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THE OMAHA DAILY J1EE: SATUHDAT, JUNE 28, 1002. Hie Omaha Daily Bee fe. KOSEVATER, EDITOR. rUBLlSIIED EVERT MORNINQ. terms of subscription; Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year.M 00 Dally liee and Buntlay, One Sear w Illustrated Hee, One Year -w fctunday Jjee, One Year J W Saturday life, one Year... 1W .Twentieth Century Farmer, One Vear. 1.UV DKL1 YKKUD UY CARRIER. Dally liee (without Sunday), per copy., tc Dally lire (without BundH, pr wee. .120 Dally liee (Including Sunday;, yet wcek.l'o eundny J)ce, per copy to veiling lien (without Sunday), per week. Wo Evening lice (Including Sunday), per week lao Complaints of irregularities In, delivery should be addressed tu Cliy Circulation Dvpartment. OFFICES. . Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha city Hall Building, Twenty-tilth and M streets. Council muffs in l'earl Street. Chicago IM't Unity Building. Kew iork Temple Court. ': Washington 6ul Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. 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XOtitM U.........M.2,sys 12..... zo.eso U 2,sao 14.... 2,130 u ao,8To U 20,600 18 SV.BUO u x,uao au itu.uou 21 2,tt44 t2 zu.suo 22 29,470 24 29,680 26 29,540 26 29,040 27 29,530 28 21,ftlM) 2 29,430 SO 29,690 U 29,(110 Total 91U.0N5 Less unsold and returned copies.... lo.Tuu Net total sales oh,mnu Net daily average 29,319 ' a v- .w . QEO- B- TZSCHUCK, subscrlbedtn my presence and sworn to ,u0Ps. me tl)U 4lBt ' Mar. A. D. 190L (SeaL jsi B. H UNGATE. Notary Public With the help of his physicians King Edward should be able to laugh yet at those prophets of evil who have been reading disaster Into his horoscope. President Roosevelt has time enough to get In several vetoes yet before con gress adjourns. If occasion warrants, and then have time for a few pocket vetoes later. Let us note again thnt preparations for the proper celebration of the glorious Fourth are going on Just as If the Im mortal declaration were still cherished among the archives. "Only one more year of fusion," said a prominent democratic leader In Ne braska n 1800. "Only one more year of fusion", has now become the slogan of all the democrats In Nebraska, Those Chinese Boxers must have short memories or the recollection of what happened a year ago would serve more effectually to repress their new out breaks against the "foreign devils." The consensus of democratic preRS opinion seems to be thnt a compromise might be acceptable If It cut out both Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan from the list of ellglbles for the next presidential race. According to the testimony of Admiral Dewey,, describing the surrender of. the SpanlHrds in the Philippines, Aguinaldo was only tho fly on the wheel Instead of the propelling force which he has im agined hlmseK to have been. The referee In the Omaha tax case Is to receive a fee of 7m for his services. Inasmuch as the court by completely re versing his findings ami recommenda tions declared that his services .were not satisfactory, this must appear to be more than a liberal reward. A rival to the Steel trust is in Incuba tion under the name of The American Steel Foundries. It is a question, how ever, . whether the stock market will tand for another flood of steel trust ecurltles. The Carnegie combination ; cleaned up the platter pretty wejl. Who would deny that the late sliver republicans are not the shrewdest poli ticians of the bunch? Here we have the fusion reform state ticket giving silver republicans two. places out of eight. When it comes to landing the spoils, the late Bllver republicans deserve first prise. If the Real Estate exchange committee In charge of the tax reform campaign does not repress Its compromise proclivi ties It will stand In great dauger of for feiting the confidence of the people, who hava been ready to believe that the Real Estate exchange was in the fight earnest, with no favorites to play. in South Omaha corporations dissatisfied with the assessment of their property made by the South Omaha Board of Re view threaten to carry the matter into the courts. The board should call this ; bluff promptly. If these corporations Want to go Into court they should 1 Deedllr accommodated, I'nlesa in mistaken the present temper of the courts Is not sjieclally favorable to ta dodgers. Nebraska populists went clear back to the Omaha platform of IWi with a specific reaffirmation of that document, together with the St. Louis platform of lH'M and the Sioux Falls platform of 1000. The populists want It distinctly understood that they never niada any declaration upon any subject of national Import that they are not willing to stand by now. The changing conditions of a lecade aud the logic of successive events la the uatlouul atvua have no Influence whatever ta move, populism forward. the iiocse Philippine hill. The bill pned by the Iiouko of repre sentative, providing civil government for the Philippines, Is In some respects an Improvement uikhi the measure that passed the senate. In the first place it provides a more comprehensive system of civil government and one which would doubtless bp more favorably re garded by the Filipino. For the very conservative plan of the sMinte bill the house