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Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

Press (dem).
sured further that II Mir. Morgan and Mr.
Carnegie and Mr.. Rockefeller can do 50
much TO improve mankind. society as a
whole might do Infinitely more II &c we're
graciously permitted to conhscate every
thing and manage everything for the pub
lie good. Then we should have the mil
lennium at which everybody would have a
maximum OF comfort at a minimum Of labor
with no troubles and nothing to worry
about.
Opposition to the doctrine Of sclf-heip
has been organized. and has even been in
Corporated into the educational system OF
the country. The first processes OF mod
ern education are directed toward enter
tanning the child. He must never suspect
that he is working, because work is dis
agreeable to him, and IL he we're required
to work II might annoy him. This theory
follows him through his school life. and II
the notions Of certain prominent educators
are generally adopted, il will follow him
through his college and university life. In
the midst of the most strenuous period OF
American existence we have all begun 10
discredit the doctrine Of self-effort and
self-help. Society is to be reconstructed
along labor saving lines. We are making
a national cultus out Of the doctrine that
work is inherently bad and must be avoided
so far as possible. Nobody Is to pull his
weight, as President Roosevelt says. but
everybody is to be pulled along by mystic
rious forces toward the ultimate goal OF
his ambition.
II is time we were turning our thoughts
back to the old fashioned American ideas
OF industrial as well as political independ-
ence. All that the fathers of the republic
aeEod Cf ooynrnpnapf u-aa Tor 1ha a.
ment TO protect their lives and property,
and then let them severely alone in the
enjoyment of their natural rights. The
sons are beginning to insist that the gov
eminent shall provide them with life and
property, and then scrupulously manage
both in order that they may be relieved OF
all care and responsibility.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
WHEN JIM SANG Low.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
Jim had a big revolver and he made an
awful bluff"
Pretending on occasion to be very brave
and tough"
He kept peace lovers nervous with his san
culinary threats,
That no one cared to tackle him was one OF
his regrets.
He liked TO hear his comrades say, "Oh,
please cont do that, jim"
Their pleas for peace and quiet were eN-
tremely dear to him;
And so IN every preteXt he kept reaching
for his gun,
Until he CHANGED to meet a man who had
another one.
He clustered with the quiet men who al
ways went unarmed;
He talked about his prowess and he told OF
those he'd harmed;
He showed them tricks of juggling with his
awe-inspiring gun,
Until he CHANGED to meet a man who had
another one.
Now, what" his comrades pondered, can
have made this change in Jim?
He hasn't let his anger rise, and that seems
strange in him"
"Oh, as to that" the stranger said, "of
mystery there's none;
l merely CHANGED to say TO him, 4 also
have a gun"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
SALT TRUST WE'LL SHAKEN.
California Court Throws n Search
light on Its Contracts.
Chicago Record Herald.

Chicago Record-Herald.
United States Circuit Judge William w.
Morrow has rendered a decision at San
Francisco in a trust controversy which will
excite interest throughout the country. The
trust Immediately concerned is the Federal
Salt company, and the circumstances under
which the decision was given are as fol-
lows:
A temporary injunction had been secured
against the trust to prevent IL from doing
business on the ground that IL was an IL
legal combination in restraint of trade. This
Injunction applied to several corporations
and to numerous firms and individuals also
TO prevent their acting in concert with the
trust, and the parties concerned were or
dered to show cause why 1t should not be
made permanent. This they failed to do to
the satisfaction of the judge, who gave a
broad Interpretation to the antitrust law
and a broad construction of the judicial
powers In the premises,
On the subject of his own authority he
said:
at is within the jurisdiction OF a chancel-
Tor to look into the entire case. He is au-
thorized to look behind mere contracts and
see the entire transaction, so that the real
effect is within the purview OF a court of
equity. Hence the court is not restricted
to any mere technical defense as has been
claimed by counsel"
There remained to be considered then
only the character OF the agreement be-
tween the parties resisting the injunction
and its enect. On this point the court rea-
soned in the following terms:
Now, it has been admitted by counsel
for the defendants that the Getz contract is
void, and no other defense could we'll be
made. But the other contracts still belong
to the same general scheme Of the Federal
Salt company to strangle all competition,
and IL is evident that all form part of one
general combination or conspiracy. Their
only possible effect is to restrain commerce
here and in other parts Of the union. I think
that the contracts can be properly con-
structed asa class of contracts which al
ready has been declared illegal by the SUI
preme court and more recently in the court
OF appeals"
II this is good reasoning against the salt
trust It is good reasoning against others
which operate under a similar class OF con-
tracts and which were organized primarily
to crush out competition and establish a
monopoly that may and hat constantly
does restrain trade through a species OF die
tatorship. Whether the cure by injunction
is a proper one or not is another question
But whatever its merits may be the decis-
ion has had the Interior effect of eneourag-
ing the district attorney TO proceed with a
criminal action against the members OF the
] trust.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
Strenuous WOmnnhood weakens.
Chicago Post.

