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The Ward County independent., 1906-09-06

Upon this feeling Of insecurity in
the minds Of the inexperienced many
unscrupulous schools prey. and in or
der to get students into their school
they guarantee to ge a position for
those attending their school.
The facts are that If a graduate is
competent in his line he will always
have position. and il he is not COM
petent what good will guarantee
do, because a graduate who is not
competent would not hold a position
week, even though school should
get a position for him. Let US be
frank and say that there is not one
student in thousand graduating
from any good business college who
cannot get a position. The experience
of The Minot Business College has
been that none Of the students really
finished their courses, because most
of them accepted lucrative positions
before they were through school. and
the calls for stenographers by bust-
ness men has been greater than the
school could supply, and the school
has even got positions for graduates
Of other schools.
Therefore, prospective students
should not consider seriously the pos
sibility Of not getting a position when
, they are through school. If there is
to be any failure 1t will be because
the student is careless, slovenly, and
not attentive to study, and neglects
the opportunities which good schoo!
affords. The same idea was ex-
pressed by Shakespeare over two
hundred years ago, when he said:
/ The fault, dear Brutus. is not in
our stars, but in ourselves, that we
are underlings.'
We believe there is no possibility
of failure for an industrious and hon.
est student who applies himself to his
studies and finishes his course in any
good business college. From its
past experiences the Minot Business
SO1AC6S CouAA SoASAy . 6uoA sAASSS PSSA
tions to all Of its students who are
capable, whether they graduate or
not; but 1t considers such methods Of
advertising for the purpose Of getting
students, as dishonest and mislead-
ing. A school that guarantees posi-
tions, is guaranteeing that some busi-
nessman, unknown to either the
school or the student, will hire the
student when he is through school.
but such schools do not guarantee
that the business man will retain the
student in his employ. In fact such
schools recommend their students to
positions which the proprietors Of the
school know the student cannot hold,
but it fulfills the guarantee and after
the student is discharged the guaran-
tee no longer holds the school to find
another position for the student. No
one needs a brick house to fall on
him before he sees the absurdity
Of a school guaranteeing positions It
is part of the policy and business
Of any good school to keep its grad
yates in good positions; and pros-
pective student will never make a
The Ward County independent., 1906-09-06

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Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
Personal NOTES.

Judge ]. n Fleming Of Oklahoma served
in the Confederate army voted the first
time in his life for Grant and the last time
for Harrison.
The Mayor of Compiegne. France, says
John D. Rockefeller Is a ''nevrose imam
ciere" He was careful, however. not to
say 1t until John D. had left town.
Henry Phlpps Of Pittsburg pays 10000 a
year for the use OF a deer park in Scot
land. other Pittsburg millionaires have
shown that he might put his money 10 a
worse use
Ellen Terry has written the following let
ter to the students at the Leeds dramatic
college: "I have been asked to say a word
to you II l say one word 1t will be
Work II it we're two words l should
say BE patient and II 1t were three words,
Don't be vain"
Trinity college. Cambridge. possesses a
famous portrait OF Bacon, which was shown
to the German editors on their visit to the
university Or. Butler told them that when
the great historian Mommsen saw the pic
ture some years ago he stood with folded
arms In front OF it and observed: 80!
1t is you who gave US Lady Macbeth and
Falstaff."
Though Emma Gushing of Montreal Is
| heartbroken over the fact that j, NJ. Chris
tie, bank manager Of Penticton. B. c.,
| has failed to redeem his promise OF mar.
| riage. she has brought suit for S23, 900 dam
ages; and this is the concluding item In
the list OF damages: Estimated cost OF
living for twenty-five years at $500 per year
which would have been borne by the de.
PENDANT as her husband had he married
her, $4,000"
Major General John r. Brooke, retired
celebrated his sixty-elghth birthday anc
| the fourth year OF his retirement from the
United States army in his apartments a.
| the Auditorium Annex Chicago, Saturday
| The general, who is in excellent health. ar
| rived in Chicago from San Francisco with
his wife and Miss S. II. Stearns. a relativ,
! OF his family, on a late train in the even
ing I'VE have been touring the orient,
/ he said last night. "sinoe last March. and
while we enjoyed the trip we are pleased
| to get home. and l am especially pleased
20 celebrate my anniversaries here in Chi
cago. The general believes the best gooC
from a volunteer or state militia can onl!
be Obtained by government control
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
a DUBIOUS VICTORY.

