Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1910, Page 2

THE ()MAI Those “*Arnold” Goods The “Arnold” Knit Lap and Carriage Pad - These are made of absorbent materials, amply thick, floeea lined and neatly edged with silk binding. The lap pad is to be spread on the lap when holding baby. The carriage pad is to use when taking the baby out for a ride. Lap pad 18x18 inches, 50 cents. Carriage pad 20x36 inches, 90 cents. Ask for an ‘‘ Arnold”’ catalogne, Infants’ Department. BERSON-FORNE: 1518-1520 Farnam Street @ creases, 20 incredses and 1,160 items the dutlable list unchanged, but this did not represent the fair proportion In most of the reductions and the increases, be- catso the duties were decreased on thoss which ‘had a consumption value 5,000,000000, while they were in- creaded on those articles which had a con- sumption value of less than §1,- thé inicteases the con- of those affected which & to wit, sllks, - wines, liquors, perfumes, pomades and llke ar- ticles amounted to nearly $600,000,000, while thé increase not on articles of luxury af- fected but about $300.000,000, as against de- éreases on about $5,000,000,000 of consump- tlon, Advance on Luxuries, “1' repeat, therefore, that this was a dowhward revision. It was not downward WIth refercneo to sllks or liquors or high Priced cottons tn the nature of luxuries, It was Mown ward in'respect to nrarly all other articles except Woolens, Which were not affected at all. Certamly it was not profised that the rates on luxuries should be reduced. The revenues were falling off; there was a deficlt promised, and 1t was essentlal that the revenues should be In- creased. ‘It was no violation of the promise to ificreass the revenues by Increasing the tax on luxurlu provided there was down- ‘ward revision on' all other articles. ““The one substantial defect in compilance with the promise of the platform was the fallure to reduce woolens. Does that de- fect so color the actlon of ‘the republican PATLY a8 10 make It & breach of faith lead- ing to its condemnation. I do not think 80 Parties are like men. Revistons are Itke the work of men--they are not perfect. The change which this tariff effécted was & marked change downward in the rate of the duties, and It was a recognition by the party that the time had come when ia- stead of .Increasing dutles they must be Gecreased, when the party recognised in its platform, and tn much of what it aia, that the proper measure of profection was the difference In cost of production of arti- cles here and abroad, Profit to the. manufacturer, ‘There was & dispute as to what' that difference is and Whether it was recognized in the change of all the duties downward. Particularly was thjs the case on the materials that enter Into the marnufacturs of paper and paper itself. The reduction on-print paper was from 3 to 8.7, of about 87 per cent. Mueh Misrepresentation. “Thare was a feal difference of opipton on the question .of fact whether the new duty correctly measured the differences in the cost of production of print paper abrosd, and print paper here. It affected the count- Ing rooms.of the newspapers of the coun- try and Invited the attention of the news- paper proprietors who had agsociated them. seives {ogether ke other interests for the purpose of securing a reduction of the tar- itf. The fallyre to make a larger reduction showed {tself clearly in the editorial col- umna of & great number of the newspapers whatever the ‘party predilection. The amount of misrepresentation to which the tarifl billl in its effect as a downward re- vialon bill was subjeoted has never been exceeded in this country, and it will doubt- less take the actiial operation of the tariff bill for several years to show to the coun- Uiy ‘éxactly what the legislation and its ofteats are, It Is perhaps too early to In- wtitute the fairest comparisons between the Payne-Aldrich bill and the bill which pre- ceded It, but the Payne-Aldrich bill has been in_operatton now for six months and figures are at hand from which we may make a reasonable Inference, first, as to whether, it Is a'revision downward, and, second, as to Its capacity for producing revenue, for it must be borne In mind that the passage of the law was deemed not only for the purpose of ehanging rates In their @feet upon the Industries of the eountry, But also for the purposs of in- creasing the revenues, and the success of the measure’ ia to be judged by its results in both these respects. Average Note of Duty Patd. “The bureau of siatistics is authority for the statement t during the first #ix months of the operation of the Payne law, which has just ended, the average rate of duty pald on all dutiadle imports way 31.00 per cont a1 valorem. - The aver- age raté of duty pald on all imperts for the samo six months for the four pre- ceding years under the Dingley law was 24.03. This would show t| the reduc- tion In the Payne law is 2.94 per cent of the value of the goods, or that the reduc- tion below the previous tariff rates is 13 per éent, showing a @ownward revision of this extent in those goods which are dutlable. But this is not all. Under the Payne law 516 per cent of the gross Im- ports of the last six months have been