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STATEMENT OF CIRCV L.ATTON.
Ptate of Nebraska, Douglas County. is:
f,"lr B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The Bee
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
Ihst the arlual number of full and complete
"-pies of The Dully. Morning. Evening and
undny B-e printed during the month of
March. 1!n. a follows:
' 39,830 17 M,IM
: 39.160 18 3S.930
3 39,300 ID 39.000
39,880 J ,
K 38,930 11 !.. 37,390
38,710 2: 38.960
7 37,000 , CS 38,970
38,040 . 54..; 38.830
9 39,100 2 :-8.94
10 39.090 Id 39,360
...38.830 :7 t,680
H 38.670 ?S 37,400
1 ' 39.100 . 89,000
11 37,300 30 38.fc.70
" 38,960 Si
It 38,880
43,380
. To,' 1,307.480
J.ess unsold and returned copies.. 10,333
Net total 1,197,153
Daily average 38,617
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wiibscrlbcd I In my presence and sworn to
before nic this 1st day of April, 1909.
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P. WALKER.
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WHEW OUT or TOWN.
Baaarrlhera tearing taa lty torn,
porarllg saoald kars Tk flea
mailed o thaaa. A.draaa will
rkaased aa oft, aa reajaaatc.
There are no newspapers in Mom
basa. Anyway, chief Crazy Snake has been
living up to hfB name.
April starts out to make good on its
reputation for showers.
Another holy war is promised in
Morocco. The holy war is the most
unholy of wars.
Delaware reports the biggest peach
crop on record. Delaware should look
Jut for April frosts.
Thanhs to Kidnaper Boyle and his
wife for refusing to boast that they at
one time resided in Omaha.
The cut of 60 cents a ton in the
price of coal on April 1 is one of the
best of the April Fool jokes.
Now that Mr. Hearst has come out
for woman suffrage, the women may
s well quit trying to convert Mr.
Bryan.
The mair who Is trying to burn up
bis surplus coal before he moves will
be pleased to learn that the price has
been reduced. '
' Some people take too many baths,"
8s a lecturer. Possibly, but some
do not lake enough, so the average is
not excessive.
Why a frontage water tax unless
there Is a deficit in prospect in case
Omaha buys its water plant for
$6,363,296.49?
Colonel Watterson declares that
Congressman Fitzgerald is not a demo
crat, which revives the query, "What
is a democrat?"
An Indian is to bo excused for going
on the war path after he has had years
of experience with the Oklahoma real
estate swindlers.
Omaha's city election comes the
first Tuesday in May, which this year
brings it on May 4 and leaves just five
weeks to thresh it all out.
A New York man has been arrested
for carrying a bun ton the street cars.
As it was an eating and not a drinking
bun, the moral is obvious.
Edward Payson Weston Is still
breaking records. He is not walking
more miles than usual, but is gather
ing more mud on the way.
The reports that the rates for upper
berths in Pullmans are to be reduced
is one of the things that comes under
the head of "Important. If true."
A New York judge has just decided
that the husband is not the sole lord
and master of his house. That judge
must have been recently married.
Nat Goodwin saya that his success
Is due to the observance of a number
of rules. One of them doubtless is to
never marry but one wife at a time.
"What is a. real crisis?" aska a cor
respondent. It is ope of those things
that Is always "rapidly approaching"
in Venezuela and in the Balkans.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon has taken up
golf. This seema to emphasize his at
titude toward administrations, as he
has stubbornly refused to play tennis.
A Minneapolis professor claims he
can produce f 100 worth of by-products
out of every ton of wood used for mak
ing pulp. The Paper trust beat Dim
to thai discovery.
A Cut in Grain Rates.
The trunk lines hsve finally beet
forced to tske action to save to them
selvet some goodly share of the grain
trade captured largely by the Cana
dian lines through failure of the
American made to meet the water
transportation rates offered from D
luth to the port at Montreal. Last
year more than 8.000,000 bushels of
wheat went from Montreal to England,
while Very little was sent, from New
York and other Atlantic ports. Com
pelled to lee the blindness of their
old policy, the railroads have agreed
to reduce the rate from Buffalo to New
York, Boston and Baltimore from 6 Vi
to 4 cents a bushels.
It is practically certain that this
action will lead to still further reduc
tions in grain rates, resulting ulti
mately to the benefit of the growers.
