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WHBir OUT ow Tom, Sahecrlhers UtIi( th lty tarn jorajrllr AhM fcnve The bn them. Aedreoa will fro a seo. Germany Is evidently trying to ma Its a mountain out of a diplomatic molt H11L Tho senate has paased the ship sub sidy bill and the house is prepared to scuttle It - The householder who buya another load of coal at this time of the year seldom regrets It. , Nebraska cannot have the comptrol lershlp of the currency this time. But there are other times. In the fight among the' democrats in Indiana, Tomj firaggart has given his opponents a ffcoclj. Licking. "Haytl's future Is tright," says a Washington paper. Its past and pres ent are dark, for obvious reasons. The burning question of the hour now Was .Lincoln smooth shaven at the time of his first inauguration? t The Boston Globe wants to know what has become of Saturn's rings. Might search Wnus. It's leap year. "Dollaka are., not mis-demeanors" aays Senator Knox. No, but they often come near being fugitives from Justice. It must be a novel experience for the president to find that no one is criticising his latest message to con gress. Vermont maple sugar is selling for Si cents pound at Boston... It should have a certificate of good character at that pries. Congressman Heflin of Alabama has furnished Washington with an illus tration oX,the south's method of set tling the negro problem. The Knox presidential boom acta as though it had received a note of warn ing from the Society for the Suppres sion of Unnecessary Noises. I The weather bureau mu ft have been keenly interested In the triangular debate in the house between Congress men Mudi, Moon and Rs.lo.ey. Is picking -the one hundred men mho "own the country" it Is evident that Senator La Follette did not get the names from the tax receipts. Mr. Hearst la playing pretty shrewd politics by keeping all the presidential candidates m suspense as to which he is to handicap with the nomination of the Independence league. Governor Johnson is declared to be "really a. step or two In advance of many radical thinkers." Perhaps, but be la a ate? or ..two 'behind In the matter of delegates. r. The State 'Food commission is said to be Inundated with applications for appointment to the position of cream tester. 'Just wait until it is time to appoint some one to the position of "ks cream tester." German 'naval authorities Insist that the American ships will he fit for noth ing but th junk heap after tbey finish their cruise. 'Spain felt that way once, but It waa not the American ships that went to'the Junk heap. After Senator . La. Follette haj spoken far three days on the Aldrlch currency bill. Senator Teller asked Mm what it was all abeut. They do aome atrsage things under the guise of "zeaatorlij courU. roror for omara. The railroads are already making arrangements for excursion rates on convention travel to Chicago and Den ver. Much of this travel both east and west will use the Omaha gateway and with favorable conditions permit ting stopovers the excursionists will be glad to break their journey at Omaha between trains. If not from One dsy to the next. Oar people ought to urge upon the railroad passenger associations that stop-over privileges at this point be granted on all reduced rate tickets either east or west over lines that converge here. " To put In these stop-overs will re quire the reopening of the validating office at Omaha, formerly maintained In this elty, but closed last year. The railroads are entitled to Insist upon the necessary safeguards to prevent ticket scalping at stop-over points; but by meana of the system of deposit and validating which they have put into effeot for thla purpose they are reason ably protected. They are not likely, however, to restore the validating office at Omaha of their own accord, but proper pressure from this end might, and ought to. make them see it to their advantage to make Omaha a stop-over station for all transconti nental excursion business. somb a&xiovs be Bator The desire of some of the leaders on both sides for sn early adjournment of congress la not based wholly on eagerness to participate in the presi dential campaign. The crossed wires of politics are making a good many of the United States senators uneasy and most of them want to get back home to take active charge of their campaigns for re-election. The sena tors who will come np for re-election In the legislatures next January, are: Allison of Iowa. Ankeny of Washington. Brandegee of Connecticut. Clarke of Arkansas. Clay of Georgia. Dillingham of Vermont. Stewart of Vermont Foraker of Ohio. Fulton of Oregon. Gallinger of New Hampshire. Gore of Oklahoma. Hansbrough of North Dakota. Hem men way of Indiana. Heybiirn of Idaho. Hopkins of Illinois. Johnston of Alabama. Klttredge ef South Dakota, McEnery of Louisiana. Long of Kansas. Newlanda of Nevada. Overton