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c,c State of Nebraska. Dotlglaa County.
throw George B. TWmjek. treasurer of Tha
who Publishing company, being duly sworn, ssys
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de,d1by his calendar that this is the month
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their ot May.
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A h New currency bills are abundant In
ttarPcongress, but they do not pass with the
grocer.
"tu Oyster Bay Is probably wondering
mri whether it will lose its telegraph sta
ABR(tlon after March 4. 1909.
Tha Some congressmen are clamoring for
Am'economy almost as though they were
Ar, spending their own money. .
shout i '
into i r "The state Is full of the Knox
The boom," says the Philadelphia Press,
bull perhanaht no tiro- of an overflow.
There appears to be a deep laid con-
and Y rlraey In tb American league to keep
thisfthe Washington team out of last place.
drag! ' '
Whdj Who denies that it pays to carry a
hoL'p "tIck? H,n" we" wl" t
tha i 110,000 for the season's work with the
floor! Pittsburg base tall team,
when .
iiiW Omaha High school debaters are
ferJ winning In almost every forum. Every
rued!)1'!1 helps In building up Omaha's
The prestige at home and abroad.
thruJ Tom Taggart denies that he owns or
nyJoperjtes a gambling house. He can
Ann'8'? bis passion for games ot chance
ruUUlby playing democratic politics.
Mra.i "
and i "Mountain Moves; Village Vanishes"
Ui '"' V newspaper headline. It is a wise
.ttQ4J village that knows when to get out of
for the way of a moving mountain.
Out v
Admiral Evans did not finally decide
to join the fleet at San Francisco until
he learned that the Nebraska colonels
wtthi were to take part In the festivities.
Indlctmanta hiu hoa. r,..J I .
li:CU
ritlJ twenty ..of , the -Kentucky' "Night
Riders.' It is only necessary now to
Uljflnd;a efcerlff who can bring i the in-
dieted men.
Maxine Elliott Is planning to estab
lish ri ideal theater in New York. Sh
should try the experiment in some city
where there' la better prospects of
curing-an Ideal audience.
Reports from the Pacific coast are
to the effect that Governor Sheldon la
aoni making a most favorable Impression
oiieion tn, Callfornians. Governor Shel
lnAdon makes a good impression wherever
vataj P6 oes. - ' '
pair "
guij Omaha's building permit record for
th J April shows 8 falling- off. All the
0jrtJ more reason why the people should
Hani, vote ,or ncw court house next Tues
At; day to help keep our building record
palrJup to the top notch.
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pj Those communications in the local
tua (democratic organ, neaaea "wny Bryan
Pete Will Win." read very much like alral
th jar communications that were printed
In 1816 and 19Q0, but failed then to
give the correct answer.
Thomas F. Grady is to be sent to
congress by .Tammany to succeed
Bourke CocVran. Both are democrats,
but Tammany , has Grady trained to
stand hitched. -something It has never
been able to do la Cockran's case.
The Japanese minister of finance Is
coming to the United States to float a
loaa of $80,000,000. This will dlsap
point Senator Money, Congressman
I Hobson and the New York Sun,, who
have been expecting Japan to come
I over with a fleet and kidnap the United
j States treasury. -
. CVfiTMQL Ot TRfsr COMPAWltB. '
As tbo result of a lesson taught by
the recent panic, the New York legis
lature has enacted a law providing for
more rlfld Inspection and supervision
ot irnst companies doing business in
that state. In the earlier days of free
and. easy, finance, the trust company
had a limited field, as the depository
for trust funds In the narrower sense,
and really took the place of the ad
ministrator, executor or trustee In the
management of estates and moneys
awaiting final distribution and allot
ment. High financiers, however, saw
their opportunity and for some years
trust companies la New York and else
where have developed Into banks, op
erating under an alias and doing busi
ness that was, in many cases, consid
ered unsafe for conservative bankers.
The advantage of the trust company
lay)n the fact that it was not required
to comply with the rules and regula
tions governing the operation of banks.
Under the law Just passed in New
York, truest companies are required to
have on hand 16 per cent of their de
mand deposits and are to be subject to
rigid supervision of their investments.
Under the old law, the trust companies
were required to keep but 5 per cent
of their demand deposits in cash. This
might have been ample if the com
panies had adhered to the business for
which they were primarily instituted,
but when they became engaged in a
general banking business, it became
evident that they should be surrounded
by greater safeguards. The New York
law will doubtless be used as a pattern
in other states where lax supervision
of trust companies has enabled them to
violate all the fundamental rules of
safe and conservative banking.
