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April ghowerg la May are the latest
novelty of the calendar. '
Styles In neckwear during the laundry
strike In Omaha will favor the wide
spreading puff.
If there were nothing to arbitrate,
there would be nothing In disagreement
between employers and employe.
The final verdict on the Interview of
General Baldwin is that he never, said
It But be la admonished not to do It
again.
. Omaha'a reputation aa an appreciative
music loving community Is losing noth
ing through the -May musical festival
now In progress.
All these strikes, are accomplishing
one thing. If. they accomplish, nothing
grinding out injunctions, r '
Every one of the members of the new
dty council was elected on distinct
platform pledges as to certain corpora
tlon questions. We shall soon see what
we shall see. 1 '
AU these appeals . for discordant
, democrats to get. together and prepare
to put up an undivided front in the
next campaign should be a .pointer for
local republicans.
On the morning after the election. The
Bee's compilation of the returns gave
Mayor Moores a plurality of 943 votes,
The official canvass makes the plurality
032. We invite attention to this feat in
newspaper accuracy.
Indianapolis is also making prepara
tions to project Itself into the competi
tion for the location of the big national
nominating conventions of next year. If
Indianapolis is not careful it will make
a lifelong enemy of St. Louis.
To avoid complications of the Allgood
variety," future civil service examlna
tlons in the south would have to In
elude a question as to whether the ap
plicant's skin is white or black. That
would be civil service with a vengeance.
Bryan democrats of Iowa are at work
lining their forces with, a view to
rapturing' 'the machinery of the party
by controlling the next state conven
tlon. In Iowa there Is nothing else but
the 'machinery, of the party for the dem
ocrats. to capture.
The democratic reorganizes are said
to have picked out already the man
they will put forward to be the chair
man of the next democratic national
committee. Mr. Bryan's comment is
sure to be that, the reorganizes are a
trifle premature. '
By , entertaining iu succession Presi
dent. Roosevelt and Congressman Can
non.who is to be the next speaker of
the house, Nebraska . has had as its
guests within two weeks the two men
In the nation who wield the greatest
polltlcul power.
Taeoma and Seattle are. engaged in
an acrimonious quarrel over, the ar
rnngements for the entertainment of
President Roosevelt and party on their
vlslj to Puget. Sound points. If the
contention Is not ended by the time the
president strives. President Roosevelt la
Just the man to take the reins into his
own hsads and cut the knot with a
single slash. '...
Tat railroad tax agents ate camping
down at Lincoln. They dM fat sal
arles out of the money they save the
railroads by unloading on to private
property owners the taxes properly as
Beatable against the railroads. The
people have no' paid agents to represent
them except the state officers, who con
strtute the members of the state as
esslag board.
JtO ABA TtMtMT Or BltTHCilASX.
It is plain that with the progress of
President Roosevelt on bis western tour
there is no abatement of enthusiasm In
the greetings extended to htm by the
people of the various states he Is trav-
rslng. If anything, the reports would
Indicate thst the receptions accorded
the president In the fsr west are as
cordial and as genial aa those which
waited him In tho more central states
nd which are sure to be extended again
when be makes his return trip through
this section. In a word, the enthusiasm
roused by the president among the
great mass of the people throughout the
entire western half of the continent ha
never had a counterpart in the history
of the republic. .
While no one will gslnsay that much
of this remarkable demonstration is due
to the exalted baracter of the position
of chief magistrate, which always by
itself commands . fespect, yet the In
tensity of the enthusiasm displayed on
the occnslon of the present tour cannot
be explained except ' by the personal
popularity of Theodore Roosevelt, who
has added to the respect due to the office
popular confidence In his intentions and
admiration for his abilities. Many pre
vious presidents have exhibited traits
that have endeared them to the public
and won for them the popular plaudits,
but hone of them have appealed with (lie
same combination of personal elements
to the esteem of their countrymen end
to the feelings, of oi t whole citizenship.
Especially in the west, where the demo
cratic spirit prevails to a greater degree
than in the east, the common every day
people, are thoroughly satisfied that
President Roosevelt is not only we of
them, but pretends to be no different
from what he Is, and that he Is In fact
the people's president, as against the
claims of special interests, no matter
how powerful they may be. It Is real
ized that the office of president of the
United States is the greatest among gov
ernments of human ktnd, but to the en
thusiasm for the office la added the en
thusiasm for the man. v
That President Roosevelt should meet
with such warm welcomes in constant
succession through the west must be
gratifying to patriotic citizens every
where. It affords new evidence of the
unifying forces at work In the nation
and must impress the president with a
sense of the firm loyalty of the western
people to the Interests of the country
aa a whole. It Is moreover easy' to pre
dict that this enthusiasm for the presi
dent will continue to be manifested to
the very end of his sojourn In the west
ern states.
