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Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
SECULAR SHOTS AT rHE PULPIT.

Washington Post: When you consider
that Dowie was permitted to overdraw his
bank account to the extent Of $i31,2S You
must admit that he was not the craziest
person in Zion City.
New York Post: The Pennsylvania clergy
man who barred peek-a-boo shirtwaists
from the communion rail need not expect
any embroidered slippers next Christmas
from the pretty girls.
Cleveland Leader: A New Jersey minis
ter has issued an edict against the wearing
Of peek-a-boo waists by members of the
choir The choir is back OF him where he
can't see II, anyhow, you know.
Pittsburg Dispatch: That alienist who
thinks Dowies accumulation OF 100000 in
seven years was not inconsistent with in
sanity may have been mistaken in his sub
ject. Suppose he examine those who gave
up the S7,O0oOoO.
Boston Globe: Rev. Mr. Keigwin OF New
York, praising the money barons says that
they have the great vision that makes great
men. It is to be feared that the visions
that some of them are having Just now
partake of the nature Of a nightmare.
Hartford Times: Both the people who
stay at home and those who are off on a
the New York pulpit. IF some of you"
said Bishop Potter, "are left alone during
the summer months. deserted for the time
being by family and friends, do not fall
into vagrant habits. Do not join in with
questionable companions in questionable
occupations in this sort OF semi-vaga-
bondage, with the excuse that you are left
very much alone" That's good advice,
and it's considerably more temperate than
the language used by Rev. DR.. Madison G.
Peters. IT dare not trust myself" he said.
ito describe the things which may be seen
in our summer hotels, where wealth
abounds and beauty smiles The harvest
that will be gathered from the summers
drinking will be ruined homes, broken
hearts, destroyed hopes, crushed affections,
regulations blasted, dishonored lives, tor
mented souls, cheerless graves and an un-
done eternity"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

to the national government has neces-
sarily been determined from the first,
not by their extent. but by need from
time to time within the limit OF the
grant.
In the history of the government
there has been no great abuse and
wrong which was beyond reach of
state control. and no formidable anti
national interest. on behalf of which
the same plea of lack of constitutional
power for national remedy has not
been made. The narrow states rights
heresy would be a shield for every
great peculiar evil that menaces the
present generation. II the restrictive
theory of the national constitution
which is thus invoked to prevent rem
edy of abuses against which state
power has been demonstrated to be
futile could be established. It would
only show that the trainers of the
supreme law had failed utterly to pro-
vide for the vital needs of a growing
patton.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
Winners are not winners.
Need makes the neiRhbor

winners are not winners.
Need makes the neighbor.
Difficulties are but doors of delight.
The lowly heart finds the higher life.
The lazy man always is proud Of his pa
tience.
No great work ever was done before a
mirror.
Only a mercerized religion needs to wear
a label.
Long public prayers point to short private
practice
If your religion is not in everything, II is
in nothing.
1t is better to right wrongs than to re-
venge them.
1t takes wide awake devil to make a
sleepy church.
Too many men measure their horse power
by their exhaust
You cannot get at a mans heart by get
ting under his skin
The sins we wink at today are the ones
we work for tomorrow.
There Is a world of difference between the
rule of gold and the golden rule
There is lot Of difference between work.
ing for folks and working them.
Things do not work together for good to
the man who will not work at all.
Many man thinks he is humble because
he walks with his nose in the gutter.
It's easy to think you are standing for
public liberty when private license is in
your eye
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
THE NEW YORK BANK SITUATION.

