TITE OJIAnA DAILY BEE: TTEDNESPAT, MAY 27. 1003.
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State of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss.:
George B. Tsschuck secretary of The Be
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Notary Public
Tb tornudo crop Is one whose failure
would cause no grief.
A 'cyclone cellar does not come Into
requisition often, but when it is wanted
It la wanted bad. .
One of the healthiest signs of the
season is the thorough shaking up of the
Postofllce department.
While the keys to the city remain in
the custody of Mayor Moores, Omaha's
guests will have no trouble in opening
the latch.
The -Real tstate exchange must not
let Its fight for equal taxation wane. J
The only way to win is to keep ever-
lastingly at It I
" -
deal of damage, but from Jhe sanitary
tauupoim i . on provea a u.e.mug to
this community.
-
Movlnr daw la the cltv hall Is a trifle
later this rear than usual owinr to thA
action of the legislature extending the
term of the lease. '
If the weather man keeps his water-
spouts in repair, It may be entirely un- velt which will not in the slightest de
necessary fof Omaha to acquire a water I groe affect the chances of the president's
works plant of its own.
It goes without saying that the Bur
lington has not yet' lost its foothold in
the state house, notwithstanding the
recent visit of John X. Baldwin.
Is it not a little too previous to select
the chairman for the next national re
publican committee more than a yoar
ahead of the national convention?
It. Is to be honed that the storm cod
will have it out and 6ver by the time
ths presidential party is due to cross
Nebraska and Iowa on its homeward
Journey.
"If there Is anything wrong with those
canned lobsters," exclaims Grocer
Smith, "it must ' be . charged up to Mr.
Jones, with whom we made our con-
tract and Jones,, he always pays the
freight"
With the tide of Immigration at Its
height it would not be a bad Idea for
Nebraska to do something to make sure
that It will get Its share of the new
comers who are pouring in through the
gates at New York.
If Norman Mack should venture to
write another letter to Bryan's Omaha
understudy there would be a eas ...
plosion on middle Farnam that would
lift the Sioux Falls Pavement at least
for ten squares around.
One of the principals In a pugilistic
bout advertised for Memorial day has
been knocked out In advance by malaria.
Places threatened with invasion of the
prlse-flghting fraternity might take the
blnt and lay In a supply of malaria
germs.
The sinking of the Peruvian gunboat
Loretto, which sprang a leak off the
coast of Sicily, should in the natural
course of events be churged up to a
conspiracy of Sicilian stiletto wlelders
and the motto emblazoned, "Remember
the Loretto."
When Sir Thomas Linton reads the
secounts crediting the cun defender.
Reliance, with invincibility, of course he
will forthwith turn the crow of
Shamrock the other way and so straight
back home without risking his reputa-
rin in another h.eipa rP nt
c wi
Estimates made by the chief state oil
Inspector place the value of petroleum
and other llluminants Imported Into Ne -
bra ska during the month of April at
$128,000, or in the nelghlwrhood of citizenship and It Is a matter that pre
$1,500,000 a year. The bulk of this sum I sents no difficulty. It Is urged that the
represents the patronage of Nebraska to
the Standard Oil trust
Iint yonr the republican conventions
of flftern states, which will le rrprp.
sontpd by a'4 tldpjrntes iu the r,it-
llran iifltlnnnl convention of ifKMpn-
dorwd Theodore Hoonerelt for the presl-
(IpiiUhI nomin.itUm. This year Mlchl-
(tan. which will have 2 votes In the na-
. .
tlonnl convention, also ennorsm mm,
422. Under the new eotifrresslonnl ap.
thw npxt nat,onal nven-
tlon will contain M more delegates than
that of 1010, or 084. As a majority' Is
necessary for a nomination, the success
ful candidate must receive 4U2t, votes.
Roosevelt is, therefore, only "Oty rotes
short of a nomination at this time,
which would seem to amply warrant
the prediction that he will be the noiu
lnee of his party
While it would undoubtedly be gratl
fylng to republicans generally If the
Ohio convention, which will be held
next week, should endorse Mr. Roose
velt for nomination, its failure to do so
oould have no lmDortant effect u Don the
situation. It is very well understood
that a large majority of Ohio repub
licans are in favor of the nomination
of President Roosevelt nest year and
the issue that hna been raised in regard
, . ,
ur luiyonanue muu as a iphi oi sirviifcui
between Senators Hanna and Foraker
According to' the. latter the responsl
billty for raising the issue is with Mr.
