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4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: M ON PAT, MARCH 2, 1903. 'Hie umaiia Daily Bee E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Hoe (without Sunday), One Year.. 14. en IaJiy He nd Sumlny, One Year " Illustrated tier, One Vear ; Sunday Wee. One Year J Saturday Bee. One Year J-nJJ Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. 2e Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week.. 12c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .17c Sunday Bee, per copy oc Evening lie (without Sunday), per week fc Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week lOc Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment, OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South, Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street Chicago ltMO Unity Building. New Tork-2!S Park Row Building. Washington Wl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only a-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEH PUBL1SHINO COMPANY. -r- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stats of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tsschuck, secretary of Ths Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of Ttje Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during ths month of February, 1902, was as follows: , , 1 SO.IBO 15 8,22 2 ao,sao it...;..... bxjizo 3 ".SO,!W 17 Bl.BsO 4 ao.ew 18 81,4fK 6 80.400 1 ....S1,40 6 80.BTO 20 .,.81,810 7 80,600 21 81,070 8 rt,lMIO 22..... 20,21)3 9 80,10 28 81,980 10 i 80.BOO 24. 81,800 11 80,60 25 81,600 1J 80,040 t 31,020 13 80,040 27 .'..81,806 14 30,070 28 81.T80 Total 808,483 Less unsold and returned copies.... B.304 Net total salts . 844,008 Net average sales ; 80,140 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to befora me this 28th day of February, A. D. 1903. M, B. HUNOATE. (Seal.) Notary i-uoiio. If municipal home rale Is good for Denver, why not also for Omaha?. Now to Btop guessing about the Audi torium and to get down to business. When last beard from Senator Mor gan still had the floor, with no signs of running short of wind. Ills late aecldency, Ezra P. Savage, Is reconnolterlng vacant livery barns In Tacoma for a permanent location. There are a good many things the lrg lslature ought to do. There are a'.to a good many things It ought not to do. The time la at hand for honest men In the legislature to stand up and be counted. The sheep must separate from the goats. - mmmm One of the first results of the repeal of the Nebraska wolf bounty Jaw will be to put a decided damper on a thriv ing Wyoming Industry. Wills the corporation lobby ";Is '.dor ruptlng the legislature ,tha railroad tax agents are busily engaged In fabricat ing Justifications for the sellouts. The prosperous condition of building and loan associations in Nebraska Is a pretty good sign that Nebraaka people are enjoying their full share of prosper ity. . ' If Chicago grand Juries so far forget themselves aa to Indict aldermen of that city, St Louis may be compelled to yield the palm to its lakeside rival In this department also. ... Plenty of bills are on the legislative files down at Lincoln that ought never to have been Introduced, but yet there are several that ought to become law that have not even made an Initial ap pearance. The demand for habitable houses at reasonable rents in Omaha continues to be steady. The Capitalist who Wants good returns on a safe Investment will be building moderate sized dwellings the coming season. The hired tax commissioners of "the railroads ,of Nebraska" may be expected to affix, their signatures to anything John N. Baldwin and his man Friday may writs for them. That's what they are' paid for. The constitution of Nebraska contem plates a state census In 1905. But wa will let that pass In view of the straight ened financial condition of the state If the legislature will see that w get re apportionment in another way. With the present contingent tax levy, the various departments of the city gov ernment will have to sail close to wind for the next twelve months. If the rail road assessment should finally be de clared valid, they will then be on easy street, wlta a feast following the famine. And now tho chief issue of the fight against seating Senator Smoot of UUh la declared to be not the charge of polygamy by his position as apostle in tha Mormon church. Sifted down to brass tacks, .the real issue is whether Mr. Smoot shall bo allowed to represent the state In the United States senate or be compelled to maka way for someone cist) who wants the Job and needs the money, - Colonel Brysa insists that the Kansas City platform democrats will be at the . next democratic national convention. No on will undertake to contradict this assertion. Some are still In doubt, how ever, whether the Kansas City plat form democrats will bs there with cre dentials entitling them to tha floor or merely with admission ticket to the aoevUtora' giUurJesV . ABVHK OF TBS KMUIWtSCT