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Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
MY SHIP FROM SPAIN.

II. G. Leslie in Youths Companion.
Oh. Captain. on whose wrinkled cheeks,
Are marks OF storm and beating gale,
Somewhere, a glimpse OF stranger SAIL
Perchance when evening shadows fell,
And misty clouds presaged the night,
Uplifted, on some crested wave,
Then slipping slowly from the sight2
My ship should have a sheen of gold.
And silken sails like bridal train,
And bear a perfume, family sweet,
OF roses on the hills of Spain.
Youth promised me long years ago
And bear Its lade Of wealth and fame,
From distant lands beyond the sea.
1t has not come. 1 know not why,
1t may have sought this port In vain,
n in some unknown haTbor lie,
And idly fret its rusting chain.
Meanwhile, I've beat the anvil's face,
And felt the heated furnace blast,
M wealth of Drawn and honest toll
Into LIES circling currents cast.
rye climbed the headland morn and eve.
To scan the dark horizon line
To catch a glimpse far, far at sea
OF this boiated ship Of mine.
Full three-score years nave fed away,
And still / patient watch and wait;
My whitening hair and feeble steps
Suggest that 1t may come too late.
For what is wealth to him who dies,
Or honor In the hour of pain2
The Lethe for the III of years
Was never borne by ships from Spain,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
FELLOWSHIP f8 CALAMITY.
~
A Touch OF Disasters starts the
Fountain of Generosity.
SO. Louis Globe Demoorat

st. Louis Globe Democrat
1t Is remarkable that in floods and many
other forms of public calamity there is
no insurance and that sufferers must face
their losses unaided. AS far as the United
States is concerned, an important reserv-
alton must go will the statement. Il case
of a catastrophe public sympathy here in
stantly takes the form OF material aid.
The national government and state govern
ments act with promptness, Al Ameri-
cans combine to lend a hand when disaster
descends upon a community. In some
state capitals tents and other relief material
are kept on hand for emergencies. Bush
ness organizations are always among the
first to act. Relief funds, or the sub
stantial assurance of them, are t~elegraphed
at a moments notice. All who are within
reach of the scene of calamity exert them
selves to relieve the most urgent distress,
and strong committees take up the supple
mentary work, which is of high i'm
portance and must continue long.
This system has grown up of itself. II
is in the character Of the American peo-
pie. In a country as broad and populous
as this there must be destructive storms
foods. CONGREGATIONS and other phases
Of widespread loss and suffering. But
there is also the ready land OF sympathy
and effective assistance. Those who must
start anew find that the easiest practi.
cable terms are offered them. The giverr
Of today may be the next to call for succor
but aside from this consideration Ameri.
cans are always generous and thoughtful
when the cry Of calmity is heard. One OF
the reasons why immigrants are comins
to the United States at the rate of a million
a year is that a broad humanity, as wei
as free government, prevails within ouI
boundaries.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
POLITICAL DRIFT.

Senator Fairbanks boom has taken a
seat In the Roosevelt band wagon.
Colonel watterson thinks he has killed
the Cleveland boom. Colonel Bryan also
claims that distinction. When the large
bores claim the center OF the stage II i'll
becomes the popguns to squabble in the
wings.
Bourke Cockran's prophecy that Cleve-
land could be elected in 1904 is received with
rude laughter in democratic circles. With
the exception of 1896 Mr.. Cockran's prophe-
cies have been sadly at variance with the
returns.
Just for fun" the voters of Amesville,
o., last spring elected a town loafer to the
office of mayor, expecting that the gov
ernor would depose him. But the governor
refuses to interfere, leaving the town to
enjoy the fun to the limit.
II is the opinion of the supreme court
OF the United States that when a munici-
pality wishes telegraph wires put under
ground II is far better to order their burial
by direct legislation than to coax the fu-
neral by an exorbitant tax on poles.
There are $1,000 negro voters In New York.
1900 in New Jersey, 5000 in Rhode Island.
5000 in Delaware. 1000 in Maryland. 10. 900
in West Virginia, 1900 in Indiana and
1900 in Kansas. On the basis of the ma
~jorities in the elections of 1902. the transfer
Of this vote would have resulted in d dem
ocratic Victory in all OF these states.
Victor Murdoch, not long ago a reporter
and lately managing editor of the Wichita
Eagle, covered his assignment in fine style
when he ran for congress the other day
to III a vacancy He carried every precinct
in his district and beat the other fellow
two to one. Murdoch sports the loudest
cardinal-tinted hair in the bleeding com
monwealth.
The states In which from present indica-
tons there will be rival delegations TO the
next national republican convention divided
by the color line are Alabama, North Caro-
lima, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. The
colored vote of the last state is not for
midable, but there are two republican fac
lions in Arkansas and they ran rival uck'
cts at the last election.
Baltimore election district captains are
known as executives, and at the recent
municipal election the sum OF $40 an cleo
ton district was appordoned by the re-
publicans among election day workers
there being 3Os voting precincts in Balti-
more. In the city Of New York the average
contribution Of the republican organization
is $50 a district sometimes considerably
Less
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

