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Torn Watson la loaded for bear.
Abdul Humid may be Initiated Into the
mysteries of Hay fever. . -
Never was there so ..much confusion
created by fusion In Nebraska!
J What a dish of crow those democrats
were obliged to fulp down when they
fused!
Tho water-logged statesman Las fooled
the people of Omaha once, but he can
not fool them a second time.
Things are getting warm over In Man
churia. New York Herald special war
news service In The Bee.
Douglas county democrats cried for
Boyd and they were given Berge. They
asked for bread and received a stone.
A prohibition populist at the head of
the ticket will be an unpalatable dose
for the Nebraska democracy to swallow.
The republicans hav. opened, the cam
paign In Vermont; not .because it is any
more doubtful this year than it has been
for forty years, but Just to keep tho
spellbinders In practice,
By falling to fuse on presidential elec
tors the fusion reform forces have given
Itoosevelt. a walkaway,; but Roosevelt
had a dead clncb In Nebraska anyway,
whether they fused or not.
The Russian fleet In Tort Arthur har
bor is evidently afraid it will be forced
out if it sticks too close to Its base and
It Is afraid ft wll'be put out if it gets
too fnr away from the bug.
The Sarpy county stalking horse has
deposited $150 with Tom Blackburn, but
there is a well denned suspicion that
John N. Baldwin has made a generous
contribution to boost Gurley.
The failure of tho populists and demo
crats to nominate a candidate for United
States senatoj. leaves the race open to
all demo-pop coiners, with about one
chance In a hundred to win.
ICustern democratic campaign man
agers are now claiming a two-thirds
majority in the electoral college. Whut
will they be claiming by November if
their imaginations are already working
overtime?
Manifestly, Admiral Togo was not so
well prepared for ,the reception of the
'Kiiflslnn fleet that' was trying to make
a home run from Tort Arthur as Ad
miral Bchley was when Cervera tried to
accomplish the same feat at Santiago
five years ago.
Tom ,wtson has the etelushe dis
tinction of having "a democratic conven
tion adjourn to let its delegates line up
Sa front cf him and receive the hot shot
aimed by him with precision at all the
weak spots ' in the democratic breast
works. Troubles never come singly. The nieut
packers' strike Is bud enough, but now
the Inspectors are quarantining stock in
western Nebraska., And water Is. be
coming so scarce in some parts that the
cattlemen ore afraid of lowing stock al
together if the strike docs not break
soon.
The democrats and populists waut tho
new revenue law repealed. What U
wanied to bring about tat reform is not
repeal, tmt the honest and luipurtlul en
foi fun ist it the law, with such amend
ments s luuy lie fouud essential to in
sure mora eijuitaMe distribution of tax
burdens.
Aa a iKillitcul equestrian, Juile 1'tirker
li a huwllng success. lie usstires the
consumers that he will revise the tariff
to tlnlr haiitaii and lu the same
breath auie the manufacturing Inter
cetn ttiiit thi'.V need lnt feel uneasy
hi... t lc!-;sil 80 lung ta V.iS beliutij re-
cossclar sr.nricK axd tbavk.
It appears to be the policy of the De
partment of State to bHr.g.tbe consuls
general and all otliwr consular repre
sentatives of the United States, together
with the diplomatic representatives. Into
close co-operation, so thnt they will
know -exactly, all. the time, as to 'what
the government Is doing and what Its
wishes are In regard to every matter
affecting American interests abroad. It
Is the" gefterftl Impression that thls'has
been the practice, but It seems that such
has not been the case. On the con
trary American consuls have been made
aware of the views of their government
only in exceptional cases and conse
quently have not been permitted to take
ihich an active part In the work for
which they are supposed to be operating
artHey otherwise would have taken.v
The consul, of course, is not under ordi
nary circumstances a diplomatic official.
He Is usually a simple commercial agent,
a man whose duty it is to Jook out for
the business interests of the country.
But there are conditions under which ho
assumes a diplomatic character and thus
becomes the representative of the coun
try from which he hnils and to all in
tents and purposes Its minister.
We have today a number of such con
suls In South and Central America, fill
ing positions that It would not pay to
appoint ministers to nnd which are Just
as well taken care of by the consuls.
