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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-02-20

d. N. Nelson. W. F. Scott. Mr.
Thurston and Mamie Dean joined the
Excelsior Literary society.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-02-20

In. Hill has purchased ten-room mod
ern house at 204l Stout Street.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-02-20

Little Johnnie Lane. who is in tn,
hospital with a fractured limb, is abl,
To get around on crutches.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-02-20
IA JUNTA NEWS.

The revival meetings have closed.
We feel that God has blessed us in the
return Of the wandering and the re-
claiming OF lost souls
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-02-20

Mrs. Luther Clemens, who has been
on the sick list, is very much i'm.
proved.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-02-20

The Allen quartet was in great d
mand at the Baptist church Thursdi
night at the big supper.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-02-20

The Berkley Art Club was enter
tained yesterday afternoon by Mrs
VIM. Barnes of 276l Glenarm Place.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-02-20

Mr.. Carl Smith of Cheyenne was in
the city during the week.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
A MADDENING LAY.
Richmond Dispatch.


On the frozen critic Ocean somewhere
north of Boring Sea
There's ar Eskimo a-sittin' an / wisht
that 1t was me-,
For the wind IL in the icebergs an the
polar bears at play
Make a peaceful summer picture on the
shores o. Baffin Bay.
oh, the folks o. Baffln Bay,
On cold storage every day.
In the shadow of the glaciers Toll and sip
whale-oil glace.
Their pantaloons are leather an their
coats are made Of skin,
Which prevents the chtiiy weather that's
outside from comm in.
chilly CLINE,
Projections necessary in the good old sum-
mer time. L
Oh, the folks o. Peary Land.
They have lived, you understand,
the SHOWS OF many summers and
have never even famed.
Ship me somewhere north of Greenland,
where the ice trusts power is dead,
And where hard drink never harms unless
1t hits you on the head;
Where Aurora Borealis hangs her ribbons
on the moon; r."
Where the sunsets in September and the
cold, gray dawn's in June.
Oh, the folks o. Melville Sound,
Never go away from town.
To summer In the mountains till the mer-
curry comes down.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
BANK GUARANTY LAW.
Questions vOI In the Nebraska
Case,
San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco Chronicle.
No demagogue ever proposed a more Sc
ductive or more dangerous popular bene-
faction" han the so-called bank deposit
guaranty law, which had Its birth in the
wilds of Oklahoma and has been adopted
by some other states. 1t is seductive be-
cause 1t is believed by the ignorant to be
a state guaranty OF their bank deposits,
which It is not, and It is dangerous be-
cause, while sure to work smoothly during
prosperous times. 1t involves a moral GER
tainty of a general crash at the first panic.
Under none of these laws does the state
guarantee a dollar OF anyone's deposits.
What It does undertake to do is to compel
the solvent banks to make good the losses
Of the wildcat concerns.
The stronger banks OF Nebraska have
appealed to the federal courts for protec-
ton against the deposit guaranty act or
that state. which became effective on July
/, on the ground that to compel them to
pay the losses Of other banks is to a
their property without due process OF law.
The federal court at Lincoln has granted
AN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. temporary or per.
manent the dispatches do not s-tate-against
the enforcement OF the law against the
protesting banks. The case will presum,
y @SAa ~ ~ NNS NkASAAN SSAAN ~ AA9 1
States.
1t is doubtful whether there can be re-
lief from that source, unless the terms of
the charters OF existing banks are such
as TO constitute a contract between them
and the state, which is improbable. The
case involves the question of the power
Of a state over its own corporations. 1t is
evident that a state, II IL chose, could re-
fuse to charter any banking corporation
whatever, and the layman would imagine
that II 1t chose to issue charters 1t might
impose any conditions which the legisla-
ture deemed proper. II would seem thai
the only question which could arise was
az to the power OF the state to change
the condition of the charter Of banks al,
ready In existence, which will apparently
depend on the provisions OF the Nebraska
law.
The whole business is a demagogic fac
which will have It's run among the mosl
radical states until it's effect in driving
out banking capital makes would-be Dor
rowers clRmor for the repeal Of the law.
There is no way whereby solvent and re
sponsible men OF banks can be compelled
to go permanently into partnership with
anybody against their will. II state laws
do not permit state banks to be operated
without such partnership sound banks will
change to the national system or liquidate
one way of promoting the Capitalization OF
our government is for states to so legis.
late as to drive capital to the protection
OF the central government.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
Executing CriminallY Insane.

