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Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
NOTES.

Salmon Brown, the youngest son OF John
Brown, the martyr, is living at Portland
Ore. t-.. go. 81.
Thomas W., Lawson, the would-be cup
defender OF 1901, may become a candidate
for congress In the Seventh Massachusetts
district. rs
of Columbia says the rogues' gallery ~collec-
tion contains about $1,000 pictures and the
records Of $4,000 criminals. ~
DR.. Thomas. Foster, one Of the pioneer
newspaper men Of st. Paul. Mimi, has just
died in San Francisco. AS far back as
1886 he was a Philadelphia journalist.
William X. Vanderbilt seems determined
that the arrangements for his marriage
reading the accounts Of the recent wedding
in the family at Newport. p
One Of Oquendo's nve-inch guns will be
sent to Palmyra, N. Y, the birthplace Of
Admiral Sampson, where 1t will be erected
in the public park. oquendo was one Of the
Spanish warships Junk OF the coast Of
Cuba during the Spanish-American war.
II President Loubet goes to Londo TO
repay the visit which the king intends pay
ing him in May, this will be the nrst act
OF the kline by the chief Of state in France
since Napoleon III and his consort went
over to Windsor in April 1856. during the
Crimean war, at the invitation Of the queen.
A good many Frenchmen think that Paul
Deschanel, ex-president of the Chamber Of
Deputies, is a coming president Of the
republic. 1t is said that he entertains
that opinion himself. He IL young, rich,
clever, the most well-groomed politician OF
his party, a ~favorite in society, a member
of the academy and and high in the favor
of the car.
One OF Sousa's bandsmsn is quite q
humorist. He was once q participant In
conversation where the subject of tip-giving
arose. The bandsman said that In Ger
many, where the waters are satisfied with
very small tips he always gave a gold piece.
because, you see," he added, when you
give a German q gold piece he falls in g
At and then you can a k 1t away from
him."
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
TALK OF THE STATE PRESS.

Friend Telegraph; The people Of Ne
braska would much prefer that instead Of
donating $4,000 to a building at the Me-
braska university the oil trust would con-
descend to lop of that extra 8 cents per
gallon on oil.
Hayes Times-R Republican: That Omaha
man who committed suicide. leaving
$4,000 in good securities behind him.
could not have pursued a course surer to
arouse the tender solicitude Of the relatives
who during his lifetime were oblivious Of
his existence.
Bloomington Advocate: The friends Of
Judge Sullivan Of the Nebraska supreme
court are quietly working for a fusion or
non-partisan ticket this fall in the hopes Of
being able to land their man back in the
chair. The republicans Of this state have
plenty Of good material from which Ia draw
and will not be caught by any such cheap
pretext. .e ..
Franklin Sentinel: One act for which
the citizens of Nebraska should be very
grateful to the late legislature was the
passage of a joint resolution memorializing
congress to enact a constitutional amend
ment for the popular election OF
United States senators. The passage
OF the resolution will not in IT.
self afford relief, but It shows the
sentiment of the people. When the repub-
lican party realizes that the people will
not rest until they are permitted to elect
United States senators II will grant them
the long cherished privilege, perhaps, even
though It be one Of the v~agaries Of popu-
lism.
Beatrice Express:. HoA. J. 8. BARLEY has
returned to Nebraska after q pleasant out
ing In Chicago, and sundry editors are ask
ing him impertinent questions. They want
to know why he left the state Just when he
might have shed some light upon the vexed
question Of cigar boxes and their contents.
Others want to know why he didn't urge
Governor Savage to use the genuine state
seal on his pardon; but all questions are
useless and superfiuous. The distinguished
ex-treasurer announced q long time ago
that he would not run up the white nag.
and he isn't going to do 1t at this late day.
Rather than make such a surrender he
would probably leave the state for good,
and Nebraska might not survive such a
blow as that.
Norfolk News: 1t is really not surprising
that Nebraska Is attracting favorable at
tention from immigrants and investors,
when the class Of advertising showing the
financial condition of the people being
sent out, is considered. Secretary Royse
Of the state banking board has been dis
seminating some OF the most valuable ad-
Vertising of this class and his most recent
quarterly statement is one of the best for
the good Of the state ever yet published.
This statement shows unparalleled pros
perity on the part of the people as evil
denced by the money In the banks, the
record having again been broken by the
amount of money on deposit, exceeding the
previous high water mark by nearly half a
million dollars. Thirty-one new banks are
reported and the condition Of old and new
banking houses was never better. With
another good harvest this year the showing
this fail WIFI undoubtedly again break the
record. g. tSh"Nss sE'+@
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
CAUGHT IN BAD COMPANY.
GumshOe Bill stone squeaIs Under the
Lash of Criticism.
WI xHTorld

