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Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14


Viii II make any difference II l vote
for Taft or for Bryan?
That is the question many voters
are asking themselves. Is there n
difference between the republican
party and the democratic party? The
platform declarations on a few points
are similar, on many points widely and
on some points are Numerically OPP
posed. The republican party has
proven itself capable of directing the
government and administering the pub
lie affairs of the nation along safe, con
servative and progressive lines. The
democratic party has failed each time
it was entrusted with power.
Mr.. Taft stands pledged to continue
the policies which have brought gem
eral prosperity to the whole country
and, If elected, can be depended upon
to direct the affairs of government
along lines that have proven safe and
beneficial. Mr.. Bryan, on the other
hand, promises IL elected to abandon,
as far as possible, the wise and able
policy of the republican party and to
substitute therefor his visionary theo-
ries and untried schemes. Does 1t
make any difference whether this gov
eminent is continued in the hands of
men capable of direction, or is turned
over to inexperienced men for the pur-
pose of trying experimental
Does it make any difference whether
vote for Governor Sheldon or for Mr..
Shallenberger?
Governor Sheldon has proven him
self a worthy executive, capable and
courageous, and under his a~dministra-
tion the affairs of the people of Me-
braska have been so looked after that
the condition of the state was never
better than during the time Governor
Sheldon has been in the chair. He is
running on a platform that pledges
him to a continuation OF, these policies.
Mr.. Shallenberger, on the other hand,
already rejected by the people of Ne
braska, is again running for Office and
uldhluS Lu6 SdulS pIOuliSCS thuI hS
made two years g These promises
are to abandon in a large measure the
work accomplished by the republican
party and to return to a system that
was found inadequate. Governor Shell
don stands upright and squarely on a
platform that is unequivocating in its
very announcement, Mr.. Shallen-
berger is running on two platforms as
widely apart as the poles. He is making
promises to the brewers in Omaha and
promises to the prohibitionists outside
Of Omaha, and If elected must prove
false to one or the other.
Does it make any difference whether
you vote for a man who has beer
proved to be honest and manly, or fol
a man who by his own public attitude
shows himself to be a hypocrite and
double-dealer?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
THE ORGANIZATION OF BANKS


The comptroller of the currency at
Washington, Lawrence o. Murray,
must be given credit for doing most
effective work in providing new regu-
lations and restrictions for the opera
lions of national banks. Incidentally,
be is demonstrating that many reforms
in this direction may be accomplished
without resort to legislation, just as
there exists in other branches of the
government a demand for better en-
forcement of existing laws rather than
the enactment of additional legisla-
ton. Comptroller Murray has just
adopted an entirely new plan of bank
inspection and has taken steps which
promise a complete reorganization of
the bank examination system so long
in force. Under the new regulations
the bank directors will be held to a
s~tricter accountability and deprived OF
the privilege of pleading ignorance OF
the acts OF the bank officials. Inspec-
tons will be made more frequently and
reports will be much more complete
than heretofore.
Another reform proposed by the
comptroller is the exercise of greater
care in granting charters to national
banks OF small capitalization. Since
the law reducing the minimum capital
from $4,000 to $4,000 went into
effect, the number of national hanks
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
BRYAN THE REwARDER,
marvellous Outflow of Promises IA
Catch the GuIIibIe.
New York Sun.

