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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

AN APPEAL FOR CONF IDENCE.
The appeal of Count witte to the
Russian people for confidence very
forcibly emphasizes the weak point in
the situation. The people have been
in the past so perslstently duped and
deceived that they naturally distrust
promises and will be satisfied with moth
ing short of deeds. PROFESSIONALLY
there is some faith in the pledges and
assurances that have been given by
Wltte, whose sympathies with the rea-
sonable demands of the people is not to
be doubted, but there is a feeling that
even he is not yet so free from the auto
cratic influence and power that absolute
reliance can be given his promises.
This will continue to be the case until
deeds shall attest the sincerity of every
promise that has been given the people.
There seems to be every probability
that this will be done, for manifestly
failure to carry out any of the pledges
made would renew popular agitation on
an intensified scale and very likely
eventuate in revolution. The people
have so far demonstrated their power,
they have so concluslvely established the
fact that they are an influence and
force that the government must reckon
with, that they will not hesitate to again
assert themselves, and even more ag
gressively than they have yet done, if
the assurances they have received from
the car and the man who now repre-
sents him are not fulfilled in good faith.
1t may not be entirely easy for foreign
ers to understand the distrust of the
Russian people. The general feeling
outside of Russia is that of confidence
in Count Witte, who all through his
public career has sought TO better con
ditions for the people. But when 1t is
has practiced deception, there can be no
surprise that now the people refuse to be
satisfied until they are given the most
substantial evidence of the earnestness
and sincerity Of what has been prom
Used.
Furthermore, the demand Is that this
evidence of good faith shall be supplied
with the least possible delay. The peo-
pie are in no mood TO tolerate tenn
porizing. That most of them do not
understand the difficulties Of the task
of inaugurating the new order Of things
is most probable, but they do know
what they want and they feel that in
order to obtain 1t they must maintain
bold and aggressive attitude. For
the first time in their history they feel
that they belong to themselves and they
are determined to have this realised By
those in power. The appeal to conf
dence made by Count witte will doubt
less have a good effect but he cannot
safely waste any time in putting the
promises he has made into effect.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
PARRY's HOT AIR MOVEMENT.
PerverSion of Plain Truths by the
Railroad MeEaphOne.

Wall Street Journal.
When Mr.. Parry says that the movement
for government rate regulation is "a hot
air movement" fathered in the main by
professional political agitators. he is say
ing something which is directly contrary
to the facts. II is a popular movement
springtng out of n widespread sense of in
jury and wrong which business men in all
parts of the country have sustained by
reason of railroad determinations. 1t is
not manipulated movement and not
political movement and it would have no
strength at all, no standing before con-
gress, no influence with the president If
1t did not spring directly from the people,
Professional manipulation in the discussion
of the railway rate question has been
rather on the side OF the railroads than
on the side of the shippers. Ever since
the movement for government regulation
assumed powerful proportions in congress
year ago the railroads have been employ
ing every method OF agitation to turn pub
lie opinion against 1t.
There is no widespread opposition to the
railroads in the United States. All sensible
people know the great debt the country
owes to them for its development More
over, there is no widespread complaint re-
garding the general level of railroad rates
for it cannot be disputed that this level is
much lower in the United States than in
other countries. We do not feel, more
over, that there is any extensive feeling
of apprehension regarding the growth Of
railroad combinations, because it is realized
that through these combinations the trans
portatlon facilities of the country have
been immensely improved and the CONNER
cial possibilities at home and abroad inn
mensely advanced. But there is a real and
widespread feeling that the railroads have
not conducted their business altogether
on the principle of the square deal, and in
order to protect the people against their
growing power and to prevent them from
using that power to build UP this interest
or this section at the expense Of that in
terest or section. it is necessary that there
should be power lodged in the federal
government that is greater than that of
the railroads themselves. This proposition
is not hot air." nor is it soclalistic.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
THE VANITY or WEALTH.
S. E. Kiser in the Reoord.Herald.

