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Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
POLITICAL DRIFT.

The Chicago Record-Herald, In the re.
cent judicial campaign, won out on ten
candidates out OF fourteen supported for
election.
General Corlim Of Ohio, break into print
to tell a busy world how he discovered
william Howard Taft, and pointed out the
road to the presidency, General Corlim is
on the retired list, and needs the advertis-
ing.
In a disquisItlon on the folly of boodlers
discriminating themselves. the Missouri SUI
preme court intimates hat an alderman
who accepts marked bills in payment OF
his vote cannot be compelled to identify
the marks. Case remanded Wit instruc-
lions to quash the indictment.
The defeated mayoralty candidate of the
Good Government party in Boston has a
pretty exalted opinion of his own value
He is suing alleged detractors for S476, 500,
900 damages sustained by reason of their
attacks on him during the campaign. He
claims to be professionally, politically ahd
physically injured to that amount.
A distinguishing trait of the late Colone
A. X. Mcclure, the Philadelphia editor
was his inability to stay hitched to a
party machine. Independent political move.
ments commanded his support oftener thar
regular tickets. A friend once said of him
"Aleck was never well adapted to regular
warfare, but as a leader of a forlorn hope
ne was sublime"
Mayor ]. Barry MehoOl Of Baltimore, ha.
put in service. a fine, big municipal water
wagon, with seats enough for all the city
employees under him. In other words, tn,
mayor has served notice that servants o
the municipality must stay sober. Here
after, says the mayor, the man who want
20 work for the city must keep straigh
and let whiskey alone"
The wealthy Philadelphia manufacturer
Joseph FEELS. has agreed to duplicate every
dollar up TO S250.OO0, raised by the single
takers In America and England for a prop
uganda fund He is now IN Great Britiai
and writes to friends in New York that IN.
taxation Of land alu has passed tn
academic stage, and is coming into tn.
practical consideration Of European states
men and economists generally
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
A Back Fire.

In his commencement Grafton at the
University of Nebraska Senator John
Sharp Williams Of Mississippi, among
other things, said.
The south believes in representative in
stitutions and is not ready to barter them
away for direct rule Of the people. II the
people are incapable Of selecting honest
representatives, then how much more are
they capable Of governing themselves.
After trying to carry a national
campaign to success on the slogan,
Let the people rule" for Mr.. Will
liams to accept an engagement 70
speak at Lincoln, procured for him by
Bryan influence, and then to start a
democratic backhre on Mr.. Bryan's pet
theories does not seem to accord with
the rules of political etiquette,
This shot is plainly aimed at the in
~itiative and referendum, which Mr..
Bryan has taken up and which he
urged upon the recent Nebraska legts-
lature and other legislatures, and is
intended as notice that the southern
democrats are not disposed to take
kindly to It. OF course, the reason
can be easily found by inspection of
the political conditions prevailing in
the south.
Before his elevation to the senate
Mr.. Williams, himself, represented u
Mississippi district in congress for
years, being elected and reelected by
a few hundred votes, where a rep
resentative from a northern state
would have to have as many thousand
votes to be elected. In Mississippi
the idea of popular rule goes no
further than rule by a small minority
of the people, so entrenched behind
disfranchising election laws and actual
fraud at the polls that the real choice
Of all the people is never registered.
The southern democrats have taken
to the direct primary, but for an en-
tirely different purpose from that Of
the northern people, who favor it. In
the north the purpose of the direct pri-
mary is to permit the people to nomi-
nate their candidates, as well as to
elect them, whereas in the south the
purpose Of the primary is to prevent
the people from having a voice in the
nominations and to substitute the mi
nority nominations for the final cleo
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
RAILROAD REGULATION.
Peculiar Conjunction of Managerial
Cries, Let Us N
Philadelphia Press.

Enllhutlpliid L iCSSs
BY a peculiar conjunction of events f.
II. Hartman, James j. Hill and Charles
S. Mellen have recently laid stress upon
what they term too much legislation
These three distinguished railroad chief
tains a k the common ground that non
interference by the public is the proper
course to pursue.
This is a natural way for railroad presi-
dents and corporation managers to look
at it. They much prefer to be let alone.
They find it more congenial to manage
things without anyone to say yes or no.
But what about the much greater army
of individuals collectively known as the
public? What about the thousands of ship
pers who must pay all the freight that the
railroads haul? What about the millions
Of passengers the railroads carry?
A railroad is by no means a private bust
ness enterprise. 1t is a public affair and
therefore subject to public supervision to
a certain extent. To what extent, of
course, admits of an honest difference OF
opinion.
1t is a certainty that the people of the
United States, by a vast majority, oppose
the federal or state ownership of railroads.
But 1t is now just as certain hat by an
equally big majority they favor a wise
regulation of the railroads.
Mr.. Hill is the steadiest declaimer against
state and federal laws aimed at the con-
troll of railroads. That is because the
states through which his railroads extend
are constantly trying to hold those roads
in restraint.
An examination of freight and passenger
rates, terminal facilities and general &C
commodations furnished by standard lines
of the east and those of the west will con-
vince any eastern shipper hat there is a
reason for this constant agitation of west
ern people In regard to railroads.
The average dividend paid by the big
western roads is larger h the average
dividend paid paid by the eastern trunk
lines. The shippers, seeing this, not un
naturally complains when he also sees that
the western roads charge very much higher
rates thar the eastern lines.
The query stands thus: Is 1t fair for the
western companies to charge such high
rates In order to keep up their dividends
above eastern dividends?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
Gamers by Modern Progress.

