THE OMAHA DAILY HEEr MONDAY, AUCIUKT 1 12, 1P07.
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CHARLES C. ROSEWATER,
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when out or Town.
.' Saserlbr leaving; the City tens
S rarity kald have Tk Be
sail l them. Address will k
It la Just as well to suspend all
table manner rules until the corn-on-the-cob
season' g over.
New Jersey Is now after the Stand
ard Oil trust. Iven a mother Is oc
casionally cruel to xher children.
southern paper solemnly declares
thai , "Piatt and Depew are opposed
to Fairbanks.'4 Congratulations to Mr.
Fairbanks. - ' " . '
Th surprising part of it I that
John D. Rockefeller, who talking
much about economy, does not play
checkers instead of golf.
"There are forty-four.roads to hell,"
ayg R)v; Newell t)wight Hiine," Yes,
and the worst of It Is that none of
them issues return tickets.
The New -York Sun announces that
"Taft will revolve around the globe."
It would save time and effort for the
globe to revolve around Taft. .
Statisticians persist in telling how
much the .various , millionaires are
worth. But there is a vast; difference
between possession and worth.
"Mr. Bryan is an Insufferable bore,"
says the New York Times. Mr. Bryan
might be less indifferent if the Chau
tauqua managers agreed with the
Tlmoe. '
That patient in th Michigan insane
asylum who assaulted the keeper for
giving him a volume of Alfred Austin's
poems to read ought, to, be discharged
as cured.
Omaha's "weekly bank clearings are
ataylng oyer- the 110.000,000 -mark.
wXh a 15 per cent Increase. For a
hot week, in midsummer this will re
quire no apology "
The new Nebraska primary election
law does not provide tor the printing
of sample ballots at publlo expense.
. Why should ttf Let the candidates
pay their ' own printing bills.
A encumber is 95 per cent water,"
lays the at Louts Post-Dispatch, which
falls, however, to explain how the
cucumber has escaped being listell 'on
the New York Stock exchange. , ' '
In addition to Imposing a fine of
11,140,000 on the Standard Oil trust,
Judge Landls hung out a danger signal
to other trusts that are running with
out regard to the federal schedule.
None .but a professional milkman
would think' of the explanation that
pure milk sour more quickly in this
kind of weather than the kind that
has been reinforced from the pump.
A good woman in Brussels who Is
the mother of eeyenteen daughters
sks the New York World why young
mon hesitate to marry. Can not an
iwer without seeing photographs of
the daughters.
. "Where Is all our gold!" asks the
Wall Street Journal. Oh. well, It yon
must know, it is divided pretty evenly
among the landlord, the butcher, the
baker, the coal man. the grocer and
others of that lk. , , ,
Of course, it is pure solicitude for
the poor farmer that brings railroad
mployes all the way from Chicago to
volunteer to tell the Nebraska Rail
way commission that cream rates In
this eUte are too low,
. MORt LtQttt OX TH C OIL TBVTS.
The final report of Herbert Knox
Smith, commissioner of corporations
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor, on the petroleum Industry of
the United State furnishes complete
refutation of the Standard Oil com
pany's attempted Justification 'of its
'prices and the method it employn to
strangle competition and strengthen
its monopolistic) hold upon the oil in
dustry of the world. Perhaps the
most striking feature of the report is
the showing that while about B5 per
cent of the illuminating oil manufac
tured in the United States is sent
abroad, the Oil trust has placed' the
burden on the home consumer and has
sold Its product In all the countries of
Europe for from 2 to 6 cents a gallon!
less than In the United States. The!
only explanation offered la that the
European sales were made in com
petition with the oil producers in Rus
sia, nd Austria-Hungary, while In
America the Standard had complete
monopoly of the field.
The contention of the Standard that
It has improved the quality of oil in
the United States and also reduced the
price is not borne out by the facts
as disclosed by this report. The In
vestigation shows that while foreign
prices on oil have steadily declined
since 1902, the prices in the United
States have persistently advanced. The
assertion is made that the Standard
has observed no laws of usual trade
in fixing prices but has adjusted rates
to suit its own convenience. Prices
in different sections of the same state
have varied from 2 to 0 cents a gal
lon with no reason apparent, other
than the desire to make a certain dis
trict yield a certain profit. The fluc
tuations have been due almost entirely
to discriminations rather than to dif
ference In the cost of delivery or other,
expense of, that character. ' ;
The railroads as well as other con
sumers have apparently been bilked to
the tune of many thousands of dollars
annually as a result of discrimina
tions practiced by the Standard. The
system employed was simply to com
pel all railroads to uso the Standard
oils and lubricants at prices fixed
by the trust. Instances are cited in
which one railroad company has been
charged fully double the amount as
sessed against a favored company for
the same oil. The report shows that
In one year ninety-four railroads paid
the Standard 14,067,974 f0r lubricat
ing oils, while one of the biggest rail
roads of the country secured Its oils
from the same company at 49 per
cent of the pricecharged .to other
roads. The railroad that attempted
to buy its lubricants from competitors
of the Standard soon got notice that
the IJtrfndard was diverting its ship
ments to other lines! Railroads have
been compelled",' as' a ' matter of eetf
protection, to . pay fancy " prices tot
lubricants In order to secure, freight
business controlled by' the trust.
