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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1903.
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POPULATION* OF TEXAS CITIES:
The population of the seven largest
cities of Texas on June 1, 1904, as esti-
mated by the United States Census' Bu-
reau, is as followi:
SAN ANTONIO 59,581
Houston 54,46a
Dallas 49,678
Galveston 32,613
Fort Worth 26,960
Austin 24,148
Waco 23,162
party; persons lost or shipwrecked
could simply call uf) the nearest res-
cue Station and hello for help.
Alonp these lines opens up a vista
of unlimited possibilities. How much
more effective than one of those beg-
ging letters would be the college boy's
plaintive "Pa, I'm busted; send me
some money, please, sir." And when
important business kept the young
husband down town there would be
the horrible possibility that the fond
young wife might at any moment, ring
him up and instead of the busy hum
of industry hear the sounds of gay
revelry.
As for lovers, why Jack need never
get out of earshot of his Jill, and a
sort of continuous billing and cooing
population and the greater extent of
territory covered, the balance of mor-
tality is far too heavy.
According to the Washington Post,
Pittsburg policemen are kept busy
looking for burglars, while Pittsburg
citizens are kept busy looking for po-
licemen. There is a suspicion that
the police may be looking for the
burglars in about the same way the
ordinary tramp looks after work—
with the hope of not finding them.
It is a disgrace to any sort of city to
have that sort of policemen.
Counting the money expended in
making improvements at the Fair
Grounds, the San Antonio Interna-
could then mark the course of true tional Fail- Association is about $16,-
000 to the good as a result of the last
Fair. By and by the stockholders in
this pro bono publico enterprise may
regard their stock as considerably
more than an investment in public
spirit and local pride.
The Case Against Bailey.
It is a clear-cut issue of fact that
promises to develop in the proceed-
ings at Austin against the Waters-
Pierce Oil Company in so far as the
connection of Senator Bailey with
that company is concerned. While it
is believed the issue has been lugged
into the record, the people of Texas
are none the less to be congratulated
that the long-pending Question of
whether Mr. Bailey got money for
services to the oil company is to be
judicially |letermined as a sort of an-
cllliary proceeding to the main ques-
tion whether the Waters-Pierce peo-
ple are Sufficiently good to be allowed
In the State of Texas.
Senator Bailey shows his usual heat
and says hot things about the Attor-
ney General, who filed the motion ask-
ing: for original books and papers pur-
porting to show that Bailey got money
from the oil people. His denial of the
imputation is choleric and forceful. It
makes a beautiful issue of fact.
Senator Bailey is coming back
home at once to get into the thick of
the Austin litigation just as ho got
into the thick of the Houston Good
Government Club's activities. It
promises to be a strenuous session of
Judge Brooks' court, and if tho case
were not continued there would be
lit^l'e for the Legislature to find out
• by the time the day for balloting on
a Senator shall roll around.
The serious and vehement denial by
Senator Bailey, coupled with the
charge that a united effort is being
made by his political enemies to de-
feat him for re-election and discredit
him before the people will be accepted
by right-thinking persons pending tho
'vidence that is promised to the cou-
-ary.
Upon the face of the record it ap-
ars that the Bailey theory may be
glit. Senator Bailey, however, can
tot justly object to the ample oppor-
tunity here presented him to estab-
^h in a court of record the denials
has made upon the stump and in
|e press.
^fe is entitled to be mad, and he
buld not be Bailey if he did not lose
[lisSitemper. But in the present status
ofc the case both Mr. Bailey and the
people of Texas are to be congratu-
lated. The former because he now
hae his day in court and the latter for
the reason that they are entitled to
know.
It is indeed remarkable that the is-
sue of veracity should be so sharply
drawn between such high officials as
Attorney General Davidson and Sena
tor Bailey. It presents an unusual
and most interesting chapter in State
politics.
And all this is without prejudice,
for the ethics of a Senator practicing
law for money is still a matter unde-
termined.
It is too bad the case was con-
tinued.
love. Irate papas could never lock
Juliet up so that young Romeo could
not plan an escape, nor would cruel
mammas ever intercept and return
fond love letters. And then, oh, joy!
oh, bliss! no one would ever tell us
"The line is busy."
