Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1909, Page 4

‘THE OMAHA DALY BEek FOUNDED SY BDWARD ROSEWATER ————— . VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered class matt TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. at Omaha postoffice as second- - * o Bee, uk.fl:l rtment. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, e: pavable to HEH T T | TOAl ...oeinininianiiviiiins Ltsa umsold and returned copi Net Total .. Lally sverage i ¥ il UL QL TITTTLO ‘Treasu: rer. Subscribed in my sworn to presence and hefore me this Ist day of I"v. 1908, M P (Seal) otary Publie. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Sabsoribers leaving the oity tem- porarfiy shouid have The BSes mailed to them. Address will be nged as often as requeated. Remember where you stored the lawn mower? ——e— Women propose to hndio the glove tariff without gloves, e e e e “Where Is Senator Dick?" asks the New York Sun. Why? We will learn later whether there are any mollycoddles in Mombasa. »- o} STER—— Congratulstions to South Omaha. No city election there this spring. L) e———— A probibitive tax on kidnaping would also help the infant industries, There might be Tesg domplaint if the tariff on stockings were aimed only at the open-work variety, There is nothing in fin‘ proposed tariff on gloves that appears caleu- lated to make smuggling unprofitable. “What 18 & joke?” asks Mr. Car- negie, Well, the democratic attitude on the tarift bill farnishes a good defl- nition, BEmperor William says that 60,000,- 000 Germans possess 70,000,000 opin- fons. -~ The average is not a cause for boastin| Many women who are most ener- grtic in darning the stocking schedules réfuse to perform a similar service for the real article. selected a particularly propitious time for adjournment In deciding to quit on April Foo It Mr. Roosevelt is looking for a sized job he might take the e ball team and fash- ion it into a winner. All the city candidates were not born in log houses, but it appears that every mother's son of them was once a newspaper carrier. cure for rheumatism is being touted again. The man suf- fering rrom bee stings is apt to forget Governor Shallenberger has found a few holes in the Omahs charter amendments. The people of Omaha will find more holes later. ——— Mr. Roosevelt might make a hit by introducing simplified spelling in re- porting the names of some of those wild animals from Africa. “Don't try to demagogue.” said Mr. Payne to Champ Clark in the course of the tariff deba Champ can dem- agogue without half trying. Mr. Harriman is going back to New York to take a rest in order to get over the effects of the vacation he speént o Texas and California. EEEpp———— The president of the Jacksonian club denles that be is a rooster. He will not deny, however, that he would like to chance to crow. Speaking of names, Miss Hood and Mr. Wink of Bgltimore have been li- cénsed to wed, preliminary to the usual matrimonial hoodwinking. Just imagine what the impending city primary in Omaha would be if the law provided for an open primary i stead of a closed primary, permittin the republicans to vote for candidates for democratic nominations and vice verra., Responsibility of Trainmen. In sentencing the members of @ train crew to prison for having causeq a railroad wreck, the judge of a Can- adian court has laid down a rule of joint responsibility of tralnmen that might, it generally enforced, help re- duce rallroad accidents. Because of the failure of an en- gineer to signal for a switch at & junction point, the result being that the train continued for two miles on a track on which another train had the right-of-way, a head-on collision oc- curred in which several persons were killed. The engineeer admitted that he had not given the proper signal and had not noticed hisserror even after he had got on the wrong track. The conductor and brakeman testified that they were in the caboose and had re- lied on the engineer to attend to his duty. They argued that it was not thelr business to see that the train was on the right track, that being the task they trusted the engineer to perform. To that Mr, Justice Riddell replied: That is the cardinal mistake you and have made—you are not to other ‘doing his duty; you are to fear tHat he may not do his duty. It would be idle—a solemn farce—to trust the management of a train to the care of a number of men jointly and then allow each to say: “I thought the others would do their duty and T neg- lected mine.” In this country the fact of co-opera- tive responsibility is not always recog- nized in full. The joint responsibility asserted by the Canadian court could be equally applied to many lines of in- dustry and no doubt eventually will be. Starting Bank Rumors. Congressman Dalzell of Pennsylva- nia has again introduced his bill mak- ing it a felony for any person to cir- culate or help to circulate false rumors concerning the financial condition of any national bank. The measure h been offered several times at the open- ing of congreéss and