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Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

"ashlngton Herald: Rev. Len G. BrouRh-
Ton OF Atlanta, in the course of a recent
sermon advised the Georgia legislature TO
pass a law requiring women to know how
. COOK 1t probably would be as ~ineffec-
i've as a statute requiring Rev. Len G.
~Droushton to know how to preach.
New York Post: That DR.. Eliot,s religion
OF Joy springs not merely from the reason
may be seen by noticing what banneps In
any gathering Of spontaneously religions
people. All is Joy and gayety and dancing
and music. "When you get salvation " satd
the Rev. Kent White, preacher in the Pen
~teeostal Union, you feel so hapnv ana H.
Eliminated that you can turn handspringa
all the way down the Milky Way"
San Francisco Chronicle: In the having
Of the cornerstone in washington of a
church which has for a part of it's equip
ment a gymnasium, a swimming pool, bowl
ing alleys and clubrooms. a step in the right
direction has been taken toward bringing
the churches and the people closer together.
Ihere Is a well-reasoned purpose in this
washington innovation which is lacking in
some other methods adopted for popular
izing the churches, such as the counting
room which a Chicago clergyman fitted up
some time ago.
Boston Herald: The death OF the Rev. Dr..
william r. Huntington, rector of Grace
church, New York City, for over a quarter
OF a century, takes from the ranks of
American Professionalism a leader in ;he
cause OF church unity whose fame will bulk
large when that ideal is ACCOMPLISHED and
the history of the movement comes TO be
written, DR.. Huntington was an admitted
leader In shaping both the doctrlnal devel-
opment and industrial adjustments Of the
Protestant Episcopal church. He had few
peers and no superiors In the lower house
OF the general convention. But his influ-
ence, both in the metropolis and in the
country at large, was wider and deeper
than that of a mere adherent and cham
pion of one division of the church.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

Where a man life does not preach his
preaching cannot live.
The man who buries his talent usually
gets busy sowing his vices.
A small life often takes all its time welt.
Ing for a chance at a big job.
1t is better to be regarded as a prude than
to rot as a mental garbage can.
He who misses the spirit Of the law
always makes most Of the letter.
Half OF the business Of lifting people UT
Is a matter OF cheering them up.
The empty head is easily wrinkled into
burrows that look like deep thought.
A man never has much interest in the
church until he has some principal there.
Cynicism is q pain due to attempting to
eat all LIES fruit too early in the season,
The prayer that rises in the heart always
works a way out to the feet and the fingers
People who think they were born TO regu-
late the world are always afraid they will
die from being overrighteous.
Some of the folks who have done most OF
the tanning will be surprised to find life
tested by the hits they have made.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

busy in imparting to the eastern mind
the essence at least Of western ideas
and western manners, and the exist
ence Of schools and colleges, hospitals
and similar institutions afford ample
proof that the instruction is being as
simulated. chronological differences
will not be obliterated by these eff
forts, but a better understanding be-
tween the different divisions of the
great human family must follow the
spread Of enlightenment, and with this
newer realization of the relations be-
tween men will come relief from the
ordinary causes of racial friction that
tend toward war. 1t is too much to
hope that the efforts of American
scholars and instructors in the east
will do away with war altogether, but
the lessons of the schoo1master are far
more potent and lasting than those of.
the drillmaster. In teaching the
young Tartars how to farm Americans
are doing much to push the likelihood
Of war further back into the remote
realm of the improbable.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
Tieing Them Down.

