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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
ROOSEVELT'S ISSUE
AND RAILROAD WAGES
BY J. NJ. Mason.
No II

No. II.
A handful Of iron ore when converted
into a watch spring represents 1 per cent
Of material and 90 per cent of labor. The
price OF box OF wild strawberries repre-
sents 80 per cent OF material and 1 per cent
Of labor. railroad charge, like the price
of a watch spring. represents 90 per cent
Of industry and l per cent of capital
An economist may figure out the per-
centage of railroad revenue which should
go to labor and the percentage which should
go to the capital which was furnished. But
the trouble is that money. collected to pay
labor, is Incorporated and used to pay
interest on capital which was not furnished.
The Era Magazine for August pointed out
that railroad revenue is at present appor-
toned approximately as follows: Twenty
seven per cent OF it goes to pay IL per cent
interest on capital actually furnished, ~
per cent to 100000 employees, 2S per cent
to supplies, material and improvements,
and per cent to taxes.
The public is very willing to increase
railroad revenue provided the increase goes
to labor, supplies, improvements and taxes.
but the public is not willing to increase
revenue IL the increase is to go to increasing
interest on fictitious capitalization.
My communication printed yesterday re-
ferred to the presidents reply to a COM
mittee processing to represent railroad en-
ployes. The president took occasion to
make it known that he was not as yet in
timidated by railroad effort to manufacture
a spurious and counterfeit public opinion.
The truth is that the public men. now pos
ing as oracles and opposing railroad regu-
lation. are not only thoroughly mistrusted
by the rank and file, but are universally
laughed at .
The presidents popularity is increasing in
geometrical progression as he demands a
square deal and exhibits courage to force
an issue with those demanding a crooked
deal. 1t is the duty of every citizen suffi-
GENTLY intelligent to appreciate the value of
honest government to do all he can to edu-
cate the masses to comprehend that all
trouble grows out OF the effort, by the
henchmen Of eastern water holders, to in
crease dividends on railroad water.
The west will presently wake up to the
fact that II is being milSed to pay illegal
interest on eastern held railroad water.
The western rank and file will presently
wake UP to the fact that many influential
newspapers suppress such information as
would educate the people on this subject
and that railroad influence induces en-
ployes to oppose legislation which would be
most beneficial to them. In this connection
1t should be carefully remembered that
many millions of railroad revenue is ex-
pended to hire men OF extraordinary legal
talent. who are crafty and resourceful be-
yond description, to give undivided time to
misleading voters into electing politicians
who betray them.
II the west wakes, the lid will be taken
Off of railroad politics as 1t has been taken
off of life insurance management
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
DAD AND THE BABY.
Houston Post.


I've never been quite too busy
10 go Tor a romp with you
Through the forest OF Transforuation
In the Island OF Hullabaloo;
once there I'm horse to ride on
m booger-bear to alright
~ tne whole menagerie, all in one,
Contrived for babys delight.
I'm an 'ellunt" and a "hippossum,"
And a camel and a zebra, too:
I'm sake" that twists and wrigglsA
And gtggles and hollers "Boow
m horse and my loose suspenders
are lines you can drive me by;
I'm tossing ship on the ocean
Where the waves lash mountain high.
I'm a ship on the tossing ocean,
Ana you are my captain bold
And toss and roll beneath you.
But my ears they are strong to holdi
ana you laugh as the breakers gTumble,
And you fear no dire mlshap
AS your laugh browns out the tempest
And your glad voice calls "Diddap."
I'm glad I'm not too busy
At any old time OF day
TO get on the floor and tumble,
And grumble and growi and play;
TO Just put aside my paper
ana romp when you want me to-
Through the forest of TRANSFORMATION
To the Island of Hullabaloo.
I'm glad I'm not too busy.
Nor tired, nor glum, you wis.
To stop when you steal beside me
With your lips held up to kiss;
1 am glad am not too busy
To romp till your heart Is glad;
1 am glad that the Lord picked me out,
Dear baby. to be your dad.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

No applicant for liquor license who
has advertised his notices of application
in The Bee since the Slocumb law went
into effect nearly twenty-five years ago
has ever been refused license because
of defective publication, and four-fifths
of the licenses granted have been issued
upon publication in The Bee alone, the
applicants refusing TO come down to the
demands of the holdup newspaper pub
fishers. Liquor dealers and druggists
who want to comply with the law should
be conversant with these facts and gov
ern themselves accordingly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Attention, is called to the table on
another page giving the list of county
officers chosen throughout Nebraska at
the last election for terms commencing
with 1906, with the names Of the county
seats from which county government is
administered. This information should
prove not only interesting but highly
valuable to all classes of readers who
may have business to transact with
county officers in different parts of the
state; to owners of taxable property, to
real estate dealers, TO lawyers, to. insur-
ance men, to business men generally.
Those who are likely TO have use for
such a table are advised to cut it out
and preserve it for convenient reference.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

