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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION:
State nf Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.:
George B. Tmchuok, treasurer of Tha
Bna Publishing company, being duly sworn,
any a that the actual number of full end
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bea printed during
tha month of May. 108, waa a follows:
1 38,840
9 39,530
3 38,700
38,680
e ..3,o6o
38,680
18 36,100
IT 39,080
18... 30,830
18 35,800
BO 35,830
81 38,830
S3 35,850
83 35,800
84 38,100
98 .36,000
96 85,800
97 ....35,990
88 35,880
89. ..85,880
30. 35,460
7.
8.
.
10.
II.
ia.
13.
14.
i. 39,610
.39,370
89,120
89,800
38,800
39,310
36,180
....... 39,080
IS 38,880 .
31 35.900
Total 1,130,580
Lea unaold and returned coplea.. 8,880
Net total 1,110,710
Dally average .' 35,829
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed in ray presence and sworn
to before me this 1st day of June, lu8.
M. P. WALKKK,
Notary Public
WHE.t OUT OF TOWN.
Banacrlbers leaving; the city tem
porarily shoald hare The Bee
mailed te then. Aadreea will he
I chanced urn often as reqnested.
Senator Burrows has retired to a
quiet resort up In Maine to look over
bis assortment of keynotes.
Just to be in style the Denver con
vention la going to have a tew con
tested delegations of Its own.
Some ot the presidential aspirants
at Chicago will be as lonesome and as
little noticed as the June bridegroom.
Jersey City claims to have the larg
est clock in the world- Every boy
heading for school at' 1:58 knows
better. " J -
The nyct grand Jury, will be tempted
to bring in a true bill against the re
cent grand Jury for murdering the
English language.
The emergency currency law was
designed for use only In times ot panic.
Tho country will hope there will never
be any "necessity for using it.
The Cummins forces in Iowa have
discovered that Senator Allison ia not
nearly so weak as some ot those faked
photographs made him appear.
Senator Galllnger ot New Hampshire
is the prize optimist. He is confident
that a ship subsidy bill will be passed
at the next session of congress.
Perhaps Mayor "Jim" thinks he is
not called on to account for emer
gency currency like that received
from the Ryan-Sheehan purse in 1904.
"Why are the labor organizations
opposed to Speaker Cannon?" asks a
correspondent. It must be because he
wants to do the work of the 383 mem
bers of the house.
Thomas F. Ryan declares that he
will not go to the Denver convention.
He is apparently satisfied with his old
plan of having his political deals In
the west made by proxies.
Francis B. Loomis has been selected
to head the American commission to
the Japanese exposition in 1910. Ven
eiuela will ask no further excuse for
refusing to participate In the affair.
It will take a few days yet to find
out Just how much the late grand Jury
co6t the taxpayers of Douglas county
and give them a chance to answer
whether they got their money's worth.
Maryland democrats failed to men
tion Mr. Bryan's name In the state
convention that selected delegates to
penver. Maryland democrats take
their medicine, but do not like to talk
about it-
It the newly elected principal ot
the Omaha High school were to take
charge right now he would assume di
rection ot sixty-three teachers and
1,866 enrolled pupils. That Is a big
school and will require a big man at
the helm.
Our local democratic contemporary
heads a news Item about a resumption
of work In the car shops of the Erie
railroad. "Hot Air Prosperity." Is
the inference Intended that the demo
crats are afraid prosperity will be re
stored too soon?
i 1
The president will know how to
sympathize with a man who has gone
through a hard winter without work
and with a good deal of sickness In
the family. Congress has sent blm
nearly 4,000 bills and about all of
tbeui calilag tor money.
the cost or go verxm est.
As the minority leader In the sen
ate Mr. Culberson ot lexas nas
adopted the usual, if erroneous, plan
of attempting to charge the party in
power with extravagance in appropri
ations, and repetitions of his charge
may be expected in various forms
from democratic sources during the
coming campaign. Democratic lead
ers have acquired the habit ot making
this charge at the close of every ses
sion of congress, although results
have failed to show that they have
profited by It in a political way.
