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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1902)
THi: OMAHA PAHA" JIKH: SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1002. Tiie Omaha Daily Blu E. ROSEWATFIt. EDITOR fUELISHED EVERT MOKNLNf. TKRM8 OF "UUPCRIPTION. r'stly 1V (without Hunitiiy), On iar..$4-n 'ally lte ami bun'lxy I r,a tear " Jllumratod h', Uni Year - '" ti'irvlajr Iu', (jn leiir I"' t-ntun,ny itee, line Ur 1 i twentieth Century Farmer, On Year.. l.WJ IELJVKKED JIT CARRIER, Pally re (without Ptindayl, Pr ropy... 'c "X 1 1 y Jie (without PumUy), per week, ..1?o i'aily l-. (Including riuixiay), per weea..io ,unJay ie, jt ropy so Jveniris; 1"" (without Burton rl, per week .lug ..Evening Jjes (Including bumlay), per week 15o 1 Complaint of Irregularities In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation Lepartmcnt OFFICES. . , Omaha The Bee Bulldln, Bouih Omaha city Hall Building, Twen-ty-tilth and M Streets. Council liIiilTli l'enrl Street. Chicago 1140 Unity JKiillcling. New Kork Temple Court. V aching ton frol fourteenth Street. COUKESI'ONDitJMCIO. Communications relating to new nd edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha bee, Editorial Lepartment. BUSINESS LETTERS. ' Buefneas lettera and remittances should ba addressed: Th ilea publishing Com pany, Omaha, REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eipreas or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only f-cent stamps accepted In ayment of mall account, ymonai check, except on Omaha or enstern exchangee, not accepted. IhU UEh! fUBUBHINU COMPANY. . STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, fiiate of Nebraska, Douglas Couoly, s.l Uors U. 'Jxscbuck, secretary of The Be PuSilsMing Company, belne; duly morn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, -Evening and Bunday Be printed during the mouth of July, 14, was aa follow: 1 ifft.BiiO 17 iKei I VH.BTO 18 20.GSO I S,S40 It.... SC9.B70 t. 20,60 20 2-J.Sltl I, 2,S20 ' 21 KJW t ....21,6IO 32 2O.60O 7 S,B10 . 23 29,540 Jir0 , , 24 .2,3!K t SD.BiO ZJ , ...iW.OTO 10 2,BSO 28 J0,840 11 2A.510 27 ...29,40 12 2,tu0 ' Si 30.530 It..... ...2,HS 29 . 2tt,BOO 14. 2,60 "itt.UtO IS 20.ROO 21 2S.B20 ie aa,B(M ' . Total.. tUU,40 Leas unsold and returned copies'..., f,26 Net total sales 806,824 Met daily average 2W.252 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscrlbed In my presence end sworn to befors me this 81st day of July, A. D. 11 (lie!.) M, B. KUNOATB, Notary Publlu. Tracy ts dead, but we have a few now 'murder mysteries to divert police offi cers. If Ak-Sar-Ben is wise In time be will place hie order for carnival weather early. When' it comes to playing the host Council Bluffs has a winning way of Us own. T- - , . i.i i , . i . . i w wobuc 1119 vTvatvucr auait uai to be consulted, and for sham battles be Instate on having a part to play, too. V When American players beat the Eng lishman out at his own game of tennis the Scotchman had better limber up his golf stick. The Bee has always advocated a mar ket house of creditable construction and adequate capacity, but the police board is hardly the body to provide the market. North Dakota has carried away the head office of the Pythian. But that la only fair. Nebraska cannot expect to have all tho good things at one and the same time. As if that fatal automobile accident 'nea Evereax were not frsrttg&t frith serioas enough consequences it prom ises to precipitate another chapter to the noted Fair will contest. Mercer's railroad backers' think they can force him upon the republicans of this district for a sixth-term nomination, though they are themselves doubtful as to his election If nominated. Mercer's railroad backers overestimate their strength. ' The state labor bureau will issue shortly a circular pamphlet In the na ture of a handbook for intending liiiiiil grants to Nebraska. This is not exactly the function of a labor bureau, but it is a work that ought to be done, and If done properly should produce results. By the way, what became of that Imaginative boom started by the local yellow journals that was to lund Gen- 4im1 JcLCvfU1 II. Ctultii at thv trcau Of tlitl National Society of the Army of the rhillpp'Dest The session seems to have been a decided dearth for the political medicine mixers. There are railroad democrat as well as railroad republicans, and the railroad democrats can always bo found playing in with the railroad republicans. For special examples watch the maneuver ing of Mercerlte democrats In connec tion with the democratic nomination for congress la this district. Dos Moines people are sadly disap pointed because President Roosevelt can not Ptop over ou his coming western trip at tbe Iowa capital longer than two hour. If the jirt-ni J.-nt satisfied all the demands for hU presence on this one ex cursion, a Becuud term would hardly furnish time to go round. The International Typographical union by Its delegates lu cuuveutioa has turned Us fi.ee at. a lust a propeiedlloa to launch the organization luto the fra ternal lusurauee huhluc- The typos have achieved a wonderful tup-ceoa by t"ift;u:ig Bliicily to their own business and evidently piefer to continue In the fciii.e pathway. i- . Muhle-lovlng OuuU ou-Lt to make ths aut.iKiIly recurring taunlca! festival each a sneer la polut Loth of attend ance siul Cuaudal rvwtt'.is that the best inimical oifjHiiUatleiis will compete each year for tlie ena:.