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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

If a man will only keep on making
love to a woman after he has married
her they can keep on fooling them.
selves indefinitely.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

Thomas Cooksey Ward, "The Sage
of Maryland" is dead at the age of
Ill. 1t takes a sage to reach that age.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

Literary people should live as near
as possible to nature without getting
too far away from the publishers
Puck.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

merely bluffing. Neither has begun
to invest in Missouri mules.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

The new college of journalism is
primarily intended, however, to pro.
duce newspaper men.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

II sleep like a babe" says Corbett
What poetic language these hard-fist
ed fighters use!
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

Jamaica should be a good market
for cyclone cellars during the next few
months.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

against the existing order of things
is deep and lasting.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11
RAISES JONES' FIGURES
e. Frank Towards Estimate of Wheat Crop for the
Three States Places Yield at lSO, $50, 600
Bushels.

area estimated gives an aggregate yield
of about $50, zoe, 900 bushels, and if aD-
piled to the area reported by the de-
partment Of agriculture would repre-
sent an aggregate yield of about 49,
600, 600 bushels. According to the cen
sus of 1900, the aggregate yield was
1877, 600, 900 bushels, and the average
yield 1914 bushels.
Flour Mill Needs.
"The wants of interior -four mills
of the three states during the year will
probably reach 10000, 900 bushels, and
the quantity required for seeding about
10000, 900 bushels.
The aggregate yield reported by
the department of agriculture in 1902
was 1876, 597 900 bushels.
"The great majority Of the reports
state that the quality Of the new crop
is quite good, especially where the
yields were fairly large. Recent rains
may do some damage and lower the
quality, but the quantity will remain
the same.
The following table exhibits the de-
tailed reports of the estimates of yield
in the counties in the different states:
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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

Sultan Cosoon should nave his naru>
changed to Toosoon.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

Geronimo probably has confessed
that he was an old chief of sinners.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-11

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Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

majority Of the men who are engaged
in our great Industrial enterprises and
in view Of the fact that the tariff is to
be a prominent issue in the presidential
campaign next year the position regard
ing 1t Of so important a body as the
National Association OF Manufacturers
is interesting and cannot fail to exert
a more or less potent influence upon
the public mind. These men believe
that to undertake general tariff revision
under existing conditions would
seriously disturb business and thus
necessarily impair prosperity, and there
cannot be a reasonable doubt that such
would be the effect. The democratic
party will urge tariff revision. The
republican party will undoubtedly en-
dorse the position of President Roose-
welt on the question and there is every
reason to expect that this will be APP
proved by the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
The Minimum wage.
Boston Herald.


Indiana has a minimum wage law enacted
in 1901. 1t provides that no one employed
on work done by Or for counties. cities or
towns shall be paid less than 20 cents an
hour. The act was passed at the demand OF
organized labor, and the purpose, Of course,
was to establish a standard minimum rate
OF living wages. While 1t was not believed
that the state could enact any law making
a minimum wage in private business, II
was imagined that municipal corporations
could be required to pay a minimum wage
or more for work done which would become
a common standard. The Supreme Court
of the state has pronounced the law I'M
constitutional, as being a proper inter-
ference with the liberty of contract. II
the legislature has the right to prescribe
and enforce a minimum rate of wages, 1t
also has power to prescribe a maximum
rate, and need not conine itself to wages,
but proceed to fix the prices Of corn and
potatoes. The court concludes that coun-
ties, cities and towns stand upon the same
footing as private or quasi-public cor
porations, and cannot be compelled to pay
more than its market value for any prop
erty or labor.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
ERsoN NOTES.


