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"Awaiting answer from Diaz." Ah,
pensive soul, Porflrlo.
Mary had a little lamb, but some
body else got the wool.
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"Alaska Mob Dumps Cargo of Can
adian Coal into the ea." It left the
mine, though.
When anybody wants to get sarcas
tic with "Uncle Joe," he calls him Jo
seph Gurney Cannon.
Mr. Mines, at least, seems to be a'
less loquacious man than he was be
fore he "put Billy over."
It Is to be hoped the colonel did not
borrow an idea from "Pigs la Pigs"
wfien he named his article "Murder Is
Murder."
Jack Johnson promises to appear at
the coronation in very modest attire.
Has Jack been bluffed out by the anti
hobble skirt ukase
According to James J. Hill, this
country needs a savior. He evidently
thinks It was not originally Included In
tbe scheme of salvation.
If W. D. Haywood wtnli to be con
sldered a good friend of labor, he will
climb down off the stump and stop
making foolish speeches.
Boston babies appear on the streets
labeled, "Please do not kiss me." The
grown-ups in Boston have not found
such measures necessary.
The Christian Science Monitor dis
cusses "Rhubarb as a Specialty." We
would prefer It so, if we must have it
at all. It would never do for a regu
lar. If you could read tbe verse that
fellow sent to Mrs. Belmont you would
not wonder that she bad him arrested.
It will be a warning to other spring
poets. r
Governor Woodrow Wilson declines
to attend the democratic conference
In St. Paul. Probably still has in
mind the conservation congress there
last year.
The Inter-Ocean names the insur
gent aenatora and says, "You will see
them do some queer things if you
watch them." Any queerer than Lor
tmer haa done?
Our winters, an English scientist
tails us, will gradually become warmer
within the next 400 years. By that
'.Ime, then, anthracite coal may be ex
pected to be cheap.
, That climate Texas haa been adver
tising drove 150 soldiers to desert the
American army, taking tbe chance of
court-martial and Imprisonment. It
certainly must be a great climate.
Our precloua ($8,250,000) Water
board announces certain things it is
going to do, "whether or not it gets
tbe plant immediately." Sounds
rather familiar.
Tha second postal savings bank In
Nebraska has been opened at Alliance
under favorable auspices. It will not
be so very Ions before every money
order post office In Nebraska la a sav
iagl bank depository.
Applications are already coming in
for atate aid for bridge building under
tho terma of a newly enacted law
wkereby the coat la to be divided In
certain cases between the county and
the. state. Watch for a boom in tbe
bridge business so long aa the money
last a
Tbe local democratic organ la tryIlUv Influencea which are distinctively
lag' hard to persuade Itself that tbe
democrats will have a sure thing In
the election of Judge that la to take
Vlace next fall In thla district, from
which Sarpy county, the only county
that glvee a steadfast democratic ma
jority, has beea cut off In the new
Judicial apportionment. Guess again.
Growth of the West.
Th lark of prodigious growth in
th group of western states during tu
last dex-ade, as ibown by thtf rtnsut
figures on manufactures, Is exciting
comment and on exchange observes
that white our progress In this Una
has bflen great. It has not beea remark
able. No, that Is true. Yet thirteen
of these states, Nebraska, Kaunas,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyom
ing. Idaho, Missouri, Indiura, Iowa,
Oklahoma. I'tsh, New Mexico and
Arizona, produce one-tenth of the na
tional output of manufactured articles.
Nrt a bad showing, particularly when
rj.isldered In connection with' the
amazing development of thee name
stales In agriculture and horticulture.
Lven In manufacturing, tlio.- have
about come up to par and In the other
! pursuits they have gone jo far ahead
of par that it Is scarcely worth while
e' terlng Into the details of the case.
