TflE OMAIIA DAILY DEE: FRIDAY. JULY 14. 1903.
Tito Omaha Daily Bee
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WHB.l'0l'T OP TOWS.
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porarily ahoald hao Th Bee
mailed to then. It 14 better thaa
a daily letter from borne. Ad
dress will be chaaaed a ofteat aa
reqaested.
Unfortunately tbe. new Walter Scott
Lad uo Locuinvar to tell of Ills wild ride
out of tlie went
"Tom" Lawson and Attorney Jerome
baring both retired, the Kansas cyclone
again bait the field to Itself.
Congressman Williamson Is another
man who has apparently been guilty of
carelessness in choosing a law partner.
Don't be too impatient. The remedy
Is not to be tipped off until a few mora
numbers of ttie magazine have been
old. '
A. scheme is ou foot to reorganize and
reform the Russian navy. These polite
terms are doubtless used out of respect
to the feelings of the czar.
It seems that Tom Lawson is no more
willing to put bis share back than any
of the other leaders of . the "system"
with whom be bus fallen out.
Since Chairman Morton has decided
to cut salaries of all Equitable employes
obedience to bis injunction of silence
may be more difficult of enforcement
South Omaha is also undergoing its
paving troubles. It is to be hoped our
alster city will get ever them faster
than we In Omaha recovered from ours.
Until deaths from beat cease few peo
ple in New York will be inclined to feel
anything but envy when thinking of Ex
plorer Peary, who has started for the
north pole-
In the printed volume of the Nebraska
session laws. Just Issued, the Dodge
primary law appears under the label of
a bill Introduced by Senator Thomas.
EtilU what's 1n a earner
The Missouri oil inquiry so far shows
that the Standard Oil company cannot
be accused of lacking interest in the af
fairs of its neighbors, even if the inter
est la not always friendly.
The Illinois Central ' may change its
mind regarding the navaglbllity of the
Missouri river wheu a government ap
propriation is needed for riprapplng to
bold some of its tracks in place.
Tha Western Union Telegraph com
pany has rushed into court to prevent
the collection of $ 100.33, assessed
gainst It as city taxes. Some big cor
porations do some very small things.
After the Young Meu s Christian as
sociation hustlers complete their present
undertaking, thy might be pressed into
the service to raise the residue needed
to finish the Auditorium and pay off its
debt.
The refusal of Russian officials to give
the name of the person who shot the
prefect of police, of Moscow would Indi
cate that the germ of treason has
reached circles supposed to have been
Immune.
Russia haa decided not to extradite
the mutineers from Roumaula. At this
distance the requisition plan looked fool
ish, as there appear to be enough revolu
tionists remainlag at borne to keep the
government busy.
Minister Witte twice refused the posi
tion of plenipotentiary of Russia be
f cause he was not to be granted sum
dent power; but what really Is needed
la some power which will prevent St
Petersburg diplomats from evading the
Uftt of the agretment when made.
TUB K1CLVSI0X ISSVB AQAIH-
It is not easy to see why there should
have been any misunderstanding of the
nieanliig of President Uoosevelt's recent
order la regard to the enforcement of
the Chinese exclusion act. It seemed to
be very clear and explicit in Its direc
tions to the Immigration authorities, who
were instructed to exercise greater care
In respect of those Chinamen who are
exempt under the law, but to rigidly ex
clude all laborers. Some, however, hav
ing given the order a broader interpre
tation, to which the attention of the pres
ident has been called by representatives
of organized labor, Mr. Roosevelt has
again stated his position. This Is that
all Chinese laborers shall be excluded, as
required by the law, while those having
properly attested certificates as mer
chants, students or travelers shall be ad
mitted to this country. In the course of
the conference with the labor leaders the
president said be was determined that
the diplomatic and consular representa
tives of the United States in China
should perform their duties thoroughly
and impartially and that the law as to
the issuance of certificates to the mem
bers of the exempt Chinese classes
should be complied with absolutely.
This should dispose of the matter so
far as the administration is concerned
and undoubtedly the position of the pres
ident, which was entirely satisfactory to
the representatives of organized labor
who conferred with hlm will be very
generally approved. There are some of
our people who would not object to a re
stricted Immigration of Chinese laborers.
This Is Indicated In the letter of the pres
ident of the Portland Chamber of Com
merce to Mr. Roosevelt, suggesting the
admission during the next ten years of
a number of male Chinese laborers that
in any one year shall not exceed one-
tenth of one jer cent of the population
of this country. Perhaps there are south
ern planters who would like to obtain
such labor. But the practically universal
sentiment la opposed to the bringing In
of the coolies of China and it is to be ob
served that the Chinese government docs
not object to their exclusion.
