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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, APRIL- .1.1 1003..
Tiie OjvIaha Daily Bee.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.:
George R. Tsschuck. treasurer of Tha
Bee Publishing company., being duly
sworn, says thst the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during tha month of March, 108, was as
follows:
1 35,580 17., 8T.B80
I 36,840 II 36,630
I 36,360 II 36,800
4 . 36,430 20 36,680
( 36,870 21 36,580
, 36,680 22 36,400
1 36,160 . 2 36,900
38.B00 24 38,730
9 36,480 2 5 36,880
10 36,300 2 36340
11. ; 36,670 27... 36,700
11 36,600 , 21 36,570
It 38,1207 29. 36,350
14 35.970 SO 36,550
It 36,350 SI 36,330
It 36,680
Totals 1,138,850
Less unsold and returned copies.. . 9,153
Net total... 1,133,098
Dally average 36,828
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn
to before me this 1st day of April, 190S.
(Seal) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
WHEN MOT OP TOWH.
Sakarrltters leaving! tho city teas
porarlly aheald kaTt The Be
mailed to them, i Address trill b
changed as often avs eaeeted.
Portugal is making another effort
to get Into Kentucky's' class.
A spring poet has r been banished
from Ilayti. 'Haytl also has other
troubles. -
Prince llelle de Sagan Bays he never
wants to see America again. The feel
ing Is reciprocated.
It Is a sure sign of spring when you
Suit counting the strawberries served
In an order at the restaurant.'
That asphalt feplilr plant can make
itself the most popular branch of our
municipal Koverfiment If It only will.
i President Cantro is amazed at the
attitude of the Washington officials,
who are amused at.. the attitude of
Castro.
In another week the Washington
base ball team wlil have to surrender
the pennant which it keeps every
winter. . ..
The (5,000,000 Interest on the Erie
rotes was paid on time. That's one
more Instance on record that the Erie
has been on time) , .
"Boston needs an administration
that will keep Us streets clean,'! says
the Boston Journal. There are no such
ftdminis.tra.Uone, .
Great Britain's negotiations for the
purchase of the Brazilian navy have
failed. Britain might make an offer
for he Swiss navy.
"The populists never change," says
fTom Watson. Oh, yee they do. They
Iiave changed so they can now resist
Mr. Bryan's blandishments.
The revival or the 'divorce Industry,
fwlth the attendant claims for liberal
alimony. Is .another evidence of return
ing confidence in New York.
President Eliot of Harvard has been
Invited to Halifax, Men may enjoy
elng invited to Halifax but they do
pot Ukt) being told to go there.
Tha excisa, board in Lincoln la going
to try to reduce, the number of liquor
licenses from 4 to J5V Those excisa
tnen must, like to make trouble for
themselves. ' '
Governor Johnson does not believe
Mr. Bryan can- be elected and Mr.
Bryan thinks Governor Johnson would
e defeated. Perhaps both are right.
A dispatch from California says that
'Admiral HJvans Is in good spirits."
l soon as ha recovers from his rheu
matism the good spirits will be in the
admiral.
China has started a boycott on
Japan, refusing to buy Japanese goods
rr to allow goods to enter China In
'Japanese ships. The yellow giant must
te waking pp.
I . rm
Health authorities at San Francisco
propose to dy Jot of rats red and
green and turn, them loose to note the
results. The first result will probably
be a lot of men signing the total ab
stinence pledge.
Most Omaba people have a decided
opinion as to th water works pur
f hase proposition, but few of them
rare to put their Ideas into cold type.
The matter, however, will have to be
threshed out sooner or later and a
Consensus of epLuIon. had to guide the
authorities in future proceedings.
ths ncif VIABILITY fc-4r.
Congress has been commendably
prompt in complying with the presi
dent's recommendation for the enact
ment of an employers' liability law to
replace the Vet of 1906, declared In
valid by the federal supreme court.
The new measure appears to give all
the protection possible to railroad em
ployes under the restrictions outlined
by the judicial decisions.
Under the new law the fellow serv
ant principle has been modified so
that the negligence of another employe
will no longer relieve the employer of
all responsibility, nor will the contrib
utory negligence of an employe destroy
his entire claim for damages. Ha will
be entitled to damages to the extent
that he can show that Iris employer
shares the responsibility for his In
juries. The new law Is narrower than
the old law, as it applies only to "com
mon carriers by railroads" operating In
Interstate commerce or traffic, instead
of to all common carriers. The former
provision, applicable to all common
carriers, was the claut-e which caused
the invalidating of the old law, the
supreme court holding that federal
authority extended to common carriers
only while actually engaged In Inter
state commerce.
