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Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
CATTLENEN ARE OBJECTING
Opposed to Change in Rates Made by Rail-
roads for Hauling Live Stock
RAILROAD MANAGER EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS
Asserts that Change Is n business
Proposition and that the Cattle
shippers VIII Not Sufrer Mn-
terIuIIy Increased Charges.

Cattlemen throughout the west are aroused
to a considerable extent in opposition to the
recent change inaugurated by the railroads
west OF the Missouri river, whereby the
transportation OF cattle is charged for by
weight instead OF by the car, as heretofore
They assert that this change will result in
an increase of the charges OF the railroad
companies. Especial opposition to the new
method of computing freight tarifIs on the
movement OF live stock is manifested in
Kansas and 1t is asserted that suits will be
instituted in the courts of that state to de-
termine whether or not the railroads have
the right to make such change in their
tariffs.
Regarding this matter, one OF the leading
railroad managers of the west says: The
reason for changing the method is not based
on desire to receive greater compensation
for the service performed although there Is
no other business that we do west OF the
Missouri river that yields as lit
tie profit to the carrier as the
transportation of live stock while on the
other hand there is no other pursuit that
the farmer can follow that will yield him
the same profits. The railroads give the
live stock business an accelerated speed,
use cars of special design, and are obliged
III most CdSeS 10 run tne CATS WestuouHu
empty
The chief reason for our wish to make
the change in the method of charging for
transportation of live stock is that it is the
only just way in which to assess the charges.
If one shipper with less humanity than
another insists on crowding more cattle in
car than his neighbor does, ought he not
be made to pay for 1t, and is not the car
rier entitled TO receive more compensation
for hauling $4,000 pounds of stock than 1t
receives for transporting 10000 pounds?"
This official asserts that the plan Of charge
by weight has been in general operation in
all sections OF the country to large extent.
He says that all cattle arriving in Chicago
is charged and has been charged for in ac-
cordance with it's weight for the last ten
years. Cattle consigned to the St. Paul
stock yards are paid for in this manner, and
all cattle shipped from Mississippi river
points and east thereof to New York and
other eastern markets pays tribute to car
rier by weight.
Charging by weight" he continues,
takes away the premium that has always
existed on overlooking cattle and is proper
measure to adopt as prevention of cruelty
to animals. So far as it is possible the new
rates will be so arranged that there will be
no change in the charges for an average
carload, but necessarily in the readjustment
of these rates there will be some instances
where there are reductions. while in other
cases there will be an increase, although as
a general proposition the change is not made
for the purpose of increasing our earnings,
but because as a business proposition it is
a proper change to make"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
JnmN INsLnN NAM.

New York Tribune; In poverty or riches
in youth or age. he was the same sturdy
modest man, careless OF appearance and
Indifferent to mere show. His life was one
long sustained and well directed effort at
the accomplishment OF substantial results
and 1t pleased him to be able to use the
fruits Of these results to help smooth the
path for others
Philadelphia Record The death at a ripe
old age OF John |. Blair, at his home in
Blairstown, n. j. yesterday, removed
picturesque and historic figure from a sphere
Of activity and influence in which he had
been oyermastering and predominant for
more than two generations. He was one
of Americas original railway kings, a pio-
neer in the greatest development of inland
transportation that the world ever saw
Baltimore American: A study of his
career shows how great fortune can be
made in America in thoroughly legitimate
manner. He did not spend his time corner
ing markets, wrecking railroads or specu-
lating in uncertain stocks. His wealth
came as a result of industry, thrift, a clear
head natural business tact and deter
mination to make the most of every op-
portunity that came his way. Among
Americas many millonaires. John l. Blair
one who had right to his large fortune.
Buffalo Express: This poor boy who,
beginning work at IL years, lived to own
railroads, aid powerfully in developing the
great west, and lend his government $1,000,
600 to help in putting down rebellion, was
an American. Other countries than ours can
show poor boys who have risen to great
wealth, like Sir Thomas Upton. But the
United States turns out so many men OF
this sort, is so productive of the necessary
combination of energy and intelligence and
offers so many opportunities that a career
like Mr.. Blair's can truly be called typ
ically American.
Philadelphia Press: Mr.. Blair's career
and its results beat home with special force
the thought that the American republic is
opportunity. At no time in his life was he
given over to the cosmopolitan craze whose
centripetal forces drag the man OF wealth
into the whirl of activities that lead too
often to physical wreckage and disaster.
To his dying day he was in many respects
of the yeomanry and, not unlike a financial
Antaeus, in the rustic surroundings of his
village home he gained the energy that not
only prolonged his life, but made him in his
prime man who knew what he wanted and
never failed to accomplish his purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
SOLDERING IN LUZON.

