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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G,i 1907. n re" Omaha Daily Ttet, ' FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROBEWATF.R. VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofflc aa second class matter. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION, pally Be (without Sunday). one year..M W talhy Bm and Sunday, oo year Sunday B. one year...., 80 Saturday Bee, on year DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally lira (Including Sunday), per week..l.'c Dally Bp twlthout Sunday), per wek..lc Kvanlng Be (without 6uneay). per wek o Evening Be (with Sunday), per week...Ho Address all complaint of lrregulrltle in tcllvery to City Circulation Department. orriCEi. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Building. Council Bluff It Scot t Street. Chicago IMO Unity Building. New fork-IMS Home Life Insurance Bag. Washington m Fourteenth ftret. COHKE8PONDENCE. ' Communications relating to new and edi torial matter should he addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. f Remit by draft, express r postal order oayabl to Th Be Publishing Company. Jnly 3-cent atamp received In payment of itatl account. Personal chck, en T maha or eaatern exchange, not ascepted. STATEMENT or CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska. Douglas county, ss: George B. Tischuok. treasurer at Tns Be publishing Company, being duly worn, aaye that th actual number of full and complete copti of The Dally Horning, Evening and Sunday Be prlaUd luring th month of August. 107. waa aa follow: 1 M.T80 11........ MM I M.MO II 3,soo 1 4 17,040 It........ 37130 4 SB , JO S7.0O0 I. . ST.440 tl 3e,M0 ,. IMN , S,30 1., M.T00 II M.MO I....:.., ' M.9S 14 8o .. M.sso ,t( M,coo It........ M3tt : ........ 8S.T80 II. 9S.BS0 17........ M.S80 II.. 8TJ40 St M4M 11. ST.110 It SC500 U.......4 S4.T00 . .540 II... ,TTt tl M.140 It S4.S50 . Total 1.1M.S30 Less unsold and ratumd cap la. , 11,340 Nt total. .. . .i.ucm Daily ' average 96,104 GEO, B. TZ8CHUC1C. . . Traurf r. Subscribed In ray presence and a worn to before m thl lst day of Auguat. 1107. v (8al) M. B. HUNGATB, Notary Public WHEN OCT Or TOWN. ' iaaeirlkr leaving tfea atty rrllr akoald kavo Tho Boo wailV to than. , Addreaa will eaaaged bo aftea aa reoaeated. Secretary Taft wins the first round io,' Nebraska. SSsBSBaaasMSSJSBSBBaajssiBaaaBaaaaaaaaaa f Senator Foraker will probably ad mit that Nebraska is one of the states be "was not 'expecting to endorse him. Fashion may have its decree tor the zurveless woman obeyed, but straight men cannot 'be secure! . by order or ixample. John J. Rockefeller-, with an income of $27,t3t a day, spends most, ot his Mme playing golf. Well, good golf balls cost $1 each. Two Chicago , ministers, have , re ligned to become fire Insurance agents. Cvery minister preaches . protection against future fire, A comparison of the republican and democratic state platforms discloses mother place where quality counts for More than quantity. t ; Every,v member. of , Ak-8ar-Ben In rood staodjng will testify, under oath, f necessary, that Governor Sheldon is tot afraid of thirteen. v Wall street walls. would cause more :oncern U Wall street created wealth Instead of using all Its efforts to ab lorb the wealth of others. ; Colonel Watterson Is talking about i "dark conspiracy to destroy the con lUtutlon," Why, Colonel, they have jaen attacked it In daylight. President Roosevelt's prosecutions ire not affecting the price of securities a&.much aa they are affecting the sense of security among law-breakers. . George Roman has been fined at Baltimore for assaulting a congress man. The congressman is a teetotaler tad objects to the Roman punch. Ida Tarbell explains that "John D. Rockefeller Is either a. colossal thief or a narrowly honest man." Judge Landls drew no such fine distinction. ' The hotel keepers at Lincoln are not enthusiastic about the direct pri mary. The abolition of convention fowds strikes them too close to home. Mexico is reoictng over the forma .ion of . a t50.000.OOQ oil merger In hat country. Instead of rejoicing, .fexico had better call out the police. A member of congress declares the Japs could easily take the Philippines. The Japs,-however, seem determined to overlook some ot their opportuni ties. - The Hague peace conference has de cided to adjourn for eight years. That will give the delegatestlme to recover from their habit ot fighting at the drop of the hat. ' , . Next registration day In Omaha and Routh Omaha la Tuesday, October 1. Make an appointment with yourself to register .then if your panie is not al--eady on, the. books. Those express companies might as well get ready to put Into effect the reduced rate on local business estab lished fey the law passed by the recent Nebraska legislature. The Hague conference cost $1,S00. 