EDITORIAL SECTION.
The Omaha
Sunday
Bee.
PAGES II TO 18
ESTABLISHED, JUXE 10, 1871.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNINO, MAKCn 5, 1903.
SL(4LE COPY FIVE CENTS.
ART POINTERS IN OUR
MARCH SALES
MONDAY'S BIO KPE(HIK.
Plctares far the Dining Room.
Fruit Pictures elegant subjects In
hardwood frames nale price Oflf
Monday OVfc
Twenty t2) Green Trading Stamps.
PYROGKAP11T POINTERS.
tOc Olove Boxes , 30C
And ten $j .00)' Green Tradlrg St a mpi.
SOc Photo Boxes 6QC
30c Photo" Frames' lQc
Outfiti, our big special, 1.7Q
Fl'f Vjr ' Vxs'.OO)' Green ' Trading BUmui.
See Big Window Display We rs
Headquarters.
I ARTIST MATERIALS.
Fry's 20c and tto China (Q-
Colors IOC
Palette Knives 20C
China Paie'ttes, regular $i. 25 ' " QSf,
value, Monday
JUST 1N-Blg line of Aulliha China
Colors. Ask to see, the China Plata
fled with Aullch's colors.
Bfg also Water Color Paper. flOr
rough and smooth, special vW
. See as for Picture Framing.
See us for Fine Art Pictures.
Money Saving Prices on all Articles.
MARCH SILVER
WARE SALE
Quadruple Plate Tableware at
Very Little Prices
Satin Engraved Cnke or Fruit Dishes,
regular $1.75 goods,
Fifty Green Trading Stamps.
QUAPRTPLE SILVER BREAD
TRAYS, beautiful grape design In
French Orcy, or satin finished and
engraved, regular up to 1 1 C
1.T.', choice. . . . '. 1. U
Fifty ($.") Groeu Trading Stamps,
A SKORTK1)- BOHEMIAN GLASS
BKHRY DISHES, quadruple plate
stand, regular up to $2.00, IOC
choice IimJ
Fifty ($:) Green Trading Stamps.
WslII Pamper
New collection for season 1905. A
wider variety of exclusive papers than
ever.
SPECIALS FOR MON DAT AND
TUESDAY.
(.000 rolls of good gilts, per
roll, 8c and ...O
10.000 rolls of white blanks, rtn
per roll
Wall Paper, In small remnants, 4n
per roll ..'
"' Xll other goods at great reductions,
and DOUBLE GREEN TRADING
8TAMPS,-T1URD FLOOR.
Engraved Cards-
SPUING STYLES
CO Engraved Cards and plate, any
stylo script type, 59c
60 Cards, printed from plate, JJQ
50 Engraved Cards, old Kngllxh
type and plate, J 25
STATIONERY MAIN FLOOR.
STATIONERY
SALE
Bennett's Olde Amsterdam Linen
A note paper of the finest
linen fabric and very delicate
colors.
5,000 pounds of this paper
and 100,000 envelopes of the
latest shapes to match.
1 pound (102 sheets),
any color,
at
Ten ($1.00) Greet! Trading Stamps.
1 package envelopes, to 4 d
match paper, , lvlC
Five (50c) Green Trading Stamps.
Great quantities displayed in Station
ery Section.
MAIN FLOOR.
25c
BENNETTS
nunIf
Bennett's Great Grocery
The ' greatest values EVER in our
famous Grocery Section.
Forty (14.00) Green Trading Stamps with
two-nound can Bennett's A Up
Breakfast Coffee OV
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Afin
Stamps with pound Tea
Thirty (COO) Green Trading ORr
Stamps with pound Candled Peel. 'v
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps- with
tnree pacKugcs uenneita
- capltol Mincement
Ten (W) Green Trading Stamps wi,th eight
bars Bennett's Bargain Soap...'...:.:..:..'..;..
'Tea (ll.OOf dJreen Trading Stamps with pound
package Batavta Seeded Raisins.... ...
Ta -$!.. Green- Trading Stamps with three
pound ran Table Syrup........
(Ten Green Trading Stamps with pound;
Dukarn SrhetD's Coeoanut
Ten ' (ll.po) Oreen Trading Stamps with pint , OOr
bottle Snider Catsup... Aiak
Five ' (6Sc Green Trading Stamps with Jar
Diamond 8 pure Fruit Preserves
Thirty ($3.09) Green Trading Stamps with ten
Tomatoes, son a pacK.
