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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. JUNE 21, 100;1. The Omaha' Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROEWATEfl VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. En tar t at Omaha poetofflc a second class mailer. TERM OF SUBSCRIPTION. tallr Be (without Sunday), one 'I? Dally Bee and Bunday one year w DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Daily Bee (Including Bunday). Pr w"'k fall Bee (without Sunday). per wa) Evening- Bee (without Bunday). per wm k Evening Bee (with Bunday), per w""Ji, Aunday Be, on year Jjrjj Saturday Bee, one year. .. ;jj;;i . Address all complaints of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha T . Be Bulldlnt- Bjuth Omsha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs 18 Scott Street. Lincoln (It Little Building". Chicago 1MI Marinette Building. New Tork-Roomt 1101-llM No. M Thirty-third street. . w w Washington 7 Fourteenth Street. N. w. CORRE8PONDENCB. tt i. 1 1 .utin. in nam- and edl- torlal natter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. HICVITTANCE8. Remit y draft, express or pol J!' payable to The Bee Publishing Compenr Only l-cent stamps rec-lved In payment of mail accounts, personal cukm. ! Omaiia or eastern exchangee, not accept STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION. - ... v, w - Tv.ti.i Count, as. Oeorre B. . Taaohuo treasurer ot The Bee Publishing Cempani. "'. worn, aaye thai the actual oumper of full .-a f Thi Dallr. Morn In. Evening- and Sunday Bee printed dur ing the month of May. 10. wa aa fol-lowa: 1 44.V80 IS 40,000 It 48,400 SO 4 49,04 Si... . 4B,o aa 40,350 as T .. 40.S40 04. B 40,450 sa 7,400 aa 10 40,180 ' 87 ii 40.410 aa II 40.810 as 13 , .. 40,180 80 14 40,170 81 18 v . . 40,810 . 10 97,800 Total.. M 17 40,840 40,10 40,140 40,480 40.B10 s,aoo 40,10 a,M0 40,oao 40,100 40,440 41,070 B8,40 40.S60 Returned eoplea ..,.... .tas Net total ,1,84,18 Dally average 08iS GEOROE & TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my pretence and sworn to oeiors me mis net day or May, iu U. K WALKKR, . Notary Public Subscriber leas-laa; tka city- tem porarily ahoald aave Tka Do mailed ta them. Aadreae will fca haag-ed aa (( aa reqaeeted. Cuba objects to paying any portion of the Spanish debt. Why not plead the statute of limitations? Those Kansas City grafters may se cure delays In their trial long enough to help out In the eensus. Two hundred and nine graduates from the Omaha High school In the class of 1909. That's going some. That, seven Inches of rafnfall In Cherry county Is what the Board of Trade man would call heavy liquida tion'. The queen of Italy has barred the big hat. That " will mate room in the country for a few more American tourists this summer. India la said to afford a good mar ket for American windmills. They hare already bought one and think they have wind enough to run two. And now they are disputing whether Hudson of Verrastano discovered New York. One thing la certain there la a whole of New York neither of them ever saw. President Taft has fallen off In his golf play and haa been twice beaten of late. If the president Is not care ful he will find himself relegated to the bench; It remains to be aeon whether Mayor Jim's trip to Alliance will have made him more conciliatory or mora pugnacious in dealing With the council on his return home. With free concerts In the parks and at Fort Crook, Omaha music lovers ought to have 'no trouble In find ing suitable Bunday entertainment through the summer. After Nebraska City's church Jani tors become experts In removing the women's headgear they might coma up to Omaha and find suitable and lucrative employment here. Why should there be continuous turmoil and trouble In the Catholic diocese of Lincoln when everything la always peace and harmony in the Catholic diocese of Omaha? The first day for filing for the pri mary' under the law finds seven early bird candidates shying their castors In the ring. The political worm, how ever, will not be ripe for two months. During the year 1908 twenty-four rcllroads went into the hands of re ceivers, but most ot them are already preparing to get out. Pretty good proof ot Improved business conditions. The Louisville Courier-Journal says there will be little chance for real democrats on the committees of the hous ' of representatives. Can Mr Watterson tell us what a real demo crat Is? One democratic senator voted to In crease (he duty on print paper In spite of the Denver . platform pledge the other way. His name goes on Mr. Bryan's black list, if It Is not already there. ' ' C. Q. D-, is tho call that comes vp from tho Kansas wheat fields, where 11.000 men are wanted at once to har vest tho crop and as many more can bo used In another week. It you do not want to work keep out of Kansaa, for otherwise you might bo marooned therf Civilizing Influence of Railroads. The railroad Is only now open- ng up sections or ine worm wmcn, centuries before America wi dis covered, were the Beat of world power, but which had gone Into