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Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
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The manufacturing industries Of the
west are much more extensive than is
commonly supposed. According to the
last census in what may properly be
called western states there were two
years ago a total of 225,2S7 manufacture
ing establishments, with an aggregate
capital Of S3,477. 5s7,249 and an annual
product Of S5,252, 311. O20. In New Eng
land there were only about one-quarter
as many manufacturing establishments
as in the west, less than half the
capital invested and an annual produc-
ton of less than two-hfths that Of the
west.
The census figures give Nebraska 5,414
manufacturing establishments, with
81, 49,, 1877 capital and an annual pro-
duction Of SAB, 800, 1O2; Iowa 14,S19
establishments, $1O2, 733, 100 capital and
1904, 1877 product; Missouri IS, 100
establishments, $780, ,5S1 capital and
$685., 492, 7S4 product; Minnesota, lila
establishments $165, $50, 246 capital and
1852, 655, 1881 product; Kansas 1880 estab-
lishments, $66, 1852 capital and $172,-
129,39s product; South Dakota 1899
establishments, $7,57s,s95 capital and
S12, 231, 800 product; Colorado 1870 estab-
llshments. $e2, s25, 472 capital and $1o2,-
S3O,137 product.
All these are independent industries,
many of them manufacturing the same
line Of goods that are produced by the
combinations. They give employment to
a great deal Of labor, which greatly
benefits the agricultural producers of
these western states. These industries
are the competitors In their field Of the
combinations and as such constitute a
bulwark against monopoly. The repub-
lican party believes that these independ-
ent industries should be sustained and
it insists that In order that they shall
be 1t is necessary to give them tariff
protection. 1t holds that the democratic
policy of free trade for trust made
articles would inevitably result in driv-
ing out of business most of the indie
pendent Industries and while it might
at the same time weaken the combina-
tions would not necessarily destroy
them. 1t is the judgment Of many who
have given the subject thoughtful con-
sideration that the application Of the
democratic policy would result in Great
ing international trusts, or combinations,
which has been shown to be practicable.
The people Of the west should be pro-
foundry interested IN the question of
maintaining their manufacturing in
dustries. They are of great value and
are adding hundreds of millions annually
to the wealth of the west. The free
trade policy Of the democratic party, If
it should be carried out, would be fatal
to most of these industries.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
10, THE POOR INDIAN.


James Barton Adams in Denver Post,
Once heard the voice of GOD in passing
wind
And in the ieecy cloud-wreaths saw His
face,
CAS- per the poets size-up of the case),
That voice has ceased to hear, that face
His great ambition now but seems to be
To leave his reservation once a year
And treat the settlers to their annual
"skeer."
To chase the wild deer Ger forbidden lands
And give the laugh to warden's stern COM
And when the tide of terror reaches food
And soldier men prepare to seek his blood,
Back to the reservation doth he hike,
And when the troops come ambling dow
With bristling guns and trumpet's brazen
And cleaning badges on their khaki coats
They find no sign that Lo! in savage pride
Had wandered from his own fireside,
Save but a tortuous trail, long since grown
And should the ~avenging troopers be so
And SO sun ous as to nose the trail
to the agency DER mount and vale
To hoist his good right hand aloft and
swear
not a redskin has been out of sight
Upon the regular prayer meeting night
And 10 assert with corrugated brow
They wouldn't do such doin's anyhow,
And 10! stands near upon his guileless feet,
His midst expanded with the stolen meat,
And looks as harmless as a ping pong
punch
The very meekest baby in the bunch.
LOT the poor Indian who. in poets mind.
Once heard the voice Of God in passing
wind
And saw Him in the clouds-he doesn't see
Nor hear things now as he did then; not hei
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
CARNEGIE'S REMARKABLE UrTERANoI

