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Notary Public.
Those stories about a abort lee crop
have been put into cold storage, at least
for tbe season.
Next thing we know, the thermome
ter! will all strike for extra pay for
working overtime.
Mr. but Isn't Mr. Groundhog glad he
saw hla shadow and went back to his
hole to keep warm!"
If Germany Is having weather like
that on this side, .the return of the
coal miners to work Is easily understood.
Senator Hippie Mitchell of Oregon Is
not the first politician who got himself
Into trouble just because his letter was
not burned.
If those Hearst-Sullivan debates are
to be continued the office of serjeant-at-arms
of the house of representatives will
be no sinecure.
Ten years ago wo were threatened
with a gold famine now we are threat
ened with a coal famine, and the last Is
much the worse.
Misery always loves company, and for
that reason Omaha commiserates with
Denver at 27 degrees below und Kansas
City at 18 degrees below aero.
The Bryanlte organist of these parts is
always firing long range guns at the
unreachable enemy. But where does he
'stand on the commodity rate bill?
The United States never emphasises
Its bigness so much as when reports of
rain In Alabama follow reports of 30
degrees below aero in South Dakota.
Now that the Torto IUco house of
delegates has declared Its strong adher
ence to American Institutions, the work
in hand at San Domingo ran proceed.
In refusing to tell of the profits of the
private rar lines the president of the
Armour company confesses that they are
probably more than he cares to reveal.
The untrammeled west has at least
one advantage over the Atlantic coast
states In winter. None of Its popula
tion I caught floating around on Icebergs.
When mtH-beani" Hoch had told the
number of wives he would acknowledge,
his bearers were again Impressed with
the bad luck which accompanies the
number "13."
There is one woman who should have
little difficulty tn proving her marriage
to Johann Hoch, as she asked htm for
money the 11 rat time they met after his
arrest aul he told her to wait
Those papers which are reprinting sto
ries by Maxim Gorky should ,aay
whether they aro trying to Justify the
Russian government or to create sym
pathy for tbe Imprisoned novelist
In telstng two German colliers carry
ing fuel for Rojestvensky tbe Dutch
government may have done more to
top hostilities in the South Pacific
ocean than all the Quakers on earth.
We are still waiting for some ne to
project a bill to create a governor-appointed
board to take charge of our mu
nicipal paving plant with fat salaries
and extensive powers, In all respects
"paramount" to all other officers of the
city government
There Is rwally no good reason why
the state should rnalntalu two separate
homes for the friendless with only two
doxeu Inmates lu each, auy more than
there is why the state should maintain
two soldiers' homes wbeu one soldiers'
home would answer tbe purpose better
.than two. Concentration and consolida
tion are the order of the day and Ne
braska should not lag behind.
BRTAS ASD ROnfiKTr.LT-
The stand taken by William Jennings
Bryan in supiwiit of President Rouse
velt's policy of railway regulation Is
highly commendable, but Mr. Bryan's
admirers claim altogether too much for
Mm when they picture him as the bed
fellow and peer of Theodore Roosevelt
ss champion and advocate of corporate
suitervlsion. restriction and regulation.
Colonel Bryan and Colonel Roosevelt
are very nearly the same age. There Is.
however, a vast difference between their
achievements in curbing the power of
corporate monopoly. When the granger
movement swept the prairie states both
were in their teens and too Immature to
frame a sane and safe opinion on the
railroad problem. When the protracted
contest that followed as the sequence of
state railway regulation was raging in
the balls of congress they were non
combatant spectators. From that date
their careers diverge.
Bryan liecame a dramatic orator and
Roosevelt a dramatic actor In the polit
ical arena. The one sought and ob
tained popularity by fervent and catchy
appeals to popular sentiment and preju
dice against the money power and the
trusts; the other sought and obtained
popularity by attacking abuses and deal
ing telling blows at colossal nnd grasp
lug combines. Bryan's four years'
career in congress Is devoid of any at
tempt even at nutional supervision, reg
ulation or restriction of public carriers
and trusts.
