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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
Ouack Cure-Alls
Conditions which Make Pa
thstioauy Absurd Fanacsss
for Ills Of the BODY Polite.
Theodore Roosevelt in the outlook.

Theodore Roosevelt in the outlook.
The best lesson that any people can learn
is that there is no patent cure-all which
will make the body polite perfect. and that
any man who is able glibly to answer
every question as to how TO deal with the
evils OF the body polite Is Of best a fool
ish visionary and at worst an evil-minded
uuack. Neither doctrinaire socialism, nor
unrestricted lndividualism, nor any other
ism, will bring about the millennium. In the
last analysis the welfare Of n nation de-
ponds on Its having throughout a healthy
development. A healthy social system must
OF necessity represent the sum OF very
many moral, intellectual and economic
forces. and each such force must depend
in It's turn partly upon the whole system;
and all these many forces are needed to
develop a high grade OF character In the
individual men and women who make up
the nation. No Individual man could be
kept healthy by living In accordance with
a plan which took cogniSancs only of one
set of muscles or one orgau: his health
must depend upon his general bodily vigor,
that is. upon the general care which af-
fects the many different organs according
to their separate needs. Society Is, of
course, Infinitely more complex thar the
human body. The Influences that tell upon
1t are countless; they are closely inter
woven. interdependent. and each is acted
upon by many others. II is pathetically
absurd, when such are the conditions, to
believe that some one simple panacea for
all evils can be found. Slowly. with in
finite difficulty, with bitter disappoint-
ments,. with stumbilngs and haltings. we
are working Dur way upward and onward.
In this progress something can be done by
continually striving to improve the social
system. now here. now there. Something
more can be done by the resolute effort
for a many-sided higher life. This life
must largely come to each Individual from
within, by his own effort. but toward the
attainment OF It each OF us can help many
others. Such a life must represent the
struggle FOR a higher and broader human
ity. to be shown not merely In the deal
inss of each of us within the realm OF the
state, but even more by the dealings Of
each of us In the more intimate realm Of
the family; for the life OF the state rests
and must ever rest upon the life OF the
family and the neighborhood.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
WHAT THREE INSECTS COST.
Distributors of Malaria, yellow Fever
and Typhoid.
A., vorl, Mail

What do the insects which disseminate
malaria. yellow fever and typhoid cost us?
What is the liability side, from our stand
point, of the anopheles and stegomyia mos
uuitoes and the common house fly? DR..
l.. o. Howard, chief Of the bureau of ento-
moIogy. essays to answer the question In a
government bulletin.
Malaria has rendered western Africa.
part of India and many other tropical re-
gions uninhabitable by civilized man. 1t
has hindered to an Incalculable degree the
development of Italy. II is believed to
have caused the degeneration, in classical
Greece, Of one of the strongest races of
the earth. 1t retarded our own expansion
through the middle west and in the gulf
states. 1t keeps the Yazoo delta, the best
farming land in the- world, save the Nile
valley, sparsely settled, and land there
down to $40 an acre or less. Our country
has an annual malaria death rate OF 1900,
and there are about 1,SO,o0 Americans
suffering from the disease. Italy has at
least 100000 persons afflicted by It. The
annual loss through deaths, doctors bills
and decreased earning power in this coun-
try, is perhaps 800, OOO, 900. About 100000
is spent each year in screening houses from
the inroads of the malaria mosquito. 1t Is
declared that directly or indirectly this
disease produces "one-half Of the entire
mortality of the human race"
Yellow fever registers its economic waste
not so much in its death list, which, com
pared to other diseases, is small, as
through the terror It inspires. Says DIR,
Howard:
THE disease once discovered In epidemic
form, the whole country has become
alarmed; commerce in the affected region
has come virtually to a standstill; cities
have been practically deserted; people
have died from exposure in camping out
in the highlands; rigid guarantees have
been established; innocent persons have
been shot while trying 10 pass these quar-
antine lines: all industry for the time has
ceased. The commerce OF the south during
the epidemic OF 1878. for example, fell off
30 per cent, and the hardships OF the popu-
lation cannot be estimated in monetary
terms"
The house fly-"the typhoid fly" DIT.
Howard rechristens it-has TO its credit 50
per cent OF the total deaths In the Spanish
American war. and IL infected about one
fifth OF the soldiers in the national en-
eampments In this country. The lumber
OF bacteria on a single fly may vary from
$50 to s.SOO.OOO. This insect may also spread
tuberculosis and cholera, as well as
typhoid germs.
II is the little things that count. and
when these little things are disease-breed-
ing insect pests OF a preventable sort. they
count just as big as We will let them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
PERSONAL NOTES.

