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    TITE OMAITA DAILY REE: WEDNESDAY, JAN'UARY 23, 1905.
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GEO ROE B. TZSCHUCK.
Bubecribad In my pretence and aworn to
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(Seal) U. B. HUNG ATE.
Notary Public
Of coarse the CItIc Federation com
mittee are all "good citizens," but they
hare no -monopoly on good citizenship.
A new version of the "Qunmaker of
Moscow" may be offered on the stage of
International politics within a short
time.
A meeting has been called for March
21 at Lincoln of the democratic editors
of Nebraska, or, rather, what Is left of
them.
The . municipal assessment roll Is
completed. Now for a tax rate that
will encourage home owning and attract
Investors. y
When IiFollette sizes up against
some of the railroad representatives In
the United States senate we will see the
difference.
Members'of 'Yhe' royal "fatally In the
winter palAce con now have some Intelli
gent sympathy for the beleaguered gar
rison at Tort Arthur.
Governor Vardaman haa again broken
Into print by nrrcstlug a murderer with
out assistance. It is needless to say that
his prisoner is a negro.
Ferhaps we arc having simply a pre
lude furnished by the weather man fo
make the ground hog look pleasant
when he visits us next week.
It will be a sight worth traveling miles
to eee when Senator Spooner advances
down the senate chanilier to present Ida
esteemed colleague, Senator LuFollctte,
to be sworn Iih-
The state senate has passed the bill
impropriating fsp.ooo for legislative sal
aries without a dissenting vote. An
other Illustration that the unexpected
docs not often happen.
Many people may be willing to admit
that the surrender of Fort Arthur was a
disgrace to Russia, but most of them will
place the blame upou someone other
than General Stoessel.
A bill creating a board to examine
horse doctors has been introduced in
the state senate. Why not also a board
to examine tho examiners and another
board to examine that board?
Since St. Petersburg lawyers have
( joined the St Fetersburg strikers the
ejsar must regret that Feter the Great
did not carry out bis threat to extennl
' nato the profession in his empire.
Bryan asks the democrats in congress
to forget party and vote to sustain the
president In his reform movements. A
number of republicans might with honor
to themselves and credit to their party
fi) a little forgetting for the same object.
Kamlmura has returned to the Japa
nese fleet. , As the Japanese commander
would probably rather remain in Toklo
than-to spend Idle hours on shipboard
news from Asia ought to be competing
with that from St Fetersburg before
long.
'. Paris and Vienna have closed meet-
logs called to express sympathy with
BuMlan revolutionists. This may be
.'done entirely out of regard for Russian
'official feeling, but It Is probable that
the word "revolution" sounds no sweeter
in the tars of France and Austria than
of Russia.
. Among the measures Introduced In
(the state senate Is a bill forbidding
school district officers or their relatives
being employed as teachers In the pub
lic schools. Why not extend this provi
sion also to relatives of the boards of
education In cities? Such a law would
: create several vacancies la and about
the Omaha schools.
' MAUXITUDE OFIfKBRASKAS TAX
BVBDKSS
flow much are the people of Ne
braska taxed for the maintenance of gov
ernment and what proportion of the
taxes imposed Is borne by the railroad
corporations? That Information has not
been obtainable up to this date In any
public document or any bureau of sta
tistics, or other source official or private.
After a moat laborious and costly re
search The Bee presents to the people of
Nebraska a compendium of the grand
assessment rolls of the state by counties
for the fiscal years 1903 and 1904, with
a comparative exhibit of the assessment
and amount of taxes levied for state,
county, school district and city and vil
lage government
This array of taxation figures will
prove a revelation to the people of No
bra ska and awaken them to the magni
tude of the increased tax burdens to
which they are being subjected through
the operation of our revenue laws. The
momentous fact that stares us in the
face is that the compulsory tribute lev
led upon the taxpayers of Nebraska for
the year 1904 aggregated 110,823,374.81,
as against 19,436,603.54 levied for the
year 1903, or an Increase of $1,386,771.27
over the preceding year. Of this colossal
tax levy the railroads were charged with
$1,417,447.00, while all other real and
personal property was taxed $9,405,
927. 2L )
The ratio of the taxation of the rail
roads to all other taxable property for
1903 was 12.8 to 87.7 per cent, while the
ratio in 1904 was 13.1 per cent, as
against 80.9 per cent By any computa
tion that can be made of the proportion
ate value of railroads to all other tax
able property In Nebraska, the railroad
property is fully 20 per cent of the ag
gregate value of all property, and by
rights the railroads should have contrib
uted $2,864,674.06 toward the expenses
of government In Nebraska for 1904, or
$747,227.36 more than they have been
actually taxed for last year. .