S. f. Kiser in the Record Herald.
We amt as rich as some folks are, and
can't put on much style;
Ma says pas income don't go far when
things cost such a pile.
Our house Is little and the street we live
in amt so grand,
And ma cooks what we have 10 eat and
buys things secondhand.
But still / don't see why II is that she
should be so sad
We've got three dogs and that's two more
than Frank Gill ever had.
Ted Brewster's just as old as me, and his
pa owns mine
And has a private car, and gee, but where
they live is fine!
Ma says that they're as richs as sin, their
house Is built OF stone,
And Ted has ninety dollars In the bank
that's all his own;
But still don't see where they get so much
the start OF us;
We've got three dogs, and Ted he amt got
none, poor little cuss.
Sometimes, along lords night, when pa
comes home and plays with Jip
And Tige and big old Nero, ma she kind OF
curls her lip,
And says she's glad he feels like play. and
wishes that she'd die,
And when i hear her talk that way IL
nearly makes me cry;
The Brewsters they got rich In mines. the
Gills In corn and hogs,
But still they needn't feel so proud-we
beat them all on dogs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Practical Means of Making Army
Service Attractive.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
It seems quite plain TO the non-military
mind that a most practical and eficlent
means OF making army service attractive
to good men and thus lesseninK the percent
age OF assertions would be to increase the
pay Of the private soldier.
Thirteen dollars a month Is the pay OF an
enlisted man for the first two years In the
infantry. cavalry and artillery. with slight
increases for prolonged service. This was
the pay forty years ago. It represents pro-
portionately to wages in other calling much
less than It did then. Il is not enough TO
induce ambitious young workingmen, who
would make the best soldiers. to go into the
army and stay there. Indeed, the wonder
is that so low rate OF compensation gives
us as good material as We have. II seems
to be fashionable nowadays, even in Ameri-
can military circles, TO decry the American
private soldier; but a considerable &C
Quaintance With the demeanor and discip-
line of troops in other lands convinees us
that he is by no means their inferior today
in neatness. department and the general
essentials of military conduct.
The pay of the enlisted man in the United
States army should be increased to $40
month. There is no good reason why the
work OF the soldier should not be made al
attractive as other important pursuits. En-
listment in the army should not be equiv
alent to a sentence to perpetual poverty. A
man who has a chance TO save a little out
of his pay will make a better soldier for
his saving. A spirit OF contentment will
come with the increased compensation
which will make men anxious to Dtay In the
army instead OF anxious to get out of II
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Yellow dog candidates on both party
tickets count on the voting machine to
pull them through, because a great many
voters do not know how to handle the
machine and will therefore vote the
stright ticket. Possibly the yellow dog
candidates may fool themselves. Every
voter who is not able to operate the ma
chine, or thinks he is not able to do so,
has the right to call for the assistance
Of one of the judges of election, who I'M
der the law is in duty bound to help such
voters to cast their votes for the candi-
dates Of their choice.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
Torrance Of judicial functions and re-
puted to be an honest man.

The popocratic rukirs hre not even
versatile. Their yarn about the over
abundance OF money surfeitlng the local
republican campaign managers is so
coarse that even the most blear-eyed leg
puller can see through il. They should
have had another $4,000 slush fund sent
on from the national committee to be
ladled ont to the faithful or another bar
rel of money collected in the bad lands
by Tom Dennison to keep the wheels
creased. Such Munchausen fables In
past campaigns used TO command adj
miration for their colossal imagination.
A little tale of paltry $4,000 to pay the
entire expenses Of a county campaign is
too Insignificant to bother about.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
REPUBLICANS SHOULD VOTE FOR
WOODROUGH.