CLAVStO At least three out of four of the bills Introduced into the present session of the Nebraska legislature are fitted out with an emergency clause. The word ing of this clause Is to the effect that whereas an emergency exists with ref erence to Its subject matter, the oil) shall take effect and be In force from and after Its passage. Bills without the emergency clause go into effect ss jaws under express provis ions of the constitution only three calen dar months after the adjournment of the session at which thoy were enacted. The manifest object of the delay In the en forcement of new laws is to give the people affected by them time to acquaint themselves with the changes they will work and to conform to new conditions they are designed to establish. That it is no more than fair that the public have reasonable notice of the creation of new laws goes without saying. The loophole lef by the constitution f rimers for the Immediate enforcement of emergency legislation: adopted by In creased majorities was never intended tK cover rall legislative measures indis criminately.' it was Seen that emergen cies might present -where quick action would bo necessary, but the emergency contemplated was to be real and not fictitious. There Is no emergency that makes" Imperative the alteration of school laws, the- change bf charter pro visions, tho amendment of civil or crim inal codes Just dn the say-so of the pro moter of the proposed legislation. The abuse of the emergency clause is run ning riot in both houses of the leelsla- turo at Lincoln. The brakes should be put down on tho "wheels before tlie speed gets too" fast , , CARRT1NU OUT ITS PROMISES. Cuba is acting' In good, faith toward the United States. The promises given this country are being carried out. Al though therojwas some hesitation about granting a naval station ,arid a coal depot . lu the islands we" fare 'to have them, a treaty giving these privileges having been signed the past week, .the question of compensation being left for future determination. The naval sta ion at Guantanamo will be on an ex tensive scale and of course will be of great Importance. Having a naval base on one side of Cuba ,and a coal ing station on the other side the United States will practically command the north and south passages to the Gulf of Mexico and will hold mastery over all that region.. Cuba has, recognized the desirability of having this Country in a' strong position there. ' since that will count for its protection against any out side enemy and. also for. the preserva tion of domestic peace. The tendency of this should be to strengthen friendly relations and with an Increased commercial Intercourse the two republics will find mutual benefit of a very substantial kind. Cuban con ditions are said tor bo Improving. The,' industries are reported to be fairly ac tive and the people' as at whole doing .welL The 'government is being admin istered, to all appearances. Intelligently and prudently, so that the expenditures are within the Income. - There fs some opposition to the administration, but it la not very serious, the people generally being very well satisfied with the course and policy. of President Palma. Cuba has a very earnest friend In President Roosevelt and he can be depended upon to do all that Is practicable for the pro motion of good wfll and the establish ment of close commercial Intercourse between that country and this. - coaoRKSSuta ox commibsioas. There was a discussion In. the United States senate a few, days ago In regard to. appointment . by the president f members of congress bu commissions and It was shown that senators gen erally are opposed to the practice. The aubiect was not for the Ant time before the senate, having been discussed nt the time the Hawaiian commission' was aDDolnted. and so strong was the feel- Ins; n regard to the selection of sen ators as commissioners that their ap pointment was not confirmed and they acted as the personal representatives of the president.- Reference was maae to the selection of two members of the sen ate to act on the Alaskan boundary commission and while there was of course no objection made to those sen atorsthe term of one of whom, Mr. Turner, expires with the , present con gressthere was evidently a feeling that the president should have ap pointed men not in the public service. Senator Hale was particularly earnest In deprecating the appointment of mem bers of congress on commissions, while Senator Bacon ' expressed- the opinion that It is. distinctly In opposition to the express .policy, If not to the express command, of the constitution of the United States.. .'