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TITE OMAITA DAILY T.EE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14. lflOH. Tim Omaha Daily Bee. E. R08EWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERM" OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally B (without Sunday). One Tear. 4 00 Jai!y lie and Sunday. One Year " Illustrated Bee. One Year Similar Bee, One Year 2 01 Maturrfay fte. On Yar 1 Twentieth Century Farmer. One Tear. l.u t'EUVKHBD BY CARRIER. Pally !ee (without Sunday), per ropy.. Io Ially pre (without Sunday i. per week. .12c Dally Hee (including Sunday), per meek.lio Sunday Jlee, per copy fc Evening liee (without Sunday), per week 6o Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week lue Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. . OFFICES Omaha-Tha Pee Building. South Omaha city Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M streets. Council Bluffs W Pearl Street' Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York 23M I'ark Row Building". Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to r.ews and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or pootal order psyahle to The Ree Publishing Company. Only i-eent stamps accepted in payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBiaSUINO COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.! George B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete conies of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 103, waa as fol lows: 1 ... .20,120 1 M.5U t 3D.2TO IT SM.OIO SD.8TO . 18 2SI.BTO 4 81t.ft.70 3. get.SOO ft 2D.B0O 20 20.44S an,TM 21 2VW 7 20,.12O 22 28,0 8 2A.3TO 23. 28.B30 t 3,2ft0 24 2S.T30 10 ,.,...20,150 25 28.T20 II 20.22O Z0.205 12 20,310 ' 37 ..27,240 12 ...v..Se,43K 21 28.TOO 14 8O.02O ' a 2SMiO 15 28,800 ; 34 g,040 Total... . , 802,230 leas unsold and returned copies.... .4rW Net total- sales .,.., ...8112,744 Net average sales........;, 2(4,424 QEORGB B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before us this 80th day of September. A. D.lWf M. B. HUNQATE. (Bnal) Notary Public A, campaign for better street pave ments will be popular. The price of whisky is going up, but that will not prevent the whisky from continuing to go down. It is to be noted that in all this talk bout coast to coast railroads the Union Taclflc always figures 'in the combina tion. The survivors arc fighting over the will of General passjoa M. Clny. While he was alive General Clay did all the lighting for the family. The sultan will be glad to have the (war clouds continue to hover over the far east It diverts attention from the troubles In his own back yard. They believe in starting things early ' over In Illinois. Candidates for gov- ernor to be voted on a year from next j November are already lining up. Omaha made tho largest per cent of gain in postal receipts for September of any city in the United States. That is a pretty good advertisement in Itself. The Chicago Great Western railroad uboulil havo the same fair- treatment from Omaha that has been accorded to other railrouds that converge in this city. Nebraska has not been troubled with forged pardon papers. It was too easy to get the genuine pardons during the term of tho predessessor of our present governor. - ' " ' ; The candidates on the republican county ticket have eutered on a win ning race. The common enemy appears to bo thoroughly demoralized and dis organized. The secretary of( state is very much perplexed over the interpretation of tho new election law, but the voters of Ne braska will not be so greatly perplexed in hen t,hey come to mark their ballots. The Lincoln Journal hasn't discovered yet that Douglas county republicans have nominated a county ticket nnd reorganized their comity committee. The Journal only sees In Omaha polities Svbat it want to see. Kx-Coiincllnuin Hawaii's ofQoial report of his Junket to Baltimore should lo embalmed and deposited in a casket With tho souvenir' clianipnguc bottle from which th cork was drawn at the expense of the Omaha taxpayers. The wedding presents showered on trince Andrew of Greece and his hride re estimated to lie worth more than a xiillllou dollars. The best part of it is that most of the donors are Itcyond the stage where they will expect to have the gifts reciprocated. Business conditions in Omaha are iM-tter than they have lecn for many months. Two reasons contribute to this result: Tho substantial prosperity of the farmers In our tributary trade terri tory aud the fortunate escape of our people from the stock speculation mania. '. The democrats are evidently bent on Using their school board ticket solely to boost their candidates pn state, Judicial and county tickets. It behooves the republicans under the circumstance to put up a school )oard ticket of their own that will command the confidence jf the voters. . -1 X yr , The State Bankers' association pro poses to put up a standing