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Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Mr.. Black was born in Canada. but
jumped over the line as soon as he, OBJ
served the good things on this side. He is
director Of many railroads and banks and
president OF the United States Realty
company OF New York.
Remember Chauncey NJ. Depew, United
States senator that was? Chauncey cele-
hrated his nth birthday anniversary with
800 friends in Brooklyn last Saturday and
jollied the youngsters with "reminiscences
and Joemillerisms. His Is the smile that
won't come off.
Mrs. Barney and Mise Barney, mother
and daughter, who secured first page
publicity by exhibiting nude statuaTy in
the lawn OF their Washington home last
summer, are honeymooning in Paris. The
mother Is Mrs. Hemmick and the daughter
Is Mrs. Dreyfus. both husbands being
highcockalorums in the American Bahaist
society in the French capital
The city council OF Chicago fired a reso-
luton at the managers Of the fund col
lected for the benefit OF the widows and
orphans OF firemen who lost their lives
in the stock yards fire last December. The
plan Of the managers is to keep the princi-
pal Of the fund intact and devote the in
come to the support of the living victims.
many OF whom are in sore distress OBJ
lection is made 10 the plan, and the out
come Is likely to be a lawsuit that will
eat a large slice OF the fund.
The hairy and hairless debate in Wash
ingt0n didn't prove a thing. The whisk-
cred Ndisputants are married, so are the
bald heads. Each took a turn at teaching
Sunday school and in other ways showed
symptoms to the rOstrum OF the Young
Mems Christian association and have Of
fered vocal banquets TO members of the
Young Women's Christian association and
the Women's Christian Temperance union.
For all that Senator Kerns and Uncle Joe
Cannon possess whiskers and hairy domes
while Nick Longworth and ollie James
haven's enough on top TO afford q life line
for q fly.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
An Intellectual Armistioe.

No reason is apparent for doubling
the reports that hostilities in Mexico
did not cease with the signing of the
armistice pending peace negotiations.
The armistice, therefore, seems to
have proved Intellectual. Desultory
warfare, reports say, has come to some
very serious results in the northwest
states and some American nonpar-
Elephants have lost their lives as a con-
sequence of the perfidy.
Taking the proper view that the
armistice was made in good faith and
that both parties to the agreement de-
plore assaults upon Americans in Mex
leo, we are still confronted by this
fact: Chaotic conditions more formi-
dable than orderly powers can easily
handle exist in the southern country
and threaten to annoy whatever reor-
ganization force is evolved from the
revolution. 1t will be a long time be-
fore bushwhacking and guerilla war
fare, as the ultimate fragments of the
rebellion, are finally and completely
wiped out. Here Is sure to be task
quite equal to the best efforts which
the old or the new regime can bring
to bear. Under such irritating cir
cumstances the United States, indeed,
does well to restrain it's power and
deal compassionately with its turbu-
lent neighbors.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
American and British Courts.

Americans have criticised their own
much by Englishmen that they are
generally prone to concede that justice
here is an uncertain quantity in alto
gether too many instances. 1t is sur
prising to read, therefore, in a London
paper the Illuminating statement that
even British courts are beset by siris-
ter obstacles that often defeat justice
and make a travesty of law. This
journal tells us that the British courts
are scandalized by alibi-makers and
that the evil has become so prevalent
as to menace the system Of jurispru-
dence. The paper hastens to explain,
though, that this thing exists, not
among real Englishmen, but among
foreigners, who have organized for
mutual protection.
Yet, II this is so, Britons cannot
evade responsibility even by estab-
fishing the verify OF this statement.
The United States has as intricate ju-
dictal problems with which to deal as
Britain can possibly lay claim to. The
fact seems to be that no system of
Jurisprudence devised by man Is error
proof, though those of the high order
which both these countries have come
near meeting the ends of Justice Per-
haps on comparison it might be found
that with all our admitted frailties,
American courts tally favorably, both
in method and administration, with
those of Britain. We have here often
urged the distressing frequency of per-
Jury among witnesses and lItigants,
closely related to the grievance OF the
Britons. Perhaps we and our British
cousins might profit by one another's
experience in efforts to root out these
defects.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
Lincoln Lifts the Lid.