A glance at the comparative taxation
tables will show that the -aggregate tax
for state purposes, which was $1,523,
310.38 for 1003, was raised to $1,768,
327 for 1904, or an increase of $245,
010.62. The total Increase of all taxes
for county purposes in the state is only
$185,644.01, and the increase in city and
village taxes Is $267,184.22, while the
bulk of the increase- in- the aggregate
tax'es-$088,031.52 Is chargeable. to the
Increase in school taxes.
The most striking anomaly in Ne
braska taxation's the fact that the total
amount contributed by the railroads to
ward municipal government for the year
1004 is $84,850.78 out of a total of
$2,141,008.07. In other words, the tax
payers' In Nebraska cities and villages
pay 96.1 per cent of the cost of municipal
government while the railroads pay only
3.9 per cent thereof, whereas they
should pay 20 per cent Instead of pay
ing a fraction less than $85,000 a year
toward municipal government in Ne
braska they should pay at least $400,000
had they been compelled to bear their
just proportion of the tax burdens. On
this score, however, and on the broad
question of rullroud taxation, we shall
have something more to say hereafter.
7JIE RVSSIAJS SITVATWy.
The outbreak at the Russian capital
sounded a warning to the government
which it cannot safely disregard. That
warning is certalu'to be echoed from
every industrial point In the empire and
tho large army'of labor will Insist upon
its demand fur the amelioration of its
condition. The industries of Russia have
within the last quarter of a century made
rapid progress and grown to very con
siderable . proportions. The men em
ployed in these Industries are more in
telligent than tho peasant class. They
know how similar labor Is treated In
other countries, they appreciate their
own worth and they mean to have It
recognized by the government and by
the employers. That they will ulti
mately secure this recognition Is not to
be doubted and it will come without any
revolutionary movement, for the govern
ment cannot afford to take any courso
likely to provoke revolution! A mistake
was made at St. Fetersburg which it is
safe to say will not be repented.
What seems to be Inevitable Is that
the old system, which has become Intol
erable to the people, must be to a large
extent abandoned and political and so
cial reforms instituted more in accord
with the spirit of the age. Influences
arc being exerted upon the Russian peo
ple which the supporters of the existing
system are certain to find irresistible.
Russia's population Is not homogeneous.
It is made np largely of races conquered
and held in subjection and which are
naturally looking for an opportunity to
release themselves from the yoke.
Among these are the Foles and the
Finns, with whom disaffection is deep
rooted and constantly active. These
people will not always submit to the
oppression and Injustice to which they
are now subjected'
We believe that some good will come
out of the 8t Fetersburg episode that
the csar and his advisers will mot fall to
see In It a plain call for reforms the
prompt Institution of which is necessary
to the maintenance cf pesce and order
within the empire and that they will not
disregard the lesson.
JAPAX8 LOSSES.
According to a statement from Toklo,
which Is doubtless authentic, Japan sac
rificed seventeen vessels while blockad
ing Port Arthur. Eight of her warships
were sunk by Russian mines, two of
these being first class battleships; one
cruiser sank from a collision and others
were put out of active service tempo
rarily by mines. This Is a more exten
sive naval loss for Japan than It has
been generally supposed she suffered. It
having teen the Justifiable policy of the
government to minimize or conceal its
losses on sea as well as on land.' The
fall of Fort Arthur removed the neces
sity for further secrecy regarding naval
losses.
In regard to the losses In the land
fighting there Is no official information
and none Is likely to be forthcoming, bnt
the correspondents make estimates
which place the number of killed and
wounded at a very large figure. The
siege of Fort Arthur cost Japan not less
than 60,000 men, exclusive of the num
ber that died from disease. Undoubtedly
an equal or greater number were killed
and wounded in other battles. Theso
losses, while of course serious, have not
materially weakened Japan, while on the
other hand the Russian naval losses are
a blow to that power which is Irrepar
able, since as was said by one of her
naval officers she cannot triumph in tho
far east unless she is able to get control
of the sea and that now seems to be oat
of the question.
