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Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
GROWING N FAVOR.

There is every indication that the
policy Of railway rate regulation is
growing In public favor Men Of prom
inence and influence in railroad circles
are beginning to see the wisdom and
expediency OF supporting the position of
President Roosevelt. one Of these is
Mr. Mellen, president of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford. who called
upon Mr.. Roosevelt last week. Mr.. Mel
len believes that it is good policy on the
part Of the railroads to acquiesce in the
enactment Of reasonable legislation. He
Is reported to have said in an interview
that the only action he is going to take
is to support the president.
There are other railroad men OF large
influence who are in the same position.
They have become convinced that the
policy urged by Mr.. Roosevelt will re-
suit in benefit rather than disadvantage
to the corporations of which they are
the heads and that it is wiser to yield
to the overwhelming public demand for
the proposed regulation than to invite
more radical legislation. They see that
IL what President Roosevelt recon-
mends Is denied the eventual outcome,
rs he has pointed out, will be the adop-
ton Of a policy which would subject
the railroads to much greater super
vision and regulation than is now con-
templated The more iudicious of rail
road managers are beginning to realize
that the position Of the president IS
really conservative and that it means
only what is absolutely fair and just
and equitable. They are coming to UNI
detstand that 1t does not contemplate
any curtailment of the proper rights
and privileges of the railroads, that it is
not intended to deprive them of any
Legitimate function or place them under
any arbitrary or despotic authority. Its
purpose is simply and wholly to require
them to comply with the law and to deal
fairly and justly toward the public in
all respects and under all circumstances.
The present indications are altogether
favorable to the success Of President
Roosevelt's policy 1t is said that some
| of the New England senators who have
hitherto been opposed to railway rate
legislation, as recommended by Mr..
Roosevelt, have decided to support the
president. 1t is very probable that
others from that section will decide to
do so when the question comes before
congress. The present aspect Of the sit
uation appears to warrant the predic-
ton that the rate legislation recon-
mended by the president will be enacted.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

Captain PalmerSis not the only post.
master who has been asked by the Post.
office department to explain the recent
marked Increase in postofflce receipts
The postmaster Of Kansas City has re.
ceived a similar requisition from AS
sistant Postmaster General Madden,
and his reply will be very much on the
same lines as those Of Captain Palmer
that the marked increase in postofice re.
ceipts is merely the index OF the
phenomenal increase Of commercial
activity in their respective cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
Personal NOTES.

The mikado has gone to the shrine OF
Use to tell his ancestors how the war came
out
The American who has sued King Edward
for sS75,OOO has not yet decided what to do
with the money.
Marvin Kent. who has been president Of
the Kent co. National bank since 1885, is
among the oldest bankers in the country,
being nearly 30.
NJ. L. Garrett and e. W. Preston Of Sioux
City, Ia, claim to have patented an inven-
ton by which it will be possible to talk
around the world.
General Woods reports on Cuban affairs
during his administration of the island are
now on the way to be reduced to pulp and
manufactured into plain paper. Another
case of wood pulp.
A shooting scrape in the Neapolitan quar-
ter of Chicago the other day, resulting in
one death and two hospital patients, tends
to confirm the impression that this country
can on a pinch AFFORD natives of any cline
all the comforts OF home.
Some Of the British officers anchored in
New York intimate that the British fleet
could easily reduce the city to a heap OF
ruins Perhaps. But II would be a differ
the corkscrew can learn by reading up a
bit
Albert F. Springsteen, connected with the
pension office, Washington. claims to have
been the youngest regularly enlisted and
mustered soldier in the union army during
the civil war. He enlisted at Indianapolis
on October 10, 1861, at the age OF IL years
and 2 months.
DR.. Douglas Hyde, president of the Gaelic
league. who has been making an effort
during the last twelve years to revive the
Irish language and literature, has Just ar
rived in New York. He is the author Of
several works in the Gaelic language. He
will remain in this country for several
months.
Chicago has gone divorce mad. More
than half a hundred cases OF family dscord
were docketed Saturday, occupying the at
tentiOn OF six judges and probably hun
bred lawyers. Nineteen DEGREES of divorce
and one of separate maintenance were
granted and the others are under advise
ment by the Judges.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
THE NEXT STEP FORWARD.


