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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
Tafts of Away Back.
New York Sun nen.A.

New York Sun CrepD
The Tafts-those who at present are the
Tafts-hail ancestrally from Uxbridge,
Mass. They say that Tafts are so thick
in Uxbridge that even a woman can't
throw a stone there without hitting one.
Some years ago-in 1874, to be exact
there was a Taft reunion in Uxbridge to
which descendants of the original Robert
Taft came flocking from all parts of the
country. One of the conspicuous features
Of the affair was a historical address by
Alphonso Taft, father of the present re-
publican candidate. He traced the history
of various branches Of the family, and
when he came to the one to which he and
his children belonged he said:
our family have not embarked much
upon national politics, except that they
have shared in the battles of the country
when national independence was to be won
ana also when the union was at stake.
But brilliant political careers have not been
characteristic of the Tafts in the past. 1t
is not safe to say what may be in store for
them. There is a tide in the affairs of men
and also of families
This is taken from the account Of the
reunion published at the time. Aphonso
Taft would perhaps have been somewhat
dazzled IL he could have foreseen how
quickly and brilliantly the family would
proceed to embark upon national politics. -
He himself started the turn of the tide
which he predicted. 1t seems to be reach
ing its flood in the career of the son who
that year was entering Yale.
AS Alphonso Taft described his immediate
ancestors one sees where his son got GER
tain characteristics Peter Taft Q15l was
"a large, good-looking man CT magnani-
nous disposition" He had Iour sons.
Aaron, the candidates ancestor, was also
so masnanimous that he lost money by in
dorsing a friends notes; he was a man ''ot
great intelligence and integrity" And
then, going somewhat further back. there
was Captain William Taft, who took Blar-
ney Castle in the siXteent century by
blarney quite as much as by military
prowess." Good stock was Captain will
lam from which to make a twentieth cen
tury Secretary of War William.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
On PRESIDENTIAL rIRrNe LINE.
TnriH Revision Not q Job foI
RuuuIera.
Buffalo COMMERCIAL (repD.

Buffalo Commercial trepD.
II Is to be observed as a very significant
fact that tariff reformers generally have no
faith in the disposition or In the ability OF
Mr.. Bryan and his present following TO
make a satisfactory revision Of the present
tariff schedules. The party had a free hand
In 1853, in congress. and in the executive
department, and il had q mandate from the
country to do that work. The result was a
disastrous bungle which the country COM
missioned MIR. Mckinley and his party to
correct at the first opportunity. Since 1896
MI Bryan, who Is not a tariff rcformer
on principle. has ignored this issue until
this year, when he uses it as a cover for
some Of his omitted issues"-bait he has
tried to lure the country with. but which
puthc opinion has condemned. Is It strange
that sincere tariff reformers are not will
ing 10 trust the immensely important work
OF revision to the hands OF a leader so
shifty. shallow and unstable as Mr.. Bryan.
whose Influence for twelve wears has pre-
vented any serious challense OF the policy
of protection.
The country has thriven marvellously
under that policy and II IL has now
reached a point in the development of its
industries where changes In the schedules
are confessedly necessary the great ma
jority Of the people, who want that policy
maintained, not repudiated, BY tariff re-
vision, will naturally entrust the task to
the experienced and trained statesman OF
the republican party. Tariff revisions are
disturbing enough at best; when directed
by a "reformer' Of Bryan's type who
treats protection as robbery and prom
ises to change the whole system to 3
strictly revenue base it becomes a menace
to the business world that cannot fail to
exert a powerful effect in the present cam
paign.
Ultimately. as in the consideration of
most of these issues, it comes down to a
question of character, record, and fitness
between Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Bryan and their
respective parties, during the last ten
years. Here Mr.. Bryan would draw the
veil.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04

