Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 10, 1909, Page 6

FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice slass matter - , s . THERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 68 (without Sunday), one year..34 e and Sunday, BLIV Dally H 1.50 Address all ‘compiaints of \rregularities in delivery to City Clrculation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bos Bullding. South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N Council Bluffs—15 Beott Street. Chienge u‘u"fl“' vette Bullding 0 arquette Bu h Now ork—Rooms 1101-1100 No. 4 West Thirty-third Street w. Washington—73 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. 3 Commufications relating to news and edi- torial_matter showldibe addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order yable 1o The Bee Publishing_Company, B‘ny cent stamps received in payment of Persona), checks. except on mail &c S e not accepted Omaha ot eastern exchan STATEMENT OfF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Qeorge B. Taschiick. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly eworn, says that the actual fumber of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1803, was as follows: Returned Copi NepoTotati. o .o Dally AVerage......i. b, GBO. B, TZECHUCK. Treasurer. Bubsdi| bwu-ne. and. sworn to before mber, 1008, '(l"au)mm“v B WALicaR, P Notary Publle. mailed to them. ehanged nx often as req Address will be onted. [ After{in€ plosh hat, man fs capable of anything.! > And now the thud of the fatal basket ball is heard in the land. SPpEshae— The gopper merkér has thé appear- ged. ance of being subm The question promptly arises, What is the knead for a bakers' combine? it the aeroplage;dannot be made stable otherwise, why not gyro#cope it? —_——— And in the meantinie, so far as any | Americgn helress lfll??nggrnea, no Ilnrd need apply. 17 | R T Keep in mind the zero spells for the fce man when he talks about no crop next summer. K New Yommhe six-day bicyele race, but Butte cannot stand for the' Marathon walta, et the - T et Gaynor may be making up his own slate, but it looks as though Murphy were Bupplying the peneil. —e Leave it to a referendum vote of the ultimate consumer and there will be no genéral rallroad strike. 16 e e o The pooling of the wool crop in Ken- tucky may be only another excuse for the actiyjties of the Night Riders. e The fron box concealing the Cook trophies at Copenh: forms a wel- come rellef for.the oldibrass tube. — The ship of state launched by the last democratic legisiature in Okla- homa sgems to-haverun on a hefty Snag. with" ‘h‘ll! alfitly recurring law suits, Boni. must be. almost as much of a nuisance 6 a a8 before the di- vorce. While the women are decorating the waterways, let them not overlook the opportuhity for beautifying the canal boat l?ujld. - . Does the county attorney prosecute for and in the name of the people, or for and in the name of the Dahlman Democracy ? Zélaya seems to be as.competent a suppressor of truth among his follow- ers a8 was Castro. The end is likely to be ntical. it N TrTETy—— Govéfnor Hughes has appointed ‘& mountain climber to the supreme court bench, but no Pojar claimant has yet landed the ermine. If Zelaya thinks Mr. Knox doesa't mean it, let him read back In the files about that Atlantie City scrap in which Our 'Vast Resouroes. The National Monetary commission may be considered to have rendered a marked service to the country in com- piling so completely the united bank resources of the country, for Its method of taking account of stock is more striking In Its results than any tabulations hitherto shown in the cen- sus reports. . For the firet time the American ofti- zen 18 able to grasp the immensity of the resources of thé various banking institutions of the nation, exceeding twenty-one billions of dollars, and cov- ering actual deposits of fourteen bll- lions at a given date. The individual #hare in this vast investment is $213 per capita in the entire United States and fts ' Island possessions, and it should be a matter of state pride that Nebraska's per capita exceeds this av- erage, The significance of the commission’s report must come home to the thought- ful citizen as demonstrating the urgent need for devising some permanent method of administering and safe- guarding this tremendous capital. It is the greatest object lesson yet of- fered in the campaign of education that the commission devised to lead to currency reform. Such a fiscal glant should not be left at the mercy of such flings of