The question of the amount of
money appropriated by congress is not
so Important as the manner ot Its ex
penditure and the purposes to whictH
the money is to be devoted. There
Is no attempt on the part of the re
publicans to conceal the fact that the
government expenditures have In
creased materially in the last dozen
years. They are willing to rest their
case on the contention that the appro
priations are not chargeable to waste
or extravagance, but have been made
to meet legitimate needs of the gov
ernment and to carry out administra
tion policies admittedly In the interests
of the whole people.
The appropriations for the first ses
sion of the Sixtieth congress were
slightly in excess of $1,000,000,000,
although tho amount that will have to
be paid out of the federal treasury for
the coming fiscal year will be much
smaller than that. In the first place,
the appropriation ot $223,000,000 for
the Postoffice department Is charged
in the total, while the postal service
la almost self-sustaining, and more
than $200,000,000 of the amount will
be returned to the Treasury depart-.
ment from postal revenues. Included
In the total are $58,000,000 for the
sinking fund and $25,000,000 for the
redemption of national bank notes.
These amounts do not come out of
revenue, but are charged as balances
by the government system of book
keeping. These totals alone, aggre
gating about $360,000,000, must be
deducted from the amount that will
be taken from the federal treasury.
On the other items of Increase a
question of party policy Is involve-!.
Since 1904 something like $200,000,
000 have been paid out for Panama
canal expenses. The democrats will
hardly care to denounce that as an ex
travagance. The other big items of
expense have been occasioned by the
increased pay of the officers and men
of the army and the navy and by the
creation of a modern navy. To
charge , this to extravagance would be
to condemn the national development
that has followed the war with Spain.
The democrats went before the voters
once before on a platform declaring
the war a failure during the .days of
civil strife- and It Is doubtful if they
will imrlte a" repetition of that" cam
paign by declarlngff'BgafnBt the main
tenance of an army and navy befitting
the nation's position In the list of
world powers. The. party at Denver
may declare against "militarism," but
there Is little prospect that it will de
mand a reduction of either the army
or the navy. The army and navy costs
more now than they did in long-ago
democratic days, but honest democrats
will admit that new conditions have
made this Increase inevitable.
The second count in Senator Cul
berson's charge of "extravagance" is
the amount of money appropriated for
"new offices" created by the repub
Ilcan administration in the last six
years. The list of these new officers
Is unusually long, but the records
show that it contains the names of
agents, inspectors and other officers
made necessary by the railway -rate
law, the pure food law, the meat, in
spection law and other legislation de
volving on the administration new and
Important duties. The investigation
of the land and timber frauds, the re
bating and freight discriminations,
the prosecution of violators of the law,
have made necessary the employment
of additional agents and representa
tives of the government in many lines.
The question is. Will not the public
benefits accruing from the enforce
ment of those laws Justify the in
creased expenditure?
The charge of "extravagance" can
not be seriously entertained until Sen
ator Culberson and his democratic as
sociates are specific as to where and
how congress has appropriated money
without the prospect of satisfactory
returns on the Investment.
OKLAHOMA MISREPRESENTED.
The manager of the democratic
press bureau in the new state of Okla
homa has Issued a circular letter of
protest against the spread of ground
less and mischievous reports respect
ing the acts and actions of the Okla
homa legislature. He makes particu
lar reference to a story given wide
publicity recently to the effect that
the legislature bad passed a law giv
ing the labor commissioner authority
not only to adjust labor' disputes, but
also to fix tho rate of wages to be paid
by all employing concerns in the state.
He encloses a copy of the bill as proof
that no such power was granted and
no such legislation passed. The law
in question simply creates the position
of labor commissioner and gives him
about the same powers as the labor
commissioners of other states.
The evidence Is conclusive that Ok
lahoma was slandered by the report,
which appears to have cojae originally
from a correspondent of a Chicago
newspaper evidently desirous of -bringing
the officials of the new state Into
ridicule. It was innocently com
mented on by other papers, including
The Bee. It is but fair to give the
Oklahoma . legislature its dues. It
pleads guilty to passing laws protect-
THE OMAHA' DAILY REE: FRIDAY, JUNE
ing Its members In their right to eat
popcorn and peanuts during the ses
sion, requiring nine-foot sheets on the
hotel beds and uncracked china on the
hotel tables, but it protests against
being charged with tho enactment of
legislation that would drive capital
from the state and label the law
makers as socialists.
