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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
III. Invasion Of the Colleges.

Elsewhere on this page Is repro
duced an editorial from the Outlook
commenting upon q 'protes, made By
President Taylor Of Vassar college
against the attempt Of certain would
be reformers to convert the colleges
into recruiting grounds" What the
Outlook says to REINFORCE the position
OF the vsssar PRECEDENT Is quite to the
point and particularly applicable TO
certain state universities not far away,
which We have in mind.
Because professional agitators en-
listed in some presumably popular
movement see in a body Of college
students a desirable band OF crusaders
to carry the banner forward is no good
reason why they should be permitted
to invade the college campus and
transform It into a center OF propa-
Eanda. What is expected OF the col
lege and university is that it develop
the intelligence and discipline the
mind Of its students so that when the
time comes they may weigh the argu-
ments advanced by reformers and ar
rive at Just conclusions for themselves
When last winter MIR. Bryan under
took TO use his democratic legislature
10 force the regents Of our state uni
yersity against their will to establish
a school Of politics in which he might
expound his peculiar doctrines, he pro-
posed something Of the very same kind
against which President Taylor is pro-
testing. The very suggestion that the
establishment Of such a school in on
nection with a state-supported univer-
sity would draw students from all over
the world to listen to advocates OF
peculiar theories of government runs
counter to the true conception of what
a university should be. This is plainly
set forth by the article we reproduce
and the excerpts from President Tay-
lor's address which 1t quotes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
SOME POLITICAL HISTORY.
Why Cleveland Lost and Hill Won
New York In 1888.


In his "reminiscences of Grover Cleveland
George F. Parker quotes the former presi-
dent as absolving David Bennett Hill from
the charge of treRchery TO the presidential
ticket In New York in 1855. The fact
that Hill carried the state and
Cleveland lost has been The basis of the
charge of treschery against Hin. Henry
Watterson in the Courier-Journsl asserts
the charge Of treachey was made out of
whole cloth, and gives this version OF the
facts:
During the midsummer OF 1885, when
campaign arrangements were being made,
Mr.. Herman Oelrichs, representing the
democratic state committee OF New York,
came to an understanding with the chiefs
OF the Brewers association. which con-
trolled some 500 registered votes. and
was told that these votes were for the
presidential as well as the state ticket II
It was so desired. That" said Mr..
Oelrichs, lis an affair for Mr.. Bryce"
When the parties were brought together
and the case was stated. Mr.. Bryce said,
In his direct way, What do you want for
Them
The spokesman replied, " want Mr..
Cleveland to write such a letter in favor
of Governor Hill as he wrote two years
ago in favor Of Colonel Fellows"
Said MIR. Bryce, Suppose he won't, what
next?"
We'll" came the answer, III M. Cleve-
land does not want to do that, we will be
satisfied II he comes over here and ap-
pears at a public meeting with Governor
Hill"
Mr.. hryce went to Washington and put
/ tho nFnnnafrfnn9 10 aka -
Cleveland declined to gree to either. II
was a fool he said, when | wrote the
Fellows letter and I am not going to repeat
the folly. Neither will / appear in public
with Hin"
why. Mr.. President said Bryce. Mr..
Hill 10 as much a democratic nominee az
you are
II don't care a DASH said Mr.. Cleveland.
each tub must stand on It's own bottom.
This lie precisely what happened and what
was said. New York went for HnI and
against Cleveland, the brewery vote going
TO Harrison, doubtless upon an agreement
entered into by the brewers with the re-
publicans after Mr.. Cleveland had turned
them Gown. 1t was not the tariff issue
that made the difference in the result.
That cut little figure, IL any, although IL
was afterward set up by the protection
democrats, so-cslled, AS an argument
against the policy OF "a tariff for revenue
only" II was the enrolled vote Of an
association that registered 25,O0 strong.
The friends Of Mr.. Cleveland have the
right 10 construe his attitude as proof OF
lofty virtue. His critics thought that II
arose out OF ovsrconti1enoe in his election
What was required OF him involved no ofn.
cisl delinquency, or wrong, but was merely
an incident common To the campaign ma
neuvering Of the time, eagerly seized ny
the enemy when given the chance. But
whichever way # he tsken, Il vindicates
Mr.. Hin from a calumny which pursued
him a. long as he remained in active politi-
cal life.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
Harvard's Tribute to Eliot.

