TIIE OitAIIA DAILY REE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907.
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Slate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as:
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of The Bee Publishing company, being duly
ewora. says that the actual number of run
and complete copies of The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Pee printed during the
month of December, 1908. wae as iuuuw.
1 31,870
17 33.870
2 30,160
I.... 31,610
4 31,710
K 31,700
31,890
7 31,880
t 38,080
t 80,630
10......... 31,760
11 38,160
12 83,060
It 31,880
It 81,760
( 31,760
tO 38,670
tl 31,630
12 31,900
2 30,860
24 ",
26 31,800
26 38,120
27 31,770
21 31,810
it 81,880
14 31,890 10
16 33,170 tl
II &0,400
Total
Leaa unsold and returned copies
. 30,800
. 31,810
.988.380
. 8,841
Net total 973,149
Daily average 31,391
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changed aa often aa requested.
Since Mexico has reached the stage
of frequent strikes, its material prog
ress can no longer be denied.
Chairman Hull's prediction of
greatly Increased cost of maintaining
the army should make peace confer
ences still more popular in the United
States.
The charge that the Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific were competing
lines before the merger finds its chief
support in the fact that they have been
merged. ,
Great Britain's .desire for assurances
of international peace must mean that
British taxpayers are beginning to con
sider the expense as well as the glory
of Dreadnaughts.
There is danger that- the alleged
plot to murder army officers at Fort
Reno may cause Senator Foraker to
wish he had dropped his resolution be
fore he took It up.
It will be difficult to convince the
old-time cowboy that Wyoming Is not
becoming effete since a man has been
actually convicted of murder for kill
lng a sheep herder.
Russian bureaucrats are still paying
the extreme penalty for holding office,
but so long as moths seek the flame
men will find the favors of royalty
compensation for the aftermath.
Mayor Dahlman declares that for
sixteen years he has never missed
chance to celebrate in honor of St.
Jackson. . He might have added that
he never missed a chance to celebrate.
no matter In whose honor.
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Testimony at Washington that enirt- j
neers have not always known where
to expect block signals gives ground
for the belief that the alleged "sys
tem" hag been of more value as an ad
vertising scheme than as an operating
device. ,
The discovery by an expert that
2,604 errors were made in the records
of the Wabash railroad in two months
raises the suspicion that the expert got
the books intended for public inspec
tion in place of those on which divi
dends are based .
Senator Overman's defense of the
system of employing children In fac
tories can be. easily understood when
factory conditions in North Carolina
are learned; but North Carolina has
tever been prominent In the movement
or a "new south."
Douglas county has fared fairly well
In the allotment of committeeship
placet at Lincoln. If the legislature
will do the right thing now by the
bills in which thla city and county are
specially interested, the people here
will have no right to complain.
Senator Burkett has made his debut
as an author by putting forth a volume
on the history of "The Congressional
Cemetery." Senator Burkett should
be careful about touching live wires
unless he wants his next literary effort
to revolve about "The Political Ceme
tery." Governor Deneea of Illinois asks
tor aa amendment to the banking laws
of the state that will provide more
adequate protection against fraud on
depositors and creditors. If the laws
are not changed he might see how a
change in state bank uuunlners would
afftiit the altuatlo
PAt rnsr-siB afterwards.
The proposition fathered In the Ne
braska legislature by Representative
Lee to engraft In the law relating to
revenue and taxation the doctrine of
"Pay first sue afterward," proceeds
on the right track. Two of the big
railroad corporations with large mile
age extending through nearly every
county In the state have for three suc
cessive years refused to pay their taxes
and gone Into court to enjoin their
collection. The railroad tax shirkers
want the privilege of cutting down the
taxes levied on their property 20 to
30 per cent, while other people are
compelled to pay what the authorities
ask of them promptly and without dis
count, subject to all the penalties of
delinquency.
