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Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
THE GREAT DENVER SHOW.
Variety of Movement and Scene Dis
Kuises the Tragedy.

1OSAs
Everything Is in magnificent disorder at
Denver. The ass j~oyfully bTays and
awaits his peerless rider. The westerners,
who want a man who cannot be elected,
and the fasteners, who cannot get a man
who could be elected, are mingling their
stocks Of INSTRUMENTATION and misplaced en-
thusiasm. Candidates for vice-president run
up and down, seeking something they can
not find. Every man thinks he has an
idea that would make a fine plank in the
platform, but he cannot find the platform
1t hasn't left Lincoln yet. So, while they
are waiting for the platform. the delegates
are belaboring with their planks, in true
democratic harmony.
Mr.. Parker of Esopus has sloughed off
the cerements of oblivion, and moves among
the Bryan worshipers like a thing of life.
1t was said that he sought trouble-that he
was a firebrand, determined to bring down
democracy in ruins by pressing resolutions
eulogizing a man who was called a demo-
crat In his time. But no! The mummy Of
Esopus seeks harmony alone. He longs for
the milk OF concord, and the honey of fra
ternal love. For that his perturbed spirit
burst from its urn and now fits In the
shadow of Pixies Peak. Will he find what
he seeks? Win ne find surcease of sorrow
In the bosom of the Abraham Of Lincoln?
1t will go hard II he does mott
But h Of the vice-president? Which
of the fifty-seven varieties will be the
victim? WIN 1t be a Bryan worshiper, skip
ping eagerly like a lamb to the slaughter.
or will it be a conservative, lassoed and
dragged beating to his doom? II 1t were
possible to imagine that logic would have a
place in the councils OF the Bedlamltes, we
should look for the nomination Of a Bryan
tie, a man after Bryan's own heart, who.
IL elected, would steer the bewildered ship
OF state into ~unpathed waters and along
undreamed shores. He would be a radical.
with no old-fashioned notions 10 hinder his
ripping-up Of the constitution.
But since Denver is no place for logic
Just now, It is best to expect the prepos-
ferrous. The convention will probably try 10
capture for vice-president a conservative
a man. who by nature and instinct. is op-
posed to Organism. If such a man can be
captured, and forced to run, It is calculated
that he would exert a wonderful influence
in inducing other conservatives TO vote for
radicalism. What devilish cunning! What
deep. dark strategy! How It will fool all
the people, especially those who expect It
to succeed
Well, let the clans have a merry time
at Denver, Let the comedy go on tin
the curtain falls and democracy rubs its
eyes and realizes that It has been enjoying
a tragedy, with itself the soul Of the plot!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
STRONGER PROFESSIONAL ooURs

STRONGER PROFESSIONAL COURSES.
Announcements now being made of
changes in the next years courses in
many of the larger institutions of
learning, contain promises of import
ant changes relative to the study of
medicine, law, engineering, forestry
and other practical and professional
subjects. The universities generally
are becoming convinced, following the
lead of Columbia and Harvard, that
students in specialized lines should be
better equipped in knowledge of the
liberal arts. The general require
ments, therefore, will be that students
for these special courses will be COM
PEELED to have at least two years of
undergraduate work before entering
upon professional study.
According to a recen report of the
commissioner of education of the
United States, there are 622 institu-
tons of higher education available for
the men OF the country. The under
graduate enrolment of boys in ia of
these is in excess of 200. The en-
rollment in II of the number is in
excess of 1000, five have more than
1900 and Ave others have enrolment
in excess of 1000. The United States
has become a nation of colleges and
universities, and never before in the
history of the world was there such
an army of students as that which is
| clamoring for admission to them.
With this throng has come the de-
mand for more and better instruction,
more varied courses of study and
larger provision for e~quipping young
men to participate in varied fields of
activities. 1t is the danger Of putting
this army of students into the worlds
battle scarce half made up against
which the stronger institutions are
now taking precautions.
The heads of the great colleges are
realizing that they lave been turning
out men too narrowly specialized,
lawyers who know nothing but law,
physicians who know nothing but
medicine, engineers who have only a
technical training. The demand is
for more men in the sciences and in
the professions who have a broader
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
NOTES.

