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Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
OF Tse ADMINISTRATIONS

Those who are ap~prehensive that it Is
the intention of the national admins
tration to invoke the antitrust law
against every form Of corporation, re-
CARELESS Of conditions and the possible
effect upon the business of the country,
can find no ground for such fear in any
thing that has been said by President
Roosevelt or done by Attorney General
Knox under executive direction. There
has peer nothing in word or in action
on the part Of the president or the at
torney general to warrant the belief
that they intend any action which
might alarm and unsettle the business
interests of the country and give a
check to prosperity. In his annual mes
sages to congress and In his public
speeches Mr.. Roosevelt has spoken with
conservatism in regard to the course
that should be pursued in dealing with
the combinations. He has strongly dep
recated extreme and revolutionary prop
osltiOns, pointing out the disastrous cOn
sequences that would result from their
application. In his first message he
said that 'the mechanism of modern
business is so delicate that extreme care
must be taken not TO interfere with il
in a spirit Of rashness or ignorance"
This idea he has since then repeatedly
expressed and there is no reason to
doubt that he still adheres to it.
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Evening Post, who perhaps
speaks upon the authority Of the De
partment Of Justice, says that no com
binatiOn will be attacked simply be
cause it is a combination, or because
group Of gamblers in the exchanges hai
been caught by a rise or fall Of prices
He states that any combination whicl
actually does operate in restraint o
trade, even il not formed with that de
liberate intent, and which must iney
itably so operate, ever if it has not ye
produced such results, and any forme
for the purpose of restraining trade
even II the c-onsummatOn OF that pul
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

The judgment against the school dis
trict Of Omaha for $4,000 besides inter
est and costs in favor of the architect
originally engaged to design the new
High school building and later arbi-
trarily supplanted by another architect
throws a beautiful sidelight on alleged
business methods that have prevailed
in the management of school affairs. II
reflects still greater discredit on the at
torney for the school board under whose
legal advice the board acted and whose
defense TO the suit seems to have given
his case away. A few more recklessly
broken contracts and corresponding
judgments would empty the school treas
ury and close up the schools. The costly
lesson simply reinforces what The Bee
has repeatedly urged, that there is nc
excuse for the school board maintaining
a salaried attorney when it can freely
have competent and able services from
the city attorney and his assistants OF
the city law department. Fol the board
to pay $500 a year TO a cheap grade
lawyer to get it into legal difficulties
and lose lawsuits for 1t is worse than
throwing the money away.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

As a result Of the business admlnistra-
ton of our schools by business men Of
the Benson stripe the taxpayers Of the
school district Of Omaha have a judg-
ment of over $4,000 to pay, with moth
ing whatever to show for the money ex-
cept plans for a High school building
that were never used. The school board
that engineered this beautiful architec-
tural job is, by the way. the same board
that tried to besmirch Mayor Moores
with its ugly rumors" resolutions. In
the meantime the property owners will
be called on to foot the bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
THE YESTERDAYS OF NATIONS.

". d. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
The burden OF Damascus. Behold, Damas-
gus Is taken away from being a city, and
II shall be a ruinous heap."-Isaiah xvii, l.
Broken pillar and crumbling stone
Tell Of her yesterdays,
Tell of the time when she stood alone
Mighty In all her ways.
Trackless stretches of heaping sand,
Red In the wasting heat,
Breathe of sinuous seraband
o Trtpped by the joyous feet.
Fallen temple and shattered tomb,
Tumbled and gaping wall,
Tell OF clambering vine and bloom
Beauty that covered all.
Silent, solemn. and echoless,
Under the broodinR sky
Where the profit TO them that guess,
Asking US when and why7
Once the trumpet in brazen glee
Sang at the palace gates;
Once the masters Of minstrelsy
Babbled of loves and hates;
Once the sword In the jeweled sheath
Clamored along the way
Dead today, with the crumbling wreath
Worn In that yesterday.
So the glamour and 30 the pride
Marble and brass and goIa--
Dust OF age to come VIII hide
Tombs of the years will hold.
We, unknown and overvain,
Strong In our sweep and sway,
Hug the baubles that mark our reign
Living our yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Inspiration of Medical Genius.
Chicago Chronicl

For once we may be sure that gentlemen
OF the medical profession will cordially and
unreservedly Endorse the suggestion of a
learned brother-the learned brother being
a Kansas City physician who suggests that
the vermiform appendix shall be removed
from every infant a few days after birth.
thus rendering appendicitis impossible. AS
medical gentlemen charge from $3.50 upward
for removing an appendix, the Kansas City
proposition undoubtedly will be hailed as an
inspiration of medical genius.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Harper's Weekly thinks it sees indica-
tons of a close political alliance be-
tween Mayor Harrison of Chicago and
w. r. Hearst of New York for the pro-
motion of their mutual interests. Mayor
Harrison was once in the newspaper
business himself, 50 such an alliance
would keep the whole combination
within the newspaper fold.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
TESTIMONY As IS TESTIHoNY.