It Is true the railroads have gone
Into the federal courts as nonresident
corporations with reference to all
counties in which the amounts in dis
pute are over the 12,000 necessary to
give federal Jurisdiction and that they
have not had the nerve to go into the
state courts in the counties in which
the amounts In dispute are less than
$2,000. It is not conclusive, either,
that any rule the state may lay down
would ie' binding upon the federal
courts "now or In the future, but the
practice of the federal Judiciary has
almost Invariably been to follow the
precedents set by state laws and state
tests In such cases. If the railroads,
and all other taxpayers for that mat
ter, were barred from enjoining col
lection of their taxes and required to
pay them in first before maintaining
suit to test their validity, they would
have trouble In getting any federal
court to come to their relief on pre
tense that they jwere being deprived
of their property without due process
of law, while refusing to take advan
tage of the privilege offered them to
recover back any money illegally ex
acted. The "Pay first sue afterward" rule
has been proposed in Wisconsin and in
California, both of which states have
had more or less trouble collecting
railroad taxes resisted by the roads
on the same specious pretexts put for
ward In Nebraska. If our legislature
ill take action along this line It will
probably set the pace for other states
whenever similarly afflicted.
JVO CHANCE FOB SUBSIDY.
It now seems certain that a subsidy
for American steamships, which a few
months ago promised to be one large
measure of positive legislation to go
on the statute book at this session,
stands no chance of enactment. Two
newly developed facts have so
strengthened its opponents in congress
as In all probability to place the bill
at their mercy in the short remaining
time before adjournment. The more
recently discerned fact Is monopoly
control by the Harrlman combine over
great steamship lines both in the At
lantic and in the Pacific which would
come In for a big share of the govern
ment aid on a tonnage subsidy basis,
which was the basis originally pro
posed. - Such disclosures of the In
vestigation now in progress, it is en
tirely credible, tend to alienate many
who might have supported a broad
subsidy policy.
Furthermore, it bad just previously
been established that the number of
steamships ' between ports of the
United States and South America is
more nearly adequate than had gen
erally been supposed and that the
number Is likely to increase as the
freight increases. But the proposition
to substitute for a tonnage subsidy
the plan of a bonus for mall carrying
service, with a view to more intimate
communication with the southern
countries, at once offended the strong
est positive force in favor of subsi
dies, the same being the ship building
and allied interests, which would pre
fer no measure at all.
ti. .
At best. It would have . required
united support, reinforced by the
strongest administration pressure, to
secure enactment of a moderate ship
subsidy measure at this session, but
the progress of events has been such
as to discourage rather than promote
success. In all probability postponing
the whole subject to the Indefinite
future.
TREK PASS AND PASSCSQER FARE.
It is noteworthy with what alacrity
the two closely related measures for
abolition of free passes and reduction
of passenger fare are Introduced and
pressed as fast as the various state
legislatures convene, precedence being
given to them in almost every in
stance. It is true that bills of this
character have been Introduced at
many Besslons heretofore, but usually
In a perfunctory way and with no se
rious expectation of enactment.
The state legislatures, now sitting,
almost without exception, face a pub
lic of an entirely different frame . of
mind as to these and kindred subjects,
to whom also' their, members for the
the most part are under the obliga
tions of explicit covenant., Congress
has led the way by summary inhibition
of free pass discriminations so far as
interstate travel is concerned, and
several states have already struck
down the abuse within their Jurisdic
tions. But aside from the political
corruption and demoralisation, which
alone call loudly for universal aboli
tion of free transportation, the public
Is obviously entitled also to the re
sultant economy in the shape of lower
passenger fares.
- There can be no doubt that as to
the greater portion of the country the
t-cent-per-mile maximum, with no
free passes, is a highly compensatory
passenger rate. Indeed, that approxi
mate standard Is already In force
through competition in an extensive
region in the east. No reason has yet
been shown hy the roads. If relieved
of the Immense burden of deadhead
ism, may not carry passengers under
a 2-cent limit at an even greater net
profit than heretofore In the two tiers
of states west of the Mississippi river
as well as In those east of it. v
But public sentiment Imperiously
demands that the free pass abuse shall
go, root and branch, and no legisla
ture can without recreancy in xbviou8
duty fail to enact the necessary laws,
thus establishing the condition calling
for limitation of passenger charges.
