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E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Slate of Nebraska, Douglas County, a.:'
C. C. Roue water, secretary of Tne Bee
Publishing company, belne 4ul sworn,
says that the actual numhef ot full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Be printed during
the month of December, 1903, was as fol
low;
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2...
I...
4...
81.A40
U.TsO
80,0120
SlBO
17
. .30,020
. .81,820
. .31,770
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19
10
i 31.TKO
81,W0
7 83,lAO
f 81.SOO
t 82,BM
19 80,150
11 31,40
12 81,TSO
IS Bl.OftO
14 81,860
15.... v 81.T80
22 83,100
28 nU.lteJO
24 30.0B0
25 81,780
26 33,210
27 82,010
28 82.OO0
2 31.H40
30 82,910
21 .....80,150
U 83.T10
Total BS3.04O
Leas unsold copies . 10.SOS
Net total sales 871,833
Dally average 81.348
C C. ROSEWATER,
Secretary.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 81st day of December, 1900.
(Seal) M. B. HUN'JA I'E,
Notary Public,
WHEN OIT OF TOWS.
Subscriber tearing the city tem
porarily should hT The Be
mailed to them. Addreaa will be
chanced oftea ava requested.
According to those resolutions the In
clination of the Independent telephone
people toward Omaha Is not to speak aa
they pass by.
Moroccan tribesmen are adding their
arguments to the plea for international
Intervention In Morocco; but. probably
they do not know It.
The opening of the Nebraska guber
natorial contest is evidently not to be
delayed much behind the opening of the
Iowa gubernatorial contest
The public may be confused as to the
real defendant In the Hapgood case, but
the result will be bailed with satisfac
tion by all legitimate journalists.
If the supreme court had not knocked
out the filing fee exaction for entries to
the municipal primaries, would the list
of aspiring candidates be so long?
It Is not a good plan anyway to let
8 book canvasser use your name to in
veigle cash subscription on Its strength
In consideration of a complimentary
copy- . . -
Any other railroad employe desiring a
ready-made answer to Senator Burkett's
letter will be speedily accommodated If
he will make requisition on the railroad
publicity agents.
Perhaps Admiral Sands asked no ques
tion of officers regarding hazing at An
napolis because of that provision of the
law by which they could refuse to ln
orlmlnate themselves.
With free passes and free mileage
tabooed, 2 -cent railroad fares would not
entail much of a loss to the railroads,
particularly between Omaha and Lin
coln during the legislative sessions.
With the trade of the United States
reaching nearly $3,000,000,000 a year the
"standpatter" Is not losing sleep to meet
the arguments of those who would pare
down the tariff just to be doing some'
thing.
The United States Is asked to pay the
funeral expenses of the late Senator
Mitchell. In the light of too money
saved by not having to defend his appeal
Uncle Sam might do this and still get
off easy. '
City Electrician Micbaelseu favors the
substitution of electric lights for gaso
line street lamps. The city electrician
would naturally favor the extension of
his Jurisdiction at the expense of the gas
Inspector.
That conseratlvn who resigned his
seat In Parliament In favor of former
Premier Balfour has made a sacrifice
for his party for which be may expect
to be repaid when the present adminis
tration retires. Men have been knighted
for less.
The reported action of French ships
in the neighborhood of the Island of
Trinidad Indicates that commanders
have received orders which the corre
spondents would like to see; and that
guessing as a part of the correspondents'
stock In trado Is at a discount
Four years ago George A. Mead as
pired to a position In the federal revenue
collection service In the Alaska Arctic
one and made his preparations accord
ingly. Now he la tendered a position
In the revenue disbursing service in the
torrid Panama Canal sons that will
cause bitn to exchange his bearskin gar
ments for a shirt collar and a pair of
spur.
wmm nn. v.laxcti
The plot thicken.
And there In blood on the moon.
It Is now admitted that the reply to
Senator Ilurketfs letter Addressed to
William Ten Kyike Fonda answering
the circular letter of protest against rate
regulation which the rnilrond publicity
bureau has been sending out over the
names of Union Pnciflc employes was
written by Mr. Clancy.
But which Mr. Clancy?