Much annoyance would have been pre-
vented had the surgeon who operated on
Castro been less skilfui.
President Taft has accepted an invita-
ton to attend a celebration OF the 10Th
George Washington at Alexandria, Va, the
afternoon of April 90.
After trundling his wife and children IN
a pushcart one thousand miles. starting
from Waterville, N. Y. last September.
going to Winchester, Del. William w.
Bishop obtained work there.
All new recruits to the New York police
force are to be put through courses of
boxing, wrestling and t~iu-jitsu. This will
enable some OF the ex-champions to be-
come professors of the manly art" in
stead of going on the stage.
Former Vice President Fairbanks an
nounced at Pasadena. Cal. that he would
sail from San Francisco on May 10 for a
trip Of one years duration. to -include In
his itinerary Hawaii. Japan and China, the
Philippines. Australia and Africa.
George H. worthington Of Cleveland, O.,
is known to fame as the owner OF a col
lection OF postage stamps estimated TO he
worth half a million dollars. 1t will in
terest collector all over the country that
Mr.. Worthington has decided to will his
collection, the third largest in the world,
to the Cleveland Museum of Art. OF which
he is a trustee.
In one of his interlocutory speeches last
week Congressman Champ Clark said that
under a republican administration Kansas
and Nebraska farmers had utilized their
corn as fuel. 81 have lived in Nebraska
for the last twenty-five years. from 1887
up to the present time" said Congressman
Hinshaw. 'and we have never burned corn
at all. Notwithstanding 1t went as low as
8 cents q bushel."
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
voters supply the Fnnd..

OItNHIdHu btdUVIs
It is the commonest delusion of voters to
imagine that they have no interest in taxa
ton because they have no property on the
tax duplicate. They do not understand
that they would be able to obtain cheaper
rent. cheaper clothing, cheaper food IL the
burdens of government were not so heavy.
Long ago a cynical French statesman de-
fined the science of taxation as the art Of
obtaining the largest possible quantity of
feathers with the least possible ~squawking
of the geese. The rule still holds, especially
in respect to the millions who pay taxes
without knowing 1t. They are the main
dependence of the tax MASTERS everywhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
Dur Liberal Givers.
New York Globe.

Men and women little known out Of an
immediate and small social acquaintance
give away more money than the richest
man in America possessed in w~ashington's
time. A few families nave not yet cornered
the wealth Of the country, and there is
much more distribution than the stump
orators would nave us believe. Lists of
m~illIonaires are printed. but these lists are
as remarkable for omissions as inclusions.
1t is a mistaken notion that every rich man
in America is ostentatious and is con-
sumed with a desire to hold a diplomatic
post OF to marry his daughter to a foreign
nobleman, or even to have a villa at New
mort.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
Rake-Off for the Sugar Trust.
p~hiIadeIphia Record.

The tariff tax on refined sugar is pro-
hibitory. So little is brought into the
country that the resulting revenue is a
negligible item. But this tax enables the
Sugar trust to add 2 cents a pound to
the price of refined sugar. The con-
sumption of sugar last year in the United
States was nearly 6,4O0, 600, 900 pounds
showing a per capita use OF eighty-two
pounds-Ss for the average family. The
tax on raw sugar contributes heavily to
the revenue; but the tax on refined goes
to swell the profits of the trust. Why
should the prohibitory tax on refined be
maintained, since the sole object thereby
attained Is to fleece the people and feather
the nest of an insolent, thieving' un-
s~crupulous monopoly
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
PUBLICITY AND POPULARITY.
Big Men of Finance Removing Their
MuEHIes.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

