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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Interior Movement.

Houston Steady middling, 11c; net re- ceipts, 43l; gross receipts. 43l; shipments, 562; sales, 22S; stock. 29,607.
 Augusta Firm; middling, 11Ac; net re- ceipts. 65; gross receijts. 176; shipments, sol; sales, 351; stock, 35,554.
 Memphis Strong; midding. 111sc; net receipts. SS0; gross receipts. 529; ship ments, 2037 sales. 2050; stock, S5.C37. St. Louis; Net receipts, 14S; gross re- ceipts, 24O1; shipments, 3S4S; sales 4s; stock, 2S,3S0.
 Cincinnati: Net receipts, 5l6; gross re- ceipts, ISL shipments 6oo stock. 12,S10 Louisville: Firm; midding, 11c.
 Little Realistically; middling, 101ec; net receipts, 194: gross receipts, 194; ship ments, 359; stock 1S,S29
 Total today: Net receipts, 17S4; gross receipts, 4343; shipments, 7OOS; sales, 3274; stock, 210,217.
 New Orleans Cotton Market.
 New Orleans May l6.-CottOn: Spots
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
FOR CORONEF

FUN COhONEh XII. N Rosser. There's a reason-ask your neighbor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans, May 16.-Cotton: Spots were steady with prices unchanged. Mid
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
ALL1soN's

Senator William Boyd Allison,
Iowa's Grand Old Man. is entitled to
congratulations on the magnificent vic
tory scored in the statewide repub-
lican primary just held. Never in his
prime did the veteran senator have
such a combination of powerful fac
tors arrayod against him. 1t is doubt
full If ever before the state Of Iowa
had witnessed a battle within the
party with lines so closely drawn and
opposing forces SO strongly mar
shalled.
While Senator Allison was busily
engaged at his legislative duties in
Washington, his chief opponent was
himself in the field utilizing every ad-
vantage of his personal presence. The
friends of Senator Allison had to fight
under their own leadership, but they
were none the less determined and ag-
gressive.
II was, indeed, a battle of the giants
in which the success of Senator ALI
son, although by no huge majority,
testihes to the gigantic stature of his
great personality.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
Personal NOTES.

A San Francisco paper offers $1,000 for
evidence morally establishing" the guilt
Of a local dynamiter.
Rev. John Dixon OF New York City says
he does not believe there is an editor or
reporter in his town who ever saw the Mis-.
sissippi.
Notwithstanding his mistakes and fail
ures, thousands will regret the report that
General Butler. who 80 often regretted to
report. is dead.
The discovery Of a Chicagoan that he
owned $4,000 worth Of stock that he had
tucked away twenty years before and for
gotten is enough to set people thinking.
The satisfaction of being rich is much en-
HANGED by the circumstance Of being aware
Of IL. A.
Governor Post OF Porto Rico. who Is now
in the United States, Is making arrange
ments for the purchase of arms and equip
ment for the insular police. the federal
government having Withdrawn the arms
and equipment which have been used by
the police for several years.
Prof. Charles @. Riyot Of ST. Louis has
had bestowed upon him the decoration OF
officer d'academie by the French govern
ment. Not more than five or six Amer
cans have teen given this honor. Prof.
Rivot has published fifteen French poems
IN epic. tragic and pastoral verse. which
have attracted wide attention.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
TAFT N GRANT.
Anti organs Indulge In Misleading
Comment.

