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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
CHEERFUL BUSINESS SIGNS.

Mr.. John Wanamaker, former post
master general, has put 1000 men to
work in finishing the f~ourteen-story
granite structure which is to take the
place of the old store in Philadelphia
where Mr.. Wanamaker has done bust
ness for so many years. The total
amount of money involved in the i'm
provement is in excess of $4,000, 900.
More interesting and more important
than the statement of the big under
taking are the reasons that prompt it.
Admitting that this is not the most
propitious season to finance big under
takings, Mr.. Wanamaker says:
The halt in business expansion has been
only temporary and no one need fear for
the future. 1t will be found that no one
has been seriously hurt in the panic, in
convenient as 1t was. OF course, Mr.. Taft
is going to be elected. and of course the
republican party is going to revise the
tariff. 1t is bound to do this under the
next administration, or public sentiment
will blackball 1t at the next election. The
republican party is the only party that
believes in and understands the tariff,
ehN ~ PoNl loNishl Ohdd lilt z lin
pulses of the Roosevelt administration
commands 1t to proceed promptly and
meet the views of the people by moderat-
ing the present tariff in careful ways
that will not upset the business of the
country.
This is sane talk and expresses a
view Of the situation that is being
taken by business men and leaders in
industrial enterprises throughout the
country. Railroad companies, which
felt tho industrial depression most
keenly, are carrying forward their en-
terprises and placing their securities
as If there were no such things as hard
times. The business men of the coun-
try are convinced that we are
scheduled for al era of prosperity and
the wise m are making preparations
to take full advantage of 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
wHroB SHOULD RETIRE,

A very pretty point, and one that
illustrates the charms Of fusion as
practiced under the Nebraska primary
law, Is now presented for the consid-
Grafton Of the voters. George w.
Berge is the choice of a majority OF
the populist voters of the state as their
candidate for governor, while A. C..
Shallenberger is the choice of a slender
plurality of the democrats for the same
office. Basing his claims on the slight
plurality he received, Mr.. Shallen-
berger insists that Mr.. Berge retire
from the race and allow whatever pop
ulist votes are to be cast at the com
ing election to be counted for the dem
ocratic candidate.
On what logic or reasoning Mr.. Shall
lenberger proceeds is not apparent,
One would think that the force of the
situs tton lie in favor of Mr.. Berge, for
Berg9 is an u~ndisputed majority candi-
date Of the n party, while Shallen-
berger has only a plurality. Again,
IF the people are to rule" why should
the populist nominee retire in favor of
the democratic under any circum-
stances? Both Berge and Shallen-
berger sought for nomination at the
hands Of the populists of Nebraska
and Mr.. Berge received It. Now, with
the prestige of hat endorsement of his
party still fresh, shall Mr.. Berge po-
litely bow himself out of the arena
and leave the field undisputed to the
control of his rival who was rejected?
Does it seem reasonable that a man
who is a minority candidate of one
party and who has been rejected by
another party should be given the sup
port of both parties?
II fusion is to be fair and based or
reason, it seems that the logic of the
situation is all in favor of Br'er Berge,
and that If anyone is to step down and
out Br'er Shallepberger should align
himself with Br'er Dahlman, who has
already confessed his defeat and prom
ised support to the victorious.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
Doctrine of Rewards.

new 1OTk lTlnule tTep.J'
Said Mr.. Bryan on Friday at Steuben'
vile. o., according to the special corre-
spondent of the Philadelphia Record:
The man who gives to society a service
in return for the reward he draws from
society will not only have nothing to fear.
but will have a great deal to hope for, for
the purpose of our party is to so admin
lister the government and so make the
laws that every mans reward will be
measured by the services that he renders.
Now, If that doctrine offends anybody, we
must, then, suffer the consequences, but
I am sure that doctrine will please the
great majority of the people, and II is to
that doctrine that our party is pledged"
Doubtless everybody will be pleased to
have a reward commensurate with his
services. The theologians promise an ap-
praisal of deserts in the next world. Maybe
Mr.. Bryan has a scale for this one al
ready formulated in the back of his head.
If so the people whom he asks to vote
for him are entitled to details. Mr.. Bryan
ought to give a few specifications, rates,
schedules, classiflcatlons and differentlals.
Or does he intend to have a referendum
on the subject after election, each voter
being allowed to appralse his own claims
on the joint income fund in the treasury?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18

The supreme court of Nebraska has
given its assent to strengthen the anti
pass law In all it's provisions. While
the decree that a railroad may not pay
for services in kind seems a little far
fetched, it will likely work little hard
ship on anyone. Some newspapers
may not get as much railroad adver-
Using in the future as they have in the
past. but the great principle all have
c~ontended for will be more firmly es-
tablished.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
CONGRESS- ANp woRkINeMEN.

