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4 TIIK OMAHA DAILY HEE: MONDAY, .HTNE 22. 100. The Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED HT EDWARD ROSEWATF.R VICTOIl.ho36WATF.n. EDITOR, . -. , . - tntered at Omaha Pottofflce at feccnl claaa matti r. TERMS OK SUUSCRIKTIuN:' Dally Hee (without Bunduv). one year..M Dally Bee and Sunday, on year unday Hff, one year I U Saturday liar, one year t. DELIVERED BY CAItHIKH: Dally Hps (including Sundiy), prr w- k.1rc Dally Hee (without Sumlav), per '.. 10; Evening Re (without Sunday), per we-k o Evening Bee (eith S unday), prr wek...loc Addresa all complalnta of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICIOS' Omaha The Ben Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 15 Scott Street. t 'hicuan IM Marqueitn Bids. , . New York Rooms 1101-1104 No. 31 vV est Thirty-third Street, , f Washington 73 Fourteenth Street N. v. . CORRESPONDENCE. Communlratlona relating to news and edi torial matter ahuuld be addretaed: Omaha Bee, Editorial DcDaitment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee 1'uMlshlng Company. Only 2-cent stamps received Ir. payment of mall accounta. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION: State of Nebraska, Doug I an County, nn.'. George B. Txschuok. treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full snd complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening1 and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May. 1908. was as follows: 1 38.840 16 36,100 a aa.sao 3 36,700 4 .,36,eao ,..36,860 ..36,680 T 36,610 36,370 t 36,130 10 36,900 11 36,350 13 36,310 13 36,180 14 36,064 IS 3S,M 17 36,060 18 36,830 19 35,660 BO 35,830 Bl 36,930 S3 35,860 88 36,800 84 36,100 B 5 36,000 B8 85,900 87 35,990 88 35,880 88 38,880 SO 35,460 31 35,900 Totals 1,180,890 Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,880 Net total 1,110,710 Daily average 35,839 GEORGE B. TZSCIIUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In itir . presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of June. 1908. M. p. WALKER . Notary Public. , WHEN OUT OF TOWIt. Subscribers' lea vlna; the city tem porarily ahould- have The Be mailed la tkem. Addresa will he changed aa uftea as reqaested. Mr. Bryan baa already been beaten twice by an Ohio man. The trouble In Cuba appears to be that the natives are trying to raise Cain Instead of cane. All doubt about the strength of the Chicago platform has been removed. Mr. Bryan" has denounced It. Ella Wheeler Wllco says that pain is her' dearest friend. No one la going tc try to rob her of her dearest friend. There will be little for the Denver convention to do except to make Us customary protest against the inevi table. - ' ' - Yale has conferred the title of LL. D. 'on John D. Rockefeller. The amount of his contribution is not etated. ( "Mr. Bryan will not write the demo cratic platform," says the Baltimore News. Why? Because he has already written it. - George "Washington Berge Is threat ening to overflow Nebraska again. One thing about the Berge Inundation, it's harmless. "With Bryan defeated this year, who will be the democratic candidate for president in 1911?" asks the Savannah News. Bryan. Book crttlca ire having a heated dis pute over the morals of the late Lafca dlo Hearn. - That's one problem Hearn never worried about The government has sent 800 ma rines to Panama for the purpose of preventing trouble, or having the first whack at. It If it develops. Two carloads of snakes have been hipped north from Alabama. Slnac the state hag gone for prohibition the borne demand for snakes haa fallen off. Senator Gore of Oklahoma reports that he 1b now able to distinguish be tween black and white. They have democratic Jim Crow car laws in Ok lahoma. , ' Secretary Taft'a son has taken the prize for mathemtlca at Yale. The sec retary also took, a mathematical prize at Chicago, getting 702 points out of a possible 980. Pern ha8 elected a president with out the formality of a revolution. Peru appreciates the tiselessness of trying to get into the limelight while the Chi cago convention was on. The American ambassador to, Berlin bas purchased three new carriages. The good effect of the deal will be lost, however, the first time Mrs. Hill rides ber bicycle down to the market and scorches home with a basket full of vegetables. "The republican party will find' the ratio .of fifty-two to one a very embar rassing one to deal with in the coming campaign," aays Mr. Bryan. The re publican party has never had much trouble in dealing with any of Mr. Bryan's ratio propositions. The advance in price on articles of necessity Is having an effect on the ap propriations made for the support of the state institutions. In order to oome but, even at the end of the bi ennium the' managers ot these state institutions will hav to do Just as the home-makers are doing economise on living expenses, , a - . :. a . ... 