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A HIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1907. The Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSttWATKR. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha poetofnc aa aecond claaa matter. TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION Pally Be (without Sunday) on yar...lf W Daily Dm arnd Sunday, on year J-J Sunday Bee, on year, JS Saturday Bee, on rear lm DELIVERED BT CARRIER, pally Boa (Including Sunday), par wek..l5o Dally Be (without Sunday), per week. ..10c Evening Bea (without Sunday), per week. o Evening Bea (with Sunday) per week....l0 Address compsint of irreg ularltiea Id de livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 pearl Street. Chlcago-1MO Unity Building. nMt New York l&nx Home Life Ins. Building. Waahlngton 6m Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Comunlcatlona relating to new and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omana Uee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poet"' order, payable to Tne Bee Publishing Company. Only t-cen. stampa received In payment or mall aceounta. Personal checka. except on Omaha or eastern exchahgei, not accept ea. THE BEK PUBLISHING COM PANT. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglae County, ea: Charlea C. Rosewarfer. general manager Of The Bee Publishing company, being duly worn, aya that the actual number or full and complete eopie of The Daily, Morning, Evening and flundayRee printed during the . t. - m wvf n fnllnwa! 1 gO.SOO 2 S9,80 I S1.S70 4 si,eo t aieo . 80,600 T... Sl,80 1 33.900' t 33,860 IT. 31.370 3LSSO II.. II 31,700 JO. 30,300 tx.... 1,00 Ii..l x,0S0 U 31,340 J..., 81,730 t$. 31,700 31,830 IT,... S0.6O0 H,. 31.830 .... tl,6 10. ... 31,390 1,... 31,620 10... .33,040 .31,870 .33,000 .30,400 .31,730 .31,830 .33,180 Total. , ,083,480 Leaa unaold and returned coplea.. 3,134 Net total .........,... 07343 Daily average 31,301 CHARLES C. ROSE WATER. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me this 81st day of January, 10T. (Seal) . ROBERT HtTNTER, : j Notary Public. WHF.1 OCT OF TOW, sabserlbers lea-ring the city tern- ' porarlly shoatd have .The Bee walled to taena.' Addreaa will he changed aa eftea aa reaaested. Japan Insists that it Aa maintaining the open door In Manchuria, but the evidence shows that there's a Jap be hind it. i--. .' The canteen Is still barred from the army, but the contents of the canteen still keep on chummy erros with the enlisted men. 1 i:, -t, t ;.' - President Roosevelt promises to go to Alaska to hunt big game. The land sharks and timber wolves had better take to the woods. t r Police Commissioner Broatch rushes Into print over his Bignatoro to declare that he has no Intention of resigning. Perish the thought, ki i- Nebraska editors will come to their Omaha meeting without waiting for the aid or consent of any railroad pass distributor on earth. The announcement that "Speaker Cannon Is loBlng his grip" refers to his cold, not to his full nelson clutch oh affairs of congress. "The people think for themselves," eays Mr. Bryan. Analysis of the vote In Mr. Bryan's campaigns furnishes , proof of his assertion. " Japan intimates, in a suave way, that It has loss fear of the United States than of the rates charged by European bond brokers on war loans.. The bureau of printing and engrav ing at Washington baa been called a sweatshop. It is hard work to make money, even for the government. President Roosevelt going to Alaska on a hunting trip may only be a ruse for him to score a scoop by running over some afternoon and discovering the north pole. ' Laymen will be a little slow to ac cept the claim of the bar association that much 'litigation would be pre vented by having an attorney as clerk of the district court. It is claimed that Frederick Weyer haeuser, a Minnesota lumber king, Is richer than John D. Rockefeller. He may have more money, but he has not been Indicted so often.' An Ohio man has been sent to Jail because he has thirteen wives. He should' have moved to Pittsburg, where a record like that would have been a distinction rather than a crime. Mr. Harriman intimates that he may apply for a Job on the Interstate Com merce commission. In the mean time the Interstate Commerce commission is trying to make htm give up his pres et job. '-..'' 'A, John WaiHtmaker'a business sagacity seems to have been on a vacation when he placed $1,600,000 worth of paint ings and bric-a-brac in a $1,000,000 bouse that was beyond the fire limits and was not of fire-proof construction Action jias been commenced against a. railroad at Denver for keeping sheep la a car for more than twenty-eight hours without food or water. Eventu ally there Is going to be some protest against working' trafnmen more than twenty-four hours at a stretch. Chief Engineer Stevens fears he will be robbed Of the credltof building the Panama canal if the work is done by contract. ' lie may go right on with hjs work wltii the assurance that Presi dent Roosevelt will get credit for the canal construction, no matter how it is iona. ' LtSBOlf Or 17TB ftrVRR COiVTET. Gratifying signs are multiplying that the true lesson of the contest In con gress over the rivers and harbors a p proprlatlon as regards Improvement of western water transportation is being taken to