Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 24, 1901, Page 4

‘THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNINY “TERMS OF BUBBCRIPTION. Daily Beo (without Sunday), One Year.#8 Daily Hee and Sunday, One Year........ Lilustrated Bee, Une Year... .3 Bunday bee, One Year Rrenns Baturaay Bee, Ons Year. Twentleth Cehtury Farmer, OFFICES. The Bee Building. - Lel()' Hall Bullding, Twen- 0 o » D200 vessssseis One Year.. 1w Omaha South Omaha ty-fifth and M Council Blu Chicego. oAy rl Street. 'mxly Bulh:lnl. k. Temple Cour Washington: i Fourteenth :f:refl. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new| - torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Iee, Editorial Department | BUJINESS LETTERS. = 1 Business letters and remittance should be addressed: The bee Publishing Lom- bany, Umaha. o i REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable l: The Bee Publishing Company Unly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accoun ¥ nai checks, except on Umaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLIEHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebraska, Douglas County, #8.: George B. Tzschick, secretary of The Bee Publisning Company, bel duly sworn, #ays that the actual number of full and complete copics of The Waily, Morning, Evening nday Bee printed during the mon! 1), w foilows: 27,250 27 80 27 280 27 w8 27,810 20,880 84,080 \..26210 .. 26,180 25,010 and return Net total sales..... Net dally average... &0, Subscribed In my presen: before me this At d i(“s“ will be ch ired. —_— No diserimination between property owners in the imposition of tax burdens. Another explanation from Senator Tillman telling just where he is at ought to be In order shortly. The cyclone season seems intent on making sure of starting a new record with the new century. " e This is the time of the year when a federal appointment to Alaska looks in- viting. It might not be so attractive if tendered about midwinter. ‘The Buffalo exposition Is just getting under full Lead. But Buffalo s not unique in a slow start.’ That hds been the experience with every great exposi- tion of recent years. S — Hastings will have the privilege of entertuining the state reunion of the Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic this year. Hastings may be depended on to act the host creditably. The constitution of Nebraska requires “every person and corporation to pay a tax In proportion to the value of his, aer or its property and franchises.” In other words, no discrimination, no fa- voritism in taxation, A Kansas City grand jury is after Jury-fixers in the city on the Kaw. If it | mukes a successful haul it might lend Its services to some other communities we know of that have been sadly af- flicted with the same kind of gentry. —_— If Mayor Moores should actually take It into his head to resign or die to oblige the World-Herald, that sheet would still refuse to be pacified or comforted so long as the legal successor of Moores would be a republican instead of a popo- arat. No question but that Sixteenth street Is sadly in need not of repalrs to the pavement, but an entire new pavement. No question, either, but that the owners of abutting property, who are prinel- pally benefiftd, are amply able to stand the expense Ee—— Chalrman Edmisten is taking a refer- endum of members of the populist state committee on the question whether he shall call the committee together. The next time he will Institute a referendum on the question whether he should take a referendum. Out of 112 members of the High school graduating class eighty-one are girls. What's the matter with the boys? Are they Inferior in mental or plysical euergy or are they compelled to drop out of school to earn a living before they can graduate? —— The general promoter of South Omaha bull tights has just returned from Old Mexico with the trained bull balters, who ai» vouched for as expert matadors, A special rehearsal of the lnnocent sport will doubtless be given for the special entertalnment of members of the Omaha Humane soclety. Admisslon by card. Complaint is made that too many rail- roads are being built these days solely on paper. That's always the trouble, If all the rallroads projected on paper had really been constructed nearly every acre of land on the American continent would be cross-sectloned with rails close enough to do service as a broiler In a grill room. espe——— Senator Depew, speaking of his en- dorsement of President McKinley for a third term, declares he was not joking and Insists that he will stand pat and Justify. This is a game, however, in which ne oune can be forced to play without his cousent and President Mc- {and will THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NU LUNG-TERM FRANCHISES, For a clear, comprehensive statement of the objections to the grant of long term or perpetual franchises in the public highways or thoroughfares the recent veto by Governor Crane of Massa- chusetts of the bill proposing to extend a forty-year right for underground transit to a Boston company for a con- slderation of £6,000,000 18 scarcely to be improved upon. After disposing of the more local features of the plan, he says: But this bill will If it becomes a law give to a private corporation a valuable monopoly in a great public thoroughfare pérpetuate that monopoly for forty years. It not only binds this genera- tion; it ties the hands of the gemeration to come. The surrender of rights which be- 1ong to the public, even for a brief term of years, should be permitted only after the most caretul consideration and for con- trolling reasons of public policy; but no exigency has been shown to exist to