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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

ties that public lands belong not only 20
the people. hui 20 any individual among
the people who may choose to enter and
occupy them. BY this failacy all kinds OF
fraudulent devices OF land grabbers and
sharks have been at least condoned. and It
has been possible to rob the government
OF huge empire This Is an obstacle to
judicious land policy which has existed for
fully three-quarters Of a century, and Il
has grown so formidable that any attempt
to enforce the laws with rigor and effect,
and preserve to the, people the scant rem
nants, must be made in the face OF. II and
directly against t.
II is well nigh impossible to expect popu-
lar sympathy or approval Of such policy
in the far west, but as the government
lands are the lands OF the whole people OF
the United States, and the Indian reserva-
lions belong TO the Indians Il Is gratifying
to note that an honest effort is being made
I'm that direction, even at this late date.
What is left, though very small I'm COM
parison with what has been squandered, Is
still valuable In many ways. and will be OF
great service, not only in our own genera
ton. but to those who succeed us. 1t il
well worthy OF the determined efforts of
the government.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
TAXING SPECULATION.

The tax of 20 cents which the Mis-
souri, legislature has Just levied OH
each transaction in commodities for flu
ture delivery on boards of trade or in
bucket shops was undoubtedly sug-
gested by the New York law specially
taxing cents share on transfers of
stocks. There is, however, a material
difference of method. The New York
tax bears proportionately to the value
transferred on the number of shares,
while the Missouri law fixes the tax at
25 cents on a transaction whether the
value involved be 500 or 100000.
The principle involved in special tax
alton of such dealings for future deliv-
cry, the great bulk of which are purely
speculative has been fully .vindicated
by the courts. The New York law
evoked most vehement protest, but it
was mainly from the comparatively
small class who as middlemen thrive
on the volume of such speculation, and
they exhaustively litigated the law only
to have the court OF appeals uphold
it in its length and breadth. Expert
ence has confirmed public satisfaction
since the New York tax yields an an
nual revenue of about $s,OO0,0 200.
In point of fact such special taxation
does not fall on the boards of trade or
the bucket shops, but for the most part
is ultimately charged back to the spec
ulators themselves. The former would
DE affected by material reduction of the
volume OF speculation only where the
tax is severe. But a moderate tax act
ing proportionately to values on the
New York model would likely be bet
ter revenue producer and more work.
able than the arbitrary Missouri levy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
sQUANDERING PUBLIC LANDS.
Eastern View of Western Land Crab
bling Operations.


western senator made an Incorporate
attack the other day on the Interior de-
partment. He charged, among other
things. that 1t had arraigned the whole
community for fraud in connection with
the public lands. OF course this was
a huge \hyperbole, but the senator must
have himself known that it was not so i'm
possible as it appeared on its face. There
are communities in the far west where
the relations between government lands
and the people are badly confused in the
public mind. Public lands and Indian re-
servations are assumed to be the peoples
lands, and by an easy transition they be-
came the property of individuals.
This has been the greatest obstruction to
the enforcement of the land laws for gen.
erations, and has been the main cause of
the rapid absorption of these lands by the
people. When mineral or metallic wealth
has been discovered on the Indian reserva-
lions, for instance, it has been Immediately
claimed by the people of these commun-
tiles, and they have been excluded with
the utmost difficulty, and Sometimes after
serious encounters or course, the people
reflect to large extent the sentiments Of
the entire community, and 1t is against the
rigid enforcement of the land laws with
regard to both the public lands and the
Indian reservations.
1t is fiction In some western communi-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
MAKING THE GOODS MOVE.
A Merchants Change from window
Signs TO Newspaper Advertising.

