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

& ———— I‘HB OMAHA DALY BER - -| Anyone who reads the platforms FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER.|gromylgated by the several political VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR parties at their state conventlons at . — | Lincoln dispassionately will see that qEntered at Omaha postoffice as second-| g ropyplicans have put forth a clean- = e ——— |cut document, standing squarely on Duily D (Withovt. Bunda RIPTION. o |the republican record and appealing Daily Bee and Sunday, one year . %00 for continued support for republican _ DELIVERDD BY CARRIER. . |candidates, while the democrats and D:lnll‘\ e T Sumdas). per week 10 |thelr side partner populists have en vening Bee (wlthout Sunday) Bee (with Sunday) ¢ Bee, one year.. all complainis of irregulariti delivery to City Clrculation Department. OFFICES Omaha--The Bee Bullding. per week 8 per week 10 2. 1 m‘FD\IHOun nonpartisanship. | The Platforms. deavored to befog the issues by insin- 0 protestations of adherence to cere The republican declaration on the | ‘mrm is as specific and definite as any | Bouth Omaha/Twenty-fourth and N. | guch declaration could be, short of at- Souncil BIstInle Bonding. tempting to fix the exact rate of duties | Chicage—1ss Marquetie BUMINE, (., |which should be embodied in the w Fork— 1l No. 3 Thirty-third Street. Washington--725 Fourteenth Street, N. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, payable to The Bee Dnl¥ S-cent & ceounts. gr‘n‘nh‘l Or eastern exchanges, not accep STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebrasks, Douglas County. a8 George B. Trschuck, treasurer Bee Publishing Company, being daunly says that the aetual number o ecomplete coples of The Dally Evening and Sunday month of June, 1950, wae as follows 1. a3 17 . Net Total. Daily Average. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subseribed in my presence and sworn to >, WALKER, befors me this 1st day of July, 1xe e " "Notary Public. relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omah: express or postal order, Publishing Company ps received in payment of Personal checks, excepl 08| L cih16t he ghould use his veto, and — - |for such a veto will have the backing | of The Eworn, t full and Morning | nent benefits and substantial reforms | Bee printed during the | 41,960 | | 41,650 legislature and the partisan buncombe | 41850 that characterized the measures put on 40,000 the statute books by the late demo-| . 41,760 4 * 41sso| furthermore, Insist that belfef in re- . 41,720 | publican doctrines and profession of :::::1 republican faith are no disqualification | . 40,030 | . 41,790 contrary, that a republican nomination . 41,790 hag been accepted, and should be again | 41,670 | _wotal. 1,247,300 | and trustworthiness. schedules. Nebraska republicans un- jqualmvdl,\- endorse the stand taken by | | President Taft in the matter of tarift | revision and suggest that unless he | secures from congress a bill conform- ing to his idea of of the party in this state. The republicans invite comparison, | or rather contrast, between the pormr‘ | given the people by the last republican | cratic legislature. The republicans, on the | to holding fudicial office, but, | accepted, as a stamp of t‘nlnhfllém‘y‘ On the subject | of partisanship the democratic record |18 held up as convineing proof of the | | hypoericy of the present democratic pretense of nonpartisanship. The democratic and populist plat- forms are again the Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde for the democratic candidates to dodge behind. One platform prom- Subseribers leaving the city tem- porarily ave The Bee Adaress will be requested. should In the populist lexicon nonpartisan- ship still means playing tail to the democratic kite. | When Jim HI uree-‘ to boost Omaha’s coming Corn show it insures a good, big boost. | The tariff aviators found Mr. Taft too heavy a load to lift and they were forced to come down. | ing on as to what is net income. the man who has one. | A Chlen;;Tnln ‘was found dead with My, must be a half smoked cigar in his hand. but those Chicago cigars flerce. —_— 1t costs $1,600 to secure a divorce in England, but there are some advan- tages in that you do not have to live a year in Reno. The president of Colombia sent his resignation by cable from Germany. That was probably safer than deliver- ing it In person New Jersey is to put convicted auto speeders’ pictures in the roughes’ gal- Up to date that is the first effort lery. to classify them. e Indications are that the stituents all about it. The only kind of a platform which republicans could adopt with the ap- proval of the democratic organs would be & democratic platform. Governor Johnson thinks the tarift When it s fixed up satisfactorily it may put should be put out of politics. some politicians out of office. e It Colorado sends & woman to con- gress and Uncle Joe is still speaker, we can see where the committee on acoustics gets a new member. i dates because they are democrats. The increase from 2 to a 3 per cent dividend rate on steel stock due to business rovival answers the question why that stock has advanced so stead- 1ly of late. A Ohicago man wants