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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-29
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-29
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Mimi was great
sufferer from female troubles which
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
SPELLS OF A wIND-JAMMER.
Awful Things We Hear OF, but Never
See.
Des Molnes Capital.

Des Moines Capital.
Capital never, in all the worlds history.
wrung sweat and blood and tears and
tribute from a scourged humanity in
greater security, with more perfect free
dom from molestation, than II does today.
-Omaha World-Herald
Isn't it awful!
Nebraska farmers increasing their bank
deposits at the rate OF two million dollars
per month; reducing their mortgages at a
livelier rate than ever before in the history
Of the state; wheat, corn and oats, and
cattle and hogs, and butter and eggs all
selling at top-notch prices.
Isn't II awful
Omaha newspapers, like those in Des
Molnes, filled with advertisements for help;
mechanics of every kind naming their
wages; automobiles so thick upon the
streets they cannot be counted.
Isn't It awful
Railway shops running day and night IN
an Effort to turn out cars sufficient to move
the highest crop that ever sprang from
American soil.
And yet this Omaha calamity bowling
organ whose editor holds down a, con-
gressional seat at Washington at an in
creased salary can see nothing but-sweat
and blood and tears and trlbutel
Such a case Of perverted vision would
be pathetic IL it were not 80 ridiculous.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

term then common and now almost
discarded on count Of its tinge Of
a%ffectation.
More college men now understand
subjects. move about Inc have grasped
the meaning Of books. Whether men
talk books as much or not is another
matter. Whether they quote standard
books and assist In handing down the
phrases and contents Of convention
ally established books to the same ex-
tent probably calls for a negative an
swer, because women have taken com
mand OF book talk in society and the
prig has nearly retired from activity.
President Fsunce has noted some
changes from the New England view
OF college accomplishments fifty years
ago. and that is the extent Of his dag
nosis Of illiteracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
PERSONAL NOTES.

The 3-year-old son and heir of the Gear
Nicholas is insured for S2.50O,O00. and is
said to pay the highest premium in the
world.
President Eliot has now achieved the
distinction of delivering an address On
religion which the pope has ordered 10 be
translated into Italian for his own perusal.
A new use was promptly found for tho
new Lincoln pennies. 1t seems, according
to a Washington account, that they are
in great demand by congressman to present
to babies in their districts, as the first
issue will become in time rare coins.
The Austrian vice consul at Cleveland
has officially denied that the gainesville
machinist who claimed to be the missing
Archduke John of Austria is a fake. The
machinist may now rave his whiskers
trimmed and pass the rest Of the summer
in comparative comfort.
Miss Christobel Pankhlrst Of London is
coming to the United States to show us how
a real, live, fighting ~suffragette looks. She
will be Hospitality received, but must not
think that American prisons will be open
to her. In this country people seldom are
imprisoned for practical joking.
Hay fever cases take the right-of-way
with a Judge in Jersey City who, on the
application Of counsel, consented to post
pone argument on a certain action until
late in September. The attorney said that,
on or about August 22, he expected to be
attacked by hay fever, as he had been
each year for thirty years, so, realizing
that sneezing is incompatible with oratory
and necessarily takes precedence Of IL. the
judge granted an adjournment Until the
goldenrod and similar provocations have
gone out Of commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
jim JAMS.

