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THE "OMAHA DAILY BEEi MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1002. niE umaha Daily Bee E. HU3EWATF.R, EDITOR. FUBU3HED EVERT MORN I NO. TERMS OF BUB8CRirTION. Dally lira (without Sunday), One Year.. I4.no Unity ! mm bumlay, una ur t.W lllimiruled nee, one ar 1M bunutiy iiee. One lear z.iw fcniuruay liee, one War lv Twentieth Century rraer, one Year., l.uu DtUVKKbU BY CARRIER, pally Hee (without Sunday), per copy... 1c Latiy Ilea (witnout butinay), per ween...Uc Kally iiee onciuulng Hunu)), per week..l7c fcunoay tfee, per copy o tvenlng ilee (without Sunday), per week. Iik: swelling Hee (including ttunuay), per week 16c Complaints of Irregularities In delivery ahoulu be addressed to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha city Hall .Building, Twen-ty-tlnn and M Street. Council KlurTa It) 1'earl Street. Chicago 1MO Unity Hulldlng. Mew zork Temple Court. Washington ool fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Tischuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the mouth of July, W03, was as follows: 1 SK,B30 IT 2U.M0 1 8U.BT0 IS 20,580 I SO.fflO It at, 570 4 80,520 tO Ji'J.BtB 1 8O.320 11 ZIMSOO I ,.20,600 22 29,(100 7 20,610 U 20,510 20.41)0 U 2D.51M) 20.B4I 25 20,070 10 8,BB0 26 20,840 11 2W.B10 27 2W.4S0 12 2O.020 28 29.BB0 U 20,013 29 ....39,5(10 14 20,000 ft) 2,010 16 29,000 81 119,580 1$....: 89.60O Total D10.450 Less unsold and returned copies.... W,o2tl Net total sales BOO. 824 Net dally average 89,258 GEO. B. TZSCHL'CIC Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day ct July, A. D. ltfi'2. (Seal.) M. B. HUNOATE, i Notary Public. King Cora distributes his titles of no bility by conferring- on his devoted sub jects decorations In the order of pros perity. It should be distinctly understood that every democratic politician reserves a woman's right to change bis mind on shortest notice. Second wind for the claimants to the Fair estate means a second windfall for the lawyers who succeed in break ing Into the litigation.; If our coming state fair Is a faithful reflex of the present condition of agri culture In Nebraska, It will be a show worth going miles to eeo. , L i- It Omaha had all of the market houses In brick and stone that have been erected on paper, It would have a mar ket house on every other 'corner. Senator Ilanua It quoted as saying that be is very sure no extra session of the senate will be called to pass on any Cuban reciprocity treaty. Senator Ilaona usually knows what he Is talk ing about. The reunion of the Society of tho Army of the Philippines has been re freshing In this that it has disclosed the fact that there are still a few vet erans of the Philippine war who do not claim to have been anything more than privates. . Governor Savage's honeyed Labor day proclamation will not wash away the bitter taste of bis insulting letter to the union plumbers. The proclamation Is au official formality, while the letter uncovers the man's real sentiments toward labor. The democratic congressional conven tion may rest under a cloud of a few trifling Irregularities, as gauged by the requirements of the election laws, but In the democratic copies of the statute books the election laws are made appli cable to republicans only. If Charles M. Schwab should be dis placed from his 11,000,000 job at the head of the Steel trust before bis new $3.o00,000 residence In New York Is finished, a half built palace may be thrown on a market which only multi millionaires can patronize. In their real to convince the public that the railroads of Nebraska are over taxed, those railway tax bureaucrats are Just liable to prove that the roads are really entitled to an annual sub sidy out of the state treasury and total exemption from paying anything into It. Colonel Bryan declares be Is not anx ious to be convinced that he Is the man needed to lead the democratic hope next time, but he Is convinced that sev eral other self-styled democrats who are auxlous to lead the democratic hosts are neither needed nor wanted on the ticket The necessity for the republicans of the Second Nebraska district to noin Inate for congress a man who makes his home here and whose Interests are Identified with this district Is now more urgent than ever. Tho people will no longer stand for a non-resident con gressman. In the aftermath of the sham battle crowds at Luke Manawa the collection of empty porketbooks, In evldenre of the activity of the pickpocket brigade, con. stttutes a striking reminder of what used to happen In Omaha tinder a for me reform pollee. ma-lma, It$ hasn't happened lu Umaha, however-, since the late Martin White au4 his successor. John J, Iiounhue, have had charge of the polloe force, i QRA$PlXtt AT A STB ATT. A drowning man grasps at a straw. It Is given out by the backers and ad mirers of Congrt'ssmsn Mercer that his visit to Oyster Hay would bring about a change of front on the part of The Hee With regard to his candidacy for a plith term through the Intervention of President Roosevelt If Mr. Mercer's mission to Oyster Bay had DO other object in view, It Is des tined to prove a dismal failure. Presi dent Itoosevelt Is not in the habit of Interfering in local political contests, whoever may be Involved. Only Satur day his Influence was Invoked to bring about an amicable settlement of the factional Delaware senatorial feud, but he hns positively declined to mix In, al though it Involves two senatorshlps, and Delaware Is