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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-10
BOOKER r. WASHINGTON WILL
NOT COME TO PINE BLUFF
TILL NOVEMBER IS. J
he,, Was Detained in New York, and
Can Not Arrive Her, on
Tuesday, the 18th.

Owing to the fact that he was de-
tanned in New York, Booker r. Wash
ington. the prominent southern negro,
will not arrive in this city on his visit
or the 18th. as has been advertised.
but will be here on Thursday, Novem-
Der 16.
At 2:3O p. NJ. he will speak at Jones
park. There will be no admission fee
charged. and everybody. both white
and colored, Is invited to hear him.
At night the colored people will give
4 banquet In his honor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-10
NIGHT WATcHMAN SHOT.

The night watchman employed by
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern railway at Dermott was shot
by some one unknown to the officers
q: an early hour Friday morning. The
man was shot with buckshot, which
entered his shoulder. None Of the par
ticuiars were obtainable here Friday
morning
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-10

sacred every day. and their property
conflscated. and If there was ever a
people who deserve the sympathy and
support of all good people. the perse.
cuted Jews of Russia need 1t now.
Contributions may be sent or given
to Rabbi Frisch, or to Chas Well.
Contributions from non-Jews will be
very much appreciated.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-10
HORACE HOLMES CHANGE

Horace Holmes, for some time con-
nected with the Union Furniture COM
pany, has been transferred to Clio,
where he will have charge of the
books of the Bluff City Lumber con-
rany in the future.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-10
1.-THE RUSSIAN MASsAcaEs."

. At Temple Anshe En.eth tonight
Rabbi F.. Frisch will preach on 1.-THE
Russian Massacres' at 1880 o'clock.
Saturday at 10 a. m will be children's
services, and adult services at 1890.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-10
MANS DUTY

Is 10 practice economy. Let Eisen,
kramer the tailor. above Citizens
bank. Second avenue, corner Pine
street. give you some points on econ.
O. in clothes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-10

Edgar Brewster J. H. Shelby, Jno. B.
King.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-10
BURGLARS MISTAKE

ENTERED THE WALTER coT1ER
COMPANY. AND INDICATE
THOUGHT BUILDING OCCUPIED
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
A FALSE ALARM.

The alarm sounded by the local red
letter sheet over the alleged prevalence
of typhoid fever in Omaha is absolutely
groundless. Typhoid fever is no more
prevalent in Omaha at the present time
than it has been during previous years.
There is neither sense, rhyme nor rea-
son in trying to make people believe
that Omaha is menaced with typhoid
infection. This Is the consensus of
opinion among the very best medical
practitioners in Omaha as well as the
health office.
There are and always will be some
cases of typhoid fever in city of
Omaha's population. The fact that one
particular physician claims to have
treated twelve cases within five months
affords no proof that all physicians in
Omaha have had a similar number of
typhoid patients. The only menace of
typhoid to which people are subject in
Omaha comes from the use of water
drawn out of wells that are in the neigh
borhood of cesspools and isolated dwell
ings that are in the neighborhood of
stagnant water.
Missouri river water, whether settled
or unsettled, is the healthiest beverage
anyone can drink. The rapid current of
the Missouri, constantly permeated
with sand, is self-purifying. Missouri
river water below Omaha and as far
down as St Louis, after it has absorbed
| the contents of the Chicago drainage
canal, still retains its purity. No harm
can, of course, come from boiling all
drinking water before it is consumed,
but there is no ground for apprehension
that the consumers of unboiled drinking
water will run the risk of typhoid
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
MATTER OFPLAIN FACT.