A Philadelphia physician has stirred
up a hornets nest with a paper read
before the Medical Jurisprudence So
ciety in that city on the eriminally In
sane by arguing for the execution of
insane murderers. He insists that
there Is too much maudlin sentiment
in this country for criminals who
plead insanity and convince a jury
that their plea is good. The doctor,
however. confuses the cases in which
insanity is a subterfuge with those in
which the criminal is really insane
and unable to overcome the murderous
impulse.
The doctor is not alone In believing
that the insanity plea is overworked
and that acquittals on this ground too
often make the courts a laughing
stock, but to be candid the fault lies
rather with his profession than
with the courts. If doctors and alien
lists would not be so free to testify
for a price that accused persons were
insane to the point of unaccountability
there would seldom be evidence to sup
port such pleas. The doctors who are
willing to barter testimony for cash
are doubtless very few. But insanity
experts, in the opinion of outsiders,
are constitutionally inclined to draw
the line of responsibility a little too
fine, particularly in view of the often
advanced theory that all criminals are
insane.
In spite of the many palpable mis-
carriages Of Justice the doctrine of
executing mentally dersnged men for
acts committed during periods Of in
sanity is %repugnant to all accepted
ideas Of modern criminology.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

The votes OF Senators Burkett and
Brown against the tariff bill on the
final roll call for passage in the sem
ate. and the votes of Nebraska's entire
representation in the house, the three
republicans, as well as the three dem
ocrats, against the adoption Of the
rule giving the conference committee
plenary power, places Nebraska in the
position Of protesting against the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill in its present
form.
We do not doubt that by these votes
the senators and representatives from
this state in congress reflect the senti-
ment Of the majority of the people Of
Nebraska, who unquestionably are for
revision downward, although COM
mitted to the principle of protection,
and by no means in sympathy with
tariff reduction hat would expose our
producers n manufacturers to unre-
stricted competition with foreign-made
goods produced under cheaper labor
conditions.
The fact, however, that the repub-
leans in the Nebraska delegation at
Washington have recorded a vote of
protest against certain features of the
present bill must not be taken to mean
that they have Joined with the demo-
Gratis in the democratic program of
eliminating all protective duties from
the tariff. There is a possibility, and
a fair probability, hat the conference
committee will whip the tariff bill into
such shape that, while it may not COM
pletely satisfy all expectations, 1t will
still be a substantial redemption OF
the republican promise Of tariff re-
vision that will secure acquiesence and
acceptance by the republicans who
have ranged themselves with the So
called insurgents. In this case the
republican members of Nebraska's con-
gressionAl delegation may yet vote for
the adoption of the conference report
with the approval of their constitu-
ents.
So far as Nebraska republicans are
concerned a tariff bill which is good
enough to command the signature of
the republican president will be good
enough for the rank and Ale who have
every confidence in Mr.. Taft's determi-
nation to get real concessions for the
public out of the tariff revision.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
Big Aeronautic Show.

The International Air Navigation
exposition which has opened in Frank
fort, Germany, promises to be a most
notable affair, the first comparative
showing Of advance in a great science
which will eventually revolutionize
many modern methods Of locomotion.
Until comparatively recent years bal
looming and other forms of aerial
navigation have been crude and served
only for experimental purposes, but
recent advances indicate that they
have a wider and more useful field.
1t Is not consoling to Americans to
contemplate hat with the exception
Of Langley and the Wright brothers
the United States has contributed little
compared with Germany and France
toward developing the sciences In
lighter than air machines Count Yep
pelin and numerous others have
achievements to their credit far be-
yond anything accomplished here. The
measure OF this superiority may be
judged by the fact that Ave big build
ings are needed at Frankfort to house
and display the various types and de-
signs Of airships and that trips will
be made daily by dirigible balloons
in which passengers will be carried.
These results indicate clearly that
aerial navigation is approaching the
stage of practical utility and is de-
veloping 30 rapidly as to make 1t
hazardous to guess its ultimate uses.
The gathering in n place Of prac-
ticaliy all types of machines where
they can be seen and contrasted will
unquestionably be greatly beneficial,
the weaknesses and strength OF each
design being brought into direct com
petition and observed by the keenest
minds in the world of physical science.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
End of a Colossal Land Fraud.

