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Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
SHOULD SrAnr RlcBr.

Although the new city council Will not
enter upon its duties for two weeks, a
word Of caution TO It's members at this
time may not be out OF place. A legis-
lative body, whether municipal, state or
national. annot hope TO make a credit
able record for itself and its members
unless it starts out right, or in other
words, unless it is organized right
The failure Of the late legislature to
meet popular expectations was chiefly
due to the fact that 1t was organized
wrong. 1t vas an open secret at the
opening Of the legislative session that
the house and senate were both orRan-
lied by the corporations, for the corpora
tons and against the people. 1t was a
matter Of notoriety that every commit
tee In which the railroad corporations
and their allies, the telephone, telegraph
and insurance companies and other
powerful combinations were interested,
was packed to obstruct aud defeat leg
islation demanded by the people and to
expedite legislation demanded by the
corporation combine.
1t goes without saying that the same
results will follow In the new city coun-
ell If its committees are packed in the
interests of the corporations and against
the taxpayers. This does not neces-
sarily imply that the taxpayers of
Omaha are hostile to the railroads and
f~ranchised corporations as such, nor is
there any popular demand that the new
council should be arrayed against the
corporations. What the rank and file of
the t~axpaying citizens of Omaha de-
mand and expect of the new council is
that 1t shall be so organized as to pro-
tect the interests Of all classes without
favor TO any special interest. The cor
porations are entitled to fair treatment
and the city should scrupulously OBJ
serve every compact 1t has made with
them, but the observance OF these com
pacts should not be a ~jug-handled affair.
The corporations are always able to
protect themselves against any breach
of contract with the city, but the new
board Of directors Of the corporation
known as the City Of Omaha should be
so organized as to uphold the rights OF
the city In Its dealings with the corpora
tons. .t,
The subserviency Of the outgoing
council majority Of corporate infu-
ence has been SC pronounced and
fragrant that public sentiment was
overwhelmingly against their renomina-
ton. II the new eouncilmen heed the
lesson taught by the recent campaign
they will endeavor to avoid the break.
ers on which the old council combine
was stranded and set ashore.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
Running ones own Business.

Portland Oregonian.
II L. commendable to a man to want TO
run his own business, But It should not
escape notice hat contractors who fly. all
to pieces at interference from their work.
men are meek as a lamb when the head OF
a combine tells them they cam have lum-
Der or brick. Another weak point In this
resolution to run ones own business with
out regard to others lies in the fsllacy that
how much 8 man pays for labor is no.
body's business but his own. 1t is Just
as much \ the employees business
as 1t Is the employers. A good
deal of the old arrogance OF the
feudal system survives today in successful
business men, who are apt to be intolerant
of the unsuccessful and inferior. There is
too much of the disposition to treat the
employee as a poor slave who must take
What the employer throws him and be
grateful.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
WHY BE GOoDF
How the Chicago Bad Boy is Trained
snd Educated.

Chicago Tribune.
The announcement to the enect that the
inmates of the county Jail are to be pro-
vided with facilities for physical culture
brings the reader again to that paradox OF
modern civilization by which a young man
of exemplary character gets fewer ad-
yantages and opportunities than the young
man who preseveres in a disregard for law
Take two boys in an urban tenement
district as illustrations. One boy Is good.
He attends school regularly. He Is In a
room In which there are twice as many
boys as there ought to be and In which
the courses of instruction may have prac-
tically nothing to do with the industrial
life to which he is destined. After a Few
years Of pertunctory study he reaches mis-
Industrial majority-14-and he begins to
work. He has learned no trade. His
general culture is not exactly eh1ores-
cent. His chances OF becoming anything
better than an unskilled employe are
slight.
How much better would 1t have been for
him II he had been bad! First, he would
have been sent to a school for truants.
There he would have got much better food
than at home and. in general, much better
physical conditions. Also, he would have
had instruction much more adapted to his
wants. because he would have been given
a large amount of manual training.
After he was released from the school
for truants, II he only had sense enough to
keep OH being bad, he would escape going
to work and he would he sentenced to q
school for delinquents where his educa"
ton would be continued. More games!
More discipline! More manual training!
All supervised by experts In the sciences
of pedagogy and criminology.
Having become too old for the school for
delinauents. our boy now proceeds to a
reformatory. The good boy, whom we took
leave OF some time ago, is expiating his
piety in a printing establishment In which
he tries to develop his faculties by means
of showing several thousand pamphlets
a day through the throat of a stapler. Our
bad boy, shrewdly sticking to his reform
atory, gets lots Of physical exercise, plenty
Of reading in the library. and a final fitting
for his trade in the deliberately fitted re-
formatory tool shop. He steps out into the
world at the age OF 20 a trained American
workman. uninjured by excessive toll as a
boy, and prepared to use his skill in some
trade IN which skill means large wages.
Viciousness brings its own reward.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
ApoIoEies tor . sIander.