measure substitutes a liberal pol icy. It provides that whenever Insurrec tion shall have ceased and u condition of general and complete peace shall have been established aud certified by the commission, that IkmIv shall call n gen eral clit-tlon for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly of the people of the Islands, which shall Co known as the Philippine assembly. After suoji elec tion oil the legislative power heretofore conferred on the Philippine commission shall be vested In a legislature consist ing of two houses the Philippine com mission, and tho Philippine assembly. There would thus be an upper house ap pointed by the president and n lower house chosen by the natives. Whether or not this arrangement would have bet ter results than the senate plan is of course problematical, but there can be no doubt that It would prove more satis factory to the people f the Islands, which Is certainly an Important consid eration. In respect to the currency provision tho house bill Is unquestionably an Im provement The coinage clause of the senate measure would continue the sil ver standard In the Philippines and per petuate existing currency conditions there, which are now causing no little disturbance to the business of the islands. Tho house bill provides for putting the currency In the Philip pines on a gold basis, with the gold dollar of the United States as tho standard unit of value. This is con sistent with our financial policy and It is believed would remedy the now trou blesome and disturbing conditions in the Philippines regarding the currency. The principle recognized by the house bill Is that the United States should not havo the silver standard In any of its territory, that while It Is necessary to have a silver currency in the Philippines it should be based on the gold standard, and it is somewhat surprising that a dif ferent view should have prevailed In the senate. Ia regard to the very lmportunt mutter of franchises the house bill Im poses greater restrictions than that of the somite aud perhaps goes further than Is expedient iu this respect. It is desirable, of course, to prevent the ex ploitation of tho Islands by rapacious corporations and syndicates, but there must be a reasonably liberal policy re specting franchises in order to invite capital for the development of the Phil ippines. Doubtless compromises will have to be made, but probably no great difficulty will bo found in reuchlug an agreement between the two houses, notwithstand ing the somewhat. radical differences in their meusures. TT01SU APPROPRIATIONS. A New York. representative has intro duced in the house a proposed amend ment to the constitution giving the pres ident power to veto any item or items of which he does not npprovo In an appro priation bill. The amendment proposed provides that "If ony bill presented to the president of the United States, passed by congress, contains several items of appropriation of money, the president may object to one or more of such items, while approving of the other portion of the bill." The objections of the executive would be subject to recon sideration by congress, as In the case of a veto, the constitutional provisions In relation to bills not approved by the president applying. ' The proposition Is certainly worthy of consideration and there Is much to be said in support of It. It is not to be doubted that If the president were glvn the power to veto an item or items in appropriation bills it would be the means of correcting some abuses and saving something to the public treasury. Take, for example, the river and harbor bill, which as everybody knows who is familiar with the history of this legis lation uniformly contains useless appro priations and some that are excessive. If the president had power to veto such items fewer of them would get Into tho measure and a material saving of public money would lie made. The same Is to be said of the bills for public buildings. Under existing conditions there is much trading among congressmen in the mat ter of certain appropriations and this would undoubtedly be largely remedied If the proposed power were given the "president. We think there would Ue no difficulty In obtaining the ratification of such an amendment by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. THE HULES OF THIS tfuUtK. A short time ago Congressman Cnsh man of the state of Washington made a vigorous attack on the rules of the house of representatives, which attracted widespread attention and no little ap proval. He charged that the power of the speaker of the house Is autocratic, declared that the. committee on rules has too much authority uud pdeged that members were not given .'