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Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
Railroads Reaching Out.

Some of the railroads are not will
ing to wait until they can raise their
freight rates to get money for i'm
provements. The Baltimore & Ohio is
proceeding with plans for the ex-
penditure of $35,OOO,OOO without
reference to freight rates, and the
Santa Fe has reached into it's pocket
and brought out $31, 100000 to invest
in improvements.
Here is $66,OOO,OOO to be spent by
two railroads for repairing and ex-
tending lines. The work is made
necessary partially because the prop
critics have suffered from wear and
tear and partially to afford greater
facilities to meet future traffic Traf-
flc has been increasing in this country
by wonderful bounds and will go on
so increasing, but Mr.. Hill recently
said that railroads could not afford to
continue these enormous expenditures
without the compensation of higher
freight rates. Some commodity rates
have gone up, but as yet there has
been no general advance and before
one is brought about it probably will
meet with stubborn resistance, for the
public is not yet convinced of the
necessity for such a move, nor does
the action of the Baltimore & Ohio
and Santa Fe tend to convince it any
more than the report of Mr.. Hill's
three leading roads declaring pei
cent dividends.
This government should not pursue
narrow-gauged policy toward rail
road management or development anC
it has not done so, but in the presen
economic conditions there is nothing
so overpowering in its argumentativ,
force as to make the people believ,
that a fiat raise in freight rates Il
necessary or would be fair.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
The Fight for Health.

One of the most hopeful signs is the
persistence with which the fight
against disease is being carried on.
This is due above all other reasons to
the fact that in the army battling for
health are enlisted intelligent men
mined to push the warfare. 1t is
scientific as we'll as sentimental, and
the union of thinkers and workers
who are backing the movement means
that only good can be accomplished.
These people have not undertaken to
work miracles, nor do they propose to
accomplish the impossible. What
they have set about doing is to spread
the enlightenment of modern knowl-
edge among those who most need it
and to educate the great masses to the
point where the great white plague
will be no more. because each indi-
vidual will understand what is neces-
sary in order to avoid the onslaught of
the disease.
4 hC iOhiOuy 10 oAmpiS anu SCt IaiAA
The work of spreading the information
is definite and exact and the result
can only be success. The workers
have made much progress, but are not
looking back to see how far they have
come. They know the goal is still
ahead of them and are pressing stead
| lily forward.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
JUsTIFIABLE ANxIETY.
Protest Against Appointing Railroad
Lawyers. to the Bench.

.-.. st Joseph News Press. e.
The question. Of, who shall succeed Jus
tice Brewer ON the United States supreme
bench is Of much concern to the Nebraska
State Railroad commission, according to ad-
vices from Lincoln.J The commission would
impress on the mind of President Taft the
necessity of appointing to this high office
someone whose mind has not been formed
in. the employ of corporations. A member
OF the commission has given it out that,
while there is no disposition to reflect on
anyones honesty, 1t is nevertheless a fact
that a jurist schooled In the office of a
corporation lawyer thinks in certain fixed
channels. "Unconsciously," says the com
mission, 'he looks at every case that comes
before him from the angle of the vested
interests He can't help it. He thinks
he is being eminently fair to both parties
in controversy, whereas as a matter of
fact, he Is biased in favor of organized
capital, and against the people,"
Unquestionably there is much in the point
made by the Nebraska commission. But
this is only one. of several of the pitfalls
by which modern institutions tend to be-
tray the jurist from the straight and mar
row path of the ideal Judge. A bill was in
troduced in the Indiana legislature three
years ago making 1t unlawful for cam
paign committees to levy assessments on
candidates for judicial positions, and for
such candidates to pay them. The bill was
defeated but it's wisdom is obvious. Under
an elective judiciary system our judges are
necessarily involved to some extent in
politics. They favor, and often find it diff
cult to avoid incurring obligations which
they cannot, consistently with their Of
fcial duties, perform. The surprising thing
is that our judges should, as a rule, show
such complete independence as they do
show.
The Judge who is to be elected should be
spared the necessity Of mourning political
debts, and in the Judge who is to be ap-
pointed disinterested openmindedness should
be esteemed the prime qualification.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
Rennhlinan Sincerity.