The lack of such limitation would be
In effect a vast continuing bonus to
the carrier corporations for abolishing
the old free pass abuse.
BUBKETT8 GRAZING LAND BILL.
Senator Burkett Is proposing a bill
(apparently with the acquiescence of
the president) to relieve the strained
conditions in the grazing land country,
which will doubtless command the
early attention of congress.
As outlined in the dispatches, the
Burkett bill provides for classification
Into grazing districts of such parts of
the public domain as are not suitable
for cultivation or for Irrigation, or for
forest reserves or other special pur
poses, and the use of this land for
the grazing of cattle on such terms as
the secretary of agriculture shall pre
scribe. The intention of the bill evi
dently is to open up the public lands
to pasturage of animals upon payment
of a fixed price per head and without
discrimination between the big cattle
barons and the little cattlemen.
Presumably nothing Is to be done
to prevent bona fide settlers taking up
land under the homestead law, even
though included within the grazing
districts. If not, this should be stipu
lated in the bill, because while ready
to promote the live stock industry In
every reasonable way, the people of
the west do not want anything done
to shut out desirable Immigration.
One weak spot in the bill on which
a difference of opinion may be ex
pected is its retention of the land titles
indefinitely in the government. No
Improvements, except of the most tem
porary character, will ever be made
upon the public domain, and so long as
no patent is taken out no taxes will
ever be paid on it to the state govern
ment. A tremendous discretion Is also in
vested in the secretary of agriculture
and his subordinates in fixing the con
ditions and charges for entry upon the
grazing lands. The Burkett bill seems
to be very solicitlous that every one
connected with the enforcement of the
law and supervision of the grazing dis
tricts shall be appointed from resident
citizens of the states in which the dis
tricts are located. The resident citi
zens are supposed to be more In sym
pathy with other residents who take
advantage of the law and less strict In
exacting compliance with all the rules
and regulations. It is notorious that
the illegal land fencers and fraudulent
homesteaders were brought to task
only through the efforts of special in
spectors Bent In from outside and free
from the pressure and influence of the
law' breakers.
The main features of the Burkett
grazing bill as outlined are commenda
ble, yet congress should see to it be
fore enacting any measure on this sub
ject that all the loopholes for evasion
are thoroughly plugged
Bianr spirit towards Japanese.
Governor Pardee's temperate and
dignified discussion of the school ques
tion In his message to the California
legislature is in Btriking contrast with
too many expressions emanating from
the Pacific coast concerning the Japa
nese and Chinese. While he believes
in the policy of the California segre
gation statute he advocates it in a
spirit that affords basis for rational
settlement of relations both with the
national government and with Japan
and China.
It Is, indeed, not so much school
segregation alone that has aroused pop
ular feeling In Japan as It is the in
sults and Injuries inflicted on Japa
nese as such, particularly In many
cases in San Francisco. That these
outrages have been committed by the
vicious and Irresponsible the gov
ernor admits, and he does not spare
denunciation of them. His firm stand
in this respect ought to help materially
to establish a more wholesome Pacific
coast sentiment.
Insofar as Japanese are lawfully in
the country with rights guaranteed by
treaty, it goes without saying that
state and local government muBt see
not only that these rights are realized,
but also that the orientals are other
wise treated with humane decency,
without regard to technical hairsplit
ting concerning the national and state
jurisdictions. And if this be done,
there will be no Insuperable obstacle
In the way of any reasonable school
or other regulation which local condi
tions may require.
The new organization of the county
board promises a continuance of the
business-like administration Inaugu
rated when the management of county
affairs was restored to republican con
trol two years ago. All the members
of the board are henceforth to be mem
bers of every committee, a move quite
feasible where the number is so small
and conducive to. keeping the whole
board in touch with every part of the
work. The effect of the new deal
ought to be seen In a material reduc
tion of the county tax rate for the next
year.
A resolution to provide themselves
with free postage stamps at the ex
pense of the taxpayers has been voted
down by members of the lower house
of the Nebraska legislature. This self
denial is certainly praiseworthy, but
Judgment will have to J suspended
until the complete record is made up.
Law-making bodies have been known
to choke at gnats while swallowing
camels.