entered. free, while' under the four years preced! for the same six months, the free list amounted to 45.46 per cent of the total importations; so there ‘Was not only a reduction of duty on dutiable iin- porst of about 12 per cent, but also an Enduring Power wered by coffee; and endurance is an essential to:'pcrmnnm BUOCESS. POSTUM including a_tair | rgement of about the same percentage of the fres list. Bill Produces Revenue. “For the production of revenue the Payne law is even more an improvement on the Dingley bill. During the six months that the Payne tariff was (p from August 6 to the night of February 6, the customs receipts amounted Under the Wilson-Gor- man teriff the semi-annual average was $83,147,626.90. Under the Dingley tariff the semi-annual average was §i30,265,- 841.84. Under the Wilson monthly average was §1 “Under the Dingley tariff the monthly average was $21,710,973.64, while under ihe Payne tariff the monthly average has been $37,677,142.75, or 100 per cent greater than the monthly average under the Wii- son tariff and 26 per cent greater than the monthly average under the Dingley tarite. f_course as the country increases in Ppupuldiion the customs recelpts Increase, but even considering the population the in- crease In the tariff recelpts has been marked. Under the Wilaon tariff the aver- age annual customs receipts per capita were $2.88; under the Dingley tariff $3.23, while under the Payne tariff they are $3.71. Will Wipe Out Deficit. “For the six months that the Payne tar- 1f has been in force the total receipts both from customs and internal revenue have been $323,809,231 while the aisbursements have been $332,783,283.08, showing that the expenditures exceeded the receipts by only $8,884,051,17, with no collection as yet trom the corporation law. For the corresponding period last year the expenditures exceeded the receipts by over $40,000,000. This show- ing indicates that under the present cus- toms law the deflcit will be promptly wiped out, and that fo meet our normal expendi- tures we shall have ample revenue. 1 theérefore venture to repeat the remark 1 have had occasion to make before that the present customs law !s the best customs law that ever has been passed, and it Js most significant in thls that it indfoates on the pari of the republican party the | STess adoption of a poliey to change from an| increase in dutles to a reduction of them and to effect an Increase of revenues at “The act has furnished to the executive the power to apply the maximum and min- imum ses In order to prevent indue diserimination on the part of foreign coun- tries and this de securing additional con- cesslons in respect to Impositions on our foreign - trade, “The act has done justicé to the Philip- pine islands by giving them free trade with the United States, X Vilue of Tariff Board. “More than all this, the new tariff act hes provided for’the appointment of a tariff board to secure Impartinl evidence pon whioh, when a revision of the tariff ems wise, we shall have at hand the data from which can be determined wilh some degree of accuracy the dlfference between the cost of producing articles abroad and the cost of producing them in this country. “The great difficulty In the hearing and discussion of the present tariff bill was the absence 6f satlsfactory and credible evidence on either side of the {ssucs as to lower or higher tariffs. The importer on the one hand and the manufacturer on the other were preeent to give thelr falll- ble judgments affected by ‘their own pe- cuniary Interests as to the facts under Investigation. Men who were struggling to find the truth were greatly perplexed by the conflicting testimony. “The tariff bill authorizes the presi- dent to expend 375,000 In employing per- s to aesist him. in the administration of the maximum and minimum clause and ta st him and other officers of the government In the administratian of the £t law. I have construed this to mean that I may use the board appointed under this power not only to look Into the for- eign tariffs, but aleo to examine the ques- tion n respect to each item in our tarl bill, what the cost of production of the merehandiso tax 14 and what its cost is | @broad. This 1y not ah easy task for impartial experts and it requires a large foroe: 1 expect (0 apply to congress this year for the sum of $260,000 to organize & force through which this investigation may g0 on and (he results be recorded for the use of the executive and con- grenn.when they desire to avail themselves of the record. In this way any subse quént revision may be carried om with the ald of data Secured officially and without regard to its argumentivo effect upon the question of ralsing or lowering @duties. Taken as a whole, therefore, 1 do not hesitate to repeat that the republican party has substantially complied with its promise {n respect to the tariff, and that it has wet itstif strongly In the right direction toward lower tariffs and fur- nished the means by which sueh lower taritfs can be properly and safely fixed. “An Investigation by the tariff board of the sort proposed will certainiy take a full two years or more. Meantime the operation of the présent taritt promises to be ton- sistent