the certificates issued by the port from
which the grain was forwarded. I'm
der the prevailing terms no redress is
possible, and It is known that serious
losses have resulted.
AS a result Of this condition, MIR.
Davis says. European buyers have
lost confidence in the reliability of
United States certificates, and Amer
lean grain consequently suffers in
price, buyers giving a preference when
ever possible to other grain, and only
buying yours when compelled to do so,
or at a reduction in price sufficient, in
their opinion, to compensate them for
risks they run in buying certificate
final
The European buyers and dealers
are not the only victims OF the exist
ing system, or lack of system. in grain
inspection. The grain producers are
more or less at the mercy of the in
spection system at different states and
Of the grain dealers in the various
ports, who practically fix their
system of grading and rating. The
only real objection raised to the pro-
posed legislation is that 1t would ma
terially increase the expense of federal
government and would represent an
other extension of the power Of the
federal government, which congress
has always been reluctant to grant,
but IL congress becomes convinced that
the American grain trade is being
seriously crippled under the existing
system, as Mr.. Davis asserts, legisla-
ton cannot we'll be prevented nor long
delayed. 1t would be better, of course,
If the organized grain dealers of this
country and Europe could agree upon
a fixed and definite system of grading
and inspection, but this is probably
too much of a task to be undertaken
with prospect of contamination for a
number of years. The remedy appears
to lie in congressional action, for the
protection of one of the nations largest
industries.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
PuBLIcA rLuMES.
Devotion Of Party to the Interests Of
Farmers.

Charles NJ. Harvey In Leslie's Weekly.
The American farmer has especial rpa-
sons for voting the republican ticket. The
two cardinal principles OF the creed upon
which the republican party was founded
showed its devotion to the interest Of the
asriculturist. These principles were:
Slavery must be EXCLUDED from the ter
ritories:" Free homes must be granted to
settlers on che public domain Proclaimed
at the party's birth. and urged with all
its power while the party was in the
minority. those principles wrote themselves
into the statutes as soon as tho party,
through the election OF 1880, gained control
of the government. BY the first OF these
demands the people Of the territories were
saved from the debasing contact and COM
petition with slave labor. and at the same
time a national sin was started on the road
to expiation. BY the second, homesteads
at nominal cost were granted TO settlers on
the government lands.
Another republican act which has been
of unreasonable benefit to the farmer is
that which, introduced in the house by
Justin S. Morrill, in 1857 and opposed by
the democrats. became a Law in 1862, by
which land has been donated in the states
for agricultural colleges. In 1905 there are
sixty-six agricultural colleges, and there
are agricultural experiment stations in
nearly all the states. Scientific farming,
which is reaching large proportions in the
United States, had its beginning in the
agricultural colleges which have resulted
from the Morrill, act OF 1862. BY the pas
sage Of the national reclamation law,
which President Roosevelt signed on June
II, 1902, the homestead act of 1862 found an
effective supplement. Under this law sur
veys of over forty great irrigation projects
have been made, distributed throughout the
arid region, which comprises nearly a third
Of the area OF the continental portion OF
the United States. Through the operations
of this act the west will be capable Of sup
porting $1,000 600 more people than woul1
have been possible without 1t. Through the
legislation by which the Union Pacific, the
Central Pacific, the Northern Pacific, and
other great railways pierced the wilderness,
the republican party brought the most
Isolated agriculturist within reach of the
markets. and made the American farmer
by far the most independent and prosper
Gus of all the members of his guild whom
the world has ever seen. Republican
tariffs have built mills in every part of
the country, have utilized all the country's
natural resources, have produced most of
the manufactured articles at home which
we formerly had to purchase abroad, have
given profitable employment in various
pursuits to millions who otherwise would
have been compelled to remain on the
farms, and thus have reduced the compe-
tition in producing farm articles and in
creased the demand for them. The rural
free delivery, put in active operation by
President MrLIn1au and uyhIob ha~ baa,
greatly extended by President Roosevelt,
has brought even the most isolated farmer
into close connection with the rest of the
world.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04

