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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-05-18
Feeling Is Less Tense.

Toxic. May l3.-As result OF recent
Developments In the French neutrality
i-lidcnt. resolution introduced I'm the
chamber OF commerce providing Tor a
boycott or French commerce has been
Withdrawn.
1t. Petersburg. May l3.-The danger
o. serious complications over the ques-
s!,I OF French neutrality Il regarded ~
over lor the present.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-05-18
Warships or Van Fons Bay.

Iionskors. May i3-Scvcntccn war
ships were sighted during Wednesday
evening twelve miles on Three King
bay.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-05-18
HERB CROKER DEAD
80" OF Famous Tsmmany Leader Ex-
pirss on Train from Over
dose OF Opium.

kansas CITY. No.. May i5.-charleS
woodsol. the negro porter who ac-
companied Herbert Croker to the train.
was arrested this morning and held
for Investigation.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-05-18
Sehoolboy Leader Arrcsted.

Henry Hanson. alleged leader OF the
strike nj Harrison school. was arrested
charged with disorderly conduct. Prir-
cipal Payne declared about ! 800 TO /. .CO
pupils were out.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-05-18
Colored Man Fatally slusged.
Next the Blacklist.

IL was stated nuthoratiyely today
that early next week tho employers
association would make up "A black
list" or all tcamsters on strike. These
men. $500 In all. viii De notified that II
they have not returned To work by the
end OF next week they will never be
retnstated under any circumstances.
The pupils or Carter II. Harrison
school struck today when the wagons
or the Peabody Coal company arrived
II the building To- deliver coal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
RESTRICTING COTTON PRODUCTION.


The acreage planted in cotton this
year was less than the preceding year
and of course there was a corresponding
decrease in the crop, with resulting
higher prices for the staple. The plant
ers are advised by the president of the
Southern Cotton association not to in
crease the acreage next year, 1t being
urged that the present estimated $1,000,
COO acres is sufficient under normal eli
matte conditions to produce enough cot
ton to meet the demands of the spinners.
1t is declared that the legitimate law of
supply and demand is the only true me-
dunn of regulating fair and legitimate
prices of cotton.
The matter is one in which all con-
sumers of cotton goods are more or less
interested. 1t is also one which has a
very important relation to our foreign
commerce, in which the exports Of cot
ton occupy the leading place. 1t is very
probable that the planters will heed the
wv ~ hot W ihcTtdSt TIE COttOn acre
age. and il so the increasing demand
must inevitably raise the price If this
should go on for few years the effect
would be to make cotton goods almost
a luxury, materially reducing the "
eign demand for it and also the home
consumption. Then would come reac-
ton and in the end the planters would
be no better off. Moreover the policy adj
vised would stimulate efforts in new
fields OF production, so that the southern
producers might find themselves con-
fronted with formidable competition.
The counsel of the president of the cot
ton association is of questionable wis
dom.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
TARIFF ON PHILIPPINE PRODUCTs


The house committee on ways and
means has entered upon a hearing re-
| garding the question of reducing the
tariff on Philippine sugar and tobacco.
President Roosevelt in his message and
Secretary Taft in his annual report
urged reduction to % per cent of the
Dingley rates on those products of the
islands, all other products to come into
the United States free. The proposed
reduction on sugar and tobacco is op-
posed by the domestic interests.
In an interview few days ago Mr..
Thomas +. Walsh of Colorado declared
that II sugar is admitted to the Amer
lean market at % per cent of the Ding
ley duty the effect will he TO Kill the beet
sugar industry in his state. He said
that Cuba and the Philippines could
soon produce all the sugar consumed in
the United States and that the cheap
labor there would starve the American
sugar beet raiser out of business. He
expressed the opinion that the PROPOSE
ton is merely design on the part of
enormously rich, greedy spectators,
who are willing to adopt any means for
the accumulation of more money. They
propose TO exploit the Philippines for
their own selfish ends. lit means" said
Mr.. Walsh, 1.-THE ultimate ruin of an In
dustry that is full of the brightest prom
Use for thousands of Americans. II
means that the people OF the United
States shall pay tribute to a trust for
ever for one Of the necessaries OF life"
He believed that If the beet sugar in
dustry is protected against this danger
It will soon be able to furnish cheap
sugar to the people of this country, max
ing home market for home labor and
consequent prosperity for all. But If
the beet sugar industry Is wiped out the
Sugar trust will repeat In the Philip
pines what 1t has done In Cuba and
every pound Of sugar will be under its
control.
The representatives OF the American
sugar-growing interest who appeared
before the ways and means committee
pointed out the great difference in the
wages paid in the Philippines and here
and declared that the producers in the
Islands are not In need OF any assist
anee from congress. Undoubtedly there
win be heard an equally earnest opposi-
non on the part OF the domestic tobacco
growers notwithstanding the fact that
Secretary TAFT and others have said that
no possible injury could be done to the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