Tho vital point to be noilcml her
is that most If not all of these states
are pre-eminently farming state. It
Is In this line that these statos must
be judged If their real prepress and
development is to be determined They
sre going ahead so rapidly, especially
tho"e west of tbe Missouri river, in the
great work of empire building that If
would tax the resources of the constis
department to reflect one year any
thing like an accurate Index of the
next year's activities.
It will be time enough to talk of j
Industrial development after most of
these states have attained something
nenrcr normal growth In their natural
lines, but he would be a shcrt-rauged
1'iophet who did not s?4 hi the near
future the building up of gigantic In
dustrial centers In all of theso states.
Their natural resources when properly
exploited will bring that about.
Peace Out of a Bull. Fen.
Most of these proceedings for peace
in Mexico have been clothed in an air
of paradoxical uncertainty. For In
stance, the conference of the contend
ing leaders was held, reports say, in
an arena roped off 200 feet in cir
cumference. The scene is off toward
the hills, toward the wilds, inaccessible
to newspaper correspondents. Why
so? Why not pitch this tent of peace
iHnnrn In tha vnll ., ,,,.
rounded, not by the din and turbulence
of war, but the orderly pursuits of
Industry?
An arena roped off 200 feet around
is just about such a place as they ar
range for holding bull fights. It is to
be hoped there Is no sinister signifi
cance back of this. But somehow there
haa something to modify or neutralize
every aspect of peace that has
been reported to the outside world
and even now, when Madero has ten
dered hla resignation as provisional
governor and laid everything of hope
and aspiration on tbe single proposi
tion that Dlai step down and out, this
suspicious light gleams from yonder
bull pen on the hillside toward the battle-field.
To say the least peace
evolved out of such surroundings
would have the touch of drama to It,
Somebody haa done some clever stag
ing, evidently.
It is little wonder that, as the re
ports state Madero beglna to feel' the
weight of responsibility for the revolu
tion he created and which now com
prises the entire republic. Yet he will
hardly dare accept peace at less than
the price demanded by hia followers,
namely, the early exit of Diss, since
they declare they will support no other
terms of reconciliation. To the out
side world it would seem that Diaz
would have occupied a bigger place If
he had subordinated his personal In
terests sooner without waiting to be
forced. '
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Equality cf Teachers' Pay,
More or less controversy has long
ranged around the subject of equal
pay to teachers, men and women,
where equal work Is done, but if the
question haa ever been, satisfactorily
settled the fact has escaped attention.
Men of distinction as educators admit
their Inability to solve it and so long
as they do, the layman, so to apeak,
need not attempt It. Dr. Elmer B.
Brown, United States commissioner of
education and soon to become chan
cellor of th New York university, re
cently addressed a letter on this sub
ject to the secretary of the commis
sion on teachers' salaries, which Is of
special Interest, not because it offers
solution of the mooted question, but
for the side-light it throws on It. In
tbe letter the doctor says:
There are two aepects of teaching which
muit. In a meaaure, be considered sepa
rately. Teaching la a means of bringing
pupils to a maatery of certain definite
forma of knoaledne and aklll; It la also a
meana of Influencing their eentlmenta. per
sonal habits and views of life.
Bo far aa the first of these forma of
teaching; la coaoerned, there la little need
io int queetmn wneiner men or
women ahould be employed In tho schools.
Indeed, at euch a time aa thla, when op.
port unit lee of profitable employment for
men are unusually abundant. It will gen.
erally be found that for given expendi
ture a better grade of teaching on thla
aide' can ba had by tha employment of
women than by any general employment of
men. It la on the other aide (hat it b
comea neoeaaar? to consider the question
which your eommlaa'on la considering.
No one. I think, aerioualy questions that
tho teaching of tile earlier grades may
safely be left for women exclusively. Prom
the fifth or alxth grade on tha problem la
different. Tor both boya and girls, but
especially for boya. there la need In theae
grammar grades and In tha hlh school of
positive Influence which are distinctively
masculine In character, as well as of poa-
feminine. TTiese two niodea of Influence
muat. I think, be regarded aa Incommen
surable. Their difference Is not quantltatlre
but qualitative.