a divorce be- cause his wife hit him with a ple. But i it was a really good ple he should t away with it without in- be able to convenience. The Omaha city council is making almost as much of a task over enacting those occupation tax ordinances as congress is making over the enactment of the tariff tax law. —_— Eastern ‘financial )o‘;r;;ll comment on the bright outlook of western bank- ers. The west has the crops and the banks have the money to pay for them and rybody is happy. —_— The latest Venezuelan developments indicate that Castro not only desires to be buried in Venezuela, his native land, but would gladly bury a few of his enemies there beiore his own turn comes. Another proof of the intense non- partisanship of the democratic World- Herald may be found in its refusal to print the republican platform resolu- tions In full. Imagine the squeal it would emit if The Bee failed to print the democratic resolutions in full. There ll—conlldonble discussion go- Ask battle- scarred veterans of the tarift war will be home before long to tell their con- Wanted—A chairman for the demo- cratic state committee to advise demo- crats not to vote for democratic candl- ises county option, which it promised last year, only to meet with repudia- tlon by the law-makers elected on it. Both platforms naturally defend the deposit guaranty law because they can- not shake it off, notwithstanding the fact that their own party leaders in the legislature denounced it as a be- trayal of their promise to the people. The crocodlle tears over the early demise of the fake nonpartisan judi- clary act should fool no one. If the democratic and populist masqueraders really opposed party nomination for judicial offices they would not put any candidates up under their party label, but would rather run them by petition. If the fact that their candidates have holsted the duplex party designation glves them no claim to votes as par- tisans there Is no reason for any cam- paign in their behalt by the demo- cratic and populist organizations. And yet, although the voters are abjured not to support democratic candldates because of their partisanship, they are asked to oppose republican candidates, even before we know who those candi- dates are, because of thelr partisan- ship. To submit such politieal thimble- rigging as a platform fis quite in line with the fraudulent practice by which democratic candidates take oath that they are also populists, and at the same time try to fool the people by false professions of nonpartisanship. —— e Equality at the Customs House. Collector Loeb of the Port of New | York has lssued an order which will commend itself to everybody, except perhaps a limited few who think them- selves entitled to special privileges, instructing customs officers to treat every person coming from abroad exactly the same. A custom of many years standing permitted baggage of returning tourists of high standing to pass through on the owner's statement | and perfunctory examfnation. Recent disclosures showed that the govern- ment had been kept out of large amounts of revenue by people who would be shocked had anyone inti- mated they were practising fraud. No honest man or woman need be offended at a critical examination of | baggage which the law prescribes and any deviation from the practice is contrary to the principle of equality before the law. There is no legal pre- sumption that the rich tourist who “makes’” Europe every year is honest and the one In moderate circumstances who had taken the trip of a lifetime is a smuggler. In fact, the records | prove the contrary if they prove -ny»’ thing. The result of the reforms in-| stituted after the smuggling disclos- ures have more then doubled the cus- toms revenues collected from the per- sonal baggage of returning travelers and there is no means of knowing how much more has been collected by com- pelling former professional smugglers | to send their goods through the usual | importing chennels, | s | Fair Treatment for Immigrants, | Numerous complaints, some of them apparently well founded, of hasty and THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1900, graphed for been placed money on arrival, she had aboard an outgoing ship and started for Europe before the uncle could come to her relief. The girl herself was an allen, though she had previously lived some years with her uncle The objects of the immigration law are manifestly good and are intended to prevent the United States from be- ing the dumping ground for the dis- eased and criminals and to keep out contract labor. The efficiency of the law is not impaired by giving the im- migrant a reasonable opportunity to meet the challenge of his right to enter. The trouble with the Inspec- tors appears to be that they have con- | sidered the measure of their efficiency to be the number of people deported and in their zeal have doubtless ex- cluded many worthy immigrants. The order {s not a hint for the methods, but for a just administration new «revision downward |of the inspectors’ duties in accordance |needed to maintain the high position within the limitations of the protective | with the long settled policy of the | United States Bleached Flour Prosecutions. An authority which is usually well