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The daily sentinel., 1906-01-30

luere is very EtlltIa III
dignation over the vote Of
Representative Hogg. on the
question of joint statehood
for Arizona and New Next
co. The Pueblo Chieftain
echoing the sentiment Of the
people Of the second city Of
the state. says that there
was no one in those two ter
ritories. who favored the
measure. save the corpora
ton interests. and their posi-
tion was an entirely selfish
one.
We have read and heard
high sounding professions
from the public men Of Colo
RADIO. favoring separate and
distinct statehood. for both
OF these territories. yet here
is one of Colorado's repre-
sentatlves. In order TO make
amends for his opposition 10
President Roosevelt on the
question OF freight rates, vot-
ing with the Republican ma
jority. TO unite those two ter
rltories into one state.
What Justification have the
citizens of Pueblo who have
been reaching our for closer
trade relations with those
two territories to offer. in
defense of the action Of the
representative of the second
district Of Colorado. whose
home iB in Pueblo?
Can her merchants say that
Mr.. Hogg was so instructed
to vote. as reprenting the
wishes of his constituents?
II they do so, they say that
which is false. because the
people Of this state. almost
universally have desired that
these two territories on our
border line. be granted their
prayer of many years.
They are entitled to become
states, by all the known laws
which bring about condi-
lions of statehood. from
their territorial probation.
In our judgment Mr.. Hogg
doesn't care n damn what
his constituents wishes are.
he is in Washington prin-
cipally to serve his wishes
primarily and incidentally
those who sent them there,
l suppose we ought to be
very good and not criticise
Mr.. Hogg for his vote. be
cause he has introduced a
bill into the house looking
TO an appropriation for
public building in Grand
Junction. When he did this
he was doing no more than
his duty and so we have said
before. He is the represen-
tatiye of the people and It is
their wish that such bill
be introduced and he is not
deserving of any especial
credit for doing his duty as
the servant of the people.
Anyhow we shall not forego
opr criticism of him. simply
because he has found time at
last to Introduce bill. This
city is very deserving of
public building and repre-
sentatives in other statesI
with far less important dis
tricts and towns OF less COM
mercial Importance than
Grand Junction. have long
time ago secured public
buildings. through the activ-
ity of their Representatives.
Colorado's other repre-
resentatives heard the voice
of the people Of this state
and voted In accordance
The daily sentinel., 1906-01-30

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Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23

those who are known as conservatives
to destroy railroad bridges and burn
the cane fields and sugar mills in or
der to compel continuance Of interven-
ton is believed to be serious. On the
other hand, those who we're lately in
arms as insurgents are in large part
so impatient to seize the spoils of office
so nearly within their grasp at the
moment of intervention that they will
with difficulty be restrained much
longer, although restraint is indis-
pensable If there is to be safe and sta
BILE government
In short, a point has been about
reached at which it is necessary to
bring the Cubans to their senses, II
such a thing be possible, by definitely
prescribing the conditions with which
they must comply on the basis of self
rule, and it is almost certain that
those conditions will be profoundly
repugnant TO many native leaders who
are now forcing an emergency and
who have already pushed matters so
far that the situation is full OF peril
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
Personal NOTES.


Shylock's price per pound has been cut
by a Washington woman, who only wants
5000 for thirty pounds which she lost by
not Joining the anti-worry club.
Governor-elect Rollin S. Woodruff of Con-
necticut is now head OF the hardware con-
Germ in New Haven where ne first went 70
work as an office boy at an early age.
Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, granddaugh-
ter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, has been
appointed a member of New York City's
stan Of civil engineers. Miss Blatch's ap-
pointment was not due TO any pull, but
was made on merit, after she had stood
her examination.
The contract for boring the Chicago. Mil
waukee s. st. Paurs big tunnel through
the Rocky mountains has been let TO Nell
son Bennett, the man who built the North
ern Pacific tunnel through the Cascade
mountains and has recently completed the
largest irrigation ditch ever constructed.
The writer known to the novel reading
public as Ralph Connor is known to his
parishioners in Winnipe at Charles W.
Gordon. He is a man OF 43. tall and
slight, keenIy interested I'm sport and out
door life and sympathetic ana earnest in
his work. His church has been completely
fitted up with parlors and recreation rooms,
where those without homes may spend
their evenings in pleasant surroundings.
In Chicago during the last year. accord
ing 70 figures compiled by the Bridge and
structural Iron Workers union, l47 of its
.s5s members were either killed or dis
abled by accidents while at work. Thirty
four men lost their lives. thirteen were to-
tally disabled and 100 were partially dis
abled. Most OF the deaths were due to
falls from the steel framework Of buildings
in the downtown district
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
EFFECT oFKANsAs CITY CONGRESS

