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18 THE OMAHA DAIIT BEE; SUNDAY, NOVEMllETt 10, 102. Tiie Omaiia Sunday Bee. E. ROSE WATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, pally Hoe (without Sunday), On Year. 14. W Daily Hce an1 bunclay. One Year Jllumrated Be. One Year 1 OT Bunlny Bee, one Yeir i-VO UMluniny Hop, one Yer 1 t Twentieth Century farmer, One Year.. l.W DELIVERED Bt CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy... ic Dally Wee (without Hundav), Jer week. .120 Dally Bee (Unhiding Sunday), per week.lJc ttiinday Jw, per copy 5o Evening Bee (without Hundny). per week 6c i-venltig iiee (Including Sunday), pvr week l"c Complaint of Irregularities In delivery hould be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omnha City Hall Building, Twr.n-ty-tlflh and M Streets. Council HIuITh 10 l'earl Street. I Chicago 164 Unity Building. New York 2.12 Park Bow. Building. .Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl , torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha ; het, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Cora . pany, Omaha. ! REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. .Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exehanne, not accepted. J TUB Blifci PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as: Ueorge 15. Txachuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aays that the actual number of full and (templet copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening arid Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 111, was as follws: 1 80,700 17 81,820 2 80,9.10 U S1.4A0 S 31,1!0 1 U0,400 4 801970 20 .12,210 e 29,3so 2i aa.aao 31,200 22 81,570 7 3O.01O 23 81,740 1 31,070 24 82,180 1 31,000 25 31,140 10 81,100 26 20,255 11 82,000 27 81,070 12 20,020 28 31,000 13 81.USO . 29 31,030 14 81,230 30 32,300 15 S1,M40 31 3 1,3; W 16 32,7 OO Total 000,015 Leas unsold and returned copies 9,872 Net total sales 9B0.743 Net average sales 30,050 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presenco and aworn to before ma this Slat day of October, A. D. liKI M. B. HUNGATE. (Seal.) Notary Public. J. Plornont Morgan caught a cold and catch was followed Immediately by a slump in stocks. The up-to-date Thanksgiving turkey that desires to Improve Its figure will try to acquire a foot ball form. The Omnibus statehood bill Is the next automobile vehicle that will attempt to complete the trip through congress. President Mitchell eecms to make as good a witness as he does a diplomat .Versatility is one of his strong points. ' For some nnexplalnnbie reason Cap tain Christmas' fairy tale did not even survive the Danish island treaty nego tiations. Betting on weather forecasts Is about s hasardous at this time of the year as .banking on the Mercer democrats in the last election. President Roosevelt will have to find H surer field of sport for the huntsman If bo wants to lure Emperor William over to join him in the chase. Central Kansas has experienced a alight attack of terrestrial jlmjams which aome people lu those parts im agine to have been the fug end of an earthquake. Uncle Sam's team will line up to tackle the trusts, as soon as President Roose velt returns to Washington to assume the position of center rush. It is observable that under the opera tion of the new Iowa law the prohibition counties still contribute their full quota of inebriates to the insaue asylums. One army that Is not being mustered out is that of the rural free delivery service, in which under republican poli cies 11,4X10 carriers have been eullsted In four years. It isn't fair to keep on poking fun at Herbert Bpencer for his vegetarian fad after he has honestly explained ihat he was very young and a good deal of a crank at the time. What about the dangers of early mat rimony besetting the young officers in the navy? Are the graduates of An napolis more Immune than the gradu ates of West Pointt ' You always have to go away from borne to bear the news. Down lu Lin coln they are constructing a Lew $400,000 railroad organ for Omaha, but they have not indicated yet where it Is to be set up and who Is to work the bellows. As a cabinet maker and a cabinet builder King Alphonso of Spain has no equal among the crowned heads of Eu rope. Ills average has been one cabinet a month ever since he bus been permit ted to warm the Heat of bis pantaloons on a throne. . ... General Chaffee Is riirht altont the mil tan of Jolo. It Is nonsense to bo treat ing with that fellow as if he were an Inriopcndeut Koverelgu. The thing to do is to send out and bring him in the same as if he were a blanket Indian who had got off Lis reservation. The Canadian press aud government will be wise to refrain from undue ex citement over bouudary questions. They