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Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Just when the German imperial
government is calling for the reports
Of the federated states as to the un-
earned increment land tax, we are re-
lceiving consular reports showing that
the German people are turning from
the land. Figures for the last fifteen
years indicate a steady exodus from
agricultural pursuits in Germany, with
Ia total loss OF nearly 1000, 900 of
individuals thus employed. During
the same period commerce. transporta-
ton and the industries have gained
10000 900 of individuals. In other
words, fifteen years ago the Germans
engaged in agriculture nearly e~qualled
those I'm other callings. while today
those otherwise employed are double
the number tilling the land. Another
noteworthy change is found in the fact
that Germany is now importing nearly
five hundred millions in excess of its
exports, largely in foodstuffs, whereas
fifteen years ago the balance of trade
"oS hhAAA9-tWO hAiiAiOnn III AdNOI VI It's
exports. This is a further gauge of
the extent to which German crops are
inadequate to supply home demands.
It is evident from the figures at
hand that the burden of the land has
become oppressive in Germany, and
there is grave doubt whether the i'm
position Of the special land tax has
helped the condition of agriculture, al
though originally aimed at the real
estate spectators Of the cities. When
agriculture lags as it does in the Ger
man states It is evident that the Eu-
ropean situation in this respect is un-
balanced. However, since agriculture
is the fundamental Of life, the greater
its backwardness abroad, the greater
is the opportunity of the United States,
where increase of agricultural output
is the order of the day and where we
have just begun to exploit the full
science of farming.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
Far-Fetnhed.

Tho democratic World-Herald's Ia
bored effort to conjure up a "repub-
lican-prohibition fusion" Is altogether
too far-fetched. Because two candi-
dates on the prohibition ticket tried to
withdraw 1t does not follow that the
republican nominees are intended to
be the benefciaries, or will be the
beneiciaries. II the republican cam
paign managers had anything to do
with pulling off these candidates they
would have seen to 1t that the applica-
lions for withdrawal were filed in
plenty of time to be entirely free from
legal complications. The prohibition
lists seem to have forgot" to file
within the specified time, which is so
similar to the forgetfulness of the dem
ocratic committee treasurer to file his
campaign publicity statement in time
as required by law. that the circum-
~stantial evidence points to a demo
cratic-prohibition fusion, particularly
when we remember the prohibition
affinity for the democratic ticket last
year. In the desperate straits to
which the democratic n~onpartisan
bunco game has fallen 1t is no wonder
that the World-Herald reaches out for
anything that looks to il like a saving
straw.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
Congestion of commerce.

More business offered than can be
handled is the experience of the trans
.portation lines all yer the country,
and in the expenditure of millions for
an extension Of facilities the railroads
are giving practical testimony to the
permanency of prosperity. The New
York CentraIs contracts for immedi-
ate expenditure of $S5,OOO,OO0 to
meet trane demands exemplihes but
another of the tremendous efforts re-
quired by all lines to catch up with
the commercial situation.
President Browns statement that
all of the rolling stock Of his road is
in active service and that II he had
the equipment he could do at least 10
per cent more business may be ae-
.cepted as a fair reflection of the rail
road world-indeed, some lines report
an even greater congestion in the field
OF general commerce, covering manu-
features and current supplies.
In the great crop movement eenters
the oyertaxing Of the transportation
facilities is reported to be even worse.
as witness Duluth. where the lake
steamers are literally swamped with
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

The Lincoln Journal calls on Judge
Sullivan, running on the fake nonpar-
tisan democratic ticket, to explain OF
disavow the letter sent out for him
soliciting corporations to join in the
suit to nullify the corporation tax law
on a 10 per cent retainer and a 25 per
cent contingent. This soliciting APP
peal was sent out to hundreds Of cor
porations last June, and Judge Sulli-
van made his explanation some time
ago, when, in a letter to Edgar How
ard, he declared hat he was out for
all the corporation retainers that could
be made to come his way.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Secretary B~allinger's statement con-
corning those subjects OF conservation
which he has been investigating dur
ing his tour of the public domain may
be taken as an outline OF the policy
to be recommended in detail by his
forthcoming annual report. 1t is in
.teresting to note that Mr.. Ballinger
reiterates that he is in absolute har-
mony with the views of the president,
and his particular reference to the sub
ject of w%aterpower sites manifests the
same attitude against trust grabbing
as that maintained by Mr.. Pinehot.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
PERSONAL NOTES.

