davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

are to be theirs when water suficient
can be supplied to their orchards and
their fields. BY the expenditure OF a
large sum Of money from the public
Golfers a comparatively few individ-
uals will be greatly benefited, and the
Importance OF the west will be en-
HANGED to some degree because a con
siderable area Of waste land will be
made productive.
This is merely the latest, not the
only, instance Of invaluable aid given
by the federal government to the west
in recent years. 1t is. cited solely to
show that the material interests Of the
great region known as the west" are
not being neglected. The Bee was
n Of the earliest advocates OF federal
aid and control in the irrigation work
needed to restore to usefulness the
wide stretches OF arid land in the
west. 1t met at the outset opposition
on the score that the proposal
amounted to the enrichment of one
section Of the country at the "opens
Of another. This narrow view has
been dissipated by experience, which
has proven that, as expressed by Mr..
Taft in his speech at Boston, the ma
tion is only prosperous when all the
sections prosper. The object lesson
of today is that the government Of the
United States is for all sections of the
United States and for all its people
and not for any favored part Of the
country. This applies as to tariff
and all other laws, to reclamation
work, to conservation plans and to
every activity and function of govern
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
A Fiscal Program.

Among other things that the city of
Omaha should have right now is a fls-
cal program. Our city is Just entering
upon a new period of growth and ex-
pansion which will require, within the
next few years, a large expenditure Of
public money for permanent improve
ments in the form Of public works,
municipal buildings, streets, boule-
Yards and parks, to say nothing OF the
acquisition Of the water works plant
and making it meet the enlarged de-
mands upon 1t. To finance these vari-
Gus projects will require a lot of figur-
ing, and the issuing of bonds from
time to time as the money may be re-
quired.
But a city's credit, like that Of a
private corporation or individual, has
limits. and money spent for one thing
cannot be available for another. A
fiscal program which would start out
with an inventory of the financial
drafts which are liable to be made on
us in the present and near future, and
an estimate OF their relative impor-
lance and urgency so that they may be
taken up in their order without inter-
fering with one another. and compli-
eating the whole situation, is not only
desirable, but almost imperative.
Unfortunately the initiative and re-
sponsibility for different classes Of
public improvements are lodged with
different municipal authorities who
have ordinarily worked entirely indie
pendent OF n another. 1t seems to.
us, however, that the time has come
for some coordination and ~co-opera-
ton between these bodies. Voting
bonds each year for this, or for that,
is like a hand-to-mouth policy, and
neither gives us an adequate idea of
what is yet to be done nor OF the goal
to which we are working. The builder
wants the architects plans n speci-
fcations before he boTrows money to
pay subContractors, and to the same
end Omaha need a fiscal program,
even though subject to modification as
changing circumstances may require.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
TAFT AS HE GROWS,
Courageous as Cleveland, as TactfuI
rs Mckinley.
Minneapolis Journal.

-
Minneapolis Journal.
President Taft is as morally courageous
as Grover Cleveland, and, withal, as tact
full as William Mckinley.
His honesty, his regard for even the
letter Of his pledges. is proved by his reit-
Grafton in Chicago, OF his ante-election
promise to redeem the labor plank Of the
republican platform. His courage is shown
by his exoneration Of Secretary Balfinger.
In the broad the policies he has picked
are great and right. The scope Of his
design, as It is revealed, is not merely
comprehensive, but concrete and fairly cor
related.
The man, whose political heir and dis
ciple President Taft is, was a better phrase
maker, perhaps swifter 10 denOunce wrongs
and defects and holder in enunclating rem
edies; but the program OF Taft includes
and surpasses the program Of Roosevelt.
Taft proposes TO deal with the tariff, with
finance, with legal procedure, as well as
to undertake to formulate definitely the
Indefinite suggestions OF his predecessor.
A man may be candid and yet untactful.
Mr.. Taft not only perceives the needs OF
the time, what reforms and new construc-
lions are imperative, which is a great
faculty, \but he also is in the habit of
attaining by tact his purpose. That is a
fgoulty which differentistes and makes him
a constructive statesman.
In order to get what he wants. the
president purposes to line up the whole
party at his back IL he can. He is helped
by his temperament; for II is easy for him
to see what is good. Senator Aldrich may
have HIS sinister side. He may be mis-
taken concerning tariff schedules: but no
intelligent man doubts the great ability OF
the Rhode Islander or his immense power.
President Taft will not quarrel with
Aldrich. Where he differs from the latter.
he will gain by coercion and persuasion
as much as can be gained. Where he
knows Aldrich to be right he will engage
the latter's cooperation. This is states
manship.
Truth is, the country over. has cause
to congratulate itself that II took Roose-
velt's advice to elect Taft. We have had
presidents OF great moral energy and
small discretion. We have had them Of
great intelligence and little moral courage.
This new man, trained for his hour by
experience as perhaps no predecessor OF
his ever was trained, lie rounded and we'll
poised
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
PERSONAL NOTES.

