THE OMATTA DAILY HEE: TUESDAY. NOVEMHER 22. 1004.
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Every member of the coining legists,
trtre will be a speaker, bat only one of
lliem can occupy the speaker's chair.
If the weather man keep this up he
will be entitled to a good share of out
Thanksgiving p rains next Thursday.
A Roosevelt plurality of 83,000 out of
n total vote of less than 230,000 ought
to make Nebraska' cut some Ice In the
national political poud.
Did you notice the superiority of The
Bee'a Thanksgiving number over those
of other newspapers of 'these parts?
The Bee luvltes constant comparison.
" The news that General .Nogl la re
ceiving fresh troops would indicate that
General Htoessel Is doing something
more than sitting still at l'ort Artnur.
1
According to the vote on president in
'this state" the' ratio of 'fusion Is two
democrats to oue populist. It used to
be the other way at the beginning of
the fusion regime.
Florida Is 'entitled to the stage at
Washington preceding the meeting of
, congrens. for it is not every state which
can show a federal judge under iiu
peachment charges.
Mining at Tort Arthur seems to have
oue quality In .common with mining In
all other parts of the world. Much more
money Is being put into the ground thau
will ever be taken ont
About 15,000 people who voted in Ne
braska four years ago failed to make
their appearance at the polls at the last
election. , Now watch the populista lay
claim to every one of the absentees.
The cooking acbl vblJ puys par
ticular attention to the preparation of
com and Its products should increase
Its membership while the speculators
are keeping the price of wheat In the
air.
Blank cartridges were uaed to disperse
a mob In Vienna which persisted in
throwing snow balls at the Austrian
premier. This beats the Colorado ays
tern by as many men as are left to tell
the story.
Vhe Interstate Commerce coiumiaslon
Is Way this week In Philadelphia. As
far an results go the commlsslouera
might as well be in Philadelphia as any
other place where they can keep them
selves occupied. ,
Japanese, who have captured a Ger
niau steamer may have an "opportunity
to follow Russia to The Hague con
ference. The rights of neutrals are be
ginning to be almost as Important as
those of belligerents in the present war.
Before the present democratic county
attorney makes bis axlt iotn office be
might at least favor the public with a
report on the charges of attempted
bribery "made by the two ' democratic
members of the Board of Public Works.
Railroad tux agents complaining of
the operation of the new revenue law
recall the "sure thing ' man" who la
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discrimination comes with poor grace
arter all the years they have run thing
to suit themselves. '
Having made an "involved mystery"
out of the death of an automobile chauf
feur on a road near Chicago, the. police
of that city will add laurels to their
Virows by unravelling the chain so skil
fully woven. Chicago police never suf
fer from a 'lack of press agents.
Omaha has been clamoring for new
liialn elevators aud cereal and flouring
mills with promise of encouragement
to the capitalists who would make them
materialise. Now that a mammothVle
rator project bas been put right up to
Us, it behooves ua to make good,
tom trATsox ox rustns.
The Bee renrlnU herewith a letter
fm:n Thomas K. 'Watson, recent candl-
l;iteNf the populist party for president
adclresKed to T.i II. Tibbies, ,lls running
mate on the ticket, giving his views on
fusion in terse and unmistakable lan
ge.
That Watson is against further fnslon
with the democratic party as much at
he would be against fusion with the re
publican parly goes without saying, but
h given his reasons in good Georgia
cracker style that must appeal to those
who are moved by logic rather than by
the hopes of patronage and sioll. Mr.
Wat wn made his campaign on the Issue
that the country did not need two repub
lican parties, whereas the reorganized
democracy was only an imitation repub
lican party, and he says now with refer
ence to the proposal for another demo
cratic reorganization, that the country
does not need two populist parties.
