agree to stand for the tip, but each
Judge must pay for creasing the trousers.
Wilbur Wright undertook aviation aa a
cure for nervous indigestion and heart
trouble. He thought he needed more ex
ercise and fresh air, and he has found
that flying baa Improved hi health.
Deputy Eharlff L. G. Wagner ot Somerset
county, Pennajrlvanla, qualified as a mar
athon runner laat week, whan he captured
a man he was trying to arrest after a
chase ot fourteen miles. Th prisoner had
H) yards', start of the deputy, alios ap
proach he saw. ,-
Princess August Wtlhelm, wife of the
liaiser'a fourth son, ha sel herself the
task of reviving one ot Uerniaiy's oldest
customs, that according to which newly
wedded couple ImmeUleuly after the mar
ries ceremony plant a couple of oak kp
IIiiks side by aide In a park or by a road
alue uf their nativ tuu
The Bee's Letter Box
Contributions oa Timely Snbjaets
Rot ExoaedlnaT Twt Hundred Words
Are Invited from Oar Headers.
llt rlhnt loa of Imntlaraata.
OMAHA, Feb. 9 -To the F.dltor of Th
Bee: Tour editorial on "l 'iRtrlhuttng Im
migrant!)" In last Sunday's Mee was timely.
Allow me to offer a few suggestion.
Our federal government Is doing a great
work through Its ImmlKratlon bureau. He-
.vond controlling admission ot Immigrants,
its policy has been to exercise no further
authority. It haa always seemed to me
that at this point state authorities ought
to take up this work. The great steam
ship companies, through their highly de
veloped agency system, exploit thla carry
ing trade to enormous gain and land mil
lion on our shores. Such as can fulfill
the requirement of federal authorities are
admitted: thousand ar deported. A great
number ot these people have no definite
destination. Information and assistance
are lacking, except such as comes to them
through all sorts of wildcat colonization
schemes. A great number, naturally timid
and suspicious, huddle down In eastern
cities, Increasing our already serious prob
lems of over populated districts.
Among these Immigrants one finds thou
sands of sturdy and honest people looking
for the opportunity. Several of our east
ern states have established the office of
commissioner of Immigration. It Is his
duty to attract and Induce the best class
of immigrants to the opportunities of his
stte and locat them. What that means
to the state and these people Is easy to
see. The state gets the best class of peo
ple and the Immigrants know that they
are dealing with absolute reliable aources.
Great opportunities are still open In all
of the western states. Our state has mil
lions of seres of still undeveloped lands.
It needs the population and revenues ac
cruing from honest toll. Wealth In mil
lions undeveloped, waiting for willing hands
to yield great returns. I believe In gov
ernmental aid In this direction and a most
powerful agency for good.
Our present legislature In session ought
to pas a measur creating the office of
commissioner of Immigration. Then let
the governor appoint an efficient, live man
(not a politician), provide him with the
proper facilities to advertise the resource
of this state and guide honest tollers this
way to develop them to the highest degree
possible. Under proper management this
would prove itself one of the most im
portant offices of the state government,
Just aa that department would be more
efficient In the federal branch. If the two
co-operated as they should. Yours truly,
HENRY II. GENAU.
Horace Greeley.
OMAHA. Feb. 10. To the Editor of The
Bee: I find the following among Mr.
Train's letters, written by Mr. Greeley at
about the close of our civil war, and
showing his Idea as to the country s needs
for tsriff protection a well aa revenue,
which I thought you might possibly like
to notice. Your truly, LEO P. RDM 1 3.
"Office of the Tribune, New York. Feb.
13. 1867.-My Dear Sir: I beg you to be
ure that I do not approve of furnishing
the White House from European loom.
Ther was never any need of It; at all
vent there Is none now. No American
need tread better carpets than are made
today In Lowell and other polnta. Only
let ua get th tariff fixed and we'll talk
to our furnishers of the White House.
O"""8. HORACE GREELEY.
"George G. Train, Esq."
Capital Removal.
OMAHA, Feb. 13.-To the Editor of The
Be: Th removal of the capital Is being
sgltated In the legislature, and I e that
It haa, the endorsement of some of the mem
bers from this county. It will be a sad
stroke to Omaha and one from which It
would not recover In a Uf time to plant
the capital of this growing state Immedi
ately west of It. It would either ba on
th line of tha Union Paclflo or the North
western railroads, all of which la con
tributory to this city. What reason has
any one living here and Interested here
to give for building up a rival city in this
D&trnnfzlnr frHm.u t-i. . . . .