Excitement n partisan feeling
never get high enough in Mr.. Bryan's
vicinity to force him to lose his sense
of humor. He has the happy gift Of
repartee and is always ready to a
something funny, YER If some Of his
humor is of the unconscious sort. An
illustration of this is furnished in his
address at Indianapolis, in which he
said:
The word "socialistic" Is hurled at the
democratic party and the democratic plat
form. Now, as a matter OF fact, It is Mr..
Tafts party and not the democratic party
which has given encouragement to So
cialism.
The droll humor of this is under
stood when IL is remembered that 1t
comes from MIR. Bryan, who, in his
address at Madison Square garden,
upon his return from Europe two years
ago, declared that the only hope OF the
republic was in the federal ownership
Of railroads and all other instru-
%mentalities of interstate commerce.
Mr.. Bryan still holds to that opinion,
although forced by the ~exigencies Of
political expediency to give his party
a platform demanding regulation Of
the railroads, in face of his express
conviction, voiced in several speeches
two years ago, that efforts to regulate
the railroads must end in failure and
be succeeded by government owner
ship.
In addition to government owner
ship Of railroads and other means Of
commerce and communication, Mr..
Bryan proposes as a remedy for the
trusts the government control of man
ufacturing, distribution, the fixing of
prices and limiting the activities of
commercial and industrial activities to
meet the wishes of the party in power
at Washington. And all the time he Is
declaring his allegiance to the princi-
pies of Thomas Jefferson, who cham
pioned the cause of free competition
with the least possible interference by
the government with the initiative and
independence of the individual. Mr..
Jefferson was the greatest political OPP
ponent of Capitalization of the powers
of government in the hands of the au-
thorities at Washington. Mr.. Bryan
would have the government run prac-
tically everything, upsetting the JEFF
fersonian idea of maintaining a bal
ance of power between the federal gov
eminent and the states. The Bryan
plan is emphatically socialistic.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
A SYLVAN HOME.

John Kendrick Bangs.
me a place deep in some tangled
woody glade
Where il, the days gone by some vasrom
Some happy, care-free and commended
little gnome
whom twas home.
Clothe all the trees in soft, and soul-resting
springtime green
A sort of bower ~lustrous with scientil-
Whose waving branches call the flylns
birds to rest
And build their nest.
Quite close at hand Id have a babbling
silver brook
To fiji with music sweet my quiet sylvan
nook;
And deep within its pools let trout or
salmon be,
Unframed of me.
Let deer and fox, n all the woodland
creatures come,
And be my ~neighbOrs. unafraid and frolic-
some
To sport about my doorstep gally-as one
spends
A day with friends.
And in the light, when all the wood is
still, may /
Find smiling visitors arriving from the
The dancing moon rays and star beams
full of glee
For company.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
LINCOLN MEM oRTAL.

James T. McCleary, third assistant
postmaster general and a former con
gresham from Minnesota, proposes a
movement for e definite and everlast-
ing monument to Abraham Lincoln,
the Tooth anniversary of whose birth
will be celebrated on the 18th of next
February, by constructing a great
roadway and park to be known as The
Lincoln Way extending from Wash
ington to Gettysburg, from the seat Of
the national government to the scene
of that great battlefield, where Lincoln
made his memorable address, cement
ing the north and south with the spirit
of the republic.
The plan proposed by Mr. McCleary
calls for the construction of a parked
roadway, seventy-three miles in length,
in the decoration of which the states
should be asked to participate, each
state being given a certain section In
which to make its displays of trees,
grasses, flowers and for the location
VI SLdIC blOhuhlShbos Inv oSllNlhS plO-
vides for an electric railway, separated
from the driveways by hedges, and a
special roadway for automobiles and
rapidly-moving vehicles.
In a general way Mr.. McCleary's
proposition will appeal to the public,
at least in offering a relief from the
usual custom, so popular in Washing
ton, of building monuments to the
great men of the past. The national
capital is so filled with these tokens
of a peoples esteem that they have be.
come objects of Indifferent comment
They serve little purpose, even as in.
spirations of patriotism, as many o.
them are poorly designed and executed
and quite a few of them are reared t
the memory of men who played blu
minor roles in the national drama. TIL,
national capital has art galleries, mu
seums, arches, memorial bridges anC
the like in suficiency n 1T would
seem that a fine highway, bearing thu
burden of pleasure, travel and business
traffic for all time, would be a pecu
liarly appropriate way of expressing
the nations appreciation Of the char
acter and memory of Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04

