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Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
Battle of the Boyootts.

The anti-meat crusade is bearing It's
legitimate fruit, and, as might have
been expected, the farmers, who are
most directly affected by the threat
ened reduction in prices Of meat, are
planning TO retaliate. IN Kansas one
group has already organized for the
purpose of boycotting the products Of
union labor. AS the labor unions have
taken the lead in the anti-meat cru
sado, It will become them to bear with
what patience they may the effects of
the farmers reprisals. II will not ben
eft, either side to sidestep by alleging
that the meat trust" is alone re-
sponsible. The farmer will suffer most
from reduction in the selling price of
meat, and the w%orkingman will be the
loser in event of a boycott on his
product.
In this situation lies the strongest
argument against the boycott. 1t has
always been recognized as a two-edged
weapon, and its use has been strongly
reprehended at all times. 1t has been
denounced as unfair n un-American,
and is under the ban OF the. courts. 1t
belongs in the category of weapons
that are being discarded by civilized
nations. In its present application 1t
ought to work some good, however, for
it Will show to both sides how unjust
II is.
. Another promise of the situation Is
that people will learn that high prices
are the natural outcome of conditions
easily understood. The prosperity Of
the farmer depends on his ability TO
sell his produce for the most money
o~btainable. This is true of the work
Ingman, who prospers only when he
gets high wages. Now, raw material
can not bring high prices, unless the
finished product also brings high
prices. So, the farmer can not eX-
pect to sell his grains, meat animals
and the like at top figures and buy the
output OF mills and factories at a lower
level. Nor can the workingman look
for top pay and expect to buy on the
basis OF lard times. And all the line
Of middlemen between the producer
and the ultimate are subject
TO similar conditions. With this inter-
dependence understood and appreci-
ated, the battle of the boycotts ap-
pears silly. Neither side of an ex-
change can expect to receive high
prices and pay low.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
Stock Market sensitiveness.

The sensitiveness of the stock mar
ket is again illustrated by recent in
cidents showing how the spectators
discount the probable action of the
government. The circulation of re-
ports fo~recasting a general onslaught
by the administration on all the big
corporations is credited with producing
a decided slump in quotations and a
In securities that bode no
good for legitimate industries, to say
nothing of speculative enterprises. A
statement from the White House to
the effect that NO indiscriminate trans
actions If corporations engaged in in
terstate business was contemplated,
and that the presidents position had
beer outlined in his message to con-
gress, which still expressed his views
and purposes, Immediately produced a
steadying effect and an upward move
ment in the stock market.
That the president should not take
c~ognizance of stock market jugglers in
determining on the course of the gov
eminent with reference to suspected
la~w-breakers will nowhere be gainsaid,
but 1t is plain that the stock market
operators take c~ognizance of the gov
eminent. Whether the president
should permit false reports of his in
tention, put in circulation to influence
the stock market, to go uncontradicted
opens up another question. The stock
market resembles a see-saw, of which
one side is always down when the
other is up, and the very correction
doubtless turns the scales more or less
to the advantage of another set Of
operators and does not necessarily of
set the winnings of the perpetrators of
the hoax. Ordinarily, 1t would be bet
ter to let stock market players pursue
their game under their own rules, each
looking out for himself at his own
risk. Occasions may arise, however,
when innocent victims and legitimate
undertakings are entitled to protec-
ton against false reports, in which
case the president will be justified in
making the truth known because no
one else can do so with the same au-
thority.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
PERSONAL NOTES.

The rascal who picked a Boston police
mans pocket goes to jail for a year. A
light enough sentence for lese-majeste!
Mr.. Taft believes that the president
should be the head of his party. There's
one Roosevelt policy that has not become
impaired.
Mrs. w. Eames Colburn, wife of the head
of a Chicago banking firm, has built a
modern seven room house for her thirty
five prize cats. The house is fitted up
with brass beds, silk draperies and lace
curtains.
The duke of Orleans sneaked right into
France the other day and was promptly
turned right around and sneaked right out
again. This appears to be the dukes cute
little way of getting his name in the papers
these days.
Vegetarians need not crow over the fact
that meat eaters are joining their ranks.
The recruits have enlisted only for a short
term, and though inspired by principle,
1t is not a principle involving affectionate
devotion to fodder and sawdust.
John McCutcheon, the Chicago cartoonist,
has been hunting in Africa with the ex-
president and has established some prowess
as a slayer Of wild beasts. Two lions and
a rhinoceros or two laid their lives at his
feet (on urgent compulsory, to say moth
ing of smaller game.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
The Indian Supply Depot.