The most natural result of the cut by
the trunk lines will be a further re
duction on rates to the Montreal port.
Montreal will be slow to abandon
what It gained when the White Star
line withdrew Its freight steamers
from New York and turned them to
the Csnadlan port. The Canadian rail
and water lines are operating In per
fect harmony and have a distinct ad
vantage over the transportation com
panies In this country. The Canadians
already have two railroads running
from ocean to ocean and the Grand
Trunk Is now rushing Us Pacific coast
extension up through the Nehaco val
ley country to a Pacific coast terminus.
With the completion of this equipment
Canada will be In a position practically
to dictate transcontinental rates on
grain, live stock and all commodities
raised In the fertile states of the north
and northwest. The combination of
rail and 'water rates will practically
eliminate the Item of distance and
compel the all-rail lines of this coun
try to meet the rate competition.
The significance of the situation is
appreciated by the American rail
roads, as shown by their efforts to
meet the Canadian competition, and
the benefits must eventually accrue to
the producers, who most deserve It.
Italian Relief Fund Scandal.
It is to be hoped that there is much
exaggeration In the charges made by
the staid and conservative London
Times of gross neglect and misman
agement in the distribution of the
funds contributed by all the civilized
nations of the world for the relief of
the victims of the earthquake disaster
In Messina. It is asserted that fully
nine-tenths of the money contributed
Is being held by the general commit
tee for the future aid of the survivors
and their dependents and that press
ing needs as a direct result of the dis
aster are being ignored.
People all over the world gave lib
erally when the news of the Italian
disaster came and millions of dollars
In money and goods were hurried, to
the reljef of the sufferers. There! was
no question among the donors and no
distinction drawn as to. the manner
In which the help was to be afforded.
Thousands were in want and the
world wanted to assist them. The
Times now 'charges that many ruins
supposed to. contain survivors were
left untouched for weeks and that
some of the villages remote from the
center of the quake district were
Ignored and not even visited for two
months, it is claimed that the bodies
of 60,000 victims are yet to b recov
ered from the ruins.
Under such conditions it would ap
pear to be a case of gross Incompe
tence and downright cruelty to with
hold nine-tenths of ther relief funds
for the aid of survivors who will be
hard pressed until their crops are
planted and the harvest assured. The
charge ia supported in a measure by
the refusal to permit the corre
spondent of the London Times to send
to his psper many of the- facts, even
those that were contained "in the offi
cial reports of the Italian, government.
The thousands of warm-hearted
people throughout thevworld who gave
liberally to the relief of stricken Italy
are entitled to- a more satisfactory
accounting than this. If the Italian
government can explain the charges
away it will make the donors feel bet
ter. "
Still Harping on the Sam.
Some editorial and political critics
refuse to accept the verdict of the best
civil engineers in the world in ap
proval of the plana finally adopted for
the construction of the lock canal at
Panama. When the toe of the big
Gatun dam showed symptoms of rest
lessness a few months ago, M. Bunau
Varilla, Poultney Blgelow and quite a
following of editorial experts declared
that the entire enterprise would end
in disaster unless the type of the canal
were changed to the sea level plan.
Mr. Taft, then president-elect, went to
the Isthmus with a corps of engineers
and, after a most painstaking investi
gation, fully approved the lock design
and inatructed Colonel Goethals, army
engineer In charge, to proceed with
the work.
A few days ago the grading on the
dam had another ainking spell and
now all the anti-lock plan advocates
are renewing the prophecies of disas
ter. The expert engineers' have ex
plained that this material may be ex
pected to sink from time to time for
some years, but that there Is absolutely
no danger to the canal from that cause.
Colonel Goethala, who has Just re
turned to Panama from Washington,
Insists that the lock plan Is the only
feasible one, as "it can be constructed
in less time, at less cost, will give
eaaler and safer navigation, and in
addition sfccure such a control of the
Chagres river as to make a friend and
aid of what remains a menace In the
sea level type."
Colonel Guethala Is an army en
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gineer, ulth his reputation at Make,
and he can have no purpose except to
build the best prsctirable canal. If
he completes successfully this canal It
will perpetuate his nsme as one of the
world's greatest engineers. If his
plsns fail his professlonsl reputation
will be gone. With every motive for
seeking facts, his judgment should far
outweigh that of men whose knowl
edge Of the subject and motives for
carrying on a laborious and somewhat
expensive sgltatlon against the present
plans are alike uncertain.
