THE OMATTA PAILT BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1902.
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, How lucky Morgan got home before
. Schwab set sail, llow could the country
spare both at once? ' "
' It la good political tactic for the
World-Herald and democrats generally
to boost Mercer. lie would be an easy
One thing sure Governor garage will
not charge that the latest reply of or
ganized labor to bit insults was written
In The Bee office.
' The committee appointed by the Cen
tral Labor union to indite a letter to
Governor Savage evidently put on velvet
gloves to soften the blow.
Is not the trust; representative . from
New York a little outside of the .bound:
ary line when he projects himself to the
front la a tranamlsslssippl congress?
.. Demand for space for agricultural ex
hibits at the coming Nebraska State fair
exceeds available room. Nebraska's
crop also exceeds all previous crops.
British railroad trains move altogether
too fast to suit the shah of Persia. It
Is clear the shah would not feel com
fortable on an American limited express.
Blnce the Missouri river has ceased to
be a navigable stream on the govern
ment , maps all hope of bringing the
naval maneuvers Inland next time has
been destroyed.
The campaign work of both parties Is
low In starting up in this state, but the
same Is true in other agricultural states
as well, rolltics can't get the right of
way over prosperity.
The days are now one hour shorter
In the morning and one hour la the
evening than they were June 21, but
August usually winds up with hot
weather for all that
The Boers In South Africa have a
negro problem to grapple with. If they
want pointers on suppressing the negro
vote by the grandfather clause, almost
any of our southern states can furnish
them.
Members of the park board are bring
ing back with them from their summer
vacation tours lots of good ideas for
park embellishment The money to
carry, these ideas into execution, how
ever, will have, to be raised here In
Omaha.
More acreage planted to sugar beets in
Nebraska this year than ever before
and If the yield corresponds the output
of the three beet sugar factories will be
nearly 2.000,000 pounds more than last
year. Don't underestimate the impor
tance of the sugar beet.
So it is the responsibility rather than
the work of president of the steel cor
poration that is undermining Mr.
Schwab's health. -It can't be that the
responsibility is any greater thau other
men have borne, but Mr. Schwab is not
used t1t; and hs'., initiation has pro
. ceeded too lavt
August 28 is the- date set for the gen
eral reduction in .grain rates to take
effect on the Great Northern and North
ern raclflc, as agreed to by Jim Hill in
bis conference with' the Puget sound
farmers. No date has been set for any
rate reductions on the railroads travers
ing this section of trie country.
John N. Baldwin says he is ready to
stand trial " at North Platte on the
charge of provoking a disturbance of
the peace. Eui why ahuuld Jouu N.
Baldwin of Iowa come to North Platte
or any other town in Nebraska to regu
late labor troubles any more than Wil
liam A Plnkertoa ef Illinois? Have we
Hot regulators enough in Nebraska?
carixkt ortrcKim camta loxirro.
Th announcement that members of
the raMnet will take part In the con
gressional onmpslcn. In defrnse of re
publican principles and policies. Is said
to bare arotined some criticism at Wnsh
Inston, of course on the part of demo
crats. The opponents of the republican
party can see no propriety In cabinet
officials fr-olng on the stump In behalf of
that party, though no men In public
life are more favorably situated to en
lighten the people as to the views of
the administration on public questions
Information which It Ik certainly desir
able the people should obtain from the
most trustworthy source.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
already made speeches In which he die
cussed the tariff and the trust questions.
It Is presumed that he represents the
position of the ndmlnlstrntion and this
gives special value and significance to
his utterances. Secretary of War Root
Is to speak In the campaign with the
Philippine policy of the government as
his special subject. There is no one
better. If so well, qualified to discuss
this question and there Js no doubt his
treatment of it will be most informing.
Attorney General Knox, it is under
stood, will particularly discuss the trusts
from a legal point of view and there is
every reason to expect that the people
will obtain a fuller and clearer knowl
edge of this subject from what he shnll
say regarding it. It seems to us there
can be no reasonable objection to these
officials communicating to the public
their views as to questions with which
they have directly to do, of which they
are well Informed and which vitally
concern the Interests and welfare of
the people.
The head of the civil service com
mission, Mr. Foulke, Is reported to have
expressed the opinion that it is the right
and even the duty of cabinet officers to
take part in political campaigns and
that It la often particularly appropriate
that . they should personally set forth
the reasons which Justify their own
political or official action and that of the
administration of which they are a part
We think anybody who will consider the
matter fairly must concur with this.