SHOULD 8TAHT RIOBT.
Although the new city council will not
enter upon its duties for two weeks, a
word of caution to Its members at this
time may not be out of place. A legis
lative body, whether municipal, state or
national, cannot hope to make' a credit
able record for itself, and its members
unless it starts Out right, or In other
words,, unless It la organised right,.
The failure of the late legislature to
meet popular expectations waa chiefly
due to the fact that It was organised
wrong. It was an open secret at the
opening of the legislative session that
the house and senste were both organ
ized by the corporations, for the corpora
tlons and against the people. It waa a
matter of notoriety that every commit
tee In which the railroad corporations
and their allies, the telephone, telegraph
and Insurance companies and other
powerful combinations were interested,
was packed to obstruct and defeat leg
islation demanded by the people and to
expedite legislation demanded by the
corporation combine.
It goes without saying that the same
results will follow in the new city coun
cil' it Its committees are packed In the
Interests of the corporations and against
the taxpayers. This does not neces
sarily imply that the taxpayers . of
Omaha are hostile to the railroads and
franchlsed corporations as such, nor Is
there any popular demand that the new
council should be arrayed against the
corporations. What the rank and file of
the taxpaylng citizens of Omaha de
mand and expect of the new council is
that It ahall be so organized as to pro
tect the interests of all classes without
favor to any special Interest The cor
porations are entitled to fair treatment
and the city should 'scrupulously ob
serve every compact It has made with
them, but the observance of these com
pacts should not be a Jug-handled affair.
The corporations are always able to
protect themselves against any breach
of contract with the city, but the new
board of directors of the corooration
known as the City of Omaha ahould be
so organized as to uphold the rights of
the city In Its dealings with the corpora
tlons. k , ,
The subserviency of the outgoing
council majority of corporate infln
ence hag been so pronounced and
flagrant that public sentiment was
overwhelmingly against their renomlna
tlon. If the new councilmen heed the
lesson taught by the recent camnalrn
tify win endeavor to avoid the break
era on which the old council combine
waa stranded and set ashore.
BOOKER WASHWQTiW'S 80LCTIOX
That great negro educator, Booker
T. Washington, la untiring In his ad
vocacy of Industrial education as the
solution of the race. He has been
making a series of addresses In Chicago,
explaining in even more lucid language
than he usually employe the plan In
which be haa put all his faith for the
uplifting of hla own race. Whether we
agree that all the negro needs is educa
tlon or that he must be safeguarded In
his rights In other directions also, what
Mr. Washington ssys Is to be com
mended as Impressing upon the negro
the Imperative necessity of helping htm
self rather than of depending upon
others to work out bis salvation for
him. To quote a few pithy sentences
What wa waat to da for the negro la to
bring him up to such a standard of In
telllgence and skill U' labor that he can
compete with white .men, who now, by
reason of better brain work, have taken
away from him many ol hie trades.
A mistake was made, when if tor the
civil war all attention to tha education of
the negro was directed along Intellectual
nd religious lines. These were and era
important, but what tha negro needed most
waa Industrial training. Tha real solution
of tha race problem is to be made on an
Industrial and economic baala.
There Is little race prejudice ttiown In
the buying of corn, for Instance. No one
cares whether tha corn waa raised by s
white man or a black man. What we i.eed
to do is to train tha negro so that In can
raise as good corn and raise It as cheaply
aa the whit man. Then he will become a
valuable member of society.
To carry out this progrsm, of course,
involves two requisites first the means
and facilities for providing the educa
tional work, and, second, the hearty
co-operation of the negroes themselves.
Both of these prerequisites must come
s the result of an educational cam
paign and It Is In this educational cam
paign that Booker Washington Is ex
erting his most useful efforts by open
ing the eyes of the white people to
their duty and waking up the negroes
to their opportunities.
His own institution at Tuskpgee is
undoubtedly conferring Invaluable bene
fits upon the negro students who share
In the advantages of Its Instruction, but
Is doing still more useful work as the
pioneer in negro industrial education,
and the model for other similar institu
tions sure to be developed in various
parts of the black belt In the south.