Commissioner Smith's report Is a
summary of Investigations that have
been conducted In the last six years
and Is a complete record of the Illegal
and unJuBt practices employed by the
Standard to its own enrichment at the
expense of American consumers. It
will make It harder (or the Standard
OH trust to recover what It haB lost
through the odium arising from its
shady transactions.
CHINA'S oriVM ntronjtr.
The most decided proof that China
Is preparing for that "awakening" so
much talked about for the last twenty
yean Is In the Imperial decree Juet
issued forbidding the use of opium -In
the Celestial empire. The Chinese
authorities have taken an advanced
stop without awaiting the result , of
the Joint investigation proposed by the
powers into the entire question of the
opium trade, and have decided to abol
ish the trafflo that, has sapped the
energy of the empire for more than a
century. v i
It la positively pathetic to think of
what China has so Jong suffered at the
hands of Christian nations,' on account
of its attempt to, put down the opium
traffic. In 1790 the Chinese govern
ment made the opium trafflo illegal.
For thirty or forty years the British
merchants, engaged In this trade, got
along by corrupting Chinese officials
and defying the law.- In 1827 the
Chinese sought another enforcement
of the law and compelled the British
te turn over the opium in their posses
sion, but the British refused to agree
to the Chinese law making the carry
ing of opium a capital offense. War
with China resulted, ending with the
treaty of 1140, by which Kong Kong
mas ceded to Britain and several ports
opened to British trade. The subject
of opium wan not mentioned In the
treaty but India Is the greatest ophim
producing country In the world and
China Is Its best customer, the Chi
nese purchases now amounting to more
than $60,000,000 a year. .
A significant feature' of the new
condition'! that the appeal for this
reform Is proving popular In China
because the Chinese have become con
vinced they can never become a strong
nation until they get rid of & habit
which saps the energy of officers and
men and la fatal to the efficiency of
an army. This argument Is not en
couraglng to the advocates of universal
peace, but it is the most effective one
ever brought to bear on the problem,
as otie of national' morality for the
Chinese.
The magnitude of the renunciation
demanded of the Chinese people In
abolishing opium 'smoking can be
Judged by, the fact that, according to
best estimates, fully one-third of the
400,000.000 Inhabitants of the empire
use the drug. The officials, however,
are advising the people as to the evils
of the habit and Instructing them in
the use of substitutes. It Is now pro
posed to make publlo the lists of
opium smokers and to debar them
from public employment and posts of
honor. After a probationary term,
users of opium will be punished as
violator! of the law. This new-born
purpose In the Chinese opium pro
hibition movement is , a triumph for
civilization.
A BADLY tCSGLKD JOB.
The sheet containing the names of
the candidates filed for places on the
official primary ballot Is Being sent
out from the secretary of state's office
to the various county clerks, and we
regret to say that It is a badly bun
gled Job.
In the first place, It does not distin
guish between the offices to be filled,
whether they are full terms or vacan
cies for which nominations are to-be
made. This is the ease with refer
ence to the regents of the university,
and also with reference to the district
Judgeship in the Ninth Judicial dis
trict. A candidacy for university re
gent to fill vacancy Is as distinct and
separate from a candidacy for regent
for the full term as It Is from a candi
dacy for railroad commissioner, and
the mixing of these filings is apt to
create Irreparable contusion.
In the second place, the sheet con
tains the names of all the candidates
filed with the secretary of state, so
that the county clerk of Sarpy county,
for example, gets a certificate of candi
dates for district Judge In fourteen Ju
dicial districts and for state senator In
one senatorial district who are not to
be voted for in Sarpy county at all.
A little painstaking care on the part
of the clerical force In the secretary
of state's office would have given the
county clerk In each county a list of
the names to go on the ballot In that
county. . . . . .
