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Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
The Spring "Wanderlust. :,

AS the warmer months of the year
approach the moving season begins and
the great vans. piled high with house
hold furniture, will go slowly from
street to street. In the country ten
ants have been going from farm to
farm and are now well along in their
preparation for the spring planting.
Young men are seeking new positions,
many are going from city to country,
some are moving from state to state
or from the east to the western coast.
It is an annual occurrence and is regu-
larly provided for by the railroads and
the moving companies of the cities
Yet the changing, restless spirit of
this season of this particular year is
vastly more extended than one would
imagine. A whole community of high
class Hollanders recently arrived in
New York, going directly to Mime
sofa to locate on land which had al
ready been purchased for them. Each
person had at least 81 1000 in money,
dLu uil WVi0 EABClb nuAl ldA AliCAHs GOV
eral other companies of a like high
class of people have also arrived here
this year, while thousands of vigorous
English, Scotch and Irish immigrants
are coming to Canada, and Americans
are going to Canada by the hundreds
English papers are lauding the agri-
cultural opportunities in South Africa,
Australia and New Zealand, while the
Germans are urging the advantages of
German Africa for its restless peas
antry. In Siberia, China, Persia, Ar
gentina and Brazil--in fact in every
nation and among every people on the
globe an unprecedented restlessness
and changing is reported. Humanity
seems to be on the move as never be-
fore.
It is noteworthy, too, that those who
have caught the spirit are so markedly
from the wellto-do middle class of the
older nations. New fields Of labor, n
new home on farm in new country,
where opportunities are good, where
climate and coil are of the best and
where there is room to expand and to
grow, seems to be a general desire. 1t
means new communities not only in
America, but in every new country in
the world, and it is also worth noting
that large percentage of the new
comers are passing by the congested
cities and are going to the farms.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27


The picture OF Easter morning given
In the text OF the New Testament scrip
ture is not entirely joyous one. The
impression first received is one Of sad
ness. The women coming early to the
tomb with ointment and spices where
with to embalm the body Of Jesus we're
weeping as they came. The disciples
OF the Master had spent the night In
sadness, Encouragement and despond-
ency. There is a darkness and a de-
spalr in their souls which weighed
heavily upon them. They did not know
what to believe, what to think or to
hope Defeated, overthrown and
crushed, with their Master crucified,
they we're hiding from the gaze of all
mankind. Had Jesus come to earth,
lived and died in vain?
But what a change took place dur
ing the early hours Of Easter morning
The bright sun had risen to shine on
the fulflllment of a prophecy as old as
scripture itself According to the bib
lica account the resurrection of Jesus,
the Master, the Redeemer Of the world,
filled the hearts of the disciples anew
with hope eternal Death had been
swallowed up in victory and the sun Of
the hope shone to them again.
There is something inspiring in the
natural manner in which these great
events we're recorded. The triumph of
Palm Sunday, when Jesus entered
Jerusalem, had been followed by days
of shuddering fear and grief and fore
boding OF disaster. Then came the
crash OF events and the plunging Of
hope into the pit OF despair. But it
rose again all the brighter, the more
beautiful and the more divinely inspir-
ing because of the contrast The res
direction was the hope of the world
only because of the despair which
would have obtained throughout all
eternity had It not taken place.
And it was wisely so for human ma
ture can grasp its meaning in no other
way. Hope is not hope without despair
to make It so; life has no meaning
without the fact of death; happiness is
not happiness without sorrow, and rest
is not rest without weariness. There
must be light If we are to understand
darkness and night If we appreciate
the day. II all created matter were of
one hue It would be the same as
though there were no color at all, Just
as the noise of Niagara cataract soon
becomes as silence to one constantly
within the sound OF its roar. 1t was
the despair Of the Christian faith,
when Jesus lay in the tomb, which
gave such glory and such triumph to
the resurrection Of that Easter morn
| ing
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