has always been allowed to sleep peacefully in the com- mittee room during the sessions, and it is not probable that it will receive any different treatment at the hands of the present congress. The bill goes into some detall and with many whereases explains that many banking institutions have been forced to the wall all because some scared or thoughtless person started a report that the bank was in hard lines and might be forced to suspend at any time. Mr. Dalzell would make it a felony for any person to originate such & report or to repeat it after having heard it. Bank “runs” have been started many times by such rumors and banks have been driven out of business by demands of depositors when made at an inopportune time, yet groeery stores have also been closed up by similar reports and business men often suffer on account of the wagging of Dame Rumor's tongue. It is one of the risks of bupiness which benks muyst take along with other classes of enterprises. Every state has its laws punishing libel and slander, and the banks and bankers have the same redress under these laws that is afforded men in other pursuits. Vardaman's Latest Yawp. Former Governor James K. Varda. man of Missiseippi and ever-present guard on the nation's watch tower is opposed to any plan for changing the date of the president’s inauguration from March 4. Some other people, of course, likewise oppose a change, but it 1s doubtful if congress and the legis- latyres of the states will be largely influenced by the reasons he presents. In a recent number of the Issue, the weekly paper through which Varda- man personally conducts his grouch, he says: The president should take the oath of office, deliver his address In the senate chamber, get In his carriage and drive to the White House and go to work. 1 do not like these royal airs that are put on on such occasions. 1t 1s un-American, undemocratic, sord. It 18 estimated that there will be prob- ably 250 deaths as a result from cold caused by exposure. It does not make much difference about that. 1 do mot know of a better way to get rid of the fools. A man who s s0 much of a flunky as to expose himself and imperil his health in order to see a lot of people make buffoons and idiots of themselves does not rob the country of much when he dies. Stop the foolishness, and the pres- ent day Is as good as any. Argument is wasted in a case of this kind. Vardaman's elevation to the highest office in the state of Mississippl and his enforced mingling with public men of the nation instead of broaden- ing his vision, appears to have made him narrower, if that were possible. His case is clearly incurabls A Tax on Dividends Washington correspondents have discovered that the senate proposes to amend the tariff bill by providing that a tax of 2 per cent be levied on divi- dends paid by corporations, exclusive of banks, insurance companies and building associations, and the assur- ance is given that President Taft looks upen the proposition with favor. It is doubtful whether the proposed tax would produce the amount of rev- enue that would generally be ex- ab- pected, experts Aguring the total in- come from such & source at less than $15,000,000. According to reports of the Interstate Commerce commission the rallroads of the country dis- tributed dividends for the year ending June 30, 1907, to the amount of $308,- 187,924, on which a 2 per cent tax would yleld a revenue of $6,162 758, The invested manufacturing capital of the country is estimated at about $13,- 000,000,000. If this capital should earn an average of 5 per cent in divi- dends, the tax on the earnings would amount to $13,000,000. Such an esti- mate Is doubtless much too high, as many of the factories are satisfied with THE OMAHA UAILY BEE: smaller earnings and many others | would be exempt under any bill that might be framed for the purposes of federal taxation. On the Steel trust, which distributes about $36,000,000 annually in dividends, the government tax would be $720,000. The effect of the tax would be to cause a general recasting of the book- keeping methods of the corporations. Rallroad companies and big concerns generally would hesitate to reduce their dividend rates and would natu- rally seek other sources for raising the government tax without interfering with fixed payments. The tax fund might be gained at the expense of the surplus by reducing operating ex- penses or in various other ways. The most natural method would be to add it to the cost of goods, just as freight, insurance, rents and like items are now figured, so that, in the end, the burden wouid fall upon the consumers and be borne by the entire community. Incidentally it would be a tax on the states rich In manufacturing and cor- porate industries and would be most highly popular in states having few such concerns. . Pushing Forward. Several large real estate transac- tions made recently with a view to im- mediate Improvement make sure that Omaha will continue to push rapidly forward in the way of substantial building expansion. No