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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-08-14
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Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Complete and harmonious fusion
now exists in democratic and populist
PARTIES" shouts the Omaha double
ender, the democratic donkey having
swallowed all that remained of the
once proud peoples Independent party.
The deluded voters of that organiza-
ton who went forth and nominated
candidates to represent their principles
at the coming election will have the
opportunity of voting, If they vote at
all, for candidates who were not nom-
mated by them and who do not rep
resent their principles. The harmony
and the fusion is very like that be-
tween the tiger and the lamb when
they laid down together, and the sign
read, For the lamb inquire within.'~
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

not perversely refuse to conform to
theoretical rules. Suppose the new
owners of the Independent" plants
should decline to cut prices. but would
maintain the schedules fixed by the
original trust? That would be a natu-
raj business plan, and the
would pront nothing In the way of re-
duced prices.
On the other hand, the tobacco grow
ers of Kentucky, organized as the
Equity society, claim to control 60 per
cent of the crop Of that state. Should
Mr.. Bryan undertake to break up that
organization the society would plead
that its tobacco was raised in a single
state and therefore not subject to in
terstate commerce regulations. In
another event 1t might divide up into
county organizations, each showing
that 1t controlled but a very small per
cent Of the crop, whatever the COM
bined total might be. The Tobacco
trust, on the other hand, could break
up into a score of subsidiary %organiza-
tions, one handling plug. another fine
cut, n making cigars and another
cigarettes, and each coming within the
prescribed limit. Similar evasive tao
tics would be certain to be employed
in all branches of Industrial activity,
among the farmers as we'll as among
the manufacturers.
The Bryan trust regulation plan is
vague and visionary and wholly i'm
practicable. AS Governor Hughes we'll
said of It:
The best thing that can be said about it
is that he could not put It into effect. But
what shall be said as a recommendation for
his election, that he seriously proposes that
to be done, which ought not to be done, and
that he should be elected because he can
not do IL.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
MIR. BRYANs TRUST REMEDY.

Mr.. Bryan is so enamored of his
plan of regulating all trusts which
control so much as 25 per cent of any
industry that he is repeating his propo-
sition at different speaking points, ig-
noring, however, the complete expose
made by Governor Hughes of the fall
lacy of the plan.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided in the Knight case,
which was a federal proceeding against
the Sugar trust, that production is not
interstate commerce. This decision
has 80 far stood unchanged, the effect
Of 1t being to declare hat combinations
of manufacturers. although they may
have a substantial monopoly Of their
product, are subject to state regulation
and are not under control of congress
and the Interstate Commerce commits
sion. Far from being disturbed by a
little thing like a decision of the
United States supreme court, Mr..
Bryan calmly proceeds with his plan
for licensing all such corporations I'M
der the federal law, declaring that all
trusts are good so long as they produce
but rs per cent of a commodity, but
Immediately become bad when they
produce so per cent Of 1t. When the
so per cent limit is reached Mr.. Bryan
would promptly have the government
compel the factory to limit its output.
The versatile Nebraska theorist
argues from the premise that all COM
binations are harmful, and his con-
clusiOn is that when his license system
is adopted all ~monopolies will be driven
out of business. Aside from the fact
that both premise and conclusion are
wrong, no fault can be found with Mr..
Bryan's plan. He contends that when
a trust controls so per cent OF a
product the government would compel
il to dispose Of enough of its plants to
reduce its output to so per cent OF
less. The plants it would be forced to
sell would. according to the Bryan
dream, become independent plants
competing with it," He continues:
This competition would reduce prices
and the reduced prices would increase the
demand for the article, and this increased
demand would stimulate the building OF
more factories and give a larger employ
ment to labor.
This would create an Utopian state
of affairs If economic conditions did
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