Incidentally Mr. Watson puts Colonel
Itryan In an awkward position by show
ing up the Inconsistency of his course
and telling him "that in accepting popu
list principles and then refusing to Join
their party he shoulders the responsibil
ity of dividing the reform forces and In
viting defeat. He adds further that If
Colonel Bryan would act as unselfishly
toward the populists now as they acted
toward him In 1M he would unite
forces with a view to success In 1fXS
rather than try to revivify the demo
cratic corpse.
The folly of fighting one another on
national Issues while professing to pull
In double harness on state Issues was
never more strikingly exemplified than
In the recent campaign In the state. Mr.
Watson has had enough of It and so has
Mr. Tibbies. The fact that only 20.000
Nebraska populists answered to roll call
Indicates that the rank and file have
also had enough of it.
A LA HOE TRADE BALANCE.
The trade statistics show that there
will be another great balance in favor
of the United States for the calendar
year ending with December. It is es
timated that exports will be not far
from 11.500.000,000 and Imports a little
in excess of $ 1,000.000,000 In value, so
that the apparent trade balance will be
approximately fr00,000,000. This will
make In the past, eight years consider
ably In excess of $3,000,000,000 In favor
of this country In its international com
merce. It Is Interesting to note that a
very large part of this enormous bal
ance la due to increased sale abroad of
manufactured products, which has taken
place rchlefly since the Dlngley tariff law
went Into effect in 1807. The prediction
was then made that that act would have
the effect of putting an end to exports
of manufactures. The reverse Js the
fact, yet curiously enough there are
those who still insist that the law is
an obstruction to our foreign trade and
ought to be revised down to a revenue
basis.
While there has been a very marked
decrease In the exports of food-stuffs,
more manufactured products are going
abroad than ever before. Thus it is
noted that during the month of October,
while the total exports increased more
than $2,000,000, as compared with the
corresponding month of last year, there
was a falling off of something like $11.
000,000 In the export of grain and food
products. Exports of manufactures in
creased to an extent that more than
made good the decrease in the exporta
tion of food products. It Is very re
markable that In the face of such facts
there should be any one to assert that
the tariff law interferes with the sale
abroad of the products of our mills and
factories. There is every promise of a
continued Increaee In our International
trade and a steadily swelling balance in
favor of the United States.
IVlXIi JVOT DISCUSS TARIFF.
It appears to be definitely understood
that' President Roosevelt will not give
any consideration to the tariff in his
annual message. All trustworthy In
formation from the national capital Is
to this effect. It la stated that nearly
every senator and representative who
has called upon the president since the
election has been asked for hla views on
the subject of tariff revision and that
the general trend of opinion so far given
warrant the statement that the forth
coming message will not discuss the
tariff with a view to an agitation of
the subject at the comlng'sesston.
Meanwhile earnest consideration Is
being given by the president and repub
lican leaders In congress to the question
of calling a special session of the Fifty
ninth congress, to consider tariff revi
sion, shortly after the beginning of the
next administration. There Is implied
in this a disposition on Mr. Roosevelt's
nart to have an extra session, but he
will doubtless be guided by the weight
of opinion among republican leaders.
Some of. these have already Indicated
that they are not favorable to the prop
osition. Among these Is reported to be
Sneaker Cannon and also Chairman
Payne of the house committee on ways
and means, while 1t la understood that
Senator Aldrich, chairman of the senate
finance committee, with several other
republican senators, do not regard the
Idea of a special session of the next con
gress with favor. I) la pointed out. bow
ever, that If the president is earnestly
desirous that the tariff be revised be
will be able to control the situation and
bring a sufficient number of the repub
lican leaders to his views to Justify him
In calling an extra session. Undoubt
edly' the Influence of Mr. Roosevelt has
been greatly enhanced by the rvsult of
the election and It 1s suggested (hat few
republicans In congress will he -disposed
to take an attitude of pronounced hos
tility to what the precldeut may deem
to be the wise and proper course In this
matter.
