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Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Business Enterprises Managed by
Cities in Great Britain.

SlNACAa IN ONCoh
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
Mr.. James Boyle. the American consul
at Liverpool, an old newspaper man and
private secretary to Mckinley during his
terms as governor Of Ohio. takes "Mu-
nieipal Socialism" as a text in a recent
report to the State department. He finds
that n~inety-nine municipalities In Great
Britain own their street railway systems.
forty own their gas plants and ISL supply
electrical light. Half the population Of
London uses municipal gas. Both Glasgow
and Liverpool own their street railways.
In Glasgow street railway fares range from
/ cent to 2 cents. Universal accent fares
will shortly be adopted in Liverpool. From
street railway profits Shefield has appro-
priated SIS, 900 for the erection OF shops
and business premises to be rented. Liver
pool has demolished 5000 slum houses and
private owners 1000 more. Improved tene-
ments In this district to the number OF ZOO
have been built OF are under construction
The policy is to have new blocks ready for
dispossessed tenants.
Americans are surprised to md the extent
to which the municipal ownership idea has
spread out in Great Britain. Bradford
like Liverpool, owns a hotel; Manchester
owns a ship canal; Alexandra palace. Lon
don, is municipal property; Torquay owns
a rabbit warren, Colchester an oyster hsh-
cry. ST. Helen's a sterilized milk depot,
Hull a crematorium. Doncaster and Chester
a race course, Bournemouth a golf course,
West Ham a stone-hagging factory and
bennington and Harrogate own Turkish
baths and give free fireworks exhibitions.
Numerous British cities supply free con-
eerts. Liverpool supplies gas and to some
extent. hot water, on the slot principle.
Two cents pays for gas sufheient for four
hours consumption by one burner. When
public ownership lie taken for a text In the
United States It Is we'll to admit that the
British municipalities are immensely ahead.
Consul Boyle Is evidently Impressed with
American baekwardness In the whole
matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
Rhetoric and Truth
San Francisco Chronicle.

'Nu SHHuniClNs
Cuba we have neither afHrmed nor denied
II. We have simply "vindicated" the
Monroe doctrine and left the Cubans to
hemselves-or possibly not quite so much
to themselves as a strict construction Of the
celebrated declaration might really sug-
gest. We shall not have eternal" graft
tude in Cuba. and II we do not give the
Cubans what they are crying for we may
not get any gratitude. We have not the
hated and sullen submission" Of a sub
jugated people in the Philippines, but. on
the contrary, the very hearty good will OF
a people who are very much more con-
tented and prosperous than they would be
II we had left them to cut each others
throats, and who will become as good
American citizens as any Asiatic people are
capable OF becoming II we will only give
hem-as we shall In time give them-the
commercial rights of such citizens. In
addition to what glory" we have brought
home from Cuba we have brought in our
baggage a most importunate demand from
the Cubans that, after freeing them, we
should support them. From the Philippines
we have brought home the glory Of brave
deeds, honest administration, sanitary and
educational improvement, a far greater
measure Of self government than they had
ever dreamed of and a promise OF all that
they shall prove fit for. Had we given the
islanders their commercial rights our ma
tional glory would be wholly undimmed.
Rhetoric has its uses, OF which the I'm
culcation Of truth is not one. No speech
on a political question can be both rhetori-
cal and truthful. Why men are so created
as to be more moved by rhetoric than by
plain statements Of fact has never been
officially determined. Senator Hoar's
speech on the Philippines was an admir-
able bit Of rhetoric.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