-i;ie!it This can be ecus only by ercurdlog tie enteral (!e luii CorUial aiii'iMii i men is owug tij eviry public -aplntcd n.eiuber cf the cnors akd moxnttiTr. The certainly of liberal harvests and the Indlcntlons of a domsnd st home and abrond that will 'nu.tn!n prices at a highly satisfactory point, grlve aaaursnce of a continuance of business activity snd general rropprrlfy. On the bsls of approximately present prices, the value of the crops of wheat, corn ami osts for this year is placed st f 2,.V.2,0'X1,0X, ag&lnat Il.cst.ow.ooo In 1001, an in crease of f US 1,000,000. The home de niand for these cereals Is hot likely to decline but rather to Increase, but it Is pooflble that the exporta may be som what reduced. ' , Discussing the situation the New York Journal of Commerce points out that last ycar'e wheat exports, including flour, were 2."5r,000,600 bushel, a par ticularly bad crcp in Ger,.;ny In part accounting for this. P In the year before we exported 21;,,hAO0 bushels and la 1899 222,000,000, neither of which years followed any great disaster In European crops. We have 1ft' crop and old wheat 85,000,000 bushels less to dis pose of this year than last. The crops of six European countries are. estimated to bo 100,000,000 bushels better than last year and In addition Russia has an unusually good crop. Australia has ex ported no wheat since May and the ex ports from Argentina since the begin ning of the year . have been consider ably less than last year. The last Ind'an crop was not quite equal to the average local requirements. . Last year onr ex ports of corn were 150,000,000 bushels and of oats 27,000,000 bushels, less than In the previous year due simply to the fact that we had not the train to sell. The Journal of Commerce says: "Euro pean demands for both these grains may be expected to be'aa good during the coming year as. usual. ' Although the wheat crop Is smaller than last year and it would not be strange If the price of corn declined, yet these three cereals wheat, corn and oats caa hardly fall to bo worth $ 100,000,000 more than last year and may easily be worth a good deal more than $500,000,000 above last year. The farmers are likely to have money to spend." . ' , If the estimated value of this year's cereal crops be added to the value of other products of the farm, on the basis for the past year, it will be found that the farmers will have a great deal of money to spend. Already more pros perous as a whole than at any previous time, the rewards of their labor In pros pect will put them in condition to con tribute more liberally than ever before to the general prosperity. The addition to the wealth of the country frohi'thls year's agricultural production will prob ably be larger than in any previous year, while the contribution to the na tion's wealth by the manufacturing In dustries ii not likely to be less than for several years past. It'ls a situation the American people can regard with a great deal of satisfaction. ova DtaoRDSRur beiobbohs. Referring to the constant disorder hi some of the southern countries, the New York .Mall and Express suggests -that sooner or later the United States will find it necessary to put a stop to the ceaseless brawling at our national doors. "For the civilization of the western hemisphere," remarks that paper, ;"the world holds the United States responsi ble. The nation has no wish to attack the rights of any weaker country. It has no desire to acquire more territory nor to assume new duties of, supervi sion. But it will be Impossible to'vade the task of settling those disorderly houses of the south In order If the pres ent Intolerable conditions continue. We claim the privileges asserted in the. Mon roe doctrine. We cannot shrink the duties that are the logical accompani ment of those privileges." The danger that such a state of af fairs as exists in Venezuela and Colom bia may Involve those countries in trouble with foreign nations which the United States would be called upon to take notice of, will seem to many to war rant some action on the part of this gov ernment to bring about and preserve peace and order In those southern state. But any step in this direction would bo regarded as an attack on the rights of weaker states and as having territorial acquisition in view, with the result of creating In that quarter a bitter enmity toward this country which foreign na tions might take advantage of for their own aggrandizement The United States will therefora continue to let tnose states settle their Internal affairs in their own way snd to protect them against foreign aggression. A ttt.MtlClAL LAW. The gold standard act of March, 1000, has prowed uiost beneficial to the coun try and especially to the. middle west and the far wet In supplying these sec tions with tho banking facilities they needed. During the two years aud nve months that this law has beea Irt opera tion over J, 000 banks have been orns U,ed aud talicu out national charters, a laiM majority of tbee being banks with small capital. These are scattered all through the agricultural districts in plaefs where there never would have been national banks under the old law. According to the comptroller of tbe cur rency thee small banks are all well managed and are prospering. The benefit to the agricultural dtatrlcta of the Law