ALLISOS'S VIGTOHT.
Senator ' William
Boyd Allison,
Iowa'B Grand Old Man, 1b entitled to
congratulations on the magnificent vic
tory scored in the statewide repub
lican primary Just held. Never In bU
prime did the veteran senator havo
such a combination of powerful fac
tors arrayed against him. It Is doubt
ful if ever before the state of Iowa
had witnessed a battle within the
party with lines so closely drawn and
opposing forces so strongly mar
shalled. While Senator Allison was busily
engaged at his legislative duties In
Washington, his chief opponent was
himself in the field utilizing every ad
vantage of his personal presence. The
friends of Senator Allison had to fight
under their own -leadership, but they
were none the less determined and ag
gretslve. 1
It was, Indeed, a battle of the giants
in which the success of Senator Alli
son, although by no huge majority,
testifies to the gigantic stature of his
great personality.
A SETT HIGH SCHOOL PR1NC1PA t
The Board of Education has, by
unanimous vote, chosen E. U. Graff,
now at the head of the high school at
Rockford, 111., to fill the impending
vacancy In the Omaha High school.
The new principal will come to Omaha
practically a stranger and it will de
volve on him to demonstrate that he
is the right man for the place.
The people of Omaha have definite
ideas as to what sort of a man Is
needed to manage their high school
successfully, whleh we believe were
voiced by The Bee at the time Mr.
Waterhouse's resignation was an
nounced. They will expect the new
principal to measure up to a high
standard both as an educator and as a
disciplinarian.
Everyone knows that the conduct
of a great Bchool like this, with sixty'
odd teachers and nearly two thousand
pupils, requires the co-operation of all
concerned to make it do lta best work.
If the new principal manifests the
proper disposition, .which we have no
doubt he will, he will find teachers,
pupils and parents and the public gen
erally ready to give htm every assist
ance to make good.
THE TEXA8 OIL CASE.
Politicians throughout the country,
narticuiariv those who nave neen
watching the progress of Senator Bat
ley In his fight tor his political life in
Texas, will be quite as deeply inter
ested aa federal officials and lawyers in
the deceslon of the United States su
preme court that H. Clay Pierce, presi
dent of the Waters-Pierce Oil company,
must return to Texas to stand trial on a
charge ot perjury. The final hearing
of this case is expected to throw new
light on the methods of the Standard
Oil company in its efforts to evade
state laws and also- to clear up much
that now seems more or less in doubt
about Senator Bailey'B connection
with the big concern.
The Waters-Pierce Oil company was
driven from Texas some years ago
when the legislature passed a law for
bidding trusts from doing business in
the state. Mr. Pierce made affidavit
that none of the Rockefellers owned
stock in his company. He swore that
the Waters-Pierce company took oil
from Its own wells, refined it, owned
Its own cars and tanks and had no
connection whatever with the Stand
ard Oil trust Senator Bailey ap
peared as attorney for Mr. Pierce and
succeeded In securing a new license
for the company to do business In
Texas. Then came the explosion. It
was charged that the majority ot the
Waters-Pierce stock was owned by the
Standard Oil company and had been
at the time Pierce and Bailey made
their representations to the Texas offl
clals. The investigation of Senator
Bailey by the legislature of Texas re
sulted in a rather thin coat of white
wash and started a state-wide fight
against him In the ranks of his own
Dartv. He has just been chosen to
head the Texas delegation to the Den
ver convention, but has been assured
that the fight against him will be kept
up In Texas until he Is more com
pletely vindicated. Mr. Pierce was In
dicted for perjury by a Texas grand
jury some months ago, but has re
fused to return to that state for trial
resisting extradition papers by taking
bis case to the supreme court of the
United States. The point Involved In
the people was Mr. Pierce's contention
that he was not really charged with
crime. On that point Mr. Justice
Moody, In delivering the opinion of
the court, said:
This court has aald that an Indictment
In order to constitute a sufficient chare
of crime to warrant Interatata extraction
need show no more than that the ac
cused was aubrtantlally oharg-d with
crime. This Indictment meets and iur
paaaea that standard and ta Li.ough.
