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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF RATE Law.

IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF RATE Law.
While the amended interstate COM
merce law will not legally go into eff
feet till August 2S. and while 1t will
be long before its full benefits are
realized, because of the magnitude of
the work of putting the law in opera
ton, yet in the short time since con-
gress adjourned a vast amount Of
abuse subject to It's provisions has been
stopped by the railroad companies
practically the same as II they were
already in full legal force. This pro-
cess, indeed, was inaugurated to some
extent during the session of congress
In anticipation that the act would pass
Many of these abuses no doubt are
also violations of the old interstate
commerce law, and the underwriting
prosecutions which the administration
has successfully conducted have power
fully Influenced the roads. But the
penalties under the amended law for
violations and the devices resorted to
for evading the old law are so much
more severe. and the means for en-
forcement are so much greater. that
the roads find themselves compelled to
prepare for obedience, and preparation
thus involves abandonment of many
long established practices in advance
Of the date of the new laws legal
operation.
To this class belongs a multitude Of
corrections of discriminating rates,
which, even IL not criminal violations
of the new law. will be within the
control of the Interstate Commerce
commission under the rate making
power. The commission. through its
agents, has been for weeks inquiring
into unjust rates, the existence Of
which has been reported as the result
of various Investigations by the De-
partments of Commerce and Justice or
by individual shippers. The mere fact
of such inquiry has caused the prompt
filing with the commission of scores Of
tariffs abolishing the rates which have
long caused grievous injustice to the
public.
These circumstances cannot but be
regarded as good omens of the success
of the amended law when it shall be
in full legal effect and there is time
for authority to enforce all its provi-
sions, and the result already explains
why the presidents policy was so ardu-
ously opposed by those interests which
have been identified with the abuses
which 1t Is aimed to abolish.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
FARM TENDENCIES.

The official of an eastern agricul-
tural college who has been at great
pains to collect answers to the Ques-
ton why boys leave the farm. amass-
ing material for q lengthy magazine
article which has attracted no little
attention, would probably have been
more profitably employed, because get.
ting nearer the truth of the matter, by
inquiring into the reasons why so
many boys are not leaving the farm.
For abundantly verified facts establish
the point that during the last decade
there has been a distinct tendency
among farmers boys to make farming
their occupation. The outlook for
farming under present conditions lie
very different from what 1t was when
the bright-witted boy was destined for
the professions or trade and only his
duller brethren were deemed proper
for the farm. The trend of affairs Is
to reverse the process.
Competition of rich western land
with the lean or worn soils of the east
has produced enormous economic con-
sequences, now becoming better IN
derstood. which. in connection with
other forces, bear directly on the
concentration of population In indus
trial centers.
In the older settled parts of the
west. particularly west of the Missis-
sippi. there has lately been a quite gen.
eral movement from the farms to the
towns, but 1t has been very largely the
older people. whose places on the
farms are taken by the young. and not
compulsorily for livelihood. but largely
because of the value and desirability
of the farms to their sons.
In short, the inherent attractions of
the farm have been enormously multi.
piled, and they will be relatively en-
HANGED II Industrial development con-
! tinues In the direction in which II is
moving. Telephone. rural mail serv-
| ice, machinery, diversiication and spe-
cialization of farm industry and the
| possibilities opened by applied science
are contributing to the comfort and
profit of farm life In a degree that
would have been inconceivable not
very long ago. 1t Is a field that APP
peals now more every year to farmers
boys. The notable growth OF agricul.
tural colleges, experiment stations and
various associations, as we'll as the ex-
tension of government interest, to
some extent measures this progress
II is likely to increase rather than
diminish, notwithstanding there is dis
position to regard the occupation OF
land as far advanced. But the subdi-
vision Of farms. with intensive cult
walton. has only fairly begun. Hardly
any limit can be put to the possibili.
ties of irrigation In the rainless re.
gion or OF dry cultivation In sub.
humid tracts. Moreover. practical
farming has already become for boys
the best possible qualification for sue
cess in innumsrable employments more
or less directly related to the farm.
Many farmers boys. OF course, are
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
SIGNS OF CONTINUING PROSPERITY.