reward of lOtW for the arrest ami conviction of any one Implicated lu a bank robltery Jo Nebraska. The association should .e more sjteclflc aud tell whether the rewri holds good for looting from the ' iaieiUd aa well at from Uie outnUa, .tor orrvsizo ma rntsivtfiT. According to United States Senator Kenn of New Jersey, who is largely Identiileri with financial Interests and is in close touch with Wall street affairs, there Is no general 'opposition on the pnrt of such interests to ttho nomina tion of President Tloosevclt. lie sold that while It has been declared that eastern financial Interests Hre opposed to the re-election of the president, it Is not true, that Mr. Roosevelt will have the support of such people and that New York will support blm loyally. '"It may bo that certain financial Inter ests are not pleased with all of the president's actions,' remarked the New Jersey senator, "but Wall street finan ciers and tho others who have been declared to be opposed to blm realize that the president is a conservative and safe man." There are Indications that this is now the quite general feeling. Certain jour nals, well understood to be tinder Wall street Influence, which a little while since persistently assailed Mr. Roosevelt and employed all their ingenuity In the effort to make It appear that he is a dangerous man to be at the head of the government, have altogether ceased or greatly modified their attacks. With twenty odd states pledged to the nom ination of President Roosevelt and the republican masses being unanimous for him, it would be surprising if the financial Interests represented in Wall street did not see the utter futility of opposiug him. 7BB BRITISH TRBB TRjDBtl. The defenders of the existing British fiscal ; policy having fully inaugurated their campaign, Mr. Chamberlain and his adherents are being'' given some facts to consider which may prove a little perplexing to them. It appears that the former colonial secretary has made certain statements that are not supported by statistics. One in par; ticular relates to the tin industry, which the champion of fiscal reform declared had been almost ruined by the Amer ican tariff. While it was' certainly for a time very badly Injured, it is pointed out by a responsible authority that the industry has entirely . recove red ; from tho loss of the American market and that within the past year the Welsh tin trade had largely Increased. : Another advocate of the existing pol icy urged that the statistics do not Jus tify the Chamberlain claim that British trade has declined and declared that the country was stronger financially than ever, before. Of course this is an extreme statement, but on the other hand It is a fact that the fiscal re formers are drawing a rather darker picture of, financial and business condi tions than there is warrant for. There is no doubt that British manufacturers have been more prosperous than they are at present They were so gener ally during the period that our tariff act of 1804 was in effect. But they have also had experience of greater de pression than during the last few years. As to England being stronger finan cially than ever before It may reason ably be doubted, since she has within the last three years added hundreds of millions to her debt without having in creased her resources. The campaign grows In activity and Interest and as the speeches on both sides show the possible effect of a change of British policy upon relations with the United States is receiving no little consideration. A CVXEBRVAT1VM VIEW. There are some who are disposed to regard the decline in stocks as the cer tain prelude to" a general reaction from the prosperity which the country has experienced for the past five or six years. They Insist that the turning point has been reached and that we must expect a period of severe depres sion more or less prolonged. lYesldeut Stlckney of the Chicago Great Wes tern railroad eutertaius a different opin ion. He takes a conservative view of conditions and as an intelligent and careful observer his opinion is entitled to great consideration. In an Interview with a representative of the New York Tribune Mr. Stlckney said that he did not believe the slump In certain speculative stocks has ma terially affected the industrial situation. So far as stocks have been bought by tho purely speculative class there can !e no serious results. Whatever danger there may be to the general business of the country lies in the stock invest ments of merchants ami manufacturers who for this purpose have taken money out of their business, but Mr. Stlckney thought this had not 'been done to a very great extent. He pointed out that another side to the matter is' found In the fact that "when the pendulum swings from high to low In the specu lative list it has the effect to depress the prices of the substantial invest ment securities of constructive enter prises." among