Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 27, 1907, EDITORIAL SECTION, Page 10, Image 10
10 THE OMAHA DAILY HEE : SATURDAY, JULY 27. 1007. The Omaiia Daily Dei, .... I FOUNDED by EDWAHD flOPEWATER. i VICTOR HoSCWATEII, IIDITOK. Kntered at OlTialil diss mutter. pn-tofT!ca ol second' TCKMS or SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday). in year..4W IjhII 1ie- and yiriilay. one year bundxy Hee, one year t.M haturdsy Use, one year... 1 W IJEI.IVEBKU IlY CARRIER. Dally hm (Including Sunday!, per werk..'Tr: laily Bee (without Sund.tv). per week. ..10c Kvenlng lie (without S.indav). l r week 60 livinlr.g lie- iwith .Suulny. per fck....li Addre-s nil complaints i f irregularities In dulltery to City liculatlon Detriment. OFFICKS. Omaha The Bee Building. South Oniahn-i.'lty flail Building. Council Mi;rTs-l6 Kiotf Street. Cr.'caj-o Pile Unity Building. New Yoik l.ViS Home Life Insurance Bldg. Washinelon- -SOI Fourteenth Street. COnRESrOKDliNCE. Co'Timunlratlona relating ta news and edl torlal matter should bo addressed, Omaha Hoc, Editorial Depsrtment. REMITTANCES. R"m1t by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Puli'shlng Cnmpany. Only 2-cent stamps rece'ved In payment of mail accounts Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, stale of Nfbrual'a, Douglas county, aa: Charles C. Kosewster general manager ef The Dee Publishing Company, being duly iirn, says 'hat the actual number if full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and 8i.nd-.y Bee printed during; the month of June. 1WT, was aa 1 jllbws: ' 1 3fl,S30 17 36.4C0 t 36,800 It 36,490 t 36.630 It 38,480 I I,890 S 36,410 36,810 20 36,310 21 S6.120 21 36,610 2! 33,730 T 36,634 1 36,800 24 , li , . . . 36,300 . . . 36,680 t 30,900 10. 11. 36.660 . . . 36,930 2 36,660 27. 21. 29. 30. . . . 36,670 . . . 36,470 . . . 36,860 . . . 36,950 12 36,820 IS 36,640 it 36,930 It 37,170 It 36400 Total... 1,094.320 Less unaold and returned coplea. 10,583 Nat ' total 1,083,631 bally avsrage 36,137 CUlHooS " ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence ana sworn to before me this 1st day of July. 1907. (Seal) hi. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. WIliCN OUT er TOWN. absrrlbers leaving the city teas porarlly should kat The) Bee mailed to theaa. Address villi be chanced aa often as requested Do not grumble about the weather. ngutt may be worse. Electric fans are being denounced i great germ disseminators. Doll the fans. The world-wide Theatrical trust la to be capitalized at $100,000,000 Stage money? "Uncle Joe" Cannon seems to be lieve there Is an unwritten law against tariff revision. Senator Piatt Is expressing disgust with modern day politicians. Au il lustration of reciprocity. General Miles says the United States 1b certain to lose tho Philippines some day. General Miles is always optiiuls . tic. Corea is to be punished for plotting egainst' Japan, but nothing is to be done to Japan for plotting against Corea. If that Jury iu the Haywood case at Boise agre3s it will do more than ,the public will ever .be able to do about that rase. Judge Llndsey of Denver is lectur ing before chautauquas on "The Story of Mickey." It is not "our man Mickey," however. That new official map of Nebraska showing the exact distances between stations should, be In great demand from former pnasholders. Now that the grocerB' and botchers' plculc has been duly pulled off the weather jiiau may feel free to turn off he heavenly water supply. iawaBBBBwa9HaiBBBBBBBBMa a "The trouble with the army Is that there Is not enough of It," siys Secre tary Taft. In other words, the array Is not constructed on Taft lines. .Colonel Bryan is at least showing a conciliatory spirit. If his views do ;:ot meet the approval of the demo cratic brethren he will alter them to BUit The explosion on the battleship Georgia wag rrused by a "flarebuck." That is also what happened to Colonel Bryan's attitude on government own rshij. The governor of North Carolina is aot saying anything to the governor of ?outh Carolina these days. He Is keeping his remarks for the federal ludges. A Detroit woman Is seeking a di vorce because her husband brought home a 'alklng machine. That woman knows her rights and may be depended on to assert them. It Is now proposed to bunlsn the late smpcror of Corea. The time is 411 ihcsen for tho enieror, as It is a little lata for the Chautauqua season and t30 early for vaudeville. An opera singer jiibt arrived from Berlin is to be deported because-sho has no visible means of support. Ir A case of that kind It would teem that tudlble means of support would b.' Just as good. A special meeting of the Nebraska Government Ownership league for pur poses of dissolution is in order sine Mr. Bryan has declared that govern ment ownership of railroads is not an h ' fr'"l;,x , A Representatives of the National As- eociatlon of Manufacturers are not ready to accept the dlrtum of Senator Hopkins of Illinois that the tariff re vision question will not le taken up until alter the next presidential elec tion. Senator Hopkins, while not claim ing to spruit fo the