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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-03-13

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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-03-13

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Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
LOOalizing Currency Reform

This week the convention of the
American Bankers association is the
most important event In financial cir
cles. 1t may be the point at which
the final adjustment of the currency
will take shape for the winter session
Of congress.
More than one utterance, evidently
designed for discussion at Chicago,
suggest that. In its bare form of a
copy Of the Bank of France, the CEN
trail bank plan will not be accepted
without demur. There is a feeling in
many banking centers that the United
States must in any currency or reserve
system provide for the varied needs,
habits and ideas of different parts Of
a great territory. Men who dwell on
this point of local differences have
been making inquiries about the
working of the existing banking sys-
tenn of Mexico.
When Limantour, undoubtedly an
able man, ~reorganized the finances of
that republic after the gold standard
was adopted, one of his admitted OBJ
jects was to make 1t adaptable to the
extremely varied conditions of the diff
ferent parts Of the country. His con-
viction was that local bankers were
far better judges OF credits than a cen
trail institution would be. The sys-
tenn preserved the central bank, but
allowed local banks OF issue, averaging
one in each state. Redemption Of the
notes OF these local banks is forbid
den in the City of Mexico, but an in
%stitution has grown up, apparently by
the movements OF business rather than
under the law. called the Banco Cen
trail. which is lot a bank OF issue, but
acts as a clearing house and exchange
agent for the state banks. Each state
bank keeps a deposit in the Banco
Central, which is used for the clearing
of checks as we'll as for the redemp-
tion of bank notes.
The result of Inquiries is reported
favorable to Minister Li~mantour's
compromise between central banking
and a certain local liberty which is
considered free from the objections
urged against loose banking. At least
the system works well SO far in Mex
leo, although Mexican experience can
not be conclusive on the United States.
The monetary commission and
American hnanciers have been giving
careful attention 10 the practical
operation Of the Limantonr system.
One point not clear IN tts application
to the United States is the danger Of
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
English Elections.

When responsible papers begin to
talk about a new election in England
within seven months America turns
its vision across the water, for, allow
ing that the relative prestige OF Great
Britain is not what It was fifty years
ago, that nation has become more,
rather than less. interesting.
II the ~unionists should win in next
years election the old-time England Of
settled habits and known quantities
would seem to have returned, though
the stalwart free trade OF the period
from Peel to Salisbury would be tinged
with a doubt not quite understood by
the most rigid protectionist in this
country. England would look like
itself and yet with a new garment or
two.
The House Of Peers will. II is said,
take issue on the land tax. The CEN
trail tactical point will be that a new
principle has been introduced into the
constitution with no direct authority
from the voters. II has the appear
ance Of good politics. the sort of poll
tics which would appeal to English
men. A unionist victory would end
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
Who Gave the Order.

Senator Burkett, with his tail between
his discreet legs. has run yelping away
from the suggestion made by five repub-
lican editors of Lincoln that he debate the
tariff question with Charles o. Whedon
8 . " There is only one excuse possible,
perhaps. 1t is that the republican senators
and congressman from Nebraska were or
dered, by the state republican convention,
to delegate their responsibility to President
Taft, to let Taft do their linking for
them and to support any tariff bill that
was satisfactory to Taft. But Senator
Burkett and his colleagues could not help
but know from what kind Of a republican
convention that order came. 1t came from
a convention that was under the thumb of
Victor II came from a con-
vention whose w%atchword was, Put none
but s~tand-patters on guard."-World-
Herald.
Senator Burkett, and the other re-
publican senator and congressman
from Nebraska. ought to know from
what kind Of a republican convention
the platform order came, and so ought
the World-Herald to know. If any of
them do not know they can easily as
certain by going back to the record Of
that convention.
The convention was presided over
by Charles o. Whedon, as both tenn
porary and permanent chairman.
Chairman Whedon appointed, without
let or hindrance, every member of the
resolutions committee. The platform
was not only the unanimous report Of
the committee, but 1t vas adopted by
the convention by unanimous vote
without a single dissent.
In that convention Chairman Whe-
don was a delegate and had as much
voice and vote as any other delegate.
In that convention two OF the Ave re-
publican editors referred to were like
wise delegates, and likewise voted
Yes" on the platform, or, at least, did
not vote mo" If the republican SEN
ators and congressman from Nebraska
took orders from the republican state
convention, they took orders from Mr..
Whedon, and two Of the Ave repub-
lican editors, who are now trying to
make a disturbance, along with the
rank and file Of the entire republican
party in Nebraska by their delegates
duly chosen. When people give or
ders, and have them carried out, they
do not usually find fault with those
who execute the orders.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
A Word to LIQUOR Dealers