e AOAh SNNAAAAk EO6ls
On May 1 the Evening Post stated that
General Leonard Wood had inspired an ar
ticie in the North American Review for
February. 1900. written by Lieutenant
James T.. Runcie, and attacking Woods
predecessor. Genera Brooke. II was added
that there were In the manuscript interline-
ations in the handwriting of General
Wood. In making this assertion. we de-
pended not alone upon our Havana cor
respondent. whom we had every reason 10
think trustworthy. but also upon an ex-
plicit statement made TO US by one in au-
thority in the once OF the Review. But
we now ind that we were unintentionally
misinformed, and that the article I'm ques-
ton was not interlined by General Wood,
We accordingly withdraw the charge un-
quaiinedly. with sincere apologies 20 Gen
sral Wood. II is not necessary TO add that
our Havana correspondent ceases TO be
such with his data
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

rates, and will IN short endeavor to get
all they can and keep everything they can
get That is the corporation theory. and Il
is not a bad one-for the corporation,
AS a matter OF fact, the railroad situation
in. Nebraska as regards rates and taxes can
be overhsuled IN two directions without do
ing injustice to the railroad companies. In
the hrst place the rates In certain classes
and on certain commodities shoul UNI
doubtedly be lowered, and In the next place
the scheme OF taxation should comprehend
an equitable sliding scale on franchises de-
pending on the extent OF the net earnings.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
WEALTH OF AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Computed at one Hundred Thousand
millions by U. 5. Treasurer.

Computed at One Th0uaANn
Millions by .. 5. Treasurer.
Ellis II. Roberts in New York World.
Twenty years have added to the inhabi-
tants OF the United States numbers nearly
equal to our total population just before
the civil war. In the same period the
wealth of the American people has more
than doubled and has reached a hundred
thousand million dollars.
Our stock Of money in circulation Is
greater per capita than that of any other
nation, save France and the South Ameri-
can states, while our gold per capita is ex-
ceeded only by South Africa, Australia and
France and our growth in both these items
is not edualled anywhere else. so that the
gross gold in our treasury surpasses the
volume ever gathered before under single
control.
These arc tokens OF a material progress
never matched in the history OF the world.
This is due to a restless activity and an
efficiency Of production which have not yet
reached their maximum. improvements al
ways increasing in communication and
transportation consolidate our people and
render them more homogeneous.
Perils exist, like over-exploitation in EN-
terprise, the terrible prevalence OF crimes
OF violence and of strikes in many branches
of industry.
But the expenditure Tor education In
creased more than Is per cent per capita
in two decades, and the Immense private
gifts for colleges, charities. churches and
libraries, illuminate both the present and
tho future. The tendencies to arbitration
between capital and labor, and between ma
tons, emphasized by recent examples on
a large scale, promise peace within our
borders and, let US hope, throughout the
world.
Before two decades pass we shall add
to our population more than the present
total population of any other country IN
the world, save Russia, India and China
and possibly Germany. Our wealth will In
crease in a still larger ratio. Already our
achievements lift the republic to a fore
most place in our foreign relations.
What has been gained in twenty years
past is the seed for the grander harvests
Of the future. Americas contributions to
civilization, to the amelioration of mankind
to the peace of the world, will grow and
not diminish, and her rank among the ma
ions must move forward to primacy In
all that is noblest and most worthy.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
DO THEY PAY TOO MUCHT
High Freight Rates ana Low Taxes
Reneets the Railroad Policy.
Kearney HUI

Kearney Hub.
The railroads OF Nebraska ask the State
Board Of Equalization to reduce the rate Of
taxation on their property in this state, in
sisting that they are paying too much In
proportion to the taxation OF other prop
erty. It is not probable that the board will
grant their request. nor is It probable that
the board will make a raise. The question
has been pretty well threshed out during
the last year, the railroads especially hav-
ing spent considerable money to educate
the people Of the state on the question.
Whether railroad property is taxed more
heavily thar other property is a matter
open for debate. with the presumption that
Il is not true, but II indeed II may be true,
then Il follows that II their taxation is to
be lowered the public would have reason
to expect a substantial reduction in freight
rates by way OF compensation.
II is to be expected that the railroad cor
porations will stick for all that they can
get in the way Of favors from legislatures
and dement's from executive onncers. viii
oppose higher taxation a. well - cheaper
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Intervention In Industrial contests. The
Gray commission has truly said that the
labor union which depends for success on
violence and lawlessncss has no right TO
exist. 1t is equally true that the employ
ers' association which depends for success
on the denial TO labor of the right TO or
ganize or the right to strike or the right
to collective bargaining has no moral light
to exist. Moreover. It is foredoomed to
disa strous failure.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Commenting on the Omaha city cleo
ton. the Norfolk Press rises to remark
that ''the result proves that the best
and surest way to beat a man is to
knock him out of the nomination and
thus prevent him running at ALL" The
fact is, however, that the man who was
put up as an Independent candidate had
previously been knocked out OF the
republican nomination after a fair and
square primary fight. but that did not
prevent him from accepting a nomina-
ton from the populists and heading the
movement of the boiling republicans.
The best way to beat a man may be to
knock him out of a nomination, but
under the peculiar political ethics Of
the boilers brigade here, it is no as
surance that he will not run anyway.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
BoOKER WASHigerON.s SoLI