president, declares that he got the Impression, during a terent visit to Oyster Bay, that Presi dent Roosevelt proposes to confine his efforts at the coming session of con gress to securing additional railway legislation and enactments for the regulation of trusts, and to defer the tariff until after the election next year. Undeterred by this outgiving, the manufacturers have determined to press upon the coming session of con gress the necessity of prompt action on the tariff. They will urge that a special nonpartisan commission be ap pointed, with seml-judiclnl functions, to relieve the lawmakers of the detail of taking testimony and present a re port containing recommendations of a practicable and reliable nature. This demand for revision of tariff schedules is significant, in view of the fart, that the manufacturers, are the greatest beneficiaries under the Ding ley law. Prior to their recent annunl meeting the entire membership of the association was canvassed on tariff revision. Of 1,800 replies 990, or 55 per cent, were for tariff revision, while only 350, or about 20 per cent, op posed revision; 8 per cent voted for revision at some future date and 17 per cent expressed indifference. Out of the seventy-seven Industries can vassed fifty-six wanted revision, six teen voted against It and five voted for revision unler certain conditions. This gives a fnlr Idea of the strength of tariff revision among those classes which enjoy rhe direct benefit of pres ent schedules. In a letter, urging the appointment of a nonpartisan com mission to do the preliminary work, Chairman Miles pf the legislative com mittee say 8: The last time congress revised the tariff schedules moat of the work was done hv a cler who had locomotor ataxia. President McKlnley asked one of our boat members to help out the revision committee, nnd he was asked for advice on the tariff treat ment of an article that he was manufactur InK. This was one of the leading manu factured articles of the 1'nlted States, the chief competitors belnpr Rejijlum nnd Ger many. He recommended that It be put on the free list, and Fresldent McKlnlry sup ported hla recoimnendntions. Finally It ap peared In the Dlngley law with a 60 per cent duty, cumbered with difficult pro visions to such an extent that our member still has difficulty flxurlng out hla own schedules. The steel sche lules are so un necessarily high that the manufacturers and leadltiR republicans say ' that they should he revised In the Interest of In dustry and the republican party as well. Now, while the country la so prosperous. Is the best time for the readjustment. The tariff on petroleum should also be changed. I don't suppose one congressman In fifty knows that It is protected 150 per cent. There are many other Inaccuracies. It Is proposed by the Manufacturers' association to make this tariff commis sion a permanent organization, with annual recommendations to congress on schedules that may need revision and adjustment, thus avoiding the conditions that now exlRt. The Ding ley schedules have not been 'changed for ten years, tnd, however strong may be the opposition to a general revision, no one questions the desira bility of revision In certain lines. In many Instances the renditions which mnde the Dlngley schedules, appar ently necessary have entirely disap peared or have undergone radical change, n Is claimed by the manu facturers that a permnnent commis sion, with enlarged powers, would in sure a success to the movement that failed to follow the work of the tariff commission appointed in President Arthur's administration. That com mission had no power to subpoena witnesses, but took the testimony of volunteers, most of whom were seek ing favors. Congress refused to accept the report and passed a bill which bore no resemblance to the measure the commission recommended. The history of all our tariff legisla tion shows that business is unsettled during consideration of tariff sched ules. Undoubtedly the Ideal procedure would be to create such n body of tariff experts as the Natlopal Associa tion of Manufacturers proposes, as suming, of course, its fidelity to the protective prlmlplo. If congress wers to provide for a commission next winter the effect would unquestion ably be to minimise the disturbance of business by tariff discussion In the campaign next year. ff()lJ.0 UL.i t'A RTRIDG F.S. In defense of his own course in congress, particularly in Tils fight against the railroad rate law as urged I y President Roosevelt, Senator Fora ker explains that he believed the rate bill was unconstitutional and still be lieves it to be so. Then, with the tac tics of the shrewd pleader, he asks why the prosecutions against the Standard Oil trust, the railroads and other commercial and industrial com binations are all brought under the IClklns law, and not under the new rate law. If the new law is constitu ilonal and good law, asks the Ohio senator, why does not the Department of Justice use it, instead of falling back on the Hiking law or the old Sherman autl-trust law? Senator Foraker's question la being repeated and echoed in