Tho king OF Denmark. who Is IS years
old, Is one OF ten children. of whom three
survive. The average age of the ten is
nearly II.
DR.. Thomas Jaeger, professor OF geology
at Harvard, who recently Investigated tho
eruption OF Mount Pelee. was married on the
1lth to Miss Helen Kline. Of San Francisco.
State Representative Blumie OF Cameron,
Pa, who won brief fame by introducing a
bill in the Pennsylvania legislature to
encourage large families. has been unseated
in a legislative contest.
Emile wadteufel, the waltz writer, though
an old man, still composes a large amount
Of dance music. over 800 waltzes. polkas,
mazurkas and other dances have been writ
ten and published by NJ. waldteufel.
1t is announced as probable that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will be made head OF Har-
ward University at the close Of his service
in washington. There ought to be a mad
rush to get on the Crimson football team
Of 1909,
David Bennett Hill used to be a con-
nrmed baseball ''rooter" when he was in the
United States senate. Senator Spooner OF
wisconsin is similarly afiicted-or gifted
He and Mrs. spooner attended a game in
washington recently and when the home
nine won in the tenth inning the Wisconsin
statesman discarded all senatorial dignity
and yelled with the best OF them.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
HE BIDED HIS TIME.
Newark IN. j., News.

Newark IN. ~ News.
There lived. one time. a shiftless chap, who
wasn't satisfied;
To settle down and plug along he never
He felt the Are of greatness burn within
bis eager breast
And knew himself cut out for deeds the
His spirit fairly fumed and frothed at cruel
Fate's restraint;
OF favorless environment he ever made
complaint.
the world ahre;
It's not for me unknown to be when 1 do
30 aspire.
Each day our hero might have found some
labor to pursue,
On every side stood waiting work for will
ing hands to do;
crying need OF men
To NOW the lawns for instance, and to
beat the rugs-but then
ward worth
Could hardly care to tackle toll so tainted
OF the earth,
And 80, to pass the time away unul MS
He boarded with his mother when he wasn't
drinking rum.
That this vain, shiftless person met a mean
and sorry end.
The facts are these: he waited Till the
time. for us so sad,
When wagons run with gasoline became the
reigning fad.
A sudden, wild demand arose for drivers,
And shifty got a handsome Job at nifty
bones a week.
The people stare where'er he goes; he's
And every day he sets the world, or part
OF It, afre.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WoRKMEN.

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH HORKMEN.
American workmen should feel an in
terest in the conclusions Of the English
workmen who came to this country to
study labor conditions. While there is
something peculiarly British in the
views expressed, particularly in the dis
position to c~ritlcise things which have
little or no relation to the labor ques-
ton, still there is a spirit Of ~frankness
in the report that is to be commended
and on the whole they are rather ia
vorable to American workmen. It was
hardly to be expected that the repre-
sentatives of British labor would con-
cede any superiority to our workmen
in efficiency and skill, or confess that
the British workman has anything to
learn from the American, yet the fact
remains that there is, on the whole, a
superiority which is being constantly
shown in the competition of the prod
ucts of the industries of the two coun-
tries. The complacent claim is made
that the workmen who have built up
American industries are largely British
ers and that most Of the inventions in
American workshops come from men
hailing from the ole" country-which
simply discloses a proverbial quality of
British character.
An important concession is made how
ever, in the statement that the Amer
lean workman has a far better educa-
tion, is better paid, indeed, fed and
clothed, and moreover is much more
sober. 1t is also remarked that the
Americans employer and employed,
realize more fully han the Britlshers
that brains, and not Drawn, count.
These statements are rather inconslst-
ent with the declaration that British
workmen have nothing to learn from
Americans. The fact is that these for
eign labor representatives did find no
little instruction here, but whether they
will profit by it is another question.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