THE NEW YORK BANK SITUA TTON.
The monetary situation is about to
recur which the eastern financial
doctors have in mind when they urge
a more elastic currency" It is a
moral certainty that the New York
banks will be called upon within a few
weeks to send at least from $26,-
100000 to $30,000,0O0 of currency to
the west. This fact. however. is not
more certainly known now than 1t has
been all the time. for the demand on
the New York banks is one that comes
every year for western harvest use,
although relatively to the total amount
required in moving the crops the de-
mand is of course decreasing. But the
last weekly statement shows that the
New York banks have a surplus of loss
than $4,000, 900 available to meet the
crop demand.
Ordinarily there are two ways. in
such a case, to provide the currency
either to call in loans or to induce
the Secretary of the Treasury to de-
posit surplus treasury funds. AS the
commercial customers require protec-
ton, the banks must call on the pro-
moters and stock spectators, and 1t is
the latter from whom the periodical
clamor for treasury relief mainly
comes and is to be expected shortly.
But the government the last few years
has shown a disposition not to regard
its surplus as a relief fund for the
particular benefit of New York stock
iobbers and spectators. and to dis
tribute it more equitably in the banks
of different sections of the country.
Precisely here is the explanation for
the recent increased pressure In the
east for an expansive asset bank note
currency, although of course the pur-
pose Is that it may be available for
other emergencies to which eastern
bankers are peculiarly liable.
But the rest of the country cannot
see why the New York banks. fore
knowing approximately the amount
and time of western call for currency,
should not in the first instance adjust
spectators loans to that fact, or why,
II they do not, the consequences should
concern the country, at least so far as
public policy is concerned.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
Personal AND OTHERwIsE.

This is the accepted season for members
OF the Water Wagon club to hike for the
tipber and privacy.
Ice is retailing for 20 cents a hundred
at Manila. Evidently last winters ice har-
vest was abundant.
A New York court has decided that
Mrs warren's Profession" is not Inn
moral-on the stage. on the stage It IS
away on.
Any old chorus girl or a young one, can
break into print In New York just now
with an interview and follow It up with a
contradiction.
Texas reports IAN entire family carried
by the wind" In a state so firmly demo-
cratic as Texas midsummer campaigning
seems an unnecessary affiiction.
Washington's ice combiners have been
indicted and will be tried in October.
Meanwhile the trust gets the money and
the prosecution has chance 10 cool of.
A novel addition to the lay membership
of a church in Maryland consists OF a flock
of hens, which are expected to make daily
contributions to the missionary eggs
chequer.
The st. Louis Republic prints elaborate
designs and descriptions explaining 'how
to make the city beautiful" plan to
Danish the smoke cloud is not included
All others are visionary
Ice manufactured for $3.50 a ton looked
so good TO the owner in Kansas City that
he would rather see 1t melt away rather
than sell 1t for less than SO ton. deliv-
cred in slices. Cheap ice congeals his soul
The human ostrict. who chewed glass
and swallowed nails, needles, hairpins and
other edibles, is dead. The unfortunate
freak neglected TO heed the pure food ad'
monition, Examine the labels before TAX
| ing"
A shrewd manager OF a railroad running
between Chicago, Omaha and the noun
tains makes a great hit as humorist by
proclaiming Chicago as the great metro
politan summer resort" The news tickle
the sweltering home guard immensely.
Seven auburn-haired maidens OF For
Wayne. Ind, struck out on brilliant
stage career, sang and danced and threw
/ goo-goo eyes at the front row, and finally
| landed stranded in the vaudeville art center
| Of Hammond, Ind. Their manager
vamoosed with the money and rush tele
/ grams to their papas brought the coin 4
| carry them home There is quite a fal
from the ideal and the real on the stag
/ as elsewhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

rs MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP SOCIALISM
1t is significant that municipal
ownership should be the chief topic
discussed in the meeting of the Illinois
State Bar association and that the
brunt of denuneiation should fall on
the principle underlying 1t. The tenor
Of the lawyers speeches was expressed
by one of the leading members. who
declared that the adoption of the
principle Of municipal ownership and
operation would be a long stride to-
ward socialism and communism.
The abuses and corruptions under
privately owned public service corpora
tions were notably absent from the dis
cussions. Yet the lawyers could have
done a better service to the public by
exposing their full inside knowledge
Of that phase of the subject than by
vehement and indiscriminate denuncia.
tion of the chief remedial method to-
wards which public judgment is stead,
lily and cautiously advancing. The
lawyers expressions by their heat and
partisan spirit are distinctly obstruc
ZIONIST rather than deliberative. 1t /.
notorious that attorneys are frequently
the essential instrumentality by which
public utilities are perverted to cor
poration ends at the expense OF the
municipality TO which they of righi
belong, and in whose interest they
should be equitably administered. Tn,
devices by which such prostitution Il
consummated, involving a maze O
legal Actions and technicalities anC
manipulation of state and city legisla
lures, are the particular business o
too many lawyers conspicuous in tn,
profession for ability. and for rewarC
they receive large fees or salaries iron
those corporations. 1t is not un
natural, therefore, that lawyers shoul,
as class dislike proposed reform
in which their occupation would b.
lost or their profits greatly diminished
or that 1t should manifest itself II
bar association meetings.
Socialism" is unquestionably al
unpopular term and 1t is lawyer STRAIT
egy to seek to attach II to the effor
to reform abuse In public service cor
poratiOns. The plain fact. however.
that hard headed. practical men
WhS Sre not socialists. but snti-Eocial
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
Life,s Po.sibIIitIen Wnsted.
Portland OregonIan.

