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REMITTANCES Remit hv draft, expre or postal order, navable to The R) Publishing l.nmpan. Onlv 2 rent stamp received In payment or mall account Personal check r't on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County. js George B Taschurk. treasurer or I ne Pee Publishing Companr, being duly or , r,i... i.. r,t The Da v. Morning The Pally. e prli as aa : IT... 18... 19.., 80.., 81... 83... 83. ., 84... S3... as... 87... 98... .. 41.980 "... 41,980 ... 41.890 ... 40,000 ... 41,780 ... 41,870 ... 41,880 ... 41,780 ... 44,840 ... 41,890 ... 40,030 ... 41.790 ... 41,790 89. ,30.1, 41,870 Total. .1,947,300 Net Total . 1,838,080 Pally Average 41,889 GEORGE B. TZ8CHITCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my preeenre and aworn to before me thla 1st day of July, 1909. (Seal) M. P WALKER . Notary Public Subscriber leaving the 'r tem porarily ataoald hart . Tbt Be mailed to them. Address will be changed aa often aa requested. Don't swear about the weather the corn likes It Jf you do not. Mother Earth might try a dose of quinine to stop the shakes. Collector Loeb has Installed the pay-as-you-enter system at the port of New York. That Tipton bank should long ago have put tip the gamblers' Sign, "No markers go." Are the Spaniards, really wise In pre ferring to fight each other rather than fight the'Moors? Joe Lelter is reported to have writ ten to Senatoystone to learn the sena tor's prescription. Whoever else may have been short on July wheat it was not the Nebraska and Kansas farmer. The Spanish newspaper which classified the Moorish war as sports made a serious mistake, it Is barely possible that Lincoln will got a union depot before Kansas City. At that, there is no date set for either. If the mother-in-law of Vice Presi dent Sherman has fallen heir to a for tune, we can see the end of the mother-in-law joke in that family. The czar of Russia will probably not visit Spain during his present tour as the king or Spain has hung out the sign, " This is ray busy-day." 4anaanBBnaBnnBBBBnnMnBBnBnaaannnaBnn) With the tariff hill fixed up. the pret-i lent has passed out a few ap pointments Just to let the session wind up with everybody feeling good. His phypklans now declare that E. H. Harrlman'a health la good, On his return he will probably give a demon stration bysdlgestlng another railroad or two. - The republican critics of the party platform put forth at Lincoln might try submitting a draft of a platform which would 'stilt them and see If It would also slt, anyone else. Mr. Bryan says he Is annoyed by unauthorized newspaper stories about his personal movements. Not bad ad vertising, however, when other chan nels of free publicity run dry. 10 Is now thought that the site of Belshazzar's famous feast has been discovered. The material fact about that feast is that it did not sit well on the stomachs of either Belsbazzar or his guests. ... k If a woman superintendent can han dle Chicago's public school system suc cessfully a woman principal should be able to handle a single public school in Omaha successfully. What's more, it's being don right along. Although Madam .Nordics, is mar ried again, soma people still doubt whether it la really fair for singers and actresses to have so many hus bands while so many well meaning women cannot Capture one. Governor 8hallenberger's person ally conducted excursion to the north west will restore .Nebraska to. repub lican rule under Lieutenant Governor Hopewell for two weeks., Governor Bhallenberger evidently has every con fidence that the executive office will be well conducted In bis absence or he would not fl so freio-absent him- 8tV Evening and Sunday month of June. 1W, 1 41,870 41.3M 3 41,880 4 41.180 41.890 99.800 T 41.410 41,840 t 41,830 10 41,880 11 41.830 19 43.040 13 40,300 14 43.870 IS 41,940 13 41,840 Returned Copies.. Tariff Bill Progress. The adoption by the house of rep resentatives of the conference report on the tariff bill, in the opinion of these best posted, settles the fate of the measure. The smaller republican margin In that body, together with the fact that some schedules decidedly dis tasteful to several republican mem bers lh that body will not be In con troversy In the senate, made the real test of the bill come In the lower house. The closeness of the vote Is not surprising. In fact, earlier tests In dicated that it might be even closer. While the senate will hardly dispose of the bill quite as expeditiously as the house there Is ample reason to believe that the debate will not be pro longed. All the Issues Involved have been threshed out during the long de bste preceding the conference and nothing Is now to be gained by de bate, In fact, obstruction Is more likely to add to the final strength of the bill than to detract from It. There Is no other business pending in the senate and no necessity for adjournment at any fixed time which would render purely filibustering tactics of