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Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
WHAT INsuRenNoY MEANS.
~ Means A%nythins, ~ Means
Lower Prices"

III II me@MN AMNNnAMAs ~ MNNA
Lower Prices."
Des Moines Capital (rep.).
It Is passing strange that political in
surgency has It's home in the farming
states Of the middle west. It Is strange
that the howl does not come up from
New England and the east The prod
ucts of the farming states are sold to
the people Of the manufacturing states.
Ths people In the manufacturing states
are not insurging.
But In the west, where the farmer Is
selling his hogs for 50 a hundred, we
are asked to rally our politics under the
%insurgent banner. The i%nsurgent banner
IL II menas anythlng-means lower prices.
The farmers OF lowe are selling every
thing from an eRg TO a horse at such
prices as they never dreamed OF before.
Yet we are asked to tear everything up.
Congressman Tawney of Minnesota re-
letes that In North Dakota a farmer In
quired tire price of linseed oil. The mer-
chant told him s. cents per gallon. The
farmer bore the name Of Johnson, which
Is a strictly North Dakota name. When
told the price OF linseed oil, Johnson's
head, figuratively, struck the ceiling and
he swore he wouldn't buy a nickels
worth OF linseed OIL to oblige any trust
Tluueu C0hiAlIg hhb NhlSs ntu JOllboU
commenced on the Taft administration.
When he had subsidized the merchant asked
him II he didn't sell 5000 bushels Of flax
| seed a couple OF weeks before at A.S5 a
bushel, and that IL he had It now he could
get S2.15 per bushel. johnson admitted
that these were facts. Then said the mer-
chant: Don't you know that linseed oil
is made out of flaxseed?' Johnson hest
tatod a moment and said; "Give me a bar
rel Of linseed OIL" He had not stopped to
reflect tina he could not sell flaxseed for
S1.s5 a bushei without any hope Of buying
linseed Oil at a low price. So It goes.
Thousands of men who are getting tremen-
dous prices for their own products are dis
satisfied when they buy somebody else's
product.
In the middle west men have grown rich
on the farms. Their acres have advanced
In price. In Minnesota and the Dakotas
individuals and syndicates have made mil
lions in the purchase and sale of and on
account Of the high price Of crops. Yet
these very people are expected to lnsurge
and to denounce Taft and demand a pollt-
ical revolution.
II tine insurgents have any purpose what
ever, that purpose is to bring cheaper
prices. Cheaper prices would mean in the
middle west cheaper farm lands. To many
men It would mean bankruptcy.
The course of the insurgents at Wash
ington is a danger signal to business. 1t Is
a note of warning for those who borrow
with which to make big Improvements, 1t
is notice to those who are contemplating
big irrigation projects to suspend opera
tions until the ultimate facts are known.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
PERSONAL NOTES.

The assimilation by Dan Cupid Of choice
assortments Of the Gould and Drexel mill
lions evokes patriotic satisfaction at home
and much grief to titled stcerers abroad.
The Charleston News and Courier utteru
a painful lament over the spectacle of
women going from door to door soliciting
means with which to build q monument to
General Wade Hampton.
Public contractors OF Chicago threaten
to make horrible examples OF several
members OF the union. The scale fixes 20
per cent Of a Job for graft, while the
whole porkers scooped in Go per cent.
A remarkable case OF patriotic zeal OF
members OF tho Manufacturers association
OF Brooklyn In striving 60 capture the
villainous cells which interfere with the
steady work OF their water meters.
A California doctor deals the meat boy
colt a solar plexus by declaring that two
pounds Of p%orterhouse steak. cooked rare
and eaten every day, will chase away the
worst case OF that ever caught
on.
Richard Harding Davis and Howard
Chanler Clrlsty are having trouble with
the better halves OF their households and
proceedings for divorce are threatened.
a Nv hobhiN VI ~ NIOuuit HHTkb Ddck 10
the inability OF arts votearies to stand
hitched.
President Taft has reappointed Bill Sc
wall. President Roosevelt's friend and pro-
tege. collector of customs in the district OF
Aroostook. Ms. and Bill will continue his
gumshoeirg after Illegal liquor sellers on
the border line between Maine and New
Brunswick.
Nora Williams, nurse TO the Rockefeller
family for two generations. died in Cleve-
land. at the age OF 1S years. according
to records In her possession. Nora, who
came from wales when she was l6 years
old, FIRST entered the services Of tn Rookie
fellers when John d.. Rockefeller, jr., was
a baby.
In his preliminary battle against the
federal banking law in New York, the
former copper king Of Butte, r. Augustus
Heinze, thinks he has smashed a cog in
the federal machine. His lawyers called
the attention Of the court to the presence
of the government expert accountant as
cross-examiner before the grand Jury
which found the indictment, and the I'M
usual procedure so impressed the court
that the case was adjourned for a week.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
WHAT AN OLD MAN SAID.