.'The .policy of the con- stltutlon and the design of the consti tution." said the Georgia senator, "is that no man occupying a seat in this chamber or In the other house shall ex erclse any other function in the shape of an office under the government" Senator Hoar. was of the same opinion saying: "During the term for which a senator Is elected be cannot be ap pointed to any place which has been created or tha salary of which has been Increased by sixpence during the whole six years. So careful were the f ramers of the constitution of executive in flu ence and control. It is the question of the relation between the legislative power and the executive power. There were two things of which our fathers. when they . framed the conitltutlon, were, especlallly afraid. One was cor niDtlon In office and that was provided for by Impeachment and the other an executive Influence over legislation." Mr. Hoar thought that at some con venlent time the question will have to be settled so far as an acttof congress can settle it ,.:. f Undoubtedly there may be clrcum stances l which a president will feel . tivat the public, Interest reoiUrvs (he as- poiutrueut of congressmen on commis sions, l'erhaps a very good example Is the case of the boundary commission and no one will question that the sen ators who served on the Paris peace commission were wisely chosen. Yet It s manifestly a practice to be discour aged, for there can be no question that It Is in opposition to the poMcy of the constitution, even if not to the express command of that Instrument. The dis cussion of the subject In the senate and the earnest deprecation of the practice by prominent senators will undoubtedly receive due consideration from Presi dent Roosevelt, who very likely will not again go to conpress for members of any commission he may be authorized to ap point. HOME HI Lt FUR DltATtR. From now and henceforth the city of Denver will enjoy the privileges and prerogatives of home rule in its broad est sense. The supreme court of Colo rado has declared valid the constitu tional amendments adopted at the late November election, that creates the city and county of Denver out of the territory of the city and half a dozen surrounding towns and gives absolute home rule' In municipal affairs not only to Denver, but to all Colorado cltloa of the first and second classes. These Colorado municipalities are given complete power for merging city and county offices, making 'and amending their .own charters by popular vote and placing the government of the fire and police departments and the man agement of public works under, civil service, subject to supervision by offi cers chosen by the people. The very first step under the Colorado home rule amendment will be the con solidation of the offices Of city and county treasurer of Denver under one head, which will effect a large saving to the taxpayers and materially Im prove the tax collecting machinery. The consolidation of. city and county gov ernments and the guarantee of home rule cannot fall to prove an immense advantage to the city of Denver, not merely by lightening the burden of tax ation, but also by removing the bitter strife engendered by legislative Inter ference with purely local affairs, which arrays against each other - elements that would otherwise harmoniously work for the upbuilding of the city. The example set by Colorado in granting home rule to cities should by all means be emulated by Nebraska. The periodic turmoil In Omaha, Lin coln, South Omaha and the . larger towns of Nebraska over charter amend ments that take up much of the time of every succeeding legislature should be done away with. There is no good reason why cities of Nebraska should not enjoy the right of self-government as much as the cities of Colorado, or of California and Missouri, which have been clothed with charter making powers and have ' effected considerable saving to the taxpayers by the' consol idation of county and city governments. .... THE LARGE 1MU1G RATION. In the twelve months ending Decem ber 81, 1902, 739,289 immigrants arrived on our shores. This was more than 200,- 000 In excess of the number that came in the previous calendar year. There was thus a'dded last year to the number of consumers In this country nearly three-quarters of a million of . people. This means so many more needing food and clothing, so many more added to the workers of the country and so many more people engaged In enlarging the nation's productive capacity. .The large immigration movement con tinues and Is likely to do so as long as the present prosperous conditions here prevail. It is not a new experience. Whenever our Industries have been ac tive and there has been a demand for good people they have come here freely from Europe. Besides, In most foreign countries during the last year or two there has been Industrial depression, which of course stimulated emigration from those countries and the United States offered the best Invitation, In the opportunities and the higher price of labor. It seems that this large Im migration has been fully absorbed and provided for. There Is no complaint anywhere of a great excess of labor and it is quite probable that In portions of the country It will soon be found that the demand for labor exceeds the supply. There is a vast amount of work to be done the coming spring and sum mer that calls for