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Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Crocodile Tears.

AS was to have been expected, Mr..
Bryan in his Commoner sheds a
plethora of crocodile tears over Joseph
B. Healing, whom he credits with
being IAN honest lawyer" because he
resigned the office of United States
district attorney rather than prosecute
in a government libel suit" Mr.. Keal-
ing is held up by Mr.. Bryan as a signal
example of a man willing to resign
an Office rather than enter upon a
criminal prosecution which he believes
to be unw~arranted and dangerous to
the public"
The reason alleged by Mr.. Healing
for his action in his letter of r%esigna-
ton is that the indictment of some of
his friends in the government libel
suit would require their transfer to
another Jurisdiction, which might be
contested, and that he would not want
to be the agent of the government in
seeking this transfer. The Bee be-
~lieves, and has 80 expressed itself, that
these prosecutions, If brought at all,
should have been brought in the juris-
diction where the defendant newspa-
per is published, but hat is neither
here nor there in this matter. If
every United States officer should re-
sign every time some official act re-
CURED of him did not At in with his
ideas of policy the government would
be at a standstill all the time.
The Healing resignation on its face
would indicate that some other reason
prompted it besides that included In
the explanation. Readiness to resign
is sometimes to be measured by what
is given up, and in this case the fact
that Mr.. Healing was appointed for
four years in December, 1905, would
indicate that all he has ~relinquished
is about nine months of public service,
with the salary thereto attached. But
the current number of the Outlook
goes into further detail as to this par
ticular case, which seems to have be-
stirred Mr.. Bryan so much and vouch-
safes this additional information from
inside sources:
Mr.. Bonaparte and Mr.. Roosevelt both
SO thoroughly d~istrusted him CMr. Keal-
ing) that they had arranged that he was
to have nothing to do with the prosecu-
tion. Mr.. William Dudley Foulke had
made charges against Mr.. Healing of so
grave a nature that Mr.. Roosevelt had
much doubt whether he ought to be re-
moved. but did not act simply because it
was SO near the close of his (Mr. Keal-
ing's) term, as well as of Mr.. Roosevelt's,
and before the libel suit was brought Mr..
Healing had notified Mr.. Roosevelt that
he would resign. providing a certain man
was appointed in his place, the proposal
being made to prevent Mr.. Beveridge
recommending a man to fill the vacancy.
So that resignation involves not so
much a question of martyrdom for
IAN honest lawyer as Mr.. Bryan
would have it, as it does a bold stroke
of clever politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Free Art Assured.

While the senate in it's wisdom, or
u~nwisdom, may make some radical
changes in the Payne tariff bill as 10
passes the house, it seems certain thai
the long-fought contest for the re-
moval of the duty on art has been
won The Payne bill provides for the
admission free of duty of all paintings
and works Of art more than twenty
years old. The reason for the age re-
striction is not plain, but the practical
removal of the duty is a decided tri-
umph for the advocates of free art.
The duty on art has always been
questionable. American painters have
not wanted 1t and the net result of it's
retention has been to force Americans
to pay double prices for importing art
works and to force American students
who wished to study. TIP old masters
to go to Europe for that purpose. No
one has eve offered any convincing
defense of this tariff schedule and
the fact that 1t was not long ago re-
moved is due largely to the lack of
concerted effort. Most OF the rare
paintings which American men OF
wealth have bought abroad have been
eventually donated to museums or art
galleries and the tariff has worked to
levy a tax on rich men willing to use
their means for educational purposes.
]. P. Morgan has a valuable collection
- - -
refused to bring to this country be-
cause of the excessive import duty.
With the restriction removed this col
lection and many others will be
brought to the United States, to the
delight of students and art lovers, The
removal OF the duty will make the
whole country richer in one of the
greatest resources of popular educa.
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Revision and the Consumer.