After several years of dense drouth
Lincoln has voted by decisive majority
to lift the lid and license saloons to
do business there again. That Lin
coin should go wet would not ordi-
narily be of particular moment to out
siders, for other cities and towns have
alternated between the wet and dry
policy, but Lincoln has made so much
of its Wanted superiority over other
cities by virtue of it's dryness and its
boasted goodness that its relapse is
like a fall from a high pedestal.
Writing for publication a few days
ago, a we'll known citizen of Lincoln
declared that, next to Mr.. Bryan"
.Lincoln's dry policy is our biggest
advertisement" and that a majority
for the vets would be most serious
from an advertising standpoint" II
this was really the moving factor the
majority of Lincolnites have evidently
concluded that the name Is not worth
the game and that as long as they con-
tinue to have the other big advertising
feature the fame of their city will be
secure, even though 1t be wet in spots.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

not been able to realize on the high
hopes set for him in that position.
Hyde, like most mer in similar posi-
tions, pleads that he is the victim Of
base conspiracy. in which it so hap
pens every newspaper in the city prac-
tically is against him and in line with
the testimony of Banker Robins, in the
meshes of whose confession Hyde was
tripped up.
Judgment, of course. has not yet
been pronounced, and will not be until
Hyde's guilt or Innocence is estab-
lished. Il may be regarded as sig
nifcant that in pleading not guilty the
former city chamberlain reserves the
right to-change or withdraw his plea
IL developments suggest the advisa-
bility of such action.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
Prompt Action on Reciprocity.
Springfield Republican.

The s>Iggle over reciprocity in Canada
would speedily come to an end if the
United States senate would get ready for
business and pass the reciprocity bill with
out much delay. As matters stand, the
Canadian opposition Is much heartened by
hopes of obstruction to the measure In the
upper branch Of congress. while Premier
Laurier naturally hesitates to push the
business so long as there is a chance that
reciprocity may fail on this side Of the
boundary. The protectionists in England,
meanwhile, are doing their best to sus-
tain the opposition at Ottawa The pro-
longation of the contest means that the
premier will attend neither the imperial
conference next month in London nor the
coronation in June.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
HITCHCOCK's GREAT SHOWING.
Notable Achievement of the POstmAs-
ter General.
Buffalo News


Postmaster General Hitchcock is able
to show that his department is self-sup-
porting. The latest returns show that in
come practically balances outgo and is
still gaining, so that the difference OF a
few dollars shown in the last monthly
statement will be wiped out within a few
days, and the next statement Will I'M
doubtedly show small credit balance to
the department.
The way in which General Hitchcock has
worked out this success rebounds i'm
mensely to his credit. for during the year
in which he has changed a deficit of
81, 100000, the highest ever known in the
department. to a credit, he has added
something like 1900 offices, opened up
many thousands Of miles OF rural delivery
routes, increased the force proportionately
to match the growing business and is still,
by efficiency In handling, by practical
methods, without dlscharging men, without
Gripping the service, without regard to the
service itself he has accomplished these
things
In a word. General Hitchcock has greatly
increased the efficiency of the department
in many directions, and at the same time
retained the force undlminished. and ac-
oomplished these things without change In
the rates of postage. He reported last De-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
Immunity Baths Denied.

Prosecuting officials have been
rather generous in this country with
their immunity baths, but the limit
seems to have been reached in Ohio,
where fifty (about One-third the total
number) members of the legislature
are involved in a bribery scandal and
propose to confess in exchange for
immunity from prosecution. The law
officers certainly are not to be blamed
for refusing to trade. They and the
people would surely be on the short
end of the deal. Better many times
over take a chance on missing out
entirely on convictions than to let
loose the whole flock of culprits
merely to have them confess.
People may not admire the char
acter of a briber or bribe-taker, but
they will have to allow a little for
the commendable audacity OF these
men, who, when about to be trapped
in such a wholesale job of dishonesty,
blandly offer to swap confessions for
lm muulIy. vi COuIbc thcy PROBABLY
think the law would be satisfied to get
at the fellows who Corrupted" them,
but such view is not quite consistent
wthfthe highest demands OF justice.
But is it not about time anyway
for Ohio to be good? Is It not time to
purge itself of it's moral obliquity
without the aid of immunity processes
and put on a complete new suit Of
civic virtue? Has the whole state been
contaminated by Adams county? Or
was Adams county only a sample of
the stock in trade? Seriously. the sit
uation is deplorable. II the facts be
anywhere near as bad as represented,
this will go on record, perhaps, as the
most extensive system Of bribery the
country has known, at least that has
been exposed, and everybody will hope
there have been none worse unex-
posed
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