But here lies the great difficulty of
this wireless telephone. It opens up
unlimited possibilities of eavesdrop-
ping. At its present stage of develop-
ment anybody can cut in at any time,
and there is no way of knowing who
it is. Mrs. Grundy would, of course,
maintain a telephone exchange and
wouldn't take time to sleep at night
for the sheer pleasure of prying into! past,
her neighbors" affairs.
A Frenchman named Louis Maiche
claims to have perfected a wireless
WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAY
"To add to the horror of the disas-
ter the car which suffered the force
of impact caught fire," says a press
dispatch concerning a collision on the
Southern Railway. When the rail-
roadb are equipped with all-steel pas-
senger coaches the horrors of confla-
gration which accompany nearly all
railway wrecks will be a thing of the
Editor Hearst has qualified his re-
cent declaration that he would not
telephone that enabled him to talk 185 again be a candidate for a public
miles without difficulty. This eminent! office. If circumstances should make
scientist has been working on this in-
vention for several years and claims
that he has almost perfected it. It is
claimed by those who have examined
the apparatus that the wonderful in-
vention seems quite feasible and a
few years will probably see it become
a practical reality.
The Wireless Telephone.
With just one or two improvements,
it is announced that the wireless tele-
phone will be a commercial and do-
mestic fact. This promise of release
from the vagaries of the hello girl of-
fers a relief to humanity and opens
up possibilities of communication that
are startling to contemplate.
Every man will carry his telephone
in his pocket, and will have it on
hand whenever he wants to ring up
anybody. All he will have to do will
be to set the thing to a certain vibra-
tion and the bell will jingle its warn-
ing in the pocket of his friend a hun-
dred miles away if necessary. Cap-
tains of ships in a fog could talk to
each other and so control their
courses as to avoid collisions. En-
gineers of trains could also communi-
cate at intervals. Miners entombed
toultl direct the course of the rescuing
The Police and the Vagrants.
The Chief of Police of Fort Worth
Is going after the vagrants in that
city. He insists that with the deman
for laborers at good wages in all parts
of the State there is no excuse for any
man, white or black, to be without
work a single day.
But that is not the only considera
tion. There are petty offenses and
serious crimes being committed in
every city in this country in which
idlers with no visible means of sup
port are permitted to hang around and
live upon the industry of the com
munlty. In nearly every case the
crimes are traceable directly to these
vagrant classes, black and white.
To rid the community of their pres
ence is one thing. To force them to
go to work Is another. If they could
be effectually and permanently ban
ished from the community every one
would be glad, for they are generally
of a thriftless, thieving sort that no
one cares to have about him, but the
troublesome creatures can not be
dealt with leniently and at the same
time effectively. The thing they most
detest is work and that they will shirk
to the fullest extent they are able
A few evenings ago Sheriff Tobin
and Constable Stevens made a de
scent upon some of the negro dives in
this city and made more than fifty ar
rests of men charged with gambling
They were tried and convicted in the
County Court and sentenced to work
on the county roads until the sum of
their fines is paid. This serves the
double purpose of ridding the com-
munity of these vagrant' characters
and of securing to the county road
workers who are badly needed. These
convicts are systematically worked
and their services will be of value to
the county.
In Fort Worth, it appears, the city
is to get the benefit of the work of
the arrested vagrants on the city
streets. That will be good for Fort
Worth. The streets need to be worked
al' the time, and no matter how many
convicts may be so employed it is not
likely that there Mill ever be more
than enough. Then, too, the Chief of
Police, if he takes any pride in his
office and has any appreciation of his
obligation to protect the citizens from
the depredations of thioves, burglars
and highwaymen, will have the satis-
faction gi knowing that men and
women can go about, the streets of
that city, even after dark, without the
fear of being assaulted by footpads
and knocked down and robbed.
Fortunate is the city that has an
efficient Chief of Police and a police
force that can be depended on-to do
something for the protection of the
citizens against evildoers.
it imperative for Mr. Hearst to again
be a candidate for office Mr. Hearst
says he would not be stubborn, and
Mr. Hearst would be tho judge of the
Imperativeness of the circumstances.
