Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 31, 1903, Page 6, Image 6
TOE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JULY 31. 1903. Tiie Oniaiia Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TEBMJI OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dully Dmi (without Bunday), One Tear..$4 M Dally Be and Sunday, One Year Illustrated Bee. On Year 2. ft 2. 09 l.W 1.00 Sunday lie. One Yr Saturday Bee, One Year i;"" Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. pally Re (without Sunday), per copy So Dal!y Be (without Sunday), per week 12c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per weea..i(c Huntley Bee, per copy J Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week Evening Be (Including ouiiuBj;, J(kt Complaint of trregulsrirje in Oellverr should b addressed to City Circulation D Dartment. .omcEB. Omha--The Bee Bulldtng. Smith Omaha-City Hall Building. Twtn-ty-nfth and M Street. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street Chlrsro 1&40 t'nity Building. New York-Z!2 Park Row Building. Washington Ml Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Taachuck, secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete eoples of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of June, imt, was a lollows: 1 80.A2O t 80,970 BO.ttflO 4 80,000 U.. i,u J7 1..3O.BT0 JJ 8O.07O U U,9fH 20 BO.03O 2i 87,700 H 30,630 a' so,eoo U, 3,M0 K JW.OSO 24 "L210 27 81.H10 21 2?r4M 2 80.W0 AMilO 80,MM m i74H40 t 80.T20 I 0,10 It ftl.UOO U 80.B30 U u ao,7so 14 MTIU U 80,770 0 80.03O Total M..1J,00 Less unsold and returned copl t,7gwj Net total sals....v.... t Net averag als HO.OTb liJuUKGli B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me tills Suva tiny ot June, A. D. lSWi. it. ti. HUNUA'i.'JS, (Seal) Notary Public. PARTIES UAV1XC FOR IVSUIUR. Parti leaving; tfca elty tow tb asamr saay bar Th D scut to thm regalarly fcy aotltyias; Th B Baslncs (Bee, la person r hy snail. Th address will b changed s attest dalrd. Trade excursions out of Omaha should fa followed by trade excursions Into Omaha. Borne la now witnessing another pro duction of that sterling but seldom por trayed drama, "The Making of a Pope." A bog with six feet Is the latest ani mal freak produced on a Nebraska farm. Those with two (eet are so plen tiful that they, attract, no special at tentlon. The chief thing that distinguishes the college of cardinals from our electoral college la that we know the outcome of our presidential election before the elec tors meet. Both the Jacksonian and the County . Democracy committees on arrangements seem this year to have forgotten to assign a place on the picnic program to their populist allies. A few more Jolts by foreign courts that refuse to recognize the validity of the decrees and the Dakota divorce mill Industry will have to be turned over to a receiver in bankruptcy. After falling to land the persimmons by fusing with every other political party, the two wings of the populist party have now determined as a last re- aort to fuse with oue another. The acreage figures compiled by the state'' labor commissioner show over 400,000 more acres planted to corn for 1903 than for 1902. Even with a short crop, Nebraska's total may yet come pretty close to its average mark. The antis now are not sure whether they want to adopt and enforce their new scheme for primary nominations. They are apprehensive because The Bee Is not fighting the proposition harder. It's hard for The' Bee to please Its enemies. The frills and fads are making their way into the state normal school. A professor of biology has been engaged for the coming year and we shall not be surprised if tho board ' shall soon induct into the normal the professors of philology and astrology. The report of the pension agent for the southwestern district shows that the number of pensioners decreased during the past yeur by 220, although the amount of money drawn on pensions In creased by more than $50,000. The pen sion list Is platnly at the turning of the tide. A Nebraska man Journeyed all the way to Mexico to Invest In a half mil lion acres of cheap Mexican land and then came to the conclusion that he would do better by planting his money right at home In good Nebraska soil. Moral Don t overlook the good things within . reach while being enticed by distant allurements. The printed sol u me of laws passed by the recent session of the legislature Is at last being distributed, only a month behind time, and with flagrant evidence that it la a hurry-up Job. The Bee has suggested that the proper way to avoid this deluy lu the future Is by letting the printing contract In the beglnulug In stead of at the eud of the session. It is to be hoped that state officers who have this work in charge will take note and act accordingly next time. TBM COBCLAYK VF CARDINALS. Today the conclave of cardinals will meet to elect a successor to the late I'opu Leo. The whole number of cardi nals is slxtr-four, all but two of whom will participate in the election. The dispatches have eiplained the methods of the conclave, which are very simple, and it Is announced