heart, especially by the people of the great Interior valley served by the Mississippi and its tributaries. The controversy developed not a little acri mony, because It was felt In some quar ters that the committee, under the In fluence of Chairman Burton, was in disposed to meet In a fair spirit the specific demands of the recently awak ened western public sentiment for river transportation. But while some con cessions were made, the very magni tude of the general transportation problem and the vast scope of river relations are causing many who we're most ardent and pugnacious to take a more sober and far-sighted view. . The Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat, which has represented extreme antagonism to the ' house committee, reflects , this larger conception of the situation in the following editorial expression: . The Mississippi river, question, aa H now presents Itself, la of. a different character from one which revolreB around the building .of levees, . the deepening -of little niches In river banks dignified by the name of harbors, or the deflection fit currents from-one side to the other" of the stream. The era of tittle government contracts by navigation rompnnles, which annually -have to credl) tnftre fit their profits to their dredgeboats And snag boats than to their' packets or barges, Is at an end. The demand now, and as It will be until met. Is for great appropria tions, commensurate with; the value and Importance of the work, 'fpr the making of a permanent channel, from Chicago' to the ' gulf of Mexico, capable ' of carrying vessels of 14-foot draught.. The building of the Panama canal, the development of South America, of Asia and the Pacific Isles, the great growth of manufactures' In the Mississippi valley, and the -constant Increase in and diversification of . crops In this region, have changed the old order of things to one in which the old must give place to the new. The narrow local ppllcy has given place to the broad and continental policy whlc'n alms at ' the accomplishment of great results through utilisation of the gisat streams of the. valley. , ' ' 1 ' There is no overstatement of the enhanced Necessity of reinforcing our transportation facilities by developing the vast resources of the main interior rivers. The necessity is national and pressing, but It is so Immense in its requirements of government aid that there is force In the view that the gov ernment was not at the present session fully prepared to deal with it on' a comprehensive plan. In 'real impor tance the subject Is hardly Inferior to the Panama canal itself.; Apprecia tion of this fact should tend powerfully to solidify western sentiment in favor of "the broad and continental -policy Simultaneously, too, practical plans may be evolved on behalf of which public sentiment and political Influence can be effectually concentrated. MiyyssoTA aad railroad valves. The Minnesota legislature1" has en tered seriously upon the Bk of ascer talning the true value of all railroad property in the state, a commute? having been appointed early , in the aesslon for this purpose. But its ex pertence has developed the probability that the work , cannot be ! concluded during the session in the thorough manner desired, and accordingly it is preparing a system by which an ac curate valuation may be made within a year. The same Incongruity and confusion has been found in Minne sota as in other states in the records and reports required by long-standing laws to be made by the railroads to the state railway commission and the state board of assessment and equalisation, The legislative committee had not gone far with their work before they found that valuation must be ascertained anew in all details and, independently of all previous official processes if a reliable result Is to be reached. What makes the valuation Issue critical is the fact that a revised schedule of state freight rates on generally reduced scale has been ordered and the legislature Is about to cut the passenger fare maximum There 14 the never failing railroad out cry of "confiscation," and the roads are preparing on -that ground to resist the state laws to the bitter end in the courts. The value of the transporta- tion properties thus becomes the very essence of the controversy and Minne sota is forced to put itself in position to meet the Issue. , At the same time, too, that the crucial question of valuation is dis posed of as regards the validity of state-fixed freight rate and passenger fare maximums the vexed question of assessment for taxation would neces sarily be Involved. The experience of Minnesota In this vital point, however. only marks the way which every state must In due time Infallibly travel. ; A RECORD 0 ITT TO B 75 IT A TIOX. . John D. Rockefeller's gift of $12.,? 