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Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
Japan Desires Peace.

One of the most notable and i'm
portant contributions to recent inter
national discussions is the interview
with Prince Ito of Japan on the as
pirations and aims Of his country.
Probably no other man Is so we'll quail
flied to speak for Japan as Prince Ito,
both from the standpoint Of authority
and knowledge. His declaration that,
above all things, japan desires peace
is reassuring, particularly as it is
coupled with reasons which apparently
guarantee his sincerity. Never a rich
country, 1t is a matter of common
knowledge that Japan is struggling to
recuperate from the waste of It's great
war with Russia and that national de-
velopment is straining its
Japan's position now is too we'll es-
tablished for wise men to jeopardize it
by deliberately engaging in needless
wars. The Ito statement should reas-
sure many In this country who pretend
to believe that Japan seeks to assail
tue Oullcu OIdIS5s IilhCC ~ dA-
alysis of Chinese conditions is fully
as significant as his outline of his own
country's ambitions. Without partak-
ing Of the yellow peril hysteria, he
clearly points out that the situation is
pregnant with dangers against which
the world must look for relief to the
wise men of China itself. In this he Is
at variance with the large school of
foreign political doctors who advocate
continued intermeddling and coercion,
a policy against which the United
States has always commended. The two
theories are based on different concep-
lions of what the unrest in China
means, the yellow peril advocates in
sisting that It is a menace to all the
rest of the world, while Prince Ito sees
in 1t possible destruction and disin-
tegration of the empire itself.
II Japanese statesmen can assist in
guiding China through its perifs they
will have accomplished a great thing
for Japan, China and the rest of the
world.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
Excessive Exnress Rates.

The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has formally held that express
rates on interstate business are too
high and ordered the various com
panies TO submit new tariffs on or be-
fore October /. A formal complaint
on the rate from New York to Boise,
Ida, opened up the entire question
and developed a number Of important
facts. One Of them was that while
practically all express rates we're too
high, rank discrimination was being
practiced against all points reached
by only one company and where goods
were transported over the lines of
more than one company to reach their
destination an exorbitant charge was
being made for transfer.
While the larger problems Of rail-
road freight transportation were
threshed out, the express companies
escaped serious notice, but it was only
a question OF time when their ex-
actions would be reached, though 1t
has been a matter Of common knowl-
edge that they practiced dlscrimina-
lions more fragrant than those of the
railroads and paid enormous dividends
on a small actual capitalization.
The express business is a vital part
Of present-day commerce and its reg
ulation is part of the regulation Of in
terstate carriers. The rates charged,
according to the commissions find
ings, are so lacking in system and so
chaotic that it will be a difficult prob
lem for the commission to make the
needed readjustment unless the com
panies respond in good faith to the or
der for rate revision and abolition Of
determinations.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
wEsTON's WONDERFUL FEAT.
Footing it from Ocean to Ocean I'm
One Days.
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st. Louis Times.
The extraordinary feat Just accomplished
by Edward Payson Weston sclipses any
endurance performance OF record. He
started to walk from New York TO San
Francisco in 100 days. The distance he
trAversed Is reckoned to be S,sTB miles.
Practically he walked forty miles q day
for three and a half months. The fact that
Weston was five days behind his schedule
at San Francisco in no way detraets from
the merit OF his performance as a marvel
In athletics, He was not trying to break
a record, but 10 MAKE one.
No other man ever went 30 far afoot
so fast. A North American Indian OF the
virgin time might have been capable of
crossing the continent in 100 days; some of
the harder African tribesmen might be
capable of such recurrent fatigues, but we
doubt either probability. No Marathon
runner, no four-footed beast ever foaled,
could duplicate Weston's speed from the
Hudson TO the Golden Gate. II the old
man had not suffered inclpient sunstroke
In the Sacramento valley-which caused
him to fslter, but could not make him stop
he might have met the roush-hewn
schedule ne had set for himself.
Weston's accomplishment, however, is
in no sense & triumph for American ath-
letes or an American system of athletics.
1t is a performance purely personal. 1t is
an achievement of Edward Payson Weston
himself. and probably no other walker In
the world could equal it.
Think youl This man is threescore and
ten years old. He lacked much helpful at
tention. He was not mollycoddled on his
way. Many hardships other than those OF
his mere pedestraniEing he endured.
Behind the salient birth given and prac.
tice-molded iron constitution and steel
muscles OF the man, behind his indomitable
force OF win. lay . life Of temperance and
three-score years devotion TO open air
exercise. Frugal In diet and sparing OF
stimulant, Weston. even at 70 years, was
trained to the hour by the habits Of a
longer lifetime than falls to most. His
feat is a fine and significant expression OF
what temperance mag In some measure do
Tor any Of Is
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
REAL THING IN THIRsTs.
Kansans Choose Between the Gov
ernor and a Loaded Locker.
81. Paul Dlspatch.