winslde Tribune; when Jim Dahlman
runs for governor. his republican opponent
can move to Lincoln withou awaiting the
election returns.
Fairbury News: Mayor Jim Dahlman OF
Omaha processes to enjoy his chautauaua
anti-prohibltion debates. lie always DID
entertain a radically different opinion OF
things from other men.
Fremont Heraldi The Dahlman demoe-
racy has had an election OF officers, and
has a long string OF vice presidents Sc
leoted from all over Nebraska. Dodge
county failed to furnish a pes to nc one
Of the holes. we are pleased TO remark
Columbus Journal: Mayor Jim Dahlman
alludes to Governor Shsllenberger AMI
friends as "a bunch of four-flushers," and
demands that they put all their chips in
the center OF the table" And thus the
war between the two factions Of the dem
ocratio party goes on with the mayor Of
Omaha slightly in the lead.
Albion News: Dahlman insists that
there shall be no sentiment, but Just prac-
tical business principles applied to the set
Element Of the saloon question. That's
why the railroads and all great business
interests have insisted that their employees
shall "cut OUT booze or leave their en-
ploy. There are no practical business
principles connected with the sale or con-
sumption Of booze. It's all graft.
Blair Pilot; Governor S~hallenberger
said recently that democracy and de-
cency have Joined hands in Nebraska, :"
and IL they have then Dahlman democracy
must not be representative of the true
democracy Of the state. And all good men
hope 1t is not. But Dahlman will make a
strong fight for the democratic nomina
ton Just the same, and we understand
that Governor Shallenberger will not be in
the contest against him, but will make
the race for senator. This information
comes from a high source and may be re-
lied upon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Marooned.

Our amiable democratic contem-
porary, the World-Herald, is indulg-
Ing in a debate with the Fremont
Tribune in defense of its own, con-
sistency on the subject of direct pri-
mary legislation. The World-Herald
has been denouneing the open primary
ballot, inflicted on the voters of Ne
braska by the late democratic legisla-
ture, as vicious" and tries to square
itself for going back on this demo-
cratic masterpiece by contending that
it was opposed to it all the time.
We submit, however, that the
World-Herald does not make out a
good case. The platform declaration
put out by Nebraska democrats in
1908 reads as follows:
We favor the present primary law, but
favor it's amendment so as to enable the
voter TO more clearly and easily express
his choice.
To vindicate its claim to faithful
and Conscientious performance Of
every platform pledge the late demo-
cratic leBlbldIuTS euhClSu the Opeu PR
mary as redemption OF this promise,
and now in convention assembled for
1909 Nebraska democrats have incor-
porated into their platform this decla-
ration:
We m the governor and the leg
l~slature for the enactment of specific
democratic platform pledges into law.
Isn't this a party endorsement Of
the open primary? II not what is it?
The editor Of the World-Herald was
a member of the committee that
framed and promulgated this plat
form. More than that, he Is right now
a candidate who is running for office
on this very platform. If he is not in
honor bound to uphold and defend the
open primary, which he says is
vicious" what can these platform
declarations mean?
Once more we ask, Are platforms
binding?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
RATTLE OF

w. d. Nesbit in Chicago Post.
C~onstTuctively to right of them,
AllegOrically to left OF them,
Metaphorically in front of them
The imaginary instruments of war con-
structively Numbered.
1t was theirs TO c~ogttate upon the reason
why.
those who should constructively die
And those who, constructively over
whclmed, should fly
Otherwise, some responsible head might
have blundered.
Into supposed Jaws Of death,
Into the Observation-Disclosures jaws OF
peTdition,
Stormed at with theoretical shot and shell,
Rode the metaphysical six hundred
Bridges succumbed 10 metaphoricRl stress,
The constructive heroes persisted appar-
emily at the moment OF success
Fatally wounded VI the subliminal con-
seriousness.
While, constructively, all the world won
dered.
Honor, mathematically, the charge they
made.
Euciid's theorems for the part they played,
While the differential calculus and logari-
thms In mines cOnstructively laid
Detonated and left the ranks con-
stT%uCtively suudered-
Subtracted from the constructive jaws OF
death.
Letting *" equal the theoretical jaws OF
perdition,
The problem is to solve the equation
trigonometrically.
And we shall have the remainder OF the
six hundred constructiyely
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Controlling Corporations.

