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Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

would not be done. on the other
side, the higher paid labor Of the
skilled workman depends largely upon
the work Of the unskilled laborer-for
example, the demand for locomotives
made in factories employing top-priced
experts must wait on the supply of
common labor to lay or enc the
tracks on which the locomotives are
to run. The newcomers" perform
ing the more mental and lower paid
work, unquestionably raise the level
Of skilled labor as well as the wages
it commands. Neither is It true that
the immigrant takes the first job "at
any wages offered" The compensa-
ton of unskilled labor has been stead
lily increasing and is higher right here
today than It ever was anywhere be-
fore.
AS a matter of fact, it is no harder
for us now with our sO,OOO,OOO of
people to absorb the newcomers"
numbering 100000 a year, than it
Nae my 9NdAo d6Ot Wh0h Nv INV
seldom reached over 1OO,O 600. We are
better prepared now with u per-
fected public school system and other
facilities for intoxicating American cit
izenship to take are of 100000
newcomers" a year and make their
children true Americans than we ever
we're before. 1t is perfectly proper
to shut out the vicious and the Grim
inal, the detectives and the paupers,
but there is no real danger now in ex-
tending the hand Of welcome to able
bodied, ambitious newcomers" seek
ing to better their condition by cast
ing their fortunes with us any more
than there was twenty-five years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Washington Herald: A Milwaukee pastor
has resigned, and the descons will not tell
why. Naturally, the women of the congre-
cation look upon the deacons as a mean,
crusty old lot.
Charleston News and Courier: Tthe west
has supplied us with the novel fact of a
minister opening a base ball game with a
short sermon. OF course II was on Sun
day. This may not be sensational, but 1t
savors strongly of 1t.
Baltimore American: A minister in New
York says that the class hatred between
capital and labor must end. The only
trouble about this altruistic program is
that as yet neither labor nor capital seems
to appreciate the pressing necessity.
Chicago Record-Herald The St. Louis
priest who wants to give 10 each married
woman a vote for every daughter she has
and to every married man a vote for each
Of his sons is not likely to arouse much en-
thuslasm in the more fashionable districts
of our great cities.
Cleveland Plain Dealer; An eastern
clergyman recently appeared in his pulpit
arrayed in white flannel. This may be a
hard knock for tradition, but 1t doesn't
appear the the pastors comforting assur-
ances lost any weight through the fact
tina he bore a comfortable appearance.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Mgr. Fall
comic, who has just returned from a favor
able audience with the head of his church,
thinks that religion is making progress"
Rev. DR.. George Foster, who has been ex-
communicated by the Baptist denomination,
thinks that it isn't. There appears to be
no room for compromise between two such
widely varying opinions of men in two such
widely varying positions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
WAITING.

Serene, ] fold my hands and wait.
Nor care for wind, or tide or sea;
l rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For 10! my own shall come to me.
1 stay my haste, / make delays,
For what avails this eager PAGER
I stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my tacA
Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends I seek are seeking met
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide Of destiny. 49,,
What matter II 1 stand alone7
1 wait with Joy the coming years;
MY heart shall reap where IL has sowns
And garner up its fruit of tears.
The waters know their own and draw
The brook that springs in yonder height
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul of pure delight.
The stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave unto the sea:
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
JOHN BURROUGHS.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
To Give Wisely.

1t may be taken for granted that
somewhere there is full information
about what became Of Andrew Car
negie's loan fund to Scottish stu
dents, after a number of university
men and literary papers charged the
ironmaster with weakening the self
respect of graduates and lowering the
standard of Scottish character. If he
was affected or Influenced by the
charge few Americans have heard of
the result. An American weekly, de-
voted chiefly to financial matters,
raises the same question. What can
a rich man do with a large amount of
money without inhicting a great deal
of harm?
The vicious element in all public
philanthropy is that you debilitate and
not benefit when you do that for a
mar which he should do for himself.
If any nan will look back OF his own
experience he will see how little real
good is done by lending money to the
improvement.
There are men of real public spirit
who believe that injury is done to
character by the founding of libraries
and colleges. These men hold that
the Easy abundance of modern
foundations has plainly lessened the
amount and worth of "single-hearted
scholarship"
1t is not a subject to be settled with
a quick dogma. Few men would
throw an obstacle in the way of a
gift for beneicent purposes. Yet there
is a line beyond which philanthropy is
not Away best for the recipients
line of doubt as to whether a well-in-
tentioned gift does more harm than
good.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
Credible and Incredible.