The year 1905 has been an epoch max
ing year for Omaha No other western
city has made more prodigious strides
as mercantile distributing center, and
no city Of equal population can match
its building record. The establishment
Of grain exchange, followed by the
erection of half dozen grain elevators,
has made Omaha the third largest grain
market west Of the Mississippi, as it
already had been the third meat pack
ing city in America.
The marvellous progress Omaha has
made within the past year and the pros
pective expansion of it's tributary trade
territory only makes cheaper power and
especially cheaper fuel more imperative.
Inland cities cannot depend wholly for
their growth and prosperity upon com.
merce. Manufactures giving perma-
nent employment to skilled and I'M
skilled labor, are the backbone of all
great cities, especially those situated in
the heart of the continent.
Chicago, with all its advantages as
the emporium of the natural products
Of the region that supplies the world
with breadstuffs, could not have grown
to its present proportions, or even half
of Its present population, were 1t not for
the location Of the great mills and fac
tories within its Industrial radius. Chi.
cago never could have been a great man,
ufacturing center were 1t not for its
ability to secure cheap fuel and cheap
power. The same is true of St Louis
and Kansas City. The greatest factor
for the upbuilding of Kansas City in
the near future is its almost fnexhausti-
BILE supply of petroleum and natural gas
from the Kansas and Oklahoma oil
fields.
Pipe lines leading to these fields have
been completed but recently, and Kan
| sas City at this moment is agitating for
25-cent natural gas for illuminating and
heating purposes The substitution of
fuel oil and fuel gas as a generator OF
power in place of coal will place Kan
sas City on almost an equal footing
with Pittsburg, Cleveland, Indianapolis
and other manufacturing centers, and
blaze the way for very material in
crease in the number of its mills and
factories. which already outnumber and
overlap those of Omaha
! To keep up with it's southern rival
! Omaha must in the near future secure
pipe line TO the Wyoming oil fields,
gas fields of Kansas and the oil fields
of Wyoming, which prospectively will
exceed those of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The estimated cost of six-inch pipe
line from Omaha to a point in Kansas
that would tap the line now leading into
Kansas City would cost not exceeding
$3,OOO,OOO. While Omaha capitalists
may not be in position to venture Oh
such an enterprise Omaha and Douglas
county could well afford to extend lib
eral aid to it.
The same would be true regarding a
pipe line to the Wyoming oil fields,
which, of course. would invOYve very
much larger outlay than a line to Kan
sas. The preliminary steps would in.
volve an inquiry into the feasibility OF
the undertaking and the inducement
which would have to be held out to
capitalists who would be disposed to
embark in the undertaking.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
POINTED PLEAsANTRIEs.


KniCker-I see they are trying the Eng.
lsh style of foot ball.
Bocker-Yes; we may soon clasp feet
across the sea.-New York sun.
Hicks-If 1t hadn't been for that fellow
Skinner I'd be n hundred dollars richer
today.
Wicks-O, forget about It. You ought to
take things philosophically.
HiCks-I do That's easy enough, but it's
hard to part with things philosophically.-
Philadelphia Catholic Standard.
THAT widow1l make fool of him IL he
doesn't watch out"
NO. l have it on very good authority
that she intends to marry him"
That's what | mean.'-Houston Post
rs your husband up YETI" asked the
early morning caller.
Il guess he is" replied the stern looking
woman.
"I'd like to say a few words to him.
"Td like to say more than few. He
hasn't come home yet."-Philadelphia
Press.
Customer-Is the boss in?
Clerk (absently)-No-but we have some
thing just good.-San Francisco Call.
When a man can't find his shears or his
pocket knife or his other hat, or his slip
pers or his fountain pen, he can usually
find fault, to beat the band.-Somerville
Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
MACHINE-MADE COMEDY.
Voters Wreck the Plans of Wise
Politicians.

