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PARTIES LK AY 111(1 THK CITY.
Parties leavlaa; the city at
iir tlsae nay bare The Hee
seat t -them reajnlarly by
M9tlf!naT The Uee Bosiness
ffleti tm person or by mall.
The address will be changed
e oftea as .desired.
Alr-8nr-Brn la. putting on the finishing
touches for his an mini cnrntval.
Vp to date wo hnvo only hnd a shower
f bouquets in tlio "open foruni."
Is it not a llttlo bit too Into to light
the Boor war over either on this shl or
ca the other side of the big pnnrl?
CiMilyt, lunatics nnd anarchists will
Itive Oyster Bay n wide berth now ttiat
the president has vacated Lis' summer
home.
The Sixth Duke of Itirhiuond is dead,
but then there is another Richmond In
the held who sports the nuiue of the
Karl of March.
With so mnny two minute-trotters on
the track what use Is there for atiOuio
til, especlnlly as their speed is re
trtcted to eight miles an hour.
Those projected interuiban trolley
linea to give Oimiha closer connection
with the' villages and towns of western
Iowa and eastern Nebraska cannot be
built too soon.
tiovt-rnor Mickey need not be alarmed
ver the threatened alMluction of his
ch'idren. Dogs that bark don't gencr
ally bite and-jooplo. who threaten are
not very dangerous.
When the Board of County Commis
loners abolishes star chamber sessions
it will remove the ground for popular
usplelon that there are some transac
lions the board is anxious to cover up.
fJotton snorts were pinched in fie.
New York Exchange yesterday and the
cotton ' shirtings have been pinched in
aereral places outside of the metropolis
pbout tho ame time.
The? Lord made tho entire universe in
Ix days but I'rof. Langley and his
Smithsonian associates have lteen more
than sis years trying to muke un airship
Hint would raise itself from the ground
Vlthout coming to pieces.
Massachusetts democrats wish to
void national politics, hence they are
reluctant to trot Oluey on the presl
dentlal racetrack. Massachusetts demo
crats are credited with good horse s,ense,
and they know a spavined roadster
without examining his teeth.
There is plenty of work for tho county
auditor, but so long as there is no
method or system adopted for checkin
up every county oflWr, and so long as
fouuty officers are not required to make
regular reports and periodic settlements,
the money expended for auditing,!
squandered.
It Is announced positively and f r the
last time that tho electric lighting com
pany's proposal, which has rMiinimsl
aucu a profound secret for tei-eml
!W'?ekf will be made public at the best
couuci' meeting, and all further auxl1!.,'
and suspense will be over wlthiu twenty-four
hours.
In the discussion of municipal owner
ship of pub'lo utilities before the Chi
cago city council. Coldcu Rule Mayor
Jones struck the imil on tho head when
h declared that "In uuy franchise that
way he granted in the future provision
should be made for improvements.
When motive jNwcr was chuuged from
mulrs to electricity the iKt of opcraticu
was reduced one-half at leut und the
' people went on paying the same fure.
We should not get ' cuukLI that way
a-La in the near future."
MOM IS ED WrtSTlHATlOXa.
It seems to be pretty well understood
fust it is the intention of the den.o
era is at the coming session cf congress
to propone a numlKT of investigations.
It Is thought that they -will not only
move for a eougressior.al Investigation
of thp Postofllce department and the In
dian Territory scandal, but will ask to
have inquiry made as to the adminis
tration in other departments and bu
reaus. How far they will be disposed
to go will not be known until there is n
conference of democratic leaders and
perhaps a caucus of members of con
gress. Kither house can investigate and
it is suggested that while Senator Cor
man's well-known conservatism may re
strain such efforts In the senate, of
which he is the minority leader, that
would not necessarily control the demo
crats of the house. Doubtless there will
bo a thorough understanding between
those of lwith houses as to the eotirso
that fimll bo pursued, the motive, of
nurse, being to manufacture capital for
use in next year's campaign.
Undoubtedly the republicans will Tor
no objection to any proposed invi.Mtig.i
t imi for which there appears to be a
good reason or Justification. Indeed, It
is seld to be probable that the repub
licans may themselves propose inquiries
and it !s not to be doubted that the ad-
irilnisiration will favor their doln so.
