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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
PHILIPPINE TARIFF BILL.

1t now looks as if the Philippine tariff
bill, reducing rates on the sugar and
tobacco of the islands imported into the
United States to % per cent of the
Dingley rates, which passed the house
Of representatives by an overwhelming
majority, will fail in the senate. The
active work against the bill by the
American sugar and tobacco interests
has evidently had the desired effect upon
a number Of senators, as shown by the
opposition that developed in the CON-
mittee having the bill under considera-
ton. 1t was stated a week ago that
from an informal poll of the senate it
was thought that the bill will be de-
feated unless compromise is effected,
and ii was suggested that the bill be
amended so that sugar and tobacco from
the Philippines would be subject to a
tariff equal TO 40 or 30 per cent of the
Dingley rates. Since then the situation
is said to have become rather less favor
able for the measure. There has been
and democratic senator's to sacrifice the
| Philippine bill as the price of comhina-
ton to secure the passage Of the railroad
rate bill, but probably there is nothing
in this.
| The fact is that most Of the republican
senators are more concerned about the
American interests which would be
affected by the proposed reduction in the
tariff on Philippine products than they
are in the industrial future of the archi
pelago. They have been looking care
fully into the matter and have come &c
the conclusion that the bill passed by
the house would have results injurious
to the home sugar and tobacco interests
Senator Hale n few days ago presented
figures showing the low cost of produc
ing sugar and tobacco in the Philippines
and although Secretary Taft questioned
the accuracy of these figures there car
be no doubt that they are accepted by
many senator's as correct. There arr
among the democratic senators severa
who are in sympathy with the American
sugar and tobacco interests and 1t Il
reasonable TO assume that they exert
considerable influence with their part,
colleagues. As now indicated the failur
of the bill in the senate seems almos
assured and II is entirely certain that |
cannot pass rs sent from the house.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Philadelphia Press: Young Mr.. Rookie
Teller on Sunday told his Bible class about
the corner in corn engineered by Joseph in
Egypt some years since, and commeded
The excellence of It, But 1t really WASH t
just the kind of corner that things are
cornered with in these days
Springfield Republican, Mr.. Labouchere
still serves a good purpose through his
paper, Truth, in defending Princess Ena's
conversion to the Roman Catholic faith In
order to facilitate her marriage to King
Alfonso of Spain. As Truth says it's her
business. No one can expect the king to
become an Episcopalian, and there must
be team work at Madrid.
The Congregationalist: After spending
more than an hour looking over religious
exchanges, the sentence most wildly inn
printed on our minds is this: Are your
kidneys weak" Cannot some question con-
corning the souls condition and need be
invented that will challenge the attention
of the readers of religious newspapers as
effectively as the repulsive headlines OF the
advertisement of a patent medicine?
New York Globe DIR. Emil G. Hirsch,
the distinguished rabbi of Chicago. is also
alarmed over the atrocities committed by
the charitable rich. Charity, as the word
is known today" he says, lis only a bride
of moneyed men to make a community
forget the wrongs heaped upon It," Here
tofore the poor man has had the world s
sympathy as the under dog. Now he is
becoming supercanine and the rich man
subcanine. Does a rich man not give, he
is stingy; does he give, he is "a brber--
passes from negative to positive crime. If
he would get rid of superfuous wealth his
only chance is to buy edihces and burn
them down uninsured. Even then he might
be arrested for arson and accused of ma
liciously overworking the poor firemen; or
hygienists would say he was dirtying the
air with smoke and thus numbering those
compelled to breathe IT.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
pr-p1tc OPINION AND THE SENATE