e 1blA "SN
II is embarrassing for a presidential can
didate who has Just received the endorse
ment Of William ]. Bryan to be caught In
bad company by a set Of meddiesome prob
ers into legislative corruption. still, the
Hon. "Gumshoe Bill" Of Missouri should
have known better than to exhibit his
stripes to mankind and berate the news
papers for applying the lash. Mr.. Stone
is old enough by this time to know that
to protest too much and to deny hysteri-
cally are almost worse than a "dignihed
silence" under precise accusations.
It is alleged in the st. Louis newspapers
that Senator Stone, as a paid lobbyist, pro-
NOTED the special legislation Of the baking
powder trust two years ago; that he did
his work in the suise of a Public Health
society" organized and financed by the
trust, and that he was intimately associated
with the Doodle agent Of the combination
who is accused Of attempting to bride Lieu
tenant Governor Lee.
It is hardly sufficient answer to these
charges for Senator Stone TO defy the
"seavengers OF the press" and TO shout,
Before my God l fear them not. / laugh
in their faces and spit upon them"
The country will be in a better position to
Judge OF Senator Stones connection will
this scandal when the fearless prosecuting
attorney has completed his investigation
and the grand jury shall make Its report
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
Washington Star.

Washington Star.
Dey Is tsllin' bout de troubles dat de trusts
is gwinter make.
Dey hints dat bein' happy is an ignorant
mistake.
An dey sometimes has me guessin'
whether desc old eyes o. mine
IL gwtnter see de roses bloom an watch de
stars dat shine ...I.
Dey's cornerin' de wheat crop an dey's
cornerln' de meat;
De white folks Is a wonderin' what dey's
gwinter hab to eat,
II dat wolf comes to my do, he'll neb-
Der break de latch,
Cause rs got q coop o. chicken an a
watermelon patch
I ism Etttin' skyaht about de way dem
markets 80.
hoe,
whAh de honey bee is WOrhn', kin o lazy,
same as me,
An all dem insect folks is jes' as happy a,
I doesn't dread no panic nor de Dustin of
a ring,
1 may not noun to much. but II be
happy as a king.
rs made a small invesment dat dem trusts
will nebber catch.
rs got a coop o. chickens IN a watermelon
patch.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27

Governor Lafollette has sent a special
message 10 the Wisconsin legislature in
which he recommends that a bill be In
PRODUCED and passed requiring the state
bank examiner to make a careful ex-
animation Of the books of the companies
doing business in Wisconsin to see il
they are really paying a license fee on
their gross earnings, and incidentally
Governor Lafollette calls attention to
the fact that in Minnesota under a law
similar to the one which he desires to
have enacted in Wisconsin nearly five
hundred million dollars in gross earn
ings that had not been assessed were
discovered, making a net gain to the
state Of something Over $4,000 in
taxes. Governor Lafollette's message Is
suggestive Of corporation tax Sinking
methods In Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
BEGNNING TO SHOW THEIR HANr

BEGINNING TO SHOW THEIR HAND,
AS the day Of election approaches the
allied corporations are beginning to
show thei: hand in the municipal con-
test. While the corporation clackers are
still pounding the hewgag and rending
the air for Benson, the TRUSTEES on the
corporation pay roll are carrying on IA
still hunt and industriOusly plugging for
Howell, In spite of all precautions
taken to cover their tracks, the men de-
tailed for this delicate work have been
discovered making a house TO house
canvass among the laboring men In sew
eral wards and especially among the
unsophisticated foreigners who do not
comprehend the issues involved and
know very little about the relations OF
the candidates to the corporations.
The pernicious activity Of the police
board in the preliminary part of the
campaign in favor of Edward f. Howell
at the democratic primaries and against
] Frank L. MOores at the republican pri,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
LhBoa UNION Incorporation.