Dr. Brown declines to say what
bearing this consideration may have
upon equality of pay for men and
women teachers. From hla reason
ing one might conclude that the pay
should be filed without distinction or
comparison as to men and women,
since part of the work requires women
and part men, and tber re not, after
all. doing the same kind of work.
New Star in the Firmament
The slightest turn sometimes
changes completely the aspect of the
political kaleidoscope. This may be
the result of tbe death, of the late
Lieutenant Governor Hopewell, for
the talk Is already started In behalf
of Lieutenant Governor Morehead for
first place on the democratic atate
ticket next year. The fact that he
will occupy the office next below that
'of governor for a year and eight
months, and will probably be acting
governor for some of that time, Is
taken to point him out as the logical
man for the democrats to take up.
This Is certainly an Interesting con
tribution to the early crop of poltlcal
gossip, and democrats with guberna
torial bees In their bonnets will do
well to keep a weather eye on the
new lieutenant governor.
St. Louis and Kansas City.
Kansas City, It appears, has become
an involuntary monitor to its larger
sister-city, St. Louis- St. Louis' news
papers, voicing an evident feeling on
the part of the city's business men,
profess to believe tbe Missouri me
tropolis needs a general quickening of
the industrial pulse and they some of
them are holding up the energy and
enterprise of Kansas City as an object
lesson of what may be accomplished by
a steadfast pulllng-together of forces
along progressive, lines.
Of course no one in St. Louis Is will
ing to admit that Kansas City is in St.
Louis' -clans, nor is it, but when it
comes to a spirit of indomitable ag
gressiveness It probably is In a class
of its own. And St. Louisiana cannot af
ford to depreciate tbe Kansas City
spirit, for if St. Louis is to continue
tbe metropolis of Missouri It will have
to breathe this very kind of spirit into
Us own affairs. It cannot afford hot
to make greater progress than it has
made in the last decade, if it would
always occupy its present position.
It is a great city and there is much
to be said for its sound, conservative
business policies, but It will not do
to over-emphasize the sentiment ex
pressed in "Good old St. Louis." The
Tlmea makes an Interesting observa
tion of what it deems a serious draw
back to St. Louis and that is in a
small-bore attitude of city officials to
ward large Industrial corporations
seeking for greater outlet that would
benefit the city. Doubtless the criti
cism la true, for a similar one might
apply to most American cities. When
ever It becomes possible, If it ever does,
to put men of caliber at the head of
the big business, enterprises repre
sented in city government there will
be lest (round for complaint and
fewer municipal scandals . and blun
ders. Inexcusable Ignorance.
Collier's Weekly, In lta current Is
sue, prints an Item of editorial com
ment on Nebraska progresslveness,
and our democratic World-Herald re
prints It, that exhibits an Ignorance
which Is really Inexcusable. It starts
out by referring to "Congressman
Hitchcock's newspaper," uttterly ob
livious and neglectful of the fact that
It Is no longer "Congressman Hitch
cock," but "Senator Hitchcock," and
that he haa been in tbe aenate now
for more than two months. How the
transfer of Nebraska's brilliant states
man from the house to tbe senate
could have been overlooked by a paper
like Collier's, which la ordinarily
abreast of the times, If not ahead of
them, Is inconceivable almost aa In
conceivable aa the carelessness with
which Senator Hitchcock's newspaper
should reproduce the error without
calling attention to 1 it and cor
recting It.
Eoosevelt'i labor Homily.
Colonel , Roosevelt's labor homily.
with Its special reference to tht Im
pending trial of tbe men accused of
the Loa Angeles dynamiting, will
probably elicit violent and virulent
discpsslon. Labor spokesmen will
assume that it indicates hostility to
organized labor, when, aa a matter of
fact, careful reading justifies no such
Inferences.
