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VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF" CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebrask. Douglas County. st:
rharlrs c. Rosewater, general manager
of The Bee Publishing company, being dulv
sworn, says that the actual number of full
and complete copies of The Dslljr. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bea printed during tbt
month of November, 1904, was a follows:
I 33,740
31,660
31,860
t 30,600
t.., 31.070
f 3S.160
1 36.680
33.460
1 81.090
II 33,030
11 30,660
II 31,660
U 31.043
14..; 31,380
II 31,280
14..
31.180
31,980
II 30,600
II 31,430
0 31,770
11 31i400
II 31,160
II 31,800
14 31,680
tl 30,480
4 31,400
II 31,850
IS 31,480
II 31,660
10 31,630
Total 61,10
Less unsold copies.. 3,878
Net total sales 348,033
lally average 31,401
CHARLES C. ROSEWATER.
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma thla let day of December, 1906.
(Seal ) M. B. HUNOATE,
Notary Public.
WHES Ol'T OF TOWlt.
f abscrlbara leaving (bo city teas,
porarlly should bar Tha Bea
walled te them. Address will b
chuoaert as oftea aa rcaastcd.
American manufacture of railroad
snowplows should be able to find a
good market In Great Britain.
The danger is that Kaisoull may
mistake the sultan's order to cease
ruling as a demand to begin fighting.
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If the Russian government under
takes to probe all the scandals of the
grand dukes it will have little time to
devote to curbing the next Duma.
Blnce federal inspectors seem to be
affected by local sentiment Japanese
immigrants should avoid Pacific coast
ports wihen entering the United States.
Mississippi's latest explanation that
worthless white men are responsible
for the recent race war indicates that
seeds of reform are sprouting in the
south.
Colonel Bryan declares that he never
sld he would .not again be a candidate
for the presidency, Anyone who ever
made such a charge must have been
dreaming. ,
Advices from Kort . Reno indicate
that other members of the Twenty
flftih infantry desire discharge and are
not particularly anxious that it be
honorable.
The Nebraska legislature meets on
New Year's day. It. might start out
with a good resolution not to have
more than one paid employe to every
two members in each house.
The application of Urover Cleveland
for game fish for a New Jersey lake
indicates that the former president is
not going to let political gossip inter
fere with his enjoyment of life.
In announcing that tine car shortage
decreased Internal commerce, the De
i partment of Commerce and Labor
shows that effect still follows cause
irrespective of government supervision
The list of speakers at the Govern
ment Ownership league meeting could
easily be mistaken for a resume of
the oratorical talent exhibited In the
populist ring of a fusion state conven-
:lon circus.
Were cane knives not so easily con
verted into fighting devices, the as
sembling of large numbers of laborers
might not cause apprehension. The
man who Invents a more pacific ma
chine for harvesting .the sugar crop
may make an end to tropical revolu
tions. The Bee. doubts whether the taxpay
ers of Douglas county are ready to go
into the bloodhound business. If
bloodhounds were such sure thief
;a toners they would have been mado
part of the police machinery of every
large city long ago. and would be
profitable even as a private venture.
We have had lots of criminal cases
where large rewards were hung up,
but no bloodhound owners ever came
forward to claim the money.
The company that supplies Lincoln
with gas is going Into the federal
courts to enjoin the enforcement of a
municipal ordinance requiring the sale
of gas at the state capital at not to
exceed fl a thousand cubic feet.
Ehould this case come to trial we may
have some evidence as to what it costs
to manufacture and distribute gas in
Lincoln, and the cost in Lincoln can
not be very wide of the cost of the
same service here in Omaha. Let us
have light
COLOfiEL IiRTAIt'8 CiSDWACT.
The interview given out by Colonel
Bryan at Topeka, which la a vr'.ual
announcement of his candidacy for the
democratic presidential nomination In
1908, only Illustrates the old adage
that the unexpected does not often
happen. While a formal announce
ment may reasonably be looked for at
some time in the not far distant
future, the logic of events for some
time past has conspired to project Mr.
Bryan again as an aspirant for presi
dential honors. Whether he has or has
not made mistakes, or whether he has or
has not gone about it In the way best
calculated to promote his own political
Interests, it has been evident ever since
his home-coming reception, after land
ing in New York from his around-the-world
tour, that his goal Is still the
White House.
Even now he Is quoted as saying that
while he has "not yet" announced
that he would be a candidate, he (has
not stated that he would not be a can
didate, and does not intend to do so.
