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G TIIK OMAHA PAIIT BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1002. The Omaha Daily Bee, , K. Il(JH WATER, EDITOR. rtJBLISHED EVERT MOUNINO. TERMS OF SUUSCIUfTlON. RlilJ YZl I,!.1 k0"1. ."""i'vil", YeBr "Im illustrated n.-e, one Year ttunday iiee. one Year Bturuy Uee, one Year.. 'IWentleth Century Farmer, On Vfr.. t.W Xally Bee (without Bunday), per copy... to pally Jtee twHhout Bunlay, per ween... 12c 1 lull. llniliidltitf HutliluVl I lT Wfk..llG Humiay llee. per cony oo Evening kive (without Bunday), per weetLluo ikvenlng le (Including UunUay), per week 16c Complalnu of Irregularities In delivery shouid be addressed to City circulation LxDarlment. OFFICES. Xmaha Tht Bee Building, kouth Omaha City Hail Building, Twen ty-tlfih and M Streets. council Blurts lit fean eireei. Chicago IMo Unity Bulling. itew x or. Temple couri. Washington 61 Kourleenth Btreet CORRESTONDECE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial department. BUSINESS LETTERS. 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"H II. . i Total Less unsold and returned copies. oiu,4no V.UAO I Net total sale ; 000.821 Net dally a'erag 29,262 Subscribed ln my presenc and sworu to before ms this Jlst day of July, A. V-iwa. (Seal.) at. a. huinuaiju. i notary t-uoiio. CaUfornia Is another great state that It enjoying the luxury of a one-term governor. Kin. VlcTauefn get even King lctor Emmanuel can get even rhen Emperor William comes to re- h viuit t TtnmP arn the visit at Rome. , Memhprs of the County Democracy are expected to feel like 30 cents when tbey see the Jacksonlan nrocesslon move on. Governor Savage is aching for another drubbing, and he will get it gooa ana plenty ln next Sundays issue or ine Bee, . , . . . . . . . - . . I New activity is being manifested lu the Wyoming oil fields. Wyoming has I,!..., !wi. . . , , . . . 1 the oil It s only a question of making If the promised rumpus over the Fair will Is really all smoothed over, what a lot of disappointed lawyers there must be out on the Pacific coast President Roosevelt Is said to have shown white socks up ln New Hamp- hire. No one. however, has accused him of showing the white feather. Iowa's state fair is proving a great success from every point of view. Ne- l . 1 . . a. I . I. J . .1 I D rutin a conies uext. ti iiu its ittir tuu . . . . . . . snouia go xowa one or two points ueuer. i A malleable Iron combine Is an- Dounced as the latest development of I trust formation. Presumably the mem-1 ,LI . A I I.UV In I ..! I - Cuban papers are demanding the im- peachment of President Palma. Presi- dent Palma must be Just beginning to appreclate the pleasures of office-hold ing ln a new republic. Just wait till the council and school board have an opportunity . to demon . . ..... ! trate .which is the better on the base ball diamond and then watch the ugly rumors fly around the umpire. And now General Barry, up ln the big g Sixth, ha. started out to bombard Judge Kinkald with questions. Que. tlon mark, constitute all the ammunition ln the fusion ordnance wagons, but most of them are blank cartridge. . v.li.. .v, eil, m u .,.,1 ,.,, . I.tva city conducted. Municipal home rule Is the thing for South Omaha, as It is for .very other community capable of .elf- MnMnAnnBBgnasasnMai The Association of Nebraska County Ofiirera has evidently raised a Dot of money to be used in furthering Its ,ob- - - Ject, which is to leglslato themselves Into office for two years longer than they were elected for. That in Itself 1. likely to queer the deal. Senator Tom Patterson of Colorado 1. to visit Omaha again, but he need not expect another invitation to speak at a meeting of our municipal reformers, Th. damage wrought by him to the acheme for a benevolent city govern - Went of five has not been forgotten. No wonder Baldwin of Iowa finds ttlmself busy.' To the duty of appointing police commissions, calling out the xullitla and forcing a non-resident con gressman on u. for a sixth term ha. bow been added the function of acting a. chief spokesman for bis -railroad em ployers, President Roosevelt ha. paid hi. triuuto tO th faluicr. XI Vlll Uu- questionably seize Labor day a. the oc caslon to pay equal tribute to th. brawu and muscle of the laborer. The farmer and the laborer are the twin bulwarks of the republic and they furnish the motlv. power that propel, tha car of prosperity. AO COMPROMISE WITH TBUSTS. "An fnr as the null trust Inw. go tliey will be enforced," said President Itoose- velt "No suit will be undertaken for I the sake of seeming to undertake It No suit will be compromised excepting on the basis that the government wins." That Is the spirit In W hich the admlnls- . . ' . , -. I t ration hns entered upon lis dutj of en- forrtu? tLe aw ot 1WK) arj,l tlie Amerl- can im'oiiih nave every reiiwou lor vou- flth-nce In the sincerity of the president and his advisers. lWore departing for Europe Attorney General Knox stated that be was heartily la acord n everything Mr. Roosevelt had said In u.s spines on taeiru.i quesuuu aim expressed