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CniK OMAHA DAILY BER: THURSDAY. DCTOnER 4. 1906.
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VICTOR P.UUKWATI'.ll, EDITOR. .
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STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION.
t;ite of Nebraska,' Douglas County, as:
George B. Tiachuck. treaaurer of Ttie Bee
Publishing company. . being duly aworn,
aavs that the actual number of full and
oinplete coplea of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of September, 19S, waa aa fol.
lows:
1 34,430
2 30,80
t 31,080
4 30,CSO
6 30,370
i 80,730
7 30,480
1 3040
S 30,470
0 30,380
14 30,870
1? . . . .30,580
II 30.T10
19. , 30,860
20 30.860
21 30,660
!I 41,140
21 30,418
24 80,710
26 30,680
tt ,...30,840
17 38180
28 34.870
29., 36.600
' 30.' 30,600
11. .
12. ,
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14. .
'.5. .
.80,340
.30,430
.30,330
.30,000
.30,890
Total
637,360
, . . . 8,608
Leas unaolil coplea
Net total sales.. 887,843
DalljV average . , 30,938
CHARUES C. ROSEWATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In ray pretence and aworn
to before me this let day of October,
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(Seal.) M. B. HUNOATE.
Notary Public
WHEX Ot'T OP TOWH.
ftabacrlber leaving the city tem
porarily shoald have . The Bee
mailed to them. Address- will he
ckaaged aa oftea aa requested.
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None are too high and none too low
jo pay homage to King Ak-6ar-Ben.
Mobile is fortunate iu that nature
proved more violent than man during
the recent troubles.
Judge Parker's "reply" to Candidate
Hearst proves how people will take ad
vantage of every opportunity to emerge
from oblivion.
If It becomes necessary to have some
one sit on the lid in Cuba, Governor
Magoon can put as much weight on it
as Governor Taft.
Americans should bear Russian com
ment on race wart calmly for it must
be admitted that the Muscovite has a
rejoinder "coming."
The real monument of William
Lloyd Garrison and his associates is a
federal constitution which does not
wink at chattel slavery.
Incidentally, it may not be amiss to
recall again that Governor Magoon
started his career in Nebraska as a
special traveling . correspondent for
Th6 Bee.
By keeping a sharp lookout General
Weyler may learn how Cuba could
have been pacified without "concen
tration" camps and barbed-wire
trochas.
Between giving up arms and surren
dering offices when no taxes could be
collected, Cuban rebels are losing more
than the regulars through Amer
ican Intervention.
Omaha grain receipts for September
show up. satisfactorily in advance of
the grain receipts for the same month
of last year. As a grain market Omaha
is evidently making good.
When Colonel Bryan speaks in Colo
rado during the present campaign he
will be In position to see what the gold
standard, he so greatly feared, has
done for the Centennial state.
Advance notice . that residents of
Kureka, Cal.. trill mob Chinamen gives
the governor of that state an oppor
tunity o. enow hew much stronger lie
Is thau the governor of Poland.
While,' second class mail laws may
tequlre revision, the-average1 congress
man will wait until hearing front the
couutrx editors before taking other lib
erties with the privileges of the press.
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TbeMemocratlc campaign book has
undoubtedly- discovered the key to
democratic harmony,' for while prac
tically slleut. on democratic policies It
attacks U things republican with or
without reason. - -
The local. democratic organ contin
ues to appeal to republicans "to stand
by Roosevelt" by electing democrats
to congress to obstruct and nullify the
president's policy. The mere state
ment' of the. proposition refutea it.
Young Theodore Rooaevelt is experi
encing one effect of the popular demand
for "a square deal for all," but la
probably aa much surprised as others
that the. duct rise should be extended to
include college students up to pranks.
Members p( the city council who
imagine that they have bwen freed,
from complaints about Inadequate
atreet car transfers are fooling tntm
selves.' No street car transfer system
was ever invented that A not leave
buni places to register kick. s-
DK.WOTBATfC ( AMPAlGy ROOK.
The democratic campaign book Is a
bulky volume, swollen and padded out
with a mass of Irrelevant and Incom
petent contents. It editorial spirit Is
narrowly and atrociously partisan and
misleading;, and by Its very excesses at
once exposes the lack of merit In the
party's case and offends the spirit of
fair play which is more potent and as
sertive In our (folltlrs today than ever
before. An opposition exposition, If
truthful In statement and candid in
criticism, may do an Important public
service, htit this performance Is the re
verse of either. It falls utterly even
as a controversial effort in the. vital
point that it presents no consistent
democratic program over against the
republican program, and no demo
cratic record over against the repub
lican record.