After years Of litigation millionaire
John A. Benson has gone to prison
for engineering gigantic frauds by
which he obtained title to large tracts
of public lands. This is probably the
final chapter in the notable land fraud
prosecutions instituted during the
Roosevelt administration, not because
the Taft administration has changed
front, but because the prosecutions
have accomplished their purpose. Flu
ture violators of the and laws will
be prosecuted, but 1t is not likely
that ever again will there be found
such a gigantic system of land grab
bling as Benson and others engineered
and for which so many prominent citi-
zens were convicted, including one
United States senator.
The exposures of the OBVIOUSLY de-
frauding methods alone tend t make
a repetition Of the offenses improbable
and the punishments administered a
wholesome check. In addition to stop
plh6 INC pIdSIlSSSb hiliilOhS u uOildIS
worth of valuable timber, mineral and
agricultural lands have been restored
to the public domain, and suits involv-
ing other areas are still pending,
particularly in Oklahoma and the
intermountain country. In the case
cited Benson has for twenty years
been under fire for land frauds by
which he accumulated a fortune esti-
mated at several millions. The Roose-
welt administration went after him in
earnest. and the Taft administration
kept 1t up until, his last resort failing,
he has been compelled to pay the
penalty by serving out a prison SEN
tence,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
No J~ustifrinr Assassination.

The defense Of Madrigal Dsinagri,
who assassinaeed a British oflcial and
an innocent %bystander, is the proclama-
ton Of a monstrous doctrine Of justin
cation. 1t is not pertinent to the case
TO discuss the right or wrong Of British
rule in India or the fact that it rules
there at all. People are asked to
Justify or condone deliberate murder,
which no sane, right-thinking person
can do. The p~retense Of the militant
anarchist and political nihilist that no
rther adequate way exists of calling
attention to alleged wrongs lacks
foundation in fact and is d%isproved
by history. AS a rule the victim is
someone who is in no way responsible
for the conditions complained of and
his assassination affords no remedy.
Open revolt against injustice and
oppressive rule has been justified
hundreds of times, both when success
full and also in failures, and even the
unsuccessful has often worked ulti-
mate reforms, but there Is no instance
where personal terrorism has secured
the desired ends, but rather increased
the burdens. The question of the right
of one people to rule another has been
a debatable one ever since govern
ments we're instituted, but ~assassina-
ton has been universally looked upon
as a crime. India may we'll pray to be
delivered from fool friends who misuse
it's cause to commit such atrocious
daeds
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
Safeguarding YOung Women.

1t is no e-xaggeration to say that Ameri-
can girls are allowed a greater degree of
liberty now than their grandmothers were
permitted to exercise in their reereations,
in making acquaintances and in receiving
attentions from men. There was never a
time when girls needed more the c~ounsels
of parents, their wise and tender and vigil
ant care and guidance, than now. There
was never a time when for their own good
there was greater necessity than now for
girls to surround themselves with the safe
guards of discriminating exclusiveness. to
make no friendships until they are satisfied
that these associates are compatible with
the purest and highest standards of wo-
manhood,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
HAnRMAN's LATEST cONauEsT
southern Railroad Added 20
His system.
81. Louis Glqbe- Democrat

st. Louis Glsbe-p Democrat
Some Of Mr.. Harriman's subordinates arm
Boosting that he made $2,OOO.O0 in hik
Georgia Central deak The public is ready
to believe this story. II hes a pretty, vivid
recollection OF other oonqussts by Mr.. Har-
riman, I'm which his progts ran up into
much larger figures thar these. stll' a
>2,Oo0.ON profit in a single transaction u
large enough to impress the popular imag-
nation. Il would have been thought mar
velous back in the days OF Commodore
Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew and James Fisk.
Even In the time OF william II. Vanderbilt
1t would have been considered a feat OF
large proportions. Familiarity with blgge
transactions in recent years makes the
public think this Georgia Central strike
is not wonderful. And Mr.. Hartman has
done more than any other one man to
make these achievements commonplace.
Although the acquisition OF the Georgia
Central has been pending for about a year,
it was not finally and officially oonsum-
mated until a week ago. 1t is an import
ant exploit. The Geogia Central operates
about 1900 miles Of road. By its transfer
to the Hartman system the Illinois Cen
trail acquires two steamship lines at sa-
vannah, one running to New York and
the other to Boston, to re-enforce the lines
which 1t has from New Orleans. The
Southern Pacific is also enabled to divide
its steamship and railway business. II has
got into closer contact with the Atlantic
seaboard, -
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
PERSONAL NOTES.