Call Them Off.
It is publicly announced that the so
liciting committees engaged In raising
money for the proposed new building
for the Child's Saving institute are ar
ranging to make a campaign in the
public schools for a contribution of
10 cents from each child. The School
board should call tbls campaign off at
once.
There Is no good reason why we
should permit the public schools to be
used as a money-raising mechanism
for any soliciting committee, whether
for public or private purposes. There
Is no more reason why the children
In the schools should be drummed Into
contributing 10 cents apiece to the
Child's Saving Institute than to the
Young Men's Christian association, the
Clarkson hospital or the Catholic
cathedral.
The Child's Saving institute is con
ceded to be a worthy charity, but its
promoters should get the money
needed to build Its new home from
those able and willing to contribute
without levying a head tax on the
school children.
Hii Chance.
As a general rule, we already have too
many laws encumherlng our statute
books many are good, some Imperfect,
a few bad. The good should be let alone,
the Imperfections cured, the bad repealed.
What Is needed. In my Judgment, is an
honest and fearless enforcement of the
laws that we now have rather than a
constant cure for new laws and new laws
as an excuse for Inaction and delay.
Governor Shallenbergor In Inaugural Mes
sage. Governor Shallenberger now has his
chance to put precept into practice.'
The legislature Is about to adjourn,
leaving him piled mountain high with
bills on nearly every subject under the
sun on which he is privileged to exer
cise an unconditional veto.
It Is a safe assertion that the people
of Nebraska w ould be better off if one
half of these bills never became law.
Governor Shallenberger could make a
unique record by taking advantage of
his opportunity to refuse executive ap
proval to every bill for which there is
not 'a real, positive demand, or some
valid substantial reason.
If a bill presented to him does not
fit the form he has himself prescribed,
if ft does not repeal a bad law or cure
existing Imperfections, or give relief
to 6qme actual Injustice, no harm
would be done and much good would
be accomplished by a fearless assertion
on the part of the governor of his co
ordinate autborlty In legislation. As
intimated by the governor at the out
set, --tfe are far more likely to suffer
from too many laws than from too few
laws.
There, must be another joker in the
glove tariff. If women cannot buy
new gloves they will have to clean the
old ones, for which purposes benzine
and gasotene are used. The Standard
Oil has a monopoly on the benzine and
gasolene output, and the tariff on
gloves means more business for the
Standard Oil.
. In one of his lucid dissertations on
finance Alfred Henry Lewis says that
the national banks In Nebraska are
already suffering severely from the
effects of the deposit guaranty law.
Mr. Lewis should wake up. The Ne
braska deposit guaranty law does not
become operative until next July.
The portrait of Jefferson Davis Is to
adorn the silver service to be presented
to the battleship named in honor of
the state of Mississippi. The bad
taste responsible tfor the offer Is
equaled only by the forbearance and
charity of those responsible for the
acceptance of the gift.
The "Drys" and "Wets" in Indiana
have played thirty-nine games and the
"Wets" have captured but one. thuB
achieving a percentage about like that
the Washington base bsll team usually
has at the close of the season.
What remains mortal of two men
are in the Pittsburg morgue because
of a poker game in which two diamond
aces were found In the deck. Pitts-
i burg may be short on ettlquette, but
it is long on Hoyle.
"The objection raised was without
form or substance," saya the legisla
tive correspondent of the local demo
cratic organ. The objection, however,
waa promptly sustained by the demo
cratic speaker.
If the World-Herald wants to start
a clpculation controversy with Te
Bee, the first thing for It to do is to
pay up on what it still owes from the
last one, in which it fell down so
badly.
The kaiser's son will travel incog
while visiting Newport. Evidently he
has heard of that town's reputation
and does not want to give his real
name while there.
The Sunday liquor war in New
York City has resolved itself Into a
question whether the saloons shall be
open as usual or the people shall agree
to wear blinders.
One of Nebraska's new democratic
congressmen got a tariff speech in the
Congressional Kecord by biding his
DAILY REE:" FRIDAY. APRIL
time for opening at a night session.
Wonder how many besides the stenog
rapher and the other members waiting
to project their talks heard what he
said.
