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WHEN OUT OF TOWN,
Sohaerlbers leaving the city tern
porarlly ehoald hare The Be
nailed to them. Address will ba
chaased aa often aa requested.
The Nebraska winds enjoy making
fun of the Merry Widow hat.
A Kansas railroad is reported to be
under water. In Kansas or Wall street?
Congressman Hull announces that
he is again afloat on the political sea
In Iowa.
No hint has come of a plank lu the
Denver platform renouncing 16 to 1
free silver.
One Wisconsin family promises to
cast thirty votes for Taft. That means
"23" for Bryan.
Charge d'Af (aires Sleeper was not
living up to his name at Caracas when
Castro got saucy.
Speaking of the length of dreams,
Castro ia still deluding himself that he
can bluff the United States.
Mr. Bryan evidently has not capital
ized his earning capacity for the bene
fit of the tax roll in Lancaster county.
The British Admiralty predicts that
the next war will be on the Pacific.
Certainly, between Tacoma and Seat
tle. The convention hall at Denver is in
a dry ward, but the state has no law
against the importation of original
packages.
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Mr. Taft is remarkably cool, all cir
cumstances considered. He is going to
dpeno. his summer vacation at Hot
Springs, Va.
A ship has landed a cargo of 9,000.
utio lemons at San Francisco. The
alia re booked for Denver consumption
ri"xt week is not stated.
'if Bryan is defeated in 1908, who
will be the democratic nominee for
president In 1912?" asks the Charles
ton News and Courier. Bryan.
rhe Russian army ia faithful,"
says the cxar. Particularly in the mat
ter of conducting assassination plans
enianatiiiK Iroin the ciar'a advisers.
The ivpurt that a woman wearing a
cli'-atli created a sensation at At
lantic t'i'y may be believed by folks
wIki i.avf inner visited Atlantic City.
Ilu 1). -nver convention might better
lis awras" by nominating Bryan and
Parker. Mr. Bryan Is Just as unpopu
lar in w cast as Judge Parker is In
the M.'St.
Tee New York World's query,
What is a democrat?" has been
answered by Mr. Taft. who told a Yale
class that. "Democrat is a mere his
torical description."
On Monday night Ak-Sar-Ben ex
pects to entertain the military at the
Den and. If preparations under way do
not miscarry, some of the Boldiers will
find themeelvee at sea before the night
is over.
Mayor Jim continues at variance
with his city council, but this la not
especially to be wondered at. One of
the characteristics of the democrats is
that they never could agree In office
or out.
Japan is reported to have bought
three Dreadnoughts from Braiil and
England to have an option on the rest
of the Braitllan navy. Brail) ran afford
to make enormous appropriations for
lu navy so long as it can sell its war
ships at a profit;
thk R&rtriso iyrvsT r ir.s.
The midsummer season, usually
rnarked by dullness in all lines of com
merclal and Industrial activity, opens
this year with a note of optimism from
the big Industrial centers which prom
ises a marked revival from the de
pression which began with last Octo
ber and has been slow In disappearing.
The Carnegie Steel company reports
that it has more men at work than at
any time since the first of the year
and that business Is steadily increas
ing. The Republic Iron and Steel com
pany announces that It will reopen its
shops on July 1, with orders enough
on hand to keep the full force work
ing for the rest of the year. These
two firms have received orders for
240,000 tons of steel bars for the
agricultural Implement manufacturers.
The Frick Coke company has given
orders for the construction of 1,000
miners' houses and authorizes the
statement that they will all be re
quired for the workmen In Its new
plants.
Such actual existing facts of busi
ness promise within a short time a
restoration of normal conditions In all
branches of the Iron and stee1! manu
facturing Industries. The Pennsyl
vania railroad has ordered all of Its
freight cars prepared for immediate
Bervice because of an Increase in
freight shipments. The New York Cen
tral has put a force at work to get
5.000 freight cars repaired within
thirty days and 3,000 men employed
in the maintenance department have
been put back to work after a lay-off
of four months. Other railroad lines
In the east are getting ready for
heavier business, with a prospect for
an exceedingly busy six months during
the remainder of the present year.
The most encouraging feature of this
revival is its appearance in the sum
mer season of a presidential year. Even
the most optimistic prophets have
hardly looked for a business uplift be
fore fall. The crop outlook, too, Is
highly satisfactory and should go far
to hastening a fairly full resumption
of the currents of production and
trade.
VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS.