Every republican elector of Douglas
county has duty to perform to himself,
his family and the community. The re-
publican party--the party of Roosevelt
stands for square deal. 1t must re-
buke its own rascals If 1t wants to main
tain political supremacy.
For years the people of this county
have been kept In ignorance about the
inner workings and financial deals of
the county court, which is not only
charged with the general administration
of the estates Of deceased citizens, but
with the appointment of guardians for
widows and orphans, and the custodian
of funds deposited by railroads and
other corporations which acquire the
property of private citizens for public
improvements. For the last six years
these funds deposited for the benefit of
property owners whose lands have been
taken for public uses have aggregated
hundreds of thousands of dollars. 1t is
an open secret that these moneys are
farmed out by the county Judge for his
own personal profit.
In his capacity as probate Judge the
county judge has supervision over ex-
ecutors and administrators and fixes
their pay for services rendered. Such
sacred trust should be administered
in full view OF the public and subject at
all times to public scrutiny. Under the
dark lantern system of Judge Vinson-
haler everything has been kept under
cover and no one but the Judge and his
confidential clerk has ever been able to
ascertain just exactly what is being
done with the deposit and disbursement
of heirship funds. The scandalous graft
to which the widows and orphans have
been subjected should not be tolerated
in any community.
The election OF Charles Leslie to sue
coed Judge Vinsonhaler would mean
simply continuance Of the present rot
ten system. The fact that Judge Vim,
sonhaler has repeatedly offered to resign
4 III luNot VI A$cphc oAluAh lNScli gives
color to the well-dehned rumor OF specu
lation and peculation that has been
afioat in this city for some time past.
II would certainly be very improper, if
not dangerous. 10 allow the present
Judge to bequeath his place to a success
sor and 1t is not presumable that the
man who has been his chief clerk for
three terms would stop abuses to which
he has himself been a party.
The duty OF every honest republican
of this county is not only TO safeguard
his own family and that OF his neigh
bors. but to stamp out graft and put an
end to the farming out Of trust funds By
casting his vote for ]. W. woodrough
the democratic candidate. who Is emf
nently qualified for the eficient per
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Out of 300 members of the Douglas
county bar forty were inveigled to sign
a certificate of capacity and integrity
for CRATER Leslie. Among these forty
immortals we find the names of Byron
G. Burbank, Thomas w. Blackburn,
William A. Saunders and John T. Cath
ers Of Omaha and Henry G. Murphy Of
South Omaha, and several others of the
same stripe. When such men voueh for
anybody or anything you can depend on
a.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
Personal NOTES.

Colonel o. o. stealey, washington news
paper correspondent for many years. has
written a book, Twenty Years in the Press
Gallery"
A committee has been formed in England
to raise funds for a monument to Living
stone. the great African explorer. 1t is to
be placed in Chitsmbo. at the place where
he expired.
As cemetery promoter Philadelphia's
germ-laden water had an energetic assist
ant in ancient bologna sausage freshened
up with boric acid. The fuency OF both
agents caused an overproduction OF sobs
from funeral directors.
Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatlst. works
In room IN which there are doors opening
into five other apartments. AS he COM
poses he wanders from room to room. TAX
ing long tours. He eats very little while
composing one OF his dramas.
General r. p. De Hart OF Lafayette. Ind.
Judge OF the circuit court in Tippecanoe
county. has founded a museum OF Indian
relics in his country home. Lookout Lodge.
in which may be found all kinds Of Indian
relics and some that have come from the
battlehelds OF the civil war
Miss Alice French chose her pen name
OF OcthNe lhahet IN curious tashlon.
Octave was the name OF one OF her school
mates. and Thanet was adopted from a
passing railroad car that Miss French
CHANGED 10 see and IL pronounced with the
accent on the second syllable.
Sir CAspar Purdon Clarke. the new d.
, rector OF the Metropolitan Museum OF Art,
who has just arrived In New York, will
enter Immediately upon his active duties.
The president OF the museum. J. Pierponi
Morgan. and the trustees will give re-
ceptiOn for Sir Purdon az the museum on
the evening of November Is.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

The anxiety of G. NJ. Hitchcock to
have friendly injun elected county
treasurer may be more readily under
stood in the light Of past history. When
the Bolln shortage was uncovered an
1. o. U. slip signed by Hitchcock was
found in the cash drawer of the city
treasury. When BARLEY, the prince of
embezzlers, was handling the reins of
state finance Hitchcock was accommo-
dated with $1,000 of BARLEY money on
security Of a worthless second mortgage.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

large majority Of the American people
are in favor Of a strong navy. But as
we build ships we must make provision
for their adequate equipment in officers
and seamen and this has not been done,
The coming congress will have this
matter forcibly urged upon its atten-
ton and Il is to be expected that some
thing will be done to remedy the exist
ing defects in the naval establishment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
No HOMAGE for bandits.
Atehison GloDe.