In the earlier law congress took the
broad stand that in regulating inter
state commerce it could regulate the
conduct of persons and corporations
engaging in It, but the majority of the
supreme court held that the power of
regulation extended only to actual
interstate traffic and did not extend to
the ., conduct of enterprises engaged
partly in Intrastate and partly In Inter
state transportation. - This distinction
was clearly drawn by the supreme
court and the new law has been framed
to obviate the difficulty.
The practically unanimous vote for
the new law in both senate and house
Indicates the entire willingness of con
gress to go as far as possible to accord
the much needed and merited protec
tion to railway employes. It leaves to
the states the duty and power to adopt
legislation for the protection of em
ployes engaged wholly in intrastate'
enterprises.
TBS CRISIS IN rORTVOAL
When Premier Franco of Portugal,
whose regime ended with the assassin
ation Of King Carlos, declared that his
people were not capable of exercising
even' the degree of self-government
guaranteed them by the constitution,
he appears to have drawn a fairly
accurate picture of conditions In that
perturbed country. The recent elec
tions furnish convincing proof of the
fact that the people of Portugal, while
demanding reforms and relief, do not
really know what they want and need
a guiding hand to avoid drifting into
anarchy, .. ."
As a result of the elections, it is
apparent that the disintegrating forces
which Franco as premier succeeded in
suppressing have gained an ascendancy
that threatens the overthrow of the
monarchy. The financial and Indus
trial reforms that he promised have
been in a measure overruled by the
opponents of the crown and the bur
dens of the oppressed people have been
Increased rather than lightened. The
bad conditions that he had almost
rooted out when his hand was stopped
by the assassination of his monarch
have been . restored and emphasized.
Under the circumstances, Franco has
been, in a way, vindicated and some of
the men most insistent upon his ban
ishment are now appealing to him" to
return and become the constitutional
premier of the boy king, who needs a
strong hand at the helm. Although
King Emanuel has won the populace
by his evidence of well-meaning, he
is apparently unable to carry out his
program for the welfare of the people.
The very national life of Portugal
and the peace of that portion of Europe
apparently depend upon King Eman
uel's success in securing an iron states
man to aid in solving the problems
that threaten his monarchy.
CHINA S WAR ON OPIUM.
Great Britain's final, If reluctant,
agreement to join in plans to restrict
the opium traffic In China will be wel
come news throughout the world. The
agreement has been rendered effective
by an Imperial decree from Peking and
reports from consular agent and mis
sionaries are that beneficial results
are already being noted. ,
Credit for this concession on the
part of Great Britain must go largely
to the United States. Nearly a year
ago Secretary Root, with the consent
of President Roosevelt, Invited all the
powers having possessions In the far
east to participate In an International
conference to devise means for the
suppression or restriction of the use
of opium. The date of the conference
was not fixed, but the. enthusiasm with
which the suggestion was welcomed
evidently spurred the British govern
ment to action..
Great Britain's interest in the opium
traffic was commercial. India Is the
home of the opium poppy and its trade
In that drug has exceeded 35,000,000
annually. Great Britain deriving a
large revenue from It The British
have, however, agreed to restrict the
shipment of the drug Into China and
the Chinese government has under
taken not only to prohibit the local
manufacture, but to also prevent Its
use.
It Is estimated that at least 100.000
of the Chinese population are users of
the drug. Realising the futility of at
tempting ah immediate abandonment
Lof the use of the drug, the Chinese
government has decreed that the pro
duction of it must be reduced SO per
cent each year. Opium smoking joints
are to he nfcolished and a.11 nsere re
quired to register and be subject to
rigid official Inspection. Dispensaries
are to be established where medicines
which counteract the appetite for
opium will be given to the" people free
of cost. At the end of ten years all
officials continuing to smoke opium
will be removed from office, govern
ment graduates will be deprived of
their degrees and the. common people
who use the drug will be excluded from
public meetings and social gatherings
and will have their names posted on
the streets of their native cities.
The program provides a severe test,
bnt if It falls there is no doubt China
will keep at it until the monstrous
vice is eradicated.
IS A GRAND JURY fiEKDEDI
The Judges of the district court have
called another grand Jury for the com
ing May term, notwithstanding the fact
that the last grand jury adjourned its
sessions only a few weeks ago. As the
reason for calling another grand Jury
on the heels of the grand Jury just
held we are given to understand that
representations have been made to the
judges by outside parties that evidence
Is at hand to show something further
Is needed to Insure the carrying but
of the rccomendatlons of the last
grand jury, presumably with reference
to the regulation of the social evil.