Let US be fair and truthful about this
matter of paying taxes and state the case
as it is. Nothing is to be gained and only
harm can be done by misrepresenting the
facts, as some newspapers are doing
The railroad companies believe that the
last assessment was unfair and wrong as to
them. They submitted the matter to the
courts for settlement as to the part be-
lieved to be wrongful, promptly paying the
other part, which is about 75 per cent of
the whole. A railroad company, precisely
the same as any other taxpayer, has an
absolute constitutional legal, moral and
natural right to have the question whether
they are wrongfully assessed settled by the
courts. That is what the courts are for.
Other taxpayers have the right, and exer-
else the right, to have such questions set
tled.-Lincoln Star.
AS matter of plain fact, last years
assessment of the railroads was not un-
fair and wrong to the railroads, but un-
fair and wrong to the other taxpayers.
According to the computation made by
former Land Commissioner Follmer,
who was not hostile to the railroads,
the assessment of real estate for 1904,
gauged by the recorded real estate
sales, which are generally higher than
the actual cash transactions, represented
81 per cent of the true value of the
lands and lots, as near as could be as
certained, while the railroad assessment
represented only GA per cent Of the mar
ket value of those properties.
AS matter of equity and justice, the
railroads should have been assessed last
year for not less than $6O,OOOOOO in
stead of SAC, 100000, and the railroad tax
agents and attorneys had no ground for
assuming that the last assessment was
unfair and wrong to the railroads. If
the railroad companies sincerely be-
lieved that. the last assessment was un-
fair and wrong to them, they should
have paid the whole tax under protest
and invoked the power of the courts
for redress instead of trying to scale
their taxes by paying 70 cents on the
dollar, while other taxpayers are COM
PEELED to pay dollar for dollar or have
their property sold from under them.
What standing would any other tax
payer than a railroad have in state or
federal court if he refused to pay more
than three-fourths of the tax levied on
his property? Would not his petition for
redress be thrown over the transonl
were he to repudiate the tax levy under
pretext that it was not fair, after he
had enjoyed every opportunity to i'm
press the assessor and Board Of Equali-
cation with his own idea as to the value
of his property? Is it not a matter OF
plain fact that the railroads, by reason
of the tremendous political influence
they exert, insist upon enjoying privi'
leges and immunities that are denied to
every other class of property owners?
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
THE RUSSIAN POINT or VIEW.

There is, on the whole, a good deal OF
conservatism and common sense in the
comments Of the Russian press in re-
gard to the peace movement. In the
first place there has been a very gen
eral expression of confidence in Presi-
dent Roosevelt, whose initiative in be-
half Of peace has been as cordially COM
mended in Russia as elsewhere. There
is manifested an unqualified faith In the
friendliness and the impartiality Of the
United States, ample warrant for which
is found in the perfectly fair course
toward each belligerent which our gov
ernment has pursued throughout the
war. The conditions of neutrality an
nounced at the opening Of hostilities
have been faithfully observed. While it
is true that American public sentiment
has been overwhelmingly in sympathy
with Japan, so far as the government is
concerned it has done nothing to indi
cate that it was in accord with this SEN
timent, nor has there been a public
utterance of any responsible official Of
the government partial to either of the
belIlgerents. Hence the selection of
Washington as the place for the meet
ing Of the peace conference is regarded
with apparent satisfaction by the Rus
sian press and especially by those pa
pers which are understood to reflect Of
fetal opinion.
These papers point out to the Rus
sian government the expediency of hav-
ing a settled policy respecting the terms
of peace for presentation at the confer
ence and also the Importance of select
ing the ablest men available as plenipo-
tentiaries. The real nature of the sit
uation seems to be at last realized at
the Russian capital and it is an cncour-
aging fact that there is no longer be-
ing shown disposition to put any OBJ
stacle in the way OF arrangements
| toward peace. If there is any element
in Russia that is opposed to ending hos
tilities 1t is not publicly manifesting It's
opposition, while on the other hand the
advocates of peace are not hesitating to
make themselves heard in no uncertain
way.
There appears to be feeling in Rus
sia that in the event of the success of
the peace negotiations there will ulti-
mately be brought about something in
the nature of an alliance between that
power and Japan by which the destiny
of eastern Asia will be determined. 1t
| is by no means unlikely that the Rus
sian government may seek something of
this kind, but 1t seems improbable that
Japan would be willing to enter into
an alliance with her present enemy. Her
relations with Great Britain appear to
forbid anything of the sort at present
and there seems to be no reason why
she should not prefer to continue the
alliance with the most powerful of
naval nations rather than enter into
one with a power incapable of being in
any way helpful to Japan. Moreover,
an alliance with Russia, instead Of aid
ing In deciding the destiny of eastern
Asia, would probably only lead to new
complications and disturbances.
While it cannot now be confidently
asserted that peace is assured. there is
very good evidence that Russian pub
lie opinion is favorable to ending hostili-
ties and this is in some measure a re-
Election of official opinion
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
POLITICAL pRIFT.

