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TTTE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1908. - Tiie Omaha Daily Dee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATEB VICTOR ROB I W A TER, EDITOR. Entered ( Omaha posrofflce con. clan mattar. TERM! OF SUBSCRIPTION! l"ally Bee (without Sunday), on year..KJJ Dally Be and Sunday, ona year w DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Dally Be (Including Sunday), par wek..19 Dally Ree (without Sunday, per week.. .10 Evening Re (without Sunday). per week So Evening Be (with Sunday), par wk...loo Sunday I, on year. Saturday Bee, ona year." :"'... Addreae all complaint of Irregularltl In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES: Omaha The Be BuPdlng. South Omaha-'Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluff-u-tt Scott Street. Chicago 15 Marquette Building. New York-Room! 1101-1103, No. II WMt Thirty-third Street. , Washingtm-TS Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and rdltorlal matter ahou'.d ba addressed. Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit fcy "raft. express or pota! order payable to Tha Bee Publishing Company. Onlr 2-crnt stamp received In payment oi mall accounts. Personal checks, except rn Omaha or eastern exchanges, hot acceptea. 8TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County. George B. Tsschuck. treasurer of Tne Dee Publishing company, being uuiy sworn, says that the actual number or full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, lies, was as follows:- 36,000 ar.eso 1 80,180 17 33,300 H 8040 it 83,370 10 80,000 111 39,030 jj" 3S.BJ0 21 .'. 80,490 j4' 80,580 ni 30,480 21 30,490 ft 37,700 g 30,440 I. 30,490 JO.... 30,700 88,0 36,140 38,700 36,830 39.S10 39,840 3S.B10 3,eeo 30.BO0 39,000 30,380 30,380 Totals .,,'..1090,390 Less unsold and returned copies. 8,437 Net total. ,...1,098,9(8 , . . . 39,838 Dally average . Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence end aworn to h.fnra ma this 1st 1T of October. ltUS. L U.J V. v ' V ' ' ' , (Seal.) Notary Public. ' WHEN OUT OK TOWS, Sabscrlbcra leaving tne ity taaa. starartly aaenld st Tn Bee nailed te these. Addreaa will be chaned aa often as traqnosia. Talt tall is making votes. All" of the candldateB speaking terms. remain on The Plrateo appear to bo the Taft ot tho National leaxuoe . Anyway, there U no complaint ot overcapitalisation of campaign fundi. Tho coming ot Governor Hughes means another opportunity to turn out tor Taft. . Mr. Bryan Is a farmer and on chummy-tertna- with the oily-handed sods 'of toll. V '."We want no government by ollg- 'archv." says Mr.' Bryan. No, nor by olllgarchy, Mr. Bryan. Wall street will be slow to accept the report that there Is anything wrong with Mr. Harrlman's spine. In the meantime, the New York World Is ready to make an affidavit that it is supporting Mr. Bryan. Tha octoDl In the New York aquarium have died from exposure This is a hard year on the octopi. ' Lord Roaslyn has discovered ' that tha bank of Monte Carlo needs no legislation guaranteeing its deposits The National Irrigation congress is .in session at Albuquerque. The na tional irritation congress will meet at Washington In December. "Japan is facing three serious prob lems," says the San Francisco xall They are, probably, debt, cholera and Richmond Pearson Hobson. Look out for a rush at the store ot tho merchant who advertises the tact that handsomest women always do their Christmas shopping early. One thing cannot be alleged against Governor Sheldon. " It will never be aald ot him that he is too straight laced or too dignified to dance. Mrs. Astor criticises Mr. Cannon for 'wearing tan shoes with his evening clothe. Mr. Cannon atones for that, however, by wearing black cigars. HaskellB who are looking up their lineage are satisfied as soon as they find that Oklahoma's governor belongs to a different branch ot the family. Senator Beverldgo aaye that Mr Bryan la wholly without experience as an executive. It Is only fair to ex plain that It Is not Mr. Bryan's fault Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., la up In Connectlout learning to wash wool. His distinguished father can give him all the instruction necessary In plucking wool. Fashionable rrenenmen are now having their clothes made In New York. This probably means that the .French tailors are contracting their credits. "Has the negro a right to vote?" the title of a magaslbe article. He has the right, but it is not safe for him to try to exercise it in solidly demo cratic states. The man who hurled a bomb at Napoleon has confessed. Now if the man who hurled those Archbold let ters will conieaa, me nistorians msy begin work on the next chapter. WHTt According to the democratic plat form, "Bhall the people rule?" is de clared to be the paramount Issue lu tho present campaign. The same demo cratic platform in other declarations seems to dwell upon mathematical percentages as constituting some sort of a political talisman. If the ques tion' whether the people rule can be de termined by mathematics, our demo cratic friends are Invited to apply the percentage test to what confronU them in Nebraska as a condition rather thaji a theory. Previous to the recent Btate-wide primary, an agreement Is said to have been reached between the candidates seeking nomination on both demo cratic and populist tickets that one of them would yield to the other In the event the people failed to award both nominations to the same man. While this deal baa not yet been fully exe cuted, the democratic nominee 1b pro ceeding on the assumption that he is the chosene one and that be will in due time by some hocus pocus be sub stituted for the candidate nominated by the populist end of the fusion com bine. According to the official canvass, the democratic gubernatorial nominee, Mr. Shallenberger, received. 