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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Slate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, aa.:
Charles C Roaewater, general manager
of The Bee Publlahlng Company, belr.g
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete coplea of The Dally,
Morning, Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of November, 190Z, was
s follows: j . M.,n
1.
37,000
3710
.
38.450
38,180
37,430
87,090
38.8T0
37,300
87,380
38,100
3..
I..
4..
35,600
87,880
I 8980
( 38,890
7 37,380
37,840
9 . . , 37,890
li 38,900
H 37,530
II 37,730
1 37,380
14 37,360
14 37,500
og 37,890
21 87.098
17 37,340
it, 36,940
It 39,50
10 37,580
Total 1.133,430
Lass unno'd and returned coplea. 10,188
Net Total........ 1,113,269
Dally average 37,108
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
Qeneral Manager.
Subscribed tn my presence and aworn to
before me this 2d jay of December. 1907.
ROBERT HUNTER,
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WHES OUT or TOWS,
Saboerlbora tearing tho olfy torn
orarlly ahoaK kars The Bee
nailed to then. Androaa will a
changed aa of tea aa requested.
New York shows symptoms of being
very tired of its restful Sundays.
Engaged your seat on the 1908
water wagonyet?,
Torn Lawson hag formed anew
party. It's a sort of a surprise party.
Statistics show that 5,730 in lies of
new railroad track have been laid this
year outside of Wall street.
The bargain sales In the next few
weeks will give a splendid opportunity
to do your 1908 ChriBtmaa shopping
early. '.. ' ,-. . ..
Japan might be able to whip the
American fleet, but it will be wise not
to tackle the naval bureaus at Wash
ington.
"The men of this age do not work
hard enough," says Prof. James of
Harvard. However, they are worked
hard enough.
Cotton mills In New England are de
claring the largest dividends in their
history. The cotton mills have been
making velvet.
At last reports the constitution was
apparently safe, although the president
Is riding horseback In Virginia and
Bryan Is bunting ducks in Texas.
- Attorney General Bonaparte says
he la not a candidate for the presi
dency. In this case the people will take
the attorney general's word as law.
Astronomers have discovered that
the sun has another spot some 40,000
miles wide. Perhaps that is the rea
on the sun hesitates to show Its face.
The fleet enroute to the Pacific Is
moving along easily. The rough sail
Ing is being experienced by quarreling
officials in the Navy ' department at
Washington. '
The professors of the Chicago uni
versity are resting a little easier since
they have learned that the city ordl
nance levying a wheel tax was not
timed at them.
It Is announced that 40,000 idle men
will be put to work In the mills at
Pittsburg next week. When this hap
pens It will leave the millionaires as
about the only idle men In Pittsburg
The Nebraska farmers caught on
seed com contracts might as well face
the music and deliver the goods at the
stipulated prices. If the shoe were
on th other foot he would expect to
hold the other fellow to his bargain
A Chicago woman offers to "form a
$160,000,000 enterprise, absorb all
trusts, buy all land and control every
thing, If loaned SSOO." That is the
kind of visions the future holds for
pereoiii who want to borrow about
1300. . -
The populist national convention
.utiles first, being called for April 8
it , St. ' Louis. For some strange
reason, however, a dense lethargy still
hangs qver the remnants of the popu
list leaders In Nebraska who were once
so militant.
Judge Parker states that he Is think
lng of attending the democratic na
tlonal convention at Denver. . In that
event the. committee on arrangements
need not bother about bringing snow
down from the mountains to cool the
convention hall, ... ... . .
FAIR FLAY FOR lilQl'OR DF.A LFR.S'
Although a wide difference of opin
ion prevails as to the policy which
should be pursued with reference to
the liquor traffic, all fair-minded peo
ple must agree that the liquor dealer
who pays th $1,000 exacted by the
Nebraska law for a license to do busi
ness is entitled to at least a square
deal.
Under the Slocumb law the liquor
dealer is required to make formal ap
plication to the Doard of Fire and Po
lice Commissioners and give publics
notice of the same by advertlseirf'jnf
for two weekaln the newspaper of
largest circulation in order that any
one harboring an objection may enter
protest The practice heretofore has
been to grant as a matter of Course all
applications for renewal of licenses
against which no protests have been
lodged within the time specified by the
law.
But members of the present police
board, refusing to be bound by this
precedent, have undertaken to make
Inquiries of their own and through the
police as to the merits of the appli
cants for license, which may' or may
not be perfectly proper according as
the inquiry is pursued with Impartial
ity or discrimination. Irrespective,
however, of the right -of the board to
refuse to reissue an unprotested li
cense, the board ought to be able to
carry Out Its program without Inflict
ing unnecessary hardship upon the
liquor dealers. Although the applica
tions that have been hung up were
made for the most part from six to
eight weeks ago, no action has as yet
been taken upon them. . Surely they
could have been fully investigated
within ten days or two weeks and a
decision ope way or the other reached
with reasonable promptness.