city of its class in the whole United States can show greater prog- ress in transforming the appearance of business and residence districts by new and modern construction than can Omaha. This city is fast enlarging ite estab- lished business and residence district and acquiring a distinctive sky-line. People who visit us only at intervals marvel every time they return at the noticeable changes for the better in the city’s external appearance and with the prospects already assured they will witness still greater changes in the same direction during the next year or two. These prospective improvements are gratifying not only in themselves, but as evidence of the confidence which men of foresight and judgment place in Omaha’s future. ate bank commissioner will draw a bigger salary than any of the elective officers ip the state house, except the supreme judges, who get more, and the railway commissioners, who get the same. In other words, the bank commissioner will be a higher paid official than the state treasurer or any member of the bank- ing board. Nebraska's new deposit guaranty law forbids state bank examiners from examining any bank in which they are personally interested. Why should state bank examiners be aliowed to be interested in any bank? One of the qualifications for state bank examiner ought to be that he divest himself of all pecuniary interest in any bank. Our amiable democratic contem- porary is going to a great deal of trouble in connection with thé physical valuation bill te point out the differ- ence between a railroad and the stock yards. The chief difference, which it carefully conceals, is: that one may have a larger percentage of water in its capitalization than the other. “Mr. Bryan has now adopted as his motto, ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,"” says the Rochester Dem- ocrat. His working motto, however, remains, “Eternal eloquence is the price of prosperity. Two congressmen almost came to blows on the floor of the house. If those congressmen are not careful they will get into the same class with the members of our Nebraska legislature. The federal government has bought an orchard and fs going to raise apples on a #clentific seale. Let it be hoped that the government confines its exper- imenets to Ben Davisless apples. Still, no federal court has suggested that the government make any finan- clal compensation to Mr. Rockefeller for the worry caused him by those prosecutions of the Oil trust “What has become of the old-fash- ioned folks who slept with closed win- dows because thtey were afrald of the night air asks the Houston Post. They all died of tuberculosis. On the ingratitude proposition there ought to be a bond of sympathy be- tween Mayor Jim and Editor Hitch- cock. Remember ‘‘the sting of in- gratitude” fulminatio: The manufacturers of Egyptian cigarettes who do business in Pitts- burg and Paterson are ndt worried over the increase in tax on the im- ported kind A Philadelphia dog went mad at the sight of a new spring hat and bit the woman who wore it. Still, some folks are always clamoring that the dogs be muzzled. The new 500-button gown comes along just in time to spoll any prog- ress that may have been made by the Soclety for the Suppression of Pro- farnity. Chicago Tribune. Will the women of this country tamely submit to a tax of % cents on every dol- lar's worth of fmported stockings? ‘Sdeath. never! When Sllence is Golden, Indianapolis News. On the other hand, as far as reported the Krupp people have registered no pro- MONDAY, test against the ever increasing armament of nations. Followe e Easter Way. Philadelphia Record. It Is a pity that Grover Cleveland's great qualifications as a publie official have found many more admirers than imitators In public Iife ———— An Overripe Combination. | Washington Heraid. An increased tariff on both grease paints and hams suggest the possibility of of the Theatrical trust having grown to be quite a large and healthy tentacle of the octopus. Which Way?t Washington Post There seems to be no legitimate doubt that tariff revision is In progress, but the upward or downward tendencles of the animal make a nice problem for higher mathematics. A Jolt Eye-Opener. Chicago Record-Herald. Those statesmen who thought they had clipped “Uncle Joe's” wings are believed to have come to the conclusion that there must have been something the matter with the shears they used. Ne Hot Fin Boston Herald. With the Union Jack planted within 111 miles of the South Pole, and the Stars and Btripes within 174 miles of the North Pole, the British ensign is several miles ahead of ours in the race toward the two goals of polar exploration. There's no occas- fon for international unpleasantness, how- ever. The race will finally be won on the home stretch. Slee Thelir Rights. Charleston News and Courle: The presence of the representatives of steel, of drugs, of sugar, of leather, of lumber, of shoes and of a thousand other commodities in Washington, where they clamorously petition the ways and means committee