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Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

real chance. Casually viewed, 1t would
seem essentially ridiculous to accord a
fourth nomination to a man who had so
little claim on the party Of the country,
but his third nomination was ridiculous
and so was his second Why may not the
democrats take the view that they are
now strong enough to carry Bryan, adjust
ing their burden to their backs? However
they may feel about so heroic a task, they
viii get every encouragement from the re-
publicans, who are not always without in
fluence on the policies OF the opposition
The democratic convention next year
will surely be interesting. The republicans
will go through the formality OF nominal
ing Taft doubtless in the face Of great
insurgent demonstration. The democrats
will have a real choice to make. The task
will be intensified by the realization that
as the cards now lie, their chance Of win
ming is very large
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
Peace Ont of a Bull Pen.

Most of these proceedings for peace
in Mexico have been clothed in an air
of paradoxical uncertainty For in
stance, the conference of the contend
ing leaders was held, reports say. in
an arena roped off 200 feet In cir
conference. The scene is off toward
the hills, toward the wilds, inaccessible
to newspaper correspondents Why
so? Why not pitch this tent of peace
down in the valley near the city, sur
rounded, not by the din and turbulence
of war, but the orderly pursuits of
industry?
An arena roped off 200 feet around
is just about such a place as they ar
range for holding bull fights. 1t is to
be hoped there is no sinister signifi-
canoe back of this. But somehow there
has something to modify or neutralize
every aspect of peace that has
been reported to the outside world
and even now, when Madero has ten
dered his resignation as provisio nal
IBO'SAhOl anu Auiu ONCAylHiuB Ol nope
and aspiration on the single PROPOSE
ton that Dias step down and out, this
suspicious light CLEANS from yonder
bull pen on the hillside toward the bat
tle-feld. To say the least peace
evolved out of such surrounding
would have the touch OF drama to 1t.
Somebody has done some clever stag
ing, evidently.
1t is little wonder that, as the re-
ports state Madero begins to feel the
weight OF responsibility for the revolu-
tion he created and which now com
prises the entire republic. Yet he will
hardly dare accept peace at less than
the price demanded by his followers
namely, the early exit OF Diaz, since
they declare they will support no other
terms Of reconciliation. To the out
side world it would seem that Diaz
would have occupied bigger place Il
he had subordinsted his personal in.
terests sooner without waiting to be
forced.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
BUSINESS MANS GOVERNMENT.
WRstefuI Expenditures Due 20 the
Pork Barrel Disease"