As Mr. Foulke correctly argues, cabinet
officers are political appointees and are
thus to be distinguished from men ap
pointed under civil service rules without
political Influence, and who, therefore,
ought not to express any opinion upon
political problems. The objection to the
participation of cabinet officers in a
campaign that it is Injurious to political
dignity and propriety is hardly worthy
of serious consideration. Tnere is noth
ing In the position of a member of the
cabinet that should require him to hold
aloof from the discussion, on the stump
or elsewhere, of public questions. He is
hedged about by no dignity that im
poses such restraint.
It is understood that the members of
the cabinet who will take part in the
congressional campaign do so 'with the
approval of the president if not indeed
on his suggestion. At all events there
is no Impropriety in their public discus
sion of principles and policies in the
carrying out of which they have an im
portant part
A. MISTAKEN POL1CT.
It appears certain that an urgent
effort will be made at the next session
of congress for legislation that will
change the monetary situation in the
Philippines. It has been pretty conclu
sively shown that It was a mistaken
policy to leave the conditions there un
changed Instead of providing, as was
done in the bill that passed the house,
for placing the currency in the archi
pelago on a gold basis.. The statements
that have come from the business in
terests at Manila since the passage of
the Philippine act testify to the great
disadvantages under which trade is now
being carried on by reason of the bad
currency system and no doubt congress
will be supplied with complete informa
tion in regard to this as Boon as it
meets.
Meanwhile the tariff plan seems to be
working fairly well, so far as revenue
is concerned. It is stated that the cus
toms receipts, Instead of falling off un
der the decreased tariff, as some ex
pected, are Increasing and are better
now than for some time. This being tho
case it may be found expedient to fur
ther reduce the tariff, though this la not
likely to be done for several years. The
permission given to the Philippine com
mission to nx the rate of exchange
every ten days is said to have proven
beneficial, but such a plan cannot be
permanently satisfactory and thp ouly
proper policy is to establish the gold
basis. In no other way can there be
secured that financial stability which is
absolutely necessary to the commercial
development of the islands.
OPPOSED TO AS8ET CL ftHESCr.
The bankers of Wisconsin are op
posed to an asset currency and also
to branch banks. At the recent meet
ing of their association resolutions were
unanimously adopted declaring opposi
tion to all legislation tending to the
substitution of branch banks for our
present Independent system of banking
and also to any law tending toward
the substitution of asset currency for
the present national bank circulation.
It was declared that the prosperity of
the country is largely due to the excel
lence of our financial system, the sta
bility of our financial institution, the
unequivocal adoption . of the gold
standard and the practical abandonment
of the contention for a change to a sli
ver basis.
The attitude of the Wisconsin bankers
Is In accord with the general sentiment
of western . bankers. With practical
unanimity they arc opposed to branch
banks and to a bank circulation based
on general assets. An eastern paper
says the or-pruiitinn to branch banking
U the opposition of bankers who are
getting exorbitant rates, of Interest to
an Increase of the amount .of loanable
capital in their section. This is a mis
representation, the fact being that the
opposition Is due to the N-llef that the
proposed system of branch banks would
be destructive of independent banking
and would result In a bank monnjKily
controlled In the east The objections
to an asset currency were fully and
strongly stated at the convention of the
bankers of several states held In Kan
sas City some time ago. The feeling
throughout the west In this matter Is
very strong and it Is safe to say that
few western representatives In congress
can be Induced to support any measure
providing for branch banks and asset
currency.
It HI' MERCER CAXXOT BE ELECTED.
Congressman Mercer's campaign man
ager has directed an open letter to the
editor of The Bee, of which the fol
lowing Is the substance:
For more than twenty-five years I have
read your newspaper, but at no time have
I known you to stoop lower or resort to
more pusillanimous and unscrupulous
methods than since you opened your miser
able mud batteries upon the most efficient
representative Nebraska has ever elected to
congress.
Tour editorial article entitled "Can
Mercer Be Elected?" la so manifestly a
Juggle ot figures that I cannot think you
mean It In earnest.
Tou know Mr. Mercer's majority over Mr.
Hitchcock in 1898 was 1,228. Why, then, de
liberately falsify the figures and utilise a
blunder of the county clerk to show that
Mercer's majority was only 928 T If you will
consult the official tables published In your
own paper you will see that there has been
an "Impediment In your veracity."
