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Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
The First six Months.

At the close of Cleveland's second
administration democratic leaders
made the excuse for the terrible
condition in which national af-
fairs were found to be, that the
principles of the democratic party
had not had fair trial to prove by
practical application that they were
good. 1t is evident from the criticism OF
democratic leaders that they have not
been willing to give even six months.
in which to let the Payne tariff law
demonstrate its superiority over the
Dingley law This in consistency is
well pointed out by President Taft in
his speech in New York when he says:
The amount of misrepresentation to
which the tariff bill in its effects as a
downward revision bill was subjected has
never been exceeded in this country and
it win doubtless take the actual operation
Of the tariff bill for several years to
show to the country exactly what the leg
islatlon and its effects are.
Six months time hardly affords a
fair trial for new revenue law, especl-
ally when every known Influence has
been brought into play to deceive the
general. public as to the changes made
and their actual working effects, and
yet the figures computed to show the
first six months receipts under It are
decidedly creditable to the claims of
the new tariff law. AS a matter of
fact democratic leaders would cry "bad
faith" no matter what tariff law were
enacted, so long as 1t retained pro-
tective duties, or even IL it adopted
democratic ideas on the subject of the
tariff. The effort to hold the new
tariff responsible for the high cost of
living is a similar piece of insincerity
which the president quickly punct Tres.
Quoting again from President Taft's
address:
We shall be called upon to respond to
the charge in the next campaign that the
tariff. for which we are responsible, has
raised prices. II the people listen to
reasonable arguments It will be easy to
demonstrate that high prices proceed from
an entirely different cause and that the
present tarifI, being largely revision
downward, except with respect TO silks
and liquors, which are luxuries cannot
be charged with having increased any
prices. But this WIN not prevent our demo-
cratic friends from arguing, on the prin-
clple Of post hoe propter hoc." that be-
cause high prices followed the tariff,
therefore they are the result OF il, and
we must not be blind to the weight OF
such an argument in an electoral cam
paign
President Taft has not been an ex.
tremist, and as a consequence he has
disappointed the extremists. EI9 holds
to the principle that great changes in
great nation must of necessity come
slowly. He holds that the present ad-
ministration has right to as fair a
trial in its work as has the individual,
but he insists that people shall not
allow themselves to be deceived by the
man who cries wolf, wolf" when
there is no wolf.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

chicago Record-1Ierald.

NhAShbO
Guggenheim copper stocks deprecated
500 O0O00 in five hours the other day
owing to raid that is alleged to have
been made by J. P. Morgan because the
Guggenheins had refused to take his ad-
vice in connection with the formation of
the much talked of copper merger. Don't
make the mistake of supposing that the
Guggenheirns are the ones who will lose
the $40. 900 900. The loss Will be sustained
by a lot of people who did not have money
enough to enable them to cling to copper
stock which they had bought before the
raid was started. 1t may be difficult.
therefore, for the layman to understand
how the Guggenheims we're punished, but
what right have laymen to expect to un-
derstand these things. anyway
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
SAME OLD STORY.
Marriage for TITLE scandal
iEea Americans.