Is showu by the locution of the newly organized bank. About tw thlr.ls of the whole number have a cap ital of ?:0,(.kjO or let and are la town with .a population of less than ti.u-oO ta.ch. These are chiefly lu the south suJ west, there being not much field la the New England and eastern states for banks of tbe smaller class. Tu spring ing up of so many new bauktug lnt'JU tioua has actually increased the vulume of national butik circulation, although tbo authority given by congress for national banks to iocrtaMr their circu lation tO the ptl Viiilw Of bolivti dt pvd- Ited with thj government aided sotue- such circulation. TU gold standard act was vigorously epposed by the democrats who of cotirae predicted thst it would have rttul!s in jurious to the country. Its operation has moat cont luplvely demonstrated th wisdom of the law. LRT m VB HtMKST WITH ortffLVi5, In defining bis poI!kn on the market home General Manderson goes clear out of his way to levamp the "well-defined tumors' which' had been exploded by the recent grand Jury and seks to create the Impression that tolerated lawless necs and vice are more rampant In Omaha than they have ever ben In the history of this community, going so far as to demand the strict enforcement of every law and ordinance on the statute books, ' Let us be candid and honest with our selves. Twenty years ago, when Omaha had not exceeding 85,000 population, James 13. Boyd was mayor and Churles F. Manderson was his city attorney. The town wss a good deal more wldo open then than It Is now. Tbe social evil which exists la every city existed here then as nowonly with this differ ence, that proportioned to population there were ten women plying their out lawed vocation to one at the present day. There are today no open gambling houses' In Omaha, although gambling may be carried on behind closed doors and by the surreptitious sale of lottery tickets. Bui where on professional gam bler operates In this city under cover, ten gamblers were then flourishing in Omaha without cover or pretense of dis guise. There Is no record so far as we know that the mayor or city attorney of those days took any etepB to suppress gambling or prostitution In the courts. From Boyd to Moores the change la the suppression of vice and licentious ness has been for the better rather than for the worse. Under Broatch tbe burnt district was allowed to burn, and the chips, red, white and blue, had free and unlimited coinage at 13 to 1 of the present day. The sale of lottery tickets Louisiana, Havana, Honduras and Mexico was promiscuously carried on without let or hindrance and no word of protest came from people who have only recently discovered how awfully wicked Omaha has become. Under Bemis tbe council, against the protest of The Bee, passed an ordinance designed to license open gambling and the sheriff of Doug las county even furnished safe conduct for prisoners to the gambling bouses. In Its effort to break tip the?e corrupt and lawless practices The Bee received little encouragement from those people who now profess to be shocked by ru mors which Lave not been substantiated. As a lawyer General Manderson surely knows that tbe bedrock of Ail these evils la the s-reed of owners of bulldlnas who rent their premises. -to the vicious and lawless classes. ( It Js not for the .mayorV to prosecute the own ers, . but ' tor. the county ' prosecutor and sheriff, yet If these officers should : try to do their lull duty there wouUIm aaensation In social high life as-wtli as In-political .circle.. Men way up In politics and In" business do not seenr to hesitate to take the money of the proscribed element so long aa It comes In the shape of exorbitant rents. But If General Manderson Is really In earnest about the regeneration of Omaha, the remedy Is within his reach. A majority of the new Mercer-Broatch police commission are certainly only too anxious to follow out his wishes snd suggestions, and If Omaha shall be afflicted with any more wickedness hereafter, the people who desire the sup preawloa of vicjwa lawlessness will know where to locate the responsibility. Former Governor Jamec E. Boyd has an nounced that ha will aoeept the democratlo nomination for eongreaa la this district if the convention that meets on Saturday should select him. It is also stated la Gov ernor Boyd's behalf that Victor Rosewster called on the governor and told him that It ha should be nominated ths Roiewaters would give him cordial support. Wcrld Herald. " . This statement' la another World Herald lie made of the whola cloth' so far as It relntes to alleged negotiations between cx Ccverncr . Boyd and the Rosewaters. None of tbe Rosewaters have called on the governor or had any conversation with him 1n months. The Rosewaters have not undertaken to ad vise tbe democrats as to whom they should choose as their candidate for con gress, but have contented themselves with saying that The Bee would not support cr for a a's tClilir ' A diirtlnsulshed victor In the person of a member cf the Russian Imperial family tourlag the United States, wh!U remarking ou the superior character of American transportation ' facilities, de clares that they have Just as good serv ice ia P.u.