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Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

He proves that John d. Rockefeller is
4 man much advanced in years, very
shy on hair and hopelessly preiudiced
in favor of certain schools of learning.
He makes 1t plain beyond dispute that
Chairman Gary OF the Steel trust is
not as handsome as Charley Schwab
and that John w. Gates is no better
than he should be. He mourns the
departure of Mr.. Roosevelt for Africa,
offered evidence to prove that no re-
publican tariff bill has ever prevented
INSCRIPTIONS grocers from putting
sand in the sugar. or has kept black
sheep out of the wool-producing herds.
The republicans are in the majority
in both the senate and the house and
will doubtless pass a tariff bill framed
to their liking, but 1t can no longer
be their boast that the democratic
minority has no real thoughts or pol
icy on the question, because Mr.. Clark
has demolished that cruel SANDER.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
GOOD NATURE TAXED
Citizens Rights of the President In
d by the Curious.
Waahlncfnn Pnat

~ IN
vaded by the Curious.
Washington Post.
President Taft Is full OF good nature and
Of course, understands the genuine interest
that prompts the procession of curious
patriots who follow him when he takes
his walks abroad. They do not mean to
be rude or to annoy him, only to gaze to
their satisfaction at the head Of the nation.
But the president is entitled TO go about
without amassing a Ions line OF followers
and inspiring a procession that would make
the most gorgeous minstrel distend with
envy or the loudest drum corps from
Foggy Bottom feel neglected.
Mr.. Taft should be secure from intrusive
gapers at all times and when as a dignified
and God-fearing American he goes to visit
a house OF worship he should be left free
to go from and return to his home in
peace.
The American people do not like to think
Of their chief executive being hedged
around by secret service men, or any other
men, to protect him from annoyance. II
should not be necessary in any community
In this country, certainly not In the capital.
He should be as safe from the slightest
rudeness as from personal harm. The pres
ident is a great public character. but he is
also a citizen. with all of a citizens rights,
1t is to be hoped that on future Sabbath
days he may enjoy all these privileges un-
disturbed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
For Uniformity.

With the favorable committee
recommendation of the m~isbranding
section of the national pure food law
for incorporation into the Nebraska
law, the legislature at Lincoln has an
opportunity to take a decided step
forward in the direction of uniform
legislation and the removal Of trade
barriers o%bstructing legitimate bust
ness enterprise. For Nebraska to set
itself counter to trade regulations en-
forced alike by congress in all inter-
state m and by practically
every other state in the union puts
our own producers at disadvantage
without any compromising benefits.
The Bee has protested from the first
against strained construction of the
law at variance with the national law
on the same subject. If the legislature
would remove all room for dispute by
definitely adopting the same phrase
ology that is used by congress and all
the other tates, 1t would align Ne
braska with the progressive movement
that is under way for uniform state
laws to govern business activities that
necessarily cross state line.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
nemocracy,s Position Defined.