By a double negation, therefore, he
gives notice that he is ready to serve
his party whenever conditions war
rant. This will doubtless be notice
enough to his ardent admirers and
foremost partisans to get busy with
the preliminaries and take the initia
tive before the resolutions adopted last
fall by so many democratic state con
ventions grow cold. That Mr. Bryan
will be an active factor and formidable
candidate before the next democratic
national convention goes without say
ing, although more than a year is to
elapse before that crucial point for him
Is reached. The early activity of the
Bryan element may, therefore, serve
somewhat to redeem the democratic
situation for a while from the indiffer
ence and desuetude into which it has
lately fallen.
TA IE-PROMOTED IMMIGRATION.
It was . inevitable that the system
adopted by South Carolina for induc
ing immigration would eventually
cause controversy, although it is said
to have been carried on with the ap
proval of the Department of Com
merce. The department officers admit
that the actions of the South Carolina
commissioner of labor, who, under the
state law visited Europe, distributed
advertising matter and arranged for
transportation of immigrants under
promise to find employment for them
which was fulfilled, "If performed by
a private person would fall squarely
within the condemnation of the
(United States) statutes." The de
partment, however, has acted upon the
view that the lament of the national
law was not to Inhibit state action
of the kind. The South Carolina law
provides scrupulously against unde
sirable immigrants and all immigrants,
moreover, promoted by the state come,
in subject to the national prohibition
of paupers, . Insane, criminal, an
archists, etc. The state Jaw is even
more rigid as to character of immi
grants than tihe United States law.
It seems probable that the con
tingency of etate promotion of immi
gration was not at all In the mind of
congress in framing Immigration legis
lation, and the law was drawn indefi
nitely enough to warrant the construc
tion placed upon it by the department.
The course of South Carolina, at any
rate, In view of its pressing labor
needs has not been evasive, but open
and above board,' whatever view may
be taken of its expediency from th
stanupolnt of national policy.
A CALL RATE REMEDY.
If congress refuses at this session to
enact currency legislation, as it prob
ably will, at least one beneficial effect
of present agitation may be to stir
financial New York to attempt to do
for itself what it should long ago
have done. In fact the congressional
outlook Is, Indeed, already tending
toward this effect along the line of
Jacob H. Schlff's recent suggestion re
garding what he justly termed "the
disgraceful situation of the call rate
of interest." The leading members of
the Chamber of Commerce and clear
ing house are credibly reported to have
gotten far along with a scheme for se
curing greater stability of the rates
by agreement of the banks arid trust
companies, whereby a representative
committee shall from day tq day fix
and announce the figure at which ac
commodations Bhall be extended, at
least so far as the most of the large
institutions are concerned.
Theoretically New York is the one
place in the country where money is
dealt In, like cotton, grain or any
other commodity, in a competitive
market, but practically the call rate,
whltih frequently fluctuates between 5
and 30 per cent within a day, does not
represent, although it seriously af
fects, the money market. For It Is
notorious that the bulk of transaction
in call money Is conducted on far dlf
ferent rates from the quoted rates, the
fluctuation in the former being vastly
smaller than in the latter. But the
impression of instability is seriously
adverse to our prestige in the world
of finance, and lends Itself perfectly
for mischief in speculative manipula
tion. It is unfortunate that ao many
of the great banks and trust companies
have been under suspicion of being
Implicated in extensive speculative in
terests and thus largely responsible
for the very evil these institutions
should be foremost in preventing and
correcting.
To be sure, no agreement or regula
tions that are likely to be made will
altogether do away with violent oscil
lations in the call rate, due to specu
lative excesses. In New York any more
than In London, but concerted action
by conservative institutions can here
as there, greatly moderate them and
what is more important, warn the pub-
He of their character. The effort at
least wiTi be a test of the sincerity of
the New York financiers to have safe
guards against the needless extreme
alternations . in the money market
so harmful to all legitimate Interests.
THE TREATT POWER.
The case now made op In California
under the Japanese school exclusion
Btate law will necessarily elicit a
Judicial decision of the meaning of the
treaty making power under the United
States constitution, which provides
that "treaties made. under the author
ity of the United States shall be the
supreme law of the land," and that
"the president hall have power, by
and with the advice and consent of the
senate, to make treaties, provided two
thirds of the senators present concur,"
The meaning has not been fully de
fined by the supreme court In the vital
point of the extent to which state
authority can be overridden by treaty
provisions.
