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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
Toronto and the Harem Skirt.

The score is still against the harem
skirt, and it continues to look as if
the game will go the same way, but
that fastastic creation has made at
least one safe hit And, strange to
say it was made in the most uneX-
pected place, sort of pinch hit, as it
were. A Toronto woman attired in
one of these skirts appeared recently
on the streets without being either
mobbed or jeered. In fact, she was
not molested in any way. People even
failed to pay any especial attention to
her. They might, of course, have
been too thoroughly disguised, For
Toronto is a conservative, sedate old
city, a city of great civic pride and
moral taste. 1t is quite possible that
it felt far more than it manifested on
this occasion.
But no matter; Toronto stands
alone in it's public attitude toward the
harem skirt 1t is one big city where
the first wearer of the garment has
not become the object of demonstra-
tive curiosity. The original advent of
the skirt was made at the Paris races
and it shocked people. Then a woman
appeared in one on a Paris street and
she was mobbed Think of it, in
Paris! Then the same fate befell the
wearer of one in London. 1t was too
much even for the patient, plodding
Briton. Traffic on the Brooklyn bridge
was congested when harem-beskirted
woman was sighted on that great
thoroughfare. Even in Rio Janeiro
the first Brazilian beauty venturing
out in a harem skirt was set upon by
hooting, jeering mobs. All the ma
tions seemed to agree in their judg-
ment of this dress, until it reached
Canada.
Toronto may have been too polite,
or too chivalrous, to betray any violent
emotions, and yet 1t may have felt,
"Oh, what's the use" and quit in quiet
contempt The reports say, in fact,
as much. Toronto is a stickler for
law and order, though, and 1t was not
going to allow even this assault upon
its cultured taste to provoke It to
wrath or riot. It sets a good example
that should inspire other cities to pa
thence and fortitude and the hope that
the worst will soon have come and
gone.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
Two Viewpoints.

At all times people regard estab-
lished institutions from two view
points. One class disguised with pat
ent defects and abuses is led without
too great inquiry to take up on faith
with nearly every reform or innova-
ton offered as panacea. They pro-
coed on the theory that conditions are
so bad that they cannot be worse, and
that any change must be a change for
the better
On the other side may be found
that group Of people who always want
to cling to what they have, and who,
while admitting present shortcomings,
are sure efforts at Improvement are
certain to fail. The favorite motto
is, Let well enough alone" and they
make no exceptions to &C. Answering
the constant interrogation of Hamlet,
they prefer to bear the ills they now
endure rather than to fly to others
they know not Of They fear that IL
they try to help push the wheels OF
progress they may become entangled
In them and be run down.
These two forces are constantly at
work, the one TO preserve, and the
other to transform The advances
actually made by our social and po-
litical institutions are usually COM
promises between them, and these
compromises denote the difference be-
tween evolution, which is orderly
growth and development and revolu-
ton. which makes destruction the
first step in reconstruction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
Crisis in Mexico.

The resignation Of the Diaz cabinet
cannot fail to give the impression of a
vital concession to the sentiment Of
discomfort in Mexico. IL seems that
the government has been forced to do
what II might voluntarily have done
some months ago with far better re-
suits. Perhaps If President Diaz had
sooner arranged his cabinet, supplant-
ing the older men who had become OBJ
jectionable because Of their inactivity
by younger men, he might have
stopped further hostilities, but It is
not certain that belated action alone
will now have that effect The insur-
rectos are represented as demanding
the resignation of President Diaz as
the condition of their submission. Pos
sibly they may be persuaded to some
form Of compromise. on that crucial
point, but even then they would be re-
quiring. and Diaz would be granting,
more than the original demands
1t is impossible, especially at long
distance, to Judge the outcome in
Mexico. One thing determined by the
events of the last week is that radical
changes are sure to come about.
Whether they can be accomplished
without greater conflict is the ques-
ton. Every demand of civil govern
ment calls for settlement and read
justment, but the demands of civil
government do not seem to be upper
most in the minds of some impas-
stoned Mexicans just now. While the
insurrecto leaders may be anxious for
peace, their anxiety, apparently, car
ries with it the stipulation that it be
such a peace as promises their COM
plete triumph. But at all events
President Diaz is displaying more
mildness toward the rebels than he
would naturally have been expected
to do.
Senior Limantour still stands as the
conspicuous figure Of the hour. He
is the one identified with the old re-
gime who seems able to command the
confidence of the opposition, and for
that reason it would be a misfortune
for him to remove himself from a po-
sition of official influence. Early re-
ports of his mission abroad and his
return to Mexico by way of the United
States now appear to be fully con-
hrmed. That he came here to get
from Senior Madero in New York the
best terms of peace his followers had
to offer and present them to Diaz and
urge Cancellation is scarcely to be
questioned in the light of what has
since occurred
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26

