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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-09-04

Senator Stone said, in a Kan.
sas City interview that former
Governor Folk and Governor
Hadley have a great desire for
publicity. These two gentlemen
will probably be able to receive
this criticism with complacency
when they contemplate they do
not have to get into a fight with
a negro waiter over a drink of
whiskey in order to get their
names in the papers. Every
Republican paper in Missouri
that has an editor incapable OF
writing his own stuff.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-09-04
Print Takes Wings.

Paper houses are sounding a
warning note that print paper is
giving evidence Of sprouting
W wings S. The Constitution
has received advices from the
wholesalers that owing to the
fact that Congress has retained
the tariff on newspaper and
wood pulp the price will be ad,
vanced.
The great bulk of the print
paper output of the country is
controlled by the Paper Trust,
which has one name for itself in
the East and another in the West.
The rise in paper is a natural
result of hoggish instincts of a
trust and the fact thatits desires
are by Congress put above the
publishers of the country and
the readers of newspapers.
The Constitution is not dis
turbed by the rise because it
knew it would come with the
Republican success in 1908. But
how those papers which sup
ported Taft and the Republican
Congressman are bowling
Chillicothe Constitution.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-09-04

If your house has ten rooms,
or more, watch out, or the sheet
inspector will get you, Under
the ruling of the inspector, a no
tel is a house with ten rooms,
hence you may be running a no.
tel and not know it. If you are
running a hotel under the dis
guise of a home, the inspector
will be around in a few days and
charge you a fee of from So to
$25 for inspecting the sheets you
have on the beds. My, my, what
great law is this hotel inspector
statute. Columbia Herald.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-09-04

Here is the way the papers
will write up weddings ten years
hence: The bride looked very
well in a travelling dress, but all
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-09-04

When NJ. G. Helm, owner of
the great Electric park, Kansas
City, was refused a license to
sell beer in the park by Cover
nor Folks police commissioners
a few years ago, he thought his
business was ruined. He has
changed his opinion. In an in.
teryiew last week he he said: Il
wouldn't have a license now if
they would give it to me, and I'll
never again ask for a license to
sell beer. | used to think it
was impossible to operates park
of this class with the highest
priced attractions and not sell
beer. But when | was refused
a license l concluded to goahead
without the beer and now you
couldn't coax me to put tin. The
absence of liquor has raised the
tone of the park and more people
come" The absence of liquors
would help many other places
and personsif they only knew it.
And such absence would not
only raise the tone" but change
the tune. -Shelbina Torchlight.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-09-04
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s Thoughts Worth Repeating 8
. From the Pens of Missouri Editors 8


We do not look for special ben
efts to the party arising from
the proposed State conference
of Missouri Democrats for the
alleged purpose of organizing in
preparation for the Congress
Sional elections of 1910. The diff,
fculty lies in the evident fact
that such a meeting would al
most certainly degenerate into a
scramble for party favor. The
ms will naturally want to
stay in, and the outs" just as
naturally want to get in. The
people, whose interests should be
served, will be crowded out by
the professional politicians and
otfce-seekers. 1t cannot be de.
MED, however, that party con
ditiOns in Missouri have
reached a point where unity Of
action is not only desirable, but
imperative, if we would gair
control of Congress. We would
be glad to see any action taker
that would assure Democratic
success in Missouri, and partic
ularly Democratic control of con
gress. Sd Glasgow Missourian.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
Education in the South.

A recent meeting at Atlanta is sig
nificant of the progress being made In
the new south. That the south has
set about solving the industrial prob
lem in an energetic manner has long
been apparent, but up to the present
it has Jagged behind in an educational
way. Statistics Of illiteraey make a
sorry showing for that section and I'M
til the fault is corrected thoughtful
students OF political life will see slight
hope for the elevation of its people.
Its labor is largely ignorant and there
fore inefficient, and social conditions
On the whole anything but encourag-
ing.
the purpose of evolving a strong and
uniform system of universal education
and il brought together the most ad-
vanced thinkers Of the south as we'll as
educators from the north to contribute
from their experience. One meeting
cannot be expected to solve so great a
problem, but the recognition of the
fact the problem exists, together with a
desire to solve it, will make this gath
ering a milestone In the progress of the
south.
There is no sentiment so difficult to
change as the conservatism OF, ignor-
ance, and neither the prime movers in
this enterprise nor outsiders should be
disappointed If immediate results do
not appear. The entire country is in
terested in the question almost as much
as the south, so closely linked are the
interests and welfare of all sections.
It is a small beginning on a great task,
but a little energetic leaven can
permeate a whole loaf.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
A Faithful s.ruant