that one cannot legally do indirectly
that which cannot be legally done di-
rectly. This principle was confirmed by
the state supreme court when 1t pro-
nounced unconstitutional the act con-
ferring upon three salaried deputies to
state executive officers the powers
vested in the State Board of Transporta-
ton. The same principle was again re-
affirmed by the court when 1t declared
unconstitutional the act creating the
office Of state insurance commissioner.
In the face Of these decisions, how
ever, the legislatures of 1901 and 1908
have, under high pressure from various
interests and interested parties, created
a number of new state supernumeraries
that are to be maintained either by fees
or by direct salaries. The last of these
state officers extraordinary is the state
architect at a salary of $4,000 a year.
While this may not be e~xtravagant for
a really competent architect, the ques-
ton that presents itself is whether we
have a constitution and whether the
legislature, the governor, the auditor
and the treasurer are bound to obey 1t,
or whether they can stretch the consti-
tuition like a rubber band to suit the
emergency.
Is It not about time to call a halt upon
this fragrant disregard Of the plain letter
of the constitution? II we can with
impunity create these new offices in
spite Of the prohibition of the constitu-
ton why can we not with equal i'm
punity raise the salaries of all state
officers above the constitutional limit?
If the legislature and the state officers
are at liberty to violate the constitution
why should the ordinary citizen be re-
quired to obey the laws or constitution?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
standard OIL Precepts.
Minneapolis Times,

NIIIIIedVUIIB IIWCH,
In the precepts offered to his Bible class.
Mr.. Rockefeller seems able to harmonize
the spiritual and the real. the theory and
the fact. in a manner truly wonderful. For
instance, he says: 1T is always a good
thing to be contented, b|t mingled with
this content there should always be alert
desire TO better yourself both worldly and
spiritually" This Is good advice and ad-
mirably carried out by Mr.. Rockefeller in
example as well as precept. but the next
sentence is not 50 easy to adapt either to
circumstances or the concrete doctrine OF
the teacher. Listen: do not better your
self at the cost of another" Observance OF
the golden rule and the possession OF great
riches hitch with as little grace today as
they did in the days when the golden rule
was formulated
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
HAVE WE A CONSTITUTION,