An enormous amount of space is
consumed with a repetitious jumble of
the cant and contention of a dozen by
gone anti-tariff campaigns, no two of
which in fact were consistent and all
of which were repudiated by the demo
cratic party Itself when it was saddled
with the responsibility of actual power.
The whole web'is spun, as heretofore,
out of eager partisanship, lacking bet
ter recommendation, and is an avoid
ance of the great vital issues which
President Roosevelt is In the midst of
a manfrl and successful effort, under
the mandate and with the approval of
the mass of earnest citizenship to meet.
The Infallible result of the spirit
breathing through every chapter'and
line of this campaign book, if the dem
ocratic party had controlled either
branch of the congress elected witll
President Roosevelt, would' have been
to break down his progressive policy
and prevent all the great results of ad
ministration and legislation during the
last two years. For nothing can be
more certain than that, if a wholesale
revision or ripping up of the tariff had
been attempted, it would have been ut
terly impossible to secure the enact
ment of the great rate control law and
a half dosen other important measures
at the late session of congress, for cor
poration restraint. The will of the
people on the paramount issue has
been put In notably successful process
of execution solely because the demo
cratic party has not been in position
to embarrass and paralyze the work of
President Roosevelt.
The campaign book thus really af
fords at this late stage Of the political
contest to thoughtful and patriotic
men most signal proof of the folly of
giving the democratic party such power
in the next congress. While many
democratic candidates are forced by
the president's popularity to report to
the preposterous pretense of sympathy
with him, this authoritative,., party
statement reveals uncontrollable par
tisan animosity, indulging even in the
extreme of vituperation as well as mis
representation of the president. Its
result should and doubtless will be to
throw only Into bolder relief the fact,
as the president himself from the out
set has declared, that the true and sole
Issue is whether he is to be sustained
by the election of a republican congress
or checkmated by the election of a
democratic congress.
SECURITY OF THE IXTElliUH.
The interior of the continent 1 sin-
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gularly exempt from destructive con
vulsions of nature in .comparison with
the coasts and the adjacent regions. It
has been almost a century since the
earthquake which was central at New
Madrid, Mo., and since then no serious
shock has occurred within the great
agricultural valley country. Its pro
found security contrasts strikingly with'
the frightful earthquake catastrophe
at San Francisco and the devastation
by storm at Mobile and Pensacola and
the engulfing of Galveston by tidal
wave a few years ago.
Yet the communities that are ex
posed to destructive visitation by
earth tremors and ocean storms are
able in spite of all to repair, damage
and upon the whole to prosper, Ne
braska and the bordering states are
fortunate to be able to go on in their
Industrial course unafraid and unhin
dered by such tremendous losses. The
worst we have to fear is river flood
and tornado violence, but rarely more
than along a narrow path, or once
in many years a hot wind to
hurt the crops. .With safety our peo
ple enjoy' certainty of reward in pos
session and development of . marvel
ous!' rich resources. i
MB.HUYAKS ,'SWESTErPlXG." . ,
I Mr. Bryan s sidestepping as to na
j tional and state ownership of all-rall-
roads, it Is clear, has not increased his
j prestige, for a "radical" leader ean
I not safe) begin to qualify the moment
party associates protest. Whatever
Mr. Bryan may assert, the public was
warranted in interpreting his New
York nronunciameuto as a line of pol
icy deliberately proposed by hni as
a substitute for national regulation,
or as the end towards which regula
tion was to be a mere short step. In
deed, aa a partisan leader, the only
alternative open to him was indorse
ment of President Roosevelt and co
operation under his leadership in the
policy of regulation, since that ground
has been fully occupied.