of North Carolina. Penrose of Pennsylvania. Perkins of California. Piatt of New York. Smoot of Utah. Stephenson of Wisconsin. Stone ef Missouri. Teller of Colorado. -;t . Senator Allison has Just been en dorsed by a convention in his state, but Governor Cummins' shows no hint of yielding to the expression of prefer ence and will carry the fight to the next primary. Senator Klttredge has been defeated In the preliminaries by Governor Coe I. Crawford of South Dakota, but will not yield without an other contest. Senator Hansbrough has a hot flgbt on hla hands in North Dakota and baa been home several weeka shaping his campaign lor re election. Senator Long of Kansas has a rival In Joaeph L. BrUtow of post office fame. However the fall elections go. Sen ator Teller will hardly be returned. He haa not affiliated with the demo crats and baa been out of republican councils since 18 4. He appreciates the conditions and haa announced that he will not make any canvasa for re election. Senator Smoot will have a contest for re-election, even If the Mormona control the Utah legislature. A bitter fight is being made againat Senator Fulton of Oregon, with the chances against his re-election. Sena tor Piatt of New York would like an other term in the senate, but with small prospect. Senator Foraker'a aeat la In doubt. His friends, insist that he will be sent back to the sen ate, but the prediction doea not rest on present political indications in Ohio. While many republican senators will have to flgbt for re-election, the con testa are with other republicans and the senate will remain, republican, Ir respective of the November election. A PLETHORA OF PARTIS -According to promise of the differ ent, political lineupa for the coming campaign, the voter who cannot And aome candidate with a., platform' that suits him will be difficult, to please, Indeed. Vhile the old-line parties are going ahead as usual with the pre liminary work of selecting candidates, framing platforms and preparing to ollclt the suffrages of the voters, new organizations are being formed nearly every day to appeal for national sup port. . I The latest addition to the new or ganizations la proposed by the railroad men of Chicago, who have taken steps looking to the formation of a railway party. The promoters ssy it should be easy to enlist 1,600.000 railway em ployes and others directly Interested In railway operation and all they are looking for now Is a competent leader to rur, for president on their ticket The advocates of the new party con tend that while they could not hope to elect their candidate they would exert an Influence that would put a stop to hostile railway regulation by the old parties. It la doubtful If the new organisa tion will be given attention enough to warrant IU existence through the pre-' Hmlnary stages of a campaign. The fact Is that the people already have about as many parties as they mill support. The populists will meet at St. Louis on April 2 to nominate a uatlonal ticket. The Christian party 1I1 name a ticket at Rock Island, 111., on May 1, and will adopt a platform for the exclusion of all but Protestanta fror. public offices. The republicans will meet in Chicago on June 16 and the democrats at Denver on July f. The prohibitionists will name their national ticket at Columbus. O.. on July 17, and Mr. Hearst will assemble hla followers In nstlonal convention about July 20 and name the candi dates for his newly launched national Independence party. The socialists have not fixed the dates for their na tional convention, but they will prob ably be In the field, as usual, with two or more tickets. Under the circumstances, the pro moters of another national party are apt to get lost in the crowd before the summer is over. , INTEREST ON FEDERAL DEPOSITS. The Aldrlch bill, as It has passed the senate, contains one meritorious provision, at least, in requiring na tional banks to pay interest at the rate of 1 per cent per annum upon deposits placed by the secretary of the treasury. The lack of a legal re quirement for the payment of interest y th national depository banks has been the source of much criticism in end out of congress for years, bui efforts to enact a law compelling inter est payment have always failed. Perhaps the only complaint against the provision as adopted by the senate will be found in the fact that the rate of interest is too low. In nearly all the atates in the union the banks are required by law to pay not less than 2 per cent upon funds deposited by state treasurers, including state school funds, and most cities receive a like Interest on their deposits. No reason able argument has ever been offered to Justify the placing of federal funds In the banks without any Interest what ever. The deposita are increased largely in times , of financial stress, when the banks feel a currency short age and have