Hanna, or his friends, but this is not" n
matter of great consequence. But the
issue having arisen, ,it Is the opinion of
jrr Foraker and doubtless of many
tkr republicans In the state that it
would be a mistake not to endorse the
president for nomination. As to Mr.
Roosevelt himself, he has stated that he
has had nothing whatever to do with
raising the inue as to his endorsement
and it is needless to say that he will
have nothing to do with the question.
There appears to be- no doubt, that the
issue will come before the , convention
and at present the indications seem
favorable to endorsement
More or less is being said about grow-
lng opposition to President Roosevelt in
the east, but nothing of the kind is ap
parent among the rank and file of the
republicans of that section. Nor has
any eastern republican leader, so far as
we know, manifested' opposition to the
nomination of Mr. Roosevelt. The trust
people are of course hostile to him, but
this fact should and it is not to be
doubted will strengthen the president
wltn tne masse of republicans and
draw others to his support. "So far as
tne presidency is concerned," says the
Philadelphia Inquirer, "there is no real
opposition to Roosevelt." There are
some who profess to believe that some
of his utterances in the' west hare been
unfavorable to him In the east, yet they
offer no food reason, for thla rlv nnA
Indeed there Is none Thpr I.
,n W the president h Mld fin hf
WMtern trio that ahmtM o Pmo
th-' .....i,.,,, mnn.t t .n
''
Americans.
I T A a. a a.
u our juagmeni tne OHIO issue. has
bn 1ven 6tly exaggerated signifl
oance. It is a difference between two
distinguished republican leaders of that
state, both avowed friends of Mr. Roose-
nomination next year.
TH HUAVY lMMlOBATlOa. &
The indications are that the Immigra
tion for the current fiscal year will be
the heaviest ever known. It is estl
mated that it may reach 800,000, the
previous high record being 788,092 in
1882. It is remarked, however, that the
Increase of this element in the popula
tlon does not nearly keep - pace In Its
Proportion with the general Increase of
population within the country. For ex-
smple the estimated immigration or me
current fiscal year as couiparea wim
that or iikk snows an increase oi omj
about 9 per cent while the increase in
population has been from 52,500,000 to
nearly 80.000,000, or more than 50 per
cent. The Increase In native population
has been steady, while that In Immlgra
tlon has been irregular
In regard to this large volume of im
migration, attracted by the1 prosperous
condition of the country, the New York
Journal of Commerce observes that there
is nothing disquieting or alarming la it
There has been here an Increasing ile
mnnd for labor and tills new force will
fall short of meeting it if properly dls
trlbuted. "The only serious question
pertains to the quality rather than the
quantity of these fresh accessions to
tu working population and to their dU
mmition. mat tne mass or mese .m
migrants should consist of laborers who
rre mostly poor is nut natural ana aoes
I not of itself make them undesirable
That paper argues that it Is not prac
I tlcable to establish any discrimination
based upon poverty or Ignorance and
if we keep out the diseased and defec-
I tlve and the actual paupers and crliui
nals who are liable to become a burden
and a tax upon the community, It is u
much as we can expect to do In the
way of exclusion. This Is the rational
view of the matter, but it Is not the one
that generally prevails In the eastern
section of the country, where there is
still more or less agitation for additional
restrictions upon Immigration. There Is
uo 1tlon that most of these imml
Br"n,B wl" ,orl" " UB"U " "le
P""' or me country sua
V? aistnourea couia only te con
BU,f,rea " acquisition.
I rrwi. i , l. i a a. f a ta
1 "rr .UB.urr..un w wmco
the Journal of Commerce urges stten-
tlon. While It thinks there is no occa
siou for a policy of exclusion from the
I country, and it is difficult to set up s
standard of discrimination or sifting, it
1 suggests that there Is occasion for the
I exercise of prudence in admitting to
I length of residence and the require-
.1 menta of evidence of fitness can be
easily rained to a higher Mtritidanl and
otipht to Ik?. No one who plows a proper
Ine uion Aiuprl' .in cltixenfliip will be
likely to And fault with this view. All
who come hero from foreieu lands to
make this country their future home
hould aim to ncipilre cltlzonclilp, but
only such should lie admitted to It n
re capable of understanding tt d title
nd responsibilities. To be on American
cltl.Pit Is a high privilege, to be most
nreftilly bestowed.
A BLVFT Oil Ai UIPERTlSCNCt.
