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Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
NO PnOKETBoOK PEACE.


Mr.. Andrew Carnegie may under
stand the Scotch, American and Pitts
burg character, but he seems to have
made a serious error in his estimate of
the Latin-American. Moved by the
failure of the diplomatic authorities of
the United States and Mexico to pro-
duce brand Of peace in Central Amer
lea safe to leave out overnight without
an armed chaperone, Mr.. Carnegie con-
ceived the idea Of endowing peace
something as he would library. He
selected Senior Diego Mendoza, some
time minister of Colombia at Washing
ton, and engaged him at a salary of
$25, 900 a year TO make tour of South
and Central American countries and
teach the ruling authorities there the
beauties of disarmament, arbitration,
hahds-across-the-sea, the golden rule
and other primary lessons in the school
of universal peace.
over this enterprise Latin-American
diplomats at Washington are all
stirred up. Senior Cortes. the present
Colombian minister at Washington,
has had a hint from his government
that IL Senior Mendoza starts on the
mission outlined for him by Mr.. Car
negie it will be Senior Cortes' duty to
notify the other Latin-Ameriean coun-
tries that Senior Mendoza is oficially
discredited in Colombia and that any
reception to him not marked by frosty
decoration would be looked upon as an
open and studied affront to the dignity
of Colombia. It appears that Senior
Mendoza, after he was tobogganed out
of his position as Colombian minister
at Washington, moved over to New
York and published lot of pamphlets
criticising President Reyes and his ad-
ministration, with the result that he
| (Mendoza) is now looked upon as an
exile and, should he return TO Colom-
bia, would be met at the wharf by a re-
ception committee composed of the en-
tire police force and a few squads of
regulars By the same token, any
Latin-Ameriean country that receives
him In an Oficial capacity would be
inviting the enmity of Colombia.
AS already indicated. the awkward
situation is due to Mr.. Carnegie's fail
ure to appreciate the Latin-Amerlcau
character. The genuine South or Cen
trail American oficial win cheerfully
enter into any convention or agree
ment looking to the advancement Of
commerce, art or science. and will
dicker like a Connecticut Yankee over
trade concessions. To that extent he
has yielded to the commercial instinct
that comes near dominating the rest
Of the world. but he still retains his
pride and refuses to allow his inalien-
able right to insurrect or revolute to
be placed on the bargain counter. He
is ready to make concessions upon any
point except his sacred privilege OF be-
ing his own Monroe doctrine. Hague
conference and general manager In
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Michigan Court Draws Fine DIstinc-
tiOn in Municipal Ownership Case.
ST Paul Pinnear Preaa

Michigan Court Draws Fine Diutinc-
tiOn in Municipal Ownership Case.
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
The long, earnest fight which the peo-
pie Of Detroit, Mich, have made for bet
ter street railway conditions has been
watched with no little interest by other
cities. In Detroit practically every prob
lem connected with alleged perpetual
franchise rights and other features Of the
relations between the companies and the
municipality have been threshed out, as Il
seemed, TO a solution. The final outcome
was the adoption OF the principle OF
municipal ownership of the tracks, and
the proposed leasing OF these to the high
est bidder, on the assumed basis of scent
fares, as in Toronto. The money had
been voted to build some new tracks. But
then the railway corporation invoked the
aid of the courts to prevent the consum-
nation Of the scheme, on the ground that
the constitution of Michigan, adopted nifty
years ago, forbids the state to engage
in the construction of internal improve
ments; and that what the state could not
do the municipality could not do. Strangely
enough, In both the circuit and the SUI
preme courts, this doctrine was upheld;
though in each instance only by a majority
vote Of the judges; the dissenting opinions
being remarkably vigorous. In one Of these
# was shown that the same courts had
sustained the legality of a contract made
to the city to place concrete foundations
under the tracks OF the existing Scent
lines. 1t Is a nice distinction. indeed, which
permits the making of such an improve.
ment as the laying of foundations, but
forbids the further Improvement OF put
ting tracks thereoni
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
HOME on THE ~soutRE prA1.o

