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TTIT' ff K TT A nTT.V TXW.. MOVDW OCTOBER 26,. 100ft' -i r - - 1 ' r I I The- Omaha Daily Dee FOUNDED BT EDWARD R08EJWATER VICTOR R08BWATBR, EDITOR. Entered 'at Omaha oostofflce as second class mat lor. i . J TERMS OF JSUBBCBJPTION. Dstlv Ree (without Sunday). one year.. Dally Bee end Sunday, one year 00 DIXIVGRED BT' CARRIER. Tilly Fee (hvludtag Sunday), Pr wk -Dally Bn (without Sunday), per w...ioc Fvenlng Beo (without Sunday), per "" Evening .Bee (wtth Sunday), per week...loe Sundev He, one year JIJJ Saturday Bee, one year .j., Addrese all complaints 'of irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES... Omaha The Bee Building. Houth' Omslie Twenty-fourth ana N. Council, Bluffs 15 Boott Street. ".'hlrago 1548 Marquette Building. New York-Rooms 1M1-1HB. No. 34 West Thirty-third Street. , , w Washlngtoo-7 Fourteenth Street, N. w. ' CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating' to news and editorial, matter ahould be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCE'S.' Remit by draft. express- or postal order payable to The Bee- Publishing Company. Only 2-cent atampa received In payment or mall account ' Personal cheeks, except on Omaha or esstern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Plate of Nebraska. Douglas County. ' George B Tiachuck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company. being duly sworn, aaya that the actual number or full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Bunday Bee printed during tha month of September. 190s. was as followa: nl;; II 38,340 II 88V370 to..... ..... 88,ooo t . 4 to..' 11.. 12.. II. 14.... 16.... i. 38,000 " 37.830 33,080 3S.350 34,140 38,700 3830 3S.810 30,340 33410 30,030 30,300 33,000 30,380 36,380 ii.. it., it.. 14.. 33.. :.. 27. . 'II.. It.. IS 90,030 38,830 38,490 38,300 38,430 38,400 87,700 88,440 38,490 38,700 Totals 1,098,390 Less unaold and returned copies. a437 Net total ....i.088,863 Daily averaaa 38.838 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treaaurer. Subscribed In my presence and a worn to before ma thla lat aay or uno,iw . (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTfcJR. : - Notary Public WHEN OUT or TOWS. Sabscrlbera leaving; the city tem porarily shoala have Ika Baa mailed to them. ASUreea will be changed ae often aa reqaesteu. The , drouth broke-ii. baa certainly been fiemcraber where you stored the btorin door? -Wealth is a Bin." aays a German cuuMess. Not guilty. . . . This Is no year for a republican to vote the democratic ticket. Straw votes do not put any fat on the ribs of the democratic donkey. Minis J. Abbot has elected Bryan lv about 3,000 columns of leaded nou pureil. Indiana, Illinois and Iowa" are f-lnchnri for the Taft column. The I's have !t. - - - .Mr. Bryan la fast proving that he is n.i-;e radical In 1908 than he was in U96 or 1900. Iowa Ii Just as doubtful thla year 68 It has always been in "years when It wasn't doubtful. '., IT HAT nOVLD THEY VXDOf . In the face of the splendid record c t reform legislation put on our statute books by the last Nebraska legislature over the signature of Governor Shel don the democrats are asking the oters of Nebraska to turn Governor Sheldon out and put into office a dem ocratic governor and legislature... If there Is any good reason for turn ing the republicans out It must be tnat their work la bad and should be un done, or that they cannot be trusted to maintain and perfect it. What part of the republican legis lative record In Nebraska would our emocratlc frlenda undo? Would they repeal the anti-pass aw Would they repeal the rate reduction laws? Would they repeal the terminal tax law? Would they repeal the dtrect pri mary law? Would they repeal tha law abolish ing the 5,000 death damage limit? Would they, repeal the employers liability law? v Would they repeal the child labor aw? Would they repeal the pure food law? They do not promise to repeal a sin gle republican law enacted by the last legislature and they dare not specify one of these laws aa slated for repeal. The only piece of republican legls- ation the democrata propose specif ically to undo is the creation of the county assessor system, but we appre hend that few. If any, Nebraska tax payers want to go back to the old com petitive and progressive undervalua tion of the product assessor plan. Why, then, should any Intelligent voter think for a moment of transfer ring the work of making Nebraska's laws from the republicans, who have delivered the goods, to the democrats, who never played square even when they had the chance? Philippines h made a record of di plomacy and patriotism that Is not ex celled In world history, considering the delicacy and Intricacy of the problems Involved. He refused to resign a cabi net position to accept appointment to the supreme bench because he thought his duty to the Filipinos could best be discharged by him as a member of the cabinet. He has done more to hasten the completion of the Panama canal than any other man. vIIe has done mere than any other man to bring about order and stable government in Cuba. He has settled troublesome questions with Porto Rico, Colombo and the republic of Panama. He has been the chief aid of President Roose velt in every movement that tended national advancement and uplift. He possesses tireless, energy and trained ability and Is pledged to a continuance of the progressive policies of Theodore Roosevelt. The recorda of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft are open. The voter has hla choice between them. The American fleet haa loft Jnpa i ! waters and nonson may ooRin breathing normally again. 