THE' OMAHA DAILY REE: THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1007. The OmaiiX. Daily Bee rOUNDKD BT ED W ARD R06KWATKB. VICTOR ROfcEWATKR, KDITOR. F-nterWl at Omaha postoffloe second rlaas mutter. TEHMS OF SIB8CR1PTION. Pally Be (without Sunday), onf year..$4.W IhII ! and Sunday,, one year ( Hunday Bee, one year 2 So Saturday Bee, nne year 1.50 DEUVKBEU BY CARTUER. Pally He (Including Sunday), per week..l!c Ially Be (without Sunday), pier week...' r.vrning rfcee iwnnoui punnayi, per wees.. ic Evening Hee (with Sunday), per week. ...10c Addresa all rnmplainta of Irregularities la delivery to City Circulation Department. OFF1CK8. Otnaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Kullrilng. Council Blnffa If. Scott Street. Chfrairo-NU" Unity Building. New York IV Home Ufa Insurance Bldf. Washington Ml Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addreaaed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order, payable, to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-renl stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omalia or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas county, aa: Charles C. Rosownter, general manager of The Be Publishing Company, being duly aworn, aaya that the actual number of full atid complete coplea of The Iaily, Mornlnic. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1907. waa aa follow a: 1 ... 38,650 1 38,810 I . 38,890 4 38,4X0 1 34.300 (.......... aasao 1 38,480 1 38,880 SlB.720 10 38J90 IS 38,760 !..., 33,300 t 39,370 1 38,690 tt 38,810 38,800 4 38,090 16. M.S00 tt.. 34,600 17 38,480 It.' .38,810 tt 33.010 tO 38,630 tl 88,810 II 38,390 It 34.890 1 38,430 li. 33,380 It 86,330 1 38,460 1? 38,360 Total... 1080 Less unsold and returned copies 0,667 Net total ....'......".,...'..'..'.1,080.083 t;ally average 30,063 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER. , General Manager. Sutmcrlbed tn my presence and aworn to before ma thla Slat day of May. 1907. (Sfal.) M. B. HUNQATE. Notary Public. WHES OUT or TOWN. 8abarrlbera leaving; the city tem porarily ahanld hirr The Be mailed to them. Addreaa will he eliHmaed aa oftea aa reqnested. Timely arrests will cure premature celebrations of the Fourth. Editor Stead says Washington re minds him of an English city. Prob ably by contrast. California boasts of a hog worth f 1,000,000, but falls to give the name of the corporation whlcu' he controls. "Is there a too free use of medi cine;?" aaks the New York Times. No, buf possibly there Is a-two expensive use of it. , (, Dr. Kellogg of, Detroit declares the ' world is rapidly going Insane. if you do- not believe It, Just ' look at your neighbors. Omaha paying contractors are to be ailed on the carpet.; The carpet la too "oft they should be called on the rough hard pavement. The magazine editor who la adver tising for ''good, truthful flah atorlea" ought to know that the good fish stories are not truthful. . Nikola Tesla at HI Insists that he can talk to Mara. It would be a' pleasanter summer If Tesla would only talk more to Mars and less to Earvn. Royalty la having a pleasant time thla summer. Mr. Carnegie has visited the kaiser and "Mark Twain has con descended to meet Klug Edward. Owing to the high price of fruits, the pie of the season Is much like Pittsburg society not much difference between the upper and the lower cruata. General Funston refers to the "tin whipped mob", In San Francisco In a manner indicating that it U not his fault that the whipping has not been administered. A London antiquarian tries to make ua believe, that the fan , haa been the theme of poets for centuries. Must be mistaken. Base ball la a compara tively modern game. . . Army surgeons Insist that mosquitoes nave been entirely" banished from the Panama canal belt. That'a all right, but they should have been - driven south Instead of north. Lightning struck an oil tank in Pennsylvania and Mr. Rockefeller doubtless thlnka the lightning muat have made a mistake, thinking It waa striking the tank ef an independent company.' : y The Department of Agriculture de clares that rata destroy $100,000 worth of grain on railroad trains every year. Still the shippers suffer, heavier .losses by railroad rates than by rail road rata. , The festive giant flrecraoker does not always wait until the Glorious Fourth before getttlng down to busi ness. The work of heading oS Fourth bf July fatalities should, therefore, .begin early. v t Dr. Hindede, a Danish physician, gives the assurance that I centa worth of bread, cheese and fruit la enough .for the dally food of .au average man. 1tut sounds good