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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 0, 1902. Tile Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT M0RNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sjnday). One year. $4 00 Laiiy Bee and fciunila. One Year S-'O Illustrated bee. One Year Sunday Bee, One tear I-' Saturday Bee, One Year.: l.M Twsnllt-th Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... Xc Dally Bee (without Hunday), per week. ...12c Dally Bee (Including Hunuay). per week..lc Sunday Bee, per copy c bvtning Bee (without Sunday), per week.lue Evening Bee (including bunuay), per week Ik Complalnta of Irregularltlea . In delivery hould be addreaaed to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omana City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council Bluffa 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1MW L'nlty Building. New York Temple Court. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to nws and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to Th Bee Publishing Company. Only s-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. I Oeorge B. TtHchuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and' Sunday Bee printed during the month of June, 1902, was as follows: X KU.alO 16 21,4SO 1 XO,4tM 17 2,B40 2U,Ua 18 X0.780 4 if,870 19 29,740 ft KU.fittO 20 29,600 2U.B10 21..... 29,570 7 2U.07O 22 2,50 1 29,900 23.... 29,BNO 1 29.040 24 81.JM0 10 29.U10 26 20,000 11 29.BRO 26 29.6MO 12 29.B10 27 20,6MO 13 29,60 23 29,540 14 29.UOO 2D 29,500 15 2U,B0 30 29,010 Total 889,220 Less unsold and returned copies.... 9,na Net total sales 879,508 Net dally average 20,318 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 30th day of June, A. D., 1902. (Seal.) M. B. HUNGATE, .... Notary Public Nebraska soil can take more rain and more sun without evil effect than that of any other state. Governor Savage -should hurry home to pour oil on the troubled waters of hia oil Inspection brigade. Notice to visiting base ball players: Keep at a safe distance from the umpire when cavorting on the Omaha diamond. The Civic Federation will try again to see If It can devise a plan for settling the miners' strike. Persistence may yet find the way. The Bee has always conceded that Superintendent Fearse . ranked far higher as a political wire , puller than m an educator, It turns out that Iowa beats all the states In the number of rural free de livery routes it has corralled. Iowa takes a back seat for none. King Ak-Bar-Ben to President Roose velt: Come to my coronation and I will guarantee you one of the best enter tainments ever set before you. According to the calendar, the Par isian fetes next week commemorating the storming of the Bastlle offer the next outlet for patriotic ebullition. When Inclined to become . restless under the recent rains. Just recall the protracted heat and drouth that we were suffering during the month of July of last year. Too bad the law does not permit members of the Board of Education to distribute the election of officers and employes so that they might have a re lunch after each meeting. President Gompers of the National Federation of Labor satisfied himself of one thing while la Omaha that Omaha has as Intelligent a body of wage work ers as are to be found anywhere In the United States. Oklahoma is making a serious mis take in trying to get notoriety through stories of menacing volcanoes at a time when it Is knocking st the door for ad mission Into the union as a state. The volcano route to statehood has not yet become popular. The re-election of Mr. Pearse as su perintendent of schools should be fol lowed by a reconsideration of the proposition for another teachers' lecture course next year. The teachers will not dare go against It again when brought to another vote. Ilogs have made another.. topnotch price on the South Omaha market. It will take a plausible talker to make the farmers believe, that they are not shar Ing In the prosperity that has enveloped the country since republican policies were restored In the nation. J. Plerpont Morgan Is said to have put his tluie In Berlin entirely at in peeling museums and looking over pal aces.' Our German friends may make ready for a proposition to syndlcute their public buildings and contents and manage them through a trust The announcement is made that the ftslon state committees will meet next week to select."a working chairman." The chairman will have- to work over time through more than one campaign If .he expect to keep the fusion candl dates out from under the landslide. Corn is also making 'a try tor' high wtter .nunrk,' but'th chflDces are that tuv mice cauuot stay ui. As. soon as the cornfields of Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas give assurance of the goldea narvet-t the quotation will settle down te a Jtt fixed by the nr-rsnal supply! PHILIPPINE POLICY AS Alt IWiT.'K. frVnator Vest of Missouri said in a recent Interview that "it Is useless to protest against the Philippine policy now," yet it Is the Intention of the democratic congressional campaign managprs to keep this subject before the people. For this purpose they will send broadcast hundreds of thousands of the speeches delivered in congress against the Philippine policy of the government and doubtless democratic orators everywhere will thresh