Why not print the only figures which cau
be taken as a test ot Mr. Mercer's vote-
getting strength, to-wlt: the relative
majorities of Mercer and the heads of the
republican tickets of the same year?
Auburn-haired people get red under
the collar on the slightest provocation.
That is the only conceivable excuse for
this inflammatory outburst At this
time of the year more light and less
heat Is desirable. Pusillanimous in
plain Anglo-Saxon means cowardly.
There has been nothing cowardly in
the treatment of Candidate Mercer. He
has not been bombarded by miserable
mud batteries, but by missiles that go
home to the main question, whether he
Is or is not entitled to a nomination for
a sixth term in congress.
Mercer's manager Is very tender and
touchy. Has he seen the cartoon ex
pressly drawn for Mercer by his Wash
ington artist and turned out in the print
shops of Washington, his real home, for
circulation in this district as a campaign
document? On that cartoon Mr. Mercer's
superb figure appears looming up upon
a horizon full of public buildings and
his eagle eye is scornfully directed at
three ettra. th foremnnt repre
senting the editor of The Bee and the
two hindmost his republican competitors
In the congressional race.
Perhaps Mr. Mercer's campaign man
ager is not aware of the fact that the
mud batteries of the Washington Post
are belching forth scurrilous cartoons
for the benefit of Mercer, the last of
which represents the great omnibus
building man emptying , a jug labeled
"Rosewater" Into the sewer. These
cartoons fairly represent Mr. Mercer's
ideal of dignified, gentlemanly cam
paigning, which was also forcibly ex
hibited in Omaha by William F. Gurley
In the now historic debate. When
asked to enlighten the public about
Mercer's record on public issues and his
attitude on important questions, Gurley
derisively sought to demolish the editor
of The Bee by virulent personalities,
ending up by pronouncing the scathing
sentence that he should be clothed in
rags, wear wooden shoes and retire for
the balance of his life to the woods.
That magnanimous banishment of an
offensive partisan represents Mr. Mer
cer's high ideal. Surely he would not
try to repudiate Gurley, who spoke for
Mercer and stood for Mercer.
And now about those Juggled figures.
Mercer's manager asserts that . "the
editor of The Bee knows that Mercer's
majority over Hitchcock in 1898 was
1.228." The editor of The Bee does not
know anything of the kind. On the con
trary, he stands by his figures and will
pay $100 to any charitable Institution In
Omaha Mercer may designate If the
figures quoted in The Bee regarding
Mercer's majority In 1898 are not cor
rect taking the official report of the
secretary of state for the year 1SU8 and
the Nebraska legislative Blue Book for
1900 as authority.
Mercer's manager Insists that compari
sons should be instituted between Mer
cer and other republican candidates run
ning during the same years. Such com
parisons would by no means afford a
correct criterion of Mercer's availability
this year. It is true that Mercer's vote
Increased from 11,488 in 1892 to 16,277
in 1900, but he forgets to note that the
total vote of the district has Increased
from 25,090 to 31,450 between bis first
and last elections. He forgets that the
democratic vote cast in 1892 for George
W. Doane'was only 10.388, while the
vote cast for Edgar Howard in 1900 was
14,807. He forsets that if Hitchcock
bad received the vote in 1898 that was
cast for Edgar Howard two years later
be would have been elected by a larger
majority than Mercer received in 1900.
Mercer's irate manager persistently
Ignores the fact that with the unanimous
support of his party In a presidential
campaign year Mercer's majority in 1900
was Just 1,470 and that a change of 73d
votes would have defeated him.
More than 12,000 wagewoikers In
Omaha and South Omaha will vote at
the next election. A conservative esti
mate of the number of worklngmen who
vote the republican ticket In this district
is 3,000. Unlets a revolution of public
sentiment takes place within ninety
days, which is not likely to happen,
Meicer would lose at least four-fifths of
that vote, not counting professional men,
merchunts and farmers who are in sym
pathy with worklngmen and vote, as
they do. But If Mercer had not ag
gravated and exasperated the working
men ry his open alliance with John N.
Baldwin and the railroad corporations,
he still would be sure to lose anywhere
from 1,000 to 1.B0O votes in the district
by the revulsion that has taken place
la public sentiment within the laat two
years as to his claims and aspirations.
To make this declaration may be
pusillanimous, hut It Is a stubborn fact
If the republican of the Second con
gressional district want a republican to
represent them In the next congress his
name will not be Mercer.
