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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
RAILROAD SITUATION IN WEST.
MaEnate Hill Repeats His ROaI
Against Railroad Regulation.
Interview in Harper's Weekly.

Interview in HaIper's Weekly.
How much new railroad does the west
need?"
There should be 5000 miles of new road
built in the country in the next five years.
even to get abreast of current business,
and unless m is to be tied UP In a
hard knot that Is what will have to be
done. II will mean the spending of 81, 1O0,-
100000 a year. About e. per cent of this,
mind you, will be for labor and the bal
ance for material, which is almost entirely
labor.
That would mean something to prosper
ity. II would put labor at a premium. 1t
would tax every supply shop in the coun-
try. 1t would force the steel mills to run
double shifts in every plant to turn on.
the necessary rails. 1t would bring about
a removal nf millions OF people from the
crowded centers of the east into the states
west Of the Mississippi that are crying for
population.
at is a soothing picture, isn't It? But
to do 1t the railroads must be allowed to
run their business as any other business is
run, They are the second biggest interest
in the country. They purchase Is per cent
of everything that is purchased. They
employ one way or another a very large
proportion OF the working male popula.
ton; then tell me why every man in the
country. whether he be merchant, farmer
manufacturer or workman. cannot see thai
all prosperity, from the ground up, Is knit
insolubly with the prosperity and proper
maintenance and upbuilding Of the rail
roads? Why are they all led like sheer
by a lot of politicians who will sell then
out at the drop OF the hat?
THE railroad is the most important fac.
tor in the country's prosperity and Il
makes the smallest profit. \ bsnk car
clear 30, 80. even 100 per cent so long as 4
pays legal interest and the government hal
nothing to say. II a bank does not max.
money it can liquidate and get out: $,
can a man in any other business. but
railroads. profits must be limited to a mar
gin on which necessary expansion is i'm
possible; il must be run in the most ex
pensive way; II must stand the loss o
lean years and make a minimum in tn
good ones when every other business il
coming money, and it must keep on run
ming whether it pays or not. If It canno
make money enough, with these burdens
to meet its obligations a receiver is put II
to run it and his certificates take prece
dence Of the stock and the bonds. AS
certain distinguished statesman said re
Gently. we've got the railroads
But how long do you think people ar
going to invest their money in a bushes
that is nailed to the cross in this fashion
And when they won't invest tell me wha
is to become Of the m Of the eoun
try. The true measure Of prosperity. plainl,
enough is the ability to move products an
merchandise promptly
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
TODAY'S PRIMARY.

Today's primary will be held under
Nebraska's new statewide primary
law. 1t is the second trial of
that law throughout the state, al
though here in Douglas county 1t has
been practically operative for four
years. A detailed explanation of the
law is, therefore. unnecessary, but for
the benefit Of newcomers and new vot-
ers 1t is worth while to set forth again
the salient features.
The Nebraska law provides a closed
primary for the nomination of candi-
dates by all political parties through
the same machinery as the regular
election. To participate in the pri-
mary the voter must state his party
a~fhliation in order to receive a ballot
containing the names of candidates
filed for that party. In cities where
registration is required the party afili-
alton recorded by the last registration
is conclusive on this point. In regis
tration cities, too, the voter may
at the same time register for the COM
ing November election. but he should
remember that the mere voting at the
primary does not in itself constitute a
registration for the election. The
primary vote is to be counted and can
vsssed in precisely the same way as a
vote at regular elections and the GER
tifcate of nomination on each ticket
for each Office to be filled will go to
the candidates securing the highest
vote at the primary, whether d plural
ity or a majority.
The direct primary puts 1t up to the
voters of the respective parties to
make their own nominations. 1t ac-
centuates and centers the responsible
ity and takes away the possibility OF
manipulation OF convention delegates
If every voter of every party would &c
to the primary polls and do his full
duty the nominations would represent
the real choice of the rank and Ale oil
the respective parties. The man who
neglects to vote at the primary will
have no right to complain of its results
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
THE JOYS OFF THE ATE SUMMER

Along the country road how sweet to
And gather plumes of golden rod so yell
wooed by soft breeze and kissed ISt@spps
The World blooms fair upon this gorgeous
As in my arms these golden flow'rs l
Ker-chew! Hello, I must be catching
cold,
Just DER the fence there rests in fragrant
heaps
Upon the ground, the hay full
And by the field there runs a streamlet
slender.
'Bove which an ancient twisted willow
weeps
Because the rsg-weed grows without a
Ker-chew! Ker-chew! A cold I've surely
caught. .rv
Upon this clover sweet a couch, III make,
And lie and rest and dream day-dreams
Oh Yes, the blooming country roads the
Resort of man, where he his ease may
A-chewi ,Ker-chew! What can the
Ker-chew! There's not a breath Of wind
near me.
Within my reach there grows a deep Wild
rose;
Alone it blows, the last one of the sea-
/ smell it. All! Ker-chew' I know the
OF ali this sneezing. Hi, there! Farmer,
you'll femme ride with you back into
My old hay-fever has Ker-chew! come
'roun.'
Omaha. NJ. c. DEE.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
PROGRESS AT PANAMA.

