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Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
Is Wichita Reactionary9

Wichita, the home Of that sturdy
insurgent in congress, the Hon. Vic
tor Murdoch, has taken de-
cided step backward and raised the
question of its own progressiveism
1t has not slipped, to be sure, in its
political path, but rather in its bust
ness progress by letting go of it's base
ball club, which was a member of the
Western league. Base ball is bust
ness today business in which some
$50, is annually turned over.
Few cities in the country that have
professional teams would care to give
them up, even IL their sporting blood
was not UP to standard, but merely
for the protection Of their business
regulations, A base ball club is one
excellent means of advertising city
and certainly Wichita will come to ap-
preciate this fact by inverse ratio.
This boosted metropolis of Kan
sas' and home of the progressive MUIR
dock, then, has done a very reaction
airy thing in failing to support a win
ming team. 1t might have been Diff
ferent had the team been a loser, still
that would not have justified the city
made famous as Murdock's dwelling
place in such a course. Why, even
Danville, Ill, has league base ball
team-Danville, where abideth Uncle
Joe, the arch-apostle of what Con-
gressman-Editor Murdoch calls the
"reactionaries."
Bill Allen White, a good friend of
Murdoch and another pro-progressive
writing in his Emporia Gazette, under
the significant caption, Poor Old
Wichita" says:
Wichita, the peerless princess Of the
plains, has lost her base ball team. which
becomes the property of Pueblo. All kinds
OF explanations are being offered, but ex-
plantations don't count for much when II
comes to a question OF advertising.
White adds: "The fact that she
lost her base ball team is exploited
all over the country" Just so and to
that extent Wichita is marked as a
failure instead of success. To say
the least, and 1t is bad advertising for
Wichita and only serves to redouble
the task of Murdoch to keep alive
the fame of his city, "the metropolis
of Kansas"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
sncr.A to the Heroic Host.

This day is sacred to the heroic host VINO
kept this flag above our heads; sacred to
the living and the dead; sacred to the
Scared and manned; sacred to the wives
who gave their husbands TO the mothers
who gave their SONS Here, in this peace
full land of ours. here where the sun
shines, where flowers grow, where children
play. millions Of armed men batued for the
right and breasted on a thousand fields
the iron storms OF war. These brave, these
Incompatible men founded the first repub-
lie They fulfilled their prophecies, they
brought to pass the dreams, they realized
the hopes that all the great and good and
wise and Just have made and had made
since man was man. But what Of those
who fell? There is no language to express
the debt we owe. the love we bear to all
the dead who died for us. Words are but
barren sands. We can but stand beside
their graves and in the hush and silense
feel what speech has never told.-Robert
G. Ingersol.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
THE MIGHTY WYOMING.
Latest Addition to Uncle Sans Mon
archs of the Sea.
Raltinora American

Latest Addition to Uncle SANS Nom
archs of the Sea.
Baltimore American.
Peace paens cannot dim the enthusiasm
Of this country over additions to its first
class warship list. The floating of the
mighty Wyoming marks further stage in
the progress OF the country In pursuance
of it's program toward the very front as a
naval power. This ship will not be sur
passed by any in the world. 1t will have an
armament of the greatest formidabihty.
With a speed of twenty and half knots
and with tonnage of $1,000 and force Of
fifty-four officers and more than a thou
sand enlisted men, the massive warship
will be formidable beyond any other float
ing fortress.
The Wyoming is one of the six first
class battleships that, when this one has
been fully equipped, will make a fleet
stronger than the entire American navy at
the close of the Spanish-American war.
One Of the mightiest OF this group. the
Delaware, will be a bigger ship at the
ceremony of the coronation of King George
than any the British admiralty will have
in the naval display.
The United States. without excessive
burden to the people, is thus acquiring a
rating in naval equipment that not only
completes with that OF almost every other
power, but that Will shortly place It at
the very head OF the list,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
QUESTIONABLE PLAYS.
vigorous Protest Handed to Managers
OF Tksaters.

OF Tksatsrs.
Buffalo Express
In the protest of the committee of the
American Federation of Catholic societies
on public morals, issued last week in an
open letter to the theater managers Of
the United States, is food for thought for
the purveyors or plays of questionable
character This committee, wise in its
day and generation, deplores the fact that
these plays now produced in first class
houses, will soon find their way into
cheaper amusement places and thus
reach out to our American boys and girls.
One paragraph in this open letter reads
thus:
I'VE feel that the theatrical producers
and managers are n1enacing the public
morality and the welfore of the nation.
For these plays. being based on abom-
Unable sexual perversity and setting up a
standard of morality which is open licen-
tiousness, will gradually accustom the
spectators, first in thought. then in deed,
to disregard and discard all Christian
modesty and will thus prove the grave of
the nation"
This protest has behind 1t the Federation
of Catholic societies, numbering many
thousands of men engaged in a wide
variety Of business pursuits, touching the
life Of the nation at all points. 1t is a
formidable array Of citizenship and one
that may well be considered by these Of
tenders.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
The Regiment.