12,528 votes oul of total vote polled for gov ernor amounting to 32,577. In other words, he was tne cnoice oi as per cent ot the democratic voters partici pating in the primary. According to the same official can vass, the populist nominee tor gov ernor, Mr. Berge, received 2,317 votes out of a total of 3,671 votes polled for governor. In other words, he was the choice of 68 per cent of the populist voters participating In the primary. These figures present the question quarely, Why, if the people are to rule, should Mr. Berge as the popu list nominee, retire in favor of Mr. Shallenberger as the democratic nomi nee? Mr. Berge is the choice of 63 per cent of the populists while Mr. Shallenberger is the choice of only 38 per cent ot the democrats. Shall 88 per cent of the democrats dictate to 63 per cent ot the populists who shall be the populist nominee? Or reverse the proposition. Sixty- two per cent of the democrats by their votes have said they did not want Mr. Shallenberger as their standard bearer and 67 per cent of the populists have said they did not want him as their standard bearer. Clearly a large ma jority of both parties has spoken out to the effect that he Is not their ohoice. We repeat, Why should Mr. Berge be retired after he la clearly nominated by nearly & two-thirds majority ot the populist party in favor of a democrat who polled only 38 per cent ot the votes of the democratic party? It "Shall the people rule?" Is the paramount issue among the democrats, why not put It in practice first, at home? AFT SB THE BALL, "The king Is dead. Long live the king." The Ak-Sar-Ben season ot public festivities has closed, for the year, but the spirit ot the organization goes marching on. In many ways tho season hat been one ot the most suc cessful of the whole lot The enthu siasm of the knights was manifest all through the summer from the first meeting at tho Den until the last. While the actual number of members was not so great as in tome former years," no membership was ever more ardently energetic In the cause than those who enrolled under Ak-Sar-Ben XIV. Many notable gatherings as sembled at the Den during the season and much good work Was accom plished. The carnival festivities have been successful in every way and the board of governors and those who co operated with them, which practically means every business man and loyal cltlien, are to be congratulated on the outcome. ' But now comes the real period of work for Ak-Sar-Ben. The seed which has been sown during the sum mer and tall must be carefully nur tured that its growth will be strong and its future substantial. Ak-Sar- Ben stands for more than merely a good time at tho Den during the sum mer and a frolic at the street fair dur ing the fall. It embodies thoroughly the principle of co-operation and mu tual assistance. It means something for every business man in Nebraska. It is a live wire and Its effect should be felt always throughout the length and breadth of the state. It depends on the business men entirely as to whether the seed sown during the summer at the Den shall bear fruit in the way of material returns during the coming months. DIRECTORS THAT VIRECT. Mr. Henry Clews, iu a magaslne ar tide, makes a plea for more practical directors in banks and Industrial com panleo. He Insists that one of the greatest needs of the day is for men on the directorate pf big corporations who tare in position to give some per sonal attention to the affairs of the companies, and the scandals that have become publlo in the last few years over the conduct of "dummy" direc tors in the big insurance and Industrial concerns of the country furnish all of the needed Justification for Mr. Clews demand. Tho vital Importance of having di rectors of big concerns actually take a hand in the direction of affairs has been deeply Impressed upon the public in the last few years of high financial tension, and the comptroller of the currency has shown appreciation of the conditions by formulating rules requiring directors of national banks to keep themselves posted on the operations of the banks and to be in position to assume their Just share of responsibility for papers, reports and vouchers signed by the authorized of ficers of the banks. This decision of the comptroller resulted from the dis covery that in many large banks too much power has been lodged with the officers of the banks In making loans and conducting the business of the banks, without accurate knowledge on the part of the directors. , . The reforms proposed In the bank ing business may be adopted with profit In other big corporations. The directors should keep In