u.e op.mon tnat aner wnat he bad said something In regard to the trusts will be forthcoming, at the next session of congress, adding: "If the American people want the trusts done away with, they.will .be done away with. It would be shameful for the American, people to admit that they could not do anything they wanted to." Opponents of the administration will continue to assert that the president Is not honest In his attitude toward the great combinations, but fair-minded men will see In the utterances of Mr. Roosevelt a conscientious purpose to enforce the law as It stands and to seek ure whatever additional , leglsla- tlon may be necessary to the , proper regulation and supervision of the great cuuiuiuuuuuB eugugeti in mterstate business. ine president leaves no donbt as to what he means and what he hopea to accomplish. He has given a definite and clear exposition of what he thinks should be done. He does not expect that all that Is to be desired can l7 uau ah um.c, nut utt uvuuvt't mat a good beginning can be made and he ln- tends to exert all the Influence and au thority that belong to him for making thl8 ginning. All the administration uu is iu una too courts to eniorce existing law. It has shown Its purpose to do this. If the law shall be found I., ,1,, ,, ., ... I.. . . . . iuiiikijuiii; ii is iuv uuty ui congress to provide additional legislation ami tho president Is unqualifiedly on record in fvnr of thla r,o(n n.. it ! vuuij uvueves tuat tue great corpora- r tlous, as the creatures of the star. i- oa tho o I should be subject to a a'ovpr!. . thority whose orders thev would hav to obe and he thlnk8 authorltv should be the national trovernmpnt There 18 nothln uncertain, equivocal ambltruoua ln th nnatinn r "Diguous in the position of 1 resi- dent Roosevelt regarding the trusts and comblnatlohs and there Is no doubt that the great majority of his party is in IUU accora witn mm. AFTtR V8 TBK DELVOt. And now the judicial committee pro- poses to dip its oar Into the pool for the purpose of sharing control over the proposed county primary election with ttia l0m1a AAtltlt AAm w IrrkA k ntAnt vwuu .j cuuiujiLirci a autre,- . . ' . . v " . " ' ' " caIled and lt surprise nobody to -anwt mmv B, n III VUIUIIDC UUUVUJ W beaf that memben of 8choo, want to insert their paddle Into the row boat ln the Interest 6f the nbn-resldent congressman. ' . This only goe. to illustrate the politi- cal monstrosity sought to be perpetrated by the Mercerltes in order to foist their mart on the party against its will. The law expressly vests control of primary elections in tne nanas or the governing ooay, or committee wnicn m mis in stance is the county committee. Con- trol carries with it responsibility. If the county committee Is to be held respon MtKla ia laffol mvA n In nAndnn. I v v s" tuuuu, v. i , , i 1 i. -..i.ii .. ...v. I iiuuann, ji. lauuui ouuki we juu to the congressional Committee, the Ju dlclal committee and the city committee. Such a jumble would make "confusion worse confounded, T nil . V, .... n tlVAMAn .tnn- V,o.. ,A ! V, 1 .1 I I ui i v . t ,.a I I VVllllia LTlUVCu. kUfJ HyLTUlUlUlDUIl VI J UUtCB ana cjerVa 0f election, ln the printing of the ballots and ln the sypervlslon of the returns, whose directions would the elec- tlnn nftlnora nlutv) What iMnArtlAn t these officer, is to be designated by t!!JSJ i fWltlfrPaaitlAnal an1 nrhar a-isxn(.-t Kw Lha inAlMal nr " - . " I would such a mess lead toT Evidently Mercer reads the handwrlt-1 , lng on the wall. He knows ' that his election has been made impossible by . . " ,7"""".: aw vuujuiioqjvu v v v4 uig a gaJaa fjUU WlfJ of the republican party were willing to condone his treachery, duplicity and BeUUhneM. Mercer therefore, with in- evitable defeat staring him In the face, I ...... ,(,,.,.. -.Ill . . . v. i I " uviuiu.itu, Pu iiicicn Kl I urea lliui- I ,w mkii- !. . I Ayuut.vlUA ut&CI UtrVBUSV BU uilu iw rvvgumuu iur nome appointive federal position, which would not ba given to him If ha were turned down. hI Vu tneV ZZnZ i ha la tMarlhrti sv w i, I VI I ID UiaaiUX tU tOUlUl C IUO i V IfUlT Ucan nomlnaUon by stratagem or down- right fraud. i . Mercer know, that the congressional committee has no right to supervise or control precinct ana ward primaries in Douglas county any more than has the city committee or Judicial committee. lie anow. mat tne only legal function of the congressional committee Is to fix tho time and place for holding the con- I ventlon and to apportion to each of the respective counties in tne district the number of delegates to which they will 1 be entitled ln the congressional conven I tlon,. But in hi. desperation he Is bound to override, all precedent and law with I disastrous- consequences to the entire re- publican ticket ln the coming election- state, county, city, congressional and Ju diciary. "After u. the deluge" is the motto of Mr. Mercer. Year, ago Nebraska was ;: with an accidental governor, wno dunced ln I hi. stocking feet In the saloous of Liu culu while Ciiliig the ufflce uf chief iuag- lstrate. 