There la to be a movement for the
creation of a permanent tariff commis
sion and the proposition rosy le pre
sented at 'the coming session of con
gress. In Lis annual message two years
ago President. Roosevelt substantially
Indorsed the principle of the establish
ment of such a commission, his Idea be
ing that It wonld be able to furnish con
gress with ripe and reliable Information
on the tariff question and thus n step
be taken toward removing It from par -
tlsan controversy. The National Asso
ciation of Importers has decided to
make a fight for a tariff commission and
has already planned theastartlng of an
agitation among the Importing inter
ests of the country. It Is not probable
that In ease the proposition Is presented
at the. coming session It will receive
any consideration and It may be doubted
whether the next congress would favor
the establishment of a permanent tariff
commission. The arguments of the ad
vocates of the proposition are not with
out force, but they are not likely to
mike much Impression upon the men In
congress who feel that they are quite
as well ijualltlcd as any commission
would be, however constituted, to deal
with the tariff. As to removing the
question from partisan contention ex
perience would seem to demonstrate
that it Is hardly possible.
RETURXISG PROSTERiTT.
There are not lacking very substan
tial indications of returning prosperity.
During the summer the railroads of
the country laid off a large number of
men. These are now being re-employed.
Recently the New York Central, the
Pennsylvania, the Reading and other
roads whose lines center in New York
City have restored to their pay rolls
the army of employes, estimated to Ih
between 20.0UO and 25.Ko, that were
dropped in the summer itecauae of a
decrease in business. The New Y'ork
Commercial notes as further Evidence
that the country is on the threshold of
another period of buoyant industrial
and trade activity is supplied by the
fact that these railroads are making nn
enormous .outlay for new equipment.
It states that within the last few weeks
the New Y'ork Central has ordered sev
eral thousand new freight cars and over
150 new locomotives, the Pennsylvania
6,000 new freight cars and a lartce num
ber of new locomotives and other roads
leading to New York several thousand
new freight cars. The railroads of the
south and west are pursuing the samo
course.
It is needless to say that there Is
ample warrant for this. No class of busi
ness men give more careful attention
to conditions than the managers of the
railroads and when they move forward
as they are now doing it conveys un
mistakable assurance of their confidence
in the Immediate future. The financial
affairs and the general Industrial and
commercial interests of the country are
on a sound basis and there la abundant
reason for optimism.
SomXO THE H'LVD.
If we mistake not the principal rail
roads of Nebraska that are now en
gaged in a systematic plan of refusing
to pay their taxes throughout the va
rious counties of the state will find, if
they persist In their course, that they
are sowing the wind that will return
to them later as a whirlwind.
It is notorious that thei new revenue
law enacted by the Inst legislature was
drafted under supervision and direction
of the associated railroad lobbyists. See
ing the glowering storm of public senti
ment about to break against the flagrant
undervaluation of the railroads, these
tax shirking corporations proclaimed
thejr willingness to pay taxes upon their
property providing tho law were so re
vised as to compel every other person
to pay upon the full value of his hold
ings. As enacted the new law left a trem
endous discretionary power in the State
Board of Railway Assessment, which
the railroads expected to control abso
lutely. In the light of events it seems
to have been their expectation to catch
in a drag net every item of value be
longing to the 'private Individual and
then through an arbitrary ruling of tho
state board to hold the railroad assess
ment down to the ridiculous figures of
former years, thus reducing the relative
tax burdens on the railroads instead of
Increasing them.
Because they slipped up In their re
liance on the pliancy of the state board
and encountered a substantial raise in
the assessment, although by no means a
raise to the point that should have been
reached these railroad now want to
repudiate the revenue law of their own
making and to refuse to be bound by its
provisions after they have been en
forced upon all taxpaylng citizens.
The railroads of Nebraska have on
former occasions Imagined that things
wen' so shaped as to make their rule
supreme In this state, but the revolt has
come almost over night. There Is such
a thing as exhausting the patience of
the people. The tax shirking .railroads
are certainly ill advised in their present
move. The people of Nebraska are
willing to pay their own Iflie.s. but they
are not willing to pay or themselvea
and for the railroads, too, aud they will
enforce their demand for equal taxation
ruthlessly when the time conies If tho
railroads stupidly Incite them to It.