HOME OF Tue SQUARE DBA L."
In bis tour Of the country for the
purpose Of ascertaining the state Of
public sentiment on presidential and
other political questions, the Washing
ton correspondent OF the Chicago Trib-
une has made the discovery that
Massachusetts, and New England, I'M
der cover OF being opposed to a third
term for any president, are really
sligning the friends Of vested inter
ests" against a continuance Of power
for President Roosevelt or OF anyone
pledged to his policies. Writing from
Boston, he says:
President Roosevelt is an eastern man.
He lives in New York. His ideas were orig
inally framed up for him by long series
OF Knickerbocker ancestors. He was Of the
Harvard cult. His son is now at Cam
bridge. His intimate friend, Henry Cabot
Lodge, is now a senator from Massuchu-
sets. Yet II is evident to any persistent OF
painstaking observer that President Roose-
welt and his policies are much less at home
in New England than in Nebraska.
The correspondent quotes many re-
publican leaders in New England as
being so radically opposed TO the third
term idea that they are predicting the
defeat of President Roosevelt If he ac-
cepts a nomination. They consider him
out of the list of presidential possibil-
tiles and no longer conceal their in
tention to line up In behalf of a decla-
ration Of party policy more favorable
TO vested interests" than that of the
present administration.
That President Roosevelt and his
policies are much less at home in New
England than in Nebraska" is the
natural and logical result of the en-
forcement of his square deal" policy.
II follows the determination to exercise
government control over railway and
industrial corporations that the bur
dens as we'll as the benefits shall be
shared alike by all the people regard
less Of sections or geography. The
vested interests" now lining up
against the presidents policies have
fattened for years on profits drawn
from Nebraska and other western
states through the manipulation of
transportation stocks and combinations
in other industrial and commercial
lines, all having for their purpose the
enrichment of the vested interests"
at the expense of the consumers and
shippers of the west The enactment
of the railroad rate bill was forced
through an unwilling congress by pub
lie demand, not from the east, but
from Nebraska and the west. Nothing
resulting from the presidents policies
has worked any injustice to the
vested interests" except by prevent
ing these interests from continuing a
policy of injustice toward their pa
irons and investors.
Whatever success may attend the
anti-Roosevelt propaganda in New
England. the signs all portend that the
next republican candidate for the pres
idency will have to stand on square
DEAF platform and be pledged irrevoc-
ably to a continuance and strengthen
ing of that policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
rad and other candldates.


We do not like to see Secretary Taft.
in person or through deputies or brothers.
engaged at this early day in a campaign
for the presidential nomination. 1t seems
to us unbecoming and unworthy OF him
as a great officer of state. We have been
accustomed to think OF Mr.. Taft as a big
man. unselhshly devoted to the discharge
Of his duties as secretary of war and
Colonial secretary" and Influenced little
by personal ambition. We have ASSOC
ciated him with high ideals OF self-sacri.
flee, devotion to public duty patriotism.
and all the qualities which distinguished
the great public servants Of former days.
He Is going down a peg or two when
he visits Ohio to promote his personal
campaign under the thin guise Of address
ing an alumni meeting or when he allows
his brothers to travel about the country
in his political interests OF when he per
mits Mr.. Burton to advocate his nominal
ton to the presidency in a speech in New
Jersey.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
on THE PRESIDENTIAL rrRINe LINE
Pointed Remarks on Third Term ana
Aspiring Candidates.


New York Times Qnd)
The letters we have been publishing from
republican editors showing the ovcrwhelm-
Ing popularity OF Mr.. Roosevelt. and from
members Of the national democratic COM
mittee. exhibiting the unchanged loyalty
Of that party to Mr.. Bryan, reveal a su-
rious psychological, we might almost say
pathological. condition Of the minds of a
very large part Of the American, people
and OF their leaders.
Republican editors the country over wrote
that Mr.. Roosevelts strength was undi-
minished; many Of them said he was
stronger than ever. The demand for his
denomination next year appears to be we'll
nigh universal Yet there is the so far
unbroken tradition against a third term
Has It 50 far fallen into disrepute that
It has no influence upon the popular mind7
Apparently 1t does not count so much as
by feathers weight against Mr.. Roose-
Welt Twenty-seven years ago II counted
heavily against General Grant Mr.. Roose-
velts popularity triumphs over Il.
The minds Of the people appear to be
shut, also their eyes and ears. They are
thinking about nobody but Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Bryan. They will listen to the
mention Of no other names, they see no
other possible candidate. A man from Mars
would conclude there were but two great
living Americans.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

The suicide of young girl at South
Omaha, who had been taken from her
mother by order Of the Juvenile court,
although charged with nothing more
serious than head-strong wilfulness,
suggests that the Juvenile court may
be going a little too fast in breaking
up families and separating children
from parents on slight pretexts The
long accepted rule that the best place
for children is in their own homes is a
good rule to follow except under most
extraordinary circumstances.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
Personal NOTES.