In the third place, the arrangement
of the names under the different head
ings, whether intentional pr by neg
lect, Is open to serious criticism. The
names are listed apparently as they
were filed, without any reference to
alphabetical order, whereas the pri
mary law provides for an alphabetical
ballot. Thio leaves it to the county
clerks to rearrange the order of the
names, with the probabilities that
some of them will follow the order on
the secretary of state's sheet. It will
be remembered that a similar manipu
lation of the order of the names on
the official ballot at the. last election
operated to. give" the six-year term to
a candidate for railroad commissioner
who would never have gotten the high
est number of votes had his name ap
peared in Its proper alphabetical posi
tion. - v "
Further than this, the printing of
thia document la particularly, poor and
calcblated to mislead, to say nothing
of errors either typographical or In
the copy. The secretary of state evi
dently does not realize that the prepa
ration and makeup of his list trans
mitting the names of candidates to the
county clerks is one of the most im
portant steps in the primary election,
and that failure to do his work well
may be a potent factor In the success
or failure of the operation of the law.
SPKiKKR CANhQfl AlfD BIS TTRAiryT.
Colonel Henry Litchfield West, an
amiable Journalist who earned his title
of "colgnel" by twenty years' service
in the press gallery at Washington,
calls attention in the Forum, of which
magazine he Is an associate editor,
to an "un-republlcan, un-democratic,
un-American", condition of tyranny
from which the American people are
suffering even if they do not know
It. In the course of a lengthy article,
reviewing the '. machinery of govern
ment and calling attention to some
defective cogs, Colonel Wet t says:
In other words, th nous of rpr.
entatlv! no longer consist of III
members, but on man. th speaker, it
Is a condition which is un-republlcan, un.
democratlo and un-American. Th crit
icism which It Invites is not directed
against Mr. Cannon, who will, undoubt
edly, b again chosen to wield th gavel,
and who Is deservedly popular. Th4
question Is not one of personality, but
of a system. There ought to b a larger
latitude for th cxercis of th responsi
bility which rests upon each member' of
congress as the representat.lv of a con
stituent part of th great republic As
It Is now. Individuality is suppressed and
Independence Is apt to be disastrous.
The recognised tyranny of the speaker
has been pretty generally heralded
ever since the days when Thomaa
prackett Reed won his title of "cxar"
by counting as "present'' the demo
cratlo members who sat mute, refusing
to vote and resorting to every con
ceivable form of filibustering tactics
to block the proceedings of the house.
The democratlo press -jt that time rang
with denunciations of Reed's methods
and some able republicans Inclined to
the belief that the speaker had gone
too far In attempting to fix a code of
rules for the government of a great
representative body. The fact re
mains, however, that the democratlo
congress which followed adopted the
Reed rules, with very flight modifica
tion, and each succeeding congress has
followed suit.
Thai remarkably large powers are
lodged In the speaker and the com
mittee on rules is not disputed. The
speaker, with two republicans and two
democrats, constituting the committee
on- rules, absolutely decides upon the
legislative program for each session.
The committee may, and frequently
does, decide that Amendment shall
not be offered to a pending measure;
that debate shall be limited and that
the vote shall be taken at a stated
hour. Front, thla ruling an appeal may
be taken to the house, but It is rarely
sustained. It Is useless to discuss the
merit of the system. The fact that
each congress makes Its own rules and
has power to change the existing sys
tem to any extent a majority of the
members may decide, robs the charge
of tyranny of Its force. If the mem
bers of congress can stand the con
centration of power In the hands of
the speaker and his colleagues, the
country will not worry, about the situation.
The Omaha street railway company
Is to be required to sprinkle that por
tion of the street occupied by Its
tracks. In some eastern cities where
the streets, however, are narrower,
the street railway sprinkling car wets
down the whole pavement. Perhaps
for a proper consideration the Omaha
street railway company might under
take the work of street sprinkling
along the whole length of Its lines
within the business district.
The little family jar among the re
publicans dwelling under the shadow
of Ute state house is watched eagerly
by the democratlo organs, who may
be depended upon to play It up to the
full limit. The people will then be
told, as usual, that the sure cure pan
acea Is to vote the demo-pop ticket,
although all the Bartley bond deci
sions were shared in by fusion Judges.
The judges of the district court are
said to be considering a reform In
procedure designed to keep things
moving faster In the trial of law suits.
That is a laudable purpose, but it la
likely to Interfere seriously with the
naps of the Jurors who are accustomed
to take advantage of the court room
benches while waiting to be called for
the next case. '
The plain cltlxen will be pleased to
learn that the Nebraska wheat crop
has triumphed over the combined
forces of the chinch bug,' the green
bug, rust, the boll weevil, heat, too
much rain, drouth, the Hessian fly and
the Chicago Board of Trade prophets
of calamity. Nebraska soil has earned
a "Makes Good" diploma.
The Chicago Board ot Trade la fixing
the price of wheat'. at about 21, while
the Society-of Equity Is holding It at
$1.25. In the meantime, the wheat
grower understands that when he gets
ready to sell his crop he will have
to7 deliver It to some dealer who will
pay for It in real money.