The commissioner of internal revenue
is losing no opportunity" to construe all
disputed points in the new oleo law
against the oleo man and In favor of
tho dairy product This has been the
case In his rulings on coloring matter
and again In bis decision on the amount
of the license tax required of whole
Balers and retailers dealing in oleo. It
the law does not accomplish its purpose
it will be because of Inherent defects
and not because of any disposition on
the part of the Internal revenue office
to let the oleo makers down easy.
Just to make It easier to find rhymes
in his think tank, the Lincoln Journal
poet laureate has taken the liberty of
abbreviating the name of the fusion
candidate for congress In the First Ne
braska district from' Hanks to Hank.
In the amenities of the campaign many
things are permissible, but we protest
that this is carrying poetic license al
together too far. With a little more
effort words can be made to rhyme
with Hanks as well as with Hank.
The new police board has struck sev
eral snags. Mercer wants the board
to help him carry the Third ward, which
favors the wide-open policy, and he does
not want the board to do anything that
would lose him the church element In
the Fourth, Seventh and Ninth wards,
which does not want things wide open.
What would it profit Our Dave to cap
ture the Third ward if by so doing he
loses all the others?
The local organ of our non-resident
congressman, which Is also run by a
non-resident Is beginning to hedge. A
few weeks ago this sheet was certain
Mercer had the republican nomination
in his vest pocket and would be re
elected without an effort Now it is
throwing bouquets at the democratic can
didate for congress. Straws show the
way the wind blows.
If the Real Estate exchange can bring
about an amicable settlement of the
Union Pacific railroad strike it will put
a feather In its cap. But as a matter
of fact no mediation or arbitration by
outside parties is necessary. President
Burt can settle the strike in ten minutes
by the watch whenever he Is so dis
posed.
To Hack Prosperity.
.. New York World.
Prosperity has . produoed a shortage of
school ma'ams in Nebraska. Fathers are
so well to do that daughters won't work.
Adversity Is not only the best teacher, but
the best producer of teachers.
Calamity Howlers Oat of sv Job.
Baltimore American.
The western crop are expected this year
to break the record,' prosperity Is staring
the farmer. In tba-iace, and there does not
appear to be anything In sight to soften
the consequent blow to the professional
pessimists and calamity howlers.
Tliero Art .Several Others.
Chicago Tribune.
"With warrants put for the arrest of the
governors of California and Rhode Island,"
says the Pittsburg Dispatch, "the guber
natorial office seems to have fallen into
disrepute."
It does, it does. And those are not the
only examples.
Ho Political Capital Thero.
Washington Post.
The coal operators have given It out
good and strong that there will be no
chance for any ot the politicians to make
any capital out of the present strike so
far as they are Concerned. How It will
annoy the politicians to have their mo
tives Impugned In this brutal manner.
Missouri Shows 'Em.
. Baltimore American.
It has Just been decided In Missouri that
tobacco Is a necessity of life. This Judgment
appears to be based upon the ground that a
thing becomes, a necessity from the propor
tion in which it Is badly wanted, and not
exclusively because one could not live with
out It. The dictionary la not, under this
ruling, an infallible an authority as to defini
tions. Open l'n the Mines.
Washington Star.
The coal operators are, of course, at lib
erty to conduct their business in their own
way, so far as they can. But when the
publlo is dependent on them for fuel it
looks as if they ought to be required to
conduct their business In some way. So
ciety is not Interested in any sentimental
objections te trades unionism which they
may entertain.
Hade Scoffs in Cufcav.
Chicago Post.
Dramatlo art as prsctlced in Havana
should be given the close attention of Min
ister Squtres. The present theatrical suc
cess Is entitled "Cuba in the Year 2000" and
deals disrespectfully with the Piatt amend
ment. The climax comes when the leading
man steps before the calcium, tears up the
amendment and exclaims, "Now we have
done away with the amendment we are a
free people once more!" Wbtch ts, of
course, highly satisfactory from a dramatic
point of view, but undeniably ungrateful
and seditious from the standpoint of Interna
tional relations. -
VINDICATION FOR THE BOERS.
rharges of Cruelty Discredited by
tho Brltlah Klsg.
Detroit Free Press.
The charges of Boer cruelty to British
prisoners, which filled the columns of the
Jingo press of Great Britain for nearly
two years, have been blotted out by a per
son of no less smhorlty than Edward VII.
