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STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION".
State of Nebraska, Douglas county, .
George B. Tischuck, treasurer of rhe
Beo Ilibllshlng Company, being duly
sworn, says that the actual number or
full and complete coplei of The pally
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of August. 1907, was a
follow: ,
1 36,750 17 86,040
2 , 30,940 . 18 35,800
1 37,040 19 37 120
4 35,900 2 0 37,000
5 37,440 21 36,640
36,830 U.'. 38,390
7 36,700 '21 36,980
t 36,680 24., , . 36,950
t 36,600 ' 21. 35,600
10.. 36,830 26.. 38,780
11 35,550 2T 30,880
12. ....... 37,840 '" it.'. ' 36480
13 37,110 28 36,600
14 36,700 80 36,640
16 t 36,770 11 36,140
19 36,860
Total . 1,138,330
Less unsold and returned copies. 11,346
Net total '. 1,126,974
Daily average n 36,364
GEO. B. TZ3CHUCK,
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WHEN OUT OP TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tern
porarily should have The) Be
mailed to them. Address will bo
changed aa often as reuueated.
The little red school house 1b once
.aiore open or business.
The Congressional Cannon la still
set against self-slaughter of the Ding
ley schedules.
New York police are looking for a
man who stole 466 'sheets of music.
Oh, let him so.
. "Why not do your Christmas shop
ping now?" asks the New York Herald.
Same old reason. "
"The jayest of all Jay towns la New
York," says Bob Burdette, who Is
sometimes serious.
Richard Croker says he does not
care to become an American citizen
again. He got his.
It begins to look as though the
Omaha base ball fans had better begin
praying for a week'B rain.
The price of carriages is to be ad
vanced 10 per cent. Walking is a
most health producing exercise.
Secretary Taft Is at sea, but no more
so, W as much as some of the other
candidates for the presidential nomi
nation.
It has just been discovered that a
Nevada bank cashier named Short haa
lived up to his name to the tune of
160,000.
We shall soon see what we shall
see as to the effect of the new Ne
braska child labor law in Increasing
public Bchool attendance.
the president is preparing a half
dozen speeches to be delivered early in
October. Wall street is probably re
hearsing another near-panic.
Mr. Bryan calls Mr. Taft "the Great
Postponer." People hereabouts will
Insist that the title belongs to the con
tractor who is repaying Farnam street
Prof. Koch has gone to Africa to ex
periment with sufferers of the "sleep
ing disease." He does not explain why
he chose Africa instead of Phlladel
phla.
"What is known of Pratas island. In
the Pacific, now claimed by the
Japanese?" asks a correspondent
Nothing is known of it except that
Japan saw it first.
Speaker Cannon has announced for
the twentieth time that he is not a
candidate for the presidency. Some
people believed him and agreed with
him the first time he said It.
The demand for cleaner streets fo
Omaha Is growing louder. Clean
streets, however, were not included in
tnose Doaaiea piatiorm pledges on
which the democratic mayor and court
ell were elected.
Those candidates who ran for noml
nation on more than one ticket will now
have a chance to show what they
meant v. ken they subscribed to a writ
ten declaration promising to abide by
the result of the primary.
Judge Graves, who was defeated fo
congress on the- democratic ticket in
the Third Nebraska district last yea
is up Main for re-election to the bench
of bis judicial district Judge Graves
la not going to let any salary get away
from him with his knowledge and con
sent
YACAXCISS ASD YACAXCIF.S.
The question of vacancies left
through failure to nominate at the pri
mary ia already starting dlscusslou
and ia bound to land eventually in the
courts. The new primary law pro
vides specifically for vacancies whkh
may occur after primary nomination
that la to say, should any party nomi
nee prove Ineligible, withdraw or die
before election day and within the
time prescribed for filling vacancies
the regularly constituted party com
mittees are empowered to substitute a
new name. This contingency, how
ever, is likely to occur but rarely and
the right and propriety of committee
nominations to fill such vacancies wilt
occasion no dispute.