Politicians.
New York Tribune
Machines are not supposed to be en-
dowed with emotions Yet voting ma
chimes, for instance may play conspicuous
parts in a humorous comedy That was
certainly the case at the recent election in
Jersey City. Mayor Pagan was running
for reelection on the republican ticket and
he could not succeed without the aid Of
democratic votes. One OF the mayors bril-
liant opponents conceived the idea of put
ting voting machines In the strong demo-
cratic wards. OF course, the voters
wouldn't know how to split their votes,
and in their anxiety to vote for the regu-
lar ward candidates. they would vote the
straight democratic ticket. The theory was
simply perfect and Pagan couldn't possi-
bly, win. Melancholy and cruel as 1t may
seem, the voters didn't look at this plan
in the same light as the designers. They
were told all about 1t before election day
and agreed that the scheme was a pretty
one
Great Joke" they were told.
YES. tits a great joke" they agreed.
And by way OF carrying Il out Wen vote
the straight republican ticket TO make
sure"
So it has come TO pass that for the first
time Hudson county is sending to the leg.
islature a solid republican delegation of
twelve members, all carried through by
the joke that prompted democratic voters
to plump for the whole republican ticket.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
FOOT BALL KINDNESS.
Chancellor Andrews Tribute to the
GentIeness of the Game.
PittshurR DispatCh.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Nebraska college president who eN-
presses his admiration for foot ball only
exercises his right as a citizen OF the re-
public. But when he points to the game as
breeding kindness and restraint and de-
clares It a schooling in alertness. courage,
self-mastery and motor efficiency second
only to army and navy service he leaves
in his wake a suspicion that his judgment
is somewhat warped.
1t is doubtful whether the most efficient
players in the hardest fought foot ball con-
tests will agree with the learned doctor
that the game produces kindness and self
restraint. Even the spectator far from
the side lines has little difficulty in discov-
ering that kindness plays no part in foot
ball. while self-restraint is not provided
for in the rules. 1t is true that players be-
come alert and master the secrets of motor
efficiency, but that they are necessarily
courageous depends in large measure on
the construction Of the word. No one will
deny that the training is second only to
that of the army /and navy, particularly
II this training refers TO the service in
time of war.
There are two sides to the foot ball ques-
ton, and its best friends admit that there
is room for reform in the playing OF the
game But there is little hope that this
reform will come as long as the head of a
great educational institution openly ex-
presses the belief that II promotes Kindness
and kindred virtues. Perhaps the records
do not show any deaths from foot ball in his
university.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
THEIR QUEER TARGETS.
PittsburE Chronicle.

Pttsburg Chronicle.
The same old tales are coming in
From scenes OF reckless cunning,
Where hunters wildly bang away,
Though many risks they're running.
The same mistakes are being made,
Displaying lack OF reason,
As those that have been causing grief
In every hunting season.
IT'S bad enough when horses, cows
And mules and pigs are stopping
The lenden pellets from the guns,
And in their tracks are dropping;
But worse, by far Is laundering
That brings about the aiming
At human targets in the woods
And ruthelssly Is manning.
A bunch of whiskers on a chin -
Is by some gunner spotted.
"a SQUIRREL he exclaims, and fires.
And there's a face shot-dotted.
Some fellows hat protrudes above
The brush where he Is walking;
"a pheasant" is the gunners thought
And there's result that's shocking.
Some unsuspecting passer-by
His leg or arm displaying,
And as a rabbit he's assailed
BY some one bent on Staying.
Another who's concealed from view
BY chance some twiRs Is breaking,
And then he's sized up as big game,
And gets a fearful raking.
OF course. there are lot OF sports
Who never make blunder
And who display hunting skill
That oft eXcites our wonder:
But there are many others whom
'TiS wisdom to be stunning,
And they're the chaps who make us thinh
That many fools 20 cunning.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

The county board is wrestling with
the problem of supplying the inmates
Of the county inirmary with blankets
for the winter, without increasing the
enormous overlap that is staring them
in the face. The solution of this prob
lem is not as difficult as it appears TO
be. The county is now paying As cents
a day for feeding prisoners in the county
Jail, while the city is paying only 10
cents per day. In view of this CON
rast, a reduction from 45 20 p cents a
day would certainly not he unreason-
able By making this reduction the
county would effect a saving Of from
SO TO Sl5 per day, or at least $500 a
month. II the board will act promptly
ii can save the price Of the blank cts
within ten days and reduce the overlap
by from $3.50 TO 500 before the end OF
the present year in this single item Of
retrenchment. But there are other
places where the county board can ef
feet a material saving before the end
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