It Is said to be the pin n of the State de
partment to bring the consular service
Into close relations with the diplomatic
service, so thnt they can co-operate in
obtaining Information of value to the
government. There seems to be no good
reason why this should not be done.
While it is true that the consular serv
ice Is largely commercial in its nature,
that It has to do chiefly with the busi
ness affairs of the country, It Is still a
fact, as we have seen In our relations
with China, that the' consular service can
also have a diplomatic character and
consequently should have a recognition
of that kind.
The new order Af the State department
will undoubtedly' have a good effect, so
far as the consular service is concerned.
It will introduce into that service a
fresh sentiment of interest and a larger
idea Of its importance, which cannot fall
to have an improving Influence. Men in
the consnlnr service will feel that their
sphere is enlarged and that they are of
more consequence than they have been.
The result of this cannot be otherwise
than beneficial.
JUDGE PARKER S POSITION.
The address of Judge Parker in re
sponse to the notification of his nomina
tion is a dignified and diplomatic enun
ciation of the fundamental principles of
democracy from the point of view of a
great constitutional lawyer trained in
the political school of which Grover
Cleveland may be regarded as the chief
exponent. Incidentally, Judge Tarker
endeavors to make the most out of his
famous telegram, declaring "Irrevocably"
for the gold standard, coupled with the
positive declaration that he would not
aspire to a second term in the president's
chair in case he were given a first term.
In his elaborate definition of the "con
stitutional principles underlying our
system of government Judge Tarker
simply reiterates the commonplaces that
distinguished political leaders of all
parties have uttered from time to time.
with a mental reservation patterned
ufter . the . . framer. . of . .the immortal
declaration that proclaimed all men cre
ated equnl and endowed with the in-
allMiable right to life, liberty end tho
pursuit of happiness, mentally excluding
from thoselnullenablc rights the eons of
Ham and Canaan, who were relegated
by a Divine Providence to be slaves and
bondsmen to the sons of Shem and
Japhet forever. v
The very ' fine distinction drawn bji
Judge Tarker between the 10,000,000
black a.en in the south who are being
grodually disfranchised and reduced to
political peonage, and the 8,000,000 semi-
barbarous brown men that inhabit the
Philippines, who are gradually being
elevated to the privileges and rights of
citizenship, is very ingenious to say the
least. Admitting that the United States
came by the Philippines by the incident
of war and that the responsibility for
their government and the maintenance
of law 8nd order in the archlpelugo de
volves upon the United Btates, Judge
Parker makes an open bid for the sup
port of the anti-lmperlallst group of in
dependents with an indefinite promlso
to raise the Filipinos to political equality
and full citizenship. In this respect.
however, Judge Parker's prospectus for
Filipino government differs yery little
from the machinery that has already
been set in motion for the gradual en
largement of the political activity how
in progress in the Philippines and the
platform declarations of ' the two na
tional republican conventions that have
spoken on thlH subject since the acquisi
tion of the Philippine Islands. Both of
the platforms of 1000 and 1004 pledged
the nation to grant to th Filipinos "the
largest measure of self-government con
sistent with their welfare. In this re
spect the treatment of the Filipinos
differs in no wise from the treatment
accorded the Inhabitants of California,
New Mexico and Arizona after their
annexation to the United States as a
sequence of (ho war with Mexico, or the
treatment of the, inhabitants of Alaska
following the purchase of that territory
from Russia.
liespcctlng the tariff, which was made
the paramount Issue In the Kt. I.ou!s
plntform. the democratic candidate occu
pies very much the same jHtniloi as
that of General Hancock lu the cain
polKii of 1 8i0. Jule Parker thinks the
present tariff nee1s revision, ' but he
adroitly evades any specific suggestion
as to where the revision should begin
and to what exteat he would favor the
reduction of the Unites. Instead of
boldly planting himself oil a line of at
tack, he seeks to sverf a clai.li with the
manufacturers and the treat Industrial
srniy emiiiojel b American factories
anJ lu!;! by poiuthiif out that lu nnr
event no material changes In the tariff
could be made dnrlng his four-year term
unless they were conceded by the re
publican senate. While arraigning the
protective tariff for seriously hampering
competition and building up monopolies,
he gracefully slides from under and as
Burp thb powerful Interests entrenched
behind the tariff rampart that they will
have nothing to fear from him so long
as they ran manage the republican
senate.