certain circles, apparently for the purpose of making political capital for the next campaign, 'jut the agitation of the question prom ises to prove a boomerang. The prose cutions carried on so vigorously in the 'as! year have been under the Elklns '.uv, for the reatou that the offenses complained of" were committed while 1. he Elklns law was in effect and before le opera- f effective ' the. The Elkitis law' became etfecti In February, 1903, more tbau three years before the rate law was enacted. There Is now no separate Elkins law, that measure having been Incorporated In the new general rate law. Under the new law, which took effect In June, 1906, the penalty of Imprisonment f.ir violating its provisions, whjch was left out of the Eiklns law, was restored and the Elklns law strengthened In other reRperts. The new rate law may he applied to prosecute anv violations committed 1 Pinre June, 1906, but the Department of Justice frankly admits that prosecu tions have not been commenced under the new law because the offenses for which punishment was provided by the Elklns law have ceased. The system of rebates, It Is asserted, has been abandoned and the railroads every where are apparently complying with the orders nnd rulings of the Inter state Commerce commission and ren dering pro3ocutic ns in the courts un necessary. The enactment of the new law seems to have put an end to the rebate evil and other special treatment of ship pers favored by the railroads. While Senator Foraker and his supporters may retain their opinion of the un constitutionality of the new rate law, the railroads are harboring no delu sions on the subject, or at least taking no reckless chances. KrRKFf:nAHr Y HOWltF.RK. The people of 1lncoln are beginning' to rcalire that A. E. Sheldon Is making a campaign for a site for the new state historical building that will compel them to say one of these days what the- are willing to do to meet the conditions Im posed by the legislature In making the pre liminary appropriation of 125,000 for a base ment of one wing. The bill says that this money shall become ..available when the city of Lincoln has Riven Market square for a site, or some other property of equal value. The square has been appraised at JfiO.OOn. This nieBtis that Lincoln must give Up Market square-, dig up JfAflOO for another site, or give up the building. It begins to look as if it would be necessary to put the new building on Market ( square or nowhere. Nobody knows where the money can be found for an alternate site to meet the conditions of the law. Lincoln Journal. Assuming that the proposed new historical library building must be put "on Market Square or nowhere," the last alternative is far preferable. Con ceding the desirability of new and fireproof quarters for the collections and library of the State Historical so ciety, the $50,000 rite Is by no means necessary, and to start a building by puttlng $25,000 into the basement as a cfub for future legislatures to make indefinite appropriations to complete It would be as unbusinesslike as it, would be extravagant. The place to put the proposed new building is "nowhere," even though It would Involve the lapsing of the $25,000 appropriation. When the state gets out of debt the. taxpayers of Nebrnska may be ready to carry out 1 The Bee's suggestion for the erection of a modern state house, with one wing placed at the disposal of the State library and the State Historical society collection, on condition that they Join forces. CV7T1G Donx tax xr.rTio.s. Over in Chicago a rule has Just been adopt. d to stop the exemption from taxation of property heretofore escaping on pretext of use for charita ble or religious purposes. Under this ruling all the parsonages, occupied an dwellings for clergymen and pastors, are to go on the tax rolls the same as the dwellings of other people. Under ! the same ruling all the hospitals not open freely to charity patients are to be taxed as private institutions. The abuses which the Chicago tax ing authorities are ti'ylug to stop doubtless exist In more or less corre sponding degree In Omaha and other cities. Our method of exempting property defined by law as nontaxable leaves the door wide open. The pres ent practice is for the assessor to omft this property altogether on his own Judgment. The law does not, how ever, exempt property used for chari table, educational end religious - pur poses from assessment, but merely from taxation and every piecf of prop erty Irrespective of its use should be assessed to bo exempted Bfterward only on application duly verified be fore the proper authorities. Careful scrutiny of all those claims to freedom from taxation would un questionably add a large amount of taxable property to the assessment rolls and ft the same time give other property owners appreciable relief. Eureka! The democratic platform pledge of dollar gas has been almost redeemed. Tests by the city gas com missioner show Improvement In the heating and illuminating capacity which the local democratic organ fig ures as equivalent to a reduction in price of 8 cents per thousand cubic feet, and