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TIIE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: FRTDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1007,
The Omaha Daily Uli
FOINDED BT EDWARD ROSBWATEIt.
VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, sr.:
Charles C Koewater, general manager
of The Bee Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, says I oat the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of November, 1SU7, was
as follows:
1 37,000 . 1 37,430
2 3720 11. 36,450
38,800 It 38,180
4 37,830 It 87,430
t 39,680 20.... 37,090
8 39,690 21 36,970
7 37,330 22 87,300
I 37140 21 37,380
( 37,890 24 36,100
10 36,900 25 37,690
11 37,630 2 37,090
12 37,730 27 37,340
13 37,380 ' 1 36,940
14 37,300 St..... 39,690
It 37,600 SO 37,690
Total 1,133,430
Less unsold and returned copies. 10,168
Net Total 1,113,353
Dally average 37,108
CHARLES C. ROSEWATER,
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Just now the Christmas bundle Is
the white man's burden.
The lawyer will appreciate a new
Bult as a Christmas present.
The Christmas cigar is Just the cam
paign cigar parading In a new box?
The need of an elastic currency will
become positively pressing right after
January 1.
Attorney Connell has again estab
lished the fact that his legal acumen
is of higher order.
Thomas W. Lawson,has been elected
president of a Boston gas company.
An appropriate selection.
There are no surface Indicating that
Santa Claus suffered any severe losses
during the recent near-panic.
In the republican camp the contest
appears to be between the logical can
didate and a field of favorite sons.
While bear meat has been served at
the White House, lamb is still the
choice item on the bill of fare for Wall
street.
"Only 15,445 Jackasses are being
taxed in this state," says the Houston
(Tex.) Post. The population of Texas
la over 3,000,000.
Orders have been Issued positively
forbidding Pittsburg policemen to flirt.
Pittsburg feels that it must have some
class free from the habit. '
The entire official directory of the
Ice trust has been changed, but it is
not expected that the consumer will
note the difference next July.
The United States looks npon the
cruise of the battleships as a perfectly
harmless affair. It will be wise for
other nations to view it that way.
If Governdr Hoggett of. Alaska is
seriously hunting for a lid lawyer, the
Omaha Retail Liquor Dealers' assecla
tlon can give him the address of sev
eral. ,
The express companies have won a
single point in their litigation with the
state, but not one that seriously in
volves the main issue, which will be
tested later. .
Governor Hughes, it Is asserted, will
have no difficulty In securing the sup
port of the New York delegation in the
republican convention, leaving Mr. Cor
telyou as a1 near-favorite.
Congress will adjourn tomorrow un
til January, 6. Remember the Import
ant measures that were demanding
"Immediate consideration" when con
gress met on" December 2?
Prof, fatten of Pennsylvania says
:he west should be compelled to keep
'.ta money away from New York. The
west Is not going to have to work very
tard to follow the professor's advice.
Mr. Hearst's newspapers are now
clamoring for the construction of more
battleships to "make the republic equal
and unafraid among nations." The
president's naval policy has received
no harder blow. '
"America la ruled by five plutocrats
euys Rourke Cockran, and he proceeds
to canto them as "Rockefeller, Harri
man, Morgan, Hill and Armour." This
is contrary ta the general impression
that America Is ruled by two autocrats
Stealer Canada and Seuatur Aldrlch
CHILE'S KLAtTlC CUBRKHCT..
One of the most prosperous of the
South American countries is furnishing
an illustration of the dangers that may
follow attempts to inject the element
of elasticity into a rather rigid cur
rency system. Practically on a gold
basis, Chile has had a better financial
rating in the money centers of the
world than any other country in South
America. The country's chief resources
for export trade were copper and nl
tiates, and its sales of these gave it
credit of satisfactory proportions in
most of the foreign countries. The re
cent earthquake at Valparaiso, fol
lowed by a slump In the price of copper
and an increase in the cost of labor
and material, caused industrial and
commercial depression In Chile and the
government sought to remedy it by the
adoption of an elastic currency.
Details of the situation in Chile are
not at hand, but it is known that the
government, in face of the protests of
leading bankers, yielded to public
clamor and issued a large volume of
unsupported treasury notes. The ef
fect was Immediate and disastrous.
Gold Jumped to a premium anil one vt
the largest banks of the country was
compelled to close Its doors. Merchants
found their creditors demanding pay
ment in gold and a financial crisis was
produced that is still oppressing the
nation.