Upon the result ot Mr. Pl rce's trial
for perjury will depend whether Texas
will be represented by a new man 1
the United States senate, succeedln
Mr. Bailey, who was at one time the
idol of his party and strongly urged
as a candidate for presidential honors.
The Real Estate exchange, after erf
dorslng the power canal report, calls
on the city council to employ hydraulic
engineers at once to make estimates
plans and specifications for the Flor
enco power development It they will
read the power canal report carefully
tb real estate men will discover that
the pith and point of the whole thins.
the recommendation that the city
do nothing whatever In the matter un
til the present water works purchase
controversy is finally settled.
A compilation of life insurance
statistics shows that Omaha got back
from the life Insurance companies last
year $811,431 In payment of policies
held by deceased Omaha people. It
would be interesting to v know how
much Omaha pays the life Insurance
companies In a year and whether the
balance Is in our favor or against us.
The embarrassment ot Mr. Bryan
over that Parker-Ryan boodle deliv
ered to Mayor "Jim" by Brother-In-
Law "Tom", Allen may be readily Inw
glned. Some of this same bunch oc
cupy front seats in Mr. Bryan's Ne
braska delegation to Denver and he
cannot afford to repudiate them Just
now.
A New York anarchist wants all the
anarchists In the country to join him
In establishing a colony In Mexico,
leaving the United States to Its fate.
If this can be done without creating
any International complications with
Mexico the United States should help
tha plan along.
Mr. Bryan is taking his time to talk
to the public about that $15,000 sent
to Nebraska by Ryan and Sheehan In
904, but It Is a safe wager that he
lost no time in doing some pretty plain
talking to Mayor "Jim" and Brother-
in-Law "Tom" on the subject.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma is going
to consult some of the most famous
specialists In an effort to get his sight
restored. One season In the senate
has convinced him that he needs his
eyes open for self-protection.
"Sleeping Is a habit, formed when
there were no artificial lights and men
went to bed simply because they could
not see to work, says Mr. Edison. No
more adroit advertisement for electric
lights has been written.
If Mayor "Jim" is such a success as
"touching" expert our democratic
friends will make the mistake of their
lives in replacing him on the demo
cratlc national committee with an In
experienced man.
"Is there any question," asks the
Richmond Dispatch, "about tho demo
cratic platform to be framed at Den
ver?" Not the slightest The plat
form will be W. J. Bryan.
A Suitable Location.
Washington Herald.
A recent earthquake reported at Washing
ton has been located 700 miles out at sea.
That's as good a place as we know for It;
let It stay right there-,
Good Effect of Preaanre.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The auppoaitlon that congress never does
anything for the benefit of the public ex
cept under protest and because of great
pressure has recently been considerably
strengthened.
Now Get Busy.
St. Louis Republic.
The next step In the progress of national
prosperity la to patch up the empty cars
that have been sidetracked for repairs and
get them ready to be glutted with new 1908
western wheat
All Over bat tho Shontlnar.
Kanaas City Star.
Mr. Bryan's defeat at Denver la. out of
the question. He already has a majority,
witn Zbg delegates yet to be chosen. At
the mention of his name the convention
ill cheer fourteen and a half minutes.
with the usual Intent of persuading Itself
that It is electrified.
A Noble Beaolve.
Philadelphia Press.
William J. Bryan la always heroic. He
announces that if Thomaa F. Ryan con
tributed $30,000 to the Nebraska campaign
In 1904, aa reported, he will pay It back
Nobody could do more, and Mr. Ryan
will have to accept It as notice that he
must not contribute again.
Good Slant of tho Times.
Springfield Republican.
Automobile manufacturers report little)
falling off In their bualneas as a reault of
the hard timea. If that Is the case, then
the times cannot be very hard. It is ad
mltted that there Is a slackened demand
for large touring oars, but this Is offset
by an Increased demand for small vehicles
which reflects an Increase In the busl
nesa uses of the motor carriage. One of
the New York manufacturers Just back
from a western Journey says the automo
bile factories out that way are rushed
with business.