25c
......25c
15c
121c
25c
10c
1 00
' Thirty $3.0o) Oreen Trading Stamps. with ten ff
cans .Early'' June Peas.. '. ,,UU
Ten. ill. w lireen Trading Htampa witn tnree ' - e.
... w
..25c
...18c
....18c
naekRea Tlneeda Biscuits.
, Ten. (lUOt .Green1 Trading Stumps with ten -packages
Vegetable Flower Seeds, assorted.
Tert $l;00) "Green Trading Stamps wltlh can
Omar peaohes.. '....
Ten itl'.OO) Green Trading Stamps with can
Omar Pears,.,.
CIGARS
Matinee Star, a
good 2ic eiarar
twelve
for LDQ,
A genuine leather
push Cigar Case
wm hoia in
0. cigars... 7U .
Ten (81. 00) Green''
Trading Stamp -
A ood gun, -nick-,
el, or white metal
match
safe... Z3C
Eight (80c) Green
Trading Stamps.
Hand made flake
out mokln? (o-
&Hb:32c
Ten (81:00) Green
Trading Stamps.
"S H' GREEN TRADING STAMPS EVERY TIME AND ALL THE TIME-
M
PRICES-
QUALITY
NO MAGIC WHEN WE USE
THE TEEM! WHEN WE SAY
QUALITY
WE GIVE YOU "EVERY DliOT
O' BLOOD THAT'S IN IT!"
Z?1
PRICES MEAN NOTHING. IT'S
QUALITY THAT COUNTS, AND OUR
PRICES
'QUALITY!
ARE CUT TO THE RONE
EVERY TIME!
M
illinery Section
Beimett s New
, CHARMING INTERIOR ARRANGEMENTS AND INVITING SURROUNDINGS
No Belter Equipped Millinery, no B tter So:k?i Mi liatry, no Greater Varieties cr all Styls
and Grades of Miliimry Merchandis and no Bater Trained Millinery Saks-P op1.: can b:
Found West of Chicao-and we Question IF MOSE INTELLIGENT SALES-PEJPLE
CAN BE FOUND EVEN THERE.
This New Department is Op:n for Your Inspection. SALES PEOPLE Ycu Have Known
are Ready to Wait on You, to Show Yo j Everyihin? in S o:k, whether you wish to buy or nor.
Early Spring Patterns Are Arriving Daily
If You Do Not Find the Hat You Wish in Bennett's Great Mil iner Department, IT
ISN'T IN TOWN, THAT'S ALL.
Here Are Some Specials for Moaday Selling
A IN UNPRECEDENTEIKVALLIE
A Toque, a Turban of a Dress Shape Hat Immense varieties, in all colors and
materials. These flats, Toques, Turbiius, or Dross Shapes include French Sailors, Mushroom
Shanes and others. Thev come in Straw and Chiffon or Maline Combinations, in all Chiffon and
Lace, in novelty Braid, either with elaborate trim miiig of flowers', ribbous and latest novelty effects.
THESE ARE HIGH-GRADE ORIGINAL "SINCLAIR" CREATIONS.
THEY HAVE AN INDIVIDUALITY THAT'S MATCHLESS.
YOU HAVE TO SEE THESE HATS. Our price Monday straight
CHILDREN'S CAPS for t-chool wear pretty, dainty, attractive, ' wearable caps, ASn
IN SILK OR FLANNEL, up from ,
STREET HATS STREET HATS
A special showing of high-class Street Ilats, the creations of LICHENSTEIN, HENRI BENDAL
and GAGE BROS. These styles axe confined strictly to Bennett's New Milliner- F P
you cannot get them elsewhere up from. . ,.,.,.vJiUU
Every lad v in Omaha who appreciates millinery values is given an invitation HERE AND
NOW to visit this magnificentmillinery section, where MRS. SINCLAIR, MRS. WALTERS, MRS.
WEIBLE and others known to Omaha's millinery: trade will be-graciously, pleased, to see, you.
ticsi noveiiv eiiet is.
$5.00
SECOND FLOOR.
