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12 THE OMATTA DAILY TtEEj SATURDAY, APTtlli 25, 100.T. Tiie Omajia Daily Bee. . E. ROdE WATER, EDITOR. rUBLTSHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF 8UBBCIUPTION. Dslly l'.ee (without Sunday), On Tear..$4.00 llly Hee anil tiunday, Una Year llluRtratpd Hee, One Yar J0" Sunday Uee, One Year Saturday Ue, Una Year Twentieth Century Farmer, One Tear.. LW DELIVERED BY CARRIES. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... lo latly Bea (without Sunday), per week.. .120 Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week. .170 hunilay Bee, per copy Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week So Evening Bea (Including Sunday), P. week 10o 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 Htreeta. Council Bluffa 10 pearl Street Chicago lwki Unity Building. New York 232!) Bark How Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Tzschuck. secretary of The Bee PubiiMhinv rvimuinv. beina duly sworn, ays that the actual nuramr oi iun complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month ol Alarcli, lK, was aa iou. 1 80,318 17 81,700 1 81.B1U t 31,730 31.U10 IS 81,730 II Sl.ttHO 20 81.4W) 81.RUO 22 SO.210 2S 3850 24 31.040 26 81,810 2 81,740 27 81,770 28 81,670 29 89,000 80 81,aO U .31,700 .81,980 .Sl,tiUO .ai.uso .20,170 81,JOO ...81,600 11 81, TOO 12 81,70 13 81,760 14 81.700 U 29,530 It 81,040 ToUl Less unsold and returned copies .670,095 , 10,481 Net total sales 909,614 Net average sales 80.U5S GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this ttist day of March, A. D., tful. M. B. HUNUATE, (Seal.) Notary Publlo. The alleged enthusiasm among demo crats for Ed Howell bag not yet mani fested Itself In the present campaign. Silver bas gone up to 62.1 cents per ounce. But that does not make the silver In a dollar worth 50 cents yet The Investigation of alleged fraudulent practices In the postofflce departments seems to be getting pretty close to the fusing point , It Is In accord with the eternal fitness of things for political boomers to do their blowing through a fakery. Like master like man. The death of the originator of the "Gin Rickey" clears the field for some one else to make himself famous by mixing a new decoction that will touch the popular palate. President Roosevelt would doubtless I gladly sign a testimonial that two weeks In the Yellowstone park Is better physic for tired man than all the drug store concoctions ever Invented. Benson's boomer record will scarcely commend him as a safe man to admin ister the affairs ot a municipal corpora tion like the city of Omaha with more than $100,000,000 worth of property. - Perhaps that Illinois legislature Is trying simply to give a few object les sons for the benefit of Uncle Joe Can non, who la to be speaker of the next bouse of representatives and who is an Illinois man himself. The petition for the boomer mayor which was advertised to contain thou sands of. signatures disclosed when filed with the city clerk only about 700 names. But this Is a good example of boom methods of Inflation. If the decent people who have been besieging Governor Mickey for the past ten days, trying to Instruct bjm as to bis duties in the appointment of the new police board, are to be believed, there are very few decent people In South Omaha. Having broken his rule to confine his free distribution of surplus wealth to library endowments, Andrew Carnegie ought to have less difficulty in putting into practice bis preachment about the man being disgraced who dies over burdened with riches. The new Chinese minister ahows his diplomacy at the start by seizing his first opportunity in a public speech to tell bow finely America Impresses him. The Chinese may express It differently, but they know that more International flies are caught with sugar than with vinegar. It will be pretty bard to .make people believe that the administration ot municipal affairs under Frank E. Moores Is wasteful and extravagant nrhen the tax bills for the current year are com ing In with smaller figures than ever before In the history of Omaha since It attained metropolitan proportions. Ed Howell Is the man most responsl- tie for the insertion Into the charter of the exemption clause by which the rail- roads entering Omaha hara nnloarlml hundreds of thousands of dollars of city taxea onto the shoulders of the unprivl- leged property owner. Yet he bas the nerva to proclaim himself a champion of equal taxation. The new German minister may be em barrassed over the fact that bis recent advent Into Washington will put him far to the rear In the procession of dip lomats at St Louis, but the German population there will reassure him later with ample evidence that be Is In one American city that retains close com munion with the fatherland if It takes ! whol brewery to da 1 mOTKCTMQ HKR lHDCSTMCS. Canada Is showing a determination to more fully