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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
BANK DEPOSIT GUARANTY.
Trying the Oklahoma Idea on Ne
braska.
Chicago Record-Herald.

Chicago Record-Herald.
Nebraska has a heavily democratic leg
~islature and a democratic governor, both
strongly pledged in favor of the guaranty
under state supervision of all deposits IN
state banks. That a law upon these lines
will be enacted at the present session of
the legislature is regarded as a certainty.
II Governor Shallenberger's message to
the legislature forecasts rightly the law
that will be enacted. there is little danger
that under the act those alarming and
disastrous conditions will arise which have
been so freely predicted by opponents of
such legislation.
Two features are prominent. One. that
bank capitalization is to be so fixed that
small wildcat banks will be kept out Of
existence, the governors suggestion being
that the lowest capitalization permitted in
the smallest village be SIS, 600. The other
is that the rate of interest which banks
pay TO depositors should be limited and
that thereby the main inducement which a
reckless banker could hold out to attract
business would become impossible to him.
Along with these provisions are Others re-
quiring experienced bankers on the bank
ing board and In executive office, giving
this board power to exercise a rigid cen
sorships OF charters issued, and requiring
more frequent and much more rigid ex-
sminations of banks.
The governor states that in eight years
past a one-thirtieth OF / per cent tax on
deposits would have protected all deposit
tors. He asks, however, for a fund
amounting TO l per cent of deposits to be
raised in four installments during the next
two years. and after that a tax of one
tenth of l per cent per annum. with the
power in the board TO make a special as
sessment up to 2 per cent il needed. lie
would have It made possible for national
banks to avail themselves Of the benefits
~ tho law II the National law ever per-
mits Il
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
THE HOoSIER STATESMAN.

The selection of Ben f. Shively for
United States senator by the demo
cratic majority of the Indiana legisla-
ture will doubtless come as a surprise,
IL not a shock, to the Bryan democrats
of the country who have been led to
believe that the toga was to go to
John Worth Kern as a consolation
prize for his defeat as Mr.. Bryan's
running mate in the late election.
All of the pins had been set, ap-
~parently, for the selection of Mr., Kern.
Even before the close of the presi-
Dental campaign, when indications
were pronounced that Indiana would
elect a democratic state ~administra-
ton, political wiseacres everywhere
agreed that If the democratic national
ticket proved unsuccessful, the logical
and proper reward for Mr., Kern, the
vice presidential candidate, would be
his elevation to the United States sem
ate. It is known that this proposition
was pleasing to Mr. Bryan. who is
credited with having used his infu-
ence to induce Tom Taggart to with
draw in favor of Kern. 1t was argued
that Mr.. Kern had led his party in
several forlorn hope Aghts for gov
ernor and was really entitled to any
prize that might come from a state
victory. Some of the leading demo-
Gratis, however. refused to accept this
proposition and the campaign for Mr..
Shively has been very active All the
candidates entered the caucus full Of
hope, but the ballCting showed that
the Kern strength waned from the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
sTANDPATTERs IN HIGH GLEE.
Significance of the 'DemonstratiOns'
in Both Houses of Congress-.
Kansas City Times.