000,000, to the general education board la by far the largest donation for birch purpose yet made. To It must be added the $11,000,000 donated by Mr. Rocke feller when the board. was first orga nized, five years ago, making his total donation to date -$43,000,000, ' aa amount so great as to be difficult of comprehension, even to those accus tomed ti think of the igreat wealth of Mr. ' Rockefeller, Mr. Carnegie and other rich men of the nation. The fund to which Mr. Rockefeller has, thus contributed is the outgrowth of an effort in the north to follow the plan adopted In 'i 67 for the establish ment of a general school system In the south for the education of both the whites and the negroes. This was the Peabody fund, to which George Pea body contributed $$,000,000 and which has been Increased from year to year by donations from other sources. That fund Is now such that the revenue from it yield about $75,000 naua!ly, which Is distributed among the schools and colleges of the southern states. Much of the money has been spent In the training of teachers and in the education of popular sentiment in1 favor of giving southern children the same opportunities and educational advan tages as tbelr more fortunate northern neighbors. The general education board has for Its pnrpose the supplemental work of the Peabody fund and to apply this system of assistance to the whole coun try. It proposes to promote education in the United 8tates "without distinc tion of race, sex or creed, to develop the public school system, especially in the rural districts; to further the estab lishment of training schools for teach ers and generally to promote, systema tise and make effective the' various forms of educational beneficence." The field as outlined is a wide one and the members of the general educa tion board and the country are to be congratulated that Mr. Rockefeller's donation will enable the active and effective work of the board to be pro ceeded with, unhampered by the lack of financial means too. common In the prosecution of such worthy movements. EMBARRASSING. .The action of the-attorney general in bringing suit in the name of the State .of Nebraska against Governor Sheldon at the laUer's request to re cover rent at the rate of $100 a month for the,use of the executive. mansion Is sure to be embarrassing to several, parties. . In the first, place, it is bound, to be embarrassing to the supreme court, be cause the language of the constitution with reference to the governor's salary will require considerable twisting to give him a -valid defense. The con stitution not only fixes the salary of governor at $2,500 a year, but says further that he and -the other state officers "shall not receive to their, own use any fees, costs, interest upon pub lic moneys In their hands or under their control, perquisites bf office or other compensation," and if the use of the executive mansion Is not a per quisite Webster's dictionary will have to be caretully searched to find the fitting word. In the second place, should the su preme court decide that the constitu tion means what it says and that the governor is entitled to $2,500 salary and nothing more, it is bound to be embarrassing to several distinguished gentlemen who have occupied the ex ecutive mansion as the state's tenants prior' to Governor Sheldon's incum bency. If the state is entitled to rent at the rate of $100 a month from Governor Sheldon, it is also entitled to rent at the fate of $100 a, month from former Governor Mickey, and from former Governor Savage. It is also entitled to recover back the money appropriated and used by former Gov ernor c Poynter. and former Governor Holcomb, to satisfy their landlords, and some of ' them might, have pangs of conscience, if not other difficulties. in squaring up their back rent ac count at this late day. . Nebraska has had one or two gov ernors who have refused to accept the rent money appropriated by the legis lature because they read the constitu tion as Governor Sheldon reads it, but they were not so thoughtless aa to start a suit in court to prevent their successors' forever after perpe trating the free rent graft. Governor Sheldon, of course, might have done this, too, by turning In $100 a month to the state treasurer to ease his mind and relieve his pocketbook, but he evi dently believes In doing it in a legal way without regard to consequences. The taxpayers of Nebraska, at all events, will not be embarrassed to have this question settled and settled right rUBDS FOR RAILROAD BKTTIRMNETS- , There is no mystery over one of the main facts back of the notably falling stock market. The sudden' placing in Europe of from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 of or I per cent notes of our strongest railroad companies, maturing in from one to four years, has proved ' exceedingly attractive to foreign investors, aa they have also at home. Capital is simply going Into the short time notes in preference to securities 'whose yield Is only 4 per cent or less on the high market level to which they had1 been speculatively pushed, and many owners of such se curities have been selling them to take advantage of the better returns tromj the notes. The demonstrated inadequacy of railroad facilities for present and pros pective traffic has pressed the roads to haste to get hold of the . necessary funds for betterments, and to offer high interest in order to create a sure attraction for investors. The roads themselves have simply outbid the market, or in effect bid down their own stocks and securities. To a certain extent business In gen eral is doing the same , thing, because the universal activity in industry and commerce holds out hope of a higher rate' of gain than the percentage of dividends on the matipulated market quotations on marrjfc of the principal railroad 'stocks. Suspicion, too, has spread everywhere