John d. Wells in Buffalo News.
Amt 1t funny how we go
Dreamin' on thue life, an so
Keerless of the time that flies
Right afOre u Very eyesl
Love an JOY blind u sight
TO the fleetin' minits' flight
,T%eli Ike spsdnthrift boys we say
"Jest a dayP' an we p'tend
Days are neVer-Eoin' L end
Brimmin' happy days like these,
With the green In all the trees
Days with nary cloud or frown,
Only love an life aroun',
An a thousand Joys that line
This ere path OF yours an mine.
Keerlessly we pass where walt
Childrun at the pasture gate
Wayin' at us lhappylike,
Whilst the dancin' sunbeams strike
Golden curls an make EN- more
Golden than they was beforel
Seems we never re'lize then
We can't see 'em young again.
o how light we bear our load
o how sweet the friendly road
Wendin' In an out an thue
Fields OF green an dancin' devil
Seems 10 us the way Is Jes'
Endless miles Of happiness
Easy, too, to Jes' p'tend
That It's never goin' L End
Yet. afore we know we will
Come 10 where the world Is still
Nary a soundl--an' then we find
Love and all Is left behind
Where the brighter fancies grow
In the fields OF Youth, an know
we have reached the end OF the Road
Fore we rally thought--or knowe~
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Again the Brutal Truth.

The fight today is not a mere fight over
a czar in the house or a boss in the senate,
or this policy and that. To fight to the
end for the democratic principle requires
men who are real ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
through and through. The fight can never
be won under the leadership OF men, how-
ever honest, who are tainted with the es-
septial fallacies on which the republican
porty Is builded.-World-Herald
Again the brutal truth.
So-called insurgent republicans are
herewith given a second notice from
the local democratic organ, which pro-
fesses to speak by the card for the
Bryan end of the democratic party,
that no matter how far they may go in
antagoniEing President Taft, or oppos-
ing his legislative program, they need
expect nothing from the democratic
side, because only Through and
through democrats" are entitled to
leadership in the assault on the repub-
lican ramparts. According to the
World Herald, insurgent republicans,
however honest Inc sincere, must al
ways occupy the ear seats, while
blown-in-the-bottle democrats enjoy the
privileges Of the front row.
1t is becoming palmer and palmer
that whatever differences may exist
within the republican party they are
not to be settled merely by turning the
government over to democratic control.
The republican party is builded upon
long-established and oft-vindicated
truths. while the democratic party still
clings to certain ~discredited and Oft
disproyed ~fallacies. 1t is good political
tactics for the democrats TO do all they
can to split the different elements OF
the republicans away from one another
so that they may have an easier fight
against a divided opposition. But the
people who have steadtastly proclaimed
a preference for republican principles
as against democratic fallacies are. in
our judgment, not to be 30 easily
fooled. They will see through the
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Long-nistance HoIdup.
Boston, Transcript

The attempt OF the government of Greece
to COLLECT "a te< OF $12 a year on every
Greek resfdeht OF this country is at once
so preposterous that the protests coming
from thousands Of them are not surpris-
ing. Th9sthreat to bar all those who refuse
from returning to their country is little
short Of barbarity. 1t is IN attempt that
cannot be enforced. II those who refuse to
pay are to be thus penalized, their remedy
is to become American citizens, when pass
ports could hardly be refused g with
out our government asking why.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Washlngton q

