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4 THE OMAHA DAILY REE: THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1003. The Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVKRT MORNING. TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION. Pelly Bee (without 8unday). one year. .$f Pally Uee and Sunday. on yar " Illustrated bf. one year Sunday Be, one year K Saturday B. one year J2 Twentieth Century Farmer, one year... DEIJVEREt) BY CARRIER Daily lire (without Sunday). P" '"PV".?? Dally Bee (without Sunday). Pr , " Dally Bee (including Hunday). per weeK. lia Sunday Hee, per copy !" Evening Bee (without Sunday). per week io Evening Bee (Including Sunday). P", week "x ''omplalnts of Irregularities In e,lv" should he addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. . South Omaha-Clty Hall building. Twenty Vth and M street Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago 1640 Unttv building. Jw York 232S Park Row building. Washington )l Fourteenth atreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new" and edi torial matter should be addreaaed: Omaha Bee. 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Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me tbfe 31st day of January. 1906. (Seal) M. ti. HUNGATE. Notary Public. Sullivan and Hearst ought to fight It out with brass knuckles. Judging by the action of Its log-isla-ture the real meaning of that Kansas state motto Is "To the oil through trouble." " e-" Iowa reports a fuel famine, but there Is every reason to believe that coal will arrive before the correspondents' stories are made good. Mandamuslng executive officers to en force law is strictly, original with Ne braska, but In the'end It depends how the executive executes. Delayed receipts of live stock through weather conditions may give packers a chance to attribute high prices to some thing besides an understanding. i Omaha Is so far unique In the United 4 States. N6 "oldest Inhabitant" baa told how much worse tlie weather was in some of the days "before the war."" Everyone Will admit that the United States senate la making an almost un answerable argumeut for the election of senators by direct vote of the people. Residents of the lower Mississippi val ley will probably create a boom in the flatboat building Industry when they hear the predictions of the weather bureau. The Standard OH company has Just declared a dividend of $15 a share and still the Kansas works are shut down "tiecause the company cannot raise money."' There are still a few people with ratchet wheels In their heads and Just now a good many of them may be found hovering about the legislative halls at Lincoln. Russian naval officials seem to be going on the theory that there was blame enough to go around at Port Ar thur and that noue should be given more than his share. At last' there Is some variety in the Missouri continuous performance, al though Mr. Xledrlnghaus will hardly ad mit that It was of the kind said to be the spice, of life. Recent events In the house of rep resentatives would Indicate that a mis take was made is the Initials when it was announced that John L. Sullivan of Boston wanted a fight. It Is announced that the Chinese em peror baa endorsed a plan for a parlia ment of national officials; which may foreshadow the distancing of Russia In the march of progress. ' If all of the crtmes attributed to Jo hann Hoch are proved against him he will carry a heavier load than anything since the last scapegoat waa turned out Into the Judean wilderness. Apparently there was not much ex citement in the republican primaries at South Omaha to . nominate members of the school board. Like the late sena torial election. It was nomination by default While residents of the West Indies will probably be pleased with American interference to atop revolutions, they can be forgiven a proteat when an Amer ican ship carries snow Into Havana har bor as one did this week. " 1 11 The Commercial dnb has once more been called upon to fasten its grappling hooks on the Indian supply depot, but It la an open question whether the depot Is worth fighting for unless it is tuade something more than a warehouse. The office of state architect, which waa created a few years ago without any semblance of constitutional authority, Is to be abolished, If the legislature bss its way. We apprehend the state would not incur any great loss If several other unconstitutional offlven were abolished. PRESIDENT and sty ATE Tlioso who assume that the action of the United States senate lu rcjrard to the arbitration treaties 1ms raised a serious issue between that body and President Roosevelt may And that they misjudge the temper of both the president and the republicans of the senate. We do not believe that there is any disposition on the part of either to create nn Issue be tween the executive and the scunte and It. ia certain that Mr. Roosevelt has no more faithful friends and supporters than some of the senators who, by way of asserting the prerogative of the sen ate as a part of the treaty-making power, voted to amend the arbitration treatlea contrary to the view of the president. However unfortunate may be the ac tion of the senate, since It perhaps killed the treaties. It being understood that the administration will not ask the govern ments with which they were negotiated to ex-hnnge rntlflcatlona, there Is no question that the senate acted within Its