informed and quotes Secre- tary of Agriculture Wilson as stating that he had instructed hts inspectors to seize all bleached flour offered for interstate shipment and to prosecute the shippers. If the secretary has taken the action indicated it will be a surprise and a disappointment to the millers in the winter wheat belt who for some time have been trying to get | the validity of the secretary’s ruling into court where it Ordinarily the proceeding outlined by the secretary would be the corpect one for intentional violaters of law, but the bleached flour controversy is on | a different plane. There is no disposi- tion to violate the law, but an honest difference of opinion as to what the | law is and no serious harm can come by permitting trade to continue in | statu quo until the courts can settle on the construction of the statute and the valldity of the ‘secretary's ruling. The interests involved are immense | and the persons affected are many. The millers deny that the bleaching of winter wheat flour, {8 an adulteration, taking nothing of value from the pro- duct and adding nothing harmful to it. It renders it more attractive in appearance and makes it bring a bet- ter price, enabling the winter wheat miller to compete with the spring wheat product. The contention of the | miliers is sustained by the British gov- ernment experts and by American chemists of high standing. As Nebraska produces about 40,- 000,000 bushels of winter wheat an- nually and Kansas a considerably larger amount, the secretary's action, if he is correctly quoted, would have far reaching effect. If Mr. Wilson simply desires to get a test case into court as speedily as possible, he will be in line with efforts the millers have been making ever since Mr. Wilson's original ruling against bleaching was announced. — Sparring for an Opening. Senator Gore's suggestion that dem- ocrats permit anti-Cannon republicans to be returned to congress unapposed fllustrates how Inherently weak the democrats themselves know their posi- tion to be. They are divided not only in the degree of protection, but on the basic principle of protection it- self. They have behind them a re- cord of discredited issues which they once proclaimed necessary to the sal- vation of the country, and ever pres- ent is a leadership which is distaste- ful to a large portion of the party. The only possible object to be obtained by the Gore plan would be to try to in- sert an element of discord in the re- publican party which might permit the democrats to slip in where the merits of their own case would not avall. The republicans, of course will not accurate | object to the democrats permitting a lot of good republicans to return to congress without opposition, but they will not be deluded regarding the ob- ject of the proposal. The suggestion of Senator Gore, however, brings out the pertinent ques- | tion what the Oklahoma senator would do with the so-called Cannon demo- crats in the house and the democratic senators who worked for the same end in a different manner. If these demo- crats were ellminated from the demo- cratic party it would cut a sorry fig- ure numerically in congress. Another feature of Senator Gore's | suggestion 18 not calculated to breed | harmony in his own party. Some | anti-Cannon republicans represent dis- | tricts containing aspiring democratic statesmen who will not be willingly sacrificed to the Oklahoman's plan. They are encouraging themselves In the belief that the republicans out of sympathy with the insurgents might prefer democrats to anti-Cannon re- publicans. Nothing but counting the votes will disabuse their minds and even if doomed to fail they want the chance to stand in the limelight for a | few months every two years. —_— could be tested. | | England, New Zealand would not acknow- | ing any more trouble in the far east. {ll-considered action by immigration The new battleship Michigan is said inspectors in deporting aliens has ' °¢ the fastest craft of its olams brought & rebuke from the Immigra. 8008t That makes twenty-eight bat- tion Dureay Whish is timely. The iwm. |t1eshibe in the navy, four bullding and S ixration' eatriétion. Iawe - ware . | (110, Ta0re authorized. Even If the acted to keep out undesirables, but United States is not hysterical, it is the Immigrant seeking admission, | *"*8!"LY dolgg its share 1n keeping up after having met the requirements at the point of departure, is entitled to the presumption of being eligible to enter and certainly should not turned back on flimsy charges or mere A notable illustration of hasty action was the deportation of the niece of a wealthy Louisville man returning from a trip abroad, because her money until she did not have the re- quired $25, and although she tele- suspicions. she had unfortunately spent the battleship competition The democratic state convention slapped the late Douglas county dele- be legislature If this keeps on Douglas county's democratic law-makers will be absolutely friendless political orphans. _ The Minneapolis pastor who fllus- trated his Sunday sermon by snapshots gation in the face for beating the ln-‘ itiative and referendum in the recent | of hoslery taken at street crossings certainly went the limit of sensational- ism, but