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Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18

fuel supply Of a nation was involved.
then organized labor would De impo-
tent. In that event no body Of organ
lied labor, however numerous or suf-
fering under whatever injustice Of or
ganized capital, could hope Tor redress.
The caprice Of centralized capital and
monopoly is no redress.
The grudging and reluctant yielding
Of the proprietary corporations in this
case to the demand both of the miners
and Of the public for arbitration is a
confession that a notable change has
come over Industrial conditions, and
that the absolutlsm of corporate greed
can in this age no more be tolerated
than other eighteenth century condi-
lions. The rights of man must be rec.
ognized. Equitable righIs as between
the considerations of great corporations
on the n hand and great ~organiza-
tons of. workingmen on the other must
be more and more taken into consid-
Grafton. 1t is from this broad outlook
that the true significance of the miners
victory for arbitration is to be inter
preted.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
BABYHOOD.
John q, Holland.


What is the little one thinking about?
very wonderful things, no Doubt
unwritten historyl
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he ldughs and cries and eats and
And chuckles and crows and mods and
AS IL his head were as full OF kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinxl
warped by collie and wet by tears,
Punctured by pins and tortured by fears,
Our little nephew will lose two years;
And he'll never know
Where the ummers GO
He need not laugh. for he'll ind It so.
Who can tell what a baby thinks?
Who can follow the gossamer links
BY which the manilin feels his way
Out from the shore OF the great unknown.
Into the light OF day9
Out from the shore OF the unknown sea.
OF the unknown sea that reels and rolls.
speeked with the banks of little souls
Banks that were launched on the other
And slipped from heaven on an ebbing tide!
What does he think OF his mothers eyes?
What does he think OF his mothers hair?
What of the cradle roof that nies
Forward and backward through the air?
What does he think of hts mothers breast.
Bare and beautiful. smooth and white,
Seeking II ever with fresh delight
Cup OF his life and couch Of his rest?
What does he think when her quick EN-
brace
Presses his hand and buries his face
Deep where the ,heartthrobs sink and swell
With q tenderness she can never tell,
Though she murmur the words
OF all the birds
Words she has learned to murmur well?
Now he thinks he'll go to sleepl
i can see the shadow creep
Over his eyes I'm soft eclipse.
over his brow and over his iips.
over IT, little finger tipsl
Softly C.nking, down he goesl
Down he goesl down no goes!
Seel he is hushed In sweet reposol
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
An Ideal President
Kansas City star.


The Impulse Of any professional poll
tician in the position Of President Roose-
welt would have been to shy away from the
Pennsylvania coal strike and to keep hands
on. The one thing that most public men
are more afraid OF than anything else is
Intervention in the differences which fire.
quently arise between labor and capital.
1t is not desirable for a man whose posi-
ton renders him dependent, to a degree,
on popular favor, to antsgonize the ele-
ment which controls the industrial inter-
ests OF the nation, nor Is II expedlent to
invite the displeasure Of the great army
OF voters who earn their living with their
hands.
The first thing which excited popular
admiration In the act of the president In
seeking to hasten a settlement Of the coal
strike was the fine courage he displayed
and his lofty disregard for every consider
alton excepting what he believed to be
his duty In the affair. He was not afraid
and he never is afraid and IL there Is any
quality which the American people honor
and admire 1t Is that. Nobody has ever
seen Theodore Roosevelt beating around a
proposition which he held il to be his duty
to grapple. What really delights him more
than anything else is to try those fine.
positive and masterful powers Of his on
questions and situations which would in
timidate less resolute natures. His con-
hdence in his ability to achieve whatever
he undertakes is justified by results and
is grateful rather than distasteful to the
people.
While President Roosevelt is in no sense
pertinacious or unduly o~ficious. he is, un-
der all circumstances, alive to his official
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
TIE LAK.