Comment.
st. Louis Times (dem.).
We refuse to go into Mysteries over Sec
rotary Taft's allusion to General Grants
early habits. We refuse to believe that
Mr.. Taft, in his Memorial day speech,
meant TO reflect unfavorably on the charac-
ter of the greatest military commander Of
the time.
Secretary Taft's language shows not the
slightest hint OF the sensational turn that
has been given to 1t by the politicians.
If anything comes of the episode. the de-
~velopment may be charged to an appeal to
the superficial.
Everyone knows, as a fact, what Mr..
Taft said. General Grant. in his youth,
was addicted to the use of strong drink.
1t had IN unfavorabIe effect on his early
career. Everyone knows the old story Of
the cabal that went to Lincoln with the re-
port that Grant, then commanding In the
west, was a drinking man, Of how lincoln
said that he'd like to get some Of the same
brand of liquor for others Of his officers
who were not doing as well as Grant.
The object of allusion in the Taft speech
was to point a lesson. Grant was not only
a great commander OF men, but he was GER
tain OF himself. He won a personal vic
tory over alcohol before he went into the
army to win for his country in the greatest
war of centuries. This was the point OF
Taft's talk, and a right good point It was
a strong illustration In q talk hi got away
from the type of public address that is all
too eomman on occasions OF the kind.
Politicians who think that Taft meant
to slight the memory OF General Grant sre
lightheaded. The other politicians who
seek to use the incident to serve a car.
paign purpose are not sympathizers with
the idea Of the square deal.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
Employer, LIABILITY.
s@pringfield Republican.


The employers liability bin signed yester-
day by Acting Governor Draper is an i'm
yortant one, eyen though made applicants
only to railroad corporations, 1t provides
that an employe injured as a result of the
negligence Of a fellow-empioye. shall moi
be deemed to ave assumed the risk OF
such injury. In other words, 1t follows the
federal statute. about which there has beer
so much controversy. in setting aside the
ancient fellow-servant principle in habil-
ity cases so far as railroads are concerned.
and thus establishes a precedent which
will lead presumably to an extension OF
the new rule to other occupations. In
deed, il is not clear how this special APP
plieation Of II is to be defended. II makes
a pretty plain case OF unjust descrimina-
ton whi,h may be pronounced ~uneonstitu-
tionaL
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
WASTE ON THE rARM.
Losses In the Aggregate Beyond Conn
putatiOn.

Washington Post.
From authoritative reports by govern
ment officials Il appears that sons 2,@5,-
o2i cattle die in tho United states an
nually from disease and exposure-most
OF them from neglect. From the same
source It is also ascertained that the loss
of sheep from the same causes Is as great.
These figures only serve to show what
a wasteful people we are. One of the eK-
cuses the Beef trust makes for high prices
of provisions is the enormous death rate
Of live stock on the range and on the
farm, most Of II due to pure t%riflingness
OF the herdsmen and the grazier. Indeed.
the losses by neglect and exposure greatly
exceed the losses by disease.
II would be impossible to estimate the
waste Of farm products after they mature
in the field, but it is enormous, some Of
1t due to scarcity OF labor, but most OF II
traceable to thriftless husbsndry, or. in
plain speech, downright laziness. One
source OF waste is imperfect cultivation.
for millions OF farmers persist in half cul-
tlvation Of large areas when they would
make more proper tillage of fewer acres.
Then there is immense waste in the disre-
gard of intelligent rotation OF crops. This
is the worst sort OF waste, for II means
devastation Of soils that requires years OF
provident tillage to replace. All over the
east are abandoned farms that would today
be gardens IL they had been given intelli-
gent cultivation. That farmer is not fit
for his vocation who does not increase the
fertility of his soil every year he cuiti-
Yates Il.
Under the new system Of dry farming"
invented by Mr.. Campbell, somewhere out
west, drouths have been robbed of most
of their terrors; and IL forests that were
wantonly destroyed were restored and con-
served, the frightful wastes occssioned by
floods. amounting 10 $100,OO0,OOO annually
in the Ohio valley alone, wouid be avoided.
This is a magnificent country of ours,
but we have used II like the prodigal who
dissipates his patrimony In ~riotous and
ruinous living.
The vast wealth we have accumulated
cardinal source of prosperity will soon be
was acquired by reason OF the many ad-
vantages we enjoy, one of the principal
farm. Unless there is less waste, that
being the cheap food produced on the
a thing of the past.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
ANEw n1eH SCHOOL pRINolpAL.