A handsome young woman in New York
steered her automobile over two men,
fatally wounding one, and hurried on with
q merry laugh.
Paderewsl1i, the great pianist, Is a keen
poultry fancier, his wife being equally en-
thusiastic over the fad. They have a
big poultry farm at Morges, Lake Geneva,
and Nine. Paderewski Is president OF the
Poultry club OF Switzerland.
NJ safanoff, the Russian conductor. never
uses a baton, though that weapon Is usually
regarded as Indispensable by men In his
position. Instead he waves his arms
clenches his fists and fights the air In a
manner rather disgusting 10 the ordinary
concert goeF.
Bishop Warren Gambler Of Georgia could
probably be elected governor OF California
by reclamation, II he wanted the Job. Writ
ing from Japan and OF the japanese, the
bishop says: They are thieving robbing.
selfish, merceDary, and constituencies set,
and the truth is not in them"
There are sim some scotchmen who re-
gard the union OF their country with Eng
land as a mistake. A notable example IL
the earl Of Stair. who recently refused
10 attend a dinner celebrating the
bicentenary OF the union. In a public speech
some time previously his lordship depre-
Gated the teaching in Scottish schools Of
the earlier history OF England.
In connection with the Pennsylvania capt.
tol scandal, which now seems 20 be boiling
80 heroely that somebody must be blown
up before long politicians in the keystone
state are recalling a remark made by the
late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay. An
intimate friend asked him for aid In getting
IN on a fat contract and Mr.. Quay replied:
Better keep out OF that altO1stheF. All
those connected with the state capitol bust
ness will be in the penitentiaTy before they
are through with L."
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Mayor Jim" says he will appoint
his committee to investigate the jail
accommodations furnished city and
county prisoners characterized by him
as "a disgrace to the community"
Such a committee would doubtless
recommend a city workhouse, but
whether 1t would give the mayors par
don record a clean bill is quite another
nnestion.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

The people OF the Transvaal are not dis
posed to permit Great Britain 20 adjust
their tariff for them. They propose TO levy
duties In their own way and through their
spokesman plainly indicate that It is their
20 reach a position OF self
dependence IN Industrial matters. Il Is
curious how all peoples with aspirations
for the future incontinently reject Cob
den's great scheme for making England
the center OF the universe. and Il Is also
that all patriots believe that
and political liberty cannot be
separated without sacrificing both.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
A MOTHERS QUESTION.
The Bohemian.

The Bohemian.
Soft waves OF chestnut hair-gold in the
sun
Red mouth, whose curving lips dimp1ed
with fun;
Skin fair. and soft and smooth. cheeks
tinged with rose,
Eyes in whose smiling depths happiness
CLOVIS,
Never the cloud of tears Swallowed their
blue
This was the mothers face my baby
knew. ~. 10y
.... -. 1lt..'.. 20 .at .hEc -. "a ...
Hair white as driven snow, face scanned
and drawn,
Pale lips with grlef-lines marked Ali
laughter gone,
Eyes dull and lusterless, faded by tears,
Empty arms, aching heart, all these long
years. 30 =
Lord. Il we meet again, by Thy dear
grace,
How shall my baby know his mothers
face7
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
California and Third Term.

