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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-05
Sweet Sorrow.

II can't please my friends" sobbed
the young bride.
whats the matter, pet?"
They insist that / can't be happy
with a fathead like you, but, oh, hus-
band, / ami"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-05

After suffering for even years,
this woman was restored to health
by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Read her letter.
Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaunla,
Ind. Ter, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
- had female troubles for seven
years-was all rundown, and so ner-
vous I could not do anything. The
doctors treated me for different troubles
but did me no good. While in this con-
dition l wrote to Mrs. Pinxham for add
vice and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, and / am now strong
and we'll"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
EIGHT BILLION DOLLAR CROP.
Ninth Successive Good Harvest Meas
ured In
New o World.

Chief Statistician Clark of the Agricul-
tural department estimates that the ninth
successive good harvest is practically as
sured to the American farmer and that
the crops of 1908 will be worth nearly
s. 5000. 600, 600.
Eight billion dollars would pay the net
interest bearing debt nine times over. or it
would pay the net national debt and leave
enough to buy at par the stock of all the
railroads in the country. 1t would nearly
pay off the entire bonded debt of every
American railroad. At assessed valuations
II would buy every acre of land In New
York City and replace every building in
1t, With a little remnant over equalling the
combined assessed valuations Of Chicago,
New Orleans, st. Louis, Seattle and San
Francisco.
Corn does not travel far from the place
where II is raised, which is lucky, as there
are not railroads enough to carry It. A crop
OF 200. 100000 bushels should load $3.50, 900
thirty-ton cars, $40 more freight cars than
there are in the country of every sort. The
freight cars of all the world would not
carry our wheat and corn. If there were
cars enough and II the wheat and corn
were loaded into thirty-ton cars, forty to a
train, and trains were run at two-mile in
tervals at a speed including stops of thirty
miles an hour night and day, 1t would take
nearly six months for the procession to
pass a reviewing stand. A bin built the
size OF a city block 6O0x200, would need to
be more than six miles high to hold this
wheat and corn alone. TIL hay and cotton
crops and the ~stupendous annual egg yield
Of the American hen are in bulk and value
equally amazing.
There is little in these facts to Justify
p~essimism. If there are rats in the ma
TONS granary it is the nations business
to drive them out and keep them out, but
the material basis OF prosperity is broad
and firm in the matchless abundance Of
nature.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
z IND WArSoN.

When Clark Howell, the brilliant
editor Of the Atlanta Constitution, and
a shining light in the councils Of
southern democracy, recently started
a boom for Tom Watson for the vice
presidential nomination at Denver, he
did 80, 1t is now clear, without the
aid or consent of the fire-eatlng Geor-
gian who has been nominated for the
presidency by the populist party.
In addition to being the presidential
nominee of his party Mr.. Watson is the
editor of a weekly newspaper and a
monthly magazine. In the current
number of his magazine-The Jeffer-
sonian-Editor Watson makes II pain
fully plain that he is going to fight
Mr.. Bryan, not to support or aid him.
BY way of introduction, he demands
to know what Mr.. Bryan has said or
done that is so extraordinary. He de-
clares that in all the writings and ut
terances of the Nebraska stateman
there is no thought or expression that
will live and charges him with having
failed utterly to follow the patriotic
course which he marked out for him
self in 1896. Contrasting the Bryan of
1896 with the Bryan of 1904 and
1908, Watson says:
The Bryan OF 1896 was a bold, brilliant,
enthusiastic tribune OF the people-a Rienzi
in eloquence, courage and devotion to lofty
ideal. In that year ! could stifle my own
feeling of humiliation, subordinating self
interest to patriotism, and stump Nebraska
for Bryan successfully, adding to the glory
Of Bryan. adding nothing to the credit
given Watson.
But the Bryan of 1904 1t was, impossible
to defend, follow or admire. The tribune
weakened into the party hack. The patriotic
reformer shrank into the calculating poll
tician. Party regularity" had to be main
tained. for Bryan's W future interest.
Popularity, eloquence. magnetic presence,
personal influence, all had to be given to
a cause which Bryan, himself had. said,
was unworthy; and thus God-given talents
and a glorious opportunity were misused
in order that personal ambition should
keep its feet, in the beaten road of political
promotion. Il
TIL time may come when some dauntless
and consecrated leader Of the people will
have to wear a crown of thorns-but 1t Will
not be w. ]. Bryan. The time. may come
when a heartbroken following may look
through the mist of weeping teyes and see
their beloved champion nailed to the cross,
but the victim will not be the orator OF
Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
COMPARATIVELY sPEAKING.
New York Sun.