We marched together from the town,
With throbbing drums and swirling gusts
Raw boys, and each unknown to each.
A loose and FESTIVE herd 300 strong,
TO battle for the right and rout the
wrong.
In camp and march, retreat and fight.
In hail OF bullets and of shell,
We found our comrades brothers born,
We learned to know each other well,
To trust the living and regret
And honor every man who fell.
Through cheering throngs we trod the
our slit flag overhead,
The land we saved beneath our feet,
Reliance in our tread,
Five hundred soldiers, thewed and tanned.
And mindful of our dead.
We went our ways to scattered homen.
All the wide arts
we lived our different lives, fulfilled
Our destined parts,
Whatever came or went remem-
Brance in our hearts.
Amid proud recollections and display,
Moist eyed, with quivering lips. we met
some six score veterans. world worn, keen
and gray.
Since then, with each recurring year,
dwindling band, we gathered here
For reminiscence and good cheer.
We either, as of old;
Warm, greeting hands we hold,
And now the doors unfold.
At every place
We seem to trace
we'll loved face.
And see,
But three
Are we. EDWARD Lucas Wthte'
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
Foreign Capital in Mexico.

What will be the immediate atti-
tude OF foreign capital in Mexico?
Foreign capital, of course, will not
want to deprive itself OF any of the ex-
cellent opportunities that lie before
1t in that land of prodigious natural
resources, especially since It is cred
tied with having had little to do with
the movement which eliminated in rev.
olution. But that 1t may be bit timid
for the present is quite probable. 1t
will likely prefer to wait and see
Just how things are going to turn un-
der the new regime before extending
its reach very far.
But unless turbulence and disorder
continue, this recess will be brief, for
capital, American capital particularly.
is too anxious for the industrial expan-
sion offered in Mexico to indulge any
serious idleness. Whatever part it had
in the revolution must have been based
on the knowledge that before industry
and manufacture could make reasona-
BILE Roadway some drastic move was
necessary to lift the masses out Of
their unrest into an existence where
they would be more satisfied. The
world will never appreciate how for
midable Diaz's task was and how much
he accomplished. until it goes back to
the place where he began and com
pares conditions then with those ex-
istent at the end OF Diaz's long reign.
The problem Of the future. then, is
as much economic as political, and
the advance OF Mexico is closely re-
lated to the progress OF the United
States. We need the southern repub-
lie and II needs us. With our help,
it will be able TO make better progress
and the better progress it makes the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

For consistency, commend us to the
Hon. Martin w. Littleton, member of
congress from New York. On the
Arizona recall proposition, be said in
the house:
1t would strike from the splendid struc-
ture of free government the arch upon
confidence.
And when the roll was called, Mr..
Lttleton Joined with his democratic
brethren in voting to strike down the
arch. AS Colonel Roosevelt has said,
Words are good and only so when
backed by DEEDS
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
Score for Mr.. Lynch.
country

Score for County Commissioner
Lynch, the lone republican member,
who, with some help from Commits
sioner Elsasser, has forced the ring
that runs the county board to admit
its demand for an additional $25O,0OO
for the new court house was padded
20 per cent, and to wiring the water
out by reducing the figures from
s25o,OOO to 5000, 900. When crowded
into the corner the democratic finan-
ciers were found to have more than
$4,000 of funds available for court
house building and equipment more
than they. had exhibited on the bal
ance sheet The result will be that
$4,000 will stay in the pockets of the
taxpayers instead of being spent on
unnecessary side shows. 1t is only
too bad that there are not more
Lynches on the board.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

greater outlet will it afford for our
industries. With each step forward
it will require better labor, better ma
chinery and, in fact, better living all
round. American capital will have to
help it to these modern Improvements
and in so doing will be helping itself.
How long 1t will be before condi-
tons bring a new era of Industrial ex-
pansion in Mexico cannot be predeter-
mined, but it will not be long be-
fore American capital, as well as other
foreign capital, will be enlisted for
the development of those mighty re-
sources still dormant in that rich
country
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
SMILING REMARKS.


