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Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
THE TRUSTS WILL FIGHT.
Expected Remittance TO the Publicity
Features of the LaSv.
RaItinnora Apo.rioan

Baltimore American.
Chairman Jenkins Of the house judiciary
committee does not think much of the
''trust-busting" features of the act Great
ing the Department Of Commerce.. In an
interview he has relieved himself Of the
opinion that the trusts will resent the
publicity provisions OF that act and under
take to withhold from Mr.. Garfield's $ bureau
of the new department the details of their
business. He even goes so far as to sug-
gest to them schemes by which they may
evade the law, and very stubbornly con-
tends that the federal government has no
power to place any restrictions whatsoever
upon interstate commerce
We do not believe anybody will be sur
prised at Mr.. jenkins statement that the
trusts will resist compliance with the law.
The greatest bulwarks OF the trusts is
secrecy. BY hiding behind II they are able
TO do all manner Of things which are i'm
possible when operations must be con-
Quoted openly and before the public Sc
crecy makes possible the watering Of stock.
manipulation by oficials of the market
quotations on the stock issues of their own
corporation, and the practice of all that
financial and commercial chicanery which
have made the trusts a strong hand. With
one or two exceptions every great corpora
]
ing all OF it's affairs with secrecy OF the
darkest sort When we see how this So
crecy has made for the personal enrich
ment OF those men who have been admitted
behind the scenes, II is little wonder that
the trusts are foes of publicity. Nor Is Il
surprising that they should he planning
to resist the operations of Mr.. GARFIELD s
4 bureau For them to do otherwise would
be amazingly unnatural.
But that they should resist does not mean
that the antitrust laws passed last session
are nugatory in effect. The laws are ac-
tual. and the degree Of their effectiveness
| depends altogether upon the vigor NJ then
enforcement Their provisions ar ample
enough 10 permit the government. through
the departments Of Commerce and Justice
to deal with every phase of the trust ques
tion. Equally true is It that the application
of these laws may be entirely effective
The trusts will dodge and resist. as they
were expected TO do, and as congress knew
they would do but the supreme court hal
repeatedly afhrmed the right OF the fed
eral government TO regulate interstate
commerce What MF jenkins thinks OF
the subject Is. therefore wholly inmaterial
We know OF no reason why the govern
msnt should seek 20 avoid fght with IN
trusts, and since we do know that the lat
ter will resist at every point. the sooner tn
government opens the battle the better
will be for everybody. IL has the mean
and the machinery. and we rather fanc
that by the time Il finishes with the trust
there win ~ nttia nSht left In the lattsr.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

The city council is the board of di-
rectors for the municipal corporation.
If the men who comprise Omaha's new
city council were organizing a private
corporation they would be governed
only by the interests Of the stockholders
they represent. In the municipal cor
poration of Omaha the corporations own
only a very small minority of the hold
ings, while the great bulk Of the stock
belongs to the mass OF small taxpaying
citizens.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
Financial strength of Britain.
Philadelphia Ledger


II any one has entertained the idea that
Great Britain had been impoverished by
the South African war he will need to re-
wise his opinion. in view Of the popular sub
scriptions to the Transvaal loan. Not only
are the offers of the bankers sufficient to
cover the loan many times over but It is
said that the individual subscriptions not
exceeding hundred pounds will more than
make UP the whole amount. This is the
most interesting feature OF the whole trans
action, since 1t indicates more distinctly
than the large offers OF the bankers the
wealth that is widely diffused among the
people. The interest on this new loan is
higher than has been usual, which will ac-
count for the eagerness of small investors,
but the success Of the loan is not the less
significant Of the financial strength Of the
country
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
DEEP LAID PLOT.

