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4 THE OMAHA DAILY HEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1006. The- Omaha Daily Bee. IX' KWgKVAlKH, EDITOR. HHUSHED EVERT MORNING. " X ' : 1 r. " j TERMS OF Ht'HSCRIPTlON. Hally Mce (without Rundsy), one year. ..$410 !lly Hw anil 8unday. one year ' Illustrated Hee. one vear 2 Sunday Bee. one year l.W Haturday Hee, one year 1.60 DELIVERED BT CARRIER, fially H (Including Sunday), per week..l?c Dally Hee (without Sundav). pr week.. ..lSe. Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. ...10c Hunday Bee, per ropy 5c Address complaints of Irregularities In de 'I very to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council BlufTs-10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1K40 I'nlty Building. New York 15n Home IJfe In. Building. Washington KH Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. 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Subscribed In mv presence and sworn to before me this Uth day of February. 190ti. (Seal) M. B. Hl'NGATE, Notary Public, AV11KX OIT OF TOWN. Subscribers leafing the city tem porarily should have The Bee mailed to them. . Address will be phansjed often as requested. Negro lynching In liot con lined alto gether to the former Bluve states, as Is evidenced by the outbreitk at Spring field, o. The creditors of Count Bout de Cas tellnne clearly want to get possession of his property before It Is dissipated In. lawyers' fees. .. Chicago's chief of police must be "breuklng In" a number of new meu now that he has resumed work on the 'Mr. Dove" case. ., . Mr. Cromwell proves that a legal edu cation Is quite an aid to n witness who does not want to answer more' or less pertinent questions. When refo'rnied Kpelling Jo !ns vertical writing lu (lie. public schools the Com mercial colleges may be expected to in crease their quarters again. The force which knocked the props from under prices of stocks on Wall street evidently found what it was look ing for and Is ready to support the mar ket again. While Senator Tillman Is "officially" In charge of the Hepburn bill in the senate, .Senator Dolllver must be recog iilscd as the real lender when It comes to the fight. The decision of official ltussia to per mit the constitutional democrats to nialntaiii a meeting place may Indicate a desire .to have the reformers In a trap when they rfre wanted. One thing can be said for the Mareon lgram editorials In the local demo-pop organ they are Just as fictitious as the Mnrconigraiu fakes constantly appear ing In lis news colutnus. , If the railroads centering here will only pull together long enough to build up the Omaha grain market to its fullest iMHslbllltles, there will soon be enough out grain truffle for all of them to han dle. Memlters of the Fontanelle club who are plugging for Broatch are cordially luvltcd to seats in the Bcnsonian plat form which Is to he on public exhibition at Creighton hall from 8 to 11 p. m. to morrow. Ohio's new , democratic governor should write to Mississippi for expert advice on the subject of controlling mobs. , With all his faults dovernor Vardumau has come nearer to solving the- problem. I . y.:- ' . ' .irr-; - The report on the Dominican treaty, with jts amendments, shows that sena tors are Willing enough to regulate tho affairs of Santo"' Domingo provided .Santo Domingo has nothing to say as to how It shall be done. . Tha TSllroads are preparing to test the Kaunas maximum freight rate law In 'the courts; but the side shows will all give place; to the attractions in the main tent w henever Uncle Ram begins to en 'force tsVlIepburu bill. We have now discovered a good reason why it costs more than twice as much liiuucj to feed prisoners In the 'county Jail than it does to feed them in the city Jail. Those gas leaks in the 'county Jail sharpen' the appetite for graft. Secretary- Shaw objects to having sil ver 12-plecea Issued on behalf of the Jamestown exposition on the theory ! that they will circulate; but the same ' objection! lie against the coinage of sil ver dollars forced Into circulation at iwlys. ! hvlr luuivslc valuo THE ro.vr.o voxniTloys. The conditions in the Congo Free State, as reported by entirely trustwor thy authorities, are unquestionably most deplorable and n terrible reproach to the 'country responsible for them. It Is undeniably the duty of all civilized Moples to raise their voice In protest agnlnst the atrocities thut have been committed and to make every possible effort through the expression of public opinion to Induce the government which alone can correct the conditions to take the necessary action. The horrible rec ord of wrong anil outrage Inflicted upon the Congo natives should arouse man kind and the notice that Is being taken of them by the American people Is wholly proper and commendable. By some it Is contended that popular protest and condemnation is all that can lo done, and