On the other hand, It develops that
there are blanks on many local tickets
as well as on state and judicial tickets
arising from failure of anyone to file
for primary nomination. Have the
party committees the right to make
nominations to fill up the tickets?
Able lawyers who have studied the
aw have expressed the opinion that
uch omissions are not vacancies con
templated by the legislature and that
no authority is lodged anywhere to put
the party label on a candidate who has
not run the gauntlet of a primary elec
tion. The reasoning by which thla conclu
sion is reached appeals to common
sense. The law makes' nomination by
direct popular choice the sole avenue
to party nomination. If tickets could
be made up by a committee In the ab
sence of primary selection the very
principle of direct nomination would
be violated and government by party
committee substituted wherever candi
dates could be persuaded or forced to
submit their claims to the committees
rather than to the rank and file of the
party. Thn contention that the party
should not suffer because Individual
members may not have filed for every
elective office to be filled Is not sub
stantial, because if it is the duty of
party committees to find candidates to
complete the ticket, they may per
form that duty as well before as after
the primary and let the people ratify
or reject their selections.
A closely allied question turns on
whether a nomination certificate ia to
be awarded to a candidate whose name
has been written In on the primary
ballot where no filings have been
made. This ia tho case supposed to
be presented by a defeated republican
candidate for railway commissioner
who had some of his democratic
friends' write in his name on the dem
ocratic ballots on which no filings had
been made for this offleo. Good law-
ers who have analyzed the law main
tain that no votes cast at' the primary
should be counted for anyone who has
not paid his filing fee and filed his
name with tho proper authority. Any
one who wants to run for office with
out complying ,with ,the primary law
has an opportunity to do so, but he
must run as a petition candidate and
not aa a party nominee. Further than
thla, the writing In of the name on a
primary ballot ought to invalidate the
whole ballot. Such writing absolutely
Identifies the ballot and violates an
express provision of the law against
marks to Identify the ballot.
The common sense view, therefore,
Is that failure to nominate at the pri
mary leaves no vacancy to be filled by
party committee. If thla la not the
law It ought to be.
THJE BUSiyESS OUTLOOK.
Wall street panic predictions of some
weeks ago have given way' to talk about
some conservatism in preparing for
remote requirements." The great en
terprises that were halted for causes
'directly due to stringency' In the
money markets" have been resumed
and the outlook for the immediate fu
ture la more assuring. Reports to
Dun's and Bradstreet's indicate that no
down grade signals have been able to
withstand the showing of actual' activ
ity in every line of commercial and In
dustrial enterprises.
Most of the "hard times" talk was
based upon alleged falling off in the
orders booked by the steel mills of the
country, the iron and steel trade being
generally accepted as. the most reliable
barometer of Industrial conditions.
The report of the Steel trust that all
previous recorda had been broken by
the business of the six months ending
with July rather upset the claims of
the prophets of warning and the an
nouncement of Immediate bookings
for future delivery dispels any notion
of a let up in the steel and iron trade.
In spite of midsummer quiet the mills
still have orders that will take months
to fill. One concern alone has placed
orders for 60,000 tons of steel rails to
be delivered in 1908, while orders for
structural shapes and pending con
tracts for rails foreshadow a business
unequalled in the history of the Steel
'trust. This condition obtains notwith
standing the price on wire products has
advanced $1 a ton and pig Iron is $4 a
ton higher than In 1905.
Prices of farm staples have risen to
an unusual level for this season, due
more to large foreign needs than to
reduction of the domestic yield. With
crops now assured the increased
amount of money to be paid to the
farmers should benefit all departments
of trade and Industry. The bank clear
ings outside of New York City show an
Increase for last week, the decrease in
New York being due to the absence of
trading In securities. Foreign com
merce for the week ahdwed a gala of
$2,500,000 over the same week of
last year, while Jobbers report as ex
ceptlonal good trade In all lines, with
collections much better than the usual
August average. Railroad earnings,
both gross and net. are about "8 per
cent over August of last year and even
Wall street is experiencing some recov
ery from the depressed condition pre
vailing during the summer.