1 BHTAX AIM IVATSOfi. When Clark Howell, the brilliant editor of the Atlanta Constitution, and a shining light In the councils of southern democracy, recently started a boom for Tom Watson for the vice presidential nomination, at Denver, he did so, It is now clear, without the aid or consent of the flre-eatlnf! Geor gian who has been nominated for the presidency by the populist party. In addition to being the presidential nominee of his party Mr. Watson is the editor of a weekly neWBpaper and a monthly magazine. In the ' current number of his magazine The Jeffer sonlan Editor Watson makes It pain fully plain that he la goiug to fight Mr. Bryan, not to support or aid him. By way of Introduction, he demands to know what Mr. Bryan has said or done that Is so extraordinary. He de clares that In all the writings and ut terances of the Nebraska stateman there Is no thought or expression that will live and charges him with having failed utterly to follow the patriotic course which he marked out for him self In 189G. Contrasting the Bryan of 1896 with the Bryan r of 1904 and 1908, Watson says: The Bryan of W6 was a bold, brilliant, enthusiastic tribune of the people a Rlenzl In eloquence, courage ahd devotion to lofty Ideal. In that year I could stifle my own feeling of humiliation, kuboftllnating - self Interest to patriotism, and stump Nebraska for Bryan successfully, adding to the glory of Bryan, adding nothing to the, credit given Watson. . ' But the Bryan of 1904 It was. Impossible to defend, follow or admire. The tribune weakened Into the party back. The patriotic reformer shrank Into the calculating poli tician. "Party regularity" had to lie main tained, for Bryan's own future Interest. Popularity, eloquence, magnetic presence, personal Influence, all had to be given to a canse which Bryan, himself had. said, was unworthy; and thus Hod-given talents and a glorious opportunity were misused In order that personal ambition should keep Its feet. In the beaten road of political promotion. - ; 1 7 . The time may come when some dauntless and consecrated leader of the people will have to wear a crown of thorns but It will not be W. J. Bryan.. The time may come when a heartbroken following may look through the mist of Weeping 'eyes' and see their beloved champion flailed, to'tne- cross, but the victim will hot be -triet- ora'tor of Nebraska. AS TO G It J IX RATES. ' Instead of pushing their plans for an increase of freight rates, the big transcontinental railway systems are confronted with conditions that prom ise to force either reduction on grain rates from the west to the "Atlantic market or result in a big loss of busi ness by diversion to Canadian com petitors. ' The importance ot the situ ation has been emphasized by the withdrawal of two freight steamers of the White Star line, with a capacity of 10,000 tons each, from New York and their transfer to Montreal. This transfer 1b due to the fact that the adjustment of freight rates is such that , cargoes of grala jsanbe 1 put on board at Montreal t, 3 WrXents per bushel below the cost at New York. As a result the freight steamers have been unable to secure- cargoes at New York while the wharves' at Montreal are swamped by an accumulation of grain awaiting shipment to Europe. The all-water rate from Duluth and Fort William, delivered f. o. b., steamer at Montreal Is 4.25 cents a bushel, while the rate from the same ports, via Buffalo, to New York is 7.4 cents per bushel. Since the opening of the navigation season, 8;000,000 bush els of wheat have been shipped from Montreal while only; "2,000,000 bushels have been forwarded from New York. A conference betweit the. railroad manaeers and the grain; interests, has been called to agree on measures to prevent the total transfer of. the busi ness to Canadian porta, ' The condition is the flriaj blow to the recently entertained proposal to Increase grain rates in the United States. When existing rates divert trafflo to Canadian lines, there is no danger that they wiU be Increased. Em phasis is likewise placed on, the' need of early Improvement of our inland waterways. Canada has for years been busy in equipping a rail and water transportation route from the Pacific coast to Montreal and the Atlantic sea board. With an all-water route rrom Duluth to Montreal, the Canadian transportation companies are in posi tion to fix rates that command the grain business of the northwest until such time as the United States can meet the competition; by offering water routes to the gulf.", through', the .Mis souri and Mississippi rivers. OMAHA and cayvKKTioss. During the week Omaha has had the privilege of standing as host for some gatherings ot Important' organized bodies. The conventions were not un commonly large in number, but the delegates In attendance were represen tative business men from their several communities and as such are to be con sidered. The fact that Omaha showed to th,ese men its capacity for caring for conventlona and providing for the convenience and comfort of those in attendance is a more convincing argu ment than many columns of newspa per snace unsupported by performance. This is referred to merely to call at tention to the further tact, that otner and still larger conventions are offered to the city if the proper effort is put forth to secure them. The printing nressmen have practically without so licitation located their convention for 19C9 in Omaha, a gathering which will bring here the best representatives of a large orgamzatipa- 01 intelligent wnrklnrmen The traveling men are making an especial effort to secure the 1909 convention of their organization and the railroad engineers and firemen are anxious to bring Jhelr national fathering for next year to this city. - These are but some of the large or ganlzatlona that are willing to come 1 here If the proper encouragement Is extended them. The Commercial club through Its committees Is working with commendable seal