Inasmuch as the latest attempt to
abolish our Indian supply warehouse
is not directed at the depot in Omaha
alone, but at all the depots in all the
cities in which they are maintained by
the government. the question Ia pre-
sented in a new form. When the ef-
fort was simply to strike Omaha from
the list of places in which Indian sup
ply warehouses should be maintained
it was up to our spokesman to show
that Omaha's peculiar geographical
situation and superior railroad facili-
ties made it a vantage point for the
purchasing and assembling of Indian
supplies and their distribution TO In
dian agencies in the central west as
compared with other distributing cen
tiers. The question now is as between
the system of purchase and inspection
at depot points and the system of pur-
chase without inspection until delivery
at the Indian agencies.
Abolition of the depot system will
cut Tie BONSlh lAlC Oh lAObu NhoIONOA
advantage accrues from transportation
in large quantities and the check on
contractors which inspection at the
depots provides. At present the sup
plies are bought at wholesale for de-
livery at the depot cities, where they
are reshipped as required to the In
dian agencies. In other words, the
government is doing right now. what
most big corporations do who buy in
bulk for a large number Of branch
houses, while the proposed change
would go back to business methods
that have been generally discarded.
Under such circumstances, 1t seems to
us that it is incumbent on those who
are advising the change to show first
that equally good or better results
could be had for less money with the
supply depots abolished.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
Our Birthday Book
january az, 1910.

Samuel Gompers, head of the American
Federation of Labor, is celebrating his six
tieth birthday. Mr.. Gompers was born in
England, but has been a labor leader In
this country for many years. He is a cigar
maker by trade.
General John c. Black, former commits
sioner of pensions, was born January q,
1889, at Lexington, Miss. He was educated,
however, in Illinois and went to the front
in the civil was as an Illinois volunteer.
He was commander-in-ch chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic six years ago, and
is now president OF the United States Civil
Service commission.
A. B. Stickney, best known as president
of the Chicago & Great Western, from
which position, however, he has lately re-
tired, is just 60 years old, Mr.. Stickney is
a native Of dame Omaha will always give
him credit for building his railroad to this
point and forcing the issues that started
Omaha as a grain market.
Ralph Modjeska, engineer and bridge
builder, was born January q, 1851, at Cra-
COW, Poland. His mother was the great
Polish actress, and he, himself, lived In
at one time when he was connected
with the engineering department OF the
Union Pacific, He Is now living in Chi
cago.
James p. Conner, member OF Iowa's con-
gressional delegation, is celebrating his
fifty-ninth birthday. Mr.. Come is a
Hoosier originally, but has lived at Den
nison, Ia, most of his life.
DR.. o. s. Wood, an Omaha pioneer and
veteran physician, was born January q.
1882, at B~inghamton, N. Y. He graduated
in medicine in Philadelphia and has been
practicing here since 1865.
John T.. Dillon, with law offices in the
New York Life building, was born jan
uary "a, 1854, at Roseville. Ill. lie prides
himself as having always been a staunch
republican and that his grandfather freed
his slaves while his father refused to own
any, although able to do so.
William Grant Lansing, state agent for
Nebraska and western lowe for the Nano-
tuck SILK company. with headquarters at
Omaha, is Al years old. He was born in
Brooklyn and has been a successful travel
ing salesman nearly all his life.
William Lampmann, accountant in the
county treasurer's office, is Just IS. His
birthplace is Dresden and he was edu-
Gated In Germany Mr., LAmpmann served
as private in the First Nebraska in the
Philippine
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
A LIFE WELL LIVED.
to }. A. Graham, Former
Editorial Writer Of The Bee.
ST IOuis Timaa |

