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Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

1t is admitted that the injunction has
perhaps been more extensively en-
ployed in labor disputes within late
years than it should have been and that
some restraint upon it may be desirable,
but 1t is apprehended that this proposed
law might have very mischievous re-
suits. 1t therefore appears likely that
cure this legislation.
In regard to the proposition that labor
on government contracts shall be
limited to eight hours a day, strong
opposition has been shown to 1t by those
who take government contracts for the
iron and steel used in ship construction,
representatives of these corporations
having made extended arguments be-
fore the house committee on labor to
show that the proposed Limitation would
operate injuriously. There is also OPP
position on other grounds. What i'm
preston this may have upon congress Is
uncertain. but there is understood to be
a strong sentiment in favor of the
81 AcuA BANlNHAAAph "hN - oAApIAANb
would not be surprising. The bill to
forbid the importation of convict-made
goods is q reasonable measure that
ought to pass.
Every proper effort on the part Of
organized labor to better conditions and
to remedy existing ills and abuses
should receive the careful consideration
of the ~law-making power. Labor as a
whole in this country is now fairly well
compensated and it's general condition
is ~undeniably better than ever before,
but it will not be questioned that there
Is room for further betterment and the
question as to how this can best be at
talned is worthy the serious attention of
statesmen and of all interested in the
welfare of American labor, on which
the nations prosperity rests.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

The manana habit Of the Spaniards Of
putting of until tomorrow what should
have been done today has been the
curse of Nebraska. Instead of meeting
every vital issue promptly and squarely,
the men who nave ruled the state re
CARELESS of party have lodged, trimmed
and procrastinated under most fimsy
p%retexts. The popular demand for es-
sential reforms has always been met
with the answer, Not now, but some
other time
In nothing has this policy proved more
costly and damaging than in the neg
lect and refusal of the dominant parties
to bring about oft-promised constitu-
tional revision. Men of all parties agree
that our organic law is most defective,
that we need an enlarged supreme
court, that our educational funds are in
danger and offer a premium to specula-
ton and peculation in the state treas
ury because of constitutional limita-
tions on their investment, that the state
debt now exceeds $2,OOO,OOO, although
tlc COuSllJuliOu tApItSSlg plOhiDlIS u
debt in excess of $780, 600, that our ma
chinery for the management of public
institutions lacks elasticity and our sys-
TEN of filling executive offices with pre-
tended deputies and secretaries is un-
safe, costly and detrimental to the pub
lie service. Everybody knows that o
stitutional amendments can be sub
mitted only In years when. members of
the legislature are elected, and every
body knows, or ought to know, that ex-
perience with their submission in presi-
Dental years has taught that there is
no chance for carrying them when the
public interest Is all centered on ma
tional issues.
And yet the men at the helm and their
advisers shirk their plain duty to re-
lieve the state by submitting these
amendments this year, because, like the
Spaniards, they nave fallen into the
political manana habit for fear they
might offend somebody or give their
opponents some advantage. 1t does not
take a prophet TO fOresee the dis
astrous consequences of this policy
when the people wake up to a full real
ization of the situation.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

the city OF Portland, 'the gateway OF
Maine" is recommended for the great
gathering on State day.
Thomas A. Morris OF the class OF 1894
is the oldest living graduate Of the United
States Military academy at West Point.
There is only one survivor each of the
classes of 1885, 1888. 1910. 1914 and 1s4s.
The purchasing of the home of Chief
Justice John Marshall in Richmond. Va,
is contemplated for the purpose of erect
ing thereon a proper courthouse as a
memorial Of the federal government to its
greatest chief justice, as we'll as a proper
home for the Judiciary. Of which he was
such an ornament
President z. G. Branson Of the Georgia
Normal school is credited with saying:
Our tenant farmer class Is distinctly a
sad-faced people. They need amounting
with the oil Of gladness that David sings
OF. Our people in the rural districts need
occupation calling for skill and taste quite
as much as they need education"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
Personal NOTES.

