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Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
pIMINIsHINe ruRLIo DoMAIN.
Last Years Record of Homestead
Taken the Greatest I'm History.
Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal.
As the public domain grows less the rate
Of reduction rapidly increases. During the
last fiscal year 1850, 900 acres passed from
public to private ownership. OF this amount
about 14,OO0, 900 acres were taken by original
homestead entries. to the number of 9S,s9.
Never before in the history OF the country
were 50 many homesteads taken. Although
the public domain OF Canada is only just
beginning to be distributed there were
nearly I'VE times az many homestead en-
tries in the United States as in Canada.
Under the stone and timber act, which will
probably be repealed by the next congress
$4,000 acres were taken. while under the
desert and act 900, 600 acres were bought
from the government. other large items in
the totals are 1881 of state selections
and 1881 .9o4 OF railway selections. The total
area Of the un~appropriated and unreserved
public domain Is sos, e55, 476 acres, Of which
36s,000,0O0 acres is In Alaska, leaving about
bf5, 000,0 900 acres in the states and territories.
Most OF this IL mountainous and more or
less arid, but there is no telling what flu
ture developments may add to it's value,
and that a large part OF It has a present
value is shown by the rush to get some of
II. In Minnesota there are still 1850, 900
acres OF unreserved and inappropriate
land. though It is going very fast, more
than 100000 acres having been taken last
year. The total reservations Of the public
lands amount to 151 900. 900 acres.
A very considerable area Of government
and outside OF the forest reserves is row.
cred by forests and about 10000, 900 acres
more will eventually be rendered valuable
by means OF irrigation. TO say nothing Of
the land that will be made tillsble by the
advance in knowledge concerning crops
adapted to arid and semi-arid regions.
Uncle Sam has plenty of land left to take
care Of. Because the best part Of the pub
lie domain has been taken is no reason
why diligence should not be exercised in
seeing that the rest Of It gets where It
will do the most good.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
LIFE INSURANCE.
Astounding Figures that Are DIM
cult of Comprehension.

NeW IOIh gun.
The summary OF the report OF the life
insurance companies doing business in this
state as given out for publication by the
state insurance department recently is al
most startling. All the large life Insurance
companies in the country conduct opera
tons here. and the statement as issued
covers, therefore, practically the life in
surance business of the United States.
The gross assets Of these life insurance
companies reached at the close of the year
the enormous igure OF S2,062, $50, SO4. an in
crease during the year of 1882. SOC. $40. Their
gross income was ASs. 736. ga, an increase Of
$50, s00,S 02. The disbursements for the year
were $3l2,s 31. SIS, an increase OF SIS, $50. $40.
compared with the preceding year, most of
the disbursements, OF course, representing
the sums OF money paid for insurance
claims. Four hundred and ninety-hye
thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine
policies, standing for increased insurance
OF 1851, $40, 647, were issued during the year.
These figures are astonishing. and there
are few people who can fully comprehend
what they mean. They are a monument 10
the wealth. power and saving instincts OF
our people and to the popularity OF life in
surance as a method Of Investment. There
is this thought, too. that inevitably occurs
IN connection win the matter: Much the
larger share OF the increase in assets OF
these great corporations is in personal
property. rather than real estate; that f.
II is in money. AS these life Insurance
companies accumulate cash to this vast ex.
tent they must invest It. and there is an
nually. therefore, an investment demand
for securities proceeding from the life in
surance corporations which is conserva.
lively estimated at not less than $50. 900. 600
focused very largely. OF course, upon the
local market in Wall street. Taking this
as a basis and adding 20 It the demand for
securities By fire insurance companies
trustees. executors, TO say nothing OF thai
OF private investors. we get some idea OF
what Wall street calls the country's power
OF financial absorption.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
%Democratic Milne.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mere r~eiteration of policies twice rejected
by the nation, or mere Reputation Of them,
would not constitute vital platform. The
attitude of the democracy toward the
tariff, the trusts and the expansion policies
is one of simple %negation. There is no
positive constructive policy to attract the
voters. The outlook at this date is that
no matter who is nominated the platform
will be largely made up of viewings with
alarm. inspired by the planks in the re-
publican declaration. The national cam
paign Of the democracy bids fair to be a
reflex of the democratic campaign in con-
gress, a strangely incoherent and incon-
sistent tumble of -antagonisms without
leadership and politics without a policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
MACHINE MADE IN MONTANA
COntriVanee Intended TO SLOW Up
the Atlantic Liner
Umbria.