THt ATT OBLIGATIONS.
be most important feature of the
second annual convention of the Amer
ican Society ot International Law, re
cently held, was the prominence given
to the discussion of the duty of the
United States to take action looking
to the making of violation of treaty
obligations a federal offense. The
subject, while it may not appeal to the
average cltlxen, is one that very ma
terially concerns the nation's relations
with foreign powers.
The peculiar disability of the United
States to punish attacks upon citizens
of foreign countries is one of the chief
sources of diplomatic concern and won
der. While our nation will send a
fleet, If necessary, to protect the right
of its humblest citizen in a foreign
land, it is apparently powerless to fur
nish redress to a foreign citizen who
may suffer injury in an American city.
The anti-Greek riots In Virginia, the
Attacks upon Italians in New Orleans,
the outbreaks against the Chinese and
Japanese in San Francisco and similar
Incidents in other sections of the coun
try have never been satisfactorily ex-'
pjalned to foreign, goyernnjents. . ,
, Foreignera generally, even those in
the diplomatic service, have difficulty
In understanding the distinction drawn
in this country between federal author
ity and the authority ot the states.
When citizens of a foreign nation are
attacked In person or their property
destroyed in an American city, the
diplomats promptly file a complaint
and a demand for indemnity with the
State department at Washington. The
only answer they receive is a statement
to the effect that the matter Is one
with Which the state authorities have
to deal and the national government
has no right to Interfere or Intervene
until the police power of the state has
proved Inadequate to cope with the
emergency. This gives the appearance,
to foreign diplomats, ot a conflict be
tween the state and national govern
ments, a conflict which does not exist,
in fact, but the appearance ot it is diffi
cult to explain.
Congress has considered, without
final action, bills designed to give the
federal government authority In cases
involving the life or property of foreign
cltisens, but the objection raised Is that
such laws would Introduce a system of
criminal jurisprudence for the protec
tion of aliens different from' that pro
vided for our own citizens. This would
tend. It is urged, to degrade the state
Judiciary and produce conflicts between
state and federal authorities that would
result in more harm than good. At
the same time,, while the discussion
may not result in the enactment of
laws giving the federal government
control In the protection of aliens In
the different states, It may result in
arousing state governments and police
authorities to the necessity for more
vigorous enforcement of the laws
providing for the protection ot the lives
and propeity of all citizens, native or
alien. , .
1HS EXfRfSS BIS IX ESS.
The announcement that the Milwau
kee. railroad proposes to carry on Its
own express business over Its new Pa
cific coast extension, Is generally ac
cepted as a notice that the company
will soon abrogate Its contract with the
express company which has the monop
oly of the business over the road's main
system, a contract which may be can
celled on ninety days' notice.
Recent investigations of the entire
business ot express companies show
clearly that there is not a trunk line in
the country that could not transact its
express business more cheaply than Is
now being done by the separate express
companies, with a saving to the patrons
and an increase ia earnings to the rail
road companies. The same faat tralna
that haul ears under lease to express
companies could haul the same goods
for the railroad company and the de
livery could be accomplished by the
forces already employed for the other
traffic of the railroads. That this plan
has not been adopted in the past has
been due chiefly to the fact that prom
inent railroad men have been large
holders of express company stork and
have found It to their personal advan
tage to take over this side line and pay
an outside organization for service
which was purely a function of the rail
road companies.
While capitalised for many millions
and paying fancy dividends ,on stock
watered to the limit, the express com
panies have little tangible assets, out
side a few horses and wsgona and
office fixtures. They exact two heavy
tolls, one from the railroad companies
and the other from the shippers,
neither ot which finds warrant in the
legitimate scheme ot transportation.
The railroads are heavy losers, as they
perform a maximum service at a mini
mum price and the profits go to the
express companies, which are simply
middlemen In the transactions. The
mulcting of both the public and the
railroads by the express combine is one
of the greatest evils in transportation
matters.
OMAHA'S BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
If anything were needed to prove
that Omaha Is enjoying an upward
trend in spite of the business depres
sion that prevails all over the country
it is to be found in the fact that new
establishments are continuing to locate
here right along with almost as great
frequency as before the panic ot last
October.
Every competent observer in posi
tion to form an unbiased opinion con
cedes that Omaha has suffered as lit
tle from the financial flurry as any city
anywhere and far less than most of
the cities which rank in its class and
with which It is properly to be com
pared. The consequence is that busi
ness prospects here, when measured
against those in rival commercial cen
ters, hold out more substantial promise
than can be found In any other city in
this section, and in determining on a
new field of activity Omaha is getting
the preference from the far-seeing
business man who counts on future
expansion as well as present profits.