until you get an be alar detnenatratiou of the amount : of trait you can buy for I cents. ' tvij fusion be batew The scheme of the democratic politi cal wlrepullera' to hold a state Con vention or conference to decide On Can didates In anticipation of the coming primary election, plainly springs from a desire to save fusion In Nebraska at least for another year. When the direct primary law was up for consid eration In the legislature the support of the populist and democratic mem bers was given to the bill on condi tion that It should be made possible for a democrat to run on the populist ticket and vice versa. As a conse quence, the law as enacted permits fusion to this extent whenever the same candidate receives the highest vote for nomination to any particular offlce on more than one ticket. The practical politics of the situa tion, however, is an almost positive certainty, unless some agreement is reached in advance, that the populists will nominate only populists and 'the democrats will nominate only demo crats. The fusion which was "accom plished heretofore under the conven tion regime through duress of political circuit riders compelling two or three conventions to .coalesce on their tick eta la out of the question. The voters must either be fused at the primary election or the candidates must be fused after nomination by the rough method of forcing involuntary with drawals and substitutions by action of the various state committees. If the populists and democrats each nominate separate state tickets in Ne braska this fall, the democrat will once more be summoned to retire in fayor of the populists "for Bryan's sake." With Mr. Bryan as the prospective candidate next year and the all im portance of a presidential campaign staring them in the . face, the demo crats will have to sacrifice , anything the populists may demand to keep them in line for fusion on the electoral ticket in 1908. It will make no difference in the end, therefore, whether the conference or convention Is held before the pri maries or alter the primaries. Fusion can be saved in Nebraska if Mr. Bryan wants to save it. LIMITS OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE. The courts are making some good progress toward correcting the erron eous Impression apparently held by many people that the federal rate and anti-trust laws are a panacea for all commercial and social Ills. Some ex cuse for the prevalent impression may be found in the marked expansion of the powers of the Interstate Commerce commission within the last two years, but it Is plain that some combinations may exist without coming under the jurisdiction of the federal authorities. The supreme court of the United States recently held Jbat life and Are insur ance are not subjects of Interstate commerce and lnamune from regula tion by the federal authorities. Now cornea a judge of the' general sessions court in New Yrfrk with a decision that what is known as the Theatrical trust is not engaged in '"trade and commerce,", as defined by the federal lawsj and therefore, can not be pre- j vented by federal lawa from conduct tng its business as it pleases. The controversy, in the theatrical case, arose over the refusal of the syn dicate to book the plays of Indepen dent mangers and actors in their thea ters. The court has held that the mat ter waa simply a private business con troversy and not a subject for judicial action. .The suit was but a repetition of the old contest between the syndi cate and the Independent managers, which Sarah Bernhardt and other more or lesa prominent stars have been car rying on for several years. The pub lic is, of course, concerned, as it natur ally feels Injured when one of Its foot- light favorites 1 prevented from ap pearing because the theater insists upon booking other attractions. In law, however, the public and the so-called Independent managers and actors have no recourse. The manazer or owner of a theater has the right to decide upon the plays he shall book and the terms' he-shall make, Just as a land lord may exercise choice in selecting tenants and fixing the rent. Relief may be desired from the methods cm ployed by the so-called Theatrical trust in the conduct of Its business, but the courts have held properly that it can not be secured through an appeal to the federal law. THE ORAhVATK .4 AD JHEOOK1V. Superintendent Cooley, head of the public school system of Chicago, talks a little like a professor in the Univer sity of Chicago when he utters a tirade against, what he la pleased to term senseless extravagance in the matter of expenditures for the gowns of the