The sole excuse that Mr. Bryan has
been able to find and which be has
repeated over and over again, and moat
elaborately at New Orleans, is that at
New York he waa merely expressing
his personal opinion, that he was the
farthest Imaginable . from "trying to
commit the democratic party to this
doctrine" and that it is immaterial
whether it Is put in the democratic
platform. In short, his apology as
sumes that he appeared at New York
merely as a lecturer or agitator, and
not at all as a party leader. But
in point of fact, though that asaump-
(r.n niuv It r.k n V II I A n ttT t V) A Hill.
poe, thfl stage ass erected, the audi
ence Invited and every preliminary ar
ranged for his ctHlverance on lhnt oc
caslen aa the cbon party leader and
destined presidential candidate, and
Mr. Bryan himself had for months
bc-en acting practically as stage direc
tor. Though the political campaign
was well advanced, his party awaited
his homecoming to be given the cue,
not only for this year's election, but
also for the greater battle to follow,
presumably under his generalship.
Either Mr. Bryan utterly miscon
ceived the occasion and the opportunity
or he gave a false war cry. And
either case has plunged him Into the
necessity of defense, apology and "side
stepping," to which practically his
whole southern speaking tour has been
devoted.
CHKAPKR GAS.
The proposal of representatives of
the Omaha Gas company to reduce the
price of gas to 1.00 in consideration
of an extension of their present fran
chise is worthy of consideration as an
indication that concessions might be
had by negotiations if satisfactory
terms can be reached. That it would
be far better to get relief from the
present gas company than to seek it
by granting a. second franchise to a
competing company Is self-evident to
all who have studied the problem.
Successful competition "in gas is not
to be found in any city of any size In
this country, although the attempt has
been made time and again, and If we
are ever to reach the stage of munic
ipal ownership the city will be in much
stronger position with only one gas
plant to acquire rather than two.
The suggestion, however, is good
and applies for that matter not only
to gas franchises, but to other fran
chises as well, that the city should
formulate its own scheme of franchise
concessions and fix the terms with a
view to safeguarding the public inter
ests as well as protecting the private
consumer as a condition precedent to
submitting any proposition to the
people for ratification. In the present
case the price of gas in Omaha has al
ready been reduced 20 cents a thou
sand cibic feet within the past year
and the proposed reduction to $1.00 is
not to take effect for another year,
so that there is no reason for great
haste on either side. .
If the city and the gas company can
get together without yielding, any of
the reasonable demands of the public
it would be a consummation highly
desirable, but it would not do to sac
rifice the interests of the Greater
Omaha of the future for a small pres
ent gain.
The art of the parade promoter, as
exemplified in the Ak-Sar-Ben pa
geants, shows steady and marked im
provement. In artistic conception and
practical execution the parades we are
witnessing these days are as much
superior to those of ten years back as
(he modern mammoth circus over the
one-ringed tent show of long ago
President. Roosevelt has ordered
the removal of two United States
marshals, one in Ohio for violating
the civil service regulations and one
in Louisiana for general unfitness. If
the removed officials want sympathy
fiom others whohave gone through
the same mill, they might get It In
Nebraska.
Street fair attendance figures for
Ak-Sar-Ben XII. are already ahead of
the attendance figures of Ak-Sar-Ben
XI. up to this point of the carnival
period. The chancellor of the royal
exchequer should soon find himself -on
Easy street.
The death ot a Swedish vice consul
at the hands of alleged Russian revolu
tionists might start a movement for
the pacification of the empire if all
kings did not fear that more than one
royal head would fall in the settlement.-
Since Chicago has fined a bunch of
packers for selling "short 'weight"
lard, buckets bearing the Chicago
brand should be tested in other places
as the surplus stock must be worked
off somewhere.
Theory and Prarttt-r.
Washington Poat.
Borne millionaires are alwaya ready to
exprexa the opinion that the poor men of
the country ought to have a greater ahare
of Ita wealth, but when It cornea to letting
go of some ot It, they make use of the
alow freight.
Hard Tack. Bra a aad Coffee.
Cincinnati Rnqulrer.
The War department ha a decided ugalnat
the propoeftlon to feed American troope
a ho may be aent to Cuba on rice and dried
fruit, the diet on. which the Japuncae aol
diei'S. are entd to have gaatronomlcally
prospered. Nothing finer than good old
hard tack and bcana, and some real coffee.
Still Seeklaar the Cap.
Baltimore American.
Sir Thoraaa Upton la to challenge again
for the American cup, and he'a about the
only challenger that we would be witling
to aee win It. We have rheered him ao
often for being a good loaer that we could
not refrain from cheering 'again If he
proved thia time a good winner. But. In
the meantime, we are going to do all In
our power to keep him from being a winner,
alnce we have got ao In the habit of de
fending the cjp aucceaafully againat all
comera.