DELICATESSEN DAIMTIES
KXPRES8 SHIPMENT pt'E MONDAY
A. M. from WEISEI CO.. M1IAVAUKEB.
Stuttgartner Knackwurst, ttankrurters,
Brattwurst, Braunsweiger, Liver Sausage.
Ham BoK, Goose Liver Sausage, Mecklo
berger Mettwurst, Oother Cervelet, Oermaa
Salama, Plockwurst, Thuringer Blood Saus
age, Holstelner Mettwurst, Potted Ham.
Mortadella, Danish Spiced ' Beef. Dewey
Siloed Cookud Hm,' Polish Cooked Saus
age, Jellied Pigs' Feet, Quaker Meat Loaf,
Veal Loaf, Columbia Ham. Home Chipped
Beef; Best Bologna Sausuge,. Cooked Beef
Tongue, . Morrell's Iowa Pride Prepared
Meats In Jars, Pickled Calf Tongues. Bone
less Hocks, Honey Comb Tripe, Boneless
Pigs' Feet, Ox Lips, Pig Hearts, Sliced
Summer Sausage, -Granulated Beef, Sliced
. Beef, Pickled Umh Tongues.
double1 green trading stamps
with the above all day monday.
meats basement.
' BENNETT'S' i i
Woodenware Section
' BASEMENT , ,
Snaps for Monday Buyers .
1,50 Ironing ,Table'-ii(n '1 C
bettors . .' ;. .e.:, .: '
Fifty ($5) Green Trading Stampi. -plx
Foot 'Stepladdc'r, 1ieBtl - O
quality. . . . i . .i t . A. IiSO
Forty .Grwn Tradinii Stamps.
78e. Clock' Shelf, attractive P
and strons... OaC
Thirty reon Trading; Stamps.
BENNETT'S PURE CANDIES
The sweet tooth lias a grand, good
time dlKglnjr Into Bennett's Pure Can
dles? they're "pure". Wholesome, fresh, di-'
liclous, light, and our prlees are less l
luuny-cents a pound ou u average coin
partsdn. '
Ten ($1) (Sreen Trading Stamps with
pound Shell , If '
.Candy;...:.;..;.: IDC
Five (30c) Green Trading Stamps with
large box Cara-
mels..:.; 1UC
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
Salt or Pepper Shaker JA
filled with Candy . IUC'
Bennett's Great Chinaware Section
THE LARGEST. THE BEST ARRANGED. AND TUB MOST ATTRACTIVELY
STOCKED CHINAWARE SECTION WEST OF CHICAGO.
Hero Are Some AUractlve Specials
l i . . I - . . 1 . lit
. . ltyW4'
in H . ,m..an, .. ..... . - - - '
Double Green Trading Stamps. Hla yr.
Hi. .V'i,,4ilf 13, ln !"Vr"" IOC
tAviZfkwl Twenty Green Trading Stamps.
T W dvvf iVi nnn lot nv nowi.S. MAKERS. PO-
lJ.'iVi,.lJ TlTn I11S1IK.S1 nrvrnil llim und OCT J--Ji.Xl
Xr'Zil&Va ileooratlons. choice of nny at tWP
X&r,'JunY:X Ten (SI) Green Trading Stamps. f- "
:v-i t tunc i a mpc m
J I list close them out. fiul will lunne intensely uuciesi- , w
IngvpritH's on this line all week. . Take H off any Lamp lu
the section. It niean:
sy.DO ones for 9.i)t) .Ki
Sli.OO ones for. ....4.00
fl.OO ones fr 2.67
mil mii nit I'iirlit tliriiiiLT li flin lino. TfVl
CHINA WAUK AM) LAMP SECTIOX-Hud floor.
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BENNETT'S GREAT HARDWARE
AND PAINT SECTIONS
Hot Specia Is for Monday. Adeliic Paint and Varnish Remover
varnlxh
fuce to
20c
20c
12c
20c
30c
50c
11
A
It's n cnod thins! It reinovos nil paint and
clean to the wood thus you have a new Mir
rtpnlnt.
Twenty $'2) Green Trading Stamps with S.V
Inittle Adelite Paint and Varnish Kcinover...
Twenty I$'J) Green Trading Stamps "with 2.V
bottle Adelite Furnuui-e Polish best on earth.