~ SNAS me-
Joseph A. Graham. who died at Sails
bury, Md. January 20 was a man who
enjoyed a special kind and degree Of es-
TEEN In st. Louis, where he spent some
twelve years of his life.
He belonged to that fine type of gentle
men who like to have their qualities sought
out by the world and who seldom stand
forward in the throng unless urgently in
duced to do so.
He held to the high philosophy that
worth will not exist in vain and that true
modesty can never be accounted a fault.
even in an age Of much self-assertion.
He was perhaps not quite a conspicuous
figure during his life in st. Louis, yet
he made his character and worth a positive
force, and his friendships were among
those who We're best worth knowing
There was the rare quality of delightful
surprise in his quiet demeanor. Those who
considered him first and last as a news
paper man, where his good judgment and
sound taste were always in evidence were
sometimes afforded much pleasure by dis
covering that the newspaper man was
oddly versatile III his tastes.
When the big musicians came to the
Odeon in the concert season, you might &C.
casionally surprise a quiet, somewhat un-
impressive looking gentleman, whom you
would find examining, with keen eye, a
famous violin or cello, and you would
find that he knew the comparative merits
and special distinctions of all the instru-
ments which were historical.
His fondness for dogs and his knowledge
of them was we'll known When Caspar
Whitney took chafge of Outing Magazine
he was not long in discovering thai Mr..
Graham was just the man who could write
about pointers and settlers and other hunt
ing dogs with a fondness and discernment
which delighted all true sportsmen.
And there were the scholarly habits OF
mind OF the man which served as armor to
his gentle nature and made him forceful
and strong. "
Finally, his fine and placid mind was
such that his interpretations of life were
kindly and optimistic. He knew that 1t
was good to live: n such are the men
who, by one of Gods blessed paradoxes,
know that 1t is also good to die.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
Army engineers are to be asked to

Army engineers are to be asked to
make an estimate of the probable cost
Of works that will keep the Missouri
river permanently in its channel in this
vicinity, and the request is TO be
coupled with a demand upon congress
Tor an appropriation OF the funds
necessary up to 100000. Just on
a a impulse we venture to guess
that It WIN be much easier to get the
estimate than 10 get the appropriation
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
Waste and Conservation.

Americans have been reused lately
from their habits Of extravaganza in
dealing With natural resources. and
ara now pursuing most %zealously the
course that is ultimately to lead to the
conservation OF what is left of the once
wonderful natural wealth of the ccun-
try. 1t may be that the high prices
for foodstuffs will have a simila" eff
feet. The American housewife has
long rested unuer the accusation th8t
she wastes as much as would serve her
French sister to maintain a family.
out of this habit of waste, borne Of the
national tendency to extravaganza, has
come a condition that in some
is chaIgeable with responsibility for
the present situation.
Efforts to induce the American
farmer to undertake new ways OF eul-
tivating the soil promise him increased
yield. Intensified agriculture is rec
commended as certain to produce add
tional revenue, and thus to be sam
ciently profitable TO be attractive.
Why may not the workings Of the cook
ing schools and the household economic
classes have a similar eject by teach
ing the housewife TO do with less and
achieve the same result2 1t does not
appear 10 lie necessary TO eat less TO
accomplish this; conservation Of food
served to the family ought not to mean
that it be furnished with a niggard
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
A Fair Sample.

Thank God, Omaha isn't a fair sample
Of Nebraska.-Blair Pilot.
That is terribly distressing, but per-
haps our n~eighborly critic will be good
enough to inform us where to go
among the cities and towns Of Ne
braska to find a fair sample Of the
state. Most Nebraskans possessed of
common sense who take pride in their
state also take pride in Omaha as the
metropolitan city of the state. No
we'll grounded movement for the bet
terment of Nebraska, or for the de-
.velopment of its resources, fails to en-
list the hearty cooperation Of
Omaha, because the people here fully
realize that the state, and all the cities
n towns in it, are mutually Deepen
dent on the same source of prosperity
and must go up or down together.
Nebraska furnishes the raw material
out of which Omaha is made, and If
Omaha is not a fair sample Of Ne
braska, 1t cannot be a fault chargeable
to Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