Rear Admiral Schley likes Boston almost
as we'll as Baltimore.
Governor Jordan OF New Hampshire has
appointed Thursday, April II. as Fast day
in the Granite state.
John Morley, who is writing a life OF
Mr.. Gladstone, has Just discovered among
the late premier's effects a diary cover
ing most of the interesting period OF his
career.
Daniel Wells, the wealthiest man in Wis
%consin, who died last week. erected an Of
fee building in Milwaukee OF pure white
glazed terra Gotta, the only one in the
United States.
Colonel John Mosby. the once noted guer-
rilla, is now quietly and faithfully serving
the United States government in Colorado,
preventing private parties from fencing in
government lands.
The first week in August has been Sc
lected for Old Home week in Maine, and
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

It is clear that the determination Of the
president to enforce the laws has brought
considerable anxiety TO railroad ~of1cials.
The interstate act has 80 long
been regarded as impracticable in some of
its provisions and it's evasion or violation
has brought such mild reproof that rail-
road men have come to look upon the law
as the embodiment Of an impracticable
theory and a measure that is hardly TO be
taken seriously. Railroad interests have
fostered the notion that more Legislation
is needed to govern interstate
and all sorts Of sage advice has been given
as to the remedies that congress should
provide. II seems not to have occurred to
these people that there might be a virtue
In the present law II II were fearlessly en-
forced.
The feeling in railway circles is that
strict enforcement of the law will produce
serious trouble says the Wall Street
Journal. representative Of the railroad and
stock market interests. "If the admins
tration endeavors to execute the interstate
law as 1t stands today there is going to be
a period Of anxiety in regard to railway
affairs. II the orders to enforce the law
are carried out with any considerable de-
gree of energy there will be speedy and
urgent demand for some change in the in
terest Of the roads"
The interstate law, lar as has
been its administration, has been pro-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
THE ENJOlNED RAnRoADS.

The railroads against which the fed
eral courts at Chicago and Kansas City
have issued a temporary restraining or
der, requiring them to adhere to their
published schedule, will undoubtedly
conform strictly to the judicial man
date, 81 that shippers within the terri
tory of these roads may feel sure that
for a time there will be no discrimina-
ton in rates, that the small shipper will
be on an equality with the larger one
OF course very few of them will be af-
fected by this, but they will possibly
derive satisfaction from the feeling that
all are on an equal basis and that the
law is operating as it should do. The
railroads, also, which %sagaciously agreed
to make no opposition to a temporary
restraining order, should also be well
satisfied, since they will save the money
that otherwise would have gone for re-
bates. Only the shippers who have
profited by violation of the law have
any cause Of complaint at the action of
the Interstate Commerce commission,
for these will be deprived while the or
der remains In effect of a considerable
percentage of their profits.
1t is not worth while to consider what
the courts may decide, when the cases
shall be fully presented and argued, in
regard to a permanent injunction, which
the commission will ask for. 1t would
seem a safe prediction that the courts
will require the railroads to conform
to the law, but expectation in this direc-
ton has sometimes been disappointed
and may again be in this matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

Isn't it pretty nearly time for the
county attorney to stop his foolishness
in declining to recognize Police Judge
Berka and to prosecute prisoners be-
fore the police court, as has been the
practice immemorial? Why should
the county attorney go out of his way
and put the taxpayers to extra expense
to help along the brazen attempt Of
Judge Gordon to keep on the payroll
after he has been r~epudiated by a ma
jority Of the voters at the polls? Why
should the county attorney, just because
he is a democrat, pervert the machinery
of his office for the purpose Of boosting
a claimant for police judge who has no
moral or legal basis for his trumped-up
claim except that he needs the money?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
Opportunities for Advancement.
Springfield (Mass.l Republican.


The new president Of the Western Union
Telegraph company was once a messenger
boy, and his rise to the head of the con-
Germ has been made the subject of much
ommen on the unlimited opportunity
which continues Ito be extended to the
humblest class in a free government.
The president of the Illinois Steel company,
e. j. Burlington, differs with those who say
the present opportunities in working up
from The bottom are equal to the old. A
scientific and technical education, he says,
are now becoming essential. A mere work.
ing acquaintance with the business does
not sufice. Nobody would now think of
starting a steel works, for example. with
out a department Of chemistry. This may
all be true, and still, when education, tech
nical and otherwise, from the lowest to
the highest grades, is being offered in such
Profuse abundance and at nominal cost,
it can hardly be said that industry is be-
ing refined beyond the reach OF the poorer
people.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
ANOTHER "AMERICAN INVASION"
How the Obacc Trust Lines It's Path
in England with Gold.
LouisYille CONVERSATIONAL.