Publicity has always proved the
most effective antidote for legislative
corruption. While chasing the lobby
ists hot foot out of the state house,
why not pass a law compelling them
each to wear a ribbon badge bearing
the word "lobbyist" plainly printed in
letters readable at a distance of 100
feet, so that the susceptible law-maker
may have no possible excuse that he
did not know to whom he was talking?
For some Inexplicable reason a
bunch of salt water congressmen at
Washington refuse to believe that the
Missouri river is navigable. A special
Invitation is hereby extended to all
these provincial statesmen to come out
to Omaha and get acquainted ' with
Missouri river fluid both internally and
externally. ,
Governor Hoch of Kansas assures
us once more that the prohibitory law
has been a great success and In proof
cites the recent closing of over 200
Baloons on the Kansas side of Kansas
City. The question Is, How did 2 00
saloons come to flourish in Kansas, not
withstanding the law prohibiting
them? .
One of the guests prominently in
evidence at the Jacksonlan feast was
M. F. Harrington, president of the re
cently organized Public Ownership
of Railroads league. Either the invi
tation to Harry Brome as vice president
of the league miscarried or he neg
lected to send the usual letter of re
grets.
I
Rare Sel (-Maori Are.
New York Post.
Mr. Rockefeller's recent gift to Chicago
University represents abatentlon from at
least 76,000,000 oysters.
A . Real Mystery.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
It Is simply astonishing how a man like
Mr. Harrlman can find time for an opera
tion. This Is perhaps another of his se
crets. Omaha's Domestic Adjustments.
Boston Transcript.
The record of domestic adjustments
and readjustments for eleven months of
last year at Omaha was 1,648 marriage
licenses and 484 divorce applications. This
la a world of change.
Scalftlnsc Experts Get Busy.
Baltimore American.
Tribes In the Indian Territory are to be
formpd Into companies to control the coal
and asphalt lands In- the territory. If there
la any scalping done In the subsequent
business transactions' of the companies It
will be of the good, old-fashioned sort.
Richest Nation on Earth.
New York Sun.
Ten years ago our. yearly production of
coal wns 170,000,000 tons, and we thought It
a heap. Last year we mined 400,000,000 tons.
In ISM we produced ,8,600,000 - tona of pig
iron. Last year we produced 26,000,000 tons.
Our copper output of ten years ago 240,000,-
000 pounds. It la now, 00,000,000 pounds. In
1PM we dragged frora . the bowels of the
earth minerals and mineral substances worth)
about 1625,000,000. The value of our mineral
product in 1.906 approximates $2,000,000,000,
These figures are bewildering In their Im
mensity. It Is no wonder that we are the
richest nation on earth. Tet in spite of It
and there la something left to hope for and
there may be something left to fear.
DEMAND FOR WORKERS.
Supply lnequal to the Demand In
Many Lines.
Wall Btreet Journal.
Never before in time of peace- hhs there
been so much of a demand for men as now.
Men are wanted In the steel mills, In the
factories, on the railroads. In the army and
j the navy, In the Postofflce department and
almost everywhere else where worK has to
be done. Last year there were 2,340 resign
ations out of two classes of clerks number
ing 20,000 In the Postofflce department. A
Iobs of 12.1 per cent a year shows how
rapidly the skilled and seasoned members
of the force are being replaced by raw
recruits to the detriment of the service as
a rule. At this rate It would take eight
years for the new to replace the old force
In entirety.
It is peculiar to prosperous times that
labor becomes, so to speak, more mobile.
Employments compete for labor, for skill
and talent, and the publlo service has to
take Its chances with private pursuits.
Among private pursuits tbe competition
Is keen enough to keep some people moving
from one place to- another, without becom
ing fully master of any one thing. Changes
have been rather frequent during the past
year, and the rise of wages for labor as well
as the Increases In salaries which are still
going on are proof that the end Is not yet.
The men wanted are, In spit of labor scar
city, not so much those who can do routine
work, as those who can open new fields
for the legitimate employment of capital
and labor. We are now, after several years
of great changes, at the point where read
justments may he required for the continu
ance of prosperity.
