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Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

rrobIem Of Getting Enough 20 Hun,
D. Machine.
Washington Pos

washington POSI-.
Tho expected has happened and as every
practical man knew Il would the populsr,
subscription to the democratic cempsig |
furd, unfortunately entreated by the two.
candidates OF the democratic national
ticket, has disastrously failed. The Courier
Journal could raise hut a miserable SIS. srd.
In one county in kentucky that never yr'
gave a republican majority or plurality The
democratic organ raised but a single dollar
and contributed that itself.
Your sentimentalist and your dreawar.
find place on the stump to spell-bind and
wind-jam, but when II comes 10 gathering
together the Doodle. thoy must give way tn
men Of affairs. In 1880 General Garfield
sought to carry II diana by putting th.
campaign in charge of the hierarchy a.,
that Christian sect v~Ulgarly called Camr.
BELLIES, but jay Hubbell would not hear or
II, and sent something less than a bo>
car full OF 50 bills. and they did the busf..
ness.
The spontaneous donations having provsdl
a disappointment, II is now proposed 70
resort to practical means TO rl the CAM
paisn chest. and former Senator Pe'riyr,w
and present Governor Haskell have bcc, ,,
consultation with the head Of the ticket
to devise ways and means. Whether Tho
limit of $4,000 is to be abandoned. We an.
not advised.
But It matters not. so long as It vas
provided that there was to be puhrclt,
or no subscription under S10O. which would
allow Millionaire Wetmore to chin I'm many
times 1000 il so inclined. Mr.. James
Guhey OF Pennsylvania, It will be re-
called has contributed $4,000 in cash-fo
say nothing Of certain stained-glass win
doWs-in behalf Of Mr. Bryan. It would
be easy for Mr.. Guffey to contribute sOno
this year. and another SO. LOCO in blocks "
30 in the names OF 800 of his fellov-citi-
zens' The whole scheme is ridiculous in
this: II is based on the fallacy that a
rich man can have none but selfish interes,
In his country, while q poor man can have .
none but virtuous interest in It. \
AS for the republicans they are practical
men without any nonsense. They know
that 1t takes money to run a national cam
paisn and their appeal is to men who have
money. OF course they will be accused
Of selling privilege for It.
But If the farmers should chin in. AZ
Mr.. Bryan invites them, would he rec
ommend and advocate the repeal of the
olecomargarine iniquity or promote the
effort to take the tariff tax off hides?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
rnruRE OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Senior Quezon, the leader of the ma
jority in the Philippine national as
sembly, has been comforting with Mr..
Taft at Hot Springs and with President
Roosevelt at oyster Bay, and is return
ing to Manila with the first indication
when the Philippines may expect to at
tain self-government, should the repub-
licans remain in power in this country.
The interview between the president
and Senior Quezon was arranged by Mr..
Taft, and at its conclusion Senior Que
zon said;
was completely conquered by the presi-
dent. He is a great man. He assured me
that he favored giving all possible business
concessions to the Filipinos who are able
to carry out improvements. But the best
message l can hope to take to my people
from the president is his assurance that
he hopes to see the islands absolutely in
dependent within the next twenty years.
The president said that he did not be-
lieve the Filipinos would have learned
enough about free government before that
time, nor become rich and strong enough
to defy outside enemies to be given COM
plete independence.
While President Roosevelt is, CT
course, not authorized to speak for
the country so far in advance, his as
surance is in entire keeping with the
republican policy in dealing with the
Philippine question and is complete
REPUTATION of the democratic contention
that the administration has been in
spired by a spirit of Imperialism and
a desire for territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The control OF those islands came as an
unsought and unwelcome spoils of war
and the powers at Washington, in full
sympathy with the sentiment of the
country, have sought to protect the
Filipinos from the encroachment OF
other powers and to hasten their ad-
vancement to the point where they will
be able to AXE charge of their W af-
fairs.
In Of that policy, schools
have been established, the agricultural
interests encouraged, self-goyernment
granted in the municipalities and linn
tied self-government established in ma
tional affairs. AS a result, marvellous
progress has been made and the Dresi-
dent is fully justified in his prediction
that in twenty years the Filipinos MAJ
enjoy full independence, BY that time
the Filipino youth, now in school, will
have been drilled to the responsibilities
OF citizenship and equipped TO take
their part in public affairs. The United
States will finally withdraw, with the
consciousness of having redeemed its
pledges 10 the Filipinos and OF having
performed a distinct and notable ser
vice in the cause of humanity and the
advancement of civilization. In the
light of this prospect, the democratic
attitude on the PHILIPPINE problem in
the last two national campaigns and in
the one pending is far from praise
worthy.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
Mhet Has Reen DONG.
Chicago Inter Ocean