new York Sun.
Mr.. Bryan's voice drips with tears and
his eloquent right hand a the motion
Of d~eracinating something from his mighty
insides:
II | am elected I want to tear from my
heart every selfish ambition and for four
years give to my country whatever ability
! have, that l may again work In msts
TINS again a government In which the Deo-
pie rule and under which every citizen
snail draw from society a reward propor-
Tomato to the service he renders his fellow
man. "
Once more a beautiful thought from his
PLATFORM, reward proportionate to service
What measures to fulfill this idea would
Mr.. Bryan recommend TO congress. should
he be elected? There must be a valuation
of the physical and mental services of
every man. Such a valuation is a condi-
ton precedent of the proportionate re-
ward. hen there must be a board to de-
termine the reward. Or would Mr.. Bryan
have congress fix a tariff of wages and
salaries, to be raised from time to time
according to the demands of the payees
and the Board OF Proportionste Rewards?
Gompers might expect to determine the
rate of wages. Bryan could refuse nothing
TO that illustrious coadjutor.
We should be much Obliged If Mr.. Bryan
or any other handicapped thinker would
explain how four years of a Bryan ad-
ministratlon would enable every citizen 70
draw from society a reward proportionate
to the services he renders his fellow man."
II strikes as that Mr.. Bryan's reward
is already entirely disproportionate to his
service to himself. let alone his fellow
J MANI
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The people of Omaha should under
stand that the tuberculosis exhibit now
being made in the city is not for the
purpose of frightening anybody nor for
the purpose of raising money. 1t is
intended solely to give to the general
public instruction and information
along certain definite lines that all
should have. II is as free as the air
and it should be taken advantage of
by all who can possibly visit the place
Of exhibit. The public health is our
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
ON A VISIT,

Marie Tompkins in Harpcr's Weekly,
When I go to my gram'ma's an''
She gets done kissin' me,
/ wonder what's to happen mex,
Don't have to cite no Golden Tex
At gram'ma's-no, sir-cc,')
Ny gram'ma, she puts Oh hcrfspecs
Chats SOS at she can seeO. i
Don't favor his mas folks she'll say,
"A mite, it pears to me-
NY gram'pa. when We go outdoors
To give tn morse his feed,
Stands me up 'gainst the big barn door
An marks It where I've crowd some more
I'm CROWN like a weed
MY gram'ma knows it's dreffle hard
For busy folks like me
To have to stop an take a rap,
so ] sleep right on her hJi
An after--we go see
If Mr.. Gingersnnp is home
He has a roun', tin house
An | can help myself to some,
An mustn't drop a single crumI,,
Sos not to call th'mouse.
rtE Ff o. FHE eFt
NY gram'pa says III help him lois
If III hunt roun' an see
WITCH pockets got his w~intcIgrcenr
An peppermints-I know he means
His candy! Some's for me!
Wen I'm all crowd up tall an biz
| dom NOV w'ich ri be-
A gram'ma or Il gram'pa, cause
They're bot so good to meP'
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

In reply to the charge that he once
declared that the laboring men were
public beggars,' Mr.. Bryan has ex-
planned that he never said it; that If
he said "beggars" he meant ''benefac-
tors" that IL he meant beggars he in-
tended it as a joke; that the statute
of limitations has run in that case and
that he cannot discuss it because it
was not mentioned in the Denver plat
form.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

A writer in Outing tells how an owl
may be prepared and cooked so it will
be a very palatable dish. Democrats
will be more interested in some plan
for making crow palatable.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

minneapolis Journal.
II Mr.. Bryan is defeated again they will
begin to tell the story of the widow on
him This young and attractive helpmate
had lost three husbands, and the clergy
man. who was something of a stranger
when he came to mention the widow in his
prayer, became confused. He said: And
now we ommend to thy care this widowed
handmade, who has been bereaved again
and again and again." Then, hesitating an
instant, he added, And perhaps again"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
The Opera Boume Touch.
Springfield Republican.

Springfield Republican.
The assumption of the title of GEAR nv
Prince Ferdinand Of Bulgaria is the one
opera ooutfe touch In the present Balkan
business Bulgaria can hardly set up as an
empire at this period in its development.
bernard shaw will probably say that this
incident Of the ''czardom' j~ustifies the rid,-
cule he heaped upon the Bulgarian army
and people In his entertaining play. "Arms
and the Man."
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
Riding Through the storms.
st. Louis Times.

