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Evening star., 1902-08-22
From the Territories.


Representatives of the departments of
Indian territory, New Mexico, Oklahoma
and Arizona have located their state head
quarters at the Senate Hotel. Applications
for accommodations have been received by
the committee public comfort as fol-
lows: Col o. II. Rippey Post of Pittsburg,
for 100 men, Hartranft Post of Charlotte,
N. c.. for an indefinite number of men;
U. S. Grant Post of Washington, Ind, for
twenty-five men; Oelrich Dalgren Post of
Elizabeth, N. j., for seventy-five men;
Ward Post of Allenville, N. Y, for fifty
men: Col. c. w. Wheeler, for an indefinite
number of men, enrolled with the Darke
county Ohio, battalion.
Committee meetings have been scheduled
as follows: Committee on marking historic
spots committee on camp fires the 4th
Army Corps and the 9th Army Corps at
headuarters this evening; "The Iron Bri-
gade' at headquarters tomorrow afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock; joint meeting of sur
vivors of the 11th, 18th and 10th Corps sur
vivors at headquarters tomorrow evening.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
SOUTHERN RACE PREJUDICE.

Race prejudice seems to carry the
southern people to the most absurd ex-
tremes. About twelve months ago the
city of Atlanta accepted a generous gift
from Andrew Carnegie for a public H.
brary building. The donation was made
on the condition that the city appro-
pirate five thousand dollars yearly from
public taxes for the support of the IL
brary. The library building was re-
Gently completed and opened. but at the
outset a contention has arisen yer the
drawing of the color line.
1t appears that the library board had
made a rule that no negro should be
admitted to the privileges of the IL
brary. Thereupon a committee of col
ored men headed by Prof. Dubois called
upon the board to ask quite deferentially
whether their people could not enjoy
the privileges Of the library, inasmuch
as the money for its maintenance was
raised by taxation. The board promptly
and peremptorily turned down the re
quest. Whether Mr.. Carnegie will be
willing to interpose on behalf of the
colored people, or whether he can effect
the revocation of the negro exclusion
rule is ~problematic.
In marked contrast with the course OF
the narrow-minded Atlanta library
board is the policy pursued by the pub
lie library of Baltimore. Nineteen years
ago a magnificent public library build.
ing, the gift of Enoch Pratt, was opened
to the public on the express condition
imposed by the donor that It was to bC
free TO all citizens, regardless OF sex
age, race or previous condition. Ap
prehension was entertained at the open
ing by the librarian that some trouble
would arise from the irreconcllable race
distinctions. For some weeks the Ii
brarian remained on guard all OF the
evening in expectancy Of a collision, bui
one evening he saw a white woman
seated by a table quietly reading and
on the other side a negro man reading
as quietly. After such visible proof Of
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS.
Sure Remedy for the Growing EVIL OF
Legislative DeRdIocks.
New York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post.
The truth is that the feeling in favor OF
e%lecting senators by popular vote has been
growing steadily among intelligent and
thoughtful men during the last dozen years,
until a great many who at first opposed
the innovation have come to favor It.
The success Of unit men in securing
election to the senate through legislatures
by wirepulling or corruption, when they
might not have succeeded, II they had been
forced to go before the people, Influences
some-although 1t is a fair enough reply
that UNIT men are occasionally elected gov
ernors by the use OF the same methods.
Others are impressed by the injustice OF a
system which enables a party that is in the
minority on the popular vote to secure the
senatorship through its control Of the leg
l~slature, as has repeatedly happened in
Connecticut; that state having more than
once gone for a democrat for president, and
yet on the same day. under the town sys-
tenn OF representation, elected a legislature
which chose a republican senator.
But the strongest argument for the pro-
posed change is that 1t would always re-
suit In an immediate choice, whereas the
old system often delays for many weeks,
and sometimes prevents 1t altogether, while
pTdCllCdlly WTecklng the session OF the leg
i%slature. Delaware has now no senator,
because neither in 1898 nor in 1900 could
the legislature reach a choice. Three years
ago the legislatures OF Pennsylvania, Utah
and California also ballotted for senator
without result until their terms expired,
and one seat from each of those states was
vacant In the following session of congress.
The legislatures Of Montana and Oregon
used up nearly two months in filling va
c%ancies, a year ago, and the legislature Of
Nebraska almost three months. Five years
ago the Oregon Legislature not only failed
to elect a senator, but the controversy over
the matter prevented the organization OF
the body and action Of any sort. This was
an extreme case of legislative paralysis
from the mixing of state and federal func-
lions in the members, but there is never a
senatorial deadlock that does not harm the
interests Of the commonwealth which its
lawmakers are chosen to guard.
AS the tendency toward deadlocks has
grown steadily Of late years, and as there
seems no prospect that 1t will disappear,
the practical American people are steadily
becoming converted to the idea that the
only way to escape the evil is to remove
the cause by having senators elected at
the polls. Theoretical objections and
threatened evils will not avail to arrest
the present movement toward a change in
the method of choice
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
RHODES As 4 PHILANTHRoPlsT