n the logic Of the forceful address
delivered by President Lehman of
the American Bar association appears
in the press dispatches he takes the
ground that there are evils and ineQui-
ties in the organization Of corpora
lions and that the tax enacted at the
recent session Of congress introduces
powers which the federal government
can use to enforce publicity and reach
real remedies.
In passing, It is interesting for the
western public to know that this bril-
liant lawyer was an Iowa boy who
won his first laurels before the courts
of his native state.
Mr.. Lehmann's address outlines the
status of corporation law. The trust
has served it's purpose Of enlarging
the scope Of corporations and is no
longer worth organizing. Il Is obso-
lete. II 1t were permitted, the inven-
ton would not be used. The mex
step is the holding company, an i'm
proved, perfected form of the trust,
which Toes and was designed to do
what was done by the trust and does
1t more efficiently. But the holding
company is not the full and final de.
velopment Of industrial combination.
This is reached i'm the single corpora
tion with unlimited power of capitalize
alton and direct ownership of the
business. Here is eliminated the dis
turblng element Of minority interests
in constituent companies. No state
can deal with the problem singly and
master It. There is not and cannot
be effective concert of action among
the states. In the federal constitution
production is not within the commerce
clause, but something of regulation
and supervision can be effected under
the taxing power. We have never been
without a federal law for the encour-
agement and support of manufactures
What may be aided may be regulated
There is no more stretch of federal
authority in the control of our in
dustries than in extending to them
constant fostering care. The investor
in corporate securities needs the pro.
lection hat comes from supervision
and publicity. The corporation tai
just put in legal form offers the pro
lection, or at least the entering wedge
to a comprehensive control of corpor
ate operations, insuring the rights O
the shareholders and of the public.
The bar association address goeI
straight into the great questions be
fore the country. 1t strikes the lay
man as forecasting the course Of de
bate in the regular session of con
gress. Every lawyer must read it ant
most men in politics will be inclined
to study 1t carefully.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Sweetening Business.

A New York banker who has spent
more than twenty years in Latin
American republics states the reasons
why, even with perfection of the Mis-
sissippi channel and completion Of the
Panama canal, the United States Will
still have a comparatively small share
of trade in those countries.
Among other drawbacks. he names
uncouth travelling representatives,
nonaccommodation of customers and
refusal of credit facilities. Another
is imperfect knowledge OF the Ian
guage. A Frenchman who knew no
English would do little business in
New York. An American knows this,
and yet New York houses often ex-
hibit blind confidence in the luck of
ignorant representatives getting
along"
One very large corporation decided
to open branch houses in Mexico and
Panama. The two managers appointed
had never been in a Spanish-American
country and could not speak Spanish.
The house suffered severe losses and
the two men had to be replaced. That
sort Of blunder will be many times re
peated, yet it is certain hat with eff
cient management and an intelligent
policy an American bank in Latin!
America would nearly always be
profitable.
The Latin-Americsn Of standing In
variably possesses a certain amount OF
personal refinement and culture. Nat
urally he is not favorably impressed
by a person of uncouth The
German and English exporting firms
understand this and make a point Of
sending out men who not only know
the language, but are accustomed tC
dealing with cultivated society. They
are cordially received anywhere from
Mexico to Argentina, In one sense
these countries are not practical
but they insist on the usages of gooC
society. The writer referred to tellt
Of an instance in Panama where al
American Official appeared al a func
tion attired in a sack suit and tar
shoes, the only man present so dressed
The bad impression has not yet worr
off. He asserts that the Latin-Ameri
can trader is as honest as any otheI
and as sure to pay, but he has hi
customs and not to observe the Gus
toms is d~isoourtaav
The Panama canal will be Of blu
partial advantage to the United States
except in c-oast-to-coast home trad,
unless such frictions are removed
from intercourse with the Latin
Americans. Even II there were M
money in it, a development of tn,
courtesles and refinements Of Spanish
American life would be a valuabl,
education among Americans. To al
extent It is humbug, but all forma
society must have it's ingredient of DO
lite humbug.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
College I~lliterates.