doubt ful efficscy. The bill as it comes back to the senate Is more satisfactory to the so called insurgents than before It went to conference and several of them have announced they will vote for It, which takes from the opponents any lingering hope of defeating It. The end of the week therefore In all prob ability will see the tariff bill In the hands of the president, and he has In dicated unmistakably that he will sign It. Thus In August will end a strug gle which In Its earlier stages was expected to be concluded by the mid dle of June. The Lazy Bag. Gradually scientists are convincing us that what our progenitors thought were bad habits are diseases. This is consoling, for it relieves humanity of much responsibility which it has been assuming all these years. Through these developments we have come to sympathize with people for all their shortcomings except laziness and now the lazy man may find consolation in the hope that his peculiarity is due to the lazy bug. Of all the strange things which in habit the earth the lazy bug must be the most peculiar. He plays no favor ites and attacks all classes alike. The sight of a lawn mower 80 enrages him that he will strangle the best In tentions of his vie tin the minute the machine comes In sight. While he sometimes works overtime on ball players he persistently declines to at tack the fan In the grandstand and bleachers. He will cause the laborer's limbs to drag all forenoon, but speed ily release his victim when the whistle sounds for dinner. He will keep busy all day on a clerk with a desk heaped with correspondence and suddenly knock off when the aforesaid clerk thinks be Is due to take a party of friends out boat riding. His original victim is the Tennessee mountaineer whom he absolutely prohibits from strenuous labor in the fields, but kindly permits to walk five miles for a Jog of pinetop. Cold weather does not affect the bug, for he Is at his best when there Is snow to be shoveled from the sidewalk. Doctors are busying themselves try ing to devise something which will free mankind from the baneful grasp of the lazy bug, but If they can do no better it would help some if they could only put the bng in the reverse motion and change hla hours of ac tivity. Measuring Iron Ore Deposit. A few years ago the alarm, was sounded that the iron ore deposits of the United States were being fast ex hausted, and that it would be but a few years, comparatively ; speaking, before the great iron and steel Indus try of this country would perish for lack of raw material. As a precau tion, the big steel corporations have made a careful survey of the Lake Superior field, which shows that there is now in sight there in known depos its over 95,000,000,000 tons of iron ore containing over 30 per cent of iron, besides Immense deposits in other parts of the country, either untouched or only scratched. The known Ike Superior deposits alone contain sev eral times as much ore as it was for merly believed there waa in the coun try. On the basis of this survey, steel experts express the opinion that the Iron ore bodies of the United States are practically Inexhaustible, and that this country will ultimately dominate the world in this branch of manufac ture. As iron and steel are the foun dation of practically all modern com mercial life, these figures are decidedly reassuring. Repreiiive Measures in Spain. The Spanish government has dis played more energy In suppressing the revolt in Barcelona than It was gen erally credited with possessing and doubtless, for the time being at least, has saved the monarchy. The troops killed many rioters, but this was to be expected, and unless conditions have been distorted, not censurable. It was war and In war human life is the sac rifice. The summary action of courts-martial In condemning and executing such 8 large number with scant hearing, while it may have a wholesome effect In cheeking revolution, smacks of the middle ares. On hundred and twenty men tried, condemned and executed within twenty-four hours precludes the possibility that th accused could have had an opportunity to prov their innocence. Military courts everywhere are more expeditious than ctvil Tri bunals, but tUer is no reason way they should be travesties upon Justice. Doubtless most, and possibly all, the condemned were guilty, but the denial of opportunity to prov their Inno cence Is repugnant to all our Anglo Saxon ideals. If the Spanish government shows as much energy In prosecuting the war against the Moors as it has in re pressing Its own discontented people, there is reason to expect that the mis adventure in Africa will be successfully ended, though it should teach Spain the lesson all others who come In con tact with the wild tribesmen have learned, that tact as well as firmness is needed In dealing with them. President! Western Trip. President Taft has indicated that he expects to leave Washington for his summer home at Beverley, Mass., the end of this week, and