While Americans generally are not
particularly Interested ' in Chilean af
fairs, the lesson of that country's finan
cial distress may find local application.
It Blmply demonstrates that however
much elasticity may be desired in. a
currency system, it canlnot be secured
except upon the most substantial basis.
Character rather than volume counts
In currency matters, a fact that, in the
light of Chile's experience, congress
will do well to remember while consid
ering the many measures before it pro
viding for reforms in the present cur
rency system.
TUT VFPER BERTH'S VICTORY.
The hated upper berth of the sleep
ing car has found a champion in the
supreme court of Wisconsin, ' which
holds that it is unconstitutional, illegal,
contrary to public policy and against
the good will and peace of the com
mtfnlty,' or words to that effect, for a
state legislature to make any effort to
rob the upper berth of Its vested rights
or for an Individual to protest against
the Pullman methods of supplying its
patrons with all the discomforts of
travel at the highest traffic rates.
One Ray Nye, a member, of the
Wisconsin legislature, bought a lower
berth for a ride from Superior to Mad
ison one hot July night. The upper
berth had no tenant or claimant, and
he asked that the empty berth be
closed so that more air might be al
lowed - to reach the lower one, The
porter protested that it was against
orders. The conductor supported the
porter and cited the rules to show that
he would lose his job if he dared to do
anything to make a passenger more
comfortable. The next day Legislator
Nye introduced a bill making it obliga
tory upon sleeping car companies to
make such disposition of empty upper
berths as the persons in the berths be
neath might direct. The bill became
a law, a test case was made and the
case taken to the supreme court. That
eminent Judicial authority has solemnly
decreed that the fraraers of the consti
tution had the upper berth In mind
when they adopted the clause guaran
teolng the rights of property and vested
Interests. It was held that any attempt
to compel the Pullman company to
make such disposition of its car fur
nishings and fixtures as that called for
In the Nye bill would be an infraction
of the fundamental law of the land.
The framers of the federal constitu
tion were evidently the wisest and most
far-seeing men the world has known.
Busy as they were, perplexd with, prob
lems of the gravest import, they took
the precaution to foresee the coming
of the upper berth and to make pro
visions for Its proper protection.
TBI RE1URN Or TBI FLXET.
Eastern newspapers and naval ex
perts have hardly waited for the bat
tleships to get out of sight on their
way to the Pacific before entering upon
a discussion as to the length of time
the vessels will be allowed to stay In
the Pacific, and whether they shall re
turn over the route taken on their way
to San Francisco or come back through
the Suez canal, after a visit to the
waters and ports of European nations.
This Is mere idle speculation") of course,
but it is perhaps as well that it is be
ing Indulged as it may serve the pur
pose of directing attention to condi
tions In the disposition of America's
naval forces which have been over
looked. It Is a safe prediction, we be
lieve, that there will be no return of
the twenty-seven vessels, in fleet. Some
may return around the. Horn, following
the path made famous by the famous
trip of the Oregon when duty failed it
to Cuban waters In 1898. Some may
come through the Suez on their way
home, and others may wait to make the
initial trip through the Panama canal
when it shall be formally opened. But
there Is little prospect that the fleet
will be withdrawn at an early date,
leaving the Pacific coast in its long
unprotected condition.
It may be accepted as certain, we
feel confident, that the present cruise
of the fleet is but part of the consum
mation of the program discussed for
years to make the United States the
dominant force in affairs of the peace
ful Pacific. The lesson of world and
commercial history of the last ten years
makes the maintenance of an American
squadron In the Pacific a logical neces
sity. Commerce id changing front and
t Is becoming more and more apparent
that the Pacific Is to te the scene of
the world's greatest shipping develop
ment and activity in the future. With
this change of front has come a change
In America's relations to the world.
Trouble is no longer probable, or
hardly possible, on the Atlantic. It is
not prospective on the Pacific, but it
must come from that direction. If at
all. The nation is seeking no trouble
in the Pacific, but Its vast interests He
there and must be protected. The Lon
don Times asserts that the sailing of
the fleet to the Pacific contains "the
element of potential peril." The ab
sence of the fleet from the Pacific
would appear to more nearly constitute
the "rlernc. of potential peril." Its
presence there is the best guaranty of
potential peace.
