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Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

People expert on putting on the lid can
achieve fame and fortune by tackling
vesuvius.
The boat rocking season opened at Cedar
Rapids, IA, last week. and preclpitated
three funerals.
Philadelphia, the city of homes rightly
boasts Of 10000 dwellings, an average of
one dwelling for every five persons.
The Chicago man who pressed snow into
bales and stored It away is now in condi-
tion to give the ice combine a rude jolly.
In six years the Spanish claims awarded
$S6740 at an expense of $537, S66. The COM
mission knows where the money will do
the most good.
Apostle Dewie scattered hot air all the
way from Mexico and then tumbled into a
Chicago lawyers ONCE TO cool off Two
days of expurgated wrath is the prophet S
limit.
A New York man who won fame by
shooting the rapids at Niagara is enjoying
the autumn OF life bossing lunch wagon
in the vicinity of his exploits. Still 1t is
said republics are ungrsteful.
A Chicago man is willing to undertake
the startling tack Of telling nothing but
! the truth for whole year. provided some
body guarantees to give him S2bOOO. When
the environment is considered, the job is
worth the money.
An unbeliever in the divine right" of
kings is said to have challenged the
italian monarch, "If thou art king, bid
VesuviuB be still" The carplng doubter
forgot that "divine right" is limited to
holding the royal job.
The supreme court of New York gives the
strenuous life a boost by ruling that pas
| sengers must step lively when boarding or
leaving street cars, or suffer the conse-
quences. Dignified leisure in the metropolis
| is limited to horse cars.
The tipping system among walters has
| reached an interesting stage in Brooklyn
| A projected complimentary dinner Il
Methodist ministers had TO be abandoned
| because the walters refused to serve It.
| There wasn't any money in it for them
Among the arguments Of the Chicago
elevated railway employees for a general
| increase in wager is the claim that "con-
| siderable diplomacy is needed by the mer
in handling the intoxicated roisterers who
| board the trains during the small hours
Of the morning" Substitute muscle for
diplomacy and you get a true perspective
! Of the task
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
NEW YoRKs BIG BANK SCHEME.

NEW YORKS BIG BANK SCHEME,
central bank In New York, clothed with
power of issue and having branches
in other important cities, while it may
be convenient as text for discussion
Of imperfections of our monetary sys-
TEN, is not practical and will at once
encounter objection on grounds Of funda-
mental policy. In many Of its main
features, note issues, branch banks,
government deposits, etc, the scheme is
merely another form of various PROPOSE
tons which have emanated at one time
or another from the same quarter. On
not one of these propositions are the
representatives of the general banking
interests Of the country at all agreed,
but rather at the widest possible vari-
anee of opinion. To group so many
vitality important propositions in the
concrete form of a great controlling
bank would only strengthen and in
tensify the opposition in banking and
financial circles, to say nothing of popu-
lar repugnance.
The definite suggestion is important,
bankers are considering seriously how to
meet the periodic money stTingency
which has immemorially been felt in
that great center of finance and specula-
ton, formerly, indeed, far more severely
than now. Long ago the country rea-
lized that. although our financial laws
have been faulty from either a scientific
or a practical standpoint, the tap root
of the trouble is I'm speculation and not
in the operations of legitimate business
and banking. Up to within very recent
times the national treasury was forever
yielding 10 the clamor for deposits OF
its surplus funds, when excessive
| speculation overreached itself and got
into difficulties in New York. That
resource has now been properly cur.
tailed, treasury funds now being equita,
bly, distributed over the country when
deposited at all, and there will never be
return TO the old policy.
The broad fact is that the cure OF
such New York money dearths and
I credit cOntractions must be by proven
ton, and the remedy must be by the
New York bankers themselves. 1t /,
simply sound banking, holding credit,
remOrselessly to the line Of legitimate Sc
curity. The trouble is that the New
York banks, directly or Indirectly, hay,
been parties 10 yiciout speculation
They have taken the prO1ts, but hav,
wanted TO be saved from the conse
quenees, by government interposition o.
otherwise. This trouble. though dimin
ishing slowly. still exists. The tim,
has not yet come when the country vii
permit banking institutions 30 compli
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
RAILROADS AND COAL MINES.