rights. This was conceded in the letter of Mr. Roosevelt to Senator Oullom, chuirman of the foreign affairs commit tee. The president said there was no doubt as to the right of the senate to amend a treaty. The question of ex pediency. t least In this particular case, was another matter. These were treat ies of the simplest character, having re lation to minor disputes universally recognized as proper subjects for arbi tration. They were Intended to promote the principle of international concilia tion and advance the cause of universal lieace. Similar treaties have been en tered into by a number of European na tions and they are entirely in line with the long-declared policy of this nation. It Is not apparent that their ratification without the senate amendment would have In the least militated against the prerogative of that body, hut a large ma jority of senators thought otherwise. Washington dispatches say that Mr. Roosevelt will follow out the line of ac tion Indicated lu his letter to Senator Cullom and refuse to exchange ratifica tions with other countries on the treat ies. This may be mere conjecture. The president Is very earnestly in favor of the principle of arbitration mid it is by no means Improbable that in the event of his finding any government with which nn arbitration treaty has been ne gotiated willing to accept It as amended by the senate he will not refuse an ex change of ratifications. So fur hs the talked-of conflict between the president and the senate is concerned, we do not think there Is any substantial ground for It. It can be very confidently asserted that Mr. Roosevelt does not want such a conflict and some of his most earnest and loyal friends and supporters are In the senate. They have disagreed with him in this matter of the treaties, but It by no means follows that they intend a warfare against the administration. CANADA'S RAILWAY REQULATIOX. The Dominion has a system of railway regulation which' it appears works ad mirably. According to a correspondent of the Boston Transcript, Canada's Board of Railway Commissioners has greater power than any other railway commis sion in the world. All railways must submit their rates to the board for ap proval before they can collect either pas senger or freight charges. With respect to the operation of railways the board must be familiar with all apparatus, equipment and appliances, with the ac commodation of trains and the preven tion of accidents, fires, etc. The board also has charge of the supervision of all amalgamation dud traffic agreements. It may limit the speed of trains and provide penalties when they are not pro vided by statute. Its finding of facts binds all courts and In any matter of law It may, of Its own motion, or on motion of any party, state a case for the opinion of the supreme court. Save as thus provided, the decisions of the board are final. The government rail roads arc not subject to the Jurisdiction of the board, the ministry berng respon sible for their operation. Perhaps a system of this kind would not be in all respects practicable In the United States, yet it Is quite possible that some of its features could be ap plied here. At all events the Canadian plan of railway regulation seems to be worthy of attention on thj part of our legislators and an Investigation of It by a committee of congres might yield some useful suggestions There cannot be too much light on the subject of rail way regulation. JAPAN' S POLICY. The Japanese minister to Eugland, Who speaks with authority lu regard to the policy of his country, has recently stated that in the event of Japanese vic tory there will be no claim by that power to privileges in Manchuria that may not be obtainable by all countries on equitable terms. The only peril to the western nations from the success of Japan will be in the greater proxim ity of that country to the field of enter prise In Manchuria. "It may enable our manufacturers," he said, "in some re spects to compete on exceptionally fa vorablo terms, but we surely are not to be blamed if we happen to be geograph ically well placed for trading in our Immediate neighborhood." He declared that Japan will recognize the principle of the open door and that she will en deavor to induce China to open larger centers of commerce to foreign consuls and also to facilitate the exploitation of her great mineral and other wealth. This la lu line with a statement made by the same minister some time ago and indicates that Japan, notwithstanding ber military success, Is possessed by no truculent spirit. The minister Implies that Japan will not even claim the right to bold Port Arthur aud the Llaotung peninsula, which were granted her by the treaty after the war with China and whose forced surrender was the first atep toward bringing on the present hostil ities. There are substantial reasons for believing that Japau would ixt wise in not anuexlug any portion of Manchuria, however Justifiable her claim to do so should she be victorious. It would be necessary for her to be at all times armed to the teeth, to ber detriment In dustrially. On the other hand. If Man churia Is handed back to China It will mean that all commercial countries will be interested with Japan In preventing further Russian aggression. Russia would be barred from the Yellow sen far more effectively than Japan alone could do It. If any reassurance were needed of the moderation of the Japanese