Statisticians have figured out that
Secretary Tft naevViraveled IQO.OOO
miles on the public service. That's
nothing. Mr. Bryan has traveled fur
ther than that andjfssttll waiting for
the brakesman to 'come In and shout:
"White House is tK6 next station. All
out" for White Hdtiwn" ' ""i
'. u "
If there Is any way for the numer
ous candidates for nomination on the
republican county ticket to ' get to
gether no time Is to be lost It Is a
good deal more profitable for repub
licans to fight the political enemy than
to fight one another. '
Nebraska Is right up near the top
in the condition oft the grain crop as
scheduled by the Department of Agri
culture statistical bureau. Nebraska
cornfields are again vindicating their
reputation for being more profitable
than gold mines. :
Scientists say every square inch of
one' skin contains 2,600 perspiration
pores. The average Omahan has been
too busy to verify this claim by actual
count but he knows from personal
experience that they are all working.
The government at Washington has
learned to Its regret that there la no
basis for the reports that Japan,
Great Britain and other- foreign pow
ers are anxious to secure the Philip
pines by purchase or otherwise.
An Er-0eer. -New
York Post.
Th land of unlimited possibilities at
tains new slgnlflcanc in foreign eyes when
an American Judge may say to an Ameri
can corporation, "I fine you the oomblnod
internal debts of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia
and Venesuela."-
"New mm Is Nws.M
Cleveland Plain Iler.
According to John Oraham Brooks each
child of tnlddlo class parents co-its them
I2&.000 before he reaches economic Inde
pendence. No doubt this will surprise the
mlddl class father of moderate salary
with a half doien growing children.
Tralwtaar Sckoal foe Trades.
an Franclaoo Chronicle.
Th railroad of th east contemplate
starting a school to educate young men to
fill positions of various kinds en ths great
transportation lines of th country. It I
a good mov. and some day It will b
Imitated generally In order to overcome th
Brewing tendency to shut out young Amer
ica from learning a trad or a calling In
which h can mak himself useful.
. "Leaf We rrTt."
Brooklyn Eegl.
Th worst offenders In crime. In modern
times. In th United States, were John
Wilkes Booth, Charles J. Qulteau and Lon
Caolgoss. They assassinated Abraham
Lincoln. James A. Garfield and William
McKlnley, presidents of the United States.
All these assassins were American born.
American schooled and the sons of Amer
ican clttsen. Those who r now tnvatgh
Ing agamst crimes by "foreigners" should
remember the . crimes by American
against Americana. '
Hard Pet for Ha.llroa.4 Maaar.
' Philadelphia Record.
Accident In the flrtt quarter of this
year cost th railway companies K, 600.000
la damage to cars, sngines and roadway.
Thle faet ought t maks th rocr nf
the eompanloo tak noaary precaution
to avert accidents. Incidentally 4H per
sons were killed Md nearly 1,000 war In
jured. Of course, these figures ar net
vary Important, but w . trust tha th
railway officials will past la their hats
that fsct about the destruction of tt.ftOO.we
worth ef th property of their companies.
O PRESIDENTIAL. PIRl.fO UltH
aar Aetlvltle f Preeldeat Ho
Telt mm Secretary Taft.
New York Bun.
From Oyster Bay come a moat encour
aging report that the president I having a
bully vacation. No one goes to Sagamore
Hill unless peremptorily summoned. Th
warning that Mr. Roosevelt needed rest
and seclusion Is religiously heeded. An
occasional sociologist wanders up to tha
gates by special Invitation and members
pt th tennis cabinet look in for a game,
but publlo business Is not allowed to touch
on the presidential vacation. Riding, boat
ing, camping, puunchlng th bag, contem
plation and sound sleep are doing wonders
for Mr. Roosevelt. He has never enjoyed
a vacation so much. The meditative life
has made a captive of him. When he
emergee In the third week ot August to
deliver an oration at Provlncetown he will
be in prime physical condition.
A different report comes from Murray
Bay. Secretary Taft's vacation la all
work and no play. He went to his BU Law
rence retreat to play golf, fish and loaf in
preparation for an arduous political tour
of the west and a voyags to th Philippines
to Inaugural the first national assembly,
Th secretary arrived at Murray Bay with
an armful of dispatoh boxes, a typewriter
and a secretary. Us was te be on the golf
link at least half the day, sleep eight hours
at night and swing In a hammock all ths
afternoon. By rising at I h hoped to do
soms department business and attend to
his correspondence as a presidential can
dldat bafor breakfast. But Mr. Taft
la not having a bully tlm, Ilk his chlf
at Oyster Bay.' Th typewriter Is clicking
far Into th night, th Washington wlr
Is hot with department queries, th secre
tary's mail is enormous, and rough drafts
of the speeches In th west have te be
made. Mr. Taft has no time to bait a
hook, and the grass Is growing rank on
his golf course. By th middle of th
month h must be off for Columbus, where
h Is to open bis presidential canvas with
a keynote speech. ,
The secretary la a horss tor work, but
th Society for the Prevention ot Cruelty
to Presidential Candidates had better keep
an eye on him. '
Risky Political PreHotlos
Washington Btar (rep.).
