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The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
REPUBLICANS OPEN CAMPAIGN

VALLEJO, Oct. 13.-The national
campaign was formally opened here
last evening by the republican party in
Farragut theater. The guests of the
evening were United States Senator
George c. Perkins and Congressman
Joseph r. Knowland of this district,
both delivering strong addresses in
support of a navy commensurate with
the growing interests of our national
government Hon. Frank r. Devlin.
candidate for superior Judge of Solano
county without opposition - presided
over the meeting.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
coNVICT MINIsTER RELEASED

OMAHA, Neb.. Oct. l3.-Rev. George
+. Wade, the Episcopal minister OF
Lead 5. D., who was last year found
guilty Of fraudulent entries in connec-
tion with land frauds. was today re-
leased from. prison at Grand Island
Neb.. after having served his sentence
OF one year. He received so daYs'
credit for good conduct.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
AUTO CUTS OFF ARM

OAKLAND, Oct. 13.-Jabez Dabie.
ployed in the Keystone garage in this
city, was thrown from an automobile in
which he was riding at Eighth and
Peralta streets shortly after midnight
tonight and suffered the loss of his left
arm.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
BEEr CROPS A DISAPPOINTMENT,

LONDON, Oct. 1s.-According to in
formation received by beet sugar inter
ests here. the beet crops OF Europe are
not as good this year as has been ex-
pected The beets in western Europe
an want rain The quality is better
than last year, but the weight is disap-
pointing The latest estimate of the
crop is 6 6605, 900 tons.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
WILL ANSWER TODAY

WASHINGTON, Oct 13.-Secretary
Loeb. upon being shown the statement
issued from democratic Headquarters
in New Ysfk. said nothing in the ma
ture Of a reply would be given out at
the White House tonight, but that the
charge would probably receive atten-
fiOn fomorrOW.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
SENATOR DotIJyER At FRESNO

FRESNO. Oct. Ex-senator J. p. Dol
liver addressed the biggest crowd to-
Barton opera house. DR.. Chester Rowell
presided.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
RULE FOR FRENCH BISHOPS

PARIS. Oct. 13.-According to the
Figaro. the bishops of France have re-
ceived circular from Cardinal Merry
del Val, the papal secretary of state,
absolutely forbidding them in the flu
ture to attend the lectures of the state
faculties.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
SENATOR BARD IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Ex- Senator
Thomas r. Bard of Hueneme, was in
washington today en- route to yir-
ginia on a pleasure trip.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
HOW BRYAN MEN FIGURE

NEW YORK, Oct 13.-Vice Chair
man Hudspeth of the democratic ma
tional committee made public today
list of the states in which he said
Bryan would receive the electoral vote.
They are as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14

The vice chairman put Wisconsin in
the doubtful column and said that New
Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Illinois were still debatable, with New
Jersey and Connecticut favorable to the
democratic party.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
PRESIDENT DID NOT
INFLUENCE kEEFf
Labor Leader Makes Vigorous
Denial of Charges by
Democrats
Bryan's National Committee Is.
sues Statement Denounced
as Untrue

"The president did not offer to use
the position of commissioner general of
immigration directly or indirectly then
or at any other time. 1 am going to
vote for MIR. Taft, who is an honorary
member of one of our branches, the
association of steam shovel and dredge
men."-Statement by Daniel J. keefe,
president OF the international long
shOremen, marine and transport work.
eFs' association.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
SEE FOR YOURSELF
Free Excursion Sunday to
East San MateO

The sunny home spot. where you
have every advantage of the city with
the country air and life All improve
ments are of the best Don't fail TO
see this splendid home spot. Tickets
and information at 81 Kearny ST. zoos
18th st. near Mission. 3002 Mission St,
corner 26th. or 46S 10th St. Oakland
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14

Do You Want $J-o0f
Read THE CALLS weekly offer on
page 9.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14