HDC AZ Wv AAF9RAA ~ NkNH
The proposition that labor unions
should be incorporated has some sup
port. There are instances I'm which such
organizations have asked for incorpora-
ton, though these are rare and excep-
tional. Whether they will become more
numerous and general In the future is
n question, but from present indlca-
tions It Is not likely that they will. The
idea Of those who propose incorpora-
ton is that 1t Will make the unions re-
sponsible for whatever they may do and
that this will have a restraining effect
upon their administration and conduct.
The general-we may say the prac-
tlcally unanimous - sentiment among
members of the labor unions is opposed
to incorporation. We do not know Of
any leader Of labor in the country who
is In favor of the proposition. One of
the foremost men in this relation IN the
country, Mr.. Clark, the grand chief of
the Order Of Railway Conductors. who
was a member of the anthracite coal
strike commission, has In a published
article taken a very decided position
against the Incorporation proposition.
His view is that capital gains a well
defined advantage by Incorporation
which could have no analogy in the case
of labor. In his view those who desire
the incorporation of labor unions do SO
for the purpose Of holding the union
responsible for losses that might occur
to others, as a result of a strike which
the members Of the union might In
augurate.
Mr.. Clark makes a very plausible IL
not an altogether conclusive argument
against the proposition that there should
be an incorporation of labor unions. It
Is n of those questions which are not
to be determined of-hand, but require
very careful and considerable attention,
There Is much to be said on both sides
and the objections which are made by
the labor unions are unquestionably of a
generally sounds and logical nature, Alb
stractly considered, perhaps 1t would be
well If the unions had the greater re-
sponsibility which would be involved in
incorporation. Mr.. Clark says that an
incorporated labor union could be and
should be held responsible for the acts of
its chosen officers and agents, and the
members Of the union would have to look
to their officers and agents to see that no
unlawful act is authorized" 1t is not to
be doubted that this would be a very
considerable advantage in the interest
of Industrial peace, but in order to make
such a policy entirely fair IN Just II
would seem to be necessary to accord
to organized labor rights and privileges
which it is not now regarded as DOS.
sessing. .,,,y a ,
The question is certainly a most In
teresting n and 1t seems likely &c
grow in attention as the labor issue be
comes more acute. AT this time the
consensus of opinion in the circles OF
organized labor is very strongly against
the incorporation idea. but 1t is by ne
means improbable that there will be .
change in this sentiment within the mex
few years.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
INVESTORS.
Nebraska Sets n Proper Pace for
other States.

"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Tit failure Of 80 many investment COM
panies has stirred up the legislatures OF
several states to enact laws for the pro-
lection OF investors. In Nebraska a law,
which becomes operative October /, pro-
vides that all investment companies shall
be under the supervision of the State Bank
ing board, which is authorized to refuse
them permission to do business II any of
their rules are unfair, unjust, ~inequitable
or oppressive to any class Of contributor"
This language is perhaps not Che clearest
that might nave been selected to cover the
case OF companies which promise impos-
sibilities. but II will probably be held suf-
heient for that purpose. At all events,
competent supervision ought to do some
thing to protect the people.
There Is a bill before the legislature OF
Illinois for a similar purpose, which re-
quires a deposit OF $25, 900 In cash or bonds,
to be made with the state treasurer, be-
fore any business be done, and giving GER
tain equities TO investors. This law will
at least, head on those companies which
begin business with no assets but a desk
and a few quires OF letter heads.
The best security for investors. no doubt
is such elementary knowledge OF business
as will warn them that promises to make
everybody rich in ninety days, issued b!
men who have never acquired any property
themselves, are necessarily delusive. In th'
absence Of such knowledge something MAJ
be lone to protect them by statute from
certain class OF sharpers. but not a grea
deal. Whatever can be done, however
without interfering with legitimate bust
ness. may we'll gag the attention Of oul
lawmakers.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27

Washington Post.

