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Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
A Millionaire's Monuments.

Before his death d. o. Mills made
arrangements for the perpetuation of
an institution of the chain of hotels
which bear his name and which he
designed as clean and comfortable
modern homes for men of moderate
means. While he maintained that the
hotels were not a part of philanthropy,
inasmuch as he had the sagacity to
make them self-supporting, still they
must remain one of the most secure
monuments to his benevolent spirit.
Although he had a notable part in
the general sociological problems of
the day and gave freely Of his millions
to many charitable and educational
causes, nothing will be more closely
associated with his memory than the
Mills hotels, which were so novel an
enterprise and so satisfactory an
achievement that the whole world has
rung with their praises. 1t is to be
said Of these hotels that they were
founded in the faith that men like to
DS Scll-5uShaihlh6 III plOpSI anu WuOlS-
some living, and that Mr.. Mills con
fidence in the uplifting inner tendency
of mans mind was not misplaced, The
Mills hotels are not only a. monument
to the philanthropist who built and
endowed them, they are also a testi-
monial to the individual impulses Of
many representatives Of self-reliant
American manhood, who solved for Mr..
Mills the problem of making his ex-
pertinent a success just as he solved
for them the problem of how to live
in decency and order within their hum
BILE means.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
PERSONAL NOTES.

Leslie NJ. Shaw has been telling what
would happen politically we're TAFT, Roose-
welt and Bryan to die suddenly Maybe
he's right. but what's the useY
An aged woman recently called at tho
Rockefeller home and asked for 100000.
Unfortunately the gentleman OF the house
was away and she did not got It.
General James h.. Weaver Of Iowa, once
presidential candidate OF the greenbackers
and twice OF the populists, has turned d.
vine healer. He is now in his 7th year.
A Chicago official who is neither a hui
morist nor a fame seeker. wants his sal
airy reduced 10 per cent. Just as dime mu-
seums go out Of favor material for exhibits
multiply.
In the opinion OF the Springfield Repub-
llcan DR.. Cook is the champion guesser Of
the age. In sporting circles the New York
Times Is the favorlte for the guessing
championship.
Like some other great fortunes, the late
King Leopold's has shrunk amazingly on
examination. The "old reprobate' died
worth less than S0,0 200. No one can say.
however, how much he had spent or given
away He was certainly a money-getter.
To keep warm and healthy Peary may be
compelled to spend his winters in the Arc
tic. After returning several years ago he
was laid up with a severe cold, something
he had never had in the north, ana now he
goes down to Maryland and has his eaIs
frozen.
Prof. George Severance Of the agricul-
tural department of the Washington State
college, drawing a salary Of 5000 a year,
has resigned to take charge Of three farms
Just beyond the boundary line in Canada,
with a salary OF $1,000 a year and all his
expenses paid, and is also to have an inter-
est In the profits, An automobile Is to be
provided for his use in running around his
work on the farms,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

Means Employed to Boost the Price
of Ne~cessaries.

DOSlOu I1tIdlu.
When the investigation Of the cost Of
living gets under way one Of the factors
in the product for food supplies which
will invite the probe of the investigators
will be the cold storage warehouse. Ac-
cording to a statement recently made by the
president of the American Warehousemen's
association, 1,5O0, 900, 900 eggs were in cold
storage the first of September, being held
there in order that the egg market might
be controlled and the price of eggs kept
at a high level. 1t was said with equal au-
thority that a similar amount Of butter
being held in cold storage for similar
purposes. In otner words, sos, 600, 900 worth
of food products were withdrawn from the
markets Of this country and an arbitrary
price level created which had no connec-
ton with the law of supply and demand,
which should be the ruling force in an open
and competitive market. The cold storage
process has accomplished remarkable bene-
fits for the consumer in many ways.
Rightly used it would be the means of re-
ducing the cost of his living. Wrongly
used, 1t has increased the cost Of his living
and created immense profits for speoula-
tors and manipulators. With the facili-
ties of cold storage the market can be
broken to such an extent as to ruin any
dependent movement to regulate it. With
the facilities of cold storage a sufficient
amount of the natural market can be with
drawn at any time to create an effective
corner and to put prices at any desired
point. The authoritative figures quoted
above are sufficient evidence to any
family head in the United States now
being forced to pay famine prices for but
tor and eggs TO convince him nf the i'm
portance of an immediate and an insistent
appeal to the president and to Congress-
for a complete and thorough Investigation
of this and other factors which tended to
increase the Co.'S Of living beyond the point
explanation.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
JIM--A CONGRESSMAN.

Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Press.
When Jim was 'lected Congressman four
years ago, l vowed
NV cup o. 10y was brimmin' tullp an 1 wuz
INV Jim'n make his mark" 1 said, the
world will know his name,
He'll rise above tn common run, an win
uncommon fame,
His voice will rirg throughout tn land, his
An then / sat t wait fer him Z catch the
Speakers eye
/ Dragged about my Jim a lot, my Jim in
"HeT'ii" show EN- how" I told my friends,
this country should be run;
Jes' walt until he makes a Speech an
then you'll all admit
That when i comes to wisdom my boy
An SO we waited. Weeks an weeks an
months an months went BY
An Jim down there a-tryin' hard Z catch
the speakers eye.
Tn nelghboEs took t jokin' me, If I went
for a walk
They'd stop me on tn street an say:
"When's Jim a-goin' t talk?
Until at last | wrote L Jim, an said; My
You made that maiden speech o. yours, IL
you are goin' T. climb
You can't fool your constituents; 1t Amt
An Jim wrote back; Tn .waitin' still T.
catch tn Speakers eye"
Each summer Jim come home T. us, he give
some speeches here
That brought tn house down ev'Ty time,
an made tn people cheer,
An every time he went away we'd Sit an
wait an wait,
t. hear that Jim had had tn floor an led
some big debate;
But not a word has come from him, an
now when l pass by,
Folks twit me, askin' II my Jim has caugNt
tn Speakers eye.
Jim's back In Washington again. in con-
gress maxim laws,
Plumb sure that this term he will get a
chance L plead his cause;
He's got on some committees, an some big
men know he's there,
TIL New York papers quoted him about
some trust affair;
An Ma an l are prayin' now that we
won't have T. die
Afore Jim's reckoned big enough t get the
Speakers eye.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
INC" to the Magnates.

In connection with the visit Of the
railroad presidents to the White
House to plead against any further
railroad legislation, it will be recalled
that one Of them last fall prophesied
that no such legislation would be at
is may be judged from the result of the
trip Of himself and his associates to
Washington, where the plea to side
track the executive message and bill
for amendments to the interstate com
merce act was eminently unsuccessful.
Mr.. Taft's mo" to the magnates
was uttered in his inaugural address,
again in his first message to congress,
and reiterated to them in person, for
the special message he is to present to
congress is in no essential detail diff
ferent from what he has been known
to have in mind all along. Herein is a
fine example of the Taft firmness that
underlies the Taft smile, confronted by
which the railroad presidents made a
very sober-visaged procession as they
emerged from the White House.
1t must by this time be apparent to
all that the administration is not to be
swerved from it's policies by any spe-
cial pleadings aimed against the gen.
eraI welfare. While there has been
no disposition on the part of the pres
ident to attempt any measures of un-
necessary hardship against corporate
interests, he has never faltered in his
determination to ask congress to
amend the laws regulating traffic and
commerce wherever in his judgment
the public good will thereby be con-
served.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
TRUST
Problem of Securing an Effective
Check on Greed.
Philadelphia Press.

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A dishonest and malicious attempt is an
parent in many quarters to prejudice Presi-
dent Taft's efforts to solve the trust prob
lem by asserting that the presidents plans
for the regulation Of trusts will prevent
their summary suppression.
Neither President Roosevelt nor President
Taft has ever proposed the prohibition Of
all combinations. In all his speeches from
the beginning President Roosevelt asserted
the necessity and wisdom of combinations
provided they were properly regulated. He
did not propose to destroy, but reform.
Neither does President Taft.
Both are as one. Both nave pointed out
that larger and larger corporations and
combinations are inevitable. Both have
admitted that the modern development of
trade calls for them, Both have demanded
that trusts should be regulated, not pro-
hibited, and prevented from destroying
competition and doing injury to competi
tors.
II competition is preserved, fair prices
are required, all trust contracts made
public, their railroad rates known and their
capitalization and profits regulated, the
mere size of a combination can do no harm.
Trusts do harm, not because they are big
but because they are secret. superior to
the law, stifle competition, raise prices. are
free from regulation and enjoying special
privileges from railroads.
Remove these evils and the evils of trusts
are removed. The screen of the trusts has
been through state charters, issued by
states like New Jersey. These aided
secrecy, eluded federal and state jurlsdio-
ton, avoided regulation and destroyed
competition. The circuit court decision in
the Standard OH case strikes down this
screen. If affirmed at Washington IL
makes a state charter OF little worth as a
screen to the acts of trusts.
Nationwide trade and nationwide cor
porations must still exist. Substitute a
federal incorporation act for the state
charter and federal regulation can prevent
the evils, while preserving the economy
and efficiency OF the great combinations
Those who oppose this are directly or
Indirectly, consciously or unconsciously, the
supporters and defenders of trusts and
their evils.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
Warning, Of whitswash-