The democratic party and. for that
matter, the entire country owes a debt
OF gratitude to Champ Clark of Mis-
souri,, leader of the minority in the
house of congress, for having arisen
at the critical moment and given a
clear-cut exposition of the attitude of
his party on the tariff question. There
has been much dispute, haggling, mis-
representation and confusion yer the
real democratic doctrine. beginning
back in Mr.. Hancock's time and gain
ing in vociferous. contentious volume
ever since. Mr.. Cleveland, Mr.. Cor
man, Mr.. Bryan, John Sharp Williams,
Colonel Nose Wetmore, James K.
Jones and other leaders have differed
in their interpretations of the sched-
ules and the rights of man there
under, until the country had gained
an impression that the democratic
party really had no defined policy on
the tariff.
To clear up all doubts. Mr.. Clark
had the floor in reply to the nine-hour
speech of Chairman Payne of the ways
and means committee, and he accom-
plished the task with such thorough
ness and attention to detail that there
can no longer be any question where
the democratic party stands on this
ever-present issue. II is worth the
space to review Mr.. Clark's speech in
some detail, following the discussion
of features OF the measure as he so
logically disposed of them.
To begin with and to make it plain
Just where the democratic party is at
on the basic principle of the tariff, Mr..
Clark declares that Chairman Payne's
speech marks him as a historical per-
son and gives him a record for powers
of endurance, his speech being "a
superb v~indication of his physical and
mental strength" This exposition OF
the real facts drew long applause from
the democratic side. Getting closer
to the detailed dissection of the differ
ences between the two great parties
on the tariff, Mr.. Clark deals with the
individual members of the ways and
means committee and assures them
that. while politically he hates the
very sight OF them, personally they are
all gentlemen whom he Is proud to
number among his list OF friends and
grammar school chums.
Having discussed thus lucidly the
fundamental principles of the tariff
Mr.. Clark, showing rare learning and
wonderful resourcefulness, enters
upon a discussion OF the different
schedules and gives convincing proof
that the republicans are all wrong
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr.. Roosevelt gave his African freight
a Characteristic and instructive touch by
having all his boxes painted red.
The bongo and the buttlewog have COM
pleted their census of the tall tirbers,
according to the latest advices from Africa.
Secretary OF War Dickinson will leave
Washington about April 10 for his visit to
the Isthmus of Panama to inform himself
as to work and conditions in the canal
zone.
Despite our position on the Negro
question: says the Boston Transcript, we
appreciate Mr.. Jeffries' reluctance to fight
Mr.. johnson. We should hesitate our
selves"
An Illinois farmer in search. OF help Of
fered $25 a month and board to any one OF
a bunch Of the unemployed gathered at an
indignation meeting in Chicago. The offer
was greeted with laughter, after which the
Indignation proceeded.
Congressman 81 Sulloway of New Hamp-
shire. hitherto the tall pine of the house,
is outstretched an Inch and a half by Con-
gresham Tener of Pennsylvania, Mr..
Tener's dome pierces the upper currents at
a height of six feet five and a half.
Mrs. ]. w. Beggs, now Of Seattle, is
said TO have produced the only rose abso-
lutely without thorns. She was for several
years a neighbor OF Luther Burbank In
California where she studied his methods.
The bloom OF the thornless rose is re-
ported to be of unusual beauty.
Charles Dewey Hilles of Dobbs Ferry.
N. Y. who has been appointed assistant
secretary of the treasury, Is about SO years
old, and originally came from Lancaster,
o. During the recent presidential campaign,
Mr.. Hilles was engaged In investigating
the situation in several states. Mr.. Hilles
at present is superintendent Of the Juvenile
home at Dobbs Ferry.
william ]. Shearer, nestor OF Cumber-
lands bar and famous as one of Pennsyl-
vania's most brilliant criminal lawyers,
died at Carlisle, Pa, aged 70 years. HI
was counsel in fifty murder cases. losing
but one, when Charles Salyards was
hanged for numbering a Carlisle police
man. The deceased served in John Brown
raids and McClintock riot cases.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
Improving Inland Waterway.


The condition OF the federal treasury Is
not sufficiently suriferous to encourage any
measures OF immediate expenditure, but
we are pleased to note the relntroduction
In congress Of the bill prepared at the in
stance OF the supporters Of needed water
ways development providing for ar issue
of $0,0oo,O0O of bonds a year for the next
ten years, aggregating $5O0,0Oo,Oo % for i'm
proving the rivers. hsrbors and canals OF
the United States. This Is as much money
as will probably be required to finish the
digging of the Panama canal, but its ex-
penditure would bring treble the benefit TO
the business OF the country that may be
expected from that great undertaking,
The fact that President Taft looks with
great favor upon the proposition to be-
gin a systematic scheme OF inland water
ways development gives rise to the expec-
tation of favorable action upon the part of
congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
CUPID'S AIM.