After reading and digesting the very
able address of Judge Tarker one is
tempted to Inquire why he resigned his
position on the bench of the supreme
court of the state of New York.
WAR ON AN AMERICAN TRUST.
The Canadian government has taken
steps to kill off the American tobacco
trust, and they promise to accomplish
the desired result This trust has been
one of the most greedy and ruthless in
its method of trying to establish monop
oly and kill competition. It has gone to
the very last extremity in Its plans to
crush out competitors and establish an
absolute monopoly. In this country It
has been fairly successful, but in Can
ada it has run np against an obstruction
that promises to be invincible.
At any rate the Dominion govern
ment does not propose to allow the trust
to ruin the tobacco Interest of that coun
try and In order that it shall not legisla
tion is suggested which will render it
impossible for the trust to carry out In
Canada its plan of killing off competi
tion, which, of course, is an essentia!
part of . its monopolistic scheme. In
order to do business in the Dominion
the tobacco trust must pay a license
that ' is so much beyond that of local
manufacturers as to render the latter
practically Independent, and conse
quently without any danger from the
American competition. Tosslbly this will
not be to the advantage of the consumer,
yet it Is a policy of protecting the home
industry to which no American who be
lieves in that policy can reasonably ob
ject At any rate the Canadian method of
dealing with an arrogant and monopolis
tic American trust is worthy of attention
and the result will be exceedingly inter
esting. '
GOING TO CANADA.
A great many Americans have gone
to Canada during the past few years,
but the number has been exaggerated.
This is shown by the report of the con
sul general of the United States, who
points out that during the past two
years less than 20,000 have gone from
the United States into Canada, instead
of the great army which has been rep
resented by some of the newspapers and
other sources of information.
However much Americans may regret
the exodus of our people to the Domin
ion, where lands are cheaper, it is well
that they should understand that the
outgo has by no means been so great
as commonly represented, and that the
number of Americans ho have gone
Into Canada and taken up lands is by
no means so great as to have materially
depleted our population. What does it
amount to that in the last three years
we have lost from the northwest say
20,00 people by migration to Canada?
Have not their plaees been taken sev
eral times over by newcomers into this
country, who are Just as good farmers
as those who went away? Unquestion
ably this Is the fact, and moreover the
newcomers are Just as good citizens as
those who have placed themselves under
the Jurisdiction of the Dominion. Tbe
American who goes across the border
can be spared, ne Is by no means essen
tial to the country that he leaves, and he
will not be of any very great benefit to
tbe country of his adoption. At any rate
he will not be missed, while as a matter
of fact there are more Canadians coming
Into the United States than there are
Americans going to the Dominion.
Tbe insertion of a Sunday closing
clause in the congressional appropriation
bill for the St. Louis exposition has al
ways been a thorn in the flesh of tho
managers. St. Louis has been notori
ously a wide-open town and Its diversi
fied population was naturally disinclined
to forego the opportunity of recreation
and refreshment at the fair grounds on
Sundays. It Is therefore not In the least
surprising that strenuous efforts are
being made to devise some way by
which a few exposition gates might be
left 'ajar as it ,were for Sunday vis
itors. The first step to enable the camel
to insert his head within the gates and
pull his hump in after him is" now being
taken. A petition numerously signed
has been presented to the commission
urging a concession for the benefit of
art and education, by throwing open the
Fine Arts building to visitors on Sun
days. If this concession Is granted in
the sultry month of August it is not un
reasonable to expect that other conces
sions will be granted in the cooler
months ,of September and October, by
which the art amateurs on The Pike
will be able to contribute their share to
wards grstlfylng lovers of fine art as rep
resented by men and women In oriental
and occidental costumes.