THEN FOLLOWS THE NAME OFMAHOXET
The conclusion of the Civic Federation's
address to the people of Omaha la: "We
expect criticism, opposition 'and Blander
from those who desire tha continuance ot
tha old regime, but we confidently look for
the support of all who deslra tha su
premacy of the law and an era of decency
and progress. " And then follows the name
of T. J. Mahoney, ona of tbe best and
most highly respected lawyers In thla com
munity. World-Herald.
This recalls a story from real life.
Back in 1890 John 8. Mullen kept a re
sort in or near Albright, where sports
and toughs congregated periodically,
generally on Sundays, to witness dog
fights, cock fights and fistic exhibitions.
At one of these Sunday performances
an affray took place, in which a police
officer interfered. John S. Mullen was
arrested and brought before the police
court In South Omaha and'bound over
by Judge King for trial in the district
court, of which T. J. Mahoney was then
and there prosecuting attorney.
During the latter part of the same
year the Mullen resort was destroyed
by fire. Mullen bad previously taken
out fire Insurance In several companies,
but the Insurance companies declined
to make payment, alleging that the fire
had been Incendiary. Their version was
published In the World-Herald, and
thereupon Mullen sued the World-Herald
for libel, with Mahoney as prosecuting
.attorney,' auid the transcript in ihe dis
trict court reads as follows:
boc. K, Page 7 John S. Mullen against
the World Publishing Company; petition
filed November 17, 1890.
December 10, 1891 Trial by a Jury.
December 19 Jury returned verdict for
plaintiff for $300.
December .11 Entered judgment for $300
and costs.
May 23, 1S9! Delivered transcript to su
preme court.
December 2, 189 Filed notice of attor
ney's lien, of Mahoney, Mlnnahan & Smyth
for 10SO.
January 2, 1KW Filed mandate.
January 21 Judgment affirmed,
January 27, 1S96 Received of Clerk Frank
E. Moores, $300, to apply on the within
judgment. (Signed), Mahoney, Mlnnahan
& Smyth, plaintiff's attorneys.
Another chapter In this bit of ancient
history may be found on page 43 of
docket 22, entitled "State of Nebraska
against John S. Mullen."
November 21, 1S90, filed transcript from
police court in South Omaha.
November 28, 190, nolle prosequi by
county attorney; defendant discharged.
The question naturally suggests Itself,
How woo It that Mahoney was selected
by Mr. Mullen to prosecute tho World-
Herald for libel while he was at the
same time presumed to prosecute Mr.
Mullen on a criminal charge pending in
the district court? Incidentally the
transcript also suggests this question,
How did Mr. Mahoneyeomo to file a
lien against the World-Herald for the
entire amount of the judgment rendered
for Mullen? Did he prosecute the
World-Herald on condition that ho was
to have the entire award given by the.
Jury?
No wonder the backers of Howell
Water Bill No. 2 are in such a rush to
railroad the measure through the leg
islature. The more the bill is inves
tigated and analyzed, the bigger bunco
game it discloses. With Howell Bill
No. 1 the pretense, two years ago, was
that Immediate enactment was neces
sary to force the preliminary steps to
purchase and Insure transfer of the
water plant to the city forthwith. No
such excuse will go now. Howell Bill
No. 2 does not pretend to expedite com
pletion of purchase negotiations twenty-four
hours. There Is no call for helter-skelter
legislation on so Important
a subject the very haste of the promo
ters Incites suspicion.
What do tbe Omaha yellows say by
this time about tbe water bill No. 2,
which authorizes the water board to ex
tend the contract of the water com
pany on any terms it may see fit to Im
pose and which authorizes the water
board to levy a tax of $100,000 a year
on Omaha taxpayers for hydrant rental
without their consent? Absolutely
nothing. What do the yellows say about
charter revision and railroad terminal
taxation? Nothing.
By raising tbe assessment of railroad
terminals by a fraction over $1,000,000
above the assessment made on the mile
age basts by the State Board of Equal-
" .. ,, . . . I lta best daya In Iowa. A mulct tax of
izatlon the city council has done no In- th ,eller of form ot
Justice to Um ralireaA awnjyanUs,. ThelvenUs depravitr.
most conservative estimate of the value
of terminal properties that converge in
Omaha ranges from $25,000,000 to $.TO.