Reform has reached a point in Philadel-
phia where policemen with prison records
are told TO pack up and go.
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor Of Tennessee
IL trying to fiddle himself into the United
states senate. Bob is accounted a smooth
nddler.
Lest we forget II may be noted that n
man named David Bennett Hnl appeared
as counsel in the Patrick case in New
York courts recently.
An Illinois representative has refused n
denomination because a congressman is
nothing except a pension agent and
solicitor Of postofice Jobs"
Although a pair of boodling aldermen in
Allegheny, Pa, practically confessed their
crookedness a sympathetic jury told them
TO go and graft some more.
A large delegation OF Milwaukee officials
stand a flrst-class chance of following
Banker Bigelow to prison. The fame of
the Cream city grows by leaps and bounds.
In 1904 New York invested in it's public
school system S4O,5S1,22S OF this, $4,000 900
we 1t for enlarging the city's plant, and
$20,0O0O00 to pay running expenses. No
other city in the country approaches these
expenditures.
Some knockers in Kansas City are
actively knocking a. contractor who milked
the city for $2O5 per ton Of coal, while
selling the same goods to business houses
for $3.50 When the envious cannot butt
into a good thing they reach for the
hammer.
A recent investigation shows that most
If not all of the Philadelphia aldermen
involved in the recent scandal were native
Americans whose grandparents had been
citizens of the United States. The only
foreign born man of prominence in the
proceedings was Mayor Weaver, who pro-
tected the city.
New Jersey, the traitor state" knows
| a good thing and works 1t to a finish.
The revenue of the state derived from
corporations this year will amount to
S,357 ,Sl9. One insurance company pays
$204,O11. New Jersey is the hame of giant
corporate enterprises. Eight companies
| have a capitalization in excess of $100, ,OOO,-
OO0 Among them is the United States
Steel corporation, with capital of $685.
5SS 600. At the other end Of the line is a
| llliputian affair which pays a tax of 8
cents on a capital of $500.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
WHEN THE RAILROAD DROPPED IN.

Wallace Irwin in New York Globe.
"a j. Cassatt president OF the Pennsyl-
vania railroad has had a private interview
with Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia in the
latter's office.)
When the Railroad dropped in to see
Weaver
1t made just a casual CALL
For the Railroad is not a deceiver-
And willy? dear, no; not at all!
1t doubtless came round Just to proffer
Its aid in the cause of reform,
To strangle the grafters and offer
The Cause its encouragement warm.
When the Railroad sent round its Head
Spieler
He doubtless evolved a great plan
To make every man n square dealer
With Square Deal for Every Man.
He doubtless brought specie in buckets
Good governments claims to secure,
And offered to spend many ducats
To make Philadelphia pure.
But II, when the Railroad saw Weaver,
II flashed the bright wages of sin
And whispered Ike Nick, the Deceiver,
How much do you ask to come IMP
We'd feel such scorn for the Railroad
Such sad disappointment in fact
But we all of us know that the Railroad
Would never commit such an act!
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17

1t is announced that all of the right
of-way for the Omaha & Nebraska Cen
tral Electric railway project from Has
tings to Omaha has been secured ex-
cept the stretch between Millard and
Omaha and the franchise through
Wahoo. This is very gratifying, pro-
vided always that the promoters of the
enterprise have the necessary financial
backing TO make good within a reason
able time. The Beatrice, Lincoln &
Omaha Electric seems to have temporar-
lily gone into winter quarters.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
WHAT Is THE GAMEf
FeRtures of the Equitable settlement
Gail for Explanations.
Louisville Courier-Journal.


