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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
Extra Session Prospects.

Congressman Ruoker OF Missouri Is
quoted as saying that tariff revision
will be the first order Of business by
the democrats I'm the house at the
coming extra session; that It will pre-
cede action on Canadian reciprocity,
for which the extra session was spe-
cially called. There will be little
trouble in getting a revised tariff bill
through the house" said Mr. Rucker,
but no telling what will happen in
the senate. But the urging by demo-
cratic members will bring some re-
vision downward"
AS MI Rucker Is serving his
seventh term in the house and is one
Of the leading members, his words are
to be taken seriously. Undoubtedly
the democrats will attempt a consid-
cradle revision OF the tariff and in do
ing so are sure to play a good deal
at politics, although they stand to lose
in such a game. They may make OF
the extra session extra trouble, for,
while there is still need for some tariff
revision, nothing is to be gained by
the democratic house majority form
ing a bill which It has reason to be-
lieve will not be approved by the SEN
ate or president II It is results they
are after, the house democrats will be
reasonable in whatever revision they
make at this session, where action on
reciprocity should, as a matter OF fact,
take precedence.
The consensus Of public opinion is
that the session should be brief. but
already there are indications that 1t
will not be. Aside from the probable
squabble over the tariff, the democrats
are talking of investigating charges
OF republican extravaganza. Those
who are back of this move forget that
it is the future and constructive legis-
lation in which the country is inter
ested It might even be granted that
the republicans had made some mis-
takes and yet no democratic inquest
would meet the present demands of
the country.
1t is up to the democrats in con-
gress to assert themselves in positive
action-they can not rely on their old
policy of negation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
Political Drift

The cost Of Chicago's first primary foots
up the enormous sum Of 1885, 900. or about
g for every vote cast.
Just to show that the dry" lobby got
something for It's money, the Missouri leg
islature passed an anti-treating bill with
the usual penalties. Missouri could have
had a similar law from Nebraska for the
asking.
Owing to the financial crisis I'm the pollti-
cal affairs in Danville, ILL.,, only half the
usual vote was cast at last Tuesdays mum
icipial election. There wasn't enough
money in sight to keep a single ward
patriot awake.
Financing the rebuilding OF Missouri s
state capitol at Jefferson City goes to the
voters in two propositions. The first calls
for 100000 in bonds, to be voted on at a
special election In August when two
! thirds vote is necessary TO carry. Should
this fail, 10000 proposition goes to the
voters at the regular election In November
when a majority vote wins
Senator Bailey Is quite offended be-
cause some OF the jackpot inquisitors in
sist on putting him on the 'wAness stand
TO explain why the Holstlaw bank deposit
slip disappeared from his hands in the
senate. The disappearapce OF the slip after
Bailey pronounced It forgery In the
senate is one Of many highly moral speci-
mems Of smooth work with which the Lori,
mer case reeks.
II you are In doubt about the meaning OF
| Colonel Rooseyelts present trip, read what
>he says about II and be as happy as you
/ can; Il had Ions made up my mind thai
/ after coming hack from my trip In Africs
and Europe I wanted 10 have a chance tC
I go around the country and. n possible
/ speak in each state and 10 say Howdy
and Thank you. For any man who ha'
/ been made president OF the United State
/ By the American people remains forever
] their debtor Tie r. not worth his salt d
/ he has not tried 10 be president OF all tn
people. and his obligation ls 20 all IN,
people"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

because the great Ohio statesman was
In advance Of his time.
But Senator Sherman had aroused
congress and the country and, after a
powerful plea for the passage Of his
bill, he took up and led to a success
full issue a substitute measure pre-
pared by Senator Hoar, which became
law in the summer Of 1890. Inas-
much as Senator Sherman was the
originator Of the legislation and its
leading advocate, Senator Hoar, him
self. proposed that his bill be known
as the Sherman law and so we come
by the Sherman antitrust act. The
Hoar bill was much more elaborate
and comprehensive than the original
Sherman bill, but based upon the lat
ter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
A Chance to Do Something.

Our do-nothing Water board has
been trying hard for some time to
make the public believe it is desperate
to do something. The letter of Presi-
dent Woodbury. of the water company
renewing the offer of the company,
originally made Ave years ago, to build
the much needed main from the Flor
ence pumping station, gives the Water
board a chance to get busy. Hereto
fore this proposition from the water
company has received no consideration
whatever from the Water board, but If
the Water board is now really in
earnest in it's expressed desire to re-
lieve the situation and to provide adj
ditional water supply and improved
fire protection 1t will start to do 1t,
mot next month, or next year, but
now"
Despite previous denials, the Water
board now admits that the second
main from Florence is absolutely i'm
peratiye, and its construction is In
cluded in the estimate for which 1t is
figuring on an issue of $s,250.O00 OF
bonds. If the Water board gets down
to business right away this main could
probably be laid and put into service
within ninety days, whereas II the
board waits until the bonds are voted
and Issued and the city actually gets
possession of the plant before even ad-
vertising for bids the quickest we
could expect would put completion on
another year.
At last the Water board can dc
something, and do il now-but will IL?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
Mr.. Bryan and the Newspapers.