will be settled in due time aud the boundary fixed exactly where it belongs. But they ought to understand by this time that they cannot make successful their-old scheme of claiming a lot of United States territory, or of disputed tctltory, and then trade It off for con cessions In other directions. REACTION FROM STOCK JOBBIXd. Too much-stress ennnot lo put upon the fact that the financial stringency In the east In the result of gambling and not of legitimate business operations. This fact was early perceived by the com try notwithstanding the clamors of stock Jobln-rs, promoters and birds of prey generally, nud recent developments bring It out in clear light It is now as serting Itself In the continued depression In the stock market, and most notably lit those securities which have been the subject of exploitation, while in broad contrast commercial values and earnings hold firm, and the volume of legitimate transactions, enormous and unprece dented as It has been, even shows a tend ency to expand. The root of the trouble is the prostitu tion to purely speculative and gambling purposes of the genuine utilities of busi ness consolidation by modern methods. That the latter Is potent for important economies Is on Indisputable fact, ami to that extent It is healthful and con servative. It Is not however, endowed with the gift of Midas to turn Into gold everything It touches. The public has been dazzled with tho temporary or promised results of combination, and speculators and promoters have sought to tuke advantage of the prevalent ln- fatuatiou. The situation in brief Is that they and their victims have overplayed their hand and have been caught un guarded in the game. At a time when the whole circle of stocks and securities had been pushed either by the excited sanguine spirit of tho times or by deliberate manipulation far beyond the warrant of earnings, present or prospective, and Just as the Judgment of the public was beginning to appreciate that fact, it was found that innumerable groups of speculators and stock Jobbers and syndicates of promot ing banks, trust companies and control lers of large interests had still on hands a prodigious total of Inflated securities, representing merged and combined prop erties, w hich had not yet been disposed of to the public. The absolute condition of success In these schemes was to un load at the level of an abnormal bull movement. While still in the hands of the promoters, these securities had ab sorbed a vast proportion of surplus funds in eastern depositories and it is known that they had been hypothecated in European money capitals for an enor mous amount certainly not less than $300,000,000. The maintenance of the speculative movement absolutely de pended on the ability of the public to continue to buy, but this had largely al ready been exhausted. The good sense of the American peo ple, braced by the conservative judgment of European financiers, has called a halt The movement marked in Ihe records of the New York stock market Is simply a remedial process whereby prices are be ing restricted to values and speculative as well as business calculation to the line of earnings, ft" may be severe on those who have too far transgressed that line, but it is none the less on that ac count necessary and beneficial. It Is fortunate Indeed that the reaction has come at this time, for if the, gambling movement had gone unchecked to the lengths to which desperate speculators would have carried it the consequences of the inevitable collapse might have been so far-reaching as fatally to In volve the world of legitimate business. TBE TROUBLESOME MOROS. All recent reports regarding the Phil ippines show that with the exception of the territory occupied by the Moros peace prevails and the functions of civil gov ernment are being fully exercised. Vice Governor Wright has said that there is a degree of peace and safety in the Phil ippines now that was never reached un der the Spanish rule. This is corrobo rated by General Chaffee, who states in his report, Just made public, that all parts of the archipelago, except what is known , the Moro country, are free from disturbance of a serious nature, though bands of ladrones continue to menace some communities. These, however, can be taken care of by the constabulary, which appears to be gen erally ,efflclent and faithful. y ' The task of dealing with the Moros is the one remaining of greatest difficulty. They are fighting people, fearless, obsti nate and will not be easily subdued. General Chaffee recommends aggressive measures and he thinks that even with these It may be several years before the Moros can be brought to fully recognize and submit to the authority of the United States. It seems evident from the report of the