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Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
A Bank Robbers' Trust.

According to State Bank Commits
sioner Dolley of Kansas, the Sunflower
state has been made the stamping
ground Of bank robbers trust. Gangs
of these marauders have established
headquarters and branch houses over
the line in Nebraska on the north and
Oklahoma on the south, from which
their agents are sent to look for bust
ness in tributary territory. Mr.. Dolley
would have it that in this community Of
interest the bank robbers have strictly
followed out trust methods by some
sort of a gentlemen's agreement not to
poach on each others preserves and
to keep one another informed of trade
conditions and discount quotations. So
fearful are they lest they over-step
the proprieties that they have divided
territory, presumably with big and
certain penalties for over-stepping the
limits and clearing up any bank which
is rightfully subject to the Jurisdiction
of the rival plunderbund.
In his bill of particulars Bank Com
missioner Dolley goes further, al
though not perhaps making specific
charges, by intimating that the bank
robbers trust has prosecuting officers
and police agents, where the head
quarters are located, committed to
friendly inactivity, either by being
fixed" or in fear. The gentlemahly
spectators are said to be good spenders
and to help make trade brisk in their
home towns with corresponding
claim to the gratitude of the best
people," who would hate to have this
source of investing foreign capital
dried up by the dissolution Of the trust
or the imprisonment of it's officers.
So menacing has this combination in
restraint of trade become that Mr.
Dolley suggests a cooperative move
ment on the part of the governors Of
the three states OF Kansas, Nebraska
and Oklahoma to put the bank robbers
trust out Of business.
We have been against the robber
trusts all the time, and we are for
anything that will down the bank
robber trust
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
The Outgoing Governor.

Under the Impulse that prompts
people to throw bouquets at the de-
parting guest, a disposition Is manifest
to shower Governor shaIlenberger on
his evacuation Of the executive man
sion with tributes of praise. Some
over-zealous democratic organs even
60 80 far as to proclaim him the best
governor Nebraska ever had" presum-
ably on the theory that the last Is al
ways the best.
And yet Governor shallenberger
goes out Of ONCE with the unique dis
tinction Of being the second democratic
governor in twenty years and the only
one in the history OF the state who
sought reelection and was refused re-
nomination by his own party II Gov
ernor shailenberger we're really the
best governor Nebraska ever had" he
would have to be considered martyr
to his own goodness, when, in fact, he
is victim of his own folly.
In some respects Mr.. shsllenberger
has not been a bad governor. He has
upheld the dignity of the ONCE; he
makes a pleasing public address; he
has a plausible way about him; and he
has not been charged with being cor
rupt The real trouble with Governor
shallenberger is that he disclosed him
self to be a political thimble-rigger,
hide-bound partisan making pretense
Of nonpartisansbip, a self-seeker de-
void Of the essential quality OF appre-
citation and gratitude.
Governor Shallenberger rode into
the executive ONCE astride two horses
headed in opposite directions. By
clever manipulation he succeeded in
enlisting the support at one and the
same time Of the anti-saiOon forces and
the agencies of the brewers and liquor
dealers. He had made promises, ex-
press or implied, to both which com
PEELED him to break faith with one or
the other, and he succeeded In break
ing faith with both,
Led by his own personal amoltloh
and extreme partisan zeal, Governor
shallenberser inflicted the people with
a law throwing the primary wide open
for the express purpose OF putting the
republicans in the hole without seeing
the joker in 1t by which he himself
was sure to be tripped up, He was
playing petty politics from the day he
went into the state house till the bell
rang on the expiration of his term.
Governor shallenberger's brief oc-
cupancy OF the executive ONCE has
doubtless taught him several saIutary
lessons and will also serve as an ex-
ample and a warning to other climbers
on the oficial ladder.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
THE DYING HOBO
Chicago Tubone.

