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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
A Standard OIL Lawyer.

One hundred thousand dollars a year as
a retainer, and $1,000 a day when he is
actively on the job. isn't half bad as a
salary for a A-year-old lawyer, is it?
That's what Moritz Rosenthal, the Stan
dard Oil attorney, once of Chicago, now of
New York, has to struggle along on, any
way.
The Standard Oil. which has made so
many men famous, and not a few in
famous, did not nave to serve as a public
ity promoter for Moritz Rosenthal, says
Human Life. His ability as a lawyer of
mark brought him before the public eye
long before his connection with the OIL
trust, although his brilliant defense Of this
corporation during the many law suits,
especially the recent most threatening one,
where John d. Rockefeller and John D.
Archbold were, subjected to a g~rueling or
deal of testimony, has certainly augmented
his fame.
Born at Dixon. ILL.,. May 4. 1866. Moritz
Rosenthal graduated from the Michigan
university in 1888, and after studying law
at Dixon, was admitted to the bar in 1890.
He went to Chicago In 1891 to hang out
bis shingle, and formed a partnership OF
Moses, Rosenthal G. Kennedy, which still
exists, despite the death of Judge Moses
several years ago. Early in his legal
career, from 1894 to 1897, Mr.. Rosenthal
was assistant United States attorney in
Illinois and fought the very trusts ne is
now defending. AS a state attorney he
saved Chicago from a hold-up epidemic.
sending twenty or more thugs to the peni-
tertiary. He especially represented the
city of Chicago in the traction fight, and
was associate counsel with John s. Miller
in administering the internationally famous
immunity baths to the packers charged
with violation of the Sherman antitrust
lfws.
His defense of Inspector LAWN OF the
Chicago police department, charged with
being an accessory TO burglary and other
culGr and sensational cases in the history
OF the Chicago bar, and he also attained
some note, but little public esteem, by
serving as attorney for the owners of the
Iroquols theater, and saving them from
prison after the fire which cost 900 lives.
Soon after he became associated witt
the STANDARD Oil company, and was one
of the attorneys In the case in which
Judge lands assessed the $29,0c0,0Oo fine
Besides the federal suit to dissolve tho
Standard OIL company and the $29,OOO.0S
fine case which is now pending In thu
'mpreme court. Mr.. Rosenthal is also as
Iociated at present in another case of ma
tional Importance. that OF the United Rail
ways company OF San Francisco.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Formosa and the Philippines.

How are you getting along with For
mosa? You were once governor general OF
that province?"
Eyes, l went there In 1897. at the close Of
the military administration. and did some
thing as to -reorganizing the island. 1t was
my aim to make 1t pay its own expenses,
and his policy has been carried on by my
SUCCESSORS, Baron Nogi. the late Viscount
General Kodama and General sakuma- A
great work was done in the civil admins
tration by Baron Goto. The island has
now been brought into thorough subsection.
Its finances have been reformed and its
resources so developed that 1t is now pay
ing it's own way. 1t is a valuable territory
and will become more and more SO as time
goes on
How about the Philippines? Has Japan
any ambition to posses them2"
NO." said the premier. Japan IL glad
that the Philippines belong to the United
States, and We believe that It means much
to the peace of the Orient and to the
peace Of the world that It is so. This
sentiment is common among all classes OF
our people from the highest to the lowest.
We are glad to have the United States In
the Orient, and we feel that the fact
that is there is a great protection TO our
trade and to the preservation Of the open
door"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

