14 'THE OMAHA DAILY JJEE: SUNDAY, AritIL 19. 1903. Tie Omaiia Sunday Ber K. FOdEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Pee (wltliout Sunday). On Ttar..4n Lai1y Hee and Sunday, on Tear " Jllutitrated Bee. On Year..' Sunday fcee. One Vear jf ' Csturday on Tear " Twentieth Century Farmer, On Tear.. 1.9 I'ELi VKRKD BY CARRIClt. Dally Be (without 8unday, per copy.... JC Illy Be (wtlhoul Sunday), per wek...Uc lallir Bee (including Sunday), per week..io Hunday Bee, ir copy J0 Evening hue (without Sunday), per week Evening fce (Including Sunday), Pr week 10c Complaint of Irregularities n d.lvry bould b addressed u CU clrcuist.on De partment. OFFICES. Ompha The Be Building. South Orcar.a City Hall Building", Twenty-fifth and M Mtrets Council bluffs iu Petri Street. Chlcac 164u Unity Building. New York 'i2M I'ark Row Bui A n. Washington Wl Fourteenth Htreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed: Oir.ana l. 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Those new Easter bonuets really haven't bud a fair show. The corporation tlo not care who write the platform, ito long as they elect the coudldates. Those high officers of the army and navy Indicted for smuggling In Porto Itlco ought to have been above stooping to such low practices. , If Mayor Moores had not used his veto so often In the Interest of tbe pco pie, be would not have the corporations fighting him tooth and nail now. Sir Thomas Llpton will have a good excuse anyway If bis new cup chal lenger falls to outsail tbe cup defender any better than bis previous yachts. The World-Herald has languished mighty mum about the coal trust ever since tbe coal trust man got tbe bead on the democratic nomination for mayor. If tbe great anthracite coal strike could be successfully adjusted by arbl tratlon, so can all the smaller strikes with which the country is afflicted In different branches of Industry. As If not satiated with tbe results of the session only lately closed, certain Colorado people seem to Tvnnt their leg Islature reconvened. Some folks never .know wben they have had enough. New Jersey has not yet announced what it proposes to do to fortify Itself against the possibility of tbe merger de clslon knocking Its treasury out of a whole lot of trust Incorporation fees. It Is a safe bet that no $1,000 bills were floating around loose lu the neigh borhood of Nebraska lawmakers wben they were In session. Bills of $100 de nomination would have looked big to them. Tbe lieutenant governor of Missouri docs not seem to have been deterred from getting Into the real business of the session by he fact that, as a rule, bis position Is simply that of a legisla tlve figurehead. The success of the president in eluding office seekers while in the Yellowstone park ought to make that a favorite rec reation ground for periodical visits whenever the pressure at Washington gets too strong. From the strenuous efforts making to get the order of the court in the North ern Securities case modified, the merger magnates do not put much faith In their trst announcement that the decision made no difference to them anyway. St. Louis world's fair managers may try to Imagine If they can what a pre dicament they would be In had they re fused to postpone their exposition and the coming dedication exercises marked the opening Instead of antedating it a whole year. That Ouiaba man who committed sui cide, leaving over $10,000 lu good se curities behind blm, could not nav-i pur sued a course surer to arouse the tender solicitude of all the rxlntkes who during bis lifetime were oblivious of bis existence. Tbe efforts of the Clarfcson Memorial hospital, through the medium of a char ity ball, to rain a bulldlug fund for Improvements certain to be needed soon to facilitate the work It is doing, should receive substantial encouragement from Omaha's public-spirited citizens. The hospital Is a semi-public Institution it draws no lines at creed, nationality or worldly potst'salons aud Its useful ness ran be greatly euhauccd by liberal public support In tbe Interest of all hu inanity. Stat t Nebraska. Dougia County. ss Oeore B. Tsecbui-k, ecretary of fhe He Publishing Company, being duly worn, ih.. u- i-, 1 1 3 1 number of full and MORE L10HT--LEXS HKAT. The paramount Issues of the campaign ore equitable taxation, municipal own ership and home rule. While the can flldates of nil parties stand on platforms pledging them to favor municipal own ership and equitable taxation, the tax payers must take these promises and pledges for what they are worth. The pressing n?ed of the hour Is more light and less lient. ' The n;en who ore vitally concerned In the growth find prosperity of Oiuaha should divest themselves ns far a pos sible of factlouil and partisan preju dice and bitterness In determining for themselves and for the whole commun ity where they should put their trust. Until the law of gravitation Is abro gated, the st rerun will