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Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
NARROW VIEWS OF BANKERS.
Opposition to PostaE savings Banks
O~tstinctIy Selfish.
Chicago NeWs

The ume to enact postal savings bank
legislation is at the coming session Of con-
gress. The agitation against the postal saw
ings system, which the bankers in their
convention say they have carried on per
sistently, has little enough in the way Of
sound argument to give it effectiveness. 1t
is most absurd, as the president point out.
to represent that evils TO the people would
result from this system when over the
Canadian border it has been in operation
for years and the results have been uni
tormly good. Surely the people ought to
support the president heartily in his eff
forts to secure for them the privilege OF
depositing conveniently and with abso-
lutte safety small sums at any postoffice
in the United States.
While Condemning postal savings banks
and declaring unsafe and unwise President
Taft's views with respect to the use Of
deposits in them, the bankers convention
got into a row over it's legislative commit
tees recommendation OF savings depart
ments in national banks, with special Sc
curity for their deposits. SO IL recon-
mtnded no legislation to improve existing
conditions with respect to the receiving
and safeguarding of small deposits. It's at
titude on this subject is distinctly unen-
lightened and narrow. Congress should
look to the facts, and not to the vocaIized
prejudices Of men who insist that the
people Of the nation shall deposit their
money in existing banking institutions or
nowhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
A DANGEROUS BOOSTER.
~ the Rush to the Farm De-
populated the cities, What Thenf
PittsbuTg DispatCh


II Secretary Wilson is allowed TO stay
in the Department Of Agriculture much
longer grass will be growing on the main
streets OF the big cities and the small
ones, too. The exodus from the cities and
the rush to the farm is inevitable unless
something is done to stop the press agent
Of prosperity in the Department of Agri-
culture.
We have all read about the farmers in
the west and their automobiles and grand
pianos, and most OF us have dismissed the
tale as bucolic humor. But when secre-
tary Wilson is asked on his return from
the west II the farmers are really invest
ing such large sums in automobiles he
rises with upIifted hand and swears there
is too much truth in il. The farmers are
out Of debt, have money In their pockets
and big crops continue to come on. Why.
folks in the east do not know what
l~uXuries are, they must so west to find
out"
In time this official assertion Of bullying
prosperity and lavish luxury on the farm
is bound to get on the nerves Of the urban
population. some city Cook or Peary will
20 west TO discover II these things are SO.
and il they are look out for the back-to-
the-farm movement becoming a stampede.
Really, Secretary Wilson ought TO
moderate his zeal II he succeeds in drain
Ing the cities 10 furnish labor for the
farmers how are the farmers to get me
luNuries now made in town? And il there
are no big city populations TO pay high
prices for food how long Is the farmers
prosperity going TO last? Let him. instead,
use his influence with his rural friends to
keep the cost Of living al a stage where
farmer and city resident can both get a
share Of the l]uXuries. The prosperity OF
one is the prosperity Of both, and any such
lob-sided distribution as he reports Is
bound to react one way OF the other.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

The fortune OF Edward VI Hartman. be
queathed without restriction to his wife
Mary w. Hartman, is variously estimated
at from S75,OOO.OOO to 10000. 900. One OF the
Wall street bulletin services announced tina
1t had authority for saying that the estate
came within these figures. Others point
TO the report which Mr.. Hartman sub.
mitted on June %, 1908, to the Interstate
Commerce commission in which he said
he owned outright or held as trustee rail-
road securities approximately in their
present market value si92, 900. 600. and dc
duced from that that his personal hold
ings, including his residence in New York
City and Arden. his bank stocks and his
Industrial securities. would reach the value
Of about 1851 900. 900. Another statement. said
TO be authoritive, puts the value Of the
estate between 20.OOo,O 900 to sos, 900, OO0. On
the latter figures the inheritance tax will
be between 100000 and $3.50, 900. II the estate
measures up to the first estimate, Mrs.
Hartman is one OF the wealthiest women
In the world. Mrs. Hetty Green's holdings
have been estimated at $40, 200, OO0. those OF
Mrs. Frederick CORTLAND Penfield, who
was Anne Welghtman Of Philadelphia, at
$50 100000 and those OF Mrs. Russell Sage
at a like amount.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

opinion Of the voters does not encour-
age hostility.
There is evidently at this moment
a definite, If not i~rrevocsble movement
toward a central bank, to escape the
dangers Of an inelastic currency and
the costliness Of uncertainty in the
price Of money.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
st. Louis Republic.