that all the neces sary measures have been taken to In sure material and moral liberty at the conclave. This means that there will be no attempt rtn the part of any of the Catholic governments to Influence the choice of a new .pontiff, although It Is possible that one or more of those gov ernments may have already secretly In dicated a preference. However this may be, the assurance Is given that the con clave will proceed In the performance of Its great duty with perfect freedom, every member voting as his sense of re sponsibility and his views respecting the Interests and welfare of '.the; church dictate. It is to be noted that the conclave of 1003 meets' tinder very different condi tions and circumstances from those at the time of the election of Leo, twenty five years ago. Then political consid erations bad much more weight with the cardinals than at present, though doubtless they are not now entirely lost sight of. Indeed the chances .of .those most prominently talked of for the suc cession are probably .more or less af fected by political considerations, es pecially with regard to the government of Italy. It Is quite likely that some of the cardinals are hopeful of a change in the relation between the Vatican autl the Qulrinal, but the majority undoubt edly realize that the separation Is per manent and that further opposition to it will be useless. There Is not the slightest chance of any change that would restore to the papacy Its former temporal power. In regard to foreign powers the wise policy of Leo will un doubtedly be maintained. A two-thirds vote of the conclave is required for election, which Is by ballot. The result will be awaited with great Interest by Catholic circles all over the world. BtPVBhCCAtf PtUSEtRS. Preparations are being made for cele brating, at Jackson, . Mich., the fiftieth anniversary of the reorganization of the republican party, which it is claimed had its qrigln there in ISM. In refer ence to this the Detroit Free Press says that the real pioneers in Michigan re publicanism are the men who voted for Kinsley 8. Bingham for governor in 1854. There were 43,652 of them andlf'nlch may be expected to be expanded they elected their candidate by a ma-1 Jority of 4,977, John S. Barry, the demo cratic candidate, receiving only 88,175 votes. "This was the first great victory of the new antl-slnvery organization," eays the Free Press, "and It had a. wide Influence over the subsequent fortunes of the party in the country at large. Two years later" the nurntovrof "repub licans In Michigan bad Increased to 71, 702, but the-pioneers were the 43,052 whiga and free-soil democrats who aban doned their old parties, organized the new party and elected their ticket tri umphantly in the fall." ' There Is controversy aa to where and when tho republican party originated, but there can be no question as to the credit due Michigan in connection with the organization of the party and that state has been very faithful to repub lican principles. , The celebration at Jackson should be a most stirring event and especially useful In enlightening the young men of today regarding the vast achievements of the republican party. trrORT FOR CONSULAR RCFURM. It appears probable' that a very ear nest and persistent effort will be made In the next congress to secure the re form In the consular service which has been urged for a number of years, espe cially by the business ' interests con cerned in extending our foreign trade. Ref erring to the subject the New York Tribune remarks - that of course the spoilsmen in congress ha've great con tempt for the proposed reform, "but the demand for It is not confined to the doc trinaires whose counsel of perfection it is their' bablt to scorn. The business Interests of the country," declares that paper, "want consular reform. They are awakened as never before, not only to the possibility, but to the need of foreign trade. They must have it not merely for an outlet for Increasing pro duction, but to give steadiness to com merce and avoid the ups and downs Incident to a limited market area which can be controlled by one set of condi tions. These business' interests when they have really made their earnestness known will be listened to by politicians. If they do not secure the reform In the next congress they may still be confl dent of winning in the end, provided they continue to 'demand better-facilities for foreign trade." It Is not contended, of course, that. our consular service. is rudlcnlly bid or In efficient. A cliarge of that character would not be true and could be eanlly shown to be unwarranted. The fact Is conceded that the service has on the ' whole been very greatly Improved within recent years and that gener ally it is now doing good work and prov ing a moKt useful aid to the extension of our foreign trade. What the advo cates of reform urge Is that the standard which has been reached shall be main tained and further Improved wherever there is opportunity for improvement, to which end it is necessary to take the service put of politics and place It upon a merit basis. An American merchant engaged