The concluding paragraphs of the
made-to-order statement read:
As locomotive engineer we risk our lives
dally to assist In maintaining commercial
supremacy In the United States, conse
quently we feel we re as much the sup
port of the government as other citizens
la any walk of life. We do not propose to
sacrifice or Jeopardize the wage we receive
to Insure political preferment to anyone.'
We will not admit that those who special
ize In any profession, not excepting that of
I kaA aa mnnnnn) r In aIHcta Ansa mnA
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common sense. We at the throttle hae
time to think. There Is not with us the
mad rush for the almighty dollar or the
desire for political preferment. We ask a
plain living, good schooling for our child
ren, to stand well with our fellow men and
our God at the final. We analyse this ques
tion with the same deliberation and cool
ness required to safely handle our engines.
Is'ow Mr. Fonda Is not a locomotive
engineer. All he had to do with the
letter was to wire a frieud in Omaha
to "call at Clancy's office and sign my
name to letter for publication as re
quested.' 1
Everyone knows that there is a Mr.
Clancy connected with the tTnion Pacific
fully equipped to write a letter that
would extinguish every nrguruent for
rate regulatlou put forward by President
Roosevelt to sny nothing of Senator
Burkett This Mr. Clancy might easily
be the person described by the letter
writer. lie Is quite capable of telling
his chief, John N. Baldwin, that though
the latter has specialized In the profes
sion, of law, he has "no monopoly of
Intelligence and common sense." This
Mr. Clancy has hnd years of experience
at the political throttle and he is an
adept at the manipulation of the legis
lative oil can. Except for a few hours
of forgetfulness he has never been in
"the mad rush for the almighty dollar."
Except for foreclosing on three or four.
appointive positions he hns
never
evinced "the desire for political prefer
ment" That he is risking his life daily
as engineer of the railrond political ma
chine and that this risk is multiplied
by the fact that he never ran a real loco
motive goes without saying.
But this Mr. Clancy has not laid claim
to authorship of the clinching epistle to
Burkett. On the contrary, if he did
write it, he is modest by standing in
the background and allowing his laurels
to be snatched by a usurper.
For here comes another Mr. Clancy,
who explains that "he did it with his
little typewriter."
Mr. Fonda, who Is In Deliver, had prior
to going there prepared a letter setting out
his Ideas and left the same in my office. Its
publication was not thought of at the time.
It was a letter In response to one from
Senator Burkett. On second thought. In
asmuch as Senator Burkett's letter had
been published, It was thought advisable
to publish the response, and The Bee hav
ing professed to be a friend of laboring
people, Mr. Fonda desired that it be pub
lished in The Bee. In this connection he
directed Mr. Sorenson to call at my office
and sign his name. Is there anything
wrong about this?
Nothing wrong at all. But Mr. Fonda
Is a traveling freight solicitor who never
professed to be a locomotive engineer,
and the second Mr. Clancy signs himself
"J. D. Clancy, Operator Union Pacific
Railway, Union Station, Omaha," which
means in plain English that he is a
knight of the telegraph key and no more
of a locomotive engineer than the first
Mr. Clancy.
To be perfectly fair, It Is only right
and proper to say that Joe Sorenson,
who was directed by wire to sign Mr.
Fonda's name, is a really truly loco
motive engineer.
But which Mr. Clancy?
A VRA WRACK TO TRADE.
The fact bus been attested by Aiuer
lean representatives to the South Amer
ican countries, as well as by the diplo
mats sent from there to Washington,
that the development of International
trado on this continent has been ham
i pered chiefly by the lack of steamship
' facilities for direct service to ports of
the United States. It is pointed out
that while this lack hns deterred Amer
ican business men from risking their
money lu commercial exploitation, It
has hnd no terrors for European inves
tors for the very simple and conclusive
reasons thut the steamship facilities be
tween European itorts and Buenos
Ayres, for instance, are practically as
complete as between New York and Liv
erpool or Bremen. While there are In
existence two lines from New York to
South American ports, they cannot com
pare lu service with the English, Ital
lan, 8panlsh or German liners, which
speed across the South Atlantic and put
South American ports in immediate
touch with the European capitals and
manufacturing centers.