Ilryaa aad Hearat.
Philadelphia Ledger
Mr. Bryan's profeaaion of gratification at
the nomination of Hearst, and hia belief
that Hearat would make "a good governor,"
will ba rememiiered againat the Nebraakan
when more creditable utteraDcea ahall have
been forgotten. They will be chalked up
on the record In clone juxtapoattton with
the "mors radical than ver" speech and
with his hasty remarks on government
ownership, and nona of theae will help to
ratae Mr. Bryan In the estimation of hia
countrymen. On the contrary, they will
da much to revive the distrust and terror
which led to his emphatic rejection by the
American people, and may be the .cause of
a repetition of the verdict, .
BIT or WIIMUTtl I.IFK.
Mlaar Sreaea and larldenla sketrhed
mn the. Spot.
American limrvenlon in t'ulia for the
riorat!oii of p--e alvea Washington cor
respondent a timely opportunity to draw
upon their utorea of renlulm nice of the In
vasion of eight year, ago, when Spanish
rule ana ended. Newa at the national cap
Itol would, now. have been a aearve article
If Ihe Cuban had pot called for the aa
alatanee of your uncle. And the vein will
he worked to the limit. More "hot atuff"
will b dug up In Yaahinaion than In Cuba,
preclaely aa the aoribea at the White House
eight years ago distanced correspondents
st the firing line.
"All the big news of the Spanish war,"
wrltee a correspondent of the Pittsburg
Dispatch, "came from Madrid and Wash
ington, chiefly from the American capital,
for Madrid waa not eager to report the 'aad
but serious day1 the Spanish navy waa
having. The official report of the battle off
Santiago cameUn eighteen hours ahead of
the newspaper report, simply because the
naval officers had first call on the cable
rperators' service. Official message
clogged tm wire and the newspaper men
had to travel hundreds of miles to file their
stuff. The Japanese war office took extrnor
dinary precautions, i while pretending to
do the reverse, to make It Impoasible for
the correspondents to get where they could
see anything, or. If permitting them to aee,
to file dispatches that were of any account.
All the Important news concerning opera
tions In that war came from Toklo and St.
Petersburg. The war correspondents bad a
little taste of glory in reporting the peace
conference at Portsmouth, but even there
they were overshadowed by the men who
had been In touch with the political end of
the game In the capitals.
"During war all wires run to the capital.
During our civil war censors watched all
matter sent out from Washington. To that
fact la attributable the two or three notable
scoopa achieved by correspondents who
had seen battles. In two Instance the
correspondents hurried to Washington after
witnessing Important engagements In Vir
ginia. They, found that they could geW
nothing- through the telegraph office here,
ao they hustled on to Philadelphia, where
there waa no censorship. Concerning one
correspondent who saw the first battle of
Bull Run it la asserted that he was ao
frightened that he did not stop here at all,
but kept right on to Philadelphia to make
certain that he would not fall Into the
hands of the rebels. lie achieved a scoop
by reason of hia fright. It frightened he
was.
"The atory of the' sea battle off Santiago
and the Sea of Japan were concocted right
here In Washington. The account of tht
latter waa never queatloned because It
waa ao far away that there were no re
porters on either the Russian and Japa
nese ships. The official reports were full
enough to enable the correspondents who
described a scene 1 0,000 miles away to
make a pretty fair story. But the imagi
nary picture of the battle off Santiago whs
proved to be wrong In a very few houra.
It represented Hehley and Sampson aa
having gone into ' Santiago harbor after
Cervera, Inatead of the latter havjn
made a dash to gvt away. President M:
Klnley and Secretariea Long and Algr
were responsible for driving the corre
spondenta to make-'bp' , report. They
wanted to hold the story until the Fourth
of July arrived. The fact that a victory
had been won leaked out and Oeneral
Miles confirmed It.' The original rumor
got abroad about o'clock in the evening.
Two houra later the newapaper repre
aented by the enterprising palntera of
an imaginary pictnYe waa on the street
of New York . announcing the victory us
having been achieve, Schley making
a daah Into Santiago. At midnight thJ
true atory waa glvoout, together with
Sampson's foolish . dispatch about the
'fleet under my command' presenting the
victory as a Fourth of July offering.
"Dewey'a victory waa announced by the
press association via Madrid. .Dewey's
official dispatches came the next. morning.