MANUFACTURERS AND THE TARIFF
The representative convention of the
manufacturers Of the country, held in
New Orleans last week, went on record
as being ~unfavorable to a revision of
the tariff. A resolution was introduced
urging the national administration,
through the Department of Commerce
and Labor, to prepare for general tariff
revision and it received some support,
but the large majority of the members
of the convention expressed opposition
to any such action. IT was also made
evident hat the manufacturers who are
members of the association are for the
most part not friendly to a reciprocity
policy, the president of the association
saying as to this that "our market of
S0,O00.OO0 people Of high Individual con-
Stunning power is in every reciprocity
proposal thrown into the scale against
the market of some country OF far less
population and far less consuming ca
pacity per individual"
1t thus appears that the manufacture
ers Of the country are generally in ac-
cord with the position of the national
administration on the question of tariff
revision. In one of his late speeches
President Roosevelt said that we must
as a people approach a matter of such
prime economic Importance as the tariff
from the standpoint OF our business
needs. I'VE cannot afford to become
fossilized or to fail to recognize the
fact that as the needs of the country
change it may be necessary to meet
these new needs by changing certain
features of our tariff laws. Still less
can W. afford to fail TO recognize the
further fact that these changes must
not be made until the need for them
~outweighs the disadvantages which
sary to make them they should be made
with full recognition Of the need OF
stability in our economic system and of
keeping unchanged the principle Of that
system which has now become a set
tied policy in our national life" A like
view was expressed by Secretary Root
In his speech before the Home Market
club of Boston. when he said that a
revision Of the tarinf is a great and diff
cult task, not to be undertaken except
for grave and serious reasons. and that
the principle Of protection should be
maintained.
This is the attitude Of a very largr
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
NrRern DrcRrs NopirIEn

In its decree against the Northern Sc
curities company the court enjoined the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
companies, respectively, their officers, d.
rectors and agents. from paying any
dividends to the Securities company on
account of the stock Of those railway
companies. This part Of the decree has
been suspended, so that dividends to
the amount Of several million dollars
will be paid to the Securities company.
In his instructions to the United States
district attorney at st. Paul to oppose
the application of the Securities com
pany for a modification of the decree,
Attorney General Knox said: "The de-
cree finds defendants guilty of violating
the declared public policy Of the nation.
The modification proposed would in eff
feet be an indulgence to continue to
violate n law of the United States. The
principal relief granted by this decree
is the injunction. To suspend 1t would
produce the same effect as a certificate
Of division in the circuit court and de-
prive the decree of its force and mean
ing"
The argument Of the district attorney
was an amplihcation Of this view and
will impress most people as sound. AS
he said, while a loss of dividends by the
stockholders would be unfortunate for
them, yet as the corporation was vio-
lating the law there was nothing for
the court to do but to see to the en-
forcement of the law. There is a feel
ing of confidence in the court, but it is
also to be remarked that the opinion of
Attorney General Knox is also entitled
to great consideration. Perhaps the
modification of the decree, as asserted
by the Securities company attorneys,
will do no harm, but 1t will be quite
generally regarded as n concession to
that corporation that might well have
been denied.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
Slavery of City Life.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

0A2RoNRbs
1t is popular fallacy with young America
that the salesman, clerk and bookkeeper
occupy a higher place in the social scheme
than the farmer or mechanic. One Of the
deplorable consequences is seen whenever
a merchant or manufacturer advertises for
help of this kind and the applicants turn
out by scores and hundreds to get the place
ready to work at almost any price. It would
be found on investigation that most Of these
had come up from the country and smaller
towns to accept positions attracted by
the promise of easy life at large salaries
in the city. Nine in ten have no special
training or ability and IL thrown out Of
a place are as helpless as babies. The
salaries which looked so large from the
country prove in the stress Of city life to
be mere pittances, Friendships, even ac-
quaintances, are impossible. At best the
life is slavery, at worst it is starvation.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
MR.. BRYAN IN THE EAST.
FOibIes and FaiIinEs Aired by .
Member of the Family.