The attitude Of intelligent people
toward the announcement Of the
North Pole discovery is deserving of
attention in its contrast with the atti-
tude Of the world in times past toward
previous great scientific achievements.
AS already emphasized by The Bee,
doubtless there are still sksptics who
would deny the very existence Of a
North Pole, and others who, admit
ting its existence, would deny the pos
sibility Of human visitation. Yet the
general disposition is to accept the
fact Of the discovery by one or the
other claimant, or both, and. while &C
cording them full credit for daring
and endurance, to take It as a matter
Of course that the pole would have
been brought within human vision
sooner or later as a consequence OF the
advance Of our scientific knowledge
and the perfection Of our near of ia
c~ilitating travel and resisting the hard
ships OF exposure TO the elements. In
a word, the civilized world Of today is
ready to give credence to an achieve
ment Of science which previous ages
would have pronounced forthwith to
be absolutely incredible.
Writing long before the Christian
era, Herodotus gives an account Of a
sailors expedition that rounded the
South African cape, but the feat was
regarded as so preposterous that 1t
was not until the fifteenth century that
II was repeated and established as a
geographical possibility. When the
Norsemen made the voyage to North
America, more than 400 years before
Columbus, their account was not be-
lieved until corroborated by those who
came after, and even Columbus died
before the story Of his weird adven-
ture was accepted and before he. him
self, realized the magnitude Of his dis
covery.
1t remained for the last century to
take the word, UNEMPLOYED" off Of
large areas of the map. and 1t has re-
NAMED for this twentieth century to
complete mans knowledge Of the re-
hottest and most inaccessible corners
Of the earth. II 1t should be an
nounced some day by some astronomer
that he had succeeded in signaling to
people dwelling on the planet Mars
there would be a demand for proof,
but the announcement would not be
half so startling as that Of Calico
that "the earth revolves," upsetting
all their established tradition and re-
ligion.
Credibility and incredibility are
relative to the age. With the pro-
crossing conquest of nature n the
spread Of intelligence and education,
what was incredible becomes credible,
and what was long denied becomes ad-
mitted fact.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
Ownership of the North PoIe.

opIAhBlieiu H6puDlCdu,
When the question Of ownership of the
American side OF the North pole comes into
serious agitation, II 1t ever does, we shall
probably find Great Britain pointing to
the treaty of 1918 with the United States.
That treaty granted to inhabitants Of the
United States the liberty. in common with
the subjects Of Great Britain, to take fish
and also on the coasts. bays, harbors and
creeks from Mount Jolly on the southeln
coast of Labrador, to and through the
straits of Belle isle and thence north
wardly indefinitely along the coast
'Northwardly indefinitely" would carry
one to the pole and stop there, since to
proceed further would involve a southerly
direction. Pointing to this provision the
British might say hat their claims in
North America were here made to include
all lands and shores to the pole not other
wise appropriated. and that the United
States conceded the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
No Danger from the Newcomers