-'ls and get it st far less than the coet here. . And ha cites examples of the fares charged between principal points la RuHtsla to support his conclu sion. It is neeti.efts to J4 that Russian railroads ere net loade,d down with fixed charges on millions of watered stocks aud Inflated bond Issues exchanged at doublo pur value for stocks of other rosds absorbed of merged on commun ity -of interest plans. No one blames the jt.'ople of Washing ton for exhibiting anxiety to have Mer cer kept In cuiigrrBS perpetually. He lives in Washington and has all of his Interests there. Ha represents the peo p:s of the national capital ks If he were elected by them. But why should the District of Columbia dictate to the Sec ond Nebraska district whom it chould select Ms Its representative lu the lower houcn of congresa? A ttcbii le.i otScer of the Netraka National Guar.t threatens to eajuia the governor frmu re 'iuljg his commis sion. It U Jut j i.,s.!Ue tbe ancy and navy cf the etate of Nebraska may yet have t-j be fail- J OLt to determine the question of pi ei r 1. ti'-e betveen execu tive aud Ju i:.:try. Our loca! r-' iX'Cratie tfiuteEr-rry . porta ha If e.'.,i. ' on tbe Subject "illUh." i.:t.:J cf lLa sti.ae, Low- ever, proves most disappointing. It Is a discussion gramiv.nt!' nl snd eptfjram matlrsL with not a word about tbe caml'dnte for cn-i'y attorney on tbe democratic ticket. thlas Thntthlasr Ura-nr. PC Ixnl Globe-Uemocrat. King Edward's head Is not so uocany as It was before the coronation. A tact ful woman saved him t annojanc ot getting- his crown a crooked. Fnjeylasr the Increment. Washlnston Star. What Is this storr that comes out of ths westr Record-breaklna cora snd wheat crops T Prospective atrlewltural profits fully two billion dollars! Where, oh where, l ths Topullst now? . ra.aaia., d the lawaalaa. Spring-field Republican. The nightmare that afnilcts Canada at present Is the "Americanization" of ths Canadian went by immigrant farmers from this country. Tha Toronto Globe ob serves that tha toplo continues to be a "prolific source of discussion." The Ca nadians have nothing to fear from Ameri can Immigrants; indeed, they should be thankful to get any at all. The areat ma jority of the new comers from this side of the 11ns will get natnrallisd, and their children will be good Canadians, for the same reason that Canadians coming down here become good Americans. Midway im S access. Western Advertiser. If you toot your little tooter end then lay aside your horn, there's not a soul la ten short days will know that yon were born. The man who gathers pumpkins is the man who plows all day, and the man who kaeps It humping Is the one who makes It pay. Tha man who advertises with a a short, sudden Jerk Is the one who blames tha edtltor became it didn't work. The man who gets ths business is the one who take a long and steady pull and keeps ths local paper from year to year quite full. Hs plans his advertising la a careful, thought ful way, and'k'eeps forever at it until ha makes It pay. Hs has faith la all ths fu ture, can withstand a sudden shock, and like the mas of Scripture, has his busi ness oa a rock. 1 Combine lav Farm BIebJaerr Minneapolis Times. Northwestern farmers will do well to take better csre than ever of their harves terskeep them oiled and in good repair and keep them protected from the weath er when not in use. The next ones they are going to boy are going to cost more than ever, for ths manufacturers of ag riculture Implements have formed a gl gantlo trust called ths International Har vester company, and , It is. capitalized at 1170,000,000. Ths new eoncsra will endeav or to control the agricultural Implement trade of the United State and accomplish a little more In the way of invading ths markets of Europe. The Industry has al ready mad a good start In ths last earned direction snd, with a compact organization comprising the principal manufacturers. Its progress Is likely to becoise more rapid. A Fir Sa the. Oiataaeat. Philadelphia Record. The fly In the Pacific cable ointment is the government jretpiirement that .there shall be an independent American line from Manila to Chinn. This is necessary In order to secure Jute control ot the situation from Ws -naton. The company now applying for a f overnment concession 4ft not deelre b in -this condition, but to. pass through, 1uh es from --China end Japan over the cables" of the Eastern Ex tension company iretween Manila and Hong Kong. To lay an independent cable would be to Interfere with the existing division on the Asiatic coast and the western Philippine coast In no other way, however, could ths public ends aimed at in the con struction of an American transpacific line be accomplished. An independent .line to Manila would In nowise answer the public demand. There mutt be no foreign inter mediary ia cable cczdmunlcatioa with China and Japan by the new Paclflo route. BILLIONS IX THE HARVEST MOO.T. Re Maensblae Aboat " the Money- Wart k 10O Cents oa the Dollar. An expert estimate of the value of tbe cereal harvest of 1902 to American farmers places it at 12.000,000,000. This estimate Is based on the govern ment's crop report, given to the press the other day, and which indicated its six in bushels ss follows! Com , t.4?i,"(Y,0"0 Wheat 6l (u..) Oats ,. St,oou,oix) Total l,M2,0o0.000 If ths government's forecast Is realized this will be tha largest total production ot oereals aver recorded In the United States. It will exceed by morethan 425,000,000 bush els the aggregate of ths tremendous crops of corn, wheat and oats