touch with every phase of the financial opera tions, the loans, Indebtedness, credits and other elements of the business, so that when the time comes for account ing they need not plead to the stock holders that they have been ignorant, uninformed or 'misinformed as to the operations of the company. When this reform shall have been accomplished and the sentiment la all In favor of the reform there will be fewer finan cial disasters and less trouble over the shortcomings of professional or dummy directors. THE COST OF BAD B0AD8. Allcrton S. Cushman, one of the ex perts ot the Department of Agricul ture, has been furnishing some stu pendous figures indicating the tribute the rural communities of the nation pay every year, for the privilege of having bad roads. In an address be fore a good roads convention at At lantic City, Mr. Cushman said: There are 1,151,670 miles of public roads in the United States. Of this mileage sta tistics for the year 1904 show that about T per cent are improved. During the crop year 1906-08, 85,487,000,000 pounds ot farm products were hauled 6ver common roads from farmf to shipping points. No figures are included for forest or mine products, or for the general commodities of life that go from city to country. It Is evident that the slightest saving in cost of hauling per ton would assume striking proportions when considered for the entire country. Figures show that these great crops traveled In wagons over the country roads 308,432,644 miles, merely In being transported from the farm to the railroad shipping point. Investigations have es tablished the fact that the average cost of hauling per ton per mile Is about 25 cents; on atone roads, dry and In good order, about 8 cents; on stone roads In or dinary condition, 12 cents; on earth roads containing ruts and mud, 89 cents; on sandy roads when wet, 83 cents; on sanity roads when dry, 64 cents. A reduction In the cost of hauling from 26 cents to 12 cents would mean an aver age saving of over $250,090,000. The figures quoted, and Mr. Cush man is relying only on the record, show that the American people are paying about $1,000,000 a day as a penalty for their refusal or failure to get Into the good roads movement. The $250, 000,000 referred to by Mr. Cushman becomes more significant when it Is re membered that it Is a loss which comes direct from the pockets of the farmers. The railroads do not pay any particu lar attention to tho condition of the country roads. They take the wheat, corn and other farm products at the railway station and the producer gets the valuo, or market price, of the ship ment. If the farmers of the nation are paying $1,000,000 a day more than they should in the cost ot carrying their products to the shipping point, it requires no expert to show that if they had good loads they would be receiv ing $1,000,000 a day more for their products than they are now receiving, or about $3 a year for every man, woman and child In the nation. Every cent saved in the cost of transportation Is a cent added to the price the farmer receives for his products. The ad dition of $250,000,000 a year to the income of the American farmers would mean a great strengthening of the purchasing power of the agricultural class and a marked increase of agrl cultural assets. In addition to this di rect gain, the good road adds a value to every acre of farm land in the na tlon, a growth in value that would much more than cover the cost of es tablishing and maintaining good roads. No farmer can lose on any investment he may make In improving the high ways. SOME UNSETTLED ISSUES. In hla speech at Lincoln formally accepting notification of the action of the national convention at Denver, Mr; Bryan said that the only way he could account for having been thrice nomi nated by his party as a candidate for the presidency was that the principles which he and a host of others had espoused In former campaigns had grown in popularity with the people, Painstaking search of the records of political events for the last dosen years falls to show that the principles espoused by Mr. Bryan In his former campaigns have gained any overween ing hold upon the American people. In 1896 Mr. Bryan solemnly assured the American people that no great question could be settled until sliver had been raised to a rank with gold Stiver has not been elevated to that rank, and Mr. Bryan has not recanted hla statement. Last April, in a speech at Danville, 111., he declared that every plank laid down in the democratic platform at Chicago in 1896 is stronger now than it was then. He has given no promise and no bint that if elected president he would not again try to raise the free silver issue. In 1900, Mr. Bryan, while still cling lug to the silver issue, made anti-im perialism tho paramount issue. He predicted that the American republic would, perish if the Filipinos were not granted immediate Independence. The country still survives and, under re publican rule, the Filipinos are being rapidly educated to the point when they will be able to assume the man agement ot their own affairs, but Mr. Bryan has not recanted his proposition on the Philippines. He has offered no assurance that he would not. If elected. attempt to grant the Filipinos their In