no difficulty at Sny time In reloanlng at profitable rates. The amount of money on deposit by the government In national banks Is now more than $250,000,000. The banks should pay a decent rate of lntereat upon this amount more even than demanded by the Aldrlch bill. REJECTION OF DR. BILL. In spite of all the explanations sent out from Berlin about the refusal of the German emperor to accept Dr. David Jaynes Hill as American am bassador at Berlin, it must appear that the American government and Dr. Hill have . been placed in an em barrassing, If not humlMattng position, that could easily have been avoided. None questions the right of a ruler to decline to receive an accredited ambassador or minister from a for eign country. The recognition of this right has led to a custom among the diplomatic representatives of "feeling out" the ground before such an ap pointment is announced. This custom was followed by our State department authorities at Washington and the record ahowa that the German em peror expressed satisfaction, it not positive pleasure, at the prospect of having Dr. Hill assigned to Berlin. If the kaiser has changed front without naming against the formal appoint ment of Dr. Hill it la difficult to aee how he Is going to Juttlfy his action, by which Dr. Hill's diplomatic career receives such a aetback. The only plausible explanation of fered for the rejection of Dr. Hill is that be haa served aa a diplomatic representative only in Switzerland and The Netherlands, and ia therefore not regarded as having had sufficient experience In practical diplomacy to entitle him to be accredited to one of the first powers of Europe. If this is the real objection it will be gen erally regretted that the emperor did not think of it before he led our au thorities to believe that the appoint ment of D. ,11111 would be acceptable to him. Still another theory rests on the assumption that the position of the emperor has been misrepresented, either in the first instance or later in bis alleged objection to Dr. Hill. In that event It will devolve on the two governments to place the responsi bility for the mistake and to hold the blameworthy parties to account. One of th "prime movers" of the proposed new bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs discusses the pur pose of the r reject, but "declines to permit the use of his name." If thla bridge Is a good thing, why should not those behind it come out In the open and tell ua all about It? Push ing a big enterprise like that "Incog" la apt to bring down suspicion upon it. A justice of tbe supreme court of Nevada has won the 11,000 prize of fered by Senator Jonathan Bourne; jr., of Oregon for the best argument In support of the proposition that Theodore Roosevelt should and would be selected and elected for "a second elective term." Senator Bourne has not decided upon hla next plan to se cure self-advertising. Due de Chaulnea, who recently mar ried the daughter of Theodore P. Shouts, baa been sued for $3,000 by a London tailor for clothes furnished him In 1111. The due sa?a be could have paid the bill at any time if he bad been so inclined. It is perhaps a ducal privilege, to plead a lack of in clination aa an offset for a lack of cash. If the bill should become a law makini: municipal bonds available for securing emergency bank note cur rency, the broker who picked up the last batch of Omaha's 4H per cent bonda at a shade premium will make a nice stake. Moral: Don't sell any more city bonds until It Is definitely known what congress Is going to do. Seen through democratic spectacles, the recent Iowa democratic state con vention Is said to have been the most enthusiastic democratic gathering held in that state In years. Tbe Iowa dem ocrats certainly have not bad anything to get enthusiastic over in a long time and need the lung exercise. The local democratic organ can al ways aee huge cobs of discord in the republican camp, but never a ripple among the democratic faithful, yet It haa the nerve to fly at the top of Its flagstaff the motto, "An Independent Newspaper." Nebraska's two United States sena tors divided on the final roll call on tbe Aldrlch bill. It has been a long time since Nebraska has had two sen ators at Washington who stayed on the same aide of the fence. Governor Johnson says he does not believe any man should be an active candidate for a presidential nomina tion. Here are three more reasons for estrangement between Minnesota and Nebraska democracy. I.obatera. Philadelphia Press. After accepting- $100,000 from Denver as the price of the national convention, the democratic national committee find out It could have had $250,000 Just aa easily. And It needed the money o much, too. A Slla'nt Redaction. St. lyouts Globe-Democrat. It la, stated that the April dividends to be paid by railroad, Industrial and traction corporations will be $126,000,000, compared with $134,000,000 a year ago. The recent flurry fall a long way short of an old fAhloned panic. Father Gives m Show. Washington Post. While this country haa had a congress of mothers and a congress on the well-being of the child, Belgium now announces a congress on the education of the family. That country is apparently determined to give the father a chance to be heard. Romance f the Dollar Mark. Baltimore American. The atage and real life aeem to be ex changing places Just now. While the stage la rejecting romance and devoting Itself to studies of commonplace life, princes of th blood are in actual life giving up titles, prospects and ambitions to marry for love's sweet sake. Just a I usually! done only in romances and fairy tales. It simply goes to show that romance dies hard In the human breast, and when refused one outlet promptly seeks another. Close Watch eat Anarchist. Baltimore American, Vhcre must be a closer watch on anarch ists In this country- They have been given too much liberty, which they have Abused and have led the weak-minded to murder and assassination. It Is never easy to con vict their leaders, for these are wise enough to keep out of direct participation in open crime; but In truth they are more respon sible than the men who become their tools. Only by careful surveillance In every city can they be convinced that the law Is stronger than they. SIGN BOARD M ISA-VCE. Effective Way of Glvlaar Public Sentlmeat a Boost. I.eslle's Weekly. The city of St. Louis has a Civic league that doea things. It has succeeded in get ting the leading merchants of that city to agree to stop advertising on billboards when their contracts expire. Thla agree ment wa secured by showing the mer chants that billboards were spoiling the beauty of the city and by proving that such advertising did not pay because citi sena were opposed to the boards and to the advertising displayed thereon. If there ia on city in the United Slates that needs a sermon on billboarda it is New York. Whether on rides in the surface or the elevated or the subway cars he must see unsightly boards. There ia no reason' why the present state of affaire should continue. On ounce of public sentiment Is worth a pound of legislation atrang as It may seem. Th advertiser who carea more about money than ha doea about th appearance of a city Is a good one to let alone. OI B OISY t ON KNTJOS. They Differ Greatly fraoa Those at Slaty t'eara As. Boston Globe. For many yeara national conventions were comparatively quiet and business Ilk affairs. Th delegates Journeyed from their homes singly to the place of meet ing, where they convened In an ordinary hall. No nominating speeches were made and there r-ere no cheering crowds. Bal loting proceeded with as much decorum ss In a parish meeting. Now cities clamor for the "concession" of a national convention and aubscribe a $100,600 guarantee in order to obtain the privilege. Delegates go in special trains, attended often by bands and banner bear era, and each delegation takea up a sec tion of a hotel for its exclusive accommo dation. The convention hall la a vast auditor'-i:n and speculators hold tickets to the w at prices which are the envy of an op-idiic Impresario. Into the large atructure lv.OOO, 11,000 and even 90,000 people swarm, com pletely surrounding and hanging over the few hundred' delegates. Id th shouting and tumult, there is no opportunity for deliberation, .while dabate ia a physical impossibility except to the few whom nature has endowed with throata like organ pipea. A national convention voice is a rare gift. Some of th peakers in the country are flat failures In thla extravagant and roaring arena. Of apeechmaklng there Is no end. but argument would be Ill-timed and misplaced. Th true and only aim of convention ' oratory ia to rip th blue tiupyrrau and split the ears of the clacqulng boomers. Well may Mr. Bryce have aald In his American Commonwealth: "A European Is astonished to se 800 men prepare to transact the two most difficult pieces of business an assembly ran undertake, the solemn consideration of their principles, and th (election of th person they wish to plac at th head of th nation. In the sight and bearing of &(iot other men and women." O rHKIDETIAI. FIRIXTf! I.IXTi ftepabllcaa Momlnstloa, Chicago Record-Herald. Illinois and Tennessee held the center of the convention stsge last week, with Rhode Island and several scattering dlstrlcta on th side. Th result Is a further gsln for Taft, an expected Increase in ths Cannon total, and several mora unlnstructed and contested delegates. The summarised lineup to date Is as follows: . Total delegates to Chicago 80 necessary to nominate 4S1 Dlf tea selected to dat BS Xnatraoted for Taft, total 1M Xnetructed for Taft, a oontests 1B Instructed for Tab-banks (S contested) S8 jnnraoiea ior cannon VnlBstruct (14 friendly to Taft) Contested (4 by Taft) 99 H - a TATS, ZTO. . so SS 34 ps aeie t o Alabama S 4 .. .. S S Florida s 8 4 Illinois 84 II a S . . Indiana BS g Iowa 84 as .. , . . . Kansas go 80 Kentnoky a 8 ,. S Louisiana 4 4 .. Maryland 4 . . , . , . 