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Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
Huge Harvest Figures.
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" ITINT TWIN INNTNWTTNWTTI
The corn crop as finally figured out by
the Department OF Agriculture cannot be
considered disappointing, except TO those
who early in the summer were demanding
a record yield Of 5000. OO0, 600 bushels or
more. The 2.767, $4,000 bushels now re-
corded makes a crop some 100. 900, 900 bush
els above that Of last year, and the larg-
est ever produced, save only in 1906, when
2,s27,A $4,000 bushels were grown. As the
wheat and other chief cereal crops also
nearly reach high record figures, and as a
potato crop Is reported Of .3s7, ga 600 BUSH
els, against 27s.ss5,Oo last year. the eoun-
try eannot complain Of lack Of food abund-
ance. Actual famine conditions are very
far nom existing. even though something
like famine prices seem TO prevail.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

suEEesti9ns Of the Railway Business
Association.

Ptttsburg Dispatch.
When the railroads, aroused by the
crusade for legislative regulation sug-
gested that the manufacturers OF rail-
way supplies Investigate and use their
Influence tc stem or turn the tide OF
hostile sentiment. II is improbable that
they counted for any such report as that
presented by the executive committee Of
the Railway Business association. That
report goes right to the spot.
After a years Investigation this COM
mittee announces as its conclusion that
there Will be no recurrence of the pub
lie agitation against the railroads II the
reasonable desires OF their patrons are
not disregarded by the management Of
the railroads" II declares the convie-
ton that "a large part OF the antagonism
TO railroads has its origin in displeasure
over what seems inconsiderate treatment
given by the railroads. Disregard Of the
reasonable desires OF railroad patrons in
flame those Immediately affected and
give opportunity for arousing widespread
resentment among the masses Of the peo-
pie" The committee, therefore, urges the
railroads Ito redouble their efforts in the
direction Of strengthening the personnel
Of those grades of their employees who
come most in contact with the public and
have most to do in forming public opin-
ion"
No real benefit, It warns the railroads.
can come from a general program Of
obstruction to regulation. which has
come to stay. There will be commits
sions, whether the railroads like Il or
not Warning is given lest the return
to prosperity and the present recession
OF hostility foster heedlessness and re-
suit in a lapse into practices that will
furnish material for another snti-railroad
campaign.
1t is gratifying to find that the rep
resentative railroad heads who took part
IN the meeting in New York frankly
recognized the force of this criticism,
ana promised attention to the recommen-
dations while deprecating the spirit Of
legislation enacted hastily In q moment
OF public irritation. The Railway BUSH
ness association has performed a service
IN directing the attention of public util-
Ivy corporations everywhere to the most
1ertlie origin of popular hostility and the
method Of overcoming It.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

Speaker Cannon's statement that he
had a chance to trade a free wood pulp
for the presidency is supposed { o be
based on a conversation with Herman
Ridder Of the New York Stasts-zei-
tung. Aside from the fact that Mr..
Ridder repudiates the imputation.
there are two things to be noted:
First, that Mr.. Ridder would have
found it impossible to deliver the sup
port Of the newspapers Of the country
to anyone. Secondly. that the extent of
Mr.. Riders ability to elect his pre-
ferred candidate is on record in the
campaign Of Mr.. Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
Fake Nonpartisanship.

The fake nonpartisanship behind
which the democrats tried to mask in
the recent campaign in Nebraska was
pretty well exposed before the election.
But since the election the democrats,
themselves, are no longer Disgusting
the fact that It was a masquerade in
which they were engaged. The Bee
has once before quoted the following
extract from the democratic World
Herald under date of October IL:
The democratic candidates stand ~squsrely
on a nonpartisan platform. They are max
ing no partisan appeal. Neither they nor
the party to which they belong could con-
strue their election as a partisan victory.
Here is what Mr.. Bryan's Commoner
now says about it,.
In Nebraska the democrats came very
near %electing their judicial ticket. When
It is considered that the republican candi-
dates on the judicial ticket two years ago
were elected by over 2l.OOO majority this Is
a gratifying gain and a promise for next
year.
Note that the Commoner calls it q
democratic ticket and not a nonpar-
tisan ticket. Note, also, that the Com
moner regards whatever measure Of
success may have attended the nonpar-
tisan bunco game a a promise inspir-
ing democratic hope for next year.
II any republicans permitted them
selves to be fooled by the nonpartisan
fake into voting the democratic ticket
at the last election it is time for them
to wake up.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