The proposed scheme of the majority
of the city council to hold four of their
number in their places in defiance of
the. popular edict, which has retired
them to ignominious private life, is a
deep laid plot which must be headed off
IL Omaha is to be saved from three
years more of corporation domination
of its city council
From latest developments il would
appear that the contingency now con-
fronting us was foreseen by the cor
poration managers during the Legislative
session, and that the charter amendment
put there by the Douglas delegation, no.
toriously subservient to corporation die
tation, was framed with a special view
of continuing in Office the corporation
tools in the outgoing council who had
proved themselves so useful to the cor
porations in the past
This law on its face simply purported
to authorize the council to be elected
to enlarge the body by creating add
tional wards which would choose coun-
cilmanic representatives at the next sue
ceeding election. Careful reading of the
section, however. shows that by deft
manipulation It has been worded to per-
NIT the old discredited council not only
to redistrict the city on the eve of it's
official determination, but to designate
its old members as holdovers to retain
their places until successors should be
regularly elected.
The franchised corporations Of Omaha
have been bold and brazen in the past,
but nothing they nave done compares
with this high-handed scheme to over
ride the popular will and saddle our peo-
pie anew with a government of a char
acter so odious to all reputable citizens.
Should they succeed Omaha will be
again bound in the corporation tolls
Notwithstanding the fact that our peo-
pie thought they had Just thrown them
or In a battle royal against all the
forces at the command Of the combined
corporation bosses.
The people Of Omaha have been dis
posed to deal fairly with the franchised
corporations insisting only that they
should observe the law and contribute
their fair shares to the expenses of local
government. But there isisnch a thing
as going too far and overtaxing the pub
lie patience. 1t would be well for the
corporation managers to call of their
creatures in the council instead OF
arousing further popular resentment.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
THE WILDCAT NINE.

r. Shelley sutton In Denver Post
It was over near old Yreka, In the summer
when ti Piute Pete and Thrse-rhumb Jack
There was only one girl in. the camp those
days--a girl who had hailed from
whose dad had besn killed by a redslSin
band while driving across the plain.
She seemed like regular angel there, and,
in fact, we had made her queen,
mortal had ever seen.
Her cheeks were not pink as the rose," of
course. and her hair was not spun Of
For She wasn't Laura Jean Libbey girl.
but a girl who was strong and bold.
"I scout, and she wasn't afraid of hight,
For she wandered alone on the hills by day
and camPed in the brush by night.
were the only ones, miles around,
Who didn't get red when she bowed her
vonnS hS1a Snc ir%m A JACK Was the frst.
think, to offer his heart and hand,
But It wasn't because that his partner;
Pete. was lacking In nerve and sand.
For Jack hadn't known her a fortnight.
yet. ere Pete was upon his trail
And the way they were courtlng ana doing
things made all Of the rest look pale
And then came the trouble between the
But pals tnd IL Uf'a Cf isssHEnSs
Jack" and a "Pete-its-too-bad-we-
met"
And after a while they sold their mine,
dividing the grub and cash,
And Piute Pete and his partner Jack started
in to complete the mash"
And so, fof a month, Affairs went on, Till
we heard in the camp one night
That Three-Thumb Jack and his partner
Pete had been killed in a barroom fghti
The trouble was over the woman, sir-the
girl who had hailed from Maine
Whom each Of the partners agreed TO give
TO the one who should still remain.
They fought TO the death, and the nght
was long. for the barroom was RED with
gore
Not man came near till the fight was
done, and the partners lay dead on the
We laid them TO rest near the wildcat
mine, by the hut where they used &c
And on both Of their breasts we placed a
ring in which each had engrayen Nell"
But Nell didn't come 10 the funeral. sir,
for she didn't care much, l guess;
And we found in some letters the boys had
left that both had been promised Yes
And after the funeral was over, sir,
stranger came wandering in,
With a kind Of weary, wanted look, and an
eye that was black as sin:
And the hrst blamed thing that the
stranger did was to sharpen his bowie
And ask the miners the names OF the men
who he heard had been eourting his
wife.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
NAVY ANTAGONlzE NEWBUREAU q.