In his address te the Boer generate the
king expressly thanked tbem for "the con
sideration and kindness" with which they
treated the British wounded. This could
have been no perfunctory compliment on
the part ot bla majesty.. He would be the
last man in the world to gloss over bar
barous treatment of his own soldiers by
ths use of conventional whits lies in the
name of "good feeling." The reliability
of the king's sources of information will
hardly be questioned and tba thanks which
he conveyed to the Boer generals should
end forever the slanders that were set In
circulation by the unscrupulous. The Boers
proved themselves great In war; they seem
deieriuiued to prove tfcTi! v iially
great In peace, and there Is no blot on
tbclr "scutcheon. It may be doubted It any
people In the history of the world ever
arose more magnificently from obscurity
or sustained themselves mors creditably
after they had lifted themselves up.
The Art of Unloading
Now Tork Evening Post.
Ordinary people mr be rxcim.-d for a resting place be found In the smalt pur
certain bewilderment In contemplating the chaser, who cannot. In turn, unload. So
Even ann,.? JIT.. IZ' "fT'lV':
Disraeli called . " , ".TZ Z, : '71
. Per cents." but wheT H c
ties as we are now seeing every day. tho
enormous mass of them, with their intricate
Demons, mignt wen make the observer cry
out, with the seller of revenue stsmps who
was perplexed at Mr. Gladstone's alterations
of the law, "He Is too much for my head."
Yet the patient spectator gets now and then
a gleam. He perceives a sort of rationale
running through all the manipulation of
xaierea securities. Ferhnps he cannot
quite put the thing in words himself, but he
Joyfully sees the point when some veteran
banker or experienced broker tells h'ra prl-
vately, "Yes, my son, you are on the rleht
track. The whole art of hundred-million
finance Is the art of unloading."
as razors of the tale were not made t
shave, but to soil, eo the highly capitalized
industries of the day are primarily In-
tended to unload. Only the other morning,
ror example, we read of the successful dls-
posal of the Bethlehem Steel company to
the United States Shipbuilding eomnanv.
M not ua& to accept the published
ngures of the sale literally correct The
water may have been 40 to 60 per cent! the
paper profits $5,000,000 or $20,000,000 1 the
principle remains the same. It is, that
the owner of the Bethlehem company did
not acquire It to hold or operate, but to
dispose of. His original Intention. Unless
all the reports at the time were mislead ng,
w. io unioaa it on tne united States Steel
mrporauon. But ails aliter Visum. Which,
being Interpreted, means that Morgan would
not have It. Thereupon the Insrenious
euer aiscoverea that the corporation which
really needed His plant was the shipbuilding,
not tne steel trust. Mr. Schwab cleverly
adopted the verse of Matthew Prior, with
slight alterations, and sang:
onJJlSl0. i.nV-to 1fcure hl" treasure,
Conveys It In a borrowed name:
The steel trust serves to grace my measure
DiiipuuuuiiiK my real name.
But, of course, the On ft unloading has to
be done on the Investing public, and there's
the rub. It is all very well for corpora-
ttons and banks to pass on the Inflated
secuiities from one to the other, but all
Is in unstable equilibrium unless a final
ROCND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Carrent of Life la tho
Metropolis.
New York is planning the construction of
a "grand boulevard and concourse" which
will surpass the famous Speedway along the
Hudson and be the most magnificent drive
way In the world. One million dollars have
been appropriated to start the work. The
driveway will be five miles long and have
an average width of 182 feet. When com
pleted It will afford a continuous driveway
up and through Central park to Seventh
avenue, up Seventh avenue to the Central
bridge and across Central bridge to
the entrance of the Conoourse. it is
proposed to connect the bridge and the
entrance to the driveway by an Immense
steel structure which will extend to River
avenue, where it will change to a solid ap
proach with masonry walls and ornamental
parapets. '
From the entrance the drive will be along
the boulevard to Mosholu parkway, thence
to and around Jerome park reservoir, to
Aqueduct avenue, to Washington bridge, to
Boulevard and Riverside drive, to and
through Riverside drive, back to' Central
para, it win majce a picturesque ana di
versified drive fully twenty-four miles In
length and for the greater part at an ele
vation commanding a beautiful view of the
surrounding territory.
Dwellers in apartment houses In the
borough of Manhattan received the follow
ing notice last week, says a New York
dispatch: "Because of the scarcity of hard
coal suitable for use in apartment houses.
we will be obliged to diminish the fuel
for heating purposes one-half during ths
coming winter. This notice is sent with
the understanding that other landlords have
sent similar notices to their tenants."