Washington Post: Lieutenant Munroe
gave the Filipinos a fair idea of the Ameri-
can practice of four-fushing.
Globe Democrat: The 800 Tagals at
Bayombong who agreed to surrender if to
a superior force made no mistake in not
stopping to count the advance guard. There
are 10000 American soldiers behind the
cavalry squad that first reached the town.
Baltimore American: Lieutenant Gill
more, who objected to being shot when his
hands were tied, has added another phrase
to Americas stock of heroic sayings. But
the average man would have just as serious
objections to being shot with his hands
united
indianapolis Journal: Nothing can stop
American soldiers. The battle of Look out
Mountain was fought above the clouds, that
Of Missionary Ridge on a steep mountain
side and Colonel Bells routing of the in
surgent Filipinos was on mountain top SO
inaccessible that they had not even deemed
it necessary to fortify.
Philadelphia Press Lieutenant Munroe's
feat at Bayombong, in the province of Nueya
Viscaya, on November 2S, when with but
fifty men he secured the surrender Of $50
Tagal officers and men, is one of the most
eXhilarating as well as most diverting
episodes of the war. Bayombong is in
the mountains, about fifty miles from
Tayug, Lawton's headquarters over very
poor trails. Reinforcements he could not
expect, and to gain the surrender ty
strategy in the amusing manner recounted
in the dispatches makes Munroes feat the
most telling event in the November cam
paign, since it ends Tagal opposition in the
northeast. And what a splendid campa gn
it has been
Buffalo Express: Lieutenant Munroe's eX-
plot recalls that of Ensign Curtin, an un-
kissed hero of the war with Spain. Ensign
Curtin, whose length of service for Uncle
Sam about equals that of Lieutenant
landed from a war ship at the port
of Ponce, and sent an ultimatum by tele-
phone to the Spanish commander at Pln,e
The negotiations thus begun ended in the
bloodless surrender of Ponce, and the hello"
method of conducting military operations
was formally established We are sorry
to terrify the effete monarchies of Europe;
but we will remark in confidence that our
army and navy are full of young Munroes
and Curtns, who have learned-somehow,
game of bluff.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
MODERN CITY WIRES.
Constant Vigilance Needed to Prevent
Property Loss.

IOStOu I lIduSNllpls
Every large fire like every other destruc-
tive visitation, is instructive and ought TO
teach something. That which occurred .he
other morning at Philadelphia is no excep-
ton. and its lesson or it's demonstration is
that the Quaker City is behind the time in
the regulation Of her electrical forces. Since
electricity has been in such common use for
such variety of purposes 1t has been
fruitful source of fires some of them very
large ones. II was probably an errant cur
rent that started the Thanksgiving day hre
in this city ten years ago, and 1t is stated
with even more certainty that the Wednes-
day fire in Philadelphia was similarly caused.
To guard against the possibility of such acci-
dents is not easy, but inspection can be so
thorough that they will be very rare.
Had the system of wire inspection been
as effective ten years ago in this city as 1t
has since become we should have escaped one
disastrous fire and doubtless more than one,
for defective installations were then very
common, and as the fire usually destroyed
the evidence in electrical cases. many mys-
terious blaze doubtless owed its start to this
cause. But 1t was stated that the tangle Of
wires in Philadelphia on one side OF the fire
seriously obstructed the efforts of the fire.
men. Perhaps the publishing house or
portion of 1t might have been saved but for
that fact. That would indicate that Phila-
dephia is not up to date in putting her wires
underground. Until she attends to that very
self-evident and practical duty she will con-
tinue to have trouble just as Boston had it.
1t cost this city millions to learn the les
son. Philadelphia is perhaps paying even
more dearly for her experience and appar-
emily learning more slowly. Electricity is
splendid servant, but unless it is directed by
vigilant overseers 1t can energize for de-
struction as we'll as for legitimate service.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
personal AND OTHERWISE.