Philadelphia Record dnd. dem.).
A declaration Of Chairman Campbell OF
the democratic state committee of New
York affords another indication OF the in
huence OF Colonel William ]. Bryan in the
councils of the party and OF the manner in
which 1t is exercised. According to Mr..
Campbell, the committee sent a conhden-
tial agent to Mr.. Bryan in Lincoln, Neb.,
last year to request" him to express a
friendly interest in the election Of Bird s.
Coler, the democratic candidate for gov
ernor. The reason assigned for this extra
ordinary step was that some democratic
adherents of Mr.. Bryan had turned their
backs on the ticket and were endangering
it's success. Mr.. Bryan's answer was that
while the ticket was not bad, the platform
was bad, and so his good word remained
unspoken. The objection to the platform
was that in a state campaign on purely
state issues the democrats of New York
did not adopt Mr.. Bryan's fatal Kansas City
platform. with the dead Issue of free silver.
The democrats of Pennsylvania, who have
been making state campaigns on state is
sues alone for several years, will appre-
ciate the position Of their brethren in New
York and Of Mr.. Bryan's sullen attitude to-
ward them.
When reorganization and harmony Of the
party are urged as essential for success in
1904 the Bryan response is that there can
be no reorganization and no harmony ex-
cept on the Kansas City platform. As for
Grover Cleveland, Richard olney. David B.
Hill. Arthur p. German, Judge Parker. Ed
ward M. Shepard ard the rest, MI. Bryan
holds that these representatives of pluto
cratic" and "reactionsry" tendencies can
not be considered as counselors Of the ma
tional democratic party. William ]. Bryan
Is the absolute head Of the party. and his
DEGREES are infallibie. No principles or
policies have any validity unless they CON
with his certificate Of their genuineness.
The long and short Of it Is that in the
next democratic national convention the
party will have to reckon once more with
Organism and all that It implies. Happily
the conditions are vastly different now from
those that existed three years ago, when
Mr.. Bryan and his Kansas City platform
were forced upon the reluctant party. In
mounting his steed for a new campaign OF
what he calls his principles he is too apt
TO forget the circumstances to which he
owed both his last nomination and his Kan
sas City platform. The intrigue with the
self-banished Richard Croker under the in
spiration Of croker's malignant hatred Of
David b.. Hill is what turned the scale in
the last democratic national convention,
and under no probable combination OF cir
cumstances can such an intrigue be sue
eessfully repeated
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

Another great boon conferred on suf-
fering humanity by the long distance
telephone is demonstrated by It's con-
v~enience Of use for Missouri bOodlers
trying to keep out Of reach of the i'm
placable grand jury. Were It not for
the telephone the fugitive would be cut
on from all conversation with his
friends and run the risk Of discovery
and apprehension II he used other
means OF communication.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

ought to nominate for mayor. the
World Herald is now trying to per-
suade the voters that he is the kind OF
a candidate they ought to elect as
mayor. What about all those editorials
warning the democracy against putting
corporation men to the front with the
party endorsement?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
4 CAMPAIGN or DECEPTION.

The present municipal contest has
from the outset been a campaign of de
ception and brazen imposture.
At the republican primaries the dark
lantern faction labeled itself anti
machine" when 1t VIGOROUSLY controlled
the entire party machinery and was
backed by the police clubs and the al
lied corporations.
At the republican convention the self
styled "anti-corporation' delegates, or
members Of the Real Estate exchange,
who proclaimed themselves as the enc
mics of corporate rule, supported
for chairman Ralph Breckenridge, the
Burlington attorney, and walked out of
the convention because they failed to
nominate the preferred candidate of the
corporation with which Breckenridge is
identified.
Within three days after these men
had bolted the republican convention
they turned themselves inside out and
fused with the populists with whom
Benson, their candidate for mayor,
never had anything in common.
Within five days after the populists
had nominated Benson for mayor on a
populist platform Benson pledges were
being distributed among the clerks at
railroad headquarters with the approval
of the corporate political bureau that
hopes through the detection from
Moores to be able to elect the demo-
cratic candidate, Ed Howell.
At the democratic convention ten
days ago Edward e. Howell publicly
declared that he inserted in the present
city charter the exemption clause by
which the railroad terminals, depots
and depot grounds in Omaha have been
assessed at less than / per cent of their
actual value and he blandly admitted
that he acted on the advice Of Judge
Dufie, who was at that time retained
by the Burlington railroad and a part
ner of J. E. Kelby of the Burlington
law department.
The platform adopted by the demo
cratic convention pledges the candi-
dates Of that party not only to mu-
nicipal ownership, but to the reduction
of telephone rates and street railroad
fares, but the candidates and the plat
form do not jibe. 1t is a matter of no
toriety that Howell owes his nomina-
ton to the franchised corporations more
than he does to the democratic party.
1t is a matter Of notoriety that Fred A.
Nash, his principal hacker, has blocked
every effort at municipal ownership
and will continue to resort to st. Louis
methods to prevent the acquisition of
the electric lighting plant by the city.
1t is a matter Of notoriety, too, that
Howell is the preferred candidate of
the telephone company. and that com
pany would hardly favor a man who
was committed to cut it's receipts in the
middle.
1t is an open secret also that the man
ayers Of the street railroad company
have put In their helping oar to nomi-
nate Howell, not only because they re-
gard Howell as a safe man, but because
they remember that Howell opposed the
street car vestibule bill when he was
in the state senate. Can any rational
person imagine Howell would do any.
thing that would compel the company
to reduce fares for all passengers com.
PEELED to hold on to a strap or stand on
the platform?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