BUTTE. Mont, May n-The man who
placed the Internal machine In the hold Of
the steamship Umbria while II lay at tho
Cunard pier in New York May :. was in
Butte a month 81
The New York police communicated TO
Chief OF Police Reynolds Of Butte shortly
after the attempt to wreck Umbria
certain peculiarities in the dry battery Of
the machine. The local police found that
il had been built by thu Montana Electro
cal company OF Butte. and that the man
answering the description OF Rousseau. the
suspect. purchased It at that store one
month ago He was unknown here and
has not been seen since. A detective from
New York is here workiRE on The case
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
CURLING MONOPOLY.
President R~oOsevelt's Victories over
Consolidated Capital.
San Franciaco Chronicle.

ASNOEAC ONSA
Consolidated Capital.
San Francisco Chronicle.
1t IL useless to deny that during his brief
term of ONCE President Roosevelt has lone
more than has been accomplished since
monopoly became dangerous TO bring con-
solidated capital into subsection to the law.
1t is not difficult in response to popular de-
mand to get them enforced against the OPP
position OF powerful moneyed interests.
President Roosevelt already has to his
credit the tombstones Of the salt trust, the
shingle trust, the beef trust, and now, with
little doubt. hat of the Great Northern
Securities company. These are the first
distinct victories over capital ever achieved
in this country In the interest Of the public,
and they have been achieved, not in ami
mostly to capital, not in a revolutionary
spirit, not with the intent or desire to pre-
vent the free employment of capital in
whatever amounts for useful purposes, but
solely with the object of forestalling any
possibility of oppression and solely by the
enforcement of existing law. The laws
under which these victories have been won
have been on the statute books for years.
The one important thing accomplished be-
fore 1902. under the law. was the estab-
Sinner of the illegality of pooling by COM
peting railroads. That did little good, for
equivalent devices were substituted. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has attacked these and has
| won. For his success he is doubtless in
great measure indebted to the great
breadth and depth OF the legal knowledge
Of Attorney General Knox and his faithful
and vigorous service. but the personality
and strenuous character of the president
are back of 1t all. He is not only enforcing
existing law, but has procured additional
legislation which will enable him to &C
complish more. He has just begun the
work. 1t is safe to predict that before he
ceases to be president he will have
denitely established the status of the great
corporations on a basis which will permit
and encourage the employment of capital
in all legitimate way but will make COR
porate oppression an impossibility. And
that is the advantage Of a vigorous presl-
dent. ...
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Repentance without Restitution.

st Louis Globe Democrat.
Witnesses who come out of the grand
Jury room with streaming eyes and other
signs OF emotional distress are naturally
supposed to feel the pangs of an aroused
conscience as we'll as to have yielded to
a desire to turn a new leaf. But. as far
as heard from, there has been no offer
TO deliver up the Doodle admitted and
specified in the case. While confession Is
good, confession and restitution would be
much better. The money could be used
to good advantage in the school fund,
where it now legally belongs. The tears
of quickened sensibilities might flow
more freely II the money is returned, yet
weeping at all, while the Doodle is re-
tanned, would seem to be illogical rather
than pathetic Repentance plated with
Doodle is not a satisfactory article.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Nothing emphasizes the delicate struc-
ture OF our industrial mechanism so
forcibly as the furry in stocks caused
by the submission Of Mr.. Hartman to
an operation ordinarily without serious
danger. The health OF one man who
stands as the pivot on which so many
great enterprises turn is a vital factor
in the stock market, apparently more 50
even than changes in the responsible
executive offices Of the government. In
no country in the world is the power OF
a private citizen so unlimited as here
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
ANo7HER srArrHooD FloRT.