blasts which has changed the political
face of all Europe and is now apparently
extending itself to the hitherto ~stagnant
east. We may set down in some measure
to the same account the overthrow by
civil war OF the same power in the United
states.
The impelling force everywhere has been
democracy, generally triumphant, advance
ing to rule apparently. even in Russia, and
in England completely possessed OF the leg
islative seat of real power, the House OF
Commons, though a remnant of aristo-
cratic control still retains a precarious ex-
istence in the House of Lords.
The United States now, instead of being
the vanguard OF democracy, might almost
be said to be its rear guard, the power of
the president and the senate making the
constitution in some respects the most con-
sentative OF the set
Not less, but rather more, momentous
than the political movement, and fraught
with ultimate change, is the advance of
science, which in two or three genera
lions has been almost miraculous. and has
carried mechanical invention with 1t. Me-
chanical invention, with steamship, rail and
telegraph, is bringing the nations into far
closer communication and making Of them
In some respects almost one common
wealth.
In one way, unhappily, invention has
been retrograde. 1t has always been in
creasing the construction Of new instru-
ments OF war, the incentive to enmity be-
tween nations or the appeal to violence
and destruction.
The growth OF physical science, or the
increase of its influence over the mind,
has had the most momentous effects In
another sphere. Those Christmas chimes,
when the child first heard them, spoke to
all hearts alike. both OF home and the
church. To not a few they now speak
Of the home alone. This change has come
rapidly and startingly over the Intellectual
world.
The child when still a youth heard a
great professor of physical science strug-
Cling TO reconcile geology with Genesis
Now he reads the work of a religious
writer. such as Gladstone, struggling to
reconcile Genesis with geology.
Let the evolutionists, however, remem-
Der two things: First, that evolution can
not nave evolved itself; second, that I'M
like brutes, humanity, as we have been
here noting, advances, and we cannot tell
what the end will be. whether Il may not
be the final ascendency Of the spiritual
over the material in man. Man, let the
evolutionists remember, advances and
rises. The beast does not.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
CIeveIand's imagination.

Some have thought Mr.. Cleveland a man
without Imagination. His Princeton life
does not confirm this. The fact that the
main business of his life was practical
craftsmanship, and the further fact OF his
own unlikeness TO the dreamer or zealot
or artist. may be the ground for the critl-
clsm. But he had hidden depths and mag
lnings Of his own. Call II by whatever
name he showed at times something of the
nsunc OF a seer. writes Andrew F. West
in the Century.
II we concede high Imagination to the
man Of science, brooding on the deep till
some truth OF nature energies to his sight,
then Il was a like broocing on the troubled
Hood OF human society and government
that enabled him to see and utter truths all
had felt, no doubt. and yet none but he had
expressed so surely. II is true he did not
care for the word ideals" and did not keep
his own on parade, but well in the back
ground. Yet he said again and again that
a man or a community or a business firm
or a university or. most Of ali. a free peo-
pie. without standards OF right beyond what
they saw or did. without allegiance 70
something unseen above them all. would
soon sink below their own level,
There was a touch OF another magma
ton in him that sometimes appeared when
he was out OF doors. A scene OF sylvan
beauty in the springtime, especially when
the apple blossoms were coming into flower
amik the greenery, and the songbirds were
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

One can imagine a book which would be
well worth 500, 900 to any publisher who
could get hold OF the necessary material
for it. This would be a volume containing
Mr.. Roosevelt's table talk-or some of it
since he first came to the presidency, says
Harry Thurston Peek in the Forum. For
frank indiscretion, absolute bluntness and
the most irreverent pungency OF phrasing,
the table talk of Mr.. Roosevelt is extraor-
dinarily interesting. No matter who hap
pens to be his guest, the president always
speaks without the slightest reserve, CIV
ing his actual opinions of enators repre-
sentatives, public men in general, ambas-
sailors, and even foreign potentates, in a
way that makes ones head swim with as
constituent.
One might name at least half a dozen
persons who are by M means the especial
intimates OF the president, but to whom,
nevertheless, he has blurted out enough
of this extremely piquant talk to fill a vol
ume. The extraordinary part OF 1t all is
that very few, indeed. of those to whom
he talks have yet betrayed his confidence.
OF course. they tell other people, but only
those, who like themselves, can keep these
blazing indiscretions from getting into the
pages of the newspapers.
In a few instances, to be sure. table
guests Of President Roosevelt have in
perfect innocence revealed some of his care
less words; but then he has promptly EN-
rolled them in the Ananias club and every
thing has gone on as though nothing at all
had happened. Where in Europe there
would be issued in some gazette an Off
cial dement,, our president gives out a state
ment to the press that the story teller has
uttered what he knew to be 'outrageously
and absolutely false"
It is odd that none Of the White House
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