mfsfortune as in the past have erippled iIt, and it must be evident to all that the best method for bulwark- ing the banking Interests ought to be discovered with as much speed as is consistent with safety. Canada ‘'and Annexation. While the liberals are haying their own troubles in England, those in Can- ada seem to be having everything their own way, for they have just demon- strated strength enough to indicate a complete change of plan in the matter of naval enterprise. It is now evident that the Laurier government has suffi- clent votes to put through ita proposals for the construction of a fleet of cruls- ers and torpedo-boats and for the sub- sidizing of shipyards and drydocks. But these, it appears, are to be used exclusively for the dominion’s interests, and will not be a contribution to Great Britain as originally proposed. Sir Charles Tupper, former premier, may be held partly responsible for the triumph off the Laurfer policy, for at the last moment he came forth with a recommendation that Canada's war- ships should be its own, and not a part of the imperial navy, coupled with the warning that it was time for the Dominfon to recognize the danger lurk- ing across the borders, that of annexa- tion, his conservative spirit seeming to have been stirred over the fear that the United States contemplate forcible seizure of the country to the north._ This is the second time within a few weeks that.a distinguished Can- adian has set up this ery of .“Wolf!" and oné cannot but marvel at the fright that the bugaboo geems to inspire at Ottawa. Sir Charles Tupper may be right in his claim that the fixed policy of all parties in the United States is for annexation, but on this side of the border that at present is not what one might term a dominant issue, and if there is any-general desire on the part of the American people to present the Dominfon territory to Uncle Sam, it will be as some future Christmas gift, not this season. We might want to marry Miss Canada, when she grows up, but we have no intention of doing any kidnaping, Sir Charles! The Public’'s Share of Guilt: While pointing a finger of scorn at the sugar ring, let us pause for a mo- ment and see what the cold-blooded government thinks of some of the other offenders. The voice is that of the secretary of the treasury, and he minces no words in summarizing his views of the general evils underlying the customs house disclosures. The influence of local polities comes in for its share of denunciation, as pro-| moting that ‘‘laxity and low tone which prepare and furnish inviting soil for dishonesty and fraud.” The secretary s undoubtedly right in his conclusion that ‘‘unless the service can be released from the payment of political debts and exactions, and from meeting the sup- posed exigencies of political organiza- tions, big and little, it will be impossi- ble to have an honest service for any length of time."” But offensive partisanship in the customs is not so clearly shown by the secretary as is the general public's share of guilt In the demoralization of the service. Mr. McVeagh makes it clear that the widespread disposition of returning American travelers to evade the payment of customs duties has greatly helped to create the condi- tions which have become intolerable. “Those Americans who travel abroa he says, ‘‘belong to the sections of peo- ple which most readily create public sentiment and are most responsible for on lesser scale as well as on greater, s a fraud against the government and against the citzen who pays his honest dues. Will it Be a Whitewash? ThaBoard of County Commissioners has had before it for several days the results of an investigation of a scandal at the county hospital. The stories told the board were most eircumstan- tial, and contain direct charges of not only scandalous, but criminal, conduct on the part of some of the county em- ployes. After hearing all the testi- mony the board took the matter under advisement. Just what there was to give delib- erate consideration may be summed up In ome of two propositions. Either the witnesses lled or they told the truth. As the employe most seri- ously accused is reported to have gon- fessed in detail the crime charged against him, it would seem that in his case, at least, there was very little to deliberate over. The county attorney declines to go out of his way to take cognizance of the conditions developed by the inves- tigation. 