As Secretary Long read them in the blj
ante-room of hia office the late Mark
Hauna threw up tyls hat and danced a
Jig. General Fltahugh Lee, who had been
consul general at Havana, grabbed Hum
and waltxed him around the room, and
other prominent men cut up similar boy
ish capers to expreaa their Joy. , All tlw?
dispatches from Shaftert while he besieged
Santiago came out of the White House
before the war correspondents could get
their atorles through. Secretary Alger
gave out from hia office the letter written
by Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose
velt demanding that the troops In camp
there be aent away from that fever-lu-fested
region before the Spaniards had
finally aurrendered. Many military officers
then aatd that he should have ben court
martialed for writing that letter and for
signing a round robin to the same end.
If there is Cuban Intervention Washing
ton will be the news center, as It waa
eight years ago."
PKRSOVM, SOTK9.
By the will of W. Mpsea Wlllner rf
Chicago, Just admitted to probate, the
Academy of Science In Lincoln park la
enriched 1100, 0C0 and the Art Institute Is
given $50,000. 1
New York city employea have a new
complaint againat reform. The munic
ipality dec.Hnea to pay their rum bills,
giving them the choice of staying sober
or getting drunk at Individual expense.
Herr Dernburg, the Berlin buainess man
whom Emperor William haa (appointed
head of the Oerman colonial office in
place of Print Ernat Hohenlohe-Langer-berg,
started hia career aa a clerk and
rose to be a bank official with a salary of
S2,K00 a year.
W. Morgan Shuster, the young Wash
ington lawyer who haa been appointed by
the prealdent a member of the Philippine
commission. Is Juat past i years of age.
Hia appointment carries with It a salary
of US. 000. Mr. Shuster was formerly a
stenographer in one of the departments
in Washington.
Giovanni Sued, Ihe Florentine who
fasted for forty-five days, some sixteen
years ago, la at hia old tricks again. He
proposes to begin a new fast for fifteen
or twenty days and says he might fast
longer, but he is getting old and thinka
that a little nourishment every few weeks
will harm no one.
Both Charles K. Hughes and M. Linn
Bruce, the respective nominees for gov
ernor and lieutenant governor of New
York, are the aona of clergymen. Lieu
tenant Governor Bruce waa born In Mer
ceraburg, Pa., the son of a I'nited pres.
bytrrlan minister. Mi'. Hughes- father
waa a Baptist minister.
An English critic having aald that
Henry James "gropes hia way through
the English language like a blind man
tapping with a slick." the London Globe
rejoins that he might do worse, that
his methods at Iraat are "better than
thoae of some other novelists who dance
through the language aa If they were
doing a cake walk."
General Nogt of Port Arthur fame is
paying the penalty of popularity at the
hands of autograph aevkera. But the
funu which this has taken In Japan has
about It a touch of sentiment, inasmuch
aa the relatives of aoldlers who fell be
fore Port Arthur are aeeklng the gen
eral's autograph Inscription to ilac o
i la
tfc tombtos ef he 4eaL
r.mir or thk rail. tkvt.
I nele nm l.lkely ta He Saaeeaed
hr
be resahlae.
Sprlnafleld (Mass.) Republican.
What appears to he a conspiracy ef In
ternatlonal scope to aquceie t'nele Pern
through the prices to be paid for Panama
ranal material Is Indicated In a report
from Washington. The "war department
advertised for bids on a supply of stel
rails to go to the Isthmus, and It has ac
repted a bid from the foiled States Steel
rotporatlon of $2 a ton, the rails to be
delivered at Baltimore, the prevailing do
mestic price of rails at the mill or st
Pittsburg being $:. It la added In the
report that "aeveral foreign firms sub
mitted bids for the contract, but all of
their bids were in excess of the American
concern."
This Is a little strange, "prices of steel
rails In foreign countries are commonly
very much below our own. Their export
prices are usually a little below their do
mestic prices. It la very well known
that American producers have sold rails
for export at from f 20 to $24 a ton when
the domestic price 'la $28, and It waa only
a few months ago that one of the Pacific
roads was getting a supply of rails In
Spain at prices materially under the do
mestic price. Tet when the United States
government appears as a buyer of rails
the foreign prices go tip to and- even
above the United States Steel corporation
price.
This singular fact requires explanation.
The last congress session decreed that the
government should buy Its canal material
of domestic producers, except when the
prlcea asked are evidently extortionate.
