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The San Francisco call., 1909-04-26
Thousands Die in Attack

LONDON, April 25.-The Standards
Constantinople correspondent estimates
that 1000 men were killed in the cap
ital yesterday. and the losses We're
heaviest on the side OF the constitu-
tionalists, who did all the attacking
and offered good targets in the open
During the conflicts the Mollahs and
SOftas. fearing vengeance of the people
everywhere, sought refuge in the mos
ques, whre thy were caught and many
killd At ehtime of the surrender, the
correspondent adds, the sultan had
with him, besides the grand vizier and
the war minister, two of the nearest
heirs to the throne. Mohammed Rechad
Efendi and Yussif Izzedine, whom he
detained as hostages
1t is reported from Rome that about
so Of the Softas and Mollahs taking
refuge in the mosque. We're found to be
armed when they were captured and
were placed against the nearest wall
and shot
Tonight unsympathetic and resolute
soldiers stood guard around the sultan
as precaution against his friends. He
has not been deposed, but his subjects
talk openly of whether he shall remain
even the nominal head of the empire.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-26
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The San Francisco call., 1909-04-26
Order Disorder Stopped

The senate and deputies have adopted
a resolution at San Stefano, embodying
a request to the government to order
imperatively the local authorities to
stop the disorders and punish the lead
ers. The need of the Armenians in the
Adana district is the greatest. AM
bassador Leishman has transmitted
through the state department the fol-
lowing message to Rev. James L. Bar
ton, foreign secretary of the American
board Of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions az Boston. from w J. Peet, treas
urer of the mission board. here:
Outbreaks at Adana; native Chris
tians suffered much loss of life and
property. Their district is in flames.
Fifteen thousand now destitute. Thou
sands of dollars reqGired daily. They
have bread alone; lack medical sup
plies. The four emergency hospitals
are already Overcrowded. Two large
orphanages are required at once The
government can not meet the present
needs. The relief committee has be-
gun work, but funds are needed"
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-26

Giant honey bees of India build comb
13 feet high
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-26
SULTANS GUARD
SURRFNDFRS TO
SALONIKI ARMY
Invaders Permit Monarch to Re-
main in Palace Until Fate
Is Decided
Court MartiaIs Will Condemn to
Death Opponents OF the
Constitution

persons before military courts for trial
The evacuation Of the quarters
around the Yildiz kiosk began early in
the morning. The soldiers Of the gar
rison were made prisoners and their
places were taken by Macedonian bat
taIions. Had the sultan looked out
from the upper windows of his favorite
yellow and white pavilion he would
have seen at dawn sentinels thickIy
scattered in the grounds before the
palace and the Bosphorus and the gates
OF the canal through which the barges
pass from the Yildiz toy lake TO the
Bosphorus.
THE Will of Allah
Later, in front Of the main gates
Of the palace, rows of eunichs sat
watching the movements of the officers
connected with the transfer OF the
guardianship Of the sultan's person.
Memdouk Pasha, commander Of the
surrendered palace guards, CAME slowly
out OF the gate. He was allowed TO
keep his sword, but was attended by
officers whose swords were missing
MemdOuk Pasha paused to talk with
the correspondents.
1T is the viii OF Allah" said he
We have done our duty"
II was through me-" remarked one
OF the ehamberlains of the court. that
bis majesty sent the message to Mem
douk Pasha not to resist. All of them
said his majesty. still are my chill
dren- ! do not wish any more blood
shed When the sultan gave the com
mand not to resist there was no resist
ance, and the affair was ended
Ihe sultan summoned the grand vi
zier, Tewhk Pasha. and the minister
Of war. Edhem Pasha. to come To hin,
when the guns first began 10 sound
yesterday.
They remained with him throughout
the day and received bulletins of the
disaster from time to time The sul-
tan's bearing is described as troubled.
he was outwardly calm and was con-
sloerate and courteous toward his aids
and others who came in contact with
him.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-26

irving there from outlying parts of the
district, who report massacres and the
burning of towns. He also reports
that there is the gravest apprehension
concerning conditions at Kesiab, where
Miss Efie Chambers is one OF the mis-
cfl II
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-26
ConstitutionaIists Supreme