the only wonder is that he did not get his head punched while procuring the photographs. The Creighton Medical college s |commencing the erection of a new | building adjoining its present site. The ‘l‘roighmn Medical s a strong institu- |tion and destined to future greatness, but we suggest that looking ahead would warrant considering now the in- |evitable change of loeation. The In- trusion of a freight depot and railroad |tracks in immediate proximity has made the present site unsuitable for educational purposes and the prospect |of a new building and equipment in }Omshn for the medical department of |the State university, with which Creighton will always be in friendly | rivalry, should make the Creighton | university authorities realize what is their medical college occupies. —e | = —— | Colorado Springs has just gone un- |der a home rule charter manufactured | by its own people, which is decidedly different from the home rule charter |thrust upon Omaha manufactured at | Lincoln by nonresident demo-pop law- | makers. ——— At the present carrying capacity it would only require 250,000 aeroplanes to land an army in Great Britain with- out any artillery or other equipment, which would indicate there was no im- |mediate danger of an invasion in force. m— Just to show the Frenchmen that/| they are still in the game, the Wright brothers took up a passenger and kept him in the air for over an hour. All that was needed was a little incentive to induce thi to do something. According to edict of our juvenile court officers, parents are to be prose- cuted for their children's violation of the curfew ordinance. Reversing the Biblical threat of punishing children for the sins of their parents. The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the west might get the harvest hands it wants if it would only send along return tickets. Why anyone employed in the west should want to return east is beyond comprehension. The governor of Alabama advises the legiglature of that state to place it in the dry belt. If this thing keeps up the south will soon be no place for a man with a thirst unless he belongs to a locker club. —_— The czar of Russia cannot even go visiting in peace, and he has no con- gress to keep him at home, either. Who wants to be a czar, anyhow, when the base ball and fishing seasons are on? —e Great Britain calls its new style of battleships ‘‘super-dggadnaughts.’” = If Germany should gain another lap it will require a new word in the naval dictionary. oo ps Senator Stone of Missouri may use the gum shoe in politics, but it is the mailed fist for the car porter who does not act up to suit him Danger in Overfeeding. Kansas City Sta The high tariff senators seem to ceeding on the theory that the way to kil the octopus is to feed it dies of Indigestion. be pro- easiest it until Always Room at the Bottom. Chicago Record-Herald. Notwithstanding the slurs that have been cast upon the Missouri river, that stream continues to contaln enough water to en- gulf trains which happen to fall into it Blindness of i1l Temper. Philadelphia Record. The reactionaries of the senate, who are applying the epithet of “jelly fish” to President Taft, are strangely oblivious to the tenacity, not to say downright ob- stinacy, with which he has clung for years to his policy in regard to the Philip- pines. They will be apt to find before they are much older that he Is not the man they took him for. Complimentary, but “Excuse Us.' Buffalo Courler. A prominent New Zealander is quoted as saying that if Germany should whip ledge a cession of its territory to Germany, but would ‘run up the American fl rather than submit to German rule. While grateful for the compliment, Uncle Sam would like to be excused from shoulder- PERSONAL NOTES. July 1 a man committed murder in Lon- don. July 28 he was tried, this procedure taking an hour, and condemned to death. Even the causual observer cannot but notice that things are done differently here, When King Edward travels in Europe he occuples his own cars. Except when in actual use the king's rallway carriages are stored in Brussels and sent to Cher- | bourg, Calais or Flushing, according to the royal destination All but one of the senators and all but eleven of the representatives in con- gress live (during the session) on Wash- ington streets, avenues, square cles’ having the aristocratic tacked to their names. | An eccentric spinster of White Plains, N. Y. after living for fifty years as a recluse, has just died leaving a million She did not leave It to anybody, but just simply left it. The amount of hap- piness she got from her million might be worth trying to figure out | until Washington Li Short Sketches of Incldents Rvents An extra sesslon of congress is a of unalloyed joy and an extra a for Washington Bonifaces. A ric |and corpulent corporation melon |uted In appetizing chunks Infuses |lese happiness among the stock gress during months, ordinary clreumstances the usually dull dlates from the faces of landlords nlally as morning sunshine. March there has been a lobby in ington filling most of the first class mated that $1,000,000 has been spent lobby. ued the senator, gress. the tariff bill. The immense sum of ctalonal' work. here by the protected