The domestle price of ralla would appear
to be extortionate If foreign ralla should
be offered at materially lower prices. Has
the steel trust,-ln order to protect Itself
from the appearance of being extortion
ate, contrived with leading foreign pro
ducers for the quotation of higher prlcea
In response to bids from the Washing
ton government T The steel truat haa
lately been a considerable exporter of
rails In spite of the claim that the do
mestic demand la all It can take care of,
and It might not be a very difficult mat
ter for the truat to agree with foreign
producers to keep out of certain of their
markets In return for protecting the
truat In exacting the full domestic price
on rails and other iron and steel ma
terial for the outside market of Panama.
If such Is the case, then We have the
steel trust not only combining at home to
squeeze the domeatlc market to the full
extent of the tariff protection afforded,
but combining to squeese the United
States government Itself as a large buyer
of material for outside use. The on to
look Into this matter Is the Washington
administration, but Is there any probabil
ity that It will do ao as long as It remains
under the dominion of the atandpat tariff
crowd ?
a qt estios or labels.
Patent Medicine Makers Kick on the
Regulations.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The patent medicine protest agalmt the
pure food law, which proved so powerful
In congress, haa cropped up again In the
hearing before the commission which la
trying to formulate rults for the label
which food and medicinal preparations
must bear under the law. The law provides
that the label must disclose the presence uf
alcohol, opium, cocaine and all other nar
cotics In a prominent place. The commis
sion announced that no type could be
smaller than long primer capa type two
points larger than that In which this ed
itorial la printed, and which might easily
be mistaken ' for this brevier by anyone
save a. skilled printer. Thereupon, one of
the patent medicine representatives pro
tested that the type proposed was "as big
as a barn door," and added: "This com
mlasion certainly does not wish - to rlile
that manufacturers who have a little alco
hol or narcotic should frighten the pros
pective customer away with a scarecrow
sign on the bottle."
That is Juat the thing which the label
provision of the law was ado)ted to do.
It proposes to acare the purchasers until
It scares the manufacturers out of selling
cocaine, alcohol and morphine under in
nocent and attractive names. The law Is
not now ao strict as that In England, un
der which a soothing syrup widely Bold in
this country without any warning Is made
to bear the word "Poison" on Its labehjq
In this country lis manufacturers will sat
lufy the new law if they print the word
"opium" on their labels In long primer
capa. Instead of protesting againat the
slxe of the type which the commission se
lected the manufacturers would better take
what they can get. The history of the
meat agitation which followed the packers'
fight on the meat bill In congress ought to
serve tin an object lecson. It would not
take much to start an agitation which
would hurt some natent medicines worse
than long primer labels will. One pickle
manufacturer saw that point and he made
a speech urging that "the general and un
restricted use of preservatives be abol-
uhiut ' Kn doubt the restricted use of
prewrvatlvea which the law allows la
enough for his business, but at any rate,
he understood the advantage of seeming to
be with a law for protecting health rather
than against it. Opposition to such a laud
able object breeds suspicion of the goods
sold by everybody who. takes part in It.
SOT . DEAD LETTER.
Steps to Enforce Safety Appliance
Law on Railroada.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Th railroad safety appliance law was
enacted to be obeyed and enforced, and
not merely aa an expreaslon of opinion
or a bid for popularity. Railroada that
have Ignored the law on the old assump
tion that legislation need not Involve en
forcement, and have neglected the pre
scribed equipment of their trains, are to
ba spurred by legal prooeertlnga by th
federal department of jnstlre that will
serve aa a timely notification that there J
la an executive who doea things and la
In earnest behind the antUwreck la
The attorney grneral has oraerea tne
starting of aulta for the recovery of penal
tiea against forty or more railways charged
with Ignoring the law by falling or delay
ing to provide their trains with the aafety
appliances prescribed. The penalty for
each often is $H". Against on minor
road flfty-on offense are alleged. That
road, at least. Is likely to find violation of
law an expensive luxury. All of the roads
will have the needed warring that the law
is a live one with the iron teeth of en
forcement In It.
On the public mind the atartlng of these
suits, or the occaalon for them, will have
an effect that the railroada should have
been solicitous to avoid. Prompt compli
ance with the law and doubtless in many
cases there haa been prompt compliance
would have been a matter of placid self
interest for the roads, to say nothing of
the duty they owe to their patrons and
employes.