with It comes the certainty of his western trip ac cording to schedule. After the strenu ous season of tariff legislation, with its annoying features, a period of com parative rest and quiet for the execu tive is desirable before starting on his projected tour of the west, which will be one of the most extensive ever undertaken by a president. According to present plans. Presi dent Taft will start September 15 and return November 12 and during the Interim travel 15,000 miles and make no less than 300 stops, which means at least 300 addresses, many of which will have to be carefully prepared. Such a trip, while It will be attended by many pleasant features, is calcu lated to tax the physical capacity of even as robust a man as President Taft, but he has demonstrated in the past that he Is equal to it. The west has always liked Mr, Taft and when he comes out Into this coun try he will see that he has even grown In popularity since his entrance to the White House. The tariff bill may not be entirely satisfactory to the west, any more than to any section of the country, but every Intelligent per son recognizes the impossibility of de vising a bill which would satisfy com pletely all the numerous and conflict ing interests. No section, however, appreciates better than the west, that It would not be as satisfactory as it is but for Mr. Taft's firm stand. Be yond the personal reception which the president will receive the most signifi cant feature of the trip will be the proposed meeting between the two presidents of the United States and Mexico. It has been a long cherished plan to bring the executives of the sis ter republics together, but difficul ties have hitherto prevented. While the meeting will be purely social, the friendly interchange Is counted on to go far toward creating a better feel ing between the two countries, which on the Mexican side of the border is not the best at present. Democratic Testimony. The nonpartisan Judiciary law has been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of our state. We do not pretend to be able to discuss the opinion from a legal standpoint, but aa a citizen and voter the decision suits us. We have no use for any nonpartiaan nonsense. Such laws ara de signed for the express purpose of landing a claas of men In office who could get there In no other way. This is from the Howells Journal, which Is, and has always been, one of the staunchest and one of the most uncompromising of the democratic newspapers in Nebraska. When the Howells Journal says It has no use for "nonpartisan nonsense" it is doubtless voicing the sentiment of the rank and file of Its own party, although at vari ance with the purposes of the party bosses, who have an Idea they can fool somebody into voting for democratic candidates by labelling them "nonpar tisan." According to reliable Information the so-called nonpartisan Judiciary act was introduced into the legislature free from the objectionable and uncon stitutional features which worked its undoing, but was loaded down in transit with amendmenta in clear vio lation of the constitutional guaranties of free assemblage, free speech and free elections. It is hinted that these questionable provisions were added with the deliberate Intention of Invali dating the bill, and with the sly de sign of putting the Judges of the su preme court In a hole when called on to pronounce the law unconstitutional and void, as it clearly Is. Instead of being a measure in the interest of non partisanship it waa, from its inception, a strictly partlaan schema "to land," aa the Howells Journal says, "a class of men in office who could get there In no other way." Yet the democrats are appealing to the voters to elect the democratic candidates In order to vin dicate the "nonpartisan nonsense," which is repudiated by this outspoken democratic organ. At any rate, no one is disappointed at the World-Herald'8 denunciation of the tariff bill reported by the confer ence committee. It was a foregone conclusion that th World-Herald would break out in denunciation no matter what sort of a bill should be finally formulated. President Taft has not won a victory. Ha haa capitulated to A Id rich and the trusts World-Herald. We take it that our amiable demo cratic contemporary feels relieved now that it has gotten this off after having kept it standing In type ever since con gress convened. If the demo-pop candidates wanted to pretend that they are nonpartisans, why did they go to th trouble of filing sworn statements, under oath, that they affiliate with both th democratic and people's Independent parties at one and the same time? In n'imber of houses burned the Osaka fire closely, approaches the big Chicago conflagration, when 17,000 buildlags were consumed and in num ber of people made homeless appar ently exceeds It. In view of the flimsy construction of the older portions of oriental cities the wonder Is there are not more such disastrous blazes. A Michigan congressman