The Bee takes it upon itself, with
out solicitation from anyone, to sug-
gest to liquor dealers that they will be
taking a long chance If they proceed
on the theory that legal restrictions
on liquor traffic are temporarily sus-
pended because Omaha is full Of out
of-town visitors.
1t is doubtless true that, at such
seasons, the police, with added duties
of handling crowds, directing traffic
and protecting strangers, are kept
reasonably busy without watching sa-
looms over closely, and hat the posi-
bilities of turning sharp corners with
out police interference are greatly in
creased. But there is, in addition to
the police, an alert body of spoilers
organized for the particular purpose
of putting the saloon out of business,
and any liquor dealer who brings trou-
BILE on himself will be in bad position
to unload the blame on someone else
II he bumps up against obstacles when
trying to renew his license at the end
of the year.
A word to the wise should be sufi-
Client.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
PERSONAL NOTES.

Thirty out of the forty-seven governors
of the states have accepted invitations tc
accompany President Taft on his river
trip from st. Louis to New orleans.
About 100 members OF the original Bean
family OF Exeter, N. H., held a reunion
in Boston last week. Local papers fea.
tured the Beans on the inside pages.
st. Louis will pull off its centennial
celebration next month. The town by the
two bridges is so we'll beyond the fluffy
stage of life that 1t doesn't care who
knows IT..
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Noble OF Mansfield,
Mass, whose will has Just been made
public, left 10000 to the Midnight Mission
of New York, and the same amount to
build drinking fountains for horses and
dogs in the streets of New York.
A San Francisco man who committed a
capital crime in 1898, and convicted in 1901,
has just been invited to come into court
and show cause why the date of execution
should not be fixed. The riminal had al
most forgotten the little affair of eleven
years ago. -tg o.,
Nine. Schumann-Heink, the American
singer, appeared before a most distln-
guished small audience the other day in
Berlin, where, at the imperial palace, she
sang for the emperor and empress of Ger
many and King Edward and Queen Alex
andra of England and a few other notable
people.
Although he says he has made more
than $1,000 900 in the prize ring. lem"
Mace, the old-time English pugilistic
champion, has applied for a pension under
the new British old age annuity act.
Mace. who is now n years old, has a
record OF 800 appearances in the ring, and
only two defeats.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
Effect of a Critical Age.
New York Tribune

II Mr.. Hartman had lived a generation
earlier ana pursued the same methods he
would have been universally a~pplauded
But he lived in a critical age. The at
%tention Of men has been directed as never
before to the power Of wealth and the use
Of that power as 1t affects the public. Mr..
Hartman has therefore been severely crit
icised for the way in which he obtained
control OF some OF the resources which he
employed in his vast projects and for the
way In which he used those resources, as,
for example. In his multiplication of the
Alton securities. Laws already tend to re-
strict similar operations. and 1t is not
probable that the public conscience will
ever again approve them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
OVERRIDING IT, as USUAL.

w. J. hampton In Philadelphia Ledger
Behold!
We are badly North-Poled A.
Between a Cooks tour
And a Peary, sure.
And we hardly know
How to go
To get on to the proper
North Pole hopper.
We've got the Pole
Cinched in its hole
Up there
Ia the trapped air.
and the Starry Banner Of the free
Floats over it's gelidity,
But what of that?
My scat!
Finding the Pole is done with
It's wha we must do TO show
Our proper appreciation
OF the conquest Of Ice and snow.
Somebody's gone and done 1t.
Somebody nus be paid
In the praise of a grateful people
For efforts he has made.
But, say,
With two in the way.
How the dickens and tothhitl, ~
Are we to settle the bill7 'r"
By gum,
Amt 1t too bum
That after all these years
OF hopes and fears,
OF loss n gain,
And Arctic pain,
Two
Blew
In at once7 Say,
That's no way
To work a whole land
Fol its glad hand.
We love the Pole, we do;
But, oh! YOU
Twol
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