Ten ifl) Greea Trading Stamps with l pint
can Khinlte Floor Stain and Finish
Twenty $'Xi (Jrecu Trailing Stamps with ij pint
can Shliiite Floor Stain and Finish
Twenty t$21 Green Trading Stamps with 1 pint
enn Shlnlte Floor Stain and Finish
Thirty 13) Green Trading Stamps with 1 quart
can Sliluite Floor SUilu and Finish
BUY A PLUMBERS' FRIEND !
Forty ($4) Green Trading Stamps with Plumbers' f
"Friend, best quality O JC
Ten ($1) Green Trndlug Stamps with Paring C
Knife IJC
Ten (SI) Green .Trading Stamps with set White
Metal Tea Spoons .IUC
Furniture, Carpets and Draperies
Special Sale of Dressers
Golden, oak finish, beveled fi QS
French mirror, $10 value, at
Golden oak, 4 drawers, excel- Q
lent finish, tll.50 value, at CJ.c
Golden oak, 2 large and 2 small drawers,
swell front. S12.T& value, 10,50
Golden oak, fnll swell front, 4 drawers,
large oval mirror, (17.00 QB
value, at IV.tJtJ
.Quartered golden oak. large pattern mir
ror, polish finish, t&OO , lb nn
alue, at ICT.V7W
'Quartered golden oak, serpentine' front,
high polish flnlHh, l-"8W , OO flfk
value, at ,
Combination Dresser and Commode, made
of golden -oak, with largo beveled mlr
V ror, Just tho thing for small , T Cf
rooms, I10.SO value, at;.... Uy
Princess Dresser, made of golden oak,
large mirror, $12.60 value, , 9.Q5
Princess Dresser, made of quartered onk.
serpentine front, ,!l.A ... . frSQt
value, at. . . w i.. IO,y
95c
19c
Specials in Curtains
We still have a few of thosn attractiva
Nottingham Lace Curtains, f
at, pair
Swiss and MuhIIii Bed
Room Curtuliis, pair....
Snow Flnko nnd Madras Curtulns nt,
pair. $4.75, $2.80, $1.60 Q8C
Window Shades of all kinds, '
up from
(Bring your measurements.)
A complete line of .Sowing .Machlil'ea
and Machine Needles.
Watch fof our big Special Rope Por-.
tlere Bale next week. A few advance
Styles now shown in 16th St. window.
Specials in Carpets
Axmlnster RugH, 27x63, fine' patteras
to select from, special O OSS
price A. AO
Art 8(iuares. all wool, new spring
patterns, special 9.00
Stair Carpeta, good patterns,
special price
BJsxell Sweeper, standard,
special
THIRD FLOOR.
19c
2.25
Its
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PAILR0A1 RATE PROBLEM
Dr. Oeorge L. Miller Eeiteratei His Oft
Expresied Views.
THINKS REGULATION BY LAW HARMFUL
mention Invited to (he Great
.Progress Hav4 by the Nation
as Da Largely to
' the Railroads.
OMAHA, Feb. H, 1906. Hon. Edward
Rose water. Editor of The Bee: I address
this communication to you personally for
publication In The Bee for reasons which
are satisfactory to myself. It concerns
the regulation of freight rates ou railroads
by law, which,, after twenty years of sur-
. cense, Is again a paramount question be
fore the whole.country. I read with great
interest the recent publication In Tho Bee
of the testimony which you gave before a
congressional committee which met In this
city twenty years ago, of which Senator
Piatt of Connecticut was the chairman.
Aa was to have been expected by those
' who know your conceded ability and your
grasp of public Questions It displayed a
' knowledge of the question before the com
mittee that was at least remarkable at
that day. - This committee made a circuit
of the country, taking the testimony and
giving the views of prominent men in all
parts of the union. On the arrival of the
committee in this elty I was absent on a
visit to Washington. ' Returning one morn
ing, a message came to me from Senator
Manderaon to appear before tho committee.
I had not time to brush the dust off my
coat, after reaching my editorial room, be
fore responding to the summons. 1 did
not even know on what line my views were
t be sought. Aikod to give them upon
the subject of railroad .legislation by stat
ute, I said: -
Against Interstate Cuauiuereo Lav.