An honest councilman is the lonesomest
as well as happiest person in Pittsburg.
Mount Aetna is practicing up bit for a
proper greeting to Roosevelt. The mighty
hunter is an expert in starting things.
The uplift in the price of pork has
some merit. 1t helps the railroad ham
sandwich to move into respectable society.
Members of the Roosevelt reception COM
mittee in New York are stumped to find
reserved seats for the honorary members
of the Ananias club.
Bounced on the spot was the deserved
fate Of Chicago policeman found guilty
OF accepting a 5O-cent bribe The Windy
City, with its wealth OF opportunity can
not tolerate cheap policeman
As a. sign of sympathy for the unforti-
nate, generous New Workers offer to BRO
cure excursion rates for the twenty-four
wives of bogus baron sent up for nine
years, provided the wives agree to travel
together. ire t-
F, Augustus Heinze. former copper king
Of Butte, is booked for trial in the federal
court of New York beginning April 25. Mr..
Heinze is accused of high finance deals
with national' bank money similar to the
road for fifteen years.
Tom johnson, Clevelands valiant foe
OF monopoly, is now fighting the hardest
battle Of his career, and the stake is his
life Cleveland papers say his condition is
critical, and that his trip to Carlsbad, un-
dertaken against the advice of friends and
family, is in the nature OF a forlorn hope.
From the various reasons given for the
stiff price OF domestic ice it is inferred that
the thickness and hardness of the cut and
packing a bumper crop up against the
roof required such extra labor and ex-
pense that the dealers, In self defense, had
to get together and fix the price just right.
One DIR. f, A. Cook, who will be remem-
bered as the author of a magnificent line
of first page advertising last fall, is COM
ing up from the southland by easy stages.
He is expected in New York early in April
with a replenished stock OF glad-hand
smiles and stories in assorted colors suited
to the first day of the month. on that day
the doctor shines.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
Productive and unnroductivs.


The current discussion Of the in
creased cost Of living and the causes
assigned for the higher level of prices
is again rejecting the commonly pre-
vailing confusion of idea as to produc-
tive and unproductive labor and CAPT
tai. In his plea for the conservation
of wealth James j. Hill undertakes to
ascribe unsatisfactory conditions to a
national waste of capital in the form
of taxes annually collected Ito unpro-
ductive purposes that the state rep
resents when 1t transcends its primary
function as keeper of the peace and
administrator of justice"
The old idea of medieval political
economy was that no labor was pro-
ductive If it was not in some way ap-
piled to land and thus added to what
was called the net product. The old
English classical economists kept a
division between productive and un-
productive laborers, drawing the line
at energy put into material form and
making all the other dependents sup
ported by them. Mr.. Hill has mixed
this notion with the obsolete police
mans theory of government represent
ing as unproductive all expenditure
that does not add to the capital fund
and charging up all governmental &C
tivity as Improbable luxury.
1t should be almost unnecessary to
recall that these crude conceptions
have been long ago discarded by polit-
ical scientists and that no one of
recognized authority now undertakes
to limit government to "its primary
function as keeper Of the peace and
administrator OF Justice" On the
contrary, government is regarded as
the associated effort of the citizens to
perform work for the public benefit
carried on by private individuals OF
groups of individuals, and that the
combined effort through the govern,
ment is really more productive of ben
| 6ntS TO one anu all ludu WOulu De
achieved in any other way. There is
nothing ineonceivable in the govern
ment turning over to private cor
poration its function "as keeper of the
peace and administrator of justice,
but the chances are that such a course
would be less productive of peace and
more productive OF injustice than the
exercise Of those functions by the gov
ernment
So the words, productive and un
productive, whether applied to labor
capital or governmental activity, neeC
to be aualifed by saying Of what the!
are productive. whether of materia
wealth or mental expansion, OF phys
ical health justice and morality. o.
merely of pleasurable satisfaction
Merely because our governments have
reached out into all sorts Of new
nelds and require additional resources
through taxes. sale OF bonds OF tn,
conduct Of semi-industrial enterprises
does not call for condemnation, bu
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
suits Apainst the rtate.