NINT7'If
The Calls preference at this crisis might
be for a man Of the Lincoln type. calm but
determined with a reputation for such high
integrity that the meaneSt marplot and
mischief maker would never dare TO whis-
per a suspicion OF his motives. We need
a man with all the force OF Roosevelt, but
less impulsiveness. We need man who
understands our laws and the fundamental
principles Of our government. We need to
get back again to first principles to the
spirit breAthed by the Declaration OF In
dependence, and tell the story OF our birth
and infancy to a robust people who have
come to forget. But where is there another
better stronger or wiser than Roosevelt?
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
NOT 4 ennu COMPARISON.

ouAuS VI lnB TdllIUau NaA agents WHO
are endeavoring to persuade the State
Board of Assessment to reduce the
taxable valuation Of Nebraska rail-
roads are citing Wisconsin as a state
whose experience in taxation should
serve us to good purpose. Wisconsin
unquestionably occupies an advance
position in the movement for tax re-
form, but the comparison of Wisconsin
and Nebraska in the matter of railroad
assessment and taxation cannot be
very favorable from the point of view
of the railroad tax agent.
The report of the Wisconsin tax
commission for the year 1907, just
issued, gives some figures which are
very much In point, but which are not
being quoted by the railroad tax agents
at Lincoln. The value of Wisconsin
railroad property as fixed by the tax
commission for the last three years,
for example, is as follows:
Observation-Disclosures. .S21S 024 800
1905. ........................ 22S6e,OO
1906. .......................... 2S7, 2S9,5oO
Here we have in three years an in
crease of railroad values in Wisconsin
amounting to nearly 100000. The
railroad taxes paid in Wisconsin for
the same years we're as follows:
1904. ..,..................... .S4s4'zSz
1905. 25is'EsO
Here we have an increase of taxes
paid by the railroads in Wisconsin in
three years amounting to more than
$500, 900.
When Il comes to the amount OF
taxes per mile in Wisconsin as com
pared with Nebraska, the figures are
even more disastrous to the conten-
lions of the railroad tax agents. Ac-
cording to another table in the same
report the amount Of railroad taxes
per mile of line in Wisconsin is 1881,
while the amount of railroad taxes per
mile of line in Nebraska is only 1924.
Wisconsin is one of the two states
which has had a special physical val
uation Of railroad property made un-
der direction of its tax commission.
The other state which has valued its
railroad by engineering appraisement
is Michigan, where the railroad taxes
reach $3.50 per mile.
Our Nebraska railroad assessments
have not been changed materially for
the last three years owing simply to
the fact that the taxes had been tied
up by injunctions procured by the rail-
roads and the indisposition OF those
looking after the states interests to
do anything to change the issues In
volved in the appeal which had been
carried up to the United States su-
preme court. Taken all in all, the
figures in the Wisconsin tax commits
sion report are much better calculated
to support a demand for a substantial
increase rather than what the tax
agents are asking for.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
Roosevelt and Bryan.

II the electorate should hold its present
temper there is no doubt that Roosevelt
will be, by large odds, the strongest man
his party can nominate, and long ago the
republican party mastered the art OF dis
covering It's strongest man and nominating
him
That is what is the matter with these
worthy gentlemen. who have shown con-
clusively that Roosevelt cannot be can
didate Show them that he would be beaten
by safe and sane" democrat and moth
ing would please them better than ROose-
velts nomination.
It is amusing and must be stimulating to
the presidents sense of humor. What will
they do If they are forced TO choose be-
tween Roosevelt and Bryan?
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

While in no position to say whether
or not a contest of the mayoralty cleo
ton in Lincoln would be warranted by
the facts, varied and multiplex ex-
perience with election contests in
Omaha supports the assertion that
they seldom pan out according to ex-
pectations.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

quarrels with his neighbors Senior
Mendoza may get $4,000 a year from
Mr.. Carnegie. but he will also get more
than that in a different kind Of coin,
II he attempts to visit Colombia and
other Latin-American countries with a
peace bird bearing the ''Made-in-Pitts-
burg" label.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Had a single life been lost in
Omaha's latest building collapse the
whole community would have been
thoroughly aroused. That no lives
were lost was purely accidental-in
fact almost miraculous. What are the
authorities going to do about It?
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

South Omaha may yet have to seek
annexation to get the beneht OF
Omaha's dog-muzzling ordinance and
put an end to the outbreak of vicious
dogs with which our neighboring city
on the south seems to be afflicted.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