former commander in the Philippines that there must be ac tive military operations in the Moro country before those people can be brought to obedience to American au thority, aud even after this Is accom plished they are likely to prove more or less troublesome for an indefinite time. Of course there Is nothing to do now but compel them to yield and undoubtedly the advice of General Chaffee as to bow this should be done is sound. REFORM BT CRIM1SAL PROSECUTION, One of the fit. Louis prosecutions for bribery aud corruption has just ended In the conviction and sentence of the guilty man to the peuitentlary for a term of thre years. The novelty of the case does not consist in the fact that It grows out of the existence of a widely ramified conspiracy of wealthy politicians and corporations oiratiug In public fran chises and public contracts. These exist In all cities of considerable size. There Is scarcely a city or town which has not had scandals of this character or in which attempts have not been made to get at the public treasury by tampering with the authorities who should guard It for the public, attempts which too often have been successful. The extraordinary feature of the St. Louis case is that a millionaire briber and corrupt lonlst, influential in political circles and backed by powerful corpora tion for which be acted as agent, should be successfully prosecuted to a crtnvlc tlon. He was armed with every conceiv able resource for smothering legal In quisition In its Inclplency and for baf fling It If persisted In the result that usually follows. All these resources, all the delays aud, strategems known to criminal practice, pressure upon wit nesses and the like, were exhausted In his behalf. This conviction of the mil lionaire br!ler Butler Is under the cir cumstances a signal triumph for good government aud honest administration. The lesson cannot be too closely laid to heart If the wretched petty criminal whose act Is felt only In a narrow circle Is to be punished, the millionaire and the powerful corioration whose corrupt practices Involve the Integrity of govern ment Itself and rob the public by whole sale cannot be let go. There is a world of vain moralizing and pretentious but vague and futile preachment of reform, but all of It, for practical value, is not to 1h compared with this one conspicu ous conviction. For corruption In high places unrelenting criminal prosecution Is the true method of reform. MAKE AK-SAR-BEN PERM A II EXT. The benefits accruing to Omaha from the work of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben are so obvious and so numerous that no one interested In Omaha's future would listen to a proposal to disband the or ganization. Yet from its Inception Ak-Sar-Ben has been instituted upon a temporary basis, Its membership being recruited and new In its entirety each successive year. While some advantages have resulted from this system they are far outweighed by the disadvantages and by the unnecessary repetition of laborious work on the part of volunteer committees that could be almost com pletely obviated if the organization were put in a more permanent form. Instead of soliciting applications each year, membership subscriptions could without additional exertion be secured for a period of three years, the fees being paid annually, as now. This would give a membership nucleus to be con stantly expanded, to say nothing of permitting more definite estimates upon an assured Income. Such a chauge need not interfere In any way with the Initia tion ceremonies, which constitute a dis tinctive feature, participation In which might be made oue of the conditions of membership. The temporary character of the Ak- Sar-Ben organization Is due originally to the fact that its promoters had no idea to what extent it would become a part of the social and business fabric of the community. That it has more than met all expectations and now justifies a de mand for permanency is the best tribute to it efficiency as a factor in the progress and prosperity of Omaha. AS TO BRANCH BAXKMG. While it is not at all probable that there will be any legislation in the near future authorizing national banks to es tablish branches, the proposition yet has some earnest advocates and therefore the discussion of the question 'by ,Mr. Dawes, former comptroller of the cur rency, before the American Bankers' as sociation, is timely and merits consider ation by all who are Interested In the matter. Mr. Dawes presented reasons against the creation of branch banks which seem to us to be conclusive.' lie pointed out that the effect of such a system would necessarily be the central ization of the banking Interest and the establishing of a monopoly in national banking, controlled by a few great banks