ANSAAAAONL so &c 4hELAauONI
And now the champions of Ed Howell
have called upon Edgar Howard for
a testimonial to square that corporation
candidate with the a~nti-monopoly ele-
ment of the democratic party. Under
this pressure Edgar Howard has been
induced to say in his paper, the
Columbus Telegram, that Howell is
superior in every sense to the nominees
Of the opposing republican factions"
and has always been loyal to demo-
cratic interests" While this is not very
strong, it is still paraded by the Howell
organ as an appeal to democrats to
stand together.
What Edgar Howard really thinks of
Ed Howell can, however, best be gath
cred from what he has written and
printed about him on previous occasions,
when no party whip was being cracked
over his head. Howard was in close
attendance upon the legislature in which
Howell served and observed the work of
the corporation lobby In and outside Of
the senat chamber. In the Papillion
Times Of March II, 1897, Edgar Howard
said:
Every school boy in Nebraska knows that
every fuslonist now occupying a seat in
the Nebraska legislature was chosen with
the implied and expressed understanding
that he would favor laws to regulate the
public corporations in the state. A great
majority Of the fusion senator's have been
faithful to the pledges made, by and for
them in the campaign. Eight Of them.
perjuring themselves in the eyes Of God and
man, have gone over to the enemy. We do
not know that they were bought. We do
know that they have ruthlessly betrayed the
people who elected them. The eight traitors
who fell at the feet Of Bill Paxton and
fought the bill to regulate the stock yards
octopus are:
RANSOM Of Douglas,
HOWELL of Douglas,
And Five Other Names.
These men deserve to be advertised "a
the world as traitors. II Is not pleasant fol-
US to ~denounce men of our own political
faith, but duty demands It.
After the session was over and after
Howell had been defeated for mayor by
Frank Moores, In April of the SAM
year, commenting upon the result Edgar
Howard among other things declared:
We know that the defeated democratic
nominee for mayor vas not a fair repre-.
sentative Of the silver forces. Hat
the free silver forces nominated a cleaI
man like Frank Burkley for mayor be would
have won out with two thousand majorit,
to his credit and would have inspired the bi
netallists with enthusiasm and conhdenc,
sufficient to have carried the entire cit,
ticket with him. The bimetallists Of tn
state had a right to expect better thing
from their brethren in the metropolis. lie
the result teach Omaha bimetallists ono,
for all that the masses do not trust
corporation tool. no matter how long an
earnestly he breaches free silver.
If the decent democrats of Omaha ar
to heed the advice of Edgar Howar,
they will prefer to heed that given b,
him at a time free from the heat of
political campaign rather than that ex
torted from him under speciOus argu
ments Of party expediency.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Loyalty to mother tongue.
Portland Oregonian.

III ONNbVH1HuNIs
The determination Of the Hawaiian legis-
lature to conduct its proceedings hereafter
in the native language is both s~entimentally
and practically a step backward, but It pro-
ceeds from motives which seem instructive
In all races. When every other motive OF
race feeling has been lost, there remains
unfailingly a sentiment of love and loyalty
to the mother tongue. 1t has been marked
in the rudest tribes of savages, and the
higher the development of the people the
stronger hold it has over them.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Recent statistics Of the postal savings
banks Of Great Britain show that there
are now 100000 ~depositors who have
made within the year 100000 depos-
its and 100000 Withdrawals through
the $4,000 postofices in which savings
departments are maintained. The instt-
tuition is now but forty years old, while
it's administrative stan has increased
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

In compiling their information for
voters the Municipal league inquisitors
should not fail to give Councilman Lo-
beck's answer to the question why he
voted to extend the street lighting con-
tract for the gas company stealthily
eight mouths before it's expiration.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

The scheme for a nationally endowed
theater is being again projected in New
York City with a view to the elevation
Of dramatic art The results Of theat-
rical enterprise in this country, how
ever, go TO show that the only endow-
ment worth having toy the actor and
playwright is that which comes through
the wicket Of the box Office
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

According to Lewis Nixon, the Ameri-
can ship building industry has now been
developed to so high a degree that we
can build at q lower cost than any other
nation In the world and better boats at
that. If that is the case the American
merchant marine ought to revive speed
lily with or without the ship subsidy.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

With the passing of the last Of the
civil war governors the war governors
Of the Spanish American conflict period
may get a chance to work their way to
the front seats.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Rank Heresy,

Philade phia North American.
The trustees OF Providence" in the coal
trust are shocked at the temerity Of the
Interstate Commerce commission in con.
Quoting an Investigation. They consider
1t an Objectionable form of Higher Crit
icism.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

within that time from twenty persons
20 3,O62. The success Of the postal saw
ings bank in Great Britain only outlines
the field which is waiting for the estab-
llshment OF postal savings banks in this
country, where the people are equally
thrifty and have more earnings to save.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