ton which the doctrine gives them.
Secretary Root will do a great service
to all the American republics If he shall
be able to give them better and fuller
understanding of the Monroe doctrine
and their obligations in respect to it.
He will also do great service to his
own country If he shall be able to re-
move the suspicion and distrust that
is entertained toward our government
by nearly all Of the Latin-Americans.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

starving out the treasures Of the differ
ent counties they can harass them into
making some sort of compromise.
The chances are, however, that they will
overshoot the mark and harass the
other taxpayers just enough to bring
down upon the railroads radical legisla-
ton. not only in tax matters, but also
in other directions. in which there
would otherwise he a more lenient pub
lie sentiment
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
ROYAL PRERooATIvE IN coLoRA1

ROIAL PREROGATIVE IN COLORADO
The supreme court of Colorado has
exercised the royal prerogative by i'm
posing a fine of $1,000 upon Senator
Patterson for constructive contempt,
committed by the publication of car
reflections upon its integrity and dignity.
The exercise of the royal prerogatiye
that enables judges to accuse. try, con-
denim and punish real or imaginary re-
Elections upon their dignity or integrity
committed at long range and out of
their immediate presence is a relic of
medieval, monarchical absolutism, fla
GRAVITY at variance with the spirit of
our free institutions. In our day even
emperors and kings do not try and pun
ish men accused of lese majestic.
The fact that there are only twelve
such cases of record since the founda-
ton of this government in all of the
supreme courts of the United States
affords striking proof that this mode of
upnOlulliS tue nOuOF OF nlSn COURTS
against assaults ut the hands of pub
licists is repugnaht to the sense of JUS
tice of the great body of jurists who
have presided oyer the most exalted
tribunals In the land since the adoption
of the federal constitution.
The arbitrary exercise of the royal
prerogative was never contemplated by
the trainers Of the organic laws of the
states which in every instance include
bill of rights that guarantees for every
man accused of crime the right to be
tried by jury of his peers, even where
the crime is the most heinous. Judges
are no more entitled to avenge their
own wrongs than the humblest citizen
in the land. If they are libeled by any
publisher, the courts are open to them
just as they are to governors, to law
makers and even to the president
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
HARSH WAR ON CIGARETTES.
Nebraska Law n Specimen of Illogical
Legislation.
New York Times

rev 1Ork Times.
One Patrick Raymond was recently ar
rested In Lincoln, Neb., while lighting a
cigarette which he had just rolled for his
own solacement. The cigarette was rolled
and lighted in the presence of a detective,
and Patrick was at once hailed to con-
venient court. There he was fined $50 and
costs, the lightest penalty prescribed by
Nebraska law for manufacturing ciga-
rettes' in the state We cannot even pre-
tend that we actually believe this story,
but ii is pleasant one to toy with, and
by doing so long enough, in exactly the
right spirit, one can pump up a very agree
able feeling of indignation over the present
possibilities in the way OF interference with
the natural rights OF free-born American
citizens There is, we suppose a consid-
cradle basis of fact for the widely held
theory that the excessive use of cigarettes
is harmful to adults, and any use at all of
them is seriously injurious to boys. That
this is justification, or even an excuse,
for the passage of anti-cigarette laws of a
very rigorous nature Is a conclusion of the
most illogical sort but 1t is a conclusion of
the sort highly popular with a large frac-
ton of our population, and of a fraction,
too, that is characterized by the best OF
intentions, though quite destitute of the
ability to see that compulsion is the poorest
of arguments, or that reaction is always
equal TO action, in morals as in mechanics.
Such are the dear ladies who frightened
congress into abolishing the "canteen" at
army posts, and thereby filled with delight
the hearts and with wealth the pockets of
several hundred keepers OF dive groggeries
As for cigarettes, they are so often
symptom rather than n cause, when to SUI
perficial observers they seem to be doing
deadly HARM that one is tempted almost
to say that they do no harm at all. To re-
greet that any attempts are made to restrict
their consumption by law is probably the
part of enlightened virtue
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
4 UNITED DELEG ALTON.