A TEAR or READJ US 1MEST.
Whatever else may be said of the
year 1907 as entitling it to importance
in American history, it will stand out
pre-eminent as a year of readjustment
During the twleve months now nearly
ended business affairs of the United
States have largely been put on an en
tirely new basis. No single agency was
more responsible for this change than
the law known as the Hepburn act. No
matter where this piece of legislation
had its origin, its effects have been di
rect and far-reaching.
The abolition of the free passes and
the rebates threw down at once a'sys
tem that had been built up year by
year since the railroad became a factor
In commerce. The gigantic propor
tions attained by this evil were appar
ent to all, and none more so than to
the railroad managers. They could
see plainer than anybody the millions
of dollars that through free transpor
tation of passengers and freight were
diverted from the legitimate earnings
of the railroads. It was impossible to
hold the balance even between patrons
of the road, and under this pernicious
system one firm or individual would
receive an advantage over another un
til business was being conducted on a
fictitious basis. It was hide-and-seek
between rivals In trade. Each knew
the other was receiving favors from
the railroads, but neither could tell
just exactly where his opponent stood
and, consequently, was doing business
to some extent in the dark. This re
sulted in a continuous increasing pres
sure on railroad officials for further
extensions of favors by manufacturers
and jobbers alike. Concession fol
lowed concession until the system
threatened fairly to absorb the rail
road business.
Since the first of January last rebates
and free passes have become a part of
the unregretted past No longer does
any Jobber figure his business in fear
that a rival Is securing some conces
sion from published tariffs that he does
not get. The readjustment has not aa
yet been completed for the reason that
it was impossible to establish all rates
at once on an equitable basis, but the
railroads are adhering closely to their
published tariffs and each patron
knows he Is paying no more or no less
than his neighbor.
This readjustment of business has
been beneficial to all and Is reflected
not enly in the returns made by the
railroads, but in the showing made by
those centers of commerce which are
in a natural position to command and
do not depend on the fictitious advan
tage of a rebate or a free pass.
The commissioner general of immi
gration predicts that this country will
have a population of 950,000,000 in
135 years, if immigration continues at
its present rate and other causes of in
creased population are not changed. No
other nation in the world could think
of supporting such a population, but
America would find room for them
without crowding.
When the reformers get through en
forcing the Sunday laws It is hoped
they will remember the billboards. It
has been many weeks since an ordi
nance was passed limiting the height
and other tf'menslons of these blots on
civilization, yet still the sky-scraping
Insult to taste rears ita gaudy head
aloft and the authorities see it not.
A jury in the district court has de
cided that a husband missing for more
than seven years is dead and that the
wife is entitled to the Insurance
money. This point is not novel, but
merely restates the suggestion that in
these times a man who does not turn
p at home at least once in seven
years is no better than a dead one.
The showing made by the managers
of the several state charities for the
first six months under the new appro
priation la very encouraging. Each
Institution has been kept well within
the limit, proving that economy and
efficiency can easily be united where
the determination to do so is suffi
ciently strong.
The superintendent of schools at
Minneapolis advises placing billiard ta
bles in the school rooms so as to in
duce' the fathers to visit the schools.
Why not add a grill room in the base
ment and set aside a commodious apart
ment for bridge whist, and thus get the
whole family's interest and presence?
The license board is going to the
bottom with a vengeance, apparently
determined that no matter what else
happens, no occasion for complaint
that the board did not sufficiently In
vestigate the qualifications of appli
cants can be made.
The New York Commercial reports
that "many western merchants are in
Now York ready to offer spot cash for
bargains in dry goods." This will not
prevent New York from Insisting that
It has to bear the financial burdens for
the entire country.
The state of Nebraska Is now In un
disputed possession of the real estate
connected with the Soldiers' Home at
Grand Island. This will enable , the
state at the proper time to go ahead
and make the needed Improvements at
this institution.
According to reports, one sheep
lipped and fell over a precipice out in
the Cascade mountains and 11,000 oth
ers followed It and were all killed. How
happy Mr. Bryan would be if democrats
had the sheep habit ot following the
leader.
OTererifdls( the Canneries.
Indianapolis News.
If a fair proportion of those 1,286,349 Im
migrants could have been debarked In
Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, In
stead of In the slums of the eastern coast
cities. It would have simplified the situa
tion. Pat I'p the Mener
Baltimore News.