PERSONAL NOTES.
One of the beauties of thrift has been
Illustrated in the case of a New York man
ufacturer, who, by living on 35 cents a day,
managed to leave loving relatives 1300,
000 over which to fight
Commander Peary Is a good deal of a
hustler and knows something of the stren
uous life In Ice fields, but his experiences
in the north are nothing to what he la
having now, alnce he la under contract
to' get the story of his trip In shape for
publication on March 1.
Arthur Chamberlain, the oldest brother
of the great politician, la very unlike his
brother In many ways. For one thing he is
epposed to him In politics; also that he
does not wear an eyeglass. Seeing, how
ever, that a Chamberlain would not be a
Chamberlain without some mannerism, he
Invariably wears the pinkest of pink neck
wear. President Roosevelt has offered the posi
tion of commissioner of the general land
office to Philip B. Stewart, who waa the
president's companion on his last hunt In
the Colorado mountains. He Is a promi
nent republican of Colorado and laat year
was nominated for governor by bis party,
but declined to run. He Is a capitalist and
a son of former Representative Stewart
of Vermont
Until a few weeks . ago If anyone con
gratulated Secretary Taft on his presiden
tial proapecta the big Ohio man would listen
with a laugh and then say: "I must put
you In my list of D.-F. F.'a" If asked
what the cabalistic letters meant, Mr. Taft
would reply that they stood for "dear
fool friends," with such an accent on the
"dear" as to convey the fdea that a mere
forcible ord might be substitute!.
ROINVI A BO IT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Torrent of Life la the
Metropolis.
One of the New York Insurance compa
nies which gave a painful exhibition of
financial legerdemain and extravagance bo
fore the Insurance Investigation committee
a little over a year ago, now proposes to
rear the loftiest skyscraper on earth and
go so high Into the air that future In
quisitors must climb to reach It. The com
pany occupies a marble block fronting
Madison square, between Madison and
Fourth avenues and Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth streets, to which a tower of
fifty stories will be added. This tower
will be the greatest atructure of the kind
In the world, and Is to rise Ave stories
higher than the great Blnger building, now
In process of construction downtown. The
tower In many respects will resemble In
style and outline the famous Italian Camp-mile;
It Is to tower 690 feet above Madison
square and a1 giant clock at Its top will be
vlnible for miles.
In- the report that P. Tecumseh Sherman,
commissioner of labor of New York state,
makes In winding up the year he says that
kneading dough with the feet Is still In
vogue In some of the Italian bakeries In
New York City, and that the sweatshops
are "veritable hotbeds of disease."
The report says In part:
"Our inspectors have essayed to stop the
kneading of dough with the feet, but have
not been sustained; there Is nothing posi
tively Illegal or necessarily unsanitary in
the practice.
"The subject of bakeries is a sore point
with this department. The worst bakeriea
are the old cellar shops In New York City.
Yet a clause In our bakery law, as In force
last year, apparently excepted cellar ba
keriea In existence when It was enacted
(1&5) from all sanitary provisions.
Joel B. Erhardt, formerly police com
missioner, does not entertain a very high
opinion of New York's "finest." Writing
to Police Commissioner Bingham, Mr.
Erhardt says: "The police today have
many valuable privileges they receive good
pay, have a life position, are retired, as
provided by law, on a pension of one-half
their salary. Many of theBe at once obtain
easier positions and make up on the new
place they occupy the loss of salary by
retirement.
"The majority of them are disloyal to the
people who pay them, having a union com
posed of their own men, which Is contrary
to the manual, and for this offense each
member belonging to the union should be
tried and dismissed from the force. As a
whole, they are Insufferable. Fully one
third, and probably two-fifths, should be
dismissed from the force, for that many are
inefficient or corrupt, and many of them
are both.
"The detective force Is worse than the
main body they protect their confreres In
stead of detecting and bringing them to
book, thus adding to the power of the
grafter.
"I do not think you need 2,000 more men
until you have the power to dismiss about
2,000 worthless ones. Then you will got
better service with the 6,000 remaining than
with the 10,000 working under the present
law. The department never has been in
such a putrid condition as It la today. I
use the word 'putrid' because none stronger
occurs to me at this moment."