.lir oppor tunity' lu the matter of Introducing measures of legislation. A few days ago Mr. Urosvenor of Ohio spok la strong and earnest defense of the house rules, urging that they are necessary to the proper conduct of the business of the house, that they are fairly administered and that there Is no ground for JuM complaint as to their op eration. The Ohio congressman has served a number of terms and bis opinion respecting the bouse rules Is' cer tainly worthy of respectful considera tion, yet there are some, republicans, as well as democrats, who think that no harm, would be done If the rules' were somewhat modified. Of course no one would seriously urge thut the system which prevailed In the house before prevailed 11. lVed TUouias II. laved bucuuie speaker of that body should lx restored, but there are not a few who believe that the present rules could bo liberalized without any disadvantage to legislation and with no detrlmeut to the rule of the majority. However, It Is probable that any propo sition to radically change the house rules would be overwhelmingly rejected. IMPOLITE AMI LXFAIIt. It is to be regretted that The Omaha Bee has deciifd that the underwriters' points are not "well taken." But It is very much the practice of the day for able editors to set up as supreme Judges on underwriting questions. The number of men In the Vnlted States who know how to run the In surance business Is much larger than tho number of citizens who know how to run hotels. The day Is coming, however, when the enlightened condition will prevail of accepting the Judgment of fire Insurance men on Are Insurance questions. The Dee allows Itself to be skeptical respecting the good faith of underwriters and is so Impo lite and unfair as to intimate that Omaha policy holders may not get any benefit In the shape of reduced premiums if all the things the Insurance people desire come to pass. The answer to that Is that cities that are less hazardous than Omaha have lower basis rates. New York Insurance Press. This is the only answer so far made to The Bee's discussion of the thirteen points of discrimination marked up against Omaha by the fire underwriters' combine to exVuso the excessive rates' Imposed upon Omaha policy holders. Tho policy of the fire insurance com panies toward Omaha seems to be to cry continually "Give, give," but never to give anything lu return. Year by year the demands of the rate makers have been met In greuter or less degree by the Improvement of our water service, the enlargement of our fire department and Its equipment with better and more modern apparatus, the enforcement of stricter building regulations, the burying of overhead wires, but with no conces sions worth mentioning In the schedule of fire Insurance rates. When It Is suggested that the efforts and money expended by Omaha to re duce the fire hazard should meet with some recognition by the fire underwrit ers, we are told that we are Impolite and unfair to think of such a thing. Whenever the Insurance companies meet with extraordinary losses In any part of the country they undertake to recoup themselves by slapping on a hori zontal raise lu the rates enforced in all cities that will stand the Increase, and Omaha, already burdened by unfnlr dis crimination. Is called upon to pay an ad ditional 13 or 25 per cent not only on the basic rate, but on the thirteen points of discrimination besides. Tho soft impeachment that we are im polite when we protest against this in justice Is altogether too weak. According to advices from Washing ton, Our Dave has come to the con clusion that the action of the Washing ton and Sarpy county conventions, in selecting congressional delegates In ad vance of the call for the congressional convention, is Illegal. Both of these con ventions were put up to the selection of congressional delegates by Mr. Mercer's managers, and while they succeeded in slipping a Mercer delegation through the Washington county convention by stealth, they fell down In Sarpy county, where the people had been waked up to the issue, with the result thut the Sarpy county delegation was Instructed for Mr. Cornish. Had the Mercerlte trick succeeded la Sarpy county as well as it did In Washington county, Our Dave would have Insisted that the action of both conventions was perfectly regular and legal. In other words, If they had both Instructed for Mercer they would have been legal, but since one Instructed against Mercer they are Illegal. The New York Tribune prints a story to the effect that the protest of the Fre mont Tribune against the plank In the platform adopted by Nebraska repub licans In their recent state convention, endorsing the president's Cuban recip rocity policy, is part of a well laid plan to embarrass President Roosevelt's ad ministration and injure bis prospects for nomination In-1004, and that the editor of the Tribune, who occupies the office of postmaster, was Inviting reprisals so that he might pose as a martyr to an enforced resignation. All of this would bo instructive if true, but it overlooks the fact that the Fremont postmaster is under pledge to resign before the evil of the year as one of the conditions by which his reappointment was secured. If he Is looking for martyrdom he will have to bunt H by another route. Douglas county democrats profess to be sadly disappointed that they should not be able to plant an Omaha man In tho governor's office. The only way for them to gratify an ambition to see an Otnaha man lu the executive chair Is to help elect the republican ticket and rely on Governor Mickey to permit Lieuten ant Governor McGIlton to sit at his desk temporarily from time to time. The tax reform compromisers propose to endorse an assessment for the South Omaha stock yards and all the five great meat-packing establishments that would give them altogether a smaller