Walter Wellman is coming home. BY
careful generalship he may be able to sliI
In, unnoticed, between polar aviatlons.
enjoys the distinction Of having written q
play and suppressed it, in spite of the APP
peals of theatrical managers
Mr.. Bailey of Texas has replied to Mr..
Bryan of Nebraska. There was fear tha
this would happen. Its realization illus
trates the danger Of addressing remarks to
Mr.. Bailey.
Scarcely a religious journal in the coun-
try omits Mr.. Harriman's injunction to
his men residents to go to church on
Sunday. Wherefor much high finance" is
forgiven him.
A Cleveland talker, having pulled off a
continuous stream of words for six hours,
eight minutes and forty-two seconds, calls
upon the holder to hand over a long dis
lance belt. The champion up at Madison,
Neb, has a large laugh coming.
John Symmes, who died in 1929. had
pledged his life that near the North pole.
where he said the earth would be found
hollow and habitable, the land was rich
and warm, stocked with vegetables ana
animals, II not men" 1t is pretty well
settled now that John was mistaken.
Alexander Campbell Frazer. emeritus pro-
fessor of logic and metaphvsic in tn
University OF Edinburgh, has just CON
pleted his 9Oth year, and has received from,
a host of former students, now emiuent IN
all walks of life in Great Britain. "A beau.
tiful rbute of affectionate praise and
reverence,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
Reeertion Of Winonn sneenh

EA - WIN AH@NgAa
The varied reception accorded Mr.
Taft's Winona speech, ~re-dehning the
reasons that impelled him TO sign the
tariff bill, Is what was naturally to
have been expected from such a pro-
nouncement. The viewpoint Of the
different newspapers throughout the
country on the speech is substantially
the same viewpoint taken by them on
the tariff bill in the making and on
the explanatory statement with which
the president accompanied his APP
prevail Of the measure. Yet even the
papers that take issue with him on the
question Of the propriety OF expe-
diency of his remarks applaud him for
displaying the courage of his convic-
lions and for the frankness or the
holiness, as they may prefer to call It,
with which he has undertaken to de-
fend the new tariff in the heart Of the
insurgents country as the best we
have had.
1t goes without saying that the law
which found a place on the statute
by virtue OF the presidents signature
would be upheld and not assailed by
him and that he could not well justify
his position without, in some degree,
manifesting disapproval Of the action
Of the insurgent senators and repre-
sentatives who voted against the bill.
The chief criticism Of the Winona
speech has therefore to do with that
part in which the president deals with
the attitude of the insurgents. Some
of the radicals on the republican side
and many Of the democratic organs
profess to read the presidents speech
as ejecting the insurgents from tho
republican party. when that was
plainly far from his purpose, particu-
larry as he c~ongratulates them for an
%nouncing their intention to work for
further reductions within the republi-
can party rather than join the demo-
Gratis outside OF n.
What the presidents language was
evidently intended to convey was that
he, as the head OF the republican
party, would work with the party as
a whole and as represented by the
majority rather than the minority,
and that those who believe in the pro-
tective tariff, even though dissatisfied
with the new law, could expect still
less response to their wishes from a
democratic tariff bill framed in re-
pudiation Of the protective principle
and in complete disregard of our In
dustrial needs.
AS a whole, public sentiment, as
voiced by the press. appears to be
largely with the president and the
stand he has taken may be expected
to solidify that sentiment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
The Government and the West.