The state of Missouri is to take STEPS
against the lead combine, which Is in the
nature of a "lead-pipe cinch."
The exposure of the Franklin syndicate
operations helps to account for the success
of the bunco game. There seems to be no
limit to the number of possible come ons."
Both this year and last the largest Thanks
giving turkeys received as gifts at the
White House came from Luke Lonsdale Of
North stonington, Conn. Each weighed
twenty-eight pounds.
Governor Stone Of Pennsylvania is of the
opinion, and expresses it frankly and
openly, that every husband should deed to
his wife the homestead she being the queen
of the home and entitled to it.
Hon. Patrick Collins, democratic candi-
date for mayor of Boston, declined an invl-
tation to attend a meeting of the working
mems political league, saying that he has
been overworked with invitations of late"
and has been compelled to decline all of a
social character-or die"
Mayor Samuel NJ. Jones of Toledo says
that his personal outlay in his campaign as
an Independent aspirant for the governor
ship of Ohio amounted to $500 and that his
nonpartisan campaign committee paid out
81 ,S66. Not another dollar, he says, was
expended, directly or indirectly
The long cherished tradition that an in
ventor of a great labor-saying device sell
dom or never reaps the full reward of his
invention Is effectually exploded by the fact
that Mergenthaler, the inventor of the most
popular typesetting machine died a mil
lionaire instead OF in poverty as reported,
Governor Mount of Indiana is personally
supervising an elaborate exhibit for his
state at the Paris exposition. One of the
features of this will be a series of large
photographs to show the progress of the
good roads" movement in Indiana where
there are now $4,000 miles of graded and
grayeled highway.
Ex-senator John NJ Palmer Of Chicago,
who is now SO years old is In Washington
gathering material for his forthcoming book
OF recolections. As an Illinois lawyer in
ante bellum times, an Cfflcer who served
throughout the rebellion, governor Of Hi
nos and United States senator he is able
to look back upon a long and eventful life.
Lieutenant Harry H. Caldwell, who was
Deweys naval secretary, lives in Quincy,
Ill, by which town he was given an ovation
last week and presented with a sword
Lieutenant Caldwell when he took his ex-
an nation for Annapolis, earned his living
out OF school hours by carrying papers, hay-
ing had one Of the largest routes" In the
city,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06

called there by the serious uucss Of his
mother.
E IL Wood general freight agent Of the
Union Pacific went Monday night to Chi
cago to attend meeting Of general freight
officials TO discuss rates.
A homesocEers' excursion to the south
furnished the occasion for a large number
Of passengers to leave over the Burlington
yesterday for points in Texas and Ar
kansas.
]. II. Allen travelling freight agent of the
Missouri Pacific Is acting as chief clerk tn
the local offices during the absence OF
chief Clerk Lester McCoun In San AM
tonic. Tex.
H. j. Slifer, the new superintendent OF
90 Northwestern at Boone, is visitor Tn
the city. Previous to his recent promo
tion he had charge Of the engineering work
on the Northwestern double trackage im
provements through Iowa.
Railroad officials i'm charge OF the Bur
lington and Union depots state that the
information published to the effect that
uniform charge of so cents would be made
for transferring trunks from one depot to
the other is wrong Instead the charge
will be 25 cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
DECLINE IN CHILD LABOR,
"CheaD" Labor that Proved Too Costly
to Last.

