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Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

A Chicago babe is struggling along under
the name Theodore Roosevelt Stanislaus
Spyschalki.
Mulai Abdul gave the pretender to the
throne of Morocco a solar plexus greeting.
For the present he will remain the Sultan
AziE.
The manipulation of the whlskbroom in a
New York restaurant died recently, leaving
a fortune Of S45, 900. The tipping system is
a oinch for the tipped.
There are nearly II, 900. 900 people in this
country available for military duty. All
are not cracksmen, but those who are not
familiar with a gun can be relied on to
shoot of their mouths in any emergency.
In declaring constitutional the state tax
on cigarette dealers the iowa supreme
court was minated by humane considera-
lions. Rolling cigarettes gives their de-
voices sufficient exercise to keep them
awake.
The governor of Georgia has attached
nearly 200 colonels to his official STAFF.
Next to a circus parade, there is no more
enhancing spectacle than a governors stan
in regalia. Doubtless the governor Of
Georgia thinks an executive cannot over
work a good thing.
A Cleveland bride 'confesses TO having
assisted her husband in burglarizing apart
ment houses. When a woman voluntarily
promises to obey her husband and gets into
trouble she cannot shift the blame. That
privilege has been mans exclusively since
the days Of Adam.
"The harp that once through Tara's hall
the soul of music shed" has been shelved
for many a year, but the Hill Of Tara re-
mains and 10 about to be sold at auction.
Here is an opportunity for the descendant
Of Brian Boru to back sentiment with coin
and convert the shrine into a musical con-
servatory.
Trust managers are not as inconsolable
as some critics imagine. One Of them is
cheering the mourners, II any there be, by
asserting that while the human body is
composed of 30 per cent of water. no cor
porate body carries more than So per cent
Of hat fluid. The discoverer deserves an
advance in salary.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Cleveland Leader: Cardinal Gibbons
sounds a timely warning against the growth
Of the divorce evil. But the attitude OF
the Catholic church has always been Aos-
tile to divorce. and the words OF the car
dinal viii not have the effoct on those out
side OF his church which they should have.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: DR.. Park
hurst proposes 20 establish an ideal daily
newspaper" in New York City. The world
will walt TO see II the ideal Is good and IL
II can be realized. The doctor unuuestion-
ably grasps one part OF the problem in a
practical way. He expects to be backed by
4 number Of milllonaires.
Philadelphia Record: Clergymen OF sew
eral denominations are engaged in a con-
certed effort to make IL more difficult to
obtain divorce. Every divorce Is an evil.
but IL there were no divorce at all marital
unhappiness would not DO diminished and
characters would not be improved. On the
other hand, the Improvement of character
would diminish marital unhappiness as we'll
as divorce. II is not so important to sup
press the symptoms as 1t is to eradicate
the cause OF a disease.
Kansas City Star: The efforts Of the
Catholic church to discourage divorce are
wholesome in their effect on a much too
marked tendency toward domestic disrup-
ton, but they would be still more efectivs
but for the extremes to which some Of the
dignitaries go. Cardinal Gibbons is quoted
as saying: II can conceive ho scene more
pathetic than the contemplation Of q child
merging into the years Of discretion seeing
her father and mother estranged from each
other" The distinguished churchman be-
lieves that there should be no divorce. Yet
there are estrangements-irreconoilable es-
trangements-between husbands and wives,
and there will be Just as long as human ma
ture is frail. And when they occur be-
cause Of the error OF the one and In spite
Of the fortitude and rectitude Of the other,
the child in question would better witness
the separation than be made to contemplate
from day to day the unholy and pitiful all
lance.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08