asked the bouse for five minutes' time to dis cuss a device which he said could transmit 1,000 words a minute an un limited distance. If he turned the machine at congress It would make the stenographers go some. South Omaha's Commercial club has been Incorporated. When Omaha and South Omaha are consolidated our Omaha Commercial club and the South Omaha Commercial club may devise some kind of a holding company to effect a merger. If there were railroad emissaries at Lincoln during the recent state con ventions they must have been attracted there by the democratic gathering and its populist aide show, in which they have been entirely at home during th last few years. Pennsylvania farmers are trying to fool the hens Into laying two eggs a day by putting electric lights into the hen houses. It certainly is an imno- sition to ask the hen to work over time when everyone else is seeking an eight-hour day. William E. Corey, who ought to know, says that the steel trust has had orders. In excess of its capacity booked ever since May In spite of the Increase In output due to the opening of the Gary mills. That is certainly some business. John D. Rockefeller has announced that he will give out no more Inter views. John D. need not worry, for any capable yellow journal reporter can write up a more Interesting Inter- View than the oil king is accustomed to give. A Chicago Young Men's Christian association man traveling in Italy beat off five robbers and captured two of them, which would seem ta Indicate iL.t - m . . mm a man s proression is no measure of how good a fighter he may be. If the fine Imposed in the police court on the reckless, automobilists who collide with other vehicles is not repressing enough, the bill which comes from the repair shop later on should do the business. "Weep No More, My Lady." Sioux City Journal. Dear Nebraska: You ' can't lose me. Yours forever, W. J. B. Preference for Bare FoottnaT. Baltimore American. Notwithstanding the success of the aeronauts there are stllL many .people who prefer to keep their feet on solid ground. An Old Air Discarded. Chicago Trtbthe. Fines the government has begun to en force the order that soldiers who marry In the Philippines and return to this country must bring their wives with them, the bands no longer play "The Girl I Left Be hind Me." Jest Ice Brewer Keeps Man. Washington Herald. Senator Brown characterizes certain re marka of Justice Brewer as "utterlv ridi culous, absurd, and senile." Justice Brewer doea not seem to conalder It at all neces sary to submit an opinion concerning Sen ator Brown. Rlgrht of Mlasonrl Senators. Philadelphia Record. Walters In dining cars should bring food promptly to United States senators, espe cially if they come from Mlzzoorah, sah! And a colored waiter who can't tell a Mis souri senator on sight ought to have his face slapped for his stupidity. Ample Time for Explanations. St. Paul Dispatch. The democratic congressional committee at Washington has decided that the 1910 campaign should be started at once. That will leave about fourteen months for tha democrata to explain why they voted with Aldrlch and Cannon on the tariff sched ules. A SUBSTITUTE FOR FAITH. A Few Remarks on Dr. Eliot's New Religion. Washington Post. For Dr. Charlea W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, the aga of faith has departed. Some weeks ago he published a list of books purporting to Include all that an educated man need have read. The Bible waa not mentioned, although "Imltatlo Chrtntl" waa. Now In an address to students of the Harvard summer sohool of theology, he outlines for them a "new religion," from which creed and dogma, the supernatural, and the divinity of the Founder of Chrla tlanlty In fine, all that makes up the Christian religion is discarded. Inatead, he proposes a speclea of applied aociology. He says: "The new religion will admit no sacra ments, except natural, hallowed customs, and it will deal with natural interpreta tions of such rltea. Ita prleata will strive to Improve aoclal and Industrial conditions. It will not attempt to reconcile people to preaent ilia by the promise of future com pensation. I believe the advent of Just freedom for mankind has been delayed for centuries by auch promises. Prevention will be the watchword of the new religion, and a skillful aurgeon will be one of lta mlnlatera. It cannot supply consolation aa offered by old religlona, but It will reduce the need of consolation." All thla seems to Indicate the charge of Biahop McFaul that the teaching of the colleges subverts belief and destroys wor ahlp. From Dr. Eliot's point of view he la under a certain behoof to point a way, to find a aubstitute for that aspiration of men toward a divine something which the professors are taking away. A ae ries of negatlona from the chaira of science and economy must lead the stu dent to adopt a naturalistic view of life, to make a refined hedonism hla acheme of conduct. Dr. Eliot and other teachers