The main question arises under the
Tenth amendment, by which "the
powers not delegated to the United
States by the constitution, nor pro
hibited by It to the states, are reserved
to the states, respectively, or to the
people.". During the first half of our
national history, when stress was put
on the states' rights doctrine, there
was a disposition to assume that such
laws as the California statute, regu
lating admission to public schools,
were exclusively within the powers re
served to the states, but the tendency
Blnce the civil war, and especially the
last two decades, has been distinctly
in the opposite direction. During this
period a line of notable adjudications,
beginning with the series of legal ten
der decisions, has enormously magni
fied the national authority to corre
spond with the progress of economic
and commercial changes, thus paving
the way for a national interpretation
of the treaty power meeting the neces
sities arising out of the rapid advance
of the United States in world affairs.
But the settlement of the question, to
whichever view of the constitution It
may lean, wilt be better than the pres
ent uncertainty, which is a constant
and growing source of irritation and
even of peril In our foreign relations.
A court determination will make pos
sible satisfactory composition of such
difficulties as exist with Japan and
have frequently occurred with other
nations, and would otherwise certainly
occur again.
One or two South Omaha merchants
seem to be imbued with the idea that
the consolidation of Omaha and South
Omaha's municipal governments would
affect the relative retail business done
in the two cities. How this result is
to be brought abo'ut they fail to specify.
The geographical distance between the
business center of Omaha and the busi
ness center of South' Omaha will not
be shortened one inch by wiping out
the imaginary line between the two
municipalities, nor will the street cars
travel ' faster or oftener. The only
trade it could affect, that we know of,
would be that resting on the division
of territory said to exist between coal
dealers and ice dealers, and similar
combines whose members in the two
citie.. agree not to invade each other's
bailiwick. . .
The insurance auditor In his report
has a lot of legislation which he rec
ommends, much of it relating to the
fees of his own office. The regulation
of the fees, however, is a minor matter
compared with the protection of policy
holders and the abolition of rebate
and speculative Insurance. It Ne
braska is to enact more new insur
ance laws this year they should have
in view the same reforms being put
into effect in other states as an out
growth of the late Insurance Investi
gation and agitation.
An increase of the carload rate on
grain across the Union Pacific bridge
from 2 to 6 does not look reason
able on the surface. It looks as If it
were Intended as an embargo instead
of as a tariff for railway revenue.
Tip fos 111 pe Reformers.-
Minneapolis Journal.
The Texas rullroad board has ordered
Pullman fares reduced. If all other state
did tha same It might .amount to some
thing. Ran for Shelter.
Chicago News.
. As Harriman, has now gone to work on
the Job the Colorado river may as well
turn buck into Its original course and claim
that il was only fooling.
Force of the llt-liifeil Kick.
Cleveland Leader.
The trusts, the railroads and tho land
grabbers will cease to congratulate them
selves over the fact that Justice Is leuden
footed when the time comes for them to
receive its kicks.
Misdirected Energy.
Baltimore American.
Sad example of misdirected energy are
afforded by the young Americun worn in
who Is going to Africa to study munk.-y
talk and the Holland woman who has
started for Java to find the missing link. It
would have been- so much more effectual
and eay to marry Into the European no
bility. Toll of Wind and Water.
Portland Oregonian.
The annual report of the Southern Pa
clflo company furnishes a lot of ammuni
tion to those who are fighting for economic
Juail-j?. It shows the net earnings for the
last year to be more than S per cent on
:.5W.0J0: et practically every dollar of
this "capital" is toll thut was taken from
ihe Industries of the nation.
Development that Mill Please.
Kansas City tar.
While Mr. K. 11. Harriman declares that
the country has enough railway mileage,
Mr. J. J. Hill believes thut there should
be another luo.ojo miles of railways. In
addition to the admirable public purpose
which this added transportation equipment
would give, what a nelU there would be
for rivalry tetv.een Mr. Hill and Sir. Har-
! rlmun to secure control of 1U
A iroflD WITH (MXERSOR MTCKKT.
Governor Mickey has Bent to The
Bee the following statement, asking
that It be given publication, with which
request I cheerfully comply:
Governor Mlclcey seems to be spending
most of his time nowadvs considering ap
plications for the liberation of penitentiary
convicts. The boarders at tha state prison
must have had notlre to hurry up while
the bars are down.-rBee, December M.