over this straw during the progress of the cam paign. The republicans will be very well sat isfied to have their opponents make this an issue. The Philippine policy has been successful. The civilized people of the island are satisfied and have accepted American sovereignty. Civil government has been established and Is In satisfactory operation. The mili tary authority Is subordinated to the civil and the army in the archipelago is to be further reduced. The legislation passed by congress provides for giving the Filipinos, as soon as practicable, a large participation in the government of the Islands. It ' also makes provision for public Improvements, for increas ing educational facilities snd for In dustrial development That legislation extended to the people of the Philippines most of the rights enjoyed by our own citizens. It carries the principles of republican government Into the Orient The Filipinos are given opportunities for improving their condition they have never before had and this Is under stood and appreciated by the more In telligent of them. They will have peace and order, they will have schools and sanitation, they will have protection to life and property and a proper adminis tration of Justice. Above all they will learn the lesson of true liberty of lib erty restrained by law and If they shall be loyal and faithful to the gov ernment the time may come when they will be given independence. The republican party, therefore, will be found ready to defend Its policy in the Philippines. It is a successful pol icy that gives assurance of the highest benefits to the Filipino people. It will In a few years work a regeneration, it is not to be doubted, that will most amply vindicate it The people of Porto Klco are entirely contented with being under American rule. Their condition was never more satisfactory than now. Why may not similar results come to the Filipinos? Why may it not rea sonably be expected that they also will, under the improved conditions certain to follow peace, become contented with American rule? It has cost heavily In men and money to accomplish what has been done and the American people will not consent to the relinquishment of anything we have achieved. They will insist that the Philippine archipelago shall be retained and governed by the United States at least until such time as the people are qualified for self-government This Is unquestionably the overwhelming popular sentiment today and we do not believe It can be weak ened by any efforts of the opponents of the Philippine policy of the republican party. sample of cbkap demagogy. Republican government in cities has re sulted In the most abominable corruption ver known to mankind. We have onl to take a glance at Philadelphia, St. Louis and Minneapolis to be assured that this statement is true. Nebraska Independent. This is a sample of the cheap dema gogy by which popocratic organs seek to make political capital. They would have their readers believe that the only In stances of corruption In municipal gov ernment exposed to light are to be found in cities where republicans are In con trol They cite Philadelphia, St Louis and Minneapolis, but are careful not to mention New York, Chicago and other cities where similar disclosures of cor ruption have been repeatedly made un der democratic administrations. While pointing to the upheaval in Min neapolis, they are careful also to cover up the fact that the beclouded mayor was elected originally as a democrat and that the democrats are primarily respon sible for him, although having built him self up by democratic aid he has since professed to be a republican. Further more, if we remember correctly, Mayor Ames was foisted on the republicans of Minneapolis as their candidate lust time by democrats who took advantage of a loophole in the Minnesota primary elec tion law to cast their votes at the repub lican primaries and determine the lden tity of the republican candidate. When It comes to responsibility for the corrup tion of Minneapolis the democrats of that city will have to bear the chief brunt A survey of the records shows that honesty and dishonesty are not monopo lized by any political party. The Anierl can people are too intelligent to be de- celved by such partisan clap-trap as that we have cited. RE-KLtCTlVN OF PtSARSt. By again loading the schools of Omaha down with Carroll G. Pearse as superin teudeut, the Board of Education has ex hibited a singular disregard for the vital Interests of our public school system and the welfare of the children who must get their education in the public schools. The retention of Mr. Pearse simply means the continued degradation of the teachlug force under Incompetent super vision. It means the subjection of the schools to . Influences outside the educational field. It means the continuation of the prac tlce of barter and trade of favor for ap pointments and promotions by which the pay rolls have been weighted with rela tives snd attaches of school board mem bers and other people possessed of a pulL The Bee Is confident that after they once . fully ' realize them the people of Omaha will not tolerate these conditions a moment longer than necessary. The true friends of the schools who want their standard raised and their efficiency laipreved will not be rebuffed by the subserviency of the present board to