1t is to be expected that the corpora
tions viii not all yield unquestioningly
to the demands that may be made by
the bureau In the new Department OF
Commerce authorized to investigate the
organization and the business methods
of the corporations. 1t would be most
extraordinary If they should submit
without question to the inquiries which
the law authorizes the bureau OF cor.
porations TO make. Representative
Jenkins OF Wisconsin, who was chair
man Of the house judiciary committee
in 'the last congress and is likely to be
at the head of that important COM
mittee in the Fifty-elghth congress, is
quoted as saying that the effect on
trusts and combinations OF the opera.
ton Of the law creating the new de-
partment is problematical.
Mr.. jenkins is OF the opinion that
the exercise OF the functions OF the
bureau OF corporations will be tested in
the courts. He said It can readily be
seen that a corporation created under a
state law might resent the interference
of the federal authority on constltu
tional grounds. "It is easy TO figurs
out" said Mr.. jenkins. "how a corpora
ton engaged In interstate commerce
might avoid disclosing the extent OF III
business II It 50 desired. IL nigh
do all this business by selling its prod
uet 10 an individual In its own state
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13


Every we'll informed person knows
that labor in this country is in all
respects better OF than labor abroad.
The American wOrkingman Is better
paid, better housed and fed aud clothed
than is the workingman of any other
country in the world There may be
a few things in which the labor Of the
old world enjoys an advantage, but on
the whole and in the aggregate the
American wagewofker is very far in
advance Of the corresponding wage
worker Of Europe. The facts in sup
port Of this are numerous and indisput-
able.
Senator Scott of West Virginia. who
is now in Europe, and who is familiar
with labor conditions in the United
States, has been investigating the con-
ditions of labor abroad. He is quoted
as saying that he is convinced that
four-ffths of American workers have
more of all material comforts than the
average middle classes in Europe and
are immeasurably better of than the
working classes Of the old world. IT
particularly Observed he is quoted as
saying. ''the widespread use of hand
labor, which is the only means remain
ing to keep the European masses en-
ployed. with the result that 1t places
European hand labor far behind the
American machine labor and fetters the
Industrial progress of Europe" The
great fact is that in this country labor
occupies q position which has not yet
been attained abroad and which is per-
haps impossible of attainment there.
owing to the difference between Euro
pean and American political institutions
and social conditions. There is a wide
distinction between labor here and labor
in Europe from the social as well as
the economic point of view. In this
country the workingman is recognized
as a force and factor in the body polite.
whereas In most of the countries of
Europe he has no such recognition, or
at any rate in a very modified degree.
Here the tendency is constantly in the
direction of improving and elevating
labor conditions, while in most foreign
countries the welfare of labor is a
secondary consideration.
1t would be well If American working.
men generally had better understand
ing Of the advantage they have in COM
parison with their fellows abroad and
would also consider intelligently and
carefully how they shall best conserve
this advantage. Is It to be accom-
plished through such warfare as is now
being waged between labor and capital
In large part Of the country, or rather
by means Of wise policy of concilia.
tion and compromise that will preserve
industrial peace? 1t would seem that
these questions should address them.
selves very strongly to the Judgment OF
workingmen. In this country labor has
attained its highest development and
won its greatest rewards. The position
1t has reached can be maintained II
wise and conservative principles are oh.
served. On the other hand, IT may lose
Its advantage through indiscreet OF
reckless policies. The time is at hand
when both labor and capital should be
guided by reason. fairness and sound
economic principles.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

The railroad tax agents are trying
their best to confuse the members of
the State Board Of Equalization by in-
undating them with mass Of unin-
telligible figures supposed to bear on
the railroad valuations. The board will
have no trouble in getting at the mar.
ket values of these properties by refer.
ence to the stock and bond quotations
and making every allowance for un-
usual conditions. The trick of the rail
road tax agents is too old for any sen
sible person to bite on at this late day
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

Eastern people who visited St Louis
on the occasion OF the dedication exer.
cises for its worlds fair are expressing
amazemeut over the magnificent scale
on which the exposition there has been
planned. Notwithstanding the lesson Of
the Chicago Worlds fair. eastern people
do not realize the broad gauge views OF
the west They will learn in time. how
ever, that they have no monopoly in
the east on big undertakings.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
enme ProtectIon al the we.t.
Casper whitney in Outing.

