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Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
. LNsuLAR ADMIEIsTaArIoN

President Roosevelt's speech at Hart
ford was principally devoted to what
has been done in the administration of
insular possessions and the duties yet
10 be performed in relation to these.
Domestic questions he did not refer to
and it is to be inferred that he does
not intend to discuss them during his
present tour. The president pointed to
Porto Rico as an example Of the best
methods Of administering our insular
possessions and in this there will be
general acQuiescence. The policy re-
garding that island has been eminently
successful. The men selected to nd
minister affairs there were fully
qualified for the task and the result Is
entirely satisfactory to the Porto Ricans
and to the American people. There
have been no scandals connected with
the administration of the island, the
people are protected In their rights, the
laws are justly administered, public
education is being promoted, Industrial
and commercial conditions have i'm
proved. The people Of Porto Rico are
contented under American rule and are
consequently entirely loyal
In the Philippines, where the task
Of civil administration is infinitely more
difficult, good progress is being made
toward the attainment OF results as sat
isfactory as those in Porto Rico. prac-
tically the same governmental prin-
ciples are applied in both. The estab-
lishment OF civil government in the
Philippines has gone forward as rap
Idly as practicable and natives have
been given a large participation In ii, to
be extended after a time, when the
maintenance OF peace and order on
their part Is fully assured. Doubtless
there is a dissatisfied element among
the Filipinos, but there Is good reason
to believe that a very large majority of
the people have accepted American
sovereignty in good faith and will re-
main loyal The enthusiastic greeting
given Governor Taft on his return TO
Manila cannot be regarded otherwise
than as attesting the satisfaction Of the
natives with existing conditions. The
more intelligent Of them realize that
American rule means for the Filipino
people a larger measure OF freedom
than they have e known, the guaran-
tee Of civil and religious rights, oppor-
tunity for education, material progress
and an improvement ia conditions gen
orally. They have already found in the
operation OF our civil government much
benefit. while they see In a growing
trade the advantage Of being under the
sovereignty Of a nation whose policy
Is 10 upbuild and uplift and to give tC
all people within its power or influence
the benefit Of the highest civilization
AS was said by President Roosevelt
we are governing the Filipinos
primarily In their own interest and fol
their very great benefit. and we have
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
A SONG TO BRAVE WOMEN.
A. J. waterhouse in Success.

A. J. waterhouse in Success.
They were married in the autumn when the
leaves were turning gold,
And the mornings bore a menace OF the
winters coming cold,
Side by side they stood and promised, hand
And the psrsoH said, "God bless you'll" az
he named them man and wife. -
They had little wealth TO aid them; little Of
But he whispered: "oh. my darling. I have
Then they vowed that, walking ever side by
They would gain the distant SUBMITS OF
their far-on. happy land.
side by side they walked together. linEer-
ing sometimes for a kiss,
Dreaming OF those far-on SUBMITS OF the
But the battle-stress was on them, and the
And their onward steps were hidden BY the
smoke upon the field;
And his heart grew faint within him az he
murmured II must fall,
For the foeman presses ever, and his CO.
horts conquer all
YOU shall win!
You shall snatch the ~victor's laurel from
the battle-stnfe and din
Then again he struggled onward. though
his wounds were gaping wide,
ting by your side"
Struggling onward. Struggling ever. though
Beaten downward by the foeman. lost In
mists OF gloom and doubt;
sun he heard that gentle whisper hat his
spirit must obey
TIL he reached the golden SUBMITS past the
borderland OF gray.
Then the world, as wise as ever, said, Be-
hold a conquering knight
For it never heard the whisper that had
urged him to the height.
Call It fable, fable only; 10, the world 10
full OF these.
Men who strugFle onward, upward. TIL the
splendid prize they seize:
Men who stumble, stumble often, daEed OF
stricken in the din,
But TO rise and falteT forward at the
whisper. you shall wipl"
And we name them knights and heroes OF
the battle and the fray,
Knowing not that there behind each IL the
one who showed the way:
lust some little. loyal woman forcing back
the tears that blur
You may honor your brave hero; I Will
sing q sons to her.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
IN a FALsr POSITION.