100 and the person with courage tnough to say it was worth It, Is en titled o a Carnegie rcro medal with out farther examination. ' FIHSt'ai X T1t TA fT. ' Nebraska republicans have seized the opportunity to fire the first gun for Taft by complimentary reference to bim as presidential timber In their state platform this year. While tbls action does not pledge the support of the Nebraska delegation in the next republican national convention, It un questionably reflects the sentiment of the republicans of this state under present conditions. Nebraska is a thoroughly Roosevelt state and fully committed to what are known as the distinctive Roosevelt policies. Nebraska republicans could be counted on with certainty, to rally behind President Roosevelt for an other term, should he be In the run ning, but with the president out of consideration they will turn .next to his distinguished secretary' of war. Even those who would prefer Roose velt to Taft, however, recognize the fact that Secretary Taft's candidacy would not have been' projected with out the understanding that President Roosevelt had determined not to be a candidate and that should the presi dent under stress of circumstances, yet to be developed, be forced again to the forefront, none, would yield to him more quickly or more readily than his devoted and loyal follower at the head of the War department. On the other hand, the formal ex pression of confidence in Secretary Taft by the republicans of, Nebraska at this time cannot fall to contribute material strength to the Taft move mint. Nebraska'ls the first state that has spoken outright and out loud. It is one of the few northern -states- which holds an election In this off year. It takes its place In the line behind Roosevelt and Taft even before Ohio has .officially spoken by convention, and its example will, doubtless, be fol lowed by the republicans of many other states at they come to meet in convention to declare themselves. 8o far as the campaign in Nebraska this year 1b concerned it is to be waged upon the record made by the repub lican governor and state officers and the republican legislature elected last year. This record is such as to en-' title the party to a vote of endorse ment and approval- at the polls in No vember. Nebraska has been stead fastly in the republican column since 1900 and, with a unified party should be kept in the republican column this year and next year, and for' years to come. . ' . ! raMIAIlir BPTXR'SI frAHXWQ. ' President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university has sounded a note of warning against the danger of republican overconfldence in the com ing election, declaring that the country la demanding more constructive legis lation in the matter of tariff revision and currency reform, and will not be content with standpatlsm on these im portant subjects. President Butler in sists that the demand for tariff ) rer vision is growing more rapidly than sentiment on any other one issue bo fore the American people and that the party which takes the lead in respond ing to that demand will profit greatest politically. . He urges, also, that it would bo political blindness to refuse to recognise the -need for a new cur rency system, contending that the present system, adopted as a war meas ure forty-five years ago, should not be continued longer, when' the material for its execution is no longer forth coming. ' It is refreshing to have men of Pres ident Butler's stamp and scholarly at tainments giving thought and attention to subjects that concern the political welfare of the people, and suggestions from such sources should be entitled to' due consideration by 'the law makers. His implied intimation that the republican party has 'hot 'done much in the way of constructive legis lation hardly comports with the record ot the congress under President Roose velt's administration,' but it does not impair his argu-ments for action on the questions of tariff and currency. On the tariff question, all indications are that the republican party will take advanced ground in its -next national convention. While the prevailing sen timent opposes general revision of the tariff until after the coming presiden tial election, it is probable , that, the next republican platform will demand a revision of the tariff and the next republican administration 'will be pledged to that work, immediately fol lowing the induction of the new ad ministration. Revision by a republi can administration will be constructive rather than destructive, adjusting the tariff schedules to existing conditions and eliminating abuses under the pres ent law, but still maintaining the pro tective principle. The outlook for currency reform legislation, departing from present basis, is not promising. Efforts to Inject a greater element of elasticity to the currency system have not been successful, with the exception ot some little relief furnished by the Aldrlch bill, adopted by the last congress, per mitting customs receipts to be depos ited in the national banks and used In legitimate business, instead of being hoarded in the treasury vaults. ' The only possible expansion of currency, under the existing law, la through new bank note Issues, although the bonds upon which the bank notes may be issued are scarce and at a premium. As a result, while the wealth of the country Is estimated at about till, 000,000,000, the bank note currency la less than $500,000.000..