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Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
Great Stretch of Power
Chicago Tribune.

AAANhH'
The oleomargsrine bill is the latest and
most odious and offensive example OF the
practice Of using the national taxing power
to prohibit a domestic industry. The tax
ing power has long been used to prevent the
Importation OF the products Of foreign in
dustries in order to give protection to the
American manufacturer or growers Of
similar products. Its use to regulate"
out Of existence one domestic industry for
the benefit Of another industry or for the
alleged protection of public health or
morals is of later origin.
There is a tax of 10 per cent on tho
circulation of state banks. That tax was
not imposed as a revenue measure, but to
destroy state bank notes and leave a FREQ
field for the national bank issues. That
tax seemed an essential part Of the system
which gave the country a safe bank note
currency. But the practical illustration
Of the axiom that "the power to tax is
the power to destroy" has served as a
precedent for a similar use of the taxing
power where its expediency may be ques-
toned.
The war revenue act OF 1898 contained n
provision for the taxation of bucket shops
which aimed at their extinction. A brief
controversy between the house and senate
as to whether that provision shall be re-
pealed with the war taxes or left in force
has been determined in favor of repeal.
The tax on bucket shops is to go with the
other war taxes. The bucket shop bust
ness is Objectionable from many points OF
view. 1t should be regulated. controlled or
prohibited. The bucket shop itself is OBJ
jectionable from the point of view of the
moralist who sees in tolerated gambling an
intolerable evil. But 1t is open to question
whether II properly comes within the pur-
view Of the national authority to control
bucket shops, policy shops or any other
kind Of shops which are subject to the
police powers of the several states. On the
whole, the Tribune would like to see the
bucket shop tax retained, but 1t cannot help
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
COMMISSIONER PRoUTY's POINTS.
Competition n Vanishing Quantity in
the Railroad Service.
Minneapolis Times.

Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Charles A. Prouty, in his address before the
Illinois manufacturers last Wednesday
evening, made two especially forcible
points.
First: The profit of operating a railway
increases rapidly with the increase OF traf-
fc; actual expenses OF moving decrease in
proportion as trafic increases; fixed charges
are much the same whether the amount of
the trafic be great or little. In other
words: The greater the traf1c the smaller
should be the rates unless it is the intent
of the owners Of the railway to milk the
public unduly.
Second: No reduction Of rates has ever
been brought about except as a result OF
competitions; no advance in published or
actual rates in recent years has been eff
fected except by the elimination Of compe-
tition.
Mr.. Prouty recognizes that competition is
fast becoming a vanishing quantity. He
does not believe that II can be restored so
long as a few men practically own the
transportation systems Of the country, but
he does believe that a rate once pub
lished should be subject to supervision
and change. II shown to be unjust, by a
properly constituted commission appointed
by the federal government.
1t is distinctly gratifying to be able to
commend the Interstate Commerce commits
sion or any OF its member for. until within
the last few months, the body has been
ornamental merely. II, indeed, It was that,
and OF benefit to the public there was not a
~yestiRe.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
THE DEMAND FUR NORMAL SCH,

THE DEMAND U NORMAL SCHOOLS.
State Superintendent Fowler has
reached the conclusion that one of the
imperative needs of Nebraska is the es-
tablishment of one or more new normal
schools. Prof. Fowler points to the fact
that Nebraska's only normal school at
Peru is by reason Of its location almost
inaccessible to students from the cen
trail and western portions of the state
and its facilities are inadequate to sup
ply the demand for trained teachers.
Conceding all that Prof. Fowler has
ingly the wisdom of any Increase in the
number of state institutions before the
financial difficulties with which the
state is constantly compelled to grapple
have been overcome. 1t is doubtful
ever whether it would be prudent for
the coming legislature to attempt the
location and establishment of additional
normal schools in parts of the state that
are ambitious to obtain such institu-
tions.
'ONAN ~ NV DS ohN
more practical to enlarge the sphere of
the State university by the creation of
a normal department? The university
already possesses ample equipment in
the shape of libraries, laboratories, gym
nasium and so forth and comparatively
small additional outlay would be neces-
sary for extending these facilities to
meet all the requirements of a normal
department. The faculty of the univer-
sity could moreover be utilized in con-
junction with a limited number of
teachers who would make normal train
ing their speciality. The State university
would offer other advantages to students
that could not be had in any other Ne
braska town. In point of railway facili-
ties Lincoln is within easy reach of
school at the state capital would for
many years satisfy all legitimate de-
mands for normal education which the
state can afford to meet.
In whetting the appetite for normal
schools Prof. Fowler unwittingly opens
the way for repetition Of the abortive
contention that has absorbed so much
time and energy of every legislature
within the past twenty years. During
every session since the first normal
school was established normal school
bills have afforded trading material for
schemers and jobbers and some of the
most pernicious legislation has been en-
gineered through by tie-ups with rep
resentatives Of every community with
an eye on u normal school.
The tendency of the time is to concen-
trate rather than to scatter educational
work, and this idea should be constantly
kept in view both by lawmakers and
by educators in planning changes and
reforms.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
THE CUBAN CONCESSION.