dependence, undoing the work the re publicans have done and opening the Islands to the loot of foreign, powers. In 1906 Mr. Bryan became enthusi astic In hts advocacy of the govern ment ownership ot railways, declaring that all attempta to regulate the rail roads must end in failure. He has not denied his belief in that, but evades It by expressing a willingness to try regulation first. While public sentiment and the votes of the people have rejected Mr. Bryan's paramounts as rapidly as he has created them, the record fails to show that he has abandoned any of them, but his attitude forces the con viction that if he is elected in Novem ber the country will soon awaken to the fact that it has the 1896 Bryan for president. Frank S. Monnett refused to express an opinion as to the guilt or Innocence of Governor Haskell, but he left room for a natural Inference when he said to a Chicago reporter: "I am now here to take the stump for Mr. Bryan. Until Mr. Haskell retired, I did not feel that I could consistently be active In the campaign, after having been the man who had, as a prosecutor, made charges against Governor Haskell." Mr. Bryan still kindly overlooks the failure of his political associates to publish the account of campaign dis bursements and receipts In 1904. The real manner of distributing that $20,- 000 slush fund contributed by Ryan for Bryan's benefit has never been ex plained. W. At Clark, the Montana mining king, has Just returned from Europe and is confident that Mr. Bryan will be elected. It is too bad, for Mr. Bryan, that Clark cannot contribute as liberally this year as he did to the silver bulllonaire's slush fund In 1896. Ak-Sar-Ben Is a gracious king and, therefore, expresses warmly his appre ciation of the assistance rendered him by the army of the United States In his efforts to entertain the guests of the season. And the public, generally, will echo the thanks of Ak-Sar-Ben. The census bureau estimates the cost of the 158 American cities for 1907 at $607,677,849, an Increase far In excess of the Increase of wealth and population. There would be little com plaint it the people were getting value received for their money. It now develops that James Kerr, the democratic national committee man from Pennsylvania, warned Mr. Bryan before the Denver convention of Governor Haskell's oily lecord. Mr. Bryan refuses to know anything he does not want to know. The OmabA bank clearings. are Btill slipping along; at a high water stage, showing a record each , week of busi ness transacted In excess ot last year's, a most comfortable Indication of con ditions prevailing in this region. Delegates to the League of American Municipalities understand now better than ever why Omaha people are proud of their city. They have seen how beautiful and energetic a really live western town can be. The anti-pass law got in the way of entertainment of the -soldiers, but President Wattles found, a means for Drovldlne the men with rides on the street railway free of coBt, and the men appreciated it. A Season for Dig Game. Cleveland Leader. The president would not be Theodore Roosevelt if he did not enjoy his big political game hunting this fall better than he did hla summer, vacation. A Rent National Isane. New Tork Tribune. "Words against deeds" Is the way Gov ernor Hughes sums up the national is sue. And the American people always put their faith In the man who haa done things. Fixed for tha Answer. Chicago Record-Herald. The governor of New Jersey has fallen heir to 1250,000. There I a a statesman who will probably be perfectly willing to anawer all people who may rise up to ask him where he got It. Penalty for Neglect. Chicago News. S This country has been paying, in for est fires that cost $1,000,000 a day while they lasted, for the laziness and short sightedness of lumbermen and the lack of patrols. Was it Wu Ting-fang who said that Americans were not an Intelli gent race? 't here Are O there. Indianapolis News. The railroads should remember that, however ahlning they may be, they are not special marks. Other business haa suffered from decreased net earnlnga as a result of last year's hand-made panic aa well. The difference is that In most cases other business does not enjoy the privilege of making pleas for unusual consideration In annual reports that are widely published. Knocks far Mere Alan. St. Louis Republic. What la so ridiculoua physically as a modern man? Street cars, automobiles, elevators and railroads have shriveled hla legs, lack of exercise has ahrunk his arms, amoking and foul air have flat tened hla cheat, aedentary work and Carelessness have rounded hla shoulders; when he Isn't grotesquely fat he Is ridiculously thin; he la porcine or a study In nateology. ' A rallaaelphla Uwrer tn Action. New York Times. A Pennsylvania Judge haa Just ren dered a novel decision In a I-cent fare caae. The legislature, It seems, had a right to paas such a law, but It had no right to depreciate the value of the com plelne'ht'e property, as the Judge found the law did. Therefore, the Judge de cides not that the law la unconstitutional, but that It would be unconstitutional If enforced to the plaintiffs prejudloe, and therefore ahould not be enforced at all. We are alow la learning, and