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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
Heln to nevelop the west.

One of the contingencies against
which our government must guard in
its system of conserving natural re-
sources is the unnecessary retarding
of western development. Important
as is the conservation work, it is no
more important than the conquest of
the vast unsettled areas still remain
ing in many states of the west. I'M
questionably there is a manifest ten
dency for the government by withhold
ing certain tracts from settlement to
delay the peopling of those tracts and
establishing of new homes. 1t is on
this theory that mountain states are
urging the right to throw open to set
Element agricultural land contained in
forest reserves.
Representative Taylor of Colorado
pointed out in a recent speech in the
house that only per cent of his state
was subject to irrigated cultivation
and that nearly so per cent of it was
actually withheld from settlement.
No argument is required to show the
injustice and. harmful effects of max
ing this condition permanent, not only
to Colorado, but to the entire coun-
try, for the opening up of new terri
tory is matter of national concern.
What is true in Colorado is true in
Wyoming and probably other adjoin-
ing states. This condition imposes a
heavy burden of taxation on that part
of the state subject to colonization,
and on this basis Mr.. Taylor asks con-
gress at least to raise from rs to 35
per cent the amount Of the state
share of the revenue derived from the
government sale of timber and graz
ing lands as means of aiding the
state in meeting the costs of maintain
ing its government, schools and its
roads.
It is worth while noticing here state
ment made by the Colorado represent
alive to the effect that the strongest
opposition to these pleas of the west
comes from those eastern congressman
who know less than anyone else about
conditions in the newer western states
who perhaps have never seen a fores
reserve. 1t opens up to candid con
sideration the suggestion of Speaker
Cannon that in his judgment the gov
eminent could well afford to pay the
expenses of every new member of con
gress to make a tour of the country
SO as to become acquainted with it
resources and needs before taking hi
seat. That the country suffers iron
the lack of practical information
which might be obtained this way Their
can be no doubt.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
PULLMAN WILL FIGHT.
VIII Not Tolerate "A Reduction of the
Upper Story. ..
Washington Herald.

Upper story.
Washington Herald.
Did you fondly imagine, gentle and, per-
haps, unsophisticated reader, when you
read few weeks back that the Pullman
company had been ordered to reduce it's
upper berth rates in certain territory that
it would do IL without struggle? The
odds are heavy that you did Woodworking
the Pullman outfit as you do-and you
were right. 1t is going to resist the, sug-
gestion to the limit of it's resources Why,
If the Pullman company submitted at this
crisis, by and by somebody would be ad-
vancing the idea that it ought to pay
its porters living salaries, instead of look
ing to the public to fee them generously
and handsomely as it travels
The Pullman company knows, as surely
as the travelling public knows, that it is
an outrage to charge the same fare for an
upper berth that it does for a lower. And
as the fare for the lower is, In nine cases
out of ten utterly unreasonable, the fare
for the upper is unspeakably so And yet
the Pullman company is not going to toll
crate the proposal to reduce it's upper
berth fee-not this side of the very ulti-
mate court of resort, at least.
| We can only hope the courts will force
| It to do the right thing. in spite of itself.
| We believe this is a good time to bring
the Pullman company to it's senses, any
way. And we believe, moreover. that il
will be brought This is not a good day
for bad trusts and 1t may not be any too
too good a day for good ones. 1t would
help some to see orc of the worst of the
lot made to behave itself.
And we say this without taking much
stock in corporation batting, either.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
BELLEVUE A CENTENARIAN.
Omaha's Elderly Neighbor Coming
Into the LinheliHht.