President Faunce of Brown univer-
sity says that the colleges are turning
out illiterates. II there is anything
In the criticism it is one of those half
truths which are so attractive to col
lege speakers of our day. Graduates
of our time are not illiterate. though
they may not be precise in speech or
bookish in the habitual mental atti-
tude toward the pursuits Of life.
Every historian who has studied the
habits of the colonies and the first
half century Of the republic has noted
that a college education in those
periods meant the line of study on
%ventionally supposed to suit the
preacher, doctor and lawyer. Traces
Of the custom can still be found all
through the south where higher edu-
cation is taken TO belong to the three
professional classes, II may be true
that the relatively small numbers of
college men before the war" in all
sections observed literary forms,
quoted books and wrote letters with
more care han is now in evidence.
That they are now more illiterate is
impossible. except that more of them
are not good and honest students, a
moral rather than a literary defect,
Fifty years ago a college man was
more conscious Of the difference be-
tween himself n the noneollegian
and maintained the impression OF
knowing about "belles-lettres,' a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Is no one to be permitted to call himself
a republican in Nebraska any more unless
he allows Taft TO think for him. Aldrich
to act for him and Victor Rosewater to
lead him around by his calloused nose?-
World-Herald.
We object. We realize that some
Of our friends have gotten into the
habit. when short OF argument, of in
dulging in invective against our de-
fenseless nose. but we insist that, in
spite of an occasional sneezing cold, it
is not calloused.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Slow Up.

The Bee has been giving Omaha au-
tomobilists the warning signal to slow
up in season and out Of season. We
have preached the obvious admonition
that ~overspeeding through crowded
city thoroughfares is dangerous to life
and limb. We have urged that the
ordinary precautions be taken before
the accident occurs rather than pro-
ceeding wildly in the expectation Of
mending the pieces after the smash-up.
Omaha is not alone in marking the
map with automobile fatalities, but be-
cause Automobiles In other cities are
sowing the wind nj reaping the
whirlwind affords no valid excuse for
Omaha speeders doing likewise. 1t
would be a great credit for Omaha to
be known as the city with the sanest
automobilists and the fewest automo-
bile accidents.
Therefore, we repeat the warning
Slow up.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Ex-Governors Campbell Of Ohio and
Folk OF Missouri unite in the informa-
tion hat the tariff is the issue. The
supplementary bulletin is that anybody
whose heart has ever been untrue to
tarin for revenue deserves hanging.
when they get around to this last re-
mark their look is In the direction OF
Fairview. Such interviews belong UNI
der the general classification Of demo
cratic harmony.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

To deprive Of his adopted nationality a
Chinaman who served in the navy during
the Civil war, was wounded five times in
the service of the country, and has held
citizenship papers for thirty-five years,
must be in accord with the law, since the
courts say so. But 1t leaves a liberty Of
opinion as to what sort Of law 1t is that
inflicts such results. r
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Postmaster General Hitchcock has not
been in Chicago since the steam roller was
sent back to the Taft garage in June, 1905.
Saturdays Chicago Tribune.
Such is fame in Chicago. After all
those gibes about the peregrinations
of the republican national chairman
on the Twentieth Century Flyer be-
tween New York and Chicago through
out the campaign, and ever after cleo
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

The government edict is that
blondined -four is not so bad. but it
must tell the truth. There is no fed
eral objection to anything blonde, the
b~londining being the feature under
disapproval.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Montreal has examined into the vi
tally Of the rake-off system and finds
that there is none in New York or
Philadelphia more plunderous than
that of the st. Lawrence city. Move
on, muck-rake brigade, and tell the
world some tales on Canada.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Preparing for the Best Ever.
Buffalo Express.

Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Com
merce commission, proclaims in cheerful
tones that prosperity Is upon the country
and more han that the railroads are pre-
pared for It. The scarcity Of cars suffered
In 1907, he says, Is not likely to occur this
year. The railroads have seen the boom
approaching and have made their plans
accordingly.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Because Hammerstsin has landed
twenty-five of his opera singers in
New York, Chicago acts as II Paris
and Milan had been dropped out Of
the wagon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Value of Union Rules,
Nh Draa,

Besides being a model of courtesy and
comfort this war game is also strictly UP
to the minute in being fought on union
lines. Boston was only saved from cap
ture Tuesday by the invaders THROWN
down their guns when the eight-hour
whistle blew. .a.. .-ei
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Champ CLARK stopped owe in Oman

