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Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
TIE WEST AND THE ORIENT.

The detailed review of American
commerce for the fiscal year 1907, Just
issued by the bureau of statistics, con-
tains further proof of the fact that the
Atlantic seaboard cities are gradually
losing their trade supremacy so far
as foreign commerce is concerned. For
many years the bulk of exports to
Asiatic countries has gone through
Atlantic ports, but the last few years
this commerce has been shifting from
the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Prac-
tically so per cent of the shipments
to oriental countries in 1907 went
from Pacific coast ports, as against 40
per cent carried by that route in 1901.
In the meantime the exports to Asiatic
countries have about doubled in the
eight years. Exports to all of the
Asiatic countries were larger in 1907
than for n year in the national his.
tory, with the exception of exports to
China, where a marked decrease was
noted, due to smaller Chinese demand
for American copper for coinage pur-
poses. A big increase is also shown
in the exports through Gulf of Mexico
ports.
The only occasion for surprise is
that this change in routing has been
so slow in accomplishment. Habit has
evidently been followed in commerce,
and for years the grain and live stock
Of the great west have been sent across
the continent by rail for water ship
ment from Atlantic coast points, accu-
mulating heavy freight rates, which
might have been saved by using
shorter and more direct routes. In
creasing trade following fuller devel-
opment of the OF the west
and middle west will cause a greater
demand for better and cheaper trans
portation facilities TO tidewster,
Through this will come a potent i'm
petus to the movement or the improve
ment Of inland waterways and the les
sening of the burdens on shippers and
producers. Nebraska and other west
ern states are deeply concerned in
every movement OF this kind that is
calculated 20 open new channels OF
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
CONCERNING Ex-PRESIDENTs.
Retired E~xecutiveS Grow scarcer aS
the Republic Ages.


The question OF what to do with our ex-
presidents is never so pressing as it might
be, owing to their scarcity. In the earlier
DAYS Of the republic there were more; for
instance, in the beginning of John Quincy
Adams administrator there We're alive
John Adams, jefferson, Madison and Mon
roe. During Taylor's brief administration,
there were for a time three eX-presidents,
as under Pierce. There were, again, four
during the administration Of Buchanan,
but the h~igh-water mark was reached dur
ing the beginning OF Mr.. Lincoln's first
administration, when there were alive Van
Buren,, Tyler. Fillmore, Pierce and Blu
chanan. Van Buren, and Tyler died In 1852
so that when Johnson took office there
were but three ex-presidents, At the be-
ginning Of Mr.. Cleveland's administration,
Hayes, Arthur and Grant were enjoying
their retirement. Since that time the num-
Der has steadily decreased. Only ten presi-
dents have survived their retirement from
office longer than Mr.. Cleveland. Willard
Fillmore was an ex-president for twenty
one years, Madison and John Quincy
Adams for nineteen. Van Buren, for twenty
one. Mr.. Cleveland's death leaves no ex-
president-a situation that has arisen twice
before. on the deaths OF Washington in
1873 and Of johnson in July, 1875. During
Mr.. Cleveland's second term there was but
one sx-president. Mr.. Harrison
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
4 NOTED JOURNALIST GONE.

The death of Murat Halstead takes
away another noted journalist of the
old school, While Halstead fell short
in newspaper measurement of Greeley,
or Dana, or Medill, he yet achieved a
rank as a special correspondent and
editor that placed him in the forefront
among the b~est-known and influential
newspaper writer's of his time. He
was, possibly, a little more prolific in
literary output than he would have
been had he kept up to the standard
of his best work all the time. For
many years the name of Murat Hat
stead was as generally recognized by
newspaper readers as that of n other
active journalist. His death at the
advanced age of 70 accentuates the
rapid extinction of the generation Of
brilliant men brought into prominence
and power during the period of the
war of the rebellion.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