The constitutional party is supreme
again, but the zealots are busy in the
eastern provinces striving to arouse
Asiatic Mohammedanism against in
fldel culture" Small risings are likely
to occur east Of the Bosphorus, but
they are also likely to be put down de-
cisively by those seeking to uplift the
whole country
ing the division of the army of occu-
patton in the Pera quarter said to-
night:
Z have lost an army corps (meaning
the Constantinople army, but / have
saved the country the terrors of un-
disciplined soldierY"
Questioned with regard to his posi-
tion at the Yildiz Kiosk. he said:
'All the barracks around the palace
being occupied. Il have decided for the
present not TO furnish a guard for the
interior of the palace. because | wish
TO avoid contact by my men with the
palace fusiliers, in order to prevent
their contamination by the traditions
of the old guard.
The disarmed troops of the old garri-
son are being sent 10 the barracks in
the outskirts of Stamboul. They ulti-
mately will be distributed among the
different corps, chiefly in Saloniki."
Many Thousands Massacred
BEIRUT. April 25.-The situation in
Asiatic Turkey is extremely serious.
HOW lnOuSanO5 nave Deen mas
sacred cannot even be estimated be-
cause the disturbances have been so
widespread that it is impossible to Sc
cure details of the happenings.
The latest estimates of the number
killed in the vilayet of Adana reaches
approximately $4,000. and thousands
have been killed in the towns of other
districts. The state of siege at several
of the places has brought the inhabi-
tants near starvation and each day
brings its tales of further atrocities
to which the savagery of the fanatics
has brought the people.
MISSIONARY LEADS TROOPS
Several warships are now in these
waters, but the disorders are so far
reaching that the efforts of the powers
TO restore normal conditions have as
yet hardly been felt. The French
cruiser Jules Ferry arrived today and
left almost Immediately for Latakia,
where swarms of refugees are pouring
in British, French and German war
ships are at other ports and marines
at the more important points
One of the missionaries at Alex
andretta. Mr. Kennedy. with 45o Turk
ish troops, has gone to the relief of
Duertal. an Armenian village on the
coast, where 10000 people within the
walls are besieged by immense bands
of Kurds and Circassians. Only two
days ago a British warship returned
from that place. the governor of the
district having refused the commander
permission TO land a relief party.
from the town and the besieged are
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25
Coffee and the Tariff.

SONG of the democrats in congress
seem much worried over the provisions
of the pending tariff bill relating to the
duty IN coffee, which is now on the
free list and is to remain on the free
list. The wording of the coffee sched-
ule is, perhaps, a little confusing, but
there is no question as to its purpose.
The provision is as follows:
Provided, that If any country, depend
ency, province or colony shall Impose an
export duty or other export tax or charge
of any kind whatsoever, directly or indi-
rectly, upon coffee exported to the United
States, a duty equal to such export duty,
tax or charge shall be levied, collected and
paid thereon.
AS Brazil levies ar export tax on
coffee. the first conclusion is that the
provision is designed to lay an import
duty by this government. More care
full analysis shows that the provision
is designed. under the scheme OF a
maximum and minimum tariff, to pro-
vide for a plan Of retaliation in case
Brazil should determine to assess an
export tax against coffee specifically
designed for shipment to the United
States So long as coffee leaving Bra
zil for the United States is subjected
to the same export taxes as coffee sent
to Europe the Americans will have
free coffee. The pending provision is
aimed against discrimination against
this country.
Two-thirds of the worlds coffee crop
comes from Brazil. The United States,
the greatest coffee-consuming country
in the world, imported 9S2,254,S32
pounds of coffee for the year ending
June 80, 1907, of which 77S,609,5S1
pounds came from Brazil, the balance
being received from Guatemala, Costa
Rico, Porto Rico, Colombia and Peru.
The average import duty of this
product is s cents a pound and the in
crease between thai figure and the
price paid by the consumer-ranging
from Is to SO cents a pounds fixed
long after Brazil has collected its ex-
port tax, which is one of the chief
sources of Brazilian revenu The
United States will continue, by force
of circumstances, to use Brazilian cof-
fees, and Brazil will continue to levy
an export tai upon 1t. The provision
for a countervailing tax on coffee will
not be used against Brazil so long as
that country treats the United States
as well as it treats its other national
patrons.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25

