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Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12

movement 60 the Material
Aspects of Home Life.

Kansas city star.
The American Institute for Social Service
has named delegates to attend the In
ternationai Housing congress. which Is to
he held in Paris from July to November,
and the purpose OF which is TO arrive at
the best plans for making the homes OF
the working people. more especially the
poorer classes. more heaithful, convenient
and attractive without imposing serious
additional burdens on the occupants. 1t Is
expected that in this long continued con-
gress the whole subject, from the stand
point of the working people, the landlord,
the tenant, the philanthropist and the
municipal and state governments, will be
reviewed and considered. Much good
should result the world over from such
deliberations.
This subject is one to which the people
of this country should give special con-
sideration. The working people OF the
United States live better than those OF any
other nation In the world, but so they
should. They are better paid. The OPP
portunitles for general education and re-
hnement are within the reach OF a much
larger proportion of the population than
in any other country. The inducements
for individual ambition are greater in this
free, democratic land than in other parts
of the world. Yet there is scope for great
Improvement In the domestic environments
Of a very large class OF American working
people, and It should be the business OF all
those who, through the obligations Of spe-
clal fortune or those of official position,
can do much to promote the social order,
to give this subject attention.
A little direction, given In the right
spirit, will help amazingly those who have
little art In helping themselves in the i'm
provement Of the material aspects OF home
life. The matters of sanitation, cleanli-
ness, order, furnishings and decorations,
both in the house and on the premises.
can be greatly promoted through a meas
ure OF encouragement. These things do not
necessarily make living more expensive.
nor do they increase the burdens Of home
keeping. A house once in order may be
kept in order with but little daily atteu-
ton.
But the greatest aid and incentive TO
better standards in the home is higher
standards in the municipality. A city that
has we'll paved and we'll kept streets, good
sidewalks, plentiful shade, fine parks, hand
some boulevards, an abundance OF water
at cheap rates, a perfect sewer system and
a public-spirited administration will not
only inspire civic and individual pride in
the hearts Of its residents, but It will also
invite the better classes in all the walks
Of life. People who seek new and perma-
nent homes AXE into consideration the
general advantages Of a city as we'll as the
immediate interests of their business or
profession.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

In addition to his other shortcomings,
Pennell was an arrant coward. 1t took him
two years to commit suicide.
J.. w. Curtis Of Chicago has a clock 400
years old, which keeps good time. and with
a pipe organ attachment that plays as well
today as the day It was made.
Vermont is making up for lost time. Fol-
lowing the opening Of the first saloon in
fifty years, seventeen men we're arrested
and twenty-one more warrants are out.
General Miles wants to supply the Phil
ipplne soldiers with beef on the hoof. In
stead of war being hell, he prefers to con-
vert It into a succession Of short-rib roasts.
Jersey City has decided not to tolerate
plays based on the careers of Tracy and
such outlaws. It is felt that holding up
dramas Of this sort will tend to elevate the
stage.
Ex-President Cleveland will make only
one speech at the st. Louis dedication. For
the convenience Of out-of-town visitors he
should be scheduled to begin his stunt in
the morning.
The Ohio man who was a member Of
thirty-hve secret societies died; but no.
body will take his example as a warning.
Others will go on inviting the grip In the
plural number.
President Roosevelt occasionally uses the
word bully" when in an enthusiastic mood.
This is said to be distasteful to several
eminent authorities in Boston, and some
body ought to tell hin OF 1t.
1t is announced that an old eating house
in which Richard Croker proclaimed that
he was out Of politics forever has been
torn down. This might mean the destruc-
ton of half the restaurants in New York.
The Kentucky State Sinking Fund com-
mission last week burned s973,00O of the
states redeemed bonds, and the state now
has a bonded debt of only $4S, 900. This
will be discharged as soon as the bonds
can be secured.
Ex-senator Kellogg of Louisiana and
Judge Weldon Of the court of claims, Wash
ington, are the only survivors Of the ILL
nois electors who in 1860 were chosen to
cast the vote of that state for Abraham
Lincoln and lambda Hamlin.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12