$4,000 below it in 1900. Mr.. Bryan
has also failed in each OF his cam
paigns to poll as many votes in New
Jersey as we're cast for the democratic
candidate for governor at the same
elections. Mr.. Cleveland carried New
Jersey in 1892 by $1,000. Bryan lost
it in 1895 by $4,000 and in 1900 by
$1,000. Judge Parker lost New Jersey
in 1904 by $1,000. In New York, New
Jersey and perhaps in some other
states in the Atlantic coast group Mr..
Bryan's chances of success at the polls
in November will be decidedly below
par with a Hearst ticket in the field.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

thousands Of small red pimples formed.
On becoming dry, these caused intense
itching. / was advised 70 go TO the
hospital for diseases OF the skin. ] did
90 and was an ~out-patient for q month
or more, the chief surgeon saying: i
never saw such q bad case Of eczema
But / got little or no relief. Then /
tried many so-called remedies, but / be-
came 80 bad that | almost gave up IN
despair. On coming 70 this country !
heard so many accounts Of cures by Cuti-
cura Remedies that / resolved, a. q
last resource, 70 give them a trial. This
was after suffering agonies for twelve
months, and right glad am l that ] did
so, for / was relieved Of the almost un-
bearable itching after two or three
applications OF Cuticura Ointment. /
continued it's Sc, combined with q
liberal use Of Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cur Rasolvent Pills and am more than
thankful 70 say that after uSinR three
sets Of the Remedies, ! was completely
cured. I can only add that, should any
one be suffering az / did. ] hope that
they will do as / did, and l am sure Of
the results Henry Searle, 2022 Cross
St., Little Rock, Ark. Oct. 8 and 10. '07.'
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Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Roger Sullivan Is said to be plan
ming to offer a plank for the Denver
platform favoring government owner
ship of railways for the purpose q
having the convention vote 1t down by
such an overwhelming majority that
Mr.. Bryan will not have the nerve to
dig 1t up again. That is a great
scheme of %Sullivan's, but the joke
would be on him If the convention
should take Bryan at his word and
adopt the plank instead of voting it
down
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
RAILROAD STATISTICS.
Mileage and capitalization
for Past Year.
PHILADELPHIA Record

4 AAAAeaNARAA- $500
Poor's Manual, which appears rather
earlier than usual this year, shows the
total mileage OF the steam railroads OF the
United States to have been 22s. 1s on Do
cember 81, 1907, representing an increase
of trackage for the year OF $3.50 miles.
The total capital liabilities at the
date mentioned amounted to SIC, Sol, ana, 500,
showing an increase OF SsO7 sa, ll2 OF which
1851, III. 500 is represented by stock. The
bonded Indebtedness, which generally rep
Tesents actual borrowings. was increased.
therefore. by about S55. oOo. OOO-an amount
10 per cent greater than that which James
]. Hill declared the railroads would need
70 borrow every year for ten years II their
equipment should be brought up to a stand
ard comformable to the requirements OF the
country's trade. Most Of this Is now an old
story: the confirmation theory By so high
an authority as Poor is a matter Of inter
est, however.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
THE ABUSE OF ASYLUM.

The federal authorities have instt-
tuted the first case, under a law passed
two years ago, to deprive a naturalized
citizen, now living abroad, of his nat
uralization papers. The law provides
that>any foreigner who takes out nat
uralization papers in this country and
then elects to live in a foreign country
may have his naturalization cancelled,
unless he takes the precaution of reg
istering with the nearest American
consul. The law was enacted to stop
the abuses of American citizenship by
foreigners who came to this country
merely to become naturalized and then
returned to their native land, claiming
the privileges Of American citizens and
the protection of our government.
In the case in question, Abraham
Moss was naturalized in this country
in 1892. He left in a few months
after securing his papers and has since
been living in Pretoria, South Africa,
He became involved in serious trouble
with the South African government
recently and promptly appealed to the
| State department at Washington for
protection. The authorities, after in
v~estieating the case, began suit in the
Pennsylvania district, where Moss has
been admitted to citizenship, for the
cancellation of his naturalization pa
pers. Abuses of this kind have been
numerous in the last few years and
the government has made the com
mendable decision to put an end TO
them
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