But Roosevelt, when governor of New
York, did not content himself with soul
stlrrlng perorations aud red-letter dec
lamations against the public utility
corporation. lie gripped the reins
firmly and literally forced the legislation
by which the franchise corporations
were compelled to contribute millions of
dollars annually toward the support of
state and municipal governments.
While It is true that BryHn never oc
cupied an executive position, his oppor
tunities as the acknowledged leader of
the party that dominated Nebraska for
at least four years would huve enabled
hi in to make good on the lines of reform
that he has advocated within recent
years. It Is a lamentable fact, neverthe
less, that Bryan has held aloof from the
Irrepressible conflict by which Nebraska
was torn up for years over railroad reg
ulation and railroad tax evasion. Never
has he formulated any measure of relief
for the producers of the state; never has
he appeared before a legislative commit
tee to champion and advocate any rail
road regulation or railroad taxation bill;
and although he is a lawyer, ho has never
Invoked the power of the courts to se
cure redress for the great mass of tax
payers or offered to assist others who
appealed to our courts for redress
against railroad discrimination and rall
roaal tax shirking.
It Is this policy of nonintervention
that has lost the Bryanlte fusion party
Its foothold by depriving It of any claim
to lypular gratitude or even confidence.
Sympathy and advice are cheap com
modities. When the people of Nebraska
wanted bread the demo-pop fuslonists
threw them a srone, and It takes an
ostrich ftttmach to digest paving bricks
and pebbles. , '
IHK SEW ADMlSlSTItATldy.
According to reports . from Washing
ton there Is to be a clean sweep of fed
eral officials not subject to the civil serv
ice law when the new administration
comes In next month. . It Is said that
President Roosevelt Is very strongly op
posed to officials serving a third term
and that those who have been eight
years In the public service will very
likely not Im permitted to continue In
their positions, eveu though having
made the most creditable records.
We are Inclined to doubt the authen
ticity of this report, for the reason that
Mr. Roosevelt earnestly desires to secure
the highest efficiency in the public serv
ice and consequently Is not likely to re
move those who have proved efficient,
yet It must be admitted that his reported
objection to a third term for officials In
the public service Is not unreasonable.
It Is a recognition of the principle of
rotation In the service of the govern
ment which a great many people regard
as essentially fair aud Just. The report
of the president's Intentions under the
new administration Is calculated to cause
some anxiety among a very consider
able body of officeholders, but we doubt
If there will be the clean sweep that Is
predicted. We believe that officials of
established ability and efficiency have
nothing to fear from the new administration.
WAST ISDKPESDEXCIC.
There appears to Ih a growing senti
ment among the people of Porto Rico for
Independence. A bill bus been intro
duced In the house of delegates of the
Island calling for the establishment of
Porto Rico as an Independent territory,
under a United States protectorate, to
be known as the State of Porto Rico.
It la said that tbe proposed scheme Is
a peculiar mixture of sovereign and of
dependent powers and while the move
ment In behalf of It is not yet particu
larly active, yet American residents of
the Island are said to be apprehensive
that It may ere long reach a point where
Summary action will become ueceasary.
A Washington report says that the
heait of tbe matter Is lu the question
of comparative conditions today and ten
years ago. Comparisons are made to the
disadvantage of American rule and
while tome Insist that there Is no Justifi
cation for this, the fact remains that
there la a good deal of dissatisfaction
and dlscoutent among the 'people, aud
If report la to be credited this feeling
It growing. There U, of course, very
little if auy danger of a serious disturb
ance as the result of this political un
rest. The people of Porto Rico are not
likely to attempt auytblng like revolu
tion. But they may keep up an organ
ised agitation that will give the govern
ment no little trouble and embarrass
ment. Porto Rico has at present what Is
practically a territorial government In
which her people have representation.
It Is not at all probable that the Island
will ever advance lieyond this. If any
of Its people are seriously entertaining
the Idea that Porto Rico may become
a state of this union they are doomed
to disappointment There may Ih Justi
fiable reasons for complaint that all
which was expected or hoped for nnder
American rule has not been realized,
but this may come later, and in any
event the island will remain Indefinitely
In Its present position as a part of our
national domain.