We wonder If our lawmakers now
in session at Lincoln can bring them
selves to look ahead twenty-five to
fifty years. That is what they have
to do to deal intelligently with the big
gest question that is before them
that Of laying the foundations now
for the University Of Nebraska Of the
future by providing for its transfer
from its present compressed quarters
to what is known as the farm campus
further out in the suburbs.
No one who can even family picture
our state university even twenty-five
years henee, with its faculty and stu
dents many times multiplied and its
varied fields Of activity largely ex-
tended, can imagine it hemmed in
between railroad tracks on the low
lands 1t now occupies. The vision of
the future university rising majestic
ally on a slightly campus overlooking
the capital city. with artistically
grouped buildings properly constructed
for their purpose without overcrowd-
ing. must appeal to the broader con-
ception Of what the state owes to com
ing generations as It's duty in higher
education. Those charged with re-
sponsibility for older colleges and uni
versities have learned this lesson
some of them at colossal cost. Our
legislature will have TO show whether
the elements Of far-seeing statesman.
ship are in preponderance or whether
short-sighted log-rolling appropriation
grabbers occupy the saddle.
The same question, although in diff
ferent form. is involved in the matter
of the medical school 1t is agreed
that medical instruction must be given
where clinical material is available
and that the only point in Nebraska
adequately equipped with hospital ia
cilities is Omaha. The small-bort
disposition would force the university
to withdraw from the field of medica
instruction while the bigger minds
that look ahead see the necessity oil
the state doing its share in training
corps of doctors, surgeons and sani
tary experts to conserve the health
and life Of the people whose brains
and Drawn will make our state great
and prosperous in the years to come
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
Housetop Preaching

Before finally severing his relation
with the New York church, Rev.
DR.. Aked, who resigned as pastor of
the so-called Rockefeller Baptist
church Of New York to accept the pas
torate of a Congregational church in
San Francisco, invited its members to
present reasons why he should not re-
sign. Not a reason was presented.
but the congregation adopted friendly
resolutions upon his departure
SO much was said and done by the
doctor as to attract nationwide atten-
ton to his action, which seems. after
all. to have been naturally one for pri-
vate treatment. AS near as can be
gathered from all his statements and
the circumstances. Dr. Aked, who
came from a big London congregation,
felt that his powers we're too large for
a church on a side street in New
York, where approximately only 700
persons worshiped, and that his peo-
pie should erect an edihce on Fifth
avenue TO accommodate from $500 to
5000. when they did not see it 10
do this he went into negotiations with
the San-Francisco folks.
Something is said in the scriptures
about a certain sect that loved TO do
much talking upon the streets TO be
heard Of men on the housetops, as IL
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
Motorcycles and Missions.

