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IHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1909. The Omaiia Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATSR. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR- Entered at Omaha poetofflee as eeotd data matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Pee (without Sunday), ona year.. $4 00 Dally Bn and Sunday, ona fear 100 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), par week.. Me Dally Bee (without Sunday), par wek..lOo Fvenlng Bea (without 8unday), par week a Evening Bea (with Sunday), par week..lc Sunday Bea, one year Saturday Bea, ona year 1 Addreaa all complaints of IrTegularUlea to delivery to City Circulation department. orricEfu Omaha The Bea Bunoing. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs IS Scott Street. Llnooln-aU Little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York Room 1101-110$ No. M Weet Thirty-third Street. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to nawa and edi torial matter ahould be addreaaed; Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order payable to The Bea Publishing Company. Only t-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounta. Personal checke, except en Omaha or eanlem exchangee, not accepted. STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION. Ptate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, as. t Oeorga B. Tsschuck. treaaurer of The Bea Publishing company, being duly aworn, eaya that tha aotuai number of full and com Pleta cooies of Tha Dally. Morning. Even ing and Sunday Bee printed during tha month ol December, 1M, waa a follows: 1 ..T,TM 1 :..tji $ 37,370 37,090 1 37,630 37,350 1, S7.S40 37,040 M.310 10 9C,7tO 11 ....4330 1 .34.040 II.. 37A00 14 34,710 16. 37,440 1 37,1 TO Total 17 .ST.STS .SOtOOO II 1 10 SI .30,790 .37,M S,S0 ta ti .3710 .37 ,040 tt 37,000 II 30,400 tt 3930 S7 37,180 21 34,030 21 40,700 SO... 4400 11 4380 ...1471,470 Less unaold and returned coplea.. 940 Net total 1,10385 Dally average 37,491 OEOROE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my preaence and ewem to before me thla Slit day of December. 1I0S. ROBERT HUNTER. Notay Public. when oct or TOWJT. Bnbacrlbora leaving; the city tem porarily shoold have Tha Bea mailed them. Addreaa will ha chaaged mm often m ra.eed Cabinet guessing appears to be much easier work than cabinet mak In. Without desiring to start anything, caa anyone tell what has become of Hobson? "Senator Lodge smokes cigarettes," says a Washington paper. Much la explained. No, the Hoo-Hoo's cat ha no rela tion to the cat. houses that the Hoo- s. HotJi-jtre flgtufagT "New York will be a pagan city in twenty-years," says a clergyman of that city. What is it now? . Over 4,000 automobiles are running up and tfown Nebraska roads. And this 1 an agricultural state, too. California should understand that a roll call of states will show a vote of 45 to 1 agalpst a war with Japan. Speaker Cannon has a riding record, too. He has, at times, ridden rough shod over every state la the union. California has had experience enough to know better than to keep playing with fire, oven of the Japanese kind. The house is threatening to sup press the, speech of the Now York con gressman abusing Mr. Roosevelt, but WUlettT "Nothing Is wholly bad" says a German proverb which was written be . fore the roar started between the pres ident and congress. The attempt to keep Congressman '. Wlllett's speech out of the Congres sional Record Is wasted effort. That's a good place to bury It. Having decided to admit that he Is - an honest man. Senator -Tillman has , abandoned his demand for an investi gation by his colleagues. France has accumulated enough gold to carry Russia for several years. Borrowing money from France Is one of Russia's chief Industries. Emma Goldman has been arrested again lnx California. It would be cheaper to wire the fact of the days when Emma la not arrested. ' Did Tom Piatt select his successor in the United states senate?" asks a correspondent. Wo think not, seeing tiie man's name la not Tom Piatt. Chile and Peru are on the verge of a quarrel again, but we trust It will not reault in curtailing our supply of Chile coucarne or Peruvian bark. Natural gas has been struck at Medicine Hat. Someore should promptly apply a match and give Medicine Hat a long needed warming up. A consolidated tax receipt would be a great convenience lor taxpayers In Omaha, who sow have to go to the treasurer's office thro, times to pay their taxes In three separate Install ments, . If Govtrnor 8hallenbergr's two su premo judgeship appointees decline to assert their claims and rofuaa to aUp aside to let tho governor name others for their places who will assert their claims, tho case may bo easidared closed.. ' ' ' PLATFORM PLEDGES AND PRIMARIES, Democrats who have been Insisting upon the republican legislature or Oregon electing a democrat, Governor Chamberlain, to the United States senate In order to keep a pledge made at the primaries, have a precisely op posite case in their own political camp. The democratic legislature of Tennes see has Just passed over the gov ernor's veto a state-wide prohibition bill, In face of the fact that