The new city attorney. Carl C. Wright,
enters his office with a chip on his shoul
der. He declares that he will not allow
n appointee of the mayor to perform
the functions of second assistant attor
ney. In other words he declares tlmt
unless he Is allowed to appoint the sec
ond assistant city attorney he will bar
him out of the legal department This
may be a game of bluff, or It is an un
warranted Impertinence.
The city of Oumhn is a corporation
whose affairs are managed by a presi
dent called mayor and a board of di
rectors called the city council, all of
whom are elected by the stockholders
for a term of three yeors, and vested
with limited powers by articles of incor
poration known as the city charter. In
former yours the corporation attorney
was appointed by the mayor and con
firmed by the council, and in tum the
attorney was authorized to appoint an
assistant, or deputy, subject to confirma
tion by the council. Uudor the revised
charter the chief law oflioer of the city
is elected by the Btockholders nnd is
given tho privilege to appoint his deputy
or assistant. All other law department
employes, including the second assistant
and special agent or claims investigator,
have been and still are appointees of
the mayor and council unless they see
fit to allow the city attorney to name
them.
The mere fact that the city attorney
has been made elective Instead of being
appointive does not relieve him from re
sponsibility and accountability to the
mayor and council, or board of directors
of the corporation, except where the
charter otherwise provides. Like fill
other elective officers the city attorney
is subject to the supervision of the
mayor and incidentally to discipline by
the council in case he falls to perform
the duties of his office or is guilty of a
misdemeanor in office.
It may be well at the very outset for
Mr. Wright to bear in mind that he i
not now a member of a special branch
of municipal government like the police
commission In which he could slosh
around promiscuously In violation of the
letter and spirit of the law for which
the board was created and defy the
mayor and council to hold him to an ac
countability.
According to the World-Herald it Is no
secret .that Edward Rose water , and
Mayor Moores "have been pulling strings
with Governor Mickey for the purpose
of bringing about the appointment of P.
C. Ilea fey, who was one of the members
of the mayor's police board," to the va
cancy created in the Omaha police com
mission by the resignation of Carl O.
Wright There Is a very slight discrep
ancy between this well-defined rumor
and the facts. 1. Edward Rosewater
does not remember of ever having pulled
any strings with Governor Mickey. 2
Edward Rosewater has not spoken to
Mr. Heafey or communicated with him
through anybody else pn any subject
within the past twelve months. 3. Gov
ernor Mickey has had no opportunity to
refuse a political favor to Edward Rose
water. With these trivial variations the
startling disclosures In the World-Herald
may possibly be somewhere near the
truth.
If Governor Mickey has been tempted
with offers of bribes for appointive
offices it is certainly bis duty not only to
expose but to prosecute the bribe-givers.
It Is amusing, however, to watch the
World-Herald going into spasms about
the alleged attempts to corrupt the gov
ernor, with Its loud demands for the
Immediate dlvulgence of the names of
the culprits, when we recollect Its oml
nous silence when it was charged that
bribe offers were made to popocratic
governors. When it was given out for
example, that Governor Poynter could
have bad $35, (MX) for signing a pardon
for Joseph S. Hartley, no editorial call
for the names of the go-betweens
adorned the World-Herald, although to
buy a pardon would certainly be as
criminal as to buy appointive favor,
With that blow-hot and blow-cold organ
it is simply a question whose politics
ox Is gored.
The premature death of John S. Rob
inson removes a man who has had a
creditable record in our public life. It
was his' misfortune to sit through both
his terms as representative in congress
from Nebraska as a member of a hope
less minority with little opportunity to
make bis mark upon legislation. He
was. however, untiring, persistent and
faithful in his service to his constit
uents, to whom he was also endeared by
personal traits that commanded their re
spect and esteem. As a practitioner a
the bar and Judge upon the bench he
stood high among his legal associates
and should in the course of bis remain
lng years, had he run the allotted course
of life, have reached a still higher plane
of public usefulness.
The prosecution of municipal and
legislative boodlers down in Missouri
has raised the standard of public morals
several degrees. The leading republican
organ of that state, the Glole-Democrat
which has been waging s very vigorous
c-tnipaljiu agalust boodlerism, proclaims
this doctrine: "All the republican bood
lers ought to be kicked out of the party
as fast as they are discovered. They
sre really more culpable than demo
cratic boodlers and all possible effort
should be made to get them into the
penitentiary without, mercy or delay,"
If The Bee should venture to deliver
such u whn1pwni)P lecture In four IIiips.
whut nn outcry there would be.
