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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-03-21
MOTOR POWER (
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$40 TO $Ss-S00 head of HORSES aud g
pairs young blocky- MULES, ages 6 to
years, weighing 200 to 1,400 pounds, to be
positively sold, by order OF the United States
Transfer Company, on account of our new
motor-wagon system; viii be sold al the rate
of 80 head weekly; all good, serviceable
stock, right out of the hardest kind OF work;
some big, fat MARES, pavement sore, Will
come sound in the country. See
MANAGER, at CoMPANY'S STABLE,
4Is-417 n. Paca Street, Baltimore, Md
Branches-PH ILADELPHIA, NEW
YORK and PITTSBURG. "a
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-03-21

The banks of Annapolis are becom-
ing great places Of interest.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Minneapolis Journal: Thank heaven there
is at least one question that the fathers Of
the republic really settled for U.S. That
is the religious question.
Milwaukee Sentinel A Methodist church
in Chicago is to install bowling alley in
the basement of the church building. Ri
val churches will have to hustle some to
beat this.
Baltimore American: A minister in Bes-
ton claims that he can restore the dead
to life. They ought to lose no time in BE-
curing him for the issues of some of the
democratic campaigns
New York Tribune: Honor is to be given
to the minister in Baltimore who has
closed his church against club which
proposed to hold a rattle in it, and has
also resigned the chaplsincy of the club.
AS for the other minister in the same city,
who has invited the club to hold it's rattle
in his church, we should be interested to
hear the next sermon he breaches against
the sin of gambling.
Springfield Republican: The ungodly can
not fail to observe that Archbishop Ireland
has abandoned hope of ever receiving the
red hat, at least under the reign of the
present pontiff. His warm tribute to the
policy of Leo XIII, the predecessor of Plus
X, as one sure to have prevented the sepa-
ration of church and state in France, can
not be pleasant reading to those who
now direct the policy of the Vatican. And
in his criticism of French clericalism's
inept alliance with the moribund party
of monarchists, the archbishop strikes
note OF truth. He is not disloyal to his
church in this matter, for he does not
justify the measures of the French govern
ment; but of the three prominent Roman
Catholic prelates in America. Gibbons, Far
ley and ireland, 1t is Ireland alone who
shows any independence of judgment or
freedom from the narrowness of ultra
montanism.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

Of power, like that TO regulate com
merce between the states, are in gem
eral terms or relate to comprehensive
subjects or principles as to be capable
of immense extension in practical ap-
plication. Each new application, like
the proposed prohibition of child labor,
stands as a precedent for and often re-
quiring many other extensions. Nor
could anything be more significant Of
the inherent necessity of such pro-
nounced Capitalization and of the
trend of popular sentiment in favor Of
It than the fact that Mr. Bryan, whose
protested fundamental principle has
been strict constructionism and states
rights, is publicly committed to Sen
ator Beveridge's child labor measure
in the Numerically opposite direction.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

OF the making of resolutions nowadays
there is no end. The breaking comes later.
Gallery extensions on water wagons in
sure every applicant preserved seat.
The man who received from his wife a
smokable brand of cigars for Christmas is
justified in refusing to swear of.
Hereafter the invited guests Of the Chi
cago Drainage Canal board will take water
straight or go dry. For obvious reasons,
mostly economic, the canal has grown be-
yond the humble sphere of a chaser.
The Illinois Equalization board piled up
tax roll of SLIPS, 40, SS6. an increase OF
$50 10000 over 1906. Every item Of taxable
property shows an increase. The state tax
rate is expected TO be 80 cents on each 500.
Prof. Zamenhof of Russia, the compiler
OF Esperanto, the international language"
is a native of Bailystok, the scene of the
massacre. His father and his grandfather
were teachers OF languages. He is an
oculist.
It is reported that Mrs. James q. Blaine,
who got a hurry divorce at Sioux Falls, is
about to hitch up with a rough rider.
From rough shedding to rough riding isn't
great span, but there is variety in the
experience
Higher education TOT women TeceiNeo d
great boost in the New Jersey Normal
school the other day. Three clouded eyes,
a dislocated shoulder, a sprained ankle
and a broken leg were the net result of an
intellectual tussle at basket ball.
Admiration for the brave Jack Tars of
the American navy Is neither deep nor
wide in the customs service A bunch OF
these officious officials bounced on the crew
Of the Ohio and confiscated a large as
sortment OF foreign souvenirs on which
the duty had not been paid
Doubt concerning the value Of blood
hounds In striking the right scent has been
set at rest in Brooklyn Called into action
by an imperiled housekeeper, the hounds
got busy and instantly bounced upon two
policemen who happened near. After chew
ing few bites of calf and trousers the
cops showed their alibi and the hounds
let go,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
We live by the Joy we give.