In the foreign trade, , who hag had much experience with our consols abroad.' eays: "We will never get our consular service up to a dignified posi tion until we establish a permanent service, with . advancement on a merit system. It should be a post of honor and not on ' for politicians to send undesirable relative to. We may not like to copy other, countries, at w could well send a commission to look Into the way some of our foreign friends handle this most Important question." There Is perhaps no necessity for study ing the consular methods of other coun tries. These are already pretty thor oughly known and In some respects we have Improved, upon them, as more Jhan one foreign government has ad mitted. We are quite capable of regu lating this matter without going abroad for Instruction. The measures that have been' Introduced into congress Would accomplish the' desired reform, but t he difficulty 'Is to overcome the op position of. the spoilsmen, who have thus far been able to muster sufficient strength to prevent legislation. It Is not to be doubted, however, that the re form will eventually come, because it Is not only demanded by the business Interests of the country that understand how Important It Is to the extension of our foreign trade, but is favored by in telligent public sentiment generally as being essential to the maintenance of an efficient consular service. FOHC1SO THE MCKICIPAL VtrSKRSHlP MtSUK. The announcement that the New Omaha Thomson-Houston Electric Light company, which long ago ceased to be new, haa been reorganized and will here after do business at the old stand under the name of the Omaha Electric Light and Power company would be of com paratively little interest in this commun ity were it not for the fact that the new company proposes to follow In the wake of other overcapitalized public utility corporations. According to the state ment of its manager the old company has $208,000 of bonds outstanding and a floating debt of $400,000, which will be taken up by the new bond Issue of $1,500,000. In other words the new cor poration will, under pretext of provid ing for future development, Issue $800, 000 more bonds than would suffice to pay off the bonded and floating debt of the old company. The new corporation, which for its own reasons baa been Incorporated in the state of Maine instead of being In corporated In the state of Nebraska, In addition ; to the $1,500,000 bond Issue proposes to Issue $3,000,000 in stocks, making a total.capitallzation of $4,500, 000, with a fixed charge of at least 0 per cent on $1,500,000 of electric watered bonds, equal to $00,000 to be earned In addition to the cost of opera ting expenses and wear and tear. The company would very naturally expect to earn dividends on lta stock isstie. lnto another $00,000 a year, making in all not less than $180,000 a year to be levied upon the patrons of the company for Interest and dividends on an actual Investment of probably not exceeding $1,000,000. And this Is precisely where Omaha Is vitally Interested, and by rights ought to be In position to protect itself. It goes without saying that the patrons of the electric light company would cheer fully submit to being taxed 6 per cent or even 8 per cent upon the capital In vested in the manufacture of power and light for municipal and private use, but they will not cheerfully submit to being taxed 4 per cent on five or six times the actual capital invested, especially In view of the fact that the corporation has paid nothing for the use of the streets and for the monopolies It now enjoys of selling light and power. Overcapitalization of public utility corporations Is not an unreasonable ar gumem in iayor or municipal owner ship. While there Is no statutory rein edy to prevent the new Omaha Electric Light and Power company from lncor porating in Maine and inflating its cap ital In Nebraska, this new departure cannot fall to emphasize the popular de mand for a municipal lighting plant and such municipal regulations and restric tions as win protect tne private con sumers of electric light and power from unreasonable exactions. The American invasion of Europe seems to have carried with It an in vasion of American Doodling methods, If the disclosures In the Hungarian Diet are a fair sample of the newest opera tions. The exhibit of 10,000 kronen in cash as a consideration In a bribery deal by which one of the members was to be persuaded to disappear from the capital is very much on the order of some of the sensational coups that have been attempted In several of our American legislatures. The Hungarians have the advantage in that their money denom inations ard-smaller than ours and pue or lu.tiuy Kronen can be aeeumu lated much more cheaply than a pile of $10,000. Before the Investigating com ralttee gets through its reports it will probably discover, as has been repeat edly discovered in this country, that the bribe money is without an owner and that the conscientious lawmaker must simply have tried to buy himself. The secretary of agriculture Is highly gratified with the great success attend ing macaroni