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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
A QUESTION OF LABELS.
Patent Medicine Makers Kick ON the
Regulations.

The patent medicine protest against the
pure food law, which proved so powerful
In congress, has cropped up again in the
hearing before the commission which is
trying to formulate rules for the labels
which food and medicinal preparations
must bear under the law. The law provides
that the label must disclose the presence of
alcohol, opium, cocaine and all other mar
cotics in prominent place. The commits
sion announced that no type could be
smaller than long primer caps-type two
points larger than that in which this ed
itorial is printed, and which might easily
be mistaken for this BREWER by anyone
save a, skilled printer. Thereupon, one OF
the patent medicine representatives. pro-
tested that the type proposed was ''as big
as barn door" and added: This COM
mission certainly does not wish to rule
that manufacturers who have little alco-
hol or narcotic should brighten the pros
pective customer away with n scsrecrow
sign on the bottle"
That is just the thing which the label
provision of the law was adopted to do.
It proposes to scare the purchasers until
It scares the manufacturers out Of selling
cocaine alcohol and morphine under in
nocent and attractive names. The law is
der which a soothing syrup widely sold in
this country without any warning Is made
to bear the word Poison on Its labels(
In this country its manufacturers will sat
isfy the new law IL they print the word
opium" on their labels in long primer
caps Instead of protesting against the
size of the type which the commission Sc
lected the manufacturers would better take
what they can get The history Of the
meat agitation which followed the packers
fight on the meat bill In congress ought to
serve as an object lesson. 1t would not
take much to start an agitation which
would hurt some patent medicines worse
than long primer labels will. One pickle
manufacturer saw that point and he made
a speech urging that "the general and UNI
restricted use Of personalities be abol-
ished" No doubt the restricted use OF
preservatives which the law allows Is
enough for his business. but at any rate.
he understood the advantage OF seeming to
be with a law for protecting health rather
than against it. Opposition to such laud-
able object breeds suspicion OF the goods
sold by everybody who takes part in 1t,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
personal NOTES.

BY the will of W Moses wilmer CT
Chicago, Just admitted to probate, the
Academy of Science in Lincoln park is
enriched 100000 and the Art Institute is
given $4,000.
New York city employees have a new
complaint against reform. The munic-
ipality declines to pay their rum bills,
giving them the choice OF staying sober
or getting drunk at individual expense.
Herr Dernburg. the Berlin business man
whom Emperor William has ,sppointed
head of the German colonial Office in
place of Prince Ernst Hohenlohe- LANCER
berg, started his career as a clerk and
rose to be a bank official with a salary OF
;62.50O a year.
W. Morgan Shuster. the young Wash
ington lawyer who has been appointed by
the president a member Of the Philippine
commission. is just past 90 years OF age.
His appointment carries with IL a salary
of $4,000. Mr.. Shuster was formerly a
stenographer in one OF the departments
in Washington.
Giovanni succl. the FIorentine who
tasted for forty-five days. some sixteen
years ago. Is at his old tricks again. He
proposes to begin a new fast for fifteen
or twenty days and says he might fast
iohseF, Out he Is getJnB ola ana thinks
that little nourishment every few weeks
will harm no one.
Both Charles e. Hughes and NJ Linn
Bruce. the respective nominees for gov
ernor and lieutenant governor of New
York, are the sons of clergymen. Lieu
tenant Governor Bruce was born in Mer-
cersburg, Pa, the son of a United Pres
byteTian minister Mr.. Hughes father
WAS a Baptist minister.
An English critic having said that
Henry James "gropes his way through
the English language like a blind man
tapping with a stick" the London Globe
rejoius that he might do worse. that
his methods at least are better than
those of some other novelists who dance
through the language as If they were
doing a cake walk"
General Nogi OF Port Arthur fame Is
paying the penalty OF popularity at the
hands OF autograph seekers. But the
form which this has taken in Japan has
about II a touch of sentiment. inasmuch
as the relatives of soldiers who fell be-
fore Port Arthur are seeking the gem
erals autograph inscription to place oa
the tombstopas Of the dead
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
MY FAIR AURORA.
PRINCETON Tiger.