st. Louis Republic.
The Eskimo is affable. brave and lovaL
He speaks a language which is highly in
flected-many primitive people do-and has
certain rudimentary ideas Of a warm and
habitahle heaven and a cold and cherries
hell. And i'm knowledge OF ways and means
to fight cold, ice and darkness and wrest
subsistence from a frozen desert he leads
all other children Of the North and South.
But he lives his life in a realm Of ideas
Intellectually remote from civilization.
Peary tells us OF a tribe Of less than 100
people who. cut off from their fellows for
several generations and out Of the track
OF whalers and explorers. believed them
selves To be the only inhabitants Of the
world-a world OF berg and floe, of naked
rock and mighty glacier, of wheeling stars
and quirering aurora, Of unreasonable
reaches of ice and snow. all existing for
the empery of a race of 3 few score
human beings in a few ogloos Of stones
ana ice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

New York is to have a new municipaI
building which is to be a departure from
the usual style OF such buildings. The new
structure is to be Of the skyscraper class.
the height being 5sOh feet, which is suf-
hcient for forty stories, There will be
only twenty-five stories in the main build
ing however, and ten in the tower. The
foundation will go down 12s feet below
Park Row, which is enough TO provide
for a pretty good sized building itself. The
building is to be erected on a lot having
an area Of 1900 square feet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

The Custer county rival of the
Wright brothers, Curtiss and other
record-n akers is having tough luck
with his flying machine, but the best
of good fortune in his lighting APP
paratus. So far he holds the record
for long distance drops, and it may be
in time he will learn to go up as grace
fully as he can come down.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Omaha is nc place for mob violence,
and this must be generally understood.
The fact that no union men were en-
gagged in the unseemly demonstrations
of Sunday is to their credit, and it will
be still more to their credit if they
manage so as to prevent any further
outbreaks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Local Christianity seems to be the
sort that overcomes small difficulties
easily, The churches Sunday we're
filled with %worshipers, who felt sufi-
cient interest in the future to overlook
the present.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

The Omaha double-ender is printing
labored editorials discussing the Bal
linger case, but has not as yet given
its readers the text Of the presidents
letter in regard to the controversy.
Why this discrimination?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

At the North Pole It is always ~
O'Clock and nobody Is late for school
or church, 1t was located just in time
for the new school year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Bailey breaks clear through the
Tariff Battle-Line" when he says that
free raw material and a tariff for rev.
enue only are not consistent. With
out admitting the protection principle,
raw material must pay its share of
taxes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

year, President Taft steps in with the
opinion that the effort is vicious. The
scolding will o break on the pleasant
relations between the president and
his democratic census supervisors in
the south.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Los Angeles wishes another state
which will separate it from San Fran
cisco, but there is no population which
sAn run a state on climate and trading
real estate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Peary and Cook are only precur-
sors of Hudson and Verrazzano New
York has left the polar fellows in the
lost department, and gone to wal
over the first man to sail the Hudson
river
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Bryan ran up against free raw ma
terials too hard and unhinged his con-
science. A revised edition of the new
model plank may be issued after a talk
with Senator Bailey.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

A man is not ranked as a really great
%finaneier unless, like Russell Sage and
e. H. Hartman, his will holds the
bulk of his property together for his
wife. How could a superior mind ever
have thought of anything else?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Judge GaynOr is the Tammany
choice for mayor. What a simple prob
lem is presented by our western way
OF nominating somebody and sticking
to him until time to vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
Room for Improvement.

new 1Olk tribune.
American railways can boast that the
fastest long distance train in the world
runs in this country, but there is still room
for achievement. Damages and injuries
cost American railways last year 2s per
cent OF their gross earnings. as compared
with only a quarter of that percentage
paid by British railways.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

The Ballinger-Glavis exchange Of
views lasted such a short time that it
is hardly Remembered as an incident.
1t was a spark or a fash and, at least.
It Is gone.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