The indications are that a very strong
effort will be made at the next session
of congress to repeal the bankruptcy
law, but it seems safe to predict that it
will not be successful. A very consid-
cradle opposition to the law, however,
has developed and there is no doubt that
there will be a considerable pressure in
favor OF doing away with it. The opin-
Ion is general among those who have
carefully studied the operation Of the
act that it needs amendment in a num-
Der Of features, but whether these
changes can be effected without endan-
gering the entire act is a question.
A prominent referee in bankruptcy is
quoted by an eastern paper as express
ing the opinion that the law is, on the
whole, working most satisfactorily. He
points out that under the present act the
results are fairer for all concerned than
under the old system, which was de-
signed to favor creditors in the state
where the failure occurred as against
creditors in other states, by which fraud
and evasion could be freely practiced.
Correcting these abuses is undoubtedly
the great benefit of the new federal
statute, which makes the treatment Of
bankruptcy cases uniform throughout
the country.
The weight of testimony regarding the
operation of the present law, from those
sources which are chiefly concerned
with II, is very much in favor of the act,
but the opposition is undoubtedly strong
and promises to make itself felt at the
coming session Of congress. We do not
think, however, that there is any danger
OF the law being repealed, though it's
modification is very probable.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18

and personal obligations and is ever ready
to fulfill them whatever the political re-
suits may be. This sort Of fiber is found
in statesmen-not in mere politicians. Mr..
Roosevelt took upon himself the task Of
ending the coal strike because It was i'm
p~erative that the hardships by which It
was attended should cease. II was with no
thought as TO whether II would aid or mar
his political fortunes. That cut no figure
in the affair. The result makes his cleo
tion to the presidency in 1904 absolutely
certain, but his line Of procedure would
not have been changed the breadth OF a
hair had he known that the policy he pur-
sued would defeat him. Having put his
hand to the pillow, he had no idea of turn
ing back. He knew he was right and that
with Theodore Roosevelt is to 60 ahead.
The arrogance Of the coal operators was
nothing to him; no more was the obstip-
acy Of the miners. He knew that the
strike would have to cease and he bent
his efforts to that end until he was re-
warded with a triumphant success.
This indomitable display OF honest pur-
pose and this utter absence OF fear in their
president are a Joy and a delight to the
American people and to their enthusiasm
over these superb natural gifts Of charac-
ter they are able to add the high ~felicita-
tion which they feel because Of the pres
ence in the White House Of a gentleman
of learning, breeding and distinction and
Of those excellent antecedents which At the
president for the social duties OF his place
as well as for the high requirements OF
craftsmanship which he meets with such
complete satisfaction to the nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
the POWER or pUsLIc OPrNioN.

THE POWER OF PUBLIC OPINION.
Among the explanations given for the
decision Of the coal operators to submit
to arbitration, not the least interesting
IL the statement that public opinion
had a great influence. II Is said that
II had become obvious to the operators,
In the face Of the rising tide Of public
opinion, that something must be done
TO avert a break In their ranks, which
1t has developed was threatened after
the presidents Of the c~oal-carrying rail-
roads had by their arrogant conduct
virtually insulted and defied the presi-
dent of the United States, who in the
most co~nclliatory and conservative way
sought to avert a national calamity.
The attitude of the coal operators at
their conference with President Roose-
welt was so amazingly audacious and
insolent as to arouse the indignation and
resentment of tile entire country. The
universal feeling was that here was a
combine which, for the first time in our
history, assumed the right to declare
itself Independent Of all law and at the
same time utterly indifferent to the in
terests and welfare of the entire public.
Here was a little coterie of capitalists,
unquestionably prosecuting their bust
ness in violation of both state and fed
eral laws, who assumed to be superior
to wen the chief executive of the ma
ton and called in question his right to
interpose for the purpose of saving mil
lions Of people from the terrible con-
sequences Of a coal famine. The hair
a dozen railroad presidents who con-
troll most of the mines in the anthracite
region had proclaimed themselves the
absolute masters of the situation,
amenable to no power or authority,
state or national, and determined to
have their way at whatever cost or sac
rifice to the public. The miners were
always willing to make a settlement
through arbitration. They understood
their responsibility to the public. They
realized what failure of the supply of
anthracite coal would mean. The op-
orators, however, manifested no con
Germ. The public interest and welfare
caused them no solicitude. They had
but n object in view, that of crushing
the organization of the miners.
In such circumstances it was newt
able that public opinion should be wei.
whelmingly against the coal combine.
Everybody not friendly to monopoly was
compelled to disapprove the position
Of the coal operators as being essen
tally hostile not alone to the interests
of the people, but to the government
itself. This feeling became so strong
that the operators were forced to give
heed to it. They saw in the rising
tide Of popular resentment a power
which they could no longer safely ig-
more. There vas no justification for
their position. They had virtually con-
fessed this when they rejected the prop
osition of the miners TO submit the uues-
tons in controversy to arbitration, and
when they at last found that practi-
cally the whole people were against
them they did what they Should have
done In the first place. There has
rarely been a more striking example OF
the power Of public opinion. rar
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
MEANING OF rHE MlNERS, VIcroRr.