ANOTHER TRANSPORTATION MERCER.
Announcement is made of a projected
merger Of lake fleets, which If effected
will place most Of the lake shipping,
outside Of that under Canadian control,
In the hands of eastern railroad inter-
ests. The Cleveland Leader says that
plans are developing for the consolida-
ton Of all the package freight handling
boat lines on the lakes, embracing seven
companies owning In the aggregate
~sixty-One steamers. 1t is understood
that the combination will be capitalized
at $10,000.0OO and the purpose is to Sc
cure as complete control as possible of
the package freight business of the
lakes.
If this project should be consummated
there will Of course be an end to com
petition between railroad and lake
transportation, which will mean higher
rates or grain and other products going
to the seaboard and also doubtless on
goods coming westward. The Wander
bilt and Pennsylvania railroads, which
are said to be concerned in the scheme,
If they shall secure practical control
Of lake transportation. will Of course
regulate rates so as to insure liberal
profit both for their vessels and their
roads. Moreover they would be in a
position to repress competition and mo
nopolize the trade from the lake ports
except what is carried in Canadian yes.
sells, and it is quite possible that ever
these will be absorbed in the merger
1t is stated that the deal is one OF the
most complete that has ever been at
tempted and as ]. P. Morgan figures IN
1t it's success is probable.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
ANTIQUATED REVENUE SYSTEMS.
what Makes Tax Reform of Special
Importance to the Western States.
Victor Rosewater in February Booklovers
Magazine.

what Makes Tax ItefOrm OF SpeciaI
Importance to the Western States.
Victor Rosewater in February Booklovers
Magazine.
The American people everywhere, but
more particularly in the western states,
are becoming restless under the burdens
Of unequal taxation. This inequality
springs from antiquated revenue systems,
devised at a time when the distinction be-
tween individual and corporate wealth had
not yet been accentuated, and the vast and
valuable intangible properties in the nature
Of franchises and credits had not developed
to notable proportions.
That the most productive corporate fran
chises, out of which the biggest fortunes of
our multi-millionaires have grown, have,
up to the present, almost entirely escaped
proportionate taxation can be readily veri-
fed. The extent to which the inequality
is being Intensified by twentieth century
industrialism is, however. scarcely yet rea-
liZed.
By taking the maximum current revenue
as the basis of capitalization in the newest
merger swelled by tax
evasion-the corporate property is being
plsstered with bonds representing capital
lied unpaid taxes on which interest is to be
! earned in the future as part Of the fixed
charges. When the demand is later made
OF the merger railroads, Cor example. for
these corporations TO pay into the public
treasury money justly due as taxes. but
now diverted TO payment of interest or divi-
dends, the retoTt will come that they are
being overbuTdened with taxes. when, in
fact, they have, without right or excuse,
overburdened themselves with obligations
resting on an unjust evasion OF public dues.
In this way the concentration OF industry
through community OF interest schemes or
outright consolidation is bound to force the
question OF tax reform conspicuously TO the
fr~ont--not so much the reform Of national
taxation. but rather the reform Of state
and local taxation, which. after all, is felt
more keenly and comes home more closely
to the people. The s1ution Of the problem
which can be rsacha only gradually, calls
for the best thought u our most practical
economists and mos Gstuts statesmsA.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
REAL JOY OF LIVING.
Philosophy of Living for Something
Higher and Better Thar Self.