Portland OregOnIan.
George c. Watts, a wealthy Chlca &c
bachelor, lately died at San Diego. The
extreme poverty of the mans life, not
withstanding the fact that he died pos
sessed of large fortune. was disclosed
when, upon opening his will, It was found
that the income on $4,000 was devised for
the care of his dog "Bill' and his riding
horse "Tling." These were faithful serv-
ants of the selfish man. no doubt, and well
worthy of the shelter OF kennel and stable
but the man who so lives that only a dog
will mourn and horse miss him and need
the continuance. of his care can hardly be
said to have got out Of life the pleasure
and profit that IT holds for every intelli-
gent man who has the ordering OF his own
destiny.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
MEMORIES.
st. Louis Globe-Demoorat

st. Louis Globe-Democrat
Old friends, old hopes, old loves,
Old times, and the long ago,
All family sweet with sorrow. and the
grief
That passing treasures to the fond heart
They move to sighs and tears
Dear beyond telling, they are still but
Pale, impotent, unreal, that come to haunt
The none-too-merry heart and backward
The busy thoughts to scenes Of other years.
Wrapped in the cerements of a vanished
With funereal pace, and words OF woe,
They mock the glowing present hour and
cast
A pail OF sorrow over this days JOY.
Why should l, in this surging, breathless
time
Receive these specters of the fruitless past;
And give Of the strength the present
When today's' duty owns my every
thought2
Back to your graves, dead memoriesl Come
To blind my vision with a mist of tears,
And make my hand to falter In the fray.
Unnerve the heart that must be strong or
Get You away! Unto those sepulchers
There in the secret places Of the mind,
Eyanish! Calls the future, and the strange
And l must onward, or forever fail.
Give me the new! New friends, new hopes,
desires,
The newer lures that beckon from strange
hills
NY auesting feet have never trod, and hold
Fair promises that old time could not
give.
And some time, in the evening Of my
days,
When weary, worn with toll, and triumphs
come,
Then / will summon from the misty past,
The dear, sweet memories Of thoughtloss
youth, -
And hold high revel; bidding welcome all,
Ard with them watch the paling OF ifes
star.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

During his lifetime and uD to his
death John A. Mccall, former president
of the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, was rated as multi-millionaire.
And now when his estate has been set
tied it transDires that McCall's estate
has panned out $4O.s85.2S, which
only goes to show that a man with an
income of 100000 a year does not
accumulate much surplus If he tries
to keep step with the New York -four
hundred.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

Twelve years ago H. Clay Evans was
elected governor of Tennessee by
more than 5000 majority. He was a
republican, and that was naturally an
innovation in the state of Tennessee.
So Evans was counted out by the dem
ocratic returning boards and demo-
crat who had not been elected was in
stalled in the executive chair. Now
II. Clay Evans has been again nomi-
mated by the republicans of Tennessee
and the people of Tennessee will have
an opportunity to emulate the repub-
lie of France that has Just rehabillta-
ted Dreyfus and restored him to his
pI oper rank in the French army.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

