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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
FRIGHTENING SKIES.
Menncing clouds Passing from the
business Horizon.

washington lbSl.
often over fair and sunny summer
landscape, suddenly from some mysterious
somewhere there rise and gather dark.
muttering clouds that shut out the light
and bring vague forcbodings of storm
and wreck Sometimes the fury Of nature
Is let loose and devastation and ruin
spread for miles about, and sometimes the
clouds melt away without, gust, and
all is serene again.
So it is in the business and financial
world. For a long period now our skies
have been undimmed. till all at once the
sun ceased to shine so brighty-a great
and destructive strike doomed on the
horizon, serious complications over Mo-
rocco began to appear. holding POSSIBLE
ties OF widespread strife; troubles threat
ened in China. tariff war with Germany
most injurious to trade seemed imminent.
and the railroad rate situation began to
look complicated and almost impossible
of solution. Now. quickly as they gathered.
these menacng conditions seem to be pass
ing away. Miners and operators have
met on friendly basis. and are confer
ring together in spirit of Cancellation and
with a realizing sense that there Is a
public to be reCkoned with The ENJOYS
at Algeciras, though still skirmishing for
position, make IL evident tnat the COntrO-
versy. even II unsettled. holds no war in
its bosom; the best Chinese authorities
feel assured that there will be no immc-
diate outbreak, n modus vivendi is ar
ranged with Germany, railroad earnings,
which were thought to have reached about
the limit arc stiil advancing; the seasons
business has been excellent. and the prom
Use Of spring tfade was never rosy.
Crop prospects so far as they can be
prognosticated at this season. are favor
able.
There has been some apprehension that
new enterprises involving vast expend-
lures and the necessity for floating I'm
mense amounts of securities were being
hrough forward so rapidly as to menace
the stability of financial conditions. but
1t must not be forgotten that there IL
every month poured into the worlds
money supply over sS0,00oOO0 gold, and
that bank note circulation in this country
has vastly increased. IF all sorts OF
construction are expanding. so are the
tools to do 1t with increasing and It IL
reassuring to find the financial skies II
not yet wholly Cloudless by no means
overcast
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

William II. Mcintyre fourth vice presi-
dent Of the Equitable Assurance society
has finally been located He is president of
a railroad in Texas.
Mark Twain can now reciprocate relcita-
tions to William II. Howclls who is 20 years
old this week Both are getting buster and
better all the time
Emperor william has appointcd Prof
Ernst Won Bergman a member of the up
per house of Parliament for life This is
the first time that such an honor has been
conferred on member of the medical pro-
fession
Luther Burbank has had to call a halt on
his visitors. last year he entertained over
5000 persons interested in his experiments
and scientific work. and he says he lost too
much valuable time and he has posted signs
on his grounds forbidding trespassing
The New York papers are parading the
news that Mrs. Yerkes. who married a
young fellow named Mizner some hours
after the death of the multimillionaire from
whom she had been living apart. has
thrown over her young husband The
cause is stated to be the discovery that he
married her for her money.
1t is expected that when General Grosvc-
nor of Ohio shall retire from congress a
large number of heads will fall in the vari-
Gus departments. in Washington During
his long service in the house the general
has had many fights and many obstreperous
constituents have been induced to be good
by the comforting OF Offices They will all
have to go when his successor comes in
The school children of Kentucky have
raised above 5000 for a statue of the late
stephen c. Foster, author of MY Old Ken
lucky Home" The work is TO be done by
w. l.. Roop of Louisville, who has recently
obtained in Pittsburg photograph of Mr.
Foster, taken about 1868. A plaster cast of
the statue is to be ready for unwilling at
Louisville next June in connection with the
celebration of Home coming week"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
INTERNAL WATERWAY PROJECT.