To the protest Of commercial inter
ests of the country against the pro-
posed increase of telegraph tolls might
be added the inquiry, what has become
OF the new devices which were to revo-
lutionize t~elegraphy and bring down
rates. Wireless for a long time has
been promising overland service. and
automatic mechanisms for multiplying
the capacity of wires have been ex-
plotted without any manifest %quaking
among the established companies. II It
be true that Western Union and Postal
have a rate compact, It would seem
that there is not yet hope Of competi-
tion from the newer mediums. and it
might be worth while 10 look into the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
There's the FinancIaI rub.


st. Louis Republic.
The seasonal derJand for money in the
United States" OF which Senator Aldrlch
spoke in st. Louis, has been a disturbing
element in nance and a well understood
factor in Wall street speculation for many
years. 1t is due to the fact that the United
States is the greatest agricultural coun-
try in the world and that crops must be
paid for and hauled to market before they
can go into the hands OF merchants and
consumers. II presents a problem In
American banking and finance that calls
for careful study.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

In the old days the name Jamaica
was synonymous with the word rum.
and many a trim New England craft
dealt il that cargo from the British
West Indies. But latterly Jamaica's
chief industry has been the shipment
Of fruits and the Turing Of tourists.
Visitors this winter will find the plan
tations devastated by another of those
hurricanes which periodically visit
those regions but in that climate ma
ture soon repairs it's ravages, and while
the crop loss will make it a hard
season, the trade doubtless will soon
be restored. The rainfall in the latest
visitation seems to have been a record
breaker. Four feet in our days is a
prodigious amount of water, sufficient
to wash away the last lingering flavor
of rum from the reputation Of the
~banana-land.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
RETURNING AcQUIRED WEALTH
BenefHctiOns COmmau
Public Gratitude.
New York journal of hammered

New York Journal Of Commerce
me example of the late John S Ken
nedy In the acquisition and disposal of
great wealth should not be allowed To
pass out of mind without an effort to
give the lesson a lasting impression. No
man engaged for so long a time and with
so much keenness in large financial opera
lions was likely to escape all criticism
but we have never heard anything Of Mr.
kennedy's methods which aid not conform
to the highest prevailing standards. He
certainly maintained an honorable reputs-
ton in this community for many wears.
Notwithstanding his acquisition OF so
many millions by the full use Of his great
ability and many opportunities.
In disposing OF fully half Of such an
enormous fortune for the benefit Of sci
enee, art, education and pure philanthropy
in the care of the sick, the unfortunate
and the worthy poor, he did so, not only
with a liberal hand, but i'm a iudicious
manner. He did not tie up his gifts in a
manner to detract from their value in
order TO crafty a desire to dictate the
way of using them or make them a monu-
ment to his name, but left 1t TO the Nhi5-
erection OF others to apply them with the
most useful and beneficial effect. The
community afforded him the opportuni-
ties of acquiring his wealth, and though
In employing these he rendered service by
his ability I'm the direction OF great pro-
ductive and distributing enterprises. he
returned a large share OF it for the bene-
TIT OF the same community. The example
Is one that entities him to public graft
tude, and the unalloyed @epute which It
will give his name Is a better monument
to his memory than could have been
reared by any material display.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The promised enlargement of
omaha's Union station will be a much
desired Improvement. but while about
It why not provide some transit con-
nection with the Burlington station?
II these two stations, separated only
by train sheds and tracks, cannot yet
be wholly merged, passengers should
at least be accommodated with a con-
Meeting subway.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
THE WEST.
Mighty Helpful I'm Expanding Narrow
Eastern Chests.
Denver Republican.