Iu the course of a debate In the senate
last week ou the merchant marine bill
it was stated that we have no direct
communication between any port In the
United States and Brazil aud the Argen
tine republic. A large part of our ex
ports to those countries go by. way of
Liverpool and London and other Euro
pean ports. They are carried, of course,
iu foreign ships, and the course they
take necessarily Involves more or less
delay in their delivery. It Is obvious
that so long as this condition continues
the manufacturers and merchants of the
United States will be at something of a
disadvantage in competing for the South
American trade. Whatever other diifi
cultles there may be, there can be no
doubt that the most serious Is the lack
of direct steamship communication be
tween our ports and thos of the prin
cipal countries south of us. While the
flags of our European competitors are
In constant evidence in every southern
f port. It la very rarely that the American
ling Is Been In any of them, and that
this fnct operates to our commercial det
riment tana been conclusively demon
strated. The merchant ninriue bill now before
the senate and which was framed by a
combined commission of senators and
members of the bouse, Is Intended to I
encourage the establishment of steam
ship lines between the principal ports
of this country and South America. It
bns been referred to by those not favor
able to such legislation as the most con
servative measure of the kind ever In
troduced Into congress. It is the opin
ion of some that Its provisions are too
moderate to accomplish the desired ob
ject, but the deliberate judgment of the
framers of the measure that it would
prove sufficient to give the country an
Rdequnte merchant mnrlne In the not
remote future can be confidently relied
upon. As the necessity for expanding
our foreign commerce grows the ques
tion of building up nn American mer
chant murine gnins In Importance. It
Is a question that must be met and
there Is no good reason why It should
not be determined by the present con
gress. UKXKRAL JOSEPH WBKELKK.
(ieneral Wheeler was a born soldier.
He preferred a military career to any
other, and in it he achieved a distinction
and fame which give him au imperish
able place In history. Receiving his
military education at Wesi Point, where
be graduated shortly before the be
ginning of the civil war, he rose rapidly
lu the service of the confederacy, reach
ing the position of lieutenant general.
As a cavalry commander he had no
equal In the confederate army and no
superior In the union army. After the
wur he accepted conditions lu good
faith and served several terms lu con
gress. When the war with Spain came
ho promptly sought an opportunity to
serve the government as a soldier and
was given It by President McKinley.
Ills services In Cuba and the Philippines
ndded much to his brilliant military
record.
General Wheeler was the personittca-
tion cf courage as a soldier and an ami-
able and courteous gentleman in civil
life. He was thoroughly American and
us one who contributed much to the
record of AmCrlcnn military prowess
his memory will be cherished by his
countrymen.
A TIMELY SVOOKSTJOy.
The local republican organ has now been
vociferously uemanuing for several weexa
of the republican lioard of County Commis
sioner thai It reduce trio foes allowed to
the republican Bheriff for boarding prison
ers In the Jail.
Instead of thus vainly beating the noisy'
tom-tom of reform, why doe Mr. Roue-
water not take the very practical step of
appealing to the courts? It might not
create such a hubbub nor offer such a glori
ous opportunity to preach, but, on the con
trary. It might bo more effective.
The same chapter of our statutes which
provides that the sheriff may have fees for
feeding prisoners also provides that he must
pay Into the treasury all fees exceeding
12,000, aud the last legislature even reduced
this limit to $1,500.
Now why should the sheriff not account
for these "fees" just as he does for others?
Of course, the expense account should be
allowed Just aa it Is In other respects.
Only last year our supreme court held
that a county clerk must account for the
full Income of his office, even where he
earned a fee as member of the Board of
Insanity.
Now, the beauty of the situation Is that
If Mr. Rosewater cannot Induce his county
commissioners to act he can, as a taxpayer,
if he is In earnest, mandamus his sheriff
to report these boarding house fees as earn
ings of his office. Mr. Rosewater la experi
enced in mandamus cases.
We make this suggestion because Mr,
Rosewater evidently needs and has called
for help, and even a suggestion may be of
value. World-Herald.
Under ordinary circumstances it Is
not the business of the editor to Invoke
the power of the courts for a redress of
abuses that affect all taxpayers alike.
His function and province is to turn
the lime-light of publicity upon abuses
that affect the taxpayers and to appeal
to executive officers to discharge their
duty and desist from aiding and abet
ting tolerated larceny and Indefensible
graft.