Sharp Hetort on States' Rights.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The cleverest thing uttered at the con
greaa of governors was the prealdent's re
tort to a southern governor who wss In
veightng against a wholesome fear in his
state that "the spirit ot centralisation
would Interfere with the rights of Indl
vidual statea." There could not have been
a possibility of tha prealdent's knowing
what waa coming; but, with the cleverneas
of an Irishman, rather than the phlegm
of a Dutchman, he retorted:
"The governor of North Carolina hasn1
any fear ot government intrusion when
congress appropriates money to Improv
the rivers and waterways of his state.'
It was a complete answer. It was tb
retort moat courteous and most "flabber
gaatlng If I may use a popular word, well
beloved at Washington.
Employers' Liability.
Springfield Republican.
Tv. impiojeii' liability hlU signej yester
d".r by Acting Governor Draper la an )m
portent one, evim though made applicable
only to railroad corporations. It provides
that an employe Injured aa a reault of the
negligence of a fellow-employe, shall not
be deemed to have assumed the risk of
such Injury. In other words. It follows the
federal statute, about which there has been
ao much controversy. In setting aside th
ancient fellow-servant principle in llibll
Ity caaea so far aa railroads are concerned,
and thus establishes a precedent which
will lead presumably to an extenalon of
the new rule to other occupations. In
deed, it Is not clear how this special ap
plication ot It Is to be defended. It makes
a pretty plain caae of unjuat deecrlmlna
tlon whl.'B may be pronounced uaconsUtu
UonaL '
5, 190S.
.WASTI5 O THE FARM.
I.oaaea In the Ana-restate Beyond Cea
patatloa.
Washington Poat.
From authoritative reports by govern
ment officials It appears that soir.s l.S7.
021 cattle die In the United States an
nually from dlseaae and exposure moat
them from neglect. From the same
source It la alao aacertalned that the loss
of sheep from the ssme causes Is as great.
These figures only serve to show what
wasteful people we are. One of the ex
cuses the Beef trust makes for high prices
provisions Is the enormous death rate
live stock on the rsnge and on the
farm, most of It due to pure trifllngnesa
f the herdsmen and the grailer. Indeed.
the losses by neglect and exposure greatly
xceed the losaca by disease.
It would be Impossible to estimate the
waste of farm products after they mature
In the field, btit It Is enormous, some of
It due to scarcity of labor, but most of It
traceable to thriftless husbandry, or. In
plain speech, downright laslnoas. One
source of waste is Imperfect cultivation.
for millions of farmers persist In half cul
tivation of large areas wheft they would
make more proper tillage of fewer acres.
Then there Is Immense waste In the disre
gard of Intelligent rotation of crops. This
the worat aort of waste, for it means
devastation of soils that requires years of
provident tillage to replace. AH over the
east are abandoned farms that would today
be gardens if they had been given Intelli
gent cultivation. That farmer Is not fit
for his vocation who does not Increase the
fertility of his soil every year he culti
vates it.
Under the new system Of "dry farming,"
Invented by Mr. Campbell, somewhere out
west, drouths have been robbed of most
of their terrors; and if forests that were
wantonly destroyed were restored and con
served, the frightful wastes occasioned by
floods, amounting to 1100.000.000 annually
n the Ohio valley alone, wou'ni be avoided.
This ia a magnificent country of ours.
but we have used It like the prodigal who
dissipates his patrimony In riotous and
ruinous. living. '
The vast wealth we have accumulated
cardinal aource of prosperity will soon be
waa acquired by reaaon of the many ad
vantages we enjoy, one of the principal
farm. Unless there is leaa waste, that
being the cheap food produced on the
thing of the past.
TWO SALIENT POINTS.
Currency Bill Itecoftntses Asset
and
Surtax Principles.
New York Globe.
That the Aldrlch-Vreeland bill, despite Its
defects, Is In two respects a step In the
right direction alt currency reformers, un
less Intoxicated with over-fervor for their
favorite nostrum, must concede. It recog
nises for the first time In nearly fifty
years the aaaet currency principle and
makes a start toward providing a cur
rency that shall automatically enlarge or
diminish In volume, aocordlng to the need
of the business community. The elasticity
is swathed with saferuarda and la sur.
rounded with shock absorbers and with
devices to prevent stretching to an un
necessary degree, but It Is at least provided
mai unaer annormai conditions such as
existed last autumn an emergency currency
whose safety no. man may doubt can come
out. It will not be necessary for the
banks to exceed their legal powers, nor
will It be necessary for comptrollers and
bank examiners to be discreetly blind.