1A A-AN
Senator Hoar has made a great speech
on the Philippine question and received the
applause Of supporters and opponents. The
senior senator from Massachusetts, is a gen.
tleman whom everybody respects as a man
and a senator. He particularly represents
the conscience Of the nation, and II we
grant his premises we must accept his con-
illusions.
Unfortunately. he cannot escape the faults
peculiar to the most estimable class Of
which he is a foremost representative, and
whom we speak of as sympathetic" II we
wish to be respectful. emotional" II we
are less careful to be complimentary. and
"mushy' II we wish to intimate lack Of
confidence in their judgment. He assumes
his facts and accepts any kind Of evidence
to sustain them. Sometimes he does not
bother about evidence, as when he says:
For the Philippine islands you have had
70 repeal the Declaration OF independence.
For cuba you have had to reafhrm Il and
Islands you have had to convert the Mon
roe doctrine into a doctrine of mere selfish
ness. For Cuba you have acted on II and
INDICATED II. In Cuba you have the eternal
gratitude OF a free people. In the Philip
pine islands you have the hatred and sullen
submission. OF a subjugated people. From
Cuba you have brought home nothing but
glory. From the Philippines you brought
home nothing of glory.
Now. this brief paragraph contains seven
misstatements and one truth 1t is true
that in Cuba We have acted on the Monroe
doctrine and "vindicated" IL. II by win
dicating'' the senator means demonstrat-
ing our power to enforce II in that case.
In his other statements the senator errs.
We have not repealed the Declaration OF
Independence In the Philippines, but, on
the contrary, have recognized 1t far more
fully than did our forefathers in dealing
with Africans and Indians. In the case Of
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
:, COMPROMISE BILL PROPOSED

A compromise measure amending the
interstate IN act is now pro-
posed. According to New York papers
business interests In that city which
have been cooperating with the COM
merclal interests throughout the coun-
try have received reports from Wash
ington leading them to believe that a
compromise will be reached at this ses-
sion Of congress. on the bill to give the
Interstate Commerce commission greater
powers. 1t is understood that this com
promise will include the acceptance by
Senator Elkins of the chief provisions
of the revised Nelsoq-C orliss bill in ex-
change for the addition of a clause au-
thorizing pooling. The revised bill,
while permitting pooling, seeks to place
about it safeguards and to make the
pooling subject to the jurisdiction of the
Interstate Commerce commission, CON-
p~rehensive provision being made for
this.
Aside from this the Nelson-C orliss bill
aims to restore to the commission the
powers it was supposed to possess and
which it exercised for some years after
the act creating 1t was passed. 1t pro-
vides for making the rulings Of the
commission effective until reversed by
the courts. While 1t confers no rate
making power, it gives the commission
authority to correct a rate which has
been found, after full hearing, to be
unjust or discriminative and gives ample
protection, through appeal, from all pos
| sible injustice. The Nelson-Co rliss bill
as originally introduced had the sup
port of the commission, but whether or
not the commission approves the re-
vised form with the addition OF the
pooling provision is not known. Per-
haps 1t has not beer consulted in re-
gard to this feature. though undOubt-
eddy the commissioners will be asked
for. an expression of opinion on SO Inn
portant a matter, which has been the
crux Of most of the dissensions be-
tween the shipping and the carrying
interests.
So far as the shipping interests are
concerned, we think 1t may confidently
be said that they will be found as
strongly opposed now as at any time
In the past to legalized pooling, how
ever full and comprehensive the COM
missions authority over 1t. The public
conviction that 1t is unsafe to allow
the railroads to enter into pooling
agreements is undoubtedly as genera
now as it has ever been and It Is there
fore very questionable II a bill per
hitting pooling can be passed In the
present congress. The popular opposi
ton to further concessions to the rail
roads must be respected and the demand
for better regulation needed. This II
to be effected by strengthening thu
powers of the commission in the direc
lions where these have been shown Il
be inadequate. The revised measure
still provides for this, but the addition
to 1t OF a pooling provision win un
doubtedly weaken it with the shipping
interests. 1t appears very probable tina
nothing will be done at the present ses
sion, yet congress ought TO have tn
courage to meet this question squared,
and determine 1t as the public interest
clearly require.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

A contributor to a leading democratic
paper tersely sets forth the needs Of his
party as follows in a printed communi-
cation under Chicago date:
The democratic party needs the services
of the foolkiller first, then new leaders
who will make a democratic platform. a
convention in which none but democrats
are delegates and candidates who are dem
~ocrats, II 1t is to be anything more than
it has been since 1S94-an aid to the re-
publican party.
Democrats should not allow them
selves to be misled into expecting too
much all at once. 4. r.f
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
4 INUuSTRY.

