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Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
GIVING HIS SNAP AWAY.
Sam SDencer's Expressive Description
of Present Railroad Conditions.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
When Mr. Samuel Spencer in a speech
before the Newark Board of Trade charac-
teriZed the propositions for effective regu-
lation of railroad rates as Commercial
lynch law" he dou' tless thought that he
had coined a new and telling phrase. But
II he had stopped to consider its real APP
plication to the facts in the case he might
have been less free in injecting it into the
discussion.
Lynch law is the seizure of power by a
mob or clique to put individuals to death
without regard to the safeguards or au-
thority of law. Commercial lynch law, to
make the parallel good must predicate
some interest or clique to have grasped and
to exercise the power to wipe out CONNER
cial existence without regard to law or
legal procedure. 1t is evident that to
apply this term to a process Of regulation
authorized by law and conducted with all
the safeguards of public hearings. evidence
and review by the higher courts is IRA
tional.
But there is no doubt that commercial
lynch law does appear in connection with
this subject. The adjustment OF railroad
rates so that individual firms are wiped
out of business, Industries condemned to
languish and communities to decay, not
| by the law but by the edict of the rail-
way rate makers, completely fulflls the
! definition of commercial lynch law. For
an example, that case in which the western
railways doubled the rates on Kansas
crude Oil as soon the Standard had its
pipe lines in operation, may, in the abb
sence OF any other rational explanation, be
| taken as a deliberate attempt TO subject TO
commercial death the Kansas producers
who did not choose to send their oil
through the pipe lines.
| With this in view the fact appears that
the purpose OF the berated legislative
proposition is TO prevent the commercial
lynch law which the railroad interest seems
TO defend one Of its most cherished
privileges.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECHES.

The speeches Of President Roosevelt
at Richmond and Raleigh, while en-
tirely different in subject matter are
very characteristic. In the Richmond
address the president made an eloquent
appeal to loyalty and patriotism and
pointed out our duty as a great people
toward the rest of the world. In the
Raleigh speech Mr.. Roosevelt considered
chiefly practical matters, making a plea
for forest preservation which applies to
the whole country. In this connection
the president said some things quite as
worthy the attention Of the people Of the
west as of the south.
But the portion Of the speech that is
of greatest interest is that relating to
government supervision and regulation
of the railroads. Not that there is any
thing especially new in what was said,
but that 1t gives renewed assurance Of
the presidents steadfast adherence to
the policy Of railroad supervision by the
government. This is needed Mr.. Roose-
welt declared, "quite as much in the in
terest Of the big shipper and the railroad
man who want to do right, as in the in
terest Of the small shipper and the con-
sumner" He said the proposed policy
was not revolutionary, as he only
wished the same power given in refer
ence to railroads that is now exercised
as a matter Of course by the national
bank examiners as regards national
banks. From this utterance the country
learns, in part at least, what the presi-
dent will say in his annual message to
congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
ANOTHER OBJECT LESSON.

Before the recent convention of ma
tional bankers the comptroller Of the cur
rency made the statement that nine
bank failures out of ten are due to the
neglect of directors. An object lesson
sustaining this view is just furnished in
the case of the Enterprise National bank
Of Allegheny, which on Wednesday was
taken charge of by the comptroller Of
the currency, after having been found to
be insolvent. The disclosures that have
been made show that the cashier. who
committed suicide. had loaned large
amounts of money, of course without
adequate security, to numerous persons,
most of them said to be politicians more
or less engaged in various enterprises.
1t appears that the cashier had a prac-
tically free hand in the matter, that he
made loans amounting to hundreds of
thousands of dollars without consulting
any other officer of the bank-in a word,
ran the institution about as he pleased.
The president seems to have known lit
tie IL anything about the condition of the
bank, while the reports make no men
ton of the directors. Undo eddy when
more thorough investigation has been
made it will be found that the directors
had neglected their duties and were ig-
norant of the way in which the cashier
was handing out money on insufficient
security. At Louisville, KY, yesterday,
the former president of the Western
National bank, closed several weeks
ago, was indicted for misrepresentation
of funds and ENLIGHTENMENT. Undoubt-
eddy another instance in which the d.
rectors of the bank were mere figure
heads. Such instances, it may be said,
are not frequent but they occur often
enough to create a feeling Of distrust in
the public mind, and it is well to call
attention to them as a possible means of
remedying what so competent an author
ity as the comptroller of the currency
regards as an evil urgently calling for
correction.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
Personal NOTES.