Chicago Post.
True womanhood of the advanced order
is somewhat disguised with the absurd be-
havior OF three young women at Sat
urday's game at New Haven. They were
so weak and unwomanly as to faint away
when a player staggered to the side lines
with blood streaming down his face. It is
true that one Of the young women was the
players slster-but at such a time she
should have remembered alma mater and
rejoiced in the valor and prowess of her
brother, exclaiming that it is sweet for
ones college to bleed. Evidently these
three young women have not had the bene-
fits of co-education, which strengthens
wOmanhood in trying hours n compels a
look Of calmness, Asen of Joy, at these or
binary scenes Of stfenuousness.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

In ease President Loubet should ac-
cept the invitation to attend the St
Louis Worlds fair, another reason will
have to be urged for his entertainment
than that of gratitude to France for
permitting us TO acquire Louisiana by
purchase agreement. France got its
own price by selling to the United
States, and at the same time prevented
the territory from being taken away
from it by its ancient enemy. We in this
country are indebted to France in many
ways and would take delight in enter
tanning it's chief executive most hospit
ably, but not in recognition OF any un.
liquidated obligation growing u OF
the Louisiana purchase.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

The deadlock over the county commits
sionership has been fortified by an order
from the courts restraining the county
clerk from casting lots for the tied can
didatea. II the injunction were made
permanent and Commissioner Ostrom
kept in al a holdover the controversy
might be solved TO the satisfaction OF
the public. II NOT Of the contestants
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

A writer in a popular weekly ~cOngratu-
lates the new woman on the growth of
politeness in the sex. which. 1t is as
serted, shows remarkable improvement
compared with a few decades ago. The
men are willing to give the women full
praise for every newly acquired virtue,
but they would like TO share the credit
in this case on the score that they have
learned to give the women less cause for
impoliteness than formerly. ImpOlte-
ness recognizes no lines Of creed, color
or sex.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
Corn Harvest of 1902.
Springfield Republican.

springfield Republican.
The indicated corn harvest, from the
statement of acreage production per acre
Issued by the United States Department OF
Agriculture, amounts to 2,542, Ole, 900
bushels, or much the largest production
ever reported. Present acreage figures
have been revised by the department in
the way IF adjusting them more closely to
the census returns of 1900, which showed
that previous corn and wheat harvests had
been greatly underestimate. Thus the
present estimated crop is being compared
with previous estimates, which were ad-
mittedly much below the truth, and Is
therefore made to appear comparatively
larger than it is. But after making all
allowances on this score it is to be said
that the corn harvest of 1902 is close to
being, IL not actually, a record breaker.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
Graft in Orange Groves.
Chicago Chronicle.

~"ENUbV VITVEIIOIJs
II it be true that a trust has been
formed to take over the orange groves of
southern California an opportunity will
be offered the thrifty citizens Of that To-
cality to unload divers "gophered' or
chards fifty miles from a pint of water,
which have been dangled before eastern
pilgrims without success for 10! these many
years. The gentlemen composing the trust
will quickly have an exemplihcation of the
adage respecting the separation of a fool
and his money.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

II newspaper sentiment controls the
situation, Uncle Joe Cannon need have
no fears that the necessary votes will
be at his command when that speaker
ship contest is pulled of.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

The prospective temperance Of the
snow pillow on the mountain division of
the Union Pacific will have a tendency
to hasten the settlement of the boiler
makers and machinists' lockout, or
strike, as it is commonly called.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

At the forthcoming state meeting of
the Nebraska woman suffragists, an in
novation is to be inaugurated in the
form of a mems evening" in which
the entire program will be rendered by
the sterner sex. We presume this is to
prepare the men for what they may ex-
pect when the women hold the whip
hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
IDEAL Hnppiners Attained.
New York Sun.