NO OdukcT IEOm LuO NCWCOuCTS
In the current number of the Out
look John Mitchell has an article
arguing for further and much more
stringent restriction of immigration
by increasing the head tax to $40, re-
curing each immigrant to bring with
him not less than S26 in addition to
the amount needed to pay his trans
portation to his ultimate point of
destination and making prerequisite
ability to read a section of our con-
%stitution either in our language or
his own language.
1t goes without saying that II this
proposed program had heretofore been
enforced for any length Of time the
progress of this country would have
been seriously retarded, and it would
never have enjoyed the growth of
wealth and population which it has
experienced. Mr.. Mitchell comedies
that such restrictions in the past
would have been the height of alb
surdity, but argues that we have now
reached a point where we must fence
out further immigration as a matter
of self-protection to those who are al
ready here. He seems, however, to
forget that this identical plea has been
repeatedly made every little while for
the last thirty or forty years. and that
every successive wave of immigration
has raised the same dire predictions
Of ominous portent
Where Mr.. Mitchell and other ad-
vocates Of exclusion fall short is in
taking surface indications without
looking behind them. He makes much
Of the fact that immigration has
reached 100000 a year and pro-
fesses to fear hat we will be unable
to amalgamate such a large mass of
foreigners or md profitable employ
ment "for the 100000 newcomers
a year in addition to the natural In
crease of our own population" In
another passage he deplores the fact
that too many OF these immigrants
come here as birds OF passage" send
their savings home and go back as
soon as they have acquired enough To
live there comfortably. When he talks
about finding employment for the
newcomers" Mr.. Mitchell plainly
fails to take into account the 200, 600
or 10000 that go back. He fails to
take into account the natural death
rate among the newcomers" which
is larger than that of our own popu-
lation, and he further fails to take
into accoun the large proportion OF
the newcomers" who are women and
children provided for by the bread.
winners and all who are not seeking
employment in competition with ouI
own -wage-earners.
Mr.. Mitchell makes much also OF
the large proportion OF unskilled la.
borers among the aliens admitted Il
this country and the small number o.
skilled workmen, in consequence OF
which the newcomers must accept
the first job and "at any wages Of
fered." II is true that the immi
grants supply most OF u unskilled
labor, but that has never been a seri
Gus menace to our own wage-workers
OF the native-born American stock
the only class to which the country
can look for unskilled labor is the
negro in the south, and. except FOL
the newcomer much Of this lAbol
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
The Saratoga Conference.

After a debate, the principal fea-
ture Of which was to develop an
irreconcilable difference Of view over
the income tax, the Saratoga confer
ence adopted a platitudinous plat
form and presented to the country
nothing Of high moment. No issue is
raised looking toward the next presi-
Dental election. The government is
left in the hands of the republican
party. No organization of a real OPP
position party is outlined. Most of
the declarations are perfunctory and
inapplicable repetltions Of old demo-
cratic platforms. AS of old, we read
of strict economy in government ex-
penditures. No note is taken of the
fact that New York state and New
York City are the most e~xtravagant
commonwealth and community in the
country. There might be an issue in
the plank demanding tina there
should be no taxation of corporations
except by the states, where their
creation and regulation should re-
main" That attack on the Roose-
welt and Taft policies is the view Of
some democrats when they talk the
language of 1880, but would not last
a week in a campaign. 1t would be
fimfam to call it an issue.
mo interference with the personal
liberty of any citizen except such as
is essential to secure the equal rights
of all the citizens" It would take
a long debate to evoke the meaning
of that declaration. 1t may be one of
those sacred Jeffersonian principles
that adorn every democratic speech,
but never get into an executive action.
1t may refer TO suffrage in the south.
II may be a protest against county
option and prohibition. 1t may be a
principle of Jurisprudence that every
party approves. 1t may be intended
merely to sound we'll.
A number Of the planks refer to
New York states affairs. The aban-
donment of the Philippines was de-
bated to a finish in 1900, when, for a
change. it was the paramount national
issue. Men who voted for the first
time in 1904 we're dimly aware that
there had eve been such a question.
Even the peace societies of New Eng
land have laid It aside and the Fill
pinos reserve It for their locally pa
N.faNAa AaanaNAnn UIhnU khnU Nn1h
heart TO heart they prefer the protec-
ton of American armies and navies.
Taking the Saratoga conference in
detail or as a whole, for what it says
or for what 1t insinuates, there is no
emergence of a vigorous national
party. What of its declarations mean
anything are moralities to which
nobody objects. It may be important
for what it omits. At any rate, it is
far away from bad currency, Gomper-
ism, public ownership of railways,
guaranteed banks and the initiative
and referendum. IL asks for direct
election Of United States senators, a
preference, but not an issue, and more
like a timely thought, wise or not,
than most of the other declarations.
The income tax plank resulted from a
debate in which 1t was plain that the
more powerful element proposed to
antagoniEe the amendment, though II
agreed outwardly TO approve the prin-
ciple.
The conference must be q sad dis
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