Princeton Tiger.
Oh the sun was shining softly through the
moonlight
On the rice fields of my old Nebraska
home,
While DER the level mountains of Kanawa
Came the crashing OF the silent ocean
foam.
For the wind was lightly humming through
the nettles,
And tile, oranges were swinging on the
vine.
When / told my fair Aurora that loved
And she softly answered that she would
he mine.
Then l gazed into her eyes with heavenly
rapture
As we walked together DER the yellow
lawn,
while the August snow was beating on the
housetops --....t..
And the crocodiles were Hitting through
the corn.
As tho river slowly glided up the hillside
And cast its shadow DER the waving
grain,
Within my loving arms ! softly held her
And knew at last had not lived In vain.
And even now the mention of Kama wa
Brings up memories of that. long forgot
And again ] see the .murmur of the rein
deer
And hear the starlight shine upon the
SO If / were a seagun tor chicken)
I'd fly across to yon far-distant shore
To Kanawa, where the butterflies are sing
And Aurora lies beneath the sycamore.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
eRIP or THE Rail Trust.
Uncle sam Likely 60 ne Squeezed ny
the Combine.

Springfield tMass.) Republican.
What appears to no a conspiracy of in
ternational scope TO squeeze Uncle sam
through the prices TO be paid for Panama
canal material Is indicated I'm a report
from Washington. The war department
advertised for bids on a supply OF steel
rails to go TO the isthmus, and IL has &C.
ccpted bid from the United States Steel
corporation of t2s ton, the rails TO he
delivered at Baltimore the prevailing do
nestle price OF rails at the mill OF at
Pittsburg being s2s. 1t Ia added In the
report that several foreign firms sub
mitted bids for the contract. but all of
their bids were in excess of the American
concern"
This is a little strange Prices of steel
rails in foreign countries are commonly
very much below our own. Their export
prices are usually little below their do
nestle prices. II is very we'll known
that American producers have sold rails
for export at from $40 to t24 a ton when
the domestic price is s2S, and II was only
a few months ago that one Of the Pacific
roads was getting a supply of rails in
Spain at prices materially under the do
nestle price Yet when the United states
government appears as a buyer of rails
the foreign prices go up to and even
above the Onltcu states steel corporation
price.
This singular fact requires explanation.
The last congress session decreed that the
government should buy its canal material
of domestic producers, except when the
prices asked are evidently extortionate.
The domestic price of rails would appear
to be extortionate IL foreign rails should
be offered at materially lower prices. Has
the steel trust, in order to protect itself
from the appearance of being extortion-
ate, contrived with leading foreign pro-
ducers for the quotation of higher prices
in response to bids from the Washing
ton government? The steel trust has
lately been a considerable exporter OF
rails in spite of the claim that the do
nestle demand is all it can take care of,
and IL might not be a very difficult mat
ter for the trust to agree with foreign
producers to keep out of certain of their
markets in return for protecting the
trust in exacting the full domestic price
on rails and other iron and steel ma
terial for the outside market of Panama.
If such is the case, then We have the
steel trust not only combining at home to
squeeze the domestic market to the full
extent of the tariff protection afforded.
but combining to squeeze the United
States government itself as a large buyer
of material for outside use. The one 10
look into this matter is the Washington
administration, but is there any probable
ity that 1t will do 50 as long as it remains
under the dominion of the standpat tariff
crowd?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN BOOK.