AS IMPRACTKABLK IDEA.
The president of the United States has
been asked, through the head of tbe In
terparliamentary union, to use hit good
offices in tbe interest of tbe termination
of tbe war In the far east. It wag
stated to the president that the con
sensus of opinion in Europe was that
the chief magistrate of the United States
Is the best man to bring the subject
before the nations of a cessation of hos
tilities between Japan and Russia and of
terminating the war through arbitration.
It la said that the German emperor is
in a position to offer the good offices
of his government, but he has" shown
no anxiety In this direction. In fact, the
understanding is, as conveyed In a re
cent report from Berlin, that the German
government has no disposition whatever
to Intervene In the far-eastern conflict.
AVhen the matter was presented a few
days ago to President Roosevelt, it Is
stated that ho assured the representa
tive of the Interparliamentary union of
his earnest desire to do whatever prop
erly can 1m done in the Interest of peace
In the far east. But li was pointed out
that the Russian government is abso
lutely hostile to any efforts on the part
of the neutral nations looking to the
settlement of the war with Japan and
would In all probability refuse to se
riously consider any suggestions, from
whatever source they might come, which
had In view a termination of hostilities.
The great consideration with Russia Is
that she cannot recede from her present
position without suffering more or less
humiliation aud loss of prestige and It
Is most natural that she should hold
out against this. There Is reason to
believe that Emperor Nicholas and some
of his more conservative advisers are
not altogether unwilling to listen to
proposals looking to peace, but they are
not disposed to take any step In that
direction.
The suggestion of the Interparliamen
tary union that the United States Initiate
a movement for bringing about peace be
tween Russia and Japan will probably
receive no serious consideration at Wash
ington. It is well understood that Presi
dent Roosevelt would be glad to do
something for the settlement of that con
flict, but he will do nothing that would
Imperil the position of the United States
or put this country In a position which
might be Inimical to Its Influence when
the final settlement comes between the
belligerent nations. Consequently our
government will undoubtedly stand aloof
at least until there is a request from
both the powers at war for mediation
and this is a possibility of which there Is
not at present any promise. There Is no
reason why this country should under
present circumstances depart from Its
traditional policy and therefore the sug
gestion of the Interparliamentary union
Is manifestly untimely and Impracticable.
The traveling public expects train
service to be more or lees demoralized
by present unfavorable conditions, but
railroad patrons have a right to demand
perfect frankness on the part of the
railroad officials. If a train has been
abandoned, there is absolutely no excuse
for the railroad men to tell waiting pas
sengers that It Is due any minute or to
promise that It will make up time when
they know, or ought to know, the exact
reverse to be true. The railroad that
takes special care not to Impose on its
patrons will go up several notches In
popular confidence.
The proposition to Increase the salaries
of city councilmen who are now holding
office may strike a snag In section lfl of
article III of the constitution, which
reads as follows:
The legislature shall never grant any
extra compeneatlon to any public officer,
agent, servant or contractor, after the
services shall have been rendered or the
contract entered Into, hor shall the com
peneatlon of any public officer be Increased
or diminished during hla term of office.
If members of the city council are
public officers within the meaning of the
constitution, that would hit them.
. The true solution of all this charter
tinkering Is an amendmeut to the state
constitution vesting cltiea of over 50,000
population with the power to frame and
adopt their own municipal codes, thus
giving them the fullest measure of homo
rule. Such a constitutional amendment,
If submitted, would carry practically
without opposition. It U up to the pres
ent legislature to take the first step
toward this much desired goal.
Down at Lincoln they are talking
about reducing their city council to
seven members, one for each ward,
elected at large, after the fashion of
Omaha. Here In Omaha at tbe same
time the inoveiueut It toward Increasing
the membership of tbe council, more
after the fashion of Lincoln.
element at Washington and the people
are not directly responsible for It, either.
These are the days when the operating
department of the railroad It torn be
tween a desire to get tralnt In on time
and to get them over tbe road without
dunger, and, despite the frequent re
ports of wrecks of more or less impor
tance, the decision Is usually; lu favor
of safety over promptness.