The new president of the National
Educational association is said to owe
his position to the activity in his be-
half of the agents of the so-called
School Book trust. The National Edu-
cational association has more than
once been charged with being a Teach
ers' trust, so that a merger with the
Book trust would not be out of the
ordinary.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Mr.. Bryan says that Mr.. sherman's
nomination is "a distinct advantage to
democrats" Mr.. Sherman has long
~contended that Mr., Bryan's nominal
ton is always a distinct advantage to
repubIicans.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
Unique symbol of Peace.
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
The first Spanish warship to enter the
harbor of Havana since Cuba passed from
the rule Of Spain was preceded by a flock
OF doves released from the vessel. The
symbol OF peace so prettily suggested was
heartily responded to, and the Spaniards
found themselves greeted as guests as they
had never been as masters, So happily
has ended one important epoch in the his
tory OF independence in the new world,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
NEW FORMS OF REBATE.
Courts and Grand JuFies Looking Into
the California system.

IlldutlRllld IItbS.
Trials and investigation on railroad
rebates on California fruit and lumber. oil
and export rates mark not a relapse, but
the advance made in giving all shippers
equal rights in transportation.
Not one Of these rebates Is of the sort
once in vogue. where a favored shipper
was given a special rate or received part
of his freight back as a rebate, These
wholly disappeared. The successive acts
for equal rates from 1887 to 1906 have driven
out what was once the rule.
The freight rate sheet was once only a
basis for bargaining. 1t was the point
from which shipper and road reckoned
their final agreement. The new form Of
rebate takes the published rate as the end
Of controversy, accepts it and adds to it
or takes from 1t by special charges.
In California, where a federal grand
jury has just found indictments against
the Southern Pacific, concessions were
made by the railroads on a. state rate"
in Assembling eastward shipments at a
central point and then the interstate rate
came into play on fruit and lumber. The
export rate merged rail and ocean charges
from Chicago to English ports and the rail
rate was so low as to raise question VIII IN
published separately.
These are all survivals OF the past. 1t
Will be long before It is clearly understood
that no allowance can be made and no
concession granted. The habit of rebates
was pretty we'll established by a generation
Of constant practice. The main stem is cut
away. There remains only evasion n
doubtful concessions.
In time these will be cut away and no
one will expect a concession on a freight
rate any more than on a postage stamp.
This is the only just method and the
Interstate Commerce commission makes
steady progress in securing this by its in
vestigations, decisions and prosecutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

1t is to be noted that "the only
democratic congressman from Ne
braska" has issued no bulletin
enumerating what he has achieved in
the national legislative halls. He is
on record with a confession of i'm
potency to do anything except to dis
tribute garden seeds.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

IndIanapOIIS News.
Considering the condition Of the national
finances which would confront the demo-
Gratis IL they we're successful at the No
yember election, 1t seems barely possible
that Richmond Pearson Hobson may fall
to get his greater navy plank incorporated
in the Denver platform.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Acting on the Biblical injunction to
return good for evil, Mr., Bryan tells
Mr.. Hearst that he ought to support
him Notwithstanding the throw-down
which Mr., Hearst encountered at the
hands OF Mr.. Bryan four a ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

1t is well to take out an accident
insurance and reserve a cot in the
emergency hospital before granting
little Willie's wish as to the kind OF
fireworks he wants today.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Mrs. Irons. complained the boarder 81
the foot Of the table, 'this mutton has .
I'm elad it has" snapped the landiedy,
The last time | gave YOU mutton YOU
said It was horse meat Chicago Tribune
You marry my daughter cried the rich.
old man. why you're q beer guEzler. sir.
Yes, but after my marriage I'D stop all
mat ] expect to be able to afford wine
then.'-Philadelphia Press.
Can you work this %graft?" asked the
master hand.
So they went to work, but as they were
only gardeners, the police did not interfere
with the selt-confesscd graftcrs,-Baltimore
American.
why Is II that American youth Is so
lacking in reverence for mature people?'
Perhaps answered Miss Cayenne, ITS
because mature people permit themselves
to be lured into trying these new games
which youngsters play SO much better
Washington Star.
old chap, where are you going for your
vacation? p
AN over the country In fact, I'm TAX
ing now-reading summer resort litera-
ture''-Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Dash-I can remember the day when
you begged me TO say the word that would
make you happy Tor life.
Mr.. Dash-l know-but you said the
wrong word.-Brooklyn Life.
Some Of us critters here below" said
Uncle Eben, 'prides ourselves on de biz.
ness Of our voices an some of as on d.
purposes to which dey is applied. oats
one diff renee between a mule an a mock
in bird. Washington Star.
"Jim's boy is home from college and he's
that smart nothin' or nobody illustrates
him, said the boys aunt, admiringly.
The other day when old Mrs. Flustpr
asked him what caused such unusual heat.
he said right off ii was due to a surplus
OF calortc In the atmosphere. baltimore
American.
What do you intend to give to our cam
paign fund.- asked the political expert.
ITS hard to decide" answered Mr.
Dustin StaN. The amount must, OF course.
be big enough to help the cause, and at
the same time small enough not to start a
acknowledgements Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Wall Street Journal.