It turns out that the agreement
reached at New York with the Union
PnrlnV Milkers Is only a partial settle
ment and tlmt terms nre still to be
greed on between the company nnd the
mchlnlsts. It is to be Imped the re
maining differences may bp upcetllly ad-
usted with early re-employment of all
the old men who want to go back. It
Is not to Omaha's Intenest to hnve any
of Its wagoworkers In enforced Idleness.
Another dire plot to make away with
the life of the president lias bpen un
earthed and promptly frustrated by the
lynx-eyed sleuths at Walla Walla. Wash.
If n medal were to be struck for all
these presidential life savers the mints
would have to work overtime. ' It is
Iways so thoughtful in these con
spirators to announce their Intentions In
dvnnce and see to It that the police
re duly Informed In plenty of time.
The taxpayers of Omaha will be called
upon to contribute $1,200 toward the ex
pense of the special deputy sheriffs en
rolled to assist the police in maintaining
law and order during the recent labor
troubles. This is much preferable to
paying the quota of taxes that would
have been imposed upon Omaha if state
troops had been called out to patrol the
ity.
With the Btate university turning out
the largest class of graduates In Its
history and other Nebraska institutions
of higher' education keeping a close
second, there is not much danger of this
state losing its place at the top of the
column for widely diffused literacy and
Intelligence.
Strife Hears Its Finish.
Chloago Record-Herald.
What Is the use of trylnf to settle all
these Industrial problems before the sweet
girl graduate reads her commencement
essay?
Keep Off the Grass.
Baltimore American.
The action of the United States in pro
tecting Cuba from foreign aggression would
Indicate that, there has been little abate
ment of the government's determination to
stick to the Monroe doctrine.
Take It All, Thamas.
Washington Post.
Tom Watson has broken his satisfactory
silence long enough to claim credit for the
establishment of the rural free delivery
service. He will be cheerfully allowed to
claim the credit for' the deficit, too. If he
wants It
A Diplomatic Hamarist.
Chicago Chronicle.
fount C.lnCs enmnlslnt that .,r. '
- " . . I
ated stories of the Klachlneff affair are sent
out of Russia Is calculated to excite some
hilarity when - we consider that both the
telegraph and the malls are subject in
Muscovy to scrutiny!, compared to which
the work of a mlcroacoplat la coarse and
careless.
Too Mach Haste to Get Thar.
Cleveland Leader.
Great as the prosperity of tha American
people Is, It . would have been decidedly
greater If there had been less gambling, of
various kinds. In the last few years. The
more general and remarkable business ac
tivity Is and the faster wealth accumu
lates the more money Is wasted In efforts
to gain much by risking little, In more or
less open swindling schemes. That is a
form of folly which Is most conspicuous In
the best times.
Moaojaltoea Fattened oa Oil.
Minneapolis Times.
Believers in the kerosene cure for mos
quitoes have been terribly shocked by the
appearance in the New Jersey districts
where coal oil has been most freely used of
the biggest mosquitoes ever seen In those
localities, and the worst of It la that they
arrived a few weeks earlier than usual. It
seems that the oil that Is poured upon tha
waters stimulates and nourishes the polly
wogs and the little mosquitoes and the re
sult Is an early crop of big ones. It Is
feared that If the kerosene treatment is
continued the New Jersey mosquito will be
as big as a sparrow In a few years and as
deadly as a rattlesnake.
Troable for Civilian Officers.
Philadelphia Press.
A number of young men who secured ap
pointments In the army under the stress of
the Spanish war are now discovering that
all Is not gold that glitters. Influence
helped to secure their appointment at a
time when men were needed badly, and
they were transferred ' Into the enlarged
permanent force. But now they have to
undergo examinations for promotion. No
influences operate In that matter. If they
fall they are allowed another trial, and If
they fall a second time they are dismissed
on that account, and others are "hanging
In the balance." Army officers who do not
keep up with the requirements of the mod
ern service do not have a very happy time
of It. Under Secretary Root "Influence"
cannot help such a man.
HEAVY VOLlME OF BUSINESS.
Country's Internal Trade Reflected la
Railroad Earnlagi.
Cleveland Leader.
As an Indication of tho heavy volume of
the country's Internal trade may be pointed
out the big Increase In the gross earnings
of the railroads during the month of April,
which, according to Bradstreet's, amounted
to 14.S per cent over the earnings for April
of one year ago. This Increase has been
exceeded in only one April since IS that
of 1897 and It has not been .equaled In
any other April within the paat eight
years. The gross earnings for April this
year were m.6-JS,915. as against t54.EO7.09l
for the same month of laat year, the actual
Increase being $.S,11S.8?4.