Th liiMltutlon of the suila will have a
salutary effect on the roads; but it will
go to strengthen an Impression that rail
roada are by no mean so regardful of
law and the public safety aa they ahould
be; and that Impression most decidedly
is one the roads ran not afford to Incur
at thia time of anti-railway agitation and
demagogiam..
Individuals and corporations that owe
moat to general reapeot for law ar pre
claely the one who can least afford to
t an example of disrespect for law.
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A Cream of Tartar Povidar
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MO ALUM
A XA.TIOM OP TRAVELERS.
Average )f Klsje Trips fnr Every Man,
Woman and Child.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The complete report of the Interstate
Commerce commission, which haa Just been
published, shows that In the fiscal year
ended June go, IW, the gross earnings of
the railroads of the United States were
.082.482,4(111 passing for the first time
the two billion mark, and being an In
crease of $in7,a,S15 over the earnings of
1904. Operating expenses in 19C5 were
$1,390,602,162, leaving net earnings of $991.
880,254, an Increase over the previous year
of $55,002,416. The operating expenses aver
aged a trifle more than two-thirds of the
gross Income.
That we are a nation of travelers is
shown by the commission's report that the
total number of pawengers carried by the
railroads In 190S was 738.8S4.ti8T. Estimate
Ing our population at -80,000,000, It appears
that on an average every man, woman and
child In the country took over nine trips
that year on the ateam railroads, to say
nothing of their travels on elevated, sur
face and subway lines using electric, cable
or other motive power.
There may be some people In this coun
try who have never traveled on tteam
railroads, but the companies don't mits
(Item. In 1905 the railroads carried 23.419 -9S5
mora passengers than in 1904.
As a rule In making reports of the ia
aenger traffic the railroada do not Include
those traveling on passes, an lmiiicnsi
number In the aggregate. It will not be as
large In the future, owing to the . atltl
pas provisions of the new Interstate com
merce law. While there will be a big
decrease henceforth in the number of
"deadheada," the earnings of the rail
roads from passenger traffic will show an
enormous Increase. Not only will pases
be abolished, except for railway men. bul
nearly all reduced rates for individuals
and many low rates which have been
granted on account of corfentlons nnd
other events will be discontinued.
It Is probable .that a number .of states
will Jenactlawai this 'year! rtduefag "tUr
maximum passenger rate to 2 cents a
mile, but thl may result In gain In
atead of a losa In earnings to the railroads.
It did so In the case of the Boston &
Maine road, which recently voluntarily cut
Its passenger rate from 3 cents to I cents
per mile.
The Increase In travel on that line was
ao g'reat at the lower rate that there waa
a big gain In net passenger earnings, much
to the discomfiture of the managers of
some other roads, who predicted disaster
from the rate reduction.
BEFORE A 11 AFTER TAKIXO.
Melancholy Days for the Party
of
Seymour nnd Tllden.
Philadelphia Record (dcin.t.
The democratic party elected ita candi
dates for governor of New York 4n lS&i,
1885, 18S8 and 18il by majorities ranging all
the way from 11.138 to 192,Rfi4. It liasn'4
elected a governor since. Six times In suc
cession the republicans have elected their
candidates and three times their majority
has gone over lOO.ono and once It went to
12.000. That was In 1896. The year Is sig
nificant; it ought . to set democrats to
thinking. ' '
From 1874 to 1892 there were ten elections
of congressmen and eight times out of the
ten the democrats elected a majority. They
have not had a majority In the house
since. During that period they ejected the
president twice, not to apeak of the dia
puted election of 1871 and they secured a
majority In the senate. Do they want to
carry any more elections, or would they
rather alt on the fence and make faces at
the republican procession as It passes by?
They can go back to democracy and win,
or they can go ahead with financial nos
trums and popullstlc. notions and fool
around with socialism and make all aorta
of experiments to aee how they will work
with th people, and stay out of power.
This country needs the democratic party;
republicans even confess the need of It.
It needs a party of Individualism, of local
self-government, of low taxes on Imports
and of freedom from entangling alliances
abroad. But it does not need and will not
have socialism or attacks on Industry and
its rewards or efforts to turn the nation'i
financial system wrong end up or expert
menta. In spite' of the appeal of the real
democrats who constituted the recent Al
bany conference, the Independence league
and Ita candidate captured the democratic
convention, and the republicans will con
tinue to govern the atate of New Tork.