Il NE HUH DOf1OOL EhAANOAk II
The Board of Education has, by
unanimous vote, chosen e. U. Graf,
now at the head of the high school at
Rockford, ILL.,, to fill the impending
vacancy in the Omaha High school.
The new principal will come to Omaha
practically a stranger and 1t will de-
volve on him to demonstrate that he
is the right man for the place.
The people of Omaha have definite
ideas as to what sort of a man is
needed to manage their high school
successfully, which we believe were
voiced by The Bee at the time Mr..
Warehouses; resignation was an
nounced. They will expect the new
principal TO up to a high
standard both as an educator and as a
disciplinarian.
Everyone knows that the conduct
of a great school like this, with sixty
odd teachers and nearly two thousand
pupils, requires the cooperation OF all
concerned to make it do its best work.
If the new principal manifests the
proper disposition, which we have no
doubt he will, he will find teachers,
pupils and parents and the public gen.
orally ready to give him every assist
ance to make good.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
THE TEXAS OH CASE.

Politicians throughout the country,
particularly those who have beer
watching the progress of Senator Bal
ley 1 n his fight for his political life in
Texas, will be quite as deeply inter-
ested as federal officials and lawyers In
the decision of the United States SUI
preme court that H. Clay Pierce, presi-
dent of the Waters-Pierce Oil company,
must return to Texas to stand trial on a
charge of perjury. The final hearing
of this case is expected to throw new
light on the methods of the Standard
Oil company in its efforts to evade
state laws and also to clear up much
that now seems more or less in doubt
about Senator Bailey's connection
with the big concern.
The Waters-Pierce Oil company was
driven from Texas some years ago
when the legislature passed a law for
bidding trusts from doing business in
the state. Mr.. Pierce made affidavit
that none of the Rockefellers owned
stock in his company. He swore that
the Waters-Pierce company took oil
from its own wells, refined it, owned
its own cars and tanks and had no
connection whatever with the Stand
ard Oil trust. Senator Bailey APP
peared as attorney for Mr.. Pierce and
succeeded in securing a new license
for the company to do business in
Texas. Then came the explosion. 1t
Waters-Pierce stock was owned by the
Standard Oil company and had been
at the time Pierce and Bailey made
their representations to the Texas OFF,
cials. The investigation OF Senator
Bailey by the legislature of Texas re-
suited In a rather thin coat of white
wash and started a statewide fight
against him in the ranks of his own
party. He has just been chosen to
head the Texas delegation to the Den
yer convention, but has been assured
that the fight against him will be kept
up in Texas until he is more COM
pletely INDICATED. Mr.. Pierce wal in
dicted for perjury by a Texas grand
jury some months ago, but has re-
fused to return to that state for trial,
resisting extradition papers by taking
his case to the supreme court of the
United States. The point involved in
the people was Mr.. Pierce's contention
that he was not really charged with a
crime. On that point Mr.. Justice
Moody, in delivering the opinion of
the court. said:
This court has said that an Indictment
in order TO constitute a sufficient charge
OF crime 20 warrant interstate extradition
need show no more than that the ac-
cused was substantially charged with
crime. This indictment meets and sur.
passes that standard and is ei,ough.
Upon the result of MI. PIerce's trial
for perjury will depend whether Texas
will be represented by a new man in
the United States senate, succeeding
Mr.. Bailey, who was at one time the
idol OF his party and strongly urged
as a candidate for presidential honors
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

woman was a relative and would lose her
Job. she probably woodland wherever a
giri or woman needs the Job some en-
pioyers, tout to get the ooin," take ad-
vantage Of that fact. The employer In
question here is. l know, an elder IN a
church. Evidently. my disagreeable task
one Of these days will be to cause some peo-
pie to commit perjury, or lose their Jobs.
IL the gouglng employer alone were con-
cerned. / would not hesitate a moment but
for a labor bureau 20 throw the needy out
Of work is a contingency at which l pause
so long as they are not worked all night
after working all day. But one Of these
days the bureau will find a shining example
and will solicit the assistance OF the county
attorney in dead earnest.
JOHN J. RYDER.
Deputy Commissioner Of Labor.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
THE COMING TOPIC.

