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Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
A GREAT COUNTRY is THIS.
Lessen of the United states Arranged
for EurOpe's BENEFIT.


for EurOpe's Benefit.
M. Anatole Leroy -Beaulieu in Worlds
Work
To my. view, what makes the greatness
Of the United States among the nations is
less it's tremendous economic development
than its political institutions and its con-
seriousness OF liberty In every field of action
and life. This comes back to saying that
what has made its greatness Is less the
country itself than the men who inhabt II.
1t is less the great expanse of its territory
and its natural resources Of soil and OF
wealth underground than the qualities and
the energies of the people who have culti-
waited the magnificent plains and the beau
tiful mountains of North America, and
made them pay,
Nature had provided between the two
oceans for a great empire and a great ma
tion But for this empire to be born and
for this nation to take form, live and pros
per. it was necessary that II should be in
habited by people capable of exploiting and
binding together these vast expanses In
this sense one might say that ii Is the
American who has made America, although
between the Atlantic and the Pacific, az
elsewhere, there was mutual influence of
men on the land and the land on men. But
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
A MAJORITY PRESIDENT.
Sentimental satisfaction In an EIeo-
tion SO Decisive.

New 1oEh tribune.
II may seem rather late to make COM
ments upon the presidential vote Of nearly
two months ago. but the report OF the ON
cial canvass suggests the agreeable con-
sideration that in an exceptional degree
Mr. Roosevelt will enter upon his next
term of office as majority president"
Some presidents have been elected by less
than half the popular vote, and have thus
been known minority presidents" their
election being. Of course, as valid as any,
though from sentimental point OF view
scarcely as satisfactory as one elected by
a clear majority of all votes.
There Is no question about President
Roosevet's majority OF the popular vote.
Reckoned in the country at large. It IL
Overwhelming. In many individual states,
too. IL is enormous, Not least interesting
of all Is It to observe that, with. we be-
lieve. only three exceptions, every state
voted for either Mr. Roosevelt or Mr..
Parker by n clear majority. In some
former contests It has been said that the
successful candidate would have been
beaten IL the scattering votes in few of
the states had been concentrated in favor
Of his opponent That cannot be said this
time. In only three states were there
enough scattering votes to have affected the
result II they had been cast otherwise,
one was Kentucky. which Mr.. Parker car
ried by less than 1900 plurality, while
there were more than 1900 scattering votes.
A second was Maryland whose vote was
close as to divide the electoral college,
and IN which the casting of the 5000 scat
tering votes for either of the two chief
candidates would have turned the scale
in his direction. The third was Missouri
which went for Mr.. Roosevelt by %, Co.,
but cast more than 5000 scattering votes.
In every other state there was a clear ma
jority for ona candidate over all.
There is ,as have said, certain
sentimental satisfaction in the making OF
an election so decisive. A simple majority
Of the electoral college is constitutionally
sufficient to give president valid title.
But by way of "clinching it, It is we'll
for a president to have. as Mr.. Roosevelt
has clear majority Of the whole popular
vote, and clear majority OF the popular
vote in a large majority of the individual
states. and to be I'm no respect dependent
upon a mere plurality
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS.
Com missiOner GaraeId's Proposals
Pronounced the Last straw.


