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Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-23
Chicago "Wets"
Win First Round
Election Commission Decides Against
Placing Local Option Cues
tion on Ballot.

CHICAGO, March 22,-owing to decision
of the board of election commissioners
today adverse to the "dryS' there is said
to be but the slightest chance that Chicago
voters viii ballot on the decision Of local
option on April next
The "wets' recently came before the
board with the allegation that 5000 names
on the dry petition to have the local
option question placed on the ballot were
not those CT the registered voters.
The "drys" are considering the bringing
OF a suit for a writ of mandamus before
Justice Carter of the Illinois supreme
court to compel the placing Of the local
option issue on the ballot.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-23

Fire in University at Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 22.-The Kent chemical
laboratory Of the University of Chicago,
caught fire today, following an explosion
of gas pipe In front Of the building. The
damage Is estimated at $4,000
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-23
THE OMAHA BEE

Is the most powerful business
getter in the west, because It goes
TO the homes OF poor and rich.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-23
WEATHER FORECAST,

For Nebraska-Fair; mild.
For lowa-Fair; mild.
For weather report see page
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it. But we find historical explanation of the fact.
 First, it develops character. Moses 'en- dured as seeing him who Is invisible'- (Ieb. xi:2O. The men who believe are the men who produce results. A believ- ing man is the living embodiment of the cause he represents. Faith is an ed- ucator. Mans life, as moral agent, is the resultant of all the forces gen. erated by his beliefs.
 The world honors great conquerors. Faith subdues kingdoms. We wonder at the showman's power over wild beasts. Faith stops the mouths of lions. We re- joiced and made a great display over our steam fire engines. Faith quenches the violence of fire. We pay millions for defense" Faith puts to flight the armies of the aliens. We struggle for food. ',aith supplies bread from heaven. We want clothing. Faith snatches beg gar from the dogs licking corruption from his running sores and clothes him in a robe which an angel cannot wear. We admire the poet, who gives to airy noth- ings form and substance-a local habita- tion and name. Faith Is the greatest of all poets; 1t is ''the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not
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from opposite sides of his coffin and of
 his life-work, have had their exhaustive say and have said their worst, they will
 both go back and read his books again and yet again. Constantly they will
 confess that in him is rich and noble sincerity, a soul of truth. A vast crop of acorns, falling from his leafless boughs in the autumn of his death are
 seed of forest of oaks. hardy and
 strong as he. Love Is the Great Begetter. We say he was a realist, painting ugly things in their naked horror, beautiful
 things In their naked beauty. He tracked actions to their social source, as George Eliot tracked them to their psychic source. What merciless scalpel
 George Eliot wieldedi How we shiver as we follow the blade that lays bare
 the soul of Tito or even of Maggie Tul- liver! But no less remorselessly does this observer of men and social environment show us how false social conditions issue in personal failure and moral wreck. He
 writes the thing as he sees 1t for the good of things as they are. Page after page he spends on the making of a
 fiawless mirror to reflect facts, heart wringing facts, spiritual facts, always ethical facts. Never once does he allow himself to reve1 in the dirt, as Zola so
 often does. His realism is a path to a goal, always an ethical goal. Seeing the truth as nearly as he can see it, he marshals not his imagination, but the
 forces of his whole artistic memory and reproductive passion to delineate the men and women who live the lie or live the truth and illustrate the tragedy in-
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the child of his own age. There are three possible attitudes, the traditional, with the claim that the whole Bible story is or necessity expressed in terms of the su- pernatural: the naturaistic, with the as- sertion that all miracles must be myth ical: and the interpretative, teaching that even in these days also identical mira cles are being wrought in the spiritual, psychic, or even physical field. But the mind of Tolstoy revolted from ali eva sions, and he felt compelled to center his attention on the moral doctrine and ex- ample of Jesus, assuming that the mirac- ulous deeds and the resurrection story first deposit of Christian teaching by perfectly intelligible processes.
 am not anxious either to critcise or defend him. It is enough to arrest at tention on that moral passion which was his chief characteristic and which may be held to have moulded his imaglna- ton, shaped his relentless logic, taught him the value of lucid style and kept him constant in aim, whether discussing music, marriage or metaphysics, paint Ing or pedagogy, the tolls of the peasant or the troubles of the politician. His exact truthfulness applies. without re- spect of persons, to every rank. and like Carlyle, he has only one message. He breaches his one sermon always, every where, and in him, too the spirit of the age has become wonorously vocal.