the combine of salaried employes. They will continue their efforts until the man agement of the schools is placed in the hands of educators of standing and real ability. WILL VBOt TRUST LEUISLATtON. It appears that President Roosevelt is very much in earnest regarding leg islation for the supervision and regula tion of corporations doing an interstate business. It was stated a few days ago that he had been in consultation with Representative Llttlefield of Maine, one of the ablest lawyers in congress, whom he had Invited to prepare a bill far the regulation of the combinations to be introduced in congress with the endorse ment and influence of the president back of it It Is now reported that Mr. Llttls- fleld Is engaged In drafting a measure and will shortly have a conference with Mr. Roosevelt respecting it This evidence of the earnest desire of the president to have enacted legisla tion for carrying out the views he ex pressed in his first message to congress and has repeated several times since, ought to remove any doubt that may exist as to the president's sincerity in the matter, 6s well ss silence all those who would discredit his utterances. Mr. Roosevelt has, very clearly defined his position respecting national supervision and regulation of the great industrial combinations and nowhere more , ex plicitly than in his Pittsburg address. He does not propose a war of extermina tion against the combinations. He does not propose reckless and revolutionary measures that would result in general Injury to the business of the country. What he desires is reasonable and prac ticable legislation that will remedy the evils and abuses now complained of, protect the Interests of the public and not interfere with industrial progress and prosperity. That Is a policy which will have the approval of all rational people. Mr. Llttlefield has shown a great deal of Interest in this matter and it may confidently be expected that he will frame a bill, with the assistance of the president and Attorney General Knox, which will meet the requirements of the situation. x WISCONSIN HKPbBLlCAKS. There is apprehension that the fac tional strife among the Wisconsin re publicans may result in the retirement of United States Senator Spooner, whose term expires with the present congress. Some two years ago the sen ator announced that he should not be a candidate for re-election, but his friends in Wisconsin and republicans very gen erally feel that he ought to remain In the senate and it is understood that he is now disposed to do so, though prob ably he will make no great effort for re election. This should not be necessary. Mr. Spooner Is one of the ablest and most valuable men in the national senate. He has In a high degree the qualifica tions of the statesman and there Is not In public life an abler exponent or de fender of republican principles. Hardly any great question that has come up since the beginning of the Spanish war has been disposed of without his active and usually controlling direction and support He has consequently attained national distinction and has been looked to by the leaders of his party and by both Presidents McKlnley and Roose velt for counsel and guidance. Upon him have largely devolved in the senate the responsibilities of leadership as the representative of the administration and his party. The retirement of Senator Spooner would be a distinct loss to the senate and would be greatly regretted by republicans throughout the country The party in Wisconsin cannot afford to dispense with the valuable services of John C. Spooner and it will not if It consults the wishes of the party gen erally. The summary of rural free mail de livery com oiled by the postal authori ties discloses a remarkable expansion of that branch of the postotnee. Aituougn the first experiments were made less than six years ago, 0,461 rural mail routes are now In operation, supplying mall daily to the people residing in the adjacent vicinity. If each of theso routes accommodated only 100 families it would mean nearly l.OOOiOOO families brought into direct contact with the business world by mail facilities and five or six times that number of Indi vidual persons. The time will come when the farmer will feel lost without his daily mall service Just as much as the city business man. Senator Beverldge volunteers to re lieve the political atmosphere by In forming the public that he Is not a can didate for the vice presidency on the reoubllcan ticket of 1904. It is to be presumed that Senator Bailey will feel better at this assurance that the sen ator from Indiana will not seek promo tion to the position of presiding oflicex of the upper house. It is a cold day when the deputy United States marshals cannot find a few bootleggers selling firewater to In dians on the reservation to make a show of keeping themselves busy and piling up mileage charges against Uncle Sam Without this business the railroad be tween Omaha and the reservation might have to go back to twice-a-week trains Coronation in August would bring the event right into the most uncomfortable part of the London summer season. The only object in having It at that time would be to bold the visitors from foreign countries, who would hardly be expected to return in such numbers at a later date. But then one must make bay while the sun shines. If they are