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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
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Mr.. Bryan's Commoner has boiled
down into nine paragraphs the rea-
sons why the democratic candidate
should be preferred by tho voters.
Here are seven paragraphs showing
why each Of Mr.. Bryan's reasons
are invalid:
First. Mr.. Bryan is estopped from
accusing the republican party OF
failing to provide for eiecting United
States senators by popular vote. Ne
braska has a provision for securing
from the people an expression Of
choice on United States senator, but
when Mr.. Bryan was a candidate for
senator in 1904 he refused to submit
his candidacy to popular vote.
Second. Mr.. Bryan is estopped from
accusing the republican congress of
failing to pass a law for campaign
publicity. Every democratic member
of the house voted against the pub
licity law that was passed by repub-
licans simply because it included a
provision for an inquiry into demo-
cratic Acknowledgement of the negro in
the south.
Third. Mr.. Bryan is estopped from
accusing the republican congress for
failing to pass a postal savings bank
bill. He has professed to favor postal
savings banks for years, but now says
he will favor it only in case his guar
anty deposit scheme proves a failure.
Fourth. Mr.. Bryan is estopped
from charging the republican congress
with passing a currency bill "encour-
aging speculative banking when his
own deposit guaranty scheme would
throw the door wide open to wildcat
banking.
Fifth. Mr.. Bryan's charge of des-
potic rule by the speaker in the house
of representatives is best answered by
the Unprecedented record of reform
legislation enacted during the Roose-
welt administration.
Sixth. Mr.. Bryan should be es-
topped talking about the cost of liv-
ing increasing faster than wages be-
cause under the last democratic ad-
ministration the trouble was to get
any wages at all. Incidentally the
truth of the Bryan assertion may be
challenged.
Seventh. Mr.. Bryan's reference to
the republican position on the tariff
is pure buncombe. The republicans
favor revision whenever changed con
ditions require, while MIR. Bryan wants
to go through a continuous perform
ance of piece-meal reduction that
would ~paralyze all our industries.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
PER SONAL NOTES.

The wives of three mail carriers in New
York state are carrying the mail while
their husbands are away on vacations or
dered for their health.
Naturally, a New York court refused to
ADMIT the hypnotic confession of a
woman, the hypnotist having omitted the
formality OF also hypnotizing the court,
The authorized life Of Grover. Cleveland
is to be written by a personal friend.
John Finley, president of the College of
the City of New York, who desires all
persons having letters or other memorials
OF Mr.. Cleveland to lend them to him.
DR.. A. Lagorio of the Pasteur institute
Chicago, who has been taking treatment
for an infection Of rabies obtained by a
scratch on his hand in his laboratory,
has been declared out of danger. Dr.
Lagorio was infected twelve days aSu.
President Underwood OF the Erie rail
road has purchased an old-fashlsnrI
street car, the first in which he ever
rode. and shipped it to Wauwatosa, Wis.
where 1T will be set up as an outdoor
reading room on the grounds of his an
cestral home.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, now in his
seth year, has the distinction OF being
the only surviving lieutenant general of
the confederacy. General Alexander p.
tewar who died a few days ago at the
age of 81, also held the rank of lieu
tenant general in the southern army.
General Buckner, despite his advanced
age, is far from being inactive, and in
the last few months has taken a leading
part in the fight against the lawless
Kentucky might riders"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
BRAAN AVID AN Eek rR A SESSION.