In spite Of occasional clamor to the
effect that the great interests Of the
west are being neglected by the. fed
'eral government there comes now and
then a full note of appreciation for the
authorities at Washington. One of
these will be heard from Colorado to-
day, when President Taft will turn
on the water in the great GunnIson
tunnel and send a life-giving flood
down the Uncompahgre valley.
This enterprise, which consists Of
building a watercourse $4,000 feet
long, nearly all Of which was tunneled
through the living granite of the CEN
trail range OF the Rocky mountains
and which will divert the waters OF
the GunnisOn river from the Black
canyon, where they are useless, to the
uhwatered valley around Montrose,
where they will be OF service, could
only have been done by the general
government. II was too great an I'M
dertaking for private enterprise and
even too great for the state of Col
oradO. which spent some thousands OF
dollars in preliminary work and then
turned the matter over to the United
States. II will open a considerable
area to agriculture and horticulture,
and the landowners along the canal
are already counting the gains that
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
The Tariff Advisory Board.

cpIlnBlleiu NhAsS.J republican.
The new presidential tariff advisory board
will hold a first meeting this week. One
OF the members, Mr.. Reynolds, now as
slstant secretary Of the treasury, says the
first question to be considered by it is the
scope Of it's authority under the law. That
matter has already been passed upon by
President Taft, who has also outlined the
work to be pursued by the board. He in
terprets the law far more broadly thar
the senatorial standpatters intended It
should be interpreted; and what the presi-
lent tells the board to do 1t will do, and It
VIII not do much else. One OF the duties
OF the board, as defined by the president,
VIII be an inquiry into differences Of cost
OF production, ETC., and II the ~standpatters
would prevent 1t they must evidently seek
an injunction against the board and have
the matter Of it's legal powers judicially de-
termined.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
A STANDARD Cinch.
~Phnadelphia Record.

INIIWUVIVTId ItCCUIU.
The production Of petroleum in the United
States in 1908 amounted to l79,572, i79 barrels
valued at $l29, 7O6, 25S. The Standard Oi
company manages to handle about 50 PEI
cent of this product, at a net profit ap-
approximating $50, 100000. This requires q
dexterity Of management that approache,
sublimity. There are c~ausists, however
who insist that the STANDARD is a benefl-
cence, and that if the oil were handled by
a mob instead Of a monopoly the con
sumers would suffer as a consequence The
fact that the average price of crude oil
in 1905 was Y cents a barrel and tina the
Standard managed to gather in a profit
of IS cents a barrel upon the whole prod,
uet, opens an enticing field of inquiry.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
Celebrating Emancipation.

That the wal OF the rebellion
brought about the abolition of slavery
in the United States is Of general
knowledge, but the details of the
emancipation are so little known that
few understand the why's and where
fores of the emancipation celebration
that has just been held.
At the outbreak OF the war Presi-
dent Lincoln was leaf to all e~ntreaties
to emancipate the slaves, convinced
that the time had not come when that
step was necessary to preserve the
union. To preserve the union and
to restore peace was always his first
aim and the abolition of slavery sec
ondary to it. Not until September %,
1862, did President Lincoln reach a
definite conclusion that unconditional
emancipation would be in any way
feasible, and even then the proclama-
ton which he issued was merely a
warning to the states In rebellion that
unless they ceased hostilities by the
end of the ear all their slaves would
be declared henceforward and forever
free. The proclamation of September
%, 1852, wen on to recite:
the executive will on the first day
of January aforesaid, by PROCLAMATION
designate the states and parts of states,
II any, in which the people thereof, re-
spectively. shall then be in rebellion against
the United States; and the fact that any
. . N . - n. -
day be In good faith represented in the
congress of the United States by members
chosen thereto at elections wherein a ma
jority Of the qualified voters OF such states
shall have participated shall, in tire alb
sence Of strong countervailing testimony,
be deemed conclusive evidence tina such
state and the people thereof are not in
rebellion against the United States.
This part 'of the proclamation was
repeated in the final proclamation
dated January 1, 1853, in which the
president proceeded, as he had indi-
Gated he would, to designate the terri
tory still in rebellion in which all
persons previously held in servitude
were to be free. 1t was only in this
proclamation of January l, 1853, that
President Lincoln formally uttered the
words:
/ do order and declare that all persons
held as slaves within said designated states
and parts of states are and henceforward
shall be free, and that the executive gov
eminent Of the United States. including the
military and naval authorities thereof, will
recognize and maintain the freedom Of said
persons.
1t was much later that the emanci-
patton was extended to the slaves in
states that had remained loyal to the
union, and their freedom was not
clinched until the adoption of the
thirteenth amendment to the constitu-
ton prohibiting slavery and involun-
tary servitude, except as punishment
for crime, within the jurisdiction of
the United States. This amendment
and the accompanying legislation to
insure the civil rights of the freedman
completed the work of emancipation
for which the first wheel was set in
motion by President Lincoln's pre-
liminary proclamation of September
20, 1852.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
LAUGHING GAS.