still far from appreciating how much more than enactment It take to make a law. OX PRKI DENTI A I. FinlNCI LINK. t'oatlnnatlaa of aa Admlalatrattaa at rrogreea. Kanaas City Star. (Ind.). No president haa ever left the White House with a complete record of accom plishment. No president ever will leave the White house with a complete record of accom plishment. . The things to be done by the president of the United States are too many, too great, too complicated to permit one man to clear the docket within the prescribed limits of presidential tenure. But the people do know that President Roosevelt has made greater progress with the work In hand and has found more to do and haa done more outside of the estab lished routine of his office then any other chief executive the country has had. Mr. Roosevelt and his friends may con fidently challenge comparison with other administrations, republican or democratic. The Roosevelt record Is especially re markable when It Is remembered that evils of a quarter of a century of growth aome of them of a half century ot growth and many ef them regarded aa conventional and permissible, cannot all be uprooted in a year, or two years or five years. Hence It is manifestly unjust for the op ponents of Mr. Taft to lay stress on the things that are yet to be done by the presl dent simply because Mr. Taft basis his candidacy on what Mr. Roosevelt has ac complished and on hla own purpose to con tinue the policies of the Roosevelt admin istration. In the regulation of railroads alone Pres ident Roosevelt has achieved things worthy to stand as the chief record of one man's administration. And as for the trusts, the abolition of rebates, which for years were the chief reliances for monopolies in crushing com petitors, is the greatest single reform pos sible in the direction of corporation control. But the president has made progress all along the line substantial progress and the people know It. If the country can be kassured that the Roosevelt work will be continued It will also be assured that eventually the great evils of business and politics and public service will be elimin ated and that they will be eliminated with out paralysing trade. The election of Mr. Taft Is the best pos sible guarantee that the work that Presi dent Roosevelt shall leave undone will be accomplished, along with new undertakings, in the administration next succeeding. Demand for tha Real Qaestloa. New York Evening Post (Ind.). Webster began his reply to Hayne with a demand that the real question befoie tho senate be read. Similarly, It Is high time that the attention of the American people were recalled to the true issues before them. For the last two weeks the air has been shaken with explosions and outcries, but their relevance would be very hard to make out. Whether Roosevelt or Brayan be the greater master of abuse and Insinuation, may be a very Important matter aa between them, but the voters are not to pass upon that question. They are not even going into the booths to declare that they think Haakell a villain, and Du Pont a man tainted with wealth. If this presidential election Is to be a thing for grown men and not children, better arguments than sojind and fury must be used. Governor Hughes, In his Youngstown speech, and again at Indianapolis, went to the heart of the busi ness In his keen analysis of Mr. Bryan's character and political record. Mr. Taft, too, has of late been devoting more energy to this topic. It Is the vital one. The ques tion Is If we have any tway of Judging a man's future, except by his past, and fllghtiness and demagoguery can develop overnight Into steadiness and sagacious statesmanship. Convincing; Argaments. New York Mail (rep.). There are a dosen controlling arguments against the newest Bryanlte "issue." We name here but two. One Is-the very cir cumstance that It alms to make "sure thing banking" a fact. The other was well stated by Congressman Hill of Connecticut In a recent speech: "My advice to you Is to take your savings bank books with you to the polls, and Just before you vote look over t(ie amount to your credit, and decide whether you are prepared by your vote to put yourselves Into a general partnership, with an un known and unlimited liability, with all of the banks of the United States." No business has a right to be divorced from responsibility by government flat. "You can't lose" la the maxim ot the crooked Dromoter: Mr. Brvan would rHt It above every bank, carefully and con servatively, or loosely and speculatively, manged. It would be all the same to the depositor, and so his savings would go, aa In politics Mr. Bryan would have his vote go, to the man that promised most. A Tame Meeting. Boston Transcript (rep.). James 8. Sherman, republican candidate for vice president, and Hon. John W. Kern, Mr. Bryan's running mate, met In the lobby of a Chicago hotel, shook hands, alluded to the agreeable change in the weather and separated with no outward manifestations of hostility. Such are the resources ot the niodern press that from Kaatport, Me., to where rolls the Oregon, the people of the United States are able to share the surprise which evidently Inspired .the reporter that Messrs. Sherman and Kern met and sep arated In