which are railroad Mocks The railroads, which may have planned exteuslve improvements, re fuse to sell their securities at low prices and' must forego some of the improvements. This affects not ouly those directly employed on the rail roads, but those who furnish supplies of all sorts. Mr., Stlckney said there will le no material curtailment in this year's railroad Improvement, but there may be next year. He added: "There will be a slight general depression, but probably not to exceed 4 or, 5 per cent. We nre just now passing through sucb a season of depression as came exactly twenty years ago, which was followed n year or two later by a steady ad vance that continued until 180'4." . This Is the Judgment of a man who is largely concerned in financial affairs And who is perhaps as familiar as any on' with general business conditions. If it Cannot be said to be wholly op timistic there is certs In I" no note of appreheusVo lu It. Mr. Stickney sees no grave linger la the Immediate fu ture. Ue"i $ not 'Uuijj tliat'oor la- dustrles are likely to come to a sudden hslt and prosperity be given a serious chock. There may be a slight depres sion, but no panic or disaster. Why should there le apprehension when we have abundant crops, a pood foreign demand for our products, nn ample sup ply of money for all legitimate require ments and our joople as a whole never better off tlinn now? The fact that investors in Inflated stocks have suffered is not a sufficient reason for losing con fidence when all substantial and legiti mate Interests are on a sound basis, as is unquestionably the fact at present. POPULIST fGAa.RJtr, Populism in Nebraska was n revolt of the producers against corporate ag gression nnd extortion, with currency Inflation through free silver and sub- treasury certificates as an incidental Issue. The Omaha platform was not merely a declaration of independence, but a decree of divorce from the old parties, which were pronounced as degenerate and degraded by tho domina tion of plutocracy. Populism was, therefore, a political creed whose doc trines were radically st variance with the articles of faith professed by either the republicans or the democrats. The alliance of Nebraska populists with Bryanite democracy was primarily inspired by an effort to wrench the state from corporate control and bring about reforms In state government The lamentable failure of the fusion reform forces to fulfill their plitlges naturally caused intense disappointment among the masses and the producers who had placed faith in the professions of popu list leaders and was followed by a re bound that lost the state to fusion three years ago and at every election held since 1900. The embattled Nebraska farmers who fought for principle refused to fight any longer for mere spoils of office. The degeneracy of populism has nowhere been so marked as it has in Omaha and Douglas county. Last spring the populists nominated for mayor a can didate whose main support came from railroads and public utility corpora tions, a man who was not known to have ever had anything in common with any of the doctrines or principles advocated by populists. This fall the populists of Douglas county have put up a patched quilt ticket picked indiscriminately from among the candidates nominated by the republicans and democrats. This is not merely a severe commentary on degenerate populism, but It is a dis graceful misuse of the populist label. To the initiated it is a plain case of holdup by a stuall coterie of political grafters who accept contributions from the candidates for the pretended de livery of the populist vote, which has dwindled down to a mere corporal's guard. Reputable populists can only hang their beads in shame over the degeneracy of the party in the metropo lis, of Nebraska. . . The complaint of one of our con tributors that the State university ad junct devoted to the inspection of high schools is being used to stimulate u profitable rakeoff in the guise of a teachers 'employment bureau, should be thoroughly Investigated by the univer sity authorities, and, if well founded, should be promptly remedied. After being educated at the expense of the state and equipped to engage In the work of. Instruction, university grad uates should not be subjected to a shake down in the name of the university It self, Quite the contrary. It devolves upon the university to assist its grad uates to secure employment and thus to spread the influence of the parent in stitution through our whole public school system. At all events the charge should either be substantiated or re futed. . r The . proposed ordinance to . banish street cart punhers, fruit vendors and peddlers from the public thoroughfares of Omaha is not responsive to popular sentiment but to a narrow-minded view of retailers who hope thereby to repress the comiHstltion of the Independent vendor of fruits and trinkets. From the humanitarian