girl graduates in June. Super intendent Cooley insists that 75 centa la enough to put in a graduating gown and he expressed the belief that the public schools should adopt some sim ple academic dress, similar to the col lege cap and gown. Hla argument is that the poor girl who baa won all of the clasa honora la lost sight of at com-, mencement time and eclipsed by the girl who didn't Eland deuce high In the examinations, but whose indulgent father or mother has equipped her with a "creation" In the form of a graduating dress that would make Worth and the rest of the man mil liners ait up and take notice. lie in sists that he has personal knowledge that many g'.rls drop tui of the high school in the final term In order-to save themselves the humiliation of not appearing as well or as expensively dressed as some of their graduates. ( Possibly Superintendent Cooley feels justified Iq his argument, hut the pub lic will not agree with him. Of course, it Is humiliating to a poor girl to be outdresped at commencement time by her classmate who Is Inferior in educa tion, but has familiar relations with a bank account. But what of it? After the graduation the same poor girl will have to go Into the world and meet the same humiliation, If she so con siders it. In the .matter of personal and dress adornment that comes from seeing her neighbor belter dresBed. Clothes do not make the woman, any more than they make the man. and while it is to be deplored that all women cannot dress as well aa they would like, or as well aa they deserve, no good result can follow an attempt to have the June graduates dressed in uniform garb like the inmates of an ellemosynary institution. Overdressing Is just as bad taste at a college or high school commencement as any place else, but It is no worse than under dreRsing, such as Superintendent Cooley proposes. THE SULTAX BROUOHT TO TERMS. The average American, who la a de cent sort of person in his way, ex presses and generally feels consider able contempt for titles and degrees of rank, but they feel differently about It In the old world, as has just been demonstrated by a diplomatic Inci dent. For many years, the purveyors of news have been wont to fill In dull days with stories about how the sul tan of Turkey, old Abdul Hamld, Is put ting in his spare time in inventing new forms of snubs for the American min ister at Constantinople. America has a good deal of business with Turkey, owing to the exchange of missionaries for cigarettes, rugs and other forms of trophies or atrocities, and the record falls to disclose the consummation of any deal between the nations that was not accompanied by "diplomatic com plications." The wily did sultan has accepted everything and conceded nothing, unless a new style of Ameri can warship was anchored In the Bos- phorua. But all that has been changed. , The last session of congress passed an act raising the rank of America's represen tative at Constantinople from minister to ambassador. "Minister" Lelshman used to be treated like a book agent or a bill collector when he called at the sultan's palace to register an American kick. "Ambassador' Lelshman has now the privilege 6f seeking the sultan In person, the same as the represen tatives of other leading powers, and the result has been markedly success ful. The United States has had six grievances against the sultan that have been hanging fire-for years. Any one of them would have created a revolu tion, a Junta, a modus vtvendl or some thing of that sort in a Latln-Amerlpan republlcbut the best Minister Lelsh man was able to do waa to report prog' resa and ask leave to sit again. Mlii' later Lelshman haa been Ambassador Lelshman for a few months only, but he has gleefully notified the State de partment at Washington that the sul tan has granted every claim made by America and haa said, In effect, that if there was anything else Uncle Sam wanted and did not see, all he had to do was to ask for It. A title and brass buttons have accomplished what stren uous remonstrance and convincing ar gument failed to secure. It may pay Americans to keep their contempt for titles for home consumption. A QUESTIOX ABLE DECISION. The Interstate Commerce commis sion, which has performed marvelously good work in accomplishing reforms in transportation matters, under the ex tended power granted it by the new rate law, has apparently made a mis take in deciding that railroads and other transportation companies may lawfully make special rates for the movement of federal troops when such movement Is under the orders and ex pense of the United States and that the