CARNEGIE'S REMARKABLE UTTERANCE
The address of Andrew Carnegie on
being installed as a director of st. An
drew's university, Scotland, is of inter-
national interest, at least so far as his
remarkable utterance respecting what
European countries must do in order to
protect themselves industrially and com
mercially against American competition.
Talk about repelling the American in
vasion by means of an alliance of Euro
pean countries has been heard from
statesmen and economists of Europe,
but it carried with 1t nc such force and
impressiveness as the appeal of Mr.. Car
negie for the creation of the United
States of Europe under the form Of a
political and industrial union" as the
only way by which Europe can conquer
the foreign markets and repel the Amer
lean invasion.
When one thinks of the great interests
that Andrew Carnegie has in the United
States, the future prosperity of which
depends so largely upon foreign markets,
it seems surprising that he should offer
such suggestions to the leading govern
ments of continental Europe as he did,
evidently with the most earnest feeling.
Why he should make an appeal to the
emperor of GermapS~In behalf of an ALI
ance against American competition 1t is
not easy to understand. 1t Is hardly
| oaaoExvah Ia chat he aardnnGIu da0iraa tho
curtailing and Gripping of American
trade, yet his is what his appeal sug-
gests. He seems to fear that this giant
CULVER, the American union" may con-
quer the commercial world and is anx-
ious to have something done to prevent
this.
While this utterance of Mr.. Carnegie
will perhaps have the effect to revive
and intensity European interest in the
question Of an alliance to repel the
American invasion, it is not to be APP
pretended that anything more han this
will come OF 1t. The wiser European
statesmen and economists do not regard
the proposition Of an alliance as prac-
ticable. Recently a member OF the Ital-
ian ministry urged that European gov
ernments should unite for their indus
trial and commercial protection, but it
received no attention. AS to Emperor
William. 1t is the understanding tina he
has never been favorable to the alliance
idea, which would manifestly be Of no
advantage to Germany. He is now OPP
posing the demands of the element
which wants tariff duties raised so high
as TO check or shut out American com
petition. There are conflicting indus
trial and commercial interests between
the countries Of continental Europe
which make practically impossible such
an alliance as Mr.. Carnegie suggests.
Nevertheless. his utterance in regard
to this will undoubtedly command wide
attention, as that of IA man whose great
business success entities his opinion In
regard to Industrial and commercial af.
fairs, even Of international extent, to
more than ordinary consideration. 1t is
very certain, also, that what he said re
specting a European alliance will be
more faNorably regarded abroad than in
this country.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

%treasurer's office as a private bank. 1
shall not use the states money for my
own business and | shall not loan it to
others for use in their business. l shall
receive, safely keep and pay out the
states money as the law directs, and
shall give to the discharge of these du-
ties the same attention that l give to my
private business, and when my successor
is elected shall turn over to him every
dollar belonging to the state" This is
specific enough for all purposes. 1t is
safe to predict that Illinois will not be
afflicted with treasury scandals for the
next two years.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
Comment is unnecessary.

In his statement to Commissioner of
Labor Carroll D. Wright, incorporated
into that officers report to President
Roosevelt, President Baer explained how
the coal operators had recouped them
selves when the last miners strike was
adjusted by screwing up the price Of
coal to the consumer to make good all
and more than the advance the miners
secured. The question will doubtless
present itself again, in case the arbi-
traitors of the present differences favor
any material concessions to the miners,
when the operators will be tempted to
unload upon the consumer once more.
The mex arbitration may have to be
between the coal baron and the coal
burner.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

lean competition, then the outlook Is
gloomy for Europe. Its political and
industrial union is a chimerical scheme.
For a thousand years every effort to
unity even a considerable portion Of
Europe. whether on the basis of re-
ligion. politics, commercial interest or
any other motive, sometimes backed by
military despotism. has utterly broken
down. The power of Rome itself broke
down under the pressure Of local inter
and race a~ntipathies, and Rome never
united all Europe. The condition Mr..
Carnegie lays down is an utterly i'm
one.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

