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THE OMAHA DAILY HKE: WEDNESDAY, AP1UL 1, IJ)03. Tiie Omaha Daily Dee E. HOriB WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Pe (wltiiout Sunday), One Tear.. $4.00 lai y -.ea and Munday, On Year ' llluj-tratr-d li, on Year BuncSny Hr, One Yar Saturday ltp, On Year 1 Twentieth Century farmer. One Tear.. 1.0-J DELIVERED BY CARRIED. Daily Itcj (without Sunday), per copy.... 2c Dally Hee (without Sunday), per week. ..Ho lally line (Including Sunday), per week. .La Hurwlay Bee, per copy 3 Evening Hee (without Sunday), per week 6c Bvenlng lie (.Including Sunday), per wrfh ,0c Complaint of Irregularities In delivery ahould be addressed to Cit circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Bouih Omaha City liall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Ktreets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago lfrm Unity Building. New York 2X.S Park Row Building. Washington 6ol Fourteenth Street, CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ehould be addressed; Omaha be, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or 'postat order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only l-cent stamps accepted In payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted, TUB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa.t George li. Tzftchiick, secretary of Tha Pee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Kvenlng and Hundny Bee printed during the monia ol March, UW3, was as lonuws; 1 2H,818 - ai.oio s S1,T80 ... ...ni,io I ai.nuo C ,.fll,0OO 7 ai.otvo 8 J,170 9 ai.ww 10 bi,m II Bl.TBO la Bi.no 13 -J. 1,750 14 .31. TOO 17 31.TO0 u si.rno is ai.ww ai,4H 71... 22... 23... 24... 25... 2a... 27... Ii11.it 10 84KO ai,4o M 81,1110 B1.740 ...81,TTO 28 81,67 29 ao.ooo 80. 81,02 81 81,70 16 S1,B." 1 S1.B40 Total roma Lees unsold and returned copies... 10,481 Net total sale Net average sales SIO.WBO OEOROH B. TZBCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thl 31t day of March, A. D., 1903. M. It. HUNQATB. (Beal.) Notary Publlo. Are you against the maculae? what machine? If so, Only one more week of the legislature. Iralse God, from whom all blessings flow. WUat do the good people of Omaha think of the Broatch reform police com mission by this time? The Jlastlcutuses on the top of the city hall bare taken the Gopher pledge to keep It a profound secret. The disclosures of high life In Buffalo brought out by the Burdlck Inquest will materially depreciate the value of stop over tickets to Buffalo. . The report that Bartley Is suffering - from qualms of conscience and propors to disgorge the contents of that strong box is only another April fool fake. The Omaha barbers draw the 10-cent line at the man who wants his mus tache curled, or his neck shared. A smooth face and a Buffalo BUI mane Is the only way to get your money's worth out of the short strap man. While South Omaha still appears to be unwilling to be annexed to Omaha It will presently do a little annexation on Its own hook by extending Its city limits over the territory covered by th-1 village adjacent to Fort Crook. In view of the limited resources at Its disposal, an appropriation of $35,000 by the Nebraska legislature for the Louisi ana Purchase exposition Is mors than generous. As a matter of fact, $25,000 would do the business very. creditably. Extensive preparations are being made by the Department of Agriculture for an exhibition of farming by electricity at the St Louis fair. Whether that exhibit will Include an apparatus to show how the farmers are farmed by wireless pro cess baa not yet been divulged. A most interesting exhibit at the Lou isiana Purchase exposition will be a presidential Infant Incubator. Little Grover Cleveland will take bis place in the glass Jar on opening day and au In fant prodigy by the name of D. R. Francis is expected to keep him com pany. The Gopher plan of purging Omaha ' politics Is to appoint only Gophers as Judges and clerks of election and allow only Gophers to vote at the primary, If this plan ot purification is carried into effect the elry hall from the fifth story down will be occupied by democrats forty days hence. John N. Baldwin, if not already an 11' lustiious, will be a much illustrated per son by the time the Nebraska legislature adjourns, and if he continues in the ex elusive employ of the Union Pacific bis claim for a heavy raise of salary on ac count of his widely advertised reputa tlon should by all means be recognized by Mr. Burt. Is it not rather late lu the day to cancel the engagement of members of the legislature for a sixty-day perform ance? Were not the artists all hired at $5 a day for the full period of two months, and is not the state in honor bound to keep faith with the trotip and th band that has played such delightful airs in the lobby? An Interesting question has been raised by the recent Incorporation of the Na