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Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
PROGRESS TOWARD rRosrEnrr,
Upward Trend made Manifest q,
Many Directions.
Washington Pos

Steady progress Is being made toward
the complete restoration Of p~1spo-.t,
II was easier to break down than IL %. r.,
build up, but nature il on the side Of
healthy, optimistic. and active rso-rs
and very striking proofs Of better tf--s,
may be seen. The fundamental, MASSIVE,
fact is that the crops Of the United state,
are In splendid condition. with over,
prospect OF being bigger than ever before
This alone means prosperity: for a ration
In the midst Of the fairness Of the earth
cannot be lean. II has all It wants ID,
eat, and a surplus with which 70 h.v
anything Il wants.
The prospect Of heavy business In eren.
hauling and industries dependent upon Oh,
hsrvests has induced far-sighed railroad
men 10 set busy. The Erie railroad N,s
5000 men at work ballastins, replacing
ties. laying rails. and otherwise tonine
the system up for a big fall and winter
business. The mechanics Of that railroad
are trying to break the record by repair
ing 5000 freight cars in thirty DAYS, 10
make ready for increased traffic. Fifteen
new locomotives are to be put at work
Mr.. Hartman Is extending the Southern
Pacific line, improving the Union Pacific,
and pushing his Mexican road 10 the city
of Mexico and to Pacific tidewater at Ma
1atian. Mr.. Hill Is running feeders into
the western Canadian country. in order
to handle the wheat crop. Idle freight
cars are going back into business at the
rate Of 1900 a day, according to reports
from the principal roads.
Assurance OF big crops has led to the
resumption OF industrial activity. Mer-
chants are giving good-sized orders, and
the mills must run to fiji them. All the
New England cotton mills are running on
full time. Wool is coming in rapidly.
During the past week 500 additional coke
ovens were fired up in Pennsylvania. The
output Of pig iron is increasing, and the
demand for copper keeps tho price well
up. Building operations have been better
all through the country during the last
three weeks, and the demand for iron
pipe and structural steel is increasing.
Throughout the west, from Missouri to
California. there is a demand for farm
labor. The city Is louder as harvest time
approaches. Employment agencies in the
large cities have their hands full trying
TO supply the demand for rural labor.
Nc healthy man, willing to work, need be
out of a job. The percentage of the un-
employed in the cities is dwindling, partly
on account OF the pull from the farm, but
principally on account of the resumption
of factory work.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
TARIFF and BUSINESS.

Secretary of State Root has taken
special pains to make it plain that the
American commission recently ap-
pointed to go to Paris to consider tariff
relations between the United States
and the government of France is a
commercial and not a political body.
1t will have nothing to do with the
political phases of the tariff dispute,
but will direct itself wholly to the OBJ
stacles in the way of better trade rela-
tions between the two nations. No
hint is offered of the use to be made
of the report of the commission, but
the inference is plain that it will be
presented to the new congress to be
called Immediately after March 4,
1909, to consider revision of the tariff.
Mr.. Root evidently has in mind the
attitude of congress toward reciprocity
treaties negotiated between this coun-
try and other nations, under section 8
of the Dingley act, which allows the
president to make reciprocal agree
ments with other countries. Several
such agreements have been negotiated,
but to secure all the data obtainable
to leave them alone until the final
adjustment of tariff schedules. The
German treaty has been held up in the
senate and the French treaty, in way
OF negotiation, is still pending. The
State department has accordingly de-
cided to negotiate no more treaties,
but to secure all the data ~obtainable
for use of the new congress at its
tariff session.
The tariff plank adopted at Chicago,
calling for the adoption of maximum
and minimum schedules, opens the
way for reciprocity treaties. The max
imum and minimum plan is a recipro-
cal proposition by which a maximum
rate is to be assessed against imports
from a country that places a high
tariff on American products, while the
lowest rates are to be imposed OF i'm
ports from countries that make con
cessions to the products Of American
fields and factories. The French ave
maintained a practical embargo on
American meats, while they have been
persistent in asking a lower duty on
their canned goods, wines and deli
catassen products destined for Amer
lean consumption.
Regardless of the campaign excite
ment, the French tariff commission
and other agencies of the government
will be busily employed in the next
six or seven months in the collection
Of data sure to be of much value to
the congress of 1909, which will be
convened for the sole purpose of con-
sidering the subject of tariff revision.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
QuaIiaed for the Presidency.