Whatever the finding of the arbitra.
tors appointed by President Roosevelt
may be In the end, the agreement Of
the parties to arbitrate is, under all the
circumstances, a signal victory for the
striking miners, but a faE greater vic
tory for organized labor. While the
miners indeed made specific demands
upon the proprietary companies, the
vital point ON which they stood was
arbitration. From the outset they dis
tinctly diselaimed the purpose arbitrarily
to enforce their demands, but they have
stood firmly to the principle that the
decision must be left to an impartial
tribunal, independent Of d~ictation by
the proprietary companies as we'll as
by the organized miners themselves.
1t was on the peremptory refusal of
the mine operators to arbitrate the dis
pute after they had rejected the miners
demands that the latter struck. The
far-reaching effect OF the dispute, pro-
foundry Affecting the public interest,
necessarily lifted the case above the in
terests Of the miners Immediately con
cerned and really made II the cause
Of organized labor generally. II there
was nothing to arbitrate when an or
ganiEed body OF 100000 employees seri-
OusIy set forth It's rights. and when the
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18

Of Omaha does not have a bona ide dis
tribution each day Of the year, not ex-
Guiding Sunday, under the counters Of
scent lunch houses. news agents and
dealers in waste paper and ~circulates ex-
clusiyely steens Of thousands Of copies
carefully wrapped in original packages
that do not have the finger marks of any
reader from the press room of the pub
fishing concern to numerous news depots
and agencies and back from their place
of destination to their place of origin.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18

Refuting the assertion that he has
been exacting money payment for his
campaign speeches, Colonel William
Jennings Bryan insists that during the
past six years he has given more than
$4,000 to the various fusion committees
as his contribution toward the campaign
funds, irrespective of the personal serv-
ice he has rendered. 1t is to be noted
that the six. years during which Mr..
Bryan has been such a liberal on
tributor to the campaign funds are the
six years since the election of Nc
Kinley and the restoration of the coun-
try to republican control. People can
only guess how much Mr.. Bryan might
have been able to contribute had the
country remained under the pail of hard
times that enveloped it during the last
democratic administration.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
MERCER SHOULD WITHDRAW.