With the coming of the new school
year an experiment will be tried In
New York that will interest boards
of education and teachers throughout
the country. One of the problems be
fore educators everywhere has been
the adoption of some course of study
that would result in the larger attend
ance of pupils In the high schools. Sta-
tlbtlcs show that something like 70
per cent of our boys and girls end
their school work with the graded
schools. It Is becoming generally ac
cepted that this condition Is due to the
fact that instruction In most of the
high schools .is designed to fit pupils
for college courses and Is not of much
practical value to those who must
leave schools to .earn their pwn liveli
hood at an age of from 16 to 18. The
need then, is for some modification of
the high school work that wlll.be of
special benefit to those who cannot
go to college yet who need more prepa
ration for earning a living than the
grammar schools afford.
Under the New York plan it Is pro
posed to establish a vocational school
with a two years' course as an alterna
tive to the high school. The Btudles
will be selected with a view to enabling
the pupils to earn their living. The
boys will be taught metal work, carv
ing, mechanical designing and tech
nical work in some of the better paid
trades. The girls will be given in
struction In elementary household arts,
dressmaking and millinery. The new
courses will be designed to adapt the
teaching to the needs of the pupils.
It will have the essential elements of
a public trade school. Superintendent
Maxwell of the New York schools has
been led to undertake this experiment
because of the eagerness of many pu
pils In the New York High schools to
attend night schools In which the ele
ments of the trades were taught.
Every school of that kind that has
been opened has been overcrowded
from the first and several such schools
In process of construction . have al
ready received applications for admis
sions that will tax their capacity.
Boys and girls who must go to work
at 16 or 17 years of age far outnum
ber those who can afford a college
course and the effort to equip this ma
jority with better facilities for their
future as wage earners is worthy of
encouragement everywhere.
THE LIVE STOCK COMMISSION Afl.V.
Th6 convention of the National
Live Stock exchange, which has Just
concluded its sessions at South Omaha,
has furnished an excellent illustration
of the concrete power of organized
business. An outgrowth of the devel
opment of the live stock industry,, the
association is an example of the mod
ern Idea in commerce. It has proved
ita worth many times by the steps it
has taken to prevent abuses and to
regulate matters within Ita own scope,
so that both the buyer and seller of
live stock will be assured of an abso
lutely square deal.
The men who make up this associa
tion are In no sense producers, but
they have become a very necessary
factor In production. As the live
stock and packing industries are now
ca cried on It is almost a physical im
possibility for the owner of the animals
to handle them personally up to the
time they are turned over to the
packer. This function is performed
by the commission man. It is a bus
iness that is carried on almost exclu
sively "on honor," and the commission
man's word la as good as his bond.
The local and national organisations
have made this so. Whatever else
may be true, the rules adopted by the
live stock exchanges at the big markets
of the country are primarily Intended
to secure uniform honesty and fair
dpaling and are rigidly enforced so
that both parties to the bargain know
that the sale Is being made with abso
lute honesty. The convention Just
held at Omaha debated a number of
matters of great Importance to the
packing Industry of the United States,
and while no radical action was taken,
the result of these debates will be
found In the betterment of conditions.
The live stock commission men are
in the front rank when it comes to ad
vocacy of Improvements In condition
surrounding the food supply of the
country. Whether the middleman la
soon to be eliminated matters not, but
as long as be is a factor In our com
merce it is well that he should be of
the type represented by the National
Live Stock exchange.
TARIFF J AD BCSISESS.
Secretary of State Root has taken
special pains to make it plain that the
American commission recently ap
pointed to go to Paris to consider tariff
relations between the United States
and the government of France is a
commercial and not a political body.
It will have nothing to do with the
political phases of the tariff dispute,
but will direct, itself wholly to the ob
stacles in the way of better trade rela
tions between the two nations. No
hint is offered of the use to be made
of the report of the commission, but
the Inference Is plain that it will be
presented to the new congress to be
called Immediately after March 4,
1909, to consider revision of the tariff.
Mr. Root evidently has in mind the
attitude of congress toward reciprocity
treaties negotiated between this coun
try and other nations, under section 3
of the Dingley act, which allows the
president to make reciprocal agree
ments with other countries. Several
such agreements have been negotiated,
but to secure all the data obtainable
to leave them alone until the final
adjustment of tariff schedules. The
German treaty has been held up in the
senate and the French treaty, in way
of negotiation, Is still pending. The
State department has accordingly de
cided to negotiate no more treaties,
but to secure all the data obtainable
for use of the new congress at its
tariff session.
The tariff plank adopted at Chicago,
calling for the adoption of maximum
and minimum schedules, opens the
way for reciprocity treaties. The max
imum and minimum plan is a recipro
cal proposition by which a maximum
rate is to be assessed against imports
from a country that places a high
tariff on American products, while the
lowest rates are to be Imposed on im
ports from countries that make con
cessions to the products of American
fields and factories. The French have
maintained a practical embargo on
American meats, while they have been
persistent In asking a lower duty on
their canned goods, wines and deli
catassen products destined for Amer
ican consumption.