Interests came convince members of congress that that should be done.” The tarift lobby really began mov! Washington last winter, when the ings. Before those hearings were w in their employ the tarift bill president. tablished headquarters in the hotels; preferred to g0 to office buildings. probably the most ever came on settled and ready bill got into the senate, for the pla to do the real effective work in that Gene many groups of lobbyists as schedules in the tariff bill ual manufacturers have sent men h to have a group of men, under the tlon of a “man in charge” look af entire schedule. Thus, looking after fcals, ofls and paints, oftice. Another group earthenware and glassware schedul manufactures thereof, another on through the bill. One of the high groups of men conducted the campaij a duty on hides. southwest. determined that the duty on lumber field since last March. by giving a banquet to which many invited. The tobacco people kept a on guard for more than four mont tated a call to arms. The call came Senator Beveridge introduced his a ment Increasing the tax on tobacc clgars. Possibly the ablest and best trained of all is the one representing the growers and Several months before congress extra session the wool and woolen met at Chicago ana decided there m thelr industry. When ocngress Next to the wool and woolen peop! manutacturers of cotton §oods have talned the most effective lobby. ton lobby are pretty much the same. Well, what does such a lobby do? one asks. It “labors” with the righ ple in the senate and house. making of this particular tariff bi The beneficiaries of the tariff are lar article shall be they will want one to come in and give “facts.” If the country had a tariff for lobbyists; but there is no official formation and so the natural thing call In the representatives of the eration. information from the finance com: or from any senator, When he is cal presents his case and his “facts” most ‘“‘disinterested” way. has no “axe to grind; ance it is possible for him to render. committee and the men who call on tors at their homes and show this ought to be or that ought not The printing bill of the lobbyist out and distributed among the sei and representatives. ment are the Washington newspape! respondents. Washington when It is mighty hot. These newspaper spondents have been constanty on night and day since December 1, and of them say they are worn to a f They have been compelled to be al in the tariff schedules affecting the in which their newspapers are pub | The work of a few United States senators and a few members of the house or pelled to remain in Washington the correspondents h work in the hot season city of the country. in An Oklahoma postmaster explained to the department & trifling delay in the mails as having been occasioned by the| carelessness of a citizen who had shot| another citizen in the postoffice and mussed the place up. As the postmaster not only withheld approval, but expressed actual annoyance, the delinquency was| overloo'sed The record for long hypothetical ques- | tions, the New York Sun explains, was | made many years ago in the celebrated | | Hoyt will case in the when Dr. | th famous army | e surgeon, was asked his machines to even more practic than 'Roosevelt did his steeds. Now that he is living the bachelor life and trying | to get through & tariff bill at the same | time, the president is combining busines with pleasure in & mos delightful way His favorite performance after dinner is| to hunt up one of the conferees by tele- phone—Sereno E Payne is & favorite vic- | tim—whirl around to the statesman's New York Surro- in his car and take him riding. The pr Frank Hamilton, | dent is too soclal to confine his conversa tion wholly to business topics, but Episodes that Mark the Progress of the National Oapital | than Washington feels in entertaining con- summer Tt makes life worth while under But with the ad- dition of the tariff hobby, happiness ra- Since early in A senator quoted by the Washington cor- respondent of the Boston Transcript esti- has gone for what might be called ‘edu- The men who were sent Instructions to do everything possible and means committee began holding hear- vanced most of the great manufacturing industries had opened offices here and had assigned the ablest and most adroit men to stay In Washington was signed by the Many of the manufacturers es- the bill passed the house the largest and expensive lobby that to Washington was well for business when the lly speaking there are about as there are Many individ- look after rates in which they were spe- clally interested, but the general plan was would probably be & half dozen men who occupled the same looked after the other watched the rates on metals and watched out for the sugar schedule and so This lobby was financed by the cattle growers assoclation of the The lumber dealers, who were not be taken off, have not abandoned the They started out bers of the house of representatives were fore there was a movement that necessi- the woolen manufacturers. be no change in th tariff rates affecting met extra session they were ready for business The Ark- | wright club of Massachusetts and the cot-| In “Jaboring’’ was done chiefly in the senate. enough to know that