Nothing was ever gained by any
community in concealing conditions
of which the community should be
ashamed and for which a remedy ex-
ists. Such conditions can not be con-
cealed in any event. There are too
many toughs in San Antonio and they
are doing too much lawbreaking.
Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas
was elected president of the American
Association of Trotting Horse Breed-
ers at the recent meeting in New
York. It was decided to incorporate,
probably under the laws of Virginia,
and to hold annual horse fairs in dif-
ferent parts of the country.
With tho good beginning made by
the Fair Association and the friendly
spirit of the Traction company there
is hope for adequate transportation fa-
cilities to the Fair Grounds before
next event. Everlasting hustling,
however, is the price of this improve-
ment.
The bandit, on tho Chicago & Alton
train the other night who robbed only
the rich need not pose as an example
of chivalry; he showed only the
shrewd business sense characteristic
of this commercial age.
City election is drawing on. Is
there in this fact any hope that work
will begin on the needed street pav-
ing that has been hanging up for
several months?
Col. Tom Campbell, Govynor-elect,
is said to have completed his slate,
thus making a. few of the many ex-
pectants happy—provided they are in
his confidence.
If the lands of Southwest Texas
were not still changing hands there
would soon be an end to the supplv.
For the homeseekers are getting them
rapidly.
Premier Stolypin is optimistic as to
the future. Having been in office
some little time without being blown
up he is beginning to believe in his
luck.
"God sends a good wife to every
man," says Sir Thomas Upton, who
probably was not at home when his
arrived, inasmuch as he is still
single.
Now that twenty-three has been
chalked up for the football season
dope sheets of the coming baseball
games will have an opportunity.
The series of unlucky accidents
that has pursued the Southern Rail
road, culminating in the death of
Samuel Spencer, the president of that
system, will probably serve to arouse
not only that but other railroads to
the necessity of better safeguarding
the service. There is relatively a
much greater per cent of accidents
on the railroads of this country than
on those of Europe. While this may
be partjii' accounted for by the sparser
]ke.
Texas has finished a period of
thanksgiving in which there was no
cause for anything else.
The Garden of Eden.
While sitting on the ver.mda at King's
Inn Sunday afternoon t gent Ionian from
Kansas, gating intents on the beautiful
palms, banana tre, s ami all different
varieties of roses and fragrant flowers in
full bloom growing so luxuriantly on the
lawn, was heard to re: irk: "Why, this
is a perfect Garden of Kden!"— Kingsvill
lleraid.
All Southwest Texas is a Garden of
Kden, and Klngsville is undoubtedly one
of the prettiest spots in that garden.
They All Paid Up.
"Our next issue," wrote the editor of
an _exchange, "will b« exceedingly inter-
esting. as it will contain the names of all
our delinquent subscribe! But when
th< time came to send in the next is-
sue it was discovered t there were no
delinquent subscribers. The: had all paid
up. in a time when you think not we
propose to test the effic.i of the above.
—Castroville Quill.
The editor was certainl a genius. Tf
there is anything in the world a man
dislikes to have paraded in print it is his
delinquency. A threat like the above will
make a man either pay up or take to the
woods.
It Would Be a Winner.
A furniture factory in Cuero to manu-
facture goods from the hardwood for-
ests of the Guadalupe bottoms would be
no experiment. There would be an anx-
ious market for the output at the start.
It. is a most promising field to go neg-
lected.—Cuero Daily Record.
It would be a winner from the start.
♦ ♦
But in No One Else.
Mr. Rockefeller says he "trusts im-
plicitly in Providence. but the. grand
juries go right on indi ling.—Fort Worth
Record.
Mr. Rockefeller may trust implicitly
in Providence," but it certain that ho
trusts in nothing nor anyone else.
♦ ♦ ♦
In His Coat Tail Pocket.
"The United States will not withdraw
from Cuba so long as American Interests
there need protection." pays the New
York Tribune. England feels the same
way about her stay in Egypt.—Johnson
City Enterprise.
Cuba appears to be as good as in the
coat-tail pocket of your Uncle Samuel for
all time,
♦ ♦ ♦
Hardest Jolt From Supposed Friends.
To belittle the actions of your neighbor
is mighty poor business. The Leander
Record.
