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Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
LAFOLLETrE AND THE SENATE.
wisconsin RefOrmer RattIes the Dry
Bones Of Tradition.


Senator LaFollettes speech on the rail-
way-rate bill, protracted argument which
occupied the attention of the senate for
three days, may exercise but slight in
iuence on pending legislation, but 1t prom
Uses TO have a valuable tonic effect new
ertheless. In addition to stirring public
sentiment anew It has upset some pet ira
ditions OF the senate in a way that has
shaken the equanmity of that body con-
siderably.
On the first day of the speech Mr.. La
Toilette noticed that some OF his col
leagues had left the chamber. He defied
ali precedents by commenting on the fact.
He had the audacity TO say that II his
fellow statesmen would not listen to him
the public would do so and that the tenn
pOrary absentees presently might find
themselves obliged 10 be absent perma-
nently, At the close OF his address he
went further, practically assuring the SEN
ate that If it did not like the attacks OF
Teformers and exposers II should keep it's
record free from reproach.
The fact that after this unparalleled ex-
hibition OF contumeliousness the Wiscon-
sin senator remains alive and In fighting
trim IL suggestive II not inspiring. Not
withstanding the blows TO sena torial cour-
tesy the senate walls did not fall, nor did
the ceiling drop. The object lesson thus
afforded may prove highly useful later on,
in case other senators who care less for
tradition than for the peoples welfare
take advantage Of the precedent estab-
lished BY Mr.. LaFolletu
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
4 Word TO DEMOCRATS.

The great majority Of Omaha demo
Gratis take as much pride in Omaha as
the great majority OF Omaha repub-
licans. They have their business and
social interests bound up in the future
Of the city the same as those who differ
with them politically, and they are more
concerned for the continued growth and
prosperity OF Omaha than they are in
any temporary political advantage to
theiE party.
Let these democrats ask themselves
whether Jim" is the kind Of demo
crat they want to honor. Let them ask
themselves whether he is the kind of a
man who as mayor would give prestige
to the city. Let them ask themselves
what claim he has upon Omaha demo
Gratis compared with others more fit for
the position and longer in the political
harness Would "Jim" have even had
the democratic nomination without
crOwding all competitors of the track
before the race was started?
There are a score-yes, a hundred
democrats in Omaha who might have
become the democratic candidate with
out doing violence to the consciences OF
selfrespecting democrats, democrats
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

But for the overwhelming catastrophe
at San Francisco, which filled mems
minds everywhere. the statement made
by Secretary Taft before the senate
committee concerning the Panama canal
would have attracted universal atten-
ton. The secretary, with consummate
skill and power. marshaled the facts
demonstrating that affairs on the
isthmus have reached crisis in which
it is necessary either that congress act
or permit the president to act In short,
the work has gone about as far as IT can
go till the type Of canal whether lock
or sea level, shall be decided.
Aside from the preliminaries which
were indispensable to the execution of
the whole enterprise. sanitation, water
supply, assembling laborers, machinery
and materials, etc. which constitute an
enormous undertaking. the actual work
Of excavation has been in progress,
100000 cubic yards of earth having been
removed during the month of March. 1t
is officially reported that with the 23,00O
laborers now on the payroll and with
forty new steam shovels that can be in
stalled by July 1 the chief engineer
will then be 'In position to move ap-
month" But If the canal is to be =
lock canal this laboring force and these
machines must be disposed in one way
and IL a sea level canal then in an en-
tirely different way.
Yet a bakers dozen or so Of dignified
senators have been for months lolling
in comfortable chairs about table in
Washington committee room going
slowly through the motions Of consider
ing what kind of a canal shall be dug,
but doing nothing. deciding nothing and
being today apparently as far from a
conclusion as when their pretentious but
futile performance began. The canal
work cannot wait upon their comfort
and dllatoriness The secretary drove
the fact home to the limit of plain
speaking that unless the thing is decided
very soon the $4,000 laborers will have
to be laid off and excavation cease, and
the further equally pertinent fact that
the president stands ready any minute
to decide the canal type If congress
will not decide and will only leave the
matter to him under the original SpOoner
act OF June 2S, 1902.
A lock canal on a ninety-fOot level
will require 1OOOOOOOO cubic yards of
excavation and as there are several
months of the year when work cannot
be done it will require nearly ten years
to complete the work at 100000 yards
month. 1t would be a disaster, as
the secretary shows, beyond a perad
venture II the army of laborers should
have to be laid off because Of the indeci
sion of congress and the work disorgan
lied by stoppage even for a short time
Secretary Taft startlingly, although
courteously, confronts the senate com
mittee and congress with the response
bility, and the country will not fail tC
take notice.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
FAIR AND SQUARE.

