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Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
THE DENVER CONTEMPT oAsD

There is one important direction in
which all good citizens are agreed as to
the righteousness of government by in
junction, and that is where, as In the
case presented at Denver, public off,
GERS enter into conspiracy to betray
their trust.
The franchise pending before the city
council of Denver for a traction COM
pany had assumed the proportions of a
scandal. The very terms in which 1t
was drawn were scapdalous, and the
methods by which it was sought to en-
chain the public for a long period were
even worse. 1t was believed by prac-
tically the whole community, on eVi-
dence which could not be doubted, that
corrupt gang within. the council had
been procured by criminal inducements
to pass the ordinance in its original
fragrant form as drawn by the attor.
neys Of the corporation, to whose treas
ury it meant hundreds of thousands OF
dollars at the expense of the public
Nevertheless, the council had the au.
dacity to pass the rotten measure and
the mayor to sign it, in the very teeth
Of the specific injunction which the
court had issued upon a full and glaring
showing of the facts, these officers In
stantly absconding to distant parts like
| ticket-of-leave men.
But the serious point is that the sen
tence Of Imprisonment for three months
which has been passed is no adequate
penalty for such crime and no remedy
whatever for the injury inflicted. NJ
punishment could be too severe and n,
process to summary for all the partici
pants, whether the guilty officials o.
corrupt promoters.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
AN 1MprptNr nLutFcALLEp.

About eight years ago the publisher Of
the World-Herald sought to play high
handed confidence game,on Omaha mer-
chants by bogus circulation claims. The
impudent bluff was called by the de-
posit of n certified check for $1,000,
president Of the Nebraska National
bank, to be paid to G. NJ. Hitchcock in
fractions of 1000 on five separate propo-
sitions that the bona fide circulation of
South Omaha overlapped by many thou
sands that Of The Evening World-Her-
aid, The Morning World Herald, or both
combined. The money remained in the
hands of Mr.. Yates for thirty days with
out even an effort on the part of Mr..
Hitchcock to claim the reward on any
one of the FIVE different propositions.
Thus the bubble was pricked and the
bogus claimant subsidized for a few
years.
The confidence game attempted to be
played upon advertising patrons in gen.
eral and applicants for liquor license
in particular by bogus claims and fake
affidavits has forced The Bee to prod
the inflated double-ender balloon and let
the gas out of it.
The offer made by The Bee Publishing
company is made in good faith and with
out mental reservation or evasion of any
kind, and will stand until New Years or
longer, If necessary. The Bee is pre-
pared to submit to the referees named in
its reward offer the lists of subscribers
secured by nearly 100 carriers in home
to-home canvass. If the World Herald
has anything more than brass to support
its claims, its publisher will have no
trouble in earning $1,000 between now
and Christmas.
If the combined bona fide circulation
of The Morning World-Herald and Even
ing World-H Herald, which he is pleased
to call The Daily World Herald, ap-
proximates 1900 in Douglas county, as
is claimed by his circulation fakirs, 1t
will be an easy thing for him to furnish
the lists. AS soon as they are verified
he will get 81 for every name he pre-
sents in excess of 5000, and make more
money than he could get out of the
liquor dealers advertising before OF
after dividing with his side partner in
the bluff, who prints the junior after.
noon paper in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
WHAT THE INDIANS HAVE COST.
Millions Spent in subdulng and Con-
trolling the Noble Reds.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
The commissioner of Indian AFFAIRS saws
that from the founding of the government
down to 1890 $S45, ,00O, 900 was spent In sub
DUNG and controlling the Indians and S24O.-
900, 900 for the education and care Of their
children. This is a large bill, though 1t
is not to be compared with that for the
civil war. The commissioners figures do
not give the full cost Of the subiugation Of
the Indians. So that white men might oc-
cuUy this continent in peace Indian wars
began soon after colonies were founded in
Virginia and New England, and were car
ried on at intervals during a century and
a half of colonial existence. To find what
it really cost to get rid OF the Indians 1t
will be necessary to add to the expendi
lures OF the national government those Of
the colonies and also those OF the British
government prior to the Declaration OF In
dependence. Allowance must be made also
for the fact that the purchasing power of
money was greater two and a half CEN
turtles ago than it is now and that an ex-
penditure Of 81 900 in King Philips war
meant much more than an expenditure Of
81 900 in modern Indian war. From first
to last the Indians have cost the whites a
sum out OF all proportion to their num-
bers. 1t has been no simple matter to
make this country an abode for civilized
men.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
MAKING SLOW PROGRESS.