111. nam. was James th. First and Last, and he moved himself away I from Nebraska within a few months I after he had passed Into oblivion. Our latest acridency, who has becom ra- iuou. a. a bull w hacker, bull tighter, poker player and convict psrdoner, lias readied the conclusion that he would be bolter appreciated In Texas, Louis lana or Oregron, Just as former Con- gressman Kem Is appreciated In Colo rado and Dare Mercer will be appre- elated In Minnesota or the District of Columbia. None of these official mlgra- . v., ,,. tlons will cause Nebraskans to hang Crape on their doors. SO IX t ERISA TIOXA L VUMBIXATtOIt. The reports sent out from this couu- thRt Schwllb- Tlslt abroad wa tr ,ho ,,r f rrpctlns? a eomblna- U(m of Aluer,can and European steel , , ,,,.. while acoulrlng p,nlJBlbinty froln the fact that h9 Ue. parture followed Immediately the return to this country of Mr. Morgan, was prob ably without substantial foundation. A New York dispatch a few days ago stated that Mr. Morgan was undoubt edly perfecting a plun for an interna tional combination Involving an agree ment with the Iron and steel manufac turers of Germany,-Great Britain and the United States, but on the other hand a London dispatch said that the report of such a scheme excited amusement among the leaders of the steel and Iron Industry there. In order to make a combination with the British manufac turer It la noppsRurv thnt thpv nhmild ,,,, nni1 Dnrta fn hrinir fh.a .t haye fa11ed It , poB8lble 8ome gort of lnternatlollal agreement might be effected as to markets, but this Is Improbable. Meanwhile Mr. Schwab has stated that his trip Is purely for rest aud recupera tion. Of course If he has a business pur pose he would not be likely to disclose It, but the reported plan of an International iron and steel combination seems so im practicable, If not impossible, that it is . 1n .., i ln Bnit nf tht mQfXM of Mr Morgan ,n the comblna. tlou line. THE PANAMA JSHQUTIATIUNS. Attorney General Knox, who Is on the to anB t0 investigate xne mie to Uie property or me l anaiua canal com nnnv anil nlsn th trontv hptweon that company anu tue uoiomoiun govern- ment enld he had no doubt that every- thlnS Min K through all right, as la- dlcftted by advices from Paris. It will doubtless be found that so far as the aestlon of property title is concerned there will be no difficulty, but some may pnPOUnterpd m the maklnr of a 1)0 Pncountered ,n tne making or a tPeat' wltn " appears that the draft of the convention sent to the Colombian government is not wholly ac ceptable and a number of changes ln it nil! bd ftUggcet'cd bjr that Cn clULUcIit. How important or vital these may be cannot be known until the communica tion from Colombia Is received at Wash ington, but it Would not be at' all sur prising If some of them shall be ob jected to . by our government. (The trouble to be apprehended Is some sort ftf trnnt Hpmlin, fhi nt of extravagant, demand on the part of Colombia . which our government cannot ln Justice ,;.to Itself concede,., for . al .though that country has Indicated a fltrnniy rlpslrfe in hnro frha JZnitaA fit a t-aa g0 0Q w,th the constructlon of the canal It may be depended upon to make every effort to secure the best possible bargain. - - The revolutionary situation ln Colom blft Is a somewhat disturbing factor, because of the uncertainty as to how long it will continue. The revolution has been ln progress for a couple of years or more and the present opera- inT.m -,ifl in fi. raainn tu. -" " - canal. Tho revolutionary party appears to be stronger now than ever and it is possible- that it will have successes which would render it inadvisable to conclude a treaty with the present Co- B '"""J "J'-",U luuuu'uu "uiurs. lue , - l I . . . foreseen. One of the railroad bureaucrats has bulletins "issued under authority of the railroads of Nebraska" long enough to ll. ,1I . .1.. T. ..x. -"" " l" l"c language; The Interstate Commerce commission 1 try as being a stupendous fare, costing tha a vast amount of money with I Buu voting w uatCTCI, ClWCpi iU ma HP flM salary for played-out politicians. Il0W tne interstate commission will bo able to survive tils arraignment time alone will tell. How business men of 1 rtPTirARlia InnW tmnn tha to v.ahttlrlnr ha rpaii nialntslnprt lv rh rllrn .f . I . - w I o . vu vu.ct w.ki;iu citizens, 1. not o much of a mystery, Tne tax bureaucrats may not be able to 1 glUOO(PdAd In IT) Ak lncr tha rallrr.t.1 mon. I ..... usU a&er" believe that the fine salaries they are drawing are a paying investment i .i. . lor lu" roau. I A fusion contemporary exhibits curt I oslty to know how it happena that th. Nebraska state penitentiary is running behind to the tune of 1 3.500 a month. We can't say that this Is so in fact are unwilling to believe it. The Impression I has been fast gaining ground that all the inmates of the state penitentiary had been pardoned out by Nebraska'. great pardon dispenser. A strike has been called a peaceful war, but unfortunately the tendency for It to become real war is not always successfully repressed. The strikers know that clashes