all the gas commissioner has to do is to take another reef in his testing Instruments to increase tho saving to the equivalent of price re duction to dollar gas. Blow, the siren whistle! The last promissory note with which Mayor "Jim" paid his campaign expenses is on the point of being taken up. Mr. Harrlman's little scheme to transform the dividends of the South ern Pacific, now paid semi-annually at 2H per cent. Into quarterly payment? of 1H iter cent, would increase the rote of the dividend 1 per cent a year. An extra 1 per cent dividend on the $90,000,000 of Southern Pacific com mon stork held by the Union Pacific, would pour $900,000 more luto the j Union Puciflc tiea.Airy and au addition the amended rate law becam of $900,000 to the Union Pnciflc in revenue wauld be equivalent almost to an additional per cent on the out standing Unloi raclfic common stock. As an expert in high finance Mr. liar riman Is not to be beat. The state of 'Nebraska is a good deal bigger than the city of Lincoln, notwithstanding the fact that Lincoln Is the state capital. The State Rail way commission has plenty of pressing problems of statewide importance to demand Its attention in precedence of a squabble between local Lincoln street railway factions. The railway commission should notify the Llncoln ites that they will have to take a back seat and wait until after the questions affecting the whole state are adjusted. If the democratic bosses succeed in fixing up a slate for tho democratic county committee without waiting for the primary election they may be ex pected then to try their hand at manipulating the republican nomina tions. If the democratic steerera could name aH the tickets they might expect to win out for some of the offices. Senator Tillman declares that Secre tary Taft "has honeety, capability, the mental caliper to administer the office of president and hns sufficient Individ uality to be chief executive In fact as well a In name." Senator Foraker says he Is glad no democrat ever nom inated him for office. ' A pin point is big enough for those Ohio leaders to base' a fight on. Alleged defects of the primary elec tion law appear to be seriously dis tressing our democratic friends. But when the bill for direct nominations was pending In the leglslciure the democrats made no visible move to cure the defects or to Improve the law. Under such conditions they should be estopped from complaining. From the silence prevalent in that direction it must be inferred that the French wina growers have either Etarved to death tr are sleeping off the effects of overindulgence in their product. A call has been issued for a meet ing of the populist state committee. The populist state chairman must have concluded that it will take a count of noses to discover how many of them are left. King Edward still insists that men who want to be elevated to the peerage must appear before him In person. He does not need the money bad enough to do a mail order business in titles. "Men are much more agile than formerly," says Dr. Wiley. Yfs, in deed. Some chauffeurs are complain ing that it is almost impossible to hit r.n experienced pedestrian these days. Harts the Melon I'rop. Indianapolis News. Naturally the express companies object to obeying the Nebraska Railroad commis sion's order to reduce rates. What would become of the melon crop? A Forgotten Hcnef motor. Chicago Record-Herald. A Nebraska man Is producing gns from cornstalks. What, by the way, has become of the Pennsylvania man who discovered bow to put the coal trust out of business by burning ashes? Nebraska's Gnu Resources. Washington Post. In Nebraska' they have discovered a way to manufacture gas from corn stalks, which seems a lot of unneceFsary trouble when they have so many uble political orators In that state. Worml-ir I'p to Its Opportunities. Baltimore American. Time avenpes all things, evn the weather man. The people who were complaining that the chilly June was unseasonable can not criticise the way in which July Is warming up to Its opportunities for keeping up the record. 1'ose of One "('allured Man.' Kansas City Star. "And what Is a cultured man but a cruel tyrant always?" asked Clarence Durrow In his defense of Haywood at Uolse. But Mr. Darrow was not altogether Just to the "cul tured man." He is not always a "cruel tyrant." ttametlmcs he is only a lawyer resorting to the speech of a demagogue In order to help his client. Simplifying- Telephone Competition. New York Tribune. A federal court In the eBt holds that a telephone company must take business from Us rival. If the dec ision should be affirmed 011 appeal a formidable objection to grant ing franchises to more than one company In any community would 'apparently be removed. If a man were enabled to talk to every other telephone subscriber In town without Installing two sets of hiFtrumrnts or paying practically a double rate com petition would And new supporters. Persistence of .National Prosperity. New York Tribune. The enormous growth of our foreign trade in the last year is one more proof of the persistence of national prosperity. The United States Is becoming every year more efficient industrially and mnre a factor In the world's trade and production. It is be coming less and lies a debtor and more and more a creditor nation. 