Some of the men now engaged in
throwing" the vote of organized la
Dor in this country to Bryan have made
the error of disappearing the atti-
tude of the last republican congress
toward the interests of the working
men of the country. 1t is being
charged by Mr.. Gompers and others
that the last session of the congress
was a do nothing body so far as the
interests of organized labor are con
cerned, and they seek to convey the
impression that the attitude of the re-
publican administration has been hos
tile to labor interests. Unfortunately
for these leaders, the record furnishes
convincing proof of the falsity of their
charges. The first session of the Six
tieth congress passed these labor laws;
Providing compensation for employees in
jured on government work.
Providing for payment of damages to
employees injured on interstate railways,
in compliance with decision of United
States supreme court.
Increasing the pay of musicians in mil
itary bands and prohibiting them from
competing with civilian bands.
Providing that locomotives shall be so
constructed that ashes can be removed
without compelling a man to go under the
engine.
Giving the Interstate commits
sion authority to investigate all accidents
to employees as well as to passengers and
also authority to make regulations for the
prevention of railway accidents.
Extending the pass privilege to families
of railway employees and to the families
of deceased employees.
Extending the authority Of the Inter
state Commerce commission over safety
appliances and refusing to postpone the
day when the nine-hour law for railway
telegraphers and signal men shall go into
effect.
Providing for a child labor law In the
District of Columbia.
Every demand made for legislation
in the interests of the workingmen of
the country has been carefully con-
sidered by the republican congress, and
most of them have been enacted into
laws. Others are pending, as they al
ways are, but the record of achieve
ment by the last congress furnishes a
substantial demonstration of the base
lessness of the charges now being
made by the democratic spellbinders
and the labor leaders working in be-
half of the democratic candidates.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
J. BRYAN-TARJFF BEFoRMER.

". J. BRYAN-TARIFF REFORMER.
I have been a tariff reformer for twenty
eight years.-W. j. Bryan in statement an
swering Mr.. Tafts criticism of his record.
Mr.. Bryan was a candidate for the
presidency in 1895. His platform,
adopted in Chicago that year, con-
tanned the following ringing declara-
ton on the subject of tariff reform:
Until the money question is settled we are
opposed to any agitation for further
changes in our tariff laws except such as
are necessary TO meet the deficit in revenue
caused by the adverse decision of the SUI
preme court on the income tax.
II Mr.. Bryan was a tariff reformer
in 1896 he must have been taking a
vacation from his job. After his de-
feat in 1896 he declared that the free
silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to /
would continue TO be the paramount
issue until it was settled, and settled
right" According to his view the
money question has never been settled,
for, in a speech at Danville, ILL.,, jan
uary 10, 1908, he said:
There is not a plank the platform laid
down at Chicago in 1896 thai is not stronger
now, and there is not a plank in the re-
publican platform of that year that is not
weaker.
In 1897 Mr.. Bryan declared that
Silver is stiIl, and will be in this and
the next campaign, the fundamental
economic question" AS late as 1900
Mr.. Bryan, writing TO the New York
World, assured his friends that:
Whenever you see in the papers that ]
have abandoned silver, or side-tracked it,
or tried in any way to evade it. you can
set it down as false.
So, If Mr.. Bryan has been a tariff re-
former for twenty-eight years he must
have begun long enough before 1890
TO have four years deducted from his
record of activity, for he ignored the
tariff from 1896 until 1900. In Bry,
ans second battle he SHE'D at the tarin
question. In his letter to the New
York World he discussed the money
question, the trust question and i'm
perialism, declaring: Il regard all Of
them as important and have not We
attempted to decide which is mos
important" Later he decided that i'm
p~erialism was the most important is
sue and an overwhelming majority o
the American people decided that i
was not.
In 1904, after he had been defeated
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18

Secretary OF state Junkin found
p%opulists in hordes throughout the
Second congressional district when he
was making up his hypothetical re-
turns in order to support his decision,
but the vote as brought in by the pri-
mary election discloses that these
theoretical populfsts are either myth
zeal as we'll, or not sufficiently con-
cerned in the affairs of their party to
take the trouble to vote. In Wash
ington county FIVE registered a prefer
nee for governor, in Douglas county
twelve and in Sarpy county none.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
NOTES.