peace. If Mr. Kern had said: "Draw, villain, draw!" and If Mr. Shorman had retorted: "Draw, base peasant, churl! The knight's tiding whip were better thy portion than the knight's sword!" we could scarcely be more particularly informed. Doubtless to a recognition of the para mount character of the social amenities Is duo Mr. Sherman's omission to declare that he would never I.t the gentle Norman blood Grow cauld for Highland Kern.' Sir. Tr.ft and Labor. Chicago Tribune (rep.). Mr. Taft as secretary of war and as gov ernor general of the Philippines has been one of the greatest employers of labor In the nation. The union man who wishes not to be led astray by unjust charges, who wishes to know the truth about thla so called enemy of labor, would do well to In quire what ,Mr. Tart's attltudo has been towards labor on the Panama canal and In the Islands. Tho Steam Shovellers' union did not find Mr. Taft Its enemy, for he Is an honorary member. Wages and rond! tions and future Interests of workmen he has watched over and bettered, and In the laor legislation which the president sought It was Mr. Taft who was his chief adviser and aid. Bids far Votes. Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.). The Independence party In New York stale demand legislation exempting the local taxation . buildings and other real estate Improvements to an amount not exceeding $J,000. This seems to be an effort to apply tha Henry George plan on limited eealo for the sake of catching the farmer and small householder rote. ' Any how. aa a bold, bald bid for votes on the basis of apeclal claaa favors It la unrur pasted. The effect of the scheme would be to thtow the whole burden of taxation upon the larger real estate Improvements In so far aa it would not fall back upon A M AN WHO TAKES CHANCES. Kandaaneata! Objections tn Bryaa as an Kseenttve. Kansas City Star. The most objectionable thing about Mr. Bryan Is not his readinoea to attack that which la sound and right, but the chances ho takes In advocating that which Is un sound and wrong. Hither Mr. Bryan falls to grasp the tre mendous gravity of the government prob lem or he Is willing to make reckless ex periments with reference to Its solution. The proposition of free silver colnnge, Involving pollry of national repudiation, was attractive to many voters, and Mr. Bryan was willing to tske chances with It as a doctrine. Within a year he has declared that we would again be for free sliver If the conditions of ISM returned. Because the government of th Philip pines " was- costly, and because, being costly, certain voters would have been pleased If the United State had washed Its hands of Its new possessions, Mr. Bryan was willing to take chances by en couraging the Filipinos In the belief that If he were made president In 1900 they would secure Immediate Independence a policy that Mr. Taft, who knows more about the Philippines than any other American statesman, saya coat many llv.'s through the resistance to American au thority It encouraged.,. Believing that government ownership of railroads would make a strong appeal to the voters, Mr. Bryan was willing to take chances In advocating such ownership. And now, because It would please bank depositors to havo their deposits Insured, Mr. Bryan demands the compulsory guiir anty of bank deposits. The principle In volved In the compulsory proposition Is without equity, and probably would be declared unconstitutional, .but Mr. Bryan Is willing to take chances. Because It Is right, and especially be cause It Is popular, to denounce the trusts, Mr. Bryan demands a law that shall pro hibit any corporation or individual from owning more than 60 per cent of a given product, a plan so revolutionary especially In relation to small concerns that may control exclusive lines aa to be not only staggering to the conservative business man, but also In all probability contrary to the constitution. But Mr. Bryan Is ready to take chances. Mr. Bryan stands for many good things. many right things, and hla platform In cludes several Important planks that the republican platform does not contain. But no man Is safo who seems to re gard the government of the United States aa a political property, to Be Juggled about by Inventors, opportunists, experimenters and visionaries. The government must progress along the lines of established principles. The man who is willing to take long chances. Involving th possibili ties ot th complete overthrow of busi ness, is not a safe man for president. JURY FIXING 18 GENERAL. Breakdown ' f Methads of Criminal Jnatlce In San Francisco. San Francisco Chronicle. Every move made in the Ruef trials gives moral evidence the systematlo bribery of Juries Is being practiced which la as con vincing to the public aa were the signs of corruption during the entire Bchmits regime, but before th explosion. Nobody doubted then that the mayor, th super visors and all officials appointed by Schmlts were thieves. Nobody doubts now that all through these graft trials there has been systematlo corruption of Juries. In private conversation It Is treated as a matter of course. Nobody, of course, oold "prove" It. Nobody needs legal proof to be con vinced. One thing Is open and notorious and that Is that either