There is some frowning because the
centenary Of Raphael semmes, COM
mander Of the Alabama, is one Of the
years events. Turning all the rebels
out Of southern celebrations woud
drive Major Hemphill out of a demo-
cratic convention and leave one grand
Nebraska leader destitute of half his
Joy on earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

OF Mr.. Hartman 1t is recorded that
men in his workshops called him their
best friend, that he fought against
death without a murmur and hat all
the properties intrusted to him are
left in good and prosperous condition.
Is not that an epitaph to honor any
business man?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Mars is coming close to the earth.
We can see water and oxygen in the
Marian atmosphere. How celebrating
and exciting. Cook, Peary, Shackle-
ton and Bleriot can get the send-off on
equal terms. We bet that Cook gets
back first, anyhow.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

In the interest of fair play and edu-
cational reform 1t has been suggested
that every foot ball game be followed
with a spelling match in the evening.
Add the old college song, II Was See
ing Nellie Home" Social and intel
lectual training will then be as good
as It was when our grandfathers were
at 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

appointment to it's promoters. Even
its enemies expected a vigorous ex-
preston Of opinion and a sharp d.
vergence from the weak thinking Of
recent New York democrats. II turns
out nearly nothing and looks more
like one side Of a local New York
factional fight than ANYTHING else.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Among the words that last and burn
are those of Bishop Gambler to college
men to the effect that there is no good
work in stable fat. In the west we
like college men, but we like them best
when the stable fat is worked off.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

The 14-inch rife that uses 500
pounds of powder at a discharge ought
to be presented to the German warship
that could not get out of the river
where 1t was built. The kaiser would
be grateful for such an easy way to
improve his budget.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
Creation and Art.

To me Il seems as If when God con-
ceived the world, that was poetry; he
formed 1t, and that was sculpture; he va
ried and colored it. and that was paint
ing; and then. browning all, he peopled
1t with living beings, and that was the
grand, divine, eternal drama
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Society news has 1t that more we'd
dings will be celebrated this fall than
In any season since the panic. in spite
of the well fixed rule that love nnds
its highest Joy in breakfast food and
dsrned stockings. Good times and
marriages viii go together.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Owners of corn and cotton are in no
hurry to sell. when the days are cold
and hungry the price will suit the sell
ers and Europe will bring forth the
money.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
Work for Ornaments.
Baltimore American.

A justice Of the New York supreme court
has held liable for bad loans by the presi-
dent the board of directors of a trust COM
This justice holds that directors
should direct, n that they are legally, as
well, as morally, culpable II they do not.
The idea that directors must earn their
salaries is a new, not to say unpleasant.
doctrine in the financial world.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Lord Rosebery win do to bet on.
He has plunged again into the battle
n disowned the liberal party. A
spunky fighter does not go into OBJ
security so easily. II would be a
strange sight IL next year should see
Rosebery q conservative secretary in
ths H0Bas at JOrdA
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Biologists insist that Alaska was
ono tropical. If It should change
back before the trust gets out its coal
We shall have a good place for the
summer capital. without asking the
president TO move his issues.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

When you speak of Mr.. Hartman
It is the thing to mention his wizardry.
Otherwise people will fall into the mis-
take of supposing that you were not
acquainted,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

All Of US thought that the Saratoga
conference was out to ~rejuvenate the
democratic party. II is disappointing
to see that what It was hunting was
only Fingy Corners.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Looking at the census of religions.
everybody says hat women are the
strength Of churches. Not a mar has
had an outbreak Of anger over the
base inslnuation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

II Patten has become a bear on the
strength Of the spring wheat reports,
let him have his little game. The
winter wheat would in two days break
any corner built on spring wheat.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTs.
A Record that Justifies a Chesty
Feeling.