It is a very different matter, however,
In regard to merchants, students and
travelers, which classes the law exempts
and whose coming here is a benefit to
the country. It is manifestly desirable
that Chinese merchants shall Investigate
our industrial and commercial condi
tions. They are far more likely to buy
from us after they have done so and
moreover they return to their country
with Information to be imparted to other
merchants that may be greatly helpful to
our commerce. So as to the other classes
the knowledge they acquire here will be
to our advantage. That has been the ex
perience and must continue to be. It is
therefore manifestly a grave mistake to
keep such persons out of the- country.
Rather should we. In our own interest,
welcome them and give them every en
couragement to Investigate conditions
here. The more familiar they become
with these the more friendly; they are
likely to be, and therefore better cus
tomers. We cannot hold their friendship
or win their patronage unless we aban
don a policy of unjust discrimination
that disregards our own laws. !
President Roosevelt has taken the
right position in this' matter and will
have the hearty support of a very large
majority of the American people.
THE RUSSIAN EXY0Y8.
The strong home opposition against the
appointment of M. Muravleff aa a peace
plenipotentiary forced him to resign the
position and led the czar to accept his
resignation, which evidences that public
sentiment has some weight with the au
tocrat of Russia. The appointment of M.
Witte as the leading Russian envoy is
regarded as most favorable to peace, be
having been Identified with the anti-war
party and now prominent among those
who believe that the war should end. He
is one of the ablest men In Russia, hav
ing been long conspicuous In public life,
and at least in recent years haa not been
In accord with the element from which
the czar selected his advisers. For some
tfme, therefore, be was in disfavor, but
events have operated to restore him to
the confidence of Nicholas, if not to that
of the bureaucracy, and the appointment
of chief peace plenipotentiary, with ple
nary powers, confers upon him the high
est honor.
M. Witte and Baron von Rosen, the
latter ambassador to the United States,
will give intelligent and loyal devotion to
the Interests of their -country in the
peace conference and nothing they may
do, it can confidently be assumed, will
detract from the honor and dignity of
Russia. Both desire peace and their se
lection as envoys carries with it the as
surance that Emperor Nicholas is in
hearty sympathy with their view. The
appointment of M. Witte will revive con
fidence in the early ending of the war in
the far east
lxsiHASCE salaries
Mr Morton has done what was ex
pected in reducing Equitable society sal
aries. That company led all others In the
amount paid iu executive officers, which
according to the Prick report w as iliH,
5U a year. In addition- to this a very
large sum was paid to employes, the sal
aries of many of these being excessive.
It Is stated that the reductions made will
effect saving ot from i 150,000 to luo,
UuO a year.
The example thus set may hare a sal
utary influence upon other companies
which may be paying extravagant sal
aries. A materlaljtem in the cutt of life
Insurance in this country is that of sul
arles and it is the Judgment of those fa
miliar with the subject that the Ameri
can people have been paying too much
for the administration of their life insur
ance. They have been paying far more
than the people of any other country. It
is stated that in Uermany industrial In
surance, always the most costly to carry
on, is administered at percentage of
cost to total income of about 7. while the
lrventage of expense to income of the
leadlug companies of the United States
ranges from II to 30 and la the case of
Industrial companies is ss high as SO per
cent Can there be any question that the
cost of management of American com
panies is excessive?
In the Frlck report on the Equitable it
was declared that life insurance Is a
sacred trust and Its Ideal Is to -furnish
perfect protection at the lowest possible
cost. This view, however, has not con
trolled the policy of some of the com
panies. Nearly 10 per cent of the total
disbursements of all life Insurance com
panies represent salaries and medical
fees, while about 17 per cent of the total
disbursements Is for commissions In se
curing business. Reform Is urgently re
quired in these items of life insurance
expenses and there Is reason to believe it
will come.
TUB 8 AXE OLD TACTICS.
That the railroads pursue no different
tactics In evading regulative legislation
in Nebraska than they do elsewhere Is
exemplified by what has just transpired
in two not distant states.