ST. Louis Republic.
On sport intent
Dan Cupid fashioned arrows,
And every day
His aim, they say,
He practiced on the sparrows.
Now. days OF Lent
sMytilla spent
In projects for adjoining
A costly hat
OF splendor that
Shed wear on Easter mornins.
Thus Cupid and
Myrtilla planned
And toiled thro' Lenten weather,
Till Easter day,
When, OF the way
From church. they came together
And Cupid laughed
And aimed a Shaft
With skill and swiftness laden;
But 10, the dart ..H
Found not the heart ,'
But the headgear OF the maiden.
"Ho. ho!" she cried
With saucy pride.
You did II very neatly! r
My hat was bare,
Your arrow there
Becomes IL most completely"
But filled with shame
At wretched aim
And practice unaVailing,
The pretty boy .a "
Bereft of Joy
Before her stood bewailinG.
Then to his side
She stepped and cried,
Cheer up, you silly Cupid
That Love is blind
I've heard-I find
That love Is only stupid.
Your skillful eye
Did aim awry.
IT'S true, but what OF that, efF1
II you were smart s-s
You'd know my heart
Is In my Easter hat, sir"
And Cupid smiled,
With joy beguiled,
And through the April weather
And meadows fair -
That precious pair ,5' a..
Went over the hills together.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
THE SUPREME MOCKERY.
Ideals of Civilization In Theory and
Practice.

Boston Herald.
The worlds greatest need at the present
time is a sstirist OF power,
in depicting to the so-called civilized
world" the hollowness of its professed
ideals and the mockery of its statecraft.
In their theories of sound financial admin
istration, economical use of natural re-
sources, adherence Of debt and hatred Of
war, Europe and America are letter per-
feet. Kings and presidents bow down be-
fore the Prince OF Peace on Sundays. and
send embassies to The Hague with ~alacrity.
Statesmen swear with loud oaths that they
hold power only TO relieve humanity from
its burdens. Pulpits resound with appeals
for obedience TO the law OF foTbearance
and forgiveness; chambers OF m
and boards OF trade pass resolutions urg-
ing arbitration and favoring reduction in
military expenditure, and in theory man
tions the same rational method OF settling
differences OF opinion that he has dlscov-
cred is best in settling personal, local and
state disputes. the method Of judicial in
vestigation and award. But he stops az the
theory. He continues to waste his incre-
ment OF wealth on munitions Of war and
in bringing into being instruments Of de-
struction. Neither the tdealism OF the
church and the university nor the utili-
tArianism Of the market or the factory
seems able to divert him from the obses-
sion that peace depends upon fighting
power
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

The Water board is still stepping
very ~gingerly around the bond PROPOSE
ton. The days are rapidly slipping
by, and the time is coming nearer
when the board must make good one
way or the other. This probably &C
counts for the feelers that are being
put out. The only sure way OF testing
public opinion on the matter is to &C
tually submit the question to a vote,
and the Water board may be depended
upon to offer the bait in its most
tempting form, but the people will
have the final say.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
Suggestive Precedents.
Hartford Courant.

Hartford Courant.
The paragraph in William Howard Taft's
Carnegie hall GRAFTON that has been read
at the national capital with livelier in
terest than any other lie the one ending
with this sentence: w owe to Mr.. Cleve-
land and his courage in dealing with the
senate of the United States the establish
ment Of some useful precedents." Mr..
Cleveland's present successor is quite capa-
ble-the necessity arising-of making an
addition or two to the useful precedents.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

The press agent Is springing the
rainfall in Mombasa a little bit late.
she ex-president has had some expert
nee with torrential downpours, as
witness his services in Cuba. It will
take more than a tropical ~rainstorm
now to keep him out OF the jungles.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
Choose Carefully.

The primary at which the candidates
Of all parties will be nominated next
Tuesday is the first step in the cleo
ton of the men who will run our city
government for three years. Only by
seeing to 1t that honest and capable
men are nominated at the primary a
we make sure of having a chance to
choose honest and capable men at the
election.
Every citizen OF Omaha occupies the
position of a stakeholder in the mu-
nicipal corporation, and is now called
upon to choose a board of directors
under the name of mayor and council
to manage it's affairs in his interest.
The municipal corporation has a cap
i~talization Of more than 500, 600, 900
and an annual income and outgo Of
more than 1000, geo. II the city of
Omaha were a private corporation
every stakeholder would insist on get
ting directors to serve who had been
tested in experience and integrity, and
would be particularly careful not to
devolve Official responsibility on any
one with a proved record of inef1-
cheney or dishonesty.
With over 1870 candidates seeking
places at the municipal primaries, a
lot of dead wood will, naturally, have
to be cut away. It is up to the intel
ligent voters to center on men who
know something about city govern
ment and who will do credit to the
city if nominated and elected.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