The decision of Judge Day, refus-
ing to allow an Omaha gas company
the mandamus It asked for to compel
the city to issue a permit to build an
additional tank at Twentieth and Cen
ter streets, is hailed by the unthink-
ing press as a great victory of the city
against the gas monopoly. A second
sober thought will dampen their en-
thusiasm. They will presently realize
that the decision OF Judge Day will
work both ways.
Under this ruling the gas company
cannot extend its present facilities for
gas-making or change the location of
its gas holders without obtaining the
consent of the owners of every foot of
ground within a radius of 1000 feet
from the gas holder Assume that
the gas holder is to occupy a space 800
feet in diameter. That would require
the company either to own a tract
1880 feet in diameter or to buy the
consent Of the owners of the property
within that radius.
But what is sauce for the goose is
also sauce for the gander. What
would apply to the Omaha Gas COM
pany would also apply to any new gas
company that might want to enter
Omaha in competition. AS a condi-
ton precedent to establishing itself in
Omaha, the new company would have
to purchase a tract 1900 feet in di-
ameter, equal to nine blocks, or
nearly two acres.
1t goes without saying that the gas
monopoly is sharp enough to keep
posted on every movement made by a
rival company. Whenever such a con-
Germ would seek to acquire as large a
tract of land as two acres within the
city limits of Omaha. it would quietly
invest $500 or 81 900 in lot or tract
of land within the area In the name OF
some friendly Injun and refuse con-
sent to the erection of the gas tank
within the thousand feet from Its
property, thus checkmating competi.
ton, which might reduce its earnings
very much more than the interest or
an investment for additional ground
in the neighborhood of Twentieth and
Center streets. or for that matter the
cost of a two-acre tract in some Other
section OF the city.
If this is not equivalent to making
the franchise of the present company
absolutely exclusive, it comes mighty
close to doing so.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
A Topeka man was complaining of rheu-
LURE OF SUMMER.
St. Louis ReDublie.

St Louis ReDublio.
A breeze came lazily along
And to the toiler sang its song:
The little brook still leaps and filings
It's foam upon the swallows wings;
The Willows shade, still deep and COOL
Spreads as of old across the pool
"And down the hill the meadow blooms
Still loose their wonderful perfumes,
And every nodding clover head
Is lush with honey, and as red
As II was when you used TO tease
The honey-stealing humble bees.
THE willows shade still deep and cool,
The old we'll chain is brown with rust;
The orchard knows the drowsy tune
OF insects in the afternoon:
They have not changed-held, bird and tree
Are all back where you used to be.
THE old place still remains unchanged;
From none Of it's old ways enstranged;
The lazy fence still loafs behind
The vines with which 1t Is entwined;
And Oh the little path still goes
Down through the thicket Of wild rosa
And all OF them send word to you
The shade the brook, the orchard, too
That you who felt that you must roam
Turn from IL all, and journey home"
II may have been such words as these
Were whispered by the vagrant breeze
or did the toier all day long.
S'rr N himself this urng song?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
THE pRAGo DOCTRINE.