In the present municipal campaign
The Bee has given its support fair and
square to Benson for mayor. 1t has
done so because it believes he has
superior abilities for the position over
his democratic opponent.
The Bee wants to see the election also
conducted fair and square, so that the
wishes Of the people Of Omaha may
be truly recorded A fair and square
election means an election in which no
one not legally qualified is permitted
to vote and i'm which every properly
qualified voter is allowed to vote with
out hindrance or intimidation.
The Bee abhors election frauds of all
kinds, whether in the form of false
registration, repeating or intimidation
of lawful voters.
Let us have fair and square election
and no comeback afterwards.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.

what books have benefited you most?H
the young reporter inquired Of the fabu-
lousy rich man.
Law books" the Croesus promptly. re-
piled. my father intended me for law
yer, but i failed to pass my examination
and now I'm worth ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Leader
"Please send stamped and directed en-
Velope with your manuscript, said the
magazine editors circular.
NO thanks" replied the occasional con-
tributor. 1--WE heard of people so conceited
that they wrote letters to themselves, but
Ledger
she-And you really think Agnes married
him for his money!"
He-There can't be any doubt about It..
She preferred him to me.-Cleveland Plain
dealer.
1.-THE girls are working hard getting ready
for the church fair"
BLESS emf
Yes; this week they are taking lessons
of a short change artist and practicing six
hours a day."-Puck.
!. when I was your age" said the young
mans father. II took care of every dollar. y
We'll" was the answer, 81 don't think
it's quite Just to be jealous because I know
more things that can be done with a dollar
than you did. Washington Star.
Did you notice that a college professor
says that in twenty years from now women
will be ruling the worldY'
Not until twenty years? Isn't he fool
ish?"
probably the trouble with him is that he
isn't married. Cleveland Plaindealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
Rubbing the GILT on War.
nnnAnr, rIN..n ,nnr.I..A

War is fast losing its glitter. Khaki
displaces blue or scarlet. Flags are UNI
known in battles. The French army has
just banished the drum and now there is
talk of abolishing the saber. Meanwhile.
war songs grow rarer and rarer. Most
modern wars are too short to generate
songs. All this srieves and scandalizes the
painters, the poets and the playwrishts,
but causes the peace people to rejoice with
huge joy. Claiming, were he still alive,
would share their exultation. for he used
to declare that the love OF warfare sprang
partly, even largely, from the impression
made upon small boys by gorgeous uni
forms. gay banners, flashing sabers, the
throb of the drum and the contagious fer
vor of war songs. Romance cast its
glamour over that dirtiest of jobs, the job
Of killing 1t hadn't the right to. As
Charles Dudley Warner put 1t, We who
despised killing in plain clothes honored
killing in fancy dress.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

The city council is a most important
part of the municipal machinery. II has
the initiative in all matters relating to
the regulation of franchised corpora
lions, the Inauguration OF public i'm
provements, the making Of the tax rate
and the appropriation OF the municipal
revenues. What is most needed in the
city council is business ability and I'M
improbable integrity. The republican
council ticket is head and shoulders
above the democratic council ticket in
these essential qualifications and no tax
paying citizen who wants the business
Of the city conducted on a business basis
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
Folly of LOaanE.

Anthracite miners are not yet on strike.
Pending an agreement 10 agree they have
suspended operations, which is TO say. they
have been idle for three weeks. An esti-
mate OF the loss up TO date hxes the bill
OF costs at t2l 10000 about one-fourth OF
which figures in the calculation az lost
wages. The miners might just as well
have been at work I'm the interval There
is not a particle OF reason why the time
spent in exchanging courtesies by mail
and by wire should not have also been
spent in digging out coal In other words
for suspension there was not a shadow Of
justification. II was madness without
method.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
The west ana the East.
Youths Companion.

Readers OF the Companion in the west
are doubtless aware that a majority OF
the engineers engaged on the Panama
canal have been taken from the middle
west. The president Of an eastern tech,
meal school recently called the attention
of his students to this choice of westerners
and told them that it was because the
westerners are not so much concerned a.
the fasteners about their health and other
matters of personal convenience. The
young man who declines to undertake worl
that offers because, perchance, it may bc
a little unpleasant will always be out
stripped by the man who overlooks un
pleasantness in his eagerness to accom-
plsh results
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
A NEW DEPARTURE.


The democratic managers seem to
have instituted a new departure in the
present municipal campaign by import
ing speakers from abroad to come here
and tell the people Of Omaha how they
should govern themselves. The choice
Of mayor and other elective city Of
ficials is purely local matter-some-
thing for the people of Omaha to de-
termine with a view to their own best
interests-and If they had to go to out
siders for instruction it would be the
same as an open confession that they
were themselves unable to run their own
government
II Omaha should send emissaries, say
TO Lincoln, to tell the people there whom
to choose for mayor the intrusion would
be quickly resented. The very fact that
people who year in and year out are
constantly antagOnizing Omaha have
now been called in to advise us to rally
around Jim" should make our voters,
irrespective Of politics, all the more
"leary" Of such advice. II the people
of Omaha are not able to choose their
own mayor by themselves they should
abdicate their local self-government and
get the governor TO appoint a msyor for
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
THE JOURNEY ONWARD.
Thomas Moore.