The salary of the county attorney
in Douglas county has been raised by
statute to $4,000. There will be real
competition for that Job next time It
Is to be filled.
The school teachers of eastern Ne
braska are meeting in Omaha. If
they want object lessons In excellent
public schools, here Is where they will
find them.
The World-Herald, which has been
openly Inimical, has suddenly discov
ered that Mayor Jim Is "popular."
Can It be for the enemies he has
made?
Art Ui Nest.
Chicago Becord-Herald.
One of the troubles about writing to one's
congressman Is that so many of the people
of this country don't know who their con
gressmen are.
Cool Knoaga for All lVeeds.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Scientists say that the experiences of the
Shackleton expedition show that the cli
mate, of the Antarctic Is growing wsrmer.
Still, 80 degrees of frost is a little chilly.
KflVrt of . a Salary Raise.
Baltimore American.
As the salary of the president of the
United States has been Increased the
pleasing news Is Imparted to the gener
ous nation which gave the Increase that
he can now afford to keep a cow.
"Sow Will loi Re Goortf"
New York World.
.The New York Central railroad, In plead
Ing guilty to an Indictment for giving re
bates and paying a fine of $10,000 without
further delay, has set a commendable ex
ample to corporations found culpable by
the courts.
rrogreas In laaal Making.
Philadelphia Record.
The Panama canal, unless all calcula
tions fail, will be completed sooner than
was originally planned. Instead of 1915 the
year 1913 la now fixed for the time when
the first ship will pass through its locks.
But all good things take time. It would
therefore he mere madness to present the
country with an incomplete job for all
the expenditure of money if a perfect work
could be accomplished In a year or so
longer.
1o Caban Annexation.
Charles E. Magoon In Philadelphia Address.
To annex the Island of Cuba against the
will of the large majority of Us people,
he said, Is to secure for the United
States an acquisition whlefi would be to It
what Ireland la to England, for It would
be Idle to expect that the Cubans, who
struggled so long and arduously against
Spain, although Spain waa the mother,
would submit without resistance to the
dominion of a foreign and alien nation.
"Cuba libre" to- the Cubans is a passion
that sweeps away all others.
Free 1. 1st Necessaries.
Bostan Transcript.
The legislature of Minnesota, with hut
one dissenting vote, has passed resolu
tions requesting , representatives of the
state In botti (.houses of congress to use
their bst efforts to see that lumber, lum
ber products .and coal are placed on the
free liat. In doing so they declare that
these necessaries of life are "largely con
trolled by monopolistic corporationa,"
showing how the Iowa Idea that the tariff
threatens to become a "shelter to monop
oly" is permeating the western country.
Royal It out to I npopnlarlty.
V New York Sun.
Representative Charles Gordon Edwards
of Georgia, who' advocates the reduction
of his salary to J6,00, and has lntioduced
a bill doing away with "mileage" and
limiting members of congress to the col
lection of expenses actually incurred in
travel to and from Washington, Is a na
tive of Daisy and 30 years of sge. To
make a name In congress he lias adopted
the most unpopular and the most unprom
ising method that could be conceived. He
could not have got his inspiration in Wash
ington. TAFT'" MEW METHOD.
Leave Details to Cabinet, bat He 1 n
slst an Reaalta.
Washington Dispatch to N. Y. Tribune.
The president haa already taken occa
sion to make clear to the members of
his cabinet the general policy of his ad
ministration with reference to the several
departments and their respeetlce heads.
He has told them that he expects each
member of the cabinet to assume all re
sponsibility for and exercise supreme con
trol over his department and that he
will hold each head of a department re
sponsible for its conduct. He has em
phasized that fact that he wants results,
and has neither inclination nor time to
deal with minor details; that he has
chosen the ablest men he could find for
the several portfolios and that he haa
full confidence In them; that, such being
the case, he is more than pleased to leave
to them the methods by which they ahall
achieve the Important resulta which he
expects of them.
To be wholly consistent in hla policy,
President Taft haa assured the members
of his official family that he will leave
them free to select their own assistants
without personal or political Influence from
the White House. He has explained that
he realises it would be unjust for him to
hoid his cabinet officers responsible for
results, while, for political reasons, he
dictated the men on whose assistance they
must rely for the success of I heir re
spective departments, and whl'e assistant
secretaries and similar offices are "presi
dential offices." the president will ex
ercise his prerogative only In appointing
men who are entirely acceptable to the
department heads.