Kansans Choose Between the Gov
ernor and n Loaded Locker.
st. Paul Dispatch.
We nave been hearing much, II not too
much, about the manner in which the
prohibition laws are being enforced in
Kansas, but the latest reports from that
state show that the Kansas thirst has not
been conquered, but is alive, potent and
far-reaching. The Illustration Of this fact
comes In a report from Topeka, to the
effect that the Topeka club, described as
the height Of Kansas swelldom'' has
voted to keep its locker system, even at
the penalty of losing the governor Of the
state as a member,
The test came when Governor Stubs
wrote to- the directors of the club stating
that, as governor Of a prohibition state, he
would not belong to an organization which
maintained a locker system built to ac-
commodate liquors for members. The d.
rectors took the matter under advisement.
They agreed without a dissenting vote that
they were fond Of the governor. but that
when It came to getting along without a
governor or without their booze, they
would try leaving the governors name off
the list Of members. In effect, they de-
clared, I'VE love you, Governor, but oh,
you booze"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
NoNrAnr1sAN lrn1c1Anr.
Attempting Toe Much d Ne
bFasha Act invalid.
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aFAaAA ACT AmNAAlos
Chicago Record-Herald.
1t is not surprising that In the progress
toward direct primaries, and beyond that
toward nonpartisanship in certain nomina-
tions, occasional mistakes are made In the
framing Of laws In Illinois. for example,
the primary laws have been made uncon-
stitutional by tho Vaccinations Of enemies
Of their passage. But sometimes even the
friends Of such legislation will violate neo-
essary constitutional limitations.
This latter appears Ito have been the case
In Nebraska with the new state law de-
signed to take nominations for judicial
and educational office entirely out Of party
hands. This law went so far as to prohibit
political parties from in any manner what
soever indorsing, recommending, censuring.
crtticislng or referring to any candidate
for state or county offices Of these two
kinds. Now the supreme court of the state
has held that the prohibition violates the
provisions of the bill of rights in the state
constitution granting the rights Of free
speech and free assemblage.
The law might, perhaps, have been sus-
tained with the elimination OF this clause,
but there were still other defects in II. IL
contained a prohibition against using more
eHNA w ohheH AfOih any one county IN the
nominating petition Of any candidate for
chief justice or judge of the supreme court.
This provision, designed to compel candi-
dates to have more than a strictly local
following. appeared to the court as an In
reference with the constitutional require
ment that elections must be free and with
out hindranoes to the exercise Of the fran
chise, AS a majority Of the court regarded
this clause essential to the purpose of the
law, the law was set aside entirely.
II the Nebraska law had contented itself
with prescribing what should not appear on
the official ballot, there is no reason 70
think 1t would not have been upheld.
Doubtless the Nebraska legislature at the
next opportunity will pass an amended
bill, securing all that is possible for the
present in this direction. A constitutional
convention ultimately can consolidate and
complete the reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

Lookout ON the border Interpretu tho
sigma.
Baltimore American.