such workers as are coming from Europe and there is no doubt they will all find abundant em ployment It may be true that some of these Immigrants are not of the most desirable class, but there Is a demand for the unskilled labor which could not be met If the edvvcates of restriction could have their way. Mrs. Maud Balllngton Booth's sugges tion that passenger trains be equipped with materials needed for first aid to the Injured, as well as with apparatus to extinguish fires, will appeal strongly to the traveling public. The great trouble encountered in a railway wreck, however. Is that people lose their self composure and In their excitement for get to make use of the facilities at hand to relieve distress. Yet a supply of bandages, arnica, chloroform, etc., would be a boon to' suffering humanity In such railway disasters, and it is not asking too much of the railroads to do this for protection of both patrons and of themselves. , Apropos of the candidacy of Judge Parker for the democratic presidential nomination. Harper's Weekly signifi cantly remarks that It rests with ex- Senator iHlll whether the desired en dorsement can be had from the next state convention. As to Mr. Hill, it adds, "be must know that bis own nomination for the presidency Is out of the question and that the utmost be l&tt look tot la the post et KitftUry. pf state In a democratic administration." But what would a New York candidate have to expect from the Bryanltes if they understood that he hod secured the backing of his own state only by pledging the chief cabinet position to Mr. Hill? Would not the prospect of Hill aa secretary of state have about the same effect on Mr. Bryan and his friends as Hill as the presidential nominee? Suppose Mr. Bryan should conclude later that he was cut out for secretary of state himself?. Democ racy's path is still rocky. Iowa democrats are going to get into the political game early this year by holding their nominating convention lu June. There Is really no occasion for them to hold back with a view to learn ing first who Is to head the republican ticket, because they can safely proceed on the assumption that Governor Cum mins will be renominated without any substantial opposition. The call for an early convention on the part of the dem ocrats Is more plausibly explnlnedon the ground that the gold men who are In control of the party machinery think they can thus head off the Bryanltej by cutting short tho time In which they might organtzo to regain their former ascendancy within the party. So far as candidates 'on the democratic ticket In towa go, they will have to be drafted, as usual. On the" basis of the eight and three- fourths mill levy the west half of the Union raciflc bridge, which was as sessed br the State Board of Equaliza tion for $1,5(10, will contribute 'the munificent sum of $13.74 Into the city treasury -of Omaha equal to the wages of one policeman for about six days, or the cost of one electric street lamp for about fifty days. This Is uniformity of taxation, a la Baldwin. The ifray to banish the conwratio.u lobby from" the capital Is to start a leg islative investigation that would cou pe' each lobbyist to tell by whom lie is hired and the nature of his business, th an itemized statement of the amount of boodle circulated and dis tr puted by him or her. Colorado's municipal home rule mendment has been upheld lu the courts. It might not be a bad idea to submit an amendment to the constitu tion of Nebraska In substantially the same phraseology as that which has Ithstood the ordeal of attack in Colo rado. A Problem in Colors. St. Louts Globe-Democrat. America has had a hard color rh work out. It already includes the white burden, the black burden and the red hid den, and it will soon bs time for the blue burden. Chant a Lay of IScstasy. New York. Tribune. Sound the loiut timbrel and chant a lay of honor to ths American hen. The faithful creature has been working overtime of late, in tne race of every discouragement, and has sent tha wholesale price of eggs in western markets down to figures which de light the consumers, Lesson of Current Events. Minneapolis Times. The ghoul cases at Indianapolis, the Ufa insurance frauds in New York and else where arid, the county burial swindles at Knoxvllla Tenn., show that tha humblest of us may be made useful without our knowledge or consent and that there ara not half enough people in the peniten tiaries, Huh, Suckers, Hash I Baltimore American. Ths decision of the Si. Louis court that all who voluntarily Invest in gambling schemes ara partners in the business Is logical, though desperately hard on the poor, babyish suckers, who, with eyes wide open, stick their fingers into the glowing Or and howl when they feel the burn. MONEY. AS AN INDICATOR. A Great Bevealer of Personal Char. aeterlstlcs. O. 8. Marden in Success. ' Perhaps there is nothing else which re- Veals one's real character like money or tha lack of it. Tha moment a young per son begins to get money, he Shows his true