After long reflection one man says
that Cook had no cause TO lie about
reaching the pole, while Peary did. 1t
proves nothing, but will DO for talk at
the breakfast table.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Your nerves must be fed with pure,
rich blood, or there will be trouble.
Poorly fed nerves are weak nerves ;
and weak nerves mean nervousness,
neuralgia, headaches, debility. Weak
nerves need good food, fresh air, and
Ayers nOn-slcoholic Ssrsapsrilla.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

The expert statisticians of the cen
sus Office profess to be seriously con-
cerned as to what became of the de-
scendants of these worthy inhabitants
Of colonial days. If we were to make
a rash guess we would say that the
census OF 1890 was grossly padded
and that the census enumerators m
ployed their wits to coneoct plausible
names with which to I'LL in the sched-
ules and collect their per capita.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

The Atlanta Constitution and other
southern papers are debating with J.
J. Hill. But was not MIR. Hin talking
about wheat? He ssidkothing about
fried ham and corn br&E
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Julia Marlowe is working on a new
version Of Cleopatra's character. The
old n vas strong enough, though
some say that she had not enough
20 be seen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Omaha 1--WE another debt Of graft
tude to President Taft. Boss Tom"
has had the streets cleaned, which
otherwise might not have happened
until election time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

subscriber leaving the sItv tenn
porarIly should have The bee
mailed 20 them. address will be
changed Hs often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
treat EHpectntinn, snnlI.a.
Washington Post.

The howls Of foreign countries over the
new tariff law nal it look a. II they
had expected an enactment for the sayety
of nations.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Chicago bids defiance to Paris and
proposes to set the styles. win the
models be selected on Ashland avenue
or the boulevard?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
RrerIty of HnrrImnn,, VIII.
ST. Lonis Globe-D emncral

u IIUUTH HTWUF- FUIOITdT-
Mr., HarHman's viii was brief. as well
became the wisdom Of a man with a good
wife who left his entire estate in her
hands. The absence Of the good wives NAV
account for the verbosity and completely
Of many m~illionaire's wills.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
4 NcRIcrted Mr.tcrN.

NnlCasO News.
Mr.. Bryan seldom speaks now OF the
mystery of 1908. Being able to see it in
perspective, he probably discovers that
there is nothing mysterious about #.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

When a friend of a principal these
days enters a dispute he always begins
by saying that the other fellows cloud
the main issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

chicago H~eCOrd-Herald.
Judge Lovett is another Of the many
distinguished railroad men who got their
start in the railroad business by polishing
the handles OF the doors in lawyers Of
fices.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

While Mars and the comet are trav-
cling In our n~eighborhood nothing
short of a savant should talk at enRth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Leader.
Il don't see why moralists call the time
A girl spends at her mirror, time wasted
by vanity"
Isn't it?"
or course not. It's time OF real re-
Election. American
she-That's Mr.. Osborn over there. He
married a million.
He-You don't say. Well. that beat
solomon 10 a frazZle.-Bosto Transcript.
-
"Billinger has some very ancient airs in
his new comic opera"
Ancient Say, IN bet he has gone back
Tor some Of 'em 10 the time when the morn
Ing stars sang together. '-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
YES, I'm working on a money-makinE
scheme to remove weeds"
Aha! Gardening
NO, I'm hoping TO marry a rich widow. "
New York Telegram.
Colonel, what would YOU 10 n YOU had
your life To live over AGAIN."
Wen, my boy, I'm proud Of my war
record, OF course, but sometimes. when I
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Minister WI again predicts that
war will be abolished. Back talk to
Japan is a privilege China yearns to
trV
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Mr.. Taft talks about the tariff as If
he never heard of vousn That's
a man of the kind the people like.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

A patent fax-puller is doing the
work in Ontario, What a pity the old
Scotch-Irish near Belfast did not have
It a hundred years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

New plays of the year are not all fit
to be seen. Naturally the audiences are
buying tickets for the are nots."
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Pa Rourke's boys may not be able
to win the pennant. but they certainly
know how to handle the Lincoln team.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

After all. IL is not so much 2 question
of whether there is glory enough for two.
apparently. as it is whether there Is story
enough for two.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
George b. Tzschuck treasurer OF The
Bee Publishing Company. being duly
sworn, says that the actual number OF
Iuil ana complete copies OF The Daily.
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
curing the month Of August, 1903, was
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