New York Financial Chronicle.
Indeed, It may be truthfully said with
respect to Mr.. Hartman that in his whole
life work-in all the various undertaking.
and enterprises with which he was con-
nected-he was never a wrecker. He al.
ways sought to build up, never to destroy.
He devoted himself chiefly to restoring
moHbund properties to life and making
them fulfill their functions. In this way
he was able to acquire much money for
himself. but he also made money for others.
1t has been declared that no one ever lost
anything by investing in MIR. Harriman's
undertakings. Most important Of all,
through his reconstructive processes he
helped the welfare Of the whole commun-
1tvy
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

Our amiable democratic contempor-
airy, the world-Herald, thinks the con-
fession of corporate afiliations, made
by its preferred nonpartisan demo-
cratic candidate for supreme Judge,
ought to help him instead OF hurt him.
That is a quite natural assumption for
a newspaper that sold editorial page
space to be used against its own party
nominees, and sold out again for the
silver bullionaries' money. to switch
from an honest coinage ratio to the
dishonest IS to 1.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

imitation. In Mexico a large amount
Of metallic money has always been
used. The fact has tended to restrict
the volume Of bank notes. The free
use Of paper in the United States and
the insistent demand for uniformity
Of appearance would make undue in
fiation more likely to occur here.
The New York Times, treating the
recent address of Congressman Vree-
land, cites the Suffolk system in
Massachusetts,. The special point in
that system was that no bank was
permitted to pay out other bills than
its own. Thus all other bills we're
sent in for redemption and idle bank
ing was impossible. Bank notes con-
stantly passed from hand to hand and
remained in circulation only as long
as they we're actually needed. The
Times thinks that the Suffolk idea
could be e%ngrafted on our national
bank system.
The currency committee of the
bankers association has Just held a
preliminary meeting IN Chicago and
its meetings will be continued during
the convention. The country will see,
as it did in 1908, what is the general
opinion of the national banks. Com
pairing the bankers plan with other
suggestions which would preserve To-
cal interests with a consolidated
method of issue and redemption, ought
to bring u a practicable and accept
able system OF currency reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
Did Il Pnxf
Kansas City Star.

NaIods CITY DIdT.
The question which naturally suggests
itself in connection with Mr.. Harriman's
work and It's sudden end yesterday at Ar.
den is, DID It pay? That is, did It pay the
man who performed II? Was the vast
power which Z. H. Hartman gained In
the business world-a power so great as "a
cause each respiration that came and went
as he lay upon his dying bed. 10 be noted
in the nations great financial citadel
worth what II cost? At an age when life.
under normal conditions. should include the
blessings Of health and the tranquil reward
Of diligence and a wise improvement OF 90
POrtunities f. Fl. Hartman lies dead, car.
ried dow TO the grave, it is believed. by
the fever Of his own intense ambition
and the heat Of the zeal with which he
followed his purposes,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
Other MnEnates Dwarfed.

81 louis tIobe-Democrat.
Carlyle, the hero worshiper, would have
placed Hartman on the roll with Caesar,
Cromwell and Napoleon. In his own field
his career was as dazzling and dramatic
as that Of any of those conquerors. With
the New York Central in his hands, with
5000 miles miles of railway under his con-
troll, and with Hill, Morgan and all his
earlier rivals dwarfed into ineferiority, he
was, in his last days. in danger Of that
and ISOLATION which was
coming to Alexander after pursuing his
conquerlng way into the heart OF In
dia. There would be no more conouests
worth making. Then the end came to him
as suddenly as it did to Alexander.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
In Private Life.
Brooklyn Eagle.

brooklyn Eagle.
or his private life little ives known to
the public. He was not of a social nature,
and did not exhibit his private life to pub
lie gaze. But those who knew II we'll bear
testimony that 1t was without blame. sim
pie and refined. He made no ostentatious
display Of his wealth, and strove to rem
Ger inconspicuous the 1benefactions he
made. He will go into history as a great
man, and the Judgment will be based on
the great industrial empire which he Gre
ated. .E## r.'. .. .t". ..'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
The New world Moves On.
Boston Herald.