The celebrity OF modern industrial
ism has it's spiritual side. Commerce
and trade are not alone advanced by
the acceleration of present-day meth
DDS and machinery. The chug-chug
of the automobile and motorcycle
speeds business to greater bounds, but
it also gives wings to mercy and short
ems the distance to asylums of refuge
for the injured and needy. Like most
other modern inventions that have
contributed so much to the high ten
sion and velocity OF the day, the motor
has its mission in the great scheme OF
ethical evangelization.
over in some OF the remote recesses
of the orient-JapRn, China and Korea
the motorcycle is performing
great service for the missionary. 1t
is carrying the gospel into dark places
and multiplying the powers and posi-
billties OF the man Some two years
ago a prominent missionary from
China came back to the United States
and on his return to his field was pre-
sented by friends with a large motor
cycle. He said il would enable him
to widen his field of service, to ami
hilate distance One of the religious
journals OF the week prints a letter
from a missionary in Japan, discussing
the difhculties OF reaching outlying
villages and country. He says;
X thinks he has solved the problem
/ OF method. He has secured a motorcycle
/ with sidecar. He and one worker with
/ tracts and Bibles chug, chug, chug into a
/ village and soon have the whole popula-
/ ton around. Tracts are distributed talks
made and Bibles sold
Thus. he says, they are enabled 70
cover large areas Of ground in a day,
and he makes an appeal for more mo-
torcyeles, Il may be that, aside from
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26

that other men may find even higher
favor among men who work at politics
az trade and amons those who rit IN the
seats Of the mighty" but millions OF Amer
leans would always regard M Bryan as
champion and friend and az 'the fearless
foe OF wrong and oppression EVERYWHERE
that is to say Mr. Nrgan g an oratorical
and not political iDtlence. In conclu-
sion Mr. Kern served not &C that 6b0oo0
per.ons who had voted 20 Mr.. Bryan
would see to Il that neither Jealousy nor
petty luminosity shall ever for moment
prevail against him Most " them would
have voted Tor any other democrat. In fact.
most Of them voted automatically for
Parker; but the Hon. John w. Kern's
meaning Is plain-the democrats who desire
to nominate candidate Of the Harmon
type for president will have to reckon
with Mr.. Bryan at the national convention.
That seems to be the message from the
dinner at Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
Hitting the Bulls Eve.

He excels as the master Of simple Eng
lish which without any false motions of
pretense, finds the bulls eye.
This is taken from criticism in a
book review. The author referred to
has that happy faculty of saying the
thing that needs saying in the most
direct, incisive way. He is like the
man at the shooting gallery who
avoids the fancy fourishes with his
gun, takes direct aim and hits the cen
ter of the target, He wins the prize
money. So the bull's-eye writer i'm
presses the reader forcefully. That is
his reward.
People who can do things this way
are often called geniuses. AS a rule,
however, they have worked hard for
their excellence. They have come by
it not in some mysterious way, not by
some fancied occult power, but by sim
pie, straightforward and persistent APP
plication. Application counts for far
more than genius, anyway. Webster
defines genius in this relation as "Spe-
cial taste, inclination, dispositions; dis
tinguished mental superiority"
There are people who seem to fl
into such a definition. AS a rule
though. the so-cslled genius is the
hardest kind OF a student, whether II
be art, science or commerce at which
he works, Allowing for degrees OF
mental caliber, many people of APP
parent mediocrity could, If they would
but apply themselves diligently
enough, get into the genius class That
seems perfectly reasonable by suppos-
ing the man of special taste, inclina-
tion or disposition" to be indolent and
negligent OF his natural powers. Such
so-called genius uncultivated cannot
compare with average talents assidu-
ously applied.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Houston Post: A minister is running for
mayor Of Dallas, but we believe there are
easier and less expensive ways than that
to lose ones religion.
Cleveland Leader A church about TO
disband in New York has a membership
worth about $3.50, 200 100000. The task of get
ting that treasure laid up in heaven seems
to be difficult one
Brooklyn Eagle: A Methodist bishop in
Boston wants the undraped art of the
Boston Museum used for street paving
He probably regards II as a stumbling
block where IT u.s. Clothed with mud as
with garment, II would suit him better.
Cleveland Plain Dealer Boston clergy
men are protesting against an appropria-
tlon for the art museums because there
are undraped statues therein. Bad logic
Who needs an appropriation as much as
ladies without a thing to wear?
Philadelphia Bulletin: The Women's
Union Missionary Society of America for
Heather Lands has decided to eliminate
all reference TO heather from its title
Comparisons are apt to be undesirable
Heathendom and Chrlstendom alike are
without geographical limitations
Louisville Courier-Journal Dr. Aked
Rockefellers retiring pastor. declared in
a sermon Sunday that the biblical story OF
the flood was a myth. Since Rockefeller
ls an orthodox believer It is no wonder he
declined to pour any more oil OF endow-
ment on the troubled waters Of DR.. Aked's
heterodoxy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
STORY OF THE WRINKLES.