Hall of Fame jokes are being sprung
abroad. The London Spectator, for in
stance, suggests that the place be renamed
the Hall of Worthless.
Frank Rockefeller brother of John d.
Rockefeller, has hobby of training wild
animals at his home. Wickliffe-o -the-Lake,
near Cleveland. Ohio.
Russell Harding. who has been selected
for vice president of the enlarged Erie
railroad system, began his railroad career
as an Office boy in the Cotton Belt route.
The. fact that New York woman is going
about giving SO to any gentleman sur
rendering his seat to her will do much
to fortify gentlemen in resisting their
natural impulse to be polite.
George Williams England's young must
cal prodigy, is coming to the. United States.
He is IA years old and has already COM
posed an oratorio that has won much
praise from critical connoisseurs.
President Eliot of Harvard lives a life
of the greatest possible simplicity. After
seventy years of llfe more than half passed
as head of the university, he declares that
one of the most desirable satisfactions of
his life comes from having had nothing to
do with the attainment OF wealth.
Max Darewski, 1O-year-old boy Of Polish
parentage, is the musical wonder of Lon
don, where he has been conducting a
Crystal Palace orchestra OF 5000 players
When little more than a baby he won an
open scholarship in the London Academy
of Music and at the age of had composed
a really good march,
Eli Hioki the first secretary of the Japan
csc legation at Washington, will address
the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce on
October "a, which will be the first express
sion from Official Japanese circles since the
peace treaty was signed and it is expected
that 1t will be OF great significance as to
the policy to be adopted by the mikado's
empire toward the rest of the world, par
ticularly the United States.
In the desert OF southern Arizona, with
an Indian, two centipedes and a gila mon
ster as his companions, Prof. w. J. MCGEE
of Farley, Ia, suffering from lost health
slept for four months without bed or covers
upon the hot sands OF the desert and re-
gained all his former vigor. McGee has
just returned home, a veritable athlete, in
place OF the weakened and emacated man
who struggled out of a severe attack Of
typhoid fever with only enough strength
to drag himself west,
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

That the average bourbon newspaper
organ, like the average bourbon demo-
crat, never learns anything is again
strikingly illustrated by the cannon ball
soup editorial Labeled out to dyspeptiC
democrats by the Omaha World-He1ald
as an antidote to a pungent paragraph
on the Rockefeller manifesto of the
democratic candidate for university re-
gent. The bourbonic organist evidently
imagines that he can awaken the dead
with his megaphone.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
MUsT TAKE MACHINE INSTRUCT,

Must TAKE MACHINE INSTRUCTION.
The introduction of the voting ma
chine at the coming election compels
every voter to acquaint himself with its
mechanism before election day, so that
he may exercise the franchise intelli-
gently and avoid voting for the wrong
man. Like all other mechanical de-
vices, the voting machine is very simple
when you know how to handle it, but
nobody can feel sure of handling it right
until after he has tried it.
In view Of the fact that election is
less than three weeks ahead of us, there
is very little time to be lost for voters
who have not already taken practical
lessons in machine voting. Although
voting machines have been on exhibition
in Omaha and South Omaha for several
months past, we are told that less than
10 per cent of the voters have yet taken
the trouble to give the machine a trial
or even to examine it. This may be
due partly to indifference in the political
campaign or to overconf1dence in the
ability of voters to catch OH to the trick
when the time comes for action.
1t is to be hoped that from now on
until election day every voter who has
not already exercised his skill in hand
ling the voting machine will lose no time
In taking lessons. 1t goes without say
ing that blunder made in machine vot-
ing cannot be rectifed as it could when
a ballot is spoiled. Once the vote is
cast it is sure to be counted as 1t was
cast and not as it was intended to be
cast. The only way voters can con-
fidently venture to express their choice
through the ballot box by machine is
for them to know by practical expert
ment that they are capable Of manipu-
lating the lever correctly.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
III o M e CURE 8 OF
KIDNEY ILL
DOan's Kidney Pills Have
Cured Scores of Cases
Right in This City
Omaha CitiZen Testify