. . T, jituuBunus or people
would leave this city the day the state
capital I locatod, real estate'men and land
dealer, Jobbers, wholesale men. retail mer
chanta snd business of every description
would locate there, and all of the country
roundabout would be Interested in building
up a large commercial city. It would imme
diately become the rival of Omaha In every
line of business. What do we want of a
condition of that kind? W have been, and
ar buy in directing th attention of peo
ple In that western territory to Omaha for
trad purpoae, would It not be the height
of folly to assist In planting an Interest
out In that rich country that I now sending
al lof Its trad to this city that will absorb
the great portion of It? Let ua not deceive
ourselves. If the capital I removed It will
go Immediately west of ua. Do w want ItT
J. H. PRESSON.
Arcalteets' Fees. '
OMAHA, Feb. ll.-To th Editor of The
Bee: If It la true that th archltecta of our
city ar underpaid, a 1 claimed by one
of their number In last Sunday'a Bee there
mut b a reason for it. Thr Is no such
thing a a compulsory rat to be charged
for architectural aervlc. Surely each archi
tect himself determine the value he set
upon hi service. How then can there be
underpayment? And ' there Is. who is to
blame? If each Omaha architect would
adopt the plan of always rendering a ser
vice that la worth a respectable fee and
would never under any clrcumatance cheat
himself by accepting a fee that la les than
he earn, I am aura ther would be abso
lutely no occasion for making either hu
mutating admissions or useless threats It
I very true that the architect of Omaha
hav never gotten together on anything
and It Is to ba hoped that If they really con
template such a move, It will he for some
worthy object and not In the suggested
attempt to raise fees by trade union
method. If there I really a deslr to get
together, why not consider ways and means
for the establishment In Omaha of a Ne
braska chapter of the American Institute
of Architects? At least, why not look the
subject up and learn what It means, and
what ar the step to ba taken? There Is
hardly a community of the size of our
without It branch of the American Insti
tute, and not a single one which has not
been tremenduously benefited thereby
Oruaha and Its architects sorelv need such
an organisation, and to those who are
qualified and will live up to Its precepts
he American institute extends a cordial
welcome and the certain promise of better
things TH03. R. KIM HAM, F. A. I. A.
Jim Mtrlaaa a ( lab.
Sioux City Tribune,
fcecretary of Agriculture Wilson, a ho is
Ioa' grand old roan at Washington. gles
Senator Lafayette Young a body blow
scarcely less vigorous than President Taft's
Secretary Wilson is a typical farmer who
has not done ail his furming in the dally
newspaper hunting for votes. The secre
tary's courageous defense of the Canadian
reciprocity treaty reflects also upon the
high candidate of the republicans in the
legialathe coniest al ls M. lines who
palpably dodged when his opinion ass
asked on this very Important econo'nlc
and pol,ii.al question.
AtTitiTiK n Asrr.rnoTEf.
Impressive lea (a res at the Career of
the rphblehoa.
" t ' KrtV .'All M III ...... ,Uv
! make nu fan.ous. lon t rleet It; It Is
your talent."
j These words were addressed hy I'anlel
o'Conneii, the famous emsnclpator. to
boy of J. who had been chosen by his fel
low students In a Dublin school to deliver
a congratulatory address on the occasion
of O'Connell'a release from prison on a
reversed verdict.
The time was September. 144. Th repeal
of the Union movement In Ireland reached
the ctilmlnatlng point Just a year before,
when a projected meeting on the battlefield
of Clantorf. near Dublin, was prohibited,
and OVonnell and his associate were In
dicted, tried and convicted. An appeal taken
to the law court of the House of Iords
resulted in a reversal of the verdict, and the
ehool Incident wa part of th leland-wlde
rejoicing over the event.
O'Connell' word wer prophetic. Th
boy whose ambition was thus kindled was
Patrick J. Ryan, the Roman Catholic arch
bishop of Philadelphia, whose death Is
widely mourned.
Seventeen years later th Civil war. had
begun. Thousand! of exiled Irishmen were
flocking to the standard of the union.