Says Taft, 1.-THE president is a sort Of
figurehead for the nation Said Bryan,
by the mouth of Hashimura, the presi-
deney are only a bluff"
When Lady Cook says she will spend
81 OO0,0 300 In the suffragette cause she in
vites the respect that always attaches in
some circles of citizenship to a large cam
paign fund.
Placing the statue OF Senator Matthew
Stanley Quay in an. upright position In
the Pennsylvania state capitol causes some
political artists to doubt the naturalness
OF the pose.
An irish gentleman writing for an Amer
lean magazine says a great deal of leisure
is essential to the higher life. But a great
deal OF hustling is essential nowadays to
paying the higher cost OF living.
Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones is one Of the most
determined opponents Of women's suffrage.
She has arranged several lectures In diff
ferent parts of New York state and ex-
poets that at one or more Of them Gov
ernor Hughes will hear her argument in
favor of Withholding the ballot from
women.
Countess Szechenyi, formerly a Wander
bilt, must curtsey when she meets the
DUCHESS Oh vicar VIM teaSSu recently at
great expense, to be Anita Stewart, and
must not sit down in the presence Of the
duchess without being motioned to do so.
II is to be hoped the duchess will not
withhold the necessary motion, for the
situation is certain to make the countess
very tired.
william Woodward. a Lehigh Valley rail-
road CONDUCTOR. with a run between
Wilkes Barre and sayre. Pa, has what
is believed 20 be the most remarkable rec
ord Of any conductor In the United states.
He is now serving his forty-second year
ON the road All OF that time he has been
a conductor, and, what is more remarkable,
he has had the same run-Wilkes Barre
to sayTe and return-oOntinuously.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
Homeopathy in Detection.

Collector Loeb's retention of con-
fessed grafters who helped him catch
other grafters in the customs house
in face of the direct disapproval of the
court raises again the familiar conflict
between practice and theory. Not
withstanding the apparent righteous
ness of the judges wrath against con-
tinuing crooks in the public service,
Mr.. Loeb considers himself justified in
declining to deal with such cases ac-
cording to purely ethical standards.
In business, as in medicine, like is
sometimes found to be an effectual
cure for like, and Mr.. Loeb, who was
given a particularly sick patient to
cure when put in charge of the New
York customs house, has thus far dem
onstrated the practicability Of this
principle of homeopathy as applied to
the detection of crime.
The location of the crooked ring
that had so long controlled the GUS
toms house is not only a matter of
gain to the government revenues, but
is also productive Of direct improve
ment for other ports. For years Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other
cities have had their legitimate i'm
porting trade diverted to New York,
because their collectors there insisted
on exacting the full revenues, while
the service in New York was adj
mittedly corrupt. Mr.. Loeb had first
to find the r~ascals, and it is to his
credit that he permitted no theoretical
scruples to interfere with the legiti-
mate use of that unpleasant, but some
times vitality necessary, individual, the
culprit who turns states evidence.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
Great Observers Disagree.

N~HIaueIpIId INeVUIu'J
Professor Felix Adler says the German
idea is that we are incurable materialists.
We have heard a good deal Of that, but
the Germans he has been talking with are
in Germany; perhaps IL they would come
over here and look around intelligently
they would know better. Professor Fer
zero made us a visit, and has been telling
Europe since he went home that we are
idealists; that there is no such materiatsm
in American thought as has been attributed
to us. The German idea brought back
by DIR. Adler, that democracy makes for
materialism, is a little odd in view Of the
fact that all over Continental Europe the
universities are recognized hotbeds Of de-
mocracy, occasionally going so far as
socialism or revolution; and the universities
exist wholly for the cultivation Of idealism.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
OMAHA ADVANCES IN \
MIRROR BUILDING ART
A, HOSpe Co.'s "FramsT'S Craft
Shop" Makes This a FsatuS
Department Now.