Altogether the outlook In trade and
industry Is better and the great west 1b
certain to be the largest sharer in the
distribution to follow the marketing of
the season's rich harvest.
uoma mauKR vp.
When the outraged citizens of San
Francisco took matters in their own
hands and began the prosecution of
Mayor Schmltz, Abe Ruef and the mu
nicipal ring that had brought disgrace
upon the city their action was generally
applauded, with an undercurrent
of comment to the effect that Schmltz
and Ruef, while undoubtedly deserv
ing of punishment, were being made
the scapegoats while "the man higher
up," the corporation managers who
had Inspired the era of municipal cor
ruption and benefited most by It, would
probably go free.
The recent conviction of Louis Glass
and his sentence to a long term tn
prison is answer to this charge, and
pretty convincing notice that the cam
paign for the redemption of San Fran
cisco is on in earnest. Glass was vice
president of a telephone company and
the agent of a corporation combine
charged with having secured valuable
franchises by wholesale bribery. He
was tried and convicted after a most
bitter fight in which the most skillful
Influence of men high in the political
and financial world was exerted in his
behalf. With unlimited meana at his
disposal he was convicted aa a bribe
giver and will go to prison along with
Mayor Schmltz, the bribe-taker.
Satisfaction will be felt over the con
viction of Glass as a vindication of that
theory that no man is too great or too
strongly entrenched by influence to es
cape the penalty of crime. The convic
tion of Glass will do more to restore
public confidence in San Francisco and
In the honesty and Integrity of purpose
of the men conducting the municipal
renovation than the conviction of a
horde of men of the Schmltz or Ruef
type.
LOCKJAW AT WKST FOIXT.
On the heels of an epidemic of court
martial in the army for talking too
much comes a case from West Point
that brings up an entirely new problem
and reveals another chapter on "what
ia the matter with the army." It has
long been an established rule that pri
vates and officers alike are liable to
court-martial for talking too much, but
the question ia an open one whether a
wearer of Uncle Sam's uniform may be
punished for refusing to talk at all.
That is the question now worrying the
wise heads in the War department.
It appears that there was a little
hazing Incident at West Point a few
days ago and one of the members of
the "plebe" class when dlrectjy ques
tioned related the tale to his superior
officers. Now the other plebes refuse
to speak to the "squealer." None of
his classmates attempted to beat him
up for "blabbing." No noses were
turned up at him and no hoarse hoots
marked hia progress through the
grounds. The stony stare and the
tongueless contempt meet him at every
turn. His classmates do simply fall to
see him. Of course the commandant of
cadets has heard about it and has Is
sued an order against this noninter
course, but In addition to being very
near-Blghtcd the plebes are also a little
hard o' hearing, for the commandant's
orders have fallen on deaf ears. The
commandant's latest order contains a
poorly veiled threat that the entire
plcbe clasa may be dismissed If its
members do not mend their habits.
Discipline is, of course, a prime es
sential in a military school, but the
public sympathy in this case will be
divided. The constitutional guaranty
of free speech naturally carries with it
the right of free silence and the plebes
cannot be stopped from suffering lock
jaw If it suits their plans and wishes
by any military edict.
These appeals in the democratic
press urging that the strongest man
in each county be commissioned to at
tend the platform convention, which
is to be held at Lincoln in two weeks,
all read very fine. But if Colonel
Bryan is to be there it will make no
difference who constitutes the mem
bership of the convention because
nothing will be done except to ratify
Colonel Bryan's wishes.
From the returns of the primary
election it is quite evident that the re
publicans turning but to vote consti
tute a much larger percentage of their
party than the democrats, and popu
lists registering their preferences. The
only natural inference la that repub
licans are more alert to the duties of
citizenship than the rank and file of
the fuslonlsts.