wheat In the northwest, The pronounced success of macaroni Is by no means a revelation In these United States. The praises of macaroni have been sung in verse and In' prose lo' these many years. Way back In the closing years of the eighteenth cen tury Yankee Doodle discovered the fine points of his broncho and called him Macaroni. The experience of the nine graduates of the Omaha High school who are about to Invade the Dakota wheat fields as harvest hands will be watched with Interest. If It proves a success the Board of Education may be justified in leasing the county poor farm for an ex perimental station for hoeing, plowing and harvesting, with threshing thrown in as Incidental sport. The new electric lighting company that is to take over the lighting and power 'plants of the three cities Of Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs Is careful to Incorporate under the laws of Maine, although the laws of Nebraska are as liberal to legitimate corporations as those of any state In the nlon. By Incorporating under the laws of Maine all litigation between tho com pany and its patrons will be thrown Into the federal courts Instead of the state courts. That Is what makes the difference. Governor Cummins of Iowa is con vinced that we need an elastic, self absorbing and self-expanding currency that will supply all the wanta In times of panic and evaporate out of the com mercial atmosphere In times of supera bundance. When Governor Cummins can organize a court that will suspend the laws of supply and demand In times of panic he will be able to give us that kind of a currency. Ohio courts are punching holes Into the anti-trust law In that state by de claring unconstitutional the penalty clauses that serve to enforce Its pro- islons. The question of trust regula tion ultimately depends on the courts and their disposition to uphold restric tive legislation or to hunt for pretexea to nullify anti-trust laws whenever they become embarrassing for the trusts. As the Instigator of The Hague peace conference and the chief advocate of arbitration and disarmament, the Rus sian cr.ar finds himself in a ticklish posi tion with reference to the war clouds In the far east His success In adjust ing difficulties with Japan will show whether he can make his profession and his practice Jibe. ' It ought to be self-evident that a man who submits his name for a nomi nation at the hands of his party con vention la bound by good faith not to become a candidate of the opposition against his successful competitor. It would be self-evident in any other place but Omaha. It Plaee on the Books. Philadelphia Inquirer. The 241.000,000 dropped from th Internal revenue last year may be counted as divi dends paid to prosperity. Turkey's New Trademark, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Turkey has decided that Its navy shall be taken seriously, it Is building a warship on which the mark will be made: "Made Iq the United States." Tactical Bluader. Chicago Tribune. Mother Jones made a mistake when she started for . Washington with her army without having held a council of war with Major General Coxey. Nebraska la New Yerk. New York Commercial. Nebraska estimates Its wheat crop of this year at 80,000,000 1 bushels. That la an In- crease of 70,000,000 . over the crop of 1890, What's the matter, with Nebraska? Old Wag,, Good Bsosgh. ' Chlnago Tribune. The Philadelphia, chemist who Is preparing to manufacture gold in large quantities has not succeeded In alarming Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Carnegie, who expect to keep on making It out of the Ingredients they have always used. The Othe Fellow TarlS. . Minneapolis Times. The furniture men, at their annual meet ing, have been placing themselves on record as favoring certain steps in tariff revision, They omitted, however, to ay anything about a reduction of th duties on furnl ture.. A great many of th Infant think some other Infants could get along with a little less pap.. What a Woman Gets. Baltimore American. When a woman marries a man under the Impression that he Is a foreign nobleman and then asks a dlvorc solely on th ground that he possesses no title, th dlvorc should not be granted. Th woman who marries for reasons other than that ah love the man and believe him to be manly and upright Is entitled to little consideration at the hands of the law. . Trae Test of Worth. Detroit Free Press. The Kearsarge did excellently well in its trip across the Atlantic; but when th Kearsarge has sailed from the Mare Island navy yard, around the Horn to Santiago de Cuba, gone Into action without loBlng a minute In repairs and performed in a bill llant naval engagement the work of both a battleship and a cruiser when Kearsarge has equalled Oregon's record. It will have something to brag about. Wages and Tipping. New Tork Tribune. Hotel men in Chicago have consented to Increase the wage of waiter 10 per cent. Now the bonlfaces and tho who stand and wait ought to make an agreement that no tips shall be received In any clrcum stances. Is It not possible for this Yankee land of ours to abolish the Old