Bishop Potter. who takes a most active
interest In the question of preserving
Industrial peace, has expressed the opin-
ion that the anthracite coal operators
have all along maintained a false po-
sition. They take the stand" he said
In a recent interview, that they will
not deal with the organization, but in
sist on dealing with the men as indi-
vlduals." This he declared TO be all
wrong. adding that any body Of men
whose interests are common have the
right TO organize into an association for
mutual protection and are entitled to
recognition as an organization in mat
tiers which affect their individual and
combined interests.
This view will be acquieseed in by
everybody who has given the subject
Of labor organizations intelligent con-
sideration. The right of workingmen to
organize for their mutual protection and
welfare has been fully established. 1t
has been recognized by the courts and
by legislative bodies and must be re-
garded as unquestionable. 1t is a right
that belongs as much to labor as to
capital. This being s. the men com
posing a labor union are clearly en-
titled, as Bishop Potter said. to be rec
ognized as an organization In matters
which affect their individual and com
bined interests and they do well to in.
sist upon this. Otherwise organization
would be utterly useless. II the anthra.
cite miners were to undertake to deal
as individuals with the operators that
would be the end Of their organization,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
IN DESPERATE STRAITS.

The arbitrary action Of the Mercer
contingent in the congressional com
mittee and its attempt to force the re-
nomination Of Mercer by high-handed
usurpation Of power and lawless inter
meddling with the functions devolvlng
exclusively on the county committee
shows the desperate straits to which
Mercer and his corporation hackers find
themselves in the face Of the popular
revolt.
A great hue and cry has been raised
In past campaigns about the arbitrary
work of the so-called city machine, but
the Moores machine never displayed
such reckless disregard of all precedent
and was never guilty of such fragrant
violation Of the primary election law as
the Mercer machine.
Never before has a congressional COM
mittee ~arrogated to itself the powers
and duties vested by law in the county
committee to designate the voting
places, appoint election officers and APP
portion the representation Of delegates
to which the county is entitled among
the various wards and precincts.
Never before has a congressional COM
mittee composed of members living in
other counties undertaken to conduct
primary elections in this county and to
issue credentials to delegates who are
to register the choice of the republicans
of this county in a congressional con-
vention In which the other counties of
the district are accorded the privilege
Of selecting their own delegates with
out the aid or consent of nonresident
committeeman appointed by a non
resident congressman.
Mr.. Mercer will discover before he is
much older, however, that you can lead
a horse to water, but you can't make
him drink. Mr.. Mercer can set up jobs
to bar out honorable competitors and
harass the voters, but he cannot pre-.
vent the rank and file Of republicans
from administering a telling rebuke al
the primary.
The republican motto is "a fair ballot
and an honest count" and republicans
Of Douglas county will exercise theiI
rights and enforce them, IL need be, by
court process.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Some wiseaere says paper money spreads
contagion. IL does. professor; II spreads
a fever for more.
"No unolean dollar has ever passed my
hand" exclaimed Colonel Henry WAITER
son. The colonel likes his'n fresh from the
mint.
The 129th birthday anniversary Of the Bal
timore American last week was made un-
commonly joyous by a libel suit for $780,
900, instituted by an Ice company.
A reunion Of the Smith family Is the latest
fair project at st. Louis. Should all the
family attend the show, past records at the
box once would be reduced to smithereens
one day recently II was possible to ride
from Texas to Chicago for 30 cents. A few
bargain hunters paid the price, but the
majority contented themselves with the
lesser evil and stayed at home
The contempt shown by ]. Pierpont Nor
gan for poker as a moneymaker Is worthy
Of respect when a insncier can rake in a
pot Of 1907, 800 without showing his hand, It
is apparent the old professionals are not to
be mentioned in the same breath with the
modern shufaers, That's what Pierp scooped
In out Of the Monon deal. And It wasn't an
average day for deals either.
An Official inquiry into the financial oper-
atoms OF the Tripler Liquid Air company
is In progress in New York. People OF
national fame are mixed up In the COM
pany's stock manipulations whereby the fell
lows on the ground floor pocketed the cold
cash, while the suckers on the outs de re-
ceived large doses of hot air. The output OF
the latter exceeded the supply OF liquid
air.
Although a Missouri court refused to pun
ish a dog which masticated the thumb Of q
man who attached a can to the CANNES
narrative, some intelligent dogs revenge the
indignity more effectively. One thorough
bred In a Pennsylvania town resented an at
tachment consisting Of a stick Of dynamite
to which a lighted fuse was spluttering. Tn
dog chased the man who did the Job into his
home and camped in the parlor long enough
to go up with the fragments. There was
not enough OF man or dog found TO give the
coroner a Job.
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, formerly Of Omaha,
has added to his ministerial duties the
pleasures and perplexities OF an editor. His
name appears at the masthead OF the Jew
ish American. published at Detroit. Like
all farseeing men Of the cloth, Rabbi Frank
lin appreciates the value OF the press as .
co-worker In the vineyard. Words spoken
in the pulpit reach the few. The printed
word reaches the many. BY combining both
pulpit and press Rabbi Franklin vastly In
ereases his field OF usefulness and his
power for good.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Baltimore American: II must be a very
unsanitary theology that prompts a min
~ister'' to predict destruction for the people
who hattie at Atlantic City.
Indianapolis News: In the light Of the
pope's letter, the sympathy extended to
the Philippine friars by the Catholic Fed
Grated Societies seems to have been pre-
mature.
Washington Post: A Chicago divine has
received a call from a London congregation.
Now that he lie compelled to import his
religion from this country. John Bulls cup
Of bitterness must be running over.
Minneapolis Journal; The suggestion Of
Father McKinnon that as soon as the Amer
lean hierarchy is established In the Philip
pines some 400 young priests be sent to the
United States for q years instruction is
an excellent one. It's application should be
good for the Catholic church and good for
the people and government Of the Philip
pines.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
JAPAN As a CoMPETIToR.