People are worried over the bank
reserve as they were worried over the
gold reserve in the late G, Cleveland's
incumbency.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

President Taft will find the Omaha
people good-natured even If they have
beer put to some little inconvenience
Of late.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

The weather man knows his bust
ness, too.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
Around New York

nipples on the Current OF Life
as Seen In the orsat American
metropolis from nay to Day.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

In rejuvenating the democratic
party the Cleveland and Tilden men
evidently ~inoculated it with infantile
paralysis.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Anyhow. it's good for the shoe
maker.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

get a twinge in that missing foot OF mine.
! feel that II / had 1t all to do over again.
I'd serve my country by getting an army
contract"-Houston Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Maryland, having a DISTINGUISHING
amendment as its foremost issue this
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21
BRIGHT N BREEZY.

The Briton-As the old proverb says. "
know lie LAWS best who lawfs lahst
me hankee-lf that's so. what good
Leader
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Speculation in seats from which to view
the land parade, which are TO be a feature
of the Hu~dson-Fulton celebration, appears
to have set a new record in such matters.
Indeed, it is quite possible. says the Even
Ing Post, that late purchasers will be
compelled TO expend as much for a seat
in the best location as for a subscription
to grand opera. 1t is impossible to esti-
mate fully at this time the cost OF provid-
ing accommodations to view the parade,
out, up to date, conservative calculations
place the expenditure at $500. 600. This esti-
mate is exclusive Of the arrangements
which are being made by the managers of
the celebration, the Hudson-Fulton cele-
oration committee, and the municipal
authorities. Owners Of private resid ences
ana business property are being besieged
oy professional ticket spectators, adver-
Using concerns, and others with an eve
TO reaping a harvest from the muItitudes
expected to flock into the city. In some
instances extremely high prices have been
PAID Tor the privilege of erecting stands
IN front of dwellings ON Fifth avenue and
other Favored streets, although in other
cases similar propositions were refused.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

says a student of home conditions in This
city: Family desertion is decidedly on the
increase in Greater New York.
This is the testimony given by the char.
lties department both in Manhattan and
Brooklyn, and is borne out by the exper-
fence of district visitors Of the organized
private charities.
while concerted and effective efforts
nave been made TO reduce infant mortality
10 combat the ravages Of tuberculosis. and
10 extend means of more comfort I'm the
homes of the poor, no steps have been
taken to rout out the growing evil Of wife
abandonment"
These allegations were borne out by one
DAYS recent record. Fifty-five applica-
lions were made in eight homes In Man
haitian alone, for arrests of husbands who
have run away or in other ways refused
to contribute to the support of their fam
HES. 1t is estimated that where one wife
makes a complaint, there are ten who make
no move except to bravely buckle down for
the support of themselves and their chill
dren.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-21

Apartments at S22,OOJ d year are an.
hounced in one of New York's latest bons.s
OF multiple dwellings. More significant
man the rental figures themselves. saws
" ORD is the fact that they are set
iorIh quite casually. The man may hammer
IN tomorrow who finds the 81. 900 snite
exactly what he wants. He is a man one
may meet anywhere on the street todav
ne yesterday is not many years past when
ne was an exceptional being and when a
Fzz'Wn apartment would have been huIt
only OF his special order-not on the land
ioru chance Of his appearance. There are
smen'S TOUT rooms in this 81, 900 suite-a
oitterent one, il the tenant choose for each
hours meditations in a long day. There
are nine bathrooms. as though it were as
sumed that cleanliness IS inevitably next
10 money-godliness. For an ultra-costIv
hired dwelling ultra-modern Iuxuries must
De provided above modern conveniences
The Arizona sentinel., 1909-03-04
NEW PRIMARY LAW

a very important bill passed
by the present legislature is the
Bailey primary election law, II
is with the governor for his ap-
proak Whether he approve or
disapprove, the bill will be made
a law, for it has the approval of
the two-thiras democratic ma
iority in the Legislature. 1t is
also known that the Hampton
educational qualification bill will
be passed over the governors
veto should one be sent in. The
bill by Bailey providing for a
Few general election law was to-
day indefinitely postponed in the
house, the mem bers considering
1t at this time unwise to prepare
TOO many changes in the laws
affecting elections.
The Arizona sentinel., 1909-03-04