st. Paul Ploneer-HresS (rep.).
No president has ever had a broader eX-
perience to fit him for the duties Of his
office than has Taft. None has been gifted
with an intellect better endowed. None has
combined with such keen practical judg-
ment and such strength Of character and
energy the geniality and compan!onab!e-
ness that makes friends even of those who
are sent away e~mpty-handed. With all his
responsibilities and in spite of all the
burdens that have been lad on his
shoulders Secretary Taft's good nature and
his interest in the ordinary things of life
have never tagged. He is a giant among
the statesmen who have been in the SER
vice of the country and he will be recos-
nized before he has long been president as
one of the greatest of the succession.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
Party Platforms.
Boston Traveller Und.).

Political parties formulate and adopt
platforms with all the solemnity and ardor
that a bibulous sinner "swears off" at the
beginning Of the new year, and they live
up to them with about the same zeal and
fidelity. Some political cynic once defined
a platform as something to get in on but
rot to stand on. Technically parties stand
on their platforms, for in the mutations Of
political life. in the changes which expedi-
ency demands and the shifts which oppor-
tunism dictates, the platform Is frequently
under foot
Platforms are merely traditional and ad-
ditional methods Of fooling foolish voters;
they never say what they mean or mean
what they say; they are expedients to divert
public attention from real evils by declaim-
ing against evils that seldom exist, and, as
both parties agree in the foollng and the
fooled are content to be fooled, the farce
goes on forever.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
PROHIBITION AND DEMOCRACY.
Efforts to Reconcile Policy and Prac-
tice In the south.
NJ XnnL I'LL

NV ~ INC SOuNus
New York World.
Henry Watterson says. Nobody can be a
democrat and a prohibitionlst." If the
venerable principles OF democracy mean
anything, nobody can at the same time ad-
vocate personal liberty and then under
take to dictate what some other man shall
or shall not drink.
A man can be a democrat and a total
abstainer. He can be a democrat and
smoke or not smoke. But he cannot with
out casting aside the fundamenta Jeffer-
sonian principles undertake to regulate by
law another mans habits or morals any
more than another mans religion or
tastes.
In the southern states whore prohibition
has been adopted II Is enforced chiefly as
against negroes and not against white men.
On the theory that the negro belongs to
an inferior race whose duty II Is to labor in
sObriety to build up the white mems civili-
cation prohibition can be enforced on
economic grounds. disregardinE It's moral
aspect and leaving the white man to do as
he pleSses.
The system OF white mems clubs, original
packages by express n drug store ga
looms enables the white men 20 regulate the
negroes habits without changing their own
somewhat as they regulate the diet and
work OF their horses and mules which are
no more Indispensable on q southern plan
tGtion than IL negro labor.
This is southern prohibition.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
Carrying Forward Peoples Policies,
Kansas CITY Star nd

Secretary TAFT serves notice that if he is
elected to the presidency he will not strive
to be consciously original, but that he
will do his best. in his own way, to carry
forward the essential policies Of the Roose-
Welt administration, which he recognizes as
the peoples policies. No doubt Mr.. Taft
would employ more or less original methods
in doing things. He has demonstrated q
strong individuality. even under a president
who has largely dominated nearly all de-
partments over which he has had direction.
But the main point is that while Mr.. Taft
may not be particularly original, il Is ever
lastingly oertan that he will not be re-
dictionary.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
Republicans Make the Issues.

San Franclsco CHRONICLE Irep.J.
1t has been the custom of the democrats
for nearly a half a century to permit the
republicans to make the issues Of the cam
paign. They did not vary from the practice
this year and the republicans have not
shrunk from the responsibility imposed
upon them. In the platform drafted at
Chicago, and submitted to the people, the
party has planted itself on the proposition
that the policy Of reform energeticslly in
augurated by the present administration
be continued until all that is desired by
sane people is accomplished. Mr.. Bryan at
Denver will probably make an appeal to
the unreasoning, and it will meet the same
fate that his former appeals suffered.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
MY TOAST.
Frank n. Lynch.