The house aud the senate cannot
agree ou statehood bills nor upon rail
road legislation. Tbe senate and the
president cannot agree aa to reciprocity
treaties. Under these circumstances It
Is not difficult to discover the disturbing
The Ma of Cleavage.
Pueblo Chieftain.
Every republican will soon have to de
cide whether ha Is Roosevelt republican
or a corporation trust republican.
rallies; far thaw Dowa.
Kansas City Star.
''If there Is a 'barrel' here," shouted
Speaker Btubbe of the house at Topeka,
yesterday, "we want to know where It Is."
To Maek at a Cool Thlag.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Not much Is heard nowadays from tha
people who like an old-fashioned winter.
Most of them are either down with pneu
monia or threatened with It.
Frleasly Tla Sorely Seeded.
Boston Transcript.
If Governor Folk will Impart the secret
of hla success In driving out the lobby to
his brother executives he will be entitled
to forty-four grateful acknowledgements.
A Steady Stream.
Philadelphia Ledger.
A philosopher of the west thinks there
la tome connection between the president's
tremendous activity in taking over the
whole government and tha sun spots. This
theory breaks down because the sun spots
are periodic, but the Roosevelt Ian activity
IS Ilka that of Tennyson's "Brook."
Aa ICsplaaatloa ta Order.
Philadelphia Prena.
Tha Navy department may have good
reason for rejecting the bid of the Mldvale
Bteel company to furnish It with armor
plate at greatly reduced price, but It will
need to make them public to satisfy the na
tion. The Steel trust and the Bethlehem
Steel Works put In the same bid, working
together In this matter. There was hope of
competition In the bid of the Mldvale com
pany. Its rejection requires a thorough ex
planation. Pigeon-holing tha reasons will
not satisfy the public for the extra price to
ba paid for tha armor plate.
Backed ay the C'oantry.
Pittsburg Times.
No careful observer of the trend of popu
lar opinion can doubt that the country at
large la heartily with the president In this
question of discrimination. He has been
fearless in hla position, In testimony
whereof Is the revelation concerning tha
railroad with which one of his own ap
pointees to the cabinet was once connected.
He has been right in bla conclusions. In
testimony whereof is the support of the In
terstate Commerce commission. He haa
chosen a good time for auggeating and sup
porting corrective legislation, In testimony
whereof Is the unmistakable approval of
Ms constituents.
Care of Stock oa Kansas.
Portland Orcgonlan.
The Intense cold that prevailed during the
first week in February In eastern Montana
did not result, aa It was feared would b
the case, In heavy loss of stock. A few
years ago a temperature alnking In soma
places to S!l degrees below sero would have
swept the ranges of every living thing, and,
abating, would have left the gulches piled
and the plains strewn with carcasses. Now,
however, tha ranges are practically swept
Of stock by prudence and thrift (and let us
hop humanity has a hand In the clearing),
lit advance of the storms of the two last
months of winter, with the result that the
loss la nominal. Chance for many years
played an Important part In stock raising
on the great ranges of the Interior, from
Nebraska to tha Cascade mountains. Little
or no provision was made for feeding and
sheltering tha whiter contingent of herds
and (locks that was left after tha fall sell
ing, and as a. result at least once in five
years thousands upon thousanda of animals
perished miserably. Stockmen have In late
years, however, got their commercial sec
ond sight, and the loss from stress of
weather Is now relatively small any season,
and never utterly disastrous.
FIGHTISU AOAIXST M ATI RE.
New York Efforts to Cheek Grain
Shipments to the Gulf.
Wall Street Journal.
Laat week there wat gathered at the
Produce exchange a collection of repre
sentatives from the various trunk lines en
tering New York, and from a great num
ber of large shipping companies on the At
lantic coast, with the ostensible purpose of
devising ways and means whereby the At
lantic coast ports can recover the trade
they have lost to the gulf ports.