Editor-Did you interview the leader of
Reporter-1 tried to, but she wouldn't
talk.
Editor-wouldn't talk? Good heavens,
man, was she ~dead?-Circle Magazine.
Poetic Crank-If you but knew all a
sensitive. organism like mine has to suf-
fer! l feel at times such an appalling sense
Practical Old Lady-Hump! bet you feel
it in your head.-Baltimore American.
You say the man you married seems
more kind and generous since your d.
vorce than he did before?"
Yes. answered Mrs. Flimmson. He
never says a word about e~conomizing, but
sends around his alimony without a muir
muir star.
Don't you believe" queried the fair ad-
yocate OF woman's rights, that men live
faster than women?'
Il sure do" replied the mere man. II
was just ten months older than my wife
When We were married; now ] amN2 aud
she was 30 last wcok."-Chicago New
did your husband get that terrible red
one woman.
NO" ausv cred the o,rer "Tra, amt
sunshine. Th1,'s muoushiu 49, I.Iu' sv.le
CuHri,r-Journa
- ow IN Gicfon COW ycu 1rr rJ' g..
cried. 90 .seU % nos D. a. 3d." tIes
Catcr'u- ,ilh'. how ,..r o. c,ur.
m us ,rar suur co"r'c q yit. %" flc.
torI y became |ahsug.i5 s"cl. Sew
=, wonder how Lot ,r. tc. a. ". nr.-
gorditi y If snc looked ate, ucg 'r n,
I ~ a'ion on her hl>la. = &C. ,r'~ go
on. guess she vasr't -, ny SCI 4
sorry Lot"-BaltImore America . p. ~ .
.1 @E5oss," wninncd The booze III,
S'ac9N; can't N.r give % pen" -
Il GlpkelP want 20 70 rnV.U a, tsr ..'.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

A Mexican convict the
invention OF a mechanism by which
the telephone may be made to convey
the vision, as we'll as the voices, Of
the conversationalists at both ends.
That would be a great invention, but
whether 1t would eve become popular
al a household convenience is decid-
eddy open to question. Think of hav-
ing TO primp up before answering the
phone every time IL rings.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

The West Nebraska Methodists pro-
test against the supplanting, by Gov
srnor shallenbergeF, OF a Methodist
chaplain, at the state penitentiary,
with a Mormon elder. This is the
hrst instance We know OF where Meth
Odists nave gone TO the front to keep
= Mormon from prison service
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

1t is again asserted that Mrs. Baker
G. Eddy has been dead for some time
and that her death has been concealed
by her former associates intent on re-
tanning control of the Christian Sci
nee church. In olden days 1t was not
uncommon to cover up the death OF
a monarch until bis successor was
firmly in the saddle and had chopped
OF the heads of all possible COMPETE
tors. In these twentieth century
days. however. it is incredible that
any one should resort to that dis
credited practice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

Senator Cummins says that he has
been read out OF the party so often
that he lie used to it n doesn't mind
1t at all. It is barely possible that the
Iowa senator has been read out of
the party so often that d~isproving 1t
has become a habit necessary to his
happiness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

The State Board OF Pharmacy has
made Representative Killen OF Gage
county a member Of the board OF sec
retaries. Mr.. Killen's qualifications
will be conceded. but the propriety of
putting a member OF the legislature In
this oficial position before his legisla-
tive term has expired may be open to
question. To a man up q tree It would
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
sober Second Thought.
St. Louis Globe pemocrat

81. LOUIS GlODe-DemOcrat.
Senator Cummins of Iowa is finding that
the people of that state are thinking that
it would be better to give the new tariff
a trial before condemning 1t, on the
theory, no doubt, that a number of meas
ures hitherto condemned by statesmen have
worked well, and others approved of high
wisdom have failed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