In 1900. And In value on the farm, If the estimate ot $2,000,000,000 ts approximately correct, it will exceed by st least half a billion dollars the best grain harvest gathered In any previous year by American farmers. It is worth noting, too, that ths $3,000,000, 000, which tb American tanners se in the harvest moon are every one of them worth 100 cents ia gold, the standard money of the commercial world. Does Mr. Bryan really tfelleve they could be rallied ca a platform that preposed to make their $2,0OO,0u0,frH) harvest worth $1,000,000,000 only? DISTRIBUTION OF FROSPERIT l". Chicago Tribune. Co long as ths crop bulletins of thi Woather bureau ars like that issued this week proepcrtty will occupy the attention of tb firmer to ths exclusion of all other issues. When wheat U good and ost are plentiful, when the corn yield is to be eDorraous and the cotton yield heavy, In stead ot thaakiag beneilcent nature the cltUra Inclines to ay "this 1 a great coun try and w ars a great people." Th farmer doe not bother himself with ths statistician's figures of domestic and foreign consumption and per capita profit. lis Is tatitfled that co&Jltioo la the corn states of tbe upper Misnhmlppt valley ars favor able to a gigautic crop Snd that the poorer slater states ot the south era glorying In the nics mixture cf rain and drouth which products tha best quality and the greatest quantity of cotton. . The distribution ot rainfall has, on the whole, been even, though in soma parts of ths nilddi west, notably about ths lakes. It ha been heavy enough to injur oat and retard the harvesting of wheat, whil la urn other sections mors rain Is needed. But, while complaints of too much or too little rain are heard here and there, tb area f agricultural prosperity I an enor Uious on this year. Ths farmers ars doing welt aud the railroad which ar to haul their crop ts market will do well as a consequence On the heel of good harvests will come an active fall and winter trsri. The trmer wUl bo fres buyers and tbs iuu'j'arturer bs kept busy. When ftiu.uiiuu j.utpe-ity is iuitrMa by la duttrUl prosperity tha couuiry is. Indeed, In jod AooditioD, aod Its luhautuats ought ot to t la a fault-Cud. c mood. Problem of Chlcaao In The hard coat trust today undoubtedly Is giving tha American peopls a most per nlcloita demonstration ef ths manner la which even the best of Institutions may be turned to an evil eae. Coal is a ready-made product. If the grains whereby mn live required nelthr pleating nor cultivation grsw spontan eously and had merely to be harvested they would be the same sort ot natural product aa coal. The historic argument In favor of private ownership of such natural products la that It stimulates enterprise and competition be tween producers snd thus benefit tbe peo ple by giving them lower prices, better service or both. The historic argument against publlo ownership of such - products is that by ellmlaatlng competition, it stifles enter prise and thus compels the people to ac cept higher prices, poorer service, or both. Now, tbe coal trust, having first brought anthracite coal under private ownership,, has formed a monopoly, eliminated com petition, and stifled enterprise, thus de priving the people ot the benefits prom ised in return for permitting such private ownership. It has done more and worse. It has sbsolutely failed to comply with the condition upon which private owner ship of coal is justified, and for months it has failed to produce any coal at all. The coal trust has conducted Its busi ness with the sols purpose ot getting tbe largest possible profits from the people. POLITICAL DRIFT. f There are 2,665 counties In tbs United States. Texas has the largest number, 246, and Delaware the smallest number, I. A New York democrat, realizing the Im portance of a bar'l la a campaign, wants his party to nominate Andrew Carnegie for gov ernor. For more than alxty years John H. Reagan has held positions of honor and trust in Texas and cow he is going to retire. He will go out of office a poor man. ' During a Joint debate down in Virginia recently one ot the aspirant for office closed sn eloquent peroration by jumping from ths stage and polishing an offensive objector. Lieutenant Governor Tim Woodruff of New York deolines another engagement aa second fiddler on the republican ticket. This will eliminate tbe ornate Vest ss a campaign slogan. John G. McCulIough of Bennington, re publican candidate for governor of Vermont, was at the head of the delegation from that state to the republican national convention la lftOO which nominated William McKlnley snd Theodore Roosevelt, ' There have been three national conven tions la St. Louis, the democratlo In 1878, the democratic in 1SSS and the republican in 18D8. The Business Men's league ot St. Louis has been at work since the postpone ment of the world's fair until 1904 to secure, it possible, both the democratic snd the re publican national conventions two years hence. t Kl l..