tional Packiug company lu the face of Judge Crosscut's Injunction enjoining the) packers froij) continuing their com bins tlon In restraint of trade or uniting arbitrarily In fixing the price of treats and controlling the market. If the old beef trust exists In violation of the Slier- man anti-trust law the new packing com paoy bu m valid claim for toleration. cLfAKftya thk run Lie firvh :k. According to reports from Washington there is anxiety among clerk In the ex ecutlve department of the government, due to on evident purpose on the part of the administration to remove from the public service those whose records are not good. One dispatch to nu eastern paper says that the president will over look certain shortcomings on the part of government employes, but he has set his foot down hard on one kind of wrong doing and has ordered that whore a clear case Is established the offender shnll lose his official head. Investigations of ehargtss of immorality against certain 6ut-of-town officials are now being made by direction of the president and it Is expected this will result In numerous removals. It Is also said that there Is likely to develop In connection with the scandal in the I'ostofflce department the fact that certain prominent departmental officials have been using their Influence to promote mining compnnles In which they are Interested, by selling stock to postmasters and employes of their branch of the service. It Is alleged that this sort of thing has been going on for several years and it Is easy to believe the statement that President Roosevelt Is uncompromisingly opposed to such a mixing of politics and business. It ap pears to have become an unwritten rule for members of the administration either to stay out of private directorates, or appear there In their personal capacity alone. Of course it lu not the idea of the president that no one In the public ser vice shall have any connection with busi ness affairs, but simply that they shall not use their official Influence to promote their business Interests, a position that will undoubtedly have general public approval. The developments In the office of the first assistant postmaster general have served to show the expediency ,of a gen eral Investigation of the executive de partments. It Is Inevitable that what has already been revealed will have the effect to create lu the public mind a feel ing that loose practices prevail more or less In other departments and the ad ministration cannot afford to ignore this. We do not doubt that an Investigation would show that a vast majority of the employes In the public service, at Wash ington and elsewhere, are honest and honorable In their personal affairs, as well as faithful in the performance of their duties, but no harm can be done from such a showing of this as will be accepted without question by the public. Everybody understands that It Is the de sire of Mr. Roosevelt that the country shall have an absolutely clean as well as efficient public service, that those who are employed by the government shall observe Integrity In all their dealings. The Investigations he has already ordered will doubtless be carefully and thor oughly prosecuted and it is safe to say that no guilty person which they may disclose will be allowed to escape. COST OF TBB COMMI881VX. The coal strike commission was con siderably less expensive than it was ex pected to be. Congress, upon the rec ommendation of the president, appropri ated $50,000, but the cost to the country of the Investigation, extending over a period of five months, Is approximately $38,000, a large part of this "being for salaries. It is said that no such Import ant results have ever been attained at such small expense, nor has anything of the kind ever been conducted along more business-like and economic lines. The commission was composed of men who had no desire for display or extrav agance, but devoted, themselves sedu lously and conscientiously to the task committed to them. What an enormous saving it would have been to the parties to the anthra cite strike if they bad at the outset sub mitted the controversy to such a com mission, and what a great benefit also to the public. The estimated cost of the strike to tho operators and miners Is close to $100,000,000. The suffering, ex perienced by many thousands of people from the scarcity of fuel cannot be com puted In dollars and cents. The prece dent established by the anthracite strike commission is of itself worth all that was expended. It has bo strongly 1m pressed public opinion in favor of this expedient for adjnstlng controversies between capital and labor wrere the In terests of the public are largely Involved, that undoubtedly In future there will bo a strong popular demand for submitting such disputes to an impartial commis sion. It would not be easy to exagger ate the value of the work of the strike commission and It Is certainly far in