cember that II seemed necessary to make
a change in the rates on second class mat
ter. and a great controversy arose over
that subject But without giving up his
Idea he has gone on working out improve
ments, including the postal savings bank,
and pushing forward toward parcels post
and showing the people In most convincing
way that the Postoffice department can
be made a great deal more useful to them
way.
methods OF the head of the Postoffice
department, II is certain that no one has
accomplished so much in two years of an
administration within the memory of living
ing the postal service.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
The Gubernatorial Succession.

The vacancy in the office of lieuten-
ant governor to be filed for a period
OF one year and eight months by the
president OF the senate presents a sit
uation entirely novel in the history Of
Nebraska. Never before in this state
has a vacancy been created by death
in the Office of lieutenant governor.
and but once before has the president
of the senate been brought within one
remove of the chief executives posi-
ton. In this case there is a further
exceptional condition in the fact that
the president of the senate is a dem
ocrat. while the governor is a repub-
lican, so that a transfer of political
power from one party to another
would occur should the once pass
even temporarily along the line Of sue
cession.
Under the present constitution of
Nebraska the gubernatorial succession
in Nebraska passes to the lieutenant
governor, to the president of the SEN
ate and to the speaker of the house in
the order named. In territorial days,
and until the new state constitution
was adopted and became effective in
I1s77. the succession passed from the
governor to the secretary of state.
The first territorial governor of Ne
bTaska. Francis Burt, died two days
after he entered upon his duties and
the vacancy was filled by the secretary,
Thomas B. Cunning, who succeeded to
the governorship a second time three
years later to ill vacancy created by
the resignation of Governor lizard An
almost exact repetition of this oc-
CURED in the case of J. Sterling Nor
ton as secretary of the territory filing
the vacancy created by the death of
Governor Richardson in 1853, and
again filling the vacancy created by
the resignation OF Governor Black in
1851.
The first governor of Nebraska after
statehood was impeached and removed
from Office. being succeeded by the
secretary of state, w. H. James, but no
further vacancies occurred in the ONCE
either of governor or of lieutenant
governor until the election of Gov
ernor Dietrich to be United States SEN
ator opened the way for Lieutenant
Governor Savage to become governor
Yet the then president of the senate
the late c. F. Steele. was of the same
political party as the governor, so that
the possibility Of a transfer of polit.
lcal control was not involved.
Fortunately, Governor Aldrict
seems to be enjoying robust good
health, and the prospects Of Lieuten
ant Governor Morehead being moveC
up soon again appear to be remote
The potentiality Of the gubernatoria
succession, however, must be recog
lnizad
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
HYDE and GaYnnr.