Assuming that these representations
are all that they purport to be, we
still fall to see why the County should
be put to the expense of two grand
juries within two months when we
have a county attorney whose duty It
Is to prosecute all criminals and who
has, for the purpose of filing Informa
tions, practically all the powers and
authority possessed by .a grand jury
for bringing In a true bill. It seems
to us that the repetition of grand jury
calls savors very much of a reflection
upon the county attorney and his office
as if he were not willing to act upon
the evidence, which is expected to
bring about grand Jury indictments.
Douglas county's experience, as a
whole, has been that money invested
In grand Juries has been money wasted
and that they have accomplished little
that could not have been done just as
well and much cheaper through the
county attorney's office.
The Nebraska supreme court seems
to view the county comptroller legis
lation very much the same as did. The
Bee when it was up for discussion. If
that part of the law relating to the
merger of city and county auditing de
partments is defective It can and
should be remedied by the coming leg
islature in time to bring about the
consolidation at the expira'tlon of the
term of the present city comptroller
next spring, as originally contem
plated. When democrats In congress resort to
physical force and actually do battle with
their fists' In behalf of reform legislation,
their seal and whole-souled enthusiasm
ran no 'longer be open to Viucatlon.
World-Herald.
The thing for the democrats to do
then, Is to nominate for congress only
pugilists of the "Jim" Corbett type, or
wrestlers like Gotch. To stand the best
test of rigid physical examination may
soon be the first essential among dem
ocratic congressional aspirants.
Editor Pulitzer of the New York
World persists in asking Mr. Bryan
what states he expects to carry this
year that he did not carry in
1896 or 1900 and Mr. Bryan frankly
answers the question by asking -Mr.
Pulitzer how much stock he owns In
railroads and other trusts. It is pleas
ing to find democrats meeting issues
without evasion or hesitancy.
What about those stop-overs for
Omaha on excursion tickets for the
Chicago and Denver conventions? A
great many travelers would be glad to
break their trip at this point if the
conditions of their railroad tickets
were favorable and it is to Omaha's
interest to be personally inspected by
as many strangers from abroad as
possible.
Express rates on shipments between
Nebraska points are to go down with
the enforcement of the Sibley act, but,
unfortunately, the express business
subject to state Jurisdiction is only a
drop in the bucket. Real relief from
express company extortion will have
to come from congress or the Inter
state Commerce commission.
The author of that Century maga
zine Illustrated article on "The Rail
way Beautiful" missed a chance in not
coming to Omaha for some of bis pic
tures. Omaha has two railway sta
tions that for artistic beauty will hold
their own with any in the country.
The Dahlmanites have set their
campaign song to the tune of "Tam
many." Wonder if that is intended to
mollify "Boss" Murphy, the real Tam
many chieftain, for the hard names
recently poured forth upon him by the
local Bryanlte organ T
An English scientist has discovered
that tha average American boy is
smarter than the English lad of the
same age. Yes, and the average Amer
ican boy is smarter than his father
and the rest of the family to boot.
If anything has been gained by the
democratic city council by It pushcart
suppression beyond depriving a few
poor people of a chance to make a
meager living, It has not yet appeared
on the surface.
Another genuine Rembrandt has
been found in Berlin. It has been an
unusually successful winter for the
artists who are painting genuine Rem-
brandts and hldr". them where they
are sure to be discovered.
Chancellor Day says he cannot see
why more money Is not given to the
support of such educational Institutions
as that of which he Is the head. Other
peopfie can see why, without glasses.
A XoTlce In he Game.
Chicago News.
If Methuselah had been as wise as some
modern financiers he would have owned
the earth Ions; before he was gathered to
his fathers.
Reviving- the Silver Rattle.
Washington Post..
When Nebraska sends that sliver service
to the battleship named after it. It ought
to let Mr. Bryan make the presentation
pech.
Cearts Kanir Their Limitations.
New York Sun. -
The supreme court of the United States
has decided that New Jersey may not
export Its water, but no court has dared
to prohibit the export of another and
sweeter product of that stste; and so
long as other states have water enough
to provide chasers the shafts of Jerey
applejack lightning will continue to
brighten the darkness of outlanders' lives.
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Encouraging- Oatlook.
Springfield Republican.
The first government crop report of the
season la of a character to give tha busi
ness Interests of the country great encour
agement. It relates to winter wheat prin
cipally and shows the crop to be In the
best condition for this time of year ever
known, with only four or five exceptions.
So far, therefore, there Is good promise of
large harvests and a revival of agricul
tural prosperity.
Rebatlnar Admitted.
Kansas City Star.