never rise above Its source. Political candidates are rarely above the level of the common uinss that constitutes their party. In the present municipal campaign the rank and file of the republican party is represented by Frank E. Moores and the rank and file of democracy by E. Howell, and one of these two men will be the next mayor of Omaha. The ntrUBlon of the .pseudo-populist candi date 1 a diversion gotten up In the In terest of the democratic candidate, backed by the corporations. That fact s manifest to fill Intelligent observers. No amount of noise and vituperation can deceive anyone conversant with tbe situation that Benson has not a ghost of chance of election. As a pretended populist Benson baa no following and no petition candidate was ever elected In Omaha or Is likely to be in the year 1903. The level-headed taxpayer, whether he be a real estate owner, a manufac turer, a mercbant or a wageworker should propound to himself these ques tions: 1. Is there any hope or chance for municipal ownership under a mayor who Is In advance mortgaged to the fmnchlsed corporations? 2. Is there any prospect of equitable taxation from a hoard of Review dic tated by the corporations? 3. Is there any hope for local self- government from nn administration dominated by alien corporations? 4. Are the taxpayers and property owners of Omaha willing to sacrifice and lose all they have fought for during the past two years to gratify factional spite and pers6nal dislike? Are they willing to cut off their noses to spite their faces? r it lex or tub meroer Decision. Will the great corporations control the people or will the people control the great corporations? That question was tersely propounded for the first time In the historic campaign that culmi nated In the adoption of the present constitution of California and tho elec tion of Newton Booth In March, 1875, to the United States senate. Nine years later congress made the first serious at tempt to regulate railroad traffic by the enactment of the Interstate roinmereo law. ' " Up to that time railroad managers and railroad attorneys persistently resisted every effort at national railroad regula. tlon. When the editor of The Bee ap peared before tbe committee on com merce of the lower house of congress In 1888 Jn support of the Regan bill, that furnished tbe basis of the Interstate commerce act, representatives of the railroads Insisted before the committee that railroads were private property and that congress might as well undertake to regulate the price of bread or the price of groceries and hardware, as to regulate freight rates or prescribe re strlctlons to Interstate traffic. Now th United States court of ap peals declares in Its recent Northern Se curities merger decision that congress has not merely the right to prohibit un Just and unreasonable rates, but the right to prohibit such an ownership of competing railroads as by destroying competition tends to produce unjust and unreasonable rates. That the enunciation of this principle will have far-reaching consequences is a foregone conclusion. While the rail road systems embraced In the Northern Securities merger will doubtless con tlnue to be operated on tbe community of Interest plan under reciprocity traffic arrangements, the dissolution of the Se curltles company and tbe rescension of the stock Jobbing and bond Jobbing deals by which the Burlington ceased to be an Independent, self-governing sys tem, will have a most salutary effect Whether the courts so declare or not, the Issue of bond In exchange for stocks either at a ratio of two to one or dollar for dollar Is fraught with danger to the American people. Tbe conversion of stocks Into bonds Is a far greater menace to the American people than the consolidation of competing lines of railroad. The merger decision by which the Bur llngton rond is to be cut loos? from the ?rtat Northern and Northern Pnclfic recalls the fact of a preceding lawless merger nearer home. Section S of nrtl cle xl of the Constitution of Nebraska reads as follows: No railroad corporation or telegraph company shall consolidate It stock, prop erty, franchises or earnings In whole or t pert with any other corporation or tele graph company owning a parallel or com petlng line. In the face of this specific coustltu tloual prohibition the Burlington St. Mis sourl River Railroad company absorbed the stocks, property and franchises of the Atchison & Nebraska railroad, which was parallel to the Burlington road, and as a natural consequence of this merger the people on the line of the Atchison & Nebraska have been deprived of all the benefits of competition. ' And yet, wheu this flagrant violation of the con stltutlou was brought directly befo the supreme court of Nebraska, that trl biin?l sanctioned and upheld the uueon Ultutional merger In a decision that I will stand unique among Us variegated Interpretations and Interpolations of the constitution