- The need of currency elasticity is generally recog nised, but the method is a cause for dissension which has prevented con. gresslonal action. The bankers' asso ciations and students of finance 'ar giving their attention to the question and some satisfactory solution of the problem will doubtless be offered eventually. President Butler and the country giay rest assured that republican statesmanship will be equal to every demand for constructive legislation as It may arise. 1HK PwtSDg.VT ASD-THK trCKKH. President Roosevelt has decided to thange the practice of giving out ad vance copies of his speeches and mes sages, in order that the contents shall not be misused by the Wall street con tingent for speculation. The change comes as the result ot a systematic abuse ot the privilege granted certain publications and persons In supplying advance copies of executive documents. Under the new rule individual "publica tions and special news services will both bo cue off from the privilege. The furnishing of advance copies of executive communications had its ori gin in a courtesy and a desire for economy and accuracy in transmission. Advance copies were furnished to the big press associations and by them sent to their members throughout the coun try several days prior to the publica tion date. Recipients were bound by a solemn pledge to hold the documents until the proper time and to make no use of them in whole or in part with out release. This not only permitted a big saving In telegraph tolls, but also enabled newspapers to have the messages prepared In type with edi torial comments written, ready for publication on the day ot delivery. Gradually the courtesy was extended to magazines and other individual pub lications and to the financial bureaus which control the ticker service sup plying the country with the news and gossip of Wall street The abuse sprang up aa soon as the Individual publications and the ticker services were given access to the ad vance reports. Days before the open ing of congress, Wall street has been furnished with fairly complete out lines of the president's messages and has used the' Information in stock manipulation. Wall street has no keen interest in presidential messages ex cept for stock jobbing purposes.' It thrives on rumors and fattens on garbled misrepresentations. Isolated excerpts, without reference to the rest of the context, have sent stocks up or down, doing an Injustice to the presi dent and to the stock buyers and sellers. ' v. There .would, of, course, be no occa-' slon for secrecy and precaution over the president's communications it the speculators used the Information in a legitimate way. ' The president fa con ducting so secret war on Wall street or any speculative interest, but the manipulators makercapital of his utter ances, usually by exaggeration or dis tortion, nd circulate as authentic ex tracts from his messages words, or. utterances robbed later of their specu lative significance when the full mes sages are published. It is to be hoped the decision to eliminate this, class from the list ot those receiving ad vance copies of the messages will stop the annoying abuse without requiring more far-reaching restrictions. NR. HEARST AND DEMOCRAC1 The announcement ot William Ran dolph Hearr.t. that he is "not a candi date for th presidency on tho Inde pendence league ticket, or any other ticket," will not cause as much joy in the ranks of the democratic leaders as the simple words might indicate. While be declares that he is not a candidate himself, Mr. Hearst is as mum as an oyster when asked for some .hint of his preference of democratio candidates for the presidency or what his attitude will be toward the demo cratic party in the campaign next year. Much .as the leading democrats dls- like Hearst and bis methods, they ap preciate the fact that through his pa pers he exerts wide influence in New York state politics. The Independence league cannot be overlooked in future campaigns in that state. While not powerful enough to elect Mr. Hearst governor last year, it landed the rest of the democratic ticket. Governor Hughes being the only successful can didate on the republican state ticket. Without the support of his league the democrats would have no chance worth considering of carrying New York next year, and recent indications are that Hearst is bitterly opposed to the democratic organization in New York. With his followers blaming Tammany for the Hearst defeat last fall, the chance to "play even" Is too good to be overlooked. The Independence league, organized as the personal party of Hearst, claims a membership f 1,500,000 "voters, representing nearly every