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4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEEt WEDNESDAY, FERRUATlY 12, 1903. TitE Omaiia Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT EDWATID HOSE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Fostofflc aa Second elaae matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Be (without Sunday), om year.. $4 09 Pally Bee and Sunday, one year (00 Sunday Bee, one year 1.50 Saturday Be, on year 1-60 DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Pally B (Including Sunday), per wsek..lSo pally Bee (without Sunday), per wek..lOc Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week so Evening Bee (with Sunday . per wek.,10o Address all complaint of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation uepanmenu OFFICES. Omaha The Bee, Building-. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 1A Scott Street. Chlcaao 1440 University Building. New York 150S Horn Llf Insurance Building. Washington 728 Fourteenth Street N. W, CORRESPONDENCE. Communication ratal Ina- to newa and edl torlal matter ahould be addreaaed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-eent at am pa received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not acoepioa. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Doua-laa County, aa.: George B. Txschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January, 1I0S. was aa fol io wa: 1 36,800 17... 3C.300 J M,U0 It 86,180 36,380 1 35,400 4 , .... 30,400 10 36,560 B 35,300 ; ' Jl 36,410 36,340 II 36,140 7 36,000 21 38,850 1 1. 36,890 ti 36,460 t 36,380 , 26 36,540 10 36,410 36.. 35,100 11 36,380 27 36,140 11 36,160 8 37,180 11 86,430 29.. 38,060 14 36,860 SO 36,880 15 86,350 11 38,980 II 86,100 Totals 1,183,890 Less unsold and returned copies. . 8,450 Net total , 1,114,840 Pally average. 35,968 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of February, 1803. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public WIIEN OCT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving; thai city tem porarily saonld have Tbe Be mailed to them. Address will bo caanared aa ofta aa requested. Mr. Taft has shown the Missourlans. At last reports Colonel Bryan had a cinch on the delegates from Hawaii and Montreal. It Is now up to Senator Foraker to prove that the supreme court of Ohio Is unconstitutional. "Celery Is a great remedy for ner vousness" says a medical Journal. Not in it, however with salary. .' Richmond Pearson Hobson is lectur ing again and killing three or four mil lion Japs nearly every night. A Kansas girl caused the arrest of a man who tried to kiss her. Those Kan sas girls have no tolerance for a man who fails. It required no straining of senatorial courtesy to give Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas permission to go home for a few weeks. Mr. Taft's reception at Kansas City is a reasonably accurate Indication of the attitude of the central west toward his candidacy. Tbe fleet has sailed away from the place and none but the class in geog raphy will probably ever hear of Punta Arenas again. The proposition made by a New York woman to build a home for aged chorus girls has been abandoned. Naturally. Chorus girls never grow old. The Philadelphia Inquirer commends the courage of Senator Foraker because "he does not know when he is licked." It may be something else than courage. Congress has decided to cut the na val appropriation about 50 per cent. This will leave more money to be spent in the extension of the free seed nuis ance. C. W. Morse might explain that there would have been no trouble at all if the deposits In bis chain of banks had been guaranteed, at the expense of the sound banks. One of the New York papers declares that "it is a good thing that C. W. Morse has left the country." It was really kind of Morse not to take the country with him. ' Congressman Nelson of Wisconsin looked Speaker Cannon right in the eye and told him that he was too old to be president. Carnegie Hero com mission please write. Colonel Bryan says he is going to devote the rest of his life to "the task of returning this government to the people." That being the case, the rest of the country can go right on looking after ordinary affairs. Father Knickerbocker has been trading with the Indians for well nigh three centuries, and be has never been able to content' himself with the op erations of a rival in the trade. That Is why he has gone after Omaha so fiercely. Having given each of the warring factions his positive and solemn assur ance that he would not seek nor accept the honor, the editor-congressman was "ndored" for dlgate-at-large from Nebraska to Denver. This ought to help him immensely next fall POSTAL SERVICE REFORMS The Fostoffice department comes Into more direct