Admiral Winfield S. schley and General
Nelson A. Miles are I'm Boston attending
the encampment Of the United Spanish War
Veterans.
A medal FOR New York's ~cism-oater. who
clamored for more CLAIMS tl the clamo-
meter registered SOS CLAIMS eaten by The
clam-eater.
At Wsverley, o., last week John w. Hell
and Mrs. Amanda Nell were married and
the Bride was given away by a brother-in-
law, Amos Pell.
Secretary OF state Elihu Root has been
elected a delegate from the First Assembly
district OF Oneida county, New York, to the
republican state convention.
The Duchess Of Manchester. who was
Miss Zimmerman Of Cincinnati, and who
recently became the owner Of KyIemore
castle, the Connemara Highlands. ireland.
has consented to open the Galway great ex-
hibition to be held in connection with the
All-Ireland Industrial Conference in Galway
on September 16.
Gabriel d'Annunzio. the Italian poet and
dramatist, takes more pride In his fame as
a Beau Brummel than ss an author. His
greatest achievement is the carrying of
deep. violet-tinted umbrellas. Of which he
prodigaliy possesses eight. for the purpose
of most effectually offsetting his particular
brand Of complexion. He has certainly car
ried foppery to the extreme.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
AMERICAS CORN CROP.
A Few Imposing Thoughts on the
King of Cereals.
- ~I.N-

A traveller, returned to his native
Omaha, has been telling how he found on
his journey around the world l3l products
of American corn. These were not all
preparations for consumption as food, but
included many articles Of manufacture
for mechanical use.
This is not a new discovery, but II
calls attention anew to the fact that the
United States produces two-thirds Of the
thousands of millions of bushels of corn
that constitute the worlds crop, and
three-fifths OF the entire crop of the
United States are produced in the six
states, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska
Missouri and Indiana
In exchange for the animals which the
old world gave TO the new, the new world
gave TO the old a group Of vegetables, the
value of which as food is beyond any
possible calculation and among these
products of the soil was corn. The rich
est possession, indeed, that Columbus car
ried to Spain on his first return voyage
II he had but known Il, were the first
grains Of corn that were brought into
Europe.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
A Stumpins Campaign.
Springfield Republican dnd.).

Springfield RepuDIlcah Onu')'
Mr.. Taft's impromput speechmaking in
Ohio Saturday broke the ice still more,
and the expectations are rising that he will
be drawn into a stumping campaign. The
pressure upon him to tour the country and
show himself as much as possible is in
crtasing, particularly in western states
where Bryan's recent speeches appear to
have made an impression. Mr.. Taft may
respond 10 the call, and his ability to give
a good account of himself In such a battle
cannot be doubted. The chief drawback
might be his health. Not that Mr.. Tart is
in any way a weakling physically, but he
has not the tremendous physical power of
his experienced opponent in meeting the
strain OF railroad travel and countless
ioratorical effusions. 1t Is probable that If
Mr.. Taft tours the country he will be
moderate In his program. Mr.. Bryan,
meanwhile, Is being rapidly drawn into
the old "whirlwind" form of campaigning
with which the people are so familiar.
Mr.. Taft should not attempt to rival him in
this particular. 1t would be hopeless.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
4 Great PrOmiser.
ChIcago Inter-O cean.

SNAAN+6N ~"
In accepting the nomination for the presi-
dency at the hands OF the independence
league on Monday the Hon. T. l.. Hisgen
OF Massachusetts, had a right to feel, and
doubtless did feel, more at ease than did
Mr.. Taft or MT. Bryan under similar cir
-cumstances.
The responsibilities that comes will the
feeling that one is likely 10 be called upon
some day to fulfill the promises one makes
in a speech Of acceptance did not and
could not weigh upon Mr.. Hisgen. Feeling
as he must that the formal notification Of
his nomination would be the last OF The
ceremonies attending his candidacy, he
naturally regarded himself as free 10 pledge
himself to all manners Of reforms. And
so. without the slightest difficulty, and
without the slightest fear Of cmbarrass-
ment in the future, he went IN proudly
and serenely for everything that occurred
TO him
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
Benencent Republican Legislation.

ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
One of the many beneficent instances OF
republican legislation for the protection Of
workingmen was the passage of the law
requiring the equipment of all railroad cars
with safety couplings and airbrakes. The
railroads regarded this action as a great
hardship. Some complied; others rebelled
on account of the alleged want of jurisdic-
ton by congress-; others pleaded the vast
cost in the presence Of insufficient earnings
and claimed that the law in any event could
legally apply only to new equipment. So
while the matter was pending in the courts
the Interstate Commerce commission was
allowed to remain inactive in it's enforce
ment. But two decisions by the United
States court of appeals, sitting at st. Louis,
sweepingly affirm the power Of congress
in the matter. and all that has been claimed
by the Interstate commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
The Elephant as a Worker.

st. Paul Pioneer Press pep.D'
Drawing a comparison between the mule
and the elephant, Mr.. Bryan said, The
trouble about the elephant is that it eats
more than it's worth, and that's why IT
is such an appropriate emblem for the re-
publican party" Despite his travels in
Asia, Mr.. Bryan's observations of elephants
have evidently been very limited. The only
elephant which eats more thar 1t is
worth is the white elephant, which never
was a republican animal. Regarded by the
Hindoo as a sacred being, its employment
in useful work is prohibited; whereas the
republican elephant has been from the be-
ginning engaged in the mightiest enter
prlses of state; and, as the pig majorities
given for Mckinley and Roosevelt testify.
il has been regarded by the American peo-
pie as well worth its keep. with Taft as
mahout It is to be kept hard at work fol-
four years longer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04

If the vote at the primary election
indicates anything as to the probable
result in November, the Douglas
county democrats can get very little
consolation from the figures. The re-
publicans polled something like $500
in the county, while the democrats,
with all the energetic campaign for
the office of governor, carried on per-
sonally by three candidates, only man
aged to get put $500. II the candidates
get the support of their respective par
ties at the regular election the repub-
lican majorities of last fall will be du,
plicated.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
A SPECIMEN INSTANCE.
How the Guarantee Law Would Hit
the Innocent.

San Francisco Chronicle.
If, as Receiver lie Breton now estimates,
the depositors in the defunct Safe Deposit
bank may in time get % cents on the dol
lar, they stand to lose n cents, which on
the total deposits would make the agsre-
gate final loss IS, 1909 II the Oklahoma
bank guarantee law had beeir in force in
this state, the banks last year would have
paid into that fun about 4,S00,00O. This
one failure would have taken the pile and
$3,371, 10 more, for the receiver has only
$685. 7S on hand, and had very much less
when the bank closed, and under the Okla
homa law the depositors in busted banks
neither wait nor worry. They get spot
cash and the depositors in the other banks
do the waiting and worrying. Considering
the losses by the failures of other banks
last year, it is demonstrable that had
the Oklahoma law been in force in this
state our savings banks could not have
paid 2 per cent dividends. Bryan is sure
a powerful financier after the order of
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
We Have Much to Learn.
st. Louis Globe-D Democrat.

Denatured alcohol makes slow progress
in this country, but it is officially reported
that IS, 600 stills produce the article in Ger
many, and chiefly from potatoes, of which
the average German yield is 27 bushels an
acre, compared with 81 bushels in the
United States. This country, great as it is
in agriculture. has much to learn in in
tensive farming.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04

The ideal election board may never
be realized, but it is hoped that some
day we may get judges n clerks who
will not seal up all evidence of the re-
suit in their precinct and then ask on
reaching the court house how the
county went.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04
That Depends.
New o r World.

New YOrk WORLD.
1--WE still have hope said Theodore P.
shonts, president OF the marlborough and
of the Glover Leaf, Chicago & Alton.
speaking of the railroads, that we are
going to be let alone and allowed to run
our own business" That will depend
largely upon the railroads. themselves. They
will not be let alone and allowed to run
their own business as they have been
doing for many years, because the people
demand a change for the better, voluntary
or enforced.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04

The National Geographic magazine
pictures the largest lemon ever grown,
weighing seven and one-half pounds.
1t should be reserved for presentation
to a most distinguished citizen of Ian
caster county, Nebraska, earlys in No
vember.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04

David B. Hill declines to enter the
campaign for Bryan on account OF his
poor health. Mr.. Hills health has al
ways beer one Of his best and most
convenient assets when Bryan is run
ming for Office.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-04

Massachusetts, democrats are trying
to induce Richard Olney to accept their
nomination for governor. Richard
Olney is apparently the only democrat
since Mr.. Douglas quit.