World abuse of tipping? It Is merely half veiled extor tion. Pay everybody a fair recompense for fair service and do away with the degrad lng practice of scattering gratuities. A Convincing Instance. , Philadelphia Record. It is only within the past two years that bank advertising has been modern, Ued. .Formerly a dull statement, no more entertaining than a railway time table, appeared once or twice a year. Now many banks have a bright, attractive and In spiring advertisement In every Issue of the morning newspaper. That th Increase depositors has been without a parallel under the new method is on of th most convincing proofs of the great value of newspaper advertising. Alcohol and the Arts. Detroit Journal. However republicans my differ a to th necessity of tariff revision, they can all ap plaud th resolution of th furniture asso ciation protesting against what It calls "the present prohibitory tax on alcohol," In which no question ot protection is In volvcd. If not precisely prohibitory, th tax Is at least against the Interest o manufacturer who use alcohol In th mak Ing of articles concerning which there Is no queHtlon of temperance even remotely concerned. The furnltur men wan cheaper alcohol to render less costly th finish of their product, and they ar entl tied to have It at cost for such purpose, If the government needed the Income ob tained by the heavy Internal tax on alco hol, ther would be no complaint. But th government, under th revised tax list made by th last congress, 1 still takln from th taxpayers millions more of money than It needs. That Is not protection, but confiscation. BITS OF WASHINGTON 1.1 FR, Scenes and Incidents at the National Capital. General Jose Manuel Hernandet. the new Venrtuelan minister to the United States, as reached Washington, accompanied by Seizor Auguato F Pulldo, charge d'affaires; Benor Antonio Parra, attache, and his two sons, Nicola snd Juan Guellermo Hernan- des. General Iternandes ("Kl Mocho") was for year Venezuela's foremost political and revolutionary character. Tall, erect and Ith hi broad shoulders thrown bark, "El Mocho" hardly looks like a man who has spent a good part of thirty-three yenra on the battlefield. Tot In that space of time ha fought against the Venezuelan gov ernment In more than a dosen rebellions. He has th reputation of having partici pated In more uprisings than any other man In South America. He might easily be mistaken for a Frenchman. He has a broad, high forehead, hair worn pompadour, keen dark brown eyes and a long, "curved, thin nose. The general wears a rather long square beard and a long mustache, which, Ilk his hair, arc gray. His voice Is soft nd gentle. Asked on his arrival here how many revolutions he has taken part in, he laughingly replied: "I don't know." But," he added, becoming serious, "I want the past forgotten. The country, with the exception of Cludad Bolivar, is now at peace and I expect this state of things to prevail for a long time. All my efforts In th future will be directed to help maintain peace In Venexhela. We need It and can progress only under peaceful conditions." It was In one of th many revolt he led that General Hernandes cam by his sobriquet of "El Mocho," (the maimed). While fighting for possession of Cludad Bolivar the fourth finger and half of the fifth finger of his right hand were shot away. He last foutfht when he tried to depose Castro, about four years ago. He was captured and confined In San Carlo fort at Maracalbo three and a half years, but was released at the time of the trouble wltfl England and Germany, when ha vol unteered his service in defense of his country. Since then he haa risen to a po sition second only In political power to that of President Castro. General Hernandes re tains the leadership of the liberal national ist party and has recently secured several cabinet place and other high offices for his partisans. Her he will re-establish the legation abandoned four year ago, when Jose Andrade was minister. Senor Pulldo will be first secretary, and Antonio Parra, who accompanied. General Hernandes from Caracas, and Nicholas Hernandes, the gen eral's eldest son, will be attaches. Juan Gulllermo Hernandez, the minister's young son, who came with him, will be sent to Stevens Institute for a course In engineer Ing. The 1,420,63 Mexican dollars which were turned over to the State department by the Mexican government In payment of the California Plus fund award and were purchased by the Treasury department as bullion to coin Into Philippine peseta, have been delivered at the San Francisco mint and a warrant for $006,274 sent to the sec retary of state for th Catholic archdio ceses in California, to which the Plus fund belonged jointly with the Mexican govern ment. This great mass of silver, weighing nearly seventy tons, was turned over to Ambassador Clayton at the City of Mexico and was a source of embarrassment to the Stat department until this means of dis posing of it was found. It was sent by express to San Francisco in seven ship ments, the transportation charge reaching 86,000. .The amount paid by the treasury