the demo cratic platform declared for county option, against prohibition and the party's candidate for governor was chosen at a primary election In which the Issue was clearly drawn between the county option and the prohibition factions. In the primaries former Senator Carmack was pitted for governor against Governor Ham Patterson, seek ing a ro-electlon. Carmack declared for state-wide, prohibition, while 'Gov ernor Patterson made his campaign on a county option platform. The election was the most hotly contested in the history, of Tennessee and Patterson won by a healthy majority, something in excess of 12,000. The convention that nominated Patterson pronounced expressly against prohibition and in favor of county option. Although the democrats elected three-fourths of the members of the legislature, a state wide prohibition bill was nevertheless passed. The governor vetoed the meas ure, reminding the legislature of the platform pledges and the verdict of the primaries, but the legislature went over the governor's veto and has en acted an additional law prohibiting the manufacture of liquor in the state. The democratic majority in the legislature has thus gone on record that a democratic platform has no binding force on the men who made it, even after the issue involved had been settled at a primary election. The trouble will, of course, come when an attempt is made to enforce the law which a majority of the voters are on record as opposing. None familiar with the situation expect prohibition to be enforced in Memphis, Nashville, Chat tanooga and the larger cities of the state any better than the state's laws for the protection of life and property have been enforced in the night riding districts where public sentiment was almost unanimously against the law. Developments will doubtless show that the cause of temperance has lost rather than gained ground In Tennessee by tho work of the democratic legisla ture. -' I ' AMERICAS PASSPOBTS LV RUgilA. A resolution has been offered in congress by Representative Gofdfogle of New York demanding full recogni tion by Russian officials of the Ameri can passport granted to American citi zens traveling or sojourning in Russia The resolution recites the existing treaty between ,the United States and Russia guaranteeing the mutual liberty of citizens of either country to enter and sojourn in the other, the persist ent refusal of the Russian authorities to respect the treaty so far as Jews of America are concerned, and calls upon the State department to press Its demand for Russian recognition of these passports. The discrimination of the Russian government In refusing to recognise passports properly Issued by our au thorities is not a Jewish question at all, but is an American question. The record shows that a similar resolution was passed by congress in April, 1904, but that the Russian government has paid no attention whatever to our representations. It is not a question whether an American Jew shall be al lowed, when properly supplied with a passport, to travel unmolested in Ru sian territory. The question is whether an American passport shall be recog nized and accepted as an authoritative certificate of American citizenship or whether any RuBsian 'official may take upon himself the privilege of denying a passport bolder the rights promised to him under a solemn treaty between the United States and Russia. It Is within the province of the police of Russia to surround the Amer ican traveler with proper surveillance or to interpose against the acceptance of an American passport for good and substantial reasons, but the objection should not and must not be based on creed or race. For years Russia has been treating the American passport worthless, branding it by itnplica tlon as a false pretense and grossly and insultingly assuming that this country Is either unable or unprepared to protect its citizens against such in dignities. The American passport should be accepted at its face valu. the world over and the congress should be prompt to pass the Goldfogle reso lution which provides that the treaty of amity between Russia and the United States be denounced and ended unless Russia shows by prompt action its willingness to accept American passports without distinction of ro ll gldus faith or race. RETIRED OFFICERS FOR SERVICE A solution of the problem of the shortage of officers for the army has been suggested that will meet with hearty approval from several hundred retired officers anxious to get back into active service. Tho solution Is pro posed In a bill pending in congress authorizing the secretary of war to call 260 retired army officers into ac tive duty. There are 611 vacancies in tho service list of officers. The Introduction of the bill come as a surprise, as It Is generally supposed that tho officers on the retired list have always been subject to orders from tho War department. This Is tho case in the navy, where tho retired officers are subject to calls for active service in emergencies. The proposl tlon to call 160 of tho retired army officers Into service would be welcomed by the hearty and vigorous men 6 4 years young who have been placed on the retired list, with nothing to do, too old to