that the matter Is not one for the Interposition or Interference of any government. Any attempt to do so we are told would very properly be re sented by the government which con trols affairs In the Congo Free State. There are. however, some very excellent persons' among our citizens who believe that this government should tivke some positive action with a view to putting an end to the gmte conditions in the Congo country. In the present case Secretary Root has taken the stand that the United States Is not In a position to act. This country has no territorial or ad ministrative interest In that quarter and no treaty right of intervention. It Is even without diplomatic or consular rep resentatives in the Congo Free State. Yet whether as n party to the Berlin conference we could not with propriety co-operate to reconvene thut lwaly for further action is a question he has not definitely met. In the meanwhile resolutions passed by popular meetings condemning the Congo outrages will continue to be sent to Washington voicing our na tional sense of Justice aroused by sympathy for the wrongs, of these op pressed people. If a way could be found In which our government could assist to mitigate the Congo slttintlon. without violating our International obligations, a wave of popular approval would go up from all parts of the country. IXTERNAL WATERWAY PRiJJEVT. On Tuesday the Iiouhb of representa tives passed a bill chartering the Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal company, with an authorized capital of $10,(KM), XH). This Is to carry out a project to connect l'lttsburg with Lake Erie, which would" prove of Immense advantage to that city. It is stated that the lines of lallway between Lake Erie and Pitts burg are unable to handle properly and satisfactorily the enormous Interchange of freight and for some time the great manufacturing Interests of the Pennsyl vania city have been agitating for a canal. As the proposed waterway, which will be KX) miles In length, must extend into tyo states,. it. was desired to have a federal charter under which the. canal can be governed us a whole, rather than have two state charters'and two corporations to operate It. The water way will be built by private capital and will cost the federal government nothing whatever. There was nevertheless consid erable opposition In the house of repre sentatives to granting the charter, chiefly on the ground that it would be an in vasion of state rights, though no reprei sentatlve of either of the states directly Interested supported this objection. The opposition came from the democratic side and it is remarked that scarcely a vote was recorded against the bill from within 1,CK)0 miles of Tlttsburg and Lake Erie. The building of this canal will of course contribute greatly to the further development of Pittsburg as a manu facturing center. It will doubtless also serve to Improve the country through which It will pass. Increasing the busi ness and the imputation of the towns bordering on It. While it Is a fact that In this country canals have not usually been profitable to their projectors, there Is good reason to believe that this one will prove an exception. At nil events the private capital necessary to con struct It seems ready to enter Into the Investment. The sticklers for state rights may offer a more or less vigorous opposition to the project In the senate, but It Is not probable that they will be able to prevent Its passage. It will be an Internal Improvement of such propor tions- as to be of general Interest. vasal nr VUXTIIAVT. The views of the former chief en glneer of the Panama canal, Mr. Wal lnce, favorable to the construction of the canal by contract, certainly merit serious consideration. lie urges thut when tho work must be conducted 2.O00 miles away from a seat of government a policy Imposing the necessity of re ferring all Important questions to Wash higtou and submitting them there to men who necessarily cannot be conver sant with the conditions on the Isthmus unless they are Informed by the parties on the ground, cannot give satisfactory results, no matter how honest or effi-clt-nt the supervising officers may lie, He found from his experience at Pan arua that attempt to curry on construe tlve work under the direction of Wash lngton bureaus, especially when tho work Is large and complicated, are con dueive of extravagance and waste as to both time and money. His opinion is that governmental functions on the Uth Uius should be confined exclusively to a general sujiervislon of the work and en forcement of such simple ordinances and sanitary regulations as may be nec essary to secure the iieace and the health of the community affected by the constructive work. "Either the work should be put Info the hands of one strong mail, with prac tlcally unlimited authority," says Mr, Wallace, "combining the technical and scientific training of the engineer