Colonel Roosevelt Is only reiter
ating what he haa aaid over and over
again about the punlahment of evil
doers, whether malefactors of great
wealth or merely membera of a law
less mob. He pleads, as he has al
waya pleaded, that strict and absolute
justice be meted out to the Individual
regardless of creed, color, class or
wealth. He says, what everyone be
lieves, that no man should be pun
ished for crime simply because he has
been identified with organized labor,
but neither ahould a man who has
committed a dastardly deed be Ira
mune from prosecution and punish
ment because he is Identified with or
ganixed labor.
The corollary Is also equally true
that organized labor ahould not sit
idly by and let an Innocent man be
railroaded to the penitentiary, or to
tbe gallows, merely because convic
tion would discredit tbe cause of or
ganized labor. The men accused of
the Los Angeles dynamiting, if they
persist in asserting their Innocence
are entitled to the benefit of a fair
trial and to every defense skillful
lawyers can set up for them, nd it is
natural and proper that their friends
among organized labor should provide
this defense, because It is certain that
their enemies among organized capital
will not. -
id nomeopatna in convention as
sembled have registered an objection
because tbe late legislature appropri
ated money for the medical depart
ment of the Stste university, In which
the students are taught by members
of another medical school. If tbe leg
islature had made it a school of
homeopathy and shut out the allo
paths there would bsve been no pro
test from this source. It's hard for
doctors to take their own medicine.
Effective pool hall regulation Is all
In the penalty clause. If violating
tbe rules laid down means simply a
small fine that can be evaded by ap
peal and later nolled by complacent
prosecuting officers, no marked Im
provement may be expected: If har
boring minors, keeping open after
hours and permitting gambling games
meana forfeiting a license and going
out of business, the pool rooms will
be run as they should be.
It is interesting to note with what
speedy promptness applicants for
liquor licenses have come forward In
Lincoln even before the official can
vass of the vote decreeing that the
town shall be wet during tbe ensuing
year. This unseemly haste would In
dicate an expectation that there will
be a great rush to make up for lost
time.
Assurance Is given that the Initia
tive and referendum in Nebraska will
not ba a plaything. We hope not.
But the same assursnre was given in
Oregon, only to be belled by experi
ence. Kffect of Kipnisrt,
Washington Poat.
Tha democratic woolen program
to be shrinking.
Upholding; Precedent.
Philadelphia Record.
The senate of the United States Is af
fording In various ways exhibitions of
"how not to do It."
Seek In a; What Kveryhody Knowa.
Kansas City Star. )
Congrees'f na' comm'tteea are to investi
gate the Steel corporation and the woolen
combine to see If they are trusts. If the
committee pursue their investigations with
diligence the." inlty reveal what all the
world already knowa is true.
rtlatorblngf Baslaess.
New York Wor d.
Business Interests have been complaining
loudly of the etate legislatures and politic
ians disturbing business. But at Columbus
it In the Ohio Manufacturers' asportation
that have be n disturbing tha business of
the politicians and legislators by catching
them practicing bribery.
I tllltr of the Hero Fund.
St. Louis Olobe-Pfmoc.rat.
A very ordinary man can bome a hero
In tha twinkling of an era when appealed
to on the better side xt hia nature In sud
den ways, which find him unprepared for
resistance of old prejudices, and leave him
no time to develop the hesitation of a doubt
of lila comlntf th'-ough with a whole okln
The Carnegie fund, in such dfstrl buttons,
will work a continuing good by breaking
down some old barriers of caste and show
ing tbe common humanity of man and
man's brotherhood under God's father
hood.
Safegraardlnar the Public Domain.
Spring-field Republican.
The western statea which contain large
areas of publlo lands may not regard yes
terday's df c a ons of tho United States su
preme court aa conducive to their Inter
ests, In view of tha court's unqualified re
affirmation of tha doctrine that the public
lands are the property of the United States
government and that tti government may
do as it pleases with Its own property,
even to the extent of establishing large
forest reserves. In tha long run, however,
those same western states will profit from
the court decision as much as other parts
of the country yea. profit far more.