When President Roosevelt, in a recent
message, called attention to what seemed
to be substantial charges of rebating on the
part of the Santa Fe railroad In certain
California transactions, he was roundly
abused by an official of the road, and the
charge was denied. Rut the president has
been vindicated, not alone as to tho Jus
tice of the charge, but also as to the per
Unence of his reference to It In addressing
congress. The rebating In question has
been admitted by the assistant traffic
manager of the road.
Notches oa His Stick.
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
Plenty Coos, chief of the Crow tribe of
Indians, testified before the senate com
mittee on Indian affairs in the Investiga
tion being mado concerning conditions in
Montana. He explained : that his name
was given to him in honor of his deeds
of valor. The name comes from the "coo
stick" on which notches are cut or scalps
are nailed. His trophies of battle became
so numerous that his coo stick was scarcely
large enough to hold , them and conae.
quently he was chosen chief and called
Plenty Coos. He explained that he ha
retired from the warpath and settled on a
farm and now confines hit attention to
scalping alfalfa.
THE MAILS AND ANARCHY.
Rrarnlattona Needed to Safeguard the
Government.
Minneapolis Journal.
The president sent' a message 'to con
gress asking for further legislation for the
suppression of anarchy. The laws already
clothe the- postmasOnv general with ample
power to exclude sedulous printed matter
from the malls when It is Intended for
general circulation. 1 This ' would Include
anarchistic periodicals and books or any
other printed matter claiming the second
class mall privilege.! Th government al
ready has the power to Inspect such matter
and determine its admissibility to the malls.
Greater protection, however. Is afforded to
sealed matter, and, under seal, of course
a great deal of mischievous anarchistic
stuff may be circulated, and manifestly tho
president wants congress to enact additional
legislation which will reach seditious matter
sent under seal.
It Is not reasonable to think that the
government is bound to furnish, distribu
tion facilities for any kind of printed op
written matter calculated to destroy the
government, but inasmuch as Us . mall
facilities may be employed In that way
under existing laws', ths situation would
seem to require modification of the laws
to nreet the urgent necessities of the case.
Th sanctity of the malls, the absolute
protection of the eet-recy of private com
munications by mail, Is an Important
matter, but tho protection of the privilege
cannot outweigh tha necessity of such
restrictions aa will thoroughly protect tha
government from secret enemies seeking to
destroy It.
RELAXING CHURCH RULES.
Removing the Ban oa Cards, Dancing
aad the Theater.
Philadelphia Record.
It Is a striking event In the history of
the several churches In the United States
when the New York Methodist conference
memorialises the general conference In
favor of removing the ban from cards,
dancing and the theater. To the older peo
ple of religious habits this will probably
seem overwhelming evidence of tha Inroad
of the world upon domain of tha spiritual
life. But others will see In It a tendency
to differentiate between tha essential and
vital elements of religion and the outward
paraphernalia of religious custom which
must necessarily vary from age to age.
The attitude of the Methodist church was,
a generation or two ago, that of all ths
denominations commonly described as
evangelical. But the Congregatlonaltats,
Presbyterian and Baptists have a much
looser discipline, and their restriction upon
what the older generation stigmatised a
"worldllness" were relaxed some time ago.
The Methodist live under a "method" or
rule of conduct, and whatever departure
Individuals may have made from the prac
tices of seventy-five years, or even fifty
years, ago, the denomination has not
changed It position. The rural Methodists
will be largely represented In the general
conference, and the proposal of the metro
politan Methodists may not prevail, but the
whole oourse.of modern thought la working
against the restriction, and they will yield
soon, if not next month.
Fifty years ago novel-reading was almost
as sternly condemned by the evangelical
denominations as cards. Art In the church
and the home was barely tolerated, and In
one of them the struggle for muslo in wor
ship la still going on. There la Iesa disposi
tion to regard religion as a dogma; still
lesa to look upon It as a code of dress or
deportment There la an Increasing disposi
tion to regard It aa the life of love to God
and man, of mutual helpfulness and self
sacrifice, of clean and wholesome, but of
broad and general, development In all direc
tions. Literature and art and music are
encouraged. Tha .utility of wholesome
amusements la recognised. And with all
this the churches have never shown more
Interest than now in the unfortunate at
home and the benighted In henthea lands,
a-J religious people were never doing more
than n?w to make this a rood world te
Uva la.
OX ritKIIDUNTI L FIRIXG LINK.
Aspeeta of the Preliminary t'ampalaa
la Varloas States.
Chicago Itecord-Herald.