One and all, these gentlemen appear to
be under the Impression that New York has
lost Its export and Import trade to tha gulf
largely through Indifference on the part of
the New York railroads and shippers, or
through artificial ' means adopted by the
railroads and shippers of the gulf region.
The sooner these gentlemen- realise their
mistake, the better. B. D. Caldwell of the
Lackawanna, perhaps unconsciously, epi
tomized the real situation when he quoted
tha remark of an' Arkansas darkey:
"I am In the hands of an all-wise and un
scrupulous Prodldence."
The reason why there has not been tha
same growth here that there has been in
tha commerce of the gulf ports Ilea In that
decree of Providence which haa ordained
that tha center of population In this coun
try shall move from the east to the west,
and not from the west to the east So
long a tha population of tha west keeps on
increasing in greater ratio than the popu
lation of the east, just so long will the ex
port and import traffic through the natural
commercial gateways of the west keep on
Increasing faster than will the movement
of this traffic through the eastern gateway.
It was this same law of nature that
broight Chicago with a rush front the bot
tom of tha list of great commercial centers
to within on notch of the top. It was for
this same reason that St. Louis, from being
a straggling r'ver village, haa come to rival
Boaton In Its commercial activities.
Nature will not reverse its mandates for
the sake of swelling the visible revenues of
New York shippers. So long ss the law of
gravity prevails It will be manifestly
cheaper to haul a ton of freight from
Omaha to New Orleans than it would be to
haul the same ton of freight from Omaha
across the Appalachian mountains to New
York or Boston.
Paul Gothlel, representing a great ship
ping Arm, states that a continuance of
present conditions roust result In the with
drawal of the large cargo boats at Atlantic
ports and the transfer of export business to
the gulf. He therefore desires to see
present conditions discontinued. The wish
is natural. Its fulfillment would be un
natural. If these gentlemen could move
the Atlantic seaboard 600 miles to tha west,
or could run the White Star liners Into
their docks at Pittsburg or Chicago, tha
wish would have a fair chance of fulfill
ment. Aa It la, because Canadian Pacific
and a multitude of other lines can put their
steerashlpa (uo or lies relies nearer to the
wheat fields of Nebraska than can the
White Star, these amaler lines will In
evitably get tha transportation of the wheat
of Nebraska Into their own hands. The
shippers of New York and the railroads of
New York must sooner or later recognise
that lu their struggle to muiutain their
trade In low grade western export staples
they are not fighting the porta of the gulf,
the lines that serve the gulf, the western
shipping (Inns or any other human agency.
They are fighting nature. Oue of the
trunk Una prealdenta says his line will fights
to a finish. It Is not difficult to guess the
flnlah.
LimG BY BOOT STRAPS.
What tlar Cosnmerelal (lab Is Said
to fto for Omaha.
To show Denver business men how
Omaha, furnishes them a study In what a
commercial club can accomplish, the Den
ver Post prints this pen picture of the
Omaha Commercial club, drawn by Colonel
R. A. Baton, under the caption, "Lifting
by Boot Sttapa:"
Omaha Is today one of the greatest job
bing centers In the I'nlted Btates, and
It ha.i been made so solely through the
efforts of Its business men.
Omaha today stands as an example of
what push and determli atlon by business
men, organised as a commercial club, can
accomplish.
Omaha, In the beginning had commer
cial difficulties to overcome that would
have appalled some towns. It was prac
tically surrounded by competition. South
and southwest It had Kansas City and
St. Joseph, to say nothing of St. Louis.
East and north wa Chicago and north
were Sioux City, St. Taul and Minneapolis.
Going west, Omaha competed with San
Francisco and the cities in the northwest,
with Denver at one side.
Apparently there wis little hope for
Omaha to become a jobbing center, but
the business men of that city decided to
make it one of the big jobbing centers,
not only for the transmlsslsslppi country,
but of the entire country.
A'uout eighteen years ago the business
men of the city organised a chamber of
commercs. It struggled along as best it
could, bolstered up spasmodically, Its prin
cipal aim being to advertise Omaha. Out
of this grew the Commercial club of
Omaha. In the spring of lfS9 hustling
members of the chamber of commerce
decided thut It was time to do something.