4 , . Michigan 4 S .. S .. .. Mississippi a 8 . . ., S Missouri 30 30 , , . , . . S Habrask IS IS Ww Mexico S S Worth Carolina.. 8 8 Ohio 3S 36 S Oklahoma 14 14 .. ,. 8 Philippine a 8 Slhod Island.... 8 S .. South Carolina.. S .. .. S .. Tnns 18 18 10 Virginia, la 4 .. .. S .. Total 868 188 88 88 88 34 Forecast ef Denver Convention. John T. McCutcheon In Appleton's. On the democratic side everything seems to be Bryanesque. To th casual observer the Peerless One appears to have the nomi nation trained to eat out of his hand. Ha has it filed away In his vest pocket, nnd, at the proper moment, will take It out and present It to himself. There Is little ap parent reason for democratic delegates to travel all the way out to Denver except to get In on the boundless hospitality the Denverltes are preparing to extend them. The Denver program will probably be as follows: DENVER. July 7. 8peclal.l-The conven tlon assembled today at 10 o'clock and listened to a scholarly Invocation by Rev. Maltby. Mr. Hryan was then nominated, a platform was adopted, and at 10:15 the delegates marched In a body to have their photographs taken. At 12:30 a magnificent luncheon wss served at the palatial resi dence of 'Mr. and Mrs. Quartz. At 2:30 they were taken on a carriage ride to the Carnegie library, the cemetery and the new soldiers' monument, and at 4:30 the dele gates repaired to the sumptuous home of Mr. and Mrs. High Graders for tea. A banquet was served at the hotel at 7 o'clock and Mr. Bryan made a speech Indorsing the democratic nominee. DENVER, July 8. (Special. 1 The conven tion assembled at 10 a. m. and passed reso lutions of thanks to Colonel Bryan for the platform he had prepared. Miss Pearl Panner, daughter of Delegate Panner, then recited "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," after which the delegate exchanged confi dences and autographs. Mr. James J. Jig gttt of Alaska made a rousing speech, be ginning with "We view with alarm," and ending with "We'll rally around the stand ard of that peerless statesman, that splen did patriot, that etc., etc., William Jennings Bryan." Lunch was then partaken of at the magnificent residence of Mr. and Mrs. Orr and a delegation of school children presented Mr. Bryan with a flag worked out with pink stripes srid pale blue stars. The nominee acknowledged the biautiful gift in a apeeeh replete with words. Tho convention then adjourned to watch a ball game over on the commons. In the even ing a splendid collation was served and ap propriate speeches Were made. DENVER, July . (Special.) The conven tion met at 10 o'clock, but ther being-no quorum present Mr. . Bryan and a few friends selected a. candidate for vice presi dent, and the convention was adjourned. It Is not yet known wlio was named for vice president, but he Is said to be a well known pstrlot. of advanced years and throe or four millions of loose cash. Of course this program Is not official. It may be changed In some of Its minor par ticulars, but from this dlstsnce it seems to be the probable one. We reserve, however, the right to a second guess. Plana of Antl-Taff Allies. ' Boston Transcript (rep.). . The present attitude of the allies seems to bo tflat If the convention were held to day, their cause would be hopeless, but that by holding their forcea In line some thing may happen to occasion a revulsion of popular feeling between now and June 16. and accordingly that It Is not necessary to surrender now. The possibilities In this line In the uncertainty of the business sit uation, the allies believe to be worth tak ing, at least to the extent that they may be utilised quietly and without Incurring too serious personal risks In the event of failure. It is natural In these circum stances that some of the more thrifty lead ers in the allied camp should be making secret overtures to the Taft management in the shape of agreements for second choice support. The Taft management has on its desk some secrets In this line which would startle the country If It were prudent and honorable to disclose them. Enough opposition leaders. It Is said, have agreed upon brldgea over Into Taftland, after they have fulfilled other obligations In the pre liminary skirmish, to make Taft'a nomina tion sure, If his own direct strength be not sutflclent. Bryanlam ln Rhode Island. Springfield Republican (lnd.). The Bryan men are probably less satis fled than they appear over the Rhode Island democratic convention Saturday when the resolution instructing the eight delegates-at-large for Mr. Bryan failed of adoption. It U undoubtedly true that nearly all of the delegates are now favorable to Mr. Bryan'a