BRIAN AND AN EXTRA SESSION
In a special dispatch from Fargo,
N. D., reporting Mr.. Bryan's speech
at the fair grounds in that city on
Tuesday, September 1, the New York
Herald says:
The crowd cheered wildly Mr.. Bryan's
declaration that il elected he would imme-
diately summon an extra session of con.
gress to carry out every pledge Of the
Denver PLATFORM, and that he would es-
pecially strive to relieve the farmers OF
what he asserted was the burden of the
Dingley tariff, under which they are now
laboring. He congratulated them upon
the prospects of an unusually good yield
OF wheat this year, and particularly was
he glad thai they were promised a dollar
a bushel.
The North Dakota farmers have an
unusually good yield of wheat this year
and are promised 81 a bushel for 1t,
as Mr.. Bryan says. II they are bear
ing the burden of the Dingley tariff
schedules, they are not worrying very
much about it. The republican pol
icies have furnished a market for the
farmers products, both at home and
abroad, thus making possible the high
prices which will come to the farmers
of the nation for this years crops. The
growth of American manufacturing in
dustries, under the republican protec-
tive tariff policy, has increased the
demand for farm products for home
consumption until America now con-
sumes more of the farmers harvest
than was demanded both at home and
abroad under democratic rule.
But ever If necessity existed for
relief of the farmer from the tariff
burdens, Mr.. Bryan's promise of an
extra session of congress, in case of
his election, will not help the farmer
in the least. 1t would simply mean a
heavy expense, the unsettling of indus
trial and commercial conditions and a
general retarding of prosperity. MT.
Bryan knows that the United States
senate is Overwhelmingly republican,
and will remain republican for at least
six years. Under those conditions,
his promise to secure a revision of the
tariff at an extra session must be set
down as pure buncombe, designed to
deceive the voters. The sentiment of
the senate is in favor of tariff rvision,
but it is radically and emphatically
opposed TO free trade, such as Mr..
Bryan proposes under his "tariff-for-
revenue-only" plan.
Republican victory in November will
be followed by al extra session of
congress next March, called for the
specific business of revising the tariff
schedules. Preliminary work is al
ready being framed to that end by re-
publican committees Of both the
senate and the house, and plans have
progressed to the point where it is as
sured that the work of the proposed
extra session will be speedily per-
formed, without disturbing business or
Industrial conditions. If Mr.. Taft is
elected, the country will have a re-
vised tariff by July 1, 1909. If Mr..
Bryan is elected there will be no re-
vision of the tariff until after the pres
idential election in 1912.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
PRINCIPLE OF sELF-HELP.,
Massachusetts' Insurance Compared
with OId-Age Pensions.
st. Paul P1Oneer-Press.

st. Paul F1oneer-Press.
Massachusetts, has recently inaugurated
a scheme. in the shape of life and annuity
assurance, to be furnished by savings
banks at cost. which appeals strongly to
American workingmeB. 1t offers self-help,
as opposed to help from the state. Officers
of the Massachusetts, branch OF the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor have recently is
sued a circular f~avoring this plan. In it
they say:
Every wage-earner ought TO be able to
look forward when old, to financial indie
p~endence. He should not, when superannu-
ated, become a burden upon either his
family or the community. He should dur
ing his years of honest toll be able TO make
provision for a comfortable old age, and
such provision should be made by each
compulsion of law, as in Germany. For
several years there has been in Massachu-
sets a growing demand for legislation pro-
viding that the state shall graft old-age
pensions, paid from general taxation. That
demand is sure 20 be much strengthened
by the recent action in Great Britain in
relation to old-age pensions. We oppose the
old-age pension plan, and have worked
streDuously to secure the establishment Of
the Massachusetts, savings bank insurance
and annuity system as alone consistent
with the best interests Of the waBe-earner
and with the traditions OF our common
wealth. We believe the Massachusetts,
savings bank insurance and annuity sys,
TEN for the first time enables the wage
Garner to make himself financially indie
pendent in his old age, whereas the Eng
lish old-age plan pauperizes the wage
Garner.
Men who will thus reject an economic
subterfuge imported from abroad can be
relied upon to reject also certain home
made subterfuges. whether they bear the
trademark Of Debs. Hearst or Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07

what Labor owes 60 the Republican
Partr.