Regardless of the campaign excite
ment, the French tariff commission
and other agencies of the government
will be busily employed in the next
six or seven months In the collection
of data sure to be of much value to
the congress of 1909, which will be
convened for the sole purpose of con
sidering the subject of tariff revision.
Mr. Bryan's record as a retreater
is now rising up to greet him. One
after another of the abandoned posi
tions from free silver to government
ownership are being reviewed by the
public not to the special advantage of
the Peerless. One of the most promi
nent and attractive features of this re
view is the comparison between his de
mand for publicity of campaign con
tributions and the silence he maintains
concerning the slusfi fund sent into
Nebraska four years ago. Consistency
may be a Jewel, but It was not set in
the Bryan diadem.
The ruling of the supreme court on
the matter of the state's claim against
the pensions of Inmates of soldiers'
homes la following the precedent es
tablished in other states and generally
recognized as being Just. It was not
intended to work any hardship on the
pensioners or their families, but, on
the contrary, has proven to be of ac
tual benefit to the old soldiers. The
effort to make political capital out of
this episode will fall :hen the facts
are understood.
District Court Clerk Smith has been
upheld in his demand that fees must
be paid In full before decrees are made
part of the records. This Is merely
the application of business principles
to public business and no litigant
should complain. It will also relieve
the clerk of a large amount of finan
cial responsibility, which has proven
extremely burdensome at times to
some of his predecessors.
"Jerry" Sullivan of Iowa announces
that Mr. Bryan has put him on "the
list of eliglbles" for the vice presi
dential nomination at Denver. That
must be a mistake. Mr. Bryan Is much
opposed to one man running a national
convention.
Champ Clark, who is to succeed
John Sharp Williams as the leader of
the minority In the house of congress,
is a much larger man than his prede
cessor. The word "larger" is used in
the physical mood.
I
Governor Hoke Smith says he is
about half-glad he was defeated for
re-election in Georgia. His successful
opponent will supply the other half of
the gladness.
Navy authorities are surprised at
the number of deserters from the Pa-
clfic fleet since it started on its voyage
around the world. Perhaps the men
fear their inability to Hand the long
siege of dinners and receptions.
Richard Croker writes that he will
not return to America because he en
Joys life on his stock farm In Ireland.
The majority of Americans will hope
that he may continue to enjoy life on
his stock farm In Ireland.
Mr. Rockefeller Is said to be writ
Ing the story of his life. There Is no
suspicion that he is taking any of the
material from the story of his life
written by Mis Ida Tarbell.
That chair at the cabinet table that
was bpeclally built for Secretary Taft
may be set aside until next March and
then, moved to the head of the table.
Knrnaklnt an Old Friend.
Chicago Tribune.
Times are not ' what they used to he.
Not a sweet girl graduate In the country,
so far aa we have been able to ascertain,
has lnformeda waiting world this year
that "Beyond the AIlups Lies Italy."
The Annual "Before Ta Ulnar-"
Cleveland Leader.
The effort to denature the Fourth of
July betrays no signs of weakening, though
there Is nothing to show that It will be any
more successful this year than It waa
the year after powder waa adopted as the
favorite dissipation.
Wouldn't This Jar Yon?
Indianapolis News.
While all the discussion concerning that
Injunction plank is going on. It will be
noted that a labor union at Detroit has ob
tained on Injunction against the police.
What effect does that have on the polit
ical situation?
Dob Day Signal.
Louisville Courier Journal.
A barking dog awakened a family In
Montegomery, N. Y., and saved them from
death In the flames. But It Is a 1.000.000 to
1 shot that when your watchdog is barking
as If the house were on fire he Is merely
calling the dog on the adjoining farm a
malefactor.
t'sefnl Hints for Parenta.
Philadelphia Record.
Those parents who are lucky enough to
have unmutllated and undisfigured off
spring should take Joy of beholding them
for the next ten days. The Fourth of July
Is approaching. After the Fourth will fol
low the usual season of liniment, lockjaw
and general dislocation of limbs and linea
ments. Very discreet parents will have
their children photographed in advance.
They will perhaps like to know In the
future how babies looked July 3, 1908.
Time Ilanlahea Enmities.
New York Sun.