protect her industries, par ticularly in Iron and steel. There has for some time been an active saltation for increased protection and although the government does not contemplate a general revision of the tariff at this time it is pledged to the imposition of a duty on steel, rails as soon as they can be manufactured there in sufficient quantity to meet the home demand. This will probably be in the near fu ture. There is now one extensive steel rail plant in operation and another about ready to be put in operation, so that in the opinion of those engaged in this Industry it will be only a short time until Canada will be producing all the steel rails which that country will require. This is understood to be the Initial step In a policy of promoting the devel opment of the iron and steel Interests of the Dominion, to be followed as con ditions shall render expedient with other duties. There is being shown a very active interest in this branch of in dustry, several companies with large capital having been organized within a year for its promotion. That more progress has not been made is due largely to American competition, but the pressure upon the government for protection against this competition is so strong that it can hardly be much longer resisted. One prominent manu facturer voiced what is undoubtedly the general sentiment In the iron and steel Industry In saying that it is the part of wisdom to encourage to the fullest possible extent outlets for the utiliza tion of Canadian-made pig Iron in the home production of every line of fin ished material that Canada uses. That this is the true policy for that country will not be doubted by any American believer in the principle of protection. Having the raw material Canada should utilize it in building up her industries, thereby creating a home market for her agricultural producers. Canada has had a fair measure of pros perity during the last few years. She has increased her foreign trade and ber domestic commerce has grown mate rially, but the country advances slowly in population and this will be the case until her industries are more exten sively developed. Of course Canada is at a disadvantage industrially because of her proximity to the United States, but this is not an absolutely insur mountable Impediment to her progress, Canadians are still cherishing the hope of reciprocity with the United States and there Is talk of efforts being made to reconvene the Joint high commission with a view to considering reciprocity proposals, but there Is not at present any promise that such negotiations would be successful. MHOCLD TBK LAW BK MUDIFlEDt There are Indications' that an effort will be made in the next congress to modify the anti-trust law of 1800. An eastern paper, somewhat disposed to favor the combinations, declares that the Sherman act was a reckless and danger ous piece of legislation and that "the only safety, the only protection. Is to bo found In an amendment of the act re quiring that before contracts can be an nulled, corporations dissolved and busi ness destroyed, some proof .must be ad duced that under the powers obtained by combination wrongful and oppres sive acts have been committed, extor- tlnate charges Imposed, and that a pol icy not potentially but in fact contrary to the public Interest has been pur sued." This view Is precisely In accord with the position taken by the Northern Securities company, which urged that noming naa actually Decn done con trary to the public Interest The an swer of the court to this contention was that whatever the motives that prompted the merger, the securities company had acquired a power which enabled It to do those things which the law forbids and therefore was illegal. Obviously if the question of motive were to be considered any combination could evade the law by simply declar ing that It was Intended, as was said in oenair or tne securities company, to benefit the public There la another phase of the matter, however, that seems worthy of serious consideration. This Is that the law as judicially interpreted makes no dls- : crimination between reasonable and un reasonable restraints of trade. It has been suggested by Attorney General Knox that the anti-trust act should be so modified as to forbid only unreason- awe restraints of trade and Mr. Beck. who made the chief argument for the government in the securities case, con curred in this view. It has heretofore been noted that in the Joint traffic case four of the Justices of the supreme court of the United States, In a dissent mg opinion, field that the anti-trust law was intended to anDlv onlv to n. reasonable restraint of trade It Is this Doint that win nbM. v - - aiij aTJ Ul CU upon the attention of the next congress and an amendment i - v-itvA 11 lie with the suggestion of tho nttnrn general and the dissenting opinion of the supreme court Justices In the Joint txarnc case. Wi . it is urged tliat