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Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
FEATURES OF LOTTERY DECISION

Chicago News; The supreme court jus
tices have themselves taken pains to indi-
cate that their decision must not be con-
strued too broadly, but the point raised is
none the less suggestive. The prohibitive
features Of the Hoar and Littleheld bills are
not likely TO be enacted into law at an
early day and the new decision will have
no direct practical influence on national
legislation. II serves to show, however,
that the exact extent Of the powers OF con
gress in this matter has yet to be tested.
Springfield Republican: The decision OF
the United States supreme court upholding
the constitutional power OF congress to pro-
hibit the sending of lottery tickets from
one state to another is an important one,
especially In view Of the current conten-
tion that congress would have no power TO
force state corporations and combinations
Of corporations under federal regulation on
penalty OF being excluded from interstate
commerce. The court rests It's lottery de-
cision on the right of the national govern
ment to regulate between the
states.
Buffalo Express. The decision Is espe-
cially interesting. however, in again defn-
ing the right OF congress to regulate com
merce between the states. II congress can
forbid the transportation OF lottery tickets
by express companies 1t would seem to be
strictly within its power to forbid the trans
portation of any products. This has an i'm
portant bearing on the trust question. One
OF the provisions Of the Littleheld anti
trust bill, which has been passed by the
house, is that any corporation falling to
make certain reports may be restrained, on
suit OF the United States, from engaging
In interstate commerce until such returns
are made. In view OF the decision given
It can be confidently expected that the su-
preme court will uphold this provision OF
the Littleheld bill. il it becomes law.
Kansas City Star: The opinion clearly
gives congress the power to prevent inter-
state transportation OF commodities re-
garded as injurious to the people, but does
1t also recognize it's power to prevent the
distribution, by interstate trafic. Of articles
Of necessity when the methods OF distribu-
tion are held to be injurious to the public
The point is one of Importance. II may
involve the constitutionality of some OF
the antitrust legislation enacted by con-
gress in the current session, and It would
have some effect on further efforts to con-
troll by federal laws the abuses OF inter
state trahic. II has come to be regarded
as necessary that congress shall have a
larger hand in the regulation Of Industry
and by the enactment Of better
laws within its present powers, or, IL those
powers are not sufficient, then under neces-
sary amendments to the constitution
Meanwhile the decisions of the supreme
court bearing on the subject will be mat
ters of vital public interest.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
THE JURIsT IN POLITICS.
objections to the Political Invasion
of the Judiciary.
Kansas City Star.

Sht
The protest of Justice w. W. Goodrich OF
the New York supreme court, against the
invasion Of the field Of the judiciary by the
political managers in search OF available
candidates was made in good faith and
good temper. and 1t ought to have a far
reaching effect. This utterance was not
necessarily inspired by the assumed candi-
dscy OF Alton B. Parker OF New York for
the democratic nomination for president,
but It is inevitable and proper that this
special application should be made. How
ever, the f%ruitless efforts of last year to
secure a candidate for governor from the
judiciary OF New York state are still fresh
enough in mind to be made the subject Of
such a protest, even II there were not plen-
tiful instances in other states. Justice
Goodrich very truthfully says:
THE Judge who is listening with ex-
pectant ear TO the bee Of political prefer
ence buzzing in his bonnet is already Grip
pled in his usefulness. Let us have no iu-
dicial temptation to play to the galleries
no hungering after the heshpots of Egypt,
no opinions suggestive Of the writer's view
of his own availability as q candidate"
This epitomizes the objections TO the po-
utical invasion of the judiciary. The
courts Of the land, especially those OF
higher OF final resort, should be kept aoso-
lutely free from the communicating inhu-
ences OF oficeseeking. II lie absolutely es-
sentiAl to the we'll being OF the nation that
the courts be kept pure. and that they In
SHIRE the awe and reverence OF the people
they are the tribunals OF Justice. They
pass upon the application OF the laws and
upon the laws themselves. They are sup
posed 10 stand between the people and leg
i~slative and government error, and they
should and do command the confidence o.
the public. But once the higher bench be
comes a recognized stepping-stone TO tbs
lucratiee places OF general politics. the
p~restiKe Of the courts will suffer and theiI
| usefulness wiz be Impaired
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
NOTES.