In other days the Ideas of Mr. Cleveland
and those of this newspaper with regard
to many things were notoriously not In ac
cord. This circumstance possibly makes It
proper to say now what it will always be
pleasant for us to remember, namely, that
the personal breach ceased to exist years
ago, and that The Sun has long numbered
Grover Cleveland among Its constant read
ers and faithful friends. Peace to the ashes
of the good man and great leader, and may
the generations hold his name and the
memory of his deeds In just and high
esteem.
THOROIGHLY K.XJOVED HIMSELF
President Roosevelt Heartily Hejolrea
In His Strength.
San Francisco Chronicle.
When a friend congratulated the presi
dent on his coming vacation on the ground
that he must need a rest and had certainly
earned it, the president replied that no sym
pathy need be wasted on him for he had
enjoyed every moment of his official life
and, In fact, had had "a corking good
time."
And he meant every word of It. Few
men are physically or Intellectually so
powerful as the president, and to the strong
man nothing Is so agreeable as the exercise
of his strength, and especially its exercise
in combat. It Is a necessity of such men
to fight. They prefer that men should not
agree with them for the Joy they find In
hard hitting. If at any time the president
has sensations which he Imagines to be
weariness, he calls In some champion boxer
and has a bout with him. It soothes, com
forts and refreshes him and he Is ready
for work once more. We are sorry for the
Hons in the African Jungles, whom it Is
said the president Is to tackle in good ear
nest as soon as he gets congress and
American evil-doers at least temporarily
off his hands. Such vitality Is the greatest
boon that can come to a human being. It
la only the chosen fer who posaesa It who
can get out of life on this earth the last
modicum of enjoyment there la In It. How
It will be later with the president we can
only Imagine. He will be. we all feel sure,
where Apollyon will be separated from him
by a great gulf and utterly beyond any pos
sibility of attack. But such a spirit as his
must have some vent for its activity, and
unleas tn his translation he undergoes
changes of which we can have no concep
tion, he will make a right lively time
among the angels.
MORIS HOLIDAY, LKSS Kl.VKRAL.
Daala of Agitation for "Safe aad
Sane" Fourth.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Already, from east, west, north and south,
the call cornea for a "safe and sane"
Fourth. The approach of the day Is the
signal for th'e resumption of the annual
agitation. The protest made In the cur
rent number of the Outlook Is representa
tive of the entire chorua of crusaders. "On
the Fourth of July," remarks that contem
porary, "the people of the United Statea,
unless they change their habit, will acqui
esce In the killing of 180 persons and the
maiming of over 6,000. This waa the record
two yeara ago. Of theae, probably aevent)- I
fiva died of tetanua, or lockjaw, thirty
eight were killed by gunshot wounds, four
teen by stray bullets, eighteen, mostly
very small children, were burned to death,
eighteen were killed by explosions of pow
der, dynamite and torpedoes, three by
flint ftPAi.raiW.r. th... hu , r. , , n '
one place aix boys were killed outright.
Among the Injured, twenty-two became
totally blind, seventy-two loat one eye,
fifty-six lost arms or legs or hands. This
terrible record of death and Injury waa
made, not by grown men in defense of the
country, but for the most part by young
boys amd little children conducting a na
tional celebration adopted from China. The
Chinese have taught us many things, and
wa might have learned many more from
them. Wa choae, however, to take their
aeml-barbaric love of noise."
The Fourth of July outbreak la unneces
sary as a manifestation of patriotism and
unattractive as a method of celebration.
But the habit la an old on. It la one that
la not easy to cure.' There Is no reason,
however, why wa ahould not all assert a
little faith In human nature and muster
up the couraga to believe that some day
there will be a change and consideration
of humanity and horse aanae will malts the
Fourth of July mora of a bollUay and lee
of a funeral
OX PRESIDENTIAL FIRING LINE.
Illah Praise of Repahllran Leader
from OpooBlnar Cams).
Atlsntlc Constitution (dem.V
The republicans hv unquestionably
lected the most effective and available
candlndate f,.r a contest that gives every
promts of marking an epoch In American
politics. Mr. Taft's record and hl per
sonality comprise the broad qualities es-
aentlal to an American president. In a
degree not even remotely approached by
any of hla whilom rivals.
It Is as Impossible to conceive of Mr. Taft
assuming a bigoted, partisan or geograph
leal viewpoint on any national Issue aa It
Is Impossible to conceive of similar astlgma
tlsm on the part of Mr. Roosevelt. In a day
dominated to the last degree by the sp nt
of democracy carried to Its ultimate mean
Ing, his sympathies and conceptions appear
of such caliber as will make him, If e:ec.ed
president of the whole nation, In fact as
well aa In designation.