Congressman Hitchcock has another
session of congress to serve through
and will, therefore, have ample oppor
tunity to show what he cau do with his
postal savings bank project. In fact,
be should- lie able to advance it further
In this congress than he could In the
next because his party associates are
more numerous. The Bee lias for years
advocated postal savings bunks and will
be glad to see a practical measure
enacted, but we fear a short session of
congress -will be too engrohsed with
other duties to give Congressman Hitch
cock the right-of-way for blr, bill.
The railroads are refusing to pay
their taxes in the various Nebraska
counties, tendering Instead their last
year's levy, plus per cent. Suppose
every property owner took It Into Ills
head to imitate these railroad tax shirk-
ers and to offer to the tax collector
what they thought would be as much as
they wanted to pay. what a condition of
anarchy would we have? If the tax
levy m binding on the ordinary citlr.cn It
ought to be equally binding on' the rail
iroad.
Tax Commissioner Fleming evinces a
disposition to get at the bed rock facts
as to the value of the local electric
lighting monopoly. When the president
of that' concern boasts in public that
it represents an investment of $4.000,
ooo and then, makes a tax return of
only $750.0110, while the stock and bond
capitalization foots up some $2,Ot).0(,
more evidence is certainly required to re
concile the discrepancies.
A movement Is ou foot In Iowa to
cause tire removal of those Iowa men
from office In Washington who have
been In the departments so long as to
forget that they are identified with the
Hawkeye state. What a shaking of
dry lxines there would be If all of the
states should undertake to discard their
dead timber at the national capital.
The president announces that he will
not Interfere In any manner with the
senatorial situation in Missouri. This
Is commendable, although Missouri re
publicans might bo thought to be en
titled to expert advice In work so un
usual as the election of a republican
United States senator from that state.
Theory and- rraetlce.
Baltimore American.
Theoretically, Russia approves or t ne new,
peace conference; but. practically. It has to
go on fighting, In which Bussla shows thnt
touch of nature which at different times
has made the whole world scrap.
0e Huge Fart Overlooked.
Chicago Chronicle.
Mr. Bryan appears to have conceaKd
from the general public the fact that ut a
candidate for United States senator In Ne
braska he was beaten more emphatically
than Judge Parker was for president.
Doesn't Indiana. Wnnt Illmf
Indianapolis News.
Although we are beginning to hear of nu
merous offers of highly desirable positions
being made to Mr. Cortelyou, somehow,
strange to ray, there doea not icctn to be
any rueh to secure the services of Mr. Tag-
gart.
Omaha's "Sit Still Clnb."
Minneapolis Times.
The "Sit Still club' 'Is the latest freak In
Omaha. It Is composed of men who
pledge themselves not to surrender
their street car seats to wimen.
The ostensible theory of ine or
ganization Is that when the tnmin are
compelled to stand they will bring pressure
to bear upon the street railway company
and compel that soulless corporation t.i
run more cars. We opine, however, that
the first thought In each member's mind Is
the retention of a good seat for himself. .
Fart of Common Knowledge.
t Cleveland Lender.
Locomotive engineers of experience and
observation are almost unanlmoua In their
condemnation of the lofty type of pasenger
engines adopted by many of the railways
recently. ThfyOnslst that many accidents
have occurred i because the lawe of gravi
tation have been too much Ignored and
that the standard' gauge of modern rail
ways la toq narrow as a base for the
huge locomotives, the weights of which
have been lifted upwards until, when a
curve Is struck at a' high rate of speed,
It Is more good luck than good fore
thought that prevents an accident. While
the engineers may exaggerate the dangers,
the question, in view of recent occurrences
In this country. Is well worth looking Into
by experts.
THE WEST.
Henry D. Estabrook's Peroration at
the Kansas City Banquet.