wljh I the uduiluUtiutivc and executive ability of a man of force, coupling with this the separation of nil matters connected with this work from the control of the ordi nary government departments at Wash ington, but under such supervision only as to Insure the government that his ad ministration Is efficient, or the same re sult should Ite accomplished through let ting of the work to a contracting flrtu large enough to control under one man agement the entire constructive work on the Isthmus, under broad and general specifications and under such general supervision ns may appear to congress to be proper." Such Is the disinterested Judgment of one of the ablest engineers In the country, who has made a careful study of the subject, and everybody who Is acquainted with government methods must acknowledge Its force. It would seem, of course, that the government, with tts tine corps of engineers, could dig tfie canal at a reasonable cost, yet It is a fact that ns a rule men In charge of government departments and govern ment work do not show the efficiency which the ordinary business firm has, for the o'.tvlous re:tson that there Is not the incentive in the one case ns In the other. It is altogether probable that If this nst work Is carried on by the govern ment it will cost many millions more than If done by contract, under proper govern men tnl supervision, and that the ti'iie of Its completion will be delayed. In regard to this Mr. Wallace says that it will require more time and money to construct a high-level canal on the eighty-five-foot plan, under the present method of governmental control, than It will to construct a sea-level canal, provided the work Is accomplished by niodt rn efficient business methods. The proposition that the canal should bo built by contract is likely to grow In ftiv.ft ereii. the more carefully It Is consid- VHOKISO AT A OX AT The passing of populism was due chiefly to the fact that Its leaders banked on calamity as their particular stock in trade and were not so much In tent upon securing relief from real or imagined abuses as they were for creat ing a political upheaval by popular dis content. The same tactics are being pursued by the leaders of the Omaha Civic federation. They seem to want calamity and popular discontent rather than relief from the evils they complain of. Everybody familiar with conditions In our great cities knows that social vice Is tolerated evil that cannot be com- ilptely suppressed, but should be re pressed and kept under police surveil lance. If the leaders of the Civic Fed eration were honestly Intent upon mini mizing social vice and closing the lid upon all dram shops patronized exclu sively by the vicious and criminal classes, had they waged war upon the licensed dives in the Third ward where the thugs, crooks, footpads and vile scum of the' town" mostly vfoagregate tjiey would have the sympathy and co operation of all respectable men and women. Instead of prosecuting the keepers of tl.ese resorts and prosecuting also the keepers and owners of houses In the residence portion of the city that are rented at high prices for unlawful pur poses, they have raided 170 liquor deal ers which are in the main orderly and well kejit for alleged violation of the Sunday law. Like the populist calamity howlers they are willing to subject the town to pillage, robbery and even mur der In the low groggeries located In the burnt district Just to show how bad the liquor traffic can be when conducted In close contact with social vice. In a word, the policy pursued is but another striking illustration of swallowing a camel while choking at a gnat. A .V OPB-V DOOR )tO FRA I'D. An opinion has been procured from the democratic Bide of the city attor ney's office interpreting the recent de cision of the supreme court upholding the validity of the Dodge primary law as opening the door to anyone and every one, whether registered or unregistered, to cast a vote for primary nominations upon mere affirmation of affiliation wih the party whose ballot he demands. The thinly veiled object of this deep laid scheme Is to enable the democrats. who have blocked all competition for nominations withiu 'their own ranks, to inject themselves Into the republican primaries and select the republican nom inees, whom they will then try to beat at the election. Hand In glovo with the democrats In this scheme Is the combination of Third ward denizens and corjioration hirelings who would like an open door for paid re peaters and colonizers through whom they hope to buy or steal the mayoralty nomination for W. J. Broatch. The baste idea of primary legislation from beginning to end Is that participa tion in primary elections shall be con fined by law to the duly enrolled inem lers of each respective political party, and the question propounded by the reg istrars as to which political party the voter desires to affiliate with is for the sole