The liquor dealer with an estab
lished business whose . license is re
fused has no other alternative except
to sell out his fixtures and lease to
some one unobjectionable to the board.
or to lose both the money he has in
vested and the good will of the busi
ness. Such a sale ' could probably
have been effected a month ago and a
new license obtained by the nurchaser
in time to go on without closing the
doors with the beginning of the new
year. But refusal of the license now
means that a new license cannot be Is
sued for the same place for from three
to four weeks, which is the time neces
sary for the prerequisite preliminaries.
It means that the place of business
must be closed for lack of a license on
January 1 and remain closed for prac
tically a month, losing not only the
established trade, but also forfeiting
a proportion of the license fee, which
is the same, $1,000, whether It covera
twelve months or only eleven months.
By Its dilatory action on these un
protested applications for renewal of
licenses the police board has put itself
In position where . It cannot refuse
them without rank injustice. This
situation ought to have been foreseen
at the start and under . the circum
stances the board cannot afford to
work Injustice even to the despised
liquor dealer.
H'ffl T&' REPUBLICANS Wiy.
In the ante-convention gossip, deal
ing with the issues that will be pre
sented to the people by next year's con
ventions and the prospects of the two
parties In the political contest, a note
of Inquiry, or speculation, or wonder
appears in many publications at the
failure of the democratic party to
make a better showing in national
campaigns. Republican errors are
pointed out and some emphasis placed
on the time-worn proposition that the
people demand a change every so
often, but in spite of these elements,
that would ordinarily work to the ben
efit of the democratic party, the repub
licans have been beaten but twice In
national campaigns since the civil war.
The reason for this condition and
result is not as difficult to locate as
might appear In a raw statement of the
surface facts. Democrats, since Andrew
Jackson's time, have been wont to de
clare that the democratic party is the
party of teh people, while the republi
cans represent "Special interests," and
are controlled by "special influences,"
and subject to "machine"; dictation.
The cold facts of political history fur
nish the best answer and refutation of
this charge. The story of republican
conventions since the civil war, with
the exception of the renomination of
President McKlnley in 1900 and the
nomination of President Roosevelt In
1904, has been one of heated rivalry
and contest between candidates. Mr.
Garfield was nominated as a compro
mlse, only after the convention had
been unable to unite upon-any of the
candidates who had been openly seek
ing the nomination. Mr. Blaine be
came the nominee only after he had
been defeated In two conventions. John
Sherman was a candidate for many
years and never captured the nomina
tion prize. President Harrison won
his nomination after an open fight
with a dosen aspirants. President Mc
Klnley was not a special favorite In the
convention which named him for his
first term. In the coming contest
some eight or ten candidates have fol
lowing which make them formidable
factors -In deciding the result of the
Chicago convention in 1908. Other
conditions being equal, the republican
conventions have usually decided in
favor of the best vote-getter and has
consolidated Its popular strength by
selecting candidates that would attract
most and repel fewest votes. The
final selection has usually been made
In deliberate, conference by' delegates
free to act upon their matureat Judg
ment after the convection has been
assembled and the merits, of the can
didates offered for the consideration
and decision of the delegates. In this
way the republicans hav ecome nearest
in responding to the actual wishes of
the voters, have been in close! touch
and sympathy with them.
This record is the more noticeable
when contrasted with the action of re
cent democratic national conventions,
drover Cleveland was nominated by ac
cident the first time. He bad been
sheriff at Buffalo and governor of New
York- and New York was then looked
upon as a pivotal state. He was never
in touch with the real strength of his
party and his defeat in 1888, after he
had ben named without a word of pro
test, was inevitable. He was renomi
nated in 1892 and elected, owing to a
popular protest against the republican
candidate, although at that time he
was practically a stranger to the men
who controlled the destinies of his
party. In 1898 William J. Bryan was
nominated, over the protests of the en
tire democratic party east of the Mis
sisslppl, and went to inglorious defeat.
The disastrous experiment was tried,
with even more disastrous results. In
1900, with Mr.- Bryan again the
standard bearer. : In 1904, the demo
crats who tad been spurned by Bryan
la the fo.nier two campaigns secured
control of the convention and named
Judge Parker of New York, who was
defeated more emphatically than any
democratic candidate for the presi
dency, George B. McClellan not ex
cepted. ' The party is going to the con
vention next year as a "one man"
party and will again renominate Mr.