w. d. Nesbit in Chicago Post
Her face is wrnlSled-yet how fair
Is she, with all her snowy hair
Above It; for each wrinkle seems
A line set there by daughters CLEANS,
A bit of sunshine that was left
Nhen wrinkles wove their warp and weft
Across her aging cheek and brow
To tell the story they tell now.
It's written there in prose and rhyme
As though the necromancer Time,
Had set his mystic symbols In
Her cheek and brow and trembling chin,
To show us what a life may be
IL we will only look and see
And when we know of what they mean
The wrinkles are but dimly seen,
We see her bending DER her child
Her cheek Is wrinkled where she smiled;
We see her comforting the sad
Or soothing some unhappy lad
Or bringing gladness in once more
Where sorrow has stalked through the
door
All this the wrinkles tell for they
Were made in some old yesterday.
81 many kindly words and deeds.
And mintStertng to sore needs.
And patient waitings-when to wait
See med useless in the face of fate,
But when the patience could impart
New strength to some less trusting heart
Each word or deed that banned a care
Has left its telltale wrinkle there.
Geo bless her, then! All. God has blest
And given Of His grace the best
To her, for now. 'tis hers to hold
The farest of all memorys gold.
FRAY that when age grips YOU and me
Our faces may all wrinkled be.
May they thus chronicle our years
And show the smiles saved from our tears.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
People and Events

The groundhog scored all right without
punching his hits.
The Georgia peach crop has been des.
troycd early enough IN the season to in
sure bumper crop at the right time.
There ls no accounting Tor the yerdlcts
Of juries Running down and killing
man with an automobile drew a fine Of
$50 from st. Louis jury.
\ nervy promoter who entered the Ma
uonsl City bank OF New York and de-
manded 100000 was promptly turned
down. lie wasn't properly introduced
Tho comptroller Of the National treasury
is not an expcrf melon cutter. but he man
aged to plug an overripe one when he
squeezed an express bin Of $3.50 down
to $3.50
Minneapolis Is putting out a line OF
booster dope surprising the best OF 81.
Paurs epistles The flirtauous capers Of
Miss Minnie makes increasingly difficult
the task Of keeping ST. Paurs hats on
straight.
In the regular course Of business con.
siderable brass was removed from the
national capital when the lame ducks"
flocked homeward. Name plates Of retired
congressman were removed from committee
room doors, and others, bearing new
names, viii take their place
Mime. Tctrazzlni, the favorite singer Of
San Francisco says California has sun
shine in its veins, music in it's voice.
laughter in its life" Truly a handsome
compliment The madame can have what
ever she wants any old time by hanging
her sign on the California box office.
Omaha tourists in Texas manage TO keep
cool and look pleasant amidst the clatter
Of moving armies and the racket Of rumor
factories. Unique souvenirs OF the excite
mcnt have reached friends at home from
san Antonio on the firing line Louis H.
korty sent up a war cloud bearing blue
ribbon and Mexican label to attest its
Eenuineness The recipient Of the treasure
is something Of a connoiseur on war clouds
and can readily distinguish the genuine
from the spurious. lie says Mr. Korty's
specimen is the real article and would like
to place 1t on exhibition II a suitable and
safe place can be secured.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
Political Saturation.

So here we are with the primary only
four days away. and nobody getting ex-
cited and no crowds standing around on
the street corners and swinging their arms
after the fashion OF 1895 Il Is presumed.
however. that they all know how they are
going to vote and will all be on hand at
the primary on Tuesday ,-Lncoln Journal.
Physics teaches that a porous sub
stance will take up a fluid by satura-
ton until a certain limit is reached,
when additional libations will be
thrown on A similar condition may
be developed in the body polite. and
this may be the explanation of the pc
culiar phenomenon here described.
Man has been dominated a political
animal ever since the days Of Aristo-
tie, but no doubt a community may be
surfeited with politics to the point OF
saturation and refuse to absorb more.
Political contention is unquestionably
a good thing, and a leaven against
stagnation, but like other good things,
may be overdone. When a community
becomes so immersed In politics that il
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
Corporation Tax and Income Tax.