Rather slow progress is being made
in the anthracite coal strike investiga-
ton and it is announced that at least
three weeks more will be consumed in
taking testimony, but the disposition of
the commission to get at all the facts
necessary to a complete and clear under
standing of the issues in controversy,
however long it may take to do this,
is to be commended. The evidence
which has been submitted on the part
of the miners has disclosed a condition
Of affairs which every right-minded
American citizen must deplore and there
seems no reason to doubt the authen-
ticity or truthfulness of what has been
told the commission by these witnesses.
Indeed, much of 1t was known before
by the miners in regard to the danger
and hardship of their toll and the pov-
erty and suffering among them con-
firms what had been given to the public
by newspaper correspondents and other
investigators.
There appears to be no promise of
settlement of the controversy through
negotiations between the operators and
the miners. The former persist in the de-
termination not to recognize the miners
union and there is not the least proba-
bility that they will change their atti-
tude in this respect 1t has been re-
ported that the principal attorney for
the mine owners, Mr.. Wayne MacVeagh,
was displeased with their position, but
If so that fact is not likely to exert any
influence with them. They especially
object to Mr.. Mitchell, yet If he should
withdraw as the representative of the
miners there is no assurance that the
operators would then make a settle
ment- Meanwhile the effect of a short
age in the coal supply and the conse-
quent high price of fuel is widely felt
and the suffering already foreshadows
what may be expected before the end
of winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
Personal NOTES.

Secretary Shaw reports that Uncle Sam
has money to incinerate, although
good deal has been burned in the past
year.
Frederick X. Landis, the newly elected
member of the Eleventh Indiana district.
will be the youngest member of the next
house.
Representative Lanham of Texas. who
has been elected governor OF his state. will
resign his seat in the house early in
January.
President Roosevelt very properly in
sists that officers in the army SHALL not
wear the derby hat and tan shoes with the
army blouse.
On Christmas, 1900, Peter Carroll gave
500 turkeys to the poor of Cleveland: in
1901 Sheriff Barry contributed an addi
tional 500, and this year Congressman Beid-
Ter having Joined the other two. 1900 turk
eys will be distributed.
w. L. Ray, a grandson of Greenwood
LAHORE, the Choctaw chief who negotiated
for the treaty by which the tribe ceded
it's lands in Mississippi, will present
portrait Of the chief to the gallery OF por-
traits in the Mississippi state capitol
MANS inhumanity to man" has long
been a theme for countless tongues. but
all the eloquence Of ages do not equal the
brevity and vigor of the words which spring
from the heart OF the man who suddenly
sits down on a slippery sidewalk. Then
it is that feeling lends to eloduence its
rarest tone.
Samuel w. Pennypacker, governor elect
of Pennsylvania, has a valuable library, in
some respects the most curious in the
world. Among it's treasures is Jefferson
Davis copy OF the constitution OF the United
States, with the confederate leaders auto
graph on the fly leaf: "Jeffn. Davis"
Underneath Judge Pennypacker has written:
His book. And little good did 1t do
him"
There is no more enthusiastic hunter in
either branch Of congress than Senator
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

At the recent convention of the League
Of American Municipalities the dangers
from escaping gas were subject of
serious discussion. Attention was par
ticularly called to the deleterious effect of
gas leakage on asphalt pavements and
the diffusion of gas into buildings
through the earth covered by air-tight
pavements. 1t seems to us, however,
that greater danger exists by leak
age of worn out gas fixtures in old build
ings and the liability of fatal conse-
quences from inhaling poisonous gases
and the increased risk of accidental
combustion in cases of fire. Periodic in
spection of gas fixtures in hotels and
lodging houses would suggest them
selves as the only effective preventive.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
Evidence of Business Prosperity.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat

81 LOUIS GlOpe-DShOSAaE
President Roosevelt is unduesttonably
correct in assuming that the great in
crease in the postal revenues of the coun-
try is an evidence OF business prosperity.
The postal departments receipts in the
fiscal year which ended on June 80, 1902,
were 1922. 900, 900, an increase Of more than
$10OOO.OO0 over the preceding year. This
was a larger gain than had ever before been
made in a twelvemonth. When general
trade is active the postal receipts Of the
country always go up, and vice versa. The
country is enjoying in this republican era
the best days which 1t has ever seen. and
IT knows this. and testified its appreciation
for II by the big majority which 1t gave
the republican party In the recent elee-
tton-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

PROPOSED PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION.
Two propositions i'm regard to the Phil
ippines will be considered and perhaps
acted upon at the, present session Of
congress sdne is to give the archipelago
stable currency dnd the. other to re-
duce the tariff on the products of the
islands and on all articles exported from
them 10 the United States.
The currency situation in the islands
is most injurious to business and II al
lowed to continue must prove disastrous.
This is strongly presented in the report
Of the secretary of war, which states
that the insular government has lost
over S1,OOO,OO0 gold by the decline in
silver because 1t was operating on a
silver basis, while agriculture is pros
trated and commerce hampered and dis
couraged He points out that all the
political parties in the islands urgently
ask a change of the present currency
standard and there is no reason why
congress should delay compliance with
this request, which is approved by the
Philippine commission. Nothing more
than the well-attested facts of the stu
alton, It would seem, can be necessary
to convince congress of the necessity for
change in the monetary standard Of
the archipelago and Of the duty of max
ing this as soon as It is possible to do
so. 1t is manifestly a most vital matter,
since present conditions, II continued,
can hardly fail to be productive Of a
great deal Of popular discomfort that
might show itself in a way to cause no
little trouble.
AS to the proposed reduction of duties,
it is urged that low tariff will greatly
stimulate trade between the Philippines
and the United States, to the benefit of
both in general and the former in par
ticular. 1t is shown that this country
is taking a large place in the trade Of
the archipelago, which in the fiscal year
1902 was made up of $32,000,0OO i'm
ports, excluding specie and government
supplies, and nearly $24,000,000 mer-
chandlse exports. OF the imports over
$4,O0O,OOO came from the United States
and Of the exports nearly $4,000
were to the United States. The imports
from this country showed an Increase
of 143 per cent as compared with 1900
and the exports a gain of 11S per cent
for the same period. 1t is proposed to
make a reduction in the tariff on prod
ucts of the islands to % per cent Of the
Dingley rates, but as congress at the
last session refused to go below 75 per
cent it is not probable that it will now
make the large reduction that is pro-
posed. There is no doubt that should
it do so the effect would be to materially
increase trade between the Philippines
and the United States and perhaps II
would also induce the investment OF
American capital in the islands, but
there will be strong opposition, it is
safe to say, to making rates as low as
% per cent of the Dingley tariff.
1t is evident however, that there is
pressing need of early legislation fol-
the betterment of financial and CONNER
cial conditions in the Philippines. The
people of the islands are submitting
peaceably to American rule and appear
generally to be satisfied with the DO
litical conditions They should be made
equally contented with conditions affect
ing their material welfare.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
Slaughter of Deer Hunters.
New York Tribun,

The northwestern deer season winds up
with fourteen hunters killed and twenty
wounded, all shot because they were mis-
taken by their fellow sportsmcn for the
game they were pursuing The Adiron-
dack region scores a brilliant record of its
own of the same kind, but is not allowed
a walkover IN its race for that altogether
too ensanguined laurel. A change in the
color Of hunters raiment is now favored
everywhere, dark blue being the hue pro-
posed. and it's adoption will probably
greatly lessen the number of such cas-
ualties. But with their recurrence and
increase year by year, why was not such
an expedient thought OF long ago?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09