The republicans of this congressional
district are entitled to be represented
in the next congress by a republican.
The district has been republican for
ten years and would elect a republican
this year if he had the undivided sup
port of the party.
The candidacy of David II. Mercer
for a sixth term has been a menace to
party success from the outset of the
campaign. For a number of years he
has not been q resident of the district
and had ceased to be identified with it's
people. Although he has been honored
beyond his deserts by the republicans
and has been kept in congress longer
than any other man who has ever filled
a seat in the house from this state, his
political activity has been confined to
his own personal interest. He has
never helped a republican candidate for
any other office or paid his campaign
assessments even in years when he was
running for reelection. While he has
done some good work in procuring ap-
BlOpI lulIOuSf HIS CluiIlS VI cAtIdOTuludIy
service have been magnifed out of all
proportion. Even conceding all that
is claimed for him by his corporation
hackers, his failure to explain away his
indefensible conduct in the matter of
pocketing money appropriated for clerk
hire, his distribution Of cadetships to
personal and political favorites and his
notorious subserviency to the railway
corporations, as shown in the Mercer
Baldwin alliance, made his candidacy
extra hazardous to the republicans.
But aside from all these offensive
features, the disclosures that Mercer
owes his denomination TO fragrant frauds
perpetrated in his behalf at the repub-
lican primaries in Omaha by the importa-
ton of nonresident repeaters from Iowa,
certified to by perjured af1davits, by
wholesale corruption and by coercion of
voters employed by railroad corporations
and their dependents, Justify the re-
~pudiation of his nomination by the re-
publican rank and file. Fraud ~vitiates
all contracts and destroys the binding
force of all political obligations. A
candidate fOisted upon the ticket by
lawless agencies and corrupt means has
no legitimate claims for party support.
If David H.. Mercer has any regard for
the republican party, If he has any
gratitude for the favors received at its
hands, by which he has drawn more
than $4,000 from the national treas
ury, IL he sincerely wants a republican
to represent this district in the next
congress, let him withdraw and allow
the congressional committee to select
a reputable republican who can COM
mand the support OF all elements of the
party. The responsibility for the criti-
cal situation in this district is upon Mer-
Ger and he can not shift it upon those
who refuse to be d~ragooned into the
endorsement and ratification of the
frauds and unrepublican means by
which he was foisted upon the ticket.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18

One thousand dollars in gold, silver,
~greenbacks, national currency or bank
able paper wiz be paid at sight to any
advertisers OF consumption or cancer
cures, vendors of liver pads, galvanized
watch cases, SURE hair restoratives, cures
for total blindness. patent nOstrums OF
every description, or distributors Of gold
bricks, upon the production of indelIble
proof that the juniory afternoon yellow
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
AMENITIES OF THE GAME.
coartesies ON he eridirOn
an Omaha.
Chicago Tribune.


Chicago Tribune.
The foot ball encounter at Omaha on
Tuesday between teams from the Uni
verslty Of South Dakota and the Omaha
Medical college seems to have been ideal
30 far as the amenities Of the game are
concerned. The South Dakotans belng
visitors and guests, the Omaha NEEDLES &C
corded TO them special courtesies. Long
before the game was finished they had
broken the South Dakota captains shoul-
der blade. After this was done and the
captain was CARRIED of the field on a
stretcher they broke Player Thompson's
rib and he waas carried OF the field. Not
content Will this, they broke more or less
less legs and arms belonging to three
other players and they we're carried of
the field. when they had left a sufficient
number Of the South Dakota warriors hors
de combat the needles turned in and won
the game, but not before another gentle
man had been knocked senseless. The
needles may have thought they we're paying
the South Dakotans too many compli-
ments. In any event, the umpire, who was
from Brown college. was singled out for
their delicate attention and because Of a
decision which did not suit them he was
promptly knocked out by a blow on the
jaw and carried of the field on a stretcher.
Had not the remainder Of the South Da-
kotans been so completely overcome by the
hospitality and courtesy OF their Omaha
hosts that they could offer no resistance
It is probable all would have been carried
of the field as conspicuous subjects for a
clinic at the omaah Medical college. As
IL is. broken legs. arms and shoulder
blades and dislocated knees. hips and ell
bowl will remind them for some time Of
the enjoyable game they had at Omaha.
AS all this is part OF the game,' OF
course no criticism can be made upon It
from a professional point Of view. II the
South Dakota victims recognize 1t as part
of the game" no one need sympathize with
them, whatever may be his opinion OF
Omaha brutality. It seems, however. a lit
tie like straining the amenities Of the
noble game to extend them TO the umpire.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18