Three hundred tunes have been submitted
in a Rhode Island competition for a new
national hymn.
A movement to erect a monument to
General John A. Logan in Murhpysboro,
Il., his birthplace, has just been started.
. Senator Knute Nelson OF Minnesota is one
OF the most accomplished linguists In the
senate. He speaks Norwegian. Swedish,
Danish, German. French and English.
kReginald Vanderbilt refuses to obey the
| district attorneys luminous IN the gambling
Lease which cost him so much money. He
may find this an Improbable game, too.
Mrs. Roosevelt's gift, sent to the Dallas
CTex.) fair. brought 1921 into the treasury
and she received a personal note Of thanks
from Mrs. Galloway, one of the directors.
In the cosmopolitan town OF Chicago 1t is
said the population, gathered from almost
every point on the globe, speaks more than
forty dialects. in addition to the C~hicagoese.
A tumbler OF champagne placed on a side
board in the cabin Of the big Cedric the
day the vessel left Liverpool was still IN
place when II reached New York and the
steward says that not a drop was spilled.
This speaks volumes. not only for the steadi-
ness Of Cedric, but for the abnegation OF
it's first bnnch of passengers.
Dennis Kearney, once the sand lots orator
Of San Francisco, has been put into a novel
by Mrs. Fremont Older. The book deals
with anti Chimes agitation in California
and Kearney is much pleased with the pen
portrait of himself. His daughter, who is
on the stage, is anxious to play the heroine's
role in a dramatization of the hook.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian author,
loves to keep his hair in disorder. This
is said to be his one vanity. He always
carries a little toilet case containing a
looking glass and a comb. which are at
tached 20 the lining Of his gray hat. He
will often remove HIS hat to look into the
mirror to sec how his hair is lying. II It
is not rough enough to suit his fancy he
uses the comb to give 1t the requisite
tangle.
DR.. Sarak lectured in Washington on
Occult Sciences" recently and gave some
demonstrations of what could be done by
mental concentration. Next day someone
was telling in the senate cloakroom OF
these marvels. why" said the narrator
ct almost believe that man could smash g
bottle by simply concentrating his mind
upon it." That's nothing" said Senator
Spooner blandly. I've known men to thinh
OF q bottle and break q dollar"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
CONFIDENCE IN TEE PRESIDENT.

We noted n few days ago the state
ment of the New York Commercial that
the new power conferred upon the pres
iden. Of the United States, in the crea-
ton Of the bureau of corporations In
the new Department Of Commerce and
Labor. is tremendous and might be en-
ployed to destroy corporations at the
will of the chief executive. We ex-
pressed the opinion that there was no
substantial ground for any fear of this
kind and that certainly so far as Pres
ident Roosevelt is concerned he can be
depended upon to exercise the authority
given him with care and conservatism,
having consideration alike for what Is
due to the public and what is just to the
corporations.
We are glad to say that our New York
contemporary has faith in the good
Judgment of Mr.. Roosevelt and that
its apprehension was simply in regard
to some future president who might he
especially ~antagonistic to the corpora
tons and bent upon destroying them.
In the last issue Of that paper at hand
1t c~onfesses entire confidence that Pres
ident Roosevelt will not use the law to
~unjustly deal with the corporations and
no one who has a proper estimate of
the president will expect him to do more
than require that the law shall be
properly enforced. 1t cannot be too
| clearly understood that Mr.. Roosevelt
is not making war upon the corpora
lions. He has repeatedly said that che
policy to be pursued in regard to them
should not be one of destruction. What
he aims to accomplish is the elimina-
ton of that which is bad and the pres
~ervation of that which is good. The
policy he urges is remedial and not rev
dictionary.
1t is not to be doubted that when the
bureau Of corporations has been. organ
lied the law will be fully carried Vut and
no corporation that is complying with
existing law and is dealing honestly and
fairly with the public has anything to
fear from this. On the contrary every
such corporation will be made stronger
by the fact that the government investi-
CATION has shown it to be on a sound
basis and worthy of public confidence.
1t is not corporations of this character
that are fearful Of the consequences
of the new law providing for their in
vestigatlon, but only such as cannot
stand the light Of publicity.
President Roosevelt IS most heartily
in favor of whatever will conserve the
business interests and the prosperity of
the country. His opposition to monop-
olistic combinations which contravene
the laws is earnest and sincere but he
does not intend a warfare upon all cor.
porations that would be destructive of
business and prosperity. The law will
be enforced. That can be confidently
predicted. But 1t will be lone discreetly
and co~nservatively. so that all interests
shall be properly cared for.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
CONSOLATION rom rus nrArHpS.
American Genius Turning out y Fine
Grade of Idols for tho East.