1 h: south will be restored to good standing when it begins letting day light into its night riders. flEXUlXE TARIFF REV1S10X. The sentiment of the country un questionably la In favor of a revision of the tariff. Both parties are pledged to It and, whatever the result of the election on November 3, the tariff will be the subject for consideration, by a special session of congress to be called next March. 'Which party promises the quickest and apeedleat resulta In dealing with the question? In a re cent address Mr. Taft Bald: The party is pledged to a genuine- re vision, and aa the temporary- head of that party, and president of the United Btatea, If It be successful In November. I epect to use all the influence that I have by calling Immediately a special aesaion, and by recommendation to congress to seoure a genuine and honest revision of the tariff. In accordance with the principles of pro tection laid down In the platform, based upon the examination of appropriate evl dencc, and Impartial as between the con Burner and the manufacturer. If Mr. Taft Is elected he will have the support of a congress pledged with him to revise the tariff in a manner fair to the person who buys and the person who makes American gooda. It will be a genuine revision, not a pre. tended revision like the Wilson-Gorman tariff passed by the last demo eratic congress which enriched certain Interests and pauperized others. -Un der a republican administration the work of revising tho tariff wJU be ac complished within a few months. If Mr. Bryan la elected a republican senate will veto any free-trade laws he may seek to have passed. With Bryan as president there Is no hope of any revision Qt the tariff for four years. The choice is up to the friends of tariff revision, regardless of their political preferences. If Joe Butler makes a few more oversights the harmony among the local democrats will be complete. Just for the fun of it, save up a few echinus of the Bryan election predlc-ll.-.jii- for reading after November " The Coffee trust has collapsed and the average citizen will hope that tho neat-coffee trust will be the next to go. It may be formally denied that Mr. Koonevelt will become lty editor of the Oyster Boy Pilot after March 4, 1909. Jn response to the charge thi-.t lie htt-lc or bought the Arcbbold lettora, Mr. Hearst may ask how else he would i e expected to get them. President Stlckney of the Chicago Great Western says he does not believe In waterways, deep or otherwise. Few rallrcad managers oppose stock waterways. The secretary of state of Colorado has been sent to. Jail for contempt of court. Aa he haa lived in Colorado for many years, ' be tan hardly be blamed. Americans are- feeling -very friendly tcvjrd the Japanese Just now, but they are not ready to enter on free trade illations with-them, as propose! Ly Mr. Bryan. Among tha wedding, preaonts to Winston Churchill were tnlrteen ink ekarida. Why will folka peroUt in giv ing inkatanda to a man who alwaya usti a typewriter? The anniversary-t the "panic" of '07 finds business moving along at a rate that aatlsfiea.. everybody but the Bnanltea. It waa their misfortune that the hard- times' were not perma lient. ,. .... , . t Aa architect . has ttealgnad a houao which Is to be built On a turn-table ao that it may be changed to face auy street and give every aide tha benefit uf aunahlne. It will never be popula la anti-prohibition states. step and Jump act through- Nebraska, taking a position diametrically opposed to that he held while here. If Shal lcnberger Is ever remembered in Ne braska for anything it will be for his political acrobatics. TUB MEN AXD THEIR RECORDS. Laying aside for the moment the Issues of the campaign, aa numerous and important aa they are, it ia worth hlle to briefly consider the personality and the record of the two men, one of whom will be chosen president of the United States on November 3.. Mr. Bryan waa elected to congress in 1890 as a democrat, and waa re turned aa a fuslonlst. He voted for a populist candidate for president In 1892, and while In congress voted for a high tariff on sugar and. no tariff on the raw product, both measures of the Sugar trust. He went to Chicago In 1896 hoping to be the vice presidential nominee on the silver republican ticket and came away with the presidential nomination on the democratic ticket He made silver his paramount and was defeated. In 1900, again renomi nated, he made anti-imperialism and kilver twin paramounts and was again defeated. In the meantime he bad be gun the unlimited coinage of his voice and pea and has amassed a fortune from his newspaper and the lecture platform. He haa displayed a wonder ful agility of convictton and a wealth of