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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-04-01
SMALLPOX IS DEAD
HEALTH AUTHORITIES HAVE
II UNDER THEIR CONTROL
Hope to Prosecute People Who Have
Broken Quarantine and Puts
IL Up To Prosecutor.

THE smallpox situation in the ad-
ditions and in the country is abso-
lutely under control. said Dr. p.
Frank, and we are now taking lit
tie rest. However, ! have applied TO
the prosecuting attorney for war
rants for the arres, of number Of
parties who wilfully broke quaran-
tine and in other cases failed to re
port the presence of the disease
Several people. moving that they
had been exposed, failed 10 make re-
port, and as result my office has
been overworked for several weeks
Prosecuting Attorney Wende has
told Dr. Frank that he would tend
To his cases as soon as the present
Flanney murder trial is settled, and
some of the wise ones will be given
an opportunity 10 explain their rea-
sons for disobesing he Law
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-04-01

III the federal cout SATURDAY aft-
ornoou Judge " II Hunt sentenced
Edward Cardwell % the connfy iat
for 40 DAYS and imposed fine 81
$3.50 the heaviest sentence ye in-
posed for Illegal fencing Of the pu5-
lie domain An appeal viii be taken
in this ease and also ia that ef Emil
BirehcF sentenced FOR similar ai-
Tense
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-04-01

The Brotnerhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Engineers is offering
vigorous opposition to the candidacy
of Congressman James r, Watson for
the republican gubernatorial nomn-
atom in Indiana.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
NOTES.

Governor-elect Harmon Of Ohio will ride
to his Inauguration on horseback. as JEFF
ferson was reported as doing.
Five members OF the Smith family landed
in the board of aldermen of Somerville,
Mass, last election day. ,
DIR. Felix Adler OF Columbia, university
and Prof. William M. Davis OF Harvard
University of Berlin, were introduced to
Emperor William at Potsdam by Ambassa-
dor Hill.
Crippled with sciatica and unable to make
use of the once sturdy legs which for years
carried him through Alaska, Jack Dalton,
known in every part OF the. United States
as the man who made the Dalton trail, ar
rived recently in Seattle.
Joseph II. Choate, who is II, has been
moved to remark that he does not feel as
old as the youngest of his associates on
the commission to arrange for the celebra-
ton of New York's Lincoln centennial, who
Is only g.. Mr.. Choate Is still generally re-
garded in the legal profession as one Of
our most promising young men.
The letters OF Mrs. James @. Blaine have
been edited by her daughter, Mrs. Harriet
Blaine Beale, and have just been published.
They begin in 1871, and end In 1889, and
contain many references to the political
affairs in which her husband was actively
engaged during all that time. Her descrip-
ton OF the scene at the shooting OF Gar
field is most interesting, full of sweet and
simple pathog.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
DEFECTS IN CORPORATION LAWS
The Hartman Decision Suggests the
Need OF OverhaulinR.

Chicago Tribune.
The somewhat strict construction OF the
interstate act by the supreme
court in the case of the Hartman inquiry
probably will prove to be in the public in
terest. Certainly IL its effect Is what II
should be good will come OF II.
The decision emphasizes the public need
as well as the legal necessity OF legislation
which shall empower the commission or
another body to exercise a broad but defi-
mite surveillance over combinations and con-
solicitations among carriers. intercorporate
stock purchases, and similar operations Of
the directing talent at work with public
service corporations. If proper legislation
OF this character is obtained It is greatly to
be preferred to the extension by construc-
ton Of the inquisitorial powers Of the COM
mission under the present interstate COM
merce act, a process of great uncertainty.
unjust to the individual and unsatisfactory
from the point of view Of the public in
terest.
The presidents proposals for removing
carriers from the operations Of the sher-
man law and for new legislation which
shall provide for publicity and regulation
as to their capitalization, combination and
management undoubtedly has directed and
crystalllzed public opinion along these lines.
The president-elect is In general accord
with these policies and undoubtedly will
exercise his great influence toward their
enactment on safely constitutional lines.
1t is during Mr.. Taft's administration, in
fact, we must look for that intelligent over
hauling OF the laws affecting corporations
which now seems desirable. The first legls-
lation In this new field has proved defec-
tive in many respects, as is inevitable in a
period Of transition. The nation is fortu-
nate in the assurance that the experience
Of the last few epoch-making years is to
be made permanently profitable under the
guidance Of a legal knowledge so sound
and a progressiveness so enlightened as
Mr.. Taft's.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
The Solid south Melting.