Caleb Powers has decided to go on the
lecture platform. This will be a relief to
those who feared he might organize a Wild
Kentucky show.
A Manchester paper must pay Mr.. Croker
$500 for mentioning him in unkind terms.
A similar scale Of damages would bankrupt
the journals of this country.
People paid $4,000 for the privilege of
seeing one man whip another at San Fran
cisco. Times are not so hard as to cut off
the cultivated public from its pleasures.
Rear Admiral Casper F. Goodrich, com
mandant Of the Brooklyn navy yard, has
been designated to attend the coming Gel
ebration Of the founding Of the University
Of saragossa, Spain. He will leave this
country the latter part Of August. Major
General Leonard Wood will represent the
army.
A man now serving a sentence of twenty
five years in the Nevada state prison for
murder was nominated by the Socialist
Labor party's national convention in New
York, last Sunday. for president Of the
United States. The man who was nomi-
mated is Martin n. Preston. who is under
going a sentence OF twenty-five years i'm
prisonment in Goldfield, New, for killing
a restaurant keeper named Silver three
years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
EEWER IDLE CARS.

Reports received by the American
Railway association at its New York
headquarters show that on July /
fewer box cars were idle than a month
previous and hat a steady decrease
In the number of unused freight cars
has been noted month after month
since April. This has but one mean
ing, that business is gradually ex-
banding.
While the resumption of activity is
not evenly distributed throughout the
various sections of the country, the
fact of resumption is sure to spread
its benefits over all. Probably the
most significant feature of the report
is that the Increase in car demand
comes at a time when railroads ex-
pect a decrease In business. June is
not an especially active month in any
line, and a showing of business growth
during the summer is a most auspi-
cious presage for the fall and winter.
In connection with this encouraging
report from the railroads comes the
news from the harvest fields that
promise a yield of wheat much larger
than last year, while the outlook for
the corn crop is equally good. Mines
and factories are swinging into the
line of active work again, n from
every part of the country comes the
report of steadily increasing industry.
The creative capacity and consump-
tive demand of S5,OOO,O 900 American
citizens are too great to permit my
thing like general idleness to prevail
long in the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
PEARY OFF FOR THE POLE.
Plans for the Present Venture Into
the Arctic.
Nou, VorIy TrIb,,na

the Arctic.
New York Tribune.
No one who has carefully needed the
utterances of the explorer now about to
leave this country once more for the arctic
regions can have failed to notice that he
evinces greater condolences of success
than ever before. What is more. his tone
must be regarded as in a certain sense
prophetic. Efforts to reach the pole re-
semble the art Of war. The nature of the
obstacles to be overcome must be studied
zealously and mastered by degrees. Peary
has been quick to profit by the lessons of
every defeat and disappointment Of the
last twenty years. Each time he goes north
he improves on the past. That he should
have convened such a hard headed man
OF business as the late Morris X. Jesup
that 1t was worth while to try again, and
that he had the requisite qualities for the
task. is a notable bit Of testimony both
In regard to the man and his enterprise.
Even more significant is the lively sym
pathy Of President Roosevelt, to whom
before sailing the explorer will pay his
respects, and by whom he will be enter
tained at luncheon. So distinguished a
representative of the strenuous life might
well appreciate and admire Peary's indom-
ANoSAN pANNh NAN vi WINS "NcOhAlN oAOAlC
extend encouragement. But the chief exc
cutive has commended the undertaking also
because in his judgment it involves ma
tional pride. Mr.. Roosevelt sees that a
peculiar and lasting distinction will be
won by the country one Of whose sons
first sets foot at the pole, as some man
Of heroic mould will unquestlonably do
sooner or later.
In two particulars Peary will alter his
program on his coming expedition. He
plans to push out on the icy covering Of
the polar sea from a point on the north
coast of Grant Land further west than
the one last adopted for that critical stage
OF the campaign. He also intends to pursue
a northwesterly course, in order to offset
the eastward movement of the pack. In
other respects the precedent established by
Peary himself will be closely followed.
Within the next eight or ten weeks he
will try to force the best ship ever built
for such work up along the Greenland coast
to the Arctic ocean. In something like
latitude SO he will then seek winter quarters.
Early in spring the explorer will make
a sledge journey over the Ice pack, leaving
the land 200 or 300 miles to the westward
of the Roosevelt's berth. Finally, so that
the food supply for man and dog shall
last the longer, the size of the party will
be reduced gradually by sending back to
shore some of those who at first accom-.
pany the leader of the expedition. mas
much as Peary came within 200 nautical
miles of the pole when ne made the last
worlds record, II does not seem unreason-
able to hope that he will now reach the
goal for which he has SO nobly striven.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
NOTABLE mIGRATIoN CHANGES.
Movement of Aliens Into and Out of
the United states.
Springfield CMass.) Republican.

