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WRKIt OUT OF TOWlt.
Iisacrlstn learUg th city tea
warartly akaalal aaT Two Boo
aaa.ll: thorn. A 41 reea wtlff ho
The Licorice truat has been ordered
by the court! to couch up a line of
'918,000.
CMtro'B health is much Improved.
It seem Impossible to set any food
news from Veneauela.
The northern states may now enter
the contest tb see which can produce
the most Vermont maple sugar,
Anyway, the waterways proposition
feels that it is in no danger of being
snubbed by the next administration.
A dairyman has been arrested for
improper handling ot milk. He ap
peari to have been leading a atrainless
life.
. Gattl-Casaxil is the name of the
manager of a New York opera house
Sounds like a cable dispatch from the
Balkans.
Congressman Hobson has given $1
to the democratic national campaign
fund. Even that will help more than
his voics. "
Two American balloonists fell 4,000
feet and escaped injury. They have
one qualification for candidates on the
democratic ticket.
t . ' ' 1 .
"Mr. Tatt did not make the sun
shins," says Mr. Bryan. It will be con
ceded, however, that Mr. Bryan has
made the moonshine.
Mr. Hearst denies that ho carries a
gun to protect himself again Haskell
Mr. Hearst is not a pistol toter, even
it he does carry epistles.
Still, the country will be slow to
agree with Mr. (tampers that the su
preme court should obey. directions of
either labor or political leaders.
Mr. Bryan has discovered that Gov
ernor Hughes is a friend of the trusts
August Belmont and bis friends in the
Race Track trust do not think so.
The present democratic attorney tn
Douglas county has had three terms
and has dose nothing so exceptions!
as to entitle him to a fourth term.
Mayor Jim had Banker Shallen
berger sited up right before the demo
cratic primaries and it is to be noted
that Mayor Jim never hedges a bet
Mr. Taft is really cruel when he goes
off to the sooth on s speaking trip,
thus serving notice on Mr. Bryan that
he thinks the north is safely republi
can. "The people pf the country cannot
be frightened as they were in 18(6,"
ays Normaa E. Mack, at a time when
Mr. Bryan la asking everybody to for
get 186.
Some folks will be disposed to envy
Colonel Stewart, who has been ordered
by the government to do nothing for
the rest of bis life on s salary of $400
a month.
"My nomination came from the peo
ple," says Mr. Bryan. The reports of
the Denver convention sll sgree that
Mr. Bryan's "nomination came from a
private telephone at Falrview, Neb.
"I will be glad when tha campaign
ia over." says Colonel Watteraon. . It
will be s real relief-to Colonel Watter
aon to write again what he thinks
about Mr. Bryan instead of what he
thinks U feUcr ts writs.
B trout AltD ATttR TAXIXO.
In a frantic effort to elect Mr. Bryan
Ithout approving Bryanlsm, the New
York World Is making a desperate
fight agslnst President Roosevelt and
what It Is pleated to term "Rooeevelt-
sm." In a triple-leaded editorial
scream, the World declares that never
n the lifetime of the republic has there
been greater need of a virile, aggres
sive, uncompromising opposition to the
party In power to Rooseveltlsm, mili
tarism, jingoism, centralization, per
sonal government and panic." The
World has a hope In Bryan. In an im
passioned appeal to the Nebraska
leader, it declares that "If Mr. Bryan
should avoid all appeals to class preju
dice; if he should prove that he Is not
the old Bryan, but a new Bryan, cour
ageously leading the popular protest
against the excesses of Rooseveltlsm,
he can then appeal with fair prospects
of success to the great Independent
vote."
The World is in position to Judge
whether Mr. Bryan will rise to the
mergency, or Is capable of arising to
The World knows Mr. Bryan and
has followed his career very closely.
n February of the present year, only
seven months ago, the World published
"Map of Bryanlsm," in pamphlet
form, containing much of Mr. Bryan's
record and a good deal of Mr. Roose
velt's. In that document, we find this
from the New York World, In the form
of an open letter to Mr. Bryan:
Do you think that your theories would
tand the ghost of a shadow of a chance
against Mr. Roosevelt's record of actual
achievement? For forty years democrats
have denounced Wall street, tha corpora
tion a, the money power, monopolies and
railroad corruption In all It forma. But
what democrat haa ever done a much aa
Mr. Roosevelt to remedy the abuses which
thae terms Imply? He, haa accomplished
more tn actual practice against the abuse
of Wall atreet and the exoeaae of organised
wealth than all tha democrats of the United
State put together. After what President
Roosevelt and the republican party have
actually done In the way of regulating rail
roads, would tha American people truat you
In preference to them to enforce Mr. Roose
velt's rate law? After what he and his ad
ministration have actually done In the en
forcement of th Sherman law, would the
people trust you In preference to them to
Curb monopolies?