In order to prevent the multiplication
Of state offices, the trainers of the con-
stitution Of Nebraska limited the num-
Der Of state offices to be created by the
legislature, or any other coordinate
branch of government, to the number
expressly named in the organic law.
The language of the constitution is ex-
picit on this point as follows:
No other executive state Office shall be
continued or created and the duties devoiv-
ing upon officers not provided for by this
constitution shall be performed by the ON
GERS herein created,
In the face OF this specific prohibition
a batch OF state offices has been created
by succeeding legislatures and officers
placed upon the state pay rolls under
various titles and placed upon the state
pay rolls as deputies 20 the governor
and deputies to other executive officers.
II Ia q well established principle OF law
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
our PACIFIC b
Covering the Last Stretch Between
Manila and the Mainland.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
The first section OF the American cable
across the Pacific. from San Francisco
to Honolulu, was laid in the last two
weeks in December, 1902. covering a dis
lance of 2.276 miles.
The second section of the cable, from
Honolulu to Guam, was to be laid i'm
mediately. but no report has been made
OF the progress OF the work, The dis
lance from Honolulu to Guam is 3,S5O
miles. and more tins was to be given to
the laying OF this section OF the cable
than to any other.
Meantime the third section OF the cable,
from Manila to Guam. has been laid, and at
midnight on the first day of tune a mes
sage was sent from Guam to Manila. The
distance covered by this section is about
100 miles, and the whole cable was laid
in one weeks time.
As soon as communication is established
between Honolulu and Guam the United
States will have an American cable line
across the Pacific, the direct cabl ex-
tending from San Francisco to Manila,
connecting there with lines to Japan. China
and India, and with the American tele-
graph lines extending 20 every commercial
town in the Philippine islands.
While the American company has beer
laying the cable from San Francisco tc
Guam. the British company has completed
a cable from Vancouver. by way OF Fan.
ming island. Fill islands and New Zealand
to Australia. This gives Great Britain
wire connection with her Pacific colonies
by way Of Canada and the Pacific ocean
as we'll as cable connection with them by
way OF the Indian ocean,
In a few months Washington will be II
direct communication not only with tho
larger towns I'm Hawaii and the Philippines
but with the mining centers I'm Alaska. A
great deal of work has been done by thu
army engineer and telegraph corps which
will become OF special value with the com
| pletion Of the PaGne cable
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

The supreme court of the state of Ne
braska has again gravely decided that
the playing Of base ball on the first day
Of the week, commonly known as Sun
day, is prohibited by the statutes and
is a misdemeanor punishable by fine
and Imprisonment. There is no manda-
tory injunction attached, however, that
will require a revision of the base ball
schedule for this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
PASSING PLEAsANTRIEs.

Why is Scotch whisky so called. pro-
fessor?" P0
why? Because It's the liquor that gave
8 name to the Scotch people, Cleveland
speaking about stage rights" said the
man at the ballet show, there's one now"
-Somerville Journal.
Brtnkin's." u
II meyer observed any special accomplish
ments."
1T has wisdom beyond its years. When
Brtnkin asked II to recite for the ladies'
and gentlemen, II backed UP into a corner
and refused TO say a word."-Washington
Star.
What was the trouble ?"
II couldn't SWIM
VIVA has that to do with his failure ~
he got into a company where the stock
was all water. '-Chicago Post.
prietor of the store to the department man
aver, seems to be a mighty hard worker"
Yes" replied the latter. that is his
What, working?"
mo, seeming to.'-Syracuse Herald.
First Lawyer-well, I've just made a for
tune.
Second Lawyer-whose was it?-Brooklyn
Life.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

Let everyone who is so disposed con-
tribute OF his w free will to the relief
funds for the flood sufferers. But no
forced e~xactions, either from business
men. Office holders or liquor dealers.
There is no more reason why a demo
cratic ONCE holder should be held up on
the plea OF charity to boost the brass
band Of a partisan political organ thar
that saloon keepers should be cajoled
into Involuntary subscriptions by a re-
publican mayor controlling the police
surVeillancA
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
A VIEW OUTLET FoR WHEAT.