The determination of the admins
tration to have an official congress
sional investigation TO determine the
truth Of the accusations against the
Interior department, and especially the
general land office, is having a strange
effect upon the noise-makers. Their
cries are not %silenced, but instead they
are sounding a new alarm, the tenor
Of which is that the result Of the in
v%estigation is a foregone conclusion.
The entire propaganda against Bal
linger appears to have Joined in a
concerted warning that he is to be
whitewashed.
This, in face of the fact that an inn
partial jury of senators and represen-
tatives is to hear all the evidence in
the case and pass judgment accord
ingly, is more than u%ngracious toward
the administration; 1t is a direct at
tack upon national fairness and justice,
and strikes at the very roots of Ameri-
can institutions. In their p~artisanship
and spleen these a%ssailants have gone
30 far that they have forfeited the
right to the respect of their fellow
citizens.
The latest utterances Of the muck
rakers and their associates simply man.
ifest the weakness of their case and
the unfairness of their cry. They have
no right to anticipate the verdict, but
instead are in duty and honor bound
to submit their case and abide by the
result. Before the Investigation com
mittee they may be heard to the full
est extent of their resources, and II
they have any real evidence they
should submit it fully to that tribunal
which is bound to weigh 1t judicially.
All these clamorous prophecies of
whitewashing are projected simply to
stir up prejudice, and can not fail to
be accepted by the public as a con
fession that the investigation they
pretended to want is a fearful thing
to them now that it is in prospect, a
confession that they dread the expos
ure of their side Of the case. In seek
ing to forecast an improper verdict
they are but convicting themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
After Other Combines.

News from Washington is encourag-
ing to consumers, both babe and adult,
indicating as 1t does the intention of
the government to get after the milk
combine Of the big cities and the to-
bacco combine Of the southern states.
This is in addition to the state action
now In progress in New York against
the milk wholesalers and the federal
prosecution OF the tobacco interests
pending before the supreme court.
The matter OF milk supply concerns
every household, and the American
consumer will be unanimous in sup
port OF any action that can be brought
against the men who juggle with this
necessity. The fact that the New York
investigation has disclosed a most
heartless concert of effort 70 squeeze
another cent per quart out Of the poor
buyer, in face Of the already exorbi-
tant profit. will prompt the heads OF
families TO breathe the indignant
prayer that in the case OF the unjust
milk magnate the prosecution may be
along criminal lines and may succeed.
AS for the southern tobacco society,
that has been q national scandal, with
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
Again the Garbage.

The city council has finally sue
ceeded in putting the garbage question
in a fair state for temporary solution,
but the expedient adopted is only tenn
porary. The division Of the city into
districts for the purpose of administra-
ton and the letting of contracts for
the collection and disposal of house.
hold refuse, will force on the attention
of the taxpayer the fact that he is not
escaping any legitimate expense
through the adoption of any OF the
various subterfuges hat have been re-
sorted to In the past in connection
with this important public service. The
cost must ultimately be borne by the
householder, and the only satisfactory
method for giving the service is to
have 1t done under the direction of
the city government. When the pend
ing ordinance is made effective, steps
should be Immediately taken to devise
a plan where the city can take over
this duty and attend to the work in a
way that will not only be safe, but sat
isfactory.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

its history Of arson and murder. The
night riders have ridden long enough.
Their desperate deeds to force up the
price paid by the tobacco trust for the
farmers produce have defeated their
aim. It was admitted that the tobacco
raisers of the south suffered g%rievously
under the exactions Of the great man
ufacturing combination that fixed
prices and determined quality, but the
might riders were not the solution.
Two wrongs never yet made a right,
and that is why the government will
nov proceed against the lesser as well
as the greater combination.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

Much sympathy will be expressed
for John R. Walsh, the Chicago mag
nate, who will be compelled to worry
along for the next few years with only
a paltry $75O,OOO standing between
him and the poor house. 1t is such
trials as this, however. that brings out
the best there is in a man, and we feel
SURF that Mr.. Walsh will prove sufi-
GENTLY heroic to make the struggle
overwhelmingly.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
Dramatic Argument.