The investigation by the Interstate
Commerce commission into the coal and
oil business is not disclosing any new
practice of railroads and railroad Off
cials, but the evidence ia already bring
ing out numerous fragrant instances Of
the vicious results of mingling trans
portation and industrial proprietary in
terest. Equal rights Of shippers to
transportation are impossible when the
imperial power of control over transPor-
tation is in the hands of men who for
themselves or for a great railroad sys-
tenn are also competitors, as coal mine
owners with the ordinary shippers. The
power is too great to be entrusted to
human nature, yet the investigation
demonstrates that it is still actually be-
ing welded by those in control of rail
road and coal mining companies.
Such a power infallibly implies unlaw-
full discrimination and the worst effects
of rebates, not to speak of the meal
culable opportunities for official railroad
graft These are precisely the evils
which so many laws on the federal
and state statute books were designed to
punish and abolish. II has been
abundantly demonstrated that the grant
Ing of rebates has not ceased, and it is
being demonstrated now before the In
terstate commissions investigation or
dered by congress is fairly under way
that the corruptions and determinations
that always have been associated with
rebates are perpetrated, IL not indeed
increased by railroad participancy in
great industries which public policy re-
quires them to serve only as carriers.
Railroad investigation is needful and
helpful, but positive legislation for con-
trolling railroads in the light of it is
what the country now is waiting for.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

Sacrifice gives wings to our gifts.
Faultless people are usually forceless.
Yesterdays cloud is todays refreshing.
The demons are all afraid Of happy
man.
The masters back shows the servants
true face.
Sin may be often covered. but it is never
concealed.
No man ought to complain of the pain
that cures pride.
Tomorrow's shadow is always heavier
than today's duty.
He who has no patience with children has
no power with men.
True courage faces any foe, but IT does
not forget its firearms.
This is always a good world TO those
who are doing good work.
The length of life we cannot determine,
but its strength and value we may.
1t is the sacrifice we make for ideals
that determine the value of the real.
You can well afford to forego the fortune
that makes you forget the good.
If your religion interferes with your busi-
ness the chances are It needs to.
The best arguments for religion will al
ways be in lives rather than in libraries,
The man who is afraid OF being first can
be sure of one thing, that he will not
be last in the list of failures-Chicago Trib-
une.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

Gated as those Of New York still are
with speculative and prOmotive inter
ests in one way and another-to be
clothed with the powers which this
New York scheme includes.
1t will be necessary for New York
banking not only to separate itself much
further from that vast phase Of perilous
speculative operations which is popu-
larly comprehended under the term
"Wall Street." but also to demonstrate
the separation to the country, beyond a
peradventure. before that confidence can
be established, which is absolutely
necessary before any of the plans pro-
posed in New York, however they may
have worked under different conditions
in other countries, will be tolerated
here
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Philadelphia Record: An American mis-
sionaFy has been plundered by Chinese pi-
rates. Probably the heather did not
imagine that the missionaries had any need
of earthly goods
Brooklyn Eagle: The Salvation Army is
now getting up prize fights to gather an
audience. The orthodox churches are be-
coming painfully aware of their own limi-
tations.
Minneapolis Journal: The Methodist
church is horribly torn up by the report
that the book concern printed pamphlets
containing WHISKY ads, but it appears they
were struggled in while the senior deacon
slept at the forms.
Chicago Chronicle: That is a noteworthy
heresy trial which the Episcopal church Is
about to have over Rev. Mr., Crapsey Of
Rochester, n. Y. Apparently nc dissents
from belief in the birth of Jesus as the
church has taught, from belief in His
divinity and in His miraculous resurrec-
ton. He asserts the immutability of
natural law and maintains that this does
not make him less a Christian than his
church associates. The Anglican church
has revealed great wisdom in handling
heresy. Conflicts of the kind have been
most noteworthy since Colenso. other
Christian bodies will watch IL with abb
sorbing interest. Yet Mr.. Crapsey will die
one OF these days and the church win
long outlive him.
Portland OregOnian: 1.-THE ideal that we
formed at our mothers knee Is the high
est we will form in all our lives" said
Rev Father O'Reilly of Cleveland in ad-
dressing the National Council OF Women
at Toledo on Sunday. He also stated that
woman was created to be the helpma.e,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