1t is obvious that the most conspic-
uous interest in the minds of the
great majority of the representatives
in the third conference of the Ameri-
can republics is the one which is en-
bodied in the so-called Drago doc
trine. That doctrine is simply that,
as among civilized nations maintain
ing stable governments, no one has a
right, forcibly, to collect debts owing
to it's citizens by another nation. but
all such claims must be relegated to
the courts of the latter and in general
be dependent ultimately upon its jus
tice and good faith.
Within a few years the threat OF
forcible interference by the great
European powers has become more
serious, eliminating in 1902 in the
aggressive action of the allied fleets
OF Great Britain, France and Germany
against Venezuela on behalf of cred
itors, and the excitement caused
thereby throughout the South Ameri-
can republics has continued until the
subject is a paramount. common is
sue. II has reached point at which
they seem to have lost much of their
old,time interest in the Monroe doc
trine, which. with the United States
back of 1t, was long looked upon as
! their chief guarantee against aggres-
| sion, However, as that doctrine, in
its original terms at least. prevented
only such aggression as is involved in
| European occupation OF American ter
ritory and the imposition of European
sovereignty and systems OF govern
ment therein, and not employment of
force as by blockade Of ports to com
pei payment of debts. the Drago
| doctrine sets up a new rule, denying
the right of force at all. 1t is. in fact,
simply the rule which all the great
civilized powers have always eaforced
as to foreign interference in eollec-
ton OF debts owed by themselves or
by their citizens.
Obviously, acceptance OF such a
rule by the world depends upon the
cooperation OF the United States. be-
cause all the other American repub-
lies together have not the necessary
military and naval power to enforce
it. The very fact that our govern,
ment so far has not been disposed Il
accept the DrAgo doctrine without
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
HOT TIMES FOR ICEMEN.
Combines and High Prices Arouse
Popular Indignation.

chicago tribune.
This is not the only summer that high
prices for ice have been exacted in Amer
lean cities A short crop has frequently
given the dealers an excuse for overtaxing
consumers Companies have often COM
bined to fix and maintain exorbitant prices.
Consumers have fretted and scolded and
said that something ought to be DONE
Nothing was done. When cold weather
came and the need of ice lessened, the
wrongs endured during the summer were
forgotten.
This year 1t is different Something is
being done. smaller quantity than usual
of ice was cut last winter. The ice men
lay the blame on the weather. They ought
to take a little on themselves. They know
that every few years a warm winter may
be expected. Therefore they ought TO be
in readiness for such a winter They should
open up new sources of supply nearer the
North Pole, where an abundant stock OF
ice can always be had. They have not done
that and, the crop being short, consumers
have been ordered TO pay an advanced
price.
II the raise had been a small one they
would have said little. but 1t was excessive.
That has stung to action consumers in
many cities. They have appealed to the
law for relief. In Toledo Ice men have
been sentenced to the workhouse. In Wash
ington they have been indicted. In Kasas
City and st. Louis they are being investi-
gated. In Jacksonville, Fla. there were an
Indictment trial and acouittal, although
the evidence showed that the company
shipped ice TO other cities and sold It at a
price far below that exacted OF local con-
sumers.
These legal proceedings in widely sepa-
rated cities indicate a change in popular
sentiment. They show that men are not so
ready to submit to unfair dealing as they
used to be- They have keener realization
| Of their economic rights and are more
| ready to fight for them. They are learning
! to invoke the aid Of the law when they are
wronged, instead Of combining themselves
to that empty grumbling which never re-
| forms the wrong-doer.
The proceedings against the ice men are
a part Of the general movement to vindi-
cate the right Of the community 10 fair
trade In railroad transportation, in kero-
sene and in a hundred other commodities
Perhaps the next winter will be an ex-
tremely cold one and ice cheap next sum-
mer Then no complaints OF the ice men
will be heard Whenever there is another
shortage In the ice crop the dealers win not
be so ready to ask an exorbitant price as
they have been in the past. They have
been notified this summer that they must
deal fairly with the public or II will dea
tudiclally with them.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25

Charges preferred by democratic
papers against republican candidates
should always be taken with grain of
allowance. For that reason we are dis
posed to discredit the report emanat-
ing from the World-Herald that Con-
gresham Pollard has drawn 500 per
week out of the United States treas
ury and for several months prior to
his election to the Burkett vacancy.
Such a charge is, however, too serious
to be ignored, and we hope Congress
man Pollard will lose no time in pro-
ducing a fiat contradiction.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
EXCESSIVE RAILWAY CASUALTIES.