Saws TO myself, says /. ''Old man.
between you and me ana the post,
I've been sizing you Hp, sir. as well as |
can
And you're looking as pale as a ghost.
Moreover. nobody would ever suppose
A complexion as white as a sheet
Belonged with that bloom on the tip OF
your nose,
Which 1 notice is red as a beet.
You're old as the bills and look like a
fright,
And your face is as long as your arm;
froWn on your brow is .darker than
night,
And you seowi is as broad as a farm.
You're hin as a rail and gray rs a rat,
And your features are harder than stone;
Your eyes look as II you were blind ss a
bat
And your voice is as dry as a bone,
You drink like a fish and eat like a pig.
And your form IL al. crooked as 81
majig-
Well. queerer than words can express"
Says myself to me. says he, odd man.
Beware or you'll get your reward
I've put up with your nonsense as long a.
L can.
Go On-yOu'Te 40 drunk az a lord"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
After Der err. MhntY

st. Louis Globe Democrat. (rep)
What will come after Denver? Neither
Bryan nor anybody else can tell. Bryan,
himself is ready to "chance IT," He loses
nothing by the candidacy, while there Is
a bare possibility of a great gain for him,
and there is a certainty OF one sort Of q
gain through the advertisement which the
nomination will give him. His book on
his European tour has been postponed till
now so as to get the benefit of the boom
which Denver will give him. Arrangements
are made to put 1t on the market while
the convention is in session, and this is
expected to place It among the best sell
ers." His weekly paper in Nebraska is
receiving many new subscribers. The list
will be increased after the nomination.
For the next year he Is expected to have
as much of an income as the presidency
would bring in four years. The New York
World Is saying, THE poor old democratic
party" and other eastern and southern
democratic papers are echolng this senti-
ment. But as July 7 is on his side he can
laugh at such sings and arrows OF out
rageous fortune as November 8 may fire
at him. AS for the democratic party.
Bryan probably thinks that after the hard
knocks 1t has received in recent times
nothing that is ahead of 1t in 1908 can In
jure II much.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
Atlanta Constitution (dem.).

AAA ~ NNhhft
And while the constitution and the south
ern states, speaking by and large, main
tain a political alignment antagonistic to
Judge Taft, we risk few contradictions in
stating that the dominant element in this
section will view his nomination as the
wisest and most acceptable choice that
could have been made by his party so far
as the interests of the south and the nation
are concerned.
The affiliations of the constitution and
the southern states are too well known to
require elaboration. But should the demo-
cratic party fail of success at the polls
next November, we believe observant
southerners will regard the accession OF
Judge Taft to the presidency with confident
complacence.
His familiarity with southern problems
and conditions is based on other than
academic or intuitive foundations. AS
United States circuit Judge in southern
Ohio for eight years. he came into init
mate touch with representative southern
ers and southern sentiment, the influence
of which is visible TO this day.
The constitution and the south, speaking
generally, will give loyal and aggressive
support to the democratic party. Should
the arbitrament of next November decree
the defeat of that party we would, for
the reasons enumerated, view the election
of Judge Taft with tranquility.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22

here II the proper encouragement is
extended them. The Commercial club
through its committees is working
with c~ommendable zeal to bring these
gatherings to Omaha. The business
men of the city may be assured that
so far as the central organization can
bring It about the end will be justified,
but no harm can possibly come from
business men lending their individual
efforts to support the Commercial club.
Omaha has a good name as a conven-
ton city and should take full advan-
tage of IL.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
Kansas Clty Star Nnd.).