According to Washington dispatches,
himself to support a railroad rate bill
in keeping with the presidents well
known views. In taking this position
Senator Willard will simply voice the
overwhelming sentiment of his con-
stltuents-the people of Nebraska.
While Senator Millard's friendly rela-
tions to the railroads are an open secret,
it is his paramount duty to represent
the people of this commonwealth, and
especially the rank and file of the re-
publican party that has unequivocally
endorsed President Roosevelt's rate reg
ulation policy. To have antagonized the
president would not only have been
fatal political blunder for Senator Mil
lard, but a betrayal of the trust reposed
in him by his constituents, and would,
moreover, have placed the senator in an
embarrassing position, in view of the
fact that all the other members of the
Nebraska delegation in congress have
publicly declared themselves in favor of
President Roosevelt's policy.
Now that the senator has taken his
position side by side with his colleagues,
Nebraska can maintain cordial relations
with the administration at all points
and it's congressional delegation should
be able to command favors that are ac-
corded to the most friendly states rep
resented at the national capital
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The proclamation issued by the chair.
man OF the New York legislative insur-
ance investigating committee TO allay
the fears OF the policy holders threaten
ing to lapse their contracts, translated
into plain English, means that policy
holders in the big life companies should
be thankful the officers left something
for them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
Farmers Onto Their Job.
Portland Oregonian.

Portland OreBOulan.
Farmers know their own business when
II comes to working hours. They know that
no farm can be made to pay it's taxes and
make it's owner living on the eight-hour-
a-day schedule. Hence the resolution
passed unanimously by the National Grange
Patrons of Huseandry, declaring 1t Is
every man r ~ work as many
hours as he wills for pay; that energy
trift and activity Ore entitled to encourage
ment, and should command rishtful COM
compensation for services rendered
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
Drawing the Long Bow.
Chicago Chronicle.

chicago
Concluding his annual report, the secre-
tary of agriculture remarks that we are
still at the threshold Of agricultural oe-
veIopment and the educational WORK
which has led TO such grand results mas
only been extended as yet to a portion OF
our agricultural population" 1t is natural
for one to magnify his Office ana Secre-
tary Wilson may justly be proud OF ms
ofFcial record. But after all we may as
we'll recognize the strong prooaoility tla'
only a small part of our wondertui aer'-
cultural development is due TO the enor'S
Of the agricultural department. IN WASH
ington.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The municipal governments of Omaha
and South Omaha are cramped and
crippled by overlaps because the rail-
roads have refused TO pay their taxes
for the last two years on assessments
that are ridiculOusly below the true
value Of their properties. And yet these
corporations are constantly asking
Omaha and South Omaha for more do
nations of the public streets and high
ways VIII these corporation managers
ever know when they are we'll treated?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Chicago is clamoring for an under
ground trolley in the downtown dis
trict, which is now being served half
and half--one-half overhead trolley and
the other half overground horse power.
Chicago has the most abominable street
railway system in all America.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The symposium on real estate values
IN Omaha that is promised in Boston
court next week by Omaha real estate
dealers will make interesting reading
and advertise Omaha as a growing and
pushing CITY.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
SnuHed out.

SpTlngIeId RepubIIcah
The president has caused 1t to be known
that all attempts to compromise the rail-
road rate issue through bills which provide
for government control only in appearance
will not have his approval. This settles
the fate of the Foraker bill, and indeed
is aimed particularly at this measure. The
result is to throw the ranks of the rail-
road senators into some confusion.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The consul general to Mexico advises
Americans not to invest in companies
operating in that country until after
close investigation. The same advice
could be safely followed for companies
Mt home
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

There is something sardonlc in the
fact that certain of the graft pay
ments of New York life insurance COM
panies were charged to the water ac-
count; and Omaha, looking at its do
nothing water board, can appreciate the
inl-n
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Mr.. McCurdy says he resigned office
because he found his physical condition
unit to bear the work of the Mutual
Life during the present investigation.
In other words, his muscles proved too
weak for his nerve.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

County officials who come to Omaha
to assist the railroads in their fight
against the assessment returned by the
State board of equalization can have NO
valid objection IL their efforts are ap-
preciated more by the railroad com
panies than by the people. The square
dsAlr is not an ephemeral tremor in Ne
braska this time,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

One frst-class hotel at one time is all
that Omaha asks for. Whether it is
twelve stories or eight stories in height
Is not material so long as we do not
have to wait for II until the Omaha &
Lincoln suburban trolley line is in OPP
Grafton. Let us stop building air cas-
ties and build a hotel
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

For a place where all wire commune
cation is interrupted ST. Petersburg has
exhaustive reports from SebastopoI; but
perhaps wireless has progressed farther
in Russia than in America.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The republican publisher Of one
Omaha weekly paper succeeded in
touching the democratic state committee
for $40 during the last campaign. Dem
oeratic newspaper publishers should at
once apply for the formula.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Officers of the commissary depart
ment detailed to study the art of army
cooking at Fort Riley will probably be-
gin their work by roasting the au-
thorities respon jl,o for the order.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The fine which the Colorado supreme
court imposed upon Ex-senator Pat.
terson may scare others from express
ing contempt, but IT will hardly change
any opinions in the Centennial state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The real thanksgiving time did not
reach many homes in America until
after the roster of the casualties in the
foot ball games had been read.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
From Frying Pan to Fire.