II appears that the American fleet is
pursued by storm. On many laps on the
journey around the world ii has fallen In
with rough weather. The last of these
storms is just subsiding in the Philippine
archipelago, but dispatches indicate that
Admiral sperry's ships ave ridden the
typhoon without the loss OF so much as a
spar.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The coroner's jury failed to fix the
responsibility for the boys death,
leaving it only certain that he was
killed by an automobile. This fact
emphasizes still further the necessity
for regulating the control of automo-
biles in use.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
MIRTHFUL

Mrs. Coldstream is an ardent temper
ancc worker, isn't she?"
81 should say sol She, is such Il fanatic
on the drink question that she will wear
none but sober colors."-Baltimorc Amer
lean. " 7
Burglar-Let's rob this here house, There
ANTS a man within a mile OF IL.
Assistant-How dyer know there amt?
Burglar-Can,t yer see the wimmen Is
doing tn fall housecleaning cleveland
Leader. ''
Yes" said the discaTed sutton, bitterly.
81 would have loved you with real passion,
but my successful rival gives you but lip
service" .fE.. 4sn.
ON she cried, startled. who told you9"
Philadelphia Press.
lis the ostentation Of wealth"
you have a mistaken idea about the
matter. If you want Go find out how shy
wealth can be. just give vt a ichaDce to
contribute to a campaign fund, Wash
ington Star.
Il expect to take a few books with ne"
said the qeronaut. AS the trip, - likely 10
be a long one
'cThoy'ii be useful for baTIast. too. I pre-
Not in the least" r%oioined the aernnaut,
II shall take nothing but llgl1 fiction =
Chicago Tribune.
The African ohieftaln shaak4 his head
haughtily. .
"The deuce he said. with Your red
calico. glass beads and brass D wire. You
shall not cross my country, Theodore, I'M
less you pay me my own price.
"And what may that be?' asked the in
trcpid hunter. b. A-"-
Half a dollar aswerd for every line YOU
write ."-Minnoapo polls journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
A Spectacle for the Gods.

Adlai Stevenson. the famous headsman OF
the first Cleveland administration, says
that he wants to lift the office of gov
ernor Of Illinois" for which he is now a
candidate, out OF partisan politics" Ad
lars delicious sense of humor suffers nc
abatement with the years.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Mr.. Bryan withheld comment on
The finding of Candidate Kern's rail-
road pass. Mr.. Bryan SHES at propo-
sitions not included In the Denver
platform.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

In the recent election in Georgia an
amendment was adopted to the state
constitution providing a property
qualification for franchise. The demo-
Gratis are very fond of the common
people, always excluding the g
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

There is no reason why a republican
should vote the democratic ticket at
the coming election, but there is every
reason why both republicans and DEM
ocrats should vote the republican
ticket.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
Crop of Automobile Accidents.

DOStOh Transcript.
Accident insurance figures show that
while automobile accidents have more than
doubled in the last four years, they have
become notably less in proportion to the
number of cars in use. The reasons for
this are obvious. 1t is human experience
with every device from the locomotive 10
the gas Jet.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Governor Sheldon's campaign trip
through Nebraska is a splendid indica-
ton of the feeling of the people of the
state. The crowds that hear him are
earnest and thinking voters and are
not going to abandon the ground
gained for good government under
Sheldon's administration.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Toni Blast is another bright spot in
the Bryan campaign temporarily in
darkness. He might have been work
ing solely for Bryan, but developments
show be was more interested in dodg-
ing the police.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The epitomized showing OF Governor
sheldon of the last two years work of
the republican party in Nebraska is a
most forcible appeal to the intelligent
voters and will certainly receive COM
mendatOn at the poIlE
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Dancing has been eliminated and
religious meetings substituted in the
program for the welcoming Of the
American feet az Toxic. The sailors
had no vote in the matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The Jimocrats thoroughly appreciate
the independence of the do~uble-ender
and it's congressman editor. and his
frantic efforts to secure their support
arc most amusing.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

A slump of 25 per cent in the demo-
cratic vote al the recent primaries at
Cincinnati is another clinching indi-
cation that the democrats are going to
carry Ohio this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
AnxIeus Tor a job.