in the same condition that Nebraska would have been in today If Mercer had succeeded In his desperate effort to prevent the election of any republican senators unless he .was one of them. It is not likely therefore that the president will change his policy of Don-Intervention Just for the sake of Mr. Mercer. Up to this time at least President Itoosevelt so far as:we know; has not shown the slightest solicitude for the nomination of D. II. Mercer and will doubtless be just as well satisfied with any good republican, 1 The editor of The Uee has had four Interviews with the president within the last six months, but at no time was the name of Mr. Mercer even mentioned by the presi dent If Mr. Mercer's only hope Is to Bave his political life by grasping at a straw from the 'White House, his chances of landing on shore are awfully slim lu- lndeea. ' " . ' THK HHIPTARD TRUST'. The combination of shipbuilders, known as the United States Shipbuild ing company, the organization of which was completed last week, has for its object to put American shipbuilding es tablishments upon such a basis that ships can be built here for foreigners. In order to do this the American ship builders must be able to compete In the matter of cost with European ship builders and If the combination can effect this without reducing the price of labor, which now makes the differ ence in the cost of ship construction between the United States and Europe, it will be a good thing for the ship building industry of this country. According to the statement of an offi cial of the company, it is building the largest cargo carrying steamships in the world and has a fleet in course of construction of the value of J3,iaw,uw, composed of every known type of ves sel, and the total contracts In hand aggregate $30,000,000. The combination therefore starts under highly favorable conditions. Enlargement of the ship building Industry of the United States Is certainly to be desired and there ap pears to be no reason why the so-called Shipyard trust should not be highly suc cessful. QRKAT BRITAIN'S NAVT. The disclosures regarding the weak features of Great Britain's navy, brought out by the review of the chan nel fleet, are really not new. For sev eral years English naval officers have been telling the government that many bf Its 'vessels would bo found almost useless in case of war. The statement of a naval critic In regard to the home fleet, that a majority of the ships "might as well be built of cardboard, as they are mere dummies, too feeble to fight and too slow to run away," has been said la effect many times before. But none the less Great Britain's navy Is by far the most powerful in the world and would still be so If all the ships which are deemed to be too feeble to fight were put out of commission. Omitting these from consideration and the British navy still is equal in fight ing power to the combined navies of France and Russia, in both of which are ships that may be classed as dum mies, too feeble to fight and too slow to run away. And Great Britain is in creasing Its sea power as 'rapidly as any other country. She Is building the most powerful battleships and cruisers ever constructed, thus maintaining her policy of keeping her naval strength about equal to that of any two Euro pean nations. This she may not al ways be able to do, but there is no doubt that is her position at present and will continue to bo at least until the French and German programs of naval construction are carried out The fact is that warships built fifteen or twenty years ago have become an tiquated and would bo useless against the latest battleships and cruisers. Great Britain has a number of such vessels, but she also hns enough mod ern ships to mske her position as a sea power secure. CRL8AVC AOAlXST CHILD LABOR. The movement against child labor In the mills of the south cannot fall to have good results. The facts In regard to the employment of children under 12 years of age and the deploVable con sequences have aroused a feeling In the south that must result in remedial action and it Is safe to assume that there will be legislation In the southern states for the correction of the wrong that Is being done to thousands of chil dren In depriving them of opportunity for schooling and subjecting them to a slavery which ought to be Impossible la this country. Some of the southern papers claim that the statements which have been published as to the number of children employed in the mills and their con dition are exaggerted. Thus the Trades man of Chattanooga says that all who have written on the subject have been either ill-Informed or Ill-advised. Hav ing Instituted an Investigation that paper asserts that the employment of children below the age of 12 years Is not so large as has been charged and that the conditions are not generally so bad as has been represented. It admits thnt In some Instances Injustice and, possibly, cruelty Is shown, but says they are exceptions. It la to be hoped that the Tradesman's information Is correct, but If so there Is still shown to bo a situation that calls for radical and effective remedy. There are BO.OOO children estimated to be now employed in the mills of the south, most of whom have hnd little or no schooling, who are worked twelve and sometimes four teen hours a dny aDd whose condition is that of practical slavery. We think no one will question that this is an Intolerable state of affairs, which should be promptly and thoroughly corrected. The