state in the union, with enough in New York to dominate the democratic party con ventions or to defeat any distasteful candidate. The league leaders are conferring in New York this week and fas result ';cy be some disclosure ot the Hearst plat. It la openly charged '.hat Tar : many Chieftain Charles F. Murphy anj Cbtilrman Connors of the -iemocratts stole committee are back ing Mr. Hearst in his evident, if not announced, purpose to wrest the dem ocratic organization of the state from the control of the conservative demo crats and make It a party to an alliance with the Independence, league that would give Hearst practically undis puted control ot the party in the em pire state. Such a combination would end the Bryan hopes of support from New York. ' Hearst has some following la the south, too, and his annotmre- -f that he wl'.l not be a candidate tor the presidential nomination next year will be accepted with proper al lowance by those who appreciate the advantage of his tactical position In democratic national affairs.' - V Candidate Loomis says The Bee is wrong In stating that John C. Sprecher was "the floor leader of the populists In 1901" because Mr. Hamilton of But ler was the defeated fusion candidate for speaker. The Bee stands by its assertion. Mr. Hamilton may have been nominally chosen by the fusion caucus to" receive the complimentary votes ot the minority for speaker, but Mr. Sprecher did the work on the floor and was the real leader of the populist members. The same situation was re peated at the last session pf the legis lature, where Mr. Cone was the nomi nal head of the fuslonlsts, while Mr. QuackenbuBh proved to be the real minority leader. Omaha's democratic city council Is being embarrassed by republican pros perity in its efforts to find suitable men to serve as supervisors of regis tration. The democrats may have the satisfaction, however, of knowing that a republican council would encounter the same difficulty. Candidate Loomis will be accommo dated as the campaign progresses with a full and free discussion of his legis lative record. He will also find, so far as The Bee is concerned,- that he will have as fair; if not fairer, play than Is accorded by the fusion organs to his republican opponent. Governor Comer has called an extra session ot the Alabama legislature "to determine whether, thq railroads or the people own the state." The result will probably be a determination whether the railroads or the people own the legislators. Before the city council accepts the Union Pacific's proposition to com promise its taxes of, 1903 it should call upon former Tax Commissioner Flem ing, who made the assessment which the road has been contesting. Three populists have been found in Douglas, county .willing to allow the use of their names as members ot the populist state committee. The rest ot the populist party In this county are hiding under nom de plumes. Andrew Carnegie admits that he has not voted in twenty-five years. Jle gives advice, before election and then finds fault with the"' results. Mr. Car negie la very much like some other good citizens. The Independent j Order of AmorU cans has protested, .against placing' the face of Mary Cunningham; an Irteh-bof-n girl, on the ti'ew United -States courts. Just as if Teauty had any na tionality, -, mm Mr. Root has started for Mexico and banquets have bewi" arranged in his honor at many1 points along the route. After hla training1 at Muldoon's he ought to be able c to, eat hla . way through. -1 ' " New bollard robins have been added to tho battleship Nebraska, prelim inary to the annual target practice. The navy offers different methods for the development' of" good shots. According to an eminent New York specialist, wine, women, worry and work are the chief 'causes of insanity. The assertion Is apt. to lead many men to drop work and worry. A former barkeeper is being urged by. Tammany for place on the su preme bench of New' York.' He has the reputation of being a good mixer. Bapnoae He Would Divide Itf Philadelphia' Record. In th Indignation over John D. Rocke feller's vast accumulation of wealth, there Is more envy than virtue. Actlvltlea of Sta t IKIt'laaa. Waahlngton Post. In Nebraska the ' atatlatlclana are now trying to discover 'how many mnrrlages lead to divorce. In 'South Dakota they may soon be trying to find out how many divorce lead to marriage. Brotherly.' Kaocka. Cleveland Leader. The navy saya the army can't alioot, and the army saya the navy has to give vaude ville show In order to get recruit. It may yet turn out that the militia ,1a the moat efficient branch of the aervlc. A BreathTnktBg BBarg-eatloa). Cincinnati Enquirer. Senator Foraker haa aome old republican prejudice and peculiarities which might be condoned If 'he democrats should take a notion to nominate him for president on hi aound end eloquent construction of th constitution of the United States. Making Strang Bvdfellowa. . 