Knocking is mighty poor business. It
always reacts on the knocker. Every
man has his virtues and his faults. We
are up today and down tomorrow. Fate
plays curious tricks with most of us.
When a person is in hard luck his ene-
mies do not kick him; they simply stand
aside and watch his supposed friends per-
form the operation.-San Antonio Ex-
press.
Sometimes that is true but it is mighty
seldom a man overlooks an opportunity
to give an enemy a push.—Demson Her-
ald.
The Herald is undoubtedly correct, but
the hardest jolts in real life come from
supposed friends.
♦
San Antonio the Place to Get It.
Dr. W. F. McCaleb returned from
soliciting tour to San Antonio today, and
reports subscriptions aggregating $3000.—
Carrizo Springs Javelin.
San Antonio is not at all selfish. She
wants to see all the towns in her terri-
tory grow and prosper. Her contribu-
tion of $3000 to the Carrizo Springs rail-
way bonus fund is evidence of that fact.
♦ ♦ ♦
Always Does the Right Thing.
Messrs. Buchel, Bates, Sumners and
Joseph who went to San Antonio to enlist
the business interests of that place with
Cuero in the improvement of the Guada-
lupe had a highly successful trip and are
in high feather over tlie splendid treat-
ment they were accorded by the leading
business men of that place and the intel-
ligent enthusiasm they displayed in the
proposition.—Cuero Daily Star.
San Antonio business men always do
the right tiling at the right time.
Roosevelt and Shakespeare.
I wo autograph letters from President
™er,e rec®ntly sold for $3.28 and
$1.49 Which Indicates h*> will have to be
dead about three thousand years to be
as great a man as Shakespeare.--Fort
Worth Star.
Yes, Mr "Rosenfelt" will have to be
dead even longer than that to have his
letters sell for as high a sum as those
of Shakespeare. Still, Mr. "Rosenfelt"
has perpetrated some acts that will live
in history.
♦ ♦ ♦-
Difficult of Solution.
One of the first problems with which
ours Business Men s Club will grapple is
the problem of sanitation. The proposi-
tion to employ a scavenger will be the
spe< ial order for next Monday night.
Hon do Anvil-Herald.
The problem with which our business
organizations are grappling is how
get together without getting furth
apart.—Rio Grande News.
The problem which confronts most or
ganizations is the one mentioned by th
Rio Grande News. It is now confronting
the National Democracy, and how it is to
be solved no man knows.
Come Off, Fitz; Come Off.
Trouble along the Rio Grande border
has served to show up a bad state of
mixed politics, with here and there much
petty tyranny. It is time the represent
ativo people get together and work .
much-needed reform.—Sail Antonio Ex
press. That's what we were saying be
fore you "driv up." And why not begin
the reform in San Antonio? Political
conditions on the Rio Grande border are
no worse than in San Antonio, El Paso
Dallas, Houston, Austin and other Texas
communities.—El Paso Times. If politi-
cal conditions on the Rio Grande border
are as rosy as Dallas conditions, then
Rio Grande conditions are akin to per
fee tion. Dallas is without floaters, vote
buyers, vote-sellers or vote-intimidators,
Hfre only the best men offer for office
and only patriots win the offices. A
well-filled ballot box can be left alone
in a barn, a cellar or any quiet plat
on election night without danger of mo-
lestation. and election judges cling loy-
ally and lovingly to their oath of off!
A year ago the aristocrats of the First
Precinct of the Third Ward played a
shabby trick on the cotton socks of the
Second Precinct, but all this has been
forgiven and forgotten. Why, W00 men
are so politically perfect that they r
fused to pay their poll tax and never
venture within f>00 yards of a voting
booth. Drop Dallas from your list
cities afflicted with rotten politicians and
queer political methods.—Dallas Times-
Herald.
More Than Sprinkling Necessary
Young men who possess good moral
characters and a sprinkling of integrity,
with business abilities, are greatly in de-
mand. Those are the men that our husi
The Usual Way.
"1 want no money," said a man
Who had a firm conviction
That lucre was an evil thing,
And brooked no contradiction.