Down In Missouri the railroads have
Just secured from United States fed
eral court a' temporary injunction re
straining the state officers from enfor
cing or attempting to enforce a maximum
freight rate law enacted by the last Mis
souri legislature. The Interesting part of
the allegations set up by the railroad at
torneys is that the rate schedule pre
scribed in the new law would be prohibi
tive and would amount to a confiscation
of their property. That certainly has a
familiar sound to' those who recall the
petitions and arguments advanced by the
railroads when they secured the nullifica
tion of the Nebraska maximum freight
rate law by federal court injunction.
Equally interesting is the case which
has Just been submitted to the Illinois
Railway and Warehouse commission, in
stituted by shippers demanding a read
justment of local freight tariffs Imposed
by the railroads of that atate. After
having joined issue and denounced the
demand for reduction as unwarranted
and unjust, the railroad representatives
effected a compromise with the Chicago
Shippers' association by granting relief
to Chicago alone and Inducing the Chi
cago shippers to withdraw from the suit.
leaving the interior towns to hold the
sack. At this point however, the game
seems to have slipped a cog because the
Railway and Warehouse commission re
fuse to quash the case notwithstanding
the withdrawal of the Chicago end, who
had been bought off, and overruling all
objections has taken the testimony and
arguments under consideration, promis
ing a decision at an early day. When
the decision comes, should it be In (he
form of a new and reduced rate sched
ule, the railroads may be depended upon
to take the case' into the courts and pro
ceed further by the injunction method.
The action of the Nebraska railroads
In tying up the 1904 taxes levied upon
their property by federal court injunc
tion is too recent to need relating. No
one would be at all surprised to find
tbem fighting the payment of taxes for
the current year In the same manner be
fore the time they become delinquent
Yet in the face of all this the railroad
magnates profess to be astonished and
amazed at the growing antagonism to
their methods on the part of shippers
and consumers. While pursuing a policy
calculated to stir up popular resentment,
they imagine they can by paid literary
bureaus create a public sentiment favor
able to a continuance of their unre
stricted license. Is it not about time for
the railroads to consider seriously
whether It is not advisable to 'Change
their tactics?
A delegation should at once be ap
pointed to wait on Governor Mickey and
get blm to call out the naval reserves
to reopen navigation on the Missouri
river, blocked by the stubbornness of
the man behind the Illinois Central
drawbridge.' An open channel must be
mnlntalned at the port of Omaha at
all hazards, even to the summoning of
the battleship Nebraska and a regiment
of horse marines. .
It is Interesting to note that the re
doubtable Bob Clancey, having wiped out
the west half of the Union Pacific bridge
between Omaha and Council Bluffs for
the purposes of taxation, haa been over
to Des Moines trying to wipe out the
east half as well. It remains to be seen
whether the bluff will go with the gover
nor of Iowa better than It did with the
governor of Nebraska. .
The issue of a call for the thirteenth
annual convention of the National Irri
gation congress 1 doubtless intended to
remind us that the quest for additional
congressional appropriations for irriga
tion projects Instead of being ended by
the enactment of the Irrigation law has
been only begun.
Nebraska has again claimed attention
at the Vatican with the now -famous
case of the bishop of Lincoln. The
further the case goes the more it dem
onstrates the wisdom of our Nebraska
supreme court in deciding to keep Its
hands off.
Senator Depew'a statement that the
Depew Land company loan la good In
vestment for the Equitable would be ac
cepted more readily if the report of the
receiver advised the operation of the
concern.
Sooth I Isluroiallea,
Detroit Free Press. ,
Messrs. Fairbanks. Shaw and 7"ormker
have nothing to fear from th new secre
tary of state at this period in the proceed
ings. J( KoTrlty la Wls Storsaa.
Indianapolis News.
Still. Mr. Lawson should not be dis
heartened If his reception In th Sunflower
stat was not up t expectation. Kan
aans have become so accustomed to wind
storms that they attract little attention.
Bootlo I p Preerdrat.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican
Facts for th new secretary of stat to
consider: Only twlc in It history has
the republican party taken Its presidential
candidal from aa eastern state, and then
It was voce defeated. 11 baa never taken
two candidates ucvlvly from th east,
and no party In the whole history of the
country haa ever succeeded In electing
candidate from New Tork state twice In
succession.
Good PaylMa- rollcy.
Nw Tork Trlbun.
A larara number of person In responsible
places whose practice has shown that they
did not believe In the old copybook maxim,
Honesty Is the beat policy." ra gradually
learning by experience that, after all. there
la more wisdom In It than they thought
Tboae Who Owa Kaaaaa.
LMvenworth Times.