in the principal cities. Consolidation is now going on and under a branch system it would be only a few years until the banking business of the entire country would be In the hands of a score or less powerful institutions, all acting to gether for the control of the money market and the financial affairs of the nation. . Such a system, Mr. Dawes said, would not be in the interest of the large class of business men who in a small way, as manufacturers and merchants, are de veloping the country and whom we are not ready as a nation to dispense with. These men require credit and they are more likely to obtain it from independ ent banks in their localities from the branches of institutions that are hundreds of miles away. The advocacy of branch banking comes from a few pnly, a majority of the bankers of the country and particularly of the west op posing it The country does not need Buch'a system and the more it Is dis cussed the more unpopular It is sure to become. , EXPERT EVIDENCE. It is remarkeil that the chief 'lesson of the Molineux trial Is the utter worth lessness of the evidence of so-called "handwriting experts" In such cases. These were so contradictory la their opinions that the court regarded this evidence as of no value and it was largely for this reason that the jury promptly acquitted the defendant It Is another Instance added to the many which have caused expert evidence to be very generally discredited and Is one of the most striking examples ever given of the uutrustworthtness of such testi mony. In a recent magazine article Justice Woodward of the appellate division of the supreme court of New York points out that grave criticism of expert evi dence in courts of law has not sprung from recently celebrated criminal cases. It is almost as old as the use of this species of evidence, which goes back several centuries. lie gives numerous examples showing the dangers inherent In such evidence as they sppear to an experienced jurist. An Incident Is re lated of a conscientious prosecuting at torney who discarded the services of a haudwritlug expert, because on private trial he found the expert ready to prove that the haudwritlug ou certain decoy letters which the attorney had procured to ba written was exsUy the same ai that on postal cards alleged to have been written by the accused person. The ex pert in this Instance stood very high In his "profession." Justice Woodward urges that a rem edy should be found for the evils of ex- pertlsm, but he thinks It Is not attain able by legislation. "Indeed." he says, "I do not believe that the fault Is In the system so much as lu that relaxation of the professional and public conscience w hlch has permitted abuses to continue uncorrected." A great difficulty Is that not a few so-called experts do not hesi tate to sell their opinions, or what they are pleased to term their opinions, to tho highest bidder, and this It Is mani festly not easy to correct or prevent. Expert evidence has come to be so generally suspected and discredited that no great amount of Importance Is now given it by courts or Juries. The worth lessness of such testimony was very dis tinctly shown In the last trial of Moli neux. OUR HIM An E ARMY. General Young Is undoubtedly correct wben he says that the United States army Is the most humane army that ever waged war, and nothing could more forcibly Illustrate this fact than the actual truth of the campalgus In the Philippines and In China. AVar Is In herently cruel and terrible, for death and destruction are its means. But no army of a civilized nation campaigning among barbarians and savages who vio late every custom and principle of civ ilized warfare ever conducted .Itself with greater self-restraint and humanity than the American soldiers in tho Orieut With the most recent experiences un der like conditions, those of tho British In the Soudan and in northern India and of the Russians among the bar barous tribes In Interior Asia, the record of the American army stands out In striking contrast. In the iuternatlonal corps In China, where American soldiers marched with the French, Germans, British and Russians, the difference In their treatment of women and children, of prisoners and armed foes and of the property of the Invaded country was such as to Impress profoundly the opin ion of the whole world. It was exactly what was to be ex pected. The young men who composed the American army were not mere hire lings nor recruited from the dregs and outcasts of society, but for the most part went patriotically from the repre sentative homes of the country. They were neither better nor worse than their brothers and neighbors who remained at home as a reserve to reinforce them if need should be. 1 It was folly for the so-called antl