Look about you, gentle reader, and con-
slider the solemn ass in every walk Of life.
Who so respected, so admired. so induen-
tial? He never takes sides. He never is
a partisan. He goes along with knitted
brow, his thoughts too deep for utterance.
Smaller men may abandon themselves to
hasty ~inclinations, to rash preferences, to
robust views. He never does. II he speaks
at all 1t is with such p%rofundity and cir
cumlocutlon and completely that the most
reconcile cryptogram ever rescued from a
pyramid would seem to burst Of innocent
and childish candor in comparison. Yet
he wears fine raiment every day. He enjoys
the respect and confidence Of the commu-
nifty. He prospers. the oil Of opulence
anoints him. He Is the incarnation Of sue
cess.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
PRESIDENT IN THE PARK.
What the Vacation I'm YellOwstOne's
F~astnesses Means.
ChIcaRo Tribune.

chicago Ir1Dune.
The president has emerged from Yellow
stone park after, his two weeks stay in it's
wilds and amid It's wonders. His play time
with "the visible forms of nature" with
out responsibility or conventions, he must
commune with the, visible form of people,
face the responsibility and pay proper
Difference to the conventions. Undoubtedly
to a man of the presidents makeup new
physical vigor and strenuous habit OF life
the last two weeks have been specially en-
j~oyable. He has been a privileged spectator
Of geysers, hot springs, mud volcanoes,
paint pots, the maTvels Of HelTs Half Acre,
and the g%lories OF the Yellowstone canyon.
He has been followed by admiring herds Of
elk and greeted by mountain sheep and
goats. With every bird but one he has been
on terms of acquaintance, and to that one
stranger his comTade, John Burroughs,
could give him introduction. He has had
~twenty-mile walks by himself, and what
twenty miles Of walking off the beaten
ways of the Yellowstone park means only
those who have tried one mile can tell.
In these two weeks the president must
have accumulated sufficient of natures
healthful tonic for the rest of the tour.
Even to the ordinary tourist who rushes
through the park by schedule, there is
something wonderfully exhilarating in Its
pure, clear, bracing air. 1t Is one of the
few breathing spots not yet tainted by man.
The presidents visit and his felicitous ref
erences to 1t in his short address at Gardi-
ner will have the good result of calling at
tention to the park, and perhaps may slim
ulate some of those who make annual tours
to California, Florida and Europe to pay
a visit to what the president rightly calls
"the most absolutely unique" and "verita-
BILE wonderland in any civilized country"
The park now is easily accessible. Its
hotels are admirably conducted. A two
weeks stay is inexpensive when compared
to the expense of the ordinary mountain
and seaside resorts, and the tourist will find
little OF discomfort. 1t is encouraging to
note that the president says The govern
ment must continue to appropriate for IT.
and especially In the direction Of complet-
ing and perfecting an excellent system Of
driveways." This is to the point. At pres
ent one main thoroughfare traverses a por-
ton only Of the park, and, as a rule, 1t Ii
well kept up, but It should be continued tC
the parks limit, and connecting drives
should be laid out, so that 1t will be posi-
BILE for tourists easily to reach some OF the
wonders which now are only accessible BY
horseback or by long tramping on foot In
volying the necessity Of camping. II the
presidents visit had had no other result
than to call public attention and the atten'
ton Of congress to this wonderland II
would not have been in vain.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
RUSSIAN PROMISE AND PERFoRMAso,

RUSSIAN PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE
Those who have been long familiar
with the tricky and INSCRIPTIONS policy
Of the Russian government will not be
at all surprised regarding its latest de-
velopment in China. While that govern.
ment had given the most unqualified
assurances Of its intention to withdraw
its military forces from Manchuria and
to maintain in that territory the open
door principle in trade, 1t Is now seen
that its purpose was simply to more
firmly intrench Itself in that portion of
China and when it felt itself to be
secure to practically all it had
promised and assert complete control OF
the richest and most commercially val.
liable portion of the Chinese empire.
In accomplishing this the Russian gov.
eminent has pursued, it appears, its
%proverbial course. 1t has made fair
promises to the nations while carrying
on secret negotiations with the Chinese
government and strengthening Its power
in the region which 1t desired to per
manently retain. Its protestations of q
purpose to deal fairly, If ever seriously
meant, appear to be utterly disre
garded and the indications are that the
purpose Is to shut out all the CONNER
clal nations from that great territory
in China that is under Russian domino
ton.
Thus IL would seem that all the efforts
OF the United States toI'preserve the
open door in China had failed SO far Al
Manchuria is concerned. There will b.
protests, undoubtedly, against the arbi
trary and INSCRIPTIONS course of Rus
sla, but as now seems probable they
will not amount to anything. Steadily
and surely that power has beer
strengthening her position In the Oh.
nese empire, or in that portion Of |
which is under Russian control, anC
the best opinion is that this control 4
now so firmly established that II will
hardly be possible to interfere with II
As Manchuria has taken more of Amer
.can products than any other portion o
China the situation has peculiar interes
for the manufacturers and merchants o
the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
AND FAKIRS.