de cay. China 18 siowiy yielding to steam transportation and is negotlat- Ing a big loan to build a railroad into one of Its roost populous and product- lve sections, which will bring it for the first time into touch with the rest of the world. German capital has built a railroad Into the plains of Mesopotamia, which la working a re- uvenatlon of that neglected section, I while Russia has pushed the Iron rail Into north-central Asia and furnished an outlet for its products. The de- velopment following these enterprises Is not so rapid aa on the western hemisphere because conditions are different. Here the country tapped was virgin and a virile, progressive DODulatlon was waiting admittance. - i While there the country is al- ready settled by ultra conservative people, but for all that the railroad In making a new world out of those old countries. Probably no other development of modern tlmea Is working so power- fully for world peace as the rallro.vt. were met at the outskirts by a recep Its lines everywhere crop fronting, tion committee in automobiles whose creating business which is vital to the prosperity of the nations and lnvol- Ing vast sums of capital In Interna- tional enterprises. Their facilities lndute a commingling of people, ...... , , , , , which dispels provincial mlsunder- standings caused largely by Ignorance of each other, and trade InteMepeni- ence Is making the Indirect cost of war too great to permit v ar to e lightly undertaken. mm ' , I Wnai II Uamonnyi Apropos of the recent report of the Hughes commission, which sustains speculation but condemns gambling, la a recent decision of the Illinois su premo court, which says "that to make a transaction gambling It must appear that neither party intended a delivery of the purchase, but intended to settle differences only." If that la supplemented with the legal maxim that "a man Is presumed to have In- tended to do the thing which he did do" the public will likely acquiesce in the opinion of the court. Such a construction would make it comparatively easy for the mercantile exchanges to enforce an edict against gambling transactions by penalizing the participants. Otherwise any at- tempt to deal with the evil would be rutne, ror no one wouia aamu was gamming or reauy uiq not. miena to deliver or receive the commodity bought or sold. The man who sells wheat that he does not own Is not necessarily gambling, for he may ex pect to purchase and deliver It for less, and thereby make a legitimate profit, Just as a man may lease a building yet to be erected, the future contract being an Insurance of bis Investment. The man who sell's wheat, for example, which he knows does not exist, however, knows he cannot de liver, and a man who buys with a knowledge that he himself owns or has contracted previously for more than the visible supply, knows that the sale Is fictitious and gambling. Shipping Bingi in Great Britain. The United States is not the only ennntrv disturbed hv discriminations and combinations to stifle competition in transportation. During an invest! gation of the causes of trade stagna tion the British Board of Trade dis covered that the railroads and ocean- shipping Interests had formed corabl nations which they allege were stifling a natlnn'a Indiiatrlna. Its members .... , ,,., assert that the community of Interest .Wlnt.lv Pllmlnatd rail competition either In rates or facni. tlea and that rebating has been the rule In the ocean-carrying trade, Unfortunately, the board members state that the remedy is not so easy for Oreat Britain as In the United States. In chartering companies the restrictions there are much greater than with us and the power of Parlia ment unlimited. Yet when charters are once granted they are practically absolute. British prejudice against legislation In the remotest degree In- ..i.. k. ,tk. nrv.. tract Is so Intense that aatl-rebatlng laws would raise a storm even It sug gested. Oreat Britain's troubles do not make our own any the less Irksome, but a survey of the field abroad Is en couraging to those who are Inclined to complain of the slow progress made here In correcting such evils. Every Industrial nation in the world is face to face with more or less similar prob lems and nowhere has so great prog ress been made toward their solution than right here In the United States. A Happy Political Family. "Behold, how sweet It Is tor breth ren to dwell together In peace and unity." The happiest family In all this broad land dwells In Washing ton, where the democratic senators are giving a dally exhibition with Sen ator Bailey in the role of chief har- monlxer Although on tna surface the caterwauling appears to be a war of extermination, it la simply the demo- cratio way or entertaining me specta- tors In tho senate galleries, Senator Bailey did not mean a thing when he accused Senator Hughes of being u trust representa tive. Wheat ex-Congressman Lattb ot Indiana gave out the Interview calling tho attention to lapses from the democratic platform f y Senators gln,piy goes to Europe and falls to re Daniel, Simmons