Casper Whitney IN Outing.
Game protection there indeed is where
found new understanding from end to
end Of the whole country. Not only have
excellent new laws been enacted in the last
three or four years, but what is fully as i'm
portant the spirit of the majority OF the
people is entirely in sympathy with them
This is not only important; It is literally
vital; for game law is a dead letter un-
less supported by the local community
Wherever 1 went 1 found sentiment
strongly in favor Of game protection, and
particularly emphatic and outspoker
against spring shooting Here sgain the
west shows the way to the east.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

South Omaha wants a special election
70 vote bonds for public improvements
and, incidentally, TO refund $4,000 Of
hoating Indebtedness. When the debt
has finally been piled mp until the In
terest burden Is almost unbearable
South Omaha taxpayers viii begin to
look with more friendly mien at the
consolidation propositions for the erea
ton Of Greater Omaha by the union
Of the two eitieA
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
C,su-Itien ON the RntI.


opTlnBneid HepuDlCan.
American railroads have not Of late been
improving their record Of casualties. Dur
ing the last half Of last year, according to
a statement made by the Interstate Com
merce commission. no less than 1853 passen-
gers we're killed in railroad accidents and
1859 injured This Is as bad as a whole
years record ordinarily is. Congestion Of
traffic, overworkng OF employees and the
strain put upon the whole mechanism OF
railroadng probably explain II they do not
excuse, the very bad showing made.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

The absorption Of the Frisco road by
the Rock Island may not come within
the scope of the decision in the North
ern Securities case. but It aceomplishes
an object similar to that the men be-
hind the Northern Securities merger
were seeking 10 attain. The Rock
Island gets the new road by exchang
ing securities at top prices, with guar
anteed interest payments, and the people
pay the freight.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

If the people Of Omaha were asked to
retain any member of the Corporation
big five" in the city council the answer
would be an almost unanimous mo-"
These recreant public servants know
that they can never hope to secure fur
ther preferment at the hands of the
people whose trust they have betrayed,
but they think they can force their'way
into office by arbitrary use of alleged
charter powers to declare themselves
holdovers in newly created wards. The
people Of Omaha must protest en- masse
against this outlawry.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

York Renubi,can


One of the most beautiful sights ever
seen in Nebraska was the'army Of tender
shoots, with their green leaves encased in
a glistening armor Of ice that sparkled and
scintillated in the morning sun as the gem
tie breeze from the north swept them to
and fro on Thursday morning Every one
Of them was standing rigidly up for the
state. They were in state where every
thing had to stand up
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
Senator Hanna occupies a un

Senator Hanna occupies a unique
place as an industrial peacemaker, al
though there is nothing in the constitu-
ton or the laws deYolving such func-
tions upon him. And, strange to say,
from being labors great bogieman, as
he was depicted in 1885, the senator's
Intervention is sought after now more
by the labofers than by their employers.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

1t is stated that the exhibit of British
manufactures at the st. Louis exposi-
tion will be cwtailed from the original
plans for fear of exposing their special
ideas and peculiar process to appropria-
ton or imitation. The British manu-
facturers need not rest under any such
apprehension. If they will keep their
eyes open when they inspect the Amer
lean exhibits they will be able to gather
enough pointers to offset anything that
the Americans may learn in the British
section.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

A nest Of corruption has just been
unearthed in Honolulu, where Chinese
gambling syndicate is said to have un-
dertaken 10 purchase protection from
the authorities. The Cinnamon evil
IDENTIFY thought they were showing their
adaptability to American institutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

Every days delay in the settlement of
pending strikes costs Omaha thousands
upon thousands OF dollars and sets il
back in the race with competing com
mercial rivals. 1t is not only present
losses, but future handicap that is to be
guarded against. The sooner the oppos
ing parties get together the less work
win be required hereafter to repair the
damage.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