Last month. It Is declared, was, In many
respects, the most favorable the railroads
have had for a long time, because It marked
the relief of the freight congestion, cars
were returned to their owners with greater
facility and rates were fairly well main
tained. Furthermore, the opening of lake
navigation had little appreciable effect upon
railroad traffic. Still further It la appar
ent that the Improvement was not con
fined to April, for, during the first week
of May, the gross receipts of the railroads
averaged IS per cent more than In the same
period of last year. When It Is remembered
that the gains now reported are estimated
upon the phenomenal business done by the
railroads a year go. It will he understood
that, so far as business csn be measured
by the transportation of products, there Is
no Indication of anything calculated to
check the wonderful prosperity ef the
covin try at prsaaal
BITS OF WAlllOTO l.IFK.
Minor Seeaes and Incidents Sketched
nn the Spot.
Although the time for holding the na
tional convention for 1!04 la a year off
Washington gossip Is already discussing
the probable location. The Washington
correspondent of the Brooklyn Krglc de
clares that the politicians whose senti
ments are felt at the national capital are
disposed to turn down the claims of 8t.
Louis. "I'p to last month," says the writer,
"there aas talk of commingling the po
litical gatherings with a visit to the exposi
tion, but what the politicians saw and ex
perienced at the dedication ceremonies has
etirrd them of that notion. Aside from the
well known fact that St. Louis at that
seaaon Is a hot place. It Is a mathematical
certainty that the city will tot have accom
modations to hand'e many visitors. The
exposition will be sure to tax hotel and
transportation facilities to their utmost
limit.
"Chicago la favored by many as the con
vention city. It has been demonstrated, by
repeated tests, that Chicago has the l-est
facilities for handling such an assemblage
of any city In the middle west. The hotels
are so large and numerous thst they tan
absorb a convention crowd without great
Inconvenience to the regular patron a. Its
telegraph facilities are excellent..
"New York appears not to care for the
honor of entertaining the delegates who
will name the next president. There is
some sentiment in favor of holding the con
ventions In San Francisco. There never
has been a national convention there, and
many of the politicians would like to take
the trip. On the ether hand, It Is always
objected to California that there are not
enough telegraph lines crossing the conti
nent to carry the great volume of tele
graphic business Incidental to reporting the
news of the conventions. There is also the
three hours difference In time between
California and the eastern states, making
the news that much later In arriving. But
the greatest objection, and the one that Is
likely to destroy the chances of Ban Fran
cisco, Is the waste of time In getting out
there and back again."
The new t-cent postage stamp, nick
named the "Mr. Doolny," has been retired
from business The design for Its successor
has been approved by the postmaster gen
eral, and the engravers at the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing are at work on It.
The same portrait of Washington will be
retained, but the lines will be coarser. This
is made necessary by the use of red Ink
the color determined upon by the Universal
Postal union for all issues of the denomina
tion of 10 centimes or Its equivalent. Any
other color would be preferable for such
work as Is done on our 2-cent stamps, as
the red blurs the fine lines In rapid print
ing. This, the engravers claim. Is the main
troubla with the "Mr. Dooley" picture.
But the chuckling expression given to
the, dignified lineaments of the Father of
his Country is not the only feature of
the stamp which will be changed as the
result of this artistic mishap. The postal
authorities have concluded that the In
scriptions are too Indistinct; so, while
the same legends will be retained, they
will be rearranged with a view to making
them more easily readable. The head of
Washington will no longer occupy an oval
frame, but one arched above, but fairly
straight underneath, after the general
St vie of the TIVn1rllM . . I. .
' ii wmi on mo 1-cent
"tamp; ana the ornamental
surrounding
will be altered In sundry ways.
The Impression prevails that tha com
memorative series of stamps for the St.
Louis exposition will portray McKlnley on
the 1-cent, Jefferson upon the 2-cent, Na
poleon upon the 6-cent and President Lou
bet. Louis XVI of France, for whom
Louisiana was named. Columbus or some
other celebrity for the 10-cent value.