"Give rnr the simple comforts that
Do make the poor man cheerful,
n^L of ('°ins would worry me—
I lie mental strain be fearful.
"I have no us - for sordid men
\\ ho spend a lifetime piling
A fortune up, until they quite
Forget the art of smiling."
'Twas thus he talked until he got
His lhppers on a million;
And now he's dorking day and night
lo swell it to a billion.
—Paul Cook.
—
A Hangover.
"Hey. there. Jinks! Are you drunk
again?"
"Not yet."—Louisville Cowr*«r-Jouinal.
tiess men want and those are the ones
that always have a job. Do you belong
to that class? If not, why not?—Del Rio
Weekly News.
The above query is a pertinent one—
but more than a mere sprinkling of in-
tegrity is needcfl. There are some men
who would steal a dollar who would
hesitate at purloining $100. There must
be no sprinkling of dishonesty in a young
man 11 he looks for success in business
life. He must be honest clear through.
♦ ♦ ♦
That's All They Get.
Boni's creditors will have a hearing in
Paris Thursday. If he is as dead broke
as he is reported to be they might save
a lot of court cost by withdrawing their
suits.—Sherman Daily Tribune.
It looks as if a hearing is about the
only thing Count Boni's creditors will
get.
Victoria and Yoakum.
On Saturday night three carloads of
mules, horses and grading material ar-
rived from Houston. The contractors,
Messrs. Hipp & Company of Houston,
having finished their work on the Brazes
Valley Railroad, have arrived to regrade
the Texas Railway from Victoria north
and south—Port O'Connor to Yoakum.
This is merely the vanguard. On
Wednesday they expect td receive more
utading material and 200 mules. Fifteen
hands were with the vanguard that ar-
rived Saturday night. It is said that the
shrewd contractors, Hipp & Company,
never undertake a contract until the
money is in sight. Work begins here to-
morrow morning and It will be pushed
with vigor until the Texas Railway will
be a reality uniting Victoria and Yoak-
um, two of the best towns of South
Texas, with bands of steel. Victoria will
be glad to be brought in touch with her
neighbor towns. It has been but a short
time since time and space between Re-
fugio and Victoria has been almost an-
nihilated and It is good news to know
that in a few months hence Victoria and
Yoakum will be shaking hands,—Victoria
Daily Advocate.
This is good news for Victoria and the.
same for Yoakum. They are without
doubt two of the most progressive towns
in Southwest Texas.
♦- +
Better Snow Than Rain.
With the first snow every year the
average newspaper correspondent invari-
ably predicts great loss among cattle.
A snowfall in Texas is seldom attended
with bad results to live stock unless ac-
companied with rain, and no doubt the
snow in the El Paso country and New
Mexico is welcomed by the stockmen who
are getting shy water. A cold rain
with sleet will *lava cow brute out about
two months before it thinks of complain-
ing about snow.—San Antonio Express.
The above reminds us that an Alpine
stockman said Tuesday that ho would
like to see a good snow about twice a
month all through the winter.—Alpine
Avalanche.
The cowman would rather have a dozen
snows than one cold, sleety rain.
Come off, Fltz, come off! What kin
of a fairy tale are you giving us? You
would have the remainder of Texas br
lieve that Dallas is a kind of political
heaven where the politicians wear halos
and play on golden harps. Tell it to the
marines!
♦ ♦- «
Repair Your Sidewalks.
Another inconsistency: What's the
use in having a $40 rug at the front
door if Willie must run out with th
ironing board to ferry folks across that
bad sidewalk every time company comes?
A little less scrumptiousness and mor<
sidewalk is a great promoter of reciproc
ity in social calls, linen showers and gay
gossip. All of which you miss when the
sidewalk disappears.—Fort Worth Star.
Fort Worth is not alone on the dis-
tinction of having poor sidewalks. There
are others nearer home. That is the one
fault visitors find with Texas cities.
"The climate is all right, the people are
all right, but your sidewalks," said
a well-known New York railroad offi-
cial who made a tour of Texas a few
years ago.
Now They Call Him a Thief.
Time was not far back when the bood-
ler was called a statesman, or, at most,
a shrewd politician. it. is to the great
advantage of this country that he is
now known by his right name.—Hidalgo
Advance.