rates so made need not be filed or posted. The basic principle of the new rate law. passed in 1806, is the prevention of discriminations and rebates and the adoption as a transportation rule that all railroad patrons should fare alike. The abolition of the free pass system was inspired in part by a desire to prevent railroads using this form of a bribe, to secure transportation con tracts either from Uncle Sam or other shippers. Coupled with the law waa Dill I Wl 1 O - ' - - -- i ' J p. u . . , -. - v a provision appropriating $2 5,000 anlleapa before the mind s eye when Senator nually for the traveling expensea of the president of the United States, Illus trating the fact that the government waa not asking favora from railroad companies. The new decision of the Interstate Commerce commission runs counter to both the letter and the spirit of the rate law. If federal soldiers may be ! transported at reduced rates, why should not federal Judges, federal at torneys, federal inspectors, federal postmasters, and the whole long list of federal officeholders, snare the same privilege, so long as they are on duty for the government? And the words "official duty" have been known to cover a multitude of railway passes. The government Is amply able to de fray the legitimate traveling expense of Its servants and it should do so, in stead of accepting from the railroads favora which it prohibits the railroads extending to other patrons. The secretary of state is having a second edition in pamphlet form of the primary law printed to supply the svtranrdinarv demand for copies. If i - the session laws' wefe ready for dia- trlbutlon- within the time stipulated VI IIU !-.- U the State by the state constitution would not have to spend so much money printing particular laws In separate pamphlets. The War and Navy department offi cials are going ask congress to make an appropriation for the enter tainment of visiting army and navy officials from other countries. Under existing conditions, our army and naty officials must pay for the entertain ment of these visitors or ask them to bring their lunches with them. South Omaha still maintains a separate and distinct assessment of property for purposes of city taxation. Irrespective of consolidation with Omaha, there is no good reason why the South Omaha tax commlssloner shlp should not be merged with the office of county assessor at the earliest possible moment. Mayor "Jim" aaya he will Issue per mits suspending the license ordinances whenever and to whomsoever he sees fit without waiting for the aid or con sent of any city council on earth. As Mayor "Jim" has the pardoning power and can remit fines Imposed for violat ing city ordinances he occupies a stra tegic position. The frequent erection of that new theater in Omaha by representatives of the Theatrical trust suggests that perhaps there Is an object to be gained In discouraging any one from building a theater here which the independents might get hold of. One theater in brick and stone and steel is worth ten on paper. The people of Omaha and Douglas county want no patchwork court house. When they build they will erect a structure that will be creditable to the city for years to come. The only open question Is whether they are ready to start now or prefer to wait a little longer. The Commercial, club will try to help make Omaha the nesting place for the 1909 national convention of Eagles. Omaha's altitude, which is about 1,000 feet above the sea level, ought to be quite congenial to the Eagles. ' Another spurt on the enforcement of the speed limit on automobile scorchers traversing Omaha streets Is urgently called for. The reckless auto mobile driver should be forcibly re minded that other people also have rights on the public thoroughfares. According to the Orange Judd Farmer, the enforcement of the pure food law will make Jt possible to get real buckwheat cakes again next win ter. Perhaps. but the taste will have to be educated up to the real article. Navy experts (repprt that six of the nation's big battleships are defective In construction,.,, U 'matters little, aa they were built more than a year ago and accordingly are as much out of atyle aa a last year's Easter bonnet. Former Governor David R. Francis of Missouri admits that he would be a candidate for the democratic presiden tial nomination except for the fact that he cannot get the delegation from his own state. or from any other, Mr.' Hearst announces the organiza tion of the National Independence league. It will be, a compact organ isation, with a limited number of high aalaried players, with