ex cess of the cost. j THE PHILIPPINE CURRENCY Active preparations are being made to provide the currency for the Philippines authorized by congress and from which great benefit to the, islands is expected. A leading financial Journal remarks that in respect to their relations to the United States the benefit -will be twofold. It will be possible to conduct trade with out allowance for the present abnormal fluctuations in exchange end It will be possible to make investments of Ameri can capital with the assurance that their gold and the gold value of their dlvl dends will not decline. "The latter lien eflt may prove more important in some respects than the former. The crying need of the islands Is the developmeu of means of communication, or. uiann facture and of Improved methods of ag riculture. 3'hese can ouly come by the confidence ou the part of the Investors that the value of their money will not shrink to tho vanishing point When It is sent to the Philippines." It Is further pointed out that the ac tion of our government in this matter is likely to set au example for other conn tries of the Orient and If a similar sys tem can le introduced into cmna, sup ported by the western powers, that vast empire will lie thrown tqien to trade In a manner more effective than any othei single ecouoUiio step which could be taken with so little economic cost or dis turbance to existing Interests. Had congress passed at Its first session the currency leglslatlow for tho Philippines which It finally adopted the Industrial hud commercial situation In the Islands would long ago have been materially Improved. . As It Is It will iorliaps lx a year hence lefore any great change takes place, though thore should be a teady If slow Improvement In condi tions. hhoatch axp ms outlaw mktiiops. Whenever William J. Broatch has oc cupied public office he has lieon a law unto himself. Ills outlaw methods as a member of the present fire and police commission are In keeping with his law less methods on tho Russell-Churchill police commission, when he prostituted his powers-to selfish political ends. The latest performances of this political highwayman are absolutely Indefensible. Ten days ago Broatch ordered the chief of jKilice to serve notice on twelve saloon keepers that patronize the Metz Brewing company that he would have their licenses revoked if they did not close their resorts Saturday night and keep them closed until the following Monday morning. While these twelve saloons were held to a strict observance of the Sunday closing provisions of the Slocumb law, all the other saloons In the city were allowed to run open without let or hindrance. Last Saturday another edict was Is sued by Broatch in the name of the po lice commission directing the chief of police to enforce the, Sunday closing law against ten saloons that had been al lowed to run open the previous Sunday and to notify the keepers of the saloons that had been closed the previous Sun day that they were1 at liberty to do bus iness without molestation last Sunday. In other words, Buccaneer Broatch or dered the police to grant Indulgences to the twelve saloons that had Wen ter rorized on the previous Sunday and to swing the police club over the heads of ten other saloon keepers who are sus pected of political disaffection. The question that presents itself Is, Where does Brpatch or any other police commissioner, or the entire police board, get authority to serve notice through police officers on law violators that they will not be molested? What right has Broatch to use the police as Instruments of political blackmail? Is it not about time for the law authorities of this com munity to enforce the provisions of the statute that makes it a misdemeanor and penal offense for anybody either verbally or in writing, by himself or by an agent, to threaten to do any injury to the person or property of another, or to compel the person so threatened to do any act against his will? Aside from the palpable violation of the law defining and prohibiting black mall, the course of Broatch Is a usurpa tion of power that would not be toler ated in any other community. The law creating the fire and police board does not contemplate' that the police commis sion shall exercise functions outside of its legitimate sphere, which relates solely to the appointment, removal, gov ernment and discipline of the officers and members of the fire and police de- nartments. Nowhere does the charter 1 , A. . ,, 9 uuuionze ma ponce Doara or any mem ber of that body to order the opening or closing of saloons or in any way to In terfere with any legitimate business for which a license has been granted. If the saloon keepers violate the law charges can be preferred against the keepers before the police court and upon conviction the police commission Is em powered to revoke the license. Tho po lice court alone has a right to Impose other penalties. It