promise that passeth understanding. He has favored government ownership of railways, the disfranchisement of tho negro and a host of other issues that have bee a made paramount with him for a day. He has received money from all kinds of sources excepting wills he has drawn In his own favor and in the. present campaign had a rich find as his treasurer until Mr. Has kell walked into a Standard Oil ex plosion. Haskell was fired, but his contribution baa not been sent back. Mr. Bryan, while preaching moral re form, has allied his political fortunes with Ryan, Belmont, Guffey, Haskell, Conner. Tom Taggart, Roger Sullivan and the Tammany clique that stands for all that is corrupt and undesirable la American polltlos. , . Mr. Taft has been doing things for many years. As an assistant city at torney in Cincinnati, when a young man. he made a brilliant record for official energy and honesty. Ilia opin ions as a federal Judge rank with those of any mis on the bench. Iu the THE DEMOCRATS AXD THE O AMBLERS. While Mr. Bryan has been delivering "The Prince of Peace" and pleading for the support of the church people, his friends and political associates have made an open deal with the gamblers to defeat Governor Hughes In New York, and no executive of any Ameri can Btate has made a greater fight for moral reform than haa Governor Hughes. This Is not a republican charge. It is made on the authority of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the editor of which, Colonel Henry Watter son, Is the head of Mr. Bryan's literary bureau in this campaign. The state ment was printed in display form in the Courier-Journal on October IB. in a telegram from New York, every line or wnlcb la interesting reading. It Is as follows: Lewis Stuyvenant Chanter's riclng back ersthe big race track Interests of this state are contributing liberally to an enor mous fund to be spent In the last week of the campaign and on election day. It will be turned over to William J. Con ners, chairman of tho democratic state committee, early next week. According to reliable reports, ten men Interested In race tracks have pledged themselves to raise a fund of 1300,000. di viding the fund Into $25,000 for each. man. Among the men on this list are August Belmont, head of the race track Interests n this vicinity; "Dry Dollar" Tim Sulli van, Patrick H. McCarren, Harry Payne Whitney, stockholder In the Saratoga race track; George Consldlne, James B. Rey nolds, Phil Dwyer and John B. Sanford. In addition to this fund, It Is under stood that 'CJeorge Rose, Sol Llchtenateln. Tom Shaw, Orlando Jones and Joe Vendlg, five of the leading bookmakers at the tracks in thla city, who were hit hardest b the anti-race track bill which Governor Hughes forced through the special session of the legislature, have agreed to furnish an additional $200,009 among themselves to sweii me runa to 5i)U,xx. We will have money enough to win the state," said one of the representatives of this group at the Rnssmore hotel today. This fund- waa raised, it was declared In racing circles, as a result of positive! assurance made by Mr. Chanler person-' ally, soon after his nomination for gover-! nor, that he would sign a bill allowing race track bookmaklng with certain re strictions If it passed the legislature while he was governor of the state. It waa Mr. Bryan, we recall, who de clared a few daya ago that the repub licans were planning to buy the elec tion. Here la evidence that the race track gamhlora are planning to buy it in New York, in behalf of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Chanler. The contribution of $500,000 will not, of course, be re ported by Treasurer Rldder, as it will be made to and disbursed by that high minded statesman, "Fingy" Conners, the state chairman of the New York committee. Mr. Bryan does not like Mr. Hughes any more than 4e likes any other man who is a doer Instead of a promlser. If he Is aa honeat as he professes to be In hla plana for the moral regeneration of mankind, he will either demand of Candidate Chan ler a satisfactory statement of hla po sition on the question raised by the Courier-Journal's story or. In the ab sence of such explanation, repudiate him as the New York World, which Is supporting Bryan, has done. nVERLOOKEH iiT MR. OUMl'ERS. In his appeals to the worklngmen of the nation to support Mr. Bryan In this campaign, Mr. Gonipers, the head of one of the greatest labor organiza tions in the world, has evidently over looked the work of the republican party In the Interests of the working man. All of the labor legislation on the federal statute books Is republican legislation. The eight-hour law is a republican law. ' The employera . liability act was passed by a republican congress. All of the federal laws requiring .the use of safety appliances on interstate railroads were passed by a republican congress. . , ; The law limiting the working hours of telegraphers, signal men and block operators on railroads jwas passed by a republican congress. ,.. - , The child labor law for the District of Columbia and the territories, the model for state enactments, waa passed by a republican congress The law providing for. the com pensation of