Springfield tMass.) Republican.
Changes so swift and extensive in the
movement of aliens into and out of the
United States as during the last six
months have never before been witnessed
The following is the record for the first
half of the present and last calendar years:
1905. 1907.
Immigrant arrivals ...........,1 S6,5e6 1S9, i4S
Alien enleidnls ..,.'..,,.,...SI,o64 l5J, ~
Not before during a whole year nave 50
many people of The laboring class lett
the country as during this half year alone,
and the consequent drain upon the supply
of rough or unskilled labor in western
Pennsylvania is so great that the iron anu
steel industry is wondering where an ade-
quate supply of his class Of help will be
found when business prosperity has re-
turned, for 1t is said that much Of tho
alien labor which has returned to EurOps
has no intention of returning. There will
be found abroad, however, plenty of other
labor Of the kind to take its place.
Extraordinary as this alien outflow is,
the contraction in the alien inflow is even
more so. 1t nouns to over 20 per cent
from just a year ago. No other great
panic in the country's history produced
SO great an effect as this upon immigration.
The decline following the panic of 1893
was from $500 immigrants in the fiscal
year to June 30, 1882, to 502, 800 in 1893, 3li.
467 in 1894 and 279, 94S in 1S95--there having
been a much smaller relative contraction
during two years after the panic than has
now taken place within less than one year.
After the panic of 1873 immigration fell off
only about one-half in the. course of two
years and only about two-thirds in the
course of three years. Previous TO the re-
cent time the greatest emigration to the
United States took place from 1879 to 1882.
1t reached 7Ss,90 in the latter year and de-
clined thereafter. to 1884, 200 in 1SS6-whicn
was a smaller relative shrinkage during
four years than mas now taken place IL
less than one year.
If the panic of 1907 had far greater eff
feet in hating immigration than any o.
the other great panics, we are not neces-
sarily to conclude that 1t was a severer
crisis. Other factors are no doubt to be
considered in answering the question why
its consequences in this direction ha 1e
been SO much more striking. But in the
light of the facts given the Chicago repub-
lican platform becomes all the funnie:
where it asks the people to consider how
much worse the panic would have been
had the other fellows been in power.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
where TAFT 4. Welcomed.
Harper's Weekly.

NaNA hNA . NN"AN
There are two large groups of voters with
whom Mr.. Taft will be especially popular
those who are anxious to keep the peace
in the east and those who are solicitous
that the prestige Of the supreme court shall
be maintained. AS to the east, Mr.. Taft
knows 1t and all the east knows him. The
Filipinos will be delighted to have him
president. and Japan reports qualification
at his nomination. He is popular there. as
he deserves to be. AS for the supreme
court, II he is elected he will have vacan-
cies to fill. three or four of them, perhaps,
and where would one look for a better
judge OF judges than he, or for one more
inclined to make the best selection posi-
BILE? 1t can be assumed without risk of mis-
take that his nomination is one that the
justices Of the supreme court approve,
without distinction of party.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
CHARTER MAKING IN KANSAS CITY,