take up new pursuits and only the cemetery in prospect. Hun dreds of these trained and experienced men would be glad to be assigned to useful work for which younger officers are now preferred. SPECIAL PESSIOSS The chairmen of tho appropriations committees In congress are making protest against the alleged extrava gance in special pension legislation. Although often discussed by congress without tangible results, the demand for economy In appropriations has again directed attention to. the pecu liar manner of disbursing the public money under this heading.. The special pension legislation has been carried to such an extent In con gress that for a number of years the custom has been adopted of allowing each member of congress a fixed num ber of special pension bills which are put through without discussion or in vestigation except by the committees. n the senate recently 600 special pen sion bills were passed in one hour. In almost every case these bills Increase pensions already allowed by the gov ernment authorities under existing laws, although many of them are for the benefit of persons who have not been able, from one reason or an other, to secure pensions through the regular channels. The total of these special acts amounts to many thou sands of dollars each year and the claim continues, after passage, during the life of the pensioner. No one will contend that there should be an absolute end put to spe cial pension legislation, as the system seems to be about the only one by which needed and deserved Increases may be made over the allowances made by the general pension laws, but It would seem that the time has ar rived for requiring some systematic nvestlgation of these claims for spe cial allowances. While the pension roll is decreasing rapidly, the amount of the annual pension appropriation bill is as large as It was a dozen years ago. Much of this is due to the en largement of the general pension laws, but a healthy share of It Is chargeable to tho special pension bills offered by congressmen and passed without inquiry into their merits. The fact that forty-five years after the clvJJ war we have a pension approf :ion o it5u,oo0,0U? e,7uaUx-: '..uld be sufficient to make congress go slow in passing special pension legislation. POLICE AAD FIRE PEySIOSS. Several measures are pending in the legislature at Lincoln to provide for retirement pensions for members of the Omaha fire and police depart ments. . Before any of them are en acted Into law they should be care fully considered from the point of view of the taxpayers and of the serv ice, as well as of the prospective pen sioners. Once the pension system Is Inaugurated whatever changes and modifications it will undergo will be In the direction of greater liberality, so that if the tax-paying public Is to be protected proper limitations should be Incorporated from the outset. lUnder our present city charter we now have a retirement pension for po licemen, but the clause is practically Inoperative because it Is made effec tive only for those who have reached a designated age and served nrteen years "from and after the passage of this act." which act bears the date of 1904. The present proposals all aim to make the retirement pensions avail able for policemen or firemen who meet the age requirement and have served the stipulated number of years whenever that service may have been performed. The weak spot in this plan Is that It does not require continuous service and thus opens the door to costly abuse by reinstatement of men in ad vanced years who have been volun tarily or Involuntarily out of the de partment during the years when their service would have been most valua ble. It would at once start a siege of tho police board by all the incompe tents and disreputables pried loose from time to time from the payroll, bringing pressure for rehabilitation with a view to connecting with the pension fund. Whatever the legislature may do In the matter of the pension fund for po licement and firemen, and it should do something, It should Bee to it that the pensions are put within reach only of legitimate claimants who have estab lished their right to an old age pro vision by long, continuous and faithful service. 'RIGOROUS LA W ESFORCEMEST." What the law enforcement zealot bumps up against when he says all laws must be enforced at all times and all places with equal severity and per sistence Js again illustrated by the an nouncement of one of our district judges that unless the legislature re peals the so-called "blue laws" before It adjourns bo will Bee to It that they are "rigorously enforced" after ad Journment. Why wait until after adjournment of the legislature? Are not these laws JuBt as much laws now as they will be then? If there Is no justifia ble discretion as between the "rigor ous enforcement" of tho one law or another, how does a Judge undertake In his discretion to permit these laws to be violated with impunity for an other sixty days? And. suppose the legislature does not repeal, as suggested, will not the court have the right in Its discretion to suspend "rigorous enforcement" until another legislature shall have had a chance? In the essence does not the whole subject resolve itself Into