Possibly some ( the women to whom
such urgent appeals are being made ta de
their Christmas shopping early are In a
frame of mind by this time to suggest, in
the way of retort, that a little pressure
might be brought to Jnduce fattier to come
down with the cash early.
Stretching; the Line.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Admfral Coghlan, In post-prandlal con
fidence, avers that the fleet Is sent to the
Pacific In ordor to obtain the building of a
new Atlantic fleet. Then will that fleet be
sent somewhere elso to facilitate the con
struction of a thlrd7 After which, will the
line stretch ad Infinitum?
Ton Roand of Popularity.
Baltimore American.
Governor Hughes of Now York Is trying
to bring about a reform In which strap
hanging will be abolished and every street
car passenger will have a seat In nice, clean
and frequent cars. If he accomplishes that
feat, the people of the nation will elect
him president without waiting for any other
platform.
S.
Opening Another Traffic A venae.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
'The railroads of the country," says
Secretary Root, "no longer are able phy
sically to carry the traffic of America,
and the one avenue open to such traffic
Is water transportation." With the whole
country working around to this conclu
sion the outlook for future relief from
freight congestion Is good.
Too Many Currency Cooks.
Springfield Republican.
The currency reform plans now raining
In upon congress and newspaper offices and
the country generally have already been so
countless In number and variety as to
foroe forward the idea of a currency com
mission to Investigate and report. It is a
case where the appointment of a govern
ment commission seems to bo especially
justified.
Prosperltr of the Railroads.
Philadelphia Record.
Though the orders placed by the trunk
line railways tor steel rails for the next
year do not attain the size of those for
tho current year they are larger than was
expected up to a month 'ago. With orders
for 2,200,000 tons In sight the rail mills will
have no reason to curtail pay-rolls nor the
maker of steel billets occasion to blow out
any furnace. The railroads are evidently
more prosperous than Is Indicated by the
poor mouths made by some of their man
agers. Stress of Sturm on the Sea.
Springfield Republican.
The stories of last week's crossing of
th north Atlantlo by the fast liners seem
to dispose of the belief that the great tur
blners of the Cunard company, by reason
of their unprecedented size, could ride
steadily through the gales and furious seas
of a December storm. Old travelers an the
Iiusltanla found that the pitching and the
rolling were about what they had been on
steamships of the last ten years. It was
an exceptional passage, to be sure, the bil
lows seeming "mountainous" even from the
lofty bridge of the Lusltania, but It is
clear that the steamship Is yet to be built
that will bo comparatively unmoved by
tho north Atlantlo at Its wildest. It seems
almost needless to say that such a craft
never could be built. The power of the
ocean under the stress of violent storms
la beyond the Imagination.
NOVEMBER FIRE LOSSES.
Nearly 20,000,000 Worth of Property
Destroyed In Eleven Months.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Tho fire loss of the United Btateo and
Canada .for the month of November, as
compiled from the carefully kept records
of the Journal of Commerce and Com
mercial Bulletin, shows a total of $l,122.20O.
or nearly three million dollars more than
the sum chargeable against the same month
Of the preceding year. The following table
gives a comparison, by months, of the losses
this year with those ot 1906 and 1908:
1K6. IS06. 1907.
January 1,37S.100 17.W3.gnO 124.06A.oM
February .... 26,nSt,0O0 l.24,3SO 76,G"Q
March 14.751,400 1. 721,760 ,66..J
April 111,W 22.&01,1W 21,930i0
May 12,7;,'-50 m.512..s6o 1,2.0
June 11.7N.MQ U.Mfl.ftW 14.706.010
July 13.175,2S 12.42H,'I& 1S.240.1M
August 11.43i,6u0 S.Wl.aO 2o.24S.WO
September ... 13,715. iV) 10.sSJ.5oO 11.44H.4M)
October 12,2S7.ie 13.82.450 U..W.JM
November .... 1,178,2W) l.24S,3oO l,l!,iW
Ti 11 mos..U..l,200 1440 7'.6"W $1'J. V7,500
December .... 16.27ti,o0 U.Ool.tW
Totals 17o,193,X00 4i,71),ui
During November there were no less than
$30 fires where the loss reached or ex
ceeded $10,i0. For comparison we give the
following classification as to destructlve
ness: to $2O.0M 5
M to &mh S3
8" () to tn.rt" o
$0.0ijO to 7.l f'
75.mt to Vr la
100.0 to ZoO.OuO , 2
ilw.vuo and over 1
Total 3
The more Important fires during Novem
ber from an Insurance loss standpoint were
these:
Brockton, N. T., wine cellars $.