The statistics of the growth of the
shipbuilding industry of the United
States during the last decade are ex-
ceedingly interesting. There is now in
vested in this important industry over
SIT, 100000, one-fifth of which is in ship
building on the great lakes. The value
of the products for the last census year
was over $7~4,00O,OO0 and there was paid
for labor nearly SIS, 100000. The spe-
cial census report says that the growth
of the industry during the last ten years
exceeds that of any preceding decade
and the tonnage constructed in the last
Isl year ending May 81. 1900, was
greater than during any preceding year
in our history with the possible excep-
lions Of 1854 and 1855, when of course
only wooden vessels were built. The
product of merchant ships during the
decade was largely employed in the do
nestle commerce of the country.
The industry is still expanding and
one can readily understand what Its
possibilities will be when we shall con
struct a merchant marine for our for
eign commerce, which will certainly In
time be done. When that comes the
shipbuilding industry will expand to two
or three times Its present proportions
and all the industries which have rela-
ton to 1t will of course increase in
equal degree. An interest that has SO
large an amount of capital invested and
employs SO much labor is certainly en-.
titled to all proper encouragement, such
as can be given through "a reasonable
Measure of protection.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
NO oYERLAPs wANrEp.

The city tax levy for 1902 has now
been made and It can be computed with
approximate exactness just how much
money will be available for each de-
partment OF the municipal government.
The intent and purpose OF the city char
ter in fixing limits upon the %appropria'
lions for each specific fund was to keep
the expenditures within those limits.
No q win question the fact that
were twice the present resources at
hand the money could be spent on pub
lie works and improved service with
more or less beneficial results to the
public, nor that each municipal depart.
ment will be somewhat eramped under
the allotment subject 10 its draft Yet
neither is there any question that with
careful economy and prudence the levy
as Axed can be made 70 cover all the
pressing legitimate demands The gar
ment can be cut according to the cloth
and the taxpayers will, look to the
various municipal officers to follow the
lines OF the pattern.
What has been herS said with reference
to the city departdf nts applies with
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
King COrn's Vast Domain.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
II all the land planted TO corn in the
United States this year were masSed the
area would exceed the British isles. Hol-
land and Belgium combined. or four-nfths
OF the area OF France or Germany. In
spite Of drouth the corn crop last year fell
but little short of $1,000. OOO.O 900 in value.
The favorable reports from the corn fields
is good news for the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

only so far as 1t serves to house the
books that constitute the library and to
provide facilities for those who wish to
consult them. Many a fine library has
been built up in u~npretentious quarters
and the possession Of a beautiful library
building can prove fruitful of results
only as 1t stimulates the collection to be
stored in IL,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30


The saline lands in the neighborhood
of the capital city that have ~scandalized
many legislatures and brought humilia-
ton and disgrace ON many state officials
who have padded In the speculative
brine have bobbed up again. A few
years ago n of our legislatures was
prevailed upon to authorize a lease with
a prospective beef packing concern that
has packed it's beef in the shape of hay
and grain upon lank and lean hungry
cows. Now it is proposed that the state
make an outright sale OF the saline
lands to a syndicate that promises to
redeem the promise made heretofore Of
establishing a large packing house on
the premises. How extensive or ex-
pensive these packing houses are to be
has moi yet transpired, but there is evil
IDENTIFY a good deal more speculation In
land in sight than there is Of canned or
refrigerated beef. Whether a legal title
can be conveyed to lands originally set
| apart for the development OF the salt
Interest is an open question, ven II the
syndicate were willing to take, the
chances Of an adverse decision BY the
supreme court.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
DECORATION DAY.
Henry w. LonRfel1ow.

ftenTy W. LOnHIello"'
Sleep, comrades! sleep and rest
or this field Of grounded arms,
Where foes no more modest,
Nor sentry's hot alarms.
Ye have slept on the ground before,
And started to your feet,
A [ the %cannon's sudden roari
or the drums ~redoubling beat.
But IN this camp Of death
No sound YOU slumber breaks
Here is no fevered. breath,
No wound that bleeds n aches.
All IL repose and peace;
Untrampled lies the sod;
The shouts OF battle cease
II is the truce Of God.
Rest. comrades! rest and sleepl
The thoughts of men should be
As sentineis, 20 keep
Your rest from dangers free.
Your silent tents Of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been.
The memory shall be ours.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