touch with the people than any other branch of the govern ment service and it is the one gov ernment institution that should be operated, above all others, on the same business lines that would mark the conduct of a private concern or cor poration having relations with the pub lic. The rapid growth of the country and the development of the depart ment along different lines has re sulted In a condition at Washington which has long been understood by public officials and students of postal conditions. The department affairs have become more or less muddled, the machinery of administration com plex and the efficiency of the service impaired by red tape and obsolete methods. The Joint postal commission appointed by the last congress has been investigating these conditions and has made a report to congress carry ing recommendations that should have the earnest consideration of congress and result in legislation providing for many if not all of the reforms advo cated by the commission. The Postofflce department is oper ated at a loss of some $10,000,000 a year, while business men who have studied conditions contend that the de partment, notwithstanding the exten sion of the rural free delivery system and other expenses of like character, should be made at least self-supporting. The report Just presented by the Joint commission to congress makes it plain why the department Is operated at a loss. There is a duplication of divisions and branches, a scattering of responsibility, an adherence to anti quated methods in bookkeeping and auditing and a general confusion that would not be tolerated for-an instant by any business house operated on modern lines. The difficulty is due largely to the fact that the postmaster general is appointed on account of his political standing and not by reason of his business fitness for the management of the greatest business department of tbe government. His chief assistants are selected for political reasons and ho postmaster general has yet had the courage to undertako, in the four years usually allotted to him as a term of office the modernization of the de partment. The commission ' recom mends the appointment of a director of posts who shall have charge of the business management of the depart ment, leaving the postmaster general free to devote his time to policies and politics. The director of posts, ac cording to the proposed plan, would be appointed for a term of years, say eight or ten, and would have the same authority that the manager or super intendent of a large factory or busi ness house would have. . This, it would seem, Is the first essential step toward the modernization of the Postofflce de partment. Until some such action is taken there is little prospect of any marked betterment of the service which, good as it Is, is capable of great improvement. BBYdtl ADD ABDIOATHM. Before Mr. Bryan started eaBt the papers in New York and in the south were somewhat enthusiastic in advising him to retire to make room for some democrat who had a chance to win at the coming election. He went to Wash ington and New York, perhaps prepared to listen to any democrats who wanted to offer him that advice. None spoke up. Mr. Bryan is in the east and now comes a neighbor, advising him to get out of the race. The Denver Post, with an apparent desire to point out the path of duty to Mr. Bryan, says: Honest Investigation of the situation Is forcing mon to the conclusion that Mr. Bryan can render his party an Invaluable service by finally renouncing Its leader ship. If he did that the renunciation would entitle him to the undrfng grati tude of all good democrats. And wo es say the definition of a good democrat as one whoae dominant and absorbing ambi tion la that of seeing his party back In power. While all this is interesting political reading It will fall of result or effect. Mr. Bryan is not going to abdicate in favor of any pretender to the demo cratic leadership and a brief study of conditions is sufficient to show that such abdication. If it were possible, would not better democratic prospects. Admitting that Mr. Bryan has but the slimmest prospect of leading his party to victory, the fact remains that there is no other prominent man in the party who could assume the leadership at this time with prospect of more ef fective results. The eastern demo crats who are openly opposing Bryan and his policies have no candidate upon whom they could unite and no platform or statement of principles that voters generally would prefer to those championed by the Nebraska man. The Brooklyn Eagle, for ex ample, one of the leading democratic papers of the nation, declares: The Eagle will not abide by the action of the Denver convention if that body has any Bryanlar lift In It. Bryan Is not a democrat, and BryanUm is nut