mill owners are not likely to do this. Possibly a few of them may make some concession to public opinion, but the great majority will continue to em ploy child labor until there Is legislation prohibiting it below a certain age. This labor can be had for a mere pittance and Is therefore profitable. It Is also submissive and may be worked to the full limit of endurance. The agitation against this wrong must not cease until the wrong Is remedied. DOVBLK-BABBCLKD CAMPAIGNING. The democrats and the populists bave each opened separate state headquar ters In this city, from which they will conduct the fusion campaign In Ne braska this year. Speaking of the work of the fusion committees, the chairman of the populist organization declares that the populist campaign will be conducted entirely Independent of the democrats, although the manage ments at both headquarters are to be In constant consultation "for the good of the ticket" This double-barreled campaigning Is one of the unique products of fusion as practiced in this state, and part and parcel of the systematic deception prac ticed in order to keep up the fusion farce. Although there Is but one fusion Ueket in the fluid, the name of every candidate ou it will appear on the otH cial ballot labeled both democrat and populist. In order to make the popu lists believe that there Is a populist ticket In nomination, all the campaign work dealing exclusively with populists will be conducted by the populist state committee, while to convince the demo crats that the democratic ticket Is not tainted with populism, all their ad dresses, communications and literature will come out of democratic headquar ters. When It comes to raising the wind, the theory of fusion is that two solicit ing agencies, operating under different names, can gather In more contribu tions than one acting by itself. When It comes to tooting the Dins, nowever, the connecting pipe between the two reservoirs will be found clogged. In case either Is confronted with a deficit Requisitions "for the good of the ticket" will not be honored by the democratic financiers If drawn by the populist cam paign managers, nor by the populist treasure-keeper If drawn on democratic letterheads. Double-barreled campaigning Is a great thing. It Is designed to fool everybody, except those who load the guns. The specially commissioned astrologer of our local popocratlc contemporary has discovered by the aid of a long distance telescope that the entire semi arid region of the western half of the continent Is the penalty paid for the destruction of the forests that previ ously covered the whole of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest The crime of the sixteenth century over shadows even the crime of 1873, and the barbarity of the Spaniards calls for severer condemnation than the avarice of the money power. In the Interval, the only thing left for us to do is to plant trees and look happy, no matter how we feel. The new police board Is already un dergoing an irresistible impulse to trans- fact business behind closed doors, In ex ecutive session. As The Bee has re peatedly remarked, no public body, act ing In a representative capacity, has any excuse to conduct its proceedings iri' se cret to avoid the enforcement of re sponsibility. Public officers who insist on meeting behind closed doors will bear watching. Nothing stands In the way to pre vent Aguinaldo from coming to the United States on a lecture tour except the prospect of falling down .on the gate receipts. If the wily Filipino Is as shrewd as he Is credited, he will In sist on a guaranty as a condition of his coutract and see that the money to cover it is deposited in the bank before be walks out on the stage. Central Labor union will favor Gov ernor Savage' with another communica tion, telling him what its members think of his repudiation of his promise to them under dictation of Baldwin and Mercer. This will give the governor opportunity to favor the public ith another expression of his remarkable views upon the character and claims of organized labor. All the river craft calling at the port of Omaha bave been placed under an em bargo und navigation has been com pletely closed by the seizure of the one vessel that piles along the river front Strange to say, this sudden interference with our shipping industry baji not, so fur as the naked eye tun see, bud any tendency to stuguute commerce or par alyze industry. St Louis Is in raptures over the prom ise of President Roosevelt to partici pate In the dedication exercises of the Louisiana Purchase exposition. ' Plainly tho ill-fated star of the Buffalo show is having no deterrent influence on President Roosevelt. Tw of v Kind. Chicago Post. Russell Sage now stands shoulder to shoulder with Senator Hanna as a friend of the laboring man. "I feel that the bet- tar you treat ths employes the better re sults a corporation will obtain." And uncle Russell Is certainly looking for "results." Consider the Trice, Doe. 