The Omaha, Lincoln a Beatrice In
tcIdrhan company is said to have shown
more signs Of life during the past few
months tLan at any time during previous
yeaJS, bat that does not signify ony
very material progress in the construc-
Ton OF tile road. Snails sometimes give
out signs of life, but they cannot be de-
pended upon to travel thirty miles an
hogr unless they are perched on the
back end Of an automobile.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
1--WE Are All Good Boys Now"
Philadelphia Record.

Reform is spreading like an epidemic.
Not only are the politicians tumbling over
each other in their efforts to get on the
side OF the people but John A. Mccall
promises 10 get Lobbyist Hamilton back
10 this country II he can, and to return
to the company the $4,000 he let Hamil-
ton have 10 control legislation with II he
cannot induce Hamilton 10 disgorge
Everybody is going To be very good now
that Is. everybody who has been found
out
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

means committee Mr. Dalzell OF Penn
sylvania. Both are experienced men,
bers and in all respects qualified to head
the committees for which they are being
talked Of, while they are known to be
in hearty accord with the views Of Mr..
Cannon respecting appropriations and
the tariff. Their appointment to the
chairmanships Of the leading committees
is regarded as highly probable.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

II now begins TO dawn upon ambi-
tious South Omaha statesmen that they
have made a great blunder in srraying
themselves against annexation. Under
a separate government South Omaha
councilmen are obliged TO serve at hard
labor for a paltry $50 a month, while
Omaha eOuncilmen are in clover up to
their necks with $500 year and per.
auiSltes. SnOutrage.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

Insurance experts of half a dozen
states who have for some months past
been quartered in luxurious apartments
of palatial hotels in the American metro
polls, while conducting an investigation
into the management and condition of
the big life insurance companies, have
given II out that they will be through
their laborious and delicate task within
the expenses attending this expert in
QUESTION is borne by the insurance COM
panies and not by the respective states
from which they hail This is poor
comfort to the policy holders of the
companies that have been subjected to
this periodic holdup at the expense Of
these junketing inquisitions is forcibly
shown by the fact that the state experts
have never reached down deep enough
! to uncover any of the scandalous prac-
| tees that have for years permeated the
! system. In view OF the fact that the
/ New York State Insurance department
and the New York legislative investigat-
| ing committee are making very search
ing and very efficient inquiry into the
management of the big life insurance
companies, the insurance junket of 1905
Is manifestly an inexcusable exhibition
of legalized graft.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

The officer of the Hilda who made a
mistake in the lights OF tie coast Of
France does not live to explain how 1t
happened; but It is safe TO say changes
will be made In the lights so as to make
another such accident impossible
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

With the gradual approach Of the
spring election the mountebanks and
professional frauds who opposed the
municipal ownership Of a public light
ing plant last year may be depended
upon to reappear as champions of munic-
ipal ownership Of every public utility
that is out of reach.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
Inspiration for n Rally.


The president is said to be interested in
the movement to prevent the water OF
Niagara falls from being diverted for
power purposes The country is apt to get
squarely behind the president on that prop
osition when It learns that much of this di-
verted power is used for the manufacture
of breakfast foods.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
Cut it Out.
Baltimore American.

bdlllllOlt AMERICAN
1t is high time that hazing, in all its
forms. was abolished Even when intended
to be harmless there is always danger
that the hazers, in their excitement will
go to extremes and a tragedy may be the
result. The lives already sacrificed since
the college year began should teach the
lesson that the practice is too dangerous
to be continued
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
Reasoning with the Depressed.

