TITE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, MABCII 7, 1910.
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State of Nebraska, Douflaa County, sa.:
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as follows:
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..... 43.800
-. . . 43,370
43.070
43,030
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43,810
43,080
43,010
, 4,980
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! 43,100
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48,820
15 fl,870
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43,880
43,S0
43,770
41,80
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43,670
43,040
4,10
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43,070
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coplea. ,.
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.. 1,139,870
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The only drawback with that chlor
ide of ;llm typhoid extinguisher is
that the price sounds too cheap to be
good.
The plan of Uncle 6am to put immi
grants on farms will make a good many
native-born city people wish they were
immigrants. ' ,
And now w ar told that the Fon
tanelle club la to take up the cold
water end of the game. Another water
works campaign! , r
.-. While cleaning up the streets, don't
forget the sidewalks on 'which pedes
trlans who cannot afford automobiles
still have ttrtravorr --.
, The information that the Ohio river
is no worse than it ever was is fine
consolation for th'. folks who are an
nually flooded out. .j
Is it true that an English actress
committed suicide because she was sued
for divorce, or Is it only another bid
for freer advertising?
It now looks as though the Cook
Peary '-"he-dld-and he-did-not" argu
ment might, be destined to break out
again in a new place. 1
Real estate in all part of th coun
try has taken a Jump like that of the
cow who vaulted the moon, but castles
in the air are just as cheap as ever.
Omaha's bank clearings for Febru
ary overtop all previous records. This
Is going to be a record-breaking year
for Omaha in more ways than one.
It may help t th easy feeling
about war cloudy er Japan to know
that Russia IS ordering a $300,000,000
navy constructed in the very near fu
ture. , Well, there is comfort in the fact
that a farmer can exchange a couple
of hogs for a six-cylinder, even though
pork chops and diamonds ar of equal
value.
The Commercial club will next send
its "flying squadron" on a trade expe
dition to the north. Those North Pole
explorers had better look to their
laurels.
, . ft la 0. relief to know that th Baltl
more 4. Ohio strike is beginning to fta
sla, most people would like a rest from
reading about striking, rioting and
lockouts. .'
,A Joint debate between Senator
Rsyner of Maryland and Senator
Burkett of Nebraska might be a draw
ing card for some of our enterprising
Chautauquas.
If on were to Jude from th num
ber of quarrels in the ranks of the
D. A. R. th "fighting spirit of their
sires", is neither dead nor sleeping in
our generation.
American consuls ar investigating
the high cost of living in Europe. It
would be also to th point if they
would investigate th coat to Ameri
cana of th high living In Europe.
' If h a really appreciative of kind
words, John D. Rockefeller ought to
remember Colonel Gordon of Mlssls
ilpplin his will, for tpaaking so
warmly about him befor th senate.
If th light in th tall of Halley's
comet is caused by th "Third Cyano
gen Band" U might be suggested thai
said band refrain from playing rag
tlm when It paea over us next May,
TxannHtra Wearer tna Pennl.
National events hay developed a
condition of affairs which completely
shatters the political tradition that our
chief executive Is further removed
from the people than the lawmaking
body. Between the administrations of
Waahinrton and Taft a wide difference
has developed. Washington was set
apart from the people aa far as possi
ble that he might get the general per
spective of the affairs of the entire
nation. He dealt wltn affairs of the
states almost as an arbitrator and was
hedged in from the people by the ac
cepted Interpretation of the functions
f his bfflce. But now the tendency
Is aulte the opposite. Roosevelt and
Tnr h.vA hen nrimarii nresldentit of
the peole looking to the people, popu-
lar sentiment and Interests to guide
thir luriement and ther have held
themselves responsible to the whole
people for their actions.
The constitution of the United States
provides that in the election of the
president the popular will shall only
be Indirectly effective. Th electoral
college, a
precautionary institution,
was established to stand between the
people and the presidency, with the
design and intent to remove .the office
from the shifting tide of public senti-
ment and prejudice. The senators
were to represent the states of the only a few indictments have been re
union as such and it was left to the turned and all of those for ordinary
congressmen to give the people their offenses which could Just as easily
most direct voice in governmental af- have been prosecuted at their own in-
fair". Although our forefathers
wrought wisely and well, they over-
looked the extent to which -our varied
and diversified interests would separ-
ate the different sections. '"It has de-
veloped that senators are, as a rule, tions of improvement of existing con
influenced by sectional and congress- dltlons. It Is suggested, for example,
men by district interests, without that things In the city engineer's office
power to rise above tneir own consti-
tuencles-to act for the whole people,
In this evolution the presidency . has
become the one office of the whole
people.
The American people have not
argued this out and accepted it as a
last resort, but have Just naturally
fallen lntr. the habit of looking to the
president for leadership. Washington
never took a trip over the country to
get acquainted with the people. Not
until Polk'e administration was this
done and even then it was on a small various county institutions seem to
scale. But recently our presidents have evoked the usual absence of corn
have traveled the country over to keep plaint and elicited the customary
in touch with the people and national
interests. As a result the presidency
Is primarily the people's direct repre-
entative office and has gained im-
measurably In consequent importance,
Uarine Giants. ' I
Close on the heels of the request of
Secretary Meyer for a 82,000-ton bat-
tleshlp comes the announcement that
Germany proposes to build a monster
liner of nearly 60,000 tons. The age
w
of marine giants is apparently on, and
the Olympic and Titanic, th record
holding leviathans of our modern
ocean-going vessels, are too soon to be
eclipsed. Although the exact "dimen
sions of the German colossous have
not been given out, the tonnage, Wpu,ld
Indicate a length of at least vOft et,
a little more than one-sixth of a mile,
The prediction that the twentieth cen
tunr would see vessels 1,000 feet in
length may yet prove true.