The question of color schemes has not
been considered. It Is possible the stamps
may be printed in two colors, the portraits
In black and tha frame or border In tha
established colors, but it Is more likely only
one color for each stamp will be used. The
two-color stamps cost the department four
times as much as the single color and
Involve a vast amount of work for the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
One of the most valuable and compre
hensive compilations by the government Is
F. B. Heitman's historical register of the
United States army, which is now on the
presa Congress has authorised an edition
of 6,000 copies, which will be sold at about
II a volume, the work thus far making
two volumes of 900 pages each. The period
oovered Is from 1789 to 1901. The contents
will embrace a complete list of all the gen
eral officers of the army and of the vol
unteer service from April, 177B. to date, ar
ranged according to rank and with period
of service.
It will also contain a complete chrono
logical roster of the chiefs of bureaus or
staff corps. 1776 to 1902; the field and staff
offloers of the line (artillery, cavalry, dra
goons. Infantry, the legion, rangers, rifle
men,' sea fenclbles, voltlgeursl, showing the
acts of congress under which each organi
sation was created, with dates of consolida
tion, dlsbandment, etc., 1789 to date; a
oomplete alphabetical list of all commis
sioned officers of the army. Including of
ficers of the volunteer staff; all the brevet
major or brigadier generals of volunteers.
giving their full names, showing service
as cadets, as officers or enlisted men,
either In the regular or volunteer service;
all brevet appointments; all cases In which
thanks, swords or medals have been
awarded by congress or medals of honor
heve been awarded by the War depart
ment, and for what service conferred, and
the dates of death of about 9,000 officers
who died after leaving the United States
service; alphabetical lists of officers of vol
unteer regiments during the wsr with
Mexico, field officers and captains of light
batteries during the war of the rebellion,
and all officers of volunteers snd contract
Burgeons during the war with Spain. In
cluding all who served between April 21,
19. and July 1. 1901.
The work will also contain alphabetical
lists of general officers of the confederate
army. 1M1-1808; list of general officers,
United States army and confederate army.
who were killed or died of wounds received
during the war of the rebellion. 18(TI-18fl8,
and a list of officers who left the Un.ted
States army after November 1. ISfiO. and
Joined the confederate service; tables Illus
trative of the most Important changes In
the organisation of the army of the United
States, under various acts of congress.
from 1789 to February, 1901; chronolnglc.il
and alphabetical Hats of campaigns, battles
sctlnns, oombsts, skirmishes, military
events, etc., from April. 1776 to January,
1900; tables showing the strength of the
armies and the losses In the principal
wars.
The work will contain the records of about
70.000 officers. Of the ,000 copies ordered
bv congress 1.000 copies are for the use
of the senate. T.00S for the house snd 9.000
for the Wsr department. The remainder
will be for sale by the superintendent of
documents. The demand for the work
strong army officers Is so grest thst the
e-Htlon will doubtless be exhausted at the
outset.
Rerrlve-r for Bay Sae Gas.
PHILADELPHIA. Mar M. Judge Dallas
In tha United States circuit court here to
day In an oral opinion Indicated that he
would appoint either Alexander Simpson,
Jr.. or Gaorge W. Pepper, members of the
Philadelphia bar. as receiver for tha Bay
State One company of Delaware.
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IMMIGRATION AM) THK CITIF.S.
Smnll Fee Tent nf tha Tide Reach
the West aad Snath.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Previous immigration records wUI prob
ably be broken this year. The primary
cause of this unprecedented Influx of aliens
Is the prosperous business conditions pre
vailing here. Much of It Is due to the In
creasing competition of the steamship com
panies for this profitable traffic. It Is pre
dicted that the number of arrivals for the
current year will reach 800,000. It may
greatly exceed this estimate. But the num
ber of arrivals, though sufficiently Impres
sive, la not the disturbing feature of tha
Immigration question. The character of
the Immigration and Its distribution
throughout the country are all-Important
considerations.
Immigration Commissioner Williams cf
the port of New York, In an Informing con
tribution to the Federation, significantly
says that we are annually adding nearly 1
per cent to our population from portions of
Europe which sent us scarcely any people
twenty years ago. To regard Immigration
from the numerical point of view la to
"overlook the racial, sociological. Industrial
and Intellectual distinctions which exist be
tween the Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic and
Scandinavian races and the Slav, Magyar,
Italian, Greek and Syrian races."