But th times are not normal. Thy
defy description. Indeed. Wathr predic
tions are not more risky than political pre
dictions now are, and the confusion has
produced all worts and conditions of things.
The land Is overrun with "special commls
sloners'' operating In this man's behalf
or that. One hears of their presenoe
everywhere. Fairbanks men, Taft men and
Cannon men are around and about. And
the boomers themselves are not Idle or In
seclusion. All. in effect, are on the stump,
delivering addresses none th less to th
political point because nonpolltlcal in
theme and treatment, it may be, there
fore, that these Hughes "commissioner"
will, find the field worth their while. la
choosing the west and tha northwest for
their labors they have shown good judg
ment. There Is nothing In the outh for
their, man, and work ther would be
wasted. If he Is to count In the next re
publican national convention he must show
strength, not only In New Tork, but in
territory elsswhere favorable to republican
politics and guaranteeing republican elec
toral vote.. .. ,
Mlilsf U
Springfield Republican (Ind.).
The assortment of hot weather politics
from Washington la rather larg that
Hughes Is being put forward to kill Taft
as a presidential aspirant, and In deflanc
ot Roosevelt, and that th talk of Cor
telyou as a polbl nomine . Irritate the
president and may lead to a forced va
cancy In the cabinet. The Inherent strength
of the governor of the Emplr stat doe
not occur to the Washington correspondents
In dog days, with th president at Oyster
Bay and everybody out of th. national
capital who can get away, la about th last
place on th footstool In which to look
for genuine developments In politics. But
In extenuation let It b also' remembered
that some Washington correspondents ar
required by their paper to fill space.
whether or no. The cttisen who paid no
attention to the political gossip of August
would be no loser. It has to bs pumped out
of th Interior consciousness of newspaper
slave.
A TTmlTersal Exctatloa.
Philadelphia Record (Ind. dem.).
If William Jennings Bryan shall not be
th democratlo candidate for president in
lMtt republican organs and orator In all
part ot th country will be compelled to
admit th1r disappointment. vn ne
voice they declare at this tlm that Mr.
Bryan ned look for n rloua opposition
In his quest of th democratlo candidacy.
Whatever democrats may think ot a third
trial of Bryan, It is evident he Is the re
publican choice tor th democratlo nomina
tion. How IS this undoubted republican
preference most reasonably accounted fort
Is It because of ths llef that Bryan Is
so far committed to Roovlt pollel that
a Bryan sucosss might be esteemed a near
approach te a republican victory t Or la
It because they think Bryan I eur te
again dlvld his wn party and pav th
way to a third defeat?
Will Hear Opwoso BryT
PhUadslphla Ledger (ind.).
That Mr. Heart will oppos Mr. Bryan
It th Nebraskan, who has so long hypno
tised his party, Is brought forward anthr
tlm as th democratlo candidate, la a
statement which need not cause great sur
prise. A between these two worthies, upon
whom the mantle of Thomas Jsfferson ha
fallen, th sam portion ot th nation hav
little to choose. Th uec ot tthr
would be deeply deplorabU, and U either
on of them will not support the other.
It la a dissolution of partnership whtoh
may augur well for the party f which
they are the spawn. Th hop Is now
warm and sincere that democracy may at
last frs iulf of Us Old Msn of ths Sea
and enter next year campaign with nons
Of the alliances which has been so disas
trous to its fortunes In recent year.
Helo for Vaele Joe
Chicago Inter Ocean (rep ).
Th Ohio situation as It has dvslopd
make vUlbly broadr and salr the way
of th Hon. Joseph O. Cannon toward th
highr honor within nla party gift. Tor
a republican throughout th natloo look
at th Ohio situation thy naturally reach
th political conolulon that deserving and
abl a both Becrelary Taft and Sanator
Forakar ar. neither 1 available as a na
tional leader at this Urn. s
A Lsokr Johaatosw
Nsw Tork Sun.
Ba-Oovrnor Jossph F. Johnston of Ala
bama will enjoy an opportunity to prove
his independence in congress such as corn
to few men W publlo offlc. H ha been
elected by th state legislature to th un
expired term of Senator PUu and to a
full term in addition, so that If ha lives h
will represent Alabama In the United gtat
seaal until March i, lilt.