The effect of the president's policy is
already to be observed In the several de
partments. Each head is working night
and day to master the details of his de
partment. Inspecting the several brances
and bjreaua and familiarising himself as
rapidly as possible with all of the ma
chinery, for the smooth working of which
he la to be held responsible.
One effect of 'the president' s policy, once
it i generally understood and in good
working order, will be to save him from
the mass of detail which almost swamps
a chief executive if he will permit it to
do so. Members of congress will soon
find that they must deal directly with the
department heads If they wish things ac
complished. Instead of carrying every re
quest and every complaint to the White
house; and so, too, with that portion of
the public which has to deal with federal
departments. As a result, the president
hopes to obtain sufficient time to give
to the more Important affairs of the gov
ernment that attention which they demand.
9P.
Around New York
WJpples ea the Owrreat ef Ufa
as Seea la the Oreat Aaisrlesa
Metropolis from Say to Day.
The Blarkwell's Island bridge, officially
opened last Tuesday. Is the third hlghmay
over East river connecting Manhattan and
Brooklyn. The Brooklyn and the Wil
liamsburg bridges aie of the suspension
type. The new bridge Is a cantilever struc
ture, a type of construction made possible
at this point because Blackwell a Island di
vides the river. It Is one of the three
great cantilever bridges of the world. In
weight and carrying capacity it la said
to be superior to the other two. These
others are the bridge over the Forth In
Scotland and the Quebec bridge.
The total length of the rantllever is 3.T25
feet. The total length of the bridge, in
cluding Its approaches. Is 8.111 feet. The
total weight of steel which enlera Into the
conatructlon of the bridge ta SO.ono tons, a
weight equivalent to ten battleships of th
Oregon type. I.Ike the Williamsburg, the
Manhattan and the Brooklyn bridge, its
clear height above mean low water is 135
feet.
The bridge will hsve a very large rapa
city for traffic. This will be carried on two
floors, one above the"other. On the lower
floor will be a roadway, fifty-six feet wide,
the central portion of hlch will be de
voted to street and general vehicular traf
lc. The other, ten feet on either side, will
he given over to trolley traffic.
On the upper floor provision has been
made for the Immediate conatructlon of
two elevated railroad tracks and for the
future construction of two additional
tracks. On the outside of thesp will bo
two thirteen-foot sidewalks.
When fully completed the bridge will
have cost $20,000,000.
The fourth bridge over East river,
now well under way. will he known
as Manhattan bridge. Engineers In
charge say It will be open for foot
passage and vehicles next winter. It
was begun In 1W, hut waa delayed
by political engineers until 1903. when
politics was cut out and work begun with
a will. It Is a cable suspension bridge,
with a river span of 1,470 fe.ct from center
to center of towers. Each of the land
spans will measure 7:5 feet from the
towers to the anchorages. The New York
approach from the Bowery will be 1,940
feet; the Brooklyn approach from Wlllough
by street will be 4.230 feet. The total
length of the completed structure will be
9.000 feet. The total length of the old
Brooklyn bridge Is ,637 feet.
The main span of the new bridge will
be 135 feet above mean low water. The
bridge is to have two floors. On the
lower one mill be four tracks, two on each
side, with a thirty-five-foot roadway be
tween. On the extreme outalde will be a
ten-foot sidewalk, and nothing else.
It is estimated that the bridge, when
completed, will have cost $28,000,000. This
Includes 8.000.0no which was expended for
real estate.
Another huge bridge enterprise, exceed
ing any yet undertaken, ia the projected
railroad bridge over Hell Gate, connect-
! Ing the railroad systems of the mainland
with those of Long Island.. It will be a
four-track cantilever bridge, to be built
Jointly by the New Haven and Pennsyl
vania railroad companies, and will cost
about $26,000,000. Over 3.600,000 have al
ready been paid out for lands and rights-of-way.
The bridge Itself, exclusive of the em
bankment approaches, but including the
steel approaches, will be about a mile and
a half long, with a central span above
Hell Gate or 1.000 feet in length. 138 feet
above water. It will be. supported by an
arch above the bridge roadway, reaching
142 feet, making the total height of the
arch above the water 277 feet. The ex
treme depth of water to Hell Gate Is about
ninety feet. With steel substituted Yr
the stone piers, th4 bridge will contain
nearly luo.ooo tons of structural steel.