The democratic campaign book is a
bulky volume. swollen and padded out
with a mass OF irrelevant and incom-
petent contents. Its editorial spirit is
narrowly and atrociously partisan and
misleading, and by its very excuses at
once exposes the lack of merit in the
party's case and offends the spirit OF
fair play which is more potent and as
sertive in our politics today than ever
before. An opposition exposition, II
truthful in statement and candid in
criticism, may do an important public
service. but this performance is the re-
verse of either. II fails utterly even
as a controversial effort in the vital
point that It presents no consistent
democratic program over against the
republican program. and no demo-
cratic record over against the repub-
lican record.
An enormous amount of space is
consumed with repetitious tumble of
the cant and contention OF dozen by
gone anti-tarin campaigns, no two OF
which in fact were consistent and all
Of which we're repudiated by the demo-
cratic party itself when II was saddled
with the responsibility of actual power.
The whole web'is spun. as heretofore,
out of eager psrtisanship, lacking bet
ter recommendation, and is an avoid
Ance of the great vital issues which
President Roosevelt Is in the midst of
a manfrl and successful effort, under
the mandate and with the approval Of
the mass Of earnest citizenship to meet.
The infallible result of the spirit
breathing through every chapter and
line of this campaign book, If the dem
ocratic party had controlled either
branch of the congress elected with
President Roosevelt, would have been
to break down his progressive policy
and prevent all the great results of ad-
ministration and legislation during the
last two years. For nothing can be
more certain than that, II a wholesale
revision or ripping up of the tariff had
been attempted, 1t would have been ut
terly impossible to secure the enact
ment of the great rate control law and
a half dozen other important measures
at the late session of congress for cor
poration restraint. The will of the
people on the paramount issue has
been put in notably successful process
Of execution solely because the demo-
cratic party has not been in position
to embarrass and paralyze the work of
President Roosevelt.
The campaign book thus reall& af-
fords at this late stage Of the political
contest to thoughtful and patriotic
men most signal proof of the folly of
giving the democratic party such power
in the next congress. While many
democratic candidates are forced by
the presidents popularity to resort to
the preposterous pretense of sympathy
with him, this authoritative party
statement reveals uncomfortable par
tisan luminosity, INDUCING even in the
extreme of vituperation as well as mis-
representation of the president. Its
result should and doubtless will be to
as the president himself from the out
set has declared. that the true and sole
issue is whether he is to be sustained
by the election of republican congress
or checkmated by the election of a
democratic congress.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
SECURITY OF THE INTERIOR.


The interior of the continent is sin
gularly exempt from destructive con-
vulsions of nature in comparison with
the coasts and the adjacent regions. 1t
has been almost a century since the
earthquake which was central at New
Madrid, Mo-, and since then no serious
shock has occurred within the great
agricultural valley country. Its pro-
found security contrasts strlkingly with
the frightful earthquake catastrophe
at San Francisco and the devastation
by storm at Mobile and Pensacola and
the engulfing of Galveston by tidal
wave few years ago,
Yet the communities that are ex-
posed to destructive visitation by
earth tremors and ocean storms are
able in spite of all to repair damage
and upon the whole to prosper. Ne
braska and the bordering states are
fortunate to be able to go on in their
industrial course unafraid and unhin-
dered by such tremendous losses The
worst we have to fear is river food
and tornado violence, but rarely more
than along a narrow path, or once
in many years hot wind to
hurt the crops. With safety our peo-
pie enjoy certainty of reward in pos
session and development of marvel
ously rich resources.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
NOT 4 DEAD LETTER.
stems TO Enforce safety Appliance
Law ON Railroads.
Sentinel

The railroad safety appliance law was
enacted to be obeyed and enforced. and
not merely as an expression of opinion
or a bid for popularity, Railroads that
have ignored the law on the old sssump-
ton that legislation need not involve en-
forcement. and have neglected the pre-
scribed equipment of their trains, are to
be spurred by legal proceedings by the
federal department of Justice that will
serve as a timely notification that there
Is an executive who does things and is
in earnest behind the antt-wreck law.
The attorney general has ordered the
starting of suits for the recovery OF penal
ties against forty or more railways charged
with ignoring the law by failing or delay
ing TO provide their trains with the safety
appliances prescribed. The penalty for
each offense il 500 Against one minor
road ffty-one offenses are alleged. That
road. at least, is likely to find violation OF
law an expensive luxury. All Of the roads
will have the needed warning that the law
is a live one with the iron teeth OF en-
forcement in II.
on the public mind the starting of these
suits or the occasion for them, will have
an effect that the railroads should have
been solcitous to avoid. Prompt compli-
ance with the law-and doubtless in many
cases there has been prompt compliance
would have been a matter OF placid self
interest for the roads, 10 say nothing Of
the duty they owe 10 their patrons and
employees.
The institution of the suits will have a
salutary effect on the roads; but it will
go TO strengthen an impression that rail-
roads are by no means so regsrdful Of
law and the public safety as they should
be: and that impression most decidedly
is one the roads can not afford to incur
at this time OF anti-railway agitation and
demagogism.
individuals and corporations that owe
most TO general respect for law are pre-
cisely the ones who can least AFFORD to
set an example OF disrespeet for law.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
MR>BRrANs ..slpEsrEPPIYs.

