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THE OMAHA DAILY REE: MONDAY, OTTOHEU The Omaha Daily Dee. POINDED BY KUWAKD W)?KVATKR. victoji. not evVaTeji, editor. Entered at Omaha postoftVe ss see.uid els matter. TERMS OK BrfCRlPTION. iHillr He (without fun.lly), one mr. .M I'sily Be and Sunday, one year "" Kunday Bee, one year Saturday Bee. ona year J-' DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Iallr Be tlneludlng Sunday), per week.. 15c I'ally Bee (without Hur1a. per week...l" Evening Bee (without Hunoy). per we k c Evening Bea (with Sjneay), r-r week...l"c Sunday Bee, per copy Address complaints of irreg ulsrltl'S In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee building. South Omaha City Mall building. Council BlufTa 10 Pearl etraet. Chicago lto 1'nfty building. New fork 1ft Home Life In. bulldiiig.- Washington 61 Fourteenth atreet. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed- Omaha Hce. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express or postal order piohle to The Bee Publishing company. onl.r 2-cent atampa received as payment of mall sccounts. personal checks, except on Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not a-cept-d. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCrLATION. State- df Nebraska. Douglas County, aa: tieorge B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The Bea Publishing company, being duly sworn, says thai the actual number of full ana complete copies- of The. Daily. Morning. Evening and Sunday Eee printed during the month of September, lf, waa a fol. lows: 1 34,430 1 10.S7 2 30,360 17 30,560 a..... 3i,oeo it ao.no 4 30,000 ' 1 30,950 ( 30,370 20 30.090 30.730 21 3OM0 7 30,480 22 41,140 ( 30,040 21 30,410 t 30,470 , 24..: 30,710 10 30,00 : ?.. ....... .30,600 11 30,340 21.... 30,040 12 30,430 27 30160 12 ..,.30,350 21 4,70 14 30,600 21 33.600 It 30,060 30 30,000 . Toial . . , Less unaold copies: Net .total sales. . Pally overage CHARLES Subscribed In my to oaf or ma thla 104. - (Seal. .337,360 . 3.600 3g7,343 30,033 C. ROSEWATER, . General Manager, presence and sworn lat day of October. M. B. HUNG AT K, Rotary Public. WHEX OIT OP TOWN.- . Snbaerlnere leaving the city tem porarily shonld ha The Be allrt to throt. Adaresa ttIU be, ' rkaaged aa aftea aa reejaeated. King Ak-Sar-Ben hat now cleared tbo track for four weeks of active po litical campaigning. Russia I not suffering, from lack of political parties, but the partisans seem to place more emphasis on meth ods than on principles. J. J. Hill's advice to farmer is al ways interesting, but not nearly as ef fective as would-be co-operation with him at the tax collector's office. At alt events John O. Yelser has se cured the free advertising. What the candidates who sat In the game with him secured remains to he seen. Cubans who are real patriots will proceed" to beat their machetes Into hoes and. Attack the -tobacco worms' with alt the fervor they showed In re bellion. If that promised device for steer ing ships from , on. land is perfected, admirals ; at . soa will be unable to snatch glory from the Board of Naval Strategy by cutting the cables. If the ruler of Great Britain permits bis niece to become a member of the Russian royal house. Premier Camp-bell-Bannerman may . have to recon sider his cheer for the Ounia. The people of Omaha will regret that the engagement of Secretary Taft for a political address hero has been cancelled, but will hop to have htm make It good some other time. Governor Magoon'g stay In Cuba la said to depend upon the ability of the people there toform. a stable govern ment. . 'The' governor is safe in count ing on a winter under balmy skies. Former' Attorney General Crane of Texas seems to labor under the im pression that, political honesty does not consist of beiug able to prevent be ing caught but he seems to have hard work to convino Senator Bailey. The withdrawal of coal lands from entry uutll congress has an oppor tunity to, pass on the subject is an ac tion which will be generally approved since one of the chief beneficiaries of the law professes that it caunot be en forced as enacted. If the Union Pacific and Burlington wanted to make a ten strike iu the.dly rection of reinstating their roads In a measure in public- favor in. Ne braska they would 'dismiss their In Junction proceedings In the tax cases and forthwith pay up their back taxes like other people. . Government by Injunction has come to itucB.a pa&a over In South Omaha that th?re is scarcely any local govern ment at all. When the good people there shall have had all the experience of this' kind thiy want they may come to tb 'conclusion that municipal con solidation with Omaha is the only practical solution of their troubles. Chief of Police Donahue and his force rn Omaha are also eutitled to commendation for their remarkable success In preservlug good order, not withstanding the unprecedented num ber of strangers tn tbe city during the past wek and (he comparatively Buiall number of officers in tbe police department. While the peaceable dls poititloaj of the crowds has contributed much award this result, the good work of the police is not to bo over looked, s brzakixq rC-crB." camp. The first task confronting the American provisional government In Cuba has been the serious one of dis persing lue armed bands of revolu tionists, of which there were a great number, noruo of them of considerable size". Nothing could he. don towards setting up a substantial civil regime amidst armed camps In the