No greater tribute could be paid to
the efficiency of the engineering corps
of the United States army than is
found in the report of Colonel Goe-
thals indicating that the construction
of the Panama canal will be completed
in plenty declared that the successful
completion of the work was practically
impossible, and even after construction
had begun many experts insisted that
the canal would not be ready for use in
less than twenty-five years. The
progress made since the army took
hold of the work has %astounded the
engineers of the world and will be
gratifying to the public.
The report made by Colonel Goethals
not only shows the most rapid progress
in the work of construction, but con
tains the pleasing information that
American science has triumphed over
the baneful climatic conditions on the
isthmus until the canal zone is almost
a health resort. Where the death rate
was Abnormally high when Americans
took charge of the enterprise, it is now
remarkably low, furnishing a mode
system for the prosecution of great en-.
terprises in the tropics in the future.
The completed canal viii be a monu.
ment to- President Roosevelt. Under
his forcefuI direction the construction
of it VAS given an impetus n organ.
~izstion that has made the present re-
port of progress possible It Is the
greatest Undertaking of the kind in the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
REcocN1z INC MR. CROKER.


Many Americans more or less famil.
lar with New York politics will be SUI
prised TO learn that the destinies OF
the entire nation might have been
changed had Boss" Croker not taken q
hand in political affairs in the empire
state. The city of Dublin has dlscov-
cred this fact and has paid Croker the
high compliment Of making him an
Honorary Burgess. not, thank you, for
anything he has done for Dublin, but
because everyone knows that Mr..
Croker has been a power in ruling the
destinies of America"
1t is difficult to determine at long
range whether Mr.. Croker has been
playing a joke on the city of Dublin OF
whether that city is trying to have a
little joke at the expense of the Amer
lean people. Cookers part in "%ruling
the destinies of America" is well
known on this side of the Atlantic. 1t
stands for bossism, corruption and
selfish corruption of the most dis
part in ruling the destinies of Amer
ica," it has been by the power of ex-
ample. Since he left the country
rather than answer the question,
Where did you get it?" the public
conscience has been aroused to the
point of eliminating the Crokers of
public life.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
SUNNY GEMS.

81 tell you what" said the old maid,
they make love much faster than they
used to i'm my day .
lin your day it was a rented horse and
buggy; now it's a mortgaged. forty horse
power, mile-at minute touring car.-De-
you didn't use my manuscript said
ut was not adapted to our purposes. We
How about the stamp that was in
aoh, that was ali right, We used tt
Philadelphia Ledger.
"Gayman. 1 saw you in the conservatory
the other Afternoon embracing an elderly
ri don't deny IL. Goodsole, I was trying
to conserve our natural resources
"Reclsiming an arid waist. Chicago
Tribune.
Maud. you remember the time we were
summering in the country and you played
country girl, and AL caught YOU peeling
onions in the kitchen2'
Can l ever forget 1t, julia. That onion
peeiing is one of my strongest reeollec-
tons. baltimore American
"was it a GOOD game of bali?"
Splendid! The visiting team went az TO
pieces in the first inning, and our boys beat
EN- q to 0!"-Chicago Tribune,
Mrs. stubbs-John. / see where one of
he big balloons went up a distance of
l 10000 feet. / suppose there was no danger
Of culliding with anything up that high?
MIR. Stubbs-Oh, yes, Maria. They might
nave run into the price of beefsteak.-
Chicago News.
Applicant Tin metropolitan newspaper
| office)-Yes, sir: I am ready to accept any
| position-from office boy to chief editorial
writer.
at present. Sorry.
Applicant-How about that of office boy?
Proprietor-You don't know enough
Life.
'Of co'se," said Uncle Eben. I'D IKE 10
hab roas' turkey an champagne, an truit
cake an quail on toas', and a heap mo,
things: But ain gwinter let thinRln
bout 'em Spite my enjoyment CT con
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
Personal NOTES.