the law doe not permit trial Judges to compel- J us tie to be don or even to enforce common decency In their courts, or that the Judges have not the stamina to enforce the law. That the lawyers for the defense and prosecution have not been sent to Jail for their out rageous conduct In contempt of court la not only disgraceful but ruinous. If mem bers of the bar only show that they despise the courts, does anyone suppose that the publlo will respect them? Nobody doubts that the Judges ar honest, and yet nobody doubts that justice Is bought and sold tn their courts. It Is to be hoped that legal proof oan be found to secure conviction of those Indicted for jury fixing or that It may be proved that they are not guilty. One reason for the strong conviction that systematlo bribery Is going on Is the persistence with which business men whose names are In th box are ap proached by agents with the nam scoun drel as Indelibly stamped on their feature aa If tattooed there, and who seek to draw out opinion on the graft caaes. If they do not fear to approach well known cltlsens of good reputation It Is not difficult to Im agine what Is done with the low characters of whom the Judges have named so many for Jury duty. The fact Is that It has come to be a fight for the life of our Judicial system. If that goes we are gone altogether. No more I there safety to any man when Justice Is bought and sold In our courts. Some way ought to be found whereby these Jury. brlblnr cases may take precedence over all other Judicial business. And there should be some way to get to the bottom of th matter. When our judicial system Itself is put on trial all other possible litigation sinks Into Insignificance. CHOICE BETWEEN TWO MEN. Reaaona Why Former' Demoerntla Payer Supports Taft. Brooklyn Eagle. The Eagle's reasons for supporting Mr. Taft and for opposing Mr. Bryan are based on the important considerations, and have not been effected by the unimportant. The latter Just now are sensational, but cannot rightly become or be made significant Mr. Taft Is a judicial, ateady. wise and con sistent man, with unmatched experience In high administrative office, which he has well filled. Mr. Bryan has had a for gotten and Incidental record in a talk shop, the house of representatives. The peo ple have twice refused to elect him to th presidency. t Their refusal was fortunate for them and a valuable advertisement for Mr. Bryan. Their further refusal would be equally well for them and for Mr. Bryan. Their elec tion of Mr. Taft would secure In their high est office a service which has been very useful to the people In pieces only less high. The election of Mr. Bryan would be neither wise nor safe. Let the readers keep these plain facta in mind. No other facta are decisive. The election will turn on. and settle no other facta I Mr. Taft would be a reassurance. Mr. Bryan would be a jarring liability. The first conviction that would follow from Mr. Taft' election would be a sense of safety and steadiness. The first one that would follow from Mr. Bryan' election would be a sense of oneafety, danger and sensationalism. How presidents affect government and how power effects men can be well 'appreciated by thoae men who atudy the career of th two can date. If a wis course of action follow such a study, Mr. Taft will be elected, 'if an unwise course of action follows from such a study, Mr. Bryan will be elected. Be tween safety and risk, between Taft and Bryan, the choice will be mad. It la choice the people ahould ba trusted wisely to make, unaffected by any other matter which, however exciting end Interesting ar not Important or lasting. UNSOUND INSURANCE. The Bryaalt Schema af Polltlral Itn a hi sr. Collier' Weekly. Mr. Bryan's scheme, which he call a guarantee. Is an Insurance proposition, nd It Is entirely mutual In It nature. The gov ernment does not stand back of It. There are no (tockholders who pledge their re sources. There I nothing, except a cer tain definite and limited fund. This fund I to be used to Insure risk which are not selected. It Is to Insure all alike, good or bad. and all at the very snmrate. Th real working of the scheme amount to this: The stockholders of an Indiana bank guar antee that the aiet (which they are net allowed to see) of. say, an 'Idaho bank are and shall continue to be good; and that tha directors of the Idaho bank (over whom they have no control) ahall always be men of rectitude and sound Judgment. Mr. Bryan thinks that thla little Idea of hla will prevent panics. In 193 th existence of a gold fund to guarantee the payment of government currency In gold many times larger proportionately than the deposit guarantee fund would be was of no avail in preventing a gold panic. In 1907 a currency and specie reserve fund In the national banks, equal to about It per cent of their deposits, did not prevent one of the most frantic currency panics In the history of the national banking system. What reason Is there to think that, In times of stress and uncertainty, a fund of a few millions to guarantee deposit of thirteen billions would have any more reassuring effect? The scheme Is worth little or nothing as protection. It would greatly Increase the number of failures by the encouragement of