beside the question. He can and will
learn his three RS: and while the negro
is fitting himself for suffrage, there,
safely sheltered by the "grand-daddy"
clause. is sitting the illiterate white voter
Nhistling and whiting and forgetting
that even grandfathers. though dead, soon
become great-grandfsthers. while the
grandson becomes impossible as an an
cestor.
AS a result of these conditions the
negro in a few years will be showing
his qualifications as voter and the bal
lot cannot be denied him, while the
illiterate white will remain as a double
ignorant white man at a standstill so
that his vote can not be counted
against the black. The crying de-
mand, therefore. is for an opposition
party that will be able to cope with
the democrats and demand a share of
the educated negro vote. Until that
is done the south. remaining "solid,'
must also remain hopeless and help
less, its timidity and complacency de-
spised by republicans and democrats
alike. Here is Mr.. Harris remedy:
One is to demand control OF the ma
tional democratic party and the conven-
tion, and then If the demand is refused,
take control and nominate its own man
out of the south and begin a fight from
the start, and to the finish. The other
course is TO break the "solid south"
The greatest need of the democrats
of the south is a southern republican
party with the lines honestly drawn on
state and national issues and the con-
fict at the polls and in the campaigns
carried on in a manner to encourage
independent thought and action to the
end that the voter may be controlled
by his sense of convictions rather than
by traditions that do not apply to the
conditions of today.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25
shattering the Solid South.

Thinking men south of Mason and
Dixon's line are becoming thoroughly
aroused to the political conditions Of
the south and are expressing both an
eagerness and a determination to edu-
cate their people to follow the advice
of President Taft and begin voting
their principles instead of their preju-
dices and traditions, to the end that
the south may break away from its
political bondage and save the solid
south" from longer remaining as a
signal for political mirth. These lead
ers are taking up a consideration of
the political conditions that now exist
in their section and frankly calling at
tention to the evils of the present sys-
TEN and urging prompt action bring
ing about a new order of things.
Julian Harris, son of Joel Chandler
Harris, has a striking editorial in the
current issue of Uncle Remus's Mag
azine," in which he handles the sub
ject without gloves and calls attention
to the danger to the political and in
dustrial welfare of the south that lies
in further adherence to the policies
that have prevailed since the war. He
denounces the white democratic
primary" which has destroyed, he
declares, the buds of political indie
pendence and robbed the south of its
long-held power and prestige, until
1.-The south's galleries of statesmen are
today full to overlooking, but its leg
islative halls are empty" AS to the
effects of this system, Mr.. Harris says:
In a primary for the democratic NOM
ination the race is between democrats for
selection by democrats-and the result
means an election. In nine cases out
of ten there is no issue-no platform
save democracy-and, as in the two Te-
cent gubernatorial primaries i'm Georgia,
the result is al outpouring of personal
abuse. vicious cartooning, and a flow of
~illingsgat that would make a fish-wite
faint from pure ecstacy; the physical de-
ficiencies Of an opponent are denounced
from the platform with all the yigor of
an attack on some venomous, man-eating
trust, and not one step forward is taken
in the path of educating the people in
issues tina confront them. in the prob
lens and perplexities of our more-thun-
ever complicated machinery of govern
ment.
This condition is known of all men
and Mr., Harris in nowise exaggerates
in painting the picture of the evils of
it. Closely allied with the white
primary are the educational r~estric-
lions placed against the negro in the
framing of franchise laws which have
operated more to the injury OF the
whiteN than OF the negroes. On this
point Mr.. Harris declares:
The educational restriction put pm The
negro has proved to him a stimulus TO
acquire an education. And he is going to
get IL. often he may not be able TO reach
TO calculus and Greek, and just as often
when he can he is obnoxious: but that Is
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25
PERSONAL NOTES.