There is an old adage that birds of a
feather will flock together. The natural
affinity of the wildcat boomer and pro-
mOter is the constituencies fakir who
conjures the most extravagant tales out
Of his fertile Imagination. 1t was in
accord with the eternal fitness of things
for the Benson boomers to select as their
organ the mercenary red letter sheet that
emits lurid and ludicrous fakes from
day to day to bolster up the bubble can
didate.
One day we are told that Frank Il.
Moores has about concluded to with
draw from the mayoralty race. Another
day we are reminded that pickpockets,
gamblers and common drunkards are not
expected to vote for Benson. We are
told in the same breath that they are
not for Benson and that Benson has
made inroads among the keepers and
patrons of Third ward dives by his per-
sonal appeals for their support, coupled
with the assurance that they would be
treated as well by him as they have been
by the Omaha police commission.
The latest red letter fake is the start
ling announcement that 1.-The Omaha
gamblers are preparing a desperate fight
to defeat Benson and have raised a cor
ruption fund said to amount to $4,000
This will be a great revelation to Act
ing Mayor Broatch, who claims to have
suppressed gambling In Omaha and has
time and again given assurance to anti
machine purifiers that the police as now
organized have thoroughly suppressed
Tom Dennison and all other gamblers.
OF all the fakes that have been con-
cOcted by the Benson fakery the most
brazen is the report that the Moores
bluecoats have broken up a Benson meet.
ing and ordered the crowd that gath.
cred around the Benson standard at Six.
teenth and Davenport streets to dispense
Who controls Omaha b%luecoats?. Is. II
Mayor .Moores or w. J. Broatch? If the
bluecoats have actually dispersed 8
crowd Of Bensonites near Jefferson
square it could not possibly have beer
by order of Mayor Moores, who has
been stripped of all police authority
ever since that most blatant Bensonite
w. j, Broatch, arrogated to himself die
t%atorial powers. as acting chairman Of
the fire and police commission.
The Benson fakery, which Is notori
ously afflicted with an impeachment o.
veracity. has evidently forgotten th,
explanation made In it's own columns
only a few days ago concerning tn,
action Of the police in dispensing a so
cialist gathering on the same spot. Blu
fakes are water on the Bensonite mil
wheel and will so continue to be unit
the bubble candidate shares the fate O
the lamented bubble bank and is rel
egated among the other political bric-a
brac preserved to illustrate a memorabl,
chapter in Omaha's checkered and multi
colored political history.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
FUzzY-wUzzIEs SCORE.
Path of Civilization in Af-ica Marked
by a Cemetery.

Minneapolis Times.
The story of the humiliation Of a British
column in Somaliland sounds like an echo
from Egypt in the palmy days Of the mahdi.
In point Of fact the somalis Of East Africa
seem not very different from our old
friends, the Fuzzy Wuzzies Of the soudan.
they are led by q Mohammedan fanatic
called, like so many other OF his kind, the
Mad Mullah, who seems to repeat on q
small scale the pretensions and influence
Of the mahdi and Of his successor, the
khalifa. TIE British discovered some time
ago that the Somalis were arst-class fight
ing men, and the disaster now reported 10
one OF the common d~eplorable incidents
OF the redemption OF Africa from barbarism.
OF course It is all in the game OF empire.
The British will send moro troops and
overrun the country. destroy the Mad
Mullah, enlist his fighting men in the ma
tive forces and ~tranquilize the country for
commerce and industry. This is going on,
at much expense Of brave lives and hard
gotten revenue, all around the fringes of
the empire.