chants and hat a good volume of bust
ness is being done in all lines Of trade.
Dun's review of nine months business
failures shows that while conditions
are not satisfactory most marked inn
provement is being shown, particularly
in the west, where the failures are
fewer in number and smaller In the
amounts involved than for the same
period of 1907. The total failures for
the nine months we're only slightly in
excess of the record for last year, while
in Nebraska they we're less.
During the depression stocks have
run down and merchants have been
buying for immediate needs. Now
that the great crops of the west and
south are on the way to market the
demand can not longer be kept below
the normal plane.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Hamilton Fish of New York has resigned
an 5000 position in the hand to look for a
1850 one in the bush.
BY the will of James r. .Ssyre, IT., of
Newark, N. j., amounts a~ggregatlng close
to $3,oOO,OOO are bequeathed to charities.
M. Clemenceau, the French premier. is a
martyr to indigestion and has been a reg
ular visitor to Carlsbad for the past TWEEN
ty years. 1t Is easier to direct a govern
ment than a stomach -t.!l,s
Members of the family deny a report that
Joseph Chamberlain of England, intended
shortly to retire from the house OF Com
mons. on the eontrary. they declared that
his health is much improved and that he is
preparing an address to his constituents.
Distinction belongs TO Miss Elizabeth NJ.
Kilbourne of Winstead, vt. She claims to
be the first woman who ever took a stitch
on the sewing machine. She was formerly
a teacher in Hartford, where she visited
Elias Howe's shop and was given a chance
to try his new invention.
Commander Peary, the famous Arctic ex-
plorer, never starts on one of his explor-
ing expeditions without receiving all sorts
OF packages from ~ranks-cowhide under
wear, tea tablets, medlcated boots and
what not. A few days before the start of
his last trip a club acquaintance wired him
to expect an important package by ex-
press. The package came, 1T was labeled,
ITO be opened at the farthest poiEt north"
Peary opened It at once, however. 1t was
a small keg, Inscribed: 'Axle grease for
the pole,' ..
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Grand total farm values pro-
duCed In l9OS. ,.............. H,49f ,2OO,OVU
While these figures are not exact, it
is estimated that other items not
counted in the estimates will make the
total up to the amount reached. The
Wall Street Journal, for example, does
not take any account of pasturage or
of seeds reserves, items which alone
would largely increase the total. The
human mind can not grasp the ~vastness
of this wealth produced from 6,250,000
American farms. The corn acreage
alone is three times the area of the
state of Nebraska and the wheat acre
age would cover the entire New Eng
land region. A writer in the Worlds
Work has 1t figured out that the Amer
lean farmer grows four out of every
five bales of cotton produced in the
world and sever out Of every eight ears
of corn. If last years tobacco crop had
been made into cigars, it would have
lasted $4,000 men for fifty years, each
man smoking ten cigars a day. If all
of the corn crop were shipped to Eu-
rope it would require 4,128 steamers
of $4,000 tons register to deliver 1t,
and II the wheat crop had been sent,
the largest fleet in the world, with it's
$50 vessels of all sizes, would have re-
CURED fifteen trips to mov it.
Getting away from the grain, this
statistician figures out that 340,-
900, hogs and 215.OO0,000 sheep
were on the American farms and that
If the American cattle could be placed
one behind another they would form a
procession 100000 miles long. and,
at that, not be as long as a procession
similarly made up of American horses
and mules. The total value of Ameri-
can farms and their improvements is
placed at $4,000 600, 900. The en-
couraging feature of the situation is
that the American farmers condition
and prospects are getting better every
wear.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
THE PEOPLES STORED WEALTH
Savings Banks but Slightly Affected
by Pinch.