 The tides of his power are ebbing along the level sands. His keen soul Is poised for flight, watching like an eagle from the crag where she has these S3 years
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TOLSTOY-No. 2-By Georqe Eaves, [

observed under a lens. In the long run there is no discord between the fact and the microscopist who examines and de- scribes it. He did not make it. The so- cal observer, who feels the outrageous elements of immortality imbedded in re- spectable institutions, must see them mag nified to see them truly, and his record to be scientific must be apparently ex- aggerated. For his whole purpose is eth- ical reform, the creating of a sufficient moral impulse to seek reform, a blazing indignation against entrenched evil. One ought to cry out against social wrongs in modern nations with at least the same wrath that fine housewife would feel if she should discover a. dirty dog from the gutters sleeping serenely on her best bed
 These men, Carlyle, Tolstoy, Ruskin, are really preachers, Jewish prophets to our snug and ignoble content. Will Tol- stoy he 'reconciled" to the church? That seems a very foolish question. What does he care for the babbing of monks and priests? The church is more eager to chaperone him across the Styx than he Is to be- chaperoned. Tolstoy knows as much and cares as much about the eternal realities as all the priests in Russia. He has lived, honestly trying to know and obey the truth. He has made the sacrifices of a broken and contrite heart In his books he has con fessed his own early sins, and expressed delight in the discovery of way of eth- iCal peace. He has seen through the thin shelters of human proprieties and complacencies. Being ''clothed upon"
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with religious faith he refuses the kind that is diaphanous and prefers for a spir- itual overcoat, practical righteousness. The evangelicals could wish he were more orthodox in his philosophy of salvation, but we cannot deny the fruits. St. Francis himself was no more convincing a devotee of the gospel than Tolstoy is of the ethical authority of Jesus of Naza- reth Both went out naked from great possessions for conscience's sake and re- fused to gain personal advantage by the proclamation of the message given to them.
 Hence I cannot but think 1t was gross error of judgment that pitted the hierarchy of the Russian church against their critic. He only asks for reality, sincerity, the frank abandoning of the rottenness which came of the alliance of the church with a rotten political sys- tenn. The hierarchy fasten, for reply, upon his rejection of miracles and call upon him to recantl They treat him as though he were priest because he has the ear of the public. It would have been a thousand times more hitting If the state had punished him for the dissemination of Nihilistic literature.
 One cannot but feel the weakness of a great ecclesiastical system, lingering at the door of her excommunicate son with a faint and lingering hope that in the moment of death he will deny the one supreme thing that he spent his whole life enforcing, the necessity of truth in the inward parts!'
 In his attitude to the miracles of the New Testament Tolstoy is no more than
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McCreary, who Is now in the house. hold of the Philistines, I am sorry to say in old Kentucky What bedfel- lowsl
 Well, Reed appointed Joe Cannon chairman of appropriations, and, cuss him as we do, nobody can deny that old Joe stood for retrenchment of expendi- lures. No graft ever had a more bitter enemy, and Joe Cannon has hit on the head a thousand evil jobs As for his czarism as speaker, Champ Clark will give you the same, as did Crisp of Geor- gia. the last democratic speaker. It is all wrong; but until we have an execu- tive administration responsive to public opinion it Is the inevitable. Victor Mur- dock and has set propose to distribute responsibility. Do that, and you will ex- pand expenditure. In my day, and that is 30 years in this capital, old Joe Can non has been the best watch dog of the treasury we ever had, and I don't ex- cept Randall or Holman or Atkins or Savers, though I am free to say that his stand on the tariff is the abomination of abominations.
