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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
Better Supervision of Banks.

The comptroller of the currency has
instituted a number of reforms in con-
nection with his supervision of the ma
tional banks, which cannot fail to be
beneficial, both to the banker and to
the public. In the first place he has
insisted that bank directors should
cease to be mere figureheads and a
enough attention to the affairs of the
institution to be cognizant of their con-
dition or get out. More important still
is the action taken to render the work
of the bank examiners of greater real
value and provided against repetition
of past abuses. Comptroller Murray is
determined that the lesson of 1907
shall not be wasted. The national gov
eminent, however, is not alone charged
with a duty to the public in this respect.
A large part of the banking business
of the country is conducted by state
banks, over which the comptroller has
no supervision. The legal restrictions
on investments and field of operation
are not nearly so stringent upon state
banks as on the nationals. Many oppor-
t~unities for profitable investment are
open to the state institutions from
which the national bank is barred, and
similarly the opportunities for i'm
proper and ill-judged investments are
also greater. This greater latitude OF
investment for the state bank is neces-
sary, as the two classes of banks serve
largely different constituencies with
different needs. There is no reason,
however, why the supervision over and
examinations Of state banks should not
be as thorough and efficient as in the
case of the nationals. Efficient regu-
lation is as much of a safeguard to
the bankers as to the depositor. Guar
anty or no guaranty, there is no ex-
cuse for bank populations which ade-
quate supervision and examination
could prevent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
%pEsIRABLE DIsCONTENT.
signal Fires of En~Iightenment and
Social Progress.
Baltimore American


A recent work by a university profess
sor undertakes to establish the fact that
American discomfort is a result Of en-
ightenment The writer points out that
the stolid Indifference Of peasants in tyrant-
ruled countries is- the basis of social order.
OF course, the implication is that society
should have a privileged class and a hope
less mass. This is, fortunately, un-Ameri-
can. Discomfort has never injured anyone
who has entertained it as a stimulus to &C
ton. The American comes nearest TO the
ideal man in having a multitude of desires
which prompt a multitude of activities and
leads to the Improvement of society, the
creation Of wealth and the establishment of
life on a higher and broader plane.
It is well to contrast American dis
content with the situation in such a coun-
try as England. where certainly enllghten-
! ment IL as respectable as IL is here. There
about 5000 men own the great bulk of the
soil, while a single aristocrat owns In
Scotland an area as large as Maryland,
| Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware. Be-
side the great land monopolists OF Great
Britain the trust barons of the United
States are children in a kindergarten. Land
is an impassive commodity. its ownership
Is hard to break up, especially when but
tressed by traditional grants from the
crown.
Contrasted with this situation is the
| condition In France, where only 5.0Ot
| Frenchmen have incomes of 5000 from
wealth of SAC. 900. 900. 900. Here is diffused
prosperity. The basis of II all is the sys-
tenn Of small land holding and Intensive
cultivation of the, soil. Enlightenment Is
a common characteristic Of France, Eng.
land ard the United States. The first
represents diffused capital, the second CEN
tralized land holding, the third consOlida.
ted Industry. Each country possesses a
restless population, full Of complaint with
existing conditions and desire for better.
ment. So that the United States Is moi
different from the other great powers In
the fact that It's people are not as happy
as unattired savages in a tropical banana
grove.
IL will be a sad day when the people
shall be content 10 let things be as they
are and not seek Improvement. The great
\ problems are those that call forth great
energy and the fact that problems exist
that cause discomfort is In no sense a dis
-eouragement. The elements of discomfort
are here, but there is little Of the dissats-
faction hat leads to despair. American
| discomfort Is Of the stimulating brand.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
Farmer and Spectator.