Harvard graduates have undertaken
to raise a fund TO produce an income
for former President Eliot Of that in
stitution which will enable him to live
in comfort the remainder of his life.
Already the subscription list foots up
the desired goal of S15O,0O0. The
money has beer raised in small sums,
most of the contributions being of $40
and under. After the death Of the
venerable president and his wife the
money is TO revert to the university.
The raising of this testimonial fund
is a deserved tribute to a man who has
devoted his life and great talents to
the university for compensation much
less than corresponding ability would
have brought him in other professions.
As a leader in education in its broad
est sense President Eliot has always
stood for that which was best in all
the fields OF its activities. Through
the long years Of his service his voice
and example have been an uplifting
force and have left their impress upon
the thousands OF students OF Harvard
and indirectly Of other universities in
such a manner as to be Of inestimable
benefit to the country.
The plan to provide amply for him
in his declining years does credit to
the Harvard men and is a worthy
recognition OF a well spent life.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
vofcinE a wide.presd objection.
Philadelphla Presa.

If Senator Dolliver expressed the opinion
Of only a western state or two in his pro.
test against the cotton and wool schedules
Of the senate tariff he would represent
a republican opposition calling for serious
consideration.
But Senator Dolliver voices a widespread
objection. 1t is not only in the west that
many republicans have no desire TO see
rates horizontally advanced by new ella SSH
fcations, whose effect is not clear and
whose result cannot be known, but which
are certain to advance rates. A revision
upwards is not wanted or desired by pub
lie opinion. The rates which were high
enough twelve years ago in the Dingley
tariff are certainly high enough now, after
twelve years growth in our manufactures
Changes made should be chiefly down.
wards, and a broad change is wise IL con-
servative in character and sufficient pro-
lection is retained to meet the difference
between labor here and abroad and fur
nish American manufacturer a fair profit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
A WEAPON ron CONGRESS.
striking Feature Of the Conn obi.
tles Clause" Decision.
phiadeInhia presH

P~nlladelphia Press.
The federal supreme court has put into
the hands Of congress a new and powerful
Weapon in the regulation OF railroads by
its decision on the commodity clause OF
the Hepburn act.
The clause itself is left o. little value.
but the power OF congress in future lee
lation Is nov defined in a way whica
greatly Increases IL. Congress can decide
what railroads shall carry and what they
cannot. II can close interstate
10 goods of a certain origin. II can forbid
a state corporation from carrying freight
made or mined within a state. II made or
mined by the common carrier which trans
ports it.
These propositions have all been chaI-
lenged. Congress. IL VAS claimed. could
regulate interstate commerce. but it
could not prohibit il TO any citizen or shut
out from commerce between the states the
freight OF any citizen or corporation. It
could pass on transit and its methods but
II could not 60 into a state and decide
which should be carried.
This is now established. Contress can
say in terms what can and cannot be car
ried. IL cannot merely regulate il Can
prohibit as a part OF it's regulation
The regulate on OF both trusts and rail
roads has many constitutional obstacles
reduced or removed from its path by the
decision on the commodity clause.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
War on Old Traditions.

The present day iconoclast has no
respect for the customs of his ~progeni-
tors and goes about smashing the tradi-
lions OF the past with a recklessness
that is heartbreaking. He WIN not let
us believe the moon has anything to
the %goosebone possesses any value as
a weather forecaster. Since man first
discovered that IL was easier to fish
for the family breakfast than to follow
the pillow It has beer the u%ndisputed
privilege of the fisherman to lie about
his catch without subjecting himself
to impeachment OF his veracity. From
the dawn of history there is a record
OF only one truthful fisherman, but the
Apostle Thomas actually admitted that
he had fished all night and caught
nothing,
Yet here comes the Catilina Fishing
club, breaking over all restraint and
invading the last privilege which
ancient tradition accorded to man, by
making a rule that hereafter a photo
graph Of the big fish, sized up with a
measuring rod, and an affidavit of
weight and length signed by witnesses,
must be submitted as verification be-
fore the catch will be recorded in the
clubs annals. Just how the club au-
thorities propose to apply the rule to
the'"fish that got away" Toes not ap-
pear, but as this is always the biggest
one, one refuge remains to the Catilina
fisherman.
This invasion of personal rights by
the Catilina club is absolutely without
justification and IL can be accounted
for only on the theory that club mem
bsrs have been pressing the limit or
have been so unskillful as TO get
caught In the act. In either event a
more simple remedy would have been
expulsion instead of depriving the en-
tire fraternity of its ancient rights.
II the CRtiIina, club insists on en-
forcing the new rule VI will soon find
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
Contrasts in the straus Family.
Boston TRANSCRIPT

