Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1915, Page 6

NI PO o 1 THE BEE OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED RY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIFTION Nrrl;f By mail mot ly and Sunday..... b de. MR ot 1] iy without Sunday. o Evening and S Yo Evening _without Sund 0. nday Bee only.... e d notice of change of address or complal The Government and Pacific Roads. Prosecution in the federal courts of a suit to divorce the Central and Southern Pacific lines renews interest in the past attitude of the government to this problem. When the Harri- man system was being ‘‘unserambled,” the Union | Pacitic undertook to purchase the Central Pa- | eific, but was prevented by Attorney General | viewed some salent tacts Europe After the War TERSSSS=_Alexander Woyes In Seribmer's, < at the | close of August, the third great German war | [ NNOUNCING in the Gefmiy Reichsta loan, the imperial finance minister briefly re- | McReynolds, who insisted that it would be dan- | powers involved in the Buropean war, he sald, had irregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation rtment REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only two- | cent stamps recelved In payment of small ac- counts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern @xchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. Souih Omaha—2318 N street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincolp—% Little Buflding. Chicago—8n Hearst Buf ing New York-—Room 1106, 286 Fifth avenue. 8t Louk New Bank of Commerce. ‘Washington—7235 Fourteenth 8t, N. W. ' CORRESPONDENCE Address communications relati torial matter to Omaha Bee, NOVEMBER CIROULATION, j 53,716 to Editorial State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: Dwight Willlams, circulation manager of The Bee ublishing company, Leing duly sworn, says that the rage circulation for the month of November, 1913, 53,716, .‘?J:‘g:ltm WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager, n my presence v M me, this 2d day of December, 1518, O " (0 before 1916, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Bubscribers leaving the city temporarily - should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- Nwfllhehnpdunnuumtm. December 3 Thought for the Day Selected by Minnie M. Nickam Hovw far that liitle candle throws his beama; 8o ahines a good deed in a naughty worid. ~—Shakespeare. 3 i H 4 g 1 A year ago it was the Christmas ship—this . year It is the peace ship—but the war still Boes | on. Now s the time for the peace prophets to ®et busy again. One of them may guess right some of these days | Take it from us, that when it comes to re- writing the laws of war on land or sea, no one nation is going to have the whole say. It Henry Ford does not win the next Nobel peace prize the neutral world will have reason to question Sweden's appreciation of boundless According to Secretary McAdoo, Panama canal will soon be a producer instead of a con- sumer of money. It remalns for Culebra to 1 ratify t»\ucv 's optimism. Prudent wheat growers and grain dealers will be careful not to ship to Canadian ports when they can avold the risk so easily by patronising home railroads and elevators, ] We protest that to require all the profes- | slonal farmers to tell exactly where they farm and what they farm is an unreasonable and un- warranted use of the publicity searchlight, The spectacle of a railroad hobbling on financial crutches apeeding up and beating stal- wart trunk lines to the business trough lends frony and gayety to life in the transportation ‘world. S——— Viewing the results by and large, fifteen months after the start, the outstanding achieve- . § ment of the war consists of 10,00%,,000 casual- | § tles, nearly equally Aivided between dead and 2 Sp—— ‘When Speaker Clark says he expects con- gress to be In session until the dog days, he must be trying to lay the foundation for the Tevival of his favorite song, “You'll Have to Stop Kicking My Da Fhap Aroun’, ——— ~ The senator's personal newspaper organ in- ‘sists he is urging his embargo on munitions ex- ports not because of pro-Germanism, but out of pure Americanism. That must explain why all the pro-Germans are so strong for the proposi- { tion. 4 Emmr—— i The democrats insist on a pot of money for ‘% their campaign fund from the city favored with § the national convention location. If that fs the object, why not put It up at auction and knock it down to the highest bidder without pretense er deception? — Wireless developments continue at an amasz- ing rate. The fact that the station at Honolulu eaught waves of news sent out from Germany, 9,000 miles away, indicates that eventually the wireless system will belt the world more effec- ‘bnlr than the telegrap’s and ocean cables. Y5 Arrangements have been made for the appearance | of the three greatest billlardists, Schaefer, Slosson and Vignaux, in the opera house, when they will give an rm of cue and balls. 