To realize that Omaha Is on the up
ward trend, however, is not enough
for our enterprising public-spirited
citizens and commercial associations.
It is for them to make sure against any
slowing down or backward step and to
meet at all times the competition of
other cities and towns that are aiming
at the same object. In other words,
if Omaha will make the most of all Its
varied advantages Its population and
business growth of the next few years
will far outstrip all its previous
records. ,
The judicial division law passed by
the last congress establishing new
places in Nebraska for 'Sittings of the
federal court ought to relieve our con
gressmen in part in making selections
among .rival claimants for new public,
buildings' -." Other, things' being equal,
the town which has to. provide quar
ters for a session of the federal court
should come in for a public building
ahead of those which have only post
offices to take care of.
The Independence league announces
that It has not yet decided upon its
candidate for the presidency. Perhaps
not, but it is a reasonably safe wager
that It will be a man who owns a chain
of newspapers from New York to San
Francisco, has served in congress and
has been a candidate of the league for
mayor of New York City and governor
of the state.
Voting $50,000 to pay for paving
street intersections is equivalent to
starting paving work amounting to
$200,000, because the intersections to
be paved constitute less than one
fourth of the street surface that will
be embraced in the contracts.
Governor Johnson declared at De
troit that he was "not in a fight for
the purpose of defeating Mr. Bryan."
The governor is hugging a delusion if
he thinks he can capture the nomina
tion at Denver without defeating Mr.
Bryan.
Nebraska postmasters have post
poned their annual session until later,
when the presence of some of the con
gressional delegation may be expected.
The postmasters show a keen apprecia
tion of the desirability of keeping
close to the congressmen.
One of the first Jobs waiting for
Mayor "Jim's" return will require him
to get out his lariat to rope down his
Park board and put up a warning
notice to keep out Intruding park com
missioners bearing the judicial brand.
Omaha Is furnishing a vice president
for the national organization of Sons
ot the American Revolution. , Omaha
stands ready, also to comply with simi
lar requests from all thp other na
tional societies ot sons or aaugnters.
Mayor "Jim" got no big game in
Wyoming. Mayor "Jim's" most suc
cessful big game hunts consist in raid
ing the Jacksonlan menagerie.
Leaa't Argit Ja. .
Washington Herald.
A court haa decided that a pedeatrlan has
the right-of-way over a road In preference
to an automobile. However, it la probably
juat aa well not to inalat upon arguing the
matter while tbe auto la in motion.
Paaa It ,
Washington Post,
It having been definitely settled that
Abraham Lincoln was not a drinking 'man
and at one time was whlskerlesa, thla
stems like a good time to change tha sub
ject. s
All taaslaar Hla Way.
Baltimore American.
It ia a fine thing for any man to have
the complimentary vote of his stale for
nomination for president of the United
States, and tt is well that 'atatca with hla;
men 'should honor them, but lust now Taft
Is the national figure, and all the states
will come to him after paying their respect
to their favoVite sons.
Weaatorlal t.ame Spelled.
St. I-ouls Times.
Whn the senatnra aaln combine to
beat the president out of newspaper space
they will do well to bear In mind that they
are competing with, the best press agent In
the country. 1
The Man Who IHee Thlnaa.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The publics attitude toward President
Roosevelt ought to be sufficient to convince
anyone who haa hitherto- been In doubt
that the people of thla country cannot be
kept from admiring the man who doea
things.
Democracy's Bla; Koar,
. ' Chicago News.
Connecticut democrats. In convention, de
clared their allegiance to "those principles
of government enunciated and expounded
by the great democratic statesmen, Thomas
Jefferson, Andrew Jackson. Grover Cleve
land and William Jennlnga Bryan." O rover
and William ought to ahake hands on that.
Aetlrltles of the Peacemaker.
Kansas City Star.
It is true that Secretary Taft has beeit
conspicuously successful In settling Tana
ma Canal sone Questions, but that Is not
the primary reason why he is going there
now to compose various and serious differ
ences. The fact Is, that, when there is
trouble to allay, all cones look alike to tha
secretary of war.
Crafty Move of Johat Chlaamaa.
New York; Tribune.
It has leaked out in Peking that tha
Chinese -government is planning to have
the governor of Mukden province make a
loan of $16,000,000 to finance the administra
tion of Manchuria. It la proposed to let
the American and British capitalists in on
the deal, which seems to be a cleverly con
ceived plan to enlist support which will
neutralize Japanese aggression. The wily
celestial seems to be absorbing western
wisdom very rapidly. He appreciates the
good will of the United States and Kngland
and at the same time realizes that it Is
well to fortify rood will with a cash In
terest. ,
Valae ot a Free Praaa.