8lrlng!Uld Republican. (Senator Foraker and Judge Parker aeem not far apart In their view of the "new federalism." Either could have delivered th speech of the other last week with scarcely th change of a word. Thl Il lustrate th crosa Assure In our political parties and probably forecasts a shifting of political elements that ta to come. Ckaadlar aad tke Claims Comusiaaloa. Kansas City Time. The resignation of William E. Chandler, chairman of the Spanish War Claim com mission, because ho- objected to another member of the commission whom the president would not discharge, at least serve to call attention to the fact that this board, originally established to serve two year, haa been, drawing pay for six years and atill haa work-enough to keep It going at th aame rate-fur' about three years mora. It 'really look a though Chandler, Instead of asking for the dismissal of only on member, ought to have asked for the discharge" of the Whole board. Till' 1a a business administration, and It. doea Iq'ok aa though the comparatively few claim growing out of the; Spanish-American war ought to have I en disposed of long ago, or, at least, that th docket should have, been ao reduced' that "the commission as a r w, could'hav beear abolished long sine. : t , .,.., Sprecher Gives the Particulars . Schuyler The nominee of the democratic party for auprem judge I George U Loomis, Vn attorney of Fremont, who stands well In hla community as a cltlsen and lawyer who la a person against whom nothing deroga tory of a personal nature oould be troth fully said. He t a splendid man of excel lent character. But for all this the Free Lance editor la opposed to him for the offloa which he aeek beoauae we do not believe In putting his sort of men In such positions. In th first place he Is an attorney who ha had no experience with bench work and w think that our supreme bench should be filled wltH men who have served on the district bench, tried and proven competent and true. But lack of experience would not be an objection, even If It might be a shortcom ing. But the reason thl editor 1 opposed to Oeorge L. Looml for eupreme judge la that we served In the Nebraska legislature with him In 1901 and know that he la not with the people on the corporation question, but Is what we generally refer to as a railroad lawyer. In tpat session of 1901 the republican had eighteen members of tha senate and the fuslonlsts fifteen, while In the house where Looml and tha writer were It stood flfty three republicans to forty-seven fualonista, aa we had a very respectable minority and one large enough to accomplish soma good, or at least make Its presence felt. In the campaign th fall before thl ses sion both democratio and populist parties had lined up; on the railroad question and for soma years had told tho. people that they stood for a reduction In freight and passenger tea. Both partlea had declared In platform In no uncertain tones on the railroad question and any man elected on either ticket stood aa much pledged to aup. port measures looking to that end a If he had personally made the statements direct himself. Tho man who was not favorable to railroad legislation wa sailing under false colors when he ran on either ticket that year and for many years. While the democrat and populist wore In a minority that session the party leader were anxious to show good faith with the people and carry out so far aa they were concerned all election promises and plat form pledges. In conformity wtlh that a number of the leading populist and demo crats met at Lincoln and framed a maxi mum .freight rate bill. Attorney General Smyth being m charge and preparing it. When prepared It was considered the bill of the two parties In conformity with tha party platforms and pledges upon tha rail road question. The bill was delivered to this editor by Attorney General Smyth and as a member of thV house the writer Introduced It, It being house roll No. 243, entitled: "A bill for an act to fix maximum rates for the transpor tation of certain' commodities, goods snd merchandise therein named; to define and prohibit discrimination by railroad and rail way companies; to provide for the enforce ment of Its provisions by the attorney gen eral and county attorneys; to fix penalties for tha. violation of It provisions; to provide for a certain, defense In actions brought under It, to repeal article 6 and article 8 of chapter Ixxlt of the compiled statute ot 1SS,.Snd article 8 and article 12 of chapter Ixxil of the compiled statutes of 1899, and to save any rjfht of action now existing under said articles." The bill wa Introduced and road tha re quired two time and referred to tha com mute on railroad, whert it waa held an unreasonable length of time. Knowing that it had to be "smoked out" the tactic were adopted by calling for It In open houso by a motion to resolve Into tha committee of the whole for the' purpose of considering ,,-THB ASTI-TRV8T ACT. Commissioner , Knapp'a Criticism Wlthaat Foundation. New York Evening Posi. We are told that the new theory of