They organised a special excursion to the
Black Hills country and northern Wyom
ing, taking In Nebraska' enroute.
This was the beginning. Aa a result of
this excursion Omaha business men real
ised that with lively hustling they could
make a fact of what had been only a
prophecy.
The chamber of commerce gave way to
the Omaha Commercial club. Business
men. Jobbers and manufacturers and pro
fessional men and hustlers were taken
Into active membership of tha Commercial
club. The club secured the top floor of
one of the principal business building In
the heart of the up-town buslneas section.
An experienced man was employed to have
charge of tha rooms and a force of clerks
waa employed. The object was to make
these rooms the home of the business peo
ple of Omaha and of business visitors.
business men throughout the territory
tributary to Omaha were taken to this
club and dined when in town. Tickets
were given to business visitors and they
were made to feel at home In the club.
If Jonea brought a business friend into
the rooms he was introduced to Smith and
Brown, no matter if the visitor was a
hardware dealer and Smith, and Brown
were in the grocery and dry goods bust
ness respectively. The Idea waa to make
the stranger feel acquainted,
There were frequent meetings of the
club, so that all members became ac
quainted with each other. Business men
took their lunch in the club rooms and
the noon day hour was one of not only
social, but business intercourse. This
brought the men together. It promoted
harmony. There was an Interchange of
views and out of it all grew the prosperity
of Omaha.
Early in the history of the Commercial
club It was recognised that Omaha must
have better freight rates. Kansas City
and Chicago were crowding Omaha be
cause of their advantageous rates. Omaha
labored under the load of unjust rates.
John A. Utt, an experienced freight man,
waa employed by the club as a commis
sioner. The story of the struggle Is a
long one, but In tha end Omaha gained
the point It sought. It secured freight
rates that allowed its business men to do
business In competition with the business
men in the other cities.
It waa a long and bitter fight, for Kan
sas City fought Omaha, and so did St.
Louie, fet. Joseph, Chicago, Minneapolis,
St. Paul and other cities. But victory
came in the end.
The business men, however, did not give
up the fight because they had secured ad
vantageous freight rates. They kept up
their fight to make Omaha a commercial
city. The Commercial club kept In touch
with manufacturers and others desiring a
new location and these manufactories were
secured. Money waa secured, too, for
manufacturers already established to en
large and spread out.
In the course of all hla fight for su
premacy houses came to Omaha from St.
Joseph and St. Louis and other cities.
Great manufacturers opened big branch
houses In Omaha and the city became one
of great commercial Importance. This
fight in Omaha Is still going on. Today
there Is as much activity aa when the
fight began. Today Omaha jobbers send
thelmen all over the country west of the
Mississippi river and Into the Chicago and
St. Louis territory and Into the San Fran
Cisco territory, and their men go Into the
republic of Mexico and the goods are
shipped to South snd Central America.
Omaha today controls all the territory
between tha Missouri river and the. Rocky
mountains and much of the territory west
of tha mountains.
When the Burlington built its cut-off
from Brush it was believed that Denver
would get the bulk of the Black Hllla,
Wyoming and Montana bualness. Omaha
business men, however, aent their travel
ing men through the territory. Not one,
but four, six. eight men went out from
each house to travel in the district and
make friends.
"We had to do It, we believed," said
the general manager of an Omaha whole
sale grocery house that employs forty-five
traveling men, "rnd our experience was
that Instead of losing through the road we
gained, for these men. we sent out got
new business. The cut-off haa not af
fected a single Omaha jobber or manu
facturer." It will be remembered that Denver did
absolutely nothing to gather In all this
trade at the time.
An Omaha prospered the business men
of tha town began reachlre out for more
business and they got I;. They got all
the ratee they went after and they got
all the business they went after and then
they turned to other deeds.
Nebraska, Ilka every other state, was
Jealous of the metropolis. People out in
tbe state. In plain words, "knocked"
Omaha, snd the Commercial club knew It,
so the business men started la to counter
act this sentiment.