is not the prerogative of the police commission to give personal orders to policemen or to' instruct them against impartial law enforcement Unless the commission disavows the course pursued by Mr. Broatch there will be no other alternative than a resort to the courts to compel It to remain within the bounds prescribed by law or a formal present ment of charges to Governor Mickey, who is empowered and required to de pose any member of the police commis sion upon proof that he has been guilty of a misdemeanor in office. Judge Ryan will have no difficulty In producing sufficient testimony to prove that the constitutional amendment ex tending the time of legislative sessions from forty to sixty days, and raisin the pay of members from $3 to $5 per day, was counted in by fraud seventeen years ago. But isn't it rather late li the day to start this disagreeable con tentlon after seven succeeding legls latures have exploited the treasury for sixty days' pay and two half holidays each week? Is not this res Judicata, as the lawyers call it? Chief Pass Bribe Distributer Ager has a plan for raising revenue by the com pulsory sale of all real property on which taxes have been delinquent for five years, and confidently predicts that his plan, if carried into effect, will pay off the state debt Would it not be more in keeping with the eternal fitness of things for the corporations that keep Colonel Ager on the pay roll to disgorge the millions of dollars of taxes which they have managed to evade within the past five years by lopsided legislation? Down lu Missouri a grand Jury Inquisi tion Is now in progress to Investigate the operations of the boodle lobby that per meated the late Mlssouro legislature. Had the Missouri irrand Jury Ini-n called before the legislature convened and been kept in motion during the session the Doodling lobbyists would uot have been In evidence so much. There is little to be gained by locking the barn after the horse Is stolen. The primary election law expressly re quires that the candidates of each fac tion lu a party contest shall have equal representation on the election board. The manifest object of this pro- vision of the law Is to prevout factional Jtiirnlery and discrimination for or against candidate. Any attempt to iibvert Hie law on the part of the nuin oglng committee would make primary election a farce and destroy anv obliga tion which party nominations are pre sumed to have upon the rank and file of Its membership. Mighty Hard to Plena. Washington Poet. The sultan of Sulu Is sulking again be cause some of his friends are to be prose cuted for breaking the law. It requires considerable tact to keep a live eltan la a good humor. Where Vaa the Railroad Lobby? Indianapolis Journal. When a state legislature deliberately votes $100,000,000 to make a canal float 1.000-ton barges and the scheme Is backed by the ablest commercial and financial men In the state, no one c. n question Its right to be called the Empire state. Great Changes t'omlnar. Minneapolis Journal. The people of the arid states seem to count that day lost In which thoy do not bring forward some new irrigation project. Between private enterprise and government work, these new irrigation canals will work great changes In the west In the next ten years. Groundless Fears. Pittsburg Dispatch. Antarctic exploration develops the fact that there -are high mountain ranges about 4G0 milea from the south pole. People who have entertained fears that the world's stock of mountains might run short will be reassured by the information of the supply in reserve. Discriminating Tariffs. Philadelphia Press. The British government is to have a discrimination of 25 per cent in tariff rates In the conquered provinces in South Af rica. But If that 25 per cent does not operate better than Canada's S3H per cent preferential rates Great Britain will not profit much in comparison with its com petitors. AVttl Ilryan Do the Graceful f Cincinnati Enquirer. A letter from Mr. Bryan welcoming Mr. Cleveland to the city of Lincoln would be the graceful thing. . It would be polite, too. to writs it. Somebody else may take a notion that ho owns as much of Lincoln as Bryan does, and has as much right to speak for it. It somebody of this description should invite Mr. Cleveland, and he ahould accept, the "peerless leader" would be considerably cut down. Expanding; Presidential Trips. Indianapolis News. So the Hawalians want to see the presi dent, do theyT Well, it seems as if they ought to be gratified, but on the other hand, if they are, the first thing we know be will have demands from Guam, the Phil ippines, Porto Rico, Alaska and Tutulla that he can't Ignore, and he will have to do more stunts than a traveling salesman to cover his territory, leaving him scarcely any time to devote to the office seekers and politicians. And then what will hap pen? Conraaxe, Girls, Courage! Philadelphia Press. A few