"Th Devlin smashup haa developed th
fact that th Santa Fe railroad still owns
th tat of Kansas," says a Nebraska
contemporary. Not exactly. The Santa Fe,
of course, owa Its share, but the state
I really prorated among the several rail
road corporations which do business In
Kansas.
Rsiala'i Los la Treatsre.
Philadelphia Record.
Since the war began Russia has drawn
down Its treasury balance 451,000,000 rubles,
used up a special war fund of 140,000,000,
and borrowed 1,710,000,000 rubles, showing
that tile war has been costing It about
6,000,000 rubles tCKO.OOO dally. At the be
ginning of the war It explained that Its
ownership of the Siberian railroad and a
fleet of transports would enable It to carry
on war with very little more than peace
expenditures.
Precedents Dlsreararded.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Th record is now revived for the express
benefit of Mr. Root that Webster, Blaine,
Seward and Sherman found that the State
department la not an infallible stepping
stone to the presidency. But It Is to be
remembered th.it this administration 1s not
bound by precedents. It Is not so long
since a good many people thought that a
vice president who had been made presi
dent by the death of bis predecessor could
not be elected for another term.
Cvttlnsr Oat the "Pall."
New Tork Evening Post.
President Roosevelt's order forbidding offi
cers of the army or navy to seek promo
tion through '-pull," social or political. Is
explicit and wholesome. If lived up to, It
will do much to Improve discipline, and
to relieve tha authorities from irksome
solicitation. It Is a sound principle which
the president lays down In saying that
any officer who seeks "recommendations"
or "support," except that of his own rep
ord, should be debarred from promotion.
I ?f TEH. NATIONAL, RAIL POOL.
Steel Master Erecting a Trade Feaee
Aronnd the World.
Philadelphia Press.
An International steel rail pool, giving to
American makers North and South America
and to Europe all the rest of the world
may or may not exist- It Is reported. It
awaits proof. ,
If It exists It Is more consonant with
European practice than with ours. Com
petition In steel remains here. It has dis
appeared' In Germany. Twelve years ago
the first syndicate in ore, coal, coke. Iron
and steel was organized. Its annual re
ports show that It controls 94 per cent of
the output. Its members take their prices,
their orders and their allotment from its
headquarters. .
Where the United States Steel corporation
controls about CO per cent of the output
here this German steel syndicate controls
all but per cent fvithln five years
new International agreements have been
made. They began with , elgtum. They
extended to Russia, France and Italy. They
cover the continent.. Of late English works
have come in singly, though not as a whole.
Practically, Germany holds the continent
and England trad" without, with Germany
yearly taking a larger share of the world s
trade In Asia, Africa and South America.
An International agreement would nat
urally follow. Quicksilver has been con
trolled by one for nearly thirty years. ' An
agreement In oil between the Standard and
the Russian oil syndicate has existed for
over' a decade. Ocean cable-laying la the
subject of an International syndicate. One
In the North Atlantic carrying trad can
not be far distant.
But while tl,ls step Is natural to the
European steel makers the American steel
making corporations will enter an Interna
tional steel agreement parceling out the
world at the grave risk of periling the
home market. This market Is now pro
tected by a duty, constantly attacked.
Once let It be clear that the Steel trust
and the other steel rail producers are par
ties directly or Indirectly to an agreement
as to territory, in dealing with the world's
trade, and It will becom difficult, if not
impracticable, to defend this duty. It may
even be ruthlessly abolished In a sudden
spam of popular indignation, aa was the
duty on quinine. '
These things should be soberly consid
ered before any International pool is
formed.
FCTCWB OF Rl'RAL DELIVKRT.
Coaveatenee Sare to Come Time
Move Os,
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
We are never more proud of the middle
west than when the semi-annual reports
of the Poatofflce department tell us, as they
are bound to do. that we lead all the other
sections of the country tn th matter of
rural postal routes.
The rural population of the middle west
would not now know bow It could possibly
get along without Its gate boxes. It cannot
realise, no matter how hard It may try,
how It ever did get along In the days when
It bad to depend for Its letters, newspapers,
circulars, almanacs, samples, and bills
upon the disposition of the head of the
house or on of the boys to ride to the
postoffice.
Sometimes the roads were bad. Some
ttmea. though not often, the temper of the
head of the house was bad. Sometimes the
boy who was sent In for the mall was
bad. Sometimes the malls that were sent
for never came, because either the heaJ
of the house or the hired man or the
boy lost them on the way. or read the let
ters and decided that they were not good
for the family, or lent the papers to a
neighbor, who forgot to return them.