President Roosevelt has shown that he
is most rnxluua to have exposed whoe
ver wrongs or .abuses there may be
in the government service and that the
perpetrators shall be held to accounta
bility. Ho ordered that the most search
ing Investigation be made of the postal
scandals and he has directed that the
harges of wrong-doiug in the Indian
Territory shall be thoroughly probed
and this will be done. If the democrats
have reason to believe that other Inves
tigations are desirable it is safe to say
that there will be no opitosltlon on the
iiart of the administration to having
hem instituted.
M'o do not think any fair-minded man
an doubt that Mr. Roosevelt earnestly
desires a clean and honest public serv
ice. What has been disclosed by the
postal Investigation cannot Justly te
nnrged against his administration. The
men who have been indicted and others
who have been smirched by the dlsclos-
res were not appointed by this admin
istration. Neither were those charged
with wrong-doing in the Indian Terri
tory. All these betrayals of trust ante
date tlio coming in of the present ad
ministration and consequently it cannot
bo bf-ld in any degree responsible. We
lx'lieve that on the whole the public
service of the United States is as clean
and honest as that of any other coun
try. Unscrupulous men have got into
the Service and brought reproach upon
it. but they tire leing called to tccount-
aliillty as rapidly as practicable. The
administration is faithfully doing its
duty in tills directlou and there is noth
ing more that can reasonably be t:
pect. d of it. The country can have Im
plicit confidence In the determination of
President Roosevelt that the public serv
ice ( ball be administered with integrity.
ir me democrats, however, lell(;ve
ilia the departments, any or all of
them, should be invstigated by congress,
1st them proioso it and it Is safe to say
they will find no opposition from the re
publicans, 1 who very generally believe
that such an investigation would be
helpful to their party.
7fl WALL STKUKT VITUJTIOZ.
Depression .continues 'to characterize
Wall street, so far as the stock market
Is concerned, and expressions of uneast
ness are beginning to be heard. The
liquidation movement goes on and al
though in the opinion of some of the
leading financiers the prices of most
standard stocks are so low as to offer
profitable investment there seems no
promise of an early Improvement In the
market. Unst week the most note
worthy fact was the decline in steel se
curities and these showed further weak
news yesterday, other stocks being slml
lnrly affected. There was a report near
the close of last week that a conference
of bank presidents, had been held to
consider the situation and adopt a pol
Icy In regard to It. Later information,
however, is to the effect that there was
no formal conference, though It Is quite
jmwh! ble that one may be held at nny
lime, unless there should be a material
change in conditions.
In its last issue the Unite States In
vestor says that the consensus of opin
ion seems to be that we ahull have no
money scare this fall, but tighter money
conditions may be expected, nnd adds
"It avails little, however, to point nt
Wall street liquidation and the low rate
for call money as a reason why no dan
ger of such a contingency exists, for
Wall street is not the whole country
Wall street undoubtedly has Its bouse
In order; it is carrying few stocks and
lias quite generally made provision over
the first of the year. Unless a wild era
of speculation is started and this is not
probable Wall street can rest easy. The
banks ure keeping a watchful eye on
such loans as they are carrying for
brokers, especially as regards Industrial
collateral be it said, however, and liqul
datlou from this quarter sliouid still fur
ther strengthen the situation." If this
is a correct view of conditions there
docs not apieur to be any substantial
retisow for unetiHiness, ( f.ir as the
legitimate business lutercsls of tho
country are concerned. Tho general sit
uation is sound and if Wui! street ha
its house in order there ia nothing to
cause apprehension.
Sir Thomas Lipton has met with an
other disapiolntment. This time it was
in Chicago when he met several Indians
ucar the outskirts' of the eenteunlal
celebration. "They are the first I ever
saw," said the baronet. "You know I
had un idea that they were grand and
noble fellows and I was surprised when
one Kked out his baud and after gru-it-ing
a bit said something that sounded
mightily like Till it up." These were
only ill bred half breeds and uot the
spclmrns of the full-blooded noble rod
man that draws rations from Uncle Sam
on the Dakota reservations.
thk bulk or nru.
There was a time, not many years
go, when about thirty or me scnooi
house janitors controlled the policy of
the Board of Education and regulated
the political 'conduct of its members.
During the past two or three years and
up to a very recent period tho Omaha
school board has been dominated by
three salaried employes the superin
tendent, the secretary and the architect.