We live by the Joy we give.
Significance is not a matter Of bulk.
Good will on earth is Gods will for man.
There are no saints without their service.
weekend religion is weak at both
ends.
He who cheers another encourages him
self
There are no single admission tickets to
glory.
No man can be free who holds another in
bonds.
Many have found life's crown bending
over cradle.
The dew of heaven is not in the mildew
on the sermon.
The path of happiness always leads by
some sad ones side.
1t often takes a vacant place TO bind the
family fast together.
Giving is always a poor investment when
1t is an investment only.
The true servants of heaven are known
by an atmosphere of happiness.
He who is always looking for soft place
finds one in the slough of despond.
A man must be measured not by his
thoughts of himself but by his thoughts
for others.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
IMPROVED FREIGHT sITUA TON.

Abundant evidence is at hand that
the public discussion caused by off,
cial investigation of freight movement
difficulties Is materially relieving the
situation. The supply of coal to the
localities which were seriously threat
fraction of the beneficial result, for
the energies of the carrier companies
have been both generally stimulated
and advantageously directed in the
light Of the information brought home
to them, so that 1t is reported from
almost every important center that the
movement of freight is going forward
more effectively.
Hardly less important has been the
effect upon shippers themselves who,
though among the most vociferous
complainants so far as their several
selfish interests are concerned against
the roads, have been shown also to be
largely at fault. An informed and in
sistent public opinion has clearly OPP
Win lO AOlNO NAANSSiJ va
delinquent shippers and at the same
time helped the roads to coerce them
to greater promptitude.
No mere squirt of effort, however,
can fully meet the exigency that has
been revealed, though some needed
temporary relief has been Afforded. 1t
has been demonstrated that railroad
facilities in general have not kept
pace with the growth of business, and
particularly that the efficiency of roll
ing stock, inadequate as the equipment
is, is enormously below what 1t should
be. It remains for the roads and the
shippers to extend and make perma-
nent the temporary improvement now
observable, and probably for public
authority to aid and see to II that
they shall do so.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
BALLADE OF THE OLD YEAR.

Kate Masterson in Life.
Someone knocks at the outer gate,
Give him welcome, glad and free,
Winds blow cold and the hour is late;
Bid him enter whoe'er he be.
Bring you a message kind to me,
Happy youth, in your eyes OF blue7
Shall we find the promise we wait TO see7
When will the old years dream come
true?
Here alone by the fire we've safe,
Huddled close with our memory;
Hands clasped idly we blindly wait,
And answer back from the sky or sea,
How OF the songs We sang in glee,
And the roses that blossomed In morning
dew,
And the laughter and love and the life
When viii the old years dreams come trle2
Golden once was his curly pate;
Ah-the old year-fair OF face was he;
A blftf.S young rogue with a smile for fate.
His eyes were sweet when he made his
To tarry here in our company.
Promises many-fulhllments few.
We loved him we'll, but Wen trust not ye
When will the old years dreams come
true?
Gay young year. here's health to thee.
rose and glass and a song for you,
If to tell us the secret you'll agree.
When will the old years dreams come
true7
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
SAVINGS BANK INSURANCE.