To get an approximate idea of how
much money is In circulation the Next
can government is trying to locate all
the silver coin in It's realm. That is
just what each of its citizens has been
trying Il do for himself all the time.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
stnken Motions of RAILROAD Owners.
Boston Globe.

Railroad managers speak Of our prop
erty" and "our business with the same
assurance as does the landlord or the mill
owner. But the ownership of railroad
lines being the subject Of charter and af-
fecting the public interests is subject to
governmental supervision by virtue Of the
fact that theirs is the business Of a COM
mon carrier and the public has an ~inslien-
able interest in 1t. This fact must be ac-
cepted and acknowledged by the railroad
men, or a icurtailment Of their corporate
powers will finally be the inevitable result.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

Having prevailed upon the federal
court to release the money held for
dividends ON Northern Securities stock,
Jim Hill and J. P%ierpont Morgan may
soon feel able to put In their next win
ter's supply of coal.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
LegIsIatIve Persuaders.
Philadelnhia Press.

HIHdutIpHId IIess.
Thousand dollar bills we're so amazingly
thick around the Missouri legislature that
some OF the members are actually forget
ting where they got theirs just as the grand
jury wants to know. A member OF the
legislature with a deficient memory is not
rare enough to have any value in a col
lection of curiosities.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
Rout of yellow Jack.


tNVW IUTh ITIDUIts
Thanks to American discoveries and
American methods OF suppression, yellow
fever has been stamped out in Cuba, and
is no longer a menace to the health Of any
port OF the union. But southern cities are
not entirely free from the scourge Of small
pox. Vaccination should be carried out
searchingly. BY that means n by that
only can relief be secured.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

Tax Commissioner Fleming has made
q conscientious officer, but that does
not say that Fred Bruning would not
make a tax commissioner equally if
not more capable and efficient.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

An interesting suit has arisen in New
York, where a wholesale candy dealer has
brought an action for damages against the
Confectionery Jobbing association for ruin
ing his business. He claims that the job
bers' association charged him u~njustly with
violation Of rules Of the association and
drove him out of business, as they control
the candy trade of the city. If the case be
not compromised out of court 1t is probable
that testimony will furnish evidences enough
to enable the government to bust the candy
trust and make caramels cheaper for the
summer girls.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21

BY putting through the railway prof.
ects he has in hand, Senator w. A.
Clark will Don secure credentials that
will admit him into the top class of
merger magnates.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
Cause of franc Congestion.

san francisco chronicle.
Since 1895 the railroads Of the country
have been trying to solve the problem Of
handling a 4S per cent increase Of freight
with an increase Of only s per cent in
motive power and IA per cent In car capa-
city. No wonder trahHc on the lines is con-
gested.