NTWIdBW IWIFT ONNuW
What state aid and government aid have
failed to do, private enterprise has accom-
plished for the farmer. The telephone
operates side by side with the rural, free
delivery mail box, and the interurban
trolley has wiped out distance to the
county seat and the market town in thou
sands OF agricultural neig~hborhoods. Social
life and sanitary conditions have improved
marvelously on the American farm during
the last ten years, and these improvements
are not going to cease.
Much remains to be done. President
Roosevelt recognizes this fact, and has
called upon the men who are eminently
qualified for the important task he asks
them 10 performl
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
ABOUT THAT ALASKA WHEAT.

The day of miracles has not passed,
not by a long shot, if there is any
thing approaching even near-truth N
the story of the success of Abraham
Adams of Idaho in his experiments
with wild wheat he discovered in
Alaska some years ago.
Briefly told, Adams started out to
look for gold in Alaska and stumbled
upon something which makes the out
put of the worlds gold mines look like
the DRAWINGS of the baby's toy bank.
In one of the Gardens of Eden not
charted by the geological survey, far
from any living human that could have
planted it, grew a rare species of wheat.
There must have been many millions
of bushels of ia regular Chicago
Board of Trade crop-but the birds of
the country had picked this particular
wheat as their favorite breakfast food
and Adams succeeded in securing only
one overlooked head of the priced
grain. He carried this back to the old
farm in Idaho and has since been ex-
%perimenting with it, with the most as
tonishing results. The last report
shows that the average yield of this
new wheat is 222 bushels an acre; that
each kernel is as big as a minstrel
stars diamond; that it is hard or soft
wheat, to suit the taste of the pur-
chaser, and that 1t is the only wheat
in the world from which can be pro-
duced the kind of bread that mother
used to make"
1t may be mentioned, in passing,
that this Alaska wheat grows in n
soil and flourishes under any condi-
tions. 1t does best in the really damp
regions and on the arid wastes. 1t is
poison to chinch bugs, the green bug
and the rust, and attains it's greatest
strength of stem and development of
mead in the regions where hailstorms
beat down strong trees and cyclones
move farm houses from one county to
another without formal notice. Frost
does not hurt it and, under proper
coaching, it will produce p~redigested
flour for the benefit of dyspeptics.
Summed up, in the language of the
Saturday Evening Post, IF all America
could seed with the new wheat, it
would, at only so cents a bushel, add
nearly 81, 500, 900, 900 to the wealth of
the farmers every year"
Does that not mean a revolution
in the wheat Industry is asked, with
a ring of challenge in the query. Well,
we don't know. There are a good
many Missourians out in this country,
where twenty-five bushels an acre is
looked upon as a sizeable wheat yield,
and the best thought of agricultural
experts has for years been devoted to
plans for raising the limit. Just casu-
ally. be it mentioned, the west might
get more enthusiastic over this Alaska
wheat miracle II the Post did not dis
close the fact that Farmer Adams has
accumulated some $4,000 pounds of
that marvellous wheat which he is will
ing to contribute to the cause for the
modest sun of IS per pound.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
"FIGHTING bon" IN RETIREMENT
Blur Old Sea DOG Relieved OF Active
Duty.
Louisville Courier-Journal