risk Of suffering from popular suspicion
and apprehension respecting the man
agement Of their affairs. 1t is to be ex-
pcctcd that after the bureau Of corpora
tions begins its work of investigation.
which will be shortly, most of the COM
binatlons subject to governmental in
quiry will adopt the plan of publicity,
at least to such ap extent as will enable
their stockholders to ob:ain'a pretty &C
curate knowledge of how they are being
managed and what they are doing.
In regard TO the figures of the steel
corporations report, they are somewhat
impressive. The gross income from
sale of products and from incidental
sources in 1902 is stated to have been
100000 900, which was considerably in
excess of the international trade bal
ance in favor of the United States for
that year. The net income was over
$133, 100000 and the surplus for the year
$~34,000,000. Such figures certainly bear
evidence of the great prosperity of the
country and a statement in the report
Of contracts or orders that are yet to
be delivered and that were upon the
books at the beginning of the calendar
year indicate that the end Of prosper
ity is still distant.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
MIssOURps PUBLIC SCANDALS.
Integrity of Representative Govern
ment on Trial.
Kansas City t

Kansas City Star.
The disclosures Of corruption in the Mis-
souri, legislature and the revelations that
are promised possess more than local in
terest. They are national in their signih-
canoe. Not only Missouri is on trial in the
Inquiries of the various grand %juries, but
the essential purity and ~perpetuity of rep
resentative government Is to be proved.
The Missouri incident does not stand
alone. Bribery in Delaware and Rhode
Island has become notorious. Municipal
%rottenness has been exposed in Philadel-
phia, Minneapolis and st. Louis within the
last year and thievery is generally ad-
mitted to be a continuing manifestation,
in a greater or less degree, in practically
all large cities and all legislative assem-
blies. To an alarming extent bribery has
become, and is regarded as "a conventional
crime" The popular conscience has be-
come vitiated.
Missouri will occupy for a while a hu-
initiating position, but 1t has taken a
course which will rebound vastly to Its
credit. 1t will net only purge itself Of
rascality, but may provide an antidote to
cleanse the stuffed bosom Of every repre-
sentative government.
1t used to be that the fact OF public cor
ruption, alone, would awaken universal in
terest and excite Indignation and alarm.
But the spread of political disease has had
this effect-that 1t requires now a public in
vestigation and a resulting conviction or
promise of conviction to overcome popular
apathy. In other words, interest was cen
tered formerly on the corruption itself and
not upon its effect on the criminals. Nor
was speculation as to what prominent men
-..,1a 10 EppoIuad the u1affnr Of mOgf nOn-
Germ. That was true even as late as the
time of the Tweed scandal in New York or
of the national Star route boodling.
That a different sentiment prevails now is
due to several causes.
The rapid growth of cities and the null
tiplication of questionable methods has ac-
customed the people to the belief that
grating is a part OF municipal life. The
demagogy Of party platforms. too. has made
IL dificult to differentiate between SINGER
ity and cant. The rural ~populace has ex-
allied politics above economics and has beer
the victim of orators and pharisees. More
than all, there has been so much money
getting and business development that tho
people have neglected public affairs.
Internationally 1t will take some time e
overcome this inertia in the public mind
But the events that will accomplish 1t are
following fast upon one another. In tina
work Missouri will take the most promi
nent place. 1t is more spectacular an'
consequently more far reaching In It's ef
fects when an entire commonwealth 1
thrusting out its own iniquity than wheI
a city IS engaged in such a task. II will
have a moral influence on every legislature
In the United States and the sympathy AM
encouragement of every state should b
given the judicial and administrative ON
cials OF Missouri who have Initiated an
are conducting the prosecution.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
EASTER BELLS AND SMELLS.
James Barton Adams in Denver Post