Philadelphia Record.
One house of congress would not disen
tangle itself to receive the special message
of the president; the other received It, bit
refused to remain In session to have it
read. Jnsulted and thrust forth of the con
gress, the appeal of the president never
theless goes undelayed to the country
through the aaency of a free press. As
long as It remains impossible, under the
constitution to abridge the freedom of the
press it does not ao much matter whether
the messages of the presidents shall go first
to the servants or to the sovereigns, who
will be duly informed and who will then
Judge for themselvea of the testiness of
their executives and of the pettiness of
their legislators.
ONB RESULT OK "HARD TIMES."
Competition for Work Improves Qual
ity ot Labor.
New' York Times.
A peculiar and unexpected, though easily
tomprehensible, result of the "hard times"
and "business depression" is reported In the
shape of a marked advance In the effi
ciency of the men who are still employed.
Now thaf Jobs are comparatively hard to
get, the man who has one does his beet, or
at least his much better, to convince his
employer that he Is worth keeping, and
hla Output pf.XSF ahff am6tfiif',6f" pratlucr
tion have bothhdlabTy Increased over what
they were in the days when discharge waa
something not at all to be feared and
"aoldlerlng" was as safe as It was pleasant
pleasant to all except the man who paid
tha wages, that is.
Roughly stated by one observer, the
member of a big contracting firm, aixty
men now do aa much as 100 did formerly,
with a corresponding reduction in the cost
of the work done. This, in many cases,
haa changed what had seemed to be a los
ing contract Into a profitable one, and has
made possible the continuance of opera
tions that otherwise would have had to
stop.
looking deeper Into the matter, one gets
some new light on the petty reasons so
often given in the past aa Justification of
the worker who did not exert himself to
his fullest capacity. This, it waa said,
was for altruistic reasons in order that
there might be work enough to go round
and none ahoutd be left without employ
ment. Apparently an even atronger argu
ment along these llnea could now be made,
but, If the facts are aa stated, the In
clination to make It has departed and in
its place haa come what, according to old
fashioned people, is the old-fashioned habit
of finding the lightest self-interest in con
sideration of the employer's Interest.
VACCIXATIO.Y I SCHOOLS.
Illinois Sapremo Co art Rales on One
Phasa of Question.
Chicago Tribune.
Tho decision of the Illinois supreme court
In the case of the People ex rel. Lioulse
Jenkins vs. The Bosrd of Education loavea
an Important question open. It ia to be
hoped It will not be left open long. The
Question Is this:
Has the legislature power to make vac
cination a condition precedent to attend
ance upon the public aehools?
From the f eclslon of the supreme court It
now seems settled that the police power will
support exclusion or rules and regulationa
providing for exclusion "where such course
is necessary, or reasonably appears to be
necessary. In case of an existing or threat
ened epidemic of smallpox and to -revent
the spread of the disease."
But this does not Include a general rule
requiring vaccination as prerequisite to at
tendance upon public schools even when or
where epidemic conditions do not exist. As
to this power, it is now definitely held,
first, that neither the city nor the Board
of Education has been granted such a
power, and. second, that the power of the
state legislature Itself to exercise It In
derogation of the constitutional provision
for the maintenance of free aehools has not
yet been Judicially ealablished.
The Tribune believes that the power of
the state legislature to pass a law making
vackinatlon a condition precedent to attend
ance upon the public schools should be
teated as promptly ss possible by the
passsge of such sn act and by bringing a
teat rase under the act before tha supreme
court. It la true that where epidemics
exist the power of exclusion already exists
In .the proper authorities. But such Is the
nature of smallpox aud such the Intimacy
of communication In modern cltiea that- not
strictly epidemic conditions but chances of
contagion are virtually ever preaent. The
epidemics of former times, thanka to the
advance of hygienic silence and the exten
sion of health regulations, are now com
paratively Infrequent. But the sporadic
cases are too frequent and the public
schools should be protected by sweeping
laws against them.
Tha prejudice against vaccination has no
respectable support from scientific men.
It la a species of superstition. ' Whatever
reason for it formerly existed has disap
peared with the universal uae of bovine
virus. No reasonable liberty would be In
fringed by a vaccination law for the
aehools. The public health demands one.
Ot rtlIDRTIV nniu I. IMC.
Progress of tha faat est for Can re a.
tlon relra-atee.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Arkansas. Colorado Maine Menlanrl
Mil
sslsslppl. North and ttouth Carolina and
Wen
si irgmia gave the Tart vote a note
le lift last week. Of the 14 new di-
able
egat
tes Taft has 2.
