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Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
Raising a Hullabaloo.

An executive official OF a prominent
railroads, discussing the plan to ad-
vance fares for passengers riding in
Pullman cars, is quoted as saying, "If
the general public does not raise a big
hullabaloo the move for a UNIVERSAL
raise in fares will go through"
Evidently there is something in the
merits of the railroads proposition
which they hesitate to submit to the
arbitrament of the general public. ."
The plan is to raise the fares of per-
sons riding in Pullman cars on the
ground that the railroads are unable
to get enough revenue out of what
they call the best class of passengers
those able to afford Pullman car
service. Not a word is said about any
extra expense or cost of transporting
this class of passengers; 1t is simply
a matter of getting more money out of
them because they are able to pay it.
1t is probable that the general pub
lie will raise the big hullabaloo" and
IL VIII DC lO0B DSlOIS tuC peOpl6 CSdbS
to raise big hullabaloos' on proper
occasion. They have raised some
mighty virtuous "hallabaloos" in late
years. They raised one against the
rebate and 1t was outlawed. They
raised one against the free pass in the
pockets of public servants and it was
taken out. They raised one against
combinations in restraint of trade and
they are rapidly disappearing.
The people of this country owe
much to the railroads and should
never fail to recognize that obligation
and accord the fairest treatment to
these corporations, but that obligation
does not involve unlimited privileges
at the hands of the people and the rail-
roads will be counting trouble that at
tempt to force favors they are not en-
titled to. The people will not keep
quiet, when anything is going on, that
warrants them raising a "big hula
baloo."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
The Pulpit and the Press.

The pastor of one of the strongest
evangelical churches in New York
city advocates divorce in such free
form that it may become automatic
in its operation. He would simply
have the charge substantiated on
which divorce is asked and let the
legal separation follow as a natural
consequence.
II any newspaper in the land of the
relative prominence Of this preacher
were to come out with such a eulogy
OF divorce it would be pilloried in the
pulpit. II would be denounced from
one end OF the land to the other for
striking a blow at the family altar. for
degrading the standard OF moral life
for inviting and encouraging a spirit
OF contempt for the sacred estate OF
matrimony and sowing seeds OF social
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
Almost Funny.

The desperate efforts which Con-
man Hitchcock is putting forth to
make people believe that he is entitled
to chief credit for the enactment Of
the postal savings bank bill by re-
publican congress are almost funny.
He uses up large part of the front
page of his newspaper to tell that the
proposal of the postal savings bank
was regarded as a joke when\ he first
presented it to congress, and how he
stuck to it and won out"
But people who know anything
know that the postal savings bank has
been advocated and recommended by
postmasters general long before Mr..
Hitchcock ever dreamed of renouncing
republicanism and becoming a demo-
crat. They know that even here in
Omaha it's pioneer champion was Ed
ward Rosewater and The Bee, who
created an irresistible public sentiment
for postal savings, to get the benefit of
which Mr.. Hitchcock took it up.
Most ludicrous or all, however, is
the fact that after running four times
on that issue aud introducing several
foredoomed bills on the subject, Con-
gresham Hitchcock in his last cam
paign completely abandoned the child
and embraced deposit guaranty in its
stead. Postal savings was shelved
while he disported himself in public
debate in championship of insured
private banks. Instead of sticking
to it," our valiant congressman
flunked at the crucial moment to fol-
low another flag, and, having lost out
wants us all to shut our eyes while he
has the charge of desertion expunged
from the record.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
Talks for people who sell things

The person who passes your shop win
dow is going somewhere He is on some
other errand. II you want to catch him
when he is not in hurry put your shop
window in the newspaper: a few articles
at a time. You can make that 10000 people
look at this kind of a window every day
and with much better selling results than
If that 100000 walked by your shop one
by one.
There is a retail store in one OF our
large cities, branch of an English house,
which until the autumn of 1906 was man
aged by an Engllshman; austere, conser-
vative, dignified; a man who would have
been shocked to see his shop advertised
in an American newspaper. He had an
exclusive trade and his net profits
amounted to about $4,000 year. This
Englishman died His assistant, an ag-
gressve young American, took charge He
advertised; advertised continuously in the
best local newspaper. Last year this ex-
elusive shop made a net profit of over
$4,000. Why2 Simply because there are
SOC, 900 well-to-do people in that city who
never knew that this shop existed until
they saw those advertisements in the
newspaper; and the shop has an excellent
street location, too.
This is a true case. The Englishman
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
Our Birthday Book
russday, june a, 1910.