'AAeS SANN AAN
1t is not at all improbable that the az
gressive resentment of certain members of
the senate and house at this time is in
tended as much for President-elec Taft as
for President Roosevelt. Specifically, of
course, it would seem that these members,
most Of whom are closely allied with and
representative of the special interests, and
from whom Mr.. Roosevelt, by APP
pealing to public sentiment, has forced sub
stantial concessions in his administration,
are determined only to get even" with
the mastery statesman who has held them
in check for nearly eight years. But there
may be another motive.
President Taft will come into office as
successor of President Roosevelt not only
as an official, but as a party leader and
as the exponent of certain great policies.
He was nominated and elected on the rec
ord of the Roosevelt administration, which
he espoused, and he stands pledged to con-
tinue the Roosevelt policies. He will con-
duct his administration according to his
own methods, of course, but those methods
will necessarily aim at substantially the
same results for which the incumbent pres
ident has striven. Perhaps the men who
are making 1t hot for Mr.. Roosevelt in the
last days of his administration hope to
intimidate Mr.. Taft II this be the pur-
pose these men have not taken Mr.. Taft's
measure. Mr.. Taft will have his own way
of urging his policies and pressing them
into public notice, but he viii not lack
courage. He has shown more than once
that he is even beyond the reach of those
who urge political expedience when such
urging has conflicted with his personal
convictions of right and wrong.
In the meantime the president is accept
ing the censuring of the house and the
criticism of the senate with remarkable
CONFERENCE.-THE complacency of a states
man who knows that his cause is right and
who is well satisfied with the publicity
that those who are fighting him have given
that cause. BY tabling that part of the
presidents message relating to the secret
service congress has imposed upon itself
the imperative obligation to take up espe-
cially this very subject. For the country
will now find out for itself, by reading all
that bears on this matter, just how serious
a mistake was made when the secret serv-
ice was restricted.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Four states have Just i~naugurated
four new governors who are scheduled
to command an unusual share of pub
lie attention during their terms of
Office. The governors are Stubs of
Kansas, ,Hadley of Missouri, Harmon
of Ohio and Marshall Of Indiana. The
first two are republicans and the last
two are democrats.
Governors Marshall and Harmon
have been elected in states which rave
the republican ticket majorities in the
national election. In Governor Mar
shall's case, his party controls the leg
islature and the state offices. In Ohio
the republicans control the legislature
and most of the state offices. Gov
ernor Hadley of Missouri will have to
do his work with a democratic legisla-
ture. just as his predecessor, Governor
Folk, had to work with a republican
legislature. In both Indiana and Ohio
the liquor question is n of the most
prominent subjects demanding legisla-
tion and perhaps, on that account,
neither Governor Marshall nor Gov
ernor Harmon will be able to do much
service that will contribute to partisan
advantage on national issues.
More bearing on national politics
may be expected from the administra-
ton of Governor Hadley of Missouri.
AS attorney general, Mr.. Hadley
handled in a masterful manner the
fight of the state against the Standard
Oil and the railroad combine and he
goes into the executive chair as the
first republican governor Missouri
has had since reconstruction days. He
is pledged to a clearly defined policy
of reform in the state election laws,
in police control and the impartial per-
Torrance of official duties. He has de-
clared his firm purpose to enforce the
law against great commercial or in
dustrial offenders as vigorously as
against the least powerful of culprits.
Upon the success of Governor Had
ley's administration largely depends
NV BOAAbANoA uNuiS vi NlAooOull L.
whether the Mysterious Stranger
will become a fixture in the republican
camp or only a visitor on occasions
when the bourbon bill of fare is not
to his taste.
The message of Governor Stubs to
the Kansas Legislature is the best key
to the character of the man and an
index to his plans and purposes. II
is remarkably brief, devoid entirely
of the rounded periods and pleasing
platitudes. 1t is a crisp, business
letter affair, notifying the legislature
that he expects it to get busy at once
on a law for a public utilities com
mission that will near something, a
good roads law and a practical, com
prehensive plan of legislation dealing
with corporations and trusts. The
adoption of his plan will mark the
final divorce between Kansas and the
populism which was once rampant in
ShO S1acS' q"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Italian deputies who voted against relief
for the earthquake sufferers were lucky
not to have their course resented by any.
thing more material than howls Of dlsap-
prevail.
our secretaries or state. Il has been dis
covered. have generally had names OF a
single syllable. rs Day. Root. Hay. Smith.
Cass, Clay. Black, Fish, Blaine and now
Knox.
Mr.. Thompson, Canadian member NJ
Parliament for Yukon. declares that within
five years the Klondike gold output Will
reach s2O.oOO,oOO a year as the result Of the
operations Of the big dredging companies,
The oldest nun in tho world has just died
at the Cistercian convent OF Sarneu. near
Luzerne. She was known as Mother An
drew, and was born on December IL, 1872
She made her profession on June 10, 1897.
and from that time had charge of the
v~estiary Of the convent until ~1se7-about
sixty years.
DR.. William S. Blgelow. who is RESPONSE
BILE for the cutting of the new United States
gold coins In intaglio instead Of in relief.
a new departure in coinage, is neither a
set lptor nor a n~umlsmatist, but the author
Of the recent book on Buddhism and Inn
mortality He has given years of study
TO the literature Of the far east.
Recently enrolled among the freshmen at
the University of Pennsylvania is a Span
ish nobleman. the Marquis Carlos de Po-
testad, a youth OF 10, who speaks English
like a native OF England. having attended
school in that country for several years.
and has already received his A. B.. degree
there. His family is one of the noblest OF
Spain, and his father occupies a high gov
crnment ~nositiCn.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
OFFICIAL SALARIES.