oping In Japan? ! understand that the
military party still controls everything"
at is true that the most Of the officer
of the government and the administrator
of affairs are in the hands of what you
might call the military party" said Mar
quis Katsura. But the military party OF
Japan is different from that OF any other
nation. This is naturally so from our his
tory. Before the restoration, which marked
what might be called the practical begin
ming of the New Japan, we had a feudal
system consisting of several distinct
classes. There was the upper class, en-
bracing the daimyos and their retainers,
who practically governed the empire, and
there were the common people, consisting
of the farmers and those engaged in man
ufacture and trade. The daimyos and their
retainers went about with swords and they
cut off the heads of such individuals Of
the common class as displeased them.
When the time of the restoration came it
was this military class that did the fight
ing. that reorganized the government. and
that practically made the Japan of today.
1t was the educated class, and, necessarily,
it was given the chief of the official posi-
tions. theoretically. all men were equal,
and the merchant or mechanic had an
equal chance with the others, but in reality
it was not so, on account of his antece-
dents, training and education. This has
been the case until recently, but men,
bers of the other classes are rapidly COM
ing into the government, and what you
might call a commercial party is being de-
veloped."
But you must not consider the words
military party in the sense that the Of
ficials composing it are all soldiers, and
hence anxious to direct Japan along mill
tary lines. They are merely the descend
ants Of soldiers, educated to civil admin
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Premier of JaDnu,

That was In 1906. Now, only three years
later. we find the great warrior marquis
again at the head OF the government. The
emperor and his leading advisers. includ-
Ing the chief statesmen and financiers OF
Japan. have decided that the country is
going too fast and that its business needs
reorganization They find that they have
am enormous national debt growing out Of
the war, and that the revenues and ex-
penditures of the government must be re-
formed, AS their leader they nave picked
out Katsura. and he again holds the pre-
miership. There is no man in the empire
so well fitted for the position. He appre-
ciates the military necessities Of his coun-
try to the full, and ne has at the same
time a working knowledge OF its financial
requirements. He has already inaugurated
a policy of retrenchment, economy and
reform which has raised the value of the
Japanese bonds in all Of the great markets
Of the world, and which in time. II carried
out to a conclusion, will probably make the
Japanese one of the creditor nations of
the world.
1t was to talk with Marquis Katsura
about the financial situation and its pros
poets that l called upon him at his official
residence this morning. Each of these
ulbn Jupdu6sc OlllCldlS mas All Oll4Cldl ItSl-
denee In addition to his private home.
hat Of Marquis Katsura is back OF the
State department and right next the Chi
nese legation. 1t is a large house. built in
foreign style, and It was in a big parlor,
furnished in red, with a red carpet and
red walls, that l was received by the
premier. His excellency does not speak
English and Mr.. Sassano OF the Depart
ment of Foreign Affairs acted as our in
terpreter.
But let me tell you how the premier
looks. lie is OF medium japanese height
which is considerably under that Of the
average American. He Is straight and wei
formed, having a big round head firmly
set on a pair OF broad shoulders. He has
a high forehead. short black hair and q
thin black mustache. His eyes are very
bright, but they grow serious now and ther
as he talks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Eighty Years Retrospect.