policy and of the purpose of that power to fully recognize the Interests of other nations In Manchuria it Is to be found In the latest public deliverance of her diplo matic representative In England, whose authority to speak for his government Is unquestionable. .4.V ECONOMIC CHARTER. In many respects ex-Congressman Strode's revised charter for tho city of Lincoln presents a striking contrast to the Omaha charter now being revised under direction of the charter committee by Mr. Nelson. The Strode charter con templates the election of a mayor, treas urer, clerk, city attorney, city engineer, police Judge, water commissioner, tax commissioner and two members of the excise board empowered to grant liquor licenses, one ward councilman and one councilman for each ward elected at large. Among the officers to be appointed by the mayor are the fire chief and assist ant, Inspector of meats and live stock, city electrician, street commissioner, as sistant street commissioner and building Inspector, and tho excise board appoints the chief of police, police officers and policemen, who are subject also to re moval by the board, while the mayor may appoint special police to be removed at the pleasure of the mayor. The salaries of all city officials under the Strode charter are to be fixed by ordinance, not to exceed the following sums: The mayor, $1,000 per annum; treasurer, $2,000: deputy treasurer, $1,200; assistant treasurer, $000; council men. $300 a year each; city clerk, $1.."00, including the making of the tax list; deputy city clerk, $000; city engineer. $1,800; assistant city engineer, $75 per month: street commissioner, $75 per month: city attorney, $1,800 per annum; deputy city attorney, $1,200 per annum; water commissioner, $1,500 per annum; chief of fire department, $1,800 per annum police Judge, $1,200 per annum; chief of police. $100 per month; captain of police. $.80 per month; policemen, $00 per month: city physician. $(XK) per annum, and said city physician to fur nish all drugs or medicine used In his department free to the city; tax com missioner, $1,200 per annum. It is further provided that If any of ficer absents himself from the city for a period of sixty days or more he shall forfeit his salary during such absence and if absent for ninety days his office may be declared vacant by the mayor and three-fourths of the council. As a postscript It is provided that the emolu ments of no officer whose election or appointment is provided for by this act shall be increased or- diminished during the term for which he was elected or ap pointed and no person who shall have resigned or vacated any office shall be eligible to the same or any appointive office during the term for which he was elected or appointed. Furthermore, no person shall be appointed to any office who is not qualified by practical experi ence for the particular line of duties of his office. Here Is a charter that shonld serve as a model of economy and circumspection. Incidentally It may be remarked that the doctor who accepts the office of health officer under the Strode charter will have no sinecure and no surplus unless he Is running a drug store of his own. rerhaps the most Interesting part of the Strode charter Is this provision: The water commissioner, under the direction and supervision of the mayor and coun cil, shall have control of tho water works and lighting plant, of the city, and of the erection, construction, maintenance and operation of the same, fixing the rates within such limits as may be prescribed by ordinance, to be paid by the inhabi tants of the city for the use of water. No bill or claim for work or material done . or furnished for said system of water works and lighting plant shall be paid or allowed, In whole or in part, except as the same shall have been first approved by the city water commissioner and the water or lighting committee of the council. , The levy, which by the Strode charter the city council of Lincoln will le author ized to make for the water department. for Mater extensions, repairs. Interest, salaries and all supplies In the water department. Is not to exceed In the year lfim the sum of $20,000 add not to ex ceed for any one year thereafter the sum of $7,000 In addition to the collec tions of the department, which would Indicate that the municipal plant at Lin coln Is not expected to be absolutely self-sustaining. But, of course, the water consumption Is comparatively light. A bill to compel millers to stamp on flour and meal sacks the number of pounds in the sack baa been recom mended in the lower house of the legis lature, but stamping the number of pounds on the sack Is no guaranty that the flour sacks will tn the future, aa In the past, contain the number of pounds Indicated on the outside. More bounties are to be voted by the legislature for the killing of wild ani mals. A circus with menagerie attach ments should keep a sharp lookout while passing through Nebraska. Even lions with their claws clipped and teeth ex tracted might pass themselves off as wild animals in order to win the bounty. If the proposed amendment to the revised charter authorizing any three electors to file charges of impeachment against councllmen or other city officers with tho district court, aud" authorizing 4 the district court to suspend the council man or officer pending the bearing of the charges, becomes a law Omaha may find Itself on some beautiful day