The selection OF Oscar S. Straus as our
diplomatic representative to Constantinople
for the third TIM, recalls the three direc-
tons in which the Straus brothers have
gone politically. Isidor straus was the life-
long friend and supporter of William l..
Wilson, the tariff reform leader OF the
democratic party, while Nathan Straus is
a pronounced adhArent Of Mr.. Hesrst's
cause, with Oscar now working quite reg
ularly in republican ranks, These contrasts
once led President Roosevelt to refer to
Nathan as representing the extreme left
of the family.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
rRovrDiSe cAMrAicN runs.
Colorado. riss Of D,MaI.E Ir,o state
Revraues.

PlttsburE DispatcH.
Colorado launches the latest ..r.,l
panarsa In the form ~ a laV #-aVtns
on the sat, treasury for campo an OK.
penses Mr. Roosevelt and sera'.. Gus
Eenheim are erlErsmmsticslly .rsdIted
with having brought this aoo... fr,
former by . proposal o. that etfee' In one
Of his message. The latter by an .g-os
ious exhibition ~ the private and rrs-
tlcslly unlimited campaign funds f|rar.--s
~ = party angel with = lively eNrertsH.-
Of early rcturns.
Yet the features o. The measure a. sum.
married In press reports permit q specur,.
tion whether. - In the case Of ot-s- r1.
liticsl nostrums, the actual results may not
he al appointing 20 those who build On
Il their hopes OF pure elections. The
provides a sum for campaign expense
averaging about y cents per vote. This ia
to be spportioned among party orEariza
lions In the ratio Of their votes. No Other
campaign contributions are TO be re-
mitted. except that candidates themssfvss
may contribute additionally to prosecute.
their campaigns.
These provisions. considered a. ~ ,ns.-
effect. present these peculiar sspagts The
state contribution inevitably gives the
largest campaign fund to the strongest,
party and the smallest to the veakest
party. A very small party advocating ,
new reform would get practically nothirE
and ~ II should wish TO spend = GOOD
deal in printing and othervIsa
bringing it's ideas 10 public notice. IL has
no other course than to nominate rich can
didstes. A party which should advocate a
cause that the rich do not like could get
no campaign fund at all.
Moreover. as between the other parties
the provision seems TO intensity the tend
ency toward nominating wealthy caud.
dates. The able but poor candidate could
get no campaign fund except the state e
% cents per voter, and must depend or
the favor OF the party committee Tor that.
The rich candidate opposing him could
fling his barrel into the scales. Under this
law practical politics will be more thu.
ever disposed to put the nominations ~
the service OF wealth.
We do not claim that this will be fatal
to the parties advocating reforms. some
Of the greatest causes OF history have
been won with no larger aid than that Of
poverty. But as the genuine purpose NJ
big campaign funds IL the nurture and
fattenins Of the political workers it is
difficult to see how these provisions can
fail to increase their urgency to bring
wealth into politics by making candidate
OF rich meh who can and will enrich the
party barrels.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
PERSONAL NOTES.

The chairman Of the Philadelphia indig-
nation committee is named Holler<
Robert s. Mccormick, former smbsssa-
dor to Russia and France. is said to be so
seriously broken in health that he is an
innate OF a private sanitarium near Bos-
ton.
Castro says he will go back to Venezuela
even II it is necessary to use force. Some
body is monkeyins with the buzzssw, and
Castro really seems 10 think he is the
saw.
OF course the idea OF putting James
Hazen Hyde in prison for reckless auto
MODELLING is repeilent and preposterous.
There isn't a cell in Paris so furnished as
TO be at all satisfactory to Mr.. Hyde.
Eat hard food II you wish to keep the
teeth clean and preserve them is the
advice OF DR.. George Cunningham, who
has been conducting a crusade for the pre-
servation of the teeth OF English chill
dren.
Dorothy Knicel, a l4-year-old girl, living
in Letcher, 81 D.. not only rides real
horses in real races, but she trains and
rubs them as we'll. Her earnings as a
jockey pay for her winters schooling and
help support her mother and father as
well.
Col. William Wilson, who has been a
special agent of the Pennsylvania railroad
with headquarters in Philadelphia, has
been retired under the pension rules after
fifty-fOur years of service with the COM
rany. 1t is said that not a man now
employed by the Pennsylvania was work
ing for il when Colonel Wilson entered
its service as a telegraph operator in 1866.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
Charges Must lie Met.
New York Evening Post.