'Chicago News. Chancellor Andrews must think young men have a lot of nerve when be asks them to plunge Into matrimony while meat and provisions are at the present prices. A Cnrb Bit Keedd. Indianapolis News. Trusts go ea forming. One might as well trr to ston the laws of aravltatlon sa to stop this economical and industrial evolution, but some direction and control is dally becoming more Imperative. A Hefage for Crooks. Springfield Republican. It is a great pity that that precious pair of fugitives from American justice, Oaynor and Greene, should nave ths Canadian courts on their side In the extradition pro ceedings. Two mors impudent Offenders against ths laws have never snapped their Angers at the American authorities from the best hotels across the frontier. It Is a long chase, but Oaynor and Greene may yet be landed before a United States judge on American soil. Gash (or Foreign Consumption. Washington Post. General Joe Wheeler is quite enthusiastic and wants us to send our officers over to study the English army. We fear the general's Judgment has been slightly warped by ths heroto entertainment he has received on the other side. The Eng lish army gave us ample opportunity to study It during the recent affair In South Africa. And, then, our forefathers had two seasons of most practical study in that particular branch and succeeded in grad uating with ths highest of honors. Relieving; Pools ( Their Money. Minneapolis Times. Another get-rlch-qulck scheme has come to grief in Boston. The concern was known as J. M. Fisher & Co., and It of fered marvelous profits to investors. The dangerous character of so-called invest ment enterprises that promise 60, 100 and 200 per cent a month has been shown so often by their collapse with the per cent all made by the proprietors, and can be demonstrated so entity by the application of the rules of arithmetic add the laws of probability that it is a wonder they And such liberal support. Mr. Barnum's maxim applies in other matters than the show business. Hot Air on the Oeenn. Chcago Chronicle. "By a singular coincidence," John M. Thurston, who it ex-Queen Lilluokalanl's attorney in her claims against the United States for crown lands, sails for Honolulu with Senators Burton and Mitchell, who are charged with investigating those claims. Mr. Thurston Is happy in these coinci dences. When hs was In the senate he al ways happened to be around when anything- was up affecting the Union Pacific road, of which he was likewise ths attor ney. In tbs present case, however, Mr. Thurston will likely come to grief as the result of his devotion to the interests of his employers. It is a nine days' trip from Ban Francisco to Honolulu, and In that time Burton will talk him to death. SAMPLE OP WATERED CAPITAL. Ur. Schwab's Latest Deal In the Game of Banco. Philadelphia Press. Mr. Charles M. Schwab has "mads" $18.- 600,000. f, He bought the Bethlehem steel works for 17,600,000, so H ts reported. He has "sold" it to the shipbuilding trust for $26,000,000 in Us securities, or, as the report runs, for $10,000,000 of trust deed certificates, $8,000, COO of preferred and $8,000,000 of common. This Is the way people once "made" money la the tulip mania in Holland. Everyone concerned "made" a lot of money until some foolish man tried to realise. Even Mr. Schwab cannot eat the shares and bonds of the shipbuilding trust. They will not do for wall paper. The' trust can make no more money than the business of Its- separate plants can make united, and there Is not one of them but, to the knowledge of all men, has had and not long ago the driest of dry years. t This money can be "made" only by sell ing these socurltles to the publlo. Will the publlo buy? It has seen asphalt smash, It has watched rubber go down and It sees even the great steel trust hanging at prices which are ridiculous If people really believe that full years In Iron and steel can last If the publlo does not buy this money will not be "made." It will go where went the money "made" In tulips, in South Sea se curities, In mines and the New Tork realty erase and the western realty booms about Indianapolis and other western cities In 1873, In California lands in 1883 and In a great array of southern land sites and mines in 189$. FARMERS TO COMBINE. Dakota. Movement to Control and Market Farm Products. Milwaukee Sentinel. The Farmers' Nations! Co-operative Ex change company was recently Incorporated In Pierre, 8. D., and Its capitalization fixed at $50,000,000. The purposes of the organisa tion are to buy and deal la grain and other farm products and to build elevators and warehouses, storage plants and stock yards. The information Is given that the stockholders will largely consist of the farmers of the middle western states and that the company intends to aggressively enter into competition with ths companies and corporations which have practically controlled the marketing of western farm products. Fifty million dollars, the capitalization of this new company, seems a small sum when compared with the $1,000,000,000 capitaliza tion of the steel properties or of the hun dreds of millions of capital stock of other combinations of corporations and compa nies, but It may be sufficient to give the project a fair trial. This new plan may afford a solution of a mooted economic question. It Is asserted that the farmer has always been the victim of adverse con ditions imposed by the sggresslons of cap ital and has always In one form or another been paying tribute to capital. Possibly a combine, first of the farmers of South Da kota and later of the farmers of the entire country, Is contemplated, with a view to syndicating all their resources to control production and the sale of all farm com modities and thus turn the tables upon the so-called industrial enemies of the farmors' prosperity. If the owners of steel mills, of har vesting machinery factories and other in dustrial plants have a right to combine, the American farmers have the same