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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-25

Cut flowers and potted plants. o. r,
Rooblns 4 Son. Tel 4!3,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
Concerning stalking Horses.
Kansas City Times.


There is an amusing side to Foraker's
charge that Secretary Taft is only a
stalking horse" for the president. It is
the idea that Mr.. Taft could be thus used
by anyone, even the president. He is not
that kind OF stun, and the country knows
it. II he wanted to work for another
Roosevelt nomination he would come into
the open and declare himself. There would
be no reason why he should not. And if
there were such a reason he would not
assume q misleading attitude; he would
remain in the background. On the other
hand, Foraker is not a fool. He knows
that he can never be president of the
United States, He knows that the best
he can do for the special interests he
represents is to make the effort to control
the Ohio delegation for those interests.
And that is what he proposes TO do.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
Personal NOTES.

p. H. Hartman, the railroad mAgnate,
has purchased 100 acres fronting on Broad
way. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hudson for $50 =
CO., It is said he will build big man
sion.
His majesty, Chinkalonghorn, king of
Slam, is about to visit London. 1t is ex-
tremely doubtful whether Mr.. Chuckalong-
horn can give the natives any pointers in
that line.
Contrary to the general belief in Kansas,
D. r. Anthony viii not be the tallest mem
Der Of congress. Anthony is feet inches,
but Congressman "Cy sullAway Of New
Hampshire is feet inches
Up to the present time the management
Of the jamestown exposition shows no dis
position to admit those members Of the
Smith family who want TO get in on the
ground that they are related to the original
John Smith.
Samuel Douglas McEnery, Louisiana g
senior senator, is nearing his SEVENTEEN
birthday and except for defective hearing
he is hale and hearty. He was educated at
the United States Naval academy, but pre-
ferred the life Of planter to that Of a naval
officer
Theodore N. Vain who has been elected
president OF the American Telephone &
Telegraph company. of Boston. at a salary
OF 10000. has risen to his present position
from farmer boy. He was born in New
Jersey sixty-twO years ago, and in his
youth worked on a farm in Iowa
Henry Jackson, a wealthy Indian living
on the klamath reservation in Oregon.
wants a suitable white husband for his
daughter and has offered large sum, some
say $4,000. for such son-in-law as win
find favor In his sight Above every
thing the candidate must be a foe Of nq-
uor, the red mans worst enemy. Jackson's
own son, once a fine young man, has fallen
victim 10 frewater and Is now dying OF
consumption The jackson herds are piling
fast and the old Indian wants a son-in-laW
capable OF managing them.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
Publicity in Campaigns.


The proposed national publicity law re-
quiring the publication of campaign con-
tributions, is in line with the idea of the
day that publicity is the cure for many
pressing national ills. Questionable meth
DDS will always be used while there is
probability Of their being kept secret, but
it is when they are forced into the lime
light that their danger becomes too great
for their transaction. Deeds that must be
done in the open, with full public knowl-
edge, and consequently subject to the all
powerful influence of public opinion, must
conform more to law and justice than those
protected by the darkness of public ignor-
ance 1t is the knowledge which the mass
of the people now possess which has led
the way to the correction of so many pub
lie abuses and forced reforms beyond the
power OF, the strongest politicians to OPP
pose.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
AN AUTOBIoGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Colonel Bryan DeIicateIy Admits He
Has Cake.

Has Cake.
New York Sun
This photographed passage in a recent
speech of Mr.. Bryan's is instructive:
My living is as secure as that OF any
millionaire in the land.
Con1agration may wipe out the wealth
Of millionaire, but no confagration can
rob me of the political asset which has
been, given me Dy the assent of 6,5OO,0OO
people.
All 1 have to do is what l want to do
No one can withhold from me the means
of earning living.
For nearly eleven years Mr. Bryan has
had not only bread and butter but cake
AS a writer, a lecturer, an editor and a
newspaper proprietor, he makes a good
living, Nobody grudges 1t to him; may he
live long to enjoy it; but 1t is entirely prob
able that he would be still an obscure at
torney II a bit of twadry rhetoric had not
hypnotized an hysterical national conven-
ton. The asset" which he speaks of is
financial as we'll as political. His paths
drop fairness. His prosperity is the most
evident which he preached so long, the
gospel Of Ocala and populism. Now, rich
and independent, he is properly grateful:
/ have nothing to ask of the American
people. All l ask Is chance TO pay back
the debt owe to them.
Is the debt not paid already? Govern
ment railroads and the initiative and ref
erendum; surely the American people will
not ask Mr.. Bryan for anything more.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
UNCLE SANS CASH SUPPLY