The story of the mysterious search of
the otQce and desk of the consul general
of the United States In Paris sounds as
if the government's secret police hud
been there. Thot utu-A to be one of their
clever little ruses when they think it
desirable to learn what is going on in
diplomatic circles. But of course that
undiplomatic practice has been dis
carded long ago.
The year liKM has thus far an un
approachable record of great disasters
Involving large losa of life. Is It not
time that government inspectors should
replace private iiwpectors In the matters
of railway bridges, etc., and that the
Inspectors themselves should be In
spected pretty frequently T
Clat.ua Katl ta Jibe.
Wafthlnston Post.
The claim of tna packers that the ques
tion of unionism did not Ceure in the s'rlke
falls to Jibe with their effer to take the
strikers back at better wates if they will
desert their unions.
Oat ftf Jab.
Pan Francisco Chrentcle.
The calamity howler Is becoming- dls.
courared over the outlook. The connaus
of opinion thst there will be a food fall
and winter business deprives him of the
opportunity to use depression aa a political
weapon. -
Daddies Loalaat Their Grip.
Chlcag-o Tribune.
The announcement that no more silver
dollars will be coined and that the silver
bullion In the vaults o the treasury will bs
turned Into subsidiary v coins has caused
no populsr outcry. The" dollar of the dsd-
dies apparently has lost its hold en the
progeny.
Glrlna- akdil Jolt.
Baltimore American.
The sultan of Turkey will get the sur
prise of his life If the United States does
seise Smyrna and so prove that he Is
really expected to keep his promises, fnr
the oriental mind cannot see any neces
sary or even logical connection between
promise and performance, nor why after
the one has been satisfactory so long the
other should be so violently hinted at as
preferable.
Japan and the Opts Door.
New Tork Tribune.
Japan starts In with the open door as
soon as it has conquered the right to open
It, and New Chwang will now be free to
everybody's ships and trade, with other
porta to follow, as the "Jap" flag- Is hoisted
over them one after another; a generous
anti-monopoly signal, making a picture In
the oriental eklea as handsome as any
thing of the kind ever set there. If not
more so.
Traat Duaters to the Fore.
Kansas City Star.
When Mr.'Taggart of Indiana was elected
chairman of the democratic national com
mittee it was supposed that he would' be
In charge of the canvass. Now It is re
ported that Mr. Sheehan of New Tork,
chairman of the executive committee. Is
to be In active control. Apparently Judge
Parker desired some man with an intimate
knowledge of corporations, acquired by
service on numerous boards of directors,
to manage the great fight against corporate
aggression. ,
Port Arttaar Welt HlddCB.
Springfield Republican.
No part of the theater of war la so well
screened as Port Arthur. Not even the
officers of the United States army specially
commissioned to observe and study the
siege are permitted by the Japanese to get
within seeing distance, and the intelli
gence department of our army acknowl
edges that it is completely beaten thus far
In its search for knowledge of the opera
tions. For many weeks the Japanese gov.
ernment has given out no news of the
progress of the siege, and the Russians are
In no position to give out any. The result
Is that the world Is dependent upon "Che
fooleries," as the untrustworthy reports
emanating from Che Foo have been wit
tily called. These - reports invariably are
brought In by Chinese Junkmen or civilian
refugees from Port Arthur. "
TIPPLES OF TWO NATIONS.
Coassnptioa ( Coffee, Llqaora a. ad
Tea In I nl tea States and Ena-laad.
Springfield' Republican.
The United States- consul general at Lon
don sends on sonte -comparative statistics
of the per capita quantities of alcohollo
nd stimulative"' drinks consumed by tha
British and our ,omu people. They are (or
the year-1503 aa .follows :. -
Per Capita Consumption.
... . ., ., unuea
Great
States.
Britain.