The heavens wept on the Fourth as a
contribution to a safe and sane policy.
A New Jersey fan" burst a blood YES
sci and may die. This recalls the en-
thusiast who leaped from the bleachers.
crying. 81 can't stand this any longerl"
and blew out his brains.
Mrs. Mary Wood swift. who repre-
scented the women OF the United States
at the Toronto meeting Of the National
Council. Is a sister Of General Leonard
Wood and her husband was the late Am
bassador John Swift, who was at the
court Of Japan.
The amiable vice president, during Sen
ator JEFF Davis last speech complied
with the senator's wishes For when the
orator exclaimed. in his finest Arkansaw
manner: "po not chide me. Mr.. Presi-
dent, when l plead for the republic Mr..
sherman sat stlll and said nothing.
Now that he's governor, Little Joe
Brown will say his prayers and hear
the sermon in the Second Baptist church
Of Atlanta. as his fsther-the famous
Governor Brown-did. Perhaps he'll sit
in the same pew. In nearby pews he
will see Ex-Governor Terrell and four
Georgia judges.
Ambassador Bryce mas seven LII. ,. s.
two d. c. LIS. two Lit. D's and one
d.. p. Sc, not to mentor his A. y. and
his honorary f~ellowships at Trinity and
oriel colleges, oxford. II is doubtful IL
my other living man wears an honorary
degree appendage equal to the learned
and scholarly ambassadors.
Governor Harmon of Ohio has APP
pointed Mrs. Augustus F. c.. Miller as a
dantrtxr 1ngnaNfpr Of WnFkahOnS and fac
tories. She Is a widow and representa-
tive of one OF the Oldest and most aristo-
cratic families OF Springfield, o.. She is
an Intimate friend of Governor Harmon's
daughter and the appointment was per-
aaVal
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
CORY" IN THEORY ONLY.
Making MOO1shine whisky
Booming Southern Industry.
New York World.

New York World.
Just as the revenue officers were about
to enter moonshining on the governments
card index as an extinct industry, Illicit
manufacture Of liquors suddenly Increased
fully 80 per cent in Alabama, Georgia, Ten
nessee and other southern states, and
Knox Booth, one OF the most widely known
internal revenue officers in the south, says
the arid condition under prohibition in
these states is the cause.
Moonshining was about ended through
out the south, say the government experts,
when the dry" agitation began. Under
old conditions. saloons had multiplied until
there was one on almost every hilltop or
mountain peak n hundreds of them in
the valleys. Many grocery stores in the
rural sections handled liquor, and there
had come to be comparatively little profit
in the manufacture Of moonshine whisky.
Moonshlne had gone down, down, down in
price until it sold as low as 81 to $15O a
gallon, prices which discouraged the in
dustry in the face of vigorous work on
the part of Uncle Sans revenue scouts,
whose rifle barrels had become longer and
longer. In fact, moonshlpers had come to
be few and far between
But now lnbI tie SOuln Is al dTlu anu
and the prohibitionist rides his thirstless
camel to and fro. watching for bold rogues
who keep open saloon doors, the rewards
Of successfully evading the law by moon
shining are so great that the old timers
who used to still mountain dew as a mat
ter of principle have lost sight Of the
principle and are risking their lives for
the big profits.
Knox Booth quotes a captured moon
sinner as saying that six bushels of corn
meal and 200 pounds OF sugar make thirty
gallons Of whisky, which sells faster than
hot cakes at "a a gallon. A small still can
turn out thirty gallons a day easily, CIV
ing the enterprising sinners a profit of 500
for a days work. And the risk doesn't
bother him-much. Ability to convert SIS
worth OF raw material into $3.50 worth of
liquor has made him more fearless than
ever.
The revenue officers declare that prohibit
ton has so revived moonshlning that they
Will probably nave the work Of a genera
ton in cleaning out the moonshiners to do
over again.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
Foreign Investments in Mexico.