This prophet enjoys honor in his
country. To, meet the wishes Of Mr.. Bryan,
the governor of Nebraska, who is his
friend and follower, will call the legislature
together in extra session to pass upon the
proposition of the initiative and referen-
dun. The proposition is described by many
democrats and republicans as populistic,
but It is no more so than other propositions
for which Mr.. Bryan stands. Besides, as
there are seventeen kinds of democrats, and
an increasing variety Of republicans, what
is a little popullsm among those cropping for
the light and right?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Fragmentary news reports of
speeches sometimes overlook the full
significance of important u~tterances,
and It Is not surprising to find, from a
fuller reading of an address by Presi-
dent Schurman of Cornell, that his at
titude toward languages in universities
has not been fully understood. The
modern languages he holds to be in
feFior to Greek or Latin, when consid-
cred simply as linguistic drill, but he
explains that ut seems to me that the
best hope of the modern languages is
to be based on their efficiency as in
struments of liberal culture" He
adds that the boy who can read with
facility German or Italian has a litera-
ture revealed to him quite as fine as
the Latin and not much inferior to the
Greek. In this light President Schur-
man does not appear at all the foe Of
languages, and 1t is manifest that he
has faith in the value of linguistic ac-
complishment for whoever fully mas
tiers a tongue and properly applies 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

The Lincoln Star likens the insur-
gent movement, which 1t and it's
friends have started at Lincoln, to the
smallpox. Most people, however,
would prefer to avoid the smallpox, or
at my rate not to go more than half
way TO meet Il.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
WEATHER BUREAU AND FORESTS
An Assertion as Large as a Prophecy
Dissected.


An Assertion as Large as a Prophecy
Dissected.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
A new factor in the conservation dis
pute, so far as this relates to the pre-
servAtion OF the forests, is furnished BY
Chief Willis L.. Moore of the weather bu-
reau. In an official report Mr.. Moore de-
clares that the maintenance or the destruc-
ton OF vast wooded areas has no appre-
ciable effect in producing either drouth
or floods. He proclaims his conviction,
as the result OF inquiries by the govern
ment service Of which he is the head, that
both excessive and deficient periods Of
rainfall are due 10 climatic causes having
no direct relation to the extent OF the
country's forests.
These views are at variance with those
expressed by most of the forestry experts
OF the United States. 1t is only fair TO
say. however. that the question is one
upon which there is by no means a unan-
unity Of scientific opinion. 1t is entirely
possible that enthusiastic champions OF
forest conservation rave been led by their
zeal into making assertions in this respect
that are not borne out by the facts.
Nevertheless. whatever fallacies may ex-
list In theories regarding the influence OF
forests over rainfall, It Is a matter Of
practical observation that the moisture In
the soil Of heavily wooded regions. whether
this comes from rain or from the melting
OF SHOWS. is released much more slowly
than In the open, treeless country. In for
ests there Is a dense carpet, partly COM
posed Of a strata Of decayed leaves and
of MOSES, which has a tendency to abb
sorb water like a sponge and materially
restricts its flood down me hilisldes. This
Is susceptible OF demonstration. and no
pronouncements by the head OF the weather
bureau can affect y
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Ex-Governor Larrabee Of Iowa de-
that it would not be strange If
the democrats controlled the next
house of representatives. During the
last campaign William Jennings Bryan
insisted that it would not be strange II
the democrats controlled the present
Of representatives.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

trick by which the democrats hope to
use the insurgents to annul the com
mission which was voted to President
Taft and the republican party to
administer the government and
strengthen the republican policies
%inaugurated by Mckinley and Roose-
Welt
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
shoe Leathery Comfort.

1t Is comforting to have the wholesale
shoe dealers tell us that, although the price
of shoes is going to be advanced, the new
prices will be so adjusted as ito permit
the addition to each grade of such value
az will compensate the wearer for Increased
cost" Still there are some who would be.
willing to get along without the improve
ments md have the price remain the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Is the world-Herald's beiated pre-
nouncement against the proposed extra
session OF the legislature inspired by a
tip from washington. where its con-
gressman-edit has been controlling
with Governor shallenbergerH II so.
there wiIii be no extra session. whether
a majority OF the democratic members
Of thef legislature petition to be put
back on the payroll OF not.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

The newly appointed chief forester is
committed to carry out the Roosevelt
conservation policy along the same
lines as his immediate predecessor. But
it. is no part Of that policy to write
letters to be read on the floor of the
senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Going some.