NOh IOIh Dun.
Bulletin No. sos, recently issued by the
comptroller of the currency, contains a
surprising statement of the conditions of
the savings banks of the country. These
institutions are presumably the deposit
tories OF people of limited means and more
particularly the repositories of the wage
earners. 1t has been supposed that thou
sands OF the unemployed have been com
PEELED during recent months to draw their
savings for their maintenance. A COMPARE
son of the total deposits in savings banks
shown on June 80. 1908, with the deposits
shown on Tune 80, 1907, reveals the fact
that the shrinkage Of a year during which
hundreds Of thousands nave been for more
or less OF the time out Of employment has
been only four-fifths OF / per cent.
Presumably wage loss during the term
Of depression has been heaviest in manu-
featuring districts. New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Illinois and Massachusetts,, in that
order, are the leading producers of manu-
featured wares. The savings banks OF
New York show a reduction in deposits
OF about IL per cent for the year. The
banks of Pennsylvania show a gain of
nearly / per cent, the banks OF Illinois
show a loss Of about Z per cent and the
banks of Massachusetts a gain of nearly
2 per cent. The banks of Ohio show a
trifling loss, and those Of Indiana show
a loss of 1900 on deposits Of 81, 425, rOl.
Iowa shows a &2.6OO.OOO loss on deposits
of $l36. 100000 All Of the New England
states show increase. the total gain for
the district being SOS. 100000 The banks
Of Pacific coats states show a 10 per cent
decrease. The total number OF deposit7rs
In all states on Tune 80, 1908, was s.70j. s4s.
as compared with s,5Ss, s11 on June 30
1907. The average deposit was $500. AZ. as
compared with $429.64 a year ago. The
number Of banks reporting was 1,45S.
The theory that a few "malefactors Of
great wealth are absorbing all the money
Of the country does not find support IN
the history OF savings banks. The total
deposits in 1898 were 81 OPS, POS. 4Oa. The re-
turns for 1903 show deposits Of g, 1850, 55S, s45
an Increase OF 50 per cent in ten years.
1t was not until 1883 that deposits reached
the billion dollar mark. Fifteen years
later they were $1,000. 900. Seven yearo
brought them up to s.. 1000. COZ, COO, that mark
being reached in 1905. II no further inter
ruption comes they will probably reach
s4.O00,0 1900. by 1910.
Can Mr.. Bryan and his party guarantee
these more than eight and a half millions
of thrifty citizens any new and larser
opportunities to increase their savings bank
deposits? -
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
HI BEES POLICY.

To the. Editor OF The Bee: Mr.. Editor,
l am ~astonlshed how small a great news
paper like ours can be. Can't you argue
a single political question without singing
mud7 You are not ft to be called, and this
you should be, a peoples educator. You
are too one-sided to be fair. 1 am a repub-
lican, but you really drive me and my
friends out of the republican ranks. AT
any rate, be decent II you cannot be
straight.
ONE OF YOUR READERS, OR VICTIMS,
WHO SHALL NEVER RENEW HIS
SUBSCRIPTION.
The Bee very much regrets hat 1t
has been thought unfair by anybody,
and yet feels a certain pride in the fact
that it is unable to please everybody.
1t would be a dreary, m~onotonous
world in which all people agreed, and
life under such conditions would lose
much of it's spice. A good newspaper
is n which has definite aims. taking
on the form of an established policy,
and which pursues these aims regard
less of public clamor. The Bee points
with PRIDE" to quote from the poll
%ticians, to its record. From it's first
issue down to the present it has stood
un%finchingly for what 1t thought to be
right. 1t has battled for the people
at all times, regardless of conse-
quences, save those that affected the
public.
AS to the charge Of un%fairness, The
Bee resents it. No man has ever
come to The Bee and been refused a
hearing. No mans cause has ever
been rejected without an investigation.
No man has ever been able to say
truthfully that The Bee was DELHI
erately unfair to him. The editor of
The Bee has never made claim to infal-
libility. He has made mistakes, as all
editors have, but he has differed from
the great majority of editors, and es-
pecially the editors of the ~so-called
progressive" journals, in that when
it is apparent that he is mistaken he
has made such amends as possible.
The charge of unfairness made by the
anonymous correspondent, whose let
IOA 10 pLiAISu ullSuI easily NC
turned back on him. for he has not
only withheld his name and thus con-
cealed his identity, but he has made a
general allegation without citing a
specific basis. 1t is impossible that he
should be righted SO long as The Bee
Is not cognizant of the wrongs he suf-
fers. The writer of this letter can
hardly expect the editor of The Bee to
give him personal attention when he
has SO carefully ~refrained from fur
nishing a clue to his identity. Even
the postmark on the envelope which
contained the letter was so placed that
the only thing that could be learned
from it was that the letter was mailed
somewhere in Nebraska.
Publicity is given this merely for
the purpose of stating that The Bee
proposes to continue along the line
which has marked its course from it's
foundation. 1t will be just to all men.
1t will give all causes a hearing, and IT
will be swayed in its conduct by fear
of no man.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
THE BUSINESS RECOVERY.