Pork Barrel Disease"
World Work.
II business man were in charge of the
administration Of the national government
and were determined to conduct 1t with the
most economical efficiency. he would soon
find that one fundamental change would
have to be made for. wherever he turned
against wasteful expenditure. he would
discover that, nine times out OF ten, It
had its source in the pork barrel dis
ease 1t is a disease that overtakes praC-
tically every senator and representative
after little experience in Washington. II
not during his election campaign. 1t is the
craving for something for their districts
Indulgence of this craving is pleasant and
brings good results at home. In fact. the
constituents demand this kind Of activity.
The disease is contagious. and every new
congressman sees his more experienced
colleagues busily at work for pork" He,
too Is smitten, swaps favors for favors.
and almost unconscously joins the scram-
BILE. Once a victim of the "pork-b barrel
disease always a victim. His constituents
demand more and more. The victim owes
favors to colleagues who have given favors
TO him. Everybody in congress is swap
ping something and even the president Of
fers to swap the pork of patronage for
votes for his favorite measures 1t is this
all-pervading disease. a growth of more
than a century land not the iniauty Of
any one man or of any one congress)
which paralyzes cur governments activi-
ties and makes 1t the most wasteful gov
eminent in the world. This is the funda-
mental cause of our high cost of govern
ment
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Those generals in Mexico
Are fightn' fit TO Kill
The flea-bitten troops press onward
Tro' fire and blood, but still
There's a greater battle back at home,
Where the housewife with will
Wages war on the first blue bottle fly
That appears on the window SILL
The stalwart soldiers of Uncle Sam
Would fain make ruthless raid
Beyond the swell OF the Rio Grande
Where the MeXicans ambuscade;
But at home the relentless housewife
Leaves death in her path, The slain
Are advance guards of the Fly Brigade
That buzzed on the window pane.
Those generals down in Mexico
VIII receive most worthy mention,
And II one should step on a cactus plant
He may come In for a pension.
But the greatest general OF all.
To whom no public caters,
Is the vanquisher OF the blue bottle fly
She Just keeps on peelln' taters,"
Omaha. -BAYOLL NE TREIAE. B.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Here is a man whose lines stretch from
pole to polt on land carry messages under
the sea and belt the globe. Mr.. Mackay is
president of the Postal Telegraph COM
pany.
Aqua PrietA means black water" TAX
ing the name from water holes In the
vicinity. Douglas Aria, Is named for
| Prof. Douglas, a New York minerslosist'
Former United States Senator william ID.
Mason Of Illinois has unexpectedly bios
somed out as the author OF a successful re-
lIgious book, entitled John the Unafraid. ."
which was anonymously published 3 year
ago.
Mrs A. A. Frost has been raising sweet
peas for profit at Marblehead- blythe Sea,
Mass, for the last eighteen years. She en-
ploys twelve girls 10 help her with her
work ami has established a number OF new
varieties.
After spending sixteen days In a hospital
in sayre. Pa. being operated on for appen-
dicitis Mrs. Newton r. Parks OF Wysox
township met her husband coming into the
Institution with the same ailment as she
was leaving the place by the front door.
| Yankel Heller, now So years old. who was
one of the first men in New York City 10
buy castoff clothing and has accumulated
t25O. 900 in thirty-five years. has sailed for
his native town In Russia, which he left
when he was IS years old, and will marry
the woman whom he loved as a girl. They
have eorresponded ever since Heller sailed
for America to seek his fortune,
! Charles H. Hyde, city chamberlain OF
New York city, who has been indicted for
accepting a bride, had the handling OF city
money 20 the amount OF s5OoOOOOOO a year.
His method OF farming the money among
speculative banks caused his downfall. Mr..
Hyde came into the limelight two years
ago as manager Of Mayor Gaynors cam
paign. He is a Nova Scotian BY birth.
wears eherubic oountenance, q large front
ana q glad hand smile.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
BRYAN ALIVE FOR 1912.
signs of the Times Point to Another
FOrlOrD Hope.

Boston Herald
Bryan rumblings are again heard over
the distant horizon Persons who con-
versed with him on his recent visit to the
national capital report a feeling on his
part that, having led several confessedly
forlorn hopes of the democracy, he de-
serves the distinct opportunity which 1912
presents. These observers say that II he
gets the slightest encouragement he will
surely figure in next years convention.
Much may be said for his alleged posi-
ton. No democrat could have been elected
in 1896. The panic of 1898 had produced a
tremendous reaction against the party in
power, as shown every time the people got
at their ballot boxes, notably in the con-
gressional campaign in 1884. Bryan, in
1896, improved rather than otherwise the
prospects OF his party by affording a new
issue. Although he was overwhelmingly
defeated, he carried several western states
which his party had lost In the preceding
congressional battle. The Spanish war
would have sufficed TO give 1900 to the re-
publicans. The battle of 1908 was another
nearly impossible one for the democrats.
Preceding elections had afforded a COM
plete index TO the public feeling. The re-
publicans had carried the country in the
congressional vote in 1906 and they have
never lost the presidency at the election
following such an off-year victory since
the organization of the party, II they
should carry the presidency in 1912, after
having lost the house to the democrats
last November. they would be doing
something"
These are circumstances in which Mr..
Bryan may well ask the party. since he
has led its forlorn hopes, TO give him a
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
St. Louis and Kansas City.