Financial experts are persistently
clamorlng for some adjustment of the
national laws by which the volume of
currency may be increased with the
growth of the NATIONS commercial and
Industrial interests. Notwithstanding
a multitude of proposed schemes con.
gress hesitates to tinker with the
money laws, however urgent such de-
mands may be from the viewpoint of
the experts. The official reports
Of the governments fiscal operations
for April show, however, that the vol
ume of currency is being increased at
a steady rate and is now greater than
ever before in the history of the ma
ton.
The government minis in April ex-
ecuted gold coins valued at $3.50, 040
and silver coinage quar-
tiers and dimes-to the value of ST.
305,S47, together with s530,150 in
nickels, a total coinage of s5,379,O37.
This was supplemented by the placing
of 100000 in gold certificates into
circulation, making the total money
in circulation in the nation on May 1,
$2,932, 106,025, the largest in the his
tory of the country. On the basis of
a population estimated at S5,S3S, 900
the circulation per capita on May 1
amounted to s34.16, or 10 cents above
the highest level ever before reached.
During the month Of April, 46 ma
tional banking associations we're char
tered with an authorized capital stock
Of $3.50, 900, making a total Of 6,422
national banks in the country with a
capital stock aggregate of 1887, 1884,
275 and an outstanding circulation of
$599,913,S40 Government receipts
from revenues showed an excess OF
35,1S5,1S1 over expenditures for
April. The national operations are all
recorded on the gain side of the ledger
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
Mr.. sHAWS WAR DREAMS.

1t is difficult to believe that Leslie
Mortimer Shaw, former governor of
Iowa, late secretary of the treasury
and long prominent in the political and
financial life of the nation, has had
his mental vision warped by a brief
residence in New York. Chief of
many charms that distinguished his
official career are a perennial optim-
ism, and a steadfast refusal to give up
his western viewpoint, but his latest
address, delivered before a bankers
convention at Worcester, Mass, in
dicates that he is beginning to look
into the future through Wall street
glasses and sees a gloomy outlook.
"As sure as the Anglo-Saxon blood
runs red" Mr.. Shaw is quoted as say
ing, there is to be an awful war.
There are two great nations that can
contest for the Pacific and this war
will be settled at an awful cost"
Mr.. Shaw's prediction of war was
made in support of an argument in
favor OF the enlargement of the Amer
lean merchant marine, by the ship sub
sidy route. He contended that we have
nothing like adequate protection
against the possible assaults OF an
enemy on the Pacific and urged prompt
action by the government looking to
the proper equipment of Pacific feet
of invincible strength and the FORTH
cation of Pacific coast towns. In nc
other way, he urged, could Americas
present and natural domination of the
Pacific be protected and maintained.
Promoters of an increased navy and
advocates OF ship subsidy legislation
will doubtless endorse the attitude OF
the ex-secretary, but the laymen will
with difficulty reconcile the predictiot
Of war with the recital of the causes for
1t. Mr.. Shaw called attention TO the
international commerce of America
and explained that our exports exceed
those Of any other nation by more thar
t1OO, 100000. Our exports. he said
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

consisted largely Of food products,
cotton and other raw materials, Of
which we have a surplus and which
the world can obtain in no other mar
ket The world patronizes America in
these lines because they must have
these supplies and can obtain them no.
where else" Accepting this statement
as true, It does not seem reasonable
that any foreign power, which must
have portion of this American sur
plus, should inaugurate a war against
America, the result of which inevitably
would be to reduce the surplus of pro-
ducts and thus directly increase the
price of the products which the world
must have.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