I have coma to the conclusion that legis
lation Is a hindrance and vexuilon and a
daiiKer to the people and the railroads
Jointly, whose interests are one, if intelli
gently handled. I have no question in my
mind that congressional interference with
tho intricate and complicated business of
railways, either as to freight or passengers,
would be a, big mistake, and It would
always result In positive injury to the
people themselves. I believe that com
mercial law will assert Itself over statutes
and that you cannot remedy evils in com
merce by law any more than you can reg
ulate morals by law.
Continuing, I also said: '
I believe that in this state absolute free
trade in railroads, aa in every other state,
is the right principle, and if evils exist Inci
dentally In tho great world of traiiioria
tlon, those evils uecessarily arise from ex
isting conditions, and are self-curing and
self -repairing, if not vexed by interference
cn the part of the state.
I stand on the piopoation that freedom
Is what the railroads wunt, and freedom ;s
what trade wants; and anything that crip
ples any part of the traiiMctions which en
ter Into double barter, which Is trade, Is
wrong, fundamentally wrong. It can never
be mude right by any power on earth except
the commercial law governing the transac
tion itselfs
I have always Insisted that competition
would beat combination; that free operation
of capital would develop into new enter
prises. If left to itself for a abort time,
would cure the incidental evil. The devel
opment of railroads from Buffalo to Cali
fornia has seen a constant decrease In
freight rates.
If you undertake to regulate Interstate
commerce, or have the government assume,
by purchase or otherwise, the regulation of
railroads, tho more you Interfere the more
you will. In my Judgment, injure, not the
railroads, but the people.
Again I have another view. It Is this:
That the railroads need protection today.
The people are being hurt, in other words,
by an excess of railway building In the
land. There are four or live rail
wuya between this state and Illinois com
peting for business. They try to combine.
Competition bents combination. The rates
are broken. Trade Is uncertain. The mer
chant Is Induced to buy today and to with
hold tomorrow; the railroads ure embar
rassed, merchants are misled and Injury
results to both the railroads and the people.
So 1 say; 1 say It deliberately, and I want
my friends here who think I am such a
wicked monopolist to hear It, that if there
is anything to be done in the way of legis
lation to help the people of this country, It
must be to stop railroad building. I mean
trunk lino railroad building. There are
never too many of the branch roads that
shall go to the farmer's door and bring the
Liverpool market right to him. These
WSkAS beautif
No woman's happi
ness can be complete
without children ; it
it her nature to love
and want them
much so as
i to love the
iful and
pure. The critical ordeal through which the expectant mother must
pats, however, is so fraught with dread, pain, suffering and danger,
that the very thought of it fills her with apprehension and horror.
There is po necessity for the reproduction of life to be either painful
or dangerous. The use of Mother's Friend so prepares tho system for
the coming event that it it safely pasted without any danger. This
great and wonderful
remtdy U always
appliedexternally.and
has carried thousands
of woman through
the trying crisis without suffering.
gd fur (ne book eeutalnlng tafomaUoa
of prteele value loail aspeotaul aiuiasrs.
Tss Brasfttld Rsgulattr Cs., Atlaata, Ca.
branch roads have been the blessing and
the strength and the hope of this new land.
Would Stop Overbuilding;.
Senator Piatt at this Juncture asked tho
following question: '
Do you think the present system of rail
road building ought to be prevented by law?
Mr. Miller No, sir; 1 do not mean to say
that. I said that if I were to legislate to
day at all on railroads which I would not
do I think I could serve the people In no
better way than by stopping the building of
trunk line railways between this state und
the state of Illinois.
Tho Chairman To Chicago?
Mr. Miller To Chlcugo; and I would stop
the building of trunk lines from Chicago to
the Atlantic seaboard.
Senator Piatt I quite agree with you that
It is the building of that class of railroads
which lies at the foundation of our sad con
dition of business today; but I thought you
advooated the prevention of that by legis
lation, and then doing nothing else.
Mr. Miller Not at all.' I want to say an
rt l.ap ihinv 1 nnvpp liuil an ntinnrt unit v to
free my mind. I want to say something !
about the land grant railroads. I am airry '
Senator Van Wyck is not here; but sena
tor Saunders is here, and that will do as
well. I want to say this: That, contrary
to the public clamor, I believe the granting
of public lands has been tho best thing that
ever happened either to the government or
to the people; and so far as believing that
the land grants to the Pacini; roads have
been an injury to the people, I regard them
as having been the greatest blessing the
government could In Its power bestow, both
upon the government and upon the people.