It is only on extraordinary occasions
when exposure, appeal and denuncia
tion have fallen on deaf ears that as a
last resort au editor who is in dead
earnest would be justified in assuming
the functions which should be exercised
by county attorneys and state attor
neys. Such a condition existed when
the editor of The Bee appealed to the
supreme court for a mandamus to com
pel the State Board of Railroad Assess
ment to reconvene to assess the fran
chises of railroads as well as their tang
ible property.
The suggestions made by the World
Herald in a spirit of sarcasm are, bow
eer, timely and to the point The man
ifest duty of the couuty board Is to
force all officers, past and present to
render a detailed account of all fees
collected in excess of their sularles and
request them to turn the balance Into
the county treasury- If its demand Is
not complied with in reasonable time
the board should direct the county at
torney to Institute proceedings for the
recovery of the excessive Income and,
Incidentally, to get a ruling from the
court that will define Just what each
county officer is entitled to under the
statutes.
Should The Bee fail to persuade the
county lioard to do Its plain duty, its
editor, acting for all the taxpayers of
Douglas county, will invoke the power
of the courts as a taxpayer, at the risk
of making himself unpopular. If not
odious, to officeholders of his own party.
In the meanwhile what Is It that pre
vents the editor of the World-Herald
from going into court on behalf of the
taxpayers?
Wheu standing room on the street
cars will command 3 cents per stand a
good many men smoking cigars on the
rear platform and the front estibule
will cheerfully tflke the benefit, but
what will prevent them from eliding
Into vacant nickel seats 'tis soon as the
conductor has collected their fares?
If all thev Innd-grabblng enses now
pending in the federal court and nil
those that nmy be impending when the
grand Jury shall have concluded Its in
quisition will take as lonfj to try out as
the Ware case, the federal courts will
Rtill be grinding oi land-grabbing cases
when (Jabrlel blows his horn.
The Standard Oil company evidently
made the mistake of not providing pen
sions for discharged employes who had
been used as confidential agents of the
company. The average man who will
break lnws for nn employer "stays
bought" only so long as the money Is lu
sight
If Oklahoma and Arizona must by
constitutional provision le compelled to
prevent Indians from buying liquor, the
Nebraska Indian will feel entitled to be
considered superior to his southern
brother, unless congress posses further
laws on the subject bringing him to the
same level.
The disclosure that "Colonel" Greene
tried to tamper with an Inspector on
government work at Savannah Indicates
that he probably found one who was for
sale, but the Jury cannot draw this in
ference as a matter of law, no matter
what It does as a matter of fact.
When the house of representatives is
presented with a rule to govern the rail
rond rate legislation bill the real "In
urgent" strength of that body will be
developed. Previous tests showed the
will of the members, the next will show
the will of the masters. V
A Pointer for Knockers.
Springfield Union.
It cannot be too strongly emphasized that
the country Is everlastingly with the presi
dent.
What the Country Want.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Neurly every president has handed down
a peculiar phrase, but all uro left In the
shade by Mr. Roosevelt's "square deal."
Way to Save Millions.
San Francisco Chronicle.
A few men witix sturdy blue pencils with
a little bit of common sense and discretion
back of them could save a few million dol
lars annually for the government. .
Weary Pare of Claims.
New York Post.
This year's urgent deficiency bill contains
an Item for equipping New York regiments
In the war of 1812. There Is an examplo of
promptness and up-to-date business meth
ods. .
Truly st Spectacle.
Buffalo Express.
The spectacle of Senator Burton of Kan
sas peeking through the door of the senate
In order that he might be certified aa pres
ent and draw his mileage is one ' which
should have caused,, every self-respecting
senator to turn his .bead, in disgust. If Bur
ton has too much delicacy to attend the ses
sions of the senate. while he is under Indict
ment he should have too much delicacy to
draw his' pay. , .
Modern Pulsion for Display.
Portland Oregonian.
It was a century and a half ago that Ben
jamin Franklin wrote that "idleness and
pride tax with a heavier hand than kings
and parliaments," but his message comes
with peculiar force to the people of this
day and generation. Perhaps Idleness Is
no greater vice than In Franklin's time,
but the sort of pride that taxes men's
pocketbooks never before flourished as
now. The desire of the poor to ape the
rich, the universal effort and determina
tion to keep up appearances for appearance
sake, Is one of the curses of this age.