new YORK Evening Post.
Senator Dolliver Is most usefulIy apply-
ing a little western bluntness and honesty
to the tariff debate. His exposure recently
OF the way in which the cotton and wool
schedules have been dictated by the very
men VINO hopeNQ make money out OF them.
and Of the tricks and devices and rob-
berries with which they are stuffed. was
most effective. And the good-natured rid
icule which he poured upon Senator Aid
rich was refreshing. The nettled Rhode
Island senator retOrted, of course, that
Senator Dolliver was only a democrat in
disguise, had private grievances TO avenge
and had got his information from wicked
importers; but that is only the usual abuse
visited upon a republican who dares to tell
the truth about the tariff. what the coun-
try wants TO know is, not what Mr.. Dol
liNer's motives may be. but whether the
facts are as he states them, Is Il true, as
he says, that The manufacturers who dis
gusted the ways and means committee
with their hoggish demands, went to Aid
rich and got permission from him TO write
their own clauses In the tariff? Is it The
fact that the effect Of the Aldrich bill
would be to condemn the masses Of the
people to pay more for poorer clothing?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10

resident Taylor of Nassar college mas
sem To- us ttImue .n a ieauet. q report
90 on address delivered Oy him las winter.
IL j. a needed protest against the attempt
OF certain Wuuiu-oC reiUTmgts 10 convert
ne college, into ieyfJlt,ng gtounas. Their
ambitlCn IL natural There ~ no audience
more eager To hear the latest thing. not to
say the latest tad. than a college audience.
There IS none more eager to know whlch
way lies social, POLITICAL. moral progress,
or more eager 70 enters on the road. There
Is no community in which IL - easier to
arouse enthusiasm and get converts. Every
cause comes, therefore, shocking al the
door OF colleges. especially Women's col
leges, IN order to beat up for recruits. Dr.
Taylor ecnces The opinion. probably or
even college president IN his graphic ac-
count Of the conditions, ana We hope he
echoes also the judgment Of every college
president IN his judgment respecting them.
Now IL Is suffrage and now snti-suffrage,
nov 10 Is the socialists. now Il il the
Woman ; Christian Temperance union, now
some missionary cause like the special
'ialm OF me women Stuuents Of tokyo, nov
me student volunteer movement, now some
nighiy commended evangelist. now the
senostie VINO wishes to enIighten the
mat has a cause wishes naturally to get
al our young people, and I'm turn n one
LeSlSLs ana nOIds to a belief ln a steady
Development and training to tit one 10
examine every cause, to prove all things.
and TO hold fast that which is good. then
one must expect TO meet in turn the &C
cusatt0nS Of a lack Of interest and
breadth, now in political reform. now in
social reform, and now. alas, also In
rellgion. These people are for The most
part not teachers but agitators. not eX-
Founders but advocates.
The sheer at the academic atmosphere is
not uncommon; but the academic atmos-
phere is the proper atmosphere for the
academy. as the judicial atmosphere il for
the court room and the forensic atmos-
phere for the halls Of legislation. Congress
Is organized to do things; it therefore needs
to listen to political and party debates to
determine what TO do. The court Is organ-
lied to determine questions: 1t therefore
needs to listen TO a presentation Of both
sides by eager advocates OF each, in order
that 1t may decide justly. But a college
Is organized to inform. educate and train
the young. and for this not the party sgi-
tators of a congress nor The professional
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
4 New England View.