not csreful the railroad tax bureaucrats will prove too much. Tbey are strenuously exerting them' selves to show that the railroads ot Nebraska are flagrantly overtaxed, not withstanding turn tact that the tax bureau officials have all along them selves made the railroad assessment and had it O. K'd by subservient assessment boards, both republican and popocratic. If it were true that the railroads have been overtaxed the blame will be traced right back to the tax bureau. As a matter of fact however, the bunco game is Intended to fool only the. people and not the railroad managers. Cease for Tkaakf alaess. Detroit Free Press. Of 25 n? hilla and lolnt resolutions in troduced st the recent session of congress, 1 KOI were nassed. The country owes a great deal to a congress that. did not pass the other 20,519. Hailstorms Outclassed. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. There has been in Nebraska a fall ot pieces ot ice so large that they are pro nounced "unworthy of the name of hail stones." But is it to be inferred that they were bigger than the eggs ot the great aukT Labor Gets a Dividend. Indianapolis News. No wonder the United States Steel Cor poration voluntarily increased the wages of its employes. Its quarterly statement shows earnings of nearly 140,000,000, an increase of over $11,000,000, as compared with the same quarter last year. No Return on Investment. Chicago Record-Herald. It seems that most of the cities of Ohio have been governed contrary to the provis ions of the constitution during the past ten or fifteen years. It isn't likely, however, that the people will be able to get back any of the money paid out to the office holders. Footing: the Bill of Folly Chicago Inter-Ocean. Long before China wipes out the prin cipal of the indemnity of 450,000,000 taels, upon which $8,013,600 of Interest has re cently fallen due, she will realize that it would have been much cheaper to have boxed the Boxers In the early stages of their frenzy. Elements of Fame. New fork Tribune. Here Is a definition of fame given by ex- Speaker Reed at the Bowdoin commence ment dinner: "Fame," said be, "Is largely a matter of accident Being in the right place at the right time, and doing the right thing, or, better still, making people think you are doing the right thing, la about all there is to fame." This definition gains much In effectiveness when "fame" is pro nounced with the ex-speaker's well known drawl. Hope Renewed sal Refreshed. Philadelphia North American. One ray of light pierces the lowering clouds of trust domination. Mr. Morgan has denounced poker as a dishonest and wholly undesirable institution. Bo we need not fear a poker trust, anyway. No one could derive any enjoyment from a game when he was haunted by the fear that at any time his modest stacks of chips might be swept into the rapacious maw of the poker octopus. It Mr. Morgan would only disclaim any intention of absorbing the ping pong interests the nation would take another long breath and press onward with renewed hope. - Malevolent Gossip Shut Off. Philadelphia Record. Now that Kliig Edward's physicians have pronounced their patient to be out of dan ger the traders) in unfounded rumors con cerning his majesty's health may be obliged to shut o(I the current of their malevolent gossip. As long as lying pays there will be found persons mean enough to circulate prevarications regardless of the pain they give to those near to the subject of their base Insinuations. An affirmation by the greatest medical authorities in England of King Edward's assured recovery should. however, reduoe the price ' of their inven tions to a point which would make the game of the sensationalists not worth the candle. The Marriage of the Uavei, John Ruskln. You will find that, in fact, all plants are composed of essentially two parts the leaf and root one loving the light, the other darkness; one liking to be clean, the other dirty; one liking to grow for the most part up, the other for the most part down, snd each having faculties and purposes ot its own. But the pure one, which loves the light, has, above all things, the purpose of being married to another leaf and having child leaves, and children's children ot leaves, to make the earth fair forever. And when the leaves marry they put on wed ding robes, and are more gorgeous than Solomon In all his glory, and they have feasts of honey, and we call them "Flow ers." DEMOCRACY'S THREE ISSUES. Taagrlefoot Policies Which Will Pave the Way to Defeat. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Ostensibly the democracy will have three Issues in the congressional canvass of 1902. Some of their leaders, that is to say, are urging the party to make a fight on trusts, imperialism and tariff reform. Ex-President Cleveland favored tariff reform in his great harmony speech at the Tilden club dinner, but nobody has been able to find that the recommendation has aroused any enthusiasm except among the democratic enemies of tthe ex-presldent, who cast de rision upon him. for his tariff record, as they do for everything else which he has said or done. Cleveland skipped Imperial ism, but some of the other democratic mag nates pretend they want that for an issue. Trustlsm, ot course,' will come in for as sault in the canvass. On all these issues the democracy can be easily beaten. On the