For ways that are dark and for tricks
that are vain, theatrical folk are peculiar.
Take the common method of advertising
runs" A play begins its metropolitan
career-name furnished on request-in mid
April; 1t plays until July, and in Septem-
Der 1t reopens with seven months run In
New York" eight-sheeted across the coun-
try. Another opens in November and plays
until February L. Two years on Broad
way" isn't 1908 one year?" the press
agent asks. We'll, isn't 1909 another?"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
Our Birthday Book
january. 5, 1910.

David S. Bispham, the concert singer,
celebrated his SD birthday, He is a native
Of Philadelphia, and ang here in Omaha
last year.
Henry LOOMS Nelson, author and maya
zine editor, was born January 5, 1916, in
New York City.
Slason Thompson, who Is holding Town a
bureau OF railway statistics over in Chi
age, is just 81 today. slason Thompson
comes from New Brunswick, and put in his
earlier years as a newspaper man.
Josephus f. Rugg, retired stockgrower,
living at the N~ormandie, was born jan
uary 5, 1859. He is a Vermonter and did a
thriving cattle business In Wyoming and
Idaho up to ten years ago. when he moved
to Omaha,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
what We are Cominr TO.

.CphNo6O OSls .
Mr.. Nikola Tesla, who has not predicted
anything really marvellous for a long while
back, tells US that in twenty years we
shall see a wireless electric light run by
a current shippsd from the producing
plant over ether waves. And we suppose
there is no good reason to doubt him.
With the wireless telegraph now in action
and the wireless telephone looming over
the horizon the wireless lncandescent light
seems not at all impossible. How far is
this elimination Of wire to go, by the
way? We can never nave wireless mos
quito screens, we suppose, but may not
some future wizard give us wireless poll
tics?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

The health director of a large east
ern city says hat he has proofs that
some physicians do not administer an
titoxin in either curative or preventive
doses, and that as a result diphtheria
has made great inroads. He charges
that the physicians reason is that the
proper use of the remedy reduces the
number of visits and the consequent
income. Such an accusation seems in
credible, and If the director has the
proofs it is his public duty to have
the state deprive the offenders of Ii
cense to practice. Juggling with child
ren's health ought not to be tolerated
in any community.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
Fitted for Hardship.

There is on more chance for your enc
mics to defeat your confirmation than fol-
a celluloid dog to catch an asbestos cal
in Hades," wired Senator Bob Taylor
to Judge Lurton recently. Sooner or later
perhaps, the democrats in the senate will
select Mr.. Taylor as their leader. That
whatever else 1t may or may not do, will
add considerably to the gayety of the ma
tions, we apprehend.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

The Omaha brewers showed a COM
mendable spirit when they shut down
their plants pending a decision in the
court of a technical question involving
their right to license to manufacture
beer. No effort was made to u the
breweries in the interim, the managers
waiting patiently for the action of
the court. This spirit will go far to-
wards settling the liquor question in
Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

In laying down his work in connec-
ton with the Hartman lines, Mr.,
Erastus Young closes a record of UNI
usual service with the Union Pacific
railroad. other men have spent a
greater length of years with the com-
pany than did Mr.. Young, but none
have achieved a better record in the
performance Of their duty.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

Rhode Island having established a
rigorous marriage license law, the
snug little state has abolished a thriv-
ing industry in serving as the Gretna
Green of it's neighbors. Mysterious
are the ways of Providence.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
CHEEKY CHAFF.