of Nebraska. But this extraordinary decision has not abrogated the constitution. Sooner or later the Issue that was decided In fuvor of the Atchison and Burlington merger will be re-opened. If not In the state court In the federal courts, and If the Northern Securities decision fhall be sustained by the s-iprenio court of the United States tlie deal by which the Atchison & Ne bttisk:! was. swept from the map may be annulled, as It should have been iy the state court had it hewed to the line In conformity with the plain pro visions of the constitution. DCASOA-THl' OVSIXKSH MAX. Erustus A. Benson has been presented to the citizens of Omaha as a candidate for major on the ground, that Omahu needs a business administration by a successful business man. Up to date, however, the Benson boomers have not specified what enterprise Mr. Benson has ever conducted successfully and when and where he earned the reputa tion of n successful business man. Mr. Benson has lived in Omaha about fifteen years and during that period he has been Identified with various proj ects and business concerns. His Intro duction Into Omaha was that of a promoter and real estate boomer and In that capacity he was associated with the somewhat notorious firm of C. E. Mayne & Co., which after a great splurge collapsed like a balloon aud left several hundred wrecks as the natural product of its work and operations. Mr. Benson was a stockholder and director In the Nebraska Savings bank, which concern also collapsed, leaving a very large amount of wreckage. If memory serves us right, Mr. Benson was a stockholder and director In the Consolidated Coffee company, and that enterprising firm also shared the fate of the Nebraska Savings bank, and still another bank with which Mr. Benson was identified. Mr. Benson's connec tion with other defunct enterprises does not warrant the claims made for blm a successful business man, but rather the contrary. Whether these repeated failures and the frequent miscarriage of his plans may all be chargeable to a lack of busi ness qualifications or lack of Integrity on the part of his associates is yet a mystery. Whatever may have been the cause, Mt. Benson can scarcely be pointed out ns one of the successful business men of Omaha. Incidentally we may be pardoned also for express Ing the doubt as to whether Mr. Ben son would, If elected as mayor, give Omaha any more successful business administration than he has given to private enterprises that have flourished and passed away. THE COLORED RACK PROBLEM. W think that nearly everybody will agreo with the view expressed by ex 'nsldent Cleveland in regard to tho roblem respecting the colored race. Mr Cleveland declared himself to hi the r end of the colored man and to deslro bis education and intellectual improve mcnt That is what every man should wish and seek for. Tbe Intellectually cultlvatcel negro Is the man who will make a good citizen and without such education the colored man can not be depended upon to discharge his obllga tlons as a citizen. He will be simply a creature in the hands of the white man following not his own Judgment, but that of the person whose influence con trols blm. The Intelligent colored man of the north Is an independent man, casting his vote according to his judgment. He Is very generally a republican because he recognizes what that party has done for bis race, but he is not absolutely bound to that party ar.1 there are many colored men who vote the democratic ticket. Mr. Cleveland was entirely right In urging that the colored race should be educated and that It Is the duty of our people to do all that Is possible to promote the Intellectual advancement of the negro. In that Is to be found the only real and certain solution of the great race problem which confronts tho country. TBK SILVER COMMISSION. . About the middle of next inonth the commission appointed by President Roosevelt to go to Europe with a view to Interesting the governments in the question of arranging a policy of ex change between silver and gold will take Its departure. The Importance of this movement Is perhaps not generally appreciated. It means a change of con dltlons in the tlnanclul world that will have effecto of a far-reaching nature and may result In absolutely altering the relative financial powers of the two con tinents. It Is by no means Improbable that as an outcome of the financial trim factions that will result from what Is now pending, the city of New York rather than Loudon will become the financial center of the world and the great arbiter of the value of exchange, as London has been for centuries. Thero is very good reason for bellev Ing that this will be the case. As mat ters now stand there la no question that New York Is the commanding Influence In the stock markets of the world. every mart the course of the Wall street market Is the barometer by which every other market is Influenced and deter mined. At