May your tribe increase" said I'm
Gle Joe Cannon in presenting a medal
to the ~16-year-old heroine of the Slo-
cum disaster. AS a true stand-patter
Speaker Cannon is always ready to
say a word for the infant industries.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

THE present tariff measure in con
gress is called the Payne BILL and it
is quite likely to cause pain in some
psrts9 says the Los Angeles Times,
which is entitled membership card No.
8SS in the Punk Punsters' union.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

The World-Herald's devotion to
home rule demands that the legisla-
ture enact no laws that will in any
wise interfere with the privilege of the
democratic city council in Omaha to
do nothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

1t is to be hoped that the Pennsyl-
vania kidnapers will face a jury differ
ent in temperament from that before
whom Pat Grove was arraigned. The
time has gone by for temporizing with
child-stealing, and no punishment
short of actual execution will seem too
severe for criminals of this class.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

A Nevada county has won the mule
offered by Mr.. Bryan to the county
that showed the biggest increase in its
democratic vote. Bryan, however, has
just purchased a $4,000 automobile
for his personal use.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

It took the clerk OF the house at
Washington four hours and twenty
minutes To read the Payne tarin bill,
and OF course the members are so
familiar with the tarin that he did not
dare skip a word.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

II the Missouri railroads a afford
to sell 1000 miles of transportation
for $40 there does not appear any
really good reason why they can't af-
ford to sell 100 miles for So.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

While the fat colonies have been
forced to do horseback and other
strenuous stunts, the gentle dough
boy" is not overlooked, either, and the
athletic exercises Just completed at
Fort Crook give eloquent testimony in
support of the excellent training the
young man receives in the army today.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

The charge that Mr.. Bryan has no
sense of humor will have to be with
drawn. The latest issue of the Com
moner has an editorial on AN Honest
Lawyer"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

The Shoemaker-Taylor episode is in
no way creditable to either OF the par
Elephants. or their party, and is GER
tainly a disgrace to Nebraska. Yet il
is the natural elimination of the pro-
ceedings that have marked the session
of the legislature from its beginning.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

There is no longer a question about
whether spring has arrived. Southern
newspapers have renewed the discus
sion whether watermelon is a fruit or
a vegetable.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
Common Variations.

Kansas city journal.
II appears from the dispatches that Mr..
Hartman. being a physical wreck, has
been ordered by his physician to retire
from active business life, but being in ex-
cellent health and full of ginger he will
continue his business career uninterrupt-
eddy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
A Thought from Congress

Philadelphia Record.
Somebody now comes forward with the
suggestion that congress might try to cover
the deficit by Spending less money. The
idea is so reasonable that it is a wonder
congress itself had not thought of 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
Novel and Picturesque.

Springfield Republican.
General Miles turns up also at the White
House to pay his respects" after an alb
sence of about seven years. The procession
OF distinguished wanderers returned is novel
and picturesque.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

One remedy is for the women to
wear American-made gloves and hose
instead of insisting upon Paris "crea-
tons"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Are there such things as reasona-
BILE railroad commissioners" asks the
Wall Street Journal. Certainly. They
are found in every state that has
reasonable railroads.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Washington Post.
The corridors Of the capitol are being
rapidly transformed into nurseries for the
convenience of the infant industries.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

John d. Rockefeller denies that he
is financing the prohibition movement.
He is running the oil wagon, not the
water wagon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

In a pinch, the chopping bowl with
a thioket Of sweet peas on top will do
very well for an improvised Easter
bonnet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

A physician says that meat makes
drunkards. II so, the Beef trust
should be given credit for doing what
1t can to suppress drunkenness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Whatever else will be recorded in the
history of the present body. it will GER
tainly be known as the most turbulent
and disorderly that ever assembled in
the state house.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Gomez goes around stamping down
the Cuban rebels with a strong and
bloody hand says the st. Louis
Times. Nature fakir?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Reports Indicate that Mr.. Magoon
has his spanking machine oiled up and
is ready to start for Central America
or Cuba at a moments notice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
Around New York

nipples on the Current Of Life
a. Seen In the GREAT American
Metropolis from nay 70 nay
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Food experts agree that benzoate of
soda will preserve about everything
except the digestion.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