chief points of the several provinces, ar.d their very existence would Involve con stant peril of collision with the American forces," while marauding parties would interfere with Industry. It is a notable achievement for Sec retary Taft to succeed so rapidly as he has In peaceably dissolving these revolutionary bands. ! It wa's hardly to have been expected that the revolutionists would gener ally surrender their arms, although a surprising number in some localities have done so. The reports are easily credible, which represent most of the arms turned over to authorities to be old and clumsy weapons. Where the men own their own arms they are likely to be carried off and concealed, and the very demand for surrender will naturally facilitate dispersal of the men, which Is the essential thing. As soon as the large bodies are broken up and the men scattered to their homes it should be comparatively easy to deal with the depredations of in dividuals and small bands. It Is a critical juncture for the sugar and tobacco crops, on which the Industry and commerce of the Island principally depend. Only by getting the camps broken up can indispensable labor be returned to the plantations, Irrespective of the menace to property and public security. The way Is thus being paved with tact and expedition to set about reorganizing a native gov ernment ultimately to take over the power now in the keeping of the pro vision tl government. This task is one of exceeding delicacy and difficulty at' best, and impossible with thousands of revolutionists encamped, over the Is-i land, with arms in their hands, unre strained by settled authority of their own. SENATOR BAIl.tr AXD LORD bacox Senator Bailey's defense on ; the stump before his' constituents is the same as his previous carefully pre pared statement for newspaper pub licity, and is In substance that, while as member of congress he has acted as attorney for public service corpora tions, he has been in no way thereby Influenced in his public conduct. Lord Bacon, the chief judicial of ficer of England, was disrobed, dis graced and put under heavy penalties because as judge he had accepted gifts from parties to suits before him, not withstanding his defense, at bottom identical with Senator Bailey's, that, although he had accepted gifts, his decisions had been right without ex ception. And it Is the verdict of pos terity that the famous lord chancellor, In his defense, told the literal truth, and yet that his punishment was just. . It had long been a custom .for Eng lish i judges to accept' gifts from suitors in their courts'. ." But U Was Lord Bacon's fate, falling upon a. time when public conscience , -was' aroused to the Inherent Immorality of tho cus tom, to offend enlightened public sen timent. So It is today inexcusable blindness In a public servant not to see the moral obligations that arise out of the complications of government with changed industrial conditions, particularly in the forms of incorpora tion, or at least not to gee the require ments of public sentiment. The illicit influence of gifts to judges arose from elemental human nature?" though. In fact, a judge might, nevertheless, de cide right. As a general fact of ob servation, decisive of public conscience and ollcy, the public official attempts at his peril now to serve two masters, the mighty corporation seeking special favors and the . government whose paramount duty is to refuse them. Whatever the truth as to Lord Ba con and Senator Bailey may be, whether the one decided right In spit of gifts or the other acted right In. spite of corporation employment, the fact remains that both entered the danger tone when? as public .servants, they put themselves in relation, the natural tendency of which Is to sub ordinate public to private interest. That is the standard which righteous public opinion is demanding more rigorously than ever before today, and Senator Bailey's apology does not meet the practical point at all. DOWK TO TWU-CtXT FARtS. The Pennsylvania's announcement of a $20 rate for a 1,000-mile mileage book, good for bearer on 311 Its lines west as well as east of Pittsburg, is with reason accepted In railroad cir cles as tbe prelude to the flat 2 cents per mile passenger fare, universal in territory from Chicago to the Atlantic coast. Under such an arrangement tjie proportion of receipts from local tickets at 2 H cents, as the leading of ficials point out, will be very small and not enough to overcome the com- j petltive forces which have thrown down far greater obstacles the last threw months to reduction of the fare piaxtmum. .When In midsummer the great Pennsylvania system announced a ma- j terial reduction on part of Its main line, competitors assumed that the i real program included 'the early e- tuttHahmAfit ' nt the ?