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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

BY this time the water wagon has
returned to Its proper function as freight
conveyance.
For a man Of 6S Ambassador Bryce will
have strenuous time living up to his
advance notices
An advance in the price of certain brands
of oil shows that the Standard Oil people
anticipate the drafts OF the lawyers.
Miner Hicks grows in popular esteem as
his virtues are found out. He refused to
wear a swallowtail coat at reception.
Violators of Boston's Sunday laws, when
caught In the act, usually get ten days
on bread, water and Emersons essays
Just to keep their hands in, the revolu-
tionlsts decorated the holiday season in st.
Petersburg with few official funerals.
The prophet of 1.-THE hardest winter OF
the century" was forced to flee to the
Arctic circle for infalllble signs Of fulfill
ment.
Providence moves in mysterious ways,
sure enough. A preacher stopped at Kala-
mazoo, Mich, long enough to take a bath.
Now the employees OF a local newspaper
begin business with prayer.
Pittsburg and the country connected with
It by wire feels much relieved over the
are going 10 lose themselves abroad for
three years. This will give the moral at
mosphere a chance to disinfect itself
The discussion and dissection of the
grille days Of Mother Eddy excites as keen
interest in New England as the companion
topic. did Eve Hand a Lemon TO Adam?'
The authorities charged with enforce
ment OF the pure food law are unable to
decide whether home made fruit cake Is
an article of interstate commerce or a We
hicle Of dyspepsia. Pending a decision
labels may be omitted.
The New York World Almanac and En-
cyclopeda for 1907 is one-volume library
of information. Concise, comprehensive
and complete, it is a marvel OF compilation
of good editing Legislative, election,
financial, trade, sporting, athletic, depart
mental and educational matters, American
and foreign, national and state, are all
presented in manner economical Of time
and nervous irritation. The professional
man, the business man, the young and the
aged; in fact all kinds and conditions of
men, will have frequent occasion during
the course OF the year 10 refer TO the pages
OF this valuable volume, the contents OF
which is given In a well arranged index.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
THE NAVAL BILL.

President Roosevelt's message to con-
gress, calling attention to needed re-
forms in the naval personnel, has not
as yet obtained the attention 1t de-
serves. The president has pointed out
defects in the American naval estab-
lishment that would seem to demand
immediate correction. 1t is a most
incongruous spectacle the United States
presents today in this regard. Rapidly
adding to the equipment of the navy,
no step is being taken to provide for
its most effective employment in the
contingency of possible war.
Skilled and competent commanders
of large naval forces cannot be impro-
vised, and the day of the captains
battle" in naval warfare is over. Yet
congress seems determined to leave the
navy Just where 1t was in 1898, when
Captain Sampson was called upon to
take charge of fleet and conduct a
vigorous warfare. He had had no train
ing in handling large bodies of vessels
and men. and the strain of the cam
paign broke him down. In all prob
ability 1t would be so again were the
United States to become embroiled in
war. None of the higher officers of
the navy are physically able to undergo
the arduous duties of sea campaign,
and few If any of the younger men
have had the needed training in the
tactics and strategy of maneuvering
large fleets at sea.
The war with Spain and the subse-
quent campaigns in the Philippines
were of inestimable service to the
army, for they brought about a re-
adjustment of rank and sent young
men to promotion while yet young and
vigorous, and in condition to give good
service to their country. But the navy
has not benefited correspondingly, but
is in almost the same state of UMPIRE
paredness. The presidents warning
should be needed and the needed legis-
lation provided for readjustment OF
the naval personnel.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
DISTINCTLY ENCOURAGING.
Preliminary Work of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.


SAANdBO
Men of Harriman's type have said that
the task of regulating the operations of the
NATIONS railways under the existing law
is too big for the Interstate Commerce
commission. The total mileage of those
railways and the enormous volume Of their
business do make the job seem prodigious
for seven men. But the domination Of
many lines by one man, as revealed in the
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific inquiry, in
itself contains a reflection of the argument
against government regulation by a small
commission.
Work already done by the commission is
a more direct indication of the results to
be expected. The Hartman investigation
is an incidental task for the commission,
which, through 1t, is helping the govern
ment to find out whether or not the law
against combinations in restraint of trade
has been violated. Two of the commission
ers, on arriving in Chicago the other day
to continue the investigation. turned aside
for a few hours to head off a big railway
strike. Then five OF them telegraphed
James ]. Hill to make haste to relieve the
coal famine sufferers in the northwest. In
short the governments representative
have a masterful way about them which
promises well.
By division of labor and the use of fast
trains as seven-league boots, the commits
Fsioners. working simultaneously at points
far removed from one another, recently
have made moderate Investigations respect
ing the relations of railways and elevators,
coal lands and car shortage; now they have
begun study Of railway wrecks and block
systems. These inquiries, most of them
ordered by congressional resolutions. are
not the main business for which the COM
mission exists. That business is the strict
enforcement of the new law forbidding
determinations, rebates and unreasonable
rates
Nevertheless, the commission appears to
have been attentive to its chief duty. Pre-
liminary work for inaugurating the uni
form system of bookkeeping required of the
roads has been done and a set of rules on
filing tariffs has been completed. Rate
hearings have been in progress In Chicago
this week. Similar hearings are scheduled
for all parts of the country.
Both the manner and the results of the
commissions work thus far are distinctly
encouraging to the public.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