The Cuban mutiny has been crushed
butt the eight mutineers are still in the
brush With their Winchesters.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Mr.. Bryan would have a good case
in a suit against the democratic legis-
lature of Nebraska for nonsupport.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

No matter what the tariff does to
wooIens the wise citizen win cling to
'em for at least another month.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Whose fault is it that a good many
of the democrats in the house at
Washington are really brevet repub-
leans?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
sTArrMENr on crRcm.ArroN.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state OF Nebraska, Douglas County. -:
George =. TIschuck. treasurer Of The Bee
publishing company, being duly sworn. sayu
mat the actual number Of full and complete
copies OF The Daily. Morning, Evening ana
sunday Bee printed during the month OF
Febrnary. 1nna vas A AnIlnZn.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Mr.. Bryan may be consoled by the
fact that the new tariff bill makes no
change in the schedules on Chautau-
qua lectures.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

1t should be about time to send out
a tracer for that permanent tariff COM
mission,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

The house committee had but one
sitting on the Payne tarin bill. The
rea sitting OF the bill will be done by
the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Learned yet how to spell and pro-
nounce Mombasa2
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

If the native population OF Africa
cares to know about it, Mr.. Roosevelt
is carrying his own kit of razors.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
~porRriIy should have The Bee
uaaiIsd ito them. address viii be
changed M often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

so you parted never to meet again?"
Yes" 4
And what happened them"
"He kissed me goodbye"
"Ah! When are you to be married?"-
Chicago Record-Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

The borough of Manhattan has Ns miles
of paved streets. Brooklyn $40 and the
other three boroughs no making a total
OF 1859 miles Of tho~roughfares In Greater
New York. Many OF the streets are cleaned
every day, and those in the more densely
populated east side districts OF Manhattan
are cleaned five times a day. MIN thou
sand policemen are employed TO patrol
them and 5000, As,S7 was spent last year
keeping the streets in repair.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Benjamin c. Miller, who recently died in
Brooklyn had for half a century been en-
gagged in moving large buildings. His most
striking achievement was the taking OF the
Brighton Beach hotel at Coney Island a
distance of near 600 feet back from the
shore, when II was threatened with de-
struction by the sea. This feat was per-
formed not long after the March blizzard
OF 1855 had passed by. Mr.. Miller laid
twenty-four railroad tracks, upon which
12 flat cars were run under the building.
which was then lowered until it rested
upon the cars. A carefully arranged series
OF ropes and pulleys led to six locomotives,
placed on two tracks, three on each and
coupled together. BY this method the
building was moved III feet the first day,
and the process was repeated day after
day until the new location was reached
Nothing was moved from the hotel. and
when the job was completed everything
was found to be in perfect order. The
building is i0 feet long and 20 feet deep.
nearly the whole extent being three and
four stories in height. There were also
five large towers, six and seven stories
high, and the entire structure weighed
about 500 tons.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

What shall be done with our ex-presl-
den1s?"
This continent has problems enough of
Its own,Y said the statesman. Let Africa
worry about that for a while .''-Washing-
ton Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Dinguss-It's awfully good of you. old
chap, to lend me this FLYER. Some day l
may be able to return the favor.
Shadbolt--Why yes. Dinguss; you'll nave
to return II, you know, II you expect ever
to get another one from me.-Chlcego
Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Professor, what is the meaning OF the
word monoloeue'?"
MY dear sir. consider the derivation Of
it. Mon is slang for money and 1ogos'
means a word Monologue, words for
money. "-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

arsFta 0EO. q. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST daysof March. 1903.
N. p. WALKER,
CSeaD Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

you have been receiving a great many
suggestions from your constituents"
tie weariiy.
And what are your views, ON the tariff?"
NJ views on the tariff change 60 rapidly
that they could only be expressed by a
moving picture film.'-Washington Star,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
Made by THE N. X. FAIRBANK COMPANY
Makers of FAIRY DAP the oval cake. ,,@a
WHITFIELD TO A POINT.

Mrs. shamleigh, has an awful dread of
burglars" .... t-t .sr.
"Why?"
She's afraid they'll break into the house
and find the silver is all plated."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer. tf-s-.-'- -