of the house to wave them from diminished protective duties or to give them more is the most conapicuous feature of the special session of congress—excent the absence of the consumers for whose benefit the special session has been called. Where are the consumers? Why are they not there? Working for the Pablic. Philadelphia Press. The time of persons employed by the public belongs to thelr employers just as much as If they were in some private busl ness. When there are too many men for the work necessary to be done the work 1s never as well done as when there is no time for loafing and dispersion of effort Trere is hardly any large city that would hundreds of thousands s a year If It were managed with anything like the business care that shar- acterizes the management of big private enterprises. . Again. Baltimore Sun. Several vears ago congress passed a law 10 conserve the beauty of Niagara Falls by prescribing the quantity of water that might be taken out of the river above the falls for power plants. The law was to ex- pire by limitation June 30 next, the idea being that by that time a pending freaty with Canada, dealing with the matter, would be ratified, But the treaty has not been ratified, and in the Jast days of the congress preceding the present one a reso- lution haviig a like object in visw—the con- servation of the fails—was rushed through both-houses of congress. The period within which an arrangement may be made with Canada Is extended for two years. For two years longér) accordingly, bridal cou- 'ples on their honeymoon may cuddle up to the falls, ured that their murmurs of undying love and lablal smacks will not be heard. DIVIDED DEMOCRACY. rgent Democrats Come in for o | Roast. New York Evening Post, (ind.). Mr. Bryan's back is broad. But when the two dosen Cannon democrats in congress would sanctify their purposes by calling | their mutiny a revolt against Bryan, they saddle Nebraska's peerless son with an unjust burden. Very little principle entered Into the bargain between the insurgent demoerats and the republican machine The noble little band, under McCarren leadership struck not against Bryan, but for office and power. The fear of losing fat committee jobs led Georgia; the prom- ise of fat committee jobs led New York. Long torn apart by difference in principle, the democratic party has now shown that it can be split apart by sordid interes However poor a showing the party may make, if taken state by state, its united | representatives in congress still make an Impressive showing. A party that fs In & minority of forty-seven in & body of 31 cannot be called a moribund party. But when that minority stands ready to fall apart on small lssues as well as big, on any issue at all, if only it does fall apart right in the face of opportunity, its future is dark indeed. How long will the democ- racy continue to emulate the lowest forms of animal life which multiply by splitting. s Rise to the Crest of Golden Waves. Washington Post t fall, when it was ascertained that | a had gone democratic and that both houses of the state legislature were of that political complexion, Mr. Willlam J. Bryan expressed a willingness to be a candidate for senator in congress for the term beginning 1911. Not long thereafter he qualified this declaration with the statement that his candidacy was entirely receptive and conditioned upon the conclu- slon of the party that no other democrat could win. But Mr. Brysn now comes with the positive affirmation that he is entirely out of all calculations touching the senatorship, or words of that import. '"Tis forty years since, when some very successful and very wealthy capitalists walited on that great naturalist, Prof. Ag- assiz, and proposed to him a commercial or financial scheme through which he would beeéme &n independently rich man it he would venture his scant means In the enterprise. To them the grand old Switzer, reminder of that splendid cre- ation of Walter Beott, Arnold Bledermann, made answer: “I have no time to make money!" And so they left him It seems that Mr. Bryan is so busy mak- ing money that he has no time for chopping the logic of statescraft in the United States senate at & beggarly §7,500 a year. When he was nominated for president, in 1596 that grim pld southern democrat, Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, was on a ranch in Texas, and after he had recovered from his astonishment at the tidings, he exclaimed: “What! That $2,600 man!" 1f Mr. Bryan shall be nominated in 1912, old democracy can throw its cap In the air and boast, “We present to you & §15.000 man." | No man in our history ever made half a8 much money out of politics as William J. Bryan, unless he resorted to graft methods. The Commoner ylelds enormously MARCH | has | ruary 28 Neidelman was {roid each day | Lexington avenue line, the ioop lines con- | neecting on its investment, and he mal tens of thousands yearly on the lecture platform. Verlly, the Peerless One has plenty of time to make momey and no Ume for mak- ing laws Around