An eminent Chinese authority in
sists that the shamrock is a Chinese
plant. Possibly, but American Chinese
had best be careful about wearing
shamrocks along about the middle of
March unless they want to make a col
lection of real rocks.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Secretary Wilson hopes to see the
time when the United States will grow
all the tobacco now imported from
Cuba and Sumatra. Many smokers
suspect that most of the imported
Cuban and sumatra tobacco is already
being grown in Connecticut and Penn
sylVania.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

The campaign to put omaha's
streets in good repair should be ac-
companied by campaign to stop the
various misuses of the streets by
which the pavements are needlessly
ruined. Prevention and cure should
go hand in hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

A New York poets wife is suing for
a divorce because her husband wanted
her to cook a meal at 8 a. m. The
average poets wife is glad enough to
cook a meal at any hour her husband
will supply the materials.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

All the doctors assembled at the
meeting of the State Medical associa-
ton agree that rabies" is real dis
ease. But our old friend DR.. Miller
viii remain unconvinced.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

The Omaha Water board has issued
ten orders in the four years that its
members have been drawing pay out
Of the city treasury. Amy clever mathe-
matieian can figure out how much each
order cost the taxpayers without any
thing TO onset the expense.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Interest that now attaches to re-
ports about the ice being all out OF the
rivers will be soon transferred to the
announcement that it is all out of the
refrigerators.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Bishop Coleman of Philadelphia has
decreed that women must wear their
hats at a church wedding. : Aat is
enc way to distinguish church we'd
ding from theatrical performance.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Scientists now assert that broken
hearts may be healed by chemistry.
Heretofore they have been healed by
alimony or breach of promise verdicts.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Americans have no ears for any
thing but the clink of the dollars"
says Editor Stead. The error Of the
statement is proved by the fact that
Americans have all heard stead-and
laughed at him.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

The democrats carried the city cleo
lions in Baltimore and Lincoln on the
same day. II this entities Lincoln to
furnish the head of the presidential
ticket, Baltimore should have an equal
claim to furnish the tail.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Douglas county finances are on
cash basis. as a consequence Of which
no warrants whatever are being regis
tered TO draw interest Il is up 20 the
people to see that this condition is
made permanent by insisting on busl-
Oess-like methods OF county admins
lration for ali future time
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Judge Farrar of New Orleans has
written a letter to the president in
which he says congress has the power
70 regulate railroads. Congress will
surely be pleased to learn that It has
acted In a legal manner.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

According to a Chicago paper, that
city pays double prices for all its i'm
provements. Chicago fares better, at
that, than Philadelphia, which pays
more than double prices for improve
ments and then does not get them.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

The financial stringency in New
York has been explained. The New
York Herald announces that more
Americans are shopping in Paris than
ever before at this season.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

New York Pos

This was 1.-THE enemy's country" to Mr.
Bryan In 1896. yet on Saturday he told an
association OF law school alumni that in a
lawsuit involving popular rights they had
to go 10 New York to get lawyers 20 rep
resent the people. because all the lawyers
available nearer at hand had been bought
up."
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Naturally the failure of the Wash
ington clubs percentage column to
grow any will be blamed on the
weather.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
RevIvinR ola MemorIes.

The occasional train hold-up In the far
west is about all we have 20 remind us OF
the days when the buffalo, the bear and the
redskin disputed with the pioneer pros
pector and bad man the possession OF that
glorious domain.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
undertakers

The undertakers are showing
neither surprise nor protest over the
statement that 5000 of the 1000 ply
sieians graduated each year are not
qualified to practice.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

John w. Gates probably quit Wall
street because the limit in the game
was reduced to a point which made it
look like penny ante to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
IL Il a square DeaIF

Kansas City 1ouFhhi'
Kansas is moving it's saloons 10 Missouri
and Missouri bucket shops are migrating TO
Kansas. Which state is g-Ssspg the better
of the exchange is a matter Of opinion
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

The news item headline, January
Will Leave in July" refers to Grim
inal case in Kansas and not to a
weather report.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

What will Secretary Taft do next?"
asks the Chicago News. Senator For
aker. If he can.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

These Chicago Board of Trade spec
ulators have killed nearly all the crops
that have not been planted.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

The fool that rocks the boat is again
swelling the mortality lists-a sure
sign of an early summer.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10

Kansas is again in the throes Of
prohibition war. Prohibition has done
about everything in Kansas except to
stop the consumption of liquor.