A distinguished French investigator,
Georges D'Avenal, gives to the world
the result of his inquiries into the eff
feet Of modern progress upon the va
rious classes of people and he reaches
conclusions decidedly at variance with
commonly accepted ideas. He does not
affirm or deny that there are greater
accumulations Of wealth than in the
past, but insists the rich can buy COM
p%aratively little more personal COM
fort with their money than formerly,
while the poor and middle classes live
much better, are better clothed and
have more Of the pleasures of life than
ever before.
One cogent reason is that in all
ages the rich have possessed all the
comforts the world afforded. Having
more money to spend can procure no
more and adds only ostentatious dis
play. AS an illustration NJ. D'Avenal
cites the millionaire riding in a pri-
vate car while the masses ride In the
common coach, whereas In times past
the rich rode in carriages or on horse
back and the masses stayed at home.
Modern invention has so ~cheapened
the utilities which minister to the
creature comforts that all can enjoy
in a. measure what in the past was
only within the reach of the rich.
The most forceful argument ad-
vanced rests on the shortening Of the
hours of labor and the creation of
diversions open to the public without
expense. The old-time workday was
measured by the power of physical en-
durance or the hours Of daylight.
There was neither time for pleasures
nor physical vitality to take the OPP
portunity. The toiler was chained to
his environment and his limited hori-
zon inspired little hope Of bettered
condition. There has always been
want and squalor in the world as there
is today, but careful study leads to the
conclusion that a larger per cent Of
the total population enjoys the reason
able comforts of life than ever before.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
Honoring the Wrights.

After receiving unstinted honors
abroad the Wright brothers have at
last been accorded suitable ~recogni-
ton in their own country, President
Taft presenting the medals of the
Aero club to the inventors.
The Wrights are not only entitled
to credit because they have achieved
results in a scientific field which had
defied other investigators and in
ventors, but because they have given
an exceptional exhibition Of American
pluck. They risked everything, even
their lives, on their judgment and
~persevered under the most discourag-
ing circumstances. What ultimate re-
suits their discoveries may lead to, no
mar can tell. In the present state OF
development the army is the only or
g~anization which can put the aero
plane to any practical use, but Presi-
dent Taft voiced the common nope
that air navigation might be developed
to more humanitarian and practical
1t is not belittling the achievements
of the Wrights to recognize the fact
that the ~aeroplane is still a crude and
unsatisfactory affair. 1t is too deli
cate and uncertain in its movements
and it's powers of fight too limited to
accomplish much. The first railway
locomotive was hardly more than
toy, yet 1t opened the way for g
mighty forward step in human prog.
ress. With the principle demon
strated development of the aeroplane
may some day work no less a revolu,
ton.
Whatever may prove to be its uses
it must be gratifying to our pride that
American citizens should have beer
in the van in a worldwide effort &c
tame the elements.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

placed as to induce the belief that the
sultan was really there when he was some
where else. These stories are fresh enough
to tar a dash OF salt. but they disclose
a vein of attractive richness for up-to-date
makers of comic opera.
sss
The shadows are gathering steadily and
closing in around the life Of Joseph Cham
berlain, the dashing, vengeful and tickle
British statesman. Less than ten years
ago he ranked second only to Lord Sails
bury in the conservative unlonist minis
try, and was chiefly responsible for the
war on the BoeI republics. Authentic tn
formation states that he is in a very feeble
condition, his mind Is clouded and his body
in a semi-paralyzed state. Recently he
returned to England from a protracted
stay In the Riviera, and was observed at
Dover landing with tottering footsteps sup
ported by his son. 1t is difficult to con-
ceive OF the transformation within three
short years of Britain's greatest champion
Of imperialism into such a helpless being.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
The Family as a Social Unit.