Bryan. Since Mr. Cleveland's first nom
ination, twenty-four years ago, the
democratic convention has been noth
ing less than a ratification meeting, a
sort of rubber stamp affair, called for
the purpose of marking "Approved"
on the wishes of one man. There has
not been any open contest, any rivalry,
any expression of the will of the voters
In the selection of the democratic
presidential candidates. Still, they
wonder why they do not win.
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TKA'SOWS FOR COS FEDERATES.
ht Congressman Richmond Pearson
Hobson, the overkissed hero of the
Chautauqua circuit and courtier of the
limelight, has 1 furnished another
demonstration of the fact that he is
not a real son of the south In spirit,
although the congressional directory
shows that he was born in Alabama
and has lived there all his life except
during the few years spent at the
United States naval academy and In
the government's naval service. He
has Introduced In congress a bill pro
viding pensions for the surviving vet
erans of the confederacy.
Hobson is too young to have known
anything about the civil war and he
lias proved his loyalty and patriotism
by an honest. If rathermelodramatlc,
career under the stars and -stripes,
but he falls clearly to recognize the
spirit and sentiment-cf the south In
the introduction of his confederate
pension bill. The men who fought
under Lee, Jackson, Johnston9, Bureatr
guard, Forrest, Pickett and other
brave and daring souls, who lead the
forces of the confederates In the fore
doomed contests from Sumpter to
-Gettysburg, now admit that their case
was hopeless and their cause was
wrong, but they retain their spirit and
their pride. Loyal as they may be to
the reunited nation, they are asking
no pensions from a government they
sought to overthrow. They believed
that they were right some of them
still believe it and the acceptance by
them of a pension would be either the
acceptance of an open charity or the
acknowledgement of their error,
coupled with . a plea for alms. The
Epirit of the south revolts at pensions
for confederates and camps of confed
erate veterans are already busy de
nouncing Hobson's proposed law.
The
measure has no ghost of a chance of
being enacted into a law by congress
and serves but to increase admiration
for fhe spirit of the confederate vet
erans who are opposing it and to em
phasize Hobson's apparent lack of
ability to appreciate the needs of the
people be represents in congress.
THE WAY TO WIS.
In another week we will be In the be
ginning of a national campaign year. The
way to win political victories. Is to organise.
The work of organization, if not already
begun In every community, should be com
menced Immediately. The Commoner.
Colonel Bryan has discovered by sad
experience that oratory alone does not
win political victories. He has discov
ered likewise that .editorial disquisi
tions and exhortations In a weekly
newspaper do not alone win political
victories. He has discovered, too, that
organization is an essential element in
winning political victories, and that
the democratic party has always been
woefully lacking) in this element, and
he is therefore urging his followers to
the work of organization.
While several other things are also
necessary to win political victories, the
advice to begin and prosecute the work
of organization in every community
immediately is just as good for re
publicans as it is for democrats. If
the republicans throughout Nebraska,
and elsewhere for that matter, will put
their shoulders to the work Of per
fecting the party organizations, the
democrats will never catch up, and the
advantage of superior organization will
be maintained.
The way to win political victories
is to organize and to keep organized
all the time.
A Pittsburg minister refused a con
tribution of $200 In gold from his con
gregatlon beoause the motto, "In God
We Trust," did not appear on the
double eagles. Thst man probably
longs for the simple old donation par
ties where the guests brought in
baskets of pics, baked chicken and
such good things and staid to eat them
up, allowing the minister's wife to
furnish the bread, butter and coffee
and to put lit the night cleaning up
the debris.
Colonel Brj'8n's Commoner la co
operating energetically with the
World-Herald In Its efforts to promote
discord among Nebraska republicans.
The Commoner reprints alt the lurid
tales of republican dissension which
have been concocted in the columns
of the democratic dally. This Is good
stuff to feed to democratic readers, but
the republican rank and file from Ne
braska are not accustomed to looking
for Inspiration from those sources.
The seven Judges of our district
court seem to have agreed for once on
the allotment of the criminal docket.
Usually we have had a brisk competi
tion for this doubtful honor, as a con
sequence of which some members of
the ench have not spoken to other
members of the bench until the time
approached for another assignment of
the dockets. ' The world do move.
The editor of The Protector, which
is the official organ of the Liquor Deal
ers' association, insists that In de
manding the strict enforcement of the
Sunday blue laws in Omaha he is act
ing entirely on his own motion and
without the aid or consent of any other
person on earth. All of which sounds
very well, but It will be hard to make
ordinary people believe It.