Kansas City, II appears, has become
an involuntary monitor to it's larger
sister-city, st. Louis. ST. Louis news
papers, voicing an evident feeling on
the part OF the city's business men,
profess to believe the Missouri me-
tropolis needs general quickening Of
the industrial pulse and they-some Of
them--are holding up the energy and
enterprise of Kansas City as an object
lesson Of what may be accomplished by
a steadfast pulling-together OF forces
along progressive lines.
OF course no one in st. Louis is will
ing to admit that Kansas City is in st.
Louis class, nor is IT, but when it
comes to a spirit of indomitable ag-
gressiveness IL probably is in a class
of its own. And st. Louisians cannot af'
ford to depreciate the Kansas City
spirit, for II st. Louis is to continue
the metropolis of Missouri it will have
to breathe this very kind of spirit into
it's own affairs. II cannot afford not
to make greater progress than Il has
made in the last decade, IL 1t would
always occupy its present position.
1t is a great city and there ls much
to be said for it's sound, conservative
business policies. but It will not do
to over-emphasize the sentiment ex-
pressed in Good old st. Louis" The
Times makes an interesting observa-
tion of what 1t deems a serious draw
back to st. Louis and that is in a
small-bore attitude of city officials to-
ward large industrial corporations
seeking for greater outlet that would
benefit the city. Doubtless the criti-
cism is true. for similar one might
apply to most American cities. When
ever 1t becomes possible, IL it ever does,
to put men of caliber at the head of
the big business enterprises repre-
scented in city government, there will
be less ground for complaint and
fewer municipal scandals aud blum
ders.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
Inexcusabls Ignorance.

Golfers Weekly. in Its current is
sue, prints an item of editorial COM
ment on Nebraska progressiveness,
and our democratic World-Herald re-
prints It, that exhibits an ignorance
which Is really inexcusable. 1t starts
out by referring to Congressman
Hitchcock's newspaper" utterly OBJ
liVious and neglectful of the fact that
It is no longer Congressman Hitch
cock" but Senator Hitchcock" and
that he has been in the senate now
for more than two months. How the
transfer OF Nebraska's brilliant states
man from the house to the senate
could have been overlooked by a paper
like Golfers, which Is ordinarily
abreast OF the times, II not ahead of
them, is Observation-Disclosures as in
conceivable as the carelessness with
which Senator Hitchcock's newspaper
should reproduce the error without
calling attention to 1t and cor
recting 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
Roosevelt,s Labor Homilv.

Colonel Roosevelt's labor homily,
with its special reference to the inn
pending trial of the men accused Of
the Los Angeles dynamiting, will
probably elicit violent and virulent
discussion. Labor spokesman will
assume that it indicates hostility to
organized labor, when, as a matter of
fact, careful reading justifies no such
differences.
Colonel Roosevelt is only reiter-
ating what he has said over and over
again about the punishment of evil
doors. whether malefactors of great
wealth or merely members Of a law
less mob. He pleads, as he has al
ways pleaded, that strict and absolute
justice be meted out to the individual
regardless of creed, color, class or
wealth. He says, what everyone be-
lieYes, that no man should be pun
ished for crime simply because he has
been Identified with organized labor,
but neither should a man who has
committed a dastardly deed be i'm
mune from prosecution and punish
ment because he is identified with or
ganized labor.
The corollary is also equally true
that organized labor should not sit
idly by and let an innocent man be
railroaded to the penitentiary, or to
the gallows. merely because convic-
tion would discredit the cause Of or
ganized labor The men accused OF
the Los Angeles dynamiting. II they
persist in asserting their innocence
are entitled to the benefit OF a fair
trial and TO every defense skillful
lawyers can set up for them. and It is
natural and proper that their friends
among organized labor should provide
this defense, because II is certain that
their enemies among organized capital
will not.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
safeguarding the Public Domain.
Springfield Republican.

The western states which contain large
areas of public lands may not regard yes
terday's DECISIONS Of tho United States SUI
preme court as conducive to their inter
ests, In view of the courts unqualified re-
affirmation of the doctrine that the public
lands are the property OF the United States
government and that the government may
do as 1t pleases with Its own property
even TO the extent OF establishing large
forest reserves. In the long run, however
those same western states will profit from
the court decision as much as other parts
OF the country-yes, profit far more.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Effective pool hall regulation is all
In the penalty clause. II violating
the rules laid down means simply a
small fine that can be evaded by APP
peal and later nolled by complacent
prosecuting officers, no marked i'm
provement may be expected. II har-
boring minors, keeping open after
hours and permitting gambling games
means FORGETTING a license and going
out of business, the pool rooms will
be run as they should be.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
UtiIity Of the Hero Fund.
ST, Louis Globe-Domocrat.