The commission appointed by the
president to study the immigration
problem had opportunity last week to
get strong light on one phase Of the
subject when 10000 alien laborers
landed at Ellis Island, the largest num-
Der that ever came 20 America before
in any one doy Ellis Island is
equipped with facilities for handling
5000 immigrants day and the one
days arrivals completely swnmped the
immigration officials. But one of the
problems that has heretofore caused
much trouble and more concern TO i'm
migration and civic officials in New
York City was wanting in the record
breaking day. The immigrants, al
most without exception, had tickets for
points outside of New York and most of
them were anxious to get away from
the metropolis as quickly as possible.
The distribution of immigrants has
been a veHed problem, most of the ar
rivals in the past showing a disposi-
ton to locate in the cities already over
supplied with alien laborers. The i'm
migrants now arriving have heard the
roar of industry in the west and are
hurrying to participate in the prosper
ity that is enriching the owners of
railroads, mines, mills, farms and fac
tories throughout the country and Of
fering compensation for investment Of
Drawn and energy.
Under existing conditions, the rec
ord-breaking influx of alien laborers
can occasion no alarm Estimates in
dictate that the number of immigrants
arriving in America this year will ex-
/ coed 100000 but a job is awaiting
everyone of them. Farmers in the
Mississippi valley region are offering
as high as So day for laborers, while
the scarcity Of workmen in the mill
districts of New England and the south
amounts almost to a famine. The
chief immigration problem just now is
how to get more of them to contribute
TO the advancement of the nations in
dustrlal welfare.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
uNoLE SAWS rAsruRAon.
.Pubiic Grnzing Lands for Herds
and F1ocl3a.
WI strcet Iournal.


wan Street Journal
Uncle sam. unlike Job the rich man OF
the east does not own many cattle and
horses. or sheep and goats but he fur
nlshes an enormous amount OF grazing
land for those who 90 have herds and
1ocks The total number OF grown stock
allowed to grace upon national forest lands
during the season OF 1897. included i,SsS,OOS
cattle and horses and 4SsAQ9O sheep and
goats
Although Uncle Sam Is a peaceful lani
lord. his shepherds and cowboys are not
always az peace with one another out
IN the mountain regions where pastures
are rather scarce, people who own cattle
go so far as to dynamite hocks Of sheep.
The quarres of the cattlemen and Sheep
men are not based on grounds Of personal
antipathy as a rule. A flock OF sheep
moves along I'm a dense body, cropping the
grass so closely as almost TO destroy the
chances OF another years growth. Cattle
grazing is much less harmful TO the turf
because 1t leaves grass in condition to do
something next year.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
Encouraging the Young Poet.


Every man, woman and child should
write poetry. 1t is like boils, It prevents
worse sickness II there were more poets
there would be fewer criminals. Poetry
is in every mans blood. If he doesnt
write 1t at some time or another during
his life watch out for him. His wild oats
are unsown; they will rot in his system
and sour his nature Write poetry, there
fore, so long as there is a Jingle in your
soul The man who would advise corlSing
up poetry unwrltten in a human heart
would soon have all the world full of
brain-storms and the devil to pay. It's a
great business, this poetry business And
the man who hasn't had his fling with
love and dove and spring and wing and
skies and eyes and lips and sips and honey
dips Inspected and guaranteed absolutely
pure) is like the man who died aged 70
years without being hungry-he missed a
lot of fun filling up.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
THE QUESTION OF GOOD STREETS.

THE QUESTION OF GOOD STREETS
The most pressing problem Omaha
has to meet just now is that of getting
its streets once more into flrst-class
condition. The wretched state of our
pavements, with few exceptions, is
thoroughly impressed upon every one
compelled to traverse them, and can
not help but strike every visiting
stranger unfavorably. Omaha has
long boosted its finely paved streets,
but to put hundreds of thousands of
dollars into costly pavements and then
let them stand most of the time in a
condition of bad repair is not an eco
nomical proposition.
The promise is made that the work
of street restoration will proceed soon
without interruption to the extent that
available funds permit, but that is not
| the only thing that is necessary.
Measures should be enforced to pre-
vent the further destruction of our
streets by the indiscriminate cutting
Of the pavements. No new permits
for street cuts should be issued to any
contractor or franchised corporation
until previous cuts made by them have
! been completely restored. Some
brake should also be put upon the APP
preparation of the streets by building
contractors who destroy their surface
by mixing mortar, storing sand and
other building materials upon them.
Still another preventive measure
would be the enactment and enforce
ment of a wide tire ordinance to pre-
vent the wearing of the pavements by
sharp wagon wheels.
In other cities all of these precau-
tions are taken and as much care put
upon the preservation of the street
pavements as upon their original con-
struction. There is no good reason
why Omaha should not have its street
pavements kept in serviceable condi-
ton at all times at ordinary expense
for repairs just as we'll as any other
city whose streets are subject to the
same wear and tear of traffic.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
WHAT is A DEMOCRAT
Question Suggested by Remarks nG
NebrRskan I'm the East.
Philadeinhia Record Cdprn