The Bee la wrong In both of Us conclu
sions. The bars are not down, neither have
the boarders at the state prison had notice
to hurry up. These unfortunates and their
friends have the same Internet. In the ex
ecutive's power of clemency that the young
editor of The Bee had atiout a month ago
when he sent me two urgent telegrams
from New York City, pleading that requisi
tion papers be refused In the case of a
friend of his who stood charged with a
felony. It seems to make a difference
whose ox Is gored.
Governor Mickey, like some of his
predecessors, when driven into an un
comfortable corner follows the plan of
Aesop's fable about the wolf accusing
the lamb of roiling the water. The
governor when requested refused to
give out the messages to which he re
fers, although they should be part of
the public records in his office. Inas
much as he is covering them up be
cause they brand him as a falsifier, it
Impels me to make them public myself.
When I was in New York recently
I received a letter from an estimable
woman In Baltimore, under date of
November 26, as follows:
Pardon me for taking tho liberty of beg
ging your assistance In a case which Is
appealing to the hearts of many of Balti
more's best citizens. Enclosed you will
find some clippings which will explain to
you the case, and I want to add that Mr.
Wlnaker is a fine man, good character,
main support of an aged, crippled mother,
but a man Ignorant of the laws of Ne
braska, and who, thinking he was doing
a good act to the boy, listened to his plead
ing and hoped to be of some good to him.
Knowing your great Influence, I beg of
you to Intercede with the governor of Ne
braska so that the requisition papers do
not arrive In Baltimore. I hope you will
give this your earliest attention, as It Is
very urgent, and earn the thanks of many
sympathetic co-workers and of myself in
this sad case.
Acting on the Information contained
in this letter and its enclosures, I wired
Governor Mickey as follows:
NEW TORK CITY, Nov. 27, 1906.
Hon. John H. Mickey, Governor,
Lincoln, Neb.
I ask you to Investigate thoroughly be
fore Issuing requisition Wlnaker of Balti
more, charged with kidnaping. Man Btands
well M his home and claims only char
itable purpose. Please advise me by wire
to Baltimore what action you take if any In
matter. VICTOR ROSEWATER
In reply to this I received the fol
lowing telegram:
LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 28, 1900.
Hon. Victor Rosewater,
Baltimore, Md.
Requisition papers recalled. Hearing Sat
urday 10:30 a. m. JOHN H. MICKEY.
Although word had been received in
Baltimore that the proceedings in this
case were to be dropped, to make sure
that the requisition papers should not
again be issued without investigation
I wired Governor Mickey the following
Friday substantially a repetition of my
first telegram, with the added state
ment that after further Inquiry I did
not believe the actions of Wlnaker con
stituted a violation of the Nebraska
law. My copy of this telegram has
been mislaid, but Governor Mickey id
at liberty to make it public.
I submit that my record is perfectly
clear in this case, that I asked for
nothing in the shape of executive clem
ency, but only for full investigation
find impartial Justice. . If Governor
Mickey's record In his numerous par
dors and paroles were as clear as this
ihe would not be under suspicion.
VICTOR ROSEWATER.
LIMITING HOIRS OF THAIXME3.
I'ratsrri of aa Important Measure
Pending: In Conareaa.
Chicago News.
There ia pending In the national senate
a bill offered by Senator LaFollette forbid
ding the railroads to permit "any employe
In or connected with the movement of any
train to remain on duty more than sixteen
hours, except when, by casualty occurring
after such employe has started on his trip,
he Is prevented from reaching his terminal;
or to permit any such employe to go on
duty without having had at least ten hours
for rest."
The railroads offer serious opposition to
the passage of this bill. It Is said that In
Drder to avoid the penalties the companies
would be obliged tf make the runs so short
that the danger of employes being kept out
longer than sixteen hours would be reduced
to the minimum. It might be necessary
i also to give orders that when a train crew
1 ''ad been out sixteen hours It must run
upon a siding and wait ten hours, no matter
where It .might happen to be. The lat
ter 'contingency should occur bnly with
freight trains, except In very rare cases.
Passenger crews on a properly managed
road, seldom should And themselves In a
situation where sixteen hours of service
Would be necessary. Of course, the man
ning of trains In such a manner as to avoid
the penalties of the law would mean In
creased expense to the companies In many
Instances. ,
All regulating measures must bo produc
tive of some Incidental hardship. That
cannot be helped. The American people
are appalled at the number of needless rail
road accidents and are determined that the
number shall be lessened. Some of the
accidents of the past have been attributed
to overworked trainmen. The limitation
of hours of continuous labor to sixt-en,
with ten hours of reft, Is not unreasonable.