Lawson declares that he has secured con-
troll of most of the big life insurance COM
panies, but the policy holders do not seem
to be particularly elated.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Andrew Hamilton has been discov-
cred. but he has had plenty of time to
fix up a story and arrange for corrobo-
rative evidence.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Now that Farley has been employed
to break the transfers strike in
Gotham, New York police surgeons may
prepare to work overtime.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
Punishment Fits the Crime.

Inlladelpnla hsCOIu'
A. Dogberry in Nebraska has fined
lad $50 for rolling up a cigarette on the
street. The evidence Of wicked design
on the part Of the youth was unmistakable.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
Lay of the sage of TamH.

Chicago News.
Secretary Wilson seizes upon this time
when the tickle public is lauding the
turkey to direct attention to the fact that
the American hen is the real bulwark of
our institutions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The action of the Nebraska railroads
IN enjoining the collection of their 1905
taxes is even less excusable than their
injunction to prevent the collection Of
1904 taxes The only explanation is that
their tax bureaucrats believe that by
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOParily should have The Rec
mailed to them. IL IL better than
a daily letter from home. Adj
dFeAs will be changed as often ns
requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The German government apparently
feels that II is equal to controlling the
Equitable Life without waiting for
report from any legislative committee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Josiah" asked Mrs. Chugwater. "how
do they work these voting machines
They use one of the cranks that are al
ways hanging around the polling place. :"
explained Mr.. Chugwater with some irr ia .
tion.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Omaha is forging ahead in spite of it's
mossbacks and pullbacks.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
sTATEMBNT OF CIRcULATIoN.

State of Nebraska, Douglas county. IS:
&C. c. Rosewater, secretary OF The Bee
publishing Company being duly sworn,
says that the actual number OF full and
complete copies of The Daily, Morning,
evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month OF October 1905, was as fol-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

What! you marry my dauRhter?'' thun-
dered old Roxley. You? a mere clerk"
NO, sir" replied young Hunter, mot
clerk, but gentleman now. I resigned NV
yoo the moment your daughter accented
me. "-Philadelphia Press. P''"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

The exhibit of campaign contributions
made by the democratic state commit
tee, as filed in the sworn statement of
the treasurer, is also interesting more
from the names that are omitted than
from those that are included. The Hon.
William Jennings Bryan was not only
prevented by his trip around the world
from participating in the campaign as
usual as rear platform orator, but he
forgot to leave behind him his custom
airy check to help satisfy the financial
demands upon the committee The only
democratic congressman of the last Ne
braska delegation also neglected to re-
spond, as did practically ali the patriots,
with two or three exceptions, who were
formerly connected with public salaries
by grace of the fusion movement.
Plainly republics are not the only ones
that are proverbially ungrateful.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Why are people SO eager for fame?"
because, answered Senator Sorghum
in the majority of instances fame is one
OF the most profitable forms of adverfis-
ing. '-Washington Star. '''
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
SMILING LINES,

A thirst for liquor" said tho lnoraIisl
has has, made many a man poor"
Well, replied Jigley, turn about, you
Know. Poverty gives many a man a thirst
for LIQUOR. "-Philadelphia RECORD,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Ieacher Eat night school)-What do we
Know OF the so-called canals on Mars?
canals. Everything on Mars is run bv The
war department.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

What comfort" exclaimed the bereaved
parents, now that she Is gone TO recall
That we meyer denied her anything
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

A little child ate everything she fancied
nth she took sick Of acute indigestion and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Two elderly country women were sight
seeing in New York and found themselves
on Fifth avenue. The old ladies had heard
OF the public automobiles that take visit
ors on sightseeing trips through the park,
so they accosted a young man in an auto
mobile coat about to climb into a large
motor car standing at the entrance. They
expressed their desire TO make the trip
through the park and proceeded to climb
into the machine The young man looked
somewhat surprised, but politely helped his
passengers into the car, got in himself and
took them for a spin. When they asked
what was the fare, he replied gravely:
"Ten cents each" which they paid Just
then an acquaintance of theirs came up
and was informed as to their auto ride.
"And do you know who the young man
was7" asked he. The old ladies did not
know. "well, it was young Mr.. Wander
bilt," he said, with a chuckle. us that
so? Well he is a very nice young man."
said one of the strangers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

z. z. HUSEWAIER,
Secretary.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this 31st day OF October, 1905
CSeaD NJ. b. HUNGATE,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Why, asked the senior partner, "hav
you marked this mahogany table down."
Because explained the Junior nembe
Dispatch.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01

Have you had enough 10 eat?" said m.
into the dining room = F
add that this is the first TINS in INV NE
that / ever had square meal at round
table!-Detroit Free Press