Louisville. K). stock yards plant.... n.o-o
Munolf, Ind.. wholesale grocery 20u,0w)
Superior, Wis., grain elevator an.l
other 2.2HS.ftne
HaiTlahurg, Pa.. m at-pck'ng plant., iw.imo
Salt Laki) I'I'y, I'tah, stoiue build
ing and other STS.onn
Peoria, 111., business blork t:.iM
Los Angeles, Cal., Ice and cold stor
age plant ST.0.00O
Louisville, Ky., whulenale groci-ry 196.t
Fire underwriters are viewing with un
easiness the approaching annual state
ments. They are obliged to furnlh Hats
of their securities, and whllu nearly all of
tho state Insurance departments will allow
the quotation of December 31, M, to be
used, ruling that present market prices of
securities do not fairly represent their
actual value, others may not; und thus a
poor flnanrtal condition will b shown by
many hmtlt jiiuns the fill In
auelaiiuna.
IIOI WD ABOVT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Torrent ot Life In tho
Metropolis.
Announcement was made at a late meet
ing of the Bonrd of Education that New
York City Is 704 school teach.rs short of
present needs. A special committee was
appointed to devise some way out of the
deficiency. "There are places In the out
lying parts of the city where It Is almost
Impossible to got teachers to go," ex
plained City Superintendent Maxwell. "I
am confident that there are over 6.000 per
sons on the list of substitute teachers. It
la our misfortune that they will not come
forward to do work In the schools, but we
have no power to compel them. We cannot
offer any more Inducements In the way of
Increased pay for teachers to come to us.
Neither can we afford to lower the stan
dard of examination In order to obtain
more teachers. The scarcity of teachers
will probably adjust Itself when the Nor
mal college gets settled In Its revised meth
ods of teaching and examination."
When there aro too fe wtenants to go
around It is not unusual for landlords of
downtown office buildings to steal them
away from other buildings by holding out
various, and substantial Inducements,
capped by the offer to take over unexpired
leases. An obligation of this sort that has
Just been assumed Involved $500,000, In
order to put one of the biggest electrical
companies In the country cn ita rent roll
the company owning a new skyscrnper has
contracted to be responsible for the com
pany's present lease, which has ten years
still to run at an annual rent of $00,000.
When there are too few tenants to go
afternoon concert. Before they started the
woman said:
"I don't feel at all satisfied with myself.
I know I don't look well. I wish I had
put on another dress. I have a notion to
change now."
"Don't," said the man. "We won't have
time, and besides you look all right."
When going down the subway steps they
saw a man sweeping. The woman stopped
directly In front of him not close enough
to get splattered and dusted, but still In the
way of the broom. The sweeper looked at
hor a second, then carefully gave his broom
another fillip. The woman turned and
started up the stairs.
"That settles it," she said, "I am going
home to put on another dress."
"Good heavens!" gasped her escort.
"What for7 He didn't sweep a speck of
dirt on you."
"I know that," said the woman, "but I
have proved that I look like a fright. I
have one tnfallble rule whereby I determine
whether or not I look well dressed. Always
when I start any place in two minds as to
my appearance I make It a point to stand
in the way of a man who is sweeping. If
he stops till I get by I know I look pretty
nice and he doesn't want to spoil my finery.
If he sweeps unconcernedly away I know
I look shabby and he thinks he cant hurt
me. You saw what that man did. That's
why I'm going to change my dress."
"Step around the corner with ma and
1'ir show you a shell road," said the man
who lightens the burdens of a life of leisure
by discovering queer things In New York.
"A shell game, more likely," responded
his companion, with some excuse for Ms
suspicions, as they were In Long Acre
square.
But not a hundred yards east of Broad
way, opening Into a vacant lot on the south
side, where a new theater is to be built.
Is a well constructed, neatly kept shell
road. Some whimsical fancy of a man
who stores things in the lot has prompted
"him to gather oyster shells from Rector's
and Shanley's and use them for tho build
ing and upkeep of the little road.