democracy. , The Brooklyn paper, however, offers no other candidate and makes no dec laration of principles it would sub stitute for those advocated by the Bryan wing of the party. The New York World has brought out a dozen different democrats and labeled them as presidential material preferable to Bryan, without creating enthusiasm enough'over any one of them to make a ward caucus interesting. The Louisville Courier-Journal, the Charles ton News and Courier and several other leading southern papers are tl'.l grumbling about Bryan's domina tion of the party, but their opposition has been limited to grumbling. The eastern and southern democrats can not force Mr. Bryan out of the race or out of the leadership of his party until they have something to substl tute except a group of factions, Jeal ous of each other and agreed upon no one cardinal doctrine or principle that might furnish the groundwork for a reorganization and rejuvenation of the party. Mr. Bryan's abdication at this time would be followed by the prac tical annihilation of what remains of organized democracy. THE DEMOCRATIC! COMMUTE. A forcible illustration of the fact that the democratic party is more purely sectional today than It has been since the civil war is furnished by the action of the democratic con gresslonal committee in selecting its chairman and secretary from southern states. John Sharp Williams, leader of the minority In tbe house, made a vigorous fight to secure the election of Congressman Ryan of New York as head of the committee, contending, with force and political wisdom, that It would be advisable to have the com mittee officered by men from north era states, familiar with northern pol itics and northern methods of con ducting campaigns. The majority of the democrats In congress rejected Leader Williams' advice and named James T. Lloyd of Missouri for chair man and Frank Clark of Florida as secretary of the committee. The management of the affairs of the democratic congressional com mittee has been in the hands of south era men for the last six years. In 1902 and again in 1906 Congressman Griggs of Georgia headed the com mittee. He had seventeen votes against him in his home district and apparently managed the two cam- palgns In the north very much as he would have conducted a local contest in Georgia. His campaign literature was of great service to the republican congressional committee. In 1904 Congressman Cowherd of Missouri, one of the ablest members of the house, was made chairman of the com mittee, but was handicapped by an executive committee of the Georgia- Alabama brand that prevented him from doing anything like effective work. Congressman Lloyd, the new chairman, has served In congress for twelve years, is one of the minority leaders and capable of better work than he will be able to do for his party, so long as the real management of the affairs of the committee is left in the hands of southern members who have little or no conception of the political conditions in the east, north and west, where the democrats must make their gains, if they accomplish anything. The reorganization of the commit tee, while it marks an Improvement over the organization of 1906, shows tbat tbe south is still in tbe saddle, so far as the democratic party Is con cerned. THEr WILL HEAR FROM HOME. The Railway Age, which we like to quote as the most outspoken mouth piece of the railroad side of things, opens up an inside view through the contribution of Its special Washington correspondent with reference to the president's recent message, in which it says: President Roosevelt's anticipated mes suge. to congress urging railway and other legislation at this session has duly made Its appearance. It created considerable talk among those who follow closely the political game, but It has not accelerated the wheels of legislation to any perceptible degree. In fact, the immediate effect has been to put on the brakes. House leaders say It was their purpose to pass , tho amended employers' liability bill, but they add they will bo "blanked" If they will pass anything now. The congressional leaders are very angry. They were not consulted in regard to the message and. while they have had to take It with smiling countenances, they have secretly regarded It as an attack on them and their course, and they resent It hotly. There Is talk even of a party split. While this la possi ble, it Is not likely. But everything Is at a deadlock temporarily, and until the mem bers have time to hear from their constitu ents nothing will be done. It the members of congress with railroad leanings are waiting to hear from their constituents at home, they will probably hear from them in due time. If this is a true description of the reception accorded the president's last message, it