Traveling men doing Nebraska ter
ritory do not take kindly to the re
organized passenger train schedules,
and more particularly to the orders
cutting off through trains from han
dling local passenger traffic. No rail
road can afford to have the traveling
men knocking on It when their good
will can be retained by unimportant
concessions.
The Russians have confiscated a
large amount of money collected in
the United States for the Polish na
tionalist schools. Neither the Poles
nor the contributors have any recourse,
and Russia needs the money.
Having named Mr. Bryan for the
presidency, picked "Big Tim" Sullivan
for chairman of the committee and
predicted victory for the party, Harry
Walker, who says he is managing Mr.
Bryan's eastern campnlgn, ought to
now name the candidate for vice pres
ident and publish the platform, thus
obviating the necessity of holding a
convention.
Governor Hoch of Kansas was
caught In a railroad wreck and Is said
to have cut his handa very severely
while kicking out the glass in a car
window. He should have used his
feet for kicking purposes.
Captain Ausden proposes to use
bears to drag the sledges on his dash
to the north pole. One advantage is
that, in a pinch, the bears make pretty
good eating.
"I never talk unless I have the
facts," says J. Plerpont Morgan. That
explains why Mr. Morgan has always
been so lonesome In political affairs.
Assuming- Too 31 uch.
Cleveland Leader.
A typewriter trust to cover the world la
the latest scheme, but no one has ventured
to suggest a monopoly In the typewriters
who make the mechanical typewriters go.
Pensions and I-onsr Life.
St. Louis Republic.
The Vnlted States have now lost their
last widow of the last veteran of the Bat
tle of Waterloo. If the battle had been
fought In the United States the last vet
eran, aged 92, marrying a pensionable
woman, aged IS, might have perpetuated
these heroic memories for a considerable
time longer.
Gotham's Growing; Burden.
New Tork Mall.
The cost of municipal government tn
Greater New Tork for 1908 will be $140,000,
000. This la $15,000,000 less than than the
amount demanded by the several depart
ments. For the past ten years the Increase
In the cost of running the city has been at
the rate of over $6,0u0,000 per annum. New
Tork la gradually becoming a place too
expensive to do business In.
The Great Postponer.
New York Tribune.
Mr. Bryan says Taft Is a postponer. Mr.
Bryan was once a statesman with "immedi
ate" tendencies. Latterly, however, he has
hlmsolf declined Into a rather "ultimate"
mood. If postponment Is bad, why does he
consent to an Indefinite shunting of his
schemes of government ownership and ope
ration of all the instrumentalities of inter
state commerce T
"TALKING IT OVER."
Projected Peaee Conference on tho
Trust Question.
Wall Street Journal.
Ia the trust question so-called because
there seems to be no other brief way of
describing the group of economic Issues
now before the country to be solved only
by a war of one interest upon another on
battlefield of national politics?
Or Is It possible to arrive at some mu
tual'understandlng at an open, full confer
ence in which every point of view should
be adequately represented ?
Another Hague conference has been
called, this time to be held In the United
States, and devoted entirely to a discus
sion of the trust question, with the end In
view, of avoiding a.cjajsb and crash and of
promoting peace and prosperity.
The National ClVlc federation conference
on trusts, to be held In Chicago, October
23-25, will be such a, Hague congress, and
It Is to be hoped that It will prove fruit
ful of practical results. At least a get
ting together for the purpose of looking at
the trust problem from every point of
view ought to have the1 result of providing
a clearer, better understanding of the sub.
Ject, and thus lead to a wise solution.
Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the
Century, writes:
"There Is a sign over a shoemaker's
shop In the village where I go In summer,
Which , haa this inscription above It In
large letters: 'Call In and talk It over.!
I am glad the Civic federation has put
that sign up oyer the shop precisely at this
time."
"Talking It over" Is the only possible
way of settling the trust question, with
out the menace of a panic. Talking Is
much less expensive than smashing things.
A BRYAN THRILLER.
Kentucky Orator Bids for the Nom
inating; Speech.
New York Sun.