New York Ripples on the Ourrent of Life as Sesn in the Oreat Amerioas Metropells from Day to Day. Dr. Edward T. Devine, professor of social economy at Columblan university and men- eral secretary of the New York Charity Organization soclety, discussed in a recent lecture the Increase in the number of sulcides in the city and the causes of such distressing mortality. The rate of sulcides increased tenfold in the last fifty vears, while the mortality rate from natural causes has decreased. The city at present has 1000 sulclGes a year: last year's record was seventy-seven in excess of that for any previous season. Forty-three cases of attempted suicide were carefully investi- gated. Two were directly due to poverty and four to unemployment. The remaining thirty-seven were lald to a variety of rea- sons, which led the investigators to the conclusion that poverty Is not the greatest cause of sulcide. Statistics also show that the age at which the greatest number of cases occur it from 5 to 60. Three men to one woman kill themselves. There are more suicldes among Protestants than Catholics, more among Roman than Greek Catholics, more among Greek Catholics than Jews. There are more kinds of misery in New York, Dr. Devine declared, than Milton imagined in his “hell.”” Contrary to the idea that misery is a retribution for a man's or parents’ misdeeds, Dr. Devine stated that it depended largely on condl- tions which soclety could control Dr. Devine discussed at length the state- ment of a probation officer that nine- tenths of the misery In New York could be traced to the social evil. He pointed out the fact that since the framing of the mode! law in 1902 by Willlam Baldwin and the committee of fifteen to protect the children In the tenements, there had not been a single conviction. Of 1,04 complaints, 811 were dismissed by the tenement, house department, 214 were dismissed by the corporation counsel. only nine were brought to trial and they were acquitted. “The complete uninforcement is a most unfortunate breakdown of mu- nicipal government,”” Dr. Devine declared, and he sald that the part of the police courts in it was “a miserable fiasco.” Taller and heavier than when he entered Bellevue a month ago, Henry Niedelman, 2 years old, of 117 East One Hundred and Thirteenth street, was discharged from the hospital. His growth is tha result of a new treatment for the development of mid- gets into normal proportions. Drs. Wall, Lackey and Burke of Bellevue hospital had been experimenting with an extract made from the thyrold glands of a sheep as & substitute for the thyroid glands which are usually missing from the throats of midgets, It !s the thyroid gland that con- trols physical and mental development, the Bellevue hospital physicians. On Feb- taken to Harlem hospital suffering from a cut on his right knee and a lacerated scalp wound, and after two days at that Institution he was transterred to the Bellevue howpital. When he entered the hospital he weighed only seventy pounds, and was three feet six inches in height. At Bellevue he was treated with several Injections of the thy- and his condition was so much improved yesterday that he was dis- charged a happler and bigger man. When he left the hospital he had gained ten pounds and inches In height, according to Dr. Tracy, who had him in charge. Dr. Tracy sald that when Neldelman entered the hospital his mind was like that of a child, but he is more of a man In every way now. even after jess then a month under treatment, Nefdelman received thy- rold tablets to take three times a day at home. “The treatment,” said Dr. Tracy, “has been tried with general success in Germany, but never before with such marked success here.” Not many of us were prepared for the really stupendous figures of the passenger traffic of New York City, which are made | public in the report for 1308 of that most admirable and efficient body Known as the Public Service commission, says the Bcientific American. It appears that the surface, elevated and subway companies | in New York carry annually over 1,300,000,008 passengers. What these figures mean will be better understood when it is stated that they are over 86 per cent greater than the total number of passengers carried in the same year on all the steam raliroads of the country combined. The total capitall- zation of these transportation companies is over 33,000,000, and they derive annu- ally from the passengers carried over $2,- 000,000 Tncidentally, it may be mentioned that the capitalization of New York's gas and electric companies Is over $286,000,000 and that they sell, annually, $2,000,000,000 cuble feet of gas; which amount is more than 2 per cent of the entire gas produc- tion in the United States. Moreover, the income from the sale of electricity alone In the city exceeds $20,000,000. By the close of 1M§ the clity has ev- pendéd over $50,000000 In the construction of subways, and an additional $100,000,000 will be necessary to bulld the Broadway- the Willlamsburg and Manhattan bridges, the lines