political economy, set .forth by Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce com miaslon., to the Freight Managers' assj clation at Chicago, waa "warmly ap plauded" by hla audience. Of the pre cepts which evoked Ula applause, the most Impressive was the following wa quote the dispatch: "The axiom, 'Compe tition, Is the life of trade.' must b dis carded if w are to progress." Discarding an axiom Is perhaps a little bold; it seems to belong to tha aame achool of reasoning aa the traditional resolution that the law of supply and demand, which stood In the way ot a much-favored act of legis lation, should forthwith he repealei. Coming down to particulars, Mr: Knap? denounced the Sherman anti-trut law, a Interpreted by th United State su preme court, as "the most mischievous pieca of legislation In the history of this country." Here, too, on may be per mitted to uA-ge3t that the language ia atropg. Old-faahloned. peopl will rcall, for inatance, the alien and sedition act, the fugitive-slav law and th sllvr pur chase act, a they read Mr. Knapp'a ad Jectivesr Th anti-trust act ot 1890, w frankly agree, ha many and aerloua deficiencies. It ought to have been amended long ago. But the consensus of thoughtful opinion, in railway and banking circles as well as among statesmen and economists, w be lieve to be that amendments ought to be directed toward reinforcing, not re laxing, the Intelligent power of th court to prevent such undertakings aa th Northern Securities merger. We ar so far from agreeing with Mr. Knapp's Idea that the present law's resulta have been mlsefitevous, as to aasart without fear of successful contradiction that Ita employ, ment averted some ot the most formida ble economic dangers which have con fronted this country in the present gen eration. Th report of Mr. Knapp's peach go on to quote Its description of the present day as "a transition pe riod to the certain coming of a world wide federation, a commercial millennium in which strife will give way to kindly assistance and hatred to brotherly love." Such a aquel the speaker further de scribed as "en economic revolution," which will "change th baalo function of society." We should certainly aay it would; but how oddly the remark re call th talk of excited Wall atreot dur ing the "big time" of 1901. Ia it possi ble that the chairman of the interstate commission haa been aaleep since then? Blow at Hlaker Knacatloa. Naw York Werld. .Young college students who for years have passed their vacatlona acting a wait era at tha hotels along the St. Lawrence river are to be banished from that pro fession up that way at least the good, looking one because, aa the hotel pro prietor say. they ar too much given to flirting with the girl guest. Mr. Croa man, at Alexandria bay, who ha instituted th reform, ay": "I have engaged fifty Swede, none of them any too prepoa esslng, but while they are short on looks I expect they will be long on their duties as waiters. College students ar too much given to cigarette smoking and flirting with the girl guests to suit me. I have cut them out. Leas spilling of soup down guests' rvetks and less smashing of dishes by feather-brained mashers are soma ef th thing I want.' ' Free Lane. hous roll No. 243, Chairman Smlthberger ot Stanton county finally got enough of the regular process of amoke and agreed to report and the committee, without even considering the bill, reported It, on March 14 for Indefinite postponement, there not being even a minority report. When th bill was so reported this writer' wa ready and moved that th report of the com mute be not concurred In, but . that the bin be placed on general file, and th yea and nay were demanded. To prevent member dodging the Issue a call of th house was demandaf and tha sergeant-alarms Instructed 'to bring In all absentees. The call was later raised and the roll call taken on the question of placing that rail road bill 'en general file. . i It required four republican member to vote for the measure to put it through th house If the forty-seven fusion member stayed with It, and those four Were se cured snd stayed. The four .were: C. Beia-ner,- a farmer of Thayer county; J. S. Evana, a real eatate dealer of North Platte, Lincoln county; C. O. Olson, d merchant of Holdrege, Phelp county, and J. A. Whlt more, a lawyer of Aurora, Hamilton county. But while four republican voted with the fuslonlsts for th bill, six of the fusion forces went back'on the party measure and voted to Indefinitely postpone It. Those sis wore: D. I!. Becher, a farmer of Platte county; C. F. Coffee a stockman of Dawes county; C. W. Hunter, a farmer of Howard county; Georga L. Looml, a lawyer- of Fremont. Dodg county; I C. Pelnlger, a merchant of Blue Hill, Webster county, and P. F. Zimmerman, a dealer In farm Imple ment of Battle Creek. Madison .county. A few dodged the vote by keeping out of the sergeant-at.arms' way. Th bill waa not an Individual measure, hut wa the party bill In compliance with platform and