when the members of the finance committee of the senate sit down to decide what the rate on a particu- them a few | mission there would not be so much field to which the tariff makers can go for In- facturers whose products are under consid- Every lobbyist s, of course, pre- pared at all times to respond to a call for in Of course he| he is simply here to give the tariff makers any assist There are the men who appear before the them why | tle the country if it could be obtained. | Tons upon tons of briefs have been turned Probably the most worn out group of | citizens in the United States at the mo-| all hours of the day and night for changes sentatives on this tariff bill has been in- tensely arduous, but the vast majority have had a dull time, and yet have been com- But ve been knee deep in the hottest President Taft is as fond of automobiles as Roosevelt was of horses, and he pute fe souree ividend h, ripe distrib. hardly holders as ge Wash- hotels. by this “And it ought to be sald' contin- | “that the money such a | lobby spends does not go to corrupt con- There has not been a whisper of | scandal in connection with the making of money under to | this or ing on ways ell ad- others Before n was Tobby. ere to direc- ter an chem- e, an- group priced gn for should mem- wateh hs be- ‘when mend-: o and lobby wool net in | people should in le the main- | some- t peo- the Il the keen some- com- source | 18 tc manu- | mittee led h the ol some place perhaps not a gether too safe? | | work Deposit are in an absolut by $12,000,000 of assets. NATIONAL IRRIGATION PROJECTS Success of the P the Went. New York Tribune. By the completion of the Gunnison tun- nel, In western Colorado, reported in cent press dispatches, attentlon is directed anew to the magnificent work now heing done by the federal government in making avallable for cultivation extensive tracts of land at present absolutely worthless. Eight or ten of the smaller reclamation projects. now completed in the west, provide for the irrigatiort of about 220,000 acres. Five which are almost finished will add nearly 300,000 acres to the total, and seventeen others, still under way, embrace not far from 1,800,000 acres more, which require only a little water to develop the highest fertil- ity. One of these aims to redeem from 150,000 to 200,000 acres in the Uncompahgre valley, In Colorado, and it is to supply that region that a six-mile tunnel has been cut through the mountains from the Gun- nison river. Dams and canals must be constructed, however, before the tunnel can be utilized. The general plan of which this tunnel ie & unique feature, is practically without a parallel. Other governments have un- dertaken large irrigation enterprises, either to give employment to unoccupied work- men or to promote agricultural prosperity, or to attaln both ends together, but the money which they spent was a permanent investment. The United States Is following a different program. Arrangements have been made to recover every dollar devoted to reclamation work from those who will be benefited, and when it has been re- turned it will be used over and over again for eimilar service. A scheme which will increase the value of taxable property in more than a dozen states and present tempting possibilities to farmers and gar- deners who are looking for new homes, vet without costing the prime mover in the work a cent, Is certainly remarkable as well as beneficlent. It is noteworthy also because It was fairly initiated before Mr. Roosevelt advocated a more compre- hensive policy of conserving national re- sources. Developed in ro. A TRUST AND ITS VICTORY. Tobacco Combine Gets Aronnd a De- partment Order. Washington Herald. The tobacco trust does not seem to have “lost out.” after all, in the secretary of war's prohibition against the award of contract, by army subsistence officers | and the Isthmian Canal commission, for tobacco to the forty or fifty firms com- posing what ls properly known as the “‘tobacco trust.” It now appears that any one having no direct connection with the companies In that trust may purchase its| products and sell them to the government. This means that the government will pay & higher price for the product of the tobacco trust than it has been charged for those articles hitherto. The trust which was supposed to be the object of oficial rebuke and punishment, Is restored to its former privileges, with the govern- ment “paying the freight.” This nullification of the righteous Indig- nation of the Department of Justice, where the order of the secretary of war Is under- 8t00d to have originated, Is one of the pecullar results of dealing with trusts when they are guilty|of the restralnt of trade. It will be an easy matter for the managers of the tobacco companies in the trust to find wholesale or retail dealers who Wil handle the product without any loss to the trust in its relation to the government. The ndependents, who have cherished the notioh that they would now have an opportunity to bid for government rders without running. up against the sena- to be. | would | nators r cor- | is hot | corre- | duty | some raszle. | ert ls(‘ states | lished repre- | al home | Is Your Money well invested or is it lying in If not needed for some time why not put it to Earning Money Our 3 per cent Oertificates of safe form of ivestment, backed Ito ely —v— First National Bank of Omaha United States Depository. 