that some of the most notable dividend increases last fall were in pursuance of speculative manipulation. , The roads had to have the public's money U order to take care of busi ness and they had to pay sufficiently high for It, no matter what the effect on their outstanding securities might he. - It has been twenty years since Ne braska waa redlstricted for legislative representation, and in that time great changes have occurred in th distribu tion tf population. Successive redis- trlctlng bills have been defeated by the districts enjoying overweighted representation. Those who have here tofore obstructed reapportionment now show signs of being willing to come in on the basis of the census of 1800., The reason is not hard to find. If the work of rearranging the dis tricts Is put over until after another census, the change will be still greater, whereas It would be to their advantage to get redisricting according to the 1900 census and hold that for another twenty years. ,', Our state senators are entitled to a credit mark for doing a good Job In putting a quietus on county option. The promoters of the county option bill made no bones aBout it that this was simply a feeler for prohibition. None of them really want county option aa a permanent policy, bat merely as a stepping stone toward the abolition of all licensed liquor selling. The rejec tion of the county option bill means that Nebraska prefers to stand solid on the principle of liquor traffic regula tion as formulated In the Slocu'mb law, Which for more than wenty-HVe years aa stood the test successfully. The. decision of- the supreme court against the street railway company at Lincoln in its efforts to evade the orders of the city authorities, requir ing It to remove unused tracks ob structing the streets,', may. come in handy for Omaha some day. The court holds that the mayor and coun cil have full Jurisdiction to regulate the use of the streets of the city within reasonable bounds, and this doctrine will, of course, apply to any sort of use of the streets interfering with free travel and traffic. ' The polite note of General Passenger Agent Wakeley of the Burlington, de clining to extend any special courtesies to members of the Nebraska Press association for their forthcoming state meeting (at Omaha, ought to prove a pretty good argument for terminal taxation, reduced passenger rates, em ployers' liability and. several other pro jects pending before, the legislature, aiming to take away from the railroads special privileges which they have heretofore been enjoying .. Congressman Pollard' hopes to se cure consideration of his bill govern ing congressional salaries at this ses slon. It he, falls to get action before adjournment he will press, the matter again at the succeeding session. Should the. next congress refuse or neglect to straighten out the. matter Mr. Pollard may have to seek another re-election to see It through. , r; The democratic Wtfrld-Herald has discovered that aiV'ReuVaska'f ' rail road troubles will be solved, without lawmaking "as soon as we , have a comprehensiye system of electric rail ways and the Missouri river is again open to freight traffic." This ought to put a finishing crimp -into Colonel Bryan's government, ownership of railroads panacea. ' Because the company promoting the new barge line running into Omaha via the Missouri river has as fits object the revival, of water traffic. Is still no good reason why the stock in the company should be all water. To make the barge line a go would require a little more substantial in terest on the part of our local business men. Senator Gibson's bill prohibiting brewers from renting buildings to liquor dealers or having any interest in licenses to sell at retail is still pend ing in the legislature. The bill says nothing about brewers renting their homes to police commissioners or hav ing any interest in members of the board granting the licenses. The 'railroad lobbyists and railroad organs are still hammering against terminal taxation and at the same time insisting that Jt ywould make no difference to the railroads. If terminal taxation would make. pp. difference to the railroads they, would not bother about It. The building fund campaign for the Young Women's Christian association is again In progress to bring the sub scription list up to the mark originally set Omaha people who have not con tributed to this worthy cause should come forward without'' waiting to be asked The burglars would do better to abandon attempts on the Byron Reed coin collection in the Omaha Public Library building. Between" the night watchman and the automatic alarm system the lawbreaking coin collector has never been able to go far. Knock for Iajared Innocence. Philadelphia Record. Senator Carter haa 'barely finished fits speech defending aettkrs and corporations In the publio land atatea and territories and Insinuating that all the land frauds have been Invented by Secretary Hitch cock, and already we learn from Califor nia that an Inspector from the Interior department and the state mineralogist have "unearthed gigantic frauds which will bo made the basis of criminal prosecutions." Cases of fraud have been found In ten counties of California. Too many land frauds have been shown up tn the courts to admit of treating Mr. Carter's plea of Injured Innocence