tariff reform there Is no approach to harmony among the demo crats. It is certain that the country Is cot seeking any tariff reform, or wants any tinkering with the tariff in any direction. On the trust question the republicans have a far better record than the democrats, for the republicans the only anti-trust bill ever enacted by congress and the republic ans enforced that act and are en fore Ing it now. The republicans will be ex ceedlngly glad to see the democrats bring the question ot Imperialism forward. That is an issue on which there -are hundreds of thousands of new votes for the repub llcan party in the country at large. There is no lssus In sight on which the democrats have the faintest chance to win. The most disastrous of all these three Issues for the democrats would be that of Imperialism. The people of the United States do not believe that there la any im perialism In the policy which the Roosevelt administration and the republican party In congress are pursuing la the Philippines. That policy Is unquestionably favored by t leaat two out of three of the 15,000,000 voters of this country. It is a policy which is to be pursued and which is to result in greater good for the country than even that which is foreshadowed at the present time. The United States has made Immeas urable advances, socially. Industrially and politically, in the Ave years which have passed since the republicans came into power. On Its record since March 4, 1897, the republican party caa and will win a grand victory, la IMik ROUND ABOIT HEW YORK. Ripples on the Carrent of Life la the Metropolis. The exodus of summer reverters snd vaca- loners from New York City last week sur passed any similar rush in a generation. Cold weather kept the tourist flock In town until the end of June. Then they started with a rush that overwhelmed the trans portation companies. The climax of the crush, with three holidays In sight, simply swamped facilities for getting out of town. To the average New Yorker a change of air and scene is a blessing. "Our climate Is changing," says a New York correspondent. 'and whether our gulf stream is responsible or not a strange potency, called humidity, dominates us three-fourths of the summer months, undertonlng, undermining and re ducing the strongest to ths condition of the weakest. We no longer have our old-time 6 o'clock sea breeze, and even at the great resorts near by, when the wind comes from the land rather than from the ocean, the solldest flesh melts into discomfort and un bearableness." New York is a city of contrasts. You can leave the marble and stone palaces of Wall street and lower Broadway, where millions are heaped upon millions, and in a few minutes stand amid the squalid tene ments of the lower East side. It is but a step from the fashionable parade of Fifth avenue to the holy calm of St. Patrick's cathedral one step over a threshhold and the world Is gone. Street Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury of New York City has discovered a way of saving money and has put his plan into practice. For years It has been the custom there to dump garbage and ashes into the same pile, the whole being carried out to sea at a cost of $65 per load. Commissioner Woodbury separates garbage from ashes and sells the latter for $40 per load to a construction company, which manufactures fireproof materials. The saving promises to be something handsome. The rapid transit commission of New York City has granted the application of the New York and New Jersey railroad for a franchise for a tunnel under the North river. It is to be a two-track tunnel be tween Morton street, Manhattan and Jersey City. The railroad company will pay some thing leas than $15,000 a year for the first ten years, $25,000 a year for the next fifteen years and then the charges are to be re adjusted. The city reserves a Hen upon the franchise and real property of the company under the river and streets, In order to secure the payment ot the charges. There Is a growing feeling among New Yorkers that the big city is a good deal better place to leave than to live in. The evening flight from town has assumed pro portions so great that the transportation companies have admitted their Inability to cope with it. A new city is growing around the old a new and beautful one, lying around it In a ring that some students of urban civilization say will assume a diame ter of fifty miles before many years are gone. In this new city there are -neither factories nor toll, noise nor dirt, traffic nor smoke. One may drive for mile after mile over asphalt and past lawns with pretty villas standing in seclusion beyond them. Yet with all this growth of suburban liv ing the demands for apartments In town are so Insistent that rents climb up not annually but monthly. It Is Impossible now to live In New York in style for a rental of less than $150 a month, or gener ously and well for a rental of less than $70 or at the least $60, or comfortably for ess than $50. Below $50 one must assume all the chances of field and flood that threaten the nomad, Including raids by the police on one s neighbors. Down at Battery park, a few steps west of the Aquarium, reports the World, Is a boat landing which, In the course of a day, presents more human contrasts than any other point along the entire water front. Here, upon the