Patrick Lahey of Sands street, Brooklyn,
has a wooden leg and troubles of his own.
It Isn't the leg that worries Lahey, it is
the use to which his wife puts It when he
unstraps It. The man, who is well along in
years, told his woes to the complaint clerk
In the Adams street court
"I've been sleeping in it for the past four
weeks," said he.' "If you never slept with
a wooden leg, . never tried to turn over In
In bed or tuck the covers around your feet,
you can't understand the troubles of a
man trying to rest with one."
"Why don't you take It off?" asked the
clerk.
"Take it off?" replied Lahey, "take it
off?" Man, do you think I'm as shy in my
head aa I am In my legs? If I take it -off
she hides it, and then when I want to go
out I got to stay In. Sometimes I do be
hopping around the floor for three hours
hunting under the bed, behind the stove.
In the washtubs and in the top of closets
for my leg.
"The last time I took It off Frances
(that's .my wife's name) hid It, and when
I found It she tried to take It from me and
threatened if she got It again she'd use It
as a club to beat me. Now, there should
be some law to prevent a woman making
a man sleep with a false limb or to pre
vent his wife beating him with it if he
leaves It oft."
"Sure," said the clerk. "I'll give you a
summons and you hand It to her."
"Hand It to her?" Man, do you think'
I'm craxy? Send It to her by a policeman,
and the biggest one you have."
This being promised, Lahey stumped out,
expressing the hope that the court will
arrange matters so that he can sleep In
peace and not in pieces.
Even the most decrepit New York woman
who has passed the allotted three-score
and ten will not admit she Is getting old.
That was the Impression of passengers on
a Broadway car the other evening. Not a
man had gallantry enough to offer a seat
to an aged little woman who encountered
the car at Tenth street. Glancing about
with withering scorn, a young woman arose.
With the "queenly manner" which she had
read was dreadfully uncommon nowadays,
she touched the newcomer on the arm.
"Won't you take my place?" she asked.
Instead of showing the gratitude expected
the elderly person, who offered living proof
of the advance In the arts of artificiality,
lifted her too well outlined eyebrowa and
flashed a glance that ought to have killed.
"I am not old," she said, In a voice that
sounded through the car. "Why did you
offer me your seat? Keep It yourself."
The girl sat down In confusion amid much
laughter. "No wonder people lose man
ners when politeness gets a reward llko
that," she whispered. Then a man aid to
his companion: "Is It worth while having
any manners? And what are manners for
but to be forgotten?"
December's business was the largest for
any month In the largest year the New
York custom house ever experienced. It
contributed almost 130,000,000 to an annual
total of i09,90M'5. This was j more than
the entire United States customs revenue
In 1W To this It Is necessary to add 198,
E6.065 contributed to the nation's banking
resources by Imports of gold at this port
The suhlreasury handled Just short of
$5,ono.O0,Ono. about equally divided between
debits and cedlts, the increase upon both
sides being more thtn 11,000,000.000 over 1906.
National bank loans, exceeding a round
billion of the minimum, were about one
fourth of all national bank loans for the
nation. The maximum monthly clearings
In New York In January were almost
equal to the minimum clearings for the
entire country In July, or rH.S-a.sW.ra. On
the Stock exchange 26S.0O0.0t.rt shures were
sold, a maximum' for New York, and, of
course, there Is no other market for a com
parison. Daaapaess mm Dryaess.
Kansas City Journal.
The White House may be damp, as John
Sharp Williams alleges, but the halls of
corigress are often dry enough to satisfy
the most exacting. This condition, how
ever, la not attributable to. the oratory of
tivha (Sharp WUUawa. ,
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In the Name of Sense.
that good common sense
of which all of us have a
share how can you continue
to buy ordinary soda crackers,
stale and dusty as they must
be, when for 5 you can get
Uneeda
fresh from the oven, protected
from dirt by a package the
very beauty of which makes
you hungry.
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l'ARDO OF MR8. LILL1E.