PUBLIC OPINION AND THE SENATE
Former Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow Of Kansas, in his inter
view at Washington does not overstate
the weight Of public pressure for the en-
actment Of the Hepburn bill unemascu-
lated by senate amendment. 1t would
be almost impossible to overstate IT, The
paramount demand of the people of
Kansas. as Mr.. Bristow describes 1t, is
equally the demand of the whole coun-
try.
II the prospect of the passage of the
Hepburn measure by, the senate Is
frightened, 1t is because of the menace
Of public displeasure and condemnation
OF the intrigues that have been in prog
ress among senators to dehorn that
measure when it should arrive from the
house. No sign has been wanting since
this session began, even If we shut out
from view the whole course of events
at the session a year ago and since, to
prove that such q scheme for thwarting
the will of the country has been in ac-
tual existence, and many friends of rate
regulation have feared the scheme to
kill II might succeed. The conspirators,
until very recently, have been CORE
spondingly encouraged.
But it must be dawnlng even upon
the railroad representatives that they
have misjudged the character of the
movement led by President Roosevelt
for ubjecting the interstate railroads
to veritable and enforcible restraints
under public authority. The time has
gone by when such evidence of public
opinion ms Mr.. Bristow affirms can be
sigmatized and dismissed as a mere
expression of western radicallsm or as
a passing popular vagary. What sena-
torial agents and conspirators for cor
poration despotism are beginning to see
is the clenched fist of the American peo-
pie.
1t is q signal demonstration of the
| definiteness and resolution of the public
mind that interests so powerfully in
trenched in the senate as are those
within the purview Of the Hepburn bill
| find their dcep-laid conspiracy of
stealthy opposition in danger of collapse
Mt the moment when the fight on the
floor of the senate is just beginning.
The senate, although removed from the
direct accountability to the people by
which the house is held is finding out
that this is a time when public opinion
will reach far and hit hard with "the
of the reports coming out of Washing.
ton of better prospect that the Hephurp
measure may pass the senate substan.
tally unchanged.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

Realizing the right is all there is OF re-
ligion.
He takes heaven everywhere who has the
happy heart.
Thunders of applause give no promise of
showers OF blessing.
They find the gate of heaven who seek
the good of humanity.
He who shuts the door of heaven on an
other shuts himself out.
good many more would walk with God
II he would go blindfold
Much of our sorrow is stuff we have
stolen thinking it was5 JOY.
The most heavenly virtues come out of
the most homely occasions.
Civilization will be synonymous with sal
walton when il has cured sin.
The tight-fsted child often finds that he
has n loose hold on his Father
The only thing that makes any work sa-
cred is the way that 1t is done.
The devil has more effective weapon
than the Christians rusty sword.
Every time you envy another man his
meal you drop gall into your own plate.
People who cannot stand up in the fight
must not look to sit down In the feast.
Don't think you are fixed on feathers
there because you make a lot of fuss here.
Many man Is praying for grace to bear
his trials who needs just sand to shake
them.
It's hard for the man who has ground off
his nose on the money mill to smell d
faint on anything.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
personal AND OTHERWISE.

The straw hat and the early robin have
SO far resisted the climatic temptations OF
the cornbelt. Wise guy, shrewd bird.
Calamity in vehicles is not a lost art in
New York City. One wise Indian cheer
fully surrendered his seat in a balloon to
a woman.
1t is fairly certain that John d. Rookie
Teller lodged the Missouri inquisltors by
taking a secret passage-from his own to
his son-in-law's home. The hole was found
intact.
A receiver has been appointed for Chi
cago company which sold 100000 worth
of stock contracted debts to the amount
of $50, 600 and magnanimousIy left $lO0 In
change for the receiver to play with,
A Milwaukee woman is suing for s75OOtO
because some people persuaded her husband
to leave her. The assertion that a Mil
waukee husband Is worth that sum is
enough to put a clean smiling face on Mil
waukee river
Some congressman with knowledge to
burn declared, in discussing the pure food
bill that the roseate hue of whisky afforded
no guarantee against a headache next
morning. When experience speaks 1t be-
hooves novices to listen.
Musically inclined people will sympathize
with the Chicago judge who paused in his
solemn deliverances to enjoin a phono-
graph which blatantly reeled of Listen TO
the Old Guys Chin" Justice would have
winked had he used an AK.
Ex-senator William T. Chandler OF New
Hampshire is putting in some hard ticks
with tongue and pen in Washington in
favor of railroad rate regulation. The rail-
roads regulated William out of the senator
ship and he is in the right mood to recipro-
cate.
The patriotism OF Ex-Governor Hogg ID
as broad as the Lone Star state. AS soon
as the supreme court pronounced against
express companies the genial Hogg leaped
| into the breach and organized independ-
ent company to do the business The ex-
| governor is not blind when good thing
| bumps his way.
Within the limits of Cook county, which
means Chicago, there are lao grass widows
| drawing annually s672,OOO in alimony from
| former husbands. The average number o.
divorces annually is 200 and they cos
| the county $1,000 a year. Here is an abun
/ dance of fuel to start an output Of hot all
/ from the sociolog icaI professors for which
| Chicago is Justly celebrated.
with unfeigned sorrow the fact is noto-
that Philadelphia is returning TO its sleep!
| habits. Burglars raided a local store
picked up a 5oO-pound safe. placed it on q
/ pushcart and vanished. All this while a
family Of nine peacefully slumbered in the
| building, SIN a gentle scoff III BELTS q
| community where crooks kick a hole IN
Jail walls and skedaddle.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
A LITTLE FARTHER ON.