such a modification ea t mpZ ' luTinratTon to Z " 1 .'pa , UB Talue n relation to the I ,iue 11 wouia remove 'rorn application those cor- l'rat,on'j nlch it could be easily j0 do work Bn unreasonable , lnt or trale' aNnouph they may to some extent Interfere with free com- petition. There Is no doubt that at pres ent mere is very general popular satls- vvnat is known as the nnerman act and it is certain thr would be strong opposition to any ma terial modification of the law. Before I ' can idmitted that the construction now given It makes the scoii nf , law more extended than Is really nee- General Fuuston has been fairly quiet esary for the proper protection of the! for the lust few months and if be will puouc luttrestj, the trust magnate, will have to adopt a policy more reassuring of good Intentions. ' thu Pttvor or in puddixq. Members of the Real Estate ex change who have been Identified in the movement for tax reform persistently deny that Erastus Benson has anything In common with the franchlsed corpora tions and railroad corporations, but their denial does not disprove stubborn facts. If Mr. Benson has nothing In common with the franchlsed corporations, why Is it that the street car conductors and iuotormen have been peddling Benson pledges to the passengers on the street cars? Why Is It that men employed on the payroll of the'gas company and men known to be Indirectly connected with the two corporations named are boom ing Benson and opposing Moo res? If Mr. Benson has nothing in common with the franchlsed corporations, why are the political mercenaries employed by Fred Nash, president of the Thom son-Houston Electric Lighting company, plugging for Benson? If Benson has nothing to do with the franchlsed corporations, why are the political wire pullers of the telephone company drumming and fifing for Ben son? If the railroad corporations have noth ing in common with Mr. Benson, why is the general agent of the Missouri Pacific and his subordinates openly talking up Benson and talking down Moores ? If Benson hasn't some understanding with the railroad corporations, why are all the Burlington politicians, with the exception of Lee Spratlen, talking and working for Benson? If Erastus Benson has nothing In common with the corporations, why was there such a promiscuous distribution of Benson pledges In the Union Faclflc headquarters immediately after Benson was projected as the business men's candidate for mayor? The proof of the pudding Is In the eating. The warm support Mr. Benson Is receiving from the corporations can only be Interpreted in two ways. . One Is that Mr. Benson is satisfactory to the corporations and may be expected to do their bidding. The other is that Mr. Benson is being used as a cat'spaw by the corporations to defeat Moores and elect Ilowell. The latter is the most charitable view of the Benson candi dacy and doubtless will be accepted by most people who are not willing to be lieve that Benson Is an out-and-out cor poration man. The Benson fakery has played its trump card In red letters by calling at tention to the fact that Mickey Mullen Is not for Benson, that Tom Dennlson Is not for Benson, and that gamblers and pickpockets are not for Benson. If this is the best that can be eald for Benson It is not very much. During the Nebraska prohibition campaign the op ponents of prohibition were reminded of the fact that gutter snipes, vagrants and criminals of all classes were op posed to prohibition and, therefore, everybody who was opposed to prohi bition was either a gutter snipe, a va grant, a burglar or a murderer. By the same line. of reasoning no honest man can vote for Benson because some of the most rotten politicians and notor ions boodlers in Omaha are shouting for Benson. The fact that Mr. Benson bas been personally electioneering In the proscribed district with Vio Walker as bis chaperon and soliciting the rotes of divekeepers would seem to Justify the conclusion that It is not morals but votes Mr. Benson Is fishing for. The Broatch police board is notoriously a corporation creation. It was named by John N. Baldwin of the Union Pa cific law department In conjunction with Dave Mercer as the corporation candi date for congress- One of the police commissioners, who is retained as the paid lawyer of the Thomson-Houston electric lighting monopoly, is the .cor poration candidate for city attorney on the democratic ticket The whole power of the board under Broatch and Sprat len Is being exerted to defeat Mayor Moores. Spratlen, who Is on the pay roll of the Burlington as its chief lobby- 1st Is the political manager for Ed no well, while Broatch Is pretending to shout for Benson and working for HowelL If you want to know bow the corporations stand, keep your eye on the Baldwln-Broatch-Spratlen police commission. If Howell were really entitled to all r1108 uquets now showering ur him by the democratic organ, why was it that