Washington Post
1t is an interesting bit of information
that Nebraska contains a town of white
settlement so old that the celebration of
the centennial anniversary of its founding
is at hand. The first white outpost in the
region that Is now commonwealth was
fur-trading station named Bellevue es-
tablished by John Jacob Astor, who was
led into the enterprise that SO vastly in
creased the foundation of his fortune
through the reports Of Lewis and Clarke
following their now historic expedition
across the country, and whose priority of
discovery added vastly to the continental
territory of the United States. He founded
also for the same purpose what is now
the town OF Astoria, Ore, which he in
tended to make the basis of a direct trade
in furs, silk and tea with China.
1t was one of his expeditions, voyaging
up the Missouri river to the present site
OF Omaha, that camped at the present site
OF Bellevue In 1870 The town has re-
manned. 1t was, indeed, the first capital
OF Nebraska. 1t continued to be a trading
post during twenty-five years, until the
failure of the Astoria venture through the
desertion of agents and the hostility of
Indians. It's history goes back to the time
when what is now Nebraska was a part of
the Missouri territory, The occasion would
seem to invite the attendance of some of
the descendants of the original Aston in the
United States. The name Nof the town hap
PLY commentaries his foresight, and is
borne by one of the modern hostelries that
have added to the cosmopolitan luxuries
of the east. The anniversary will cele-
brate another landmark for the subsequent
and vaster transcontinental progress of
American civilization.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Why are base ball cranks called fans?
Real fans make no noise, but accomplish
something. Base ball fans are noisy and do
nothing.-Boston Herald.
If base ball fans do nothing, who is
that pays $4,000 for the release of
a Bresnahan, or who is that pays the
$4,000 salary of a McGraw, or a
Chance? Who is that walks up to the
boy office in droves of thousands every
day and planks down his money? Oh,
the fan is doing thing or two.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
NEW HEALTH EPIGRAMS.
Logic of Modern Experience COM
prised In Pithy Sentences.

Drtsed In Ptthy Sentences.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Chicago health department has issued
a circular in which 1t sees proper to devote
some space to refuting some OF the old
time household sayings affecting human
health. 1t is insisted that it is not desir-
able that one should "eat a peck of dirt
in the course Of a lifetime. 1t is denied
that the stout child is healthy" that
people were healthier in the good old
days." that "a goat keeps a stable health
full" and that gas works are good for
consumption"
In justifying it's edict the department says
tho peck of dirt idea is capable OF doing
great harm, especially in the feeding of
children. Referring to the stout child 1t
is said that the child who plays in thE
streets because there is no othcg place to
play Stands the poorest chanoa OF surviv-
ing" The death rate in such parts of the
city is said to be "frightfuly hlgh as COM
pared with other portions " the town"
Tho sayings about goats n:d gas works
| ''can do harm and can do no good"
| In lieu of these discredited epigran>a The
health department has substituted few
OF its own which are more in accord with
modern rules of health and sanitation
These it calls "healthgrams," and their
general trend may be judged from the
following specimens
open windows close the door to con
sumption.
"Your lungs can't be washed out, bu
they can be aired.
zone fly swatted in May is equal t.
900 900 swatted in July.
Mothers milk for babies; cows milk TO
calves.
Floods of sunshine in the home ma!
fade the carpets. but 1t puts the bloom o
health on your cheeks. Take your choice.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
Philadelphia Record.

The true remedy for the grosser extor-
tions of the express companies would be
the establishment Of a government parcels
post. The express companies have been
able to defeat action by congress for years
past. Through the bond of common own
ership on the part OF express managers and
railway managers II is easy to see what
powerful pressure may be eXerted to de-
feat regulative legislation. Help cannot bs
expected from the overhurdened and over
worked Interstate Commerce commission.
The express companies deflantly keep up
their rates; parcel out the territory Of the
country so that each may have its area
OF unrestricted ravage and laugh their
critics to scsrn as they cut their melons
and swim in the Juice.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
OPPOSING RATE INCREASE.
shippers of the Country COntesting
New Freight Rate.
A,t,