The sudden death Of City Engineer
Andrew Rosewater deprives the people
of Omaha Of a faithful servant. Prac-
tically the whole Of his professional
life was devoted to the service OF the
city and he was engaged mp to the very
last moment in attending "a the oner-
u duties Of that most responsible
once.
The Designing and construction of
all the public works of Omaha, a task
particularly dificult in view of its
rapid growth from an overgrown town
to a metropolitan city, is to be credited
to him, and the future growth OF the
city, so far as respects the extension
and perfection of these public works.
must needs be along the plans which
he has outlined and for which he has
laid the foundations.
In the case of City Engineer Rose
water, as so often happens, the value
of efficient and conscientious public
service has not beer appreciated at the
time of rendering it, but will be mea
ured at its true worth in later years.
As city engineer Mr.. Rosewater stood
unfinchinglyN for the interests of the
public and kept on the firing line
whenever those interests we're
menaced by selfish schemers or unscru-
pulous contractors. Even his worst
enemies will concede hat he was abso-
lutely incorruptible and answering in
fidelity to the city, and It was this very
characteristic of incorruptibllity that
raised UP against him the succession
of antagonism and opposition and cul-
minated in the enactment Of a law
making the Office elective in order to
harass and embarrass him, IL not to
end his Official career.
His premature death has been,
doubtless, fastened by the overwork
devolved upon him by the failure to
give him SUFFICIENT help and the excite
ment necessarily arising from these
constant contests. When a public
servant serves the people faithfully
and efficiently more than a quarter of
a century in a public ONCE of such inn
portance and dies a poor man, as he
has died, he has earned a popular
tribute to his memory.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
A Masterpiece in Figures.

II railroad managers err in any
direction, which is not to be admitted,
the ripe judgment shown in placing
experienced newspaper men in charge
Of their publicity bureau makes ample
amends. In that particular line their
wisdom outshines an arc light in a fog.
Any doubter open to conviction ian
readily convince himself by an exam
nation of the latest brochure from the
railroad publicity bureau at Chicago.
1t bears the imprimatur of Slason
Thompson, together with some relevant
remarks of an edifying and enlighten-
ing character.
Mr.. Thompson is an artist among
figures. He is charmed with their
company, and generously conveys slabs
of the charm to the reader without
price. But the only figures exuding
genuine charm are railroad figures,
grouped in imposing arrays, for which.
Thompson is justly famous. All others
are base deceivers. To Institute COM
parsons would be a waste of time and
space. A mere outline of the reasons
which inspired the artistic production
will serve TO whet the edge OF curiosity
and give the wide circulation Its merits
deserve.
In a needless moment the statis-
ticians of the Interstate Commerce
commission put out a set of figures
showing railroad earnings for a series
of years past. The figures were
grouped by calendar years. The ex-
hibit for 1907 included nine of the
most prosperous months in railroad
history and three months of the de-
preston following the October panic.
The figures for last year did not look
as blue as fearful prophets predicted,
and the railroad losses by this group
ing were not sufficiently imposing to
paralyze offensive agitation. Instantly
Mr.. Thompson leaped into the breach.
With the skill of an expert and the
enthusiasm of a r~evivalist, he smote
the official deceivers hip and thigh and
tossed the fragments on the dump.
Then began the joyful task Of making
railroad figures trumpet the truth.
Choosing October. 1907. as the basing
point of calamity. he developed pyra-
mid after pyramid OF figures, stretch
ing like signal towers over main lines
and sidetracks, until the group picture
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
sPRMGTIME MEMORIES.