AAHNAAN
will and dispose Of their goods as they see
At. They are merely the agents Of a trust.
and are punished II they disobey it's orders.
The coal trust is powerful within a limited
area. The sugar trust rules from Maine TO
Arizona, from oregon to Florida.
The city jewellers know little and care
less about the barbed wire trust. 1t does
not directly affect them. It is different
with the farmers. They know there is
such a trust and they resent it's exactions.
1t is a trust which, as Governor Cummins
says. has not a particle Of competition "
1t makes most Of the barbed wire which
is made. II makes SO much that II is an
object for railroads to have it's business.
1t is not unreasonable to suppose that the
trust has it's special arrangements for
freight rates lower than those charged it's
rivals. That the trust has a monopoly Of
distribution and sale is unquestionable. Az
Governor Cummins says, 1T fixes not only
the price that the dealer must pay, but
the retail price he sells 1t fos as we'll.
Firms have been refused barbed wire by
the trust merely because they dealt in
other articles bought from independent
steel companies and they we're forced to
surrender" This is the ~despotism which
American citizens have submitted to will
unexampled patience for an astonishing
length OF time.
The tobacco trust IL striving to attain
the same measure OF monopoly enjoyed by
the two trusts last mentioned. II has
much power, but II socks to get more. Its
invasion Of England was a failure, II
failed to conquer that country, but It hopes
to subjugate entirely the United States. 1t
is scheming to make the wholesalers and
retailers it's servants and thus to monopo-
lie distribution and sale.
During the last few months popular at
tention has been almost exclusively alb
sorbed by the coal trust. 1t has been the
one which all were anxious to strike
down, But in the pursuit Of this conspicu-
Gus offender other offenders must not be
overlooked. Sugar, bsrbed wire and to-
bacco are as much neceesaries Of life as
hard coal is. Each of these products Ia
controlled by a monopoly whose illegal
power must be broken or government by
trusts will take the place Of government
by the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
NOTES.


General Firmin of Hayti, having been
soundly thrashed has gone into voluntary
exile"
York "Handels-Z eitung," has Just celebrated
his sOth birthday.
When NJ. Loubet, the French president,
was in St. Petersburg he left 90, 900 roubles
for the poor OF that city.
President Roosevelt knows what the
people want. He has instructed depart
ment chiefs to make briefer annual reports.
A Mr.. Arson of Brooklyn, who was
burnt out Of house and home the other
day begins to think there is something in
a name.
Armstrong CornsiIk, who was recently
granted a pension by the North Carolina
Pension Board, is the only Indian thus pro-
vided for by the state.
The latest trade combination is the Ma
tional Candy company, composed Of candy
firms all over the country. 1t bids fair to
be just too sweet for anything.
Clarence Holt, the aged Australian actor,
and an early associate OF Joseph Jeffer-
son, is about to publish his "reminiscences,
which extend over ~activies OF sixty years.
Senator Proctor OF Vermont has pre-
sented a photograph of his grandson
taken with a wild boar slain by the boy
to President Roosevelt. The boar was
killed by 13-year-old Proctor, in Corbin
park, which the president visited this sum-
mer.
An Ohio coal operator who knows John
Mitchell we'll says the mine owners OF
Pennsylvania and West Virginia offered the
strike leader what would represent his
salary for fifty years IL he would prove
false to the trust reposed in him by the
miners, but he refused it, although he
could not feed his little family six months
If his present salary were stopped.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.

-
Philadelphia Press: Cholly-I wish you'd
go driving with me. It's perfectly safe,
don't you know. Stable man said this horse
was afraid of nothing.
Miss Pepprey-Wrn, IL he Is he'll be likely
to run away If he sees you, won't he?
Washington Star: "Everything Is getting
deRrer," said the apprehensive citizen.
NO." answered the man who has been
rtading about how to circumvent the trusts,
'advice is as cheap as ever
Detroit Free Press; YES she's studying
to be a trained nurse"
Prospects bright, chr"
GLORIOUS! she's so we'll trained already
that she has made two invalid sons of rich
old men fall in love with her"
Chicago Tribune: "I tell you," said the
admlring friend, "Bluffem is a winner.
b Mdyh ca aH max make him inn" take water"
But" commented Bluffem's %neighbor, IT
saw him settling his milk bill this morn
ing"
Philadelphia Catholic Standard: "I be-
lieve | can cure you" said the young doc
81 never do drink coffee" said the patient,
Don't interrupt me. As l was saying,
You m mnst d drink NO a li GfRe OF O thai PT every M morn.
ing"
New York transformations. chained to
the rock, was observed aughing.
Here I've been," he explained, "ffteen
years without paying rent, and the terms
of the arrangement are such that can't
Hereupon he resumed his expression OF
anguish to keep up the game.
Philadelphia Press. Now that the church
has silenced me-" said the recalcitrant min
lister, Il shall have to adopt some other
profession or trade"
Have you really been siIenced2'
Then open a barber shop, You'll make
a hit"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