No explanation ia given to show why
Mr. Roosevelt, who was the object of
the glowing tribute of the World In
February, should now be the object of
the paper's vicious attacks, nor why
Mr. Bryan, who was considered wholly
incompetent to cross swords with
Roosevelt in February, should be
picked as the deliverer of the country
from Roosevelt policies in October.
The record falls to show that either
Mr. Bryan or Mr. Roosevelt has done
anything In the seven months to justify
the new relation In which the New
York World now holds them. To prove
that the World was familiar, in Febru
ary, with Mr. Bryan's record, the fol
lowing excerpt is reproduced from the
World's now famous, wholly accurate,
"Map of Bryanlsm:"
To call th long roll, therefore, we find
that you, Mr. Bryan, aa the foremost popu
list In America, have supported and voted
for candidates who represent the following
political principles: Free silver. 16 to 1.
without th concurrence of other nations.
Government loan to farmers. Government
ownership and operation of railroads.
Greenback Inflation. Government owner
ship of telegraph and telephone lines. Elec
tion of United Statea senators by popular
vote. Initiative and referendum. Election
of United States Judges by direct vote and
for ehort terms. A promise to pack the
supreme court of the United 8taes. No
government "by Injunction." Opposition to
private contract providing for the payment
of gold. Government ownership of inter
state railroads and state ownership of state
railroads. Municipal ownership of all public
utilities In cltle. Crippling the United
Statea court and counteracting their Juris-
diction over questions ailslng under the con
stltutlon.
A man of your ability and address, Mr.
Bryan, cannot forever assail constitutions
Courts, law, wealth property, credit, na
tional honor and private faltli without build
ing up a following which will have to b
reckoned with sometime, llo cannot for
ever intiara social discontent iihn.,
creating class hatred and sowing the seed
of a class war.
If the New York World has dis
covered any reason why Bryan, who
was denounced in February as a dema
gogue, should now be considered a safe
and sane statesman, abundantly to be
trusted, and that Mr. Roosevelt, who
waa applauded in February for doing
more than all the democrats put to
gether in regulating governmental
abuses, it should take the people into
its confidence. The public Is disposed
to accept the estimate of the two men
made by the World in February.
future or OMAHA s wool, market.
The people of Omaha, and especially
the business interests of this city, are
Justly Jubilant over the successful es
tablishment of a wool market In
Omaha and the progress already made
In securing recognition for this mar
ker as a wool storage and distributing
center. There is no Question that
Omaha can become a wool market of
the first magnitude, if normal condi
tions continue without interference or
disturbance, because this city is the
focal point for a great wool-producing
region In which only a beginning has
beeu made In the way of sheep raising.
The sheep country tributary to Omaha
extends to the north and west of us
sll the way Into and across the Rocky
mountain! and, so long as the Industry
remaina profitable, sheep raising la
sure to expand and the wool from the
backs of the sheep ia sure to be sent
in greater volume to Omaha to find
Its market outlet.
The future of Omaha as a wool mar
ket depends, however, as we have said,
upon the maintenance of normal con
ditions snd the principal factor In the
maintenance of these normal condi
tion. Is the protection of the sheep
raising Industry by the tariff on wool.
This is where ths tariff issue touches
Omaha directly and vitally. Mr. Bryan
when la songreaa Introduced - and
championed a bill for free wool and he
has put hlmaelf on record repeatedly
against the protective duties which
hsve fostered the sheep Industry.
The election of Mr. Brysn, followed
up by bis free trade tariff, could not
possibly be anything but a set-back to
Omaha's wool market, while the elec
tion of Taft and endorsement of the
protective tariff will Insure Its con
tinued forward strides.
Every person in Omaha who votes
for Bryan and democratic free trade
by bis vote knocks upon Omaha's wool
market. Our people have just put In
much time and been to no little ex
pense to get the wool market started.
We submit that it would be foolish for
them to vote at the coming election to
undo their own work.
MR. Tit FT IX THE SOUTH.
Practical politicians will agree, per
haps, that Mr. Taft has been wasting
his time by making a tour of the south,
at least so far as the effects of the trip
upon the present campaign are con
cerned, for there is but slight prospect
that any of the states he has visited
will be found in the republican column
on election day and there is urgent de
mand for his voice and presence in
states that are considered debatable.