- ANN as a ON1hE
In the struggle for the trade Of China
the commercial nations must reckon
upon Japan for vigorous competition,
with some advantage Of position in her
favor. In the past six months Japan
has launched several important under
takings which contemplate the develop
ment Of some of China's domestic en-
terprises and Of some of the immense
natural resources of that empire. These
show that Japan is keenly alive to the
necessity Of taking and holding a place
against Europe and America in the race
for the spells in China.
1t is noted that recent utterances of
japanese statesmen indicate how Sc
riously the governing minds Of Japan
would view the domination Of American
OF European influence In the Industrial
and commercial concerns Of China. 1t
Is said that the ablest statesmen japan
possesses believe that the national ex-
istence Of the country depends upon the
possession of the Chinese trade. This
has been preached by such statesmen
as Marquis Ito for years and it has
become thoroughly implanted in the
minds of the people. Japan is promot-
ing steamship companies with particular
reference to the trade Of China and
other enterprises are projected.
The japanese are an e%nterprising and
energetic people, who are not behind
western people in commercial acumen.
The Industrial development Of Japan
within a few years has been remarka-
BILE and her financial position at present
is strong. That she will secure her
share at least Of the Chinese trade and
play . very important part In develop
ing that trade may be confidently pre-
dicted.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
BILLBoARDs AND THE YOUTH.
PerniciOus meet of Loud Pictures ON
Tender Minds.
baltimore Amerlcan.

Baltimore American.
Bishop Fallows is OF the opinion that
the billboard advertisements are psrnicioua
in their effect upon the youth OF the land.
He thinks that the small boy who sees the
pictures of long haired gentlemen holding
fevolvers in their hands at once seeks an
opportunity to acquire a trusty weapon and
hasten to the great plains ere the Indian
has become extinct. There are plenty OF
good arguments for and against the bill
board without delving into the mists Of
Psychology in this matter. The cold power
Of logic would not seem to carry the bish-
ops theory to a satisfactory end. n bill
boards display enhancing pictures Of dainty
maidens, with neat aprons tucked about
them and with elaborate colfiures, merrily
engaged In cooking dinner on q large and
impressive range. Does history record that
any young wOman-and young women are
more impressionable and more quickly
swayed by sentiment h young men-does
history record that any girl, after gazing
upon this picture, has torn madly down
the street and rushed into the kitchen 70
order her mother therefrom, and proceeded
to initiate the pictured act OF the billboard
lady? Are there any statistics showing
that a millionaire has converted his bonds
and securities into greenbaeks and thrown
them TO the elements after seeing a picture
representing such an act on a billboard?
Has anybody ever seen a horse race that
looked like the ones shown In the posters?
Or was there ever a circus lady so fair and
sweet and beautiful withal as the one who
pirouttes upon her toe and kisses her fair
white hand to us from the gorgeous eight
sheetG Do we have any record OF any
woman who who has forsaken home and
friends and mother dear and gone a bare
back riding after fondly cycling this at
~tractive display
We might 90 much further with this in
QUESTION. but we think we have established
our point. Binboards do not AFFECT the mind
to any further extent than to Induce the
observer to spend his money for the goods
advertised thereon. and the newspaper ad-
vertisement 10 better than the billboard for
that purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24