standpoint the ordinance is cruel because it will deprive poor men who have no other means for earn ing an honest livelihood of the oppor tunity of supporting themselves and thelr families. From the metropolitan point of . view it smacks of petty provincialism. No American city of any pretension is without street fakirs, fruit vendors and peddlers. A city without bustle and noise Is a graveyard. The South Omahu police commission proposes to enlarge tho jail accommo dations of the Magic city. This is very commendable, but where does the com mission get any authority for the en largement or reconstruction of the Jail? The functions and duties of the com mission are limited by the charter to the government and discipline of the fire and police departments in other words, to the appointment discipline or discharge of the officers and members of the fire and police departments and to the granting of liquor licenses to saloons and drug stores. But the com mission has no more power to build or repair Jails than it has to build market houses, work houses or city balls. In cutting down their employes', lists it would seem that the different rail roads that are retrenching are getting ahead of tho game. So far uo reduction of railroad tra c Is in sight, but if men are to be arbitrarily thrown out of em ployment the demand for product for consumption will U correspondingly re duced and the traffic naturally dimin ished. Every contraction of employment starts an endless chain which works back to the employers. Remember that nobody will be al lowed to vote at the coming election on the 5th day of November unless he ap pears personally before the registrars to tare' bis name enrolled. Last year's 4 registration will not serve the purpose. The first day of registration will occur next Thursday, October 15. Mala- to the Cload. Baltimore American The boundary line of Alaska would not be considered so vitally Important were It not for the aolden lining the territory is known to possess. Let Others I hew the Ra. Washington Post. With the conclusion of tlis Chines trade treaty. Uncle Sam Is In a position to play the role of the busy merchant and let Russia and Japan do the fighting over the ground lease. Aeate Attack ( Cramps. Cleveland Plain Dealer. If that $.10,000,000 of securities, representing an actual value of $10,000,000, had been prop erly "digested" by a confiding public cer tain promoters would have been spared this acute attack of cramps. Two Dancers to Be Avoided. Porlland Oregon Ian. In steering clear of cruelty In labor great care should be taken lhat they are not drawn through the scduclve channel of idleness Into the maelstrom of crlmality. Because It Is Inhuman, and from the long view uneconomical, to force or to allow children to work ten or thirteen hours a day it by no means follows that Idleness Is tho proper estate of childhood. Any vil lage, rural community or the suburbs of any city might as well bo tho haunt of bears as of half-grown. Idle boys in vaca tion time, abroad for what they, with per verted meaning of the word, terra "fun." More Troahle for Bryan. 8t. Paul Pioneer Press. The provisions In the will of Philo B. Bennett of New Haven, by which William J. Bryun Is made administrator of an es tate worth $253,000 and Is made the dis tributing agent of $10,000 to be divided among twenty-five colleges, and of $10,000 more to be given to aid needy students, will probably afford that gentleman tho biggest perplexities of Ms life. Think of the. thousands of eager, horny hands which will be thrust forward from among the 6.000.000 pops who voted for him at two presidential elections, and every ono of whom will deem he should have a share in that $10,000 for his boy. An Immortal Pension 1.1st. ( New Tork World. The sun never sets on the pension rolls of the United States. Those lists girdle the earth and extend from Australia In the south to Norway In the north. They cover every period of our national history. On them are widows of the Revolution, widows and survivors of the Spanish war and widows and survivors of the wars be tween. To no name which belongs of right on these rolls does the republic be grudge a place. When the records show that widows of the Revolution have been pensioned who were born thirty-seven years after that war closed, the nation may be excused for dropping Into a period of meditation. When General John C. Black announces the opening of a cam paign which will result In pensions con tinuing in 1986 or lster for dvil war wid ows as yet unborn, meditation hardly does Justice to the situation. John 'Sherman. Senator Vest In Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Sherman cared nothing for the tosthetio and sentimental. Music, poetry. painting, sculpture and the beauties of nature had no charms for him. lie regarded everything from the practical and material btandpolnt.' and when looking at the falls of Niagara