Charles NJ. Harvey in Leslie's weekly
Rerinutnr with the republican state OF
Massachusetts, in 1859. labor bureaus have
been established IN thirty three states,
twenty-five OF which are republican states.
Laws creating factory inspection, free en-
ployment bureaus. and boards OF concilia-
ton and arbitration, and establishing an
eieht-hour day for employment on public
works lave been Enacted in three or four
times as many republican as democratic
states. The same is true of the laws pro-
hibiting the employment Of children under
II or 10 years of age, regulating the hours
of labor for women, and requiring wages
to be paid weekly. fortnightly, or monthly.
Laws protecting the members of labor or
ganizations and recognizing the union
label on goods have been put on the statute
books OF several times as many republican
states as democratic,
A national bureau Of labor was created
in 1854, by q bill signed by President
Arthur, and was attached to the Depart
ment of the Interior at washington, with
Carroll d. Wright as its first head. 1t
was changed into the Department of Labor
in 1888. The national Department of Com
merce aud Labor was treated in 1903, by
an act signed by President Roosevelt, the
head OF which is a member of the abine
The bureau of labor of 1885 came in re-
Spouse to a petition of the Knights of
Labor. The Department of Commerce and
Labor was urged by labor unions and
chambers Of all over the coun-
try. In the republican platform Of 1903 the
creation Of a national bureau of mines and
mining is urged.
The Roosevelt administration saw the en-
actment Of an employers liability law for
the protection of ~workingmen, the passage
and enforcement of safety-appliance stat
utes by which engineers, flremen and other
railway workers are protected; the reduc-
ton of the hours of labor Of trainmen and
~telegraphers engaged in interstate COM
merce, and has seen many successful in
stances of governmental mediation and
arbitration in disputes between railways
and their employees, in which the latter
were materially benefited. And much ad-
ditional work along these lines, IN aid of
the wage earners of the country. Is on the
program of the republican party, some OF
which will be pressed in the short session
of the present congress next winter. M
Sherman antitrust act OF 1890, which was
passed by a republican congress and signed
by President Harrison, and the railway
r~ate-regulation law Of 1906, the chief pro-
moter OF which was President Roosevelt,
was also In aid. largely, of the wage
earners of the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
BRYANITE PLOTS IN NEBRASKA.
wOful warninE and Dahl
mans Throw Down.

New York Times Ond. dem).
Mayor Dahlman OF Omaha has discovered
a plot against W. J. Bryan In Nebraska.
Mr.. Bryan is like Mr.. Roosevelt-his OPP
ponents are consplrators. those who criti-
else him are ~plotters. we have no doubt
that Mayor DahlmRn's suspicious are
amply warranted. There probably IL a plot
against Mr.. Bryan In his own state. There
was such a plot in 1900, when Nebraska
gave 1000 plurality for Mr.. Mckinley.
Mayor Dahlman's detective faculties may
have been sharpened a bit by his aspira-
ton to be nominated for governor by the
democrats. He insists that III must be nomi-
mated in order to prevent the traitors in the
democratic party from giving the state to
the republicans. That. of course, is the aim
and object of the %plotters. We are afraid
they will be successful in spite Of Mayor
Dahlman.
Conspiracies in law are hard to prove,
but when proved the penalty is readily in
flicted. In politics this rule is reversed.
for while It is easy to prove conspiracies
beyond reasonable doubt, the law provides
no punishment. The plotters are often
boastful and defiant. There must have been
a plot against Judge Parker in Nebraska
In 1904. His vote fell $500 below that
cast for Mr.. Bryan in 1900; that Is to say,
more than so per cent OF the democrats.
populists and unclassified persons who
voted for Mr.. Bryan withheld their support
from Judge Parker. In fact, the conspiracy
that year extended all over the country.
Otherwise how are we to account for Mr.,
Roosevelt's p~rodigious popular plurality of
2,50o,00O? There is a very widespread belief
that the Bryan democrats that year voted
openly for MT. Roosevelt. They were de-
termined that, II Mr.. Bryan could not be
elected president, no conservative democrat
should have that office. II democrats in
Nebraska and elsewhere who oppose Mr.
Bryan and are endeavoring to compass his
defeat are conspirators, we see no reason
why that unpleasant title should not with
equal propriety be applied to the Bryan
democrats in 1904. who showed such re-
efficiency in preventing the cleo
ton of Mr.. Parker.
Indeed. in it's present state Of disorgani-
cation, the democratic party is engaged in
a continual conspiracy against itself.
Bryan democrats, will not support a con-
sentative, anti-Bryan democrats will not
support the present candidate Of the party.
Between the two discordant factions of the
democracy, republican candidates have ac-
quired a habit of getting elected. The con-
spiracy in Nebraska is, of course, inconven-
lent for Mr.. Bryan. 1t worries Mayor
Dahlman. But the conspirators are guilty
OF no crime. This is an especially free
country, and one Of the privileges of the
freeman is to oppose Mr.. w. J.. Bryan as
often as he is nominated for the presidency.
For democrats who do not trust him 1t is
not only a privilege, but a pleasure.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07