Complaint is made that the heroes
Of our American navy are to be con
s%picuous by their absence from the
great Hudson-Fulton centennial cele-
bration about to be pulled of in New
York. But who are our great naval
heroes? Why start another contro-
versy before the ~Cook-Peary talkfest
is determined?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

Reports from Honolulu state that
n OF the Hawaiian volcanoes is man
Testing extraordinary activity. We
were under the impression that the
Hon. James Hamilton Lewis had re-
turned from the orient and was again
in Chicago, but perhaps there are two
OF them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

Four teachers who have devoted
their lifework to the Omaha public
schools go on the retired list with a
pension Of $500 a year. Several
members of the teaching force of the
State university would be eligible to
retirement pensions from the Carnegie
foundation II Mr.. Bryan and his dem
ocratic legislature had not i]nterposed
a veto.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

No n cares whether they call it
arbitration, or mediation, or conces-
sion, or merely reaching an under
standing-if only it produces the re-
suits. Get together.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

The new governor Of Minnesota
will not be troubled with presidential
bees in his bonnet. He was born in
Sweden, which fact puts a constitu-
tional barrier across any path he
might try to the White House.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

Four surviving ex-governors are to
serve as honorary pailbearers at the
funeral of Minnesota's dead governor.
Nebraska could ~conjure up four living
ex-governors for a suitable occasion,
and then some.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

The Good Roads convention is in
progress at Cleveland. Automobiles
are discovering that the next thing
needed after acquiring a motor car is
a roadway good enough to permit its
transit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

Hudson and Fulton are celebrating
their achievements together, although
n of them occupied the center Of
the stage a few hundred years after
the other. II they bad only operated
together in the first place what team
work they would have done.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

DR.. Cook has almost finished his
first book %narrating his polar expedi-
ton experiences and has a few maya
zine articles, lectures and the oflcial
record OF his journey to prepare. If
he wants an assistant with a record
for quick bookmaking DR.. Cook
ought to get Prof. Foster of the Uni
versity Of Chicago to help him out.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

AS was 10 have been expected, the
democratic organs which b~elabored
Governor johnson most vieiously when
he was alive are most profuse in ex-
pressing sorrow at his death.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
STEAMBOAT DAYS.

Here lies the lazy NJ lddy
Scarce Itnpled by q wheel
OF ringing, pul ing CONNER
The VESTS u~ushaUkltd veal
Her brlmmIl ilWuy Wtt.ra|
a shining trT have laid
For such as conquer kingdoms
And rule the realm of tradg.
The ancient trappCr guided
His batteau down this course,
lie felt its Inspiration,
The prospect in lis force.
The old st. Louis steamer
Once bore its merchandise
To Benton's frontier station.
Meath for MOntona's skies.
Return! ye churning paddles'
And smoke-emitting stacks,
We miss the valiant captains
And the nimble, singing ia,'s.
We miss the stirring Whls,lc.
The lights that softly burn.
The currents wait your blowing
In countless fleets r turui
WILL CHAMBERLAIN
..esterville, s.. u.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

The Associated Fraternities of
America nus be thoroughly imbued
with the fraternal feeling If it can't
even get up a Rght over The distribu-
ton Of the honors and Offices.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
Discussion AvaiIs Little.

st. Paul Pioneer Press.
The American Bankers association is
discussing a number of propositions look
ing to the betterment OF the %inancia stu
alton" Still, they probably will not make
1t any easier for the mar who wants to
negotiate a loan without glld-edged collat-
eral. r.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

The Lincoln Star refers to the Ak
Sar-Ben board of governors as that
callous Omaha committee" Now that
evens up the score.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

Boston is to have a school Of flying.
Boston always did pride itself on be-
Ing the hub of literary accomplish
ment and classic learning in this coun-
try,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
Too Much of a Good Thing.
Baltimore American

An authority in a western university de-
clares that too much prosperity allows stu
dents to buy motor cars and that their
studies suffer in consequence. He ap-
psrently holds that work and a taste of
hardship will keep in check the natural
propensity Of the average student to get
into mischief. No one can deny that a
speeding car is a terrible incentive to the
fast life.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

In the Bryanite lexicon "embezzle-
ment of power" is all wrong, but en-
bezzlement of the populist party name
is all right.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23

The worst thing against DR.. Cooks
claim to discovery of the North pole
is that he does not utilize fully all his
opportunities to boast about it.