uBAAcbs
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The other day e. II. Hartman, approach
ing New York City after a 10,OoO-mile swing
over his system Of railroads, ordered a
special train for reporters, so they could
meet him an hour up the line. He had the
women folks in his party photograph the
newspaper men, posed himself and then
talked pleasantly and freely on every sub
ject suggested, except that OF former
President Roosevelt.
Whatever Significance there is in the in
cident lies not In what Mr.. Hartman did
or did not say, but in the fact that he
went out OF his way to accommodate the
reporters and submit 10 their fusiIlade of
questions. 1t is not imposed he said
anything Of special value to his rivals in
the railway world. but every word was
of interest to the public as coming from
the greatest railway man OF the age.
Where a few years ago big men of H.
nance avoided reporters as a pestilence,
It is now quite the common thing TO be
cordial and invite a pleasing interview
in the papers instead OF a caustic para
graph. They recognize 1t as good business
policy. Mr.. Rockefeller was among the
first to see the light, and now he Is al
ways ready with a few platitudes or a
dissertation on the beauties of golf as a
recreation. He is also writing a story OF
his life. Mr.. Morgan frequently unbends.
Carnegie. Gates, Schwab and a score of
others are frequently in print. And now
comes Hartman, heretofore a sphinx
among them all.
The public is quite accustomed to a few
men acquiring control OF the wealth OF the
nation, but II is tickle enough to resent
silence on the part OF its custodians, not
to mention annoyance when any questions
are asked.
But silence has given away TO sociability
and annoyance to a willingness to take the
public into their confidence. So far as the
public is able to read, these big men are
really good fellows. II a bit fortunate. with
ambitions and fluctuations the same as the
smaller fry in the money world. All Of
which goes to prove that a little publicity
I'm matters which concern the people goes
q great ways In the direction OF popularity.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
Eject of an Eye-OpeneF

The announcement is made in Washing
ton dispatches that the proposition to adj
vance the duties on gloves and hosiery
above the Dingley rates lie to be abandoned.
1t is a little significant that the report OF
the senate finance committee making this
decision comes tho same day as the state
ment that the house leaders will agree to
that change before the bill goes to the
senate. 1t looks as though something
struck the two bodies at about the same
time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

a suggestion Of dictation from Aldrich.''
The Rhode Islander is the sntithesis Of
Hale Of Maine: yet the two are close
friends. Hale is gruff, abrupt and super
ciiIous with almost every one save AID
rich. The latter finds II just as easy to
be good friends With Hale as with the
peppery TiIlman and the punctiious Ba-
con.
Aldrich is a rich man. But his tastes
are simple. He could buy a string Of au-
tomobilcs stretching from Washington to
New York: yet he walks to the capitol
when 1t rains or SHOWS. Until this year
he has lived in an apartment at the Ar
linEton. Now he owns a handsome home
on Massachusetts avenue. in the fashion
able quarter. He has a beautiful summer
residence at Warwick, r. l. He has no
taste for society and dislikes evening
functions. His name Is never seen in the
list Of senator who accept dinner invita-
tion six nights every week. Aldrich finds
his diversion in the winter evenings in
reading.
Aldrich il looked upon by many people
as the personal representative in the sem
ate OF the Standard OIL trust and the
0NANCN hlNNitHAS NAN oAN ms 80
due in part to the fact that he Is the
father-in-law OF John d. Rockefeller, jr.
Aldrch has been roasted scores Of times
by muckrakers because Of this relation
ship. The Rhode Islander is never wor-
ried by newspaper criticisms. He never
takes the trouble 70 defend himself or
correct popular Misrepresentation regard
ing his motives as a senator. He once
smilingly made the following statement to
a friend:
"They say I represent the OIL trust be-
cause my daughter married Mr.. Rookie
Teller. The fact of the matter Is. I have
never seen John D.. Rockefeller. sr., but
three times in my life. The first time
was the occasion OF the marriage of his
son and my daughter. Subsequently. 1
met him twice, and the extent of our con-
versation was some casual remark about
the weather and our health"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Everybody is for municipal owner
ship of water works under proper con
ditions, but not everybody is for mu-
nicipal ownership of water works with
the plant so loaded down that a deficit
must be made up annually by taxes
whether levied on foot frontage basis
or apportioned to valuation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
No Excuse for KIckinR.
Nauf VnrL Dnsf

We see no reason for Americans to be
respondent over these successive athletic
defeats by members Of decsdent races.
The Americans the still the only ones who
furnish the big money prizes for such
contests, and who yell themselves hoarse
on tho benches. Thus they live up 10 the
highest ideslA and usefulness OF college
athletics.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

If the 100000 OF water bonds
voted in 1900 are illegal, how soon will
we have to vote them over again for
betterments and extensions after the
$500, 900 is handed over to the water
company? How are we going to pay
the $500, 900 of accumulated hydrant
rentals which are right now drawing
Z per CEN interest?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
Frank Recognition.