1. A Munroe of Kansas City is in Omaha. . ~ Omaha s diecussing the question of experimenting rw electric lighting. 2 Mr. and Mrs, Henry W. Yates returned from their . sed pilgrimage eastward to reclaim the body of their o who wes drowned In Long lsland Sound. The plat of Barkalow Place, & new addition of West was filed with the clerk. Whistier, the great wrestier, is dead. to Srief of Omaha sporting men, who were admirers. Whistler was formerly cmploye) Union Pacific shops. Union has st jast agreed to extend ards. court had the audacity to he got it with three months * - to gerous to have a continuous line under the same management from Omaha to San Francisco, The stupidity of that position was at that time pointed out by The Bee and conditions then fore- casted have developed. The present suit turns on a condition estab- lished by the McReynolds ultimatum, merely continued the Southern Pacific control, | against which for years all the transcontinental shippers have protested. The Central Pacific as an independent line has no status, It must have a close working connection with an eas ern outlet, in order to serve the traffic it is de- signed to accommodate. The perfect transcontinental system of rail- roads, well demonstrated by experience, was the old plan for an Overland route, which should never have been deviated from. The govern- ment has effectually muddled the situation, has not aided the rivals of the Union or Southern Pacific, has given no rellef to shippers, and it remains yet to clear the track to the right so- lution, The Philippines. The flash and clash between BSecretary of War Garrison and ex-President Taft over the Philippines have drawn attention to the un- happy and steadily deteriorating condition of those islands since the democrats started ex- perimenting with them, and the best claim by the democratic mouthplece is that, despite the admitted loss in efficlency by the backward step, the ground may be regained when the polley of self-government is worked out. In a word, the excuse is made that the democrats, Having beef committed to a wrong policy, prefer to persist in it with such resulting demoraliza- tion @Ver there, rather than to acknowledge | thetr mistake and go back to the tried and proved republican policy. But'the fact Is that the democratic treat- ment of the Philippines does not conform even with demoeratic platform professions. It will be remembered that Colonel Bryan threw up his military commission and left his troops in Cuba to rush back to Washington and help force | ratification of the treaty of Paris, for the ex- press purpose of making “militarism’’ an issue in his 1900 campaign. The democratic plat- torm on that point, therefore, outlined the dem- ocratie policy (omitting denunclation of the re- publicans) by saying: We favor an immediate declaration of the na- tion's purpose to give the Filipinos, first, a stable form of government; second, independence, and third, protection from outside interference. The position of the republicans at that time was stated in this reference to the peopie of our newly acquired insular possessions: The largest measure of self-government sistent with our welfare and our duty shall secured to them by law. The democrats reiterated their declaration in 1904 and 1908, and again in 1912, when it took on this language: We favor an immediate declaration of the na- tlon's purpose to recosn independence of the Phillppine Islands as soon as & stable government can be estahlished, such Independence to he guar- con- be can be secured by treaty with other pow But fifteen years, three of them under dem- ocratic rule, apparently, has not sufficed to produce & stable government which would war- rant the “immediate” independence of the Fil- ipinos which the democrats promised them way | back In the year 1900. The democrats have failed to carry out even the express terms of their 1912 platform pledge, and all they have | accomplished so far, according to the consensus of competent opinion, {8 the undoing of a large part of what the republican administrations had accomplished and making it necessary to do it over again with increased difficulty, It would be far better for the Filipinos, as well as for the people of this country, if the democrats would recognize the fact that it is “‘a condition and not a theory which confronts them" in dealing with the Philippines, The Farmers and Their Congress. The determination of the farmers to restrict membership in thelr state congress to