Necessary to choice. 242.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20

Mr.. Bryan evidently felt the destructive
power Of Governor Hughes analysis OF
his plan OF corporation control, for he has
devoted several speeches TO reply. what
the governor did was to ask respecting the
Bryan scheme for f~orbidding any corpora
ton TO supply more than so per cent OF the
demand for the kind Of wares IL produced,
how it could be made TO work. He speci-
fled enormous II not insurmountsble diff
culties, first in obtaining the facts, and
then in applying the Bryan principles
to them, and called upon Mr.. Bryan for
further Information and explanation. But
the democratic candidate, in his reioinder,
while firmly standing for HIS original
theory, contented himself with saying on
the point at issue that the details could
easily be adjusted later"
The phrase illustrates one Of the capti-
tai defects OF Mr.. Bryan's mind in dealing
with political questions. He does not see
that, as an old English statesman put it.
lin legislative proposals, the details are
everything Any man Of warm and benev-
olent instincts, such as Mr.. Bryan undoubt-
eddy has, can susges s~rsndiose plans for
making the world better, but the putting
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drudsery from which his type Of intellect
shrinks. 1t is so much easier to dismiss
every difficulty as "a mere matter Of de-
tall But every man who has to do with
the drafting OF laws. or even the organizs-
ton of a club, knows that the mere de-
tails are the really back-breakins things,
often decisive OF the fate of a bill or the
life OF a society. 1t is one thing jauntily
to propose a scheme for bringing in the mil
lennium; it is another TO proceed to the
preliminary work of binding Satan.
In this quality of Mr.. Bryan, which leads
him to think he can ride cross-country
without jumping the fences in his path,
there is something to remind one Of the
way in which the French national assembly
set forth about reforming the world by a
series of votes, leaving the details to be
adjusted later. That hard-headed and
clear-slghted Englishman, Sir Samuel Rom
lily, who was in Paris in 1879. observing
the violence and the rash measures" Of
the assembly, made the shrewd remark:
IF one single rule had been adopted,
namely. that every motion should be re-
duced to writing in the form OF a propo-
sition, before It was put from the chair, in
stead OF proceeding, as was their constant
course, by first involving the principle, as
the called it (decreter lie principe), and
leave the drawing what they had so re-
solved (or, as they called 1t, la redaction) for
a subsequent operation, 1t Is astonishing
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
THE OPEN ROAD.

Maud Goldrins in London Spectator.
Out past the bars of Square and Place.
And streets where toilers bear their load
Past all the hurrying poplace
There runs the Open Road.
How white its ribbon measures out
The sun-baked acres round the town.
How hosrse the Peoples empty shout
Behind us travels down!
They fret, but we, with scrip and staff,
Take pilgrims way some dusty eve.
Behind the People snatch and laugh
over the toys we leave.
Beyond us lies the healthy hill,
Lone valleys where the brown streams
The iow-roofed cot, the turning mill,
The waving plains of wheat.
Before us still the wide skies arch,
The primrose West with rose is strewed,
And shadowy cloud-battalions march
Across It's solitude.
The wild flower clusters brighter Irvine,
The wild birds note more clearly rings,
And from the shade OF beech ana pine
Look forth the forest things.
But far behind, through dusty days
The People fret against their bars,
And set no foot in open ways
Nor eye the evening stars.
And some have paused by purple slope
To hear the echo of their signs,
Turned back to bring the People hope,
And toiled to make them wise.
For air and the blue hesv'n are free
(Say they), and peace is not for few,
And these must share, as well as We,
The stars and morning lew.
These must come forth with pilgrim song,
With light-weighed scrip and Strength ming
rod.
For unto all the roads belong,
And the straight paths of God.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
ONE OFFICE THAT PAYS.