0 68
6.06
1.05
0.S6
S0.24
Coffee, ponnds 10.79
Tea,-pounds J. ...... - 1.80
Distilled liquors, gallons. 1.46
Wines, gallons 0.48
Malt liquors, gallon 18.04
Together the twd. peoples would make a
family of the Jack Sprat order. They are
as contrary In their drink a Sprat and his
wife were in their meat. The most un
accountable and surprising difference Is in
coffee consumption, which amounts to
nothing worth mentioning in Great Britain
aa compared with the United States. The
British are much greater tea drinkers than
we are, but not so much greater aa we are
in coffee drinking. Of tea and coffee to
gether we consume about twice as much
aa the British. As to Intoxicants the Amer
ican consumption of hard liquors Is about
40 per cent larger than that of Great
Brltialn, while the British consumption of
malt liquors Is about 60 per cent larger
than the American. What ohe of the two
peoples, then, is. the more Intemperate? It
Is hard to decide, for a given quantity of
distilled liquors, in whose consumption we
excel, is for more Intoxicating than the
same quantity of malt liquors In which
they, excel. On the other hand, tea in
given weight. In which they excel. Is more
stimulating than th same weight of coffee
in whose consumption we excel. But the
aggregates are 32.07 pounds and gallons
of stimulants for the United State per
capita and 38.38 pounds and gallons for
Great Britain. One wondera whether if the
two peoples changed countries or physical
environments, they would change places
also in the choloe of drink.
PERSONAL NOTES.
M. Gilet, burgomaster of ' Ingerahelm,
Germany, belongs to a family which for 14
years has held that office.
The earl of Euston, grand master, and
deputation of English Knights Templar
who will attend the conclave to be held
In San Francisco, beginning September I,
were given a farewell banquet In London
recently. '
There will shortly be a great gathering
of the Buelow family In Berlin. The chief
of the clan is chancellor of the German
empire, and there are no fewer than eighty
other persons of his house and name who
hold office under the state.
The troops or the populace have been
firing at Americans lately In the United
States of Colombia, Coata Rica, Haytl and
Mexico. Americans seem to be loved so
heartily by our neighbors at the south of
us that the motto Is, "Wherever you see
Yankee head, hit It."
Dr. Henry C. Rowland, whose latest
novel, "To Windward." shows that his
nautical experience is not confined to
theory, Is about to establish a home at
Hampton, Vs. He Is now planning to sail
his small thirty-foot sloop Celeste down to,
Hampton Roads by the outside passage.
Columbia university's summer school Is
clearly ahead of all of Its rivals, so far as
the names of two of its students are con.
earned. One Is a .full-blooded African from
the gold coast named James Euman Kodwo
Menaa Ostlwadu Humanpunsam Kwegylr
Aggrey. The other, Erlrangan Dealkachar
lyrngar, is an East Indiaa. Both are aald
to be good students.
M. Combes, the French premier, Is a doe
tor by profession and still retains his old
copper name place. "Docteur Combes," on
the front door of his house at Pon4. Occa
sionally his medical services are asked by
hie old townapeople, and he aays be ex
periences more satisfaction in relieving
their I In than In winning a political vie.
tory. Ills chief recreation In Paris Is said
to be the study of foreign languagea. Ha
la also very fond of cycling a pastime,
however, whi h he only engage to when
sU)lng lu til couuUy.
WHKHE TUB WAR RACES.
iwit Peoole Places
Wltala the Trouble.
dent of the London News,
who wsa among those "hung up" In Japan
and finally left, In disgust because It was
Imposslbls to ,v'" mu"ln
account of the American newspaper man
whom ha ran across at UJI. whence most
of tha transport Start for th seat of war.
The American wore shabby clothes and
U.!-rtt nn.ler his arm a beautiful book Of
butterflies. He wore big horn spectacles
and would talk of nothing but his hobby;
If anyone spoke of th war he only
.hrnared hit shoulders. Only, the writer
happened to have met him before in an
other Dart of th world, when he was a
stamD-collecting maniac. Like the villain
in "The Hound of the Baakervlllea," he
th fields with his !
seoopnet, and one day he chased a lepldo
n eia-ht un eaalnst one of those new
automatic disappearing guns that th Jap
anese cherlah so carefully. Th next day
he was shipped to Shanghai.
A Russian war correspondent tells how
he Interviewed a captured Japanese oi-
f Tha nrtaoner was described a a
small man of middle-age, with a yellow.
bony far and sharp dark eyes. S Ith him
was Ms wife, a beautiful young woman of
llvelr manners, who spoke fluent Russian.