The indications are that the bill grant
ing a tariff concession of 20 per cent
on Cuban products will pass the house,
a considerable number of democrats
being favorable to the measurement be-
cause of any interest in Cuba, but for
the reason, as given by Representative
Mcclellan Of New York, that the con
cession lis a breach in the wall of pro-
lection" A few of the democrats, it is
but fair to say, are not thus actuated,
but 1t is not to be doubted that most
of them who support the bill thus rea-
son, at thes same time regretting that the
breach cannot be made larger, as some
of them have proposed.
Assuming that the bill will pass the
house, the probable attitude Of the SEN
ate becomes a question of interest.
Opinion in Washington is divided re-
garding it. Some predict that there will
be no very serious opposition to the
measure in the senate, while others eX-
press the opinion that the democrats
will make a determined effort to have
Wv oAN ~ AAEo
will also bring forward an annexation
scheme. 1t is very probable that demo-
cratic senator's will seek to have a
larger breach made in the protection
wall, but II they find this cannot be
accomplished it is not likely they will
undertake TO defeat the bill, since they
will regard a 20 per cent breach as
very much better than none at all. 1t
is the understanding that a majority Of
the republicans in the senate are dis
posed to favor the proposed concession,
though there will be a strenuous opposi-
ton to it on the part of some of the
republicans, but how many of them is
yet to be disclosed. At all events a
prolonged struggle over the bill in the
senate is to be expected. Meanwhile
the advocates of concession profess full
confidence in the result.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
MEXICuS PRESInEnr.

1t is reported that President Diaz of
Mexico c~Ontemplates resignlng and may
do so before the end OF the present
year. The retirement OF that distin-
guished statesman. whose administra-
ton of the government of Mexico for
many years has placed him in the front
rank OF great constructive statesmen,
would command interest far beyond the
boundaries of his country and particu-
larry in the United States, where the
name Of Diaz is familiar and respected.
This country has had n warmer friend
than Mexico's chief executive, who has
not only been solicitous TO maintain and
strengthen good will between the two
countries, but has given encouragement
TO the investment OF American capital
in Mexico, many millions of which nave
gone there and found profitable EN-
ployment, 1t Is natural TO apprehend
that the successor Of Dlaz would be q
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

4 AlbNlts
seeing in this and all similar legislation
a dangerous abuse Of the true functions OF
the national government.
A few years ago the practice 'sprang up
Of mixing wheat -four with corn hour and
selling the product as wheat -four. The
millers took exception to It. They appealed
for congress to use the taxing power for
their protection against a new industry
which they said injured trade In many
ways. Congress granted the prayer. A
special tax was imposed on the manufsc-
turers of mixed -four and a tax was put
on their product. These taxes produced
Sc, 800 during the last fiscal year. The tax
ing power has about destroyed the mixed
flour industry, whose product was not an
unhealthtul one. Should the power to tax
in order to destroy be used in any such
case?
Sixteen years ago a small tax was levied
on oleomargarine at the instance Of the
dairymen. The ostensiblc object was to
regulate" the business and obtain revenue.
The hope Of the dairymen was that the
business would be destroyed. The hope
was frustrated. Therefore they have asked
congress for and are on the eve Of OBJ
tanning legislation which will practically
put an end to the manufacture OF a food
product which is not injurious to health,
which a great many Americans have been
buying because 1t was cheap and enjoying
because 1t was an acceptable substitute
for butter.
The practice OF using the taxing power
at the instance Of one domestic industry
to destroy another domestic industry is
dangerous. 1t has been carried too far. II
II is to become a settled rule OF action
that an industry which can command the
necessary votes in congress may use the
taxing power to crush out home rivals the
abuse OF power may in time become intol-
cradle. 1t is time to put a limit to this
perversion Of the functions Of the national
government.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
SONG OF THE EDITOR.