with the prosperity of the country and with the furnishing of sufficlent funds with which to meet the very heavy, but necessary, expenditures of carrying on our great government. Postal Savings Banks, “The republican national platform con- talned the following: “We favor the establishment of & pouu ings bank tem for the con the nnnounq.mm .l “A Dlll has been Introduced to establish @ postal Bavings bank. The great diffioulty In the bl seems to have been to secure & | and hause, and will doubtiess come up for proper provision for the management and investment of the money deposited. The great adventage of a postal savings bank Is the encouragement to thrift of those whase fears of the solyency of any depos- except & government depository them away from saving. A govern- mént promise to repay seems to be apecially effective In leading people to save and de- posit thelr savings. The machinery of the Postoffice department, with its 60.000 post- offices and 4,00 money order offices of- fers an eccononiicel and far-reaching ma- PR ~ chine Por the reception In places remote from banks, and among people who fear banks, of that which but for the oppor- tunity shey would not save but spend. The low Interest offered to It, that of 3 per cent, prevents such postal savings banke from interfering with regular savings banks whose rate of Interest always is In exooss of 3 per cent. In the present stage of the senate bill, there have been inserted amendments drawn apparently for the pur- pose of having money deposited as savings in government postoffices distributed through the locality where deposited in the banks, state and national, and when de- posited to make it impossible for the tru tees of the fund appointed under the law to withdraw the money for Investment in dny otheér form. Amendment May Defeat Law. “I regard such an amendment as likely to defeat the law. First, because 1t takes away a feature which ought to be present In the law to assure its constitutionality. If the law provided that the trustees to be appointed under the law, with the funds thus deposited, could meet the fina I exigencles of the government by purchase or redemption of the government 2 per cent and other bonds, the mensure would certalnly be within the federal power, because the postal banks would then clearly be an instrument of the na- tional government In borrowing money. We have now about $700,000,000 of 2 per cent bonds, with respect to which we owe & duty to the owners to see that thode bonds may be taken care of without re- duction below tht par value thereof, be- cause they were forced upon natlonal banks at this low rate in order that the banks might have a basis of circulation. This implied obligation of the government the postal savings bank funds would eastly enable it to meet. Secondly, If the funds are to be arbitrarily deposited in all banks, state and national, without na- tional supervision over the state banks, and a panic were to come, it is difficult to see how the government could meet its obligations to its postal savings bank de- positors, because with every bank sus- pending payment the funds of the postal savings banks would be beyond the con- trol of the government and we should have a financial disaster greater than any panic we have hitherto met. A pro- vision that when the money Is not needed to invest fn government bonds or to re- deem the same it may be deposited in national banks in the neighborhood of the place of deposit will avold the great dan- ger of a panic and .will strengthen a banking system which is an arm of the federal government. I stncerely hope that before the measure is hammered into its final shape it may take on these char- acteristics, which shall give it a consti- tutional validity and sound financlal strength and usefulness. ‘Those who in- pon the elimination of these two necessary, characteristic features of the bill will put the party in the position where it cannot hope to escape the charge that it aid nét in good faith seek the passage of a postal savings bank act, and is not reeking therefore to comply'with the promise of the republican platform in that regard. Regulation of Railroads. “On the subject of railroads, the repub- lican platform sald: We approve the enactment of the railre l'l\I law and the vigorous enforcement the present administration of the s uleu against rebates and discriminations as result of which the advantages lormmy possessed by the large shipper over the smallér shipper e substantially dlsap eared. x this connection we com- ppropruuon by the present con- lnlanm.u Commerce mmlulon m lhorou‘hly investigate and 'IV. P‘“’""‘W to the accounts of interstate rall o believe, however, that the | interstate commerce law should be further amended so as to {lva railroads the right to make and publish traffic agreements gutiject. (o the approval of the commisbion, but maintaining always prinelple of competition brtwun n turnll) campeuu ines and avolding the common control of ch lines by any means whatsoeve: We favor such natlonal legislation and super- vision as wfll revent the future overissue of stocks nds by interstate carriers, nm. in Beth Houses, “A Dbill to carry out these declarations has been introduced