EFFECT oFKANSAS CITY CONGRESS. .
1t is unfortunate, although perhaps
inevitable, that the addresses and dis
cussions at the TransIhississippi Com
mercial congress should spread over
so wide a range of topics, thus losing
the great force of concentration for
practical purposes. Previous meet
ings have fallen short of possible ben
eflts through the same defect.
The value of the congress now sit
ting is nevertheless not to be under
rated on this account. Though the
discussions in the main are on pro-
miscuous subjects, still as a cyclopedic
representation brought down to date
of the immense and varied resources,
industries and interests of an empire
embracing practically one-half of the
ulant to the energies of the people
broadening their conceptions and out
look and tend Importantly to promote
common action for common purposes
II will, however, be increasingly
necessary for the west. if it's full in.
fluence is to be exerted politically and
otherwise in its own behalf to elimi-
nate more than it hitherto has done 6
multitude of questions. however in
teresting in themselves either locally
or specially, or to subordinate then
to great general ends, each in it's turf
and due occasion. BY selective and
strategic effort the cumulative advance
will carry also innumerable minol
points. It is along this line that the
true value Of the Kansas City meeting
probably by far the most importan
and satisfactory in the history of tn,
congress. largely as an educationa
influence is to be estimated.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
WIN Plat rake the HIpts

new 10TH sun
1t is a mistake to suppose that the senior
senator for the Empire state. the Hon.
Thomas Collier Plat, is incapable Of fur
Their usefulness. He is not too old or too
seriously incapaeitated, either in the phys
ical sense or intellectually, or too shame
fully discredited in his public and private
relation TO the community. to perform now,
at once, this week, today, the greatest SER
vice which II has ever been in his power to
render 20 his honorable constituents. the
people OF New York. 1t is the statesman's
last opportunity to win their approval and
applause. With their fingers defending
their olfactories. they will applaud him with
enthusiastic feet.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
80 RAILRnAp AMENnMENT.


II was to have been expected that
the railroads OF Nebraska would de-
cline to give over without struggle
and allow the adoption of the amend
ment to the constitution to become an
accomplished fact without exhausting
all the resources of their we'll equipped
aud extensive legal departments to
defeat the will Of the people. This
has been a consistent part OF railroad
policy in Nebraska from the very be-
ginning. There has never been a time
in the history of the state when the
great corporations have not interfered
to the fullest extent of their power in
the affairs of the public. So accus-
toned have the railroad magnates be-
come to debating policies and shaping
legislation to their own ends that 1t
would have been a nine days wonder
IL they had allowed the amendment
recently adopted by the voters Of the
state to so into full operation without
making a struggle against il.
This time the railroads have mis-
taken the sentiment of the people Of
Nebraska. It is not a revolt against
the railroads as such, but 1T is pro-
test against the continual and perni-
cious interference OF interested corpor-
ations In public affairs for selfish pur-
poses and against public welfare. The
people of Nebraska have borne with
more or less patience for a great
many years the injustices that have
been put upon them by the railroads
The debt that the people of the state
owe to these great corporations for
their assistance in developing the re-
sources of Nebraska has never been
denied. Yet this debt should not OPP
crate to prevent the people of the
state from enjoying in some measure
the fruits of their own Industrious toll.
AS matter of fact, Nebraska has
been exploited by the railroads as few
other western states have. This was
made very plain during the recent
campaign, Governor-elect Sheldon
making it the dominant note of his
speeches throughout the state. Again
and again he showed the injustice and
inequality of Nebraska freight rates,
and just as often did he exhibit the
evidence of railroad rapacity He
was elected solely because he was con-
sidered by the voters of the state to
be the champion of the people as OPP
posed to the domination of corporate
interests.
It would be we'll for the railroad
magnates to heed this fact. The time
has come in Nebraska when the people
are going to rule and direct their own
affairs, regardless OF the wishes of the
men who have so long sat behind
desks and directed through their
henchmen the course of public affairs
in the state. It is not intended that
any injustice shall be done to any OF
the great agents of commerce in Ne
braska. but it is intended that's they
shall do Justice to the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
asTRIcTLY CONFIDENTIAL"
what Becomes of the Letters Sent To
Medical QuaclSs.