FO" "a "OIlu NutLnsJs
Analysis Of the official election returns,
taken from sheets of The World
Almanac for 1909. shows clearly the trend
Of political sentiment in the states compos-
ing the solid south. Some OF the striking
changes apparent are the following:
The industrial states of the new south
gave a greatly decreased vote for Bryan
as compared with his vote OF 1900.
The agricultural states OF the south re-
main almost unchanged in their political
allegiance.
Both the Bryan vote and the democratic
pluralities decreased notably in q majority
Of the southern states as compared with
1900.
One state, Missouri. has broken away
from the ranks of the solid south, and SOW
eral others are approaching the turning
point.
Even in those states which have voted
total prohibition of the liquor traffic, the
republican party vote was extremely small,
making a pitiful comparison with northern
states where prohibition is not in force.
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Virginia, Missouri and Maryland
have made remarkable advances in indus
trialism during the last eight years. In
these states there has been also an almost
complete ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the negro,
The trend OF political sentiment in them
Is therefore, the sentiment of the white
population.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21

THE TURBULENT SHORT SESSION.
The attempt Of congress to "rebuke
the president" and the presidents re-
tallatory tactics are by no means dis
tinctive characteristics of the last ses-
sion of congress, now on the last lap
Of its official existence. On the on
trary, 1t is but an emphasized repeti-
ton of the incidents usually enacted
at the short session which precedes a
change in the i~ncumbency Of the pres
idential chair.
BY the very nature of things a short
session is one of turmoil and dissen-
sion. The presidents position is pc
culiar, in that his work has been prac-
tically finished, or as nearly so 10 posi-
BILE, and he can not hope or expect to
offer any new policies or important
new measures that will command the
attention or consideration of congress.
He is preparing to retire from Office
and can do little more than use his
best efforts to put his house in order
while congress and the public gen.
orally turn attention from him to the
new tenant. Many members of con-
gress have either been defeated for
reelection or are about to retire from
public life for other reasons and
are either Indifferent or possibly
openly hostile to the wishes of the
chief executive, whose power for be-
slowing rewards or iniicting punish
ments is marked for early disappear.
ance as a factor in congressional af.
fairs.
Mr.. Cleveland went out of the
White House twice with a quarre
with congress prominently in evi
dence. Mr.. Harrison had a similar
experience and Mr.. Roosevelt Is hav'
ing his. Under the circumstances, lit
tie may be expected from the present
session beyond the appropriation bill
and action upon minor matters, thu
disposition of which will have little
or no bearing upon the incoming ad
ministration.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
CURRENT POLITICAL COMMENT.
Some New and old Methods OF
Voting.
PhlladelphIa Prtsa (repl.