Even though, as some assert, the restric
tions are so onerous that the emergency
circulation will never be) taken out It la
worth something to have even an aca
demto recognition by congress of the aaaet
currency principle. It la also worth some
thing that congress has been brought to
recognise the Oerman surtax principle, un
der which any exceptional enlargement of
the currency Is taxed Into early retire
ment and thus a bulwark set up against
inflation. This artificial way of compelling
redemption has worked acceptably In Oar
many, and If It works acceptably here It
will remove the chief obstacle to real and
comprehensive currency reform namely,
the claim that the banks rather than the
people would get the benefit of an en
largement of the currency-Issuing power.
TAFT AND GRANT.
Antl Organs Indolare In Misleading:
Comment.
. 8t. Louis Times (dem.).
We refuse to go into hysterica over Sec
retary Taft's allusion to General Grant's
early habits. We refuse - to believe that
Mr. Taft,' In his Memorial day speech.
meant to reflect unfavorably on the charac
ter of the greatest military commander of
the time.
Secretary Taft's language shows not the
slightest hint of the sensational turn that
has been given to It by the politicians,
If anything comes of the episode, the de
velopment may be charged to an appeal to
the superficial.
Everyone knows, as a fact, what Mr.
Taft said. General Grant, In his youth.
waa addicted to the use of strong drink
It had an unfavorable effect on his early
eareer. Everyone knowa the old story of
the cabal that went toLlncoln with the re
port that Grant, then commanding In the
west was a drinking man, of how Lincoln
aald that he'd like to get aome of the same
brand of liquor for others of his officers
who were not doing as well as Grant.
The object of allusion In the Taft speech
was to point a lesson. Grant was not only
a great commander of men, but he waa cer
tain of himself. Ho won a personal vic
tory over alcohol before he went Into the
army to win for his country In the greatest
war of centuries. This wss the point ot
Taft's talk, and a right good point It was
a strong Illustration In a talk that got away
from the type of public address that Is all
too comman on occaaiona of the kind.
Politicians wno think that Taft meant
to alight the memory of Oeneral Grant are
lightheaded. Tha other politicians who
aeek to uae the Incident to serve a o
palgn purpose are not sympathizers Vith
the Idea of the square deal.
PERSONAL, NOTES.
A San Francisco paper offers 11,000 for
evidence "morally establishing" the guilt
of a local dynamiter.
Rev. John Dixon of New York City says
he doaa not believe there Is an editor or
reporter In his town who eer saw the Mis
slssippl.
Notwithstanding his mistakes and fall
urea, thousanda will regret tha report that
Oeneral Buller. who so often regretted to
report la dead.
The dlacovery of a Chlcagoan that ha
owned 68.000 worth of atock that he had
tucked away twenty yeara before and for
gotten la enough to set people thinking.
Th satiafactlon of being rich la much en
hanced by the clrcumatance of being aware
of It.
Governor Poat of Porto Rico, who Is no
in the United Statea, la making arrange
ments for the purchaaa of arms and equip
ment for the insular police, the federal
government having withdrawn the arma
and equipment which nave been used by
the police for several yeara.
Prof. Charlea O. Rlvot of Bt. Lou la Ijas
had beat owed upon him the decoration of
officer d'academle by tha French govern
ment. Kbt mors than five or six Amer
icans have teen given this honor. Prof.
Rlvot has (ubltahed fifteen French poem
In eple, traglo and pastoral vera, whl.-b
have attracted wiaa acunuon.
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Bryan and Railroad Men.
OMAHA, June 4.-To the Editor of The
Bea: William J. Bryan in Ala recent trip
through the state labored under the Im
pression that he must counteract In aome
way the present movement of the railroad
employes, which has for Its object the
abatement of agitation against the rail
roads, which we feel If continued must re
sult In reduced wages, and which. In fact.
has so resulted, as every railroad man In
the state knows, whether he may be on
the mileage basla or working by the hour.
This Is not attributable, perhaps, to any
thing that has yet occurred In Nebraska
other than that the state has been af
fected by the national depression.
