Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, December 20, 1902, Page 6, Image 6
THE OMAHA DAILY J1EE: BATUItDAV, DECEMBER 20, 1002. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROBEWATEH, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally lire (wlthou. uny), One Year,.I 00 lolly liff and Sunday, Una Tear 6'JW Illustrated lie', One Year S-'JO Hunday Hee, One Tear I W Paturjay lire, One Year 1 Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER, Pally lies (without Hunday), per ropy.... 2o Dally Hee (without Sunday), per week.. ..12c Dally liee (Including Sunday), per week..l?o Hunday Bee, per copy io Evening iiee (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Bee (including Sunday), per week 100 Complaint of Irregularities In delivery hould be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICER. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha ity Hail Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs-10 Pearl Ftreet. Chicago lfrW Unity Building. New York 2.rt Park Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Oeorge B. Tiechuck. secretary of Ths Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that tho actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evei.lng and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of November, Uu2, was a follows: 1 81.4T0 1 28,435 I SMMftO 17 SU.tHKI 1 81.000 11 80.870 4 81.SOO II 8O.940 t 41.0NS 20 80.H60 ( 84.BSO 21 80.H.10 7 81.210 It 81.410 1 80.S40 23 M.810 ...8,B7S 24 80.920 10 81.300 24 81.0W 11 80.0TO 24 81 .OOO 12 30.TOO 27 80.T80 13 80.820 28 81.130 14 80.T3O 2 81.480 la v...... .81,310 . 20 '. S8.478 Total .932.910 Lasa unsold and returned copies.... 9,237 Net total sales 022.W78 Net average sales 30,700 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and eworn to before ma this 30lh day of November, A. D. 1K02. M. B. HUSOATE, (Seal) Notary Public. Just now the market makes the price of eggs look like 30 cents. About the only thing necessary to reciprocity with Canada Is to hare Can ada reciprocate somewhat. The cattle kings have locked horns with the "bronco buster" and found him altogether too many for them. One thing Is certain: Bowen could run tho Venezuelan government better than any one who has held the Job for a long time. On second shuffle, Venezuela sees so many hands dealt out that It is seri ously considering cashing In and stop ping the play. As long as Admiral Dewey is doing business no one In this country will lose any sleep through fear some other navy may outmatch ours. The weather man appears to be unde cided whether to let Banta Claus use an automobile or compel him to go his old gait with sleigh and reindeer. The ship laying the Pacific cable Is making slow progress, but the time will be quickly-made up when the cable is once laid and In working order. The auditorium board has been reor ganized. Now let the board reorganize its plan of campaign on lines that will assure the completion of the structure during the coming year. Guatemala may be the next victim of European attack, as the losses of Ger man Investors alone from the recent volcanic eruption in that country are estimated at $(1,250,000. Many of the alleged witticisms now credited to the late Thomas B. Reed are enough to make that statesman turn over in his grave. It is too bad he ia not living to protect his reputation. From their Interviews on prospective legislation affecting Omaha members elect of the Douglas delegation to the legislature must be having a strenuous time of It making tip their minds what they want to do. There is all the difference In the world between those who are for reciprocity because they are for protection and those who are for reciprocity because they ere against protection a differ ence, however, which many Intelligent people have not sufficiently noted. With the railroads In the corn belt unable to supply the cars necessary to haul the grain offered for shipment, the car famine Is on for these roads at the same time as the car famine for the coal-carrying roads. One car famine at time has usually sufficed for us. If Omaha is to take a spurt ahead of Its commercial competitors It must do something that will give It a distinct ad vantage In attracting new capital and population. Cheap power as the basis of manufacturing industry would do this most effectually. It la Intimated from Washington that bo new , appointment to the position of United. States district attorney will be made until the two Nebraska senators agre upon a man. If so, the present Incumbent will be strongly la favor of a perpetual deadlock. Real estate never escapes the asses sor's eye. Real estate therefore must be tho beneficiary of any achievement In the direction of tax reform that enlarges the assessment roll by including prop, rty previously