The publication of the will of Cecil
Rhodes sheds a new light upon his
character which will have a tendency
to modify the general opinion regarding
him and to relieve somewhat the dark
side of his record as an empire builder.
It shows Rhodes to have been a man
Of really generous impulses and with
ideas Of philanthropy that were at
once unique and broad. Even while
actively engaged in extending British
power in South Africa and employing
methods to that end which the better
it appears that he was celebrating on
a plan of philanthropy which is strik-
ingly original, thoroughly Catholic in
spirit and far-reaching in purpose.
The inspiration of this remarkable
plan was the desire to bring into closer
relations the English-speaking people
and to strengthen friendship between
them. He had boundless faith in the
race to which he belonged, believing
firmly in it's ultimate destiny to control
the world. He had no interests in Amer
lea, but he understood this country better
than most Englishmen do and whatever
his opinion of American institutions he
had an admiration for the character, the
energy, the enterprise and the progress
sive spirit of the American people. He
conceived that the most effective way to
bring the influence of these qualities to
bear upon Englishmen would be by as
sociating Americans with them in one
of the great educational institutions of
England, and the provision he made
for doing this is most liberal. Students
from every state and territory in the
United States may obtain scholarships
in the great university of Oxford. In
this respect Cecil Rhodes was more lib
eral to this country than to his own.
Another evidence of his broad spirit is
seen in the provision for German
scholarships.
The fortune left by Rhodes is not so
large as it was generally thought he
possessed. Rarely, however, has wealth
been devoted to a purpose so commend
able, as the greater part of his fortune
will be given to the promotion Of, for
no object could be more worthy than
that of strengthening friendship be-
tween two great nations speaking the
same language.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The state OF New York appropriated
800, 900 for the erection of a monument to
President Mckinley at Buffalo.
BY diligent work and fostering care it is
probable the victims will realize so per
cent on the plunges Of Detroit's financial
plunger.
King Edward looks forward to the coro-
nation as a hard days work. A great many
people will sympathize with the king in
his opposition to work.
A bunch Of Captain Kidd's buried money
is said to have been dug up recently under
Anthony's Nose, near Peekskiil, N. Y. 1t
will go hard with Anthony's Nose IL the
report is credited.
1t is hardly necessary to explain that
the beer strike in Cincinnati is not a strike
of beer drinkers. While the sparkling
Rhine murmurs through the town there
will be no drouth or thirst unslaked in
the famous gap in the hills.
A feature of the Patrick murder case in
New York City generally commented on is
that there was not a woman connected with
It from start to finish. It is clear, there
fore, that the sons OF Adam can work up
trouble without calling in their sisters.
Claims for damages aggregating $780,
900 have been piled up in the courts
against the New York Central railroad on
account Of deaths and injuries caused by
the Park avenue tunnel collision. It's an
i'll wind that does not blow the lawyers
some good.
1t is reported that the appropriation for
lighting the torch of Dame Liberty in New
York harbor was knocked out by Congress-
man Joe Cannon. Joe has reached the
sere and sedate age which insists on ell
derby danes pulling down the blinds when
the shadows lengthen.
Ideals" For Practical People," is the
title and subtitle of an ambitious monthly
publication launched at Albion, Neb.. by a
company headed by willard f. Bailey. In
form 1t is the size of the New York Ledger.
is generously illustrated, we'll printed, and
the contents of the initial number include
historical "reminiscences, stories, musical
compositions and other matter suited to the
home circle. The first number is In every
respect a creditable production.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.


