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Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
Bad Roads Expensive.

The Interstate Commerce commits
sion furnishes some startling figures
of the immense waste in the United
States chargeable to bad country roads.
The railroads haul on the average
each year 265. 600 tons Of farm
produce, which of necessity comes to
the railroads over the wagon roads.
In addition millions of IONS are hauled
to towns and consumed there without
being shipped on railroads and other
another, There is no way of ascertain
ing the amount of the latter two
classes, but common observation indi-
Gates that they are great. There is
also a large tonnage hauled from the
railroads to the farms.
According to the commission, the
average cost of wagon haul in the
United States is 23 cents per ton per
mile and the average haul nine miles,
while in Europe the same haul costs
from 7 to 8 cents per ton per mile.
Assuming these figures TO be correct,
this represents a difference on the
amount of farm produce hauled by the
railroads of the enormous sum of
$333,sO0,0O which, with the added
cost of other wagon DAD t~ransporta-
ton, is a direct charge against the pub
lie highway differences in the two sec
lions of the world. The accuracy of
estimates Of the cost of highway trans
portation, of course. is open to chal-
lenge. as meal for computing 1t are
limited, but it is a fair presumption
that the commission has at least
Appropriated the correct result.
1t would, Of course. be unreasonable
to expect a country Of such great
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Europe's growing crop OF ~ex-monarch
is not considered a factor in the price of
necessaries.
The curfew whistle would be on to It's
job II It piped the crowd to roost at S
O'Clock instead of 9 p. m.
Thu Chicago jury which told the girl in
the case, GO back to your home and be
a good girl" knew Chicago from Grand
Crossing to Evanston.
Barney oldfield knows how It feels to
collide with a Joy wagon. One Of the
latter caught Barney on Michigan avenue.
Chicago, and sent him to the hospital.
Chicago blographers OF Mr.. Crane, the
proposed minister to China, candidly ad-
NIT he could not read a celestial laundry
check at first sight. But he can afford
an interpreter.
A real peach Of a hat, resembling a pot
OF flowers, rested on the porch balustrade
or an Arkansas villa. A fool gardener
turned the rose on it and rowne $50
with one copious squirt. He is looking
for a new Job.
Candidates who remember hearing on
election night the hurrahs at the oppo-
sition headquarters will appreciate the
wisdom OF the shah in refusing to have
the news officially broken to him. Such
formalities are as agreeable as ragtime
music at a funeral.
Kentuckians send out warnings to hotels
and liquor dealers against one H.. e.
Wright, who, with the aid of a bogus
business card, blazed a trail Of swlndles
from the Pacific coast to Kentucky. He
is said to have scored victims in Nebraska
and Iowa who are particularly anxious to
boost him over the road.
Atlantic City, the salt water show place
OF Philadelphia, boasts of sheath gown
bathing suits so snugly encasing forms
divine" that one writer describes the spec
tacle as animated sausages on the beach"
When one of the sheathed npparition nears
the water a sobbing wave dashes its
crest on the sands and scoots for the
ocean bed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
Effective Charity.

The Bees recent discussion Of
county charities emphasizing the need
of a comprehensive plan to work to
suggests a further need Of ~co-ordinat-
ing all our charities with a view to
greater efficiency. There are many
benevolent people in this, as in every
community, who are eager to do their
share toward relieving distress and
helping the unfortunate, but there is
no question that a great deal of money
and effort devoted to hat purpose goes
amiss because of lack of intelligent
direction. We have a host Of charita-
BILE institutions, Of various kinds, es-
tablished with the best intentions, and
generally doing good work, but cover
ing a field already occupied in whole
or in part, thus entailing unnecessary
expense by duplication and appealing
constantly TO the same sources for
financial support.
To make u charities efficient we
ought to have the line more distinctly
drawn between the relief and correc-
tional work, which properly belongs
to the state, county or city, and that
which should be provided for by pri-
vate charities and privately supported
institutions. The mere multiplication
of homes, Institutes, hospitals and
schools because someone is willing to
give the money for a start and devolve
upon the community the perpetual
burden Of maintenance is not in the
true interest Of those intended to be
benefited any more than 1t is to the
interest Of the community as a whole.
If the state has assumed the RESPONSE
Of u~nfortunates or detectives the
county should not take up the same
work unless 1t is necessary to supple
ment 1t to meet local necessities. Like
minister relief to the pool 1t should
not have competition from private in
stitutions, but there should be CO.
operation and a division of labor.
Applying this to our own case here
In Omaha and Douglas county, 1t
seems to us that our charities have
been carried along so far In a hap
hazard, hit-or-miss fashion without
due regard to their relation to one an
other. II we are to make the money
devoted to charity go the farthest and
accomplish the most all these institu-
lions should be read1usted to fit in
with some sort Of a complete plan, and
to avoid in the future the difficulties
which we have pointed out.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
Money to Move the Crons.