Viewed from the standpoint of the op-
position party, the nomination of such a
man can be but gratifying, for It carries
with It the certainty that even If the re
publicans are to win, the country will have
In the executive chair for four years more
a big. broad, patriotic American of whom
the whole nation will have cause to be
proud.
Bryan aa a Platform Critic.
New York Sun (rep.).
In his review and criticism of the plat
form adopted by the republican conven
tion Colouel Bryan gives a delicloualy un
conscious revelation of his attitude to
ward representative government when he
says:
The republicans who attended the na
tional convention as spectators and Joined
in the demonstration tn favor of Presi
dent Hoosevelt and Senator La Follette
must have felt Indignant as they watched
the panic-stricken delegates running over
each other In their effort to get away
from the La Follette reforms, some of
which had been endorsed by the president
himself.
Whatever charges may be sustained
against the delegates at Chicago, that of
being "panic-stricken" Is certainly not
among them. They did refuse to be
stampeded by the galleries, and this seems
to Colonel Bryan, naturally, to be a matter
for grave complaint. His own theory of
reform la to break down and remove every
Obstruction that now exiata between gov
ernment and the fleeting gusts of passion
or frenzy that at Irregular Intervals possess
the multitude. To him the organised, me
chanical and perfectly drilled demonstra
tions of the few thousand men, women and
children. In the Coliseum galleries are Inci
dents of far greater moment and Impor
tance than the deliberate and considered
action of the 990 delegates on the floor.
Colonel Bryan believes firmly, it he be
lieves In anything firmly. In government by
the gallery. That Is the reaeson why he. In
the language of the street, always "play
to the gallery."
Partr Platform.
Boston Traveler (Ind.).
Political parties formulate and adopt
platforms with all the solemnity and ardor
that a bibulous sinner "swears off" at the
beginning of the new year, and they live
up to them with about the same seal and
fidelity. Borne political cynic once defined
a platform as something to get In on but
nut to stand on. Technically parties stand
on their platforms, for In the mutations of
political life. In the changes which expedi
ency demands and the shifts which oppor
tunism dictates, the platform is frequently
under foot
Platforms are merely traditional and ad
ditional methods of fooling foolish voters;
they never say what they mean or mean
what they say; they are expedients to divert
public attention from real evils by declaim
ing agalnat evils that seldom exist, and, as
both parties agree in the fooling and the
fooled are content to be fooled, the fare
goes on forever.
Qualified for the Prealdency.
St. Paul Fionecr-Presa (rep.).
No prealdent has ever had a broader ex
perience to fit him for the duties of his
office than has Taft. None has been gifted
with an intellect better endowed. None has
combined with such keen practical judg
ment and such strength of character and
energy the geniality and companionable,
ncss that makes friends even of those who
are sent away empty-handed. With all h i
resions. billies and In spite of all the
burdens that have been la'd on his
shou'.ders Secretary Taft's good nature and
his Interest In the ordinary th.ngs ef life
have never flagged. He is a giant among
the statesmen who have been In the ser
vice of the country and he will be recog
nised before he has long been president as
one of tho greatest of the succession.
Carrying Forward People's Policies.
Kansas City Star (ind ).
Secretary Talt servea notice that if he is
elected td the presidency he will not strive
to be const icuously original, but that he
will do his beat, in his own way, to carry
forward the essential policies of the Roose
velt administration, which he recognizes as
the peoples policies. No doubt Mr. Taft
Would employ more or less original methods
In doing things. He has demonstrated a
strong individuality, even under a president
who has largely dominated nearly all de
partments over which he has had direction.
But the main point ia that while VI r. Taft
moy not be particularly original, It la ever
lastingly certa n that he will not be re
actionary. Republicans Make the laanea.
fan Franclaco Chronicle (rep.).
It haa bfen the cuatom of the democrats
for nearly a half a century to permit the
republicans to make the Issues of the cam.
pa:gn. Tney did not vary from the practice
thM year and the republic ana l ate not
shrunk from the responsibllty impoi d
ui'on thein. In the platform drafted at
Chicago, and submitted to the people, ths
party has planted Itself on the proposition
ti.at the policy of reform energetically in
augurated by the present administration
be continued until all that la dealred by
aane people Is accomplished. Mr. Bryan at
Denver will probably make an appeal to
the unreasoning', and it will meet the same
fata that his former appeals auffeied.
Watlrrsoa and Second Place.
Louisville Courier Journal (deem.).
Henry Watterson ai no h.yal American
should refuse the nomination for the vice
preniiiency. What's the matter with Bryan
ami Watlerson for the Denver Ikktt?
Orraha Bee.
