Show EDITORIAL GOSSIP ABOUT MANY PEOPLE AND THINGS w SUGAR BEETS As long as it is evident to our sugar beet farmers that there will willbe be a reduction reduction tion lon of oJ not less than twenty-five twenty per percent percent cent ent on sugar imported from Cuba they naturally would like to know how far the he concession is going to hurt them If It Ift at t all Some of their leading champions while opposing any cho change ge in Jho tho sugar ugar schedule on general principles principles prin prin- admit that a cut of oJ twenty twenty- five per cent In favor of f Cuba would not affect American production or prices in inlew view lew of the fact that this country as yet yetIs yetis is s compelled to Import Impo t two million tons of oJ sugar annually to supply its home market On the other hand there are people of pro who like Mr Oxnard Oxnard Oxnard Ox- Ox nard declare that the Yankee product would not amount to enough to furnish beats for policemen were the sacred text of Dingier Dingley changed by as much as asa asa asa a comma APPARENT WILINESS Professor Wiley of oJ the Agricultural Department belongs to the Oxnard tribe of Indians He quite agrees with that doughty chieftain that reciprocity with Cuba spells ruin to the sugar beet farm farm- er Considering his reputation as an Investigator and expert in matters pertaining pertaining per per- taming to scientific agriculture Professor sor Wileys Wiley's views and statements ought to o carry great weight In the present instance however their force is a trifle weakened by comparison with his testimony testimony mony before the tile Industrial Commission In the course of which he is reported as expressing the opinion that the slon sion free of duty of the entire sugar crop of oJ Cuba would not injure the beet sugar industry of the United States Inthe in inthe inthe the smallest degree Such little Inconsistencies inconsistencies inconsistencies incon incon- are calculated to detract from the value of Professor Wileys Wiley's evidence an and l to confuse the situation About all the beet farmer can can arrive at just now Is a conviction that under a tariff reduction reduction reduction re re- re- re of twenty-five twenty per cent he will wiil not be hurt materially at least for some years to come and that since reciprocIty Ity ty was to t the Cubans Cubans' by PresIdent Pres- Pres dent Ident McKinley and Secretary Root and that promise is to be made good the best liest thing to do is t to accept the Inevitable inevItable inevitable saw wood and and say nothing ATMOSPHERIC REALTY REALTY At the meeting of the Institute of In International International International In- In Law I in Paris the other day M. M Paul r rad ad the draft of a proposed protocol providing for state proprietorship of the lh air to the height of f fifteen hun hundred red yards It appears that the commanders of Cf German French and Italian forts have complained complained com com- that the Interior of the works in their charge have been photographed by means o of ot lon long r rang rarig x cameras opera operated ope ed from balloons In Consequence of this resort ot a da dangerous medium of ofIn in in international espionage ge the French Minister Min Mm- ister of oJ War h ha 9 decided to promote a discussion by of the question question ques- ques ques ques- tion lion of national l sovereignty over Ver the he air It Its It is is' that the that t the United States I shortly will be asked to operate co-operate in I securing a solution of the problem Probably bly t the tI tin has come Jor for giving the matter some attention The science of aerostatics tics has made re remarkable advances advances advances ad- ad ad ad- vances during the past decade or two until a as' as i many people believe the flying machine is soon soon to be born FOR NEW EW STATES The House Committee on Territories having unanimously agreed to report In favor of the admission of Arizona N New w Mexico and Oklahoma as States it is not easy to see any reason why the new additions to the Union should not be made during the present session of Congress It Is not yet clear clear whether the Speaker and the Committee on Rules Rules' are favorable to admission or not but if the Administration desires tardy justice to be done to the people of oJ these Territories It is probable that the majority majority majority ma ma- In the House of Representatives will not kick over the traces No doubt there are persons at both ends of the Capitol inimical to the proposition to accord Arizona New Mexico Mexico and Okla- Okla roma rama rome Statehood at this time One promInent prominent prom prom- mont Eastern Member Is on record as declaring that he did not if he could help it propose to see si six new votes in inthe inthe the Senate added to the number already pledged to support a general Western irrigation measure So our Territorial neighbors may not yet be out of the woods They should not be discouraged but keep pegging away If Utah could secure admission in 1896 with a mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain of oJ prejudice against her to overcome overcome over over- come com others need not not despair MEETING OF SURVIVORS An Inter interesting meeting of deceased persons who do not yet know they are dead wa was was held at Topeka yesterday when the the remains of the Kansas Populists Populists Populists lists g gathered In thai that town to decide what they should do next The old question of or fusion anti was threshed over as a matter of course and the the of appeared to be in the majority as th they y captured the organization of the conference A A reunion of survivors of the Battle of Waterloo could not have been more I cheerful But these occasional love feasts of grasshopper State political dodos may have a sentimental Interest Interest Interest Inter Inter- Inter Inter- est for the dodos dodos At least they afford opportunity for Peffer Petter to air his whiskers whiskers whis whis- kers in company where they are re not an offence and for Simpson to exhibit his democratic for the admiration ad ad- and nd Improvement of his old associates It is pleasant to note that that- the party or a majority of oJ it are Indisposed in indisposed indisposed in- in disposed to accept the crumbs tha that fall from Democracy's table a and will stand standout standout standout out strongly for their principles eleVate elevate elevate ele ele- ele- ele vate their towering ears and kick ick o out t straight behind braying t that at their ideas and Sand schemes of government ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- m may prevail and that the day may not be r far r distant when he the Re Reubenville Reu benville Jay shall announce ce In circus circus circus' poster type the triumphant election of oJ Carrie Nation and Mary Ellen Lease to the Presidency and Vice Vice- Vice Presidency of the Unit United d States RUSSIA'S HARD LUCK LUCK There seems to to tobe be little doubt that Russia is at once mortified chagrined and surprised by the turn affairs have taken in the Orient during the the past few days Manchuria is a province of great resources It is as s large as s t that at part of the United States lying north of Mason and Dixons Dixon's line and and between the Atlantic and nd the Mississippi It contains vast areas reas of gr grazing zing and arable I land nd and is known to be ric rich riel in rt mineral of economic value including gold R Russia apparently had come coe cometo cometo to the conclusion 1 hi that at atthe the oth other r P Powers w rs' rs would wink at her occupation of Manchuria Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- churia and excuse excuse themselves for so doing by adopting the fiction that It was not a part of f China The Anglo Anglo- Japanese treaty and the American and German notes have brought disillusion on that point and now th the Czar is face to face with the proposition that that he must respect Chinese sovereignty and rights in Manchuria and Korea as well as elsewhere in the F Far ar East or be prepared to fight four great nations at once But Bitt Russia made Japan drop her Chinese e meat in 1895 and felt no compunction Now she will realize the he truth of Solomons Solomon's pious aphorism to the effect that sometimes and often twice e in awhile Ye e sauce for foi ye goose also for ye gande e |