would have thought more of utilizing the water power than of tho majestic rush of the maddened river. Ho was handicapped by no vices and his self -control was perfect. When he ad dressed the senate ' both sides of the chamber gave Mm the closest attention. because his Fpeeehes were always logical and full of Information. He never spoke to the galleries, but to the senate, and what he said was pertinent to the subject under consideration. In one respect he dif fered from the Immense majority of v his colleagues by never noticing the Attacks of his enemies, no matter how severe or unjust they might be. I heard him declare on one occasion that the public man who permitted himself to be placed on' the defensive was lost. He did not pretend to have been consistent, and treated with contempt all assaults upon his record. . I'SBIASHIXO FRAUD. How lilgrh Class Promoters Fleece the roaadtnsr Pabllc. New Tork Evening Post. The bitter cry of Wall street for some months pat has been that "confidence" was being undermined by some wicked man, ot men. Many Nathan-like voices have reproachfully said to President Roose velt, "Thou art the man!" The moment, it has been asserted, that the government brought tho Northern Securities suit, capi tal took fright, the erstwhile simple hearted and confiding investor received a "chill," the crops took to doing badly, and the great captains of Industry such as the builders of yachts and automobiles for stock brokers and promoters began to set their houses In order. It was a beautiful theory so clear, so closely knit In logic, so comforting after its melancholy fashion. Wo fear, however, that a rival explanation Is likely to come Into vogue after the reve lations in the United States shipbuilding suit, by means of which the screen was thrown down and the public waa premltted to see promoting as sh Is really promoted. Confidence would have to be a peculiarly hardy growth not to be shaken by the scandalous spectacle. The testimony of Mr. Dresser disclosed a shocking state of affairs. It showed how character had been wrecked as well aa values. Seldom can there have been uncov ered a more vulgar conspiracy to pluck or shear the Investing public goose or Iamb. The vendors of "salted" mines are entitled to hold up their heads, compared with the discovered tricksters. Their moral fraud was most unblushing. To b both pur chaser and seller, to have a pool within a pool, and an agreement behind an agree ment, and at the aame moment that a lying prospectus was Issued to the public, to fleece the investor even before he Invested that la the kind of thing In which suppos edly honest men were engaged. What the law will say about their transactions we must wait to see. It is certalu that under such a .company's act as England has, the whole proceeding would have been set aside by the courts, and the promoters compelled to disgorge their concealed profits. On the moral aspect of the matter, how ever1. eVery intelligent man Is competent to pronounce Judgment. His verdict will be that the methods practiced were no more reputable than those of the common sharper. Nearly every element of Indecent cheating appears to have been present, while the attempt to hoodwink and bleed the public could not havo been more un blushing. But what we ask is. How is all this going to affect the small Investor the country over? Is his confidence to be re stored by the publication of such schemes to rob hlmT Is be likely to come trooping back to Wall street, and he.lp lift a sasglng marker, when be sr tba snares laid to catch his feet? As deatroyers of confidence It appears to us certain that those who have moat lamented Its. detUUcUoa out strip aU possible rivals. DOINGS n Til K ARM V, Matters of Moment Cileaae from the Army ana ory Register. The annual report of tho surgeon genersl of the army la one of the most compre henshe ss well as one of the most Inter esting which has ever emanated from that office. Ueneral O'Reilly's medical history of the army for the year treats In detail every matter which has come tinder the purview of his officers. One thing to which General O'Reilly calls attention is the fact that yellow fever docs not now exist on United States territory. No case originated In Cuba for about two years, notwith standing that Cuba during this time has had a larger nonimmune population than ever before, and that occasional cases have been brought to Its shores from Infected Mexlcsn and South American ports. No better testimony than this could be had of the results ot tho great medical and sani tary authorities In Cuba, nnd the. officers who had part In that great reformation can look with much satisfaction upon the fact that their work waa not In vain and that its good effects still endure upon the Island. Some of the strongest testimony that has yet been adduced concerning tho Ill-effects which have resulted from the abolishment of the canteen at