the editor of that paper exerted himself so strenuously before the con vention against bis nomination, urging that he was not a fit man to be mayor or even to be the democratic candidate for H" h become less tainted w,th corporation subserviency since his nomination than be was before It? Or I h" the corPoratlon antipathy of World-Herald grown less? Or w the was It I , limply shamming as usual? Councllman Lobeck went right to the front for the gas company when the anv Mnaliittnrt a 4tia aatakA I DUO U 1COV1UHUU S.V VALUVS VUV DUCCi k- -,j !t" WM and he win doubtless be found voting tw .w. it I. fnmn.il nra. senttd ln the council.. If be should be y cuallce elected city comptroller, the gag couipany would have a friendly Indian checking up the accounts on which Its annual franchise royalty to the city ls computed. General Funston's answer to the charges of cruelty against the Filipinos preferred against him is a challenge for investigation by a court of inquiry, but I the War department authorities do not think the matter tustifles such action I iff) not to Indulge ln an mora reck less Interviews the public will be In clined to call the Incident closed. The candidate of the reform purifiers does not hesitate to Invade the citadel of vice In his quest for votes with an advance agent to promise for him a "liberal" administration. How does this strike the deluded reformers who have been persuaded to follow Mr. Benson on the theory that his election would menn an end to liberal administration? i jL-.-a.-t Lieutenant Governor Lee of Missouri, who has been squirming under threat of grand Jury investigation into some of his transactions with the boodllng leg islative lobby, declares that he is done with politics forever. After the way lie has acted under fire he might as well quit politics, for the politicians will cer tainly have done with him. Fatally Handicapped. St Louis Globe-Democrat. The sentiment In opposition to race sui cide bas at least put David B. Hill out of the running. Characteristic Westera Hospitality. Baltimore American. If there are any honors that have not been conferred or are not about to be con ferred upon tbs president by the western people It Is because they haven't thought ot them yet. Plata of Ill-Gottea Galas. St. Louis Republic Boodllng developments have shed a new light on the proverbial truth concerning a fool parting witb bis money, and have shown also that the fellow who parts with It Is not the only fool. Bad money burns all bands. Olve. Is the Karnes. New York Times (ind. dem.) The democratic party, as it approaches the campaign year, Is in the fortunate and unusual position of having In its ranks bait a dozen men who are available tor the nomination. Republicans have often made the democracy unhappy by the de risory reminder that it had but one candi date. Now the names of several candidates worthy of the nomination and fit to be trusted with the great responsibilities of the presidency are in tbs thoughts and upon the tongues of the people. Trusts and the Merger Decision. , Washington Star. Will the anti-trust decision stick? The trusts say not. It interferes, they declare, with the legitimate business development of the age. Carry tho principle asserted at St. Paul to Us logical conclusion, and we shall soon have despotism or chaos. This sounds familiar. We have been hearing it, indeed, ever since the trust lasuo was raised. We have been told all along that the trusts are the friends, not the enemies, of mankind; that we must look to them for services of far-reaching Importance . to mankind which no other agency can render, The public, however, has not been con vinced, and now some eminent Judges, after hearing argument, agree with the public, For a time, at least, trusts will be the paramount Issue. UNDERTAKIHG A LARGE CONTRACT, Federation of Old Maids Scheme to Dlacoaraare Matrimony. Chicago Tribune. -.. There have been formed of late societies for the discouragement of suitors, for the encouragement ot bachelors, for the per secutlon of bachelors, for the pro motion of large families, for the encourage ment of small families, for the advance ment of mothers, and for the repression ot fathers. Of all the movements yet started for the purpose of discouraging marriage and encouraging race suicide that' lnaugu rated by the Old Maids' Association of Western New York Is distinctly the most formidable. It will, In the first place, be a matter of some surprise that there should be a state organization of old maids. As there is one. It will not be a matter of surprise that its principal if not its only object Is the pro motion of celibacy. The modus operandi of the new society is unique. Its member: propose to collect the details ot every case of domestic lnellclty they can discover, such as wlfe-beatlng, desertion, separation, divorce and scandal, and send this delect able Information to all the Toung Women's Christian