to bring these gatherings to Omaha. The business men of the city may be assured that so far as the central organization can bring It about the end will be justified. but no barm can possibly come from business men lending their Individual efforts to support the Commercial club. Omaha has a good name as a conven tion city and should take full advan tage of it. THH COL VIAL PBUBLFM. General Luke E. Wright of Tennes see, who succeeds Mr. Taft as secre tary of war, will have no sinecure In office, but will be at once confronted with the disposition of some rather complicated problems In the Philip pines, at Panama and in Cuba. He will find that while his predecessor bas done all possible to work out these problems, and provided for meeting possible, and rather probable future emergencies, he will require all the ex perience he has acquired In the Philip pines and In his dealings with oriental peoples to bring a satisfactory solution to our pending colonial problems. The Panama situation, It appears, Is becoming more critical and no ef fort is being made to conceal the ad ministration's anxiety over conditions In the toy republic. A strong body of marines has been sent to Colon, to be ready for any emergency that may grow out of the coming Panama elec tions and there la a healthy prospect that our government will bo called to Intervene. The factlona In the little republic have apparently no apprecia tion of good government and it is more than probable that the United States will eventually have to. assume con trol of Panama, for the proper pro tection of our vast interests in the canal zone. Conditions are less critical in the Philippines, but no little dissatisfac tion prevails among the natives over the failure of congress to give prom ised tariff reductions on Philippine products. Friction also exists between the officials of the Philippine assembly and the Philippine commission over the failure of the assembly's efforts to reduce the salaries of American offi cials in the islands. This Is resented by the Filipinos particularly as con gress, while refusing to cut expenses of American administration In the Philippines, failed to make a recipro cal concession In tariff matters that would have enabled the Philippine government to increase Its revenues and encourage the development of the resources of the archipelago. While conflicting reports are being made on Cuba, the best opinion seems to be that the Cuban government, to be choBen at the coming electlonn will not last three months, if the American troops ar.e withdrawn from the islands. It is pretty evident that the influences which brought about Amefican inter vention two years ago are again at work either to prevent the withdrawal of the American troops or to hasten their return after the inauguration of the new Cuban government. Fortunately for the administration, General Wright has served in the Philippines as governor general, and is thoroughly familiar with conditions In the Philippines, at Panama and In Cuba. Fortunately too, he will have the counsel and support of Mr. Taft and also of Governor Magoon, who has had a wide and most successful experi ence in Cuba and at Panama. Data returned to the office ot the State Railway commission shpwB that railroad business In Nebraska, at least, has not only been maintained at a high figure, but has actually Increased during the last year. Any falling off In revenue the railroads may have ex perienced Is due, and it lays, on other business and not to Nebraska business. This Is a most eloquent showing for the Antelope state. Prohibitionists at Hastings appar ently overreached themselves in their zeal to brine about the downfall ot the saloon. By failure to observe closely the technical requirements of the Ne braska election law they have lost a member ot the city council, and Hast ings has again become wet. It pays even a reformer to observe the law at times. Admiral Evans thinks that twenty four battleships In the Pacific and a like number In the Atlantic would ba about the right size for the United States. The admiral must understand, however, that it is easier to agree on the size of the fleet than it Is to agree on the size of the congressional ap- prcprlatlon for naval purposes. In an article in the Delineator, Wil liam T. Stead, the London editor, aays: "There are some dairymaids I would rather marry than some of the wives of college presidents." He is entitled to his choice, and then It would be safer, too, remembering the laws against bigamy. Omaha territory will .profit directly through the decision ot the Interstate Commerce commission, restoring the rates on lumber from the northwest to what they were before the arbitrary advance made aeveral months ago. There never was a good reason for the advance. The dispute as to whether the editor of the Omaha double-ender called on the late La Follette manager in Ne braska or whether the call was re versed is not especially important The significance lies in the fact that they did meet and confer. Fashion leaders have now decreed that it Is the proper thing tor women to scqulre a coat of tan during the summer, and that parasols wllF bo lit tle used. Ilack of the announcement appears to be a deep laid scheme for the retirement of the Merry Widow hat. Another home trade tour Is sched uled for the coming week. The value of these expeditions to the Omaha bus iness men Is not easily calculated, for through them