Philadelphia Press (rep.).
Our elections have come TO exhibit a
variety and Inconsistency in the voting
which were entirely unknown to our fathers
who used the single partys poster ballot
in voting that ticket Il was necessary to
vote for all the candidates Of the party
unless the voters made erasures or covered
names with '~stickers." This was done to
some extent. but II never created the wide
discrepancies in the total vote of the sew.
eral candidates that the Australian blanket
ballot has brought upon us.
Only two states, New Jersey and Con-
n~ecticut, retain the old style OF ballot
The ballot that has to be marked allows
the voter to vote for the candidates he Is
interested in and to neglect the rest. II
he wishes to vote a split ticket he can do
so much more easily by the blsnket ballot
than with the old single party ticket, and
Its stickers. This is true, even when ths
single square or circle at the head OF the
ticket facilitates straight party voting.
The Massachusetts, plan, by which all
candidates names are listed alphabetically
and the voter has to select and mark each
separate candidate for whom h desires to
vote, shows the widest discrepancies be-
tween the vote for the important and the
AAAhRN NNAAN III u - Aho AAAINAN bAuNI
Gs no votes are cast by it except those the
voter wants TO cast and for just those
persons he wishes to support. ConsIdera-
lions Of convenience do not make him vote
for those in whose political success he
feels no interest.
The voting machines in use in fourteen
states introduce another variety in voting
There are soma who see evil In this and
think there should be legislation TO compel
uniformity in voting in all the states. There
is no merit in this suggestion. Each state
is guaranteed a republican form OF govern
ment, but the manner OF voting is a detail
which each state is free to make its own
experiments with. We are Just now ex.
perihenting on a large scale with blanket
ballots and in some states with the voting
machines. Neither nre free from objec.
lions. Uniformity may DO desirable. but
1t is far better than uniformity thai each
state should have a voting system which
suits It and 10 suited TO it, and this system
1t must work out for itself.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
WASTE.

Statistics Just compiled show that
more than $4,000 persons we're killed
and more than 10000 900 injured in
Industrial work in this country last
year, making an appalling list of
casualties, nearly one-half of which, it
is commended, might have been avoided.
The federal bureau of labor, which
makes the report, admits that the data
has been difficult to secure and that
the list as given is probably much
smaller than the actual number of
deaths or injuries in such accidents.
The report shows that in five years
over 10000 men have been killed in
the steel industries and the fatal &C
cidents among the anthracite miners
in Pennsylvania have averaged nearly
four to every 1000 men employed.
The death roll from industrial acct
dents for the year amounts to the
diers while the roll Of the injured is
larger than the number of men en-
gagged in the civil war. The bureau
charges that reckless disregard of Or
binary safeguards, the violation of
safety appliance laws and the pro-
%tective principles of everyday life have
made the laborer's share in this tre-
mendous sacrifice Of human life a very
heavy one. while many of our in
dustrial accidents" says the report,
may be the result of ignorance, reck-
less indifference or carelessness (of
the victim), the fact remains that an
immense amount If human life Is
wasted"
Two important problems present
themselves as the result of this show
ing-one relating to the needed re-
forms for ~lessening accidents in indus
trial establishments, the other having
to do with ways and means by which
suitable insurance can be afforded tt
workers in the industries. President
Roosevelt has urged the general ex
tension of the employers liabilit!
laws for the benefit of the injured EN-
ploye, but preventive laws are also
needed. When Industrial establish
ments are made to bear the hnancia
loss ensuing from such accidents, tn,
responsible heads may be expected t
devise measures by which industrial
accidents will be reduced to a yer,
marked extent
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
Wanted, a Man.
New York Sun

Sos
Advice to the democratic party is now
pouring forth from every after dinner pro-
lessor of government. One says that the
party is too radical and runs after false
gods, and another that It cannot get on
without the radicals; they agree that there
must be reorganization. stability In its
councils and a sane, progressive policy.
Mr.. Bryan must walk the plank. Mr.. Bryan
must be conciliated. and so on. One healer,
at his Wits ends, suggests a good gov
eminent trust of prominent democrats to
watch the republican administration, and
secure the confidence Of the people for the
democratic party.
1t is true that stability, sanity and char
acter are the need of the almless and
wandering democracy. Leaders It must
have, but they cannot be appointed or
forced upon 1t. Leadership must grow out
of the political conditions OF the coming
four years; the occasion must produce the
man, and the man must be worthy of the
summons. Else there will be no leader
whom the party can follow with spirit,
and 1t will be idle to make a campaign IN
1912 with any hope of success.
Since 1872 the democratic party has put
its best foot forward and achieved the most
satisfactory results when It nominated fol
the president a man Of executive ability
and experience-in each case the success.
full governor of a state. If the party can
not develop such a man before the next
national convention It's chances of obtain.
ing possession of the government will bt
slim indeed. Reorganization cannot max,
such a man or after dinner speeches.; ht
must be evolved and grow to the requisite
stature.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
orn NATIONAL HOLOCAUST.
Burn Enough Property 60 Pay Cost Of
Mighty Army.