Eastern ~financiers are already busy
to move the crops of this year and
have arrived at the conclusion that,
owing to the increased price of wheat
and cotton and the prospective larger
corn yield, S561,000.0 O0 more han
last year will be needed for fine sta
pie crops. The financiers are need
lessly worried, as their calculations
are plainly defective in several re-
spects. In the first place. the entire
crop is not going on the market as
Dor as harvested and, in the second
place, the money paid for the part
that is marketed is not destroyed or
retired from circulation. Payment
for crops simply works a change Of
ownership of the money, which again
finds its way into the banks.
What the New Workers are really
worried about is that a large amount
of money to a for crops will go
west and be removed from speculative
channels. In time most of 1t will fl
ter back to It's source, but in the mean
time it will have accomplished a much
more useful purpose by passing
through the legitimate channels Of
trade. Large crops and good prices
mean hat the west will have money
to buy manufactured commodities,
and even now the effect of this pros
pect is manifest in the manufacturing
sections of the east.
The point which interests the west
and south most is that If the statis-
ticians are correct. Ave leading crops
will bring over $500. OOO,O 900 more this
year than last year and the total farm
production, including meats and wool,
will bring $4,000 200 900 more this
year than last year. This immense
additional sum, poured into trade
channels, the west and south absorb
ing the most Of it. will not only en-
able the country to keep up. but &C
celerate the present pace.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
DR.. Eliot's New Religion.

1t was not to be expected that on
retiring from the presidency Of Har-
ward university one who had led so
active a life as DR.. Eliot would be idle.
He has, In fact, been unusually busy.
He constructed a five-foot book shelf
a liberal education aud now he has
given us what might be termed a Ave
foot-shelf of religion. Unlike his book
collection, the latter is not the work
of the old masters. He sees a new
religion, consecrated not so much to
the future life as to the well-being of
the living, free from dogmas and SUI
perstitions n with nothing Of the
supernatural.
There can be no denying the fact
that modern religious thought Is drift
ing away from dogmatic creeds and
tending to reconcile religion with
known and demonstrable scientific
facts. This is true particularly in re-
ligions derived from the Bible and to
a lesser degree to all religions. It Is
undoubtedly true, however, that more
people in the world today believe inn
plicitly in a future state than ever be-
fore in history. 1t would be a wiser
man even han DR.. Eliot who could
say whether this belief will continue
to grow or perish, but 1t requires no
prophetic vision to see that the aban-
donment of such a belief is very far In
the future, If it ever m Modern
efforts to Christianize other peoples
and past efforts to enforce new re-
ligions upon conquered races have
demonstrated how strong a hold in
herited religious beliefs have.
This is a practical age and all ten
denotes are to reduce every agency
to practical benefits and religion has
not escaped the movement.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
Two Presidents to Meet.