mettle by the way be uses it by the way be saves it or the manner in which he spends it Money is a great blab, a great revealer of personal history. It brings out all one's weaknesses. It indicates his wise or fool ish spending, or wise or foolish saving; it reveals his real character. If you should give $1,000 to each mem ber of a class of this year's graduates, and could follow each in disposing of it, with out knowing anything else about him, you could get a pretty good idea of his prob able future, and Judge whether he wjll ba successful or will fall, whether ha will be a man of character and standing, or the reverse. One boy would see, In the Jl.OOO, a col lege education for himself or for a crip pled or otherwise handicapped brother or sister. Another would see, in bis 11,000, a "good time" with vicious companions. To one, tha money would mean a chance to start a little business of his own. An other would deposit his in a savings bank. A poor girl would see, in her money, an opportunity to help an invalid mother or a dependent brother or sister. In no two Instances would the money mean the same, perhaps, or develop the same traits of character. To one It would mean nothing but selfish ness, to another an opportunity to help oth ers. To one it would mean a chance to se cure precious, long-coveted books, consti tuting a fine library. To another it would suggest a home of his own. To the boy who is naturally selfish, hard, grasping, mean nd stingy, the making of money simply emphasizes his characteris tics. It makes a small man smaller, a bard man harder, a mean man meaner. A boy who Is naturally grasping and mean. It he wishes to ba a power in the world, must discipline himself by systematically helping others, la soma way, or bis Ufa will become harder and meaner, his affections will be coma marblelied, and he will be of no earthly use to the community In which be lives. In fact, ha will make every foot of tha land poorer and meaner despite his ac quisitions, even It they mount Into millions. On tha other hand, it makes a generous man mora generous, a magnanimous man mora magnanimous. Instead of cheapening the land, bis presence raises Its value, and he Is the pride of tha community, no matter Low Biuca weaei fes iwssesses. ANALYZED BV A FOREIGNER. American Democracy Caustically Sketched la Three Chapters. A well known European diplomat unoffi cially resident in Washinton for a time, recently contributed to Collier's Weekly his observations on society at the national rapltal, illustrating the "love of empire" that mingles with tha American democ racy at Washington. ' I. POLITICAL. I am Just arrived In your country and at your national capital. A president Is about to be inaugurated a moat Interesting and instructive event for tha foreign observer. The president-elect Is for the moment resi dent at the hotel at which I ara staying. The day before the Inauguration I have small glimpses of him, a dignifled,' not too self-conscious man, not unlike what my im agination had pictured as the probable kind of person for the chief place in a democ racy, aje Is always surrounded by distinguished-looking men, respectful and eager, but not obsequious, much like tha familiars of a monarch. In the evening a vast and agitated throng pours Into the streets round the hotel. Bands arcplaylng; there Is much shouting, singing, laughing, a great deal of what you call "profane swearing," but no anger or even Ill-nature. The throng press Into, the hotel, Into the corri dors leading to the suite occupied by tha president-elect. Thy find his door. They beat, they kick upon it. "Speech! speech!" they shout. "Couie Out, old boy! Corns out, old man! We see you hiding there!" I look on amazed. I say to myself: "Ths soldiery wU appear and sweep to corri dors clear." The door presently opens. In It appears the president-elect. Is his face angry, f rowing, displeased? On the con trary, his eyes dance; his lips wreaths in smiles; ba waves his hands deprecattngly. "You're too good to me, boys," he says a curious, attractive mixture of familiarity and dignity. And he submits with apparent delight to the coarse caresses of the crowd. "This is indeed democracy!" I exclaim. II. SOCIAL. It is perhaps six weeks later. I am a guest at dinner at the house of a mem ber of the cabinet. We are all assembled in the profusely decorated drawing rooms, waiting tor something to occur which is evidently to be of the highest Importance. The agitation of my host and hostess Is visible, carefully though they strive to conceal It. Presently the musicians an orchestra, almost begin to play "The Star-Spangled Banner." Or, perhaps it is the British national air "Ood Save the King" to which yeu sing "My Country, ;Tla of Thee." Everyone rises and bis majesty pardon me the slip I mean his excellency, the president, and her excel lency, his wife, appear in the doorway. All bow, the women courtesying, some rf them with a depth equal to that required In a throne-rcom. Their excellencies ad vance