Governor llughrs' failure to obtain a
solid delegation from his home state was
easily the festure of the week. While
New York's "big four" are counted solid
for the exccutlvt-i Taft has two outspoken
delegates, msny of the nominally In
structed liughis men are considered
lukewarm and the uninstructed may land
In varloua camps mostly. It Is believed, In
Taft's. The Massachusetts stste conven
tion wa clearly for Taft, but In defer
ence to party tradition chose four unin
structed delegate s-at-large. Two of these
are known to be fgr the secretary. Sena
tor La Follette's name appears for the first
time In the table. Pennsylvania also held
primaries and endorsed Senator Knox. Il
linois gave Cannon ten more, although the
two men In the QalesbUrg district were
not actually Instructed and are expected
to go to Tart after' a ballot or two. An
other Chicago district withheld instruc
tions, but the delegates probably will give
the speaker a compllmentaly vote and then
Join the Taft forces. Delaware chose un
instructed delegates and South Dakota
pronounced for Taft. Virginia added eight
to the secretary's list and West Virginia
two. Alabama and Ohio give him four
more. In , the Alabama case, as usual,
there Is a contest. Another Alabama dis
trict 'Tailed to instruct.
Total nnmaer of delegates to Chicago
convention 880
sT so emery to a nomination 4S1
Delegates seleoted to date 498
Instructed for Taft,' total 833
For Knox, as result of primaries .... 88
Instructed for Cannon 80
Instructed for Hughes .' , 40
Inrtrnoted for Fairbanks 38
Instructed for La rollette 85
Unlnstmoted (mostly for Taft) 60
Contested (four by Taft) 38
Instructed for 4
iu mi
n g f h sr
TATS, ETC. P ' g.
i : : : " ? i
Alabama 8 4
Delaware 4
Florida 8
Illinois 8 .. 48 4
Indiana , 30 . . . ,
Iowa 88
Kansas 90 ..
ntucky .. ..
Louisiana , .. 4
Maryland 4
Massachusetts . . 4 . . 4
Michigan 3 .. 8 .. .... . .
Minnesota 9 ..
Mississippi 9
Missouri 80
sTebraska 18 .. '. ..
New Msxloo
XTrw York 9 . . . . 40 . . . . 14
Worth Carolina.. 9
Ohio 3s ..
Oklahoma 14
Itennsylvanla .... 88 .. .. .. .. ..
Philippines a
Porto mioo a
Khode Island , a
South Carolina. 8 . .. . .
South Dakota... 8
Tennessee ....... 18 .. .. .. ... . ..
Virginia 14 10
West Virginia... 4
Wisconsin ..... 1 . . .... . . 88 . .
Totals 883 88-50 40 38 85 80
Taft's Overshadowing; Strength.
David S. Barry In Providence (R. I.) Jpur-
i . .' . nt. .'
One reason why the antl-Taft figures
have no confessed sponsor Is found in the
fact that some of the most Influential
of the anti-Roosevelt republicans, and
they of course, are the ones from whom
antl-Taft forces must be recruited, have
long ago given up the fight. They admit
privately that Mr. Hitchcock's confidence
Is largely justified. Even Senator Crane
of Massachusetts Is not anxious now to be
heralded as an antl-Taft man. He pre
fers to be known merely as the advocate
of an uninstructed delegation.
Manager Hitchcock has all along con
tended that the trend was so unmistak
ably in favor of Secretary Taft tbut It
would be Impossible to defeat lilm now,
even If the opposition leaders should be
able to combine on a candidate, which, of
course, they originally hoped to do. Ac
cording to Mr. Hitchcock, New England,
which early In the fight was conceded
to the opposition, will be practically solid
In favor of Mr. Taft's- nomination. He
points to the state of Maine, whose twelve
votes, he claims, are assured now, as sig
nificant of what will happen In the other
states. Maine was originally set down
as an antl-Taft state, but John F. Hill,
who will control the delegation, . has an
nounced himself for Taft. and has the
eituation In such absolute control .that
the other day, when the son of a very
prominent and influential United States
senator expressed his desire to be a dele
gate he was forced to pledge himself to
Mr. Taft before his name was put on the
slate.
To sum It all up, those in charge of Mr.
Taft's campaign, from the president down
to the humblest worker, now express con
fidence that there will he but one ballot
In the convention, and republicans gen
erally, with the exception of those mys
terious person who give out anonymously
antl-Taft figures, and Benator Jonathan
Bourne, Jr., are about ready to concede
that they are right.
Helpless and Hopeless.
Washington Post (Ind.).
When, to all seeming, it Is too lata th
opponents of Mr. Bryan in the democratic
party are ' suddenly become somewhat
brave and more or less active. Had the
leaders of the democratlo party discovered
the force and Independence of character
that we see In the followers of Cannon,
Fairbanks, Foraker, Knox and Hughes, it
would have been assurance of some degree
of sagacious deliberation at Denver next
July.