Medical QuaclSs.
Chicago Tribune.
Golfers. in following up its crusade
against quack physicians and dealers in
worthless patent medicines, has touched
upon one interesting feature of the bust
ness. This is the regular trade in conitden-
tial letters from patients describing in de-
tail their real or imaginary ailments. The
recipients of these letters, which were writ
ten under n guarantee of absolute secrecy,
bundle them together as soon as the writer's
have spent all the money they can be in
duced to throw away on one line Of treat
ment The letters are then sold or rented
to other persons in the same business, and
the writer's begin to receive circulars and
personal letters making glowing promises
OF restoration from the malady which the
victim believes himself to have.
One brokerage company advertises over
one million letters on hand. These letters
are classified over 10000 letters describing.
kidney troubles may be bought or rented,
1900 telling of suffering from abuse Of mar
ooties. and so on. Every person who has at
any time within the last ten years written
to these correspondence doctors or dealers
in wonderful remedies may be certain that
his or her letter, describing physical diff
culties which may have been kept a secret
even from ones own family, is on file in an
Office where it may be consulted by any one
willing to pay $3.50 a thousand for the privi-
lege of copying these letters.
Not only doctors buy these lettors, but
also other spectators in human credulity
The sellers Of stock in wildcat mines and in
bogus companies Of all kinds make 4 busl-
ness of exchanging lists, so that what
money has escaped one swinder may be
reached by another. a person who has
been an easy mark for patent pledicine adj
vertisements was considered by one COM
pany as especially suitable for its pur-
poses. and until the postofice department
forbade the use Of the mails It astonished
those to whom it wrote by it's intimate
knowledge of personal difficulties
Professional etiquette forbids a physician
to reveal secrets conided to him by pa
tient. A sick person or one who thinks he
is sick is foolish IL he does not tell his ply
stefan the whole story. so that the case
may be diagnosed with complete knowledge
But the most foolish person OF all is the one
who writes to stranger things which he
is unwilling to tell a neighbor. The ply
scan will respect sny confidence placed in
him. The advertising quack will sell the
letter or a copy of 1t to any one who asks
for II. person who once gets on the
quacks' lists will be tormented for years for
| that bit of folly
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
THE HOMELY Girl.


ST. Louis Republic.
Whose face Is IL that's never seen
Upon the tempting magazineG
Who Is Il that IL never snapped
BY kodak artists thrilled and rapt?
Who Is II that Is never In
A novel as the heroine?
A homeiy girl.
Who is It that can play no part
In great displays Of modern art?
Who Is II that the daily press
VIII not portray in her new dress?
Who Is II that upon the stage
May never even play q page?
A homeiy girl.
Who Is II that In all the ads
May never pose for fashions fads,
or call our minds to foreign scenes,
or powder, paint, or pork and beans,
or autos, candles, fancy goods,
or furs, or soaps, or breakfast fOodsf
A homely girl
Who is Il that Is ne'er a bride?
Who for divorce has ne'er appliedf
Who never thWarts a tyrant's ruler
Who 10 it-oh, who, but q fool,
Would place her in this lengthy listf
Who Is II simply don't exist?
A homely girl.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23

lions OF dollars during the coming
year does not track with the admis-
sions Of the leading railroad men that
no company at present has equipment
or trackage sufHcient to care for its
business. High prices or low prices,
the railroads must build more miles
of track and employ more cars and en-
gines or go out of business. Competi-
ton in this regard, at least, is inexora-
bfa
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23

South Omaha also had a taste of
water shortage, and is equally inter
ested with Omaha in the establish
ment of a sufficient water supply sys-
TEN. This supply can only be secured
by the construction of a second main
pipe from Florence TO the city, How
much longer win the Water board ex-
pose the business and domestic inter-
ests of the community TO the danger
and inconvenience which now exist?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
oHILp LARoR LAw OpDITTEs.
Can the Federal Government Deal
with the subIectF