The course Of true love rarely runs
smooth, neither does the course of
woman's suffrage. A striking illustra-
ton In point is furnished by the report
from Denver that three women were
more or less injured during a rush Of
suffragists in the county clerks Office on
the last day of registration, last Monday.
The particulars of the report from Den
yer are as follows:
The clerks ONCE was crowded with heel
ers OF both parties. The panic was caused
by an alteration between Alderman Pat
ten and Billy Greene, a vote herder. Blows
were exchanged, after which the alderman
was chased through the, crowd by Greene,
who iourished a big pistol. Mrs. Eliza
Kellogg, a cripple, who had been induced to
leave home to register, was trodden under
foot and had to be taken home in an am
bulance. tive other women we're more or
less bruised.
Comment is unnecessary.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

This country may not yet be prepared
to assume control of coal mines, but the
argument that it would cost the govern
ment % per cent more to run the mines
than it would private individuals and
private corporations will scarcely
brighten anybody. If It would actually
cost 20 per cent more to mine the coal,
the additional outlay would be distrib-
uted to the mine workers and they
would put it into circulation among the
merchants whose wares they must buy
and the farmer whose products they
must consume. Heavier wages would
Increase consumption and that means
better prices for the producer. Under
existing conditions the % per cent goes
into the capacious pockets of the coal
barons and coal mine trusts. The most
logical objection to government owner
ship is the risk of launching such a
colossal undertaking, the enormous in
crease of the national debt and the
excessive price that would have to be
paid for the mines even II acquired by
condemnation process. Where billions
are involved the mine owners would
readily pay hundreds Of thousands. or
millions, to appraisers.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
No Remedy for Greed.
MINNEAPOLIS Times.

That greedy. rapacious and capacious
monstrosity, the Pullman Palace Car COM
pany. congratulates itself upon the fact that
last year was its largest ever. Here is a
case of swelling OF stock TO the limit pos
sible, OF expansion, lest the dividends
should appear so atrociously out Of proper
tion 10 the service rendered that the public
would begin a crusade against the leech.
In a general way the stock is worth about
three times the amount OF money ever in
vested in 1t. and cash and stock dividends
are about 25 per cent a year, while the sur
plus swells until now II reaches the I'LL
OO0,0 900 mark. The saddest thing about the
whole affair is that there seems to be no
remedy. Railway companies hate the Pull
man monopoly. but do not seem to see their
way clear TO break it.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24


The selection Of Charles S. Lobingier To
fill the place on the supreme court COM
mission made vacant by the transfer Of
Judge Day to the district bench should
give satisfaction not only to the bar and
litigants, but to the public at large, be-
u It is a recognition of a young at
torney who has achieved advancement
solely by assiduous devotion to his pro-
fession. Although without judicial ex-
perience, the new judge has in addition
to his practice done much in the line OF
legal literature, attracting attention to
his authorship by its merit and pains
taking accuracy. He certainly has all
the qualifications to make a valuable
member OF the commission
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
Competition Hitting the steel Trust.

Cutting of prices on sheets, wire and wire
nails by the steel trust is regarded in COM
mercial circles as evidence that undue
profits must be sacrificed in order to keep
mills at work. The expansion Of independ-
ent concerns in this branch Of industry con-
tinues undated, and the independent mills.
moreover, enjoy a large share Of the SYM
pathy and active assistance Of the ~purchas-
ing public. While inordinate profits shall
serve as a lure to idle capital it will be
impossible to maintain a permanent ad-
vantage for attempted monopoly. 1t has too
many vulnerable points.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
who wilI Foot the BiIlss
New York World.