Commenting on the Omaha city elec
tion, the Norfolk Press rises to remark
that "the result proves that the best
and surest way to beat a man Is to
knock him out of the nomination and
thus prevent him running at all." The
fact is, however, that the man who was
put op aa an independent candidate had
previously been knocked out of the
republican nomination after a fair and
square primary fight, but that did not
prevent him from accepting a nomina
tion from the populists and heading the
movement of the bolting republicans.
The best way to beat a man may be to
knock him out of a nomination, but
under the peculiar political ethics of
the bolters' brigade here, It is no as
surance that he will not run anyway.
Court injunctions against scalpers pro
hibiting them from dealing in railroad
excursion tickets Issued for particular
occasions promise to become the regular
order. If the railroads had only thoucht
of this method of achieving their end
they would not have wasted so much
time trying to force anti scalping laws
through congress and state legislatures.
In a ' transaction that involves mil
lions to the taxpayers of the city. It is
well to go slow and make sure of every
step. In the appraisement of the1 water
works under the purchase clause of the
contract, the city's Interests must be
carefully guarded by our public officers
aa we may be aure the water company
will be amply able to look after itself
. , r
Ex-Senator Vilas takes it upon him
self to say that Graver Cleveland Is
not a candidate for the democratic pres
idential nomination not that Mr. Cleve
land haa expressly declared himself, but
as a political mind reader Mr. Vilas has
supreme confidence in himself. When
the time comes no one will be surprised
to see Mr. Vilas himself In the lists.
Whenever Omaha Is redlstricted :nto
wards, the division must be made in
conformity with the intent and letter
of the charter making each of them' aa
nearly equal In population as may be.
Arbitrary gerrymandering with a view
to subserving personal Interests would
not be a compliance with the law.
A Bold Del.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The packers are a desDerata lot of men
Thay hava started in to convince the coun
try that meat pricea can ba advanced right
in tha face of the vegetable season.
An Awful Prospect.
Chicago Chronicle.
If tha Cleveland boom continues tn rmm,
and take up space Colonel Bryan will
shortly ba called for an enforcement of the
law against blockading tha sidewalk.
1st a Smiling; Mood.
Tekamah' Journal.
Nebraska, when aba smiles as she haa
been doing tha past few days, makes us all
In love with her and causes us to forget
such ugly moods as she showed last week.
Aa Inch at a Time.
New Tork World. '
Ten cents Increase each month In the
price of coal Is not very serious In any one
month, but as a settled policy of the coal
monopolists It resembles cutting off a dog s
tall an Inch at a time so that It may not
hurt tha dog so much.
Fnr-Fetrnea Distinctions.
Springfield Republican.
Tha attempt to draw a distinction be
tween three continuous presidential terms
and three terms not continuous ,1s rather
weak. Better repudiate the third-term tra
dition outright than try to pretend that it
could be preserved with a prealdent serving
his third term under, any circumstances.
Bvldeatly He's All Right.
Chicago Chronicle.
This man Folk of St Louis continues to
Justify the opinion that he carries more
common sense and discretion to tha square
Inch than any other figure prominent in
the publlo eye Just now. Hla refuaal of the
tender of a houae and lot from his admirers
on tha ground that ha receives a salary for
doing hla duty Is a reinforcement of this
opinion. '
Aolosts for Sla.der.
New Tork Evening Poat.
dn May 1 the Evening Poat atated that
General Leonard Wood had Inspired an ar
ticle In tha North American Review for
February, 1900. written by Lieutenant
James E. Runcie, and attacking Wood's
pradecaasor, General Brook. It waa added
that there were In the manuscript Interline
ations In tha handwriting of General
Wood. In making thla assertion, wa de
pended not alone upon our Havana cor
respondent whom w had every reason to
think truatworthy, but also upon an ex
pliclt statement made to ua by one In au
thority In tha office of tha Review. But
wa now find that we ware unintentionally
misinformed, and that the article in ques
tion waa not Interlined by General Wood.
We accordingly withdraw tha charge un
qualifiedly, with sincere apologlea to Gen
eral Wood. It la not neceaaaxy to add that
our Havana correspondent ceases to be
such with this date.
THH CONVICTION OF AMES.
Mlnneapolla Tribune: The verdict ot
guilty for Dr. Ames Is a verdict of ac
quittal for Minneapolis. The shama under
which the city haa writhed for a year Is
wiped out. It could have been wiped out
In no other way. The conviction of lesser
tools waa necessary, but Inconclusive.