Mr.. Bryan's sidestepping as to ma
tional and state ownership of all rail-
roads. IL is clear, has not increased his
prestige, for radical" leader can
not safely begin to qualify the moment
party associates protest. Whatever
Mr.. Bryan may assert, the public was
warranted in interpreting his New
York pronuhciamento as a line of pol
icy deliberately proposed by him as
a substitute for national regulation,
or as the end towards which regula-
ton was to be mere short step. In
deed as a partisan leader, the only
alternative open to him was indorse-
ment of President Roosevelt and CO.
operation under his leadership in the
policy of regulation, since that ground
has been fully occupied.
The sole excuse that Mr. Bryan has
been able to find and which he has
repeated over and over again, and most
deliberately at New Orleans, is that at
New York he was merely expressing
his personal opinion. that he was the
farthest imaginable from trying to
commit the democratic party to this
doctrine" and that IL is immaterial
whether IL is put in the democratic
platform. In short, his apology as
sumes that he appeared at New York
merely as lecturer OF agitator. and
not at all as a party leader But
in point of fact, though that assump-
ton may be convenient for the pur-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
Express Franks Called In.

II Senator Plat as president of the
United States express company has sent
requests 10 Nebraska congressman and
public officials for the return OF franks
given to them, IT is presumable that he
has sent similar notices 20 other congress
men and public officiaIs. And IL this Il so
II is presumable that express company
franks are quite common among pub
lie officials as free railroad passes have
been. Thus il the new rate law operating
TO sever another relationship OF mutual
profit between the public service corpora
tiOns and public officials.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
Bryan and Hearst.
.Phlladelnhla Ledger

Mr.. Bryans profession of qualification at
the nomination of Hearst, and his belief
that Hearst would make "a good governor, %
will be remembered against the Nebraskan
when more creditable utterances shall have
been forgotten They will be chalked up
on the record in close juxtaposition with
the more radical than ever" speech and
with his hasty remarks on government
ownership and none Of these win help to
raise Mr. Bryan in the estimation Of his
cOuntrymen On the contrary. they will
do much 10 revive the distruSt and terror
which led to his emphatic rejection by the
American people and may be the cause OF
a repetition Of the verdict.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
stiII seeking the Cup.
Baltimore American.

Sir Thomas Upton Is to challenge again
for the American cup, and he's about the
only challenger that We would be willing
to see win IT, We have cheered him so
often for being a good loser that we could
not refrain from cheering again II he
proved this time a good winner But. in
the meantime, we are going to do all in
our power to keep him from being a winner.
since we have got 30 in the habit Of de-
Tending the cup successfully against all
Corners.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

The art of the parade promoter, as
exemplifed INF the Ak-SarBen pa
geants, shows steady and marked i'm
provement. In artistic conception and
practical execution the parades we are
witnessing these days are as much
superior to those of ten years back as
The modern mammoth circus over the
one-ringed tent show Of long ago
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

Street fair attendance figures for
Ak-Sar-Ben XII. are already ahead of
the attendance figures of Ak-Sar-Ben
XI. up to this point OF the carnival
period. The chancellor of the royal
exchequer should soon find himself on
EasY street
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING.
Melancholy Days for the Party Of
seymour and TiIden.