Proieet Too Maest.
gL. Louis Olob-Pemoarat
Mr. Bryan Indignantly repel th Idea
that h U a quitter on th government
ownership of railroads. He simply puts
It aside for 'ultimate" treatment en ac
count of objection that might be raised
at th nest democratlo national convection.
Mr. Bryan ought te know better than to
multiply words ea e backdown
HARRIM AN lit ACTION.
Looms Illsrk a a Cwmstraetlvw nail
ro)l Mssssle,
Washington Star.
It Is a pity Edward H. Harrlman holds
peculiar views regarding th financing ot
railroad, th right of minority stockhold
er and th relation of corporation to th
government. Thos view, which hav
caused Mr. Harrlman to be exploited
throughout th country a an Mundelrbl
cltlsen," and which hav largely contrib
uted to th popular prejudice against mod
ern corporation methods, are likely to b
accepted as the chief feature of Mr. liar
rtman's make-up and hi main form of ex
pression. A a matter cf faot, were It not
for these concepts of corporation morality
entertained by Mr. Harrlman he would
doubtless he rated as one ef th indus
trial giants of the period. He has talents
for mastering big things which approach
the realm of genius. He Is a problem
solver on a big scale. .
Two achievements mark the career ef
Harrlman sufficiently to set him apart
from bis fellows even In this age of great
works. The are the bridging of Great
Salt Lake and th damming of th Colo
rado river. On was a constructive, th
ether a defensive operation. Both were
vastly expensive and of doubtful success.
Th liucln "cut-off" was Mr. Harrlman'
own proposition, te avoid th long, rough
haul around th northern nd of th lak
from Ordefl. H built a trestle straight
across th Inland sea, with Infinite dif
ficulty. It seemed Impossible to And a bot
tom. Th lak bod absorbed th rook and
earth at a rat to discourage th avarag
engineer. But Harrlman kept plugging
away, spending million after million, until
at last he had a structure thirty miles In
length that saved fully 100 mile. Th
Lucln "cut-off" stand today as on of th
great achievements f th period.
- Th fight to Impound the waters of th
vagrant Colorado river at th Salton sa
ha been on of th most t Kan to atruggl
of many decades. Tlm after tlm It ap
peared as though the task wore accom
plished, but repeatedly the embankment
gave way before th tremendous pressure
or th foundation were undermined and
th wayward current flowed eno more
Ihto( the basin which one had been well
populated and was now a wast of stead
ily rising water. Last pecember the presi
dent telegraphsd to Mr, Harrlman express
ing hi belief that It was th Imperative
duty ef th corporation responsible for th
break to repair it at one. More money
was spent, More ton of stons ware quar
ried and an army ot workmen was assem
bled at th point The best engineer
were summonsd and a plan Was devised.
Finally a masonry wall sixty fset In thick
ness was constructed, despite th greatest
obstacles, and now th Colorado ha been
at last hemmed in within Its original
bounds and th Salton ea 1 left to evap
orate, or possibly to remain at even level
with a regulated inflow from th main
stream,
Harrlman Is a railroad builder, a tun
neler of mountains, a stralghtener of lines,
a long-range economist. He love to at
tack a gigantic task. H would b an ideal
man to organise th Isthmian canal work.
But unfortunately he Is not In such re
lations to the administration that his
services could b secured, if he were will
ing to bend his energies to this, th great
est oonstructlv work of th eg. There
must be momenta when h turns a longing
eye toward the Gatun dam end wishes for
a chance to demonstrate.
OLD METHODS OUT OF DATK
Transition of th Dwpont f row Pa
triots to Law Breaker.
Hartford Courant.
It would, make "old Hnry" Ehipont as
h was familiarly called turn over In his
gravs If he could know that his powder
company was accused by the government of
acting contrary to law. He was a west
Pointer, and In W3S held the commission f
a second lieutenant of artillery. He re
signed th following year and went to
work In th powder mills bf his family near
Wilmington, Del., and there he remained
until his death In 1S. It was hi Idea in
this work that he was still In the service
ot the United States, and during the civil
war h did put n tha uniform of a major
general for hi state. He served his coun
try in a very much larger sense at that
time, however, by supplying the union
troops With powder, and In rendering this
publlo service he considered that he was
doing his full duty as a patriotic cttisen,
and was as conscientious and sensitive and
honorable In the performance of that duty
as' any officer or man who vr wore th
uniform of th United Bute.
Most of these men who are how accused
by the government of vioattng the Sher
man act were trained by "old Hnry"
and hav followed hi traditions. "Toung
Henry" as th man who is now a senator
of th United State for Delaware was
long called Is a hit of a prig, and has
by no means th breadth ef mind f his
father, but In respects to honor and strlot
regard for all law that he or anybody else
knew about, his reputation Is absolutely
Irreproachable. A high-minded race of
men, thes Duponts of Frano hsv always
prided themsslves upon their honesty and
exact Justice vr slnoe they came to this
country and settled on the Brandy wine.