Perhaps the most striking feature
of the new tariff bill is the recogni-
ton extended by it's trainers to the
wants and demands of the
In former efforts to revise the tariff
much attention has been paid to the
manufacturer and the importer, con-
gress apparently exercising great care
that these interests should not be in
terfered with unduly. but in the pres
ent measure a majority of the ways
and means committee appears to have
kept the ultimate consumer" in mind
throughout their hearings and the
preparation of the. bill.
1t is figured, for instance, that the
removal of the duty on hides would
not amount to more than 10 cents a
pair on the price of shoes. But with
some $4,000, 900 people in the United
States who buy from one to a dozen
pairs of shoes each year, the aggregate
savings of 10 cents a pair makes a
very large total. So the committee de-
cided to admit raw hides free of duty.
The argument that the saving might
be absorbed by the shoe manufac-
turers was promptly met by a reduc-
tion in the tariff on manufactured
boots and shoes by about 40 per cent.
This will open the way for foreign
| competition II the home manufac-
turers become naughty, and the plac-
H. - hfIaa on fhn FRnA Ifsk zkN.Il
result in a direct saving to the con-
sumner.
The cut of 25 per cent on meats
should help the consumer. 1t may not
result in a marked reduction of pre-
vailing prices, which are determined
by many conditions extending from
the range to the butchers stall, but
it should be a safeguard against arbi-
trary increase in prices which packers
might attempt to make for their own
profit. For the same reason the re-
duction of the duty on refined sugar,
while almost nominal in amount,
really marks the boundary line be-
tween monopoly and competition. 1t
assuredly means protection against ex-
tortion and timely advance of prices
by the Sugar trust at certain seasons
of the year.
The cut of so per cent in steel
products means much to the wage
carriers and home builders. 1t spells a
reduction in the most expensive ele-
ments in construction and. with the
so per cent cut on lumber, should
mean cheaper buildings, as brick,
glass and other articles coming under
the metal and construction schedules
are TO be radically reduced.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Emphasizing Their impotence.

The democrats who plead with the
voters to put them in charge Of the
Affairs OF the nation are furnishing an
object lesson in their inability to gov
ern even a party caucus. They are
demonstrating that on a matter of
party strategy, politics and interest
the democrats at Washington cannot
be united any more than can the dem
ocrats in the nation. The effort of the
leaders to organize the minority into
a strong, effective opposition to the
republican administration has failed,
leaving the democrats in congress
hopelessly divided and helplessly
ioundering.
The democratic minority had a
glowing opportunity at the opening OF
the special session of congress Re-
publicans dissatisfied with the present
rules of the house offered to cooperate
with the democrats and accomplish re-
forms which we're pledged in the dem
ocratic national platform. The over
lures we're accepted and plans for a
general revision of the house rules
were carried out, up to a certain point,
when two dozen democrats bolted their
caucus, deied their leader, abandoned
their allies and went over to the ad-
vocates of the old regime. The re-
publican insurgents had a right to re-
volt against the rules without being
chargeable with party treason. The
democrats we're bound to oppose the
rules as a matter Of party principle
and in obedience to a definite party
platform pledge, but the minority
leader could not hold his men and the
detection was but a repetition of his
tory. emphasizing the lack of decisive
ness and the first principles Of success
full organization in the ranks Of the
democracy in congress.
Champ Clark, the minority leader,
and William Jennings Bryan, the late
presidential candidate, are busily en-
gagged in reading the recalcitrant dem
ocrats out of the party, while Fitzger-
aid, the bellwether of the democrats
who refused to follow Clark, retorts
that the democratic party is suffering
from the same brand of idiotic lead
ership it has had for fifteen years.
and intimates that there is no hope of
betterment until the material at hand
for the creation of leaders is radically
changed. Champ Clark is thus repeat
ing in his own case the experience Of
every democratic leader in the house
in the last fifteen years. John Sharp
Williams eve had his fist fights with
members of his W side while the
house was in session and, before him,
Bailey and Richardson both resigned
the leadership in disgust because the
high privates would not follow them
with the loyalty necessary to effective
party opposition.
The democratic party in congress,
like the democratic party in the ma
ton, has no fixed principle and no &C
cepted policy because whenever it lays
down either 1t drives away a large eie-
ment within it's own ranks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
ONCE IN A WHILE.
Nixon Waterman.