1Is the matter to be hushed up, or will the authorities go to the bottom of It, even if it should result in the removal of a democratic pap-sucker from his position at the public trough? Wireless Development. ‘While there is criticlsm that we lag behind other nations in the matter of military aeronautics, it is evident that we are up with the procession in that more useful service, wireless teleg- raphy. It must be & matter of satisfac- tien to the citizen who favors cultiva- tion of the latest sclentific equipment for the defensive service of the nation, that the navy is about to embark on one of the greatest of tests to demon- strate the possibilities of wireless de- velopment. What the navy is striving for is an absolutely reliable system that will transmit messages for at least 1,000 miles under any and all conditions, and for 3,000 miles under favorable conditions. Two vessels, the scout cruisers, Birmingham and Salem, are already equipped with apparatus de- signed to accomplish these results, and if they demonstrate the trust- worthiness of the plan, then all the ships of the navy are likely to be equipped with similar devices. The two fleet vessels are to make what will be practically a tour of the world, exchanging messages constantly at a distance of at least 1,000 miles from each other, in all waters, in all climates and weathers, They are also expected to maintain communication with shore points 3,000 miles distant. The program is such an ambitious one that the results will,not be known till late next year, by which time the Navy department hopes to be able to demon- strate to the world ‘that it has uttered the last word in wireless efficiency as applied to men-of-war. No proof was required to support the proposition that Nebraska badly needs a new state capitol building, but this will not lessen the regret that valuable books in the state law library have been {rreparably damaged by reason of | the ingecurity of the room in which they are stored. To provide proper housing for state offigers and records is a most imperative duty and cannot be much longer evaded. Parisians are likely to frown se- verely on the violation of the code in| Bolivia, where one dueling senator | killed the other. On the same date two famous Frenchmen aimed their pistols at each other, exchanged kisses and honor was satisfied. Oh, no, a Parisian could not live in Bolivia. What a pleasanti picture of co-opera- tive housekeeping is afforded by the governor of Kansas throwing his kitchen open to his neighbors during the cold spell! Natural gas may cease to flow, but Sunflower Stubb’s milk of human kindness goos on forever. —_— Even during the stress and discom- | fort of the weather mag's unaccounta- | ble behavior, Omaha citizens can find some grains of consolation in reading reports from Kansas City and other neighboring communities. Its not as bad as that in Omaha The New York Board of Education has barred foot ball from the public schools of that city, notwithstanding the plea of the game's supporters lhuli the rules are to be reformed. The| board evidently wants to see the refor- mation first. - Of course, James J. Hill knows that | Nebraska is not always covered with snow, and besides, ke has encountered cold weather before. But the warmth of the welcome he recelves in Omaha | : OMAHA, FRIDAY, THE MESSAGE IN THE WEST. Law's Delay Des Mbifies Register and Leader. The strougest part of the message Is that in which hie deals with the needlexs delays appeals and costs of legal procedure In the United States. It is here that he knows his ground and he talks with absolute assur ance. And it is here that he can do a real servigd to the country, for If justice was ever slow and costly, where it snould be cheap and speedy, it fe with us. Clear, Compact Complete. Sloux City Journal. As a report on ‘“the state of the union” President Taft's first message to congress is clear, compact and complete, As un outline of the administration program it is fvcomplets, several of she most Important items, Including the ‘“paramount issue,” having been left for future presentation in special messages. A Conmtrast. Kansas City Times. Nothing better mark the contrast® be- tween the present administration and that immediately preceding than a comparis of today's message with the representative Roosevelt eommunications to congress. The difference in temper as well as in substance 18 strikingly apparent. But is & difference for which the country was fully prepared. Remarkable for Omissions. Chicago Tribune. The president’s message I8 remarkable for its omissions rather than for its con tents. It Is 80 neutral in tone and wo large a part of it