Corporation Tax and Income Tax.
The decision of the supreme court
upholding the constitutionality of the
corporation income tax is bound to
exert an influence on the pending in
come tax amendment, and the levy of
an income tax under it by congress if
it shall be ratified, The Springfield
Republican argues sagely that the cor
poration tax decision has practically
made the income tax amendment SUI
perfluous for the reason that applying
the same logic would uphold a federal
tax on incomes If levied by congress
under the name of an excise tax. 1t
refers back to the income tax law of
1894 and the decision of the supreme
court multiplying it as a direct tax not
apportioned to population, and asks
us to suppose that congress should en-
act a law applying to the same persons
and should call the tax an excise on
the faculty or economic ability of such
persons as measured by their income,
in which case by analogy the court
should hold that it would not be tax
on income or property that it would
not be a tax on peTsons that there
fore, it would not be a direct tax at
all within the constitutional term, but
would be a duty or excise on individ-
ual faculty or ability to pay, with the
income merely the measure of the tax.
This argument is quite plausible,
but so long as the income tax amend
ment may readily be ratified sooner
than a law could be passed and tested
out in court the amendment offers the
quickest and easiest way to reach the
goal The corporation income tax, It
seems to us, must operate as a stimu-
| lus toward a general income tax, be-
cause no sound reason has been adj
vanced why incomes from holdings of
corporation stock should pay a per-
centage into the national treasury,
and incomes from other sources go en-
| tirely untaxed AS the law now stands
we have as favored classes the men
! who conduct their business individ-
ually instead of through a corporation,
those who receive interest on bonds
instead of dividends on stock, and the
recipients OF fees for professional
services, all of whom should be under
the same obligation to contribute
rateably to the support of the govern
ment with those whose incomes are
subject to the corporation income tax
While economic distinctions may prop
erly be made between incomes from
permanent investments and from tenn
porary sources or professional earn.
ings, the only gradations that might
be justified on this ground would be
in the rate rather than in complete
exemption. For these reasons the ex-
pectation prevails that the corpora
tion tax decision will hasten the ad.
vent of the income tax.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
THE MESSAGE FROM LINCOLN
Significance of the Output of OrstOry
at the Birthday Dinner.

New York Sun.
Ingrattude Is one OF the mean vices, and
the Hon. John W. Kern IL therefore to be
commended for praising Mr.. Bryan to his
face at the dollar dinner in Lincoln on
Monday night to celebrate the fifty first
birthday Of Mr.. Kern's benefactor. II
seems only yesterday that Mr.. Bryan was
SO and the youngest of the presidential
candidates a slender but stalwart man who
travelled light and would rather be orator
than president About that time he conse-
Grated himself to defeat and the education
OF the republican party In radical princi-
pies. We have Mr.. Bryan's word for this
for he declares that Il has perpetuated IT.
self in power by stealing most OF his issues
and the presidency he never really coveted
Mr.. Bryan has always been satisfied
TO be a moral Influence, feeling in every
fibre the call OF the pulpit. Yet his friends
persist in attributing political influence to
him in spite OF three defeats that ought
to stare them out of Countenance. In his
eulogy the loyal Kern said THE future
OF W. j. Bryan is secure" Everybody
knows that Probably the speaker in
tended TO say that the fame OF w. j.
Bryan as a lecturer is secure. Mr.. Kern
went on 10 say:
Whether he shall ever again be called
on 70 lead the democratic hosts is a ques-
ton Of little moment to him, for by rea-
son Of his achievements In behalf OF the
people he has so endeared himself 70 the
great rank and file OF the American demo-
cracy that wherever Bryan sits in the
democratic councils OF the future, there
will be the head OF the table"
1t Is a question Of a great deal OF mo
ment 10 the democratic party, but Mr..
Bryan's seat judging from the rude be,
havior OF the democratic party in Ne.
braska and Ohio, is nearer the foot than
the head OF the table. A delicate tact
Honest John showed when he exclaimed