campaign declarations and pledges and waa drawn by party leader under th supervision of Attorney General Smyth. Every fusion member of that ses sion was .in duty and honor bound to vote for railroad regulation, according to th Issues of the campaign and when Mr, Loomis did not he went back on the Issues he was supposed ti stand for. The vote taken was not for th bill as It stood, simply being to not concur In th recommendation of the committee to In definitely postpone It, but plaoe It on gen. eral file for consideration. Mr, Loomis voted against even considering th bill, which showed thst be was not In favor of any measure of the kind. If any part ef this bill did not suit him he could Jiavo a later chance to amend It In the committee of the whole, but he was not even In favor of having It considered. His vote on that measure simply told where he tood, al though tho writer knew without that record, He was a railroad lawyer and stood by the corporations Instead of the people. . If anyone haa any doubt as to this being correct, a full -record can b had and on paga tSl of the house journal of 191, . Tha Fre . Lance . editor is opposed t George L, Looml for supreme Judge be cause wa do not believe in putting railroad lawyers on our supreme bench. We have other reasons Xo oppose him, owing to hi record In that session, where vote and work la not to bis credit. Personally he Is on of tho finest of men, la a good citizen and haa many friends, but w are electing a man to the high office of supreme Judge and want . a man of the people aud so Loomis won't do. He has been weighed In the balance and found wanting. This editor is not only opposed to Loomis because he is a . railroad lawyer, but I for M. B. Reese because, he Is pot. Reese Is just the man to put in that place, where he served before and proved to be a man of the people., S3 we urge our readers ..to all vote for Rtese. LOW RATES. MORIS HCSIE9S. Increased Net F.arnlna from Two Cent Passenger Fares. Kansas City Star. The annual report of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul railroad shows a highly gratifying Increase In Its passenger earn ings compared with that of last year, not withstanding the fact that .the Milwaukee traversea three states in which the t-cent fare ha been In operation a part of the present year. And the Milwaukee, In mak ing It report just at this most opportune of moments, baa contributed the most val uable Information submitted In tha rat controversy up to the present time. The entire question Involved In the reduo tion of passenger rates is epitomised In this single proposition : Can the roads af ford to grant the concession? The Mllwau- kee'a annual statement goea dlreotly to the point. It la evident that at least ona road haa not bean injured aerloualy by a trial which has affected both, its local and in terstate business. The publle has little opportunity to as certain the information necessary to de termine the actual effect on tha railroads ef the agitation for a 2-cent fare, because the road themselves have suppressed any thing like a clear statement of their earn ings under tha old rate, and th predic tion which they make as to the confisca tory nature of the law are based upon theory rather than Intelligible reasoning. . An annual report from tha passenger de partment which actually ahowa a very marked Increase In the net earnings of the company Js not based upon intangible the ories or unreliable estimate. . And It would be of quite aa much Interest in affording precisely the Information desired for the rational solution of the rate problem If it had revealed a decrease rather than an In crease. What the people deslr I informa tion that goea directly to th gist of the contention, and the Mllwauke report how that valuable quality. Now let the public have the. annual atate ment of the passenger earnings of the othe; roads affected by th rat law, and it wil be able to form a conclusion. Juvenile UR Suits and and Children, are first of all-r-fetching in . point of style and a apptarance. They are made of '' the best obtainable fabrics in striking patterns. The tendency , . . is towards very .snappy designs. 1 And they are made with a thoroughness that in3urea the wearing qualities of every garment, The pockets, the buttons and buttonholed, all have especial care. Iro wning, I&ing 81 0 E. S. WILCOX, Manaeer. .. , PERSONAL NOTES. New York talks of a marble statu of prtseflghter Fltaalmmons. Chleagn might get Jeffries to pose. Or why not Sullivan or Corbett? The ract Is cited In proof of the lm proved morals of Chicago that a Texan recently spent several days In that city and lost nothing but hi memory. Tho fact that our deposed Queen Lit ot Honolulu, at the rlpe ase of 68, begged a Kin-pound husbaad lend encouragement and inspiration to the hopes of spinster hood. William Harden. , American consul at Bamberg, Germauy, reports the discovery by Dr. Radard. a Geneva, dentist, that blue ray of light can be used as an anaesthctlo in the