CHARTER MAKING IN KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City is to vote at a special
election next month to adopt or reject
a new city charter which has just been
framed by virtue of the municipal
home rule principles that prevail in
Missouri. The new Kansas City char
ter, which is, of course, largely a re-
vision Of the old charter, has been
prepared by a committee of ~freeholders
for which the law provides and will
become effective, If ratified, without
the Intervention of the legislature
with its attendant tinkering and mutt
lation.
That the new Kansas City charter
is a comprehensive document may be
inferred from the fact that it COM
prises more than 400 typewriter
pages. 1t doubtless contains much
that is debatable and much more that
would not be suitable to any other
city, but 1t also contains many pro-
visions based upon the best of expert
ence of our most progressive Amer
lean cities. At any rate, the construc-
ton OF a city charter, wholly by a local
committee of f~reeholders, subject only
to the approval of the people OF the
city directly concerned, is likely to
give the community a form of munic-
ipal government fitting its peculiar
needs and satisfying it's inhabitants.
Whether Omaha can ever secure the
privilege OF making it's W city char
ter will depend on future develop
ments. But there is no question that
Omaha would solve its own problems
better If it could be charged with that
responsibility and be freed from char
ter manipulation in the legislature
nine-tenths of whose membership is
made up of outsiders. We believe
that with complete municipal home
rule even our vexed question of con-
solidation could be successfully worked
out by getting representatives OF
Omaha and South Omaha together In
a charter-making committee disposed
to mutual concession on lines OF COM
mon sense and practical politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

IL Nv NAr1onAt cHA1RM1N

TIE NEW NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
No one who followed the popular
movement that eliminated in the
nomination of william II. Taft at
Chicago will be surprised at the selec-
ton Of Frank II. Hitchcock to be
chairman of the national republican
committee in charge Of the manage
ment of the campaign. Nothing sue
ceeds like success, and it was largely
due to Mr.. H~itchcock's tactful super
vision of the preliminaries that the
candidacy Of Mr.. Taft was made i'm
~pregnable to his competitors who had
allied themselves together for the pur-
pose of preventing his nomination.
Mr.. Hitchcock has already proved
himself alert, resourceful, untiring
and a thorough master of details. His
experience in the pre-convention cam
paign developed his high qualities as
a political leader and put him in
touch with the working forces
throughout the country through whose
cooperation the nomination of Mr..
Taft was brought about. He needs
no introduction to the party leaders
in the various states Of the union
who must execute the maneuver of
the campaign by which the rank and
file will be rallied and m%arshaled.
In a word, it had been demonstrated
that Mr.. Hitchcock was the logical
man for the position of national chair
man and there is nothing to indicate
that any other name was seriously con-
sidered at any time since the national
committee delegated Its authority to
make the selection to the sub-com-
hittee in conjunction with the candi-
dates.
1t goes without saying that Chair
man Hitchcock will at once take hold
with vigor and foresight and set the
wheels in motion for an aggressive,
winning campaign with no let up or
slow down until after the votes are In.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
According to the iorid report of the

According to the ford report Of the
staff correspondent" on the spot for
our local democratic contemporary,
Chairman Bell in opening the Denver
convention talked like a glorious
combination of John the Baptist, Saw
onarola, Tennyson and Patrick Henry"
He also talked like a plumed knight
eager for the lists" whatever kind of
talk that is. In fact, Temporary
Chairman Bell must have been a reg
ular composite photograph running
the whole gamut of history from its
dawn to its present high noon.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09
WHO hides HIS TIME,
James whitcomb Riley.

James Whitcomb Riley.
Who bides his time, and day by day
Faces defeat full patiently,
And lifts a mirthful ~roundelay,
however poor his fortunes be-
He will not fail in any qualm
OF p~overty-the paltry dime
1t will grow golden In mis- palm
Who bides his time.
who bides his time-he tastes the sweet
OF honey in the safest tear;
And though he fares with slowest feet,
Joy runs to meet him. drawing near;
The birds are heralds of his cause;
And like a never-ending rhyme.
The roadsides bloom in his applause,
Who bides his time.
Who bides his time. and fevers no.
In the hot race that none achieves,
Shall wear coOl-wreathen laurel, wrought
With crimson berries in the leaves.
And he shall reign a goodly king,
And sway his hand DER every cline,
With peace writ on his slgnet ring,
Who bides his time,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

Mrs. Cleveland received so many
messages of coincidence and sympathy
in her bereavement that she has found
it impossible to reply to them individ-
ually and has utilized the newspapers
to make public acknowledgement of
appreciation. 1t goes without saying
that Mrs. Cleveland is acting in this
under far-seeing advice. She will not
now have to thank anyone in particu-
lar for the resolution adopted at
Denver.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