purpose of preparing the roll of duly qualified republicans or democrats or socialists entitled to participate in their party primaries. The vindication of the primary law by the supreme court would be useless If It at the same time destroyed Its ef fectiveness for confining participation In party nominations to lsna fide voters of the party. No twisting or distorting of a court decision can alter the logic of common sense which decrees that no prl mary conducted with the door wide open to fraud would have any binding effect A nomination fraudulently procured would forfeit to the nominee at, the elec tion the vote of every honest and law respecting citizen, le he republican or democrat. The Ileal Estate exchange has brought lu auuthei' formal verdict of guilty In the Pat Crowe case. The diffi culty Is that none of these post-mortem verdicts have any standing at law as compared with that of the Jury empan eled for the trial. It would be In accord with the eternal fitness of things for Walter Moise. Tom Dennlson and other prominent backers of William .1. Broatch to Invoke the power of the court to swing the gates wide open at the next primary so that everybody who is willing to swear that he has affiliated with the republican party will have a right to vote Indis criminately, regardless of whether he is registered or not. With the gates wide open, we are told, thousands of men can be recruited for the Midway Plalstncp candidate in Omaha, South Omaha, East Omaha, Council Bluffs, Fort Crook and other suburbs withiu reach. It Is easy for that class of men to hold up the right hand, while the left hand is hold ing fast to the swag. The resolution pending before the county board to make the superintend ent of the court house responsible for the force of Janitors under him Is a move In the right direction. It is per haps to lie expected that janitor service In a public building will cost taxpayers more than It would n private owner, but there Is no reason why a public building should not have efficient janitor service. The superintendent of the court house has usually found excuse for dereliction In the alleged unfitness of subordinates holding their places by personal pull with members of the county board and imagining themselves exempt from all discipline, diving the superintendent an appointing and removing power would, at least, take away this excuse. The lawyers of the state propose to relieve tho Nebraska delegation at Washington of the onerous duty of recommending the judge for the new federal district for Nebraska yet to be created. This savors very much of the action of lite Douglas County Bar asso ciation not so long ago instructing Gov ernor Mickey whoyi to appoint to a Ju dicial vacancy on the district bench. It Is presumable that the state bar organi zation, although it may be dominated by democratic lawyers, as was the Douglas county association, will be good enough to recommend only republicans for the appointment by the republican president. Governor Mickey wants it distinctly understood that he Is not responsible for Broatchlsm In Omaha. Inasmuch ns Governor Mickey re-appointed Broatch to the police board and con tinues to shut his eyes and ears to the flagrant and lawless use of the police club to force every man who is under police surveillance Into line for Prontch we would like, to know who Is responsi ble. It required l.."ss) pages of typewriting on the part of the railroad lawyers to tell the supreme court of the United States why their corporate employers should be relieved from paying the full amount of the taxes levied on their rail road property In, Nebraska by the state board of assessment, but ns the railroad lawyers are paid by the year It does not cost anything for gas leakage. Wisdom Kilters Into Royalty. Minneapolis Journal. King Edward's Indorsement of home rule brings him In line with the best municipal thoughtors In America. Popularity ' the Probe Act. New York Post. "America leads the world." Here Is the Canadian minister of finance ordering a royal commissioner to take up the Investi gation of Insurance companies of the do minion. Hush, Honey, Hash! New York World. The transcontinental railroads have been making' new speed records, with un eye to the approaching time for the renewal of the four-year mall-carrying contracts. Do wise managers make weight as well as time under the hope of fresh government patron age? Are the roads making plans also to pad the mail bags with heavy franked mat ter. In view of the welghlng-in process which shall determine the rates of compen sation? The Army of Ilrlaradlera. Springfield Republican. In another particular the I'nlted States leads the world. There are 245 brigadier generals on the retired list of our regular army. Slxy-two of them were created between January 1, lDeli. and January 1,. 