81 iouls 6iope-DcinoCidt'
very ordinary man can b-come a hero
in the twinkling of an eve when appealed
to on the better side OF his nature in sud
den ways, which find him unprepared for
resistance of old prejudices, and leave him
no time to develop the hesitation Of a doub,
of his coming though with a whole skin
The Carnegie fund, in such distributions,
will work continuing good by breaking
down some old barriers OF caste and show
ing the common humanity of man and
mans brotherhood under Gods father
hood.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Applications are already coming in
for state aid for bridge building under
tho terms OF newly enacted law
whereby the cost Is TO be divided in
certain cases between the county and
the state. Watch for a boom in the
bridge business so long as the money
laata
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

IT is interesting TO note with what
speedy promptness applicants for
liquor licenses have come forward in
Lincoln even before the oficial can
vass of the vote decreeing that the
town shall be wet during the ensuing
year. This unseemly haste would in
dictate an expectation that there will
be a great rush to make up for lost
time
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
Disturbing business.

New YORK WOr q.
Business interests have been complaining
loudly of the state legislatures and polite
ians disturbing business. But at Columbus
It is the Ohio Manufacturers association
that have been disturbing the business OF
the politicians and legislators by catching
them pracucing bribery.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

The second postal savings bank in
Nebraska has been opened at Alliance
under favorable auspices. II will not
be so very long before every money
order postofiee in Nebraska is a saw
inss bank depository.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

That climate Texas has been adver-
tising drove $50 soldiers to desert the
American army. taking the chance OF
eourt.martial and Imprisonment, II
certainly must be a great climate.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

should be fixed without distinction or
comparison as TO men and women,
since part Of the work requires women
and part men, and they are not, after
all. doing the same kind of work.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

II you could read the verse that
fellow sent to Mrs Belmont you would
not wonder that she had him arrested.
1t will be a warning to other spring
poets.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Our winters, an English scientist
tails US, will gradually become warmer
within the next 900 years. BY that
lime. then. anthracite coal may be ex-
pected TO be cheap.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

because the late legislature spprOpri-
ated money for the medical depart
ment of the state university in which
the students are taught by members
OF another medical school. II the leg
islature had made II a school Of
homeopathy and shut out the allo-
paths there would have been no pro-
test from this source. It's hard for
doctors to take their own medicine.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Assurance is given that the initia-
tive and referendum in Nebraska will
not be a plaything. We hope not.
But the same assurance was given in
Oregon, only to be belied by expert
enee.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

II w. d. Haywood wants to be con-
sidered a good friend of labor, he will
climb down off the stump and stop
making foolish speeches.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

spending large sums to prevent them from
reaching the final destination" A grim
revelation, truly. Exporters plead ignor-
ance OF the destination OF the shooting
irons 1t was not their duty to inquire
so long as they got their lrica. Business
10 business.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

The local democratic organ is try
ing hard to persuade itself that the
democrats win have a sure thing in
the election OF judges that is to take
plaes next fall in this district. from
which sarpy county. the only county
that gives a Stesdtast democratic ma
iority, has been cut on in the new
judicial apportionment. Guess again.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
seeking what Everybody Knows.

Kansas CITY star.
Congressional committees are to investl-
gate the steel corporation and the wooden
combine to see IL they are trusts. If the
committee pursue their Investigations with
diligence ther Iney reveal what all the
world already knows is true.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
APRIL CIRCULATION.
48,l06

state OF Nebraska, County OF Douglas. S.:
Dwight Williams, circulation manager of
The Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn. says that the average daily clreula.
copies for the month OF April, 1911, was
0,106 DWIGHT WILLIAMS.
Circulation Manager.
subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day Of May, 1911
(seaL) ROBERT HUNTER
Notary Public
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Our precious (ss.25O,OOOl Water
board announces certain things It is
goina to do, whether or not Il gets
the plant Immediately" Sounds
rather familiar
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