Minneapolis Journal (rep.).
Some weeks ago Victor Rosewater, re-
publican national committeeman, appealed
to Mr.. Bryan to stop the fraud contem-
plated In Nebraska by which the democratic
party was to instruct it's MEMBERS to vote
for the populist electors, the latter having
pledged themselves to throw down Watson
and vote for Bryan, IL chosen. Mr.. Bryan
retorted that Victor Rosewater was not the
kind of a man TO talk about frauds. This
was his only answer.
Now there Is another answer, made by a
dear and deeply touched friend of Mr..
Bryan. The cowboy mayor Of Omaha,
James C. Dahlman, has been euchred out
of the democratic nomination for governor
by an opponent who ran as both a populist
and democrat. Mr.. Dahlmsn now proposes
to contest the nomination of Shallenberger,
because he was named by both populist
and democratic votes, just as the Bryan
electors must be, If chosen at all. Posi-
bly,, Mr.. Bryan will remark that, bosom
friend though he is, Cowboy Dahlman is
not to be the individual to complain Of
rauds
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07

Omaha does not want a %puritanical
Sunday. The good people Of this com
munity are deeply religious by habit,
as the support given the churches Of
all creeds and denominations a%ttests,
but It lie a progressive religion they
profess and not one that proposes to
return to the gloomy views of a bygone
day. The agitation that was dashing
itself against all sorts of alleged viola
tons of law a few months ago mas now
concentrated against Sunday base ball.
OF all forms of amusement offered on
Sunday base ball is probably the least
harmful and most rational. 1t attracts
orderly and respectable people, is car
ried on under close regulations and
provides advertisement for many thou
sands of men and women who would
otherwise seek elsewhere for something
to relieve the tedium of the long after
noon.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
ON THE BLEACHERs.
New YorR Sun.

- YIN SAAAH
Some there are who sing a song sbou, tb.
sandy seashore,
EXultingly extolling merits OF the ocean
Forgetting all the bills, the daily dinner
And the nonaesthetle bathing sights the
sad sea sees.
Take the %seashore; give to me the smiling
sea Of faces
Grouped about the diamond when all
thoughts Of care have fled;
Unconilned me pleasure; and Of happiness
Sitting on the bleaehers when the home
team Is ahead.
Some there are who pirate about the pleas
ures OF the mountains,
frequently eu!ogizlng green hills far
Famous for the milk souse. poky rooms
and small talk fountains,
Where the days are made exciting by the
stirring game croquet;
But for me the city and the city's one
oasis,
Set within a flock of blocks. no shade
Though the sun is beating down. the most
delightful place Is
Sitting on the bleachsrs when the home
team Is ahead.
Some there are who say that genius follows
Entertainingiy exploiting grace and
Yet without the spotlight oftentlmes a
punk fTst-rateT
Only in the pictures OF the nicolet we'd
see,
But for grace Of movement and the acme
of action
The base ball diamond for mire, when 3
p. m. has sped.
A dozen drama thrillers fade before that
sitting on the bleachers when the hons .
team is ahead.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
DEFEAT or A RgACrNNABY.

DEFEAT or 4 REACTlONARY.
John J. Jenkins, for fourteen years
a member of congress from the Chip
pewa Fall district of Wisconsin, has
paid the penalty of opposing the re-
form policies urged upon the last
congress by President Roosevelt. The
republicans of Mr.. Jenkins district
have defeated him for denomination
and have selected Irvine l.. Lenroot
as their candidate.
President Roosevelt's plan for the
creation of the Appalachian forest re-
serve proved Mr.. Jenkins undoing.
The Wisconsin member, as chairman
of the house committee on judiciary,
raised the question of the constitu-
t~ionality of forest reserve legislation,
and was largely instrumental in Sc
curing the defeat of the desired leg
islation. Throughout the administra-
ton of President Roosevelt Congress
man Jenkins has elected to side with
the reaetionary republicans in congress,
and has failed, or refused, to lend
any encouraging support to the re-
forms urged by the president. The
republicans of Wisconsin are in sym
pathy with the Roosevelt policies and
have shown it by their decision to re-
tire Mr.. Jenkins from congress. The
lesson will not be without its effect
upon other congressman who have
been lukewarm in their support of re-
form measures demanded by the pres
ident and the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
PARAMOUNT ISSUES" PUNCrURED
kansas Republican Platform and
Bank Guarantee
Kanaay CNits, CO..
Kansas City Star.