One of the examination rooms at the
puhrtr stores in New York on Monday re
sembled a fashionable dresmakcr's exhi
bition when the contents of two trjnks
seized by customs officials on the Amer
ican line pier were unpacked and examined.
The trunks contained nearly 150 princess
gowns, thirty lace waists, a doien silk em
broidered gowns and a quantity of dress
making material, the total value of the
lot being estimated at $30,000. making the
seizure one of the largest of this nature
in many years. The trunks are believed
io have been brought by the steamer New
York, mhlch arrived last week. So far,
It ia stated, the examination has fsiled
to reveal any clew to the ownership of
the property or its custodian during the
passage over.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Crazy Snake seems ambitious to live up
to both ends of his Impressive title.
Seria has at least this satisfaction: She
made Austria spend $140,000,000 preparing
for the war that never came.
England has declared war on the rat
meaning the rodent, and not the base of
the prevalent capillary tower.
"The greatest president since Lincoln,"
is a characterization political after-dinner
speakers should keep standing. Mr. Can
non applies it to Taft and if he lives long
enough will apply It to the next repub
lican president.
Senator A. J. Beverldge of Indiana left
Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore Mon
day, after having been a patient for sev
eral weeks. Senator Beverldge. who un
derwent a aurglcal operation, is In ex
cellent health again.
Efforts to secure a Jury In the Calhoun
case at San Francisco have gone on twelve
weeks and Jurora have been obtained at
the rale of half a man a week. The
suspense must be terrible to the defendant,
but his lawyers act aa though paid by the
day.
A resident of Black Falls. Wis., Captain
Frank Cooper, M years old. Is the oldest
printer in Wisconsin, and, It is believed.
In the northwest. He ia a native of Ohio,
born In 1824. and learned the trade In
Ashtabula, being graduated at the age of
17, hence he has been printing since 1811,
or more than sixty-seven years.
Whatever the political significance of
King Edward's recent visit to Berlin,, the
tiir must hsve been enjeyed by Queen
A't xandra. for it gave her a grand oppor
tunity to trot about with the Uetman
empr-ss without being subjected to the
steady stare of the Htitish public. The
two riiin, fudging from the many snap
shots reproduced in Rurope.i papera. had
the time of their lives.
William, crown prince of Germany and
Prussia, has Invented and patented a new
atyle of cuff llnka. They have been reg
1st e red In the Imperial patent office. The
invention Is described as double cuff links
with two looped buttons. Enterprising
manufacturers are endeavoring to pur
chase the patent rights, anticipating a
great sale among the dandles of all coun
tries. The kalaer recently Invented a new
biake (or automobiles.
IL' JU1 iBSswjsaswssai. . j.
OME r.UTH FOR MR. RRYA.
Molina Motlresln Flabt for Revision
( llonxe Rales.
Brooklyn Eagle tlnd. deuvt.
As for Fitzgerald, he Is . a HmnkNn
democrat. It Is now recalled that I'at Mc
Csrren. the Brooklyn boss, came to W ash
ington Inst winter and remained tlute two
weeks and held some conferences ltli
Speaker Cannon. It la bellexed II"- deal by
which Fltzgorsld was to rush ! the silvn
tlon of Canminlsm was arranged then.
The Commoner.
This will not be denied by Srnstor M'--Carren.
Nor Is It llkelv that Hie speaker
will dlscusa the matter. Perhaps both
would like to have It supposed that they
could foresee an Insurrection long hefore
there were anv Insurgents In sight, or out
of sight, for that matter, though neither
would make the mistake of claiming on his
own account that he could do anything of
the kind, each being much too S"nsllle
for thst. Presuming the Commoner to
hsve a preference for the truth, a few facts
may be of service to It. They will be
all the more serviceable because of their
freedom from embroidery.
The special session was called for the
purpose of bringing about a revision of the
tariff. The minority, led by Clark, entered
Into an alliance, rffenslve and defensive,
with a resentful wing of the majority, and
with an exceedingly formidable program.
Success seemed to be Insured. Had It
been won. legislation would hsve been st
the mercy of the Insurgents, aided and
abetted by their democratic allies.