Brooklyn Eagle: An Illinois minister has
had to resign because he is so homely that
the women won't go to his church. Which
proves that Illinois has got past the age
where 1t takes its gospel as a penance
Baltimore American: A western minister
says that the serpent which tempted Eve
was a man in disguise. Statistics Of the
population at that time place Adam under
considerable suspicion II this assertion be
correct.
wishes to have a brass band in his church
because he believes in the "Christianizing
influence of good music" He has scripture
for the cymbals, but how about the from
bone and snare drum?
Brooklyn Eagle: Some good church folks
are having cold shivers because Mormon
ism is growing. Let it grow. 1t is as good
a religion as most, and the polygamy branch
of it is not iourishing In these days. For
reasons inherent in feminine human nature
it never can flourish, and the Mormons are
not trying to make it flourish.
Chicago Tribune: Mr.. Mangasarian
doesn't ask much. He only wants the
churches to abolish baptism, communion
services, public prayer, congregational sing
ing, the Sunday school and the evening SER
vice. This permits them to retain the
preacher, the pipe organ and the contribu-
ton box, and everybody, we hope, is prop
erly grateful.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.

He works best who worries least.
A hard heart is apt to be brittle.
Faith alone lifts the fog Of the future
Brightest hopes dawn on darkest days.
Endeavor counts for more than essays.
1t does not make heaven a fact to call
earth a fiction.
Straight running makes better speed than
the swiftest c~ircling.
No amount OF pruning ever made peaches
grow on fence posts.
The more we look up the less we need
to look out for ourselves.
When grain ripens by moonlight the soul
will be saved by culture.
The greater a mans treasure the less he
will complain Of his taxes.
Pride and ignorance are the babes that
help one another to get lost.
You cannot sop up the sins Of the week
with a solemn face on Sunday.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

the possibilities Of maintaining order
between black and white, bent on self
education, the librarian concluded that
he could safely go home and leave the
room to the attendants.
But times appear to have changed for
the worse rather than for the better.
Race hatreds and prejudices are more
intense in the south today than ever
before and public educators and literary
men as well as politicians have famed
it on by magnifying the faults of one
race and exaggerating the virtues Of
the other. The natural sequence of ap-
peals to the over-strung pride is mani
Testing itself in these examples of in
tolerance.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
POSSIBLY YOU KNOW HIM.

Elliott Flower, in Brooklyn Eagle.
Quaint and careless Didn't Mean-to is the
best intentioned lad
Who has ever worried parents or has ever
made them glad
Or sad.
Though his name, of course, is foreign,
why he may be foreign, too,
Yet the startling things l tell of him, IS
may be known to you,
Are true.
He is always in some trouble, but he never
is TO blame;
If his mother tries TO scold him, why he
loudly will proclaim
His name.
He may hurt his little sister, he may ruin
all his clothes
But he just recites his name again and for
excuse he knows
1t goes.
I believe he lives in Nowhere Land, al
though his names Chinese,
For no other would of trouble never give
his friends surcease-
Or peace.
But perchance I may be wrong, in this Ito
err we are prone),
So just study him and tell me II the kind
of lad I've shown
Is known.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
THE QUESTION OF COMPETITION.