In spite of the positive announcement
made by one of Mr. Bryan's bright young
advance agents that the speech putting the
great man In nomination for president' at
the democratic national convention will be
delivered by Mr. Augustus Thomas, the
playwright, Mr. Thomas, we believe, must
gracefully resign the honor in favor of
Captain W. J. Bohon of Kentucky. The
captain was toastmaster at the fourth an
nual banquet of the Cincinnati Traveling
Salesmen's association on Tuesday night
and In Introducing Its most conspicuous
guest he said:
"On the 19th of March, 1890, the sun shone
with more than usual splendor, the birds
sang their sweetest songs and all nature
was glad because of the birth of 'a child
who, in hla own daytahd generation, should
be called great. The child grew and waxed
strong In mind and body, and In his boy
hood learned lessons in government affairs.
In his early manhood Ms voice was heard
In the councils of his nation, suggesting
policies the adoption of which were to Im
prove the condition of the people. When
the alarm of war was sounded he donned
the soldier's uniform, ready to battle In
his country's cause.
"When war had ceased he visited foreign
lands to see and know of their forms of
government and the condition of their
people. He saw the peasant and the serf,
stood face to face with the czar of all
the Russlaa, trod the gilded halls of royalty
where kings were wont to tr.vve, and after
belting the world returned to his oi be
loved country, proudly saying, 'She alone
Is the mother of true nobility, where every
man is a king and every woman Is a
queen.'
"I have but poorly painted the picture
of him who stands today the grandest
figure In the activities of our republic, and
whom I now have tiie honor of presenting,
the matchless orator and disttnguldhed
American, William Jennings Bryan."
"Poorly painted the picture!" What hu
mility! So self-effacing genius alway
speaks of his efforts. With nothing can this
little biographical gem, this exquisite
cameo be compared for sympathy, InMght
and delicacy except Mr. Bryan's own cross
of gold and crown of thorns masterpiece.
Mr. Thomas might second the nomination
of Mr. Bryan, and no doubt he would do
It handsomely, but In the presence of
the Inspired son of Kentucky he would not
venture to claim the greater honor. Mr.
Bryan haa a way of settling these questions
himself. His authoritative voice will be
heard for Captain W. J. Bohon, a more
gifted toastmaater than Mr. Thomaa ever
was. and as eloquent aa Mr. Bryan la his
happiest momenta.
DIHK.CT l'HIMtHY NoMIATIOS
Fremont Tribune: This first experience
with the new method proves It to be as
much better than the old as the Aus
tralian ballot system Is better than the
crude method It superseded.
Kearney Hub: That there are numsroui
defects In tho prlmnry law is more than
ever evident, but this Is not generally
taken, as excuse for an assault on the
primary plan. Rather than that, senti
ment favors amendment and perfection
of the plan.
Denhler Rustler: Only about fXTj voted In
this county about X republicans and a lit
tle over 200 democrats and the politicians
got In their work Just as we said they
would. We say again, as we said before,
the men who were at the head of auch a
law should be in the penitentiary Instead
of the legislature.
Osceola Record: The general test of the
value of the law Is the number of electors
who participate In exercising the function
which the law confers upon them. We be
lieve that In this respect, so far aa this
county Is, concerned, the law Is a euocess,
and tlre can be no doubt that the vote
polled In succeeding primary elections will
be very much larger.
Hastings Tribune: At last a test haa
been made of the direct primary system In
Nebraska, and In most every way It has
proven a success. The principal cause
which tho law was created for was to e
niove the power from a few political bosses
and place it into the hands of the voters.
This It has done. And the candidates of to
Cay should be taken aa the true choice of
the people.
Stanton Picket: In town there was a fair
vote cast, but In the country It was light,
due to the fact that farmers are busy with
their threshing, haying and fall plowing.
However, tho vote was the best representa
tion that the peopio have ever had In the
selection of candidates and the general
opinion Is that the direct primaries have
come to stay, though of course there may
be some modification in the law before It
reaches perfection.
