THE OMATIA DAILY REE: PATTTHDAY, OCTOKEK 2fl, 1904.
TDRPINS OF HIGH FINANCE
Imposing Bobberies Oommitted Without
Ones by Beepectable People.
FINANCIAL IMMORALITY WIDESPREAD
timbi Le to the Sbamblea of Pro
tnntvra aad Artistically Fleeced
Home Life Menaced a? Glided
Corrnptloa.
Tn a prriod of ftrnTal prosperity certain
crimes flourish, its certain others nourish
In a perlor of aw-lnl distress. Petty rob
bers pprlnK up whfn men a out of work
In hard times. In flush times more Impos
ing robbers raid pockets bulging with caah
for lucrative invent ment. This kind has
lately bloomed exuberantly. Last month
a hlgli-rlara Journal displayed this adver
tisement, topped by two open hands up
JUfted: " 'Hold up your hands,' Bays tha
highwayman to his victim. There Is a safer
-vay to 'mako' money." The reader Is then
referred to a widely circulated magazine.
In which a prominent operator reveals to
babes the mysteries of "high finance."
That this revelation of Immoral profits,
and how to make them. Is apparently In
spire! by revenge, forbids a childlike faith
In Its entire credibility. But those who
have wnteh. ,1 for years the downward slide
of "high tinonce," which haa recently
brought the governor of New York Into
court as a complainant against alleged
windier supposed to be respectable and
rich, can hardly deny to It a large verisi
militude. Lt March this same revelator
testified In a Iloxton court that he himself,
with one of the two chief participants In
the affair advertised above, made (46,000,000
during the years 1899-1901 In the promotion
of the copper trust, whose methods he now
exposes. A squeeze by his confederates
acems to have prompted retaliation by
breaihlng the story Into the public ear of
bow they squeezed the public.
Robbery and Respectability.
For substance of doctrine, aa the theolo
gians say, this revelutlon of a glgantlo
financial Immorality, perpetrated with due
observance of the forma of law, and said
to Have netted tta contrivers some $36,000,000,
while Investors lost two-thirds of their In
vestment, may be regarded as credible,
however open to correction In particulars.
While there Is honor among thieves such
aa It 1b the other adage la also true, that
when thieves fall out honest men come to
their rights though they he some time In
coming. Chief among these righta la to
have these practlcea of "frenzied finance,"
as described by their revelator, whose per
petrators still pose as respectable men,
branded with public ignominy by their
proper name of robbery, precisely aa the
"gallantries of some fine gentlemen in
former times are now branded as adultery.
Robbery, whether by the brutality of the
highwayman or by the plausibility of the
confidence man, la nothing but robbery. The
transfer of property from A to B without a
just equivalent, whether by the forger or
by the promoter of fictitious values com
pounded more or leas of wind and water. Is
imply robbery. In morals, to call things
by their right names la of supreme impor
tance. It makes all the difference between
a sound eye and a blind one. Because of
our failure to call and to treat robbery as
robbery, the nations we reproach with sex
ual Immorality may justly retort upon us
for equally flagrant financial Immorality.
The spoliations committed among us by,
the pen during the lost decade far exceed
In real magnitude those committed by the
word of any ancient world-conquerer.
"How Did yon Get Itf
In view of the hatred of the ahorn to
their- shearers and to the wealthy class
they disgrace, together with the animosity
evidently rising among the people against
accumulations of Ill-gotten wealth, It may
be questioned whether the stability of tha
commonwealth is any less seriously threat
ened by financial debauchery than it would
be by aexual. Twenty yean ago a high
class metropolitan Journal declared that the
financial practices of certain capitalists
were more effectively Inculcating popular
disregard of property rights than the har
angues of blatant demagogues. It la hardly
to be doubted that "How did you get it?"
la a question likely to be pointedly put some
day to tho enormously rich. Some fifteen
years ago a work on sociology by a dis
tinguished college president affirmed that
our social equilibrium Is endangered when
a single. family can amass, In the course of
one generation, a hundred million dollars.
That seemed the danger point then, but we
have now gone post it.
We seem to be Hearing the crisis of a dis
ease that threatens the vitals of the state.