Mr. Hearst as the board of governors and the umpire. A court has decided that one of the principal hotels at the state capital ahould pay the sum of $180 to the city for water used during a period of five years. And Lincoln waa supposed to have prohibition tendencies'. A Michigan man- haa patented a de vice to keep the dust behind the auto mobiles. The pedestrian will be happy If some device la patented to keep the odor of the automobile In the machine, Instead of leaving tt behind. Nebraska postmasters are' furnish ing a model for Iowa postmasters to organize into a state association. Ne- i braska has drawn on Iowa frequently and it is only fair that we should reciprocate occasionally. Steam for Cold Feet. Cleveland Leader. Tk. ,r.i-v.rii whiaillni aimlle fairly Foraker talks loudly of the hopeleaaneaa of the Taft movement. Arc-ret Doha for Lealeaey. Chicago Record-Herald. Officials of the Oil truat will find it hard to understand why their organisation ahould be fined fcS.OOO.OOO if Uncle Bam Is rich enough to remit the fine which was Imposed upon China for the Boxer out break. Come Oat sf It. Brooklyn Eagle. Iast'-ear a Belgian crew won the world'e blue ribbon of aquatics at Henley. Now a Frenchman takes' the open gulf cham pionship of .Great Britain. What's that myth about Anglo-Saxon- aupremacy In athletics? Untarnished Glory. Baltimore American. Otie reply to the question often asked, "What ahall we do with our ex-piesl-dents?" haa been answered In one particu lar. We are not going to allow them to dim the glory of the presidential prestige by dying of indigestion. Misdirected kympathy. Baltimore American. Railroad and truat magnates are very gloomy In tholr predictions of the future, and the downfall of prosperity which la sure to follow the hostile legislation I . V I . . . D... . ibhiii ,uuiiuiiiii it- mi rrmi . p'n the 'fears of these prophets are not for ' themselves. it is ror the poor. iar puo- - - ' . . "C 'r wht"n proejrlly la not good any- ho ROIMD ABOUT MEW YORK. Rlpplea on the Carrent of Life la the Metropolis. Under a state law requiring the city of New York to pay employee "the prevailing rate of aee." S.Ui& auita were begun against the city by skilled mechanics who contended that they were not paid the prevailing rate In their respective trades. The claims aggregated H0,ono,0O0. A con ference of city officials and representatives of the clnlmanta reached a baala of settle ment calling for the payment by the city of ll.100.0iX). The conference also agreed upon "the prevailing rate of wagea," which all employee of the greater city will re ceive during the year. The schedule fol lows: Knglneers, 13.60; firemen, 12.60; pavers, $4.60; rammers, 13.60: stokers, $2 60; oilers. $2.50; paintera, 13.60; decorators. 14; car penters, $3.60; blacksmiths, $3.60; caulkers, $3; machinists. $3.2C; rlggera, $3; helpers, $2.60; daggers, $4; wheelwrights, $3.60; maaons. $4; plumbers, $3.76; electricians, $3.60; ateam fitters, $3.76; atone cutters, $4; bollermakere, $3.75: riveters, $3; harneae makers, $3; tinsmiths, $3.60; well drivers, $3. The nret Norwegian battleship to visit New Tork harbor arrived last Saturday, and. according to the police, every man, woman and child of Norwegian b'rlh or descent, visited the ship during Saturday and Sunday. The crowd waa a happy and well-behaved one, and at no..tlme did the police have the least trouble In preserving pt-Tfect order among the hundreds who lhed the shore, waiting for an opportunity to get on board. The sailors outdid them selves In their efforta to make the visitors feel at home, the result being that the scene looked more like a big family re union than anything else. For the first time since the Introduction of high power currents for running heavy trains the public had a demonstration Sat urday afternoon on the New Tork Cen tral viaduct, at One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and Park avenue, of what destruction la possible when this powerful current of electricity la short circuited. Those who dared approach within half a block of the fire saw streams of molten Iron and copper pouring down Into the etreet like ao much water and saw the heavy Iron pipes, wires, and ateel rails melted Into a white hot fluid aa If they were made of wax. "For half an hour the destroying cur rent had Its own way, melting the con dulta and wlrea from One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street and beapatteiing the pavement with a coating of metal. Firemen dared not turn on a stream, fear ing that the water would act aa a con ductor and cause them to be eiectrtcuted. There