Can the Federal Government Deal
with the subiectF
Baltimore American.
once again a novel proposition to utilize
that elastic clause in the United States
constitution giving to congress power to
regulate COMMERCE among the several
states is made. Senator Beverage thinks
that the federal government chn indirectly
but effectively, deal with the subject OF
child labor by prohibiting the transporta-
ton of products of factories where chill
dren under II years Of age are employed.
In theory the senator is undoubtedly cor
rect. A precisely similar exerfise Of power
Is that authorized under the smeat inspec-
tion law. It would only require the ap-
pointment of several hundred thousand in
speotors TO guarantee that manufactures
tainted with child labor are not struggled
to the railroad stations Probably Uncle
Sam could afford it. but he Is apt to hest
tate for long time before he takes the
step. Some duties ought to Be left to the
state governments and the settlement OF
the child labor problem is ono Of them.
Il would almost be as reasonable for the
United States to attempt to petite the di-
vorce question by, the, idaRtical constitu-
tional clause which the Hoosier statesman
wishes to bring into play with respect to
child labor Let the United States con-
gfess prescribe tho grounds by which d.
vorces ought to be granted and deny the
use Of interstate commerce in any form to
the Individual who oftends, by gettings@
divorce not according to the accepted stand
ard. Does the idea appear fantastic? Per-
haps il is. II is not more fantastic, how
ever, than that of Senator Bevefddge.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
coNFLICTfNG RAILRoAp sroRlEs

tONtLiCIiNU hAiBhOdO HIOhIBcs
The stories emanating from circles
Of high railroad authority are not con
sistent. Now we have the sensational
disclosure, suggestively framed with a
keen eye to stage effects, in substance
that carrier companies centering at
Chicago have resolved to curtail by
fully $60,0OO,000 the expenditures for
betterments that had been planned for
that terminal during the coming year,
and that this resolution as to Chicago
is merely part of a general policy
among the roads for abandoning or
restricting contemplated extensions
and improvements.
But we have also Just had another
tale, not less startling and upon like
impressive authority, to the effect that
the existing railroad system is utterly
inadequate for the bulk of tonnage
and travel that the growth of the coun-
try is producing and will produce in
the future on even a larger scale; ]. J.
Hill having within two weeks deliber-
ately asserted that 1000 more miles
perts that terminal facilities and roll
ing stock are similarly deficient. And
it is substantially agreed among them
that even if the existing transporta-
ton system could be brought up to
present requirements, an annual aver
age of at least 10000 miles of new
construction would be needed for
growth of business the next ten years.
Now, how can two such stories be
reconciled on the basis of candor and
good faith? Or is the explanation to
be found in the circumstance that with
numerous state legislatures and the
national congress about to meet the
commanders-in-chief among railroad
interests may desire to arouse public
apprehension of the consequences of
progress in public control?
We have just made a memorable ad-
vance in the enforcement of old and
enactment of new laws on the particu-
lar point of equality. of transportation
charges and services for all, that ad-
vance having been in spite of every
obstacle that the carrier corporations
could throw in the way. But the not
less vital question of the reasonable
ness of charges, particularly on service
within each state, but including also
hauls between states, remains and
confronts every legislative and admin
| istrative body in the land. 1t is thrust
upon the people not only by grotesque
| inequalities between state and inter
state charges, but also by the prodigi-
Gus profits which existing exactions
produce, without regard to the item of
increased wages.
In a word, the railroads have grossly
misjudged the temper OF the people
ii the purpose is as it can hardly but
be, to intimidate and terrorize them
at this time from going forward to
right what has been wrong by threat
of Withholding transportation service
that is vitality necessary. 1t is simply
the familiar opposition tactics that has
been resorted to for preventing every
exertion of public authority in public
interest the last forty years. While Il
has latterly been futile, never before
was it SO untimely and dangerous fol
the railroads themselves as it is al
this moment.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
TITLES WOOING DOLLARS.
Reflections on British Peers and the
American HeireEs Market.
EFarrar's Weekly