reads very much like the descriptions of the attitude of the railroad contingent in congress two years ago, when the president waa urg ing railway rate regulation. At that time the congressional . leaders were "very angry." They did not think they were "consulted" and they regarded the president's insistency "as an attack on them." In the senate they got up and argued for days that the proposed measure was entirely "unconstitutional." to say nothing of its being undesirable. But they heard from their constitu ents at home and decided to waive the point of constitutionality and let tha president's recommendations have right-of-way. But as soon as the railway rate law, which many of the "leaders" did not want at all. was enacted It was put right to the front in the subsequent election and every republican member of congress seeking re-election asked to be sent back as a reward for carry ing out the Roosevelt policies and to see 'that there should be no back tracking on them. History sometimes repeats Itself and it looks mighty much that way again. New York has again scored against Omaha in the Indian warehouse mat ter, but Omaha Is still on the Indian bureau's map and will likely remain there to the disturbance of New York ers for a long time to come. It would j hardly do to have the appropriation made permanent, for the reason that the annual effort has always been a facile excuse for local popularity of the sitting congressman from the Second Nebraska district "Why do the two primordial rocks Cambrian and Devonian, meet at an angle instead of the cllnant condition and then open up to allow the argil laceous shales, slates and basalt of the Palisades to pass up through them?' asks the New York World. Respect fully referred to the conference com mittee of the Jacks and Jims, which has become expert in solving problems Just as knotty as that Congressman Boyd's Niobrara bridge bill recalls the fact that Congressman Smith of Council Bluffs has secured a renewal of the" Omaha bridge bill. It would be interesting to know Just which one of the mighty combinations contending for control of Omaha's commerce Is back of the Smith measure, which refuses to die. ine "Jims' ana tne "jacks" are now cooing again, but no one knows better than the braves Just where the hatchet handle protrudes from the grave. And the congressman-editor Is content with the endorsement that does not endorse. Indeed, it's sweet to Bee the brethren dwell together in peace and harmony. Carrie Nation says she proposes to stay in Mexico until she puts a stop to cigarette smoking in that country. As the Mexicans are Inveterate smokers the Job is apt to keep Mrs. Nation there for the rent of her life. Thought and hope are partners in tlfla state ment. Nebraska statesmen are in demand as orators throughout the country. Senator Burkett is to speak in Boston and Superintendent McBrien in Chi cago very shortly, thus advertising to the world that no one Nebraskan has a monopoly on the gift of gab. Luther Burbank, haying produced a spineless cactus and a seedless grape, Is going to turn his attention to American corn. It is hoped that he can produce a variety that won'.t ache like the dick ens at every change in the weather. A suit to test the Nebraska anti- pass law may determine if that statute is technically correct, but it will not in any way alter the general attitude of public opinion toward the practice of pass bribery. A New York paper says that "Wall street is finally warming up toward the president" The Impression prevails that Wall street is not merely warming up, but ts actually, red-hot toward the president . Dealers report ' that consumers are buying coal in unusually large quanti ties. The consumer evidently has a no tion that spring is going to be as bash ful as UBual this year. ' A Difference la Exercise. Pittsburg Dispatch. A Washington correspondent avers that President Roosevelt la fond of walking in a storm. People had gathered as much from the message; and also It seems from some of the squeals that his antagonists ate not. Speak Softly. New York Tribune. To those who condemn the Italians indis criminately because of Black Hand out rages we would respectfully recommend the "night riders" of Kentucky and Ten nessee, who, presumably, are native born Americans. i ' Hlttlnar Below the Belt. Boston Herald.' The latest effort to discredit the Rocke feller family by writing down John D.'e father falls to suit the popular notion of fair play. The public generally has no par ticular fondness for the game of hitting below the belt. ! The Paaalnar of Foraker. Brooklyn Eagle. If the Taft movement really haa brought the Influence of Foraker In Ohio to an end. It will have done more than even the McKlnley movement In that state and In the nation was able to