Champ Clark stopped over in Omaha
between ChautauQua dates long
enough to say:
II the people don't elect a democratic
congress next time 1t win be the strangest
thing that ever happened in American
politics.
Still, a lot of strange things are con
stanly happening in American poll
tes.j
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Two million acres in the Dakota
reservations would make a wonderful
sanatorium site, but nobody has con-
sumption in that country. The COM
mon variety of settler is invited to fill
up the vacant lands.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Halley's comet approaches at a
speed of a million miles a day. What's
the comet and what's the speed? We
cannot put a fence around the comet
nor kill spectators with the speed
around a racetrack. The comet is SUI
perfuous for our ways of enjoying it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

The democratic World-Herald tries
TO take consolation that the name of
Judge Sullivan does not appear Of rec
ord as ms Of the attorneys bringing
the suit to nullify the corporation tax
law, He mas been in the case just the
same.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Just because they kill them of reck-
lessly in Indianapolis is no good reason
why the list of automobile victims
should be needlessly heightened in
Omaha
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Mr.. Taft sends word to China that
It's independence is the first and last
thought of the American government.
At the same time it is suggested that
we are offering the best brand of rail-
road iron In the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

votes, and the defeated naturally ac-
the democrats Of making good
their boast hat they would sneak
through the party fence and select the
opposition candidates. The open pri-
mary is an invitation to fraud and an
eneouragement 20 contests.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

McKees Rocks is doing what II
can to ruin the American reputation,
which Was Just beginning to start a
new record of prosperity. There is al
ways somebody to spoil a good thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
An ErnmnIe of ConnintencY.

ST. PHuI FIuHteT FIess'
James Dahlman, the cowboy" mayor of
Omaha. is a candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor on an anti-pro-
hibltion platform. Dahlman is consistent,
at least, in his refusal to take water.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Spanish commanders believe that
they can demolish the Riffs with
rough riders, 1t is an Idea worth try
ing, but the Rirs are reputed some
rough riders themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

In a few days the goddess of peace
VIII cross the Rio Grsnde with the
president Of the United States. Even
the senoritas will not notice her I'M
less she wears a tourist coat.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Art is now free and we shall be up
lifted high as old masters push and
shove on u culture. We have not
had time to pick out the spurious
every time. but we are feeling the up
lift. rtr.r
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

The hay fever season is below the
average level in complaints recorded.
1t must be because travel in the grain
belt and the hills Of the northwest has
beer greater than ever.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

They tell US that trust companies
must stop trying to do too much be-
fore other Moses and Thomases get
our investments tousled again. II
sounds like sound hnance. Keep the
brakes on the trust funds.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Nervy raw RecruIts.
Brooklyn Eagle.

The horrible fate of Boston shows how
foolish it is to oppose a mare militia gem
eral to a couple Of able regulars fresh
from the War college.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25
Peace
Washington Post.

washington EOsl'
To show how en- rapport the United
States is with the prevailing peace senti-
ment, there are to be two peace guaran-
tors of the $4,000 ton type.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Lincoln papers contain an account
OF the successful raid of an opium
joint. Evidently dry towns may have
other troubles.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Glenn Curtiss and Charles willard,
aviators, are forcing their names up
toward the who's-who class. The
world moves n the earth level doesn't.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
DOrarily should have The Bee
mailed 20 them. Address vii be
changed ~ often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

And now our superintendent of
school buildings is to have an automo-
bile Funabout paid for out of the
school fund.4~Nextt
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

The grand rifle contest of the year
is about to open, The Massachusetts
militiamen are not eligible under the
rules of preliminary exhibition.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Free trade between the states Is, OF
course all right, but a prohibitive duty
upon Beverly golf stories would appeal to
many outside Massachusetts,.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

Numerous candidates il various
counties throughout Nebraska have
been nominated on the face of the re-
mfns by p~luralities Of three or four
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

GEORGE b. TzsCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this I'd day Of August, 1908.
(SeaD NJ. p. WALKER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

With Nebraska's unprecedented
crops behind It the State fair at Lin
coin next month ought % be a record
breaker.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-25

A million Manila cigars imported in
a few weeks throws some doubt on
the Improvement of matters by the
tariff.