On Tuesday the house of representa-
tives passed bill chartering the Lake
Erie and Ohio Ship Canal company,
with an authorized capital of $G0OO0,-
600. This is to carry out project to
connect pittsburg with Lake Erie, which
would prove of immense advantage to
that city. 1t is stated that the lines OF
railway between Lake Erie and Pitts
burg are unable to handle properly and
satisfactorily the enormous interchange
of freight and for some time the great
manufacturing interests of the Pennsyl-
vania city have been agitating for
canal. AS the proposed waterway,
which will be 100 miles in length, must
extend into two states, it was desired to
have federal charter under which the
canal can be governed as whole, rather
than have two state charters and two
corporations to operate 1t. The water
way will be built by private capital and
will cost the federal government nothing
whatever. There was nevertheless consid
cradle opposition in the house of repre-
sentativeS to granting the charter, chiefly
on the ground that it would be an in
vasion Of state rights, though no repre-
sentative of either Of the states directly
interested supported this objection. The
opposition came from the democratic
side and it is remarked that scarcely a
vote was recorded against the bill from
within 1000 miles of Pittsburg and
Lake Erie.
The building of this canal will Of
course contribute greatly to the further
development of Pittsburg as a manu-
featuring center. 1t will doubtless also
serve to improve the country through
which 1t will pass, increasing the bust
ness and the population of the towns
bordering on 1t. While it is a fact that
in this country canals have not usually
been profitable to their projectors there
is good reason to believe that this one
will prove an exception. At all events
the private capital necessary to con-
struct it seems ready to enter into the
investment. The sticklers for state
rights may offer more or less vigorous
opposition to the project in the senate,
but it is not probable that they will be
| able to prevent its passage. 1t will be
an internal improvement of such proper
tons as to be of general interest.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
A RAILROAD ERROR.
Demand for Public Control Of Rates
No New Thing.
San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco Chronicle.
At a recent banquet at Los Angeles
President f. p. Ripley OF the Santa Fee
railroad was reported as saying that in
his opinion "the agitation of the rate ques-
ton may be said to have started with the
report of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission in the spring of 1904" The re-
mark simply shows the falliblity of the
memory of busy man. The agitation
for the effective public control of railroad
rates began forty years ago, more or less,
and was conducted far more bitterly than
now for many years, until the great under
lying doctrine was settled, about a quarter
Of a century ago. by the supreme court
of the United States in what are known
as the granger cases" Following that,
and state REGULATE of interstate com
merce having been found ineffective, there
was another bitter contest, which resulted
in the creation of the United States Inter-
state Commerce commission. Within a
few years after that, and following GER
tain decisions of the supreme court, there
began the present phase of the agitation,
which is apparently about to eliminate
in law actually comforting upon the
commission the power which the people
demand that it shall have, and which
was supposed to have been conferred by
the original law creating the commission.
1t is astonishing that Mr.. Ripley should
have forgotten all this that happened pre-
vious to 1904.
Doubtless Mr.. Ripley was right in say
ing that no railroad company willingly
gives secret or other rebates from it's pub
lished charges. but that traffic managers
only stand and deliver when big shippers
threaten diversion of traffic If rebates are
not given That is no excuse for violation
of law There was never a day when
the railroads did not have it in their power
to put an end to the depredatons of these
commercial highwaymen, Had Mr.. Van
derblt and the other railroad presidents,
who, years ago, signed the Infamous con-
tract which Rockefeller extorted from
Them instead of signing, published the
contract which Rockefeller demanded that
they should sign they would have amply
protected themselves and their companies,
and the whole history of railroad legisla-
ton in the United States would have been
changed. Publicity is the remedy for a
multitude of evils, and the public can
never be got to believe that the railroads
have not adopted this policy in respect
to matters in which they were the vic
tins, for the reason that they did not
dare let in the light on transactions in
which they were themselves the bandits
and other people the victims. 1t is useless
to ignore the fact that railroad officials
have abused their powers, and to that
is due the inlexible determination OF the
people to reduce, come what may, these
powerful corporations to complete submits
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