"My hardest Job," said the discoverer
after showing his find, "Is to think of un
likely possible things for New York and
then hunt for them. Certain to land even
the most unlikely some old time or other."
Although amusement places were closed
In New York on Sunday a carload of pas
sengers on a RIdgewood train coming
across the bridge were entertained In a
manner more enjoyable than any ordinary
show. A young woman had been visibly
annoyed by the attentions of a flashily
dressed young man. When the train
reached the Brooklyn bridge she changed
her seat and the young man followed.
Then as she placed her hand in a small
bag she carried she said In a tone that
could be heard by most of the passengers:
"I am bringing these freshly laid eggs
from our home down In Long Island to
have them cooked for a friend who Is a
patient In a, New oYrk hospital. But when
I explain to her she will be satisfied with
one less."
The hand was quickly withdrawn from
the bag and the masher got a slap on the
face. In the hand was one of the eggs.
"I am only sorry the egg was fresh," she
said as tho masher fled.
Beginning January 1 Dan Cupid will have
a home In New York City, Tt will be called
Love's Corner, and can be found in the
main corridor of the city hall. There will
be located the marriage license bureau.
According to the new law which goes Into
effect January 1, If you wish to wed in
New York you must first see the marriage
license clerk and tell him your troubles.
It he is satisfied that Dan Cupid has made
a clean Job of It he will hand you out a
ticket that will entitle you to Join the
Grand Ordor of Benedicks. The price for
the privilege will bo $2. There Is going to
be a serious question about handling the
crowds that will flock to Cupid's home,
for there are at least 60.000 marriages each
year In the county. Which means that
104.000 sweethearts must visit the little
office in city hall. It la reasonable to be
lieve that each couple will bring two
friends, which will make 200,000 visitors each
year.
"It isn't solely to please the women pa
trons," said an Interior decorator, "that
mirrors so abound In shops. They serve
another and more Important purpose. They
help detect shoplifters. If you should
study tho various watchers In the employ
of big retail stores you would find they
don't watch the person directly. They look
at their reflections In the mirrors. Of
course, their watching, done that way Js
unperceived. Tho shoplifter glances at the
watcher sees that lils back la to her, and
secret. t & pair of silk stockings in her
shirtwaist. The next moment she feels an
unfriendly and terrifying tap on the
shoulucr, And the waUher who has caught
her by the mirror's aid, bids her sternly
to accompany him to the office."
The latest big structure to draw attention
Iq New York la the Hudson company's ter
minal building along Church street, which
will bu a station fur some of the tunnel
routes under the Hudson river. It will be
twenty-two stories high, have office room
enough to keep It occupied by some 10,000
tenants and through the station basement
something like lS.'.OuG.OOO will pass In the
course of a year, contrasting with 30,oj0,0uu
for the South station at Boston and 140,000,
000 estimated for the new IVnnnvlvanU
terminal building at Thirty-third street.
Crudest Knock of All.
Chicago News.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse university
has come out for Governor Hughes as a
prehMentlul candidate. This Is the first
real knock the Ln.ylre stale executive has
received.
I
GRKAT PVRI.IC WORKS.
Pre gress of the Reclamation of Arid
Lands.
New York Times.
A work of present and future Importance
to the whole nation, which Is converting
no-half of the tolal area of the United
States from an arid or seml-arld Mate
to a well-watered richness, should give
Mr. Roosevelt's name an enduring place In
history. In his message to congress hf
notes that the opposition to the movement
he has constantly sponsored Is "d Ing
away," as the people understand Its sig
nificance. Before the passsge of the re
clamation act In 190.3, 7,2i,0K acres more
than one-third the area under crops In the
United Kingdom had been irrigated by
private and state enterprise. 1'ndor the
federal act 6.0o.000 acres have been added
and $0,000,000 more ot "the richest, the most
fertile land In the world," not excepting
the Nile valley, which Is but one-eighth
this acreage have been plotted out for
drainage and Irrigation, to b paid for with
out Interest by the beneficiaries In ten
yearly Installments.
Mountains are being tunneled, canyens
dammed, and great canals are piercing
the deserts that will soon teem with
fruitage for the world's tables. Twenty
five great projects In fourteen stales and
two territories are being pushed day and
night, at an expenditure of $1,000,000 a
month. The desert about Phoenltf, Arlx.,
has become an "emerald Island" oT 200,000
seres, created by the Roosevelt dam, which
restrains the waters of the largest artificial
lake In the world. The Minidoka project In
Idaho, with Its eighty-foot dam 628 feet
long, and Ita radiating canals, has made
800,000 acres arable. The Yakima valley, In
the state of Washington, will be amplified
by 400,000 Irrigated acres, made possible by
canals, ditches and storage dums regulat
ing the flood waters of mountain lakes.