Samuel Hopkins Adams in E~verybody's.
We hear much In this peacefnt country
about Germany's burden OF nnilitarism'
Well, our national bonfire would pay for
the kaiser's whole army maintenance and
leave a surplus annually Of S0,000O for a
fireworks fund wherewith 10 appease our
pyromaniac appetite. II Germany IL OPP
pressed by wars and the rumors OF wars
how much more sorely is the United states
oppressed by fire and the evils that attend
IL. And the worst OF It is that this loss,
In great part is -superfluous; Incredibly
and ldiotically stupid and shoFtsighted.
Europe proves so much. No nation there
but would be appalledby at such a fire bill
as ours. In the ~forty-nine principal cities
Of Europe there Is less than one fire an
nually Csc. TO be eNact) to every loo IN
habitants. In this country we maintain q
general average of four and one~half fires
per 1000 persons. The per capita loss by
flames in Italy is IL cents yearly; In Ger
many, ~ cents; in thirty OF the largest
European cities, 81 cents; and In 262 Amert-
can cities the per eapita destruction aver
ages $S10. Boston, in many respects the
pally progressive city in this country, has
a yearly bill of s1,50O.O00 from loss by burn
ing. The European city of equal size gets
along with one-tenth of that sacrifice. our
debit side OF the fire ledger sums up a
heavier total than the combined losses Of
any other six civilized nations In the
world. Nothing this side of the sun equals
us for combustion.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
THE REFORMING OF WALL STREET

THE OF WALL STREET.
Governor Hughes has appointed a
committee to collate facts. receive
suggestions and make recommends
tions as to what changes, If any, are
advisable in the laws of the state of
New York bearing upon speculation in
securities and commodities, or relat-
ing to the protection of investors, or
with regard to the instrupfentalities
and organizations used in dealing with
securities or commodities which are
the subject of speculation" In other
words, the governor has decided to
have Wall street probed, preparatory to
legislation designed to correct inan-
cial and other abuses that may be dis
covered to exist in the great specu-
lative center.
There is some prospect, but not
much hope, that the proposed inquiry
will result in putting an end to spec
ulative gambling in securities and
commodities, but much good may be
accomplished If the investigation shall
result in exposing the methods by
which markets are manipulated" and
worthless stocks unloaded pom an
uniformed public. In the abstract,
the Stock exchange is simply a COM
mon center where men buy and sell
ownership in the obligations of cor
porations, just as other men trade in
boots and shoes and sugar. In prac-
tice, however, shrewd stock gamblers
often food the market with bogus Sc
curities, while those who have large
holdings in corporations frequently
use their power to dominate financial
institutions and thus manipulate the
prices of their securities, to the hurt
Of investors and the impairment Of the
money market.
1t is notorious, as illustrated in the
Morse case and in many others but
little less sensational, hat various
abuses, which urgently demand re-
form, have grown up in connection
with the buying and selling of stocks
in the New York market. The action
of Governor Hughes reflects a preva.
lent feeling that something needs tc
be done to raise the standard of con.
duct in financial dealings generally
The greatest benefit to be expected
from the inquiries OF the probing com.
mittee is such an exposure of existing
evils and such suggestions for i'm,
provement as will force reforms
either through legislative action Oh
the adoption of corrective rules by the
exchanges themselves. An enlight
ened public spinion which will class
men who delraud others in the will
full manipulation Of stocks in the sam
category with burglars, pickpocketI
and lesser thieves will do more thar
any laws to elevate and purify Wal
- aAuwa,.I
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21

AS chief of the army signal corps,
General Allen makes earnest recon-
mendations for improvement and en-
lsrgement of that branch of the mill
tary service. Omaha is specially in
terested In the signal corps branch of
the army because of the signal corps
post and training school at Fort
Omaha, and General Allen may count
on the moral support of our people in
his desire to make the signal corps
grow more efficient and more serv-
iceabIe.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
AN UNFORTUNATE DECISION.