Victims Of the Yellowstone bandit passed
a series of resolutions. There is one form
of consolation never denied a body OF
soul-stricken Americans.
Considerable fuss is being made over the
failure of Wall street gamblers. Even an
expert occasionally gets fooled when using
to get excited.
The steel in her ccrset saved an Orange,
N. j., woman from serious injury and
perhaps death by deflectir g a bullet from
the accidental discharge Of a revolver.
Yet there are those who say that corsets
are a menace to health.
Senior Frarco, the former premier OF
Portugal, who fled from Lisbon at the
time OF the assassination of King Carlos
last February, has arrived I'm Paris from
Italy. At the Spanish frontier he met
a number OF his friends, with whom he
discussed plans for the continuance of his
political activities in Portugal.
In Boio, Panama tile other day they had
a real rain storm. 1t lasted only from 2;3'
till $50 o'clock, but in those three hours
there fell uDon the not particularly thirsty
earth no less than 762 inches Of water, OF
which $50 inches fell m one hour and liz
inches in ten minutes, There MAS pre-
ciritation for you.
No aeronaut in the world is better known
than Count Ferdinand Zeppelin Of Ger
many, who at the age OF 20, has made
some sensational experiments with his air
ships. Additional interest is given to the
counts career i'm American eyes by the
fact that he served in the union army
as a cavalry officer during our civil war
He was an intimate friend Of carl schurz
After the conflict between the north and
the south was over he returned TO Ger,
many and participated in the Austro
Prussian war. and also in Germany's wal
with France In 80
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
The Trained Mon and the TheorIst.

haHsdS OIVY IiWtsI IND Ttp'J.
For the immediate future, who shall
lead in this fight Mr.. Bryan, who comes
forward with 3as'new set of suggestions,
or Mr.. Taft, who, stands for the Roose-
Welt policies; who stands for such modi-
fications of legal practice as may be nee
essary to facilitate Justice; who stands
for the Sherman law and the necessary
amendment OF It; who refuses to put the
republican party or its presidential can
didate under obligations to the trusts
who has proven himself a t~horoughgoing
executive; who has achieved great things
and who has never undertaken one i'm
portant thing that he has failed to &C
complish?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Colonel Bryan will take no sides
openly for or against any of the three
candidates for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation and to avoid suspicion has
taken himself out of the state without
even waiting to cast a vote at the prl-
mary. While the balloting is going
on he will probably be making a
speech somewhere proclaiming the
duty of every good citizen to take an
interest in politics and to vote at pri.
maries and elections.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
Promises Not worm the Breath,

ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
We all know how soon the tariff will be
revised IL Taft is elected, He will call an
extra session of congress to do the job as
soon az he shall have been installed In
the White House. But how soon would
revision be accomplished with Bryan as
president, with a republican senate and
probably a republican house? Agreement
upon the terms of revision between con-
gress and the executive would be practically
impossible. at-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

1t is announced over the signatures
of the president and secretary of the
Jacksonian club that it is against the
policy of this club to endorse any per-
son prior to the primaries" Our
%Jacksonian friends were not so scru-
pulous about adhering to their policy
when they fixed up their slate for dele
gates to the Denver convention a few
months ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

The J-acksonians Indignantly deny
that they have made up any combina-
ton to beat Mayor Jim and his friends,
The Jacksonian conspiracy may not
have taken shape as a formal resolu-
ton, but the cards have been dealt
Just the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
Superior
Chicago Tribune

You think, doubtless, that il you had been
one OF those 125 tourists who were held up
and robbed by that lone highwayman in
Yellowstone park you would have offered
some resistance-but you wouldn't. The
highwayman and his gun constituted an
overwhelming majority.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Mr.. Bryan says he is the heir to the
Roosevelt policies and the NeY York
World is supporting him because he lie
opposed to everything that Roosevelt
advocates. That is about as nearly
as democrats of the different varieties
ever come to agreeing.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Colonel Henry WattersoA is support
ing Bryan with all his energies. His
editorial columns are now filled with
articles on ensilage, the cure OF pip in
chicken. the ravages of the boil weevil
and denunciations of the Might
Riders"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Not a peep yet this year from our
democratic congressman-editor about
the postal savings bank which he
played up so strong in his previous
campaigns. The reputation by Mr..
Bryan of the postal savings bank leaves
our democratic congressman nothing
to fall back on except free seed dis
trihutiOn.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Note that u amlable contemporary
labels the Objectionable candidate for
presidential eleetor mot for Bryan. 4"
The only surprising thing is that it did
not label him mot a democrat"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

A Missouri man boasts a beard
eleven feet In length. It is not ex-
planned how they failed { nominate
him for vice president at Denver.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

II the "Jims" had only known in
time what was coming there would
have been competition for the con-
gressional place on the democratic
ticket. 1t is a safe bet that they won't
be caught mapping that way again.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
False Prophets shown Tn.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

Philadelphia Press.
The prophets who predicted that our war
ships would stir up a wal when they got
on the other side of the world will have to
hunt up A hiding place where the accounts
of the welcomes and receptions can't
reach them. War moves away out of reach
of such a fleet.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