the men who are mak ing the city great are becoming ac quainted with one another. BoarJ of Trade bulls will be much interested In the reports thut catfish are doing much damage to the corn in some sections of the Missouri valley. The Haven for It ml I en In. ft. Ixiuls Globe-Democrat. The radicals are not pleased with what bus been done at Chicago, but Denver offers them a huven If they are extreme enough. ' Dolnn; Quite Well, Thnnk Yon. St. Units Times. For a man who was too diuiaerous to bo made governor of New York und also for a man who knew nothing about practical politics, Mr. Roosevelt seems to bo doing us well as could bo expected. Summer Job for Army Surgeons. New York Tribune. American army surgeons have had such an honorable and conspicuous share In proving that mosquitoes disseminate dis ease that there Is special propriety In the campaign rfgatnst these Insects which the War department has Just organized. In all probability civilians as will as soldiers will be benefited by the abatement at military posts of what Is both a nuisance and a menace to health. The r;rlnI or l.eirnl Forma. Baltlinora American. An orphan's court In Pennsylvania gravely settled an estate of la, of which 11.60 was the. cost of the settlement. The six children received portions of six and five cents, and to the widow was given seventeen cents, a trustee being appointed to prevent reckless extravagance on her part. It Is all well to follow out legal forms, but such proceedings as these come dangerously near turning the maj esty of the law Into a roaring farce. Scrapping; About the Boodle. New York World. Tn answer to this . hullabaloo about "publicity," and the revised points raised In the foregoing. It is enough to say, first, that the Nebraska law does not apply to national campaigns, and second, that the campaign In 1904 was Mr. Parker's cam paign Mr. Ryan, Mr. Parker's backer and not Mr. Bryan's campaign. Louisville Courier-Journal. But James C. Dahlman admits that this money was all used In the state campaign and that not a dollar of It went to help Parker. Moreover this money was con tributed by Thomas F. Ryan to help Mr. Bryan's senatorial prospects. The cam paign of 1904 might have been "Mr. Par ker's campaign and not Mr. Bryan's cam paign," but It was Mr. Bryan's brother-in-law who got Mr. Ryan's money. EIGHT BILLION DOLLAR CROP. 1 ' , Ninth Successive Good Harvest Meas ured In Advance. New York World. Chief Statistician Clark of the Agricul tural department estimates that the ninth successive good harvest Is practically as sured to the Artferican farmer and that the crops of 1908 will be worth nearly W.ooo.ooo.ooo. Eight billion dollars would pay the net Interest bearing debt nine times over. Or It would pay the net national debt and leave enough to buy at par the stock of all thd railroads In the country. It would nearly pay off the entire bonded debt of every American railroad. At assessed valuations It would buy every acre of land In . New York City and replace every building In It, with a little remnant over equalling the combined assessed valuations of Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, Seattle and San Francisco. Corn does not travel far from the place where It Is raised, which Is lucky, as there are rot railroads enough to carry It. A crop of 2,700,000,000 bushels should load 2,530,000 thirty-ton cars, 640 more freight cars than there are In the country of every sort. The freight cars of all the world would not carry our wheat and corn. If there were cars enough and If the wheat and corn were loaded Into thirty-ton cars, forty to a train, and' trains were run at two-mile In tervals at a speed Including stops of thirty miles an hour night and day. It would take nearly six months for the procession to pass a reviewing stand. A bin built the slse of a city block 600x200, would need to be more than six mllt-s high to hold this wheat and corn alone. The hay and cotton crops and the stupendous annual egg yield of the American hen are In bulk and value equally amazing. There Is little In these facts to Justify pessimism. If there are rats in the na tion's granary It Is the nation's business to drive them out and keep them out, but the material basis of prosperity Is brqad and firm in the matchless abundance of nature. EASING THE LABOR STRESS. Causes Operating; (or Betterment of Conditions. Philadelphia Press. If 400,000 working people, net, had not left this country In seven months, the pressure for work would have been far more serious than It has been. As It Is, 560.000 persons who have emigrated since October, while only 160,000 have Im migrated, eased the pressure In one direc tion, and the flow from the city to the farm, from the east to the west, from old lands to new, have relieved the demand for work In another direction. When the present fiscal year closes, with this month, It will be the first time since Immigration records began, In lfd, when more people have left this country than have come to It. There nas been an Increase, as always In periods of depression, of those taking up land In the west. Nothing has proved the elasticity of American life more than the way In which our communities have met the reduction by nearly a fifth In the work, and the ag gregate wages offered in the last half year. That Is in part because, while the people at work since it4 have increased only about a third, the savings banks deposi tors have grown from 4.600,000 to ,50u,0u0, or almost twice. Deposits grew almost thrice, from 1.655.000,000 to $4,000,000,000, or two and two-thirds. What Is true of these savings is true of all. The number of small realty owners 'has grown far faster than the number of people. So have building associations. Thrre la more work and work Is more diffused than fifteen years ago. The tele phone, the automobile, the skyscraper and other new fields of employment have come In. Women are more widely employed and families have In them more wag earners. Aid to those who need It Is better organ ized and there la less want In a time of st 1 ess. Fortunately, there has begun to be an Increase In labor and the flow abroad and to the country continues to relieve the pressure. 