Inside advices are to the effect that
Russia has no intention Of evacuating
Manchuria at any. time. present or fu-
ture. But circumstances can be imag-
ined under which Russia would prefer
to exercise its reserved right to change
its mind.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

AS usual the republicans are first to
take initiatory steps toward putting in
nomination a state ticket to be submit
ted to the ratification Of the voters Of
Nebraska next fall. The democrats and
pOpullsts win follow and keep following
throughout the whole campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
Local democrats are busy trying

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get together for. the next campaign
while local republicans, or rather some
of them holding important positions at
the hands OF the party, seem to be bent
upon getting further, apart. A united
democracy can be successfully COM
batted only by united republican
Marty
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
Chicseo POST

Il is strange that the price Of kerosene
should have any effect on education. but
the people of Nebraska seem to connect
the two Else why talk Of refusing a
cash gift to the state university from
John d. Rockefeller simply because coal
oil went up a cent gallon few days
after the offer Of the oil magnste was re-
ceived?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

a suggestion for both Business Mems
association and labor unions in selecting
members OF conference committees
Piek men who have some direct interest
In a speedy adjustment OF differences.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

President Roosevelt's appeal for the
preservation of the California big trees
is is.simply reafirmation of the old war
time motto, "woodman1 spare that tree"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. If the bartenders strike. the soda
fountain men will try to gather in the
harvest.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

Ali parties agree that arbitration is
good thing for our present labor difa-
cultles. Push 1t along. ,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

The Iowa idea may be a little trans
formed, but 1t appears to be still in the
ring.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
Not Our Business.
Chicago Chronicle.

Chicago Chronicle.
The whole OF Manchuria Is not worth
the life of one American soldier or sailor
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

The town without strike is not en-
titled to a place ON the industrial map.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State cf Nebraska, Douglas County S.:
George b. Tzschuck secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
Gays that the actual number Of full and
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
rnnnfh nf Auril. 1ana was aa folloWe:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
Onins the wheeis OF Education.

not imagine that he is a bigger man than
Grant.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
A Hind IN Season.

St. Louis Globe Democrat.
In the effort TO break the precedent
against . third term Ar, Cleveland mus
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13

The spaghetti and kidney saute is to
disappear from the regimen Of swell New
York Bohemians. Two famous Italian
restaurants, Moretti's and Morrello's, both
Of the theater district. have closed their
doors. They were crushed between the
upper and neither millstones OF high license
and high rent. Moretti has entertained the
Prince Of Wales, Duke Boris, the Cas-
tellanes. Henry Watterson, Tom ochiltree.
Patti ana all the glorious host of good
feeders on this and other continents. Nor
rello's clientele was quite as famous Now
both are down and out and broke OF late
years Bohemian dining has fallen out Of
vogue, and the great number of cheap
tables d'hote have made inroads on the
old=time favorities The new excise law
gave the famous old Tenderloin resorts
their coup de grace. without this Il is
doubtful If they could have survived a
great while, az rents have Jumped enor-
mously In that quarter following the
erection Of many new hotels and big apart-
ment houses.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-13
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORlx.
Ripples ON the Current Of Life In IN,
. Metropolis,


One day last week New York's "nnest'
turned out in their marching clothes. and
RECALLED the town with an elegant parade
extending from the Battery to Madison
Square All of the policemen were there
Crooks Of every grade, from the holdup tc
the can men were also out on parade and
out for the stun. The opportunity was toe
good to be missed and they made the
most Of 1t. There were more daylight hold
ups OF citizens on the streets OF New York
while the police parade was going on than
on any day in the previous history Of the
city. The daylight highwaymen Travelled
In parties Of three or four. and they were
perfectly fearless in the execution OF their
Jobs, as well they might be. since there
wasn't one patrolling cop during the parade
to a square mile OF city territory. The
crooks held up shop keepers. especially the
keepers Of small out-of-the-way jewelry
stores. at the point OF the gun and did
their looting without and fear whatever
that they wouldn't get away with the
goods" and outrage was rampant all over
town. If the authorities stick to their
sentiments New York has seen the last Of
the police parades