lists, favor municipal ownership of pub
lie utilities. In this country there has
been notable success in such owner
ship in many fields. The proof of the
pudding is in the eating and in the
contrast with the abuses in the private
corporation system that are so gen
orally affecting public opinion. The
seriousness of the movement arises
from the very fact that sober business
men, and not mere socialistic theorists,
are convinced of its advantages.
There is obviously no more socialism
in municipal ownership of service of
water, light, heat, transit, etc, If the
public finds its interest protected
thereby, than there is in public owner
ship of the postal service or of many
other services which no one would
denounce as socialism. Resort to
municipal ownership as a. remedy for
definite evils by no means implies the
abrogation of the principle of private
property.
The significant fact remains that as
experience accumulates public senti-
ment is settling upon the wisdom and
necessity of Withdrawing from the
possession and thereach of corporation
monopoly many of the public services
which have customarily been sublet to
them. Nothing can stop this tendency
but reform of the abuses by the cor
porations themselves. to which they
often have shown themselves to be
as much opposed as to municipal own
ership, and for the same reason.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
Ambassador Reeds Social SpIendOr.
Boston Transcrint.

No one, 1t is said. in the diplomatic cir
cles at the Court Of st. James ever lived
in greater splendor or entertained more
sumptuously than does Ambassador Reid.
Hardly a daily grist Of news from London
is complete without a story OF an enter
tainment given at Dorchester House, and
an outsider, who has been averaging ex-
penses for the ambassador, sets It down
that through the four years of his resi-
dence there IL will cost him a round mil
lion to keep the eagle screaming as loudly
as II has done this season. But Mr.. Reid
has a long purse, as everyone knows and
Americans are satisfied that he should put
it's contents to this purpose. Every one of
them likes to feel that the "social end" as
we'll as the official part Of the ambassador s
mission Is we'll looked after.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
w1rH1N coNsrIru TIoNAL LMIrs.

No more pertinent suggestion has
been recently made than that which is
contained in Secretary Taft's reply to
the charge that important legislation
OF the last session of congress, includ-
ing especially the rate control. meat
inspection and pure food laws, exceeds
constitutional warrant, in these words:
1T is not true that the expansion of
power is unconstitutional but 1t is
only true that the national government
has taken upon itself the exercise of
greater powers, heretofore unused, but
all. within the constitutional grant, in
order to curb certain evils which were
SO widely extended across state lines
as to make 1t impossible for the state
TO suppress them" 1t cannot be too
strongly emphasized that the action OF
congress and the president in this use
of authority has not been inspired by
disregard for the constitution. but by
regard for the very objects for which
It was framed TO provide. The use of
the powers granted by the constitution
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

In Offering good Offices to allay
trouble in Central America the United
States wants 1t understood that 1t
takes no sides in the controversy. but
the nation which feels aggrieved at
the outcome may be expected to
charge undue interference on the part
of Uncle Sam.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

William Jennings Bryan has broad
ened out by his travels around the
world, but in some respects he is still
like the Platte river, only a few inches
deep. He declares from beyond the
sea that his Quantitative theory OF
money and the soundness of the pTin-
ciple Of free silver has been demon
strated by the prosperity of the last
ten years. which is due to the super
abundance of gold. We have doubled
the circulation of our money in the
last ten years and that. according to
Bryan. proves that American prosper
ity is due to the increased gold output
and not to the surplus of corn. wheat
and cotton. Suppose there had been
drouths In the wheat and corn belts.
and the weevil had gotten in his work
in the cotton belt. and as a sequence
the construction of steam railroads
trolley lines and skyscrapers that have
created an extraordinary demand for
pig iron and steel products had been
curtailed, what effect would the in
creased output of the gold mines have
had on the farmers. cotton planters
and mine and mill workers?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

Commissioner Garheld is said to
have riveted the bulls eye upon the
coal industry, but in these dog days 1t
would seem more rational II his bulls
eye we're skowed on the ice industry.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
Some Glass Broken.