Within the past thirty days the super
vising architect has been shelved nnd
the school board is now under the rule
of two, with Secretary Burgess as the
predominant force.
It Is an open secret that reflects no
credit upon the board that a majority
of its membership has become sub
servient and subjective to the perni
cious influence of the man who is pre
sumed to be a high-salaried clerk, but
who devotes the greater part of his time
to politics and scheming for favorites.
The delay in the awurd of the architec
tural plans for the new Monmouth Park
school, for example, is laid directly at
his door, and so are other practices that
do not commend themselves to public
favor.
Why the Board of Education, com
posed In the main of reputable men,
who conduct, their own business on
business principles and would not tol
erate the Interference or dictation of a
clerk or foreman in their own business,
submit to this is simply beyond compre
hension. From tho rule of thirty In
the school board the rule has come
down to three, and from tho rule of
three it has become the foot ball of tho
rule of two, and presently we. may ex
pect to have the whole school , board
subjugated and subjectesf to the rule
of one.
SOUTH XECUS iWREtl.AnU.
While some people are preaching sop-
ration of the races in the' south and de
porting the negroes, southern planters
are in need of labor to carry on their
Industries and negro labor is the best
they can have if tho supply was equal
to the demand. Tho south has been
making rapid progress in production
and the increase in the labor supply has
not kept pace with the industrial ad
vance. So scarce are workmen in por
tions of the south that some of the lead
ing men of that section not long ago
were willing to petition congress to al
low Chinese to come in to till 1 lie vacant
places. It is stated that tho cotton
planters of Mississippi Intend to send
north to obtain Italians to pick tho cot
ton. Southern newspapers arc filled
with advertisements for men, women
and children to assist in some kind of
work. A southern man writes thus to
an eastern paper: "Work Is so plentiful
that people are glad to get it done by
white or black. Some who have always
been used to the negro arc wanting no
others to serve hlin. Hero, then, is a
solution of what is known as the negro
problem. If the present prosperity
should continue, and there Is nothiug in
sight to hinder it, we shall have all our
people, white and black, at work."
In y'cw of this situation, the advo
cates of race separation and negro de
portation, such as Bishop Turner and
Mr. Graves, are not likely to make
many converts to their visionary and
impracticable idea In the south. That
section could not dispense with its negro
labor and continue to make industrial
progress. .
Pennsylvania has designated )ctober
10 as fall Arbor day and the superin
tendent of the Philadelphia public
schools has issued instructions making
the observation of the day obligatory In
the common schools. Kxpert nursery
men contend that tree planting in the
fall promises better results than tree
planting in tho spring, and unless two
Arlsr. days are established there may
come a time when spring Arbor day on
J. Sterling Morton's birthday anniver
sary will be supplanted by the fall
Arbor day observance 'inaugurated in
the Quaker state. , J
By all odds the most important office
to be filled this fall is that of county as
sessor who, under the new revenue law.
will place a valuation upon every acre
of laud and every town lot in the county
that will have to remain unchanged for
four years. It is passing strauge that
up to this time so little interest has been
manifested among the home owners who
arc Individually and collectively affected
in the selection of candidates who fire
. -
to compete for the county ussessorshlp.
The salary of Secretary Burgess was
raised at the beginning of tho present
school term from $1,800 to S'-'.IOO a
year, on the plea that he is the most
valuable factotum in the management of
the affairs of the school district. If Sec
retary Burgess really is such a tremen
dous organizer, why should ho not be
placed on an equal footing with Super
lntendent Peurse? Why not raise his
salary to fully $3.r00 a year?
Female suffrage In Coloradtf ha its
good and its bad sides. In the 'imrter
election held in Denver last week mos t
of the women who voted are credited
with voting for emunclpatiou from cor
rate misrule, but the multipliiit,' jt
votes through woman suffrage opened
the way for a multiplicity of reg'str-v
lion nnd election frauds that will take
several grand Juries from now until
Cbr'stmas to unravel.
rivlllsatloa Boosting; Barbarlaaa,
Indianapolis News.
Recently Turkey gut a large shipment of
cartridges from Germany Yesterday
Turkish war ship was luunched at Klnwli k
on tho Tyne, In' England. Thus does Chris
tlan Europe devote its beat efforts to main
talning peace lu the east.-
FollowlaaT lllasirluua k.ieaaplr.
