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Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
MANNED
Needed Reforms In Law Of COmpen-
sntfon for Injuries.

New York World.
John Mitchell is probably right in tell
ing the Civic Federation conference that
not one man in 10, 900 would cut off his
hand to collect damages. He is right as
to many factories in saying that a man
must run risks or lose his job.
Yet for years humane Judges have been
obliged to rule that a mans own careless
ness is at fault IL he is MANNED by Ian
gerous machinery when he knew Of the
danger, since he was free to leave II the
work was not safe. They have been OBJ
liRed to rule that even the carelessness
Of a fe,low-workman was q valid defense
against the damage suit Of an injured
employee.
In reforming the law Of compensation
for injuries, carelessness, whether that of
the injured man or of another, may be
left out of consideration. The carelessness
of employers who fail to provide proper
safeguards for dangerous machinery re-
quires more attention. Lawsuits in dam
age cases should be unnecessary. II is
outrageous that a MANNED workman should
wait for years while his damage case is
fought from court to court, and that he
should then perhaps have it sent back
for retrial BECAUSE of error. The costly
time Of courts and juries should not be
so wasted.
A manned workman is as much entitled
to assistance from the community he
has served as q MANNED soldier. Hhe should
need no lawyer to secure it for him. He
should get It without delay, in proportion
to the gravity Of his injury. There would
be fewer accidents II industrial damage
awards were certain and prompt.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
TAFT AND JUDICIAL REFORM.
Measure which Reflects Credit on His
Administration.
New York Trlbune.

New York Tribune.
we are glad to see that MI. Taft gives
a prominent place on his program to the
reform Of judicial procedure. He will seek
to have a commission appointed to remodel
the processes Of the federal courts in the
hope that an example may be set in them
which will be followed by the states. There
is no reform more needed, and IL Mr.. Taft
should accomplish that and nothing else in
the course Of his term of office he would
deserve to rank among the greatest presi-
dents because of the fruitfuIness of his
administration.
President Taft himself once said that in
respect to the enforcement of public and
private rights in the courts this country
had fallen further short Of ideal conditions
OF government than In any other respect.
further short even than in municipal ad-
ministration., That is a grave Indictment
to bring against the judicial system of the
nation. but 1t is brought by a judge of
wiae experience and great ability, and we
are disposed to believe that it is In no de-
gree exaggerated. Justice is slow and far
frcmsur& The Importance of technlcalities
has been emphasized at the expense of
common sense. Appeals tina are not neces-
saryt0 accomplish Justice are easy and
frequent, Retrials are ordered when to the
mind Of an intelligent layman no retrial is
needed9i5Courts OF the first instance have
beeR7subordlnated and need reinvigoration.
procedure has been complicated until it is
almost impossible either for pleaders or
judges to avoid making mistakes in 1t.
Three or four years ago a case was de-
cided finally in the court of appeals in this
state which had been before the New York
courts twenty-five years. 1t had been tried
before seven juries and had been in the
appellate courts ten times. The first time
X reached the court of appeals the learned
court said hat even on the testimony of
the plaintiff himself he had no case, but
instead of throwing It out Of court it or
dered a new trial. That, of course, was a
rare example of the laws delays, but ex-
cessive and unnecessary appeals are the
order Of the day. And their effect is, as
Mr.. Taft has pointed out, to give the man
with the longest purse the advantage. He
can wear out his poorer adversary's pa
thence or exhaust his substance by dilatory
practices and through expensive resorts TO
the higher courts.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
TO THE EARLY SHOPPER.



DO your Christmas shopping early; do II
early, mother dear.
Do II ere. the crowds are rushing and the
bargains disappear.
Just at present clerks are gracious. and
will gladly wait on you;
In a month you'u find stores crowded so
you can hardly get through.
I would rise ere dawn is breaking, and ia
snatch a hasty bite,
I'd seek the shops and stay there
TIL they'd all closed for the night.
AND ! wouldn't say, NO, thank you, I'm
Just looking for a friend"
But Ia blow myself as long as there
was something left to spend.
Do not walt three weeks or longer; do your
shopping right away;
You'll be saved a lot OF Worry n you'll
start right IN today.
There are bargains simply waiting for
your cash 10 pick them up.
All the way from gloves and slippers 10 a
dainty poodle pup.
So, arise while II is early, while It's early,
mother dear;
a bite and then start storeward
ere the bargains disappear.
your shopping with a feTvor that Is
something quite intense. 4
Until papa's roll f. melted TN II looks
like thirty cents!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