]. ]. Montague in h o~regonian.
With spirits weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
Sat a newspaper man. and jumped an inch
Pore, pore, pore,
Ger the paper every day,
And as he read, in a voice full sore,
He sang this painful lay:
Read, read. read,
With attention merciless;
Read, read, read, .-- iltr ..'|a 10 -
Till the old sheets on the press.
Column and stick and head.
Head and column and stick,
TIL the brain Is numb, and the soul is dead
And the heart is faint and sick.
''And what do / find but beats
And wrong-font editors views,
And sermons long, and speeches weak,
Played up in the place of news?
And captions gone astray,
And headlines out of gear.
And the picture of Roosevelt run above
The name of some pioneer?
Read, read, read,
OF Sampson, Miles and Schley,
Read, read, read,
AS the weary days drag by,
That the king of Spain has a new sprinI
Prince Henry's hat blown off;
That a Russian force of a hundred horse
Is quartered at Letsgeton.
And the same old rumors of war,
And the same old rows at home,
Anu NS am ON NiihS III Nv iOhliha
mills
And the same old strikes at Nome,
1t is oh, for Mary JAM Holmes,
And the duchess, and Gunter. too.
The Congressional Records massive toner
Would even look good to you.
Through the window comes floating in
The perfume of springtime, bland;
You can hear the beat in the busy street
OF the drum of the German band,
But column and head and stick,
And stick and column and head,
Are looking at you, In cold, cold print,
And simply must be read.
'Oh, for a taste OF the Joys
OF a Mother Goose nursery rhyme
Oh. for a glance at the wondrous tales
That began: Once on a time
there is no time for love,
And there is no time for JOY,
time at all, but what's beaten above
BY the buck-dancing galley boy.
"Oh, foremen who wildly shout
For copy the whole day through.
You little know as you slice up takes
What a lot of harm you do.
yOur minion and nonpareil,
Your agate and old black face
Are the cruelest things this side of-well,
We trust that you'll see the place
With spirits weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
a newspaper man and pored and pOred
Over single and double lead.
Read, read. read.
Till his brain refused to think,
And before his brain danced a whirling
OF type and turned rules and ink.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
LIVENING THE "RECORD."
SpRsmOdIc Attempts to MOderniEe the
Organ of Congress-.
Chicago News.

CnlCdBO NEWS.
A public which has long felt that the
Congressional Record was lacking in GER
tain indispensable features Of an up-to-
date publication will welcome the evident
purpose OF the publishers to start a humor-
Gus department with wood-cut illustrations.
The solid columns of reading matter in the
issue OF April 1 are enlivened by the
draft OF a treaty brought to light by
Representative Patterson Of Tennessee. II
is the treaty entered into between the sui
tan OF Sulu and General John c. Bates and
sets forth among other things the salary
which the United States is to pay the sui
tan and his chief lieutenants. The sultan.
1t is noted, is to receive $3.50 a month in
Mexican dollars. the Dsto Rajah getting
SIS. the Dato Attik $50 and Datos Joaka-
main and Calbi SIS each. while Hsbib Mura
and serif saguar are to receive much
smaller sums. Saguar's pay being a paltry
SIS a month. The enterprise OF the Con-
gressionsl Record, however, shows itself
not merely in the publication of the treaty
but in the reproduction Of the signatures
Of the sultan and his followers. The sui
tan's signature, It appears, is a startling
arabesque, with a SINAI pretzel as the CEN
ter OF the design and huge loops
at either end. The Dato RsJah's signature
looks like a bit OF rapidly written short
hand, while the joint signatures OF the
Datos Calbi and Joakanain look like the
photograph OF a set OF micrObe cultures
II is only fair 10 presume that Mr.. Patter-
son, the contributor, aud the accomplished
editors OF the Record introduced this novel
feature solely to please and enlighten their
readers, who otherwise could have had only
= faint impression Of Moro ehirOgraphy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
A Fake or q Factf
Journal.