an exercise of everyday common sense? Because the Oklahoma State univer sity has been thoroughly demoralized by the Injection of politics is no good reason why Mr. Bryan should Insist on Injecting polities Into the University of Nebraska. If Mr. Bryan wants to endow a chair of civil government or of politics In the State university In order to perpetuate his name, why does he not do It? The death of the murderous outlaw who killed one of our Omaha police men saves the expense of a trial and legal execution. It Is too bad that the money which would have been spent in ridding tho community of the mur derer cannot be turned over to the family of his victim or given as a re ward to the policemen who finished him. If you read it In the local demo cratic organ, every time a republican in the legislature breaks away from his party associates be displays "inde pendence" and ."fearlessness of the party whip," but whenever a democrat breaks away ho Is a "deserter" or a "backslider," or a "corporation hire ling." And now M. F. Harrington says he has no sympathy with the demo-pop attack on the Bupreme court, and after full investigation convinced himself that Governor Sheldon had the au thority to make the vacancy appoint ments. Harrington never did hitch well with Frank Ransom. A New York woman lawyer who Is an ardent suffragist will be married this week. The ushers and all of the attendants will be women and the cerempny will be performed by a wo man minister. The name of mere man who is to be the groom Is not given. If the first trial of the Oregon plan had resulted in electing a republican to the United States senate by the votes of democratic legislators, would our Nebraska democratic legislature be now boosting the Qr-J.'u plan? Don't all answer at "ace. "Battling" elson, who says he is going f 'Atn'ca with President Roosevelt- 'admits that ho "heard a good vieal about in the newspapers," from which we infer that "Bat" listens well. Colonel Guffey has been made the member of the democratic national committee for Pennsylvania, Mr. Bryan's stated and reiterated objec tions to the contrary notwithstanding. The country might approve a liberal appropriation by congress for a Lin coln memorial at Washington If It could be done without including some grafting real estate speculation. Russia's new i per cent loan bonds are Belling at 89. Unitetd States 2 per cents are selling above par. There's only one Russia and only one United States. No time limit has been fixed on the term of Mr. Simon, who has been elected president of Haytl. He will probably serve until the next regular revolution. Among the other burdens heaped upon President Roosevelt in the clos ing days of his administration is the hearty support of all of Mr. Hearst's papers. Senator-Elect Root of New York Is going to take the baths at Hot Springs for six weeks. There's a growing de mand for clean men in official posi tions. The Prlaa Qata. Washington Post. If the grand jury can make William Nelson Cromwell tell things he doesn't want to tell about the Panama canal, then the grand jury will step to the head of the claas. The United Statea aenate couldn't do it. A Safe Prediction. St. Lou la Olobe-Democrat. The republlcana of Oregon elected a democrat to the United Btatea aenate. History will probably have to wait a long while for a democratic legislature to duplicate this magnanlmoua act. Necropolis of tha Brave. St. Ixmla Globe-Democrat Wisconsin will erect in tha Vlcksburg Na tional park a 1100,000 monument, consisting of a column surmounted by the image of "Old Abe," tha famoua war eagle of the Wisconsin troops. The states are wheeling Into line to make tha Vlcksburg park one of the grandest scenes of siege and battle In the world. Good faith with Japan. New York Tribune. The governor of California says he Is convinced that the Japanese government la acting In absolutely good faith In keep ing Its people from coming to this coun try. Surely, It is incumbent upon thla country and upon each one of Ita states to observe equally good faith and to ac cept Japan's action In tha spirit in which it is performed. The Hraaun Why. Boston Herald. Measured by their proposed new sala ries, tha vice president of tha United Statea and tha speaker of tha house are worth aa much to tha country as the chief Justice of tha supreme court and mora than tha other juatlces of that au gust tribunal. This may be accounted for by the fact that tha judiciary de partment haa nothing to do with fixing the compenaation of Us members. Tha Grand Old Maid. Waahlngton Star. The present presidential administration, like Napoleon, attrlbutea merit to a woman la proportion to the Dumber of children to whom she haa given birth. The nest administration will rank tha Individual woman in merit in accordance with what aha, dues to develop herself In body, mind and aoul. Irrespective of her birth record. Roosevelt lauda tha prolific mother. Taft la his southern speech champions tha grand old maid, Evidently there la ona policy or doctrine of tha Taft administration of which the Outlook wll prove a savage critlo, I WAKR OP THE RlPITnai'AKE Meaalna as It Looked After tha Fear fal keeoita. One of the many remarkable features of the