5I PHKinENTIAI. FIRING LINK. t hlraao Convention Sets the Pace for the Camnalca. Principal events In Tsft's life: lfiT pVptcmhrr 16 Rom. Cincinnati, O. 1ST4 Graduated from Woodward High school. 1878 tiraduated from Yale. 10 Graduated from law school of Cin cinnati university. lfso Admitted to the Cincinnati bar. Acted as law reporter for newspaper. ISM Appointed assistant prosecuting at torney. IKS: Appointed collector of Internal reve nue. 1WC1 Resigned and entered general law practice. l'iSo Recamo assistant county solicitor. IfNfi Married Miss Helen Herron. 1SSS Appointed judge of Cincinnati su perior court. Klected to same office. 1S90 Appointed t'nlted States circuit Judge. 189tl Received degree of IX,. T., from Yale and became dean and professor In law school of Cincinnati university. limn Recame president of Philippine eom mlslon. 1901 First governor of the Philippines. 1904 Appointed secretary of war. 19i Nominated for the presidency at Chicago. After fieri er, WhatT ft. Ixmls Globe IVmocrat. (rep.) Whnt will come after Denver? Neither Rryan nor anybody else can tell. Bryan, himself is ready to "chance It." He loses nothing by the candidacy, while there Is a bare possibility of a great gain for him, and there Is a certainty of one sort of a gain through the advertisement which the nomination will give him. His book on his European tour has been postponed till now so as to get the benefit of the boom which Denver will give him. Arrangements are made to put It on the market while the convention Is In session, and this Is expected to place It among the "best sell ers." His weekly paper In Nebraska Is receiving many new subscribers. The list will be Increased after the nomination. For the next year he Is expected to have as much of an Income as the presidency would bring In four years. Tho New York World Is saying, "The poor old democratic party," and other eastern and southern democratic papers are echoing this senti ment. But as July 7 Is on his side he can laugh at such slings and arrows of out rageous fortune as November I may fire at him. As for the democratic party, Bryan probably thinks that after the hard knocks It has received In recent times nothing that is ahead of It In 1908 can In jure It much. Tnft and the Month. Atlanta Constitution (dem.). And while the constitution and the south ern states, speaking by and large, main tain a political alignment antagonistic to Judge Taft, we risk few contradictions In stating that the dominant element In this section will view his nomination as the wisest and most acceptable choice that could have been made by his party so far as the Interests of the south and the nation are concerned. The affiliations of the constitution and the southern states are too well known to require elaboration. But should the demo cratic party fall of success at the polls next November, we believe observant southerners will regard the accession at Judge Taft to tho presidency with confident complacence. His familiarity with southern problems and conditions Is based on- other than academic or Intuitive foundations. As t'nlted States circuit judge In southern Ohio for eight years, he came into Inti mate touch with representative southern ers and southern sentiment, the influence of which Is visible to this day. The constitution and the south, speaking generally, will give toyal and aggressive support to the democratic party. Should the arbitrament of next November decree the defeat of that party we would, for the reasons enumerated, view the election of Judge Taft with tranquillity. Compliment to the President. Kansas City Star (Ind.). The barler that stood firm and Immovable in the Chicago convention against the rising cry of "four years more" subtracted not an Infinitesimal fraction from the gen erous spontaneity of the tribute to the president that swept and overwhelmed the convention. It was a magnificent demon stration of the triumph of Judgment over sentiment. The outpouring of gratitude and affection for the president came In a copious tide, but It was not marked by the Impetuosity of unreason, nor by the ve hemence that sweeps away the safeguards of wisdom and caution. When President Roosevelt announced on the night ot his election In 1904 that he would not again be a candidate for presi dent he took himself, of his own free will and accord and in obedience to what he re garded as a safe American precedent, out of the running. From that very moment he ceased to be an available or a logical candidate. He then and there put It beyond his power to consent to a candidacy that would weaken his own word or show his purposes fickle and Inconsistent. Theodore Roosevelt was the man