The king is dead. Long live the king.
A railroad king passes, but his monarchy
continues. Business has not been disturbed
by the death OF Mr.. Hartman. Even spec
ulation showed but little effect, Mr.. Har-
riman's ideas still live. They were his
real power. Others will put them into
execution. After all, how little OF i'm
portance in a man is mortal. When he
passes he leaves the world the legacy Of
his accomplishments. Even his person
atty remains behind In the lives which
have been wrought out by contact with
him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
LINER AND LOCOMOTIVES.
Ocean GreyhOunds CrOwdlnE Land
Speed Supremacy.
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Ocean GreyhOunds CrOwding Land
Speed Supremacy.
New York World.
The great Cunard turbine steamers con-
tinue to give evidence OF a capacity for
speed which has not as yet been fully
demonstrated. The Mauretania in reduc-
Ing the time between Daunt's Rock and
the Ambrose channel lightship to 4 days
IL hours and S5 minutes has cut nearly
seven hours from her time for the trip Of
May IL, more than five hours from her
record of May q, and nearly three hours
from her voyage Of August 20.
What may not be expected from a con-
tinuous performance in time clipping which
gives the great liner a new speed record
for nearly every trip? A four-day voyage
is well within the possibilities when the
fast sister g~reyhounds are fully unleashed.
In effect they have already brought
London almost as near to New York in
postal time as are the cities Of the Pa
cific coast. A letter mailed In New York
requires four days and nine hours TO reach
San Francisco; Il requires less than a day
longer to reach London. Taking for COM
parison the distance by rail between Buff
falo and Los Angeles, which approx
mately represents In mileage the route
from Ambrose channel TO Daunt's Rock,
a passenger leaving the former city by a
morning train on Saturday and catching
the Overland Limited at Omaha on Sun
day would not reach his destination until
Wednesday morning-a journey of four
days.
That n time comparison between
transcOntinenta railway and ocean Jour
neys should be possible illustrates the ex-
tent TO which the liner has encroaehed on
the locomotives province in the matter
Of speed. Given a four-day boat It will be
necessary for railroad managers to reduce
their schedules Of long-distance runs il
the locomotive is to retain its prestige.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

the land tax proposition, perhaps for
ever.
The present Parliament has not
been picturesque. 1t has made more
dull talk than the dullest Of American
congresses. At least It seems dull to
us, n Englishmen speak Of the vast
and limitless ocean Of gush. We
ought by the spirit Of our institutions
always hope for radical success in
England. But present-day radicals are
so destitute of brilliance that they
have little charm. Even Balfour. not
a startling genius, is a better spectacle
than Asquith and Keir-Hardie.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
Not a wrecker.

SHlCdso lIlpuit'
Whatever may be said against the blend
ing Of railroad operations and operations
in Wall street, he was not, like jay Gould,
a railroad wrecker. Rather was he an
upbuilder. When he got hold of a road
his aim was to heighten its efficiency for
traffic purposes. The Union Pacific, as it
now is, is his best monument. Its stock
holders have seldom had occasion to com
plain of his stewardship. The good that he
did will live after him and outweigh the
evil.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

In the medical advice column of a
Washington paper it IS said that all
the germ diseases are communicable
from the hand or the handkerchief.
What is the final word on handling the
nose?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

An interesting side light may be
CLEANED from the annual report Of the
Young Mems Christian association just
issued, which shows that of the 1,543
senior members TIT, or almost exactly
half, are members of no church. Here's
a chance for Omaha preachers to send
out another batch of question cir
culars.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

American old stockings fetch more
than those from any other country.
American women do not overdarn the
original stock. The news is given out
for the benefit of the women and the
dry goods stores.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
Genius for Traffic Connections.
Boston TRANSCRIPT.