justify the taking away of such rights from a gen- eration yet unborn. Governor Crane goes on to assert that no reason affecting the public welfare requires the adoption of this extraor- dinary proposition. A review of previous legixlation discloses that the people of Boston had rejected a fifty-year fran- chise for an elevated rallroad, although later agreeing to it when cut down to twenty-five years, and these precedents, in the opinion of the governor, should not be deviated from. He continues: No one can foresee what advance can be made in the methods and cost of trans- portation, in the volume of travel or in the facilities that may be required for its accommodation In the next forty years. The history of passenger transportation during the last forty years amd of the wonderful advance that has been made, not only in the amount of travel, but in the facllities afforded to passengers, is sufficient evidence of our inability to pre- dict the future. This bill, however, while it does not restrict the company, ties the hands of the community. It will prevent the public from taking advantage of any such improvements in transportation facili- tles on the proposed route, excepting those that may be deemed by the company advantageous to it. A consideration of the disastrous results which would bave fol- lowed if exclusive rights had beem granted | to a street railway company forty years | ago to continue until the present time \llustrates the limitations which this bill would impose upon the public and the un- wisdom of its enactment. What is true for Massachusetts and Boston is true in general everywhere, taking into account merely the changes in local condition: WOULD MAKE IT NATIONAL ISSUE. Resolutions were fntroduced in the Virginia constitutional convention a few days ago which contemplate making the question of negro disfranchisement a na- tional issue. One of these proposes the repeal of the fifteenth amendment of the federal constitution, which It de- clares to be wrong “in that it proceeds on the theory that the two races are equally competent of free government asserting that this theory is contradicted not only by the experience of the south but by the history of the two races since the dawn of history. . The resolution urges that the convention ought to In- augurate through the . @roper. chavugls the proper steps to the.repeal of the fifteenth amendment or its modification 80 that each state may control its suf- frage as its best interests demand. The other resolution contemplates adopting an address to the people of the country with a view of securing the repeal of the amendment. This is the natural trend of the agi- tation in the south for negro disfran- chisement and it Is undoubtedly inevit- able that sooner or later it will be made & national issue through an effort to secure the repeal of the constitutional amendment guaranteeing suffrage to the negro. This will not come about, of course, so long as the republican party is in control of the executive and legis- lative departments of the governnfent, or either of them, or while that party has a majority in either branch of con- gress, but if ever the democratic party gets control of the government, with a sufticlent wajority in both branches of congress to carry a proposition for the repeal of the fifteenth amendment, the effort will be made to eliminate that provision of the constitution. That time is doubtless remote, but it must not be assumed that it will not' come. Mean- while the southern stutes will go on nullifylng the amendment by disfran- chising the negro, for there seems to he no probability that auy serious effort will be made to check or in any way interfere with their course in this re- spect. The few volces in the north that have been raised in remon- strance against the Injustice not only to the negroes of the south but also to the people of other sections have re- ceived little attention or encourage- ment. There is an Ipdifference to the | subject which Indicates that the people generally have little conception of its importance, THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION, The commission appointed by congress to Inquire into industrial and economic conditions and which has taken a vast amount of testimony has adjourned as a body untll September. Announcement is made that there will be no more testi- mony taken by means of hearings, but a few statements may be solicited or ac- cepted before the report of the commis- sion is closed, in order to fill certain gaps In the testimony thus far taken. A subcommittee of the commission will be occupled during the summer in put- ting In shape the mass of evidence and Prof. Jenks of Cornell university and Prof. Ripley of the Boston Institute of Technology will complete their analy- sis and digest of the testimony which has been presented and lay it before the commission. The life of the body ends at about the time of the meeting of congress and it Is intended to prepare a comprehensive and explicit report on all the subjects which have been considered. These cover & wide range and it is said that some difficulty is likely to be experlenced in getting agreement among all the mem- bers, or even a bare majority, upon all the points, There 18 no doubt as to this, for the commission is made up of men of different political and economic views Kipley's refusal to take up the hand Depew has been trying to deal him puts A stop to the play so far as he is con: cerned, and it 1s most improbable that there will be unauimity of opinion regarding any of the matters considered. It was not apected, when the commissiop was cre- ‘-lmL that all its members would agree | satisfactory and