Mr. Taffs determination to make the
trip, however, is characteristic of the
man. He has felt it to be his duty to
make a tour of the south and he has
never shirked a duty. He has Insisted
that a presidential candidate who
makes speeches at all should not ignore
any section of the country, merely be
cause It was politically hostile to him,
and ho has insisted that it was his duty
to win as many votes in the south as
possible, even if he could not gain a
sufficient number in any state to count
for him in the electoral college. "The
southern states are a part of the
union," says Mr. Taft, and it is con
trary to their interests to remain a per
manent asset of the democratic party
of the north, to be delivered en bloc
no matter what the Interest or issue at
stake." Reasons for his trip, reasons
that must appeal to thinking southern
voters, were expressed at Chattanooga
when he said:
If the south wants political Influence It
has got to exercise intelligence In the dls
charge of Its political duty.
Ask yourselves where would be your
cotton manufactories, your furniture fac
tories. If the republican policy of protection
was departed from?
How Is It that our democratic friends can
go on voting one way and hoping to God
that something would happen to make ttielr
vote count for nothing? There come i
time when you can run adherence to tradi
tlons Into the ground, and I think that time
has come now.
There could be no more glorious out
come, for the south, of Mr. Taft's trip
than that four or five of the southern
states should lay the race Issue aside
and vote for their Interests and the re
publican ticket. It would cause a
speedy and needed realignment and re
organization of the democratic party,
for the wholesale good of both parties.
The democratic party would become
much more efficient and attractive if
It 'became a national rather than a sec
tional party. The south is injuring It
self by being a "perpetual asset" of the
democratic party of the north, swal
lowing issues that are nauseating and
candidates who are obnoxious, solely
because it has orders from headquar
ters to do so.
Mr. Taft may not gain any electoral
college votes by his tour of the south,
but he will gain approbation from all
classes for being big enough to lay
prospects of Immediate political reward
aside long enough to give expression
to a national spirit that protests against
an abnormal political condition that
does not promote the national welfare
A CEXSVS OP THE TREES.
The National Conservation coinmls
slon has undertaken the big task o
making a census ot the trees of the
nation, the proposition being to have
the standing timber of the country
counted In order that plans for the con
servatlon of the forests may be entered
upon with accurate information as to
supply now on hand, The enumeration
Is deemed essential, in view of the con
flicting opinions of experts as to the
timber now on hand and the time it
may be relied upon tq last. Secretary
Wilson of the Department of Agrjcul
ture declares that we are cutting more
timber each year than grows in three
and that the available supply will be
exhausted within twenty years. Other
experts insist that the visible supply of
timber has been underestimated and
that the country has sufficient stock in
sight to meet demands for a half
century.
The forestry bureau at Washington
estimates the standing timber, board
measurement, at 1,000,000,000,000
which is about an average of the high
and low estimates of other experts.
The annual consumption is estimated
at 100,000,000,000, so the available
supply cannot last more than a dozen
years. The annual replacement, of
course, will lengthen the time for the
final exhaustion of the available sup
ply, but no accurate method has been
devised to estimate this annual replace.
ment. The national forest reserves
now cover 165,000,000 acres of ground
and the produce of those areas can be
carefully and accurately ascertained
and the cut made to correspond with
the replacement.
It is important that the country-
should' know just how much lumber is
annually required, the quantity held
by the federal government, the states
and individual owners, and to what ex
tent forest culture must be Increased
to supply the present and probable fu
ture demand. The proposed censu
will, therefore, be of great value In
opening the eyes of congress and th
J legislatures of the states to the impor
tance of more comprehensive measures
for ths encouragement of forest cul
ture and the prevention ot waste. The
ublio right in this great national re
source Is greater than any Individual
or corporate right to destroy the coun
try's timber for Immediate profit.
I X TEMPERAXCE IX THE ARUr.
It Is a matter of historic record thst
courts martial adjourn at 3 p. m. each
ay out of respect for an old precedent.
established in the British army at a
time when all the officers were mem
bers of the nobility and therefore
gentlemen" and, according to custom,
no gentleman is supposed to be sober
after 3 o'clock." The American army
fortunately has not followed the Brit
ish custom in the matter of inebriety,
ut it is only of late years that It has
been considered bad form and Injurious
to the good of the service for an officer
to indulge his cups liberally. The
demands for the Improvement of the
standard of the army, berth as to offi
cers and enlisted men, bas resulted in
some drastic action in checking exces
sive drinking. An instance In point Is
furnished in the case of Captain Han
cock of the coast artillery, who has just
been reduced In lineal rank upon con
viction of using intoxicants to excess.