The reported destruction or removal OF
Alaskan boundary monuments by British
authority is emphatically denied by Cana
dian ministers. The minister Of the interior
says there is not at present any surveying
party from Canada engaged in defining the
boundary, and he Is sure no government
employe has done such an act as that
charged. The Canadian minister Of public
works pronounces the story "a huge farce"
So before getting warm over the matter
we had better await the result Of an in
vestiRation.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

had It two or three years ago and the
rise is no such hardship as It. would have
been then. n prices OF labor and OF
products tend constantly to e~quslize each
other. The only thing which success
fully interferes with that process Is a 'cor-
ner," such az has been the dream Of spec
ulstors for generations. No such corner
has been successfully maintained in food
products here and there is no chance OF
such a corner in beef. although that indus
try. like other industries, has fallen into
A few hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
THE PREs1DENr AT CHARLEsruN.

The reception Of President Roosevelt
at Charleston has been cordial and en-
thusiastic, as It vas expected to be. The
people Of the south respect the great
Office of chief magistrate Of the nation
and know how to honor It's incumbent.
They showed this when President Nc
Klnley visited that section and Mr..
Roosevelt has a personal as well as an
official claim to their regard and hospi-
tally, his mothers people having come
from the south. The incident growing
out of the difficulty between the South
Carolina senators probably kept some
people away from Charleston on "Presi-
dents day but they were not missed,
for the demonstration is said to have
been the greatest the city has ever
known and there have been some no
table ones.
The address of President Roosevelt
yesterday was appropriate and charac-
teristically earnest and sincere. The
people of the south will see in it the
hearty assurance of his desire to
strengthen the sentiment of unity and
fraternity and they may confidently ac-
cept it as voicing the feeling of the
people of the north and the west inso-
far as 1t speaks for patriotic devotion
to the union. That portion OF the ad-
dress which relates to the West Indies,
particularly Cuba, will command gen.
eral interest. The president reiterated
his conviction that the Cubans having
assumed a peculiar relationship to our
policy they must stand In a peculiar
relationship to our economic system.
He urged that having insisted upon
Cuba adopting toward us an attitude
differing politically from that which it
adopts toward any other power, as a
matter of right we must give a different
and better-position to Cuba economic
ally in its relations with us than we
give to other powers. We should deal
with Cuba, declared the president, in
a spirit of large generosity. Thus Mr..
Roosevelt has again stated, with 'suffi-
Client explicitness, his position on the
Cuban question. He outlines no spe-
clfc policy, but simply urges that Cuba
shall be generously dealt with.
Another matter of interest in the ad-
dress is the reference to problems con-
nected with our industrial system.
These, he said, are not insoluble, but
they can be solved only If we approach
them in a spirit of resolute fearlessness,
of common sense and of honest intention
to do fair and equal justice to all men
alike" Failure must result from
adopting the policy of the demagogue,
nor can we afford to follow those who
fear to recognize injustice and apply a
remedy. We must have wise and just
laws and they must be fairly and
honestly enforced-not in the interest of
the poor man or In the interest of the
rich man, but "in the interest of each
man, be he rich or be he poor, giving
immunity to no v~iolator, whatever form
the violation may assume" This is the
spirit that prompted the president to
order proceedings against the corpora
lions charged with violating the anti
it gives assurance that the administra-
ton will not falter In its duty to seek
the enforcement of these laws.
President Roosevelt's visit to Charles
ton has perhaps its chief value in the
opportunity it gave him to speak to the
country on matters of general impOr-
lance.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
Sees Trouble Afar.
Minneapolis Journal.