nomination and expect to vote for him at Denver, but the plan of Mr. Bryan'a Rhode Island managers was to bind the delegatea to him by rigid instruc tions. Th democratic state committee had previously adopted a resolution endorsing such a course. The convention's apparent Independence may have been the result of National Committeeman Greene's maneu vering to weaken the opposition to his own re-election to the democratic national com mittee, the salient point of his compromise being the sacrifice of the Bryan resolution to save his own place. But whatever the Inslda facts may be. there was no such Bryan walk-over In Rhode Island as was anticipated. Ia Bryan'a Xssilsstlss Snref New York Times (lnd.). The tide Is running against Mr. Bryan, He haa visibly lost ground In the last two weeka The chance of beating him in the convention Is very much brighter than it was two months ago. If the' effort to spread the light of reason among the demo crats la intelligently kept up ther will be' arrayed against him at Denver more than a aufficlent number of delegates to pre vent lils nomination. Haaanser Throw at Johnson. St. Louis Time (dem.k. Governor Johnson knows thst the demo cratic party Is pledged to Mr. Erjiin. The moment It drifts awsy from the admitted trader It writes defeat for Itself In charac. tera a larg aa those employed to spell th fate of Alton Brooks Psrker In 1904. ' Kern Xet of Pathos. New York Post. Promising young senslors lika Bryan of Florida mar die, energelio veterans like Spoon er of Wisconsin may resign, but Piatt and Depew continue to represent New York. I I n ttLROAU ItATR II KC l.lt.. - Qnestloa of State'a Riant. Philadelphia Record (dcm.). Duly considered, the decision of the su preme court In the Minnesota and North Carolina cases are as much of a protection against encroachments of congresslonsl leg islation as against stst legislation.' From this point of view ther Is no question of state's rights In them. Knock for State t.awasahrra. Washington Post (lnd.). Once more the supreme court ha dem onstrated that the rights cf persons and property will b protected against Injustice In the form of law. If the legislators of all the states will take this decision to heart, they will no longer attempt to cir cumvent the constitution of the Vnlted Ptates by enacting laws which reflect public passion, and have In them vindlctlveness and tyranny, but no Justice. Thla I Nation. New York World (dem ). For it practical effect the decision should be welcomed. Procedure In the federal courta Is prompt, well Informed, uniform in all the states, authoritative, free from local influences. It commands confidence. Jus tlce will be dons to shippers and passengers against extortion, to public carriers against confiscatory rates, to their employes sgainat eWtreme and exaggerated penalties. The right of the states are secure under this decision. But this la after all a na tion. Law and Common Sense. Philadelphia Ledger (lnd.). That the supreme court is administering not only good law, but common sense. will be apparent to any one who gravely considers what property would b worth in the Vnlted States If a populist state under the stress of demagoglsm, should fix railroad fares at a quarter cent a mile, and then when the rate appeared to be confiscatory should take refuge against a review by the supreme court behind the plea that a state cannot be sued. Calhooalsn Destroyed. New York Tribune (rep.). There Is no getting away from the logic of the situation. The fourteenth amend ment, as now universally construed by the federal courts, contains the most radically federalist Ic grant In the whole constitution. If the federal courta can upset any state legislation when tt de prives a citlten of personal and property rights "without due process of law," and can themselves define what "due process of law" meana, their verdicts are the only ones which will hold In crucial cases affecting great property Interests. Cal- hounlsm with Its dream of forty-six sov ereign states and forty-six different legal Jurisdictions, has passed Into "innocuous desuetude." State Railroad Commissions Menaced. Springfield Republican (lnd ). One passaae In the United State. n. Preme court's opinion concerning the Minnesota railroad rate lawn la until ne. daily to attract the attention of official Washington. It is this: "Still another federal question Is urged, growing out of the assertion that the laws are, by their necessary effect, an Interference with and a regulation of Interstate commerce, tne grounds Tor which assertion It Is not now necessary to enlarce unon. The question Is not. at anv rate, frlvnlnnit " This certainly squints very strongly to ward the possibility that the court may come to nullify state power to regulate rates orr Interstate traffic throus-h the difficulty of applying such regulation wunout.an incidental