overlooked or only par tially assessed. Real estate men should mark this point down. Oovernor-etect Mickey Is making personal Inspection of all the state Instl tntlons with a view to familiarizing him self with their conditions and needs so he may act Intelligently when, the time comes for him to exercise executive su ttaortty over them. This has a decidedly business flavor that foreshadows wtU, A BATTLE. OF TRUSTS. The Berlin correspondent of one of the lending commercial Journals of this country writes that silent but power fully organized forces, including .a combination of the loading German kartells, are at work to check the Amer ican Invasion. Continued industrial de pression in Germany and the Inroads of American Imports have forced the large manufacturing and trade Interests to drop petty differences In order to pre sent a solid resistance to the latest forms of the so-called American peril. It Is stated that slowly but surely the American combines have been forced from an aggressive Into a defensive po sition. Hitherto, says the correspond ent, the resistance to American rivalry was spasmodic and disjointed, but now representative and leading German kartells, controlling all branches of In dustry and trade, hove united upon a co operative program to eject foreign com petitors. To this movement It Is said the gov ernment has Indirectly given Its sup port, the home secretary being now en gaged In gathering all available data In regard to American trusts and combines for the purpose of showing the connec tion between the branch organizations operating In Germany and the parent combines. This applies especially to the Standard Oil, the cotton monopoly, the American tobacco, the Chicago meat combine and the International Steam ship combination. While this official nqulry Is In progress there Is going on an active discussion among the Inter ests concerned of the question of ways and means for meeting the American competition. Thus it appears that the German trusts have seriously entered upon a stnipple ajralnst the competition n the markets of Germany of some of the more formidable of the American combinations and the indications are that the fight is to be most earnestly and vigorously waged. It seems Inevitable that this move ment must result In materially reduc ing our trade with Germany and In con nection with the exclusion of our meats under the operation of the new tariff law will effect an impairment of our German commerce that will be serious. For some years the trade with Ger many has been very largely In favor of this country, but the heavy balances of past years are not likely to be repeated If the proposed policy of Germany is carried out and adhered to. So far as the organization of the German kartells to resist American competition is con cerned, that is a matter for the Amer ican combinations to wrestle with, but In regard to the new tariff our govern ment should consider what may be done to relieve our commerce of the restric tions which that tariff Imposes. It Is understood to leave a way open by which its terms can be modified through a commercial treaty and if such is the case It would seem to be the wise course to consider whether a satisfactory treaty can be negotiated. It is certainly moM desirable to maintain our large and profitable trade with Germany and we should seek to do this by all proper means. THE PKRKSNIAL SlAL TROUBLE. A reopening of the seal question with Great Britain Is promised, the secre tary of the treasury having asked the Department of State to take the steps necessary to again place the matter be fore the British authorities. It la stated to be the belief of Secretary Shaw that American citizens are being unjustly discriminated against as a result of the enforcement of the Farla award and the agreements with England that grow out of the decisions handed down by that tribunal. That award prohibited sub jects of Great Britain and citizens of the United States from killing seals within a prescribed limit ground the Pribllov Islands, but this limitation does not apply to the ships of ether nations and Japanese and others are killing seals in waters that cannot be lawfully invaded by American and British seal ers. The seal question was for years a soiree of controversy and irritation be tween the governments of the United Ktatts and Great Britain, but It was thought to have been finally disposed of. by ths Paris award and the treaty which followed It It now reappears, with the promise of adding another vol uiro of diplomatic correspondence on the subject. There Is pending in con gress a bill providing for the removal of all restrictions which now protect the seals of the Bering sea, some of those who see only Injustice to Americans In the present method of regulating tho catch holding that the only