I take issue on all this sort of discussion.
Now, Mr. Rosewater, I. ask you, after
taking this look backwards, to consider!
the conditions unqer, wnicn we are toaay,
after twenty years of experience, so far
an the reduction of freight rates on rail
roads Is concerned, without the aid of
law, national or state, in the face of actual
and positive vexations, caused by the
failure, of law to accomplish the objects
for which it was enacted. This failure is
now openly and broadly confessed under
the Interstate commerce law, and we are
now launched upon a sea of renewed agi
tation for repeating the same experience
which wo have had In the past.
Rates Go Down Normally,
Mark you, my friend, that during these
twenty years, ,wlthout the aid of law and
In spite of law, freight rates on both long
and short hauls in the United States have
continued to decrease on eyery ton of
freight carried, under the Influence of the
laws of business, until the rate per ton
per mil, compared to what It was In the
days when your testimony and mine was
given before the senate committee; Is now
reduced to a comparatively nominal ruffe.
General Urosvenor, that very ablo man
from Oliio, demonstrated before the house
of repreaontaUvev, not ten days ago, the
truth of this statement when he proved
that on the long haul over our great sys
tem of railways In the United States, we
not only have the cheapest railway trans
portation on earth, but that freight is
now carried for h- than 1 ceut per ton
per mil in our country.
And what shall be said of the marvelous
enrichment if this state and every oher
by the railway developments which have
given markets ' to' our production agri
cultural and mineral? Was there ever so
great a blessing bestowed on the people
lu the history of . America in so short a
time as you and I, Mr. Edward Rosewater.
have personally witnessed? I am obliged
to call your attention to the following
paragraph in your own editorial, which
appeared In The Bee Saturday, February
St. tUferting to the Irglajatlve sgllaUon
of this everlasting rate question,, which Is
now setting everybody crasy, including the
president, you say:.
Incidentally, the people of Nebraska look
to the republican legislature to enact a
few laws that will protect them against
rapacious combinations that seek to enrich
themselves by destroying competition in
the price of farm product and the dis
tribution of commodities that the farmers
are compelled' to purchase, , ...
I am simply astonished that a man of
your brains and strength should" ever
make, under the limelight of ' the past,
such a suggestion as that about cur rail
roads, which have, In fact, created all the
greatnes-j, nil the power and all' the prom
ise which Nebraska and Omaha hat'e real
ized In your lifetime and mine.
I do most respectfully, and urgently
protest that you do yourself and the people,
as well as the railroads, the greatest In
justice to foster such ideas In respect to
the conditions under which we live in one
of the most opulent and one of the. strong
est states in the union. I will allow much
for politics and I will allow everything for
conditions, but I do Implore men of power
In the press and in our 'section to stop this
kind of injustice to themselves snd to this
part of the west.
What Railroads Have Doae. '
AITw me to recur, with the utmost brev
ity, to the work of railroads In Nebraska
and Omaha, unaided and unvexed by stat
ute regulations under your eyea and 'mine
In forty years' For many- years before
the deliverance that came with the railroad
epoch farm lands of the most productive
s6rt in Nebraska could) not have been sold
in any largo volume for 75 cents . an acre,
and for many years after it the cream of
Douglas county farm 'lands were a dead
drag on the market at from $6 to $7 per
acre. Farm lands are now selling inside,
the semi-arid lines at from tM to $100 per
acre, and are worth every cent of It for
actual cultivation. And why? The an
swer Is plain and easy. It' Is because,
and only because, the cheapest and swiftest
transportation by railroad which the .world
has ever known has brought the markets
for their products at good prices to the
very doors of the men, now enriched be
yond their own dreams, with every condi
tion of solid comfort snd reasonable luxury,
who own and till them. The beneficent
results and blessings which our railroads,'
with perfect freedom front every law ex
cept that of - competition, have ' wrought
out of sheer barbarism In this transmls
slsslppi region during the manhood lives' of
living men Is utterly without example In all
the annals of mankind. .