reckless banking. It would not help to meet panic. It would help greatly to bring them on. PER9ONAL NOTES. Men In New York who hav money to bet on the election, and make a practice of betting, appear to have settled down to the belief that Taft will be elected. Th odds on Taft are 8 to t and S to 1 in some cases. H. A. Kuhn, a' Pittsburg operator, is said to hav perfected a machine that can dig and load coal at th rate of a ton a minute. Tha individual miner, with the best methods hitherto tn use, can turn out only from aix to ten ton a day. New York ha a state debt of t2t.O0O.O0O and a balance In the state treasury ot 27,0O0,0OO to offset It. That Is doing pretty well, but Pennsylvania can beat It. Penn sylvania ha a caah balance of 18,000.000 or tS.O00.OO0 In excess of what remain of tha stat debt. An Australian cattle king, Sidney Kid man, Is said to own mora of th Brltlah empire than any other Individual. He I th proprietor of 49, square miles of land and has 100,000 cattle and 10,000 hones. He Is entirely self-made. When 14 year okt he was earning only t?.S0 a week. Tha world' record for a baby glob trotter Is held by Kathryn L. A. G. Mor gan, who, though only S year old, haa traveled 20,000 miles, or more than eleven time around the globe. She la th daugh ter of Mr. and Mr. George E. Morgan, formerly of Chicago, whose business In terest hav taken him Into all part of th world. Two prtneesa, representative of th only real American royalty, descendant of that Massasolt whose word Was law to thirty, village and 30,000 redmen, ar living lii poverty on the shores of Lake Aiaawaoip sett, Massachusetts. They are Tewaeleema and Wootonekanuake. An effort I being made to secure for these last of the royal blood of th Wampanoaga a material recog nition of their right and of th services which their anoeatora, the mighty aaohera Massasolt, performed for the pioneers of New England, for without Massaaolt friendship and protection th struggling colonist would hav been wept from tha land. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "If you wish to have everybody for your friend," counseled her elderly adviser, "don't b a talker; be a listener." It was not until after she had secured a job as telephone girl in the central office that she found out what a mistake she had made in taking the advice literally. Chi cago Tribune. "Who spoke?" asked the farmer, suddenly pausing in hi driving. "I guess," said his waggish farmhand. ' I . .... W I - ,, "No." JImM tllA fiirmAr aiiIv Nf ..,.A , ' ' , ,. suyiwi mor Ilka In ttiA t..n.ra r ,ka ,, Baltimore American. "There is a man up tha street who. mn. cording to hla sign, ought to do hair-raising At In Kii.ln... "Why aoT" "Because he is b acalDer." Phllnrialnht, Press. "So thl patent saving bank isn't com plete enough for you?" "No; I want something that will take my pay envelopes away from roe every Satur day and dole me out money by the nlckal." i-nen youa Detter get married." HU Louis Times. Salesman (In dtfDartnient store) Looking for something cheap, madam? Mrs. Hennlng (looking for husband) Oh. did you see him? Which way did be got Bohemian Jdagaalne. 'What were your sensations when th automobile struck the tree and threw you out? I presume, though, you didn't have time to think." "O, yes, 1 did. I distinctly remember thinking, aa I flew through the aUr, 'Gse! What a repair bill 1 11 hav to foot I' " Chicago Tribune. "Lady." aald Plodding Pat, "dat bull- dogo' yer'a mighty near oaught met" "lis did!" exclaimed th woman with a firmly set jaw. ' "I'll give him the worst twatlng he ever hadl" "Lady, be merciful. If dat dog finds It as hard to git anytlng to eat around here aa I do I don't blame him for reachln' fur anytlng dat come along." Washington Star. "I'd rather hav my rich relatives pony ud while they're alive," y th nhlloee- pher of folly, "than to depend on what they are going to leave m. In other worda, I can't take the will for the deed." Cleve land Leader- . . THE UN CHEERED HERO. J. W. Foley in New York Times. Tun Brooks he studies awful hard And faithful all the year. But goes out in tn schoolhou yard And never gets a cheer; And Billy OiLbs, he shirk and fret He hairs to work at ail But you should hear the cheer be gets Because he hits tne bail. Tim Brooka he always toads his class And gets his lee tons done; But Billy Ululu lets hours pass Just thlrklng up some fun; But no one cheers and throws his hat And says "Hurrah for Tim!" nut when Bill Ulbbs goes up to bat The boys all cheer for li lm. Rill OII be he surfer awful pain When he comes to recite; He canrot do hla sums af?aln Or get hla r rummer right; Then teacher calls on Thruny Brooks And points to him with pride, But when we ply a gao.e she looks And cheer for bhl outside. Sometimes Tint Brooks he sees the game , And watches hill at bet,. He geta excited Just the same And cheeri and throws his hat; But when he has hla sums In school And Hill Is watching him. Bill quite forgets the Golden Rule. And never cheer for Tim. I guess I'd rather be Ilka Tim Than Billy Ulbba. but when The boys outside ant cheering him It aounda quite pleasant then; And It must sometimes seem quit bard To atudy all the year And go out In the echoo houa Ji lint UVU fct a Cluan i n. i i I f