Robert M. La Toilette, United States SEN
ator from Wisconsin was born June IA,
1856. at Primrose. Wisconsin. He is a
lawyer by profession, but is more widely
known as a politician and chautauqua lee
turer. He is the most radical Of the in
surgents at Washington.
Rev. NJ. p. Bowling, former president of
Creighton university, is celebrating his
fifty-ninth birthday today. He was born
in Cincinnati, and was educated in St.
Xavier college and st. Stanislaus seminary
and ordained priest In 1881, since which
time he has been engaged in collegiate and
parish work. He is now In Kansas City.
DR.. b. b, Davis, surgeon officing in the
Bee building. was born June II, 1850, in
Fayette, Wis. He achieved a high rsputa-
ton as a railway surgeon at McCook be-
fore locating In Omaha. where he has since
had remarkable success
Charles ]. Magill, jr., paying teller In
the money order department at the post
office. is 80. He was borne in Baltimore,
and went into the postoffice in Washington
in 1880, and has been president OF the
Omaha Postoffiee Clerks association.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
SEEING OMAHA.

Alliance Herald; Omaha got soaked good
and plenty on tho purchase OF the water
works from the Omaha Water works com
pany.
Wood River Sunbeam: with the Omaha
politicians afraid OF Shallenbergers in
fluence and the Lincoln manipulators
jealous OF Dahlmans popularity in Omaha,
Grand Island secured the democratic state
convention.
Beatrice SUM The United States SUI
preme court has decided that the city of
Omaha must pay S6,25O,OO0 for the water
company's plant. The people are strong
for municipal ownership, but they hest
tated at the price.
O'Neill Frontier: Omaha will have to
pay little over S6OO0,OOO for the water
works. II they were investing this amount
In beer some of the Omaha citizens would
not think this decision of the supreme
court such a hardship.
O'Neill Independent: There is q little
sheet printed in Omaha that goes by the
name OF Mediator that says we must
have Dahlman for governor Of Nebraska
We are thankful that the Mediator is the
only paper in the state that seems TO
think the same thing. Dahlman belongs
to Omaha and we are not going to rob the
people Of that city in any such a way.
Hastings Tribune: Frank Erdman, who
is held in Omaha for trying to blow Tom
Denpison higher than Gilroys kite, thinks
1t is a pretty good Joke that the anti
saloon persons paid him a good salary to
become detective, when he was an es-
capped convict and detectives were sup
posed to be hunting him. Erdman APP
peared in Hastings for the anti-saloon
leaguers and succeeded only in making a
monkey Of himself and those he was work.
ing for.
Beatrice Express: Nebraska cities have
caught the Improvement fever in a man.
ner that is accomplishing results. Beatrice
has voted bonds for better water and
lights, Norfolk for street paving, Kearney
for the purchase of IT'S water works sys-
tenn, Nebraska City for new high school,
and a large number of smaller cities have
voted to have new high schools, water
sewer systems, lighting plants, etc. Lin
coin and Omaha both have park bond cleo
tions in prospect, aud all over the state
the demand for improvements goes on.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
Flags Birthday
Poetic tributes to the stars and
Stripes, Formally Adopted 6s.n-
dred and Thirty-Three Years ESQ
.Life De q nnnner.,

Lift We a banner; and bare the head and
JOY in each curving fold,
Watching the blue and the white and red
all honest and brave and bold
Knowing the faith OF the noble dead who
gave us this flag to hold.
1t is pillar OF cloud by day and pillar OF
fire by night;
Catching the CLEAN of the suns first ray,
full glorious in the light;
Guiding the nation along It's way-the red
and the blue and white.
Knowing the blessings Of hope and peace
for aye in its strands are stored
Winding the way that II gave release to
war guns that blared and reared,
knowing the bugles will never cease to
sing with the ringing sword;
Knowing there never may be a spot on
stripe or on blazing star
Lest from the throat there will chorus hot
the shout that will sweep afar-
Knowing IL is but the living thought of all
that we were and are,
Honor the white and the blue and red-the
white Is the purpose pure,
The red Is the blood that was freely shed
that ever we might endure,
The blue is the heaven which overhead
smiles down on the conscience sure.
Lift We a banner and wave it high, and give
II the homage due!
Hold 1t a BENSON In the sky-a blessing for
Lift We a banner that will not die-the red
and the white and bluel
I-WILBUR d. NESBIT.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
NO HOPE OF A RAISE.
Unvarying Wage of the "HumbIe
Pullman Car Porter"