In the opinion Of some students of
our foreign trade in breadstuffs Amer
lean wheat producers cannot expect a
material enlargement of the demand for
that grain from European markets. 1t
is pointed out that wheat is the one
American commodity that sells in COM
petition with the world, meeting in the
markets of Europe the products Of
South America and the European con-
tinent itself, to say nothing of the
scattered areas of wheat growing in
other sections of the globe. In order
therefore to secure an assured demand
from year to year for our surplus,
thereby maintaining a profitable price
for the producer, it is essential that a
new outlet be found and this seems to
be promised in the Orient, though it
may be some time before the promise
can be realized.
A writer in an eastern financial jour
nal a the European market, so far
as wheat is concerned, will take care of
itself; what is needed is a propaganda
devoted to the far east. Wheat is
slowly but surely establishing IT.
self as a permanent food article
in eastern Asia and the outly-
ing islands and archipelagoes, and
while customs are slow to change there,
western civilization is gradually over
coming the obstacles that present
themselves. 1.-THE opening of a wheat
market in the Orient means a great
upbuilding of our merchant marine in
the Pacific. Already some of the largest
steamships ever launched are being
prepared for trade with China and
Japan and these are but the fore
runners of a great feet that might be
utilized, were our trade with the trans
pacific nations properly developed. The
practical point is, that If the farmer
can be assured a new outlet for his
wheat, agricultural interests In the
United States will boom as never be-
fore and with that the case all indus
tries will benefit proportionately." I'm
doubtedly there will in time be devel-
oped a large demand for wheat in the
Orient and it is something to be worked
for, but it is easy to overestimate pos
sibilities in this direction.
So far as the immediate future is con-
cerned the outlook for American wheat
producers appears most favorable. The
best European authorities on the
worlds wheat crop estimate that the
yield in Europe will be about 25O,0O0,-
600 bushels less this year than it was
in 1902, while they think that the
American harvest will exceed that of
last year by 15O.O00,OOO bushels. If
these estimates should prove to De cor
rect there will be a demand from Eu-
rope for all our surplus wheat, with the
necessary effect of advancing the price.
Judging from conditions as they now
appear the total market value of the
American wheat crop of this year
should be the greatest ever known.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

The sentence of a man to ten years in
the penitentiary who led a mob that
lynehed a negro in Missouri is some
thing OF a new departure in law en-
forcement in the lynching belt. 1t is
seldom that the instigators of mob VIC
lence against negro offenders are ever
prosecuted and still more seldom that
they are ever convicted.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
WorkIng one old Game.

Chicago Chronicle!
Advices from the anthracite region indi-
cate that the coal barons are about ready
to provoke another strike and thus have an
excuse for still further advancing the price
OK coal. Unfortunately. the miners appear
to be entirely willing to them.
In this situation the consumer may as well
prepare to pay the fiddler" as usual.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

Kansas City is Boosting of FIVE square
miles Of mud as a souvenir Of the recent
water fall. Before the era Of paved
streets Omaha could boast of five square
miles of mud every rainy day without
half an effort.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

The settlement of the Union Pacific
strike and the striking of of the differ
entail on the Union Pacific bridge will
eventually more thar offset the losses
incurred by the recent labor troubles and
more recent heavy dew.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

The Russian newspapers do not like
the severe criticism passed by the Amer
lean press upon recent exhibitions of
Russian religious bigotry and territorial
greed. The way for Russia to avoid
such unpleasant remarks is to refrain
from giving cause for them.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

1t is intimated that the crying demand
for an early judicial convention in this
district comes solely from lawyers on
the bench and at the bar who want it
over at once so as not to interfere with
their summer vacation plans. II neces-
sary the court should invoke itself to
issue an injunction to prevent the in
trusion Of politics into its vacation
pleasures.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

The removal of the bridge arbitrary
will not extend omaha's trade territory
all by itself, but it opens up a wider
field into which it may be extended by
push and energy Of Omaha jobbers. The
only way to get the business is to go
after it and keep after it until it is
corralled.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

The decision just rendered by the state
supreme court in favor Of the Western
Union Telegraph company and against
the village of Wakefield, which sought
to impose an occupation tax upon all
the business transacted in the town by
the telegraph and telephone companies,
proves upon close inspection to be a
sweeping decision against the telegraph
and telephone companies. While the
court ~pronounces a tax levy upon inter
state dispatches and government dis
patches Illegal, 1t affirms the right OF
towns in Nebraska to impose a reason
able occupation tax upon telegraph and
telephone companies for the privilege of
doing business within such towns.
Broadly interpreted, this decision is far
reaching. The doctrine promulgated by
the court applies not merely to tele-
graph and telephone companies, but also
to express companies and other common
| carriers, including railroads. 1t stands
to reason hat If an occupation tax
levied upon common carriers for local
trafhe is valid so long as 1t is confined
to traffic within the corporate limits or
within the state, it follows as a sequence
that towns and cities in Nebraska may,
IL so empowered by the legislature, i'm.
pose taxes for the maintenance of mu-
nicipal government upon corporations
engaged in state traffic in addition TO
the municipal taxes levied by the state
boards and a%pportioned to the towns
and cities on a mileage basis valuation.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