James Whitcomb Riley.
In spring, when the green gifts back In the
trees, s. .tE
Ana the sun comes out and stays.
And yer boots pull on with a good tight
squeeze,
And you think OF yer barefoot days.
When you ort TO work and you want 10 not,
And you and yer wife agrees
It's time TO spade up the garden lot,
When the green gifts back In the trees
Well! work is the least o. my ldees
When the green, you know. slts oack in
the trees!
When the green gifts back in the trees, and
bees
Is a-buzxln' roun' again
In that kind OF a lazy go-as-you-please
Old gait they bum roun' I'M
When the groun's all bald Where the nay
rick stood.
And the cuck's ria, and the breeze
Coaxes the bloom In the old ~dogVood,
And the green gits back In the trees
like. as 1 say, in sich scenes as these,
The time when the green gifts back In the
trees!
When the whole taffeathers o. winter time
Is all pulled out and gone!
And the sap ID thaWs and begins 10 climb,
And the sweat II starts out pm
A feller's forred, a-gettin' down
Al the old spring on his knees
1 kindO' like Jest a~-loafin' roun'
When the green sits back In the trees
Jest a-potterin' roun' ~ I-durn-piease,
when the green. you know. sta back h
the trees.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
A LESSON FRoM ERMANY.
River improvements as a Booster of
Commerce.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
There are object lessons coming ont of
Germany which are of great interest to
Philadelphia locally and to the United
States at large.
Germany is adding to It's artificial water
ways a canal which will connect the Rhine
with the city OF Hanover. The canal will
eventually be extended to the Elbe. To
understand the Significance of this under
taking It must be remembered that three
large rivers reach the coast from the in
terror of G~ermany-the Rhine, which pro-
vides the bulk of the traffic In freight for
the Netherlands city OF Rotterdam; the
Elbe. which gives. TO Hamburg its great
shipping port, and the Oder, which, passing
to the astwar of Berlin. reaches the
Baltic at Stettin. Between these rivers run
the Ems. which enters the North sea at
Emden, and the Weser. which gives Bre-
men its commercial Importance. When the
proposed canals are completed the German
traffic on the Rhine which goes to Rotter-
dam can be diverted to German ports. In
deed. a barge from the rhine could be
towed to Emden, Hamburg, Bremen, or
stettin.
The present OF the German
rivers is greater than that OF Germany on
the ocean. This has been made possible
because the. rivers have been improved at
government expense. Rarges carrying 600
tons are towed by powerful tugs and make
good time even against strong currents.
Freight Is picked up at numerous river
ports. The railways run directly to the
auays and warehouses, discharge goods for
the barges, receive goods in return and the
river transportation rates are so low that
the great steamship lines running from the
German seaports take aboard, cargoes that
have been handled 80 inexpensively that
they can be laid down in foreign countries
at a profit In spite OF tariffs and all COM
petition.
Germany is making ali possible use IL its
rivers, and this is where comes In the les
son which the United states has not yet
learned. The inland water routes of our
own country are s~tupendous- They offer
cheap transportation. IL we are to extend
our commerce they must be developed. A
commission has az last been authorized by
Congress to consider the whole matter.
What Is needed Is progressive. systematic
development-that and a bond issue to
prosecute the work
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
EmiErants FIockInw In.

PIERRE. S. D., April 1S.-(Special.)-
As an indication of the manner in which
new settlers are coming into central and
western South Dakota this spring. the rec
ords for wasta in the west and Harold
in the central portion of the state show
up as examples in that line, with other
places making practically equal showings.
At wasta for March. forty cars OF emigrant
goods were unloaded. most Of them being
for settlers on homesteads in that part of
the country. At Harold, the record for
that month was thirty-five cars, these
being the effects of those who had pur-
chased decided lands at prices ranging from
SIS to s6 an acre. But all are coming to
help build up the state and are showing
their faith by bringing the goods to begin
active farming life In the state, and help
to Increase its productiveness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
HOW HEIRS OF ENTRYMAN.
NAY PROVE HIS CLAIM
He Must show Both Residence on
and Cultivation of Lsna
Fourteen Months.