Congressman Longworth hit the
nail squarely on the head when he
said that the time of adjournment is
unimportant to congress as compared
with the redemption Of every pledge
made to the people and the fulfillment
of the entire Taft program. The coun-
try cares little whether congress ad-
journs in June or July, but it cares
much what congress does before it ad-
journs.
The people must want the Taft pro
gram carried out OF they would not
have said so when that program was
submitted to them in 1908, and the
fact that republican leaders on the
floor Of both houses of congress are
taking the position of Mr.. Longworth
will doubtless sustain public conf
dence against the democratic CAM
paign which has set in a little early
this year-especially when the repub-
licans have made good so many of
their pledges already.
The republican party cannot, as the
Ohio congressman pointed out, afford
to have its good faith questioned at
this time. While there is no occasion
for flying the danger flag, there is
every reason for sobeF, cautious action,
for the party is coming up to a con-
test in the fall elections which not
only involves the continuance of its
majority in congress, but It may in
volve the integrity of the party. OF
course, sentiment plays a part in every
election and it is a difficult factor to
meet with argument, but IL the repub-
licans go into this campaign with the
consciousness of duty done, so that
they may be able to point to their
pledges before election and to their re-
demption after, they will have nothing
to fear.
An honest analysis of what has been
accomplished since Mr.. Taft and con
gress went into power March 4, 1909,
can reveal nothing but a clean slate
of public service, and it is this fact
and nothing else that is disturbing the
democrats, who pretend to be deriving
great comfort from other sources. The
party has kept the faith and all it has
to do now is to keep its head and not
| to become stampeded.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
Enforcing Criminal Law.

Samuel Untermyer, one of the lead
ing corporation lawyers of New York,
denounced trusts and monopolies as
worse than the robber barons of old"
in an address on evils and Remedies
in the Administration of the Criminal
Law" before the American Academy
of Political and Social Science in Phil
adelphia. He also derided the con-
stitution as THAT great document of
compromises" and insisted on vital
changes in 1t. He made charges and
admissions which the Samuel Inter
myer who pleads for the large cor
porations before a court of justice
would not make.
Mr.. Untermyer wants the fourth
amendment to the federal constitution
repealed. 1t reads: -t'
The right OF the people to be secure in
their persons. houses, papers and effects
against unreasonable searches and ssiz-
ures shall not be violated, and no warrant
shall issue but upon procurable cause,
supported>by oath or affirmation and par
searched and the person or things to be
seized.
He also wants repealed the fifth
amendment, which reads:
No person shall be compelled in any
criminal case to be witness against him
self
These demands will be considered
revolutionary by some and their pro
posal by a man who defends large in,
terests for large fees will provoke
much comment. 1t must be admitted
that II these amendments were re
pealed. men who strain legal points
and scull arguments along devious
routes OF technical hair-splitting IL
order to save their clients would have
harder tasks before them, and so We
must applaud the courage of Mr.
Untermyer.
But Mr.. UntermVer forces the ques
tion. ''Is II the law or the lawyer?
And he probably would be the first I,
deny that the prodigioIs skill Of
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
Splitting the Fees.