associations and girls' seminar ies and colleges in the country. In this way they hope to discourage marriage. Of course, such a large and active association can pick up a choice and well assorted mass of Information, as well as a'.l the scandal that Is going, and in the course ot even a few days might flood a Young Woman's Christian association resort with extraordinary literature. The enthusiasm which Inspired tho old maids is shown by the fact that Amelia Hlgglnson, the president, subscribed $5,000; Abigail Bean $5,000, and the other mem bers sums from flOO to $1,000. The old maids have undertaken a task as hopelnsa as Mrs. Partington's efforts to sweep back the rising tide from her doors. Matrimony will continue In spite of separations and divorces and all "human cussedness." AS TO INHERITED WEALTH. Great Opportaaltles for Do In Good Open to the Wealthy. Brooklyn Eagle. William K. Vanderbllt. now about to marry again after eight years of divorced solitude. Is thus quoted In a London weekly UftPr' Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It Is as certain death to ambi tion aa cocaine Is to morality. If a man makes money, no matter how much, he finds a certain happiness In its possession, for In the desire to Increase bis business he has constant use for it. But the man who In herits It bas none of this. The first satis faction and the greatest, that ot building the foundation of a fortune. Is denied him lie must labor, If be does labor, simply to add to what may be an over-sufficiency." Why should inherited wealth be "a big handicap ,to happiness?" Wby must the possessor of it labor "simply to add to what may be an over-sufficiency T" Why should a man who gets millions from bl father be unable to make himself the archi tect of his own happiness? Great wealth implies great care. It also implies an op rmrtunltr to do rood that is denied to peo ST. girpLrtrcernt0,'. return in the truest and most laating kind of happiness, the happiness that Is born ot doing unto others even as you would that they should do unto you. Instead of being "certain death to ambition" inherited wealth ought to give to ambition the very highest and noblest stimulation. It ought to encourage men who can think at all to think less of themselves and more ot oth era, to Invest their money not with the de- sirs ot simply adding to what may be an over-sufficiency, but to add to the sum of human happtnesa and contentment by lea senlng the sum of human misery and Ig norance. The rich man who apends hi money, acquired either through Inheritance or thrift, entirely upon himself and upon his Immediate family, deserves to feel that the hypertrophy of his bank account is big handicap to happiness." If he want to feel differently he may do so through - 1 s Ter, ,lmD;t and obvious eholcs. OTHER LAXDi TIIA Ol'RS. The latest version ot the murder of Ar tilleryman Hartmann by his some-time school friend. Naval Cadet Hussen. does not agree with that which was first told and makes the whole matter, if possible, worse. Hussen asserts tbst Hartmann tried to shake hands with blm. A friend of Hartmann's who was present, says that Hussen met his victim at the entrance of beer ball and told him to report to his captain for cot saluting blm. Hartmann at tempted to pass on, when Hussen rushed at him, struck him first with tbs fist of his sword' and then ran him through the back. This incident grows In significance when taken Into consideration with other things that have been happening In the German army. Much anxiety has been caused by the great Increase lately In the number of suicides among the privates. In Hanover in the last six weeks four soldiers have committed sulctde, three of them In one regiment. Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Melnlngen, commander of the Sixth Army corps has issued a general order strongly condemning the existing condi tions and ordering that any complaints ot Ill-treatment made by a soldier shall Cb forwarded immediately to the commanding officer, who shall take steps to protect the injured man, even if it be necessary to transfer him into another company or regi ment. Recent cable dispatches dealing with Cretan affairs require explanation. There are two sources of discontent In tbe Islsnd. For the past year or so the Mohammedan population has been gradually concentrat ing around Candla. The' outrages com mitted upon it by the Christian residents the other day was apparently the result of a tympathetlo demonstration aroused by the receipt of the news ot the massacre of Christians In Macedonia by the Turkish soldiery. There Is no doubt that the new Judicial system of the Island inaugurated a year ago by Prince George, the high com missioner, will be adequate to deal with the affair. An antagonizing Influence, how ever, Is found ln the presence ot a German gunboat and a newly-appointed German consul general. Germany, it will be re called, refused