Paplllion Times: The direct primary sys
tem has been given its first test and the
results Indicate that no great revolution
has been worked. Tho fellows who got out
and worked the hardest were as usual the
winners. As a rule good men were selected
for the several offices on both tickets, but
the personnel Indicates that the same men
who were successful In the delegate system
are again successful, but as long ias they
are good men nothing can be said against
the system.
York Times: The people of Nebraska
have not yet fully and dispassionately con
sidered the subject of primary elections.
Those who first proposed this method
fortified themselves In advance by declar
ing that all who opposed It were railroad
tools and opposed to the Interests of the
masses. With this lion skin thrown over
It, the primary election stalked abroad in
the state and there were not many who
ventured to attack It. Some of Its glaring
defects are now so obvious that the voters
will sit up and take notice, and It will
have to go on Its real merits soon.
Grand Island Independent: The matter
of the test of the new primary law was
perhaps of no less Importance. In one
sense, for the first trial of the new sys
tem, It was a decided success In thte main
purpose a greater participation on in
part of the voters In the very important
matter of choosing candidates, the elim
ination of machine and ring politics and
the substitution of a more popular choloe
of public servants. The returns from
half of the precincts of this county In
dicate that at least from 800 to 900 voters
registered their Choice on candidates,
whereas under the former caucus, usually
"cut and dried." less than one-fourth of
that number dictated who the nominee
should be.
Atkinson Graphic: This method of nomi
nating candidates may become popular In
time, but the general sentiment seems to
be agalnist It. Some of the reasons given
are. it confines the voters to the names
nrlnted on their respective party ballot
and deprives one of giving an expression
to any other choice; that It was unwleldly
and an unnecessary expense to the tax
payers and creating" another election of
which the peopio are already overburdened
The vote here brought out the fact that
voters who are not well acquainted with
the candidates will vote for the man whose
name appears flrBt on the list and no mat
ter how well qualified a candidate may be
for the position to which he aspires, unless
his name appears well up In the alphaBetl
cal column he stands no show of being
nominated.
Columbus Telegram: It is not the purpose
of the Telegram to condemn the primary
law as a whole without a further trial. Per
haps it may work better after the people
shall better understand It. We would Ilka
to believe that the law is all that la claimed
for It. but somehow we are unable to find
all virtue In the primary system, and all
vice In the old convention system. We
cannot escape the belief that the county
convention plan has some virtues not pos
sessed by the primary mode of making
nominations. It has been asserted ever
since the law was adopted that It would
no longer be possible for the professional
politicians to dictate the nominations. As
we view the situation, It would appear that
a smooin-wormng comninauon in cauui
dates can accomplish results more certainly
under the primary than under the conven
tion system. And we are not railing against
combinations In politics, for. Indeed, It Is
fair and honorable on part of two or more
candidates to pool their Issues at the pri
maries, provided, of course, that their tac
tics are clean. We cannot Join in the de
mand of some of our friends In both par
ties for the repeal of the primary law
Rather let the bad features of It be cured
by amendment, and let It be given a further
trial.
fKliSOAL NOTES.
Lewis Abraham Kalllnusky, the oldest
Inhabitant of Baltimore, lived In Moscow
when that city was burned In 1812 by
Napoleon.
The Manhattan directory has thirty-seven
columns ' of Smiths. Boston's has about
twenty-seven devoted to this family, and the
Sulllvans are a good second, with twenty
two. Captain Henry Brown, a veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars, and Inventor of
the bell buoy, as now used at American
ports, hus Just died at Charleston, 8. C,
at the age of 80 years.
J. Plerpont Morgan belongs to four times
as many clubs as does the king of England.
His royal highness is a member of twelve,
while Mr. Morgan has his name on the
lists of at least fifty. Some of the clubs of
w hich he is a member he has never visited,
but once a member he never resigns.
Thomas J. O'Brien, the new ambassador
to Japan, departed at noon Tuesday from
Grand Railii, Mich., for Seattle, where he
will Join Secretary Taft and party, sailing
for the Philippine Islands about October 1.