valua tion than that put on the street railway company alone. The very suggestion exposes what a discrimination such a compromise would work. The railroad tax bureau is busy figur ing out how much the railroads of Ne braska pay In taxes for each mile of their road In this state. They are care ful, however, not to mention thut while the value of the roads has increased twice over within the last ten years, the taxes paid per mile and In the aggregate have actually decreased. x If the railrouds of Nebraska only bad a few moro bridges, depots, terminals, locomotives and cars to distribute in their game of bunco, they would soon be able to reduce their assessment for taxation to a minus quantity and issue a bulletin provlug to the other taxpayers that the state owes the railroads money. Passport ! Fablla avsr. Detroit Free Press. "I was shamefully treated ia Cuba by x-Qovernor General Wood," Mr. fUlsbeme Is reported to hare said. Every day some thing happens to Increase the public's re spect for General Wood. - Trntha IemnlUh Theories. Indianapolis Journal. Some of the wise people who write for the newspapers have discovered that the present very high rrlre for hogs Is due to a scarcity, shown by a shortage of 100.000 this year to date. Not long since one of these wise persons ridiculed the theory that supply and demand naturally make prices. Taking a Fresh Hold. New Tork Tribune. The land of Cervantes Is taking a new leas of life since the reign of the young king was begun. A Spanish loan amount ing to some $67,000,000 la American money has been subscribed for almost ten times over. It Is plain, then, that financiers and capitalists have not lost faith in the future of Spain. Cetn There Jnst the Dame. Minneapolis Journal. The American invasion has aroused John Bull's patriotism to such an extent that It Is "now considered tactful to keep thfl American label off our goods. Pulling oft tho label under such conditions Is some thing like pulling down the flag, but it la comforting to know that we keep on sell ing more goods to John, just the same. Shocking Perversity of Nature. . New Tork Bun. The Nebraska crops must seem offensively and even indecently large to the Nebraska democrats and populists. The harvest Is great and the laborers are few. A state which insists upon being prosperous In spite of trusts and Imperialism and In the face of democratic and populist platforms, must be a perverse and cross-grained state. It Is time for a set of resolutions denounc ing the fertility of the soil and the growth of agricultural plutocracy. The Root of the Trouble. Springfield Republican. The rise In the cost of living is a real grievance underlying much of the labor struggle for Increased wages. The presi dent of the Illinois Steel company. In an nouncing an advance of 10 per cent in the pay of employes the other day, took oc casion to say that the action of the man agement was "In recognition of the ad vanced cost of living." The fact of the matter is that such advance of wages as have been made on the average do not equal the advance In commodity prices. COXCEHXIXO THE II AS-BEES. Bunch of Millstones on the Neck of the Democratic Party. Philadelphia Press (rep.) Mr. William Jennings Bryan has ceased to be a public leader of the first and fore most Influence and authority, but he has behind him the only vote by which the democratic party can carry any contested state In the south, southwest and west. Mr. Bryan has a small opinion ef Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland baa been ponder ously telling the country to drop Mr. Bryan. This is natural. Both are "has-beens." Both are remembered for their failures and loved by republicans for the defeats they made. But there Is this to be said about Mr. Bryan, defeated, discredited, pushed aside in New York, ostentatiously omitted from democratic platforms in Indiana, Illinois and other states, he still represents and controls the marginal vote necessary for democratic success from Ohio west. In 1892 Mr. Grover Cleveland could never have been elected without this populist vote. His manager made a coalition in Oregon with the party of open repudiation. It made a like alliance with anarchy In Illi nois. In all the states ' outside of New England and the middle states the very vote which nominated Mr. Bryan in 1896 and again in 1900 gave Mr. Cleveland his western majorities In 1892. This vote Is today less than then. - In many of these states It is small. But It remains In existence. It adores Mr. Bryan, Its members regard themselvea cheated by Mr. Cleveland after 1892. They are abso lutely necessary, not merely to. democratic success but to a fighting chance tor the party. Without this vote it cannot carry any state west of Mississippi, three south ern states. North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, become doubtful and the demo cratic organization has no chance even to make a fight for the house next fall. Mr. Bryan knows this. So does Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Watterson expresses the same view in his attack on the New York statesman he helped make great enough to be ungrateful to all his friends, includ ing the Kentucky editor. When Mr. Bryan attacks Mr. Cleveland, as he did yesterday. he doea not