waa nothing to be done In the way of controlling the powerful element until the current could be turned oft at the power house, and that required nearly thfriv mlnnU. Then came the roar of explosion. Women screamed and men tumbled over one another to get out of the way. On the station platform eome darted down the stairways and others dodged behind piles of trunks and trucks aa If confronted by a battery In action. There la no woodwork on the viaduct except the ties that are Imbedded in stone ballast, but five seconds after the first report the entire structure for a block appeared to be biasing and a huge cloud of amoke rolled down Into tho street. Then a stream of something be gan to trickle to the pavement. At first no one could make out what It was. A group of boys ran toward It, but quickly darted back with their hands and faoes pitted from the spatter of molten Iron. , Second , by second the stream grew1 larger until the street waa fairly flooded With liquid Iron and copper. Incessant roar of the explosions, to gether with the dense amoke and wild ahouts, caused the greatest excitement. For a time the scene was one of panic. Horsea with heavy loads became unman ageable, women ran out of the ahopa crying hysterically. When tho current waa at last turned oft the exploalona ceased Instantly and' the flames disappeared. For a few minutes the red-hot Iron glowed, the melted metal quivered In pools and then the smoke lifted and the firemen went to work. For three blocks, wherever the raila were not melted, they were twisted Into all sorts of shapes. Here and there the current partly melted the steel beams of the via duct and the four-Inch Iron tubes that had carried some of the wires were almost entirely consumed. In the .street the asphalt pavement waa melted In places where the streams of liquid metal had fallen upon It. A transformation aa startling aa Its re generation In the last ten yeara waa wrought at Coney Island laat Sunday. Barkers for all the ahows were muzsled by police orders and not a word louder than a whisper escaped their lips. A marvelous Sabbath calm prevailed. To show the throng of pleasure seekers that they were not dead, though speechless, the barkers rigged themselvea with sandwich signs, of which these are aamplea: "The police won't let ua talk. Aren't they the mean things?" "Honest, thla Is a swell scenic railway. Come down tomorrow and let me tell you all about It." "Wouldn"t It be great If the police en forced this law on mother-in-lawa?" "If thls'show Isn't good, go around and make the police give you your money back. I haven't aald anything about It."' "They aay that silence Is golden. The box office man aaya that statement la a joke." The whole thing had an odd effect. The main thoroughfares of Coney, usually a buzzing babel, - were solemn and sedate. That the barker Is something of an Insti tution was evidenced yesterday. The strolling crowds seemed dull and uninter esting. Something waa plainly lacking and that something waa the barker. However, business didn't seem to Buffer, for long lines streamed Into the showa and attrac tions after having enjoyed the humor of the signs. Hard to Believe. Savanah (da.) News. Representative Hull of Iowa, who la chairman of the house committee on mili tary affairs, saya that If Theodore Roose velt were to be again a candidate for presi dent, "he would get 40 per cent of the democratic vote." We have heard it aug gested In other quarters that Colonel Roose velt Is a 40 per cent democrat, after hav ing alolen Colonel Bryan's boota and brecchca while he was In a-swlmming, yet we cannot bring ourselves to believe that nearly half of the democratic voters of the country would condone the purloining of Colonel Bryan's garments. Yacatloa Time at Oyater Uay. Buston Herald. "I found the president in outing clothes and our talk waa correspondingly brerxy, free, and unconventional," bays John Temple Graves, returning from his visit to Saga more Hill. Knough aald. Nothing makes ! for solemn confab like starched linen, but- toned-up coats, creased trousers and shin lug hats and boota, and nuthlng Is mora conducive to vacation comfort and Joy than clothea to correspond. Tliia Is the outing season. rmoi. otf. Two mm In flttshurg fought a duel with hot Irons as weapona, and the Irons cooled before their wrath did. The method never will become popular, for It hurts. ' Henry James sayi American women do not acknowledge the "superiority of their husbands, as the Kngllsh women do." No, Indeed; the women on this side are a good dead harder to fjol than the English brand. One of the food