right. The probability of an American farmers' trust is, of course, remote, but Its formation Is no more impossible or Improbable than was the organization of a $1,000,000,000 syndl cats from the viewpoint of twenty years ago. Syndicates control the price of wheat. corn, oats and other farm products, and It tuuft be aduiittfd tht s wcll-m&uc4 ju dicata of farmers, having the power to regulate and control the production of com modules, as well as their sale, would be a powerful as well as novel Industrial agent la the field of com nitres, BITS OP WASHISGTO LIFE. Gossip and Incidents Noted at tho Ie- erted Capital. Announced changes In the personnel ot ths supreme court started a flood ot gossip about the august tribunal, and gave Wash ington correspondents a chance to shake off tho midsummer dullness. The chief fea ture of the gossip worked oft on a large number of newspapers as a recently re vealed truth Is that the retiring Justice Gray, and not Justice Shlras, Is the man who executed a somersault In the Incoms tax decision. One of the traditions ot the supreme court Is that no affirmation or de ntal Is ever given by members ot the se cret deliberations or conclusion In the con ference room. During all these years the legal and political world has labored un der the Impression that it was Justice Shl ras ot Pennsylvania who at the eleventh hour changed his vote so that the court stood five to four against the Income tax. Since the retirement of Justice Gray and the probable early retirement ot Justice Shlras, the statement Is made that "it waa not Justice Shlrss who changed his vote, snd his colleagues on the bench will not say so." It is possible that no official statement from the court on this subject will ever be obtained, but there are cer tain circumstances recalled In exclusive cir cles which throw a new light upon what has heretofore been a dark secret. When the case was first argued only eight justices sat In the ease. When the decision was announced in open court the chief justice stated that the court was equally divided. No explanation ot the vote Is customary, and the public was left to guess as to the details of the vote. All ths justices, except Gray, Shlras and Brown, delivered individual opinions. Thus the con clusion was reached that those who voted in favor of the Incoms tax were Associate Justices Brown, Harlan, Gray and White. Those against It were supposed to be Chief Justice Fuller snd Justices Field, Brewer and Shlras. A rehearing of the case was ordered be fore a full bench, and Justice Jackson, a democrat, who had been ill, sat in the case on its second hearing. When the decision was rendered it was found that the tax had been declared unconstitutional by a vote of 6 to 4. Justice Jackson announced the rea son for his vote, so there was no doubt as to the views of at least six members ot the court. Justices Gray, Brown and Shlras re mained silent and ss the final result could only have been reached by a change ot one of those three votes, suspicion was put upon Justice Shlras, because It was said that be waa a corporation lawyer. As a clincher to the story the Washington gcselpers say that when Justice Harlan was referring In vigorous and emphatlo terms to the sudden change of heart upon the part of a member of the court, who had previously favored an inoome tax, be turned and stared at Justice Gray. The force of this circum stance Is drawn from ths fact that at that time Justice Gray sat on the left ot the chief Justice, -lth Justice Harlan, while Judge Shires . . on the right ot the chief justice with Justico Field. ThA new llminr law of Washington boosts tho license fee from 8400 to SSOO a year. and It is expected the raise will reduce the number of barrooms from dis ia anoui 800. Tbs ratio will be about one saloon for every thousand people. A great many Wnahinrtnn saloons and some that are most pro&perous are those which cater to the colored neonle. It is interesting tho promoters of the law to see Us effect on these saloons. Unless the groggery Is mak ing considerable monev it will not be able to continue business snd only the more thriving establishments win survive. Al ready the saloon men have put the ban on the 6-cent growler; nothing lees tnan a dime's worth will be sold in a pail. In a number of places bottled beer has been r.u. tmm in rnli to IB cents a clnt and a general understanding has been reached which abolishes the free luncn counter. Crackers and cheese Is all that is served on the side. Attorney General Knox is credited with s desire to leave the cabinet. He said to s friend at Atlantio City the other day: "1 left a law practice of $70,000 a year in Pitts burg to come to Washington to take a cab inet plaoe that pays m $8,000 a year. In Plttaburg I had my city bouse and a little place out In the country where I used to go and romp. In Washington I have just one place, and to get out ot doors and have some tun I come to Atlantle City, where I pay $72 a day for the board of myself and my family. Oh, I am getting rich at It. The joy ot be ing in ths cabinet Is wonderful." PERSONAL. NOTES. Meters. Gaynor and Greene appear to have climbed Into the right side of the Canadian scales of Justice. J. N. Casanova, proprietor of the Ha vana Post of Havana, Cuba, is In New Tork. He was formerly the mayor of Phillips burg, this state. Prof. Reginald A. Fcesenden of ths weather bureau has been granted patents on eleven different parts of wireless tele grsphto apparatus by the patent office. Prince Henry of Prussia is insured against assasstnatlon. The policy Is for $900,000, which sum Is not payable In case of death from any other cause than that stipulated. Ex-President Steyn of the Orange Free State is recovering his health at Schwen inger Holland, where hs intends to spend ths remainder ot bis days. He is still "un reconstructed." Commandant llolltr, lately of the Boer army, was not bcrn to be shot. During ths conflict with Great Britain he had twenty one horses shot under blm, but never re ceived a scratoh. Governor Crane of Massachusetts takes no long vacations, winter or summer. He did go borne one day earlier than usual lust week, and even that bit of relaxation was considered something unusual at ths statehouse. Barrett Browning, son of the two emi nent poets. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, has bought a new residence In Florence, Italy, the city ot his birth, where be has long resided in an ancient palace once occupied by bis father. Eltza Cook, the oldest "old lady" of ths American stage, Is dead at the age of 80. Although It Is some time since she was In active aervice, she did not by any means "lag superfluous" upon the earth, for her disposition was sweet and cheerful to the last and her word ot encouragement was never, wanting. Several more Prussian nobles will visit tl is country. They are Count von Tlele Wlnckler, Count At'elbert von Slerstorpff, Count A. von Pturules. Count von Verns torff and Baron von Ruhle, representatives of aetstocretlo Prussian houses, who are coming with the emperor's consent to study social conditions and observe the methods used here In educating the sons of leading American families. James B. Conolly, whose stories of sea adventures havs given htm high rank among the younger American writers, is off on a European trip In search of new aeas to conquer. His Gloucester yarns are well knows. Last year he wet Hvlsg wits the Other folk of the North sea and the Baltic. Now he has turned bis facs southward, and will cast his lot with the sailors and fish ermen of the Mediterranean and ether southern seas. S AVAGE AND THE IOI ICE BOARD. Kearney Democrat: ' So far as some of the functions are concerned, Governor Sav age Is tbs biggest and busiest mayor Omaha has ever had. Blair Pilot: The new Fire and Police beard in Omaha seems to be upsetting things generally and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Beatrice Sun: The letter recently sent to the labor organizations by Governor Savage was not copied from a book on polite letter writing. It was original with the writer. Ord Journal: It would seem that there are soms people In Omaha who do not like the Fire and Police board appointed by Gov ernor Savage, nor the Influence that brought about the appointments. Beatrice Sun: When Governor Savage In timates that a large sum ot money would have been paid If he had appointed the men that certain Omaha Interests desired he leaves the people In doubt He should be more specific. Kearney Hub: Governor Savage's recent epistle to the head ot the labor unions. of Omaha Is simply still further Indubitable evidence that ss a letter writer he Is a monumental failure. His epistles kick back like an old-fashioned army musket. Weeping Water Republican: Oovernor Savage has announced his probable In tentions of locating In Oregon after bis official term expires. He says he has had some flattering offers to engage In the lumber manufacturing .business In the west. Blue Springs Sentinel: The labor unions of Omaha have passed some very warm resolutions against Governor Savage ap pointing the fire snd police commission ha did. They claim that the governor Invited them to submit names from which he would give them a representation snd then turned them down'. Blue Springs 8entlnel: The governor has taken his pen In hand to let the fellows who are on the outside of his fire and police board In Omaha know that he Is well and hopes they are the same, or words to that effect. The sparks that are being emitted from his pen are quite electrifying, but po litical letter writing has dumped many a man Into the pool of forgotten possibilities. Valentine Republican: Omaha has an other fire and police commission and it Is disgusting to ses how some papers, through jealousy, are trying to throw the harpoon Into E. Rosewater in connection with the same. Rosewater, as editor ot a state paper, is the only man with back bone enough to fight corruption and in stead ot assisting, the other fellows are always Jumping on bis back. Fremont Herald: The Beo charges that John N. Baldwin, Union Paclno attorney, dictated the appointment of a Ore and po lice board for Omaha, for the purpose of "converting the police force Into a rail road constabulary." . Nobody denies that hs dictated the nomination of the little man, Mickey, for governor and the peo ple are going to tell him next November that he made a fr -nt mistake. Bavage acta as though he had nothing to lose. Fremont Herald: Mayor Moores speak ing of the active part taken by D. K. Mer cer and John N. Baldwin of the Union Pacific Railroad oempany, in dictating the appointment of the new police board In Omaha, declared, ''It will lose Mercer 8,000 organized labor votes, and ho will be defeated by 2,600 that is if he succeeds In getting the nomination. Hitchcock or Ransom would have a walkaway with him, and anybody running against him will be elected." Norfolk News: It is rumored that Gov ernor Savage may bo given a