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Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
4 GAIL For CoNsCRYATlsM.

There is a feeling among many OF
those who are prominently identified
with financial and industrial affairs
that the time has come for the exercise
Of greater conservatism In all depart
ments of business. This feeling Is
voiced in the address of Mr.. f. A. Van.
derlip, formerly assistant secretary Of
the treasury and now engaged in bank
ing. He has recently investigated COM
merclal conditions abroad and reached
the conclusion that for the present our
exports to Europe have reached the
high-water mark. This is indicated In
the fact that during the last fiscal year
there was a considerable decline in the
exports OF domestic merchandise and
the falling of has continued thus far in
the current fiscal year, of which four
months have passed. The balance of
trade continues to be very largely in
our favor. although there has been a
very material increase in imports, but
in the view Of Mr.. Vanderlip 1.-THE edge
is of u invasion Of foreign markets
and while our totals are still colossal,
the rate of increase which they were
making has been checked.
While seeing no, cause for alarm, Mr..
Nanderllp believes there are elements
of possible danger in the situation. He
recognizes the favorable conditions and
the advantages Of this country over
its competitors. He does not doubt that
these advantages will place us foremost
In the worlds commercial ranks. But
he thinks that we have perhaps been
moving at a too rapid gait and that now
some restraint should be applied, in or
der to avoid a dangerous and possibly
disastrous reaction. There are many
financial and business men who will
concur In this view. Indeed some have
been giving a like warning for a year
or two past, insisting that unless there
was n change in financial and business
methods serious trouble would inevita-
bly, ensue. 1t was to be expected that
sooner or later our exports to Europe
would decline from the extraordinary
proportions they had attained. European
countries could not so on buying from us
freely as they had done without break.
ing down their own industries and thus
producing a reaction by depriving the
masses Of their people Of the
with which to buy. To a certain extent
t6ls has already come about. The Amer
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.

A prominent Jobber of Omaha, who
has been confdenced into an endorse
ment Of the candidacy Of David II.
Mercer by the good government mas
querade under which the respectable
and law abiding element is to be rOped
into voting for the nonresident con-
gressman. declares that great strides
have been made toward the radical
change in the government of our city
affairs, the initiative of which has been
taken by the republicans and independ-
ent voters" What constitutes the in
itiative is not clearly indicated, but pre-
sumably 1t refers to the Mercer-Bald-
win police board and the alleged re-
forms instituted by 1t. What this brace
of sham reformers have done to improve
the police government Of Omaha or the
moral status of the community is not
visible to the most penetrating eye.
The reform board has publicly sup
pressed Dennison and privately sought
to negotiate terms with him for contin-
uing business at the old stand, on con-
dition that he would help to carry the
Third ward for Mercer.
Publicly the sham reform Board has
suppressed all slot machines, while pri-
vately it has allowed them to run as
heretofore,
Publicly the midnight ordinance and
the Sunday closing ordinances have been
vigorously enforced, but the hinges of
the front doors and the back doors Of
saloons. are still swinging inward and
outward the same as ever.
Publicly Mickey Mullen and all the
variety shows and wine rooms have
been denounced and suppressed. Pri-
yately they are still running just as
heretofore, with the full knowledge and
consent of the sham reform commission.
In these instances and In the suppress
sion Of criminal vice, the initiative is
very much at variance with the referen-
dunn.
While Mercer stands for reelection as
the champion of a moral house-cleaning
next spring, he has been debauching
the voters of Omaha and South Omaha
with liquor and his camp followers have
kept the towns awake with hilarious and
d~isgraceful orgies. But there are none
SO blind as those who will not see, and
the good, reputable, ~law-abiding jobber
who has received a Mercer tip from
railroad headquarters cannot possibly be
expected to discern anything improper
in the Mercer campaign Of corruption
and general debauchery, masquerading
under the cloak Of moral reform and
good government.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
HANDS OFF THE TURKEYS.
Is the Thanksgiving Dinner to He
COrraIed by the TrustsT,
Chica 90 Tribune