Superintendent Davidson Intimates
that the place of meeting for the next
Nebraska teachers' convention will be
fixed according to the wishes of Chan
cellor Andrews, who has Just been
chosen president of the association.
If that is the case and Omaha wants
to entertain the teachers next year.Hhe
thing to do is to get on the right side
of the chancellor.
The promise of rigid economy, which
was Included In the platform pledges
by which the democratic mayor and
city council worked themselves into
office, was supposed to last for the
whole three years of their terms. But
there are signs that these officials are
proceeding on the theory that their
platform promises have already been
worn out and discarded.
The cows of the country, according
to Secretary Wilson's estimate, pro
duce about one gallon of milk for each
man,, woman and child In the nation.
Counting the. considerable number of
persons who do not drink milk, It
would seem that , there should be
enough of the real article to go around
without enlisting the services of the
pump, ..
William J. Bryan has been made a
United States senator from Florida,
and a New York paper wants to know
why William J. Bryan of Nebraska
never happened to get into the United
States senate. Well, one reason is that
he has insisted upon living In a repub
lican state.
If the parly political bird were al
way sure to catch the worm It would
never be necessary for more than one
to start after an elective office. But
the early bird sometimes has to fight it
out with later arrivals who are fresh
and hungry.
Jan tests Don't Count.'
Minneapolis Journal.
It's no use. Fish anfa Harahan may aa
well understand thot they cannot divert
attention from De Armond and Williams,
unless they engage In a real scrap. Mere
Jawfests do not possess the vital Interest
that attaches to the flow of real blood.
Raw Material on the Spot.
San Franclaco Chronicle.
Undo gam la said to be In need of a
fleet of airships. The fact that congress
Is in session has probably suggested that
tho present would be a good time to ex
periment, . aa unlimited quantities of gas
and hot air will be available at the
capital. for some time to come.
Good for Preaeat Use.
' Portland Oregonlan.
In the panic of 185T Henry Ward Beecher
aald to those who were hoarding their
money and curtailing their expenses In
every way: "Keep your carriages anil
horses and coachmen; you have monny
spend soma of It. Tou can't take It with
you when you die, and If you did It would
melt."
Ilangra on la Democratic Style.
New York World.
Tom Taggart's appeal to all democratic
Citizens, Irrespective of past political as
sociations and differences, to unite "In
the effort for a pure, economical, consti
tutional government" Is touching, Tag
gart would remove one Important causa
of differences among democrats by re
moving himself from the chairmanship of
the national committee.
. Diamonds on tho Toboggan.
' Springfield Republican.
That the market for diamonds should be
among the first to feel the effects of the
business depression will be readily recog
nised, and there la closa relationship
therefore between the American panlo and
the passing of the dividend of tho l'
Beers company of London and Bouth Af
rica. That company controls the diamond
mining industry of the world and through
regulation of the output It has been en
abled to advance prices considerably in
recent yeara. It la believed that the com
pany la carrying a large unsold stock of
precious atones which would "swamp the
market" If they were thrown over.
Political Snags la Waterways.
81. Louis Q lobe-Democrat.
A congressional ordeal la ahead for river
and harbor improvement on a compre
hensive scale. It will cotno in the form of
schemes to fritter away the appropriations
by districts so that each congressman
shall get a local share, a system that
would bo a ahameful and wasteful mis
carriage of the whole undertaking. There
are metnbera so selfish and purblind that
they would rather dump hundreds of
thousands of dollars Into some home
crk than provide an adequate amount
to push work on tho main river of the
cointry. In a word, they are for a water
way prise distribution of cash from the
treasury, allotted by districts.
l'BKMt)ETHI, FIRING LINK.
Uoveraor Camnilaa' Definition of Pres
idential rsmpslis Issues.
New York Evening Post (Ind.).
If Governor Cummins of Iowa Is cor
rect, tho presidential campaign next year
Is to be a battlo of metaphysician.
This mould follow from hU definition
of the issues. There is to be, first, the
democratic Men of tariff revision in a
deadly struggle with the republican Idea
of tariff revision. The one would bo
absolutely fatal to the country, the other
is necessary to Its salvation; yet which
Is which, and how one Is distinguished
from the other, It would take a prince
of the scholastics to decide. Hence wo
say that tho outlook in good for philoso
phers on the stump next year, able to
divide a hair 'twlxt north and northwest
side. Their services will also be In de
mand If Governor Cummins other Issue
Is to be understood of the people. This
Is the democratic plan of regulating cor
porations. In conflict with the republican
plan of doing the same thing. Of course,
we should scarcely survive If the former
were foolishly adopted, while we shall
die prematurely If the latter Is not;
yet the two look as much alike as two
peas. Some miraculously Intelligent
voters may be able to make the proper
choice, but the run of them, we are sure,
will need the aid of men skilled In point
ing out the difference between tweedle
dum and tweedle-dee. Governor Cummins
himself by his obscurity shows that he is
not fit to undertake the Job.