since It could thereafter be Of no value
to them. OF course the miners fully un-
derstand this and are prepared to un-
dergo great hardships and ~privation in
the struggle to maintain their organiza-
ton. They are still willing to settle the
contest by arbitration, but this the OPP
orators will not consider, their deter
mination being to destroy the miners
organization at whatever cost.
That public opinion is very largely
abundantly evident. Condemnation Of
their policy is general and they are
being warned that persistence in It may
compel legislative interference. The
presidents of the great companies which
control the anthracite fields" says the
New York Evening Post, would do well
promptly to heed this fast-swelling tide
of public opinion. They must either
resume the mining Of coal themselves,
or face a strong demand that the gov
eminent shall interfere, In one way or
another. . President Baer and his
associates cannot afford to maintain
their present attitude. Public opinion is
overwhelmingly against them and no
little group Of capitalists can defy the
nation" Such admonition and warning,
however, seem to be entirely without
effect. Bulwarked by the rights and
privileges which the state of Pennsylva-
mia has given the coal combine, 1t de-
family proclaims that there can be no
compromise and that 1t will permit no
interference with the policy 1t has de-
cided on. Meanwhile the danger of a
coal famine increases and the helpless
public is completely at the mercy Of a
little group Of capitalists who are ut
terly Indifferent to it's interests and ne
cessities.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
TENDENCY OF THE TIMES.
Good Deeds Unchecked by the Com
merciaI Spirit.

merciaI Spirit.
Worlds Work.
The truth is we hear too much about the
eommercialiEation Of the professions. There
are men who vulgariEe them alEno doubt
and who sell their craft-right for a mess
Of millions, for there have always been such
men. But there Is another tendency Of
our times that is far stronger than the
tendency to get wealth; II is the tendency
to establish, to build and to maintain insti-
tutions-institutions of any useful and hon
orable kind. Men give themselves in the
most unsellsh way to build up colleges and
universities, hospitals, museums, clubs.
associations for the Advancement Of trades
and professions, ibraries-there is no end
OF the list. Men labor to turn their business
into institutions. Many manufacturer plan
their factories 80 as to give them an in
stitutional character and value. The nat
ural constructive tendency Of an active peo-
pie is toward institution building. Strong
men In almost every department Of work
show such a tendency, often as a dominant
trait of character; and this is a stronger
motive than the mere wish to be rich. The
rich man who stands alone, who has not
established something, who is not Identified
with some great institutions, commercial
or public. is not envied. He is more likely
To he nitled.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
AMERrcA,s = ERA.