80 long as this general process continues we shall en Joy an eia er naxional expansion, good times and all around activity. Cost of the i:iUs' Convention. Philadelphia North American. What did the vacation tiip of a we. k to the big convention cost the Elks? This Is a iiiatlu iualh al proposition with which the mathematical n.lnds f the order are wrest ling for their own information. A summary of the most obvious expenses, based on the minimum and most conservative estimates obtainable, makes the following showing of the cost to the Elks of tf.elr vaiiun trip to Philadelphia: Railroad fares i00 Hotel bills, meals en route and sleef-lns car furei 1.0 0 0 0 Incidental t xpeiises in Philadelphia and on side trips ieoo) gaertnee In salaries and business.. C00.( Total cost of trip, excluding badges, costumes, etc tl 2v.0 AU of this money "IUU Klk " contributed from his private purse and e.nt Into the gueil circulation, OTHER l.AMM Til 41 Ot'HS. The ministry of Premier Clemenceau of Fiance, alter W io'ng siege of stormy legis lative nagging, is free to rule as ft wills. Tho legislative assembly is "off Its hands." Passing victorious through fierce political contention and Internal disorder, a season ot repose xinust be a welcome change for the ministers. The tactical skill shown In ! handling discordant legislative factions so i as to secure a majority In every test I reached the plane of masterful strategy ! In deferring to a future session considera tion of the new income tax bill. All sec tions of the assembly seemed desirous of hammering that measure, and the foxy Clemenceau, noting the direction of the air currents, concluded the measure was not an urgent one, shelved It. and rheerfully uureed to an adjournment over summer. The proposed income tax Is an enlargement of existing law and Is designed to Increase gocrnment revenue by a substantial sum. Taxation In other directions hns reached the limit apparently, and yet the revenue does not keop pace with the constantly growing expense bills. Taxeaters are sap ping the life blood of the state. About ono out of every twenty-six of the adult popula tion holds public office, and the cra-o for public Jobs surpasses the epidemic which seizes Americans When a change of admin istration occurs. In France, ns here, the pie dispensing politicians endeavor to In crease their power with more offices and the mania has carried the state to the doors of- an empty treasury. Increasing the load on the overburdened producers shows how desperate has become the finan cial situation In France. Ocrmnny has established by law the property rights of the individual In works of art and In photographs. The law went Into effect on July 1, and Is described as being of far-reaching Importance "to artists, business men and, Indeed, to tho general public," particularly because It deals In detail with the right to one's own picture or photograph. Primarily the law lays down the rule that the right to reproduce a picture belongs to the per son who ordered the portrait, or his legal successor. This Is qualified, however, by a clause which specifies that the circulation of such a picture, or Its exhibition In public, Is permissible only with the consent of the person pictured. This Is necessary, be cause he who orders a picture Is obviously by no means always Identical with the sub ject. If several people are photographed st the same time, the consent of every one "of them Is necessary before the pic tures can he made public. In event of the death of the subject publication cannot be had for ten years without the consent of the "surviving consort, parents or chil dren." It Is also specified that In the ab sence of these near relatives It Is not necessary to get the consent of brothers and sisters. In the event of there being no surviving relatives of the classes speci fied, there can he no reproductions ex cept by the original person who gave the order or his legal heir a requirement which, as the Perlln T.ieoMitt nolnt" "'it. will greatly restrict the privileges of pho tographers. Tt appears that tho leaders of the am Prltlsh agitation In India are doing theU best to enlist the sympathies of the Jap anese In their movement. For sotno time fhey have been Insisting, In their press organs, that the Japanese by their victory over Russia have put an end to the no tion that the Oriental, as compared with the European, Is deficient in bravery and Intelligence. A good many of these agi tators are students In various technical schools and colleges In Japan, and are In dustriously pushing their political propa ganda. They are proclaiming everywhere that the beneficial effect of British rule In the development of Indian etvlllzntlon hns ben vastly overrated. Mr'tlsh '-li-infii-tlon. they say. Is often attended by the grossest Injustice, and the government. Is really a hotbed of snroulderlng revolu tion. There seems to be good reason for believing