19u5. In each case the new brigadier served one day In the active service and then was retired.' Including all, major generals and lieutenant generals, America is defended today by W) living generals on the retired list. It Is a shame that anyone should be retired as a major or even a colonel. DRAWING A THIN LINE. College President's Comparison Some what Overdone. New York Commercial. President Carroll D. Wright of world wide fame as a statistician and now preui dent of Clark college at Worcester, Mass., has Just been lecturing his students on the efforts made by states to regulate industry, and, strange to say, he is a trifle "muddy" on one point in his argument, "If 1 am a minister of the gospel." he says, "and I aak for and get a railroad ticket at half price, Just why should I preach against rebates next Sunday? Ethically, there Is no difference between John D. Rockefeller getting discount on the transportation of his oil and the Christian Endeavor society going to Sail Francisco for a convention at wholesale rates. We damn the one, and some seem to wish tht damning to extend beyond this earth; but we applaud the other for doing the same thing." The school teacher, the plumber or the doctor, who can't get a half rate as a clergyman can. Is apparently discriminated against unjustly, and the half rate preacher who condemns rebating is at least inconsistent, tut a special low rate to the Christian En deavorers or any ether organisation can be taken advantage of by anybody "desirous of making the same trip. A rebate to an oil or an Iron manufacturer ia something that his competitors cannot get; it dis criminate against them; and morally It Is vastly different from a cut rate open to the public for a speclHed period. What shall we say of social economics at Clark If ths students are to graduate with a notion that a violator of the Elklns law is Just SS good as it CUibUttu Kudcaw I1ITS OK VAlll(iTO I. IKK. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. Occasionally a Missourlan In congress, usually dii reet, forgets his training and at tempts to "show" people some things be yond the range of common knowledge. At a recent committee hearing on the bill to modify the tax on alcohol, Champ Clark butted In Just to help out a witness who did not know how a certsln kind of alcohol was made. The Missouri congressman said that this particular kind of alcohol was In vented by a Missouri convict, who pounded the sour corn pone they gave him for breakfast until It distilled Into "the stuff now under Investigation." The story was received with shouts of laughter, which, however, did not disturb the witness. Ho waited until the laugh subsided and then quietly remarked. "That story proves what I have always believed, that all tho bright men In Missouri were put In the peniten tiary." Mr. Clark thought for some time, but nothing occurred to him and he did not speak The veteran Senator Morgan Is the pos sessor of that rare sense of humor which enables him to enjoy a Joke even when it Is on himself, and he Is even not averse to telling shout It. One afternoon he sut In the cloakroom and told this: "The other afternoon I was sitting at homo with nothing special to occupy me, and I picked up an old volume of the Con gressional Record. 1 opened It at random and hit upon the middle of a speech, which I began to read. Very soon I became. In terested, and as I proceeded I said to my self, 'This man Is making a very sensible talk.' I found myself quite In accord with his views and read along with a good deal of approval until I had finished two pages. I was wondering who could have mnde such a speech, but was too much Interested to look back to find out. Rut ns I turned the page I came upon an Interruption, and there was my own name given as the sena tor making the reply. It was my own speech I had been reading." Senator Tillman has fallen Into the cus tom, long since established by the orators In the house, of having a quotation precede his speech, generally of poetry that Is sup posed to fit the nature of the rhetorical effort. But Tillman has improved upon the house custom. He has taken ths liberty of In jecting thoughts Into the quotation. Even Shakespeare, the man from whom Tillman borrowed his first quotation, all sufficient as he Is for so many men, does not express all the South Carolina senator thinks. Here Is the Shakespeare excerpt, with the Till man interpellations: "Why man, he (Roosevelt) doth bestride the narrow world TJke a Colossus and we petty men" you. thank God, not I "walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves" or a piece of pork. When Tillman quoted that in the senate, he shook hlrf finger at Spooner, one of the smallest men in the senate. Spooner caught the humor of the situation and bristled up as If he were going to make It a personal matter. In menacing tones he demanded, "Does the senator mean me?' Tillman caught the twinkle In Spooner's eye and laughingly declared that he had no Idea of holding his friend from