army posts Is that part of the Burgeon general's report which treats of alcoholism In the army. General O'Relly says that while the admission rate for alcoholism represents only so much of the total Intemperance of the army as comes under the professional observation of medical officers, nevertheless, when taken for a long term of years, and for many thousands of men. It Is a very fair Index of the drinking habits of the troops. From the reports of the surgeon general of the lost twenty years it Is found that alcohol ism Is not nearly so great an evil aa It was prior to the establishment of the post ex change, allowing the sale of beer and light wines to the soldiers. After the post ex changes were permitted to dispense beer and light wines the admission rate for al coholism showed a marked decrease, and after February, 1901, when such sales were prohibited In post exchanges, the admis sion rate decidedly Increased. The report further says: "It is Impossible not to at tribute a large part of the steadily Increas ing venereal dlseasea of the army to tho loss of the canteen, where the soldier. If he so desired, could get his beer throughout the month and was not subjected to tho temptations to Intemperance attendant upon the expenditure of a full month's pay at the low resorts Infesting the outskirts of our military reservations." . Of tho forty-nine enlisted men recently examined at Fort Leavenworth for ap pointment as second lieutenant In the army. thirty-four have been found qualified and will shortly receive their commissions as second lieutenants. Most, If not all of thorn, will be assigned to the Infantry. There are now 124 vacancies In the line of the army eighteen in the cavalry, nine teen in the artillery and eighty-seven In the Infantry. If all of the thirty-four new lieutenants are assigned to the Infantry this will leave fifty-three vacancies in that arm. There probably will be several more appointments from the candidates recently examined at Fort Leavenworth, as the cases of some of them are still under ad visement There are at present sixteen va cancies In tho ordnance department and two In the signal corps, whloh are subject to de tail from the line, and twenty-five vacancies in the medical department, all in the grade of first lieutenant. The revision by the getVral staff of the army regulations Is progressing satisfac torily. The regulations are being thor oughly gone over and all amendments which have been made since the publication of the edition of 1895 and the appendix of 1901 will be embodied. In order to avoid the necessity of such frequent changes aa have been made - In the past some parts will be eliminated and other parts will bo so worded aa not to require change hereafter. Heretofore, when a new rank was created or the designation of an old rank or po sition changed the wording of all para graphs of the regulations referring thereto had to be altered to correspond. This will not be necessary in the new edition of the regulations. Columbus Barracks. Ohio, were offered for sale at auction last week, but no bid was received which amounted to the ap praised value of $?90,000. As the law pro vided that the property should not be sold unless equal or above the appraised value be obtained the property was withdrawn from sale. Under the terms of the law a new post In Ohio was to be established out of the proceeds of the sale of Columbus Barracks, but as the old post can not be sold for less than appraised value the mat ter will have to wait the further action of congress. PERSOXAt, NOTES. Charles A. Towne threatens to continue an octopus buster. A big Texas trust of which he was the head has just gone up in smoke. Chicago Is to get rid of the Ferris wheel at last. It Is being taken down, to be sot up again on the St. Louis exposition grounds. The new company Is capitalized at $125,000. Ex-Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith Is announced to make two speeches for the republicans In Iowa before the state election In November. He will also address the Northeastern Iowa Teachers' associa tion at Its meeting in Mason City, Octo ber 18. A recent letter from Abyssinia describes King Menellk as a man about 60 years of age. dark In complexion, his face marked with smallpox and his chin covered with a slight gray beard. He has a keen, thought ful face, brilliant dark eyes and through an interpreter converses Intelligently with his guests. Sir Francis Plunkett, now British ambas sador at Vienna, who will probably succeed the late Sir Michael Herbert as ambassador to the 'United States, Is married to an American woman, the daughter of C. W. Morgan of Philadelphia. Sir Francis Is CS years old and has been In the diplomatic service of his country over forty years. Chief Justice Lore of Delaware, who has taken such a decided stand against lynch ing. Is opposed to capital punishment. "I would not take life for the commission