Members Of the medical profession
hereabouts, as we'll as throughout the
country, are endeavoring to devise
ways and means to put an end to the
practice of splitting fees between
physicians and surgeons. The split
ting of fees is coming more and more
to be regarded as a species of graft,
and its Objectionable and vicious
features are calling for severe con
domination. If a physician sends a
patient to n surgeon or to a specialist
and then claims a percentage out of
the final bill, it means one of two
things-either the patient is mulcted
excessively or the surgeon or specialist
Is buying mis- patronage on a market
where the biggest percentage will com
mand the business.
OF course, this split fee. business is
not new in the medical profession, as
a similar practice of dividing has pre-
vailed at times between the physician
and the druggist, the physician and
the hospital, and even the physician
and the undertaken. But with the re-
finement of the profession these coarse
forms have been tabooed and dis
carded, so that the split-up survives
principally only between the physician
and the surgeon or specialist. 1t goes
without saying that the general public
will be heartily in sympathy with any
reform that will stop graft, either pri-
vate or public, and will wish the med
ical reformers every success.
This split fee game, however, is not
played alone by the medical men, but
also by practitioners in other pro-
fessional fields. The lawyer who
sends client to another lawyer in an
other city, or in the same city, fire.
quently demands ''divvy." This is
the regular procedure in collection
cases and more or less regular in other
kinds of litigation. The lawyer, how
ever, does not ordinarily let a client
get away from him if he can help it,
preferring to keep the emoluments all
| to himself, which doubtless explains
why more lawyers fees are not split.
The minister of the gospel is sup
posed to be only occasionally Sub
jected to pressure for a hand-out, pre-.
sumably because he is constantly the
recipient of favors, and too often
treated as a subject of charity. With
him it is usually a mere matter of rec
iprocity, the minister recommending
/ the physician who treats his own fam
lily for nothing, and the lawyer who
does his law business without charge
and so on down the line. If such an
exchange were an even exchange nc
one would be hurt, but If one party
gets the best of it, or if both get the
besS of it at the expense of a third
party, the measure of graft is only one
of degree.
So if the "medics" succeed in either
suppressing or only repressing the
split fee evil, and set an example fol
its victims in other professions as we'll
they will be entitled to a credit mark
if nothing more substantial.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
Our Birthday Book
April ae, 1910.

David Henderson, theatrical manager,
was born April 26, 1853, at Edinburgh. He
has put on the road great many Of the
most popular Extravaganza including the
famous 1892" during the Chicago Worlds
fair.
Henry T.. Clarke, pioneer waterway
boomer and retired capitalist was born
April 26, 1884 at Greenwich, N. Y. Mr.
Clarke built one OF the first bridges across
the Platte, donated the ground on which
Bellevue college is loacted, helped organize
the Board OF Trade and the Commercial
club and has been delegate to all sorts Of
Industrial and commercial congresses
Fred w. Heron, general agent of the
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance company Of
Philadelphia, officing in The Bee building.
is S7 He is a native Of Moline, H., and
has been with his present company in
various positions continually since 1902.
William a. Aycrigg. consulting engineer.
with offices in The Bee building, was born
April 26. 1859. at Passaic. N j. He is a
graduate civil engineer from Rensselaer,
Polytechnic institute at Troy. and has
had wide experience as a railway engineer
and bridge builder. He also served for a
brief period as city engineer for Omaha.
e. f. Muffitt, secretary OF II. j. Pen
fold company. dealers in surgical instru-
ments and physicians supplies, is A. He
was with the Goodman Drug company
from 1885 to 1891. and from that date with
the present establishment, first under the
name OF Aloe g. Penfod ana later as at
present incorporated.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

I-IITuUtIpIId INVCUTU.
The civilized negroes of Liberia bitterly
complain that the vutures of the neighbor-
ing colonies of England and France are
spreading their wings to pounce down upon
the ill-starred republic, They therefore
call loudly for the help of the mother coun-
try, one of whose presidents gave his name
to its capital Of Munrovia. The question
is whether anything of real value can be
done to save the republic from it's fall.
Between the whites, in whose hands is the
whole trade of the coast, and the 1000, 900
odd savages the $4,000. civilized negroes are
threatened with extinction.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
In WHISPERS.

Puck.
Here, love, you have ten million plunkB
In lieu of allmony;
So pack your siXty-seven trunks
And call the cart and pony.
The moving van I've ordered here
At 3 o'clock precisely;
At 4 you then can disappear,
Which suits us both quite nicely
At haye a golfing date,
So please be prompt in starting,
or Mrs, Swift will have TO wait
While you and are parting.
At s-What's that? You want to know
The steps that I have taken?
Don't worry, deRr-a day or so
VIII do or I'm mistaken.
/ whisper to my counsel, Fudge.
Who whispers to your lawyer,
And then they whisper TO the Judge,
Who's known as Whisp' ring Sawyer.
And then the judge he whispers back,
They whisper all together
They seem 20 suffer from lack
OF breath this whispering weather
The Judge he whispers to the clerk.
Who whispers: "Just tho caper!
And, whisp'rin still, he sets 10 Work
To draw the proper paper
In whispers It Is read and signed
ono scarcely hears these llspers-
And that's the way-oh, most reuned'-
We get divorced-in Whispers
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

learned lawyer in distorting the law,
in stretching II beyond the point Of its
real meaning, or actual purport, ever
saved any violator Of the law from it's
just penalties.
There should be no other excuse
for a criminal trial than the facts, and
IL they convict a man he should be
punished and II they fail to convict him
he should be acquitted, and no amount
of skill or learning or money should
be permitted to change the result.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
One Black sheep In the Flock.
st. Louis Republic