without a city officer or a councilman. It would be no trouble to find three electors to file charges against one set and three more electors against another to play tit for tat, and a few groups of electors would empty tho city hall. All tilings considered. Nebraska has fared well within the past decade 1n tho contributions of Uncle Sam for jtostoffico buildings. Santa Claus could not have been more generous and If the thing keeps up a few years longer Nebraska congressmen will have no opportunity for postoffice building credit marks. John D. Rockefeller will probably find a coincidence in the fact that the same day that the house of representa tives was not opened with prayer a reso lution was Introduced looking to the In vestigation of the Standard Oil com pany. " Annoying; Dlaobedlenre. Chicago Tribune. If Senator Mitchell's "dear Judae" hail burned that letter. In accordance with In struction, how much trouble might have been saved! Mistake Frequently Made, Philadelphia Ledger. Too-many people have an Idea that there Is no middle ground between government control of Industry nnd Industrial control of the government. Failed to Make Rood. Washington Post. Railroad companies are admitting that they looked upon It as a favor and not as a courtesy when they lHitied passes to cer tain high officials who are now refusing to deliver the goods. Artlatle Job of Jamming. Pittsburg Dispatch. If a bill which passes the house by a vote of 328 to 17 was "Jammed through." as the corporation organs assert. It must at least be admitted that the Jamming was a very thorough bit of work. (beer Rifts the ttlooui. Chicago News. That Russian diplomat who believes that a continuance of Japanese victories can only stimulate Russia to Insst on ultimate success ought to be able to take a cheer ful view of things right along. For Consumers Only. Baltimore American. A lawyer for a coal trust advances the theory that, while all men can stand ad versity, few can stand prosperity; conse quently, the less a man Is paid the more efficient he becomes. The public would be simply delighted to have the Coal trust apply this doctrine to themselves and their own prices. BECI.OIDIVG THE ISSUE. Railroad Managers Purposely Mis State the Rat Question. United States lnvstor. It Is a matter of regret that the railway ratO Question Should be ao (rmunnllv H. clouded as to disguise the true purpose of the president and those who are aligned with him upon this Issue. It appears neces sary to continuously reDeat that the hum. pose Is to regulata rates, not to nx them In general, a8 lne term , uguay understood. To assert that a. body of seven or nine ran. able and experienced men cannot fix rates bb satisiactorlly as the railway officials Is, to . all Intents, begging the question, since they are not to be called upon, to originally determine rates, which business ia left entUely with the railways. But when the railways dlscrimi cltUens. as they notoriously do, and admit aVa. At m . mi mey ao; wnen they proceed In direct Violation Of law to varv from aitnntA wawis i Vila schedules for the advantage of one pro- oucer ana to tho disadvantage of others, and of consumers, and when this defiance of the law of the land renders the law practically Inoperative. It would aeem ni reasonable that the government authorities db in some form clothed with nower to correct tha evils and regulate the rates so inequitably fixed by the railways. Is It unreasonable In these clrcumstmirea to ask that the arm of the government shall be so strengthened that the rights of cltlxens shall be. preserved? to give the properly constituted authority tho requisite power to enforce obedience to the law? Disregard of law. contemnt for ita nrnvl. slons, failure to enforce It, render the law a dead letter and are far-reaching In danger to our system of government. Moreover, the question involves the well belli of the great mass of the people as against the wrongful advantage of a very few, and as such there can be no difference of opinion as to the ultimate outcome. Rate discrim ination must b' finally stopped. In this all but a very few of the less Intelligent railway men are In accord. If the .it. Ing law does not accomplish the end de- sireo it should obviously be changed so that It does. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY CONTROL. National Defense Prompt a Slgnlav raat Movemeat. Philadelphia Press. The announcement some time ago that tha government would take control of wireless telegraphy In this country and Its waters was not generally understood, but It Indicated a wise precaution. The Brltlah government found It necessary to take such action, and an act of par liament was passed for that purpose. The German and other governments have also taken a Ilka course. That waa found necessary because wire less stations cannot well be duplicated In tha ssme field of operation, as It la hardly possible to avoid Interference. It there Is only on station In a place that gives a monopoly, which the. government seeks to avoid. The situation waa Illustrated at Nantucket where the Marconi company had a station to take messages from ships regardless of what apparatus the vessels employ. But the Marconi company refuses to accept any message from a vesael that does not use tha Msrconl system. That was not aatisfact,ory to our government, and a similar course on the part of the Marconi companies In England led to th act of