In approving the sentence of the court
martial. General Frederick D. Grant
wrote:
Vnder modem condition there doe not
exist In the United Statea a large corpora
tion engaged In Industry, manufacturing or
transportation that would retain In It em
ploy In a position of trust and responsibility
a man with the personal habits ot Intem
perance such as Is proven the accused ha
had. The standard ot efficiency In the
army, Instead of being lower, should be
higher than that required by the most per
fectly organized corporation, and the evil
effects upon discipline of an example of
chronic alcoholism In one selected for com
mand are too great to be tolerated.
For these reasons the sentence Is believed
to be Inadequate, and Is therefore reluct
antly approved. The department com
mander trusts that this trial and the re-
ultant punishment will convince Captain
Hancock, if he desires to remain in the
service, of the necessity ot a complete
change In hi habits.
The incident is chiefly significant in
that It places official discountenance
upon the old habit of drunkenness so
common In other days among both offi
cers and gentlemen.
That published list of contributions
to the Bryan campaign fund falls to
disclose the $10,000 raised by the
Bryan volunteers of Nebraska. Under
the Nebraska corrupt practices law
this money is to be accounted for just
as much as the donations direct to the
campaign treasurers, but, evidently,
the democratic manipulators have no
more intention of observing this law
this year than they have in previous
years.
Preliminaries have been completed
for the enlargement of the city jail
and Its temporary use by the county
while the new county building is In
course of construction. This ought to
settle the jail problem in Omaha for
some time to come, but it does not sat
isfy the need of a workhouse, which
must be the. next addition to our puni
tive institutions.
The next legislature of Nebraska is
going to have a safe working repub
lican majority in both houses. That
much is conceded by everyone. If
Douglas county wants to have a dele
gation at Lincoln that can be relied on
to look after its interests it will see to
it that it sends a republican delegation
able to keep in touch with the ma
jority. American astronomers insist that the
new comet has a tall and the French
astronomers deny it. We hope the
Americans are right, as this la a poor
year to work up enthusiasm over a
bob-t aired comet.
The Lloyds are writing insurance
against a European war and offering
odds of 33 to 1. Lloyds do not believe
there is any more chance of an Euro
pean war than there Is of Bryan being
elected.
"For argument's sake," says a dem
ocratlc spellbinder, "let us concede
that the charges against Governor
Haskell are true." The words "for
argument's sake" are wholly superflu
ous. Mr. Bryan's biggest campaign con
tribution, so far as published, comes
from the regularly retained lawyer of
the traction monopoly at Denver. Will
the money be returned? Hardly.
A Connecticut man has been fined
$2 0 for kissing his own wife in the
park. Still, he got off cheaper than if
he had been caught kissing some other
man's wife in the park.
A New York athlete is asking $20,
000 from a girl who jilted him. He
cannot be much of an athlete or he
would be ashamed to admit that a girl
threw him.
Former Senator Clark of Montana
says Bryan will not disturb business.
For a number of reasons, one of which
is he will not get the chance.
(araegle Forgets III Hale.
Boston Herald.
Mr. Carnegie' $10,000 contribution to the
republican national campaign fund ia
unique, not only became it i the largest
Individual donation yet made to the cause,
but also for the reason that It does not
appear to have been made on Mr. Carne
gie's usual condition of duplication. It may
yet turn out that when the Laird of Skibo
passes on St. Peter will not offer him
a halo on condition that Mr. Carnegie fur
nishes the ot,her hall.
Aa lasallaat Jse,
Chicago Record-Herald.
A Nevada Judge has testily refused to
i'riir.i a divorce to Mrs. E. II Sot hern be
cause she failed, when the case was called,
to apptar In court. What an ungillant
man! dtill, on second thought, he can
hardly b blamed for not wishing to grant
divorces In caaea where th applicant
do not at leaai send wrd.
ON PRESIDENT! It. FIRI l.lK.
Mr. Bryan's f'rvxtkeal Views
Eroaomle Qaestloas.
Pittsburg Dispatch (rep ).
A remarkable Illustration ha Just been
given by Mr. Bryan of his Inability to get
A straight view of economic question. He
has given' this example In Nebraska, where
h Is covering the towns in which Judge
Taft and Governor Hughes made speeches.
It will be recalled that In Nebraka Mr.
Taft called attention to the price of wheat
In democratic times and the change since
then. The difference Is greatly to the ad
vantage of the farmer, since the price of
wheat departed from Mr. Bryan's Imagin
ary parity with the price of silver.
Now Mr. Bryan says to his follow Ne-
braskans: "Haa not the price of wheat
advanced In free trade England as well as
here? Has not ths price of wheat gone up
RlU over the world as much as In thl
country under republican rule?" And Mr.