According to the Chicago Record-Her-
aid, there is great suffering in Omaha
owing to scarcity of coal. If the Chi
cago Record Herald would direct its
long distance telescope to the east in
stead of the west it would discover
great deal more suffering owing to the
scarcity of coal. For example, in the
city Of Washington anthracite coal is
doled out to owners of dwellings and
hotels in very small quantities and
Virginia cordwood at SO per cord has
been substituted by people who can af-
ford not to shiver In New York City
there is also an acute stage of coal
famine and thousands Of poor people
are exposed to the inclemencies Of Sc
we're winter weather for want Of fuel.
Omaha is comparatively comfortable.
The demand for cordwood has not yet
manifested itself in the Capitol avenue
market square.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

Pierpont Morgan, that IL would support
Cleveland If nominated, Is regarded as
significant in connection with many
other recent happenings. There is no
doubt that many Of the controlling spirits
In the great financial and Industrial
manipulations view with profound APP
prehension the positive and courageous
attitude Of President Roosevelt toward
trusts and that the same element would
be entirely satisfied with Cleveland If
there should be a chance to use him
effectively. And 1t is at least a safe in
ference that they are carefully casting
about for some means of hopeful oppo-
sition to his reelection.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

Whatever the real truth may be, there
is a growing belief that there is a move
ment to bring Grover Cleveland out
again as a presidential candidate and
that IL is with his knowledge and con
sent. His recent public appearances af-
ford no little corrobOration Of this view.
The statement OF the New York Sun,
which is believed to be strongly infiu-
enced II not directly controlled by j.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

In Minnesota, Congressman Lind filed
q schedule Of election expenses which
exceeded by a tribe the limit fixed by
the state corrupt practices act. But the
people seem to think that the only diff
ference between him and the other can
didstes is that he forgot in fixing up
his statement the legal limit that he
should swear to. while they remem-
bared L.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
A BIRD AND A HOPE.

A bird of beauteous plumage
Flying unerringly,
Rested its strong, bright pinions
Upon sturdy tree.
The glowing, brilliant color
That glorified it's breast
Was like to sunset splendor,
Gliding the dusky west.
When rude winds swayed the branchei
1t but the closer clung;
And, with the early morning,
Most tenderly it sung.
A hope as glad as sunshine
Came to a burdened heart
And frightened IT and blessed II
So sorrow had no part.
II whispered of the future
And covered up the past:
Each lurking, present shadow
Its radiance o'ercast
And when the heart was weakest
The hope shone, clear and strong,
And when the night was darkest
Most salient YVES its song.
But now, the tree Is barren
OF brightness and of bird
And the sad heart is empty
And hears no cheering word.
winside, Neb. BELLE WILEY CUE.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
COMPARISONS ARE nnLnns.

The WorId-Herald claims The Bees
circulation in Douglas county is padded
in order to exceed the World Herald
during the publication of liquor licenses.
This assertion is absolutely baseless. In
any event, it could not apply to circula-
ton outside of Douglas county.
The following shows the comparative
circulation of The Bee and World Herald
in the ten largest towns in Nebraska,
omitting Omaha, South Omaha and Lin
cOlu:-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

ing costing a certain amount, which they
had in their treasury. He did so, but only
figured on the bare building without even
any windows. 1t happened that we knew
Of their plight and succeeded in getting
the architect to so modify his plans that
we were enabled to give to them pretty
little stone church, with stained windows
and carpets for the amount the architect
believed the bare walls would cost
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
a aREAT IRRIaATloN RoRK.

The dam of AssOuan, which was
opened yesterday, is the newest engi-
neering wonder of the world in the land
which holds the earliest of such Won
ders that still stand. This pennlng of
the Nile four hundred miles above the
Pyramids has been work Of a genera
ton, abandoned as impossible by the
Egyptians and the French, but pushed to
success by British skill and persever-
ance, This and the Assiont barrage
will give Egypt a reservoir of 100000
600 cubic yards OF water every year,
crops will be dependent no longer upon
the risings Of the Nile and the fatness
of the land win exceed that of the days
of old.
All the while that Great Britain was
engaged in war in South Africa this
work of peace in North Africa never
slackened. 1t is said that this great
enterprise cost between $1O0,O0O.OO0
and S125, 900 900 and there is no doubt
that it will many times repay the ex-
penditure. The water that will be stored
will, it is stated. flood the Nile valley
for fifty miles, assuring a great increase
in the agricultural products of that re-
gion and a regular yield 1t Is hardly
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