There are rumors current which will raise
apprehension in every loyal and grateful
soul that after one trust has made coal the
most expensive Of l~uxuries and another
trust has rushed up the price OF beef to
the top notch, still another is engrossing
all the gobblers with the intention of feec-
ing consumers upon various pretexts, such
as scarcity OF poultry, wet weather which
killed off the young broods. and unusual
mortality among the elder birds.
II is generally believed that there is no
shortage Of turkeys in the country. There
is a general conviction that the turkey
market is cornered and that various great
corporations, ostensibly engaged in pack.
ing beef and pork, after cornering the hens
and the eggs, have had their agents out
gathering in the turkeys also, with Interior
designs upon Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Corporations have no souls" and trusts
have no sentiment. All is gTist that comes
to their mills and most everything comes
TO them. A tradition which goes back
for centuries has no sacredness for them,
provided money can be squeezed out OF It.
1t is possible by Thanksgiving time coal
may be had for cooking by the average
person, though at a high price. but will
the average person. who has already been
squeezed nearly dry, be able to have the
turkey to cook? And II is not alone the
turkey that is In peril. The trust or the
trusts servants have had their unhallowed
hands upon nearly everything else. Pump
kins have gone up in price, though the
frost is on millions OF them all over the
country. Apples have advanced, though the
apple crop never was bigger than It is this
fall. There is not an ingredient which
enters into plum pudding which has not
reached almost prohibitive prices.
A trust has audaciously and greedily
levied upon the Thanksgiving dinner and
will exact tolls which may make II eX-
tremely dihicult for the whole nation to
be grateful. as 1t will be exhorted to be
by the president, by governors and by the
clergy. II the trust eorrals the Thanks,
giving dinner there will be little gratitude
displayed. Take everything else. but save
us our turkey. plum pudding and pie on
that one day at least.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
EMANCIPATION OR sUBJUelrioS.

The time has come for republicans
who desire to curb the political power
Of corporate m%onopolies to assert them.
selves through the ballot box. All pa
%triotic, liberty loving citizens will place
country above party. In the present
campaign this issue has been forced
upon us by the managers of the railroad
corporations, who propose to ride rough
shod owe the people Of this district by
overawing wage workers and suBsidiz-
ing shippers through lawless Conces-
slons.
The issue summed up In three words
Is "Subjugatlon or Emancipation" The
outcome depends upon the moral cour-
age of the bread-wlnners and business
men willing to assert their manhood
In spite of threats of disfavor or tempt
ing promises of reward. This Is by no
means the first time the attempt has
been made to dragon the citizens of
Omaha into abject submission to cor
porate rule. More than a quarter Of a
century ago an ~iron-heeled alien power,
which sought TO dominate over the
people of this city and STATE through
arrogant managers Obeying the mandute
Of an alien directory, met with inglo-
rlous defeat. We feel sure the people
of today are as patriotic and as cour-
ageous as were the pioneers Of the
'70s and will assert themselves In
this emergency. Omaha should assert
its right to govern Omaha without the
aid or consent of nonresident railroad
magnates or nonresident railroad attor-
neys.
The sovereign citizens of Omaha and
this congressional district will not wear
the t~riple-plated brass collar nor obey
the edict Of a corporate %autocrat. AS
American freemen they know their
rights and will maintain them.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.

Charity seldom crswls out Of a crowded
purse.
Paint cannot make a picture by its own
power.
Poverty makes a goodly frame for the pic.
ture Of purity.
1t is no use praying for bread while We
are stealing butter.
No amount Of culture could make a cab
bage grow into an oak.
Efforts do not always produce the best
effects in spiritual things.
It is possible to smother the FIRE Of zeal
by too much fuel Of effort.
The only fruit that will keep in the king
dom is hand-picked and heart-packed.
Too many church rolls are only cradle
rolls and the preachers expert rockers.
To make the church a fashion parade is
to turn the cross into a clothes hook.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
ON THE OVERLAND TRAIL.