People naturally think of better laws as the
proper remedy. But Judge ParKer tells ua
that what la more needed la bettor enforce
ment of the laws we have. And this waits
for the imperative mandate of public opin
ion, without which law Js dead. For lack
of thla, wealthy swindlers still go at large,
who are liable to the punishment which, in
a British court, Whltalter Wright recently
escaped by suicide. What the "Black
Hand" is to the Italian quarter, a pest and
a disgrace, such men are to Wall street
and other financial centers. And the news
papers that do their touting must be made
to share their obloquy. The lucrative ad
vertisements of an oil company, whose pro
moters were men of blemluhed record, and
whose actual holdings of land and oil were
all, only one newspaper in Honton wus suffi
ciently high-minded to refuse.
Menacing Kvlls.
But the sane and enlighten.! public opin
ion now to be educated to righteous deal
ing with enormous evils must be inspired
by more than a perception of the present
inequality of the treatment of petty and of
glgantlo stealing. To reinstate the "fair
exchange" that Is ''no robbery," the ethics
, of money as Its medium must be taught aa '
it has not yet been taught. The fact haa
faded out of mind that tho money paused
from hand to hand represents an exchange
of equivalents a service given and a serv
ice received. The dollar paid Is a due bill
for a dollar's worth of such service aa the
receiver desires in exchange for the service
he haa performed. Adam Smith mated thla
more than a century ago. But how has It
been forgotten!
There la general blindneaa to the ethical
demand that a money transfer must ex
press a Just balance between service lven
and service received. This demand U con
stantly enforced by the courts In petty con
trovrralea about excoaslve charges by mil
liner, and tailors, but utterly discarded in
gtnnd transactions. Here la where the cam
paign of education for the restoration of
flrsnclal righteousness must begin. Th
ethics of money la the A, B, C of economic
Integrity.
It 1 to the professed teachers of morality
end religion that our present morul crisis
most pointedly appeals, to hew to the line
ot righteousness upon sound information
and with dauntlexs courage. The courage
with which a distinguished churchman
braved certain obloquy by acting on his
convictions In the matter of a saloon is to
t commended, especially to the pulpits
that have censured him. They are Jon
fronted by an enemy more menacing to the
Interests Intrusted to them t'lan any num
ber of saloons. They will do w II to emu
late his courage In braving tho .xaentment
that awaits any Interference with unright
eous gain. Specially to be remembered In
the modern pulpit Is Jssus rebuke of the
rellgloua teachera or His time for atralnlng
at gnuts while swallowing camels.
OMAHA WEATHER REPORT Saturday Wanner.
Green Trading Stamps
Had sensational more on them last ml letter day. The array of Green Trading
Stamp collectors increases every day. The varieties and values of the premiums
are decidedly on the increase. Green Trading Stamps are the standard of pre
mium giving.
They are easily touts. The stamps cost you nothing. They are yonr cash dlacnnnt on your rash
pnrrhaees. We fdre them to you because we think you are entitled to them, and you might as veil
hare them as not, mightn't you? Yml can rnsh your collection hy watthlnjr these rouslnp gTeen trading
stamp senaationa that we chronicle In every edition of this paper. Save your coupon lntcls squares
containing the trade marks on your sonp wrapper, yonr clpnr bands and pet the little Stickers for
them. Better get the manufacturer"! list aud see the big bunch of manufacturers and Jobbers who have
gotten wise to the best means on earth for stimulating their business. Subscriptions for a whole
string of the best magazines of the day taken at stationery department and buuehes of Little Green
Stickers given free. How's your stamp book coming?
Benntffs Cafe
Regular Dinner
U:00 to 3:00
25c to 50c
A la Carte at
Popular
Prices.
Table d' Hole
5:30 to 8:00
The best serv
ice in town.
A Saturday Uproar in
CROCKER. Y
98c
10-inch, 11-itich and 12. inch Jardinieres Kich colors and
high glazes, new chapes, on sale Saturday, only
DINNER.WARE SALE
SATURDAY
High
rad English Porcelain Sets, from such
in rtros.. .
both white
well known English potters as Johnson Bros., .
H. Grlnflley & Co.. 10u-pltee sets, Dotn wimo
and decora tea, lor
$5.98 - 5.48 - 4.98
You must see these to appreciate them.
An Especially Interesting Item for
those Wanting a Reliable Set for Little
Money.
Haviland & Co., white Ranson bread and butter plates, each 16c
High grade, fire polished oil finished Water Bottles, for 29c-40c-48c-60c
and Fifty (Sfl.OO) ORCEIN TRADING STAMPS.