faddists says that a man might live well on two cents a day, but another atatea that five cents Is the adequate amount. When they have tried their respective systems of living we'U be rid of their nonsensical blither, any how. For a memorial to Henry Ward Beecher to be placed upon some suitable spot at the Beecher homestead In Litchfield, Conn., the Litchfield County University club has declared In favor of a has relief tn bronze of medallion heads of Rev. Mr. Beecher and hla sister, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. the medallion to be gar landed with oak leaves. A Ixndon sculp tor la now at work on the model. Investlgnttnna of far-reaching Importance concerning the life of prehistoric man. were begun last week upon the arrival In Wyoming of Harlan I. Smith, of the American Museum of Natural History. He will be followed by other experts In archaeology, for the Institution Is now carrying Into execution a plan cherished for several yeara. The landa to lx ex plored extend over all the country from the North Platte to the Canadian border., President J. T. Harahan of the Illinois Central Railway, Is to be credited with being the world's chief traveler. Averag ing 160 miles a day for fifteen years, a total of 821,250 miles, and an average of 2i) miles a day for twenty yeara, the grand lotal for thirty-five years reachea the colossal figure of 2.281,250 miles. It is a remarkable circumstance that In all his travels by rail over this country he has been In only one accident and that waa an Insignificant affair. NEBRASKA LISA DS ALL. deform Measures la Many Htatea Aimed at Corporate Domination, Philadelphia North American. Seldom has a nation In one short year seen such sweeping reforms enacted In all of Its sections. Legislatures In the east, north, south an l west hav.'1 Jlnel hand t romody old laws and create new ones, which tend to regulate and check the misuse of enormous corporate power and control, within the boundaries of the various states, the great corporations which depend upon all parts of the country for their existence. Nebraska, perhaps, leada all states In the wave of reform which has swept the coun try In response to the policies Inaugurated by President Roosevelt. Corporate dom ination of tlift state waa completely over thrown, but only after the most bitter battle in the history of the state. Although bills planned to remove evils Innumerable were Introduced In all legis latures, many were killed. Two-cent fares, primary bills, more equal taxation and rail road regulation by commission were gen erally adopted or the way prepared for them, while the widespread sentiment for popular choice of United States senators was made manifest. Pennsylvania's legislature waa by no means among the stragglers, the 2-cent fare law, the railroad commission, trolley freight bill, eminent domain for trolleys and the bucket-shop law bring the more Important reforms which were made into laws. In New York the creation of a railroad commission with enormous powers and the passage of the public utilities law, the moat sweeping of Its kind ever brought up, was offset only by the veto of the 2-cent fare bill by Governor Hughes. THE I1KST WAY. Practical Teat of Ksrnlng Value of Rednred Paaaenger Rates. Pittsburg PUpatch. A report Is heard that the western rail roads have agreed to accept the 2-cent-a-mllo legislation In states where It has been enacted and to forestall It In states where It haa not been adopted by adopting that figure as the general basis of ratea. Offi cial corroboration of the rumor Is not yet furnished. It may be 'developed from the basis of that experimental arrangement in Missouri, where the railroads have alrrecil to try It for three months, which 1b an entirely Inadequate length of time to de termine the effect on business of that rate. It would be a Judicious course for the railroads to agree to the experiment for the rest of the year, or till the next meet ing of the legislature. By ao doing they will avoid auch self-impeachments as that which the Pennsylvania railroad Is con templating, of practically asserting that it haa made the ordinary traveling public pay the cost of carrying the commutation and excursion traffic at low rates, thus Inflicting an unjuat discrimination. Thla, If true, would be a Justification for the law. But a more Important phase Is that by giving the ratea a fair experiment the rail roads will avoid the obnoxious attitude of trying to nullfy and defeat legislation. If after s fair test the traffic returna show the effect to be unsatisfactory they will have evidence In their statistics