Doper olu- tlon of the question Is to utterly ex terminate the seal, which wonld be ac complished In a brief time f t!ie patrol of Bering sea by revenue cutters should be abandoned and the field left open to all. A RKQRETABLB LIMITATION. The New York Journal of Commerce remarks that while the anthracite coal strike commission is fully 1u stifled In confining Its Investigation to the mat ters In controversy between the mine workers and the operators, it Is to be regretted that a furl exposition cannot be made of the connection between the railroads and" the mine owners and the bearing which the rate of freight charged has on the general conditions of the Industry.' The claim that a mo nopoly exists In the anthracite Industry seems to be fully justified by the facts of the ownership by certain railroads of extensive mining properties in the an thraclte field, the community of director ship between the railroads and mining companies, the' Joint' resistance of the coal-carrying roadV to the building of an Independent railroad by the lndl vldual operators, the community of In terests between the railroads and their mining companies and the constant ac qulsltton of new property In the coal fields by tho railroads. Certainly all this furnishes pretty coa elusive evidence of monopoly and while It Is not a matter within the scope of the commission's investigation, there are other ways of grttting at an exposition of tho connection between the railroads anil the mine owners. It would seem that the federal anti trust law could !o Invoked and perhaps an Inquiry In re gard to rates charged for carrying an thracite conl. In which discrimination gainst the independent operators litif been alleged, would be an order. That some action will sooner or later be taken In regard to the antlirnclte mo nopoly ought to be an entirely safe prediction. WHAT IS THtj MIS E WOHKKWS XVAHK1 The point In the cool strike Invotlga tlon that the public would like to under stand Is precisely the one on which the testlmoav, so far as published. Is not clear what are the actual averages of wages paid to the various classes of working men employed In the mines? Tho core of the dispute Is the standard of wages, the employers Insisting that the wages are reasonable and the union employes that they are too low. It Is singular that after such a mass of tes timony has accumulated the general public at least has no definite notion of what the wages really are. It Is true that some scores of wit nesses on behalf of the union have tes tified what pay they, each for himself, have received. But there are 140.000 mine-workers and the experience of a handful does not establish the average of all. and there is suggestion that even that hnndful may be largely made up of extreme cases. On the other hand, the pay rolls of some of the proprietary companies have been Introduced, but it has been demonstrated that they are wholly misleading, as the pay standing In the name of one employe constitutes In fact the wages divided among sev eral. While from the general tenor of the testimony and from many circumstances known Independently of It, the public has the Impression that the average wage of mine workers Is Inadequate, it Is impossible to get a precise idea of how much more pay should be added 4o make It adequate. The mine-work ers are now employed at identically the same rates that have heretofore ruled, and it ought to be possible to show the result at once concisely and clearly to general public comprehension. And If the actual pay for the chief classes of workers In the mines, If not of the whole anthracite region at least of some of Its divisions, were definitely known, It would go far to clear up the situation. ORGAS1ZS A TAX REFURId CAMPAIQX, The Nebraska Real Estate association has, after full discussion, decided to take an active Interest in tax reform. The first step in this direction has been the nppolntment of a legislative committee that Is expected to formulate . amend ments to revenue laws wherever they are defective and suggest new legisla tion- tfeemed Imperative for a-more equit able and Just distribution of the tat burdens. ' This action on the part of the Real Estate association should commend Itself to all classes of citizens Interested in tax reform, but we fear it does not go far enough. The appointment of a legislative committee from among its membership is a step in the right di rection, but that step must be supple mented by an educational campaign that will arouse public sentiment that will Impress Itself upon the coming leg islature. . The most effective method for focaliz ing public sentiment upon any Issue Is through local organization and the dis cussion of the tax question in every town, village and school district of the state. Legislation recommended and