A paper entitled "The Dishonesty of
Sovereignties," by Simon Fleischmann,
a Buffalo attorney, is being circulated
in pamphlet form. In this address the
author inveighs vehemently against the
remnant of the doctrine that the king
can do no wrong which survives in
the exemption of state and local gov
ernments from being suable at law in
the same manner that private individ-
uals and corporations may be" sued.
The refusal Of the states to, permit
their own courts to. do justice as be-
tween them and those who have legal
claims against them is denounced as
species of dishonesty without pallia-
tion or justification unless reputation
OF honest debts and obligations may be
justified simply because the debtor
cannot be forced to pay up.
1t goes without saying that there is
no argument against deliberate dishon-
esty, whether practiced by states or
individuals or associations of individ-
uals, and the surprising thing is that
the author of this paper enumsrates
Nebraska among long list of states
and territories with mo courts or other
tribunals for the enforcement of pri-
vate claims against the state and in
which private claimants cannot resort
to any existing court or other tribunal
without special legislative enactment
and consent"
In point of fact the state constitu-
tion of Nebraska distinctly makes the
state suable and is mandatory upon
the legislature to provide the means to
prosecute such suits as follows:
The state may sue and be sued, and
the legislature shall provide by law ip
what manner and in what courts suits
shall be brought
Carrying out the intent of this con
stitutional provision a general law may
be found on our statute books dating
from 1877 comforting jurisdiction to
entertain suits against the state of Ne
braska upon all the district courts.
with appeal to the supreme court, and
making it impossible for the state to
evade service. In this way claims re-
jected by the state auditor may be sued
on with or without being first pre-
sented to the legislature, although, of
course, inasmuch as no money can be
legally drawn from the state treasurer
except by warrant on specific apprO-
priations, judgments obtained against
the state must wait for legislative ap-
preparation unless an existing fund is
available. The pamphlet referred to.
although it quotes an attorney in Ne
braska as saying, II think the law is
reasonably sufficient and satisfactory
yet puts Nebraska in the same class
with states that are accused of prac-
ticipg 1.-The dishonesty OF sovereign.
ties" We submit that TO lodge false
accusation against Nebraska is as dis
honest as would be the refusal OF the
state to permit honest claims against
II to be adjudicated.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
EASTER.

Joel Benton in Columbian Magazine.
A little bird, when He was born,
In poor estate, despised, forlorn,
Sang all night long in it's small tree,
Under the sky Of Galilee.
Long centuries had come and flown
Before this King came to His tnoakf
When all the purpling hills grew raFr
And wonders fell on land and air. y
Strange were the portents from afar--
The radiance of that Eastern Star
The Wise Mems search the Child TO see,
And all the gracious symbolry.
In a rough manger He was found,
With kline and oxen close around
A stable home, endowed to bring
To earth its Everlasting King.
The little bird sang full and free
OF all the glories yet to be,
And made the breadth OF Palestine
The cradle Of all things divine.
One buffeted and scourged-but see
How mad unholy wrath can be;
The reckless foes, for whom He came.
Have jeweled His immortal name
So now, when Springs first blossoms blow
And fade the last cold depths OF snow,
We know In every field ana sphere
That Immortality is herei
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
Our Birthday Book
March AZ, 1910.

A. w. Greeley major general Of the
United states army. retired, was born
March 81, 1874 at Newburyport, Mass
General Greeley attained fame as polar
explorer and Is an authority on climatic
ana geographical sciences. He was chief
signal officer Of the army. and later was
in command OF the Department Of the
Missouri. residing here In Omaha
Rev willet ID. King pastor OF Cherry
Hn Congregational church, was born
March q, 1865. In Winnishiek county. Iowa.
lie secured his theological education In
Chicago. and before coming 20 his Omaha
charge five years ago was pastor at Moor
land, Allison Bear Grove and Atlantic. Ia,
and Hyannin, Neb.
Martin s. Brown. assistant chief clerk
Of the local Burlington freight office, Is
lust twenty-five He was born at North
Platte. Neb.. and has worked his way up
with the Burlington from a messenger boy.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
RELATED DISCOVERY.
Professor Mabray's NOtatiOns on the
bible.