Imperiallsts to attempt to promote their contention by besmirching such an army. The American people , Instinct ively resent it The charges against the character of the army were palpably and demonstrably overdrawn. The evidence employed by the detractors was the same as if they bad collated the records of the police courts of our cities as typi fying the civic character of our people. The point that Americans are not an aggressively military people, that their true Ideal is peace and - industrialism ratffer than the glory of war is well taken and cannot be too tnuch insisted upon. . So far as the anti-imperialists can enforce that point they will per form a useful service. But falsehood, detraction, unmerited slander of the American army hinder and by no possi bility can ever help the promotion of the true American military policy. MAKS1XQ TBE XAVT "To provide battleships and cruisers and then lay them up," said' President Roosevelt, "with the expectation of leaving them unmanned until they are needed in actual war, would be 'worse than folly; It would be a crime against the nation." In a recent speech Secre tary of the Navy Moody said that 607 officers were needed to give even the minimum complement to the vessels now In commission and that for sixty or more vessels under construction 783 ad ditional officers will be needed to pro vide the minimum complement. The navy is thus shown to be short of 1,3!H) officers. At the present rate AnuapoliB will provide 355 officers by July, 1905, and under the law u6t more than eight een enlisted men may obtain promotion by that date. Even with every midship man graduated and every enlisted mau promoted who is entitled to a commis sion, the navy will hick more than 1,000 officers In July, 1905. The navy also needs an Increased en listed force. With the 3,000 increase authorized at the last session of con gress the present enlisted force numbers 28,000 men and boys, giving the ratio of sixty men for each 1,000 tons of ship. The completed and authorized tonnage is 750,000 tons, so that on the basis of sixty men for each 1,000 tons there will be required an enlisted force of 45,000. It is said that plenty of men can be enlisted, but not of those who are really qualified by seafaring experience and training. It takes time to train men who are to be of use to the navy and they need to be men of better intelli gence than are usually found in the mer chant marine. The naval authorities are now endeavoring to secure enlist ments, but It does not appear that they are meeting with satisfactory success. While there Is no difficulty in securing men of the most desirable kind for the army, relatively few are disposed to go Into the naval service. The secretary of the navy has a&ked members of congress to nominate can didates for mldshlpmeu, for whom a special examination Is to be held at Washington City November 12. Mean while the question of providing officers for the navy Is regarded in naval rircles as a serious one and congress will again be urged to adopt legislation for meet ing this urgeut need of the naval estab lishment It is manifestly uncles to go on Increasing the number of ships in the navy without making adequate pro vision for officering and manning them, Several recent fires In eastern sky scraper buildings above the line where fire-fighters can do effective work to ward extinguishing flames come as icr tinent reminders of the dangers of ex cesslvely high construction. Efen where the buildings are to all inteuts and pur poses fireproof in character, tho contents are more or less inflammable, and nl though the damage to property may be slight, the risk of life to Inmates and firemen Is beyond what the necessities require. The engineering problems of lofty construction can without doubt readily be solved so as to permit of tow ering structures of several times the present height, but other considerations that Involve their safety for human oc cupation will fix limits not easily over stepped. Bear stories and bear cartoons will be the fad from now on until Christmas. People whose memory carries them back Into the 50s will recall forcibly the campaign of the first republican candi date for president General John C. Fre mont, whose encounters with, grizzlies were the all-absorbing topic for the boys and afforded material for the pictures of the yellow press of those days. The next time President Roosevelt goes on a bear hunt he should try his luck in Alaska, where he can buy four bear cubs for a dollar with Uie privilege of perforating their fur with lend thrown Into the bargain. It would be interesting to know just what the so-called "no shelter to monop oly" plank of the Iowa republican plat form means. With almost as'many In terpretations as there are