1t is announced that arrangements
have been made insuring the meeting
of President Taft and President Diaz
Of Mexico during Mr.. Taft's coming
western trip. Such a meeting would
have nc significance other than a SEN
timental one, as neither is charged
with the duty of negotiating treaties
or agreements, but for all that there
Is reason to believe 1t would be fol-
lowed by good results. The two gov
ernments have been for years on
steadily increasing terms of amity and
the United States has done much to
assist and develop It's sister republic.
The attitude of the United States
made possible the overthrow of Maxi
MILAN and from that time on our
country has lent Mexico moral and
material assistance. Large amounts
Of United States capital are invested
in Mexico in mines and other indus
tries, and an American company is
now putting under ditch in that coun-
try the largest single tract Of irrigated
land in the world. American en-
g~ineers and American money built
Mexico's railroads, but these ventures
have not been without their draw
backs. There has developed of late a
hostile sentiment among the more
ignorant Mexicans against citizens of
the United States and their enter
prises. The more ignorant Mexicans
see foreigners reaplng rich rewards
from Mexican which they
had neither the means nor the initia-
tive to improve and their resentment
has several times found expression in
violence. This sentiment, unless
checked, may ultimately result in a Sc
rious misunderstanding. The intelli-
gent Mexieans and officials, with the
exception of a few scheming poll
t~icians, have no sympathy with the
an%ti-foreign feeling, but restraining
the turbulent classes is not so easy.
President Diaz has a wonderful hold
upon the people of Mexico, from the
highest to the lowest. and a friendly
meeting between the two presidents
should help eradicate the hostility and
hold in check the flames Of prejudice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
SERMONS IN SHORT METER.

Nothing is saved tina is withheld in sci.
fishness.
No life is hopeless so long as 1t gives
others happiness.
The sorrows Of earth ann be cured by
signing Tor heaven.
Nothing can make up for the losses that
come for self love.
A good deal OF religious fog is due to
evaporated enthusiasm.
Being forward may be the best kind of
faith in the right fight.
OF all promises the worst to break are
the ones we make ourselves.
A man may cover up his sins, but he
cannot escape from the sinner.
A great man never has time TO wait for
an audience and he never needs to.
He who carries his idol before him US
ually blames it for leading him astray.
Let you religion make good and you
will not need to worry about making others
good.
When a man is waiting on the Lord he
is most likely to be working for some Of
his children.
Too many put their hands to their heads
when they want to know whether their
hearts are soft.-ChicaEo Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
GREATEST FACT OF HISTORY.
The Jewish Religion and It's DOmi-
nant OffshOots.

FOIlldHu OISBOIldhs
In the Jewish Tribune (Portland) we
have an article by DR., Frederick Cohn,
Rabbi Temple Israel, Omaha, bearing the
title, why am 1 a Jew" He begins by
saying: II am a Jew first of all. because
/ was born one" 1t is a sufficient reason;
there could be no better reason. What one
Of us can be other than that which our
race, our ancestry, our education, our
environment, have made us? Rabbi Cohn
thus proceeds:
"All students Of history know that all
Judaism is the mother-faith, that Christ
ianity and Mohammedanism are the two
daughter religions, the one born about
1900, the other about 100 years ago. Leav-
ing now Mohammedanism out of account
as not Of immediate interest, and consider
Ing only Christianity, the dominant re-
ligion, II must be frankly stated that, In
my view, Christianity is but imperfect
Judaism, Judaism as adopted and adapted
by the heaten world, Judaism with a vast
mass Of pagan elements mingled and In
corporated with it. Christianity is actually
and historically a mixture of Judaism
CHebraism, Matthew Arnold called iO and
Hellenism, the latter being, roughly, the
ideas and the practices Of the Greco
Roman world, that highly interesting. yet
pagan CIVILIZATION tnat was WluespIthu
over the ancient world just before, during,
and after the Roman empire"
A world OF historical truth here; and
vet, some modification OF Jewish partic-
ularism was necessary, for the growth OF
a world wide religion, Upon this necessity
Christianity and Mahometanism have
grown, and they, too, as well as the devel-
opment of the rationalistic spirit, have
been instruments in the progress or change
of the religion Of Israel, or rather OF its
adaptions to the conditions Of the newer
or modern world. Hebrsism or Judaism, as
the religion Of the race, is too exclusive
for a world religion; hence its great Off
shoots, whose growth 80 much exceeds that
Of the parent stock.
1t is not so much the barrier OF re-
ligion that separates the Jews from other
peoples. II is the racial and social bar
rlers which the Jews see fit TO maintain
OF which their religion is a part, This ex-
clusiveness suits the genius OF the race;
IL is the basis Of its life; It has come down
from the most ancient times; and be-
cause all can't be Jews, the Jewish re
Ngion, admirably as its ethical content n,
and adaptable as the kernel Of its spiritual.
idea is TO propagation OF other religions,
has failed 20 conquer the world in itself
or by itself, yet has done so through its
off-shoots. But isn't II honor enough for
Israel TO be. even II indirectly, the great
est force Of all times? It u the Shisfest
tact Of human hiBtorA
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
Over.reaohinR Lawmakers.