Bryan fondly believe thin I a crushing
answer to the argument of Mr. Taft. He
I apparently a aur now that condition
in thl country do not affect the price of
wheat as he was In 1896 that America could
ordain the free colnago of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 "without the consent of any
other nation."
Such Is Mr. Bryan' peculiar mental stra.
blsmus on all financial and economic ques
tions, from free silver to guaranteed de
posit and the price of wheat. To the mind
of ordinary mortal It appear the price
of wheat Is controlled by the law of supply
(ind demand, not by the price of sliver,
Mr. Bryan once claimed. The supply now
Is somewhat greater than during the demo
cratlc times, when the price waa low. The
foreign demand, that la. from "free trade
England" and from "all over the world,"
Is not much. If any, greater rjow than then.
Where, then. Is the difference that give
cause for the farmer' broad mlle? It I
In the better demand of the home market,
created by the prosperous Industrie built
up under republican policies. This Is the
sound logic of Mr. Taft. Rut to Mr. Bryan,
naving abandoned his imaginary relation
between the price of allver and the price
of wheat, the prosperity of American manu
factures haa had nothing to do with th
advanced price of wheat, because tha price
naa gone up all over the world.
Those laborer who have come her from
Europe to share in our prosperity since
the passing of Mr. Bryan's repudiation
threat In 189S have been added to the num.
ber of the world's wheat eaters. In their
native countries they did not eat wheat.
because they could not afford It. Yet Mr.
Bryan asks his fellow farmer ln Nebraska
how could the republican policies have af
fected the price of their product! His case
Is hopeless!
Fifty Per Cent Traat Remedy.
New York Tribune (ren ).
The destructive effects of Governor
nugnrs criticism of Mr. Ilrvnn'i trn.i reg
ulation scheme are obvloua from the Ne
liraskan's attempt to reilv in it d n,.,
ir. Bryan apparently tried to Ignore th
New York governor's mnnlvul. rf hi.
but It could not be, linorod and .tw
several weeks he haa been forced to take
It up and endeavor to combat It. In doing
o ne adopts the regular device of the
controversialist whose case ham Soon
lessly demolished namely, a personal at-
laca upon ni adversary. Mr. Hughea Is an
eastern mart, Mr. Bryan warna his hearers
and, therefore, properly an object of sus
picion. Can anything good come out of
Nw York? Several rich men contributed
to Governor Hughes' campaign fund two
years ago. And, last of all, he vetoed the
2-cent fare bill.
These are the only answer the demo
cratic candidate has to Oovornnr ir,,o-i.-
convincing demonstration that his trust
pian is nothing but a dream, the wild
guess of an utterly Impractical man at the
solution of a difficult problem. Mr. Bryan
presents no reaaon for thinking that hi
BO per cent remedy will work. The diffi
culties that Governor Hugho pointed out
are not explained away, except that Mr.
Bryan declares that hi remedy would not
be applied to monopolies existing under
patent rights. All that he has to offer In
defenke of hi claims Is as haiy and In
definite aa the scheme itself.
Campaign Ho mors.
New York Evening Post (Ind.).
Now that a Jewish cltlxen, 106 years old.
has returned from Jerusalem in order to
vote for the republican ticket, there could
be no doubt, of Taffs election If It were
not for the fact that somewhere out In
Ohio or Kansas an almost equally aged
German citizen grasped Mr. Bryan hand
and said: "I have voted for every anti
democratic candidate since Jackson, but
you are a good man, Mr. Bryan, and my
vote this year goes to you." It I such
conflicting factors that make the taak of
the political prophet exceptionally liard
this year. Here, for Instance, la the fore
man on Mr. Alton B. Parker's farm who
I a republican, but is going to vote for
Bryan this year. But against him we may
have to count the faflier of Mr. Hitchcock'
office boy who has been won over from
a life-long affiliation with Tammany to
enthusiastic support of Taft. In West Vir
ginia, the father of eleven son ha assured
Mr. Taft that twelve renuhllcju,
would be cast from Ills homestead, but at
the tame time we read among the en
thusiastic Bryanltes of Guthrie, Okl., Is
the father of twenty-eight children,' of
whom twenty-one are alive. On tho whole
the safest thing Is to hold that the can
didate who gets the greatest number of
vote will win.
Raafher (heap.
Kansas City Star (Ind.).
Let It be noted once more that for a big
man Mr. Bryan can do some surprisingly
small things.