 Cannon fought like a tiger for re- trenchment, but 1t was a billion Congress all the same the first in <time of peace, and the consequence was the Flfty-sec- ond Congress- which contained 236 dem ocrats, including a score and a half of
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volved. His fiction is like one of those cameras that slowly swing on a pivot, to photograph a whole circle, whole hor- ically, in detail, accurately, and in rela- tion to all other men. Hence If we are to further describe his greatness we must discover here the one harmonizing force, wherein blend the contrasts native to this strong soul. Everything pays tribute to his sincerity. He will be ac- curate though the world howls him down forever. He Is, like Ibsen, exposing the hypocrisles of organized mankind, calling them, however, with @ loving intensity back or upwards, to sanity and honor. His loathing of brute force, his loathing of everything inconsistent with simplicity and truth and love, are not these fierce hatreds tonic we needed? Did not Rus sia need them? Did not England and America, too, need them? Even his at tack on marriage foolish and extrava- gant and repulsive as it seemed, is a not unnecessary tonic bitter as tonics usually are. Back of all things Is the strong conviction that insincerity Is the basal cause of social and spiritual break down.
 Tolstoy, therefore, Is to Russia what Carlyle is to England, a prophet of sheer honesty Both had the same grotesque extravaganza of statement, but the whole point of this extravaganza, this fierceness and superlativeness, is that it is the sober truth! An extravagant and grotesque hypocrisy and worldwide insincerity can only be portrayed in terms like these, as though what is written had first been
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The Fifty-fourth Congress was repub- lican solely because the south refused t1 stand by the democratic President 1t had forced the nomination of and con- tributed so materially to the election of. Mr. Grover Cleveland, by all odds the first personality this country has pro- duced since the great war between the states. He went out of office with the opprobrium of the great majority. He went out of the world respected and revered by even a greater proportion of his fellow citizens. I sometimes think that the last presidential election might have gone democratic if William J. Bryan had allowed the friends of Cleveland, rather than his enemies, to write the plank eulogistic of that great and good man in the platform. Those who have read me for many years will allow me the egotism to say have read some history, and will say anyhow that it was left for the Denver convention to as- sign enemies to pronounce the eulogy of the greatest democrat of modern times.
 Reed, as was inevitable, was speaker of the Fifty-fourth Congress- when the south delivered the democratic party into the hands of the Philistines, and as I look for the south to do again on the tariff question, as they did on the coin age question. =#
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how the government at Washington should be run. They scarcely can make living, put can tell you precisely how the tariff schedules should be made. They arc
 Watching a hole in the ground.
 There are women who will leave their breakfast dishes unwashed and their rooms unswept and gad from house to house that they may catch the latest morsel of neighborhood news. They are apparently more interested In the gossip of the day than in their children and care more for what goes on outside than Inside their homes. These women are
 Watching a hole in the ground.
 Look at wonder young man. He buys an evening paper and without even glanc- ing at the headlines of the first page, which tell of world events, he turns i'm. mediately to the sporting page, reads that and throws the paper aside. He is inter- ested more in sports than in his own education in citizenship. He is merely-
 Watching hole In the ground.
 And there are those who dream things all day long, but never do them; who build no castles save castles in Spain: come true. They see, but never accom-. plish: they hear, but pass no word alongs they feel. but give their emotions nd tongue of speech. These also are butt
 Watching 0 hole in the ground.
 Now
 It is well to know of the things Of tariff and of neighborhood news and of sports. It is well to dream dreams. But he who neglects his daily duty for mero curiosity's sake Is simply
 Watching a hole in the ground.
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under the flag of a pirate Barbary state? |? It seems incredible, yet it is history that I am relating.
 Loud protests against this gross indig- nifty brought no apology from the Dey Tripoli express regret over the flagstaff incident. He but contemptuously laughed at 1t.