1t would he i'm accord with the eternal
fitness of things for Walter Noise. Tom
Dennison and other prominent hackers
of William j. Broatch to invoke the
power of the court to swing the gates
wide open at the next primary so that
everybody who is willing to swear that
he has affiliated with the republican
party will have right to vote indis-
criminately, regardless of whether he is
registered or not. With the gates wide
open, we are told, thousands of men can
be recruited for the Midway Plaisance
candidate in Omaha, South Omaha, East
Omaha, Council Bluffs Fort Crook and
other suburbs within reach. 1t is easy
for that class of men to hold up the
right hand, while the left hand is hold
ing fast to the swag.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

of a man of force. coupling with this the
separation of all matters connected with
this work from the control of the ordi-
nary government departments at Wash
ington, but under such supervision only
as to insure the government that his adj
ministration is efficient, or the same re-
suit should he accomplished through let
ting of the work to contra citing firm
large enough to control under one man
agement the entire constructive work on
the isthmus. under broad and general
specifications and under such general
supervision as may appear to congress
to be proper" Such is the disinterested
judgment of one of the ablest engineers
in the country, who has made a careful
study of the subject. and everybody who
Is acquainted with government methods
must acknowledge it's force. 1t would
seem, of course, that the government,
with ITS fine corps of engineers, could
dig the canal at a reasonable cost, yet
it is n fact that as n rule men in charge
Of government departments and govern
nient work do not show the efficiency
which the ordinary business firm has,
for the obvious reason that there is not
the incentive in the one case as in the
other.
1t is altogether probable that If this
vast work is carried on by the govern
ment it will cost many millions more
than If done by contract under proper
governmental supervision, and that the
time of its completion will be delayed.
III regard to this Mr.. Wallace says that
it will require more time and money to
construct high-level canal on the
eighty -fve-foot plan. under the present
method of governmental control than
it will to construct sea-level canal.
provided the work is accomplished by
modern efficient business methods. The
proposition that the canal should be
built by contract is likely to grow in
fav6f the more carefully it is consid-
cred,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
OPEN DOOR ro FRAUD.

An opinion has been procured from
ney's office interpreting the recent de-
cision of the supreme court upholding
the validity of the Dodge primary law as
opening the door to anyone and every
to cast a vote for primary nominations
upon mere affirmation of utilization with
the party whose ballot he demands.
The thinly yelled object of this deep
who have blocked all competition for
nominations within their own ranks, to
inject themselves into the republican
primaries and select the republican nom
inees. whom they will then try to beat
at the election.
Hand in glove with the democrats in
this scheme is the combination of Third
ward deniZens and corporation hirelings
peaters and colonizers through whom
they hope TO buy or steal the mayoralty
nomination for w. J. Broatch.
The basic idea of primary legislation
from beginning TO end is that participa-
ton in primary elections shall be con-
fined by law to the duly enrolled mem
bers of each respective political party,
and the question prOpounded by the reg
istrars as to which political party the
voter desires to affiliate with is for the
sole purpose of preparing the roll of
duly qualified republicans or democrats
or socialists entitled to participate in
their party primaries.
The vindication of the primary law
| by the supreme court would be useless
/ if it at the same time destroyed it's eff
| fectiveness for combining participation in
party nominations to bona fide voters OF
the party. No twisting or distorting of
| a court decision can alter the logic of
! common sense which DEGREES that no pri-
mary conducted with the door wide open
to fraud would have any binding effect
] A nomination fraudulently procured
would forfeit TO the nominee al, the cleo
ton the vote OF every honest and law
respecting citizen, be he republican OF
democrat
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

The resolution pending before the
county board to make the superintend
ent of the court house responsible for
the force of janitors under him is a
move In the right direction. 1t is per
haps to be expected that janitor service
in public building will cost taxpayers
more than it would private owner, but
there is no reason why public building
should not have efficient janitor service
The superintendent of the court house
has usually found excuse for dereliCtion
in the alleged unfitness of subordinates
holding their places by personal pull
with members of the county board and
imagining themselves exempt from all
discipline. Giving the superintendent
an appointing and removing power
would, at least, take away this excuse
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
Relief should BE Prompt.
Portland Oregonian.