company they keep. Aldrich and Cannon
are, as the correspondent points out,
friends of President Taft. They were
enemies of Roosevelt, and there is a very
widespread distrust of both leaders. Many
voters feel that any man is their friend
only because he helps them to the things
they want. Therefore they distrust Taft
for the company he keeps.
For these reasons the work which Presi-
dent Taft has done, In carrying out the
Roosevelt policies of corporation control
and Of conservation Of natural resources,
does not get the credit which it deserves
and fails to confer upon this administra-
ton the popular favor which attended his
predecessor.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

hand. But let the food be better pre-
pared, and let those portions that ave
perfectly good, but are now wasted, be
served in some one of many attractive
ways. and the end of conservation will
have been served.
II the farmers can make their lands
produce more and the housewives eau
make what they buy feed more, hen
the problem will have beer solved.
America can Their continue to feed the
world, and high prices will cease to be
the bugaboo it is to the man behind
the pocketbook.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
Treasury Theft a Mystery.

FHIIAutIpnIH BuIIetIn,
The action of congress in formally re-
lieving the assistant treasurer at Chicago
Of all responsibility for the theft OF $l7S, 900
in thousand dollar bills from the sums en-
trusted to his cutody recalls one of the
most peculiar cases of peculation in gov
ernmental annals. 1t is now nearly three
years since the money disappeared, and
all the efforts of the secret service have
failed either to trace it or to find who took
1t. Possibly the mystery will be cleared up
later-but in this instance, at least, the
theory tina the man who steals largely
from the treasury funds is sure to be
promptly caught and punished seems to
have proved erroneous.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

We may breathe much easier now
since we have been ssured that there
is no imminent danger of the comet
taking a header into the sun! Our
most eminent long distance computers
inform us that the comet edged up to
"Ofd Sol" last week as close as he dare
go and then was only 10000 miles
away. If he keeps this distance, as he
now seems likely to do, the sparker in
the suns engine will probably continue
to work without interruption and we
will all be safe, at least for a few
thousand years.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

1t might be in order to invite Con
gresham Macon and Congressman
Bennett to retire to the back yard and
have it out with their fists were it not
for the fact that Mr.. Macon would
be physically at a great disadvantage.
The Arkansas member belongs to the
bantam class, while his opponent
would size up with the middleweights.
The only way apparently that they can
at one another on the same level
is to pace fifty yards and throw Sc
lected words out Of an unabridged
dictionary,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

1t is given out on no lesser authority
than himself that w. H. Thompson,
who likes to be known as the Little
Giant" will run for the democratic
nomination for United States senator.
The Little Giant" has run for about
every office on the roster, and has once
in a while been allowed to catch a
hopeless nomination when no n else
wanted 1t. 1t remains to be seen
whether his running gait on the
democratic race track has improved.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
THE MAID AND THE CANARY.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
She watched the canary,
This maiden contrary,
So busily preeming himself
In the sun;
His feathers he oiled
With his bill, and he toiled
To smooth and TO polish
Each disarranged one.
He pulled out the stray ones
The ragged and gray ones,
His wee little body
He shook in delight,
He eyed himself graVely,
Then satisfied, bravely
A whistling sonata
He ave with his might.
"Oh, Dick" cried the lass,
"Shall / buy you a glass?
You're all the time fussinE
And printing, l swear;
You're all the time shining
Your feathers, or dining,
To make yourself pretty
Seems only your car
The way that you slick
Up your feathers, now Dick,
And spend so much time
On your looks is absurd, I#
You vain little, proud little
Stuck up young bird"
Then she fixed her hair back,
And reached down somewhere
For a soft channels rag,
And she powdered her nose,
She Strengthened her belt,
And she, woman-like, felt
At the back to be sure
OF just what, goodness knows.
From his perch Dick looked down,
As she fused with her gown,
And Strengthened each pleat
As all mt oft do.
And he said with a jerk
OF his head, and a smirk:
when ii comes to conceit
I've got nothing on you"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
A Concrete Example.