Commissioner Williams thinks that If our
former immigration had come from those
portions of eastern and southern Europe
which now contribute yearly so many
thousands to our alien population In tha
cities, the civilization of the country would
have been retarded. This Is a serious aver
ment, and It discloses the peril of unre
stricted Immigration. Unfortunately, the
later arrivals from the districts named by
the commissioner remain in our great cities
by a law of their nature which Impels
them to herd together In the already popu
lous centera Thla congests the labor mar
ket of the cities, while the farmers of the
west find It difficult to get hands. Tha
earlier Immigration waa, as a rule, ef a
superior character. It came chiefly from
Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavia.
By It the great west and northwest were
developed In . great measure. The Immi
grants became land owners, home makers
and town builders.
Of the foreign arrivals last year about
70 per cent remained In four eastern states
New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts. Between I and 10 per cent
went west snd S per cent south. Commis
sioner Williams reiterates the law "that
the stream of Immigration today Is a city
Immigration." This gives force to the ob
servation of eminent sociologists that the
great problem before the United States Is
the government of cities. Whether this
tide of undesirable Immigration from
southern Europe, now running Irresistibly
toward the great American cities, can be
diverted to those portions of the country
which invite settlement and development, is
a question of very serious import.
PERSONAL ROTES.
Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, near
Hogenvlile, Ky will be sold under the
hammer next month.
Prof. Martin W. Odland of Madison,
Wis., who has Just been appointed United
States deputy consul at Copenhagen, Den
mark, expects to leave for his new post
the latter part of July.
Prof. Ales Hrdllcka has been appointed
assistant to Prof. O. T. Mason, In the de
partment of anthropology In the National
museum. Prof. Hrdllcka Is a native of
Bohemia, but has spent years In the United
States studying anthropology.
Quite a commotion has been caused la
Canton, home of tha late President McKln
ley. by the action of George D. Harter
post. Grand Army of the RepubUo, in re
fusing to Invite John D. Welty to deliver
tha Memorial address on Decoration day.
Mr. Welty Is a democrat.
Under the division of presidential electors
for 1904 New York continues at the head of
the list, with thirty-nine, while New Jersey
will have twelve again of five for the two
states. The states of Ohio, Indiana and
Michigan had forty-six electors In 1B9J, 1896
and 1900 and will have the same representa
tion lu 1904.
Lord Kelvin, who has come before the
public again In connection with some sden
tlflo discussions in London, has been called
"the greatest all-' round man of science
living." He took his college degree in his
early teens, and, although ha Is now nearly
80 years aid. Is recognized by scientists to
be In his Intellectual prime.
The most pollto men In the world Ilva in
Kansas. At Iola a husband suing for di
vorce recites In his peUtlon that "the said
defendant haa acted In such a way that
the said husband has had difficulty In dis
tinguishing her treatment of him as a hus
band from her treatment of others who
bore no such relation to her."
Every well regulated son-in-law will hall
with discreet Joy the success of a Chicago
brother in making his father-in-law cough
up heavy damages for calling him a lob
ster. Doubtless there waa soma truth In
the designation, but when a rich father-in-law
adda a lobster to the family eollec
tlon he should pay the price and give the
automatic kicker a chance to get in its
work.
Mayor Hiram H. Summers of Ottawa, O.,
has published a notice offering a number
of prizes to the persona who will maintain
the best kept gardens and lawns In the
town this summer. Already a number of
cltlzena have registered their names as
contestants. A committee will tour the
city three times and from the result of
their observation the prizes will be
awarded.
John Sargent, the famous portrait painter,
has a morbid dread of publicity. For
twenty years ho resisted all efforta of
photographers to rfet him In front of a
camera and only consented recently be
cause a fake picture printed In an eastern
nwsoaner has been extensively copied.
Even then the picture msde him look
twenty years older than his age. It la not
believed that he ever consented to be inter
viewed. The Paris correspondent prints a selection
of Emperor William's utterancea with a
view to portraying him as he sees himself.
"I am your emperor, he once said to the
Germlins. "by an immutable decree or uoa.
Again: "What I require of my people Is
a fidelity that never wavera." "The asser
tion of an emperor must not be disputed."
"Frightful was the time, bitter were the
years, before Germany had an emperor."
To a gathering of German bishops he said:
"Regard ma aa the intermediary between
you and Germany s ancient God."
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DROUTH RAVAGES DOWN EAST.
Vegetarlama Obliged to Repeal Their
. Resoletlona.
Philadelphia Press.