Thy hav produced svral sold'ers, and
on rear admiral, Samul Franol Dupont,
who died in IMS, but in the main they hav
perpetuated th family tradition that, m
making powder for the use of th govern
ment, both In time of training and In time
ef need, thy were doing puhllo work of
th' first Importance.
New tln8nw cod new standard of
Judgment, and now ths Duponts And it I
their turn w venture to y for the first
tlm In 100 yars, the period cvrd by
thslr works on th Brandywln-t be rated
among the law-breakers.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Th auestlon now before th country 1st
Will Mahomet Rockefeller come te Kenesaw
Mountain.
If Rockefeller 1 to Hv thirty yer more,
as his doctors affirm, he can earn enough
to pay a lot ot fines.
San Franclaoo la paying IX 000 a month to
tax car ef Ruf, and. whll this seems
considerable, he ooet th olty more whn
loos a
A nephew of th Ute Jam a. Blain
aaplrea te b tn supreme nesa oi me
Knights of Columbus. That would put him
In th "plumed" olasa.
Maltre Mornard. on of th lawyers who
defended Dreyfus during his second trial at
Rsnnes. in 188, ha been decorated with th
cross of th Legion of Honor. This Is ad
ditional evldenc of th Chang f sentiment
In Franc regarding th celebrated ess.
Th painful rumor that men are dying
fsst In Chicago that ultimately the com
munity will consist of womsn has th aspoot
of having originated in th fsrtll brain of
the same professor who ssy that in a few
year women will be wearing beard.
Mm. Ouerln of Paris, who ran a matri
monial bureau In th Freeh capital, prom
ising to obtain rich and beautiful wlvi for
bar patron upon receipt of a handsome
consideration, has been sued by a disap
pointed suitor, who claim be paid tst.ooo for
a wtf he never got
Get Ifndar Cover.
at. Louis Olebe-DmoraC
Ooveraor Cummins claim that h ha a
meoa right te forecast th weather a
Nah had. U this msans anything It
mease that everybody must seek shelter
.to th Cummins ark ef reform,
SOME STATES' RIGHTS I COTJlVf
A ttnestloa Wklrk So press Coavf
Twice RoTorood Itself.
Philadelphia Record. l
In revoking the license of th Southern
railway because It had removed a ult
against It from the state to 'he federal
courta, Alabama has raised again a ques
tion that hss been before th xiprom
court severs! times In the last generation,
and on which the court has twlc reverted
Itself.
Some thtrty-flve year sgo Wisconsin
enacted a requirement that as a condition
precedent to doing business In th st.t
foreign corporation should sign an agree
ment not to remove suit against thm
Into the federal courta. This the tupremt
court, In Morse against Insurance Com
pany, decided to b unconstitutional. Then
th slat enacted that no foreign corpora
tion shrhiid do business In the state with
out a license, and directed th stat fa
cers to revoke th license of any foreign
corporation that should remove to th fed
eral court suits brought against It by
cttlsens of Wisconsin. In 1S7I thl law was
upheld In th case of Doyle against tn
suranoe Company. The substance of the
decision was, In the words of Justice Hunit
"As the State ha the right to exclude such
company, th mean by which It causes
such xcluslon, or th motive of It ac
tion, are not the subject ot Judicial in
culry." About 1885 Iowa enacted a similar law.
Th Chicago at Northwestern railway took
out no license, and Barron, on of It engi
neer, was arrested. Thl brought the
as of Barron against Burnsid before th
suprem court, which decided It In April,
J8I7. It declared th law unconstitutional
because Its purpose Was to doprlv foreign
corporation of thlr constitutional right
to go Into .th federal court. Thy did
not have to sign away th right, but If they
exercised It their license was to b revoked.
The motlv. th purpose of th legislature,
was bald to vital. The court declared
that by no circumlocution or form of word
could a at Atm t.ki m
lureign corpora
tion IU constitutional right
Thl was. ths law for nineteen years.
But In May, 190, the supreme court sua- '
talned a law ot Kentucky under which th
lnsurano commissioner revoked the lloen
of th Security Mutual Life lnsurano
company for removing litigation to th
federal courts. Justice Peckhain read th
opinion, and did all he could to reconcile
the decision In the Doyle case, the Barron
cas and th case then under consideration.
Two of bis colleagues believed he failed en
tirely. Th substancs of th deolslon wee.