little float against which Innumerable small boats touch and lie throughout every moment of the day and night, millionaires, society women, bum boat women, sailors from clipper ship and lumber or brick schooner, and boatmen of the harbor, with street boys and idlers, gather and form a strangs and picturesque medley of races, classes and conditions. This place, so diversely patronized. Is the newly completed public landing, the only advantageous point in miles of coast line where he who wills may run In his boat and step upon the shore. The work on this landing was begun fif teen months or more ago, and when sixty feet more of stone wall have been added. the basin will have a breakwater measur ing 400 feet. The basin has an area of 220 feet by 120 feet, affording accommodations for a myriad of little craft, and the depth of the water at high tide is fifty feet PERSONAL NOTES. Samuel Eberly Gross and Edraond Ros tand seem to be pretty good press agents for each other. It would seem to be the plain duty of Major Mlcah Jenkins to do something hand some for Lieutenant Governor Tillman. Loyal Langdon Wright, of Middlebury. Vt.. walked three miles on bis 91st birthday to attend the republican convention In that state. Dr. James F. Hibberd of Richmond, In., Is actively engaged In the practice of his profession at the age of 8. He Is an ex presldent of the National Medical associ ation. Attilla Cox, who once saved Ole Bull from being drowned in the Ohio river, as well as fished from the river his famous violin, la still living in Louisville, Ky., where he is president of the Columbia Fi nance and Trust company. Lumar H. Holmes of Springfield, Mo., has refused to adopt the name of Friable, though tor doing so he would have received $12,000. Louise Friable, his aunt, left him that sum os condition that be make the change, but he refuses to do so. He bad a year to con sider the matter. Christopher Forbes, who for many years until 1898 hoisted ths flag at the Battery on Evacutlon day, is dead In New York. He was a lineal descendant of Van Arsdale, the soldier who pulled down the British flag, when the English left the city in the revolution. Since 1896 the Society of War of 1812 has performed the flag-raising cere mony. Ex-Speaker C. D. Van Duzer of the Ne vada legislature expresses in Washington, where he is visiting, his confident belief that bis state is about to enter upon a new era ot prosperity snd that It will sever again be classed as a dwindling stats. Re cent discoveries of mineral wealth he pre dicts, will cause a m large Immigration of permanent settlers. A special agent was sent to Washington by s New York Insurance company with the hope ot getting Senator Clark to take out a policy. Ths Montana man, whose Income from copper properties alone Is about $2,000,100 a month, listened to the agent's siren song and replied: "I don't need the money, and, besides, I don't think your company would accept me as s rUk.'i Mr. Clark ha been a distinct disappointment to Washington society, which had expected that on his arrival there he would enter tain In Monte Crlsto fashion. Instead be has lived very quietly, but gossip baa It that he Is about to build a spleadid mansion In the eapltal and that In a social way he will then nuke up for lost tins. NEWSPAPERS AND LIBEL LAWS. Grafters la Legal professloa Eseorl ated la a Lawyer's Address. Judge Lewis It. France of Denver. "Champerty is defined to be a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant in a suit for a portion of the land or other matter sued for, in esse of a successful termination. A common Instance of champerty Is when an attorney agrees with a client to collect by suit a particular claim, or claims In gen eral, receiving a certain portion ot the money collected. This was an Indictable offense at the common law. But the first legislature of the territory, in Its wisdom. If you please cut out the provision with Its penalties, and thus threw open the door for the prostitution of a profession designed by honest men to adjust, rather than In vite differences between man and man. The omission of such a provision in the law of any state will do more, and haa done more, to degrade the profession ot the law than any other influence. And In the commercial spirit of the age (a gentle title for the, demon of avarice), even the courts have become contaminated with the curse and are growing further and further away. It mould seem, from the old,' exalted ethics that would have demanded the disbar ment of a lawyer who so far forgot his duty, as to enter Into such bargains; a duty that he owes to the court and his profession; a duty that he owes to him self, and a still higher duty that he owes to his fellow citizens; a duty that Is no less binding today than It was centuries ago. "One of the chief elements that moves the bringing of libel suits Is the ab sence ot the law against champerty. Cut off the business of contingent tees and you will 'Save taxes, clerk hire, lawsuits and convert the office of judge quite Into a sinecure. We all have real grievances enough to wrangle over without setting up figures of imagination over which we may get by the ears. The existence of such a provision in the law (If It did not entirely stop, not only unmerltorlous libel suits, but all other speculative litigation) would decrease litigation