Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-06

to business in an unusually quiet way. A
general election for deputies comes next
May. and every member possessed Of poll
teal Instinct Is on his good behavior. Aside
from making a campaign record, there is a
serious, perplexinG problem confronting the
members. a problem more conductive to
earnest thought than theatrical stunts. The
national deficit, estimated at 500. 900 900 last
spring, now amounts to $40, 100000. and Is
growing. A suggestion Of issuing bonds
to make up the shortage is not received
with favor by Finance Minister Cookery.
who holds to the ld-fashioned notion that
nations like individuals should not spend
more than they receive. NJ. Cookery pro
poses to cut the outgo to tit the income.
Therefore a very meager quantity Of "po-
lltlcal pork casts dlsquieting shadows in
Parliament at the threshold Of the cam
paign. To take up the deficit the finance
minister proposes an increase in inheritance
taxes so as to add 100000 to the $50. 900, 600
now drawn annually from this source. In
come tax projects are held up, as this
means of revenue-getting Is considered
dangerous to handle Just before an election.
Taxes on wines and tob, eco, the latter a
government monopoly, must yield more
revenue, and the receipt-stamp system will
be widely extended For the present no
new taxes are to be levied, the ministry
relying on national good sense to carry the
extra load without disagreeable groaning.
Even without these increased taxes,
France is among the most highly taxed Of
European nations, it's annual budget
ammountlng TO $4,000. 900, only SO, 900, OO)
less than the budget Of Great Britain.
During his excursions at home and
abroad, the car Of Russia is treated to
greater variety OF steel-clad scenery thar
any other travelling monarch. on this land
journey to and through Italy his route
was lined with bristling bayonets. 1t was
not an unusual decoration Of the passing
scenery. 1t is necessary for his health.
Without it he would not enjoy the un-
familiar view, and heart failure might set
in. Everywhere he goes this strict guard
stands between him and the grave. There
is always at least one plot on foot for his
assassination, and numerous attempts on
his life have been made. But the keen
and restless watch over him have been so
successful that he has never actually come
face to face with violence. There is
abundant reason for these safeguards. No
monarch of the old world has as many i'm
placable enemies, no one has given such
abundant cause for desperate revenge than
the government he heads. Italy, with It's
colonies Of anarchists unusually violent in
speech, paid him the homage Of uncommon
calm. Not a black hand was raised, not
one dlscordant note reached the monarch's
ears. on his departure. however, the ra-
dial Masons Of Rome summoned for trial
Brother Nathan, mayor Of the city, on the
grave charge Of paying a visit to the car.
Sss
"Tay Pay" O'Connor, member of Parlia-
ment and Irish Nationalist ambassador to
the supporters Of Ireland's aspirations in
the United States, clearly and succinctly
pictured the passing of the old Ireland and
the uplift of the new in a recent address
before students OF Harvard college. Three
hundred thousand peasants are now land
lords he said, $4,000 are left tenants. In
ten or fifteen years 10000 families, $500, 900
people, will own their own farms. Then we
will have a national fabric on the soundest
Of all foundations. That is, the trans
formation from the old ireland to the
new. AS much has been accomplished in
other lines. England has given up the at
tempt to make Irlshmen Enslish-some-
thing that can't be done-by teaching the
school children that they are English and
not Irish, and we now have a national
University. Irish self-government as for
mulated by US is a demand that we may
manage our own affairs, just as each Of
your forty-seven states manage theirs.
Self-government will mean a prosperous
and peaceful Ireland; 1t will be a good
thing for Ireland, good for England and
good for all mankind"
s4s
Ferrer as a philosophical anarchist
may by his preachments have inflamed
the minds Of militant" anarchists abroad
to the rioting point, but some OF the speci-
f~ications under this charge are not par
t~icularly noteworthy. For instance, in one
Of his essays occurs this expression: THE
soldiers uniform conceals crimes against
humanity and the misery Of his own ex-
istence." This may seem severe" COM
ments the Boston Transcript, but It is
not nearly so condemnatory as Napoleon's
estimate. of the soldiers place in modern
civilization. At 81. Helena Napoleon. in
Analysing the various professions, gave
preference to medicine as the most i'm
medIately benevolent, when one Of his
hearers reminded him he had forgotten
soldiers. 'Soldiers?' responded the great
est OF modern captains, taking up the chal-
lenge, The soldier in analysis is a cut
throat and a robber. He not only pro-
duces nothing himself, but he consumes
the products of others and Stays the pro-
ducers.' IF any philosophical man Of let
ters had said this remarks the Tran
script, militarIsm's apostles would all fall
afoul Of him, but coming from Napoleon
they pass It over in discreet silence"
sss
The decreasing number OF soldiers in
France may lead to the use OF blacks in
Africa as military reserves. Two years
ago there were $1,000 young Frenchmen
serving with the coloTs. owing to the
adoption OF the two-year system. and the
decline in the population, the French army
twentY-seven years hence win. 1T Is estl-
mated. have sunk to 81 900. To fiji the
void, all the military authorities. and most
OF the parliamentary men, with the excep-
ton of the socialists, advocate the forma-
ton Of a black army, recruited IN the
French Sudan, and available not only for
African service, but also. in the event Of
war, for service I'm Europe. England may
come to the same pass, II militarism
grows upon her; and, in the course OF
time, Europe would present the spectacle
Of the black men from Africa and the