persons engaged in or closely allied to farming is on right lin Hitherto, the affairs of the con- gress have been considerably disturbed by the interjection of matters that have little or no relation to the industry of agriculture such, and expressions thus obtalned have been used to bolster up the political projects of pestifer- ous agitators. The farmers are deeply con- cerned In politics, and are not to be denied full activity in the governmental affairs of the state, but their deliberations ought to be untrammeled, and their conclusions reached without undue in- fluence from outsiders, whose interest is not always that of the farmer. Good will certalnly come to the congress as a result of the house- cleaning commenced in Omah Politics and the State University. The capital correspondent of our local demo- cratic contemporary boasts of the services bein rendered by the democrats on the Board of Re- gents of the University of Nebraska, and praises them as big business men giving their time and talent without reward to the institution. All that he says of these men may be true, and will not be disputed, but what of the other mem- bers of the board, who are not demoerats, but who are also big business men and devoting their best abilities just freely to and effec- tively to the university? Efforts to invelve the University of Nebraska In partisan polities ought to be rebuked at any time, The service of the school essentially depends on its indepen- dence of and freedom from partisan influence however remotely exerted. The long list of able men who have served as regents without emolu- ment is the best possible evidence of the re- gard the people bave for the university. The present attempt to gain a little partisan oredit for the democrats at the expense of this great educational institution, cheapens n that party's standing. And now comes the Intimation that house- hold furniture will eost us more. Just another unseasonable remivder of the democratic plat- form promise tv reduce the high cost of living. | risen to $75,000,000; the monthly cost | | | | | | bewlldering to more than $2,000,000,000; the yearly cost to something like $35,000, 000,000, The speech containing those estimates was made before Rulgaria had entered the war and be- fore the Balkan campalgn had begun; therefore, the present outlay must be greater stili. Germany alone, the ministerial apeech procesded, was now spending in a single month more by one-third than the total cost WhiCh | ¢ her Franco-Prussian war. To these comparisons one may profitably add some others of equal interest, affecting Great Britain's bill of costs. At its present rate of war expenditure England pays out in six months more than the United States government spent for military and naval pur- poses in all the four years of the American civil war. It is commonly estimated that the war with France | In the Napoleonic perfod, from 178 to 1815 inclusive, cost England In the aggregate $4,160,000000. But the chancellor of the exchequer recently declared to Par- llament that England's expenditure during only the twelve-month perfod ending next March will ha.e amounted to §7,950,000,000; and the average daily rate of outlay is progressively increasing. These figures of the present waste of capital in WAr are so large that to most minds they are merely Some of the most experienced Interna- tional bankers ventured the positive prediction at the beginning of this year, that the belligerent govern- ments would not be able to continue railsing the neces- sary funds after 1915. This prediction, like so many others made since the war began, will have to get its answer from the progresa of events, and the answer may not be what was expected. But it should sti'l be possible to ascertain exactly how the various bel- ligerent governments are ralsing the money for this prodigious expenditure; then to Inquire what effect, temporary or permanent, the process is exerting on their aetual present financial situation, and from that to obtain at least some idea of the economic condl- tion In which the severai belligerents will emerge from this ruinous conflict, It 1s not always easy to determine wh=t imme- diate present effect, financlal or economie, the strain of war is exerting on & ®iven belligerent state. In- dustrial activity s usually keyed up to a high pitcn by the government's huge purchases of material Profits from many manufactures rise because of the war requirements; wages of labor invariably rise. But hi also happens is the rapidly increasing Paralysis of normal Lusiness. In countries like France or England it is the export trade which most plainly teils this part of the story. The decrease in Great Britain's merchandise exports, during the first seven