AS some of the democratic senator's and
congress- men have questioned the binding
force of platforms, every platform next
year should contain the following dec
laration: I'VE believe platforms are
binding, and we pledge our candidates to
carry out this platform in letter and in
spirit"-Mr. Bryan's Commoner.
This is a new way of making plat
forms binding. The democratic sena-
tors and congressman who repudiate
their party's platform pledges Justify
their course by asserting that these
pledges are not binding upon them.
Mr.. Bryan would nave each platform
rectte that 1t is binding, but how a
platform with this recital would have
any more binding force than a plat
form without it will not be visible
without a diagram.
This suggestion of Mr.. Bryan's,
through the Commoner, is calculated
to arouse suspicion that he is trying
to open a door Of retreat through
which he may find a way to support
for reelection the very senators and
REPRESENTATIVES, WuOm ne HAS dCCuSeu
Of repudiating solemn and binding
platform pledges. If these democratic
turn-coats will next time stand on a
platform reciting among it's declara-
lions that it is binding, then they may
look to Mr.. Bryan to get in line and
vouch for them with appeals to the
public to reinstate them in confidence.
I%ncidently, we may here have an
explanation of an incident in Mr.. Bry-
ans own career that has never been
satisfactorily cleared up. 1t is well
known that Mr.. Bryan was elected to
congress in 1892 on the same platform
on which Grover Cleveland was elected
to the presidency, which platform
promised to repeal the Sherman silver
purchase law, and also the 10 per cent
tax OF state bank issues, and that, in
spite of these platform pledges, Mr..
Bryan recorded his vote the other way.
The reason the democratic platform
of 1892 was unable to hold Mr.. Bryan
to it's redemption must have beer its
inexcusable failure to declare that
platforms are binding" and to pledge
all the candidates running upon it to
carry it out "in letter and in spirit"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
Great Britain and Gold Supply,

Great Britain's strong financial po-
sition is made apparent by the state
ment of the years gold production.
More than so per cent Of all the gold
produced in the world comes from
British territory-Africa, Australasia,
Canada n India being the great
sources. In fact, outside of the United
States, no other nation except Great
Britain ranks as a great gold pro-
Queer, though practically every nation
adds some each year TO the worlds
supply. Several policies Of Great Brit
ain lever change, no matter what
party is in power, and among them is
the persistent effort to secure posses
sion of every discovered gold field.
So long as gold is the basis of the
worlds money, and there is no present
indication of a change, Great Britain's
control of so large a percentage of the
production is bound to keep 1t a COM
handing factor in the financial world,
The gold poured into Spain by its
American possessions was chiefly in
strumental In making 1t the richest
and one of the most powerful nations
of the world. 1t is estimated that the
entire gold production Of the world
for the 200 years following the discov-
cry of America was Ss64,OO0,O 600, of
which a greater portion went to Spain,
along with vast quantities of other
~valuables. Yet South Africa alone is
sending to Great Britain yearly from
$125, 100000 to 100000 0 of gold,
or more in a decade than the world
produced in 200 years of SPANS
~ascendency.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
Stopping Fraudulent Exploitation.

OF0pHAhk A0R@NARNhASNa
Congressman Parsons of New York
has introduced a bill Furnishing by fine
and Imprisonment the circulation
through the mails Of untrue advertise
ments of bonds, stocks or other Sc
ourities. The proposed law is de-
signed to check or eradicate a recog-
nized evil,' whereby get-rich-quick
schemers annually reap a rich harvest
from the gullible. Under existing law
the postal authorities have authority
to hold up the mail of %swindlers, even
though they have not circulated their
advertisements through the mails, and
the criminal code renders the operators
liable under the general provisions
against frauds. So far as can be seen,
failure to stop the practice is not due
to any weakness in existing law, but
because some men will always take a
chance to make "easy money" and
only in rare instances is the fraud dis
covered soon enough to save the vic
tins. If the penalties for fraud are
insufficient they could easily be made
greater without changing the scope of
existing laws.
The proposed bill is so sweeping In
it's provisions that newspaper and mag
azine publishers would be held re-
sponsible criminally for the good faith
sponsibility or of whose hidden
schemes they could know little or moth
ing. Reputable newspapers do not
knowingly publish advertisements of
even draw the line, as does the Parsons
bill, in favor of fake stocks and bonds.
Many swindles bear on their face the
marks of fraud, but more often moth
ing but a thorough examination by
experts would disclose their fraudu-
lent nature. Any effort to hold parties
responsible who are not knowing par
Elephants in the fraud would be wrong
in principle and harmful in practice.
The effective way to stop such
swindles would be by the states TAX
ing them at the source. Severe re-
strictions pom stock and bond issues
would prevent the floating Of securi-
ties on a hot-air basis, but unfortu-
nately state regulation of corporations,
as a rule, means only the imposition
of fees or licenses proportional to the
capitalization. with no protection to
the public who may be invited to buy
the securities.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
TRAGEDY OF THE FLAMES.
Henry James.