Chicago Tribune.
A correspondent at Aberdeen, 6. D., sends
us a bit OF weepy verse found, among
the possessions Of Joseph .Colavita,
Travelled young Italian recently sent to the
penitentiary az Sioux Falls for theft. II is
as follows: ....... ........
Beside a western water tank, one cold No
vember day,
Inside an empty boxcar a dying hobo lay.
HIS partner stood beside him, with low
and dropping head, a. .s...
Listening TO the last words this DYING
hobo said .' a. f~.4"
II am going TO- a better land, where every
thing In bright;
Where handouts grow on bushes and YOU
sleep out. every night;
Where you don't have to work at all or
even change your socks,
And little streams OF whisky come trinkling
down the rocks.
Tell my sweetheart hack in Denver that
no more her face I'll view;
That have jumped the fast freight and
am going through. .. .t
Tell her not TO weep for me; no tears Ia
her eyes must turk.
For | am going TO a land where don't
'Hark! hear her whistllnEf must catch
her on the flyl t... .. na.- .r-..
Farewell. partner, / must leave you: II
aint 30 hard to diet"
The hobo stopped. his head feil baek-hS'd
sung the last refrain, ,.fe-
His partner swiped his hat and shoes, and
jumped the east-bound traiu.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Owners of the new postal bonds. which
probably will be in circulation before very
long. will find themselves In possession OF
the only steel portrait Of Grover Cleveland
ever issued by the Un.ted States govern
ment. Not only will it be this. but II Is
the finest portrait Of Mr.. Cleveland ever
printed. and, according to F. e. smilie Of
the bureau Of engraving and printing! the
finest piece OF steel engraving he ever has
turned out
The portrait is small and was engraved
from a photograph sent by Mrs Cleveland
which she regards as the best ever taken
of him. 1t presents the great democrat In
the course OF his second term. The more
familiar pictures of Mr.. Cleveland represent
him primarily as a fat man, whose face
though strong In general outline 10 without
special distinction. This portrait shows DIR.
Cleveland after years of public life had
marked his face with the lines Of care and
responsibility which time never could
eras Sc The view Is three-quarters, facing
TO the right instead of the customary left
The former president wears a simple black
necktie and the lapel OF his frock coat Is
evidently silk-faced The picture gives an
immediate impression OF great dignity and
strength and Of the manly beauty which
comes of those qualities. As a souvenir OF
Cleveland alone postal bond Will be worth
something.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

II remains to be seen whether the
democrats will deliver as per contract
to Fred Bruning, who expects to be
taken care of in consideration OF his
sell-out of the republicans who elected
him county commissioner. Bruning
first ticketed for himself the position
of superintendent of the county hos
pital. and then switched to that Of
matron Of the Detention home, and
now has his eyes glued on the job of
county storekeeper. II the democrats
can't give Bruning what he wants be-
cause he would be crowding out some
deserving democrat, won't they please
give him something Just as good?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Senator Lodge will deliver but a
single speech in reply to the highly
sensational assaults made upon him
by Governor Foss of Massachusetts,,
and the shrieking champions of reform
will howl most Justify because the
leader of Massachusetts, republicsnism
will not descend to their methods Of
campaigning. Conservative people Of
all parties will regard this with favor.
and again quote Webster's remark:
There stands Massachusetts"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
People Talked About

Arthur J. Baum, a prOminnet southern
cotton broker who started a movement
few months ago for monument 20 the
BLACK Nanny" committed suicide at
hotel in Galveston, Tex.
William stark Of San Francisco, CAL has
spent nearly a year in jail rather than pay
alimony. He was committed January IS.
1910, for failure to pay his divorced wife
SEQ Il will rot here before l pay alimony,"
Stark declared 10 a committee OF the grand
jury which visited the county jail.
Left fortune Of 100000 three weeks ago,
Miss Alma Stanley, a young teacher In the
Atlanta public schools. is being deluged
with letters from men who want to marry
her. Miss Stanley estimates she has re-
ceived more than 1000 offers OF marriage
by mail In two weeks. The offers come
from all sections Of the United States.
George A. Lincoln, state fish and game
warden Of Iowa, has advised the farmers
OF the state to go into the business OF
raising fish for food in view OF the high
cost OF living. Food fishes" he says
can be raised with no more difficulty
than chickens or vegetables. A pond an
acre or more in extent and with eight or
ten feet Of water in the deepest part will,
II properly managed, give excellent re-
sults,"
Lloyd Minott. q years old. is said TO be
the busiest young man in Montpelier VI
He gets up az 4;SO every morning and starts
out on his milk route. II he has any time
after he returns he works until noon on
his fathers farm. From noon until $50
he works In a store. Then he has 10 go q
mile to his homet He IL a substitute car
rier on three rural free delivery routes,
sings In the Method u choir 5 treasurer
Of the Epworth league and is otherWise
prominent In church work.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

ism" as an effective force and the re-
generated party OF the past will again.
be believes, become the handmade Of
the republic. ITO look backward" he
concludes, "or to hesitate is only to
invite the Almighty to transform
revivified corpse into pillar Of salt"
In the language of Marc Antony;
IF you have tears, prepare 70 shed
them now"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
The Democratic Dilemma.