Is given to the recital ot unimportant, noncontroversial or quasi controversial diplomatic questions that it reads rather like an Wnglish speech from the throne than the message to which our ears are acéustomed: Sound, Virile Doounment. Chieago Record-Herald. In characterising the message as a whole we should say that it was a sound, virile document. olearly set forth in & frank and straight- forward manner, and for the most parl they will be indorssd by the great body ot the people. But he who is searching for highly sensational passages will have his labor for his pains. Reminder of Platform Pledges. St. Louls Republic. A portion of the message that will at- tract wide attention is”that In which the president reminds the republican congress of the Chicago platform’s pledge for a law forblading, except In emergencles; the fssue by the federal courts of injunctions, tem porary or permanent, without notice to the parties against whom the Injunction Is sought. Litigants, especially the leaders of labor organizations, will await with solicitude the action of congress on {his recommendation. CUTTING DOWN EX SES, BExtravagant, Estimates Pared Down to Actual Needs. Baltimore Sun. That the estimates of the cost of con- ducting the business of the govefnment are more than §100,000,00 less than the ap- propriations made for the.same purposes t year ls an evidence that President Taft intends to keep his promise of econ- omy. It has beeithe established custom heretofore for ediéh department of govern- ment to ask corigdess for more| money than was really needed. The expectation was that the amount asked would not be appropriated, and,. therefore, each depart- ment gave itself some room to be cut down A more unbusinesslike ‘method = could soarcely.be devised. A surer way to pro- fnote extravagance it would be difficult to find. ~ Congreds could place no rellance upon the 'estimates, which were always misleading. Under President Taft's dirction the dif- ferent departments hdve furnished don- gress with a statément of their actual needs, and the amounts, instead of belng padded are cut down, it 1s sald, to the lowest flgures consistent with efficient administration. This 18 a sensible and proper method. It shows that the president is in earnest in his desire to safeguard louder than words. This practical method of saving money will be more éffective than pages of admonition in annual mes- sages. It will now be for congress to do it part of this good work and keep within the estimates Undoing s Combination. New York Journal of Commerce. The Rock Island combination is an ag- gravated example of the holding company, which the state of New Jersey has inflicted upon the countfy for the propagation of trusts and combinations In restraint of trade. The more such as these can be un- done and defeated in the purpose for which they were created the sooner can we get to the solid ground of genuine Investment and honest corporate management. How the Trouble Started. Cleveland Leader. Congresman Fowler of New Jersey de- clares that “unless the republican party gets rld of Addrichism and Cannonism, the people will get rld of the republican party.”” It Is ofily a few monthd since Cdn- non dropped Fowler from a much-prized committee chairmanship, a eircumstance which may havé whetted the edge of the Jerseyman's erjticism and clouded prophetic vision. Goed Word In Season. Detgoit Free Pross. We can speak a §00d word for the pay- As-you-enter car in the first place, don't have & conductor your teet And growding you off your bal- ange %0 that he cen grab a transfer from the' man Who ot on by the way of the front door, and your thoughts aren't Inter- rupted now and then by a haughty woman Insisting that “you got my fare half an hour ago.! Another Fight Ahead, Springfield Republican. The. first sentence in Mr. moner this week is: “The people have an- DECEMBER 10, The views expressed In It are | his | you | walking all over | Bryan's Com- | Poor Old Jackass | Some Breesy Memarks on the | Demooratio Animal the Water Wagon, and the Regular Driver | Charleston News and Courler (dem.). The poor 0ld demoeratic jackass has had & hard time of it for the last. thirteen years. Instead of ploughing the furfows straight the driver has been going in and out, cutting fancy curves, going deep some- times and ploughing the air on ocoasion 80 that the poor beast has been so ocon- fused that he has lost all idea of propor- tion. The political erop which has followed this novel farming has been the saddest that the eye of man ever