with the authorities hurt their cause more than anything else. If their most Intelligent leaders had their way the contests would at all I M01 peaceful Th St Clair county bond case 1. .till being batted back' and forth in the I courts, its latest turn calling for the I Imprisonment of the Judges who refuse to enforce the repaym.ut to the bond- I holder, of money from which the people there received uo benefit Hug pong iana In It with this historic Missouri lawsuit Befcla the Tlsaes. Philadelphia Ledger. Th most surprising- thing about th Phil. Ipplne to tb Nebraska editors was a town of 11,000 Inhabitant and only on dally paper. Genesis of a. Weep. Minneapolis Journal. Steel trust profits for this year will be 9150 ,000,000. Instead of rejoicing th pre moters are weeping because they didn't us tbs boss more freely whlla making stock. Sam Hons Tkrwsts. Naehvllle American (dem.) If the party abandons Brvanlsm. what be come! of Bryant It It fatuously adheres to Hryanism, 1 not Bryan th natural and logical leader? If not th candidate, would he not be a Warwick? Signs of Cheaper Beef. Portland Oregonlan. Secretary 'Wilson Is undoubtedly correct In hit doctrine that th big corn crop Is an Indirect but certain promoter of cheaper beef. Another potent Influent Is to b the fact that high prices have brought Into ba ins th largest number of calves vr con tained In th United State at on time. No meat trust can permanently nullify th operation of thee natural factors. Th col lapse of th corn corner proves It. Destroying; I'opwlar Government. Springfield Republican. A man named Jelks, th present acting governor, will be the next governor of Ala bama with a four-year' term. A natural result of th new constitution Is that while only about 2,500 negroes are voters, some 62,000 whit men failed to register, largely because all polltloal power Is Immovably lodged In one political party. A vigorous white man's republican party will have to arise In order to keep the politics of the state out of a deathly paralysis. Listening Now Will Vote Later. New Tork Press. Because President Roosevelt has an nounced th Issue of the day the "trust" issue and because he pledges himself to try to ba tru to what is his conception t his duty, "to give to each man his rights; to safeguard each man ln his rights." are the American people trooping out to catch his words ' and to ponder their meaning. They burn with eagerness now to hear the chief of the republican party and the head of. the nation talk on th question the trust" question on which later they In tend to votel A Democrat Jlypnetlsed. Chicago Chronicle. " John J. Hanrahan, deputy grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and F. W. Arnold, the grand secretary, went to Oyster Bay to see the president and ask him to attend the convention of th Brother hood at Chattanooga on September 8. Han rehan was hypnotized by tba president and said after th interview: "I am a democrat and the president is my kind of a man. He is just as good a democrat as anybody I ever aid eyes on. He had all kinds of people up there today, senators and that sort, uia it make any difference? Did we feel queer? Not with him entertaining us. I cam out here a democrat and I am on still, but it's a good thing to kno that the wrong party occasionally hits on the right sort of a man. I like bis style flrst j-ate." , PISTANCB LKAtJ KNCHANTMEXT. Tfconchts of the ) .' When 4ta Mls- jrl Blbssene with Traffic. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Th possible abandonment of th Missouri river ia the near future, so far as regards appropriations for Its Improvement by con gress. Is a humiliation for 1 that stream which nobody could have dreamed of la th earlier days. This is on of the world's greatest waterways, physically, scientifically ana historically. Measured from it source In th Rocky mountains down to th mouth of the lower Mississippi and this Is called by soma geographers the main stream, with the upper Mississippi as the affluent tba distance is about 4,200 miles. The Missouri itself, reckoning it from Its rise at the con tinental divide to Its entrance Into th Mis sissippi, has a length of about S.300 mile. It Is about 300 miles longer than th Mis sissippi, of which It Is th largest affluent. Of the 1,200,000 square miles In th water shed of the Mississippi and its. tributaries the Missouri, Its principal branch, contrlb utes 528,000. In th high-water stag of th spring and early summer the Missouri Is navigable for light-draft steamboats up to Fort Benton, ln Montana, a distance of 2,700 miles. When Jollet and Marquette on their Jour ney from Canada by way of the Great Lakes and the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, went down the Mississippi In 1763 to th mouth of tha Arkansas they were surprised and alarmed when passing the Missouri. Th torrent of yellow mud which they saw at a certain point on th west side of th main stream surging across th smooth blue surfac of tha Mississippi, carried with it. in th few minutes which they viewed it, enough trees to stock a small forest. When its current mad their canoes dance and whirl Ilk dry twigs ln a mountain brook Marquette said: "1 never saw anything mora terrific." Th old missionary re marked that he would return there some day and go by way of that river to Asia. Tha Missouri may be said to have a oontln uous history from that day, two and a third centuries ago, to this.