NlhtH Ndltl ihth'
Once I'm a while the sun shines out,
And the arching skies are 2 perfect blue;
Once in n while mid clouds OF doubt
Hopes brightest stars come pceping
through.
Our paths lead down by the meadows fair,
Where the sweetest blossoms nod and
smile.
And we Law aside our cross of care
Once in a while.
Once i'm a while within our own
We clasp the hand of a steadfast friend;
Once IN a while we hear a tone
OF love with the hearts own voice to
blend;
And the dearest of all our dreams come
true,
I And on life's way ~. a golden mile;f
Each thirsting flower is kissed with dew
II once in a while.
Once in a while In the desert sand
We find a spot OF the fairest green;
Once in a while from where we stand
The hills of paradise are seen;
And a perfect joy in our hearts we hold.
A joy that the world cannot defile:
We trade earth's dross for the purest gold
once in a while.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

spring bonnet! What are you standing there
laughing at?
Farmer-Poor beast! I don't wonder he
took II for a basket Of grub. Blu it's so
funny to see my pig in your ~poke.-Balti-
more American.
Mother-My other little girl Is very frail,
but I've taken precautions to have BABY
grow up into a big, buXom girl.
~Visitor-indeed, and what have you done?
Mother-I've had her christened Fairy"
Boston Transcript.
your husband is a travelling man, isn't
he, same as mine?'
Yes, he's travelling pretty much all the
time
Gets a regular salary. / suppose?"
Yes"
80 does mine; but when he has a good
trip he gets something as a commission be-
sides. does yours2'
Not so far as I know, He's a railroad
conductor. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Queer News from Cuba.

The sudden departure for the tall
timber of a sergeant and seven mem
bers of the Cuban rural guard might
be looked upon as a Joke, were it not
for the history record hat real revo-
buttons in Latin-America often grow
from such small beginnings. Holders
of Cuban securities in this country
evidently regard the matter seriously
as Cuban bonds and stocks have taken
a decided slump and have not recov-
cred. despite the assurances OF Presi-
dent Gomez that the insurrectionists
who have not been killed will be shot
as soon as they are caught and that
there is no menace to the stability of
the government or the peace OF the
island. TM
The situation is not improved by a
review Of the work of the Cuban con-
gress. which has been in session a
couple Of months. The time has been
wasted in a wrangle over the distri-
button OF offices, the pardoning of sew
eral thousand criminals. who have
been granted amnesty, the adoption of
a bill restoring eockfighting and bull
fighting as national pastimes and the
authorization of a national lottery.
No measure looking to the advance
Dent OF the real industrial interests
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Hint About American Diplomats.

BOsIOn IItTtIU,
President Taft will confer a favor upon
Americans abroad, and establish a whole
some precedent, If he will make his diplo'
matte appointees understand that their Of
fees, like all others. are public; that the
American people, not favored individuals,
are the supporters of embassies and lega-
lions, and are entitled to considerable and
impartial treatment by the lncumbcnts OF
those offices. The diplomatic representative
who uses his office for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
of himself and his friends should be separa-
ted from It long enough to realize that the
honor and prestige of it belongs to the
United States, and not to himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

The world Herald would suggest TO THE
State" the official organ OF the Nebraska
brewery interests, and the interests that
are behind it, that they confine their efforts
just now to the defeat Of state and county
prohibition. They will II they know what
is good for them.-World Herald.
Talk about ingratitude! Is this what
the brewers and liquor interests get
for making a congressman out of
Editor Hitchcock and turning the state
house over to a democratic governor
and a democratic legislature?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

The selection of the members of The
Hague court before which he United States
and Great Britain have agreed to bring
the New Foundland fisheries controversy
for settlement, promises to give a definite
Interpretation to treaty terms that have
been in dispute for ever ninety years. The
case is of special interest as being the first
under H. general arbitration treaty between
the two countries. The court is broadly
representative, including members from
eastern and western Europe, as well as
from South America, the United States
and Canada.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