accomplish. This, Irrespective of whether Mr. Taft be nom inated and elected or not. No one believes that Mr. Foraker will politically die In lens space than over the whole stage. The pic turesque Is certainly assured. A Condition that Needs Mending;. Washington Post. The statement' Is made that It requires more than twice the time to complete a battleship In American yards that It does In British or Japanese yards. It that be so. It la the duty of this country to make a big draft on International comity and re quest Great Britain to lend us some of her naval architect long enough to teach ours how to make a Dreadnaught with reason able dispatch. It Is even asserted that a cruiser we turned out some weeks ago fresh from tho yard waa some four years building, and that it waa antiquated before it waa com missioned, ao much so that It would be practically helpless In a fight. This is a condition that sorely needs mending. - RISING TIDE OP 1IOMJSTV. aak Embesslements In 190T and 1M03. Philadelphia Press. Bank emhesilements In 1907 cost banks 13.032,001, according to flgurea published by a New York surety company. Large sum as thla la. It Is small by the last panic year, 1S93. In that year similar figures published by the "Bankers' Ency clopaedia Monthly." showed that the losses of the year to banks from defalcation and embesslement were 119.K9.6fll. Both 1883 and WW weie "panic" years. In both - collapse came suddenly. In both peculators lost heavily by sudden falls In slocks, and speculation leads to embex clement. All banks and trust deposits in 1823 were $.U,000,OuO. In 11107 they had more than doubled and were J10,9T8,000,OuO. Yet bank embexzlemcnts were one-sixth as large In 19HT as in 1S3. Tbe change Is a remarkable proof of Im provement not only In the moral restraints of bank officers, but In the extent to which the certainty of punialiment under he aurety system has reduced the tempta tion to embexsle bank fund. RAILWAY METHOD" ASD RKFORNS Brlght'sparka from the Hammer of Railroad Manaaer. The general manager of a bobtalled road who Is obliged to take the dust of th special of the president of the trunk line has opportunities for observing the ma rhlnery of railroad methods, even though his range of vision Is circumscribed. One of thla class Is E. T. Abbott of Thrall Cal., general manager of the Klamat Lake railroad, an Interstate road. In a letter to the Railway Age, Mr. Abbott wields Ms hammer vigorously an makes the sparks fly from chunks of rail road history, polishing hla selections to afford a contrast with the better methods of today. In part, he says: Reform In railroad methods really be gan something over thirty years ago with tho passage of the first crude Interstat commerce law, the pith of which waa the "long and short haul clause", that stopped cases like that of where a merchant at Red Wing, Minn., on the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul, could ship his freight rrom Chicago to St. Paul and pay the local back over tho same railroad for less than he could get It dumped off on the way up. The passage of the "Potter law" In Wis consin established tho fact that the people naa tne power and could regulate rates. ana tne "Steenerson" decision In Mlnnesot that a railroad had a right to earn a fair profit on what It would cost to reproduce the property and no more, thereby wlpln out the stock and bond Issues as a factor, The first real backset the "wrecker ever got, and the first time In mv remem brance that It was shown that a minority stockholder had any rights that tha ma lority was bound to reanect or that tha courts would recognise., waa when Judge Oresham discharged Tutt and Humphreys as receivers of the Wabash and appointed John McNuIty. The railroad companies denlore the rte. StrUCllOn Of DTOIWrtV nml aaaanlfa nn strike-breakers, and always appeal to the aws ror protection. Are they In any po rtion to do this In the face nf their rnvn record of defiance of law? How was It when the Chicago & Eastern Illinois wa. trying to get Into Chicago and the Lake enore ditched a locomotive at the rmoini and the rival factions of the two companies came together and precipitated a riot? tow many times In the last thlrtv-flva years have these corporations. In defiance of the laws, laid tracks In atrnnta nn Run. day to avoid injunctions, torn up sidings to punish some recalcitrant shipper, etc.? A great deal of property has been destroyed ana many men killed In the clashes be tween the rival factions of the rnmnnnlaa is It not true that the corooratlons have used evory means, lawful or otherwise in defeat the will of the people, defied the aws, corrupted the courts, hrlhed tha legislative bodies. Including conn-ess. anil n short, done evervthlnir that trained akin - - -1 scampish smartness and