and others, it was tur That la cheaper and better than for the same reason that a small boy heaves a giant llrecracker Into crowd, just to have some fun. Anyone Inclined to think the Bai ley-Hughes Interchange a lilt in earn- est, should remember that Sen ator Bailey, when he la really angry, Is in the habit of devouring people, a la mode, but did not take a single bite out of the Colorado senator. All lovera of burlesque will be truly sorry when congress adjourns, because the democrats have put on the only catchy farce comedy of the season., Trade Excursion by Auto. Omaha trade boosters have been the pioneers In the trade excursion Business and their example haa been followed by a great many commercial organizations In other cities. As our rivals are not adverse to taking up any good thing which they see, so wo ought also to be looking for novelties and Improvements wherever they may be found. Our attention has been called by an Omaha business man to a trade excursion promoted by the Commercial club of the little town of Frankfort, Kan., which toured the country round about for three days In automobiles. The Frankfort Daily Index reproduces a photograph of the excursion as It is starting out, making an automobile exhibit all by itself equal to the average automobile show At each town visited excursionists members constituted themselves Into an escort. Describing the excursion, the Index says This wai the firat automobile excursion ver made by the merchants of a country town, or any town that we know of. Its purpoM wathat tfc- men mgM get out ,nt0 tn, country Bnd vlBlt the farmers, not only those who patronize Frankfort and who patronize the neighbor ,ng town". but iso tho"e who do not P8-- uumxe noma lnimiuuons as mucn as tney should. Their object was to spread ihe enfinel nf Htanrifncr nn fnr vrtni hnm. tnvn1 . rf ......... - to impress upon the farmer the benefits to be derived from country and towns work- Ing together. Incidentally the excursion' i lsts took along with them considerable ad vertlslng to prove to the farmers that they could sell better goods at less money than the mail order houses sell. Added to these objects, of course, was the social feature of the trip; an outing for those who went and a social and pleasant time for all. This was one of the few undertakings that has ever been known where business could be successfully combined with pleasure. It Is also one of the few undertakings where every business firm united upon one propo sition ana wnere an were wen Bausiieu ln the end. Without any disrespect to the rail roads, which have always been ready to provide all necessary facilities, we suggest that Omaha's next trade ex curslon should undertake to spy out the land in autos and follow up the Frankfort Idea upon a ,arge and lm. prelve Bcale Perpetuating National Ideals. , A movement Is on foot in Pennsyl vanla for the transfer of the remains of William Penn from their present resting place in England to the com monwealth which bears his name, The people of Oeorgla are discussing a similar project to bring the remains of George Oglethorpe to the common wealth he founded. The graves of both are neglected In England for the sufficient reason that to Englishmen they recall no historic service. The founders of each of the American col onles were actuated by different ideals and their sum Is the best Amer lean Idealism. William Penn's dom Inant thought was peace and equity, while Oglethorpe was a militant cru sader for religious and personal lib- 6Ti' As the United States grows older and the men and events which made possible the republic recede further Into history there is a growing ten dency to observe anniversaries and perpetuate men and events In lasting visible monuments. They are the guldeposts of achievements which " made tn nat,on what U and wh,cn must be perpetuated If the nation con- tlnues to progress. Few hold closer to the best American thought than Penn and Oglethorpe, and the senti ment which Inspires tho move to bring their remains here and erect over them a fitting meinorlal Is a worthy one, Centuries ago "Behold, what Ood hath wrought" was a charge to his people to keep in mind the Ideal, and the sentiment Is as vital today as then Peace- P religious liberty are curuemiuuee ui Americanism ana monuments to the pioneers who founded colonies in the wilderness dedicated to these principles are sym bols through which they will continue to speak to us. Governor Shallenberger Is soon to make new appointments to the South Omaha Board of Fire and Police Com mlssioners. Just another striking ex ample of the kind of home rule deliv ered by Nebraska's late democratic legislature elected on a home rule platform pledge. The Philadelphia Inquirer says the eastern papers have arrived In the west and brought the news that las Monday was flag day. Every day flag day put west, and If you don't be lieve It look down the line whenever the flag has needed defenders. New York is to have a new theater nn,Bhei ,n the mo8t elaborate style, seating only 400 people, at which tlmn plaTi are t0 be