In the region round about Pittsburg the
drouth is so severe that the mills and
breweries have shut down, and water is
selling for 10 cents a gallon.
Prince Won Buelow. the imperial chan
cellor, has become a member OF the com
mlttse of the Aero Navy league for the
Berlin district, which Is acquiring thou
sands of member The object of the
league is the furtherance of navigation in
the air for the purpose of peace and war,
The French ambassador at Washington
writes to the Athenaeum disputing the
statement of Sidney Lee that only two
cities on the continent Of Europe-Berlin
and Padua-possess a copy of the Shake
speare First Folio. NJ. Jusserand men
tions a copy III the National library of
Paris, Of the authencity of which he adj
vances what appears TO be convincing
proofs.
Prince Philip Zu Gutenberg, whose trial
on charges of perjury in connection with
German court scandals OF last year was
indefinitely suspended on July II last, is
suffering from repeated attacks Of faint
ing, with intense and agoniZing nervous
symptoms. The physicians I'm attendance
on the prince are obliged TO administer
morphine to him continually and his con
dition now is one Of almost complete col
lapse.
After devoting nearly three months to
the exploration of Labrador, Eugene De
lano of New York and Clarke Washburn
of Chicago. reached st. Johns, n. F., or
the mail steamer last Saturday. Delano
and Wsshburn pentrated Labrador from
the sea coast TO the famous Grand Falls,
one Of the greatest cascades in the world.
The only party Of Americans who ever
made the trip previously was the one
headed by Henry Bryant Of Philadelphia
in 1897.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18

The Auditorium building committee
has finally reached the point where it
ear see the end Of the construction
work in sight. This comes at the end
of a long and sometimes weary strug-
gle, but now that 1t has come the
stockholders and directors, as we'll as
the general public will rejoice that
the structure reared for the people
and by the people" is to be completed
as planned.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
LEGISLATION AND THE FARMER.

LEG ISLATToN AND THE FARMER.
In an apparent determined effort to
deceive the farmer and make him be-
lieve that he is bearing an unjust
share of the burdens of government,
Mr.. Bryan has been insisting that the
tariff schedules are designedly ar
ranged to discriminate against the
agricultural classes-although the
proof is entirely to the contrary-and
now he is charging the government
with neglecting the farmer in making
appropriations and passing laws. In
his recent address at the Nebraska
State fair, Mr.. Bryan said:
We are more stingy in making the APP
populations for the farmer than for any
other large class of our people. Why, 1t
was a century after our government was
organized, or about that. before we sue
ceeded in getting a Department of Agri-
culture established. We are the greatest
agricultural country in the world, and
agriculture is the greatest industry in our
country, and yet almost a hundred years
! elapsed before the farmer got a seat
around the presidents council amb
me discrimination NhdN mas bttl EbllE
on against the farmer has tended to drive
the people from the farms TO the town,
and | believe that that symptom is a
dangerous symptom.
The record is the best proof of the
groundlessness of Mr.. Bryan's charge
and the farmers know the record. AS
far back as in 1886 the government
began to distribute rare or expert
mental seeds to the farmer to encour-
age agricultural development, In
1854 a chemist and botanist were en-
ployed and a botanical garden started
to aid the farmers in the study of
plant propagation. The work was en-
larged each year and in 1852 the bu-
reau OF agriculture was made a sepa-
rate division of the government and
promoted to a department in 1889.
Congress has been making direct ap-
preparations for agricultural advance
ment for more than fifty years.
Forty-six years ago, in 1862, the
government began making land grants
to agricultural colleges in the diff
lSltuI oNatSS anu SSN aSluS ~''ooViOOO
acres of public lands to that purpose,
In 1890 congress passed a law giving
each of the agricultural colleges,
forty-eight IN number at that time,
$4,000 a year for the first year, $l6,-
900 a year for the second year and an
increase of $1,000 a year until the
amount should reach $25, 900, which
was to be made a permanent annual
appropriation for each college. Con
gress has also appropriated money for
agricultural experiment stations, OF
which there are now sixty, costing
about 81 1000, 600. Under the Depart,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
AgitHtors out Of Their Element.
BaItImOre AmerlCar