Kansas City Star Ond.).
The barrier that stood firm and immovable
in the Chicago convention against the
rising cry of -four years more" subtracted
not al infinitesimal fraction from the gen.
erous spontaneity of the tribute to the
president that swept and overwhelmed the
convention. 1t was a magnificent demon
~stratlon Of the triumph OF judgment over
sentiment. The outpouring of gratitude
and affection for the president came in a
coplous tide, but 1t was not marked by the
~impetuosity of unreason, nor by the We
hemence that sweeps away the safeguards
of wisdom and caution.
When President Roosevelt announced on
the night Of his election in 1904 that he
would not again be a candidate for presl-
dent he took himself, of his own free will
and accord and in obedience to what he re-
garded as a safe American precedent, out
of the running. From that very moment
he ceased to be an available or a logical
candidate. He then and there put It beyond
his power to consent to a candidacy that
would weaken his own word or show his
purposes tickle and inconsistent. Theodore
Roosevelt was the man who placed a veto
on the proposition OF -four years more"
and the convention at Chicago could have
paid him no tribute more worthy OF his
splendid services to the republic and no
compliment in closer keeping with his ad-
mirable integrity than to take him at his
word and honor, as genuine and without
artifice his own declaration.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
As TO GRAIN RATES.

Instead of pushing their plans for
IN increase of freight rates, the big
transcontinental railway systems are
confronted with conditions that prom
Use to force either reduction on grain
rates from the west to the Atlantic
market or result in a big loss of bust
ness by diversion to Canadian COM
petitors. The Importance Of the stu
alton has been emphasized by the
withdrawal of two freight steamers
of the White Star line. with a capacity
of 10000 tons each, from New York
and their transfer to Montreal.
This transfer is due to the fact that
the adjustment of freight rates is such
that cargoes of grain can be put on
board at Montreal at, 2 " cents per
bushel below the cost at New York.
AS a result the freight steamers have
been unable to secure cargoes at New
York while the wharves at Montreal
are swamped by an accumulation of
grain awaiting shipment to Europe.
The all-water rate from Duluth and
Fort william, delivered (. o. b.,
steamer at Montreal Is 4.25 cents a
bushel, while the rate from the same
ports, via Buffalo, to New York is IA
cents per bushel. Since the opening of
the navigation season, 100000 bush
els of whea have been shipped from
Montreal while only 1000, 900 bushels
have beer forwarded from New York.
A conference between the railroad
managers and the grain interests has
been called to agree on measures to
prevent the total transfer OF the bust
ness to Canadian ports,
The condition is the final blow to
the recently entertained proposal to
increase grain rates in the United
States. When existing rates divert
traffic to Canadian lines, there is nc
danger that they will be Increased. EN-
phasis is likewise placed on the need
of early improvement Of II inland
waterways. Canada has for years been
busy In equipping a rail and water
transportation route from the Pacific
coast to Montreal and the Atlantic sea
board. With an alI-water route from
Duluth to Montreal, the Canadian
transportation companies are In posi-
ton to fix rates that command the
grain business of the northwest until
such time as the United States car
meet the competition by offering water
routes to the gulf, through the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi rivers.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
EASING THE LABOR STRESS.
Causes Operating for Betterment of
Conditions.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

Philadelphia Press.
II 10000 working people, net, had not
left this country in seven months, the
pressure for work would have been far
more serious than 1t has been. As it is,
$4,000 persons who have emigrated since
October, while only 10000 nave i'm
migrated, eased the pressure in one dircc-
ton. and the flow from the city to the
farm. from the east TO the west. from old
lands to new, have relieved the demand
for work in another direction. When the
present fiscal year closes, with this month,
1t will be the first time since immigration
records began, in 1891, when more people
have left this country than have come to
It. There mas been ar increase, as always
in periods of depression, of those taking
up land in the west.
Nothing has proved the elasticity OF
American life more than the way in which
our communities rave met the reduction
by nearly a fifth in the work, and the ag-
gregate wages offered in the last half year.
That is in part because, while the people
at work since 1894 have increased only
about a third, the savings banks deposit
tors have grown from $4,000 to S,5OO, 900, or
almost twice. Deposits grew almost thrice.
from 1,555. 10000 to $4,000, 10000, or two and
two-thirds.
What is true of these savings is true OF
all. The number of small realty owners
has grown far faster than the number OF
people. so have building associations.
There is more work and work Is more
diffused than fifteen years ago. The tele-
phone, the automobile, the skyscraper and
other new fields of employment have come
in. Women are more widely employed and
families ave in them more wage farmers
Aid 10 those who need Il is better organ
ICED and there is less want In a time OF
sti ess.
Fortunately. there has begun TO be an
Increase In labor and the flow abroad and
10 the country continues 10 relieve the
pressure
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
PERSONAL NOTES!