years the tan shoe came in style and was quickly adopted by men for sum mer wear. It was easy to the feet, cool and natty and its popularity appeared to be permanent. But for some reason fashion declared against it and It was quickly dis carded, although many sfghs of regret ac companied its banishment. Tho women should not permit themselves to be In fluenced in the same trivial way and without good reasons deprive themselves ot the use of so sensible a garment as the shirtwaist. Theodore, Take Care of Yonrself. Harper's Weekly. It is to be hoped that the president will have a pleasant trip and a good time, and that his accompanying throat special ist will have little or nothing to do. it is especially to be hoped that no trolley car accident will occur and that if the president should be slightly hurt he will recall the anxiety of the people when his leg was operated upon at Indianapolis and try to spare the country any new bulletins. Mr. Roosevelt owes the country a good deal, and one of the smallest payments he can make on account is a little consid eration for its feelings. It has suffered of late quite enough from shocks, so that Mr. Roosevelt ought to he more careful of himself than we all know that he wants to be. Two Months "Ob the Road." Hartford (Conn.) Times. What a remarkable "swing around the circle" is this western tour which Presi dent Roosevelt is going to begin on April 1 and continue, if nothing happens to pre vent, until June 5. If this program is car ried out the president will show himself and find something to say in several hun dred towns located in nineteen or twenty states and territories. - The physical strength required to carry through such an undertaking as this is very great and no president who has preceded Mr. Roosevelt since the days when railways have ex isted has been equal to it. No president has ever succeeded in showing himself to so many of the American people as Mr Roosevelt will have done if he shall suc ceed in making all the visits and "calls" that are on his schedule during the nine weeks after April 1, 1903. Some people will say that the president is going on an electioneering tour and it may be frankly admitted that he would not exert himself so strenuously to meet the western folks If he did not hope and expect to be the candidate of his party for the presidency in 1904. A WARM PACEMAKEIJ. Newport's Monkey Fnnrtlon Out classed by a Horary Affair. Chicago Record-Herald. The "monkey dinner" at Newport, which amazed society swelldom and set the tongues of the swagger set wagging with s fervor that is cot yet abated, has been completely and stunningly eclipsed. The "horsey" dinner given by C. K. G. Billings In the ball room at Sherry's, New York, makes the Newport monkey function look like a country church Ice cream and strawberry festival. Served by pink-coated prooms in a bower of trees and hand-painted brooks jn green meadows, thirty-one guests of Mr. Billings ate from tables while seated astride thirty-one horses. A small table, we are told, was attached to the pommel of each saddle, and the horses were ar ranged in a circle around a centerpiece. The waiters were in white buckskin, with scarlet coats and yellow-(opped boots, and the horses ate shredded oats out of enamel troughs. Who says society In the east Is effete and empty of ideas? What could be more original or clever than this horsey con ceit evolved from the prolific brain of Mr Killings? The acme of polite endeavor was not reached in the monkey dinner, how ever swagger and stunning Its appoint ments. The horsey fete In gastronomy was certainly a pacemaker, but even this is bound to be outdone In time br the busy geniuses of the smart set. ADMIRAL DEWEY'S CBITIC1M. Philadelphia Record: Admiral Dewey needs to be reminded that he won distinc tion In action and not in talking. W are not going to have any war with Germany. Chicago Chronltie: Much Is to bo par doned to the successful soldier and vic torious sailor. Nevertheless It will be con ceded by all reasonable Americans tbat Admiral Dewey should not have publicly uttered comments which the commander of tho German navy necessarily resents as un friendly. International amenity should be observed by the keepers of International peace. Kansas City Star: If the Dewey incident Is closed, as It is said to be, it should at least, result in a better understanding among nnvai officers as to what they should not say for publication. The State depart ment has difficulty enough in framing Its communications in delicate affairs when such communications are necessary. It is especially regrettable when irritating declarations are made without pretext or excuse. Chicago Tribune: Admiral Dewey says "It Is certainly realized that Germany could not make a successful fight with our navy." Be that as it may, remarks of the kind have an Irritating effect when uttered by a naval officer they do not have when made