Kansas City Star.
Il never knew what a wonderful book
the Bible was Until / got into jail" said
j. c. Mabray, the professional swndler
when he was committed to the Lesven-
worth federal prison.
and it requires no particular strain upon
the imagination TO accept his statement
Mabrays career does not suggest that Of a
young man whose delight is in the law
of the Lord" or one who had devoted any
considerable amount of time in "meditat-
ing'' ovsr the scriptures.
But the fact that Mabray was forced TO
become acquainted with the Bible after he
was sent to jail is a condition for which
he alone is to blame. II cannot be charged
against society, the church or any en-
vironment of his life For the Bible is in
circulation even in Arkansas. where Mr..
Mabray found It convenient at times to
hide himself, and 1t could have been pro-
cured at any time at less cost than 1t Is
easy to suppose Mr.. Mabray paid for the
kind of literature that he has been ac-
customed to read.
Nevertheless, there is stlll time for him
to pursue with profit the study OF the fine
old book he has Just discovered. 1t Is
certain that the new ideas" he says he
gathered from It we're not like the old ideas
that took him TO the Leavenworth prison,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
ECONOMIC NaIue of Bnhles.

New York American
In spite of our high food prices our ma
tional baby crop promises to be a record
breaker. Based on figures compiled by a
Boston economist it's value for 1910 will
be S4sS7, 100000 These figures represent,
approximately, OF course, the economic
value to the United States based on po-
tential productive capacity Of the 2,5Oo0oO
babies which It is calculated will consti-
tute this years crop. This makes each
six.pound youngster worth about sara, or
1862 a pound
While New York state can lay claim to
producing one-tenth Of the last years baby
crop. It cannot wear the laurels for the
greatest increase per 1000 population.
North Dakota heads that list with S65
births. and New England ends 1t with 176.
The figures show that the west is the best
country for the baby, as it is for the corn
crop.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27

through the house, but the explanation
is added. however, that II the annual
custom is followed the senate will re-
store and the house reluctantly yield.
Still. custom is not always followed,
as recall the time when the house
voted to stop the sale of liquor in the
capitol restaurant expecting the senate
to interpose a saving clause, only to
meet with sad disappointment when
the senate refused to play the goat.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
saddenIng Public scandal.
Philadelphia Ledger.

PhladeIphIa IeuBer,
The Pittsburg scandal is indeed q sad
dening episode in the history Of municipa
government in this country and the most
cogent argument for the commission form
of government, which makes very small
group Of men the responsible administra-
tors of a citys affairs. The brightest as
pect of the situation lies i'm the fact that
few men, mot in malice nor in anger,
had the courage to expose the dereiiction
OF their fellow citizens for the sake OF the
common welfare and for the sake, Of their
city .t- .t ..1
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
MENACE TO AMERICAN HOMES.
Great Task of Conservation Put Up
to American Women.



Harpers Bazaar
In the United States we shift our homes
as thoughtlessly as we change our gar
ments. With ever-diminishing Importance,
improved In convenience, perhaps, but
stripped OF that almost sacred charac-
ter which memories alone supply, the
American home follows in the wake Of bust
ness necessity or opportunity, and becomes
finally nothing more than a house where
majority of the family are staying for
a while. Father lives where he works, the
year round; when he can, he sleeps, and,
occasionally, he eats at home. II the family,
stays in the city winters, It may go to the
country to board or II may rent a house
in the suburbs for the summer in which
case the family that stays in the suburbs
in the winter has rented its house to 80
to the seashore to board.
It needs no argument TO establish that the
family which Is the cornerstone OF the ma
tion" is one which is a physical unit; which
lives together, works together keeps to-
gether at almost any cost This solidarity
alone assures the development OF those sen
timents which make a nation strong; II is
the more indispensable 70 u.s. a democracy.
because the family has no established place
on as we are going father living in the
counting room, mother staying anywhere
that family cares leave her freest to pur-
sue her highest aims the children. reduced
10 equations in the science OF child culture,
developing their unknown quantities always
under the direction OF paid educators, and
we shall arrive eventually and speedily at
just one possible outcome--sociallsm
The American woman today has a par
ticular mission TO perform for her country.
II Is to beware OF that success in business
which ignores the home. II Is to call halt
upon reforms which divert her attention
from the home II is TO spurn the charity
which coaXes her children from home In a
word. II Is 20 combat socialism, the most
formidable enemy Of our republic and the
deadliest foe OF woman Men have under
taken the great work OF conserving the nat
ural resources OF our country, A greater
patriotic work is signalled for American
women 10 do-4o conserve the American
home.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTREs.