parliament placing control there In th hands of the British. Postofflc de partment. Interference can be overcome to soma extent by "syntony." That I, trans mitters and receivers "tuned" to th same etherlo wave length work together. But If th stations on th coast ar differently syntonised and ships are supplied with different Instruments the work of com municating with such vessels or between stations will be seriously retarded. That would not be to th Interest of th public and should be avoided. To bring about unity In that respect a conference was called by th dermsn government, and another on ia soon to be held to continue the dlscuulon and act on th recommendatlona of th pre liminary conference. That Is s wis course. It should be mad Indispensable on the part of sny coast station that It should communicate with any vessel that may desire to make us of Its facilities, and that end can . only be accomplished by government centrol. IttRRIM AV rRK-KMIF.( r. lalon ParlAe President a (Jreat Power In the Railroad World. The election of Henry II. Rogers and Henry C. Frlck to the directory of the Santa. Fe foreshadows the dominance of the Standard Oil Interests In that corpora tion, and materially extends the power of K. H. Ilarrlman, president of the I'nion Pacific. ."K. H. Harrlman and the Standard Oil lntrre!ts," says the New York World, "have acquired very heavy holdings In the Atchison railroad and will hereafter have an Important Influence In Its management and policy. Some time ngo It was an nounced thst Standard Oil Interests had acquired 20.0CS shares of Atchison stock, and that at a conference nt the home of Mr. Bcrwind. In Newport, It had been ar ranged to give the new Interests repre sentation In the board. "The entrance of E. II. Harrimsn into the affairs of the Atchison railroad estab lishes his position as the railroad man of the greatest Influence In th world. At one time J. Plerpont Morgan occupied such a position but Mr. Morgan In later life has retired to ft great extent from active Con nection with the great railroads. First place now belongs to Mr. Harrlman, who represents the Standard Oil millions, as well as the Interests of a large group of bankers In Wall street and F.urope and In vestors throughout the world. "Mr. Harriman himself, while very rich man. does not personally own a hundredth part of the stock that he controls. He might be called a financial manager of Interests whose stock and bonds run Into the billions of dollars. "Wall street financiers look upon the en trance of the Rockefeller Interests into Atchison as a preliminary step toward the weldhig together in one great section of the railroad systems of the wpst, em bracing Northern Pacific, Oreat Northern, Chicago, Burlington ft Qulney, I'nion Pa cific. Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe. Ore gon Short Line, Oregon Railway and Navi gation. Central Pacific and Illinois Central. "These roads will be controlled by a Joint or rather mutual ownership of stock and will be Just a firmly associated as the three principal systems were combined In the Northern Securities company, whose corporate existence waa terminated by the United States supreme court last year, and whose assets are to be. distributed when the questions at Issue now before the supreme court are finally adjudicated. "Independent of this great system, but closely allied by many financial ties. Is the great Gould system of roads which are Jointly controlled by Oeorge Oould and his family and the Rockefeller Interests. Em braced In this system are Missouri Pacific, International and. Oreat Northern, Texas and Pacific, Rio Grande. Western, Den ver ft Rio Orando and. In the middle west, Wabash and Its various allied systems. "Independent of and aggressively antago nistic to it la the great and growing sys tems of roads controlled by W. H. Moore, J. II. Moore. Daniel O. Reld nnd William B. Leeds. This system Is the Rock Island and controls the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific; Chicago ft Alton. St. Louis & San Francisco, with Its enormous mileage threading the entire southwest and con trolling the St. Louts. Memphis South eastern; St. Louis ft Gulf, the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois, the Ozark ft Cherokee Central and the Sulphur Springs railway. "The Rock Island system has been fur ther enlarged by the acquisition of Choc taw, Oklahoma ft Gulf; Chicago, Rock Island ft Texas; Chicago, Rock Island ft Mexico; Chicago, Rock Island ft El Paso; Choctaw, Oklahoma ft Texas; Chicago, Rock Island ft Gulf; St. Louis, Kansas City ft Colorado, and Houston, East ft West Texas; Houston ft Texas Central, and Houston & Shreveport, making a grand total of over 16,000 miles. "Within the last year th Harrlman in terest, or th Rockefeller Interest, which ever It may be called, not content with its great growth west of th Mississippi, has steadily increased its holdings In the east ern trunk lines until It threatens to be come as formidable her a It is In th west. "Already It has practically acquired a dominating interest in New York Central and- its allied lines, virtually displacing the traditional Vanderbllt control, which has existed since th days of the commo dore. "The growth of th Rockefeller-Harrlman Interest In New York, New Haven ft Hartford, tn Ontario ft Western, in Dela ware, Lackawanna & Weatern, and even In Pennsylvania, has been told from tlm to time. Tho