months of 1815, of $469,000,000, or 32% per cent, from the same months of 1914, and the simultaneous decrease in French exports by $430,000000, or 56 per cent, were certainly in great part a result of the commandeering of capital for war loans, thereby stopping improvement and exten- slon of private business enterprises; of the enlistment of skilled workmen in all the fighting states for the war, and of the turning of the machinery in almost every kind of factory to the making of ammunition. ‘What has been the effect of the war on the legit- imate home consuming market is less easy to deter- mine. But it is reasonable to suppose that the appeal for every hundred marks of private German savings to be Invested in the war loans and the tax of 17 per cent and upward on English Incomes, must enor- mously redice the whole people’s purchasing power. Just now all this Is accepted as an inevitable inci- dent of a war for the country's safety—like the in- flated paper currencies of the continent and the de- preclated foreign exchange on England. But what sort of condition does it foreshadow when the war is over’ The first and most unmistakable conclusion s that the people of what is now belligerent Europe will be poor, This must be so in England, not only because the furious activity in all trades contributing to the war will have stopped completely, but because the abnormally heavy taxes must continue. It must be so0 In Germany because the “war orders” will have ceased, because the long embargo om forelgn com- anteed by us untll the neutralization of the islands | ¢r°¢ will have exerted ity cumulative fnfluence, and because the imposition of much heavier taxes can then no lonker be deferred, Very few people of ex- perience or judgment regard as anything buf a pre- text or a dreant the imperial finance minister's idea of a wa'r Indemnity of $10,0%0,000,000 or upward, impesed by a victorious Germany on her enemies. With those enemies now in posseasion of Germany's colonles, with England controlling (he sea, and with the whole world outside of Germany in agreement that reparation to Belgium s the sine qua non of the final reckoning, such a prediction a not far short of absurdity. But If the war lasts another vear, the anpual in. tevest alone, on the German war debt, and on that of other belligerents beside, will be almost or quite as large as the whole annual public revenue from taxa- tion before the wi The formidable question then arises, what the attitude of the people will be toward #0 crushing a burden of taxation—at a time when political dissension has begun again, when appeal to patriotism and national safety has lost its foree through return of peace, and especially with nations whose people have heen uded Into thinking that the enemy would foot the entire bill. There is laft another question of post-bellum cen- ditions still more Important to our own material interests. That is the question whether Europe—its people impoverished r, its manufacturers sud- denly deprived of dema for war material, and, in Germany's case, its whole preductive industry in touch again with a foreign market lost since the war began—will not instantly pour into the rich United States so immense & mass of manufactured Koods, offered at very low prices fixed by the urgent needs of the Buropean producer, as to cut off our own manufacturers from the market. This picture seems on its face convineing; the result would appear to follow the logic of the situation. Our own sovernment has already begun tentatively to discuss measures which might be necessary to avert or modity the dis- organizing effect on American industry. Yet the prespect, on examination, s not altogether 8o clear as might be imagined, Some of our own most experienced manufacturing authorities hold today that these circumstances insure an export (; United States to Europe, de from the after war is over, of ab- These are among the obscure, but not the less formidable, problems which even peace will bring. Nobody can answer them confidently. Predictions of the moat disquieting sort are made regarding all of them, Perhaps, however, it will be to some extent reassuring it we keep In mind the far mere disquieting Predictions made o year and a half age regarding the ineyitable and immediate economie results of the war {tself, virtually none of which has been fulfilied, Twice Told Tales This one has the merit of belug trus, anyhow: The officlal pessimist of & small west eity, & gentieman who had wrestied with chronic dyspepsia for Vears, ateod in front of the postoffice as the noon whisties sounded. “Twelve o'clock, eh?' he said, half to himeels and half to an acqualntance. “Well, I'm going home to dinner. If dinper aint' ready I'm golng to raise trouble: and If It Is ready I aln't going to eat a bite."