Now they call him a thief, just as they
do the man who steals a loaf of bread.
♦ ♦♦
An Excellent Suggestion.
Stand up for you town or get out of
it.—Austin Daily Tribune,
The above is an excellent suggestion.
♦ ♦ ♦
To Err Is Human.
It tickles us to have exchanges credit
items from the Hays County Times, buj
it is hard to excuse the great San Anto-
nio Express for spelling Hays with a e.—
Hays County Times.
The Express will not be guilty of the
misspelling again. As the "best laid plans
of mice and men gang oft aglee," so the
best papers in the country are Ttpt to
make mistakes. "To err is human; to
forgive divine."
♦ ♦ ♦
No Legs to Kick With.
Still, it is a trifle early to begin won-
dering what we will have to kick about
when the trusts are all busted.—Galves-
ton Tribune.
Never cross a bridge until you come
to it. When the trusts are all "busted"
you will probably have no legs to kick
with.
♦ ♦ ♦
Yes, and the Minister, Too.
A New York minister has introduced
vaudeville "stunts" in his pulpit Sunday
nights. If that should be done in Texas
the police would close tne house.—Fort
Worth Record.
They would not only close up the
house, hut In all probability close up the
minister in a house where he would be
obliged to remain for some time.
♦ ♦ ♦
Over Your Head in It.
Happiness is a blessing which those
who seek seldom find.—Houston Chron-
icle.
That is as true as gospel. It is a re-
minder of the analogy between Good
and Evil, You may seek Good with the
best intentions and stumble on Evil, but
when you seek Evil you are sure to go
over your head In it.
♦ ♦ ♦
"Lobster" Must Pay for It.
A girl's idea of a delightful play is
one that makes her cry—and order a
lobster after it's over.—Brownsville Her-
ald.
That is a very correct statement. Tho
finale is true, especially if she has a
"lobster" with her to pay for the order.
♦ ♦
Better Than the Sack.
President Roosevelt will ffive the real
good canal workers a button. This will
no doubt encourage the lazy ones to work
up and earn their buttons.—Shiner Ga-
zette.
This is much better than getting the
sack, or as it has been called in late
years, the can.
♦ ♦
Lord Pity the Other Fellow, Too.
The Ijord pity the man who is dollar
crazy.—Belton Journal-Reporter.
Yes, and the Lord pity the other fel-
low, too; if he is without a dollar, the
Lord is the only one who will pity him.
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Creeds and Public Schools.
It looks like a simple thing to keep
the public schools absolutely unsectarlan,
yet there always has been and there
probably always will be an effort to
sneak sectarian teaching in under one
guise or another.
Every sectarian thinks that his partic-
ular creed Is the true one and every sec-
tarian will, consequently, if he gets tho
chance, try to get his t reed taught to the
school children. It is the office of those
who have the schools in charge to balk
this purpose, which, though admittedly
sincere, is at variance with the principles
of the public school system.
in the vtry nature of things the
schools, numbering among their pupils
children of ail religions and of no religion
at all. must not be irreligious but unre-
ligious. They cannot undertake to teach
any one creed, because that would be un-
fair to all the other creeds.
The teaching of religion, an admirable
thing in its place, is entirely impropei
in the schools. This has been iterated
ind reiterated so often that everyone
ought to understand It, but it is plain
that everyone does not. The people who
try to get creed teaching into the schools
are always with us.—Chicago Chronicle.
Mayor Fitzgerald's Brogue.
Sir Thomas Lipton, Mayor J. F. Fitz-
gerald of Boston and Senator Thomas F.
Grady of the Fourteenth District were
guests of honor last night at the opening
of the Shamrock Fair for the benefit of
tho fund for lifting a debt of $164,000
from the Carmelite School at 338 East
Twenty-ninth Street. Sir Thomas for-
mally opened the fair. All three, of the
guests showed by their accent why they
were eligible to he honorary guests at a
shamrock fair, but Sir Thomas' accent
was the most fetching.—From TodayVs
New York Times.