A decision has been received at federal
headquarters from the general land office
that is OF general importance - homes
steaders and particularly to such az have
taken up homesteads under the Kinkaid
act. who are due 70 prove up on their
claims In the near future.
The decision states that in order TO ehA-
bic the heirs Of a homestead entryman to
submit Communication proof Of his entry, he
must show both residence on and %cultlva-
tion OF the land for fourteen months by the
entryman or the heirs. or partly by both.
The same rule applies In cases where com
mutation proof is submitted by the widow
of the entryman.
Heretofore II has only been necessary
for an entryman or an heir to show either
residence or cultivation of the land Tor
fourteen manths.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
Increased Gold Output.

Figures compiled by the London
Statist show that for the year 1908
the worlds output of gold was $409,-
000, 900, the largest since any record
has been kept of the yield Of precious
metals, and without doubt the greatest
in the history of the world. 1t is o
by 1900, 900 than for the preceding
year and by $40. 10000 900 than for the
year 1906. The outlook is for further
expansion, as there has been no serious
working out of present fields and pres
ent methods of mining and extracting
the gold have greatly decreased the
loss of metal in the process of milling
and reduction.
The figures. of gold production are
especially interesting as bearing upon
the high prices prevailing all vel the
civilized world. Increase of consump-
ton in food products in the ratio it
bears to production plays a part, but 1t
is the general verdict of political
economists that initiation of circulating
medium is always accompanied by
higher prices. AS gold has become by
common consent the circulating me-
dunn OF all the great commercial ma
lions, this vast influx of that metal can
scarcely fail to have had it's effect.
Substitution of silver confessedly
would not remedy the matter, for the
possibility of its production is prac-
tically unlimited. Time will work a
readjustment of the relation Of all
things measured by money, but all
artificial means are bound to fail now
as they have In the past.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19

Of disaster was as gruesome as a
head-on collision. Mr.. Thompson's
showing of losses outshines all records
Of calamity and leaves the official fig
ures hopelessly in the rear. That was
the intention. Second only in i'm
p~ressiveness is the delicate insinuation
that the railroads were the only suf-
ferers by the panic. None else lost a
dollar.
For delicacy OF touch, effective
grouping, and matching Of colors, the
figure work of the bureau is a master
piece. II Mr.. Thompson's salary does
not rise to the level of his skill the
public must conclude that railroad
managers id not fully appreciate ar,
for arts sake.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
CHEAP FILINGS AT JUDGE.
senator Bailey's Reflections Resented
In the south.
Charleston News and Courier.

- 6S1N
Charleston News and Courier.
Senator Bailey's assertion that there is
scarcely a federal Judge of twenty years
service in the United States who had not
become arbitrary. irritable and somewhat
tyrannical' will scarcely be received seri-
ously in South Carolina. whose sovereign
rights have been sustained In the last week
by a decision of eight Of the nine justices
of the supreme 0ederaD court OF the re-
public.
The truth is that the south has every
reason to be satisfied with the decisions of
the federal courts since the war between
the states. The ''civil rights decisions
and the policy OF the courts in regard to
the southern suffrage laws have been the
south's main defence when sectional and
partisan feeling ran highest against the
south. Not all federal judges are perfect
neither are all state judges; but the whols
people Of the United States nave every
reason to trust the federal and state judlcI-
aries so far as any instrument of human
government can be trusted.
The opinion OF Justice White, a southern
man. in the dispensary case is no new
revelation of that gentleman's admirable
equipment for service in the highest court
OF the land. Mr.. Bailey's expression is
simply ap echo of the nonsense that a class
Of so-called statesmen have INDUCED dur
ing the last fourteen years. MI. Bailey
heard a man named Bryan say something
Of that kind at some time or other and is
not conscious that he is not original when
he repeats it in different words.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
Signs of the Times in Trade.