II you want a church nowadays, reports
the New York Times, all you have to do is
to place your order with the church builder
Heretofore when churches were projected
builders who were engaged in general work
were called on to undertake the Job. Now
It is different.
In August last a corporation was organ
ized under the name 1.-The Church Con-
struction company" and that corporation
proposes to begin after the architect is
through and not to stop until It hands over
the complete church. woodwork, carpets
organs and all OF the accessories, except
the preacher
"our ideas were not the result of acct
dent or of sudden conviction" said one Of
the officers OF the company last week. "All
our men are specialists and have spent most
OF their business life in some branch Of
ecclesiastical construction.
zone OF these men became known 10 the
building trade as an expert church builder
and he was frequently asked by other build
ers TO take charge OF their work for them
He became convinced that a company or
ganized to construct churches and kindred
buildings would succeed and last August
we began. In the three months that have
followed we have obtained more than $780,
900 worth OF business and have 200 men
employed
lone thing in our favor is that the ordi-
nary builder, accustomed to the building
Of tier upon tier of beams and of providing
| for Office construction. finds himself in a
! strange land and he must guess at a great
/ many things he does not actually know.
| The srched, self-supporting roofs and the
building Of galleries are all things that he
must figure on in a hit-or-miss fashion
and necessarily his estimate is higher than
| that OF an expert
when we first started operations we in
tended to build only the walls and then to
lease the rest OF the work TO some one else
We found, however, that the architect who
drew the plans had done Just that same
thing, with disastrous results. The con-
gregation was one not very well on IN
this worlds goods and they had instructed
their architect to prepare plans for = build
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

Meetings of the Denver city council
will hereafter be held in jail and the
mayors proclamations win be is
sued from behind grated windows, all
on account OF such a small matter as
rushing a street railway franchise in
the face Of an injunction.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

Chicago republicans propose to discuss
live issues for the spring election before
the nominations are made. Omaha re-
publicans might emulate the example
with profit.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

Burton of Kansas. He has trophies galore
to prove his skill in the chase. While in
Hawaii last summer he enjoyed some royal
sport after the wild boars there. VIC
ious quarry is that same animal by all
accounts. One of the senator's party was
chased by wounded boar and had to shin
up a tree in a hurry. He waited there
some time before being released by his
friends
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

The citizens educational commission
appointed by the Civic Federation Of
Chicago has formulated a bill for the
reorganization of the Chicago public
school system. The principal features
of the measure are reduction Of the num-
Der of members of the school board from
twenty-one to nine, to be appointed by
the mayor, enlargement Of the powers Of
the superintendent Of schools that will
give him authority to employ and dis
charge all teachers and principals, and
the creation of the position of business
manager, who will have charge of the
business affairs of the board. If any
body in Omaha should propose such in
novations what would become of him?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

The failure of the packers trust
merger is charged up by. New York
papers to Michaelsand Edward Cudahy.
If the Cudahys are really responsible
for the collapse of the beef trust scheme
they are entitled to congratulations.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
Hit the Target Every Time.
Portland oregonian.

Portland OreBonlan.
President Roosevelt is right. 'The only
shots that tell are the shots that hit"
This is true whether applying to the battle
record of war, afoat and ashore. or to
presidential utterances upon trusts and
other matters that touch the public policy
OF the nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

Prosperity must certainly have struck
Nebraska strong when the country
weeklies have to crowd out all their
editorial comment and run supplements
to boot to make room for merchants
holiday announcements overcrowding
the advertising columns.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

Philadelphia Record.


President Roosevelts sympathies are
less easily moved, and he has refused par
dons to several embezzlers and unlawful
bank officials. The last refusal was In
the case Of a bank president convicted
of embezzling funds and bribing couple
Of aldermen. Denied; this seems to be
an absolutely clear case Of guilt, with no
excuse whatever for pardon" was his in
dorsement on the application.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09

If the number of South Omaha council
men is to be doubled by the next legisla-
ture the number of Omaha councilmen
would have to be quadrupled.