see that thla will not do. and they offer a aubstitute without much more to give It motive force than the cultivated aenae of duty of the educated man to bear service to his neighbor. Ia the body of mankind prepared to throw over the Gospel of 100 years for (lis KOIi'Ol uf EUaJ Nebraska Republicans Sound Keynote Eastern Press Hat Experienced No Trouble to Oraip the Meaning; of the Tariff Plank Reoently Promnlg-ated. Behind the President. N-w York Tribune. The platform adopted by the repub- llcan Hat convention In Nebraska ought to open the eyes of the tariff reactionaries In congress. It takes note of the effort of the senate to nulllfv the substantial downward revision accomplished In the tariff bill which passed the house of rep- reermauvr. r.y a unanimous vote me republican party In Nebraska range ltelf on the side of the house of representatives ana .ne pres.oem sua empnat.ca.ty com- Niniun uir J' i njiri 1 1 iui II in ill lllllf-n j insisting that any tariff law passed at ..... '""" """ rrom- reasons for believing moreover that It Ises of the last republican national plat- re,oi,.ii i. i- . J' JT 1 V. . . . . . ... ,. resolution Is In accord with the public semi form. The endorsement of the president m.n, ,h. . V. ..... a- i. - ment or the middle west. The endorsement attitude Is complete. Nebraska leads the way In expressing what ia undoubtedly the sentiment of the parts of the union ilon. It Is a representative state, close politically, with . middle western a tendency to robust partisanship. Ita declarations reflect the Ideas and feeilags of the people of msny neighboring states. and the unanimity of opinion shown at Lincoln Indicate that the demand for a progressive tariff policy come from ths mass of the voter and Is not merely a creation of the politicians. There Is prob ably no state In the middle west In which nine-tenth of the republicans do not sym pathlze with the program of the president and the house of representatives. There are probaMy not half a dozen states In the union In .hieh w.i nt.r... ...utn special favors, would be strong enough to make serious fight for the senate's program on a dlrec appeal to the rank and file of the party. It Is the great tac- tlcal advantage of the president In the preent tariff negotlatlona that he ha lime on his side and the people behind him. The country will sustain him In holding otit for a redemption of what ha rightly conlders the pledgee of the na- conlorm ' nis construction of the plat tional platform on which he was elected. form P'1- , I' republicans of Iowa, Illinois, ln- Expreaslon of Popular Sentiment. New York World. ' hoM conventions they, too, would Indorse The tarlf plank unanimously adopted by th"' ,mor, ""lr senators Who voted the Nebraska republican In convention as- ("alnal the Aldrlch bill and would sustain embled is, in our opinion, so adequate an Pr,,,ldent Tafl 'n hla course. The re expresalon of popular sentiment that Mr. PUDl'can ?f w"t a"- for a down- Taft can make no mistake in being guided Wrd revlglon of tn """'ft. thereby. ' The average American know little of ths technicalities of tariff schedules. He can not discuss the ratea authoritatively, and even with the full text of the bill he could not determine what the duty would be on each article, or whether that duty was moderate or excessive. He has a very keen understanding, how-, ever, of fraud and false pretenses and broken faith. He ha watched the process by which the Aldrlch tariff was made, am' he realizes that the power of the Rhode Island senator and his followers has been exerted consistently on the side of privi lege and plutocracy. He has seen no evidence of a desire on the part of the senate majority to redeem republican campaign promises or to reduce the cost of living or to champion the side of the people against the special Interests that clamor Incessantly for new opportuni ties to tax the country for their own finan cial profit. If the republican leaders think this Is merely a quarrel over schedules and rates they are sadly mistaken. The Issue lies between political honesty and political dis honesty, and that Is an Issue concerning which the American people, regardless of party, have strong convictions. . The Flrat Thander Clap. Brooklyn Eagle. The first chance to hear from the plain people in the republican party since action dent) to see to It," announces this deliber on the tariff bill began waa given by the a expression of republican conviction, republican state convention In Nebraska, "that the party's platform promise of re That body left no doubt that the repub- 'Islon Is redeemed by the enactment of a llcana of Nebraska want the tariff revised tariff bill acceptable to the people, and we downward. They put their approval of would approve his veto on any bill that President Taft for trying to secure such re- does not conform to his construction of the vision, and of the Nebraska senators for platform pledge, which he has said means voting against