They will continue to govern the United
Statea unless the democrats ceaa wallow
ing In the mire.
Expreaa Franks Called
In.
Springfield Republican.
If Senator Piatt aa president of the
United Statea express company has sent
requests to Nebraska congressmen and
public officials for the return of franks
given to them. It Is presumable that he
haa sent similar notices to other congress
men and public officials. And if this U so
it is presumable that express company
franks ar quit as common among pub
lic official a free railroad passes have
been. Thu I the new rat law operating
to sever another relationship of mutual
profit between lht public service corpora
tions and public offlciala.
Costly Llleratar.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Watered stock la fiction published by
railroad magnates for the benefit of rail
road magnates at the expense of taxpay
er. It la the best paying literature In
existence, from the publishers standpoint,
and requires the least expenditure of In
tellectual effort. It la the moat expensive
liters"" ",i bv i h oublie.
nrIF,
MII.I3G LIKES.
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"Why did ye pass by dat house. Runs
seyT' 1
" 'Cause de dog looked too hospitable,'
"Whatcher mean?"
"He 'ad an expreaslon what said plala
er'n words, 'Come In and get a bite.' "
Baltimore American.
"It takes him a painfully long time :t
write a letter."
"Yea. he's trying to use ss many simpli
fied words as possible." Cleveland Plain .
Dealer.
"You should be Independent, of - these -trusts
and bosses." - . .
"That's what I'm aiming aU" said the
busy young statesman. "I'm trying to
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eaman. "I'm trying i .
noney so that by and. by f
ask them for a cent." A
save up enough money so that by ana. oy
I won't have to ask them xur a cent.
wasmngion istar.
"What chance," plaintively asked h ef
of the shiny dome,, "has a bald-headed
man In the world?" .
"A fighting chance," anawered th other
man. "His adveraary can't grab him by
the hair." Chicago Tribune.
"Slicker, the architect. Is making a big
hit with his new. scheme for suburban,
residences."
"What scheme la that?" '
"With every eontmrt for a suburban
residence he guarantees a constant sup
ply of servant girls for ten yeara' time."
Philadelphia Press.
"Whv In the world did Snlggsley want to '
marry his divorced wife again?"
'it seems that she'd saved up all th
alimony he paid her during the years they
lived apart. 'Cleveland Leader. '
"I see. the Standard Oil company Is buy
luK up distilleries."
"Yes. Probably couldn't stand the
thought of some one else handling fusel
oil." Milwaukee Sentinel.
Housekeeper--! tell you th price of
anthracite these days makes It 90m hard
to the coal buyer. . ' .
Wlaeman Yea, but It doesn't make H
come hard to . the coal cellar. Some
times ICS mixed with bituminous. Phlla- ,
delphla Catholic Standard. f
The atatesman a. rlbbled this on a card
and sent It out to the watting reporter:
"I refuse to be Intervude. As to tha
political situation it aulta me well enuf.
and I beleve lii 'letting well enuf .alone."
The "reporter SSnt him this feply, wrttJ'
ten on the other side of th card: - 1 -
"Then why don't you let the Eugliill
language alone?" Chicago Trlbun.
MY. FAIR AURORA.
Princeton Tiger.
Oh, the aim was shining softly through the
moonlight
' On the . rice fields of my old Nebraska
home, - .
While o'er the level mountains of Kanawa
Came the crashing of the silent ocean
foam.
For the wind was lightly humming through
the nettles,
And tliP- oranges were swinging on tB8
vine.
When I told my fair Aurora that I loved
her
And she softly answered that sh would
be mine. '
Then 1 gaxed Into her eyes with heavenly
rapture
As we walked together o'er the yellow
lawtn
While the August snow was beating on th
housetops
And the crocodiles were flitting through
the corn.
As tha river slowly glided up the hillside
And caat Its shadow o'er the waving
grain.
Within mv loving arms I softly held her
And knew at last 1 had not lived In vain.
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And even now the mention of Kanawa
Brings up memories of. that. Jong-forgp-ten
day,
And again I see the -murmur of the rein
deer And hear the starlight shine upon the
hay; ,
So If I were a aeagull (or a chicken)
I'd fly across lo yon far-distant ahore.
To Kanawa. where the butterflies are sing
ing
And Aurora lies beneath the sycamor.
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