Pittsburg Dispatch.
The manufacturers of this country may
not be absolutely sure about the railroad
business, but they have a keen perceptioS
that their own business Is not in oondi-
ton to welcome an addition of Is or 20 per
cent in the cost Of transportation. There
fore, they are proceeding to appeal to the
Interstate Commerce commission against
tho increases in railroad rates made or con-
templated by the railroads throughout the
country.
The subject is one that requires thorough
investigation. The railroads are entitled to
rates that will yield a fair return on the
bona fide investment or legitimate cost of
reproduction. But how Is 1t to be known
what rates will yield such a return without
that physical valuation to which the rail-
road world is so bitterly opposed? On that
point we need no more expert authority
than that of Mr.. II. v. Poor, who asserted
concerning railroad earnings in 1SS3-whlch
were much less satisfactory than al present
that "if the fictitious element could 40
eliminated from their the railroadsD aT
counts their success as investments would
have no parallel"
Leaving this and the vast range OF otheFJ
subjects involved in this question to be
fought out before the commission, one sug-
gestion purely in the railroad interest is
pertinent, Suppose that they should sue
coed in increasing their rates, say 20 per
cent, and as a consequence the volume of
their traffic should decrease, say 30 per
cent, where would the railroads come out?
Yet it is the history of the subject that the
vast multiplication of railroad traffic for
the last half century has been secured by
the steady reduction of rates, and 1t is the
economic experience of the world that the
reversal OF that process by increases of
costs means the dwindling of business.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
Reading Them Out,

Some Doubling Thomases have pre-
sumed to question the accuracy of the
statement so often reiterated on the
floor of the present congress by demo
cratic members that their party is
more thoroughly united today than it
has ever been. If these sinister skep-
tics will take the trouble to inform
themselves they will see just how far
from the truth their implications are.
Let them turn, for instance. to Mr.
Bryans Commoner and there read the
leading editorial, which under the SEN
tentious caption, ITO Governor Har-
mon" takes the governor to task dor
falling TO follow out the Organic die
tation in the recent Ohio primaries
and concluding with this ultimatum (:
! II you falter prepare to stand aside The
democratic party is in no mood to be
trifled with II has suffered so much from
the secret manipulation Of the predatory
interests that It demands daylight methods
and honest politics 1t is up to you, gov
ernor
Or, If this deliverance does not con.
vince him of the solidarity of his party
let him scan Norman e. Mack's Ma
tional Monthly for June, where. in the
course OF long editorial, the chair.
man of the national democratic com
mittee and director of the last Bryan
campaign says;
II Is idle TO think Of Mr.. Bryan as even
again being the party candidate for the
presidency.
Party unity, harmony. peace--whaI
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
TRUE AND UNTRUE.
Chicago Advance.

Chicago Advance.
He was dog,
But he stayed at home
And guarded the family night and day.
He was a dog
That didn't roam.
He lay on the porch and chased Che
stray ...,-.
The tramps, the burglar the hen away.
For dogs true heart for that household
beat
At morning and evening, in cold and heat.
He was dog.
He was a man,
And didn't stay
To cherish his wife and children fair,
He was a man,
And every day
His heart grew callous, its love beats
rare,
He thought Of himself at the close of the
day
And, cigar in his fingers, hurried away
To the club, the lodge, the store, the
show.
But he had a right to 60 you know
He was q man.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
Eclipse of Uncle Joe.
Springfield Republican.

Eleven of the newly-nomlnated republican
congressman of Ohio have pledged them
selves, II elected, to vote against the re-
election OF Mr.. Cannon TO the speakership
They are reasonably certain of election,
as their districts have been strongly repub-
llcan. Nine other nominees are non-com-
initial on the speakershp question, and
they are In less strongly republican dis
trlcts only General j. Warren Keifer
is openly in favor Of continuing the Can
non regime. 1t looks darker and darker
for the speaker.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
III-Timed Greed.