James Barton Adams in Denver Post.
Ring out, glad Easter bells, ring out in soft
and silV'ry peals,
Ring out, and sprinkle notes of Joy on
Lent's retreating heelsl
Fill all the air with echoing chimes, until
the hills and plains
And peaceful wales are swept by your me-
Iodious refrains!
Ring out, TIL music ripples Ger the bosom
of the skies,
Till echoing peals from every peak of yonder
mountains rise!
No deep-toned funeral knells will do, but
~clangings clear and gay
To bid a fitting welcome to this merry
Easter day.
Swing out. gay Easter bellies. swing out in
annual parade,
In stunning gowns that during Lent non
penitents have made;
Swing out upon the city streets in modistes'
widest dreams,
Your breasts ali pulled with pride until
they almost rip the seams!
Swing out In prinky picture hats OF Pic
AL buried meath a horal wealth of buds
and how'rs and vines
And decked with the remains OF birds and
feathers soft as down.
Fair visions visionary as the ratified heads
they crown!
procession starts!
Your notes will call forth answering chimes
from scores of happy hearts;
The swinging of your heavy tongues may
seem real slow and tame
Compared to prattling female tongues, but
swing them just the same!
Ring out! Let merriment prevail, for
naught but pleasure goes
On this glad day OF praises and 'eXagger-
ated clothes
On this one day of all the year 20 dear to
RIM out your very choicest peals, oh!
Joyous Easter bells!
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
Legends that VIII Live.
Kansas City Journal.

kansas CITY JouInHI,
II makes no difference what proof to the
contrary is offered, the American people
will always believe and maintain that Ra-
leigh once lived in Virginia, that Putnam
crawled into a den of wild wolves, that
Paul Revere saved his country by a ride,
and that Barbara Freitchie dared the rebels
Just as poets ave written; that Funston
did actually swim the Calumpit, and that
Roosevelt charged up the hill in the battle
at San Jua in the very way that Verest-
chagin puts 1t. These things can no longer
be considered as matters in dispute or
points of controversy in our history. The
belief in them is as deeply imbedded in the
hearts of all Americans as is the belief
that Washington never lied or swere and
that Mrs. Leary's COW kicked over the lamp
which caused the big fire in Chtcago.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
MUNICIPAL OwNsRsHip IN rWo CITIES.

MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP IN TWO CITIES.
A recent issue of The Bee referred to
the notable Roadway being made by the
municipal ownership movement, as
evidenced by the report of the commits
sioner Of water supply, gas and electric
lighting to the mayor of Greater New
York, recommending the establishment
of a municipal lighting plant for the me-
tropolis and the movement on foot for
enabling legislation to put that recon-
mendation into effect. During the past
week the municipal ownership idea has
received additional impetus in two i'm
portant American cities.
In the municipal election in Chicago,
resulting in favor of Mayor Carter II.
Harrison, Notwithstanding the fact that
he was running for a fourth term, mu-
nicipal ownership was the determining
issue. In the statement given out by the
mayor Immediately following the an
nouncement Of the returns, he says:
1 regard the present election as less a
personal victory for myself than as a vic
tory for municipal ownership, which should
lead to the development of public owner
ship in national and state as we'll as
municipal public utilities. Although run
ming as a candidate of the democratic
party, partisan lines were cast aside to a
great extent. The election was a rebuke
to the rapacity OF those great corporations
whose methods in the past as well as in
the canvass just closed have always been,
and still are, directed toward the corrup-
ton OF civic purity. The only way to strike
at the very fountain head Of corruption in
local politics is to administer a few crush
Ing defeats to these giant corporations and
In municipal ownership of all public utili-
ties lies the ultimate solution Of purity of
civic affairs.
In the city Of Cleveland the outcome
Of the municipal election with it's vic.
tory for Tom l.. Johnson was admittedly
due to his position on the question OF
municipal ownership. The city now
owns its water department and it is the
hope of Mayor Johnson to see the mu.
~nicipality furnishing gas and electric
lights, and possibly heat, before he re
tires from the city hall. Explaining his
program, he declares:
Next fall we expect to agitate all over
the state the right Of home rule and we
shall endeavor to free the hands Of eact
community so that equal taxation may be
achieved. 1t will be necessary to awaken
the people to the necessity of choosing a
legislature which will act for the people.
From this it is readily seen that the
franchised corporations with their high
handed methods of bribery and corrup
ton have been sowing the wind all owe
the country and are sure to reap thu
whirlwind through municipal ownership
just as soon as the people become thor
oughly aroused to the dangers tina be
set them from corporate subversion O
popular government.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
IN THE BLOOMING WEST.
Eastern View of Labor Conditions I'm
the Imperial Domain.