People Talked About
MAC KAY
Here la a man whose lines stretch from
pola to polt on land, carry messages under
the sea and belt tha glob. Mr. Mackay Is
president of the Postal Telegraph com
pany.
Agua Prlet means "black watar," tak
ing tha nam from watar holes In tbe
vicinity. Douglas, Art., Is named for
Prof. Douglas, a New York mineralogist.
Former United States Senator William B.
Mason of Illinois baa unexpectedly blos
somed out aa the author of a aucoeaaful re
ligious book, entitled "John tha Unafraid,"
which waa anonymously publlahed a year
ago.
Mrs. A. A. Frost baa been raising sweet
peaa for profit at Marblehead-by-the-Sea,
Mass., for tha last eighteen years. She em
ploys twelve girls to help her with her
work and has established a number of new
varieties.
After anending alxteen days In a hospital
In Say re. Pa., being operated on for appen
dicitis, Mrs. Newton R. Parka of Wysox
township met her husband coming Into the
Institution with the same ailment as aha
was leaving tha place by tha front door.
Yankel Heller, now U years old, who was
on of tho first men In New Tork City to
buy caatoff clothing and baa accumulated
$250,060 in thirty-five years, haa sailed for
hla native town In Ruasla. which he left
when he waa U years old. and will marry
tha woman whom ba loved aa a girl. They
have corresponded ever since Heller sailed
for America to seek his fortune.
Charlea H. Hyde, city chamberlain of
New York City, who haa been Indicted for
accepting a bribe, had the handling of city
money to the amount of 1000,000.000 a year.
HI method of farming the money among
speculative banks rauaed hla downfall, air.
Hyda came Into the limelight two years
ago as manager of Mayor Uaynor'a cam
paign. He la a Nova Scotlaa by birth,
wears a cherubic countenance, a large front
and a glad hand amlle.
In Other Lands
Ida tights on What la Iraae
trlag Among the Hear an
Cat station ef Bart
Tainted and disputed elections In Great
Britain go to the courta for settlement.
Partisan Investigating committees are
given no ehanc to develop skill In sup
pressing essentials and emphasising non
essentials, or to apply tha whitewash brush
In artistic fashion. Outwardly, at least,
the courts aeam free from partylsm and
get to the truth and declare It. The un
seating of the member of Parliament for
th Kxeter division, on tha ground that
hla majority of five votea were tainted
because his agents spent money unlawfully
la hiring messenger boys to do soma er
rands, affords American critics a text for
laborious edilotiala on the better order
of things politically abroad. Compared with
American Instancea the British system run
away with the halo. But tha luster of th
halo soon tarnishes on cloa Inspection.
Th political system which appears clean
at the baUot box la tainted In all other
directions. A recent book on "The Party
System," written by Hlllalr Relloe, until
recently, a liberal member of Parliament,
In collaboration with Cecil Chesterton,
bluntly charges tha two British parties
with trafficking In titlea and legislation
In return for contributions to the party
treasuries. According to the authors, on
the drink problem the conservatives aup
port th brewers and the liberal party sup
ports th grocers and the mineral water
manufacturers, and In each case an ample
quid pro quo Is paid Into th party funds.
Tha purchase of honors Is too notorious
to be seriously disputed. Men are recom
mended for knighthoods, for baroneteles
and for peerages whotte only poelble claim
to such honors muat have been large pay
ments for party purposes. "Nobody pre
tends that this scandal doea not exist."
comment the Uberal Star of London. "No
body denlaa that the party system Is based
upon It. But th cancer will never be cut
out because it suits all parties to con
ceal It." A Ilk scandal drove Qrevy from
power In France years ago, the party dif
ference being that in Franca Individuals
profited by the saJe of the Legion of Honor,
while In Britain th party treaaury is th
beneficiary.