An eastern financial paper, discuss
ing the prospects of the future tend
ency of the wheat market, points out
that the Spectator will soon have a
new condition to contend with. Under
normal conditions the first of the new
crop will be on the market in about
six weeks, but this authority declares
that there is no certainty that such
will be the Csse this year. 1t all de-
Ponds whether the farmer thinks he is
getting the value of his wheat. Some
well known facts are cited to sustain
this view.
Some years ago the financial condi-
tions Of the farmer was by no means
so good as now and wheat, being his
first marketable crop of the year, was
sold as SCOT as possible after harvest,
with the result OF a depressed mar
ket, while the s%peculator and grain
buyer reaped the real profit of the.
farm. As a consequence of a success
sion OF prosperous years the farmer,
as a rule, is no longer forced to rush
his wheat to market in order to pay
pressing debts, but instead has both
the financial resources and the storage
ability to hold his grain If he desires
to do so.
Market statistics show hat last year
the farmers held onto their corn
longer on the average than usual, send
ing IL to market only as there was
a market demand, with the result that
the farm price was nearer the average
price of the year than ever before in
the history OF the country. II the OBJ
ject lesson of this is not lost, wheat
is likewise more apt to be marketed
only as there Is actual demand for the
grain, with a resultant higher average
price at the farm and also a more ever
price throughout the year. With large
supplies in the farmers hands a corner
with It's artificial prices would be i'm
possible. for the manipulation would
simply be buried under an avalanche
Of grain.
The marketing of the crop only in
response to demand would be of fl
nancial benefit to the farmer and also
to the consumer, by making both i'm
mune from the squeezing of the specu-
lator. Withholding from the market
grain that was needed would. of
course, injure the consumer just as
much as the same process of boarding
by the speculator, but farm owner
ship is so scattered and the modern
farmer so we'll posted as to the worlds
supply and demand that a farmers
corner on grain is improbable.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
German Naval Views.

During all the talk about the great
increase in the German navy and the
scare 1t has produced in Great Britain,
Germany has been busily engaged
building warships and saying practi-
cally nothing. In fact the ambitious
naval program of the Teuton was we'll
under way before Great Britain woke
up to the fact. Some recent utterances
of Germans high in authority make it
evident that the German takes no
stock in the British statement that its
navy is solely for defense and in no
sense a menace to Germany or to any
other country. Rear Admiral Weber of
Germany points out that ever since
the rise of Great Britain as a world
power IL has never tolerated a rival on
the seas, either commercially or in
wal fleets. As Spain. Holland, France
and Denmark have in turn created
great navies, Great Britain has
watched for a favorable opportunity
and smashed them. The admiral boldly
declares that Germany does not pro-
pose simply to build up its navy to a
point where IL will be a valuable pawn
in the game of nations. but will con-
tinue until Germany is able to hold
its own on the seas. He gives voice to
the general distrust OF Great Britain
in Germany and the fear that unless
the fatherland is able to hold it's own
on the seas as we'll as on land If COM
mercial rivalry becomes too acute
Britain will attempt to crush Ger
many as Il has other rivals.
In his remarks made in the Reichs-
tag, Chancellor Won Buelow is a little
more discreet, but read in the light of
official reserve. what he says leads to
the same conclusion. The chancellor
is quoted as saying, 1T is Germany's
aim to AVE a fleet so strong as would
make even a stronger power think
twice before attacking US" Count Re-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
A CURIOUS SITUATION.
Senate TariR Bill without Defenders
In the Press.

New York Tribune.
1t is a notable circumstance that the
senate,s tariff bill has practically no de-
tenders in the press OF the country. We
have failed to notice a cordial approval OF
II in its present form in any conspicuous
republican newspaper, or in any demo-
cratic newspaper, north or south, although
many southern senators are helping to
neutralize the reductions In duties made in
the measure as Il left the house of repre-
sentativesl Our observation is fully ron
firmed by the Washington Post, which said
the other day .y
'The press of a free country is a fair
index of public opinion. In forty years of
journalistic effort we do not recall any
question of widespread public concern upon
which the newspapers have been as unani-
nous as theNdAbe today in regard to the
pending tariff4hill. There isn't a puhlica-
ton Of note anywhere that has a kind word
to say in behalf of the measure In its
present form-a fact too significant TO be
ignored or lightly treated, II is no exag-
geration to say that the bill hasn't a friend
outside the halls OF congress- and the small
circle OF men whose representatives came
here to see that II was framed with a view
to promote their own selfishness."
TIE senate is by tradition a highly co"
sentative body. II clings 10 what IL. and
usually prefers to err on the side Of self
FTestraint and i~naotion. Yet the political
sagacity Of the finance committee and its
followers Is discredited by the fact that
their work finds no approval from the
public opinion which the newspapers re-
fleet. Can such work be expected to APP
peal hereafter to the voters? Is the senate
right in judging public sentiment, while
the newspapers of both parties are all
wrong? These are questions which the
makers Of the senate measure would do
well to consider,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
PERSONAL NOTES.