Merchants Change from window
Signs TO Newspaper Advertising.
THE Autobiography of Business Man."
in J1verybody's Magazine. recounts with
rare simplicity the development CT the bust
ness life of Tom Murray, a Chicago habor-
dasher. Chief among the incidents of his
career is the transition from window signs
to newspaper advertising, the impulse the
change gave his business and the con-
sequent expansion Of business and adver-
Using.
For a number CT years" he says, 81
advertised only in my windows and in some
of the street cars, because l did not feel
that l could afford to advertise in the daily
papers. Two years ago last September
was having a cravenette coat sale, and
succeeded in selling for a couple Of weeks
about fifty coats day. I thought would
try column ad in one of the evening
papers. The next day this column ad ap-
peareG in one of the evening papers, and
by the bye, II was not the one that has the
largest circulation in Chicago; l selected
the paper that this ad appeared in because
they gave me low rate but they agreed
TO give my ad good position I'm the paper
The result was that the next day the sales
which formerly had been about fifty coats
a day, jurped TO l42, and in fifty days-t- sold
over $500 rain coats.
For the year following that sale con-
tinued to advertise In this one paper Last
fall felt that could afford to>invest, say
about 5000 in advertising In some of the
other papers. I used three morning papers
and three evening papers, the best In Chi
cago The results have been something
phenomenal. did not have to invest the
5000. The profits came back from the
newspaper advertising before their bills
came in. and I do not figure today that I
have dollar invested In advertising In
my opinion the only way to advertise is to
give them plain, common-sense talk. Tell
them the truth. Do not get a customer
TO come to your store and find that you
have faxed him, for that is poor adver-
tlsing, besides being dishonesty
Most of the advertisers nowadays seem
TO think that they must hunt the dictionary
through for all the large words they can
find. / read an article short time ago in
a Chicago paper that stated that the ad-
vertising man Of nowadays and in the fu-
ture must be OF necessity, a college graduate.
wanted TO reply to 1t. and I would have
done so, only the newspaper would have
thought that ] was trying to advertise
Tom. l do not believe that a college
graduate is as well fitted TO be an adver-
Using man as the man who knows only how
he write good. plainS common sense 1
left school when / was 10 years OF age. and
Il is just as easy FOR me to sit down and
write an ad as 1t Is to smoke a cigar, be-
cause it is 80 easy TO tell the truth I'm small
words
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
BETTER THAN GLORY.
S. E. Kiser in the Record-Herald.

S. E. Kiser in the Record Herald.
He wooed her when her hair was brown
And when her waist was slim,
When every other boy in town
Was envious of him.
He walked with her in country lanes
When she was young and glad
And youth and strength and hope and
health
Composed the sum Of all the wealth
That he had ever had.
He won her when her heart was light
And when her laugh was gay
When every day wasNfair and bright
And care was far away.
He claimed her as his own when she
Regarded him as one
For whom the fates had much in store,
Whom men would honor more and more
For great things npbly done.
He has not won the worlds applause.
She knows he never can;
His step is slower than 1t was,
But he's an honest man.
She wears the bloom of youth no more,
Yet side by side they fare,
Poor, bent old husband and gray wife,
Along the humble walks of life,
And still are lovers there.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
SMOKED OUT.

Whatever else may have been ac-
complished by the public hearing at
Lincoln on the terminal taxation bills,
it has produced at least one good re-
sult-it has smoked out the paid
spokesman of the tax-shirking rail-
roads on their main line of defense.
Up to the present the railroad lob
byists and publicity agents have in
sisted that terminal taxation for munic-
ipal purposes would simply transfer
to the big cities taxes now paid by
their roads into the treasures of rural
counties and school districts. They
have assumed the unselfish and pa
triotic role of protecting the rural
districts from spoliation by over
reaching municipalities, although at
the same time insisting that the rail-
roads would not be directly concerned
or affected. If these apologists for
railroad tax-snlrKlng were TO pc be-
lieved, it was nothing to the roads
where they might have to pay their
taxes, but they would much prefer to
pay them in remote corners of the
state.
When driven into the corner, how
ever, the railroad representatives have
been forced to admit publicly that it
would make great deal of difference
to them If they. we're compelled under
the proposed terminal tax bills to pay
city taxes which they now evade. One
or two of them, more frank than the
others, were even forced to admit that
the little cities and villages
would not only lose nothing by ter
minal taxation, but that they might in
fact be gamers thereby, as well as the
big cities containing the more valuable
terminals.
The issue is therefore simplified into
an effort on the part of the railroads
to, perpetuate an unjust and inexcus-
able condition by which they have for
years succeeded in escaping their fair
share of city taxes, and in SO doing
unloading the burden which they
ought to bear on to the shoulders of
other property owners, who have to
pay city taxes and other taxes without
any recourse. With the issue thus
plainly put, the cause of equal taxation
can not suffer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