to support an application for 'amendment. The prob-J BDuity is mat the effect of the 2-cent rate on main lines In this section of the coun try at least will be to enhance traffic ao as to . make up for the reduction. On branch and local lines It la quite possible that experience may show the propriety of changing the law to allow a higher charge. The policy of a fair trial and basing the application for a change on the actual traffic statistics where It results unproflt ably will put the railroads In a far stronger position with the people than the resort to retaliatory schedules or court Injunctions. Practical of You cannot have a food article in your HSBRNSSF&E&ED'S GDSVTJE(t lift! m the standard of Duality for over half a century, f of making dainty and wholesome dniertt it is unequaled ' but its more practical utecontiittin helping you in your coolciog and baking. 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The fact that Mr. Taft was not on a political mlsalon all the more attests hla popularity with tlm pen. pie. and that he has atrengthened hltnuelf In their confidence and Increased his pop ularity mnkes the situation all the m.ire discouraging to the political "elements" and the commercial "Interests" which sr striving to stem the title which has turned In favor of the man whose candidacy towers above all others as representing the principles of the square deal There la little wonder that the politicians of the old school the ."standpatters" should be unable to comprehend the sn. cret of Taft'a strength with the maesrg. They regard him as "out of harmony" with his party because he Is not In ae. cord with "Uncle" Joe Cannon's doctrine of "standing pat" for high tariff an. I a protective system wlilch gives the "spec lal Interests" the right to plunder the public. If these men coulrl comprehend tlm source of Secretary Taft's popularity tliev would understand the futility of their ap peal to the people for the old -order of things. Taft Is In harmony with the S"titl ment of the present day. Ills sympathies are right. He Is opposed to the govern mental policy which allows the manipu lation of national prosperity to Increase tho cost of living for the wage earner beyond the possibility of IncreaFe In his wages, and adds only to the riches nf protected trusts and corporations. It is not surprlnlng that such a man shnnld meet the approval of the people and the opposition of the "special lnteresta." If "Uncle" Joe Cannon 'and th rest of the "standpattera" understood the people they would understand Taft and Tnft'a popularity. FLASHES OF Fl.N. Mrs. Lapsllng was explaining the nature of the Injury sustained by Johnny when ha fell off the hack porch. "It's a wonder he ever went through It alive," she said. "The doctor, says he cama mighty near frnrturtng hla Juxtaposition. You know tliat'a the bone next to ths medulllon obligato." Chicago Tribune. "Don't you think . automobile accidents are Inexcusably numerous?" "Of course I do," anawered the motor enthusiaHt. "The public ought to learn to dodue quicker." Washington Star. "Thar, my son. you ae what larnin' done fer yer daddy, don't you?" "What, maw?" "Why, jcHt as soon as the gover'mtnt knowed that he could do rlggera In his head they 'p'lnted him postmaster at $j"i a year, an' purty soon he'll Im sellln' stamps what goes on letters!" Atlanta Constitution. "My new play la sure to make a hit," said the popular actress. "It gives me an opportunity to display twenty new gowns." . "Mv!" exclaimed her friend. "How many acM?" "Only four, but In one of them the scene la at the dressmaker s." Catholic Standard and Times. "I cracked a lawyer's house the other night," aald the 9rt burglar, disgUHteiily, "and the lawyer was there with a gun all ready for me. lie advised me ter gil out." "You got off easy," replied the other. "Not much 1 didn't. He charged me $J6 for de advice." Philadelphia Press. "We demand a new trial. Grave errors were made In the selection of the Jury I" As to how?" "We thought we wore picking -ut men who would aoqult our cHqn,t.',- Washington Herald. "How much money really haa he?" "I don't know. What la his attitude to ward the law?" "What do you mean?" "Does he evade, defy, or Ignore ltT"- Washington Herald. Lady Missionary My poor man. when you, lie here alone at night and think of your past misdeeds, do you not feel remorse gnawing at your heart? Convict (disgustedly) Naw! Baltimore American. "The man of tho house," said the man at the door who was taking names for the city directory. "Is a blacksmith, I be lieve." 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