was at the rate per ounce for silver bullion In London on each of the seven days of de livery, and aggregated $610,274. Deducting th express charges the amount turned over to the church was $606,274. Th Plus fund was created for the California church. then under Mexican sovereignty, which In eluded upper and lower California. After th annexation of tipper California to the United State the church of that portion claimed a share of th fund which was re tained by th Mexican government, and after a long diplomatic correspondence It was referred to Th Hague arbitration tri bunal, which decided last year that the church In upper California was entitled to a share. In view of the possibility that Count Cas- slnl, the Russian ambassador at Washing ton, now in Russia on leave of absence. may not resume hi diplomatic functions at thl capital, gossip ha started already as to hi probable successor. A nam promt nently mentioned I that of Mr. Alexander Isvolsky, lately Russian minister to Japan who at first was Intended for th Danish mission, but Is now spoken of at St. Peters burg for a more Important post. Mr. Is volsky la already acquainted with this country, having been at one time one of the secretaries of the legation, previous to which he was sent a diplomatic agent of the Russian government to the Vatican. THAT DENVKR CONFERENCE. ' Prospect for a Third Ticket la the Field la 10O4. Washington Star. There is, after all, to be a third party In the field next year. For a time it looked as If the eldn Issues had all been abandoned. and th voter In 1904 would be called on to choose between the two old organisa tions. Th simple question would be, Should th republican remain In power. upon the promise to hold things level, or fhe democrat be commissioned to set things to rights In their own way? Some people hailed th prospect with pleasure and thought it a good sign, while others took the opposite view. But the agitator for new thing have by no mean been quieted. They are a vocal a ever, and, what Is more, are now led by a man who tn the matter of criticising es tablished order, regardless of what that order may be or where the responsibility may lie. has no superior in our affairs. Thl man Is ex-Senator William V. Allen of Nebraska, for a long time one of Mr, Bryan's lieutenants, and by long odds his wannest eulogist. As a leader Mr. Allen Is wholly unconventional and knows not fa tigue, and there will be something doing wherever his banner file. Men who flock to his standard will be assured of work enough to satisfy the utmost craving of their nature. Doe this movement argue that these friend of Mr. Bryan have no hop o seeing him take Independent action nex year, or ar they encouraged to feel that they are preparing the way for him? Evl dently they are not tn the humor for an other alliance with th democracy. Th rising tide of what 1 termed Clevelandlsm In that party show them that their in fluenc has waned In that quarter. And so they have either parted company with Mr. Bryan and resigned themselves to th feel Ing that he I going his own gait regardlesi of their wishes, or else, expecting- that In time he, too, will reject the return of th eastern wing of the democracy to power, they are getting a following ready for him The appeal of these men is made In th name of reform a comprehensive word, Th trouble now 1 not th low price o farm products, nor th scarcity of money, nor th alleged tyranny of the court. But, a the men read the story, th time gen rally ar out of joint, and a new party Is necessary to bold th country together and save American Institutions. And se they respectfully offer their services. MR. PARRY'S Cnt SADF.. Orsnlntlna of Employer to Resist Demands of Labor. Indianapolis Journal. The Journal has no disposition whatever o belittle the efforts of Its fellow-towns man, D. M. Tarry, to orgnnlse the employ ers of the country to meet organised labor. On the contrary, while there Is much to criticise In his utterances, he is doing a needed and successful work. He raised his voice at "the psychic moment" when a long period of prosperity, with Its consequent scarcity of labor, had enabled the organised forces of labor to obtain so much, not only In wages, but also In rules restricting pro duction and limiting the freedom of the em ployer that employers were alarmed. Not only did they see their profit disappearing. but they saw the prosperity of the country ' menaced by the increased cost of produc- tlon and the consequent high selling prices, ; with their tendency to cut off consumption, j Therefore, they were ready to listen to the . man who was willing "to speak out ln meeting" and put Into words not only the larm they felt over the situation, but also the accumulated Irritation and annoyance produced by the continuous process of ur renderlng privilege after privilege so long enjoyed by capitalist that they had come to bo looked on 'as right for It Is the most natural thing In the world for the holder of a privilege to forget that he has only such rights as organized society may con cede to him, and no more. Thus the people Mr. Parry