useful information. in the opinions submitted and the recom- mendations made to congress, but that will not necessarily militate against whatever value the testimony taken may possess. We are inclined to think that this is not very great, that out of the voluminous mass of evidence and opin- lon elicited by the commission very little will be found to have any real value in enlightening the public mind or in suggesting legislation—the two things in view when the Inquiry was authorized. So far as the public is con- cerned, little or no interest has been taken in the work of the commission and it is not probable that any con- siderable interest will be taken in its report. The commission now proposes to make a general inquiry by means of circular letters into the charge that exporters of American made goods often sell them for lower prices than are obtained for similar goods at home. This 1s not likely to bring out much of the desired in-| formation, but everybody who knows anything about our foreign trade al-| ready is aware of the fact that many goods are sold abroad at less than the price charged for such goods in the home market. Manufacturers do not deny this and it was adwmitted by so good an| authority as the president of the Steel trust, in his testimony before the com- wission. But manufacturers generally will probably be found indisposed to| go Into any explanation as to why this Is so. It is therefore pretty safe to predict that this inquiry of the commis- sion will not result in obtaining much NTH STREET PAV When the proposition to contract for repairs to the asphalt pavement on Six- teenth street was under discussion be- fore the council The Bee took the posi- tion that the city would be justiied in drawing the money needed to put the street in condition out of the general fund. That view was expressed under | the impression that the’ street had been | once repaved at the expense of the abut- | ting property owners and the excessive wear was due to the heavy traffic during the exposition season. That impression seems to have been erroneous. Sixteenth street has never been repaved. ‘The original pavement laid 'seventeen years ago has been main- talned at the expense of the taxpayers of the whole city and the dilapidated condition of the street is the natural consequence of the wear and tear that destroy the best asphbalt pavement un- less the surface is replaced every ten or twelve years. The exhibit of property valuations and rentals on Sixteenth street complled by The Bee fully justifies the demand that the cost of repavement be taxed agalnst the abutting property. It certalnly would be no imposition upon the owners of Sixteenth street property to require them to bear the expense for a second pavement which owners of property on streets less favored by rentals have been obliged to.beas. . e The truth of the matter is that North Sixteenth street exhibits less public spirit and gets more rent per square foot than any other part of the city for the amount of money luvested in im- provement. With the most costly pub- lic bullding In Omaha and the only down town park, North Sixteenth street should by rights be lined with modern store buildings and kept up to the full demands of the largest retall traffic. Instead of embellishing the street with handsome structures, the owners, with & few notable exceptions, have been con- tent with collecting good rents for tumble-down shacks and firetraps that would scarcely have passed muster in the Omaha of the '60s. A reminder of this unpalatable truth may be disagreeable, but it should spur up a few of the North Sixteenth street property owners to a realization of their obligations to the city at large and thelr interest in holding the tratfic by at least waintaining the street as a well-paved thoroughfare. The death of Judge Munn makes it incumbent on Governor Savage to fill a vacancy on the district bench and al- ready a number of names are being pressed upon his attention. Without the least disposition to disparage the claims of any of the aspirants, The Bee suggests that the proper thing to do is to issue the commission to one of the republican candidates who wade the un- | successful contest at the last judicial election. The caudidates nominated and endorsed by the republicans of the dis- trict were A. M. Robbins of Ord and 0. A. Abbott of Grand Island and if the republicans had been In majority one or both would be sitting on the bench. Governor Savage would by such an appointment only be giving effect to the party choice last registered. At the usual ratio of apportionment of one delegate for each county and one additional delegate for each 100 votes cast for presidential electors the coming state convention of Nebraska repub- licans will have a membership of nearly 1,300, being larger than ever before, Douglas county would be entitled to 144 delegatés to testity to its substantial | contribution to the republican majority that redeemed the state. This, of course, is due to the fact that the presidential contest drew out every available voter and no such heavy vote is to be ex- pected next November. The Omaha Central Labor union is still wrangling over the official wage- workers' orgau. It does not take the seveuth son of a seventh daughter to prophesy that the jangle will continue so long as the Central Labor union per- sists in discriminating between news- papers that are friendly to the union of wageworkers for mutual protection, If those British traitors who met in Queen’'s hall only knew In advance of the double-shotted effusion they were making themselves responsible for they would have called the meeting off. e— Impeachment™charges have been