It will be news to Boston to know that
its Mayor speaks with an Irish accent
The "old North end," where "he w;as
born and reared." is one of the most
cosmopolitan spots in the world, and
while the boys turned out from there
are not ashamed of the place of their
parents' birth, whether it be the land of
the shamrock, in sunny Italy, or from
the shadow of the Lithu mountains in the
Pale, they generally manage to sp«;ak
good United States.— Boston Traveler.-
Why Labor Is Scarce.
Railway construction work, especially
in the West, is being seriously retailed
by a scarcity of common laborers. It is
estimated that at least fifty thou^nd
men are needed, above the present sup-
ply, and this in spite of high wages and
free transportation.
Almost every large railway system is
either building extensions, constructing
double tracks or making other improve-
nents. One Western, road has been so
lelayed by lack of la.b*r that it has It).000
loaded cars standing on sidetracks that
it cannot move because of inadequate
main track capacity.
During the summer and early fall the
railroads sent out large gangs of inen
that Were promptly lured away by the
farmers into the harvest iields But even
with the end of harvest the rallltfads
an not get enough labor. They 'ha ve
agents in all the cities, scouring the JViar-
ket lor unskilled labor, but are fast
reaching tin1 conclusion that there is not
enough of this kind of labor In the coun-
try.
The natural conclusion is that the labor
market is being more and more depleted,
in these times of prosperity, by the oc-
cupations requiring moderate skill. The
enormous growth of manufac turing- in-
dustries keeps American labor in the
ities and towns. Unskilled lawfc- is
rawn almost wholly from the ranks- of
newly arrived immigrants. Yet evgp this
source of supply is inadequate.
There is no surer index of A ■Eric an
prosperity than this scarcity in tn \abor
market. It means a wage scale fOr un-
skilled labor as high as that for average
skillerl labor ten years ago.—Chicago
Journal.
Kaiser Wilhelm's View of Life.
That was a good, wholesome talk by
the German Emperor in which he, ex
plained his views of life to Dr. Lt'idwig
Ganghofer. No doubt there are persons
who would retort upon him by -saying
that optimism should come easy tty a man
in his position, but such quips -contain
very little of truth or sound plilfosophy.
Temperament counts for more than rank,
and high rank brings its own caves and
troubles. Its possessor is fortunate if
he is naturally optimistic; he *s more
than fortunate if he is resolutely/ bent on
making the best of things.
But this is only one of tiny Kaiser's
rules of living, and others takf-n with it
constitute an excellent code. Be cheerful
and hopeful, be industrious atfd progres-
sive. put faith in your fell oik man in-
stead of befogging yourself wifh injurious
suspicions. That is certainly Aane advice,
and the Emperor is quite forgotten in
the man when he makes th la'very human
appeal: "1 would be pleaded if others
rightly understand what I jam aiming at
and supported me." Of tyourse support
is often withheld because <J>f an insuper-
able difference of opinion, but there is
something to attract synhpathy In such
an utterance, even fromt an opponent.
This the Emperor cravets. and there is
little to satisfy the cravl[ng of the gran-
deur and isolation of his office.
Probably there is no ryian in the world
who has been more unsparingly criticised
and lampooned. But though it has gen-
erally been supposed that he was fairly
well fortified with a gofod opinion of him-
self. lie indicates thati he is sensitive to
censure and that praise would be most
grateful to him. "I ijim opposed to mis-
understandings." he /says, "and am al-
ways In a thanklessj position, as I am
conceded no independence. If I succeed
the whole world awks. 'Who was his
adviser?' and if i fail they say: 'He did
not understand the j matter.'"
There are compensations in the Imper-
ial role and the Kjalser is not likely to
resign the crown because he feels that
he could better himself and win Inde-
pendence by taking up with new employ-
ment. But there is no reason to doubt
his sincerity. If some of his Ideas appear
to be wholly untenable to Republicans
and long out of date, he 1s notably up to
date In many ways, a very earnest and
energetic modern among the moderns.—
Chicago Record-Iierald.