who placed a veto on the proposition of "four years more," and the convention at Chicago could have paid him no tribute more worthy of his splendid services to the republic and no compliment In closer keeping with his ad mirable Integrity than to take him at his word, and honor, as genuine and without artifice his own declaration. Taft aa a Leader. Chicago Tribune (rep.). And It is as a man that the American people will look to him (Taft) as their chief executive. He Is a citizen whose democracy Is broad, straight and red blooded. His sympathetic response to the people's needs and aspirations will be un failing. He has been at one with them throughout his public life. His effective seconding of the president's main policies has been misinterpreted as mere compli ance. It was and Is based on an Independ ent political Insight Into the needs of the times, and It Is proof of his fitness to carry on a work In which he has freely and fully shared. The charge of want of Independence Is known to be false by everyone informed on the history of this administration, for it Is Taft more than any other member of the president's coun sel who did not hesitate to sta'e hla dif ference with his chief, and oftener than others made his difference prevail. Pre-eminent QaaJllleatloas. Chicago Record-Herald (rep.). Of all the men who were formally pro posed for the nomination. Secretary Taft Is unquestionably the strongest. He has an admirable record and has exerted a very Important Influence In the develop ment of thoee policies through which the republicans hope to win the election. The president has supported him not In order to exhibit his power as a politician, but because he believes in him and admires him. A Paramount Issue. Now York World (dem.). The republicans are already seising their opportunity. They Intend to go Into the campaign with Mr. Bryan himself as the paramount Issue, and If he la nominated they will succeed. Only by emancipating Itarlf from Rryan and Rryanlsm can the democratic parly escape crtain disaster. REGISTERED MAIL. Government Ouaht to Make Goed All Losses la Transit. San Francisco Chronicle. It appears that 150,000 In currency sent by registered mall by a bank at Los Angeles has disappeared at Kansas City. It was Insured and the hank will not lose, but the Insurance company will If the money Is not found. Registered mall bags are plainly marked and can be recognized as far as the bag can be seen. A thief, there fore, knows which bag contains the rich plunder as well as the postofflce official knows which bag he must most carefully look after. An alert and competent pro fessional thief whose Una of operations In cluded postofflce work would naturally seek to learn the habits of the banks on his bent with, reference to shipments of currency, and by carefully following a bag known to contain a large sum would stand a very fair chance ot getting It, of course, with the aid of some confederate In the postal or railroad, service. All who travel much have seen registered mall bags exposed to theft In the course of transference from one train to another. It Is, of course, by no means an every day occurrence! but no commercial traveler, for example, can have failed to see such Instances. The government can alwayt know what official was responsible for the safe keeping of registered mall, for eack messenger who receipts for It Is respon sible until he can show the receipts ot the next man. But that will not get the money back. There Is no good reason why the government should not, like the express companies. Insure every package of regis tered mail at a declared maximum value, taking the same precautions that an ex press company takes In remitting money to see that the package contains all that It is said to contain. It an Insurance company can afford to Insure registered mall for the profit In the business, the government can afford to Insure It for cost. It would doubt less Involve a rather higher rate of postage on packages containing money, Jewels or other matter of large value and small space, but It would be a public convenience to have It done and It could be done, as It Is done by some governments, without costing the treasury a cent, and If so de sired, oould be made to yield a profit. MORE FREEDOM FOR CITIES. Toledo's Mayor Strikes Keynote of Municipal Prostresa. Brand Whltlock in Saturday Evening Post. The trouble with the American city Is that It Is net free; It Is In bondage In bondage to political parties, machines and bosses in bondage to public utility cor porations, and to these because, beyond all, It Is In bondage to the state, which means the majority in the state legislature, and as this majority Is composed of country members. It means. In the last analysis, that the city Is ruled by country men. Those who ascribe municipal Ills, there fore, te democracy, cannot be right, be cause we have not, as yet, tried democ racy in the city, or. If we have, it hss been only a kind of stone-throwing democ racy. And, as It Is the only thing that has not been tried, and as all els has failed. It would seem' that experimental political science should give It a trial that is, give the people a chance, let them have some thing to say about the city; they live In, the city they understand, and, after all, love. The cities must "be autonomous; they must have conferred upon them all powers necessary to the attainment of their ends. These comprehend