Henry JhIuBhs
Grim city walls that lowered sheer and
high.
A dusty stretch OF avement hot between,
And in a window. set to please the eye,
A vista rich with blooms and dewy green.
The weary soul that saw the crystal glass
Would pause to viON the beauties II re-
vealed.
Then on the street, with smile and gladness
As though some inward bruise were newly
healed.
A butterfly came radiant on its way
Rare messenger of country's vernaI
mead
With iridescent wing that fluttered gay,
Until it seemed a flower given speed.
1t paused before the feast of beauty
spread,
And poised with pretty tremor. as it
thought
A magic wand some airy sprite had sped,
That for its JOY this fairy garden wrought.
Then darted blithely at the shining plate.
1t struck the unseen glass, and that was
For love had been the guide. and love is
blind.
No other flight that butterfly may know,
A stricken beauty, lifeless on the pave;
Because it loved the green and flowers so,
1t had a life to give, and this 1t gave.
oh butterfly, so careless and so bold,
That to its death 1t dashed against the
pane;
1t is as though a human tale were told
OF love that lost and strivings all in vain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
Agents of Universal Peace.

Eleven years ago the people of the
fronted with a strange and novel prob
lem. A Colonial" policy had sud
denly been thrust upon them, and,
whether they liked it or not, they
were required to take up the burden
Of carrying western civilization into
the obscurest of eastern lives. The
undertaking was pursued with a stead
fast purpose, experimentally, perhaps,
but with a prudence that has proven
little short Of inspiration in it's gem
eral effect. Today the work then be-
gun is bearing fruit that means more
for universal peace than many confer
ences of the powers at The Hague.
A concrete illustration Of the new
idea is found in the presence of Amer
lean agricultural experts in Manchuria,
at the invitation of the Chinese gov
eminent, giving instruction to Tartar
youths in the most approved methods
of advanced agriculture. The means
that have served to put America in the
front rank of the worlds phalanx Of
producers are being provided there, so
that the barbarians who cringed be-
fore the Russian aggressors but a few
months ago will become in time, and
the indications suggest a very short
time, masters of civilized ways of pro-
duction at least. The Importance of
this is beyond immediate computation,
but its bearing or the general trend
OF world vents is direct and certain.
Advance in agricultural methods is
sure to be followed by an advance in
other ways. It is not impossible, but
very probable, that the tale of Japan's
experience in Industrial and CONNER
cial development will be repeated
among the Manchus, and the effect on
China is hard to foresee, but is sure
TO be for good,
Along with these teachers Of agri-
culture are other teachers, equally
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
State or Federal Conservation.

The controversy between Congress
man Tawney and President Van Hise'
of Wisconsin university over the con-
servation policy brings out strongly
the question of state or federal control
of the work. Where the work is to
be done on the public domain or for
the Improvement of public lands there
can be no controversy owe the policy
Of federal control. Some of the great
est conservation works, however, ben
eft solely lands and sections where
the general government has no direct
interest. Yet the benefits are, with
few exceptions, interstate and In many
instances the work to be done lies
wholly within one state while the BEN
efits accrue almost entirely in another.
Manifestly, in cases of this kind the
work must be lone by the federal
government, If done at all. The state
interested has no authority to go be-
yond its borders and the other is not
likely to spend money to benefit resi-
dents of another state. Protection OF
watersheds of rivers in almost every
instance embraces interstate advan-
tages. State cooperation In such
work is possible, but experience has
shown it to be difficult and generally
impracticable.
With few exceptions the problems
involved in the conservation of natural
resources are large n the larger or
federal power can deal most effectively
with them. There is much which the
state can and should do to supplement
the federal plans. but the really great
problems are national and not state,
and some of them are international.
Regulation of the cutting of timber
and replacing Of trees cut down could
be largely dealt with by the states,
but If reforestation of the denuded
Appalachian mountains, for example,
which run through several states and
embrace many Watersheds, is ever TO
be accomplished it would be idle to
wait for action either by the individual
states or through agreement of the in
terested states. National conservation
plans are as clearly within the scope
Of federal control as other national
subjects.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