Chicago Tribune.
Manufacturers in the, Christian city OF
Philadelphia make idols and ship them to
Asia. The traDc has horrihed many who
thought rum was the only Objectionable ar
ticle shipped to the heather from this
country. For years England and Germany
have been monopolizing the trade In Budd-
has, Krishnas, Sivas. Ganeshes and jun
jums. This was because they happened TO
be on the ground first The idols which
they turned out we're, as a matter of fact.
both expensive and inefficient. The Ameri-
can manufacturer has now succeeded in
bringing tho trade where It really belongs.
His success was inevitable. His idols are
cheaper, do more work and last longer. Tho
heather who has once used an American
idol. with self-closing eyes and sutomRti-
cally w~iggling toes, refuses TO use any
other. Besides, many a poor heather who
I could not AFFORD to buy an expensive Eng
lish or German idol, is able to allow him
self tho cheaper American article. Idols
have been brought within the reach OF the
smallest purse. Within a Few years the
most impoverished native OF the far east
will hnd. thanks 20 the energy and inge-
nuity OF the American trader. that he need
not deny himself the spiritual consultations
of his religion.
Some squeRmish persons think that they
see something a little hit inconsistent in
sending out q ship with a deckful OF mis-
~sionaries and a holdful OF idols. Such per-
sons have not grasped the fact that this
life is a matter not Of consistency but OF
balance. There 10 q certain anarchist In
Chicago who owns a public hall. In the
course OF his business he is Obliged 10 let
this hall out to republican, democratic and
socialistic speakers, who take special pains
TO expose snarehism to the hatred and de-
rision Of their hearers. What is the hall.
owning anarchist to do? Ir order to live
and in order to retain a place in which an
archism can be occasionally eXpounded he
has to keep his hall in constant use. His
speculative opinions and his business, oper-
ations have to march abreast, but In par
allel lines which will never meet.
OF course, there might be some good rea-
son for complaint II the idol manufacturing
companies should begin to boom their trade
by getting out advertisements IN defense
OF idolAtry or by instructing their agents to
hold joint debates with missionaries. "Wor-
ship Film Flami A psychological analysis
by government experts shows eS per cent
Of deityl In portable. collapsible form.
with q case! When opened out the reverse
way. ceases TO be Film Flam and becomes
Jim Jaml The great duality! W gods at
the same timel A clear saving of so per
centl"-this bind OF advertisement might
be Objectionable.
After all. though. It is a nero exchange
OF idols. They set Buddhas and Krishnus;
No get dollars and cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
AMENDED BANKRUPTCY LAW.
Features of the Measure Recently
Passed by Congress.
Harner's Weekly.

A measure OF great Importance to bust
ness men and lawyers-aDd, indeed, to the
whole community-is the bill which was
signed by the president on February 5, and
by which the bankruptcy law of 1898 was
materially amended. We observe, in the
hrst place, that by the new Law preferred
creditors Of a person who soon afterwards
becomes a bankrupt are not debarred from
having other claims passed upon by a fail
ure TO surrender the amount received. In
pursuance Of q decision OF the United
States supreme court. a preferred creditor
may now retain the amount paid. provided,
Of course, the payment was not fraudulent,
while at the same time. as regards debts
unpaid, he will share the rights OF other
creditors. Another important amendment
provides that the appointment of a re-
ceiver for an insolvent corporation shall
be deemed an act OF bankruptcy, emitting
the creditors 10 choose their own trustee.
Among the objections 10 a discharge which
are included in the new law is the giving
Of a false mercantile statement, or the
proof that a voluntary bankrupt has sought
TO go through bankruptcy more than once
IN six years. The bill Just enacted also
adds to the list Of debts from which a
bankrupt cannot be relieved by a discharge
IN D~dhhiuPNtys AulouB luts0 duultloub are
debts to wife and children. and alimony;
also any sum due under a judicial decision
20 a seduced woman or for the support OF
an illegitimate child. We note. finally, that
the liGt Of corporations permitted TO &c
into voluntary bankruptcy will hereafter
include mining corporations, and that the
fees of referees and trustees are to be in
creased on an average by about 80 per cent
| Of the fees hitherto allowed By Law.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27