One of the most encouraging signs
In the trade situation is the large
number OF orders for structural steel
being placed with the mills. The steel
industry has long been regarded as
the most sensitive and reliable OF trade
barometers and these reports will lend
encouragement to other branches of
business.
The most favorable feature of the
situation is the fact that the orders
being placed are not confined to any
one particular line, but indicate a busy
season in all branches of the steel in
dustry. The railroads, which have
been chief among the pessimistic
forces. have Joined the ranks of the
optimists and are large buyers both of
rails and of bridge and other kinds of
structural steel. Next In point of sig
nificance, and greater W. in volume,
is the great demand for structural ma
terial for new buildings.
In neither of these lines could orders
have been called out after a period Of
depression except as a response to an
immediate and certain demand. Men
Of small means and limited knowledge
of conditions often invest under ad-
verse conditions. but seldom or never
is it the case that large sums can be
drawn out for constructive investment
without a practical assurance of a re-
turn based on a knowledge OF condi-
tions. The orders furthermore come
from all sections of the country.
Other industries, IL they have not
already done so, are sure to fall in
line with these two great factors, and
there can be no reasonable doubt a
general return to Industrial and trade
activity is already or che way. The
west has kept up its courage and gone
ahead through it all and welcomes the
evidence the east is falling into step.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
SPECULATION IN COMMODITIES.
A Form of Gambling that should BE
Suppressed.
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
On the Chicago Board of trade every
year more than four times as much
wheat is sold as was ever grown during
any year in the whole world. The same
thing. with cotton as the commodity
gambled in, happens on the floor of the
New York Cotton exchange. In both
wheat and cotton the price has often
been advanced TO- inflated proportions by
transactions that have been purely
gambling transacuons-that is, in the
finals; no wheat or cotton has actually
been transferred from seller to buyer.
The main evil of gambling in products
which enter into daily consumption Is
that the price Of the commodity is really
advanced by the process. Millers nave
already felt obliged to make a raise in
the price of flour because of the great
raise in the price by the manipulation of
wheat futures"
OF course, those who are managing the
speculative deal are putting out the talk
that there is a world shortage in wheat;
that there isn't enough OF the bread
grain to go around, etc. That sort of
scare has been worked so often that 1t
is surprising that it should ever be
needed. Suliy worked cotton up to II
cents per pound by continuing to buy and
keeping up the ding-dong that there was
not enough cotton in the world to supply
the demand for shirtwaists. Suliy fin
ished his campaign Busted" and there
has been enough cotton to go round ever
since. Joe Letter sent wheat up to 81
and there was an early rumor that he
had coined millions. When the truth
was known II was found tina his father,
who went to his rescue. was out $4,000
OO0
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19

The platform adopted by the repub-
licans of Omaha is a fair, frank and
honest announcement on the matters
which are chiefly concerned in the city
campaign, and In which the citizens
are most interested, and the record of
the republican party for redeeming its
platform pledges is a guaranty of the
good faith in which the promises are
now made.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-19
PERSONAL NOTES.

Russian workmen dissatisfied with the
size Of their Easter tips killed the tipster
on the spot. In this country he Is permitted
merely to starve.
Thirteen jufymen will be selected to. try
a San Francisco graft case. thir-
tenth is expected 20 act only in case one
of the dozen gets lift with a bomb or
something.
President Gompers OF the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor, will visit Europe this
summer to study and report upon the In
d~ustrisl. sociological and economic condi-
tons of the laboring people in England,
Germany, France, Sweden and Italy. He
will sail June %.
Announcement Is made that the bronze
statue of James j. Hill, which will be
placed in the center OF the grounds at
the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific exposition in
nearly completed The statue is % heroic
size and will be set upon a granite pedes-
tai. At the close OF the exposition it will
be placed permanently on the campus
of the State university.
Mrs. Louis Hertz was the leading rep
resentative of the California club In try
ing to secure the passage of the equal
guardianship bill, which was defeated the
other day In the state senate of California,
and which was designed to give mothers
equal control with fathers over their child
rem. Because of the defeat the suffrsgists
of California are redoubiing their efforts
for equal franchise.
Clifford Pinchot, speaking in Providence
last week, gave Mr.. Roosevelt the credit
OF having started the movement for the
conservation OF the country's natural re-
sources, Whereupon a man present arose
and said: Perhaps Mr.. Roosevelt was
the man behind the gun, but the man
behind the gun was clifford Pinchot. l have
heard Mr.. Roosevelt himself. say that
Mr.. Pinchot originated the movement"