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Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
THE WILD ROSE sTATn.

Davenport Democrat; Wear a wild rose
and be %oflclal. 1t is the flower OF Iowa. The
corn stalk remains the stan upon which the
people Of the state viii continue to lean.
Kansas City Star; The legislature OF Iowa
has declared the Wild rose the state flower,
aud the Iowa editors who visit us today
should be decorated with wild roses, and II
they are not procurable, then the finest tame
ones. The wild rose is fortunate in being
selected as the symbol Of a great and beauti-
full state.
Minneapolis Tribune: The Iowa legislature
has adopted the wild rose as the state flower,
which Is Just too lovely for anything. To
Judge by the fragrance emanating from the
vicinity OF the Illinois legislature, where a
lobbyist approached the wrong man and gave
away the methods behind the notorious
Humphrey bill. a skunk cabbage would be
an appropriate emblem for the sucker"
state.
Davenport Republican: The wild rose Is
triumphant in Iowa. II has been declared
the state flower. OF all blossoms the rose is
the queen, OF all roses the delicately tinted
wild rose, which grows by the waysides on
the Iowa pralries ard in the outskirts OF
every wooded patch, Is the most beautiful.
The question OF a state flower may not be a
very weighty one. but 1t is one of sentiment
and one that perhaps bespeaks the taste and
character of the people as we'll as any OF the
thousand and one trifes that make up what
are termed characteristics.
Sioux City Journal: The rose is one Of the
oldest flowers known and 1t has been Guilt
waited in Asia and Europe since the beginning
of gardening, in Eden or whereabouts, and
the variety of cultivated roses Is almost num-
berless. But the wild rose Of Iowa Is prob
ably not greatly different from the wild rose
Of ancient times. 1t is now, as then, ever
ready to accept the hospitality Of the gar
dener and to reward his labors. Our native
flowers are all too much neglected as we go
seeking new and rare plants from other
countries. A garden filed With flowers native
to Iowa soil might be made a thing of beauty.
Some Of them are so common that we forget
we hardly know what they look like. Put
the wild rose on the Iowa banner and put 1t
also in the Iowa gardens along with other
native flowers,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12

Greece is PROSTATE before the powers,
n suppliant for their intervention to
save the little kingdom from further
punishment and humiliation by the vic
torious Turks. The Hellenic govern
ment is reported to have signi1icd its
readiness to submit to any terms or con
ditions which the powers may prescribe.
hopelessness is to the last degree pa
thetic. but since the first week of the
war it has been seen to be inevitable.
Greece was not prepared for war. Even
now n considerable number of her
soldiers are not properly equipped. Her
army is poorly disciplined. with inetfi-
cient commanders, excepting the one
soldier, General Smolenski. who has
shown real military ability and fighting
qualities. 'On the other hand Turkey has
1t Is said, to the able work of German
officers who have for some time been
employed for this purpose by the Turk
ish government and who exert n con-
trolling influence in Turkish military
circles. Against the almost undisciplined
Greeks Turkey was able to send n
formidable army of well disciplined
soldiers fully equipped for wal and ably
commanded. There has never been IN
doubt that If the conflict We're confined
to these nations Greece would be badly
beaten and few military men expected
the war to last as long as it has,
The question now is, What will the
powers do? 1t is Indicated that they
will adhere to their proposal of Cretan
autonomy, this being specially insisted
upon by Germany, bat what will be done
to satisfy Turkey? VIII Grecian terri
tory remain intact, or will Turkey be
permitted to take some portion of 1t
which she may desire for a strategical
purpose? What indemnity will the
Turkish government be allowed TO exact
from Greece? In short, what terms will
the European concert permit the sultan
to impose on the beaten nation? These
arc questions of grave import to Greece
and there Is involved in them the posi-.
bllity of serious complications between
the powers. Suppose the sultan should
refuse to relinquish Thessaly. Would
the powers undertake to coerce him ?
There is no assurance that they could
agree upon such a course and If they
should disagree European peace would
tan IN very near being master of the
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
THE PASSING OF BAYARD.