It's rather smart to nave mirrors fitted
just as you want them, but 1t hasn't
been possible in Omaha until now.
But this plan is now in order because Of
the advent Of Ghe Trainers Craft Shop"
operated by the A. Hospe Co. OF 1913 Doug
las street.
Any shape. size, oval, circle. pier or
fancy shaped mirror design viii be fur
nished and fitted here-rush work too. II
you must l., in time for wedding gifts
etc.
Mirrors for dining rooms may be fitted
in colds. gifts or brasses; mirrors for bou-
doris may be fitted In oaks. Walnuts and
other precious hard woods; mirrors for
halls may be effectively framed In mahog.
any, rosewood. etc,-even the bath room
win have It's special a mirror Of white
enamel.
Only the most perfect and nawless i'm.
ported French and Belgium plate glass is
used, and every mirror designed here will
bear the trade marked II. c. s." label,
just as DO the ''Framers' Craft Shop" pic
tuTe frames.
Call at this store and nave "a submit
sketches OF mirror fitting 70 harmonic
with your home. furnishings, OF, bring In
your own decorators plans II you Will
Demand n wrought 'Fransrs' Craft
Shop" fittings TO your mirrors Just A.
you would "FrameF's' craft shop work
on picture frames. -
That little gold label bearing the trad,
market Initials, IF. G. g." Is potent for
prssuge-and you may as well naive IL.
A. HosPE Co.
ISIS Douglas .
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

It is to be hoped that our people
will cooperate with the enumerators
who are to take the church census Of
Omaha under the auspices of the par
ish visitation committee. The pro-
posed census is to ascertain what the
present field is in Omaha for church
work so that it may be intelligently
directed and prosecuted without waste
of time or duplication Of effort, and
there should be no hesitation any
where to helping the workers get their
data as nearly accurate as possible.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
The County Clerk.

The republicans of Douglas county
are presenting David NJ. Haverly as
their candidate for county clerk. Mr..
Haverly is now the incumbent of that
office and is, therefore, like most of his
associates on the ticket, asking for re-
election al endorsement of faithful and
efficient service.
The work devolving on the office Of
county clerk, while mostly clerical, in
cludes a number Of important tasks
calling for capability and reliability.
The county clerk not only keeps the
records of the county board, but also
handles the delinquent tax list as a
check between the county assessor and
county treasurer, and in addition is
charged with all the complicated de-
tails of preparing for elections and
canvassing the returns. The county
clerk is also a member of the Board Of
Review, which annually revises and
hears appeals from the assessments for
taxation.
No one contends that Mr.. Haverly
has not been performing the duties de-
volving on the county clerk in an ac-
ceptable and satisfactory manner, the
only point which the opposition seeks
to make being that he has had the
Office long enough and should there
fore be turned out. Inasmuch as his
ineumbency has not been consecutive,
and the voters called him back after
an unsatisfactory trial of a democrat,
this would indicate that the argument
will fail to find popular response in a
case such as his, involving an old SOL
der who has always done his duty in
war and in peace.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Although there is to be conferred at
Buenos Ayres next year an interna-
tional exposition celebrating the CEN
~tennial of the Argentine Republic, our
commercial interests have not awak-
ened to the fact, and Europe will hold
the center of the stage. This is
characteristic Of the too general indif-
ference in this country to the posi-
bilities of trade with South America.
For our ignorance concerning our con-
tinental neighbors the schools are
partly to blame, 1t has been the GUS
tom for generations to teach more
about the eastern than the western
hemisphere, and only of late years has
our own country received adequate at
tention in the text books, whose con-
tents concerning the Dominion of Can
ada and Central and South America
are still meager
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

The promised improvements at the
Union station will be decidedly vel
come to Omaha folks who travel or
who have friends who travel. Some day
both of our twin passenger stations
that face each other, separated by
tracks and train sheds, will be merged
into a real union station where the
passenger traffic Of all roads entering
Omaha will be concentrated.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
INDIAN SUMMER.
Chicago NaMs.