Four bad seaaona In aucceqslon, .he
elutoh of th money lenders and th gauge
of tha middlemen are the sources of dis
content In th champagne district ot
France. The gross profit upon champagne
u hen the bottles are first filled averages
815 per cent for the producer. From this
muat be deducted the coat of holding the
win for th tour years required to mature.
The win unlabeled yields a good profit
at 119 a dozen bottles. Th label boosts
th price to 115.50 a dozen. "The small
proprietor," writes tha London Mall corre
spondent, "wonders why the hotels and
restaurants In every capital of Europe get
a coupl of dollars for every franc he haa
borrowed. Freight and duty do not explain
th difference. He wants to know why his
wine haa Increased Its value almoin ten
fold sine he parted with It. The agitation
la certain to extend, and already there are
disquieting algna In th Olronde, the Doid
ogn and th Lot-et-Oaronne districts. The
four L&nffuedoe departments have not for
gotten thetar treatment by M. Clemen
ceau a few years ago and are only wait
ing. for, the aignal. Meanwhile the French
chamber Js In discord on the essential
point and the prime minister haa no so
lution to offer."
Thirty odd years ago, when Parnell, Big
gar and Healy had reduced parliamentary
obstruction to a aclence and brought th
House of Commons to a standstill on th
Irish question, William E. Gladstone pro
posed th system of closure which started
th legislative wheels in moUon. Th ap
plication of th muiile bi ought from th
Irish division vehement protests against
profaning "th sacred right to talk." All
in vain. Th muxsl was Applied, and
proved so good an expedient that th suc
ceeding tory administration made It work
overtime. In du time, however, tbe Irish
members had thsir joyoua revenge. It
cam with th bill limiting th power of
th House of Lords. Th torlea did moat
of th talking and undertook to make It
a continuous performance. "Th sacred
right to talk" became a bore to the Irish
membera and they rallied with tbe major
ity In putting the "kangaroo" muscle
on th opposition, screaming with Joy as
th atraps tightened. Th fun derived from
th operation compensated for the knocks
of former years.
Th intensity of religious feeling In the
Holy Land is manifested In riotous demon
strations against the syndlcat of evcava
tors operating in th vicinity of Jerusalem.
Profaning th temple provokes among Mo
hammedans a frensy ss Intense aa Peter
th Hermit's story of th profanation of
th sacred places in th Holy Land, starred
In western Europe nine centuries sgo. The
mosque of Omar, said to have been pro
faned by the excavators, has been nick
named "the Inviolate," because of th rev
erence in which it Is held. It was built in
838 A. D., by th Caliph Omar, second head
of th Mohammedan church. Tbe mosque
waa named for the caliph. The mosque Is
octagonal In shape and Is built of colored
marble and tiles. It contains the "sacred
rock," which formerly waa believed by the
Jaws to have been th place where Abra
ham planned to sacrifice Iaaac. Th Mos
lems say that the rock was th scene of
th prophet Mohammed's ascension, and
that he left the imprint ot his feet upon It.
Th laboiite government of Australia
has encountered a sharp check In its pro
gram of so-called progresalve legislation.
Two vital amendmenta to th oonatltutlon,
detailed In thla column recently, were re
jected at th poll. The purpose ef the
amendment waa to wipe out th bounds of
state power defined by tha high court de
clsion of last year, and to lodge in parlia
ment legislative power to nationalise all
trad and Industry. Large majorities were
reglatered agalnat both amendments. The
outcome la a victory for conaervatlara and
th judlolary and a rebuke to radicalism.