FRANK N Lynch.
Whichever way the wind doth blow,
Some heart Is glad to have II so;
Then blow II east. OF blow II west,
h wind that blows-that wind is bostt
Ny little craft sails not alone;
a thousand fleets from every zone
Are nut upon q thousand seas;
And What for me were favOrtng breeze
Might dash another with the shock
OF doom, upon some hidden rock.
And so ! do not dare TO pray
For winds 70 watt me on my way;
But leave II to a HiRher Will,
10 stay or speed me-trusting still
That all IL well. and sure that He
VINO launched my bark will sail with me
through storm and calm, and will not fail,
Whatever breeLes may prevail,
10 lard me, every peril past,
Within His shelterinE haven at last.
Then, whatsoever wind doth blow.
My heart 10 glad TO have Il 90;
And blow II east. or blow II west,
h wind that ~blOHS-thAt Btnd "a bssti
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
Time Banishes Enmities.

NtW IUTh sun.
In other days the ideas of Mr.. Cleveland
and those of this newspaper with regard
to many things were VIGOROUSLY not in ac-
cord. This circumstance possibly makes It
proper to say now what it will always be
pleasant for us to remember, namely. that
the personal breach ceased to exist years
ago, and that The Sun has long numbered
Grover Cleveland among its constant read
ers and faithful friends. Peace to the ashes
OF the good man and great leader, and may
the generations hold his name and the
memory OF his deeds in just and high
esteem.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
THE LIVE STOCK COMMISSION WEN.

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The convention Of the National
Live Stock exchange, which has just
concluded its sessions at South Omaha,
has furnished an excellent illustration
Of the concrete power of organized
business. An outgrowth of the devel-
opment OF the live stock industry, the
association is an example Of the mod
ern idea in commerce. 1t has proved
its worth many times by the steps 1t
has taken to prevent abuses and to
regulate matters within its own scope,
so that both the buyer and seller of
live stock will be assured Of an abso-
lutely square deal.
The men who make up this associa-
ton are in no sense producers, but
they have become a very necessary
factor in production. AS the live
stock and packing industries are now
carried on it is almost a physical i'm
possibility for the owner of the animals
to handle them personally up to the
time they are turned over to the
packer. This function is performed
by the commission a IL is a bus
mess that is carried OF almost exclu-
sively ION honor" and the commission
mans word is as good as his bond.
The local and national organizations
have made this so. Whatever else
may be true, the rules adopted by the
live stock exchanges at the big markets
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
THOROUGHLY ENJOYED HIMSELF
President Roosevelt Heartily RcjOices
In His strength.
San Francisco Chronicle


When a friend congratulated the presi-
dent on his coming vacation on the ground
that he must need a rest and had certainly
earned it, the president replied that no SYM
pathy need be wasted on him for he had
enjoyed every moment of his official life
and, in fact, had had "a corking good
time"
And he meant every word Of it. Few
men are physically or intellectually so
powerful as the president, and to the strong
man nothing is so agreeable as the exercise
of his strength, and especially it's exercise
in combat. 1t is a necessity of such men
to fight. They prefer that men should not
agree with them for the Joy they find in
hard hitting. If at any time the president
has sensations which he imagines to be
WEAKNESS, he calls in some champion boxer
and has a bout with him. 1t soothes, COM
forts and refreshes him and he is ready
for work once more. We are sorry for the
lions in the African jungles, whom it is
said the president is to tackle in good ear
nest as soon as he gets congress and
American evil-doers at least temporarily
off his hands. Such vitality is the greatest
boon that can come to a human being. 1t
is only the chosen few who possess it who
can get out Of life on this earth the last
modicum of enjoyment there is in it. How
1t will be later with the president we can
only imagine. He will be, we all feel sure,
where Apollyon will be separated from him
by a great gulf and utterly beyond any pos
slbility OF attack. But such a spirit as his
must rave some vent for its activity. and
unless in his translation he undergoes
changes Of which we can have no concep-
ton, he will make a right lively time
among the angels.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
Useful Hints for Parents.
~Philadelphia Record