Spite legislation to crafty revenges
and avenge fancied or real grievances
has seldom proved a paying investment
and this applies especially to charter
making and municipal reform legisla-
ton. Charters framed to promote fac
tional interests at the expense of the
whole community rarely fail to prove
disastrous to the men whom they are
designed to benefit and quite often
prove advantageous to the men whom
they were intended to injure.
Raising the salaries Of positions tenn
porarily occupied by political cronies
and favorites and lowering the salaries
Of offices temporarily filed by offensive
part,sans does not strike the impartial
citizen very favorably. Nor does the
transfer and distribution of appoint
ments and employments from the legiti-
mate and responsible head of govern
ment to the ward representatives
promise any betterment in the public
service. On the contrary, it simply
means rings within rings and a give
and-take system of spoils under preteXt
Of smashing the machine.
The king is dead-long live the king.
When the old machine is in the scrap
heap, the new machine is lubricating its
running gear. The change of machines
does not necessarily mean the purifca-
ton of the government. 1t simply
means that a new lot of pie-biters have
wedged their way into the places occu.
pied by the old pie-biters.
If the Omaha delegation in the legis.
lature ear turn its back on the city hall
for just a few MINUTES and turn it's face
to the court house. it might perceive a
few cracks In the wall that need patch.
ing. For example, they might see that
wide crack that allows all the interest
en- county funds to leak out into the
unknown and u~nknowable, while the
city funds in bank repositories are
drawing 2 per cent interest.
If the delegation were disposed tc
look a little further it might discover
the crack through which about $4,000
a year is lost by the looseness of the
law that permits the county commits.
sioners to pay 45 cents a day for feed
ing prisoners in the county Jail, while
prisoners in the city jail receiving the
same kind of rations are fed for II
cents per day.
If the delegation would look still
further it might also discover Other
cracks Id the court house by which
salariedS officers manage to ladle out
comfortable incomes on the side be
cause TIE law does not specifically re
Quire t4,m to account for interest or
funds for which they are trustees.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
Passing of the story TeIIers.

Atlanta Constitution.
Two Of the best story-tellers in the SEN
ate will return to private life with the
passing of this congress. George Graham
Vest of Missouri whose wit and stories
have enlivened the cloak rooms for the
last twenty years, will end his public ca
reer, and at the same time John P. Jones
Of Nevada will retire. While Senator Vest
was brilliant on the floor, he was witttest
In the smoking room. When surrounded
by a group of apprecistive listeners, he
would tell stories and make jests by the
hour. enator Jones also has not kept his
fun under a bushel. He is extremely Sc
rlous and profound in debate, but In a
free-and-easy discussion in the cloakroom
his quaint humor is second to that OF no
member Of the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
AS To COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.


A bill has been introduced in the legis-
lature Of Pennsylvania providing for
compulsory arbitration in controversies
between labor and capital. 1t is not at
all probable that the Measure will pass,
but it is interesting as renewing inter-
est in the question Of arbitration be-
tween capital and labor, which we need
hardly say is one of the very greatest
Importance. We think that every in
telligent man who has given any atten-
ton to this overshadoXing question
must have reached the conclusion that
in order to preserve industrial. peace it
is absolutely essential that away shall
be found to submit disputes. between
capital and labor to arbitration.
The difficulty is to devise a practicable
plan-one that will be satisfactory to
all concerned. Neither labor nor capital
in this country is favorable to a com
pulsory system. Whenever it has been
seriously proposed 1t has been met with
an overwhelming opposition. The Civic
Federation. organized to promote in
dustrial peace, is on record in opposi-
ton 70 the idea of compulsory arbitra-
ton. The leaders of organized labor,
without exception. are opposed to that
policy. 1t has advocates, who strenu,
ously urge that in no other way is II
iposslble to maintain Industrial peace,
but these are so greatly in the minority
that despite the ability with which
they argue their cause they exert very
little influence upon public sentiment
and so far rs organized labor is con.
cerned seem TO make no impression
whatever.
Yet it must be admitted that there Is
no subject today before the American
people of greater interest or moment
than that relating to the future con
ditions between capital and labor. Ir
comparison with this all our foreign
relations and everything respecting oul
insular possessions is of minor conse
qurnce. The Industrial and Commercial
progress of the country. our financial
welfare and the well-beiag Of on
people as a whole, all depend upol
such relations between capital and laboI
as will insure industrial peace and keel
in constant operation and activity tn,
agencies that are necessary to industrial
progress and prosperity.
Every discussion of this very impor
tant question must have a tendency t
bring about the solution of one of tn,
most lgrplexlng problems connecte,
with hodern industrial conditions
There seems now to be no possibilit,
that we shall aever have compulsor.
arbitration in this. country. but there /
reason to think that hereafter bot
capital and labor will be better IN
clined than in the past to submit theI
differences to arbitration.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27