The National Conference of Chart
ties and Corrections at Buffalo could
have devoted its time to no more i'm
portant subject than that which
ELECTED a discussion of the family as a
social unit and the necessity of pro-
tecting it against disruption. From
the beginning of organized society the
family has been its foundation stone
and nothing else has been evolved to
take its place. The present-day out
cry against divorce is but a protest
against family disruption and the laws
against the labor of women and chill
dren are intended to safeguard the
family.
That contingencies may and do oc-
casionally arise justifying the volun-
taTy or forcible severing of family ties
all will admit, and it is sometimes a
safety valve to society and the saliva
ton of the individuals to separate
parents n children even to the ex-
tent Of breaking up family relations.
There is such a thing, however, as per-
hitting this disrupting tendency to go
too far and there is no question but
that the divorce courts, Juvenile
courts, child saving societies n kin
dred organizations, which are most
useful in their OWL field, have at times
outrun all proper limits.
So long as the family continues 70
be the social unit, the responsibility
of parents should be strengthened and
enforced rather than impaired by re-
lieving them OF duties hat should be
devolved upon them. II the destruc-
ton of parental discipline on one side
or the other results in weakening the
family and sets an example for shirk,
ing parental obligations as a conse-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
H UMPIRE.

st. Louis Republic.
with apologies TO the Vampire.
A fool there was, and he made has pIastt
Gwen as you and II
the raging rabble assembled there,
For a soda bottle had struck him square
In the back of the neck, and It maze aim
swear.
Gwen as you and ID.
oh, the cheers we waste,
And the ieers we waste,
And the pennant hopes we had PLANNED
Belong TO the man who did not know
(And now we know that he Will never
know
That Murphy had beaten Sullivan's throw,
And he could not understand,
They mussed his hair and they tore his
pants,
Just to make him understand;
turned in a call for the ambulance.
The work of our heart and hand.
But all they could find of that umpire
there
Was q rag and a bone and a hank of hair.
They had certainly done him up tor eair.
For he could not understand.
oh, II isn't the shame
And IL isn't the blame
That stings like a white-hot brand
It's the thought of losing n game that vas
won
Thro' an ignorant, measly son-of-a-gun
who could not understand.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Another police souvenir picture
book is to be unloaded on the commu-
nifty under cover of a division Of
profits with the police relief fund. This
species of refined graft should have no
countenance from the police authori-
ties. If anyone wants to contribute
to the police relief fund he should be
permitted to do so without dividing
with outside professional solicitors.
As a matter of fact the police relief
fund ought not to be dependent on a
levy Of contributions from people un-
der police regulation or protection,
ever though supposed to be voluntary.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

quence Of the intrusion Of charitable
or correctional authorities, more harm
than good will be done to society. The
divorce courts. Juvenile courts, deten-
ton homes and reform schools should
be the last resort only after all efforts
to reform the home and restore con-
iugal fidelity or parental authority
have failed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

John Sharp Williams revamps Jer-
envy Bentham's catch phrase that
That government is best which gov
ems least" II John Sharp should
wake up he might discover hat this
m~oss-covered dogma has been rejected
by every modern publicist and political
scientist who has any recognized
standing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

many men are doing women's work and
not getting a cent for it!'-Chicago
Tribune.
Couldn't you stretch a point 10 get more
news about our new neighbors?
II might rubber a bit."-Baltimore
American.
Doesn't 1t seem strange that Mr.. Roose-
welt suffers from none OF the pestilential
influences that surround him in equatorial
Africa p
Not at all. For seven or eight years
before he went there he was thrown into
almost constant association with politi-
clans, and his system became immune
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
Much work Ahead.

ST. LOUIS GIObe DemOcTAI.
The tariff has a long fight before it can
get through the senate, and then will come
the big struggle in the conference commit
tee. The national lawmakers will cele-
brate their Fourth of July in Washington
this year, but whether the holiday will be
safe and sane or not will depend on the
sort Of work which the senate does in The
next two or three weeks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Mayor Jim says he will stay on the
Job continuously, II necessary, to pro-
tect his appointees. Surely he had no
idea that he was elected mayor to
chase around the country as an adver-
Using agent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
Annther var scare has heen nnn.

Another war scare has been pune
tured. 1t was reported a consignment
of 10000 rifles was in the United
States intended to be used by Castro
in a revolution in Venezuela, but in
vestigation discloses hat the rifles be-
long to a western mail order house,
which will sell them to farmers for ex-
terminating jack rabbits and COYOTES.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

The worid-Herald has not been in the
habit OF supporting republican candidates
for supreme Herald.
No, and It is not likely to get the
habit unless it sees a chance to use a
republican candidate to pull a demo-
pop candidate along with him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Another question which might be
pertinent in connection with the pre-
tended conversion of the demo-pops to
the idea of a nonpartisanship is this,
When did a demo-pop governor of Ne
braska ever appoint a republican to
any vacancy on the bench?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
An Army ON the Job.
Philadelphia Press.