Another Marriage for TITLE Scandal
iEes Americana.
Chicago Inter Ocean
Vienna witnessed on Tuesday another of
those spectacles which make all decent
Americans think of the international
marriage as a national disgrace.
1t was the raidlng by bailffs of the res
idence there OF Prince Miguel Of Bra
ganza, an unsavory offshoot Of the reign
ing family OF Portugal
The interest and the disgust of Ameri-
cans In what would be otherwise only the
adventure of European profligate with
his creditors arises from the fact that
Prince Miguel was recently 'Induced"-
with 5000 Oo0-to confer, his title upon the
foolish American daughter of a more fool
ish American mother.
The sordid details Of this commercial
transaction will be recalled-how the
prince refused to go forward with the af-
fair until the $B,OOO,OOO was turned over to
his iawyers-how as the wedding day ab-
preached he was found to be in pawn at
a hotel and his future mother-in-law had
TO pay his bill and send him railroad fare
how his progress to the altar was one
continuous lodging of sherlff's officers.
Now comes this spectacle In Vienna, for
the scandal of which European public
opinion holds the American wife to
blame. Has she not millions, and is it
not her duty, from European viewpoints.
to pay her husbands debts? On what
other consideration has the American girl
been allowed to call herself Princess of
Braganza?"
And more scandals are promised. It
seems that there Is a Syndicate" of
Prince Miguel's creditors who say that
he agreed to pay them 20 per cent, or
100000 out Of the "dowry" Of 5000 900
he received, and that he has not paid
In other words, 1t seems that Prince
Miguel has capitalized and promoted and
underwritten for the marriage market and
that the promoters are threatening to 20
to law to recover their vendors commits
sions.
Faugh! What utterly disgusting affairs
all these alliances between American
women of wealth and European ''men of
title" sooner or later turn out to be.
What outrages upon every sense OF Amer
lean decency with respect to the marriage
relation and the considerations out of
which It should arise they all are
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
AND RETAIL PRICES
Marked Difference in the Price Up
lift IN Both Lines.
Indianapolis Journal.

Indianapolis journal.
In the figures sent to the senate by the
Department Of Commerce and Labor show
ing the percentage OF increase in whole
sale and retail prices OF staple articles of
food between the years 1899 and 1905, only
four out of the thirteen articles mentioned
show that the percentage OF increase in
the retail price has been greater than the
percentage OF increase in the wholesale
price viz:
Butter-W Wholesale Elgin, 2s.s; creamery,
extra, rs; dairy, 246: retail, 80, no quality
Coffee-Wholesaie, 80; retail, s.
40 Dressed Mutton-Wholesale, IA; retail,
ham-wholesale. 2.S; retail. as.
The other nine articles show greater in
creases-in the wholesale price,
Bread-Wholesale 21; retail, 40
1heese-Wholesale, 26.9; retail, 362
Eggs-New laid wholesale, Ss.S; retail.
Lard--wholesale 6s.s; retail, $50
Beef-Wholesale. fresh. lis; salt, a9; re-
tail. fresh, las; salt. l06.
Bacon Wholesale, O4.b; retail, sac.
Milk-Wholesale. 30; retail, ISL.
Wheat Flour-Mholesale, spring. 1876;
winter @S; retail 244; no quality indi-
Gated. +..
II TO the ordinary buyer for domestic
oonservative--in meat products, for instance
lit must be remembered that these are
1908 prices which were considerably lower
than the prices Of 1910 This is shown by
Bradstreet's commodity index, which, In
1905. ranged between S294s on January /,
which was the low point OF the year,
while the index number for January 1 OF
this year was s2slO. the highest point Il
has ever attained.
But the point OF the comparison is that
there has been no unreasonable Increase
In retail prices. Even In the four in
stances where there has been greater in
crease In the retail price than In the
wholesale price il has been small as COM
pared with the actual Increase OF the
Wholesale price. On the other hand, the
greater increase In the wholesale price OF
the other nine commodities shows that the
retailer is making Q smaller profit on them
than he was In 1893. the year on which the
comparison Is based
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
Cubn,s Prorrenn-
Philadelphia Record.

Fhhauelphla Record.
CUBA has gone through the year with
out pestilenee and disorder. A third Of its
children are at school, where a sixth were
ten years ago Illiteracy is disappearing
and Is far below Spain today The Cubans
neglect the ballot. At the election I'm De-
cember 1909. only 100000 votes were
cast, out OF 100000, but as education
spreads, public spirit win grow. Cuba al
ready shows what every spanish-Ameri-
can country will become, as II has like
opportunity.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
one Prop, Of High, Prices.
Roston Herald,

Twenty-six members OF the strawboard
cartel have. been fined 5000 each for par
ticipation in a combination for the purpose
of boosting the price OF their product. and
have been ordered to abandon their secret
arrangement under penalty Of. heavier
assessments. This is only one cartel out
of many. 1t does not involve any destruc-
tion Of business, or any Interference with
the progress Of prosperity to break such
cartels as these. There are scores Of them
in the country today, each using its power
to create artificial market conditions and
to fix prices arbitrarily If these. illegal
props were knocked out by the law there
would be perceptible drop in prices,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
Hot Race to eouth Polo.

