Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-15

inai investment IN any year % the ten
that he has been in business for him
self.
Now the municipal authorities propose
to get after the usurers. They can do moth
ing until authorised to do more by con-
gress, but will try hard to get that au-
thority.
lave the Clothes.
Years ago the bloody shirt was fire.
quently waived by overzeaious patriotic
orators. Last winter Congressman ].
Hampton Moore waved a bunch Of rags.
spotlessly clean. which forty-eight hours
previously had been a shirt. He painted a
CHASTITY word picture Of the tortures to
which linen wearing apparel is subjected
when consigned to a Washington laundry.
The commissioner made an investigation
and found that more acid than soap was
used in some Of the cleansing establish
ments. and they prepared a bill which Is
attn pending which is designed to provide
washing regulations which, in turn, will
extend the life Of shirts, collars and lin
gerie.
II this thing goes on Washington will
soon become New Utopia. We already have
our dogs officially muEsled. The pro-
prietor OF an eating house who let's a
lily drop into the butter Is liable to a fine
Of $40 and the garbage man who leaves
the top of his wagon open may spend ten
days in jail for his crime. The milk dealer
wo neglects to pour. out all the water after
rinsing his cans steres a penltentiary SEN
tence in the face, and the Interstate Conn
merce commission is preparing a code
which will make the punishment ut the
crime" in the case Of electric railroads
when they fuil to furnish a seat for a fare.
II is a misdemeanor to own a rooster
which crows before $50 a. m, a high crime
to spit on the sidewalk and almost a felony
II you serve a free lunch and leave a hand
full of forks In a glass of dirty water avail
able for your customers while helping
themselves to the cold beans, the sauer-
kraut or the pickles.
These questions are attracting almost as
much attention in Washington just now
as the speeches OF Messrs. Taft and Bryan.
Federal Employees to Vote.
The republican national and congressional
committees do not propose that the voters
employed in the departments here shall be
deprived of the privilege of casting their
votes in the coming election, because OF
any lack Of effort on the part of the politi-
cal managers. Somewhere between 500 and
10000 voters are employed in the depart
ments of Washington who have the right
of suffrage in. practically every state OF
the union. Some Of them, Of course, are
too far way from their homes to think of
proceeding to their legal residences juet
for the sake of casting a vote. But all
of the northern, middle western and east
ern men who desire to do so will havo
facilities afforded them by which they can
exercise the right of franchise. For this
purpose a committee has been organized
which is taking preliminary steps toward
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voters. The railroads have been asked to
give special rates and while not evincing
any emphatic disposition to comply with
this request, It is more than possible that
satisfactory terms will be made before the
middle OF October. There are, of course,
a great many employees occupying minor
places in the departments with small
salaries to whom a journey costing SO or
more would prove a great hardship. These
men win doubtless be provided with tickets
which will enable them to go homo with
out cost. The great difficulty arises. how
ever. from the fact that It is impossible
for the department to spare all voters at
one time. so that at the best not more
than two-thirds of those who are entitled
to vote will be able to get away.
Democrat Has Doubts.
There is a vast difference between the
methods of conducting the campaign
adopted by the two great political parties
this year. at least so far as the Washing
ton end of 1t is concerned. The democrats
are employing the brass band policy and
are doing all the shouting up to the present
time. They are apparently jubilant, cocky
and confident, and every man who returns
from a trip across the Maryland or Vir-
ginia line comes back with glitterlng stories
of the glowing prospects Of Bryan and
Kern. The republicans, on the other hand,
while more actively engaged in saving
wood, so to speak, are apparently content
to permit their opponents to enjoy the
music Of their wind instrument without
attempting to start up a counter attraction
In political melody. But occasionally there
appears on the scene some one who has no
reason to govern his conduct by the wishes
of either of the managers of the great
political parties. Among these is that fine
old confederate veteran. Colonel Hunter of
Virginia, who was on the staff Of General
Gordon during the civil war. Colonel
Hunter has just returned from Toledo. o..
where he took part in the ceremonies In
cldent to the dedication OF a monument
to commemorate the deeds of the Ameri-
cans in the war of 1917. near Toledo. Col
onel Hunter is an old-time southern demo-
crat and he does not hesitate to say that
he will support Bryan in, 1908, just as he
did in 1900 and 1895. But" ne added this
evening, II failed TO find that deep-seated
Bryan sentiment among the republicans of
the west which l had been led to believe
was apparent in every crossroads town In
the state of Ohio. l do not believe that
Mr.. Bryan has the ghost OF a chance to
carry the Buckeye state any more than
think Taft will carry Virginia. l shall
vote for Bryan and l hope for his election.
but during my trip through the west !
failed to gain any encouragement and l am
by no means enthusiastic when l express
the hope that the Nebraskan will be elected
TO the presidency"
HnIID MEM CUNT AL AECDAN