- . , T- ' . - party's prospects will be seriously injured if congressional candidates carry out the plan of campaigning by means of the auto mobile. It Is calculated that every farm er's horse which kicks the dashboard when the auto Hies by will lose the candidate a hunch of votes. Few of tbe eaadidates have votes te lose. ' . Representative George H. Fall, who Intro duced ;nd championed .ths bill -which re cently passed the 'Massachusetts legislature making mothers equal guardians of children with fathers, says that most of the credit for Ha passags Is due to hi wife, who, sfter her marriage, took up tbe study of law. Ehe is a member of the Maiden school board, snd the mother of five children. Bids for the erection of the state capltol of Pennsylvania have been called for. When the old state house was burned down five years ago the erection of a building to cost $600,000 was agreed Upon, but ths commis sion to which tho Job was assigned "vetoed" the proposition and ths veto was sustained by a subicqus-it legislature. The last legis lature appropriated (4,000,000 for the build lei. Charley Thayer, mayor of Norwich, Conn., thinks the governorship of the state is just his size and is anxious to corral the demo cratlo nomination. But h is careful to an nounce that should the Job come his wsy be will not' "go Into office ss ons bob on the tall of a kite held to the wind by a political string." "If I am sleoted to be governor," says Mr. Thayer, "it must bs aa a working governor; not aa aa ornamental attachment to a legislature controlled and directed by agents ot corporations." 'In tbe congressional elections this year," ays the New York 8un, "the republicans have an advantage which has not generally ben taken into account The gain in new members under the new apportionment comes chiefly to states which, if not all surely republican, were, at least, under con trol of the republican party at the time the new division of districts was. made. The middle snd western states are the chief gainers under the new apportionment, and In all of these, without exception, republican legislatures have fixed the boundaries of tb districts." CROP RECORDS AGAIN BROKEN. Aaother Year of l-apreeeateatea Pros perity Aasored. New York World. Ths greatest crop of cersals ever produced In this -country is now assured. The result should be the prolongation by snother year at least cf the unprecedented prosperity which the country is enjoying. The wheat crop It is which most directly and obviously affects ths railroad market and ths balance of trade. In the slang st tha street it la nearly all "moved"; It travels far and is sold tor Immediate use. Uance a yield spparently surpassing all recent records except the phenomenal one of 18J will keep the railroads busy tor month and provlds ths west with ready cash to pay for manufactured goods In vast volume. Cora ts net a traveler. For the most part it ia fed where It is grown and hene does not enter so directly Into ths Wall street man's calculations. Nevertheless it always surpasses wheat in total value, and this year It Is what wheat la not crop far beyond all pat records ot production. If combina tions of packers did not set at naught tb law of supply and demand a record corn crop should mean abundant and cheaper meats. There are drawbscks to ths peilod cf pros perity which ws ara enjoying. It foster ex travagance and ths stock-gambitog spirit in a way that must ultimately lead to many dlratters. Unquentiouably, too, th laboring man and th conaumer are not in every case ptrmltted to n'oy their fair shar of it frul'.s in better wages and cheapened goods. But that I not bountiful nature' fault. To her all thank. ' ' aa-l, of Royal Tact. Baltimore American. King Edward has aa elephant en hi hands in the snap of Osborne House. He eidn't want It, couldn't selt it, and bts lib erality in glvlog It to the people has thrown ths cation inta a spasm of gratified ad-miration. the Coal Bin ter Ocen. Then, having quarreled with its employes over the division of the profits. It has ceaaed to perform tha service upon which private ownership is conditioned. Half a dozen men virtually say to aa entire nation: "It we cannot perform this service exactly as we please, we shall let it go unperformed." Every man who believes private owner ship beneficial, as every ssn men eoea, finds the ground cut from under his feet la the case of ths coal trust. Before the most fanatical socialist bs tnust, la this case, be dumb. It he speak ot "competi tion." of enlerprls," of "enlightened self-interest," hi antaptonUt points to the coal trust snd hs is silenced. He has not sa answer, for tbe coal trust has deprived him ot any Upon every economlo theory advanced since the days of Turgot, the conduct of the coal trust is Indefensible, ft has done more thaa all ether agencies combined to indues the American to look with tol erance upon dangerous suggestions ot a eommunlstlo organization of Industry. It has given the world an object lesson as Inopportune as It Is perilous. It Is difficult -to understand how even the profonndest egotism could have don wore than the eoal trust managers hava done to produce a situation as dangerous to every material interest la the nation as It ts deplorsble from every viewpoint of common sense. OTHER LANDS THAN OIRS. All the recent accounts of Italian -discontent hava been reducible to financial embarrassment snd heavy taxations Period ef sound and mistaken financial admin istration have altercated since tb cre ation ot the nation In 1361. Twice, in 187S and In 189?, th s-ovsrnment had worked Its wa through a dreary and pain ful ' series of deficits, and the lessons learned during those trying periods are now, (he safeguard against any future, ex travagance. From 1801 to 1876 was tbe first