prisOnment will ever be actually in
tiicted. For while the Judge was passing
sentence and righteously denouncing the
delay Of justice, the defendants law
yers were preparing further to illustrate
the evil Of it by appeals from court to
court
The criminal law of the land itself
has been found guilty of denying justice
TO the people, of denying the right of the
people speedily to try and punish their
criminals and thus of defeating the sole
sane purpose of law against crime. 1t
is not worth while to inquire how or by
whose fault the hand of justice has
been paralyzed. The fact is ndisputa-
BILE and demands reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

The suggestions of Easter grows
stronger instead Of failing as the world
grows older. and each recurring ami
versary stirs that aspiration for the
life eternal which is as old as man and
which death itself cannot stihe. For
az human life grows richer and better
with the living the sense Of its brevity
becomes greater and not less. And the
intellectual grasp upon the analogies of
reviving nature must increase with the
broadening of knowledge, even if in
stinctive faith had not laid hold of them
when man was young.
But we do not learn the Easter les
son merely from philosophy, but more
from the inherent impulses of life it
self, and the signs and ceremonial with
which religion has consecrated them. 1t
is deeply and inspirlngly significant that
these beautiful customs increase in
honor.
1t proves that life is growing better
for joyousness is the twin of faith. \
day when old and young turn to flowers
and hope and contemplation Of victory
over death sends softening and anchor.
ating influences through every day and
hour Of the year.
The tradition must be true that de-
votes this day to gladness and to bright
ness, and 10 that spirit we cannot give
ourselves too unreservedly.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
4 rESrERN INVASION OF TIE EAST

4 WESTERN INVASION OF THE EAST.
The latest manifestation of the west
ern invasion of the east is to be found
in the appearance of a seed corn special
on the Boston & Maine railroad, which
is to be sent on a missionary tour of
education for the farmers in Massachu-
sets, Vermont, New Hampshire and
Maine.
The seed corn special is distinctly a
western institution with its origin trace
able more particularly to the railroads
operating i'm Nebraska and Iowa. The
basic idea is that of a travelling school
of elemental agricultural science, bring
ing TO the farmer instruction along lines
calculated to make his work more eff
fective and his fields more productive
without compelling him to leave his
farm to attend distant agricultural
school
That the western farmer should take
kindly TO this benevolent interest even
though coupled with the obvious fact
lllll II IL utelkltu u AlitItuSG llhtNlsC
the traffic of the railroads is taken as
a matter of course, but that the farmers
of staid old New England, supposed TO
know it all by inheritance from their an
cestors, should be regarded as good
subjects for seed corn specialization is
small sized surprise. Presumably,
however, something has to be done to
make them more content with their pos
sessions and check the exodus to the
fertile fields of the west, which at one
time made deserted farms in the far
east to be had almost for the asking.
With one road waking up to the fact
that the seed corn special has a call
in the east as well as in the west. the
next thing will be a general mania for
imitation and within another year the
seed corn special may be looked for on
every American railroad that traverses
an agricultural country.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
JUDGE SPEER'S ADMoNITIoN