President Castro has notified Queen
Wilhelmina that he cannot entertain
friendly relations with her. That
should be sufficient to arouse the
queens Dutch. s,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
The Enemy's Point of View.

bdIITHIUTt NIUtTICdH,
Bryan has heard that there is great
apathy for Taft. There is a possibility,
under all the circumstances, that the wish
is father to the report. Or It may be that
the eagerness and anxiety Of the Bryanites
have mistaken for apathy what is calm
confidence.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Somehow or other the Bryanites
have overlooked printing a populist
sample ballot with the spurious candi-
dates for presidential %elector labeled
mot for Watson"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

More property has been destroyed
by FIRE In Turkey than in any other
country except the United States,
which holds the record.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Democratic quill pushers throughout
Nebraska will now fall to and make
verbal mincemest out of Editor
Sprecher of the Schuyler Free Lance,
who has dared to repudiate Bryan
after supporting him twice.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
The Pace that Dethrones,
Washington Pos

The sultan Of Morocco's downfall is due
70 his adoption of modern American and
European business methods, so 1t is said.
From this we infer that the common people
in Morocco still have some few rights,
prerogatives, and ~valuables from which
they are reluctant to part.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

II lay down the proposition that the
American people do not rule" said
Mr.. Bryan at Salem, Ill. The record
shows that the minority does not rule.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

The local democratic organ prints a
sample democratic primary ballot
with facts about each man" Search
with a m%agnifying glass. however, dis
closes mighty few facts. Are the facts
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
A Reminder OF Home.

flttsburg Dispatch.
Souvenir hunters at Sydney made off
with the Connecticut's knives and spoons.
Just like home! A few foreign command
ers may have recollections revived of New
York.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

A New York dispatch says that
'Tammany is for Bryan in dead earn
est. Tammany has always been for
Bryan that way. .
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

lis the drummer passing?" asks the
Wall Street Journal. Not by a long
shot. He makes his regular calls and
is doing a rushing business.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

An illinois nan has been arrested
because he has a mania for noise. He
should be sentenced to attend all of
the campaign rallies.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

A New York man received 1905
volts of electricity without injury
Must be a politician.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

The husband of Mrs. Chadwick has
been declared bankrupt. in spite of the
abundance of Chadwick money.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

King Edward is taking the rest cure.
This business of trailing over Europe
and kissing monarchs must be exhaust
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

I'VE smoked 55,OOO,OO O cigarettes
last year. Now what does that proven"
asks the New York Mail. 1t proves
that you should quit with the record.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

1t is not too early to buy the school
shoes for the children.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

A Maryland farmer went blind while
chasing a pig, Other folks get into
ditnculty by chasing blind pigs.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Venezuelan revolutionists declare
that Castro must go. He has been
going some.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

If the state fair about. to open at
Lincoln is a true reflex Of agricultural
conditions in Nebraska it will surely be
a hummer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

District Attorney Jerome does not
look any better in his coat of white
wash.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Congressman Sulzer has carried New
York for Bryan by 100000. Sulzer
always e~fervesces that way during the
heated term.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Sir Thomas Upton says he is GER
tain to win the American cup some
time. Anyway, he is no doubling
Thomas.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Mr.. Bryan is said to have beer
pleased with the Kernels remarks.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

No amount of heat developed by the
campaign will lessen the coal bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Castro says he does not know what
the Monroe doctrine means. He is
scheduled TO find out unless he mends
his ways.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Indications are also favorable fol-
bumper crop of foot ball hair.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Only a few more days in which to
buy a straw hat of the 1908 style.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

The Merry Widow hat may come in
handy as a substitute for the storm
door.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Notice how the distance between
America and Australia has shrunk?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
WHEN our on ToWr.

s~ubseribers leaving the city tenn.
sOrarily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often m requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

world and President Roosevelt has
pushed and fastened its completion in
the face of the most %discoursging con-
ditiOus.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State Of Nebraska. Douglas County. SIS:
George b. Tzschuck, treasurer of The
Bee Publishing company, being duly
fuli and complete comics Of The Daily.
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of August, 1908, was as
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

too scarce or are they too discred-
table?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

Enter the Fall guy.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

"Of ~co'se,' said Uncle Eben, I'D IKE TO-
hab roas' turkey an champagne, an truit
cake an quail on toas', and a heap mo,
things. But l ain gwinter let thinkin
bout 'em Spite my enjoyment OF co
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-01

was it a good game Of ball?''
splendid! The visiting team went all to
pieces in the first inning, and our boys beat
EN- n to 0i"-Chicago Tribune,