enormous Rockefeller income must find an outlet In the investment world, and, while it has many and diversi fied channels. Its favorite one Is th stock market, whereupon at various times It brings to bear Its enormous Influence for the purpose of acquiring these securities at the cheapest possible price. "Its agents watch with unremitting vigi lance the psychological moment of attack, and when this time arrives Its forces are set to work to destroy public confidence and frighten holders of stook Into throw ing their securities on the market, where they may be gobbled up for th Rockefeller strong box. rER0l, XOTKS. The sultan of Turkey la the only male ruler In Europe who Is a total ahtainrr. Here Is where the cause of temperance refuses to Use an illustrious example. C. A. Orr, the American consul at Bar ranqulIU, Colombia, reports to the govern ment that American money Is now the basis for nearly all transactions In Colombia. A memorial to the late Senator Honr has been suggested by the State House committee of the Massachusetts legislature. The details have not ct been mde public, but It Is thought that a large and suitable monument will be erected, It Is said that Chicago packers have cor nered 45,000,000 eggs In cold storage, while the retailers' stork represents only one egg apiece for the city's inhabitants. There'd be an awful scramble If the corner should be broken suddenly, of course. The eight ambassadors of the German empire In Madrid. Rome. Washington, Constantinople!. rrls. London, St. Peters burg and Vienna are ull members of the nobility. Their emolument are JlVOi'O first three cities mentioned and J3T.50O In the last trvo. James B. Reynolds, who has Just been made Assistant Secretary of the treas ury. Is a prominent newspaper man. As a magnslne, sketch nnd feature writer, Reynolds has a national reputation, and Is recognised ns a story writer of rare ability and merit. About 1500 has been pledged on a tlO.COO atatun of John G. Whlttier, to be erected by the Whlttier Home association. The society held Its annual meeting recently In Amesbury, Mass, and determined to secure the money as soon as possible The plan Is to erect the statue In n public rork. Thirty-five thousand prisoners have fsced Judge Rufus R. Cowing, senior Judge of the general sessions court In New York City, since ho took his seat on the bench In 1877. The Judge, notwithstanding his vast experience In that tribunal, still has an optimist's faith In human nature and holds that crime Is not on the in crease. Johannes A, Oertel, the artist who painted "The Rock of Ages," a picture that has had a very wide popular ap precitllon, is still at work in his studio at Vienna, a little Virginia village, though he Is 82 J tars old. It was In 1867 that Mr Oertel painted his best known picture. while living at Westerly, R. I. A MATTER OF HEALTH i Absolutely Pure HAS HO SUBSTITUTE "There Is no longer any question that these agents were very active last winter depressing tba market, although they were aided by general conditions, such as the enormous borrowings of New York bank ers In Europe, the falling off in general trade, tho decrease In exports, loss of traffic by the railroads through diminished trade, the depression In New England ow ing to the great cotton corner, which par alyzed the spinning Industry, the coal strike and th financial stringency that ocourred at the beginning of the winter, owing to the Inelustin character of the cur rency. "Having depressed stocks to th lowest possible point, these Interests quietly began to absorb the floating supply until their influence has been extended to nearly every railroad in the country of any Im portance, with the possible exception of th Moore and Morgan roads. "It Is not an exaggeration to say that John D. Rockefeller holds stock In every railroad system In tha country, although In many Instances his holdings may b con fined to only a few hundred shares." Palp Trust Seeks a Hoi. Philadelphia Press. It Is only six weeks sine th administra tion instituted proceedings for an injunc tion against tha General Paper company of Wisconsin on ths ground that It waa an unlawful trust and a combination in re straint of trade, and now the news from Appleton, In that state. Is that a new pulp mill combination has been formed and Is to be Incorporated In New Jersey, of course. Is this a schema for circumventing th at torney genera. Reslowed but Hopeful. Minneapolis Journal. President Roosevelt's cabinet hav all r signed, but there will ba no crisis, as b will reappoint them all on March 6. Al most any of us would resign under these circumstances, Just for the feeling of In dependence it would give while signing th document. History Repeals Itself. Indianapolis Nws. Senator Mitchell said of a letter h had written, "Burn thla without fail." A lat lamented American atatesman on another occasion also said of a letter that he hsd written, "Burn this.". It ss not don In cither taa I'OSTAI, REFORMS. Why Certain Needed Improvements Are Denied the People. San Francisco Chronicle. In a petition filed by C. W. Post of Battle Creek, Mich., with President pro tern. Fryo of the United States senate for the expulsion of Senator Piatt of New York from tho senate, the present re lations which exist between the private express companies and the public and the manner In which they are maintained to the financial damage of the latter are shown up. Moreover, It