presented. Re- cent dlvorce court proceedings would suggest adaptatlona from the real life of the 400. South American nations have In vented a form ot revolution as blood less as a French duel. When things get too warm for the president he fighting It out The drivers In the Crown Point auto racea escaped Injury In their hair-raising stunt, but the record was made good by accidents to spectators their way to the course. That makes the races regular. Omaha real estate la moving briskly for thia season of the year. It has been a long time since anyone lost money by investing in Omaha prop erty and the odds are big In favor of those Investing now. Members of the New York Mercan tile exchange call the report of the Hughes commission shallow. The ex change was not hit hard enough by the report to warrant its members getting excited. No danger that the firing on a Brit ish merchant ship by a Russian tor pedo boat will bring about a w.r. John Bull Is saying up all his amtbu- ltion at present for a possible big ame hunt. A Surprised Party. Philadelphia Record. Corporations were congratulating them selves that Mr. Roooevelt Is In the heart of Africa, but they are observing sadly this morning that Mr. Taft Is In the White House. Legal Boslneae Ahead. ' Indianapolis News. Besides the $00,000,000 or fJO.OOO.OOO which the proposed corporation tax will bring to the government. It will doubtless also bring long line of profitable work to some of our ablest attorneys. A Sate Prediction. Chicago Tribune. Wa have nc hesitation In predicting that Editor Bryan, if elected United States sen ator from Nebraska, will not begin his senatorial career by advocating govern ment ownership of railways. An Off Tear Winner. St. Paul Dispatch. Mr. Bryan Is confident that he can cap ture the Nebraska senatorial toga now worn by Senator" Burkett. Mr. Bryan never falls of election In off years. Nebraakana Famous Fall. Chicago Post. A Nebraska man fell 3,500 feet the other ay and survived It. A certain other Ne- braskan has fallen even farther not only once, but three times, and appears to be healthier than ever. Getting- Off Eaallr. Philadelphia Press. Heirs ot an Iceman who were awarded $181,358 for Ice supplied to the union army during the civil war will receive $19,848. The rest goes to lawyers for fees and ex penses. The heirs are lucky to escape so easily. They might have wound up In debt to the lawyers. A Party of Conaeqnrnce. Washington Herald. It Is quite the thing to laugh at tht June bridegroom and remind him that he really does not amount to much In the public eye. It Is our observation, never theless, that the June bridegroom Is not one bit more Inconsequential than the January bridegroom. Back to the Fields. Boston . Herald. Is there no answer to this cry of the passing of cheap breads Fields are still fruitful and crops plentiful. Countless thousands of acre are yot to be cleared and made productive. -Will the people al ways tolerate artificial high prices, made by corners of speculatipn or tariff? ' Aa OccaalonAl Advantage. Washington Post. . Avoirdupois sometimes is of account In government official. , A day or two ago an Immigration Inspector boarded a vessel, not expecting to make a find. He was a heavy man, and Incidentally stepped on a weak place In the deck. He broke through, fall ing twenty feet Into the hold. He alighted on top of a dozen Chinamen, who were being smuggled Into' the country, and also found several mail sacks filled with costly silks and tine cigars. Now If that Inspector had been a lightweight he would have missed the find. Invading; the World's Markets. New Tork Tribune. Government statistics show that the United states s!ls mowers and reaper to seventy-five countries, plowa and cul tivators to seventy, watches to seventy five, cloths and twines to seventy, blcyoles to sixty, street railway cars to fifty. candles and baking powder to forty, and so on. How shockingly this "Chinese wall of the protective tariff does exclude Ais from the markets of the world! Why. there must be at least one or maybe even two countries to which we don't sell things; though really we don't know where they are. Some Prlvatlona of the Rich. New Tork Post. In recent generations the world's wealth has been Increasing at an unprecedented rate, but, at the same time, life's pleasures have been falling more and more within the ordinary citizen a reach. Pessimists seo that the rich are getting richer, optimists that the poor are coming to their own; but neither suspect the plight to which the cheapening of commodities and privileges has brought Dives. Truth Is that, although there are more things to do and more sur pluses than ever before, there are fewer means of getting one's money's worth out of a huge fortune. PERSONAL NOTES. Judge Hoyt, in special sessions court, a New York, announces that hereafter deal ers convicted of selling Impure milk will be sent to prison Instead of being fined. Charles E. Magoon, the former governor of Cuba, has left Paris for Bad Nauhelm Before his departure he was presented to President Fallieres by Ambassador White. A man dropped sixty feet from a window and was killed. Another man dropped 3. WO feet In an airship and was only slightly Injured. Ergo: Airships are safer than windows. John Mitchell, labor leader. Is not goln to abandon Spring Valley, III., for a 125, OK) home in New Tork, as certain newspaper reports have stated. Ha writes to the New Tork Sun in denial of the whole story. Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker of Denver and the new formed public service league of women have succeeded with their protests against an ordinance passed by the Denve aldermen to permit the feeding of brewery swill to milch cowa. Nineteen aliens have just been convicted of crimes of violence In a West Virgin! court and may receive aa aggregate of IM years' Imprisonment. This represents con slderable free board for a lot of ruffians, who will fare better In prison than they have been accustomed to outside. Bernard Shaw has hitherto taken all criticisms of himself and his works good naturedly and turned them Into valuabl advertising-, but now there will be big trouble, maybe earthquakes. Jerome K. Jerome Bays that the author of "Man and Superman" may, In time, become the Mis. Humphry Ward of the st Tragedies of Graft Ineldenta Illustrating the Desyera tloa of the Oraftera Xadtotad and Prosecuted la Saa Pranolaoa The remarkable trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Street Hallways of San Kranclsco, which eat ended over five months and a week, Illustrates the des perate character of the fight put up by those accused of participating In the loot- ng of the city. As president Of the most powerful franchlsed corporation In the city, Calhoun must have been familiar with the character of the officials he had to deal with, and his Indictment grew out of the confession of officials who were bribed to rant Concessions to the corporations. Im mediately following the earthquake and fire, the United Street Railways company was granted the Invaluable privilege ot substituting electric trolley power for the more expensive cable power. All the cor porations were tarred and provided the tar from which Ituef, Schmtti and their tools grew rich. Another phase of the fierce battle of decency against dishonesty, and the des perate means employed to stifle publicity, related In McClure'a raagaxlna by Mrs. Fremont Older, wife of the editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, a force In the battle for reform. Mrs. Older tells how her husband was assaulted by ruffians, his employes attacked, himself kidnaped, and an attempt made to dynamite their home. In part she says: 'An election was approaching. Ruef and Schmlts hoped to capture the city for the third time. Now Ruef saw big goals; It should be Governor Schmlts; should be nlted States Senator Ruef. That editor. elplng of his crimes, disturbed the boss' dream. Ruef determined that the Bulletin hould not be sold or distributed; It should not exist. To this end he organized a band of thugs who called themselves newsboys. They pretended to no grievance, and their sole purpose was to destroy the Bulletin. Carriers were assaulted: hev afterward voted for Schmlts. Merchants were struck with stones and bricks for buylna- the paper; they afterward voted for Schmlts. Windows were broken In the Bulletin of fice. Horses were unhitched from the de livery wagons. Men were maimed for life; the police looked the other way. Mr. Older was followed to the very door of the Palace hotel by a howling mob, which threw sticks and stones at him. The deputy snerirrs, who were called in, looked the other way. Schmlts addressed the thugs in a hall. No one could sell or deliver the Bulletin; It was useless to print It. some om women at length ventured to hold the paper up In the streets. They, aione, were able to dispose of a few copies, but even purchasers were assaulted. When the Bulletin organized a body of men of its own, there was dally fighting In the streets; but only In thjs way, after a loss of many thousands of dollars, was the paper allowed to continue In clrcula tlon. "Already the murderers had purchased and hidden dynamite In the cottage near ours rented by them. Thev had antarf our place as was shown, to find the lay of the rooms. For thirty day they had lain n wait for us. At that time, fortunately. Mr. Older had been enigmatically warned by one, for whom he had done a favor. I won t say a thing, exoept don't dine t the beach; don't dine at the beach. can't tell you what I know, but keep away from there.' "This man who save the savlna- word knew well the underground life of tha oltv and he spoke with authority. leu those people you know that I shall um ai me Deacn a usual," was tha edi tor s answer. 