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Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Even the suspense engendered by such
a situation Is q keen shock to those
whose business interests or friends and
kindred are involved.
The first CLEAN OF relief from the
imaginings Of civilization, cut of from
its accustomed communication with an
important island, came from that latest
modern marvel, the wireless, like a
voice from the heavens, setting at rest
the apprehension that the gem of the
British West Indies may have been
swallowed by an earthquake, and Civ
ing definite news, which, though bad,
is not as grave as feared.
The city of Kingston and the terri
tory Of the island have only recently
recovered from devastating storms,
and this new visitation will doubtless
prove to be a sufficient calamity to en-
list the worlds sympathy and help;
but knowing the worst is better than
the terror Of the unknown, which is
aroused every time the elements in
terrupt the workings Of the regular
channels of communication.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
The Visit of the japanese.

Omaha is next on the itinerary Of
the visiting Japanese commissioners
who are making a tour of inspection
with a view to posting themselves on
the conditions of agriculture, COM
merce and industry in the United
States.
When the Japanese look over Omaha
we believe they will find here more
than anywhere else the typical inland
city serving as the market town for a
vast area of rapidly developing agri-
cultural country.
AS a railroad center they will find
Omaha to be the gate city of the west,
the main valve on the artery Of trans
continental traffic.
If they inquire into our history they
will find here a community of nearly
100000 people, including the suburbs,
which has grown up on the edge of the
prairie within a little more than fifty
years.
If they size up present appearance
and business conditions they will find
Omaha a pushing, progressive city
fully abreast of all the most advanced
achievements in city building and rest
ing It's substantial prosperity upon a
foundation of untold agricultural re-
sources in a tributary territory that is
excelled nowhere throughout the
world.
Our Japanese visitors will have cov-
cred a vas area and stopped at all of
the most important industrial centers
in the country, in each of which they
will have been impressed with claims
Of superiority along particular lines.
Notwithstanding this, Omaha may rest
confident that their visit here will
make them underscore Omaha on their
maps and that they will take away
with them many suggestive observa-
lions and ideas.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
Race for Naval Supremacy.

The recent panic of England con-
corning German preparedness for val
acquires a new significance in the off,
cial announcement from Washington
that the German navy has leaped from
fourth into second place in actual
fighting sea strength. Besides passing
both France and the United States in
tonnage in commission, Germany is re-
ported as having under way nearly as
much new battleship construction as
has England.
The burden of this race for naval
supremacy is emphasized by the
knowledge that, although our govern
ment is perfecting the heaviest naval
program that it ever yet carried on,
the tonnage involved is less than half
of the amount of construction under
way in either Germany or Great
Britain. The fact that Japan has
made but little gain in naval strength,
in spite of rumors that she was maxi
ing great strides, may be taken to in
dicate a policy of keeping a lesser
force up to a high state of efficiency.
For those who believe that it is the
man behind the gun that counts there
may be some comfort in rejecting that
the United States as always leads all
countries except Great Britain in the
strength of official and enlisted per-
sonneI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
BANKER J. KENNEDY7s LOYALTY
RecollectiOnH of Famous Hartman
Hill Struggle.
New York Evening Posi-.