The arduous contest now in prog
ress in Massachusetts, for establish
ment of savings bank life insurance
is of more far-reaching import than
mere local step, important as that
is in the judgment of such men as
President Eliot of Harvard and other
distinguished leaders in the movement
Massachusetts, has been foremost In
developing savings banks since early
In the last century, and the hope is
to give working men insurance pro-
lection at one-half cost by now adding
insurance as a savings bank depart
ment, so that 1t can be sold over the
counter just as deposits are taken.
1t has been demonstrated by official
data collected by the state that the
cost of soliciting. and collecting pre-
miums, management, lapses, etc, is
over so per cent of the new policies,
and public attention has been lately
challenged by the exorbitant dividends
paid by the Massachusetts industrial
insurance companies. While in If
teen years the wage-earneTs of the
state have thus paid SCI, 100000, they
have received altogether in death and
other benefits only 100000, over
and above a reserve of $10,000,000.
But the plan proposed by the Massa-
chusetts Savings Insurance league as
sumes that the savings banks could
conduct this business relatively almost
as economically as they handle depos-
its, reducing policies to two or three
simple forms, saving most Of the ex-
pense of soliciting and collection under
existing methods and involving none
of the losses that result from over
persuasion of insurers. The actual
expense, exclusive OF taxes, of manag-
ing savings banks last year was, in
New York, per cent of deposits, and
in Massachusetts, 1876 per cent. 1t is
plausibly urged that instead of receiv-
ing only $22,O00,000 benefits out of
the sci, 100000 which Massachusetts
workmen have paid for insurance the
last fifteen years, the same premiums
by the savings bank method would
have enabled them to withdraw $22,
OO0, 900, and still have to their credit,
counting accumulated interest, the
great aggregate of at least $50,000,-
900.
II the proposed plan is carried out,
as it seems likely to be, and If the re-
suits only approximate those which
are predicted, the effect upon life in
surance of all varieties cannot fail to
be profound throughout the country,
for 1t is evident that the recent re-
forms in the matter of expense, al
though important, are by no means to
be taken as final.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

The first number of Tom Watson's
new 'Jeffersonian Magazine" opens
with a fiery salute to his former CO.
worker and associate, Charles Q. De
France, once a leading light among
Nebraska's fusion reformers, whom
Watson now accuses of deviltry and
scullduggery generally. AS long as 1t
is all in the name of reform, however,
the poor common people will let these
two worthless fight it out between
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

known that, daring as they seemed,
they are already below rather than
above what is needed.
1t is clear that Cassatt's leadership
and the breadth of his views have, dur
ing a long series of years, immensely
Influenced the transportation world
and that but for him and a few like
him our railroad facilities would be
far more inadequate than they are.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
PEOyAGE BY PAROLE.

The exhibit OF convicts liberated
from the penitentiary on parole by
Governor Mickey is a startling disclos-
ure of maladministration From the
lengthy list of prisoners turned loose
on their own recognizance it appears
that no one incarcerated in the state
penitentiary having friends with
money or influence on the outside has
encountered serious trouble to secure
freedom. Whether the governor has
been imposed on by those in whom he
has placed his confidence or whether
he has wilfully pursued his open door
policy is not clear on the surface.
More startling still, however, is the
palpable perversion of the parole pris-
oner law into a piece of machinery for
the establishment of virtual peonage
in Nebraska. While some prisoners
have been turned loose under pre-
tended guardianship of relatives ap-
parently without condition or restraint,
making the parole equivalent to a par
don. others have been sold out to
bondage under the nominal patronage
of the guarantor of their good behav-
ious. What kind of ts1dgery they
must have to endure, how they have
been starved and neglected, how they
have been oppressed and mistreated,
is only to be inferred from the fact
that several of them have voluntarily
returned to the penitentiary rather
than to remain outside in the service
of their taskmasters.
Conceding to Governor Mickey for
the sake Of argument the excuse Of
good intentions or dense ignorance, he
has woefully misconstrued the purpose
of the parole prisoner law. This law
was enacted out Of humane considera-
lions as a reformatory measure. 1t
was intended to give convicts incar-
cerated for their first offense and
showing signs of redemption, an OPP
portunity to get a new start in life un-
der state supervision before their
terms of sentence should have expired,
when they would be thrown back on
a hard world discredited and with no
resources. In his misconception Gov
ernor Mickey has handed twenty-five
of these unfortunate prisoners over to
one liveryman at Lincoln, who happens
to be a colonel on the governors staff,
to imbibe reform from the sweet
aroma of livery stable. This partic-
ular convict redeemer has moreover
been favored with special low terms of
compensation to his peons-less than
that exacted from other redeemers.
And his is only the most fragrant ex-
ample of a long list.
There are urconfirmed rumors of
more insiduous influences behind some
of these legalized Jail breaks, but ir-
respective Of the why's and wherefores
a thorough reorganization of the
parole business in Nebraska is impera-
tive, SO that an end may be put at
once to the traffic in pardons under
the name of paroles and peonage sla-
very in free land effectually stopped.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
ALEXANDRIA j OASSATT.