For example, In discussing the effect of
his possible election, in a speech delivered
at Tecumseh. Neb., Mr. Bryan said:
"Ther will be a panic In one family, and
that will be the Taft family, for Mr. Taft'
federal salary will be withdrawn for the
first time In twenty years."
I Mr. Taft drawing a federal salary,
Mr. Bryan? You Infer that he Is, but you
know that he I not.
Haa any other man in tha public service
given better value for th federal salary
he ha received than has Mr. Taft?
It Is believed that Mr. Taft haa the proa
perlty of his country muc'.i more at heart
than he has his own prosperity. Consider
ing this reference to salary, one can not
be so sure about Mr. Bryan.
Taft Present tb Fact.
Baltimore American (rep.).
Those who have been reading Mr. Taft'
speeches during the present campaign must
have observed that the republican presi
dential candidate Illustrates hi argument
continuously by the citation of circumstan
tial evidence. He ts not given to a fanci
ful, glittering generality sort of speech
making. As he himself haa expressed it,
he does not "float away Into the cerulean
blue." He proves hi statements with the
care of a lawyer arguing a case before a
critical and dUcrlminattng Judge.
A Baroatvter that Tells.
Baltimore American.
The American people spent this year
nearly M.GOO.OGO on base ball. There have
Jjeeir me floating theories that the coun
try ha not entirely shaken off the effect
of the 190T panic, but there Is nothing panicky-looking
about those base ball gat
money assets
Is the Supreme
Washington Tost (Ind ).
Mr. Samuel Oompeis, In an appeal to the
union labor voter to support Mr. Htyan,
describes the Judiciary of the t'nlted fltate
as a despotism" and declare that some
action must be taken to curb the court.
He says:
"The facts are that the Judiciary, Induced
by corporations and the trusts, and pro
tected by th republican purty. Is, step by
step, destroying government by law, and
substituting therefor a government bv
Judges, who determine what. In their opin
ion, Is wrong; what. In their opinion. Is
evidence; who. In their opinion. Is guilty,
arl what. In their opinion, the punishment
shall be. It I sought to make of the
judges irresponsible despots, and, by con
trolling them, using this despotism In the
Interest of corporate power.
"Thl virus and poison not only haa at
tacked the Judicial braneh of the govern
ment, but In several Instances has entered
upon the legislative field bv maklr-ff lnws
which may be enforced by equity process;
that is, the judge 1 by law authorised to
disregard all accepted rules of procedure
and evidence, to dispense with Jury trial,
and substitute Instend of these safeguards
of human liberty his own opinion of what
I right.
"Despotic power under the ermine Is a
dangerous a despotic power under the
crown. To stay Its progress some remedy
must be had."
We think Mr. Gompera has made a great
mistake In attacking the supreme court of
the l-ntted State for that Is the real ob
ject of his attack. This tribunal has stood
the test for 120 years, and commands the
respect and confidence of the people as
doe no other Institution of the govern
REPELS SENSIBLE MKX.
Tae Fatal Effect of "Talking Too
Mack."
Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
Two or three weeks ago there was a
Bryan scare, and now the scare ia suc
ceeded by a Bryan slump. Many people
are puizled by thla apparently whimsical
lurch of public opinion, and Incline to at
tribute the change to an unreasoning fick
leness. They are at fault. This awing of
public opinion I one of the moat hopeful
Ign in American politics. It demonstrate
that the people think, pierce sophistry,
weigh argument, estimate character and
then decide.
Many a man who waa prepared In the
beginning to consider Bryan with an open
mind hear or read hi speech and con
cludes that he Is Impossible. A speech of
the sort that repel sensible men wa the
attack on Governor Hughe at Lincoln,
Neb. The burden of the argument. If
such It may be called, waa that Governor
Hughes, of all men In the world. Is an
upholder of the trusts, and that ho Ib tram
meled by subserviency to the money power.
The argument Is of the kind to ma' . men
tremble to think that Mr. Bryan could
have been nominated for the presidency,
or that there is even a remote possibility
that he may be the executive of the na
tion. In the Chicago convention, says Mr.
Bryan, Mr. Hughes' friends Joined with the
friend of Mr. Cannon, Mr. Knox and Mr.
Fairbanks tn opposing the nomination of
Mr. Taft, and, according to the Bryan
logic, "it Is only fair to aasume, therefore,
that Mr. Hughes I not a reformer."
It Is Impossible, of course, to argue with
that kind of statement. If Hugho be not
a reformer all the rlngstera In New York
who are waging a war of retaliation upon
New York's governor have been frightfully
misled and the people of the t'nlted Statea
are very stupid. Mr. Bryan says that the
campaign contribution In the governor's
last contest may not have Influenced his
course as governor because It may be "his
natural disposition to take the part of the
trust against the people." Thl is to in
tuit the Intelligence of the nation.