SIGNS OF CONTINUING PROSPERITY,
On every side we have unmistakable
signs of continuing prosperity. The
government crop report just issued
gives estimates of what will be the
greatest wheat crop recorded in Amer
lean history. which also means the
greatest wheat crop ever raised in any
country. The outlook for corn like
wise promises to make the yield a
record breaker, and. barring unfore-
seen contingencies. the product of the
farm In other staples will not run be-
hind In any respect.
AS another index of prosperity the
remarkable increase of railway earn
ings for the first six months of this
year is decidedly significant. From
returns made to 1t the Financial
Chronicle figures out an increase of
more than IA per cent in gross earn
ings over those of the corresponding
months of 1905. or about $130,0O0,-
600. The net earnings will probably
show an advance over last year just
as large, because, although some re-
auctions have been made in passenger
rates, these will be Offset by the aboli-
ton of rebates and similar conces-
sions.
In the iron and steel industry, which
is taken to reflect general business con-
ditions, the output of pig iron for the
first half of 1906 reached 12,602,9O1
tons, against 11,S29,2O5 tons the pre-
ceding six months. and the total for
the present year is figured to exceed
25,000,000 tons. which will be more
than 100000 tons greater than 1905.
If the indulgence Of taste for luxury
is a sign of prosperity. there is en-
lightenment in the statistics of our
diamond imports. which for the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1906, were val
ued at $34.S62,551, as compared with
$27.419, 900 in 1905 and $1S,S04, 900
In 1904.
Signs Of continuing prosperity
within our own horizon are likewise
plainly visible. The era of building
expansion shows no tagging. The
condition of the banks with reference
to deposits and loans is most reassur-
Ing and business enterprises of all
kinds are making steady Roadway.
With all these substantial founda-
lions for uninterrupted prosperity the
prospects for the immediate future
were never better, although now. as
in all cases of high tide. the prudent
man will keep within the range of
realities and out of the realm of spec
ulative futures.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
LEST WE FORGET.

The corporation stalking horses
who hope to be the benefciaTies Of
legislative manipulation IL the senator.
ship we're to be delivered as hereto
fore over the legislative bargain coun-
ter and their paid agents are still en-
deavoring to set the pins to prevent
any nomination of a candidate for
United States senator in the coming
republican state convention.
Among the specious arguments they
advance are these: That convention
nomination would endanger the success
of the ticket, that the railroads can con-
troll conventions easier than they can
control legislatures and that the nom
ination in convention would have no
binding effect upon the members Of
the legislature by whose votes the sen.
ator is later to be elected. The fact
that failure to nominate. after leading
the people to believe their wishes we're
tn govern, would be dangerous. II not
fatal. to party success. they carefully
evade, as also the fact that the rail-
roads would prefer convention nomina-
ton II they thought they could handle
conventions easier. While 1t is con-
coded that convention nomination 10
not as directly responsive to the will
of the rank and file Of the party as
would be nomination by direct pri-
mary, yet, when the issue is clearly
drawn, It surely comes nearer to direct
popular choice than would remanding
1t to the legislature.
Lest we forget, 1t may not be amiss
to recall the Nebraska deadlock OF
six years ago, from whose blasting eff
fects the party has not yet wholly re-
covered. That deadlock lasted from
the commencement to the very ad-
journment of the legislature dead
lock purposely produced by the rail
road bosses, who stopped at nothing to
defeat the candidates committed to the
interests of the people as against cor
porate aggression. The wishes of the
rank and file of the party as expressed
in the vote of preference at the preced-
ing election were defiantly disregarded
and out of the deadlock finally came
two senators answering to no popular
demand whatever. 1t was resentment
of and disgust with the betrayal Of the
people in this senatorial fiasco that
made the plan of convention nomina.
ton welcome two years ago. because
1t held out the promise that a senator
might be elected of whose candidacy
the public would be appraised in ad
vance and on whose qualifications they
might have an opportunity to pass.
We doubt very much whether the
people of Nebraska are ready to GO
back with the senatorship to legisla-
tive bargain and sale, and invite repe
tition of the disgraceful deadlock with
its disappointing results. Had direct
| nomination or convention nomination
prevailed six years ago the people
would have chosen their senators in
stead of having them chosen for them
by the corporation bosses, and. having
now realized that the power lies in
their own hands. the people are not
ready to abdicate again in favor of
their former masters
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