- Moreover, there is a chance that its annals began even earlier than that time. Coronado, th Spanish con qulstador from Mexico, chasing Qulvlra' golden aiyth, was ln Kansas more than a century before Marquette and Jollet went down tha Mississippi, and soma of the anti quarians hav figured that he either reached the Missouri or cam very close to IU Thus, when Lewis and Clark, about 100 year ago, were working their row boats up against the Missouri's turbulent and tortu ous current that river had much mors than a century of a background of history behind it In th days of th French dominion prospecting and exploring parties were up that river as far as th mouth of th Kansas as early as 1705. Th Verendryes were on Its upper water, ln th present stat of Montana, In 1748. Th Otoes, Sioux, Omahas, Mandans and Arlcaras, whom Jefferson's first explorers saw when on their way across th continent, wr not altogether unao qualnted with whit men at that time. From 1807, when Manuel Lisa of th Missouri Fur company went up th big river to th mouth of ih Yellowstone and then ascended that stream to th confluence of th Bighorn, where hs erected th first trading post on the upper water and th first hous in th present Montana, onward until long after th end of th fur trade's great days, the Missouri was th seen of much activity. In 1819 th first steamboats to enter that riTer, Independence and Western Engineer, went up several hundred miles. Tb Ameri can Fur company's Yellowstone steamed as far as th company's post at Fort Pierre, ln th present South Dakota, In 1829. After ward, la th days ot th early settlers In Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and th Dsko as and from that time until long after tb com pletlon of Oakes Ames' and Huntington's Pacific railroads, tb Missouri swarmed with steamboats. But th glory of th great river has departed. Th railroads hav takes away it business and Its picturesqueness asd remaac hav passed late history.. Redeeming the Far West , New Tork Tribune (rep.). Two stat campaigns, to which an Interest Two years ago the republican electoral attaches quit out of proportion, perhaps, ticket polled 27.19S vote, against 19,414 tor to their Intrinsic consequence, are to be fought this fall In th tiny Rocky mountain commonwealths of Idaho and Nevada. Ranking forty-third and forty-fifth re spectively In th list of states, Idaho and Nevada exercise no commanding Influence ln national politics. Each has at present but a single seat In the hous of represent. tlves and neither has much hop of bettering It representation in the next census or even In th census thereafter. Joining th other Rocky mountain state in their revolt against th gold standard declarations of th SL Louis platform they have, with Mon tana and Colorado, clung persistently sine 1898 to tha southern alliance forced upon them through their mistaken adherence to free sliver coinage theories. With tha abate ment of th silver craze there has been a steady drift of sentiment ln all th mining and mountain states toward older and more natural political alignments. Of th far western group temporarily lost to repub licanism In Colonel Bryan's first presidential campaign, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Washington returned In 1900 to their traditional republican associa tions. In Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Ne vada the reaction, though powerful, was not complete. This year's elections for congress will therefor serve to measure afresh th ebb from democratic theories and sentiment so noticeable in 1898 and 1900, and th re sults ln Idaho and Nevada, at least, are now counted on to show that the far west has become again substantially and normally re publican that the bond which held together the southern-western coalition constructed with so much car and confidence by the trea coinage leaders has proven as brittle and unserviceable as a rope of sand. In Idaho a representative In congress and state officers are to be voted tor, and th legislature elected is to choose a United States senator to succeed Henry Heltfeld. OTHER LAUDS THAI OVRS. Russia Is a long time recovering from the panic and depression of a couple ot years ago. This Is satisfactorily explained by an Odessa dispatch to the London Times, ln which a financier in South Russia is quoted as estimating the industrial losses of the last few years at 1500,000,000. This, of course, does not Include losses from bad harvest, and presumably it does not in clude th profit that would hav been made if expectations had been realized, or if business had even continued reasonably good, but simply represents the losses in Industrial investments. Of all tha com panies formed in the last twenty years to