Unless the world comes promptly and
fullhanded TO the relief of the famine
stricken of northern Japan, tens OF thou
sands of the people must perish. CiviliZa-
ton knows, in a stress of this kind, neither
race nor creed. The trouble will not be in
withholding supplies from these destitute
people. but in getting relief to them before
II is too late. With its population deci-
mated by war and famine. the island EN-
pire still pluckily holds up its head and
looks confidently to the future, when, with
expanded area. It will be able to provide
for it's own against stress Of drouth and
menace OF Invasion. In the meantime.
however. its starving subjects by tens OF
thousands ask for temporary relief in order
that they may not miserably perish
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

1t required LOO pages of typewriting
on the part of the railroad lawyers to
tell the supreme court of the United
States why their corporate employers
should be relieved from paying the full
amount of the taxes levied on their rail
road property in Nebraska by the state
board of assessment, but as the railroad
lawyers are paid by the year it does
not cost anything for gas leakage.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
Hush, Honey, Hush!

NtW 1UTh
The transcontinental railroads have been
making new speed records, with an eye
to the approaching time for the renewal of
the four-year mail-carrying contracts Do
wise managers make weight as well as time
under the hope of fresh government patron
age? Are the roads making plans also to
pad the mail bags with heavy franked mat
ter. in view of the weighing-in process
which shall determine the rates of compen-
sation?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

Governor Mickey wants it distinctly
understood that he is not responsible
for Broatchism in Omaha. Inasmuch
as Governor Mickey re-appointed
tinues to shut his eyes and ears to the
fragrant and lawless use of the police
club to force every man who is under
police surveillance into line for Broatch
we would like to know who is RESPONSE
BILE.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
The Army of Brigadiers.
Springfield Republican.

INVpUUTINHII'
In another particular the United States
leads the world. There are PAS brgadier
generals on the retired list of our regular
army. Sixsy-two of them were created
between January l. 1902. and January l..
1905. In each case the new brigadier served
one day in the active service and then was
retired. Including all, major generals and
Lieutenant generals America is defended
today by 26O living generals on the retired
list. 1t is a shame that anyone should be
retired as a major or even a colonel.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
CHOKING At A GNAT.

The passing of populism was due
chiefly to the fact that its leaders
banked on calamity as their particular
stock in trade and were not so much in
tent upon securing relief from real or
imagined abuses as they were for Great
ing political upheaval by popular dis
content. The same tactics are being
pursued by the leaders of the Omaha
Civic federation. They seem to want
calamity and popular discomfort rather
than relief from the evils they complain
of.
Everybody familiar with conditions in
a tolerated evil that cannot be COM
pletely suppressed, but should be re-
pressed and kept under police surveil-
lance. If the leaders of the Civic Fed
GRAFTON We're honestly intent upon mini
MIXING social vice and closing the lid
upon all dram shops patronized exclu-
sively by the vicious and criminal
classes, had they waged war upon the
licensed dives in the Third ward where
the thugs, crooks, footpads and vile
scum of the town mostly eohgregate
they would have the sympathy and CO.
operation of all respectable men and
women.
Instead of prosecuting the keepers of
t..ese resorts and prosecuting also the
keepers and owners of houses in the
residence portion of the city that are
rented at high prices for unlawful pur-
poses, they have raided 10 liquor deal
ers which are in the main orderly and
well kept for alleged violation of the
Sunday law. Like the populist calamity
howlers they are willing to subject the
town to pillage, robbery and even MUIR
der in the low groggeries located in the
burnt district just to show how bad the
liquor traffic can be when conducted in
close contact with social vice. In a
word, the policy pursued is but another
striking illustration of swallowing a
camel while choking at a gnat.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