Ooo.ono. while the assessment for mu
nicipal purposes is fixed at $3.133.8S5. or
from one-eighth to one-tenth of their
actual value. AH other taxable prop
erty has been assessed anywhere from
80 per cent to full value. Had the rail
road assessment been made on the same
basis an 8-mlll tax levy for the year
1906 would have been ample for all mu
nicipal demands.
Whenever the Smoot Inquiry reaches
a point of Inquiring into the holdings of
tbe Mormon church In Industrial enter
prises it touches what many consider
the real animus behind the prosecution
of Senator Smoot If Gentile merchants
could break members of the church from
the habit of trading at the Zion co-operative
stores objection to the man who
heads the business at Frovo would not
be so strong.
According to the report of the secre
tary of the State Board of Charities
and Corrections, out of ninety counties
In Nebraska, thirty-eight have jails
without a single prisoner to enjoy their
hospitality, and forty-three county Jails
have an average of only three Inmates
apiece. The people of Nebraska will
measure up to the best as a lawabldlng
lot.
Colonel Bryan advises .the democratic
party to forget itself for a while and to
help President Roosevelt carry out
whatever Is good in his policy. Why
not extend the same advice to the fu
glonlsts In the legislature of Mr. Bryan's
home state? Let us see If any repub
lican measure can secure fuslonlst votes.
If the legislature decides to Install u
binding twine factory at tbe state peni
tentiary it should at the same time cut
out the cooperage plant now run with
convict labor. It Is not fair to compel
self-suppportlng workingmen in our
cooperage plants here to compete with
forced labor in the state prisons.
Tennessee has a new governor whose
Induction into office is marked by an ap
peal for caution and good sense in con
sidering the race question, but from the
tone of the remarks he does not insist
that the caution and good sense be mo
nopolized by men In Tennessee.
Simplifying; tha System.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
If, as "Tom" Law son predicts, ten men
win own the country ten years hence, then
the matter of levying and collecting tho
taxea will be gTeally simplified.
Quickened Mope Vlelila 8 agar.
Washington Post.
You may have noticed that Cionel Bryan
threw no bouquets at the president until
after Mr. Roosevelt had announced that
ha would not be a candidate for 1908.
Good Place to Get a Tip.
Chicago Tribune.
It Is barely possible that Mr. Bryan's ob
ject in calling on th.e president last Satur
day was to obtain a few pointers aa to the
most effectual method of reorganizing tha
democratic party. ,( ,
Fear the Blar Stick.
"Cleveland" Leader.
President Roosevelt has been appealed to
to take his '"big stick" over to the Balkans.
It Is more than probable that this appeal
comes from friends of the railroads and tha
Beef trust, with a view of escaping the
perils of drastic handling of the aforesaid
stick.
Tronble Itnna In the Family.
Chicago Record-Herald.
One of tho eons of Brlghnm Young is
being' sued by twenty-three chorus girls,
who claim he owes them for performing In
a show that he was backing until it wont
to pieces a few weeks ago. Somehow it
seems no more than natural for a son of
Brlgham to be In trouble with about twenty-three
women.
Worklna; a Good Thing.
, Chioago Record-Herald.
The governor of New Jersey wants the
people of that state to oppose the proposi
tion to have a'law making it possible for
great Industrial corporations to operate uti-
dT federal charters. Any movement tend
ing to concentrate the chartering business
at Washington must, of course, be looked
upon by tho people of Now Jersey as dan
gerous to the stability of the' nation. It
continues to be pretty hard for most people
to discover wrong In anything that yields
them a revenue.
An Experiment that Failed.
Philadelphia Record.
Secretary Wilson is denounced by Con
necticut farmers for getting them to cult-
vate Sumatra tobacco, where they have
wasted much moiwy. The secretary re
torts that It Is their own fault; they went
Into the thing "on a commercial scale."
Does ho suppose that Connecticut farmer
raise tobacco under canvas for amusement
or for their health? He la now trying to
get the Vermont farmers to raise popples
for opium, which will aet the Woman's
Christian Tempernnre union wild, and he
may yet lnduoa Maine farmers to try ba
nana culture.
Activity of Monopoly.
Philadelphia Record.