OF Cuba has been passed or even con-
sidered and nothing has been done TO
Justify the confidence of those who
have believed in Cuba's capacity for
self-government.
President Gomez must soon demon
strate his ability to protect life and
property in Cuba from the rebels. If
he fails, his administration will GO
the way OF that OF President Palma,
which he helped to overthrow and
then Uncle Sam will be called upon for
a permanent solution of the Cuban
problem.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

The new charter amendments put a
stone wall around any expansion of
Omaha's police department by raising
the pay of the policemen without cor
respondingly increasing the moun of
the police fund. That, however, is only
one of the anomalies perpetrated by
our democratic charter thinkers. Others
will be disclosed as the provisions of
the new law come to be applied.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

tion booths at the coming primary
with their own creatures. The present
election boards are bipartisan and con-
stituted Of men recommended last fall
by the regular party organizations OF
both political parties. If 1t is only a
square deal they want the democrats
ought to be glad to leave the conduct
OF the primary to the same election
officers who presided at the polls last
fall
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Mrs. James Brown Potter has gone
to Europe and says she will not come
to America any more. Well, well try
to worry along, now that Carrie Ma
ton has come back.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Soak Emil


Philadelphia Record.
p There is no danger that the 3 and 10-cent
packages of cigarettes will be increased in
price by the new tariff. While the price
will remain the same, the cigarettes them
selves will be reduced only in quality and
quantity.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

A st. Louis woman saved enough
pennies to purchase a $4OO lot. Every
street car conductor will hope that the
women will continue to save their pen
MES for real estate investment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Conclusive Evidence.

CIeVeIand PTaln DpaItI.
Another proof of Japan's racial inferi-
GRITTY. She has cut her budget Sis, 0 600
merely because receipts were falling short
of expenditures. No real progressive ma
ton ever let's a little fact like that inter-
fere with its g-randiloquent schemes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Mr.. Roosevelt spent part of the day
before sailing in Hoboken, just by way
of getting accustomed to being in an
uncivilized country.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

That proposition to vote s $500, 900
in water bonds is still being held back.
Either the Water board lawyers have
bumped up against an unexpected
kink or they are holding on for effect
on the legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

1t might be interesting TO hear Con-
gresham DalEeTl explain to his Pitts
burg constituents how he happened to
allow the duty ON pig iron to be so
radically reduced.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

The annual fight between the vets
and the drys will be pulled off mex
month in all the city, town and village
elections throughout Nebraska. Pre-
pare for both sides to claim gains.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Four Years of Real business.

81. LOUIS Times.
The Taft administration is starting out
with signs of very effective nervousness
Short, vigorous messages and quick action
in all departments indicate that we are
about to have four years Of real business
at Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

One of Mr.. Roosevelt's letters has
been sold for an average of 80 cents a
word, Or about 20 cents a word less
than the magazines will have to pay
for his letters from Africa.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Mr.. Bryan predicts that President
Taft should feel encouraged, remem-
bering the fate of Mr.. Bryan's former
political predictions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Another Guess Coming.

OItNtIdIIU ItduVIs
A good many foes of the republican
party say that the Payne bill is too good
TO be taken seriously. A few weeks may
teach these pessimists something worth
while about the dominant forces in their
country's government.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Pullman cars are to be all steel
hereafter" says a Pittsburg dispatch.
We all trust the Pittsburg report is
no in error on the spelling of the
word.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

MIR. Roosevelt will be back from
Africa in about eighteen months. The
New York legislature will be selecting
a successor to Senator Depew about
that time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

The current in the Ohio river at
Pittsburg is said to be faster than ever
before. Still, the river cannot be
blamed for trying to get past that
town as quickly as possible.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

A ishpole has been invented which
will register the length n weight of
every fish caught. What real fisher
man would be caught with a pole of
hat kind?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

"Of the qualifications of a literary
person I possess none" says Richard
Harding Davis. He has been slow in
making the discovery.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

. 1t has beer figured out that Mr.. Taft
has travelled 202,114 miles in the last
eight years. Mr.. Bryan has doubtless
travelled about that far, but has not
landed as well as Mr.. Taft.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Mr.. Bryan is doing very we'll in "the
enemy's country this year, all of his
lecture engagements calling for a min
imum of $500 a night.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
/ Complainant Majority.