Only the punishment of the contriver and
chief executive of the corrupt graft could
vindicate our good name.
Chicago Record-Herald: While there ara
eight other Indictments against Ames, In
volving bribery and conspiracy, the trial
Just closed has elicited testimony which
appears to ba conclusive proof that hi
venality was continuous and systematic
and had wide ramifications. Whatever de
cision may be rendered under these In
dictments, the political career of the ex
mayor Is closed and ha stands convicted
of looting and betraying the city that con
ferred upon him its highest honor and
committed to him Its most Important
trust
Chlcsgo Tribune: It Is something of a
novelty to see a mayor convicted of a
penitentiary offense. Usually a subordinate
Buffers for the offense In which they both
shared and the world cynically despairs
of reform at the top. Mlnneapolla has set
the country an example and given other
mayors warning. Its shama Is a mark ot
Its municipal progress, and, although per.
fectlon Is a long way off. It can now say
with Chicago, "I am myself Indifferent
honest."
Minneapolis Journal: When we speak
of It aa a happy result wa do not think
of It without a feeling of pity for the
wretched 'old man who stands before his
fellow townsmen today humiliated, die.
honored, ruined in reputation and near his
end. No one can view such a mlaerabh
spectacle without a feeling of pity, but
sympathy is anothor proposition. Sym
pathy palliates and excuses. There is no
palliation, ho excuse possible In the mind
of any right thinking person for the offense
committed, no matter how genuine and
sincere a pity for the perpetrator ot this
offense, overtaken In his guilt.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Another Spanish gunboat has been
raised from the bottom of Manila bay
bearing the autograph George Dewey.
James H. Wolff, a colored man, has been
elected Junior vice commander of the Grand
Army of the Reptiblio of Massachusetts,
the first time a negro has been so htnorod
In that state.
' Dr. Lorens has been requested to confine
his operations to his own country. There
is not enough leg-pulling in America to
keep home doctors busy.
' Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks of
Indiana was a graduate of Hanover college.
at Madison, in that state, and his widow
has given J25.000 for the erection of a library
in his memory there.
Frank D. Underwood, president of the
Erie Railroad company, began his career
as a deckhand on a ferry-boat on tha
Potomac river, where he received a salary
of $40 a month.
Counsel for former Mayor Ames, of
Minneapolis, convicted of bribery, offered
the defense that he suffered from incipient
paresis. This Is supported by the fact that
when first accused ba said he was being
hounded by the newspapers.
Ex-Governor Johnson of the Chickasaw
nation Is a matt ot good address, polished
and courtly and so well up In the civilisa
tion of the white man that no one would
think him of aborigine stock except for his
coal-black hair and, the suggestion of cop
per hue.. . .y iif
Mrs. Ella Renshaw. widow of Captain
F. T. Renshaw, as burled on Thursday
In the naval cemetery at Portemouth, Va..
besides the grave of her husband, by special
permit from the government. She was the
first woman In fifty. years to be burled there
with a naval parado and salute.
The sultan Is said to ba a wonder with a
revolver and Is one of tha finest shots in
the world. He always has a few in his
clothes and is usually looking for an
sssassln. Recently.be dropped a gardener
In the palace gardens who came from be
hind a tree suddenly: The sultan Is a
quick man, and, as they say In the west,
"some sudden with his artillery."
The court has decided that A. J. Fatter
son, the defaulting city treasurer of Clyde,
Kan., must go to the penitentiary for three
years. Mr. Patterson is the ingenious gen
tleman who advanced the plea that Inas
much ss the city . obtained its money Il
legally by licensing "Joints," ke bad a
right to appropriate It for his own use. The
district court could not be Induced to re
gard this plea as admissible, so the de
faulter goes to Jail.
MIST SERVE ALL ALIKE.
Meaning; of the Decision In that Rail
road Cnt Rat Cm.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The decision of Federal Judges Oresscus
and Philips. In making permanent inJusoVl
tlons . issued - In March, 1902, forbidding
fourteen western railways to discriminate
between shippers, sweepingly affirms the
right of congress to regulate the conduct
ot common carriers and to compel them to
serve sll citizens alike.
Complaints were made that these rail
ways discriminated . between shippers In
charges made for carrying packing house
products and grain. It was alleged, and
would appear' to have been proved, that la
a given grain-growing district the railways
gave rates so much lower to favored buyers
and shippers that others were driven out
of business. ' -
"There is no Question," observes the
court, "but that such conduct is contrary to
law. Tha Interstate commerce act confers
upon each cltliea the right to hare bis
products transported by common carriers at
rates equal to those of his competitor."