persons injured in the employ of the government was passed by a republican congress.. The states that have refused to pass laws regulating or prohibiting the em ployment of chUd labor, are demo cratic states. . , . Peonage exists only in democratic states. ! The laboring man who appreciates favors received or expects legislation for hla protection In the future can quote no record to show anything that the democratic party haa done for him in the nation or In the state. Mayor Jim threatens to close Omaha tighter than a drum if the democrats do not get the vote he demands. Two years ago when Mayer, Jim was , a candidate he promised to open Omaha as wide as the world.' He found he could not deliver the goods on his promise, and the chances ,are he has not the nerve to make ... good on his threat. He showed this when he is sued his order requiring that the screens be removed from saloon win dows. Mayor Jim Is typical of his party when on the stump all bluff and .bluster. The New York World has accepted Wlllard Green's storyv charging Mr. Trt with trying to get control of the Philippine railroads. ' Senator Culbur son spent much time A couple of years ago in Investigating Green's story, for tho purpose of making a fight on the adnilniHliatlon, and finally droppod it as unworthy , of consideration. Even CongrekHruan. . Charles Towm, ha was at one time In partnership v l'.h Green, refused to champion his cause In the house. Editor Metcalf Is shouting loudly to "open the books." This Is a favor ite cry of the democrats, but tho peo ple are still waiting for the list of Ne braska contributors to the campaign fund in behalf of the Peerless. They are also waiting for some explanation as to where the $20,000 jackpot of four years ago was distributed. If Metcalf would only open the books it might help some. A TRIP AROVXD THE WORLD. The battleships Maine and Alabama have Just completed a voyage around the world and have returned to the navy yards at Portland and Brooklyn', respectively, where they will go out of commission and undergo repairs. Their arrival in home ports completes the longest and most Important voyage ever made by any battleships, but they will not hold the record long, as the entire Atlantic fleet, according to pres ent plans, will soon complete a much longer voyage and return to Atlantic waters. When the Atlantic fleet left Hamp ton Roads for the trip to the Pacific the Maine and Alabama were In line, but they proved Inferior to the other vessels on the trip to San Francisco They could not maintain the speed de sired by the other ships of the fleet and so when the fleet left San Fran clsoo the two vessels were detached and ordered back to the Atlantic, their places being taken by the Wisconsin and the Nebraska, the new ships that were then in Pacific waters. At that the voyage of the Maine and the Ala bama waa a noteworthy event. A com plete trip around the world by a fleet of two battleships is at least a nov elty. It was one which it was not ex pected that battleships would over be called upon to make when the nodern heavily armed vessel was first evolved Mr. Ashton C. Shallenberger had one happy night on the democratic plat form In Omaha. Hla triumphal tour from hall to hall waa not marred by an untoward reference to his notorloua atraddle. No ghost of prohibition or other popullstlc dogma rose up to con front him aa he pranced about upon the democratic platform. For the next week be will be doing hla hop OS PRRSIDRTIAI, FlRtMl I.Ir:. The bemprra Attack on the Rlabt In ! Dnalneaa. Washington Pout find ). The freiint. In his l-'tter to Senatoi Knox. Insists that Mr. Bryan should answer whether or not lie approves of Mr Uoinpera' sssmil! upon the courts, and whether he la pledged to support and assist in enacting the "remedy" proposed by Mr dumpers for the "despotism" of the courla , We think Mr. Bryan has made It olc-ir that he does approve of that aasault, and Is pledged to the er.ctment of the bill de manded by Mr. Oompers. The democratic plun covering this subject, auppnred to have been written by Mr. Goinpers, and certainly approved beforehand by Mr. Bryan. 'is de clared by Mr, CJompers to be a pledge to provide the "remedy" demanded, and Mr Bryan, In his speech of acceptnnce, ap proved of every plank In the platform, and declared himself to "be bound by them. The rature of this "remedy" Is clearly exposed by the president. If every votef In the United States could read and fllgesi what the president has said there would be no danger of Mr. Bryan being placed In an official position where he could asl.t In securing such a law. The "remedy" proposed by Mr. Oompers is nothing less than an act of congress which will provide that "no right to carry on business of any particular kind, or at any particular place, or at all, shot! he construed, held, considered, or treated as property or as constituting a property right." The right to carry on business, the right to acquire property. Is not to be property or a property right! What is a patent? It Is a grant by a governmer4 to a person of the exclusive right of exploiting his Invention for a specified term. This right Is a "right to carry on business" of "a particular