WHEN RAILROAD DOCTORS DISAGREE.
The president, the congress and the
state legislatures may reasonably be
excused for failing to find a common
ground for the solution Of some of
the vexed problems connected with the
transportation interests of the coun-
try, when such eminent lights in the
railroad world as E. H. Hartman and
James ]. Hill come to a parting OF
the ways in an attempt to place the
responsibility for the congestion of
trafic, the car shortage and other
present day evils of railroad manage
ment against which the shippers and
consumers are loudly protesting.
Mr.. Hill, who was railroad builder
before he became a railroad manipu-
lator, contends that the development
Of the transportation facilities of the
country has not kept pace with the
growth of business demanding such
facilities. He insists that new rail-
road construction has not kept pace
with the expansion of business in other
lines and that 100000 miles of new
rails would not more than place the
railroads of the country on a level
with the business of the country. He
offers rather convincing figures in
support of his contention by showing
that the business of the country has
increased hundredfold in the last ten
years as against an increase of but
Hartman takes square issue with Mr..
Hill on this proposition and declares
that the facilities of the railroads have
increased in a larger ratio in the last
ten years than has the volume of BUSH
ness and that the shipping public is
to blame for the congestion of traffic,
the car shortage and other ills that
are hampering the commerce of the
nation today.
Much depends upon the viewpoint.
Both Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Hartman may
have grounds for their contention, but
Mr.. Hill supports his arguments by
statistics, while Mr.. Hartman con-
tents himself with assertions. Mr.. Hill
has spent most of the active years Of
his life in the country now clamoring
for relief from existing transportation
ills, while Mr.. Harriman's chief sue
cess has been won as a railroad finan-
cier Hartman looks at conditions
from the Wall street viewpoint. Hill
keeps his feet west of the Alleghenies.
In the meantime, the merchants of
the great empire in the west and
northwest are unable to get cars to
carry their goods from the eastern
market, while the grain men and
stockmen are compelled to suffer an
noyance and financial loss by the fall
ure of the railroad companies to fur
nish prompt and ample facilities for
the transportation of their traffic to
profitable markets. The shipper, ham
pered and hurt by insufficient railroad
facilities, will have little patience with
Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Hartman in their
academic discussions of the causes of
existing traffic congestion, but will con-
tinue to use every effort and influence
to secure, from whatever source. the
relief that is imperative from existing
conditions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
The Hunter ana the hunted.
Baltimore American.

IIoIIIIIIIVIV
Prof. Thomas Of Chicago university fame
thinks the ancient mode Of capturing wives
by force preferable to modern institutions
of matrimony. Bernard Shaw who can
give Chicago professors cards and spades
on the whole art of getting notoriety with
out waiting, advances the theory that in
modern society woman is the hunter and
man the game she mercilessly tracks down.
These two gentlemen might join forces in
evolving theory Of social revolution which
takes the race back to theNprmitive days,
were 1t not for the opposing fact that un-
der primitive conditions the race has no
use for freak theorists, poets of passion or
the performing clowns of dramatic litera-
ture
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
Shooting Up Fort Brown.
Philadelphia Record.