Hartman had an extraordinary genius
by linking up traffic connections, for max
ing the roads which he had improved in
this Titanic way, pay alluring dividends.
The changed earnings of the Alton, after
his liberal expenditures, are cited by his
friends in pallation OF the 30 per cent COM
mission exacted on the transaction, and of
his sale Of its bonds to the life insurance
companies at a handsome markup, and
similar irregularities which made that
episode more than any other a blot upon
his reputation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
An Unamerican spirit.
Philadelphia Record.

The contention that he who does not
speak is therefore a liar is rather diff
cult 20 sustain. The principal critics OF
Dr. Cook brand him as a falsiher not be
cause OF what he has said, but because
Of what he has not said. There Is no plac
like America for the exhibition OF an un-
American spirit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

N"IHCIUUHI IUQuITtT.
1t is doubtful IL ever any man in any
age exercised power so absolute and far
reaching in its effect. He was at one and
the same time the Hercules tina cleansed
the Augean railroad world and the Atlas
that shouldered the burden of carrying IL.
That he should have attained to this i'm
perial station is all the more remarkable
when 1t is remembered that 1t was achieved
after he had passed the meridian of life as
measured by years.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

The State acknowledgement is not
complaining half'sU much as the mer-
chants and tradesmen of Lincoln. The
State fair management started out
with a surplus and feels also that it
can make a case before the next legis-
lature. -
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

Governor Shallenberger's idea of an
extra session is only to patch up holes
in legislation carelessly enacted by the
last session. The extra session de-
manded by the democratic state plat
form is for the sole purpose of ratify-
ing the income tax amendment to the
federal constitution. Is a platform
binding? -.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

Complaint is made because the
county clerks throughout Nebraska do
not respond promptly and accurately
to the demands for variegated informa-
ton made or them by the state labor
bureau. 1t is said that the former
county clerks used to be more accom-
modating. Perhaps it is a case of
wearing the welcome out.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

%curities. the absence Of limitation as TO
size. 1t would be unreasonable. therefore,
to award him honors over the masters Of
wealth who have gone before without tax
ing into account the unique opportunity OF
the man with acquisitive genius in America
today-unique in the history OF the world
and among the nations Of the earth. The
home Of financial empire is America,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

Lincoln papers ought to try to get
together on the mount Of the State
fair shortage. One Of them says edi-
torially that the fair is shy
$4,000 to $4,000, aud on the front
page of the same paper puts the figure
at $4,000 to $4,000, while an
other n insists that it is $4,000 to
the good. Get together.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

Speaking of joint debates, why not
pit side-partner editors of the Fremont
Herald and the Columbus Telegram
against each other on the subject, do
corporate Affiliations disqualify a nom
partisan democrat from sitting on the
supreme bench?',,t -
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

Water vapor on Mars is proof Of
nothing, but II adds liveliness to the
talk. like the oft-told tail with the up
ward curl with which Peary added
human interest to his Polar story.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14
Elements OF Success.
Cleveland Leader.

Cleveland Leader.
Hartman could never have done what
he did or won what he gained II he had
lacked a fsr-ranging and eminently sane
imagination, backed by tireles energy,
great powers of concentration and effort,
and altogether extraordinary intelligence.
To forget or ignore these facts is to be
as unjust to the American people as to
Mr.. Hartman himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

Pittshnrf Dlsnatch.

His life was typically American In the
fact that starting as a poor boy he ended
with a position that made him the ex-
ponent and genius Of vast corporate wealth.
Perhaps the quality that contributed most
to his achievement was the art of making
men, especially the possessors Of large
capital. believe in him and entrust their
millions to his generaiship.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-14

Seven MINUTES between the Maure-
tanta and LuEitARiA IN 5000 miles is
nearer a race than we get from dirig-
ible balloons. When Parsons said
that the turbine had reached it's limit
for big ships he must have known.