disaster at Messina, observed by Amer ican correspondents on the ground, la the length of time after the crack of doom that living persons were found and taken from the ruins. Aa late as the nineteenth day rescues were made of two children and an old decrepit woman, tha latter un conscious but still breathing. Most of these lata rescues were children who sur vived the shock better than the elders, chiefly because fear of death is not de veloped In youngsters. Two gtrla and a boy were entombed for eighteen days In a pile of ruins near tha church of the Apoetlea In Messina. They had a sufficient supply of oil, wine, onlona and water to keep them from starvation, and they had dug themselves out far enough for their cries to be heard by passing soldiers. A man who had been caught across the waist by the fall of hie house and had watched his wife and four children die without being able to help them, was res cued on the fourteenth da")'. H. R. Chamberlain, an American corres pondent who reached Messina three days afterthe quake. In a letter to a syndi cate of American papers says the saddost In cident of the whole catastrophe happened tha day following the great quake. A party of Russian sailors found In the center of tha town the rear wall of a 4-story house still standing precariously. A foot or two of the third and fourth floors remained, and upon thesa narrow ledges were clinging two women and three children crying for help. There were no ladders and rescue seemed Impossible. The brave bluejackets did a heroic thing. One stood on another's shoulders against the outside of the wall, a third carrying a pick climbed over them, and using his Implement as an Ice pick drove It into the mortar high above his head. By this means he pulled himself up to a window sill, released his pick, used It again In the same way to gain a nearer window above ajur finally reached the ter ror stricken refugees high In the air. He lowered them with a rope to his comrades below and then slid down himself. Tha little party assembled In the narrow court yard prepared to depart and one of the sailors waa wrapping his jacket around one of the almost naked children. At that mo ment the tottering wall fell upon them and killed every one of tha brave sailors as well. Describing the ex--iit of the ruins and the problem vi removal, the writer says: "Metslna, nkj most Sicilian and southern ".allan towns, was of tremendously solid construction. There waa usually a facing of brick or stone, and behind this was a wall of ruble a mixture of mortar and small stones of enormous thickness. Three feet cf thla material was nothing unusual. The forces which nature brought to bear upon this construction eight daya ago show In the result that the buildings might as well have been made of sand In the same quantities held together between surfaces of cardboard. This explains why tha ruins of Messina make such an enormous mass. Tha buildings averaged four or five stories In height and tha scrap heaps that remain are at least two stories above tha street level, including tha material In tha road way Hself. "The time is at hand when Messina must be abandoned utterly. Tha ruins, still peopled by more than 60,000 dead, must ba left to the purifying Influences of tha same force that we call nature, which wrought all this destruction. Man should not at tempt as yet to cleanre so vast a charnal house. We hear brave talk, moat ef it fiom patriotic statesnfen at tha safe dis tance of Rome, to tha effect that It la Italy's national duty to rebuild at ones tha fair town. f "Ihey have no conceptfon. these senti mentalists, of tha physical difficulties cf tha titanic task they propose. When I say that no man haa been able to traverse even a third of the clogged and barricaded streets In the nine daya that have elapsed slr.ee the catastrophe, soma idea may be formed of tha nature of tha undertaking that la suggested. It would test tho powers of an army of 100.000 nr.en merely to clean the streets within thiee men the. And think of the nauseating conditions under which they would work at the present time. Even under compulsion men could not be found to undertake it." Contemporary accounts of the great Cala bria n earthquake of 1783 suggest that In the recent ones history repeated itself in a remarkable way. A Naples correspond ent wrote in the Belfast News letter of March 21, 178$: "On tha 6th of thla month (February) several shocks of earthquake were felt In Calabria and Sicily, but on the two follow ing days the shocks were more violent and made most desperate havoc; 320 villages and hamlets are entirely destroyed. The towns of Palml and Semlnara are no more. Gcracla la destroyed and the princess of Grlmaldl waa buried In the ruins among many others. Tha town of Scllla Is alas swallowed up. The place where Pltxo stood is no longer to be found. Of the city of Regglo, universally famed for Its trade and rides,, scarce;' a vestige remains. All w can learn from Messina at present la that tha town is almost entirely destroyed." OREGON'S EXAMPLE. Mandate of the People Obeyed by tho Leg-lalatnre. Baltimore American (rep.). It la a mere exhibition of political fidelity rising above partisan incentive that waa given by