Those parents who are lucky enough to
have unmutilated and undisfigured off
spring should take joy of beholding them
for the next ten days. The Fourth of July
is approaching. After the Fourth will fol-
low the usual season of liniment, lockjaw
and general dislocation of limbs and Inca
ments. Very discreet parents will have
their children photographed in advance.
They will perhaps like to know in the
future how babies looked July 3, 1903.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
Dog Day signals

Louisville Courier Journal.
A barking dog awakened a family in
Montgomery, N. Y, and saved them from
death in the flames. But it is a 100000 to
1 shot that when your watchdog is barking
as If the house were on fire he is merely
calling the dog on the adjoining farm a
malefactor.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
MORE HOLIDAY, Less FUNERAL.
Basis of Agitation for safe and
Sane" Fourth,
Louisville Courier-Journal,

Louisville Courier-Journal.
Already, from east, west, north and south,
the call comes for a safe and sane"
Fourth. The approach of the day is the
signal for the resumption of the annual
agitation. The protest made in the cur
rent number Of the Outlook is representa-
tive of the entire chorus of crusaders. ION
the Fourth OF July" remarks that contem-
porary, the people Of the United States,
unless they change their habit, will acqui-
esce In the killing OF 100 persons and the
manning OF over 5000. This was the record
two years ago. or these, probably seventy
five died of tetanus, or lockjaw, thirty
eight were killed by gunshot wounds. four
teen by stray bullets, eighteen, mostly
very small children, were burned to death,
eighteen were killed by explosions OF pow
der, dynamite and torpedoes, three by
giant firecrackers, three by cannon. In
one place six boys were killed outright.
Among the injured, twenty-five became
totally blind, seventy-two lost one eye.
~fifty-six lost arms or legs or hands. This
terrible record OF death and injury was
made not by grown men in defense OF the
country, but for the most part by young
boys snd little children conducting a ma
tional celebration adopted from China. The
Chinese have taught us many things, and
We might have learned many more from
them. We chose, however. TO take their
semi-barbaric love OF noise"
The Fourth OF July outbreak Is unneces-
ssry as a manifestation OF patriotism and
unRttractive as a method OF celebration.
But the habit is an old one. It IL one that
Is not easy to cure There is no reason.
however. why We should not all assert a
little faith in human nature and muster
up the courage to believe that some day
there will be a change and consideration
OF humanity and horse sense will make the
Fourth Of July more Of = holiday and less
OF a funeral
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

The ruling of the supreme court on
the matter of the states claim against
the pensions of inmates Of soldiers
homes Is following the precedent es-
tablished in other states and generally
recognized as being just. 1t was not
intended to work any hardship on the
pensioners or their families, but, on
the contrary, has proven to be of &C
tual benefit t the old soldiers. The
EFFORT to make political capital out of
this episode will fail &hen the facts
are understood.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
The Democratic spirit.

Mr.. Taft has a way Of running about
the country alone suggestive of the demo
cratic spirit. If he can but make II pos
sible for a president, or even a candidate
for the presidency, to feel at home on the
street without a procession OF the curious
on his heels, he viii deserve well OF future
executives and Of sensible people in gem
eral
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Richard Croker writes that he will
not return to America because he en-
joys life on his stock farm in Ireland
The majority of Americans will hope
that he may continue to enjoy life-on
his stock farm in ireland.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
The Annual before Taking,
Cleveland Leader.

The effort to denature the Fourth OF
July betrays no signs of weakening, though
there is nothing to show that it will be any
more successful this year than it was
the year after powder was adopted as the
favorite dissipation.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Champ Clark, who is to succeed
John Sharp Williams as the leader OF
the minority in the house of congress,
is a much larger nan than his prede-
cessor. The word larger" is used in
the physical mood.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

on Monday night Ak-Sar-Ben ex-
poets to entertain the military at the
Den and, II preparations under way do
not miscarry, some of the soldiers will
ind themselves at sea before the night
ia over,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Jerry" Sullivan of Iowa announces
that MI, Bryan has put him on the
list of eligibles" for the vice presi-
Dental nomination at Denver. That
must be a mistake. Mr.. Bryan is much
opposed to one man running a national
convention.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

The Denver convention might better
fits average by nominating Bryan and
Parker. Mr., Bryan Ia just as unpopu-
lar in the east as Judge Parker is in
the Mcst.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
watterson and Second Place.