Total delaa-ata u
Keeesaary to a aomtaatioa 41
Delegates selected to Sate T6t
K? V"
o Kogrhaa e
For Canaoa si
Tot Pairbanka 39
Por x.a Pollette g
Tor Poraker (a contested)
, . U I J. 4 .1. ....... I.Q
Contested ' 71
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" 2 o
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r e a s o
tates, Xto.
Alabama is .'. 8
Axisona s ..
Arkansas 10 4
Colorado 10 ,.
Delaware 6
Diet, of Colombia i
Jlortda 8
Georgia 8
Hawaii a
""no's 8 . ... 48 ... . 4
Indiana 30 . . .,
Iowa i. ae
Kansas 80... ,
Kentucky g 8 . .
Louisiana is
Maine s 4
Maryland 14 8
MaaaaohajMtta .. la .. 18
Mionta-an 10 .. .. 8
Minnesota sa .. .. ,. .. ,, ..
Mississippi SO., ..
Missouri 88.. ...... .. .,
Msbraaka 18 ,.
Stevada , 8
wew X amps hi re g
sTew Jersey 0 ,
Hew Mexico s
52kTrk-. 8 .. B8 17
Worth Carolina... 80
Ohio 38 .'. , 4
Oklahoma 14
Pennaylvania 88 ....
Philippines 3
Porto jaioo 'j
Rhode Island g
South Carolina... 8 .. ... 8 .. .. 8
Boutn Dakota.... 8
Tennessee 34
Virginia 14 J0
Wert Tlrginla.... 14
Wisconsin ......... 35 .
fOtAU 878 88 B8 S8 88 88 135
Foraker gets two in Florida and four
In South Carolina.
AH Aboard for Taft.
Minneapolis Journal (rep.).
The lure of the bandwagon is weaving
its potent spell over the camp of "the
allies." The fanfare of the Taft trumpets
la a music more fetching than that of the
sirens to the muffled ears of Ulysses'
sailora. Even now the best seala on the
triumphant vehicle are filled with wide
smiling Taft boomers, and none kiow
better than those marching beneath the
variant banners of favorite - sons how
quickly the remaining seats will be pre
empted aa the Taft gonfalon Is seen to
head the political procession.
Unless they act quickly, they fear there
will be atandlng room only, or perhaps a
mere foothold on the rear atep, as tlm
bandwagon daahes smartly Into the home
stretch, with the horns tooting, the drum
rattling, the tubas rumbling and the shrill
piccolos piercing the glad air with Joyous
staccato. What desolation would bo theirs
If in that triumphant moment, when the
public In the grandstand arises and wildly
cheer tho victor, they are lagging super
fluous under banners that no one pays the
slightest attention to!
It Is becoming daily more difficult for
"the allies" to hold their forces In leash.
One day in the near future there will be
a break for liberty, and the Joys of vic
tory In the Roman holiday to he made by
Jhe Taft triumph. tTmi It wilt ho air oref
save tha paens.
Possibilities at Denver.
Kansas City Times (Ind.l.
As the time of the national conventions
drawa nearer it becomea more and more
probable that the Denver convention will
be the more exciting of the two. The
nomination of .Mr. Taft Is already a fore
gone conclusion, but It now seems certain
that the democratic nomination will not go
to Mr. Bryan by default, as was indicated
several months ago. He may not have
even one-half of the delcgatea under In
struction for him, certainly not the two
thirds necessary to choice. With such a
situation, the convention will have a real
contest on Its hands, with a large number
of delegatea Instructed for Bryan, a con
siderable number for Johnson, a few for
Judge Gray and with a very large number
without instructions and receptive ta the
arguments of the hour. If the nomlnsUon
of Bryan ahould be Impossible. It would
not follow that the nomination of Johnson
would be certain, for It .might be necesssry
to leave the naming of the successful
candidate to the popular leader.
Thua there may be a possibility of nomi
nating some mail not now considered, or
one who has been regarded as wholly In
cidental In the Interesting race. What a
novelty it will be for the democratic party
to have an old-fashioned convention once
more!
Various Brands of Democrats.
Washlrgton Pct (lnd .
Today 1'here are more sorts of democrsls
11,. n there were different orders of Whigs
when Taylor was elected president. There
are dmocrats who would re-esiamisn ine
supremacy of the constitution. Governor
Johnson Is rne. Judge Grey is another.
Senator Culberson ia yet another. But
there are democrats who advocate the
worst sort of paternalism such aa pre
scribing by set of congress how much
product a factory may tuin out. Cyrus or
Persia never dreamed of a despotism as
galling ss that would be. Tet Mr. Bryan
wrote It In the platform or tne iseuraaka
democrats this very year, and he Insists
that it shall be Incorporated In the national
platform at Denver.