Interference with interstate commerce. It la matter m-hlr-h may well cause perturbation among the state railroad commissioners of the coun. try. They may soon find themselvea all at once deprived of their Jobs. SHAM A D CANT, Analysis of a Solemn Bryanlstlc l't terance. Washington Post. Somebody had the curiosity to nsk Mr. William J. Bryan this question: "What chance has the poor boy, and how enn brains win In a contest with wealth?" This is an assumption that every poor boy ha all the brains the law allows, and that every rich man has more money than honesty allows. In Ills response Mr. Bryan did not heed the admonition of King Solomon "Anrwer not a fool according to his folly. It thou also be like unto him" but made this de claration that the faithful must accept as ex cathedra: 'The poor boy has no chance unless he can arouse the people by using his tongue. The corporate powers are busy misleading the people and are responsible for shutting out the poor boy." Such miserable rot aa that coming from the late Denla Kearney would only have excited disgust and derison; but coming from the "Peerless One" It excites admira tion and gets applause. So we have It that the eloquent tongue Is the one thing that can make wealth stand In the corner and behave. Mr. Bryan himself Is example. His Is the gift of gab, and he makea constant patriotic In cursion in the Sod6m of wealth and the spoil is said to reach $70,000 per annum. May we ask what poor boy without the gift of eloquence has a chance against Mr. Bryan? The catechism does not rise above the level of the silly. It is an undeniable fact that the successful business men of every state, county, town and village of this country this day a big majority of them began poor boys. Of the directories of the railroads, banks, manufacturing concerns and all other corporations t Is not extravagant to aay that more than 70 per cent of their seats are filled by men who were born the children of toil and achieved success by their own unaided energies of mind and body. The laboring man of 1908 is Infinitely better sheltered, better clothed, belter fed, better educated, and owns many fold more property, real and personal, than did the worklngman of IsoS of 1W, or 1873. In the savings banks of the I'nlted States are deposits exceeding $4,000,000,060, the prop erty of more than l.OOO.OuO depositors, and when to this stupendous sum there is added the other acquisitions of labor real estate and chattels-it la gross Ignorance, or shameless mendacity, to say that the American worklngman is an object of pity or an object of charity. To ssy that the corporations of the coun try seek to beggar the masses their cus tomersIs to say that corporations lire managed by idiots. Let us be done with the sham and the cant of it! I nele ham ns 'Cnstoainn. New York Evening Post. Ten millions growing moldy in the United State treasury suffering for an owner! iVImt a burden to an overworked govern ment to have to sit up o' nights and watch it, and nul know lu wl.or,. it Wu.a.! For something over forty years this vast atore has been gathering oust, being the pro ceeds of "abandoned property" captured by the union soldiers, sold for cash and the money turned Into the treasury. To be strictly accurate, there still remains, after millions have been distributed to approved claimants, $10.028. 1 88 for which Unclx Sam ha never been able to find a proper owner. AFF.Ut ARD150 AX EPOCH. Activities of Reactionaries Stamped The World Today. It Is not every man who can road th signs of the times. Some of us are blind and some of us have hallucination. Rut one thing Is plain even to the, blindest. The last few years In the United State have closed one epoch and have begun a new. They have been years of storm and stress. Even more than we have been aware, democracy Itself has been on, trial. Are laws to b obeyed,, or are they to be evaded? We are by no means saints as yet, but we have begun to learn the meaning of the word law. Our courta are not all they should be, but they are more respected than they were ten yeara ago. Our con gressmen are too friendly with lobbyists, but they ar mors susceptible to public opinion. Business men maybe ar no more honest than they were once, but they are less Inclined to play upon the brink of dishonesty. This new epoch Is not the work of any one man, although President Roosevelt deserves gratitude for hla share In bringing It to pass. It Is a new phase In the development of democracy to b seen in national, municipal and vn state government, aa well as in every walk of life. It Is no wonder that men who nave played fast and loose with the law should think themselves aggrieved. A man with privileges that he has come to believe are vested rights, dislikes to be told that he must bow to a higher law than that which his attorney formulates. Notoody likes to ' bo less Important than he