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Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
Preacher Sees a Light.

Some time ago Rev. w. W. Carlton
of Mason City. Ia, preached a series
Of ermons bitterly arraigning the To-
cal authorities for permitting crime to
go unchecked. This is not a new
thing for preachers to do and he
doubtless modelled his discourse on
those which man others have
preached elsewhere. The mayor de-
MED that conditions we're as repre-
sented and there is nothing new about
such a denial, either.
The novelty came when the mayor
offered to appoint Rev. Mr.. Carlton
chief Of police and give him authority
to "elcan up the town IL he found It
needed 1t. Mr.. Carlton was also in
n and sincere, for he undertook
the job temporarily. He has now re-
puts his hand to the pillow and then
turns back, either, for he preached
another sermon Sunday telling his
congregation that conditions had been
miSISpISbeuJSO 10 nIm ana IndL ma
son City was not the sink-hole Of In
EQUITY which he had painted it. He
did not pretend to say there was no
crime or vice, but that all the law
could do to prevent It was being done.
Mason City is only one of many
that have suffered from the black
washing Of scandal mongers and SEN
sation seekers whose ignorance or
Misrepresentation of facts is concealed
by a loud noise, but, unfortunately,
there are ppt many like Rev. Mr.. Carl
ton who are willing to put their
declarations to the test and still fewer
who, when they find themselves wrong,
would manfully admit 1t. 1t looks
better before the public to OFFER the
excuse of lack Of cooperation" by
the regularly constituted authorities.
No one pretends that conditions in
American cities are ideal, but it is sell
dom that they warrant the wholesale
denunciation which breaks out when
someone thinks he wants to attract
attention to himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM.
Foundation of style IL Full KnowI-
edge of Subject.
New York Independent.

New York Independent.
This was the subject on which Lord
Morley was asked to address the great
press conference in London the other day,
and his address will be the occasion for
many editorial ~utteranoes, to which num-
Der we may add one.
There are all sorts Of journalists and all
sorts Of editorial writings, the most serious
and intelligent and the most ignorant and
vapid; but Lord Morley was right in con-
sidering only the former as worth the dis
cussing. He told a great truth when he
said that the foundation OF style" for
the journalist especially lis a full knOwl-
edge Of NATTER This is a very simple
statement and yet 1t is almost paradox
cal that the foundation of style Is not
style at all, but the contents of the writ
ing, the thought and substance of 1t, con-
sisting solely of full knowledge" In
full knowledge there Is no beating about,
no obscurity Of thought because no uncer-
talnty Of thought. Il believed; therefore
have / spoken"
Lord Morley's second rule for journalists
and other writer's is equally commonplace
and true, that the simple, the direct, is
what every one of us ought to aim at,
and every one of us can, II we take proper
trouble, attain to-" To say what we have
to say in the shortest, plainest, most com
pact way possible is the essence of eff
fectiveness, and Journalism is a fine
school to learn this literature in. We do
not mean that a writer may not at times
make a gay play Of his writing in a mol
iday sort of wildwood gipsying, but the
main business of literature, and partic-
ularly of Journalism, is to teach and influ-
ence the reader. That is what makes It
worth while; just as the congress which
does things is of more Importance than the
playhouse.
If we were to supplement or interpret
Lord Morley's teachings 1t would be to
say that the aim and task of writing
journalistic literature is to present to The
reader we'll digested views and opinions
on as many current and important sub
jects as possible, to support them with
the best arguments possible, and to do
it all in the sharpest, most incisive way
possible. The writer's business Is TO
convince and influence, and this does not
require rhetorical flowers, but logical
force. It is important to be so confioent
Of ones opinion, based on ethical or social
reasons, that one can speak with the pos
itiveness and emphasis Of conviction IN
these days it is the weight or the ooit
that tells, not the sputtering OF fireworks
lust as the old florid oratory has gone
so the stately and stilted formallties OF
literature have given place to a style
which knows no furbelows and obeys the
rules laid down by Lord Morley ana so
well practised by him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
The Amending Clause.