period, during which he agricul tural and. Industrial beginnings of the new nation was made. After 1876, however, a time of rash expenditure began, the gov ernment having overestimated the national resources and taxpaylng power, until th surplus finally .disappeared in 1885. Be tween 1885 snd 1896 tbe deficit was con stant. Ths expenses ef the Triple Al liance, the colonial schemes especially the disastrous Ahyasinisa war, and tho loose banking administration brought ths country to ths verge of bankruptcy. But since 1897, by the utmost economy prac ticable, there has been a steadily increas ing surplus of revenue . over expenditure, which last year reached over $8,000,000. Tho Italian watchwords now are, "No mere debts." . ' ee Emperor William's forthcoming visit to the Polish provinces of his dominions, for the purpose of etterfdlns the military man euvers there, will be characterized by features which . wUl invest It with the annarstiea f h ntr nf a letrloii general lnt a conquered country. For he has curtly declined any omciai welcome on the part of the municipal authorities, who will, therefore b conspicuous by their absence. ; His receptloa will be exclusively military and he will ride at the heaa or his troops into the city of Posen, which 1 the capital of th province, ana wners the police have received peremptory orders not t allow any window to remain open or any balcony t be occupied along the route which he., traverses.. .. This Is., .of. . course, a measure of precaution, ss th feeling among th Polish nationalists cf " high and. low degree against him is so bitter that that there is naturally the danger that some fanatlo or crank might fire a pistol or a rifle or else hurl a bomb at him from either - opened window or bal cony ss he passes by ia the streets below on horseback. Still, at tbe same time, the adoption of such precautions does not suggest much mutual confidence between the sovereign and his lieges and smacks of Russian terrorism, or ot Japan in Its unregenerate daya, when it meant death tor anyone to gaz at at the mikado from above; that is to say, from either window or balcony. . .. Th duty of ths British colonies la con tributing to ths defense of ths empire has been recognixed, theoretically, for a long while, but it was not until lately that the sentiment received some practical expres sion. Australia will be a factor f the greatet weight in the marine commerce of the world. It has an immense sea coast dotted with promising towns snd pop ulous and wealthy cities. It lies open to attack at a thousand different points, and it is therefor right that It should lead ths way ia sn entirely new scheme of imperial naval defense. Not long ago Cape Colony expanded nearly four million dollars ia presenting the royal navy with a cruiser of the first class. U was a tlmoly and a gsneroiis gift and the effect ot It is still apparent. Australia, emulating th people of th Cape, is determined to bet ter the example set before it, and will once again lead the other colonies la con tributions to the English navy, as It lately led them in contributions to the English army. Deepite all official surveillance, the Rus sian people ar being deluged with revo lutionary literature in th form of novel, pamphlets or journals printed abroad, like tho Oswobcthdenla. Just so waa pre-revolu-tlonary Franco inspired, only that Beaumarchals and tha other bone esprlts addressed their audiences through th in strumentality of the drama, rather than through th newspapers. It haa been said that the division of Russian society Into a ruling caste, on th on hand, and a mast of peasants dwelling in th darknes of Ignorance, on th other hand, precludes th possibility f a popular uprising. Th In telligent elasaea in Russia to-day, however, ars proportionately a numerous ss were th tamo classes in France In 1790. while th French peasantry of that day was as degraded In body and soul aa is th Russian peasantry of th present time. King Louie XVI had a few excefleut ministers, and so bus the czar; but, whil M. da Wttte 1 es tablishing Russian finances on a Solid basis and laboring to build up industries and a system ot tntsmat communication, Gneral Bobrikoff ts stamping out tb lib erties of Finland and a debased clergy is moving heaven and earth to prevent a glimmer of enlightinect front penetrating tbs popular mind. When Bismarck retired, 12 years ago. Germany waa no world power, tb wa a country, which, Ie a military sense, was considered pre-smlnant In Europe, and which, by reason of th tripartita agree ment between it, Austria and Italy, filled a leading position, in a political sense, en tbe continent. But a world power it waa cot. Ths very word had not then been coined. It wa before the series ef startling events that has since transformed th whole situation in th far east, and ha brought China n4 JifiZ !!" fi!!f ef i tlons as potent factors. It waa before tb epanlsh-Amerlcaa war, which In two hstul- apneres, projected tho United Ntate Into th very midst of tb political arena. There hava seldom been tea year la tb world's history which hav wrought such radical charge, changes of' such far reaching Importance, aa those since 1S3J. The world at larte baa as yet scarcely gained th' rlsbt focus for slewing tho momentous happenlnes. -Next to this coun try it is Germany thst has most largely profited from tb sew situation. OIT OF TUB