There is not likely to be many house warm
ings among the flat population of Gotham
this winter.
In proceedings for legal separation of a
man and wife, now pending in one of the
local courts, one of the allegations of the
aggrieved husband, and altogether the
strongest of those embodied In his affi
davit. Is that fhe wife insisted upon re
taining a singing servant girl In the bouse
and that her singing established conditions
which were intolerable. Assuming the
facts to be as stated, the sympathies ot
the average citizen will go out to the man
who seeks to erect a legal barrier between
his tortured ears and the musical domestic
who Insists on singing when hired for
other and more useful services. Spontane
ous melody Indicates a contented and even
Joyous disposition, but its effect upon one
compelled to listen to It at unseasonable
times and under unfavorable conditions la
usually that which lately prompted a west
ern editor to Insert in his columns a per
sonal to the following effect:.
"If the young man who plays the flute
evenings somwhere In the neighborhood ot
our office will sit within reach of our fire
hose when ws have steam up be will hear
of something to his advantage."
The government buildings on Ellis Island,
where immigrants are sorted end sized up,
are provided with "roof gardens" for the
comfort of the newcomers. These roofs are
railed around for safety, awned over for
shelter and provided with, benches and
chairs. "Up there," says the Brookyn
Eagle, "those whom Uncle Sam finds it
necessary to detain outside of his gates un
til he Is sure that they deserve admission
have a fins breezy playground these hot
days and enjoy a view second to that of no
harbor and bay In the world. From this
airy height they may view; as Moses of old
from his mountain, the promised land; many
of them, alas! like Moses of old, destined
never to enter in and take possession.
"For on one wing is ths garden of the de
tained,' on another the garden of the ex
cluded. Uncle Sam haa not yet reached the
benevolence of a vaudeville show for the en
tertainment of these wayfarers who are
knocking at his gates, yet those who are in
a position to know will tell you that it is a
continuous performance up there, turn after
turn of romance, of tragedy, of comedy, of
humor, pathos, of heart Interest. It is a
perpetual unconscious vaudeville, with do
set program, with a merciful absence of
coon songs and black face comedians, with
ccstumes which no professional could In
vent and 'acts' which the most hardened
stage critic could not foretell."
In bla weekly letter on New York affairs
the veteran Joe Howard dashes off a chunk
of sympathetic comfort for victims of hay
fever. Listen: "A prevalent disease Just
now Is hay fever. Irritating and awful
as It Is, there Is something admirable and
suggestive in ths netbodlclty of it. Per
sonally I havs bad It as guest and master
very August and September for twenty
six years. Every one who has It receives
circulars by the score as to cures. Don't
bother with 'them, fellow sufferers. Tbey
are a delusion and a snare. Nothing will
cure It. Whisky Is an alleviator and 4 per
cent cocaine spray is a help, but there Is
iL f '. " h.!
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"I ,
a secure return tor the orphans under his
guardianship. "Oh, that I knew where I
might find him," Is the sigh of the would-
be unloader, longing for the small buyer.
In great numbers, but not of too great
perspicacity. The art of running him down,
of soothing him, and of Inducing him to
take a part ot the load on bis unsuspecting
shoulders he who has thoroughly mastered
that atraterv la the true Nanoleon of
finance, for he alone Is In a position to
reap the ultimate fruits of victory. Of
what avail Is It to have heaps upon heaps
of common stock, which you got as a
bonus, unless you can unload?
Unfortunately, there are sometimes too
n.... tm. i .
results. Concerns with much watered stock
which they are anxlqus to part with, have
been known to say hard things of new
consolidations that suddenly come forward
to throw their fresh mass ot securities upon
h- m.,t.t t, i. ilk. .nnr,..in. ...a
with too great a profusion of bait. How
can ths stupid creatures be expected te
bite. If they see tempting morsels dangling
on every sldeT The suddenly conservative
views about the folly ot overdoing the
business, whloh some speculators have de-
veloped, are not a little comic. Tbey are
fnrilvnant at thn mrVlnu nvnr CAnltslWatlnn
of other enterprises, as long as their own
diluted stock remains unsold. They are
elnnupnt nn the Insensate enura nf riUturh.
lng the money market, and straining the
absorntlve noser of the nurchaelna nuhlla
by attempting to float fresh millions of se-
curltles before their own are unloaded.