King Alfonso'a hrallh. aa Indicated by
th dispatches, seriously dlattirba th au
thorlUes of Spain. The king haa long suf
fered from what has been described as
nasal trouble. Dr. Moore, a specialist of
Bordeaux, has performed several minor
operations en his majesty, on on occasion,
In 1K0S, removing adenoids, according to
currtnt report. Last month th king again
visited Dr. Moor, and at that Urn, It waa
understood, a polypus was cut out. There
have been occasional rumors of more aerl
oua allmaota. Including tuberculosis of the
throat King Alfonso will be 26 years of
age on th 17th of th present month. He
has always been delicate.
mm
A dillger.t watch on the shores of the
Gulf of Orman for th wretches supplying
rebellious subjects with arms and ammuni
tion revealed to Great Britain a shocking
perveralcn ot British business. Th bulk
of th arms cam from British factories.
"We have been actually loading rifles on
the Thames," says a London newspaper,
"which were to be used ultimately to shoot
down Bnth soldiers, and simultaneously
Ahaolutoiy Puro
The Only Raking Powder Made from Royal
Grape Cream of Tartar.
tafeguafcts the food
against
Chemist tests have shown that a part t the alum from
biscuit made with aa alam baking powder passes Into
the stomach, and that digestion Is retarded thereby.
Read tho labot and maka muro that your baking
powdor Is not mado fnont atum
spending large sums to prevent them from
reaching the final destination." A grim
revelation, truly, reporters plead lifnor-
nce of the destination of the shoot ins
Irons, it was not their duty to Inquire
so lotia: ss they jot the r i ric . Bulne!
la buMlneas.
R18IES MA1VS ,0 KIIN MENT.
Wasteful Kxpendtare Dae io the
"Pork Barrel Disease."
World Work.
If a bilslnesn man were In chsrgp. of the
administration of th national irovernmerit
and were determined to conduct it with Die
most economical efficiency, he would soon
find that one fundamental change would
have to be made; for. wherever he turned
against wasteful expenditure, he would
discover that, nine times out of ton. It
had lta source In the "pork-barrel dis
ease." It la a disease that overtakes prac
tically every senator and representative
after a little experience In Washington. If
not during his election campaign. It Is the
craving for aomethlng for their districts.
Indulgence of thla craving Is pleasant and
brings good results at home. In fact, the
constituents demand thla kind of activity.
Th disease la contagious, and every new
congressman sees his more experienced
colleagues busily at work for "pork." He,
too. Is smitten, swaps favors for favors,
and almost unconsciously joins the scram
ble. One a victim of the "pork-barrel
disease" always a victim. His constituents
demand more and more. The victim owes
favors to colleagues who have given favors
to him. Everybody In congress Is swap
ping something snd even the president of
fers to swap the "pork" of patronage for
votes for his favorite measures. It Is this
all-pervading disease, a growth of more
than a century (and not tho Iniquity of
any one man or of any one congrese)
which paralyzes cur government's activi
ties and makes it th most wasteful gov--ernment
in the world. This is th funda
mental cause of our high cost Of governr
ment. r
BRYAN AtlVK FOR 1013.
SI-bs of the Times Point to Asother
Forlorn Hope.
Boston Herald. '
Bryan rumblings are again heard over
the distant horizon. Persons who con
versed with him on his recent visit to the
national capital report a feeling on his
part that, 'having led several confessedly
forlorn hopes of the democracy, he de
serves the distinct opportunity which 1912
presents. These observers say that If he
gets th slightest encouragement he will
surely figure In next year's convention.
Much may be said for his alleged posi
tion. No democrat could have been elected
In 18M. Th panto of 1S9 had produced a
tremendous reaction against the party In
power, as shown every time the people got
at their ballot boxes, notably In the con
gressional campaign in 18S4. Bryan, in
1898, Improved rather than otherwise the
prospects of his party by affording a new
issue. Although h was overwhelmingly
defeated, he carried several western statea
which bis party had lost in th preceding
congressional battle. Th Spanish war
would hav sufficed to give 1900 to the re-i
publicans. Th battle of 1908 was another
nearly impossible on for th democrats.