New York World.
Mr.. ]. b.. Blanchard Of Omaha, address
ing the National Live Stock association at
Pittsburg. said the new beef merger, with
its SIS, 900. 900 capital stock and its con
templated 500, OOO, 900 of water, would re-
quire a daily profit of $25O,OOO to pay 4
per cent interest. This, he said, would
have to be paid by the producer'-that
is, the live stock ~raiseTs. There he is
wrong. 1t will be mostly paid by the con-
sumer in the retail prices Of meat. 1t is
always, as in the case Of coal, the general
public that suffers from a monopoly in
the supply OF a necessity Of life.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

Chicago Is about TO take steps for the
protection Of asphalt pavement by the
passage OF an ordinance that requires
all omnibuses and express wagons TO be
equipped with rubber tires, and forbids
teamsters tracking the pavement by
driving n wheel on the street railway
track, thus forcing the other TO help
form a rut In the pavement. Such an
ordinance would not be out OF place in
Omaha. The heavy wear and tear on
asphalt pavements is largely due to the
lack OF proper regulations TO do away
with abuses by practices similar to those
IN Chicago
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

The Christian church convention will
go to Detroit next year. But Omaha
people need not fear that their hospital
lty will suffer by comparison with that
offered by the Michigan metropolis.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

Out In the Fifth Nebraska district
Judge Norris, the republican candidate,
is fearlessly taking issue with his OPP
ponent, Congressman Shallenberger, in
a series of joint debates. Judge Norris
has the courage of his convictions and
ought to win. By the way, has any one
ever heard of Our Dave standing up in
joint debate with anybody?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

Registration officers should look out
for repeaters. 1t is a pe~nitentiary Of
Tense in Nebraska for any man to regis
ter who has not lived in the state six
months, in the county forty days and in
the precinct ten days prior to election
day, and those who advise, procure or
assist such illegal registration are
equally liable 10 prosecution.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

The republican candidate for state
treasurer Of Illinois has publicly pledged
himself not TO convert to his own use
interest on state funds under his con
troll. The democratic candidate has COP.
pered the pledge OF his competitor with
the following; Il shall not run the state
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
Who win Lead in Prayers
Philadelphia Press.

The democrats of this country ought to
pray night and day that they won't carry
a majority of the next house of represent
atives, for II they did carry it they would
be compelled to have some sort of policy,
and where on earth could they expect to
get any such thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

BY decision Of the supreme court Of
Nebraska there is nothing in the consti-
tuition to prevent registrars asking vot-
ers with what political party they wish
to affiliate, nor is there anything in the
constitution to prevent voters enrolling
themselves with their preferred political
party and voting down deadheads and
bunco steerers who have stolen the party
label.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
No Use for Cries.
Cincinnati Tribune.

NNHOIIIIdU IIIUUHo'
Mr.. Cleveland's fear that the republican
party will "steal the cry Of tariff reform"
need not extend to himsel in the least
degree at any rate. The republican party
has no particular use for cries, anyway,
delighting rather, in the jollity of doing,
when there is anything to be done.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

Those Chicago tax hxers appear to be
mp against 1t. They should have organ
lied "A tax bureau and hired a few slick
lawyers, like the tax-shirking railroads
Of Nebraska, and kept out Of the laws
grasp.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24
Nebraska's Foot Ball Triumph.
Journal.

Nebraska took a critical game from Min
nesota Saturday by playing better ball.
Clearly the best team won. 1t is a satisfac-
tion to be beaten without the assistance Of
ifs" So decisive was Nebraska's victory
that even II there had been no score, no one
would have had any doubt that the Ne
braska eleven was the better last Saturday.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

The scheme is already preached to
extend the life of the supreme court
commission, but with the number Of
commissioners reduced from nine to
three. That would impose on the court
a Job of condensation it would hesitate
TO tackle.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

Debate on the tariff bill before the
German Reichstag is said to disclose a
depressing array OF empty benches
facing the speakers. The German law
makers ought TO adopt the glorious
American parliamentary practice of Civ
Ing leave to print.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

Since John n. Baldwin has stepped in
as head boss Of the Union Pacific and
all the states that road traverses, no
wonder General Manager Dickinson
hnds nothing left for him to do.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

People living in the vicinity of
Soufriere have finally come to the con-
clusion that they do not like the neigh
borhood. Too much smoke nuisance, we
presume.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

On his campaign tours nowadays Sen
ator Hanna does not have to invite his
auditors to take a good look at him to
make sure he does not wear horns.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

MERGERS love for the ~workihgmen is
an intermittent malady that seizes him
only at two-year periods just before
election.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-24

Perhaps those Danish legislators had
a bunch that ]; Pierpont Morgan was
contemplating a merger of oceanic
Islands and might raise the price on
Uncle Sam.