'We did, but Mr. Older profited aufflrl ently by the warning to take with us an officer of the law. While we ate. the Dolioe- man m tne automobile kept watoh. His presence aione kept tha Greeks from dyna mklng our dining room." "In Van Ness avenue the editor observed an automobile rilled with evll-lookln m.n The motor car drew up to him; one of it occupants stepped out. The stranger said ne naa a warrant lor Mr. Older arreat on me cnarge of criminal libel in Lo Angeles, Calhoun' attorney bad trumped un a charge; an obliging judge issued the war rant in secret. " T demand bail said Mr. Older. ah rignv replied tne traner: TU taae you to Judge Cook.' "Mr. Older wa seated between two men. one of whom held a pistol against his aide. When Mr. Older realized that the machine was approaching the park, he knew he wa not going to the judge' residence; he was being carried away by force In defiance of the law. The automobile was going at the rate of forty mile an hour when he started to rise. ' "If you make any effort to escape I'll have to shoot you the man with the pistol warned. "When the editor heard these word, and felt the mouth of the weapon against his side, he knew he had been brought away by his captors in the hope that he would make an outcry. Mr. Older could obtain no In formation as to his destination. The motor car followed roundabout roads unfamiliar to the editor, who sat for sixty minute with the pistol thrust against hi rib, and smoked." With the aid of an Injunction the editor was rescued after he had been taken aboard a passenger train and carried as far as Santa Barbara. CALCULATIONS IPIET, Schemes of Politicians, Editors and Financiers Go Wronsj. Minneapolis Journal. Colonel George Harvey, Who edits Har per's Weekly, hss been telling some of the Incidents which preceded the campaign of 1W6, when the Sixtieth congress was elected. Colonel Harvey had met Colonel Bryan In Rurope Just before the latter sailed for home, and had talked with him about the advisability of making a cam palgn for democracy, pure and simple. It was Harvey's Idea that on this Issue the house could be turned democratic, and the way paved for a democratio president In 1901 Mr. Bryan appeared to fall In with his views, and assurance was given by Harvey that the Cleveland democrats would fall In line behind Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan landed In New Tork, went to Madison Square garden and made his railroad ownership speech. The next morning. Mr. Harvey says, the Sixtieth congress was assuredly republican. Why did Mr. Bryan make a radical speech, when a conservative utterance was ex pected of him? The Washington Post say It was because Mr. Bryan though he could not succeed without Mr. Hearst, and the Madison Square speech was to get Mr. Hearst. It did not get hltn. Mr. Hearst had ambitions of his own. The Independ ence league had been formed, and Mr. Hearst actually believed that It would grow Into a national irsvenent that would land him In the praaidency. Both were disappointed, Mr. Uryan in the' defeotloa of Hearat. and Hearst In tha complete failure of the Independence, movement. The moral la that It is difficult for two men or ten men to fathom what 20,000,000 men are going to do. PROPOSED KEW TAX. Chlrago Record-Herald. In connection with the president's mes sage, the little sentence In which he relets to his tsrlft message and "the principles on which the revision should be effected" worth noting. It Is very mildly worded. but shows that nothing that has happened In the last three months ha changed the president's views as to the proper relation between tariff pledges and tariff perform ance. lavadfna; State Preserves. Philadelphia Tress. A federal tax on corporations, which s otherwise unobjectionable. Invades a field ot taxation which the states have regarded as their own. If corporations can bear more taxation, Pennsylvania Just now would be glad to have the additional revenue from this source. Before creating national tax on corporations, congress should consider carefully Its probable ef fect on state revenues and Its effect In restricting state taxation ot corporation. Extent of the Tax. Philadelphia Ledger. It must not be supposed that the propo sition to levy a tax of 1 per cent on the net Income of corporations means that the government Is to collect a I per cent dividend. . The proponed tax Is not 1 per cent upon the capital, but only t per cent upon the sum available for dividends that is, one-fiftieth of each stockholder's share. Although this Is described a an excise" tax, as distinguished from an In come tax, It I not less evidently a tax on all Income that are derived from In vestments In the stock of corporation. Probable F.ffect. New Tork Tribune. It must be remembered that corpora tions, large and small, are already carry ing heavy burdens of state and local taxa tion. It may seem to many that putting a new charge on their resources means only a slight sacrifice to them and their stock holders. Hut It may mean eventually a sacrifice to the public which they serve. To meet new taxation they may be re quired to give poorer service or charge higher rates. Taxing them 1 not raising money from the privileged few. It Is raising It from the people who utilise their Indispensable facilities. Qaestloaa Worth Considering-. If, for example, the oil trust and the sugar trust, and the steel trust, and other big trusts, are compelled