-c.nr mavlnnitu This explains their rapid progress to Nird that basis, which the Pennsyl vania now carries to within one short step, and really thereby makes inevi table. Tbe theory is plausible that this method was chosen rather than an out right 2-cent announcement at 'the start In order to divide responsibility among the roads and at the same time to forestall, o far as .possible, popular saltation, for a legal maximum still lower than 2 cents. The significance of this movement toward lower "passenger rates In the east Is that it cannot long be kept within those boundaries, bnt ' must spread to western territory with more or less rapidity. It also furnishes strong argument to controvert the pleas of the railroads that their profits have been confiscated by the very moderate taxes levied on their prop erty and that they are Justified in their attempts at tax evasion. KKtP Tif ItKVORD STRAIUHT. I We are somewhat disappointed la the new editor of The Omaha Bee. We had hoped that lie. profiting by the lessons of experience which came to his father, would shun tome of th mistakes of the past and place his Influential organ beyond the reach of petty grudges. We had hoped to ee a really high-clays Journalism from which the spirit of personal 'vengeance wodld be eliminated wholly. There seems to be little change. Perhaps the son feels It's a duty to finish what bis father had begun. Still, the unkind and lllnaturcd thrusts which The Bee is taking at Con gressman Hinshaw are not to be assigned wholly to the possession of an unfortunate heritage. Mr. Hinshaw was an earnest and outspoken supporter of Norrls Brown. The elder Rosewater threatened the congress man with enmity In his newspaper if he did not withdraw that support. Mr. Hin shaw did not withdraw and the threat made is being fulfilled by the son, from whom we expected better things. The mat ter Is working to the Injury of The Bea and Its political influence and Is doing the congressman no harm except to furnish a topic for the pens of the opposition edi tors. Aurora Republican. There is no good reason for anyone to be disappointed on this score. Al though abundantly justified. The Bee has made no "unkind and ill-natured thrusts" at Congressman Hinshaw whatever. As a newspaper it is the function of The Bee to print the news, and because The Bee advocates repub lican principles affords no reason why it should suppress facts developed in the course of the campaign in the Fourth Nebraska district reflecting upon the republican candidate any more than if they reflected on the dem ocratic candidate. ) Incidentally the statement that "Mr. Hinshaw was an earnest and out spoken supporter of Norrls Brown" in the preliminary senatorial contest Is not true. He may have convinced the friends of Norris Brown that he was bis' "outspoken supporter," hut he had promised Mr. Rosewater to observe a strict neutrality, as is witnessed by the following letter in our possession: HOfSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington. FAIRBI'RT, Neb.. July 13, Hon. Victor Rosewater, Omaha. Neb. My Dear Sir: The neutrality t promised' has been strictly observed and, will continue. I have heard no Intimation bf a proposal to pledge the Congressional convention to anyone for Senator. If there la such a move on foot I shall resist It. While my wishes In the premises might not he fol lowed, I apprehend 1 that they will have some weight. I Jnat returned from Waahlngton Mon day, have been In Falrbury ever since, and have seen very few from the district, bttt I believe that ho such attempt will he made. I do not consider It within the proper province of a- Congressional con vention. ..... With best regards, I am, Tours very truly. E. H. HINSHAW. The fact that Mr. Hinshaw, al though greatly under obligation to Mr. Rosewaterr failed to keep his promise will not lead The Bee to withdraw the endorsement It gave his candidacy at the time he was renom inated unless further developments en sue still more damaging to his repu tation for truth and reliability. FVLL UP THt RtlXS. Mayor Dahlman should wake up to tbe fact that he Is mayor of a metro politan city and not of a border ruffian town. Ak-Sar-Ben week is over and The Bee will not be accused of perni cious knocking when it enters protest against the disfigurement of our streets by permission of tho mayor at the very time when our city ought to present Its best appearance. "To please a friend" Mayor Dahl man has given permits almost Indis criminately for the floating of canvas banners across the sidewalks and even across the streets that would disgrace a boom town of sooners -waiting to be let into a government reservation. He has given permits to street venders and fakirs not only to ply their voca tions without let or hindrance, but to build flimsy stands on the main thor oughfares against the sidewalks of merchants who pay rent and taxes and do business all the year round. These street booths not only Impede traffic and obstruct legitimate business, but they must cheapen the city in the eyes of outsiders and make them wonder whether we tolerate such abuses all the time. Mayor Dahlman may have good in tentions and may excuse himself further on the ground that this Is the first time he has been up against this sort of a game, but he should pull up the reins now and drive along tbe straight road.' He should put up a sign 1n his office, "No permits to vio late ordinances," and see that the rule Is strictly enforced from now on. The. showing mad by the local democratic organ of Increased contri butions by Douglas county to theofate treasury with disproportionate bur dens as between private property and railroad property really puts emphasis upon the plank in the republican state platform demanding adequate termi nal taxation for which there Is no counterpart in the democratic pledges. The democrats will have to take an other lack. Down south Colouel Bryan was careful to explain that his pronuncla niento In favor of government owner ship of railroads was only by way of suggestion as expressing bis own per sonal opinion, but he returns to Ne braska, piotlalmlug that succtWul regulation of railroads Is Impossible and government ownership Impera tive. Not only that, but he has com mitted all the candidates on the dem ocratic ticket to special pleading for government ownership. When he goes south again, however, he will doubtless explain anew that he did not mean what he said in Nebraska. As the campaign in the Third Ne braska district is being waged over the question of railway passes It Is In teresting to note that, while Judge Graves considered the pass a bribe, he asked for one for his wife, and that Judge Boyd, who never consid ered the pass a -bribe, is being criti cised for using one himself: and even the strict rule of law says that mo tive is the real test of guilt. The railroad attorneys are flocking down on Washington to persuade the United States supreme court to delay the hearing on their appeal In the tax cases?"