1t will surprise those unfamiliar with
Mevico to learn that British investments
in that country, according to a recent
London estimate, aggregate the immense
sum of t675, 900, 900. OF this amount over
1857. OoO,0 900 is In government bonds, the re-
mainder consisting of railway and other
miscellaneous securities. 1t appears that
British investments in Brazil and Argen-
tina are equally large, and said to be more
profitable. The United States is yet very
far from dominating the trade of the Latin
states of America, despite the efforts Of
Secretary Root and others to increase our
trade relations with the southern repub-
lies Of this continent. The European ma
tions, as for long, have the greatest COM
mercial hold there.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
Accommodating BOndsIuen.
Chicago Record-Herald.

Chicago Record-HeraId.
Charles w. Morse, the New York banker
who was sent to prison a few months ago
for permitting himself to get caught in
questionable financia transactions, pro-
poses to take a trip to Europe. He is out
Of jail on bail now, and his bondsmen,
being real kind-hearted gentlemen, are
willing that he shall go abroad, W
standing the fact that It will be impossible
to extradite him in case he develops a
liking for foreign soil. How perfectly
charming some bondsmen manage to be.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

The Americans who deliberately in
suit the British flag while travelling
in. Canada deserve no sympathy If they
are summarily punished. The man
who cannot pay decent respect to the
country in which he travels offends
against his own country and had better
stay at home.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

One Of the japanese sugar boodlers
has committed suicide. Those Japa-
nese boodlers take getting caught
more seriously than boodfers in some
other countries.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

omaha's school census shows an In
crease, in round figures. of 500. which
must represent a population increase
OF between $500 and 5000. A steady
growth is better than a boom followed
by a collapse.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

Two Frenchmen fought a duel the
other day. firing two shots and hitting
nothing but the wide world, and then
quit unreconciled for fear they might
accidentally hurt somebody. They
should go down into Texas and see
how such things are done.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
Piutocrats Get a Knock.

Plutocrats will not wholly escape from
the Aldrich revenue measure. Aldrich has
STAYED off the income tax for the present,
but his committee has decided to add con-
siderably to the cost Of high priced cigars.
Even the cheaper forms OF tobacco come in
for some increase of taxation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
A Practical Test.
Springfield Republican

We are soon TO a brought to a prae-
teal test the question whether the con-
stitution OF the United States has passed
beyond the reach OF amendment I'm the only
manner prescribed by the instrument itself.
II It has, then the very existence Of this
body OF fundamental law, this so-called
charter OF our liberties. has come into
danger.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

II the hgurehead from the battle
ship Nebraska is loaned to the state
to adorn the capitol It will stand more
than a favorable comparison with
of the figureheads in the late
demo-pop legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

Colonel J. Ham Lewis refuses to
talk about his mission to the orient
M the conclusion lie universal it must
have been something Of great import
snce, for tits the first time in his life
]. Ham has refused to talk.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
From "OveraIIa to overaIIs."

ANC"s-L YIN EOSl
To the four daughters of the eldest son
OF Charles Dickens the British govern
ment has granted a weekly pension of
$3.50, lin recognition of the literary emf
nence of their grandfather and in consid-
GRAFTON of their straitened circumstances"
Inasmuch as Mary Angela Dickens, -one of
the four sisters, has published nearly a
dozen novels. the British governments
benefaction supplies an answer not only
to What's in a manner" but also to Does
literature pay?" 1t would be preposterous
to expect that the descendants Of a great
novelist shall be immune against starva-
ton when It is a rare novelist that sue
ceeds in earning his own daily bread.
Thus the rule about three generations
from overalls to overalls would seem to
hold for British genius as 1t does for
American high-finance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

Georgia is looking to the near-beer
tax as an escape from a bankrupt
treasury situation. Il will probably
come as near the result as the article
does to satisfying a real beer thirst.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

The latest communication from the
spirit world is to the effect that there
are houses in that land. but the people
wear no clothes. Is It possible that
only actresses and seaside resort peo-
pie 20 thersf
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12

Six thousand more men are ordered
to work in coke ovens near Pittsburg.
At the present rate the Industrial
centers will 500 be crying as loudly
for help as the farmers OF the west.