Washington Post: Mr.. Bayard didn't mind
the absence of Americans on the occasion of
his farewell dinner. AS long as Mr.. Bayard
can wallow in English adulation he Will be
supremacy happy.
New York Tribune: Mr.. Bayard will be
welcomed back to the United States most
cordially; not so much because of his late
Enthusiastically as because of the personal
qualities which m him to the respect
and affection of all who know him.
Washington Times: Never again let any
man be caught saying that our British cous-
ms are devoid of humor. The appropriate
and parting present of a golden pumpkin
bearing the likeness of the eX-ambassador is
a joke about as neat and Apostle as any we
have yet encountered in this vale of tears.
Philadelphia Record: Mr.. Bayard's fare
well to England was made notable by a
banquet in his honor, at which he was pre-
scented with a gold loving cup, and at which
the broad feeling Of admiration and respect
for his character likewise found expression
in some felicitous speeches, the best Of them
having been that of his successor, AmbaS-
sador Hay.
Denver Republican: The address of Am
bassador Hay at the banquet given to Mr..
Bayard in London was well expressed, and it
contained a few words that can hardly be
looked upon as other than suggestive of the
course he intends to pursue. He said: Ger
tainly no immediate successor of Mr.. Bayard
would be so injudicious as to attempt 10
rival his brilliant career or to replace him
in the regard of the English people" This
sounds very much as though Colonel Hay
does not attempt to gain British approval
by abusing the American people, or p~rattling
sentimentally about the bonds OF friendship
which unite Great Britain and the United
States.
New York Mail and Express: Ambassador
Hay acquitted. himself with commendable
frankness az well as with diplomatic dignity
ut the farewell dinner to Mr.. Bayard in Lon
don. His speech. most cordial in
tone and happy in phrase, gave his hearers
to understand that Colonel Hay regards his
predecessor as the ambassador to the English
rather than to England, and that he de-
agrees with Mr.. Bayard on almost every
matter of public concern upon which men
of good will may differ" Ambassador Hay
has again proved that he can be courteous
without letting it be forgotten that he is an
American and a republican.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
LIZ roprLAR rILL npnELp.


BY order of the district court. Judges
Kcysor. Dickinson and Powell hearing
the case. n writ has been issued com.
handing William ]. Broatch to turn
over the office of mayor to Frank Il.
Moorcs. the choice Of the people at the
recent city election. While this order
does not adjudicatc the merits of the
claim Of ex-Mayor Broatch to hold over
1t makes Frank Il. Moores de facto as
we'll as de jure mayor OF Omaha.
The procedure in the mayoralty con
trovcrsy has been briefly this: EX-NIayor
Broatch barricaded his office with armed
policemen and refused to turn over to
his successor, on demand. He instituted
proceedings to prevent Mayor Moorcs
from acting as mayor, the restraining
order having been issued Professionally
by Judge Powell of the district court.
This was followed with a motion on
behalf of Mayor Moorcs to vacnte the
restraining Ortler ana ISSUE " Hidluhilue
requiring ex-NTayor Broatch to deliver
the office and records of the mayors
office to his elected and qualified sue
cessor, made before Judges Keysor,
Dickinson aud Powell OF the district
court sitting en- banc. The hearing on
this motion began Monday and was con-
Guided yesterday morning, the cour an
nouncing its decision in favor of Mayor
Moorcs upon ~rcconvcning ut , O'Clock In
the afternoon.
Mayor Frank L.. Moorcs, by virtue of
the law and the election held under the
law, is the only legal CHER executive or
the city of Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12

49, ''
In referring to the policy Of d;scrim-
mating tariff duties against the United
States aud IN favor of Great Britain,
proposed by the Canadian government,
we have pointed out that If Canada
should by this course invite retaliation
spond very effectively by withdrawing
the bonding privilege to Canadian rail
roads. The Portland Oregonian makes n
similar suggestions That paper says
that the system by which goods are
transported in bond through Canada.
whether from one part of the United
States to another. or between the United
States and foreign countries, is an in
justice to Americans transportation in
terests and an indirect tax upon Amcri-
can capital aud enterprise. at is con.
trary to The spirit of our tariff laws"
says that paper. 'and has been extended
by treasury rulings and regulations far
beyond the intent Of the law authorizing
it. 1t does constant injury to national
interests, not only by depriving Amcri-
can TlSIDIlIiloH tDlIlllllItS VI IcSlti-
mate business. but by diverting Amcri-
can money to the support of an alien and
hostile system of military railroads."
1t further points out the injustice to
American railroads in the fact that while
they are under the restrictions of the in
t~erstate III law the Canadian
roads are not subject to such restric-
tions.
There is q very strong sentiment
agninSt the bonding privilege enjoyed
by these alien corporations, the value
of which To them has been estimated Mt
500 900 ANNUALLY. and it would NOT
be difficult to make this sentiment so
formidable rs TO compel the withdrawal
of the privilege. 1t is true there is also
Il considerable sentiment in favor of
continuing it, but there can be no doubt
that this would diminish, If it did not
disappear altogether. in the event of the
Canadian government carrying out its
proposed policy of discrimination
against the United States. There are
very few Americans, it is safe to say,
who in such n ease would not favor re-
taliation.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
THE OMAHA DAILY HEE, "WEDNESDAY. MAY la. 1897.