keir Hardie, the famous labor leader in
England, is in this country and is telling
American wOrkingmen that the next step
in the political advance will he a labor
party in the United States, The trouble
with British politicians and theorists is
that they think conditions are the same
here as in their own country, whereas over
here the -workingman has no need OF a spe-
cial party to shape legislation to his own
protection. Here the government recognizes
no special class and no special favors. and
so 1t is not at all necessary TO organize
special defenses 10 offset constitutional
privileges.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
on PRESIDENTIAL FIRING LINE
President Roosevelt ON the aualincR-
lions OF Mr.. raft.

W. W "Aa AHAN
Brooklyn Eagle dnd.demD.
1t will be conceded that there is no bet.
ter judge of the qualifications Of Mr.. TAFT
than Theodore Roosevelt. Certainly, their
relations have been such as enable each 90
take tho measure Of the other. Confessing
that he has a peculiar interest in the sue
cess of the republican nominee. the presi-
dent says OF him that no consideration OF
personal interest, any more than fear OF
his personal safety. could make him swerve
a hairs breath from the course he regards
as right and in the interest Of the whole
people. Much more than this cannot be
said Of one man by another.
In the letter sent to Montana from Saga
moro Hill, the railroads and the wage
workers are told what to expect in the
event OF Taft's election. From the carry
ing corporations, the president declares,
justice will be eXacted for the very reason
tina he can be trusted to do justice to
them. To the wage worker the candidate
is commended because the president be-
lieves with all his heart that nowhere in
the country can be found another man who
will as vigilantly and efficiently protect
the workingman's rights.
Mr.. Roosevelt has said what was right
at the right time and in the right way.
Telling the truth, ne mas told nothlhs out
the truth. He knows whereof he speaks.
He has nothing but contempt for the dema-
gogue who will promise anything and
everything; he has nothing but scorn for
the man who consults his own interests
rather than the welfare of those he has
been called upon to serve. The qualities
he admires, plus exceptional training, con-
tribute to an ideal equipment for the presi-
dency. Had Mr.. Roosevelt said any less,
he would have said too little.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
Bargain Counter Issues.

Denver IOSI ihlu'J'
Mr.. Bryan might make a harmless
enough president, but what a department
store manager was lost to retail
when the fates set him chasing a political
star. He has the bargain counter instinct
10 refinement. His brain could produce a
fresh "sacrifice-sale feature every day.
His resourceful mind could keep the buy
ing public ION the hop" from sunrise to
sunset. He is essentially 1.-THE man of the
minute" When free silver seemed likely
TO make the fortunes OF the west, Mr..
BRYAN refused" vociferously TO cruelty la
Dor upon a cross OF gold. When the coun-
try was in two minds about Cuba and the
Philippines he invented "anti-imperalism."
And as his nomination came this time i'm
mediately after an averted bank panic, he
offers the people an absolute, gilt-edge
guarantee against future panics.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18

ment Of Agriculture, experts are scour-
ing the world tor improved seeds and
adaptable plants, soil c%ulturists are
conducting experiments in all parts OF
the country, %instructing the farmers
what kind of crops to plant with the
best assurance of profitable return and
every interest calculated to advance
agriculture is being studied and fur
thered.
MIR. Bryan is neither fair nor truth
full when he charges that the farmers
have been neglected in the a%ppropria-
lions and legislation by the federal
government.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
A strong Plea.
Washington Post Nnd.(.

NdSlllllBl Vi L OSN Niliu'''
Mr.. Roosevelt discusses Mr.. Taft's atti-
tude toward reforms, railroad and trust
regulation, and labor organizations. He
sums up much when he says of Mr.. Taft;
There is no fight for decency and fair
dealing which l have waged in which /
have not had his heaTtiest and most effec-
tive sympathy and support, and the poll
cies for which l stand are his policies as
much as mine"
It cannot be denied that the president
makes a strong plea for Mr.. Taft-a plea
that will nave peculiar influence at this
time, when Mr.. Bryan Is proclaiming him
self the father and son of "Rooseveltism'
and the only person properly fitted to sue
coed Roosevelt and carry on his work. Al
though there is nothing In the presidents
letter directly criticising Mr., Bryan, the
whole document is in effect a reputation
Of Mr.. Bryan's claims. To that great body
of Americans who follow Mr.. Roosevelt
with enthusiasm and devotion, this letter
will appeal with great force.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
WHAT THE FIGURES MEAN.
Explanation of Some Features of
Government bookkeeping.