Notwithstanding the fact that
American railway managers have been
disposed to take some consolation to
themselves out of the recent disastrous
wreck on one of the principal British
railroads, the casualties on the rail in
this country still exceed all warrant.
The accident bulletin of the Interstate
Commerce commissions statistician
for the first three months of this
year gives the appalling figures OF
railway casualties for that period at
1926, of which 1.126 resulted ia
tally. The increase compared with
the preceding quarter was, 1t is true
not large, being only seventeen deaths
| and ffty-two injured--in reality a
| comparative reduction taken in consid.
Grafton with the increased passenger
traffic-but it is still far too great and
must be materially lessened whatever
the cost.
Just how many of these accidents
can be set down as preventable is diff
fcult to say, but several factors enter
into them and indicate the remedy
The adoption of automatic coupling
devices, the installation of the block
signal system, the more rigid inspec.
ton Of cars and locomotives and the
prompt discarding of those worn out
or out of repair would do great deal
The shortening Of the period of con.
tinuous service on the part of train.
men, switchmen and operatives offers
another avenue of improvement
Along the same line would be the sub
stitution of experienced telegraph op
orators for the youthful apprentices
who are too often kept at way stations
1t might be costly to make trave
safer, but the railroads would gel
good returns on the investment. no
only in avoiding suits and settlement
for damages, but also in stimulating
travel for those who now stay at home
for fear of accidents.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
TINE "coysERv1TrvEs'' REBuFFED.

THE CONSERVATIVES REBUFFED.
Ex-President Cleveland, whose
name is still one to conjure with
among conservative" democrats, has
been notably backward about coming
forward to respond TO the suggestion
of Colonel Bryan as the man OF the
hour two years, hence from a con-
sentative democratic point Of view.
Whatever he may have stood ready to
do in that behalf when ex-Secretsry
Villas and Ex-Governor Francis vol
unteered to act as scene-shifters. the
significant fact appears that, almost
Immediately after Mr.. Bryan's Lon
don pronounciamento declaring him
self TO be now more radical than in
1896" the ex-president replied to in
quiry as to his views that he was
going a-fshing."
There are clear indications that
many other democratic "conserva-
tives" have likewise suddenly be-
thought themselves of the ex-presi-
dents occupation. At any rate, those
leaders who have been most closely
identified with him and who naturally
might have been expected to follow
the line so dramatically blazed by
Villas and Francis toward the Bryan
leadership in the guise of an imputed
conservatism, have stopped short II
they we're preparing to move that way.
AT the same time some Of the strongest
conservative democratic newspapers
that had been busy paving the way
for Mr.. Bryan in the new character
either have become conspicuously
silent on that score or show indigna-
ton at his radicalism. which he de-
clares is more extreme than when they
fought him so bitterly because of 1t.
For the present at least Mr.. Bryan
seems nervously particular to be I'M
derstood as not having walked into
the parlor so invitingly arranged for
him by the conservatives.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25

some qualification, such as the require
ment that claims OF indebtedness be
submitted to arbitration instead OF the
courts Of the debtor republic as a
fnality, has caused no little alienation
Of sentiment in the smaller republics
from us. This cause is at the bottom
OF questions which are so grave that
the president has taken the un-
precedented step OF sending tho secre-
tsry of state himself to attend the
PanAmerican congress, and its discus
sions and action will in all probability
turn upon It.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
NEBRASKA SENATORIAL cAMrMeN
One Republican Not Railroad Com
troIIed

! trolled.
Grand Island Free Press dnd)
The Free Press would like to know upon
what justihable grounds the Independent
and other members Of the reform clique"
better known as the Frank Harrison press
bureau, are supporting Norris Brown for
United States senator in preference TO Mr..
Edward Rosewater Of The Omaha Bee.
For thlrty-hve years Mr.. Rosewater has
been advocating the reforms now being
carried out by President Roosevelt, while
| Mr.. Brown was never known to advocate
any reform until recently, and Is now in
the band wagon because popular clamor
bids him. Despite the opposition to Mr.
! Rosewater The Free Press entertains no
hesitancy in saying that he is one republic
can whom the corporations cannot control
For years The Bee has advocated postal
savings banks, and for that very reason
the banks are opposing his nomination
To the contrary, whence came Norris
Brown, and who sprung his senatorial
boom? A bit of history on this point will
not be out Of place. 1t is a notorious fact
that his candidacy was evolved by none
other than the illustrious r. B. Schneider
Of the Lumber trust, Ross Hammond of the
Fremont Tribune, Frank Harrison of the
Lincoln State Journal. w. H. Harrison Of
this city and George Allen of Clay county.
Figs do not grow on thistles neither can
man with clean hands and a pure heart
come forth as the offspring OF such polit-
cal parentaRe. The Lincoln State Journal,
the godfather Of the press reform bu-
reau." has defrauded the state out Of some
thing like $4,000 in supreme court reports,
and while It Is now supporting Norris
Brown for United States senator II should
be borne in mind that Mr.. Brown Is its
attorney in the case and all this comes
under the banner of reform" Shades of
inconsistency. The Free Press is an in
dependent paper and speaks without fear,
favor or hope of reward. but in all things
let there be consistency.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25