That hollow appearances are but tokens of
superficial minds too few understand.
Men and women Of moderate means as
pire to make the same display In spending
money that their more wealthy neighbors
do, and, when adversity comes, finding
themselves with no money saved they
realise too late, as FrankHn would say,
that they have paid too dearly for the
whistle.
POLITICAL, DRIFT.
The unusual calm of Senator Da Follette
Indicates that "all's quiet on the Potomac."
Vice President Fairbanks notes with be
coming pleasure the splendid precedent of
France In promoting the presiding officer
of the national senate.
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi had
on ef his spells the other day and threw
an unwelcome visitor out ot the executive
mansion. It was the governor's day to
kick. '
A former state senator of California Is
wearing a gorgeous striped suit on the
promenade of the state penitentiary. He
was an amateur in legislative holdups and
was caught. '
The time for proposing freak legislation
to the law-making' bodies of various states
having arrived,, Massachusetts leads off
with a bill to legalize pumps In milkmen's
yard. ostensibly In order to avert sus
picion, but really to save time for the
driver.
There is a disposition among the reform
ers in the Pennsylvania legislature to put
Senator Quay' statue out in the cold.
Still others are cruel enough to suggest a
deep, dark cellar. The master hand that
shook the plum tree appears past resur
rection. Some New Yorkers Insist on worrying
Judge Hooker, who draws 117.600 a year
out of the state .treasury. The Judge Is
charged with being exceedingly thrifty and
shifty. The legislature tried to oust him
last summer, but failed, and the present
legislature I about to give him another
whirl.
In recent year no political leader In New
York state of either party ha had a son
with a taste for politics. Senator Piatt's
son show neither aptitude nor Inclination
for the game. Boss Tweed left no son and
Bos Kelly died childless. Richard Croker
had three boy, but none of them cared
for politics. The onfy remaining one, Rich
ard, has not even voted for several years.
Murphy, the present Tammany leader. Is
childless.
The New York Sun regards the action of
David Bennett Hill in asking the Stale Bar
association to Investigate his relations with
the insurance companies as manly and dig
nified. "We do not think," say the Sun.
"the severest critics he has encountered
during a long and vlcissltudlnou and some
what devious political career have ever
looked upon ex-Governor Hill as a graflf r,
a 'business' politician, a trafficker In politi
cal Influence, a perverter of political oppor
tunity te personal gain. And te hi honor
be this sail."
OTHER 1-MS TI1AS Ol R.
The most striking sot of the new British
government thus far has been that which
was taken a few days after Its accession. In
ordering the stoppage of Importation of
Chinese coolie labor Into South Africa. It
will be recalled that n sensation was caused
thereby In Grest Britain and the Trans
vaal, snd polltli nl capital was made for the
liberal party In the electors! campaign. The
scn,u-l to that a'-tlun has not so fully been
made known. The fact Is that the legality
of the order was promptly called In ques
tion, and upon reference to htm the attor
ney general of the Transvaal gave the
opinion that, so far as It applied to Impor
tation license already granted. It was Il
legal and could not be enforced. There
upon the government, finding that licenses
had already been granted for a couple of
year to come, was practically compelled to
abandon Its order, contenting Itself with
the declaration that, while the Importation
of roollcs might be continued under the
licenses already granted, responsibility for
It would rest upon the former government
and the present government would wash Its
hands of the whole affair. No further
licenses will be Issued, but It Is doubtful
whether any more would In any case have
been sought, since those already granted
provide for about all the labor that Is
needed. So the liberal government got the
credit of having given the order, the Indus
trial arrangements of the Transvaal are
not Interfered with and everybody Is happy.