urged by the Real Estate association through Its legislative committee would, doubtless, have some weight with the coming legislature, but resolutions passed In public meetings in every town and village and petitions signed by a majority of the tax-paying farmers and merchants of the state would have much greater weight. Tax reforrq through revenue law re vision Is not likely to be secured without a great struggle with the giant corpora tions' that have for years evaded their Just burdens of taxation. These corpo rations will be represented In the lobby by professional lobbyists and the ablest lawyers money can command. They will, moreover, exert a pernicious Influ ence through favored shlpperswnd allied Interests that often control legislation to the detriment of the general public. To overcome these potential forces it will require direct pressure from the great mass of voters upon their repre sentatives. The campaign for tax re form must be fought and won In the open arena and popular sentiment must make Itself felt through non-partisan or ganizations of taxpayers. One of the subjects of discussion be fore the Nebraska Real Estate associa tion was "How to Advertise Nebraska." The best way to advertise the state Is to let the state advertise Itself by honest. economic self-government and low taxes. The next best way to advertise the state Is by a liberal support of Nebraska news papers. The greatness of a state and the character of Its population Is Im pressed upon the outside world by the quality of Its press. If the newspapers of a state are liberally encouraged and supported by its people they will be able to rise to a higher plane. If they are stunted and starved for lack of patron age they Indicate decadence Instead of progress and repel Immigration and ia vestment Instead of attracting It. - The measure proposed by Member Ha inan .of the school board to reduce the rate of Interest on school warrants de serves the consideration of the legisla ture. There is do question but what In terrst rates have fallen materially In the last few years and no good reason why the taxpayers, should not have, the ben efit of lower Interest rates when they float Interest-lxaring warrants. The warrant brokers will doubtless enter Vigorous protest, bot the public Is under no obligations to Insure them a profitable business at the expense of the public treasury. Official Crop reports for Nebraska would be a good thing for the state, t'p jo the present the nearest to an official crop report we have had Is that compiled by The Bee through Its corps of correspondents, but the compilation of these statistics should be at the pub lic expense, because all the advantage accrues to the taxpayers and citizens, In this respect-Nebraska Is behind sev eral of Its neighboring states. The new owners of the consolidated Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway eomnnny seen! to have carefully post poned the final steps of reorganization until after the assessment for the city tax levy had been made up. Never mind, the street railroad will still le hero bcxt year when the assessor makes his round. Most of the tariff Jack-the-RIppers, arter having scanned the political sky and duly perused the Congressional Record, have concluded to commit no depredations till the next congress meets. In the Interval they can at least cherish the hope that times will not be so good then. Hot Looking; 4or Trouble, feat y Bt Louis Globe-Democrat. Admiral Dewey's coat tall is quite long and It Is trailing right under the bows of some of those European battleships. Better not run afoul of it. Doing- Quite Well, Thank: Tan. Washington Post. The executive head of New York's new $10,000,000 financial Institution started la as a messenger. The boy Absalom Continues to do very well, Mr. Bryan. Promoting National Gaiety. Baltimore American. Italy's "Me, too," attitude In the Anglo- German demonstration makes the declara tion of one of her deputies that the Monroe doctrine has been knocked iky high tunny enough for a comic almanac. Cause of the Foreign Rash. Ban Francisco Chronicle. The conclusion of the British labor union committee now Investigating Industrial con ditions in this country that the working man in America is 25 per cent better off than he is in Britain Is doubtless correct. At any rate ths immigration statistics con firm It. First Catch Your Hare. Indianapolis Journal. Senator Morgan of Alabama has a plan for colonizing the negroes of the United States In the Philippine. Now who will devise a plan to Induce the negroes to go? They cannot be jtixported without, their con sent. It's a case of first catch your hare, Mr. Morgan. Good Thins: for Shareholders. Springfield Republican. The Standard; DU company has increased the prloe of Ua product to jobbers by 84 cents a