situation. while haplcss Greece appears
to he without II real friend among the
powers. Speaking NJ the attitude Of
Europe toward the Hellenic kingdom
an English writer says: British policy
has always been averse to the annexa-
ton Of Crete by Greece. Austria is nerv-
ously apprehcnsive of any extension of
Greece which may bar her descent to-
wards SaloniCa. Russia is i%rreconcil-
ably opposed to any consolidation and
strengthening of the Greek nationality,
which Is the most progressive and liberal
element In the Ievant and the one least
disposed to submit to her behests. Italy
in spite Of her own antecedents is
anxious 70 establish herself ON the other
side of the Adriatic, in Epirus, and, be-
cause of the traditions of Venice and
Genoa, to regain n footing in some of
the islands in the Aegean. France is
just now in tow of Russia. Germany's
enmity toward Greece seems to be mer-
ccnary. Thus Greece finds herself in the
truly tragic predicament of being able to
rely upon not n single friend md of
being compelled to face the centered
cnmity of official Europe" II war Is
practically at an end so far as Greece
and Turkey are concerned, but there
be very interesting events when
the powers take up the work of settle
nicnt between those nations.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
IOWA PRESS

Sioux City Times: Cedar Rapids prom
ises TO take good care of the republicans
when they go to that town to hold 4 state
convention. Vt will be a notable conven-
ton, and the best of Iowa republicanism
will be there.
Sioux City journal: The republicans of
northwestern Iowaeshould ponder well their
course in the coming state convention with
reference to the Organization of a candidate
for Judge Of thekg5Isme court. 1t WILDE win be
until the field OF Candidates is complete and
last last ynu,s state ddJjaventIon the republicans
Of this quarter of the state have obligations
of gratitude in many directions.
Davenport Republican: About 800, 900 a
year Is what tIls4eAL<a session has saved the
state. This OF course is simply an estimate,
but a close one, made by these in position
to know. Tie 4esjflature has now ordered
an investigation o. the monument commits
sion. The latge Bills recently rendered
have led to tits ,JGo Mr.. Richardson's bill
amounts to over $4,000, as secretlry of the
commission. in addition to his per diem and
expenses as a member Of the commission,
which, If VIC remember rightly. amounted to
some SO, 800 at the last regular GeeSiOn of the
legislature. Other bills are not quite so
large, but still large.
Oscsola Tribune: This 10 a very peculiar
world. One Is struggling to get a place
in 1t, and another Is fleeing from it. One Is
trying TO build a house, another is trying 10
sell his for less than 1t cost, to get rid OF 1t.
One mau is spending all he earns in taking
a girl to places OF amusement, etc, sending
her flowers with the hope of making her his
wife, while his neighbor is spending what
has taken years to earn and save In getting
a divorce. One man escapes all diseases
flesh is heir to and gets killed on the rail-
road. Another man escapes by a scratch
and dies with the whooping cough. One
man stands off all his creditors and goes
travelling, while another pays hle debts and
stays at home. What are you doins7
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
DIPLOMACY OF UNCLE PAUL.