"The growth of prohibitionist sentiment In
New Zealand In a few years," writes a cor
respondent, "has been as remarkable as the
growth of socialism, and It Is more likely to
be enduring." In the referendum taken at
the same time with the. late elections, a
clear majority of votes In both the North
and South islands was In favor of no li
cense, which would have been sufficient to
vote out the saloon in almost any American
town or country under local option. But
that country of experiments required a
three-fifths majority, and the measure
therefore failed. "Sly grog selling" Is the
local phrase for "blind pig" operations, and
the prohibitionists have been making wide
use of the remarks of a muglatrato from the
bench regarding the amount of perjury,
sneaking and deceit Involved In the conduct
of 0i.en bars. All lic,uor lelling, licensed and
unlicensed alike, they cull "sly." New Zea
land has a local option law, and although
prohibition for the entire country was de
feated, the "dry" area lias been largely In
creased. Some idea of the political spirit prevail
ing in some parts of Hungary today may
be gained from the details of the treat
ment recently accorded to M. Kovacs, who
recently had the mlBfortune to be ap
pointed by the king high sheriff of Haiduck
county, of which Dcbrecsin is the chief
city. This has always been a Magyar
stronghold. Previous to the arrival of M.
Kovacs, the citizens issued a proclamation
of boycott and excommunication against
him. They had a hearse at the railroad
station for his conveyance and a body
guard armed with rotten eggs. Fore
warned, he refused to leave the train, but
he was pulled out, pelted, thrown down
and trampled on. He was then, according
to a local paper, lifted up so thut he could
be stoned and beaten tho more effectively.
He was rapidly dragged to the hearse out
side, thrown upon it, and, as It started,
the crowd sang the Kossuth hymn. In
this way he wa conveyed through tho
streets to the chief square, where he fell
from the hearse and tried to take refuge
In a coffee house. The crowd, however,
headed him off and drove him across the
stree, where ho fell unconscious under the
archway of the savings bank. Two bank
clerks protected him from further Injury,
and carried him upstairswhile the citizens
broke the Windows and tried to storm the
building. His head, which was bleeding
In many places, and his left hand, . of
which two fingers were smashed, were then
bound up, and when he had recovered
consciousness he was, at tho instance of a
committeeman for public safety, induced
to sign his resignation. Tin .iffair natu
rally has provoked much Insinuation in
Vienna.
Further details of the recent work of
France in Morocco are to be found in a
report, published In a Paris newspaper, of
a recent tour of inspection made in south
ern Oran by M. Jonnart, governor general
of Algeria. In company with General
Lyautey he has reorganized the whole sys
tem of Hinterland defence, substituting for
the many small military posts a number
Of larger garrisons capable of policing
wider regions than before. The old gar
risons of regular troops have been super
seded by Saharan troops, recruited in the
country, living on the land and extremely
mobile. They are always moving from
point to point of their districts, and easily
surprise marauding Moorish bands by the
rapidity of their march. During the last
eighteen months these bunds have been
constantly attacked and broken up. Pacifi
cation on the frontier region is, therefore,
proceeding steadily. Two years ago It
would have been Impossible for the gov
ernor general to make his tour with the
weak escort that accompanied him. Borne
chief of tribes formerly hostile turned out
to salute him and to thank him for the
re-establlshment of security in their region.
Occasional outbursts are still possible, says
M. Jonnart, In southern Oran, but as a re
sult of the new system there will no longer
I be BUcn neavy 1"BC m men an1 mY s
noiore,
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, a small
mountain principality of southern Europe,
has net a good example for Czar Nicholas
and the few other remaining autocrats.
He has given his people a parliament and
the right of suffrage. ( Montenegro has
been ruled despotically from the time IV
became a nation. For forty-five years
Prince Nicholas has exercised autocratic
power, holding even the lives ot his sub
jects In his hands. His voluntary sur
render of supreme authority was as un
expected as the declaration which ac
companied it is surprising. In an impas
sioned speech ushering in the new order
of things, he declared he had always be
lieved that every man belonging to civi
lized society should be a free citizen. The
act of Prince Nicholas raises him to the
rank of a really great man. He knew
that civilized mankind had outgrown auto
cratic government. He did not wait until
his people had forced htm to recognize
their rights, but conferred them willingly.
The Montenegrins are a brave and hardy
people. They deserve their new freedom,
and It Is to be hoped that they will make
good use of it.
Medel Example t CltlaeashlB.
New York Commercial.
Everybody will admire the spirit In which
Mr. Samuel Ik Clemens, a citizen of this
town, has offered to pay taxes on 15,000
worth of personal property, although, ac
cording to his own sworn statements be
fore the tax board, he ha no personalty
at all to be taxed. "I do not want," ex
plained the author of "Innocents Abroad,"
"to be regardnd as unwilling to contribute
to the coat of maintaining the government
of the city in which I live." If tens of
thousands of other New Yorkers possessed
of personalty In various amount would
only think that way. the city would be
vastly enriched by the thought, and New
York real estate would be relieved of
portion of the unjust burdtn of taxation
Jhst it now struggle under.