He will immediately enter upon Ms new
duties. Ambassudor Luke Wright has al
ready left Japan on his rturn to America.
It la not generally known that there are
six members of the old confederate congress
who survive and are In good health. They
are John Goode of Virginia, Judge John V.
Wrtfc-ht of Columbia, Tenn. ; Judge Roger
A. Prior of New York, Colonel Arthur 8.
Colyar of Nashville, John D. C. Atkins of
Paris, Tenn., and George 1 Jones of Alabama.
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WEIL FIXED PUBLIC SERVANTS.
Generosity of Conarress Toward Its
Members.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The country s disposed to be apprecia
tive of the services of congress and finds
no fault when the legislative branch ex
ercises the rare privilege of raising Its own
salary. Fifty years ago It was common
for an opposition organ to twit a con
gressman on Ms opulent pay of 18 a day
nd mileage. The new congress that meets
in December finds Its salary raised 60 per
cent. A salary of $7,800 a year la provided.
which is $20 a day. Each member Is al
lowed a clerk at $1,600 a year and makes
his own arrangement In this particular.
Mileage Is liberally construed. New build
ings for the special convenience of the sen
ate and the house, near the capltol, are
about to go Into use. Their cost haa been
$6,000,000. In the representatives' building
each member will have a fine office, and
each senator a three-room suite. All ex
penses of maintenance are paid by the
government. Including that of a subway
line to carry members between the capltol
and their new office buildings.
It Is scarcely necessary to say that con
gress, bv wise action In behalf of the
people, can make an ample return for the
emolument they receive. By right pol
icies, sound economies and business-like
methods the legislative branch, holders of
the purse and originators of the laws.
financial and others, have a fine oppor
tunity to be a gratifying realisation of what
congress la for. The people have amicably
acquiesced in the advance of salaries, the
providing of special buildings and of In
dividual clerks, all within a few years.
The public servant Is worthy of due re
ward. But there are two sides to evyry
bargain, and congress should keep tils
fact In mind. Anything in the nature of
waste or failure will be criticised in tho
light of just expectations.
DISGRUNTLED MANUFACTURERS.
Demand for Modification of the Tar-
IS Schedules.
Washington Post.
The chairman of the tariff committee of
the National Association of Manufacturers
has stated in a letter to Senator Foraker
that 40 per cent of the members of that as
sociation have declared that the Dlngley
tariff rates on their respective products
may be reduced at leaht one-half without
hurting their industries. Others name a
less percentage of reduction: very few de
clare for no reduction. These men are not
freetraders, nor are they advocates of a
revenue tariff as opposed to a protective
tariff. They say frankly that they "are
particularly Interested In and desirous of
protection, and In great measure dependent
upon it." What they look for, as they tell
Mr. Foraker, Is "that . the money of the
public, which belongs to the individuals
composing that public, shall not be taken
from their pockets for our benefits except
as we Justify tn full Judicial manner."
That Is square and manly. Not one of the
standpatters all of whom used to deny
the existence of Inequities In the schedules
now attempts to defend them. The de
mand of the National Association of
Manufacturers at its last annual meeting
for tariff revision knocked some of the In
solence and gall out of the standpat con
tingent, and they show how they feel by
frequent and repulsive displays of bad
temper.
But the dissatisfied manufacturers make
one serious mistake. Their call for a tariff
commission Is unwise. There Is no evidence
that such a commission would be useful.
In the personnel of the two houses of con
gress there are all the tariff experts needed
to frame the schedules.
Carry-In ar Out the Logic.
Indianapolis News.
With railroad earnings breaking the rec
ords recently, one would naturally think
that the railroad presidents would be de
manding even more hostile legislation.
Tuesday
E'PLACE on
and tuxedo
are broken
stock and
They sold
we will sell them
Sizes
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Our hat department is showing all the
good things for fall. f .. ,
Browning, King $i Co
' R. S. WILCOX, Manager.