nv II v II OLOAoIOANs
By decision of the state supreme
court, the law making extortion and
blackmailing a crime in Nebraska has
been declared unconstitutional and in
valid. The reason given by the court
for it's conclusion is that the law dis
eliminates between citizens of this
state and other states. 1t is. there
fore, held to be a class of legislation
prohibited by both the state and fed
eral constitutions.
1t happens that the particular case
in which this decision is rendered
came up on a successful attempt by a
Lincoln lawyer to extort money from
a saloon keeper and, as we all know,
the line of demarcation between
straight and crooked transactions dis
guised as lawyers fees has always
been very hazy. Had the law been
tested in a case involving some rank
outsider caught red-handed in a black
mailing plot instead of a professional
gentleman pretending to demand
money for a client, the judicial per-
spectlve might have been clearer.
The overturning of Nebraska's
criminal law against extortion and
blackmail is unfortunate from What
ever viewpoint IL is loked at. 1t is as
serted that this law is an exact copy
of a similar law enacted in another
state, where 1t has been enforced and
upheld in the courts. Be that as It
may. the need Of such a law is clear,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
woBBLY ON THE WORDS.
Battleneet Crews Break Down on
National Anthem.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Here is fresh proof of the unhappy fact
that our country is still in need of a ma
tional anthem. Whenever the battleship
fleet cached a stopping place the natives
invariably saluted 1t with a national air.
Everybody had a national air except your
Uncle Sam. OF course the visiting officers
and men made an effort to respond with
THE Star spangled Banner" We are told
that the first line went vigorously, but at
the second the singers wobbled and at the
third they went vocally broke. A few
voices carried the melody through and still
fewer sang the words correctly, but IL we
can believe the correspondents It was a
sorry effort. 1t is said that after several
failures of this kind general rehearsals
were tried, but the men showed but little
Improvement. The fact is, the air does not
lend itself to the tuneful manipulations of
ordinary voices. Nor Is It possible to sing
the words with the glibness that permits of
the proper patriotic emphasis.
Perhaps this picture of our sailormen,
strangers in a strange land, wrestling with
an air that is beyond the compass of their
voices, and endeavoring to repeat words
that seem to defy memoriEing, will rouse
some plying song writer to renewed ef-
forts. The additional picture of the natives
gazing in open mouthed establishment at
the battleship chorus and wondering IL the
Americans can be as terrible in fight as
they are in song, should emphasize these
determined efforts.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21

j,
"Wm you go with me a'calling7"
Said Mabel unto Sue.
why, really, dear Mabel
I'D be delighted to
But now l am 80 busy,
i really have no leisure
Just wait until after Christmas
And III go with the greatest pleasure
IL. y
why don't you bake some cookies, mar
You never do, no more;
We've had no puddin' for a month,
Is Il Gauss we're gettin' poorY'
"Oh, no, my son, IL Is not that,
But I've so much 10 do
Just wait until after Christmas
And I'll bake lots for you"
III. =
''Will you sew a button on my vest?"
Said pa, land mend my coat
But he looked at ma and the last request
Just stuck fast In his throat.
How dare you mention-P' ma began
Then softly shed a tear
''Please walt until after Christmas,
Don't you think you can, my dear?"
'wnl you give me your heart, dear
maiden7
VIII you promise to be my wifef
I love you better than / can tell
She stared some minutes into space,
Then suddenly spoke She
'If you'll walt until after Christmas
I'll be yours for eternity"
Omaha. BAYoLt NE TRELE.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
stay-at-HOme CItiEens.

Though the popular vote thrown in No
vember was the largest In our history, and
came within 1870 of touching the 1905. OOO
mark. 1t illustrates the Indifference of
many voters to the exercise of the free.
mans privilege. There must be more than
100000 stay-at-homes at the lowest COM
Notwithstanding that the United States
has approximately (. 100000 inhabitants, and
making allowance for acknowledgements,
and unnaturalized aliens. The popular
vote does not keep pace with the Increase
OF population, and TO this circumstance ID
due the fact that the total last month
was but $4,000 in excess of that cast in
November. 1900. In 1904 the popular vote
was but little in excess OF 1851, T0s.