James Barton Adams in Denver Post.
Here's a song for the days, the heroic
old days
When the West tried the mettle of reso-
Ere the sun of Progression had melted
the haze
OF the mystery hiding the land from our
ken.
Here's a song for the heroes, the "cusses'
so tough,
Who popped their great whips when the
And sang their wild songs as their pipes
they would pun
While pounding along on the Overland
trail.
Not a snap of the calloused old fingers
For the dangers awaiting them out on the
plains
AS they yelled at their bulls and went
In the alkali dust of the slow-moving
trains.
Away through the pillows Of Pickering
Upheld by a courage that never could
with a sheer for the peri!s they knew
they would meet
While pounding along on the Overland
trail.
The signal from scouts who were sleuthing
ahead;
The parking of wagons with panicless
The Wild savage yells that would waken
the dead;
The Indian sally dehantly faced.
The battle, the flight of the reds In defeat:
Some graves over which the coyotes would
wall;
And on moved the train through the SHIN
mering heat
That q~uivered and danced on the Over
land trail.
Where now are the heroes who swung the
great whips
That popped DER the backs of the lab6~
ing bulls,
Who chose not the language that rolled
from their lips
When the wheels furrowed sand In the
hardest of pulls?
But few yet are lodging the Reaper's
keen blade,
Yet totter down life's ever-narrowlng
vale
Yet iInger and dream of the parts that
While pounding along on the Overland
trail.
Here's a song for the lively old days that
are gone,
Are now but a blur upon memory's page.
When the fastest OF freight was by bull
power drawn
And the fastest express was the lumber
ing stage.
tourist who now in rare luxury rolls
In palace car over the glittering rail
Gives never a thought to the valiant old
souls.
Who pounded along on the Overland trail.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
WILL THEY DAREf

A railroad officer who has exhibited
pernicious activity in several political
campaigns has given it out cold that
the construction gang brought into East
Omaha from Iowa and housed in cars
during the past week will be voted
next Tuesday, deputy sheriffs or no
deputy sheriffs. If this is the program
determined upon by the allied corpora
tons it is presumable that the con-
struction forces imported from Colorado,
Wyoming and other neighboring states,
that have been planted within the past
two weeks in Douglas and Sarpy u
ties, will attempt to vote next Tuesday
in defiance of law and the authorities.
The manifest purpose of dumping
these nonresident aliens on the railroad
lines hat converge in and near Omaha
is to overthrow the will Of the people
of this congressional district in the in
terest of David H. Mercer, who was
foisted upon the republican ticket by
coerced corporation employees and rail
road graders imported from Iowa, sworn
in on perjured afidavits at the repub-
lican primaries.
Against this audaciOus conspiracy to
destroy self-government The Bee enters
most earnest remonstrance. The man
ayers of railway corporations have no
more right to organize raids upon the
ballot box than a gang of masked road
agents would have to hold up and loot
a railroad train. If anything, the crime
contemplated by the proposed invasion
of nonresidents is more heinous than
robbery on the highways. Property can
be recaptured and restored to its owners,
but the wrong perpetrated by election
frauds cannot be righted.
Free institutions can only be main
tained by free elections. To substitute
the individual will of corporation man
ayers, acting singly or banded together,
to domineer owe the people, through
imported aliens, simply means the over
throw of free government. 1t is a high
crime, more r~eprehensible than levying
wal against the state. The question is,
VIII they dare?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
Pretty Good scheme.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
America does not hang breathless on the
theories concerning 1t and the progress of
It's inhabiting peoples slowly fusing into
one as the years go on which are enter
talned by the general run OF German So
biologists; but some Of them may be worthy
Of passing attention. Prof. Varkandt says
that IL we are going to rule the world a
good while, as Rome did, we must keep
up a high standard of living and education,
and at the same time bring up large fami-
lies. The scheme is not a bad one, but we
are already carrying il out after a fashion,
the professors countrymen helping US
prodigiously so far as the latter part OF
the proposition is concerned.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
STANDING By TIE Law.