man of mystery be is. His Mount NC
Kinley and North pole claims followed
d-isappearences which continue to
strike many as decidedly queer, and
the dubious ones will be ready to hail
his new departure as putting not only
himself, but also his endorsers, in an
e%quivocal position, since his proofs are
still under official Investigation and as
the chief witness in his own cause he
ought not to remove himself from the
jurisdiction Of his court.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
PASSING OLE THE cGwnoY.
Picturesque Figure Almost Pushed
orr the Map.
Cleveland Leade

Cleveland Leader.
Science Is like poverty. When II steps
in. romance pops out. though there are a
lot Of writer's trying to do the impossible
and maxi us glow. symboiicaliy speaking,
over the love OF the germ for the microbe
or the thrilling adventures OF the pro-
fessor seeking the buttermilk fountain OF
eternal youth.
Here we have been wailinE over the de-
parture Of the cowboy and, while deep
signs shook our sturdy frames, decrylng
the civilization which takes so much of
the picturesque out Of life. And all the
time It was plain mattcr-of-fact exceed
lngly materialistic science that was on the
Job.
The cowboy has been one Of the big
pictorial figures in American life. He has
been the one who has brought the pioneer
spirit, untrammeled, romantic and color
full, into the drRb days Of the present.
He has made chaps" as symbolical as
the coonskin cap and he will go down to
history pedestaled with the trapper.
Remington has pictured him: wister has
set him, alive and kicking and lovable, in
the preservative amber Of fiction; and,
best Of all, Buffalo Bill and all his fol-
lowers in buckskin and flowing hair have
bAbdkhh hAh iAkhN W u ubole III III AAo
dash and deviltry and boyishness. So we
cannot lose him altogether, for which we
should be accordingly grateful.
But It isn't the march OF civilization, the
onrush Of people. the swinging of popula-
tion from one coast to the other that has
conspired to wipe him from the national
map, except indirectly. 1t has come about
because science has whispered in the ranch
er's ear and he has listened and acted.
The old-time long-horned Texas steer was
In the picture with the cowboy. He lent
his savager to the spirit Of the compost
tion; he stsmpeded to give 1t vigor; his
widespread horns furnished curves Of
beauty and tested the skill Of the lassoist.
But there was too much bravura about him
and too little beef. He pleased the eye,
but he didn't fill the stomach. He was an
expensive luxury. So science was called in
and 1t has bred a new animal; squat, fat,
short Of horn, placid, almost inert. with IT
has gone the life and the hues Of COWBOY
life. No longer do we hear Of mad. insane
rushes, of the frenzy Of the stampede. of
the dramatic and daredevil roundups, and
of the cowboys riding their circles about
the herds and singing lullabies to them.
The new brand Of cattle is docile and bo-
vine. 1t is ruminant rather than %riotous.
Romance has vanished. There is little
need for the cowboy and he will vanish,
too.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
AN IDEA WORTH WHILE.
why Not Western for
Western R~niIrondEF
DenNnr Rnnnhlicnn

Internationally it would be a good thing
for the railroads and especially for the
public il the control Of western railroads
were divorced from Wall street and placed
in the hands of western men. But 80 long
as the roads are owned in the east, their
control will be eastern, whatever device
for concealing that fact may be adopted.
1t would be ar easy matter to fill the
official places OF nominal responsibility
with western men and even to elect as
directors men who make their homes in
western states. But there would be no
assurance that the policies Of the manage
ment would be western. The eastern own
ers would still stand behind the board Of
directors, and neither the latter nor the
officials they might choose would be indie
pendent.
The stigma Of Wall street attached to
the railroads has hurt them, and probably
1t has had something to do with the adj
verse sentiment which has found expression
in western legislation. or this account
the eastern owners may think it prudent
to keep themselves and their designs as
far in the background as possible. But
that they will surrender ultimate control
is not to be believed for a moment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
ThOse Dimples on Fair Luna.