NJ. P~aderewski, having recovered his
health, Is enjoying himself In agricultural
pursuits at his chateau on the banks OF
the Lake of Lucerne.
There is an impression in Chicago that
Carter II. Harrison, four times mayor Of
the city, is likely to be a candidate for
the democratic nomination for mayor in
1911
The Duke of Norfolk has a rent roll Of
81, 5000 o a year. His London estate in
Norfolk street, Surrey street and Arundel
street. Strand, was erected on the site OF
his ancestors town house by speculative
builders after the great fire In 1866.
Mrs. Harry f. Mitchell. Of Pullman,
Wash, has made what is believed to be
the largest United states flag in the
world. and which is to be unfurled at the
moment President William Howard Taft,
in Washington, presses the button that
opens the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition.
Clinton c. Hutchinson, who recently died
in Portland, Ore, is called by the Ore
gonians OF that city the father of irrigation
in it's state. lie was born in Vermont De-
cember II. 1888, and first went west to
Illinois. where he married and in 1855 re-
moved to Kansas and helped the free
state men in their troubles with the
border ruffians." Going to Oregon in
1894 MIR. Hutchinson saw that irrigation
was greatly needed in eastern oregon,
and organized the irrigation project in
Crook county, the first in the state or
any consequence.
Chief Justice Beatty, of the supreme
court Of California, who is Il years old, is
as able to take care OF himself and to
enforce his reasonable demands outside the
courtroom as in 1t. on Monday of last
week, while riding on a trolley car he
ordered a man to stop talking with the
motorman, telling him that he was inn
perillng the safety of the passengers. The
man resented the order and told the judge,
whom he did not recognize. that he would
knock the latter's hat off but for his gray
hair. Forget the hair and try it," said
the judge. The challenge was accepted and
there was a quick exchange of blows, in
which the chief Justice came off best.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
I WENT BACK HOME"
Chicago Post

Chicago Post.
When 7 went back home! When I went
The orchards tossed in greenest waves
with caps Of blossom-foRm,
The wind ran down to meet me from the
hills of snowy bloom
And set my heart a-leaping with the mar
velous perfume.
When went back home! When I wen,
The fields gave forth the clinginE scent
of freely upturned loan.
The little creek went singing through the
shadow and the sun
Across the shadows where OF old my feet
were wont to run,
When I went back home-O. the woods
were green.
And greener yet the m~edowlands with
Jewel CLINT and sheen:
The little path wound UP the hin, the lit
tie path ran down
To meet the lazy highway that led from
the little town.
When ! went back home:-n I had the
art
I would weave the wonder melody that
murmured I'm my heart.
The song that sang of brotherhood with
bending skies OF blue
And hills Of green and everything that as
a boy I knew.
When I went back home, when I went
back home!- "f.
sent ne forth to roam,
To trudge upon the rugged roads that lead
to alien lands
When fair and clean and sweet and young
the home-plnce ever stands!
When I went hack home! When I went
back homei- 't
the orchards surged as sunny seas with
billowed blossom-foam,
And deep within the soul of me I heard
the singing strain
The wind brought with the flower-scent It
poured across the lane.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

One way to Increase Omaha's pres
tige abroad is to show special atten-
ton to out-of-town visitors who oc-
cup high positions in the business
and professional world whenever they
honor the city with their presence.
We have been doing something in this
direction, but not enough. The Com
mercial club and every other similar
organization ought each to have a live,
hustling entertainment committee
busy all the time and let no one get
past who is entitled to such ~recogni-
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
A TING for silence.
New York Tribune.