13th and Farnam Sts. RETURN OF PROSPERITY, Finances of the Conntry Now in mal Condition. Nor- San Francisco Chronicle Oompared with the fever of speculati which existed in this country for two three years previous to October, 1907, o commerce and industry cannot be call ‘ active. Compared with conditions as it ‘ | were previous to 1900 they are very act | indeed. The business of the country is 1 in a normal condition, which means th money is abundant and forthcoming for vestment for whose products there is a existing demand, while there fs much «a toin in putting cash into enterprizes who | profits will depend on development yet be made. There fs not much dispc on the part of those who have mor expose it to any serlous risk There is no question of a very Ia ligitimate demand for increased tansp. tation facilities, and the railroads are «! Ing their conviction that there is no 1ea to expect lower prices by giving \ | large orders for all kinds of equinie Taking the crops of the country as u wh 1t now looks as If the tonnage from thut | source to be moved this season will be the winter wheat will be nearly made gou the excellent spring wheat crop and (he other cereals may be crop record breaker« { | While 1t s vet too early to judge of the | » Indian corn crop, the plant looks well and 1 the acreage Is over 7,000,000 in excess of that of last year. The cotton crop I likely to bring in as much money as any cotton crop ever harvested With this assuranc: of at least a normal distribution of monc among the people, fact s Are resuming business in all industiries, but on a con servative normal basis. | MIRTHFUL REMARKS. | ¢ Daughter—Father, dear father. won't you torgive John and me for cloping’ | Father, Dear Father—ves, it you-ci— | elope again right away.—Judge | ) Meenister—And why didn’t yé come fo the kirk last Sawbath? dy—I had nowt but a shillin’ in n claes That's ower muckle siller to pit n th' contribution box all at ain tune Cleveland Leader. Adam mused “Our case was peculiar,”’ he sa ] doubled up before we ate the apple York Sun. / Six hippopotami put their heads toge: and framed up a concerted plan of attack But when they tricd to rush Mr. R. velt he broke up their formation with (1 well directed shots “That's the way | smash the trusts.” | smilingly said, “and the Hippo (rust exception.”'~Cleveland Plain Dealer “Please, sir, me grandmudder ““Tell a new one, Johnny “Promised to take me to de games (oda ¢ it_you'll lemme off He got off—Kansas City “Mrs. Youngbride, who thinks <he ki all about it, makes me fairly boil she starts to preserve us” sigied Pear. ‘‘Yes,” chorused the (‘herric il she jar you!'—Baltimore Ameri an “Hard work.” said the ready-made pl sopher, “brings the greatcst happine life “'Yes, answered Farmer Corntos ‘‘specially when you kin affor somebody to do it fur you Was Star. OLD ACQUAINTANCE Washington Bill Stigkine surely Of consequence 'rc There's scarcely any Be mentioned but Bill pipin' up with In accents loud &n “The party you I knowed him vears ago me who you'll hea brightenin’ ¢ slow jes’ m competition of the tobacco trust, will view this latest development with no great sat-| isfaction. The secretary of war has found it Impossible to refuse to purchase the trust's product when it comes from con-| tractors not of the trust, and he has so informed the army subsistence officers | and the Isthmian Canal commission ——— Conguering the Alr, Bt. Louls Republic. | When a twenty-foot mouoplane crosses | the English channel in half the time of a quick steamship the birds may take notice that man has set out upon a conquest of the air as complete as that In which he has won over the domain of the fishes. | He says that tennis he has played A lot_with Theodore And Bill has heen a heap dismaved To see his golfin’' score And, speakin’ of the (ariff war When everybody else Calls Mr. Aldrich *‘Sen He always calls him Jes' fur a test we handed out Some names from ancient lars He never showed a sign of doub He knowed ‘em all of With Socrates he'd made hom In Athens, O-hi-o. And helped J. Caesar bu'ld up Rome In Georgla, years ago. It didn’t modify his glee When gravely we inouteed If Ananias mightn't be A friend whom he admiicd All placidly his wav he They keep us wonderin The folks that old Fill Who never heard of Bil MOOTH, aromatic, appetizing, invigor- ating. That de- scribes OLD GOLDEN CoFreeperfectly. There's not a trace of the “bitter” 80 often noticed in other coffees. Every pound is uniform in quality — de- licious, mellow and full- bodied. OLp GoLDEN never disappoints. Set- tles quickly—pours clean. Ask your grocer for a pound in the strength- aroma- retaining package. Tested by Taste many | | question of 3184 words by General B. F. a doubtful tariff rate gets overhauled in | Butler, of Massachusetts, whose oppos-|the course of the run and both men seek | ing counsel was Senator Elihu Root, of|their couches cooler and wiser. President | New York | Taft bas fows automobiles, 25 Cents a Pound. TONE BROS., Des Moin. OLD GOLDEN COFFEE Millers of the famous Tone Bros. Spices. 1 Briggine on