The movement to change the name Of
the Protestant Episcopal church is not
having IN entirely smooth road, as de-
termined opposition is developing in
several quarters. The spirit Of ON
servatism is usually strongest in church
matters.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

For some dnaccountable reason the
call for a meeting Of the democratic
state committee to fix the time and place
of a state convention says not a word
about a joint session with the populist
allies In reform. Twas not always
thus.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
Agitation Among "Guinea Pigs

There are a great many people in Eng
a who will hear with considerably
mingled emotions the decision of the su-
preme court that Whitaker Wright must
go back. The guinea pigs" men who
lent distinguished names to the directo-
rates of his companies" would have been
perfectly reconciled 70 an opposite decision
by the court. ~
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

That brilliant reception in Paris to
Edmond Rostand as the author Of
"Cyrano de Bergerac' may be expected
to call forth another note of protest
from the Chicago man who insists that
Cyrano was evolved by his pen. AS
long as it produces no international diff
iculty, however, the world of letters
will be safe.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

over the assessment nxed by the state
board for the railroad property in Ne
braska. Notwithstanding their piteous
pleas for a reduction from the old as
sessment, which they characterized as
excessive and un~reasonably burden
some, not a single one Of the roads has
undertaken to get redress by appeal to
the courts.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

Notwithstanding the delightful time
he has had throughout his western trip,
President Roosevelt will probably be
willing to admit that after all there is
no place like home.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
The TruIx strenuoun.
New York Sur

When you want to see men that were
really strenuous in really strenuous times.
look at the Grand Army Of the Republic
men. They stand out from the tin soldiers
like battle flags among the newest product
Of the bunting factory.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
No Objection Made.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

OISNtIduU TIdIH DbHIbI.
1t is claimed that General Sherman
couldn't endure Marching Through
Georgia. and yet that was the tune the
band played when the latest statue of the
old warrior was unveiled. But of course it
made very little difference to the general.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
only one Left.
Cincinnati

OIuCInndU EuUuIItI'
When Colonel Bryan picked out for Prest-
dent a man who had never been heard of
outside his township, be was possibly in the
act of demonstrating that there was really
no available man but the 'old commander"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

The competition for the Omaha post
Office plum is yet young. 1t is by 40
means safe to figure that the entries are
all in
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
stripped OF Legal verbiaEe.
Springfield Republican

Specifically stated, the charge against Mr..
Machen is this: Mail box fasteners. costing
rs cents apiece to make, were sold to the
government for $1.2 apiece, and on each
$1.25 Mr.. Machen received 10 per cent COM
mission.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

Not willing to let Kansas City get
ahead of 1t in anything, st. Louis pro-
poses to have a little food of its own
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

Nebraska popocratic papers must not
let the oil burn out until they get some
other kind Of political fireworks to set
OF.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State of Nebraska, Douglas County, IS.
George b. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly. sworn,
says that the actual number OF fun ana
complete copies Of The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of NAV 1907 WAS as follows.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

In the meanwhile the railroad tax
agents appear to be nightly pleased
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06

What was the trouble?"
He couldn't swim"
What has that to do with I
He got into a company VIII
was all water. '-Chicago Post
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
Concerning Charter Fees.

An interesting point has been hrought
out in the matter of charter fees IN
this state. The Pacolet Manufacturing
company, through its attorney, Mr.,
r, K. Carson, applied for an increase
of capital from one to two million dol
lars. Mr.. CAN'T held that the fee
charged would be the same as if the
corporation had not already been
chartered and that the company would.
have to pay $3.50, the regular amount
charged for corporation of two mil
lion dollars. The scale of fees charged
by law is one mill upon each dollar
of capital stock up to and including
100000; the sum of one-half mill
upon each dollar of the capital stock
exceeding one million dollars. Mr..
Carson contended that as the mill al
ready had capiatal of one million
dollars that the charge for the increase
of capital should be at the rate of one
fourth of mill, or $3.50. The matter
was referred to Judge Townsend, who
decided that as the mill had rot been
capitalized for two million dollars
at one time the fee of $3.50 had to be
paid. The case will be appealed before
the supreme court by Mr.. Carson
Columbia Cor News and Courier.