filed in the district court against the South Omaha tax comniissioner for peglect of oficial duty, for wiliful apd unlawful undervaluation of property and will- fully consenting to and couniving at evasions of law with reference to valu- ing and assessing property required to be listed for taxation. What is to be done with the East Omaha assessor who returned the interstate bridge and ap- proaches at less than 2 per cent of thelr value? The Little Joker ldle. Philadelphia Ledger. China seems to have comprehended the fact that the interest on her indemnity will not begin until the final papers have been signed. Works on Both Sides. Washington Post The republicans point their finger of scorn at New York and the democrats utilize u similar digit in calling attention to Philadelphians. The theory of two wrongs constituting a right continues to do business in the political organizations. ———— Ravages of & Plag New York World 8o fearful have been the ravages of the populistic plague that the democrats now | have no governors and senators of northern Ates, in the publie eye, acquitting them- selves in & manner approved of and ap- plauded by the people. Opportu xe Traini New York Tribune What a wonderful era of generosity and 8004 will to institutions of learning is that of the present! these days in any part of this country ex- periences far less dificulty in obtalning it | than did the generation of thirty years ago. It there arc any Abraham Lincolns at humble firesides at the dawn of this cens | tury they need not confine their studies to borrowed books painfully conned by the flickering and uncertain light of pineknots. May there not be some little danger that to some extent here and there the higher | education may be made too luxurious and too facile? Admiration Among Lawyers. New York Sun. There is something almost grewsome in the sight of the lawyer for the prosecu- tlon in a murder trial congraiulating the lawyer for the defense over his efforts to 8et his man off. And the impression Is only strengthened when the lawyer for the defense congratulates the lawyer for the prosecution over his brilllant efforts to send the accused to the electric chalr. It is improper that these demonstrations should take place in the presence of the Judge, the jury and above all of the pris oner. Do these men of law imagine that the most Important thing about a capital trial {s the opportunity it affords them to display their talents? Technically lawyers are educated gentlemen. As such ought they not observe the proprieties and re- serve such demonstrations of reciprocal esteem for their private meetings? They are quite out of place in a court room. Let them be decent and if they can't be that, let them be as decent as they can. TARIFF WAR WITH RUSSIA. Mutaal Philadelphia Ledger: Russia is deter- mined to teach this country that one nation can sacrifice its nasal protuberance for the ke of dlsple well an another. New York Herald: Russia's action | reminder that the high tarift advocates of the country have ho monopoly of the pro- tective policy. The exact value of Russian sugars imported'-last - vear was $340,000, whereas the T11inots Manufacturers’ assocla- tion, in ite' appeal for a reversal of the administration’s fullng, estimates exports from the United States to Russia at $30,- 000,000 and the fact that they were largely increasing Is not questioned. Milwaukee Sentinel: The time has come when some person who has influence with Mr. Gage should gengly but firmly urge him to take advice from the Department of Justice with a view to extracting himselt from his present difficulty. I he should continue on the course he has adopted he will inevitably destroy our Russian com- merce, and he will not increase the friend- ship of that nation for the United States, a friendship that has stood the test of time and trial, a friendship that interposed the g&rim presence of the imperial navy between the republic and its enemies in an hour of great national peril. In this particular in- stance sentiment and practical common sel are in perfect alignment. Baltimore American: This is getting to be a very serious matter. If the secretary wants to conduct tests in the higher math- ematics concerning Russia’s or any other country's sugar he should try his hand ou mathematicians, and not on American com- merce. Rusela is willing, in spite of what has occurred, to.forget and forgive. She wiil reduce the duties on all American goods tomorrow if this government will withdraw its uncalled for decfsion with regard to Russian sugar. She attaches no importance to the sugar, for very little of it finds its way to the United States; but when tho czar says he does not give a bounty to sugar, and everyone el except the secre- tary says 8o, too, It 18 not looked upon a a particularly high compliment for the gov- ernment to say that he does. That the secretary will be forced to recede from his position goes without saving, and he can do 80 as gracefully now as later. PERSONAL NOTES. J. M. Johnson, the new third vice pres- ident of the Rock Island road, went into ilroad work in 1870 as a station agent at Frankits, Ind There is more money per capita in cir- culation in the United States today than ever before. The figures are $75.13, a sub- stantial increase over the $26.71 of a year ago. Lieutenant Hobson, in the course of a speech dellvered in Boston the other day, gave it as his opinion that the faults of sallors as men were largely due to the fact that they were for the most part so much without homes and away from the in- fluence of women. James J. Hill, the railrosd magnate, fs preparing for a crulse with his yacht, Waconta, on the coast of