EniiduelpHla TEooSs
The shade Of the superb Hancock look
ing Town on the debates in ongre must
smile ~wistfully at the frank recognition
of the fact that the tariff is a local
issue" While the great and abiding prin-
ciple continues to be of national applica-
ton, each vote on the schedules is local.
The tariff will soon be out of politics as
a factor in presidential campaigns.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Our old friend, the redoubtable
Charley Wooster. has staked his repu-
tation as a prophet on this prediction:
IF Shallenberger signs the daylight
saloon bill either Jim Dahlman or a
republican will be the next governor"
Better place your money on the repub-
lican.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
CONSIDER
Christina Rosetu,

Consider
The lilies of the fiei whose bloom is pflsLi
We are as they;
Lise them we fade away,
As doth a leaf.
Consider
The sTarrows 81 the air OF small accounts;
Our God doth view
Whether they fall or mount
He guards US, too.
Consider
The lilies that do neltheT SPIN nor TOLL
Yet are most fair;
What profits all this care,
And all this toll.
Consider
weeks;
God gives them food
Much more our Father BOok1
To do US good
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Whether Nebraska's new deposit
guaranty law is a wise one and
whether it is a constitutional legal
measure are two different questions.
If the law is invalid in whole or in part
the sooner 1t is ascertained by proper
legal proceedings the better.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Baltimore American.
Much jeering comment was caused In a
noted college because in the college paper
the death of al aged alumnus was put
in the news OF "alumnus activities" II
certainly is a very suggestive advertise
ment of a college, coming from itself,
that there Is something doing when an
alumnus dies.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

The Annanias club bids fair to be-
come an international organization
now that a French newspaper CORES
pendent has been presented with a
fully paidup membership by ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

help was needed to clear up the
dockets.
Nebraska's experience with it's SUI
preme court commission has been far
from satisfactory and it is to be hoped
that It will never again have to submit
to a supreme bench of deputy judges.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

The frequency OF collisions on inter-
urban trolley lines would indicate that
operating methods on these lines need
revision as much. IL not more, than on
the steam railways.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Among the other legacies of the
late demo-pop legislature is the mu-
tilated primary law. II anything is
calculated to discredit the system of
direct nominations this w~ide-open bal
lot with which the demo-pops have in
flicted us is pretty sure TO do it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
Trying 60 start Something.
W.-As-r.on Iarald

If MIR. Hartman Is seeking TO start
something while the former president Is
away from home base. he will probably
succeed. Ultimately. however, he may
be calling %strenuously for help in his ef-
fort to head IL off.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

The indictments against Governor
Haskell have been quashed on ac-
count OF irregularity in the compost
tiop OF the grand jury. For a man so
anxious for a vindication. the gov
ernor is pursuing decidedly dilatory
tactics.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Attorney Geperal Nickersham ad-
mits that he made 100000 a year
practicing law. The president must
have secured him on the bargain
counter. for his present job only
pays $12,O OO per year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

We cannot bring ourselves to be-
lieve the rumor that fashion has
already decreed the basket hat must
go before the spring millinery bills
have been paid,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

The servants have testified they
never saw Mrs. Howard Gould drink
liquor to excess. II the servants did
not see it. there is a fair presumption
it never happened.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Having gone out of the revolution
business as a means OF attracting at
tention to itself Ecuador proposes to
hold an international fair in commem-
grafton OF the one hundredth anniver-
sary of its independence. Under the
kindly tutelage of the United States
those southern republics are progress
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Presumably the s O'Clock closing
bill still permits Lincoln to ring the
curfew at 7 O'Clock, except when the
State fair is on or the legislature in
session.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
A Hopeless Task.