in both hou! nd the senate and s now belng considered before the appropriation committee of these two bodles and there is every hope that the bilis thus introduced in substantially the same shape as Introduced will be enacted into law. Indeed this railroad measure goes further than the promise of the plat- form, for while it subjects the issue of stock and bonds to the restrictive super- vision of the commission, prevents further watering of .securities and forblds the ac- quisition by a rallroad eompany of stock in a competing line, it also puts much more power into the hands of the commis- slon for the regulation of rates and it tacllitates in every way the ease of super- vision by the commisslon of the raliroads, | to secure a campliance by the rallrond with | the right of the public and of the shipper, The bill was preparad by the attorney gen- al, after a full conference with the Inter- state Commerce commission, the repre- sentatives of the shippers and the repre- sentatives of the rallroads, and while it was not the result of an agreement of dll of the pariies iInterested, it was drafted with & view of meeting all the falr objec- tions made by every one of them. Modification of Injunction “The platform furthar provided ““The republican party will uphold at all times the authority and Integrity of the couris, state and federal, and will even inist ‘that their powers to enforce their piocesses and to protsct life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate, We Lolieve, however, that the rules to pro- cedure In the federal courts with respect to the lssuance of the writ of injunction suould be more accurately defined by stat- utc and that no injunction or temporary ru‘rulnlnl nrdlr should b. jssued without notiog, where Il‘reyuablz injury Wou'd result. from: delay, 15 Which case & meedy Dearing thereatier should - be grauted.” A bill to carry out exactly this promise Los been introduced Into both the senal consideration and passage. The bill does not go as far as Mr. Gompers and the Med- eration of Labor demand, but it goes_as far as the republican convention was will- g to let It go, and it is 8o drawn as to make an abuse of the issuance of injunc- tion without notice very improbable. It re- quires that no Injunction shail be lesued without full notice and hearing unless to prevent irreparable injury, and that in such case the court shall make a finding from the evidenee adduced pointing out what the injury anticipated is and why irreparable, and why there is not time to glve notice, and after the injunction shall be lssued without notice it s provided that such in-| Junetion shall lose ity force at the expira-| tion of five days, unless a hearing is had. | “The platform also promised statehood to Arizona and New Mexlcg, and the bill providing such statehood has passed the | house and has been favorably consldered ! by the committee of the senate, so that there seems to be no reasonable doubt that this promise will be fully kept. ““The republicans In their platform spoke turther as follows: We endorse the movement Inaugurated | g{ the administration for the conservation | natural resources; we approve all meas- | ummn‘»fw-al the waste of timber; we work now golng on for the rm‘lm of arid lands and Ais D\lhllc domalin landless settier. obligation of Il more Illlwz’lb‘ nnlll will n w‘l und-rulnn |-l ll’.l ve _mi-n nr-hufi i hnl of the country of the waterways, and great lakes. whose natural Mmy to the In ng t of th in of the greatest gifts of a be- | nign prov! dtnu. “In accordance «''% e e | tablets callel Sarsatabs. 100. Dowes Sl 1A SU NDA Y ure# for the conservation of the public domain for the reclassification of lands wceording to their greatest utility and the vesting of power in thé executfve to dis- pose of coal, phospha ofl and mineral lands, and of water power sites in such a WAy ae to prevent thelr monopoly, and union of ownership in syndicata of com- bination have been already introduced, and will doubtless in a form approved by con- gress be made into law. The subject has attracted the widest interest and its fm- portance Is becomfng more and more Im- pressed upon the Amerlean people, Rivers and Harbors, ‘““The river and harbor bill which hag Just been reported by the river and har- bors committee of the house, has been tramed with a view to complying with the plank of the platform I have just above quoted. Tt has taken the plan for the im- provement o fthe Ohlo river from Pittsburg to Calro as a project to be carried out In a ocertaln number of years &nd it has treated similar projects for improvement of the Missourl from Kansas City to St. Louls, for the improvement. of the Miesls- sippl from 8t. Paul to St. Louls and of the same river from St. Louls to Calro, and by continulng contracts and regular appropriations these projects will go until they are completed. This is a change from the previous plans and Is the result of an extended populat agitation in favor of such a system. ~ Eeomomy in Administration. “Following the panic of 1007 the govern. ment revenues fell off and the expenditures continued as befors, leaving a deficlt for the years 1007, 1908 and 1900, There was, however, no deficit in the whole