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We do not know how in simple and en-
gaging guise there could be framed another
measure so subversive Of our whole theory
and principle of government What would
become of the sovereignty Of thhe states
What pretence could be alleged Of it's con-
| tinued existence? How long would It be
possible for us to recognize ourselves as
the United States OF America? Should we
not at once become the State of America.
with no more pretence to constitution
than IL we were an aggregation Of zem-
stvos?
1t is impossible to suspect Mr.. GARFIELD
Of an Interior or a defty concealed pur-
pose. He does not want to destroy cor
porations and eliminate them forever from
the body polite. Nevertheless, does he
not obviously propose that individuals may
usurp all the rights and privileges now
enjoyed by corporations and in their single
capacity or as firms do an unrestricted
interstate business from which collective
capital is prohibited?
Mr.. Garfield may hold that this is only
a detail; but we assure him that IL he
will ponder 1t in the light OF the counsel
Of the other side he will find that IL is a
detail Of ominous dimensions.
The most alluring aspect of Mr.. Gar
neld proposition is that which seems to
imply that It would operate to the benefit
of property, inasmuch as the federal gov
eminent cannot, We presume, issue its
license TO a corporation without at the
same time guaranteeing to its beneficiary
an adequate degree of protection. The
stockholders and investors generally would
like to make the experiment of a govern
ment oversight OF their interests. II ought
TO amount to something for them as we'll
as for the masses. The proposal, proba-
bly,, is not to abolish property rights as
they are described and understood under
the constitution, although we seem to re-
call a disturbing utterance on this subject
from higher authority than Mr.. Garfield
We can understand very well that the
vast army Of men and women whose means
OF life are derived from shares i'm cor
porations and who have suffered sorely
from corporate malfeasance and dishonesty
would gladly welcome the interference of
any power that promised to add to their
security. We can believe. too, that they
would grasp at it without any too careful
scrutiny Of its nature. But the remedy
which Mr.. Garfield holds out to them is an
igns fatuus which they may grasp only
after the congress has consented to burn
the constitution of the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
Personal NOTES.

Judge Parker appears to be persona
grata, even among his political opponents,
so long as he isn't running for office.
The comptroller of the treasury says there
Is a need OF IS bills. He seems TO be a
careful, accurate and conservative offlcial.
Franklin Pierce a grandson OF President
Franklin Pierce, has been designated by
President Roosevelt to take the examina-
ton for second lieutenant in the regular
army.
A New Yorker has Just accomplished the
feat of eating a quail a day for thirty con-
secutive days. 1t Is a feat fraught with
diffculties, and not the least of the OBJ
stacles to most persons is TO get the quail.
Just before he left the pension office Com
missioner Ware was asked for a recon-
mendation by a watchman. This is what
Ware wrote: Dear jackson: II you are
not in heaven when | get there I'll hx 1t
to have you transferred
Negotiations have been completed
whereby Purdue university, Indiana, Is
TO receive from the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad the loan OF the historic
locomotive, Daniel Mason" which was
built in 1855.
The widow OF "stonewall" Jackson is
greatly delighted with the appointment of
her only grandson to a oadetship In West
Point The athletic young fellow is now
at school near Atlanta and Is pursuing hts
studies with the same zeal that character
ized his soldier grandfather.
They are not sentimental in the senate Of
the United States and look ahead with cold
and calculating eyes, which stat tsment 10
borne out by the fact that some senator
republican whose name is as yet con-
cealed by the sergsant-at-srms, has filed
ON the seat OF Chauncey Mitchell Depew
claiming II as his own In the event that
Mr. Depew shall not win for another term
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
MExlCANIzED COLORADO.

At long range il looks as IL Colorado
republic that had lost its republican
form Of government For more than
two years mob rule, executive anarchy,
judicial anarchy and legislative anarchy
have held full sway in the Centennial
state, and the end is not yet. The forci-
bic detention of Governor Peabody in
the executive chair by court mandate.
based on the alleged frauds perpetrated
in the late election by all parties and all
sexes cannot fail eventually to have
reactionary effect.
While fraud vitiates all contracts, no
political party in Colorado seems TO have
a monopoly on fraud, and while posses
sion is nine points of the law, partisan
decisions designed to bolster one set of
frauds against another set of frauds
must i'm the long run undermine popular
self-government and prove disastrous to
the party that perverts the machinery
Of the courts for the sake of temporary
success. Possibly Colorado republicans
do not realize that they are only sowing
the wind now, to reap the whirlwlnd
when the day Of reckoning shall come.
Counting out political opponents and
counting in political co-laborers by judi
cial DEGREES and legislative legerdemain
is not a paying investment in the long
run. The cry that "they all do it" af-
fords no justification for wrong doing.
Two wrongs do not make a right. What
is condemnable in political opponents
cannot be commendable in your own
party. Political anarchy in Colorado is
not merely a serious affiiction TO the
people of that state. but menace to the
entire republic. No state of the Amer- |
can union can be Mexicanized without
severely jarring the entire political fab
ric on which constitutional government
rests
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
serious confederation.