Boston Globe.
Americans founded the first government
under which all men were equal before the
law. Sine the Declaration Of Independ-
ence was published to the world the demo-
cratic idea has hourly received new i'm
pulse, until now its march seems irresist-
bile.
Americans were the first to demonstrate
the feasibility Of relying on a citizen SOL
diery TO defend the land and it's institutions
against foreign or domestic attack.
Americans were the first to abolish titu-
lar distinctions and TO deprive social emf
hence Of any support save character or the
consensus OF those who choose to consider
themselves as socially elect.
II was-an American who Invented the
steamship.
An American invented the telegraph.
An American invent I'd the telephone
An American invented the electric light.
An American invented the reaper, which
makes it possible to feed the billion or more
people on this planet.
II was an American, too, who Invented
the sewing machine.
Americans also were the conquerors Of
pain when they discovered how, by means
OF sulphuric ether, the tenderest human
nerves could be mad inssnsible to the sur
geon's steel.
Americans opened the ports Of Japan to
the nations OF the world, made a path into
darkest Africa and now two Americans
crown the geographical achievement OF
their eountrymep BY aSeoYsrinE the North
lPolA
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
A Coming Spectacle.
Washington Herald

There is a more or less disquieting suS-
picion forming in the public mind, we
fear, hat the real truth OF this north
pole business will never be known until
Bwana Tumbo has lined up the Ana
masses.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
some Things Left TO Do.

Detroit Free Press.
Plenty left to engage the ambitious dis
coverer. Just for a starter, discover per-
petual motion and then ascertain is
whisky. That done, plenty Of new and
fascinating tasks will be presented.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

rive never known a woman yet who
wished she was 40"
II have-she was 50."-Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Hewligus having freed her mindS
Why don't you answer me, II you can!
Mr. Hewligus (helping himself TO more
meat)-Its unwholesome to quarrel while
eating dinner, madam. I'll have good ana
plenty to say to you after a while.DCht-
cago Tribune.
This popular fiction is all rot In real
life the girls father seldom objects TO
the man of her choice"
You're wrong there. He often objects,
but he's usually too wise to say anything"
-Kansa City Journal.
How can a boy with only two feet
make all that noise?" said the impatient
father, as Johnny clattered down the
stairs.
Never mind" said the mother. Let us
be thankful he isn't a centipedeL"
New York Sun.
Jack-Perhaps you don't like my style
Of dancing.
Orme lin distress)-Well there is rather
too much sameness about IL.
Jack-Er-how may / vary It?
Orme-suppose you tread on my left foot
once in a while.-Judge.
Mrs. Knicker-How do you make your
books balance?
Mrs. Bocker-That's easy; I always
spend the exact sum l receive right away.
New York sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Captious critics said that General
Corbin was only an ONCE general. A
good ONCE general may be worth a
dozen generals of fall maneuvers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

New York is to have a grand parade
for the Hudson-Fulton celebration,
but 1t will not have the novelty Of
Bozeman's sweet-pea festival.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Figures of the New England wheat
crop are being received. Hold your
breath until the market RECEIVERS its
equilibrium.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12
Arctic Glow OF wealth.

Chicago Record-Herald.
Here is q chance for the long neglected
Eskimo to get rich and famous by be-
coming an expert witness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Subscribers leaving the cItv tenn
pOFariIy should have n Bee
mailed TO them. Address will be
changed ~ often a. requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Charleston says that Atlanta has a
man who once received a letter from
DR.. Cook, and doubtless It was before
he earned hat Cook was a Tammany
democrat.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Prof. Parker declares that DR.. Cook
did not ascend Mount Mckinley. No
body accused him of 1t but himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Gary has used up S60,000,0OO and
is going to invest $4O.000,0O0 more.
And we once thought that we had seen
boom towns.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

The gallant ship, Roosevelt, carried
226 dogs and ten children. Strange
how the customs OF the furthest north
agree with those Of the sultriest south.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

Conservation Of energy and the re-
form of the currency are on the pro-
gram for the session OF congress.
Washington will have a quiet winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-12

The Royal Geographical society has
taken notice of Peary. The debate is
adjourned until about 1915.