that they have succeeded In creating" an Impression among certain classes of the Japanese and some of thfl less Influenthil newspapers. At all events, Count Okuma. st a recent grden party to a number 'of Indian students, thought It worth while, In a welcoming address, to speak In warm terms of the good work wrought by the British administration In 1 India, and to warn the students against the folly of attempting to overthrow It, or of cherishing schemes which could only re sult In their own discomfiture. Foiled by the House of Ixirds In enact ing their education bill, the liberal govern ment are carrying Into effect some of their educational reforms by a simple adm'nis trative process. An appropriation of lr. 000 for the establishment of public ele mentary schools, Is being carried on a supply bill which the lords cannot touch, and this is evidently the thin end of the wedge since these supply bills may be passed every year. The government has also found educational organization, which was denounced by the lords as a squint toward borne rule. Most vital Is the policy of the government to grant more public money for the support' of secondary schools that agree to abolish all sectarian obliga tions than it does to schools that remain under denominational control. The gov ernment has also compelled all training colleges to adopt a conscience clause under penalty of forfeiting government aid. Wherever It has been able to find a legal way to force its policy upon the existing educational system by methods of admin istration, the government has not hesitated to do so. Bitterly attacked for doing by such means what It has been unable to secure direct legislative sanction for, the liberals retort that they are Justified In their course because the lords wrecked their bill. At the time when the king- of Spain mar ried an English princess, there were ru mors that a British syndicate had bought the picturesque Island of Cortegade in order to build on it two palaces, one for Edward VII. the other for Alfonso. In r-slity, the island has been bought for the Sl avish king alone, and given to him as a pre- nt by the Oalliclan communities ot VMlajrarcla. Carrll. Vlllapian, Camadoea, Fifiranes and Santo Tome communities which have often profited greatly by ths presence of the English fleet In Spanish waters during , maneuvering time. The Island. Cortegade, situated In Arosa bay, Is densely wooded and mountainous. It has been Inhabited hitherto by eighteen families of about pm Individuals, all of whom will leave, having received proper compensation. The only condition they made was that the chapel of the Encarna clon. on the highest point of the Island, be left Intact. The Island Is to be con nected with the mainland by a bridge about inn meters long. The king Is much pleased with the present, and Intends to build within the next three vears a palace which will cost about io.vvofm pesetas, and the plans for which have already been sketched by the court architect. Pfnor Rlpolles. The cornerstone Is to be laid this month. Heal Bond of Sympathy. Kansas City Times. The railroads complain that the Increased cost of operating expenses and the advance In ;he prcea of materials have practically wiped out all the "net earnings" of the last year's business. If this Is nslly the CHfa It will establish one more bond r.f sympathy between the people and the rallroa ls. The truMs have served the pc-o- vie the tiinc way POLITICAL. DRIFT, The collateral Inheritance tag In Massa ehusetts yielded 1712.0CO last year. Heniy Watterson'a "dark horse" candi date for the presidency on ths democratic ticket la a blond. Pittsburg sends note of sympathy to Pan Francisco. Ffty years ago the Smoky City puts Its mayor In Jail for disturbing the peace. Soundings establish the fact that ths water Into which Mr. Fairbanks Jumped Was thirty feet deep, so that he must have gone In at least up to bis neck. Among the great reforms In operation In Texas Is the statutory requirement of nine foot sheets In boarding house beds. Australia will have to hurry If It would retain Its laurels. Much surprise Is expressed In political circles in Pennsylvania because the gov ernor Insists that applicants for appointive Jobs must have some knowledge of the work they undertake to d. Ixiuls F. Pain, a veteran plebttlng poli tician of New York, bemoans the evil times that hsve came to his business In the empire state. There Is no one left In the marble capltnl at Albany with sufficient respect for his experience ,-ind appetite to offer him a crust. Pennsylvania is a grest state ns a revenue producer. With nhout $6.ononn wasted or stolen on the capltol trimmings, there was still money enough to raise the school appropriation by 14.0no.onn. and now the highway commission reports that there are nearly 5,0no.nro available for road Im provements in the next year. Ohio's younger sons have done pretty well In New York. P. Tecumseh Sherman, son of General Sherman, Is state labor I commissioner ana t rancls Key Pendleton. son 01 me ramous I nlted States Senator George H. Pondleton, la corporation coun sel for New