Baltimore American.
President Ruvaevrlt. the illustrious
example of Abraham 1 ,1m .In us a preve
dcut, rUuetuU'd 'a Uictitir -J tuii l e ut
the Navy department because Ms wife
pleaded for him. Without an occasional op
portunity to temper Justice with mercy this
world would soon become unfit for human
habitation.
Where to llriw the Liar.
Washington Fost.
It seems next to lmiossihlp to fool the
prohibitionists. They have refused to In
dorse the proceedings of the Irrigation con
cress. rroToeatlon for a lloet.
, ' tetrolt Free Tress.
The. spectacle of democratic senators,
with their pockets stuffed full of railroad
passes and telegraph franks. Investigating
the Roosevelt special trains ought to con
tribute something to the gaiety of nations.
A Notable Triumph.
Indianapolis Journal.
Four years ago the United States was
using energetic military measures to estab
lish its authority in the Philippines. Today
eleven Filipino carpenters and nearly forty
Filipino laborers are employed In arrang
ing for an exhibit of the Islands' resources
and Industries at the St. Louis Worfd s
fair which Is to cost about 7VX0. Repub
lican government has never achieved a
greater triumph than this.
Justifiable Criticism.
Springfield Republican.
Admiral Evan's attack on the naval court
martial that let ofT the drunken assistant
paymaster with a reduction In rank of five
numbers now appears to have been war
ranted by an unusual circumstance. The
Inoffensive man who was assaulted by the
assistant paymaster at a public hall proves
to have been the German consul at Chefoo.
The consul did not report the affair to his
government, leaving the question of punish
ment wholly with the American naval
authorities. In view of the gravity of such
an attack, Admiral Evans seems Justified
In complaining because the defendant was
not dismissed from the navy.
I.Ike the Skull that Urlas.
Chicago Tribune.
rny before yesterday a Tribune repre
sentative visited the sweatshops along
NIiH-teenth street. In almost every shop he
found girls who could giggle, almost as Ir
relevantly and light-heartedly as the girls
of happier lot. The lunch hour he spent in
a particularly unattractive shop In a rear
tenement. There, over, coarse sandwiches,
ho heard laughter that sounded as free and
as genuine as any that he has ever heard
over Imported liqueurs. If he forgets every
thing else about sweatshops he will remem
ber the laughter.
What does such laughter under such cir
cumstances mean?. It means that life con
tains an analogy to tho skull that grins.
It means that certain of our fellow-creatures,
leading maimed, Inadequate lives,
adapt themselves, like animals, to environ
ment. Let that environment continue long
enough and they will, bo subdued by It.
Sweat.-hop girls, laughing in the midst of
squalor, tell a tale not only of the irre
pressible buoyancy of the human spirit, but
of tho facile and sometimes fatal way In
which human spirit adapts itself to cir
cumstances, tolerates their continuance, ac
cepts them as natural and finally grins
through them, seeing nothing beyond..
THE VICB PRESIDENCY.
Keed of a Radical - Change
In the
Dalles of the Office.
Chicago Evening Post.
The tlmo has come to make a' radical
hange In the position occupied by the vice
president of t)ie. United States. THe con
stitution slmply; provides that the vice presi
dent shall preside ovor the senate and suc
ceed to the presidency in certain contlngen-
les. There it stfdps. As our system has
developed, the vice president has nothing to
do with tho administration; he. is not a
force or factor in the government. The law
deprives him of voice or vote (with a single
exception) on the floor of the senate; cus
tom and practice shut him out from partici
pation in the work of the executive de
partment. He may be ornamental; he Is
not useful, even, as a "silent partner" In
the government.
Is this a ' reasonable, sound, safe plan?
The vice president is liable any day to be
called upon, because of the death of the
president, to assume the position of chief
executive, but though he may have served
for one, two or three years, under our pres
ent system he would not Je in touch with,
nor In the possession of any special inti
mate knowledge of, tho guiding ideas or
purposes of tho administration. Ho would
be wliplly unprepared for his duties as
president, and tho country at large would
In a state of unrest, not knowing
whether the new Incumbent in tho execu
tive mansion would carry on tho govern
ment on tho lines followed by his predeces
sor or make radical changes. In several
Instances this condition In tho past has
caused business depression and apprehen
sion. .