to Join the concert of pow ers which rearranged the affairs ot Crete after the late Graeco-Turklsh war. In these circumstances the presence of a Ger man official with pronounced Mohammedan sympathies is resented on the part of the Christian inhabitants. Tfeo other question which Is disturbing tile entire Island is the conflict between the party of autonomy and the party which desires union with Greece. Their antagonism toward each other Is as bitter as that between Moslems and Chris tians before the intervention of tho powers. Should the Greek party be triumphant at the coming assembly elections the position ot Prince George as the steward of the powers, so to speak, would be seriously compromised. A writer ln the Paris Steele assalit Ger many In trenchant fashion for the support which she has extended to the sultan. Who, he asks, bas most encouraged tbe latter, who has profited most by his recklessness and extravagance? "Did not Prince Bis marck," he writes, "In 1884 secretly send to Constantinople a confidential agent to Induce Abdul Hamld to arm against Russia and to procure armaments ln Germany? If the fact is denied, the name of the dele gate can be given, as also details of his negotiations. Did not Radovits in a memo rable document remind the sultan ot a su perannuated treaty of alliance' between Turkey and Prussia negotiated during the reign of Abdul Hamld I, and did he not Insist upon its coming into force again, so that Turkey might be drawn within the sphere of the Triple Alliance? Did not tbe emperor go to Constantinople and embrace the sultan in tho middle of the Armenian massacres? Has he not juet sent his beir to do homage at Y'ldli Kiosk?" He then con cludes: "It Is a well known fact that the Turk is neither a merchant nor a manufac turer, nor yet a financier. Indeed, be is scarcely any longer a tiller ot the soil, in consequence of his military obligations, Germany, by allowing the Christian popu lations to be annihilated,, will some day perceive that she has deliberately tolerated the destruction ot the source of her rev enues. Unfortunately it will then be too late." The Italians are Jealous about the se curlty which their flag ought to afford to foreign political offenders, and are excited over the notion that their government has been too obsequious to Russia In the mat ter of the arrest of the man Gots on sus picion of his having been concerned ln the murder ot M. Slplaguine. The matter was brought up ln the chamber and a hot de bate followed. Stgnor Glollttl, minister ot the Interior, said that he had been informed that Goti was a dangerous person, and so the latter was arrested with a view to his expulsion. It was true that the Russian consul was present, but his presence was a mere matter of routine, and ln the In terest of the arrested man. It was untrue that be was allowed to examine Gots's pa pers, which were transmitted directly to the Italian minister for the interior. The fact that the Italian foreign office received at the same time a note from the Russian government announcing the dispatch of formal demand for the extradition ot Gots for his alleged share in the assassination of the Russian minister, M. Slplaguine, was mere coincidence. Whether extradition should be granted was a question to be de cided by the Judicial authorities. This ex- planutlon was received rather coldly, and It the courts should decide that Gots must be surrendered, there la likely to be trouble for tbe ministry. Lord Curion, one of the most oratorical ot Indian viceroys, talked for more than an hour to his council the other day about the state of the country. Tbe present bud get, he said, contained the first serious at tempt at a reduction of taxation that had been made for twenty years. India, he de clared, was making progress. The cost of the Durbar was 180.000, which was only one-sixth of a penny per head of the pop ulation, while the patrlotlo effects of It were Incalculable. Reform waa urgently needed In eight directions ln education, Irrigation, police, railways, the separation of the judicial and administrative services. sgrlcultural research, agricultural banks, and a commercial bureau. He spoke of the momentous change ln India's foreign rela tions, which were drawing her into the vortex of world pollclea. The annexation ot Burmab bad brought ber Into contact with China, and In Europe Interest In Asia was beginning to be revived. Great Britain, Russia, France, Germany and Turkey were becoming great Aalatie powers and corre sponding to the smaller European kingdoms were Japan, China. Thibet, Slam, Persia and Afghanistan, the majority of them contain Ing the seeds of decay. Great changes must and would corns, but tbe freedom of these Asiatic statea from hostile Influence was vital to the welfare ot India. Clouds were beginning to gather and India was being pushed Into the foreground. He knew ot no Imminent dantr, but warned his