No Printers In Penitentiary,
Until a short time ago an ably con-
ducted and quite well edited little paper
was published within tho walls of the
Ohio penitentiary. It had an assured
circulation and to all appearances was
destined to live long and prosper. But it
disappeared without warning and inquiry
as to the cause developed the fact that
there was not a single convict in the in-
stitution who could handle type. The last
printer in the "pen" had served his time
and secured employment in Cincinnati,
where they made him superintendent,
ancj there was none to take his ><5b in Co-
lurpbus. Nor has-there been since, al-
though there is plenty of other talent to
be had. For instance, there are enough
bankers there (more than twenty and
several on tho way) to start a clearing
house, and enough lawyers to take care
of all the business the frenzied financiers
can bring them, to say nothing of doc-
tors. brokers and other "eminently re-
spectable" citizens gone wrong.—Mays-
ville (Ky.) Bulletin.
The Japanese Intrusion.
Secretary Met calf came to California
with his conclusion in his pocket. His
orders were to find facts to support that
conclusion. Apparently, if we may judge
from the obscure intimations thrown out,
he has discovered some good enough facts
—good enough for official purposes—to
support the patented conclusion that
there is discrimination against the Jap-
anese in the public schools of Son Fran-
cisco. If in this statement we are doing
Mr. Metcalf injustice we shall be glad to
set him right when occasion arises, if
the impression created by his actions on
this coast is mistaken Mr. Metcalf must
blame himself or the rigid official eti-
quette t/o which he professes to be so
deeply attached.
Tn a purely technical sense there is, of
course, discrimination against Japanese
students who desire to attend the public,
schools If the School Board should de-
cide to separate the boys and girls, that,
likewise, would be discrimination. The
technical discrimination in pursuance of
which Asiatics are segregated from the
children of other races is partly actuated
by police considerations making it unfit
that grown men should attend school
with children and partly by social rea-
sons arising from dislike of association
with the yellow races. The public schools
are an extension Of the home. Califor-
nia ns do not desire to meet the Japanes?,
or the Chinese on equal terms in their
homes and Mr. Metcalf will discover that
we cannot be forced to do so.
The Japanese demand is more than
.commonly impudent. They come here as
grown men and women asserting that
California owes them an education. We
offer fhem that education free of all cost
to them, but they insist that it shall be
given in their own way, not ours. They
are not citizens and cannot become part
of the body politic; they contribute noth-
ing to the support of the Government,
yet they make an insolent and overbear-
ing demand that the public schools shall
be conducted to suit them. The answer
is that if they don't like it they can
leave.
Mr. Metcalf—if our assumption is cor-
rect— put3 his chief reliance on the dic-
tionary. He points with satisfaction to
that blessed word "discrimination" and
professes to find authopity to prove that
"Mongolian" does not include the Japan-
ese. These are rather silly technicalities.
Such discrimination fls#may exist is justi-
fied by the tacts, and if the term "Mon-
golian" is not broad enoug+i the law can
and probably will be widened by the
Legislature to include all Asiatics.—San
Francisco Call.
The President and the Negro Soldiers.
The worst blunder the President could
make would be a revocation of the or-
der discharging the negro soldiers for
complicity in the Brownsville murders.
He might have proceeded differently in
handling the case, although there was
good reason for handling it as he did,
for, as Acting Secretary Oliver says:
"These soldiers shot up a town. All of
them refuse, to tell anything about the
disgraceful affair at Brownsville, which
resulted in murder. The companies are
shielding murderers. There are men in
the companies who are criminals of the
worst sort. Every effort possible has
been made by tho War Department to
find the guilty men, but without avail.
If these companies were permitted to re-
main in the service and were to shoot up
another town and again endanger the
lives of citizens the War Department
would bo in an indefensible position."
If it were to be shown that the order
was based on wrong information, no one
would refrain from applauding a cour-
ageous admission of error and the recti-
fication of it. but in this case no such
showing has been made, and tho change
of front would be simply a backdown
in face of popular clamor.
That sort of thing would be bad for
good government and bad In other re-
spects, because it would instill a false
idea of special privilege for negroes for
whom there should certainly be felt no
sympathy any where.—Mobile Daily Reg-
ister.
His Ship Failed to Arrive.
"Did you see the new airship when you
were in Washington?" a^ked the gro-
cery man.
No," answered the disgruntled office-
sorker. "I didn't even get ;i long-dis-
tance view of a posLmastersUip. "—Chica-
go News.
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