Louisville Courier-Journal
James H. Hyde sold to Thomas F. Ryan
sol shares OF stock OF the Equitable Life
Assurance society.
The capital stock OF the Equitable
amounts to 100000, divided into 1000
shares. Therefore, It was controlling
interest that Mr.. Ryan and his syndicate
acquired.
The par value of the sol shares is S5O1Oo
Since the dividend on the stock is limited
to per cent annually the direct incomaS
Of the syndicate on its holdings cannotT
exceed S3,5O7. And yet the purchasers
paid, in round numbers, 100000 for the
sol shares.
Naturally the question arises: Why
should the Ryan group pay so large a
sum for stock yielding only sS,507 in divl-
dends?
The transaction is sufficient to arouse
the suspicion that the so-called reorgan-
iation and publication of the Equitable
means, put bluntly, just a shifting OF Jug
glers.
Paul Morton has announced that he in
tends to conduct the affairs of the society
'for the best interests Of the policy hold
ers." 1t is good rule he has set out for
himself, and 1t is to be hoped that he will
adhere to 1t strictly. But the Ryan syn.
ulCdle Consists OF TOO SnreWd a group or
business men for the rest Of the world
to believe that 1t will be content with a
measly return of $,5O7 on an outlay OF
AcO0,o0O. The members of the syndicate
may be philanthropists, 1t is true. but tho
suggestion has not the air of plausibility
these piping times of dollars and graft.
Every cent of the profit of the Equitable
above the sum of 5000 pledged I'm annual
dividends to the stockhoders-every
penny above the sum spent in reasonable
salaries and the expenses of conducting
the business belongs absolutely to the
policy holders. These have put up the
money. All earnings Of that money arc
theirs. These include interest on loans
and deposits and profits on investments.
The stockholders and officers are entitled
to nothing but their fixed dividends and
salaries.
What, then, is the game to be played by
the Ryan syndicate? Not only the EQuit-
able policy holders, but the public at
large, would like to know
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
RAILROADS AS TAX DODGERS.
False Reports for "TaxatiOn Pur-
poses" Filed by the Managers.
Cshicn 90 Racnrd- IInralA


What are Illinois railroads worth mile Z?
That question interests the State Board
of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
which is meeting at Springfield to decide
on the general level of freight rates in the
state. Rates must allow reasonable
profit, and one OF the factors in determin-
ing reasonableness is the value OF the prop
erty on which profits must be earned.
Former Attorney General Hamlin has
been unkind enough 10 introduce in evil
dence on this point the railroad companies
own figures of the value OF their property
per mile as they presented them last winter
to the State Board of Equalization.
The railroad lawyers were astounded at
his simplicity. What had those figures TO
do with the case? They had only been
prepared ''for taxation purposes" As for
reasonable rates purposes the values were
ever so many times bigger.
There used to be a saying that the power
OF taxation involved the power OF conhsca-
tion. No one would guess It today. It
would be truer now TO say that the power
of escaping taxation and the power
OF conhscating a nice little percentage or
the value of all trsnic go hand in hand.
How long will the railroad be permitted
to play both ends against the unfortunate
public In the middle7
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
Prosperity in Business.
Springfield Republican.

Springfield Republican
Insolvencies became very large in the
latter part of 1903 and in the early part of
1904. With the revival OF business they
fell off materially, and while the liabilities
Of insolvents in May were a little larger
than those of April, there has been a
pretty steady diminution of these liabilities
from December last. Duns figures show
that the liabilities in May were less than
in the same month of the three preceding
years; they were larger than those of May,
1901, but not much more than a third as
large as those of May, 1900.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
PRoFIT1Ne BY GOLD STANDARD.

According to a report from the United
States consul at Mantamoras, Mexico,
that country is already realizing the
benefits of the gold standard. He
states, from information furnished by
bankers, importers and commercial
houses in his consular district. that the
adoption of the gold standard has
served to stimulate the Inauguration OF
new business enterprises, as well as to
strengthen confidence and credits. With
a fixed rate Of foreign exchange, says
Consul Griffith, the logical sequence of
an unvarying monetary standard, i'm
porters are making lower prices and
many exporting firms in the United
States and Europe who had withdrawn
their travelling salesmen have notified
old customers that the sending OF these
agents for the promotion of business
VIII be resumed at once. 1t is further
noted that business ON the American
side Of the Rio Grande has also ex.
hibited more healthful and confident
tone since the establishment OF a fixed
monetary standard by Mexico.
There is nothing extraordinary In
this yet the fact that our neighbor re
public has so soon found the advantages
OF having the gold standard is interest
Ing II only as additional evidence OF
the faliacy Of those people In this coun
try and elsewhere who have persistently
fought that standard. It Is true thai
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
PROPOSED COMM ERCLAL TREA TY.