Nothing except that he doesn't want It
and that nobody wanta him, and that be
cause he wore a gray Jacket hla nomina
tion would defeat the ticket and at the
at me time disgrace him. by giving the
lie to his profession of disinterestedness.
The Uemorratlo Spirit.
St. I-ouls Times (ind ).
Mr. Taft haa a way of running about
the country alone auggtatlve of th demo
cratic spirit. If he can but make It pos
albla for a persident. or even a candidate
for the presidency, ta feel at home on th
street without a procession of th curious
on his heels, he will deserve well of future
executives and of aenalbla people in gen
eral. A a Approarhlaal Stampede.
Kansas City Star.
It becomes more certain every day that
the Denver convention will be stampeded
Into nominating Mr. Bryan for a third
ttrui.
NEBRASKA POLITICAL COMMENT
York Times: Governor Sheldon ba been
mad. a "doctor of laws" by Hastings cot
lege. That's food, though be did a pretty
good Job doctoring the laws paaaed by the
last legislature before he acquirea tn. no.,
orable title.
Wood River Sunbeam: Th Ntbraaka del
eaation. uron their return from the Chi
cago convention, state that In their opinion
the strongest kind of a ticket was named
at Chicago. It Is one that will be a winner
at th poll next Nevember.
St. Taul Republican: Now that th moke
has cleared awav from the convention at
Chicago, th peopl hav begun to tudyv
ihtn the candidate and the platform. The
republican of this part of the state, aa a
whole, are well satisfied with the work
done and look forward to th success of
th ticket named.
Peru Republican: It I certain th nont.
nation of Taft and Sherman is acceptable
to th people of this county and that th
public opinion is that a republican victory.
In this county and congressional district,
aa well a in th state and the nation, 1
a certain this fall a It I that white I
whit and black is black.
Cret Vidette-Herald: We don't expect our
friend, th enemy, will be satisfied With
Taft. They would hay pfeferred Roo
velt, or Hughe, or Fairbanks, or Cannon,
or Knox. Nor will all of them be perfectly
happy with Bryan. But since these men
are the strong choice of their respective
parties, let the minority atom wince and
make faces. A great majority of the peo
ple are supremely happy.
St. Paul Republican: It ought hot to be
forgotten that eight year ago, when Sec
tetary Taft was in th Philippines, giving
active servlc to make a just and equitable
government for the Filipinos, and the army
was there carrying out the only course open
to this country, his political opponents were
In this country, giving moral support tn
the men who were firing bullets at the
American flag. Wc were there and cannot
forget It.
Schuyler Free Lance: We can now under
stand why our friend Edgar Howard de
clined to stand as a candidate for delegate
to the Denver national convention. The
first asaessment wa $124 each for th del
egate and riOO each for th alternates
from this state, so that touched up our
cltlien, James Hughes. That assessment
wa simply for quarters out there and Is
but a (tarter. Our citlsen will be a poorer
if not a wiser man when he is once
through. But what about the alleged Jet-
fersonlan simplicity?
Ord Quls: No man has ever been elected
to the presidency of the United State with
more experience and with a greater record
of great deed done than William H. Taft.
Hla excellent work at Panama, in Cuba
and the Philippine Is more than enough
to commend him to th confidence of the
people and assure ua that hi administra
tion will be eminently successful. The fact
that he I the choice of the administration
means that he will follow out the great and
very popular policies of Roosevalt. That th
peopl will fall to elect him seem incapa
ble of consideration.
St. Paul Republican: Q. W. Bergs, who
wants to be a candidate for governor this
fall, is being Invited every day to come to
the front with a substantiation of his
charge that the republican party In Ne
braska i working hand In glove with th
railroad. It Is nothing for a man to make
such statements, but it mean considerable
more to bring something that looks like a
real reason for saying it. If he can show
where the administration vof the state ha
done any act, however small, which I
against the people and in favor of th rail
road, then he has aome excuse for mak
ing auch talk. He attacks th Railway
commission and say It haa don nothing.
When wa It before that any person could
make complaint against a railroad com
pany and hav it heard and heeded? When
was it before when a complaint could be
laid before anyone save a railway official?
Mr. Berge ha jumped Into a hornet' neat
nd he la now trying to let the hornet
ferget him by leaving them alone. And
after that $15,000 of good hard railroad
money waa pent in hla campaign, too.
MO BACKWARD STEP IW IOWA.
Standpatter Relectantly Admit the
World Mare.
Chicago Tribune.
The Indorsement of progressive legisla
tion by the Iowa republican convention
will surprise no one at all in touch with
the political situation In the middle west.
The policies of which th president has
been the effective champion and proponent
are today a part of our political convic
tion. They are no longer challengeable.
however we may differ aa individuals or
In statea as to the details of their appli
cation.