kind " But will Mr. Oompers tay that it Is not a property right? Patent rights are some times worth millions of dollars. What Is such a right, if It is not property and a property right? The constitution provides that congress shall have power to "promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securlr.tr for limited times to authors and Inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." if congress should pass the Oompers bill, and thereby attempt to destroy the property . rights of Inventor and. writers holding patents and copyrights under the constitution, the act would "be declared unconstitutional by a unanimous supreme court," as the president has said. But there are other rights as valuable as patent rights. The right to do business of a particular kind, or at a particular place. Is often very valuable. Being valuable, It Is exchangeable into nionay; In short, It Is property. And the right of any man to do business is equivalent to tho .right to make a living, to acquire property. A law that would takethe value from such a right would take away a ipan'a life. You take my house when you do take the proo That doth sustain my house; you take my in When you do take the means whereby 1 1 , c Haiard of CamBalalaar Springfield (Mass.) Republican tind.). If Mr. Taft does not make fifteen speeches a day hereafter; hla vote will not suffer In the least. If Mr. Bryan should now In crease his oratorical output to fifty a day. it would not make a halr'a difference with the result. If there Is any truth whatever In the saying that battles In real war are won before the first shot is fired, It is no less true that elections are won before the earliest stumper opens wide his mouth. Presidential stumping has reached the point of absurdity when a candidate be comes literally voiceless and speechless from physical exhaustion, yet to that stage lias the present campaign came. Mrf Debs In some of his meeting has had to be held erect by two men. In order that he could speak; and If he loses his life aa the reault of his efforts, qo one need be sur prised. Mr. Debs, probably. Is gladly. sac rificing his health and risking death itself In order to employ his presidential candi dacy for purposes of agitation, for the so cialist party ia still In the propaganda state. But for a man who is likely to be presi dent to Incur serious hazards of this char acter la no less a folly because our political development has made the "whirlwind tour" one of the chief features of twen tieth century campaigning. The Cincinnati Enquirer, a demo cratic paper that haa been supporting Mr. Bryan, haa made, a careful can vans and predicts that Mr. Taft will carry Ohio by at least 80,000. The doubts are being removed in most of Mr. Bryan's doubtful states. Congressman Sibley, says it Is gen orally known at Washington that he is in close touch with the Stauduid Oil company. That was known even as far back aa when Mr. Sibley or ganised the silver republican party in order to help Mr. Bryan. Vote for Bryan and Kern and lower prices is the burden of an advertise ment in a local labor paper and the worklngmen and the farmers will do well to remember that the' prices of labor and farm products will go down again If Bryan and Kern are elected. The Man Who CaifBe Trusted Baltimore Sun Cnd. lem.). . As his rampalRft has progressed toward the south to resume lis old commanding, the election JudBe Taft has gained m-r poaitU.n in Vho councils t.f the nation, nn-1 and more In the estimation of the American It is. certain that ho will , help. I he voullt l- people. They knew Mm before the cam- do so. palgn began as a just and able judge, aa Judge Taft baa been attacked because ol the first civil governor and pacificator of certain ordois and drci-lsnns he made w Inl ine Phlllnplne Islands, as a diplomat and on the federal h.m-h. He replies - '"' provisional governor of Cuba, and as secre- made those decisions because he had to laiv of war. They knew that he bad ad- obey the law and the decisions wero right . ministered all these hlarh offices and to the He has been accused of rendering decisions honor and advantage of the country. They 'Which were hostile to labor, of issuing i-n-knew that when unusual tact, discrlmlnat- tain Injunctions. He replies he did Issue th ing Judgment and enduring patlnce wer Injunctions, and If he had not done so in needed to settle troubles and adjust diffl- the cases where he did. "I should not cultlea In Cuba. In Panama. In Torto Rico serve your suffrages as president of the and In the Philippines, Judge Taft was I nlted Slates.'4 In the Arthur case, where selected as tha agent and that he nlways the decision had been critclsed. he allowed Justified his selection, in all these various that ha bad sustained the correlative rights and difficult positions he hud acquitted of trade unions and the rights of their em hlmself In a masterly manner, and In all ployers, and that under It fne trade unions of them he manifested those peculiar quail- have flourished well. ties which are required for the adnilnlstra- In all the discussion of the campaign tion cf the high office of chief executive. Judge Taft has never refused to meet