The proposal to submit an amend
ment to the federal constitution en-
powering congress to levy an income
tax without apportionment among the
states according to population. as re-
quired for other direct taxes, is again
raising the question as to how this
amendment should be ratified. All the
fifteen amendments so far adopted
have been secured in the same man
ner, namely, by proposal by congress
and ratification by states through
their legislatures. The amending
clause of the constitution provides
four ways for changing that instru-
ment. 1t reads as follows:
The congress-, whenever two-thlrds Of
both houses shall deem II necessary, shall
propose amendments to this constitution,
or on the application Of the legislatures
Of two-thirds of the several states, shall
call a convention for proposing amend
ments. which in either case shall be valid
to all intents and purposes as a part of
this constitution, when ratified by the legis-
latures Of three-fourths OF the several
states, or by conventions in three-fourths
thereof. as the one or the other mode Of
ratification may be proposed by the con-
gress.
This plainly gives two methods Of
initiating amendments and two meth
DDS of ratifying them, although 1t
leaves 1t to congress to determine
which mode Of ratification shall be
followed. Amendments may be pro-
posed by congress of It's own volition
by two-thirds vote Of each house, or
they may be proposed by a constitu-
tional convention called by congress
on demand Of the legislatures of two
thirds Of the states. The ratification
may be brought about by indorse-
ments either by the legislatures of
three-fourths of the states or by con-
ventions especially chosen for that
purpose in three-fourths Of the states.
The four methods are, therefore:
l. Initiation by congress and ratification
by legislatures.
q Initiation by congress and ratification
by conventions.
3. Initiation by convention and ratifica-
ton by legislatures.
L. Initiation by convention and ratifica-
ton by conventions.
No matter which method is chosen,
action by congress is prerequisite, be-
cause congress must either propose
the amendment itself, or 1t must de-
termine when the necessary number of
legislatures have acted and pass the
necessary enabling acts to bring the
convention into existence, Congress
must also determine by which method
the amendments shall be ratified, and
If they are to be ratified by conven
tions, the legislatures of the several
states must provide the machinery for
summoning the conventions. The con-
vention plan of ratification has the
advantage of focusing public opinion
on the subject of the proposed amend
ment, but suffers the disadvantage of
being slower, more cumbersome and
more expensive.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
Missouri River Navigation.

The convention which meets at
Yankton this week for the purpose of
debating further the desirability Of re-
storing commerce on the Missouri river
has before it n splendid opportunity.
1t can put the Missouri river project
on a sound and stable basis IL 1t is
guided by common sense and not by
visionary aspirations.
Probably the greatest dificulty that
has been encountered by inland navi-
cation plans during the last quarter OF
a century, or since the decadence of
commerce on the great rivers Of the
United States began to attract atten-
ton, has been the vague extravagance
Of its champions. Projects calling for
the expenditure Of millions of dollars,
reckoned by some at from fifty to one
hundred millions a year, and ranging
up to the climactic proposition Of a Spo-
kane enthusiast, who wants to set
aside at once five thousand millions to
create the needed flow of water, have
given to a serious subject an aspect
that has made 1t the subject of ridi-
Guile.
If the convention at Yankton will
keep in mind the indubitable fact that
the Missouri river is as susceptible Of
navigation today as 1t ever was and
will be content with dealing with its
practical phases, avoiding entangle-
ments with the selfish aspirations Of
any community or individual, 1t may
accomplish something Of good. To
say that the success of ~steamboating
on the Missouri depends on the estab-
lishment of a ten-foot channel, or any
similar project, to demand continually
that the general government our I'M
counted millions of money into the
river for the purpose Of maintaining
1t at flood height, OF to announce that
n or another Of the cities along its
course is entitled to special considera-
ton over another. is to destroy the
conventions work In advance.
Conservative action, sanely ex-
pressed, will do more to ngage the
confident attention Of business men
than all the years Of booming that
have marked the process so far. The
Missouri Ear be navigated; the only
question to be determined is, Do the
business men want IT?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