Louisville Courier-Journsl.
The American people can easily appre-
ciate exactly how Rear Admiral Evans
feels today. They regret his retirement
from the navy as much as he does. They
have become as accustomed to asSociating
him with the navy and the navy with him
as he has become to living on a battleship
and commanding men. It is not disputable
that Admiral Evans is the widest known
and the most Familiarity known naval OFF,
GER. His rugged strength, his stalwart
Americanism, his unembroidered common
sense, his bluntness of speech and his pic
turesque personality have made him as
attractive as a man as his courage and
ability he We made him admirable as an Of
ficer. He has been the p~rotagonist OF the
navy. He has been the central figure OF
the battleship drama. When he goes from
the scene 1t Is like Hanlet dropping from
the dramatis personae of ShakespeHre's
play. The navy without Bob Evans will
be strange to the American eye and mag
ination. II viii be strange to Bob Evans
himself. But what will be the stranRest
of all to him is the thought OF his living
placidly in retirement, In some unforlifi. d
home, standing upon the dry land Of some
city or countryside.
into his retirement follow the affection
ate and grateful greetings of his fellow
Americans, whom he has served CALAMITY.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

An Illinois minister has invented a
device by which a motorman can turn
a switch without having to stop his
car with a jerk and keep straphangers
pirouetting on one foot while he pokes
his head out of the vestibule and
throws the switch with a rod. In ad-
dition to the financial profit that
pastor will reap. he will do a great
service for the cause by reducing the
pardonable provocations for profanity.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

teen days for withdrawal after the
filings close, but does not authorize
any change in the official ballot when
made up at the expiration of that time.
A candidate who so desires may an
nounce to his friends that he is no
longer in the race, but no way remains
to him now to take his name off the
official primary ballot.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

II the p%uritanical Sunday crowd
we're on the square they would be as
hot on the trail of the democratic city
prosecutor and the democratic county
attorney as they are on the police
board appointees of the republican
governor 1t looks very much as if
these democratic law officers had been
given the benefit of an immunity bath.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

1t is a little difficult to believe the
report that $500, 900, left over from
the democratic national campaign fund
of 1904, has been turned over to Chair
man Mack. 1t should be remembered
that Tom Taggart had a hand in the
distribution of the 1904 fund and was
on very chummy terms with Mayor
Jim" and "Brother-in-Law Tom"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
The Real Pace that Kills.

THIIdutIpUId NVNUTU'
Every day now brings Its fresh record
of motorcides. The deaths are very inn
partially wide between victims who ride
and those who go upon the highways on
foot or In other vehicles, The wonder is,
considering the number of autos and the
number Of reckless chauffeurs and ignorant
amateurs who drive them, that the killing
and maiming are no greater.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Governor Sheldon realizes that it is
a condition and not a theory that con-
fronts his Board of Fire and Police
Commissioners here in Omaha, and in
South Omaha, too, for that matter. II
the governor wanted to pass personally
on every detail of police regulation
for these two cities he would not have
time to do ANYTHING else.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

The campaign is certainly on in
Tennessee. The Knoxville Journal and
Tribune says:
The smile Of the pumpkin broadens every
day, the persimmons are sagging the
branches while the 'possum winks his
eyes, the porkers and the cattle arc fat
tening, fodder pulling, apple drying and
cider making thrive. the mash" is heavy
in the woods, the ginseng picking is quite
the best, likewise the feather crop, and the
potatoes fairly burst the ground-which is
the song we sing Of prosperity's return.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
worth q PassInE Thought.
Washington Star.

Mr.. Bryan's assertion that the republi-
can leaders ought TO fast IN The wilderness
may rouse Nebraska to some inquiry as to
whether, assuming that the same advice
applies to democrats, II is 10 be classed as
a wilderness. and. II so, whether Mr.. Bryan
has been really fasting.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

AS another evidence that the cam
paign is on in Tennessee, the Nashville
Tennesseean refers to its contempor-
airy, the American, as "a booze-blub-
berer and hell-broth megaphone."
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Omaha has had n or two men In
the mayors office whose services we're
easily worth $1,000 a year to the city.
It has also had a lot of men in the
mayors office whose services would
have been dear at any price. The fat
salary will not by itself guarantee an
able and efficient mayor.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

For some strange reason the people
most directly affected seem to be en-
tirely unrepresented in these confer
ences between city and county officials
about providing jail facilities.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
business Improvement steady.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