At the very moment when the president
Is Instating upon governmeptal regulation
cf railroad rates legal proceedings are in
stituted to delay the enlargement of the
Erie canal, which would be a much mora
effective regulator of railroad rates than
any commission or court. That the rail
roads have been hostile to the canal en
largement, for which tha people of New
York by a large majority have voted $101,
000,000, is undisguised, and there la a not
unnatural suspicion that they are behind
this effort to prove the canal vote to have
been unconstitutional.
Clararettre Doomed In Iowa.,
Bpringlield (Masa.) Republican.
That Iowa can tax clgaretteea coming
into the state In packages of ten la tha
decision of the Vnlted States supreme
court. The tobacco companies Were
strongly intrenched' In former court de
cisions concerning "original packages."
and appealed confidently to the federal
judiciary. Tha opinion delivered by Jus
tica Brown, however, drew thla distinction,
which is manifestly in tha interaat of pub
lic morals:
"While thla court haa been alert to pro
tect tha rights of nonresident eitlsens nd
bad felt it Us duty, not alwaya with tha
approbation f tha state court a, to declare
tha Invalidity of laws throwing obstacles
In tha way of fraa Intercourse and com
munication between tha states, It will not
land Ita aanotion to those who deliberately
aet out to dobauoh tha publlo conaolenca
and to trample upon tha laws of a atate."
That meana that tha cigarette baa seen
TUB SUSSIA rtEVOM TIOMT9.
Character aad Katent of the Prevs
aaaaa la the Empire.
The cosvuiaed Internal conditions ot the
Russian empire lends timely Interest to an
account af the character of methods of
revolutionary societies continually prt-eslng
the auteviatlc government for reasnnible
reforma. Abraham Oahan, in Worlds
Work, dleauaees the plans and details the
actlvillen of the various organizations. He
aaya. In parti The Fighting league of the
soelal-revoiutioniata la the only one pro
fessing "terrorism" as a conspicuous part
of ts pragram. It waa tha Fighting league
which killed von Plehva, Ms predecessor
md several other high officials.
tVhile most ef tha socKl-ravolutlonlsts
devcie tbemaelvea to printing and distribut
ing keorat literature, to oral propaganda
and to revolutionary demonstrations anJ
plots like tha one which resulted In the
death of von Plehve Is tha special business
of tba fighting league.
The experience ot the nihilists ot the
'80s led Uta terrorists of today to keep these
two bruichea of their activity aeparated.
Tha weakest point In the organisation of
the men who brought about the death of
Alexander II lay in this that the "terror"
absorbed tha main strength and the best
forces of tha will of the people, aa their
party was called. In order to prevent this
mistake Ihe new terrorlsta comprise only
a very small part of the active men and
women ' af the organisation, and are so
detached frdm the other groups) aa to pre
vent their conspiracies from Interfering
with or being Interfered with by tha other
work of Uta party. Accordingly, the Fight
ing leagua la an Isolated organlsaUon, com
municating with the main body through
one or two representatives, a rather small
force numerically, but with a long list
of candldatea to nil tha places of those
who fall Into the hands of tha enemy. It
Is not every member of the soclal-revolu-tionlat
party who la ready to Join the Fight
ing league, but the number of those who
are ready and who beg for a chance to at
tack a man like von Plehva la really very
large.
The revival of organised terrorism, after
an Interval of fourteen years, datea from
the spring of 1901 and grew out of the dras
tic measures which the government used In
dealing with college demonstrations. Tha
last attempt at bloodahed by members of
the celebrated Narodaya Volia (Will of the
People) took place in 1887, on the anniver
sary of the death of Alexander II, when
several nihilists, with bombs under their
coats, were arrested on the steps of a
cathedral which the reigning czar, Alexan
der III, waa about to enter. When tha
would-ba regicides were brought to the
nearest police station one of them threw a
bomb on the floor, apparently expecting to
blow up the building, but the missile did
not go off. But a new form of agitation
made rapid headway among the working
claases, aa well as among tha educated
part of the population. It was a Russian
version ot the soclal-democratlo parties of
western Europe, the factory proletariat
being tha embodiment of all Its hopes and
aspiration just as the peasantry had been
tha personification of the Ideals and dreams
of the peaceful propagandists of the '70s.