to a whtte-and-gold bo fa placed no ticeably ajart and further marked by an embowering mass of palms and ferns. Tha scene is Simple, sylvan, but almost royal. Indeed, It is royalty In the hours when court etiquette Is relaxed, not laid aside. The ceremony of greeting and presents tioua which follows is In all esseritials- except one what I have often seen at private entertainments to royal persons In Europe. The only lacking essential Is ease. It is amusingly but by no means ludicrously apparent that the effort at court ceremony Is an effort, honest and determined, but hampered by Ignorance. (Yes, and as now know, by a certain ehame-facedness that I did not then know.) Once mora I stare, amazed. "Democracy perhaps," I say to myself, "but .democracy with passionate yearnings for monarchy." .III. OFFICIAL, I am at the White Houbb, a guest at an informal lunch. Whan we leave the table the president leads us Into a hall, where we stand in a group round him, he and all of us smoking. He le; talking bis atti tude toward us and ours toward him that which characterizes distinguished host and flattered guests anywhsre in the world. An attendant in livery pushes through the group with small ceremony and places him. self beside the president. He waits with some' impatience until the president finishes the sentence. Then ha says his tone that of teacher correcting pupil: "Beg pardon, Mr. President. Smoking is not allowed here." I stand amazed for the third time, used as I am by this time to social and political end official incongruities at your Washing ton. The president looks confused for an Instant rather, as it seems to me, because his train of thought has been broken than because a menial haa been guilty of a frightful, an Incredible insolence. Then he says, with an apologetic smile: "Oh, is ItT Very well. Come on, boys!" He leads us into a room. "I guess they'll let us alone here," he says. "I'm new to the place and don't know the rules yet." "An aristocratically inclined democracy, perhaps," I say to myself, "but emphat ically a democracy." Common Afflictions Overlooked. Chicago Chronicle. A learned medical vclcntlst rises to an nounce that he has a sure cure for St. Vitus' dance, another submits that he haa found a specific for leprosy and a third casually remarks that he can cure any thing from fits to bubonic plague by stim ulating the pltuitaiy gland. In the mean lime the citizen who has a cold in the head continues to sneeze and snuffle along In the old way and not a medical scientist can do a thing for him. This seems anomal ous. One Is n-Plenty." Springfield Republican. The supreme court of the United States is still somewhat in the nature of a de bating society. The last conspicuous de cision was by a majority of one. The de ciding vote Is declared to have been cast by the newest Justice, who, from his former writings, has been set down as an "Im pressionist." It would be a satisfying thing If the law were so exact that nine great Jawyers, clad In the awe of the peo ple and In silk gowns, could be spontane ously unanimous, but complete lniaiUDinty is only in the Imagination and could ba personified or Idealized only by reposing it by human means In one man. - - horace White's Successor. Boston Herald. . The new chief editor of the New York Evening Post is Rollo Ogden, who has becu a member of Its editorial staff for nearly twelve years, and may be presumed to have acquired a thorough knowledge of 1U Ideals. Its methods and its traditions. He, like many another diligent and trusted In structor of constant readers, is unknown to the public at large. All thst we known of him, apart from his work, is that he was born in Sahdlake, N. Y., in 1854. we a craduated by Williams college in 1877, stu died tor the ministry at Andover and Union seminaries, and entered upon the work for which he had prepared. Finding the condi tions oi the office of a Presbyterian preacher not wholly satisfactory to his ideas, be drew out and entered upon literary and newspaper work. As, U 47 years o( age ha takes tha office of responsibility and honor in the succession dignified and il luminated by tha examples of Bryant, Good win, Godkln and White, congratulation, confidence and good will should attend bis , bravt u&derukiaa. RAII.RtMD TAT SHIRKING. Broken Bow Beacon: A bill Is before the state legislature authorising the rlty au thorities to assess railroad terminals for city purposes, and also authorizing the board of equalisation to order them ss sesned for county and slats purposes. The railroads are strenuously opposing the measure, but It Is eminently Just. The counties through which the railroads pass give value to their terminals add are en titled to some benefit In the way of tsxes. Springfield Monitor: There Is no doubt that the people have a Just right to think that whenever a corporation takes a case before a federal court It will get the best of the derision. It seems that In instances of this kind In the past this has almost Invariably been tho