For the spirit of liberty In Its essence
and regality, that spirit which pervades
our Institutions and aniraates them, where
should we look for It, If not In the hush of
tineonqvered forasts, brooding their mys
teries and centuries of power; on pathless
prairies, roofed by the blue Immensity of
heaven and horlzoried by the brink and
margin of the world? Freedom! It Is the
voice of the soul, the cry of nature, the
scream of the eagle, the yell of the In
dian, the ego of the universe. Forth from
the fields came Clnclnnattis at the call of
Rome, Forth from the wilds came Patrick
Henry, like John the Baptist, crying In
the wilderness. And whence that noble
suicide, John Brown? Out of the west, I
tell you, out of. the west! Out of the west
I'lysses Grant, whose only stratagem was
to fight, whose sole negotiation was un
conditional surrender. Thence, also, Lin
coln, wise as a serpent, harmless as a
dove, the dearest name, save one, on earth,
at whose mention the heart quickens and
grows soft, yearning to be like his In
courage, patience, gentleness and tove.
Why, the thread of western history Is
strung with Illustrious names, names
which we tell like a rosary, pausing at
each to breathe a prayer of gratitude that
God gave such men to the west and that
the west gave them to the union.
And yet the Influence of the weat upon
national history Is not expressed, but only
typified by Individuals, for over them have
been the people of the west, and under
these the Boll ' itself. And such a soil!
God hna only to pitch the key, and it alngs
with a harvest. Year after year this un
failing harvest has been transmuted Into
power, and Joy, and liberty. Tear after
year has witnessed the recurring miracle
until all the world Is ready to exclaim:
'I.O, heaven and earth have kissed each
other, and that kiss what is It but the
west?"
PERSONAL 0TES.
The worm ha turned. The flat dweller
of Chicago have formed a union and land
lords and Janitors wjll have to look out ;
nerearier.
The pumpkin pie at Senator Piatt's buck
wheat cake breakfast was five feet long,
three feet wide, slg inches deep and weighed
314 pounds.
Judge Andrew J. Harlan of Savannah,
Mo., la the only surviving member of the
Thirty-first congress. He was born In
Ohio In 1111.
Colonel Henry Watterson and Mrs. Wat
teraon sailed on Wednesday for a long trip
to Europe. He said ha had advised the
democratic party to take a rest snd he
whs going to follow that advice himself.
Theodore Roosevelt Is Long Island's first
contribution to the presidency, but not tha
first to the White House. Ann Symmea,
wife of President William Henry Harrison
and grandmother of President Benjamin
Harrison, came from there,
William I Douglas, who haa Just been
elected governor of Massachusetts, Is al
ways happWst when at home. He and his
wire epend their evenings when alone In thn
library reading to each other. Their home
t luxuriantly furnished and ronaplcuous
among the ortumenU are aJsaj flowers.
TOM WATSON ON FUSION
Hon. T. II. Tibbies, Lincoln. Neb.; ilon Join the party whl.h for thirteen years hut
la dishonest and no such tree can bear battled for that platform If we are good
good fruit. If either of the old partiea Is enough to fuse ,h wny re w n(,t good
right there la no excuse for a third. If enough to Join?
both sre wrong, we should have no co- If the democratic party should adopt his
partnership with either. Fusion with one platform we should have two pop"" par-
In the west becomes a, temptation to fusion ties. The country does not need two popu-
wlth the other In the south. Allied with list parties. To divide the reform forces In
democrats in the west and with republicans this manner courts defeat.
In the south the people's party becomes a If Mr. Bryan Is sincere in his profession
pollttral prostitute which no decent man of popullat faith It Is hit duty to unite with
should recognise. The only hope we have us. To declare himself a popullt In prlnrl.
la to keep in the middle of the road anJ pie and at the same time refuae to Join
combat both the old parties. forces with us creates that division among
In this cnnipalgu I have fought both, the reformers which Insures ths permanence
fusing with neither. Populists who are of the triumph of our common enemy.