Regulation of corporations aa an alter
native to the socialistic tendencies of th
radical element In both parties may be
said now to be the truly conservative
policy, broad baaed upon the American
people's will. All intelligent politicians ac
cept this a a fact accomplished and the
task before us now Is to secur th ground
the first triumph of these policies has
gained by a wisely considered tppllcatlon.
The convention at Waterloo wa espec
ially significant because In th face of
violent faction at the close of a protracted
struggle there seem to have been no
difference a to the prompt and unequiv
ocal indorsement of the progressive legis
lation achieved nor of the principle upon
which tat legislation la founded.
Iowa honored Itself in honoring the long
and useful career and high personal char
acter of Senator Allison, who seasoned
experience It wisely retained. And Iowa
honor itself In th tribute It convention
paid to the administration of Governor
Cummin and In It Indorsement of tho
proa-resslv policies which today glv a
vlgorou vitality to th republican party
PROHIBITION AWD DEMOCRACY.
Efforts to Reconcile Poller and Prae
tlee la the Soath.
Nw Tork World.
Henry Watterson aya. "Nobody can be a
democrat and a prohibitionist." If the
venerable principles of democrscy mean
anything, nobody, can at th earn time ad
vocate personal liberty and then under
take to dictate what some other man shall
or shall not drink.
A man ran be a democrat and a total
abstainer. He can be a democrat and
mok or not amok. But he cannot with
out casting aalde th fundamental Jeffer
onlan principles undertake to regulate by
law another man' habit or moral any
more than another man' religion or
tastes.
In th southern state where prohibition
haa been adopted It I enforced chiefly as
against negroes and not agalnat whit man.
On the theory that th negro belong to
an inferior rare whoa duty It la to labor In
obiiety to build up th whM man's civili
sation, prohibition can be an f oread on
conomlo ground, disregarding It moral
aspect and leaving th white man to do a
he pleaeea.
Th system of white men's clubs, original
packages by express and drug store sa
loons enable th whit men to regulat th
nagroee' habits without changing their own
somewhat aa thy regulate th diet and
work of their horses and mule which ar
no mora lndlspenslbl on a southern plan
tation than la negro labor.
This 1 southern prohibition.
PROGRESS TOWARD PROtrf.n ITY
t'pward Trend Made Manlfex
Many Direction.
In
Washington Post
Steady proa-res Is being mn.V tow-i
the complete restoration of pritpo-
It wa eaaior to break down than it t
build up, but nature la on t n :.i,. ,-f ,
healthy, optimistic, and rtie .
and very striking proofs of bett.-r ti .
may be seen. The fundamental, r , (,(.
fact la that the crop of the I nlted ?,
are In splendid condition. with . v v
propspeot of belnf bigger than vr i.-',-
This alone mean prosperity: for ,t t-nr ,.
In the midst of the fatness of tt,
cannot b lean. It ba all It .n. .,
eat, and a surplus with which -n j v
anything it wanta.
The prospect of heavy buslne ir - ,-p.
hauling and Industries dependent tit-
harvest ha Induced far-sighed rti'r.-.i
men to get busy. The Frl railroi i ' 1a
1.000 men at work ballasting;, rrp i
ties, laying rails, and otherwise t ntt
the aystem up for a big fall and non
business. The mechanic of that rnMron t
are trying to break the record by rnair
Ing 6,000 freight cars In thirty da vs. t-i
make ready for Increased traffic. Fi".en
new locomotive ar to be pot at w.vk
Mr. Harrlman la extending the Southern
Pacific line, Improving the Cnlon Facifv,
and pushing his Mexican road to the Cry
of Mexico and to Taclftc tidewater at M i
satian. Mr. Hill la running feeders li-m
th western Canadian country. In orW
to handle the wheat crop. Idle frl'it
car are going back into business at th
rate of 3,000 a day, according to reports
from the principal road.
Assurance of big crops has led to the
resumption of industrial activity. Mer
chants are giving good-ied orders, and
the mills must run to fill them. All the
New England cotton mills are running on
full time. Wool la coming In rapidly.
During the paat week &oo additional coke
ovens were fired up In Pennsylvania. The
output of pig Iron la increasing, and the
demand for copper keeps the price well
up. Building operations have been better
all through the country during the laat
three week, and the demand for Iron
pipe and atructural steel ta increasing.
Throughout the west, from Missouri to
California, there Is a demand for farm
labor. The city Is louder as harveat time
approaches. Employment agenda In the
large cltlea have their hand full trying
to aupply the demand for rural labor.