Leslie Ntehly.
These are considerations which demand
the serious attention OF the republican
party today. The sweeping victory OF 1904
was largely personal. Almost any good
republican could have carried the country
this year, but no other man whom the
republican party ever had could have
gained the stupendous plurality which
Roosevelt rolled up, Cnder any other man
several states which are now in the repub-
lican column would have been lost. This
years result gives no sort Of hint as 10
what the outcome may be four years hence.
Roosevelts magnetic personality will be
absent from the next canvass IL he has his
way. The number of independents Is get
ting larger and larger every year. Victory
cannot be gained by the republicans -four
years hence unless they make a record be-
tween now and then which deserves vie
tory
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
THINGS WE MUST FORGET.
Amusing Harmony Suggestions from
Across the Atlantic.
ChiCaRO Tribune

chicago Tribune.
A month ago an English gentleman, Sir
Edward Clarke, suggested that the people
of the United States call themselves ''Usoni-
ans instead of Americans. Now another
English cousin suggests a slight modihca .
tion of the national hymn, The Star Span
gled Banner" Sir Howard Vincent, M T..
objects to the third verse for the reason
that IL recalls the enmity for Great Britain
which rankled i'm the composers heart whe,,
he penned the lines. He declares that the
words are inapplicabe and out OF date,
keep an old sore needlessly running, and
breed i'll will and distrust in young America.
Therefore by all means, let the third verse
be dropped and the hatreds and passions OF
older days forgotten.
The suggestion of Sir Vincent will be fol-
lowed. The third verse will be dropped
Any other suggestion in the interests of in
ternational peace will be gladly received
Our navy may be too large. Any sugges-
tions as to dispensing with all or part or
that needless functionary will be gladly e&-
ecuted. There may be certain chapters In
American history calculated to excite hos
tility. 1t may be that such chapters had bet
ter be dropped. The Declaration of Inde-
pendence, when read at Fourth of July GET
ebrations, may awaken mild anti-Britisn
sentiment among those who try to under
stand why the instrument was promulgated.
Probably 1t had better be forgotten.
The correct understanding of history ana
a true knowledge of the early struggles of
a small but liberty loving people OF no
Importance when weighed against the pos
sible i'll will which may result when that
country gets into position to take care OF
itself and then learns who was its worst foe
I'm the early days.
The British insist that we are their
cousins That may be. The difference Is
that we used to be poor re.ations, and now
we are rich and powerful relatives upon
whose forbearance depends the integrity OF
their empire
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

Is not State Superintendent Fowler
getting little ahead of the game in
declaring in advance of the Omaha meet
ing that the State Teachers association
capital city? To man up a tree, M
Fowlers outspoken antipathy to Omaha
seems to date only from the time he
failed to connect with the position of
superintendent of the Omaha public
schools.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
Gold BRICK Artist E.capes.

Mr.. Hooley. the English promoter. who
ehiseled his gullible countrymen out OF
about SO, 100000 by schemes in comparison
with which the gold brick trick is nice and
legitimate. has been found not guilty. II
the news OF that verdict Is carried down
TO the shade OF Whitaker Wright as he
stalks about in the regions below, he will
experience deep regret over the fact tha I
he failed TO take into partnership a sum
cient number Of the British nobility TO
secure immunity from punishment Now
that Hooley is free. Mrs. Chadwick should
cheer "
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

as great as this last was. the first seems
to have been even more powerful, and this
is one Of the causes which. from my point
Of view. bring about the originality and
the superiority Of the United States.
The causes Of its success and Of its great
ness are not merely material causes due to
the generosity Of nature toward II. They
are, above all others moral causes, due to
the character. the education, the enersy
and the spirit OF enterprise Of Americana
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