by , a civilian. They do not tend to pro mote cordial relations between German and American officers, who will meet more fre quently in the future than they have done in the past. Springfield Republican: Evidently some one has violated Admiral Dewey's confi dence In publishing an Interview with him In which be comments freely on the Ger man navy. It Is not likely. If he said what is attributed to him, that he expected to see it In print. Such remarks as that the recent United States naval maneuvers In the West Indies were "an object lesson" to the kaiser more than to any other person are not proper for the admlra1. of the American navy to make, Milwaukee Sentinel: It is simply in credible that a man of his well-earned reputation for sterling common sense should so far forget the responsibilities ot his official position and personal prestige as to Indulge in a piece of offensive brag gadocio that In a week must be going the rounds of the British and German news papers as a godsend to the viperous brood of international mischief makers. The per formance of the bibulous Captain Coghlan, even, trivial as it was In Itself and rela. tlvely insignificant as was the offender, was magnified by Jingoism Into a national affront. It international rancor was bred by a comic song warbled by this com paratively Irresponsible captain in his cups, what would be the probable result ot a statement from a man like Admiral Dewey to the effect that our naval policy regards Germany as the enemy, and that the fleet was mobillxed in the Caribbean as a sort ot naval demonstration to overawe the kaiser? PERSONAL .NOTES. Charles M. Schawb's health was so far improved by his trip abroad that he was strong enough to swear off his taxes in New York. John T. Trowbridge, the author, at tho age of 75, in the delightful quietude of his home at Arlington, is engrossed in the preparation of his autobiography, or, as he felicitously puts it, "My Own Story." Thomas F. Folger, for forty years driver of the prison van at Boston, died the other day, leaving a handsome fortune. He was a great reader, but never in the course ot his life was he known to buy a news paper. Those persons who said the creation and procedure ot the strike commission were Irregular are triumphantly vindicated by one fact, anyway. The commission spent only $38,000 of the $50,000 appropriated for its expenses. The earl ot Yarmouth and his American bride will endeavor to get along on an in come of $100,000 a year. This will enable them to keep a girl, hire a man to care for the furnace and maintain an entente cor dlale with the iceman. General George B. Davis, judge advocate general of the army, has' been designated to represent the army at a conference to meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 14 for the purpose of considering proposed changes in the Red Cross convention of August 22, 1864. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, Kan., says that after he had married a couple not long ago the bridegroom fumbled in his pockets nervously without producing anything and finally admitted that he had neglected to provide for the clergyman's fee. "But," he added, brightening up, "I can show you how to Ox your gas meter so that it won't register." William C. Whitney, Plerpont Morgan, Ashbel P. Fitch, William Rockefeller and other wealthy New Yorkers owning large estates in the Adirondacks have Joined In making war on a bill now before the New York state legislature. The measure, if passed, would give wood pulp and water power speculators privileges which are worth millions. The result would be the devastation of large tracts in the Adiron dacks,, and this the millionaires are try ing to prevent. ' ROOSEVELT IX THE WEST. Eastern Paper Aecnrately Slsea UP the Situation. New York Commercial Advertiser. The reports which western men of all parties bring to the east concerning the president's popularity in their section coin cide with the view expressed in our Wash ing dispatches by Senator Warren of Wyo ming. There is no dissenting voice to be heard about It in either party. A recent , democratic candidate for governor In a Paclflo coast state said recently to a iriena In this city that the only chance a candi date in his party bad of success at the polls lay in calling himself a "Roosevelt demo crat." He himself had done that, and had gained so much in consequence tbat be nearly won in the election. The simple fact is that in nearly or quite every Instance In which the president has aroused antagonism In the east he has strengthened himself In the west by that very course of conduct. As the case stands today, be could be elected, bands down, without the aid of New York, were this sta,te to be capable of the folly ot refusing hlra its electoral vote. You owe your eyes proper care It's your first duty to the foremost blesxlng of nature to have them examined by a competent Optician. We era thoroughly