Ashland Oasstte: The last official act of
Governor Mickey wns the Issuance of a
full and unconditional pardon to Mrs. Llllle.
We are sure that a large majority of the
people of Nebraska will approve this deci
sion. Columbus Telegram: The pardon of Mrs.
Llllle will be approved by nine out of ten
people In the state, and yet there has never
been offered a shadow of argument or of
fact to break the perfect and convincing
chain of circumstantial evidence which
compelled that Jury to find the woman
guilty.
Fremont Herald: As to the Justice of the
pardon granted Lena Margaret Llllle, tried
and found guilty for the murder of her
husband, Harvey Llllle, there will always
be a difference of opinion throughout the
state. Mrs. Utile's sex, of course, saved
her. Rather, the fact that she was a woman
kept public sympathy to the point that the
retiring governor knew he would be more
or less sustained. Had a man who com
mitted the same deed been convicted he
would have died In the pen. In all proba
bility. Hastings Tribune: The unconditional
pardon which Governor Mickey granted to
Mrs. Lena Llllle, who has served two years
of a life sentence In the Nebraska peni
tentiary for the alleged murder of her hus
band, Harvey Llllle, carries with It the free
dom for which the defendant has prayed,
but It does not carry with it the power of
proving her Innocence, There Is no doubt
that the Llllle pardon would have carried
more weight and would have been better
received by the public had not Governor
Mickey abused the pardoning power.
Lincoln News: The general Indignation
felt over the pardon of Mrs. Llllle by the
retiring governor Is justified. It Is plain
even from Mr. Mickey's own statement that
he was moved by maudlin sentimentality
rather than by any belief in her Innocence.
He says:. "I am clearly led to the con
clusion that there is very grave and serious
doubt of her guilt." If he had grave and
serious doubts of her guilt he also had
grave and serious doubts of her Innocence.
One certainly Implies the other. If the
governor was not convinced of her Inno
cence he ought not to have pardoned her.
The governor wronged the public and weak
ened Its respect for the law when he started
In to release prisoners from the penitentiary
and his pardon of Mrs. LilHs waa simply
the capBheaf.
Orand Island Independent: The last offi
cial act of Governor J. H. Mlck-y was the
granting of an unconditional pardon to
Mrs. Lena Margaret Llllle. The history
of the case Is too well known to require
review. Her conviction on the charge of
the murder of her husband was purely
upon circumstantial evidence. The mother
of the murdered man has always been
firmly convinced of the woman's Innocence.
No sufficiently strong motive has ever been
proven. The woman has, since her incar
ceration in the penitentiary, kept the pic
ture of her dead husband before her and
almost constantly wept Murderers do not
want pictures of their victims before them
as a usual thing. Certainly, If Mrs. Llllle
shot and killed her husband, she la a
psychological enigma. Under all of the
circumstances the exercise of the pardon
In this case lifts some strong points In its
favor. U will no doubt, however, be
severely criticised by many who "believe"
Mrs. Llllle to be guilty.
David City Banner: At 12 o'clock today,
January 3. John H. Mickey retired from
office. His last official act, at the same
hour of his retirement, was to give an
unconditional pardon to Mrs. Lena Mar
garet Llllle, who waa convicted on March
S, 1903. for the murder of her husband on
the morning of October 22. 1902. Whether
or not w,e believe that Mrs. Llllle was
guilty of the cold-blooded crime for which
she waa convicted, It must be admitted that
she was given a fair and Impartial trial,
that the court and ths Jury which convicted
nd sentenced her had the best opportunity
of finding out all the facts and circum
stances connected with the murder, and
were the mont competent to Judge In the
case, in tare oi an mesa ikcis, ana wie
further fact that Governor Mickey has, on
various occasions, expressed himself In
unmiktakable terms, and less than two days
before expressed himself to the editor of
O ABIES need Scoffs EmuUton
I if they are not
for bone, blood and flesh. It
makes thin, peevish babies plump, con
tented and rosy-faced.
Pale, nervous girls need Scott's
Emulsfon, It brings back the color
to their cheeks and strength to their
nerves.