Labrador. Among his guests will be Grover Cleveland, Dan- fel §. Lamont, George F. Baker, the New York banker; C. W. Dunn of the North- ern Pacific and M. D. Grover of the Great Northern ra!lroad. Frederick Volck's bronze bust of Robert E. Lee has been presented to Washington and Leo university by Frank T. Howard of New Orlea The bronze Is of lite size and is sald to be the best Impression ex- tant of the great general. Mr. Volck was employed by the confederate government to make it during the civil war. In connection with Senator Allison's dec- laration that he is too old to run for presi- dent, he belng now 72, It may be mentioned that 50 far no man once three score and ten has ever been elected chiet maglstrate of the nation. Only five over 60 have been so honored. These were John Adams, 62; An- drew Jackson, 62; Willlam Henry Harrison, 68; Zachary Taylor, 65, and James Bu- chanan, 66. “Catch 'em comin' and gwine" is the motto of a saloon keeper whose place of business s close to the gates of the state penitentiary at Columbus, O. As the pi oner approaches the jail he sees & sign with the words “Last Chance for a Drink,” and emerges from the gate at the end of his term this sign greets him: “‘First Chance for a Drink. Similar signs adorn a salpon near one of Qmaka's cemeteries. The ambitious boy | or girl who desires a college training in | ing its countenance quite as | JUNE 24, 1901. America’s Nothing more promising has been seen in this country since external competition became a serious problem than the move- ment in favor of taking deputations of trade unionists upon tour through industrial America. There they will see with their own eyes the recent developments, which | have been a liberal education during the last two or three years to some of the most enterprising among British capitalts and they will realize as nothing but per- sonal demonstration on the spot would enable them to know how suicidal to fts own interests has been the mediaeval policy of British labor in the past. Nothing but a journey through the states can enable the average British imagination to realize what America is. President Mc- Kinley has just returned to Washington with his wife—for whose complete con- valescense the wishes of the whole British empire are as warm as our sympathy Io the moment of her apparent danger was profound-after one of the most impressive Journeys ever undertaken by the head of of a state. From New York southward to New Orleans, trom El Paso, on the Mexi- can frontler, to San Francisco, and back across the continent to the White House, Mr. McKinley, with his chief colleagues in the American government, traveled a round distance of more than 10,000 miles upon the territory of the republic. No other fact, | perbaps, has brought out so vividly the | sheer vastness of the United States But while it is a vague commonplace of our ideas that the union is forty times as big as this island, what we do not yet | adequately conceive is that it has forty times | the natural resources. In the last thirty years alone, no less than 400,000 square miles of virgin soll bas laughed into one illimitable | London Telegraph vastness expanse of corn. It s as it nothing but wheat waved over a region, more than thrée times the entire area of the United King- dom, and which has only been under the plow within the memory of the present generation The mineral deposits are on the same prodigious scale. There is more coal in America than in all Europe—more than there is anywhere, unless Baron von Rich- thoten's estimate of the Chinese deposits should ultimately be verified. In spite of the nervous reaction agalnst the so-called and miscalled “trusts’’ even the gigantic business consolidations of America are as natural as the vastness of the Mississippi or Niagara, of the great lakes or the plains of the far west But while all such considerations are overwhelming and terrifying to the con- tinental mind, there is one supreme factor which will continue to make all plans of an industrial coalition of European nations against America an idle dream so far as any participation in it on our part can be con- cerned. Though the bald statement that American exports last year exceeded our own in volume seems disturbing in itself, We must remember that the amount of flnisbed manufactures was still but a frac- tion of our own outward trade. Half of the total produce shipped by the United States consisted of food and raw materials, of which the greater part provided the vital nourishment of our own commercial life. We flourish upon the natural resources of America, in spite of tariffs much as the United States themeelves, and the two nations must continue for years, even in the midst of the industrial struggle, to be more indispeneable to each other than any other two in the world. ey SOME BOQUETS FOR THE BEE. Kearney Democrat: We don't know why, but for some reason, probably because it is a newspaper, The Omaha Bee gives more rellable state capital news than the Lin- coln dulltes do. Ponca Journal The Omaha Bee has just celebrated the thirtieth year of its exist- ence. The Bee is a great paper and may well feel proud of the rapid stride of ad- vancement if has made during its career, Dodgs Criterion: The Omaha Bee has Just passed its thirtieth birthday. For thirty years The Bee bas stood up for Ne- braska and made money for Iits owners. Whatever people may think of Edward Rosewater personally it must be admitted that he has made a success of The Bee. Wood River Interests Sunday's 1l- | lustrated Bee was given up to a resume of The Bee, its editor, and a number of those who have helped to make The Bee what it is today, one of the best papers