$500
That great negro educator, Booker
T. Washington, is untiring in his ad-
vocacy of Industrial education as the
solution of the race. He has been
making a series OF addresses in Chicago,
explaining In even more lucid language
than he usually employs the plan in
which be has put all his faith for the
uplifting Of his own race. Whether we
agree that all the negro needs is educa-
ton or that he must be safeguarded in
his rights in other directions also, what
Mr.. Washington says is to be com
mended as impressing upon the negro
the imperative necessity OF helping him
self rather than Of depending upon
others to work out his salvation for
him. To quote a few pithy sentences:
What we want TO do for the negro is 10
bring him up TO sQch a n OF In
teliigenes ana aktn In labor that he can
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Whenever Omaha is -edistricted into
wards, the division must be made in
conformity with the intent and letter
Of the charter making each of them as
nearly equal in population as may be.
Arbitrary gerrymandering with a view
to subscribing personal interests would
not be a compliance with the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Ex-senator Villas takes it upon him
self to say that Grover Cleveland is
not a candidate for the democratic pres
idential nomination-not that Mr.. Cleve-
land has expressly declared himself, but
as a political mind reader Mr.. Villas has
supreme confidence in himself. When
the time no n will be surprised
to see Mr.. Villas himself in the lists.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

compete with white men, who now, by
reason Of better brain work. AVE taken
away from him many OF his trudes.
A mistake was made, when after the
civil war all attention to the education Of
the negro was directed along irtellectual
and religious lines. These were and are
important, but what the negro needed most
was Industrial training. TIL real solution
Of the race problem is 10 be mad on an
Industrial and economic basis.
There II little race prejudice shown In
the buying Of corn. for Instance. No one
cares whether the corn was raised by a
white man or a black man. What we Iced
to do is to train the negro so that he can
raise as good corn and raise II as cheaply
as the white man. Then he will become a
valuable member OF society. ,
To carry out this program, Of course,
involves two requisites-frst the means
and facilities for providing the educa-
cooperation Of the negroes themselves.
Both of these prerequisites must come
as the result of an educational cam
palgn. and 1t is in this educational cam
paigD that Booker Washington is ex.
erting his most useful efforts by open
ing the eyes of the white people to
their duty and waking up the negroes
to their opportunities.
His own institution at Tuskegee is
undoubtedly comforting invaluable bene-
fits upon the negro students who share
In the advantages Of It's instruction, but
is doing still more useful work as the
pioneer in negro industrial education,
and the model for other similar institu-
tions SUR to be developed in various
parts OF the black belt in the south.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

The railroad tax agents are camping
down al Lincoln. They dhaw fat sal
aries u Of the money they save the
railroads by unloading on TO private
property owners the taxes properly as
sessable against the railroads. The
people have no paid agents TO represent
them except the state officers. who con-
sttute the members Of the state as
SessiRg board
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Tacoma and Seattle are engaged in
an acrimonious quarrel over the ar
Engagements for the entertainment of
President Roosevelt and party on their
visit to Puget Sound points. II the
contention is not ended by the time the
president arrives, President Roosevelt is
Just the man 10 take the reins into his
own hands and cut the knot with a
single slash.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Every one of the members OF the new
city council was elected on distinct
platform pledges as to certain corpora
ton questions. We shall soon see what
we shall see.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

indianapolis is also making prepara-
tlons to project itself into the competi-
ton for the location of the big national
dominating conventions of next year.. II
indianapolis is not careful 1t will make
q lifelong enemy OF st. Louis.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Court %injunctions against scalpers pro.
hibiting them from dealing in railroad
excursion tickets issued for particular
occasions promise to become the regular
order. II the railroads had only thought
Of this method of achieving their end
they would not have wasted so much
time trying to force anti. scalping laws
through congress and state legislatures.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Bryan democrats of Iowa are at work
lining up their forces with a view to
capturing the machinery of the party
by controlling the next state %conven-
ton, In Iowa there is nothing else but
the machinery Of the party for the dem
ocrats. to capture.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
Evidently Hes All Right.