She was very affable to the press man. but
her husband was gloomy and reticent, evi
dently feeling his position acuieiy. in
wife, who was little more than a girl, had
actually been captured while accompanying
her husband on campaign.
Toklo Deems still to be mainly popu
lated by newspaper men who expected to
e-et to tha front and didn't, and wno are
now pretty well convinced that they will
never get anywhere worth reaching or see
anvthlna- worth telling about: On the
whole, they have maintained a creditable
reticence about their sorrows," reports
Harner'a Weekly, "and considering that
they went out to write, they have written
admirably little. But that little Is oh, so
sad! Stories of winter outfits hastily and
expensively gathered for a campaign In
Siberian snows, and then of struggles to
keep th moths out of furs, and then of
new equipments of khaki and mosquito
netting, and all in Toklo. And those that
scaped from Toklo with high hopes pres
ently returned, frustrated and desolate, or
If they atayed with an army the censors
sterilised their news stories. The corre
spondents are plucky men, and some of
them ar philosophers. They have laughed
when they could. They do not all consider
themselves to have been wronged because
th war I being fought without considera
tion for them. The complaint of those who
permit themselves to complain Is, not so
much that tfiev have been restrained, as
that they have been continuously deceived
and fooled with. The Japanese, one of
them mumbles, never say "you can't.'
They say 'certainly,' and raise hopes and
Incite preparations, and then nothing comes
of It but more disappointment. We tremble
to think what th Toklo correspondents will
say of the Japanese, and especially of Japa
nese veracity, when they get home If they
do get home, and do ndt rather escape from
Toklo and enlist under the csar. More
than half of them have already gone over
to th Russian side."
A Toklo letter to the New Tork Sun re
late an incident which constitute a nota
ble tribute to Japanese soldiers. A baron-
ass, famous for her hospitality, had on
two occasions in on week a party of
fifteen soldiers and three officers and an
other 'of eighteen soldiers and four officers
quartered at her house. Without regard
to rank or circumstances th government
decrees that on a given dat certain houses
shall receive troop coming from th coun-
try In excess of the number th barracka
can accommodate. This week it was the
baroness' turn thus to supply lodgings.
A furious storm swept over Toklo on
Thursday, and, knowing that th soldiers
had a long march from Chlba, across the
bay, the baroness gave them up when
they did not arrive at sunset. It was long
after midnight when th weary detachment
reached her house.
They came silently. Only the crunching
of gravel under foot of man or beast wo
audible.
The four officers dismounted noiselessly
and prostrated themselves before the
hostess, thanking her In true Japanese
fashion for so graciously receiving the
humble party.
The library and smooklng room had been
turned over to them; futons were spread
on th floor of the cool veranda, while the
men were quartered equally well on tho
servants' side of the house, and the horse
champed at their blta when led to tha
private stables a luxury unknown for
many a day to the poor beaata.
The cooks and servants had supper ready
for all. It being th custom to feed these
visiting soldiers , from the private larder
rather than on the government ration.
They expressed Immense satisfaction over
the generous supply of beer and cigarettes
and wer very much awed by their sur
roundings. Bath tickets wer then . furnished and.
after gaining permission from their officers
to leave th premises, they sought th
nearest bathhouse In true Japanese fashion
and after their bath quietly crept back
for a few hours' sleep.
All th next day they went about as
silently aa the deaf and dumb, and in
locking feet, lest their coars shoe should
mar th floors never trespassing In th
smallest way, but gaslng wondeiingly on
city sights they were country boys and
especially on the lovely flowers in the
baroneaa' famoua garden.
No matter how Interested they were, thev
religiously avoided looking in th direction
where the family might b assembled, and
but for th evidence of sight, the baron
ess would not have known of their pres
ence.
They had never seen a foreign house.
and when ah took them through It, they
hispered solemnly together, paused long
before th picture and ornaments In the
drawing room, walked almost apologeti
cally on the soft ruga and when their eyes
beheld a fine picture of their emperor, with
on accord they prostrated themselves be
fore him.
Night fell again. In tbe gray mornlnr
light my friend saw these soldiers go forth
as silently aa they came.
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said
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res.
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Washington Star. . ,
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