and Include the power to nominate and elect their own officials, unhampered by state or national political Issues. It is In vain to think this can be done merely by holding the elections on separate days, or with separate ballots; nominations must be made not by national partlea, but by local parties, or by no parties. The cities must have broad powers as te the ownership,- control and operation of public utilities; they must have the power of local taxation that is, they must be able to oontrol their own revenues, and they must be permitted to exercise the police power so far as it Is local. And for the execution of these powers, they must be free to adopt such form of government as suits them beat, which will probably be found to be either the commission or the federal plan, or some 'modification of either or both. And, beyond all this, they should have tho Initiative, the referendum and the recall. PARTY'" GREAT CAREER. Republican Supremacy and the Na tional Development. Charles M. Harvey In Leslie's Weekly. During the most eventful period In the whole of the country's history since the days, a century and a fifth ago, when the constitution first went Into operation, the republicans have been In control of the government. In the party's days of su premacy the United States has advanced from a low place among the nations In population and power to a position of leadership In the volume of Us Industrial activities. In the extent of its wealth, and In the spread of Its world Influence. From a total of 81,000.000 in I860, the year in which the republicans elected their first president, the population of the United States bas grown to 85.000.000. In those forty-eight years the states have Increased from thirty-three to forty-elx, the length of the country's railways haa Jumped from 81,000 miles to . 236,000. the value of the products of Its manufactures from 11,886, 000,000 to tU.000,000,000, and the aggregate of its foreign trade from 1686,000,000 to t3,i0, .000,000, while Its domestic trade, al though this cannot be stated so specifically, has expanded In a still larger ratio. The value of the products of all sorts of the country's farms, which was $1.000. 000,000 in I860, waa over 17,000,000,000 lor 1907. In 1860 there were m,J0 depositors in the country's savings banks. While the number In 1908 is a.000.000, showing that the pros perity among the waste-earners of the country haa more than kept paoe with the growth la population. HIGH PRICES STICK. Surprising; Altitude of thu Coat uf . Fuud. Chicago Record-Herald. There is' much Irrational talk about the Beef trust In connection with the advance In the price of beef. Whatever the pur poses of the packers may be. It is obvious that the market la affected by causes be yond the stock yards and that the best explanation of the Increase win be found in an Inadequate supply of beef cattle. But. generally speaking, the course of prices since the financial troubles ef last fall haa been surprising. In spite of the hard times there had been no big decline such as might have been expected. It la true that there have been some conces sions In steel and building materials, and no doubt other commodities are affected, but complaint of the high cost of living remains unchanged, and people of small incomes are not getting comfort in the thought that the purchasing power of money is greatly increased. We note the fact' without attempting to offer a satisfactory explanation. It Is natural to suppose, however, that the con dition is due In part to a large supply of money, which is made possible because of the great . Increase In the world's output of the money metal since the last panlo. The supply is both absolutely and rela tively large, but fortunately the Increase Is with sound money and the demand for Inflation is no lonvr ywular, NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING. fce vera men Teste Prava It the llest Medium. Paltlmore American.. , Jjist year the bureau of navigation spent $50,000 In advertising to get recru'ts for the navy. Before repeating. the experiment this year an Investigation ot results was made. Here are conclusions ss Riven by the Investigators: "All magazines and periodical advertising produced from one fourth to one-sixteenth the returns In en listed men that daily newspaper advertising did. The most profitable .newspaper ad vertising was the 'Help tVsnted.' Hy thl means recruits cost' the buresu $1&6 ea'h. as against $16 to 165 by rertsln classes cf magazine and Journals." As a consequence the buresu will hereafter spend most of Its monev In tho newspapers. Other large advertisers have made Im portant tests this year, and have decided to spend more of their money In the news papers. Since last fall .the heaviest aver age advertising Ions f the newspapers of any city has hern less than U per cent. In the magazines it lias been, over er cent. Much of tli!. was due to buslnesi depression, but h Ihtrc art of It wss owing to the chsnge of poilry . r the big general advertisers. There r. ninny."wlio think that magazine advertising i.us reached Its sentth and that there will be a steady de cline. The shortsightedness of (lie niaga sine publishers In loading their books with many more pages of advcrtlflng th.in they gave to reading matter has bad the effect snd there are other causes, sm-h us du plication In clreulstlon, that have helped to turn the title against them. How far they will be able to change all this remains to be seen, but It must be remembered that Ihcso publishers are men of resource and that their advertising men are mar velous persuaders. " ' ' In swinging back to the newspaper gen eral udverttslna Is . merely doing what it bas always done. Bofh In this country and In Europe the big advertisers have tried every means of piibllrlly, only to settle down In the newspapers after all their expensive experiments. The news paper with a' home ' clrculatrr n Is the one sure publicity reliance. Nothing- tukes Its place. It Is the universal medium. Every member of the family uses It, not once a week or once a month, but daily. Even the magazines get their circulation by ad vertising In the newspnrer. PERSONAL NOTK. f The proud rsrents cf triilcta born In Delphi, Ind., named .'