sibly failed TO pnss a judiciary law that
win stick. That question has already been
decided adversely by a district court.
The World Herald is pretty good at SO
phistry. but It will scarcely succeed in cor /
fuslng or binding the public. The last logr
islature was so rancorously partisan IN
every act that no virtue can be made cf
its alleged fairness In providing for a
non-psrtisan judiciary, AS additional proof
II may be cited that the democratic bosses
are just now Rdroitly maneuverlng so there
may be but three democratic candidate
on the ~nonpartlsan ticket. AS there are
three justices of the supreme court TO be
elected this would permit Of democratic
votes being cast only for democrats and
thus. perhaps, i]nsuring the election Of three
justices. especially Il republicans
should divide their strength among four or
five candidates. This is the palpahle pur-
pose of the "non-partisan" democratic law
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
FAKIRS UNMAsKED.
NOnpRrtisRn ArtfuI DOdGinE Revealed
in the Natural COlors.

In the Natura COlors.
Fremont Tribune.
The World-H Herald is very much cha
grined, even angered, that some malevolent
republicans should dispute the constitution
ality Of the democratic 'non-partisan" judi
cisry law. That paper also deeply and
bitterly deplores that the bankers OF the
state should not also unanimously decline
to contest the validity Of the bank guaranty
law. The Worid-Herald discusses the two
questions together and lays the blame for
both on the nefarious republicans. The
opposition to the bank-guarsnty law Is a
business matter involving bankers and tho Sc
contesting it are democrats and republi-
cans. The opposition is nonpartisan.
The responsibility for opposition to the
so-called non-partisan judiciary law is more
properly located. 1t is undeniably republi-
can-just as certainly as the "non-partisan'
judiciary law is itself in the interest Of
democracy.
That republicans have a right to contest
the law was established, we think, In a
doctrine laid down by no less a distin-
guished democrat than w. ]. Bryan. When
Mr.. Gompers and his associates were SEN
fenced for contempt Of court, Mr.. Bryan
wired them his condolences and followed II
with an argument that the proper way to
contest an OulOuS ld" was u NloldNt 1 ahN
take the consequences as administered by
process of criminal or civil action. II is
equally proper, legal and orderly for the
republicans to enjoin the enforcement of a
law as II was for the labor leaders to de-
liberately and Intentionally violate a law.
The World-Herald, we believe, stood with
Mr.. Bryan in his view, which was in con-
prevention of It's present position.
It is difficult for the democrats to make
a virtue Of the "non-partisan" judiciary
law. 1t is palpable and plain to people Of
ordinary d~iscernment that 1t was enacted
only for democratic reasons. Had the demo-
Gratis been controlling the supreme bench
and other public positions In Nebraska, II
would not have occurred to an accidental
democratic legislature to enact a non
partisan" judiciary law. That legislature
wished merely to demoralize republican or
ganization as far as possible. We do not
blame It for taking every partisan advan-
tayc 1t could take. To the credit or It's
shrewdness let It be said that 1t did It,
admirably and ~well-except that 1t pos
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
TAFT,s
Declared TO BE shrewder
Than Senate

New 1OTR lTlDui0'
President Taft's suggestion at the Yale
alumni dinner that IF the republican
party does not live up to what the people
expect of It It may be RELOCATED TO her
matesty's opposition" ought to enllghten
those republicans in Washington who nave
labored to obscure and nullify what the
public understood to be the party's pleoses
of downward tariff revision. Mr.. tart
takes a serious view OF party obligations
and has no sympathy with the sophlsucai
argument advanced in the senate that the
ran,,bIioan national platform of 1908, as in
terpreted without challenge OF any sort Wy
the republican presidential candidate, left
the party's representatives In CONGRESS ice
20 re-enact practically unchanged a law
6sc,ared out of date because of the enor-
NOUS changes in commercial and indus
trial conditions which had occurred since
n was put on the statute book. There can
ba no doubt that the voters believed 1t 10
ba the intention of the republican party
~ make an adequate revision OF the Ding
lev rates. with material reductions In many
schedules. Good faith and sound party
nolicv require the fulfillment now OF uh-
disputed prediction promises
The president is shrewder than the party
leaders in the senate In foreseeing the po-
< . rs
IitIcal dangers involved in disappointing
inst popular expectations. No party can
successfully live down a record OF broken
nlsdses. A competent handling OF the
tariff question in this consress-the gen
sraI acceptance, for instance, Of the pro-
gram of revision which the house OF rep
resentatives and the president support
a,o.,Id make the republican party invinciole
in the nation, removing the only issue on
which in recent years 1t has been success
fully attacked. The senate mas Done non
ing TO secure such a notable party aaVah-
toga ON the contrary, It has done a gooo
des1 70 show that on the tariff issue re-
publican leadership in one branch Oh cor
eress is not alert and progressive Inc
D,asidert's remark at New Haven suggests
mat the great weight Of his personal ano
n~oIitical authority will be used to repair
the s~enate's blunder. The country wiz
gladly infer that he will do his best 10 en-
Sorca fair dealing with the public ana a
sstIsfactory fulfillment of party duty ana
party promises.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
One Check to Speculation.