You need not 60 far from your own
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Pills cure kidney and bladder troubles,
backache, etc. Notable cures have been
made in every section of this city and
many of your own neighbors have sent
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The only kidney remedy thus backed
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spells-if the urine is irregular, pas
sages scanty, too frequent or painful
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languid and nervous, and don't know
why, begin at once with Doan's Kid
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neighbor. 1t soothes, heals and slim
ulates sick kidneys, ensures constant
publication of the blood in the kid
neys, drives out all uric poisons and
cures permanently.
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Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
OMAHA TESTIMONY

David Moncrieff. 211O South Esd
streets, says: For ten or twelve
years l suffered from pains over my
hips and across the small of my back.
l am 20 years of age, and having had
this trouble so long, 1t no doubt was
a stubborn case to cure. l took treat
ment from doctors and different kinds
of patent medicines, but while some
gave temporary relief, nothing re-
lieved me permanently, until l pro-
cured Doan's Kidney. Pills at Kuhn &
Cos. drug store. After a few days
treatment felt benefit and the rem
edy did more for me than any other
medicine 1 ever used. can cheer
fully recommend Doan's Kidney Pills
as being up to representations"
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Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

1t is in accord with the eternal Mt
ness of things for the Omaha junior yell
low to applaud the executive committee
OF the Commercial club for declaring in
favor of a forty -three-year gas fran
chise in the face Of its own record as a
paid opponent of a bond issue for the
establishment OF q municipal electric
lighting plant, which would have en-
abled Omaha to secure better and
cheaper illumination.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

when I lived in Washington as a dele
gate in congress some twenty years ago."
said Governor Toole, II lodged on the site
OF this fine establishment, but 1t was the
old Willard then. and was the headquarters
of many OF the prominent men of that
period
"One OF the old WIZARDS greatest fea-
lures was the superb and multitudnous
army of rats which made II their home.
always thought that II the Pied Piper Of
Hamelin could come back to earth II would
have hlled his soul with ecstacy to have
tried his hand on that collection of rodents.
hadn't been there long until one day
found a hole as big as a biscuit in one OF
brand-new pair Of custom-made oxfords
] took the shoes TO the anable Charlie
Leavens, chief clerk OF the place, and
called on him to behold the ruin OF my
footgear
It's those d. rats. said Leavens, but
leave the shoe and I'll have Il fixed so
you'd never know anything ever was the
matter. | did requested and the next
day my shoe came back very cleverly re-
paired. Thinking TO put on the pair,
hunted up its mate, when, to my unquali-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

Following testimony mat the rail-
roads lose money on transporting live
stock, packing house products and
dressed meat comes testimony that they
lose money on shipments of fruit and
vegetables in refrigerator cars. If this
testimony is all true other forms Of
traffic are making up big deficits and
some shippers are paying more than a
square deal" would justify.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
RAILROADS AND SENATOR'S.
Corporate Influence Menaces the
Public VIII.