Oregon In the election of Gov ernor George E. Chamberlain, a demoorat, as senator, by a legislature In which repub licans predominate. The situation grows out of the action of tha primary election machinery of the etate. By their direct ex pression the people made Governor Cham berlain their choice for senator. The leg islature, however, went republican. It then remained to be seen whether the republic ans would hold to the declaration of the people at the polls, or adopt the principle that the selection of a republican legisla ture acted as a check upon the primary vote and gave to the people's repreaentatlve the option of selection. The republicans have certainly showed a high-minded, almost an altruistic, attitude In designating Governor Chamberlain to succeed the republican Senator Fulton. The Oregon case will have wide Influence upon the action of other states under similar conditions. It la indication of the kind of problems that may surround tha adoption of the primary method for designating aen atorial candidates. The principle of all elections Is that the will of the people shall rule, and the republicans of Oregon have abided by that decision. Braylasr of Asa. Philadelphia Record (dera). Congressman Wlllett haa not dona any harm and ha probably feels a great deal bette now that ha has got a lot of bad words out of hia system. The president doea soma unwise things and ba says a great mar.y injudicious ones. He is always a tempting subject for attack. But neither personally nor officially does bo justify mare torrents of clumsy and violent abuse. In Ha actios on the secret service matter tha house maintained rt ' dignity and de fended Its prerogative, but Mr. WUlett compromised its dignity sa far as single member could da ar i J 4 THE GIA5T AJID THE PIGMIES. Eavlene Littlene-aa Striving i At fraet Attention. Kansss City Times. Few things have so sharply accentuated the greatness of Treeldent Roosevelt at has the smallness of soma of his oppo nents In these cloRlng days 6f his admin latratlon. Now that tha giant Is about to step out cf the office to which he has given world wide distinction and honor, the envious pigmies arex busy. Out of the shadows of comparative retirement, to which Theodora Roosevelt has consigned the champions if money rule, one after another of his chafing victims comes Into the light long enough to assail the de parting atateaman. Tresldent Roosevelt has not een Infal lible In his judgment, nor ting he always been much less sought to be diplomatic In his methods. But his administration haa been fraught with tremendous good for the people. He has accomplished things that waited and waited and waited for the right man to secure their accomplishment He has raised the standards of politic! official and business morality and haa given the nation high social and patriotic aspirations. Although not claiming to be a constructive economist, he has opened tho eyes of the people as no other man be fore him did to the greatness of the coun try end to Its obligation to the present and to future generations. Correspondingly, he haa aroused the animosity of the bene flclarles of special privileges everywhere, and this class cannot conceal Ma satisfac tion over tha nearlng end of hla adminis tration, and some of them have not even taken the palna to hide their malice. The distinction achieved by a hitherto ohrcure member of congress Is not the kind of fame re sought, for he will be remembered less because he attacked tha president than because he made himself k offensive that the house, by an over whelming vole, ent hint to hla seat. Re membering the extieme toleration' of tha house, especially for the traducera of tha president, tha Brooklyn pigmy has done a remarkable thing: He has shown the country that there is, after all. a limit to which congress, as a body, will not go. In Ihe seeming conspiracy to discredit the Rccsevelt administration as a "warning to President-elect Taft. STATES AND MONOPOLIES. Right of Statea to Prevent I'nlawfal Combinations Affirmed, Indianapolis News. The supreme court of the United Statea sustained the recent decision of the state courta Imposing a fine of 11.623,000 on tho Waters-Plerca Oil company, alleged to ba a subsidiary company of the Standard OH company, and ousting It from the state, The action of the state court in appointing a receiver for the concern was upheld aa against that of the federal court, which appointed a receiver on petition of the con pany. Thus tho state and Its courts are sustained in every important pnrtlcular. The chief significance of this decision is, It seems to us, that It affords added proof of the ability of the states to deal with the trust problem. The greatest victories that have thus far been won have been by the states. The government failed In Its suit against the Standard Oil company. But Texaa and Missouri have succeeded In driving the Standard out of their borders. Whether the action is wise we do not now stop to Inquire. The Immediately Inter esting feature of the decision Is .that It recognises to the full the power of the states In dealing with the trusts. The su preme court said: "That state legislatures have the light to deal with the subject matter