It is promised that there will be an
early renewal in the next congress of
the fight for the admission of the terri
tories to statehood and it is said that
already the advocates Of their admis-
sion are planning for the contest. Ac-
cording to a Washington report Senator
Beveridge and those who stood with
him in the long fight last winter are
willing to vote for the admission of Ok
lahoma without the Indian Territory,
but there is no disposition to reconsider
the position taken as to New Mexico
and Arizona. The opposition to them,
it is stated, stands just where it was
during the session.
The delegate from New Mexico, Mr..
Rodney, is quoted in Washington dis
patches as confidently predicting the adj
mission Of that territory at the next
session of congress, but indicated that II
may be necessary to form a combina.
ton with Arizona by which the two ter.
ritories would come in as one state. II
is somewhat doubtful, however, whether
such a combination can be made. We
think it not improbable that all of these
territories will be given statehood by
the Fifty-eighth congress, but 1t is moi
at all likely that this will be done al
the first session.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

President Roosevelt has been con-
graduating the people on the fact that
our government has so far escaped 1.-THE
twin dangers Of government by a plu-
tocracy and government by a mob
either OF them absolutely alien to Amer
lean ideals" The people are confident
also that so long as they have a man
as co~urageously devoted to the basic
principles of popular government as
President Roosevelt in executive office.
the government will continue to escape
these dangers.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
HAIL TO THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.

Hail! Hail! to the Blue and the Gray
The Blue Of the garb and Gray Of ths
hair.
Soldiers of freedom. now far on life's way,
Once more do we greet you with song and
with prayer.
We sing of the scenes that called you forth,
When your young hearts thrilled TO the
hot tide OF war
OF deeds that set high YOU soldierly
worth
In quiet OF camp and in battles wild roar:
OF comrades who fell in terrible fray,
Where bullets and shells Missed thick in
OF others who sleep in the homeland to-
Mid the verdurs and bloom OF tenderest
care.
And your prayer Is ours. as one it is
spoken,
That peace be the aim, but with power to
To project what you saved, and keep it
A nation whose nag is the symbol OF
Ugh
Hani Halt to the Blue and the Gray.
Omaha. BERIAH F. COCHRAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Pretenre and Performance
philadelphia Record.

N" AMIHUUIpHId FNCCOTU.
William A. Stone in the ONCE of governor
would have frankly signed the salus-Grady
muzzler without any explanatory phrases
within twenty-four hours after fits passage.
Governor ~Pennypacker. on the other hand,
has been nosing around the mueller for
nearly a month, like a cat at a kettle OF
hot broth. Yet he was ready to sign the
bill before II was passed. He has init
mated as much In his message of approval
notwithstanding thissGhe invited the news
paper men to a public hearing on the meas
ure when he and his attorney general sal
in solemn state to listen to arguments tc
which he had resolved to give no heed.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

The adverse decision of the court in
the injunction case to prevent HascalI
& Co. from perpetuating themselves in
the council by carving out new wards
for themselves is based on the declara-
ton that that is just what the law
makers intended when they passed the
charter amendment. This puts IL M
again to the Douglas delegation to the
legislature, who. for pulling corporation
chestnuts but Of the IRE. had no equal
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
"PAssING OF THE ROCKIES.
A G~eOgrapher of Some Fame Sights
the Nations Backbone.

Washington Star.
Mr.. Cope Whitehouse, a geographer and
explorer of some fame. declares that the
popular conception OF the Rocky mountains
is an error. that there is, in fact. no con-
tinuous chain of mountains extending from
the northern to the southern boundaries OF
the United States, no great continental al
vide such as is generally depicted on the
maps OF North America. He does not deny
that there is a region west OF the Missis-
sippi marked by general mountainous con-
ditions, but he refutes the supposition that
these conditions form a continuous noun
tain chain. Tn future maps of the west
ern half OF the United States. he says, will
be. materially different from those now used
in the schools as the basis for the geo
graphical knowledge of the children.
THE passing OF the Rockies as pre-
dicted by MT. whitehouse as a result of his
explorations. will be generally regretted.
1t is dificult to part with an old concept,
whether II be OF a moral or a physical fact.
The present generation will be slow in ac-
cepting the new idea OF a Rocky-less west.
Many persons will prove obdurate adher-
ents OF the old view that there IL in fact a
continuous chain OF mountains. Some win
marvel that In these days OF minute ex-
ploration of the western country by home
seekers and the developers Of mineral re-
sources the maps should have been 30 slow
Of change, But II IL be a fact that the
maps are wrong. and that the Rockies dc
not exist as the popular conception runs
then Of course there Is nothing to do but
to change the face OF the country as IL IL
borne in the public minds eye. Let the
Rockies pass II they truly do not exist
Nothing can change the records OF hardy
-g-u..HF,. tho country uVhfah
whether 30 shown on the maps or not. Il
nevertheless rough and dincult and rocky
and mountainous. The history OF the open.
ing of that great region by a toll which II
one OF the marvels Of human enterprise vii
L remain
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