Addresses were delivered during the
| past week by two members of the In
~terstate Commerce commission in which
the highly important question Of COM
petition was considered. Commissioner
Prouty, who discussed the cause of the
| steady advance in freight rates, declared
that We are face to face with railroad
monopoly. He denied the contention
that railway competition does not reduce
rates and that no danger is to be appre-
hended from the removal of such COM
petition. He affirmed, on h contrary,
that no important reduction of general
import has been made in the published
rate during the last decade which was
not mainly due to railway competition.
In regard to the proposition that rail
way competition should be maintained
by law and combinations prohibited by
statute, Mr.. Prouty asserted that such
a remedy never can be made an effective
one. He said: when there is some
competent tribunal, clothed with the
power to inquire whether a railway rate
is just and to make it just If found I'M
Just, the danger of combination largely
ceases. You and l might prefer compe-
tition, but If, in the very nature of the
case, competition cannot be had, we
must take the only remedy available"
Commissioner Knapp, discussing
equality Of opportunity in the use of
transportation facilities, said that the
potent agencies by which distribution is
now so rapidly and so cheaply effected,
which so combine and intensity the
forces of production, are fast altering
the conditions and changing the charac-
ter of industrial development. He de-
clared that the end is not yet, that the
time is fast approaching when corpora
lions will absorb all important under
| takings. when these agencies of COM
merce are increased in number and ca
pacity, as they will be; when speed is
doubled, as it will be, and ~quadrupled,
as it may be; when the whole United
States shall have reached the density of
population now existing in Great
Britain, how can industrial competition
possibly survivor 1t may be thought
that this is a far look into the future
and therefore need not cause any pres
ent anxiety, but the fact that there Is
a very powerful movement in the direc-
ton indicated by these intelligent and
| careful observers may we'll arrest the
public attention and induce serious con-
| sideration of the new order of things.
There are able political economists
who insist thai competition will survive,
hat the efforts which are making for
its suppression cannot be wholly sue
cessful. They contend that present con-
ditiOns are to a very large extent viola
tive of natural economic laws and there
fore cannot be long maintained. 1t is,
in their view, an unnatural development
instead OF being a legitimate and orderly
evolution. This view may be sound, but
however ably and earnestly urged the
magnates OF transportation, the great
captains OF industry and the kings OF
finance refuse to take any notice Of it.
The problem presented is a difficult and
perplexing one, puzzling the wisest but
one thing seems clear. If the suppress
sion of competition cannot be prevented,
IL it is indeed inevitable that all impor-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
REFORMfNG NuW YORK. CITY

The efforts of the present admins
tration to reform Greater New York
have been marked by some interesting
incidents, but the most remarkable cir
cumstances and one altogether unique
in municipal experience is the re-
volt of policemen against the sys-
TEN of protection to saloon keepers and
others which prevailed under the Tam
many regime. Police captains in por-
tons of the city have e~ndeavored to
maintain this system, particularly in
regard to the excise law, which requires
the closing of the saloons on Sunday.
The practice has peer for the patrol
men, under the instructions of their Of
ficers, to pay no attention to violations
Of the law and to report that it was
being complied with. For this protec-
ton the saloons of course paid lib
orally.
Last week the patrolmen refused to
obey the instructions of their officers in
some of the districts and the revolt has
since spread, so that it is probable the
law will be fully observed today and
perhaps thenceforward during the Low
administration. The patrolmen who
have taken this course are fully sus-
tanned by the administration In a pub
lished statement a few days ago Mayor
Low said that the situation is the di-
rect outcome of the perfect understand
ing and complete cooperation between
the mayor, the police commissioner and
the district attorney. He declared that
no patrolman nor any police officer will
ever be allowed to suffer by the admin.
istration for doing his duty, that is, for
enforcing the law, regardless of instruc-
tons to the contrary by his superiors.
1.-THE administration said the mayor,
'is determined to secure, If it can, a
police force that cannot be detected one
hairs breadth, either by bribery or
political influence, from the ever en-
forcement of all laws" The district
attorney is preparing to prosecute sew
eral captains and other police officials
charged with corruption in connection
with the protection system.
Meanwhile the saloon men are talking
retaliation by proposing that every store
and place of business open contrary to
law shall be hut up. 1t is understood
that an attempt will be made today to
accomplish this. The Low administra-
ton seems to be doing fairly well in
carrying out its proposed reforms, but
it is finding the task decidedly difficult
and is making a record for some extra
ordinary tactics and expedients.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

tant enterprises and undertakings are to
be in the hands Of corporations, then the
strong hand Of the government must
control and regulate the corporations
for the protection Of the people. This
must be done If the corporations are not
to be permitted to control the govern
ment and the sooner there is legislation
for this purpose the better. II the lin.
itations imposed by the federal constitu.
ton are found to be too narrow that in.
strument should be so amended as to
give congress the amplest authority to
provide for the control and regulation
of corporations by the government.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
Thievery Under Another Name.
Chicago Chronicle