an But as the campaign has progressed and Issue as it arose, fairly and squarely. Not Judge Taft has come more and mere Into once In the campaign has ne, to use the ex the light, has stood upon the most eon- pressive slang of the day, "side-stepped' spicuous elevation In tha land with the gaxe or quibbled. Not once haa be advocated a of millions of his fellow cltlsens centered policy solely because ha expected to mak upon him. he' has more and mora proved votes by It or because It waa popular. The himself to be a big, sturdy, honest, sincere principles and policies he has sustained are and courageous man. In all his campaign what he believes to be right and for the he has not made one demagogic appeal for best Interests of the country. With Judgn votes, in all his speeches he has not made Taft as the executive the land will have one apology for any official action for rBt. There will be business and Industrial which he has been attacked. Nor has he peace and progress. The laws will be fear promised anything when he does not be- irlSy and fairly enforced, not as a publio lleve there Is a reasonable prospect of spectacle, but because he will have sworn achievement. Comlne from his native home ' to enforce them. There will be no excited On the Ohio river, he was raised on the taiK to alarm business. Every public utter borderland between the north and tha ,nCe will ba calm and well considered, south, and In his sympathies he embraces There will be poise and dignity, and ques all sections of his country. He tells the t)0ns -and policies will be decided, not for southern people that If he Is elected, partisan advantage, nor to gain popular whether they vote for him or not-and he ty nor ror Bpectacular purposes, but with says frankly that he Is not building upon the- patriotic desire to promote peace and any expectation of their electoral vote-he prosperity, and that all things may be set will be their president as much as the tied upon the best and surest foundations, president of the other sections. Ha begs Glat of tho Isaac. Emporia (Kan.) Gasette. Taft, with his experience, his training, in all branches of the government, with his advanced views and his efficient mind and hand, aa against Bryan without training, without a record of wise principles, with out an effective temperament however honest and sincere he la these two men epitomize the situation. There are good men In both parties and crooks In both parties. But they are not the Issues. The issues are between the effective and the Ineffective leaders of the two partiea. If this nation Is to go forward It must not go with a spaam. It must go forward cau tiously, sensibly and with sane, careful di rection. Such caution, sanity and direction Bryan has not furnished to this country in past campaigns, and Taft has. That is the gist of the Issue In this cam paign. Tho Stralsrhf of If. Chicago Tribune (rep.). If Judge Taft will point out specifically one untruth I have uttered against him I will make due apology and a public retrac tion. If he cannot point out where I have lied about him he owes me an apology and a puduc retraction. Samuel Uompera. Judge Taft might very readily reply to thla that Mr. Gompers' whole campaign ABSOLUTE SECURITY Aaalysls of the Deposit Guarantee Proposition. Chicago Tribune. To the clerk or mechanic who has with much self-denial put by $100, that small sum Is of more consequence than half a million is to a millionaire. It is his all. It Is to be his mainstay when sick or out of work. Naturally he is solicitous for Its safety. Usually the Chicago wage earner puts hla money In a savings bank or a building and loan association and, as a rule, has no occasion to regret it'. But now and then a bank or an association falls. Then the nervous man gets frightened and asks where he can put his small savings with a certainty of getting them back when wanted. ( Mr. Bryan has his ready answer. He says: "Put . me and my party In power and we will enact a bank deposit guar anty law. Then If your bank fails Its debts will be paid out of a fund to which all the banks have to contribute." If asked for fuller Information about his scheme he says "It Is so simple that anybody can under stand It," and begins talking about some thing else It Is quite likely that several Chicago men with small incomes have been Im pressed by Mr. Bryan's glib assurance of absolute security for their small savings. But what would be done In that direction If Mr. Bryan were president a nd.. congress wero democratic?