Such Jealousies are, however, natural Jn
the celestial minds of promoters. When
they fairly Jostle each other In their eager-
noes to find a safe place to dump their
, . .v , . r
k"' th'r cn rce,T expected to
eiw mv unui iu iuoh nikiv ovbi. jiii
that we say Is that If these recriminations
between the loaded are leading to sounder
financial views, a general breakdown In the
vast plans of unloading and It Is not lm-
possible would do still more to promote
eaner and mors stable conditions.
no cure but the casket, and for that none ef
us is ready. It Is a providential peculiarity
that every Incident In life teaches soms
good lesson. This, If I were an orthodox
minister, I could easily show by reference
to lots of Incidents tn ordinary life. As It
Is, I call your brotherly attention to the
fact that hay fever, oomlng but once a
year, comes on schedule time and means
business during Its stay. Who has never
lost a train by being 'Just a trifle too
late.' You and I have, but hay fever never
lost anything. Time is Its slave. Whose
hand has never been stayed by pity and
compassion. You and I have paused many
times when on the verge ot revenge, but
hay fever never fpsred any for whom
it had a grudge. How often we have neg
lected some piece of work, some duty, but
find me If you can an Instance where this
queer nasal development has forgotten duty
or foregone allotted work, for punctuality
Is a virtue and means much at all times.
Ask a banker. He will tell you that rigid
attention to time la a sine qua non, and be
would tolerate almost any fault rather than
have aught to do with a man who took ne
note of time, and who never regarded the
time when his note was due. Imagine a
sweetheart forgetting to be on hand when
'she'' was ready for drive, theater or even
church. With this in mind I sing the
praises of hay fever, the king ot punctu
ality, regnant in the realms of unneglected
though disagreeable duty."
PERSONAL, NOTES.
Dr. Charles Hunt, Inventor and scientist
of Belfast, Ireland, Is in Syracuse, N. Y.
He has Just mads his 111th trip across the
ocean.
It is said that Thomas A. Edison has
never owned a watch. "The one thing I
want least of all to know," says he, "Is
the time."
George T. Beck, the democratic nominee
for governor of Wyoming, Is a son of the
late Senator Beck of Kentucky. He has
lived In northern Wyoming for many years.
The emperor of Japan is a man of very
simple tastes and rather democratic ten
dencies. He receives his guests standing
and talks freely with all his visitors as an
equal.
Mrs. Thomas Simpson of Hoboken, N. J.,
daughter of Major Morton, of the English
army, has. saved more persons from drown
ing than any other woman In the United
States.
Prof. Walter A. Wyckoff of Princeton
university Is about te set out on a walk
ing tour through Colorado, in which he
will observe the social and Industrial con
ditions. J. B. Llppincott, a oydrographer of the
United States Geological survey, is engaged
In an interesting problem, that of making
a stream in central California, known as
King's river, pump its own water and so do
double duty for Irrigation and other purposes.
J. W. Rout, a militiaman, has been ar
rested at Emporia, Kan., for wearing his
soldier trousers while doing manual labor.
"These trousers," says a local papar, "be
long to. the state. Rout's defense Is that
he had no other and bad to wear the state's
trousers or stay in bed, and if hs stayed
In bed he would starve.
WW
With Another Friday Special
FANCV HOSIERY.
When we review the completeness
class of boss we are going to offer for
we are capable of writing an advertisement te do It Justice but to make a
long story short we are going to give
choice of any of our SOe Fancy Hose at
And there are dosens of patterns aad colorings te select fronv-etse
9 to 1L They can bs seen la our Uth BU window.
Late Bayers of Summer Salts Will Flat toss Esrolleat Valaoa
And for those who are Just piecing oat on the suit nntil fall will Snd sons
choice picking among the assortment ef HIGH GRADE TROUSERS that are
on sale now at $J.60.
No Clothing Fits Like Ours.
Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers.
II. &. Wilcox. Mtmitfior.
opposr.n to thr nK thvst.
Westera Baakera Prowa (post (he
Breach Bsik Scheme.
Philadelphia Record.'
. ne bankers et the west profess to see
In the Fowler banking bill to authorlio
the establishment of branch banks an at-
ck on the very life o, all th. western
bnk'- ' Wis-
r;t,n:n";.'oprn,,on th's't rS
,h. m.,1P. .,, m .... k,..,.
great
er
the measure and monopolise the bus loess (
that they would establish banks through
out the country, lend money at lower Inter
est than the present banks can afford to do
business for and thus gain absolute control.