Preceding elections had afforded a com
plete Index to the publlo feeling. The re
publicans had carried th country In the
congreaslonai vote in 1906 and they hav
never lost th presidency at th election
following such an off-year victory since
tha organisation of the party. If they
should carry th presidency In 1813, after
having lost th house to the democrats
last November, they would b "doing
something."
Thess are circumstances In which Mr.
Bryan may well ask th party, sine he
has led Its forlorn hopes, ts give him a
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real chance. Casually lewed. It would
xeem essentially ridiculous to accord a
fourth nomination to a man who had so
little claim on the party of the Country,
but his third nomination aH ridiculous,
and so was his second Why may not the
democrats take the view that they are
now strong enough to carry Bryan, adjust
ing their burden to their backs? However,
they may feel about so heroic a task, they
will get every encouragement from the re
publicans, who ate not always without in
fluence on the policies of the opposition. .
The democratic convention next year
will surely be Interesting. The republicans
will go through the formality of nominat
ing Taft, doulnleKH In the face of a great
Insurgent demonstration. The democrats
will have a real choice to make. The task
will be Intensified by the realization that,
as the cards now lie, their chance of win
ning la very large.
LINES TO A SMILE.
"Tou say you enjoy gardening?"
"Immensely.''
"1 never hear of your raising anything."
' So. 1 get all my fun ntH.iding around
and telling my neighbors wnat io do.
Houston 1'ost.
"You appear to bo studying very hard,
my boy," said the kind old mihii,
"Yes, sir," said the child.
"Is it a sprlliMK hook you have, my boy?"
"No, sir; It's the base ball guide." Buf
falo Express.
"When that man was killed, did you
break It gently to his widow?"
"Indeed we did. We told her her husband
was worth o,wu more than ho had been
before on his Insurance policy." Baltimore
American.
"Think-of the betilKhted days when they
had no teh-graph or telephone.
"Ves." replied the travelliiK orator; "and
yet It must have been u romiuil io make a
speech In one town without fueling that
you would have to stand for every word
of it In tha next. "Washington Htar,
'Would you marry a lord if you knew he
was taking you merdely for your father s
money?"
"Certainly not."
"Then 1 suppose you have made up your
mind to be the wife of some American. "'
Judge. Tommy (looking at th gas meter)--"I'aw,
how does this thing toll how much
gas you have to pay for every month?"
Mr. Tucker "Tommy, that Is a (treat,
Inscrutable mystery. It is one of tha
things we have to accept on faith." Chi
cago Tribune.
"How did the girls' sparring match turn
out?"
"It was very brief. SlHbel feinted and
Gertrude fu-lnted." LoulHvllle Courier
Journal. Tompkins Vcntley hus received $1.000.0"O
for hla patent egg dating machine. You
know it la absolutely lnterterence proof,
and dates correctly and indelibly as th
egg Is bins' laid.
lewley la tb machine on the market
yet ?
Tompklna Oh, my, no! and It won't b
on the market. The patent was bought by
the Cold Storage truat. Llf.
WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Those generals In M.-xIco
Are fightin' fit to kill;
The flea-bitten troops press onward '
Tro' fire snd blood, but still
There's a greater battle hack at horns.
Where the housewife with a will .
Wages war on the first blue bottle fly
That sppears on th window sill.
Tha stalwart soldiers of Uncle Bam
Would fain make ruthless raid
Beyond the swell of the Kin U rands
Where the Mexlcana ambuscade;
But at home the reientles.i housewife
leaves death in her path. Th slain
Are advance guards of tha Fly Brigade
That buzzed on the window pan.
Those generals down In Mexico
Will receive most worthy mention,
And If one should step on a csctus plant.
He may come In for a pension.
Hut the greatent iseneral ot all,
To whom no public caters.
Is the vanquisher of tha blue bottle fly
Khe Just keeps on peelln' ' later"
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