Denver Republican.
Mr.. Clarence II. Mackay, president Of the
Postal Telegraph company, Is anything but
a man who could be charged with ignor.
sLce OF the west, and yet he has returned
cast after a tour extending to the Pacific
coast filled with establishment at the rapid
growth Of this section and the enterprise
Of its people.
1t simply means that an eastern man
must make frequent visits to the trans.
missouri region to keep informed. In New
York he may meet many western men. and
he may read reports in newspapers OF the
country's development, but he will miss
much OF what is doing " he makes no
personal inspection.
Mr.. MGckay advises eastern men to make
visits OF this kind, ard Il would be we'll
II many Of them accepted and acted upon
his good counsel. They would understand
the western situation better and many
would be disposed 10 look with more favor
upon western enterprises and opportunities
for inyestmeY
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

Since Judge Good still holds on to
his place on the district bench, all
those nonpartisan democratic lawyers
who we're promised the salary by gu
bernatorial appointment may solacs
themselves with the thought that it
was the other fellow who was to have
been buncoed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
OLD-AGE PENSIONS.
SiEnificnnt Trend of h Times I'm
the United States.
Chicago Record-HeraId

Chfeago Record-Herald.
AT the meeting Of the American Fed.ra-
ton OF Labor the question Of securing
old age pension legislation, from congress
mas received more attention, and a bill
providing for the establishment Of an in.
dustrial home guard" has been drawn
1t is realized that our constitutional svs-
Item presents serious, IL not insuperabIs
obstacles to such direct and frank Gid
age pension legislation as has been en-
acted In England and il proposed in
france. Blu there ar. those who belIev.
that in some indirect way a pension svs-
tenn FOR Industrial veterans may be es-
tabllshed.
while this matter is being considered
oy organized labor the federal Rovernment
Is studying the problem of superannuatiou
IN the civil service, and Secretary Mac.
VeaEh intimates that he will have Soma
pension suggestions to make in his fIrst
report. States and municipalities are
wrestling with pension problems for civil
employees. either designed to extend exist
ing systems or else to cover new classes
OF employees.
AS regards private or qu~asi-public in
oustry' the old age pension movement is
s'eauily' and by no means slowly, gaining
GROUND without the spur Of legislation.
Inc New York Central lines, It is an
nounced' are about to be put into effect an
old age pension system for all Of their
employees that reach the age of 70. Manu-
featuring companies, banks and other con-
Germs rave adopted the pension feature
as a guaranty of greater efficiency and
zeal. Security for old age after a life of
honest industry is as necessary as it Is
just and where legislation is out of the
self-interest and breadth OF mind
should lead to practical measures for such
on a voluntary basis.
The conversion OF the New York Central
lines is significant. Who will come next?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
anIute tn IunIIce.

NV IUIh ITIUUWE.
We pay a grateful tribute OF respect TO
the California Judge who the other day i'm
posed a senteace OF ten years imprisou-
ment upon a thanksgiving automobnist, and
then suspended the sentence for a proba-
tionary period during which the convict
will be required 70 pay a round sum
monthly for the support Of the children
whom his crime made fatherless. Were
such just judgments more frequent our
public roads might again be made safe for
public use.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

According 90 the World-Herald. the
next democratic platform will be writ
ten by the rank and hle of the party.
But the usual p~recaution will be taken
TO provide some member OF the resOlu-
tions committee with an advance copy
Of a platform such as Mr.. Bryan would
write il that duty were to be delegated
to him
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

wyoming morals are looking up.
Not only has there been successful
prosecution that will tend to terminate
the ancient range feuds, but the sheriff
has also declined to share in the re-
ward money, modestly stating that as
a salaried state officer he had only
done his duty.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The tramp caught hiding in the pres
ident's private car may be expected to
boast all the rest Of his life about his
Mayflower ancestry.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

statisticians are ascribing the in
crease of suicides to the strenuous life.
Yet progressive man will go right on
with his preference Of wearing out as
against rusting out.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
A Sanitary PrecautIon.
Boston Globe.