-Vhat is it that the railroads really want? Have they an idea that to win their cases they must get them postponed until Norris Brown Is out of the attorney general's office? Candidate Hearst professes to see in former Candidate Parker the per sonification of the lawyer who received special attention from. President Roosevelt In his Harrlsburg speech. The RakeoflT Rebates. St. Louis Republic, t'mie Sam IS doing a fine business. Since January 1 he has corrected l.tiiO from the railroads as penalties for giving rebates. Ripe for a Try. , Minneapolis Journal. Mr. Gompcrs admits he would JiiHt love to defeat Joe Cannon and Joe admits that he would Just love to have Mr. Oompers try It. There never was such unanimity between two great men. Any Old Excase Serves. Philadelphia Ledger. The "human equation" In railroad acci dents Is now being generally considered. The "Inhuman equation" which Involves the overworking of .employes Is also worth a moment's consideration. Pashlaar i;onil Thla a. Portland OrcgonUn. ls Moines and Omaha have Joined the goodly band of cities which forbid secret fraternities In the high schools. Before the present year expires there ought not to remain a single city, in America where these extremely undesirable organizations will be tolerated. BASK DIRECTORS AM) BI.AME. Where Rests Responsibility for Dis honest Ranking;. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Addressing the Pennsylvonla Hankers' as sociation. Mr. William Barret Ridgely, comptroller of the currency, dlseusred bank directors and their duties In the economy of the banking system of the I'nlted States and In the economy of state Institutions. Mr. Ridgely held that, save from rare wild exceptional causes, there was never a valid reason for the failure of a banker or of a tniMt company, and he added: "When a bank does fail It is the fault of the board of director Many others may be to blame, but the 'final responsibility of bank management rests upon the directors, and they afre to blrffnet that is. the whole b (I urn a board npd -the member as In dividuals are to blame If they allow the officers, or per hup enly a few of the direc tors, to so manage the busineew of the bank as to bring on Insolvency," To an assemblage, of bankers and of offi cers of trust companies' that wsa remarka bly plain talk, but -ita plnlnness does not detract from Its soundness, but, on the con trary, adds to It and emphasises It.. It wss a talk founded on long experience and on Intimate knowledge of the subject. But the bank, directors are not to blMine. The sys tem regulating banking, both state and na tional. Is deficient In the machinery abso lutely necessary for proper examinations, and the wonder of it Is that, with all the warnings from distinguished financiers no less than from negligent directors and wrecked banks, the proper machinery Is not supplied. . I'nder the system as It Is the bank exam iner Is merely a totaler of colnmns, and sometimes a checker on loans too large to be made to any one Individual. But of the solvency of the sureties on bank paper, or the sufficiency of collateral, he knows noth ing and makes no Inquiry. Bank directors are blamable In the very largest drgree for tho failure ofbanks under their supposed Inspection and management. BAit the .sys tem Is to blame In deficiency of examina tion If there were examinations made that ought to be made the directors or banks and trust companies would be more Inclined to sit up and take notice of what was going on In the Institution. s PERIL. OF PROPHECV. Magnate IIILt'a Pessimistic View of the Modern Pace. Philadelphia Press. J. J. Hill, who has written as much live history In the new northwest as any man living, has kept the papers busy Tor the past fortnight 'commenting on his prophecy. To a fair in Minnesota Mr. Hill pre dicted that our food was to run short, our wheat to be Insufficient, our iron ore to giv out and our coal to be consumed. This sort of prediction began half a cen tury ago In England. It was made here about our coal. Just as the west and north went were bom found to be full of new and greater supplies. The ore bodies of the Atlantic coast were said to be our only supply Just before I-ake Michigan ore beds rulned'the value at earlier mines. Out forests were declared exhausted, just aa public opinion began their preservation and Increase. It is a safer prophecy than Mr. Hilt's that before our coal ia exhausted .the transmission of tlectrk-lty produced by water power will make coal a secondary source of power; heal und light. The tides that rise and fall in our own harbor, when they are at last harneaaed; Jo turbine and dynamo, will light evtry house and street, turn every wheel and give power to every factory In Philadelphia,. As