The democratic party is getting adj
vice in profusion, and from ell sides,
in these days on what it must do to
be saved. The chronic democratic
bellwethers are repeating the procla-
nations they have been making year
in and year out, that democratic pros
poets never looked better" than they
do now, but at the same time innu-
merable political doctors are assaying
to write prescriptions and to suggest
tonics that will make the democratic
party grow big enough and strong
enough to enter the fight of 1912.
"Wiil the Democratic Party Commit
suicide?" is the way our old friend,
Colonel George B. Harvey, puts the
question in the headline article which
he, as editor, assumes to contribute
to the current North American Re-
view. The very title, with It's grue-
some inference, is calculated to be a
damper on democrats who have been
led to believe that the battle has been
already waged and won. Colonel
Harvey INDUCES unpleasantly in re-
minders that the democrats did not
carry congress, but rather the tariff
incurred a popular rebuke; that the
democrats did not carry New York
except that republicans there deliber-
ately defeated their candidate by stay
ing at home; that the democrats did
not carry Ohio II reduced majoritles
over two years ago are considered;
that they did not carry New Jersey, or
Connecticut, or Massachusetts,, or In
diana, or Maine, where their candi-
dates won personal victories; that in
Nebraska Bryan, maintaining I'M
broken his peerless record of helping
the enemy. defeated the democratic
candidate for governor" In a word,
according to Colonel Harvey, the DEM
ocrats as a party achieved not a single
victory, but the success which they
have been celebrating was forced upon
them.
What, then, is the democratic d.
lemma hut the danger that the demo-
Gratis, themselves, will fail to seize
the opportunity put before them with
out their help. Colonel Harvey is
particularly apprehensive as to the
prospective leadership of the party
"A solitary demagogue," he declares,
has held the partisan millions in the
hollow Of his hand for nearly two de-
eades and even now threatens to palsy
the prospects OF success. Happily,
his Unreasonable folly in robbing
himself OF his Wanted regularity
his only remaining claim to recOgni-
tion-has restricted his influence to
communities where It cannot affect re-
suits. but 1t is still active, still bane-
full and still reckoned by the timorous
as worthy of conciliatory regard" The
call, therefore, is for new democracy,
under a new leadership, with new is
sues, or rather the dropping of the
leader and issues with which it has
gone down successfully to defeat.
Colonel Harvey's program is for the
new congress TO write into the statutes
the one great law demanded by the
people. namely. a tariff primarily for
revenue and incidentally for protee-
I ton. Let also the new governors invig-
crate the laws that viii raise new
stateism' high above new national
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

The settlement by the directors In New
York OF a speculative bank OF a suit BY
which over 100000 will be returned 20 the
stockholders 10 taken as the establishment
OF the principle that directors exist 70 d.
rect This has long been an genealogical
truth. but what Is truth in etymOlogy has
not necessarily been accepted a. truth IN
business and their identity thus estab.
hshed will probably do much 10 restore
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
Pollution of Rivers.

One Of the necessary evils" OF civiliza-
ton seems to be the pollution Of rivers
and lakes. Even the Missouri has arrived
at the stage where a legislative committee
representing the states Of Kansas, Mis-
souri,. Iowa and Nebraska will constitute
the sanitary condition of the Big Muddy"
between Sioux City and 81. Louis.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Assuming that the various gov
ernors' messages are ready, we ven
ture 30 remark before reading them
that they could have been materially
improved and made much more read
able by being subjected to vigorous
exercise of the pruning knife and blue
pencil in the hands OF a competent
and experienced editor.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

One aviator has decided the game is
not worth the candle, In this he will
have the support of a large majority
OF his fellow men, who like to feel
terra firma under their feet.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

President Taft has been uniformly
praised for his judicial appointments
II he will look to Nebraska and accept
the endorsement Of the State Bar as
ISOLATION for his choice of a Judge Of
the circuit court of appeals for this
district he will keep up the good
racOrd
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
SMILING REMARKS.