Omaha would have been a farm Instead
of a growing, powerful,' semi-metropolitan
city of 140,000 Inhabiuints If the Union
Pacific railroad had been built at Relicvuo,
when Thom.us C. Durant, where, as I per
sonally know, at one time intended , to
build It, nnd the same result would have
happened with the great city south of
Council Bluffs, on the Iowa sido of the
Missouri, If that same Thomas ''C. Durant
had not mudo it ponslbie to change the
location of the Union Pacific bridge from
Child's Mill to Omaha. And yet I readily
recall with what munVaJ unction the old
refrain flu. ted out upon Omaha airs about;
the great donations of ground for tracks
and shops on the river front which rniatia
mado to the Union Paclho company. As
cording , to aboriginal mathematics, they
amounted to inUUoos In value. The actual
truth was. that but for that sajnu Union
Pacific railroad's power those . lands on
the river front thus donated to It by a
generous-minded people would not have
been worth $2 per square mile to Indi
vidual owners for any purpose, saying
nothing about taxes In those dismal days,
which were always days of doubt, and
sometimes of despair.
Regulation Cry a Rage.
Evils exist In i-air'oad muuugeracnt. Dis
criminations and rebates are so many
wrongs to localities and to individuals,
but between these evils and the rates
that should bo placed upon traffic there
is a difference which is us wide as the
sea. After tho rage for regulation under
the lead of the "Little Father," who has
taken, charge of this hemisphere' by some
thing resembling divine light, sober and
sane people may be shown, once again,
that railroad regulation of railroad rales
by law will never regulate.
But I ought not to close without Buying
that the leading editorial in Tlio Bee lust
Sunday on the outbreak of statu socialism
m Kansas was a timely and ringing note
of warning agarnst the agitations of the
time, which, unless soon checked, are 11a.
ble, and likely, to do great harm to the
country.
A few days ago I said to you that there Is
no such tiling as a "Beef trust." ' You
agreed with me. Since the above was writ
ten Mr. Oarfield's report, after a long and
exhaustive Investigation of the whole ques
tion from the books of tho packing com
pany and otherwise, has astonished the
country by making It as clear as daylight
that wo were entirely right about It. There
la no "Beef trust" and there never has
been auy "Beef .trust," according to Mr.
OarflelU, and thus another great ghost Is
laid. '
Tht shock to' our popuilstlo president and
to the demagogues and "demireps" 'of all
sorts of politics, who have raged and raved
so long about the bugaboo of the man
eating "Beef trust" may possibly result In
closing for the moment at least the per
petual motion of Mr. Bryan himself. The
"Beef trust" has been simply a monstrous
myth, and the lying that has been done
about the great packing companies, which
I tried to show In the press two years ago,
now clearly proven by jar. (Jartield'e re
port, ought to put the devil himself out of
business. GEORGE L. MILLER.
CRALN. RATE Wilt IS ENDED
Bailroads . Agree ..'on' Tariff to Go Into
' Effect Next Month.
LEAVES OMAHA IN SAME OLD CONDITION
OFFICIALS AT PROSPECT HILL
City toancll and Others Will Listen
to Heuaesta of Improve
meat t lob.
The members of the city council and city
comptroller have accepted an Invitation
from the Prospect Hill Improvement club
to b) present at the mass meeting Wednes
day evening, March S, at Thirty-fourth and
Decatur streets. A list of Improvements
In. ;he way of grades, trees, new- slle
walks knd repairs of old sidewalks, as well
as crosswalks, will be presented to the vls
Itqr u. things most .jiecd4 by the tax
payers ,of Prosnuct 4tlll neighborhood', the
biiuliig seasou. The utw light throwu
upon the price of gus lights In other cities,
as shown by Investigation of Acting Mayor
Elnuaan, will be considered.
Slight Redaction In nates to Tide
Water and So Advantage
Over the Terminals lu
Cratn Country.
Taken as a whole, tho men who operate
on the Omaha grain market are glad that
the rate war has been ended and that the
situation will settle down and become per
manent. They are tired of the constant
fluctuation of rateH, which, while it may
give occasional advantages to some of them,
are In the end demoralising to. the market.
It takes a very foxy man to keep In touch
with the possibilities when tho rates are
going up and down every second day. The
farmers and country elevators are also
more difficult to deal with, aa they fear
they are not getting the best of the situa
tion. With the rates nailed down, as they
will now be with a permanent settlement,
everyone oonnected with, the grain business
will have leisure to leurn just what Is pos
sible. Omaha Just Where It Was.
The present adjustment gives Omaha
about the advantages it enjoyed before the
east and south began fighting for the Ne
braska corn. .