A Succession of Ideas.
Minneapolis Journal (Ind.).
Roosevelt, it Is quite clear. Is not so
much Interested In the personal succes
sion as In the succession of Ideas. It Is
natural that he should be ardently fa
vorable to the carrying forward of tho
reforms he has begun. If, as a republi
can, he believes Taft would make a good
president, he is as much entitled to hi
opinion as any other republican. But
the point Is thati if the president had
never intimated a preference In any way
there would still be before the country
no sturdier presidential timber than Taft.
Compare him with Hughes, and In con
structive statesmanship he adds to tho
New York governor's undoubted ability
as great initiative and over a wider field
of endeavor. Compare him with any of
the others and the more he Is compared
the more solid do the claims of the war
secretary appear. While Taft may not
be the only man of presidential stature
In sight, the assumption on the part of
some republicans that Taft Is but an
echo of another's voice ls certainly '.to
be deprecated. Taft has done too many
large and interesting and vital things to
be thus set aside.
Chancellor Andrews Change of Front.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind ),
It will be remembered that E. Benjamin
Andrews, chancellor of the University of
Nebraska, was crowded out of the presi
dency olf Brown university because of h's
support of the free silver views of William
J. Bryan. It is therefore of interest to
find Dr. Andrews believing that Governor
Hughes will be elected president if nomi
nated by the republican national conven
tion. He says, however, that Mr. Bryan's
"formidable candidacy cannot be taken too
seriously by republicans. He will defeat
any man who may be pitted against him
with the singe exception of Hughes."
While admitting that the Taft candidacy
looks formidable, Dr. Andrews anticipates
a strong revulsion of sentiment before the
delegates meet In convention, "and this
will carry Hughes on to the nomination."
Dr. Andrews further says: "Bryan's elec
tion would be a misfortune to the country,
not that he Is not splendidly equipped for
the highest office in the gift of the peo
ple, but because his election would surely
block the cause of reform. He cannot
hope to accomplish any reforms with a
republican congress, which would willingly
co-operate with Taft or Hughes. Realiz
ing this, the great corporations favor
Bryan's candidacy."
Bryan, Johnson A Co.
Philadelphia Record (dein.).
Good taste. If nothing else, requires that
the democratic leaders who have only led
the party to defeat should go away back
and sit down and give some new men a
chance. In the middle of next month
Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland Is
going to tell the people of New York
"why Bryan must be nominated." This
Is magnanimous of Mr. Johnson, but the
party would like to succeed once more.
Mr. Bryan's record needs only a reference.
When Mr. Johnson was running for gov
ernor of Ohio he got the gentleman from
Nebraska to stump the state for him,
and he was the worst beaten manNprho
ever ran for the office. In the recent
Kentucky campaign Mr. Bryan stumped
the state for the democratic candidate,
and for the first time In ten years the
republican candidate was elected. Three
yeara ago Judge Parker was defeated,
and he Is not now engaged in telling the
party what It must do, and still less Is he
soliciting another nomination. Mr. Bryan
and Mr. Johnson would do well to follow
his dignified example.
Moro Publicity deeded.
Kanaaa City Star (ind.).
If there la any reason why Governor
Hughes would be a more desirable can
didate for president than Secretary Taft,
so far aa the people are concerned, the
people ought to know it. If there Is any
reason why Mr. Hughes Is more satis
factory than Secretary Taft to the selfish
Interests opposing the administration, the
people ought to know that, too. In short,
if Mr. Hughes is a candidate for presl.
dent, the publlo should know moro about
him than it has learned from his record
as governor of New York and his vague
utterances in relation to national affairs.
"A Lesser Taft."'
Springfield Republican (ind.).
The mention of Governor Magoon of
Cuba as a possible favorite aon of the
Nebraska republicans In the presidential
contest brings Into view a lesser Taft.
Are the over-sea dependencies of the
United States to bo the training grounds
of ita presidents? Mr. Taft began his na
tional career In the Philippines and then
moved to Washington. Mr. Magoon was
alao trained in the "insular service," and
then governed Panama for awhile. His
rule in Cuba for tho last year has revealed
strong administrative qualities.
Consoling Sens of Ilimor.
Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.).