American tobacco interest by allowing
the tobacco of the Philippines to come
into the United States at the reduced
rate proposed
President Roosevelt said in his an
nual message: II do not anticipate that
free trade between the islands and the
United States will produce a revolution
In the sugar and tobacco production in
the Philippine islands. So primitive are
the methods of agriculture in the Phil
ippines. so slow is capital in going to the
islands, so many difficulties surround a
large agricultural enterprise in the
islands, that it will be many. many
years before the products of those
Islands will have any effect whatever
upon the markets OF the United States"
PROFESSIONALLY II the proposed legisla-
ton should be enacted IL would be a
long time before it would have any APP
preciable effect upon domestic interests,
but it is altogether natural that those in
terests should endeavor to secure them
selves against the possibility OF future
injury, however remote, and there is
every assurance that they will make a
vigorous fight against the proposed re-
duction of duties.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
A suggestion for Judge Munger.

A suggestion to Judge Munger: II Is cur.
rently reported that the members of the
federal jury now on duty in Omaha are be-
Ing supplied with free railroad passes
every time they want to take trip out in
the state to visit their families. Now Il so
happens that the railroads giving these
free passes have several important suits
pending before that same court where those
jurors are serving. Perhaps the giving OF
the free passes may not influence the ju-
rors. Perhaps they are built of such mean
stuff that they never feel called upon to
return favor for favor, as every gentleman
should. But all the same the Herald sug-
gests that District Attorney Baxter ought
to get his grand jury busy in this matter.
1t has been held by some of the strong
courts OF the nation that the acceptance of
free pass by a Juror disqualifios him In
case where the railroad company is inter-
ested Perhaps grand jury investigation
would disqualify all of Judge Munger's
jurors. Perhaps the pass business has been
so good that even his grand Jurors would
be disqualified. But no matter: the investi-
CATION should be made at once. Judge Mum
ger cannot afford TO have his court under
suspicion Everybody believes in him as a
man and as a magistrate. 1t is his duty to
Keep the records of his jurors and court
officials as clean as his own good record.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
EDUCATING THE INDIAN.

The present commissioner Of Indian
affairs, Francis r. Leupp. has ideas re-
garding the method that should be pur-
sued I'm educating the Indian which IL
not altogether novel are certainly inter
esting. In his annual report he points
out that the Indian has as distinct an
individuality as any type of man who
ever lived and in order to Judge him
Alright we must learn to measure him by
his own standards. Little can be done
to change the Indian who has already
passed middle life. He is likely to re-
main an Indian of the old school to the
last. But something can be done with
the younger adults, though the main
hope lies with the youthful generation,
who are still measurably plastic.
We must educate the boys and girls,
rather than merely instruct them, is the
admonition of the commissioner He
thinks the ordinary Indian boy is better
equipped for his life struggle on from
tier ranch when he can read the simple
English of the local newspaper, can
write a short letter which is ineligible
and knows enough Of figures to discover
whether the storekeeper is cheating him.
Having acquired this his time could be
put at its best in learning how TO do
those practical tasks which are likely to
fall to him. A like method of instruc-
ton should apply to the Indian girls.
Give them the rudiments of an educa-
ton and then let them learn the ordinary
domestic tasks and duties, so that they
may be qualified to take care of home.
This is common sense view and
there can be no doubt that had it been
adopted long ago the condition of the
Indian generally would be better than
1t is, though on the whole it is now COM
paratively satisfactory. Commissioner
Leupp has made a most careful study of
Indian character and therefore what he
says merits attentive consideration.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
THE BRASS BAND REFRAIN.