-. Why. a law rwotrid -be enacted requiring , the national banks to establish a guaranty fund for the prompt payment of the creditors of any Insolvent national bank. That would be as far as congress could go. But Chicago wage workers are not depositors In national banks. They are depositors In savings banks, which are subject to state, not na ttonal, authority. Therefore the election of Mr. Bryan, even if he had a democratic congress behind him, would not bring with it a guaranty of their deposits. Now, what would be done In the event of republican success for the timid, unthink ing men who are attracted by Mr. Bryan's deposit guaranty proposition? Why, postal savings banks would be established. Who ever put his money In them would have an absolute guaranty against loss unless the government Itself should go to wreck. The farmer or the clerk and workman of the city who did not choose to put his money In a savings bank could with perfect confidence Intrust it to the national gov ernment. Mr. Bryan's bank deposit guaranty policy would do nothing for any Chicago wage worker. Tha republican postal savings bank policy would. If the man who seeks abso lute security for his earnings votes for Mr. Bryan, he votes to deprive himself of what he desires. He can get it by voting for Mr. Taft. Editor Hitchcock Is having the bus iest time of his life Just now explain ing how it came that his paper abused the old soldiers, vllllfled McKlnley and did other unseemly things. He is beg ging for republican votes with mighty poor prospects. Ryerson W. Jennings of Pennsylva nia has suggested the members of Mr. Biyan's cabinet without mentioning Governor Ha6kell or Mayor "Jim." The Pennsylvania man has another guecs. Senator Piatt promises to write his reminiscences. He could make a big ger hit by writing his resignation. Goveraor Hashes aod the Gaaaolers. St. Louis Times. The report from New Yoik that tho gambling element has raised pxi.OuO to insure the defeat of Hughes does not com as a surprise. It will be distinctly surpris ing, howsver. If the efforts of this fra ternity accomplUh tha ends desired. Once the people of New York awake to the fact that It Is a question of whether they or tha gamblers win the day, tho fight will ba over. The same thing happened In Mis souri In the case of tha race track contest, Mr. Folk did tha simple thing or taking the aide of the people. It was good politics. Profcaaloa Practtoo. Washington Star. Tho country has never been bought at tha polls, and Is not now for sale. But granting an auction, why should Mr. Bryan be uneasy about tho reault, with Tarn many Hall In charge of lha campaign In the pivotal stats of New T' PERSONAL NOTES, Tennessee night-riders hava taken to mur dering lawyers. They already had mur dered the law. The New York courts hava decided that It la not necessary for a crazy man to go to Pittsburg to tell how he lost his money. They know there already. If the Turks and the Bulgarians will curb their impatience and hold tnelr war -"until the moving picture man gets set. they will be able to pay a large part of the expenses with their share of the royalties. Vladlmar Poulsen, the Danish Inventor, who Is only 38 years old, Is the son of a Judge of tha high criminal court of Copen hagen. He has succeeded In making wire less telephone connection between Ungby and Weiscnsee, a distance of 2o0 miles. Mrs. William Howard Taft Is said to be a very expert needlewoman, and she does not confine her work to darning and mend. Ing, aa waa shown by the fact that she has made a beautiful lace handkerchief and sent It to an Indiana town to be sold for charity. People who make a buslners of betting on elections show shocking disrespect for democratic claims. Last Saturday Taft was a 5 to 1 favorite In Chicago. 4 to 1' Ui St. Louis, 2 to 1 In New York City, and S to 1 In Philadelphia. Even at these odds, very little democratic money was placed. Mra. Russell Sage gave 1100,000 for the ed ucation of the children of Sag Harbor, and she will further show her Interest ..In the , place by erecting a J15.00 station there. Mrs. ' Sage talked to the children at a meeting the other day, and as usual is going about seeing what good she may do In the world. Rev. Ernest Lyon, United States minister to Liberia, has Informed the Slate depart ment that the government of Liberia will confer upon Dr. Booker T. Washington, the colored educator of Tuskogee, tho Order of African Redemption, Im consider ation of his services in enlisting the sym pathy of this government against European encroachment in Liberia. Some lapleasant ReSrrtloas oa the l.nnd Gamble. Philadelphia Ledger. Tha lotteries in South America and In PASSING PLEASANTRIES. Martian Father (Irritably) What in the solar system is that kid crying for now, Sylvia? Martian Mather He wants the earth, dsar. Puck Esmeralda I was so embarrassed when Percy unexpectedly proposed last night that I turned all the colors of the rainbow. Gladys That's exactly what I told you would be the effect of that new complexion Wash under the glare of the electric light. Chicago Tribune. , "Yes," said the housewife; "yours Is a sad story. Hut it isn't the same story you told last year." "Well, lady," answered Plodding Pete, "you surely wouldn't expect a man to go all dat time an' not. show any Improve ment!" Washington Star. First Grumbler The world's growing honest these days. Second Ditto Yes, so honest that the only man who dares attempt graft is a profes sional gardener, and he takes a year or so's start. Baltimore American. "Charon is having his troubles these those European countries which still permit dhVta'l8 ft. V'roubtawwrurlZi lotteries sink Into Insignificance compared to the "grand drawing" held at pallas, S. D. All the names they mentioned 114,069 on Saturday were placed In a great wheel, and the prize winners each receive right and title from