Philosophy of Living for Something
Higher and Better Than Self.
New York Mail and Express.
Those OF us who are plodding along
through life in a narrow, and, therefore,,
selfish way, would do we'll to look ourselves
over every now and then and question
whether there is as great satisfaction in
living only for ourselves as there might be
in taking others into our lives. Each Of
us owes something to those near and dear
to us, and to the world. There is a COM
munity Of interest between all mankind
that no one Of us can ignore and end our
days in satisfaction.
No man who lived solely for himself ever
went to his grave feeling that he would be
lonelier confined in that narrow strip Of
earth than he had been while above 1t. II
the fundamentals of his character were
human, he looked back on his past with
keenest regret that he could not live II
over again and be Of the world; II they
were Motif he was without that lone
touch OF nature that makes the whole world
kin"-he lacked the capacity to realize
what he had missed in isolating himself
from the friendships, the handgrasps and
the love that make life worth living. He
knew that he had missed something that
had rounded out other lives better than his.
but he did not know Just what 1t was.
Fortunately few men are OF that type.
Most oflus have a sunny. genial side to our
nature, even though It is often concealed
or roughened by the cares of business or
the sorrows OF affection. Yet II we would
only stop to think how much we might help
others to bear their burden by Frightening
up ourselves, by inspiring others with good
cheer and cordial feelings, 1t IL certain that
each Of us in his way could contribute
more than we 90 toward the happiness and
contentment Of all.
II should be left to selfish men to hoard
all the sunshine as a miser does his gold
and to live long enough to know the bitter
disappointments that come TO those who
have made their own way in the world re-
CARELESS Of others. We should realize, be-
fore it is too late, what an invaluable pos
session a host of friendships are-growing
more precious with each year. They can
not be formed at the close OF life. The day
to make them is not after the cares OF life
are almost over. but while we are In the
midst OF the struggle, when the seed Of
good fellowship sinks deep and takes root
in fertile, earthly ground, then It is that
we can prepare the harvest Of priceless
recollections we are to reap in later life.
''Did anyone ever call him Tom?" asked
a philosopher the other day speaking OF a
man Of great wealth.
Mono one ever knew him we'll enough
for that" was the reply.
Then I'm sorrow for him. He'll be a
lonely man when he most needs company"
And so It will be for those Of us VIII
think we must trudge along through the
world by ourselves-that the path isn't
wide enough for company by our side. to
share the joys of comradeship.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
HoMAN IN cHrRcR IND STATE.

hOhAN Nv IhGhth ANO 5AH@
The advent Of the twentieth century
woman on the political rostrum, in the
halls Of legislation and in the pulpit is
I'm accord with the natural trend of
modern civilization. Within the past
quarter Of a century women have wedged
their way into the learned professions
and are gradually taking places as med
ical practitioners, dentists, teachers OF
music and teachers of the higher edu-
c%ational branches in colleges and uni
versities formerly monopolized by men.
It will not be in the least surprising If
the irrepressible twentieth century
woman in the no distant future becomes
a menace to men of the cloth.
Last Sunday Rev. Annie Ford East
man ~astonished the members Of the
Congregational society of Brooklyn by
declaring that 1.-THE profession Of the
Christian ministry is becoming the most
undesirable calling for men," "In the
days of simple Christianity" said Rev.
Mrs. Eastman, men and ONE worked
together on terms of perfect equality.
When the church became rich and pow
erful 1t silenced the voice of women in
it's ministry, although they continued to
preach until the latter part Of the ff-
teenth century. 1t would seem, there
fore, that the church needs women in
its ministry when it is poor and weak.
This is their call today. Ministers are
| slaves Of boards of trustees and YES
tries. Mountebankery and buffoonery
must be depended upon to attract
crowds into the churches, so that money
may be obtained to carry on the good
work. A minister's pay is poor, and
when he is old and past the age of use
fulness he should not be permitted to
live any longer"
Such talk In the City of Churches,
where Henry Ward Beecher electrified
the multitudes only a few years ago by
his fervent pulpit Oratory, only re-
echoes the recent assertion Of Rev. G. NJ
Sheldon, formerly Of Kansas, that
churches are now attended almost ex-
clusively by the well-to-do-the persons
who have comfortable or palatial homes.
They have come to regard membership
In a church as a sort of social distinc-
tomas an investment Of capital on
which they will secure dividends in the
hereafter"
Whether this sordid spirit can be
eliminated by women preachers hurting
Elijah thunderbolts from the pulpit, no
prophet or revelator can predict with
any degree Of safety.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
rHE L A