desired to reach were ready to listen, but not to listen to the quiet voice. To get his hearing he had to ho an extremist. It la always so In large movements of men. The way la biased by the extremist the "crank," if you please. Organised labor seemed to have none but extremist ln.lt early days, but time has brought not a few labor leaders of conservative and reasonable, and even judicial temperament. Large organizations of capital do not suffer often from labor difficulties. One docs not hear of labor trou bles with the Standard Oil company, one of the largest Industrial organizations In th country. Th big railroad corporations have learned to deal with labor In a regular way. In th more regular lines of rail road employment the proposition has been pretty well threshed over and I now settled In regular grooves. United State Steel had It big fight, and the coat Industry had Its war before methods wero found for sat isfactory adjustment of labor questions. But the great r.iasa of smaller Industries, not strong enough to cope alone with the well organized and compact network of labor unions, have been feeling very severely the power of organized labor In Its efforts to get all It can in every quarter. To these Mr. Parry comes with tho offer of a general organization for the maintenance of th employer's position as trie master of his own shop. And it Is among these Inde pendent manufacturers, resisting on the one side the tendency toward merger and on the other side the aggression of organ ized labor, that he find his response. That he is an extremist may be admitted and he never showed this more clearly than In the attack on the publicity law In his New York speech. Nothing can be clearer In either morals or law than the proposition that, if organized society is to protect the property and business of a corporation or a person, It has a right to Know that that corporation, or person is using the protected property legitimately and doing a legiti mate business. But while Mr. Parry's extreme views give not a little ground for specific crltclsm, he is "filling a long-felt want" In his agita tion for an organization of employers to deal with labor questions. He is quite likely to succeed In forming such an organization, and It Is not Impossible that he will precipi tate a pretty general labor war. Involving the Independent manufacturing Industries. But, if so. It wtll be followed by a peace founded on bitter experience and better un derstanding, and much more lasting than the makeshift agreements that are now made from year to year and evaded by either party whenever it feels strong enough. PERSONAL MENTION. William Robinson, postmaster at Kan awha, W. Va., Is a Seventh Day Adventlst and refuses to open the postofflce on Satur days. Bjornstjerne BJornson has chosen his re cent novel, "Thomas Rendolen," as th me dium for discussing his Idea on educational reform, especially in girls' school. This Is a late mot of Mrs. Cralgle (John Oliver Hobbea): "London people spend half their lives In getting into society and th remainder In trying to get out of It." William H. Seymour of Brock port, N. Y., celebrated hi on hundred and first birth day last week by entering a croquet tourna ment and making on of th best cores. Rev. Dr. E. O. Buxton has resigned th presidency of Baldwin university, at Berea, O., because the trustee tried to fore him. he says, to go out and solicit the necessary money to pay his salary. Miss Alice Roosevelt Is expected at New port August 3 and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. Fulton Cutting. A series of entertainment will mark her stay, which will be simultaneous with the real opening of th gay season. Wlllard Flake, professor of Scandinavian language and literature at Cornell uni versity, after fifty year of fruitless search for a lost manuscript, has gone to Europe to continue the hunt. The manuscript contain the first mention of the gam of chesa by a writer In America. The Georgia legislature has before It a bill, appropriating $16,000 for statue of Alexander H. Stephens and Dr. Crawford W. Long, to be placed In Statuary hall, In the capltol at Washington, representing that state' choice of th two men moat deserving the honor. Mr. Stephens was vloe president ot the confederacy and Dr. Long Is honored for being the discoverer at least one of the discoverers of anesthesia. k mm yj WITH HOW DO YOU WITH OR WITHOUT? Have you ever stopped to consider that every time your grocers store is swept, the dust which goes up eventually comes down ? How much of it, do you suppose, settles in his cofTee-bins? Do you like your coffee with dust? If so, buy it in bulk. If, GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. Defects la Operation Not Conrlaslv Argument Asalnst Control. Collier's Weekly. Th postoffloe scandals have caused manj 1 flings at the theories of public ownership. If on department reveals such Inefficiency and corruption, it Is argued, what would follow from government control of other business now In private hands? Th dem ocrats of Iowa have recently declared for government ownership of the natural