Chicago Record-Herald.
There probably never will come a time
when IL will be possible TO convince a
man who owns six or seven sheep that it
would be possible to reduce the tariff on
wool without SCATTERING the bulwsrks Of
the republic.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

A New York commission has
figured it out that that city can
legally borrow 100000, 900 more. If
our American cities would put in part
of their time figuring how they might
pay some of the money already bor-
rowed. the ultimate burdens of the
taxpayers would be decreased.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

If the habit of dropping $4,000
bills oil the plate at Washington
churches becomes chronic it may be
necessary to put the collectors under
bond.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Crazy. snake has taken to the
wilderness, but Haskell is still on this
warpath. There must be something
doing in Oklahoma every minute.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

According to the Official count one
of the nominees on the republican city
ticket gets his nomination by a plural
ity of seven votes. That's too close
for comfort.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

No more deputy judges on our SUI
preme court bench, but the deputy
judges would, doubtless, be glad to be
promoted to the real judicial jobs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Emma Goldman's husband is to be
deported. That is less expensive to
Emma than a divorce.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Four million cubic yards of earth
and rock were. moved on the Panama
canal during March. Going some.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Strange, but jokers in legislation
are too often no joke.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
Are An %Countedf

Kansas city journal,
According 10 official statistics, there
are 500 insane people in Oklahoma, not
counting those who have been making the
laws down there
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

The summer car and the end seat
hog will soon be with us again.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

Never mind the restless natives In
Africa. The big stick will help settle
things
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

meet Colonel Roosevelt at any point on
his journey. Each would agree that the
world was large enough for both.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
PASSING P~LEAsANTRIES.

What sort OF a man is hep
"Oh, one OF those fussy fellows who
always carry their money In a purse and
their matches in a silver case. "-Cleveland
Leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
Large Enoush for Two.

Boston Transcript
II is unlikely that Mr.. Fairbanks In
his ro~und-the-world tour will arrange TO
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the cit1 tenn
porariiy should have n Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed a. often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
The cad vas LOOKING al the klng.

Teacher-Now, boys. here's a little example
in mental arithmetic. How old would a
person be who was born in 1875?
Pupil-Please. teacher, was 1t a man or
a woman?-Boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
A Tariff Wizard
Basis Of the Power Of ssna-
tor Aldrioh In Handling rev
enue Legislation In Congress.

This week the United States senate will
begin consideration Of the tariff revision
bill passed by the house Of representatives,
Tentative consideration Of the tariff ques-
ton has been in progress since the begin
ming Of the extra session by the senate
committee on finance, TO which the house
measure will be referred. The chairman OF
the committee Is Nelson w. Aldrich nf
Rhode Island. accounted one Of the ablest
members Of the senate. on questions OF
finance and the tariff his knowledge is con-
sidered masterful. Hence the measure of
1909. as It leaves the senate. Is likely to
bear the impress Of his influence to q
larger degree than that Of any other mem
Der Of the body. The reason for his power
and the characteristics OF the senator
possess timely interest, and are set forth
lnstructively by the Washington CORE
spondent Of the Brooklyn Eagle.
do you want to know how the hides
schedule and lumber schedule will be fixed
up7" asked a wise looking individual.
YES replied the dlsputAnts in a breath.
GO ask Aldrich."
That's It. Go ask Aldrich. Those three
words supply the answer to nearly all the
tariff puzzles of the present day. says the
writer. The corridors and Hobbies of the
house are filled every day with tired look
ing men who are buttonholing congressman
and telling them of the outrages which the
Payne bill will perpetrate. Those who
know the ropes pay no attention to the
wordy, noisy house. They take their briefs
to the little room on the main floor of the
capitol next to the senator's elevator. This
Is the private room of the senate from
Rhode Island. A word spoken to him
there, under favorable circumstances, is
worth more than a t%hree-hour speech on
the floor Of the house or the senate.
Nobody has given a satisfactory explana-
ton OF Aldrich's remarkable mastery over
the senate when currency n tariff are
up. He executes some mysterious influence
over the other senator's beyond doubt. Men
Of acknowledged ability and leadership in
other issues, for some strange reason, bow
to the superior domination of Aldrich when
the subject of schedules and rates is men
toned.