Every time some law enacted in the
hurry and scurry Of the closing days
Of a legislature collides with the con-
stitution. and is declared void by the
courts, we get hysterical cries about
"the judicial dagger" and exclama-
lions about the u%surpation of author
ity by the courts.
Courts sometimes make mistakes,
and some of their decisions are Justly
open to criticism and dissent, but in
most cases the complaint should be
directed not to the courts, but to the
o~ver-reaching lawmakers.
A writer In a current review sets
out a tabular exhibit Of judicial de
cisions voiding laws for unconstitu-
tionality, which shows that the num-
Der OF such decisions has largely in
creased in recent years, and the con-
clusion is Immediately drawn that the
courts have been exceeding their
legitimate bounds in ruling as uncon-
stitutional what to the judges ap-
pears undesirable. in spite of the fact
that the lawmakers have given 1t
their Endorsement.
The facts as set forth are beycad
question, but the conclusion does not
necessarily follow, because the in
creasing number of laws knocked out
by the courts in part reflects merely
the increase In the total volume of
legislation, whose annual output has
become something appalling, and fur
Their attests the carelessness, II not
incompetence, Of our lawmakers in
enacting measures known to be of
doubtful constitutionality on the haz-
ard that they may possibly run the
gauntlet of judicial review success.
fully.
Frequently we hear the demand
that the judges should give their
opinions or the constitutionality of
proposed measures before they are en-
acted, so as to insure against nullihca-
tion later. This is merely a CON
fession that the lawmakers lack con-
hdence in their own ability to frame
and enact legislation that squares with
constitutional requirements. The
courts invariably refuse to give such
opinions, reserving their decisions for
actual cases as they arise, but that
does not relieve the lawmakers from
their responsibility, or justify them in
loading down the statute books with
acts which serve chiefly to multiply
litigation.
II the lawmakers would do their
task better there is no doubt that the
courts would have very much less call
to undo the work of the legislatures
by declaring laws unconstitutional.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25

that Of Great Britain. These figures,
however. are somewhat misleading in
their application to world commerce In
which the United States cuts a sorry
figure. A large part of the American
tonnage is on the great lakes and most
Of the remainder engaged in coastwise
trade, from which other nations are
debarred by law. In International
water tonnage the United States is ex-
ceeded by Germany, France, Norway,
japan, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Russia
and Spain in the order named, the lat
ter being the only great shipping ma
tion to show a loss Of tonnage during
the year.
In per cen of increase Germany leads
all other nations in the world and in
actual amount of new tonnage runs
Great Britain a close second, even lead
ing that nation in the number Of large
liners launched and building. The
United States during the year did not
add a single large ship engaged in in
ternational trade, which does not speak
we'll for a nation which furnishes more
tons of ship cargoes than any country
except Great Britain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

washington Herald: A Cincinnati mi
ter has secured several canary birds
helm out the choir" We suspect his Il
lister is something Of a yellow bird \
self.
Chicago Tribune: The church Is full
ing one Of It's true missions when a pr
as tina at Butler, Pa, i~ntervenes IN
dangerous strike and settles It to tho I
isfaction OF all the parties concerned.
Brooklyn Eagle: The parents OF fort
Supreme Court Justice Henry b. Bv
did not tell him that Christ was
ideaiist," but that He was the Son OF Q
the Saviour Of men and would be u
final judge. Cardinal Gibbons V
courteously rub in the teaching wi
Judge Brown received, but which the
ter has softened into euphemisns WI
incite not at all to reverence and v
little to fear or to faith.
Louisville Courier-Journal Some Of
most prominent Pan-Presbyterian delegt
boldly commend Calvin's action in BIT
ing Servetus at the stalk for the cri
as one OF them put 1t. Of being the {
Unitarian" Need there be surprise7 :
world has moved some during the {
turtles since the time OF Calvin
servetus, but even now there are mi
heirs OF all the ages" in civilization
enlightenment, who would burn a mani
the STAKE for thinking for himself
holding opinions which they do not
prove.
Springfield (Mass) Republican,
Taft's pastor in Beverly has expressed
opinion that a good way to spend Sun
is to attend some good, undogml
church" Che is a Unlversalist) in the me
ing and then go home and read, or &c
the beach, or play base ball, croduet
mis- or golf and be Just as happy as pc
BILE" SUNDAY" he opines, is the sal
valve of the civilized world" It seems
be the tendency. The Roman church
thought so, and so did Ma
The American idea has hith'
followed the Puritan example Ia II
the verge OF change?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25