Chicago Tribune
Mr.. Bryan sticks to his original opinion
that the president of the United States is
merely a hired man Mr.. Bryan certainly
has the hired mans appetite for the job.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
Bryan's Principal Asset
Chicago Record-Herald

chicago Record-Herald.
Bryan's voice is the only one that has not
given out during the present campaign.
Even his most persistent critics admit that
Mr.. Bryan's voice is about the best voice
that a candidate ever, owned.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

oregon's registration stands SO,927
republicans and 2s,7Ss democrats,
That's the warrant the democrats have
for claiming Oregon.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

It will help some If Governor
Haskell is kept so busy writing letters
that he will find no time to write any
more campaign PONIES"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The fact that the Bryan remedies
would not work is bad enough, but
not so bad as the fact that they would
throw other remedies out of working
order.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

How many factories closed by the
panic do you figure would open if Mr..
Bryan is elected and starts the free
trade crusade to which he is pledged?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Neither of the leading candidates is
claiming hat the Georgia state cleo
ton last week had any bearing on the
result In November.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Mr.. Hartman has rheumatism, and
that is about the only thing he has
taken lately without causing & row in
some quarters.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

A fashion writer says that slim
figures will be in vogue this year.
The campaign committee treasurers
have already found that out.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The treaty OF Berlin has been laid
aside. with as much Ease as a Bryan
paramount issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Castro is so anxious to fight he
might take on some Of those Balkan
states, Just to get into trim.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The loss of a'oopy of the secret code of
the Standard oil company will excite in
terest at vsri5us' state capitals.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Alfred Austin ought not to write
poetry" says a New York paper. Who
says he does?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The bookmakers OF New York are
raising a fund to defeat Governor
Hughes, but his defeat is not in the
books.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

There is some question as to
whether Castro is i'll or simply ill
natured.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The earl Of Rosslyn' has married a
poor girl. Poor, poor girl!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

The Balkan troubles will doubtless
develop a whole lot Of new names for
the sleeping cars.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

What has become Of Roy Knaben-
shue?" asks the New York Mail. He
has gone up into thin air.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

state Of Nebraska. Douglas County, SIS:
George B T8schuck. treasurer OF The
Bee Publishing Company, being. duly
sworn. says that the actual number of
full and complete copies Of The Daily:
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month OF September ISe' was
a HnllnWn.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Crete has thrown off the Turkish
yoke again. The habit is becoming
chronic with the Cretans.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Too many political plumbers have
been making connections with the
Standard Oil pipe lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Mr.. Bryan has replied to Governor
Hughes. He cannot answer him.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Hobson can be spared If he wants to
go over and mix up in that Bulgarian
muss.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

greatest asset and the public indiffer-
ence on this point Is most deplorabie.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
p~orarfIy should have h Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

GEORGE b. TZSCHUCK-
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day OF October, 1905.
(seal.l ROBERT HUNTER
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Yes" said the discared suitof, bitterly.
81 would have loved YOU with real passion,
but my successful rival gives you but lip
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14

Entered at omaha postofnce as second
class matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-14
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE

'ouNDBD By EDWARD RosEwATER
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-02-20
MISS PHOEBE COUZINS

With almost studied regularity, Miss Phoebe
Couzins breaks into print as an opponent or
Prohibition and her utterances are commonly
introduced with the statement that Miss
Couzins FUSED to be prominent temperance
worker"
We have no desire to go into Miss Couzins'
numerous used-to-bes. Her record has been
spectacular and sensational, not to say no
torious and mal-odorous In large part, per-
haps, Miss Couzins is to be pitied for this,
rather than blamed. Her best friends explain
many of her eccentricities upon the ground of
mental condition. This thing, however, is
sure Whatever else she has been Miss
Couzins never was, to the knowledge of any
body, temperance advocate of prominence or
lack of prominence, nor even private and
personal advocate of temperance, nor worker
in the temperance reform in the most minute
and obscure position.
Her fa1sehoods in behalf of the licensed
liquor traffic, of course, have greater CONNER
cia1 value when she is introduced as pervert
from the temperance cause, but of that charge
she is wholly gultless. She never had any
thing to do with the temperance. movement,
except to oppose it under pay of the liquor
interests.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-02-20
ALFRED l., MANIERRE