A year ago this winter a trainload
Of South Omaha politicians and ward
heelers with a brass band accompani-
ment went down to Lincoln to remon-
strate against any legislation that would
enable the people of South Omaha to
decide for themselves whether they
wanted that town annexed to Omaha or
not, and they were successful in fright
ening the Douglas delegation into cut
ting the annexation clause out of the
Omaha and South Omaha charters.
Since then public sentiment in South
Omaha in favor of annexation has
grown from day to day, and it is ad-
mitted ON all hands that if the PROPOSE
ton for consolidation of the two cities
were now submitted it would carry by
an overwhelming majority.
The true inwardness of the brass band
demonstration was the anxiety Of the
South Omaha real estate spectators
and grafters to plaster few more mort
cages on the town before they let go
their grip on the municipal machinery
by which they have managed to fitch
money from the taxpayers and fill their
own pockets. 1t is matter of notoriety
that every bond deal in South Omaha
has been more or less tainted with cor
ruption and graft. 1t was perfectly
natural that every proposition looking
to the issue of more bonds was viewed
with suspicion by the rank and file of
South Omaha taxpayers and that was
doubtless the reason why the sewer
bond proposition was defeated at the
last election. But the South Omaha
grafters and ringsters are not easily dis
couraged
Within less than six weeks after the
election they are hard at work to con-
summate q scandalous real estate deal
by which a site that is not worth over
$500 is TO be unloaded upon the city for
$4,000 for city hall. With this end in /
view they have offered $1,000 to the
party that has invoked the power of the
courts to enjoin the issue of city hall
bonds as an inducement to drop his
suit, and they do not even make secret
of 1t. I'VE are working to build up
South Omaha" they cry, land even If
there is a side graft in the sale of lots
and rake-off on the bonds. and an
other rake-off on the contract for build
ing, the town will have something to
show for it,"
This may placate some people in
South Omaha, but should not he sub
mitted to by the great body of South
Omaha taxpayers without remon-
STRANGE much louder than the brass
band that went TO Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
HEART BEAT OF THE CROWD.

w. ID. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
We thread our way through tanRles; we
Jostle through the aisles,
Yet each has for his neghbor the merriest
of smiles;
1t is no time for fretting. for Tuning, or
When we go with the current that sursss
up and down,
When we can hear all family as in soma
far on song,
The pulsing chords that measure the heart
beats OF the throng
For once the world is moving in one har-
monlous way,
The folk live. in the spirit that blesses
They dream Of waiting stockings hung
And each one thinks Of others, and no ono
And man, and maid. and matron. and
youth and grandsire bowed
Thrill with the common cadence, the heart
beat of the crowd.
Thoughts go in mystic fashion with glad
ness In their train
To city and to village. to little country
And pictures rise before us OF days that
used to be-
the wondrous tree,
And all the olden sweetness and all the
olden song
Swell chantlike in the music-the heart beat
of the throng.
The world is better for tilt coaxes back
That echo all the laughter OF wondrous
And life is brighter for It. for this brief
season spent
In elbow touch while footing the Road OF
Good Intent,
For here meet great and humble and here
meet poor and proud.
And here all know together the heart beat
Of the crowd.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
EDWARD ATKINSON,
Notable student of Social and PoIit-
zeal Economy.