st. Louis is going to raise bundle OF
money to exploit the city's advantages"
The Jefferson Indians must be of on a
vacation.
The electric COW mixer has been added
to the attractions of Niagara Falls. The
contrivance is right in line with the bus
mess of the bipeds.
If the Russian strikers at St. Petersburg
could get the Chicago tcamsters over thore
for a regular session they would have u
story worth the cable tolls.
A popularity of the president Of the de-
funct Chicago savings bank was his ele-
waited handshake. The shake he gave the
depositors was equally high.
With the Thaw case in full bloom and
the Sage will contest developing apace, the
fall and winter season promise a fine har-
vest for New York lawyers.
John d. Long, former secretary of the
navy, says that some of the Pilgrim Fathers
were drunken, licentious, vicious and
quarrelsome." Now watch Plymouth Rock.
The new state of Oklahoma is coming
into the sisterhood with all the necessaries
OF civilization. A Guthrie druggist adyer-
tises house paint, face paint and nose
paint"
A wise court in Georgia promptly sided
with the bride who had lambasted her hus-
band for failing TO kiss her pickering lips
when she asked for one parting smack.
Surely that court knows itself"
An Omaha woman secured a divorce be-
cause her husband did not come home at
seasonable hours. A Chicago woman cur
loose lawfully from a husband who was
always hanging around" Those who strive
10 please occasionally hit the bumps.
The slocum disaster is remembered by
inspectors In spots. Boston excursion
steamers are held down 10 their limit, IN
spectors counting tho number going on
board and hauling in the gangplank when
the limit is reached. on Chicago boats there
is no limit except the available spsee.
Notwithstanding the eommendation Of ex-
perts for surgery as a means Of correcting
bad tendencies in children. there are equally
experienced graybeards who cling ten
aciously TO the belief that a working slipper
or strap rightly placed reaches the SPOT as
effectively as any modern contriyance.
A project 20 erect a monument TO the
memory Of Michael Davitt in his native
county in ireland has been abandoned. Mr..
Davitt, It appears. left explicit instructions
that no monument should be erected to his
memory His enduring monument will be
personinsd In an Irish peasant proprietary.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
MUNICIPAL HOME RULE.

The new complications into which
Governor Mickey has been drawn by
his fire and police board appointees at
South Omaha are sure to strengthen
the demand upon our lawmakers to es-
tablish "a more sharply defined sphere
of municipal home rule.
There is no more reason why the
governor of the state should appoint
the fire and police commissioners for
the city of South Omaha and assume
the responsibility for the police regu-
lations of that city than that he should
appoint the mayor and council and as
sumo responsibility for the financial
administration of municipal affairs. II
this responsibility rests upon him he
should, it is true, discharge it, but the
delegation to the governor of authority
over the local affairs of such a commu-
nifty is a fragrant violation of the prin-
ciple of home rule and denial of local
self-government.
If the people of each city could
frame and amend their own charters
and elect and remove their own local
city officers without interference of
legislature or governor they would get
the kind of government which they
want and hold every official strictly to
account. Municipal home rule Is
bound to come in time. and lessons
like that cited are sure to hasten the
day.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
SERMONS ROLLED DOWN.