The government adhered to Its old policy
of repression. Peaceful missionaries and
organizers of secret trade unions were
treated with medieval brutality. But the
social-democrats went on with their work
of education and organization, and their
party throve. Their teachings gained a
foothold In many a factory town, while the
universities were as full of this form of
nihilism a term, by the way, which In
Russia haa long since been out of use
as they had been once full of that spirit
which pinned Its faith to the village com
mune aa an instrument to work out the
country's political and economlo salvation.
The peaceful unresisting "peasanllsts" had
been gradually converted by the senseless
cruelties of the government Into assassins,
and now its blind policy of oppression and
persecution in its campaign against the
peaceful social-democrats was bound to
lead to similar results.
The straw that broke the back of the
peaceful movement, three years ago, was
an order issued by the mlnlnter of educa
tion, backed by the minister of tho in
terior, sending 187 students of the Univer
sity of St. Vladimir at Kleff to the army
for taking part in a certain demonstration.
The demonstration waa held as a protest
against a rule forbidding students to hold
meetings, and had nothing to do with poli
tics, and the unprecedented punitive meas
ure called forth Indescribable indignation.
A young man named Karpovtoh then went
to St. Petersburg from Berlin, where he
was studying at a local university, ob
tained an Interview with Pogolvepoff, tha
minister of education, and shot him dead at
his office. Karpovlch had no accomplices.
The nation was so aroused by. the policy
of the two ministers that tho assassin was
openly chearcd and demonstrations in his
honor were held In different parts of the
empire demonstrations which resulted In
new conflicts between tha revolutionists
and the police, new wholesale arrests, new
persecutions.
It waa then that the Fighting league was
formed. The social-revolutionist party, of
which It is a section, was a new organiza
tion, a rWal to tho peaceful soclal-dcmo-crats.
It declared Itself "successor to
the Will of the People," and, thanks to
Karpovlch's pistol shot. It at once jumped
into popularity, particularly among the col
lege students. "It is useless to confine one
self to peaceful agitation In a land where
peaceful agitation Is punished by exile or
slow death In an Isolated prison cell," they
argued. "We must show the government
that it cannot go on riding rough shod
over the faintest attempt at free speech
with Impunity. Until ' wa have extorted
from the authorities the right to speak
and to think according to one's honest con
viction It will be a criminal waste of en
ergy on our part to fill prisons without
showing the slightest reslntance, wlthoup
meting out to tho murderous officials the
punishment which they deserve."
The proclamations of tha new terrorists
read almost exactly like the proclamations
of the Will of the People; and, like the
members of that organisation, the new ter
rorists pledged themselves to abandon aota
ef violence as soon as tt became possible
for a Russian subject at home to express
his opinion through the press or from tha
platform.
Tha first two men to be condemned to
death by the new terrorists were the min
ister of the 1 Interior, Slplagulne, and tha
curator of tha holy syncd the real power
behind the throne Pobledonosteff.
The man who was commissioned by tha
Fighting league to carry out tha "death
sentence" which it had pronounced on
Minister Sipiaguine waa a young college
student of 20 named Stepaa Balmasheff.
Under tha guise of an aide-de-camp to
tba Grand Duka Berglus ha waa admitted
at once. Ha handed tha minister a large
envelops and while the latter was tearing
It open, fired several shots at him, exclaim,
lng coolly t
"This la tha way ona deals with an
enemy of tba 'people!"
In a proclamation which tha crowds
found poatad on the publlo buildings tha
next morning tba Fighting league declared:
"In a land where, upon an attempt at a
peaceful publio protest,' ministers threaten
to flood tha capital with blood, and are la
a position to carry out auch a threat; In
a land wbera tha government makes It
Us business to fore tha people to alienee
It Is Inevitable that soma members of the
community, at leaaa make the voice ef
the nation heard through another kind of
language.
"The buzz of the bullet this Is the only
kind of conversation obtainable with our
ministers, and will be until they shall
learn to understand the speech of humanity
and to lend an ear to the voice ot the
country."