adminis- tration of Mr. Roosevelt when the expenses are compared with the reven Indeed, it will be found that under the operation of the Dingley bill, which covers most of his administration and the first six months of the present administration the surplus on the whole was about $260,000,000. At the beginning of this adrministtation, however, it was perfectly evident that with ex- penses increasing and revenues decreasing there-would be a continuous deficit, and this the republican party, with its majority in congress and the responsibllity placed upon it, has proposed to meet by reducing expenditures and Increasing revenues. ‘1 have already shown what the increase in revenue has been. The present adminis- tration In its estimates for the year ending Juhe %0, 1011, cut them some 1o °4d mil- lion dollars below the actual appropriations of the year before, and now it is proposed to appoint & joint commission, consisting of congressmen, senators and members ap- pointed by the executive, who shall ex- amine the organisation of the varlous de- partments and bureaus, and by the elimi- nation of duplication, the construction of bureat and the inerease in efficiency of the Individual civil servant, shall decrease the regular permanent cost of governmental operations.' Anti-Trust Legisla: “"With respect to irusts, the republican party spoke as follows In its platform: “‘The republican party passed the Sher- man anti-trust law over the democratic op- position and enforced it afl democratic dereliction. It has been a olesome in- rument. for in the hands of a wise and feerless administration. But experience has shown that Its otlmlhnm ean be strengthened and its real objects better at- tained by such:amendmen will_glve to the federal government supervis- fon and control over and secure greater D\lhllclty in the management of th: of corporations engaged in Interstate col mercé having power and omrwnny w effect monopolies, “Since this plank was adopted prosecu- tions of the Tobacco trust and the Stand- ard Oll trust begun in the last administra- tion hare gone on and have resulted in decrees In the court of appeals of the Sec- ond and Eighth eircuits, which are now pending on appeal in the supreme court. The decrees in each case tear apart the congeries of subordinate corporations, which united by holding companies, make up the trust.in each case, and enjoin in- dividuals from a further maintenance of the illegal combination of such corpora- tions to carry on the business for which it organized. t has been sald that the republican party made a promise, 50 to amend the law as to ameliorate and soften the appll- cation of the trust law in its interdiction upon business as conducted by the greater corporations, but I find nothing In the platform to justify such a construction, The principle of the anti-trust law Is that those engaged In modern business, espe- clally with respect to their competitors of ‘live and live,” and that they shall not use the bigness of their firm to frighten ex- clusive patronage from thelr customers and the elimination of smaller concerns | trom competition, and thus control output and fix prices. Federal arter BI ‘“The attorney general has prepared a bill which he thinks, and I think, will offer to those who wish to pursue a lawful method of business the means of easily dolng so. A lawful Interstate business under the protection of a fcderal charter, which, while it will subject the business of the concern to the closest scrutiny of government officlals, will save the busi- ness from harrassment by state authori- ties and will give it that protection which its peaceful pursult of Its business as a deral corporation will necessarily secure it. This measurc has met the approval of thse who fear too great concentration of power in the federal government and of { those who deny the right of the fedsral government in such cases to grant Incof- paration. I belleve the act fo be con- stitutional, and I belleve that if enforced it would furnish a solution of our present difficulties, but as it was not specifically declafed for In the republican platform 1 do not feel justified In asking the adoption cf tuch an act as a party matter. 1 have brought It forward, however, as a sugges- tion for meeting the difficulties which are likely to be presented in the prosecution of ruspocted {llegal trusts as a means by which they can put their houses in order and take their places among those en- gaged in legitimate business, CUDAHY LOSES TAX CASE | Kansas Supreme Court Orders All of | Packer's Property on Assess- | ment Roll. | | TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 12.-The supreme | court today ordered the county clerk of | ! Wyandotte county to put all property of the Cudahy Paoking company on the tax folls. ‘The company claimed that the fin- | ished product fs not taxable, Inventor of Cylinder Preas. WOH(‘ESTER. Mass., |"Ib 12.~Thomas a piil nd_Inventor nder pr \Ilnl press, dled here today, "ed ST H. Roots, Barks, Herb ! That have great medicinal ralsed 1o their highest effictency, for puri- fying und enriching the blood, as they are power, are combined & Hood's Sareapariila, which is Peoullar to itself. 