The monopoly of Intelligence assumed by
Mr. Bryan In talking to railroad employes
at Noith Platte and elsewhere Insults them
rather than Instructs. Railroad employes
have at least ordinary ' Intelligence. We
are not threatened by the managers with
reduction In wages, and the attempta
of political leaders to bring about strained
relations between the officials and the men
le futile and will fall flat. An employes
who sees his employer assailed and the
revenue of the business depleted by con
tinued attacks of business Interests that
have no other object than to obtain a
largor share of the floating currency would
be contemptible In any other vocation by
such a display of disloyalty as Mr. Bryan
advocates then why not aj a railroad man?
He would be un-American and unworthy
of his cltisenshlp.
Mr. Bryan lays great stress on the
watered atock of railroads, and with a
wave of a well trained hand raises La
Follette's wild guess of Its magnitude a
couple of hundred millions. Railroad men
who are familiar with his first campaign
through Nebraska In 189(1. covering the
same territory as the Itinerary of this
week, remember a story circulated by Matt
Daugherty: Mr. Bryan's train, experiencing
delays In western Nebraska on account of
the wind that emanated from tha "Boy
Orator," waa endeavoring to make up time,
when a message waa received from the
citliens at Sutherland, Neb., at which sta
tion they werej not scheduled to stop, ask
ing If this could not be arrsnged long
enough to at least permit the school chil
dren, who would be assembled on the plat
form, to shake hands with the presidential
candidate. The opposition press stated that
thia wa refuaed unleaa the children would
raise flO. Of course, It was all a canard.
but Illustrates the extent to which the
Bryan private stocks have been "watered,"
since when It is generally understood that
Immediately upon the nomination of Mr.
Bryan for president the stock (circulation)
of the Commoner will reach 1,000.000 that's
going some. Of course. If the unexpected
happens and some favorite son pricks the
Brjan boom there will be a deluge com
pared to which the recent floods in Ne
braska will be drouths.
Railroad managers are peralrfently ac
cused by Mr. Bryan of coercing the em ¬
ployes to circulate petitions, protesting
against rate reduction. With nearly 10.000
of the railroad men of the state now mem
bers of the Protective association, and the
others joining as fast aa the detalla can
be arranged. It would look aa If there was
a mistaken diagnosis of this feature of the
coming campaign by the party leaders who
are supposed to keep In touch with the
political atmosphere. As to coercion and
Intimidation, the World-Herald recently re-
rusea to publish a denial of a fake press
report from Lincoln, which attempted to
put the Employes' association In the light
of organising a new political party, al
though the article was backed by the
Railroad Employes' association, the largest
single association in the state today.
we wonaer lr me mismanagement of the
program In western Nebraska, in which
most ot the Bryan party wens left at a
lonely way station on the Burlington, Mr.
Bryan walking book from the water tank
to the station and finally 'stranded high
and dry on the cacti tables of Kimball
county, with a disabled automobile, while
the lesser members of the party sprinted
along ahead, utterly oblivious of the mis
fortunes of their leader, all of which re
sulted In the cancellation of one of the
most Important dates, with a lot of humili
ation and chagrin mixed In, haa changed
his Ideas of the political management of
railroads.
The railroad employes have had consider
able experience In adjusting differences,
and we have all come to the conclusion
that It can be best done by Intelligent,
conservative methods, not affecting In any
way the general prosperity. If a strike Is
threatened, our ears yet ring with the
protests of business men, who, threatened
with financial embarrassment, we are Im
plored to deliberate, be cautious, exhaust
all other methods before going to such an
extreme. Now, this Is all we are asking
that conservatism and reaaon prevail In
order that In benefitting a few, the greater
number will not suffer. We have submitted
figures to the Railroad commission showing
conclusively that we have been grievously
hurt, and while we feel that our presenta
tion has given us recognition, we do not
Intend to "sleep at the switch."
M. J. ROCHE.
Secretary Nebraska Railway Employes'
Protective Association.
Grand Jury and Labon, Commissioner.
LINCOLN, June . T6 the Editor ot The
Bee: I have noted with a good deal of
pleasure certain portion, of the report of
the grand Jury. The State Bureau of
Labor and Iudustrtal Statistics, commonly
known as the labor bureau, Invites crlllcsm,
and la not afraid of It If we are Weak, we
want to be "Jacked up," as we should be.