The Inter-ocean names the insur-
gent senators and says, You will see
them do some queer things II you
watch them" Any Queerer than Lor-
inner has done?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Governor Woodrow Wilson declines
to attend the democratic conference
In 81. Paul. Probably still has in
mind the conservation congress there
last year.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
poraFiIy should have The Bee
malice 60 thsm. Address Will be
changed ss often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

1t 10 to be hoped the colonel did not
borrow an idea from Pigs is Pigs
when he named his article Murder is
Murder"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Jack Johnson promises to appear at
the coronation in very modest attire.
Has Jack been bluffed out by the anti
hobble skirt ukase
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

The Christian Science Monitor dis
cusses "Rhubarb as a Speciality" We
would prefer II so. II we must have It
At all. 1t would never do for a regu-
lar.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Boston babies appear on the streets
labeled. please do not kiss me-" The
grown-ups in Boston have not found
such measures necessary.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

According to James j. Hill, this
country needs savior. He evidently
thinks It was not originally included in
the scheme of salvation.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
In Other Lands

side lights on what f. Trans
pirtng Among the Wear and
Tar Hations OF the Earth
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Mr. Hines. at least, seems to be a
less loquacious man than he was be-
fore he put Billy over"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Alaska Mob Dumps Cargo OF Can
adam Coal into the esa." 1t left the
mine, though.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
UnboIdInn Precedent,

Philadelphia Record
The senate OF the United states Is af-
fording in various ways exhibitions Of
'how not to do IT,"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

When anybody wants to get sarcas-
tic with Uncle Joe," he calls him Jo-
seph Quincy Cannon.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Awaiting answer from Diaz." All,
pensive soul, POrfirio.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Immensely"
Il never hear of your raising anything ."
| mo. | get all my fun standing around
and telling my neghbors Wnat 20 do. =
houston Post.
You appear to be studying very hard.
my boy said the kind old man.
| Yes, SIR said the child
! is IL a spelling book you have my boy ."
No, sir; it's the base ball guide. Buff.
falo Express.
When that man was killed, did you
break 1t gently to his Widow
| Indeed we dio We told her her husband
was worth 5000 more than he had been
before on his insurance policy. Baltimore
American.
Think of the benighted days when they.
had no telegraph or telephone.
| Yes. replied the travelling orator; and
speech in one town without feeling that
you would have to stand for every word
of it in the next Washington Star,
Would you marry lord II you knew he
was taking NJ you merdely for Your fathers
Certainly not"
! Then | suppose you have made up your
mind to be the wife of some American
Judge.
Tommy docking at the gas meter)-
| Paw, how does this thing tell how much
gas YOU have to pay for every month";"
inserutable mystery. II is one of the
! things we have to accept on faith.''-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Out9'
1T was very brief Mabel tented and
Gertrude tainted" - Louisville Courier
Journal.
Tompkins-Ventley has received 81 900 900
for his patent egg dating machine You
KNOW NJ is absolutely intQrfarpnpa
and dates correctly and indelibly as the
egg is bing laid.
Dewley-ls the machine on the market
Iyet?
Tompkins-Oh, my, no! and II won't be
on the market. The patent was bought by
the Cold Storage trust.-Ilife.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Mary had a little lamb. but some
body else got the wool.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
LINES TO A SMILE.

You say you enjoy gardening"
Immensely"
Il never hear of your raising anything
No. | get all my fun standing around
and telling my neighbors Wnat 10 do
Houston Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

The homeopaths in convention as
sembled have registered an objection
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
Effect of Erposure.

washington POST.
The democratic wooden program seems
to be shrinking.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

When that man was killed did you
break 1t gently to his widow"
Indeed we dio. we told her her husband
was worth 5000 more than he had been
before on his insurance policy. - Baltimore
American.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

You appear to be studying very hard,
my boy" said the kind old man
Yes, SIR" said the child.
is IL spelling book you have. my boy >"
No, sir; it's the base ball guide. Buff.
falo Express.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

How did the girls sparr4ng match turn
out2
1T was very brief Mabel tented and
Gertrude tainted. " - Louisville Courier
Journal
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06

Would you marry lord II you knew he
was taking you merdely for Your fathers
money!"
Certainly not"
''Then l suppOse Nou have made Nm YOUR