seriously. Keeptnar Out of Trouble. Chicago Chronicle. It Is gratifying to learn from Washing ton that the United States "are almost certain not to take any part In the Congo muddle." Even to the moat advanced of our bumsnltariana and philanthropists It muat be evident that this country Is not Just now In a position to undertake apy new contrarta In the way of regulating other people's affairs. Pending the ad justment of the Cuban situation not to mention the Japanese episode the Inaug uration of fraah ml salons of aa Interna tional character will t undesirable. notND AOtT NEW YORK. Rlpplea aa the' Current at l.lfe la the ' Metropolis, Generously and feelingly New Yorfc newspapers acknowledge the debt of grat itude the great metropolis owes to the foresight and enterprise of the late fAmr 8. Dundy,, whose death occurred a tew days ago. Realising by hie experience In the Trans-Mlaslsalppt exposition at Omaha the possibilities of fortune making In pro viding attractive, wholesome amusements for the multitude on . pleasure bent, Mr. Dundy went to New Tork and became a leader In what the Evening Sun truly call "on of the blg-geat pieces of reformation In the history of the city." That was the cleansing of Coney Island, "Five or six years ago." says, the World, "Coney Island waa the chosen haunt of scoundrels who lured young women, of short-change wait ers In low dance halls, of strong-arm men who robbed drunkards of what money they had left after the saloon bounoers had elected them, of crooked tranreatera and all manner of Iniquity. Preachers never ex aggerated its evils, because they' could never know them all. "The opening of Luna Park reinforced those of the old Coney Island who wanted to make a decent place of It and turned the scale toward decency. Imitators fol lowed. The beautiful displays of electric lights which are- emblematic of the new movement now look down on nothing In-1 decent. Investors whose personal char acter is far from suggesting the reformer Joined the movement for business reaaons. Prosperity came with the cleaning up, "Coney Island In j midsummer Is now something no visitor to New York should mis. It uaed to be something to' keep well away from. In powerfully helping the change Dundy did a great publio ser vice." The agitation that has been In progress among the women public school teachers In New York for equal pay with men for the aame kind of work resulted In the Intro duction in the legislature of a bill that not only equalises pay In' a practical way, but advances salaries all along the 'line. Throughout the bill. In Indicating the changes from the old law, the words "female" and "male" are eliminated where these apply to difference In salaries. A new provision says that no klndergartner nor teacher of a 'boys' class of the first three years beyond the kindergarten grade shall, after seven years' of servloe, re ceive less than $1,150 a year; no teacher of the fourth, fifth or sixth years beyond th sams grade, after ' nine years' . service, shall receive lesa than 11,710; no teacher of boya of the laat two years', grades, after twelve " years' service shall receive less than I2.1G0; and no teacher of a boys' graduating class, first aaelstant or vice principal, after ten years' service, shall receive less than $2,400. The minimum pay for teachers In . elementary schools Is raised from $600 to $720 a year, all depart ment heads or aasistants to principals from $2,400 to $2,flC0, and neither bf these last mentioned, In a boys' school, shall receive more, than $200 In, excess of the earns teacher In a girls' school. The Manhattan Trade Bohool for Girls has been In operation for four years. There are now about .600 pupils In the night and day classes. During the laat year it filled $8,593 worth of orders for th regular trade at regular trade prices. Two hundred cer tificates have already ' been given to stu dents, , and as these are never issued to girls until they have proved entirely com petent, each paper Is' a guarantee of ' thor ough efficiency. The graduates are earning all the way from $S.M per week for begin-! iters to $1 per Weak ' f mm some who went out in the class of the first year. t ' t 1 Antntitd" ideca,' pVeeldeht of the;Tt4Han Chamber of Commerce of New York, and one of the city commissioners of assess ment, was speaking of the status and use. fulness of the Italians who have made this oity the home of their adoption. He de clares that there are 400,000 Italians in New York who have come here to remain. Thirty per cent of those. who come from Italy, to this country." said Mr. Zucca to a correapondent. "go back after they have saved enough money, but of that per cent 20 per . cent come back again as soon as they have a chance to nee how much bet ter living Is here than there." "Italians." Mr. Zucca continued, "own some $40,000,000 of real estate In New York. Their savings In the various banks amount to $100,000,000. During the last year the Im portations of Italian products amounted to over $39,000,000, with an equal amount of exports of American products from the j United States to Italy. The Italian be j comes a citizen of the United Stales at the : ratio of one-half of the number that arrive 'here." , ... Give credit to New York for one gallant and sensible thing. . Its great hotels were the first lo the world to