The demand for increased salaries
for state and local officials as evil
denced by the numerous salary-raising
measures proposed in the legislature
seems to have become epidemic. There
is no question but that the range of
Official salaries in Nebraska has here
tofore been rather below than above
the average and that with the increase
in population and wealth our people
can AFFORD to pay their public servants
more commensurate with the services
rendered.
The salary-raising bills, however,
for the most part undertake t. fix the
salaries at what the present incum-
bents of these places think they are
worth rather than what the same
grade of talent and work would com
mand from private employers. 1t
should be remembered that every dol
lar paid out in compensation to public
officials comes out of the pockets of
the taxpayers, no matter whether the
office pretends to be self-supporting
from its fees or other emoluments or
not. The taxpayers of Nebraska want
to do the right thing, but at the same
time they do not want to pay fancy
salaries for the common run of public
service,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
"PeopIeizinE Corporations"
%sprlngfIeld Republican.

opIHIBIItIu FtepuDIICan.
Judge Peter 8. Grosscup of the United
States circuit court at Chicago, one of the
three judges responsible for what Presl-
dent Roosevelt called a gross miscarriage
Of Justice" in the Standard OIL case, is
willing TO credit the president with being
"at the head Of an outburst of public opin-
ion that has brought the ills OF corpora
ton life to the attention of the country"
He urges the appointment OF a national
commission to evolve a refored corporation
policy. whose central f~eaturs, in his opin-
ion, should be the national Incorporation Of
interstate business and national regula-
ton to the end of making corporate secur-
tiles safe and inviting for the investment
Of small means. So, and only so. he thinks,
may the corporation be 'peopleized' and
made popular.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
CHEER UPI

When it's cold, it's good for icep
When it's hot, it's good for cornS
What we get is always nice,
Just as sure as you are born.
There's no need of feeling blue,
Happiness is in the air;
You Will find that this is true,
If you search for 1t with care.
Something good is in the hand;
Something good is in the bush;
Something good just where you stand;
Something good where'er you push.
Very often we are blind;
Do not see the use of things;
What looks cruel may be kind;
Burdens great may turn TO wings,
Grapes are crushed to get the wine;
Wheat is ground to get the flour;
Melting metal make II fine;
Heating water genders power.
So just wipe that tear away;
Stop that signing, sing a song;
Night is good as well as day
What God does cannot be wrong.
When it's cold, it's good for ice;
When it's hot, it's good for corn;
What we get is always nice
Beat the drum and blow +he horn!
GEORGE w, CROFT.
West Point, Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

If Governor Shallenberger does no
better in distributing the empty honors
of those judgeship appointments than
he has so far with his other appoint
ments the democrats who had been led
to believe that the move on the SUI
preme court amendment would be a
great stroke OF political strategy are
likely to be sadly disappointed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
Placing the Responsibility.
Springfield Republican.