Mr.. Bryan has broken out in an
other TRADE against the newspapers,
denouncing them as a whole as dis
honest and commercialistic. He pro-
fesses to regret that editors no longer
write what they believe or believe
what they write, and ascribes the set
back to the fact that they are "hired
men," who have to make a living out
of their profession:
1t was only about fifteen years ago
that Mr.. Bryan, himself, was one Of
these hired men, compelled thus to
make a living because he found his
profession OF law inadequate. He re-
manned on the tripod only until his
Grown of thorns and cross of gold"
speech got him the presidential nomi-
nation, since which time he has been
able to profit so well out of the pub
licity of this and two subsequent nom
nations that he does not have to de-
pend on a newspaper salary, and is no
longer in the hired man" class.
In his latest outburst Mr.. Bryan
says It was not what the newspapers
had done FOR" him, but "to" him,
that gave him his impressions. Still,
If any man in the country ought to
feel grateful to the newspapers it is
Mr.. Bryan, for, more than any other
public man, they have made him.
True, he has been an excellent source
Of news, but when the newspapers
took him up he was a struggling wage
Garner and now he is wealthy and
owns a publication that might, by a
strained construction, be classed as a
newspaper, itself
One thing Mr.. Bryan has never
learned is to believe that an individual
or a newspaper that disagrees with
him can do so and yet be either hon
est or right. OF course, II the major.
ity of newspapers had agreed with him
and endorsed all his political vagaries
they would be applauded by him as
honest and able tribunes OF the people
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
Patching it Up.

The commission form OF govern
ment bill, fathered by the AID club, is
apparently being patched up TO plug
the holes as far as possible, which The
Bee has pointed out, and 1t may even
tually be whipped into workable
shape. In one respect the exclusion
OF the Water board from the commits
sion plan is a distinct step backward.
There is absolutely no more reason
why the Water board should be thus
excluded and privileged than the Po-
lice board, the Park board or the Ii
hrary board. The potent argument
for the commission plan is that It does
away with all such boards and CEN
tralizes power and responsibility in
one group OF commissioners, who can
be held accountable because subject 10
recall. II the Water board is to be
retained we suggest still a further
amendment 10 section 21 OF the bill
so that the recall may be applied &c
members OF the Water board as vel
as to o0uncilmen. II the recall is Z
good thlng for the oouneilmen, Il GER
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

great advantage BY allowing their cattle
to Craze on the reservation (proposed) and
then they could be protected and the
ranohmen could have their twice-a-year
roundups, cutting out the cattle for mar
ket and to brand.
Farming is q very necessary industry.
but Tanchins Is Just as important Beef
is In a great demand. owing to the in
creased population of the United States.
Our American people still like their beef
steak and IL we are going to depend on
the farmers raising cattle ] am afraid we
will have a shortage in beef and beef will
be high in price.
II no steps are taken the United states
will have to import cattle into this coun-
try from Argentina or other republics.
Judging from this, it viii be necessary
for the west TO continue open ranges under
improved methods for cattle to Craze, con-
trolled by the national government
FRANCIS JAMES, Range Rider.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.

Indianapolis News Buffalo Bill for the
senate? Oh, well-when you come to think
of the senate-why not.
Washington Post: Buffalo Bill's candi-
dacy for the senate may have a tendency
to reconcile Mr.. Bailey to the recall.
st. Louis Times: When all those soldiers
come north again there will be great diff
ficulty in supplying the demand for chile
con carne.
Kansas city Times: II would be fin'
thing II those Mexican revolutionists coulC
shoot the j out Of the Spanish Language
and inject the h.
Wall Street Journal: A Broadway jew
eler has failed with liabilities OF $4,000 and
assets OF $500 Financial genius ike thai
ls wasted in a humble retail business.
st. Louis Globe Democrat; Whateve
may be the conflicting reports from Wash
ington, there is no doubt about Cam
Crocketts being the real thing. Missouri
mules have begun TO arrive there
Boston Transcript: The United States Sc
preme court has decided that the pure foo
law applies TO eggs In interstate commerce
50 long as they are in the original pack
ages. This is a warning tor the hens &
make note OF.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
UNLOADING ON THE PUBLIC.
Scientific stock Watering a Modern
development.