—Saturday Kvening Post. Mutual Interest. Blushing. she nid her face on hep (ather's shoulder “He loves me," she breathed, nts to marry you, eh ™' the old man grunted. ‘o8, papa.’ “What i his income?" She started. “1 don't krow," dence s Very strange. “What colncidence?’ asked the father. Quéstion about your income.''—~Washington Star. murmured, “but the colmel. The daily cost to all the : Fditor of The Bee: tient with Wilson. Neb., Dec. 2.-To the According to all paper reports, Mr. Wilson, our honorable president, could not join Mr. Henry Ford's peace propaganda. Why not? | Simply because he can't figure out any | peace proposition favorable to England and its allies Mr. Wilson, allles, “kiow | PLAINVIEW, s well as his favorites, the hat they are beaten and | witness the struggle In desperation, | without any hopes to win. Mr. Wilson sees his busom friend, John Bull, fall | with deep emotion, but has one consols- tlon, he sees his friend at home, the ammunition factory owners, making mil- lions out of this war. He cares not for the millions killed in Kurope, nor for | the millions suffering in his own coun- try on account of this war, ail he cares for is to carry out his own seifish plans and to help England to maintain its world power. He i not the same Wilson he used to be a year ago, when he or- dered a day for prayer, for the Lord prays by himself for the continuance of this war to the benefit of our ammuni- tion factories, as well as for England to get ready and get on the winning side. Old King Frederick the Great of Prus- sla used to say: ‘“Che Lord siways goes with the best army regardless of national- ity.” This seems to be the case in this present war. ‘Uhe allies never were able to check the central powers in their offensive wave; how can any sane man expect them to put them out of tielr fortifled positions it once in the detense. Mr. wlison ought to know this and come to the conclusion that now is the proper time to have peace for humanity sake. Furthermore, Mr. Wilson urges con- gress to spend $600,000,000 for his favorite jdea, “preparedness.”” Whom is he fear- ing? Is It Germany? The German gov< ernment has shown that they will up- hold thelr friendship towards the United States In spite of the insults received from our jingo president, for they are con- vinced of the fairness of the majority of the people of the United staws wud they know that his days as president of the United States are counted. 1 hope Mr. Wilson will be shown where he is at by the next congress and without any doubt the voters of the union will show him where he belongs next fall. AN OLD-TIME DEMOCRAT. Fraternity and Harmoay. OMAHA, Dec. 3.—To the Bditor of The | | | | Bee: Your edition of November 29 gave the Information that the Ancient Order of United Workmen band had paraded the downtown streets and that large banners were displayed which showed the nature recent action of the city commissioners be hired to play at the parks next sum- mer. The Musicians' union had supposed that all fraternal lodges were founded on brotherhood embodied in the noble purpose of the care of the sick, the burial of the dead and the maintenance of the dear ones left behind. This latest innovation of the Anclent Order of United Workmen band gives the impression that perhaps the founder of the Ancient Order of United Workmen forgot to include the vrinciple of the “open shop.”” It may bs possible, however, that the brother pro- moters of this band ylelded to the tempta- tien to use the prestige of the order for speculative purposes and that maybe this recent parade protest against the hirin of union labor is not on moral pl with the pronounced tenets of the order. For the sake of enlightenment on this point the Musicians' union will be thank- ful if some officer or members of the Anclent Order of United Workmen will answer the following query, vis: “How can the Anclent Order of United Work- men justify its position in maintaining & band, giving sald band the lodge name, equipping them and then place them un- der the eaption of the lodge title, In com- petition with musiclans whe do not happen to belong to the lodge, and in protest against the employment of or- ganized labor?” J. M. FINN, Becretary Omaha Musiclans’ Union, Loeating that Turkey Dinner. RED OAK, Ta., Dee. 3~To the Bditor of The Bee: I noticed a letter in your Letter Box by ‘“Jack Dunn” wishing- to know if that Thanksgiving dinner given to Hauser could not have found a better resting place in some poor home, Perhaps he means by that that he would Uke to have had it. PMauser 18 just the same to me 48 anybody else He is human. Perhaps he shot Smith, and again, perhaps he did not. I den't