If the companies could be trusted to ob
serve this rule In the main, without legis
lation, there would be no need tor an en
actment which may occasionally work Inci
dental hardship because It cannot possibly
take account of all permissible exceptions.
In the Interest of the public safety the bill
should be patted as affording a means of
limiting working hours and securing neces
sary rest periods for men responsible for
the operation of trains.
Wholesale Itevrnse.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A petition has been presented to the Bel
gian Parliament asking that all the automo
biles in thut country be burned In a great
bonfire, the resultant scrap Iron to be sold
fir tho benefit cf charity. The auihi.r of
the petition must have broken down several
miles from the nearest repair shop.
Bright Prospect f-r Patience.
Chicago Tribune.
At the present rate of speed, without
making allowance for the growth cf the
country's population. It will take only a
little over S. years for the ,MI:r.pltr!cd"
Kcl!li)i( tD become the prevailing )tcm.
I .it us take courage, and wait.
OTHF.H I. A MX TII4 OIHS.
In his comment on the course of ths
French government toward churches and
church property. Cardinal OlhlMins quoted
from a speech delivered by M. lir.and,
minister of worship, at Amiens, ti show
that the present struggle was a wur on
Christianity Itself. A quallui-d den.al of
the expressions Imputed to M. Hrland w.ia
Issued In Psrls, but the spirit of the ad
dress was not denied. Clearer and un
questioned ate the atheistic sentiments of
M. Vlvianl, the new tnlnlster of lnlxr, who
was Installed with unseemly hiiste In
Kplscopal reyldence vacated by I'aitlihal
Richard In Paris. In a speech In the Fieneh
chamber on November i2, rept txlut ml by Ihe
New York Times. M. Vlvianl said:
"The Third Republic has called alw.ul her
the children of peasants and of workmen,
and In these obscure brains and cnxhadiwed
consciences It has Implanted Utile by
little the germ of revolutionary education.
That has not sufficed. Throimh our fathers,
our ancestors, and even ourselves, we are
all Identified with the punt by a work of
antl-clericniisni, a work of trrellglon. We
have wrested credulity from human con
sciences. When a poor wretch, wearied
with dally cares, has pleaded um-n ids
knees, we have lifted him up, we have said
to him that behind the clouds thero was
nothing but chimeras. Together and by one
fell stroke we have extinguished the lights
of heaven which we shall not relin:te."
.
The universal suffrage bill, that has Just
passed Its second and third readings In the
Austrian chamber of deputies, sweeps away
the four curiae or categories of the present
franchise those cf the large landed pro
prietors, the towns, the rural communes,
and tho chambers of commerce and In
cludes all present and future electors in
the category of universal suffrage. By its
provisions every male above 24 years of age
and In possession of civil rights wl 1 b
entitled to registration as a voter. Voting
will be secret, without any form of
plurality. In order to avoid racial con
flicts, separate constituencies will be
organized for electors of different races,
so that Czech voters on the Oech register
will vote only for Czech, and German voters
on a German register will only vote for
German candldntes, seats In Parliament
being allotted to the various races accord
ing to their number and tnx-paying ca
pacity. F.lectoral struggles will thus be
confined to representatives of the same race.
Czech Radical candldntes mny. for Instance,
be put tip against Young Czechs, but not a
Czech against a German. Whether this
system will avail to prevent racial strife
in the new chamber remains to be seem
A former tory member of Parliament for
a north of Ireland division, and who is now
a Judge of the city of London county court
Judge Rentoul Is out In a strong tirade
against his former associate orangemi n In,
Ireland, for whom be blames much of tha
success of the home rule movement. He
says the action of the Ulster worklngmen
In sending landlords to represent them In
Parliament Is a plea against themselves.
He roundly accuses the orange society of
being the cause of the continuance of the
home rule agitation, and nsks that the
orange lodges bo disbanded, as they were
In 1836, under William IV. He says It Is
monstrous that the orangemcn of Ireland
should be still, after 200 years, Insulting
their catholic fellow-countrymen by cele
brating a victory gained by the foreign
William III, over, the lawful King James,
merely because one was a catholic and the
other a protestant. He deplores the keep
ing up of this dissension In a section of
Ireland by these orangemen In the Interest
of landlordism and against the peace and
prosperity of the country, which would
make the home rule question unnecessary.