When Omaha cut down the term of
the gas franchise from fifty years to
twenty-five years dozen years ago. it
was supposed it settled it once for all
that thereafter no franchise privileges
granted by this city were to extend be-
yond a quarter of a century. The de-
cision reached then ought to be binding
as precedent in the granting of fran
chise privileges by the county as well.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

New York Italians fought a duel after
riding to the appointed place in an auto
mobile If they had been up-to-date in
their ideas they might have run the
machine into telegraph pole and the
survivor, If any. would have accom-
plished the same result. as well as tested
his courage
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
The committees appointed by the Rea

The committees appointed by the Real
Estate exchange, the city council and
the Commercial club to formulate new
charter appear to lack the courage of
taking the initiative, and unless they
screw up their courage quickly we shall
probably witness a repetition of piece
meal charter tinkering after the legisla-
ture has begun its session.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

Since the papers taken by the Ohio
sheriff TO New York for the return of
DR. Chadwick to Cleveland have been
found defective it is possible the techni-
calities are not all exhausted in the case
against his wife.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

The marriage of Miss Letter TO the
earl Of SUFFOLK at Washington proves
that as a place for international wed.
dlngs the national capital possesses a
superiority over New York, In that the
bridal party Is not niobbed by anxious
sishtseers
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

The resigned treasurer OF the Civic
Federation says the executive committee
''inst about runs things" The exeen-
tive committee consists OF five persons,
who. however, have no hesitation in de
claring that they speak for 1000 or 1900
with whom they never even confer
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

1t is said that the sultan OF Morocco
would Hike TO extend trade relations with
the United States, but he must remem.
ber that all dealers cannot do as well
with American merchants as Raisouli
did with Perdicarls.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

A party of Japanese parliamentarians
have gone to view the war at close
range. II they are anything like Ameri-
can congressman they will return home
Ia few weeks knowing more about
how the war should be conducted than
the generals in command.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
Powerful Cantesa Argument.

II il is true that the Womans Army nd
Navy league embraces the wife. mother
and daughters of nearly every officer in the
army, what has the Woman's Christian
Temperance union to say TO the petition
OF these good women that the canteen be
restored? 1t is worth thinking about,
ladies.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

No one concerned cares to undertake to
prove Lawson a liar, because II the facts
were not exactly as he alleges, they were
such that no participant wishes to have
the truth disclosed. Lawson knew what
II was perfectly safe to do
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

Omaha has a great future before It to
n certainty, but the way to realize on it
right away is by active efforts of pub
lic-spirited and enterprising citizens in
pushing 1t along
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
A suspicious Circumstance.

Railroad men might not take Commits
sioner Garfield's report so seriously If they
did not have a suspicion that President
Roosevelt had acted managing editor
of it,
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

When those new brooms are installed
in the court house next week the people
will look for general house cleaning
and the taxpayers for large measure of
relief.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
Up Against a Hard one,

The commission appointed 10 Investigate
the North sea incident has begun lite SIT
tings In Paris, aud would probably be will
ing to give something handsome 10 anybody
who could tell u how Ia reach a decision
satisfactory 10 both sideA
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

1t will be something out OF the ordi-
nary for Nebraska If we do not have at
least few days of zero weather this
side of New Years day.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

The protest of the insurance COM
panies against federal supervision is not
unexpected-in fact, should they have
failed to protest 1t would have been sur
Drisinp
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

The charter revision committees are
said to be moving--but the motion is
not swift enough to create any commo-
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

Government arbitration of freight
rates will be good thing, providing the
arbitrators are not all railroad men.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
Your uncie's stock of Gold.