NdHsd6 CITY IIIIIVbs
There is no real satisfaction In learning
that British food factories are as unsani-
tary and as unclean as some Of the Ameri-
can plants exposed to view recently, but
it is pertinent to note that some glass was
broken when England INDUCED in stone
throwing.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

The Nebraska National Guard will
soon make a $4,000 march to Fort
Riley for the annual maneuver-which'
reminds us that once upon time the
king of France with twice ten thou
sand men marched IN the hill and
then marched down again.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

New Mexico is on the eve of most
exciting campaign. Already a wave
of hot air has passed over the territory
and o hot water spout has burst forth
from the ground in the neighborhood
OF Soecoro. presumably to prepare the
people for the scorehing political
sirocco.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

Arkansas miners who have referred
their dispute with the operators to the
supreme court of the state and have
resumed work pending decision may
be pioneers in the effort at sane arbi-
tration in the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

The San Francisco relief committee
has formed a corporation for the pur-
pose of building houses for the home
less. Now listen for charges OF
graft" when some contractors fail to
get share of the business.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

In asking the railroads for informa-
tom on the relations between them
and the grain elevators the Interstate
Commerce commission is showing
faith scarcely justified by recent
experiences. But perhaps it wants to
avoid the immunity bath which might
follow the process server.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

If the American mining congress
succeeds in driving promoters of
worthless mining concerns out of busi-
ness the investing public should erect
the mining temple at Denver as a testi-
monial memorial
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

The anniversary of the fall Of the
EaEtile was a fitting day on which to
lehabilitate Dreyfus. since It marks
the downfall of lettres de cachet in
the army.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
Removing a Handicap.

Philadelphia Record tdem.).
Governor Hanly of Indiana Is a repub-
lican. but he is trying to relieve the next
democratic candidate for president Of the
serious disadvantage OF having his cam
paign conducted by the manager of a gam
bling resort
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

When the device for making paper
out of cotton stalks is perfected cotton
may not only challenge its right to be
considered king of American trade,
but also claim TO be its herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

II having been judiciously decided
that the state treasurer of Kansas has
the right to keep interest on state war
rants. the next legislature of the Sun
flower state has some work already
outlined.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

President Roosevelt may long for
the rest OF last year. when he had
nothing worse than the Russo-Japanese
peace conference on his hands. If he
undertakes to bring about settlement
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw may be
brought to believe that her husband
is insane when she gets full informa-
tlon regarding damage suits by other
chorus girls.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

The Santa Fe Railroad company will
not appeal from the fine of $4,000
assessed against II in New Mexico for
violating the Elkins law in It's rela-
tlons with coal company. What
nextY
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

The Santa Fe railroad and the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company have been
sentenced by the federal court to pay
q fine of $4,000 for violating the
antitrust and interstate commerce
laws. But who will pay the fine in
the long rum VIII not Jones finally
pay the freight. as usualH
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
Great Task Well Done.


The successful ending of the long voyage
of the drydock Dewey reflects credit upon
the officers in charge. 1t has been a wholly
novel and no light undertaking TO drag so
huge and helpless a bulk across two
stormy oceans
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

With sugar from Iloilo paying duty
to the amount Of s145.O00 at San
Francisco, our Filipino wards seem to
be getting ready to divide the white
mans burden" with us.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
Reasons for the Shortage.

There is a shortage of small bills in the
United States treasury. Perhaps this will
help to explain to a great many people
why they are short on small bills-also on
those of higher denominations.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

In postponins the visit Of the Brit
lsh channel fleet to its shores Russia
shows that it has not lost all hope of
resuming its place as world naval
mower.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
Possibilities of Mesquite Bills.

Baltimore American.
The summer girl who wears peelSaboo
waists is much more apt to be converted
to different sort Of apparel through the
attentions of mosquitoes than she is
through anything that the preachers may
have to say.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

The New York clearing house state
ment shows that while much water is
being squeezed out Of stocks a little
cash floats into the strong boxes.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
On the Firing Line.

WaEIINEIUW IU6I'
There may be some truth in that story
about Secretary Taft giving up his seat
in street car TO three ladies, but he Is
certainly showing no disposition to give
up his position in the line Of candidates.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

Bids for armor for warships show
that even the strongest trusts" are
not absolutely independent Of the ma
tural laws of trade.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

Chicago newspapers are discussing
tomfoolery in the public schools in all
seriousness. 1t might be done in
other places.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

between foreign insurance companies
and San Francisco policy holders dur
ing his present vacation.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

When William Jennings comes
marching home the Tammany brass
band will play Hail to the Chief"