President Roosevelt has again given
assurance of his purpose to uphold the
civil service law and to enforce its pro-
visions regardless Of who may be at
fected thereby. Having been Informed
that contributions were being solicited
by public officials from persons in the
service of the government, he issued an
order calling on all officers and employees
of the government to comply with the
requirements OF the civil service law in
regard to soliciting contributions for po-
litical purposes and warning them that
the provisions of the law, a construed
by the attorney general, would be en-
forced. The law is clear and specific in
regard to contributions for political OBJ
jects, so that no one car misunder-
stand it.
This action of President Roosevelt will
be heartily commended by all who be-
lieve that those in the public service
should not be subjected to enforced
campaign contributions, which is prac-
ticalIy what solicitation amounts to
when made by men in official life. 1t is
one of the most valuable features of the
civil service law that it forbids the old
custom of enforced political contribu-
tons and the president has always been
a thorough believer in the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
rERsONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Chicago embalmers have formed = union.
They won't do a thing to nonunion stins,
A new society thester in New York City
opened with a play entitled. ''Tommyrot'
The eternal fitness Of some things is enc OF
the wonders Of the age.
The fact is worthy OF record that a
church fair was brought to a successful
finish without the historic oyster. But
the season is young yet.
Local reports Of the Mollneux trial in
New York throw an interesting sidelight
on the mysteries OF the wardrobes worn
by women in the court room.
The ra.ity OF fires in and about Wall
street is regarded as one Of the mysteries
Of New York. II isn't so very strange,
considering the amount Of water in that
locality.
The fact that the house reakers in Chi
cago, in two recent instances, were scared
away by the women occupants suggests a
new avocation for the animated chromos
OF the town.
A Judge of one OF the higher courts Of
New York City recently proclaimed the
startling doctrine that pedestrians have
equal rights OF way on streets with trolley
cars and vehicles. That court must be set
Town as a back number.
Chicago has Jailed Its tax hxers and st.
Louis is energetlcally moving it's bribe
givers and bride takers in the same dlrec-
ton. such symptoms OF popular indigna-
tion turns an index finger to the signboard
Of graft, Don't get caught"
The vibrant poetic muse which vibrated
between Chicago and Indianapolis seems to
have strayed into Kansas. Its latest song
is vibrant with tears. Listen: "a dear
sweet one has gone away; she will no
longer weep; we see her footprints every
where, but we cannot see her feet"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

lean invasion has so unfavorably affected
Industrial conditions abroad that the
purchasing power Of the people has
been very materially reduced. 1t
was thought, however, that whatever
might be LOST In Europe would be made
up for In other quarters of the world.
This is not being realized, though pos
sibly it will be In the future. Trade
with Asia is improving, but not rapidly.
We are making little If any progress in
South American commerce. The outlook
for trade with South Africa is not in
the highest degree encouraging. The
decline I'm our European exports, there
fore. is not being Offset and may not be
for years to ONE.
The real danger. however, Is not in
the condition of foreign commerce, but
as Mr.. Vanderlip suggests in the eX-
traordinary financial operations due to
Industrial combinations. These opera
lions are in violation of all accepted
laws of finance and If continued must
inevitably produce disastrous conse-
quences. 1t is r%eassurlng, therefore, to
find men associated with financial af-
fairs alive to the situation and ready to
point out the possible dangers. I'VE
have the choice of one of two things"
said Mr.. Vanderlip, "either to practice
wise discretion or to go IN borrowing
on the future. The first course is con-
sIstent with continued prosperity; the
second will bring confusion, disorder
and paralysis of the whole constructive
investment"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
GENEROSITY OF CHURCHES.
Millions Contributed to the Various
Religious Enterprises.
LeslIe's Weekly.

ANSAAN 'NNN'S'
Those who believe, or affect to believe,
that religion is declining throughout the
countries OF Christendom will find no sup
port for their ~pessimistic notions in the
figures showing the amounts already col
lected for the twentieth century" funds
started by various denomination In this
country and Europe. These funds have al
ready reached a total of SAC, 900, 900 and the
promoters Of these enterprises are conf
dent that they will have the balance Of
$40, 900, 900 more. OF the amount raised.
more than one-half is credited to Amerl-
can churches, the Methodists being far in
the lead in liberality. The Canadian Meth
odists started in to raise 81. 900, 900 and
have already secured that and $3.50 900 be-
sides. The Presbyterians Of Canada set
out for the same 81, 900, 900 goal and have
already gone 100000 beyond IT.
1t is especially gratifying to note that
all these enormous sums have been col
lected at an expense OF less thar / per
cent OF the total. and also that in spite OF
this generous giving IL has in no way in
terfered with tins regular contributions to
missionary societies and to the support OF
churches. On the contrary, all religious
societies show an increase in receipts, and
there is hardly one that is not out OF debt,
a condition that has not obtained in years.
The funds collected are to be used first
for the payment OF church debts, and after
that for the endowment OF colleges, mis-
sionary societies and other religious insti-
tutions.
As giving and doing are always closely
related, II is unbelievable that this out
pouring Of millions for the extension of
religion at home and abroad will not be
speedily followed by a corresponding de-
v%elopment and increase in the spiritual life
and activities of the churches. The open
hand and the open heart generally go to-
Gether.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
As Well Buy the Moon.
MINNEAPOLIS Tribune.