London, at Berlin and at Paris the quotations on the New York Stoc exchange ore a controlling factor. They determine values and dictate the course of speculation. Whatever Is done In Wall street furnishes the cue for what Is to be done abroad and there Is never a day that the Influence of the New York market Is not felt. It Is In this respect that the silver coir:mlstlon will find lu Its foreign In quiry a promising chance of accomplish ing what It alms at. Thin, It should be tnderstond. Is not the rehabilitation of sliver, but rsther the strengthening of the gold standard. Tbe purpose In view, even by the Mexican government. Is not to put silver money to the front, but to steady its currency by making Its silver coin still more subject to the authority of gold as the standard of the commercial world. The policy even of Mexico aud also of China Is to get Into concert with the gold standard coun tries, that being manifestly the only way In which the progress and pros perlty of those countries, Industrially and commercially, can be advanced. The commission appointed by Presi dent Roosevelt is composed of men who are thoroughly familiar with the subject and who can be depended upon to pre sent it to the European governments In thoroughly lntelllg?nt manner. There Is good reason to believe that the re sult will be entirely satisfactory. QUOD HOADS PHUMOTIOX. The movement for the promotion of good roads Is making steady progress nd there Is good reason to think that wllhln the next few years we shall wit ness n developuiVnt In this direction that will be of Immense benefit to tin; country. The legislature of Pcnnsyl- ania has just passed a bill that appro priates ?!l..")00,000 for rond Improvement throughout the state for the next six eor8 and It Is not difficult to under stand what this will result In for the farmers of that state, as well as for the tliousonds of people who will be given tniplcyinent In the building of the roads. In the last week of the present month there la to be held at St. Louis an in ternational convention for the promotion of good roads aud a number of promi nent men will make addresses uf the convention, among them Presido.it Roosevelt. Undoubtedly this coavontlon will exert a great deal of Inilueuce In behalf of the policy for which It Is called and It Is needless to pay tliiit whatever can be done for the promo tion of good roads Is worthy of the moist earnest encouragement. The good roads movement Is one of those entirely prac tical matters thnt means benefit for the ntlre country and Is worthy of the heartiest support of everybody. One member of the Philippine com mission expresses the opinion that the administration of Justice iu the Philip pine Islands Is substantially ns good as It Is In any state In the union. This Is saying a greot deal, yet It must be ad mitted, however humiliating, that the administration of Justice In many states of the union could be wonderfully Im proved without great effort at that. The Filipinos have tbe advantage, ap parently, of our forms of Judicial pro cedure and the groundwork of our law as transplanted for them, without the abuses that have grown Into the system here. We may yet learn something from the Filipinos about the administra tion of Justice and effective suppression of crime and lawlessness. The discovery has been made that losses to the extent of approximately $100,000 have been sustained by the state school fund of Indiana from bad loans on real estate security. Nebraska had Its experience with land mortgage loans of Its school money the first few years of its statehood, with a similar result that thousands of dollars loaned out were never repaid. The revised con stitution of Nebraska put a perpetual stop to this practice by prohibiting the Investment of the school fund except In specified securities, from which real es tate mortgages are excluded. Nebraska perhaps shut the door too tight, but In diana evidently would do better to profit by Nebraska's experience as well as Its own. English railroad experts examining our railway systems are expressing amazement at the enormous sums American companies are expending for Improvements. They might with equal propriety express amazement at the stu pendous cheapness of the original con struction of our railroads as compared with European roads which has made It necessary practically to replace them to meet the demands of modernized traffic. Had. American railroads been more substantially built In the first place, they would not need such costly Improvements now. Remember, that at the republican primaries, In spite of a gerrymandered apportionment, In spite of election boards notoriously packed against him, In spite of corporation boodle, In spite of the Boatch police club. In spite of the secret dark lantern cabals, Frank E. Moores carried five out of eight con tested wards In the city and 73 out of 143 delegates In the convention. His renominatlon was