case, until now the people look upon It as a rule. The rail road tax caac In Omaha Just recently will have a tendency to strengthen this belief. But why the court should lean that way is the question. Hebron Register: The corporation Inter ests have a strong and able lobby at Lin coln and it is putting forth Its best efforts to see that tha new revenue bill will not Increase the taxes of Its masters. The people need not expect to get the needed legislation along this line until they elect lawmakers who cannot be controlled by the paid hirelings of those who ara deter mined that tha. common people shall pay more than their Just share of taxes levied for tha support of tha state and Its Insti tutions. Ord Journal: Ths revenue bill that" a special committee has been working on for some time has been Introduced In the legislature. The proposed bill will un doubtedly have hard sailing, as It provides absolutely for an Increase in tha valuation of all classes of property except railroads, and that part of the law Is left about as It Is now. However, ths state board is to .be made up of five members Instead of three, and they, may look at matters different than the parties who have made up that board for the last few decades. Kearney Hub: The fata of the pending revenue bill la apparently as uncertain as It Is in soma respects unsatisfactory. Sev eral weeks were needed by tho Joint com mittee to produce It and it will be still longer before the publio will be able to pass even tolerably Intelligent Judgment upon it. The measure is drastic in some particulars and will doubtless go a long way to, even up the Inequalities of tax ation of personal property. It even takes an advanced step in the matter of corpora tion taxation, but there is more or less of a suspicion that It will not add anything to the proportion of taxes paid by tho rail ways, and will not ultimately be the rev enue producer that was Intended. Some of this, however, Is surmise, . and a great deal1 depends, of course, upon the admin istration of the law should it be enacted. Columbus Telegram: Nebraska laughed when Edward Rosewater, many years ago, declared that the very atmosphere in Lin coln was contaminating. And yet Rose water saw the situation better than those who laughed. There is a mysterious some thing in tha atmosphere at the state capi tal, an indefinable influence which has made servile corporation puppies out of men who in their home communities were regarded as strong and clean. I believe the average man elected to the legislature Is really honest and earnest In his desire to accomplish something for the publio welfare. I make an exception of the dele gations from Douglas aad Lancaster coun ties, where the nominees for legislative honors are usually selected in advance by the railroad and other publio corporations. These men are as honest as they can be under the circumstances. They Intend to do right, as they See tha right, but un fortunately they ate compelled to , see things through railroad glasses, and only those measures are right which bear the o. k." of the grand master of the cor poration lobby. PIBLIO OWNERSHIP. Argument of Stnyvrsnnt Fish Relates Itself. 4 Springfield. (Mass.) Republican. Nothing Is proved against public owner ship by the fact that he United States Postofflce department experiences a cbronlo deficit; and ao nothing Is proved by Stuy vesant Finn of the Illinois 'Central railroad when he says that the state of Illinois lost 1100.000 yearly through the old Illinois and Michigan canal, while the railroad. under private ownership, puts $942,000 yearly into Its treasury. If that sum repre sents a collection from the people for pri vate profit beyond the demands of a mod erate profit for services rendered, then an argument is made tor public ownership or control of railroads rather than an argu ment to the contrary. It tbegovernment should take the railroads and prove itself unable, at tha same rates charged by pri vate owners, to earn as large a net Income, then the superior economy and efficiency of private ownership ' are demonstrated. But if, as In tha case of the poatomce, a deficit results which may be due to over liberal rates to the people, nothing is proved against publio ownership which will appeal to the public; for the publio which meets the deficit In other ways is its bene ficiary. Works tho Venal Way. Boston Transcript. More than two-thirds of the Immigrants who came hither last year were from Italy, AuBtrla-Hungary or Russia, and pesBlmlsts are already wondering how we ever shall assimilate them. As a fact we shall as similate them by making them work hard for us while their children and children's children attend our high schools and cap ture the fattest scholarships at Harvard. restores color WiV mg to gray hair. ifi. MAyertHairVigoM rMA Makes the hair JC grow. Checks , fMtC flk fallln& ym s?b; ..rmrpif PERSONAL NOTE. Tete r Berg, a French count, now a Chicago bartender, baa a watch that be longed to Napoleon. The watch was pre sented