The late Alexander j. Cassatt was
another of the foremost captains OF
industry and finance who rose from
humble station in life. The Pennsyl-
vania, especially under his presidency,
which has meant real dominance in
its policy since 1889, has stood as par
excellence the model of railroad or
ganization and efficiency. This stand
ing was achieved not merely by sue
cess of economic operation, but
through large conception of the in
dustrlal growth of the country in its
totally and the financing adaptations
required by it.
Now that the inadequacy of our
transportation system in general for
existing tonnage and travel is realized
by all, it is easier than It was a dec
AIDE and a half ago to measure the
genius OF Alexander J. Cassatt. who
almost alone among the controlling
minds in the railroad and business
world approximately estimated what
the future would bring forth. Within
his own company he encountered
formidable opposition to the vast
plans which he conceived for the ex-
pansion of its facilities, but which he
nevertheless had the force to carry
out, in spite, too, of the incredulity OF
investors whose cooperation also was
vital. His measures, like the quad
rupling OF the Pennsylvania mair
tracks and the great terminals at New
York, referred not merely to the
period. of his own lifetime, but looked
forward1s half century. and it Is nov
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
RUNNING INTO DEBT.
Municipal Loads for POsterity to
Shoulder.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Cincinnati Enquirer
Justice Brewer OF the United States SUI
preme court made an address at New
Rochelle on the 10th inst. 1t was largely
devoted TO the subject of extravaganza and
debt He declared that most OF the states
were heavily in debt and that cities all
over the country were deeply burdened
with obligations. One of his center shots
was in the following paragraph:
Contrast the little red school house OF
earlier days with the magnificent public
buildings-city halls. schools and so on
built by our enterprising cities Of this time.
If they were paid for 1t would be all right
They would attest the marvellous growth OF
our land. But they are built with bor-
rowed money, and they are mortgage on
the future"
And so # goes. The proud prominent
citizen takes the visiting stranger in his
spring wagon about the town and exhibits
to him the great new town hall, which cost
tremendous sum of money and he ex-
ploits the splendid new library building,
without knowing anything about the books,
and without being able 10 point to crowds
OF people rushing through the doors in
pursuit of improvements Of the mind. He
boasts Of the splendor and heavy cost Of
self on the fact that they are ornaments
10 the city and sure guarantees of the
local prosperity. He does not take the
stranger 70 the clerks office TO learn how
much Indebtedness there is. or Explain to
him that every bond issued is mortgage
on every persons property. There was a
great deal OF superior education in the little
red school house. These modest establish
ments produced many great men. They got
a fine start in real learning there, and
then II they wanted to be statesmen, or
learned men. or business leaders, they
hustled for themselves with their hands
and their brains. There has been wonder
tul development OF the school system. The
enormously increased cost leads to vulgar
Dragging. but the Improvement in learning
has not kept pace with the outlay And
posterity Is born to hold bags.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

over In Chicago the question is
whether the proposed compromise
agreement with the street railway
companies shall be submitted first for
popular approval or shall be accepted
on the part of the city forthwith. Here
in Omaha the question is whether we
should try to get to some kind OF an
agreement with the water company to
be submitted for ratification or
whether we shall perpetuate the pres
ent unsatisfactory conditions by stick
ing to a lawsuit that at best, should
we win, will put the city back to
where it started before proceedings to
acquire the water works under the
purchase clause were begun.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