hearers ralmt the delusion that trouble would never come. Seaatov Haaaa'a Slarerlty. Indianapolis Journal. Benstor Hanna's speech- on the labor question will add greatly to tbe respect and esteem In which he Is held. A few yean to ha was tbe worst abused man In the country; now be is one of the most popular, The manner ln which he expresses himself on tbe labor question lesves no doubt as to the sincerity of his coarlctious f POLITICAL NOTES. Members of the Missouri legislature now admit thry passed several bills 11,000 bills. Missouri's honest Folk threatens to call a special session of tho legislature to con vene In the penitentiary. Another story Is needed on the city ball nf Philadelphia to accommodate the office- , holders who have broken Into the building. The renominatlon ot Mayor Beth Low of New Tork city is fairly well settled. The republicans, the citizens' union and the antl-Tamraany democracy are solid tor him. The presidential boom ot Gumshoe BUI Stone was not formally launched at the Kansas City banquet. Mr. Bryan was there, and William Jennings Is something of a sinker himself. "Pie-faced Mut" la the latest addition to the political literature of New York alder men. A member of that august body coined the phrase as an endearing term applied to brother member. Tbe vote on the proposed woman suffrage amendment to the New Hampshire consti tution was: In favor, 14,162; against, 21, 788. For adoption an amendment to the New Hampshire constitution required a two-thirds vote of all the electors partici pating In the contest at which it Is sub mitted. It isn't necessary to consult the ther mometer to learn the temperature ia Ken tucky. Read the speeches of aspirants for the governorship. The canvass has reached a summery heat. One aspirant declares he "cannot refrain from tearing the fraudu lent cover from the hypocritical face" ot aa opponent, "and branding his statement Is utterly false." The gun stage ot the pro ceedings Is rapidly approaching. United States Senator Stone ot Missouri cries out again the newspapers, yet he con fesses that he formed a society to fight harmful foods of which he and his son ap pear to have been the only active members. and that, representing that society, he made a plea before a legislative committee In Missouri for what is known as an alum baking powder, for which, as attorney, he was paid $5,000. The senator told tbe story himself. He does not talk for fun. The Virginia legislature has under con sideration a primary law designed to carry out the recommendation of tbe democratlo state convention held at Norfolk. It pro vides for the extension to the primaries ot most of the raws governing general elec tions. Notice of the primaries is to be given in newspapers thirty days before they are held, and candidates who wish to be voted for must give notice In writing to the county or city chairman ot their party fif teen days prior to the election. Any person who has affiliated himself with the party holding tbe primary, or who will take oath before the judges that be has joined the party or will support the nominees will bs allowed to vote. A9 SEEIf BY FOREIGNERS. Tbe , Americas Workmaa at Work ad at Home. Philadelphia Ledger. Tbe report of the committee of British workmen who came to this country to study the condition of the workers of tbe United States we commend to the perusal of the persons. If there be any, who are not already convinced that the American workmen are ln a class apart. The twenty- three British workers, who represented various leading' industries, were naturally inclined to view conditions here with a critical eye, and perhaps there is something ln tbe comment by Mr. Steadman, repre sentlng- .the Parliamentary Committee, ot tbe Trades Union Congress, that the Brit ish workmen cannot be surpassed for solid and woll finished work. The unanimous conclusion of the committee that the Brit ish workman has, nothing to learn from his American brother Is a statement, however, wholly at variance with almost all previous opinion on the subjeot. It has been generally understood that the American workman Is quicker, more adaptable to circumstances, not so "set and mechanical," has more Initiative, re source, more ambition and does more work. And the main conclusion of Mr. Moseley, who brought th . committee over here, strengthens that view. He aays tbe American workman bas a better education, and we believe the con sensus ot opinion is that he Is a more In telllgent, forceful and original, and, in all respects a higher grade man. But, dls regarding the opinions of the committee t.n our corrupt politics, gambling, tbe wor ship of the dollar in Chicago, atid other things, we come to the main point stated by Mr. Moseley, that the American work man "is infinitely better paid, boused, fed and clothed, and, moreover, is much more sober than tbe British." We learn that the American employer treats his work men better