Entertaining, II not convincing, is
the latest official theory emanating
from the naval observatory at Mare
Island regarding the shadows on the
face of the moon Prof. See, the as
tronomer in charge, has been appar-
emily living up to his name, and what
his eyes have discovered he makes
known to the public with that careless
disregard for old-established theories
characteristic of the true American
spirit.
1t appears that that prosy old per-
son, Calico, is out of date, 80 far as
the dimples of fair Luna are con-
cerned, for Calico was unkind enough
to style earth's luminary a pimply,
faded beauty, and was ungallant
enough to ascribe those dark spots to
the scarrings of eruptions. Not so, as
serts Prof. See, politely, but firmly.
And he relates how the fair goddess
of the night is the victim Of misplaced
energy on the part of her celestial ad-
mirers. Every so-oalled crater, he in
sists, is the mark left by a huge bou-
quet thrown at her from the florists
shop somewhere among the great
white lights Of the milky way, and mar
on this footstool is hereafter to con-
slider the shadows not as defects, but
as beauty spots.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
= Thompson and His Railroads.
Sprtn gfield panuhticon

ANNFhbAA1AAAs
Now that David r. Thompson, United
States ambassador 20 Mexico, has been
elected president of the Pan-Amerlcan
railroad, his retirement from his diplo-
matte position is to be promptly expected.
1t will be emembered that Mr.. Thompson
recently secured a controlling interest In
the Pan-American road, which is now in
operation from Gamboa, Mex, on the
Te~huantepec National, southeast to Ma
riscal, on the Mexlcan-Guatemala border.
24 miles, and it is planned to use the
road az a link in the proposed all-rail
route between the United States and South
America. The propriety of combining our
ambassadorship with so much outside bust
ness is open to challenge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
PERSONAL NOTES.

Senator Aldrich's tactful confirmation q
the death Of Andy jackson Is scoffed 81
In the back counties.
What does Mr.. Rockefeller care about
dissolution? lie has never been p~artiCu-
larly dissolute, and isn't coins to begin
now.
The governor OF Kentucky has declared
an open season for night riders. This
ought to attract hunters who like Sport
with a spice OF danger in e..
TIL Philadelphia girl now in a London
jail for smashing windows Is said to pro-
test audibly, greatly TO the distress ut
the sympathetic. against taking food from
a machine operated by pneumatic pres
sure. However, II Is impossible to forget
that she does not have to take & this
way.
In Missouri this year more than half
the counties are without licensed saloon.
but. according to a report just filed with
Governor Hadley by the state beer in-
spector, the collections under the beer
stamp law are nearly $4,000 greater this
year than last, when the area Of "wct'
territory was much 'srgcr.
An aeroplsne embracing In its construr.
ton some ideas different from those en-
any other that has yet been built is under
construction at Fort Barrancas, near Pen
sacola, Fla. Lieutenant A. L. Rhodes and
Dr. Grossman being the inventor and con
structors. One Of the distinguishing fea-
lures will be certain appendages at the
end of each plane or wing similar i'm
action to the tips Of the buzzards wing.
The anti. su~ffrsgists OF New York are
geing to study the condition OF women in
all parts Of the globe. Mrs Arthur NJ.
Dodge, chairman OF the executive COM
mittee, has started on a two years trip
around the world to accumulate material
for their enlightenment. Miss IDA ~. Tar
belA Mrs. Richard Watson Glider and
Mrs. Helen Elihu Root are conspicuous
among the workers Of the association.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
An interesting Doctrine.