The d~isgraceful struggle that pre-
ceded the reelection of Henry NJ. Teller
to the United States senat In Colo
RADIO has aroused intense disgust with
the present method of electing United
States senators, and men Of all parties
In the Centen nial state now favor the
election Of United States senators by
direct vote of the people.
The change demanded, however. can
not be effected without an amendment
Of the federal constitution. AS the next
best thing it is proposed to give the
voters Of Colorado the right to express
their senatorial preferences through the
ballot box. With this end in view a
bill just introduced in the Colorado
Legislature provides that at the general
election preceding the time for the cleo
ton Of a United States senator the
political parties may place on a ballot
the names Of five or less candidates
for the senatorship and binds members
Of the legislature under penalty Of ex-
pulsion to vote for the candidate of
their respective party indicated by pop
ular vote.
The Colorado plan doubtless has some
merit, but we fear it will work no bet
ter than the Nebraska plan adopted
back in 1876, which has proven a most
lamentable failure. The Colorado plan
may be an improvement on the Ne
braska plan in authorizing political
parties to restrict the legislature in its
choice to five or less candidates, while
the Nebraska plan does not contemplate
nominations by party, but gives any
candidate endorsed by 5000 or more
electors the right to have his name
printed on the official ballot.
When It comes to the practical test
the members Of the legislature who are
disposed to sell out will violate instruc-
tons and pledges. The menace Of ex-
pulsion will have no more effect upon
boodlers than the menace of a pail of
hot water would have on a NANCY cur.
The only effective way of dealing with
such scoundrels would be a trial by
vigilance committee and an elevation on
a telegraph pole.
The representative who betrays the
people for money or place is a traitor
and merits the penalty imposed on
traitors. Such doubtless would be the
punishment melted out to a bribed pres
idential %elector, and there is precious
little difference between an elector who
defeats the choice Of the people for pres
ident and the reprobate who willfully
defeats the choice of the people for
United States senator.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08

gan evidently intends to do all he can
to prevent the ratification Of the treaty
which has been favcrably reported to
the senate, but it is believed lie VIII
not succeed in his purpose. The odds
against him are too great and the
pressure Of public sentiment for early
action is too strenuous and insistent.
Should he, however, be able to prevent
ratification at this session there is no
doubt that an extra session of the SEN
ate will be called by the president to
act upon the treaty.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
BY THEIR DEEDS.
W. D. Nesbit In Chicago rrlhl

w. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
A tattered beggar in the street
Sang always some old grooming hymn,
And held to those whom he might meet
His hat, with ragged, greasy brim.
Two men-two mighty men-came by
Two honored leaders of the town;
Came too, a dame of repute high
Each passed the beggar with a fRpwn.
But still the beggar sang away,
With music in each word;
And through the balance of that day
The three hat chanting echo heard.
They heard. and held the fading strains
AS memories of things that bless,
And added TO their other gains
The golden one of kindness.
Now, by some careless prank of fate,
These four met on the Way of Death.
And Journeyed to the joyous Gate
Where but the perfect entereth.
The warder halted them, n told
How all who entered must be known
By goodly deeds-by deeds OF gold
BY helpful actions all their own.
The honored men explained that they
Had given of their earthly wealth
To help their fellows on the way
To knowledge, peacefulness and health
The woman told of visits made.
TIT suffering and poor to greet
All three told how the world had laid
Its laureled tributes at their feet.
'"You may go in," the warder smiled.
although your fame we did not know,
A cup OF water to a child
Is more than all the passing show"
The beggar turned to a his way
With humbled mien and dropping head.
The warder called to him TO stay,
Come In! We've heard you slngT' h
said.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
THE sorrRnnN ROE PRoRLEM.