interpreters, about the only thing regarding It that everybody agrees on is that it does not mean n general revision of the tariff. Omaha has been made a port of orig inal entry for packages sent from abroad through the registered mall, but Omaha has yet 'to be ueslguated a point for more rapid distribution of mall at the point of departure fronrthe various depots where railway mall cars arrive and depart Tom Johnson, like Colonel Bryan, is now speaking of the first battle, and In dicates, with contemptuous allusions to McLean, that he is enlisted " 'enduring de wah." The distinguished Ohio states man probably means that he intends to take his circus on the road next year. I Whencrness of the Attack. Baltimore American. Attacks on co-education frequently em anate from those who fear that women will prove more than a match for men In the struggle for learning. Snaplcloata Visit. Buffalo Express. Prime Minister Balfour ridicules the Idea that the visit of Emperor William to King Edward is anything but a friendly call. Yet In this wicked and prying world no man can go to see his uncle without ex citing suspicion. 1 - Justice Does a Good Job. Philadelphia Record. . Tbe magistrate who Imposed a fine of $50 on a coal dealer for selling coal by short weight, and further bound blm over for trial on a charge of false pretense, will receive commendation from the average housekeeper. To pay a fancy price for coal, wben it can be had, is hard enough; to get less coal than is paid for is too much for endurance. The lightweight coal dealer Is an obnoxious person at all times, but Just now he is an object of particular execration. The Church-Going; Habit. Burlington Hawkeye. Too many people go to church merely to hear a good sermon or fine muslo or to seo people and be seen. And so when there is likelihood of an Indifferent sermon or poor music or a storm prevails or other ad ventitious conditions obtain they stay away. The church-going habit ia one to be culti vated, the same as the habit of attending to one's business or dally duties regard less of weather or anything else. Once acquired, , the church-going habit goes quietly on moulding character and deter mining destiny. FREK LIBRARY MOVEMENT. Advantages that it Spreads Before Even the Humblest Reader. flail Catne in the Independent. In opening a free library the doors are flung ajar of a great treasure house where the peculiarity ia this: That every man may take, and yet none will find any less. Think what la being added to the wealth of the community the thought, the poetry, the science, the romance of nearly all the ages. It Is being gathered up and put into one room, and no man can be so poor that he may not be owner of it all. If a person happen to step into one of tbe great free libraries in the poorer districts of London or Liverpool, or of any great city, he must have been touched by the thought that such places are the great comfort houses of the poor man and poor woman. In winter, when the day is cold and chill, there they are who would otherwise be in the streeta, without work and sometimes without food. But for a little while they are able to forget their hard necessities and to remember their other troubles no more. What if they are all, or nearly all, read ing novels? The novelists are the magi cians wafting them, as on wings out of their anxieties and sorrows. Some of them are away with Walter Scott among the hills of Scotland, and some of them are with Thackeray on tbe field of Waterloo, and aome of them are with Dickens, tramping the country lanea by the aide of the grand father and Little Nell. Some of them are rolling with laughter and aome are choking with sobs; but all of them are carried out of themselves and out of their pitiful cir cumstances. And it Is only their poor, pinched bodies that sit there. In their mean and meager garments. Isn't this a wonderful thing to do? Tou may be rich, but you cannot do it with money; you may stand In high places, but you cannot do It with power. You have done it with books, and books are the great est force now existing la the world. Judged by It effect on man and on time, a great book ia a far greater event than a great battle; and there la no book so poor but It has taken generations of men to write it. A race baa never been great without hav ing great books. Sometimes the books have remained wben tbe race bas disappeared. The highest Inheritance of our own race, the Anglo-Saxon race, ta the Inheritance of a great and glorioua literature. And this ia tbe birthright of every apprentice boy ho speaks and reads bis mother tongue. BLASTS FROM RAM'S HOR.1. Heavenly manna is better than earthly mmmon. Foes without are less to be feared than faults within. Old truths are too great s price to pay for new doubt. The