In connection with the defalcation of
Captain Oberlin M. Carter it ought to be
remembered that his case is unique in the
history of the corps Of engineers. Scores Of
millions have passed through the hands of
the engineer officers; this is the sole in
stance of even a change of malfeasance.
The level of integrity Of the engineers
shows no fluctuation; Carter's misdoing
was q lusus naturae.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
PERSONAL NOTES.

Anthony j. Drexel multlmllionaire has
entered a protest because New York
hotel charged him s1,75 for a cup Of tea
and two eggs.
The $4,000 memorial to the late Speaker
Reed will be unveiled at Portland In
August Perhaps Danville will do as much
for Cannon some day.
An Altoona man saved a bevy Of VI, hen
from peril, and one by one they huggod
their rescuer. What could a mere Carnegie
medal mean to him now?
While looking at Halley's comet Mrs. Jo-
sephine Osterman of Evansville, Ind, aged
&C. became very excited and died from a
sudden attack Of heart disease Mrs Os-
terman remembered seeing the comet in
the thirties.
Frank seidler Is the biggest engineer on
the Wilhamsport end OF the PHILADELPHIA
q Reading system, and he has the 'Ilttlest'
engine. The engine looks like a toy along
side the monsters that handle coal trains
or that go pounding along with general
freight. 1t is an engine that was once con-
sidered some pumpkins" on the road, but
1t has got down to pulling a worltrain. The
big engineer of this tiny, old-fashioned en-
gine weighs 800 pounds.
William Jennings Bryan is rapidly be-
coming bald" reports a Washington cor
respondent. He is clnging with great
tenacty to what hair he has left. With
that perversity which marks men who hate
badness, he refuses to have his locks
! trimmed The result is that he has a great
cluster OF bushy curls forming rim from
a line just above his ears well down to his
coat collar. The mass is literally streaked
with gray. AS the hair falls away a well
formed head Of the dome variety is re-
| venlnd- ~
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

The voluminous report by a govern
ment expert has merely served to con-
firm what was we'll known to the citi-
zens of Omaha-that so long as water
is pumped from the Missouri river
danger OF contamination exists. The
expert advises that as soon as possible
the intakes must be changed and that
better means for publication must be
provided. The only real service ap-
parent as the result of this Official visit
is, perhaps, it will serve to prepare
Omaha people for the additional bond
issue that will be necessary in the
event the city ultimately comes into
possession of the water plant.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
Everybody Lost out.

4NVN i VI n IIIUUIIV.
The Philadelphia street car strike has
been declared off after eight weeks of ex-
hausting hostilities 1t is estimated that
the traction strikers lost IN wages $3.50 900,
the sympathetic strikers in the textile and
other trades R220O,OOO, the RAPID Transit
company 100000 and other employers and
business men generally s12,oOOOOO. 1t was
case Of everybody losing and nobody
gaining The traction company and the
strikers are now just where they were be-
fore, except for eight weeks of experience
in wasting their substance, with absolutely
no results.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

an adherence to the prescribed ration as
is now followed with the liberal savings
clause Of the regulations, the only differ
ence being that under the present system
1t is impossible to trace the accounts accu-
rately, whereas under the new system q
true, accurate and simple form of account
ing would be followed. No cash will be
turned over to the organization or detach-
ment commander until the end of the
month, when the balance due him or the
commissary, as the case may be, will be
paid and the accounts certified.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
NTantles to the NInseum.