Considerable effort was expended at
the last session of the Nebraska legis-
lature to prevent the abolition of the
office Of deputy state labor commits
sioner. The Office had fallen into bad
odor and was looked upon as useless.
1t had never measured up to the stand
ard hoped for it when it was originally
established, and the lawmakers felt it
might easily be dispensed with and no
serious disarrangement OF the states
business would follow. Other counsel
prevailed and it was finally determined
to give the ONCE another trial, but with
a clerkship Topped off and the appro-
priation otherwise reduced. The re-
suit has more than justified the expert
ment and it is now almost certain that
at the coming session of the legislature
the office will be provided with means
suficient to do the work it is intended
for.
The results achieved by the Office
are due in a great measure to the eff
cheney of the deputy appointed by Gov
ernor Sheldon. Mr.. Ryder took hold
of the affairs of the ONCE with zeal
bringing to it the resources of a mind
we'll trained in newspaper work and
accustomed to thoroughness. BY his
energy he has accomplished wonders
in the way OF gathering and promul.
eating information concerning the
state, and in the point of reliable and
trustworthy advertising alone has more
than paid for the expense of the ONCE
In addition he has been charged with
the enforcement of the child labor law
the compulsory education law, and has
been required to assist in the conduc'
of the juvenile court. These duties
were added to those formerly devolv
ing on the ONCE. none of which were
abolished with the clerkship, and thu
result has been that Mr.. Ryder hal
been a very busy man during his tern
of office. But he has worked faith
fully and we'll and has established hi
bulletins of information concerning
Nebraska farms and crop output on
plane with those OF Coburn of Kansas
which are known the world over. II,
has not done all that might be don
with a little more money, but his worl
has been most worthy and entities hin
to a place among the efficient publ
servants.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Now for a safe and sane election.
The esteemed Sandjsk OF Novibazsr is
the Hobson Of the Balkans.
Candidates who slight Prime Nicotine
make amends by indulging in pipe dreams.
King Edward is esteemed the nobbiest
dresser in Europe. Wherefore his dlplo-
macy rarely bags at the knee.
1t is solemnly announced that the dan
gers OF ocean travel are increasing. Four
weddings took place on one Of the liners
last week.
over in Bosnia the Series threaten to
bolt the Austrian ticket, and will do some
cutting unless quickly seen by campaign
managers.
The report that men lived in the Alps
1901 900 years ago, is slightly exaggerated.
There were no American tourists around
in those days.
The League of American Sportsmen has
condemned the use of elk teeth as society
emblems, thereby swinging the hammer on
the c~elluloid industry.
Connecticut celebrated the both anniver-
sary of the birth of Noah Webster. You
remember Noah? He was the first Ameri-
can to produce a deluEe of words.
With a record OF seventeen unconscious
players in one foot ball game, the claim
that the sport had taken on ping-pong
simplicity seems TO lack confirmation.
The asylums OF Massachusetts are moi
getting their due when It is possible tc
hire a hall in Boston for the purpose OF
fomenting war with Japan at the momen.
Japan is engaged in rendering national hos
pitality to the officers and men of the
American battle fleet.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
Our Z IN LAPAN.

Carrying the news of American
power snd prosperity, the battleships
under command of Admiral Sperry are
in Japanese waters, where the mikado
and his subjects are apparently deter
mined to Guido South America, Aus
tralia and the rest of the world in
lavishness of welcome. 1t is not worth
while now TO discuss the motives that
led President Roosevelt TO send the
fleet on a tour OF the world, but il is
certain that much has been accom-
plished by the voyage, in an educa-
tional way, and the climax of the trip
comes with the reception by the Japa-
nese authorities. 1t will serve to COM
pletely silence the Hobsons and that
class in this country. who have per-
sistently sought to make it appear that
Japan and the United States were on
the verge OF conflict. 1t will serve to
impress the japanese jingoes with the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
BUSINESS REVIVAL TO DATE.
Marked Evidence of the Improved
Tendency in All Lines.
RnSlnn n,rnnnans-A