to Berg's grandfather by ths gen eral General Jaeob It. Smith ("Itell-Roarlng Jake") has started on a tour of the world, accompanied by his wife and two St. Louis girls, the Misses Thomson, daugh ters of an old friend, W. H. Thomson. Bernard Shraft, an aged musician of San Francisco, a schoolmate and frlen of Johann Strauss, the world-famous corn poser of waltzes. Is dying in poverty at his home In that city. John Martin, aged 75. is called "the builder of Indianapolis." The old man says "you can't drive to a place in town where I cannot point my flngef ta a build ing that I had the contract on." 8cnator Hahna's secretary, Elmer Dover, believes that he gets mora "pedestrian ex ercise" right along than either the presi dent or General Wood. He gets it In going from department to department on the senator's errands. "I'll bet I walk twenty miles a day," he says. Ha has Just in vested in a pedometer. Nearly every pleasant afternoon the Jus tices of the United States supreme court . walk down Pennsylvania avenua frcm the capltol to Fourteenth street, about a mile. Newcomers on the supreme bench ara ex pected to Join in this parane. Justice Holmes, who teoently took bis seat, fell Into Una readily, being . fond of walking, but Justice Day, who will soon be one of the august body, does not like it. It is quite likely, however, that ha will ba . broken in before a couple of weeks bare passed. That rather amusing body, tha New York board of aldermen, was shocked at Its Tuesday session by a resolution Intro duced by Alderman McCarthy, to Indorse the spanking by the 1-usband cf his wlfa or grown-up daughters it thoy should fall to reach home at 10 o'clock in tha even ing. This was a result of the decision of a Long Island magistrate In tho case of a citizen who had enforced this penalty without warrant of law. The magistrate, decided that ha was acting within his right as head of the household. But the New York aldermen "threw down" McCarthy. THOIGHTS THAT TICKLE. "It's funny how Rome men like to blow about how their people brought them tip." "Yes, bnt It's equally funny that they never blow about the way other people take them down." Philadelphia Press. "I notice," said the slow wooer, "that tho extreme cold weather has been fatal to a great many sheep." "I should think," said the girl, her patience being about exhausted, "that you would be afraid to venture out. Cleveland Plalndealcr. Uncle Jed Do I want to go to the auto mobile show? No! Dad ding the auto mobiles! What are they good fur? City Nephew Some day, uncle, they'll knock out the grasping railroad". Uncle Jed Ooeh! 1 never thought o' that! Where are they holdln' the show? Chicago Tribune. First South American Faugh! Think of that man pretending to be a statesman! W hy, he knows absolutely nothing of polit ical economy. Second South American I should say he didn't. Why, he couldn't tell a revolution from a North American college yell. Judge. Brown I'll have to quit this boarding house. Jones Not enough variety? Brown Too much. What's the good of nutritious breakfast food If a man has to learn the name of a new. one every day. Detroit Free Press. Playwright That villain In my play doesn't act his part up to the lines. He must wear a look of worry and despera tion. Manager On! don't get excited. I ll MX that. John, to ud on the e stage and Htart rumor that 1 have eklpped with the box office receipts. Baltimore Newa. "William, now that you've made your property over to me I can do as I please with It. can't I?" "Well, of course) as your husband, the law gives me a third Interest In the real eBtate while I live." "You wouldn't ba mean enough to Insist on that, would you, William?" Chicago Tribune. JACK VP YOUR NKrVe. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. Don't you never weaken, son, when tha world seems cruel, Don't you never drop your Hp In despond ent way ' Cowardice is basest atone; courage is a Jewel That'll light the darkest hour Jest afore the day. When you play in rocky luck if your feet glt-chifly, Ploy, the harder an' you'll soon think they're all aflame Play determined that you'll knock every tJrflLiWbftclt Billy Give yer nerve a Jackln' up an you'll win the game. Never was a battle won thout a heap o' flghtin'. Never waa a victory didn't cost a pile. Never was a cloudy day sunshine, couldn't brighten, ' Never waa a frown so dark it could buck a smile. Keep a-poundln' at tho road leadln' to tha summit Of your very fondest hopes thouarh your feet go lame; If your courage springs a leak In its tank. why, dura it. Give yer nerve a Jackln' up an' you'll win the game. Never see prosperity come Jest fur tha askln'. Tou have got to fight fur It In this earthly fray 'Tlsn't ao'n' to hunt you up where you lay a-baskin In the sun of idleness; 'tlsn't built that way. If you try to shirk the fight you deserve a llckin', If you git It, you've alone got to bear tha blame; Git a hustle on yourself when your troubles thicken Give yer nerve a Jackln' up an' you'll win tha game. I