My wife is prolonging her visit. | need
her at home, but IL seems useless to write
suggesting H that she return"
kansas City Journal.
,He-would you rather be beautiful or
She Beautiful, I think. You see. ther,
are lots Of stupid men, but only a few blind
ones.-Boston Transcript.
You don't know how much sunshine a
baby girl brings into house" said the
Il find it cheaper TO have the windows
cleaned" snared old De Grouch.-Cieve-
land Plain Dealer.
II understand, Miss Araminta" said this
professor. that you are inclined toward
Yes" said the blushing splnster ~
wrote for the Bugte Magazine last month. u
indeed May Iask what?' asked the
7 7 addressed all the envelopes for the re-
proudly'-Hsrpers Weekly. -~G1-'-'
What do you think? Miss oldgirl told
me she'd just love TO be an April bride. and
asked what date / thought a lucky one"
What did you tell herr"
"Ihat In her case / would advise the
Women have no sense OF humor," said
the cynic.
on yes, they have" replied Miss cay
enne They have to suppress IT, IL they
dlunt there would be no marriages You
have no idea how laughable a man is wnen
ne proposes. Washington star
Cyncus-It Is impossible for a woman To
keep secret.
Henpeckke-I don't know about that My
wife and were engaged for several weeks
before she said anything TO me about it
Philadelphia Record.
Female Sheriff-Is your husband at home
wire (suspiciously)-He is not What do
you want with him?
Female Sheriff. have an attachment for
him.
Wife-Whst Why, you shameless husSyi
boston Transcript
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
Americang are Industrous.

In recent compilation OF statistics
it was ascertained that in the matter
of industry and thrift Americans are
superior to any and all other nationali-
ties. The premise from which this de-
duetion Is made is the surprising fact
that the per capita valuation of prop
erty in our country is more than twice
as much as in any other. The figures
have been collected through Brad
streets and like institutions and may
be relied upon as fairly accurate This,
OF course, covers all properties. includ-
ing bank deposits and all investments
whether in working or in idle capital
Americans are all workers and have
had the principle OF industry drummed
into them from earliest childhood. In
fact, there are few persons OF leisure
In America outside OF the tramp and
the corresponding class at the other
end OF our social scale. Everybody
works at something in persistent
wide awake sort of way doing all he
can ITO get ahead" in the position he
is holding and reaching out with one
hand cropping eagerly for the extra
source OF income which may be iegiti
mately within his grasp. II is the frs
nature Of an American to be indus
trious. and he ls busy both day and
night without stopping and he seldom
fails to make good. ASd 70 this te
vered industry country wonderful,
rich In mineral. metal and in agrlcul
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27

Chicago is trying to gobble up the
little suburb of Oak Park before the
census enumerators commence their
rounds. Several other cities are like
wise reaching out as benevolent assim-
ilators Of adjacent towns and villages
Omaha will be one of the few big cities
to get into the 1910 census game with
the same territorial limits that It had
twenty years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27

In the democratic caucus Champ
Clark received 125 votes to go on the
rules committee, while Mr.. Fitzgerald
whom Mr.. Bryan read out of the dem
ocratic party, received 9S votes. AT
that, the twenty-seven who failed to
vote for Mr.. Fitzgerald in the caucus
have not said that he was not a good
enough democrat for them.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27

The erection Of big monument to
the discoverer of America ought to
make DR.. Cook and Commander Peary
feel better. Remember what European
contemporaries did to Columbus?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
worried for Both sIdes.

Wall Street Journal
Coincideht with the ending of the eight
weeks examination Of the beef packers
comes the announcement Of another gem
eral advance in the price Of meat. Con-
sumers not only pay the costs of the gov
ernments case but are assessed for the
defense.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27

II he had supposed that We would
have our spring weather in March, the
late j. Sterling Morton would doubt
less have made his birthday a movable
feast. so as to let Arbor day conform
with the calendar.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27

Incidentally Mount Etna is one of
the most wide-awake volcanoes known
More trouble around that mountain
than there was in Nicaragua a month
ago Fireworks to celebrate the com
ing OF Roosevelt, perhaps.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27

II the foreigners think that Amer
lean college students are mollycoddles
they ought to happen around about the
time Kansas and Nebraska play foot
ball, or when the two lower classes of
the state university hold color fight.