It Is this amalgamation of a doaen dif
ferent aorta of democrats that will com
pass the death of the old party if the
ihp and the goats are not separated.
We predict that the vote of the Indepen
dence league this yeir will astonish all
parties even the league itself.
A Favorite with Republicans.
Boston Transcript (rep.).
Noting Taffs insistence that Bryan will
be the democratic candidate, and the hoa
pltalitles which Governor Fort of New Jer
sey Is extending to him. the New York Bun
wisely remarka that "Among republican
politicians Mr. Bryan has always been the
favorite democratic candidate for the pres
idency." Evidences of this might be multi
plied. President Roosevelt's treatment of
Bryan In recent months has been extremely
rtTurteous Republican party organa regu
larly Insist that Bryan is the inevitable
candidate. It waa they who alerted the
prediction the day following Parker's do
feat that Bryan would be the next presi
dential nominee. The democrats ss a party
have their faults, but the lack of an accom
modating attitude toward their opponents
is not one of these.
Heneirsaaeea of Johnson.
Henry Watterson In Courier Journal.
What chance would Johnson have over
the dead body of Bryan? What chance
would Johnson have carrying a Wall street
tag? What chance would Johnson have
using the undemocratic two-thirds rule to
defest the will of the majority and that at
the behest of the east, defying tha west
and working the south?
Tbe thought la preposterous.
PANICS AD POLITICS,
Retatloa of One to the Other In For
mer Times. .
Washington Tost (Ind ).
Po far as we new recall, every demo
cratic statesman of the latltudlnarian guild
la loud In protestation that the era of
prosperity thst came cn In 1W vindicated
tha contention of the democrats of 1W4
that what was needed was "mora money."
Not only Is their argument false In sug
gestion, but tt confounds causa and effect.
Prosperity cama before "more money" was
obtained, and If prosperity had not come
tha money would not have conte. It la not
abundant money that makes prosperity,
but active money. If plenty of money
will prevent a panic, how did that panlo
of laat October manage to work Its havoc?
There was more money per csplta then In
circulation than ever before, and perhaps
twice as much as there was when pros
perity came with a hop, a skip and a Jump
in 1837.
The republican party Is not only endowed
with marvelous genius for politics, but It
Is the spoiled darlirug of chance. The panic
of 1ST3 came tha year after a presidential
election that was a signal republican vic
tory. By sheer chance a republican was
Inaugurated prealdent tn 1877 chance re
enforced by democratic blunder, aa invinci
ble combination.
In 1879 prosperity came with resumption
of specie paymeMs, and that, re-enforced
by another democratic folly, elected Gar
field. In 198 another panlo came, legiti
mate child of tha Flfty-firat congress, but
the democrats got power in March of that
year and had to bear the odium.
The panlo of 1907 came at a most inau
spicious time. Juat before "presidential
year." If it were the old party of Tllden,
Thurman, Hendricks and Morrison, the
republicans would go to the slaughter this
year without a doubt; but tt Is another,
a new, a latltudlnarian democracy, and If
tha expected comes to pasa It will go to
tha slaughter In November.
Then If tho republicans should make a
revision of the tariff halfway acceptable
to business, what peg will be left for the
democratic party to stand on?
Mr. William R. Hearst sees none: but he
Is busy driving pegs for the successor of
tha democratic party, as a formidable force
in politics, to stand on.
BR V AW AND HIS PARTY.
What'a the Use of a domination that
pells Defeat f
Cincinnati Enquirer (lnd.-dcm.)
The democrats of the United States have
been good to Mr. Bryan. They have asked
no sacrifice on his part, but have yielded
to sacrifices he has asked from them. They
gave the nomination for prealdent to him
on a platform that was unquestionably
against the party's Interests on business
lines, though It may have been on a cor
rect principle at the time. They went to
defeat on a new deal of which Mr. Bryan
was the recognised parent. They nom
inated him a second time on a platform
substantially the same as that of ISM. and
again he was defeated. In the next conven
tion year, when Parker was chosen, Mr.
Bryan was gently tolerated In the face of
all tha complication he made In the na
tional convention and given every chance
to Join the procession In supporting the
action of . the authorised democratic or
ganisation. Now ha demands another nom
ination for president, with certainly no
better prospect for election than he had on
either previous occasion. He stands on a
platform of government ownership, initia
tive and referendum and of hostility to the
enduring principle of representative gov
ernment in the republic. He Is merely
dormant on the extremes of the silver Ques
tion ami has never repented ot his) wlllhisT-
ness to turn the' whole management of the
democratic party to the populists when the
convention was held at Kansas City.