across Manhattan below Canal street in Manhattan, and the Fourth avenue ll,ma in Brooklyn. A Hoboken Inventor has constructed & street sweeping machine which, if we may trusted the printed accounts of fts operation in the streets of New York, is destined to satisty a long-felt want. It is an auto- mobile with & sweeper In the rear. Brushes catch up the dirt, which Is raised by a serles of receptacles operating somewhat on | the principle of a moving stalrway, and the refuse is thrown into the box-like body of the vehicle. Guided by a chauffeur in front and a helper behind, the machine picked up the accumulated litter of the streets with great ease and celerity, Thiy must be esteemed a great sanitary achieve- ment, espectally if the cost of scavengering shall be thereby reduced A total of X815 men and women made their living behind the stands in New York's public markets during 1908, They rented, or leased, 15,338 stalls, representing an investment to them of nearly $3,000,000. Fulton market alone did un average daily business of 500,000 pounds of fish. The 5,000 pusheart peddiers did a dally business of | $25.000 selling all kinds of foods and mer- chandise in their market under the Wil- liamsburg bridge. | Ne Vacancies Minneapolis Journal | The suggestion has been made that Presi- dent Taft might select Luke E. Wright, & southern anti-Bryan democrat, for Chief Justice Fuller's place. There has also been gossip regarding the possible retirement of Justice Harlan. Justice Harlan was asked about the matter. “Fuller and T have di cided,” repiied the venerable justice, “to let them take us out feet first.” These two distinguished jurists are in prime mental and physical condition and do not purpose to give up their life work as long as they are able to perform it. Not the least valu- able of the republic’'s sons are the strong and sturdy old men who are still able to do men's work | %0 violently upheld QUILL POINTS ON OMAHA. Stanton Register (dem.): The legislature would have done far hetter work if the members from Omaha had been repub licans, Norfalk Press: The Omaha Ree makes the startiing statement that every demo eratic officlal In the city hall is a candi- date for re-election. Was it ever any other way with the republican officehold Papiilion Timea: The Omaha Boe ls mak- because a large number ves have been decapitated by the operation of the mew city charter Perhaps Omaha had too many men on the payroll anyway. Cedar Rapids Outiook: The last week passed the charter bill giving Omaha “home rule.” If Omaha can now be content o manage Its own affairs and glve the balance of the state the same privilege. all will be well. But Omaha has ® blg task before t—to rule itself. Exeter Enterprise: The Omaha Bee says that Edgar Howard wants to make the test of what constitutes a democrat some- thing more than 1ip loyaity to Bryan. We hope the statement is true, although its appearance in The Bee Is somewhat against ft. We have too many democrats who want to reach office under Bryan's coattall only to repudiate his ideas after election. Albjon Ar In keeping with the cus- tom of most every preceding legislature, this one has spent a lot of Its time passing charters for the cities, Omaha In partic- ular. We never could understand what it was (0 the rest of the state what kind of a charter a city should have. It always 1ooked to us like a city should have the right to pass on everything pertaining to its own welfare, 0 long as it did not con- flict with state law. If this charter busi- ness was cut out a week or more time would be saved to every legislature. legislature SEEKING NEW LEADERSHIP, Democracy’s Plight Provokes Some Pointed Remarks. Cleveland Plain Dealer (ind. dem.). The address delivered at Buffalo by Hoke Smith of Georgia the other day deserves wider attention that it has so far recelved The occasion was a celebration of the birt day of Grover Cleveland, which furnis a satistaclory setting for some sound demo- cratic oratory. The former secretary of the interfor in the cabinet of the only demo- cratic president since the war, made Wi- liam J. Bryan the subject of his remarks. Mr. Bryan, he sald, must surrender his position as national leader of the party Another candidate is absolutely necessary for the contest of 1912 and the sooner both the Nebraska man and the party come to a full appreciatton of the situation the bet- ter for democrats and the country alike. The Georglan professed the utmost loyalty to the throe-times candidate, but believes the time has come for a change. The former governor of Georgia puts into words and gives the formality of pub- lic utterance to a thought that is firmly lodged in the mind of a large majority of the thinking men of the democratic party. Mr. Bryan apparently proposes to hold himself in readiness to answer the call for a tourth trial for the presidency. At least this 1s a reasonable Intérpretation of his attitude as expressed at divers times since his latest popular rout. Of course the Georglan disposes of one problem only to