the Imperial Domain.
Boston Globe.
Conditions for labor were never so favor
able in the west as at the present time.
Employment agents in Omaha, Salt Lake
City, San Francisco and Portland are en-
gagged in an effort to secure men. Because
of the scarcity Of labor in the west now
employment agents in the east are being
employed to send men west.
Wherever one turns in the west new
have been laid out for irrigation in several
states. Capital in Colorado is only await
ing spring to spend several millions Of dol
lars in projects which will require thou
sands OF laborers.
The railroads are piled with machinery
awaiting transportation to the oil country.
The work of railroad construction was never
so active as now.
Everywhere the bridge builders are look
ing for men. In Utah, Nevada, Oregon and
California electric power plants are to be
erected. Il is the intention not only to use
the power for lighting and transportation
purposes, but to induce manufacturing es-
Establishments to locate there.
But because the west is so full OF bust
ness It does not follow that New England is
declining. On the contrary. the logical con-
sequence Of the prosperity Of the west Is
the even greater prosperity OF New Eng
land.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
Engineers in Fact and Fiction.
lectures Magazine.


The popular notion of a locomotive en-
gineer is Of a nerve-racked man who
spends half his time under a fearful strain,
cool, but aware Of great danger, with one
hand pulling open the throttle TO the last
notch, the other on the reverse lever
ready to back her, and, with a word to his
fireman to jump, himself to stick TO his
post. II this were so, then all that had
been seeing elsewhere was exceptional.
Well, It isn't so. These men are all very
much alike; at bottom they are OF one
type. Slow of speech, composed in mind
and body; intelligent, but not keen; ready
but not especially alert; they talk quietly
sensibly about their business. They don't
know what nerves are, apparently. |
found two at home on their "on day" and
one was lying down, the other sitting idly
and II was plain they could rest; they could
lie stiIl, sit still, stand still. In other
words, they had the repose ! had noticed
In other master craftsmen. There is more
true quietude in a locomotive cab than
there Is in the ONCE Of many an active
bank president. much more than a draw
ing room. vastly more than in a Pullman
dining car.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12

It is announced that the Kansas cat
tlemen, who have unlawfully appro-
priated large blocks Of the public land,
will put mp a strong fight against the
tearing down OF the fences. The atti-
tude OF the land grabbers seems TO be
the same. wherever they are found
they want to get the use Of the public
domain for nothing and then think they
have a grievance II they are asked to
relinQuish what never belonged to them.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
Passing of Prohibition.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
New Hampshire, at the close Of March,
ceased to be a prohibition state, follow
ing closely in the footsteps Of Vermont.
The New Hampshire license law as
adopted. provides for a state license com
mission and graded fees, the right of the
majority of the voters of any locality to
prohibit the sale or manufacture Of intox-
icants in 1t being reserved. Governor
Batchelder has appointed the three COM
missioners 1.-TWO republicans and one dem
ocrat) to carry out its provisions. This
leaves Maine as the only remaining prohi-
bition state in New England, where a year
ago there were three.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
THE EXODUS TO EUROPE

Already the spring and summer exodus
of Americans to Europe has begun, hav-
ing started earlier this year than usual,
and the officials Of the transatlantic
passenger lines are predicting an extra
ordinary season for travel abroad. 1t is
probable that before the summer has
rolled around at least 100000 Ameri-
cans will have gone to foreign lands
and 1t is not too much to say that they
will spend OF In average $500 eachs
That will make $40,000,0O0 taken out Of
the country, which is really a very con-
sentative estimate. This will help re-
duce the trade balance and those who
make the expenditure will doubtless
get some pleasure out of it and perhaps
also acquire useful information, still it
would be quite as we'll for most of the
people who go abroad in quest of pleas
ure only If they were to seek it in their
own land and thus become better &C.
qualnted with the country. There are
portions Of the great west where the
scenery is as fine as anywhere in the
world, where the climate is invigorating
and health-promoting and where rest
and recreation can be had as hardly
anywhere abroad, while the expense of
1t would be much less than a European
trip. OF course there is benefit to be
derived from an ocean voyage and there
is much to be learned in foreign lands
to those who desire to learn, yet it is
doubtless true that many Of those who
go to Europe really get little benefit
from It. However, the annual exodus
has been steadily growing since the be-
ginning of prosperity and may be ex-
pected to increase from year to year,
with the augmenting number of our
people who have the means to visit the
old world.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
E~PocH-MAK1Ne DECISIONS.