NaAAoa III STAT
In his reply to William j. Bryan's Topeka
speech Joseph L. Bristow. candidate for
United States senator in Kansas, clearly
disposes of the one point MI. Bryan trav-
eled all the way to Topeka to emphasize.
The republican state platform, instead OF
conflicting with Mr.. Taft's declaration upon
the subject of guaranteed bank deposits, is
in exact harmony, not only with the Taft
letter of acceptance, but with the subse-
quent expressions of the national candidate
upon the question.
On the other hand, Mr.. Bristow shows
the weakness of Mr.. Bryan's position on
this issue when he points out that the
democratic theory as outlined in Bryan's
platform, IL Incorporated into a federal
law would prove disastrous even in so
slight a disturbance in banking circles as
was experienced last fall. Br. Bristow
says;
II the theory OF Mr.. Bryan had been in
force last fan the banks OF our state would
have had to contribute money to make up
the losses incurred by the banks that
failed in New York, banks that failed be-
cause they had lent money on stocks and
bonds as collateral that did not represent
actual invested money. When the market
value of this collateral shrunk, because
ficient property behind 1t to give 1t value
that 1t was supposed to have. these banks
failed. Now Mr.. Bryan would compel our
banks to pay the losses OF these banks
when they are wholly powerless to prevent
their reckless business methods. and that
is the proposition which Secretary Taft
so severely criticises.
1t Is worth of note that the plank in the
Kansas platform was drawn by State
Senator Quincy, who was the first western
man to advocate a guaranty law. MI.
Quincy was the author Of the bill intro
duced in the Kansas legislature. and the
Oklahoma law is practically a copy of his
measure. He was advocating the guarantee
of bank deposits while Mr. Bryan was
still looking for a paramount" issue, so
that his opinion upon the subject is really
Of greater Importance than the u%tterances
of Mr.. Bryan, 30 far as its work as an
educational feature is involved.
Senator Quincy takes the position that
the democratic platform plank is wholly
wrong and obviously unconstitutional, and
that Mr.. Taft's letter of acceptance and
the Kansas platform express the only So
luton OF the platform.
After all, Mr.. Bryan's Kansas speech
seems to have weakened one of his para
mount issues very materially. and, as Mr..
Bristow declares. exposed the fact that
he rs as visionary on this question as he
was twelve years ago on the question of
finance"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
wILDoAr BANKING
Features OF Guarantee E4pertment
In Oklohoma.
50. Louls Glohe- DcmocIal.

81. Louis Globe Democrat.
Mr.. Bryan's new scheme Of wildcat bank.
Ing Is receiving q practical test at the cN.
pertinent station OF Oklahoma. Like his
plan OF 1896 e. letting the whole country
pay every dollar OF It's debts by handing
out 50 cents worth Of silver. his device tn
secure the deposits in all the bank bv
making each OF them pay 8 certain amour
into a guarantee fund has a certain a.
traction for superficial persons lik, its
author. Bryan thinks so much Of It that
he is keeping a close watch on its opera
ton in Oklahoma and Is also giving II A
prominent place In his campaign talks.
When some Of the national banks in
Oklahoma announced their Intention OF
embracing this Bryanite deposit guarantee
idea the comptroller of the currency
promptly told them that they could not do
this and still retain their national charter.
A few OF them, Drawing the ridlcule which
the country is heaping upon them, actually
did surrender their charters and are now
state institutions. AS some OF these banks
have men OF experience at the head Of
them, the country will learn soon whether
there is any value in this modified form
of wildcatism. AS the average sensible
layman can see, the effect of this pooling
Of issues between the prudent and the Inn
prudent, the honest and the dishonest
bankers, will be to penalize the prudent
and the honest bankers for the benefit OF
those of the opposite order. Under the
Bryan plan such spectators and grafters
as get into the banking business would
have a free hand, for when the smashup
came the honest and cautious bankers
would be compelled to brace them UP and
pay for their plunging and stealing.
But aside from this fatal weaknes in
Organized banking some Of the Oklahoma
bankers have found another defect. That
is that in panic times they could not get
at the guarantee fund quick enough to be
OF any help to them. Oklahoms's state
treasurer is investing this fund in state
warrants and, as In case of, a scare. the
state would be unable to realize ubon thos,
assets quickly, the banks would be power
less to meet their obligations and therefore
would be compelled to close their doors.
II 1t could be put in practice on a large
scale 1t would probably be found that the
Bryanized wildcat banking of 1908 would he
just as disastrous as was the democratic
wildcat banking of Van Buren's, Folks a d
Buchanan's days.