Isn't the Missouri Valley Homeopathy
association afraid that it will make that
school of medicine unpopular? In a recent
session at Lincoln, Neb., it adopted a reso-
luton instructing its members to use every
endeavor to suppress kissing, because 1t is
u~nsanitary, silly. idle and entirely without
Justification" This may all be true from a
cold FLOODED scientific standpoint, but 1t will
take more than one medical association to
abolish, or greatly lessen, a custom that has
the sanction Of sentiment and romance.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
work and Wages.

Living expenses may be greater than
they were two or three years ago. But
there is no doubt that the average man,
finding employment easy to get and wages
higher than ever before is not greatly dis
tressed at the greater cost Of food or rent.
Men feel the pinch when, no matter how
cheap food may be, they are out OF work
and nave nothing to buy with.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

Foreign commissioners for the Louis
lana Purchase exposition appear now to
be making Roadway securing promises
of participation by the European gov
ernments. How much of a foreign tx
hibit would st. Louis have been able to
muster had it Lot postponed the event
from 1903 to 1904?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
A Deadlock Impossible.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

SleNeiahu ram Dealei'
The presidents appointment, with the ap-
proval Of both sides, of Carroll d. Wright,
commissioner of labor, as seventh member
OF the arbitration commission, will do more
than render deadlocks impossible. 1t will
give a voice and vote to the one man on
the board who will approach the delicate
task with full knowledge Of the details Of
both sides of the controversy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

The decision of the Iowa supreme
court, holding that In prohibition coun-
ties express companies canhot deliver
original packages of liquors Q. o. D.,
shipped from other states, will, of
course, cause the goods to be paid for in
other ways.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

It's all nonsense to talk Of a workable
union among the Latin-Amerlcan ma
lions in any hostile sense against the
United States. Those countries cannot
unite or agree. Hardly one Of the whole
array can even run its W government
or stick to any n policy six months at
q timn
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

The consensus OF party press opinion
as the campaign concludes is that every
candidate, from constable up, on every
ticket of every party everywhere, Is
the best qualified, most deserving and
most certain to be elected.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Two dollars and a half of Mexican silver
are now required to purchase a dollar OF
American currency. The Mexican coin will
eventually drop to a level with the Kansas
City platform.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

Marie Corelli occupies a lot of space
In an English magazine to call the
Yankees vulgar" On that subject she
feels just as the old slave drivers of
the south did.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

With the president enjoying himself
on a wild turkey hunt in Virginia, no
physicians bulletin is needed to con-
vince the public that he has fully re-
covered from his recent sick spell.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

any fears OF that kind. when Dave is
defeated he will stay right at washing
ton, only in the role of a professional
lobbyist instead of in the capacity Of
nonresident representative Of a Ne
braska district.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

Sir Thomas Upton politely intimates
that it is the yachts and not their own
ers that are to race-something worth
remembering by the yachtsmen on this
side Of the Atlantic when their exuber-
ance spurs them ON TO o~ver-boasting.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
Cause and Eject.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

THfIdUtIpHId INtOUIU'
Fer the first time within the memory Of
its Oldest physicians Havana has had a
year in which no case OF yellow fever
originated in it's confines; a condition due
solely to the thorough cleaning given it
during our occupancy Of Cuba. That sani-
tary methods will prevent disease is a
doctrine which SHOULD not require teaching
in this country
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02

President Loubet Of France would like
to settle a miners strike that is threat
ening TO PROSTATE French industry. II
he fails to secure an adjustment of diff
ferences he might refer the matter to
President Roosevelt.