one-half. Keep gambling where It belongs, In the stock exchange and other places of less preten tion, but quite as much merit. But in the name ot Justice and the welfare of hu manity, keep speculation altogether out of the courts. It is difficult to talk within one's experience and be impersonal. I have been engaged in the successful de. fense of forty libel suits at least In the last twenty years. And It has taken the creatures of whom I have been speaking twenty years to learn that one paper at least had thousands for defense, but not one cent for tribute. When the paper was wrong It was always willing to make apologies snd amends; any man of honor will accept the apology for an uninten tional wrong. But if he Is a blackguard and Insists upon a fight well, self-defense Is a right recognized by the law as In herent in every msn, and only one course is left a fight without gloves to a finish. Compromise is the honorable editor's un doing; when he Is wrong let him say so, like a man; when he is right, let him stay with it "See to It that champerty be made an In dictable offense, ss It was at the common law. Do not listen to the fallacy that the rights of the poor man must be looked to. It Is the lawyer's pocket, and not the poor man's rights, that forms the keynote of that argument. It Is the lawyer's duty as well as the doctor's to work without pay when occasion demands, and under our statute a poor man has the right to pros ecute or defend without cost, if he will make known his necessity to the court. In forty-five years of practice I have done more work without pay than I have with. Insofar as money is concerned. But I have been well paid, although I have found no difficulty In living up to my Income and be yond It. It is not, however, So much be cause of the poverty of the suitor that liti gation is multiplied. The wealthy have fallen Into the habit ot bargaining and holding out temptation to the weak. That is a mild term for it; most lawyers are up with their environment, some get be yond or above it. I have always believed that laws were made, not to enrich law yers, but to assist in the attainment ot justice between man and man. So far in life I have had no experience to change my view, but, on the contrary, my experience has confirmed me in ray belief. Therefore, I say that a law against champerty will diminish litigation and give a healthier moral tone to lawyer and layman. Bear the suggestion In mind and when candidates sprout again for legislative honors and emoluments, deny them your support unless they pledge themselves to the re formation." STATTE TO A TREE PLANTER. Movement for a National Memorial to J. Sterling Morton. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A movement has been started to erect a statue to the memory of J. Sterling Morton, , the founder of Arbor day, In Nebraska City, which was his home for many years of his life. The idea seems to be to get subscriptions from as large a territory as possible, so as to arouse a widespread interest In the project. The newspapers all over the country are asked to mention the scheme, so as to bring it to the atten tion of most of Mr. Morton's countrymen. The movement deserves the encouragement of all Americans. The time which has been selected to get up this memorial Is especially opportune. Mr. Morton's death took place only a few weeks ago, and the commendations which be received from the press of the eountry then are well remembered. The house has passed one bill and the senate has passed a slightly different one for the creation of a vast forest reservation In the Allegheny mountain region, and an agreement will be reached between both branches on this question as soon as congaess meets n Its final session next December. A law has Just received the signature of President Roosevelt to Institute a general sys tem of Irrigation throughout ths arid section of the country, which takes In the whole region, beginning with the western ends of the two Dakotas, Nebraska, Kan sas, Oklahoma and Texas and onward to near the westerly border of Washington, Oregon and California. All this in the spirit of Morton's Idea, If the person who would make two blades of grasa grow where only one grew before deserved better ot msnkind than the whole race of politicians, bow much greater is the honor which Is due to the man who has made thousands of trees grow over an expanse of the country where scarcely any were growing previously? As a conse quence of the Arbor day observance, of which Morten was ths Inventor, millions of trees hsve been sst out In the past thirty years In the prairie states in lo calities where they were a rare sight until that time. Over vast stretches of territory west of the Missouri ths wbols face of the landscape has been changed through this means In the past generation, the climate has become more humid, snd Pike's desert has been made to blossom In s wsy which would surprise him if he could see It now. The rbange has been brought about largely through the conception of an idea which Morton expounded with eloquence and put Into operation with enthusiasm and persistence. The memory of the old tree planter deserves well at the hands ef his countrymen. THE niRIIT OF PniTACY. Doctrine Tarned Doirn by Divided New York Conrt. Chicago Tribune. Last yesr a hBndsome young woman liv ing in Rochester, N. Y.. applied