ORDINARY. MtV Mars-are McFetbrles, a native of Scotland, observed her inoth birthday at f-'prii.grleld last Week. On cf her grent frmndchlldren Is a school teacher In that city. - " A Dutch laborer who found a nine-leafed shamrock In a flcM wher ha was working sent It to Queen Wlllielmlna as an augury of good luck. II was rewarded by a gift of some $10.50 from the royal purse. A steam harvester- webbing-100 tons, that cuts, threshes and bsaw ths grain from 100 acres of land In a day, Is reported st work In California on a 4.000-acr barley field. There ar reasons why we red the world. There was a notable family reunion at Welland, Ont., last week at which the six children of the lata JacoH Pound assembled to celebrate the birthday of ."tha baby ot th family," who had attained the age of 80 year. . . , William Coxa, a pnhUet who bore more medals than other aoldtprs In the British army, died at Ms borne la Ballynahlnch, Ireland, recently. Lord ' Roberts one wanted to give him a commission, but h refused It. ' In . th Nw York office of Plerpont Morgan there I a Junior clerk, th son of a millionaire, who when not otherwise em ployed In engaged in slicing the flaps oft envelopes which hav bean used. The backs ar preserved In pads for scribbling paper. Tb mail of such a nous 1 enor mous snd the saving effected in this Way is not inconsiderable.. i . William Lovett bf Peru, Ind., Says he Is the only man la th Hooslar stat who wa present In London at th coronation of Queen Victoria Juno 28. IMS. He walked lbi miles to . witness London s greatest spectacular event, and, although now past 90 years old, he can relate much of th details preceding the coronation ceremonies. He was seven ears the senior of Victoria. II served tour years In an Indiana regi ment during th American civil 'war. Aissa Ben Khouldl, an Algerian Arab, la In Paris asking the government to restore to htm bis wife, whom he bought from her father six months ago for TS franca On th invitation of his father-in-law, hs and his wife paid a vlait to the bride's paternal home, where she was detained, 'her father Claiming she was too young to marry. Th case bas brought th Institution of woman slavery In Algiers officially before the French government, and may result In a change In - th condition of th women there. . . LAIGHIKQ GAS.. Chicago Tribune: "What was th blaaest catch you ever made?" asked his fishing companion. "i cauant tne sneakers eve once last spring," replied the congressmen. Philadelphia Press: Goodart He seems to feel great sympathy for any on who is lib Newitt Huh! His Idea of symnathv Is to get some poor Invslid In a corner and tell him how miserable he's looking. Vashlnarton Star: "Whenebber a man fibs me a, whole lot o' advice." said Unci aiini, i can ( neip s picionln" oat if his opinions was so valuable he'd be busy somewna euse countin money. Detroit Freo Press: Book lArent This book, sir, will tell you how to keep bugs from your potatoes, how to rid your barn of rats ' Unci Eben You sln't got no book that tell you how to rid a farm uv book agints, hev yer? Chfcasro Poet: "H doesn't overtook any opportunities to act in the front rank. does he?" -J "Well, I should say nor. Aner he painted Tiir back fence Tie tried to 1rtua the directory man to put bina la, undev the head of artlgts, so's to get nearer th front ot the dook. .. , f Waahlngton Starf "Mike," said' Plodding Pete, "don't you wish you was rich?" '"Kind o'," answered Meandering- Mike. "Course I couldn't eat any mora dan I does, but Pd be saved de trouble o' aaytn' 'much obliged' so often." Chic-aero Tribune: "Are there anv rood collection agencies in this neighborhood T" Inquired ths stranger with tbe long-standing- account. Collection asrencieaT exclaimed the sub urbanite. "Oreat Scott I Haven't you seen any of our mosquitoes yet?" TUB ANNUAL, PARODY. Baltimore American. Maud Muller (Gentle reader, her 's the parody that comes sacn year.) Maud Muller, on a summer's eve. Pinned back her skirt and tucked each sleeve. ph gt h hose, upon th lawn 1 And deftly turned the water on, Ph snrintrted rally on th rrscs. And amlleil ontbosa who chanced to past. Th Jud came walking dowa th street, And spied Mlis Muller, trim and neat, . IT raised his hat to speak to her; " His heart with love began to stir; For Maud was young and fair to see, Th Judge was rich as rich could be. ' Just wheh he mads his graceful bow , Tha water did not twist Somehow; rt did not smite lilm on the ear; It did not 11 his soul with fear; It did not swat him in th vest And knock bis garments g-alleywest; tt did not wash htm from th spot No, gentle reader, it c!d ret. instead. Maud turned the water off Juat when bis bat received the doff. The Jui-- mused softly: "Buch SS she Is the laebi-wlfe for me. And Maudle mused: "I'll ehanere my name li-i splinting this domestic gam.".- The Judre proposed tbe rest you ruers Maud Mullur lost no tlm with "Yes." And often now the Judge wt'I dream Of how, the setting suns last fleam Illumined Maudle. with tha hose. And bow bis ardor swiftly rose. And Maudi too, dreams of th v When, with tucked skirt and roiled-un aiceve, the utilised her canning tact Ami eiiLneed the lawa-hos act, . And posed ther In th twf!!trht dim,' ' And with deft clence landed htm. Of all true words of tongue cr pen The truest are; "i'hey fxl th man." 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