welcome In 'their dining rooms after o'clock women who are wlthcut escorts. There is a lot of loose talk about the danger of lone women going about the main streets of this town after dark, the most of which la rot, A couple of women who attend to their own business can dine In a hotel or a hlgh claas restaurant, or go to a theater, with no more danger from observation or Ins-tit than would two well behaved men under the same circumstances. PERSONAL JfOTES. Plenty of motorists will be found to In dorse the observation of the Waahlngton Star that "Many pedestrians are exceed ingly careless In the use of the streets and highways." Leopold, the klnir cf the Belgians, Is still the richest monarch ki Europe after the czar.. With his extensive business interest la the Cctigo, It is estimated that Leopold, the "rubher king," receive at least $5,COO,0?0 annually. The sen of one- of the chief owners of the. Rock Irland gave a $20,000 dinner to a party of actresaea and friends In New York a few nights ago. The party did not seem at all worried over the car shortage or the belief that rates are too low. Daniel Osiris, the Parisian philanthropist, Is dead. In 1900 he presented to the French people Malmalson, the residence of the Em press ' Josephine, which' he had pu rehired several years before, and had It restored at great expense. It has been uaed as a Na poleonic museum. Charles T. Barney has presented to the New York Zoological society a pair of the largest elephant tusks tn the world, said to have been owned by Klcg Menelik of Abys sinia; Mr. Barney purchased them In Lon don at a coat' of $!,500. Both tusk are over eleven feet long. Joseph Lee of Beaton gives annually $10,. 0 a year to charity among Boston cM'dren Since his graduation from the Harvard Law school as a young man, his hobby, has been that of spending his morey and doing gcod in the many waya In which only a devotee of the cause of public philan thropy can. . The . failure of Senator Dry den of .New Jersey to win re-election was largely due to th work of one man, Everett Colby, a atate senator. Laat year Mr. Cdby began his campaign againat Mr. Dryden, dee'arlng that he favbred the same kind of reform in politics as he thought was needs! In foot ball. He was at cue time captala of the Brown university eleven. "We need," he aaid,. "to make the game more open, abolish Interference and do away rl b coaching from th aldelln by corporation" TIPS FO THB LKnift4.ATl StR. Leigh World: Some of the legislatures at Lincoln are trying tq kick out of the state wid' primary law, but It seems that there will- be enough of the standpatters to tarry It through. ' Newman Grove Roporter; Oar represent atives at Lincoln did the state a grest wrong when they detested two bills In tended to prevent the setting aside of Just decisions ef the lower, courts on sccount of legal technicalities. Oakland Independent: The legislature Is slowly, but surely grinding out-a grist of laws In accordance with th platform pledges' ot th republican party. The fact that the work la deliberate will mean that the product will be correspondingly good, so that Is will paea th teat of the courts. Columbus Tribune: Every republican In Nebraska ahould feel like Jumping up and eraeklng Ms heels together ttecaue of th excellent progress mads by this legislature. A state wld primary, a strong railroad commission, bill, and a two-cent passenger rate reported by the Joint committees before the session, is half over. Crelghton News: If the legislature faila to pass a state wide primary law, aa de manded In all three patty platforine. there Is liable to be something doing and the people could not be blamed If they rose in their might and consigned .the dominant party to utter oblivion. Th day ot dilly dallying and broken promise Is past Schuyler Free Lance: We would suggest to th democratic editor of the state that they had better not yell ,"fake reformers'' at the republicans of Nebraska until after the legislature adjourns, because they might have' . record that would put the lie to th yell. Possibly those democrat lo editors believe in Veiling now for fear they miss the chance. For our part, we be flev . the legislature will do something commendable, ... , Sheldon Clipper: Some fool member of th legislature has been wasting the time cf the people of the state by Introducing a till im posing a fine of $3 on cltlsens who fall to vote, sfld. .th house committee recom mended the, passage of the bill. It was the understanding of the people when the present legislature was elected that It was to be a buslneas legislature, but such dam phooliahness as this wilt have a tendency to confirm th people In the belief that It Is anything but. a business body. ! Hildreth. Telescope: There does not ap pear to be any question but what the legis lature will fnltlll the pledges made In the platforms last year, but they seem to be deucedly slow about It,' and are, appar ently, wasting more time and wind than Is necessary. The people were very explicit In stating What they Wanted and all the legislature has- to do la to carry out In structions If they are contrary to the Indi vidual opinion of some of the members. Beatrice Bun: One of the meanest meth ods - of campaigning is" to tell a lot of hungry strikers' that the other fellow Is putting a barrel of money ' Into the cam