Heretofore the cries that came out Of
England against the American invasion"
Eave been persistent, but submissive;
earnest, though friendly; serious, yet not
without the saving strain Of humor. But
the voices of protest that now come over
the sea sound suspioiously like they are
pitched in dismay.
And there is no wonder. For who could
have foretold that the American Tobacco
trust would defy all rules of etiquette and
boldly enter the British trade and In addi-
ton to a fat yearly bonus OF $1,000 900
offer to distribute with free hand among its
customers all the net profits Of its English
trade for the four years, which will amount
to $40, 900, 900? The British had been living
a long while, but they had never seen or
heard anything exactly like this. The
sweeping audacity Of 1t, the barbaric, ram
pant Americanism Of It were enough to
make even the imperturbable English
aghast. 1t was the biggest morsel Of
american invasion" yet.
The announcement came Just as the
British trust was chuckling at its own cum
ming. Goaded by competition, it had
adopted an American idea and declared that
1t would give a bonus OF S250.OOO TO its Gus
tomers-a petty quarter OF a m~illion-pro-
vided they would have nothing TO do with
its American rival. Then the American
rival took Up the gauntlet and hurled back
It's startling response.
So the war is on-two great trusts OF
competing nations are fighting it out on
the English concerns home ground. While
commercial and largely prosalc, yet withal
the battle has a touch OF the romantic. and
while the Eight proceeds the world looks
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Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
The Railroad Confession
Portland Oregonlan.


ductive Of great good for the commercial
interests OF the country. For a long time
It prevented the favoritism that had previ-
ously made business uncertain and only re-
Gently has dlsrespect for the law reached
the point where railroad officials dared
openly admit they had violated its most i'm
portant provision. And in this admission
they showed they could maintain rates that
we're illegal; why, then, could they not
maintain legal rates? The railroads cut
under the published tariff, which was an IL
legal act They all used the same illegal
rate, maintaining It for months. The big
shippers got the secret rate, the general
public got the other.
1t may be advisable to provide by law
some sort of trafic evener or some method
by which inequalities Of service shall be
recognized in the authorized rates. But
these needs should be developed under the
operation OF the law, not by a fashionable
evasion OF its letter and spirit. The pres
ent law has benefited the railroads as much
as it has the general public. 1t is possible
that under a policy of energetic enforce
ment the law may yet be found to be of
practical value to all interests concerned.
II the railway authorities will obey only
the laws that please them II is time the
people should know It, and one Of the ways
to find II out is to go after offenders. II
not, 1t Will then be time to provide other
means Of relief for transportation troubles
that tend to Generalization in business.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
As to Watered stock.
New York Press,

NC" IOIh IItSS.
The persons who rant and rail against
watered stock are those who hold none OF
it. AS 1 take 1t. watering stock is an ex-
cellent device for allaying the suspicion
and dispelling the communistic cloud of
the community. We millionaires must keep
down the envies and jealousies Of our pop
ulace. When we establish = corporation
with $40, 200, 900 capital and earn annually
80 per cent In dividends we incite this pop
ulace to discomfort and socialism. So we
increase the capital to 500, O00, 00O-all
water-and earn 10 per cent. The popu-
lace, the middle-of-the he roadsters, the hind
teat democracy, are satisfied, not realizing
that our income is the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
BILL WAS THERE.
Hartford Times.