gazed on. Re- | markably arable lands have besn as barren as the rock farms of New Engiand, and the plants that In the begining bloomed hopefully, have withered before they had time to put out fruit. Diversity of erops hae done no good. The general ruin has been all embracing. However, the jackass hus been told to take new courage, that the farmer has a | new idea, as the opportunist always has. | Mr. Bryan has discovered a new para- mount issue, and it Iy prohibition. He has studfed the statistical tables, he has wept | over the tales of wrong and misery which fhe tectotulers have presented to his view® he has seen the wave of fanar lelsm sweeping from one end of the coun- try to the other, 1In the repeated vic- torfes of the “drys” he espled the silver lining of the cloud and he has béen quiok to take advantage of ft. He has vielons of an lmmense water wagon, himself on the front seat, moving with Irrosistible force to Washington. He has dreams of Carrle Nation, as the representative of | Kansas, delivering phillipios in the capi- tol of the natlen. He s himself bela- | boring the patient jackass, whe fs draw- | ing the water wagon, and bothinks him- selt to summon Minnemascot back from the Goldfield brewery to assist ln (he glorious work. It is well that the poerless one has es- caped appointment to the supreme court, else how oould he again save the country? it g unfortunate that the “Incarnation of Disaster” has espoused a cause which has heretofore given evidence of popular sup- port. On the heels of the announcement from Lincoln of the new paramount issue, the voters of Alabama gathered them- selvea together and administered such a blow to it as never befors have they ad: ministered to anything. Is it possible that Mr. Bryan is & hoodoo when we all thought him a Billikin? Is he the antithesis of the swastika? Have his repeated sacrifices to. strange gods availed nothing? Has he withered the power of the Penates of the domogratic household? Is the Jjadkass, which was so cleverly guided in the brave old days, now tantalized info uselessness by repeatcd injections of bitter and un- palatable medicine? The platitudinal Nebraskan writes Jnow. ingly, calling to the attention of the publis many things which they have had the honor to know for years. ‘The saloon ‘i3 next- to-kin to the brothel’ and the gambling hall; it is the rendexvous for the criminal element and the willing tool of the cor- rupt politiclans.” So i the great “‘Mystery of 108" explained. Without this ‘“‘corrupt tool” the democracy would have marched in trlumphant splendor from bleak Ne- braska to hospitable Washington and “The Boy Orator of the Platte” would have shared his domicile with the monosyllable | trom Indidna. The saloon robbed the | nation of a president and made a protective tariff possible. “A drunkard robs his wite {and children, and he may finally make his | tamily and himself a charge upon soolety; has soclety no right to protect itself?” It has. It has a right to protect itself from |the drunkara, from tuberculosts, from |1diots and from demagogues. It has a right to protect itself against incompetency in [hign places. It has a right to demana | success and to refuse to condone repeated | failures. It has a right to insist that.its leaders should be men who think, who study, who can tell a necessity from a | noise and not confuse their personal am- | bition with the needs of soclety in gen- |eral. Yes, soclety has many rights even if democracy seems to have none. Of course, some time in the dfstant fu- ture, the utoplas of the dreamers have become the realities of economics, when the brotherhood of man has been achieved, when human nature has been changed and the new evolution has per- tected man and soclety, theri the historjans | in 1ooking back over the dark days of the | pyesent can write in glowing terms of the | greatest dreamer of them all, the man ' who saw things as they were to be In the | time of his children's great grandchildren, | the leader who sacrificed the probabilities | of the present to the possibilities of the future, who had vislons of a millentum brought about by his magle wand, who changed in a few short years millions ot practical men into dreamers like himself, Whose aspirations reached to the farthest limit of the skies to meet his negativo achievements; the man who knew no equal Jas a political prestidigitateur, and rose | stronger and more beatific from every | tumble. It is the future, not the present, | which belongs to the peerless one. FHib is the immortality of