Among the Irish volunteers In at linia
was a young priest. Father Patrick J. Ryan,
wno nan come to America In 1RSJ and was
ordained In St. Ious in the following year.
Hla service were accepted and he wa
assigned to tha local federal prison nd
hospitals.
By this time Father nvan had begun to
Justify Daniel O'Connell' prophecy. HI
sermons, from the tlm or his ordination.
had attracted attention.
"They are different," said th people, and
they went In Increasing numbers to hear
the priest who "could touch the heart
strings, was not afraid to tell a witty story
In an Imltable brogue, and In the next In
stant draw a picture thst wonit hrin.
tears."
Services aa t'haplala.
So Chaplain Ryan went anions- tha Mi
dlers In the prison a he had gone among
in peopl in the slums of St. tjit u
made thos who were wounded laugh even
In and at their pain bv M wit- h.
cheered up othere with droll stories; he kept
me wnoie prison ss cheerful as sny prison
ran tie ny means of hi tongue and there
are men down south todav who win t.n
you stories that they heard from the lips
of Chaplain Ryan, when they were prison
er between the year lMi and 18B6.
In hi work Chaplain Rvan ram in ..in
tact with men of all sorts of religious be
liefs and creeds. Never a radical, h. nm.
to understand how men could feel differ
ently on the subject of religion and Still
be aincere, and so when he was mus
tered out of the army and returned to his
pulpit his ermons were marked not only
for their eloquence and wit a before, but
for their liberal view a well.
A a result. Father Rvan'a nm
beeam known to Froteatants, and before
long his speaking acquaintance with men
of other faltha wa aa larsa aa with hi.
own, and good Presbyterians were repeat
ing ana laugntng at his latest atorlea every
bit aa heartily as the most nrnnnun,t
Catholic In hla congregation.
thus things drifted on, Father Ryan
winning the respect and r,r .m
creeds, to the year 1872, when th prleet'
eloquence brought him his first oclelastl
cal reward, that of coadjutor bishop of St.
uouis.
The promotion waa fuel for hia ni.ir.ri. i
fire. For the next twelv year whenever
do prcaenea or epok In oubllo thousand.
representing all actS, crowded to hear
him. and went away to tell his stories and
to discus th liberal vlawa which h. h.rf
expounded.
It waa th broad attitude ha took ..
coadjutor bishop that flrt caused Pop
xo near r Blshon Jtyan. Tha rmn.
sent for Bishop Rysn, received jilm in th
Vatican, and, In recognition ot his work,
which had been almost solely that of a
apeaker, gave him tha honor. pv mi. r
archbishop of Salami.
This occurred In the a.m. v..
Archbishop Wood of Phllarf.inni. hi
Archbishop Wood had been ultra-conser-
vanve. Among other things, he would not
let a member ot the Orand Army of the
Republic b buried In a Catholic cemetery.
He held that th Grand Armv nt th.
Republic waa a sscret society. H wa op
posed to all auch organization, and h
would have no ritea other than thos of
the church at th grav. A a result la
Philadelphia, the leading Protectant city
in America, th city of th moat pro
nounced anti-Catholic rlota of 1S44, when
eight churcbe wer burned and many
peopl killed, th progress of th Catho
lic church was by no means what leading
Catholic desired.
Upon th death of Archbishop Wood th
church began looking around for hi
successor. It did not tak It long to dis
cover that Bishop Ryan wa th only man
In eight who waa fitted for th post.
A man waa wanted who could soften th
widespread hoatUlty against tha church;
h would hav to b something of a diplo
matist and a man who could use hi
tongue well. Blahop Ryan, by meana of
hi wit and liberality, had won a host
of Protestant friend In St. Loul; hi
policy had reclvd the pop stamp of
approval; ha waa th man for the place.
Sacceeds Arrhblsho Wood.
So Patrick J. Ryan, coadjutor bishop of
the archdiocen 0f St. Louis, became sec
ond archbishop of tha late created arch
dlocea of Philadelphia.
Hla first act caused the town to gasp.
A Grand Army of the Republic man, a
Catholic, died, and, anxiously, th mem
ber of th dead man'a post presented
themselves before the archbishop and asked
if they might bury their comrade In a
Catholic cemetery.
He not only gav hi permission, but
h put on hi chplaln'a uniform, preached
the sermon and led the way to th grave.