Another question that will be pro-
jected by the peculiar law governing
the expenditure of the fund derived
from inheritance taxes will turn on
the material to be used for county
road pavements. The law says that
the material shall be the most dura-
BILE" and to be selected by the county
board, and every contractor with a
different brand of paving block may
be expected to insist that his is the
most durable. 1t would not be sur
prising even to see the conflicting
claims aired in court before the re-
jected bidder is brought to acquiesce.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25

Some of the judges of the late pri-
mary election are representing that
they we're not adequately compensated
in the order allowing them Sc for
their work, alleging that they put in
as high as thirty-six hours in con-
Quoting the election. counting the bal
lots and tabulating the returns. If
there is no way of getting the allow
ance increased, the only thing left will
be to take it out on the Fontanelle
bosses who we're responsible for in
flicting the rotation" ballot on the
voters and at the same time doubling
and trebling the work devolving upon
the election officers.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
Home Life Was Ideal.
Minneapolis Journal.


There is kernel of good in the life OF
Russell Sage. He was consistent in his
course. He did not preach only; he prac-
ticed. His home life was ideal. His love
for his wife was beautiful How many
harems he could have hired with his vast
storehouses of gold and and yet he had
none. What a fash he could have made
at the racetrack and yet he was stranger
to the paddock. What spectacular role
he might have played in the coarse politics
of his state and yet he retired from public
life after having served two terms In
congress and never again mentioned the
subject
No wonder mis- contemporaries thought
him queer He was queer. He was not a
representative American. but his life served
to emphasize the truth that the worship
Of money for the sake of boarding It is not
worse than the worship Of money for the
sake OF spending II in riotous and corrupt
ing lives.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
Not "A Mere Chnir-warmer.

'sHICHBO OHTONICIH Wtp'J'
A good many people in Nebraska, mostly
politicians, do not like Edward Rosewater,
but we have yet to hear of anybody who
believes that the editor of The Omaha Bee
will be a mere chair warmer in the United
States senate II he achieves a seat in that
distinguished body. Indeed, the opposition
to him is mostly based upon his inability
to sit still when a fracas is in progress
in the vicinity, and as Nebraska has need
of that kind Of a senator, the prospect is
that the directors to Mr.. Rosewater' s
strenuosity Will really succeed in electing
him.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25

argonauts. Sage was in Wall street Iona
before Gould wrecked Erie, and he was a
veteran operator at the time Fisk and
Gould organized the Black Friday gold
bubble which Grant burst At the darkest
hour Of the rebellion, when Il took s2S5 Of
greenbacks TO buy 81 in gold. Sage was
already one Of the magnates Of the street"
His career as a hnancier was marked out
long before the death Of the founder OF the
house OF Aston. Daniel Drew and Wander.
bilt l., in the days Of their power, found
Sage to be a force with which they had TO
reckon. To the world Of our day Russell
Sage had such an air OF permanence that
the news OF his death creates almost rs
much surprise as would the report Of the
fall of a nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-25
How to Save the Legislature.

schuyler FFee Lance Nluu.J'
Edward Rosewater will not be the re-
publican nominee for United States senator,
1t will be Attorney General Brown. Rose
water will be defeated on the grounds that
his nomination means the election of a
democratic Legislature. There is little TO
this when summed up, but 1t will count.
While IT is true that some republicans
will not vote for a republican candidate
for the Legislature who is pledged to vote
for Rosewater, yet more than enough
democratic and Independent voters will to
make up that loss. Rosewater is the only
man who can secure votes outside his
party for legislative candidates, and he
can good and plenty.