for an la Junction to restrain rertsln manufacturers from using her Picture in their advertise ments. The justice ot the supreme court before whom suit was brought held that there la a "right of privacy" which had been violated and granted the Injunction. He said a woman's beauty wai her Inviolate property and not public material for ad vertisers. The opinion of the justice was com mented on by the law magazines, some ot which took exception to the doctrine of a "right of privacy." The views of the Jus tice were concurred in by five justices ot the appellate court, but the court of ap peals, by a vote of four to three, has re versed the lower courts. It says: "An examination of the authorities leads us to the conclusion that the so-called right of privacy has not as yet found an abiding place in our jurisprudence, and, as we view It, the doctrine cannot now be Incorporated without doing violence to set tled principles of law bv which the nmiai. alon and the public have long been guided;" me court argues that if the existence of a vast, undefined "right of privacy" be granted, not merely the publication of a picture can be enjoined but any mention of an Individual in a newspaper or else where. The neighbors of a person who does not wish to be written or spoken about may be enjoined from writing or speaking about him. The decision of the court Is that the young woman from Rochester cannot have an Injunction and must resort to some ether remedy. She can bring a libel suit and seek to recover dama.-es. After long litigation she may get a verdict which will pay her lawyers' bills In whole or part. The remedy Is Inadequate. If all the court of appeals says as to the danger of the admission of the existence of an unlimited, unconflned "right of privacy" Is true it is possible for a lawmaking body to define that right and confine It within reasonable limits. There may be persons who have so exalted an idea of the "right of privacy" as to feel aggrieved whenever public mention is made of their frivolous or serious doings without their consent. There is no reason why a law should ba enacted to enable them to demand writs of Injunction. The handsome, modest and re. tiring young woman who finds her features paraded on flour sacks or cigarette wrappers la entitled to a more effective remedy than the one the New York court et appeals says she can resort to. Laws can easily be en acted forbidding the misuse of a person's features the Rochester young woman com plains of. The "right of privacy" Is debatable ground. Judges disagree concerning It. It will be a long time before It is authorita tively determined whether there Is such a legal right and If so what are Its bounda ries. FLASHES OF FIN. Chicago Tribune: "stop! Don't fight, boys! Can't we arbitrate this thing?'1 asked one of the bystanders. "Yes, sir!" 'panted the fellow who was on top. "Just as soon as I've blacked his other eye!" Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Do you believe In signs?" b.et.I .d?' .?." was b,own off a building in that Inst high gale and knocked me half across the street." Somervllle Journal: A girl ran nver be really sure of a young man unions she feels confident of her ability to continue to keen him guessing. Philadelphia Press: Goodman You cer tainly were disgracefully drunk Inst night. Hardkase Was 17 Well, it s pretty hard to do that sort of thing gracefully. Washington Star: "What is the distinc tion between a politician and a reformer?" "A politician' answered Senator Sorg hum, l'la a man who Is frank enough to confess that he is running fnr office. A re former wants to make people believe that the office Is rutyilng after him." Yonkers Statesman: Church What on earth are they ringing that bell so long for? Gotham That's to call a meeting to gether. "What sort of meeting?" "Meeting- of the Society for the Preven tion of Unnecessary Noises." Philadelphia Record: Mr. Goodman I understand you were at the prize flsht Inst night. I'm surprised to hear of you attend ing such a disgraceful affair. 8portyboy It was disgraceful. sure enough. Why, neither one of those big dubs could hit hard enough to dent butter. Detroit Free Press: Kdear Well. Ktbel what did you find at that wonderful lire eaJ? Ethel Oh. Edgar. I got some lovelv silk stockings at 17 cents a pair! There in not a thing the matter with them, except the reel are Durnea on. RVBAIYAT OF A. LAKYMAW. W. D. Nesblt. I Wake! For the sun haa scattered Into night The ataro that flecked the freckle-face ot night. And incense-breathing morn Is here again. Yet, oh, to sleep some more Is my delight! II. The loud alarum rings above my head And thrills the atmosphere about my bed. An, nan i out tne maicing or an tnings, Ere yet the man had made It he were dead! III. 'Arise! The health-food on the table steams!" A voice adown the hallway rends my creams, And through the casement float the sounds of feet Of men who hurry on to work their scnemes. IV. Outside I hear my neighbor's growling pup, Below there Is the clink of dlnh anil cup Ah. what a sorry scneme of lire it Is That all things thus conspire to wake me up! Methlnks the Seven Sleepers, when all's said, i Were men who to the Joys of sleep were bred Who knew the gracious pillow at its best. And loved the luring ease of morning bed. VI. 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