The beautiful compilations produced by
the food experiments may compel the De-
partment Of Agriculture to add to it's al
ready numerous responsibilities by open
ing a correspondence department for beauty
side talks.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

The New York paper that insists the
democracy has lots of statesmen able to
lead a presidential ticket to victory
wisely refrains from putting any Of
them up this early as targets for the
political sharpshooters within the party
ranks.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Launching new battleships and cruis-
ers out of American shipyards is getting
to be SO common as to threaten to abol'
ish the novelty Of it
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Chairman Belden of the Bensonite
campaign committee wants a mayor
who can be pointed u to his boy as an
example. II Chairman Belden is in
dead earnest he will have TO drop the
boomer candidate and look for a man
who has not made a failure of nearly
every business enterprise he has been
engaged in.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Ine1perience Talks Too Much.

OHICdBU fNtCOTU-fitFHIu,
Those old maids who assembled in New
York the other day sneered at President
Roosevelt's remarks concerning large fam
lilies and said that he had no business to
talk about the loveliness of having children.
because he was not a mother and there
fore lacked the experience necessary to dis
cuss the subject intelligently. Still, II
would seem that the old maids have little
to brag OF concerning this kind Of expert
enca. =.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Andrew Carnegie's gift Of 100000 to
q negro institution does not seem to be
resented in the south. To spend north
N money on the negro in the south rs
all right, but to give any kind of recOg-
milton to the southern negro in the north
Is a heinous offense.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

One swallow does not make summer
and two or three jawsmiths with the
union label do not represent organized
labor by a long ways. Worklngmen OF
Omaha Remember the Mayne."
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

1t is stated that Sir Thomas Upton
has aiken out 100000 of insurance on
Shamrock III. If he could take out a
policy that would insure him the cup he
would feel much more comfortable.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

The corporations want the council but
they also want the mayor. A mayor
can make It necessary to have six u
cilmen to put corporation jobs through
over his veto.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

If the boomers want to make Ben
sons election sure let them send q spe-
cial train to Joplin for that boomer of
boomers, Clifton Il. Wayne.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Consider the Hits,

." IVUA NIUUO-DVHHVOINI
It is alleged that the circuit court COM
mitted thirty-four errors in the Rnti-merger
case. The crowd never cares much for the
errors provided the hits are on the right
side.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

The president will find that Nebraska
is in the heart Of the continent and that
Nebraska's heart is In the right place.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
sTATrMpNT OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State Of Nebraska, Douglas County S.:
George b. Tzschuck, secretary OF Inc Dc
says that the actual number OF tull ana
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening and sunday Bee printed during the
month Of March. 1903. was as folloWe;
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

1t is a sort of a paradox that the i'm
purity of legislative morals uncovered
In Missouri is supposed to have grown
ont of to insure pure food.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
All ready for Roosevelt.

The battle cry of the Benson boomers;
Remember the Maynel"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Gladys-So Beatrice is finally married?
How did she come to make the plunge?
Ethel-She don't. She was showed off by
six younger sisters.-Puck
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Mrs. Youngwife-I want TO get some
salad
Dealer-Yes, ma'am. How many heads2
Mrs. Youngwife-Oh. goodness! 1 thougha
you took the heads off. l Just want plain
chicken salad.-C1ncinnati Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Churchman-That was an eloquent ser.
mon you preached to us last Sunday on
9TH Poor We Have Always with U.s."
The Pastor-Yes, I was inspired. ! had
observed how small the collection was tina
day.-PhiladelphiG Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.
Isn't It ~funny?"

"She's the head of a matrimonial agency,
an old ~nAAid."-Detroit Free Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Dear" said the PHYSICIANS wife, "whe
can YOU let me have $10?"
well" replied the medical man, 81 hop
to cash a draft shortly, and then"
Cash a draft2 What draftf''
'"The one / saw Mrs. Jenkins sitting in
this morning .'"-Philadelpnia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Two Letters