No bandit Is ever q hero in Kansas.
Missouri cries for them. and everything
that ever belonged 10 a bandit, from old
guns 10 old shoes. is a sacred relic. Ne
braska Is burning the same kind OF In
eense before Pat Grove. The show place
IN Omaha Is the house where Grove hid
the cudahy boy while waiting for the
millionaire to raise the ransom. II Kan
sas evef has a bandit We will never bow
down TO his shoes. II there is any homage
coming Il will be the man who put the
bandit out Of business
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
CONSPIRACY TO DTsFRAEcHIsE VOTERS.

The supreme law I'm the state of Ne
braska is its constitution. Section %,
article /, of the constitution, entitled
"Bill Of Rights" provides that FALL cleo
lions shall be free and there shall be no
hindrance or impediment to the right Of
a qualified voter to exercise the elective
franchise.
Section g. article vii, Of the constitu-
ton. entitled, Right of Suffrage" de-
crees that "all votes shall be by ballot"
1t was a great strain of this specific
mandate of the constitution TO validate
the voting by machine without the
adoption Of n constitutional amendment.
The substitution Of machine voting for
voting by ballot was only 1ustlfiable
on the ground that it would prevent
ballot box stuffing and fraudulent
counting of the votes cast at an election
and do away with costly election con-
tests. The plea that machine voting
will expedite the election canvass could
not have been entertained as justifiable
ground for dlsregarding the mandate Of
the constitution that all votes cast at
elections in Nebraska shall be by bal
lot
The widest stretch of legislative and
judicial power could not possibly justify
or excuse any attempt to disfranchise
legal voters by compelling them to per-
sonally operate the voting machine II
they are not able to manipulate the
machine correctly so as to cast their
vote for the candidates of their choice.
It is matter Of notoriety that thou
sands of legal registered voters in
Omaha and South Omaha will not be
able to operate the voting machine be-
cause they are not familiar with its
mechanism.
Threats have been made by the friends
of candidates, who fear the effect of a
free and untrammeled expression
through the voting machine. that
they will invoke the power Of
the courts to mandamus the judges
duG VI CICtllOh W
fuse assistance to the voters who
ask their assistance in operating the
machine, so that they may vote for the
candidates Of their preference. Such a
mandamus IL issued would be an unmit-
igated judicial outrage. II would be a
| high-handed attempt to foist men into
office who would not be able to secure
an election If the will of the voters were
freely expressed at the ballot box.
An election procured by the disfran-
chisement of thousands of voters would
be not only farce, but great crime
against the people. The spirit and let
ter of the law authorizing the use of the
machine never contemplated their use
for throttling the people in their choice
of public officials and no court would be
| justified in lending itself to the con-
spiracy against the people for the bene-
fit of candidates who want to be elected
by hook or crook regardless Of the popu.
lar will
The inevitable effect of an election by
default, brought about by the wholesale
Acknowledgement of voters. would be
election contests for every Office In the
county and the popular demand that
voting machines be placed in cold stor-
age until the laws providing for their
use are so changed as to remove every
hindrance for free and untrsmmeled
expression of the popular will.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

me 5000 mark ON G. NJ HitchcOcks
FiAk-Pot represents exactly the amount
Hiteheock overfrev out OF the county
treasury over and above the amount he
was legally sutitled to according to his
own adniHsiD, and be ladled 1t out IA
viOlaiinn OF the Law that prohibits the
issue Of.uSrTuuu m excess Of the FSaiE
aha sIprpIuiHtinn.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