The proud PARENTS CT trir lets born in
Delphi, Ind. named them, respectively,
James, Whitcomb and Ri,ey,
One of the most Ambitious vacation
stunts likely to be ~chronicled this year
is that undertaken by two young men in
Providence, r. l., who propose - go from
that city to a Wyoming town in a canoe.
In order to find ~navigable WATERWAYS their
trip will extend over 5000 miles.
DIR. Edmund Otis Hovey of the Amer
can Museum OF Natural History, who
visited the West Indies Immediately after
the eruptions, of Mount Pelee. and La Sou
friere in 1902, is now making an extended
tour of the islands with a view to supple
menting his studies in vricanology.
A New Jersey man married a woman who
had been injured in an accident, and thea
both sued for damages. The wife got a
verdict, but the husband. did not, so he
feels aggrieved. However, there are som
who would deem themselves lucky in ie
ing able to marry a productive Sc: OF
damages. '
George c.. Buchanan, engineer, In the
employ of the British government and
president of the Port commission Of Ran
COON, India, is at present in st. Louis in
spectIng the jetty system OF the Missis
sippi river, with a view OF obtaining IN
formation TO be applied. In the construction
of a 5000. 900 retaining wan at Rangoon.
Sir Charles Fitzpatrick. chief justice OF
the supreme court Of Canada, has been
notified of his appointment by the British
government to succeed the late Major
General Sir A. J. Ardagh as one Of the
four representatives Of Great Britail on
the permanent Board of Arbitration at
The Hague to settle international disputes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22

Chicago Tribune frep.N.

And 1t is as a man that the American
people will look to him (Taft) as their
chief executive, He is a citizen whose
democracy is broad, straight and red
blocded. His sympathetic response to the
peoples needs and aspirations will be uD
failing. He has been at one with them
throughout his public life. His effective
secondlng of the presidents main policies
has been misinterpreted as mere compli-
ance. 1t was and is based on an independ-
ent political insight into the needs Of the
times, and 1t is proof of his fitness to
carry on a work In which he has freely
and fully shared. The charge of want OF
Independence is known to be false by
everyone informed on the history Of this
administration, for it is Taft more than
any other member OF the presidents coUn-
sci who did not hesitate to state his diff
ference with his chief. and oftener than
others made his difference prevail.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
PARTY's GREAT CAREER.
Republican Supremacy and the Ma
tfOnfs Development.

ncpuoiichm supremacy and the Ma
tiOn's Development.
Charles M. Harvey in Leslie's Weekly.
During the most eventfui period in the
who'll OF the country's history since the
days, a century and a fifth ago, when the
constitution first went into operation, the
republicans hav been in control of the
government. In the party's days of SUI
premacy the United States has advanced
from a low place among the nations in
population and power to a position OF
leadership in the volume OF It's Industrial
activities, in the extent of its wealth, and
in the spread Of It's world Influence. From
a total OF ~Sl,0oo.O00 In 1850. the year in
which the republicans elected their first
president, the population Of the United
States has grown to $4,000. In those
forty-eiEht years the states have Increased
from thirty-three to forty-six. the length
OF the couRtry's railways has jumped from
$1,000 miles to 2a0O. the value Of the
products Of Its manufactures from S,sS5,-
100000 to &16. OoO. 10000. and the aggregate
Of its foreign trade from $3.50, OOO,Ooo to
$500, 10000. while its domestic trade, al
though this cannot be stated SO specifically,
has expanded In a still larger ratio.
The value OF the products OF all sorts OF
the country'S farms, which was 81, 900. OOO. OC
in 1850, was owe 1900. 10000 Ior 1907. In
1880 there were $4,000 depositors in the
country's savings banks, while the number
in 1908 is 100000. showing that the pros
pertty among the waHe-earners OF the
country has more than kept pace with the
growth in population.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
MORE FREEDOM FOR CITIES.
TOledO's Mayor Strikes Keynote o.
Municipal Progress.