galloaHntle the beginning of the coal strike. Iaei.eeat: of this advance is Just being announced to the trade. At the same time th3 Company declares a divi dend ft 10 prJenwThls follows a dis tribution of S ,ner xent in September of 10 per; cent In JUJis-'and of 20 per cent la March of this. iyar making a total dis tribution of 45 .per cent for 1902. Capital in the competitive markets has to be con tent with 8 to t per cent. Is the Standard OU company, then, a good trust or a bad one? A Bomb In the Baron's Camp. Chicago Chronicle. It Judge Gray's declaration the other day ia to be taken as foreshadowing the re port of the coal strike commission Brother Baer will have further occasion tor lamen tation and protest. Mr. Oray said plainly and unreservedly that any employer who cannot afford to pay his workmen living wages ought to go out of business. Of course everyone knows that the coal barons can pay such wages if they want to do so, but they have maintained steadily that they cannot. "Hence there will be much indigna tion in the baronial camp if tha commission finds in accordance with ths facts, as it seems likely to do. Scarcity of Naval Officers. Philadelphia Record. It is apparent that our new war vessels cannot be properly officered or manned without greater inducement than now exists. Young men cannot fit themselves for a sea faring life without the sacrifice, of larger opportunity of getting, on in the world in other pursuits. $ Battleships and cruisers are the costliest toys or war. The nation cannot afford to Intrust to the management of inexperienced men or epaulated block heads the. great international argument which finds final expression in the thunder of their guns. There is talent enough in the country to keep ths flag high advanced on sea .as well as on land, but, especially in time of peace, only adequate pay will serve to secure adequate result. roar Ont tho Tea. Philadelphia Press. The abolition of tha duty of 10 cents a pound on tea, which takes effect on Jan uary 1, has led tea importers Into a serious blunder. They have been storing up tea in bonded warehouses expecting it to be free from duty on January 1. There are 65,000.000 pounds now in storage, hut tha merchants have lust discovered that the law does not provide for the free entrance of any tea imported before tha new act takes effect. The treasury officials seem to have been misled la the matter and Secretary Shaw has now asked congress to pass an act to relieve this 65,000,000 pounds of tea from duty. If that is not done the Import ers, who could have sold a large quantity of it before January 1, had they not been misled, wljl suffer a great loss because of their error. . . Poor Showlaar of Traffic Manager. Kansas City Star. In the hearing before tha Interstate Commerce commission with reference to showing why the railroads should maintain tha advances recently made In freight rates, Mr. G rammer, traffic manager of the Lake Shore road, said that the net earnings had not been sustaining rhelr accustomed relations to the gross earnings. Mr. Cram mer admitted, however, that while it costs only about 1260 tha expense of operation, wagea, fuel, oil and waste taken into con sideration to run a train of fifty car loads of grain from Chicago to Buffalo, he reve nues of such a transaction are $3,600. If this is a representative exposition of the "relation" between gross and net earning no wonder the stocks of the big railroads hava gone skyward. The railroads are commanded to file with the commission by January 10 written ttatementa setting forth tha reasons they rely on to justify their advances. Unless they can do better than Mr. O rammer they will make a poor show ing Indeed, OTHER LASDS TH1V Ol RS. Tha method of votlflg in the British Par liament is cumbersome to the r xtreme. It Is different from that of any legislative body In this country. When a division is called for and a vote is ordered, the mem bers rise solemnly from their seats, and In stead of remaining standing until counted. either for or against a motion, they file out Into the lobby, where they range themselves on one side or the other and are counted by the "whips" of the oppos ing parties appointed for that purprse. Then the members walk back to their seats and the vote la announced by the "whips"' and repeated by the speaker, who declares the motion carried or lost, as the case may be. Thus, on the educational bill, which has been before Parliament since June 3, a legislative sharp estimates that fifty hours have been wasted in walking to and from the lobbies. There have been in all 246 divisions, and It la found that each one of them consumes twelve minutes. A work ing week In Parliament provides for four and a half hours In the afternoon and three hours In the evening for debate on Mon