But. daughter. have always warned
you against marrying a spendthrft."
II know, but you never advised me rot
to be engaged to one."-Houston Post.
Mrs. Hornbeak On the midst OF her read
ing)-My goodnessl What's this country
coming to? Here liz an article headed "A
Farmer Hornbeak-By hickory! How
them professors do drink!-Puck.
Globe Trotter-I guess links hasn't been
around very much.
World Belter-Mhy do you think so7
Globe Trotter-I have heard him speak
favorably Of two hotels.-Judge.
My title ought to be worth at least
half a million to some American heiress,'
said Lord Luvvus
Isn't IL a shame" exclaimed the Gus
toms official that anything as valuable
as a title should be permitted to come into
cago Record-H Herald.
Suppose some one should give you a
smack on the cheek?"
He would get some of my lip!'-Hous-
ton Post
Whats the matter, Bilkins? You look
discouraged" said Slithers.
IL am" said Bikins. Il had to dis
charge the cook this morning. She was
on the rampage all night"
"Fine!" laugher Slithers. What did you
say to her?'
II told her to leave the house" said
And did she?" asked slthers
She did," sighed Billdns. but you
wouldn't know It for the same house after
she'd left it"-Harpers Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
Back to Simplicity.

The annual banquet OF the Lincoln
Commercial club, at which Governor
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey was
entertained as the principal guest,
was a notable occasion, with over 800
at the tables. 1t was an event of
more than local Importance and was
by all present voted success in every
way. But the banquet was a dollar
dinner, and simplicity was the rule,
with substantial food rather than
fancy dishes, and with the chief en-
phasis put on the address by the
speaker of the evening.
We allude to this in detail simply
by way of contrast with the too
marked tendency of late of our Com
mercial club functions in Omaha to-
ward an elaborate and costly scale of
entertainment entirely uncalled for
and unwarranted. The Commercial
club should play host to great captains
OF industry and other distinguished
visitors when they come to Omaha,
and do it in a creditable manner, yet
In such way as to enlist participation
by the whole body of the membership
instead of by only a few. No Com
mercial club function in Omaha ought
to fall short of at least one-third of
the one thousand members, but this
general interest can be secured only
by bringing the entertainments back
to simplicity and thus popularizing
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
Equal Senate Representation Safe.

Equal senate representation Sate.
One of the bogeys raised up in the
senate against the election of senators
by direct vote is that if this amend
ment is made to the constitution, soon
the demand will be made for another,
which will destroy the equal repre-
sentation which the states of the un-
ion now have in the upper branch of
congress and that following that will
come a proposition for senate repre-
sentation on the same theory as rep
resentation in the house.
The only way by which such a
change could be brought about would
be by assent of every state, as, of
course, those raising this false alarm
know. Equal representation of the
states in the senate is one thing of
which no state can be deprived with
out its consent and no state is likely
ever to give its consent to it. Even If all
the states but one should favor such
a proposition, that one state could de-
feat it by Directing to it.
If this is the last recourse opponents
to the popular election of senators can
find, then they must be pretty near
the end Of their rope and this demand
assumes new proportions. 1t is too
late now to hide behind subterfuge.
The senator who fears to take his
chances of getting back to the senate
by the route of popular election, will
not be missed.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

A minister has finally come to the
defense OF the erstwhile Mr.. Ananias,
who died with a lie upon his lips. The
parson takes the position, that instead
Of being an habitual liar, Mr.. Ananias
must have been a very truthful man,
for his death was due to apoplexy, the
shock, no doubt, of suddenly realizing
that he had perverted the truth.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Speaking about democratic eandi-
date for the White House, Mr.. Bryan
says, Leave me out of it." That is
just what the people have been doing
three successive times.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
Progressive Playing Politics.

Senator LaFollette is chairman OF the
census committee which has charge o.
the congressional reappartionment bill
passed by the house weeks ago. Though q
voeiferous progressive, the senator is max
ing haste as slowly with reporting the
measure as II he were a veritable stand
patter. The reasons given by him for with
holding the bill are also very stand-patish
II Is said that the proposed reapportion'
ment would add seventy TO the number OF
Taft delegates in the republican national
convention OF 1912. Herein, perhaps. may
be found the true reason for the dilatori
ness of the progressive LaFollette.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
High Brows ana High LivinE.
Louisville Courier-JournaI.

AouA9NAAc SouAiO1 -SouAhals
Professors at Amherst are complaining
that salaries are not sufficient TO meet the
high cost Of living, but they may at least
take comfort from the fact that they are
not in the fix OF the Yale professor who
must not only buy bread and meat, but
pay 100000 alimony as well.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Lieutenant Governor Morehead will
soon be having his first try at playing
acting governor. The usual effect OF
sitting on the soft seat of the execu-
tive chair may be expected to mani
fest itself soon after
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
No work, No Pay.