But now all this Is changed, and our
own Illinois continues to be the banner
state among the middle western-states for
the number of Its rural free delivery
routes, as well as th Intelligence ot the
people who are served thereby.
There Is not a rural district In this state
that doea not feel aa If It could keep the
carriers busy on a large number of addi
tional routes. This Is due to the increasing
demand for elevating literature and sam
ples from th renters of commerce.
When the husbandman or the housewife
can sit down and, by touching a
button, so to speak. have all that
Is bright and entertaining and en
lightening In literature, and all that I up
lifting In samples and portable In th way
of household necessities, dispatched to the
farm gate. It Is plain that the facilities by
which all this Is accomplished cannot be
too gTeatl yenlarged or Improved. ,
The time la coming when every rural pos
tal box will have a telephone and wireless
telegraph connection, and It Is far from
bring a dream to predict that the day, or
rather the evening. Is coming when, after
the strenuous hours of labor on th farm
ar over, the farmers family can gather
around the rural box and listen to elec
tions from th Thomas orchestra. p)ae
at the expense rf th government, upuu tbe
deparin.cDt phonograph.
DAVID IIRSDEROVS LAST DATS.
Former Speaker of tbe lloas Wars
Oat la Ilody aad Mind.
Victim of a slight strok ot paralysis, a
warning of his last days, worn and bent,
broken and disappointed in body and mind,
a mere shadow ot his former self, Hon.
David B. Henderson Is walling for th last
summons at his horn In Dubuque, la.
Three years ago, says a correspondent ot
the Chicago Inter Ocean, this wan and
faded man was a leader in the nation.
speaker and -CEar" of the national house
of representatives, ruling that turbulent
body with a gavel that In his band was a
a rod of Iron. For twenty years he had
been one of Its most popular members, as
well as most potent. Then h had been
called to the speakership; and then, at the
summit of power, when his word made
and unmade laws and policies and men,
when the nod of his head or the beck of
his hand was aa the sway of a ruler'
scepter, he fell.
David Bremner Henderson Is today one of
the wrecks on the shore ot the ocean of
politics. The current that cast htm ashore
haa swept on, and he haa already been
forgotten. His Is one of the most solemn
tragedies of American politics In th laat
generation. Three year ago there were
tens of thousands of peopls who regretted
that the accident of birth In Scotland made
him Ineligible for consideration as a presi
dential possibility. Today he Is struggling
against failing health, lost to the great
activities to which he was so long and so
large a part, and even the memory of them
fading out of his mind.
David B. Henderson probably could not
under any circumstances have made good a
claim to eminence tor statesmanly quail
ties. He was rather the finished politician
than the statesman. But he represented as
no other of his generation the type of pub
lic man that came with the close of the
civil war. He was a gallant soldier, win
ing his way to command of a regiment.
He became a lawyer and a politician. He
was the very prince of good fellows, and
good fellowship was both the making and
the unmaking of him. It made him legis
lator, congressman, speaker, bon vivant
and the friend of every man, of whatever
party. In national publlo life.
As speaker of the house General Hen
derson's views of public questions naturally
were of Immense concern to the country.
He was determined in his opposition to in
terfere with tho tariff. In Iowa, and espe
cially in his home district, there was a
rising tide of Insistence on tariff modifica
tion. The Immovable determination of the
speaker clashed with the Irresistible force
of home sentiment. Constituents petitioned,
and their petitions were ignored. The once
genial and kindly Henderson had been
spoiled by power, his friends said. Not only
did he snub his constituents, but he got
Into the habit of writing letters, lectur
ing them, in no mild tone, for their pre
sumption. And tho American voter doesn't
like to be scolded by the man for whom he
votes.
Relations between the speaker and his
constituency became more and more
strained. The country at large knew noth
ing of It- Henderson was supposed still
to be the idol of the district that for two
decades had regularly returned him. He
himself sadly failed to understand the ex
tent of the forces of disaffection. County
after county was organized against him.
When It was too late he learned the truth.
The speaker of the house, the ruler of
the commons, must either reverse himself
before the whole country or be forced to
go' back home and make a hand-to-hand
light for his renomlnation.
It was no in the sturdy Scotch make-up
of Dave Henderson to do either. He came
back home, arid looked over the district.
He learned that his enemies, or some of
tLem at least, were preparing to make a
bitter assault on his private life and per
sonal character. The revelation came with
crushing force and suddenness. He went
back to Washington, and from there sent
to his constituency a bitter telegram de
claring that he would not stand for re
nomination. He would give up his seat
in congress and his assured re-election as
speaker rather than give In.