know, and neither does Jack Dunn. But ‘whether he did or not. he is just as Aus man now as he was before, is he not? That ¢inner could net have found & better rosting place than it did. It Jack Dunn thinks it could, let him try the same thing, under the seme eciroum- stances. J. SULLIVAN. Boosting for Steche: PRAGUE, Neb, Dec. 3—To the. Bditer of The Omaha Bee: Joo 'Stecher, the world's champion heavyweight wrestier, with his brother Anten, the middiewelght American champion, gave a wrestling exhibition performance last Saturday be- fore a large and appreciative audience. A good prelimiinary also had been staged. Joe secured both falls in 14 minutes and 15 second and 14 minutes and # seconds, respectively. 4 wish to state only & few facts about this pride of Nebraska wonder athlete, At the tender and unheard of age of 2 years he holdg a record unequalied in the annals of the world's wrestling history. Then, too, Joo I8 growing and improving and is fully over 30 per eent better today in the ring than he was the Fourth of July last, when he wrestied the cha plonship from Cutler of Chicggo. When asked whe his next opponent for a big match was likely to be Joe simply smiled and stated, with full respect for all aspirants, “They all look alike to me; I am ready to wrestle anyone in the world. The first come the first served.” Joe has thrown them all as fast as they came up; the bigger they are the harder they fall Regarding the statements of Farmer Burns, as published, they merely sound as though somebody's axe was mighty dull. The * Farmer’ states that Joe wresties men out of condition. Bven it it were true (which all fellowers of the same know it is not), it eertalnly would not be Joe's fault. If the “Farmer" really thinks he can find & man to throw Joe. he should not experience any trouble to get his §100,000 “propesed” bhet covered at ence. Just let the people | know where the money is. No trouble at all. The “Parmer” has alwa been treated aquarely by the followers of the wrestling game, and the public should remember that the “good book" wseys “Do unto others as thou wouldst have others do unto you.' DR. M. J. hWJBICKA. to end this war at once; now I think he | of the parade to be a protest agalnat the | in deciding that only union bands would | hy & seamstress especially? “Because she's bhound to see so much of the seamy side of “After 1 once go to bed nobody here makes me get up and go down to be mure the Press. BY ONE_POINT sweetened water.’ ham.”"—Washington Star. chagrin =nd Insurance. Is that enough? “Henry,” |in." Judge. | lite.” —~Baltimore | Doesn't back door's locked.”'—Detroit | out end, When fallure confronts us and our goais. e of our souls. | | | strength we find, the we thought small 4 [50 patient is a sugar-cured | That the best friends we can call BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure y , sloping ‘wonder, nl' at her slender lord M‘IG ¢ GAS quite the style: 3 r o Co— lhflr\'llv'!’r! are the rnrr"vl" lhinf. “1 @ y seam- | Then she added dreamily, * latriainly do pity any poor seam- |, Crt? Jear,"if bow-legs will ever come BRIGHTNESS OF LIFE. American. ' ‘‘There's one consolation about being in | J. M. Lewis, in Houston Post _mum A thought that s winged from friend What is it, my poor man?" to friend scern such a wonderful thing; | Yet he carries the prayer for a joy with- | And it throbs with a big, friendly ring night, When discouragement darkens the way, { |A m-rnhwora of cheer, In the shadow of t | | Wil fllumine our hearts with the glorious light | Of a hopeful and sun-brightened day. darkens How we long for the clasp of a hand: Is_then that we cry from the depths For a frlend who can just understand A bright, cheery smile often gives us the That we lack In the vortex of atrife, |For it lightens our load as we travel the “My doctor told ms he completely re- length. that matinee aotor's digestion, | Of the care-laden path we call Life, which was all imagination, by a little after all, that the things Loom colossal above all the host; of Gods gifts are the she murmured, fondly gasing | To our side when we need them most. Made from Cream of Tartar DISTINCTIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS ~gifts which are out of ordinary~are to be found at PEACOCK'S you do your Christmas oppi n Chicago, you will, of course,expect to choose some things at Peacock's. But if you cannot come ,send for our illustrated Shopping Guide Gt will enable you to se~ lect by mail the gifts you want. C.D.PEACOCK pSIARY S 87 State 8 Adams Stroets CHICAGO Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising; no matter how good advertising may be in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant- ly to be really succcessful. PR~ - e |