There was a further question before the
court whether the government could take
action to enforce this right, the railways
contending that the shippers who claimed
to be Injured must Individually bring suit.
This, contention the court swept aaida with
the remark: ,
'The alleged violation of rights is by com
mon carriers, servants of the government
which the government may regulate. The
injured persons are so numerous, sad tha
injury to each so Infinitesimal, that It Is
the duty of tha government to assert such
rights for the Injured parties."
It Is really remarkable that tha railways'
counsel should bars made such a eonten
tlon. If a man place s locked gate across
a public street and attempt to make those
who pass pay him for opening It. It is not
necessary for each man so held up to bring
suit to recover what b has psld. It is tha
duty of tha local government to remove the
obstruction.
- Really the most remarkable fact la mod
era economic history Is that railway man
agers should still cling to the power to
discriminate between purchasers that they
should still insist that Smith's dollar Is not
as good as Jones' dollar when It comes to
buying transportation. Tha fact that rail
way earnings, both gross sod sat, business
conditions being equal, always tncreas
when discrimination Is not practiced,
clearly proves that discrimination Is not to
the interest of those who have invested
their money In the reilweys.
Discrimination In rates is the practice
that has brought to the railways nearly all
their troublea. It ta an unfair business
method. It Is aa abuse of power to the In
Jury of all for the benefit of a few. It Is a
denial ot equality.' The agitation agsinat It
will sot cease until It Is stopped absolutely
sad forever.'
BIT OF WASHINGTON LIFE.
Mlaar Scenes and laeleeata Sketched
n tha Srt. t
Hundreds of people who are . nursing
grievances against individuals in the postal
service and the thousands ever ready with
advice on how to do thlnga. are deluging
the postmaster gent-ral with letters. An
enormous mall from theae prollilo sources
are not the leaat of Mr. Payne's troubles
these days. These letters cover every Im
aginable feature of the mall service.
One man. who says he haa been a lifelong
republican objects to the way In which his
postmaster handa out letters and demands
tha offender's removal. Another declares
that unless the poatofflce la forthwith
moved Into his store he will never vote the
republican ticket Still another In a small
town charges the postmaster with rubber
ing through poatal cards and refusing to
permit customers to read them. It la a
mighty hard task to please all kinds of
people.
A good alsed crop of libel suits has grown'
out of the Poatofflce department scandals.
The chief of the supply division Is seeking
to recover $15,000 or $20,000 for alleged In
jury to his character, growing out ot the
remark of some one that tha official In
question had been guilty of fraudulent
practices. A manufacturer of rubber
stamps, who does a large business furnish
ing supplies to the Poatofflce department
has brought a suit for libel against a
brother manufacturer, who charged that
the Washington man was selling poor stuff
to the government at fancy pricea. It Is
likely that before the last of the postal
scandal has been heard ot there will be
other suits of a similar nature. One rea
son that some newspapers have fought shy
of the so-called frauds In tha Postofflce de
partment has been the unreliable charac
ter of information that haa been spread
about concerning certain ofllc'als who- have
been charged with wrong doing. It la pos
sible to hear almost anything against prac
tically every official tn the department, but
the real facts will not be known until Mr.
Bristow makes his report, then It will be
up to the president to see that the guilty
are punished.
To those who ara Influenced by the old
superstition of sitting down to table thir
teen in number, an Invitation from
president to dine at the White house off
the new state service of china, manufac
tured by the famous firm of Wedgwood,
may well be looked at askance. Whether
Intentionally or by accident, relates Col
lier's Weekly, the mystic Lumber is cur
iously repeated In the crest, and even In the
1 1 ansae tlon by which the scrlce was or
dered. Any one who visits the St. Louis
Exposition may observe the former, as the
service la to be placed there on view. To
begin with, there aro, of course, thirteen
stars and thirteen bars in the shield, rep
resenting the original thirteen ttates of the
union. In one claw the eagle grasps thir
teen bolts, and in the pther an olive bramjh
upon which there are thirteen '.eaves and
thirteen berries. The pinions of the eagle,
too, have thirteen feathers, and It will be
found that there are thirteen lotters in the
motto "E Plurlbua Unum." Further, there
are thirteen letters In the Christian names
of the president and his wife Theodore
and Annie and thirteen, letters nlso In
Staffordshire, the county In England in
which the Wedgewood ware is manufac
tured, but perhapa the most significant fact
of all In this respect Is, that the service
was delivered on Friday the 13th of Feb
ruary of this year. '
Under theae clrcumatances It would seem
to require only a party of thirteen to make
any one sensitive of such matters aearch
his mind diligently for an excuse to ab
sent himself from the table.