extraction of teeth. ' Frank B. Kellogg, th special attorney for th government In the Standard oil prosecution. Is one of the most prominent lawyers In the northwest. His present home lit In Rt. Taul. 1-fn hr,n life aa a farmer's boy in New York state. j three women on hla new Tenement Housa commission of seven member. These ap J polntments have ben greeted with general J approval. They are Miss G. McMalna, the I head resident of Klngslcy house, a social settlement; Dr. Edith Koeber, daughter of a well known New Orleans physician, and Mrs. Giaee Chamberlain, president of the Era club. The most remarkable thing concerning Arthur Burrows, England's oldest bar rister, who has Just entered his ninety sixth year, Is that his longevity seems duo, In no small measure, to hard work. For years he dented himself the pleasure of a day's holiday excepting on Sundays, . and even now may be seen three or four I times a week at his chambers In Lincoln's Inn. Follower of the simple llf point with prldo to Mr, Burrows, who Is a foa to most forms of luxury. Of late years he has dispensed with tobacco and stimu lants, and retalna good health on the plainest ot food. SAID IS FUN. s "How much ought a building Ilk that ta coatT" asked one member ot the legisla ture. "How much It ought to cost isn't th question," answered the other. "What wr want t figure out la how much It la going to cost." Washington Star. "I hear you've been Buttering all uay wilB a sick headache." "No, indeed." "Haven't you had a headacho, thenT" "Yea, but it isn't alck; It' extremely vig orous.'' Philadelphia fieas. "Are you a divorce lawyerf ' '" ' "I sometime handle case of. thit sort." "What will a couple of good divorces cost me?" "Are you married -to two women?' "No, but I want to. make sure of tha Job." Nashville American. "What do you admire nost about that poem?" inquired the literary enthusiast. "Th nurve of the editor whq printed It," answered the sardonic person." Washing ton Star. i , a "Ma. why does sis sing so much when Mr. tipoonamore is here' "I think, dear, she in tryhig to teat hit love." Chicago Reoord-Herskl, VAnd dear old Mrs. . , 'your auntt She muat be rather feeble now. Tell me, how la she?" "Burled her yesterday,' said ths majorv "Burled her? Dear me, dear met I tha good old woman dead?" "Yea; that's why we buried her,"' said the major. Argonaut. "That dotty Englishman w met Is M proud of the fact tout he live at Gibraltar1 that he goes about telling everybody of it.' "And yet there are ao many men who) live on a bluff that never iwntlun It,"- Baltimore American. i r "Now;" said the vicar, "can anyone tet" me what a lie ia?" Immediately a small hand shot up. t'lu-u mv lu .1 ', r ! . PlAa k f m ll.it. .. .Kv.f ........ - I , " ..r .o . . uvi.HUiiuwII -.tv'i nidation; untvv help lit ttro.'L vnryuiit-, uui a very pleasant n .of trouble." Lutheran Observer SUNSET OSf THE PRAIRIE. ' J. W. Faley In New 'York Times. They have tamed It with their harrow ( they have broken it with plows; Where the bison used to rang It some one's built himself a house; They have stuck it full of fence posts; they have girded It with wire. They have shamed It and profaned it with. an automobile tire; They have bridged Ita gullied rivers; the have peopled it with men. They have churched It, they have schooled It, they have ateepled It Amen I They have furrowed it with ridgu. they have seeded it with grain. And th west that wa worth knowing, 1 shall never aee again. They have smothered all its . campftrea, where the beaten plainsmen slept. They have driven up their cattle where the skulking coyote crept; They have made themselves a pasture where the timid deer would browse, Where the antelope were feeding they have dotted o'er with cows; There's a yokel's tunelesa whistling down the bison's winding trail. Where the red man's arrow fluttered there's a woman with a pail Driving up the cow font milking; they hava cut It wild extent r Into forty-acre patche till, its glory Is all pent. I remember In the sixties, when as far as I could see. It had never lord nor ruler but the buffala and me; Ere the blight of man -was on It, snd the endless aerea lay i Just aa God Almighty left them' on the rest ful Seventh day; When no aound rose from vaatnes but a murmured hum and dim Like the eclioed void ot Silence In an un heard prairie hymn; '' And I lay at nlgbt and rested In my be of blankets curled Much alone as if X- wus the only man U all the world! But the prairie's pansed, or passing, wltl the passing of the years. Till there ia no west worth knowing, ami there are no pioneers; They have riddled It with railroads, throb bing on and on and on. They hale ridded it of dangera till the seat of It la gone; And I've saddled up my pony, for I'nSduII and lonesome here, ' To go weal ward, westward, westward till we find a new frontier; To get back to God's own wlldness and the . skies we used to know. But there Is no west; it's conquered and I don't know where to go! Clothing Overcoats for Boys