- - HNCl1lllA GOSls
The death Of John S. Kennedy recently
removed another of the fast diminish
ing group of old-tlme bankers and railroad
men whose activities in the early fifties
dld much to develop the west and add to
our banking connections abroad.
Mr.. Kennedy figured prominently in the
negotiations attending the organization Of
the Northern Securities company. His hold
tngS Of Northern Pacific stock were so
large as TO bring him very tempting offers
from the opposition forces in 1901, when
efforts to wrest control from the Hill
Morgan faction led to the sensational COR
ner" episode of May 8 with the quotation
Of 1000 for Northern Pacific stock. Always
a stanch friend Of James J. Hill. Mr..
Kennedy backed the Morgan syndicate
throughout the Northern Pacific fight, and
refused really fabulous prices for his hold
lngs. With Lord ~Strathcona, James ]. Hill
and a foreign client, Mr.. Kennedy was said
at the time to hold ~one-quarter of the $780,
10000 Northern Pacific common stock.
Just what his own holdings were was not
disclosed, but in speaking to a friend Of
the tempting offers made, Mr.. Kennedy
sRidI
I'VE could have gotten all kinds of prices
for the stock, but not one of my friends
would think for a moment Of deserving MT.
Morgan and Mr.. Hill. We set out to stick
by them, and no offer, however tempting
could Induce us to sell our holdings at a
time when to do so would have meant
possible disaster for the Morgan side. 1
know Of one mar in Europe, a close friend
Of mine, who refused a flat offer of several
million dollars from the Kuhn-Loeb forces,
although such a price for his holdings
meant a really prodigious profit for him.
He was an old-time holder and got his
shock at a price which looks almost rldi-
culOus in comparison with present quo
tations.
But we stuck by our friends, regardless
Of every sort of inducement held out to
make us desert them, There was no falter-
ing, although things were done, and offers
made, that were distinctly calculated to
make men falter. But there was more than
money at stake in UGH a contest, and al
though a strife such as we had then leads
frequently to unlooked-for complications,
and sometimes forces men to make new
friends, none OF US ever thought OF such a
thing for a moment. We were on the side
Of Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. Hill from principle,
and we were with them to see them through,
irrespective of what rewards were held out,
attitudes. 1t was n great big struggle,
though, such as rarely tries men in these
days. but 1 guess Mr.. Morgan knew pretty
well who his friends were when he got
through with it,"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
interruption of News Channels.

The easy-going dismissal OF personal
worries over the silence OF the absent,
with the remark that mo news is good
news" hardly applies in the case OF
interruption of established channels
Of intelligence, No news was bad news
in the ominous silence that greeted
the vain effort to raise Charleston
after the earthquake, which the Amer
lean people could for some time only
wildly guess at. A similar lull preceded
OF the devastation at Galveston,
and cables were interrupted by the
tremors attending the Martinique
catastrophe.
Il was a matter for grave concern,
therefore, when the days extended into
Ia full week with no tidings from
Jamaica nor n ready e for OBJ
tanning information as to why the ca
bles had gone out OF commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
POLITICAL DRIFT.

Senator Daniel Of Virginia has seventy
W majority in the Legislature, insurlng
his reelection.
At the last roundup seventeen aspiring
candidates for mayor of Boston were
branded. Several mavericks are believed
to be running loose.
John X. Tener, member Of congress from
Scranton, Pa, formerly a base ball pitcher,
announces to the political bleachers that
he is a candidate for governor. Thinks he
knows the game.
United States COMMISSIONS James A.
Shields Of Brooklyn last week observed
the fifty-fifth anniversary Of his entering
the service, and received congratulations
from a host of admirers of superdread-
naught grip.
One Of the constitutional amendments
adopted by the voters Of Rhode Island
establishes representation in the legisla-
ture on the basis OF population. The old
system OF distrlcting gave one country
voter as much power as two voters in the
cities.
Signs Of the coming legislative contest
on the federal income tax amendment are
visible in New York. A poll of legislators
elect taken by the New York World indi-
Gates the requisite two-thlrds majority in
both houses. But the legislature does not
assemble for seven weeks. Meanwhile, OPP
position is developing in a way likely to
carry much weight. Several state papers
are arguing that a federal income tax
would take from the people of the Empire
state one-fourth Of the total, or approx
mately s5O.0OO.0Oo per annum. This argu-
ment, together with the suggestion that
the tax would bring in so much revenue as
to endanger the protective principle, is
being vigorously pressed where 1t will do
the most good.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
ENCORE.