Chicago News.
In the mellow Indian summer
Lie the meadows calm and still,
Smiling as the peaceful plumber
When you settle up his bin.
Just about the middle distance
There's a mule d~evouring hay;
Doesn't seem to want Assistance,
30 you'd better keep away.
%.
Far above with wing that Quiokens
Floats a hawk of piercing eye
While he scans the ground for chickel
That the farmer want to fry.
In the thicket hides the rabbit,
Shy as any startled fawn;.,
II you have the hunting habit
You can gamble he Is on.
In the woods are reds and yellows
Blazing every way you turn.
Soon, / think, these farmer fellows
VIII have autumn caves to burn.
Rare and radiant Indian summer
On the blue hills far away,
Here or there, you are a hummer,
So we wish that you would stay.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Congressman Victor Murdock OF Wichita,
Kansas, editor, explorer and 'insurgent, "
usually keeps his eyes peeled while in
Washington. not through fear Of being run
over, but to observe and note the passing
show. Addressing the Knife and Fork club
OF Kansas City recently. he told the story
OF Anne, a statesman's wife, who nearly
passed away with Joy when she was Obliged
to cancel invitations to her dinner be-
cause she was invited to the White House
on the night specified for her own function
the florist, the caterer, the guests all I'M
derstood, she explained, hat an Invitation
to the White House was equivalent to a
command. This was told by way Of illus
trating the struggle Of certain inhabitants
TO envelope the White Hous with the at
mosphere Of an old world court. Some Of
the residents actually seem to enjoy that
sort Of thing, They will discuss, as II 1t
were a question Of international import
ance, Mrs. Blank p%erplexity about giving
the chief justice precedence over the am
bassador from Mauritania. ID you know"
they will say with every evidence Of awe,
that Senator Warren had to arrange the
seating Of his guests five Times when he
gave that last big dinner7 Yes, and his sec
rotary had to maxi a new plat at 8 o'clock
in the afternoon because Of a late accept
anoe that simply overturned his whole ar
rangement of precedence"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

The supreme court ruling that the
Marshall Field $4,000 public mu-
scum shall not 80 up in Chieago's lake
front park is the outcome of one mans
persistent interference n illustrates
the power Of the individual citizen. II
each voter in Chicago were as Efficient
in boosting as this lone man Is IN par
suing his singular policy. what a mar
yeious city Il might be made
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Medical Investigation which now
sets aside the ~old-fashioned rules
against eating before going to bed and
drinking water ~copiously with meals
simply sustains what most people have
been finding out by their own expert
ence and permits them to do what they
have been doing all the time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

People hereabouts are not so forget
full that the spectacle Of Elmer Thomas
and the other %anti-saloon leaders,
pounding the tocsin for Governor Shall
lenberger and the democratic ticket
last fall, has so quickly passed from
memory.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Inasmuch as none of those promised
spirit messages from Lombroso have
been forthcoming, we have a right to
conclude that central" is giving him
the busy" signal along the line.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Down in New York Tammany tried
to kidnap Mr., Hearst's Independence
league in exactly the same way that
Mr.. Bryan and his democrats kidnapped
the populists in Nebraska, but the
courts stepped in and said they should
not be allowed to get away with the
goods.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Philadelphia Record.

The effort to create a trust in the prac-
tice Of law has been checked by a decis-
ion Of the appellate division OF the New
York supreme court. The Associated Law
yers' company tried to exempt itself from
a provision enacted by the last legislature
making 1t Unlawful for a corporation "a
practice as an attorney-at-law for persons
other than itself, but the court held that
Il was reached by the statute,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
WIN the Spirit speakr

BaitimOre American.
Lombroso promised his associates that
after his death he would communicate
with them from the spirit world, and they
are now watching for his ghost. And so
the ghost stories of the ignorant in one
age have become the object Of scientific
research in the next. If the noted Grimm
ologist is able to keep his promise, he
might throw light on many present dis
puted points. y
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

The reform in county jail feeding
put into effect with the incoming Of
the present republican sheriff is saving
the taxpayers Of Douglas county from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year. Does anyone
want to go back to the j~ail-feeding
graft as practiced by the last demo-
cratic sheriff?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

In drawing that cartoon the picture
Of the democratic treasurer hurdling
over the campaign publicity law seems
to have been overlooked. But then
the %cartoonist doesn't even pretend to
be a nonpartisan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