The leisure often determines the life.
It's no use holding up a pint cup for a
quart of blessing.
You cannot prove your faith in God by
your doubts of men.
Common courtesy is often an uncommon
kind of Christianity.
To be ashamed of virtue is a step toward
being proud of vice.
Sow your seed in ruts, and you will not
be bothered by a harvest
Many a man thinks he Is orthodox when
his mind is only atrophied.
real kindly feeling never has to wait
long for chance to get busy.
There is nothing sacred in any day If
there is not something sacred in all.
Dancing is always the worst sin in the
deoalogue to a wooden legged man.
The man who cannot find heaven on the
street Is not likely to find 1t In the church.
The only way to commit the command
ments to heart Is to commit them in daily
life.
It's easy to rec what viii become of a
mans humility once he becomes proud
OF It.
The boy who is given a start at the top
OF the hill usually makes record coming
down.
It's not the making of money but the
failure to make manhood that must be
condemned.
The best way to keep the robe of right
eousness from raggedness is to wear 1t
every day.
The magnate may conduct courses of
study on the moral time card and still
miss the train.
When a man finds that religion might re-
strict his revenue he begins to talk about
its incompatibility with his reason.
It's always the man who kicks up his
heels with the greatest abandon who de-
mands that newspapers shall exercise the
greatest restraint in describing the &C.
casion.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

try and society such trust relations as
are involved in banking are not only
unacceptable, but also, immense as they
are already, they must continually and
rapidly multiply and extend. The peril
to society increases in direct ratio to
their growth. Strangely enough, pro-
vision for punishment and prevention
of crimes against trust has been
neglected, although there is ground in
the recent public awakening to a sense
of the Importance of these relations to
hope for more adequate dealing with
the subject,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12


Another remarkable feature OF the
direct primary in Illinois is found in
the confession of former Governor
Yates. embodied in a postscript to his
prediction statement. In this the for
mer chief executive declares:
My administration was not brilliant, but
It was honest. I enforced the law and
protected the taxpayer by the veto power
/ made many mistakes. but tried to undo
them. My mistakes hurt me more than
any one else and have tried to atone for
them.
There are evidently governors and
governors. Some governors never
make mistakes or do anything that Is
not brilliant. They still cherish the idea
that the governor is the representative
of the royal prerogative and that the
king can do no wrong. If an honest
confession is good for the soul. Gov
ernor Yates must rest easier since he
unbosomed himself.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
Evidence of business strength.

ST. Louis GIobe-DemOCrat.
A strong illustration of the strength of
the general business situation throughout
the country is furnished by the record of
commercial mortality for the last month.
The business failures for July, 7SS, were
fewer than for any previous month of July
In many years, and in extent OF liabilities
they involved less money than in any prev
ious July for half a dozen years, excepting
1905 While more business Is being done
throughout the country than ever before,
1t is being transacted under better cond-
lions. Republican prosperity is factor
Of vast benefit to the United States.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

leaving the farms. but not more of
them, and probably far fewer, proper
tionately than leave the occupations Of
their fathers engaged in other indus
try, but the influences are strengthen
ing and multiplying that should hold
them to the farm.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

If 1t were not for those handy and
lucrative chautauQua lecture engage
ments some of our oratorical senators
and congressman might be tempted to
indulge In speculation TO expand their
incomes. All hail the chautauCua as
one of the uplifting agencies OF mod
ern civilization.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

1t would seem that the international
pollcyholders' committee might have
to arbitrate differences in its own
ranks before It can present a united
front to the directors OF the life insur.
ance companies-thus proving again
that constructive work is more difl-
cult than destruction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
simply a side Issue.

haHSHs CITY JOuTnaI.
The fact that the people Of the United
States drank $50. 900 gallons more of beer
last year than In any previous year. and
7,250,ooO gallons more Of distilled liquors,
indicates that Mr.. Fairbanks recommended
ton to buttermilk as the best beverage may
not be an especially strong campaign card.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
Pitchfork ed Hot Air.
Springfield Republican.