Probably the Commoner knows what
would have been Incidental to this. With
out a doubt It la aware of the fact that
two Mlssourlans, De Armand and (Tark,
were to be selected as members of, the
committee on rules, while Ollle Jamea of
Kentucky was tp go on the committee of
ways and means. And, of course, the Com
moner was aware of the fact that New
York. Illinois. Indiana and other common
wealths which contribute largely to the
democratic representation In congress were
to be entirely Ignored. Except as to Ne
braska, the south was to grab everything.
The exception Is significant. It reveals
the hand of Mr. Bryan. It shows that he
was part and parcel of ttie combination
which came near winning. And, had It been
victorious, what? It Is almost Impossible
to think of the consequences without a
shudder. There will be enough talk about
the tariff as It Is, also more than sufficient
confusion. The business of the country Is
holding Its soul in anything but patience.
If the Insurgents were now In the saddle.
backed by Clark and his followers, Burled
Denmark would not have to revisit the
glimpses of the moon to tell what would
ensue. Chaos would describe It.
Fortunately, the grab game miscarried.
For the good of all concerned, except the
coalitionists, they clutched at everything In
sight. Mr. Bryan excluded the Interests of
the country from his calculations alto
gether. He omitted them from the deal.
or the dicker, by virtue of which the i
minority was to be used as a catspaw to '
pull chestnuts from the fire for the luJur- I
gents and to find preferred places for five
southerners and one Nebraskan. This Is
not embroidery. It Is fact.
Something else was dismissed from Mr.
Bryan's calculations. In any event, Can
non would have been elected speaker. And
long before the session had produced any
thing but talk the inevitable would have
come to pass. The. president of the United
States has much patronage to dispose nf.
Even Insurgents are human elngs. If Mr.
Br van will couple these two statements he
will know what would have happened to
the minority. One by one the Insurgents
would have been "taken Into camp" to the
gratification of what Mr. Bryan is pleased
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lo call plutociscy and to the nv'itifli iiioi
t'f n foim as exemplified by grab.
AciotiMng to the Common,!, the repnl.
llciin r. fouucr is the salt of hts party. A
a mailt r of fact the irpuliliciin reformer In
the house of repi escnta 1 1 -. wants nothing
but recognition from the speaker, either
on committers or on the fl,ir or Imih.
Failing to git His. h" will qi.sri'i with
n thins (Jetting It, l. wii tiike excep
tion to norhlng. He Is salt to thnt extent,
no more. Hf will be otherwise when the
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t SAID IN FUN.
Centl'-m.in tarlsirig in street our Won't
ott take my scat, niai.im"
The Suf fragette - No. sir; I wit not
You are entitled 1n It until such lime as no
women have something to say about the
framing of laws governing public con
veyances. 1'uck.
"Come here quick and take a look at
this man "
"Don't notice anything remarkable about
him. Whst's lie imtir'.'"
"Why. he's lived In San Francisco for
years and never been tinnier! to connection
with graft." Philadelphia ledger.
The little De Jones giti Is talking to
her plavmate. Iicv Van Smith.
"Oh. Lucy." said she. "wa have a new
papa."
Have you? What's his namet"'
Mr. Hayes."
"Oh. pahaw.. We had him. loo. hill we
we didn't like him." liliiplnfolt's Maga
zine. ,
First American Financier t have no
patience with the people who go to Mont
Carlo and drop ull their money.
Second Ditto-Neither have I. Whv can't
thev patronize home Industrv and drop It
In Wall street ? Philadelphia Record.
i j
'I henn, Mrs. r.oblnson. your son has gone
Into the ranned soup business."
"Yes. and for so young a man, he is
milking a big success- of It."
"Then I suppose he Is what you would
call a broth of a boy." Baltimore Ameri
can. 'Put money In thy purse," counseled
Polonlus.
"All right, dad." responded gvphella.
"And not hairpins, chewing gum. cooking
recipes, powder rags and dress samples."
liuisville Courier-Journal.
"Yes." said the retired stictloneer. "that
bov of mine Is a chip off the old block,
with all the original hark on him: he's a
spieler for a -cent theater." Chicago
Tribune.
Manager Have you anv human lnterel
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Author-Human Interest! Well. I should
shout! There la a annate niesl scene In
every act. Baltimore American,
Wife-The men came today about th
house-fitting.
Husband Well, what happened?
Wife We had a healed discussion over
the furnace. Baltimore American.
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ESTABLISHED 18S7
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