Joe Cannon, who, on being told that
he would be nominated, quoted tho glori
ously Intoxicated gentleman who said to
the rattlesnake, "Come on. durn ye, I
was never better prepared," is the only
patriot who possesses both a boom and a
sufficient sense of humor to save himself
the misfortune of regarding it with seri
ousness disproportionate to Its significance.
Coming and Going.
Philadelphia Record.
During the month of November the Im
migration to the country was greater than
ever before In the same period. But there
Is "compensation In the fact that the
number of emigrants Is far greater than
ever before, so that the Idle hands In this
time of Industrial reaction are not se
riously Increased by the migratory move
ment. People In Europe who are atlrred
by the Impulse of locomotion should be
warned to wait, If they can, til) better
times.
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WHY THE PANIC WILL BB BRIEF
Conditions Which Onerato Agalnat
Long Star.
Charles M. Harvey in Leslie's Weekly.
As compared with the most recent of
the panics, that In Cleveland's second
term, our situation, at all points, has
been vastly Improved. The treasury
deficit of 1893 makes a sorry showing
beside the largo surplus of 1907. The
118.000,000 of an adverse balance In our
foreign trade In the former year Is re
placed by a favorable balance of $417,
000.000 In tho latter year. While Cleve
land could not keep our treasury fold
stock up to the $100,000,000 mark, even by
his successive bond sales amounting to
;:2.000,000 In the aggregate, Roosevelt
has a large excess of gold over the $150,
000,000 redemption ' fund. Our mines,
which produced $35,000,000 of gold In
1303, turned out over 1100,000.000 In 1907.
The. money In trade channels has in
creased so much faster than population
that the 123 per capita circulation then
has expanded to 334 now.
Bank clearings and railroad earnings,
which are an accurate Index of the vol
ume of our great activities, have, since
1893, Increased In a ratio several times
as great as our population. Savings
bank deposits have, between those two
years, expanded in a far larger propor
tion than has the number of the working
people of the country. These register
the great Increase In wages which has
taken place In the Interval, and reflect
the advance In tho general level of pros
perity which has taken place In the
same period. The value of the products
of the country's farms, which was 11,600,
000,000 In 1893, was, according to the
report of the secretary of agriculture,
over $7,000,000,000 In 1907. The United
States has expanded so rapidly In recent
years that ,whlle we have only 5 per
cent of the world's population, we pro
duce 30 per cent of the world's wheat, 25
per- cent of Its gold, 38 per cent of its
coal, $5 per cent of its manufactures, 38
per cent of Its silver, 40 per cent of Its
Iron, 42 per cent of its steel, 52 per cent
of Its petroleum, 51 per cent of Its cop
per, 76 per rent of Its cotton and 80
per cent of Its corn.
These things tell why we were able
to get $90,000,000 of gold from the out
side world during the recent flurry, al
though the big government banks of Eu
rope raised their discount rates in the
attempt to diminish the stream which
we drew to us. Those things also tell
why It Is that the monetary scars through
which we are now passing will be ahort
and mild comparedwlth the financial
disasters which often In the past pre
clpltated themselves upon the country.
WANTS POSTAL BANKS.
Hard Lack Experience Cries Ont for
Savings Safety.
Washington 'r -Correspondent New York
World.
Postmaster General Meyer's advocacy of
postal aavings has drawn a letter of in
dorsement and encouragement from Dr. J.
A. Wailes of Mystic, la.. In which he
says:
"I have been a strong advocate of a
postal bank for many yeara. Thirty-five
years ago, when I was a boy, I worked
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail
road In Kansas, and deposited the first
money I ever had In a bank. The bank
busted and I lost more than other boys
who worked with ma done the same.
What the effect was on the others I
can't say, but it put a damper on me
and caused me to squander and waste my
wages for ten years.
"When Governor Hoch lived at Florence
Kan., and edited a little paper there, the
grasshoppers ate my crop, my brother in
Iowa sent me $50, ,1'put $25 In the Flor
ence bank. Old Pete Alter run away with
all the money: Three yeara after lie was
caught in Connecticut and brought to
Kansas and waa sent up for twenty years,
About eighteen months ago my brother,
a carpenter at Piano, la., hid $60 in the
old round oak stove. His wife filled It
full of waste paper and burned' It up. A
SmartAJec (a neighbor) said it served htm
tglit. Hans (the same SmartAlec) put
$1,100 In the nearest bnuk, and lost In less
than a year.
"I have my money kanned up. Can you
blame me for It?
"I am a democrat, but I have got so In
terested in Roosevelt that I went to Keo
kuk to see and hear him apeak. If he
strikes out from the ahoulder for a postal
bank In his message I will vote for him
If I have a chance.
"When Bill went to college pap gave
him money enough- to take him through.