The Canadian banks are seriously
discussing the refusal to accept as
collateral stocks of non-dividend cor
porations which have only a manipu-
lative value. There are millions Of
dollars worth, in face value, Of such
stocks which pay no dividends and
with little or no hope of every pay
ing. They possess a price because
manipulation causes them to huctuate,
but such trading is simply specializing
in air. II all banks refused to accept
them as collateral they would soon
seek their proper level at zero or the
manipulators who fatten of their
fluctuations would devise some way to
squeeze out the water and make the
corporations pay dividends.
There are railroad and Industrial
corporations by the score whose capt.
tai stock represents simply notes for
control. If the loanable value were
taken from such stocks, promoters
would not find it Improbable to deal
in them. The Canadian plan aims a
blow at wildcat financiering and in the
end will benefit honest enterprises.
Few bankers would knowingly make
a loan on a gold brick because the
borrower insisted that he could work
it of on someone for real money, but
millions Of dollars are loaned every
on stock merely because 1t is
quoted on the stock market.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
BRYAN ON THE WATER WAGON.
frying Out New Vehicle for a White
House Run.
Leslie's Weekly.

LesueS weekly.
Bryan now announces his intention to
make war on the liquor interests in order
to keep the democratic party from being
controlled by them. This sudden change
Of attitude, novel for a northern demo-
crat, has not greatly surprised the Ameri-
can people. Reading the signs of the
times, Mr.. Bryan recognizes the fact that
the great leaders Of his party, who have
followed him thrice to defeat, are not
eager to place their standard in his hand
again. Mr.. Bryan being nothing IL not
resourceful, his stand for virtual prohtbi-
ton can nave but one meaning. He real
ICES the absurdity of announcing that he
will take a nomination from the demo-
cratic party for the fourth time and lead
Il once more to disaster. But as he feels
that he must have another try for the
presidency, he is casting about to get the
nomination from the rapidly growing
prohibition party. Those who may doubt
that Mr.. Bryan is willing to tie up with
the prohibitionists should remember that
II is not hope Of the presidency that at
tracts him and keeps him active in politi-
cal affairs so much as the profitable pub
licity which he would enjoy from posing
as a candidate. 1t was his remarkable
Eift for gaining publicity which lifted Mr..
Bryan from poverty and obscurity into
national prominence and made him one Of
the w~ealthiest men in his state. His ca
paclty for securing free advertising drives
the ablest press agent to despair. BY
means Of it. Mr.. Bryan is enabled to de-
rive from his speeches, his lectures, and
his contributions to the press an income
of about 800, 900 per year-much more than
the salary of the president of the United
States.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
Technicalities and Crime.

The state of Tennessee will gasp from
dismay on account Of the annulment by the
state supreme court of the sentences of the
Reelfoo, lake night riders and murderers,
and the ordering Of a new trial. No one
can now be confident hat the trial court
will not be reversed In the cases OF Senator
Carmack's slayers. The extreme difficulty
in securing jurles for second trials in such
cases often makes a reversal by the higher
court equivalent to the release of the &C
cused. No changes are more needed In
American criminal LAW than such as will
stop reversals Of vetdicts on merely tech
meal grounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
HOS Words on the Wire.
st. Louis Republic.