Will the Ohio democrats stand by Bryan
In the face of all this showing? Will they
accept hla eloquence and the traditions of
18M aa compensation for another defeat?
We ahall soon see. It Is possible that the
republican convention could pick somebody
from its list of candidates who could be
beaten by Mr. Bryan at the polls. Would
It be Taft? Would it be Fairbanks? Would
It be Cannon? Would It be Knox? Would
It be Hughes? We are inclined to the
opinion that Ia Follette of Wisconsin
would be tha easiest "meat" for Mr. Bryan.
But Mr. La Follette's proapect is as remote
as the millennium. Great lives come and
go. Lincoln, Garfield and McKlnley were
murdered, bwt "the republic still -lives." It
can survive another nomination of a twice
beaten man. But what'a the use? When
Is the party of Jefferson, Jackson, Tllden
and Cleveland to come to the end of the
long period f experiment and adventure?
CAPITALIZING LEISURE.
Properly Utilised, It Holds tha Real
Hop of Progress.
Wall Street Journal.
One of the moat valuable assets of pro
gress is leisure. The use of leisure is the
test of man's capacity to enjoy liberty, to
enlarge his opportunities, and to capitalise
his capacities. .
The trend of modern life la further to
Increase th margin of leisure. The work
ing day has shortened In many cases from
twelve to nine hours, and In not a few to.
eight. Th time for Instruction and edu
cation of the young tends to lengthen
rather than to shorten. Tits disposition Is
for men to retire earlier from their life
pursuits. Our holidays sre increasing
In their frequency Th whole trend of our
life is to devote less 01 our time to bread
winning and more of it to th free pursuit
of Individual desires. But th problem is
only half aolved when the world, has
learned how to get a livelihood out ot less
hours of the day and less daya of the
year. Th greater problem is how to
utilise leisure to advantage, with all Its
possibilities for Improvement or Injury.
In thla wprk-a-day world leisure must be
regarded as a credit. It may be utilised to
Increase the burdens of the community In
a wasteful and reckless consumption of
th savings out of the past. It may be
utilised to restrict production, and thus
Increase th burden of making a living, as
when tha shorter hours are ultlllxed to
restrict unduly the output of Industry.
But the real hope of progress lies in that
us ot leisure which will add something
to the permanent assets of the sge In
which wa llvs. Idleness whether practiced
by th rich or th poor, means self-destruction.
Some substantial gain In the things
that enrich life must be the outcome of
leisuie or 11 will b a failure. Only by re
garding leiaure as a free opportunity to
strengthen, to fortify and to enlarge life.
In its work as well aa In its play, ran
It be made orth while as a platform In
butlness policy.
us
arc not made up from chemical poisons.
RICHES A DISGRACE.
Too Mark of a ftooa Thins: Challenge;
Pabllr Scorn.
New Tork World.
There seems to be an unorganised move,
ment to prove that Americans not only
do not worship wealth, but that riches sr
a curse and a discrace.
Senator Bailey so etrongly resenta thi
report that he is a millionaire thst h
offer to sell all his holdings .In Trxsl
except a sno-acre farm for ll.ono, which ha
will give to charity. Mr. Bryan s self,
respect was so hurt by the statement that
he had an Income of 176,000 that he look
pains whll In New Tork recently to ex
plain that It was nowhere near that figure.
Both seem Inspired by th conviction)
that an Indelible stigma attaches to worldly
prosperity, and that the esteem of their"
fellow men can only be preserved by pmoC
of their being In what the multl-mllHonalr
would consider poverty.
Judge Gray of Delaware Is said to hav
refused a business salary of JiOO.OOn on tha
ground that no citlsen should be pahl
more than the president of the United
States. A salary of VAOOO a year repre
sents a capital of Sl.noo.ono In brains or
property, which puts Mr. Roosevelt In tha
millionaire clsss so long aa he la prealdent.
But Mr. Roosevelt loolts upon the mtilti
millionaire as the lesst enviable and onu
of tha least admirable of our -cltlxens, with
his hard and cruel fce and soft body
and with his son a tool and daughter t
princess.
Of course multi-millionaires are no rarer
today than millionaires were thre or four
decades ago. But popular fashions changa
rapidly. If this thing keeps up, the mar
of uncounted millions to retain his self
esteem will soon have to go about In rag
and be even poorer than h pretends to
bo when he swears off hi taxea.
PERSONAL NOTES.