 But the end was approaching. There boomed across the sea, from the high tower of Liberty the death knell of the Barbary states. The loud crash of the flagstaffs fall In Tripoli was heard across the ocean from New England to Georgia, and the north and the south said, That flag of crimson and blue dyes and heav- enly stars, was not made to be insulted ard degraded" The blood of a new born nation was up. Excitement knew no bounds. Flushed were the stories of the war of the revolution, for there were other things to relate by tongues tipped with the fire of vengeance. Old warriors forgot their wounds and took down the muskets they had borne on many @ field of heroic conflict The Continentals forgot the blood-stains their naked feet had left on flinty snow. Sailors in troubled dreams saw the George Washington" with the flag of
  head, and awoke with tides of anger surging through their veins. All, every where, young and old, said to the gov ernment at Washington, Here am I, send me-" And what the combined pow CTS of Europe had not dared to do, the young republic of the western world de- termined to do.
 Therefore, the young giant belted him self for battle and war, and with thunder -1A tS. 41A skA lo -a tions wrath, hanging from his loins, he crossed the sea to avenge the insults to his flag.
 This determination was followed by our four years war with the Barbary states q war in which the heroism of the Amer can soldier and sailor have never been surpassed. This statement will not be considered extravagant if one will but consider several facts: First, We were fighting against practical savages; Sec ondly, Our enemies were desperate fatal ats: Third, Our sources of supply were thousands of miles from the fighting zone; Fourthly. Most of the fighting was
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Dave Henderson, owing to tho single defeat of Joe Cannon, was senior and in line of promotion on appropriations. There were obstacles. One was Joe Can- non, who went to Reed. raised that great left arm aloft and swore big oath that 1t was chairman of appropriations for him nothing. That would not have caused Tom Reed to bat an eye, but he knew that Cannon was the man, and he did as he did later when he pro- noted Dingley over old Payne-he as- serted himself like the giant he was, put Cannon at the head of appropria- tions, and made Henderson chairman of judiciary, that could not possibly have anything of supreme importance to do.
 Henderson was a wonder. He had lungs and voice and he got leg shot off In the war. The mans ignorance was stupendous, but his egotism was sublime. His voice was his capital, and but for that, and his lost leg he would never have emerged from impotent obscurity He was once a very handsome chap, and that helped him. Besides, he had the effronterv of the devil and that pro- noted him.
 One day he was making furious bloody-shirt speech on something or other, when, in an ecstasy of patriotism and a delirium of eloquence, he sonor- ously exclaimed:
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From highland pass to lowland moor. treason never found harbor in Scottish breastr'
 He was a Scotchman, and I knew that God denied real patriotism to any natnr- alized citizen. am half Scotch myself. though born in Kentucky, and there raised, and I am willing to make oath that if treason is defined as rebellion against established authority, Scotland can show more of 1t to the square inch than any other country of equal eiviliza- ton on the globe.
 tnd thus Henderson took judiciary and Cannon got appropriations. Henderson Nas unfit tor his job. Cannon was thor oughly equipped for his And so 1t was continued until Reed resigned in disgust with his party, and if living today, he would now be a democrat. Henderson was elected speaker, and in that char he was succeeded by Cannon. Hemenway became chairman of appropriations, and was industrious and perhaps efficient.
 When Fairbanks accepted the Vice Presidency. Hemenway got his toga as senator and held it until the democrats Of Indiana took it from him.
 That gave way for Tawney, very able and a very honest man, and he will be missed in the next Congress.
 And this completes my review of the committee of appropriations of the Amer ican commons.
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When Tripoli heard that the United States had paid immense sums of money to Algiers and had presented the Dey with a ship of war, all equipped and armed from stem to stern, the Tripoli- tan Bashaw demanded the same means for the furtherance of his plundering proclivities. Said this Bashaw to Con- sul Cathcart: Consul, I'd rather be at peace with your country than with any other; but other nations pay me and yours must also. If you do not pay me I shall declare war against your govern ment." He was gracious enough to give our government 1S0 days ot consider his ultimatum.