And th veteran, forgetting that they
were In church and tha solemnity ot th
occasion, cheered their new-found comrade
In arms.
That act, supplemented by a few strmons
revealing the speaker s toleranc. oratorical
power and overflowing humor, broke down
much of th old prejudice and beforo long
the archbishop waa addressing meeting,
rellglou and otherwise, not under Catholic
auspice.
At one of them the Rev. Dr. Henry C.
McCook, of the famous fighting McCooks,
and one of Philadelphia's leading Presby.
terlan ministers, walked across the plat
form to grasp the archbishop's hand and
to say that be, too. had been a chaplain in
the civil war. 1-ater. whenever fir. Mo
Cook and Archbishop Ran attended ban
quets at the I'nlon league, of which they
were both members, they always saw to It
that they sat side by side, and each In hi
sermons frequently stated that my good
friend. Dr. McCook," or "my warm friend,
Archbishop Ryan, declare."
A with the clergy, so wiih the Jally;
the archbishop's tongue prevailed ther. In
one or another.
"Your Grace," said 'ane MacVeagti,
when he was counsel for the Pennsylvania
railroad, "Mr. Roberts her, our president,
who alwsya trsvtls with hi counsel, will
undoubtedly get you pasaes over all the
railroad In the United Slates If In return
you will glv him a ps to paradtae."
"Ah." replied the archbishop, quietly, 'i
would do so If It were not fur separating
him from his counsel. '
lbs aiclibishup rev' wade hiui two
Influential friends and It I tvpical of tk
iwsy In which he has kept Philadelphia In
go.l humor for twenty-fo'.r year.
At th same time he did not neglect th
I church When he assumed chars of the
archdiocese It had ;'") 0 1 Cs thollo Uniiltes;
I now It has double thst o'linher.
He built lut outside of Philadelphia ths
1 second largest Augusttn'an monastery In
! the world: the largest Is In Spain H
! erected protectory fot lov. f minded sev
eral Isrce hospitals snd with the I2in0
which was collected s gift for him on
his recent golden Jubtl nn.l w lilctl be re
fused to accept, he .tiarted building an
orphanage.
Th archbishop wa once asked how h
I raised all the money for Ins various enter
prises.
" hv." he replied, 'i just talk to .icopl
and somehow they gjve."
Indastrlal Peacemaker.
It w Just his talking that endd Phil-
delphla's grrt street railway strlk In
1J This 4eadlng cllin and Ihnt had
tried without success to Ret the strike
leader to arbitrate. A big bribe had lalli'd
lo move them.
Riot and disorder grw npsce. Tlv city s
business wa paralysed. Then somebody
thought of Archbishop llyan; h Was ap
proached and consented to see what he
could do.
He went to the place where the leaders
were assembled. introduced himself
.nit a 1 .1 1,. .1 ,. . . ii . , . j
. iu....ru ii wouiuni milt ii
they'd talk over the situation a little. It
turned out that th archbishop did about
all th talking.
II got the men With him at the start hy
a funny atory, and he held them by the
flashes of wit with which he Interspersed
his argument. An hou or so later, when
he left the meeting, he carried with him th
word of tha leader that they wncM arbi
trate. The next rty Philadelphia Wss a
peaceful town again and street 't ars wer
tunning as usual on every line.
One when asked where he stood In a
supposed difference between Cardinal Gib
bons, extreme liberal, and the late ArcU
blshop Corrlgan, ultra-conservative, h re
marked: "Aa archbishop of Philadelphia I natur
ally stand half way between New York and
Baltimore." '
HI Ueatle Hamer.'
On afternoon ahortl.v after the 1st
Blahop Horstmann of Cleveland hl been
caused considerable trouble by the Polish
Catholic clement In his diocese, he vllted
Philadelphia, his native city, anil dined
with Archbishop Ryan, who was also en
tertaining an ecclesiastical visitor from
New England. The latter Inquired of Hi
Cleveland bishop regarding the weather In
Ohio.
"It has been unusually severe." replied
Bishop Horstmann.
"No." said Archbishop Ryan, " Just a few
breezes from the Poles.'' v.
When Archbishop Glennun was about lo
receive the purple rob his two strongest
competitors for th promotion wore full
beard, which Is unusual among th Cath
olic clergy. When the archblshoD flnallv
received his appointment Archbishop Ryan.
it la said, wired aa follows:
"Archbishop Glennon, congratulations;
you won by a close shave."