Mayor Tom Johnson wants an anti-sui-
eide bureau appointed whose task will be
to dissuade men from the worries that
drive men to take their own lives and by
conducting an educational crusade against
self-slaughter. New York treats the prob
lem by the extremely primitive and some
what farcical method Of arresting would-be
suicides and putting them in jail, appar-
emily for not making better job OF It.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

British and American residents Of
Odessa threaten to leave that place in
body should another reign of violence
occur This is probably notice TO the
business interests of the community that
the Chinese are not the only people who
can start an international boycott.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

II the big cattle barons who have
hwlessly fenced in hundreds of thou
sands OF acres OF the public domain
get on with $500 fine on a plea OF
guilty, the little land fencers may ex-
pect 10 get OF with fine of about 80
cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

With q delegate from farmers socl-
ETY. addressing the American Federation
of Labor the time may eome when the
farm laborer will strike against hurry
inc to get the evening chores" done in
time 10 light the fire for breakfast
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

The eyes of the world are on the
zemstvo congress at Moscow. VIII II
follow the precedent established by the
continental congress at Philadelphia or
that inaugurated by the revOntiopists at
parisY
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21
Ohio Comes Up smiling.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Ohio, after all, elected the entire repub-
lican state ticket except governor, and the
new legislature is republican on joint bal
lot. The democratic shouting over Ohio
must be restricted to one candidate pitted
against an opponent who was scratched by
80 600 republicans
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

asked a prominent railroad official
what, in his estimation, was the greatest
single obstacle in Kidding the country of
the rebate evil He answered promptly:
THE Industrial trafic manager"
When there are favOrs to be got from
railroad company It takes an expert to
get them. Accordingly. it has grown to
be a custom-spreading more widely every
year-fOr large shippers to employ special
men to look after their railroad interests.
An honorable and legitimate place exists
for the industrial traffic manager, the
mere business OF making shipments, billing
correctly, seeing that cars are properly
loaded, checking up freight rates, choosing
the best routes. and so on, is enormous
But out OF this legitimate work has sprung
the evils of freight rate manipulations
The trafic managers first duty is to
work with the roads for better rates"
I have met a number Of these men-as fine
and agreeable gentlemen as one would
meet in a days walk. Some of them look
at their profession in the curious, clear,
half-cynical way of the American business
man whose motto has come to be: Every
! thing is fair in business: dog eat dog"
Brown & Co." says the trafic man
ager, has its man on the ground working
! for concessions. If we don't have our
man, then we go under! II they get re-
| bates we've got to-"
| That is the evil circle OF logic of the
| rebate.
So the country swarms with these traf-
| nc managers, and over against them are
| corresponding swarms OF railroad freight
| agents, Of every description Both are the
| expensive, cumbersome, and COrrupting
outgrowth OF the present rate system. They
rent the most expensive Offices in the
main streets Of every important city, they
! spend lavishly to get business. and the
| people, OF course. finally pay the bills.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

With Mormons moving to Mexico the
United States may yet have precedent
for the Reed Smoot case provided the
senate acts with its usual caution and
delay.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

In the light of their work in Man
radicals are making such strenuous eff
forts to enlist the cooperation OF Rus
sian soldiers and sailors
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

South Omaha's municipal election
and omaha's municipal primaries cone
ON one and the same day. That threat
ems to put damper on the movement
OF population between the two cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

The most dastardly act ever
charged against The System"
is described in Everybody's
for December.
lawson says they manip-
ulated the reports from the
Presidents bedside to keep
prices up in Wall Street until
they got rid of certain stocks
and bonds, then sold short"
expecting the market would
drop upon news of his death.
A pretty tough story.
Eveybody's Magazine IS cents
81. so year
Special Representatives wanted for BverybodyN
Magazine In towns where there are no dealera
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrariIy should have The Zee
mailed 90 them. IL II better than
n daily letter from home. Adj
dress will be changed IA often as
requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

In accepting the title of Haakon VII,
Charles OF Denmark apparently believes
there is more in the game than in the
maine of king.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

Philadelphia Record.
The Isle of Pines is a nice little insular
property, but Uncle Sam has over 400
more islands now on his hands than he
can satisfactorily manage.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

With larger production of gold year
by year the United States is getting still
further away from the agitation for the
free coinage OF silver at any ratio.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-21

The third indictment Of Senator Bur
ton will be 1.-The charm" for either the
prosecution or the defense, as the statute
of limitations will soon step in.