No one has recently pointed out the
imperative necessity of reform in Grim
inal procedure more forcibly than Judge
Speer of the United States circuit court
in passing sentence upon the convicted
government contractors, Greene and
Gaynor, and now that a bill has just
been favorably reported to congress for
codifying and amending the criminal
laws the time is ripe for public pres
sure to bring the reform about. The
evil to be corrected is gross and long
standing and universally recognized,
pervading the judicial practice under
state as well as federal laws. Judge
Speer touches the root Of It when he
declares that 1T is the certainty and
not the severity of punishment which
deters criminals" And his admonitiOn
applies with special force to that vast
class of offenders whose misdoings are
comprehended in the word graft" more
particularly in the management of cor
porations in their relations to the body
Of their stockholders and the public
and to the government national, state
and municipal upon which public atten-
ton is now so concentrated.
The delay of the criminal law ia
notorious, but the relations between the
accused individual and the state has
in this country long since come to be
h.
"the laws delay was a just grievance
of the former. Now it is a menace to
the state itself. a fragrant denial of
the rights of the public. The historic
complaint that the courts would not
grant "a speedy trial" to the accused
which for more than a century has
colored all our constitutional guarantees
and statutes, has brought about the
preposterous and vicious result that the
courts are no longer able to bring any
criminal 20 a speedy trial, provided he
has money and influence to take adj
vantage of the opportunities of the
law for defeating justice by delay.
Trial now does not mean the summary
and conclusive hearing of the matter
sense of the term, for that is only a
small fraction of its significance, which
includes all the intricate preliminary
| iurisdictiOnal and technical compiled
tons, for the most part remotely or not
at all involving the truth of the matter,
and after the jury there remain the in.
terminable appeals.
The tyranny that denied to the &C.
cused criminal a speedy trial, odious
as it was, was never more odiOus than
the existing legal statute which denies
the right OF society TO force it's rogues
and grafters TO a speedy trial. The
exigencies OF the time call loudly for a
new bin Of rights by which the public
itself, the mass of honest, law-abidinR
people, shall be guaranteed the means
OF vindicating their majesty and Sc
curity against criminal Offenses.
The certainty of punishment of which
Judge speer speaks is nothing else thar
punishment after guilt has been sub
stantially proved, Yet although after
five years of delay in bringing the two
rich grafters before the jury despite
the utmost efforts Of the state, and after
they have been beyond dispute found
guilty, on the main point there is nc
certainty that the richly merited penalty
OF Judge Speer's sentence to restore th'
million dollars they stole from the pub
lie treasury and to serve four years i'm
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
RELIEF FOR VEsUV1US VICTIMS.

Mayor Zimman has appointed local
committee to cooperate with similar
committees in other cities in raising a
relief fund for the victims Of the Vesu-
vius volcanic eruption.
The extent of the disaster wrought by
the belching mountain in the destruc-
ton of property, rendering homeless
thousands of unfortunate Italians, is
scarcely realized by orr people. The
worst part of it will in all probability
be found in the ruin of growing crops
by the coating of fallen ashes, making
it impossible for the peasants and agri-
culturalists within the stricken territory
TO raise the products of the earth on
which they would have to depend for a
livelihood.
The need for relief measures will
surely be very great, much greater than
can be adequately provided for by the
Italian government and the people of
Italy in themselves. 1t is only reasonable
that America in its plentitude of pres
perity, to which citizens Of Italian nativ.
ity have contributed materially, should
extend a helping hand. And Omaha
ought to do it's share toward the ac-
emulation of the relief fund raised IN
this country.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

Members of the lower house of con.
gress are now engaged in the harmless
pastime of delivering 10 empty benches
carefully prepared aud memerixed
speeches lauding their own party and
arraigning the other fellows party.
These speeches will in due time come
OF the presses in neatly printed
pamphlet form for distribution through
the mails under congressional frank to
Oyer-awe the constituent who receives a
copy by a realization of what a big
man his congressman is. The descent
nation of extracts from the congress
sional record, however, has been worked
so hard that the people are beginning
to see through it until it loses much
of its effect. Yet to have a speech ac-
cepted for broadcast distribution by the
campaign committee seems TO be the
height of ambition in certain congress
siOnal quarters.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

What was once the recognized official
organ Of the populist party in Nebraska
is now devOting itself TO urging the last
pOpulist nominee for governor as the
strongest candidate TO head the demo
cratic ticket this fall. 1t looks as II
the old three-ring circus of ''the allied
forces Of reform" which more lately
pulled off the shew in two rings, had
finally come down to a one-ring per-
Torrance.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