Surrounding in Importance the
question of Chamberlain Hyde's guilt
or innocence of the charges connecting
him with incorporation OF stupen-
dous sums of money in New York, the
most conspicuous feature of the whole
situation seems to be the utter failure
of Mayor Gaynor's administration to
accomplish the reforms and improve
ments in city government which we're
set for it In rather fiamboyant fashion.
Hyde was the law partner of Gay
nor, has been his intimate friend and
adviser for years and was appointed
receiver of public money when Gaynor
became mayor His indictment on
grave charges can reflect no credit
upon and contribute no strength to
the Gaynor administration. Especially
| is this true in view of the mayors
steadfast support of Hyde. Hyde may
be proved innocent. in which event the
mayor but commends himself for his
adherence to a friend, but that is not
so much the point just now, for Hyde's
downfall cannot and will not be con-
sidered except in connection with and
as part Of the administration of
Mayor Gaynor. and il in the end he
should be adjudged guilty IT will be
all the worse for Gaynor.
But this is rather a climax than the
beginning OF trouble for Gaynor.
From the first his administration has
been on the defensive. He has had
so many things to explain that he has
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
SPIRIT OF SPRING.
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore sun.
No earth-born Joy is this.
No thing Of clod,
But from a cup of bliss
We drink of God.
No clay around this thing.
No dust of toll;
Shod like an angel, Spring
Doth kiss the sol;
And where her feet do pass
In steps of CLEAN
They on the emerald grass
Leave prints OF dream
Not Joy alone in life,
But, bush and tree,
Shake with the silken strife
OF ecstacy.
Ii It a worldH who caresi
A dream3 who knowBl
Only where'er II fares
On feet OF rose,
Soon like q mystic thing.
None may define
Flashes a rainbow wing
And blooms q vine.
Thus might a child be born.
And we might say,
How like a golden morn.
A branch of Mayi
Yet, II Is not OF birth
SO much as spell.
OF something upon the earth
Intangible.
Something that softly strays
Into our hearts till we
Turn like a child that plays
And are as free
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Sixty million dollars is spent by
tourists In London every summer, so
BtAtisticians say. No wonder the
British sheer at our American dol
lara"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04


We are alright in this country in the
matter of putting up big money for old
books. We can do 1t, sure pop, and do
1t impressively. But when it comes to
buying new books the tendency seems
to be to shy off We don't play fair
with the possible IrVings and Longfel-
lows of this generation, who in conse-
quence die a-bornin"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
The President Ought to Know.

The president deuouuCins as "bosh" the
talk about Canadian annexation, pointedly
declares that the United States has quite
enough to do i'm governing it's present pos
sessions And after his experience in the
Philippines he knows.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

When former Senator Carter in the
Observation-Disclosures debate said
the ohin-bewhiskered fellows we're al
ways the peacemakers he must have
forgotten the period of Jerry Simpson.
Senator PETER and other patriarchs OF
those hirsute days.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
Not a lingo Scream.
Pittsburg DIspatch.

Some people find it singular that the
war alarm bureaus have not summoned
the nation to arms because the Dutch
have taken possession of a microscopic
island in the vicinity OF the Philippines.
But It is entirely natural. The probable
employers for our warmakers in print see
nothing for themselves in a war between
the United States and Holland.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

why, Of course, 1t is usually better
TO settle out of court controversies
such as have arisen between the city
and several franchise corporations,
but IL an adjustment were reached
without litigation how would all these
high-priced lawyers be able to take
periodic trips to Europe?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
DisresardinE Public Policy,

In the decision on the Workmen's Com
pensation Act, in our opinion, the New
York Court of Appeals has disregarded
all considerations of social justice against
the conscience and judgment of the civil
lied world. and in its forced interpreta-
ton of the constitution has disregarded
alike the history of the constitutions orr
gin and of its judicial Interpretation by
the highest court in the land.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Congressman Lobeek has scored his
first signal victory down east" He
spoke in Baltimore a few days before
the city election there urging votes for
a democrat for mayor as an induce
ment 20 I'VE democrats to hold our
national convention here" And the
democrat was elected.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

1t was long time after the incident
at Appomsttox that fighting ceased in
Texas, so we need not be surprised If
the neighbors a little to the south of
there fight on long after the Mexican
war is over
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

The New York Sun, responding to
a challenge, has made its annual pub
location of "Sassafras, Oh, Sassafras.
Nov, come on. Gentle Lady, with your
blithe and happy spring.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

The pool hall regulation ordinance
has gone back to committee once
more. But then. has not Omaha been
engaged in the Immediate and com
pulsory'' purchase OF the water works
for over eight years?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

The civil service investigation of the
Omaha postofice shake-down has been
hanging hre now for two months. It
did not take President Roosevelt that
long on a certain occasion to decapi-
tate a United States marshal and a
United States district attorney on
much less serious charges.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

II is to be hoped the acme of art at
tanned by Kentucky which recently
hanged a negro on a theater stage will
not excite the Jealous rivalrIes Of
other southern states.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