Philadelphia Record.
Gentle reader, is 1t not calculated to take
ones breath away to pick up the daily
and find the sudden announce
ment tina the stockholders Of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad company have voted to in
crease at one clip the bonded Indebtedness
of that corporation SIZE, 100000? Eleven sub
sidiarS lines are to be bought with the pro-
ceeds. Surely the NJ. P. is a going con-
carn.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

. ~Merciless Massachusetts! It's new
law provides jail sentences for reckless
and drunken chauffeurs, also for those
too youthful or incompetent. What
invasion of the rights commonly
tolerated in all growing communities!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Officers Of the Postal Telegraph
company vehemently deny that It is in
the big telegraph combine. senders Of
telegraph messages observe, however,
hat the rate charged by the Postal is
still in each case identical with the
rate charged by the Western Union.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Referring to what 1t calls "Aldrich-
ism and %Cannonism,' MIR. Bryan's Com
moner declares, that "the foul blight
OF these mighty evils has fallen upon
some who claim to be democrats, as
well as on some who claim to be re
publicans." Who would have thought
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
One Assertion Worth Noting.
CO To,,t. Don,,hIio

u LUH9 ANOPUUHO'
At the outset Of an inquiry into high
prices one fact may be set down for GER
tain. 1t is that the sustained high prices
for wheat. corn and live stock on the hoof
are not due to speculative manipulation OF
the markets The Specializing manipulation
makes his money only by running prices
away down while he is buying and away
up when he is ready to sell.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Amy nan objecting to HIS wife's
gadding about may now expect to
nave Haunted in his face the decree
Of the feminine professor OF house
hold administration at the University
of Chicago. towit, that woman is not
to stay at home except at such times
as she wishes.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Premature Plea of Innocence,

IuIIIIIIUIU III ICuIs
The sugar trust issued a statement that
executive officer or director OF the COM
pany had any knowledge Of the frauds
committed against the government. The
Of the company, who signed this
is now under indictment in the
case. Evidently, the Anan.as club retired
from active business too soon.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Pity the Poor COnEressman.
Minneanalia Journal

Members of congress are complaining
ferventiy that the new salary Of 1880 does
not go so far as the annual payment Of
5000 they formerly received from the fed
eral treasury. twenty dollars a day isn't
much when you consider the grocery bill,
but large numbers OF valuable Americans
seem to get through on less.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Inventor Edison is said to be solving
the problem of the high price Of living
by a scheme to eliminate some Of the
middle men. Good. But how is this
TO help feed the mouths OF those who
are thus displaced.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

1t is to be hoped no serious results
will attend the %wounding of Tom Tag
CART. While not a good ~marksmah, he
Is always a lively addition to the po-
litical hunting parties.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

That P%ittsburg opinion that the real
cause lof high prices Is whisky makes
one wonder IL in defining that COM
modify Mr.. Taft did not overlook the
opportunity to apply General sher-
mans definition of war.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

A Berlin actress Of unfamiliar name
to Americans has beaten up her critics
with her fists. which goes to show
that press agent arts are universal.
Also, It may be she is training for a
United States tour.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

The Eiffei tower which again fig
ures in the news. used to be n Of the
wonders Of the world, but it has been
outclassed more than nee by the new
skyscrapers. " 49,.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Just because the last and worst
wreck has occurred on a Canadian rail-
road Is stu no reason why efforts
should be relaxed to make travel safer
on railroads in this country, whose
accident record beats the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Emperor William must be getting
some satisfaction out Of merely watch
ing the British parliamentary elections
and learning that his British cousins
can work themselves up into a fury
over something that does not bear the
German label.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Polite Reminder.
Washington Herald.

Japan is credited with a determination
to intimate to the United states that rail-
way building in Manchuria Is none Of I'm
Gle Sans particular business. This, more
over. will tend. to confirm a suspicion more
or less rampant in the minds Of not a few
Americans,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

The story about the Pacific Express
making way on the Union Pacific for
the American Express does not sound
very convincing so long as IT is known
that two-nfths OF the stock certificates
of the Pacific Express are reposing
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Dean Williams of the University of
Missouri School of Journalism lauds
Moses as the hrst great editor, Well,
he never bad to handle the congress
sional reports.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

st. Louis Globe Democrat,

81, LOUIS HIoDe-DeIHUCIdI
Thirty bankeS convicted of crime In
connection with their business are In the
L-eavenworth prison. The men higher up
in the financial world who have offended
the laws have not escaped the penalty to
the extent they expected.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Same Feeling E~Isewhere.
Pittsburg Dispatch

Those superstitious orientals are prob
ably not the only ones who regard the
burning of the sultan's SIC, OO0,0O0 residence
as an evil omen. The fire insurance COM
panies have much the same sentiment
toward such occurrences.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Our Birthday Book
"A, 1910.