powered to do so. On the contrary.
practically all the states have volun-
tarily placed in their constitutions sub
stantially the same prohibition that the
national constitution contains. But If
the people of any state should see 1T to
annul that prohibition and to authorize
a state church establishment, they
would be acting within their powers.
Fortunately no such menace confronts
us and the discussion belongs wholly to
the realm of speculation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
THE HAUNTED PALACE.
Edgar Allen Poe.

In the greenest OF our valleys
BY good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace
Radiant palace-reared its head,
In the monarch Thoughts dominion
1t stood there
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fa1rI
Banners yellow, glorious golden,
On its roof did float and flow,
Crhis-al this-was in the olden
And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,'
A winged odor went away.
Wanderers in that happy valley,
Through two luminous windows, saw
Spirits moving unsteady,
To a lute's well-tuned law,
Round about a throne, where, sitting,
(PorphyrogeneD
In state his glory we'll betting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, now
And Sparkling evermore.
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing,
In voices of surprising beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assaulted the monarchs high estate.
(Ah, let us mournl-for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolateD
And round about his home the glory
That blushed and bloomed,
Is but aforementioned story
OF the old time entombed.
And travellers now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move Enthusiastically
To discordant melody,
While, like a CHASTITY rapid river,
Through the pale door
hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh-but smile no more.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
BIDDING FOR A DIVORCE COLONY. =

BIDDING FOR 4 DIVORCE COLONY. =
The recent publication of the stats
tics of marriage and divorce in Omaha
for the year 1906, startling on their
face, is attracting much attention from
outside newspaper commentators. The
most pointed criticism comes from the
Chicago Inter Ocean, which makes
them the text for a satire headed,
What's the Matter with Omaha?"
Can 1t be possible" 1t asks, that the
generally accepted and comfortable
theory which we have been entertain
ing with regard to social Pittsburg is
social Omaha?" Answering it's own
question, it says that it looks so, "be-
cause Omaha had nearly one-third as
many divorces as marriages last year"
The only mitigation found in this con-
dition lies in the further information
that "a very large percentage of the
applicants for legal separation are
from the eastern states"
While some of our critics are in
cllned to make fun of our plight, the
situation disclosed is really no laugh
ing matter. On the contrary, 1t indi-
Gates that Nebraska by reason of its
lax divorce laws is openly bidding for
divorce colony, and that this state is
widely heralded as offering easy facili-
ties for marital uncoupling. Without
mentioning names, any intelligent per-
son who reads the newspapers can
readily recall a dozen to a score OF
VIGOROUSLY fragrant cases of imported
divorce suits in which the plaintiff has
not even attempted to disguise the
temporary character of his or her resi-
dence here, as well as its purpose. II
longer residence to give access to our
courts is the only way to stop fraudu-
lent applications, this feature of our
divorce law should by all means be
changed. But even as the law stands
much stricter enforcement of our
residence requirement is imperatively
demanded from our judges. Neither
Nebraska nor Omaha has anything to
gain from being advertised broadcast
as an open door for divorce seekers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
THE srATEs AND BELJgIoY.

In the senate discussion of the Smoot
case the fact is brought out forcibly
that, contrary to a common misunder-
standing, although perhaps known to
students, the several states are free to
create church establishments unless
prohibited by their own constitutions.
The federal constitution provides only
that congress shall make no laws re-
speeting an establishment of religion or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof. q"
But that provision in no way restraints
or affects the power of states TO do
what is thus denied only TO congress.
1t is true that no state of the union
has ever created a state church, not
withstanding all were originally en-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
4 TRUNK LINE WATERWAY.