Business men began paying attention to
anything the bualness men out in the state
wanted. Whenever there was a complaint
In the state, the Omaha bualneaa men, the
Commercial club, took It up. Omaha
business men, too, went out and personally
met their customers, and thy started ex
cursions from all over tha state Into
Omaha. They sent the tickets out to tha
business men to come Into town aud see
the houses from which came their goods,
and meet the members of the firm and
visit the Commercial club and have a good
time.
Then followed the Ak-Sar-Hrii, which
means a fall festival similar to the Manll
Ura ia New Orleans, but Omaha did
not seek to get all the glory. That was
not tta idea. I wanted the west to enjoy
the shorn, and so people In NrbiskH,
Iowa, the Black Hills, Wyoming. Mon
tana, and. in fart, in ell the territory cov
ered by Omaha n-.en, were brought tn so
that the man away up in Montana had as
much personal Interest In the success of
the celebration as an Omaha man. Today
It ts the only successful festival In the
country.
While Omaha worked constantly for
building up Its trade, it worked for the
city ttaelf. and the Commercial club and
thA fart that the business men pull to
gether are responsible today for the mag
nificent system of parks, the system of
boulevards and other municipal Improve
ments In Omaha, snd these men are also
responsible for one of the finest audi
toriums In the heart of the I'nlted States,
located In the heart of tha business section.
WILL TIIE SKXATE DAltEf
Battle for Pabllc Relief Transferred
to I piper Honse.
Kansas City Star.
The vote by which the Esch-Townaend
rate bill passed the house 32H to 17 rep
resents nbout the ratio of public senti
ment In Its favor.
The house Is constantly referred to as
the "popular branch of congress." By this
same token the senate may render Itself
unbearably unpopular by rejecting or tink
ering with the act which seeks to protect
tho people agalrst the extortions of the
railroads, although such Intermeddling in
behalf of the "Interests" Is nntlclpated In
the senate, which, hy a mistake in our sys
tem of government, Is removed much far
ther from the force of public chastisement
than are the members of the house.
All of the instincts of true sagacity would
seem to discredit the thought that the
senate will take the "short run" In dealing
with the railroad queation; for, so sure
as It attempts to kill or weaken the rate
bill. Just that sure will the people set their
minds snd hearts on a general movement
Of eviction In the senate and the election
of members of that body by popular vote.
The people are witli President Roosevelt
In his movement, not to "unsettle rates;"
not to "demoralise business;" not to
"spread panic and alarm throughout the
commercial and business world;" not to
question the Just claim of any business
Institution to fair profits, but to challenge
the right of a few big corporations In this
country not to even amass more wealth
than Is coming to them, but to hog all of
the money there Is in the country.
If the t'nlted States senate thinks It
can stand by that sort of a game It Is
welcome to try It. .
PEHfJOMAL MOTES.
Even the oldest inhabitant has r.othlng to
say about old-faohioned winters.
C. A. Orr, the American consul ut Bar
ranqullla, Colombia, reports to the govern
ment that American money is now the
basis for nearly all transactions In Colom
bia. As only six out of 1.500 New York police
men succeeded in qualifying the other day
as revolver shots, it Is evident that the in
nocent bystander In tha metropolis haa a
rough road before him.
Sir Henry A. Blake, governor of Ceylon,
announced at a recent meeting of the
Asiatic society that Singalese medical books
of the sixth century described sixty-seven
varieties of moaquitoea and 424 kinds of ma
larial fever caused by mosquitoes.
Johann Lewaller of Berlin has traced the
tune of "Yankee Doodle" to 177B, at Wasen
burg, the central depot of the Heuslan
troops, employed as mercenaries in the
war of American Independence. Lcwalter
Is an eminent authority on folk songs.
It is rumored In European capitals that
the sultan of Turkey Is dying. The next
heir to the throne Is the present sultan's
younger brother, Reached Bey, whose
health, It is said, has been undermined for
years paat by excessive Indulgence In al
cohol. Dr. L. L. Seamen, who has Just been in
vestigating tha sanitation of tho Japanese
army, says "they go us a million timea
better." He says that but 1 per cent of
sickness is fatal with the Japanese army,
while 70 per cent of the sickness in the
American army during the Spanish war was
fatal.