While the merchants and manufactur-
ers of Omaha have been tusseling with
the %unionized workingmen the railroads
managed to get away with the loot in
the assessment Of railroad property,
which makes the merchant manufac-
turer and homecoming wage worker
carry the tax burdens the railroads are
eyading.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

The use of oil on the roadbeds of
American railways is said to be growing
rapidly in favor as a result OF success
full experimental trials. oil has not yet,
however. displaced the use OF water in
the floating OF American railway stocks.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

President Euclid Martin does not
want to arbitrate nor abdicate, and
neither does Chairman Guye. 1t is al
ways dificult to pry a man loose from
a title, even If it is as empty as an egg
shell.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
An Example to mink About.
New York Tribune,

new IOTk ITlDune.
When the Merry Monarch, Charles II Of
England, the ruler of whom It was re-
ported that he never said a foolish thing
and mover did a wise one. was lingering
in his last illness. with exquisite courtesy
he begged his courtiers to excuse him for
taking so long a time in dying. Colonel
Bryan should mediate over this example.
Fatally stricken in politics. he delays the
signing of his last political will and tesla
ment for an Internationally long period.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
RetaIiating on the Musuleru.

" IIIHuCIpHId TTCoBs
One of our contemporaries suggests that
the newspapers now stop making politicians
by ceasing to mention them or give any
account of what they are doing. just as
likely as not the legislature would TAX
notice of that in course Of time, The poll
ticians wouldn't amount to much without
the newspapers.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Tear-staIned Missouri.
Philadelphia Press.

A witness before the grand jury IN
the Missouri Doodle cases shed a great
many tears while t~estifying to the brib-
cry of members Of the legislature. This
flow OF grief came rather late In the
enterprise-in fact It was so late that the
statute of limitations protects those against
whom he was testifying and for whom he
was 30 copiously weeping. q
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

The British and German electrical
companies may enter into a noncom-
petitiye agreement with division of ter
rtory, as indicated in the cable dis
patches, but they win reckon without
their host II they leave the American
electrical companies out Of account.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Buffalo Express.

Buffalo EXPRESS.
There is talk in Washington OF r~eviving
the grade of vice admiral of the navy.
The argument is made that officers of that
rank are needed to command certain of
the foreign stations. Perhaps q reason may
also be found in the fact that certain rear
admirals would very much like to be pro-
NOTED.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

II Tammany prevails upon Circuit At.
torney Folk of st. Louis to deliver the
principal address at its annual hide
pendence day blowout, the Tammany
braves may have to listen to something
from the great boodler prosecutor they
do not want to hear.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
nu.rin,. TraditionaI PoIiey.
Philadelphia Record.

ITTTUWNTVEIHW NFNNW|-
Russia suppresses news as Tar as It can
and then announces that the Firms need no
assistance, the Jews need no succor. the
Poles are happy. II has not yet forgotten
its traditional policy OF creating a desert
and calling It peace"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Applying base BaII RuIes.