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SMILING REMABK8,
"Mr. Nervy tried to hug mo last Bight,
Saki Tees.
"Oh:" remarked Jess, "that's what he
meant then when I saw him hurrying to
ward your house. He told me that he had
a 'pressing engagement.1 " - Baltimore
American.
Mrs. Knlcker Did your husband beat the '
carpet?
Mrs. Bockor No; he lust raa, the lawm
mower over It. Harpers Baiar
"Baby carriages T" said the dealer. Tea,
sir; fhat sort of one did you want?"
"Well," said Nupop, proudly, "you'd bet
ter gimme a 6 months1 size. He's only 4
weeks old, but large for his age." J?hUa
delphia 1'ress.
George, do you know it Is t
o'clock?
self?"
what nave you to say for your
"I did have s-s-srfmethlng to s-eay, my
dear, b-but you've gone an' s-scared it out
of m-my head. Oh, I remember It n-aow."
"Well, what Is it?"
"Good night." Cleveland Plata Dealer
"Do you take thls woman to be TUf
wedded wife?" asked the minister.
"No, sir," responded the absent-minded
millionaire. "1 want to state emphatically
that there Is no truth In the rumor what
ever." Washington Herald.
"I wouldn't marry you If you were the
last man on earth," she declared.
,'.'m!J kfi you, W"1J2V' the mean man
replied. "I would be 111 a position then to
take my pick." Chicago- Record-Herald.
"My wife doesn't say 'boo' when I com
home at midnight."
"Neither does mine, but she says nearly
everything else In the dictionary." Detroit
Free Press.
The earnest reformer, afler nmh
sonal effort, had roundod up an audience of
hobos, and mounted to the platform to ad
dress them.
"My friends," he said, with hla most en
gaging smile "In the present crisis In af.
lairs a situation presents Itself " '
Hut here his auditors vanished.
They didn't know what the situation was.
?W TTflmnB!W the .-CbS
THE TROLLBY LOVER. ,
New York Times.
Moon of the wild Italian glrll five hundred
years have fled
And still you shine, O Juliet's moon, and
Juliet Is dead. .
Swlnglrg around the rolling Earth, yon
and the Korth are hurled,
One with ever-born lovers young, one with
the dusk of the World.
Love. O frail young sweet first lore, that
clothes the world with magic.
Whose tiniest smile Is Rosalind-glad, whose
frown Is Hamlet-tragic,
That lifts our Souls until we step from
star to star down skies.
That makes one glance. Eternity, one
hand's touch, Paradise.
Love has not fled, love la not dead! O
Juliet gone to dust,
O sweet girl-soul whose flight from world
to world beyond our lust
Is (so we dream) with Romeo, the very
pangs you knew
Pulse on the rolling Earth this hour, aqd
young hearts are pierced through I
Lo, from the sea's 'moon-road and UpS
luttjiuiiK wjui iun, we riae
Through the moon half-light of the flow
ght
ilng
ing n
glide
ing fields down shin
tracks we
in
the golden glowing clanging trolley:
sweet breezes fan our cheeks;
We seem to trolley among the stars; all's
sacred; no one speaks.
The lights flash past, the window-light
the damp scents of the field.
We race the rolling Earth beneath till new
skies are revealed
And I on the last seat looking ahead,
pulse with the pulsing cars
To see the lovers, the sad young lovers,
whose souls are In the stars.
No Capulet-gardens may they have aa
screen from prying eyes
Only the earth, only the stars, only the
car that flies
They lose themselves In each other's love-.
head nestled close to head
O candid love among the poor! Not Juliet's
far love fled.
Down the rolling years, so tender la, so
true, so young, so pure
Here are the earthly marriages made that
through all life endure
Here is a sight to purge the soul, to put
my heart In tune
O love, young live American girls, under
dead Juliet's moon)
Morning
sale fifty full dress
coats and vests. These
lines from our regular
are all our own make.
up to $32. . Tuesday
while they last at
84 to 45.