It will be denied by no thoughtful Ameri
can that we have been rather careless In
ma selection or candidates for the vice
presidency. It will be admitted that no
man ought to be nominated for that office
who Is not nt to step into and properly per
form the duties of the higher position.
Starting, then, with the basic principle that
the vice president should be capable of fill
ing the afflce of president, and recognizing
fliat he must be in harmony with the ad
ministration, does it . not follow that he
ought to be a part of the administration?
It Is time this logical conclusion were
drawn.
It is a conclusion which Involves an im
portant change in our practice. The vice
resident ought to be a member ex officio
ui ino presiueni s ramnet. lie ought to
attend tho meetings ol the- cabinet with
rcason.rble regularity, and especially when
any vital matter of policy is under discus
sion, and his voice, advice and 1uriirmn I
should be Just as potent, at least, as that '
of any member of the cabinet. Being re
lieved from any detail of department
work, he would have ample leisure and
time to study carefully all questions of na
tional Interest, and could, therefore, come
to the cabinet meetings with ample knowU
edge and Information.
In this way the vice president would be
come thoroughly Informed on lending and
anticipated questions, and ready to dlscusa
them before the people. Tho uresideit
would have in him an exponent and de
fender of the policies of the government, it
being taken for granted that the vice presi
dent would be in accord with the president
and his administration.
This change, it is clear, would give new
vitality and strength not only to the vice
presidency but to the whole administration.
It would prevent the position of vice presi
dent from falling into the hands of small
and Incompetent politicians. It would ren
der Impossible the nomination of a vice
president who was not thoroughly in har
mony with the known views of the head of
the ticket. That it would give dignity and
importance to an office now regarded as
superfluous is evident. Leaders and states
men would' regard elevation to the vice
presidency aa a real honor, and would aee
lu the position great possibilities of useful
nets and distinction, quite apart from the
always melancholy contingency which
transfers the vice president to the White
House.
Tlio suggeatlons here made are worthy of
the consideration of our public men. The
change Indicated is eminently desirable. If
not absolutely uecessary. We repeat, the
time has come to realudy the question of
the place and functiou uf tlie vice prtl
, UeuU
BITS OP WA8I1HUTO I.IFK.
Treaaarer Boberts IHeeoarses la Ho are
Flaaaelal Flaores.
Maryland and District of Columbia Bank
ers' association concluded Joint sessions
with an excursion down the Potomac river
Saturday. A social session was held on
the steamer, as which Kills II. Roberts,
treasurer of the Vnlted Stntes, delivered
an address. - Mr. Roberts dealt In figures
so gigantic that the layman would have
difficulty in comprehending them, even by
comparison, but the men who handle money
as a profession were eager for more when
the speaker closed his remarks. In closing
he warned against inflation of credit on
gold. Mr. Roberts' sjieech. In part, is as
follows:
"Current financial discussion deals, In
much the larger part, with national bank
notes. They constitute less than one
sixth of our stock of money $41S15t7. 975 out
of $;.7n.693,fii;j and no legislation can
change that ratio very materially. Gold,
on the other hand, furnishes $1,I7,733.SM9, or
hard on to one-half our stock, and It grew
nearly 112,000,000 last month.
"Let me be content to stand on the rock
bottom of gold. Of the li.3S8.002.lT8 money
in circulation gold. In coin and certificates,
Is $l,0H,B1p,07S; bank notes are Just less
than 4(Ki,000,000. The gold In the treasury
today is the largest sum ever recorded
$153,000,000. Our treasury holds three and
nine-tenths times the amount of gold be
longing to the Bank of England, which Is
Ii6h.8j6.000. It Is more than threo nnd
eight-tenths times that of the Imperial
German bank, which Is 170,371.000 or nearly
three times that of the Austro-IIungarlan
bank, which In J221,40i.000. It lacks ontv
$8,000,000 of being equal to that of bpth the
anas or England nnd of France, which
latter holds $IM,506,000, and It exceeds the
amount of Russia, Germany, Belgium and
The Netherlands combined.