Unvarying Wage of the "HumbIe
Pullman Car POrter."
New York Post.
There is one class of railroad employees
whose wages are never raised-the humble
Pullman car porter. Prices may rise and
the cost of living go up by leaps and
bounds, yet no one ever suggests an in
crease Of the less than 81 a day wage
these men receive. True they are given
tips, and the comic weekes are always
having their fling at the millionaire porter
Nothing could be a bltterer jest--for the
porter. Tips fall off or decrease as rail-
road rates go up with other expenses. on
some runs man can make little; on
others the physical hardships are very
great, involving days of hard work and
nights of little sleep and much discomfort
The Pullman company makes millions
such enormous profits that the Interstate
Commerce commission has ordered reduc-
ton of rates for upper berths-but 1t stin
charges against the porters pay all loss
and breakage. If a passenger steals
towel or hair brush, the porter must pay
for 1t; no excuse is accepted. The car
company also encourages the tipping idea,
so that 1t may shift part, perhaps half
Of its wage burden upon the travelling pub
lie Long and faithful service, devotion to
the company's interest all count for moth
ing. The best porter in the country can
not hope to be a Pullman conductor, be-
cause of his color. The vast majority of
porters, be 1t noted, are honest, obliging
and well-behaved; cases of dishonesty or
fragrant misbehavior are extremely rare.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
May a Prosperity Marker.

May, the eleventh month in the fis-
cal year Of the federal government,
was high water mark in business.
Fewer commercial failures were re-
corded during the month than in any
May since 1905 and fewer than in
May in the last ten years, save 1905,
1902 and 1901. 1t marks a steady in
crease in all lines of trade for the
year and gives bright promise for the
commercial prosperity of the fiscal
year beginning July /.
Business disasters in May the coun-
try over numbered 218 and aggre-
gated in liabilities $3,677,256, con-
trasting with 231 failures and $7,156,-
lao for May in 1909 and 345 and
$6,98S,9S8 in May for 1908. The
high levels are shared in by both trade
and manufacture, though brokerage
shows increases in liabilities, due,
however, to a single collapse.
This excellent showing in commerce,
coupled with the encouraging crop
outlook, is having strong influence
toward stimulating certain stocks that
were inclined to yield to outside pres
sure, but what has also contributed
vitality to business confidence is the
wise disposition the president made of
the railroad rate controversy, reaching
an agreement eminently satisfactory
to the shippers and at the same time
Measuring to the railroads.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
IN SCHOOL DAY

John Greenleaf Whittier
Still sits the schoolhouse oy the road
A ragged beggar summing;
Around Il still the sumacns grow,
And blackberry vines are running.
Within the masters desk is seen
Deep Scared by raps official;
The Wrapping floor, the battered seats,
The Jackknife's carved initial.
The charcoal frescoes on its wall;
Its doors worn sill, betraying
The feet that, creeping slow to school,
Went storming out TO playingt
Long years ago a winter sun
Shone over IL at setting;
Lit up its western window panes,
And low-eaVes icy fretting.
1t touched the tangled golden curlA
And brown eyes full of grieving
OF one who still her steps delayed
When all the school was leaving.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled;
His cap pulled low upon face
Where pride and shame were mingled
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and left he fingered
AS restlessly her tiny hands
The blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hands light caressing,
And heard the tremble of her voice,
AS IL fault confessing.
I'm sorry that 1 spelt the word;
1 hate to go above you,
Because"-the brown eyes lower fell
Because you see love you!
Still memory to gray-haired man
That sweet child-face is showing.
Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing
He lives to learn, In life's hard school
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss,
Like her-beUause they love him.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
The Name of old Glory.