President Roosevelt will have a number
of commissions In the army to dispose nf
after provision ' haa been made for tiie
members of this year's graduating class
at West Point and for the enlisted men
Who pass the final examinations for pro
motion. There are now twenty-flve vacan
cies In the cavalry, fourteen in the artil
lery and eighty-six in the infantry, 125 In
all, says the Brooklyn Eagle. There are
ninety-three members of tha first clans at
West Point, not counting the one foreigner
who, of course, wll not be commissioned.
There are seventeen vacancies In the corps
of engineers which will provide places for
some of the West Pointers. Then there are
seventeen vacancies in the pay department
and two In the judge advocate general's
department. In addition to which there are
eleven vacancies to be filled in tha signal
eorps, and If these latter places are re
garded as constituting vacancies In the
line by reason of transfers of line lieuten
ants to tha signal corps, there will be
thirty-five or forty additional commissions
available, or In the neighborhood of 150
second lieutenancies. Thla will assuredly
provide some places for civilian candidates,
of which there are a large number, but,
of course, these will not be appointed until
after the West Point graduates and the
promoted enlisted men have been taken
ears of.
"Mr. Roosevelt's. White House, astound
ing though It la as a sudden development"
writes David Graham Phillips In Collier's,
Is but the crude beginning of the Wash
ington of tomorrow. But It Is a beginning
a most audacious move on the part of one
of the most audacious men who ever rose
to first place In the republic.
This year the White House demand
upon congress for running expenses leaped
from the customary $25,000 to $60,000. As
Mr. Roosevelt's salary is just .under $1,000
a week snd as he evidently believes tha
people expect the president to spend his
salary upon the embellishment of the posi
tion, it appears that the new White House;
the new court Is now costing on the aver
age In the neighborhood of $2,000 a week.
half from the pooket of the people, the
other half from Mr. Roosevelt's private
pocket As the heavy expense Is crowded
Into Ave months of the year December to
April Inclusive the probabilities are the
new Wnil Xiuue im cukuui uurmg m
season not tar from $3,000 a week. Thla
means that the new departure haa cerJ
talnly doubled and has perhaps trebled
the cost of the White House court for
moat presidents have contributed about half
their salary toward holding court and
have called on congress for a supplement
ary appropriation of $25,000 a year."
DO THEY FAY TOO MICH I
High Freight Rate and Low Taxes
ReSeets tha. Railroad Policy.
Kearney Hub.
Tha rallroada of Nebraska aak the State
Board of Equalisation to reduce tha rate of
taxation on their property In this state. In
slating that they are paying too much in
proportion to tha taxation of other prop
arty. It is not probable that the board will
grant their request, nor Is It probable that
tha board will make a raise. The question
haa been pretty wall threahed out during
the laat year, the railroads especially hav
ing spent constdersbla money to educate
tha people of tha state on the question.
Whether railroad property Is taxed more
heavily than other property Is a matter
open for debate, with tha presumption that
It Is not true, but If Indeed It may be true.
then It follows that If their taxation 1s to
be lowered the public would hava reason
to expect a substantial reduction in freight
rates by way of compensation.
It la to ba expected that tha railroad cor
poratlons will stick for all that they can
get In tha way of favors from leglalaturea
and benefits from exacutlva emcers. win
oppose higher taxation aa well as cbeepor
ratea, and will In short endeavor to get
all they can Snd keep everything they can
get That Is the corporation theory, and It
Is not a bad one for tha corporation.
As a matter of fact the railroad situation
In Nebraska aa rea-arda rates snd tsxea can
be overhauled In two directions without do
ing Injustice to the railroad companies. In
the a rut piece the ratea In certain claseee
snd on cerlsln commodities should un
doubtedly be lowered, snd In the next place
the schema of taxation should comprehend
an equltalile sliding scale on franchises de
pending on ttra extent of the net earnings,
WEALTH OF AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Computed at One Hundred Thoaaavnd
Millions by V. . Treasurer.
Fills H. Roberts In New Tork World.