The merger of two prominent cement
companies with a combined capital stock
of $4,000, OOO-S, 900, 900 common, 5000, 900 pre-
feIred; the preferred bearing Z per cent
cumulative dividends-has an ominous look
for the buyers and builders. OF course,
economy Of production is the professed
object Of consolidation, but nobody is 50
gullible as to anticipate any consequent
reduction in prices. Mergers usually por-
tend higher prices and bigger dividends.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

Uncle Jim" Wilson airs a suspicion
that American farm produce may be
selling cheaper abroad than at home.
Still, If SO, that fact uoes not seem to
stop the stream of immigration from
European countries to this land of
high prices and high wages.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

To think that Jim" Hill should be
permitted to call at the White House
and have an audience with the presi-
dent! II the visitor were Jim" JEFF
fries or "Jim" Corbett the question
would, OF course, have no significance
and pass without adverse comment.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

City Attorney Burnam's official re-
port for the year is strangely silent on
the most important episode that oc-
CURED within his jurisdiction. He
should have told how he managed to
get along for several weeks, while his
shief assistant, who boasts of being
the only real lawyer in the ONCE. was
debarred from practicing in the courts.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

/ yer got, even higher than in wal
times and that he has sold other
farm products at correspondingly high
prices. AS a matter of fact. we have
not heard many real farmers com
planning about getting too much money
for their output.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
overreachinE Greed.

Baltimore American.
Some light on the increase Of cost of
living Is thrown on the subject by an in
vestigation Of the milk Increase in New
York by which the manipulators Of this
necessity of life are Gearing not thousands,
but millions. Power may have been the
ancient Moloch to which humanity was
ruthlessly sacrificed. Greed is its latter
day equivalent.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

Congressman Latta of the Third Ne
braska district stakes his reputation
as a political prophet that the demo
cratic candidates in 1912 will be Har-
NOR and shallenberger. Respectfully
referred to Edgar Howard.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

If Hetty Green thinks she is too
poor to eat meat. John D. Rockefeller,
Andrew Carnegie and a few other
folks like them who have to count
their pennies. will do well to inquire
whether hey can afford to keep off
OF the vegetarian diet.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

Omaha is to be oficiaIly represented
at a meeting of the Nebraska State
League Of Municipalities. 1t may yet
be susceptible of proof that Omaha is
located within the boundaries of Ne
braska.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

The titled barefoot dancer, who has
been enrabtlring London audiences,
has been stricken from the British
court list permitted to appear before
tAe king. NY, but King Edward is get
ting particular in his old age.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

Now we know why the cost of living
has gone up. According to the World
Herald it would all have been avoided
had the people only voted for Bryan
instead OF for Taft, and the way to
bring prices down now is TO vote the
democratic ticket at the next election.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

That Panama libel suit has been
thrown ont Of court before ven reach
ing the stage. of taking testimony. This
must be a sac disappointment to the
accused men who were counting on
this trial TO turn up a lot of good
newspaper headlines.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

Note the appropriateness Of turning
loose a federal grand jury to overtake
the cause of high prices under the
direction Of Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lands.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
what NextF
New York World.

The example of western farmers in hold
ing their wheat for higher prices has been
followed by Virginia peanut growers, with
the result Of an advance In price. II
farmers take to speculation, the consumer
may well be concerned about the cost OF
living.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
congressionaI

That congressional Investigation
starts off with the d~ecapitated Mr.
CLAWS on the witness stand. An anx-
ious public will soon learn whether
Mr.. Claws fired all his ammunition
at the first sortie or saved some for
the second round.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

1t doesn't strike us as fair to put
out that story about the $4,000 touch
on a New York banker without send
ing along the key to the puzzle.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
II VIII Help Some.

. NVTN E1W"ITN
1t begins to look as II the meat strike
would make this years observance Of Lent,
now rapidly approaching, a record-breaker
in the way Of unanimity and enthusiasm.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

Looks like a tug OF war between the
ultimate and the ultimate
producer. ,"'
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

Omaha's suburban towns are to be
oficially notified that they must pro-
vide their own fire protection and not
depend exclusively on the Omaha fire
department. Still, II any of them are
threatened with a real bad fire Omaha
may lend them a reel of hose OF a
ladder,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27
sure sign of wealth.

Cleveland Pain Dealer.
Possession Of a touring car was formerly
held to indicate ones wealth. Now it's the
sang froid with which one orders three
eggs for breakfast.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-27

Bellevue college will continue to do
business at Bellevue.