Mr.. James NJ. Beck, assistant attor'
ney general Of the United States, re-
CARDS the decision of the federal SUI
preme court in the lottery cases and the
of the circuit court Of appeals
in the Northern Securities case as mark
ing a rev and most important epoch in
the life Of the nation. He points out
that in the former cases the court sus-
tanned the power Of congress to prohibit
interstate traffic when prejudicial TO the
public welfare, while the decision in
the latter case subjects not only the i'm
mediate operation of every interstate
road, but its very ownership through
stock shares, to federal power. "The de-
%cision,' he said, makes IL doubly nee
essary to determine as a matter Of pub
lie policy the exact and proper relation
between the railways, upon which u
prosperity so vitality depends, and the
state"
Mr.. Beck referred to the suggestion Of
Attorney General Knox that the anti
trust law should be so modified as to
forbid only unreasonable restraints of
trade and said: "The supreme court,
In the joint traffic decision, by a bare
majority of one, so construed the anti
trust law as to bring reasonable as well
as unreasonable restraints Of trade
within its prohibition, and thus added
immensely to the difficulty of an already
difficult problem" In the traffic case
referred to the dissenting opinion pre-
scented a very strong argument against
the view of the majority of the court
that the law prohibits reasonable, as
well as unreasonable restraint of trade.
1t was held that the plain intention
Of the law was to protect the liberty of
the dissenting opinion said: Twill this
intention not be frustrated by a con-
struction which If 1t does not destroy,
at least greveiy impairs both the lib
erty of the individual to contract and
the freedom Of trader If the rule of
reason no longer determines the right of
the individual to contract or secure the
validity of contracts upon which trade
depends or results, what becomes of the
liberty of the citizen or of the freedom
of trade? Secured no longer by the law
of reason, all these rights become sub
Ject, when questioned, to the mere
caprice of judicial authority" 1t was
further said that the remedy intended
to be accomplished by the act of con
gress was to shield against the danger
of contract or combination by the few
against the interest Of the many and t.
the detriment Of freedom. The con
struction given by the court, it was de
clared, STRIKES down the interest Of thu
many to the advantage and benefit o.
the few" and 1t was clearly pointed GU
what the operation of the courts con
struction would be.
There is unquestionably a great dea
of force in this view. The decision o
the court, however, was perhaps just
fed by the language Of the law and 1
Is for congress to determine whethe
that judicial construction shall stand o
the law be so modified IS to forbid onl
unreasonable restraints of trade. A
was said by Mr.. Beck, the recent de
cisionS have very much widened and in
creased the sphere and scope Of fedora
activity and there can be no doubt tina
this will be largely beneficial to tn
public interests and welfare.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12

1t is reported that Governor Durbln
OF Indiana has been made the target
for a set Of swindlers, who have been
getting goods from dealers ~patronized
by him and having the bills sent to the
governor. Governor Durbin occupies
Just the reverse position of some public
officials who have the habit OF getting
goods from the dealers and letting other
people pay the bills.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12

President Castro says he will stand by
Minister Bowen. In view Of the man.
ner In which Minister Bowen stood by
him, President Castro certainly ought
to stand up now.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12

employees. Both have learned a useful
lesson which it is not 10 be doubted will
be employed in any future differences
that may arise. The company has
wisely recognized the brotherhoods as
organizations that must be dealt with in
settling the terms and conditions of
their employment and this course should
strengthen the loyalty Of the employees
to the company. The Wabash settle
ment is an example hat should have a
generally beneficial influence.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-12
Not n Good Excuse.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

IHIIdUtIUHId IItoos
The German official who criticised the
American navy because of the large num-
Der Of assertions from the ships tocched
on a sensitive spot. In March S66 nlen de-
serted, or 1.29 per cent of the entire en-
listed force. 1t does not iook we'll by any
means. one reason given is that many Of
the men are enlisted in the interior, with
out knowledge o. the sea and they soon
become tired Of it. But that is not a very
good excuse.