MARKED Evidence of the Improved
Tendency in All Lines.
Boston Transcript.
The popularity of this election season so
lar as business signs are concerned is the
strength In the stock market. Wall street
mas little sentiment in its acts; Il goes
ahead on careful analysis, and il keens
posted thoroughly on every detail of indus
try or OF politics that can bear upon values
Ana wall street is buoyant. 1t may he a
professional, a manipulated market; still.
the way i'm which prices hold, the ease
with which the manipulation is carried on
shows an undertone of confidence among.
the men behind the market.
This confidence comes not only from ha-
lief in election results satisfactory to bus
mess interests, but in an immediate revival
of general business activity. The signs
multiply of a desire to get busy on the
part of business men in many fields NJ
activity. Improvement is noted in our for
eign trade, conspicuous Improvement. We
are exporting cotton and grain at substsn-
tial increases over a year ago. Corn prices
are prohibitive of exports, but the outward
movement of wheat is decidedly large and
much greater than a year ago. Cotton has
started the new crop year with material
increase in exports. the staple selling some
8 cents per pound lower than in the 1907
beginning of exports.
Smaller decreases in railroad gross earn
ings, expenses kept down to match the
losses In revenue from transportation. some
actual gains In net or in revenue avail
able for fixed charges and dividends are
among the pronounced signs of improving
conditions. The real revival will show in
gross earnings Of the railroads rather than
in net and where some months ago gross
revenue was running heavily under 1907 and
but a few weeks ago 10 per was cent less
the figures of twenty-nine roads for the
week for October show only . per cent de-
crease, Bank clearings also reflect better
business expectations, better actual bust
ness in some centers.
A significant sign is the report of Amer
lean Telephone company earnings. In the
nine months TO September 30 this companv
had 5000, 900 increase in revenue over last
year, or 1874 per cent. That shows. desplte
duh business in so many lines this year.
a great increase in use of the telephone.
formerly considered a luxury, now more
and more an Indispensable adjunct Of bus
mess. The Western Union Telegraph com
psny. reporting the poorest earnings in re-
cent history, at any rate, as the result of
business depression and a strike, takes a
hopeful view OF the future, the president
saying that there are indications OF i'm
provement manifested by demands from
many different sections OF the country for
help to handle increasing traffic.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
DEMOCRACY AND PENSION


One OF the curiosities OF the cam
paign is the democratic platform plank
on the subject Of pensions. 1t is a
sample of political le~Asrdermain and
~acro5atics that is worthy OF preserva-
ton along with some of the other par
amounts that have been developed
since democracy gave way to Bryan
ism. The Denver declaration is as fol-
lows:
We favor = generous pension policy,
both as 2 matter Of justice to the sur
viving veterans and their dependents, and
because IL tends TO relieve the country
Of the necessity of maintaining a large
standing army.
What, in the name Of all the demo-
cratic foibles and vagsries at once, has
"a liberal pension policy" to do with
the appropriations or the s for
the maintenance of a standing army,
large or small? 1t may be argued. of
course, that the money spent for pen
sions can not be used for hiring sol
diers, just as il may be argued that
money contributed for democratic
campaign urpos can not he used for
pressing missionary work in Turkey
and Afghanistan, but it has no real
bearing on existing conditions. The
nation has an obligation to pay pen
sions, just as it has a duty to maintain
a standing army, but the I'VE questions
have no relation with or bearing upon
each other.
The necessity for the reduction of
the standing army, thus removing the
danger of Imperialism. is a subject that
the ~peace-loving citizen might have
overlooked il the Denver platform had
not called hts attention to it. Accord
ing to the record, there is n soldier
to every $4,000 of the population in
this country. That would make about
two whole soldiers who are importing
the liberties of the people of Douglas
county. We are confident that when
the people awake to a full realization
of this awful danger of Imperialism
they will join with Mr.. Bryan in de-
handing a reduction of the standing
army. This, however, could be done
without slashing the standing army
over the shoulders of the pensioner.
The republican party favors g
generous pension policy to veterans
and their dependents as a matter Of
justice and gratitude and this is rea,
son enough without dragging in Other
issues. Since 1855 the government
has paid 1850. OOO, 900 in pensions
and practically every line of legisla
ton to that end has been passed by re
publican administrations at Washing.
ton. The democratic position has usu
ally been as it is today. When the
party has not openly opposed pensions
as it has seldom dared to do, it ha'
fought them in an underhand way
No veteran will be deceived by thu
democratic pension plank this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20

folly Of such a war, even II they ever
entertained serious thought of it.
The visit to Japanese waters will
serve to recall a little history. Fifty
FIVE years ago Commodore Perry's
squadron visited Japan and really in
troduced that nation to the world.
Grudgingly. reluctantly, Japan con-
coded to Commodore Perry's requests
to open it's ports to the trade Of the
world. The concession was granted
largely because Japan was not in po-
sition to resent or refuse the overture.
Since that time Japan has made a
progress second only to that of Com
modore Perry's country and the Japa-
nese must feel grateful for the act Of
this country in forcing the inland en-
pire to begin an era of civilization and
progress in which it has shown such
remarkable success. The visit Of the
fleet today means a veritable stretch
ing of hands across the. sea, a better
understanding, an exchange OF courte-
ter understand each other and will go
far toward insuring the peace of the
future. The United States has no de-
sire or cause for quarrel with any
other nation, but its demonstration OF
ability to take care of itself in case OF
a quarrel will make for the preserva-
ton of peace.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
Capital Defects of Bryan's Mind
New York Eyenlns Post und.j