It was a national sensation. All kinds
of explanations were offered. None of
them told the whole truth; none haa ever
been printed that told the whole facts.
Probably none ever will be.
The speaker retired from public life, and
the country outgrew its wonder. He went
to New York and capitalized his political
power Into a partnership In a great law
firm. But he did not succeed. He was
too old to recover from such a blow a
had been dealt. "They move too fast for
me," he said regretfully to a friend from
home. "I'm too old to catch step with
this procession. I'm afraid It'll run over
me."
He spoke both literally and figuratively,
for a vicious old wound, the result of
having a leg shot oft In the war, had again
broktp out and was giving' him constant
trouble. So he returned to Dubuque, to his
old friend and scenes, intent on settling
down to practice law once more as a
member of the old Dubuque firm of which
his name had stood at the head during
all his years of congressional service.
But it was too late. His health had
broken and his interest tn things could not
be brought back. Last fall he went, with
his wife and daughter, to California to
spend the winter. Although he is 'only 05
years old. his magnificent constitution was
broken down. He returned home no
stronger not so strong, his friends say.
The brightness had gone from his eye; tit
firm, commanding tone from his voice; ino
aggressiveness from his manner. His wife
and daughter are his constant companions
and attendants. One day is like another.
The little news of the outside world and Its
great activities which filters in to blm In
terest him llttl.
"We must leave It to the boys down In
Washington," he said when effort was
made to get his views on public issues. "I
guess In the end they'll do about what U
right." This was as much as he cared to
say about publlo questions. Even his In
terest in the great things that had one
been as the breath of life to him was gone.
It la a pathetic ending to a career that at
Its highest point only three years ago
brought this man within, sight of the most
exalted rewards that American public men
can euro.
GIvlaaT Klteet to Utah Ideal.
Baltimore American.
The president says that men of wealth
who run their business with a. cynical con
tempt for the restrictions of law ar a men
ace to the community, and that the na
tion Is in need of high Ideals. A very good
way to establish these high Ideals would
be to put into Jail a few of the prominent
offenders guilty of this menacing contempt.
Ideals cannot be established and main
tained without action, and vigorous action
at that. There la now a good chanc to
bring this contempt to book and mak th
law restricting the selfish operations ot
great wealth and greed raoro than a mere
ded letter.
Fact to Tklak A boat.
St. Louis Republic.
In these days It Is worth while to tak
a few minutes off for cool reflection on th
statistical fact that nlnety-iiin banks out
of a hundred are hontMily and saftly man
aged; that every well known lnsuranc
company pays Its los-e; that th average
man can travel a lifutlrn without even
seeing a railroad accident. Lest w forgtl
and cut 4I wur bwae V s.t oux fa
JIST RETRIIItTIO.
Cheek to f'orporatloa Chartered la
Os Stat to Tvr t poo Otkera,
Philadelphia Record.
Turn about I fair play; and nobody whoa
elf-lnfereat does not dlspos Mm to the
contrary will doubt th falmes ef th
retaliatory proceedings adopted by om of
th states by wry f protecting them
selves against th corporal vulture
created under th laws of Nw Jersey.
Delaware, South Dakota and other states
and territories for th purpose of preying
on th country at targe. Th decision of
the supreme court of Kansas, rendered th
other day, whereby an Interdict of outlawry
wa practically pronounced against th
Kansas Natural Das company, a Delaware
corportlon conducting operations In th
former state, will be generally regarded aa
an act of Just retribution. Th company
wa debarred from carrying oa business or
holdina anr sntMrlv In Kansas and from
oonduotlng operation of any description
merein; ana thi nepit tn ract tnat it
had Invested several millions of dollars In
laying pip lines In Kansas.
The business of creating corporations
authorised to do In other commonwealths
that which they ar forblddan to do In th
stat under who laws they were organ
ized is likely to receive a serious setback
If this decision shall be sustained In the
federal supreme court, to which an appeal
will doubtless b taken. Tb utter shame
lessnes with which some of the states ad
vertise the degradation of their sovereign
powers to mercenary use Is astounding.
From a legal periodical of recent date the
following delectable "ads" have been culled.