Some thoughtless critics denounce as ut
terly useless the distribution of congres
sional seeds. But some good springs from
them. They serve to open occasionally
pleasing vistas of domestic peace. One
recipient of congressional goodwill writes
for a second Installment for his wife, say
ing: "Don't send her any canary seed.
That might make her want to sing, and
the Lord knows I have trouble enough with
her now on that score."
A MATTER OF HEALTH
Will Oklahoma Take Waterf
Chicago Chronicle.
If the prohibition clause in the enabling
act under which Oklahoma is expected to
co. lie Into the union works as It la expected
to the sovereign cltlsen of that common
wealth who becomes unduly exalted will
have to depend upon original packages.
There are some privileges which even con
gress can not take away from a man.
PQU0E.I
Absolutely Pure
HAS HO SUBSTITUTE
A MUX TO HKfcU.
Slaiiiflcance of tbe tote oa the Rata
Krgalatlva Bill.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The figures j:'tM7 are a sign that railroad
men will do well to heed. They stand not
only for the vote In the house on the
Townsend-Esch rate bill, but for a public
sentiment that is accurately reflected in
that vote.
Those who . try to deceive themselves
with the notion that this Is not so, thnl
congressmen In their panic misjudged tli
people, should, consider the pecli of Colo
nel Hepburn. The Iowa congressman Is
certainly not hostile to railroads. His own
rate bill proved that. But he tnlked revo
lution. He declared that if the consolida
tion of vast railway systems were to go
on the people would take some means to
thwart them: that the people were alert
to the menace of the concentration of great
wealth, and, in effect, that they fiercely
resented the power that Is exercised by a
few Individuals over transportation and
the markets.
This was testimony from the Eighth
Iowa district by one who had evidently
heard from that district since the begin
ning of the session. And the 13 member
voted1 aa Colonel Hepburn did because they
knew that their constituents were with
them. They spoke the desire of the coun
try, while the minority were but a pinch
out of the delegation of five eastern state.
The question now is whether the public
is to be appeased or goaded into a passion
ate campaign for more radical action. Wise
railroad men will decide for conciliation,
and they would prove their wisdom best
by advocating the passage of the bill by
the senate.
1,1. KS TO A SMILE.
Sawney McGflly D'ye think Sandy Mc
Pherson ts a pious mon does he keep the
8awbath7
Andy Anderson ay, he's a true Scot ho
keeps ilka thing he can git his lian a on!
Cleveland Leader.
Relshaxzur saw the writing on the wall.
"If I tried to remove It. they'd only get
out an injunction," he moodliv remarked.
Profiting hy the example of the future,
he was compelled to believe in bad signs.
New York Sun.
"Yes, my boy's got a poxition in a bank
and he's going o be president of that in
stitution some day." r.
"Kri-ht. eh?"
"Well, sir, he can sign his name so that
no one can possibly make out the signa
ture." Philuoclphla Ledger.
"Oh, you needn't talk,' said rhef 1udlgtiantv
wife. "What would you be today if it
were not for my money? Answer that, will
you?"
"That's an. easy one," replied the heart
less wretch. "I'd be a bachelor." Indian
apolis News.
"Why don't you try to make a name that
will be respected by future generations?"
"My dear sir," answered Mr. Dusttn
Stax, "my vanity does not go so far. I am
content to make a fortune that Is respected
by the present generation." Washington
Star.
Senator Steele Now, the railroads and
coal mining Interests are opposed to this
measure,
Henator Shugar I see.
Senator Steele But. on the other hand,
the packing and manufacturing Intereata
of the country are lti favor of it.
Senator ShugHi And wiiat do the people
think about if.'
Senator Steele The which? The people?
Oh, quit your joking, now. I'm talking
business. Louisville Courier-Journal.
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I viewed her with a kindling eye,
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And fired to freniy tine,
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