NNASoE SNFAkeh hGynOte Oh
Municipal Progress.
Brand Whitlock in Saturday Evening Post.
The trouble with the American city is
that It Is not free; 1t is in bondage-in
bondage to political parties. machines and
bosses-in bondage to public utility cor
porations, and to these because, beyond all,
1t is in bondage to the state, which means
the majority in the state legislature, and
as this majority is composed of country
members, it means. in the last analysis,
that the city is ruled by country men.
Those who ascribe municipal Ills. there
fore, to democracy, cannot be right. be-
cause we have not. as yet. tried democ-
racy In the city, or. II we have, Il has
been only a kin OF stone-throwing democ-
racy. And, as II is the only thing that has
not been tried, and as all else has failed,
1t would seem that experimental political
science should give 1t a trial-that is, give
the people a chance. let them have some
thing to say about the city they live In,
the city they understand, and, after all,
love.
The cities must be autonomous: they
must have conferred upon them all overs
necessary to the attainment of their ends.
These comprehend and include the power
to nominate and elect their own officials,
unhampered by state or national political
Issues. 1t 10 in vain to think this can be
done merely by holding the elections on
separate days, or with separate ballots;
nominations must be, made not by, national
parties, but by local parties. or by no
parties. The cities must have broad powers
as to the ownership, control and operation
of public utilities; they must have the
power OF local taxation-that is, they must
be able to control their own revenues, and
they must be permitted to exercise the
police power so far as 1t is local. And for
the execution of these wers they must
be free to adopt such form of government
as suits them best, which will probably
be found to be either the commission or
the federal plan, or some modification OF
either OF both. And. beyond all this, they
should have the initiative, the referendum
and the recall.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-22
rHB COLONIAL PROBLEM.


General Luke e. Wright of Tenncs-
see, who succeeds Mr.. Taft as secre-
tary of war, will have no sinecure in
office, but will be at once confronted
with the disposition of some rather
complicated problems in the Philip
pines, at Panama and in Cuba. He
will find that while his predecessor
has lone all possible to work out these
problems, and provided for meeting
possible, and rather probable future
emergencies, he will require all the ex-
p%erience he has acquired in the Philip
pines and in his dealings with oriental
peoples to bring a satisfactory solution
to our pending colonial problems.
The Panama situation, 1t appears,
is becoming more critical and no eff
fort is being made to conceal the adj
ministration's anxiety over conditions
in the toy republic. A strong body of
marines has been sent to Colon, to
be ready for any emergency that may
grow out of the coming Panama cleo
lions and there is a healthy prospect
that our government will be called to
intervene. The factions in the little
republic have apparently no apprecia-
ton Of good government and it is more
than probable that the United States
will eventually have to assume con-
troll Of Panama, for the proper pro-
lection of our vast interests in the
canal zone.
Conditions are less critical in the
Philippines, but no little dissatisfac-
ton prevails among the natives over
the failure of congress to give prom
ised tariff reductions on Philippine
products. Friction also exists between
the officials of the Philippine assembly
and the Philippine commission over
the failure Of the assembly's efforts to
reduce the salaries of American Off
Gals in the islands. This is resented
by the Filipinos particularly as con-
gress, while refusing to cut expenses
of American administration in the
Philippines, failed to make a recipro-
cal concession in tariff matters that
would have enabled the Philippine
government to increase Its
and encourage the development of the
esource of the archipelago.
While conflicting reports are being
made on Cuba, the best opinion seems
to be that the Cuban government, to
be chosen at the coming election, will
not last three months, If the American
troops are withdrawn from the islands.
1t is pretty evident that the influences
which brought about American inter
vention two years G are again at
work either to prevent the withdrawal
of the American troops or to hasten
their return after the inauguration OF
the new Cuban government.
Fortunately for the administration
General Wright has served in the
Philippines as governor general, n
is thoroughly familiar with conditions
in the Philippines, at Panama n In
Cuba. Fortunately too, he will have
the counsel and support of Mr.. Taft
and also of Governor Magoon, who has
had a wide and most successful expert
ence in Cuba and at Panama.