TRIBUTE TO THE Sftl ARK DEAL.
Roosevelt a a, Conaerver of Railroad
Vnlaea.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Railroad grosa earning are beginning to
compare quit favorably with those of a
year ago when they were still at a pros
perity level. Return for September so far
received show an average Increase of only
about 4 per cent, compared with an aver
age ' August decrease from a year ago of
13 per cent, and a. July decrease of It per
cent. Inquiries at New York concerning
the reasons for thl decided Improvement
brought the following answer from "finan
cial Interests close to a western railroad
which ha made perhaps the best compari
son," according to the Evening Poat:
All of th railroads have stopped rebating.
During th last year there ha been so
much talk at Washington and so many
suit brought for rebating and giving spe
cial privileges, that shipper as well a
railroad are now allowing trarric to pay
Ita way fairly, and move along the lines
of least resistance.
Thl I a high tribute to the Roosevelt
administration aa a conserver, instead of
destroyer, of railroad values, but It Is to
be hoped and guessed that suppression of
the rebate evil began " before last month.
The fact probably I that the Improvement
In railroad traffic 1 due, first, to a larger
crop movement than wa In progress at
thl time last year; and, second, to general
business Improvement.
l. TWO NATIOMB.
Comparative Coadltloa Worthy of
Serloaa Tkosgkt.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Sixty thousand of the unemployed are
threatening riot and destruction In London.
Press reports say that the police regard
th situation aa more menacing than ha
beea known for many year past. Thou
sands ar out of employment and desper
ete. Other thousand ar waiting to sat
isfy their criminal propensities whenever
the desperation of Idle labor gives them a
cover for acts of robbery and arson
At the same time a political party in
thl country is charging th much milder
depression of industry here to the admin
istration in power. It I a remarkable
paradox that the most definite proposal
of the party making thl charge Is to re
vise tha tariff on the model and In tha
direction of the British fiscal system, under
which the desperate condition portrayed
in th dispatches have come lr.lo existence.
One might suppose from this that th
democracy enjoys the contemplation of
labor idle, starving and desperate. But It
does not. It simply know no better.
Soaaalaaj Ik Harsh Note.
New York Bun.
Mr. Bryan baa beaten all previous rec
ords arjd made thirty-one speeches a day.
Unless past results ar liars, th more he
talks and the more peopl ha talks to
th fewer vote ha will get. We note with
regret a growing exasperation in hi tone
but hi part of speech have been aorely
tried.
lasalealltlcs of llok.
New York Bun.
The Hon. Hoke smith lias appeared at
Lincoln, and la said to have praised Ita
Jefferson as a man of mora executive abil
ity than Taft. In the opinion of the Georgia
folk Hoke ha not been much of a gov
ernor, but ills gifts a a comic lecturer can.
not b denied.
Court to Go?
ment. If there Is one thing between tl'
people of this country and chaos It I the
supreme court that bulwark of liberty,
where the rights of eveiywtsn are saorefllv
regarded and sacredly recured.
What Is a voter to think when thl rourt
Is assailed by Mr. Gompera? Will he
not ask. "Is the supreme court to go?
And, If so. what I to take It place? In
whose hands are to be plaeed my rights
of life, liberty and property? Ar they
to b the sport of politics," subject to
whims and sudden changes, or are they
to repoae In the custody 'bf the supreme
court, whli-h is Independent tf politics,
presidents and congresse?"
1 there any doubt a to th decision
of the voter when these question con
front him? If there I - anything . that
would mean tne defeat of Mr. Bryan, It
would be such appeal a thl by a man
In Mr. Gompera' great position. An lsu
so momentous as this la, wall caleulatSil
to stir the apathetic to activity and
arouse th Indifferent to the danger that
threatens our Institution. No American
could afford to regard such . proposi
tion a a far-off question not affecting
himself. It goes to th heart of his lib
erties. In view of this attack upon the Ju
diciary. It I the duly of even- voter to
go to the poll and register M will. Let
lilm vot for Bryan or Taft. or whom he
will, but let him not be Indifferent to
such a profoundly Important queatlon as
this. If it be the will of all the people
that the supreme court should go, - well
and good; but there must be no doubt
about such an expresalon. It mutt not
be a chance plurality, but the vot of all
the people, roused to a full realisation, ot
what they ar doing.
PERSON AL KOTKI,
A Waterbury, Conn., man has beet) flneJ
for kissing his own wife, and not a thing
has been done to the official who. dug up
the blue law making this posalbl.