not entitled to the entire credit for that
legislation. According to senator Vest,
Hon. George +. Edmunds had more to
Ito with the framing Of the existing law
than anybody else, he bNng at that
time the chairman Of the judiciary com.
mittee, Of which M. Vest was a mem
Der. 1t is perhaps not a matter of very
great importance and yet it is well to
have the credit for this valuable legis-
lation placed where it properly belongs.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27

The Interstate Commerce commission
has figured out that the market value
OF the railway securities issued against
all the railroads in the United States
aggregate $S.351, lOS,523. 1t would he
interesting to know how much the rail
roads pay in taxes on this immense cap
italization and how much more they
would have to pay II all the railroad
property were taxed on the same basis
and at the same rate as other property.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27

Comptroller Westberg, who has never
been very backward in coming forward,
declared himself heartily in favor of
municipal ownership of water works
at the Prospect Hill improvement club
meeting, but advises caution in the pur-
chase of some of the other f~ranchised
corporations until they have reached a
stage of progress such as hat attained
by the water works plant. What the
explosive comptroller means by his COM
parative state of progress nobody
but a mind reader can divine. How big
must a franchised corporation be be-
fore the city would be justified in buy
ing it out or building a plant Of its
own, If it cannot be bought out at a
reasonable price? Take for example
the Electric Lighting company, which
now supplies light and power for
Omaha without a legal franchise. Why
should not the city either acquire DOS
session of its plant by purchase or
build a plant of it's own which viii sup
ply cheaper power and cheaper light to
the city and to private consumers?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27

In a letter TO the Washington Post
Senator Vest explains the authorship OF
the anti trust act in 1890, known as the
Sherman law. Simply as a contribu-
tlon to history his statement is valuable.
reported an antitrust bill from the SEN
ate finance committee that measure was
afterwsrd wholly changed, having met
with strong opposition in the senate, 30
that as = matter OF fact Sherman is
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27

Acting on the suggestion of The Bee,
Senator Hall has introduced a bill de-
signed to shut down on the shameless
trading Of school board patronage by
which the payrolls of the schools have
been loaded down with sisters, cousins
and aunts Of board members and pull
rather than merit made the passport to
appointment and promotion. Nothing
has done so much to demoralize the
teaching force Of our public schools and
TO retard their progress as the fragrant
nepOtism practiced by school boards in
the past. There should not be a single
vote recorded against Senator Halls
bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-27
THE DARK BEFORE DAWN.
EdIth N. Thomas In scrIbner'

Edith M. Thomas in Scribner's.
oh, mystery of the morning gloam,
of haunted. air, of MINDLESS hush!
Oh, wonder of the deepening dome
Afar, still Ear, the mornings fushI
My spirit hears, among the spheres,
The round earth's ever-quickening rushI
A single leaf, on yonder tree,
The planets rush hath felt, hath heard;
And soon. all branches whispering bel
That whisper wakes the nestled bird
The sons Of thrush, before the blush
stirred!
The old moon withers in the East
The winds of space may hive her farl
In heavens chancel waits the priest -.
Dawn's pontifr-priest, the morning star!
And wonder, 10! a shafted glow.
The gates of Day-spring fall ajart