Oh, whittier, little Bumble-Be
Pray whittier nave you flown:
We grieve to see the space usurped
That once was all your own
We miss you lively little buzz;
They miss your stings who get 'em,
And glanced down to the bottom.
We pray thee little Bumble-Bee
Why go you off TO hide?
The winters comm on it's true,
But 1t is warm inside;
The coal man needs yout probing sting.
The foot ball field does, too,
And that old Thanksgivin' turkey
His train is almost Dr.
You see, old Mr.. Bundle Bee
You shouldn't seek your hole
When all that scrnppin goin' on
About the frosty pole;
When Teddy has not reappeared
From chasing I'm the jungle
II you forsake us at this point
Your job yCull sadly bungle.
Come back, oh, truant Bumble-Bee
furnace sting Is due;
The great Corn show will soon arrive.
The rubber show will too;
The sawdust Waders will advance
And take In every item
Here are splendid targets for your stings,
We pray thee do not slight EN-.
Now errant Mr.. Rumble Bee.
IT'S no time for suspension
or duty for the weather man
VIII soon need some attention;
SO hearken Mr.. Bundle Bee.
And whereso'eer you roam
Just buckle on your harness
And make a Decline fer home.
Omaha. -BAYOLE NE TRELE
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

The democratic World-Herald de-
clares that the platform will settle it
for the party, but carefully abstains
saying which platform, The associate
editor who writes the article has just
been defeated for election as a candi-
date for ONCE running On the populist
platform distinctly committed to
county option. If platforms are bind
ing and he did not swear falsely when
he accepted the populist nomination,
he must be for county option. Which
alternative will he take?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
Despise Not the Old.

Recent experiences demonstrate that
in the matter of transportation it is
not wise to despise the old things ut
terly with the advent of the new, for
necessity may impel us to return to
the methods neglected II not discarded.
The canal towpath, which became q
stock subject for jest, has been en-
nobled by the Suez and Panama un-
dertakings, and in the present day Of
traffic complications is fast coming into
its own. New York state has rehabil-
itated its old Erie waterway, and now
three states of the middle west are
jointly planning for a canal across
country from Toledo TO Chicago,
eliminating a long haul around the
northern sweep of the lakes.
The steam locomotive proves to
have been extremely premature with
its threat to relegate the canal to COM
plete oblivion. Pokey though that
humble highway Of traffic may be,
the possibilities Of it's usefulness have
only just begun to be discerned.
Toledo and Chicago and the places be-
tween have extensive railroad facili-
ties, and the proposed canal will cost
a prodigious sum, but the need for
additional means Of transportation in
dicates that there is nc limit to the
trade Of the country nor to the value
of a mode of commerce that not long
ago seemed outdistanced and ex-
hausted.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
"a FUNDAMENTAL OMISSION"
One vital Feature Missing I'm Rail-
road Regulation Laws.
Minneapolis journal.


Senator Cummins in his speech at Chi
cage Saturday, discussed, among other
things, what he characterized as the
fundamental omission" of our railroad leg
islation-namely, it's failure to regulate the
capitalization Of railroads. At the outset,
however, he pointed out the essential diff
ference between railroad investments in
the old pioneering days and such invest
ments nowadays. A man who risked his
money and energy when railroad building
was largely a reckless gamble, is entitled
to the rewards of his enterprise now.
Many companies, moreover, have capital
lied the increased value Of their property,
and even their surplus earnings.
These things are done and cannot well
be undone. But It would be an easy mat
ter hereafter to regulate the issue Of stocks
and bonds and to require, as Senator Cum.
minis suggests, that there be no capitalize.
ton that does not represent independent
investment.
This is a fundamental omission be-
cause there can be no just basis for fair
rates, until It is known on what capitaliza-
ton a railroad may Justly seek to earn
dividends. The capitalization question thus
lies at the bottom Of the whole problem.
We have made great progress, as Senator
Cummins points out, in securing justice as
between individual patrons of the rail-
roads. Rebates and discrimination, as be-
tween individuals, have disappeared. There
remain determinations as between locali-
ties and sections. This is a much more
delicate problem, because the very life OF
a city or a section depends on It's railroad
rates. Our system Of rates has been Of
slow growth, and it is a growth that has
not always been logical. But great cities
have been built up and rich regions de-
veloped on the basis Of established rates,
It will not do to proceed too lightly and
hastily about the business OF ~rearrangIng
these rates on the basis Of abstract jus
tice. Regard must be had for conditions
as they are, not as they ought to be If
geography alone were considered.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
Nebraska POrkers in oregon.