In the fight on principle can do nothing In IK Mr. Bryan played Into the hands
else. Populists who are In the movement of plutocracy by scorning the populista who
for office only can endorse co-partnership had been lured by Senator Jonea Into noil-
with the common foe. hating him for president. In 19"4 he missed
Say to your comrades in the west that another glorious opportunity by not bolting
I am enlisted for nnothnr four years. Say the St. Louis convention. He made thnt
to them that 1 shnll personally canvass mistake all the more Irreparable by his
every western state, between this year and speeches for Parker during the last weeks
1!0t. Buy to them thnt I was never more of the campaign. He now steers himself
certain thnt we can finally succeed If we and the reform forces toward a crowning
so conduct our campaigns as to win the disaster In 1908 by taking possession of our
confident of sincere reformers.
Mr. Bryan has no authority to bind the
democratic party to Ills popuINt platform.
He la simply one democrat among several
millions. If he was bound to tho nations!
platform of his party on Tuesday, Novem
ber t, JS04, he Is bound by It now. The PI.
Louis convention of 19M settled the issues
for four years. The law of the party Is n
declared at St. Louis, and ns accepted by
Mr. Bryan, remains the Isw of the party
for four years., He cannot change It. His
support of Parker Is an endorsement of
what was done at that convention. He has
now seised upon the populist plntform and
declares that he will hnve the democrats
adopt It. If he Is sincere why docs he not
i STATE TRESH t O!HME.T.
Pender Times: Gentlemen, you can't
j "Comstock" that priest. You have got on
I the wrong track.
Pender Republic: Congressman Burkett
has sent a letter to the Times congratulat
ing Its editor upon the good work done by
that paper in bringing about the glorious
republican victory. Wonder If lie also sent
one to the Commoner and the World
Herald. Alliance Herald: As usual. Editor Rose
water of The Bee succeeded In having him
self arrested for libel before the election
passed off in Douglas county. Most poli
ticians prefer to be Interviewed on such
occasions, but Rosewater desires something
more exciting.
Columbus Journal: Platte county repub
licans should not get swelled up over their
victory. Their success this year Is due to
clean policies and safe candidates. Their
success will b- permanent In proportion as
republican officials perform their official
duties with honesty and fairness.
Schuyler Free Lnnce: . The Nebraska
senate solidly republican and the house
almost so Indicates that the underhanded
and misleading fight put up by the fuso
rruts on the revenue law did not prove to
be a winner. People are not all fools, but
do a little thinking for themselves.
Juniata Herald: It has finally dawned
upon the World-Herald that Governor
Mickey has been re-elected. It Is a habit
of that paper to claim the election of it
candidates long after others have given up.
but why It does no one con tell. Its readers
certainly must lose faith In such a paper.
Norfolk News: The Bee has figured that,'
In proportion to the total vote, Nebraska
gave Roosevelt the banner plurality of any
state In he union. It Is evident thnt Presi
dent Roosevelt owes a congratulation to
the commonwealth possessing the least Il
literacy of any state in the country. Stand
up for Nebraska.
Butler County Press (dem.): For the
first time In our .life wc are not sorry when
a democratic candidate for president goes
down to defeat. There may have been
lots of treachery in democratic national
politics heretofore, but we never realized
the full force of It like we have the last
four months. Will the party continue to
truckle and disintegrate, or will It kick
time-servers and hucksters outT
P.iplllion Times: In order to keep some
thing doing the Civic Federation of Omaha
Is going to try to enforce the midnight and
Sunday closing saloon ordinance. Omaha's
spasms of virtue are short lived as a rule.
If constant and consistent effort were
made, then something might be accom
plished, but those periodical spasms never
amount to anything. Frequently It Is a
movement to get revenge upon some one.
Stanton Picket: The Picket freely ad
mits that nothing pleases us quite as much
as the re-eiectlon of Governor Mickey.