Philadelphia Bulletin.
II the National Geographic soclety's pro-
ject to send an expedition to find the
south pole shall materialize in accordance
with the suggestions of Peary. the feature
which will be apt to attract the most
popular attention will be the fact that
this enterprise will be conducted in virtual
rivalry with a British scheme to achieve
the same feat While scientists may de-
scribe the undertaking as an important
step in research the average man win
probably view 1t chiefly as an interesting
race between the two nations for the lower
pole.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
w ashington Life
some Interesting Phases
ana Conditions Observed
az the Nations Capitol.

The distilling interests OF the country
are going TO give the blenders another run
Tor their booze. They are not satisfied
with President Tafts decision en- the ques-
ton. What is l4i whsky?" Both the
straight goods and the blenders know
what II is and have endeavored to show
Attorney General Bonaparte, President
Roosevelt and President Taft the right
brand. Each official conversed both wit
tily and learnedly around the samples
submitted, but with Characteristic matur-
ity OF thought kept in the middle Of the
road. Whereat the blenders rejoiced and
the straightouts sulked and sobbed Rules
governing the branding Of whisky in ac-
cordanoe with President Tafts decision
are about to issue from the internal rev.
enue office and the straights have de-
cided to put the question squarely before
the grave ard venerable justices of the
supreme court. John c. Spooner and John
O. Carlisle as amicus curia will assist the
court In arriving at decision that will
touch the right spot. That win be at the
bung in the cask.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Wonder IL our amiable democratic
contemporary recalls the time when
the personal interference OF William
jennings Bryan forced the Board Of
Regents to reject their preferred
choice for chancellor Of the State uni
versity and appoint another who had
advocated 1e to free silver and sup
ported Mr.. Bryan for the presidency.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

II the Inhabitants Of the earth are
to be destroyed next May, when cur
slobule passes through the tail of Hal
ley's comet, all right, However. we
are not going to play saint and sit in
sack cloth on the top OF the house
waiting for it to happen, at least not
this weather. t4r
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

William Salter, an Englishman, was
recently defeated for Parliament and
now his wife has been elected member
of the London county council. Presum-
ably salter will now have chance to
wash dishes and tend the baby.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

English women nave written two van
loads of letters to Premier Asquith, but
1t is safe to say that in none of them
are there terms of endearrnent which
will start domestic trouble in the pre-
mier's household.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

In the recent municipal election in
Boston it cost Fitzgerald t1O,5OO TO be
elected mayor, and the other fellow
$1OS,OOO to be defeated. This, we
take 1t, is another illustration of the
high cost of the necessities Of life in
Boston
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

springfleid RepublIcan.

oPFh6Aieiu HSPuDhCah'
Some Of the Investigations into the high
prices are bringing out curious IL not Inn
portant facts. 1t was not widely known.
for instance that since last April there
have been stored in three or four cold
storage plants in Jersey City about 200, O,O0O.-
900 eggs for the market during the present
winter. The supply at present is reported
by cold storage authority to be about
10000 YOOo-which are getting fresher every
day 4r-s i. ,I<s-af,i ~ ...+
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

A good deal Of fuss Is being made
over the fact that several votes we're
cast in Virginia for crazy man for
congress. It's not so very surprising,
as there is room for susplciOn that
some men really elected to congress
and have not been in their right minds
all the time.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

The efforts OF President Gomez Of
Cuba to muyzie those newspapers on.
posed to his administration would in
dicate that the administration may
have something to cover up.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

washington Herald.
IL those naughty people responsible for
the high cost OF living have tears TO shed
they must prepare to shed them now
That militant and aggressive friend OF
the masses the Hon. Stephen b. Elkins OF
West Virginia, is on their trail armed and
equipped with a particularly sharp stick
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