niniK ! m and shatl gladly tWI lxmrxs waffle walai you what the trouble Is, and the renieiy. J. C. HUTESON & CO., $13 f. 16th Bt., Pastes Block. AnniTRTiox or i.tnon dispites. Senator llaana Dlarussea the Rein tlons of Labor and Capitol. Senator Marcus A. Hanna. president of the American Civic Federation, speaks In terms of jnstlnted praise of the werk of the president's anthracite roal strike com mission and the manner In which that great labor controversy has been ended. In a long Interview given out at Cleve land Senator Hanna discussed In all its details the great movement which seems to have begun spontaneously In labor cir cles to make demands on capital and the evolution that Is going on in the minds of capitalists on the subject of adopting a rational policy toward labor, which would prevent strikes and lockouts. The chairman of the republican national committee and tho chief of the movement to bring labor and capital into friendly re lations declared that great progress had been made in this direction. One year's result had convinced him that the prin ciple of conciliation was bound to prevail; that strikes would be suppressed and In dustrial peace eventually obtained. Senator Hanna sounded a vigorous warn ing to both capital and labor. Ho said labor must not feel emboldened because It had won the coal strike and because prom inent employers were In the movement to obtain arbitration. Labor would put tsclf back to a far worse position than before by making radical demands. Capital, on the other hand, must recede from the position which so many ot Its representatives occupy, that "there Is noth ing to arbitrate, and nothing to talk about." Senator Hanna was reminded that no statement had come from hlra on the sub ject of the coal-strike report. He was told that the publio expected him to give an expression, either ot approval or disap proval, ot the work of the commission. "I know I have not talked about the coal strike report," said Senator Hanna, "and the reason is that I ought not to talk very much about it. We who are associated with the council of conciliation of tho Clvlo Federation endeavored to prevent this strike by bringing the representatives of the operators and miners together. We endeavored to settle It after It was begun by using out good offices to establish re lations between the operators snd miners. We failed In that because it was Impos sible to get both sides to consent to ar bitration. I have nothing to say as to the responsibility for the continuance ot the strike at this time. "I will say that I am greatly pleased with the work of, the coal strike commis sion. It has been very well done. It is a big thing. It cannot be belittled on its bearing on the future. I hope that the report will lead to the adoption of a plan for permanent peace in the coal regions." "Do you understand that the operators are entirely satisfied?" the senator was asked. "They ars going to accept the report ot the commission, and thsy are behaving well. Indeed," was the aaswer. "Are the miners satisfied?" "They ought to be, and even If they are not entirely satisfied, they will abide by the verdict. John Mitchell is acting splen didly. There Is a man the slse of whose head no success will ever change." Efforts to get Senator Hanna to discuss the attempts made by the Civic Federation to terminate the strike failed. "That is a closed book." he said. It is well known that when the Civic Federation made its attempt to mediate the coal strike, the miners were willing to forego all their other demands and return to work on being given an increase of not 20 per cent, for which they struck, or 10 per cent, on which they offered to compromise, but 6 per cent. Rather than concede that petty advance, certain operators forced a continuance of the strike and entailed a total loss on all concerned of nearly $100, 000,000, and they Anally consented to arbi tration, which gave tho miners 10 per cent and a large number of additional conces sions. "I'll talk about the future," said Senator Hanna, suddenly, after be had made It clear that he was not going to talk about what had gone into history. "Then what do the signs of the times foreshadow, as bearing on the great ques tion of conciliation and arbitration between labor and capital, which has been given such on Impetus by your federation and been illustrated by such a great object lesson as the coal strike?" Senator Hanna was asked. "It Is difficult to predict with exactness on this subject," was the quick reply. "There is a great movement in the ranks of labor for settlement of grievances, a re arrangement of wages and an adjustment of regulations. "Now, I do not think that agitation on the part of organized labor has been fo mented by the Influences which have been felt In favor of arbitration and conciliation. They are coming now because this Is the season ot the year when wage scales art fixed and agreements are 'entered into for the next twelve months, so that, while those who are hostile to any adjustment of relations between labor and capital might say that the agitation has been aided by the work of the coal strike commission, 1 do not think that position can be main tained." 