1t is possible to take a more cheering
view Of the noiseless divorce. True, Justice
should show no favor to the rich. But in
cases like that of "Astor against Aston"
the noiseless divorce is necessary on ac-
count Of indecent details. A judicial quar-
antine under such circumstances is war
ranted. Some few may complain, but the
general public Will be thankful
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

When it comes to getting him to
pick up the hot end Of the Sackett law
poker, the anti-saloonists discover that
Governor sh~sllenberger is not much
different from Governor Sheldon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

1t o without saying that the third
generation Of BrySns, when placed In
private tutclRge in Germany, will be
thoroughly safeEusrded against the
communicating democracy of the Amer
lean public school.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
Open to Conviction.
PittsburK Dlspatch.

. Senator Aldrich's campaign to educate
the west in favor OF a central bank is as
serted to be entered upon with an open
mind. The senator is open to conviction
On any monetary plan so It's a central
bank; and the west is likely to respond
that 1T is equally open to the conviction
that the central bank won't do.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

An applicant for naturalization has
been uncovered in Chicago who never
heard of a congressman or a senator.
That's nothing. There are lots Of con-
gressmen and senators who are never
heard Of.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
every wheel Rolling,
Nov York Trlhnne.

Now York Tribune.
The unused surplus OF freight cars, which
has so long figured as an evidence Of halt
ing business activity, has now been con-
verted into a deficit. There are not enough
cars to go around. No wonder the railroads
are extending their facilities and charging
their capital.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
Editorial Amenities in Texas.

Under the tension and stress Of the boy
colt the Galveston News has Instituted
against the Houston carnival, we may be
driven to ooncede that 1t was admissible
for the Teller to steal the growing vege-
tables from the little garden cultivated by
the aged and dependent inmates Of the Old
Women's Home, but we would die I'm our
before agreeing that It was ever
right to rob the cripple Of the S2.75 he had
In his wooden leg.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

An editorial In the last number Of Amer
lean Industries. organ OF the American
Manufacturers association, pertinently
bears on the tour Of the Japanese com
mercial commissioner to the United States.
There is no secret hat the purpose Of
the mission is to investigate commercial
and industrial methods in this country,
and adapt such as may be applicable to
japanese conditions. Becoming acquainted
with American business captains rivals
In Importance a knowledge Of methods to
the end that trade Misrepresentation may
be dissipated. The editorial discusses
these Misrepresentation, their cause and
cure, and the possibility Of increased trade
relations between both countries. The ar
ticls follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The Lincoln Journal y the liquor
laws are being no more %hagrantly VIC
lated In that burg now than they were
before Lincoln voted itself dry. Let
Il go at that.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

Mrs. speyer's bequest of 100000 900
for charity shows that the benevolent
assimilation of wealth is going happily
onward. F27"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

Women Of New York's swelldom are
said to have adopted a new walk known
as the horse show glide. Judging from
the pictures. it's a carriage such as
would put any self-respecting horse to
shame.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The prediction of a preacher that
one hundred years hence woman will
be ruling America naturally raises the
question what on earth she is doing
now
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
National Farmers backed.

Instead OF a resolution f~avoring the re-
duction of congressional mileage rates from
10 cents to 8 cents, it would have been
more patriotic for the national farmers to
condemn the dispensing of free seeds by
the government.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

With. Chancellor Avery as their dis
tinguished rooter, the bleachers should
take heart in the great game Of the
Nebraska millers against Secretary
Wilson.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
Analysis of the test.
Chicago Tribune.

President Taft has come pack home
weighing more than he did when he started
on his trip. No, there is nothing the matter
with the presidential digestion. 1t is ban
Quet-proof.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

ANA and San Francisco. That is a field
well worth watching, and may afford
different results from those now re-
ported by Mr.. Fuller.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

Noiseless and smokeless cannon7
Yes, but not the same. This is the
electric invention of q Smoky City res
ident.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porarily shOuld ave The Bee
mailed to them. Address viii he
changed M often a. requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

We shall soon see whether Edgar
Howard got instructions to soft pedal
on his demand that Down with the
federal courts" be the next paramount
issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The scientists specializing as to how
the whale lost It's teeth might consider
the possibility Of Jonah having been
too hard a nut to crack.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