It should be premised that Delaware and
West Virginia had underbid New Jersey
for business bv absolvlnr eornoraflons fron.
some of the restrictions contained In the
law or the latter state; for Instance, the
requirement that at least one Incorporator
and one of the directors should be a resi
dent of the stat of creation. But South
Dakota goes Its predecessors In business
one better, holding forth th following In
ducements: y
"Incorporate In South Dakota. Cheapest
cost, most liberal law. No capitalization
tax, no annual tax, no license fee. Di
rectors and stockholders' meetings not re
quired to be held In state. Personal liabil
ity limited. All the privileges, advantages
and protection of any state and at less
cost than others. Resident corporators
furnished and domiciliary offlc maintained
at low rates."
But Arizona i outdoes them all hv th
announcement of this attractive program:
"Incorporate under Arizona laws. Most
liberal corporation laws In the United
oiaies. iso rranchlse tax or exorbitant
fees. Private property exemnt from .it
corporate debts. Par of stock made any
amount. No limit of caDltallcation tttu
Is nonasseseable for any Duron. Nn
amount of stock required to be subscribed.
o state control. No state examination of
books. Legislature can't reneal our rh.
ter. Keen offlc and An h..
w uuoiiiva, our-
where."
If there be any lower depths to which
the legislative powers of a sovereign com
monwealth FOtlld he dehaaed ..ia v-
- . . wuu.u i 'a
difficult to conceive the possibility thereof.
Here is a community which orrera tn
corporate pirates and set them loose on
omer communities absolved from the
slightest legal restraints. Then I
ated pirates are not even under the con-
eiraini ta nooee or rope at the end of a
yard arm) which the law of n.tin.
upon the unincorporated pirates who sail
the ocean tinder the Jolly Roger. Our up-to-date
Incorporated land buccaneers claim
Immunity from the restraining i.-.- .v-
states, whose hospitality they abuse, by
" provisions of the federal con
stitution which secure to the citizens of
each stat all th privileges of citizens In I
iu sister states, it remains to be seen
howvr. whether the United States su
preme court will hold that an Incorporated
citizen" of Delaware may commit high
way robbery, for Instance. In Kansas and
go unpunished and unrestrained because the
laws of the former state i ...
-uuivilSQ lis
creatures to commit robbery beyond IU own
err-tor.., limits. Surely this is not the
Intent of the Interstate comity and reci
procity clauses of the federal constitution.
MERCENARY AGITATION.
Bo.toa'a Stock Pl..g.r lm lh. pie-
or a Reformer.
Chicago Chronicle.
The modern fad of revlMna- and iik.ii
wealth and enterprise has developed agi
tators of many different kin.
Thomas W. Lawson belongs the odious
distinction of being th only on who Is
actuated simply by a mercenary desire to
work the stock market.
We have agitators who hiin. na
- - m
after notoriety only, agitators who yearn
for office, for place and for power, agita
tors who are fanatlcaUy deluded by some
old or new "Asm" which thev bona ta . .
upon the ruins of th republlo and a glut or
wno are agitators because thty are carried
away by tbe xuberano of their own ver
bosity, but Thomas W. Lawson I tha only
one who pillories a whole nntinn i ...
seinsh hope that he can start a panlo In
stocks from which ho mav K. .1.1. .
emerge with a great fortune to hi credit.
it is baa enough In all conscience for
such a man to assail the foundation. e
credit and industry for a paltry prospect
of personal gain, but when, as was the ease
on Saturday In Kansas, he also advocates
revolution and bloodshed It would appear
to be time for decent men to trace hi, rav
ings to their source and to judge them as
they deserve to be judged.
A deferated and disappointed stock Job
ber, consumed with envy and rancor, Is
hardly tbe man successfully to arraign en
masse the official representatives of the
people of the United States. -
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Sixty years of experience with Ayer's Sarsa
pirilla! Think of that! Think of the millions
of people who have been cured by this medicine !
If despondent, down-hearted, discouraged, and
almost ready to give up, this splendid old family
medicine will prove the silver lining to your
dark and dismal cloud. Ask your doctor.
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pkhioihl son:.
M. Combes, recently rremler of Frsn.-,
ha returned to the practice cf tnedl.i:
la bis native villas. II I a physician.
Ml Resal Pln. who lives on a M'-it
near Cbatham, N. T., haa been appoln-t
an overer of highways In her dlstri
Mis I iin declare h will that tl.a
work I wr'.l done.