Oregon saw a strange sight yesterday.
Three carloads of Nebraska hogs arrived
at Portland, consigned TO the Union stock
yards. They we're not brought under con-
tract. but we're consigned by the Nebraska
shippers to be sold in the open market at
the yards. 1t Is the first shipment Of the
kind in Portland, and probably the first
to the coast. Nebraska hogs nave been
brought here under consignment to the
purchaser but not before under a con-
signment in which the shipment had TO
run the chances Of a sale by competitive
bidding. The lot went to Tacoma buyers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

st. Paul and Minneapolis announce
their intention of going after an Indian
supply depot without specifying
whether they want to take it away
from Omaha or from Chicago.
Omaha has been accustomed to saving
the supply depot at least once every
two years md our democratic con-
gresham may as we'll practice up for
the rescue act in a spectacular tank
scene with the usual stage setting and
the calcium lights all on.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

That's real rich about the rank and
file Of Nebraska democracy writing the
platform when it is a matter OF com
notoriety that for more than ten
years not over three or four people
have had a hand in writing the plat
form, and not a single democratic plat
form has been adopted without first
getting the o. X. of Mr.. Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

San FrancIsco Cbronicle.

Dan EIdlClSCO CNIOnlClt'
Shoe manufacturer have notified the
retail trade that, Notwithstanding the new
tariff rate on leather, there will be no
reduction In the price Of their product
The reason given shows that the boot and
shoe trust is not deficient in humor. 1t
declares, with every aspect of seriousness,
that vegetarianism has grown so common
in the country as TO seriously affect the
use Of beef as food and the production Of
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
Rights ana Privileges.

BrOOklyn Eagle.
This call to arms appeared I'm a recent
issue Of the Commoner:
"Wanted-Men who dare to stand for
the Jeffersonian doctrine OF equal rights
to all and special privileges to none"
There is no limit to the number. The
more the merrier, always providing that
they concede the usual exception to the
rule. In any event, It will be enforced at
the next national convention, the only
question being who shall have second place
on the ticket, For this distinction the doc
trine of equal rights to all and special
privileges to none obtains until Mr.. Bryan
expresses his preferences. After that, II is
different.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

What in the world ails the Boston
school boys, that they have to be COM
PEELED to learn to swim under a new
rule Of the Board OF Education? With
so much water around the Hub, the
Bostonese linguistic substitute for
Come on in, the waters hne," ought
to be the first words lisped there.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

The coming Of the new Lincoln
pennies and the designing of a new
nickel bearing W%ashington's head
serve as a reminder that in his life
time the first president expressed him
self severely against putting any hui
mar face on an American coin. He
considered 1t as savoring Of monarch
ical custom. Yet the reverence felt
for Washington or the sentiment Of
the people toward Lincoln at this day
is wholly within the limits Of Ameri-
can tradition. In the selection Of a
design for coin or stamp 1t is a safe
rule to utilize only the likeness Of de-
parted heroes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Expert evidence has been carried to
the extreme in the testimony OF a
eIockmaker, who insists that a clock
figuring in a murder case had been
stopped by hand because it was wound
ND. That witness has Sherlock Holmes
backed on the boards.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
Two Grades OF Judicial Law.

Judge Mills says that the papers in the
Aston divorce case were ordered sealed for
the sake Of the children, but all the same
the granting Of the divorce in three min
utes' procedure in the court and the COM
plete secrecy obtained tend to sustain the
contention OF those who declare that there
Is one law for the rich and another for the
DOOR.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
Let the Tests Go On.

DWNNWIV INTTNNW8
In the -nternational Congress on Aloo-
holism a lively debate arose over the
question as to the effects OF liquors when
consumed in small quantities. As no agree
ment could be reached, It was concluded
to postpone the subject for further investi-
cation. In the meantime 1t may be as
stunned hat muititudes Of people will con-
tinue TO practically study the question
for themselves in all its aspects. without
waiting for the decision OF an Interna-
tional Congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

In architecturally adapting itself to
It's environment the big city church is
departing from the ancient stateliness
Of ecclesiastical construction, But why
Vhouldn't a church be a skyscraper?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Although seven females suffered
from the excessive activity Of the
Cleveland bigamist, he was convicted
and sentenced for mail frauds. More
sex discrimination.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