"My boy, our tongue will some day make
you famou." When Father Ryan visited
Rome, In 1667, during the eighteenth cen
tenary of the death of St. Peter, he was
Invited by t pope to deliver the Rncii.h
course of the Lenten services, and he occu
pied th place that had been filled by Car
dinal Wiseman and Manning and other
brilliant orators. When Daniel O'Connell a
centennial waa celebrated at Dublin, in lR;s.
Bishop Ryan was Invited to deHtetHha ,..
tlon, but ha- waa compelled to decline, in
ls7, when Bt Patrick's cathedral In Nw
York was dedicated, he wa th on se
Ucted by Cardinal McCloskav to nrMrh th.
dedication Sermon, snd he preached from
tn pulpit of th magnificent oil when tha
cardinal wa buried near the altar and th
pallium waa bestowed upon his successor.
Archbishop Corrlgan. Th archbishop
nf
iniiaaeipnia preached the sermon on
th
occasion of Cardinal Glbbona receiving the
red hat In ISStt and when Cardinal Marti
net)! wa elevated to the sacred college In
1901. Thua wa O'Connell prophecy ful-
filled.
Archbishop Ryan was a visitor to Omaha
on two occasions, th flrt being the In
stallation of Right Rev. James O'Connor.
first hlshon n9 IK. U . - A ... v . -
f - . J V l v 1 1 1 b t m, )n orp.
tember, iris,' and again on the death of th
latter In June, lRs).
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
Sh (indignantly) Look at thla pl of
good which hss Just come out of the
wasbtub! How could the man who aold
it to m tell me th color were fast?
He I suppose because he knew how they
could mn. Baltimore American.
"I won't defend
to be sruiltv "
man whom 1 believe
"My boy. you mustn't set your Judg
ment up against that of the majority.
iuui iiiemy 01 men wnom l be
lieved to be guilty, but the Jury decided
otherwise." Washington Herald:
HI Wife John, do you remember what
took place Just three years ago today?
Her Husband-What: 1 thla our wedding
anniversary?
HI Wife N-no. Three yeara ago today
you bought me a new hat-Harpers
Basar.
'.'Th!.tolJ1 "h Sreat many people,''
aid Mrs. Lapallng. I. that they don t
tak the trouble to Investigate deeply. Thev
.ft mor.lv . ... r ...... I 1 i ( 1
rhi-. : -. a-r . .w. w or
thing and let It go at that.' -
-'hli ago Tri-
hi'nTh.ti 1'xun'e ought to make
him a leader In congress."
i dunno about tuat. ' replied Farmer
(orntoa.el. "a strikes rue that them con-
inusi De so used to eloquence
that they only listen to one another ous.
of professional
courtesy." Washington
star.
he'?"' 'r 1n f'ltur. losn't
"Vs, my boy, If h I th right kind."
"Vv hst s that, pa?"
"A financier.',' Haltlmor American.
Acquaintance Mudge. you look tired
Still holding that Job in th department
store? It's time you were promoted.
Young Father Well, I have ben In a
sort of wsy. I'm a counter jumper In th
daytime and a floorwalker at night. Chi
cago Tribune " -
WRITI1I0 TO THE CHILDREN,
Cora M. W. Green leaf.
Writing to th children they are men and
women grown
But to her, uir te Inst the children, and
ber very, very own.
Tho' they ve left her l et deserted-young
blrda must leave the nest
Yet writing to tha children Is the pastlm
ah love best.
Writing to th children, to the grown-u
gins inn dovs,
Who filled her lire so full of ear an
pleasure, toll and noise.
Now she earns to hear their voices aa
hunaers for a sirht
Of their piesence. but relolcea that th
good Lord lets her write.
Writing to the children to whom ah raa
not spesk:
It Is all the comfort left to her, grow a !
...a.. mwrt a. .. L
And the same old thrill maternal haa bap
tised her with Its touch.
Of living fire supernal, for sh lova thn
... n im ...
Writing to the children! O. ye wanderer!
Lured on by vain ambition, so far from
V ., ft.......
In your si ramble after rtchea. fans, paw
m j mil .k,H
Don t ntgisct to seod ltlr eft is fee