The members of the French Chamber of
Deputies have finally voted in favor of in
creasing their own salurles from 9,000 franca
to 15,000 francs ($1,800 to 13,000). When the
question first came up. It was suggested
that there was something undignified In the
Idea of using a public privilege for per
sonal advantage, and the motion was made
that the increase should be paid only to
future deputies. This amendment, however,
was rejected, most of the members evi
dently thinking that they owed as much
to themselves aa to posterity, and the In
crease was voted. Then the matter came
up for review and there was a hot debate.
Borne deputies argued that It was ridiculous
to pass a law one day and repeal It the
next. Some applauded the increase, others
denounced it. Socialists and nationalists
were equally divided in opinion as to the
propriety or necessity for the measure. At
last a labor member, if. Poulain, In a frank
speech, discussed the dally expenses of
deputies, and by going into domestic and
other details, showed how It was practi
cally impossible for men in his position,
with no . private means, to sustain them
selves and their families and maintain a
decent appearance on 9,000 francs a year.
His speech proved the turning point In the
debate, and the Increase was again passed
by a vote of 290 to 218.
The use of money in English parliamen
tary elections Is supposed to be reduced to
a minimum of docency and civic virtue.
We are apt to hear considerable about
English purity. Blnce last winter's elec
tions, however, there have been trials for
corrupt practices which revealed the pur
chase of votes and other shocking things
which In tills country are associated with
Delaware and Rhode Island; and now the
officials returns of money legitimately spent
by the candidates Indicate that something
is doing in good old England at election
time. It cost the tiTO members of Parlia
ment, according to their sworn statements,
l.K:it,2KI to get elected. That was an
average of nearly $9,000 a man. Not a
dollar of this miin was Illegally used, It Is
claimed, but In Rngland aa In America the
lavish use of money may easily stimulate
Its diversion into the wrong chunnels.
BOOSTISU TIIK SO.IAHK DEAL.
Turning- the I.laht of Publicity on
Graft and t.rali.
Kansas City Star.
The fluid of Investigations and probable
"exposures" which the Interstate Com
merce commission has outlined for its
work in IK07 should be protltublo to thu
luovw.i.ent fur a square deal. Yet It de
tracts nothing from the support which
this Inquiring spirit should receive to
urge that It Is past time for more punitive
results from the disclosures of graft and
grab that have already been made.
The greatest remedial force is unques
tionably public opinion. The more that Is
known of such Iniquities as th misuse of
Insurance moneys, the outrageous oppres
sion of Standard OH. the grant of rebates,
the theft of public lands and like forms
of plunder, the less Immunity from n.oles
tatlon such practices will secure. Hut that
la not all that should follow, and more
fflcaclous results will not be assured un
lens there is a public humiliation of the
wrong doers and, where possible, the
restitution of illicit gains.
Is other words, If a system of laws anJ
government could be devlsod which would
make It Impossible for nvn or corporations
to steal or take undue advantage of othera,
questions of penalty would be of trivial or
no Importance. Hut such an Ideal social
condition Is not possible, and, while It Is
the duty and the purpose of the American
peopl to approach it as nearly as they
can, still It Is an essential part of remedial
progn-ts lo prove the danger and the
probability of reckoning r,r thoav who In
vade the rights of vtuer Individuals and of
the state.
Ef Is A Sad Fact
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of the food they eat. It is the duty of the physician
to awaken them to the necessity of acquainting them
selves with the merits of a food and the reputation of
its producer. Haphazard productions are not the
ones to be trusted, but where science, experience,
experiment and research are factors, the result must
be meritorious. Under these circumstances we can
feel justified in Tecomrosndlng
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POLITICAL UHIFT.
Ed. Harriman is reported to have said
that he would spend $10,000,000 to reinstate
ex-Governor Odell of New York In power.
Mr. Harriman has money to throw to the
boys as well as the birds.
Six officials In Cuyahnira county, Ohio,
In which Cleveland Is situated, have col
lected $:&0,000 In fees this year, one pocket
ing $113,000 as his compensation for twelve
months. Yet a few people think communi
ties of the republic are ungrateful.
The official records of the Bpanlsh-Amer-Ican
war show that the total number of
men In the I'nlted States service was,
in round numbers, 300,ono, of whom about
270.0''0 were volunteers, and that the deaths
from all causes. Including disease, acci
dents and wounds received in battle, were
less than 3,000.