w. d, Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
Just a little farther on waits wondrous
April dawn,
When the boughs will break in blossoms
M, as flag is lifted up,
When the grass will rise and run with the
laughter of the sun
And the sky will seem to pour us wine
from out a magic cup;
Ana Wen sing because of knowing all the
songs the wind is blowing
And the earth will be the gladder for the
dreary days agone.
Then Wen catch the murmured words in
the singing OF the birds,
When the earth has rolled to springtime
just little farther on.
For the good old earth 1t knows where the
robin and the rose
Wait to- set our hearts to leaping for the
beauty of the day,
And II knows the necromance of the vto-
let's that dance
To the music OF the brooklet that once
more Is loosed in play.
Ho, the blossom petals drifting in the
breeze forever shifting,
And the forests flaming greener for their
battle with the SHOWS!
Then. Wen catch the melodies Of the wax
For the good old earth is rolling to the
robin and the rose.
the dandelons CLEAN
Where the careless hand of springtime
has been spilling all its gold, .,,.
the wintry blight
And its carpet smooth as velvet Is by
fairy hands unrolled.
Then Wen know the tang and tingle or
the blossom scents that mingle,
And well taste the joys Of living in the
wondrous April dawn.
For we'r swinging to the wles OF the
singing and the smiles,
To the blessedness of springtime-just a
little farther on.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
PUBLIC BUILDING REFORM

A new policy in regard to public build
lngs is nuounced, on the authority of the
chairman OF the house committee on
public buildings and grounds, Repre-
sentative Bartholdt of Missouri. He is
quoted as saying that so long as he is
chairman of the committee there will be
provided good. sensible workshops for
the government when new court houses
and workshops are needed and not highly
ornamented, expensive palaces. Post
offices, he said, will be only two stories
high, so that the clerks and other work
ers may have plenty of natural light
and not be forced to utilize artificial
light. as they now have TO do night and
day in some OF the newest and most
costly buildings. I'VE will build better
and more serviceable public buildings
than we have ever had before and at
one-fifth OF the cost"
A schedule adopted by the committee
for the cost Of public buildings provides
that towns OF 10000 population, where
the postal receipts are $4,000 or more
public buildings shall cost not More
than $4,000 For towns of less than
10000 population $4,000 buildings
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

on n great body of young men employed
by a trust, when they know their president
has lied deliberately on the witness stand,
has lied for the good OF the business.
There are plenty OF such cases revealed
in our commercial Investigations. The
young man loyal to his employer and yet
trained to honor the truth must almost
inevitably come TO the conclusion that
lying is one of the necessary implements
in successful business-and as time goes on
he probably will conclude that 1t is all
right II it will aid in getting you anything
you want. II the good OF the business justi-
fies lying, it justifies all other things-law
breaking. cruelty, treacheryI unconsciously
the young man becomes a Machiavellian
in his theory of the relation of honor to
business.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
LANDS IN THE RANCE REGION