of crime," be says, "but would put the crim inal under such restraint aa would protect the people and give him the full measure of his day to work out such penitence and reformation aa all good Influences might produce. Life Is too sacred and too holy a thing to be taken. I would grant life so long ss God spared each one of his crea tures." EYE WORK AT NIGHT or under artificial light brings out alt the eye defects. If your eyes tire after work ing or reading and the print blurs, DON'T DELAY. W ran fll glasses which will not only preserve your slalit, but prove a revelation in eye ease and comfort. Tears of successful ekperlenc have given thousands confidence in our methods. We have never lost a customer through Ineffective service. HUTESOsI OPTICAL CO., 211 Stiti Mti Street, - rtitta Black, ) I " "VV A perfect beverage rich in nitrogenous elements. HOW WOILD IT AFFKCT VSt Thasea of tho Proposed Protective Policy of C;rea Britain. New Tork World (Ind. dem.). What would be the effect of a British protective policy upon tho trade of the United States with that country? This Is the question of practical Interest to our people In the revolutionary proposals of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour. Mr. Chamberlain most explicitly excluded, In his Glasgow speech, all raw materials of manufacture. Our enormous cotton ex ports will not be touched. He would put a duty of 5 per cent ad valorem nn our meat nnd dairy exports, of two shillings (50 cents) per quarter on our wheat, and of 10 per cent at valorem on our manufactured goods. These are all very small duties compared with our own tariff rates on British exports to this country, which, as a British blue book states, averages 73 per cent ad valorem. The proposed grain and food duties are so small that their effect as a stimulus on the grain and food pro ducing power of Canada and Australia would necessarily be mann years In mak ing itself felt, and no Immediate or sudden reduction of the British demand for our wheat, and meat could possibly occur. As to our manufactured exports to mar kets under the British flag, that Is another story. A 10 per cent duty on the $100,000,000 worth a year of manufactures we sell to Britain, and duties favoring British manu factures In her Colonies, to which wo send another $100,000,000 annually, would bear some fruit. Mr Chamberlain thinks It would lead to a reciprocity treaty moder ating our present Dlngley duties on some British products. So that what he Is really aiming at is, the World anticipated last June, to give British manufactures a lift In the world's markets, and especially In the United States. The interest of this country in such a policy will be In pro portion as It affects our enormous exports to Great Britain. Protection turned against us by our best customer abroad may take on a different complexion. J 1ST BEFORE! THE WAR. Long; Reviews Services of Assistant Secretary of tho 'ary Roosevelt. John D. Long, former secretary of the navy, comments In a frank and unreserved manner on the services of Theodore Roose velt as assistant secretary of the navy prior to the war with Spain. In the cur rent Issue of the Outlook Mr. Long writes as follows: "Mr. Roosevelt was an1 Interesting per sonality aa assistant secretary of the navy, as, indeed, he is in any capacity. There were several candidates for the place which President McKlnley allowed me to fill. In May, 1897. on the retirement of Mr. McAdoo, an excellent official under the previous ad ministration, who had consented to hold over till that lime, I selected Mr. Roose velt, who had had, and. Indeed, has had to this day, a hearty Interest In the navy. "His activity waa characteristic. He was sealous In the work of putting the navy In condition for the apprehended struggle. His ardor sometimes went faster than the president or the department appreciated. Just before the war he, as well as some naval officers, was anxious to send a squadron across the ocean to sink the ships sr.d torpedo boat destroyers of the Spanish fleet, while we were yet at peace with Spain. . "Ho worked 'ndefatlgably, frequently In corporating his views In memoranda, which he would place every morning on my desk. Most of his suggestions, however, so far as applicable, had already been adopted by the, various bureaus, the chiefs of which were straining every nerve and leaving nothing undone. "When I suggested to him that some future historian, reading his memoranda If they were put on record, would get tho Impression that the bureaus were ineffi cient, he accepted the suggestion vith the generous good nature which is so marked In him. Indeed, nothing could be pleas anter than our relations. "He was heart and soul in his work. His typewriters had no rest. He, too, lacks the rare knack of brevity. He wns especially stimulating to the younger of ficers, who gathered about him and made his office as busy as a hive. He was