means of producing certain necessities, which sounds like an echo of the New York democrats' plank for national owner ship of tho coal fields, a plank Inserted at the time of the anthracite strike iW followed by overwhelming defeat. BuchV. principles ar hardly likely at present to ' be much emphasized In a presidential cam paign, but, on the other hand, the move ment toward municipal ownership has made recent gains. It Is to be remembered, by any Impartial observer, that two princi ple ore frequently confused. Corruption might spring from operation where II would not spring from ownership. The na tion need not necessarily conduct very property which It controls. It might own coal fields, railway or telegraph lino and lease them, under conditions which would make the present combinations and extor tions Impossible, and yet It might have noth ing to do with the actual operation. Great lease of thl kind would be too publlo to allow much fraud, and for th little con stant corruption which creep Into every thing publicly operated there would be no chance. W are arguing; In favor of publlo ownership. Indeed, w believe that th safest procedure Is to abandon Individual Initiative only when abuses become Intol erable. As publlo control, however. Is to be one of th questions facing us for many years to com, It Is well to sco the fal laciousness of those arguments which at tack government ownership by showing flaws In government operations. SUMMER SMILES. "Have you ever been a caddy before?" "Pure, lady. Yer needn't be afraid o' cussln' In my presence. I'm used to It." New York Journal. Blobbs I understand, sir, that you1 re ferred to my photograph as a side show. Blobbs Don't get excited, old man. I merely meant that It wus a profile. Phila delphia Record. "Who was It who saw the handwriting on the wall, Freddie?" asked the Sunday school teacher. "The landlord, ma'am." quickly replied the little boy who lives in a flat. Yonker Statesman. "It Is sad," murmured the musing theo rlzer, "to think that, as a great statesman once said, 'every man has his price.' " "Yes," admitted the Intensely practical worker, "and It Is a sad fact that half th time he can't get It." Tit-Bits. Wife You know, dear, you told me to Invest that money so that I'd have some thing for a rainy day. Muahnnd Yes. Wife Well, here's the Investment. Dldi you ever see a lovelier rainy-day skirt MUX ilia' Phllmlnlnhla Press. 1 , i - kA aw arrival At the f Am- peranoe hotel. "I can t understand why all those sensioie men xukb uii ivum-n every Sunday morning to see the hermit. "You'd understand If you went along, said the wise guest, with a wink. "Th hermit is bartender. ''Chicago News. Tramp You has purty easy times nothln' to do but stand here sellln' lead pencil. Pencil Peddler Think It's easy, do yeh? Don't: you know people won't buy pencils of a feller on thf street unless he look i starved an' dejected an" desparln'? "That's easy." ... " 'Taint easy to look that way right long Wen y'r rakln' in $4 a day." New York Weekly. . . . i ...... hAMnntu woman at- , - Aa,.. m 11 - it was in motion, and the little conductor detained v,r with the usual: "Walt until th c-a-a-r sthops. leddy!" , . , Don 1 aonress mo " said, haughtily. nf t Hanilnfi ma'sm. nut wb fLra all liable to mek mistakes," was th Im- WHAT WRECKED THE BOMB. Josh Wink in Baltimore American. One day a B"av young mermaid. While swimming near the shore. Gasped with delight to see a sight She'd never seen before. It was a pretty maiden In a bathing suit of red The mermaldvs eyes were twice their slz And popping from her head. ' She swam a llttl closer To the witching seashore maid. And watched her play, and, strange to say. Was not a bit afraid. She took In every detail Of the suit the maid had on. i Then, like a fish, she gave a swlsn a u.i.ntlu wii, crane. ' AIIU i.i.ut. - She fled and sped all breathless Where ea gems flashed and glowed. TO a nne cave uct-p m In which her folks abode. Her youthful heart was fired With what she had beheld; She told her ma and then her ps. And both with prld were swelled. They undertook to dress her Exactly In the style That she had spied: they tried and cried, And In a little while The happy home was desolate; Her ma was on the brink Of going mad. and her old dad Had drowned himself In drink. BROWNELL HALL, OMAHA. Boctal atmosphere home-like and happy. General and college preparatory courses. Exceptional advantage In music, art and literary interpretation. . Prepares for any college open to women. Vassar, Wellesley, Mt Holyoke, Western Reserve Tnlverslty, University of Nebraska and University of Chicago, admit pupi's without examination on th certificates of the principal and faculty. Thoroughness Insisted upon as es sential to character building. Physical training under a professional director. Well equipped gymnasium, ample provi sion for out door sports. Including rrlvat akatlng grounds. Bend for Illustrated cata logue. Mis Macrae, Principal. a TAKE IT, however, you have a preference for absolutely pure coffee, with out dust, buy DOS RIOS. i OLD OKIT IW Altt-TIORT CANISTERS J LKAIlMO OSOCEUI. J