In the face of the fact that the
season of 1908 has thus far been dis
advantageous to briskness In CONNER
cial and Industrial lines, there has
been a steady trend for three months
toward a complete resumption in all
branches and divisions Of business,
with every assurance that the low tide
has been passed finally and that activ-
ity is being resumed all along the line.
The summer months are usually dull,
in both retail and jobbing business,
and that has been particularly true
this year, due largely to the exceed
ingly warm weather that prevailed
throughout the country in August and
September. Industry always has a
hating gait in presidential years, and
this, combined with climatic condi-
lions, has served to make the recovery
from the panic of 1907 unusually slow,
but the tide has surely turned.
The railroad industries suffered the
most serious consequences from the
financial generalization which began
in the autumn of last year., and it is
the continuous betterment in the rail-
road situation that is indicating most
impressively that business conditions
are approaching the normal. At the
end of last April reports showed that
ala 900 freight cars were idle on diff
ferent lines throughout the country.
At the beginning of October 20O,O 600
OF these cars had been placed in COM
mission again and a telegram from
Chicago IN October 7 reported that
fully 80 per cent of the freight car
equipment of the different railroads
was again in active use. In the last
week 5000 new freight cars were or
dered and reports show that the car
building concerns are working at 70
per cent of their full capacity. Prac-
tically all of the railroad shops of the
country have been reopened and are
working at their full capacity, while
the financial managers of the big lines
report that they are having little diff
Guilty in securing all money needed for
extensions, equipment and betterment.
Coupled with this renewed activity
In the railroad field, comes the report
that the steel mills devoted to the
manufacture OF building and structural
steel are working at 65 per cent OF
their capacity. and booking orders
which will keep them employed stead
fly during the winter months. The
commercial agencies report hat the
cooler weather of early October has
lstarted brisk buying by the retail mer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
Judge Edgar Howard

Judge Edgar Howard %withdraws
from the race as a populist candidate
for congress in the Third district and
directs a letter to the committee asking
1t to nominate Banker Jim Latta in
order that 1.-The ends Of justice and
equity may be served" Having thus
performed his duty to his party, Judge
Howard will probably go into execu-
tive session with Editor Howard of the
Columbus Telegram and undertake to
arrange a basis on which some Of the
things Editor Howard said of Banker
Jim Latta during the campaign before
the primaries may be unsaid. This
will keep him busy for the rest of the
present campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
MURMUs OF THE DOUGH-BAG.

w. ]. hampton in the New York World.
l am the Dough-Bag.
l am that
Without which politics
Is mighty flat.
Stale and Improbable. -,~sFt
I'm the 1t
Which makes the campaigns
Git up and git
1 recognize nc party; l
Am broader in my scope. and try
To reach all parties, great and small
As benefactor OF them all!
That's me, "N |'.- .'.'. .fFf.
See? r.l .
And when / put my contents where
The needy ones can get their share,
By heckl the way they crowd arounC.
And push and shove and crowd thu
10 get a wback at what's inside,
StiTs up my patriotic pride
And makes me glad that l can be
An agent OF prosperity.
No narrow way
For me. nor party lines,
My benefactibn shines
For all who need the stuff
To make their paths less ough,
To make II easier to save
The nation from a pauper's grave.
BTeathes there a man with soul so deaS
Who never % himself hath said:
Strike. till the last armed foe expires!
Strike. for your affairs and your fires!
Strike. for the country OF your sires!
But, men and brethren, strike darn slow
Unless you've got a bag Of dopgh?'
II there is; 4a'eg
HelTsbe ali to the paEziz
In the tigei rsNnd up sp9 e hsn find
That's what gents,
And~you'H never be
Short on patriots
While you're long on me.
AH "" L-L
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
TIE FARMER IS KING.