New York Tribune: The Transvaal hae
done well in repeating it's immigration bill
partly because that was a barbarou6 meas
ure. unworthy Of a civilized state, partly be-
cause that measure was a breach of the
Transvaal's own solemn agreement, and
partly because, by this repeal, one of Great
Britain's chief grievances is removed and
one of her chief ~preteXts for Coercing the
Beers is abolished.
Minneapolis Tribune: The proposition Of
President Kruger of the Transvaal republic,
to declare the coming diamond jubilee of
Queen Victoria an official holiday in his
country, indicates that Dom Paul is either
very shrewd or very generous. OF late he
has received nothing but contumely and in
suits from the British statesmen; now he
heaps Goals of fire on their heads by pro-
posing to honor their beloved queen.
New York Press: Dom Paul Kruger is very
cute. His Dutch Indignation against English
aggression has not made him forget the
honey of compliment. He pauses growing
over British indemnities just long enough to
ask the raad to make the queens jubilee day
an official holiday In the Transvaal. Mean
while his secretaries are busy drawing up
plans for defense. Dom Paul may smirk to
the queen, but his free hand is in his coat
tails.
South Africa is such that one cannot doubt
that there Is imminent danger of a conflict
between England and the Transyaal. The
British ministry will count the cost before
it takes a decided step. 1t Will find out what
Germany, Russia and France would do in the
event Of an attack. Germany would be glad
to interfere In behalf Of the Transyaal II 1t
had the backing of Russia and France. but
1T Is doubtful II 1t would do SO standing alone.
1t looks as though war would be declared II
some such continental combination against
England is not made through the instrumen-
tally, probably, of the German emperor.
Milwaukee Wisconsin,: The action OF the
Transvaal Volksraad in repeating the immi-
grafton law against which Great Britain en-
tered formal protest clears the atmosphere
of South Africa to some extent. But there
is some Significance in the fact that the law
was repealed not because of the British
but on account OF the attitude
of the neighboring South African states,
which have disapproved OF the alien immi-
grant enactment. President Kruger is a
shrewd diplomat, and his consent to a change
of policy involving the retirement Of the
Transyaal's state attorney is no indication
he has altered his attitude toward Great
Britain.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
HEARING NEW YORK COMPLAINT.
PhiIadeIphinns Attribute Increased
Business TO Better Facilities.

business TO Better Facilities.
PHILADELPHIA. May 1.-THE hearing
before the Interstate Commerce commission
of the freight differentials case was resumed
this morning.
William X. Tucker. secretary of the Phila-
delphia Board of Trade, vas the first wit
ness. To illustrate the claim of the
Philadelphia commercial interests that the
Increased freight carrying business and the
increased export trade OF this city have been
the natural result Of improved waterway
facilities, Mr.. Tucker explained what had
been done toward lettering the harbor facili-
ties In the past twenty years. These in
creased facilities, he said, had led the
steamship companies and individual owners
to greater activity in securing business for
their vessels,
In Mr.. fuckers cross-examination by Mr..
Loomis, who represents the New York
Central railway, 1t was brought out that
nearly all the grain or other merchandise
coming into Philadelphia from the west for
foreign export is loaded on vessels at wharves
owned by the Pennsylvania railway. Mr..
Tucker stated that the Pennsylvania COM
pany owned more wharfage than any other
corporation.
Lawrence Johnston of the firm of Lawrence
Johnston & Co. said that In exporting grain
and provisions and importing general
merchandise, he used the New York vessels
for possibly seven-eighths of his business. He
said he found the sailing thare more frequent.
When asked by Mr.. Herman, who represents
the New York Produce exchange, whether or
not he exported grain from southern ports, he
explained that he did not, because of the in
ability to get the sort and quantity of wheat
he needed at any point except New York.
Mr.. Johnston was the first witness to he
directly questioned by members of the COM
mission. In reply to questions from the COM
missioners he said cargoes from South Amer
lea and also from the East Indies can be
brought to New York and then reshipped to
Philadelphia much cheaper than the same
cargoes could be sent directly to Philadel-
phio
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
WHEN IS A WOMAN oLDs
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
This query on my mirror hung:
"NNhen is a woman old?"
1t clings to me and long has clung,
The answer must be told.
All. some are Old b-fore half way,
And some are never old,
For these but laugh life's cares away,
While those both fret and scold.
And yet 1t is no easy task,
However well controlled,
To answer one, IL she should ask.
when is a woman old?"
The graceful ones are all still young.
And those alone are old
Who try to make themselves look young
When age has taken hold.
The oldest ones of all the old
Are those who would look young,
For they will always fret and scold
When ages sign is hung.
AS long as women cling to youth
And disregard their age
They never can be old. forsooth,
Their youth fills up the page.
Yes, some are old before their time
Old age uSurps their youth
And some are young beyond their prime
Unless they hide the truth.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12