Eighty years ago in an old house OF an
old English town. writes Goodwin Smith IN
the Cornell Era. a little boy was lying In
bed listening TO the Christmas chimes,
perhaps to the last call OF the Waterman
en- the street, and looking at the servant
lighting the fire with the flint steel and
tinderbox Of the olden time. Since that
morning what changesl
The main storm OF the French revoiu-
ton may be said 10 have ended at Water
loo. But there have been a series OF after
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Timely Told Tales About People in Public Life

servants have carried their masters in
teresting mots to the newspapers for the
president often talks quite as freely in
their presence as when he is alone with
his invited guests. Some day or other in
the distant future many of these inter-
esting and very pungent bits of phrase
and characterization will be carefully col
lected and published, but probably not
until many men now living have died.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

OF South Carolina there are two
tribes Of politics. There are the
aristocrats. who live on the rich flat
lands I'm the eastern or seaboard half of
the state, and there are the "Woolhats"-
rude moutain people, these-whose range
is the rough. billy western half Of the
state. Mr.. Tillman belongs with the
"Woolhats."
1t was as populist, not democrat, that
Tillman took his seat as governor. Evinc-
ing the sturdy sort of his populistic virtue,
MIR. Tfllman plowed up the lawn in front
of the executive mansion, and where his
effete predecessors had raised flowers he
sowed a crop of oats. These heroic feats
in agriculture gave mighty satisfaction to
his faithful "Woolhats," whose lack of
fineness was only equalled by their lack
of ommon sense.
They tell this story. 1t serves to exhibit
the humbug side of Mr.. Tillman. A rail-
way lawyer, Mr.. Spaulding. came up from
Atlanta to talk with Governor Tillman
concerning outrages, which. for his glory
with the "Woolhats," Mr., Tillman medi-
tated against Mr.. Spaulding's clients. The
two were acquainted, and while Governor
Tillman. alive to his own "Woolhat' needs
OF politics. in no wise abated his anti-rail-
road attitude-had a highly pleasant chat.
Mr.. Spaulding was about to leave. Mr..
Tillman stood waving hin an affable
"adleu.'
Goodbye. Jack" Mr.. Tillman was say
ing, when, like "A flash. the beaming smile
was supplanted by a perfect thunder cloud
of a frown, the friendly voice changed to
a growing threatening roar.
mo, sir!" Mr.. Tillman shouted. "rll dc
nothing OF the kind. You railroad lawyers
needn't think you are going to run the
state Of South Carolina while Ben Till
mans at the capitol. Get out of my of
flee. sir. and tell your scoundrel railroad
clients tina Ben Tillman is neither to bt
bribed or bullied.
Mr.. Spaulding made no reply. When h
wheeled TO go he was not surprised to see
couple of "Woolhats' peering in the door
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

HAS your foreign trade been much bene-
fitted by the subsidies which you give your
merchant mariner
Yes. we must have shipping, and with
a country like ours it is impossible for us
to build up a merchant marine without sub
sides. We think IL has paid us to give
them, and they will be continued for some
years to come"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
story of katsura.

All these things form a part OF the past
life and the present situation Of Marquis
Taro Katsura. who is now the premier
and also the finance minister of the Japa-
nese empire. Born in 1s47, when James X.
Polk was president OF the United States.
and only six years before Commodore
Perry made his first expedition to Japan,
he fought, as a boy, for the emperor in the
civil war which made his majesty the real
ruler Of the Japanese people. Shortly after
that he was sent to Germany to study mill
tary science, and when he returned was
made vice minister of the War depart
ment.
When the Japan-Chlna trouble broke out
katsura was made the commander Of a di-
vision, and in 1900 he became war minister,
and held that position under several pre-
miers. AS such, he has had much to do
with bringing the army to its present eff
ficiency, and when the war with Russia
broke out, he in the meantime having been
elevated to the premiership. was of the
greatest value to his country, in carrying
on that great struggle. He was still in
office when peace was declared, but there
was such public discomfort over the terms
of the peace that he retired, recommend
ing the Marquis Saionji as his successor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

in competition with girls and women from
twenty states, beat them all for neatness.
In addition to the title. the championship
carries with 1t $50 in gold. Miss Fredeen
is only II years old.
There were over 800 contestants in the
patching class, but the young Nebraska
girl rcmped home, an easy winner. over
women who declared they had been patch
ing pants for fifty years. and certainly
ought to know more about It than any IT.
year-old girl in the country. But the
judges decided that the gtrl was right on
the job and gave her the geld and the title.
This is not the first prize for neat needle
work the little lady has been awarded.
Some time ago, In her home town, she car
ried off a prize as the incest and neatest
apron maker in the county. She is as
modest as she is successful with her needle
and the honors she has won rest lightly
upon her.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