After paying rs6O0.OOO back duties
to the United States government the
sugar trust will be more apt to revive
the old doctrine about honesty being
the Best policy. e
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Because Peary has given that check
for $4,000 to the fund for the dis
oovery Of the south pole is no reason
why it viii become epidemic to treat
10.o0O ,checlEs 80 recklessly.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Friend-Now, my dear woman, don't you
| feel the. loss of a man about the house?
Widow-Not with the kitchen stove smok-
ing the way it does.-BaiIiniore American.
II have six doctors and they can't agree
on what ails me. Three think It's one
thing, and three think IT'S another, What
would you advise me to do. Discharge
them all ?'
mo. Hire one more and give, him the
deciding vote. cleveland Plain Dealer.
tor Garsie e'ileu - ao your "lf SPptS5s sPpeech sens
We'll I'm free to confess that 1 con-
slider II one Of the finest Inspirations my
secretary ever had. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Miss Sweet-It is just the sort of en-
gagement ring 1 preferred. None of rrk
others were nearly 80 pretty. How thoughtN
full of you!
George-Not at all dear. This is the ring
nave always used.-Kansas City Journal
Benham-we are getting near the BIRTH
DAY OF the man who never told lie,
Mrs. Benham-We don't need the annI-
Judge
Il We come here" said the man at the
lunch councer, ito escape being talked to
death. Doesn't 1t bother you when some-
body gabbles to you by the hour?"
Not bit, said the other man. "The
can work"
Great Scott What do you work at?''
I'm a shorthand reporter."-Chicago Tri-
bune.
at homer"
Il suppose so. know his wife always
keeps him in hot water."-Baltlmore Amer
lean.
First Boy-Where yer goin' in such a
rush? -
Second Boy (on the run)-Fire aIarmi
f. B.-Where?
s. B--Boss said he'd fire me II l wasn't
back from dis errand in ten minutes.-
Boston Transcript -
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

business affairs. The Bee expressed
its high opinion of Mr. Scott last fall.
when he was candidate before the
people. so that he did not have to die
hrst to have good words spoken for
him
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

1t was not the fault of Governor
shallenberger and his democratic leg
islature that they did not get the
scalps Of the members of the State
Normal board. s-lons
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

@. NJ. Hitchcock has sold a building for
$50 ? Won't that be a bully senatorial
campaign fund. We speak for the first
n,OOo Western tAborer.
Not, so fast, When G. NJ. let's loose
OF hts $50. .OoO he viii expect to enlist
more than ffty boosters with II.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Now that the old market house is
removed from Capitol avenue, it will
be in order for an, enterprising rail-
road to reach out and take possession
of the street thus vacated.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

We stit insist that as a devoted fol-
lower OF Mr.. Bryan, Edgar Howard,
whose loyalty has never been sus-
peeted. should not be accused by the
Commonef OF trying to make him the
laughing stock OF the country"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Claimants for that train robbery re-
ward money are still coming in. It's
a great lottery, and the worst anyone
can draw is a blank. -
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

The pahlmanites are talking about
organizing a flying squad to attend
the democratic valentine party at Lin
coin. Just remember in Lincoln it's
after s o'clock ali the time.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

SO long aslthe numerous investiga-
tions into the cause of the high price
Of living do not stop short of the facts
and dOrhot last longer than a gener-
alton, awe are not going to find fault.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

II now looks as If congress might
stretch the si,OOO.OOO for Missouri
river improvement over the whole
stretch from the mouth to Sioux City.
That wOnid be decidedly better.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
An Offset.

Washington Herald.
President Taft's complaint that nobody
ever drops in at the White House" is
nicely balanced by Emperor Williams
complaint that everybody seems bent on
dropping in at the royal palace in Berlin
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Too bad Mr.. Roosevelt has not been
told about the number of the wolves
in northern Italy, which, have become
so dangerous that troops have been
sent out to kill them OFF.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

A go-tO-chureh campaign is about
to be started in Omaha. Results may
throw new light on the question why
SO manycpeople prefer to stay at home
or go somewhere else.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
Cause ana Effect.