No healthy man. willing to work, need be
out of a Job. The percentage of the un
employed In the cltlea ta dwindling, partly
on account of the pull from the farm, but
principally on account of th resumption
of factory work.
PERSONAL NOTES.
If the Gould woman and the prince are
really to ba married July , of coure the
effort to suppress noise will be futile.
Henry M. Flagler of Florida has retired
from the Standard OH company at the age
of 71 with approximately $100,000,000. This
proves that th price of oil has not been
too high for Henry M.
Melville W. Fuller, '55, chief justice of
the United States supreme court, was re
elected prealdent of the Harvard Law as
sociation at a meeting Tuesday. Among
the vice presidents are: Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, '66, Waihington; Charles
J. Bonaparte, Waahington; Justice George
Gray, 'S3, Delamare, and David T. Watson,
'68, Pennsylvania.
Captain Henry McCrea, who commanded
the United Statea battleship -Georgia on the
cruise of the battleship fleet to the Pacific,
la aerloualy ill at the naval hospital in
Brooklyn suffering .from kidney trouble
Captain McCrea reached there recently
from San Francisco, where ha waa Ar-
ta.hA fpAm frit .Viln a r ,4 nrit.rl fit r -
port to the lighthouse bureau in New York.
Andrew Carnegie has consented to act as
one of the judges to award the Cheater
Pugaley prise offered by the Lake Mohonk
Conference on International Arbitration
for the best essay on international arbitra
tion by an American college student. The
other Judges, who already have consented
to act, are: William J. Bryan, former Sec
retary of State John W. Foster, Judge
George Gray of Delaware and President
Butler of Columbia university.
In connection with the death of Grover
Cleveland, th New York Tribune note
that only twice before in the history of
the nation ha the United State been
without a living ex-presldent. George
Washington died In 1709. when John Ad
ams, the second president, was in office.
Andrew Johnson, at the time the only sur
viving ex-chlef executive, passed away in
1876, two year before General Grant re
tired to private life.
LAlOHlG GAS,
"But," ald the kind-hearted house
keeper, "don't you know that In the wholo
world there is no place like home?"
'Btire, lady," replied Walker Rhnads,
"dat's de 'eason I feel so happy travelln'
from place ter place." Philadelphia Pre.
"Are you what they call a practical poli
tician?" "I hope," answered Senator Sorghum,
"that I am not what some people call a
practical politician when they don't hap
pen to like him." Waahington Star.
"Yes," said Mr. Lapsllng; "Johnny triea
my patience sometimes, but I never spank
him. 1 don't believe In corpulent punish
ment." Chicago Tribune.
"Father." asked little Rollo, "what I a
ure thing?"
"A 'sure thing,' my son, Is what a smart
but unscrupulous person tells a man who
looks like a good thing." Houston Post.
"I wonder why it is said that 'all the
world loves a lover?"
"I gueaa it'a because the world thinks
It'a auch fun to hear his letters read in
court." Philadelphia Preaa.
He That elualve little curl of voura.
darling, la so mean It always reminds me
of a character In Shakespeare.
She (shyly) How Is that?
He Because it Is auch a shy lock. Bal
timore American.
The applicant for a marriage license gave
his ae aa 23 and aajd he had been twice
divorced.
Receiving the paper, he fumbled for the
change to pay for It and grew embar
rassed.
"N'ever mind." remarked the obliging
clerk. "I'll Just make a memorandum of
It and you my settle next time." Phila
delphia Ledger.
"Your face is familiar," said the passen
ger with the goggles. "Haven't I run
agalnat you somewhere before?"
"No, air." answered the paaaenger with
the hunted look In hla eyes. "You've tried
a dosen time or more to run over me,
hut I hsve alwava been able to dodge In
time." Chlcsgo Trtbun.
MY TOAST.
Frank N. Lynch.
Whichever way th wind doth blow,
Boms heart la glad to have It so:
Then blow It east, or blow It west.
The wind that blows that wind i beatl
My little craft aalla not alone;
A thouaand fleet from every sons
Ar -ut upon a thousand sea:
And what for m were favoring breel
Might dash another with the shock
Of doom, upon some hidden rock.
And so I do not dare to pray
For wind to waft ma on my way;
But leav It to a Higher Will,
To atay or apeed me truatlng atlll
That all I well, and sure that He
Who launched my bark will aall with an
Through storm and calm, and will not falL
Whatever breezes may prevail,
To land ma, every peril paat.
Within Hi sheltering haven at last.
Then, whatsoever wind doth blow.
My heart la glad to hav It o;
And blow It east, or blow It West,
Xu wind Jbai Mowa UiAt vluA is fewtl
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