SIOUX CITY ITIbune.
The shedding of mantles by Aldrlch and
Hale does not alarm Dolliver or his asso-
ciate insurgents. To the anxious query
of someone who thinks that government
cannot go on unless someone puts on and
wears these falling mantles he replies that
the mantles will go to the national museum
in the Smithsonian institute and be put
among the other relics of days that are
forever gone.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

The Detroit Free Press suggests
that If your wife is suffragette hiss
her biscuits and see how she likes 1t.
Those are the very biscuits you'd bet
ter not hiss.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

II that Lincoln banker will come to
Omaha and put up a 100000 build
ing we will let him stretch a banner
both ways across the sidewalk, and he
doesn't need to limit himself to $780,
900. If he wants to go higher the
town can stand It.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

The Baltimore Sun puts a very
personal question up to Lord Kitch-
ener, who found New York's fair ones
so charming he all but succumbed,
asking, WAS he afraid to come to Bal
timore?"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

AS a matter Of fact those demo
cratic well-wishers or the republican
party are completely disconnected over
the announced retirement Of Aldrich
and Hale and the reduction OF Can
mons power.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Having been assured for the umpty
ampth time that the world is in no
danger Of Halley's comet. mankind
can now resume it's wonted task of
cussing the weather man.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Governor Patterson turns from par
doning his friend, the murderer of
former Senator Carmack. and an
nounees his candidacy for reelection.
Now is your chance. Tennessee.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Why it should be necessary to make
the announcement that Roosevelt will
not 80 back on Taft is puEzling. The
records of both men are clearly
against any such possibility.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

The consolation is little bit cold.
but the thrifty housewife will not have
to cook herself over hot stove next
summer putting up fruit.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Mayor seidei of Milwaukee has
started out well by declining a chau-
tauQua offer, which is more than GER
tain other Wisconsin notables have
done.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26
Cheer Uni There Are Others.


washington Post.
Bryan won't run for the senate; Aldrich
WON'T Hale won't. And now Governor
Marshall of Indiana, who hasn't been
asked, says he won't, But there are others
who will; so cheer up
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Still, there is time enough to go into
mourning over those lost crops. Old
Sol usually gets in some good licks
after the rain has done its part.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

The peerless leader has been or
dained an elder in the Presbyterian
church, and in the meantime his sena-
torial boom grows apace.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

fact, It has been suggested by one or
two Of them that the governor might
go to that other place which is said to
be next TO Texas In high temperature.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Dispatches indicate that England's
rubber boom is stretching the price
of the raw material having more than
doubled in year.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Mrs. Byers-All the big berries are on the
top OF this box, l suppose.
Peddler-No, mum; some Of 'em are on
the top of de other boxes.-Boston Tran
script.
II defy any one to name a field of en-
deaVor in which men do not receive more
consideration than womenv exclaimed the
orator at suffragette meeting,
The chorus" murmured some rrespon-
sible person.-Lippincott Magazine.
Higgins--How were the areoplane races
yesterday? .t'..
Wggins-Good, only for the fact that tho
track was too heavy for making records.
Higgins-What do you mean?
Wiggins-They were pulled off over Pitts
burg, you know.-Puck.
Mr. Blinks lin art museum)-I didn't
know you were such an admirer of curios,
Mrs Blunderby.
Mrs Blunderby-Oh, yes. indeed; Just
delight in iniquities,-Boston Transcript
I'm truly sorry, ma a'am" said Old Hunks
to the widow, TO see you IN such hard
luck. You mustn't let It distress you,
though. 1t may be all for the best"
Then he went and foreclosed the NOR
tgage.-Chicago Tribune.
1T was rather hard to lose your daugh-
ter, ,eh?" remarked the guest, after the
"Oh! no." replied the brides father.
1T did seem hard at one time but Mary
finally landed this FELLOW just as we were
losing all hope. e."-Catholic Standard and
Times
Good Man--Ah, my poor fellow, I feel
sorry for you. Why don't you work? When
1 was young for ten years never was in
bed after 8. An hours work before break
fast then five hours work, then four hours
more work, then supper. then bed, then up
again at next morning.
| Loafer-I say, boss. where did you serve
your time-Sing Sing or Joliet.-Columblan
Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Now that we have been assured the
comet will not end the world. we
might resume our plans and proceed
with business
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

San Francisco papers are trying to
snub the Jeffries-Johnson fight. They
are only giving it three columns a day
at present.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

Strange that Mr.. Bryan is unable to
prevent his friends from urging him
for the senate, or has he yet found
Dut about those petitions?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-26

II Governor ShallenOerger should
finally determine to go to Texas it is
likely that some of his former friends
could possibly support the loss. In