This man Folk of St. Louis continues 10
justify the opinion that he carries more
common sense and discretion to the square
inch than any other figure prominent in
the public eye just now. His refusal of the
tender of a house and lot from his admirers
on the ground that he receives a salary for
doing his duty is a reinforcement of this
oninfon-
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

To avoid complications Of the Allgood
variety. future civil service examina-
lions in the south would have TO in
clude a question as to whether the ap-
plicant's skin is white or black. That
would be civil service with a vengeance.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

The democratic -reorganizers are said
to have picked out already the man
they viii put forward to be the chair
man of the next democratic national
committee. Mr.. Bryan's comment is
sure to be that the reorganlzers are a
rine premature.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

In a transaction hat Involves mil
lions to the taxpayers of the city. it is
well to go slow and make sure of every
step. In the appraisement of the water
works under the purchase clause of the
contract, the city's interests must be
carefully guarded by our public officers
as we may be sure the water company
will be amply able to look after itself.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

All these appeals for discordant
democrats to get together and prepare
to put up an undivided front in the
next campaign should be a pointer for
local republicans.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

BY entertaining in succession Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Congressman Can
non who is to be the mex speaker Of
the house. Nebraska has had as its
guests within two weeks the two men
In the nation who WELD the greatest
political power.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
An Inch at a Time.
New York World.

Ten cents increase each month in the
price Of coal is not very serious in any one
month. but as a settled policy Of the coal
monopolists II resembles cutting on a dogs
tail an incl at a time so that 1t may not
hurt the dog so much.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

On the morning after the election, The
Bees compilation OF the returns gave
Mayor Moores a plurality Of 943 votes.
The official canvass makes the plurality
ps2. We invite attention to this feat in
newspaper accuracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
-Far-Fetched DIatinctions.

The attempt to draw a distinction be-
tween three continuous presidential terms
and three terms not continuous is rather
weak. Better repudiate the third-term ira
dition outright than try TO pretend that II
could be preserved with a president serving
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

The final verdict on the interview of
General Baldwin is hat he never said
It. But he is admonished not to do 1t
again.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Omaha's reputation as an appreciative
music loving community is losing moth
ing through the May musical festival
now In progress.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
An Awful Prosnect.

Chicago Chronicle.
II the Cleveland boom continues to grow
and take up space Colonel Bryan will
shortly be called for an enforcement Of the
law against b~lockading the sidewalk.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
In a Smiling Mood.

Tekamah Journal.
Nebraska, when she smiles as she has
been doing the past few days. makes us all
in low with her and causes US to forget
such ugly moods as she showed last week.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

Styles in neckwear during the laundry
strike in Omaha will favor the wide
spreading pun.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
Bold Den.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The packers are a desperate lot Of men.
They have started in to convince the coun-
try that meat prices can be advanced right
In the face of the vegetable season.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

All these strikes are accomplishing
n thing IL they accomplish. nothing
~else-they are setting the courts at work
grinding out injunctions.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

If there were nothing to arbitrate,
there would be nothing in disagreement
between employers and employees.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
The Only Way.

Chicago Post.
Arbitration is the only way. There is no
alternative course before 4 people which
will not submit to compulslon and state
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

April showers in May are the latest
novelty of the calendar.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

"Mr. Roosevelt's White House. nstound-
ing though II is as a sudden development -
writes David Graham Phillips in Golfers.
is but the crude beginning of the Wash
inEton of tomorrow. But IT is a beginning
a most audacious move on the part OF one
of the most audacious men who ever rose
to first place in the republic.
This year the White House demand
upon congress for running expenses leaped
from the customary s25.o 900 to $50. 1000. AS
Mr.. Roosevelt's salary is just under 81, 900
a week and as he evidently believes the
people expect the president to spend his
salary upon the establishment of the posi-
ton, II appears that the new White House;
the new court IL now costing on the aver
age in the neiEhborhood OF 5000 a week.
half from the pocket Of the people. the
other half from Mr.. Roosevelt's private
pocket. As the heavy expense is crowded
into ave months OF the year-December to
April inclusive-the probabilities are the
new white House is costing during the
season not far from 5000 a week. This
means that the new departure has cerl
tainly doubled and has perhaps trebled
the cost of the White House court-for
most presidents have contributed about hall
their salary toward holding court and
have called on congress for a supplement.
airy appropriation OF $4,000 a year"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12

II wonder how to answer this" said the
new query editor. Here's a correspond
ent who wants to know what's a good
thing to take inkstains out of white serge"
That's easy" replied the snake editor.
"A Pair Of s%clssors. "-Philadelphia Press.