help himself or bring himself nearer power, but he ends all hope Of suc cess for .the New York program launched by Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Hill and all the Honorable Has-Beens ot eastern democracy. WAGES AND PRICES. Condition of Waae Earners Vastly Improved. Vnlted States Investor. It Is hardly open to question that the cost of living has advanced much mora rap idly than wages in recent years. The weekly Income of the average man, for Instance, will probably not obtain for him as large a measure of commodities and service as they would have obtained In some previous periods. Such being the case it would seem as if there should be striking evidences or hardship among the masses, but this is far from being a fact. It certainly la a great many years since the bulk of the people of the Vnlted States have had less dlffloulty in keeping soul and body together than at present. How Is this Incongruity to be ex plained? Probably a number of factors have con tributed to the result. While it is true, no doubt, that prices have advanced faster than wages the hardship to the wage earner has unquestionably been In considerable meas ure offset by steadier employment. For some years past the Industries ot the na tion, aa a whole, have been kept so busy as to necessitate the steady employment of a maximum working force. In some for mer periods, when the disparity between prices and wages was less striking than it Is today, such was not the case. . At such times the wage earner was frequently in danger of having In tide himself over long Intervals of enforced Idleness. Though a dollar then would at any given' time procure for htm more ot the necessaries of lite than it will now he did not have the dollars coming to him month after month and year after year with the regularity that has been the case In the last four years. In other words, though a week's wages at the present moment will no( obtain as many necessaries and comforts of life as previously, there are more weeks' wages coming to the average man la- the course of, a period ot several years than formerly. This, is a very important consideration for the wage earner, much of whose Income la past years v has gone to pay tor ."dead horses." In periods of less Industrial activity than the present, the wage earner frequently found himself in a position where he had to live for weeks, and possibly months, at a time "on tick." That is, his landlord and the local storekeepers had to carry him over Intervals of enforced idle ness. Much of the wage earner's energlea In the past haa been devoted to clearing off arrears. of this sort. It is entirely safe to say that never In the last generation has there been less drain of this character on the resource of ths average American tbao there la today, V OTIIITR l.ASnn THAN OVR9. There Is no romance in the mating of kings, and Alphonso XIII. Is to be no ex ception. Barely i, and with bis crown not yet well settled on bis head, he is al ready hunting a bride, ty proxy. The pope has been railed upon by the queen dowager to suggeft an eligible wife for the boy monarch, and It is probable that his choice will be welcomed at Madrid. The field for selection Is not a wide one. Princesses ct the Roman Catholic faith, belonging to royal houses of sufficient dignity to pre vent the marriage from being a diplomatic mesalliance, are not numerous In Europe The royal suitor rsn look only toward Munich or Vienna, and tho Bourbon blood. already weakened by generations of Inter marriage, will be further vitiated by in termlxture with the nearly related strains of Austria or Bavaria. It would be well If the example of the king of Italy could be followed and a princess from some such minor state as Montenegro, with more health, though fewer crosses, be chosen for his consort. But, aside from the fact that the pope would oppose the following of a Qulrlnal precedent, the dignity of the Spanish throne would forbid any such wise proceeding. Striking evidence of the bitter resent ment excited among the Finns by the with drawal of the autonomous rights which they had so long enjoyed, and the remorseless process of Rurslanlzatlon to which they have been subjected, may be found In the emigration figures, which prove conclusively that thousands of them are going Into voluntary exile rather than endure the new condition of affairs at home. According to the latest official statistics, it appears that from 1891 to 1898 inclusive that Is, under the old system the yearly average number of emigrants from Finland was S.378. In 1899 the number was 12,357; In 1900 It was 10,642; and in 1901, 12,659. During the first two months of the current year, no fewer than 6,057 Finns emigrated, and the volume is now greater than ever, owing to recent events In Finland. It Is computed, by those who have the moans ot knowing, that by the end of this year at least 35,000 Finns will have emigrated within the twelve months This number would probably be larger, but for the authorities refusing to allow young men to depart whose ages make them liable to military conscription. A correspondent wrltlug from Constanti nople to a Vienna newspaper says that Turkish supremacy in Yomon has never been In such danger as now since the great rising of 1867. The