Few candidates were ever forced to run
the gauntlets of false representations, and
personal abuse to the extent that he did,
and through It all he remained the calm,
unemotional Christian gentleman that- he
at all times Is. Such a man Is deserving
of honor as well as respect, and the voters
of Nebraska have so decided.
Silver Creek Sand: Sand has heard on
good authority that W. T. Thompson of
Central City has been tendered and has ac
cepted the appointment as deputy attorney
general of the state of Nebraska. Norrls
Brown Is the attorney general-elect, and
he Is a most capable officer. We are glad
to have an opportunity to congratulate
Mr. Thompson on his appointment, as he
la a careful, painstaking attorney, with a
great big streak of honesty In his makeup.
Bradahaw Republican: Of all the fusion
newspapers in Nebraska that Joined In the
ceaseless labor of mud-throwing during
the campaign Just ended, the World-Herald
should be most ashamed. The World-Herald
poses as a metropolitan paper and
should have sufficient dignity and conserva
tism In all Its partisan sayings to give It a
creditable adorning In the class to which It
belongs. But to Its shame It haa taken Its
place beneath the half-way decent country
Journal.
Norfolk News: The World-Herald has
shown a very prompt recovery from the
effects of the election. Its first fear Is that
Mr. Burkett will not be advanced to the
position of United States senator and Its
second Is that the new revenue law will
not hold the railroads to the payment of
their share of the taxes. The World-Herald
haa had frights before that proved ground
less, and these are two occasions when It
may again turn out that it Is seeing noth
Ing but specters.
Wayne Heruld: While the voters of the
state went after John II. Mickey pretty
rough ahod, yet on the face of the returns
for legislative candidates It would seem
their vote was one of condemnation of the
new revenue law. The legislature will be
the body tlwt will be charged with the
modification or repeal of the law, and Judg
ing from the returns It Is not the deslrw
of the people of the state to have the law
repealed and the voters certainly Indicated
that thev wished to place the modifications
ln the hands of republicans, rather than
to those who hwd unequivocally declared
for the repeal of the law. 1
ERS.
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S09TK2HQ SYRUP
S aaed by MllUnna of. Mothers for thotr
I while TscuUsi foe o'er Kifir You.
It aiKKuoa uie eiiiid, aurtaua tka guts. aiUra
sll PVi " t lui euUo, sad M Ma awl
all piu. ourm wlbd ooUa,
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own platform and declaring his purpose to
use It Inside the democratic party. Thus h
plercea ua with our own sword.
I repeat the statement: We do not need
two populist parties. All honest populista
should get Into the populist party. The
man who accepts our principles and yet
refuses to unite with us shoulders the re
sponslblllty of creating that division of the
reform forces which means defeat. If Mr.
Bryan would act as unselfishly toward tha
populists now as they acted toward him
In ISA we could unite forces and achieve
success In 1908. I hope to God he will yet
do It. THOMA8 E. WATSON,
Thomson Ga.
SMILING REMARKS.
"I understand that the fnmous old west
ern scout at once turned In and led the
posse that was chasing the murderers."
"No. he didn't. He's too busy to chase
murderers."
"What is he doing?"
"chasing dollurs." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"I had to think up an excuse to give mv
wife when I got home last night," said the
first clubman.
"Oh, my wife's resigned now, and doesn't
ask questions no matter how late I get in,"
replied the other.
"But 1 got In early last night, and she
couldn't understand It.' 'Philadelphia
Ledger.
Mrs. Kawner How did the election suit
your husband?
Mrs. Crossway I haven't heard him say.
I know It dldn t go the way be thought It
was going, though. There wasn't a cent In
his pockets when I went through them the
night after the election. Cleevlnnd Leader.
"When I write a poem." observed Oettus,
the rising author, "I usually put It away In
soak, as It were, and let It stay a few
months before I look at It again."
"I usually do the same thing," said Bonis,
the struggling author, "with my over
coats." Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Puffer Our nw cook Is a perfect
Jewel. She never wastes anything.