NeW lOTk sun.
Great news and goodi The Beef trust
may choke itself with it's steak and the
Bean trust cook itself in its own oven. The
bottom has dropped out of the Newfound-
land Goldfish market. New England can
treat itself to its ~favorite amusement, cod
fish balls. There are palladiums that make
more hullabaloo than the sacred Goldfish.
There is no other tutelary divinity that at
tends more strictly to business.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

II King Leopold Of Belgium had any
way Of profting at the box Office by the
free advertisement, the temptation
would be irresistible to assume that II
had been previously arranged by his
manager that the pistol Of the would-be
assassin be loaded with blank cart
ridOaq
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

The butchers and bakers of st. Joseph
have organized a merger for the purpose
Of keeping up the price Of meat and
bread and keeping down the price of
beef and -four. The next thing we hear
Of will be a merger among the consum-
ers with an agreement to subsist on cod
liver oil and feathers.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

Chicago has been shaken up several
times during the past ten days by stored
explosives. Omaha is liable to have the
same experience most any time simply
because the city council has never been
able TO agree on an ordinance requiring
the inspection of explosives by a corhpe-
lent officer.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

Fusion organs profess to be sure Ne
braska would not have been carried
by the republicans at the recent election
had all the voters registered their choice
at the ballot box. The political mind
reader who a tell how the stay-at-
homes would have voted is sadly in
reduisition.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
General Chanee's Services.
Springfield Republican.

ppIIHBltIu |fNepUDIICdH,
General Chaffee, who left us in a hurry
in the summer Of 1900 in order to make
connections with Pekin, comes home one
of our most distinguished living soldiers.
His service with the allied forces in China
brought him conspicuously before the whole
world, and, in hat way, it was much more
an advertisement of him than the succeed
ing service in the Philippines, where he
"raked after" Otis and Macarthur.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

A department store which has taken
possession Of its new quarters, is giving
out figures in illustration of the immen-
sity Of the premises it occupies. OF floor
space, it has twenty-four acres. The weight
Of the building is 1000, 900, 900 pounds. It
contains 26, 900 900 pounds of structural
steel and iron; 2.150,0 900 pounds of orna-
mental bronze and iron; 5,34O, 900 common
bricks; 2,305 separate columns; eighteen
miles OF brass tubing and galvanized iron
pipe in the pneumatic cash system; forty
six miles of beams, 79S miles of flooring
planks, forty-two miles OF electric wiring,
$50, 900 square feet OF window area, thirty
three hydraulic elevators. four escalators,
with a carrying capacity of 40, 700 persons
an hour, 1.40O enclosed arc lamps, 5000 IN
candescent lamps; and eighty electric mo-
tors. When 1000 employees are turned
loose in these acres OF floor space, this
one building becomes a village by itself.
The above figures give some idea of the
weight that is supported by the rocks OF
Manhattan island.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

II our state institutions were to get all
they ask for from the impending legis-
lature. the floating debt OF the state
would o reflect the expansion policy
But then heads OF state institutions in
Nebraska, as elsewhere, proceed on the
principle Of asking for everything in
sight and resting content with what is
given 20 them.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
A Boon to Farmers.
Baltimore American.