White and gold 6-piece Toilet Set $1.88
Bennett's Gread
Grocery
Hallowe'en!
The quaint celebration
happens Monday. All the
edibles needed for an old
time Hallowe'en feast; can
dies, chocolates, bon-bons,
pumpkin . head lanterns,
apples and all other fruits,
nuts of every kind.
Headquarters
at
BENNETT'S
Business Rushing? Well I should say! we are breaking
all records, and increasing by jumps. Our kingship in the
western grocery business is indisputable. It is meeting your wishes to every detail and in
every sense that brings all this about. Saturday we make a special effort to break all past
successes. Here are bargains that are transparent; Little Green Sticker inducements that
are momentous, thus you have buying opportunities Saturday that are not possible else
where than at Bennett's Great Grocery.
Fifty (S5.0O) Green Trading Stamps with
two-pound can Bennetts JUr
Hreakfast Coffee C7W
Thirty (1.00) Green Trading with fl Mr
pound Tea (any kind)
Ten l.o Green Trading Stamps with
found can pure ground black Of
Vpper .
Gingeranaps, crisp, spicy, snappy. " 4,
pound
Twenty ($.00) Green Trading Stamps with
eight bars Bonnet t'a Bargain 0r
Soap
1'HKK
Box of Chocolate In form of puzzle with
every ran OhlrarcwlU s cocoa, 2SC
H-pound can
1-pound can SOo
Tills is a very superior article and 1m be
ing served by our expert demonstrator.
Try It I
Twenty t?00) Green Trading Stamps with
each pound New York full 2f)c
Cream Choose vrw
HITTER
Received fresh every day.
Five (60c) Green Trading Stamps with
pound-packuge Bennett's Capitol OC
pekg.
Creamery
Guaranteed 16-oz.
Fresh Country Butter,
pound
14c
Mincemeat, I2C
pound ,"'w
Sour Tickles, Rn
dozen 0
Five (50c) Own Trading Stamps tOc
with dox. Dill Pickles
Ten (11.00) Green Trading Stamps 2Jtc
with one dozen Parlor Matches. . . 2 w
Twenty ($2.00) Gren Trading Slumps with
five cana Corn, Peas, or (Or
Tomato a OUW
rM)Y PEI'ARTMKIT
SOMETHING NEW HOO-ZOO Molasses
Kisses the moat delightful con- 25C
fection, iwuiid
and twenty (U00) Oreen Trading Stamps.
Bargains in Bed Blankets, Com
forts and Pillows for Saturday
2-pound Feather Pillows, covered with extra heavy tick- I.Qp
ing, worth 83c Saturday Tv
100 pair extra heavy Cotton Blankets, in grays, white LCI
and tans, worth 90c pair Saturday Ul
Good heavy Wool Itlankets, with enough cotton in them to make
them wear and wash, in grays, cheap at $3.50 pair 7 Q
Saturday imJ
Extra size I5ed Comforts, covered with the best silkoline, all knot
ted and tied, filled with pure white cotton, worth $2.25 f C A
Saturday
Extra size Comforts, very fine, $3 quality, extra soft
and pretty patterns, very large size Saturday only. . J
CURTAIN SWISS 50 pieces 3G-inch fine white Curtain Swiss,
dots all sizes and figures, the regular 18c quality 1 n
Saturday only la2v
Two Great Bargains at Our 16th Street Entrance
Underwear and Hosiery
100 dozen Ladies' Undervests and Drawers, white only, vests are
taped neck, . crochet finish, drawers ankle length with French
bands, full fleece lined, regular COc quality
Saturday only , ..wJJC
; . TEN ($ 1.00) STAMPS WITH EACH.
300 Dozen Ladies. Misses' and Child
ren's Hosiery
Fast black, warm, fleece lined misses' and children's, in a fine
rib double sole, and reinforced knee. Ladies' in full fashioned
super elastic.top. Qualities in the lot worth up to 30c. JP
. Our price Saturday, pair. A3C
Glove Counter
200 dozen Ladies' and Misses' Golf and Cashmere Wool Gloves,
all sizes, all styles, plain and fancy colors, pair 35c
Saturday Bargains in Underwear
Ladies', Misses' and Children' Fleece Lined Union Suits, gray
color, run regular size, regular 39c and 50c qualities.