exploit the resource of th country it is stated that two-fifths are bankrupt. Much of th loss has fallen upon foreigners, par ticularly Frenchmen and Belgians, but very much of it also has been lost by Russian Investors. Halt a billion dollars Is a great deal ot money to be lost In a country of ery small realized wealth, whatever Its natural resources may be. Large bank fall tire hy? errtirr1? I? SAnrh Pu??!, the Iron Industries were seriously affected by th interruption of railroad building by tha government, some manufacturers hav received government loans to tide them ovfer, but many of the leading Industries ot the country are reported to ba In a moat unsatisfactory condition still. Europeans and Americans who have lived long ln China are quit unanimous in-the opinion that the greatest country of Asia, taking account of area, popula tion and natural resources, is making steady progress Industrially and commer cially, and the general belief Is that more rapid gains are assured for th next few years. Statistics of exports and Imports tell the same story. Bo .does the develop ment of railway and telegraph line. Th world-wide importance of this progress Is not easily exaggerated. It promises to in sure th existence of the Chines empire as an immense independent state, for it lessens tha fore of such pretexts as might have been discovered or invented for di viding or seizing the country. It also makes tha International Importance of China so evident .and so great that no on European power Is likely to find th way open for th absorption of so rich an em pire, whlla the more progressive tha Chi nese become the less chance there will be for an agreement between the leading na tions ot the west as to the terms of a possible partitioning of th middle king dom. An official report of th conditions of labor in southern Rhodeisa should cause soma squirming among th British im perialists. Th methods of th British South . Afrlcfc company In securing labor for the mines are, In fact, not pleasant to contemplate. Th problem Is, of course, to mak steady workman out of th natur ally lazy Africans. No ona caa doubt tbat this would be to their eventual advantage, but meanwhile th commissioner of th Chartered company has felt himself com pelled to supply extraordinary Inducements to Industry. . Briefly, th custom has been to tax th native so heavily that they are compelled to work out the tax at th mines. Even under this Incentive th natives do everything to avoid a servic which Is dangerous, unhealthy and subject to con ditions that recall tha daya of slavery. Be sides tha hut tax, the administration ap plies pressure ln other way that are not specified. That native commissioners who were appointed to guard tha rights and re dress tb wrongs of their fellow-coun trymen should turn out to bo mar recruit ing agents for th mines is only natural when the demand for labor 1 considered. It is a algniflcent fact tbat tha number ot seaman, cadets and officers belonging to Alsace-Lorraine who of their own free will hav entered th German fleet has risen during th last eight years from 145 to 1,750. Tb latter number" 1 nearly twlc that which would correspond to th num ber of th population of Alsace-Lorraine compared to tbat of th rest of Germany. Unquestionably th German school system which prevails ln Alsace-Lorraine ha con tributed largely to tb Chang of feeling which is plainly visible. It Is tru that a few girls are still sent to nunneries and penslonnat la Franc by tb richer fam ine ot th Roman Catholic majority of th population. Among th Protestants who dwell mainly in Lower Alsac tber is a different bsblt. Th Roman Cathollo clergy, which originally was on th French side, is now divided; the Protestant clergy In Alsac is naturally favorable to Ger many. Whatever may have been th reason for the decision to transfer th kaiser's head quarters during th autumn maneuver from Posen to Frankfurt-on-th-Oder the official explanation ot th change a hav ing been th result of considerations of convenience Is certainly not th tru on. Th kaiser had announced that he would enter th capital of Prussian Poland at tha bead of 100,000 men and show th Poles what it meant to court Imperial dis favor. What has become ot this high re solve? More thsn likely It was discoun tenanced by th czar at th recent meet ing ot th Russian and German monarcbs, about which such ominous sllencs ha been maintained. Agitation among th Poles Is , th last thing Russia desires. Possibly also the democratic. Since then the so-called stiver republican organization has ceased to exist. Th populist party has also dwindled to a shadow, and the two United States senators, on elected as a populist and tha other as a silver republican, hate formally declared themselves democrats. Political condition have been greatly simplified, and by virtu of that process the republican p,rtr hopeless one-third minority only four years ago is now contesting on vir tually equal terms for the control of the stat. Victory this fall ln Idaho will bring th substantial gain of a seat not only In .the lower but also In the upper branch of congress. In Nevada tha outlook for republican suc cess la perhaps less promising. In 1900 th McKlnley electors received S.849 votes, against ..347 for the Bryan electors. Rep resenUttv Newland for congress had a smaller plurality, . 