"This Is not the whole case. These for.
elgn treasuries are practically the sole
basis of the finances of the respective na
tions, on the holdings of the Bank of
England rests the credit, public and pri
vate, of the British empire. With us, lie
sides the gold In the national treasury, the
banks, national and other, own $ni2,403.:,7i,
and this is more than any central Instltu-
ii "ii nolo, save tnose of France nnd
sia.
'More vital yet is the growth of tb. m.
clal treasury of the several countries. In
nve years the Bank of France has gained
$127,640,000 and Austria-Hungary $79 1"0 000
In the same period the Imperial German
bank has lost $38,683,000. the Bank of Eng
land $2.2G5.O0O, and Russia $13l.'.2i0,O00. Good
fortune has added to the gold In the treas
ury vaults of the United Si
close of August, ISftS, to the present day of
" current montli, $393.PSfl.23r,. or
nearly $80,000,000 a year on the average '
Let us get a llttlo to the bank vaults
and to the pockets of the people. " The
gold, coin and certificates, la it...i..
September 1, 1WS. was $.;C6.166.1G5. whi.-b
37 per cent of the total. By the first cf
ii fHrtnt mn,h thls fnctor ha,! ene
$1,014,531,078. and 42 per cent of the whole.
Here in the gold currency of the land Is a
gain of $34S,3C4.910 within five years.
"Certain timid souls look upon our real
money as a Famson whoso locks at some
time may be shorn by a Philistine niiii.
and its strength dinned o..-
Delilah takes the form of a mh
treasury of the United States notes. Again
sne appears in the garb of a secretary of
tho treasury using silver for officii I M.
rnents. And, finally, she becomes congress
...uuiBuig m wim legislation. If mathe
matics is good for anything. It proves that
greenbacks cannot be procured In vninm.
enough to be more than spray beating on
uvt-ry Decretory will find that
silver is less within his control for nrtimt
use than gold Is; he cannot make sliver cur
rent for large payments. As for congress
Its power Is vast, but with an overflow of
$80,000,000 a year of gold into the treasury
no act of legislation can stop the majestic
force.
"But-nd there Is a but credit Is based
upon our gold, and it Is possible to Inflate
and exploit It to a dangerous degree. Re
cent chronicles are not without Illustra
tions. This process of attenuation, and its
rapidity and extent, present the real prob
lem of tht situation. Wisdom cries aloud
and will bo heard sooner or later, and bet
ter soon than late, that it Is not safe to lift
credit ao mountain high that flying
machines will bo needed to operate in Its
thin atmosphere. In the meanwhile, and I
believe for a long time, the nation's pros
perity rests on a steadfast foundation."
Among the special guests on the steamer
are Secretary of the Treasury Shaw und
daughter and Comptroller of the Currency
William H. Rldgely. Secretary Shaw made
a speech in which he took a decidedly
optimistic view of tho business prospects
of the country. The secretary aald that we
either must issue more bonds as a basis of
national bank circulation or provide some
substitute. "Any currency system adopted,"
he asserted, must provide for complete ex
changeability of every form of money. Go
home and tell your merchants and your
manufacturers and your railroad people
that you are still doing business at the old
stand, and expect to remain. Stand by the
business Interests of the country and all
will be well. The prosperity of the Ameri
can people is not measured by the price o
stocks and bonds, but by the output of our
farms and our factories, and the profitable
employment of labor."
PEKSOXAL NOTES.
Cabinet material is so hard to And in
Great Britain that a portfolio may eventu
ally fall to Hon. Richard Croker.
The convention of bridge builders at Kan
sas City very properly decided that the
walking delegate was entitled to a seat.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have returned
to their country place. Just outside of
Washington, after a visit of several months
in Saratoga. I
Daniel Green Burner, 90 years old. a boy
hood friend and companion of Abraham
Lincoln, and for a time his roommate, has
just died at Galesburg, 111.
The extent to which Venezuela has be
come North Americanized Is evinced by
the fact that a slogan of "kill the umpire'
has been raised In Caracas.
The government does not believe in the
maxim that a cobbler should stick to liU
last, ior 11 is advertising lur a snoemaker
who is also a musician to go out west on
an Indian reservation.
The French are to have a "nickel among
their coins and the American papers are
poking fun at the French pronunciation,
"neekelle." The French would laugh, too,
if they could hear us pronounce Freach
words.