hope and the in- | consequence of reality. The man who can- not pluck a rose without being pricked by the thorns is harnessing the jackass again. The overworked animal Is abdut to be | hitched to the water wagon and be driven he knows not where. PERSONAL: NOTES. | While it is true that James J. HIN is & remarkable prophet in that he gives dates | he makes them far enough ahead to avold a come-back. It may or may not be true/ that a Call | tornia beliboy received a Wig ng:cy as a |reward for geod segvice, but let us eireu- late this item, In the hotels, anyway Americans are sald to be coining money when T Sammy Livatsky was a good little Jew, and slowly and painfully learned the Hebrew alphabet, but the temptation of the Christ- mas of the Krishts was too much for little Sammy. This pathetic story,*“The Tool Chest,” by Bruno Lessing,is aChristmas story from an unusual point of view,and is 'one of the best things its author has done. HOLIDAY COSMOPOLITAN 15 Cents a Copy—All News-stands e———‘-———————g&———‘——-fi BRYAN AND EDIN Speculating on the Chances for = University Degree. Springtield (Mass.) Republican. The fact that Mr. Bryan has an engage- mént to deliver wn address in Kdinburgh, Scotland, next 8prifig arouses gossip. Natu- rally. ‘Buch an engagement seems ott of his line. As the foremost down-and-outer in America, he can scarcely get engage- ments in his own country, so why should Edinburgh take him up? Astonishment |aeepens over the strange development when the detail is added that the address is to be in some way under the auspices of the Unlversity of Edinburgh. This seerds un~ thinkable, for the University of Edinburgh 1s one of the leading Institutions in the British Isles. ing question arlses whether the university is to confer upon Mr. Bryan an honorary degree. Ordinarily, the degree is ot ated with such appearances by forelgners of reputation. Will Mr. ‘Bryan get an LL. D. or a D. C. L.? There is more than one board of university trustees In Amer- fca that would be harrowed to hear that the University of Edinburgh had thus taken Mr. Bryan to its academic.bosom, for not a single institution in this country has thus far “doctored” the Nebraskan. For him to receive his first honors of this sort from an eminent British university might make several of our leading university and col- lege presidents.wince a bit. For Mr, Bryan, from their point of ‘view, {s unthinkable. If the degree is glven, possibly we may account for it on the ground that Mr. Bryan 1s a devoted and stendfast Presbyterlan, and In Scotland the Presbyterians are s power. RGH. ——— CHEERY CHAFF, “1 know onme thing which will make a woman change color quicker than any- tLing else." “&h P blue because, she finds out she's gray."—Baltimore Américan. ‘Any~good kind will do, Lapsling, “I've heard my nep) speak of the arma viiumgue can T'll look at one of those, | Chicago Tribune. “Father,” sald the small boy with the thoughtful. intellectual fact, “how do you differentiate between an ambassador and a minister " “Differentiate! gasped the father, strugk opener. you please.!"— Equipped With Full And, thereupon, the disturb- | all of & heap, but recovering hioiself, “we ¢by the ambassador about $5600 me saiary, my son, than we do the ministe; ~—Chi Tribune. 1 mee there is a correspondence school etry. 1p;unpu. it charges by the fumber of “Or_else by the reading of the meter." Cleveland Lende ST e e B. @inner—~The caddie laughed s0 when 1 foosled that I felt like braining him. Friend—Why didn't you? BG—1 aldn't know the proper club to use.~Boston Transcript. Poor Richard was writlng “early to bed and_early to, rise.’” 4 “Why didn't you include early to shop?” we asked. Sadly _he_ confessed himaelf behind the times.—~New York Sun. brother 15 Th a very shady busi- ess. ““What's that?* “Awnings."—Princeton Tiger. RERETTIN', J. M. Lewls in Houston Post. The days are sittin' shorter, And although I thought that Would be glad the long and glary. Days of summer had gone by, tch mymelf a-wishin' he summer days once more, For the bare feet of the bables Of & mornin' on the floor. Used to be when days was longer, When the daylight came at four, I would hear a sudden patter And the oreakin’ of a door, 1 would hear a little giggle. And a footfall on the stair, And T'd fix myself all ready For a most outlandish scare. But I'd keep right oh a' eatin’ Like T didn't hear at all. Didr't hear the little giggl Didn't hear the witehin' fall the bare feet of the baby Comin' down to #'prise her pop, Just &' eatin’ and a-estin’ Like I never meant to stop. Then there'd be a rush and soraml An kiggling, shrieking: “Boo % ddy so excited e scarce knew what to babe in a white nll’hul.