IHHdutipHld fkeCOTu.
Mingo Sanders testimony is quite unlike
any testimony obtained by Colonel Gar
lington or Major Blocksom or Mr. Purdy
1t is highly picturesque. According to him
Fort Brown was attacked by the popula-
ton of Brownsville. The gallant men Of
the Twenty-fifth infantry were panic
stricken. Some OF them fell upon their
knees and prayed for delivera nee. Others
shouted to have the lights put out. as they
were drawing the fire of the enemy, The
heroic sergeant ordered the men to fall in,
and not fall down, and assured them ii was
better to die in the ranks than anywhere
else. The guns were locked up. the GUS
todian of the keys could not be found, and
Lieutenant Greer-the sergeant says he
recognized the~vo ice-ordered that the
racks be broken. Sergeant Mingo Sanders
has been in the army long time and
borne good reputation-and he wants to
get back into the army.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
TROUBLE IN CUBA.

The ugly circumstances that have in
fuenced Secretary Taft to annul Gov
ernor Magoon,s recent order doubling
the Cuban rural guards are not cal
culated to hasten the withdrawal of the
United States from the island. The
order was of course intended TO
strengthen public authority against
discomfort and disorder and pave the
way for elections setting up a stable
government But this was precisely
what the restless spirits and habitual
revolutionists who overthrow the
Palma government did not want The
object of these patriots is control for
themselves of the spoils. and the or
ganizatiOn of a strong native force to
maintain a native government against
revolutionary outbreaks threw the rev.
olution marplots into commissions.
The resembling of the order strength
ening the Cuban rural guards, how
ever, does not mean surrender TO the
malcontents and agitators. although
they were foolish enough TO imagine
that TO be the meaning. They are
now beginning to awake to the fact
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
~hInaman Work. cIerer Fraud.

SAN, FRANCISCO. Feb. IA private
detective agency and the police depart
ments OF Oakland and San Francisco are
endeavoring to locate in China an Amer
ican-born Monaghan, Woo Ang by name.
secured a bill OF exchange for the latter
sum from an Oakland bank, sailed across
Kong The police theory Is that the Chi
naman worked with a confederate in the
person OF a man named Woods The ion
began in the state OF Kentucky. where
Woods bought a draft for S on the Han
over National bank OF New York The
draft was transferred TO Woo Ang from All
appearances Whether Woods or the Chi
naman did the raising is not known But
Woo cashed his bill OF exchange IN Hong
Kong before the fraud was discovered aud
beyond the fact that n = IN China the
detectives have no clue TO ais whereabouts
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
PenetrntinE ~ Mystery.

Chicago OhrOnlCIe.
Very little of the earth's' surface remains
UNEMPLOYED. Thirty years ago Nine Bla-
vatsky located her "Mahatma Koot Homi'
in an oasis of the desert Of Cobb, deeming
that neighborhood pretty secure from the
invasion Of the curious. Yet Sven Hedin
has now twice crossed the desert of Cobb
and Mr.. Lander has also explored It, It
may be said incidentally that they saw
nothing of Koot Homi or. his oasis. The
circumstance indicates that he who would
create land Of mystery ought to locate
It on another planet Any place on this
sphere is likely to be invaded by restless
people of the Hedin type.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
Rounding out Pension Legislation.

The service pension act just signed by
the president provides that soldiers and
sailors of the Mexican and civil wars hav-
ing reached the age of 81 years shall re-
ceive $12 a month; 20 years. $16; IS years,
$50; the pension to commence from the
date of filing the application. There can
be no accurate estimate of the amount of
money which will be needed to cover the
additional charge upon the treasury made
necessary by this legislation. There is no
doubt. however, that 1t will serve a
precedent for future pension legislation for
the aged survivors of later wars. It rounds
out and completes a policy of grateful
recognition for warlike service on land
and sea without parallel in amy other
country.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
vanishInE war Clouds.
Boston Transcript.