NebrRsknn I'm the East.
Philadelphia Record Cdem.).
DR.. Miller of Omaha who has been a
wheel-horse of the western democracy for
forty years, has been talking entertain-
ingly In New York. In his opinion Bryan
is a populist masquerading as a democrat.
and is the cause of all the democratic de-
feats In the last dozen years. stll, he
doesn't see that there is anything for the
democrats to do but to nominate Bryan
once more and go down to another defeat.
Bryan has talked Of many things" he
said, but he has always avoided the tariff.
That Is the issue which should be made"
AS 1t looks TO him, Bryan and Roosevelt
are running foot race to see which can
be the more radical. The latter's popular
ity he thinks is now at its highest point
and there is certain to be a reaction. Dr.
Miller is an unreconstructed Tilden and
Cleveland democrat, and while the democ-
racy has not yet sloughed Off populism he
still hopes 1t will do so by 1912. As Pope
says, Man never is. but always to be.
blest"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
THE LEGEND OF EVIL.
Rudyard Klpling.


This is the sorrowful story
Told when the twilight fails,
And the monkeys walk together,
Holding each others tails.
"Our fathers lived in the forest;
Foolish people were they:
They went down to the cortland
To teach the farmers to play.
"Our fathers frisked I'm the millet,
Our fathers skipped in the wheat,
Our fathers hung In the branches,
Our fathers danced in the street.
"Then came the terrible farmers;
Nothing Of play they knew,
Only they caught our fathers,
And set them to labor, too!
set them to work in the cortland
With plows and sickles and fails,
Put them in mud-walled prisons,
And cut off their beautiful tails.
Now, we can watch our fathers,
Sullen and bowed and old,
STOPPING over the millet,
Sharing the silly mould.
Driving a foolish furrow,
Mending a muddy yoke,
Sleeping In mud-walled prisons,
Sleeping their food In smoke
I'VE may not speak to our fathers,
For II the farmers knew.
They would come up to the forest
And set us to labor, too"
This is the horrible story
Told as the twilight fails,
And the monkeys walk together,
Holding each others tails.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

In explaining the need of another
loan the treasurer of the jamestown
exposition declares, THE finances of
this exposition are on a more stable
basis than has been the case with
other expositions." Please note an
exception for the Omaha exposition of
1898, whose finances were on such a
stable basis that 1t paid back 80 per
ceRt Of the stockholders money.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

The signal service corps is said to
be contemplating a balloon trip from
Omaha to Washington some time dur
ing the summer. That is not usually
the best season to get passengers to
Washington. The travel in that di-
rection is more attractive right after
election.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

The State university regents also
threaten to go into court to find out
whether, under the appropriation of
| the proceeds" of the special univer-
sity levy, they will have to wait until
the money is collected into the treas
ury before drawing warrants against
it. AS a prelude they are picturing
the terrible plight in which the uni
versity will be If the authorities rule
against them. 1t is not quite so bad
as that, however. The university will
not have to shut down. The univer-
sity fund is supplied from various
sources besides the special mill levy.
1t takes in more than 100000 in reg
istration, tuition and laboratory fees;
it gets $4,000 from university lands
and investments; IT gets about $780,"
900 from the federal government as a
beneficiary of the Morrill, and Hatch
funds; 1t is counting on nearly $4,000
from back taxes collected in excess of
its previous estimates, and has several
other little nest-eggs to draw on. The
chances are good that the ghost will
continue to walk regularly at the uni
versity without passing the hat for do
nations whether or not the regents are
allowed to spend the proceeds" of the
next tax levy before there are any
| proceeds"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
The Man VINO noen ThInrr.