The high-handed proceedings Of Will
of mayor in fragrant disregard of law and
in defiance of he expressed will of
the people can not fail to have n per-
nicious effect upon Omaha's reputation
and credit abroad. In fact, it is already
attracting unfavorable comment in all
sections of the country and its protrac-
ton can have NJ other result than hold
ing up Omaha as n center of constant
political disturbance.
With the exposition advertised for
next year and the invitations out for ma
tional conventions and visitors of every
class and description it is essential that
Omlha's good name as a ~law-abiding
and law-respecting community be main
tanned and strengthened. People natu-
rally shun Il place that is known for law
less turmoil or whose people counte-
nance the forcible exclusion of men from
public offices to which they have been
duly elected. Capital avoids investment
where it is not guaranteed the equal en-
forcement of the laws. Omaha has just
voted 5000 of new intersection paving
bonds which it hopes to dispose of to
eastern parties on favorable terms of in
terest and premium ana other bonds for
exposition purposes will have to be
fiOated in the near future. Bond buyers
would hesitate long before they would
put their money in the obligations of Il
city whose chief executive has no claim
to office beyond that of usurper. And the
same thing is true with respect to invest
ments of every kind.
If the bad effect abroad of the lawless
demonstration of eX-Mayor Broatch is TO
be counteracted it must be by making
known throughout the country that the
people of Omaha are practically unani-
nous in repudiating Broatch and indig-
nnntly diSclpiming responsibility for the
outrages he has been perpetrating. 1t
must be made known that our citizens
without respect to party discountenance
and denounce the uncalled-for invasion
OF their city hall by armed police officers
and that they have no sympathy what
ever with the man who has been trying
to hold himself by force In the office of
mayor after the expiration Of his term.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12
THE WORLD GETTING BETTER.
The TohOsGnn slide Notion Confined
to D~SspcDtics
Nrn,,, vprly Jarn1l


A great many p~eople-not all of them af-
ficted with Indigestion or suffering from the
gout-have an impression that more crimes
are committed nowadays than ever before.
They take up their favorite paper in the
morning to see that here, there and pretty
nearly everywhere else is a robber, a pick
pocket or a murderer, and they jump to the
conclusion that the whole world is on a
toboggan slide and going at the rate OF a
mile a minute to the everlasting bow-wows.
We dare to say, however, in spite of all
the mischief in sight, that universal society
is in a healthier, a more progressive. a more
moral and a more hopeful condition than
ever before. There are few new crimes, and
the old ones are daily becoming less numer-
Gus. 1t may take a long time to bring the
millennium to our doors, just as it takes a
long time to bring produce from the west
by slow freight, but the millennium is headed
this way and will get here before we all go
to the sweet by and by.
The important fact to remember is that Thu
is an age OF miracles. If a business defaults
out in Utah it is in type in New York
before 2 O'Clock next morning. Nothing
can be hidden. Every event and every in
cident is flashed through space and the news
paper is the mirror in which the whole world
sees itself every day. Formerly crimes were
not known 1t took time for them to travel,
and before they got anywhere they were for
gotten.
That Is the reason for it all. With less
crime and more publicity the age has a grim
look, and the former age had a pleasant look
simply because 1t didn't know what was go
ing on. You can pack the whole thing in
that nutshell,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12

BY his dignified and manly course In
patiently waiting on the courts to restore
the rights which had been forcibly re-
fused him and to give him e%venhanded
Justice, Mayor Frank Il. Moores has still
further endeared himself I'm the regard
of his fellow citizens and strengthened
their conviction that they made no mis-
take when they elected him to be the
chief executive of their city for the com
Ing three years.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-12

Postmaster General Gary's approval of
postal savings, banks may finally, open the
way for the establishing of those institu-
tions in this country. The, United States
and Switzerland are about the only important
nations in the world in which postal saw
ings banks are not in existence. The sys-
tenn works admirably in almost every coun-
try where it has been tried. and its ad-
vantages are mutual in their benefits TO the
government and the people. Mr.. Wanna
maker made an earnest effort to Introduce
the postal savings bank when he was post
master general, and it would be particularly
gratifying to see his endoavor carried to a
successful conclusion under the direction OF
so worthy a successor as Mr.. Gary.