They tell of the thrift, business acumen and are q ar OF the rec"
ord 81 a mob ad useful business life The late Ion. j.. NJ. Patterson OF
Piattsmouth. IN of the pioneers of Nebraska and on of tn best citizens III
ever dwet within it's domain, tells of the value Of q policy In TIT strong
est in the World" while living; his sol tell of the value to his estate
c H. parmee, Ppst J. NJ Patterson Cashier t. NJ Patterson Asst Cash
THE BANK OF CASS COUNTY.
January 3, 1899.
Mr.. II. d. Neeley, Manager,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Sir: Your draft from Equitable Life of New York
for $4,556.45 received. This is the cash value of my policy
of $4,000. Fifteenpayment plan.
This settlement is admirable and l have taken policies
with you for $4,000, or double the amount of one surren-
dered. Present my compliments to your officers, and you
may refer to me as one of the many friends of the Equitable.
Yours truly.
j. NJ. PATTERSON.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Tie married her because she was such a
brilliant conversationalist."
Yes; 1 know; but"
"Oh, he got a divorce from her for IN,
same reason. Smart Set.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Jonathan-I say, Britisher, can you spS IN
horSe2
honly takes a hatch and a no and a har
and a hess and a he to spell 'orse.-Kansas
City. Journal.
"It's a mistake to say the course OF true
love never did run smooth reflected Mr..
Meekun. I'm thousands OF cases 1t does
matrimony, which, I'll admit, Is sometimes
rough enough. "-Chicago Tribune
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-20
Attempt to Lay an Old Depart
mental Error at His
Door. ..-..
He Himself Called Attention to Lax
Business Methods in His
1900 Report.
The P. o. Investigation and What
It Shows Regarding Mr..
Machen.
From The Journal Bureau, Room 49, Post Build
ing, Washington

From The Journal Bureau, Room -, Post Build
ing, Washington.
washington. April 2O.-Captain Henry
a. Castle of st. Paul. auditor Tor the
postoffice department., has been drasseu
into the postoffice scandal. According 10
local paper it is charged tnat d special
commissioner who has been investigating
treasury department methods. discovered
that the auditor was not Keeping any
track of the distribution OF postage
stamps and stamped paper supplies sucn
as stamped envelopes. postal cards ana
paper wrappers. The bureau OF ensraV
ing and printing supplies the stamps a'o
the stamped paper is suppIleu Wy o'i
contractors.
CAPTAIN. Castle does not deny the 1acts
set forth. but says he knew of this lax
ity in keeping accounts three years ago
and called the attention OIL the tleasuLS
and postoffice departments 10 the iau,ti
ness of the system in his office at tnat
time He asked for an increase IN the
force and has repeat teddy asked congress
for more clerks to take up this branch OF
tbe work, but they were not allowed In
his report for 1900 Captain castle sald
in part:
NO account has ever been kept by the
postoffice department of stamps ana
stamped paper furnished to 1t by the
bureau of engraving and printing or by
outside contractors. This account should
have been opened when postage stamps
we're first introduced. say. fifty years ago.
and continuously kept until this time.
That account would be a fundamental
corrective check upon substantially the
whole revenues of the postofflce depart
ment amounting to over $9,000,000.'
That no such account has even been
opened or kept IS an astonishing reVeiatlon
of defective methods. almost glaring be-
cause similar accounts have always been
rigidly kept by the aduitor Of the treas
llry department with the commissioner of
internal revenue whenever revenue stamps
have been required by law. 1t Is evident
taht the opening Of such an account In
this burau should be no longer delayed.
An investigation is now being made to as
certain how this matter may best b done.
The fact that stamps and stamped paper
srS sent to over $4,000 postmasters. many
Of whom do not properly receipt for the
stock Is a serious difficulty in the way of
keeping supplies and account but 1t Is be-
| leved that a feasible method can De
found to o1 erconle, this. The several ac-
] counts should show separately the num-
Der ana denomina ton of stamps and the
: various sizes, colors and qualities Of
stamped envelops. These accounts should
also show separately any special series Of
stamps and envelops and the number OF
clerks required will depend upon the de-
tail with which the account Is kept
H. G. Stevens.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-20
FIVE KNOWN DEAD
The Bodies Of TWO Men, Two Women and
Child Found. $500

-
Cleveland. O., April 2o.-Advices re-
ceived at the headquarters of the Erie
road here show that in addition, to the
death of two women and a child in the
wreck near Salamanca, the bodies Of two
men, burned to a. crisp. have been taken
from the day coach. Nothing was found
by which they could be identified. A
brakeman on the freight train named
Hotchkiss was also killed.
Investigation shows that the two wo-
men and child killed were not from
Youngstown, but came In over the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie road to the latter city,
where they boarded the Erie train for
Clean, N. 7. It Is believed they came
from Pittsburg or some point near that
city.
The fire department from Salamanca
reached the scene of the wreck on a spe-
cial train at 8 O'Clock and soon had sew
eral streams playing on the burning cars.
Five cars in the passenger train We're
completely destroyed. They were the
sleepers Leon, Rubens, Cloverdaie, a COM
bination car and a. ladies day coach. The
freight train was made up largely of cars
loaded with hard coal, many of them be-
ing entirely consumed.
The wreck occurred during dense fog,
the passenger train "side-swiping the
freight while the latter was pulling on a
siding.
A later report to the company places the
number of fatalities at six-five passen-
gers and the brakeman of the freight train
losing their lives.