One grave difficulty in the way Of de-
vising a system Of public land leases for
grazing purposes, at least so far as the
desire of big ranchmen in western Ne
braska for summary relief from existing
conditions is concerned, is the lack OF
definite official Information concerning
the land in question. Generally speak
ing it is of course believed that a large
amount of land in the aggregate is per-
manently unfit for other than grazing
purposes, and that it can be used to best
advantage, or at all, only in quite ex-
tensive tracts. But the limits of such
lands have not been officially ascer-
tanned and marked off. They do not lie
in solid body. and it is known that
within the general boundary of the re-
gion of insufficient rainfall there is not
little land. in valleys and other
favored places, which is desirable 4 for
homesteads.
In his message at the opening of the
present session of congress President
Roosevelt enlarged upon this point and
recommended that the remnant of the
public domain be strictly classified, as a
preliminary to a system for leasing that
portion which might thus be certainly
found fit only for grazing purposes. The
president pointed out that there has
been no satisfactory ascertainment of
this character 1t goes without saying
| H., hn
had only by most thorough methods and
careful safeguards, all of which have
been wanting in the classification of
! lands under the swamp land act and
various other land acts through which
such costly blunders and innumerablc
frauds were permitted to creep in.
Public sentiment is no longer negli-
gent of the remaining public lands, but
on the contrary is now keenly insistent
that every acre suitable for cultivation,
or that by any chance might become so,
shall without fail be reserved for the
homesteader. Recent investigations by
the federal authorities in this and other
states have only made the public more
sensitive and cautious. Authority for
range leases which few years ago
might have been given without hesita-
ton and almost without consideration
would be withheld now. No leasing
measure carrying the liberal provisions
of the bill approved as late ms the win
ter of 1903 by the secretary of the in
terror and the president would today be
seriously entertained. Yet that measure
was then emphatically rejected by the
big cattlemen themselves, in spite OF
the fact that it had been devised in
good faith to help them out of the very
troubles in which they now find them
selves.
A proper measure for relieving the
situation in the range country is de
sideratum, but such a measure must re
solve every doubt in favor Of the home
steader
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

effective means of putting an end TO the
agrarian troubles disturbing the empire.
OF course this is opposed by the great
landowners, but it is more than likely
to be ultimately adopted when the peo-
pie are able to make their wishes and
demands known through national
assembly. The work Of political reform,
however must first be accomplished and
in this good progress is being made. 1t
is a very much greater task than most
people outside of Russia have any con-
ception Of
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
MAKING PROGRESS.

Evidence grows that the reactionaries
in Russia have about lost their hold
upon affairs and that in the near future
their influence upon political admins
tration will practically end. According
to the latest advices the result of a
series of special councils, under the
presidency of the emperor, is the grant
ing of the main guarantees of liberty
and the adoption of measures intended
to assure the fulfilment of these guaran-
tees. 1t is clearly indicated that the
czar has virtually rid himself of the
more or less dictatorial element whose
sinister counsel, laundering and corrup-
ton have brought so much disaster and
humiliation to the empire and is ear
nestly DESTROYS to improve conditions
under the advice of Witte and others
who have shown their absolute loyalty
to the ,hrone while urging changes and
reforms in the interest of the people. 1t
is great triumph for these men that
they have been able to overcome the
whose position seemed but very short
time ago impregnable, so strong APP
peared to be its hold upon every depart
ment of the government, civil and MILL
tary.
There is. therefore, good reason to be-
lieve that political regeneration in Rus
STA is at hand and after that has been
realized improvement in other directions
will follow. But there are grave indus
trial and agricultural problems to be
| solved which will call for the exercise
of the wisest craftsmanship. Especially
is the agrarian problem regarded as seri.
Gus. A writer familiar with Russian
conditions points out that the peasant
| population forms % per cent Of the total
Of 100000 in European Russia and
SIS per cent of the whole Of the empire
While the peasant population has been
| doubled since the date of the emanci
patton Of the serfs, the lands allotted tc
the freemen have not increased. The
average size of Russian peasant fam
lily is seven. and despite famine and pes
thence. starvation and emigration Il
Siberia. there are now over 100000
peasants filling the land which forty-fOul
years ago produced just about enough
to feed the 5OOOO,OOO of serfs. As tn,
number Of the peasants have increased
their small holdings had 20 be divided
and subdivided for the sustenance Of tn,
growing generations, and the CONSTANT!
increasing demands Of the government
have sunk them deeper and deeper int,
poverty, There can be no doubt tina
the land question is the burning issu
with the peasantry Of Russia and tn
most difficult problem confronting tn
government
The land question has already re
ceived attention and among the sugges
lions is one that private estates. in ex
cess of a maximum acreage, must b
appropriated by the government at
) price dependent upon actual marke
values and distributed on easy terms O
payment to the peasantry. as the onl
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
MACHIAyELLIAN BUSINESS.
Honor and Truthfulness Cut from the
Lexicon of Trusts.
McClure's Magazine.