Notable student of Social and PoIit-
zeal Economy.
New York World.
Edward Atkinson filled a role for which
he has left no successor. He was a ma
uonal mentor whose function 1t was to cor
rect, to reprove and to chasten.
Statistics were his stock in trade. and
pamphlets of which his output was prod
igious. the vehicles OF his propaganda.
The frequency with which he was in this
wrong lent effectiveness to his views when
he was right. AS a student OF social and
political economy the scope OF his inquiries
ranged from theories OF banking and the
distribution OF food products to economi-
cal processes In household kitchens.
Equally with his voluminous works on free
trade the currency question and cotton
manufacture his fuel-saving oven is a
monument TO the variety of hts researches.
Yet II is in his controversial writings and
advocacy OF the impraeticable that Mr..
Atkinson perhaps served his highest use
fulness. To the support of unfeasible
projects he brought a convincing logic
and an attractive style. What in one OF
lesser gifts would have been merely the
erotchets II crank he dignihed with an
art that almost persuaded. With all his
faults he mad moral courage-and moral
courage Is Is sufficiently scarce In this
country to atone for AL manner OF per
sonal ioiosynerasies.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
ANCIENTs OF THE SENATE.
Tenacious Grip of Members of the
Upper House.

New York World.
Senator Proctors determination to resign
in 1909 two years before his term expires,
may be the result of political heredlty. He
succeeded George F, Edmunds, who had
resigned because his intimate friends had
passed out of public life and his official
duties had become irksome.
Advancing years can hardly be the reason
for Senator Proctor's proposed retirement,
and his friends are all clinging tenaciously
to public life. Although he was born in
/ 1881 and will be seventy-eight years old in
1909. nobody would regard seventy eight
as an advanced age for a United States
senator. Justin s. Morrill,. who came from
Mr.. Proctor's state, was lightweight when
he laid down the burden OF life and duty
That lusty youngster, Edmund Winston
Pettus. sstill representing Alabama in the
senate. He was born back in 1921 while
James Monroe was president. and his term
does not expire until 1909. He is ten years
older than Proctor. His colleague, John
T. Morgan. is even more youthful for he
was not born until 1924, and consequently
is only 81 years old.
Uncle Shelby NJ. Cullom OF Illinois. who
has been looking like Lincoln for the last
four decades, is two years older than Mr.
Proctor, and does not regard his senatorial
office as especially burdensome. William b.
Allison of Iowa, is nine months older than
Mr.. Cullom and outranks all his colleagues
in point Of continuous service.
Even Senator Plat and Senator Depew
are not much younger than the senior sem
ator from Vermont, for Mr. Plat was born
in 1888 and Mr.. Depew in 1894 Henry NJ.
Teller is year older than Mr.. Proctor,
for he was born in 1880. He has been repre-
senting Colorado in the senate ever since
Colorado was admitted to statehood except
for the three years that he served In the
cabinet OF President Arthur.
In view of the records of some of his
colleagues II is not strange that In his per-
plexity over Senator Proctor's curious con-
duct Senator Allison is trying to fnd out
what Mr.. Proctor intends to do to amuse
himself for the next thirty years after he
quits congress.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
Personal NOTES.

Speaker Cannon, says the representative
OF the Isle of Pines will have the same
standing as the Wild Man OF Borneo. This
assures him circus job, anyhow
Garrett A. Hobart. aged 10 years, son of
the late Vice President Hobart, has been
elected a trustee of the Presbyterian
Church of the Redeemer OF Paterson, N. ].
Hetty Green keeps about $4,000 worth
OF diamonds on hand at all times. She
never wears any OF them but she knows
that they increase in value at the rate of
3 per cent a year and holds them as an
investment.
Some of the most valuable and least sus-
pected spies that guard the Russian en-
peror are women OF high rank. They fire.
quent the fashionable salons of st. Peters,
burg and Moscow, but often visit the most
distant parts of Siberia
When President Loubet retires from
ONCE at the expiration OF his term he will
go to his little farm at Montelniar, where
he will spend most of the year, and the
short time he will visit Paris he viii live
in an dnpretentious apartment leased for
s., 900 year.
Chauncey Mitchell Depew. junior repre-
sentative of New York in the United
states senate, occupies larger amount OF
space In the congressional directory than
any other member of congress. Congress-
man Tim" Sullivan has the shortest BIZ
ography in the book.
Congressman Gambler of Mississtppi tust
as soon as he took the oath last week.
stepped over to the box at the right Of the
speakers desk and dropped in bill pro-
viding for the erection of public building
in Tupelo, Miss. This is the third time he
has done so, and his predecessor, 'Pri-
vate' John Allen, did the same thing at
each session since he first went to congress
twenty years ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
WoSecrets
1oHde