How about your foreign trade? Is it
increasing?"
1T has been doing so almost steadily
until within the last year. During 1908
the whole world has been spending less
than usual. The hard times have cut
down the purchases of every nation, and
Japan has had to suffer with the rest.
As to the increase Of our trade, in 1877 our
exports were a little more than 2S,OOO,0 600
yen. Thirty years later they were more
than 432, OO0,O 600 yen. In that period they
rose from "a cents to SAB per head. This
increase Of our exports has continued, and
in 1929 they reached more than 500, O00,0 0
per year. They have since exceeded twice
that amount in several years, and they will
probably amount to more than 5000, 900, 600
in 1909. AS to our imports, in 1877 they
were almost $4,000, 900, and in 1897 they APP
proximately $3.50. 600, 1000. The increase in those
thirty years in our foreign trade, including
both exports and imports. aggregates more
than 5000 900 yen, or almost $i40,OO0 600.
/ see no reason why this increase should
not go on"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
..For Peace, Always Peace

During the conversation l referred 10 him
as a military hero. He replied;
II do not care TO be considered as a man
OF war. ! am for pe-ce, psac, alw Us peace,
1t is wrong to look upon the Japanese as
consumed with military ambition and a lust
for conquest. We are a peaceful nation and
We have only fought because We have had
TO do so. We did not want the war with
Russia, and we tried in every honorable
way TO keep out Of IT,"
Your excellency had much to do with
financing that war. You raised about $500
100000 during the struggle, That seems to
me a wonderful feat"
1T was not difficult replied Marquis
Katsura, 'and largely so because the world
felt Japan's cause was a just one. The
other nations realized that our war was
defensive and that we were forced into it,
We had not expected II and we had
made no more than ordinary military
preparations. Could we have had time
we might have been in much better shape.
but We had 20 take our army and navy
as they were and to arrange for suct
additional ammunition and supplies as were
needed
Where were your bonds chiefly placed?'
Mostly in United states and England
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

turned at nightfall, covered with clay, with
clothing torn and skin barked In countless
places by falls of rock. He sought out the
chairman of the committed that employed
him and silently delivered to him this
statement: Mileage in looking for dead
Indian, $40; reading story about dead In
dian, S.; bruised shins on the way to dead
Indian, $40. Report: There was no dead
Indian"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Business Japan.

Along what lines is Japan to be de-
veloped from now on? Will 1t devote it
self to the attainment of military glory,
or to commercial and business prosperity?"
Most emphatically the latter. No ma
ton can be prosperous in any other way.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

Our aim is to develop our agricultural,
manufacturing and commercial possibilities
to the full"
what are you doing along agricultural
lines?"
w are trying to learn how to make
two blades Of grass grow where one has
grown before. We are studying intensive
farming and by artificial fertilizers are
materially increasing our rice and other
products. We are planting forests and are
bringing under cultivation a great deal
of land which has until now been idle. We
are also educating our farmers. and we
have many experiment stations as well as
some agricultural schools"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Japan and Coren.

.
Japan and COren.
The conversation here turned to Corea,
and 1 asked Marquis Katsura whether 1t
was the intention of the government to
make the Coreans independent under Japa-
nese protection. He replied that 1t was;
that the Japanese did not want TO crowd
out the Coreans, and hat they hoped that
Cores would be able to govern itself with
the advice of Japan. He denied that the
Japanese are o~verrunning the country and
said the door there is practically open to
foreign trade.
! asked him II the Japanese expected to
colonize any part Of the country. He re-
piled that they did not, and that they
would only attempt to fill up the unoccu-
pied spaces and develop the waste lands.
He spoke highly of Marquis Ito's work in
Corea, and he evidently thinks that the