criminal Ingenuity couia suggest to further their own ends, regardless of Justice or equity? It Is against every principle of business that the large dealer should pay the same price aa the small one. The Jobber gets the Jobber's discount over the retailer, and tha shipper of a thousand cars ahould not pay the same rate as the party who ships one. But that Is here to stay. While under drastic laws the railroad companies cannot combine against the shippers, there Is no adequate laws to prevent the shippers com bining against the railroads. And how easy the shippers can do It; and how can a law be passed that will reach It? It la a wrong without a remedy. For Instance, at any metropolis, the virtuous shippers have a sociable talk and then, substantially, all the freight begins to come In or go out over "the weak line." The other lines ask the shippers why. They are answered "Well, we have nothing against your com pany, but have our ' reasons." Then the weak line Is accused of granting conces sions by Its competitors. They positively deny It and completely fool them all by telling the truth. How long before freight rates will break under those circumstances? The law is specific that the railroads must get tholr published rates. Now, In all large cities there are industries the track facilities of which are owned by one railway and on all in and out freight there are no switching charges over Its own line, but for any shipments over a rival line there will be a switching charge from 11.00 to $5.00 per car. The only way another line can get any business of the said In dustry Is to absorb this charge, which Is a rebate, as It la not getting Its full freight charge. How . does that fix us? The Omaha road has Just been fined for doing substantially that thing absorbing an ele vator charge at Superior on gValn ship ments to put Itself on the same basis as the "Boo." The logical result will be that eventually the municipalities will acquire and own the railway terminals within their limits and put a stop to the outrageous tac tics that have been invariably adopted by the "Ins" to keep every other company out. After a forty-year "trance" the people are Just beginning to realize their power. They have not all forgotten the "Chapter In Erie" nor the "Credit Moblller," Oakes Ames and his little memorandum book, nor thai: when Jay Gould's bill was pending In the United States senate for the relief of the Union Pacific, Senator Thurman thun dered: "It has been charged that mighty millionaires have purchased a majority of this senate. They have collars around the necks of forty-three. There are circum stances that suggest. If they do not prove, the correctness of that charge, Can it be true? A list has been prepared containing the names of the forty-three. Here It Is." He read the list, but only fifteen voted for the bill. The people are paying a little attention to the "Octopus Twins," vis., the Western Union Telegraph company and the Pullman company. Aa to the Western Union, the people are paying Interest and dividends on something like 100 per cent water. In 1881 Gould got control and consolidated every wire In the country and Injected 1-10,000,000 water at one crack. As to the Pullman company, like John Brown's ;soul, it has been marching on steadily from the time the Alton sawed off II its platforms and ran the "Pullman" around all Its tanks and coal chutea be tween Chicago and St. Louis. It has finally gobbled It all," and paid enormous re- urns by over-cliarglng the public and un derpaying Its overworked employes. A little cloud has started up In Minnesota and the hearing adjourned to Chicago. They deny Jurisdiction and deny they are common carriers. Possibly that is true, but before It is n't-r laws will be passed putting them there. The railroad companies have themselves writhed under the tipping nulnance on Pull mans and appreciated It w as all wrong and made a few feeble attempts to stop it, without success, and every "crimp" that Is put In the Pullman company will Inspire the same sentiment in the riilroad man agers throughout the country that was expressed by "Pat" when asked how the people of Ireland would take it if the lord lieutenant should be asaaSHlnated. He said' "Well, there would be many a dry eye In Ireland. " The people blteve that the present stringency (whether riht or wrong) that haa reduced, almoxt in the twinkling of an eye, railroad receipts from 80 to &0 per cent, has ln.cn brought about purposely by the jjlp Absolutely Puro Tho only baking powdar ciscId with Royal Crspo Cream of Tartar Ho Alum, .o Lima Phosphalo moneyed Interests of Wall and Broad streets to accomplish their own ends, and what relief can we expect from the courts? The moat that I have seen has been a conflict of Jurisdiction between those of the states and nation and In every case the railroads have got the worst of It. Wa are reaping a harvest that our prede cessors have sown, and the only relief from unjust drastic legislation will be by our selves building up an Intelligent and fair public sentiment. I doubt whether we can do that when the only glimpse the people get of the "throne" Is a twinkle of tha "tall lights" of the president's special. BUSINESS METHODS AND MORALS A Tribute to th Policies Advocated by the President. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The finest tribute President Roosevelt has yet received for his stirring up of the country against "predatory wealth" comes from Chairman E. H. Gary of the United States steel corporation, the largest Indus trial corporation In the world. He attended a banquet of the Illinois society of New York Friday night, having been made presi dent of the society. Senator Hopkins and Congressman Boutell of Illinois were present and made what appeared to be slighting remarks respecting Mr. Roosevelt. Judge Gary Immediately arose and said with great seriousness: I want to state that the policy of the present administration, whether It be crltt clsed or praised, whether Its methods be regarded as aatisractory or unsatisfactory. has had a great and personal influence on your president, who happens to occupy a position of great responsibility. In making this personal application to myself I know that the reiteration of the oft-stated prin ciples of tha president of the United Statea haa Increased mv feeling of re sponsibility toward the stockholders I rep resent, toward our com net l tors, toward business men and toward the public, and that our relations have been Improved. I don't hesitate to make thla confession. Ac cording to my belief, business Is done on a better basis and on a higher plane be cause of what I have referred to. We are told that these remarks were re ceived with "some" cheers, and that when Judge Gary proposed the health of Presi dent Roosevelt "there was a small cheer, but no great outburst." Under the cir cumstances, this does the Illinois society of New York mighty little credit. Are we to understand that most of Its members do not want to see any Improvement In business character and methods? NO SYMPATHY WASTED. Downfall of the Ice King; Vnmoves th Multitude. Philadelphia Press. When Charles W. Morse set out to corner Ice he sought a profit by making a neces sity of life dear to all. No man will regret his fall. Such a plan not only contrary to law but contrary to the consciences of men. It has failed at every point. The successive Ice com panies organised by Morse sought to con trol every source of supply for Ice on the Atlantic coast and all the machinery for distribution In every large city. Capital waa Inordinately Increased. Profits were to be made on this watered capital out of the dire necessities of the masses of our cities during the beat of summer. These plans have all miserably failed and brought loss to all concerned, partly be cause some competition remained and still more because such competition as existed was protected by the prompt action of the law. In New York, In this city and In other places, the common law was set In motion and In the face of certain fine and Impris onment Morse's combinations to maintain the price of Ice were abandoned. This ruined his Ice plans and he has be come bankrupt and comes back to faoe Justice because he embarked In an enter prise which the law condemns and always ends when It is rigorously executed. Any combination unreasonably to Increase the price of a necessity of life by monopoly Is not only wicked in principle; It Is criminal t common law. Speaker Colo Free of Charar. SALEM. Mass.. Feb. 11. The Indictment against Speaker John N. Cole of the Massachusetts representatives charging him with violating the statutes by soliciting transportation doiow regular rales was quashed today. YOUNG mil HAS Human Life Seems All Else Is Tha Immense success which has fol- owed L. T. Cooper during the past year with his new preparation haa exceeded nythlng of the kind ever before witness ed In most of the leading cities where the young man haa Introduced the med icine. Cooper haa a novel theory. He believes that the human stomach Is di rectly responsible for most disease. To quote his own words from an Interview upon bis arrival In an eastern city: "The verage man or woman cannot be nick If the. stomach la working properly. To be sure, there are diseases of a virulent nature, such aa cancer, tuberculosis, dia betes, ec. which arc organic, and are not traceable to the stomach, but even ever can. In nine casra out of. ten, be traced to something taken into the fomach. All of this half-sick, nervous xhaustlon that la now ao common, la cauavd