day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and seven hours on Friday, or thirty-seven hours altogether. Hence a solid week and a third has been expended in mere pedes trlanlsm. At no time have the opponents Of the bill found the government napping, and the average majorities have been maintained at over 100. Egypt has an area of 400,000 square miles, but only about 13,000 square miles of fertile land. The Egypt of history and of today has been compared In shape to a long-stemmed water illy laid flat on the sand, with a single leaf in the Fayura oasis and a bud at the Nile delta. The country that in all ages haa been called the granary of the world haa been Just a strip of land a few miles wide along either bank of the Nile. Assuan adds another leaf to the lily plant, and a mighty one. It In creases the area of habitable Esypt more than 20 per cent. No other engineering work of modern times, achieved so quickly and at so moderate a cost, promises so much. The British pique themselves at times on the resemblance of the mission they have undertaken in the world to the mission accomplished by the Romans. One Is reminded in ths presence of their dam on the Nile of the ancient people whose great military roads through Europe are used to this day. Signer Glolottt, the Italian minister of the interior. Is the political sponsor of a bill, sow before Parliament, which pro vides for a wholesale municipalization of different trades and occupations. It even directs that the municipal authorities shall take charge of tha bakeries in the event of there being any rise in ths cost of bread. All forms of locomotion and of transport are to be In the bands of the municipality, and even funerals are to be under the direction of the local authori ties. The Popolo Romano and other news papers are pointing out that the govern ment will make a great mistake If it thinks that enterprises of this kind will prove as profitable under public as under private management, and the proposed sys tem of the compenaatlon of private owners Is also criticised sharply. Tradesmen com panies, and others who businesses are to be absorbed, are to receive the value of their plant, and an additional amount for loss or profit, to be calculated upon the av erage receipts In five years. It Is pointed out that such procedure would be mani festly unjust to newly established enter prises, promising great future returns, hut run temporarily at a loss. In response to Lord Mllner's appeal for women emigrants to South Africa, the South African expansion- committee has sent out in the last four months 500 girls from London, and this Is only 40 per cent of those who have applied. All candidates must be passed as physically fit, not only by a local, hut by a government doctor, the standard of bodily health being that which would entitle ths applicant to a first-class Ufa Insurance policy. When the form has been tilled up and the references as to character and capability have been examined and found to be perfectly satis factory, the would-be emigrant Is notified that she is accepted and is told the ship by which she is to sail, and her anxieties are at an end. Such girls as are selected from the country districts are collected in a house in London, whence they are dis patched, generally In good Spirits, for the cape. The fare for them is $60. the re mainder being paid by tha committee, and, when necessary, this $60 Is also advanced. The girls go to take positions as servants, nurses and governesses, and, of courne, with the idea of getting married, It pos sible, though no matrimonial arrangements are made for them in London. Tha first great attraction to all of them Is higher wages. House servants get from $15 to $20 a month and nursery governesses are also in demand; but typewriters and "lady clerks" are strongly advised not to go out at present. The distress among ths poor of London, on account of the high prices of pro visions, coal and clothing, and ths scarcity of work, is of a nature to alarm those of the authorities who give sincere thought to auch matters. A census that has been made of actual paupers, shows that the number receiving relief from ths county of London at the close of November was 108,157, or mors than ever before for that month, and not exceeded relatively to the' population sines 1857. Most of the work houses are full, and some of them are greatly overcrowded, their total population being 68.708, while 89,646 persons are re ceiving outdoor relief. The destitution Is scattered throughout the entire metropolis, even the district which Includes the ultra fashionable St. George's, Hanover Square, having 8,705 paupers to support. The fear is that tha situation will become much worse before it becomes better, and that the actual hardships of winter will be more bitter