Twenty years have added to the Inhabi
tants of the United States numbers nearly
equal to our , total population Just before
the '.civil war. In the same period the
wealth of the American people has more
than doubled snd has reached a hundred
thousand million dollars.
Our stock of money in circulation Is
greater per capita than that of any other
nation, save France and the 8outh Ameri
can states, while our gold per capita Is ex
ceeded only by Bouth Africa, Australia and
France, and our growth In both these Items
is not equalled anywhere else, so thst the
gross gold In our treasury surpasses the
volume ever gathered before under single
control.
These are tokens of a material progress
never matched In the history of the world.
This Is due to a restless activity and an
efficiency of production which have not yet
reached their maximum. Improvements al
ways Increasing In communication and
transportation consolidate our people and
render them more homogeneous.
Perils exist, like' over-exploltatlon in en
terprise, the terrible prevalence of crimes
of violence and of strikes In many branches
of industry.'
But the expenditure for education 'in
creased more than 25 per cent per capita
In two decades, and the Immense privato
gifts for colleges, charities, churches and
libraries, Illuminate both the present and
tho future. The tendencies to arbitration
between capital and labor, and between na
tions, emphasized by recent examples on
a large scale, promise peace within our '
borders and, let us hope, throughout tha
world.
Before two decades pass we shall add
to our population more than the present
total population of any other country In
the world, save Russia, India and China,
and possibly Germany. Our wealth will In
crease In a still larger ratio. Already our
achievements lift the republic to a fore
most place Jn our foreign relations.
What hus been jjalned In twenty years
past la the seed for the grander harvests
of the future. America's contributions to
civilization, to the amelioration of mankind,
to the peace of . the world, will grow and
not diminish, find her rank s-nong the na
tions must move forward to primacy in
all that is noblest and most worthy.
'. , WHY BE GOOD t
Hott the Chicago Bad Boy la Trained
t nd Educated.
Chlcaro Tribune.
The tnnouncement to the effect that the
Inmates of the county Jail are to be pro
vided with facilities tor physical culture
brings the reader agalp to that paradox ot
modern civilisation by which a young man
of exemplary character gets fewer ad
vantages snd opportunities than the young
man who preseveres In a disregard for law.
Take two boys in sn turban tenement
district as Illustrations. One boy Is good.
He attends school regularly. He Is in- a
room In which there are twice as many
boys ss there ought to be end In which
the courses ot Instruction may hsve prac
tically tothlng to do with the Industrial
life to which he is destined. After a few
years ot pertunctory study he reaches his
Industrial majority 14 snd he begins to
work. He has learned . no trade. His
"general culture" Is not exactly efflores
cent. His chsnces 'of becoming snythlng
better thsn sn unskilled employe ere
light. '
How much better would It have been for
him If he had been bad! First, he would
have been sent to a school for truants.
There he would have got much better food
than at home snd, in general, much better
physical conditions. Also, he would have
had instruction niuch more adapted to his
wants, because he would have been given
a large amount of manual training.
After he was released from the school
for truants. If he only bad sense enough to
keep on being bad. he would escape going
to work and be wo-.ild sentenced to a
school for delinquents where his educs
tlon would be continued. More games!
More discipline! More manual training!
All supervised by experts in the sciences
ot pedagogy and criminology.
Having become too old tor tne acnooi tor
iinnnnti our bov now oroceeds to s
reformatory. The good boy. whom we took
leave of some time ago, is expiating nis
piety In a printing establishment in which
he tries to develop hla faculties by means
.kA.in. sAveral thniiflinrl namnhlets
u, oi.. ... , - - . .
a day through the throat of a stapler. Our
bad boy, snrewaiy sticKing to n s reiorm
matm Infa nf nhvslral exercise, nlantv
of reading In the library, and a final fitting
for bla trade in tne eiaDoraieiy nuea re
formatory tool shop. He steps out Into the
world st tbe sge ot zo a trained American
nrVmin unlniured bv excessive toll as s
boy, snd prepared to use his skill In soma
trade In which skill means large wages.
Viciousness orings lis own rcwaru.
The Only Way.
Chicago Post.
Arbitration la the only way. '-"here ia no
alternative course before a people which
will not submit to compulsion and state
If DRXUGIT Js
FACE
defense
equal to Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral.
It prevents. It pro
there is NvcTS " J
nothing you t! -IHi
tects. Even after you have the severe cold, or the
hard cough of bronchitis, la grippe, or asthma, you
may come off conqueror with this standard family
cough medicine. More than this:
A Consumption itself may be cured. In the
first stages, nearly all ; later on, not so many.
r t v ...mi i -
i iuui uukui win giauiy ten yuu wuy tins nicui
cine has such soothlne and healine nower.