The people generally, and the manu-
facturers and business men of the west
especially, ought not to miss the force
of the fact that a board of competent
engineers has reported, after a thor
ough practical examination, that a
fourteen-foot channel between st.
Louis and the Chicago drainage canal
can be secured at an expense to the
government not exceeding at the ut
most $31 100000, and probably sew
eral millions less. The difficulty OF
securing and maintaining a channel
of the same depth for long distance
below st. Louis is greater, but by no
means insuperable. A channel even
of considerably less depth thus con-
Meeting the lakes and the gulf would
form a great free waterway through
the heart of the continent of incalcula-
BILE service to its transportation needs
and of far-reaching influence upon car
rying charges.
It's potency as a trunk line" would
be even greater, impaTting a tremen-
dous impetus to extension of real water
competition by improvements for nav
igation on the chief tributaries of the
Mississippi, like the Missouri and Ohio
rivers, for every reach of deepened
channel in them would then afford
vast water connections and alterna-
tives between numerous great markets
as well as direct access to the gulf. 1t
would afford opportunity, too, In
score of the greatest and most pro-
ductive states for public authority fur
Their to break down the railroad dis
ordinations by which the advantages
of river competition has been de-
stroyed
The most surprising circumstance is
the comparatively small cost of laying
the basis for such epoch-maldng water
way developments. If there could be
subordination of the innumerable
petty and purely local schemes under
guise of river improvement, not a dol
lar more need be taken in the aggre-
gate from the national treasury for a
large and basic channel than has been
fruitlessly spent during a long series
of years.
But the dilemma between the horns
of which the growing demand of the
west for water competition is placed
is that obstructive interests insist that
there must be navigation before the
MERGE finds that the channels must be
deepened before there can. be effective
| navigation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

The assessed valuation for the city
of Portland upon which the municipal
tax levy is imposed figures up a little
over 6,5OO,OOO. Portland by the
last census was about 10000 short of
the population of Omaha and today
cannot be much, If any, ahead in num-
Der of inhabitants. On taxable valua-
ton, however, Portland has the best
of Omaha by approximately $50, 0O0,-
900. Either Portland has marked it's
goods up arbitrarily on the blackboard
or it has been the beneficiary of an un-
precedented squirt of prosperity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN.

Democratic politicians and press are
trying very hard to manufacture po-
litical capital out of the retirement OF
Secretary Cortelyou from the chair
manship of the republican national
committee and the assumption If the
duties of chairman by Vice Ch,..fman
New. There is, however, nothing out
of the ordinary in this change except
that Mr.. Cortelyou should have deemed
it incumbent upon him to relinquish his
position at the head of the party or
ganization in order that his attention
might not be diverted in any way from
the delicate duties that will devolve
upon him as secretary of the treasury.
So far as the succession of Mr.. New
to temporary headship of the commit
tee is concerned, 1t goes to him by vir-
tue of his occupancy of the vice chair
manship and not by designation by the
retiring chairman. The Craftsmanship
remains vacant until filled by the COM
mittee, just as it did when Senator
Hanna died, and Vice Chairman Payne
became acting head of the committee.
There being nothing for the committee
to do at this juncture nothing will be
gained or lost by waiting for the regu-
lar meeting, which will come next De-
cember, when the time and place of the
next national republican nominating
convention will be fixed. Unless some
thing unforeseen occurs before that
time the committee will in all probable
ity ask Mr.. New to hold over until a
new committee shall have been consti-
tuted aud a new campaign organization
perfected.
AS a matter of fact, there would have
been no conflict with the politi-
cal proprieties for Secretary Cortelyou
to have continued to act as national
chairman Just as have others before
him, who have likewise held high posi-
ton of one kind or another under the
| government. When he was chosen In
the first place he retired from the cabi-
net in order to devote his whole time
to the campaign and resumed a cabinet
portfolio afterward only when the cam
paign work was all done. He took the
position not because he wanted IT for q
personal qualification, but only on the
urgent request of President Roosevelt
Those who are hitting at him now as q
matter of fact are only trying to strike
the president over his shoulders.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
A Lid for Hasty Marriages.
/. Paul Pioneer-Press.


Evidently none of the states served the
cause of sanity or decency in the making
of the marriage compact, or of stability
in nuptial relations, when they swung
away from the old custom of publishing
the banns" some time before the perform
ance of the marriage ceremony A bill
now before the Illinois legislature proposes
return to something like the old custom
by requiring the publication of a notice
at least thirty days before the wedding. 1t
will at least dignity the occasion, and pre-
vent many a marriage in haste, to be re-
pentod at leisure.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
REMEDIES FOE TRADE CONSPIRACY