Our price (all day) Saturday, per garment jZDC
Another creat Sale of children's and misses'
Sample Cloaks Saturday on our popular bargain
circle main floor, bee the disnlav in the wlndnw
Ages from 0 to 14 years. Prices up from $3.95.
Just about half price.
Sample Tailored Suits
Our sale of ladles' Sample Tailored Suits will be continued all dav
Saturday. This is a spot cash purchase of 150 SaniDle Suits at less than
cost of the material. About haif of them sold the first day.
saiuraay must sell tbe balance.
HARDWARE SECTION
Stove Talk
We've been talking
about the Penin
sular all week, and we had big sales every
day. THE PENINSULAR IS OUK
LEADEK, we fervently believe that its
qualities are superior to the qualities of all
other stoves on the market today, either
heaters or ranges. ,
We'd like you to see these kingly con
querors of winter's cold. See them in Har
ney street window, or for closer inspection,
with the added advantage of having an
intelligent salesman describe them, see
them in the basement.
WAY-DOWN PRICES tagged on
every stove for Saturday's sale.
No. 8 heavy nickled Tea Kettle
n4 Fifty (J5.00) Little Grem Stickers.
Scrub Brushes, a fine Palmetto stock, onlv.
And ten $1.(U) Llttla Green Stlckera.
A good Stove Urush 5C
na tea (J1.00) Uttls Oreen Stlckera.
HATCHETS HATCHETS HATCHETS
Thormmhly tempered lieoda, handlea of the proper Block and flnlah. no better AtZ
hatchet on the murket-slzes regulute the prices-(Wc 6So. Mo.... .40C
.... j o.vuj uiuiu ureen etlcKers.
THINGS FOU THE STOVE
30x3 stove Hoards, very CkQn
ultnicUve .. .. yOC
c 'orV (MOU) Llttla Green Stickers.
2Sx2K btove Hoards, quite 87C
Thirty 13M) Uttle Oreen Stickers.
Q6c
12c
BTOVB BOARPS Stx38 Btove o 4
liuards, prettily deaiKned
Fifty i.im) Utile Green Stickers.
13x33 Stovs Hoard, various j
r Uty tsj-wj Lime uiocn oiicaers
A SNAP IN STOVK PIP13-
per joitu.
extra good grade Suturduy only
10c
BENNETT'S MEAT MARKET
Omaha's busiest and most reliab e markx. Last Saturday we broke
all records. It's because we are flways in Ihe lead for best quality and
... LOWEST PRICES . . .
A few Saturday Specials 13 lbs. Fresh Leaf 1 (III
7ic
Lard.
Fresh Dressed Chickens-ail Ifl1! Fresh Dressed Rnos
hens IllC ters
MUTTON MUTTON MUTTON
Choice No. 1 Young Mutton Legs 6c
Mutton Stew 2-ic j Mutton Roast 4c
Mutton Chops 3 lbs. lor .' 25c
Rib Boiling Beef lO lbs. for 25c
Good Shoulder Steak 4 lbs. for 25c
HAMS HAMS HAMS
Rex or Winchester Sugar Cured No. 1 Hams ranging 10 to 12
pounds
Ilk
CARPETS
Special sale of Axminster, Wilton Velvets and extra Axmin
ster carpets. These goods sell regular at $1.23, $1.35 and $l.r0
per yd. No old soiled patterns to select from, nothing but
bright, clear, clean-cut patterns in this lot. Having one hun
dred and fifty pieces of these high grade carpets in stock, in
excess of what our atock should be at this season of the TZO
year, we place them on shIg Saturday, October 20th, JC
at, per yard
Note our 16th street window for display of carpets.
DRAPERY DEP'T-Specials for Saturday
Tapestry Table Covers In three colors, 2 yards square,
worth $2.50 each, for this sale $1.18
Window Shades In good colors, 3x6 19c S
A few shades in odd sizes, at...' loC
We have Just received a new stock of Bennett1 Silk Down Sofa Pillows, In
all sizes from 16 Inches square up to 2 Inohen. We are -also showing n new
line of Arabian, Cluny and Novelty Lace Curtains at prices that can t htlp but
please
PYR0GRAPHY SNAPS.