A law is to be urged in Colorado making
parents responsible for the misconduct of
their children. 1t is not a new principle,
for it goes back TO ancient tribal customs.
But it implies a degree of parental au-
thority which is not the fashion nowadays.
Tho home has turned the teaching OF con-
duct over to the schools. and the schools
find the burden too much for them. But
has there ever been an age In which UNI
ruly children did not offer a serious prob
lem?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania
has asked the legislature to pass a law
prohibiting the use of state funds
without a specific appropriation. The
united order of grsfters will look upon
this as direct class legislation aimed
at their privileges.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Murders have become so common in
France recently that there is a demand
to have the %guillotine oiled up and
started in operation. The record
shows that a murderer who has bust
ness with the %guillotine is cured of the
killing habit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Milwaukee's street cars are to be
identified by differently colored lights.
They will have to keep moving If they
do AetsWaAt to be mistaken for drug
stores.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Senat Depew protests because he
has not been consulted by President
Roosevelt about federal appointments
In New York! The senator likes to
give his advice, ever when he knows
it will not be followed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
Significance of silence
Boston Herald,

Gentlemen who have reason to know that
they nave been selected for cabinet port
folios are requested not TO talk. II will
thu be easy to distinguish between merely
ambitious statesmen and those whose ambi.
ton is to receive substantial assurances OF
appreciation. The former viii dc all the
talking henoefoTth
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

The city engineer Indignantly denies
the allegation that ne has charge of
the street cleaning. Nobody wants
to be held responsible for the kind
Of street cleaning Omaha has endured
under the present democratic city ad-
m~inistration.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
No Cnune Tor Worrr.
Boston Transcript.

bUdNUH IIdIbCIIpI. 7
The rebuke to the president was admins
tered on jackson day." and it is recalled
that President Jackson once received SINH
lar treatment from the senate; but II
Roosevelt should continue to be voted for
as long after his death as jackson has
been he need not worry over the coinci-
dence.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

The killing of a police officer and
the wounding of another by an armed
outlaw suggests that the Nebraska
legislature now in session do the
hurry-up act and pass in one of those
anti-pistol toting bills.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

A Boston horticultural has crossed
a cucumber and an orange. Presume
bly, It tastes. like a denatured grape
fruit and will be handy for making
cheese lemonade.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Servia and Montenegro have served
notice that they do not want to fight.
The Servians and Montenegrins have
a wholesome respect, or fear, for the
Austrian army, which has just been
given a new rating in the Balkans.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Jackson's day was not celebrated at
New Orleans this year. The Louis
lana democrats have not forgotten st.
jackson, but they are trying to forget
st. Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

The Council Bluffs water works
have Just been thrown into a receiv-
ership. Omaha is still trying to avoid
buying its water works, whose imme-
diate and compulsory purchase was
decreed by law nearly six years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
Leaders IN work of Rescue,


SulSASO lnIer-Ocean.
AS the stories of eyewitnesses of the
earthquake horrors begin to come in, we
note that everywhere Americans were lead
ers in the work of rescue, whether men or
women, displaying the same individual in
itiative that makes the American soldier
the best in the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

The new commissioner of street
cleaning in New York City. William
H. Edwards, has created a sensation
by declining to use $4,000 asked for
by his predecessor for. new equipment,
He declares that the money is not
needed. MI. Edwards will be lucky
if other officials do not get him before
the lunacy commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

1t is to be noted that running for
vice president did not land Mr.. Kern
in the United States senate. It is,
therefore, unnecessary to answer that
hypothetical question.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Wlooks as IL another hanging we're
schedtIed to take place before long
at the Nebraska penitentiary. If the
snb.set dnas not die first or the gov
ern6f does not pardon him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

The lawyers who accept Governor
Shallenbergers appointments to con-
test for the places of the supreme
judges appointed by Governor Sheldon
will have a great stand-in with the
supreme court. OF course, they will.
Four of the present judges are sure
to constitute a majority OF the court
for at least three years.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
Outclassed.
Washington Herald.