tiers are doing so we'll financially that
payment is reasonably certain. If all
could see for themselves what has been
accomplished and what remains to be
done. there would be little or no diff
Guilty in securing appropriations up to
the treasury limitations, for, aside
from the fact that the improvements
ultimately reimburse the government,
the consumers Of the east are directly
interested in increasing agricultural
production. Several uncompleted irri-
cation projects are now halted for lack
of money to continue the work, and
others are dragging slowly, when they
should be expedited. Personal inspec-
ton by the senators ought to bring the
legislation needed to make the bene-
fits more quickly available.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
Viewing Reclamation Work.

Members Of the senate committee
on public lands, accompanied by a
number Of other senators interested in
reclamation and conservation work,
will make a our of the west in Sep
TENDER inspecting the work already
done, in progress and projected i'm
provements. II the eastern senators,
who have heretofore had little faith,
would accompany the party it would
serve a still more useful purpose. It
has been extremely difficult to con-
vince them the money expended on
reclamation is a good investment, not
only for the sections Immediately con-
cerned, but for the nation at large.
The benefits already derived are, how
ever, so apparent that many doubling
ones have been converted by the OBJ
ject lesson.
Irrigation is the D great national
improvement which asks nothing of
the general government except to be
given a start, the money all being
ultimately returned to the treasury
when the irrigated lands are sold and
paid for. The tracts already opened
have found ready market and the set
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
LEANING

Attitude of Interstate Commerce
Commission on ChiIdren's Rates.
Boston Herald.
The Interstate Commerce commission IS
standing so straight in the matter of
equality in railroad fares that It is leaning
backwards and is inviting a fall. The com
mission has Just decided that the estab-
lished custom Of reduced fares for school
children is a discrimination prohibited by
the law. If an age limit is established and
all children under such an age are given
reduced rates, the law will approve, but a
child going to work is entitled to the same
fare privilege given a child going to school.
A child going to play has similar rights,
we suppose. Fortunately the authority of
the Interstate Commerce commission over
school children's fares is very limited, and
most state commissions have adopted the
common-sense ruling that the school fare
is a just discrimination and a public bene-
faction on the part of the railroads..
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Observe how carefully Raisuli ducks
the mixup at Melilla,
July has it's aults What month hasn't?
But 1t stuck to it's task of boosting the
crop and multiplying v~acationists.
Embattled farmers of Missouri vetoed a
rural hike of twenty miles by state troops
and the gallant soldiers retreated to
their tents in good order.
James Creelman sends word from Asia
Minor that the Turks have reformed.
They have to take a day off occasionally
to whet their scimetars and permit burial
of the dead.
The Russian turban a foot and a half
high Is to succeed the peach basket hat
a yard wide. These turbans will be Jaw
fully sweet" waste baskets for orna-
mental libraries.
Railroad baggagemasters have formed
an organization for mutual protection and
benefit, 1t is understood that If trouble
develops they will take it out Of their
trunk lines as heretofore.
According to an upward revision of the
custom house rules. rich globe t~rotters
entering the port of New York must pay
the full duty on the goods they carry.
Your uncle needs the money.
It can be gathered from the various &C
counts Of the incident that Senator Stone
slammed the waiter because the "chaser''
was shy a few fingers. Perhaps the Mis-
souri, marines will swallow that.
Out of 400 citizens of San Francisco
searched by the lawyers in the case. not
one had sufficient mental density to fol-
low the sinuosities OF graft charged in
the Calhoun case and sit in the jury box.
The attempt TO tie a can on Alfonso
and chase him from the major TO the
minor leagues seems TO be a fiEzls. In
such cases a king has q distinct advan-
tage in having a host of assistant knock
ers in the grandstand>
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
DOMESTIC