The terrorists and the party with which
they are affiliated derive their financial
support from the various classes of the
nation. Including not Infrequently mem
bers of the highest nobility. The social
democrats are still a strong and active or
ganization. So In tha Bund, a social dem
ocratic society especially devoted to tha
revolutionary education of tha Tlddish
speaklng proletarian. 80 la tha socialist
party of Poland and a number of aimtlar
societies. A bi-weekly newspaper published
In Stuttgart, Germany, and smuggled Into
the empire of the csar, haa a large secret
circulation, and wields great Influence
among the professional claases, army offi
cers and landowners. Its name la Emanci
pation, and, unlike the other revolutionary
organs, which are either published on
"underground" presses in Russia or smug
gled In from other countries, this Journal
abstains from socialist propaganda, con
ducting Its agitation along tha lines ot
constitutional reform.
ROOSEVELT AND THO SOtTII.
A Common Sens View Expressed by
a Sonthera Ma a.
Chicago Record-Herald.
After all tha denunciation that has been
directed against President Roosevelt from
the southern states because of his supposed
attitude upon the negro question, it la now
about time for sentiment to begin to awing
In tha other direction. If tha Incidents
which excited the atorm had been really
serious in their character the criticisms
might have become mora bitter with tha
passage of time. But as It la the more It
Is recognized that the Importance of tha In
cidents has been exaggerated the more may
prejudice ba expected to yield to a spirit of
fairness.
A sign of tha coming change of feeling Is
to be found In tha comment which Judge
Thomas O. Jones, a democrat, of Alabama,
haa made upon a conference which he and
several other prominent eoutherners held
with the president at the White House a
short time ago. Judge Jones, who has been
governor of his state and who now sits on
the bench of the federal district court, Is a
man of exceptional character and ability.
The Incident of the Booker Washington
luncheon at tha White House he regards as
unimportant, and he believes that the In
ferences which the south drew from It were
entirely wrong. He considers the presl
dent's Insistence that equal justice be ad
ministered from the enlightened opinion of
the south, and he regards the president as
being as strongly opposed to an admixture
of tha racea as is any southern man. Aa
for the friction over the Crum appointment
he thlnk's the president Is by no means
alone to be blamed.
"Indeed," says Judge Jones, "the time
may come when we will find President
Roosevelt one of the stanchest defenders of
our section against any sectional wrong or
Injustice."
That President Roosevelt will apply his
principle of the "square deal" to the south,
as well as to the north, cannot be doubted.
And If the south comes to recognize this
the president's second administration may
well mark a gTOwth of good feeling that
will more than offset all the retrogression
that has been reported.
PERSO.VAL NOTES.
Captain Charles King has been ordered
by the government to Inspect the Wisconsin
National Guard.
A stage Is robbed on Fifth avenue In day
light and a mayor Is held up by a highway
man close to the Fifth Avenue hotel.
President Roosevelt haa received a gen
uine Sioux war bonnet and a Sioux buck
skin coat from John Fllnn, superintendent
of the Indian school at Chamberlain, S. D.
City Marshal Tillman of Wilson, Kan.,
who sljot an editor against whom he had a
grievance and then killed himself. Im
proved upon that other Tillman, who left
the better half of his Job uncompleted.
Marconi's thirtieth birthday is due on
April 25. The Inventor began bis experi
ments with wireless telegraphy on his
father's estate near Bologna nearly twenty
years ago. He was still a boy when he suc
ceeded in sending his first wireless signals
a distance of a mile.
The O'Conor Don, the lineal representa
tive 01' the family of King Roderick
O'Conor, the last monarch of Ireland, who
submitted to Henry II, has agreed with his
tenantry to dispose of his estate at Cloon
allia and Ballinagare, County Roscommon,
which hna been in the hands of the
O'Conora for centuries.
General O. O. Howard is the only "living
American soldier who ha commanded at
one time 150,000 soldiers. Once when he was
emerging from the battle of Fair Oaks
minus his right arm he waa met by General
Kearney, who had lost his left arm, with
the remark, "Never mind, Howard, we will
buy our gloves at the same store."
Andrew Carnegie, In trying to live tho
simple life, la constantly tempted to the
strenuous path. If he accepted all tho in
vitations he receive to attend social and
public functions it would be necessary to
expand hla day to forty-eight hours. When
ever a Carnegie library Is opened the local
trustees Issue a subpoena for him.
His Excellency Sheng, mightiest of all
the great men In China, has been induced
by Prof. John Fryer of the California Stale
university to provide Ave scholarships for
Chinese students now at the university.
These are the first scholarships ever given
by a Chinese official to students of any
American or European university.