York City. Senator Pendleton was the vice presidential candidate on the ticket headed In 1SG4 by (lcnral McClellan. He was the father of the present system of civil service, local, state and national. THK PEOIM.K A.r TIIU ItAII.HOAD Ko Hostility to I.esrMlninte Business of Transportation Companies. Kansas City Star. The doctrine emphasised by Oovernor Folk In his contention with Justice Brewer, that the people may safely be trusted to give the railroads a square deal In the matter of legislation for the regulation of railroads, Is the "stono of stumbling" with the transportation companies. But It is the very vital and fundamental principle In volved In the theory of self-government. If the people are not to be trusted In the matter of railroad legislation by what process of reasoning could It be assumed that they have the capacity to act In leg islating for the individual citizen! The most serious blunder the railroads have made Is in the assumption that the people are hostile to public service corpor ations. As a matter of fact the people have been more liberal with these enterprises than with any other class of business j ventures. They have discriminated in favor of the railroads . with public aid In the matter of legislation and in forbearance with the abuse of privileges. They have not guarded their own Interests as they should have done In restraining and limit- j Ing the power of railroads nnd other public service corporations to plunder and op press th. public. There la -o enmity anywhere In America against rr"-o-oads as business enterprises. There Is 1.9 hostility to the legitimate business of the roads. The people rejoice In their prosperity and take real pride In the progress of t! :r development. Such a thing has never ben nown In America as complaint against the hiriest earnings of a I railroad company or ability to pay dividends on Its capital stock. A demand that the supremac of govern- i ment shall be maintained and . rail nads subjected to the people's laws Is n. evl- I dence of hostility. The interpretation o." enmity in such legislation Is merest sM- iti- if. pldity on Hie part of the railroad man era. IIKAT IN CITII!:. Cnotinnnry Lessons Drawn from Phil adelphia's Experience. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The thousands of prostrations along the route ot the Klks' great procession In Phil adelphia Is a reminder of the dangers of a blazing hot day under such circumstances. It must be remembered that population Is ! growing and that the paving nnd archi tecture of cities tend to store up heat and cut off breezes. Philadelphia lias nearly l.BOO.nno people and the most of them wanted to see the parade with 85,000 men nnd countless ingenious devices In line. The marchers were exposed to the full force of the sun and many In the vns crowd along the sidewalks were In a like position. It is said that but for the storm that came up the number overcome would have been tens of thousands, and the fig ures nro hardly an overestimate. Standing In one place In a city street under the rays of a midsummer sun Is a test that few could endure or would think of attempting under ordinary circumstances. Though It has certain great merits, the American climate In Its extremes Is not to be trifled with. Especially Is this true of the heated term In cities where the nar. rowed circulation of air nnd the caloric held by pavements and walls reduce the natural means of relief. Inhabitants of cities are not accustomed to exposure to the sun and are cut off from the re storative .atmosphere of the open country. At the same time their occupations are more Intensive. It Is essential that they keep as cool ns they can. Crush parades In July are perilous according to the state of the weather. One cause assigned for many prostrations in Philadelphia was ill ness from adulterated lemonade. Chemicals are a poor substitute for fruit Juice, and the pure food Inspwctors ought to get busy along this line. But for the gathering clouds the health authorities of Phila delphia would have been completely ever-whelmed. SATURDAY I HAVE ABOUT ?00 8TKAW HATH Ltr-i WHICH WE WANT TO SELL SATURDAY. SO HAVE MADE THE FOLLOWING PRICES TO CLOSE THEM OUT: Any ot our Men's Straw Hate (except Panamas) for $1.00 These Include sailors as well as the soft styles and sold aa high as $3.50. Any of our boys' and children's Straw Hats at half prlce Former prices 60c to $5, now 25c to $2.50 f If vou Intend to wear another any time, here's your opportunity. Our 20 per cent discount sale of light weight clothing is still attracting judges of quality. 