Chicago Chronicle.
Let us subject Industrial differences to
base ball rules. Three strikes and out
would quickly clarity the situation.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Ex-Cashier Tulloch is making lots of
noise and attracting much attention
with his charges of postofice corrup-
ton, but he has not yet made 1t clear
why he should have waited all this time
before telling what he knows.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

In view Of conditions existing in
South Omaha. the suggestion has been
made that this is a good time for the
street railway company to inaugurate
an owl car service.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

While we are passing resolutions Of
sympathy for the victims of the anti
Jewish riots in Bessarabia a postscript
might be added for the triple lynching
Just reported from Florida.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Now that the national convention OF
musicians has served formal notice that
the music at the st. Louis Worlds fair
must bear the union label, the officers
OF that exposition may as well prepare
to pay the fiddler or face the music.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

1t is well to remember that the worst
prosecutions and the bloodiest massa-
ores recorded in history nave grown out
Of religious intolerance. And it seems
that such will be the case to the end Of
time.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Cuba has celebrated Its first birthday
anniversary as a republic with becoming
ceremonies. Cuba is a lusty infant in
the family Of nations.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Every one hereabouts awaits eagerly
the terms of the settlement of the Union
Pacific lockout to make sure that it is
really at an end.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
saItins the salt Trpst

Baltimore American.
The Salt trust was fined $1,000. II justice
could have salted away a few of the mem
bers of the combination in temporary re-
tirement 1t would have given much more
seasoning to the antitrust prosecution.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Lincoln has just been the scene of a
student riot, with more people suffering
broken heads hpd bruises thar were
injured IN the whole period Of the
Omaha strike. But no demand for the
declaration OF martial law or the sum-
moning OF the state militia has been
orado
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Mr.. Bryan's Omaha understudy. who
is trying to construct the next demo
cratic national platform, reminds us of
the blacksmith trying to repair a watch.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Chicago Inter Ocean.
The man who is compelled to turn his
collar should not be denied the right Of
injunction. and he probably would not be II
he took the proper steps to obtain redress.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

An unsophisticated patron Of The Bee
wants TO know who has gained any
thing in the Omaha labor trouble. Why,
the railroad corporations. Of ourse
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

The union teamsters have done the
wise thing in withdrawing the boycott
and striking out for competition.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
LIGHT n vEL

positionT'
HE put on q Prince Albert coat and silk
hat and bluffed the old man into giving him
$50 a week. Record Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
aTATEMENr OF cIRCUIAT1oN.

state 81 Nebraska, Douglas County. S.:
0eorge B. TEschuck secretary Of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
say that the actual number OF 1uI ano
Evening and Sunday. Bee printed during the
month Of ADrii, 1903, was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

why don't you go to work." asked the
stony-hearted stranger.
Mister" reJoined Meandering Mike,
sadly, don't you call maxim up all desc
hard luck stories work2"-Washington
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

IT notice some of the insurance com
panies call themselves assurance societies.
Is there any difference between Insurance.
and ~'assurance?'"
Usually assurance is what the fellow has
who Is forever trying to sell you insur-
ance."-Philadelphia Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

has q pretty good, opinion Of him
We'll. rather. why, he even holds that
his crankinesg Is one OF the eccentricities
OF genius. "-Chicago Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Norman e. Mack's proposition to sub
stitute the laws Of supply and demand
for IS to 1, without the aid or consent
of any nation on earth, in the next
democratic national platform indicates
a return to horse sense. The attempt
of the Bryanites to suspend the laws Of
supply and demand has been almost as
much Of a failure as the attempt to
discredit the laws OF gravitatlon in the
times when Calico cried out in his
prison cell: And still she moves"
The only instance on record when the
law of gravitation was presumed to have
been suspended is when Joshua made
the sun stand still in order that he might
smite the Phillistines.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

The house had been full of aunties come
to spend the holidays, and the baby's g.
year-old brother Was heard one morning
confiding his woe to his father.
Say, papa, do you know I've had 10
sleep a whole week In a room Just full OF
womenT'-Lippincott's Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

Romeo killed himself on Juliet's tomb.
Yes" they explained. The thought she
had, taken a cup OF railroad coffee"
Sadly they went for Shakel care to write
up the obituary.-New York Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

As the young woman rose TO leave the car
I stopped with a Jerk. and she stepped
heavily on the toes of the man who had
been sitting beside her.
Il beg your pardon. sir" she said.
ghastly smile on his ~anguished face.
i didn't seel it.'-chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

In the west7
Second Actor-Long runP I should say
he did. First IL was the cowboys. then the
sheriff .-PhiladeIphia Ledger oF4N