AlthoughSoVer a thousand citizens Of
Omaha have already paid their taxes on
real and personal property for 1902, City
Treasurer Hennings may still be found
at the old stand willing to receive In.
voluntary contributions from all who
have been listed by the tax commits
sioner.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

The denial of the chief deputy OF the
county attorney that he would under
any circumstances become a candidate
for promotion even II the nomination
were offered him on a 16 to l silver
platter. may excite the suspicion that
the present incumbent may have no
conscientious scruples against the third
term idea.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

While the county attorney is explain
ing his policy on policy. why not ex-
plain why he is always struck with
visual blindness whenever he passes the
boundaries of South Omaha? Most
Biographies place Omaha and South
Omaha both in Douglas county.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Memorial day should be observed not
only by the surviving families of wal
veterans, but by all our people. No
more beautiful and inspiring custom
has ever been cherished than that which
calls for an annual tribute to the be-
loved dead.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Our French guests will have no more
nus to complain at American hospi-
tally than did Prince Henry and his
party. The only criticism they will be
tempted TO pass Is that their hosts
shower UPON them such a succession OF
attentions that they will have to take
a vacation when they return home to
rest
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

There certainly must be some mistake
about that well-defned rumor concern
ing the call from Wisconsin to the chan
cellor Of the Nebraska university. That
$4,000 position is evidently being held
for Superintendent Pearse until he shall
be able to come to a positive conclusion
whether he can be induced to remain in
Omaha for another year.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

president Palma starts out with a
small package OF trouble due to the pre-
mature publication OF his message TO the
Cuban congress. That is indeed serious.
but 1t will be remembered that the pro-
ceedings Of executive sessions Of the
American senate sometimes leak, SC il
should not be surprising that American
szampIss are 90 quickly copied in Cuba.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
Arrogance of the Coal Trust.
indianapolis News.

When the coal operators serve notice that
they have nothing to arbitrate and that un-
der no circumstance would the Civic Fed
Grafton be permitted to interfere, they
show that they have no faith in the justice
Of their cause. Their attitude is not a
challenge to the coal miners alone, but TO
the sense of fair play throughout the land.
To what length will the arrogance OF the
trust lead IT,?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
welcome the Water Cure.
Louisyllle Courier-Journal.

LOUISVILLE Courler-JouTndL.
A theory is that irrigation In the arid
regions will temper the heat waves sweep
ing eastward and that rainfalls will be in
creased. II it could be demonstrated that
irrigation would prove a water cure Of this
kind 1t would have more friends through
out the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Wait till the statistlcians begin to
figure out how much King Edwards
coronation weighs in dollars and cents,
or rather pounds and shillings, in order
to answer the question whether it is
worth the money.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
GODS PROMISE REDEEMED.
Eloquent Memorial Day Address by
Colonel Henry w~atterson.

Beside the mounds which mark the rest
Ing place OF the union dead in Cave Hill
cemetery, Louisville, KY, Colonel Henry
Watterson stood three years ago today and
addressed the multitude assembled. there,
paying the tribute of the living to the SOL
der dead. The dust Of soldiers who gave
their lives for the liberation OF Cuba had
been mingled with the soil already sacred,
thus increasing public interest in the cere-
monies and lending fresh inspiration to the
gifted orator of the occasion. Mr.. Waiter
sons address was brief, eloquent and en-
nobling. one of the classics of Memorial
day.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

On the Hartman theory that railroad
men alone know how to leglslate on
railroad matters, a legislature composed
Of railroad magnates and employees will
have to be elected whenever the people
want new laws, governing railroads and
their relations to public and patrons.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Every public holiday, no matter what
the occasion, cinches the argument
stronger that the American people are
becoming steadily more and more de-
voted to outdoor sports.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

In hunting for an issue for the coming
campaign, the democrats in congress are
chiefly fearful they may unearth some
thing they would rather not find.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

The Bowersock 2-cent-per-acre land
lease bill has been indefinitely placed
on the shelf by the house committee on
public lands. Hence those steers on the
ranges OF the cattle barons.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

The Woman's club Of Sioux Falls is
going to pieces owing to internal dissen-
sion. The Omaha Woman's club has
very wisely concluded to adjourn for a
vacation over the heated season to avoid
internal dissension and external conten-
tinn. -.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Omaha people would know that sum-
mer is at hand If they had nothing else
to go by except the opening of the sum-
mer recreation resorts.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
signs of the Times.
Minneapolis Times.