1,785. The populist and silver republican organizations are also vir tually defunct In Nevada. Mr. Newlanda, elected for two terms as a silver repub lican, U now a democrat. Senators Jones and Stewart, former republicans, but re elected, on as a populist and one as a silvern, have again become repub licans. Mr. Newlands has given up his seat in th. bouse and Is making a canvass for th senatorshlp as a stralghtout dem ocrat; so that sine the campaign of 1896 and 1900 party lines have been practically drawn anew. "Nevada's natural political affiliations are with California and Utah both republican states and it would not be surprising If next fall's, vote carried this most retrograde and dependent of all the forty-five commonwealths back In line politically with its two controlling neigh bors. Such a reversal, following Idaho's example, would leave to Colorado and Mon tana the burdens 'of fighting to the end among the mountain states the lost battle of the stiver heresy. th kaiser may hav been dissuaded from his purpose by a hint from Austria, In th government of which empire th Pole are very Influential. Having armed the native for th pur pose of self-defense during the war, tb British authorities In South Africa are now confronted by an aggravated form of the "black peril." The rumors of out rages upon white women and of murders by blacks of Boer farmers returning to their homesteads have not been confirmed In any particular Instance. The situation is a dangerous one, nevertheless, and tha unanimous demand of the whit inhabt tants that the Kaffirs be disarmed Is doubtless justified. It Is easier to pro pose the remedy, however, than to put It Into practice. Th armed blacks are scat tered over a territory nearly one-fourth as large as tha United States, and the hunt for their secreted rifle . and ammunition would be long and baffling. POLITICAL DRIFT. Several patriotic democrats ln Iowa have consented to run for congress Just for ex ercise. Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland Is being talked about again. Evidently there Is some thing doing In gumshoe politic. The election ln Main this year will be held on September 8, and at it congressmen as well as state officers will be voted for. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Long and ex Secretary of the Navy Olney will be the respective chairmen of the republican and democratic conventions In Massachusetts next month. H. C. Frlck of Homestead fame aspires to the United States senator from Pennsyl vania. Mr. Frlck Is Just the kind of a man to reduce politics to a business basis, and that is what counts In the Keystone state. Next Tuesday Vermont voters will deter mine which ia which. There are three tickets ln tb field for stat officers. As a majority of all votes cast Is required to elect, many believe- the officers will be named by the state legislature. Backless Jerry Simpson of Kansas is now located In New Mexico and diligently dig ging political postholes preparatory for statehood. It Is very likely Jerry will bump up against Judge Baker aomewher among th sand dunes and cacti, and then sand clouds and cacti will fly as never before. Th persistent determination of some Massachusetts democrats to nominate Rich ard plney for soma office, despite his un willingness to be a candidate. Is their an swer to th objection ot some opponents that he la "too old" to be regarded as an eligible candidate for the presidency In 1904. Mr. Olney was born in September, 1835. He is now 87, and at th time of th next presidential election would be in his 70th year. All aorta of people get into politic. A. H. Jackson, th republican candidate for congress In the Thirteenth Ohio district, was a plow boy In his youth, then became a street auctioneer and a circus manager and proprietor; finally settling down a a manufacturer of bustle. To this business be added all sorts of women's underwear, and has become wealthy and ambitious ot political distinction. Ha is liberal with his money aud very popular. EHMETT 1612 & HARNEY ST$. IMPORTANT TO EVERYBODY: fylonday We close Labor Day 10 a,.m. Please do your shopping TO DAY, and as far as possible carry your goods home by 6ELF, so as to lighten our early Monday morning delivery routes and enable us to close , 90 A. SUa. Sharp This Is Our BANNER BARGAIN DAY Bargains speaking out loud in every department on every floor. Make them yours. WE ARE OPEN UNTIL 10 TONIQIIT. ORDERS TAKEN MONDAY A. M. WILL BE DELIV ERED TUESDAY. Our entire Institution SHUTS DOWN AT 10 A. M. Sharp, Labor Day 17. R. BENNETT CO. ju rnones WITHOUT A PAnALLKU Rwlera Rlehlr Rsitwtl "Ilk Power f Fatrile Rspresslesi. Mlnnespolis Times (Ind.) What other country In the world ever possessed, within a score ot?ars, four chief rulers so gifted with th power of public expression, so