l.
Old Glory! say who,
BY the ships and the crew,
And the long blended ranks of the gray
Who gave you, Old Glory, the name that
With such pride everywhere
AS you cast yourself free to the rapNI
turous air
Who gave you that name, with the ring
of the same,
Your stripes stroked in rlpples of white and
of red
With your stars at their ghterihs pest
overhead
BY day or by night.
Their deightfulest light
Laughing down from their little square
Who gave you the name of Old GloryT-
say, who
Who gave you the name of Old Glory?
The old banner lifted, and falterlng then
In vague lisps and whispers fell silent
again.
old Glory-speak outl-we are asking about
How you happened to favor" a name so
That Sounds so familiar and careless and
AS we cheer it and shout in our wild
we-the crowd, every man of us, calling
We-Tom' Dick and Harry-each swinging
And hurrahing "old Gloryr' like you were
WhenNLordi I'VE all know we're as COM
And Vet il lust seems like you humor US all
And watt us your thanks, as we hail you
Into line, with you over US. waving us on
Where our glorified, sanctified betters have
| gone
And this is the reason we're wanting to
CAnd we're wahting it SOL
Where our own fathers went we are willing
Who gave you the name of Old Glory-o-
who gave you the name of Old Glory?
The old flag unfurled with a biIlowy thrill
For an instant, then wistfully sighed and
was still. ~
Old Glory; the story we're wanting to hear
| Is what the plain facts Of your christening
For Your name-just to hear Il,
Repeat 1t. and cheer It, s tang 10 the
As salt as a tear:-
And Seeing you fly, and the boys marching
There's shout in the throat and blur in
And an aching to live for you always-Or
II. dying, we stil keep you waving on high.
And so, by our love
For you, floating above, -
Who gave You the name of old Glory. and
Are we thrilled at the name of Old
Glory?
Then the old banner leaped, like sail in
the blast
And fiuttered an audible answer at last.
/ Nv.
And It spalSe, with shake Of the voice, and
Il said
BY the driven snow-white and the living
blood-red
OF my bars and their heaven Of stars over
BY the symbol Sonjoined Of them ALL sky
ward cast
As float from the steeple. or flap at thu
| mast,
or droop DER the sod where the lonl
grasses nod
, My name is as old as the glory OF God.
SO l came by the name OF Old Glory.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
SMILING REMARKS.

Hes quite an actor he assures ine.
well, / wouldn't so so far as to cuntirm
the statement. / do know, however thal
he was offered the role Of the mhkmans
pump i'm the burlesquc OF 'Chantecltl.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
How did Il happen colonel" asked one
OF his countrymen who CHANGED TO be over
there. that you didn't say anything about
the poet laureate's last ode?'
"Gadzooksl" exclaimed the colonel, smit-
ing his brow. II forgot thati Cur-r-rseS ON
my wretched memory"
First Maid-Ny master is the contrariest
OF men.
Second Ditto-IIow do YOU mean?
First Maid-The other day he came home
you think he did,
Second Ditto-What did he dor
First Maid-GaVe her a dressing down.
Baltimore American
"Hows this?" asked Binks reading
from the 10-cents-a-line advertising col
Inns of the Newspaper:
"A stout German lady wants washing
at home Judge.
"she is noted for her social lemonade"
whats that?'
Saving sour things in sweet way
Cleveland Leader.
Marion--I wouldn't care to have a two
dollar graduating gown,
Dorothy-But it might get you a husband.
Marion-Well, I'd hate to have TO dress
the rest OF my life on precedent like that.
In his haste to field a grounder the short
stop accidentally swallowed his qud OF to-
Then he gave the captain the grand hall
ing sign of distress and feebly chased him
self to the club house.
Talk about your inside base ball!' he
grOaned-ChicagO Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
Ingenuity in HoIdup.
Chicago Tribune

In his effort to justify his increase Of
suburban passenger rates on the New York
and New Haven road, Mr.. Mellen has
achieved a feat in engineering which is
worthy to be mentioned among the marvels
of the century. Without notifying or dis
turbing or even attracting the attention Of
the Inhabitants, he has moved several
Connecticut suburbs OF New York from one
to three miles farther away from the me-
trOpolis than they were before. II they do
not believe it they may look at Mr.. Mel
lens new time tables. For ingenuity in
holdup Mr.. Mellen has the record.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
Not the Right One to Complain.