25 per cent discount on all children's Wash Suits. WE CIXJSE SATURDAY EVENING AT 0 O'CLOCK downing, King & Co R. S. WILCOX, Manager. ANOTHER "BE5KVOI ICST TBI T Oecttoa Thread Combine Boosts Prices ky warn!. Boston Transcript. Cotton thread la going up. Housewives knew this, deplore It and are much nnstl- ' fled thereby. The figures akd for thin Indispensable article of dally use In every home begin to recall "war prices." From 4 cents a spool the retail cent has grsdn ally ndvnnced t.i (I or 7 rents, and there li 6 rumor that the mandate hns gone forth from the great combination which controls thread-making In America that in cents shall ultimately be tho regular retail price fnr an ordinary spool of cotton. But the t'nlted States government may have something to say about this, for tha Department of Justice at Washington la engaged In a preliminary Inquiry Into the arTairs of the Amerlran Thread company, with a view to lepsl proceedings agalnat It as one of the "had trusts" which hsva mnde maladroit use of their tremendoua power. Making all proper allowance for the ad vance In actual manufacturing charges, It Is difficult to understand or to defend such an enormous Increase m retail prices. Against the higher cost of the rsw ma terial and the higher wages of the opera tives there ought to be set in all falmesa " nirauy increased vol ume of production and of Improved pro cesses of manufacture. If the combination of wealthy capitalists which dominates the American thread-making Industry does ac tually contemplate forcing retail dealers to demand in cents a spool for cotton thread there will be a swift Intensifying of popu lar Impatience with certain abuses of tha protective tariff system. Whether It Is al. sys absolutely logical or not, such an Im patience Is certainly very human, very natural, and as Inevitable ns the rising and retting of the sun. It Is well known that Immense fortunea have been made In thread manufacturing In this country, and made by Interests which were originally alien to America. In fact. It Is often asserted that the actual mastery of thread-making business here Is held In the fnlted Kingdom. The Coatsea and tho Clarke are rich and powerful Brit ish manufacturers. They control the Kng lish Sewing Cotton company, ami It Is de clared that the Knullsh Sewing Cotton company controls the American Thread company. Thus, the Industry here is held firmly In the grip of one of those hu-e International combinations, or world-trusts, the reff-iil-tlnn nf n.l.l..U l ... .,, ... , r ln(t n1nt ( stupendous tasks destined to confront the political economists and the legislators of the future on both sides of the Atlantic i f.v tii:-is. I should think you'd go stow," said tha cautious friend. "Hon know, as Lin coln aaiil. -You ran fool all the peopla some of the time ami some of the'' That's all right." Interrupted Skinner, but I find It's always possible to fnol enough of the people enough of the time." Philadelphia Prexs. Pealer-Tlils parrot doesn't use bad lan guage. Miss Bawstun Perfectly awful. Why I beard him split an Infinitive. New York Sun. "Why do you railway men Insist on hav ing such large dividends?" "Why," answered Mr. Dustln Stag, "so that we can own automobiles nnd escapa the annoyance of riding In our own cars." Washington Star. "Hnve you ever contributed nnythlng to the Atlantic?" asked the young woman ironi noston. "I should say I had." renlled the C cngo llterateur. "On my first trip over1 liionriiju'en everyining 1 ate ror nearly week." Chicago Record-Herald. Of course. It's a very pretty suit." snld Miss Angles, "but It's so cheap I'm afraid to take it. I'm afraid before I'd worn It long It would lose Its shape." , "O, of course," replied Miss Knox, '"but ihen you could pad It generously." Phila delphia Press. ! "T!,e theatrical people are forming a wori-1 trust." nd now. I presume, ths pnuper Jokes of I Frfj.'ope w. crowd the home product from :ii comic opera, field." Philadelphia Press. "Was : scientifically possible for Me. the-.ela'- to have lived 800 years7" "Not -11 those early times when there was neither whls-y nor tobacco."' Ht. Louis P-N't-l.lHpat'-:i. The archlt-t 1'ilsted upon having hi way as to v'ie 'mansions of rooms nnd halls. "You do not u lerstand these things," he said to the owner. "Hut- I understand tb- dimensions of 4 mortgage all right." 8 ft-- the owner. Badly. -Philadelphia Ledger. "I wonder if Mars reallv Is inhabited. " "Don't know, but If Saturn l HI bet the politicians own It." Think so?" "Certainly; can't you nee the rlna ?"- Washington Herald. "What's the speed limit here?" "There ain't any. The judge looks 'em over and fines 'em what he thinks they've got." Baltimore American. "The minister Is going to preach next time oh original sin." "I think," declared Mrs. Smartset, "we all ought to go.'' "Why?" "Because sin nowadays Is no unoriginal." Philadelphia Press. A SI'MMF.H BOARDER. New York Times. She's just a Bummer boarder. I'npoIlHhed, I'll allow. She bristles nt the pumplrrn She ennnot milk n cow. She's most unsympathetic At coops and stalls and sties, But three times oh! and ply the hoe! Wot eyes she has wot eyes! She's Just a Summer boarder, rnflnished, I'll aver. The flute-like call of cabbage Means nothln' murh to. her, She s ojus to tha turnip And worse to home-made pies. Out throe times wow! and steer the plow Wot eyes she has wot eyes! She's just a Summer boarder, t'ntutored. 1 confess. Indifferent to hsystaeks, t'ncountrlfied In dress, Intolerant to skeeters, I nladyllke to flies, -..1. But three times ball! snd swing tha fintb Wot eyes she has wot eyes! Straw Hat now, sometime or