st. Louis Post-D Dispatch.
We might as we'll begin right 10
And memorize again
The list of presidential votes
In Arkansas and Maine.
And learn to trip them glibly in
Our everyday debates,
For that's h coming topic
In our own United States.
We might as well get at It.
As we've often lone before.
And learn IL Indiana a
Eighteen or t~wenty-four,
For that's the great essential
That Immediately awaits
The art OF conversation
In United States.
II Bryan lost New England,
New York, and Idaho,
What others would he have to getf
Is what we've got to know,
For that's the sort of thing to which
All talking g~ravitates
With proper pr~ovocation
In our own United states.
The fellows who are posted
Are the men that win cigars
And drink their booze for nothing
At the few remaining bars,
For they've memorized the figures,
And they're loaded for debates
In a presidential eason
In our own United states.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
OKLAHOMA MrsREPRBsENTED


The manager of the democratic
press bureau in the new state Of Okla
homa has issued a circular letter of
protest against the spread of ground
less and mischievous reports respect
ing the acts and actions of the Okla
homa legislature, He makes particu-
lar reference to a story given wide
publicity recently to the effect that
the legislature had passed a law Civ
ing the labor commissioner authority
not only to adjust labor disputes, but
also to fix the rate Of wages to be paid
by all employing concerns in the state.
He encloses a copy OF the bill as proof
that nc such power was granted and
no such legislation passed. The law
in question simply creates the position
OF labor commissioner and gives him
about the same powers as the labor
commissioners of other states.
The evidence is conclusive that Ok
lahoma was slandered by the report.
which appears to have come originally
from a correspondent OF a Chicago
newspaper evidently DESTROYS of bring
ing the officials of the new state into
ridicule. 1t vas in~nocently com
mented on by other papers. including
The Bee. 1t is but fair TO give the
Oklahoma legislature its dues. Il
pleads guilty TO passing laws protect
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
TWO SALIENT POINTS.
Currency Bin Recognizes Asset and
Surtax PRINCIPLES.

Surtax PRINCIPLES.
New York Globe.
That the ~Aldrich-Vreeland bill, despite it's
defects, is in two respects a step in the
right direction all currency reformers, un-
less intoxicated with over-fervor for their
~favorlte nostrum. must concede. It recog-
nizes for the first time in nearly fifty
years the asset currency principle and
makes a start toward providing a cur
rency that shall automatically enlarge or
diminish in volume, according to the need
Of the business community. The elasticity
is swathed with safeguards and is sur.
rounded with shock absorbers and with
devices to prevent stretching TO an I'M
necessary degree, but II is at least provided
that under abnormal conditions such as
existed last autumn an emergency currency
whose safety no. man may doubt can come
out. 1t will not be necessary for the
banks to exceed their legal powers, nor
will 1t be necessary for comptrollers and
bank examiners to be discreetly blind.
Even though, as some assert, the ~restric-
lions are so onerous that the emergency
circulation Will never be taken out, it is
worth something to have even an aca-
demic recognition by congress of the asset
currency principle. 1t is also worth some
thing that congress has been brought to
recognize the German surtax principle, I'M
der which any exceptional enlargement OF
the currency is taxed into early retire
ment and thus a bulwark set up against
initiation. This artificial way OF compelling
redemption has worked acceptably in Ger
many, and IL 1t works acceptably here It
will remove the chief obstacle to real and
comprehensive currency reform-namely,
the claim that the banks rather than the
people would get the benefit Of an en-
largement of the currency-issuing
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
sharp RetOrt ON States Rights.

The cleverest thing uttered at the con-
gress OF governors was the presidents re-
tort to a southern governor who was in
Weighing against a wholesome fear in his
state that 1.-THE spirit OF Capitalization
would interfere with the rights OF indi-
vidual states" There could not have been
a possibility OF the presidents knowing
what was coming; but, with the cleverness
of an Irishman, rather h the phlegIn
OF a Dutchman, he retorted
THE governor OF North Carolina hasn't
any fear OF government intrusion when
congress appropriates money to improve
the rivers and waterways OF his state
It was a complete answer. 1t was the
retort most courteous and most ~"flabber-
gasting'-if ! may use a popular word. well
beloved at Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