In every state in the union there is a
railroad lobby of some sort. In some states
the legislatures have been corrupted by the
railways andNfoi1ow the dictation of these
Hobbies. Through the control Of legislatures
the railroads have secured a powerful infiu-
ence in the United States senate, whose
members are elected by the state legisla-
lures. Some senator's are known to have
been elected by railway interests, some are
suspected of having allied themselves with
these interests and some are known to be
free from such faint.
This is a deplorable state of affairs. 1t is
even more serious than a general state
ment implies, for the senate is so governed
that a few leaders sometimes a single
member, may prevent legislation. There
fore, when the senate is no longer a rep
resentatlve body but a railroad agency the
country must find a new way to elect it's
members.
Fortunately, there is to be a sound test
of loyalty to the people and subservience
to the railroads in the matter of the spe-
cial legislation urged by President Roose-
welt. The action of the various senators
on this question will pretty clearly define
to which of these two each member be-
longs. The issue is clear, even If the rail-
roads, through the most systematic propa-
ganda ever employed for such a purpose,
have tried to confuse the public mind.
There should be a movement in every
state in the union for the election of United
States senators by the people, which is
feasible through the plan of nominating
conventions and elections subject to the
ratification of the Legislatures. But this
movement will be especially imperative in
states whose senators get on the wrong
side Of the proposed railway legislation
or have already shown subservience to cor
porations rather than loyalty to the peo-
pie.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
MOVING THE CROPS.

Time was when the moving of the
strain and a very heavy drain upon the
surplus of money deposited in the
vaults of banks and trust companies of
New York. Immense lounts of money
will again be required to move this
years big crops and carry on the vast
traffic in agricultural products, but the
strain will not be upon Wall street and
the New England banks, but upon the
railroads in the great wheat, corn and
cotton belts of America.
There is abundant money in that
region to move all the crops to the mar
kets on the Atlantic seaboard but there
is an admitted shortage of railroad
equipment to move the crops ex-
peditiously. In other words, the activ-
ity in all lines of trade and the immense
crops that must be moved from one
section of the country to the other create
no uneasiness as to the ability of the
banks to handle the business, but there
is a well grounded apprehension that
the railroads with all their vastly in
creased facilities for traffic will still be
seriously hampered for the next few
months in hauling the surplus of the
crops to their destination. This abnor-
NAL condition is incident to the wave of
prosperity that has swept the country
and reversed all former experiences and
even all the most sanguine predictions.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
FLASHES OF FUN.

Jenks-Why did you say mo" when Mrs.
Boston asked you If you'd like to have
drink?
Luschman-She didn't-welI, I declare, is
that what she meant? She asked me n I'd
have a "Caledonian altitudinous sphere
Philadelphia Ledger.
DO you think 1t pays to be generous?''
asked the man of doubtful mind
We'll, that depends" replied the phil
money I've given away that regret; it's
what I've lent"-Detroit Free Press
Met Scribblerus the other day; says he
Is going to give up writing poetry and go
into gas business"
mot such a great change. He never
could manage to make his meter work
right. "-Baltimore American.
II never see Throggins doing anything.
What's his occupationp
his occupationY he has second cousin
that's the president of big life insurance
company."-Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Knicker-Did you see Vanderlip's
speech on finance?
Mrs. Bocker-Yes, it sounds exactly like
Henry when ask for new dress.-New
York Sun.
What an immense debt the race owes to
tobaccoi"
"Oh, immensev'
only today / was reading that the cigar
shape has proved to be the best not only
for airships, but for submarine craft as
well. Puck.
IT fear she won't enjoy herself in
heaven"
why not?"
81 don't believe you can send souvenir
postal cards from there."-PIttsburg Post
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
Insurance Doctors Disagree.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

The advocacy of federal insurance regu-
lation by Senator Dryden and other insur-
ance magnates rendered It liable to sus-
piclon. But when Senator Buckley of
Connecticut, also an insurance president
and an avowed supporter of the practice
of buying votes, comes out in opposition to
the proposition it is a strong point in its
favor.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

Among the suggested amendments to
the charter submitted by The Bee to
the late Douglas delegation in the legis-
lature was the following:
All telephone. telegraph and electric light
wires within one mile of the city hall, in
cities of the metropolitan class shall be
placed in subways or conduits owned and
controlled by the city. The city shall have
the right to acquire all conduits heretofore
constructed by remunerating the owners
thereof for their actual value without any
allowance for franchise and the city shall
be empowered TO charge and collect a roy
atty for the use of said conduits from
every individual association or corpora
ton that may desire to avail itself of them.
For reasons not explained, but easily
guessed, the suggestion did not meet
with favor; but the time will come at
no distant day when its adoption will
become a public necessity.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