He-perbaps YOU noticed that Kate Can
nett Wells has advised girls TO marry an
ordinary young man. 49,
She-Dear me, this IS 50 suuueu'-SleNe
land Plain Dealer.
The man engaged in warning upon the
"peek-a-boo" waist was observed taxing
snapshots Of offending women.
In this manner he explained, i am
able 70 get horrible details that escape inc
Then they broke the camera over his
head.-Philadelphla Ledger.
Say, Bobby" whispered Fritz, was your
sister pleased to learn that had oaueo
yes, indeed replied Bobby. when
mother told her that Mr.; Fritz had sailed
while she was out, she said, Thank
heaven Kansas City Journal.
Il told my husband all the mean things
Mary told me about her husband"
wasn't he tiCkled?'
Il should say not. He's mad because 1
won't tell hum the mean things / said TO
Mary about him."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mrs. Crawford-You must love your hus-
band very dearly IL you save all tho letters
Mrs. Crabshaw-Im keeping them for
comparison, my dear. I'm sure to catch
him in a ie.-Judge.
He-There is everything in the power Of
She-Do you think so? oh, to change the
subject, have you noticed how many ice
cream saloons there seem to be In this
Observation-Disclosures American
Ma, what are the folks in our church
gettin' up a subscription fer?"
ITO send our minister on a vacation to
Europe this summer"
Wont there be no church services willis
he's gone?'
mo, dear"
Ma, l got S.2S in my bsnk-can I give
that 2"-Cleveland Leader.
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Doctor-Dld you give your husband the
powder 1 left, Mrs. Mulllganf
Mrs. MulliEan-Indade OF did sor. AM
he's been BLOWN me up ivr stnce~Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
Education and the Farm.

A letter printed in the current mum
Der Of the outlook. over the name Of
a Nebraska contributor, raises anew
some Of the old questions relating to
the effect Of education on the boys and
girls on the farm. The writer de-
clares:
1 can see no more reason why the country
child should be taught agriculture than
why the city child should be taught how
to run a bank or be prepared in the public
school for any one of the professions. 1t
is not the business Of the public school to
prepare its pupils for the farm any more
than for any other work in life But,
granting that it is, why not prepare the
city child as well as the country child?
There IL no more reason why a farmer's
child should become a farmer or receive
instruction in farming than why a law
yer's child should become a lawyer and
receive instruction in the law in the pub
lie school.
All Of which has the merit of frank
ness and inspires interest in the per-
s~onality of the contributor, on which
he himself throws this much light:
/ am a farmer and live in the country;
l have no children, but I very strongly
object to forcing a boy or girl to farm,
or live on a farm, If he or she objects
to farm life. l believe that the farm is
able to take care Of itself. When farming
becomes so pleasant and attractive and
profitable that it attracts, then people
will begin to come from the city to the
farm.
Herbert Spencer objected to the
public school system altogether on the
ground that it was none of the bust
ness of society to provide for the
vidual, but the Spencerian idea never
secured much following, and it is be-
lieved that even Spencer himself held
to it less tenaciously, if at all. in his
later years.
The justification of the public
schools is that through this agency So
ciety protects itself against ignorance.
In teaching the boy or girl to become
a useful citizen, instruction which
aims first at mental discipline may be
made a valuable ground work for q
future career. theoretically, there is
no more reason why a country child
should be taught agriculture than why
the city child should be taught agri-
culture, and yet the chances are, as
experience proves, that a preponder-
ance Of the country children Will be-
come farmers, but not of the city chill
dren. Reversing the proposition, there
Is no more reason why the public
school should, by its teaching, take
children from the farm who would
naturally stay there than it should try
to send city children to the farm who
would otherwise not go there.
The child should be helped along in
the direction which promises most for
it's future usefulness. While many
children would, in all probability,
make the same success or failure, no
matter what bent 1t should follow, It
is still the province of those in con-
troll of the child's education to de-
velop the faculties in the best man
ner. Agriculture has unquestionably
been retarded because the tendency of
the public schools and of institutions
of higher education has been to take
the best talent away from the farm,
and few will dissent from the deClara-
ton that the farm should not con-
tinue to suffer this handicap. !