in the country. The Issue was a most interesting one and Interests joins a host of news- paper boye In wishing Mr. Rosewater many more years of euccess and usefulness. Western Laborer: Last Sunday's Illus- trated Bee gave the public more Informa- tion about The Bee than ever appeared therein. One of the facts brought out was that The Bee pays the highest average wages of any Institution in Nebraska. An- other commendable feature in the policy of The Bee's management is that its staff is made up almost entirely of old time print- ers Blair Pilot: The Omaha Dally Bee has recently celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. The Sunday Illustrated Bee devoted much of its space to those who have been prom- inent in making The Bee the great power that it 1s. During that thirty years the paper has beeu under the management of E. hosewater and fts wide and powerful in- Huence is due much to his wise manage- ment. Butte Gazette: The Illustrated Bee of Sunday last devoted considerable space toa history of The Bee, men who have made it the leadivg paper west ¢ the Mississippl and the man who has becu at the head of the paper all the time—Edward Rosewater. While 2ot al s endorsing Mr. Rosewater we admire his pluck, his fighting qualities and the great business enterprise he has Lbuilt up. Hayes County Republican: The Omabha | Daily Bee was thirty years old last week | and Sunday's Illustrated Bee gave many | | editor of old-time cnemlies that its purpose has In the main been right and that the ends sought to be accomplished have been de- slrable. Occupying as it does an insular and cosmopolitan position, its prestige and reputation are the more remarkable, while as to Mr. Rosewater he ranks readily one of the best business men well one of the strongest journallsts in the United States. To have accomplished so much in Omaha and in Nebraska is not only to his credit, but ought to be a ource of state pride to every citizen of Nebraska Beemer Times: The Omaha Illustrated Bee of last Sunday was almost wholly de- voted to a writeup of that paper, in honor of its having rounded out an existence of thirty years. Just halt of that time the of this paper has been constant reader of The Bee, and for reliability and news in general, it stands far in front of Journalism In Omaha. Edward Rosewater has been in control since The Bee's initial number in 1571, apd the success of that paper has been remarkable under his skill- ful management. He is a self-made man, and while his methods In many ways have not colncided with our views, yet we count N1s paper as one of the best that comes to us. Long live Tha Omaba Bee and may its present editor live to manage it another thirty years. Mead Advocate: For thirty years Ed- ward Rosewater has been at the head of ‘The Bee and last Sunday The Illustrated Bee gave a brief history of The Bee and men who helped to.make the paper what it is today. Mr. Rosewater is known all over the Unitel States today as one of the coun- try's mcel successful newspaper managers of the day. He Is a pleasant man to meet and has always been wiliing to lend & help- ing hand to those less fortunate and there are many who today are filling positions of trust and responsibility and making a suc- cess in life's work who owe thelr advance- ment to Mr. Rosewater's help and advice. He has made many enemles, but we have never heard one who would not say that Mr. Rosewater was the strongest individual in the fleld. The Bee Is by far the best news- paper in the state and is generally relied on to have the news while it is news. Pawnee Press: Wednesday The Omaha Bee celebrated Its thirtieth birthday apniver- sary by the publication of a very creditable newspaper commemorative of the occasion, giving a Nistory of its struggles and triumphs and of the various persons en- gagtd on the editorial and reportorial staffs Tho writer of this paragraph received the reminiscences of its phenomenal career, with {llustrations, the front page showing a | lifelike plcture of E. Rosewater, the| founder and editor. The Bee is far and away the greatest mewspaper west of Chi- | cAg and its influence on Nebraska and the | west is wide and potent. Neligh Advocate: The Illustrated Bee of | last Sunday contained an iInteresting write- up of The Bee during Its existence of thirty | years as the leading daily west of the Mis- sissippl. It is an intensely. interesting resume of Rosewater's career and givea sketches of many of the old timers who | helped make The Bee what even the| enemies of its editor must concede—the best | newspaper of the Missouri valley. Oakland Republican: The Omaha Bee | celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of its existence June 19. Perhaps mo other one factor has dome as much for the upbuilding of Omaha and Nebraska as The Bee. The Iilustrated Bee of last Sunday devoted principally to a brief history of The Bee and to those who have heen conspleuous from its Inciplency in making it wkat it is. It is fearless, independent, and for general and reliable news has no | superior west of the Mississippl river. | Wayne Herald: The Omaha Bee cele- brated its thirtieth birthday recently and devoted the Illustrated Bee of Sunday to | a review of its history and success under | its efficient editor, Edward Rosewater The Bee is now recognized as one of, If not the leading, dally in the west, ever cham- | ploning the cause of the people and devot- ing its untiring efforts to the upbuilding of | Nebraska, & fact that no one can deny. The Herald congratulates Edward Rosewater In bis marked success in placing The Bee foremost among the leading dailies of the country. | Omaha Enterprise: The Iliustrated Bee of