ready of speech to reach th public ear, as has this union? Garfield, Harrison, McKlnley, Roosevelt! each of them a master of public sddress yet none ot them, save possibly the first men tioned, an orator. It was Harrison who first successfully In augurated presidential tours ih which th best thought of tb administration was laid before aa every-day audience of American citizens, fresh from the fountain head. Mc Klnley, even more than his republican predecessor, believed in th personal contact of the chief magistrate with th masses. Th 1st and lamented president grew and wid ened marvelously In the years of his stew atdshlp and one of th principal factor of growth was his contact with th plain peopl of th republic who put him where he was. President Roosevelt has always been In touch with his kind, ha Intensely human sympathies snd la raor loved as a man than he Is a an official. With more culture than McKlnley (using th word in Its usual university acceptation), but with less than Harrison, Roosevelt bss a happy mean of expression that appeals to those whom he addresses, and Influences, as well, tboss who read hi speeches. The point to be made is that no other na tion ln th world, at present or la Its his tory, can show a parallel with the condition ot things outlined above. Th kaiser talks, and talks well, but a tour such as that Mr. Roosevelt Is now making, would be an im posrlblllty in Germany. No French presi dent sine Thiers hss been, capable of a similar tour, whil In England the king must confine himself to a tew platitudes at tbs laying ot a cornerstone or th conferring of an order. When Spain's king shows any human feeling and a desire to get nearer hit people he ia labeled "crazy." Italy's mon arch has neither the ability nor the deslrt to mak speeches and th ctar of all th Russia must hedge himself about with so many precautions against assassination thai the words of his lips can be heard by only a few score ot his subjects at on time, LAVGHI.1U GAS. Washington 8tar: ,"Ef a man could git up as much enthusiasm over his regular work aa he kin over a crap gam," said Uncle Eben, "dar wouldn't ba near so much hand times." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Did you see that item to the effect that Jupiter Is 1.4U0 times the earth's size?" Yes, I saw it." ' "Well, say, that must mak Plerponl Morgan feel pretty small." Philadelphia Cathollo Standard: "A carrier pigeon on the wing," aid th fancier, "Is the very poetry of motion." "You mean," replied the unsuccessful rhymster, "that It has the motion of fioetry, don't you? No matter how often t goes out, it always comes back again." Chicago Post: They were dining out. "Uut. Henry," she protested, "you know you shouldn't drink coffee, at night. II keeps you awake." . "Oh. well." he replied, with a polite bow to the hostess, "this coffee won't." Philadelphia Kecora: Bridget," said tn absent-minded author, "I can't have that cat In the room If it continues to yell so. Chase It out." "Yes, sor, but yeil horv to help me, sor." "Why, where Is It?" "Ye r slttln' on It. sor." " " " , New York Sun: Marie Antoinette walked to the scaffold with all the dignity nf a queen. As she stepped to the block, how ever, a horriflod expression crossed her face. "Please tell me," she begged the execu tioner, "1 my head on straight?'.' Philadelphia Press: fga.j ,A-ra(- began' 4he bill collector's little son. "Now, see here," his father Interrupted, "I don't want you to ask me any foolish questions." "I was Just going td ask Who collecta the weather man's storms when they're due." "LOOK OVER TUB HAHSESS FIRST." S. E. Klser In Leslie's Weekly. When old Uncle John starts off to town He looks at the straps with care, "For you never can tell.t says Uncle John, "What trouble there may be there, I've saved a runaway many a time Where worst pilKht 'a' come to worst By simply not forgettln' to Just Look over the harness first." Is there not a lesson that he who starts To scatter wild oats away May learn from the plan of Uncle John Which will stand him In stead some day? In setting forth on the long trip where There's many a break and burst, Make sure, as nearly aa mortal may "Look over the harness first." And for him and for her who take th step That must lead unto Joy or woe The plan that Is followed by Uncle John Is a good one on which to go. . There are many weary women and men Who are counting themselves sreursed Because they didn't, before the stert, "Look over tho harness first." For him and for her who have come to the place ; . Where the waya appear, to part. The lesson we learn from Uncle John May well be taken to heart. The toys they have lost may lie ahead; Perhaps when the bond is burst The eye that are snd may brighten but "Look over the harness first." In wsr and In love there are manv defeat. Which lead to shame and despair. That never had come If the buckle and reins Had only been kept In repair. Whoever you are. If It's glory or gold Or power for which you thirst. Try Uncle John's plan, when If. time to set out "Look over th harness first." wing up 137 lay