The result Of the present ill-judged in
crease of freight charges by the railroads
is quite likely to be an increase of the
power Of the Interstate Commerce commits
sion to veto increases. The railroad COM
panies were mistaken in believing that they
had got the public scared out of demand
ing further restrictive legislation. Common
sense would have dictated that the increase
should be deferred till congress adjourned.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
Our Birthday Book
May 40, 1910.

Louis Agassiz, the famous Swiss natural
list, was born near Lake Neufchatel, May
Is. 1897 His visit to the United States in
1916 gave the first decided impulse 70 the
study of natural science in this country,
and he was for many years a professor in
Harvard university He died in 1873
David Rankin. farmer and capitalist and
prominent in farmers organizations, was
born May %. 1855. He is a native Of Indiana
and now lives at TarSio, NO. and owns and
manages a farm Of 1900 acres. which is
supposed 70 be the largest II not the
largest worked farm In this country.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
Laundrying Paper Money.


Secretary MacVeagh has approved plan
for sending the country's paper money to
the laundry and reissuing 1t clean and
fresh. 1t is estimated that laundering soiled
bills instead Of macerating them and re-
placing them with new ones will save the
treasury about $l,0O0,OOO a year Thus is
the saving grace of the washtub once more
signaly indicated.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

The democrats of Custer county are
preparing for dollar dinner blowout,
but for some unexplainable reason no.
where on the program do we see any
one scheduled to respond to toast on
',Nonpartisanship.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

omaha's returned trade boosters re-
port an unprecedented trip through a
country bullying with signs of growth
and prosperity, Our local calamity
contemporary will please take notice.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

The convention of the National Con-
ference of Charities and Corrections in
st. Louis has resulted in an order by
the mayor for thorough cleaning-out
OF the tenement district. Well, that
mayor has put up to the people of St,
Louis real mans job.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

According to the Kansas City Star
the Brooklyn mans plan to shorten
the alphabet by eliminating the letter
&C. will never receive the approval of
Kansas sity or shikago. How about
Sinsinnati.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Senator Burkett has gotten his bill
through the senate making an appro-
priation for enlarging the Lincoln
postoffee. We pause to hear from
Mr.. Whedon once more.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

what Mr.. Bryan said, but only what
he wrote out in advance to furnish to
the newspapers. What Mr.. Bryan
really said, as taken down by the
stenographer and printed in The Bee,
varies materially by additions and in
torpolations from what he intended to
say merely for publication.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
A Forecast.
St Paul Dispatch

Colonel Bryan declares that he will not
be a candidate for United States senator
from Nebraska. The colonel must have
premonltion that the next legislature OF
Nebraska will be republican.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

The people of Tennessee have Joined
in making the anti-Patterson crusade
nonpolitical and republicans and dem
ocrats alike have united for the over
throw Of the governor who pardoned
the man who killed his political rival.
Good for the people Of Tennessee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
"NIysterIous DISAPPEARANCE"
New York World.

Now Sugar Trust records and books, like
metropolitan and Standard Oil papers in
the past, have disappeared. AS proof of
innocence this sort of thing is not al
together convincing, though 1t may help to
retard conviction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Automobile accidents are again be-
coming too frequent in Omaha. Some
cf our automobile drivers seem to
have the mistaken notion that pedes-
trlans have no right to use the streets
except at their peril.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
signs of the Times.
Chicago Record-Herald.

Forty million dollars worth of diamonds
and other precious stones have been brought
into New York from abroad during the
past ten months. Are there any further
remarks about the cost of high livlng2
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