This is the birthday OF Joseph II. Choate,
distinguished lawyer and diplomatlst, who
served as our ambassador at the court OF
ST. James. Mr.. Choate was born January
"a. 1882. at Salem, Mass, famed as the home
Of witchcrafs, and is still hale and hearty
to start his seventy-nlnth year,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
Can Roo.evelt Refuse .
washington Herald.

Prof. Jack johnson advances a stirring
plea for Mr.. Roosevelt as referee of Prof.
Johnson's forthcoming argument with Prof.
Jeffries. An acceptance would involve an
immense sharp revision upward Of moving
picture concessions and things.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Governor Shallenberger should soon
relieve the tension by letting us all
know whether he is going to call the
legislature in special session or not.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

The Omaha Ministerial union is fig
uring on a "go-to-church9 campaign.
Get up an attractive program and ad-
vertise 1t in The Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Don't you believe" queried the fair
advocate of woman's rights, that men live
faster than women7"
II sure do replied the mere man.
was just ten months older than my wife
when we married; now 1 am ~ and she
was 80 last week."-Chicago News,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

The sudden popularity OF the gyro-
o will hardly displace the pegtop
when the first warm days come and
there is visible enough mud to scratch
a ring.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

STATEMENT or CIRCULATION.
State % Nebraska. Douglas County, IS:
George u. TNschUck. treasurer Of The
Bee Publishing Company. being duly
sworn. says that tho actual number Of full
and complete copies of The Daily, Morn
ing. Evening and SUNDAY Bee printed dur
ing the month of December. 1903. was as
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Incidentally and Internationally
President Taft has given Senator TILL
mar another boost as a chautauqua
lecturer.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porarily should have The bee
mailed to them. Address Will be
changed as often ms requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Edgar Howard is shouting for an
extra session of the legislature. That
ought to settle 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Another prosperity straw FIRE.
mont man swindled out of $4,000 of
real money.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

1t looks as If this meat boycott
would be nuts for the hen fruit.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

This talk about a net saving to the
taxpayers by the abolition of the Office
of county comptroller is a nice piece of
word-juggling. The original design of
the lawmakers who created this Office
was to merge with it the office of city
comptroller and have one independent
auditing department for both city and
county governments. Had this plan
been pursued instead or being nulliied
by the late democratic legislature our
taxpayers would have been thousands
of dollars to the good, the work would
have been more effectively performed
and no little duplication OF machinery
between city and county avoided. The
saving by abolishing the office of
county comptroller would have been
more thar onset by the saving through
r of the office OF city comptroller.
The merger scheme ought yet to be put
through as a practical business PROPOSE
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

and why" asked DIR. Watson, ARE you
so sure that the mar is wealthyfr
Because" replied the great deductive de-
tective, The had eggs for breakfast, there
was egg on his whiskers. -Hous Post
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
LAUGHING GAS.

Howard-Bridget, did my wife come IN q
few minutes ago?
Bridget-No, sir. That's the parrot you
heard a-hollerin' .-Harper's Bazaar.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

comfortably in the treasury Of the
Union Pacific.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

b, TISCHUCK. Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence ana sworn to
before me this 31st DAY OF December, 1909,
,e,tt ... w. p, WALkhH.
Notary Pubic.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

she-what do they make in a chatting
dish?
Observation-Disclosures Set.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Have a drink"
Thanks: but 1 belong to an anti-treat
club"
I'm going to have one"
Then take this 10 cents and I'll Join you.
You can get two drinks for IL quarter."-
Washington Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24

Are we slaves, or are we free men7"
Numbered the orator. IT pause for q re-
| ply"
"Some Of us are married." came the an
Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-24
w ashington Life

some interesting Phases
and Conditions Observed
at the Nations Capitol.