He blowed It. Pap pumped in more. Bill
blowed It agin, and pap kept right on
pumping In till lie was tired; then he went
down to see, what was all the trouble.
He kicked Bill through the glass front
of a saloon and wiped up the sidewalk
with him.
"If Uncle Sam, Instead of pumping In
more money every time the Wall street
windbag bursts, will do as pap did and
give us a P. O. bank with equal distribu
tion and less catch-penny advertising, fake
Ilea through the United States malls, fewer
slot machines, we will be all O. K."
TAKING Vf THKIl
OWJT MONEY
Attempts of Now York Banks to
Pinch the Conntry.
Philadelphia Press.
New York thrives on the money which
the 6.000 banks throughout the United
States keep In that city. Compared with
Philadelphia and some other leading towns.
New York produces of itself relatively very
little wealth. But it uses the money of
80,000,000 people.
When recently the crookedness of some
New York banks cauaed first a series of
failures and then a financial panlo thero,
the banks all over the country began to
withdraw their deposits from New York.
Tilts cash did not belong to Wall street,
but It waa merely kept on deposit there.
The owners had a right to take it away at
any time they saw fit. N
One might suppose from the cries that
come from Wall street that the 8,000 banks
not in that town were committing a crime
by demanding thalr own money. As a
matter of fact the Now York banka locked
their doors and refused to permit outside
banks to get their own money except by
paying a large bonus for something that
already belonged to them. '
The caah which Now York sends south
and west to move crops every autumn Is
cash which the banks from those sections
have loaned in Wall street. It la not New
York's money, although, Judging by that
town's comments, anyone not familiar with
tho true facts might suppose otherwise.
Now we witness the spectacle of Amer
ica's so-called financial center being the
only spot where a premium is paid for
currency. The reason la because -that city
suffers a money famine, alnco the rest of
tho country has withdrawn only a part of
tho cash which it had been lending there.
What would happen If tho rightful owners
ahould take all that belonga to them may
only bo imagined.
Foundations Lain hy the Father.
New York World.
Tho fathers laid down for us not an
adamantine and unyielding framework
within which the body politic must shrivel
for Jack of freedom, but broad principles
suitable tor the needs of all time. This is
a nation, a vital and growl.ig organlam,
not a petrifaction. There Is no need in
It either of hysterical passion for sudden
and Hl-consldered changes or of blind ad
herence to practice and precedents which
no longer nt the times
1NDI SIR I 41, HUH1HIKS.
Mrlnnrholy Toll of Unman LIN
KiaeteH.
rittsburg DiKpatch.
An Impressive fact not creditable to thli
nation Is brought out In tho, report of n
perls detailed by the Geological Survey t
study the loss of human life in mining. l
csn be stated succinctly In tlil followlnn
form: Wtille the ratio of fatalHIa to th
total of miners employed has decreased Ir
European mines It has Increased In Ameri
can mines. '"
This Is the statement made In A seporl
which covers the subject for the year li
It does not Include the gloomy tale of hor
rors that have crowded the closing month
of 1907, which will make the unpleasant
contrast even more startling. We musl
therefore expect that the reports rtf tnl'
year-when they are presented . wtlr still
further emphasise the evidence that this
country la behind the leading nations ol
Europe In caring for the safety of men who
prosecute this Industry, hazardous tinder
the most favorable - conditions. '
The experts recognise an Immediate of
contributory causes lack of proper and en
forceable regulations: lackr of Information
concerning the safety or haiard of the use
of explosives In blasting; greater depth
of mines and consequently. Increased diffi
culty in ventilating tho farthest recesses.
But the latter excuse Is present-In . Kuro
pean countries, where vigilant and expert
regulation, ' including scientific tests ot
methods and materials, has materially re
duced the Industrial death ratio.
The conclusion la not a comfortable one;
but it can hardly be avoided. It Is Cor
roborated by a similar showing as to fa
talities in railroad operation. Tr some ob
servers It has seemed that thero had been
a benumbing of the moral sense of the pub
lic over the sacrifice of human life In In
dustrial operations. We think the awaken
ing of publlo sentiment over the late cal
amities will dispel that seeming. But them
must be a general arousing of the publlo
conscience to demand effective measures
to stop Industrial manalaughter.
PERSONAL NOTKi.
It Is not too soon to begin preparation
of the New Year resolution.
Chicago's scheme for a twenty-two-story
$6,000,000 hotel will be regarded by New
York as a hint to raise the limit.
The trial of a New York murderer and
his commitment for life CQUjiteiJ the court
forty minutes. The prisoner couldn't hire
a slngleallenist.