for Iron ore. when electric . power grows eulriiient, cheap aluminum will sup plant Iron for a host of purposts. -Clay will take the place of Iron ore, . Rein forced concrete Is already reducing Its de mand. Basic ores are on the edge of a great dt velopment. Our wheat crop can be trebled, without adding an acre. If nitrification Is carried further. The food supply of the modern stale has but just begun and a century after Multhus It 1 plain that for fifty years tlx production of food has groan tatr than population. Our own yearly per capita ration of wheat haa doubled in Ave year. In part, thanks to Mr. Hill and hi railroads. President Hill need not worry over pos terity. It will have an easier time than we are having, and the newapapers of the country, we are gUd to see, wholly refuse tu b Mcrtd about the future bv Mr. Hill. non tnniT ew usk. Warm Opealaa of Ike ampalaa far 4 atrot f the Stale. f Th.. f-iiliiimlirn l,i Vw Vnrk ntnt OIWI1S up with uncommon vigor on both sides. Id the parluiHe of the ring, "the contestant have stripped for the fray, tossed each other the usual deft and followed up with a hut exchange." Fierce In-flghtlng may be J looked for as the battle progri s-a through .ne coining inree weens, netting onus air two to one on Hughrsi The republicans expect to put Son spellbinder In the tletd at once, who will seechlfy In every dis trict In the state. A number of prominent state democrats hsve repudiated the Heatst ticket. Three prominent democratic tip state newspapers have hoisted the Hughes banner. In New York City the newspaper suppott of Ileal st Is confined M his own newspaper. It Is too early to measure the extent of the democratic defection above or below the Harlem. That tlfere 1 wide spread disgust among democrats Is con ceded, but whether It will be manifested at the ballot box Is another story. Hearst himself Is not disposed to pour oil on the i troubled waters. In New York City and Brooklyn his Independence league Insists on a division of the nominations for Judicial and minor offices and the wrath of machine leaders over the arrogance of the new boss Is too hot for print. In some quarters there Is a disposition to consider the battle already won by Hughes. "It is all over but the shouting," said a republican state senator. The New York Mail, a strong republican paper, warns the party against danger of over confidence. "There Is a hard fight ahead," ays the Mall. "Hearst will draw to him self the whole army of discontent. He will , reap the harvest which his own newspapers nave Deen sowing. He will get all the votes coming to a political Barnum, "A sucker I born every minute. The 'floating vote' will be his to a man. Every small politician who hus been found out In either party, and who has been thrown out of the win dow or kicked out of the door, will be for i Hearst, and the hope of revenge and re habilitation which his candidacy carries. The formidable power of the great city Bosses will be put forth In his "behalf. "I'ndor Hearst we shall have, what this state lias never had before, a complete line-up of ts discontents, its credulities and Its appetites cltlsens honestly dis gusted with prevailing conditions; rattle brains who take his newspapers seriously; the predatory bosses and the venal voters. "Hearst will make an effort. If possible a plausible effort, both to have his cake and eat it. He will propagate the fiction or himself as a crusader Against plutoc racy, while the reality will be a Hearst campaign exuding money at every pore, against a , Hughes campaign conducted on the most modest resources, even em barrassed, It may be, for lack of funds. The Buffalo candidate la a multimillionaire, with the lavishness of a millionaire In building up his political fortunes. "All the material advantages will h on the side of Hearst, and his managers will not scruple to use them. The money that they will pour into the up-elate counties to capture thu democratic organizations is only a drop In the bucket compared to what will be usd to encompass his elec tion. The Hem-stiles will cry "fraud and at the name time will adopt the methods which recently caused five of them to he punished by the courts for the forvet-v r nominating petitions. j "Hearst enn spend on a single election iiisirici an amount larger than Mr. Hughes could contribute to his entire campaign, supposing he Is able to contrlhue at all to It. As an Investment It will be worth the Buffalo man's while to do It, for a friendly mayor appointed by him In this city might secure the dropping of the $2,000,000 damage suits begun against him on hebulr of the men killed or injured In his Madison Square fireworks celebration. "No, It Is not all over but the shouting Hearst has every advantage on his side but his raue, his own personality and the conscience of the people. He can be de feated, and triumphantly defeated; but to do that, the conscience of the stale must be summoned forth to do battle with hlrn." I.Ike sentiments are voiced by staff oor- ...IVin.lAnt. A U 1. I "The prodigality with which money is be. Ing spent to wage the Hearst campaign." ays the New York Tribune, 'is becoming a anurce of wonder among politicians here, who even In 'boom days' never had at hand J bottomless barrel a veritable widow's cruse, such as seems to be at the disposal of the Hearst workers. One of the pdll- j tlclans, reviewing the work which began a year ago and taking Into .consideration the expenses of the independence league organ isations up the state and here, estimated that th whole sum put out by the head of the Buffalo ticket would not come much under a round million of dollars. "Hearst and Lwis Stuyvesant Chanler. according to a rather general unde.