 With much impudence and silly arro- gance he wrote to the American authori- ties, and as they were slow to accede to the demands of the Bashaw this amia- ble gentleman increased his monetary demand. He now required s250,000 to smooth his rumpled front, In immediate payment, and s25,0oo annually to keep the aforesaid front in a condition of smooth ness. What a brilliant humorist this Tripolitan Bashaw was. As this impu- dent demand was disregarded the Bashaw became fffurated. He declared war against our government and cut down the fagstaff before the house of our consul. The proud flag fell in humiliation most pathetic. Consul Cathcart was given his papers and was permitted to depart from Tripoli.
 The cutting down of the flagstaff was the second indignity perpetrated against our flag. The first was even more exas- perating The facts are these Our gov ernment had sent the United States ship George Washington to Algiers with a cargo of naval supplies and other bribes for our dear friend, the Dey, who had done us the honor to accept the frigate "The Crescent" and the 26 barrels of money. Having at the time of the ar- rival of the George Washington" a very severe case of plunderitis, the Dey seized the ship of the immortal name and flag, compelled the American officers and sailors to sail the ship to Constan- tinope under the flag of the hated AL gerlnes. Fancy the feeling of our men as they saw their flag ruthlessly torn down, and the flag of Algiers hosted to the head of the mainmast. Was there over greater and grosser incongruity- the George Washington putting to sea
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done on the sea, where for centuries the enemy had sailed as master and knew every shallow. and depth, as we'll as every estuary of safety and every harbor of refuge. But I go on with the story.
 About three months after the in- auguration of Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States, prep arations were completed for the sail ing of a squadron of warships for the Barbary States. Commodore Dale was in command. The ships put out for the Mediterranean and, instead of barrels of money every ship was laden with barrels of powder and stacks of balls and shells.
 They arrived off Gibraltar in June, 1901, and directed their course thence toward Tunis and Tripoli. No Barbary ship was sighted until August, at which time the Enterprise" caught sight of 0 Tripolitan vessel carrying four guns and commanded by the Bashaw's ablest naval officer. The Americans bore down upon the Tripolitan. They came within pistol-shot range of each oth- CT. The Tripolitans were rash and arr rogant They had overcome all ships in all the past, and what was to pre- vent their success now? Neverth eless, they were ingloriously defeated More than 60 per cent of their men were either killed or wounded, and not single American was injured. It was a distant type Of Dewey's battle at Manila, and was much like Schley's yic- tory at Santiago.
 The Enterprise was absolutely unin- jured fin this fight, while the Tripolitan ship was thoroughly dismantled and practically destroyed. The few Tri- politans who escaped death were per mitted to drift toward the Tripolitan shore on the wreckage of tn cir former ship, they having struck their colors. When the news of this signal defeat came to the Bashaw his rage was in- describable He seized the defeated commander. had him exposed to public insult by causing him to be ridden upon an ass through the city of Tripoli, and then committed him to the officer of the bastinado under the penalty of 500 strokes of that cruel instrument of torture upon the soles of his naked feet. Consternation overwhelmed the Tripolitans. On the one hand they wer afraid of the Americans; and on the other hand they were afraid of
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" HOSE magnificent fathers of ours
 who got our liberties from Eng
 \ land and made our constitution feared the people and made a govern- ment not responsive to public opin- ion. They showed their distrust of the electorate in that they fixed 1t that a new Congress should not come in until long after 1t was chosen. In Eng land public opinion rules and 1t is the only government of any considerable importance in all the world that is of. by and for the people. For instance, in England, when the people speak, the administration changes in accord ance with their demands.
 How Is 1t with us? In 1S74--to go no farther back-the people condemned the administration of President Grant at the polls. Did he change his pol icy? Not a whit In contempt and in defiance of what the people had said, the only way they could say it, he kept right on. Later, in 1890, the peo- pie, by the greatest majority they ever gave, condemned Ben Harrison s administration. Did he change? Not hair. He said the people be damned, as Arthur said in 1882 when they re- pudiated him. And that Is what is go- ing to bring socialism Into fashion in this country before this century Is