the Aldrlch bill. In no un- 'revision downward within the limitations certain language. As there is no reason to of the protective prtnolple.' " suppose that Aie republicans of other mid- Nebraska thus speaks for the republican die western states feel differently on this pajty In the west. Nebraaka speaks first question from those of Nebraska, the en- because she haa the flrat chance. dorsement of the president la worth quoting ,' In full. (Quotation omitted.) A Veto, ,( Necessary. It was the people behind Roosevelt who' Springfield (Mass.) Republican, made him powerful In his battles with Th, Nebr,ska republican convention. It congress. Here is emphatic notice that the ,hould be noted dAclar, ,hat the r,pub. people are behind President Taft in his ef- ,cfn, of Nebra,ka wnl ,ppr0Vs a prMl. fort to secure a lower tariff. Furthermore. 6mU vet o( lne t4rlff , ,f aoejl not there Is notice that the people expect thejconform M(. Taf(.B con,tructlon of president to bring congress to hi. views, Immediately, the attitude io.y ' - J.V " u k V of a president In that direction when he is willing to fight. TVebrnaka'a Measaujre. Chicago Record-Herald President Taft has received a message from the weat which should please him mightily. The republican atate convention of Nebraaka adopted a reaolutlon endorsing the stand he has taken In the matter of tariff revision and declaring that the con- ventlon counts on him to see that the party'a platform promise of revision Is re- deemed by the enactment of a tariff bill acceptable to the people, and that it would THE WORLD'S HARVEST LINE. Garnering! the Boll's Reward for In dnstry. Wall Street Journal. Harvesting operations at this season of the year extend the greater way around the globe on a line which coincides ap proximately with the forty-first degree of north latitude. On a level with New York and northern Pennsylvania, with the lower lake districts and westward across the Mississippi plain to the North Pacific states, there is a line of reapers which day by day moves a little farther north, until the entire winter wheat belt la reaped and the shock stands in the field for the curing which precedes the threshing. Of this kind of grain the United States alone Is expected to furnish this year at least 410,000.000 bushels. But the line of reapera doea not end with the western continent. In Europe It Is high tide In the harvest calendar. In northern France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria-Hungary, east along the Danbue and "the north shores of the Black sea into Bessarabia and the Volga valley ot south ern Russia. Far over into the Caucasus harvest comes a little earlier and down in the Anatolian region of Asia Minor they finished the work of harveaiing fully a month ago. By this time of year probably two-thlrda of the wheat of the world la cut. Within a month more, nearly all of It will be aafely garnered. At thla time It la safe to say that 1 000.000,000 buahela, nut of 3,250,000.000 buahela which conatltutea th world'a crop, are practically out of danger. That la to say, even though our own apring wheat harvest In the northweat la Just reaching tha point at which they are calling for labor to help In harveat, easily the major portion of the world's bread supply la now under cover. The ex pert a don of months ef work and waiting is realized and the reward of the toller win be fax fiiw librJ than usuaJ approve of hi veto of any bill that dues not conform to his construction of the plat- form pledge which, he haa said, mean "revision downward within the limitations of the protective principle." To this la added. "We look to our senator and rsp- resentatlves In congres to sustain the president in thl position, and we commend them for their efforts In support of the party pledge." The convention .hM h.v. been nr.ttv thoroughly Informed aa to th sentiment of ,ne republican, of Nebraska at th presen lima T maa anraaanla h speaking for them. There . re the best of will be approved In many states, and It shwild be given due weight by all the rep- .!, in, iu.im ftlino.7 '. ' ' " " ",u"1 Fr"" M ,,an(1p,t "ai-smen. . Clear atl 1'neqnl voeal. Chicago Tribune. The e.n..kii.. . ... Kr..t. ' . " "lnon 01 ""l!'? 'h ttick ot ,im'' Con" .v . imsiwortny inrormatlon Ss to the sentiment of a large body of west ern republicans as to tariff revlalon. The Nebraaka senator voted against the Aid rich bill becau it was not a downward " , "If '.V'!' b"au(" ,h Pr,' naa promised that kind of revision. It might have been alleged at the time that tn'y mlsreprelented heir republican con- ",l!unt"- Th,t c,nnot '' now. nc ururnni repuoiicans commend ,hir ,,naTor "fr their effort In up- port of tne par,J' P'"-" Th'y "sp- prov"- cor"'n"l. and unqualifiedly in- "or''" hat President Taft I doing In 'he matter of tariff revision. They go so far as to Say that they would approve of hl" vet0 of bm hlch doea not "na otner western states were to '"' Plana maorsed. New Y'ork Commercial. The