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Ct T IT OIT.
The Country Weary of the Over
worked Smoot Caac.
Chicago Chronicle.
The United States senate ahould ba In
formed of the fact that tha country la
heartily sick of the Smoot- Investigation
and considers that the senate is making
Itself ridiculous by keeping such an In
consequential matter dangling before the
eyes of the publlo so long.
If Smoot were a blgumlst or even an
advocate of bigamy there might ba some
excuse for Investigating and expelling hint
-although even then ha might be fair
enough to make a white mark on some
other senators but there Is no pretense
of this. The effort la to ahow that he may1
be under the Influence of the Mormon
ohurch, which Itself asserts that It has
forever abandoned' polygamy, and a twelve
months' Investigation of such a charge la
unmitigated nonsense.
The Influences which may affect a sen
ator's conduct are Innumerable and un
discoverable, and possibly some of Smoot'S
senatorial Inquisitors are Influenced by
considerations which. If exposed, would
causa them to hang their hands In shame.
Some of them are no doubt' Influenced by
ecclesiastical connections no better than
Smoot's, and others by people and things
Infinitely worse still.
This is a subject that might properly
enough engage the attention of a legists
ture during a senatorial campaign, but
which does not Interest the country at
large In the slightest degree, and which
shoulit still less Interest the United States
senate. Will not the senate committee
please respect the feelings of the country,
and give It a rest from the Smoot case?
SMILING LINES.
The Doctor This will not do, sir. Yon
can't expect to recover If you don't follow
my advice. You remember I told you to
quit both your smoking and chewing.
The Patient Well, doctor, I did. I don't
do both of 'em. I only smoke. Chicago
Tribune.
"What do you think posterity will say
about you?"
"Well," answered Senator Sorghum, "I
am not afraid of what posterity will say.
People who are mean enough to talk about
a man behind his back never wield much
influence." Washington Star.
"Well. Drs. Brown and Smith ore going
to operate upon old Gotrox."
"Is the operation necessary?"
"Why, yes; In own has a note coming
due and Smith wants an automobile."
Puck.
"Well, well, that's a funny thing.'' " '
"What is?"
"Miss Passay was an old maid before aha
married, and now that her husband la dead
she has become a young widow." Phila
delphia Catholic Standard.
Fashionable Tailor Go front at once. T wa
young elerka there after suits.
New Man (whispering) I'm waiting on A
millionaire.
"Leave him and attend to the elerka
Theso millionaires don't buy new elotlies
on In live years. A clerk is good for a
fresh suit every three mouths." New York
Weekly. ,
A TRAGEDY OF THR TRACK,
New York IJfe.
The crowd was gathered, at the start.
The "auto" course was clear,
Tlie Mlern chauffeur upon the seat
Was C'hauncey Yen- de Vere.
Llk galloping tuhercull
TIih thlnK hcuiin to coiiffh.
Brave Chauncey seized the
name
what's-lc'
A shot, and they were offl
His engine was a thing-um-bob
Imported from Puree.
His tires. I wot, were you-know
ine Kinci tney ougnt to be.
Small wonder, then, that Chauncey spaa
More swiftly than the wynde
Before him lay toe open caurse,
His rivals all behind.
But Chauncey lookod with anguished gas
Upon his Bteeifng sear
The cent k-a-Jark was out of whack
And acting very queer.
Th Uilng-ma-JIg began to-dig,
The what'-it'-nHine to pop,
And shame, oh, shame! tho "auto" carat
Abruptly to a stop!
With leers and jeeia and dastard sneers
The rival cars ahot by
Their spunk was up to win the cup.
Their hopes and speed were high.
But prone beneath his moveluns oar
Our nnguLsheil hro liiy
No hope was his the funny-bls
Had broken qiiltu away.
80 Vere de Vere, the chauffeur, wept
liotlile a wayxlde ditch.
"All l!" he cried, "because of that
Defective ask-mu-whlch!"
course consumption can
be cured. Modern medicine
teaches it.' No one longer
doubts it.
Babies have it. Young mothers
have it. The aged have it. None
are exempt.
For over 50 years doctors have
prescribed Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
for this disease. It quiets the cough,
controls the inflammation. If inter
ested, talk this over with your doctor.
tfase ky the . O Ajt C. , Lawell, If see.
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