Three editor aspire to the ?mo-rti,a
nomination for governor of Oeorgla. They
are Ilnke Smith, who was at on time st
the head of the Atlanta Journal; Clark
Howell of th Atlanta Constitution and
J. H. Estill, editor of th Savannah New.
Charles Henry Treat, who became United
States treasurer several days ago. Is a
direct descendant of Robert Treat, who for
thirty-two years was deputy and royal
governor of the colony ot Connecticut. Mr.
Treat lived for a number of yeara In Dela
ware and later In Maryland before moving
to New Tork,
It Is pointed out that John Hay. In di
recting our legations and consulate to u
the designation "AmerlcsuV had the srreat
authority of Washington In th farewell
address, where be said: "The name of
American, which belongs to you In your
national capacity, murt always exalt tl.a
Just prid of patriotism. "
Mrs. Hugh Fraser of New Tork, who hn
done much In the way of charity for Japa
nese widows and orphans. Is to be In
vested by th Japanese empress with t:
Order of the Crown. She sails this we.
for Japan to remain until next spring. Ft
la a sister of Marlon Crawford, the nov.
ellst, and a niece of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
Harold A. LOring of Portland, Me., hs
received an appointment from the eerte
tary of the Interior as supervisor of native
Indian music. Mr. Lorlng has passed om
time among the Sioux Indians of the Rr -bud
Indian reservation In South Dakota,
becoming much Interested In the Indians
and their music. His new duties will tnki
him among the various reservations of th
Indians In the west.
LAIGHINO GAS.
Friend When are you going to tak your
vacation?
Mr. Meckun I'm taking It now. My wife
and daughters are at the seaside. ChU-aga
Tribu-.
Mother Mabel, that young man kii
you twlc to my knowledge; I don't know
how many times be kissed you after that.
Mabel Neither do 1, mother. I never was
good at mental arithmetic Philadelphia
Press.
"Dear, dear," clucked Mrs. Hen en re
turning to her nest after an afternoon s
foraging tour In the barnyard. "I wonder
where that egg Is that was here when I
left."
"Perhaps you mislaid It." remarked th
spring chicken. Chicago Journal.
"Did It ever occur to you that news Is
Ilk an err?"
"Full of meat, you mean?"
"No; If It' bad It should be broken
gently." Philadelphia Ledger.
It Isn't always possible to Judge how
popular a man was when he was living ty
the number of hacks In hi funeral pre
cession. Somervillo Journal.
"Look at that messenger boy crawling
ainng mere.
"Yes, with the Inevitable dime novel, too.
I wonder what those things ar published
for, anyway?"
"I guess It's so that those who are sup
posed to run may read." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Fond Papa But look here, you're not
able to tak care of my daughter properly.
if I should give her to you. And 1 can t
support both of you.
brav ttuitor on, no, sir l don t ask you
to. It will be all right If you'll Juft sup
port her I'm used to grubbing for myself.
Cleveland Leader.
A WESTERN EPITAPH.
A gun that was hot
And a deck that was cold;
A hana taut was. not
. What a player should hold;
A word that was quick
And a "draw" that was quicker:
A date on a stick
Same old story. Let's liquor!
Philadelphia Ledger.
THE ORIGINAL DIXIE.
Louisville Herald.
I wish I was In the land r cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten.
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie
land!
In Dixie land, whar I was born In,
Larly on one frosty mornln'.
Look away, look away, look away. Plirl
land.
CHORUS.
Den I wish I was In Dixie.
Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie land I'll took my stand,
To lib and die tn Dixie!
Away, away, away down South in Plxi"!
Away, away, away down South In Dixie!
Old Missus marry "Will de weaber,"
William was a gay deceaber,
Look away, look away, look away, Dili
land.
But when he puts his arm around 'er.
He smiled as fierce a a forty-pounder.
Look away, look away, look away, Dixi
land.
His tac was as sharp as a butcher's
cleaber,
But dat did not seem to greab 'er.
Look away, look away, look away. Dixit
land.
Old Missus acted the foolish part.
And died for the man dat broke her heart
Look away, look away, look away, Uixii
land.
Now here s a health to the next old
Missus,
And ail the gals dat want to kiss us.
Look away, look away, look away. Dixit
land.
But If you want to drive away sorrow.
Come and hear die nig tomorrow.
Look away, look away, look away, Dixit
land.
Dar buckwheat cake aad Ingen batttr
Make you fat or a llttl fatter.
Look away, -look away, look away. Dixit
land.
Den h go It down and scratch your graft
ble. To Dixie's land I'm bound to trabble.
Look away, look away, look away. Dixit
land.
" u CtR-FwZuaaa4ar.