The representative who got his unspoken
speech Into the Congressional Record with
"sustained applause" after It' in brackets
Is still hearing the applause.- . .
It is asserted that no one has died tn
the town ot Metallne, Wash., In the last
twenty-two years. This recalls another
western totfh, so healthy that the citizens
had to shoot a man to start cemetery.
A widow's club In Chicago has passed
resolutions to utilize all tho possibilities
of the coming year. With tho combination '.
of widows and leap year against them, tho
men in the Windy City have no 'alter
native but resignation or Immediate flight.
In describing the man who is to marry
E. H. Harrlman's daughter,, an easterrr
paper says: "Mr. Gerry is a .Harvard
graduate of 1900. He lives with, his' parents
and devotes hi entire' time to society."
Luckily Union Paclflo has a surplus of
$69,000,000. s ' ,
Victor Brenner, a New York . sculptor,
has Just completed a handsome memorial
medal of the late Carl Schurs. It has
been struck in bronze' and silver. ' The
medal is about two by three inohes, a
quarter ct'7an innh. thlpk, apd-.Uie.yrc ;
on it are in bold relief.
Among the Indictments agalnat lid lifters
returned in Kansaa City were a number
charging Mlsa Led. Miss Fit, Miss Hap',
Miss Calculate, Miss Informed, Mlsa Took
and other theatrical stars with swatting
the blue laws on the spot. .No one answered
when the names were called out in court.
Albert Ballu, under whose supervision
the historical researches at the ruined city
of Tlmgad are being conducted, announces
tha discovery of a large monastery, cover
ing 11,000 square yards, surrounding a .
Christian basilica. Tho monastery incloses
four chapels, a cloister with well pre
served cells and a Christian burying
ground.
M1RTHFIL REMARKS.
The Professor I m'ant you children to go
to my lecture tonight.
Robert Couldn't you whip us Instead,
Just this once, papa? Brooklyn Life.
"You're a picture," ventured the fresh
young man, taking a seat by the pretty
girl.
"A moving picture, at that," she re
sponded, changing to a place across tha
aisle. Philadelphia Ledger.
"How did pa act when you asked him
for my hand?"
"Very gentle and courteous; It quite took
me by surprise."
"I told him you used to be a pugilist"
Houston Post.
"I have always had a curloalty to know
what horse meat tastes like," ssld the reg
ular customer. "Have you any?"
"Not aa such," emphatically responded
tho butcher. Chicago Tribune. .
The Lady Why didn't you speak to m
on the car yesterday?
The Man I didn't think you saw me.
The Lady Why, I stuck out my tongue,
and made all kinds of faces at you I
The Man Oh, is that what you were do
ing? I thought you were adjusting your
veil. Cleveland Leader.
"Darling." aald old Moneybags, "I could
just die kissing you."
"That being the case," rejoined lils young
snd pretty fiancee, "we'll cut out the oscu
lation until after we are married." Chicago
News.
"There was a time," said young Rake,
lelgh, who had gone through a fortune,
"when people used to say I had more
money than brains, but they can't say it
now. 1
"Why not?" asked Peppry.
"Because I am down to my last dollar
n Well, but you've got the dollar." Phil
adelphia Press.
"All that you are, my friend." aald tha
lecturer, singling out an elderly man sit
ting in a front seat, who appeared to be
deeply interested, "all that you are, I re
peat, you owe to heredity and environ
ment." ,. ,
"Gosh!" exclaimed tlm elderly man, turn
ing red with Indignation, "I never had no
dealln'a with that firm in iny life, and I
don't owe them nor nobody else a blamed
cent!" Chicago Tribune.
SllltKSI
New York Sun.
Jim Smith's the most contrarlest mas.
Wus ever llckt:
Can't say a thing but what he's boun'
He'll contradict.
He wun't disoot ye out 'n 'out,
But snorts ye back an answer 'bout
"Shucks!"
Jcal "ohucks!" v
I srgy with him half the day
On politics;
Jim'a 'way back yet in Jackson's time,
An' there Iia sticks;
I tell him things has moved since then;
He aims a squirt an' grunts again:
"Shucks!"
Jest "Hhucks!"
I read him all the newest things
The paper quotes;
'Bout alrograms an' subway ahlps.
An' flyln' boats.
I ask him: Ain't It inarvellus?"
But Jim. he chur-kles with a cuss
"Shucks!"
Jest "Shucks!"
I bet ye when the summons comes
From Gabriel
To gather all the iolks aroun'
An' sort 'em wall
If Jim's asaigned a heavenly plate
He'll grol. l' onbelievln' face,
"Shucks!"
Jest "liucksl' '
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