From the manner ia which certain
interests oppose the parcels posts bill
one would think the world had made
little progress since the weavers Of
England destroyed looms run by steam.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
OregOn's Dubious Distinction.
New York SUI

The Hon. Charles William Fulton, United
States senator from Orei IN, is the only
member of that states delegation to con-
gress not under conviction or indictment
for penal offenses He will be the whole
delegation when congress assemblies this
fall. The least that President Roosevelt
can expect from him is that Oregon's en-
dorsement of candidates for public office
will be unanimous.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

Baltimore American.

bdillnlOTe american.
Fearing that too many cooks would spoil
the broth, the Panama Canal commission
has decided to run its own hash house. 1t
must be remembered, also, that the MEM
bers have had a good nibble at govern
ment pie and know that it is every whit as
good as mother baked.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

When expert bookkeepers begin to
testify against each other the public
may grow suspicious that mathematics
is not the exact science claimed by its
followers.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

Putting 1t briefly, Mr., Roosevelt sim
ply wants to make it possible for the
American business man to be successful
without adopting any questionable ex-
pedients to get favors from railroads, or
compete with those who enjoy railroad
favor.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

President Roosevelt has now made it
impossible for any man to say that he
favors the presidential program, but
does not desire to give the Interstate
Commerce commission power to fix
rates subject TO judicial review.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

The county is stu paying As cents a
day for feeding prisoners in the county
jail, while the city only pays 10 cents
a day for the same bin OF fare to pris-
oners in the city jail. Can anybody give
any good reason why this partially
should be continued.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
A Strange proceeding.

Wall Street Journal
1t is strange that the American Bankers
association should have given such promi-
nence to the subsidy question. Possibly 1t
Is believed that a big merchant marine
would Increase our prominence in interna-
tional banking But the subject was at
this time hardly one for the bankers to
give judgment upon.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

Cable advices from Toxic announce
that W. ]. Bryan addressed an audience
of about 10000 Japanese in clean cut
and we'll paraphrased English. The re-
port must be taken. dguratlvely speak
ing, multiplied by IS to l.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
Present Company Excepted.

Washington Post.
No congressman has yet suggested the
saving Of money in the government print
cry by abolishing the plan of printing
speeches for distribution during the polit-
ical campaigns
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

The failure of the supreme court to
render decision on the validity Of the
Dodge primary election law will save
the socialists the trouble of finding a
candidate for register of deeds.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

crank has been arrested while try
ing to take the life of District Attorney
Jerome of New York. The press agent
OF the independent candidate should pro-
duce something more novel.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

The release of Dennisons bondsmen
over in Iowa has almost come simultan-
eously with the disappearance of Star
Performer Shercliife and the disiIlusion
of Governor Cummins.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

IN teshsYing that it costs no mI Re
than $4.O5 to ice car for three days
and that south of Chicago-a witness
is showing where the real profit is found
II the fruit business.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

The proposed conversion of the mar
ket house into a winter bear garden
suggests the question, whether Omaha
will ever control its own public mar
ket, for the benefit OF the public, or
whether it will continue TO maintain a
market house for the profit OF private
aggregations organized to control the
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

Former" bankers of Pennsylvania
can join those of Nebraska in testifylng
that It does not pay'to lend state funds
Unfortunately to politicians.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
Credit for GhostIy warriors.

Chicago NEWS.
For the successful conduct Of the war
the mikado again gives credit to the illus
trious ancestors 1t would be interesting
to know how far the ancestors would have
been held to blame II the war had gone the
other way.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20
WHEN our OF TOWN.

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porarily should have The Bee
mailed to them. IL il better than
n daily letter from home. Adj
dress will be changed as often ms
requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

Joe" Letter is doing worse than
paying for dead horse" He is Civ.
Ing checks for profits he didn't realize
In an old deal in wheat.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-20

There is one thing on which all
Omaha is agreed, and that is that
Omaha wants and must have in the
near future modern fireproof hotel.