RAAAlAAANAN aAAANA at
whatever else may have been accorSI
plished when the extra session shall have
finally adjourned, the signs and portents
seem alresdy to warrant the conclusion
that the democratic party will nave been
split Hsuuder, divided hopelessly and Or.
revocably. by the divergence Of view that
has developed among the stalwarts OF the
party upon the tariff issue. The sold
South is already a mlsnomer in political
nomenclature when the politics has refer.
ence to tariff policy. Texas and Alabama
are entirely at outs when It comes to fix
ing a principle upon which the tariff
should be readjusted.t
Texas, being yet mainly an agricultural
state, shc ws q disposition to stand pat
upon the ancient theory OF a tariff for
revenue only. In a recent issue the Hous-
ton Post argues thus: THE south Is a
producing section. Its chief resources are
raw materials and II will never consent
to compete In the markets OF the world
on what Is sells and be confined 70 the
American market for what II buys. 1t viii
object to selling its wool, hides. rough
rice, raw sugar and other products on a
free-trade basis, and buying It's clothing.
shoes. dressed rice refined sugar and
hardware on a protection basis" Ths
sounds truly like a whoop handed down
from the Roger q. Mills period.
But Texas needs only a few more cot.
ton mills and a few more blast furnaces
to bring about the same change OF view
triff matters which has come to
Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Ten
nessee and Louisina. At present II seems
that the democratic party, as a national
organization, has no common ground to
stand on. Its last formal declaration-the
Denver platform-has been completely dis
regarded by more than half the represen-
tation of the party in the United States
senate and has been treated with not much
greater regard by the party representation
In the house. The sage OF Lincoln, Neb.,
through his. personally conducted
The Commoner, remarks In a
recent Issues; The cause OF the people
Is moving forward; even the. enemies Of
the public are, by their opposition, maxi
ing more clear the distinction between
democracy and plutocracy." Whatever
this oracular utterance may mean the fact
is probably not lost upon so acute an
as Mr.. Bryan that the party
for which he assumes to be spokesman
Is irretrievsbly divided and completely
adrift.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

As for transportation, Teheran boasts q
system of horse cATs-a very good horse
can be bought for 1s0-and there Il one
little toy railroad six miles in length run
ming from the city gate. where the horse
cars stop, to the Moslem shrine of Shah
Abdul AKIN. The horse cars obligingly
pause in front OF the cafes and wait II
the passengers choose 10 TAX refreshment
or a pull at the long stemmed water-pipes'
for the hurly-burly and hustle OF western
civilization are utterly incOmprehensible
in the slow-Eoing. placid country of Iran.
The difference in railway fare between
the first and third classes, for the one
ride It is possible TO take, is Z centsi
and the first-class passenger enjoys a cup
OF tea for nothing. The villas Of the
wealthy residents OF Teheran and their
abundant gardens are In the cooler, ele-
waited hill retreats on three sides OF the
city. From June until November Is the
dry season. during the rest of he season
the purlieus OF the city are themselves
made beautiful with all manner of bios
som and fruition.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

VIII some one explain why we have
not had an outburst for many weeks
about the water furnished Omaha be-
ing contaminated and requiring filtra-
ton or boiling before using7 Isn't It
the same water we have been getting
all the time? Or Is It because the
water bond election is dead and
buried? Or may we expect the water
to become suddenly germ-laden again
as soon as the Water board wants an
other vote of confidence,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
County Oommissioner Ksnnard.


There is a touch Of the pathetic in
the death Of County Commissioner
Kennard, which will cause the COM
munity more than the usual regret at
the loss of a conscientious public Off
GER. Mr.. Kennard was Just complet-
ing a second term as member of the
county board, and cherished the hope
that his health. although noticeably
failing, would still permit him to
present himself for another vote Of
confidence In the form of a re-elec-
ton, which would undoubtedly have
been accorded had the people been
given the opportunity.
As a member OF the board, as we'll
as in the capacity of private citizen,
Mr.. Kennard left a record most cred
liable TO himself, and commanding the
grateful approval of the taxpayers to
safeguard whose interests he particu-
uarly concerned himself. His part in
paving the way and instituting the
preliminaries for a new court house,
commensurate with the growing needs
OF the largest city and county in the
state. will find eommemoration in that
handsome building when completed.
Mr.. Kennard's public service. although
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
PERSONAL NOTES.