Minneapolis Journal.
A good many people believe that, because
congress appropriates 81, 90, 100000 in d
single year, the government spends all
that enormou sum In cash. However, this
is not the case. The 1000, 0O, 900 is a book
keeping total. There are several big items
to be subtracted. For example, congress
appropriated 1929, 900, 600 for the postoffice,
but II needs to furnish in cash only the de-
ficit, say about 100000. Congress ap-
propriates S5S,OOO,O 900 for the operations Of
the sinking fund. but the sinking fund IS
already full, and nothing need be set aside
for that. The S25. 0 1000 appropriated for
the redemption OF national bank notes is a
piece of bookkeeping, too.
OF the &c., 900, 900 set aside for the District
of Columbia, 5000, 900 will come back in
taxes upon the district. The S@9,OOO,OOO for
the Panama canal will fall on posterity,
the treasury being reimbursed by the sale
of bonds. Thus It Is plain that instead of
spending 81, 10000 ,OOO, the government Will
actually spend about $500, OOO, 600 less than
that.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
4 Pertinent Question.

New York Evening Posi- UNu'I'
From the point Of view Of practical poll
tics there is something to be said for a
campaign Of more vigorous opposition than
Mr.. Bryan is making. If the democratic
party really stands for no important prin-
clples, but those laid down by Mr.. Roose-
Welt. a good many democrats will frankly
say that they prefer Taft. lie is obviously
a firmer and more steady-going man than
Mr.. Bryan. and the election OF Mr.. Taft
will save US from the disturbance Of over
turning the administration. II Mr.. Bryan
can promise us nothing better than we
have had under Roosevelt or than We
should have under Taft, why should ny
one want to make him president?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
THE SACRED TREE.

s. r. Kiser in Record-Herald
Woodman, spare that tree,
Touch not a single bOugh,
II has befriended me,
And I'll protect II now;
Meath il a hammock hung,
And there, when II was hot
| often gladly swung;
Thy axe shall harm it not.
Beneath that spreading tree
one in a gauzy gown
OFT snuggled close to me
And let her feet hang down;
Woodman, forbeaT 10 hack.
Twas here a lovely maid
First dared 10 call me Jack;
As Carelessly We swayed.
When 7 was free from care
And she was trim and slim,
We often dangled there
Beneath ycn spreading limb
Twas there that first she laid
Her hand within my hand
And ceased to be afraid,
Pray, woodman, let il stand.
Harm rot that sturdy oak;
One night mind II we'll
The rope, grown fragile, broke,
And In "A heap we fell.
She put the blame on me,
And said she'd have me not,
So, woodman, spare the tree;
This Is a sacred spot,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18

The daughter of the American am
bassador to Denmark was married in
the other day, but it was
no international alliance. She mar
ried a Californian, with the purely
American name of Murphy.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18

Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Bryan are to de-
liver nonDolitical addresses when they
meet in Chicago next month. Mr..
Bryan may discuss free silver, govern
ment owenrship of railroads, the dis
franchisement of negroes and a list of
public topics which he declares are not
political because they were not men
toned in the Denver platform.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
Keen the Curtains Down.
New York Tribune.

NCN lOh llIDNHS'
Mr.. Bryan's alleged humiliation" Of Mr..
Hearst Is one Of the most dreadful Incl
dents in recent political history. How could
he think OF proposing anything that would
bring the blush of shame TO that sensitive
cheek? The most eminent "shall-the people
ruler" suggesting a deal behind the door
with an "incorruptible friend Of the peo-
pie! Lift no more curtains like these!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18

Mr.. Bryan says he is not running
away from his record, but you cannot
get any photograph speeches from
him on free silver, Imperialism, gov
eminent ownership of railroads or n
of the issues he favored prior to 1908.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
Il Looks that Way.

IVuIsFIIIU VVuTlVT-JUuTIdI
1t does seem true that the east is more
civilized than the west. A Massachusetts,
man who snored was requested. politely, to
leave the boarding house. An Indiana
snoTer was Drained with an ak.