than at any time within re cent recollection. It Is an open secret here that negotia tions are pending between Rome, Brussels and Berlin for soma sort of agreement as to the supervision of anarchists. Downing street waa invited to participate, but de clined on ths ground that the measures contemplated might be an Infringement of personal rights. Within certain well-defined limits, however, England promised Its support to whatever might be agreed upon by Italy, Belgium and Oermany. Next to London, Brussels is the most flourishing hotbed of anarchistic propaganda, while Berlin la ever fearful that it may soon become the rival of both. Should an in ternational anti-anarchist treaty be the outcome of ths present negotiations th burden of activity would, of course, fall upon the Italian government, which, it Is expected, would, agree to prevent, as far as possible. Italian anarchists from emi grating, and would further cla.ee detectives at the disposition of the police authorities of Brussels and Berlin. Heroes of the Grab Stake. Baltimore American. The twelve young men on whom the De partment of Agriculture la to try its diet experiment are real heroes and genuine patrlota. A man may give his life, bis fortune and his sacred honor for his coun try and mean something, but when he sac- rlflces his stomach on the altar of patriot ism then his devotion Is the pure, una dulterated article. THE OLD Absolutely Puro THERE IG PJO SUBST3TUTE CABLE ACROSS THE PACIFIC. Speedy Completion Promised by the Promoters. Bt. Louis Olohe-Democrat. There Is a promise that the first section of the Pacific cable, that stretching from 8an Francisco to Honolulu, in Hawaii, will be completed by January 1. Irbs than three weeks hence. This Is what the men at tho head of the enterprise say. The rcmatmW of the cable, atarting from Hawaii and stretching to the Philippines, by way of the United States' Island of Guam, will, so It Is believed, be finished by the beginning of toext June. The entire length of the ca ble is figured at 10,000 nautical miles and when it Is completed there will be dlrert telegraphic, communication all around the world by that line and Its connections. It is promised that the entire circuit can be made In ten minutes. All this is pleasing news for the Ameri can people. There Is, of course, complete telegraphic communication all around the globe at the present time by way of tho new British cable from Canada, so far as regards the Pacific part of the circuit. The one from San Francisco, however, will be an American line and It will touch all our Important possessions In the Pacific north of the equator. There has long been a necessity for an American telegraph across the Pacific, which, of course, has been ren dered Imperative by the annexation of Hawaii and the Philippines. Nobody doubts that the new cable will add largely to the Influence of the Amer icans In the trade with Asia. At the pre sent time the United States is making more rapid gains In the commerce with China and most of the other countries of Asia than Is any other country. The new cable will add largely to our facilities for getting new trade. Moreover, it will be a great convenience and benefit for us In our deal ings with our own territory in the Pacific. There will not be anything like tha jubila tions in the United States In 1903 when ths Paclflo cable is finished that there were here when, in 1858, Cyrus W. Field's first Atlantio cable was completed, but there will be a celebration In San Francisco, nevertheless, which will attract the atten tion of the people of the whole country. POLITICAL, DRIFT. Opposition to the re-eleetlon of Senator Spooner in Wisconsin has practically dis appeared. Tammany is looking around for a candi date for mayor to run next spring. Con gressman McClellan Is the present favorite. The state of Missouri will soon be out of debt, so the authorities declare. But there are doubting Thomases In the state who lnsUt on being shown. The republicans will have ten more mem bers In the next house of representatives than In the last and the democrats and fu clonlsts nineteen more. There are twenty nine additional members. .. David Bennett Hill Isn't saying a word, but his hand ia on the lever. To save his party needless mental exertion he has pro vided a candidate for senator to receive the votes of the minority in the legislature. There is nothing in it, so Hill Is not the man. W. W. Brlnkley, treasurer of the Chau tauqua association of Carthage, Mo., rushes into print to deny the story that W. J. Bryan received $2,300 for a lecture before ths association in 1897. Mr. Brlnkley says Mr. Bryan's tip waa $1,006, Just one-half ths gate receipts. By the death the other day of former Captain of Police John Fichette of Minne apolis tha chief witness against ex-Mayor