paign. That appears to be the move that Senator Patrick, fuslonist of Sarpy, Is making. He asserted that the brewers and distillers of Omaha had raised a pot of $5s,O0O to defeat- county Option. If they have, then . county option doomed? The only struggle will be among the very hungry statesmen to sea who shall get at the fleshpot first. ' ' " ' "'"' . - St: Paul Republican: W;-j. Bryan coun sels the fusion members of the legislature to stand by their platform declaration In favr of a state-wid primary- law. Con trary to th position taken by other demo orallc leaderer' Mr. Bryai believes that a campaign promise I worthy of some con sideration after- election. It now remains to be seen whether th minority will ac cept hi wholesoma advice or prefer to repudiate their pledges In a petty game of politics. W still have sufficient faith tn mankind to believe that most of them will choose the. former oours. . Exeter Enterprise: Th Enterprise has no particular prejudice for or against the stata primary law, but as it was endorsed In th platforms of both parties It falls to see how anything can prevent a unanimous vote for It If the members of the. legislature expect to stand In with their constituents. -Nebraska, has ben governed by the corpor ations through poltloal machines and the machine politicians of all parties ar op posed to a state primary. When, the ma chines are smashed and the corporations have to work the state' by hand the people will have a better how... And they will si-, ways have a dim suspicion, of the legis lators who oppose their wishes, whether It Is deserved or not. Imperial Republican: When It come to the actual work of preparing a practical primary election law th member of the legislature begin to realise It Is not such an easy task! The sentiment in favor of It Is not as 'general among th legislators aa soma people thought It would be. The objections to It are mor numerous and cogent than they thought, . The Republican believes that,, a direct primary law, where the whole peopl can bav a vole with their ballots, o to who their candidates shall be. would often result Jn the selec tion of cleaner and better candidates than under th present system, where a few men- dominate th politic of a whole county and state. Let us hav a trial of th primary' law. Hastings Herald: It's a little early yet to form an. estimate of the. present state legislature. Of course, some democratic paper ar gleef ully predicting that It .will be a rliile so far as redeeming . platform pledges and they are hoping that It will be so anyhow. The legislators have not got down to real business yet, but there la plenty of Indications that there will be soma good legislation on th main Issue discussed during ' the last campaign. The railroad legislation promised and the pri ma ly election proposition are th main questions, and while the legislature 1 mak ing haste slowly it will, we believe, adjourn with soma good laws on the statute books. It la well to reserve criticism until there is occsslon for It. Valentin Republican: Prior to the repub lican atate convention the Republican op posed the state-wide plan of primary law. At that time tht paper gave reasons it be lieved good and sufficient for Its position on the question. Since the republican state conventlcn adopted a plank favoring a state-wide primary law this paper has had nothing to say on the subject. However, re gardless of what View this paper may now hold on th question. If party plalform pledges mean anything, the parly Is now bound by Its own action to give th pecple of Nebraska a state-wide primary law dur ing this session of the atate legislature. If party platform pledges do not mean any thing, then the one In the platform of Ne braska republican relating to primary bw ran easily be passed without taking action. FTER tevero illnest after sever ' physical or mental train ie Scot1's Emulsion. It builds up and holds up the and woman, girl and wonderful M food-tonic ". AU. DRUGGISTS In a man who has failed to krep his wwt you have not the same confldepo you had when hla word could not he discounted. Does the am rul apply to political "pert lee or does it not? If good for a man to r rect and explain hi mistake. It might be good for a polltloat party to do the same. Clay Center Bun: The county option bill I too one-aided to be Juat. It U a oaan ot heads I win. tails you lose." If the county votes no license the wishes of the majority are respected and tiwr will b no llcer.se to sell Intoxicating liquors IssuM "In th county. If the antl-llcenoe people carry th county, to be fair, squar and Just, th wishes of the majority should be as much respected as In th rase of a majority vot ing "no license," every city and village be ing required to Issue Hornsea under lawful restrictions, but a clause In the new bill makes It obligatory upon the people Sftef . they have carried th county and won, t fight It out again In the cities and village. "talis you lose." If the antl-llcnae people Inaa. thev ahould take thalr uaillrlM iha same aa the license peopla do' wrten they lose. That which Is sauce for the' gooee ahould be sauce for the gander. ' Blair Courier:' The ' railroads are doing their beat to defeat the terminal tat Idea promisea in mo imi rvpuuncan piairorm. They continue to harp on the oft repeated 11 that It will rob