A strong publlo sentiment behind this bu
reau Is Its only salvation; If it Is to reach
Its full measure of usefulness.
In the House of the Good Shepherd mat
ter, fire eacapes and hinged wlndowa were
ordered by myself long ego, and no later
than my last trip to Omaha, a few days
ago, I secured an assurance from the archi
tect having the matter in hand that the
escapes will be erected at once, with proper
exl's onto the platforms of the same.
The same tlng Is true as to many other
of the large buildings which the grand Jury
had in mind. Gradually, we are clearing up
the doubts owners had In their minds as to
ths need for sees pes. or the necessity for
complying with the state law. With the
asalstance of the city building Inspector,
C. H. Wlthnell, I have been chasing ths
most urgent caaes without let-up, and we
will reach all In due time.
Now, aa to working women and girls over
hours. I will say at once that many parties
are guilty. In my Judgment; but. unless I
waa misinformed by the alater-ln-charge at
the House of the Oood Shepherd, the In
mates there are not worked more then
ten hours In any one day, or more Jhan
alxty hours a week. There are many em
ployers violating the ten-hour law that It
seems Impossible to reach. Hare la ar In
alance typical of many: A city official told
me of a prominent business man violating
the law, In hie personal knowledge. I In
vited hire to go with me at once to County
Attorney English and we would start prose
cution. Ha wouldn't do It because the
woman was a relative and would lose her
Job. She probably would ana wnerever m
girl or woman needs the Job some em
ployers, "out to get the coin, iae ea-
vantage of that fact. The employer in
queatlon here Is. I know, an elder In a V
church. Evidently, my dlaagreeable task
one of these days will be to cauee some peo
ple to commit perjury, or "lose their Jobs.
If the gouging employer alone were con
cerned, I would not hesitate a moment but
for a labor bureau to throw the noedy out
of work Is a contingency at which I pause,
so long as they are not worked all night
after working all day. But one of these
daya the bureau will find a shining example
and will eollclt the assistance ot the county
attorney In dead earnest
JOHN . J. RTDER.
Deputy Commissioner of Labor.
Bl'..V GEMS.
"I understand the architect nd the Con
tractor were fighting."
"Yes, they couldn t agree on the rjans
for the temple ot peace." Cleveland Piain
Dealer.
"I tell you we cannot pass a law to keep
dogs from barking and disturbing pecpla."
"Won't the ordinary law agalnat barkers
apply ?" Baltlmoie American.
"Won't the manufacture of gems hurt
your trade?" '
"I don't think It will In the long run,"
replied tho Jeweler. "Think of the rush
we'll have when we begin to give a quart
mixed of diamonds, rubles and sappnlres
with every W-cent watch." Philadelphia
Press.
Returned Statesman You cant deny,
anyhow, that 1 have always been In favor
of conserving our natural resources.
Constituent Have youT in an tne years
you have been In Weshlnglon you haven't
done anything but spout natural gas Into
the atmosphere. Chicago Tribune.
"Of course, the railways owe the public
a great deal." said Mr. Dustin Stax, "but
you must also remember that the publlo
la indebted to the railways. "
"Yes," answered the critical cltlsen, "but
the railways are In a poaltlon to collect."
Washington Star.
"Was everything In your house destroyed
by the fire?"
"Everything but the gas meter. When we
got down to that we found It clicking
away, apparently uninjured." Chicago
Tribune.
THE COMING TOPIC.
St. Louis Tost-Dispatch.
We might aa well begin right now
And memorise again
The list of presidential votes
In Arkansas and Maine,
And learn to trip them glibly In
Our everyday debates.
For that'a the coming toplo
, In our own United States.
We might as well get at It.
Aa we've often done before.
And learn If Indiana has
Eighteen or twenty-four,
For that's the great essential
That Immediately awaits
The art of conversation
In our own United States.
If Bryan lost New England,
New York, and Ids ho.
What others would he have to gett
Ia what we've got to know,
For that's the sort of thing to which
All talking gravitates
With proper provocation
In our own United States.
The fellows who are posted
Are the men that win cigars
And drink their boose for nothing
At the few remaining bara,
For they've memorised! the figures.
And they're loaded for debates
In a presidential season
In our own United Statea.
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