American HefreGs Market.
Harper's Weekly.
The present duke Of Marlborough seems
to have inherited the moral qualities OF the
Churchills without their brains. The brains
tend to be good; the moral qualities tend
to be rotten. The first duke had extraordi-
nary talents, geared 10 morals OF the ut
most fexibility. The most noted Of his re-
cent descendants, Lord Randolph Churchill,
was an able man, and 80 far as is known a
decent man and a good husband. His
brother, the father Of the present duke,
had intelligence and suavity. but was a
disreputa.ble person whom his wife d.
vorced. The present duke seems to have
his fathers morals without either his man.
ners or his intelligence. He has made his
young American wife so intolerable a hus-
band that she has finally applied for a legal
separation. 1t is a pity. for she is a woman
OF fne character and great attractiveness
fitted for a happier career than merely 10
bear two sons 20 a young brute who hap
Dened 70 be the heir Of an historic British
title and a heavily enoumbered historic
estate. II the trade between American
dollars and British titles and secondhand
dwellings is to be maintained, il Is neces-
sary Cor ought TO be) that a larger per
centage Of the financed peers should make
good. To take a young woman's Eood
money and then mistreat her Is Just as
eaddish and eulpable as anything the Pitts
1 burg miliionaiFes DO. Il is conceivable that
the whole line Of purchasable British peers
may become 50 discredited as to destroy
the trahnc. though. TO be sure, II would
take an awful list OF swindles to drive the
ambitious American mothers away from
the bargain counter at Burke'8 There are
some admirable gentlemen in the British
| peeraEe, and some Of that quality have
married American women. But the average
OF the lots offered in the American market
/ Is not hiEh
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
PERIL IN CUBA.

The issue in Cuba. full of possible
mischief, seems to be rapidly sharpen
ing between those who threaten dire
consequences II the United States does
not promptly arrange for election of
government and then withdraw
forthwith, and those who threaten dire
consequences II this course is followed.
The troubles involved In Intervention,
which have been largely lost sight of
since the return of Secretary Taft, can
NO longer be concealed and. in the
judgment of those in good position to
know, are approaching a crisis not
less dangerous and even more dificult
than the one of civil war which was
averted by prompt American military
occupation. But Governor Magoon,
as the representative of our govern
ment on the ground, is now beset with
increasing clamor and menace on both
sides, the one that he shall declare
dehnitiveIy that the United States
shall promptly arrange for a native
regime and quit the island. and the
other not only that this shall not be
done, but also that assurance be given
OF our remaining there indefinitely.
The feature rising more ominously
every day is that either side has both
the power and apparently the disposi-
ton 70 precipitate a catastrophe. So
bitter and irreconeilable are the Gu
ban factions showing themselves 10 be
! toward each other that the threat OF
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
MERRY JINGLEs.


ssodgeryAlaE, pss good faith our fathers
Podger-N onssnse:, there are more hair
restOrerS and gold bricks sold than ever
before.-Atlanta Constitution.
Dubley-Did you ever see anything more
pathetic than a woman trying to tell a
WiiseEWeh, that's not as foolish as some
men / know. A woman never attempts to
use dialect when she doesn't know how
"A shoemaker is good type Of the kind
Of man an aristocrat prefers in tho
How do you mean?' EH'
The sole intent Of his labor ID to sus 4.
tain his uppers baltimore American.
u think you're perfectly awful" she
II think you're awfully perfectr' he
There was an instant mixture of brill
liantine and rouge, ana all was well.-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
"w'ot did tn superintendent do to yer,
wen yer was caught smokin' cigarettes?'
Turned me over to tn prineipul'
Turned me over to me teacher. An
she turned me over to pa"
"y'ot did yer pa do?"
Turned me over his-well, w'ot d yer
spose he doneT'-CleYeland Leader.
@!olh. yes; s' enough 20 Keep BODY 5S and nT soul
and automobile ether."-Brooklyn Life
Hiram" said Mrs. Counterfront "hayk
you noticed that Spotcash & Co. have ana
nounced their Christmas opening for next
week."
but know what that means, and MAJ
as well make the announcement right now
that my pocketbook win not have its
December. ''-Ch icagO Tribune. ~
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23

That Texas negro who pleaded guilty
to the charge of murder in Texas did
his best to redeem the state from the
stain of lynch law, and the authorities
seem to have given him hearty coop
Grafton, as he was legally hanged the
co me dnN