voted at the polls by the rank and file of the party. Men have a right to bolt, but they have no right to Invent false excuses for their bolting. Our German friends are trying to conjure np nn Insult to themselves out of the fact that Uncle Sam declined an Invitation to send his fleet to Kiel, but let his ships visit Marseilles, where they Joined In the salute to President Loubet If America were wantonly discriminating In favor of France as against Germany, the latter might have cause to fly Into dudgeon, but the facts hardly warrant the charge. If worse conies to worst, The Hague tribunal might be called In on a request to arbl trate. The railroads are arranging special trains to bring ieople In from the sur rounding country rt several points where the president Is to stop on his way from the Yellowstone to 8t. Louis. What are they going to do In this direc tion to accommodate people who would be glad to visit Omaha at the same time that President Roosevelt visits us? The new Department of Commerce Is steadily taking form aud will soon b occupying the field sselgued to It. Its opportunities for usefulness are wlden- Ing with tbe recent trust decisions and If any expected the department to be simply an ornamental piece of govern ment machinery they are destined to be thoroughly disappointed. Hope On, How Ever. Chicago Record-Herald. A Kentucky woman has resigned from th Daughter of the American Revolution be cause ibe can't vote. This is a terrible revenge, but let us hope tbe country will bear up bravely. Belated CrltleUan. Baltimore American. General Grant has been attacked for his generalship In the civil war. Now, let somebody come forward to prove that Washington made a huge tactical mistake when be crossed th Delaware. Sample of Race SdIcI4. Brooklyn Eagle. In the laat fight In Mindanao 100 Moros were killed and only three Americans. The barbarians will lean, after a while, that It Is not economy to fight Taokees. War gainst Yankees is race suicide. Jtnty'i Hamne Work. New York Tribune. Th thoughtful car which is now lav ished upon the victims of tuberculosis among clvlllied peoples In this twentieth century receives a new Illustration In the provision in New Jersey's annual appro priations of $300,000 for the sanatorium tor consumptives. A New American Class. Hartford Times. "Financee" Is a good word and ought to be put Into the dictionaries. So long at needy noblemen Come to this great country In search of rich heiresses, which many of them succeed In finding, "finance" must remain a proper and useful term. If the financing of an earl does not make the young woman who accomplishes It by agreeing to marry him a "financee," how shall we classify her? Hew GaeaalnaT Contest. Boston Herald. Here Is an extract from the latest novel of Henry James, now running in the North American Review: "She knew her theater, she knew her play, as she had known, triumphantly, for three days, everything else, and the mo ment filled to the brim, for her companion, that apprehension of the Interesting which, whether or no the Interesting happened to filter through his guide, strained now to Its limits hie brief opportunity." The point is to guess what It's all about. Democratle Tariff Threat. Philadelphia Press. David B. Hill, In a speech delivered on Monday, declared that the Issue in the next campaign should be "Immediate tariff revision." Edward M. Shepard, who was the democratic candidate for mayor of New York agalnBt Mr. Low, In a recent speech said: "Instead of Introducing doubt Into almost every business the democratic party may well deal with the few sched ules in which, through practical monopoly, vast fortunes have been made." The two leaders differ materially. It does not mat ter which course the democrats pursue The republican party will attend to the tariff at the right time, and It does not propose that the business of the nation shall be upset by democratle threats. THS GRISDIKO PROCESS. Tralnlns; of the Present Day Toward Self-Repression. St. Louis Republic. In this day ot common motive and com bined activity the Individual seems to be at a discount, comparatively Insignificant besldo the great purpose and progression of which he is a part. He It a mere bit of machinery rather than a complete, Individ ual engine. Apart, by. himself, he Is ot small moment; It Is only his strength as a unit In the collective whole that counts. To be an effective factor he must sink in dividuality. The who'e training of the present day It toward self-repression, and this It at it should be. It It aomewnat anomalous that self-repression makes for character. It does. Just at self-denial makes for power, just at mute, unquestioning ccrvlce makes for generalship, ability to direct.