Mr.. Bryan is preserving a s%phinxlike 81
lence on the tariff issue. He will be en-
Outraged in that policy by the reception
given in the senate to some few innocent
remarks from Governor John A. johnson.
The democratic leader who theories now
adays on the tariff is likely to be assailed
by a majority Of his party associates as a
troublemaker and a hereto.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
UpIift In Industries.
Springfield Republican.

Not only are the Independent steel COM
panles to restore wages, but those railroads
which reduced the pay Of the salaried class
of employees following the panic Of 1907 are
announcing a return to the old compensa-
ton. The Boston and Maine is the latest
to make known such a step. 1t means
that in the opinion Of these men of large
affairs prosperity has returned.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Candidates who made contingent
filings for the recent primaries. but
were shut of the ticket, are to have
their money back on the ground that
they did not get what they paid for.
AS a matter of fact, nine out of ten of
them went in simply for the advertis-
ing and got that without being forced
to incur the other expenses which
usually 60 with IT.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Isn't il pressing the limit to COM
mence talking about contesting Hetty
Green's will before she is dead. or
even enjoying poor health? People
should atsleast be permitted the priv
ilege OF thinking they are disposing Of
their own property.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

That Norseman who discovered this
continent so many years before Column
bus and penetrated as far inland as
Minnesota was evidently only spying
u the land for his countrymen, who
we're TO take possession later.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
Fortunate .'OutIyins Possesslons.'

Lucky Guam! The people felt that they
were burdened with unnecessarily high du-
ties and complaints to Captain Dorm,
the naval governor. A tariff com
mission was formed at once. an investisa-
ton made, and a revision downward was
ontlined. which will become a law as soon
as it is approved by the president and sec
rotary Meyer. But Guam is not entitled
to the blessings of self-government!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
Admirable Candor.

Boston Herald.
Evening sessions ordered and the flow
of senate talk, unchecked. That North
Carolina member Of other days, who repre-
scented the county OF Buncombe and pleaded
to a wearied house that he was talking
for Buncombe" has his disciples at every
session, although not all are as frank as he.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Mayor Jim is denouncing in un-
measured terms the four democratic
councilmen who made a zeal with the
republicans on council organization.
But Mr.. H~itchcock's World-Herald is
densely silent on the subject. What
is a democrat?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

was anything in the way OF co-opers-
ton except the disposition of the rail
roads to go It alone unless everyone
else consented to play the game &C
cording to the rules they laid down.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

With the jobs for the jobless record
of the legislature before him it makes
Mayor Jim sad to see some OF the local
pie slip out of the democratic commits
sary wagon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

A Boston girl has made a record of
a high jump of four feet three inches,
and there vas no mouse in the room,
either. Boston is gradually getting
in line with modern educational
methods.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

New England papers are boasting
that $4,000 is to be invested in
that section in new mills, factories and
improvements in existing plants. New
England is to be congratulated over
the fact that It has wakened to the
fact that the panic has been over for
sOme time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

How about It? Did the voting of
those $500. 900 water bonds take all
the disease germs out of the water, or
we're the germs merely imaginary hg-
ments worked up to help carry the
bonds7
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

you to sue the woman for a smaller sum-
say s25.-Chicago Tribune.
The Waiter-Beg pardon. sir, b~ut-ahem!
the gents here usually remember my serv-
ices.
The Guest Cpocketing all the change)-
Do they? They ought to be more charitable
and forget
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Andrew Carnegie is to provide a
fund to purchase hero medals for the
people of France who deserve them.
Mr.. Carnegie must be determined to
make the order of heroes a worldwide
one,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

The railroads are again being
greatly troubled with high water. 1t
worries the railroad men when water
attacks the tracks, but it is different
with the stocks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
In Line Win III. Bu.iners.