by the stomachic conditions, and la because my remedy will and does regulate the stomach that I am meeting 1th auch aucceaa. "To aura th matter up a sound diges PERSONAL NOTES. The court that bravely defined- sausaga would have sat mute and baffled In the presence of hash. The Ice trust men who were sent to Jail In Toledo are reported to be having all the comforts of home during their Incarcera tion. Dictator Franoo found that when It came to dictating which way the truculent popu lace ahould aim their guns he was not absolute. John C. Crockett, clerk of the supreme court of Iowa, who' has Just been chosen reading clerk of the United States senate, was for a number of years an actor. Out In California a new Daniel on tha bench haa held that a pedestrian need not dodge an automobile. At the same time, there Is reason for believing that no Call fornlan will refrain from dodging merely because he la afraid of being charged with contempt of court. Milton D. Purdey, known as the "chief trust buster," who will soon retire from the attorney general's office, has been a busy man ever since he left college. He graduated at the University of Minnesota In 1892, and was city attorney In Minneapo lis until he entered the attorney general's office. It la said he will be appointed a federal circuit Judge upon his retirement WHITTLED TO A POIKT. "Well," said Mr. Staylate, for the fourth time, "I must be going." "What a queer delusion," replied Miss Patience Gonne, "you're really quite sta tionary." Philadelphia Press. "You always seem to be on the losing aide at election time, George." "Yes, I generally . have to eat crow," "Well, the next time you eat It, dear, save the feathers for my spring hat, won't you, please?" Cleveland "Plain Dealer. Sprlgglna I ran always tell when I am at my office whether It Is a bill collector or a client that touches my electrlo bell. lllgglns You can? Sprlgglna Yes, no clients ever come. Bomervllle Journal. Mr. Jagway was on his Way home, aniVij in hla devious wanderings from aide to f aide he was using the entire width of tha walk. "When feller'a in thlsh condition," he muttered, "you've, got t' give him some latitude." Chicago Tribune. "Has the mine you invested In proved valuable?" "I should say so! The prospect keeps getting so much bigger that they are con stantly needing more money for Its ade quate development." Washington Star. Methuselah grinned. "Just think how long after the war my widow will be In drawing a pension," he chuckled. Therewith he celebrated his eight hun dredth birthday. New York Sun. "Did you ever hear of a perfect man In your life?" "Yes a man who had every virtue under the sun and no vlcea to speak of." "Had you any real proof of his ex istence?" "Well, I read It all on his tombstone.". Baltimore American. . A SONG FOR FEBRUARY. T. A. Daly In Cathollo Standard. When the gusts of midwinter have whitened The graves of the flowers Whose warm fragrance and beauty onco brightened Our happiest hours. Shall we muse on one memoried pleasure And mourn for its dearth? Nay, my love, here la measure for home and the hearth. There Is nothing of 111 can betide me. Though all Joys of my hearth be denied me. Where the tea kettle slngeth Its tune. And you sit by the settle besldo me, It la June, It Is June! For the Joy one fleet season hath taken Another Is born. ' Though the woods, by the thrushes for saken. Stand cold and forlorn. And though voiceless the brooklet lies sleeping. Ice bound In the earth Ah, the warmth and the music upleaplng At home, from the hearth! in ere la nuiiuna i -. - Though all Joys but my hearth be denied ms, . . , ... l.a tina , , , l. i . in Man hatMa ma wnere ine lea em an.a.n And you sit on the settle besld ms, Jl 18 June, 11 is June. HEW THEORY Centered ii Stomach. Seeondary. tive apparatus that la doing Its full duty, getting every particle of vitality out of all food by transferring It to th bowels In a perfectly digested state this abov all else brings health." Mr. A. C. Brock, chef of the Brock Res taurant, Market District, Boston, Mass., who la a staunch believer In Mr. Cooper's theory and medicine, has this to say: "I had chronic Indigestion for over thrc, years. I suffered terribly, and lost about thirty pounds. I was a phyalcal wrack when I started thla Cooper medicine, a month or ao ago. Today I am as wall as I ever waa in my life. I am no longer nervous, my food does not dlstreas ma In the leant, and I have a splendid appetite. I am gaining flesh very rapidly In fact, at the rate of a pound a day. I would not believe any medicine on earth could hav done fr me what this haa done. It Is a remarkable preparation and Mr. Cooper deaer-es all his success." Wa recommend th Cooper prepara tions as being remarkable madloloaSi j Beaton Drug C I: V V. i 1 lb I!