In Justice Peckham's words, that "a a
state has power to refuse permission te a
foreign lnsurano company to do business
at all within Its confines, and as It has
power to withdraw that permission when
one given without stating any reason
for Us action, the fact that it may giv
what some may think a poor reason or
none for a valid aot 1 Immaterial."
But Juatlo Day. with whom J.i.tio- .
Harlan ooncurred, read a dlsaentln
opinion, In which be argued that th de
cision in Barron against Burnslde was de
cisive, and that It was at varlanoe with
the Doyle case before it and th opinion
of the oourt In th pending case. U
cited two or thre supreme court opin
ions since the Barron cas reaffirming its
doctrine, and also several - decisions of
the circuit court of appeal, In two of which
secretary Tart participated, upholding tha
am doctrine. In regard to Justice Peck.
ham's efforts to harmonise the various Ml
cislons. Justice Day said: - "Th prlnclplX
announced in Doyl against lnsurano cotnV
pany and Barron against Burnsid are di
rect! opposed, theonei to -the -other, and1
cannot both prevail.'. We' thmk . ' Barron
against Burnsid was Intended to over
rule the contrary declarations whih i.
found nly in th' Doyl Case, which Is
Inconsistent with or opposed to every other
oeoiaration directly upon th subject in th
opinion el thl court."
Will th court reverse Itself again f Prob
ably not, for ther baa been no Chang In
the personnel of the court since th Se
curity Mutual case was decided.
MIRTHFUL HEMABKS.
First Hobo Mcondcrln'
Mike's ill from !
overwork.
Second HnhrtPiini. am h, i i. . i . .
bin aworkln'T "mu
First Hobo Too many easy marks. Bal
timore American. . .
..r' 0' .'. "'d th nn contemptuously.
"I don't understand hsr at alL" '
You don't T" renlia.il th. .... ..
th.?w ntf'0u ,e1 elalrvoyanf 1
wen, she's
Press.
a dream." .. Philadelphia
"Hav you ever tried to mU ., w.
on public question clear?" .
soSnmb"0l"TUIL cle"'" wered Senator
SUm:. , It, too. clar
- v" you aown to era
on ome occasion whea . policy dictates
something else."-Washington giar.
' "When I saw him yesterday hs said ha
was looking for troubi." M
..Wel1' ue he saw It"
"Hw do you knowT"
nffiJTC BJrtWn
Borreughs-Welt. wll. her It I psst
Mdiummer.. How Urn does fly. V b
.JftrUefN,0 for ' Instance, th
?LW0. to wh,0.h ,ou Promise To re!
.h41 t,n,pot r taking ovwr a
month to pasa-Pblladalphla. Pres.
yo'wYfrfawT' t"'1"f while
eskedhrl! mmDr ' eny club V they
"r'n.0wvl,an,wr,1 th weather man.
Silb'but dry ummer they dropped m
unr, nonpayment of dews. "-Chicago Trib-
K,'!lth"t 'or'eToung man who has
nWreke' duht M
"i should say not." answered Mr. Cum
a rVk"v" J became ec.ualnted with
It In my boyhood, wa a v.ry uiX wd
unpretentlou artlcl."-WaUington Btar?
LEARNING TO WALK.
Baltimore Mnn
One step to mother and on step to me '
. vmum warning in pyway of glesl
l,R,toJn?th,r- wlth hands In'h air.
And a "Baby, be careful," and "Baby, tak
are." . " "
On step to mother away he goes
On his round bar heel and lis bar sink
to! '
One step to mother, and back again.
With a gurgled laughter of Heart rtfraim
One step to mother and back to me, ,
For rtds-a-oock-hors on a Banbury knee ' 1
tine t m n t n mnth.r i 1 1 , . I - a-..
'r .. . . . it. . . . . ..
"mim wuiii ins ruse Ol 1I
ers
swetii
One step to mother, and thl 1 th way
The baby I learning to wander today.
On step to muthsr, aad to and fro,
As I swing him high snd I swing him low
One step to mother, across th room '
A Illy of life like a wind-swayed bloom I
One tep to mother all, do not slip, '
Nor spill ths sweet laughter of baLy-D -
8n step to mother-new one. now two
oqie. little fellow, the lesson will dot'
One step to mother and over snd o'er
A sunbeam that toddle aoroe th floor!
On step to mother, a hand In her band
All la so fair In th babyhood land "'
Learning to wander and learning to walk
Learning to chatter and learning t i.il '
V" wun rams and ring,
A bud ou th bough end bird on th wlngl
On step te mother and 6n step to me-'
Ixve keep his feet In ths pathway of aleal
Ever the road, bs It short. b it Ions
A velvet-swset byway of laughter
songl "
Oas step to mother a butterflr bar.
From bloem unt bloom on th rue i
on h roe wjoga