Rural free mail delivery has proved such
a boon to the agricultural population that
every effort for its Improvement and ex-
tension will meet with general public APP
prevail. Though expensive, this govern
ment can well afford it, and the rural resi-
dents have a right TO the privileges and
convenience it confers upon them.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

quality OF coal there, very little was used,
and owing to the peculiar conditions pre-
vailing here they have been enabled to re-
purchase the cargo and sell 1t in New York
at a profit.
A member of the firm of Madeira, Hill G.
Co. said that the cost of freights and in
s%urance. both ways, was about IS per ton.
He also said that the steamship Madeira,
with 5000 tons Of Scotch anthracite, would
sail on Tuesday. This will be the first i'm
portation Of Scotch coal to New York.
Thus far more than $4,000 tons OF foreign
anthracite have been brought TO New York
since the coal strike reached an acute
stage. The great bulk of this was pur-
chased by the gas companies and the Man
haitian Elevated Railroad company at prices
ranging from S1O.5O to $3.50 per ton de-
livered.
Lower Broadway has two persons Of pc
culiar and distinctive tastes, relates the
Evening Post. One is a rather short,
elderly man, who rarely wears a hat, or
even carries one about with him. He
has thick white hair and flowing whiskers,
and only on the coolest winter days does
he seek to cover his head. A hot sun
seems to be his delight, and fine rain
gives him no concern, but sometimes he
uses an umbrella when a heavy shower
comes down. AS a rule. however, he goes
bareheaded. Whether the little man does
this upon the advice Of a doctor cannot be
said, but his s~prightly step seems to show
that the habit agrees with him.
The other person is a young woman who
apparently has an unsatisfed craving for
literature, for she always reads while walk
ing to and from the Office in which she
works. With her eyes fixed on the open
pages Of some book, she may be seen every
day in the neighborhood Of City Hall park.
Her eyes appear to follow the type whether
she walks fast or slow, and 1t takes a
lively street noise to arrest her atten-
tion. This young woman's habit has led to
the development Of a faculty which one in
variably finds in a blind person. Although
apparently oblivious to everything but her
book. she crosses the streets in perfect
safety, and is always able to thread her
way through a crowd without humping into
anybody.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

Il begins to look as If the order of the
secretary of the interior for the fences
illegally erected on government land to
come down really means that the
fences must come down. a a.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

AS to a state census for Nebraska in
1905, there is really no hurry about pre-
liminary preparations. The census may
be taken at any time during the year
and the Legislature of 1905 can take a
Of it without crowding in case the COM
ing legislature OF 1908 fails to get around
10 IL
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

II the figures for Douglas county are
a straw, the constitutional amendment
submitted to Nebraska voters at the re-
cent election has been lost. In this
county 1t received 1854 Affirmative votes
out OF a total Of approximately 10000.
Inasmueh as all not voting for the
amendment must be counted against il,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
Stimulating the PnIefnce.
RrnnkIrn Enrln

The Sioux are going TO put up a monu-
ment to their fellow tribesmen who were
"massacred' at Wounded Knee. We have
put up a monument to the white folks who
fell in that battle, and II fills us with
establishment that the red folks should
care to remember their dead in the same
Way
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

Judging from the official figures of the
election Of Douglas county, the populists
have disappeared from the map and the
socialists have taken their place.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

The new public library. the cornerstone OF
which was laid last Monday. will be a four
story building OF large proportions. the
Fifth avenue front being 800 feet long. The
depth will be 27O feet. Already 81, 200, 900
has been expended on the work and the
foundations are laid. Facing the Bryan
park side will be the main library structure
proper. Three floors will be devoted to the
book-stacks. and the top floor will be used
as a reading room. Two courts will sep
arate this building from the frontage on
Fifth avenue and furnish light and air to
the rooms surrounding them. rebuilding
when completed will represent a cost. ex-
elusive Of site, OF over 49, 900, 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