40306 testimonials recelved by actual count In two years—-a record unparalleied 1o the history of medicine, Be sure to take Hood’s Sarsapariila this ¥pring. ‘Get It today. It will make you feel betier, look better, eat and leep better, Uet 1 in usual form or ehocolated BEE: FEBRUARY CHANZY DEAD FLOAT A HORI |2 | of lquor can find objection to it, and ob- | l ots. 13 1010 Believed 157 Drowned on Steamer 0ff Coast of Minoroa. S0LE SURVIVOR IS DEMENTED Only One the Vietims American, Member of Vaude- ville Troup—Belleved Ma- ery Went Wrong. ot PALMA, Isiand of Majorea, Feb. 12— Bodies were floating ashore today from the wreck of the steamer Genéral Chanzy, which went down Wednesday with 157 on board. The authorities posted men along the coast to recover the bodies also to watch for small hoats, in & desperate hope that some of those aboard might have escaped. Marcel Rodel, the Algerian eustoms of- ticlal, and the only known surviver, was still unable today to give a lucid account Of the disaster. When the vessel went down he clung to a plece of wreckage and was washed ashore. When tossed on the rocks he was ren- dered insensible and In this state remained throughout the fight. Reviving in the morning, he wandered about aimlessly most of the day, finally stumbling into the village of Cludadela, al- most demented. From his rambling story, the authorities first learned of the disaster and rushed help to the nearest land point. They found only a mass of wreckage plled up on the coast. The villagers say that even if the small boats had been launched they coul not have lived in the sea that raged Wednes- day night. The Spanish officials state that & power- ful light will be immediately erected on the north of Minorca island in the hope that further wrecks at this dangerous place may be averted. Owing_to the difficuities of communica- tlon between the villages in the absence of telegraph lines, few additional detalls | of the wreck reached here today. The route of the Algerian boats Is par- ticularly treacherous in bad weather. The steamers Viile de Rome and Isaac Plereire were wrecked on the forbiddding coast. The General Chanzy missed the pass between the islands of Minorea and Majorca, being elther blown out of its course or rendered helpless by the breaking down of its enginés or the loss of its propeller. The place wh the vessel struck Is known as “Liosa. Some reports have it that the steamer broke In two and sank at once, after it had struck and others, that an explosion occurred. The heavy loss of life Is attributed to the probaiity that during the howling tempest all of the passengers and such of the crew as were off duty were below. Other ex- planations are that the vessel struck with such foroe that veral bulkheads gave way simultaneously and that the ship filled and sank before any small boat could be lowered. Ship Brokem to Pleces. PARIS, Feb. 12—Advices received today by the French Transatlantic Steamship company state that the loss of the General Changy occurred on Wednesday night while the vessel was running before a ter- rible storm in the vielnity of the Baleario islands in the Mediterranean. When the vesse| struck a reef north of the Island of Minorca the shock was terrific and the ship ‘was broken to pleces. Considering the seaworthiness of the General Chanzy and the experience of Cap- tain Cayol, shipping people belleve that the steamer must have become unmanage. able through the breaking down of its en- gines or the loss of its propeller. The General Chanzy went ashore near Bergen in 1896, at which time it was hauled off by the German corbette Griffen. Only Ome American. MARSEILLES, Feb. 12.—The French Trans-Atlantic line states that no passen- gers embarked on the General Chanzy after the regular passenger list had been made up. According to this list the only American on the steamer when it foundered off the coast of Minorca on Wednesday night was Leon Deranda, a vaudeville performer of San Francisco. The woman reported as an American was Miss Elsie Hery, who was born at Epernay, France, but recently returned trom a trip to the United States. It was reported yesterday that an American named Delynn was aboard, but no such name appears on the passenger llst. The steamship officlals recelved nothing during the day to encourage the hope that more than one person out of the 157 on board survived. Among the other victims was Second Engineer Lorenzettl, who was a survivor of the La Bourgogne disaster. At the time he was picked up after having drifted for days in an open boat. Captaln Cayol of the General Chanzy was considered by his employers, the French Trans-Atlantic Steamship com- pany, as one of the most expericnced and careful of officers. Incoming vessels' officers agree that the weather experienced recently was the worst in their experience. News of other wrecks was received to- day. The schooner Mathiide, from Dun- kirk, which left Port de Rouc, Frane February 4 for St. Plerre, Miquelon, with & miscellaneous cargo, was wrecked last Wednesday in the same vicinity as was the General Chanzy. The fate of the schooner crew is unknown. BRYAN FOR COUNTY OPTION (Continued from First Page.) me saloonkeeper permité treating in his place of business. Treating is one of the | worst features of the modern saloon and no defense can be made for . Those who desire to drink lz moderation will, as a rule, favor this lal, because they are often forceéd by custom to treat and to actept treats when they do not care to do so. Only those interested In the sale Jection from such a source is an argument |in favor of such a law rather than against it “The liquor question has been made acutey In Nebraske by the unsorupulousness of {the liguor iInterests. Instead of the sa- |loon of former days, owned by a resident and amenable, to some extent at lbast, to the sentiment of the community, we have |the branch saloon, owned and operated [by a producer of liquor. “The liquor Interests interfere in all mat- tors that may even remotely affect their Interests. They made themselves odious at the last session of the Nebraska legisia- ture. The democrats had a majority In both branches for the first time in the state's history, and the splendid record of the legisiature has but one blot on fit, |and that blot was put theré by the liquer Interests. They controlled enough of th |senators to prevent the submission of the Initiative and referendum. “The democratic party cannot afford to act a8 the mouthplice of the liguor inter- It can have nothing in common with w he selfish, mercenary and r—"— crusade that the liquor intrests mn - ganized against the home and the againet private virtue and public m.-u-. CANNON TALKS OF LINCOLN (Continued from First Page.) ham Lincoln and found in him the first lawyer on the ciroult, a kindly man ready to make a helpful suggestion to any one of the young lawyers, of which the speaker was one, Again when the speaker was a delegate to the republican stats convention of 1860 in Iilinols, At whigh Lincoln was made th. presidential candidate of the state, the men met. Mr. Cahnoh drove across the prairie from where he lived to the con- vention in a wagon—rallroads were few and then only bullding. “The convention was held in a wig- wam," said the speaker, “ercoted betwecn two bulldings, but it was out of doors, covered with green boughs cut from a nearby forest and the ends of the wigwam were open to permit the crowd outside to hear. “Befote the convention was fully organ- ized Dick Oglesby, afterward senator and governor, and John Hanks brought upon the platform two walnut ralls sald to have been split by Lincoln and Hanks. There were great cheers for the famous rall splitter. The orowd was so dense that when there was & call for Lincoln it could not be broken to let him through, and he was lifted over the heads of the audience to the paltform. Someone ctled out: “‘Abe, did you split those rafls? A queer 0ok passed over Lincol and he replied: *“‘john Hanks sald we split those rails. I do not know whether we dld or not, but 1 have split many better ones.’ " “I met Lincoln only once after his elec- tion to the presidency. He was on his way to Charlottestown, Iil, to b - his stepmother good-bye before going to Wi ington. He was traveling onm day tra'n, riding in ® day coach and surrounded by other passengers, some congratulating him, others advising, but most of them simply crowding around to shake his hand. They all seemed to know him or felt that they knew him. He made his last visit to his stepmother. Bhe was Jjust a common homespun woman, and to her he remained until the end just ‘My boy Abe’'" Lincoln’s Great Task, Through one term as president and the beginning of another the speaker sketched in a graphic way Lincoln's lite—war, the inevitable, the strife among his advisers, the criticlsm and abuse heaped upon his head after the first battle of Bull Run and the almost superhuman task the presi- dent carried to win his fight for the right as he saw It. “‘When ministers of the gospel came with advice which they believed to be dlvine inspiration,” continued the speaker, “Lin- coln replied that If God intended to glve divine advice to anyone he belleved it would come to him upon whom laid the responsibility, for he was as anxious as anyone to know the divine will and act in accord with it ““To me there Is no more inspiring Inci- dent in our whole history, nor one more pathetic, than that cf the tall gaunt form of Lincoln with that sad put serene face, standing out against a darkening eky to assure the men 1in. the fleld and their supporters at home that there was still manhood and real leadership in the place of highest respensibility. ““The territories which Lincoln m.ht to save from slavery have surpassed the wildest speculation and prophecy in 1860, and the homestead act passed in Lincoin's administration on his recommendation has converted the staked plains and the great American desert (nto an agricultural em- pire that has not a parallel anywhere. The newer west has double the total wealth of the United States at the time Lincoln was- elected. New Life for th. ‘‘But even more than that, the policles of Lincoln have brought a new life to the south that rebelled against the union. In the last decade that section has had the most remarkable development, until in its prospertty the south is almost willing to admit that ‘the stone rejected by the build- ers shall become the chief cornerstone of the temple.’, ‘‘They