The sculptor had just finished the
IT am satisfied" he cried. Every man
who passes thinks II looks like himself
New York Sun.
The supposed young millionaire bought
bankrupt"
That was a perfectly natural proceed
ing"
SHow SOP
Most people do buy airships before they
go up."-Baltimore American.
They were playing a game of chess.
Don't hurry me- protested the man
with the bulEinE brow. "Im q slow
You're worse than that" said the man
with the Dubious nose, looking at his
watch you're a standpatter. Chicago
Tribune.
Hicks-There's q doctor who says that
the use OF starohy foods causes badness.
Wioks-That probably accounts for the
gloss also.-Boston Transcript
what did that woman DO when her Pet
dog Jumped on you and BIT you?''
she gave me q very reproachful look. /"
replied Flooding Pete, an then she or
dered the dogs valet to give It BATH
Washington Star.
Maud-Yes. got papa TO buy q vacuum
cleaner for mother
Jessica-How thoughtful.
Maud-Yes Mother is little stiffened
used TO feel so sorry to see her trying to
use the broom that always left home on
sweeping day.-Clcveland Plain Dealer.
A Massachusetts, minister was making his
first visit to Kentucky several years ago.
He had TO spend the night In small
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
lingo BIuff Called.

A cable message from Manila IL cal
culated TO soothe the susceptibilitles Of
our jingoes by announcing that the Jap
anese have not yet erected wireless tsle-
graph stations on the Philippines a. a
preliminary step IN preparation for war
with the United states. Hence there
IL no immediate necessity for ra sing that
regular army OF $4,000 men.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
MaEnitude of stay-at-HOme Vote.

Some light is thrown upon the disputed
significance OF the November elections by
the compilation OF the total vote cast for
members of congress in all the states. This
makes the republican aggregate 5,692'Si4,
compared with 7242,9S5 in 1908, loss OF
1,s50.i7i. The total democratic vote was
5,721,5sO, loss of SSIs7S from 6556,5i7 This
gives a democratic plurality of i2s,766 in an
aggregate vote Of fl,Si4,Ss4, an astonishing
close division.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Restrained from reducing rates on
coal shipments, the Iowa Railroad
commission turned around and made
deep cut in express rates. In time
this process may reduce the cost Of
shipping small packages OF merehan-
disc 20 a point where parcels post will
not be so urgent as II is just now.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Having toted water for the demo-
cratic donkey for a long, long time,
Colonel Henry Clay Richmond lie now
permitted to attach hts name to the
pay roll as an oficer instead Of as an
employe Such is virtues reward!
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

The dry" democrats down at Lin
coin forgot all about the beauties of
insurgency" when it came to organ
izing the house. They wheeled into
line with the wet" democrats in a
hurry, and thereby won another glori-
Gus victory for the great democratic
principle that the tail goes with the
hide
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

IL must be hard on those volunteer
preacher sleuths IL those disorderly
houses have turned over a new leaf
and have really stopped selling booze
to their patrons.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Those Utah bandits showed that
they knew where to go after the easy
money. What's the use OF wasting
dynamite on the express company's
safe when passengers may be SO hand
lily plucked?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Sioux City has Just lost its original
pioneer and oldest "sQuatter," dying
at the ripe age of SO. Omaha beat
slcuy City in this respect by attending
the funeral Of its first white inhabitant
several years ago
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

VIII British justice" be extolled.
now that the London police have am
buscaded a group Of criminals and
burned them. building and all? The
proceeding smseks so much of saw
agery that Il is hard to believe Il was
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

The Lincoln Journal got out most
creditable New Years review. II Lin
coin can live up 10 the specifications
it must have been going some during
the last twelve months.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

mountain town where feudsg Rpd moon
shine abounded Engaging In converse
tion with one Of the natives. he said
NY friend this is a very bibulous state.
I hear"
Lord" replied the man. there haint
twenty-five Bibles In all Kentucky. ~
Washington Herald
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

A new Wholesale milk combination
has been formed in Omaha, and
straightway the wholesale price OF
milk tumbles. But it will not be I'M
wise TO reserve applause till you see
whether the cut in price is permanent
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