From the hubbub they are raising
over the "cash-in-advance" rule pro-
mulgated by the clerk of the district
court people would imagine that the
lawyers paid the court costs and execu-
ton fees out of their own pockets in
stead of with money furnished them
by their clients. If the new rule
means that the money advanced for
costs by the clients is to go in the pub
lie treasury instead of sticking to the
fingers of the lawyers indefinitely it
will be a real reform. OF course,
these reflections do not apply to all u
lawyers, nor to a majority of them,
but the shoe will probably At some of
those who are making the most noise.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

With all the bombast about cash
registers" and the like, the temporary
chairman at Denver did not offer to
explain who got the 100000 which
Mayor Jim" and Brother-in-Law
Tom" brought into Nebraska four
years ago. And Ryan and Sheehan
IA the money was paid over in cash.
1t is known where this money came
from, but the recipients are maintain
ing a mastery silence as to where 1t
went.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

general education, who can supplement
their technical education with a
knowledge Of the liberal arts and
human nature. The proposed in
crease in preliminary requirements
will be welcomed as promising a better
appreciation of the broader life for
the graduates of our professional
schools.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

NCbraskana of One or Another Grade
MOnoDOIise the Spotlight.

"NhNNNAhNt the SHONAAkhNs
Mayor Jim Dahlman Of Omaha, the
honored leader of all the democrats Of Ne.
braska outside Of Fairview. is so exceed
ingly modest that he Is not occupying any
more space in public prints at Denver than
he can possibly control or secure. Possess
ing a vocabulary ~rivaling the unabridg I'd
he radiates Interviews in every direction,
and bravely assumes every responsibility
that falls to the official megaphone Of
Nebraska democracy. Much as he shrinks
from the publicity Of the main tent,
chroniclers Of history drag him from the
shadows and revel in his vocal fireworks.
A few specimens are worth presenting for
home consumption:
There is a newspaper man somewhere in
this broad world who looks like me-" said
Mayor Jim Dahlman Of Omaha. and I'm
looking for him"
Want to sympathize with hin?'' asked
Colonel Eaton. who is always on tap to
boost for the newspaper man.
mo, ] want to have him arrested for
malicious impersonation. You see, It is this
way: He, whoever he Is, drifted into
omaha shortly after my election, and some
one slapped him on the shoulder and said
'Hullo, mayor; come and have one on me-.
He had one.
From all reports he had several under
the disguise of the mayor of Omaha.
Other constituents OF mine dropped into
the thirst parlor and they fell to the base
Misrepresentation. and it wasn't long until
my double had climbed on top Of an Indian
cigar sign and was making a speech. He
was hitting right and left and accepting
the nomination and the election and high
balls and everything that came his way,
and the crowd yelled itself hoarse in APP
prevail
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

New York World.

A salute OF forty-siX guns which the
president has given the District Columhi.
democrats permission to fire in celebration
of Mr.. Bryan's nomination from the Wash
ington monument grounds will just about
express Mr.. Roosevelt's peronal satisfac-
ton with the choice Of the democratic con
~vention. .
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

Why should democrats object to the
display Of a republican banner by the
republican state headquarters at Lin
coin Just because Bryan lives in one Of
the suburbs? Are no democratic BAN
ners to be strung in Cincinnati be-
cause hat is Mr.. Taft's home?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

The democrats who looked a
at the recent conference on natural
as a threatened invasion OF
states rights by President Roosevelt
and the national government are now
irving to catch on to the sentiment
aroused by that conference in favor of
conserving natural The
protection of states rights Is a demo-
cratic talisman only when they want
TO draw on it for political capital.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

The democratic city council has ac-
commodatingly received he World
Herald's bid on city advertising sub
mitted after The Bees bid was opened
and read. That is a precedent other
favored bidders for city contracts
would like to have extended for their
benefit.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

And now we are told that Chairman
Bell coined some new phrases that
will live" They could not have a
democratic national convention with
out working in some kind of free
coinage.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

The ~eartoonist of the local Bryanite
serves notice that the demo-
cratic campaign is to be conducted this
year without waiting for the aid or
consent Of Governor Johnson of Min
nesota or any OF his friends.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

Simmered down to it's substance, the
convention at Denver is a fine example
of freedom of speech. What those
democrats are saying about each other
gives no indication of either restraint
or prudence.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-09

Mayor Jim" should be made to I'M
derstand that he cannot monopolize
ali the attention belonging to Omaha
when Henry T. Clarke is on hand with
his waterways resolution.