TT-7 III
The only objection to Cecil Rhodes provi-
sion for $50 American scholarships at Ok
ford is that 1t means that we shall soon
have ESQ collegiate Anglo-maniacs let loose
among us yearly. The genuine English
man is a good fellow and is appreciated
better in America than in any other part
Of the world, but the Anglo-maniao can
cause a riot almost any time. The man
just out Of college is not always the most
lovable creature in the world. What a
combination, then, will we have in $50
oxonian Anglo-maniacs descending upon us
annually.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

For the recent city election in South
Omaha the total vote polled proves to be
nearly as large as the total vote polled
at the city election held in Lincoln the
same day. In the census tables Lincoln
is credited with a population OF 10000,
as against $4,000 for South Omaha. but
the election figures do not bear out the
p%roportion.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

Our Dave has kept the wires hot for
the last two weeks with assurances to
the Commercial club that the Omaha
supply depot section Of :he Indian bill
is positively all right. There never was
any serious apprehension that II was all
ron but as the reelection campaign
lie about TO open. Our Dave is bound to
keep himself before his constituents
with . few grandstand plays.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

Having agreed on the site with excep-
tional unanimity, Andrew Carnegie's
gift of a library building to South
Omaha ought to take tangible form dur
ing the coming season and be ready for
business within a year. The only way
to realize on a library is by opening it
up to the use of the public.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

The German government is said to
have bought the patent rights for an
American device of an automatic switch
board for its postal telephone system.
The Germans will have to pay tribute
to American genius every time they
want to talk to each other at long
range.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

Instead of accepting British hospltat
ity rendered him rs special ambassador
to the coronation, Whitelaw Reid wIi
pay his W bills. This will be another
bitter disappointment TO the political
demagogues who delight to rail at roy
atty and howl about imperialism.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
Cause of High Prices.
INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

The reports gathered from all parts of
the cattle country show that scarcity, not
the packing combinations, has made prices
high. Combinations may not have con-
science, but many of them have too much
sense to kill the goose that lays the golden
egg, which, in this case. is to put prices SO
high that the mass OF people must pur-
chase sp%aringly.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

The king of Denmark has celebrated
his Saith birthday anniversary. With
the examples We have of long-lived
monarchs, who will contend that wear
ing a crown is a premature death pro-
ducer?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

gressmen who have entered democratic
caucuses must be gratifed at this cor.
dial treatment, in which goldbugs wht
fought Bryan are preferred over fusioR
pOpulists who supported him.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

Omaha has always felt justly proud
of it's uniform hospitality, but hospital
ity may sometimes be o~verdone. The
proposed entertainment of the so-called
National Editorial association" belongs
to tina category. That association is
simply an aggregation of junketeers or
ganized for the purpose of working the
railroads for free rides and working the
various communities for free banquets
and lunches. The National Editorial as
ISOLATION is not in any sense a body rep
resenting American journalism. Out of
over 10000 publications in the United
States the roster at its last annual con-
vention at the Buffalo exposition was
less than 400. Nebraska was represented
by seven weekly publications from six
towns, the largest of which is West
Point. In other words, out Of the sos
publications In Nebraska just six par
ticipated last year in the National Edi-
torial association. Out of more than 700
newspapers in Kansas only nineteen
weeklies were on the roster Of 1901.
For the Commercial club and city coun-
ell to extend an invitation TO a body Of
newspaper nondescripts is like wasting
fragrance on the desert air.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

Mayor Harrison OF Chicago talks in
his annual message TO the council about
straitened municipal inances In words
that sound most familiar. II there is a
city in the United States that is not
hampered by short funds in it's treasury
IL has been hiding its light under a
buehel.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

It is to be hoped the supreme cour.
will not be bashful about setting limits
TO the flow of legal oratory sure to be
again set in motion when the report of
the referee in the Omaha tax case comes
up for final disposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

Western stove makers have agreed
through their combine to screw prices
up 3 per cent. Inasmuch as this is the
time stovepipes usually come down, the
protest will probably be deferred until
consumers feel the raise.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10

1t is announced that the new demo
cratic congressional committee that is
TO usurp the power Of the regularly con
stituted national organizations is to rec
ognize all factions in its makeup, plac-
ing silver democrats m gold democrats
side by side, but ignoring the populists
completely, Populist senator's and con