Wisconsin up to scorn as a( petty man. A bride and bridegroom from Massa chusetts arrived In town on their wedding tour and put up at the Metropolitan hotel. At the same table with them sat a stately, handsome man who proved to be Senator McLaurln of Mississippi. Mr. McLaurin's genial courtesy soon put them at ease. He volunteered to show them the town and promised to get them a personal Interview with the president. At an appointed hour they appeared at the senate and the Mississipplnn went to receive them. He had Just shaken hands when Senator lidge, cold, dry, wintry and acidulous, happened to come up. "Senator Ixidge," said Senator. McLaurln, "this Is a very dear friend of mine from your own state. He comes, In fact, from a town quite close to your town of Nnhant. I shall he glad If you wdl take him to the White House and get him a personal In terview with the president, and there are several other attentions which I should bo glad to have you show hlni and which he will explain to you." With a twinkle In his eye and a twitch ing at his mouth Mr. Mclaurln vanished Into the senate chamber, and for the rest of the day Mr. Idge was busy showing the Massachusetts couple around. , Speaker Cannon was talking about the queer requests he receives for appropria tions from Investigators of various kinds. "One time a government scientist asked for $1S,000 for the study of astrophysical science. I asked him whnt he meant by astrophysical. And what do you think lie told me?" " 'Why,' he said, 'astrophysical Is the study of the sun's rays behind the red.' "Think of it! Kiphhteen thousand of the government's good hard-earned money for the study of the sun's rays behind the red. " 'What are the sun's rays behind the red?" I asked. " 'Why, the colors of the spectrum out side of the red,' the man of science ire piled. " 'Can you see 'em?' I asked. " 'No.' he replied, 'but I think I could If I had the 118.0X1.' " Senator Foraker. while debuting the pure food bill, was getting warm on the subject of fusel oil tn whisky. He had submitted to several Interruptions and his patience was about exhausted when Senator Tillman asked him a question. The Ohio man re plied somewhat pettishly, whereupon Till man said: "I was head barkeeper down In South Carolina when the dispensary sys tem was Inaugurated, and I know what I am talking about." Mr. Foraker allowed him to go on and In five minutes the south erner amply made good his boast and had shown that he was the best posted man In the senate on the making of whisky, and had silenced everybody, Foraker Included. "I am not much of a sharp on tho taste of whisky, but I know all about the mak ing of it," he ended triumphantly, and no one could say him nay. Representative Payne of New York was guilty of perpetrating a pun In the house recently. He askeil for the re-enrollment of a bill concerning a dam, which he ex plained had in some way lieen lost. Mr. Alexander of New York asked if It Wiis not a bill whic h had been sent to the president and returned. "Oh. no," replied Mr. Payne, "It Is not that dam bill; It Is another dam bill." The houKu laughed and Mr. Payne laughed. Relief Should Be Prompt. Portland Oregoiilan. I'nlesa the world comes promptly and fullhanded to the relief of the famine stricken of northern Japan, tens of thou sands of the people must parish. Civilisa tion knows, in a stress of this kind, neither race nor creed. The trouble will not be in withholding supplies from theae destitute people, but In getting relief to them before it is too late. With Its population deci mated by war and famine, the island em pire still plucklly holds up its head and looks confidently to the future, when. With expanded area, It will lie able to provide for Its own against stress of drouth and menace of Invasion. In the meantime, however. Its starving subjects by tens of thousands ask for temporary relief In order I tutu Ibry uiay not luUcrubly ptriali PK.WSON!, MtTK.K. William II. Melntyre. fourth vice presi dent of the Equitable A.'surance society, has finally been Iocs ted. He is president of a railroad In Texas. Mark Twain rsn now reciprocate felicita tions to William P. Hon ells, who Is TO years old this week. Uoth are getting busier and better all the time. Emperor William 1ms appointed Prof. Ernst von Hergmann a member of the up per house of Parliament for life. This Is the first time that such nn honor has been conferred on a member of the medical pro fession. Luther Rurbank has IihiI to call a halt on his visitors. tASt year he entertained over 6.000 persons Interested in his experiments and scientific work, and lie says he lost too much valuable time and he has posted signs on his grounds forbidding trespassing. The New York papers are parading the news that Mrs. Yerkes, who married a young fellow named Mistier some hours arter the death of the multimillionaire from whom she had been living apart, has thrown over her young