CHILD LABOR AND THE CONSTITUTION.
large part of Senator Beveridge's
address before the Nebraska State
Teachers association for national reg
ulation of child labor was naturally
devoted to answering the states rights
objection, which denies to the federal
government any Jurisdiction whatever
over the subject. The agitation, new
ertheless, forcibly illustrates the point
raised by Secretary Root, that in de-
fault of adequate action by the states
on the changing needs of the people
national action is inevitable, as well
as the process of extension Of power
under the United States constitution.
The child labor bill which Senator
Beveridge has introduced and is cham
pioning in the senate, like the meat in
spection and pure food laws, marks a
signal extension of the constitutional
grant to congress of power to regulate
commerce between the states. 1t pro-
vides that six months after its enact
ment mo carrier of interstate com
merce shall transport or accept for
transportation the products of any fac
tory or mine in which children under
IA years of age are employed or per-
mitted to work, which products are
offered to said interstate carrier by
the firm, person or corporation owning
or operating said mine or factory, or
any officer or agent thereof for trans
rortation into any other state or ter
ritory than the one in which said fac
tory is located" And before the
! products of "any mine or factory" can
be transported or accepted for trans
portation an affidavit must be filed
with the carrier, to be renewed every
six months, that no children under IA
years OF age are employed, with fine
and Imprisonment penalties for viola
ton. Senator Lodges bill is even
more detailed and exacting providing
among other like things that where a
minor is employed the products of the
factory shall not be accepted for trans
| bOl NSN*oh uhANSo dNNOAhpdhAGu ny a CeI'
tihcate from the school authorities OF
the city or town "testifying that he
or she is able to read and write the
English language"
1t goes without saying that up tc
within a generation employment Of tbs
interstate commerce power for sup
preston of the evils of child labor
food adulteration, etc. were hardl!
dreamed OF and certainly not seriousl!
proposed. Whatever view may b.
, taken OF the constitution, such evil
are indisputably within state jurisdic
ton, and IL the power of the state
had been sufficiently employed Their,
would be now no more disposition
: than need to employ the nationa
power against them. But it is Ger
tain that, according 70 the circum
/ stances of our social and Industrial de
velopment. the people viii not be de
MED remedy as wrongs and abuse
grow up, first and preferably thFcRg
the instTumentalities of local govern
A ment, and. falling that, through thos
OF the general government, where bot
a have jurisdiction.
. So many Of the constitutional grant
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
Encouraging and DiscouraEing.
Chicago Chronicle.


1t is encourage ng in one way, but dis
couraging in another, to observe that none
of the numerous recent railroad wrecks
has been due to heavy traffic The trouble
in every instance appears to be attributable
to some inherent defect in system or to
human fallibility. Thus it appears that
passenger traffic is not rendered more
perilous by the congestion of freight traf-
hc except in so far as peril may arise from
the stress put upon railway employees by
oyerWOrk
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

1t is Illuminating to see the name
OF Harry C. Bronze blazoned as vice
president of the new Public Owner
ship of Railroads league Just organ
lied to help push the Bryan presiden-
tial propaganda along. People who
recall how John NJ. Thurston commits
stoned Paul Vanderyoort his chief lieu
tenant Of the Union Pacific oil room TO
help organize the populist reform
party viii he inclined TO wonder
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
Keynote of the Age.
Baltimore American.

bdIIIIIIUIt IhIItTICdUs
1t is predicted that fraternalism is to be
the keynote of the coming age. There is
one time only when all mankind will be
friends and brothers. and when the Golden
Rule will be the basis OF all legislation
and the spring of all mems actions, and
that will be when the millennium ambles
slong--a period often predicted and as often
indefinitely postponed.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

1t is unfortunate that publicity has
been given to the fact that college ath-
letes do not stand as high in their
studies as other students, since youths
aspiring to muscular honors may con-
clude that an active brain is a handi-
cap.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

The charge that Duluth and Mime
apolis chambers of commerce are or
CARNATIONS in restraint of trade can
hardly be understood in Omaha, whose
grain trade has greatly increased APP
parently in consequence of the organi-
zation of a grain exchange.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

The declaration of that New York
grand jury that Charles S. Fairchild
received no benefit from the act for
which he has been indicted makes a
prima facie showing that the former
secretary was foolish as we'll as law
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