than the British employer, and another tribute to American industry, ex plaining much of our progress, is the "hankering for the latest machinery and the best methods." In America there is no deep seated opposition to machinery and the latest methods, as In England, where the workman stands ln his own light. From all which we may draw the con elusion that tbe American workman Is Infinitely better off, because capitalists and workmen are more Intelligent. Our natural resources and riches contribute materially to our industrial advance, but over and above that we have developed higher efficiency. The worker is bettor fed and housed, and, therefore, be is better man; he Is a more Intelligent man. nd, therefore, he educates bis children. And the result Is convincing testimony to the economy ot high priced labor as tbe cheapest and most efficient In the struggle for Industrial and commercial supremacy, Spring Suits Don't waste time on the cheap tailor when j-ou can get a perfectly well made and well fitting suit here just as it should be, and on the minute. Not too many of any pattern, but all the good pat terns $10, $12, $15, $20, Etc We have all the styles of the good LTats. Plata are a department with us and you save a little in price when buying , here $2, $2.50, $3, $3.50 NO CLOTHINd FIT5 LIKB OUR5. R. S. WILCOX, Manager. Fif'y Years (ho Standard MEW Awardid Klgh.st Honors World'. Fair Highlit lists U.S. eoy't Chsmlsts aiOt SARINO) POWDIK oo. N OHI0AOO WHITTLED TO A POINT. Teacher Wilfred, name the four seasons of the year. Wilfred Golf, bnse ball, yachting and foot ball. New York Hun. "What do you think of that anonymous lettert" "In my opinion," answered Miss Cayenne, "the fart that It Is anonymous Is slightly to the author's credit. He at least had the decency to be ashamed ot it." Washing ton Star. "Yes." said Henpeck, "the thing that Im presaed me moat In Kgypt was the mummy of one ot the ancient queens." "What was remarkable about It?" -"The fact that they could make her dry up and stay that way," Philadelphia 1'ress. First Doune Have you seen the new cigarette munlo box? Heconn uoune no: wnat is iit First Doune Every time you put 10 cent In the slot you iu get a rR,k of dsnrettes and plays "Nearer, My God, to York Bun. the macnine Thee." New 'I see that a Chicago Judge has Just be come a father for the thirteenth time." 'My gracious I And Is It possible that such a man still finds time to devote him self to the settling of other people's trou bles r ' Record-Herald. Brakeman Haven't you sold anything to that bridal couple back there T Train Hoy Maw 1 That ain t no triim couple. Just before we struck the tunnrl the feller got up an' went to the other end of the car to get a drink of water. Chicago Tribune. 'According to the story, an American heiress Is engaged to a member of one of the most ancient families In Italy mo an cient. In fact, that It Is mentioned In Dante's 'Inferno.' " 'In the 'InfemoT fay. that Italian must feel like the man who said he had friends ln both places. "Cleveland Plain Dealer. CLKASINO TIME, Chicago News. Gird yourselves with slngham aprons, O, ye women or tne land; Pin your skirts to clear your shoe tops; take the scrubbing brush In hand. Boil up alkaline Intuitions, turn the whole house upside down. Slop the floors with sonp and water, heed less ot your husband's frown. Tank up carpets, rugs and matting. Jerk the pictures from the walls, Have your palls of suds where wo can tumble o'er them In the halls. Pile the stairs till they are worse than any Alpine steeps to climb, Have the regular old picnic Incident to cleaning lime. Fill the bathtub with umbrellas, books and shoes and biic-a-brac, -Heap upon the grand piano kitchen dishes in a stacK, Set the dinner on the mantel, though there's little time to eat; Bee that every one who enters wipes with care his muddy feet. Keep the windows all wide open as you ply the mop and broom, Have a hot and steamy vapor permeating every room. Swab and scrub and splash and spatter in four fight with winter grime, ln the moist discomfort Incident to cleaning time. Have the men with . whitewash brushes apread the tinted calcimine. Take all necessary bedding out and air it on the line. Have the furniture revarnlshed till the odor makes one faint, Bee that all the woodwork glistens with a coat of shining paint; Don't have anything to sit on, aleep on, eat on; also frown When you hear a meek suggestion as to "some hotel down town;'' Let the masculine complalner know It's nothing short of crime Not to make one's life a burden In the glad Spring cleaning time. raiuMsBevtarrmN&r; ' EsterbrooK on a pen Is an absolute (narantee of Its excellence Inflexible nNooaa. An Accountant's and Firm Orer 150 Pen. Fine Points. varietlei of other styles every pur ito suit Ipoce. All 'have them. tationcrs Accept so substitute. TriC ESTCKBXOOK STEFL PEN COL Vwki.CaiiaayN.1 M Jsna Saw N. I. SSBtS J. r'