-stand- Ing among politicians, have been assessed tlOO.OoO apiece by the democratic organiza tion, tn addition to this, Hearst has all the expenses of his own personal machines. The Hearst campaign and the Tammany Hall campaign In New York county will ' t . m fnrrlAH rtn .nupalAli' m.I.I. kind of co-operation. Meetings will be distinct, with separate lists of speakers, and each organisation will pay alt- its ex penses for its own meetings." , The official figures of last fall's election for mayor of New York are aa follows: McClellan. Ivlns. Hearst. Manhattan and Bronx, lai.a? 64.o" la.fcs) I Brooklyn t.MK 1.25 . Ulceus 13.1FH 7.3'.5 l:l77 Richmond 6.U1 t.Sil !.9tW Totals I28.GS1 1; 2:'5.h A FEW BOIQIETS. Mlinlen News: The Ak-Sur-Ben edition of The Omaha Bee last Sunday was the largest and most extensively patronised of any similar edition ever published'. Omaha la full of enterprise and hustle. Bcribner Rustler: The Omaha Bee, In the editorial hands of Victor Rosewater, ap pears to continue at the same old pace. The Rustler predicts that the work of Ed wurd Rosewater will be continued by the son and that the young man will make his mark In the world a large one. I'tlca Bun: The Omaha Bee last Sunday Issued an Ak-Sar-Ben number which cer tainly waa a hummer. It was also a good advertisement . for the business men of Omaha, who have been taking ro much In terest in the fall festivities that have made that city what It Is. The Bee Is to be con gratulated on the wrtieup given and also for the excellent manner in which the pa per was gotten up. Arbitration and Prena redness. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Since the eetabliahment of The Hague Tribunal the nations of the world have In creaacd their naval expenditurea more than jo per cent. It Is to be hoped the world will be content with one tribunal of the sort. Another would bankrupt things. Bbanny Political Si nr. Washington Post. According to the democratic campaign textbook. "Cassie Chadwick goes to prison, but the big rogues go free." It must please Casxle to be rlsased with the pikers after making a brilliant record. He lngha lasl. Portland Oregonlan. Hun eltitWtyler uiuai laughl rBRtK. PRESS CO-ajMKXT. ' Urand Islsad; lnaH"rndn- And no Joseph Hartley, ex-treasurer as the peo ple of Nebraska wll remember has evi dently come out against Hon. Norrls Brown. Which won t huYt Mr. Broan. Nellgh leader: Supporting President Roosevelt and at the same time assist ing in the election of democratic congress men Is a mighty poor way of allowing your sincerity. You can't be loal to both. Springfield Monitor: The republicans of this district again nominated Alex 1-aveily for float senator at Ashland last Saturday. Outside of his politics loverly is a pretty good Indian, and without doubt 4II be re elected. Springfield Monitor: With both The Be and World-Herald pouting hot shot Into Candidate WIPIams, republican nominee for railway commissioner, that gentleman Is liable to hear something drop on No vember Silver Creek 8and: One of the best things w-e have rend lately la a little squib In The Omsha Bee, which says that Bryan is willing to let Cuba settle her own troubles. but Insists on Intervention in Illinois. The Bee doesn't seem to be degenerating. Blair Democrat: The Pilot ssys it Is not In favor of terminal taxation and invites Jshnel and Eller up to tell where they stand on the Issue. Williams threatens to support the democratic legislative nom inees In case these two men favor terminal taxation. But would he dnre? Norfolk News: It looks ss though Judje Graves were "four flushing" when he made that bluff about believing a pass Is a bribe and about never polluting bis pockets. The democrats staked the congressional election on his hand. The republicans called -It, and he only had four diamonds. Nebraska City News: If all the World HerHld published concerning J. A. Wil liams, whom the republicans nominated for railroad commissioner. Is true he Is no mors fitted for the position than Is the man. who Is charged with all kinds of crimes. The Herald says Ills record Is makMlorous and bungling as county Judge and many republicans papers The Bee In particular hsve made the chsrgrs openly that he voted the Pierce county delegates for Norrls Brown after they had been In structed for Rosewater. On this point there seems to be no dispute. Springfield Monitor: The time has passed when the editor of the Monitor and many others will vote for a yellow dog Just be cause he Is on the ticket and stands for some principles, by means of which h hopes to slide Into office. The editor of the Monitor will not mpport Patrick for float senator, because we believe the ma jority of the people do not want htm and we preached this long before the conven tion. Yet the Times, with Its friends, in aimed that the people did wsnt him and his nomination was the result, and the final outcome will be his defeat next month. Schuyler Free Ijince: An a.