ralse A new one. If Bryan is to be eliminated, who shall be chosen to lead in his stead? Tt is too early to answer, but three vears are to elapse before the party needs frame its reply. In that perfod the right man should be found. There are several in varlous parts of the country doing the work the people have assigned them. One of the several may in the three years develop the qualities of a national leader, and at the least any one of them could scarcely do worse than the man who is to be deposed There I8 to be a senatorial vacancy from Nebraska In two years. The popular leader of the thrice defeatéd hosts might try his strength in that contest. Indeed, the state might go further and fare worse than o send Mr. Bryan to the upper house of congress. Hoke Bmith trumpets a warning which has three years to sink Into the mind of the party and should prevent the repetition of the historic error of the Platie. | — DEMOCRATIC “PURISTS. Rejection of Ca e Pensions for Educators. Minneapolis Journal. By vote of Bl to 47 the lower house of the Nebraska legislature has rejected a bill to permit the professors in the State university to accept Carnegie pensions. The opposition to the bill is said to have been actively backed by Mr. Bryan, who was determined to have the Carnegle pen- sion turned down. 4 Presumably, the purists In Nebraska ob- Ject to taking Mr. Carnegie’s money on the sround that it Is tainted, and will taint anyone who handles it. The tainted money argument has had its day. £ It was & féw yea g0, that there s any moral quality money itself. in It may also have been objected that Mr. | Carnegie, through his pension system, would acquire a commanding Influence over the faculty of the university, There might be danger that & protessor approaching the retiring age might think to ingratiate him- Self with the dispenser of largess. But it must be quite apparent that the professor who tried this would stand a great chance of exposing himself at home, without the compensating advantage of making himself | known to Mr. Carnegle. The would likely never hear of him, As to the alleged malign influence of the pension system on education, there does not seem to be any danger. The founda- tion bas been put In the hands of edu- cators. It is for all time, while the donor of the fund and the first trustees are mortal. They must pass away, and the fund finally be appropriated according to general rules which exclude personal cori- sideration. In other words. the professor ironmaster eligible to a Carnegie pension will get it by rule and not by favor. The professors’ side of it, which the braske leglslature appears to have mag- nificently neglected, is real. The pension system already has given a bright tinge o the old age prospects of college profes- sors. It is capable of kreat extension. Tt is doing much more good than harm, and any legisiature that thinks best to reject this ald to teaching, must do so on the Ne- ! ground that it has & better plan. What is Nebraska's better plan? —— Deflance of Corporation Prejudice, Springtield Republican. President Taft's studied preference for the ablest corporation lawyers finds fur- ther expression In his selection of Lawyer Bowers of Chicago the next solicitor general of the United States. Lawyer Bow- ers comes from the legal department of the Chicago & Northwestern and probably the former general counsel of the Illinols Cen- tral, who is now secretary of war. recom- mended him highly. Mr. Taft must com- mand admiration for his defiance of the sorporation prejudices of the country. He is evidently hunting for the best lawyers and kno where (o find thom. It s not now | PERSONAL NOTES! Colorado has passed & bill kilting all forms of gambling. This ought to jar the wildeat mining industry A movement to raise a fund for the pure chase of @ bronze statufé of the late Riche ard Manafield, to be placed In the foyer of the New theated, at New York is under way. Indfana folks say they used to eall the (all. ascetic Dayid Graham Phillips, wha is writing some of (he most popular novels of today, “Jumbo” Phillips, because he was 0 fat. Daniel Davie, of West Royalston, MAst., celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his hirthday Febryary £ He is stlil vigs orous, physically and mentaily, and contris butes regularly to the columns of the vile lage paper. » A long and InterestiAg newspAper cas reer was closed with the sudden’ death of Joseph Swan, for nearly 40 yeArs connected with the Associated Press As miarine ree porter In New York. Mr. Swan, active to the end, dropped dead in his chair in the ship news office at Battery. Amos Moore, the oldest newSpaper man engaged In active work in Ohio, I8 dead at his home in Cincinnatl. Heé was % years old and in newspaper work fof 71 yeéa At the time of his death he was editor an proprictor of the Suburban News. Just to give a little varlety to the game and give our heiresses a breathing spell, a full-blooded American ‘cltisen: has been buncoed by London confidence men, It may be necessary to