II the traffic officials are sincere in
their announcement of a new faith
that the roads will gain most by fair
dealing with the public they will find
that the public, like Barkis, is willin'.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Unless all portents fail the demo
POP plan is to play the same old game
in Nebraska again next year by run
ming the candidates on two platforms,
so that as ~populists they may be COM
mitted for county option and as dem
ocrats they may be against it
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

This shoe family is getting to be
ubiquitous. A little while ago it was
T~ake-a-shoo, and now Gaus Ingashu is
leaping into prominence clear from the
African wilds. That's a long shoo-hy
from the Arctic.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Assignment of a surgeon to ON
mand the Solace should not be taken
by the line officers that there is no
solace left to them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
wise old G~rayBeard.
Washington Herald.

A Nebraska judge has decided that a
kiss does not necessarily constitute a pro-
posal. His honor does not propose that
there shall be one sort OF law for the
eashore and another for the interior.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Now that they have buried the en-
press dowager. it lie fair to assume that
the lady is really dead. though one
can't most always sometimes tell about
these Chinese diplomats.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Are you running your railroads for the
benefit OF the public or the stockholders p"
I'm no umpire answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax. If we pay big dividends the public
complains and II we don't the stockholders
kick. I'm inclined to maintain neutrality
as a high-salaried official and let 'em fight
IL out"-Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Coincident with the announcement
that a man higher up has been
caught in sugar frauds comes a boost
In the price of sugar. Thus are the
sweets Of harmony maintained.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Mr.. Bryan is going to South Amer
lea to find out whether the voice of the
people calls him to run for United
States senator in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
ShnllenherReI

Governor shallenberger says We
ave mucn 20 be thankful for. We
rust he will be able TO convince some
II those who feed on democratic news
papers hat Would have them believe
everything has gone wrong.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

The fight over the division on the
reward for the capture and conviction
of those train robbers will next occupy
the center of the stage.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Mary James Pa" having gone OF
the war path, the rival forces seem to
be doing a Savage dance to the strains
Of Dixie.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

cattle to supply II. Hence dear hides and
a regrettable necessity Of sticking to the
old prices. Probably the cutlery trust will
also be affected by the soft food habit
and may raise the price Of table knives.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

With Bob" Burdette back in good
health in his pulpit, Los Angeles may
renew it's claim to being a land of per-
petual sunshine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

From the vigorous punishment in
hicted on Michigan students for imbib-
ing juice Of the vine one may conclude
that Ann Arbor is no grape arbor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

subscFibers leaving the city tem-
DOrRrily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often A. requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

President Lowell of, Harvard evil
IDENTIFY believes that athletics is a form
of life insurance, of which a man
ought to carry all that he can stand.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

The train-robbing industry will not
be quite so popular in this vicinity for
some time to come.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

What the d~isarranged Poe lock at
the 500 needs may prove to be a cryp-
Geographic key.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Governor Shallenberger has re-
leased his Thanksgiving proclamation.
1t is up to Mayor Jim" to jar loose.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

1t only remained for the Land OF
Steady Habits to add a dash of nutmeg
to tickle the presidential palate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Or. Eliot appears to consider it a
part of his new religion to scuttle the
Alaskan coal pirates.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

Here's a picture Of a witch, mamma.
See-the book says she has an evil eye
I'VE don't say evil eye now, darling.
We call II mental malprac tioe. "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13
Just His Wsy'
BOSTON Herald.

After all the others get through naming
the new supreme court Judge, the presl-
dent viii offer his suggestion.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

That stuck up Mrs. Gaddam won't speak
to all the neighbors. She says she has to
draw the line somewhere"
She was drawing II on the back fence
this morning. You know, she has to do
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

I'm say this for Alfred" remarked the
boys father; he's patriotic. and is doing
all he can to reduce the governments pos
tai deficit. Ever since he went away to
school he has written to me about four
times a week asking for money "-ChicaGo
Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

b, TASCttOCh,
Treasurer,
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day of November, 1903.
(Seal.) NJ. p. WALKER,
Notary Public.