10 ABNH
II will not do to overlook the significance
of Senator Delivers attack on the Aldrich
bill as merely an expression of the western
grievance against the favors which New
England is supposed to derive from the
protective system. Schedule h, which deals
with woods and W~oolens, is Identical in the
Aldrich bill with the existing law. barring
the nominal exception Of goods coming
from the Philippine islands, on certain
kinds Of blankets It carries a protection Of
l65 per cent, measured in ad valorem equiv
alents, according TO the finance commit
tees own statements But Mr.. Dolliver
stood this without wlncing in 1897. when he
was a member Of the ways and means COM
mittee. His present outburst is indicative
OF the working OF the low-tariff microbe
among the farmers Of his part OF the Mis-
sissippi valley, and no people in the coun-
try are so well situated TO influence its
affairs as they. Several years ago they
presented 10 the world what became known
as the Iowa idea" In a state platform de
claring opposition to those tariffs which
proved "a shelter to monopoly and they
have since that time retired from public
life, practically without exception, the men
who resisted that movement within their
ranks They have sent Cummins, their
Iow-tAriff leader, TO the senate, and what
is stil more striking, have made his as
ISOLATE, Mr.. DoIliyer, an even more 49,
nounced exponent of the same view.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
Use for EiHel Tnwer

Eiffel conceived and erected the
great tower in Paris, but it has kept
the entire French nation busy ever
since TO figure out what to do with it.
A few have solved the problem for
their own satisfaction by using it for
suicidal purposes and several lives are
sacrificed every time It is painted. In
spite Of these drawbacks Paris does
not AXE kindly to the idea of tearing
the tower down and is constantly
searching for an idea to turn It to
serious account.
The latest one appeals most strongly
to practical common sense by propos-
ing to utilize it for wireless telegraphy
and particularly to flash twice each
day the correct time into space for the
information of mariners A recent
trial disclosed the fact that its greatest
in~accuracy was one-half a second. IL
further trials show the transmission
to be reliableNhe plan should prove of
inestimable value to mariners in com
/ putting their longitude at times when
clouds and fog obscure the heavens.
1t would indeed be strange II this
monster toy should ultimately he
utilized TO accomplish such a desirable
end.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
SIGNALING TO MARS.

W. J. Hampton in New York World
My stars!
Why do we want 20 connect With Mars
II there a dearth
or things to worry about on earth?
Haven't We got enough
Thar y. d. tough
To keep as going
Without knowing
Wha;f doing away off there
IN in me air?
10 We have to go away
From home to double
Our trouble!
What do we care
II up there
The women wear pesch-baskets
An1 want the right to vote
And want to still be women
And man to be the goat?
Haven't W. got EN-?
And what about The Tariff
OFF yonder In the skies,
With poor consumers wanting
Revisions that revise?
Haven't We got EN-?
And canals? Wow!
Haven't VIZ got one
That has the entire Mars layout skunf
And devil-wagOls whiZzing,
And vice and crime on tap,
And ~soulless corporations.
And victims on a strap,
With forty million other
Distressful troubles which
Knock out the nervous stuffinE
Alike Of poor and rich?
Don't Ne get the Jars
Without having 10 call on Mars
For more?
Shore
Then. by thunder
It's up 10 rs To stand from under
And let Mars alone
See?
OF course. and We
DO~t need no telescope neithsrI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
The OCCUPATION Tax Legal.

BY UNFOLDING the occupation taxes
levied on the public service corpora
tions in the city Of Lincoln the SUI
preme court practically gives notice
that similar revenue-raising methods
would be perfectly legal in Omaha.
The demand for an occupation tax
20 compensate the city for the use of
the streets by the franchised corpora
tions was asserted in every platform
In the recent city election on which
any successful candidate ran. Occu-
patton tax ordinances have been pend
ing in the council for months, action
on them being deferred in order "a
await these decisions expected from
the supreme court. An effort in the
legislature to deprive the municipal
authorities Of this power aroused an
outburst of protest which forced the
lawmakers TO leave this part of the
charter as II was.
Now that the decisions are down
and uphold the right of the city to i'm
pose such taxes, il will devolye on the
mayor and council TO work out a fair
and equitable solution OF the problem
without unnecessary delay.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
RreaLs the Charm.
Indianapolis News.

IndIanapoIis News.
one value Of Senator Delivers speech
lies in the fact that it breaks the charm
Of s~acredness which all the power OF
party has hitherto invoked. The people
can see now that the idol is Of clay. They
can see that instead OF being a great
policy as they we're first taught, or a holy
principle standing guard over American
prosperity, it is repudiated by some of the
greatest manufacturers as a hindrance;
that it is assaulted by party leaders like
the senator's from Iowa, and is revealed
to be IAN agreement between gentlemen
by which the chief dealers in certain goods
get together and write into the law Just
how much bounty they want exacted from
the people.