Attorney General jefferson d. McCarn
Of Nashville, who successfully prosecuted
the Coopers for the murder of Senator
Carmack. is to be a candidate for governor
Of Tennessee.
from santander, Spain. is q droIl failure as
an exiled Napoleon planning his return
from Elba. No steamship company would
sell him a ticket home.
George w. Emery, who died recently at
his home in Marshfield, Mass. was terri
torial governor OF Utah during the admin
istration of President Grant. At one time
he praeticed law in the office OF Benjamin
F. Butler In Boston.
One Of the great hotels Of New York will
have as an adjunct a splendid yacht, SO
that guests may be taken to Europe with
out having to touch elbows with the merely
respectable. But, alas, they must use the
same wind and waves, and the common
variety OF s~easickness.
Cruel husbands will take notice that
Judge Honore Of Chicago, in granting a
decree Of separation to Mrs. Arthur l. Al
drich, on the ground of cruelty, has fixed
her alimony az half Mr.. Aldrich's income,
with half his estate, valued at $500. 900.
when the estate Is awarded.
The supreme court OF Minnesota, having
annulled an act OF the Legislature APP
propriating 100000 for highway improve
ments Governor johnson is considering
the calling OF an extra session OF the leg
lslAtion for the purpose OF submitting a
constitutional amendment permitting state
assistance for good roads. II the call is
Issued 1t is likely the governor will in
clude consideration OF the proposed in
come tax amendment to the federal con-
stitution,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
Shortage Of European Crops.


European crop conditions hold out
no promise OF lower prices for Ameri-
can grain. Over half the grain-pro-
ducing sections of Europe are reported
below the average and in some Sec
lions much below, while in the most
favored places they are not above
normal. This indicates conclusively
that there will be an active demand
for the surplus food grains of the
United States and Canada because
the reserve crops Of the southern
hemisphere and storage in Europe is
rather below than above the average.
Should there be abundant crops in
Argentina and elsewhere in the south
ern hemisphere the demand may les
sen In December and January, but
that is too far In the future to infu-
ence prices for the present or immedi-
ate future.
With the increasing home consump-
ton and an assured market at good
prices for any surplus the United
States may have, our farmers need not
worry about commanding good prices
for this years yield of grain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
PUT A BAN ON COCAINE.
Easiest Drug to Use and Most Dam
geFOus I'm Effects.


Philadelphia North American.
OF all the vicious. habit forming. char
scter and health wreckIng drugs, cocaine
is the easiest drug of all to Use. 1t is
bought as a solid, white substance. II is
then crushed. with a pencil usually, then
k upon the thumb and shifted into
the nose, precisely like snuff. It is one
OF the most exhllarating OF all drugs.
Later there are terrible reactions, until
the "fiend" has TO use the drug constantly
to be even decently comfortable. Finally
there are complications and he dies.
Statistics concerning the results of CO.
caine are lacking. But Il has been in
every city as It has been in Philadelphia.
where II was proved In open court that
scores Of boys and girls in his city are
addicted to the cocaine habit; that pur-
veyors Of the drug have even approached
the pupils Of the public schools, and that
the opiaee can be obtained in almost any
part of the Tenderloin.
Police officials have had good cause to
learn that one result of the use of the drug
is to breed In the "fiend' the desire to
make converts to its use. And In most
cases the choice falls upon children Of
tender years. The schools for thieves, the
colleges of crime Of the modern FaKins
that exist in every large city, find cocaine
the most potent of the corrupting influences
necessary for the education of the Juvenile
pickpocket and sneak thief.
For the sake Of that whole race, for the
sake of the children forced daily into con-
tact with evil in congested city districts,
for the sake OF the humanitarianism that
is causing the whole world to help lift
the curse OF opium from China, let us! look
at home and force congress to take the
first step toward casting out the devil of
cocaine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
TEST OF A FISHERMAN.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
The world has many anglers, bu
Real fishermen are fewL.
An angler loves to sit and chat
About the sport with YOU.
He'll tell YOU how he loves the game,
How he could spend all day
Casting a baited hook for bass
In river, lake or bay.
And yet the angler Is a man
Oh, there are lots Of them
Who will not quit his bed to fish
At 4 o'clock a. m.
The fisherman will rise at dawn
And quickly slip away
To cast his line into the deep
Before it's break OF day.
The angler, though, the night before
VIII swear that he will rise,
But when the fisherman gets up,
II Is In vain he tries
To rouse the angler from his sleep
he sticks unto his cot;
To fishG Well, I guess not.
The fisherman will row q boat
For miles and miles and miles
And, catching but a fishaor two,
His face is wreathed in smileG
The angler wants a cushioned seat
And room to stretch and yawn;
A place to sleep II they don't bite
And WEAKNESS eomes on.
The morning star NOV fishermen,
And smiling, welcomes them;
The anglers, though, II never secs
They sleep till 3 a. M
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
Menger national Rewards.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