II is all right for political hacks to adj
Hionish voters to vote the straight ticket,
but no conscientious citizen viii vote for
bOOdlers or grafters because they wear
a party label.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Count Whites danger Is that an zap
peal' to the people in their present ex-
cited condition may have little more
effect than one OF the "manifestos"
with which the car was wont to try to
appease them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

A resident of Colon declares that the
work of sanitation in that city is now
complete. Next summer may find the
canal zone quarantined against New
Orleans If the Crescent City does not
rush work on it's sewers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

I. there is anything in the claim of
the railroads the Panama Canal commits
sion will avoid trouble in fixing just
traffic rates only If they get one or two
more former railroad employees ON the
pay roll.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Remember that every voter who does
not feel able to operate the voting ma
chine has a right to ask one of the
judges of electionIto assist him in opera
ting the machine so that he may cast his
vote for the candidates OF his choice.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
Great strain ON the raster.

DR.. Wiley Is now sampling coffee In an
endeavor to ascertain how Americans use
s,5OOOOO pounds OF pure Java and Mocha
each year while those places export only
lS7, 600 pounds annually still. there is a
suspicion that a man who has just COM
pleted samplins the whiskies and wines
OF the world can hardly be in position to
show a discriminating taste In anything
so mild as coffee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Leslie has vouched for vinsonhaler as
an honest, upright judge and Vinson-
haler vouches for me too as a scrupu-
lousy honest, abundantly capable and
entirely worthy candidate for judge. II
that doesn't beat the band.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

When giving commissions to the new
naval officers care should be taken to
see that they know enough to keep their
vessels in deep water during times of
festivities on board, as there are far too
many ships, both of war and peace,
upon the rocks at present.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Here is conundrum: II Fleming
We're elected treasurer, how many of his
sisters, cousins and aunts would be
transplanted to the county payroll9
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Among the candidates for county
once. says the Daily Fink-O-fobiAe. the
eyes Of South Omaha are turned on VII
liam Fleming. the NepO-cratie candidate
for county treasurer. When the machine
guns go on be win de discovered with
bis political toes turned upward
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

The governor Of one Of the provinces
Of Finland who has joined the people
in demanding constitutional govern
ment is evidently providing against be-
coming "a statesman out of job
when the change takes place.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

An attorney OF record who has never
practiced in the courts as a lawyer is
about as fit for the bench as would be a
commercial college student OF record for
general auditor OF the Union Pacific
railway.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

A referendum vote for king will he
taken In Norway next month; but II is
hardly probable the campaign fund win
be larger than that spent in New York
in the city campaign Just ended.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Sven Hedin has decided TO make an
other trip to central Asia, probably de-
string to recover, as an explorer, some
Of the prestige he has lost as a political
prophet.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

II Is now alleged that oysters from
the gulf coast have poisoned residents
OF Texas town. II is well to see that
the 'New York counts" have the brand
burned In the bottle.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Fortunately for international peace, il
was an American ship which put the
cruiser AIarblehead out of commission
at the Mare Island navy yard.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07
ALerel-Hended stnte.man.
Chicago Record-Herald.

Chicago hecOTd-IteTdIu-
The first thing NJ De Wltte did after
getting the ezar to sign the contract was
TO send for the editors. Evidently he rec
ogniEes the power Of the press.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Miss Medicus (sister of the new village
DOCTOR to Native-Have you heard OF DR..
Medicus about here?
Native-Rather, mum! Do yer see that
hearse and carriages goin' by over there?
That's one of his funerals.-Harpers
Weekly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

Maryland. My Maryland" will today
show whether it is in the line OF TWEEN
tieth century progress or still living in
the dark" ages,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

II was hoped Senator Barrows would
have found some other means of break
ing into print without announcing fur
Their hearings in the Smoot case.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-07

There is an American precedent for
"A petition In boots" but 1t remained
for Premier Balfour to entertain "a pc.
tltion In petticoats."