InlladelphlH ffeSs.
There are now 26,S35 men employed in
digging the Panama canal. Rather a re-
markable condition of affairs at a place
where, according to the prophetic pessi-
mists, it would be impossible to get enough
labor to achieve material progress with the
great undertaking.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

The latest is a merger of the chew
ing gum companies. Are there none
Of life's necessities that are to escape
the nav Of these grasping combina-
tions3
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
Dispensing Sweetness and Light.
Detroit News.

Mr.. Bryan has a new lecture entitled,
Waterman, What of the Night?" II Is
pathetic to think Of this big country hav-
ing to struggle through at least four years
more Of darkness, with only the light of a
tallow dip, as Colonel Bryan lights one
here and there at $500 per.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
That would start Things.

Chicago Record-Herald.
Perhaps IL the advocates of an income
tax would specify that 1t should be laid
only upon people whose incomes are less
than 5000 a year there would be some
enthusiasm for It In the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

A New York man who committed
suicide in a hotel left a note begging
the proprietor's pardon and promising
not to do it again. Nothing will make
some folks forget their %politeness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Mrs. Russell Sage is said to be CIV
ing money away at the rate of $4,000
a day. And just to think. poor Rus
sell lived on Scent lunches to save up
q fortune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

The business agent of the Chicago
Cab Drivers union has called in a
phrenologist to examine the heads Of
members. That is hardly fair to the
phrenologist TO bring him in just after
a strike in which brickbats figured.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

A French law compels the disinfec-
ton OF all school books, but a large
part of the national literature contin-
ues unsterilized.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

omaha's police passed their annual
inspection and received a verbal bou-
quet from the mayor congratulating
them on their good work. This will
be first notice to readers of our local
yellow journals hat the police force
has been doing good work.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

President l.. w. Hill of the Great
Northern denies the report that a plan
has been devised for merging the vari-
ous Hill roads into one corporation.
Probably a case Of II regret to report"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Nearing the close Of the twenty
third week of the Calhoun bribery trial
in San Francisco. the state concluded
its testimony. That comes pretty near
being a record.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

An Oklahoman 105 years old has
been fined for whipping his wife. II
that youngster does not look out he
will land in the reform school.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
storing Up Trouble

st. Louis Times.
In our judgment the railways in Missouri
will hardly lay up a great fund of popu-
larity by e~xacting their pound of flesh in
the matter Of passenger fares.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Subscribers IenvinR the city tenn
porariIy should have The Bee
mailed to them. Addresa will he
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

A German cavalry team captured
the kings cup in the hurdle event at
the London horse show. More grief
for Great Britain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Cleveland Plain Deal,

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
General Corbin says he made President
Taft. Tom Plat says he made Mr.. Roose-
welt. Now guess. children, who made w.
j. Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

The testimony in the Howard Gould
divorce ease indicates that 1t costs a
few to keep up a really fashionable
establishment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

II flies and mosquitoes are such dan
gerous things, why not add a fly squad
ron to the mosquito fleet?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

The house Of representatives was in
session all of eleven minutes the other
day. The life of a congressman is get
ting too strenuous.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

To the charge of spurious non
partisanship" the World-Herald enters
a plea OF confession and avoidance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

This western country is on the
water wagon, but the only trouble ap-
pears to be hat the vehicle is over
loaded.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Bellevue college has given diplomas
to thirteen graduates. No supersti-
tious fear there.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Muskogee has an election scandal
now. A School for Scandal" must
be located in Oklahoma.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Those undertakers in convention
here proved to be live ones
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

Postal inspectors think they turned
an unusua trick in recovering stolen
money from a mans wooden leg. That
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

"Mr. Meekum, don't YOU think a woman
should receive q mans pay when she does
a mans work."
"Why-er-look at the other side Of the
question a moment, will you? Think how
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

The senate debate is all wool and
considerably over a yard wide.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
srArnMENT oF cGRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state OF Nebraska, Douglas County, S.
George B TzsChuck. treasurer or Ine
Bee Publishing Company, Selng uuty
sworn. says that the actual number OF run
ing Evening and Sunday Bee printed our
Ing the month of May. 1903, was as tol-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

is nothing-many a dollar has been
secured by leg-pulling.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12
In Other Lands

sids Lights en- what IL grSns-
piring Among the Near and
Tar Hattons Of ths Earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

your husband says that during your
quarrel you used a flatiron on him"
well, your honor, you see 7 was trying
to smooth things over. cleveland Leader
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-12

B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer,
Subscribed in my presence and sworn tc
before me this 3lst day of May, 1909
NJ. +. WALKER,
Notary Public.