.them, tespectlvely, James, Whltcomb snd ftl'cy.. . , . One of the most -ambltljus va-ation "stunts'' llke!y to be chronicled this year i Is that undertaken by two young met In Providence, R. I., who propose ti go fro:n that city to a Wyoming town in ennoe. In order to find navigable waterways th.lr trip will extend over J.000 rnllee. Dr. Edmund OMs Hovey cf the Ameri can Museum of Natural Htatory, who visited' the West Indies Immediately after the eruptions of Mount Pelee. and La Pou frlere In 1902, Is now making an rxtendel tour of the Islands with a view to supple menting his studies In vjcanology. A New Jereey man married a woman who had been Injured In an accident, and the.i both sued for damages. The wife, got a verdict, but the husband, did not, so he feels aggrieved. However, there are som who would deem themselves lucky In ie lng able to marry a productive te: of damages. George C. Buchanan, engineer, In the employ of the British government and president of the Port commlssten. of Ran goon, India, Is at present In St. Louis In specting the Jetty system of the Missis sippi river, with a view of obtaining !n formatloir fo keepplled In the roitstruarlon of a 16,000,000 retaining Wall at Rangoon. Sir Charles Fltzpatrlck. chief Just ce of the supreme court of Canada, I. as be-n notified of his appointment by the L'rltis'.t government to succeed the lute Major General Sir A. J. Ardugh as one of the four representatives of Great Uritali on the permanent Board of Arbitration ut The Hague to settle International c'.lB.iut'S. WHITTLED TO A POINT. The Doctor 6he Is a good manicure, but I don't see anything ef the goddeps about her. The Professor You don't? Isn't she the divinity that shapes our ends? Chicago Tribune. The last of a long line of recurring plumbers stood at the pumpless well of a suburban residence. "This well has been badly tinkered with," he, announced, as others had done before him. "Half the pumping apparatus seems to be gone. Is there a sucker unywheru about the place?" "Oh, yes," replied the chastened owner, "here I am." Baltimore American. "Were you much touched by the sermon on foreign missions?" "Well, I might have been, but It happened that I had only a little loose change wit 1 me." Philadelphia Press. . "Did you find that prohibition benefited business In your community?" "Yes, sir. answered Colonel Stllwell. "There is no way of estimating the extent to which It boomed the manufacture and sale of vinegar Jugs and kerosene cans.' Washington Star. "If I were you," said the old bachelor to the benedict, "I'd cither rule or know hy." "Wei ell." was the renlv. "as I already know why, I suppose that's half the bat tle!" Atlanta Constitution. "I don't see why you want to marry a girl who Is an embroidery expert." wnac nae ner nuiium in wmi n ; "Why, she Is such a designing younu person. Baltimore American. "What are you looking so glum about?" "O, my fiancee has changed her mind. "Still worrying over that? It was fu'ly a month ago since you told me she had broken off the engagement." 1 "O, It's been on and off again twice since then." Catholic Standard and Times. "You must give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt, explained the court. "If your honor has reference to the doubt that seems to be in the mind of his at torney, we'll have to acquit without leav ing the box," explained the foreman. Philadelphia Ledger. "Some white folks," said t'ncle Ebn, "kin tell you how to manage ue Intlre finances of de United States, an' at de same time can t keep a grocery book straight to save delr lives! Wsshlngton Star- ' COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING. New York Sun. Says I to myself, says I. "Old man. Between you and ma and the poet, I've betn sizing you up, fir. as well as I can And you're looking as pale ss a ghost. "Moreover, nobody would ever suppose A complexion as white as a sheet Belonged with that bloom OB the tip of your nose. Which I notice Is red as a beet. "You're old as the bills and look like a fright, And your face Is a lona as your arm: The frown on your brow( Is darker than And your sow Is as broad as a farm. "You're thin as a rail and gray as a rat, And your features are harder than stone; Your eyes look as If you were blind as a oat. And your voice Is as dry as a bone. "You drink like a fish and eat like a pig, And your form la as crooked as 6, All around, you're as queer sa old thlngu- uimjis Wsll, queerer than words can express." ays myself to me. says h. "Old man. Beware or you II set your reward' I've put up with your nunx nt,t u long a t can. . Qo on you'ie ai 4rrUi ua. a iyrti." ,