A Chicago y per observes that the sheriff
talks like a scrambled egg. He ought to
have kept in his shell.
Any girl who has a waste basket in a
fair state of preservation can have D
new spring hat without much cost. A
few flowers and ribbons will do the rest.
Territorial officers of New Mexico have
been ordered to stay away from Washing
ton unless they have business there. How
ever an official generally can find bust
ness at the point whence his salary eman-
ates.
Proposals TO tax bachelors have passcd
beyond the joking stage. The legislature Of
New Jersey threatens to slap on the tax
and Danish a treasury deficit, on the prin-
ciple that people luxuriously fixed should
pay the price.
who says Scotch humor is dead? The
chairman Of a Scotch corporation. taken
to task for sending notices to forty men
known to have died years ago, replied that
the regulations demand that when a mem.
Der changed his address he must let the
corporation know.
An English clergyman was sitting with
Rudyard Kipling in his garden at Rotting-
dean, England, the other day. when a street
organ struck up THE Absent Minded Beg
gar The poet squirmed and presently
said, IF it were not suicide | would kill
the man who wrote that" If poets write
~doggerel, they must pay, pay, pay!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25
Tariff Prophesies that Failed.

dSTIUEIUU SUR.
The Payne bin revises the tariff DOWN
ward, is to a certain extent a fulfllment
OF the republican pledge, and in that par
ticular is a disappointment to the oppose
ton. 1t has been freely predicted that no
such proposition was possible from a re-
publican quarter. We have heard from as
high authority as Mr. Bryan that a down
ward revision of the tariff by the party in
power might be expected along with a re-
versal of the law which would send water
running up hill. But again, Mr.. Bryan
as a prophet has failed Water is still obey
ing the old law, and yet here is a recon-
mendation to reduce the figures of a num-
Der of the Dingley schedules.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25
UphoIding CiviI service Law.

The bill that has just passed the house
with respect TO appointments for the next
census is along lines that it was pretty
well understood President Taft stood ready
to defend. The evasion OF civil service laws
is not likely 20 be easy under this admin
istration. He was recently appealed to to
issue an executive order eXempting from
the rules the deserving widow OF a man
who had served in public life. While the
case excited his sympathy, he yet refused
the petition. He was for some time the
president OF the Cincinnati branch OF the
Civil Service Reform league, and the faith
that guided him then he has brought un-
dimmed into his new responsibility. In
the War department and In the Philippines
he maintained the highest reform standards.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25
Nevada's Stab at Bryanism.

While Colonel Bryan was modestly
~recounting his own achievements at a
birthday dinner in his honor at Lin
coin, the legislature of Nevada, one
of the three northern states that gave
its electoral vote to the peerless leader
in his last Cor latest) race for the
presidency, was voting down with true
western emphasis a resolution endors-
ing one of the famous and favorite
tenets of Organism.
A few days ago a resolution was Of
fered in the Nevada senate demand
ing the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 20 to 1, without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth. The resolu-
tion was clearly offered in good faith,
but the democratic members of the
senate, with treason to Organism
in their hearts, rushed to the aid IF
the republicans and voted the .esolu-
ton down by an overwhelming major
ity.
In the campaign last fall Mr.. Bryan
let it be known that he did not con-
slider the silver question dead by a
long shot, insisting that every plank
adopted by the democrats in 1896 is
stronger now than it was then. He
expressed his deep conviction that
there would have been no panic in 1907
If the country had followed his advice
in 1896 and in 1900 and declared for
the free coinage of silver. Some
Nevada statesman evidently took the
leaders words to heart and believed
the time ripe to resurrect the sacred
cause, even at the expense of chang
ing the sacred ratio. but wen Nevada
has caught step with the procession
that for thirteen years has been
marching away from Bryan's financial
fallacies. Nevada's vote is the most
unkindest cut Of all"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25
Deposit Guaranty in Nebraska.