temperature of tbe heart cannot be gaged by the head. The star of faith will shine long after the comet of fame has disappeared. The first thing some people do when troubles fly Into their Uvea la to clip their wings. Almost every fool thinks that be Is bright enough to throw dust in the eyes of the Divine. Happiness depends not on the things the heart has but on the heart that has the things. Some people make a great show of flee lng from the roaring Hon that men may not see the secret serpents they carry In their pockets. Talk about "looking for opportuntlea of doing good!" We may as well talk about looking for fire-wood In forest or for water during flood. The world is full of such opportunities. PERSONAL ASD OTHERWISE. St. Louis and Chicago are getting to gether. Six hours trains are tromotlnr a brotherly feeling. Chicago has changed the name of Fake street to Clover avenue. The new title has a more dignified sound and comports witn the prosperity of tbe residents. A large bunch of democrats are enfffteprl In the annual exercises of throwing har poons Into defeated leaders. It Is s shock ing ex mnmon or disrespect for the dead. It Is settled In advance of the show' that the midway at St. Louis will be a society affair, pure in spirit and elevating In tone. Wher" ,e exhibits are to come from to mako the prayer meeting a success is not known, and will not be until the box office gets busy. An ordinance Drohlhltlne the tmninvm.ni of barmaids In Hoboken has been sus tained by the courts of Jersev. tho trusts the barmaids of Hoboken have Deen tne wonder of Jersey. Their panning from the scene leaves the rmti nf v... hawken without a rival as a rustic spec tacle. A comic opera singer rlv tho public a comic variation of the last Jew elry racket. She blushingly admits hav ing swallowed her watch, while asleep. Free advertising is in rockr straits whon a woman suggests a guessing contest on B'e ot ner moutn as a prelude to tick lish sensation. . Governor-elect fialler of Ka all the pity that can be shipped to him by mail or otherwise. He la ha.ii-. i "-".-.'. 'Ul . iu K moment of thoughtlessness preceding his nomination ne agreed If elected governor not 'only to marry, but to select a Kansas woman for a bride. The awakening on the morning of the day after finds him In distressful state of mind because tho a.n. able matrimonial material In Kansas does not approach his standard of feminine loveliness. Duty commands, but his heart rebels. What renders the situation one -of acute distress Is the ideal helpmeets to be had In Nebraska.. When tbe happiness of a lifetime is at stake the governor-elect would be justified in tying a can to pledget and raiding his northern neighbor. IDEALS OF BROTHERHOOD. President Roosevelt Emphasises One of the Needs of the Times. Kansas City Star. The addresa of President Roosevelt on "Brotherhood" at Philadelphia was appro prlate and timely. It came with especial force from Mr. Roosevelt just after his im pressive demonstration ot his belief in the principle by his Interference to end the suf fering resulting from the coal' strike. It was opportune in following that prolonged struggle in which the Ideal of brotherhood bad been ignored with lamentable results. Put as that struggle was one of tbe symp toms of the times, the address was of more than temporary significance. The president did not exaggerate when he said that the great Industrial and social problems of to day could not be solved without the apply ing of "the lesson of brotherhood." Few persons seem to realize what a critical period In American history tbe next few years will be. When plenty of land was accessible and opportunities were ap proximately equal the country got on well with a crude code of social ethlca that en couraged each man to care supremely for bla own interests without much regard to tboso of bis neighbors. But the aoclal life baa become too complex, opportunities too restricted and chances too unequal for the old code to be successful. The manager of a' big corporation who manipulates Its atock In his own interest may find himself justi fied by former standards, but he Is a dangerous person to the modern commun ity. The obsolete code must give way to one founded on the idea of brotherhood if tbe new order is to last. Legislation can do something to remedy the abusea that arise with the development of material civilization. But so long as laws do not register the wishes of sincere public sentiment they will be evaded and fall of their purpose. Prohibitory legisla tion Is Ineffective where the people want liquor. Laws against some form of In dustrial oppression can accomplish little unleas the majority of business men dis countenance the evil. ' The only certain remedy for the injustices that