1t certainly looks as If California had
agreed to sound the cease firing" signal
This and the announcement of Sir Wllfrid
Laurier that Canada will never willingly
make war on the United states ought to
open the way for white-winged peace to
assert its supremacy and dissipate the
war clouds on the horizon. which, begin
ming no larger than a mans hand have
never increased their initial dimen sions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
Foreigner in American Trusts.
n.TfEv,ara

Federal indictments at Savannah against
the alleged Turpentine trust bring out the
fact that Antwerp and London concerns
were in the combination. There must have
been something in our laws peculiarly
favorable Ito the organization of trusts
when, foreign capital was attracted t.
methods that were not practicable in It's
own home fields.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

Eastern cities are making a good
deal of fuss over the establishment of
all night banks. Council Bluffs has
had several of them in operation for
years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
Greatest of Projected Reforms.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat,

A politicians trust is about to-be organ
lied in Washington to control the prices OF
room and board during, the meetings OF
congress. Government ownership Of hash
cries will be the next step OF reform.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

A Wall street report says the clear
ings house banks lost $4,000, 900
last week" The matter might be
serious If Wall streets losses were>i in
real money.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
Face MarI.s OF civiIlaatlon.
Chicago Record-Herald.

Another OF the benefits OF civilization has
been shown at indianapolis. where a num-
Der OF girls have been disfigured for life by
being branded with acids during their
initiation into the Alpha Cana Tau society.
In heather countries no such refined
methods OF branding can be practieed.
They have no acids.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

Speaker Cannon says the ship sub
sidy bill must wait until it has more
public opinion at its back. Tariff re-
vision win please move up a little and
make room on the bench for ship sub
sidy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

they are rejecting upon the necessity Of
stepping up to the captains Office to settle;
but when that il ione they let things slide
The taxpayers control of the purse strings
Is beautiful in theory. but IL does not work
out In practice Just as the eloquent eulo-
gists Of popular government pretend.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

Mr.. Cone of Saunders persists in
allowing a partisan zeal 10 outrnn his
calmer judgment. A safety valve of
some sort would render him a more
effective leader OF the opposition"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

The president received a number of
valentines OF the extensively comic
variety Some Sherlock Holmes should
investigate and see IL Senator Foraker
has any ink on the left side of the big
finger of his right hand.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

The charge that woman has no bust
ness ability falls in face of the record
of a California girl who married a
man who had lost both legs and an
arm in railroad accident and then
verdict of 100000 damages against
the company.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
The CONGRESSIONAL Recon-

The Congressional Record is not
printing a word about the Thaw trial
the editor evidently feeling that the
reports of Tnlman's speeches and SEN
ator Foraker's conduct OF the Browns
vile investigation are sensational
enough for his needs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
OutEo and Income.

II does sound a little cynical for the
news columns 10 report at the end OF the
week that John d. Rockefeller makes his
big gift. that the prices Of refined petrol
cum and its products are put up half
cent.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

The American Tariff commission has
returned from Berlin, bringing a per-
sonally conducted expense account and
report of progress, with a request to
sit again.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

Nebraska farmers are learning new
tricks rapidly. The latest is against
the Sugar trust. Whenever the sugar
company does not care to buy the
beets the farmer feeds them to his
cattle and realizes more than IS a
ton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

San Francisco notifies Mayor
Schmitz that If he comedies anything
in the Japanese fight he need not
come home from Washington. Re-
Numbering the number of indictments
pending against him in San Francisco
1t is difficult to understand why
Schmitz should want to go home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

Congress has refused to pass a ma
tional child labor bill. but offenders
might be punished by having Senator
Beveridge's 11o-column speech on the
subject read to them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
NeEIigence of Taxpayers.

Most Of the time the people pay precious
little attention TO what is done with the
money gathered from them by the tax col
lector. They grumble when they are called
upon TO pay the hills;a perhaps their
Crouch" lasts three or four. days while
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16
Value of "A stir Blur.
PHILADELPHIA Record

fhlduelpuld tNecoIu'
The evidences are wanting that the Japa-
nese have as much respect for other ma
tions as they are in the habit of exaeting
for themselves.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

A London scientist predicts an
earthquake for Illinois. but former
Senator BILLY" Mason and, former
Governor "Dlck" Yates may fool him
by refusing to start anything.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

Cuba expects Governor Magoon to
do something for Cuba as soon as con-
gress adjourns. The Cuban opinion
of congress is not new.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-16

General Kuropatkin assigns about
every reason except Field Marshal
oyama for the defeat of Russia in the
Buss-Jap war.