-' Thus, Instead of cheapening man hood the present day business lite gives It co-ordination, fiber and tone. It Is a refining yet a strengthening process. It Is a more even yet a more potent and effective life that we lead these days. It it con- I certed effort and common enterprise, grad ual, ture, continuous; at against a riotous Individuality of former times, sporadic, full of mistakes, uncertain. It Is tbe difference between trained energy and misdirection ; concentration and waste. Finely tempered and powerful individuality brings success today jio less than formerly. Perhaps the road is a little longer now, but achieve ment! are more substantial and enduring. On the whole, there Is no good reason tor the man of today to despair because he It "ground down." If he hat the Intrinsic! merit, the grinding will develop t. If ho lacks it, he Is perhaps even better off at factor in the big machinery than he would be in Independent action. HOW TO GET RID OF DRLDGERY. Lot of Work ssd Content Lightens Every Day's Task. O. S. Marsden In Success. Three things Ruekln considered neces sary to that happiness In work which Is tbe rlpht as well as the privilege of every human being: "They" (men and women). must be fit for It: they must not do too much ot It, and tbey must have a sense of success in it not a doubtful sense, such at neede tome testimony of other people for its confirmation, but a sure tense, or. rather, knowledge, that so much work has been done well,, and fruitfully done, what ever the world tray say or think about it." No man It original, prollflo or strong, unless hit heart glvea full consent to what he Is doing, and he feels a glow of content and satisfaction in every dny't well-done work. If you are In love with your work, and dead In earnest in your efforts to do it as well as It can be done; If you are to enthualtstlo about It that you fairly be grudge the time taken from it for your meals and recreation, you will never be bored by It; tbe drudgery which other feel you will never know. A fond mother feels no sense of drudgery In her housework, In the Infinite details of sweeping, dusting, cooking, mtndlag snd making for her loved ones. The long days and nights of care and toll spent minister ing to the crippled, deaf and dumb, or in valid child, have never a thought of us willing labor In them. What are years ot waiting and hardahlp and disappointment, and Incessant toll to an Inspired artist? What caret the writer whose heart Is in bis work for money or fame compared with the Joy of creation ? What are long courses of seaming drudgery to the poor student working hit way through college, If hit heart it aflame with deelre for knowledge, and hi soul is athlrtt for wisdom? What does It matt how long a man work If bit work, even bumble. It a credit to blm? In tbe production of the best work, the co-operation of heart and head It neces sary. Its quantity at well a quality wilt be measured by the amount of love that la put Into It. "H loved labor for it own take," said Macaulay of Frederick the Great. "His exertions were such as were hardly to be expected trout a human body or a human mind." SBCIXAR SHOT! AT THE FILPIT. Atlanta Constitution: A New York preacher threatens to make public the names ot tbe women In hie church who drink. Maybe the man Is tired of his Job but Just bates to quit It voluntarily. Baltimore American: A New Jersey min ister has fixed the end of the world In 1915 that Is, unless circumstances over which he hat no control change the sched ule, ss sueh circumstances have been known to do before with similar proph ecies. Buffalo Times: Th seiton of the Vatican In appointing Bishop Montgomery, coad jutor archbishop ot California, to bo arch bishop of Manila, and Rev. D. J. Dough erty of Philadelphia to be a bishop In the Philippines, It as good evidence as Is reeded St the pope's friendliness to Amer ican sway and of his acquiescence In the opinion expressed by tbe late Chaplain McKlnnoa that great Improvement In the Islands could be brought about by substi tuting American for Spanish priests. Indianapolis Journal: Four churches In New York City took up collections on Eatter Sunday amounting to 174,000 a Presbyterian church $41,000, sa Episcopal church $21,000, a Baptist church $8,000 and a Methodist church $7,000. Those are big figures, bat they represent only s small part ot the aggregate contributions at Easter services, and In most Instances the object was to wipe out mortgages. Mort gages are not mentioned by any of the apostles or early tatheri of the church. Springfield Republican: Protestant Eng land seems to regard without disfavor King Edward's approaching call upon the pope at the Vatican. Time was when such an act by an English monarch would have been Impossible and tbat time does not date far baek. But everyone now sees the rea sonableness of the proposed visit. King Edward, although himself oath-bound to a certain Protestant church, has millions of Roman Catholic subjects. The call will tend to appease those persons, who natur ally felt outraged by the language of tbe coronation oath. PERIOXAt, AND OTHERWISE. The Shape of the