The people up in Alaska have re-
solved that our own Congressman
Hitchcock misrepresents the facts
Still, an eminent. Nebraskan, who was
once associated with Mr.. Hitchcock as
editor Of his paper discovered and
proclaimed II. frat
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Train robbers are giving woman her
rights, at any rate. The festive ban
dit is no longer gallant as of yore, but
despoils the fair lady with as little
computation and as much sxaetitude
as he bestows upon her male COM
panionagt let1
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

The weather man seems to have
caught the spirit of the democratic
councils az Lincoln. So calm" and
harmonious
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

on the whole, the year 1910 was
pretty good to us, though, of course
every one of us is hoping that 1911
will be better. e
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Dan Ransdell, sergeant-at alarms Of the
senate, is an expert at anticipating the
wants of senator's, but he came across a
new brand the other day. Mr.. Rahsdell
discovered long ago that ordinary drink
ing water from the pipe was not good
enough for members OF the United States
senate. relates\ the Washington Times.
Hence he made a contract with several
mineral water companies to give him a
liberal supply Of their particular brand OF
water. Each day a pail is packed with Ice
and left in the office OF each senator.
Senator Norris Brown Of Nebraska was
entering his office a day or two ago when
he encountered a negro porter inside with
a big pail loaded with Ice through which
the necks Of several bottle protuded.
Where are you going with that stuff"
asked Senator Brown.
Into your office" answered the negro.
who sent 1t here?' demanded the sena-
tor.
Mr.. Ransdell,' replied the porter.
Take II back and tell him not to spend
money on me for that kind OF stuff II he
will insist on keeping me from typhoid
fever, Just tell him to send me some ordi-
nary boiled water Of some kind"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Kansas will be welcome to any bank
rObber It may And in Nebraska, and
all of Nebraska's people. will assist in
making the exchange, II needed.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Although the peerless Is in far-off
Texas "BrothsS GAaFley'' seems to be
getting In his work for him at Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Subscribers leayiRG the city tenn
pOrarIiy' should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will he
changed NJ often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

The worst thing against Kuhl for
speaker is that some ignoramus might
misspell it Cool"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
Peace Rivals.

Profits Of the Krupp gun-making firm are
estimated at 500. 900 for one year. This is
only 100000 less than Mr.. CRrnegie's
peace contribution
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Where's the. fellow who used TO
write those ads, ITS cool in Colo
rado?"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

Old King Coal is enjoying much
popularity Dust now 't.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn TO
before me this 3lst day OF December, 1910.
ROBERT HUNTER,
t-t Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
resi- LKp NELLTH 10 MoraER kNp eRILp.

Mas wINsLow's sooTHIFo SYRuF. has been
used for over SIXTY WEARS By MILLIONS 81
MOTHERS for theif CHILDREN WHILE
TRRTHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. u
SoOrHHs the CHILD, SoFTHEs the GUMS,
ALLAYe all PAIN; CURkS WIND collie, and
is the best remedy for DIARRHQtA. IL 10 alb
soiutely harmless. BE sure and ask for "Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and take no other
kind. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

The mercury is coming back Watch
for t.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

state Of Nebraska, Douglas County, &C.
Dwight Williams circulation manager Of
The Bee Publishing Company being duly
sworn, says that the actual number Of full
and complete copies OF The Daily. Morning,
Evening and sunday Bees printed during
the month OF December. 1910 was as fol-
lows.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

accomplished by "the finest police in
the world"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04
PERKS OF AVIATION.

st. Louis Globe Democrat: Aeroplane
men have proved their willingness 10 do
or die but the public will be better salts
fled with reasonable performance without
the fatalities.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-04

The report OF the commissioner OF
the general land office affords an ex-
cellent answer to the yellows who have
shouted themselves hosrse about the
gobbling up of the public domain. 1t
shows, among other things, that over
100000 acres of land were restored
to the public domain during the last
year as the result of Investigations by
the bureau, an increase Of more than
million acres over the year proceed
ing. II also shows that of the nearly
100000 acres patented to private
owners during the year 7.40O, 900
acres went to homesteaders, thus prov
ing that the honest settler is still get
ting the land, and that the tales Of
Wholesale grabbing do not rest on
foundation of fact.