Baltimore American.
The most enthusiastic advocates Of an in
heritance tax are the people without rich
uncles. They are in the majority, too.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

When 1t comes to working the
steam roller, the democratic political
bosses down at Lincoln are no slouches
at the job.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Progress Toward Bankruptcy.

When civilization reaches the stage of
reckoning the rank of nations In terms of
Dreadnoughts it also furnishes the factors
for computing the stage of progress along
the road to national bankruptcy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.

MY dear. why did you put so much on
the table? why did you have chicken salad
at my end and roast beef at yours?"
Because you told me this morning that
you wanted me to make both ends meat
Baltimore American.
Farmers Wife-Good gracious, John.
There's the pig dragging off my new
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
HIS Time 10 laugh.
Louisville Post.

Louisville Post.
While he is chasing the wild beasts of
former President Roosevelt will
the laugh on President Taft in his
with the wild men of congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Geese are now starting northward,
Later they will be flying to the sum.
mer resorts, so-called.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

II those eight revolutionists in Cuba
can get one more recruit they will
have enough to start a base ball team.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

A Tennessee Judge soured on Gen,
eral Pickle and fined him for contempt
of court.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

AS Mr.. Hartman understands it,
the reports of his retirement from bus
mess are grossly exaggerated.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Does Postmaster General Hitch
cock veal nothing but a silk hat?"
asks the Denver Post. Sure. He
wears a facsimile of the Taft smile.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Mr.. Taft may also be known to flu
ture fame as the originator of the
tabloid presidential message.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

AS a word of warning, It Is too early
to even think of taking 'em on yet.
One touch OF sunshine does not make
q simmer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

The democrats in congress are quar-
reling among themselves, thus proving
that they are genuine democrats.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

An instance Of childish sympathy and
opcn-hearted generosity was witnessed by
a carload Of passengers on one Of Brook
lyn's suburban lines last Saturday. A pref
lilly dressed little girl Of 3 years sat with
her father. a distinguished looking and
evidently well-to-do man. in the forward
end of the car. The little one was hugging
a bundle which she from time to time sur
veyed with looks b~espeaking pleasurable
anticipation. At one of the stations, relates
the Brooklyn Eagle, there boarded the car
a poorly dressed woman. a thin shawl over
her shoulders and a sad, careworn look on
her face. With her was a little girl s or Q
years old. The little ones feet were en-
cased In shoes that had seen better days.
They were torn in several places and the
toes of the child's left foot were plainly
visible. The woman and little girl pre-
sented a most pitiable appearance.
TIL two sat down almost directly opposite
the well dressed man and his pretty. flaxen
haired daughter. The girl whom fortune
had favored with better things looked com
passionately at her ragged fellow passenger.
After a minute or two she turned her face
up to her fathcr. He leaned over the better
to hear her whispered communication.
What she said seemed to please him i'm
mensely and he nodded smllingly at her.
Yes he said, do so, Dorothy"
And what Dorothy did made a deep i'm
preston on the other passengers. and two
or three surreptiously brushed tears away
from their eyes. Dorothy undid the pack
age opened a pasteboard box and drew
forth a pretty little pair of shiny new
shoes. with red cloth tops. These she pre-
scented the ragged little girl. Wear these
she said, II don't need them, anyhow"
1t was a proud little girl that carried
OF those pretty little shoes to her squalid
home but no one could have felt prouder
than the father of the donor of those shoes.
ana each and every one of the passengers
On that car looked as though he or she
would have liked to shake hands with the
generous little girl.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Congress must not try to forget
that it is pledged to pass a postal saw
ings bank bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Mayor Jim" will speak at a revival
meeting. Why not give a performance
with lasso and broncho?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24
Around New York

RippIsa on the Current OF Lire
as Seen in the GREAT Afnsrioan
Metropolis from Day 20 Day
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

The Honorable Pat Grove may re-
tire again from the limelight.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-24

Reports from Lincoln fail to dis
close any great scramble for the pen
with which Governor S~hallenberger
signed the Omaha charter bill.