The campaign of misrepresentation
is on. A local organ OF mendacity
pretends that the so-called farmers
free list would cut on custom house
revenues of only $500, 900, when the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Senator Frye OF Maine is now called
the father of the senate" He is
going TO find some mighty mischievous
little boys to handle, too.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Pref See, the man who saw those
sixty new worlds, being from Missouri,
looked over field eff ace, 900 planets
before deciding,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
APRIL CIRCULATION.
48,l06

STATE Of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ssi
Dwight Williams, circulation manager of
The Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily ciroula-
copies for the menth Of April, 1911, was
Is ,l06. DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn IL
before me this LIST day Of May, 1911,
(Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

New York's indicted city chamber
lain. although asserting he Is the VIC
tim of a great conspiracy, will, never
theless, resign. No resignation yet
in the Omaha postotice.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

official treasury figures place the loss
at not less than S1O,OOO,0OO annually.
A little discrepancy like that, of
course. cuts no figure.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
In a Glass by Himself.

washington star
J. G. Cannon remains one of the few
prominent statesmen whose public utter
ances and confidential conversation can al
ways be depended on to sound pretty much
alike.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

And now Cock Robin" is accused
of being a nature fakir, The spar
row with his little arrow" may be ex-
pectsd to be exploded next.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Subscribers leaVins the city tena-
pOrarily should have The Bee
vailed 20 them. Address will bs
changed as sftes as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Unless we are misinformed, those
doctors who are meeting in eur midst
will be compelled to pronounce Omaha
painfully healthy.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Now that Mayor Jim" and Gov
ernor Aldrioh have handed one an
other verbal bouquets. We may con-
slider the political armistice in force
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

The st. Louis Times says "Whea"
has been the slogan of st. Louis toe
long. GiddaP,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

An additional guard to watch the
rock pile gang is called for. good,
strong barbed wire fence would be
cheaper
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

I'VE must all walk in the light"
eEelaims Mr.. Rockefeller. Fill up
the lamp.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

If Juneau were in Mexico instead
of Alaska they would call it You-no.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Still, as able men as Judge Waksley
have been known to possess whiskers
and a bald head at one and the same
time.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
Around New York

nipples on the Current Of Life
as seen in the Great American
Metropolis from Day TO Day.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

In that Lincoln mayoralty race Arm
strong proved to be strong in the legs
as we'll.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Senator La Toilette believes in re-
ciprocity on general principles. But
how about specific cases?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

The contest for popularity between
Mayor GaynOr and Governor Dix is
proving almost as exciting as a slew
mule race,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

Congressman Victor Berger seems
10 be a concrete answer to the cues
tion, why do not the people prefer
socialism,"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

From the reforms it is effecting
that Audeben society is certainly 9
bird.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

How could such a thing happen in
Lincoln?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04

At any rate, the backward spring is
retarding the advent of the house fly.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-04
LAUGHING GAS.


Doctor-You are considerably under
weight, sir, What have you been doing?
Patient-Nothing. But I'm a retired
grocer, doc.-Puck.
Don't you think that new congressman
will be a popular idolG'
II dunno about his beln' popular" re-
piled Farmer Corntossel; but he's idle all
right Washington Star.
'Have any luck on your fishing trip2'
Eyes. Counting those that got away and
those we threw back we almost got seven
Detroit Free Press.
The proud heiress, no longer in the bloom
of youth, stood before the mirror.
She noted the streaks OF gray in her once
raven locks.
'Tii do it," she exclaimed, with firmly
compressed lips You can't make me be-
lieve it's a disgrace to dye rich!"-Chicago
Tribune
Briggs-Heres a queer item six men
could be packed between the jaws of the
prehistoric shark
must have been built along the lines of the
modern street car.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Her-What, going already? 1 don't sup
pose It would be any use to ask you to
Him-Not in that tone of volce.--Milwau-
kee News.
Bailey--Think your wife will learn to run
Dady-Certainlyl Didn't she learn to run
a coffee percolator?-ChicaBo News.
Landlord (smilingly)-Are you aware that
you slept in a real mahogany bed last
night Mr.. Howells?
Howells (meanly)-Was that what II was7
1t felt like lgnum Vitae!-Puck.