Poor Emperor Militant! They don't even
want him to bossihis army any more. We
suppose it would cost him his crown to
order his officers, to indulge themselves in
anything like a ninety-mile horseback test!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

AS another sure sign of an early
spring Thomas A. Edison announces
that he has Just about completed his
perfect storage battery.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

The effort to invoke the child labor
law aYen1the pages at the state house
IL sure to fail The duties OF the
pages'do not come under the d~esigna-
ton df labor"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
Premature Imitation

minneapolis Journal.
The United States is taking on a few
governors these days who try to make
themselves. believe they are presidential
size. They will know more about it when
they have governed a while.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

The author of How to Be Happy
Though Married" has been sent to the
workhouse in New York for beating
his, wife, Perhaps his wife is now
happy, though married.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

"Why do you want to own all the rail-
ways in the country? Are you so com
pletely in love with money!"
NO. answered Mr.. Dustin StaX. 81
don't care for the money. l want to be
the only man who can always make a re-
quest for a free pass go through. Wash
ington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

II DR., Wiley insists upon manufac-
turers placing truth-telling labels on
the cans, what will the Maine folks do
with their output of imported Sar-
dimes? o.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

setback IL would have been for the
German empire had AIDE decided that
he did not like Berlin.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Senator Tillman insistsathat he will
denohnoS President Roosevelt some
more just as soon as he gets through
defending Tillman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Base ball. managers are already ar
ranging their southern training trips
which beats the first robin all hollow
as q sharbingeE OF spring.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Senator Platt's next divorce will be
from the United States senate. d.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

1t is said that Majorie Gould's COM
ing-out dinner cost 300 a plate. They
must have served eggs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Does the democratic party want
the initiative and referendum" asks
a Bryan organ. 1t certainly needs a
little more initiative.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

George AIDE writes that he is very
much pleased with Berlin. This will
be the best kind OF news 10 the kaiser
and all Germany. Just think what a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

He's got lots to learn about golf
says MI. Taft's caddie. No man is 6
hero to his caddie.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Anyway, the editor of the Congress
sionaI Record has refrained from issu-
ing war extras.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

The ninevfoot-bed-sheet bill may ex-
cite. disabilities, but the clean-towel-
everyday postscript is no joke.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

That's what Tom Taggart gets for
trading off his old associates and
climbing into the Bryan band wagon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

It's the scratched United States SEN
ator who complains loudest about his
injured digAHf.Ase
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
sTArrMrNT OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state OF Nebraska, Douglas County, S.:
George b. Tzschuck, treasurer OF The Bee
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number Of full and COM
plete copies of The Daily, Morning, Even
ing and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of December. 1903. was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

A Russian scientist asserts that
wood is a valuable food. The break
fast food manufacturers beat him to it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Rigss-Is your partner as forsetful as he
used to be2
Briggs-More so. Would you believe II,
that man has actually to look up his ad-
dress In the directory evenings before he
can go home.-Boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

what does the mob around the capital
mean?"
Those are all candidates for the secret
service. They want jobs. The bill comes
up today hat gives each congressman an
allowance of three secret service men and
a trained bloodhound" -Houston Post
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

ChipaOo pa1prd-H.

Chicago Record Herald.
Put the pitchfork on the scrap heap with
the fire alarm gong,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Omaha's celebration of the Lincoln
centenary should be fitting to the oc-
casion.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

WHEN VDNl OF NU"N
Subscriber leaving the city tenn
pOraFiIy should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Lady-Ive been expecting a packet OF
medicine by post for a week, and l haven't
received 1t yet.
=. o. ~Clerk-Yes. madam. Kindly fill in
this form and state the nature of your
complaint.
Lady-Well, IL you must know, it's
biliousness!-Puck.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

What's the matter with those men,
They used to belong to the same political
club, and now they don't speak. What
was the cause of their quarrcl?'
They went to a harmony dinner. BAL
timure American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

Daily average 37,4s1
Q h% GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer,
subscribed IN my presence and sworn to
before me this S1st day of December, 1908.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notay Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

so he has ceased to be her ideal?"
He has"
what disgraceful thing did he do?"
Married another girl."-Louisville tGouT
ier-Journal,