Development.
New York Financial World.
When we we're younger. more modest and
conservative. we capitalized our enter
prises more on the basis Of intrinsic value.
But in recent years, the tendency has
been the other way. since we have come to
realize the advantages Of water. scientifi-
calIy applied. to financing.
Little drops Of water, scattered over trade
names, good will, patent rights, onto the
appraisals Of real estate, equipment, and
so forth, pretty soon swell out a table of
assets into great and greater proportions.
Eventually the assets appreciate so much
that the owners Of the business see a way
of capitalizing the earning possibilities of
their corporation.
Then they issue enough preferred stock
to cover not only their investment in the
business. but ali the liabilities and fire.
quently include a good profit likewise
This accomplished. the public is invited
to take the preferred stock.
All this is modern financial magic by
which the public reimburse the owners OF
the business for their investments, pay
their obligations and still maintain them
in control of the business, through their
ownership Of the common stock, at fat
salaries
The principle may be all right as long as
everything goes WELL but we often wonder
what would happen II something went
wrong and the little drops of water had to
be squeezed out by a recsivership.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
LINES TO A LAUGH.

DO you use condensed milk at your
house2'
II guess SO. We order a quart a day.
and the milkman squeezes IL into a can
that holds about pint"-ToledO Blade.
Does your wife 40 the cooking on the
day the maid goes outF'
oh, yes"
How does that suit your"
1T doesn't bother me any. | always
get a good meal Just before l go home
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
II have been told, sir, that you referred
crooked"
Il have no hesitation, sir, in branding the
man who told you that as q malignant fal-
sifier. 1 referred to you as a little crook"
Chicago Tribune
Modest suitor-I am going to marry
your sister, Jimmy, but know l am not
good enough for her.
Candid Little Brother-ThRts what Sis
says, but mas been telling her she cant
do any better.-Baltimore American.
why do you find 80 much fault with
that big town? IL claims to pay much at
tention to higher things"
That's just the trouble; too many sky
scrapers and not enough street sweepers'
Washington Star.
How did that pig dealer come to be
admitted to a society OF authorsy'
He deceived them, although they could
not accuse him Of falsifying."
How BoT'
Told them he made his living with his
pen. "-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
SOME TINE.
Eugene Field.

Eugene Field.
Last night, my darling. as you slept,
thought / heard you sigh,
And to your little crib | Crept
And watched a space thereby;
And then stopped and hEfSd your Dro"
For OH love you So
You are too young TO know it now,
But some time you shall know!
Some time when, in q darkened place
Where others came to weep,
Your eyes shall look upon face
Calm I'm eternal sleep;
The yoiceless lips, the wrtnkled brow
The patient smile shall show
You are too young 70 know II now,
But some time you may know
Look backward then, into the years
And see me here tonight
See oh my darling, how my tears
Are falling as ] write. -
And feel once more upon your bro"
The kiss OF long ago
You are too Young to know II now
T3ut some time you shall know.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

The initiative and referendum bill
still contains the criminal joker" as
a "misdemeanor" instead of Eel
ony." A little thing like that, how
ever, will not Tease either Chris"
Gruenther or the world-Herald.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Omaha is getting to be quite
Mecca for Nebraska postmasters. First
they come here to hold political meet
ings, and then they come again to ex-
plain them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

The prisoners Of war down in Mex
leo will be fed regularly, providing
anything is left over from the soldiers
meals, the reports say. It's gay life,
this war business.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

The University OF Nebraska is los
ing the dean Of the engineering school
to the University Of Illinois. Our re-
fusal to let members Of the teaching
stan be eligible to the Carnegie pen
sion fund the same as professors in
other institutions is bound to be more
or less costly. even though only by in
direct influence.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

The town has the aspect of city
preparing for war;" observes a type
writer scout, speaking of FL Paso.
Evidently some humorist has found
his way to the front.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
Cutting the Express Melon.

Radical action from the Interstate Com
merce commission in respect to express
company rates Is announced as an early
probability. These rates need an over
hauling, and IT is high time they were
getting It. But the one effective way to
go about the solution Of the express
monopoly problem is to compel the rail-
roads TO assume the business directly
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
To Complete the Record.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb.. March 15-To
the Editor OF The Bee: No one acquainted
with the history Of Nebraska will deny
the truth OF your editorial recalling how
Nebraska got It's reform legislation with
out the initiative and referendum. But to
complete the record you should have
added that at the very next election by
popular vote, the governor and the party
who accomplished these excellent measures
we're recalled" and have been kept re-
called ever since. VOx Populi, vox Del.
Great will be the initiative. referendum
and recall. REFORM
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