When Secretary Wilson OF the De-
partment Of Agriculture predicted
early in the e that the valne Of
products Of the American farm for
1908 would reach about $4,000, OOO,-
900, the average citizen, with some
knowledge Of past achievements in that
direction, discounted the prediction by
10 per cen or more, and then hoped
that the result would come within gun
shot Of the mark. With the crop now
in position to be accurately estimated,
It appears that the secretary's predic-
tion was at fault on the side Of con-
servatism. The Wall Street Journal
has taken the yields Indicated by Off
cial reports and multiplied them by
prices current on September 1, with
tbE, gfriIrI1 % raauIf.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

"Fingy" Corners says that the New
York farmers will vote against Hughes
because he hurt business by stopping
betting on the race tracks. All
farmers who make their money bet
ting on the races will agree with
''Ffngy,"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Whichever town secures the rural
letter carriers convention next year
may AXE Omaha's word for it that it
is a convention worth having. The
rural carriers. male and female, are a
bunch of good fellows.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Belated reports from Cape Cod show
that the cranberry crop will be larger
than usual, and hat the berries will
be sounder, redder and more de-
liciously tart than last years crop.
Every thought that's sad may be side
tracked.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Banker Latta is illustrating his barn
yard through the public press for the
e~dihcation of the voters of the Third
district. But there is no sign that the
check book is not occasionally on pri-
Yate exhibition.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Editor Hitchcock is having the time
of his life right now trying to square
his editorial record with his political
ambition. The old soldiers are not in
clined to apologize for living too long
and the Jimocrats are not inclined to
forgive the affront to their beloved
Dahlman. All of which makes the ed
itor's life a happy one.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
Bryanism IN Massaehnsstts.
BaItImore Amerlcan.

A leading democrat in Boston caused sur
prise and CONSERVATION in his party by re-
fusing the presidential electoral nomination.
He gave as the reason for his refusal Of
the homo the fact he is going to vote for
Taft. Hence the sorrow and especially the
CONSERVATION. Things are beginning to look
serious for the Peerless One" when even
the Bryan electors see hope only in Taft.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Toxic Advices that japan is prepar-
ing 10 show the honorable American
feet the time of its life. Now look
out for a warning from Richmond
Pearson Hobson about the treachery
OF the Japanese.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

General Tomatsu, the paymaster
general of the Japanese army, is going
to resign because of the introduction
of an economical policy in the army.
Tomatsu refuses to ketchup with any
of the new notions.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Mr.. Bryan is going to make some
speeches in Missouri. where the demo-
cratic factions are at each others
throats. and the republicans are har-
moniously working to repeat their vic
tory OF 1904.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
A Neglected Asset.
Chicago Tribune,

Cnlc9go tribune,
To the best Of our knowledge and belief
We have ~refrained from casting slurs at
the campaign cigar this year, It would
nave seemed like g~loating over the cam
paign managers financial inability to fur
hish good cigars.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Maxim Gorky has married the lady,
which makes the best of a bad mess,
but he must not get the notion that
the folks In this country are anxious
to have him make another visit.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

Bosnia and Herzegovina which. according
to the cable dispatches, ave been at last
wrested by Austria from any shadow Of
Turkish control, virtually form one prov
ince. to which the name Bosnia has been
generally given. The provinces formed the
northwesternmost portion Of the Turkish
empire previous to the treaty of Berlin,
By that treaty the supreme control of Bos-
MIA is nominally in the hands of Turkey.
but the government is directed by the
Bosnian bureau, under the direction of the
minister of finance of AUSTRIA Hungary.
The area of Bosnia, including Herzego-
vina, is about 10, 100 square miles. The
country is exceedingly mountainous. Nearly
90 per cent of the 1,74o,OO population live
by agriculture. About one-third OF the
population are Mohammedans, and they
alone are said to nave made any opposl-
ton to Austrian rule.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09

The Hughes o u Of Nebraska has
just about driven home the last nail
In the coma of the Bryanite hopes.
There is no question now as to how
Nebraska will go. the only uncertainty
being as to the size Of the majority
that Taft and sheldon will have.