The suggestion which comes from New
York state to place Mr.. ALFRED L. MAN
IERRE at the head of the national Prohibition
ticket, is one that will not cause surprise in
Prohibition circles anywhere. Mr.. MAN
IERRE has for many years been known as
one of the foremost Prohibitionists of the
United States, man of rare ability, wide
attainments and the highest character.
Should the Prohibitionists who meet in
Columbus take kindly to the suggestion and
make Mr. MANIERRE their candidate, the
party will have nominee of whom it may
justly feel proud. in the person of man
for whom no excuses will have to be made, no
apologies offered and who will need no intro
duction to wide business, social and phil
anthropic sphere. Such nomination would
be recognized as the presentation Of a man
fit for the high office, not only morally and
sentimentally, but in ability and by training.
Mr.. MANIERRE has served the party as
candidate for governor in New York state
and, if our memory serves us, demonstrated
himself as a campaigner of high rank. His
grasp of the Prohibition problem is unsur-
passed, his devotion to the cause beyond
question. Among generous supporters of
the party work, he has stood in the front
rank.
Of an old New York family, long asso-
ciated with the best of the city's life, law
yer of recognized high standing, Mr. MAN
IERRE, as our candidate, would commend our
party and our cause.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-02-20
A PHILIPPINE ECHO

Eight years ago, Prohibitionists charged
the United States government with treason
to good morals in the Philippines. Those
who have held in memory the particulars of
the conflict provoked by that charge will be
sadly interested in the statement below, at
tributed by the Milwaukee papers to the Rev.
R. Fl. Brown, a Presbyterian missionary,
laboring in the Philippines and just now Wis
iting that city. AS quoted Mr.. Brown says:
Among the things to which I wish to call
your particular attention are the acts and the
life of the American soldier. There are good
soldiers, of course, of excellent character
and good morals. But as a general thing the
American soldier is disgracing his country and
his flag He is carousing with native women
and drinking to excess He lives with these
women and in every possible manner debases
himself and disgraces his name and his flag"
The Prohibitionists made no mistake in
their charges. The mistake was in for
getting so soon a matter that should have
been kept before the American people day
and night.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-02-20
THE NATIONAL PRoH1B1T1oNIsr

knows that no whisky ever does the things
that are claimed for that whisky, while the
testimonials which accompany the adver-
Using, both in the newspapers and in the
circulars which are distributed by mail, have
been again and again convicted of falsehood.
Additional to this is the fact that chemists
of the United States government have ex-
amined the stuff and have publicly testified
to its poor character, even as whisky.
All this has been called to the attention
of the United States postal authorities; and
the Duffy Malt Whisky Company goes on,
using the mails of the United States to sell
it's poison under false representation, taking
advantage, not of folly and wickedness, but
of age and suffering, in the name Of medicine
and philanthropy.
Of course, there is nothing in the way
of favoritism in it. 1t is not because the
Duffys represent great whisky organization
which has political influence as we'll as
money; it is because the courts of the United
States are busy wringing the penalties of
justice out Of unfortunate creatures who try
to get dishonest dollar by running matri
mCnial bureaus.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-02-20

be attributed very largely to muddled-
medicines on the part of hard drinking
officers. We have men commanding com
panies and regiments and military depart
ments and at the head of bureaus of the
War Department who would not be allowed
to run a freight train on the average Ameri-
can railroad.
The time has come to give this condition
of things thorough shaking-up; to throw
out the boozers, from privates up to gen
erals; to teach the army to attend to the
things that it is paid for, rather than to
clamor for beer-in Short to make our mill
tary establishment a business institution,
conducted on modern business lines, in
which drink and the drinkers have no place.