send the distinguished Mn Maybray across the water to resiore the balance of trade. The Protestant Episcopal . bishop of Arkansas recently recelved a draft of 120 drawn on London, .and given by Chiness Christians in Hankow for use in relleving the physical needs of Arkansas, and, cofs verting them to Christianity. Rumors ree garding Senator Jeff Davis have undoubte edly penetrated the far e Prof. Simon Newcomb, the noted astrons omer, who has been decorated by many forelgn governments for his selentifia achievements, celebrated his 74th birthday anniversary at his home in Washington last Saturday. Despite his advanced years Prof. Newcomb labors hard dally on as- tronomical subjects and, with the assist- ance of several expert astronomical com. puters, he is directing his attention par< ticularly to the compietalon of his work o the motlon of the moon. INSPIRING STATESMANSHIP, Missourian Projects a Splendid Name in the Limelight, New York Buh. We make honorable obelsance to the Hon. Matt Corhan of New Madrid, Mo, In the sudden making of splendid names, his is of the greatest and suddenest. His'is the bill introduced into that hall of sages, the Mis- souri general assembly, and classitied by the thoughtless as a “freak.”" It is not a “freak.” It embodies the ripest thought of no occasional thinker. It graves saltently the form and figure of this age. It is the work of a deep student of legisl.tion and proposed legislation. 1t is & satire, pro- found and penetrating. The Hon. Matt Conran would éstablish a board of control for poker players, the board to coneist of four members, appointed by the governdr, not more than one (o come from any political party, their fees o be a certain percentage of all jackpots opened. Whereas large Sums aré squan- dered every year by persons who think they know how to piay poker, therefore henceforth nobody In the state of Missourt shall be allowed to play poker unless he bhas. passed .an. examination.by. the. board and been dutly licensed and registered; and it shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to attempt to play poker without such examination, licenss and registration. . New Madrid, long reasoably famous as the site of the earthquake lake of 1811, wiil be forever glorions as the site of Matt Conran, SAID IN FUN. “Do you think Hangs will the work he has taken up “He hasn't the ghost of a chance.” “Why not?" “Because he hasn't more American, succeed in the spirit.”—Baltle ¢ {oll me New, Bngland is tull of maide.” said the Philadelpiia, girl “Now, pose yoy Boston girla don't often marry 7 ¢ “No, only once as a rule.” replled the Boston girl.—Philadelphia Record. Generous-Hearted Dame—You haven't cither of you sald & word In acknowledg- ment of the food | am giving you. Baymold Storey (with his mouth full) —Lady, me pardner here, Mr. Wareham Long, : somethin' 1o say we'n wi done eatl He allus makes the dinner speeches, mum.—Chicayo ems so sure that marriage is & She must have married a youn, oney who | she married fellow made her ‘happy ** n-old fellow with money who has made her a widow."— Houston Post at man BIffin lacks cpurage and en confound him!" 0 you that 7 R e he was courting my wite long before 1 met b f he had had a littie more cours b use of ta Plain I e and energy—but whal ng about it now ?'=Cle: er. The_office boy looked at the typewriter girl. She was quite pale. ‘What's the matter?” he asked e, I've just had a bad spell,” she answered. “You ou that,” sl Plain Dealer. “After all” sald the senator, “the .ten commandments constitute the greatest gnd most intelligent set of ‘laws gver Wi, ht to go to the horrid uight school | for boy.~Cleveland Y answered the P “that's hecause they were 10 the peo without bel the wenhte - Washington Hiar il e s When the sunahine falls to lure you With its rare and radiant shimmer When the clear lines of yer landscapes Just keep on a gettin' dimmer, When yer neighbor seems to rile you up And to rub criss-cross yer hide, You may bet ver bottom dollar That there's somethin' wrong leside. | When the robin's chirp annoys you, When the weather's not yer kind. Wien the east wind siarta the shivers, When the spring is far behind, When you fall to hear her bugles Or to heed them if you do, Then the somethin' wrong. 1 reeken— Bomethin' wrong inside of you. When yer neighbor Is & grafter, An' yer friend & mean old sniteh; When “yer troubies come so frequent That you can't tell which from whieh, When yer worries are toe plenty An' yer joys are far too few, Better look then, fer the reasen— Better lock inside of you Ye u'd better pull (he curfaing A’ ‘barricade the door, An' lei Truth turn her X-ray Upon the spot that's sore, Just step up to the mirror An' you'll sce a lookin' thro The source of all yer troubles— Fer the source of them is 3ou, Then try kind thoughts fer & tonie An' & good deed ov'ry day A’ a few good miles of trampin' Out some wild and w WAy, An' the bird-song an' the su That shall thrill you thro an' Wil but be & joyful echo Of the joy lnside of you. Omahe “elvoiL NB TRELE,