the counties through which the roads run of a portion of th tag now paid and turn It Oyer to the cities. If this was all there was to It, simply' changing the place Of payment cf taxes the roads .would not fight the plan so hard. But the facts of the matter are not on cent will be taken from the counties and school districts through which the roads run, but the company will have to pay municipal taxes In addition to what they pay now. For Instance. Jhe two lines run ning through Blair now pay Just the same taxes on a mile of track within the city limit a a mil of track, outald 'h city limits. Other people who own. property In Blair pay more taxes on the dollar than they pay on property outside of Blair be cause th city tax rata la higher. In other words the railroad company escape . city taxes altogether and pay no more than If Blair waa off the map. The facta of, the matter are the railroada are now assessed on but one mile of track In Blair whereas thy have one and one-fourth , miles, not to mention several ' miles of side track. That the railroads should pay a higher rat on their property within city llrnlte, , the same rate other property pay, la ab solutely Just, but ss it would mean mor taxes and not a different distribution . of taxes, the railroads are .fighting th bill hard. Does It seem strange that , the Pilot should be right with the railroad on this question T It doesn't to us. ... .'; . Columbus Telegram: Th .opinion prevail that th present legislator will fail to paaa a state primary election law, W cannot understand how that opinion ' has gained so many supporters, because every liroiuutrr ui uiv irgiBiMiurv imnuB vnner u I- rectly or impliedly pledged' In favor ot a primary law. The Telegram ha never re garded the state primary as Vitally neces sary,' and yet we have long believed that a well-balanced primary law 'would have many advantagea over the present system of making nominations tor office. VW shaH hope that the legislature may; enact such a law, but we are frank to say that, If the state at large can be given no better primary law than that which 'governs'- In Omaha, theh It were better to continue unaer me present aysiem. we are opposed to a primary law which will enable a mem ber of one political party to- take part In maklnar nominations for anothee tiariv. Under the Omaha primary law a democrat can have Just as much vole' as a repub lican In making nominations for the re publican parly, and a republican can go to the polls and dictate to th 'democrat looks,, wronc v The onlv satlsfantorv ;hrl-i mary law will be the-one which will enable the voter of each party to make the nom inations for that party, an, The Telegram doe not hesitate to ask the -Piatt county members of the legislature.' to oppose any primary bill which shall not specifically provide that democrats -and republican shall cast their ballots ffv separate ballot boxes on primary day. LAI GHIU LISKS. "Bapa," asked the eminent surgon's petted daughter, "what is the appendix vermlformla good for, anyway T" "My dear," answered the eminent sur- feon, "the laat one I removed was good or that sealskin sack you are wearing." Chicago Tribune. "T'V, I...... la . . Jtm I t "Yea, and I ahould think his fancy would run more to cats." "You - naturally expect a lawyer to be attached to something more tn the feelln." Baltimore American. Visitor Hark! I didn't know . yo had an automobile. 1 Hostess Ws haven't." Visitor But I hear on In th yard. ' don't It " . Hostess No, no. That's my- grlppy husband on the back porch gargling bis throat. Cleveland Plain-Dealer. unicKsr i near me snnni naa twins. -bocker Not exactly) they merely had two new servants the Sam day. Harpar' Basar. ' "Ys. Marie," said Mrs. Ofdrtay to bet maid, "I do hate to have my husband kiss aucr jie cuiiie irom ins oarrer s. 1 do so detest the odor of that brllitanttn on hla moustache. ' .. ; "im vml rMl v rvi a a m T" ' ni 1 l tk. maid. "I. rather like It." Philadelphia Preas. . ' . ' . mibs Keopep tou ar better, -. are you not, Mr. KeathertopT You were not look ing at all well the last time I saw you. Mr. Feathertop Why, when did you see me last? Miss Redpep At the ' Bwellham recap tion. You were waltslng. I think, with. Miss Flutterby-. Chicago Tribune. 11 "That statesman haa managed to 1 pres ent something of a figure In the financial. "Yes." replied the suspicious citlsen; "the figure has a dollar mark In front of. It and a large question -mark after It," Washington Star. The Bride Mrs. Plnchback's present has arrived. It's a silver plated cTtam pitcher." The Oroom How- Is It marked? The Bride Marked down, I suppose, or we'd never have gotten it, Philadelphia Preas. ' ' ' SWKKTKR FOR THB BLAST. " ' ; t, J. The beautiful leaf of' the summer day Has wilted, faded and -fallon away.- 4 U'tiun mist nrrA Its harl Wtm tr. A f . th;r ' , p. - ",J Now th beat I over, th tree la bare. ' ) ' " -.'i.f- t The little creek where we used ia -float ' -Is f roien over, no us for. It) a boat, , -The aeat on the hill. Is covered' with Snow' Yet all through our llvi very wait know T f r'. TVe must have our winters as w go, t . And the cruel frosts, and ,Utu-r blasts; Make our ros th sweeter Willie ,11 last. v - s f- ,'. Omaha. , -, ; H; 6, .JC. strength of man . boy. It ia the most-ys " in the world, "A , !j O. i ',-t Ma. AND Sl-M i i