Secretary Of War Root, in an address
before the Union League of New York
Friday evening, referred to the race
question in the south as presenting a
problem the solution of which will take
the greatest thought of the greatest
minds in the country! In regard to the
cutlery that has been made against the
appointment of colored persons to fed
eral Offices in the south. Mr.. Root
pointed out that President Roosevelt has
appointed fewer black men than Presl-
dent Mckinley did and there are today
fewer black men holding office than
when Mckinley died. He said that I'M
der all the presidents back. to Hayes
more colored men were appointed to
office than under the present administra-
ton and nothing was said.
The ebullition. therefore, Of southern
| wrath toward President Roosevelt is
simply because he has followed IN the
course of his predecessors and because
he has shown that he believes a colored
man who is capable and of good char
acter is entitled to consideration, should
be accorded the same rights as other
citizens and should not be excluded
from the public service on account of
his race. Had the president enlarged
the policy Of his predecessors in this
matter, or manifested a deliberate pur-
pose TO antagOnize southern sentiment,
some excuse might be urged for the out
cry that has been raised, but he has not
done these things. On the contrary, he
has been conservative, but he has re-
fused TO yield to that sentiment which
would exclude all colored men in the
south, no matter how capable and
worthy, from serving the government in
any public capacity. Having in a mum
Der of states taken from colored citizens
the right Of suffrage, it is now de-
manded that they be denied the privi.
lege of holding office under the federal
government. These colored citizens fig.
ure in the ratio of southern representa-,
tion in congress-. not less than forty
representatives from that section being
based on the colored population, vet
while recognizing those people as a basis
of representation in congress and the
electoral college, they are denied the
suffrage and it is sought to shut then
opt OF the public service ever in com
munities where they are in the major
ity. The injustice of this is obvious
and indisputable.
Secretary Root said: I'm a short tim,
the white man will succeed in excludin,
the black man from all Offices in tn
southern states. We can never throw
off the responsibility that rests on on
people for the welfare Of these blacI
people that we held in slavery for s.
many generations" That undoubtedl,
reflects the general feeling among tn
, people OF the north. The improvement
and uplifting of the colored a is a
; imperative duty which must not be nee
lected. Some OF the wiser leaders O
the race urge that the colOred man /
the south should keep out Of polite
and apply himself to intellectual aC
vancement and the requirement @
: knowledge and skill in the industries
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08

In its demand for legislation against
parents who desert their families. the
State Board of Charities and Corrections
has embodied into its resolutions the
proper principle making no distinction
in culpability on the part of fathet or
mother. The desertion Of husband and
children by the wife is morally and In
its disastrous results just as much of an
offense against society al desertion by
the husband. The real reason for inter
ference Of the law is the protection Of
the dependent members Of the family,
and in the case of young children the
dependence is as much IL not more upon
the mother as upon the father. If pen
alties are to be placed upon wife deser-
ton they should also apply to the de-
sertion Of minor children by either
parent.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.

Public sins need public censure.
Fear makes a man his own foe.
Rhetoric cannot produce a revival in re-
hgion.
There is no power sufficient to make a
man out Of putty.
To see a purpose in our pain is a step
toward finding peace.
Greed and not goodness is the modern
worlds condition of greatness.
Envy loses the flavor Of its own joys in
abusing the form OF another's.
It makes all the difference whether the
shepherd loves the fleece or the flock.
It's no use for a man to pray TO his
Father so long as he preys on his brother.
He only really aspires to the heights Of
holiness who walks in the depths Of hui
mility.
When you are only skim milk in ethics
you cannot make up for It by being cream
in theoretics.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08

The campaign for tax reform comes
right home to every citizen. because
there is no one who escapes paying
taxes in one form or another. When
the great tax-shirking corporations
evade their share of the burdens of
government, they simply shift them
onto the less-favored individuals who
have no way of escaping payment not
only of the part that belongs to them,
but Also of the part that the railroads
should bear.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08

The late Senate Dawes of Massachu-
sets counted as n OF his greatest
achievements having moved In congress
the first appropriation for the weather
bureau. Certainly its Originators had no
adequate idea OF the proportions to
which the weather bureau would grow
OF the practical work 1t would accom-
plish. The accuracy and usefulness of
the weather forecast, however, is sure
to he developed much further as time
goes on and its Importance to be much
more fully realized. In emphasizing the
part he had in its inception. Senator
Dawes only displayed his w farsight.
.ednesA
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08

A writer in one of the current period
icals defines coeducation as the admis-
sion of girls to boys schools. The pith
of his characterization is the intimatiOn
that the movement for ~coeducation has
not brought about the admission of boys
to girls schools, nor even a demand for
that kind Of equality. The suggestion
that Vassar should open it's doors to
young men would doubtless be resented
on the ground that the young women