Nebraska republican platform has a plank approving, commending and un qualifiedly Indorsing the stand taken by President Taft In the matter of tariff re vision, expresses confidence that the sen ators and representatives from Nebraska wln sustain the president in this position nd commends them for their error., in ..upport of the party's pledge and the I resident's policies. "We are counting on ine president. It says further, "to see to It that the party's plstform promise tr revision" is redeemed by the enactment cf a tariff bill acceptable to the people; and we would approve the exercise of h's veto on any bill that does not conform t0 n's construction of the platform pledge, which ha ha said means 'revision down ward within the limitations of the protec tive principle.' " This means, of course, that the bill In Ita present shape Is un satisfactory to the Nebraska republicans and ought to be vetoed-a proceeding, they no aouDt understand, that would leave the In'y '' J"t as It stands today. A Voice from the Corn Belt. St. Louis Times. r . -From Nebraska sound tht-ougn the dec laration of the republican state convention adopted yesterday as the party pi a form the voice of panhesperlan sentiment. "We are counting upon him (the preal "t presidene seamed to stiffen. In deal ... . ... na W.L.I II.C i.i.cirino luiiiiuiiicp, The ; whole middle west would probably support hlm In a veto. No Aldrlch Brand In Thrlr'a. St. Paul IMhpaich. Nebraaka republicans sent word to Wash- " tha hy t want any of the Aldrlch brand of tariff revision and told the president to veto any bill that did not ac- cord with his platform promisee. That ia mighty sound advice and simply calls for what the people of the country are entitled to. It s a straight tip. all right. In the comparatively high prtcea which wheat commanda In every commerlcal center of the world. Whether It be In th rich granary ef our great Interior wheat states, or tn ths heavily set growths of central Europe, or In the small yield ing acres of North Africa, or In the re mote plains of Damascus, where the Amer ican reaper and thresher have begun to Influence the output, th grower of wheat generally la getting from to 40 per rent more thla year for his product than a year sgo. s From now until the snow files the har vest line will move more rapidly north ward. Ita extreme Hmlt will thla year go aomewhat farther north, thanks to the Saskatchewan wheat grower, than ever before. For wheat Is a pioneering crop and lays the foundation for the firmer grasp of man on the problems of develop ing the resources of nature. Higher values have puahed out the domains of wheat growing and the harveat line thla year will be flung out a little farther than In any earlier year ot the world's wheat his tory. I'nlqee Press Association. Brooklyn Eagl. President Taft la trying an experiment which no republican executive before him undertook. He Is not making the news papers a part of hla administration. He la not antagonising or alluring or culti vating or Incensing them. Neither is he Ignoring them. He sends to them the news when it Is news, not when plan or propositions are merely en route te events. He does that Impartially, and then he does not apparently concern him self with how they put It. Peaked Oft the I'errh. Philadelphia. Oraln speculators of Chicago are running before the oncoming eropa. Nothing Ilk the right mixture of sunahlne and rain to smaab fictitious oereei markets, PIRMlin WtllT AXD KAST. torn pari son of 'opportenltl In Sertlen. Poston Transcript. it Is the duty of our teamed men to en courage as well as to Instruct, and that seems to bs the purpose of rrof. Oeorge R Adams, head of the department of sa rlculiitre in the Rhode Island tats col lege. In sn outgiving on the "comparative opportunities for successful farming In Rhode Island and Illinois. The Idea I general that It Is hopeless for New Eng land to compete with th mlddis west with respect to the great staple of ths latter. Pouhtles this Is tnie with regard to wheat because the soli of this section has for long time refused to give satisfactory r turn on that crop; but Prof. Adfm main tain thnt the opposite t true with re !ect to corn. He a we rS misted M the magnitude of the total that h wt furnlhe us. . , Hi anaiyi of th figure.' however. seems plausible, and. though he naturally uses his own state aa a basis of compari son, with slight variations his conclusion might bs applied to the greater part of New England. Illinois now plants to corn 9.000.000 acre, or nearly twice tha area of the whole state of Massachusetts. Rhode Island plants 10,000 gores. A comparison of ths average yield for tn four decdi from 1RST to IStM shows that, per tote, Rhode Island has been behind the bis state by only a small percentage. But in values the little state (s a long way ahead. For instance, "for each- tl per .acre which th Illinois farmer has received In that period the Rhode Island farmer ha received 12.80." Moreover, the