last Sunday with its history of the | genesls and growth of The Omaha Bee from | | a small two page paper of thirty years ago 10 its present size and position in the very | front rank of American journalism fur- nisked as fascinating & story of pluck and | perseverance as it has ever been our good fortune to read. The grinding genesis of | this great metropolitan daily from the out- | set has been Edward Rosewater; but in the “writeup” all who have contributed to its | greatness are not forgotten. We congratu- | late The Bee upon its thirtieth anniversary | | and express the hope that its editor-in-chief | may be spared many years more to direct its course and shape its pollcy. Kearney Hub: The current issue of The Illustrated Bee is devoted largely to a review of the growth of The Bee and & description of the bullding and in- terlor facilities, the whole profusely illus- trated and waking a very Interesting num- ber. The history of that newspaper is a record of one of the most notable successes in American journalism. Unlike some of the great newspapers of the country, its i not meteoric nor sensational. It a steady growth created by a master intellect complished by persistent effort and a steady driving to the end In view. The Bee has been hated by some and feared by many and its methods have often . but it is well nigh universally admitted by the most violent | statlon, a distance of forty miles. ‘uf the event The Illustrated Bee of Sunday | made it what it is. | the Hlustrated edition we sce those of W. | E. Annin, Al Sorenson and others, who | of the great enterprises of the metropolis first numbers of The Bee in this city in 1871, Which were forwarded by rallroad postal route to Phelps, Mo., and thence by stage via Tecumseh to Pawnee. Phelps station, | across tho Missourf river, east of Brown- ville, was at that time our nearest railroad | In all| these years The Omaha Bee has grown and | prosiered, and is now one of the best and leading dailies in the great west. That ft may cortinue to achleve merited success i the hope and expectation of everyone who appreciates a thorough and i enterprising Beatrico Democrat: The Omaha Bee wi 20 years oll on Wednesday, and in honor last gave a writeup of the career of that paper, upbullding and the men who he greatest newspapes wost of Chicago. While the foundation way lai1 by Edward Rosewater, and while to his | great genius, enterprise and energy fs due the success of the present Bee, the labors of those who contributed to the work are duly recognized, and among the faces shown in were part of the “old guard,” o to speak, | in the Omiha fleld of twenty years ago. It | 13 mtcresting to read the history of a paper tha' we have geen grow as The Omaha Bee and Kenear City Star, from the smallest be. EInning, and it is especially interesting to | read an article that recalls names and faces | tha* have dropped from sight York Times: The Illustrated Bee last Sunday was an anniversary number and was, largely devoted to a review of the Dast and present of that great paper. This is a suitable occas'‘on for expressing a candid opinion of Mr. Rosewater as g journalist and of the paper to which he bas devoted the last thirty years of his lite. Whatever The Omaha Bee (s and whatever 1t has achleved Is due to Mr, | Rosewater alone. He divides honors with o one. He has had gcod men to help him, but that was his fudgment and choice. his money paid them and whenever they quit The Bee went along just the same and very few people noticed any diff-r. ence. Mr. Rosewater has not shirked any responsibility, he has never allowed any- one to dictate the policy of his paper and he has always stood for it without fiinch- Ing or whining. He is forcetul and, Iike all successtul business men, does what he thinks the interest of his business de. mands. He bhas made enemies, many of them, yet he has many warm friends. He 1s genlal and entertaining, knows all about almost everything and can tell g story or crack a joke. The Omaha Bee tho greatest paper In the west, The Bee building, a newspaper palace, and many are the result of his work. Unquestionably Omaba owes more to him than to Any other man. Ho is a great journalist and a suc cesstul business man. ———— Shall Precedent B ored t | town? ST. PAUL AND THE PHILISTINES Swallow to Soothe th of Rallroad Kin 8t. Paul Ploneer Press There seems to be no doubt Milwaukee & St. Paul has also bee rather is about to be, swallowed up stupendous maelstrom of eonsolida. which is engulfing all the great rai and other properties of the country. T seems to be & general acceplance in ra| road circles of the reports that have boe current for a week past that the Harr| man-Vanderbilt interests have secured control If it and that snother colossal com bination embracing the Union Pacific, the | Southern Pacific, the Northwestern and St. Paul systems will form the main me bers of a mighty group of glants under practically one mansgement, while the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington will form another group in close affiliation with it and which together will control all the great rallways of th west, fncluding all the great transconti- nental lines. Not quite all. For there still remalos outside of the combination and - dependent of all the interests which con- trol it the Rock Island system. The same 18 true of the Chicago Great Western and the Wisconsin Central. Before very long it 1s quite likely that we may hear that these, too, have fallen into the open maw of the leviathan. At preseat, however, the Chicago Great Western appears to be striking its roots far and wide throughout Minnesota and Towa and Into Nebraska in preparation for