Senator Tillman, In his stamping of South
Carolina, is becoming unusually lurid even
for him At Anderson last week he is re-
ported as declaring that he did not know
what the outcome OF the negro question
would be, but he did know that there arc
not enough Yankees from Cape Cod to hell
to keep us down" But then, II is Tillman
who is speaking. and the Yankee will only
be amused,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

Now that Kentucky socialists have
declared against the prosecution OF
Meyer and Haywood. Idaho has q
chance to learn the meaning Of real
warfare.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

Experience with contractors In irri-
cation work in Wyoming does not tend
to prove the advantage Of the contract
system for the Panama canal. II the
government must complete the work
1t might as well start it-and the start
has already been made on the isthmus.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

In summonlng directors Of the de-
funct Chicago bank the state authori-
ties seem to labor under the impress
sion that directors should do more
than draw salaries.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
FALLEN ASLEEP.

Frank L. Stanton.
Only a little dust
So small that rose might hide IL;
Ind / trust in Color l try to trust,
When / kneel in the dark beside 1t.
/ kneel in the dark and say:
l only dream that / weep;
She would not leave me and go away
She has only fallen asleep.
Fallen asleep, as oft
She climbed to my heart to rest,
Her white arms twining my neck, as soft
AS down on a doves sweet breast
Tenderly-unawares,
Sleep came in the waning light
And kissed her there on the twilight stairs
That lead to the morning light.
And that she will wake | know,
And smile at a grief like this;
1t could not be she would leave me 30,
With never a goodnight kiss!
So l kneel in the dark and say:
only dream that l weep;
She would not leave me and go away
She has only fallen asleep
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
GRIMES OF TRUSTEES.


II a burglar who enters a house
kills, even though in self-defense and
though he had no such purpose, he is
guilty of murder. The natural, and, in
fact, inevitable consequence of the
crime of the wretch who, as president
OF the looted Chicago bank, for years
has been engaged in a system of elab.
crate and wholesale robbery is death
thousands of innocent and confiding
people, and several deaths have, in
fact, already occurred. The criminal
in this case. II caught, cannot be pun
ished for his true deserts as the burg
lar could be. but the case does en-
phasize the disparity of penal provi-
sions and the far-reaching relations in
volved in the high crimes of trustees.
All the burglaries and highway rob-
berries that have been committed in the
state of Illinois in decade have not
together involved a 1.-THE of the suf-
fering and damage caused by this one
recreant Chicago banker. Yet against
the former the law denounces It's high
est punishments and provides ungrudg-
ingly a most elaborate and costly pre-
ventive system. In comparison the
half dozen bank examiners provided
for the whole state is mere bagatelle.
II is idle to say that Official supervi
sion TO prevent such crimes or dan
gerous acts where there may be no
criminal intent cannot well be more
efficient
Undsr existing conditions Of indus
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
Looking for Trouble.


Maybe there won't be so much OF
scramble to trace up family trees since
John d. Long said something about the
character of some of the Pilgrim fathers.
The former secretary of the navy is not
much given to talking, but when he does
open his mouth he usually utters some
thing that makes people sit UP and take
notice,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

Federal officials seem to find that
oil and ice have common properties
viewed from the standpoint of the re.
batting railroad official. even though
oil and water do not mix
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12
Scattering nm Idol.
Baltimore American.

Mr.. John D. Long has stirred up New
Englanders by declaring that the Pilgrim
fathers were worse than any president of
a modern insurance society. This will put
him in a quandry, as he will be called to
account both by the descendants of the one
party and the friends of the other.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

If the movement TO releSate radicals
of all parties in Russian politics proves
successful, news from St. Petersburg
may not be as thrilling as 1t has been,
but 1t will be far more agreeable.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

Admiral Skrydloh says officers are
more to blame than privates for recent
mutiny in the army and navy. This
may be good news to the privates, but
as courts-martial are made up OF Of
ficers, 1t is hard to see how it will save
their necks
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-12

Those San Domingo smugglers who
killed two Americans may discover
that they have really done more than
ali the reyolutionists to bring about
stable government in the black repub-
lie