The Nebraska editors in their reso-
buttons censure the postoflce authori
ties for exacting full postage for trans
mission through the mails of county
option sermon delivered by a preacher
at Fender disguised as a newspaper
supplement in order to get free deliv-
cry within the county and secondNclass
postage rates without. We do not
know the particulars in this instance,
but we do know that second-class post
age rates are freely accorded to legiti-
mate newspapers and to supplements
that are a legitimate part of such
newspapers without question, but are
invariably>denied to pamphlets, tracts
and other printed matter which should
properly pay higher rates. In all
these cases it comes>>down to a ques-
ton Of purpose and intent as evidenced
by the circumstances. A sermon
printed as a newspaper supplement to
get under the postoffice rules might be
properly barred from newspaper priv
| ileges, not because it is sermon, but
because it is no part Of the newspaper
All the spasms of resolution and all
the paroxysms of indignation will not
change the facts in any specific case
nor obviate the duty of the postal au-
thorities to pass upon them fearlessly
and impartially,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

A st. Louis alderman is out with an
awful protest because somebody"
tried to bride him with $50. His is
righteous protest. Why, $50 is less
than the Pittsburg standard.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

The excursion boat which is to ply
on the Missouri this summer adver-
tises that mo liquors will be sold on
the steamer" as if that were turning
over a new leaf Where were our
anti-saloon sleuths last summer who
make a business of nosing around
teacups?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Report has it that Senator Bailey of
Texas wore silk hat the other day for
the first time in his life. Having got
rid Of that prejudice, perhaps he will
now make further progress.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Zbyszko says he will throw Gotch
in straight falls; that Gotch is very
much overestimated man. That is what
Hackenschmidt once professed to
think, but thinks no more.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
A Long Time Coming.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
AT last George Weshington's heirs are
going to get the money the government
has owed them for the last 100 years or
more. How pleased George would be to
hear Of I'll
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
Cnnse nnd Effect.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

The peace proclamation of our great
pacficator at Christiania has already pro-
duced partial result in the appropriation
Of 1923. 900 for two more dreadnoughts.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Perhaps Elmer Thomas has been
trying to reform all those ex-convicts
he has taken to his bosom. But, If SO,
he seems to have made sorry mess
OF it,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

If Ambassador Bryce does retire
lay his successor also be a man who
asks that his country call him plain
Mister" and not Lord"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

II the weather should warm up
June will have it's hands full with the
bride, for certainly April and May
have kept their hands off.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

That Cuban who tackled down the
lid of a dynamite box literally drove
nails in his own coffin.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Perhaps IL they would change the
name of Bluefields, Nicaragua, those
war clouds would pass over it now and
then.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Governor Shallenberger's Memorial
day proclamation is out at last. 1t is
up to Mayor Jim" to scatter few
flowers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
PASSING PLEASANTRIES.

did you offer the man an apology fog
rurring over him?'
mo" replied the young lady, who had
learned to drive an automobile, II wanted
to, but you see, we never had been intro
duced. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrArily should have The Dee
mailed 10 them. Addresses Will BIO
changed M often an requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
A Problem in Patriotism.
altimore American.

BaitimOre American
The narrowing question now suggests
itself whether IL congress holds over until
the middle Of July, the nation can enjoy
a sane and safe Fourth
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

The Brooklyn judge who asserts
that "all women are not angels"
should be made to tell how he found
it out.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Missouri offers $1,000 for "a state
song. Set one of Champ Clarks
speeches to music and save the money.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

When a man gets on real intimate
terms with himself he is more inclined
10 deal gently with others.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Anxious Customer-Are you sure that you
have that medicine mixed right?
Druggist-No 1 am not; but I've got it
mixed the way the doctor ordered it.-Judge
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

More litigation over the water
works. win those lawyers ever let
go?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

The Chicago Tribune says the
earth weighs 5000, 900 900. 900, 900
pounds. On Sugar trust scales?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Mr.. Bryan's Commoner prints what
purports to be Mr.. Bryan's Washing
ton hall speech, but 1t does not print
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

Piscatorially speaking, biting ought
to begin to get good.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State OF Nebraska, Douglas County, Sc;
George b. TEschuck. treasurer OF ths
Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn;
says that the actual number OF tull anu
complete copies Of The Daily. Mornl il
Evening and Sunday Bee printed GURUS NV
month OF ADrll. 1910 was as follows;