to pay a tax on their net Incomes, will they reimburse themselves at the expense of consumer What Is to prevent them raising price and thus making the public pay the taxT Will it be possible for the government to obtain the necessary Information concern ing "the real business transaction and the gains and profit of every corporation in the country." without the creation of costly machinery for thla purpose and the adoption of odious inquisitorial methods? Will corporation reduce the wages of employe to make good to their stockhold ers the amount taken from dividends to pay the tax on the income of corporations? Will a federal tax on corporation Incomes out down the revenues of the several states, thus necissltating an Increase of State taxation on personal and real prop erty? The masses ar entitled to relief from oppressive taxation. Will a corporation tax lighten their burdens if the corpora tion are free to take that tax out of the pocket of the people? All these ques tion suggest themselves In connection with thi proposition. A VOICE FROM THE TOMB. Democrat of the Oldt School Bemoans Party Deajeneracr. Charleston New and Courier (dem.). In hi day, Roger Q. Mill was one of the steadiest lights In the democratic party. He knew something about Its his tory and he believed in U principle and strove valiantly for their success. He was particularly interested In the subject of tariff reform, wa ready In debate and ef fective In presenting his view to the houso. He still takes a lively Interest In the af fair of hi party, although despairing of It under It present leadership. "it i a airriouit matter," he says In a letter to a personal friend in San Antonio, "In these degenerate latter day for a real democrat of. the old school, one who had conviction and belonged to the party for the sake of the principle which it repre sented, to have any Idea at all aa to what democrat Is. The party aa now repre sented at Washington might as well pass out of existence," Mr. Mill concludes, "for It ha survived Its usefulness, and only serve now to make a humiliating spe'e tacle to cause honest democrats to hang their head in shame." We suppose that the people In Washing ton will now proceed without delay to read Mr. Mills out of the party, and the sooner the better. There will be a considerable nucleus for a new start after awhile. If the democratio bouncer continue their work. Thing cannot go on a they are very long without the "party" going to smash. Prob ably Mr. Taft had some such thought in hi mind when he started out to divide the south on political questions; certainly the democratic "leaders" In Washington are playing Into his hands beautifully. WHAT CROPS MEAN. Every Par of Sunshine Aetnally - Worth Million. Philadelphia Press. A railroad president say a tt.OO0.0OO or der for new cars and locomotives hangs upon the else of this year's harvest. He represents only a twenty-fifth of the coun try's railroad mileage. It I fair to assume, therefore, that rail roads are prepared to spend 8100.000,000 for new equipment If the crops are big. Good news from the farms means equally good new for manufacturers of steel and mak ers of cars and builders of locomotives. He doe not alway know It, but the city worker I a vitally concerned In the har vest a la the man In the fields. Pros perity hinges upon the amount of torn, wheat, hay and oats which this garden part ot th world will produce thi year. Every day of sunshine Is now aotually worth millions to the people of this coun try. An Effective Booster. New York Tribune. Th extent to which the government con tributes to the growth of Washington as a city 1 suggest! d In th results of the ce tsu ot federal employes at the capital Juvt completed. There are 48.600 persons on the government's payroll about 8 per cent of the population of the District of Columbia. The employes and their families, It is esti mated, make up 83.8 ot the district's popu lation. American Prlaona for Americana. Baltimore American. Uncle Sam is considering making Europe a present af Its criminal citizens who are burdening our prisons. The patriotic wat ery has gone forth, "American prisons for Americans," which really mean that they will be far lea populous with only th na tive population to draw fro NEBRASKA'S HIGH FLYER. f New Tork Tribune: Aviation Is certainly less ilsnKeioiis than automoblllng. No on ever fell t.m feet out of an automobile without some discomfort. Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Nebraska aeroplsnlst ho lifted his machine 1,600 feet Into the air with a balloon and then cut It loose for his first spin made an error oom mon to youth of trying to begin hi ca reer at the top. Boston Herald: The aeronaut who went up t 600 fret In a balloon and then cut too In an airship to see if It would fly only to discover that something wouldn't work had the courage of his convictions. Still, If he hss a flying machine in which a pas senger can fall almost a mile without com ing to harm, the thing must have some merit. Philadelphia Record: A Nebraska aero- pianist, by vocation a blacksmith, think he has discovered the true principle Of fly ing. He attached his aeroplane te a. bal loon, and, after reaching a height ot i,W0 feet, he cut loose.. Ills machine turned over and over, and It flight was plumb down to earth. Almost miraculously,. the man escaped without breaking a bone H broke nothing but the record, making the flight" of 8.500- feet, or three.fiftha of a mile. In less than 15 seconds, or course, a stone dropped from the same height would fly" faster; but that Is going some. New Tork Post: The aeronautlo exploits of today make the classic tales of aspiring but luckless "sky-pilots" from Thaethon to Darius Green look cheap. The heart of oak and triple brass have evidently not been bred out of the race. It Is perhaps hard to draw the line between the fool- rdv risk of life, and the Intelligent though hazardous attempt to make the scientific conquest of the air. But ona cannot refrain from admiring the Indom itable pluck of the "village blacksmith" of Berwyn, Neb., who dropped reet, was saved as by miracle, and who within nn hour was ordering supplies for a new fly ing machines. The providence wnicn prov erbially "caters for" the sparrow," and looks out for children, drunken men and the United 6tates, seems to nave put me aviator also on the preferred list. PLEASANTLY PUT. "Yes, I'm Just tired to death getting ready to go away, t ve mm " weeks." How long win you v a-"' ' "A week. '"-Cleveland Plain Dealer. vw..anr fof political eoonomy-Whal do you understand by the term "ultimate consumer?" ,..,,Th. .r. Preternaturany ooiirain muumi-.. bage oreamatory, Is Is nat? Oil Trust-Isn't It a sham they art hounding us so. 11 tnaxea me oum -.v.. Indignation. - , . ttir Ice Trust J l certainly i. o . T.,.i tatklne- about sending me to Jail, and I so used to refining In fluence. Baltimore American. rM. flr!" ala-hed her husband' wife. "I can't find a pin anywhere. I wonder where all the pins go to. nyway' . .. ,.ri-k... . Airriniiit nuestlon to answer. replied his wife husband, because they are always pointed in one direotlon and headed another." Chicago Newa. unrva T 1 1 If aa aTnniit a Dlcnle." he said, removing his and walrtwt a tM. ing them carelessly aside '".'t.h.il t a full drees affair. If there' anything I hate worse than a white vest I don t know WBut Just' then 1.347.W3 yellow Jackets that he had disturbed came at him, buzzing horribly. Chlcago,jrnbune, t .unnAaa vou will alway be ready to answer when your country calls you. " 'Yes, answerea senator ouriiiui what's more, if 1 see any owmiub can be or service, i won monv with my country. 4 " epeaa urau Washington Star. GIVE THEM A PLACE TO PLAY. ' Denla A. McCarthy ( in Journal of Educa- Plenty of room for dives and den (glit ter and glare and sin); Plenty of room for prison pens (gainer the criminals In); Plenty of room for Jails and court (willing enough to py). But never a place for the Uds to race no, never a place to play! Plenty of room for shops and storea (Mammon must have the best); Plenty of room for the running sores that rot In the city' breast! Plenty of room for the lure that lead the heart of our youth astray; But never a cent on a playground pent no, never a ptaoe to play! Plenty of room for school and halls, plenty of room for art; Plenty of room for tea and balls, plat form, stage and mart. Proud Is the city she find a place for many a fad today; But she's more than blind If she falls to find a place for the boy to playl Give them a chance for Innocent sport, give them a chance for fun Better a playground plot than a court and a Jail when the harm Is done! Give them a chance if you stint them now, tomorrow you'll have to pay A larger bill for a darker Hi: su give them a place to playl ' . AFTER DOCTORS WILED Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegeta ble Compound Cured tier. Willimantic, Conn; "For Are years I suffered untold agony from female troubles, causing backache, Irregulari ties, dizziness and nertous , prostra tion. It was Impossible fof me to walk upstairs without stopping on the way. I tried three differ ent dot-tors and each-told me some thing different. I received no benefit from any of them, but seemed to suf. fermore. The last i doctor said noth ing would restore mv health. I beoran . . TT . . p I taking lydia . rinkham s vegexaDie) Compound to see what It would do. and I am restored to my natural health." Mrs. Etta Donovan, Box 2U9. Willimantic, Conn, Tbe success of Lydia E. FinkhaoVs Vegetable Compound, nmde Horn roots ana herbs, is unparalleled. It may be used with perfect ctiriiidence by women Who Buffer from displacements. Inflam mation, ulceration, libroid tumors, Ir regularities, periodic pains, backache, bearing-down feeling, llatulency, indl- festion, dizziness, or nervous prostra ion. . - ' . , For thirtyyears Lydia E. rinkham's Vegetable Cumpotiiid lias leen the Standard remedy for female ills, and Buttering women owe it to themselves to at least (rive this medicine a trial Proof is abundant that it has cured thousands of others, aud why should It not cure you 1 . mv i