haa been. But It would be worse than Idle to attempt to bring back the past. It would be shear foolishness. Unless we utterly mistake the temper of the country at large, we have reached a very simple alternative: Is the American people strong enough to regulate the ad ministration of great corporations, or are we to have fastened upon ua an oligarchy from which there Is no release except through revolution? And there Is no ques tion that the country chooses the first al ternative. PERSONAL NOTE". It is In McLean county, Kentucky, tliHt a vein of whit coal has been discovered. What a pleasure It must be to rebuild a furnace fire there. It eeems that aome members of th second Duma did not get sent to Siberia, and Russian assassins are now Using them to practice on. J. Pr Morgan 1 In Rome, and the Romans are guarding th Vatican gal leries, chaining th dome .of St. Peter's and nailing down tbe Forum. When Pope Gregory fashioned the calen dar he must have had In mind In shifting Easter Sunday of 1908 to the limit In April that husbands and fathers would need the extra time to consider the scale of price for Eester hats. At the annual town election In Dalton, Mass.. United States Senator W. Mur ray Crane was elected cemetery commis sioner for three years. Senator Crano will accept the office on condition that it does not conflict with his senatorial duties. The duke of Montebello has written to Premier Clemenceau asking for author ization to remove the remains of hla grandfather, the illustrious - Marshal Lannen, from the Pantheon' to tho family vault in Montmartre cemetery, before the body of Zola, "the Insuiter of the army," s placed In the Pantheon on April t. Young. men. or Uiose ot mature years . who are about to wed. can give their kcx an uplift by emulating a courageous, Hooaler. Resenting tho common idea of the brido being "tho whole show," ha de layed his wedding an hour, shed the conven tional dress suit and put on a check suit loud enougli to be heard In the next counly. The bride was there, but was not audible above a whisper. PA SSI U I'LliAS A 'I HIES, Absentniinded Wall Street Operator (at, soi'ial function) Excuse me. madam, but your fae seems rather familiar. Haven t I met you before? Society Leaner Oil, yes;. I remember you very well. We met In the church the day we were married. Baltimore American. "Pardon me," the plioTogranhcr said, "but I think .your smile Is unnecessarily broad. It will show all your teeth." "Those teeth cost me $00. growled tlm sitter. "1 want 'cm to- show. "Chicago tribune. China lias deter-ted (he Jananes smug gling arms into Us territory and arrested lh offenders. "You saucy thing," paid Japan. "Apolo gize at once for catching lis." After consideration China yielded to the overtures of diplomacy. Philadelphia ueuger. "So you don't hdu-i congress to do much?" No. You sec every memher feels that It is more his duty to prevent ether mem bers from doing something he doesn't ap prove of than to do anything himself." Washington Star. l""8o the plaintiff's counsel tried to pump you today, eh?" said Lawyer Dubley. res, It was Ijiwyer Sliarfie; but I told him you were looking after my Interests." said the defendant. "What did he say then?" "Asked me why I didn't engsge a law yer." Philadelphia Press. Prudent Smain If I were to steal a kiss would it scare you so that you would scream? Timid Maiden I couldn't. Fright always makes me dumb. Baltimore American. "Do yon believe," asked th pretty little widow, "that every man and every woman in the world haa an affinity?" "Sure," replied the man who had re cently been married the third time, "dozens of 'em, but circumstances often make It hard to get In communication with "em." Houston Post. Lawyer Here are your divorce paiicrs . madam. I advise you to take good car ol them. Charming Souhrette Why, certainly. Mr. I.eesem. I shall put them In my "safety deposit box. where all the others are. Chicago Tribune. LE.TL DIVERSIONS. Baltimore American. ' "Are you keeping thi Lont time, my pretty niaid?" "Oh, Indeed I am, kind sir." th said. "Do you really do penance; my pretty muld?" "I'll let you be judge of that, air," she said. "I felt the need of a mental rub. So I Joined at once a Browning club. "Twu a set of Intellectual frumps, Who wer either quarreling or In the dump "Of what was meant by the lines they'd apeak. And it sounded to me they were talking Greek. "It was a penance of awful kind, But I went each time to improve my mind. "Then all the classical concerts, too, I look In. and sat them right straight through, "Fugues and sonatas and opua things. And virtuosity bang and blngs, "I said th words that I knew I mmi. And cried. 'Encore!' when I woulj have Cusaed. "Then I went to lecture o long and dry By fossilised fogies who mado ni cry." "I think vou'v dons penanc. my pretty maid." "You bet I've done penance, kind sir." she said.