Blocking the Shoshone canyon In Colorado
Is a dam 310 feet high, and a tunnel, greater
than the Slmplon tunnel in the Alps, car
ries the Gunnison river beneath a moun
tain 2,000 feet high Into the fertile I'neom
pahgre valley. The Klamath project in
northern California and Oregon, and the
Yurta project In the "Egypt of America,"
crossing the borders of California and Ari
zona, where crops mature throughout the
year, are examples of engineering feats by
which the reclamation service has made
fruitful an acreage equal to that under cul
tivation in Connecticut, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Florida combined.
This arable territory Is being filled with
special crops Imported from Europe, Asia
and Africa the Swedish oats, the Vladimir
cherry, Siberian crabappies, Chinese per
simmons, Japanese rice, Mediterranean
wheats, Algerian alfalfa, Egyptian berseem
clover, fig trees of Smyrna and date palms
of Blskera.
It Is a vast estate that Is being created
for present and coming generations, richer
than that allotted to the Chosen People.
With the problem of Irrigation, as Mr.
Roosevelt points out, other problems are
being solved, such as the use of new water
ways, water powers and forests. Besides
the twenty-five projects now completed, or
being constructed, and the fourteen more
that await for funds, Becretary Wilson re
ports that during the last fiscal year plans
were prepared for tho drainage of 2,000,000
acrVs of swamplands In the Everglades, In
the Delta region of tho lower Mississippi,
along the Neosho river In Kansas and In
the lowlands of North Dakota. We trust
congress will consent to this necessary ex
tension of the work, which Is Intended ul
timately to reclaim the swamplands In
large portions of the Gulf and Atlantic
states.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The Santa Claus letters will now get
there, but It is doubtful whether all the
orders will be filled.
Tammany has about concluded that since
the pass business Is no more, Denver Is a
long way from the Bowery. (
There Is a marked difference between the
obituaries of King Oscar and those filed
away for use when King Leopold shall quit
the rubber business.
For a Christmas gift Miss Mary Eld ridge
will give the citizens of Norfolk, Conn.,
an excursion to Hartford, where she has
ordered a Christmas dinner for each. She
has chartered a special train of ten cars.
Postmaster General George V. L. Mever
believes that It is Injurious to the health
to sit at a desk, and consequently he uses
a high desk at which he stands. His desk,
which was recently Installed, Is the speak
er's desk from the old chamber of the
house of representatives In the Massachu
setts state house.
Senator Stephenson, tho new solon from
Wisconsin, despite the fact that he la
many times over a millionaire, is In habits
and mode of thought a plain American
of the type that Is becoming less common
every year. The "lumber king," as he is
called, makes no pretensions In dress or
speech, but wears a brown business suit
most of the time. A black slouch hat al
ways covers his white hair when out of
doors.
Senator Henry Clay Hansbrough of
North Dakota Is one of the few senators
who have received praise from President
Roosevelt directly. After the passage of
tho denatured aloohol bill last session,
an act which meant a great deal to the
farmers, and for which the senator waged
a persistent fight, the president sent a per
sonal letter commending him and Inclosed
tho pen with which tho bill was signed.
The senator has been a printer and editor,
and notwithstanding the opposition of the
railroad Interests was the first member of
congress after North Dakota was admitted
as a stale.
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"A I.I, YOU HAVE TO BO I"
I nolle Opinion aa a C lennser of Graft
In Government.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
District Attorney Ijingdon of San Fran
cisco, whose success in cleaning out the
corrupt city governmcnis there has made
hltn famous, says In a newspaper interview,
with a decided tinge of opttmtHm, "You can
can clean any city of grafters If you go
sbout It In tho right wsy. All you have to
do Is to arouse publio opinion."