husband. The cause Is stated to be the discovcrey that he married her for her money. It is expected that when General Orosve nor of Ohio shall retire from congress a large number of heads will fall In the vHri ous departments. In Washington. During his long service In the house the general has had many fights and many obstreperous constituents have been Induced to be good by the conferring of offices. They will all have to go when his successor romes in. The school children of Kentucky have raised above in.000 for a statue of the late Stephen C. Foster, author of "My Old Ken tucky Home." The work Is to be done by W. J,. Roop of Ixiulsvllle, who has recently obtained In Pittsburg a photograph of Mr. Foster, taken about ISfiS. A plaster cast f the statue Is to be ready for unveiling at Ioulsvllle next June In connection with the celebration of "Honie-conilng week." A HMI.HOMI KRROR. Demand for Public Control of Hates o en- Thing. San Francisco Chronicle. At a recent banquet at Ixis Angeli President K. P. Ripley of the Santa Fo railroad was reported as saying that in his opinion "the agitation of the rate ques tion may be said to have started with th report of the interstate Commerce com mission In the spring of 1!KM." The re mark simply shows the fallibility of the memory of a busy man. The agitation for the effective public control of railroad rates began forty years ago, more or less, and was conducted far more bitterly than now for many years, until the great under lying doctrine was settled, about a quarter of a century ago, by the supreme court of the I'nlted States In what are known as the "granger cases." Following that, and state regulation of Interstate com merce having been found ineffective, there was another bitter contest, which resulted In the creation of the I'nlted Stutrs Inter state Commerce commission. Within a few years after that, and following cer tain decisions of the supreme court, there began the present phase of the agitation, which is apparently about to culminate In a law actually conferring upon the commission the power which the people demand that It shall have, and which was supposed to have been conferred by the original law creating tho commission. It Is astonishing that Mr. Ripley should have forgotten all this that happened pre vious to 19f4. Doubtless Mr. Ripley was right In say: Ing that no railroad company willingly gives secret or other rebates from Its pub lished charges, but that traffic managers only stand and deliver when big shippers threaten diversion of traffic If rebates are not given. That Is no excuse for violation of law. There was' never a day when tho railroads did not have It in their power to put an end to the depredations of these commercial highwaymen. Had Mr. Vun derbllt and the other railroad presidents, who, years ago, signed the Infamous con tract which Rockefeller extorted from them, instead of signing, published the contract which Rockefeller demanded that they should sign they would have amply protected themselves and their companies, and the whole history of railroad legisla tion In the I'nlted States would have been changed. Publicity is the remedy for a multitude of evils, and the public, can never be got to believe that the railroads have not adopted this policy In respect to matters In which they were the vic tims, for the reason that they did not dare let in the light on transactions In which they were themselves the bandits and other people the victims. It Is useless to ignore the fact that railroad officials have abused their powers, and to that Is due the Inflexible determination of the people to reduce, come what may, these powerful corporations to complete submis sion. Cause and Effect. Brooklyn Eagle. One strange thing about foreigners who enter our universities Is that they study language, science, history and philosophy, while some Americans go there to study leaping, rowing and foot hall. Is that why the foreigners are always pushed so hard when we have to fight them? Coal. Wood. Coke, Kindling. W soil tha best Ohio and Colorado Coals -cloan, hot, lasting: Also tho Illinois, Hanna, Shsrldan, Walnut Block, Stoam Coal, Ete. For gansral purposes, uss Chsrokaa Lump, $5.50; Nut, $5.00 par ton Missouri Lump, $4.75; Lsrgt Nut, $4.50-makes a hot, quick firs. Our hard coal Is ths SCKANTOM, tha bost Pennsylvania anthraclts Wo also ssll Spadra, tho hardest and elssnost Arkansas hard eoal All our coal hand scraanad and waif had ovar any oity scales desired COUTANT &. SQUIRES ,r..?S?.AM Man wants lt'MJ here below, But lie wants that little flood. rAKTKTXAK PKOPLK FIND Hillers Old Standard Whiskey ''liotllttl in Bond." &)e Best for Home Use. It is a Kentucky whiskey, distilled and aged under govern ment supervision. The government stamp is on every bottle to vouch for Its age. strength and purity. hKK THAT IT IS IX VOl'K HOMK. IP IT COMES FROM MILLER'S I 130S Parasat Street Miller's