a vigorous and independent existence of its own. It s mot probable, however, that the enormous money inter- ests which are back of the vast schemes of rallroad consolidation, or of harmonious trafic arrangements through community of interests, will permit these independent roads to disturb their arrangements with out an effort to take them f{nto the com- bination. Meanwhile it is impossible to predict the consequences of these trafiie rate arrangements upon the business of the country and upon the relative commer- clal positions of the citles of the country. And until these consolidation schemes have been perfected and the plans of the men in eontrol are put in operation there will be a good deal of solicitude as to the re- sults in their bearing on the greater and lesser business centers of the country. Meanwhile we can only wait and wonder and see. VOICE OF THE STATE PRE! Anot St. Paul Republican: Chairman Lindsay has fssued a call for the republican state committee to meet in Lincoln on Thurs- day, June 27, at which time a date for the state convention will be decided upon. The general opinion seems to be that Sep- tember is plenty early enough. Springfield Monitor: They are getting the school busin down to such a fine point in Omaba that the contracts with the unmarried women teachers contain a clause which virtually fires them from their positions if they think of marrying. The teachers seem to mppreciate what is being dome for them in this lime, but few are throwing up their jobs of 3100 & month for men with uncertain salaries. Norfolk News: The Omaha Boeard of Education has put a wet blanket om any matrimorial inclinations of the school ma'ams of that city and has ruled that any of them who marries loses her job in. stanter. Perhaps this s just a bluff to attract attention to a job lot of old malds, as they at once suspended the rule and elected seven married women who have not been on the permanent list. Ord Times (rep.): The republican party of Nebraska will make a mistake if Hon. H. C. Lindsay is not continued at the head of the republican forces in the state. He 1s sald to be willing to direct the fight again this year and after leading the re- publican forces to such a signal victory last year it would be unwise to put & new man at the head if Mr. Lindsay can be prevailed upon to take the place again. Hastings Tribune: The republican stata central committee will meet in Lincoln next Thursday for the purpose of setting a time and place for holding a state con- vention for the nomination of judge of the supreme court and two regents of the uni- versity. As the farmers will have finished their harvest and corn plowing by the lat- ter part of July the Tribune {s of the opinion that the time for holding the re- publican state convention would be about August 14. As it generally takes two weeks or more to get a campaign fairly started this will give the republican can- didates about eight weeks in which to do thelr campalgn work s IN A LIGHTER VE Statesman: Bill—-When s man 1o 1 Rebt T think he ought to try and get “Yiil—Do you mean out of debt or out of Detrolt Free Press: *You ought to think e e 1 When the first of the month comes around | am as biue #s can be, won= ering what my creditors will do fladelphia Press: Rivers—You will do e aretun. old. fellow, = A youn man in Indiana wa# sentenced to the peni- tentiary the other day for stesling an um- brella Brooks—He to be. He cone fessed. deserved Judge: Rye—I hear you have secured a tip-top engagement for the summer? ‘Alto—Yes, that is, I'm engaged to play in a ‘roof garden company Puck: Bobby—Pa, when does a man get too old to learn? 5 Father—When he gets too old to marry, | my son drooklyn Life: Laura—Her father cast her off without & penny when she married M How did they manage? ow did they SR “they published two volumes of thete love letters oft Journal His manners afe ex- |'lr‘"lllvrvkl\' boorish, even if he does inherit AT must have been a sfiver knife that was in his mouth when he was born. “hicago Tribune: “Did your husband hold m:rh;.ufl fe ofces asked the reporter. ‘yes, sir.” sald the inconsolable widow. He was the Righthand Bupporter of the Vice Patriarch of the Anclent and Illus- trious Order of Ballyhoos. sald ollega tul in Washington Star: "It Is my opinton,’ ono sage. “that a man who has degrec 18 very likely to be succ e ‘""\'»n answered the other, “and it is & rule that works both ways. A man who Successtul In life is very lkely to get college degree. Harper's Ba Father—How many detectives do you think will be cnough 10 guard the wedding presents’ Chief—About how many guests will there be? Chicago Post: “It's getting 0 & man can't heep. & dog around the houre any more,” commented the dog owner bitteriy after reading the rules and regulations for dog_ day: 0N, yes, he can—if he keeps him around the houte," wag the reply. “The trouble 13 dogs are too often lfrl on the streets ol in the neighbors’ yards THE TORNADO. A copper sun sets sullen In the clouds Andired nature holas ner breathi The landscape dons its blac o The very stiliness speaks of death The lowing cattle seek the lower land, Dumb instinct for t gulde In groups they close together stand. To walt what ere betides The humble tollers In the field, The patlent tiliers ot the sod, A hurried silent prayer upyleld Springfield Republican The republican party has never nominated a New Yorker for president in its history, s0 what Is the use of talking about New Yorkers? The vice presidency ls as high as New York gets, Commending their souls to God. The funneled monst cuts ita path, Levelin and beas! Cruel. res |r|h|ll {'l’l"l. Mak! v ath & " I CALVIN & VaLENTING. Omaha, Neb, .