There was never before such a situation
aa the democratlo party 1 now In the mid
dle of. The weakest understanding must
see at a glance that to elect a democratlo
president this year at least 1,000,000 recruits
must be mustered from the republican
ranks in the states east of the Mississippi
and north of Mason and Dixon line that
cast their electoral votes for the democratlo
ticket In 12.
Those voters and they are' more than
1,000,000 are now holding out their hands
In appeal to the democratlo party and be
seeching It to give them a chance to vote
the democratic ticket in laus.
But If the now expected should happen
at Denver, the democratic party' will spurn
their petition with a "To Halifax wld ye;
there's no room In the democratic party
for the likes of you."
Thus we may expect to see the democratlo
party resolve Itself Into a thoroughly se
lect company of cranks and Impracticable,
hopeless and helpless. -
Aetlvltleo ef Joaasea.
New York Tribune.
'The Johnson boom for the democratic
nomination,, now that it Is openly . anti
Bryan.' begins to look a if It were actu
ated by common sense. ' There 'really was
no room for a democratic candidate who
didn't want the nomination If w Bryan
wauled It, .
MAGOO'S WORK I C'lB.
Practical Reealta Flow from Prac
tical Administration.
Baltimore American.
The one essential and profoundly neces
sary service which the United States Is per
forming In the Philippines. Cuba and Porto
Rico Is In the teaching of the real meaning
of government to peoples who have not
hitherto understood the significance of
right government. Government is power
concentrated In certain people; everybody
understands that. But It Is not everybody
seemingly, even In this land, where "gov
ernment of the people, by the people and
for the people" has been an applied theory
for more than a century, who clearly ap
prehend that power concentrated In cer
tain people is yet to be used to promote
the welfare of all the people. That, how
ever, is the fundamental principle of re
publican government, and It is a principle
which, a . Jins Just been remarked, the
United State Is Illustrating with convincing
effectiveness In Insular governments.
As the second government of occupation
in Cuba drsws toward the close It Is grat
ifying to know that leading Cubans are
practically of one mind concerning the
value of the service which has been ren
dered by Governor Magoon. Already one
of the leading parties under which polit
ical sentiment Is organised In the Island
lias placed a presidential candidate In
nomination. The impending change in the
government of the Island Is regarded very
differently from the similar change which
took place In 1902. Cuban eagerness for
home rule Is not nearly so evident as it was
six years ago, but thoughful observers re
gard the "prospects for successful au
tonomous government as being much more
hopeful now than they were Immediately
preceding the organization of the first
home government of the Island.
A valuable work of preparation for the
governmental system which is to be In
augurated has been accomplished under
the civil administration of Governor Ma
goon. The new government will stsrt with
a code of carefully drafted laws, statute
which have been made by commissions ap
pointed by the American governor, but
which, none the less, are wise and neces
sary regulative measures. The original
government came Into power under a con
stitution, but without a general code of
laws, and In spite of President Palma's
urging the Cuban congress failed to pass
needful legislation. To the absence of reg
ulative laws many Cubans now ascribe the
failure of the original attempt at govern
ment. To a degree, at least, the activities of the
masses of Cubans have been diverted from
politics to industrialism. This is a consum
mation replete with hopeful promise. And
It Is of significant Interest that the chief
method by which this wonderful transfor
mation has been brought about is the con
struction of good roads. In the province
of Plnar del Kio, for instance, which the
temporary governor is said to have "grid
Ironed with good roads,'.' the people have
found agriculture rendered so attractive
and profitable thereby that they have
largely quit the pursuit of politics and
turned their energies to growing sugsr cane
and tobacco. The Cubans are finding out
that right government means peace, order
and the pursuit of business. They have
also, there is reason to hope, graaned tha
fact that an election need not necessarily be
a revolution.
TUB FUTURE OF CUBA.
Kentucky Editor Thinks We Shoald
Have Annexed the Iatamrf.
Henry Watterson In the Courier-Journal.
Now that the Cubans have their free
dom, what have they done with It; What
are they 'doing with It, and what areJthey
likely to do?
I violate no confidence when T mini.
these words from that master of Inter
national policies and of good English, the
secretary of state: "We do not want
Cuba ourselves; we cannot permit any
other power to get possession of it, and,
to prevent the necessity of one and the
possibility of the other of those results,
we wisn it to govern itself decently and
in order."