Laat year, .when the meat combine sent
prices en an upward flight far beyond the
reach of tha merely well-to-do, there waa
a tremendous output ef the literature of veg
etarianism. Always active propagandists,
the confirmed weed -eaters took advantage of
the situation to Increase their efforts to re
form the bloody-minded consumers of rare
steaks. They maintained that the wave of
moral depravity which was alleged
to be sweeping over the country
like a black plague. causing new
records of homicide and other forms of
criminality, had Its source In the bestialla
lng Influence 'of a meat dietary. In a
Jubilant proclamation which reported addi
tions to the ranks of the vegetarians the
head of a society of anti-meat eaters reluc
tantly admitted that the financial Inter
ests of the converts had more to do with t.
their change of diet than any consider
ations of physical, intellectual or moral
well-being. It was the high price of every -kind
of meat which swelled the member
ship of the societies of co-operative vegetar
ianssocieties which maintain gardens and
supply the members at wholesale rates.
While affirming that the degrading In
fluence of the meat trafflo had destroyed
the scruples of the packers ao that they
were eager to rob the meat-eaters on whose
patronage their prosperity depends, the
circulars of the vegetarians did not men
tion that the man who should enter on a
career of weed-eating would place himself
at the mercy of a capricious nature; that
drouths, floods, worms, abnormal heat
and other uncertain conditions might
destroy the crops and leave the confirmed
vegetarian without his accustomed prov
ender like an opium fiend without his
drug or the slave to tobacco without his
pipe. Such an affliction now everwhelms
the vegetarians. In the present month,
when the market gardens should be In tha
most grow able state and Invite the enemies
of meat to young onion carnivals, radish
riots, tomato banquets and the like, a few
small drled-up and weed-ltae articles are
arrayed on the market stands and held at
prices which are prohibitive to all 'except
the millionaires. Tha result is a shameful
backsliding of last year's converts to
vegetarianism. ' The Insincerity of their
professions Is exposed by their admission
that since they must default on houae rent
and devote all their income to food pur
chases, they may as well enjoy themselves
by eating meat
PASSING PLEASANTRIES.
A "An"! o you Ilka chewing gomT" asked
the fair maiden with tha rapidflre Jaws.
"Bure," said the swain who had been
trying vainly for an hour to get up from
the chair; "sure, I'm stuck on It." Balti
more Kiwi.
"I see there's a prominent physician." said
Reeder, "who declares you shouldn't get
Into bed with your feet cold."
"Huhl Some nights I wouldn't get Into
bed at all," remarked Jnckson Sevens, 'if
I didn't get cold feet." Philadelphia Catho
Uo Standard.
Shopper I want a dosen boxes of cigar
ettes. Clerk Yes'm. What brand? j
Shopper I want the moat deadly brand
you've got. I want to use them to keep
moths out of whiter clothes Philadelphia
Preea.
"What do you want with Beth Slimmlns
as postmaster? Why, he can't even read or
write!"
"That's Jes the p'lnt." said Farmer Corn
tossel. "we want somebody that won't
keep on pestertn" us by openln' our news
papers an' tellln' the neighbors what's on
our postal cards." Washington Star.
i rarui x suppose unuiaiiMie IKe nag
killed his man.
Native (wtthertngly) His "man?" Why,
Ike haa got five nicks In the steerin'-handie .
of his automobile already. Judge. .
First Venezuelan What has become of
Senor Marat lan?
Second Venezuelan He Is out of politics.
"Did he lose much In the last campaign?"
"Two arms and a leg."
"If you plena. Mr. Billings, can I get de
afternoon off? Me grandmother "
"To thin, me boy. Just died hssn't she?"
"Who? Me grandmother? Not much,
she ain't. She promised to take ma to de
ball game dls afternoon If T can get off."
"You can go, my boy." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
THE rNWF.I.COMB HFM.
Homervllle Journal.
We watch with eager longing for tha robin
In the spring.
And we strain our ears to hear his
primal note.
Our hearts sre filled with gladness when
at laat we hear him sing.
And the music thrills us rippling from
his throat.
We like to hoar the twitter of the spar
rows In the trees,
And the orioles are welcome when they
come.
And the bluebird charms us. swinging In
the tree-top In the breeze.
Cut we hate la hear the first, mosquito
hum!
It Is rank discrimination, for the gkeeter
dona her best.
And she bravely sings tha only song she
knows.
And It Isn't right to blame her If aha robs
us of our rest.
When we're settled to enjoy a quiet doze.
She has the beit IntenVluns. and she's not
I at all to blame
If hr voire la not ss musics.) as some.
But there's really no tm talking, she'll
get sls,ppd at, Just the same,
For we hate to hear the tlrst mosquito
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