After hearing a petition protesting
against references to Christianity in the
organic law of the new state, the consti
tutions! convention of Oklahoma adopted
the following preamble: "Invoking the
guidance of Almighty Ood In order to se.
cure and perpetuate the blessing of lib
erty, to secure a Just and rightful govern
ment, to promote mutual welfare and hap
piness, we, the people of Oklahoma, do
ordain and establish this constitution."
The convention which Is preparing a
new charter for Chicago has adopted al
most unanimously a provision that the city
may own and operate street railways of all
kinds, subways, telephone, telegraph, gas.
electric light and other public utilities.
This does not mean that the convention
favors city embarkation upon all or any
of these Bchemes at onoe, but only that It
would place In the municipality's hands
an effective club for use In regulating
such monopolies.
Delegates representing a number of
states, appointed by their governors, met
at Des Moines recently to urge the election
of United 8tates senators by popular vote.
They adopted resolutions recommending
that the legislatures In thirty-seven states
where sessions are held this winter apply
to congress to call a convention for the
purpose of proposing amendments to the
constitution. If Oklahoma be counted aa
a state, the concurrence of thirty-one leg
islatures would make It obligatory on con
gress to take action.
Though not an enthusiastic member of
the democratic househpld for yeaB back,
the Cincinnati Enquirer has reached the
conclusion that William Jennings Bryan Is
a much bigger and broader man than he
was ten and six' years ago, and Is the only
available man for the democratlo nomina
tion In 190S. FYlends of Senator Dubois of
Idaho, whose term will expire with the
close of congress next arch, say that It
Is his purpose to take the lecture platform
In the east early next spring and tell the
people about the Mormon question. Sena
tor Dubois has been forced by political
conditions In his part of the country to
acquaint himself thoroughly with this sub
ject. TIIKFT OF Fl'BMC LAUD.
Result of Omaha Trials Hailed as
Good Omen.
Cleveland Leader.
Good news has coma from Omaha for
all who feel righteous contempt for the
men who have made themselves rich In the
west by stealing public lands. The presi
dent, vice president, secretary-treasurer and
general manager of the Nebraska Land and
Feeding company have been found guilty
of this form of thievery by a federal court.
Each of them Is reputed to be a millionaire
and they will doubtless carry the case to
the court of last resort. But the evldenoe
of their guilt Is clear and the government
has long since demonstrated the fact that
It Is in earnest In its prosecution of the
land thieves.
The method these men followed was the
one commonly used In this "particular kind
of rascality. They cast cwetous eyes upon
wide tracts of land which the government
was holding for those who might wish to
establish homes upon It. They hired anyone
' they could to apply for homestead grants,
! on the fraudulent representation that thess
j agents Intended to become bona fide settlers,
' Then the land was turned over to the com
j pony, which, of oourse, paid all ths ex
penses.
This Is a game that has been worked In
the west for years. It has defrauded ths
government out of millions of acre of land.
It has also sent more than a few men to
the penitentiary. The spoils are so rloh
and the method of procedure so simple,
however, that there are never lacking those
ready to hazard the chance of discovery
and prosecution, which, by the way, have
not always gone together. At the present
time evidence Is being gathered for ths
A Special Word Concerning Our Easy
Payment Plan on Pianos
We will help you over the hard spots caused by the outlay during th
Christmas Eeason.
In this piano store the buying of a piano on the llttle-a-month plan
does not affoct the PRICE of the Instrument in the least, for the price
is the same, whether you pay all cash down or whether you pay for it in
monthly Instalments. Every piano Is priced on a spot-cash basis. If you
dq not desire to pay cash, we will loan you the money to pay for it at tha
rate of 8 per cent per year ON THE AMOUNT REMAINING UNPAID.
In other words, the deal is exactly the same as though you went to the
bank and borrowed the money at 8 per cent and then paid cash for the
piano.
This way of selling pianos a distinctly Hospe's way is made
doubly attractive when the Hoape line of pianos is considered. An ad
vantageous system of buying would count for naught were not the
RIGHT pianos offered under Its protection. Glance, for a moment, at
the celebrated makes of piauos offered by the Hoape Piano Store.
Knah, Kranirh & Hath, Hallet-Davls, Cablr-Nelson, Kimball.
Hush. & Lane, Weser Uros., Hospe, Whitney, Hlnxe, Cramer and
others.