OIIOdBU NITUTICTe.
Areturn to a common butter dish, to the
rejected castor, with the salt, pepper, mus
tard and other supplies. is predicted as a
necessity enforced upon restaurants and
hotel keepers by the souvenir fenGs who
carry off the individual" buffers, salts,
etc. II there be no remedy found for this
vulgar mania society may be driven to the
old style OF having all the food in a single
dish IN the middle Of the table, everybody
grabbing for himself. The souvenir mania
affects chiefly the pretentious, the well-to-
do and the professedly honest. A few doses
Of quick policemen with snapshot cam
eras might prove a cure.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

Former Secretary OF Agriculture ].
Sterling Morton ventures to contribute
to the collection of political epitaphs for
Senator Jones Of Arkansas that las a
circulatOr of garden seed at the e
pense of the general government Mr..
Jones has been one Of the most efficient
statesmen Of the day and generation in
which he lives" Having presided four
years over the government seed distri-
button bureau, Mr.. Morton ought to
know, but in giving u these garden
sass boquets he ought not to forget "our
Dave"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

Prince Henry's royal entertainment in
America has made the mouths of all
princelings and dukelings water, and il
Is but natural that many of them are
preparing TO invade America in expecta-
tion Of having a royal good time with
our b~illionaires, millionaires and other
untitled nobility. Nobody will. there
fore, be surprised at the nnouncemen
hat the prince of Wales is contemplate
lng a junket through the United States
v and with the personal sanction Of his
lyal pOmposity, King Edward VII
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

The recent democratic primaries In
Arkansas are being generally COM
mented on as an object lesson in the
choice Of United States senators by di-
rect vote. While these primaries could
not give a certificate of election, they
are substantially equivalent to it be-
cause the democrats are in unmolested
control and every member of the legis-
lature recognizes the popular mandate
as binding. But would 1t not be better
to have the senators chosen regularly at
the polls with ballots cast by all eligible
voters rather than at a party primary
participated in only by members of the
dominant political majority? Even II
the Arkansas system should be adopted
by all political parties in every state in
the union, granting its superiority over
the prevalent system Of legislative log
rolling, it would not satisfy the con-
stantly growing demand for direct pop
ular election of senators by virtue of a
constitutional right rather than by the
precarious favor of party organization
managers.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

Under the bond purchase policy of
Secretary Gage the bonded debt of the
United States was reduced by SCI, OOO,-
900 in less than twelve months. 1t is
safe to say that no other country in the
world has reduced its debt in anything
Xix the same proportion in the same
length of time. Neither has the United
States been in the debt-reducing bust,
ness except when republicans were at
the helm.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

The annual conference of Latter Day
Saints, now holding session in the Salt
Lake tabernacle, has proclaimed to all
mankind that the Mormons Garry to the
world the olive branch of peace, but
no reference was made to the palm
branches Of polygamy that crop out here
and there in the valleys OF Jehosaphat,
GIlead and Of the river Jordan and on
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
the borders Of the salty lake that lies
in the shadow Of the tabernacle.

And now It transpires that Marconi
borrowed his invention of wireless
telegraphy from Prof. Lodge Of Bir-
mingham university, who more than
eight years ago expounded the princi-
Piles, that have been patented by Mar
conf, in lectures in London and oxford.
In the meantime Prof. Slaby of Berlin
also claims to be the original inventor,
and the battle over aerial transmission
has only just begun.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

At the annual banquet of the Amer
Hcan Philosophical society Prof. Perclval
w. Lowell of Flag Stan, Ariz., discussed
the evolution of Martian topography. If
the topography on the planet Mars has
any resemblance to the topography of
ARIZONA no disemboweled spirit will
want to be t~ransplanted from the earth
20 Marian fields OF bliss.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

The British War office has definitely
ordered the construction of an airship
to carry from five to seven soldiers. I'm
less General Kitchener changes his mil
itary tactics it will take II good many
airships to pick of the Boer sharp
shooters that are declmating the British
army in South Africa.