1t is announced that the German gov
ernment will soon send to Washington
a draft of it's views on the proposed
commercial treaty with this country.
American agricultural producers and
manufacturers will be equally inter-
ested in learning the views of Germany
as to the kind of trade treaty that
country is willing to make with the
United States. Under the tariff that
will go into effect early next year there
will be a very decided discrimination
against number Of American products
unless something is done in the mean
time to give these products the benefit
Of the minimum rates.
The German government is disposed
to enter into commercial treaty that
will place our products ON favorable
footing with those Of other countries
with which 1t has treaties, but it is
doubtful if this can be consummated, so
strong Is the opposition to granting any
tariff concessions. Perhaps the execu-
tive branch of the government will
| frame commercial treaty, but then
there is the senate to reckon with.
There has been some talk of recourse
to retaliation, which would bring on q
tariff war very damaging to both coun-
tries. We are doing a large trade with
Germany and the question of preserv-
ing 1t is certainly important 1t will
doubtless be urged upon the attention of
the next congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
IN JUSTICE TO THE UNIONS.
Leaders May De Grafters, but the
Rank and File Are Honest.
Chica % Inter Ocann

CHlCdBO Inter ocean.
Charges and countercharges of bribery
and blackmail in the management of labor
unions and in their relations with various
employers have been coming thick and
fast in the last ten days. In fact, so thick
and fast have they come that the average
man is prone to believe that at least half
of them are true.
There are doubtless some Sam Parkses
among the labor union leaders of Chicago.
There are probably some employers of the
kind that made Sam Parks possible.
These are reasonable inferences.
However, this does not justify anyone in
saying, as a Chicago newspaper said yes
terday, that labor unions are bought" 1t
is certain that SO per cent of the members
of Chicago labor unions are in no way re-
sponsible for any kind of graft. They are
no more responsible for it than the great
masses of farmers who vote the republican
ticket are responsible for the stealing In
the Postoff1ce department at Washington.
The rank and file of labor unions, who
work and pay their dues because they be-
lieve in the union idea, never see graft from
one years end to another and never come
In contact with 1t. They are not in a posi-
ton to graft and do not try to be- Only
those who become leaders-who get into
the positions of trust-have the chance to
betray their trust for money.
Hence it follows that the shameful
charges now banded about are not part
of any fight between capital and labor
They are just part of the old familiar
human fight between honesty and dishon-
esty.
with graft neither labor nor capital can
have any sympathy. The CRATER is a
friend Of mona hut himself
What is wanted In Chicago is not fight
between labor and capital over graft, but
a clean-out OF grafters on both sides, for
the welfare of honest labor and honest
labor unions as well as of honest capital
and honest capitalists.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
Reversing the Conditions.

Had Russia been victorious what would
its peace terms have included? Kouropat-
kin threatened to make peace in Toxic, but
It was a vain boast. 1t is probable that
Japan might have been permitted to exist,
but that It would have been shorn of every
vestige OF power and placed under the heel
of the conqueror would have unquestion-
ably have been the price of peace. Japan
knew this; therefore it did not take the
initiative before7r was prepared; then It
struck with such force that there was
little chance for aught but victory. HUI
manity demands that the war shall end
Justice, however, dictates that Russia shall
pay the price.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17

Mr.. Ryan assures the policy holders
Of the Equitable society that he has be-
come the sole owner of the 502 shares of
stock formerly owned by Mr. Hyde and
that no other person or interest has the
right TO contribute single dollar to-
ward its purchase. This statement is
doubtless given out to allay the rumor
that Mr.. Ryan, who has close relations
with the Standard Oil corporation,
simply represents the system" II this
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17

rumor is unfounded and Mr.. Ryan actu-
ally owns every dollar Of the stock in his
own right, and the stock was acquired
by him with his own surplus, the policy
holders very naturally still will want
to know what difference 1t will make to
them whether Mr.. Ryan is the owner of
the stock or Mr.. Hyde, so long as Mr.,
Hyde remains the handspring Of the
Equitable mechanism.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
Things that Make for Peace.
Minneapolis Journal.

MlnneapOHS JOURNAL
One of the best ways to bring about peace
would be for the mikado to start from
Toxic and the czar from St. Petersburg,
meet half way and do It, 1t would be well
for the car to carry small bottle of su-
perior vodka from the imperial cellars. and
the mikado to bring along several bags Of
the royal tobacco. While the czar was
pouring out about three fingers of the stuff
the mikado could busy himself filling a
couple of long-stemmed pipes. 1t seems as
If peace could be made in a few minutes
thereafter.