and pre vent unlawful combinations to prevent competition and In restraint of trade, and to prohibit and punish monopolies, la not opa to question. Having the power to pasa lawa of thla character, of course, the state may provide for proceedings to en force tho same. Tha state, keeping within constitutional limitations, may provide Its own method of procedure and determine the methods and means by which such laws may be made effectual. Wa are not prepared to say that there was a de privation of due process of law because tho statute permitted and the court charged that there might be a conviction for acts which accomplished tha prohibited result, but also for those which tend or are reasonably calculated to bring about the things forbidden." It will be observed further that Texas was not content with merely fining the corporation it also put it out of business within Its borders. POWER OF SOVEREIGN STATES. Slgntlrnnce of I'nlforsa Baling of the Highest Conrt. New Tork World. There are 261 corrtWnatlona with M.905, 100,000 of capital in the list of Industrial trusts prepared by Byron W. Holt for the 19u8 World Almanac Every one of these companies may do business in any state only upon condition that It obeys the rea sonable laws of that atata. There ore MO Industrial, franchise and transportation trusts, aocordlng to Moody's Manual, with $20,000,000,000 of capital. The franchise and transportation ' trusts also may do business within any state only In obedience to that state. Though In Inter state commerce they are subject to tho fed eral government, tha state can fix reason able local fares and freights. It can regu late. It can tax. There aro no one knows how many local public service corporations every ona of which la or economically tends to beepme a monopoly. These each state can charter, regulate, tax, restrain in their rapacity or terminate. These facts appear In the federal supreme court's decision upholding the Texas court fine of l,623,00O upon the Waters-Fierce Oil company for breaking tha anti-trust law; from its affirmance of tha Missouri decree against the Standard OH; from Us sending the Virginia 1-cent fare caae back to the courta of that atata; from ita New Tork SO-oent gas decision to speak of recent casea and from many such In tha past. If Missouri and Texas can bar Standard OH from doing a monopoly business, and tha latter can fine one of Ita tentacle com panies, ao may any state. If Virginia can fix railroad fares, so may any state. If New Tork can put tha price of gas at a fair figure, ao may any elate. Similar ac tion In a hundred directions any state may take and every state should take where public Interest demands. Here la the real, constitutional remedy for the evils of mo nopoly. Beyond tha limits fixed by the constitu tion for national action' tha linked statea are severally sovereign. They may control what they create. If they suffer wrong of their creaturea their neglect shares the fault. Limit of Political Greed. Philadelphia Press. The idea of taxing Pennsylvania coal Is In every aspect a foolish one. The legis lature, If It tries it, will find that It has made itself responsible for a most un popular and indefensible mea.ire. It had better abandon It at once. Necessaries of life are not taxed at present by the state of Pennsylvania and they ought not to be taxed at any time. Hot Blast for Winter. Baltimore American. Now their constituents are roasting mem bars of congress for roasting tha president, ao It la a rather hot time all around, mall wonder that the cold waves lost much of their frigidity as they advanced on taalr way. . GVARtSTREn DEPOSITS. Proponed Cnre-AII Fathered hy Poll, leal Financiers. Wall Street Journal. It waa hoped, after the presidential elocu tion had deMlehe1 the various "para mount Issue" evolved by Mr. Itryan, that Uie guarantee of bank deposits had hee.i relegated to the ohacurlty from which It ought never to have emerged. There waa a good chance to allow the state of Oklahoma to demonstrate Its futility, and even those states wheie democratic governors were elected could well have afforded to wait for tho completion of that object lesson. The governor of Nebraska, however, rushes In where wiser people fear to tread with s declaration on the subject which might have been written by Mr. Bryan himself. There Is a superficial attractive ness about the proposition and unfor tunately the popularity of the Idea waa not entirely confined to one party either, es pecially In tho west. It will bo Interesting to watch the Mil to the same effect Intro duced In the legislature of New Jersey. In the Bryan and Inter plana no differ ence was made between savings banks and commercial banks. A merchant who dis counted his bill for JlO.Ooft at six months, with Ms deposit account correspondingly credited by the discounting bank, would b entitled to the full amount of the deposit at a crisis, end that Immediately, while the collateral against his loan could not be realized until It matured. Carry the parallel further. Imagine that In the fall of 1907 such a Uw had been In force In New Tork. An Individual controll ing a chain of a doxen banks could have discounted his paper for $30,000,000 among them. He