Before coming here I cmiM n
apprehend the force and truth of this
language. Nothlnar was mii
Interval of twenty-four hours. I have
saio in a jocular way to Mr. Root, when
he was secretary of war: "Some fine
morning you republicans will have to get
up a Philadelphia election, and In that
way amend the mistakes of the Teller
resolution.,, I still think
have taken oyer Cuba along with Porto
ami me .rniiippines, and In the be
ginning have made an end of the whole
Spanish outfit. That would have saved
nnnite trouble. England, in our iia
would not have hesitated. Sentiment Is
rarely a sagacious statesman, thourh stste.
mansUlp must often consider and consult
sentiment. The sturdy old senator from
Colorado seems almost as big a crank
about liberty aa I am myself. Yet nothing-
la now clearer to my mind than th
Cuba will not or cannot, "govern Itself
decently and In order."
I have seen and talked with everybody
worth seeing and talking with her
reach tha conclusion that order will not
very long outlast tho exit of the pro
visional government.
It Is hard to have to say It, but It ap
pears true to say that there Is no Intelli
gent patriotism among the Cubans that
la, no fixed principle of nationality and
enlightened sense of the resnonslbiiitiA. n
government each of the parties led by
amouious men naving a personal following,
the objective point being the snoli. n't
possession. Graft Is the conscious, or un
conscious, asset of each of them. The
population Is divided Into three classes
the taxpayera. who want atabintv
scarcely expect It short of annexation, or
a protectorate: tha politician, who are
out after all they see, or fancy they see,
In sight, an-I the masses, made up largely
of mongrels, who know not what they
want .
Captain of Feaeisslsan,
Chicago News.
Jim Hill Insist that he doesn't want
to be too optimistic ' He cannot be cer
tain as to whether that shadowy form he
eea coming down the road I prosperity
or one of the neighbors approaching to
borrow half a pound of tea. In seeing the
panio gather up its playthings and de
part for pkrts unknown Mr. Hill would
reer something akin to a personal loss,
as the panic Is hi private property by
right or dtacovery. He saw It several year
before It was born, and used to try to
scare us out of wits by threatening us
with It If we did not walk a chalk line.
Now that It must away he may not car
to admit that it Is gone.
Not I'p te Advance Notices.
San Francisco Chronicle.
. There has been a great deal of talk In
this city about the reformation of munici
pal methods, and several club have been
formed to bring about that result. Per
haps something has been accomplished,
but the chances are nine out of ten of
those who have constituted themselves the
watchdogs of the treasury are not at
tending to their job.
' Raaal to the Pace.
' .Washington Heiaid.
Mr. Taft recently attended five luncheons
and four dinners In a single ' day. We
hardly bellev the president himself could
saceed that (or true slxenuoelty.
COFKHKCK OF trtl V fc R.1 0 S .
It Will roaalbly Become aa ICMfk
Maklaat Aaeemhly. r"
Snn Franlcsco Chronicle.
The president hns called a conference
of governors of the states to meet at the
White House In the near future, probably
under Ills presidency. Some recognised
experts In varloua lines will be present
to give definite Information on the topUS
to be discussed, and nti -the- official or
semi-official Information Xhua -supplied
the conference will deliberate. It Is ln
tended. If possible, to prevent the meeting
from degenerating Into a mere talkfest
and to have the assembly settle down to
the delitrate formulation of definite pol
Iclea to be promoted by executive Infill,
enee. atate and national - - .
The general subject to ha discussed is
the conservation of our national resource.
Our natural resources are. our lands,
our water, our minerals and ou -forest.
The qucatlon m be what shall we do
with them so far . as they are still In
public ownership, and what policies shall
we adopt aa to legialation which may af
fect tho disposition of those which have
passed Into private hands. What particular
subject will be broaglit up has not been
publicly announced, hut among ,thos
which might tome up are the question
of how shall we deal with the, national
grating domain? From what sources
shall the funds come for Improving our
waterways and reclaiming our marsh
lands? And as to policies affecting re
sources in private ownership there might
be discussed. What shall the states or
the nation do wlfti respect to cut-over for
ests? and shall we so legislate as to pro
mote the export of our coal and Iron ore
These are but example of lh funda
mental and far-reaching problems with
which we must desl in some Way or re
fuse to deal. The object of the president
is to so organize and formulate public
sentiment that the different section of
this great country may pull together."
PERSONAL If OTITIS,
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The Council of Empire at St. Petersburg
has raised the Russian legation at' Tokio
to an embassy. - '
Congressman Cole of the' Eighteenth Ohio
district haa twice secured his nomination
by the flip of a allver dollar, but he is not
a silver man for all that. '
The special counsel for the New York
attorney general In going over, tha assets
and liabilities of the New York City Rail
way company discovered that. 16,000,000 wns
charged to "construction and eoulnmnnt."
The amount actually spent he found to be
s.tMO.