es pecially helpful In the purchasing of ships and In every line where he could push on the work of preparation fcr war, "Almost as soon, however, as It was de clared, he resigned the assistant secretary ship of 11)9 navy to accept the lieutenant colonelcy of the rough rider regiment In the army. Together with many of Ms friends. I urged him strenuously to remain In tho navy, arguing that he would there Waltham Watches Instruments of precision, made : perfect by machines of precision. , 'The Tcrfcded American Witch," n tihsinted book of interesting infornuHon ibout wtztches, uritl be sent free upon request, AmerlcM Watthtm Watch Company, -Waltham Mass, ' OpariB)) Bm m aa "X." " - and men are for Decaturs The ityle fit finUh economy are exclusive In Decatur 'ihoa. $3.50 and $5.00. ' Tha shoo direct from snaker 1 1- - i s make a signal roimliitlon inl Hint to uo Into the army would be only t. lishl mosquitoes on the Florida, euiul or fret in camp at Chlckuinauaa. "How rlRht ho wna in his p:-ogti'iH hint how wrong we were lu ours, tin- result has shown. He took tho stralclit course to fame, to tho governorship of New Ye' k and to tho presidency of tho United 8l;tcs. "His room In the Navy department, nftor his decision to enter the nrmy, which preceded for some time his resignation ;n assistant secretary, was nn Interenlli'i: scene. It bubbled over with rnlhuslasin snd was filled with bright young fellows from all over the country -eolloRe rnuI uatos and old associates from the western ranches, all caRer to serve with loiv-vclt. The rough rider uniform wot ro t-vilcu". i It climbed the stepa of tho Navy IVuirt (m?nts; It filled lis corridors; nnti. onl i forms, nil sorts of military traps mul ., Of papers filled the n!t:int room, and It wns the very Inspimtlun of young manhood." TAUT TltlH.liS. What a difference It m.-ikcs whether v)M1 say of a man' speech it Is hreexy or witidv. Soniorvlllo Journal. Church Tell me Whh yon rut, and I'if tell you what you are. v Gotham-Well. I eat hissli at Mlxum's reetnnrant. "Then you're a fool." Yonkers States man. ., . First Statesman You have, sir, absolute confidence, then. In the people? Second Statesman I have. sir. I have made all my money out ot .them Town Topics. 'He's about the poorest actor t ever saw,' said the first manager, "a regular ham." "Perhaps he ll got over his faults In time, suggested the other. "Not much! He's a ham that can't be cured." I'hlladelphia Press. Lady of the House But whv don't you co to work? You look well and strong. Supplicant Lady. I'd like to work, hut the union won't let me. I'm a burglar bv pro fession, lady, and I was blacklisted for working after hours. Boston Transcript. "But, airs, how are we to prove that wrong Is right?" "Why. by s. naval demonstration, of course.' replied the puissant and progres sive monarch. Detroit Free Press. "What is your Idea of experience?" asked the very young man. ''K"P?r,,n-c. replied the sago from Fc vllle, "Is the result of wanting everything you can t get and getting everything you don't want.1' Chicago News. "This commercial struggle is terrible," said the man who takes everything he reads seriously. "Whufs the trouble?" "The patent food people are trvlng t make evcrvhody so healthy that there, will be no one left for the pateot medicine reo ple to cure." Washington Star. THE WEST. S. W. Gillllan !n Baltimore American. What know ye, who dwell at our eastern most verge. Where on the Atlantic soma pygmy states merge. Of lands lying westward, a limitless stretch Where .tagged horizons the mountain peaks etch In purpla and silver what know vou. I say. Who live on the edge of tho dawning of day. Of westerly countries unplllaged of pelf Know you that the West Is a world In It self? "West" wkst does it mean when you think of the word? With mirth unprovoked you have probably heard Tho country that lies on this stdo of the stream That good old Do' Soto discerned In a droam You've heard people speak of the land that lies there . As "Wesf'-Oh, you ignorant ono, have a care! Were East blotted out. It could live on alone This West with a sea, earth and sky nil us awn. Somewhere In the unending reaches Beyond where the Father of Waters glides by. The West has beginning (of end there Is none) And onward It swings with the sweep of the sun. Its valleys unmeasured, its mountains un . named. Its rivers unfettered, its forests tintsme.l. Its deserts untroil save by pixy or elf The West Is a wholo wondrous world In itself. Some time when the gods havo been b"I to you, tuke Some coin from your hoard and a pilgrim age inako Out Into tho land that your fancy )';n drawn As something 'twould make a g'od, roon.v back luwn. Itlde day utter day aye, nnd niiilit after nlsht Where unexplored wonderworidi surfeit tho sight Then hide your old notions 'way back on a shelf . , And own that tho West is a world In itself. We are for men a I. ts wea rsr. - - . Ersrra I