Iman Hamid-ed-Oln, who has proclaimed himself Caliph, is con stantly gaining more followers among the Arab tribes, who are the more ready to recognize him, aa the Arabs in general ob Ject to tho Sultan's claims to the Caliphate because he is not an Arab. The Turkish troeps were formerly more than a match for tho Arabs, owing to the superiority of their weapons; but the Arabs are now well armed, thanks to the smuggling of modern rifles into the country which goes on from Aden. The TurkB could easily suppress the smuggling, If they bad any seaworthy men-of-war at their disposal to send to the Red Sea. The forces under the command of Abdullah Pasha, the chief of the Seventh Army corps, stationed in Yemen, are altogether inadequate to sup press the rising. Money Is also wanting; but when the Vail, Hussein Hilml, tele graphed to Constantinople for funds, he was told that the revenue of the province was ample to cover the cost of administra tion. This revenue, however, la entirely on paper, as the Arabs refuse to pay taxes; and when the Vail tried to collect tithes from the two tribes living In the neighbor hood of tho capital, who had hlrtherto not been molested by tax collectors, and had therefore remained loyal, they Imme diately Joined the rebels. Thereupon, the Vail, foreseeing danger, fled to Hodeldah without warning Abdullah Pasha, who was his personal enemy. Soon afterwards. Sanaa', the capital of Yemen, was besieged and taken by the rebels. This was a severe blow for the Turks, aa all their war ma terial stored there fell Into the hands of the Arabs. Tho Tendon medical Dapers are studying v. vit.i .intutina of the South African war, which are now practically complete. According to the calculations oi me noo pltal, 6,776 officers and men were killed in action, and 2,019 died of the wounds which they received. The deaths from dis nmminted to 13.272. and it is said that these figures, large as they are, compars favorably with those of preceaing wars. nn nntiophi fart ta the very high pro portion of officers killed and wounded, and another the high deatn-raie irom oibot.o. among privates. In action, one officer was killed to every 10.15 men, and one officer was wounded to every 11.8 men. But of ioae who died from disease, oniy one in s k nan wa an omcer. 1 nis IB Urii J accounted for, doubtless, by the reckless ness with which the -'Tommies arsna yu. i.. ... Th number of Invalids sent home during the war was about 70,000. and these more than ,wo oiea or leu. m service. The vast majority, or course. w. restored to health.. To prove that the war. after all, was not a Dig one, me .-- .v. nf the battle ot Grave- lotte. in which the victorious Germans had :8 officers and 4,900 men Kiueo anu i.OOO wounded. m.. i.mnaM a-overnment haa a aummary fashion of dealing with financial evils. In consequence of the demoralizing speculation on the exchanges, of which 82 exist In Japan, about half being petty concerns with insufficient capital and irresponsible brok ers, the authorities suddenly issued regu lations the other day fixing the minimum paid-up capital at 100,000 yen, raising the brokers' license fees from 10 to 100 yen and enacting further that half the profits earned above 10 per cent must be carried to re serve. These changes are to become opera tive within lit months. The action, as might be expected, caused great commotion on the exchanges, and a heavy depreciation of shares, amounting to S.0OO.0OO yen la three days. The press, for the most part, approves the spirit of the legislation, but is inclined to think that a little mors warn ing might have been given. Ths election Just held In Naples showed the power of the Camorra, the notorious secret society ot that city and vicinity, which elected Its full line of candidates. The result is likely to make the Camorra aa influential In its sphere of operation as Its kindred society, the Mafla, Is in Sicily. Both are organizations formed for purposes of blackmail and publlo and private plunder. The Italian government has been trying to exterminate the Mafla since 1876. without complete succes, but has rather Ignored the Camorra. Now, how ever, something will have to be done, or the government of Naples will become as bad as that ot Philadelphia. Loosealaar the Grip of Grafters. Philadelphia Ledger. The president supports Secretary Shaw and Secretary Shaw supports the new com missioner of immigration In bis determina tion to institute radical reforms In the treatment of poor Immigrants at Ellis Is land, New York. This Is admirable. There has also been some reformation In tb treat ment of those comparatively rich immi grants who can afford to travel In the cab ina and bring trunk with them. Ia time, perhaps, all our immigrants and custom service will be so Improved as to be worthy oT a civilised people. TUB HARMONY CONCERT. Detroit Free Press (dem ): Significantly enough It was the Nebraska populists In stead of the democrat that wished to nominate Mr. Bryan for governor. Philadelphia Record (dcm.): Mr. Bryan doesn't want any harmony thnt will be satisfactory to Mr. Cleveland. The studied neglect with which democratic conventions east and west are turning their backs on dead issues appears to have ruffled the temper of the editor of the Commoner. The