NNN OIh AllbuHes
MIR. Gompers promulgatos an interesting
doctrine OF test cases when he says: I'VE
protest against the conception that a law
is broken until it is finally and fully de-
cided what is the law That reminds us
OF an eminent judge who once said: ''Ot
course every man has a right to his own
guess as to the law is, but If he
guesses wrong he goes to jail" Any other
doctrince would leave every statute prac-
tieally suspended TIL the objection Of every
pettifosger had been passed upon. The OBJ
J~ector's guess might be mere nonsense put
forward for the purpose OF delay, but Mr..
Gompers wouldn't let him be punished for
uisobeying the law pending the disposi.
ton OF his absurdities. That would make
the law ar ass indeed!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
PUBLICITY FOR TRUSTS.
Standard OILS Mistaken Policy of
Secrecy.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Apart from all legal phases of the ques-
ton, one rock upon which Standard Oil
has broken is its long policy of persistent
secrecy. Here is a mOnstrously big cor
,poration doing a business all over the
world and yet 1t never makes public any
statement Of its earnings whatsoever.
Standard Oil has been earning net $780,
100000 or more every year, but no one, not
even its own stockholders except a few
high officials, knows how. A defiance Of
public sentiment for many years brought
around the Standard antaEonisms such as
other and even larger concerns, like the
United States steel. do not suffer.
Steels managers saw the vital mistake
made by oils managers in their policy Of
extreme secrecy and went the limit the
other way. Publicity has been a charac-
teristic feature Of United States steel, and
its quarterly reports 90 into the fullest
details.
The people like to see and know what is
going on. They may not read annual re-
ports, but they want the opportunity to
do so. Standard Oil would never let even
Wall street look into its books sufficiently
to have the shares listed on the stock ex-
change.
We believe that trust managers will some
day learn, what others know already, that
publicity is their safety and not a peril.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
ACKNOWLEDGING THE CORN.
Some OLD Ideas BanIshed from Rail-
road World
Cleveland Leader.

road World.
Cleveland Leader.
Let no man say that the crusade against
the railroads which have been using their
power a~rrogantly and selfishly has failed
to bring results. Read what E. p. Ripley,
president OF the Atohison, Topeka g. Santa
Fe railroad, said at the first annual ban
quest of the Railway Business association
in New York.
THE old idea of the public be d"
said Mr.. Ripley, has passed out. In this
country the people rule-and in the long
run that system, hat method, or that
personality which does not meet the appro-
baton Of the public cannot succeed. We
must realize, as 1 think we all do (after
a series Of very hard knocks), that the
railroads are strictly private property, but
subject to regulation by the public through
its regularly constituted authorities-that
the government may reduce our earnings
and increase our expenses has been suf-
f~iciently proved.
ITO meet this situation we must endeavor
to get In touch with public opinion. We
must avoid action seriously counter to pub
lie opinion except for compelling reasons.
We must have the disposition to explain
those reasons through officers and en-
ployes Of all Rades. We must improve
service in many cases without hope Of re-
ward and for the deliberate purpose Of Win
ming public approval, such as better sta
tions, improved heating and lighting de-
vices, better equipment, better terminal
facilities, separation Of grades, etc.-all
with due regard to the rights Of those
whose money we are spending
There is the lesson which is being forced
home on the railroads. Not all great rail-
road operators have yet recognized the de-
termination Of the people as clearly as
Mr.. Ripley and some who do have not
accepted II in the cordial spirit he mani
tests. But Mr.. Ripley's statement Of the
situation is absolutely correct. He was not
merely throwing bouquets to the public
70 disarm resentment and leave the way
clear for the old order Of things. He was
talking to other railroad men and he and
they know that the government may re-
duce their earnings and increase their
expenses"
The day when the railways will. In return
for the privileges the people give them.
act in accordance with the rights OF the
people seems 10 be al han
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
Trend of Court Decisions.
phUadelDhfa Press.

The present trend Of the decisions Of the
United States courts is clearly against the
trusts. The apparent failure Of some Of the
earlier decisions to secure any immediate
and important benefit to the public does
not deter the judges from frowning on the
different forms Of combinations in restraint
OF trade. Congress has given them the
legislation and the courts are not employ
ing their ingenuity to defeat that legisla-
ton, but are in a most commendsble spirit
giving effect to IL whenever they can.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

Although he was elected as a repub-
and would have been beaten had
the democrats had their way, County
Commissioner Bruning last year tied
up with the democrats and handed
to them the principal patronage
Of the county board. It's up to Mr..
Bruning to discover where he Is at.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

A local pastor appeals to his friends
to contribute a brick apiece to build a
new church. Some people in this
vicinity remember the campaign for
bricks at a dollar a throw once con-
Quoted by the Auditorium promoters,
and still others have r~ecollections of
gold bricks and of briekbats. OF
course, these various kinds Of bricks
have no necessary relationship.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
SUGGESTIONS FROM DISASTER.
One Means of saving Life I'm
Mines.
York Post.