have seen the light and this achievement of & united country with the same interests justity. my asserilon that the republican party and what has been | wrought under its policles In this hait century make the most fitting monument to Lincoln, under whosé leadership the slave was made free, and of far greater importance, the white man was set froe, “The ploneers of the generation to which Lincoin belonged have passed away. With the changed conditions It s absolutely necessary that we should grow more and more competent in our respective o-llml-: as the old pass out and the new come i “I do not know the genesis of any o( you, but I will venture the statement that You built castles In Spain when you were boys and your effort to live up to them never has been fully realized—yet that ef- fort has helped muke the ecivilization, “If you desire to know who fifty years from now will be the speaker of the house of representatives who may come to talk o your successors on Lincoln’s birthday anniversary, go to the machine shop, to the, farm, to the public school and find the children of the sons of toll, who, under God's fiat, are eating bread ini the sweat of their faces and are bullding their castles in Spain. There you will behoid your sue- cessors. HOLDEN OUT_AFTER PLACE, is s tace Corn Expert © LETOM B Btma Lt reepume i, DES MOINES, Ia, Feb. 12.—(Special Telegram.)—At a meeting of the executive committee of the Iowa Corn Growers' as- soclation today a boom was started for Prof. P. G. Holden, the well-known corn expert, for president of the state college at Ames. It Is now assumed that Dr, Storms will retire at the end of the year and that Prof. Curtiss will be elected in his stead. But the friends of Holden have started out to get him into the race and this’ complicates the matter. Requisition for Dead Man. A deputy sheriff from here returned to- day from southern Missouri, having dis- covered that he went on an errand to bring back a man who has been dead two weeks. He went armed with requisition papers for George M. Davidson, under in- dictment for ohesting, and on arriving at his destination at Ave, Mo, discovered that the papers would do no @ood, as the man died January 25 Hix Found Not Guilty. C. 8. Hix, the Hedrick grocer charged with writing & Black Hand letter to Tor- rence Reynolds with & view of extorting money, was found not gullty by the jury at Sigourney, e BB T L Lodge Property Taxed. '| TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 12—The suprome court m)’ decided that property used e Rt J3 22 S, S e lon, at charitable in. u.."t:‘a... i stitut! conduct, by oxem) COIIITTEh FOR TRANSFERS Senate Irrigation Body Favors Bur- kett Bill. GOVERNMENT SLOW WITH WATER Lather Drake in Washington, Fo lowing Trip to Philadelphin as r\’ Member of Mint Com- mission. (From a Statf Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The Irrigation committee of the senate today decided to report favorably with certain modifications Senator Burkett's blll giving settlers on the third section of an irrigation diteh in Nebraska, who have otherwlse complied with the homestead laws, the right te transfer the same or leave their holdings untll water is produced thereon. There has been much hardship worked through the present law, the fallure of the government to make #0od on the introduction of water being responsible for muoh oriticism. Ex-Assistant Secretary of War George D. Melkeljohn was In Washington today enroute to New York. Governor Motkel- John said the west was standing by Presi- dent Taft and he believed the country would come to recognisze him as one of the greatest presidents we have ever had Luther Drake of Omaha, president of the Merchants National bank, arrived in Washington last night from Philadelphia, where he attended the meeting of the mint commission, of whioh he Is a mem- ber. This commission is appointed an- nually and meets at the Philadelphia mint ‘o examine dles and other features con- nected with the mintage of both gold and silver coins. Mr. Drake will_remain in Washington until Monday. New Rural Carriers. Rural carriers have been appointed as follow: Nebraska—Tilden, route 8 Byron B. Barkdoll carrier, John R. Christy substi- tute; route 2, Alva H. McKnight carrier, Loe FMaldey subatitute. Towa—Kiron, route 2, Bert Loomer car- rier, no substitute; Paton, route 2, John A. Bradshaw carrler, C. W. Bradshaw substitute. South Dakota—Corsica, route 2, Sherman C. Winner carrfer, Alvin H. Putzer sub- stitute; Salem, route 2, Joseph Weber car rier, no substitute, James H. Searby has been appointed postmaster at Britt, Cherry county, Ne- braska, vice W. Novak, resigned. Clarence Conner of South Auburn, Barl W. Wing of Wayland, Lewls Polsky of Lincoln, Neb.,, and Marion L. Wilson and Crarles C. Colliton of Cedar Rapids and Reymond V. Satchell of Eldora, Ia., have been appointed rallway mail clerks " Contracts for carrying mail in wagon batween postoffices and rallroad stations for four yedrs from July 1, 1910, to June 3, 1914, were awarded today as follows: Nebraska—Beatrice, Willlam H. Otto, §1,792 per year; Lincoln, 8. M. Melick, $4,095. Bouth Dakota—Aberdeen, John Thomas, $2,400. 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