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TIIK OMAHA PAIIT BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1002.
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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
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New activity is being manifested lu
the Wyoming oil fields. Wyoming has
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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-
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D rutin a conies uext. ti iiu its ittir tuu
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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
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- 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
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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.
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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-
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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-
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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
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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,-
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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
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to the congressional Committee, the Ju
dlclal committee and the city committee.
Such a jumble would make "confusion
worse confounded,
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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foreseen.
One of the railroad bureaucrats has
bulletins "issued under authority of the
railroads of Nebraska" long enough to
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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 .
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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.
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a&er" believe that the fine salaries they
are drawing are a paying investment
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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.
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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."
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