While it does not devolve upon The
Bee to speak for the Associated Press,
we feel free to advert to complaint
voiced by Mr.. Bryan's Commoner,
which in it's last issue says:
The Associated Press does not appear to
be in love with the insurgent cause. 1t is
not easy for the Associated Press to con-
ceal its feelings, particularly in a political
crisis.
Many people have had reason to
complain of the Associated Press for
it's palpable favoritism to Mr.. Bryan,
who has had more free publicity
through it's channels to which he was
not entitled than any person who has
ever figured in our public life. If the
Associated Press has shown any dis
position to suppress news of insur-
gency 1t has not been visible to the
naked eye. At any rate, we have
heard no complaints from the insur-
gents. After each campaign in which
Mr. Bryan has run for the presidency
he has, of his own accord, by letter
expressed appreciation of the consid-
crate treatment he has had from the
Associated Press, and between times
in his capacity of private citizen he
has never had any trouble to break
into print, whether the Associated
Press was in "love" with his cause OF
not. If there were any symptoms OF
bias in the Associated Press reports
for or against the insurgent cause Mr.
Bryan would not be the right one to
complain.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14

The best papers of the south are
strong in denouncing the peanut poll
tics recently played by certain demo-
Gratis in congress who attempted to cut
off the appropriation for the presi-
dents travelling expenses. The At
lanta Georgian, in the course of an
editorial, says: Wherever the vel
vet conditions of the old south are
still held in respect by the present
generation of southerners the action
will be universally and sincerely de-
plored."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14

depended upon the quality of his goods and
his beautifully crested stattobefys and his
attractive shop window and his perpen-
dicular-backed dress-parade clerks: all OF
which were above criticism. The young
American put the whole show into the
newspaper; admission free.
Name ten shops which advertise regularly
in a daily newspaper and I will show
you nine that are making money. Tn,
failure of the tenth is probably due t,
bad management of some sort.
Some people value goods by the price
they pay; others by the shop In which they
buy; others by the effect the goods have
upon their neighbors. 1t is only the com.
mon work-a-day sensible people who value
goods by the goods. If you want all four
classes as customers it is your business
as an advertiser to make the cap fit I
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
snIutinG the Flag.

thC II
Here is my love to you, flag Of the free,
and flag of the tried and true,
Here is my love to your streaming stripes,
and your stars In field of blue!
Here Is my love to your silken folds wher-
ever they wave on high,
For you are the flag of a land for which
I were sweet for a man to die!
Native or foreign are all as one when
cometh the day of strife,
What is the dearest gift ye can give for the
flag but human life?
Native or foreign are all the same when
the hearts blood reddens the earth,
And native or foreign, tbs love like this is
the ultimate test of our worth.
Native or immigrant-here is the task to
which we must summon our powers;
Ever upsullied to keep the flag In peace as
in wars wild hours.
SelfiShness, -narroWneSs, graft, ana greco,
and the evil that hates the light,
All these are foes of the flag today, all
these we must face and fight.
Symbol of hope to me and to mine, and to
all who aspire to be free!
Ever your golden stars may shine from the
east to the western seal
Ever your golden stars may shine, and ever
your stripes may CLEAN
To lead us on from the deeds we do to the
greater deeds that we dream!
Here is our love to you, flag of the free,
and flag of the tried and true;
Here is our love to your streaming stripes,
and your stars in field of blue!
Native or foreign, we're children all OF the
land over which you fly
And native or foreign, we love the land Tor
which it were sweet to die!
DENIS A. MCCARTHY.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14

Just to show that the thing is posi-
BILE, Oklahoma has inaugurated the in
itiative and referendum by removing
is state capital from Guthrie to Ok
lahoma City. Let the people rule!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
Degeneracy OF the Jackpot.

ENNNWWEH AIENETuINNTIs
1t Is urgently set forth that gross in
justice Is done the respectable Illinois leg
islators In calling that fund from which
they obtained their respective shares a
Jackpot" jackpot is a feature of the
great American gambling game, while this
pool was a sure thing. On the other hand,
there may be those who think the injus-
tice is to the jackpot.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14

II it will make Mayor "Jim" feel
any better he should know that Mas
sachusetts has a state law limiting the
height of buildings to 1875 feet We
are not advised whether the Massachu-
sets law establishes a minimum limit
as we'll
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14
FriEhts of Future wars.

bdIIIIHOTe AIltTICdn.
Now it is claimed the future battles of
the nations will be fought in the air. In
this case cyclone cellars will be among
the modern improvements for every house
on the face of the earth where living will
become more or less an uncertainty for
ZOE combatants
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-14

II Reformer Elmer Thomas does not
Dome to the front soon For his old pal,
Convict Erdman may himself be
tempted to say something about "the
Sting Of ingratitude."