81, LOUIS GloDe-DemoCr0t
Having brought about the regulation of
railways and the reduction OF passenger
farce 20 cents a mile President Roose-
welt will shortly undertake to dispose of
the problem of car shortage, The country
is fortunate in having a man at the helm
who can do things
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Chicago has placed a ban on scent
theaters and patrons are now asking
If there is any difference between a
scent show and a 50 show. Well,
there is a s1s5 difference, anyway.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
Don't Crowd the Limit.

Paul Morton thinks another period OF
national depression will never come h this
countr: There are no indications OF ca
lamity now, but with a people as restless
and adve@turous as we are there cannot
be high flying without interruption.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
Uncle SANS Growing surplus.

Sprlngheld hepubncan.
The government treasury last month
added 100000 more to its large surplus
revenue accumulation for the current fiscal
year II now amounts to above $5s,OOoOOO,
compared with only 100000 for the corre-
spending period of last fiscal year. This
reflects continued business prosperity and
unprecedented importations Of dutiable
goods,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Mrs. William Thaw denies that she
has endowed western college. Mrs.
Thaw is using her surplus just now to
endow lawyers.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Lille Devereaux Blake insists that
the American eagle, the brand selected
tor the national emblem, Is of feminine
gender. Male or female, It is no molly
coddle, at any rate.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Fast trains out of Chicago keep
pretty close 10 their schedule" says
the Chicago Tribune. Even the train
men, apparently, are anxious to make
the fastest time possible in getting
away from Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Speaking of big broad men," Col
Onel Bryan weighs only thirty-five
pounds less than Secretary Taft and is
blessed with good appetite and diges-
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Experts differ as to the amount Of
damage done by the snow and frost
to fruit trees in this vicinity, but they
will get together when they fix the
prices of the crop later in the season.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Being duly warned in advance Of
the coming Of the Omaha Commercial
clubs trade excursion, the people OF
the Puget Sound country will have
nothing to do but to surrender.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Sir William Ramsey claims to have
discovered a method for making arti-
heial copper. Montana mining pro-
motors have been doing that for years.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Fnllauelpnla Press,
Colonel Bryan's opinion that ex-President
Cleveland has belittled himself by his re-
latior- wth the life insurance companies
ir not sound. 1t is as necessary for ex-
Presidents to earn a living as II is for
those who have only run for the office.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

The Washington ball team lost only
three games last week. The others
were postponed on account of cold
weather.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Secretary Taft will not admit that
he is presidential candidate. Sena-
tor Knox is willing to admit that he is,
but can offer no proof.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

If the Kearney Normal school peo-
pie make their contention stick that
the governors time limit had expired
before he vetoed their appropriation
bill they might revive all the other APP
preparations knocked out by the gov
ernor's objections, among them the
$4,000 for the School for the Deaf
at Omaha. No one In Omaha, how
ever, is going wild over the prospect.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

The czar's eldest daughter is said to
be one of the most beautiful and ac-
eomplished women in Europe and
very wealthy In her own right. It is
too bad she will probably have to be
satisfied with a Russian grand duke
Cor HUSBAND
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

James J. Hill says the success of
the nation depends upon the number
Of workingmen who turn farmers. Mr..
HIN has millions Of acres of farm
lands for sale.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07
SMILING LINES.

Il suppose you feel safer since the pure
food laws have been passed"
mo. The only difference is that In order
TO enjoy my dinner l have to be careful to
Star.
Sweet Molly o." warbled the tenor.
What was her last manner" wondered
"coddie," growled the basso.-washing-
ton Herald
Doctor Ito his patient, who is Ill with ty-
phoid fever)-This is probably caused by
some water you have drunk. When did you
last take some2
Patient-About three years ago. 1 think
Puck.
You're not so strict with that youngster
friend,
No; for economy's sake I'm not replied
Popley. Every month l used to have to
buy myself a new pair of slippers and him
THAT young doctor hasn't been located
in our town very , but he's very
friendly"
Eyes, he believes In reciprocity. He
makes acquaintances in the hope that his
acquaintances will make him. Detroit
Free Press.
Stern Employer-Come here, boy. How
many grandmothers have you got?
other folks.
s. E.-All right. Now, remember, I have
-she season-Baltimore American.
Are you getting acquainted in your new
| well, some The postman and the Ice
man seem to be quite cordial, but haven't
met the ashman Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-07

Down in Lincoln the Park beard is
asking for individual contributions to
help beautify a new park. Up in
Omaha the Park board is using park