party will insist on harmony, no matter what any man may say. New York Times (dem ): It has not been expected that Mr. Bryan would so soon and so unmistakably confess that ho Is "out" with the democratic party. He does more than that he exhibits his mental makeup In a way that will surprise Miose who still tall themselves his friends. No man who has twice or even once been a candidate for the presidency ever before so violently assailed a member of his own party merely for disagreeing with him. The Illinois dem ocratic convention, which was guilty of the same offense, he sneers at as "Mr. Hop kins' convention." He has not merely lost his temper; he has lost his head. His loss is distinctly the party's gain. Sincere democrats will pray that he may continue to assail Grover Cleveland. Chicago Chronicle (dem ): The populist, on the other band. Is a man who Is always wanting government to do something for him, who is so lacking In self-reliance that he looks to the government, not aa his agent, but as his guardian and benefac.tor; who Is so much of a vagrant aa to Insist that the "world," by which he means other people more industrious and capable than himself, "owes him a living." There is no room on a Tilden platform tor any such cartilaginous person, but there is plenty of room not only for Hill and Cleveland, but for the great mass of the self-respecting, self-reliant American people who re spect tho right of others to be free and demand that others shall not deprive them of the liberty which Is the heritage and the right of every American. Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.): Mr. Bryan appears to be falling into a state of mind perhaps we should say a state of tem per bordering on acerbity, If not on bitter ness. He Is- too young a man to yield to the promptings of resentment with respect to public affairs; he Is too successful a man so much as to seem to be a disappointed one. But no man at his age has quite reached his wisdom, and Mr. Bryan needs to be told, what he will inevitably learn, that in public life availability Is king; that the world will not stop to listen to any man's plaints, or abstractions, and that if he would retain his leadership he must adapt himself to circumstances' and conditions. From Themlatocles to Glad stone, from Ctnclnnatus to Clay and Web ster, from Jefferson and Hamilton to Doug las, Blaine and Tilden, the rule has held good that the Interests and actualities of the present dominate the minds of men, and that the dead past has been always left by wise men to bury Its dead. POLITICAL DRIFT. The Tilden harmony banquet brought to light a large assortment of political cutlery. Judging ' from the commotion in the troubled waters of democracy, Mr. Cleve land's harpoon penetrated the blubber. Cleveland promises to give St. Louts a warm run for crooked money. There Is this difference: The political crooks of St. Louis fled with the money. In Cleveland the crooks were exposed after putting up the money. That eminent citizen of Minneapolis who was under bonds to stay at home and Jumped both bonds and town has been re captured. He 1 known to possess a large variety of information concerning municipal graft and is In a mood to squeal. The town is patiently listening for the details. Formerly, and until the adoption of the recent amended constitution, state elections in Alabama were held in August. Vnder the new oonstltution, beginning this year, they will be held In November, and instead ot taking place biennially will occur every four years. Vnder the new Alabama con stitution the right tf suffrage is much re stricted In Alabama. The following municipal departments In Philadelphia are consolidated under one head: Police, Are, electrical, health, build ing inspectors, boiler inspection, city prop erty, fire escapes, inspection of markets, food and milk. The director of the depart ment of public safety, as the official is called. Is appointed by the mayor and get $10,001 a year salary and his appoint ments are subject to the confirmation of councils. The present mayor of San Francisco, Eugene gchmltz, was elected as the candi date of the union labor party, so that San Francisco, like Hartford, Conn., Toledo, O., Haverhill, Mass., and Bridgeport, Conn., Is making the experiment of having a labor mayor. This year s appropriations tor tne municipal government of San Francisco are $5,958,000. The appropriations for next year are $5,825,000 a reduction. Of this sum $1,280,000 Is for schools and $283,000 for parks. "Oeorgo L. Lilley of Waterbury, Conn., who has been mentioned in connection with the governorship of the Nutmeg state, effectually wound up the promoters of his boom. His "decline" is sharp and to the point: "I am not a candidate for the nom ination; wouldn't raise a finger to get It; don't want It; won't have it, and hope there won't be any more talk of It. I wouldn't run for the office If they'd give me the capitol. I can't stats my position too strongly." V Get the Best This doesn't mean the most costly In clothing If you'll come here. If you will pay 25.00 for a suit you will get aa good a garment as can bo made. If 15.00 or $10.00 1b your limit, you will find tho eame perfect cut and excellent nervlce in our linen at that figure. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. . , Now 1m the time t'o prepare for the Fourth. - Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. ' R b Wilcox, Manafior. INMRANCE ON THE KINU'g LIFE. Speculative Investments Peenllar to) the nrltUh People. Chicago News. As at the time of the death of Queen Vlc torla the Impending calamity threatened in the critical illness of King Edward has brought to llRht a practice not at all un usual In Knclnml. although quite unknown Vre. It le the practice of taking out lnsur ance policies on the life of the reigning sovereign. These pollclt s are issued to any body who csn-s to pay the premium and upon the death of the monarch thus Insured the amount of each policy la pl,i over ta the holder. Many policies of this sort ars carried regularly from year to year as a fixed Investment, the holders having no "In surable Interest" In the life upon uhleh) they are insuring, hut expecting themselves to live long enough to realize on their In vestment at a handsome profit. Not only have enormous policies thus been placed on the lives of sovereigns, but those merchants, tradesmen and others whose business would suffer from a postponement of the corona tion have been permitted by the Englteh in surance concerns to take out policies insur ing against the risk of such a contingency. The growth of this practice among a peo ple whose attitude toward their rulers Is notably marked by sentiment is curiously Indicative of the mingling ot emotionalism and practical business Instinct In the Brit ish temperament. Insurance policies on the) lives of monarchs are speculations pure and simple except that merchants and others lose trade in times of public mourning. Apparently the Insurance against such "risks" as the postponement of public fes tivals has some Justification as a measure ot protection against business losses, though In this respect alone the Brltieh companies seem to have gone far beyond the limit of prudence. Both in their ethical phases and as a matter of business the practices are dubious. Americans and the American companies may view with some satisfaction the fart that this form of insurance has not been countenanced here to any considerable extent. LINES TO A LAI (ill. Washington Star: "It comes nach'l," said l'ncle Kben, "foil a man to blame all his misfortunes on lad luck an' to gib do credit foh all his success to good judg ment." Philadelphia Press: 'Ta," queried tho young bass, "why do we have to wear scales all the time?" "No doubt, my child," replied the elder fish, "they are intended to enable us to get a weigh quickly." Richmond Dispatch: Doctor I am slightly in doubt as to whether yours is a constitutional disease or not. Patient For heaven's sake, doctor, havo I got to go to the expense of appealing to the United States supreme court to find out whether it is or notl Chicago Post: "What Is a politician?" asked the boy. . "A politician," replied the father, bit terly; "that Is, a successful politician. Is a man who can evade his promises without seeming to break his word." Detroit Free Tress: Cautious Customer Is this a hand-mad cigar? Indignant Manufacturer Hand-made? Is It hand-made? See here, do you think wa got time In this shop to roll cigars with our feet? This Is no dime museum. Chicago Tribune: "You have to scratch for a living an soon as you're hatched," said the young robin, "while 1 get my grub free. "Oh, I don't know." responded the young 2uall. "You generally tlud It in the bill, on't you?" Philadelphia Press: "Here's a lot o' talk In the paper about 'uniform divorce laws needed," " said Farmer Korntop. "Wonder what that means." "I reckon,' suggested his good wife, "It's to compel divorced folks to wear a uniform so's other folks kin rec'nlza 'em, an' p'lnt the finger o' scorn at 'em." POEMS YOU BIIOILU, KNOW, -. S. E. Klser In the Record-Herald. Whatever kind of a Job you may have, you don't get all that's coming to you if you let a day go by without drinking at the fount in which the muses lave their airy feet. There's nothing like poetry for a man with an empty stomach. Prof. J. Keats SypherB. ROLL ON, TIME, ROLL ON. (By the Sweet Singer of Michigan.) Roll on, time, roll on, as It always has done Since the time that this world first begun. It can never change my love that I gave a dear one Faithful friend that I gave my heart and hand. Chorus: Roll on, time, roll on, it can never turn back To the time of my happy maiden days To the time of my youth It can never turn back, When I wandered with my love, bright and gay. Oh, I was a happy girl then as could evei be, And live on this earth here be low I was happy as a lark and as busy aa a bee. For In fashion or in style I did not go. My parents were poor and they could not dress me so. For they had not got the money to spare. And it may be better so, for I do not think fine clothes Make a person any better than they are. Some people are getting so they think a poor girl, Though she be bright and intelligent and gay. She must have nice clothes or she la nothing In this world, If she is not dressed in style every day. Remember never to Judge people by their clothes, For our brave, noble Washington said, "Honorable are rags If a true heart they enclose,' And I rind it wa the truth when I married.