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Whether his conclusions are light or
wrong, the views uid opinions of Mr.
James J. Hill are always Interesting snd
usually suggestive In an extraordinary de
gree. In a recent address before the Com
mercial club ot St. Paul Mr. Hill discussed
a subject concerning which the American
people are lamentably Indifferent, that is,
the habitual wastefulness of our treat
ment of the nation's resources, t'non that
matter there Is little or no opportunity
for disagreement.
Mr. Hill went further and said:
"Our public domain is all gone, and the
nation cannot longer bpsst that It has
homes for all. Where are the immigrants
rushing to our shores to end up7 Not on
the land. We have no more to offer them.
They must crowd Into the cities."
Mr. Hill's apprehensions will not be
shared by everybody. It Is not clear how
he arrives at the conclusion that there Is
no more land In the Vnlled Slates to offer
to settlers. Land now lying Idle In this
country is capable of supporting millions
of people. The reclamation service is con
verting the wilderness into homes for mil
lions more. The Intelligent cultivation of
comparatively small tracts Instead ot the
present wasteful cultivation of large areas
would leave millions of acres available for
settlement. The last of these three factors
in the situation Is unquestionably the most
Important. In the way of Illustration, con
sider our cotton crop, which may be re
garded for the. present purposes as typical
of all our agricultural products, with the
possible exception of wheat.
Statistics of production show that our
cotton yield averages about four-tenths of
a bale to the acre. We plant about 80,000,000
acres. In an article In the January number
of the World's Work there is mention of
a Oeorgla planter who by Intelligent culti
vation secured twenty-six bales from thir
teen acres, or two bales to the acre. Other
planters, by business methods, obtain a
halo from an acre. Yet the average of all
Is the pitiful four-tenths of a bale. At
10 cents a pound this yields the planter
only $20 an acre. He cultivates two and
a half acres to secure the crop which he
should obtain from a single acre.
The same general rulo holds good with
regard to nearly all the products of our
soil. Better cultivation of smaller areas
would release millions of acres for settle
ment by newcomers. More than ever be
fore farmers are working in the direction
of Intensive and more businesslike meth
ods on the farm. But it is probable that
the great majority will be Indifferent about
these methods until compelled to adopt
them by the severe pressure of economic
conditions.
We believe that there is room and a good
living in the United States for two 'or
three times-the present population.
SPECIAL INTERESTS IX THE SENATE
The Strangle Hold ou Measure of Pub
lie Necessity.
Indianapolis News (Rep.)
The house will have before it a railroad
rate bill on which its committee has unani
mously agreed. After debate it will be
passed and sent to the senate, which will
thus be forcd to act. That It should be
openly conceded that the senate is the
representative of special Interests and not
of the people is most serious. It Is what Is
expected of the British House of Lords.
But the Britons have forced the lords into
a position of virtual harmlessness. It is
utterly dissociated from control of the
purse. With us our senate is only nomin
ally so. The senate in the course of its
encroachments virtually exercises the
power of raising revenue cnstitutlonaily
lodged with the house by altering and
amending house measures, while It is en
dowed with an executive power in the con
firmation of the president's appointments
and in the ratification of treaties that is
wholly beyond the power of the House of
Lords.
With active powers that thus hold legis
lation in its grip on the one side, and ex
ecutive exercise on the other, the senate
has grown beyond the Intentions of the
fathers. - Instead of becoming to the people
a protection and a conservative force, It
has become the servant of special Interests,
of trusts and corporation of various kinds.
The story Is set out with unmistakable
plainness in our Washington correspon
dence. The people will have to face the
fact that this most powerful body In their
Institutions does not represent them. By
this is meant not that now and again and
at all time there should be In this body
men that are the agents of special Interests
as against the general Interests; men that
are there to control legislation for private
and against public Interests when these
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clash such a thing Is to be expected In
pilbllc affairs but that the number ot sen
ators who are thus openly and avowedly
such agents has so Increased that the spe
cial Interests control all the affairs ot the
American people.