-o,uulntnc. and one who was a schoolmate of J. A. Williams, the republican nominee for rail road commissioner, snys this of the fellow, which ls not very good endorsement: "Williams Is like a weather vane. You never know where to find him. He goes with the wind. When he first came to Ne braska he tried to practice law In Omaha. Then he moved Into Pierce county, and the next thing I heard he had given up the Isw and wa a school teacher. Then I learned he had given up teaching school and had gone bark to practicing taw. He managed by some way to get elected co'unly Judge, bnt I understand he was badly de feated for re-election. He Is so changea ble there is no dependence to be placed In him." York Republican: It is extremely doubt ful if the railroad machines of the state are so far out of politics as some of the mansgers who have spoken on the subject pretend. ' They were' most thoroughly' out of the politics' that' shaped tile course of the last republican state Convention. They were wise enough ' to stand out from under. But they are at work, where-' ever there Is a chanoe, to secure the election of state senators who either be long to themt or whom they hope to con trol, or hoodwink by reason of their In experience The republicans of York and Fillmore counties have placed in nomina tion a candidate who stands pledged to a platform which Is all that could be asked or desired, and this paper firmly believes that ho will carry Into effect every promise he haa made. He is able, and vigorous, and will not be a tool In any hands,. Give him the full party vote, and there will be no question of any malign Influence working the senator from our own district, no matter what may bn accomplished in other districts In the state. GOVERNOR MIKOOV Possesses "the Most t'emureuenal ve Grasp of tew Conditions." Chicago Chronicle. li Charles E. Magoon. who is to be provisional governor of Cuba, the I'nlted States possesses A man of peculiar fitness for a difficult and delicate position. He is a growing man, a man of Immense useful ness, and he ia the direct product of condi tions which have arisen during the last eight years, or since the war with Spain. He combines the Judicial and the execu tive temperament. Sle was the first man In official life to lay down the true policy of American expansion as It hss since been sustained by the supreme court of tho t'nited States with respect to the territory acquired through the Spanish war. ' He hw shown that he understands the spirit and temperament of the Spanish mixed bloods on both hemispheres. He will know exactlv ! how to deul with the Cubans. Mr. Magoon Is not the only man who has been developed by the necessity of curing for what may be termed our dependencies. Secretarty Taft,' General Wright and o titers less prominent In the conduct of affairs In the Philippines and In Porto Rico have arisen to the needs of the situation. Without any disparagement of his con temporaries, however, it may truthfully be said that Mr. Magoon has demonstrated the moat comprehensive grasp of the new con ditions which have arisen since the acquire ment of our Insular possessions. He has de veloped a genius for colonial administration. We need such men and we shall need more of .hem aa our enterprises and re sponsibilities Increase la magnitude. It it encouraging to know that men like Mr. Ma goon have been evolved to meet such re sponsibilities because it afford a pretty sure indication that other administrators of the same type are In the process of develop ment and will be available wben the neces sity arises. It only needs at the head of the national administration a man with sagacity enough to appreciate such men, and with Theodore Roosevelt in the White House that require ment is eminently fulfilled. . Pretty tiood Uneasers. Chicago Record-Herald. The Filipinos are reported to be tifra.d the development! In Cuba will affect their chances of securing self-government. They may not be very far advanced In some di rections, but it is apparent that the Fil ipinos are pretty good gueseeis. Too l-nrge for Intervention. Chicago Kecord-llarald. Sickness and starvation tiave beeji added to the horrors which the people of Russia are compelled to face at the beginning or their long winter. Un'l It about time for the- civilised powers to dectdo Wjoo the jparUUon Of Russia! Tt.KMfl THBOtGH MIJ WIO. ' . . . t Rockefeller's Cry Against Reanlntlow of Indnstrles. v Chicago News: -John l. ll'efeller ha departed from the Xill.y of silence to which be adhen .1 for so many years. He has given to th press an Interview decrying the demand j for .government regulation of Industrie, I now gaining surh headway In this rnunfy. I The general pilm-ldc with which Mr. Rockefeller opens his Interview Is sound. "If we limit opportunity," he sa. "we will put the brakes on our national de velopment." The Intelligent iltmuiiu lor rtgulation Is based on precisely, Hint lda. Mr. Warren, former president of the Chicago Heard of Trade, told the Interstate Coniuierce com mission Hie other day that grain dealeia Were diiven out of In eli.rsa by rallro.ut favoritism shown to a few elevator owners. The subject of the ralltvaii tate regulating law passed by congress tit its last session was to keep open to all the door of op portunity. Wholesome food Is necessary to success. To allow meat dealers to offer to consum ers. In the guise of wholesome food, pr.xt ucts that will undermine the health of the public Is to limit opportunity. In the In terest of fair play ai:d an equal chance for nil In the game of life, putting bad food on the market must be prohibited. Thnso who wish to succeed at the ex. pense of their fellows by practicing fraud and deception should be prevented from so doing. They should play the game fairly or they should be tilled out. If accounts are true. Mr. Rockefeller himself has suc ceeded so marvelously