A compilation of life insurance
statistics shows that Omaha got back
from the life insurance companies last
year sS11,4S1 in payment of policies
held by deceased Omaha people. 1t
would be interesting to know how
much Omaha pays the life insurance
companies in a yea and whether the
balance is in our favor or against us.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

Mr.. Bryan is taking his time to talk
to the public about that $4,000 sent
to Nebraska by Ryan and Sheehan In
1904. but 1t is a safe wager that he
lost no time in doing some pretty plain
talking to Mayor "Jim" and Brother
in-Law Tom" on the subject.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

Sleeping is a habit, formed when
there were no artificial lights and men
went to bed simply because they could
not see to work. says MIR. Edison. No
more adroit advertisement for electric
lights has been written.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
Good Sign of the Times.

bPII HbIIVIU INUpuDIINdHs |
Automobile manufacturers report little
falling off in their business as a result OF
the hard times. II that is the case. then
the times cannot be very hard 1t is adj
mitted that there Is a slackened demand
for large touring cars. but this is offset
by an increased demand for small vehicles
which reflects an increase in the bust
ness uses OF the motor carriage. One of
the New York manufacturers Just back
from a western journey says the automo-
bile factories out that way are rushed
with business.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

ing its members in their right to eat
popcorn and peanuts during the ses-
sion, requiring nine-foot sheets on the
hotel beds and uncracked china on the
hotel tables, but 1t protests against
being charged with the enactment of
legislation that would drive capital
from the state and label the law
makers as socialists.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
A New York anarchist wants all the

A New York anarchist wants all the
anarchists in the country to join him
in establishing a colony in Mexico,
leaving the United States to its fate.
If this can be done without creating
any international complications with
Mexico the United States should help
the plan along.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

The embarrassment of Mr.. Bryan
over that Parker-Ryan Doodle deliv-
cred to Mayor Jim" by Brother-in-
Law Tom" Allen may be readily inn
agined. Some Of this same bunch oc-
cupy front seats in Mr.. Bryan's Ne
braska delegation to Denver and he
cannot afford to repudiate them Just
now.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

II the newly elected principal OF
the Omaha High school were to take
charge right nov he would assume d.
rection of sixty-three teachers and
1886 enrolled pupils. That is a big
school and will require a big nan at
the helm.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
All over but the Shouting.
Kansas CITY Star.

hdnsdS City btdf.
Mr.. Bryan's defeat at Denver is out Of
the question. He already has a majority,
with 2s delegates yet TO be chosen. At
the mention of his name the convention
will cheer fourteen and a half minutes,
with the usual intent of persuading itself
that it is electrified.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

Thomas F, Ryan declares that he
will not go to the Denver convention.
He is apparently satisfied with his old
plan of having his political deals in
the west made by proxies.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

The Real Estate exchange. after en-
dorsing the power canal report, calls
on the city council 20 employ hydraulic
engineers at once to make estimates,
plans and specifications for the Flor
ence power development. If they will
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

II Mayor Jim" is such a success as
a touching" expert our democratic
friends will make the mistake of their
lives in replacing him on the demo-
cratic national committee with an in
experienced man.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

Perhaps Mayor Jim" thinks he is
not called on to ccoun for emer-
gency currency like that received
from the Ryan-Sheehan purse in 1904.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

Senator Gore Of Oklahoma is going
to consult some of the most famous
specialists in an effort to get his sight
restored. One season in the senate
has convinced him that he needs his
eyes open for self-protection.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

Our local democratic contemporary
heads a news item about a resumption
OF work in the car shops of the Erie
railroad. Hot Air Prosperity" Is
the inference intended that the demo-
Gratis are afraid prosperity will be re-
stored too soon?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
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Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
Now Get Rnav

st. Louis Republic.
The next step In the progress Of national
prosperity is to patch up the empty cars
that have been sidetracked for repairs and
get them ready to be glutted with new 1905
western wheat.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05

why are the labor organizations
opposed to Speaker Cannon" asks a
correspondent. 1t must be because he
wants to do the work of the $50 mem
bers of the house.