II is too bad that Germany does not
look with favor on Uncle Sans Mex
lean policy, but then even Uncle Sam
cannot please everybody.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

II the conferences over the gas
claims we're only held in the evening
instead Of in the day time, enough gas
could be burned to make the gas com
pany whole on any kind of a settle
meut.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

The feminine deyotee Of the cigar
ette might cite as an additional argu-
ment the case Of Aunt Nancy shepard,
the Virgins negress, who died re-
Gently at the age Of tl2 and had been
an inveterate smoker all her life.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

The exemption OF the costly Water
board nom the provisions OF the com
mission form OF government bill is not
especially calculated to make il more
popular.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
Grub Route to Reform,
Baltimore American.

II men are what they eat, as some
theorists claim. perhaps the pure food laws
are really responsible for the present out
break against political bribery and cor
ruption, and the warfare against cold
storage eggs may be the cause Of the de-
mand for more official purity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

II the harem skirt ever really be-
came a menace the surest way TO abol-
ish It would be to enact law com
polling every woman to wear one
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

II is recalled that ex-Congressman
Tawney was born on the Gettysburg
battlefield, which might explain his
belligerent attitude in the late con-
gress
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

St Louis Is pronounced by Census
Director Durand the most normal
city; that Is, the one with the largest
American born population, as the
Kerry Patches. old French Market and
the prepondcrating German popula-
ton might readily indicate.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
VIII They smash tradition .
ST. Paul Dispatcf

The democrats have two weeks more,
after this one. in which to frame up a
program that will have in It something
that looks to national rather than party
benefit. II they do, however. they will
rudely shatter a democratic tradition.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

All Americans in Mexican prisons,
our friends assure us, are perfectly
safe Surely no one had thought to
question that
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

The colonel is beginning to feel the
exhilaratlng effect of that fine old
western ozone. He is calling them by
name now.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
The Retort Courteou..
Kansas Citv T1mes.

According TO Mr.. Roosevelt all that the
United States demands in Mexico Is justice
and good order Isn't there danger Of
Mexico replying that a little more justice
and good order in the United States
wouldn't hurt7
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

When the legislature gets through
with that commission form measure
It will be so improved that John Paul
Bresn will not recognize his offspring
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOraFily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address viii be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Perhaps the president simply pro-
posed TO follow the plan OF the base
ball magnates and send his army
south for a spring training.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Perhaps that $1O,OO0,OOO Mr.. Car
negie gave was sort of peace bond
under which he placed the nations.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
In Other Lands

side lights on what A. Trans
pirinE Among the Near and
Far Nations Of the Earth
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Mexico is under martial law, which
is doubtless not noticeable to the old
est inhabitants.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18
FEBRUARY CIRCULATE
47,62l

State Of Nebraska. County OF Douglas. So:
Dwight Williams, circulation manager OF
The Bee Publishing company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily cir
Culatton, less spoiled, unusued and returned
copies, for the month OF February 1911, was
tb64. DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn 10
before me this LIST day Of March, 1911.
(Seall ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Those who propose to wipe out all
party lines should be careful not to
run us into a barbed wire fence by
mistake.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Miss Helen Gould is suggested as
president o: Wellesley college Is
Wellesley seeking to make a big en-
dowment haul?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

According to all reports, those
Seeing omaha excursions are eye
openers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

1t must be hard on Attorney Cen
eral-For-a-Little-Wh Arthur Mullen
to find himself out OF print.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Evidently the commission form of
city government is good thing, but
not for the Water board
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

THE geese are flying high yet. -
News item. No thrust at the aviators
we trust.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

President Diaz seems to grow more
- healthy. as the smell of powder be-
comes stronger.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Manhattan, New, is 10 have a frog
farm. 1t cannot touch Reno's lobster
ranch.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Insurgents there are even among
the sunragettes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Terrible Landslide on Mount Vesu-
yius." Democratic or republican?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Sinking responsibilities never made
= great world power out OF any nation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Assessors often have keener sense
Of property than propriety.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

tainly must be equally good for Water
board members.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-18

Wealth is supposed to be more eQuitably
distributed in France than in most other
commercial nations; yet the death duty
returns for 1903 show that fifty-eight mil
lionaires died during the year, two Of
whom left estates in excess Of $4,000, 900.
No less than SO per cent OF the total num-
Der OF decedent estates arising In the
course of the year were Of a value less
than $4,000, but the aggregate value was
only about 81 per cent Of the total value OF
all decedent estates. The average value
per estate was only $500, and the tax
collections amounted TO above $52OOO,OOO
This was considerably more than 81 per
capita OF living population.