Let us not delude ourselves with the
thought that, when a strong man lays down
this mortal burden, we have really lost
anything Of the actual man. The real man
lives on in the few or the many with whom
his career in the flesh has counted most.
We partake of one another's nature as a
III torch passes on its light to an unlit one.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

President Castro has been suffering
from insomnia eve since he woke up
to the fact that Mr., Sleeper, the Amer
lean legation secretary, had left venez-
uela.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

uyI security skin
on my ankles and
feet. The same,
in a few days,
was the case with
my arms q n !
scalp. / c o uld
hardly keep from
scra~tchinE,which
! need hardly
say, q d . It
" o .. Then
large red patches
appeared. wit h
infla matio o
and n 8 8.
After ten daVR.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Senator Gore of Oklahoma is blind,
but he thinks he can see the true in
wardness of the eulogistic resolution
on Grover Cleveland which Alton B.
Parker proposes to present at Denver.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Democrats enroute to Denver are
duly warned not to lay over at Omaha
or at Lincoln on Sunday unless they
have brought their bottled refresh
ments along with them.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
..ThIs Is So sudden

The manner in which a nominee receives
the notification committee should never for
an instant betray the fact that he has been
sitting for days and nights with his ear at
the telephone receiver.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

"Corns That Kansas Farmers Have"
is the title Of a pamphlet issued by the
Kansas department of agriculture. No
real cure has ever been found for the
plural Of corn.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Truth is mighty and must prevail
everywhere except in Idaho, where the
self-confessed monster has had his
death sentence committed to life i'm
prisonment.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

About hall the planks of the demo-
cratic platform of 1904 will be omitted
from the Denver platform. Very few
democratic issues live for four years.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
An old Friend Missing.

LOUISVILLE COuIleI-JouIha'
During the excitement in Mexico our old
friend, Geronimo, may be wondering why
the white mans brand of civilization is
called superior to that of the cactus plains
variety of Indian.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Among his other claims to recogni-
ton as a vice presidential possibility
Jerry" Sullivan has been twice de-
feated for governor of Iowa.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

1t transpires that the late Grover
Cleveland drew his own will. 1t is TO
be hoped that he did a better job than
did the late Samuel ]. Tilden.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

The Denver ticket will not be Bryan
and Johnson, because Mr.. Bryan has
travelled enough to know that the ten
der should not be placed in front of
the engine.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
Same Old Game.

Washington Herald.
We suppose we shall have the same old
unsafe and insane Fourth of July, not
withs.anding the friendly warnings handed
out by the physicians and surgeons of the
country,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Mr.. Taft will doubtless be surprised
to learn that about a million men in
the country remember that they went
to school with him.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

While on the subject of railway leg
islation 1t might not be a bad plan to
pass a law against taking straw ballots
on a train.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Theodore Bell, slated for temporary
chairman OF the democratic national
convention. has also been twice de-
feated for Office.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Roger Sullivan is annoyed at the
mention of his name in connection
with the vice presidency. So is Mr..
BRYAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Pittshurg Dispatch

Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Gods are certainly as much as 16 to
1 that the sacred ratio will not be affirmed
at Denver, Won't that be another re
treat?"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Mr.. Hope has been nominated by the
prohibitionists for governor of Kansas.
II promises to be another case of Hope
deferred.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

New York has furnished nine vice
presidents Of the United States. Mr..
sherman will he the tenth.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

trade and give the producers and ship
pers the benefit of the competition that
ONE with choice of routes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