Full particulars, free, can be
obtained of Ernest r. Smith,
secretary, ia South Broadway,
Los Angeles, CAL"
The irrigation system of I'm
perial valley cannot be extended
to the region of Imperial juno
ton until "a high line canal IL
built from the Colorado river,
and there is no certainty that
there will be water enough to
cover that region when all the
irrigable land under the existing
system shall be sered.
Sure enough, water would
transform that part of the desert
into farming land, but there is
no water available and there is
no project under way for carry
ing water to that region and will
not be for years.
In the meantime locators Of
desert claims or homeSteads
would have to live like horned
toads or buy water by the gallon
from tank cars to quench their
thirst.
The Arizona sentinel., 1909-03-04
GOOD NEWS FOR sPoRTsnEN

Hunters throughout the terri
tory will be much pleased over
the new game laws governing
the closing Of the game season.
Hereafter there will be no shoot.
ing of quail allowed after Febru-
airy first. While this will curtail
tho hunters 10 some degree, it
will prevent the slaughter Of the
birds at the beginning of the
mating season, thereby insuring
Il greater number of quail in the
long run. The quail, as well as
many others of the feathered
tribe, commence nesting early in
February.
The Arizona sentinel., 1909-03-04
Statehood Gone
d-GLimmering
Not q Member of the Committee
in Favor ct the Bill

Washington, Feb. 27.-The
will be no statehood legislation
for New Mexico and Arizona at
the present session Of congress.
at u meeting Of the committee
on territories today all the mem
bers, regardless Of party, i'll a
sensat ioBal scene abandoned con-
side satioa Of the hanse bill.
The members beft the room
without anyone suggesting fur
ther meetings.
This remarkable action occur
red at the conclusion of the read
ing OF statements by Senators
Nelson and Beveridge charging
corruption, jury oribing and va
rious other offenses against Ger
tain officials and leaders of what
they termed 'the gang which is
in control Of the political affairs
Of New Mexico"
Among the statements read
WAS Il telegram from former
Governor Hagerman of New
Mexico rejecting upon the char
acter of the people who control
the political affairs of the terri
tory, declaring these men expect
TO continue TO control. He call
ed them free hooters" and said
sixty per cent of the voters are
Mexicans and half of that num-
Der arc illiterate and ignorant
and could be governed by the
gang"
A statement by Ormsby Nc
Harg, an agent Of justice, who
vent TO New Mexico in 1907 to
prosecute land frauds, was read.
He declares he was ham pered by
Governor Curry and Attorney
General Fall.
A number OF indictments
against territorial officials were
read, as was u letter from w. +.
Wilcox, a former newspaper man
OF Santa Fe, who says his life
was threatened. It is extremely
likely the conacIttee will conduct
an investigation before acting on
the bill.
The Arizona sentinel., 1909-03-04
VOTES FOR WOnEN.

A bill providing for full SUI.
frage passed the senate Of the
senate of the state OF Washing
ton February 23rd by a vote OF
80 to 8. The measure had pre-
viously passed the house by a
vote of 20 to IS.
In the legislatures of the fol-
lowing states woman suffrage
measures have been or will be
considered during the present
session: California, Connecticut,
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, lie
The Arizona sentinel., 1909-03-04
Looking for Suckers.
An Eastern Land CRATER Trying
ta Work" the UEinformed.

One Ernest K. Smith is adver,
Using in eastern papers free
goverAmeat land al and around
the Ihperiaf Junction, Oh the
Southern Pacific railroad, IN
California. lie claims over 80.
DO acres are open to entry in
that vicinity IN go acre tracts,
under the desert act: that resi-
dence ON the land is not required;
or that one can get 100 acres
free under the homestead law.
Here is a sample of his Bull
Durham" advertising;
join the rush. Three trains
daily. Fine hotel and store now
open. United States govern
ment engineers are now encamp-
ed at Imperial Junction, survey
jng for the contemplated govern
nent irrigation project of the
United States recIa nation serv-
ice. The grandeSt opportunity
10 get free government land in
Southern California. Rich soil.
Water will transform these 80
90 acres into happy homes and
independence. Join the crowd.
90 today Rsilroad fare 1886.