“ h & tousled yellow head, Bitting snuggled to hor daddy Munching on a plece of bread Now the days are #0 much shorter That T finish up, and take Up my hat and dinner bucket Fore the bables are awak Apd T seldom get to see them Tifl {he nfght fime. and that" Fm regettin’ that the [t mmer ti why long days are b A Complete, Brand New | Player Piano ' ' f wdy was routed. | s Plttaburg rowdy it; and the fact that In so many ing o i AR, < S In British cities by a revival of the rollct | Congo natives who have suffered from the Belglans' tyranny may now draw lessons from the spectacle of Leo- stances these travelers are willing to defraud the government out of consid- erable or even small sums, creates an pold_eonfronting the king of tyrants. The South Omaha Commercial club has for its slogan, “Kill the knocker.” It thiey will only succeed.in doing that, wh service. they will render the o The young Woman missing from Kadeae City has been located not very far from the Nebraska state capital. Shé was looking for qulet, and knew wrumx » \ Phe readily buy it up, % ¥ ) lly wished to make it 80 hel,paping development of orgati I 0ot | pimgelr does mot atmosphere on the docks that strongly tends to affect the morale of the entire customs service. And when to this is added the frequent willingness upon the part of these responsible citizens specifically to corrupt the govern- ment's men, then the demoralization is further accentuated.” In other words, the secretary of the treasury convicts the American people at large of beipg & nation of smugglers. The virus of this trait has been In man's bload from the day of the first excise law. How tolesant of its exist- courts have decided that the|.,.o he race has been, the American will more than offset the frigid elimatic | conditions. The gentle spirit of levity has broken loose again among our co-eds in the east, where a girl who rooted for | the wrong team was painted red and thoroughly iced, thereby demonstrating the admirable gqualities of her hazers. The fact that yellow 1s to be substi- tuted for white in the signal service of some of the railroads does not alter the standing of the yellow journal; In the newspaper world white will con- tinue to be the signal for safety. Omaha is closing the year at an in- potil: e is canfronted by the. .of such an b #nd th he realizes that any form of bmuggling,’ dustrial and commercial pace far abead of its fastest. former. gait. The In- creasés In every llne of aetlvity prove hat the growth of the city has just fight They many ahead, but the one the Commoner has in mind is the central bank For the present, there are no signs that the cen- tral bank question threatens our liberties, and Mr. Aldrieh must be disappointed In the small conflagration it has caused. issue Australia Kuows. New York World. While many people are grumbling about the number of immigrants we are getting, Australia has sent an agent to New York to see If it canuot lure some of them away from us. And Australia knows! Whiskers. St. Paul Ploneer Press. An Omaeha judge has decided that a barber f§ not a professional man. Doubt- less that judge wears full whiskers and h his wife gut his hair, otherwise he would ngt, dare falk that way. L.hl. of Prepareduess. Washington Post. Mr. Taft may have to rub the dust off the Dig Atick before he gets the hational Incorporation act through congres skating craze. They not only run the rinks | but they equip jthem almost entirely with American skatds. Mrs. Humphrey Ward boldly takes her | place among those who do not care to; | vote, and do not regard the blacking of a policeman’s eye as & logical and adequate | bld for the franchise anyhow. T. P. OConnor, at & dinher in New York, | 8aid in response to a toast of Ireland: *1 |am in agreement with the young man in Albert hall. An anti-budget duke was pro clalming from the platform: ‘What is It that has made England what it is—what has made England what it is—what has made England mighty, revered and loved ™ ‘Ofreland!’ the young man shouted from the galery.” In his “Recollections of Grover Cleve: land" Mr. George F. Parker gives & part of the credit for the high phrase, “Pul office & publie trust,” to Secretary Lamon! Mr. Cleveland's idea had been that public officlals were trustees of the people, and the skilled brain of Mr. Lamont eondensed mmwmnuu.nrauumn pamphiet. 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