We have nothing to conceal; no secrets
to hide! We publish the formulas
of all our medicines. You will
find these in Ayers Almanac for
1906; or write us and we will send
them to you. Then show the formulas
to your doctor, and ask him what
he thinks of them. If he says they
are good medicines, then use them.
If he has anything better, then use
his. Get well as soon as you can,
that's the point! ii ...A s.::.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

And now it transpires that the Doug
las county board has not yet adopted
the resolution to reduce the price OF
feeding prisoners in the county jail
from 40 to 30 cents day. but the reso.
luton is still under consideration. Very
naturally the question suggests itself
Why so much procrastination. when the
county is paying $50 week more than
the city is paying for a like service
Can anybody stand up and face the
community in defense of this jail-feed-
ing graft?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
Pence by determination,
Chicago Chronicle.

CncagO Chronicle.
The entire world is today naturally look
ing for peace" says General Horace Por.
ter. THE only question is how to secure
it." It seems to be the opinion of most of
the generals and admirals and of a good
many civilians who want things that be-
long to other people that the only way to
secure 1t is for every country to spend its
last dollar in getting ready to make a Kill
kenny cat fight for 1t. II they are right
the only hope for universal peace lies in
universal determination
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

The executive committee of the Com
mercial club has taken it upon itself
to expedite the removal of Mr.. Hers
tenant from the premises he now occu-
pies. The next thing the executive
committee may be expected to tackle
will be the more expeditions construc-
ton Of the Her interurban trolley line
from Omaha TO Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
Soaring Cost of Living.

DpIIHBHeId HepuDIICan.
The cost of living continues to advance
along with the feverish prosperity which
embraces the country. The one saving fact
to consumers is that foodstuTs are not
going up. But for all commodities there
has been marked increase for the month
and heavy advance over a year ago.
Prices now rule the highest known in
twenty-five years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15
Produce the Gnndr.

OTIVHBU htCOFu -FfeTdIu.
Thomas A. Edison has Just made another
of his regular semi-annual predictions tina,
the electric automobile is about to put the
horse out OF business. The public has de-
cided. however, that It will not believe Mr.
Edison until he exhibits the goods.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

The state convention of county CON-
missioners has debated many problems,
but the problem Of problems that has
come up for solution is. how to make
the railroads pay their taxes without
losing those passes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

The St Louis Board Of Education has
adopted resolution prohibiting the
playing of Rugby foot ball by students
of the public schools, including the high
school, either at home or abroad. This
Is a good beginning of the movement to
suppress the brutal sport that has been
popularized in the United States almost
as much as bull fighting in Mexico.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

Reports that have reached the Omaha
Real Estate exchange say that the
Standard OIL company does not consider
pipe line from Kansas City 10 Omaha
feasible. which. interpreted into plain
English, means that it does not consider
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

Former Senator Thurston still has
Queen Lii on his hands. This time she
only asks congress to appropriate &c.,
100000 in payment OF her claims result.
ing from the peaceful revolution of
1892 and the annexation OF the Sand
witch islands.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

The Interstate Commerce commission
is evidently of the opinion that if Il had
sufficient power 1t could regulate rail-
roads, but Is not quite certain how that
power Is to be secured.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

1t profitable to supply oil i'm Omaha by
pipe line at cheaper rate so long as it
enjoys the monopoly of supplying
Omaha with oil at any rate 1t may see
At TO charge.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

With a freight rate ON sugar of "A
cents per hundred pounds from Manila
to New York western men can see some
OF the possible effects of making the
Missouri river navigable I'm fact as well
as In theory.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-15

The decision that county officials can
not use passes and then collect mileage
from the state will go a great way to-
ward abolishins free travel. as the state
OF Nebraska pays 10 cents for what the
Official can buy for 5 cents,