Chicago Times-Herald.
The friends OF the children, particularly
those who have been actively interested in
promoting legislation for Their protection,
will be glad to learn from statistics recently
gathered by the New York Journal of Com
merce that child labor is rapidly decreasing.
gratifying feature of the data presented
by the journal of Commerce is the fact that
this decrease is not entirely the result of re-
strictive legislation, but results largely from
the discovery by manufacturers that the low
priced labor of children is not economical
AS proof of the tendency of manufacturers
to discard child labor as Improbable 1t Is
noted that the state labor commissioner OF
North Carolina recently reported that, COM
pairing this year with 1896, there has been
an increase of 100 per cent in the
number of men employed in cotton
factories, of 80 per cent in the number OF
women employed and a decrease of nearly
one-half in the number of children employed
The fact that the number of men increased
much faster than the number of women dis
closes remarkable drift in the direction of
higher grade labor in an industry which has
heretofore been the heaviest employer of
cheap labor, because of the use of highly per-
fected automatic machinery 1t has been
found that tending machinery at the high
speed at which ii is usually operated in
wolves close attention, and the natural care
lessness CT children is therefore the cause Of
considerable direct loss in the course of a
year, which is not compensated for by the
low scale of remuneration.
That the tendency is to do away with child
labor in the cotton mill industry of the
south, where the mills are not hampered by
the restrictive legislation of the New Eng
land states, is mcst marked is highly highly
significant. The decline in the number of
children employed cannot be attributed to
labor legislation in the southern states, II
is the result of economic conditions.
The percentage OF child labor in Massa-
chusetts decreased from 4,92 IN 1880 to 1.S4
in 1890, while during the same period the
percentage of child labor In Illinois dropped
from 6.l7 to 1.SS, From an Industrial stand
pcint the mcst interesting feature Of the
federal census of 1900 will be It's revelations
the decline OF child labor In the
various states.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06


The announcement of the death of NJ.
L. Hayward although not unexpected,
will cause profound sorrow among the
people of Nebraska. Elected to repre-
sent this commonwealth in the councils
of the nation, he was stricken on the
threshold and called to another sphere
before he had been able to enter ac-
lively upon the duties of his high office.
Locating in Nebraska just as it was
about to enter into the sisterhood of
states, NJ. l., Hayward at once took rank
with its most eminent and enterprising
citizens and was chosen one of the franz
ers of the constitution, under which we
have lived since 1875, in recognition of
his talents and high standing in the
community in which he had made his
home. During more than a quarter of
a century NJ. L. Hayward has been
prominent figure in the political arena
and one of the trusted leaders of the re-
publican party, which in 1893 honored
him by unanimous nomination as it's
candidate for governor. AS the stand
ard bearer in that fierce campaign he
bore the brunt of battle and became the
logical choice of the legislature for the
highest honor within the gift of the
state.
That he would have discharged the
duties of that high office with becoming
dignity and with distinction and that
he would have devoted his best talents
to the service of the nation, state and
his party cannot be doubted. AS citi-
zen and soldier he had always been pa
triotic and as a partisan he had always
unfalteringly devoted his best energies
to his party's success.
1t is to be deplored for the sake of the
people of Nebraska as much as that of
the party for which he stood that his
career has been cut short when he was
in position to have rendered them many
years of valuable service. To the repub-
lican party especially the death of Sen
atOr Hayward is a disaster whose far
reaching consequences cannot be esti-
mated in view of the impending national
campaign in which Nebraska is almost
certain to be the focal point.
The memory of NJ. l.. Hayward is,
however, safely enshrined in the hearts
of the people and his life's work will
form part of the imperishable history of
the state he loved so well.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06

The French iron founders object to the
new commercial treaty with the United
States because it will admit American iron
into competition with their own product and,
they fear, to their disadvantage. This op-
position is natural and was to be expected
No treaty OF the kind can give universal
satisfaction. 1t must bear hard on some
interests, permanently or temporarily, and
1t is the business of the contracting govern
ments to so arrange it's details as to benefit
the greatest number. There are Americans
who object to the treaty on the same princi-
pie as the French iron masters, but they
must come under the same rule
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
AN ANTITRUST DECISION

The decision of the supreme court of
the United States against the combina-
tion of pipe manufacturers, on the
ground that it was in restraint of in
terstate commerce, is victory for the
act of 1890 that gives it fresh vitality
and encourages the hope that it may
be found effective against other trusts
whose operations put Il restraint upon
trade between the states. The pipe
combination was peculiar and we do
not know that there is another one like
it in the country, but unquestionably
there are others which, while not con
Quoting business on the plan of the pipe
trust, are none the less restricting and
restraining commerce between the
states and therefore amenable TO the
antitrust law. The decision of the
court in this ease seems TO be broad
enough TO apply to a number Of existing
combinations of which 1t can certainly
be shown that they are destructive of
competition and thereby restrain trade
and obtain increased prices for them
selves, If we understand the language
of the decision most of the trusts and
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
Methuen and His Megnphone.