Truly and unmistakably ttmt Is all you
have to do! It sounds a little like plati
tude; hut It Is reHlly worth the study of
those who desire political cleanliness and
betterment. For not only Is It true that If
you arouse public opinion you can clean
out grafters, but It Is further the fact
that the permanent and thorough arousl
of public cpinlon Is the only way in which
cities can be cleaned of graft so as to stay
cleaned. I
It Is "all you have te do!"- To some who
have wrought at that task for years 1t
seenis a sufficiency. Yet to Such men It
musi be evident thnt It Is not enough
that they should themselves see the wrong
fulness and Injury of public dishonesty,
but that they must make the common peo
ple realize how It Injures them. For In
stance. It has been a buttress In the ma
chine politics here at home that the wsge
worker and non-taxpayer did not consider
himself Injured In the methods which re
quired, say, $l.onfl.oo of taxes, to secure
$600,000 worth of honest public work. It
should bn brought home to every man
that when he la paying rent, buying gro
ceries or clothing he Is paying taxes.
There Is popular recognition now of the
injurlousness of the franchise monopoly:
but It remains to be seen whether publio
opinion has yet been aroused to the degree
of putting the responsibility on the poli
ticians who furnished the legislation and
franchises for that monopoly to order.
It Is all very well to urge public amend
ment in methods like blanket ballots, uni
form primaries or olvll service examina
tions. But the fact remains that If publio
opinion Is asleep these safeguards can be
broken over. The way that all dishonesty
can be made so dangerous as to practically
abolish it is to arouse the public opinion
of the masses to the fact whenever a
graft contract is awarded, or a rich fran
chise Iraprovldently given away, the Illicit
profit Is taken out of the pockets of tho
common people.
BRIGHT AND BREEZY
"Funny thing, about a fellow who wean
a monocle."
"What's thatT"
"When he wears It he makes a com
plete spectacle of himself, though It Is only
half a spectacle." Philadelphia Press.
The man who carries an accident insur
ance policy in his inside pocket when he
dresses up aa Santa Claus should have II
wrapped in asbestos cloth. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Political campaigns can never be
original."
- "Why can't they?"
"Because they always proceed according
to conventions." Baltimore American. .
"Well, I'm glad that the financial flurry
la over and we all havo plenty again."
"I'm sorry to say that a few of us havs
been skipped. Will you lend me a ten?"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Keep your head In the clouds and youi
ear to the ground," declared the theoriser,
"and you'll never go amiss."
No, I s'pose not," responded the prac
tical politician. "I wish I was built so's
to bo able to." Washington Herald.
"I never deny my wife a wish."
"Indeed?"
"Why should I? It doesn't cost anything
to wish." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Jangle I see the kaiser always carrlet
a fountain pen In his vest pocket.'
Grumpy Where'd you think he'd carry
It in tho Imperial yacht? Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Did your daughter Inherit her talent for
drawing?"
"Well, I never thought of it before, but
tt may be that she did. One of in v
brothers Is a dentist." Chicago Record
Herald. IN THE GOOD OLD WINTER TIME
Oh, the charming days of wlnterl
I'm glad that they are near;
Now no dull procrastination
Have we any cause to fear;
Many languish for the summer
When the dew 'a jn the roue;
But for me the good old winter
When the bloom is on the nose.
Young springtime is a fickle soul.
Her dates are all forgot;
But as for good oli winter
He's "Johnny on the spot."
He never falls to mingle
With Joy our cup of woes.
When tho frost Is on the shingle
And the bloom is on the nose.
When the furnace fire Is started. '
And with smoke envelops all;
When the robin has departed,
And the snowbird's cheery call
Draws our eyes and ears outdoorwards,
Oh, who could but feel Jocose,
Though the little drops go dripping
From the bloom upon the nose.
When the north wind on a rampage.
Brings a blizzard in its wake;
When Jack Frost with Icy fingers.
Squeeze our fingers till they ache;
Then we turn our backs upon the gal
And render blows for blows
In a stiffly frozen 'kerchief
When tho bloom is on the nose.
When the mercury and the coal bills
Teeter-totter, up and down;
When the water pipes have busted
And no plumber can be found;
When the butter's hard as granite
And the " "taters" all are froze,
Oh, what Joy awaits tl:e mornings
When the bloom is on the nose.
When December is upon us,
And the Christmas shoppers throng;
When the children, 'mid the tumult.
Raise their ever Joyous song;
When our good fit. Nick, the ancient,
Comes among us goodness knows
What we'd do without old Santa
With the bloom upon his nose!
Omaha. BAYOLL NB TRELE.