over the country. II the automobile
can save an spprecisble amount Of
time, particularly II the increase in
cost is not great, It will not be long
before every large city will be de-
handing the service, particularly
where the postofice and depots are
separated by considerable distances.
II is altogether probable the next let
ting Of contracts for transporting
mails will witness a great extension
of the automobile service, and even in
advance of that there is no reason why
it cannot be adopted in many cities by
arrangements with present contract
Ors.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
THE WI MYSTERIES.
a Mapes Dodge.

Ye know not what 1t is, dear, this sleep
deep and still,
The folded hands, the awful calm, I
cheek 80 pale and chill;
The lids that will not lift again, though c
may call and call, !
The strange white solitude Of peace II
settles over all.
We know not what It means, dear. this d.,
olate heart-pain,
This dread to take our daily way and We
in 1t again;
We know not to what other sphere I
loved who leave us go,
Nor why we're left TO wonder still, 7
why, we do not know.
But this we know, our loved ana
they should come this lay
Should come and ask us What is lifer' I
one of us could say;
Life is a mystery as deep as ever dss
can be,
Yet, OH how sweet It Is to us, this life =
live and see.
Then might they say-these vanished or
and blessed be the thought,
$50 death Is sweet to us. beloved, thou
we may tell we naught;
We may not tell II to the quick, this m
terry OF death
Ye may not tell us, II you would. tho M
terry OF eat
The child who enters life comes not wi
knowledge or intent,
SO, those who enter death, must 60 as ]
tie children sent;
Nothing is known, yet I believe that God
And as lt'e = to the living, so death is
the dead. FshqREEK
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
BEHIND THE PRESIDENT.
Popular support of the Policy of Re-
vision Downward
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
The response OF the country to President
Taft's Interpretation OF republican duty is
We have never doubted that the
great mass OF the voters, republican. as
we'll as democratic, would welcome a
change in the methods by which recent
tariffs have been made and a return to
first principles in the application of the
protective policy. The country has grown
weary of the program followed in congress
that of allowing sectional and local in
terests having the ear OF representatives
and senator's to frame a log-rolling meas
ure under whose provisions each paid for
taking what 1t could by giving what the
others asked. Unfair and excessive protec-
ton was bound to result from such an
interchange of courtesies, because protec-
ton was often given without Justification,
and the inflated demands of the less de-
serving claimants determined the measure
of assistance allotted to all. The true aim
of the protective system was lost sight Of
in a scramble for the distribution of favors
among interests convinced that they were
entitled to such favors Independently Of
their value in working out a balanced
scheme of national development.
President Taft, with the true instinct Of
national leadership, has ranged himself
with the great mass OF the people who
earnestly support the protective theory,
but want to see 1t nationally applied. The
"st~and-patters' in the house and the sem
ate know that they cannot make out a case
against him with the voters.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
Shipping Of the World.

The annual report Of Lloyd's Register
presents a complete review Of the
worlds shipping, and incidentally
shows why Great Britain is so keenly
alive to the necessity Of naval suprem-
acy. OF the worlds shipping almost
one-half carries the British flag and
Of the new tonnage last year one-third
of It was British. Practically all the
British tonnage is o~eeangoing. as it has
comparatively little inland waterway
navigation,
A gratifying feature Of the report is
the showing that the United States is
second among the nations in tonnage,
though having only about one-fifth
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25

dimensions as the United states and
so young in development, to equal the
roads of Europe, where nations cover
less area. population is more dense and
the existing roadways are the evolu-
ton OF centuries, but It is notorious
that American highways receive little
attention and much OF hat not intelli-
gently directed. Even with the means
and money at hand n great improve
ment could be made and additional in
vestments in highway betterment
would be most profitable to almost
every community.