the United States government to a rich and valuable farm against him is founded upon two general , of on..QU.r,er aection, or 160 acres, accusations which may without violation of the truth or violence to the English language be called Ilea. Mr. Gompers accuses Mr. Taft of being the father of Injunctions. He knows that to be false in spirit and legal fact. Mr. Oompers accuses Mr. Taft of being an enemy of labor. He knows that to bo false and. disproved by the facts of Mr. Taft's public services. Petticoat Heroics. New York Tribune. The story that a town In South Dakota waa saved from a prairie fire by a wo man's Ingenuity ar.d energy in sacrificing her skirt Is good enough to be true, and has an historic precedent. When Commo dore Decatur was blockaded at the mouth of a Connecticut river, the Thames, during the war of 1813-14, the rumor was circu lated on shore that he lacked flannel for the manufacture of cartridges for his cannon. Thereupon, a patriotic realdent of the town of Groton. "Mother" Bailey, gained access to Decatur'a ship, interviewed the commodore and verified tha report. Her next act was a fine exhibition of dexterity as well as a surprise to all who witnessed it. She took off her flannel petticoat, tossed It on the deck and cried: "There! Use that!" Aa Kre-Ooeaer tealsg, Washington Herald. Mr. Roosevelt will not be on that edi torial job two months before he will ba willing to admit that the one conspicuous fall-down of his administration was his failure to bust the white psper trust Into at least .!, 6 pieces. Why the Peerloo Worries. Boston Transcript. Wer it a question of throat endurance Bryan would win, hands down- But tho issue Is higher us To be exact, the tract of publio land con sists of O.000 acres. The private land near the Rosebud reservation of like qual ity and richness now brings In the market from 120 to 130 an acre. The total value of the government prizes Is, therefore, to be estimated at from fl.660,000 to t,840.O)0. Has there ever been so great a prize in any lottery at one drawing atnee lottet'iof were known to the human kind? The grand prizes number 5.175, each of 100 acres, and worth ,S00 to 54.800. As strange a mob aa ever waa collected la encamped on the borders, registering and "awaiting the gamble," as a western paper phrases It. Adventurous men of a specu lative turn have gone from the banks of the distant Mississippi In great touring au tomobiles; men who are "dead broke" are on the ground; eager women swell the numbers, and thousands of western farmers, Infected with the old uneasy pioneer spirit which drives them ever to "move on," have sold their farma In other states and will take their chances on Uncle Sam's fickle wheel of fortune. One person In twenty-three will receive a prise, and the question now perplexing the people of South Dakota is, "What will become of the vast horde of the disappointed?" The lottery method was deliberately au thorized by act of congress, and those who repel criticism of the drawing ask helplessly how the distribution could have been made without drawing lota The answer Is an easy one sell the land to the highest bidders. Bat Aeey la UeaaY Chicago Tribune. ( We may have a mistaken Idea about it, but it la our Impression that if Ar-drtw Jackaon were the present governor of Tennessee he would make short work ef Sens night riders , the new arrival. "Why, a lot of grafters are trying to steal his souvenir postal card privilege." Chicago News. "So that quarrelsome couple are going to make a balloon ascension! It Is very danserous )n their case." "Why so?" "Because there Is sure to be a falling out." Philadelphia Press. "They say your husband Is a very brave man, Mrs. Smith." "Indeed he is brave. He acoldad the cook last week." Baltimore American. "Yes." said Mrs. Lapsling, "my .husband IS much better now. For a day or two, though, he was threatened with tobaculoslt of the lungs." Chicago Tribune. DOM ttllXOTfc;. By E. H. Sothern in Colller a Weekly. I. Romance Is dead, and knights have ha their day, Old Time now dances to a soberer tune, N j longer Sirephon worships I'liyllis' shoon, The very Gods have fled this morlal fray; Yet one heart owns fair Dulclnea's away. And bears her banner, praying as a boon That he may dare the mountains of the moon. The filched etars before her feet to lav. Here Jon guixote holds his forehead high. His lance In rest, his orlflamme unfurl'd. Tilting at windmills or 'gainst giants hurl'd. Honor and Truth and Love tils battle-cry. Demanding only of a laughing world Gently to live and with brave heart to die. IL Wisest of madmen, maddest of the wise! We would adventure where thy fancies lead; Where knightly thought quickens to knightly deed. Where thy dofeat shames meaner victories. Did all men view life's pageant through thine eyes, Wield rlichleous sword when grief and weakness plead. Then were this world from all enchanters freed. All mortals listed In thy high emprise. . Quixotic we would Ix-to still declare Our cot a castle, end our lass a queen; UprtKht, uneotiquered, unafraid, aereae, Finding God's poorest crealuos bravo and fair. Shedding a glory over all things' meaa, If thla bo tolly, folly be our snare, ,