That such a condtion should be perman
ent; that the American people should tol
erate such a perversion of their Institu
tions. Is unthinkable. Signs of protest
and effort against It havo been growing
for years. But the fuult Is Inherent In the
constitution of the senate, with IU powers
of a veto both on legislative and executive
action. We are aylng tho price ot the
fathers' distrust of the people. We have
blushed aside that distrust as registered
In the constitution of the electoral college,
having reduced the body to the nominal
registering machine, to which, in fact, prac
tically tho English have reduced the House
of Lords. Hut tho senate is not so easily
reformed. And yet we can not doubt thai
ultimately a way will be found.
Property en lucrative to Artie.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
President Eliot of Harvard gives a reason
why poor American boys swell tho ranks
of millionaires when he says that "It la
wellnlgh Impossible for a very rich man to
rear his children so as to avoid hahlts of
Indifference and laziness." Ho adds that
farmers' children get the best start because
they begin young to co-operate In the work
to be done.
Why Break It Gently f
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The news that Senator Aldrlch Is bitterly
opposed to railroad rate regulation and con
slders It a direct emanation of the Hearst
and Bryan school of political thought
might be more shocking If we Imd not had
It broken by degrees spreading over the
last ten or fifteen years.
Ml Gllixr; i.ien.
A barrister once pl.-aded with great
ability the cause of his client for nearlv
iin hour. When he had finished, his learned
friend on the other side. Willi a super
cilious sneer, remarked that he did not
understand a Word tlio other fellow had
said.
-I believe it, for I was expounding
lawl" siud the first speaker.
e they admit that young Willie
player" "'C 8Te,',e8t ,lv'ns billiard
"Hopped rlirlit to the front, eh?"
"Yes, but Willie stuy there ?"-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Druggist Our new clerk doesn't seem to
have any common sense.
AaslMant-ls ho likely to make bad
breaks?
Druggist-Is he? Say, he'd sell carbolic
acid to a wild-eyed lunatic he never ssw
before and trust him for tho money. Phila
delphia Press.
The agent of the building had agreed
to put new wallpaper on the rooms.
..'Wh?.t. kind do you prefer?!', he asked,
"Something with large figures?"
"Decidedly not." said the new tenant.
They would always remind nie of the
rent I have to pay. Chicago Tribune.
"Doesn't the speaker recognize vou?"
"The minute I get on my feet." answered
the new congressman, "he rerognisea m
as one of the people he doesn't want to
hear from." Washington Star.
Dr. Kallowmell (after a thorough exam
ination) there Is nothing at all the matter
with you. All you need Is a little rest.
Caller Thank you. Well, I must be
Dr. Kallowmell But thanks, my good
man will not pay my offlre rent.
Caller Maybe not, but that' all I got
for overhauling your watch the other day
and finding that all it needed wa wind
ing. Chlcugo Tribune.
SINCE BABY CAME.
St. Louis Olobe-Democrat.
Aye; so it Is, my dear.
The truant cuff is e'en where I did plaoe 1'
Here in the baby' drawer.
The "baby's drawer," ha!
Well do I mind the day
When I, too, had a drawer wherein to plac
My collars, cuffs, my shirts
And small belongings;
Impediments in which then I took
A certain pride.
These were my very own
I had a drawer for them, a dresser drawer.
And 'twas my very owu.
That was. I think, less than three years
agone;
Before thut day
Ah, me; how memory dwells
t'pon those lean and lonely years!
I had a trunk ; relic of barbarous days.
And bachelorhood.
I had a trunk, and there it was my use
To placo my worldly, goods my all in all.
Joyous habiliment of occasion glad.
And treasured trophies, and the symbols of
Single and most depraved delights,
But Tempora mutantur
And now, though burdened with possession
rare
All mine In name,
I have no place to store them.
Baby's things and her's
Monopolize the closet, all the drawer.
Tim attic e'en th basement Is not fre
And when I s a handkerchief or cuff
I know not where to find it, nor on who
Belongings I shall lay my desecrated hand.
I Joy in what I own, forsooth, and yet.
Still, on occasion do I sigh to hav
A crarker box or something that is mine
Exclusively, and to my own use
Forever dedicate!
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