Whisk ij. full quarts union TKNIX; SKIES. Mrnnrlni 4 loads Passlna from Ihe llnslnrss llorlsnn. Washington Post. Often over s fair and sunny summer Inndsispc, suddenly from some mysterious somewhere there rise and anther dark, muttering clouds that shut out the Unlit and bring vague forebodings of storm and wreck. Sometimes the fury of nsturs Is let loose and devastation and ruin spread for miles about, and sometimes the clouds melt away without, a gust, and all Is serene again. Bo it Is In the business and financial world. For a long period now our skies have been tindlmmed, till all at' once the sun ceased to snlne so brightly a great and destructive strike loomed on ths horizon, serious complication over Mo rocco began to appear, holding possibili ties of widespread strife; troubles threat ened in China, a tarlfT war with Germany most Injurious to trade seemed Imminent, and the railroad rato situation; began tn look complicated and almost .Imposslbla of solution. Now, quickly as they gathered, these menacing conditions seem to be pass ing away. Miners and operators have met on n friendly basis, and arc confer ring together In a spirit of conciliation and with a realising sense , that ' there is a public to lie reckoned with. The envoys at Algeelras. though still skirmishing for position, make It evident that the contro versy, even If unsettled, holds no war In Its bosom; the best Chinese authorities feel assured that there will bo no Imme diate outbreak. 1 modus vlvendl Is ar ranged with Germany, railroad earnings, which were thought to have reached about the limit, are still advancing; the season's business has been excellent, and the prom ise of spring ttjidc was never so rosy. Crop prospects, so far as they ran be prognosticated at this season, sre favor able. There has been some apprehension thst new enterprises Involving vast expendi tures nnd the necessity for floating im mense amounts of securities were being brough forward fa rapidly as to menace the stability of '"financial conditions, but it must not be forgotten that there Is every month poured Into the world's money supply over t1o.ono.0no gold, and that bank note circulation In this country has vastly Increased. If all sorts of construction are , expanding, so are the tools to do It wrth Increasing, and It Is reassuring to find the financial skies. If not yet wholly cloudless, by no means overcast. POIXTK.U REMARKS. Mrs. Sllmson I thought yon were coming home early to punish Willie for telling that lie. ( Sllmson I was, but I had to stop at the cltv hall and swear off my taxes. Brooklyn Dife. Mrs. Chugwater .Toslnh. this paper speaks of a limn in Washington as a "senatorial time-server." What does that mean? Mr. Chugwater 1 reckon he's the man that winds thesennte clock. What do von want 'o ask such a fool question as that for? Chicago Tribune. He (guardedly) Dn you believe the old saying that two can live as cheap as one? She (unreservedlv) Ves, If they nre a cheap couple to begin with. St. lxmls Post Dispatch. "I don't hear the complaint that I used to about the Idleness of the wealthy classes." "No."'nnswered Mr. Dustln Stax. "These Investigating committees are now criticising us for getting too busy." Washington Star. "We Americans eat too much," said ths scientist. "Yes," said the ordinary citlsen. "We se the cost of food going up so fast that we feel there is no time to lose." Washington Star. First Doctor Have you noticed that the people who live In a mountainous country generally have good lungs? ... Rccond Doctor Ves. If they don't, they die there. Soincrvllle Journal. Wife Here's the elocknuiker, come to fit our clock. Go upstairs and get It for him, won't you? Husband (lazily) It Isn't upstairs. Is It? Wife Certainly. Where did you think It was? Husband I thourht It had run down. Philadelphia Ledger. "I suppose vou expect to move your audi tors by your eloquence." "Thut Isn't mv object," answered the young orator. "I will he thankful If T can keep them ln their seats. Washington Star NORTHERN I.K.HTS. The Spectator. All scentless tn the fields of stinw, The valley mists hang deep below; No earthly damps attaint the air. And ail Is pure and white and fair. No stir betrays the wandering breeze, No whisper from the frozen trees; . They muster still and stark and pals, A phantom host In silver mall. And silver-studded over all Is drawn night's velvet purple pall. And all Is peace; the fitful breath Seems sacrilege In this land of death. When far athwart the northern pols The rainbow-tinted streamers roll, The leaguered wizard of the north Has flung his fiery challenge forth. And, where across the frozen plain l.les the grim harvest of the slain. His ley searchlights coldly sweep The approaches to his virgin keep. So are there latitudes too hljjh In realms of cold philosophy And barren wastes that canno.-glve The bread whereby a man may live. IT MUST BE GOOD . HOC, $1.00, $IM