Bill was Just a common sort,
Never dreamed OF wealth nor rame;
Flooded on n didn't Try
Schemes to set the world afame,
Kept a-going all the time,
Busy here and everywhere;
When a task turned up to do,
Bill was there!
Didn't congregate around
Evenings at old Perkins store:
Where the other boys would tell
All they ever did-and more.
He Just rose at morning light,
Weather stormy, weather fair;
Always work on hand to do.
Bill was there!
Never heard him whine around
Cause things didn't go Just so;
In the 10y he whtstled loud,
In the pain he whistled low.
Took thing - they came,
Smiling II twas Joy Or care.
Never faltered; when things came
Bill was there!
So he didn't make no stir.
Lived a quiet busy life;
Lived a life that didn't have
Room for petty thought and strife.
He had simple work to do
Want no call to do nor dare;
Just a constant watch, O know
Bill was there!
Such a man as Bill drops out
And the world goes just the same;
Doesn't hear Death speak the word
When he calls him by h name.
Just the common, plodding sort
Bill has certain one 90 where
THEY'LL remember how and when
Bill was there!
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
UnspOrtsmenIike Beers.

Roswell Field in Chicago Post.
AS the war in South Africa progresses
II becomes more evident that the Beers are
capturing the British just for the fun OF
catching them. They are eminently a
sporty people and have been accustomed
since childhood to the joys and excitement
Of the chase. Although they have released
General Methuen, they have done so merely
for the exquisite pleasure OF catching him
again, as the small boy who has finally
caught up with the elusive game. whether
mole or field mouse. let's him go 10 expert
ence once more the triumph OF pursuit and
capture.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
LrGISLITION asked By LABOR.

Organized labor is making an effort
to gain what it considers its share of
recognition at the present session of
congress and several measures looking
to this have beer introduced. Among
these are bills %forbidding the importa-
ton of convict-made goods by the sew
eral states, limiting the hours of labor
on federal contracts, and doing away
with the old 'fellow-servant" doctrine
of the common law. The measure,
perhaps taken the greatest interest is
that known as the anti-injunction bill,
introduced by Senator Hoar early in
the session.
The title Of this bill is ito limit the
meaning of the word conspiracy and
the use of restraining orders and in
junction in certain cases" 1t is in
tended to legalize agreements, combi-
nations and contracts between two or
more persons in connection with the
furtherance of trade disputes between
employers and employees engaged in in
terstate mer 1t provides that
such agreement, combination or con-
tract shall not be considered "as in
restraint of trade or nor
shall any restraining order or injunc-
ton be issued with relation thereto" A
similar bill came before the house of
representatives Of the last congress and
was amended by striking out the Ian
guage quoted above, which was Of
course the vital part of the measure.
This change was not satisfactory to the
labor organizations and the bill failed.
The bill now in the n has also been
amended in a way that is disapproved
by organized labor and unless congress
can be induced to leave it as originally
introduced 1t probably will not pass.
The opinion is said to be largely held
in congress that such a law would be
dangerous, because 1t In effect author
ICES combinations between employees In
cases OF trade disputes that might i'm
peril the whole interstate commerce OF
tina country without redress or remady.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.
Mississippi Dem OcrRts Grow Weary of
Organism and PopuIism.
Nashville American (dem.).