Thomas Moore.
AS slow our ship her foamy track
Against the wind was Cleaving,
Her trembling pennant still look'd bacI
To that dear Isle twas leaving.
So 10th we part from all we love,
From all the links that bind us;
So turn our hearts as on we rove,
To those we've left behind us!
When, round the bowl OF vanish'd years
We talk with joyous seeming
With smiles that might as well be tears,
So faint, so sad their beaming;
While memory brings US back again
Each early tie that twined us,
Oh! sweets the cup that circles then
To those we've left behind us!
And when, in other climes. we meet
Some isle or vale enchanting,
And nought but love is wanting;
We think how great had been our bliss
II heaven had but assignd us
To live and die In scenes like this,
With some we've left behind us!
As travellers oft look back at eve
When eastward darkly going,
To gaze upon that light they leave
Still faint behind them glowing
So when the close Of pleasures day
To gloom that near cOnsignd us,
We turn 10 catch one fading ray
OF joy that's left behind MS.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

When Germany enfOrces the law max
ing automobiles pay annuities to per
sons dependent upon those killed or in
jured by them American tourists will
first attend a school OF instruction in
caution whenever they contemplate a
trip abroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

who have lived in Omaha many years
and who have been actively associated
in the work OF building the city up
from small beginnings. To put a recent
recruit like "Jim" to the front ahead OF
all these old and tried party leaders
cannot reflect creditsbly upon the local
democracy
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
WALTHAM WATCHES.

The "Riverside" is as good a time.
piece as you can buy, of either American
or foreign make, no matter what you
pay. See the name "RiverSide" as well
as the word s'Waltham" engraved on
the movement plate.
1.-THE Perfected American Watch illustrated boob of iafeI1s
Information about zOatchsS. free upon request
AMERICAN WALTHIAM WATCH COMPANY,
WALTHAM MASS.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

Omaha's contributions to the San
Francisco relief fund. including both
money and supplies will reach over $780,
600 IL there is another city in the
country of equal population and re-
sources that can match Omsha's prac-
tical philanthropy it has yet to be heard
FROM
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

If Berlin makes a success of its public
laboratory for testing foods its report
on products exported from America will
he watched by people who clamor for
similar protection at home.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

Ohio, the birthplace of the Standard
OIL company, does not seem to be proud
of its offspring, and it will be noticed
that another republican attorney general
believes that antitrust laws mean what
they say.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

The democratic campaign managers
do not seem to be over-anxious to accept
the challenge of the republican cam
paign managers for showing of CAM
paign fund sources. Apparently the
democrats are not disposed to go back of
the returns.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

There are clouds on the street rail
way horizon. The Bee is sure it voices
the sentiment Of every one in Omaha in
expressing the hope that the threatened
break between the street railway COM
pany and its employees may be salts
ssctorily averted.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
Inheritance of Free Men.

What drawing together there has been
of this generation of Frenchmen and
Americans because of the Franklin bicen-
tenary celebration and the bringing hither
of the bones of John Paul Jones. The
lives and labors Of these men are perpet-
ual inheritance for all free men.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

Latest statements OF interested parties
indicate that Zion has been sadly mis-
named, since its leading inhabitants are
fools" criminals" and 'ingrates,"
while the general public is willing to
admit that the vast majority are dupes.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

The Grain exchange and the CONNER
cial club are two institutions which must
work for Omaha in double harness. 1t
will not do for either Of them to clash
with one another or to compete against
one another at any point
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
SQUARE peal IN CHARITY.

INV IOIh sun.
When General Greedy reports that "all
nations are receiving the same considera-
ton" in San Francisco, it means all the
nations of the earth, We hope we shall
not hear Of any discrimination against the
Kanakas or the Kalmucks. The square
deal, please, for all the sons of men.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

From the resolutions OF the premiers
OF Australian states it appears that
residents OF the new federation are ex.
periencing the same trouble found by
the United States under its first articles
81 association. Capitalization seems to
be the order OF the day.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
Same Old Thing Everywhere.
PittsburE Disnatch

At Philadelphia the coal roads had an
association, at Washington they had an
understanding, in New York It is a COM
munity of interest and in the northwest
gentlemen's agreement. But it means the
same thing every time.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

Baltimore American.
Three sailors carrying dynamite into the
blaze saved what is new standing of San
Francisco. And yet every now and then
we hear pesslmistic walls about the scar
city of real heroes. Even the Carnegie
Fund commission appears to have some
difficulty in finding them out
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