Roy Roercker. aged 11 years, broke Jail
In Pontlac, 111., risking his life in the ea
cape and walked and beat his wy on
freight cars 200 miles to Alton to see
hi baby brother, born lncc h was sent
to the reformatory.
Michael McKenna of York Harbor, Me .
ha three on Thomas, born on rVbrunry
26, 1904; John, born on February W. 1906;
and Arthur, born on February 26, 1MT. The
birthday present prohleni Is a good deal
simplified In the McKenna hcuseliold.
James O. Fagan, a plain , algnal tower
man on the Fltchburg division of th Roa
ton at Maine railroad, has been Invited
by President Eliot of Harvard university
to deliver a course of lectures to the
students on railroad matter and other
ubjects. He haa written a book entitled
"Confession of a Railroad Signalman."
Cornell university has, for th first tlm
lu its history, a blind student, vyilllsm H.
Moore of Brooklyn. He ha enteieri
freahman In the college of arts and science,
and hopes to be able to take the' dre
of bachelor of art.. Mtore. for sinieilme
was a student at the Now York li l 'it
for the Blind. H has engaged iv. '
who will assist him in his studies.
Charles Eliot Norton, prominent aa an
author and authority on art ami lit
erature and profewsor of history at Har
vard university up to 1898, since which
time ho has been profesaor emeritus at
that Institution, la seriously 111 at hl
home in Cambridge. Prof. Norton's ail
ment la described a a general hreiik1own
Incident to old age. He is 81 years old.
"Kgotinm, self-indulgence, atlnglnesf,
snobbishness, cowardice, brutality, worth-
lessness,' mafloe1 pusillanimity ;' and
hypocrisy." These are a few of the iltHr
acterlRtlca attributed to Auguat Belmont
by the learned counsel for the prosecu
tion in the $100,000 libel suit of a stable
boy against the sportsman and financier.
Then the Jury retired and assessed the
damages at 0.
. i
SMILIXi RF.MAHK..
"There is ono contradictory thing about
that square deal declaration. '
"Whnl Is thai'"
"It always gets a round of applause. '
Baltimore American.
Nan-Jack doesn't even look at t.l'llnn
Sklmmerhorn when you ate In the room.
. Fan No; I've got the bulge on Ml all
right, all right. Chicago Tribune'.
"My boy, be polite and lioneat.''
"Hut, dad."
"Bay on."
"Sometimes It's prtty hard to be both
at the same time." Kunsns City Journal.
Bcenaway So he led her. ti the altar
at last?
fltaldhome Well, to be exact, lie pushed
him. Puck.
"No." declared Mr. Kaggot; "there never
was a woman on earth who could tefriln
from turning around to rubber at some
other woman's clothes."
"No?" remarked his wife sweetly. "Didn't
you ever hear of Eve?" Philadelphia Pre.
"I Beared a burglar nesrly to death Ir.
our house last night."
"Mercy, dear! How was that?"
"He was collecting our silverware when
I stuck my face around the edge of tin'
door, and he went out through the window
head first."
"No wonder he was scared." Houston
Pot.
Dealer I-t me sell you some pi our new
patent bull, sir. . . ..
Fisherman Is it effective?. .
Dealer Effective? Why, I aold a mart
some of it last week, and he got turned
out of church for telling the tru'h about
the fish ho caught. Cleveland Leader.
"We have prepared a . magnificent ova
tion for you,'' aald the chairman of tha
reception committee
"See If you can't countermand some ol
It," answered the candidate. "The eheer
have been occupying so much time that
on several oc-coalons I have pot beon ahls
to conclude my speech before the Ira'u
pulled out." Washington Btar.
A SlItFEIT Or ADWCK.
Detroit Fre Press.
I've had a cold.
And can't enduro
The folks to know
A certain cure.
I'v been advised
Just what to do,
To make a thing
lxyok good as new.
Suggestions I
Have had my share,
Just what to eat
And what to wear.
But since my baby
Cam. I swear,
I gwt advice
From everywhere.
Bom tell u
That we muatn't feed
Her mora than such
A child should need.
Two hours apart.
And some say thrao,
And some. wbn'r
She cries, tell me.
Don't walk tha floor, ' '
I hav been told
In tlm she'll b aa
Good a gold.
Don't rock her night, '
And If h erU,
To leave her quit
Alon la wis.
If hiccough com.
'Twer beat, anme Bay,
To lot them wear
Thamaolve away.
While other swear
Warm water will
Roliev her quick.
And keep her atlll.
I never know
Till baby smiled,
How many folk
Can ral a child.