President Roosewelt says he will not buy
an automobile while there are horses. - Tha
Impossibility of being photographed takinaj
a alx-rall fence in an automobll la evi
dent enough. A
William Waldorf Astor, the expatriate
American who recently bought and pre-'
aented the Chesapeake's flag to a British
museum, once was American minister tu
Italy under President Arthur.
A hew wrinkle In matrimonial misfits
forced a smile on the face of a Chicago
Judge. Th wife demonstrated to tha satis
faction of th court that her husband, a
deaf mute, talked too much. Could Judicial
gallantry go farther?
Senator' Tillman of South Carolina, with
Mrs. Tillman and a party of friends, will
leave May 1 for a tour of Europe. A
considerable portion, ot the time, it Is
said, will b sacnt In Italy. The trip
abroad will not permit tha senator to en
gage in politics actively betor next fall.
The emperor of Japan ha beatowed upon
Henry Clewa, the well known banker and
financial authority, tho highest Imperial
decoration given by Japan to foreigners.
The honor conferred upon Mr. Clews is
in recognition of the notablo service ho
has rendered to Jspan, beginning thirty
seven years ago, when Marquis Ito camn
to the United States at the head of a com
mission charged to establish Japan's finan
cial system on a modern bssis. Ito and
the commission were accredited to Presi
dent Grant, who referred them to Mr.
Clews for th practical Information they
BOUftlt.
POIMKD PLBASASTRIES.
"Do you mean to tell me," said the in
credulous man, "that the moon is made ot
green chessc?"
"Certainly rtot," aaid the Imperturbable
one. "Such a question would be a ca!j
for tbe'.purs. f.;hw'.Wyn3toa Star.
"l.ll, you Just ought to have heard how
Mlss Capsicum talked the other day when
she was real mad. You don't know h;
you missed."
"What did she say, Jen?"
"Gracious! Vou don't expect m to siy
the dreadful things she aald, do you?" Chi
cago Tribune.
"i don't like to dine at the Flashlelghs."
"Why not?"
"They always have a cocktail for an ap
petlaer." ... ,
"Well?"
"After I drink the cocktail I don't have
an appetite for anything but cocktails."
Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Podunk I dew think It's out
rageous to send our fleets over to JapSn.
Mr. Podunk Olt. 'shaw, ma! It's Jest tin
a friendly visit. Why ia It ourageous?
Mrs. Podunk Why, them sailora will bo
full of them Japanese Jlnrlklshaa tha hull
time. Juctse.
Mr. Glib Did you see, my dear, where
some scientist says that people who are
great talkers are In danger of insanity?
. Mrs. Glib What a crazy Idea! Baltimore
American.
"And now, Cryptomerla," said the young
an. still holdlna her hand, but with a note
of anxiety In his voice, "where ahall we nu
lor our wedding Journey 7"
"Home quiet little place In th country,
not far away, Gerald," she answered, "will
suit me a great deal better than a Ion
and expensive trip."
"We are going to b very happy, dear!"
aaid Gerald, with a sigh of relief. Chlcsgo
Tribune. 1
"You took retainers from both husband
and wife In this divorce case," aald the
court severely.
"Your honor," ssld the accused attorney,
"let m explain. I was first retained by
the man."
"No impropriety In that."
"Then conscious that the husband had se
cured legal talent of auch high order, I
deemed it fair that the wife should have an
equal show." Philadelphia ledger.
SCARED I
New York Bun.
Oh. there's treniblin' at Chicago,
Omaha an' New Orleans.
An' It hurta New York. 'Frisco,
For to look behind the acenea;
'Cause we ain't got any army
An our navy ain't wuth beans!
Should a nation want to lick us
There ain't nothln' we could do 4
But to take our dose of bittera
An' lay low a year, or Jwo;
An' when we'd Jest get to fightln
'Tother nation would be through.
"Up an' at 'em. gallant Umpty!"
Yells the gen'ral to his men.
An' they go a-chargln' forward
In an aggregate of ten.
Ain't It awful? Of that army
Only .one cornea back agin!
An tha navy tries Its darndest
But Ita turreta sre a lee,
An' its armor's on tha bias.
An' the helm won't answer "geej"
An' the admiral'a commission
Beara a date back In B. C.
Drefful stale! Now a'ponn the Zulus
Take a fancy for a fight!
Or the Hottentota or Muekies!
Why, they'd lam us out of sight!
An' 1 tell you. friends an' neighbors,
Boch wide openness ain't right.
An' I've polished up the firelock
Gran'ther used at Bunker Hill,
An' I've got it handv, loaded
With a double buckshot pill;
An' they don't get me for nothin'
I'm a-watchln', ready. Bill!
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