"According to the morning papers, " said
A. B, Jaqulth, the railroads have reached
a settlement of the rates which will leave
Omaha the former. rales to the gulf and
give us a 2-cent lower rate to the Atlantic
seaboard. After the readjustment of the
rates following the opening of the grain
exchange, Kansas City had a 1-cent differ
ential to tho gulf In Its favor. During the
present rato war this was removed to a cer
tain extent and Omaha grain went to the
gulf at the same rate as it would have gone
from Kan a a City. Now the differential is
replaced and. we are whero we were before.
The 1-cent advantage 'of Kansas City Is not
objectionable and gives us the ability to
move our corn with profit. A question
arises as to the 2-cent ruduotion to the sea
board, whether they van route the corn that
way, now they have reached the agreement.
Our corn market will go off now just the
amount the rate has advanced. Thut Is to
be txpectud."
"Car Famine" Will Coutlnae.
. The Omaha Grain exchange lias received
no Information from the railways as to the
agreement on grain rates. The newspaper
reports are the only news. so far received.
The former rates front Omaha to Baltimore
was 20H cents, and the new one is t rents
lower. The rates do pot go Into effect un
til April, but It is the general iniprexslon
the car famine will cxlxt In the west from
now on until the advance of- 6 tents Is
made In the rates. It Is thought the rail
ways will take care not lu have too many
cars returning empty Into the corn belt, to
be loaded with corn and shipped out before
the rate Is reinstated. The Corn buxjnesa
has been adversely aBeclcd for some days
in fiar of tho agreement, tho buyers -not
wishing to be caught with high priced corn
on hand. Buying orders are now suid to
be confined pretty well to Nebraska by
the east and the orders to bo of the seven
day sort. Eastern grain men will bo cau
tious not to buy any corn they are not sure
of getting cara for to haul before the new
rate goes in. This probubly will have a
depressing effect on Nebraska corn busi
ness until the lust of the month.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses have been
issued:
Name and Residence. Age.
Albert E. Pierce, Douglas county 31
Edith Ostler, Douglas county 20
John C. Peterson, Valley 2?
Anna E. Peterson, Valley 21
Earnest Henderson, South Omaha 22
Emma Kuwltzky, South Omaha 19
Frank J. Murphy, Omaha 82
Marie H. Stafford, Omaha 23
Thomas Myler, South Omaha 2t
Hunnah Mitchell, South Oinuha 21
18 K. wedding rings. Ed holm. Jeweler.
Mortality Statistics.
The following births and deaths have been
reported to the Hoard of Health during tho
twenty-four hours ending at noon Saturday:
Rlrths William LlndHay, 1720 Cass, hoy;
Hans Peterson, Hull South Forty-eighth,
boy; Frank Kllpatrick, 1W5 North Eight
eenth, girl.
Deaths Edwin A. Moore, 2419 Dodge, i;
Infant Colt, 4n3 Bancroft. 13 days: Frank
Coover, Fifteenth and Jackson, 22; M. Slay
baugh, P.'ipllllon, Neb., 65; Rev. Edward F.
Oaule, 2M6 Cuming, 67.
PROVE ITANY TIME
By the Evld3nc9 of Omaha
The dully evidence citizens right hero
nt liomc supply Is proof sufficient to
HiitlHfyatlu greutest skeptic. No lwtt(r
proof can be bud. Here Is u case. . Reud
It:
Mr. Fred Miller, employed ut Edr.
qulst'g meat market, 17th nnd ('lurk sts
HvIiik at 1011 Isstird street, says: "I
have beet) ho bud with my back thut I
could scarcely stoop. After stooping I
could M'urcely straighten, und trouble
with the kidney secretions existed. I
tried every kind of remedy guaranteed
to be u sure euro for kidney complaint,
and although I cum never lyuupcllcd to
stop working I have scores of times
felt Inclined that way. Two boxes of
Ileum's Kidney Tills procured nt Kulm
& Co.'s drug store, comer Kith and
Iiotiglus streets, cured mi!. If I have a
recurrence of kidney complaint I now
know what to ukc."
Tor sule by all dealers. Price ,V)
cents per box. FoHtcr-Mllhtiru Co.,
Huffnlo. X. V sole agents for the I'nlted
States.
'' Remember 1 lit name, Doau't, and
tako no substitute.