. O. ala CO., Lowell, ataas.
! " I have found Ayer's Cherry Pectoral the best all-round
remedy for Influenza, bronchitis, coughs, and lung troubles that
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SB
THE OLD RELIABLE
isQWAY.
Absolutely: Puro
7HRE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
Intervention In Industrial contests. The
Gray commission haa truly said that tha
labor union which depends tor success on
violence snd lawlessness has no right to
exist It Is equally' true that the employ
ers' association which depends for eueces
on the denial to labor of the right to or
ganise or the right to strike or the right
to collective bargaining haa no moral right
to exlat Moreover, It Is foredoomed to
disastrous failure.
Rnnnlnat Ono'a Own Bnslnasa.
Portland Oregontan.
It Is commendable to a man to want to
run hla own business. But It should not
escspe notice that contractors who fly. SlJ
to pieces at Interference from their worlf
men are meek as a lamb when the head of?
a combine tells thm they can't have lum
ber or brick. Another weak point In this
resolution to run one's own business with
out regard to others lies in the fallacy that
how much a trail pays for labor ia no
body's business but his own. It is Just
as 'much the employe's business
as It la the employer's. A good
deal of the old arrogance ., of the
xeuaai system survives igaar in successful
business men, who are apt to be intolerant
of the unsuccessful and Inferior. There Is
too much of the disposition to treat tha
employe ss a poor slave who must take
what the employer throws him and be
grateful.
70INTED REFLECTIONS.
"If a fairy should sppear to you and
offer you three wishes," said the imagina
tive young woman, "what would you do?"
"I'd sign the pledge," anawered the matter-of-fact
man. W ashington Star: i
"I never enjoyed a atroll with my lady
friends quite aa much as I do now."
"Why ia that?"
"Because it's too late for oysters snd
too early for ice cream. ""-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"t wonder how to answer this," said tha
new query editor. "Here's a correspond
ent who wants to know what's a good
thing to take lnkstains out of white aerge."
"That's eay," replied the snake editor.
"A pair of scissors. Philadelphia Press.
Excited Woman Mr. Policeman, could
you tell me If the streets have been swept
since I dropped my purse?
Policeman What time laat year did you
drop It, ma'am? Baltimore American.
Harry Well, I'm rlad enough the base
ball aeaaon has reopened.
Charley You are very fond of the game,
then?
Harry Nn; not particularly;-fcnt It gives
a fellow something to talk about that he
understands, don t . Xou know. Boston
Transcript.
"He doesn't look as If he had energy
enough to run a race."
"Well, I don't think he would race with
another man, but even a laiy fellow can
get up a good deal of energy when his per
sonal safety' depends upon beating a bull
dog to the gate." Chicago Post.
He That's absurd. Do you think I'm as
big a fool as I look?
She I think that If you aren't you have a
great deal to be thankful for. New York
Times.
"I notice you begin your letter to him:
'Dr. Sir." That's very slovenly."
"Why so?"
"It's ridiculous to make 'Dr. an abbrevi
ation for 'Dear.' "
"Who aald anything about ' Dear? I
know what I'm doing. He owes m $10."
Philadelphia Press.
WI1BHIS ULU uLUR X OOES.
W. D. Neablt In Chicago Tribune. f
Up and down In all the lands and all tha'
aeas between; ,
Brave and bold against the eky, and clear
and fair and clean;
Winding through the wilderness, or on the
beaten track;
Half the way around the world and more
than that and back. '
Whither will Old Glory go? But whither
has it gone?
Mark the way of honor that It has not
smiled uDon. t
Snapping; from tha halyard blocks of argosy
and fleet;
Fluttering te fife and drum that time tha
marching feet;
treating obch me ariven spray, anu viaaina
o'er the sands
It has led a starry way a way through all
the lands.
Whither will Old Glory go? But whither
has It gone?
Where the spot It has not held the glory of
the dawn?
Men have gone beneath it o'er the liijls and
o'er the waves;
Men feel its careaaes while they s'.umber In
their graves.
Red and white and blue It glows sgalnat
the bending sky,
Bringing everywhere It goes new luster to
Whither 'will Old Glory go? But whither
haa it gone?
Tell the miles it has not traced the way
It has not won!
a FOB
IT !!!
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