Has a more distinguished aggregation of pianos ever been gathered
under the roof of any piano store?
Would you really like to have the piano for New Years? Come ia
and let us offer a suggestion or two.
Remember! We pay no commissions to anyone.
A. HOSPE, 1513 Douglas Si.
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conviction of a coterie of railroad operator
and coal men who are believed to hara
stolen practically all the undeveloped
coal territory on the western rlalna. Two
United States senators are said to be Im
plicated In their operations.
This thieving Is particularly mean. The
lands held for homestead purposes are for
the benefit of the plain people. They af
ford those who wish to avail themselves
of It the opportunity to become the owners
of modest farms. The policy involved Is a
broad one, affecting the general welfare.
Small property-owners are the salt of every
roitlon. The government of the United
States has always sought to encourage
them and Increase their number. Actual
settlement on the western homestead lands
means an Increase In the thrifty citizenship
of the nation and of the undeveloped we-t
The men who steal this land In o.dsr
that they mny obtain by fraud Immense
grnln or stock farms are not only criminal
but thry are traitors to the Interests of the
Un.tcd States and foes of the communities
In which they live.
SMILIKG LISE.
Careless Acquaintance How about that
man you operated on for appendicitis last
spring?
Young Physician (nervously) Don't talk
shop so. It's bury the subject.
Careless Acquaintance (Jood gracious,
man! You don t moan to say they haven't
burled him yet? Baltimore American.
"The man with the muck rake Is not at
tracting so much attention as formerly."
"No, answered Senator Sorghum, "but
I'm Inclined to think bhal the man with ths
muck rake didn't do nearly as much harm
vs the man with the rake-off." Washing
ton Star.
"You don't appear to be In very good
humor today," said the visitor to the sano
turn. '
"Well," replied the editor, "I guess I am
out of humor today."
"Good! then you il be In good humor If
you buy this batch of Jokes of mine."
Philadelphia Press.
"There." said the guide who was con
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don. "is the House of Lords." I If
"Oh, papa," cried the beautiful r a
"won't you please run la and look oversn twim
BIOCK nicy ilttve oil iwnu . rcumiii iiicj
Just got In a frfsh lot for the holiday
trade." Chicago Record-Herald.
Luther Burbank had Just finished his
seedless orange, his thornless rose and his
eyeless potato.
"What are you going to originate now?"
someone asked him.
"A lehinnlcss campaign," replied the
wizard. New York Times.
Caesar had Just sent his message, "Vent,
vldl, vict."
"Only three words and not even Illustra
ted," they groaned. New York Sun.
"I shall yet discover the pole," said ths
Arctic explorer. "And then?"
"It'll probably be as hard to reach as
ever. I will orgnnlze expeditions to re
discover It. "-Washington Star.
"How do you suppose the English ara
going to bridge over this crisis in their
parliamentary affairs?"
"Well, not by means of their peers."
Baltimore American.
The family Jar waxed fiercer.
"You talk about my being to blame for
our marrying!" shrilly exclaimed Mrs.
Vlck-Senn. "John Henry, did I hunt you
out and make love to you?"
"No!" he snorted. "But you could have
given me the glassy eye and sent me about
my business, and you didn't do It. madam
you didn't do it !'f Chicago Trlbgne.
BONO OP TWILIGHT.
Scrlbner's Magazine.
Oh. to come home once more, when tha
dusk is falling.
To see the nursery lighted and the chil
dren's table spread;
"Mother, mother, mother," the eager vole
calling,
"The baby was so sleepy that he had to)
go to bed." i
Oh, to come home once mora and sea the'
smiling faces.
Dark head, bright head, clustered at the
pane;
Much the years have taken, when the heart
Its path retraces.
But until time Is not for ma that Imago
will remain.
Men and women now they are, standing'
straight and steady.
Grave heart, gay heart, fit for life's em
prise ;
Shoulder set to shoulder, how should they
be but ready;
The future shines before them with ths
light of their own eyas.
Still each answers to my call; no food has
been denied me;
My burdens have been fitted to the little
strength that's mine.
Beauty, pride and peace hava walked by
dsy beside me,
The evening closes gently In, and hois'
can I repine?
But, oh, to see once more, when the early
dusk Is falling,
The nursery windows glowing and th
children's table spread:
"Mother, mother, mother," the high child
voices calling,
"He couldn't stay awake for you; hs had
to go to bed.'
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