CHlCdSO CnrOnlCle.
Particulars of the battle of Modder river
will no doubt show it to have besn a des-
perate struggle, but they certainly will not
justify Lord Methuens somber declaration
that the battle was the blcodiest of the
century. The patriotic occupation of man
killing has scored many greater triumphs
during the last 100 years. Austerltz, Jena,
Friedland and Auerstadt were slaughters
compared to which Modder river is insg-
nifcant. Coming down to Sedan and
Gravelotte we find similar wholesale kill
ings. Plevna was a shambles. In our own
civil war there were battles in which the
casualties numbered more than the British
and Boer forces combined. The percentage
of loss at Modder river may have been
high, but the actual killings and wouni l.
ings are trifling when placed against the
gigantic achievements of dozen generals
whom any one can name.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
Illinois CentraI's New ONCE.

The office on the northwest corner of
Fourteenth and Farnam streets is being
prepared for the local freight and passen-
ger departments of the Illinois Central rail
read, which will be established January J.
The room to be used for this purpose is not
as commodious as most of the other railroad
offices in the city, but 1t will be conveniently
arranged and its location in the midst OF
the other uptown railroad offices makes It
most desirable one. The new Illinois Cen,
tral headquarters will be opened without
fail January ] and it is expected that on
that date the first Chlcago-Omaha passenger
train over that line will enter this city.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06
Making Wars impossible.

There is French proposition to build a
heet of submarine boats of the Goubet
type" to blow the hostile hatteships out
OF the sea- If only half of what is claimed
for the submarine boats is true, 1t will
probably do more to make future wars
impossible than all that peace conventions
can ever accomplish. But soon we will
have new year. What will it bring? Let
us hope that it may be peace and pros
perity among the nations. Then submarine
boats may all go fishing or photograph
ing mermaids at the bottom of the sea-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06

With deficit of over 100000 staring
it in the face the school board is hardly
warranted in investing $1,000 in guns
cadets. The cadets have gotten along
for several years without guns and still
made a fine showing as disciplined
body, and do not seem to be suffering
any more now from their lack than they
have since the organization of the bat
talon. The guns will wait. At any
rate an effort should have been made to
procure the guns from the state or ma
tional governments.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06

Resist the Combine on Pacific Coast
Mnd Eastern Bnsiness.


DENVER, Dec. 5.-(Specal Telegram. y
Colorado roads have agreed to fight the
combines on Pacific coast and eastern busi-
ness between the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific railroads on one side and
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe on the
other. Representatives of the western
roads who were at the meeting in Chicago
last week, with the Rock Island and Bur
lington officials have returned to Denver
and say there will be no submission and
that the aggressive policy to be inaugu-
rated under the new agreement will be as
aggressively resisted. Whatever the Colo
rado lines do they are forced at Ogden to
turn their passengers over to the Southern
Pacific, If bound for California or to the
Oregon Short Line, controlled by the Union
Pacific, if destined for the northwestern
Pacific coast. What will be done is prob
lematical, but it is said the aggressive az
tion on the part of the Burlington Ro5k Is
land-Rio Grande Western combine will be
inaugurated by a fast through train from
Chicago TO San Francisco, making the same
time and better at the same tariff rates
per ticket as the service now on the Union
Pacific Southern Pacific line. The Union
Pacific asserts it can reduce the rapid serv-
ice it is now furnishing.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-06

combinations are violating the anti
trust law.
At all events. the decision gives a
vitality to existing legislation which 1t
was thought to have been deprived of
by the decisions of some of the lower
courts and this is matter of no small
significance. II warrants the hope that
the federal authorities will now take
steps to further test the application of
the act of 1890, which it is possible
may yet be found sufficient for the sup
preston of the more dangerous combi-
nntinns