in business not by keeping the door of opportunity open to all, but by using unfair Ihctics tn close the door and keep It closed against his com petitors. Government regulation that attempts to do more than protect the public health and keep the door of opportunity" open to all Is unwise regulation. But Mr. Rockefeller has failed to specify wherein recent legia atlon hss gone too far. His cttitig of meat Inspect km legislation does not strengthen his case. The packers themselves now con crde that regulation. Instead of hurting; their business, will help it both at home and abroad by increasing popular confi dence In the purity of their products. PERSONAL KOTE. With President Castro and the sultan of Turkey on the sick list, there Is noth ing doing In diplomacy. The pictures, of Sir Thomas Uipton re appearing once more make him look as young aa when he first came over to lift the cup. i.. President Amahor of Panama, accom panied by his wife, will make an ex tended visit to the t'nited estates next summer. Mine, isjlnia, one of the best known women of Japan, is coming aa a delegate' a ll,a ..-n. I ,C . ll'm.IA..'. J V. I A T" rrl ' , perance union convention, w men meet at Tremont Temple. Boston, October 17 to 2-'. She Is 74 years old and neither speaks nor understands English. Miss Jennie W. Bubter of Lynn, Mass., Is believed to be the only blind librarian In the world. A library of ICS volumes in raised letters was provided for the city by the late Klilni B. IUes, and It. Is over this Institution that Miss Buhl" presides. There are nearly 100 blind per sons In Lynn. ,y President Roosevelt is emphatic in his refusal to have a life mask made. The president lias no especial oblectlon to being preserved otherwise; he sits for his photo at reasonably short inter al and has given sittings for the preservation of his likeness In oil. But ha has a honor of being spattered over with clay wm breathing through quills. , Chief Boatswain's Mate Henry Thump--son, V. S. N., retired, ti years old and a veteran of the civil war; haa offered his services to' the . government If there Is to be fighting over the Cuban troubles. He'looks what he claims to be, "sound as a nut," and was Informed of the Navy department that If his services were re quired he certsinly would be called. ' MIRTHKII, REMARKS. "Finished your honeymoon, yet?'' "1 don t know, i have never been able to deie.inlnn the exact meaning of I no worn "nuneyinoon." "Well, then, haa your wife commenced to do tne cook lug yet ?" Houston 1'uH. Reporter (after the banquet) It looks as If they'd had a pretty good time. The last toast. 1 suppose, was urunk standing." Janitor tes, sir; and so was tne crowd. Chicago Tribune. "She has grown to be a very beautiful girl,'' aaid Jigiey. "Her hair is poniuvely golden. " "inced? That's odd." said Kidder. "I knew her when she was a little girl." Well?" "Well, . It was merely plaited tbcru." Philadelphia Press. "Do you think, dear,'' she ssked, "that' there Is any danger of our cluid growing up to be a prise tighter?" 'No. Don t worry about that. He hardly ever does any talalng." Chicago Ilecoid lierald. , , "j 1 - c. . , ; "Boss, ah's lookhi'' foh work.' "Ail right, there's a ton of coal ou the ridewalk mat must be brought up.".. "But, boss, dat' ho "worn to a lady; mah wife' aoes wastiln'.1' Atlanta Censi! tutlon. ' . - Booth by Did you ever suffer from sia.ge fright? N : - ourrlckson No; but mfcny time, when I've looked through' the . peephole and noted the also of tne audience. 1 pave sut fered severely from box olllce flight. Chicago Tribune. The Lady The Idea of a great, bfg. strong, healthy man like you begging lor '"l'he Hobo Well. mum. It s like dls. It s simply a case o' de survival o' o tlttwsi. It a only de strong, ht-alfy nien dat kin beg, nowadays, wulout gittiu' ' licked. -Cleveland Leader. ' ' :: . . "Maria. '"' 'said Mr. lillllams. '"what 'nils thla roast?" "Never mind the roast, dear.' said Jwi miliums. "I'm more concerned to know what alls you. Vhie l the first ttnw lor twentv-flve years that you havfui't been able to tell exactly- what ailed - the rt ai and everything else on the table. Ateu l you well today. John ?" Chicago Tribune. ' "I suppose." ssld the young man who Is studying p.IUIcji, ."that I ought to give ! some thought to political economy. 1 "What for?" rejoined Senator Sorghum. I "Political economy's all light for a lec ' ture In a parlor, but It's no good uo the 1 stump." Washington Star. THE FIIOSEY AGE. ; Milwaukee. Seti(inv). ' 1 bought some shares of mining stock ihr,M iif Ani -. .. ... ' It tok near all the vttn I had, ". And coin was coming- slow. ..-', Th man who sold it to we said ;, , That I would aoon be wealthy: I'm waiting still the man has fluwn He said he wasn't healthy. - Then came a fellow, smooth of uligu, A moat delightful man. Who showed the henertis I'd reap Fiom'an Insurance plan. He got my name against my will; 1 tried hard to reweat tt Did no good, and now I find I'va got to die to beat it. " Within a pop'lar magasine I read an advertisement. That said a man oould get rich quick By taking their advisement. I rent away live hard-e irned plunks, ' The answer came; , 'Yoti'rr ea j , Just flail for auekris as we de vours truly,- Brow 4 Ri;a'.'' And so it-goes) ft's'pliisney guff " Where'er you chance- to turn: Nerrb and aouth and east ami steal II I fake-end graft to burn. You can't pick up a newausper . And vhaven- moment s bliss. HfinjM its full-of jjlkuucy auaVo - -. As bad, or worse lhaa thles r,