This, It was urged, would be followed by
an asset currency, with subsequent depreci
ation and all the evils of the French revo
lutionary currency. It was suggested that
the desired elasticity could be given to the
present currency by allowing the national
banks to diminish or Increase their circu
lation by depositing or withdrawing their
government bonds as the need of currency
might require from time to time. A leading
Oshkoih banker warned the association that
the City Bank of New York, with $500,000.
000 capital, would dominate this country if
It could have branch banks; that "It would
dictate the tariff legislation, make or pre
vent wars, own all the ahlps and rail
roads and mines and hold the country tn
the hollow of Its hands."
Evidently the western bankers do not be
lieve In a bank trust In the control ef New
Yorkers. They fear the eonsequenoes ot
so much power in a few hands. Yet in all
the recent discussions of the trust ques
tion the bsnkers have been disposed to de
fend the methods by which the trusts have
monopolized certain Industries, snd have
discredited the fears of the public that the
trusts might use their tremendous Influence
to direct legislation against the people's
Interests.
There la no terror in an asset currency
It It be bssed on a sufficiency of assets,
with suitable safeguards of redemption, nor
In a system that would serve to equalize
the rate ot Interest throughout the country.
MIDSUMMER SMILES.
Baltimore News: "If there are two things
I hate they are cats and alarm clocks."
"Sure; but It's a nice combination if you
can manage to hit the one with the other."
Chicago Tribune: "Has he confessed f"
asked .the leader of the vigilance commit
tee. v
"Yea," the other man answered him.
"But he hasn't given us the confession we
told him to give us. We're going to string
him up again."
Detroit Free Press: Irate Father Here
you are. Just come back from college, you
yong soapegrace, and the height ot your
ambition Is to smoke cigarettes.
Algy Junior Youah wrong, papa; my
ambition la to get slgawettes to smoke.
Chlcsgo Tribune: "Did you see a fox
pass here?" demanded one of the men on
horseback, reining In his foaming stead.
"My friend," said the spectaoled, high
browed, Intellectual looking man In the
buggy, "If you do not know how to pro
nounce foreign phrases I advise you to con
fine yourself to the English language."
Cincinnati Tribune: Gladys Yes. she's a
Sretty girl, but she hasn't a mind above
er hat.
Mabelie Well, she couldn't very well
have, unleas she stood on her head, could
sheT . .
Philadelphia Record: They had been
Bitting on the porch two hours, and the
slow young man had been almost too bash
ful to raise his eyes. "Don't you know."
ventured the sweet girl, moving closer,
"that you remind me of a Filipino who has
decided to stop fighting."
"In what wayT" asked ths slow young
man.
"You don't know what to do with your
arms."
Then the slow young man took the hint
and gave them up.
- PASSI9Q OF THS HOnSli :v
8. E. Riser In the Record-Herald.
Every little while they tell us that the
horse has got to go;
First the trolley was invented, 'cause the
horses went so slow.
And they told us that we'd better not keep
raisin' colts no more;
When the street cars got to motlng that
tne norses puuea netore
I thought It was all over for old Fan and
Doit and Kit,
8'poaed the horse was up and done for,
But
he
ain't
want
ylt.
When the bike erase first got started people
told us right away.
As you probably remember, that the horse
had saw his day.
People put away their buggies and went
kltln 'round on wheels;
There were lots and lots of horses didn't
even earn their meals.
I used to stand and watch 'em, with their
bloomers a they'd nit.
And 1 thought the horse was goln'.
But
he
ain't
went
ylt
Then they got the horseless carriage, and
they said the horse was done,
And the story's been repaled twenty times
by Edison;
Every time be gits another of his batteries
to go,
He comes whoopln' out to tell us that the
horse don't stand a show.
And you'd think to see these chauffeurs, as
they go a-chauffln'. It
Was good-bye to Mr. Dobbin,
But
he
ain't
want
.yit.
When the people git to flyln' In the air, I
s pose they 11 say,
As we long have been a-sayln', that the
horse has had his day.
And I s'poae that some old feller Jist about
ii Re fiiv ii iuu
Where It's safe snd watch the horses
haulln' stuff across the land,
And he'll mebby think ss I do, while the
crowds above him fill
"Oh, they say the horse la done for,
But
he
ain't
went
ylt."
WE'RE AFTER
YOU
of our hosiery department and the
that one day, we question whether
yon your
pair
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