'What Is rapidly coming to pass Is a re alization on the part of the laboring men Waltham Lifelong 'The 'Perfected Amerlctn Witch' n MustnUJ book of interesting information About matches, wilt be sent fret upon request. American Watifum Watch Company Waltham, Mass. As Good as Tho best custom tailors charge a great deal mora than we do. Tbe cheap tailors charge as much. We can fit you out in no time, and make whatever alterations are necessary to a satisfactory flt at $ 10 or up to $25 whatever you want to pay. FURNISHINGS AND' HATS. AO CLOTHlJfO FITS LIKE OURS. Fir j Years tha Standard AW vT9 m. Awirdid Hlghnt Honor. World's Fi!r Highlit tuts U.S. Gov't ChimltU raiot BAttiNa eowosn oo, OHIOAOO that arbitration Is a good thing. There should be confidential relations between labor and capital. There must be a feeling of trust between each other. .The side tbat asks too much or gives not enough will lose public support, and the time Is rap idly coming when the side that loses publlo support loses its cause. "Labor csn easily ask too much sad adopt an attitude tbat will wreck the object for which we are striving. It can ask more than its share. When it does and Insists on it, then labor loses, and its Interests go backward. . "When these labor leaders come to me I say to them, 'Do not ask too much. Wages are high now. Don't forget tbat. They are higher than they ever were In this country before. It may be true that prices are higher, too, but the higher you rolse wages by arbitrary demands tbe further you cut Into the profits of the manufact urers, without whose Invested capital you could not expect to live. It may hasten Industrial depression, which Is bound to tome sooner or later, and the higher you get the greater is going to be tbe drop when that comes.' " "What do you think of the law passed by congress providing lor compulsory ar bitration of labor disputes, which ars likely to affect Interstate commerce or ths citizens of more than one state?" "I do not favor it. Capital does not favor It. The most Intelligent leaders of labor do not favor it, and, more than that. It would probably not be constitutional. I think the coal strike commission acted wisely when it declared that it did not think such a system would meet with ap proval or success." smii.im; hkmarks. "A mule." said Lncle Kben, "Is liable to have his bad spells, but he won't put In all hl time klckln' like some people does. Washington Star. i Ascum: "If 'brethern' Is a synonym thr 'brothers,' why not 'slstern' for 'sisters?' ' Henpeck: Nonsense! I've often heard of a cistern that would dry up occasion ally." Philadelphia Cathollo Standard. Miss Koy In discussing tho "galaxy ot beauty" at the ball the other night Mr. Grafton paid me quite a complln.ent. Miss Spiels The Idea! That'B mo unlike hun. I never before heard of his paying anything before it's due. Chicago Tribune. "There goes my pearl necklace Into the wash basin and down into the trap! Send for the plumber nt once, my dear." "I guess not! Not for one pearl neck lace.' Brooklyn Life,. , . ( "Spring has come!" cried the iceman. Jubilantly. "Nuy." sighed the coal man. "Winter haa gone." Newark News. "George, the cook doesn't like baby." "What are we to do about It?" "I don't know. She Is such a good cook." "And he Is such a bad baby. This seema to settle It. "Better give him a week's notice at once." "George. you're horrid." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Flltey I'm ashamed of my flt of temper last night. It was ridiculous for me to be have that way, and, of course, Miss Love and her mother noticed k, Riley Yes, they thought you rather crazy, but I fixed it up all right. Flltey 1M you, oM man? Kltey Sure. I told 'em you were only drunk Philadelphia Press. IlAISlXi THK WISH, Victor Smith In New York Press. Here Is Kugene Field's best poem, be cause It whs hl most effective one. When In the pangs of Impecunio.sliy. he appealed to the cashier of the Chicago News In a way that seldom fulled to secure 'the for bidden Hilary advance: Sweet Bhekiisford, the week Is near Its end. And, as my ciwtnm Is. I com to thee; There Is no oth-r who has piif to lend. At leHst no pelf to lend to hapless mej Nay, gentle SnekolMford, turn not away, 1 must have wealth, for this la Saturday. Ah, now thou smll'st a soft, relenting smile Thy previous frown was but a pointing Joke, T knew ihy heart would melt with pity while Thou heard'st mo pleading I was very iToke. Niy, Hk me not If I've a note from Stone, When I approach thi-e, O thou best of men! 1 bring no notes, hut boldly and alone 1 woo sweet hope and strike thee for a ten! Watches friends. the Best