The man who is "a little hard o.
hearin'" may look upon his af1iction
as a blessing on July 4.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION:
State Of Nebraska. Douglas County IS:
George b. Tzschuck, treasurer OF The
Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn,
saws that the actual number of full and
complete copies Of The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Mr., Bryan says he is going after the
Roosevelt vote, He will probably be
as far after it as he was in 1900.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

An Atlanta man dropped dead while
making fun of a Merry Widow hat.
These hats are killing.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

AS a matter of fact, the original
sheath skirt was worn by an Indian
woman.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Mr.. Bell of California will toll the
keynote at Denver.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Two big horseshoe mills in Pennsyl.
vania have resumed work on full time
Good luck.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

The campaign will not begin to
by warm up much until Mr.. Taft gets
men comfortably settled at Hot Springs.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

SubscribeFs leaving the city ten"
pornriIy should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often ms requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

Now, all together, for a nonmani-
acal Fourth of July.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
CURE FOLLOWED
YEAR OF AGONY
Intense Itching Eczema Drove Him
NearIytO Despair Surgeon
Of a London Hospital Called It
Worst Case He Had Ever Seem
Got Little or No Relief Until
CUTICURA STOPPED HIS
UNBEATABLE TORTURE

About four years ago, in London, /
was troubled by a severe itching and
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

It is not known to whom the credit of
designing the Stars and Stripes is due. 1t
is claimed that Mrs. Betsy Ross, residing
on Arch street. Philadelphia, was the
maker of the first flag containing the
Stars and Stripes. This claim originated
some fifty years ago, based on a~ffidavits
of descendants to whom Mrs. Ross related
the supposed facts, and on the strength Of
these assertions the story has gone into
school histories, the Arch street home has
become a revolutionary shrine, and Mrs.
Ross is classed among the patriotic women
of the republic. But her claim to emlnence
in making the first flag of stars and stripes
is now vigorously denied by Philadelphia
antiquarians, and a pretty quarrel is the
result. There seems to be no question but
that Mrs. Ross made some flags in the
early lays OF the revolutionary war, and a
treasury record shows she was paid for
making flags for the Delaware fleet" in
May, III. But these flags were not the
Stars and Stripes. A Philadelphia COM
mittee engaged in determining and making
historic sites preliminary to a celebration
planned for next October, has denied the
claim of the Betsy Ross home on Arch
street. The chairman OF the committee,
William J. Campbell, says:
1.-The story is nothing but a foolish ira
dition. Betsy Ross never had an interview
with George Washington; she no more
planned a five star flag and. in fact, prob
ably never gave a thought to how many
stars were on any flag. Betsy Ross was
no more than an ordinary seamstress, and
no doubt was glad to get a days work
sewing on any flag. five stars or other
wise
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

The day we mutilate.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04

GEORGE b. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day OF July, 1905.
NJ. p. WALKER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04


Another local historian. Martin l. j.
Griffin. who has devoted his life TO re-
searches OF early American history, is
equally emphatic in declaring there is no
evidence to support the Betsy Ross claim,
as the maker OF the original Stars and
Stripes. He states the case in these words:
Mrs. Ross made flags. That may be con-
coded. Washington, on January /, lII6, on
the establishment OF what was az the time
called the new army" raised over the
camp at Cambridge a flag Of thirteen
stripes. The canton was Of the English
ensign. We have all been made familiar
with this form of flag since the centennial
of 1876. II is sometimes called the flag
OF Washington" or the Union flag" II
did not, however, get into general use.
Flags Of various design continued 10 he
used by military attachments and naval
forces. Preble's origin OF the Flag gives
illustrations Of fifteen devices used as flags.
on February 5 a rattlesnake flag was pre-
scented 10 congress as "a standard such as
is to be used by the commander. in-chief
OF the American navy But when Com
modore Hopkins sailed the following
month he carried as the standard OF the
fleet the Union flag, or flag Of Washing
ton. Mrs. Ross was paid for some Of these
flags. None Of them, however. was the
stars and Stripes. There Is a widespread
error concerning the flag. Now Il is hon