average of Illinois Is based on the Inclusion of 1000.000 of addltlonsl acreage of new rich soil. The land, long tilled, la deteriorating, un ices strengthened by commercial fertiliser, and these cost money, while th Rhode Island farms show no loss In productive ness. Probably the advantage that th greal west really has Is In th Superiority of Ita conditions for extensive farming. Th labo problem Is a serious on in th sgrlcut' tural Industry. Both at seed tim and In harveat It gravity I manifest. In prs parlng th soil and cultivating th crop on man ran do by machinery In the west th work that might require ten In thla sec tion because In few places In New England can gang plows and other labor-saving machinery be employed to od advantage. Corn Is still a orop that it pay to rales here, but New England's agricultural fu ture rests rather on Intensive farming, and especially orcharding, when she once s wak ens to the valu of that waiting oppor tunity. PERSONAL NOTES. When a United Ptatea soldier marries a native woman in the Philippines he must bring her along on returning to this country. Th soldier is not entitled to a wife In every port. At s celebration to msrk her seventy ' fifth birthday and the fiftieth birthday of her aon. William P. Montagu, a.Na York manufacturer, Mrs., Anna C. Mon tague danced with her son at Great Bar rington, Mass. The sppearance of Count Wide at Pe king as the special commissioner' of th czar, Instructed to conserve th Russian interests In the far east. Indicates a re vlval In th diplomatic gam that formerly centered In the Chinese capital. . . Senator La Follette could not have ex pected such attention in conservative quarters, but the fact Is that Harper's Weekly honors him with two pages - de scribing how valiantly he has fought the battle of the "ultimate consumer" In the senate. ... A young man iq Nw York left 400 In ctah with another young man. a stranger to him, to keep awhile tor him. H re turned and got his money. Now the metropolis Is pluming Itself on possessing two modern human miracles of trust ani honesty. Roscoe Conkling Bruc. colored, a Har vard graduate and son of the late Blanche K. Bruce (who was once a United State senator from Mississippi and later regis ter of the United States treasury) Is now the assistant superintendent of school of the District of Columbia. LAUGHING GAS. "I don't notice aa many references to the Man in the Iron Mask as I used to." "No; those automobile gogglea have mad. him aeem quite a commonplace person age." Boston Trsnscrlpt. "That saving of the child by the dog, and the mother's delight. Is a very touch ing sight." "Of course: these are all moving pic tures." Baltimore American. "This popular fiction Is all rot In real life the girl's father seldom objects to the man of her choice." "You're wrong there. He often objects, but he's usually too wise to say anything.'1 Kansas City Journal. . . "Mnw nl.lv vmi ti.v. lMin4 tt... thin. Jane," said the mlatreaa admiringly te her maid. Then,' glancing at the glossy lines, she continued In a tone of surprise! "Oh, Dut I see they are all your own." "Yes." replied Jane, "and I'd de all vours Just like that if 1 had tlm.'-Mtbodlst Advocate. The Court You will awear that the oris- oner stole your umbrella? The Plaintiff your honor, I will swear that he stole the umbrella I waa carrying. Cleveland Leader. ita yuu a.wayi express your opinions to your conatltutenta without reserve? ' ao, answered senator ptorghum. I feel compelled to make allowance for crrimii prejuaicea. a man wno expects people to believe all he says must caraful not to say all he Believe." Wash- liiavun our. Hotel Clerk Just sign your nam. pleaae The other gueata would like ta register. farmer Oat CakeDent vou huair ma. young man, I don't aign nothln' that I ain't read carefully. Life. Butcher What can 1 Bend you today. Mra StylesT ... . . Mra. Styles Send ma a leg of mutton. and be sure II la from a black sheep: w v are in mourning, you know. Jewish Led- ger. , AS EVER. ' ; L. S. Waterhouse In New York Bun. , fun wir . We are moving to the country and ur We've finished with the packing and are ready now to go. We've taken the canary and the parrot And we're all of us delighted te be dens with that old flat! We bav loft th city and ths turmoil and the heat. And we re glad to say adieu te both ths) ' building and the street. The van man's gone before us and we're speeding on our way; We ll eat ur humble aupper at the bung- J alow today! LATER. W have been her moat a fortrflght In thla God-forsaken apot! The roods are something awful, and, my eye, but ain't It hot! There'a hardly any water and there len't any gaa; The dooryard'a full of mortar, but there's r.ot a blade of graaa. We haven't any neighbors and w re, broil ing In ths glars. . And the silence is so awful that H'S mors ' than we can bear The parrot a moat unhapprv and se Hhja. wise is the cat. And we're all of ua just Pining for Lba pld, dutUul flaU . , . , Ji