A careful review OF all the elements
which enter the business situation pro-
notes the belief that while improvement
is noticed it is steady and with ever-in-
creasing volume. when this can be re-
corded in the hot and dull month of Aug
ust It may mean that the resumption Of
activity in the first fall month may be
such as to warrant something more than
the conservative optimism Of the present,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
Gets There just the same.
Brooklyn Eagle

The Chinese government finds that near
81, 900, 900 has been stolen through a public
dredging contract. When China gets its
promised constitution all plundering of this
kind will be decently disguised in the form
Of an annual rivers and harbors bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

What we want" says Mr.. e.. H.
Hartman, is more cooperation and
rationalism." This will surprise folks
who thought that Mr.. Hartman wanted
more corporation and railroadism.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

According to Edgar Howard, the
canvass for the democratic nomination
for congress in the Third district has
developed simply a contest between the
dollar and the man.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Notwithstanding the proposed in
crease in the mayors salary to $4,000
a year, Mayor Jim" still stands ready
to exchange his present $4,000 salary
for the $2,5OO stipend paid to the
governor. '.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
WIN They stand for Itt

lHulalapNiS ~"
II the American Bar association does
stop courts of appeal from making deci-
sions on technicalities 1t will be a great
blow to the business Of some OF our most
eminent practitioners.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
BRrAN AND 7Br WooL rARIFF.

1AAA nv a' ~ " -
Mr.. Bryan's refusal. or failure, to
take advantage Of the tip given to him
by former Attorney General Monuett
of Ohio, to make the republican policy
toward the nations wool growers a
temperament issue, has been TX
planned. Mr.. Monnett, it will be re-
membered, drifted into Lincoln about
the time Of the Denver convention and
told Mr.. Bryan and, through him, the
public, a touching story of how the
wool industry of the nation had aeen
ruined by the protective tariff. He pro-
duced statistics to show that there ere
no longer any sheep in the country and
that the public is being robbed blind
by the Wool trust, which has secured
all the wool there is in the world and
has fixed an exorbitant price on every
ounce of it.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin has
been to some pains to secure anthem
tic data, from official sources, that fail
to harmonic with Mr.. Monnett's dis
NAL statistics. From these figures it
appears that on January 1, 1893, just
before the beginning of President
Cleveland's second administration and
the enactment of the Wilson-Gorman
tariff. there were 4~7,273,573 sheep in
the United States, and that on January
1. 1897, Just before the close of the
Cleveland administration, the number
had beer reduced to 36,S1S,643, a loss
of rs per cent, without any offsetting
eduction in the price of wool pro-
ducts.
According to the report Of the De-
partment of Agriculture, there were,
on January 1, 1908, IN the United
States, 5~4,631,0OO sheep, an Increase
of nearly 100 per cent since the close
of the last democratic administration.
The wool clip of 1907 was valued in
excess of $50, 900, 900. Mr.. Monnett
failed, in his disquisition on the wool
question, to call attention to the prices
of wool in the United States under
democratic and republican rule. On
January /, 1898, shortly before the
democratic wool tariff went into effect,
Ohio washed Xxx fleece was selling on
the Boston market at 81 cents i pound,
while in August, 1896, just before the
election of President Mckinley, the
same grade of wool was quoted at IT
cents a pound. The same kind of wool
sells today at 80 cents a pound. The
Boston newspaper further emphasizes
the changed conditions by quoting
these prices on wool:
August, July,
1896. 1908.
Ohio Xxx, washed .........,.... lc &c
Kentucky quarter blood, I'M
washed lC -S
Territory best fine staple. clean S0c 6Oc
1t is not difficult to see why Mr.
Bryan has not grown particularly en-
thusiastic over Mr.. Monnett's advice to
attack the republican party for it's
treatment of the wool industry In
America.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

petitor for the presidential nomination
Governor johnson was denounced by
Mr.. Bryan as a corporation tool, but
as a companion on the democratic
ticket in Minnesota he will be lauded
as a tried and true tribune of the
nennle-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Very naturally, the national v
ton OF the Dryers and Cleaners As
ISOLATION of America elected II. Irons
to one of the important offices.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Candidate Kern is not as bashful as
was Candidate Bryan. He is already
making campaign speeches in advance
of notification that he has been nom
mated.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