MINNEAPOLIS IImes.
The democrats are coming over to the re-
republican party so fast these days that
It will be quite immaterial pretty soon
whether the democracy succeeds or fails in
hiding an issue for the next campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

With the opening Of their new Carne-
gle building. the Lincoln library nnds
that 1t has shelf room for several times
as many books as 1t has to put upon the
shelves. A library building u useful
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Now that the High school cadets in
summer camp have been reviewed by
the governor, the wal may go on.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
Heroism RiEhtIy rewarded.
chicago Record Herald.

Chicago Record-Herald.
The duke Of Marlborough has received
the order of the Garter, probably in recog-
milton Of the mastery way in which he
handled his chahng dish While campaigning
in South Africa.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
Sets q Good Example.
Kansas City Star.

hdHbdb CITY bIdIs
Even the United States may learn some
thing from Cuba President Palma, with
every temptation to be difusive, kept his
FIRST message within the space Of a col
umn
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Each successive Memorial day finds
more graves to be decorated. Such is
the irresistible decree Of time.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
Paaa III Up to Time.

4 Detroit Free Press.
Great Britain may have peace for the
coronation, but even peace will not erase
the bloodstains from the veldt.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
A StartIinR Possibility.
Washington Post.

washington Post.
The extraordinary silence Of the Hon.
Ben Tillman gives rise to the hope that
the gentleman may have cracked his era
ter.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

The duty which draws us together" he
said: and the day-although appointed by
law-come to us laden by a deeper mean
ing than they have ever borne before, and
the place which witnesses our. coming in
vests the occasion with increased solemnity
and significance. Within the precincts of
this dread but beautiful city-consecrate in
all our hearts and all our homes-for here
lie our loved ones-two plots of ground,
with but a hillock between, have been set
aside to mark the resting place of the dead
OF two armies that in life were called hos
tile, the army of the union, the army Of
the confederacy. We come to decorate the
graves of those who died fighting for the
union. Presently others shall come to
decorate the graves of those who died
fighting for the confederacy. Yet, If these
hower-covered mounds could open and the
brave men who inhabit them could rise,
not as disembodied spirits, but in the SEN
tient nesh and blood which they wore when
they went hence, they would rejoice as we
do that the hopes of both have been at
least FULFILLED and that the confederacy,
swallowed up by the union, lives again in
American manhood and brotherhood, such
as were contemplated by the makers Of the
republic.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Tears and flowers for the dead-char-
ity and sympathy for the living.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State OF Nebraska, Douglas County, S.;
George b Tzschuck. secretary OF The Bee
publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number or fun ana
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening ana Sunday Bee printed during
the month OF April, 1901. was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Cleveland Plain Dealer: "A rich young
woman of Hartford has Just married a
"Dear me, 1 wonder how he found lime to
court herr"
picked her up with his ~life-saving net, l
s'pose, and then proposed to her through
the front window"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Judge: He American)-My grandfather
fell at Bunke Hill.
She (English)-Oh, what a pretty name
for a golf linksl But how did ne happen to
fall9
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30
Whitfield TO A POINT.

Ohio State Journal: She-Are you going
TO church with me today. Henry?
He-No; it's too COMPOUNDED hot; / think
I'll play golf.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Chicago Tribune: when I hear a man
spoken Of as having forty or fifty millions
IN cold cash." remarked Uncle Allen
Sparks, II always wonder II he didn't get
1t by freezing out his competitors"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-30

Cleveland Plain Dealer: "They say that
old maids would do well TO reconcile them
selves TO fate after they pass thirty
"Oh, / dunno. Look at the wealthy
Baroness Burdette Coutts. She remained
a spinster until nearly sixty
''Yes, but it's all different when you have
to"