Nursing mothers must provide nourv
ishment for two. .The concentrated
nourishment of Scott's Emulsion
gives strength to both mother and infant.
Invaluable for coughs and colds.
ALL DRUGGISTS ao. AND M.
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this paper that he believed that Mrs. Llllle
was either guilty or that she knew wha
committed the crime, he places himself
above the courts and thd Jury and pardons
the woman who was convicted less than
four yeurs ago of this . terrible crime, as
his last official act. By his act Governor
Mickey has placed a premium' oh murder.
David City Journal: Mrs. Lena Llllle waa
pardoned by Governor MU-key at t2 'clock
January 3, 1T. This was the last official
act before he retired from office, and it
was on par with many other things he did
while In office that he should not have dona.
In pardoning Mrs. Llllle he put his wonder
ful knowledge (?) against-that of brainy
judges. Jurors and the supreme court What
Is to become of law and criminals when
a governor sees fit to let them go free as
Mickey has done since he haa been la
office. Ills record of pardoning criminals
Is beyond the comprehension of- all honest
cltixens and he has been bitterly criticised
for this last act. The rltliens of Butler
county feel Justly outraged at John XL
Mickey.
FLASHES OF FIN.
Tommy Pa, what la a limited monarchy?
Pn Anything less than four klng-,New
York Sun.
Tes Did I understand you to say Mr.
Tlmmld has a nervous affection?
Jess Well, yes. He has an affection for
me nml he's nervous because he doesn't
know yet whether I'm going to say "yes"
or "no." Philadelphia Press.
"He believes thoroughly In himself," said
the admiring friend.
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "Some
people are so credulous!" Washington Star.
"It takes a wise man to know when to
change his mind." said one statesman.
"Yes," answered the other, "and a brave
one to own up to it when It Is accom
plished." Washington Star.
"So this," snld the newly arrived spirit,
gaxlng curiously at the. landscape, "Is the
Ultima Thule'" . , . ,,
"On the contrary," answered 1 Pluto, "you
will find this to be the ne plus sultry. Take
the chuto to the left, please.'-Chlcago
Tribune.
"I'll never forsret the first Jackpot I ever
won." said the veteran at the game.
"What did you hold?" asked the young
ster. "My breath, for one thing; I don't re
member what else." Philadelphia Press. ,
"How did that university you founded
turn out?"
"It Is doing great work." answered Mr.
Dustln Stax. "It la devoting especial at
tention toward economic studies In the hope
of finding a way to prevent all the wealth
and power from drifting into the hands of
grapstng persons like myself." Washing
ton Star.
ALMOST SAFE.
Pittsburg Gazette.
Row down, ye people, and submit
I'nto the law's decree, towlt:
That none shall deal In food unfit,
For mortals to consume.
No more can Uncle Sam endure
The sale of edibles Impure;
Hence those that thus offend for sure
Will meet an awfnj doom. '
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The enterprising candy man.
Whose wares are underneath a ban,
Must dump 'em In the garbage can
Without an hour's delay.
Those sweets on which the children gloat.
Resplendent In their slowing coat
Of paint, have not a chance remote
Of further holding sway.
The little folks will vainly weep t
For sugar plums at prices cheap. . .
They'll have to stand a tariff steep
Because the law denies
The right to sap' and undermine
The public health with those malign
Adulterations saccharine
That Infants most do prise.
The name Injunction also knocks
All kinds of food unorthodox
Put tip In bucket, can or box.
With labels that deceive.
The fakir that has long relied
On borax and formaldehyde
Must put these condiments aside.
Or dire results achieve.
Likewise the wicked druggist who '
Is known for gain to mix or brew -Iebascd
decoctions must eschew
Such arts and plainly state
On ev'ry package what's within.
The use of subterfuge thin
Will constitute a deadly sin
Which he must expiate.
Wherefore, relolce, good people all.
Since fond that's pure has now the call.
No thought of poison need appal
Pouls timid and discreet.
Without a tremor ye may haunt
The feed shop and the candy plant.
Henceforth what more could mortals wantf
'Tls almost safe to eat
thriving. It i$ food
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