New York Post.
The Cherry mine disaster has suggested
to many people the question whether food
supplies should not be carried in every
mine for just such emergencies. Canned
meats and vegetables stored away in GER
tain places, together with drinking water,
and renewed from lime to time, might save
a life here or there. The idea Is surely
worth considering, even though the chances
OF reaching the supplies In a moment of
disaster might be slight. II might often
happen that the place Of refuge was pre-
cisely where no supplies could be kept.
But there have been so many cases In the
last few years in which men have been
rescued after hope was abandoned and
after horrible suffering for lack OF food
and water. that II seems as II the expert
ment were worth trying. When the rail
roads In this state were first compelled
TO carry tools on each car the companies
submitted reluctantly, saying that In every
serious wreck the tools would be broken
up, and the passengers would be unable
TO use them. But they have saved many a
life since then, and we believe II the law
we're now repealed, the companies would
Etill continue to equip their cars with
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
Putting Up storm shutters.

The big corporations are anticipating a
federal Incorporation act that may base
capital on value Of properties, just as the
two local corporations are doing. The
Adams Express oompany cut a melon" a
while ago and now Wells Fargo convert
surplus earnings into a 800 per cent stock
Their weather bureau predicts
area Of low baromete coming their way
and they prepare for It as best they can.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

81. louis GIObe-DemOCrat
The cashier OF a plutocratic Chicago
club. arrested for embezzling, says auto
mobiles and women" wrought his downfall.
The public declines to abolish either
temptation. The only practical method OF
discouraging theft is to give the limit to
the thief who tries to fix the blarne where
1t does not belong.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

What a relief to know that the cur
tain was wrung down on that Knife
and Fork club banquet at Kansas City
without a personal collision between
Mayor Jim" and Uncle joe"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
The Great Corn Show,

Charleston News and Courier.
The National Corn exposition is 70 be
held at Omaha, Neb., next month, Deem
Der 6-1s. II will be a grand affair. At the
exposition last year fifty thousand ears Of
corn were on exhibit one thousand special
displays Of the smaller grains and five
hundred exhibits Of farm implements.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
Is ohivaIry a Memory

The president has annulled the appoint
ment of the poor widow Of a lighthouse
keeper on me Potomac. who was to nave
had the vacancy, because she is too fat to
squeeze through the manhole 10 reach the
lens, And this from Taft! It probably
hasn't yet occurred to a beneficsnt govern
ment that it might have enlarged the man
hole
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

The Japanese imitation OF the Amer
lean sugar scandal must be a great ad-
ane over the original, so far as ras-
eality can be considered an advance.
Some of the accused Nippon ringlead-
ers held cabinet positions. which goes
to show hat the lower down a fraud
Is the higher up It can reach
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

DR.. Parkhurst's warning to the mill
liant s~uiragette that woman cannot
get more than half what she wants II
she nights for it as though she were a
man, may be interpreted to mean that
If she is real womanly she can have
anything she sets her heart on.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

Twenty-Five states we're represented IN the
show. The exposition this year promises
to be equally as large. The Union Pacific
railroad is promoting the success OF the
ENTERPRISE.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

When the coming Corn show at
Omaha appeals to the railroads strong
enough to induce them to put on a
special excursion rate everyone may
know that 1t is a good thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

In a little bit of autobiography Mr..
Bryan eonfesses that he expected to
win out when he was running for
United States senator from Nebraska
in 1894. Our political history hoes
not reveal anyone ~ehronioaily more
hopeful in the face OF certain defeat
than Mr.. Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

San Francisco will find the nation
still nervous whenever it relapses into
rilence. Unlike a good child, San
Francisco should maintain public as
surance by being heard If not seen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
Wonders OF the Time.
Cincinnati Leader.

When the wireless operator at Tampa,
Fla, was trying to get news OF Colonel
Astor's yacht his calls, flung out into
space, with especial reference 70 San Juan,
Porto Rico, were picked up distinctly in
the vicinity Of New York. Only an age Of
wonders could accept such facts so lightly,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29
Renewing the Exercise.
Baltimore American

The trust magnates may have TO do some
lodging again. Formerly they grew quite
agile from this exercise, and now that they
are comparatively out OF training It seems
hard they have to begin all over again.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-29

Garden county, the newest addition
to the circle of Nebraska county sub
divisions, is to have a special election.
And now its trouble begins.