federal ap pointment after the expiration of his term of office, in vlevf yt. the regard In which Savage is held throughout the state, It Is considered that a very grave mistake would be made by the general govern ment In appointing him to a position. The people have already given it out that they have had enough of Savage and they are of the opinion that any office In the state or nation will hereafter be too good for him. David City Press: For appointing a Are and police board In Omaha, opposed to Rosewktei. "Senator Millard, David B. Mer cer and Baldwin of tho Union Pacific have agreed to get Oovernor Savage a good fed eral job when his time Is out. He was turned down for pardoning Bartley, but that was to fool the voters. The state ment Is made that ths president has al ready been seen. The president Is billed to come here this fall, and endeavor to pur suant demo-pops they should vote the re publican ticket. David City Press: ' Bros ten. one of the men Oovernor Savage appointed on the Board of Fire and Police in Omaha to spite Rosewater has a record. For instance, an exchange offers the following: "As for thrift, no business man but of politics has shown greater capacity than Broatch. He drew three salaries at the same time, one of $3,600 a year from the federal treasury as Mis souri river commissioner, one of $3,500 a year from the city .treasury as mayor ot Omaha and a third of $800 a year as mem ber ot the police board." Beatrice Times: Governor Savage, in his reply to the labor union of Omaha, cuts to the quick. He vigorously denies that he lied about appointing a labor union repre sentatlvs on the Omaha police commission. He goes after tbs walking delegate and the principle of labor unions in working en forced idleness upon thoss of their number who. if unfettered, would willingly work. The governor's letter Is readable because of its breezlness. His intimation that the lettee to blm from the union was written bx the editor ot The Bee will probably bring something rich from that paper. Grand Island Independent: The Omaha labor union makes an excellent point In an answer to Oovernor Savage's letter to them, in which he gave but little credit to the honest, Intelligent manhood, that is associated nearly everywhere with the labor unions. The governor Intimated that money had been offered him for the ap pointment o( certain men on the Omaha Fire and Polio Commission. The labor union asks who offered the bribe. The governor leaves this to be Inferred as the reader may please. It is a matter of which the people have a right to the full particulars. The officer of the Omaha labor union wants him to speak put. Let the governor speak. Norfolk News: The labor unions of Omaha are lately discovering what sort of an Individual has been occupying the governor's chair for nearly two years past and they are not sounding his praises to the skies to any great extent. When It was considered probable that the governor would have the appointing of the police bosrd of Omaha, his tnexcellency decided thst the opportunity was ripe tor making a grand stand play, and hs did. He recom mended that ths labor unions should get their beads together and make a first, sec ond and third choice of men whom they desired appointed on the board. This looked fair to the laboring men, and they made such selections, with the governor's promise that one would be sppolnted. But the governor forgot or declined to be bound by his promise to the labor unions, and when the appointments were announced the other day they were not long In discovering that they had been mad tfc victims ot Bs"sge, !! that neither of their recom mendations had been considered. The gov ernor and his friends were particular that his previous Intentions wtr given wide publicity, but they bave not been so prompt la explaining his .final actios to tho la- terested, snd the unions have fallen lots ths habit ot writing bitter letters and adopting biting resolutions which Ibex, take great pleasure in addressing to the gov ernor's ofTlce. Grand Island Independent: Governor Sav age has penned a letter to the Omaha union labor organization In which h tries to ex plain why he did not appoint a member ot that organization or a representative of it on the Omaha fire and police board. Mr. Savage seema to presume that there Is not a member of a labor union In Omaha who would be as well fitted ss anyone ot the four men he had named, and argues that really it doesn't make any difference all men are laboring men. It doesn't concern the people of this section much who wins In this Rosewater-Mercer-Savage-World-Herald-rallroad-union labor nilxup down In Douglas county, but Governor Savage might Just as well have admitted that there came political demands upon him which mad htm forget his promise. Superior Journal: Governor Savage Is out In an open letter to a trade union In Omaha, In which hs Intimates that Editor Rosewater has been trying to lead him astray. "Large sums of money were avail able In exchange for executive pleasure," Bays Mr. Savage, In relating that Rose water wanted soms of his "pet minions" appointed members of the Omaha fire and polloe board. Notwithstanding the gov ernor's angry and Intemperate utterances. It Is hardly probable that Rosewater Is guilty of a foolhardy attempt to bribe Gov ernor Savage. Mr. Rosewater In the past has been accused of about everything im aginable, but ha has always coma out un scathed when charges against him have been investigated. This parade