REMEDIES FOE TRADE CONSPIRACY
At least two ways are Immediately
available of attacking conspiracies for
SURPRISING competition in railroad
transportation. In the first place, the
facts brought out by pending investiga-
tons concerning the Hartman group
of tTanscontlnental roads indicate
possible violation of the Sherman anti
trust law, attaekable both by injunc-
ton and by criminal prosecution. The
evidence already in sight seems as
strong as, II not stronger than, that
on which the incorporation method Of
combining the Hill group was annulled
with the sanction of the supreme court.
Because the Hill scheme in restraint
OF trade has been in some part or even
in most part perpetuated under an
other form of operation, or because the
Hartman scheme, II its present
methods were enjoined, might likewise
be perpetuated In some other form, IL
does not follow that the one or the
other is not effectively assailable in
further judicial proceedings under the
same law. A conspiracy against com
petition under any form is illegal, and
court remedy is simply a matter OF
legal proof of violation. Moreover, the
antitrust law is eminently "a criminal
statute" as Justice Holmes declared in
the Northern Securities case, and its
criminal resources remain yet to be
developed.
On top OF this. and even more i'm
portant, is the power conferred by the
new law upon the Interstate Commerce
commission TO fix rates for interstate
commerce. II competition in rates has
been illegally suppressed so that they
are unduly high in general or dis
eliminating in particular, a national
tribunal now stands ready with full
power and charged with the duty OF
effeeting the rate reductions which Il
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
Grin Fncta.
Baltimore American.

The grip is not simply bad cold, and
this fact is worth knowing. 1t resembles
a cold in some respects, and colds are often
wrongly diagnosed by the victims as grip.
The grip is a malady which has laws of its
own, both as to origin and progress after
development, According to the doctors,
It must run its course-"there is no special
remedy that can directly destroy the in
fection, no drug that can kill the bacillus
or neutralize its toxin" This also is worth
knowing. The main thing is to nurse with
care and give the system the best possible
aid in its efforts to throw off the poison.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

President Roosevelt has backed up
SO far as his order dismissing the col
ored troops deprived them of their
right to hold civil positions under the
government He need not, however.
expect that to mollify his assailants in
the senate. No matter what the pres
ident does, these senatorial sharp
shooters will make some of his actions
their target.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

Senator Tillman's remarks on the
Brownsville incident will be received
with little more satisfaction in the
south than in the north. The pitch
fork statesman is afflicted with dam
aged tines.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

The railroads still insist that they
are taking no hand in the work of the
Nebraska legislature. II is to be
noted, however, that some one with
more method than madness is stirring
up about every conceivable subject
that would serve TO divert attention
from the measures the railroads most
want beaten.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

The Institution of civil suits to re-
cover land involved in fraud is the Sc
verest blow the government can strike
At the practice, since corporations can
better AFFORD TO see congressman go to
fail than 20 lose their spoil.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

Farmers who have had experience
with free seeds sent out from Wash
ington may believe that the govern
ment is still combining Its efforts to the
dissemination of rare varieties" since
plants which come from the seed too
frequently surprise the planters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

In suggesting a cabinet officer TO
supervise the American child and home
some mothers" show an inclination
to foist upon the government those
duties which nature imposes upon the
individual, and nature has way of
enforcing its rules.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

The proposal of Oklahoma constitu-
ton makers to sell all state school
land may mean that their desire to
prevent scandals outweighs their con-
fidence in the increase in value of the
holdinga
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

The next time Kentucky politicians
want to annihilate opposition they will
use their own guns and take chances
with jury of their peers. as these
various confessions must be trying on
the nerves.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

view that a German court has or
dered San Francisco fire losses paid,
California congressman should recipro-
cate by favoring a reduction in duties
on imported Rhine wine.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

President Ripley's admission that
railroads may have failed to provide
adequate rolling stock detracts from
his plea that the companies be per-
mitted to do the best they can without
government interference.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

Mayor Dahlman neglected to exhibit
with his lasso at the late Jacksonian
feast. Such inactivity may so put him
out of practice as to impair his world
wide reputation as a rope thrower.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
Redmen Growing I'm Numbers.

Strange to relate, the Indian race, which
was supposed to be rapidly disappearing,
is now increasing in numbers. This is con-
trary to all the poetical and pathetic no
lions regarding the crushing of the red
man by his heartless white brother.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

The japanese who have formed so
ciety to develop trade with the Philip
pines evidently have little faith in the
occidental idea that trade follows the
flag and the orient may teach the west
another lesson.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

A bill has been introduced in Lin
coin to relieve the State Board of
Charities and Corrections of its oficial
existence. The state board may be
expected Immediately TO assume super
vision OF this piece OF relief work.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

After he has requested the pope to
issue an encyclical in favor of peace,
w. T. Stead may find that he should
have begun at Paris.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

If Oklahoma doesn't hurry Kansas
will beat it In getting the Indian repre-
sented in the United States senate,
since Congressman Charles Curtis
traces his ancestry to the red man.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

1t is said that the president has aban-
doned the use of the expression De
lighted" but he surely will renew its
acquaintance II the proposition to make
him the judge at the jamestown interna-
tional baby show is carried out
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
Cannot Unload his burden.

ShlCdBo ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Il. II. Hartman says he would give up
his wealth tomorrow IL he could. He has
looked around, however, and is unable to
discover any man or set of men who would
in his opinion be great enough to assume
the responsibility If he were to unload it.