cincinnati Enquirer.
Congress has many times given its vote
of thanks to commanders Of its armies or
navies, and occasionally freely scattered
bronze medals for special acts Of bravery,
but its recognition Of great services in
science or art have bcen very fn~frequent,
evidently forgetting that peace has its
victories no less renowned than war"
When our fathers broke away from the
mother country and established a republic,
in their haste to cut out from the new
government the bad features of the old
they went to the Axtreme and forgot to
leave In some things that are good.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
Among the Tail a1nders.
New York World.

New York World.
Out Of 100, Ts5, OF spindles in work in ali
the world at the beginning Of last March
the United Kingdom had nearly $500, Os0
and the United States q little less than 2S,-
10000 OF other countries trailing along,
Germany led the list with almost 10000, 900,
OF the cotton supply of the world for the
season 1SO7-19Os Americans fields furnished
over 1900, 900 bales In a total Of 1890, 900.
We have the crops and the tariff. but the
empire Of the s~pinners is still beyond our
gates.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

Boston Herald.

President Taft is said to show in his
face the effects Of official care. The cam
era even has cought him without his smile.
No wonder. During the past few months
he has Travelled enough and a speeches
enough to kill a horse, And many OF his
tasks have been the result Of wholly I'M
necessary demands upon time and strength
that ought TO be saved to matters far
more important
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

The old shah of Persia declined to
receive a d~eputation to inform him
that he was out of the shah business.
He already knew it, and repetition is
painful.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

Ifyou read 1t in the local democratic
organ. when President Taft makes his
trip to the Seattle exposition it will be
"a junketing tour" but when Governor
shallenberger heads in the same direc-
ton 1t will be simply a little outing.
That's democratic nonpartisanship.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

1t is plain enough hat the city coun-
Gil has let the heads of the various
municipal departments make up the
budget without questioning the de-
mands of any of them or inquiring
carefully as to whether the requested
appropriations could be reduced with
out serious detriment to the public
service. To take the words of those
who spend the money, appropriations
out of the city treasury can never be
too large, but If the interest of the tax
payers are consulted the limits OF ex-
penditures can be held down.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
John w. Kern OF Indiana

John w. Kern OF Indiana mem
tiqn his residence lest som might
have forgotten the gentleman Is out
in an address scoring the democrats
who voted for high tariff duties.
Whether these democratic senator's
are right OF wrong. from a party view
poipt, they have one thing in their
favor-they carried their own states
last falL
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
Problem of Keeping Cool.
Nav York Sum.

The whole question OF keeping cool dur
ing the heated term resolves itself into a
question of motion and diet. II you wish
to be warm rush about and drink iced
water or tea, guzzle alcohol and beer. and
read the tariff debates. Vice versa, drink
warm tea, discard meat and alcohol, but
not your f~lannels In the tropics they eat
hot spiced food. There's a reason.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

Not m of our Nebraska delegation
in congress got on either base ball
team to decide whether the pennant
should fly over the republican or over
the democratic side Of the house.
Candidates for congress from the sew
eral Nebraska districts should be re-
Quired next time to qualify by a test
on the base ball diamond.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19
old World strenuOsity.

BOSTON heTbiu-
Our side Of the world isn't holding It's
own with the other side for political
TuctionS. Peril In Persia, continued trouble
in Turkey, agitation in Arabia, India and
Egypt uneasy, and now an upstart Rhogi
capturing the holy capital Of Morocco.
Truly, the heather do rag
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

How unkind TO rob the paragraph
ers of their chance by stating in the
announcement that 1t was not a Bap-
tist church in WASHINGTON which had
put q swimming pool in the basement.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

Things have surely come to a pretty
pass when the Dahlmanites are driven
to the necessity Of drafting candidates
for office. Democratic confidence in a
successful result must be considerably
below par.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-19

The wild and woolly west is not the
only place where the bandit hourishes.
That trick turned on the German-Rus-
sian frontier would have lone credit
to the boldest stage robbers Of Ameri-
can pioneer days.