The report on the Dominican treaty,
with ts amendments, shows that sena-
tors are willing enough to regulate the
affairs of Santo@ Domingo provided
Santo Domingo has nothing to say as to
how IL shall be done.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

The decision of official Russia to per-
NIT the constitutional democrats to
maintain a meeting place may indicate
a desire TO have the reformers in a trap
when they are wanted
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

The lawyers of the state propose to
relieve tho Nebraska delegation at
Washington of the onerous duty of
recommending the judge for the new
federal district for Nebraska yet to be
created. This savors very much of the
action of the Douglas County Bar asso-
citation not so long ago instructing Gov
ernor Mickey whom to appoint to jul
dicial vacancy on the district bench. 1t
is presumable that the state bar organi-
cation, although it may be dominated
by democratic lawyers, as was the
Douglas county association, will be good
enough to recommend only republicans
for the appointment by the republican
president.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
CANAL BY CONTRACT

The views of the former chief en-
gineer of the Panama canal, Mr.. Wal
lace, favorable to the construction of
the canal by contract, certainly merit
serious consideration. He urges that
when the work must be conducted 1000
miles away from a seat of government
a policy imposing the necessity of re-
ferrlng all important questions 10 Wash
hlgton and submitting them there to
men who necessarily cannot be CONVEX
SAINT with the conditions on the isthmus
unless they are informed by the parties
Oh the ground, cannot give satisfactory
results, no matter how honest or eff
Gent the supervising officers may be.
He found from his experience at Pan
anna that attempts TO carry on construc-
tive work. under the direction of Wash
ington bureaus, especially when the
work Is large and complicated, are con
ducive of extravaganza and waste as to
both time and money. His opinion is
that governmental functions on the 18TH
mus should be confined exclusively to a
general supervision of the work and en-
forcement OF such simple ordinances
and sanitary regulations as may be nee
essary to secure the peace and the
health of the community affected by
the constructive work.
Either the work should be put into
the hands of one strong man, with prac-
tically unlimited authority" says Mr.
Wallace. combining the technical and
scientific training of the engineer with
the administrative and executive ability
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

The railroads are preparing to test the
Kansas maximum freight rate law in
the courts; but the side shows will all
give place 70 the attractions in the main
tent whenever Uncle Sam begins to en-
force the Hepburn bin.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02
Cause and Eject.
BROOKLYN Eagle.

BROOKLYN EaBIt.
One strange thing about foreigners who
enter our universities is that they study
language, science, history and philosophy,
while some Americans go there to study
leaping, rowing and foot ball. Is that why
the foreigners are always pushed so hard
when we have to fight them?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

Ohio's new democratic governor
should write to Mississippi for expert
advice ON the subject of controlling
nobs. With all his faults Governor
Nardaman has come nearer to solving
the problem.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

One thing can be said for the Maroon
igram editorials in the local demo-pop
organ-they are just as fictitious as the
Marconigram fakes constantly appear
ing In Its news columns.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

We have now discovered good
reason why 1t costs more than twice as
much msiiey to feed prisoners in the
county Jail than 1t does to feed them in
the city Jail. Those gas leaks in the
county Jail sharpen the appetite-for
graft.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

While Senator Tillman is Officially"
in charge of the Hepburn bill in the
senate, Senator Dolliver must be recog-
nlzed as the real leader when it comes
10 the fight
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

guilty i'm the Pat Grove case. The diff
Guilty is that none of these post-mortem
verdicts have any standing at law as
compared with that of the jury empan-
eled for the trial
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

Secretary Shaw objects to having sill
Yer s2-pieces issued on behalf OF the
jamestown exposition on the theory
that they will circulate; but the same
objections lie against the coinage OF sill
Yer dollars forced into circulation at
twiee their intrinsic value
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-02

If the railroads centering here will
only pull together long enough to build
up the Omaha grain market to its fullest
possibilities, there will soon be enough
out grain traffic for all of them to han