II Yale students can AFFORD to pay
the bursar real money for being called
in the morning, is it not time for the
women at home who have to call their
sons and husbands every morning
without price TO go on strike?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

The Woman's Christian Temperance
union has concluded the sessions Of it's
national convention with which Omaha
was honored. Whatever else may be
said, the women will not suffer by COM
parison in numbers, or b~usinesslike
methods, with the Eagles. whose ma
tional convention was likewise held
here.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

New England towns. which are suf-
fering from water famine, could make
good use OF the river surplus which is
overlooking Mexican settlements. Ma
ture has yet to adjust the unequal dis
tribution OF its riches.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

With DR., Eliot at the head of the
National Conservation society's propa-
ganda, we may look for a ~fve-foot
library at every iye-foot waterfall.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
This should settle 1t.

The International Pure Food congress
defines whisky by saying that at comes
from the distillation of port prepared by
the saccharification of cereals by means
of malt and then fermented." Whewl We
never knew It was so bad as that
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

The dry" farmers have successfully
resisted the advice of the land agents
TO adopt a name with more attractive
frille. The term dry" farming has
come to have a specific significance
which is generally known. and as a
trademark it has established a good
viii hat should be worth maintaining.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
"wOuIdn't This Jar Yous
y Boston Transcript.

bUFVUH IIdIIHNI Ipts
1t will not do to hold the f~oreign-born
citizen responsible for municipal mis-gov-
eminent. seventy-nine per cent of Hol-
yoke's population is foreign born, and yet
that city has one of the best administra-
ions III the country and has been so for
n dechde
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Assurance is given that Is Dunn's
turn to occupy the center of the stage
will come in due time. When that
moment arrives Cook and Peary,
Bryan and Bailey, Taft and Roosevelt
will all have to retire behind the
scenes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

If Mrs. Van Deman can convince
the American husband that aero
planes will cultivate in woman that
elevation of spirits that prompts the
little birds to sing, it will promptly
become a case of discard for the auto
mobile.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

The World-Herald insists that the
populists in Nebraska have been kid
mapped by the democrats with full
knowledge and consent. Consent of
whom? Consent of a few democratic
pie-biters masquerading in populist
parh2
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

II democracy and decency really
Joined hands at the time Governor
s~hallenberger said they did out at
Kearney. they seem to be ashamed of
It already.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
Can't Keep a Good Thing Down

st. louis Globe-Democrat
An increase of more than $50, 900, 900 in the
bank clearings of the United States during
the last few months shows that the bust
ness Of the country has not been seriously
menaeed by ApTer the upward or down
ward features ekathe revised tariff schedule
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Blow the siren whistlel The demo-
cratic World-Herald has shot n
broadside at the republican ticket
without making the editor of The Bee
the target.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Among the recent heroes for a time
among the best sellers. the name of
Jack Binns already sounds like a bark
from the tombs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
Wall Street Journal

President Ryan Of the American Packers
association says there is no prospect OF
cheap meat. Thus dies the last feeble hope
Of the poor man that ne may taste a por-
terhouse steak without putting a lien an
his next years wages.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
POrarily should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address will he
changed ms often AZ requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

Here in Omaha we do not expect the
streets to be kept clean all the time,
but we would be willing to be sur
prised by seeing them clean once and
awhile.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

A railroad magnate complains be-
cause he had to eat elk meat four lays
in the Montana wilds, Lots Of people
would covet the chance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

And now Germany is reported as
holding up that Chinese loan. BY the
time the pie is finally cut its under
crust will have become pretty soggy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

A Boston poet has been arrested for
selling his verses without a ~peddler's
license. Shades of Oliver Wendell
Holmes, has it come to this!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
w ashington Life

snort Sketches OF incidents and npi-
nOdeH that Marx the Progress OF
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

The Illinois Insurance commissioner.
in attacking the charter OF a company
that pays annuities to widows as long
as they do not renarEy. Is but doing
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29
No Politics on the Line.
Kansas City Time

Judge LOvett, the new president OF aAe
Union Pacific. Is a Texas democrat. Il
is expected that the road, however, en-
continue 70 be strictly bipartisan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-29

At any rate, Nebraska still has one
eligible ex-United States senator in
the widower class.