The Water board has reached the
point where it is willing to confer, A
few conferences earlier in the game
have saved the taxpayers 100000
or $4,000 in lawyers fees and court
costs.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

The presidential candidates nave
started the race, but, according to the
reports of the finance committees, they
are not yet raising much dust.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

1t is said that the late Sir Redvers
Butler, the English soldier, always en-
deavored to live up to the Fifteenth
Psalm. OF course, o can tell offhand
what Sir Redvers tried t. live up TO.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

I'VE should not ~exaggerate the
growth OF the agricultural industry in
the United States" says the New York
Journal of Commerce. We can't.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Statisticians assert that Ga of every
100000 of the worlds inhabitants
are blind. And there are more of them
who only think they see.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
vow Get Bnsy.

BdItImOTt NIIItTINuH'
The report of the coming of prosperity
is semi-officislly Endorsed. The United
states treasurer advises people to eat seven
meals a day.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
c.t,iDr Rendy for the start.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
All the public can do at present is to
keep on hoping that everybody VIII soon
he notified so that the campaign may be-
gin.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Still, a man named /. M. Lyon ia
asking the Missouri voters to elect
him to office.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

1t is now up to Colonel Bryan to
take back his charge that governor
Johnson of Minnesota is nothing but a
puppet in the hands of Jim" Hill and
other Wall street magnates. AS 2 COM
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Honors are even again. The town of
Taft, Mont, was destroyed by fire and
the town of Bryan, okl., was ripped up
by a cyclone.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

The democratic state committee
won't let Edgar Howard make it a
present of Dan stephens money, This
decision is final.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

This talk about candidates for pri-
mary nominations Withdrawing is all
very we'll, but it comes too late to be
effective. Tho primary law gives fiji
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Brazil wants some American bankers
to locate there. Brazil should repeal
its %extradition laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Has Mr.. Bryan invited Judge Parker
to make any speeches for him in Ne
braska?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Sauerkraut has gone up, but as soon
as the weather gets a little cooler and
spareribs are ripe it will begin going
down
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Mr.. Taft is going to Canada for a
fishing trip, Mr.. Bryan will remain in
the United States fishing-for votes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

The usually en~terprising merchants
are a little slow in advertising "a
Great Slash in Dlrectoire Gowns"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

In accepting his nomination, Candi-
date Chafin invites everybody to come
in, al the water is fine.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

William Money has been fined oy a
Kansas City judge for refusing to tes-
tify in court. Yet. it is insisted that
money talks.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

The man who tries to take life easy
often has a hard time of 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

SO you are going to join another club?'
Yes" answered the lonely citizen. I'D
rather get bills for dues than not have the
ord-Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Candidate Chafin naturally is trying
to throw cold water on the hopes of all
the other presidential candidates.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

,Slllicus-What do you consider is the
proper time for a man to marry?
Cynicus-Oh, | suppose when he hasn't
Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
sTATEMENr OF crRCULATIoN.

State OF Nebraska Douglas County. SIS:
George b. Tzschuck. 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 July, 1905. was as
folloWss
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Castro must envy the Turkish
method of getting rid of diplomats.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

subscrihers leaving the city tenn
Porarily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed Is often a. requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Dumley's drumming up trade Tor a rope
ard twiue house now"
Gee Whit that accounts for IT,
Accounts for what?"
II met him yesterday and he asked NE If
Ia nave a cigar. He must have given
Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

,Roderick Dhu was about to apply the
bugle to his lips.
Then he hesitated.
Mo- he said, putting the instrument
PACK in the case. 'One blast on this horn
Is worth a thousand men. One thousand
men, at 1900 apiece, which is the lsgAl
ana customary price, are worth $),COL,C0L.
mink I'm going TO toot II for nothing?
Not on your blooming tewsharps!'
For, be 1t observed, high musical talent
ever eXacts It's price before the Ier. orm-
ance begfns.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

Territory best fine staple, clean Soc 6c
1t is not difficult to see why Mr..
Bryan has not grown particularly en-
thusiastic over Mr.. Monnett's advice to
attack the republican party for its
treatment of the wool industry in
America.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

DNIy HFcIdk6s oogfuH
GEORGE u. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day of August, 1905.
(Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER.
Notary Public.