=" HVuIV INOHUVIINs
The Iowa decision that it is not unlawful
to swear into a telephone receiver may be
based in part upon a previous decision that
damn is not a Gust word. On the other
hand, the Iowa justices may simply have
taken judicial notice OF the weakness of
masculine nature and of the pr~ovocation
that comes when central connects with
the wrong number, and when the wire
brings back only a buzzlng noise in reply
to articulate speech.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

Misfortunes never come singly. To
suffer abolition OF the free lunch coun-
ter and to incur the 8 o'clock closing
at one and the same time is piling it
on pretty thick.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

II anyone imagines hat the house
is not doing anything while the senate
is talking tariff he should look at the
Congressional Record. There is the
largest acreage of new bills being
planted that has ever been put in by
the house.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

And TO think hat It is just a year
g that they were giving an eminent
Nebrasksn a third nomination for the
presidency at Denver, and he was as
surfing all who listened to him that
prospects for democratic success were
never brighter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

The police relief fund is sure to get
quite a windfall from the forfeited
cash bonds, which from now on are to
go into that fund. What's the matter
with collecting on a few Of the other
bonds given in police court cases, but
are never enforced when condi-
tions are violated?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

Governor Haskell asked and was
granted sixty days more TO prepare for
his trial in the Oklahoma town lot
fraud cases. The governor has no
ear that the ~vindication for which he
pretended to be in such a hurry will
not keep over the warm weather.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

kind of a factlonal fight in the repub-
lican ranks over the senatorial success
sion, which does not come up until
next year. They need not worry
themselves so early. as in due time Ne
braska republicans will settle on one
candidate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

The Agricultural department says
the peanut crop is not large enough to
supply the demand, but have you
heard Of anyone who really needed a
sack of peanuts who could not get
them?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

A new ruling Of the secretary Of the
interior is likely to put an end to an
other old-time feature of western life,
the newspaper printed out on the
prairie for land ONCE notices only. A
good many prosperous western news
paper men can date their rise from
Just such publications.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

An eastern paper devotes a column
and a half to telling why the income
tax is bound to come in the end. The
most convincing reason is because I'm
Gle Sam needs the money.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
An Example of Devotion.
Boston Herald.

More marvellous than some Of the tariff
expedients brought forward is the physical
and mental endurance of Senator Aldrich,
who at the age Of nearly 70, is carrying the
burden of responsibility and yet is not
worn out but only tired"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

When the totals are footed and the
percentages are computed the chances
are that the increase in railroad as
sessments will be found to be smaller
than the corresponding increase of as
sessments on other taxable property
in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

And now they tell us that Alaska
has one Of the largest and most val
liable coal deposits in the world. Guess
Uncle Sam drove a good bargain With
Russia.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

AS an epitaph writer our old friend,
Edgar Howard, is a word artist, his
only trouble being that, Macbeth-like,
he imagines he sees apparitions when
there are none there.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

Senator Stone objects to republicans
enacting planks out of the democratic
platform into law. The senator should
remember that is the only chance they
have to get on the statute books.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

A French scientist has it figured out
that the world can produce enough
food to supply its needs for at least
ten centuries. At that rate there will
not be many OF us left to witness the
final scramble.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

A mar named Dollar was granted a
divorce in hve minutes in a San Fran
cisco court. Many a man and woman
has been divorced from a dollar in
lsss time than that.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

thinking person believes the schools
today should be like the schools Of
yesterday or a generation ago, for the
world is progressing, but the schools
should advance along the same lines
and At the pupils to meet their future
nrnhlam
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07
Up I'm the Air.

The science OF aviation is taking us so
far into new terminologies that even the
dictionaries will not help. The helicopter
Is the latest Observation-Disclosures" flying ma
chine to attract public attention.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
~pOrRrily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address Will be
changed a. often ~ requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-07

We object to paying the senators
double price for working on a holiday.
double price for working on a holiday.
1t might have been completed before
this