cup defender Is that ot a tea saucer. Of courts the cup goes with It. The grand juries are striving bravely to find out whether there were any honest men in the late legislature of Missouri. Cincinnati Is about to add another for eign duke to Its collection. At the same time an imported duke Is about to open a saloon In a Missouri town. The late queea of Hawaii had better success in Honolulu than In Washington. The legislature of the territory voted her consolation purse of $150,000. A quiet game of draw rudely rtlded by the police of New York developed nothing stronger than a hand of tour aces. Tbe owner was paralyzed by the disturbance. The moonlight squeese must be a highly prised article la Illinois wben a girl de mands $2,600 for one impressive hug. Per haps she would give bargain counter rates for Job lots. A Kantst City man was fined $5 for laughing at a vaudeville joke about the location of the proposed union depot. Served him right. The depot proposition is no joke, not by a west bottoms site. The federal circuit court has gently hinted to the master plumbers of St. Lsult tbat they must not plug every leak In their pipes so as to prevent non-members from getting a Job. Since the court's reminder the master plumbers have discovered some good la the policy of live and let live. They have a story up in Minnesota tbat after a reception to the president In St, Paul Governor Van Sent put on Mr, Roose velt's overcoat by- mistake. So well did It fit blm that he did not discover bis error until he found a revolver in one of the pockets. "Speak softly," thought the gov ernor st he hastened to divest himself ot the presidential garment. When It comet to smooth -work in any of the activities ot lite the Chicago man does not crowd th rear benches. One of them took his nerve and a gilt sign to a town In Ohio, opened a bank, took in oodles of money, and disappeared with tbe stuff. No sympathy should be wasted on the left. The shock comet In the revela tion that tome Buckeyet are "dead easy." AVCB POR GOOSE AND OANDEH. Carious Difference According to th Point o View. Cleveland Leader (ren.). Financiers, discussing the blow struck by the United States government against mo nopoly In tbe railroad world and In other great business Interests, assume tbat if there Is not combination In one form or another between railways, which are nat ural competitors, there must be "war." A reasonable, stimulative and In nowise de- FROM Missouri River Terminals ROUND TRIP July I to 10, Inolualve. $16.00 June) IS to September 30, Ino. A7 Cn to Denver, Colorado Springs and 01 f U U Pueblo. Glenwood Springs S29.50 $30.60 Ogden April 31, May $32.00 $34.50 $44.50 $52.00 Ogden Butte and Spokane. Portland, May 3 and 12 August I to ONE Every Day $20.00 $22.60 $25.00 $25.00 City Ticket Office, 1324 Farnam Street. 'Phone 316. Union Station, 101b and Marcy. 'Phone 628. struetlve rivalry appears to be considered Impossible. These seme capitalist sre sreustomed to argue that the trade unions are sadly In error when they Interfere with free natural compel ii nm ivr . . " . . . i a v U U'k .t la aMIini'! h n.aarll "r" In thft CBS Of tW companies is called freedom and sound In dependence when wage camera are under discussion. The difference in the rolnt of view it manlfetted la a curious manner. As long ss men at tho hesd of grost corpo rations thow such one-ldedness In their views there will be plenty ot opportunity for trouble between big companies and labor unions on one side and the courts on the other. It Is such nsrrowness which makes strikes nnd deadlocks In the Indus trial world bitter when they come ani more common than they need be. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. After the Wedd!ng.-E!hel Mow 4ld you think the br de nok"ri? Grace Oh. remarkably well-groomed. Harvard Lampoon. Church I see a Jrrsev man Is complain ing heranne his wife thought mrre of a dog than she dkl of him. Oothnm Well, perhaps the dog growlsd less. Yonkera Statesman. "So your house I being built at lastr" "Yes." "I thought tne plans didn't suit you." "Oh, they don't, but they suit my wife and the architect now." Philadelphia Press. "I let him hold my hand last evening," she told her dearest friend. "Well?" "Well," she sold with a regretful rlgh "he wa.i ee.tls.1ed with that." Chli ag J Post. Mrs. T.swsnn Hnw have you managed so suoci suful'.y to keep your husband's love? Mrs. Dawson I have rever crated to flat ter him. Bomervllle Journal. "Poor fellow, he loves her for all he's worth." "He loved her more than that yester day." "How do you mean?" "He borrowed a ten-snot from "me to send her some Eatter flower." Phil tdel phia Press. , "81s Is engiged to that feller that calls every right,'' announced the bov. "'How do you know?" they aked. 'Cause she doesn't powder her face anv more when he's coming," anwe ed the ob serving youngster. Chicago News. 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