could have threatened the sus pension of those banks or have suspended them, with the certainty of being paid his deposit In full. As hla credit was damaged his paper at that time waa valueloes. In fact, people with the best of credit could not borrow money on any terms. Neverthe less thla unscrupulous apeculator would have depleted the resources of soundly managed Institutions and would have se cured $30,000,000 to bolster his speculations In tho Stock exchange at a time of Interna tional crisis. It need hardly bo said that all the banks, good and bad, would have been obliged to adopt tha most extreme meas urea in aelf-defense. It will bo noticed also that there would bo nothing unlawful In. the action of the supposed speculator. PERSONAL NOTES. Between that million-dollar Texan fine and that fresh million-dollar donation to Chicago university, tha price of oil i. likely to rise. The Boston Herald insists the late Rus sian admiral's name should ba spelled "Roabestvenaky." Let tho dead rest and make the proofreader happy. A bill Is before the Minnesota legisla ture penalising the wadding charivari. It 1 carried to such an extent there as to deter many from marrying, it is claimed. Miss Fannie Blxby, ona of the richest girls In California, has beootno a full fledged policeman. She received an ap pointment as deputy of a Long Beach, constable and came to Los Angeles to take the oath of office and to reoelvo her star. It will be he only Jewel thas she wears. Dr. Sven Hedln says that the greatest result of his recent journey to Thibet was the discovery of a mountain chain 2,000 miles long running eaat and weet which is the most massive range in tho world Its passes average $.000 feet higher than those of the Himalayas, but none of its peaks Is aa tall aa Everest. Joseph Lambert, who won tho cross of the Legion of Honor for bravery in battle while in the French army during the reign of Napoleon III, died last Monday of cerebral apoplexy In Brooklyn. Ha was T7 years old. He came to thla coun try In 161 for tho purpose of joining the union army and served throughout the war. Big. Ferrero, tho Italian historian, Is tell ing Americans that glorious old Caesar waa mora of a ward heeler than a demigod, that his gall made him ruler of all Gaul, and that the beloved Antony, who came not to bury Caesar, but to praise him, married Cleopatra for her money. Shorn of the halo of time these old idols appear to be made of very common material. BREEZY TRIFLES. "Convicts seem to bo very polite sort of people." "Will you tell me what led you to that conclusion T" "Sure; they never do wrong without beg glng pardon for it." Philadelphia Press. ri',. Ouldo-No, Mra. Comeup. yon wouldn t like to have tha hoi pollol at your supper. Mrs. Comeup-Oh, I gueas we might. If tho cook understands how tp fix It Baltimore American. "Why do you laugh so hurrtedly when your husband tells a story?" "If I don't laugh promptly he tells It all over again." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The blacksmith had just Inherited a for tune. "Still." he said, "I'm not going to fold my hands and do nothing. What do you auggeat?" , ' Take your hands to a good manicure, for the first thing," advised his lawyer. Chi cago Tribune. ' ' Mrs. Kweery However did you lose ynur ,lm,b, U!y 1oor man? Did a shark get It? Bill Topsal Not egsactly, mum. He only got most of what I got frum the railway company that got It. Puck. "So Algernon Is going to devote himself to poetry 7 "Yes, but only after a season In the bank. I don t want the poor boy to die wlthouS even knowing what money feels like."- Brooklyn Life. Distracted Mother (opening tho door of the playroom) What are you boys maktnal all this terrible racket about? Her Youngest We're playln' congress, maw. We've just had a message from tha pres'dunt! Chicago Tribune. "I wonder why you love me. dear?" "That's strange. I've asked myself the) same question a thousand times." Clave land Plain Dealer. -v-ieve "Mother." he said, putting his arms around her and kissing her on the brow, 'I am going to merry the eweetest, the) loveliest, the noblest girl In the world." Looking up Into his eyes, the good ladr by a great effort managed to kep bacat her tears aa she answered In broken tone! 'M y poo r boy " Ch IcagoRecord-Herald. THE FLIGHT OF TIME, 8. E. Klser in the Record-Herald. ' We talked about the weather for a while! "How pleasant It has been of late," salt she; "The autumn's here," I answered with a smile, "Are glorious, or so they seem, to me." From that we drifted on, somehow, to art She thought that Whistler's teuhnks was supreme; Rosetti we agreed showed warmth of heart Burne-Jones but dreamed a long, fantas tic dream. We gravely Judged tha great musicians,' too. And switched off to the poets In good tlm; Keats. Byron, Shelley, each passed in re view ; She thought that Burns and Wordsworth were sublime. i The latest novels and the newest plays Were touched on lightly as we lingered there: We strayed off into strsnge, romantic ways, Forgetting that the world contained a cure. At last, when all things else had been dis cussed. We took up the old subject, she and I. And learned, much to our sorrow and dk suet. Tan ft M tftav -hslgl kf M4 bj.