are develop ing in the Industrial order lies in the spirit of brotherhood. , Upon the spresd of this Ideal depends the stability of tbe whole system. Tbe period is critical, too, on the side of individual as well ss public ethlos. There was a time when the threat of excommuni cation from the church was a powerful weapon to enforce a 'certain standard ot conduct. Belief in a future system of re wards snd punishments bas continued to the present day to exert s strong Influence for morality. But this belief Is weakening, and fear aa a motive for right conduct is becoming , ineffective. Unless the ides of brotherhood can take lta place the break ing down of the' old sancttona will lead to moral anarchy. The great religious teach ers have recognized the importance of this Ideal. Christianity Is founded upon It. Its absence from the Greek and Roman sys tems led to tbe deterioration, ot those civilizations and left them sn easy prey to the barbarians. History bas proved tbe profound -wisdom of tbe Injunction to love thy neighbor aa thyself by showing that the ideal of brotherhood among the citi zens Is essential to- nation's self preserva tion. In emphasizing "the lesson of brother hood" President Roosevelt showed bis ap preciation of the great need of tbe times. His address was Inspired, not by emotion, but by good, bard sense. The pressing problems of today are to' be solved only through the spread of the brotherhood ideal. ECONOMY VS. EXTRAVAGANCE. On the word of one of the wisest philosophers of ths sge you may set It down as a truth that a man can better afford the most economical ot extravagances than tbe most eztravagast of economies. It's eztravagaat economy to wear yojr old glasses If they srs not exactly suited to you. Ws can show you whether they are snd it won't cost you snytblng to know. J. C. HITESOS CO.; 1S tk ISIS. St., Pastes Blofk . SEt lLAR SHOTS AT TIIE ri I.IMT. Chicago rost: A New York IorKymn Informed his parishioners that William Waldorf Astor Is s fool. Thus is the to heaven effectively pointed out. Brooklyn Eagle: There appears to b only one way In which to treat tho Doiik. hobora and that Is not to treat them st nil. Let them walk the frenzy out and lit them go hungry till they have an appetho for wholesome victuals. You can't inter fere with religious enthusiasm. If people want to be martyrs let 'em snd they'll got over It. Chicago Chronicle: The excess of Moth odlet emotion of which President KHot complains has been a genuine Godsend to America. It penetrated the western wil.ls and with Its religion led the way for com merce aa well aa a higher civilization, of all religious emotion none ever took a more definite and practical shape than the fervor of tbe Methodists. It meant butl nees every time and America is richer, wiser, more humane and more religious as a result of It. Baltimore American: A New Jersey min ister has Just declared popular govern ment to be a hoax. It Is eay to make such statements, but they are aa mis chievous aa they are untrue. Men occupy ing positions of authority and responsi bility should be more careful than to help spread a spirit ot contempt and pessimism toward government. Popular government may not be Ideal, but It it what tho people have selected aa best for themselves, snd If it were a hoax It could not have ac complished the results which have made this the freest and tnoBt proaperous of the world's nations. And it Is very certain that any ttate of affairs needing reform Is not going to be mended by misstatements of s misplaced cynicism. Washington Post: While the commercial idea Is absent from the tcbemet of the churches and their auxiliaries the work which they perform is commercially profit able. It adds to the value of real estate by increasing the security ot person and property and by reducing taxation. It in creases tbe turn total and the quality of manual and mental work by promoting so briety and general morality. It it doubt ful if any investments are In the long run more profitable than the millions expended for churches and schools. While the profit may not come directly back to tho con tributor, it comes to the community and Is pretty equally divided. Each successive generation draws a dividend from tbe re ligious and educational investments of its predecessors. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Detroit Free Press: Sidney Have you any marked ability of any kind? Kodney Well, I've kept a lot of widows from marrying me. Philadelphia Press: He No matter how plain a woman may be If nhe has pretty teeth and hair she s bound to attract some attention. Phe Yes, they may be said to be a woman's best friends. lie That's eo; for, they say, tbe best of friends fall out. 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