in pointed out clearly that the government's policy of fostering the express companies ' is the reason why tho country has been denied so tar a cheaper and more comprehensive parcels post arid the adoption of the post check currency system, although bills for that purpose have been before congress for years. These express companies, Post truthfully alleges, are collecting annually hundreds of thousands of dollars from the government and the public In excess of Just compensation for the services which they render. He applies for the expulsion nt Piatt because that senator is the president of an express company and has declared that he will vote against the post-check bills, on th ground that the plan, if adopted, will interfere with the business of his corporation. Congress Is undoubtedly responsible for fostering th express companies and aid ing them to carry on a business which should b transacted largely by the Postal department. If we had a parcels post resembling th systems In operation In Great Brltlan and some of the conti nental countries th express companies would be compelled to either abandon th business of parcel carrying or ma terially reduce their rates. In either event the public would be better accom modated and save money. As it Is, the present realtlons between the express companies and th railroads as small carriers and the people are adding from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000 annually to the postal appropriations, without any corre sponding benefit accruing to the public. In ways seemingly Veyond reach of th law? Combination through "community of Interest" Is proceeding rapidly to emhraot nil the great railroad systems, and thla right In the teeth of what I accounted a, great government victory against railway combinations. Is it not about time for ths government to give up this attempt at th impossible, repeal the anti-trust law so far as it applies to railroads, and accept the transportation Industry as monopolistic In Its very nature, which Is the fact? Second. Mr. McCall of Massachusetts opposes national rate control legislation on tho ground that it places too great power over private property in the hands if seven men making up a federal railroad commission. But private Individuals to a number not much greater than this now constitute the actual rate-controllIitR power of the country, against nearly all other property outside of the railroads, whlofei they can Injure and conflacate almost at will. And which Is the more dangerous power that of these few private persons constantly Impelled by selfish Interests to encroach upon tho rights of all other prop erty, or a government commission having no Interest to servo except that of estab lishing Justice and fair dealing between th railroads and their patrons? In view of these facts, well known and generally admitted, of railway combina tion In practical control of half a doson men, thers never was presented In th United States congress or before the peo ple of the country a more ridiculous argu mentan argument less entitled to serious consideration an nrgument so blind to every other side of a great question except one, and that the smaller side than this ono which is echoed by the Winchester congressman. Let us concede the fact of railroad mo-" nopoly, and then let us plac It under close national regulation. floatixg rrx. "Our society." said the prison visitor, "Is anxious to help you. Is there anything you'd like us to secura for you?" "Well," replied the convict, "I would Ilk to have permission t invent a flying ma chine and usa it." Philadelphia Ledger. Janitor's Wife What did that old woman on the sixth floor call you up for? Janitor To call me down. Somervlll Journal. "If you started out to live up to th Golden Rule, and do as you would be done by, what would you do first?" una you iw. voveiana ieaaer. A MIGHTY COMBINE. Control of American Railroads Cen tered In Few Hands. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The two men who hav become Joint directors of tha Union Pacific and Atchison are II. H". Hogers and H. C. Frlck. They belong to what Is known an the Standard oil party, as do Harrlman and the financial Interests back of him. Th same party is strong in the Vanderbllt and Pennsylvania systems, which dominate the trunk-line business. These few men, together with James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan, the Vander bills and Goulds, constitute a power which may fairly be said to make up a compelling authority In the transportation business of th country. Two questions In particular are suggested by this fact: First, of what use are the laws, and prosecutions of the United Statea government which proceed upon the assumption that th railroad buslnesa ad mlta of competition and attempt to enforce it, when competition, so far aa It can pos sibly enter Into th transportation Industry, Is steadily and Irresistibly being ruled out "Do you think that the government will undertake to regulate th railroads?" "I don't know," answered the commer cial traveler. "If It does. I hope it will make some that I could mention get their trains In on time." Washington Star. "Is she a good cook?" 'fine says sha Is." "What do you think about It?" "Well, I've been married long enuiigh ( eat what's put before me ajid never think." Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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