Take the matter of bribing clerks in rail-
freight Offices to turn over information
concerning the shipments of rival concerns.
In at least one great trust this practice
is so extensive as to have become q matter
of elaborate bookkeeping. No clerk can be
so stupid as not to know he is doing
wrong and harmful act when he betrays
private information. He knows the money
paid him for the information is bride yet
the money comes from a great and powerful
corporation. Even II he wants to refuse 1t
he dares not lest he lose his position. His
honor is sullied-his manhood shaken-hls
soul corrupted. There can be no estimation
of the corruption Of manliness which this
practice alone has caused. There can be
no condemnation too bitter OF the men
who have devised the system They are
corrupters Of youth.
Think again Of what must be the effect
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

There is good time coming for
Omaha taxpayers. Jim Dahlman prom
ises if elected mayor to give this city
an economic administration. Benson
and Hennings say the same thing and
Broatch will promise anything. We are
sure now of economy and retrenchment
with n big "R" all along the line. But
there is always some difference between
before taking end after taking.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

From that minimum the cost will in
crease up to 100000, that being the
limit for any building. Mr.. Bartholdt
declared that there have been wasteful
eXtravagances, and bad judgment as
well, in the building of federal struc-
lures in the past, statement which
will hardly be disputed and which can
be supported by abundant evidence. 1t
is stated that the pending bills for post
offices and other federal buildings call
for a total expenditure of more than
S55,OOO,OO0, but the bill that will be re-
ported from the committee will carry
only about one-fourth of this amount
and such measure the house will prob
ably pass. The spirit of reform in this
direction appears not to have reached
the senate, as that body is going ahead
with its own public building bills and
has already authorized about $7,000,00O
expenditure for new postoffices and
court houses, most of the bills getting
through by unanimous consent. The
house managers intend to fight these ex-
pensive measures and 1t Is predicted
that there will be a royal battle in the
conference on the public building bill.
y The position taken by the house com
mittee in this matter will undoubtedly
have popular approval. No one will de-
sire that there be penurious policy in
providing public buildings, but a stop
should he put to the indefensible ex-
travagance which has obtained in this
direction
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

The way to clean Omaha of hoboes is
TO build n workhouse that will make a
police court sentence mean hard labor.
A workhouse for petty offenders would
be the most effective quarantine the
city could have against visitations OF
vagrants who are so easily tempted TO
eommlt serious crime.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

Several more Iowa and Nebraska col
leges are being exposed to pollution by
proffered gifts of Carnegie money to
help erect new buildings badly needed.
If Colonel Bryan is in any way officially
connected with these institutions an
other batch of designations with explain
atory letters may shortly he expected.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

And now 1t transpires that DR.. Osler
never said that all the old men over 60
. should be chloroformed to death. What
he did say was that the world would be
better of if its mossbacks occupied lodg.
ings in the cemeteries.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

q Candidates for city offices who want
, to ride into office by the gas route might
apply to the commanding officer of the
signal corps for the loan of balloon or
two