NNAAN ANNh NAhNf
how great an influence il would have had
on their debates and their measures.
There could hardly be a more exact dos-
cription Of Mir. Bryan's fayorite method.
Grant him his principle" and forms Of
embodying 1t. Yet they are the very essence
Of the debate. Nine-tenths of all controver-
sizes about projects Of legislation turn upon
what Mr.. Bryan or Mr.. Roosevelt would call
unimportant technicalities But without the
small details, there can be no large meas
ure. And the real statesman thinks things
through to their mlnutiae before announcing
that he has any solution whatever. Gov
ernor Hughes not merely advocated a Pub
lie Service commission, he saw to il that
a bill was drawn specifying all its powers
and duties. Mr.. Bryan prefers to dream
smiable things about his pet utopias. Ac-
tually to locate them on a real earth, is 2
task which he lightly says he will attend TO
later"
Mr.. Bryan's fondness for percentages is
a sign of the speculative tendency of his
mind. His old silver ratio, once so sacred
and eternal, was not his own invention,
but he has since run to others. His clsssl-
f~icstion of corporations into those which,
at 40 per cent, are blameless, and those
which, at 30. are to be outlawed, is purely
bAAAAAhA ~ u ~ III ANA
Br. Bryan ever sat down and gave himself
a headache by trying to see clearly just
how his percentage theory would come out
IN practice, no one believes. He has neither
time nor inclination for dry details. His
forte is happy thoughts-like government
ownership of railroads.; and II the hard
grasp of reality shows them to be most I'M
happy thoughts, then he drops them as
readily az he propounded them. So it would
be, no doubt. with that grotesque idea OF
his which Mr.. r. u. Johnson reports this
morning, to divide all the federal offices
among the different parties in proportion
TO the vote they cast. Here, again, is the
obsession of a percentage, which Mr.. Bryan
seems wholly unable to resist or cast off.
In such considerations may be found the
true force of the objection made against
Mr.. Bryan that he is without experience.
The candidate complains Of this. He points
to many men who have made good execu-
tives, though previously untried. Yes, but
such men had displayed painstaking and
constructive minds, with q firm grip on
he is a cloudy theorizer. People have con-
fidence in the goodness Of his heart, but
they distrust the workings OF his intel
lect. They shrink from the experiment of
putting into a great office a man who is
capable Of bringing out every morning his
dream of the night before, and OF delegat-
ing to others the duty Of making it real.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
How Much Is omittedf
New York Sun.

The list of contributions of 500 and more
to the democratic campaign fund, published
with so much ostentation at the request of
Mr.. Bryan, has no affidavit attached to it.
Neither Chairman Mack nor Treasurer
Rider was s~worn-nor, for the matter of
that, eN-Treasurer Haskell, who turned in
some collections before he was made to
walk the plank. Therefore the list NAV
not be complete, and as published it is Ger.
tainly not compromising, unless the 5000
check of Charles ]. Hughes, a leading cor
poration attorney of Denver, should put Mr..
Bryan on the defensive.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-20
A sIEnthcant Celebration.

NdbUInkIOU IUsIt
The Rural Letter Carriers National as
ISOLATION has just. concluded its annual con-
vention al Omaha. Il was in a way the
celebration Of the happy elimination OF a
far-reaching social revolution which has
brought the world nearer TO some SO,OOO, 600
of country dwellers. Modern civilization
consists largely in reducing time ana space
TO lower terms, and in this evolution the
rural letter carrier has been no mean
factor. The deadly isolation of the farm,
in q large measure, has been destroyed.
The letter carrier and the telephone have