y Wall Street JournaI.
A bill to make the breaking Of campaign
pledges by elected candidates a penal Of
ferse has been introduced into the Ken
lucky senate Now for heavy appropria-
ton for increased Jail accommodations.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Mr.. Bryan says that we in Nebraska
have high license law which is lone
of the best Of its kind in the union. .
Why not hold fast to it,then?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

The death OF County Commissioner
John A. Scott. on the threshold OF his
political service as a public ofncial, is
to be greatly deplored. because Mr..
Scott gave every promise OF eficieney
and usefulness, qualities he had al
ready demonstrated In private life and
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

The report now is that the Nicar.
agnan insurgent general retreated
toward the enemy This mistake win
probably account for the fact that
there has been a battle fought In the
Central American riot
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Subscribers leaving the city tem.
pOrSriIy shOuId have The bee
mailed 60 them. Address win be
changed a. often M requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

ests Of Canada under the very salts
factory existing conditions and exer-
else the greatest concern that its prog
ress may not be interrupted.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

To the farmer: Be sure your seed
corn is UP to test.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

AS a weather prophet the ground
hog is evidently subject to occasional
relapses.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

The senate has the reputation of being
slow moving body, but on February 1,
with the assistance of the parties inter
ested, performed an act of speed seldom
equaled. Senator Thompson of North Da-
kota' who was appointed to the senate
on November 10 last. had resigned, and the
governor Of the state had been so notified. !.
on the morning OF the 1st Senator Thomp-
sons resignation was read in the senate
he produced his successor with his ere
dentials, who was sworn in at once. The
new senator is W. w. Purcell OF Wahpe-
ton Senator Purcell is heavy-set man
with a well-defined absence of hair on the
top Of his head. He at once qualified as a.
member OF the bald-head brigade, which
numbers among its members such dis
tinsuished senators as Gallinger Bacon
Carter, Depew, Burnham and Taylor.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

state OF Nebraska, Douglas County S.:
George b. Tzschuck treasurer OF The Bee
publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual numDer OF full and
complete copies Of The Daily, Morning
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month Of January 1910 vvao ne foiiovxs.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Attk Treasurer.
subscribed In my presence and sworn to
nst"EA 'aS ssiiS sist dRy of January, 1slA
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
POINTED PLEAsANTRIEs.

Friend-Now, my dear woman, don't you
feel the loss of man about the house?
Widow-Not with the kitchen stove smok-
ing the. way 1t does.-BaiIiniore American
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

gagement ring 1 preferred. None OF n7k
others were nearly so pretty. How thoughtN
full of want ..| }
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

Benham-We are getting near the BIRTH
day OF the man who never told lie
Mrs. Benham-We don't need the ami.
yersary to remind us that he is dead
Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

so Jellaby always gets warm welcome
at homer"
Il suppose so. know his wife always
keeps him in hot water."-Baltlmore Amer
lean.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14
y admired your speech, Sens

mo. Hire one more and give him tie
leciding vote. cleveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

II have six doctors and they can't agree
on what ails me. Three think It's one
thing, and three think It's another What
them alp"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

George-Not at all dear This Is the ring
have always used.-Kansas City Journal
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-25
Local Laconics.

Miss Grace Pierce returned Thurs day evening from trip to New York
 Specifications are being proposed for 8 slate roof for the First Baptist church.
 Mrs. Thomas A. Barber has purchas- ed the James M.- Collins homestead in Pleasant street.
 Rev. A. J.. O'Toole of Providence is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Joseph T. Murphy. in Westerly.
 Mrs Herbert c. Babcock died We'd nesday afternoon at her home in Ash away She leaves her husband and two sons.
 Charles E. Segar, who was taken to the Westerly sanitarium about two weeks ago, was in critical condition Thursday.
 Members of Narragansett council, Knights of Columbus, were pleased with their visit to Norwich Wednes- day evening.
 Mrs. Ellery Barber of Main street has as her guests Mrs. Harriet N. Raynor and Mrs. $. N. Bailey, former residents of Westerly.
 Thomas Signarelli, who attempted suicide by shooting himself in the hip, while on Conductor Niles train, Tues day morning. a case of unrequited love. is at his home in Peacedale suffering more mental anguish than bodily pain.