Amea, who Is under Indictment for corrup tion In office, haa been removed. It being doubtful if a conviction could now be ob tained, the district attorney contemplates a dismissal of the case against the ex-mayor. In 1901 tha vote of Boston on the question of licensing saloons was: Yea, 43,734; no. 27,193. This year the district option bill was submitted to popular approval, but was defeated. The vote was 35,681 for the meas ure and 46,039 against. The bill waa de signed to divide Boston into several license Our Windows Show about everything that is new and fashionable for the men. You will look a long way before you see a finer dis play of useful and dainty wearables. If you have not thought of the men folks we suggest you walk around our store windows and nee for yourself how beautiful are the many elegant gifts there in House Coats, Robes, Pajamas, Rain Coats, Umbrellas, Neckwear, Mufflers, Hand Bags, Gloves. NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. grovninf-J--(2 R S. WILCOX, Manager. J rjmDlEiMlElIinilllXMMJM BjsaejsjaawjBji RELIABLE districts and to allow each to vote sepa rately on the question of license or no license. An attempt to rush a corporation law modeled after the New Jersey act through the Rhode Island legislature was exposed by the newspapers, and thereby probably defeated. The proposed law was much looser In the restrictions Imposed on com- panics seeking charters, and was Intended i to lure all sorts of corporations to the stats crecy was maintained about the bill, copies of which could bo obtained only with much difficulty. The republicans of Missouri polled 814.004) votes at the 1900 election almost the same vote cast by the republicans of Michigan in the same contest. But while the republic ans of Missouri have only two representa tives In the next congress the republicans of Michigan will have eleven, a dispropor tion explained by the fact that there was a large partisan apportionment of Missouri districts by the legislature, whereas the ap portlonment of the Michigan districts was made on sn equitable basis, giving both parties a fair chance of success. The congressional representation of the far .west is protty solidly republican this year: From tho three Pacific states, Cali fornia, Oregon and Washington, there are 10 republicans and 3 democrats; from ths mining and mountain group of states, Mon tana. Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, South Da kota, Nevada and North Dakota, there are 9 republicans and 2 democrats, and Kansas and Nebraska close collectively 13 republic ans and 1 democrat. From the wholo terri tory west of Mississippi, therefore, there are 32 republicans and 6 democrats only. This does not include Minnesota, in which the republicans elected 8 members and tha democrats 1, John Ltnd. POINTED H K I" LECTIO X. Washington fitnr: "Poms men," shM Uncle Khen, "tnkrs n he:ip o' credit f U beln' patient, when (ley's only Js' dila tory." Cleveland TMaln Dealer) , "Yes. he ways announces hlniftlf as a patron of nr! . "In .wont wny?" ..-v .V. ,V "lie manufactures pictures cord." Baltimore Sun: "She's awfully nld-frmh-ioneil! She believes in long eistsne mcnts." "Worse than that, aha belleveB In long marrluses." Philadelphia Tress: "I hnd great luck coming home in the troltey ear Inst night. "You didn't really get a Beat?" "Oh! my, no! but 1 hnd a half Interest in a strap nearly all the way." Romervllle Journal: This Is the senson when a man looks at the fSiwnslVe fringed hammock that he ivigtit last summer ami feels Inclined to wlBn that he had saved his money to get Bomo. mora winter flan nels with. f New York Times: kthe.1 Mr. Jones hns asked me to go to tha theater with him tomorrow night. Helen Thut's strange. He asked me also. Ethel Yes. I told him 1 wouldn't go without chaperon. Boston Transcript: Kate Fred says I'm the one. woman In all the world for him. Harriet He thinks so much of you, I Bhould think you'd marry him. Kate And nave aome other woman be the only one In all the world? Not muoh; I know when I'm well off. Chicago Post: "They say that a man can't tell a lie with his hands open." "Yes, and I have evidence of it." "What?" "You clenched your fist when you called me a scoundrel the other day." OPPORTUNITIES. Christmas joy and Christmas ohear Come to us but once a year. And our years are few. But a cherished memory To be gained, unselfishly, Lasts tha whole year through. Shepherds left their flocks at night. Waited not for morning's light. Trusted to the Star; Through the darkness wa may find, Searching with a single mind. Where tha helpless are. Wise men from their richest store Hrought gifts to the lowly door Where the Child waa laid; We may lift up feeble hands; There are wand ring In all lands Souls from heaven strayed. Wlnside. Neb. BELLE WILLET QUE.