Nashville American (dem).
Mr.. Bryan should look after Mississippi.
The Legislature of that state has adopted
a resolution by an almost unanimous vote
and with great enthusiasm to cut loose
from Organism and populism and urging
a political and business alignment between
the south and east and the severance of
political connections with the west. When
the resolution was adopted m OF
the house mounted their desks. waved their
hands and yelled themselves hoarse." The
action, of the legislature OF Mississippi, an
intensely democratic state in the very heart
Of the south, is very significant. Mr.. Bryan
can hardly regard It as otherwise than
ominous and indicative of his waning in
huence in the south. 1t must be evident
TO any man Of clear mental vision that the
democrats of the south are growing weary
of Bryan and Organism, Of mistaken and
hopeless policies which inevitably lead to
defeat and disaster.
In 1896 Mississippi out Of a total vote OF
IS, 102 gave Bryan a majority Of IS, 404. In
1900 out Of a total vote Of 57,459 1t gave
Bryan a majority of Al, 1853. The democrats
Of Mississippi realize a fact, which evil
dence has made clear, that the south's al
lance with the west has been disastrous to
southern interests and to democratic hopes
Of success. In 1896 Mr.. Bryan carried the
western states of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota,
Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In 1900
the only votes he got out of the west were
those Of Colorado. Montana. Nevada and
Idaho-a total OF only 13 electoral votes,
or only one more than Tennessee gave.
These were the only votes Mr.. Bryan Sc
cured in the west. He had none In the
east, none in the north, and OF the 155
electoral votes which he received out OF
447 the south gave him 142.
Experience has shown the futility and
folly of political partnership with the west.
There can be no natural political or bust
ness alliance between the south and west.
In the growth, manufacture and exchange
OF products, in transportation, nearness OF
markets, financial relations, development,
enterprises, and in various ways the south
and the east are more naturally and strong
ly allied and naturally related and benefited
than the south and west. Aside from the
ordinary relations and interests pertaining
to citizens of a common country there is
little in common between the south and
west. The west politically is as hostile to
the south as the east is, and the sentiment
against the south is at least as strong.
The democratic party has never succeeded
without aid from the east, nor is It likely
TO. The Mississippi democrats give indica-
ton OF wisely realizing the situation. what
ever the distinguished gentleman from Ne
braska, whose own state refused to vote
for him in the last election, may think
about It.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.


The friends Of government have
reason for qualification over the an
nouncement that Secretary of the In
terror Hitchcock has no disposition to
retire from the cabinet. While Mr..
Hitchcock has made himself disagreed
BILE, If not offensive, to some people, he
has a habit of standing perpendicular
against jobbery and crooked schemes
of all kinds. A man of that character
is sure t o make enemies, but he Is to
be respected for the enemies he makes
in the fearless discharge Of official duty.
The head of the Department of the In
terror is constantly beset by appeals in
the interest of land grabbers, pension
sharks and patent agents who seek to
enrich themselves at the expense Of the
government. 1t takes a man of high
integrity and moral courage to hold
these persistent spoilsmen at bay, and
the opposition to the retention of Sec
rotary Hitchcock and clamor for his re-
tirement proceed from the class of
patriots whose questionable schemes he
has thwarted and whose unreasonable
demands he has turned down
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

The Russian police have arrested an
who is a student In a st.
Petersburg university for participation
in the recent political demonstrations.
Politics is not the harmless amusement
in that country that 1t is here and
Americans who desire to play the game
will do we'll to stay home.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

To what extent the theatrical managers
OF New York are responsible for the ticket
Spectator nuisance is a diflcult question.
There is. unfortunately, no doubt that some
theaters are in partnership with the specu-
lators. Other theaters, however. make APP
parently genuine efforts to suppress the
abuse and fail. The Broadway theater has
stopped 1t temporarily. 1t sent a number
Of its employees out to watch the specu-
l~ators, each employe taking one man as his
special charge. and when a customer came
to that particular ~speculator the employe
gave warning that the ticket would be re-
fused at the door. That soon put a stop to
the proceedings and the spectators retired,
defeated to the tune Of about $3.50 on the
evenings work, But this is only one sue
cessful case out OF many which have been
unsuccessful.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

The dairy products of the United
States are of sufficient value to pay off
the national debt in a little over two
years. The COW n the hen have per-
formed wonders in the west in lifting
farm mortgages and If Uncle Sam ever
gets into a tight place he might call on
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

A party of Pacific coast capitalists is
making an effort to induce American
farmers to go to the Philippines. The
Philippines may be all right as a place
for farmers, but under present prosper
II conditions not many Nebraska farm
ers are likely to abandon the land of
hog and hominy to toll under the tropi-
cal sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

Richard Rock, an old frontiersman
who had killed wild buffalo by the thou
sands in his day and gone through
many Indian campaigns, was finally
killed the other day by a domesticated
buffalo. Civilization has its dangers as
well as the strenuous life of old Oh the
frontier.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26

The Civic federation committee will
before long have an opportunity to show
what 1t can do in the way of settling
labor difficulties Of the first magnitude.
The prospective strike of the coal
miners involves organizations, both of
employer and employe, noted for their
tenacity and fighting qualities and If
the committee can settle this trouble it
viii have demonstrated its usefulness.