Mrs. Gabbel-what do you think, George2
When the doctor called the other day. he-
asked me to put out my tongue, ana when
1 did SO he quite hurt me. h He1 he sten on
it?-Chicago
MI. Dubbs with newspaper)-It tells here,
my dear, how a progressive New YORK
woman makes her social calls by telephone.
Mrs. Dubbs-Progressive. HUH! she's
probably like me-not a decent thlnB 10
w~ear.-Boston Transcript.
Mans inhumanity to man. chuokled the
hacker of the winning pugilist VINO had
pounded the other chap to jelly, makes
countless thousands cheerfully pay their
good money to see it working. "-Washlng-
ton Star.
rs Unison lazy?'
Lazy? Wen, there are just two jobs he
What are they?'
"Raklng leaves in winter and shoveling
snow in summer. '-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
IN be ready in a minute she said to
her husband.
some time later, Il find that / shall have
to shave again. Detroit Free Press.
Patience-They say she got all her furni-
ture on the installment plan?
Patrice-She did. She has had -four hus-
bands, and she got a little furniture with
each one.-Yonkers Statesman
Mrs. Frost-Who was 1t that said: Peace,
perfect peace2"
FrostESome one whose telephone was out
OF order.-Life.
"You brainless cad!' exclaimed the man
with the lofty dome OF thought.
Hal" retorted the man with the pale,
scholarly cast of countenance, regarding
MIN with unreasonable scorn; you colossal
ignoramus, IL l am '%brainless,' where do my
sensory nerves register their Impressions
"Exclusively in your spinal oord!' was
the crushing rejo~indeT.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

The Metropolitan opera directors of
New York are to send a Nebraska
singer to Europe to cultivate her for
stellar honors. This is not a novelty
for Omaha musicians are already high
in favor of foreign capitals.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
II Conrress would.
Washington Herald.

1AiiA6hNA AANAoAus
So far, congress has hedged against the
high cost of living much more satisfac-
torily from the personal point of view than
the general. If congress would fix things
so that everybody else's salary might
either be increased so per cent or made to
go so per cent farther, much would be
forgiven.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

The reorganization of the Omaha
Board of Education under the new
law was accomplished without much
effort. Whether the body will be more
efficient only the future can determine.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

The Omaha building year started off
at a pace that promises to set a new
mark If maintained, and the Builders
exchange banquet was not the less en-
ioyable because Of the outlook.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
Another Job for Roosevelt.

The suggestion that Americans buy the
Kor go State and make Roosevelt ruler OF
1t to end the misgovernment there may be
due less to care for the welfare Of the
Kongo than a desire TO keep him abroad
peI manently.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

Approaching retirements of five senior
officers of the quartermaster's depart
ment OF the army will cause promotions in
that branch and will necessitate many
changes in duties, a part Of which have
already been determined upon by Quarter
master General Aleshire. Other changes
will be announced later. These rerire-
ments, either for age or by request, Will
occur during the next six months and in
yolve Colonies William S. Patten, John w.
Pullman, James w. Pope and Lieutenant
Colonies William w. Robinson and j. Il.
Sawyer, with possibly two others by re-
quest on account OF service. This will pro-
mote to the next higher grade Lieutenant
Colonies Frederick Won Schraeder. r. II.
stevens and F.. G. Hodgson, Majors
Thomas Cruise, ID. Il. Mccarthy. John T.
Knight. John NJ. Carson, jE, and j. f..
Baxter and Captains A. 5. Bickham, W. NJ.
Coulling, w. c. Cannon, L. w. Arnold and
c T. Baker. The changes in duties already
determined upon include the assignment Of
Captain Harry L. Pettus to the charge
of the quartermasteT depot in Washington
In place OF Major NJ. G. Zalinski, who will
go on temporary duty in the office OF the
quartermaster general; the assignment Of
Captain f. l.. Wells, Eleventh infantry,
recently detailed to quartermaster duty,
to relieve Captain Frank A. Grant at Gov
errors Island. the latter officer going to
San Francisco as assistant at the Fort
Mason depot; Captain +. T. Arnold trans
ferred from Fort Robinson. Neb, to New
London, Conn, relieving Captain Charles
A. Baker. who goes to Fort Wright. In
the meantime, orders for examination for
promotion have been issued 10 Captains
Cannon, Arnold, Charles T. Baker Scott,
J. N. Bsker-who will be examined In
Manila-Rolfe and Chamberlin.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05

Tesla is again on the verge of Invent
ing. This time it is a wireless trans
mitter Of electric flame that shall IL
illuminate the whole United States. The
skeptical will make light of it.