And now the British suffragettes
have taken to cowhiding such men as
Winston Churchill in public. Pretty,
pretty!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

omaha's street cleaning department
is playing in luck when the heavenly
flushing machines come 30 conveniently
to the rescue.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

A Kansas instructor has invented an
electric device to determine whether a
boy has been smoking. Another way
is to test his breath.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The reception committee for the
Japanese must have overlooked the
weather man.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

Having shredded about everything
else in sight, the professors of the Uni
versity of Chicago are now declaring
the United States constitution obsolete.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
Financing the Unfit,
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
The millions that are being devoted to the
study n solution of public health prob
lens should make Americans a longer lived
people than they are today.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The burrs are opening on the annual
crop Of What l Have to Be Thankful
For chestnuts.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The continuance OF conditions which IN
doubtedly prevent a desirable increase OF
our trade with Japan is greatly to be
deplored. Publicly a frank interchange Of
opinions, frequent visits Of business men
from one country to another, are the rene
dies which will clear away all causes Of
dlstrust. With new and effective patent
and trade mark laws In Japan and a care
ful observance Of fundamental business
principles, cordial and mutually satisfac-
tory commercial relations viii again be es-
sablished.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

President James of the University Of
Illinois is ~undeniably rights the coll
leEe hoodlum should be treated by the
law the same as any other.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
Reversing the Current.

Wall Street journal.
II the prices of farm products continue
to soar, back to the farm may become
the slogan of the city jewellers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

UINI EMEIN OF VIINW
State OF Nebraska, Douglas County S.:
George 3 Twschuck, treasurer Of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly. sworn
says that the actual number OF tulI ahe
complete copies Of The Daily, MORNING.,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
lie nnnnth 81 Octnher 1ana. was as followa:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
Trading in Japan

Pertinent Remarks on Japanese
Methods, American opinion ana
Need Of BETTER Understanding
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

The japanese r. American Commercial
Weekly, published in New York by Yeijl
Anraku and edited by RaJu Nakamura,
both well educated Japanese of broad
views, finds Il necessary to issue an APP
peal to the japanese commercial delega-
ton now leaving the country after a two
months visit. The appeal is based upon
the unfortunately widespread belief In the
United States that many Japanese manu-
facturers and merchants are guilty Of
intrigue and dishonesty in the matter Of
political, as well as business dealings"
to quote the Japanese-American CONNER
clal Weekly. It would be vain to deny
that such an opinion is held in this coun-
try. So strong is the opinion, or belief.
Whatever you may term Il, that many
manufacturer not only refuse to enter
the japanese trade, but also turn back
any orders which may come to them from
Japan. For instance, q New England con-
Germ manufacturing specialties widely used
In machinery manufacturing, recently re-
fused a Toxic order embracing practically
every article in their catalogue on the
ground that the articles would be used
as samples, or models, and that no recorders
would follow. Said the president Of the
concern; IF the japanese wish to initiate
our goods, they must get their samples
In another way. We certainly will not
help them" This same spirit which, II
unfortunate, must have q foundation Of
fact. caused a number of manufacturer
practically to close their doors to the
Japanese commercial commission during
its visit to the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

"A Kentucky couple said Mrs, SImp-
kins, got married a few days ago, after
a courtship which had lasted fifty years. +"
Il suppose replied Mr.. Simpkins, the
poor old man had become too feeble to
hold out any longer."-Chicago Record
herald
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

iconoClastY"
An iconoclast, my son, is usually a man
who seeks to overthrow other peoples
idols IN the hope OF seeking recognition Of
his own works OF art. w hinEt Star,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

matter whether such a combination is
within the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

Il understand that pretty girl who has
formed the habit Of rejecting her admirers
Is the daughter OF q. photographer"
Yes; what OF it?"
1t accounts for her ability in develop
ing negatives. "-BaltimoTe American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15

They tell me Roosevelt has had a mar
row escape said Mr.. Fairbanks. De
termined not to be outdone he sought a
barber and had q close shave himself-
Philadelphia Ledger.