DSPVsAb NuaAohsy IN NSpAooho'
The legislature Of Nebraska has
passed a deposit guaranty law. pre-
sumably in redemption of the platform
pledges on which the members of the
demo-pop majority were elected. The
pledge in the democratic state plat
form promised prompt payment OF
depositers under an equitable system,
ALSO available to the national banks
while the pledge in the %populist plat
form promised "a compulsory bank
guaranty law similar to the n now
in force in Oklahoma
The new law proves to be a very
sorry makeshift to take the curse off
Of a fragrant failure to deliver what
was promised. The new law, being a
complete revision Of the banking laws
of the state, has, of course, a few good
features, more particularly with refer
ence to bank officers borrowing all the
money Of their own banks, but outside
Of this the principal achievement is
the ousting of all the present repub-
lican employees n examiners under
the State Banking board and trans
ferring these jobs to the governor to
be filed with the faithful at higher
salaries.
The guaranty fund feature promises
to be chiefly a harmless pastime of ex-
perimental bookkeeping. Each bank
is to open an account with a guaranty
fund and at stated periods credit the
account with items representing a GER
tain percentage of the average de-
posits, and that is all until some bank
breaks. When a bank is discovered
to be insolvent application is to be
made for a receiver, and ten days after
the receiver is appointed notice is to
filing claims. After the claims have
been filed and proved the cash re-
sources in hand are to be used to pay
the depositors, and If these
fall short the deficiency is to be GER
titled to the State Banking board,
which shall then draw pro rata on all
the several hundred banks supposed to
be carrying on their books their share
of the guaranty fund; and when the
money comes in it is to be turned over
to the depositors, to be returned later
to the contributing banks out of the
proceeds of the receivership.
The prospect of the %depositor get
ting all his money short of three
months after the failure of the bank
whose ready are insufficient
to meet the depositors' claims is eX-
tremely remote. The guaranty is,
therefore, not for immediate or prompt
payment, but for ultimate payment.
AS the ostensible purpose of deposit
guaranty is to prevent runs on shaky
banks, the question is, Will the prom
ise of payment after upward of three
months prevent people from demand
ing their money on the spot for feaEit
may be tied up in a bank failure?
In his Topeka address on "Guaran-
teed Banks" last August, Mr.. Bryan's
most potent argument was this:
The Oklahoma plan g working satisfac-
torily. A bank recently failed in Okla
homa,a and within forty-eight minutes after
the notice of suspension the officer in
I charge had authority to pay all depositors
and then the banking board proceeded to
collect the assets of the bank and to prose-
cute the officials criminally. In Oklahoma
the bank commissioner telephoned the
farmers to come in and get their money,
and the answer was: Il am busy today
with my crop: ! will be In I'M a day or two"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-25
An Imposing Bunch.

Charleston News ard Courier (dem).
Mr.. Bryan is displeased with Mr.. Taft's
cabinet, but for the sake of fair play he
should announce the gentlemen whom he
would have appointed to the cabinet had
he been elected, so that the republicans
could reply in kind. With Norman Mack
as secretary of state, c.. n. Haskell secre-
tary of the treasury, James K, Vardaman
secretary of war, Josephus Daniels secre-
tary OF the navy, Urey Woodson postmas-
ter general, John Wesley Gaines attorney
general, Ollie James secretary of the in
terror, Jim Dahlman secretary of
and labor and George Fred Williams score
tary OF agriculture the United States would,
indeed, be a world power.