The hackers of Jim" Dahlman contin-
ually harp upon the great number of
friends he has in other parts of Ne
braska. Omaha is not choosing a mayer
merely on the strength of his pull on
outsiders. If Dahlman has any claim
whatever upon the people Of Omaha
for anything he has done TO help build
up our city, let him point Il out.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

not the rival of man. It is not stated how
these views were received by the National
Council Of Women, but they will strike q
responsive chord in the hearts Of millions
who never wish 10 see the sanctity OF the
home invaded or disturbed by the stern
problems which the stronger sex are
forced to solve. The womanly woman who
reigns with a wand Of love in a peaceful
home has a greater influence on the prog
ress of the world than she will ever attain
in the political arena. There is more than
a modicum OF truth I'm the statement that
the hand that rocks the cradle IL the
hand that rules the world"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

The position OF city comptroller is
one of the most important in the city
hall The comptroller is expected TO
keep a check on all other officers who
have anything 10 do with the receipt,
custody or disbursement OF city money.
The republican nominee, w. Ernest
Johnson. is vouched for not only as
TO his ability and experience AS an ex-
pert accountant but also as TO his abso-
Lutte honesty and integrity.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

The lack of demonstration over the
discovery Of the Illicit connection be-
tween railroads and coal companies as
shown i'm the Baltimore investigation
either means that the people of the
United States expect nothing better
from the captains OF finance or that they
feel that all is fair in business as well
as IN love and war
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

Maurice Francis Egan.


The lilies regnant in the Easter sun,
The curling hyacinths, the golden glow
OF daffodils the spicy buds that blow
And trail their pink and brown when win
ter's done,
Slept but a month ago; the swift saps run
With force mysterious; where lately snow
Held naked branches, now the naples
throw
A thousand shades-for life and death are
one;
Life and the tide may ebb-life cannot die.
Or seas be STILL death Is the rind without;
plinths
OF our great temples, yet TO the fair sky
He rose respondent. Can we live and
doubt
Among the lilies and the hyaclnths?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
Not the whole Thing.

The people of the United states are
mighty traders before the Lord, and are
boastful accordingly. For the first seven
months OF the fiscal year our aggregate
exports and imports footed up total Of
s.. 752 SSs, 43A These are stunning figures,
showing S22 per capita for our 100000 peo-
Die But the export and import trade Of
Canada, with its 100000 inhabitants. for
the same seven months was SSO7, 600.
equal to ISL per capita, more than double
our own.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

The prediction is being ventured at
Washington that congress will be ready
10 adjourn by the first part of June
50 that all members may go home and
patch up their political fences. On the
theory of giving ample time for fence
patching the senate should adjourn sew
eral months ahead Of the house.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
Booze vendors Disagree.

Ohio saloOnkeepers are making a strenu-
Gus struggle 10 inyalidate the 81 900 license
law. In Pennsylvania a similar law was
enacted az the request OF hundreds Of sa-
loonkeepers. because they knew II would
put the weaker brethren out Of business
The Ohio men do not seem 70 understand
the FIRST principles Of high finance.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

When the roll of twentieth century
heroes is made up the name Of Prof.
Matteucci, who kept his station on
Mount Vesuvius during the entire time
of the eruption, will not be at the foot
OF the list.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

In deciding to retain control Of the
finances of Russia the czar proves that
he realizes the source of power; but
how long he can retain the purse strings
is a question which may have to be de-
cided by the taxpayers.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

Perhaps Emperor Francis Joseph is
thankful that he was not permitted to
show how much more effectively than
the czar he could enforce an era Of alb
solutism in his realm.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

With Buffalo producing a grave
yard" scandal. ether aspiring cities are
out Of the running unless the Zion en-
terprise of Apostle" Dowie can be con.
sidered post mortuary graft"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

II Japan is alive to the possibilities of
advertising it will pull of no earth
qualies in Formosa until people have
recovered from the shock of the disaster
In ItnlY. ~. 49,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

Harper's Weekly persists i'm pursuing
Its agitation for President Woodrow
Wilson Of Princeton university for the
democratic presidential nomination in
1908 without waiting for the aid or
consent of Colonel Bryan-which goes TO
show that the political admirers of the
Princeton president are more academic
than practical.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

Congressman Towne has decided that
the personal characteristics Of President
Roosevelt shall be An issue in the next
national campaign. The jolt that de-
mOcraey would receive on such a plat
form would make Judge Parker look
like "a three-time winner