Philadelphia Press.
Senator Aldrich will be allowed to select
his own route and name his own prices
for a season Of chautauqua lectures. This
is quite in line with his expertness in mr.
ranging tariff schedules for other people.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Lincoln police are having a hard
time Of It holding down the lid. Some
OF the good people of the capital city
might help out by furnishing ballast
IL the force Is too light.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

An English scientist has published
a book. on How Much and What
Should a Man Eat?" II all depends
who is to settle for the check at the
cashiers desk.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

People who go out automobile rid
ing around Omaha right now should
take witnesses along to prove that they
are. not train robbers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

II. they must have SNOW at this time
of the yea up in Montana and the
Black Hills, will they please blow their
breath the other way?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

President Winchell of the Rock
Island has Joined the chorus for CO.
operation between the railroads, the
shippers and the public. There never
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Just because Mr.. Hitchcock has had
a lease IN the city prosecutorship for
three years he thinks he is entitled to
perpetual ownership.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

The wheat. pit can take notice that
Nebraska's growing crops are amply
supplied with moisture no matter
what may be happening elsewhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
A Pair OF Bouneers.
PittsburR Dispatch.

While Mr.. Bryan is expelling prominent
democrats from the party Senator Bailey
undertakes to go him a little better by
reading the party platform our
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

A Milwaukee paper reminds us that
Christmas is just seven months away.
1t certainly doesn't feel like 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

If the tariff bill were a hot air bal.
loon 1t would have gone up long ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

The tax assessor Is also coming
down the home stretch.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Topeka Capital.
Admiral Dewey says the American navy
Is the peer OF any. We hate to question.
the word of a hero. but since the American
navy has never been in a real fight nobody
knows how good It is.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

Subscribers ieaving the city tenn.
porar,ly shOsld have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

She latter the tiffl-You will admit you
were wrong?
He "a young lawyer)-No: but I'll admit
that an unintentional error might have
~unknowingly crept into my assertion
Christian Endeavor World.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
srArrMrNr OR c1rcuLAr1oN.

OF REGULATION.
state OF Nebraska. Douglas County ss:
George b. Tssehuck, treasurer OF The
Bee PUBLISHING company, being. duly
sworn. says that the actual number OF
full and complete copies of The Daily,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of April. 1909. was as
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

All agree that Omaha should culti-
vate the good will of the interior cities
md towns of the state and that there
is no good reason for antagonism be-
tween the state and its metropolis. 1t
should not be overlooked, however,
that the late democratic delegation
sent to Lincoln from Douglas county
did more in three months to incite
prejudice against Omaha and ALLEVIATE
friends throughout Nebraska than can
be undone in three years. IL is only
going half way when we undertake to
cultivate friendly relations without at
the same time trying to stop widening
the breach at the other end.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

GEORGE 4. TZSCHUCK.
TFeasu .er.
Subscribed In my presence and swern TO
before me this list day Of May, 1903.
~. p. WALKER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
TART TRIPLES.

do make myself plain?' demanded
Mrs. Jawback at the end of her curtain lee
ture.
You couldn't do that, my dear said
Mr.. Jawback. mildly. II will acknowledge
that | am stupid, but not that you could
be plain. cleveland Leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Thirsty Passenger-How much longer
have I got to wait for that cocktail / or
dered?
window)-Ab, ut a mile and a half longer.
sir. This is o dry county, and there's 2
spotter on board.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

Mr.. GuzZler in?
Mrs. Guzzler-He has just done down to
the corner for a little exercise.
wigwag-I think I'll Join him. In which
-er-corner does he take his exercised
PHILADELPHIA Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27

The greater part Of the bank account Of
owen of Oklahoma Is made up OF his share
of the largest fee ever awarded in a case
against the government. II was $4,000 and
was earned in an Indian land suit. Piles Of
Washington was one OF the five attorneys
to split a S25O.0O0 fee. Senator Warren IL
several times a millionaire and one Of the
biggest wool producers in the world. He
owns vast stretches Of grazing land.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina is a
poor man and lives like one. His hitherto
~spotless reputation was mussed up a trifle
by NJ. Roosevelt last year because poor
Tilman was trying TO make a few dollars
out of a land selling company in Oregon.
From the foregoing II will be seen that
the name 'Millionaires' club" no longer
fits the senate. II is an assembly made
up OF a few very rich men, a few well-to-
do men and a great many who are poor,
but would like 10 be millionaires.