New York Sun.
The stock of gold in the United States is
81, ,S2O, 4O0, COO and is greater than that of any
other country. 1t is nearly one-fourth of
the total stock of gold in the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

'All | need" remarked the college youth
who was taking an examination. rs "A
little time to collect my thoughts"
From various pockets and other places
or concealment he drew a number of CRIBS.
He passed.-Cleveland Leader
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

Omaha still remains the best show
town on this section of the map. Lots
of theaters in other cities have to shut
down altogether during the holiday
week.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

The week between Christmas and New
Years is designed without doubt so we
can fortify ourselves for the coming of
the bills dated January l.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

Knicker: why is a pretty girl like a
cinder?''
Booker: Give it up"
knicker: She is so hard to get out Of
your eye."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

The holiday railroad wreck arrived on
scheduled time. 1t is to be hoped that it
is not the precursor of others.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
IrritatinR Obstinacy

Chicago IrIbune,
When it is remembered that the fall of
Port Arthur was scheduled originally for
August Is, 1904, the obstinacy of that man
Stoessel becomes all the more Irritating
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

a municipal franchise is worth money
and so is a county franchise.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

1t is now said that Russia will have
free press. All the other reforms are
then certain to arrive short time after
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

Laying out the groundwork for New
Years resolutions is now in order.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

III some men imagined dey has money"
said Uncle Eben, ''as easy as dey mag
ines dey has brains. dey'd be In trouble
all de time fob overdrawin deir accounts. ="
-Washinton Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

General Miles has set one worthy ex-
ample in declining to draw two public
salaries while acting as part of the mill
tary establishment of Massachusetts.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

In its annual report the Dawes com
mission finds that despite the report Of
Attorney Bonaparte the board has fully
protected the rights of the Indians.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

The determination of the Womans Army
and Navy league to carry to successful is
sue their resolution in favor of the re-es-
tablishment Of the canteen feature of the
post exchange is shown by the pc ition
which will be presented to congress when
It reconvenes on January 4. 1t will be
signed by the members of the Woman's
Army and Navy league, and will read as
follows:
I'VE. the members of the Woman's Army
and Navy league an organization COM
posed, with but few exceptions, of women
closely related to officers in the army and
navy, and in the marine corps, do earnestly
petition the congress of the United States to
pass the bill No. S. sos. introduced on De-
cember s. 1904 by Senator Proctor: That
so much OF section IS of an act entitled:
An act to increase the efficiency of the
permanent military esta adjustment OF the
United States, approved February 2. 1901
as prohibits the sale of beer In any post
exchange or canteen at posts located in
states where such sale Is not prohibited
by the law of the state is hereby repealed
We make this petition after a careful
study of the effect the prohibition OF the
sale of beer at post exchanges has had
upon the enlisted men since the act of
February 2, 1901. The object OF the Woman's
Army and Navy league is to promote the
general welfare and contentment OF en-
listed men, and, judging from the numerous
reports of army officers of all ranks and
from every branch Of the military service
recommending the restoration OF the cam
teen as 1t existed prior to February 2,
1901, we think il is quite In order that we
should ada our voice in the interest of the
moral and physical well being Of the SOL
-. d
committee of the senate and the military
committee of the house OF representatives
will give this matter their dispassionate
consideration
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
sTATEMENr or ARTICULATION.

State Of Nebraska, Douglas County, IS.
George y. Tzscnuck, secretary Of The Fee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn.
says that the actual number of full and
complete cori les of The Daily, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month Of November, 1901. was as fol-
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27

Papa said little Johnny. docs Santa
Claus ever make any mistakes?"
But papa, who was the manager of the
exchange department in big retail store,
skillfuly cvaded the que stion.-Chicago
Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-27
SMILING LINES.

Towne-'rhat new clerk of mine is cer-
tainly very candid and outspoken but
l rather like him for It.
Browne-Told you to your face what he
thought of you. eh?
Towne-Yes: he said ] was the incest
man he ever worked for.-Chicago Tribune