Wholesale Bargains.
rYROGRArilY GItOWS IX POrULAKlTY-IT BROADENS ITSELF
AND NEW IDEAS POUU IN ON US IN BUNCHES.
Dresser Boxes Uegularly $1.85, sale price 1.59
Dainty Squirrel Designed Nut Howls Special .75c
Stools Handsome designs, regularly $1, sale price .78c
Handkerchief Boxes The best ever 39c
Japanese Panels 15c
Scots Girl Tanels 20c
Bathing Girl Panels... .30c
Beautiful Christy Heads 40c
Outfits Our big leader 1.79
Art Hummers for Saturday-."
NO 1 MATCH SCHATC1IEIJS The great comic novelty,
(hit the scratcher, don't mutilate the walls), Z C
Saturday only
THIRTY ($.1.00) LITTLE GREEN STICKERS.
NO. 2 A HANDSOME PABLO Ii PICTURE 200 of them to
sell beautifully framed fac-similes, in 3-inch gold QC,
frames, an elegant line of subjects, a hummer at. . .
FIFTY ($5.00) LITTLE GREEN STICKERS.
Saturday Sale in Shoe Section.
The best Boys' Shoes made,
at ;
Men's Sample Shoes
at
and worth up to $4.00. Fifty ($5.00) Qreen Trading Stamps.
1.50
193
Women's Sample Shbes worth J $f&
up to $4,-at &.VKJ
Fifty ($5.00) Qreen Trading Stamps.
Men's, Ladies' and Children's
velvet Slippers with felt lining..
The best Girls' Shoes made, 11 C A
49c
at
Double Green Trading Stamps on all shoe purchases till noon.
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Headquarters for Omaha Photographers
Everything for the prac
tice and enjoyment of
the art of photography.
Kodaks, Cameras, all sorts
and sizes. Films,
Solutions, Etc
1 ifJ-J u
n. u . T.J 4 j
! -lfr.it aH it tin
CLO
THING DEP'T
PRICES WAY DOWN
Photo developing and finishing work a specialty.. Don't
risk spoiling your plates by trying to develop them, bring
them to our camera man, have them done right and done on
time.
SOUTHEAST CORNER MAIN FLOOR.
Tricky Little Snxps In Woodenware
A Curtain Stretcher (Want to save your
curtains? You must have a curtain stretcher.)
A Sewing Table (Popular size, it will help
you tew longer and sew better).
A 5-foot Step LadJer-(best grade)
An Ironing Table-(White wood and per
fectly planed)
A Large Plant Tub (Want to change your
plantiv Here's a dandy tub for it)
Fifty (J5.00) Little Green Stickers with any
of above items Saturday.
EITHER OF THESE
VICTOR....
TALKING
MACHIES
Victor, Monarch, DcLuxe
and Columbia Disc Records
Pocket Pin Cushion FREE With Every Purchase
Talking Machine Section, Jap- Room, Second Floor.
Men's and Young Men's Suits
and Overcoats
Three new styles just received and placed
on sale for the first time, "Nut Brown'
"Hand Tailored," "Bennett's Lapel." Double
breasts have the call, you may not like
them, so we have them in single-breast,
$18.00, $15.00, $1250, suit or overcoat.
Most high-priced stores get $5.00 a suit
more, isn't it worth saving?
50 Samples of Men s Overcoats, O.50
worth up to $18, Saturday only....
Dutchess Trousers, 10c a button, $100 a
rip, $5, $4.50, $4, $3.50, $3,
$2.50 and
Selling agents for Omaha.
Broken lots of Trousers, worth up J C A
to $5, at
Boys Hats all the new shapes
and styles, regular $1.00, at
WINTER CAPS
Drummers' Samples, no two alike, 50c caps 25c
Drummers' Samples, no two alike. 75c caps 50c
Drummers' Samples, no two alike, $1 caps 75c
Drummers' Samples, uo two alike, $1.50 caps $1
SHIRT SALE Wilson Bros. Cosmopolitan, Ideal (Tfl
and other good makes, $2 and $1.50 values 41
UNDERWEAR all fl.50 Broken lines wool O O
omenta as lontr as they last UUl
t
$2
KAUFMAN'S ORCHESTRA SATURDAY EVENING TWO CONCERTS: FIRST IN CAFE, 6:00 TO 7:25. SECOND BALCONY, 7:30 TO 10:00
Be want ads. produce results.