Ex-Councilman Frank B. Kennard is
quoted as saying hat he regards the
publicity given by The Bee to his come
ton with the election frauds perpe-
trated in the Fourth ward as a piece of
impertinence. Mr.. Kennard evidently
has a very queer conception of the func-
tons of the press. Mr.. Kennard GER
tainly must know that under our laws
men are responsible for the consequences
Of their acts. When Mr.. Kennard certi-
fed under oath that w. s. Esancy was
known to him as a legal voter of the
Fourth ward, he was presumed to know
the man he vouched for. But there is
abundant proof that this man Esancy,
sworn to as a legal voter and citizen
by Mr.. Kennard and John G.. Kuhn,
was travelling under an assumed name
and gave a false address to the
election board. Consequently, he laid
himself and his hackers justly liable
to prosecution under the election
laws the same as any nonresident
who should vote at a regular election
under an assumed name. The law is no
respecter of persons. Mr.. Remarks
prominence in politics or business does
not shield him from the consequences of
his acts and there is no more reason
why publicity Of his lawless and repre-
hensible conduct should be suppressed
than there is for the failure of the law
officers to prosecute the case under any
pretext. The affidavit with Mr.. Ken
nard's name is on file, the poll list Of the
Fourth ward shows that w. S. Esancy
voted on that affidavit. The fact that
nobody by the name of Esancy ever
lived at 1913 Howard street can readily
be -substantiated by parties who have
lived there for several years and vacated
the premises three days before the
primary.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
Prophecies that Failed.
New York TRIBUNE.

new York IrIbune,
The Cassandras who, with long faces and
somber looks, predicted years ago that the
telegraph business in the United States
would soon be made Improbable by the i'm
provement and development OF the telephone
service may possibly have been a little con-
fused, II not COMPOUNDED, when they read the
official figures OF the annual report Of the
principal telegraph corporation Of America.
This report showed an increase OF more than
81, 200. 900 in gross receipts and more than
100000 in net earnings. Evidently the tele-
graph will not be displaced by the tele-
phone for some years 10 come.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18

A Baltimore paper has discovered a
party Of six Nebraska people looking
up farm conditions in Maryland with a
view of migrating to that state. These
Nebraska people must be contemplating
going into oyster farming, because II
they expected to live by tilling the soil
they would never think of exchanging
Nebraska's fertile prairies for Maryland
land that has to be kept productive by
the constant application Of artificial
fertilizers.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
A Nation of Letter Writers.
New York Tribune.

This is a nation OF letter writer's. Other
wise the estimate OF the postmaster general
OF the entire appropriation for postmasters
In the United States would not approach
the total Of SAC. 2s5 .22O for the next fiscal
year, nor the complete sum OF mail ex'
penditures exceed that amount by scores OF
millions. In such a time OF prosperity ae
this the revenues Of our postal system are
colossal, and by no means disproportioDats
to the outlay. II is a huge department
with activities so manifold and muitifarious
as almost TO beggar description. II was
never more popular and never more sue
eessfuI than II 10 now.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18

One noticeable change in the operation
of the registration law is visible.
Whereas at first voters were averse to
answering the question going to their
party affiliations as an intrusion into
their personal affairs, they now respond
as a matter Of course, those refusing to
answer being really those who have no
definite party affiliations. The registra-
ton returns, however, have not always
proved an accurate index of the vote at
the polls, and whether they are also
changing in this respect remains to be
seen. Party utilization no longer means
hidebound subserviency to party labels.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18

The Pennsylvania National Guard,
whose full force was called into the
anthracite field, can now fold its tents
and return home. But these thousands
of soldiers who have been under arms
for a long time will cost the state an
immense sum-. Every dollar could have
been saved had the coal corporations
at the outset submitted to arbitration.
The whole needless waste falls upon the
mass of the taxpayers and no on the
corporations, who pay a comparatively
small proportion of the taxes.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
A Prophet and His Meat.
Philadelphia Record.

Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson cheeTfully
predicts that about the Christmas holidays
there win be a decline in the prices Of
meat throughout the country. Should the
secretary fail with most Of the rest OF the
prophets there is comfort in the reflection
that by the time mentioned a good many
more people will have learned to do without
their accustomed beefsteaks.