Mr. Puffer 'looking nnx'ous i he peo
ples the fried liver and bacon) I wonder
what she dlu it t.;o im s
threw down Jhe back stairs yesterday
mornlng?p-Cleveland i -lain Leulcr.
"The trouble," dejectedly muaed the Hon.
Thomas Rott, politician. Is that when the
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is as necessary to
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possesses all the attributes of purity, flavor, and sparkle
that go to make a perfect table water. Still and sparkling.
Sold Everywhere
THE RICHARDSON DRUB CO.,
KB JACKSON STREET,
DISTRIBUTING AGENTS.
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Rock Springs, Hanna, Sheridan, Walnut Block, Steam Coal.
Best medium grade is Illinois Nut S5.75; Egg and Lump $6.
For heaters and furnaces Cherokee Nut So; Lump $5.23.
A hot burnerMissouri Nut large size $4.50: Lump $4.79.
8cranton the best Pennsylvania Anthracite mined.
Spadra-the hardest and cleanest Arkansas Anthracite.
All coal hand-soreaned and weighed over any city scales deelred.
COUTANT & SQUIRES, '"W.SK.T.US'"
Thanksgiving Sale
And thankful will be the parents who flt out their
boys with one or more of the
Sailor Blouse Suits
We put on Bale Tuesday and Wednesday at
$3.50
Thew are "bargain" suits of the honest kind They
are, in fact, $3.00, 00, ftS.50, $7.00, 4)7.50, $8.00 and
$8.50 guits of all color and mixtures plain- and fancy
trimmed. We shall offer about 250 of these beautiful suits
in sizes from 3 to 9 years for
$3.50
We only wish you would look at these, if you know
anything of values atid styles.
No Clothing Fit Like Ours.
' R. S. WILCOX, Mgr.
A MATTER OF HEALTH
0 to lately Pure
43 HO SUBSTITUTE
office sets out to seek the mnn some other
feller 'most slwnys gits In the way and
secures the abduction, which Is sorter ll
couragln'." Puck.
"Dagger.!" yelled her husband. "Swordsl
RaaorsT Cutlassr! Carving knives! Hatch
ets! Cleavers! Axee!"
"What do you mean by that?" demanded
the irate Mrs. Vlck-Henn, who had beeti
taking him to task severely for his vari
ous shortcomings.
"I'm trying to get In a word edgewisel"
he said. Chicago Tribune.
MOTHER'S LETTER.
8. W. Glllllan In Baltimore American.
Dear Roy: Last year. Thanksgiving time,
also the year before.
You wrote you were too busy to come
homeward, as of yore.
You said your "work ileniiinded that" you
"stay In town that day."
But "hoped that maybe later on" you'd
"get to slip away."
I bore It patiently enough you didn't know
1 cried
Each time almost as hard hs when your
father died.
But this year, as the day draws near, it
seems I can't forego
The Joy of having you at home you
mustn't tell me "No."
I'm not strong someway, my boy; I'm
haunted with a dream
Of days when he was with me I can see
the firelight glrsm
I'pon his rugged, tired cut form when be
came home at night
And warmed himself and rested by the
flreplr.ee brave and bright;
I see our kitchen table as we ate our even
ing meal
No single towhead mluMng; then the
homely feelings steal
Right buck Into, my heart they'll all be
here but you, and so
Thai's why I write to tell you that you
mustn't, tell me "No."
Your mother's not a weakling or a baby,
but, my boy,
I thought you'd like to have me tell how
you could bring me Joy;
You used to In the golden days when you
were at my knee
Lisp, "Muvver, sister's helpln ain't you dot
a Job for me?"
So, here's your Job, my grown up child It
seems a little task.
But oh. if yiu could know how dear to me
is all I ask.
The man that's still "my babe" to me
would let his business go
And eat Thanksgiving dinner with his
mother is It "No?
life as good food.
SHEAMAN tOcCONNELl 0RU3 CO.,
1CTH AND DO DOB.
RETAIL AGENT.
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