Mme. Zola, widow of Bmlle Zola, the
famous French literary man, has published
an open letter. In which she expresses re
gret that she cannot retain possession of
the body of her husband: She declares
that his labors of forty years, hi part In
the Dreyfus affair and the insults of the
reactionaries have done more for his fame
than can the Pantheon. '
"American oil painters 'get 'much more
encouragement from the wealthy men of
the west than they do from the millionaires
of the east," said Henry Bernhardt of Mil
waukee in New York the other day, "There
is more patriotism among the western men
of means and they pay better price for
American pictures . than the easterners.
American works are going Into the galleries
of the west."
Two officers of the German army, Major
Stelnbrlnck and Lieutenant von Hanstcln,
and Count C arm ax of Berlin,, who are in
America for tho purpose ot renortlnar ta
the German emperor on certain . subjects
In which he is Interested, have arrived In
New York after visit toi Washington, Boa.
ton, Nlsgara Fall and West Point. Th
new bridge and the subways In. New York
have particularly Interested the visitors.
POINTED PLEASANTRIES.
"Here's this would-be critic talking about
a water color in oil! Lld you ever hear
of auch a thing!" '
"Oh, yes." '
"What kind of a water color could be In
oil?"
"Sea blue, couldn't It?" Baltimore. Amer
ican. "Of course you won't object to me as a
candidate because I'm a poor man."
"No," answered the cautious constituent;
"not if you'll consent not to get rich quick
after you get the office." Washington
Star.
"You don't mean to tell ma.'f said Mr.
Housekeep, "that you were ever a poet?"
rrea, ma'am," replied Weary WUlle,
when I was younger. Dat was how mv
feet first went astray." Philadelphia Preea.
'Bo many 'successful' authors ride In
automobiles now."
'Yes; It's slow work gettlns? to Oblivion
by freight train." Atlanta Constitution.
Fair Client I want you to net a dlvorci
for ma.
Lawyer Why. I'm surDrlaed. Mrs. Smltlil
I thought that you and your husband so;
along so nicely together.
air cuont on. w do. but I m the only
woman In our Domestic Economy club that
has not been divorced, and I don't want to
be so odd. Toledo Blade.
Lawyer for tha Defense The prisoner as
serts and can prove that at the time thli
fight was taking place In the main street,
be was In an adjacent alley.
Facetious Prosecutor 1 see. tie warns to
establish an alley-by. Baltimore American.
"No. of course, Batcheller doesn't keep
house; ho Just has apartment . at his
club." , .
"Well, then, he doesn't know what life la.
Half the fun of going to your club Is lost
unless you've got a home to stay away
from." Philadelphia Press. - i. .
Husband (on overland train) Tou mustn't
min.4 ii Maria, if I take several doses of
spirits during the day, from now on. It'
the only thing that will cut this alkali dust
that gets Into one s tnroat.
Wife You won't have to do it today,
John. I've been making some inquiries,
and I find we don't strike the alkali region
for 600 miles yeu Chiuaa-o Tribune.
- COMRADES. '
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-n. .... j w.w -Tftrk Tlmaa.
Somethln' about an old sweethearf-eome
dream about an ,
Feller named O Rellly wrote lt--doa t lust
remember th' name; r i . ,
Heard It last night at th-' lecture girl
knew how to recite t -
Had it committed td memory Knew how
bring it out right.
Rome perfect stranger sat near me, back
pretty well to rds the" door.
Feller Just dropped n I ,rekon-t never
aw him before; ' '.
FeUer 'bout fifty or sdat, purt Well
dressed I could see. ,.
Dropped In to pass a dull eVenln. mm.'
took a seat right nas t' m . k ,
Somethln about an old, aweethear-I
don't remember It all.
But It wss still when she spoke It wasn't
a sound In th' ball;
I don't go much on rvcltin', but when ah
spoke It, you see,
I couldn't help lUtenin' to it, she seemed
to talk right at me;
gomethin' about an olj sweetheart; say,
but she knew bow to speak.
Somethln' In her or ' O'Reilly made me
all wet on my thek; " ' '
And when I looked at u' stranger, hopin'
that he didn't see, . ,
Hi cheek was wet an' a tear . rolled
down on th' aide nex' to me,
A 1 -
Somethln'. about an old aweetheat-pi
don't remember th' word., , ,
But It brought memories to me, ' spring
time an flowers an' birds;
Brought back th' Bpiing an', th' June-
tune thoughts that , wern ctUr . and .
dim,
An' I looked over an' wondered what It
was brlngln' to him. -vi ,
I aaw him take out his frankchej, lookln'
about aort o' sly.
An' whan he thought I wa'n't lookln rub
somethln' out en his eye; - -
H didn't seem like a stranger fou
know how sympathy Is
Somethln' about an old weeUteart mebb
Hiait kindled ' hiaj
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