New York Sun: Her Father-so, younI
man, you want to fill my shoes?
Her Suttor-Iu try, sir.
Her Father-well. IL you did your first act
would be to kick yourself.
Washington Star: do you think tn,
world is getting better?"
Certainly answered Senator Sorghum
Why, I'm making thousands of dollarI
where / formerly made only hundreds
Brooklyn Life: Clergymar-Tm sorry 70
hear that you sell liquor in this hotel.
Hotel Clerk-Well, sir, we wouldn't IL you
could get people to stop buying it.
Philadelphia Record: 'T desire an audi
ence with the manager" remarked the
preached the box office of the theater.
Step right in replied the man in the
box office. II think he's looking for a few
audiences himself"
Baltimore American: First Capitalist
have a great scheme. What do you say to
organizing a merger I'm mushrooms, with
Second Capitalist-why mushrooms?
First Capitalist-Man alive! 1t is the
chance of the century. Mushrooms are 90
per cent water.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Mrs. Rubba-
How's Mrs. Chatter this morning, doctor?
DoctoT-Suffering terribly.
throat affection?
Doctor-Yes, but she can't speak.
-
Brooklyn Life: Baxter-I thought Miss
Blumster had a reputation of being very
tTuthful?
Blaxter-She did have. But OF late she
has fallen from grace.
Backster-How so?
Blaxter-She has got in the habit OF tell
ing her age.
Chicago Post: Cordelia-It worries me to
buy clothes.
Cornelia-Why?
Cordelia-Oh. I can't decide whether to
look stylish and be uncomfortable, or to be
comfortable and look dowdy.
Philadelphia Press: Now, this said the
carpet salesman, rs an odd design"
you wouldn't recommend that carpet for
a nursery, surely" protested Mrs. Kidd.
"Yes'm. Why not?"
why, that is so loud it would wake the
baby"
Washington Star: Don't you think that
you are making an i'll advised display of
wealth. said the friend.
NO answered Senator Sorghum, II
don't think my friends out home care very
much for self-denial and simplicity. l want
TO let 'em know that If ] need the votes
I've got the cash to buy EN-"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

M~oral-Don't leave valuables in plain
sight of a second-sight medium. Make
him use his second sight.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIeS on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.

DR.. Burchard's famous ALTERATION, Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion" which sounded
the political death knell of James G. Blaine
in the fall of 1884, is recalled by the dis
appearance of the church over which the
minister presided from the list Of religious
edifces in New York City. An artist and
his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Francois Tonetti,
have bought the place and will have 1t
fitted up for a studio, a residence and a
stable. For a long time the old -fashloned
red brick church has been on the market,
but found no purchasers. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tonetti, both having ample means, looking
around for a place Of residence. hit upon
the disused church and bought it. 1t will
be remodeled.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

Doodle distributors get no comfort
from Missouri juries or mercy from Mis-
souri, judges.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17
Another fine example of stock water

Another fine example Of stock water
ing is to be found in the absorption of
the White Star line by the new Atlantic
steamship trust. The figures in the
transaction as reliably reported involve
an issue of $25, 174,O00 in preferred stock
and $12, 900 in COMMON stock, in adj
dition to SIS, 1916, 100 in cash, as the pur-
chase price for the shares Of the old
company 1t more than ten times par
value, the cash alone paying the selling
stockholders more than was originally
paid in for their holdings. II the steam
ship trust pays interest n dividends
on all it's bond and stock obligations,
some people we presume will still be
unable to see wherein the stock is
watered.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

Only two weeks more for the fever
to u on the foot ball enthusiast.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

1t is a wise railroad that knows who
controls it three months in succession
these days.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

Last Saturday there died in New York
City a man who had been continuously the
president OF a bank since the year 1S49. His
name was Francis Asbury Palmer, and he
was more than 81 years old when he died.
He was in business up to two months be-
fore his death. when he was prevailed to
take a bit Of a rest-the first he had had in
more than half a century. 1t is asserted
by persons who seem to know that the rest
killed him. He was nervous and uneasy
about his business from the beginning OF
his little vacation, and he worried ana
stewed so over the way he imagined things
were going at the bank-the National
Broadway bank, one Of the big institutions
OF the city-that he worked himself into a
fever which he was unable TO fight against
in his senile state. He was a millionaire
so many times over that he had often been
known to say that he didn't know within
81, 900, 900 how much he was worth.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-17

If the World-H Herald had any right to
the publication of liquor license notices,
why has it not put in its claim with the
county board or with the city council Of
South Omaha, which issue licenses for
this county outside of Omaha? The
same law applies to the entire county
and both these bodies are controlled by
democratic majorities. But both of
them have accorded The Evening Bee
the position Of newspaper of largest
bona fde circulation in the county, be-
cause the facts in the case are indis-
putable. Applicants for licenses in
Omaha who submit to the present
World Herald raid will be voluntary
victims of the holdup.