William Osman of Ottawa, III., is prob
ably the dean of the newspaper profession
In the United States. He ix hi years old
and has been editor of the Free Trader
almost Continuously since 1M0, mure than
sixty-three years.
A rumor in military circles that there Is
to be either a new uniform or a change or
modification of the present one Is sending u
chill along the pocket nerves of army
officers whose tailors' bills are always eat
Ing heavily into their not too liberal pay.
The case of Vesuvius, instead of getting
worse as predicted In Prof, tttenzc
diagnosis, has steadily Improved during the
past fortnight. Pube low, temiierature
only slightly above normal, no eruptions
on the surface. In fact, eveiytlfiug (or-
tcuds a speedy recovery.
WE OLD
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THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
TAX KKiHT I WISCONSIN.
Fierce Opposition of C'orporatlona to
Governor iji Kollette'a Reform.
Milwaukee Dispatch to Record-Herald.
The opponents to Governor La Follette,
Including the railroads, have about come to
the conclusion that they will have to face
a commission which will have the power
to fix railroad rates. In fact, it is stated
that, provided the members of the commis
sion were to be elected, there would be no
opposition to such a body on any side.
What is objected to is the appointment of
the members of the commission by the gov.
ernor, as this would be assumed to mean a
board which would lean toward radical ac
tion so far as the transportation companies
are concerned. It is claimed that If the com
missioners were to be elected they would be
more fair In their treatment of the railroads
and the board would not be 'so apt to be part
of a political machine. This seems to be a
distinction without a difference, as under
the present existing political conditions In
the state It Is certain that, whether ap
pointed or elected, the members of the com
mission would certainly stand with the
governor.
While both the administration and anti
admtnlstratlon factions seem to have agreed
that a railroad commission Is to come, far
sighted politicians, and others who are Just
plain citizens but are looking Into the
future, do not llko the outlook. They say
that tho railroad commission Is certain to
bring the railroads Into politics In Wisconsin
as they have never been before. It will be
a necessity for them. If the members of the
commission are to be appointed, then
will lie up to the railroads to see that the
proper person, from their point of view, Is
elected governor of the state. Jf elected,
then they will go In to see that those com-
iniKtsiuucrs uh eiecieu who win uo ine leasi
harm. In either case It means the railroads
must be counted as ' a factor In future
elections.
Whllo the railroads have always been In
terested to a certain extent In state politics,
they never have gone into it as a business,
as would bo the case with members of a
railroad commission to be elected. It will
mean a higher pressure on. the political
gauge, and it has about all it can stand
now. That Is the argument used by those
who are looking to the future Interests of
the state irrespective of political benefits.
Tho matter In another way goes to show
tho shrewdness of Governor La Follette as
a politician, something that la too often
forgotten by his opponents. When the mnt
ter of Increased taxes for tho railroads was
broached In the La Follette camp several
years ago, the point was raised that if It
was decided the railroads were not paying
their share of the taxes and It was planned
to raise them It would be idle to do this
unless there was some way of protecting
rates so that the transportation companies
could not make the people pay the freight
by raising their tariffs. This was admitted,
but in spite of this It was not made a part
of the platform as was the demand for a
change in taxation so that the' railroads
could be made to pay more taxes.
Am . v. , . . . . ,
s tho ono was held to be the corollary
of the other It would have seamed that both
would hava been included In the same plat
form. This, however, was not done and a
live iBsue was left for another- campaign.
This is only one of many instances. where
the governor has shown his shrewdness In
political management. He may want to be
governor for a third time or he may want
to be United Statea senator, aa his oppo-
nents claim, but they will never prevent
him from irettlnflr either nlnnA hw ,huln. I
stone, at him as he gH. by in his political
automobile.
This state of affairs Is dawning on the
lr,,.,r.bud .. t.nA r, l.
" " " ciuniuiuiB
is heard on the quiet liecause there Is not
'something doing," In the way of putting a
stick through the spokes of the governor's
wagon. It has even been suggested that
the
opposition make the best of the sltua-
nnH i . .
as they find It and go In for a railroad
tion
commission, nut ono that shall he elrt4
It is claimed that this line of policy would
Place the governor in an .wkw. rd hole. J
Browning
w
R. S. Wilcox. Managtr.
RELIABLE
if he urged the appointment of tha mem
bers of the board ha would be showing that
what he waa after Was power. Possibly
this might be made to work, but the
chances are that a tire would explode Just
as the wagon began to move.