Henry Watterson says no loyal American
should refuse the nomination for the vice
presidency. What's the matter with Bryan
and Watterson for the Denver ticket
Omaha Bee.
Nothing except that he doesn't want II
and that nobody wants him, and that be-
cause he wore a gray jacket his nomina-
ton would defeat the ticket and at the
same time disgrace him. by giving the
lie to his profession Of disinterestedness.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
or out.

Japan is reported to have bought
three Dreadnoughts from Brazil and
England TO ave IN option on the rest
of the Brazilian navy. Brazil can afford
TO make enormous appropriations for
its navy so long as It can sell it's war
ships at q profitl
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Mayor Jim continues at variance
with his city council, but this is not
especially to be wondered at. One OF
he characteristics Of the democrats is
that they never could agree in ONCE
or out.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Mr.. Rockefeller is said to be writ
suspicion that he is taking any of the
material from the story of his life
written by Miss Ida Tarbell.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

District Court Clerk Smith has been
upheld in his demand that fees must
be paid in full before DEGREES are made
part of the records. This is merely
the application of business principles
to public business and no htigant
should complain. II will also relieve
the clerk of a large amount Of tinan-
cial responsibility, which has proven
extremely burdensome at times to
some of his predecessors.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Governor Hoke Smith avs he is
about half-glad he was defeated for
reelection in Georgia. His successful
opponent will supply the other half of
the gladness.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

The New York Worlds query,
What is a Democrat" has been
answered by Mr.. Taft, who told a Yale
class that. Democrat is a mere his
torical description"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

A ship has landed a cargo of 9,OOO,-
900 lemons at San Francisco. The
share booked for Denver consumption
next week is not stated.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

cifc fleet since it started on its voyage
around the world. Perhaps the men
fear their inability to stand the long
siege of dinners and receptions.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
Wouldn't This Jar Yous

IIUTdIdUVTIo INNW0s
While all the discussion concerning that
injunction plank is going on. 1t will be
noted that a labor union at Detroit has OBJ
tanned an injunction against the police.
What effect does that nave on the polit-
ical situation?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

That chair at the cabinet table that
was specially built for Secretary Taft
may be set aside until next March and
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Mr.. Bryan's record as a retreater
is now rising up to greet him. One
after another of the abandoned posi-
tions from free silver to government
ownership are being reviewed by the
public not to the special advantage Of
the Peerless. One of the most promi-
nent and attractive features of this re-
view is the comparison between his de-
mand for publicity of campaign con-
tributions and the silence he maintains
concerning the slush fund sent into
Nebraska four years ago. Consistency
may be a jewel, but it was not set in
the Bryan diadem.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Chicago Tribune.

Times are not what they used to be.
Not a sweet girl graduate in the country,
so far as we have been able to ascertain,
has informed a waiting world this year
that Beyond the Allups Lies Italy"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

The report that a woman wearing a
sheath skirt created a sensation at At
lantic city may be believed by folks
who nave never visited Atlantic City.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

The convention hall at Denver is in
a dry ward, but the state has no law
against the importation of original
packages.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

If Bryan is defeated in 1908, who
will be the democratic nominee for
president in 1922" asks the Charles
ton News and Courier, Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

'irhe Russian army is faithful
SAYS the czar. Particularly in the mat
ter Of conducting assassination plans
enanating from the cars advisers.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Mr.. Bryan evidently has not capital
lied his earning capacity for the bene-
fit of the tax roll in Lancaster county.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
An ApproschiHE stampede.
Kansas City star.

II becomes more certain every day that
the Denver convention will be stampeded
into nominating Mr.. Bryan for q third
term
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

Speaking Of the length of dreams,
Castro is still deluding himself that he
can bluff the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

No hint has come of a plank in the
Denver platform renouncing 16 to 1
free silver.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29

81 wonder why 1t is said that all the
world loves a loveT?'
81 guess it's because the world thinks
it's such fun to hear his letters read In
court. "-Philadelphia Press.