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!