FI.ASIIKS OF FIX.
Stranger Would It be possible, sir. for
you to let ma have a hundred thousand
dollars?
Great Philanthropist What nerve! Who
are you. anyway?
Stranger I am a college president. liar
per'a Jtaxar.
"Your conclusion Is wrong," said Mr. Mc
Brlde to his wife. "I can't Imagine how
yon reached If."
"Well, I jumped at It," she explained.
"Indeed? Then you get another Jump."
Detroit Free Press.
Mungcr What do you think of that story
about a wealthy society woman falling In
love with her coachman ami trying to
poison her husband?
Stancber 1 don't think of it I think of
something more agreeable.
"Christian Scientist, eh?"
"No; simply healthy-minded." Kansas
City Journal.
The two dudes were wandering through
the retail shopping district with eyes fur
everything feminine that came their way.
In fact, their gaze proved annoying.
"They make me think of a shoe store."
said the slangy girl.
"Why?" asked her companion.
'A pair of rubbers," said the slangy girl
Chicago Post.
"You don't mean to say that you would
glvo a man money for his Influence?"
"Not If I could help It." answered Sena
tor Sorghum. "Of course. It would be
cheaper to give him a Position. Hut the
It trouble is there aren't enough i!hYe to go
rounu. wusniiigum Btar.
"My husband and I." said Mrs. Newliweil,
"spend our evenings now reading aloud In
each other. It's Just splendid. Why don't
vrm mil vmir 1 a nnna .1, llm, . !,.,
B calling on 'OU7
! "Graciousl" exclaimed Miss Sweetley,
"how is it possible to read In tho ri:irk?'
Chicago Tribune.
"Didn't I tell you not to propose to inn
again?"
"You said something of the kind, but, or
course, it made no impression on me."
"Oh, it didn't? Well. I'll give vou n
lesson now that you won't forget. You'll
never propose to me again."
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to accept you." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
You Jingle a bell
And the cows follow tame.
You jingle some dollars
And men do the same.
Washington Star.
THE REPORTER'S REWARD.
8. W. Glllilan in Baltimore American.
Ha had a little enterprise on hand
The best, he claimed, of any In the land.
Tin Anlv ..1 . . 1 . . ...
, To make himself so rich that men would
I ' crawl
Ann cringe ana rawn and truckle to h s
whim:
Prompt help would make a millionaire of
him.
i
He sought a poor reporter that ha knew .
A kindly chap. Ingenuous and true:
lie smiled upon that faber knight and
I - thought ..''
t inn mime aim imimrr vim mviir iiimikiii. '
j i t,,.th tne world-wise scribe saw through
the man.
But said; "Poor
can."
dub, I'll help him all 1
A glowing story 'neath a catchy head
Great glory on that poor promoter shed.
The money came, the enterprise pro
gressed Until the man had feathered well his
nest.
And then his memory's tablets quickly
loat
I The record of the things success had oost.
"edliW ,n VUlar WeaUh frm dRy ,0
The scribe toiled onward at tho same old
I piJy-J . . ... , ,, , .
! ""r "U a in. .USUI tu mr y
Heyoml a pleasing sense of duty done.
A hundred
he'd helped to win re-
nown.
And well he
crown.
knew the tinsel of their
' n" dH tne new-made millionaire had told
' Some fellow from the pt'ncll punh.-rn fold
A tllnB tliat proved unwise, so that It
n.ri.
I The indiscreet informant sore. ""
VcX
OVERCOATS
Overcoats are overcoats, of course.
But there is a vast difference
among them. The name aud price
alone doesn't constitute the coat by
any means. You are looking for
style, value and good wear when you
want an overcoat.
V I T . . lmi'A fill-Ail iivli- riolnii tVifa
III- UCLtr: laivril l A II II rcwiirt I U ID
season to strengthen the already good
points about our coats, ami you will
tind more originality of design bet
ter tailoring handsomer fabrics and
general better styles than you ever
saw before in ready made coats.
We might add, better values, but
will leave that for you to dtHmnine.
Guo? ones for $10 or beter and up to $35
And "No Clothing; Fit Like Ours."
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