We are living in the golden era Of the
great American republic, an era Of mar
velous prosperity and unprecedented de
velopment. It is the golden era Of
America not merely because the pre-
cious metals are more abundant than
they ever have been in the history Of the
world and more gold is now being mined
! every year than has been taken out Of
the earth in any decade Of the nine
teenth century, nor because all the
money in circulation, greenbacks, ma
tional bank currency, silver certificates
and silver coin are all as good as gold
and pass current for gold in the ex-
changes and markets of the world. We
are living In the golden era Of the
great republic because of its unexam-
pied commercial prosperity, Industrial
activity and agricultural wealth. The
farmers of America will coin more gold
this fall and hex winter out Of the
products Of the soil than has ever been
coined by all the mints of the United
| States, England, Germany and France
In n single year.
According to estimates Of the govern
ment reporters, the wheat harvest Of
1902 will yield in the neighborhood Of
646,5 900 bushels, salable on the farm
for not less h $400, 100000. A con-
sentative estimate Of the corn crop Of
1902 is $780, DOG 1000 bushels, which II
marketed in the raw, or converted into
meat at 25 cents a bushel, would be
coined into six hundred and twenty-five
million gold standard dollars. In other
words, the corn and wheat raised in
America this year will exceed In value
$1,000, 100000, and the oats, barley, rye
and hay crops and products of the dairy,
orchard, apiary and hennery will APP
proximate close on another $1,000,0 O0,-
900, while the cotton and tobacco crops
will exceed in value $500, 000, 900 more.
Compared with the mountain Of gold
mined from the fertile soil of American
farms, the output Of precious metal
from American mines, which under most
favorable conditions will not exceed
$500, O00, 1000, or less than one-third Of
the value Of the corn crop alone, is of
small Importance. The only rival of
the army of American farmers is the
grand army of American skilled and un
skilled workmen employed in the mills
and factories In converting the raw ma
terials Of the farm, plantation and or
chard into finished products, with which
America supplies not only its own
wants, but the demand Of all the other
civilized as we'll as the uncivillzed ma
tions, and gives employment incident
ally to the million Of men who operate
our railroads, navigate our steamships
and act as middlemen and money
changers between the consumer and pro
Queer.
To make any rational calculation OF
the stream Of gold that passes through
all the channels in and out Of the ma
tional clearing house would make a mar
with ordinary brain dizzy. Suffice it tc
say thai the beginning Of the Twentieth
century has ushered in Americas COLDER
era, which, barring an unforeseen re
action, will make the United States al
no distant day the greatest as well al
the richest nation Of the nations.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24

From the tenor of President Roose-
velt's illusions to the isthmian canal,
the makeup Of the membership Of the
canal commission has not yet been
definitely settled, all the stories Of the
imaginative Washington correspondents
to the contrary Notwithstanding. The
president has a thorough realization of
the Importance Of this great undertake
Ing and may be depended on to weigh
the qualifications of everyone whose
lame is presented to him for a place on
the commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
TOO Much OF a Good Thing.
New York Sun.

NtW 1UIh Sun
1t is painful to find further proofs Of what
Mr.. Bryan would call apparent prosperity. -
The state superintendent Of instruction in
Nebraska says that the farmers Of the west
ern part Of that state are 80 prosperous
that "the farmers sons and daughters don't
need the money and will not teach school, -
So many Nebraska villages are without
school masters and school mistresaes. Would
1t not be better to have less apparent pros
perity" and more school tsachersf What
could be sadder than to see not only Me-
braska men putting the dollar shove the
man, but Nebraska women putting the dol
lar above the school mistressf
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
nLAsrs FROM RAMs HORN.

A good man will always hnd som good
In men.
God sends the seed. but we must furnish
the soil.
To lose sympathy with men is to miss
success with them.
When religion ceases to 20 to service II
will run to superstition.
The sugar on satan's pills may be very
sweet, but Il is very thin.
Small vices may be tordable one at a
time, but they soon unite into an impassa-
BILE river.
When the church Is an arbor Of rest for
the rich It cannot be a harbor for the refuge
of the wrecked.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24

acted in a practical fashion. not trying
to lay down rules as to what should be
done in the remote and uncertain future.
but turning our attention to the instant
need Of things and meeting that need
In the fullest and amplest way"
No one who will consider fairly and
without prejudice American admins
tration In our insular possessions and in
Cuba can fail to commend It as a whole.
The record Is an emlnently creditable
one, Of which we may justly boast ms
without a parallel In the history of the
world.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24

on the contrary Is quickly bent and
twisted by fire into total collapse. Iron
or steel columns that are ~measurably
protected by fire tile or other non-burn-
ing material have proved able to go
through the hottest kind Of fire and
remain standing under the weight they
were supporting. The conclusion
reached by insurance experts is that
properly protected steel work will with
stand almost any fire test, while unpro-
tectcd steel work will withstand
scarcely anything. Merely because a
building is erected on a metallic frame
does not entitle 1t to a claim of fire.
proof construction.