Al last the democrats have whipped
I'D p. Smith into line 10 the extent of
forcing him TO speak at Dahlman
meeting. II is TO be noted. however.
that I'd p. Smith carefully refrained
from saying anything In favor OF Dahl
man, and when he comes to cast his
vote he will be guided by his real aftilia.
tons.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

One OF our Omaha preachers comes
back at the other Omaha preachers who
heralded the San Francisco earthquake
as the vengeance OF God by declaring
such assertions TO be srrant nonsense
and ridiculously absurd" We suggest
that the Ministerial union set aside a
special session for debate on these diff
ferenees between it's members.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

This is the time for the numerous i'm
provement clubs to get busy and do
some improving ON their own account in
addition to besieglng the city authorities
to make improvements for them.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

There can be no doubt, in the light of
San Francisco's experience, that United
States troops are eminently qualified to
keep the lid on"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city ten.
pOrariIy should have The Bee
mailed 70 them. Address will be
changed a. often a. requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

Neapolitans who want to have Vesu-
vius in a state of constant eruption
evidently think realization more to be
desired than anticipation-even as death
is less TO be dreaded than the fear Of it.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

When the Soudan and the Congo Free
State have settled the status of naviga-
ton of the Nile they may find time to
suppress the beggars who add to the
novelty and discomfort Of tourists.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

The fact that Germany finds itself
forced to go abroad to borrow money
may account for the friendliness of the
delegates to Algeciras.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

San Francisco shows evidence that it
prefers to keep both the cash and the
supplies by expanding the government
appropriations at home.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

There are several markets I'm Washington
with their special days, but the most inter-
esting and the biggest is the Central mar
ket. looking out on Pennsylvania avenue.
which is open very day in the week.
On the south side Of the big building, and
outside it, are stationed the darlNies as de-
scrfbed The visitor who comes to Wash
ington and goes away without havine
passed up and down the line. bandying a
good word at every step, has missed
something more interesting far than what
the tired youth with the mesaphone me-
chanically shouts into your ear as you are
propelled about the city on one Of the aw-
full Seeing Washington" automobiles
These are the day, too, when the darkies
are busy selling wild flowers, arbutus and
violets, and stand calling their wares at
every corner. They were clothed in pictur-
esque tatters, ranging from an old army
oyercoat OF faded blue to combination OF
old clothes pinned over the hat and under
the neck Of one woman until at distance
il looked like a close imitation Of the latest
style I'm automobile scarfs.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

If Lincoln and Omaha bids are any
criterion. Attorney General Brown will
not have to investigate an alleged
printing trust" at this time
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

The municipal ownership issue seems
to have gotten lost in the shuttle.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

g, G. ROSEWATER,
General Manager
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this 31st day of March, 1906.
(SeaD Nj. b. HUNGATE,
Notary Public
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
sTATEMENr or ARTICULATION.

State Of Nebraska, Douglas County, IS.
G. G. Rosewater, general manager OF The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number OF full ana
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
rnnnfh Of March 100 rae fnllnMH: /
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30

denocrac
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-05
METH0DISTS OF NEW
JERSEY CONFERENCE.
Will Meet in New Brunswick Next
Week Raritan River the Divid-
ing Line.

With all accommodations taken,
apparently. and little mo than a
week remaining before the opening
of the New Jersey Methodist Confer
ence in New Brunswick, the local
committee, composed of the pastors
of the three Methodist churches in
New Brunswick, are having a hard
time to place all the clerical and lay
delegates who will be in attendance.
Every room in the hotels has been
engaged weeks in advance, boarding
houses are pledged to their capacity,
and although every day new offers of
the hospitality of private houses are
received there are still many dele
gates to be taken care of.
The opening session will be held
on Tuesday evening, March IS, and
the conference will remain in ses-
sion a week. Bishop Daniel E. Good
sell. of Boston, who will be the pre-
siding bishop. is expected to arrive
on Tuesday at noon. He will imme-
diately hold a meeting with the pre-
siding elders of the four districts into
which the conference is divided, and
then will attend a public reception in
his honor in the First Methodist
church, where all the sessions of the
conference will be held.
The session on Tuesday evening
will be of a religious nature. The
business of the conference will be-
gin Wednesday morning. All of the
morning sessions will be devoted to
routine business. The afternoon SEES
sions will be given over to meetings
of missionary societies. church or
CARNATIONS and educational interests
allied with the church work. The
evening exercises will be devotional.
1t is definitely established that the
conference shall go to the Central
church, Bridgeton, in 1907. The Rev.
-. E. Snyder, pastor of that church,
has been journal clerk of that confer
ence for many years. The First
church, of Red Bank, will also invite
the conference for next year, but the
South Jersey church will get the pref
erence, in view of the fact that the
conference meets in North Jersey this
year.
Bishop Goodsell presided owe the
New Jersey conference in 1890, at
Melville. He is well liked, although