Philadelphia Record (dem.b.
The democratic party elected its candi
dates for governor of New York in 1882,
1885, 1888 and 1891 by majorities ranging all
the way from 11,13S to l92,S54. IL hasn't
elected a governor since. Six times In sue
cessfon the republicans have elected their
candidates and three times their majority
has gone over 100000 and once II went TO
I2.OOO That was in 1896. The year is sig
nifcant: it ought to set democrats to
thinking.
From 1874 to 1892 there were ten elections
of congressman and eight times out Of the
ten the democrats elected a majority. They
have not had majority in the house
since. During that period they elected the
president twice. not to speak of the dis
puted election OF 1876. and they secured
majority in the senate. Do they want TO
carry any more elections, would they
rather sit on the fence and make faces at
the republican procession 1t passes by?
They can go back to democracy and win,
they can go ahead with financial nos
trums and populistic notions and fool
around with socialism and make all sorts
OF experiments to see how they will work
with the people, and stay out OF power.
This country needs the democratic party;
republicans even confess the need of It.
II needs party Of individualisn, of local
self government, of low taxes on imports
and of freedom from entangling alliances
abroad. But it does not need and will not
have socialism or attacks on industry and
it's rewards or efforts TO turn the nations
financial system wrong end up or expert
ments. In spite OF the appeal OF the real
democrats who constituted the recent Al
bany conference. the Independence league
and its candidate captured the democratic
convention, and the republicans will con-
tnue TO govern the state OF New York
They will continue TO govern the United
States unless the democrats cease vallow-
ing in the mire
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

The local democratic organ eontin-
ues TO appeal to republicans TO stand
by Roosevelt by electing democrats
10 congress to obstruct aud nullify the
presidents policy The mere state
ment of the proposition refutes it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
Costly literature.
Louisville Courier-Journal

Watered stock is fiction published by
railroad magnates for the benefit OF rail-
road magnates at the expense Of taXpay-
ers Il il the best paying literature in
existence, from the publishers standpoint,
and requires the least expenditure OF in
tellectual effort Il il the most expensive
liters .u-~ hH'isht bv the public.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

Since Chicago has fined a bunch Of
packers for selling short weight"
lard, buckets bearing the Chicago
brand should be tested in other places
as the surplus stock must be worked
of somewhere. A
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

President Roosevelt has ordered
the removal of two United States
marshals, one in Ohio for violating
the civil service regulations and one
in Louisiana for general unfitness. II
the removed officials want sympathy
from others who have gone through
the same mill, they might get it in
Nebraska
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

While second class mail laws may
require revision, thesaverage congress
man viii wait until hearing from the
country editors before taking other lib
critics with the privileges of the press.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04
Hard Tack. Bean. and Conee.

CINCINNATI enquirer.
The War department has decided against
tho proposition TO feed American troops
who may be sent to Cuba on rice and dried
fruit. the diet on, which the Japanese sol
diers are said to have gastronomically
prospered Nothing finer than good old
hard tack and beans. and some real coffee
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

Members Of the city council who
imagine that they have been freed
from complaints about inadequate
street car transfers are fooling them
selves. No street car transfer system
was ever invented that did not leave
some places TO register kickA
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

Young Theodore Roosevelt is expert
encing one effect of the popular demand
for "a square deal for all" but Is
probably as much surprised as others
that the doctrine should be extended to
include college students up to FRANKS
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

The death of a Swedish vice consul
at the hands of alleged Russian revolu-
tionists might start a movement for
the pacifcation of the empire IL all
kings did not fear that more than one
royal head would fall in the settle
ment
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

The democratic campaign book has
undoubtedly discovered the key TO
democratic harmony, for while prac-
tically silent on democratic policies it
attacks all things republican with or
without reason.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

Advance notice that residents of
Eureka, Cal, win mob Cinnamon gives
the governor OF that state an oppor-
tunity 70 show how much stronger he
Is than the governor of Poland
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-04

Between giving UP arms and surren-
dering offices when no taxes could be
collected, Cuban rebels are losing more
than the regulars Through Amer
lean Intervention.