They now propose TO dock Woodrow VIII
son for the time he was absent from the
governors Job in New Jersey. II he had
been regular there would have been no
such zeal for the protection OF the public
treasury by the present directors.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
BY fairy hands their knell is rung
BY forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there!
William Collins.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Secretary Wilson will not come out
TO Nebraska for the present. He
knows Nebraska farmers are all right
and will put in his time on more be-
nighted sections of the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
Perish the Thought.

~E1N-1-----F|I7771E9
But, OF course, from resolutions oppos-
ing Canadian reciprocity, opposing any re-
duotion in the lumber tariff and advocat-
ing ship subsidy you would never suspect
that the Nationaf Lumber Manufacturers
association was anything like an unreason-
able combination in restraint OF trade"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
APRIL CIRCULATION.
48,lO6

State of Nebraska, County of Douglas. S.:
Dwight Williams. circulation manager OF
The Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily clrcula-
ton, less spoiled, unused and returned
copies, Tor the month OF April 1871, was
SS,lO6 DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day OF May, 1911.
lSeal) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Il am not a candidate and win not
be candidates; leave me out OF it," is
Mr.. Bryan's snbtle answer to the ques-
ton whether he win run again. Sun
II showed into the race he would be
too much of a patriot to hack out
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

The gentleman who happens to be
county attorney in Platte county evil
IDENTIFY wants Governor Aldrich to pay
some attention to him, but the chances
are he will be disappointed.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

At any rate, the excitement over the
special congressional election in the
Ninth Iowa district has not yet be-
come so seething as to boil over on
this side OF the river,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

People will soon be able TO talk by tele-
phone from coast to coast, but It will take
them some time to get the habit.-sacra-
mento Union.
1t will take many people longer to
get the price.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
In the Light of Reason.
New York World.

Railroad presidents are beginning to read
the Interstate commerce law lin the light
of reason. The president OF the Wabash
finds that it has been of real benefit TO
the capital Invested IN railroad property
and he pronounces the refusal Of the com
mission 70 allow the roads 70 increase
freight rates "a blessing In disguise"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Lucky for us that Captain Hull is
no longer in congress or what is left
OF the army headquarters of the De
psTtment OF the Missouri might have
been moved to Des Moines.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Our old friend, d. Glenn Deaver,
will be in a position to contest Colo
mel Roosevelt's fame as dam opener
when he lifts the headgate at sho-
shone. N
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Mrs. Hetty Green has cleared $780,
900 on a bit Of Chicago property she
bought thirty-four years ago. This
proves that patience is a virtue even
in high finance.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrRrily should have The bee
'Aniled 60 them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30
Prison sentences WIN HOId Them.

Nevertheless and Notwithstanding when
the Department Of Justice brings criminal
prosecutions for unreasonable" restraints
OF trade" and asks for prison sentences
for the men higher UP. we think II will
turn out that that viii hold them.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Philadelphia is said to have made
good deal OF progress toward ex-
terminating the loan shark. That city
cannot be so slow after all.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

A prominent sporting man of St.
Louis dropped dead the other day.
Must have Just heard that the St.
Louis Browns won a game.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Young Alfonso will have small rea-
son for plying Porfirio Diaz too
much, since his own throne is none
too steady.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

The way these democrats are de-
clining to say they will not run for the
presidency must be getting on some
folks nerves. >'3tt
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Our Congressman Lobeck is due to
make another speech somewhere tell
ing the country what I'VE democrats
In Nebraska" are going to do about it.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Since the stipend has been raised
to three dollars day, the jurors don't
care If the judges never take a sum
mer vacation.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Britain's first naval airship has
been christeped Mayfly. Proof at last
that Britons are not insensible to
humor.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

1t will be time enough to view with
alarm the yellow peril when our peo-
pie begin to speak Chinese.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Anyway, one is not tainted now
with the reminder that he has not
shoveled the snow off his pavement.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

A Chicago scientist has invented a
scheme of grating human limbs.
Nothing like pulling the leg, Is it,,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Pennsylvania is never surprised
when the base ball executive, Governor
Tener, gets keyed up to a high pitch.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Ruins of city supposed to be 10,-
600 years old have been discovered In
Arizona. Give 1t the recall.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

Whatever else they may say of the
future of Washington, 1t will remain
hot town. literally speaking.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

After a lapse of fifty years the an
swers to the roll call by the veterans
are faint and scattered.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

A head-on collision is a bad start
for a new fast train.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

The boosters excursion is ended,
but the boosting for Omaha never
stops.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-30

But. daughter, l have always warned
you against marrying spendthrift."
II know, but you never advised me- not
to be engaged to one."-Iiouston Post