of great virtue on the part of Oovernor Savage in an nouncing that he had refused a bribe strikes the funny-bone of ths people of the state. Tllden Citizen: The everlasting bicker ing connected with the question of the ap pointment of the Omaha police commission has been given a new lease of life by tho recent decision of the supreme court, which places the appointive power In the hands of the governor. The ruling le a slap at home rule with a vengeance. No act ot tho British Parliament In Its dcsling with Irish matters could be more arbitrary snd tin- just. The opinion Is, on Us face, a plain intimation that the voters of Nebraska's metropolis are Incapable of self-govern ment. Why the governor of the state should be considered more competent than tho chosen mayor to seloct a board of manage ment for the municipality's fire and pollco departments Is Inexplicable except upon the uncharitable charge that political bins or prejudice Is recognized aa of greater Im portance than representative government. To- be perfectly consistent It would socm strictly In order that the governor be ac corded the privilege of naming tho village marshals of Tllden and all other towns In the state. Fremont Tribune: Governor Suvr.ge jt taken the publlo iuto his confltlonco in tdo matter of a reply he haB mafio to ;i,e plumbers', gas and steanifltn-rs' union f f Omaha. These person's dciiminoed the governor for not appointing candidates en dorsed by them for members of tho Are and police commission, whom the governor has Just named. The reply ot the latter is couched in language that has smoke on It. The governor Is not expecting any votes this year, and so he is free to say ex actly what he thinks. He Infqrms these persons that h didn't appoint any of their candidates because after ho had sifted the aspirants the best men, in his Judgment, didn't happen to belong to organized labor. This was merely a circumstance, one of the misfortunes of war. The governor pays a Just tribute to honest labor, but he raises some big welts on the labor agitators "who sweat by proxy." He concludes by saying he was looking fob men who could with stand the temptations ot bribery in the mat ter of policing Omaha. He insinuates that there was plenty of money to be had if he would have named certain applicants and this confirmed his belief In the Importance of getting men above temptation. He thinks he did, though he admits only time will tell. Western Crop Movement. Boston Transcript. The western crop movement promises to be the greatest in the history of ths country, snd ths capacity of the railroads to handle the grain ot the western states will be severely tested. Even In ordinary seasons there ts sometimes difficulty In ob taining cars, and every road will make an effort to press all possible equipment into service. There is likely to be considerable complaint about a "car famine" before the crop Is moved, but the farmers of the northwest can hardly expect the railroads to maintain an equipment to meot the con ditions of some phenomenally productive year. With an average ot 776 bushels to a car,' to move the ertlniated wheat crop of the United States alone at one time would require a train about 93,000 miles long enough to put several girdles around the earth. FLASHES OF PIN. Philadelphia Press: Her Mamma You certainly were flirting outrageously with that young man on the bench. Don't you know you're a married woman, and Mrs. Uay Tfes, but he didn't. Smart Set: Madge How la it you're net going out yachting with Churlla again? Dolly It took both his hands to manage the boat. Brooklyn Life: First American Which do you prefer, Marius, to be very rich or very poor? 8cond American If I had my cholce Aurellus, I should be noli he r. I should have u bout tb.uuu.uoa Chic: Tribune: "I don't believe these new neighbors of ours are people ot any religious convictions." "O, yes. they are. I heard one, of them say the other day they were going to loin one of the churches here ss soon as they have gone around and taken a look at all the congregations." Cleveland Plain Dealer: Worried Con science You wish to know what course should be followed by a person who finds a pocketbook In the street. Answer Your jtistlon la too Indefinite. How much v.as In It and who saw you? Chicago .' st: "Why Is It that unmsr rled peor.li- always ausert such superior wisdom Willi reference to matrimony? , "Possibly It Isn't a matter ot superior wis dom. " answered MIhs Cayenne. "Perhaps they merely feel inure free to express an opinion." Baltimore American: "No," declared the honest coal dealer, "I shall not lncreae the price of coal from my yards one penny." "Ah, noble man!" exclaimed th llnteners "You are a true friend to humanity. You may take our orders Immediately." "I will take your orders If you so desire." said the dealer, ''but I bave no coal In nty yards." THE. STAY-AT-HOME. . Philadelphia Catholic, Standard. Let others go For pomp am show Where ocean beats or mountain towers, I'm glad I've got A home-like spot To rest In after working hours. My wife and I, Contented, sigh For nothing that' the haunts of pleasure My or lake. Could arid to make Our Joy In llf of grvatur measure. Good food to eat, (Despite the heat I love my nioals, and so does Kitty). And not a care What clothes to wear! We're aulte contented In the city. Although to stick ' Where walls of brlyk Encompass on In all directions 1 hard, we've got W re sponging on uij wife's connections! raL ar y t I l.. 5 i I f V