The dimensions of modern passen-
ger and freight vessels indicate that
battleships will "also take on gigantic
proportions in the near future. In
the American navy yards two 26,000
ton battleships are under construction,
two mor of 87,000 tons each have
practically been assured and the great
32, 000-ton fighter is at least a possl-
billtywlthin the next few years. The
trend of shipbuilding toward larger
construction is so marked that the
locks of the Tanama canal have been
increased in slse sufficiently to allow
passage to vessels of 110 feet beam,
tha r.rant lenrth of beam bain less
than ninety feet.
While the practicability of such
monster vessels, both for commercial
and naval purposes, have been ques
tioned, our present vessels are not
so much smaller than those proposed
and the auea-estion of still larger shiDs
rests on th success of those now In
naa. Tha sinsnae if increasing the
sice of these monsters, however, can
not be entirely confined to tha cost of
the battleships themselves, for deeper
harbors will be necessary as well as
larger docks and wharves. Yet,
whether we deplore It or approve, the
trend of the time is certainly in the
direction of bigger and bigger ocean
vessels.
Death Penalty in Rhode Island.
. A bill calling for the re-establish
ment of th death penalty in Rhode
Island is befor the legislature of that
state and if nubile utterances indicate
tha nrevalllna sentiment it .will be-
oom a law. Rhode Island abolished
capital punishment in 1852, but since
the increase of homicide in the state,
bag made its re-establishment seem
advisable.
Maine and Rhode Island ar the only
New England states, which hare abol
ished the death penalty, and conrpara
tlv satUtlcs indicate that they have
both been great sufferers in conse
quence. Th only states with which It
wouia o iair to compar mem are me
other four in Nw England. During
th year ending May ji, isoq, accord-
s a. a . r i
ing w tm iai uawuuai ctmsus, niaiue
had. in proportion to population, al-
most twlc as many homicides as
Massachusetts, which retains th death
penalty. Rhod Island, during that
earn year, naa almost two and a hair
times aS many, proportionately, as
Masaachusetta. Compared similarly
with New Hampshire, which retains
th penalty, Main had four and on-
half tlm aa many homicides and
Rhode Island nix and one-half times as
many. wain naa twice as many
homicides m Vermont and Rhode Is
Mnd three times as many. Compared
with Connecticut, wain naa more
than twice as many and Rhode Island
more than three times as many.
The only possioie reason ror rein
stating the death penalty for murder
would be the hope that It would ef
fectually reduce prevalence of the
crime. Comparisons, although proving
nothing, often deceptive, seem to prove
that Maine and Rhode Island have been
the victims of their leniency. Iowa
and Colorado have returned to the
death penalty with
satisfactory re-
er Having once abolished it.
There is some sentiment In the little
against the bill, but the dlspoul
tion Is said to be to give first place in
the consideration of this measure to
the protection of life from outlaws of
society.
The Grand Jury Keport.
The grand Jury called by the district
court has made its report and has been
discharged after an industrious session
of several weeks, and the best evidence
that Omaha is a reasonably orderly
city, with no rery noisome cesspools
of iniquity or deep-seated corruption
in government, lies in the fact that
ltiatlve by the city prosecutor or the
county attorney.
The grand Jury report goes into
some detail on several subjects, on
which advice is offered, with sugges-
have not been Just right and should be
improved, but still nothing seems to
have been found to warrant a true bill
against anybody. The police force is
admonished, moreover, to be more vig
Hant in suppressing unlicensed liquor
selling, immoral hotels, vulgar theatri
cal shows and demoralizing dance
halls but even here no evidence
seems to have been produced before
the grand jury Justifying more than
an expression of presumption.
The visits of the grand Jury to the
bouquet-throwing to the managements,
who were doubtless fairly well pre
pared in advance to receive the vis
itors, with everything looking spick
and span. Even the deputy state labor
commissioner at Lincoln comes in for
small nosegay and a recommenda-
tlon to the legislature that be be given
more money to spend to look where
more fire escapes ought to be and
where youngsters barred from child
labor ought not to be
AH tot which proves that the grand
jury is a good-thing once in a while to
enable a community to let off steam
and puncture gas bags full of ugly ru
mors which the prosecuting officers are
unable to nail down, and which when
brought into the grand Jury room
prove to be as elusive as the proverb-
ial flea
American Men.
e statement or. uertrua Atner
ton that American men are lmmeasur-
hly below titled foreigners soema to
resolve itself into a matter of a dlf
ference "in the art of making love.'
"English noblemen have much more
subtlety in making love; more finesse,
she eays and then settles back in the
full belief that the whole matter is de-
cided. Mrs. Atherton has carried out
this idea in a novel sne nas written
and has produced a hero after her
own heart. Superior to the Amerl
can man, by the way. Is this hero, and
wl neither work for a living, pay
lebts nor remain true to hi beau
tltui American wire, xei no is tn nero
What constitutes superiority and
nobility? Is it proficiency in the sub
tie art of making love, running in debt
and marrying for money? Or is nobility
a matter or heart, manhood, sterling
qualities of honesty and industry, and
ese of honor as enduring as the
"0 mat me American
idea of what constitutes nobility is
preverted because of our democratic
Ideas, but if so, then let it be so. For the
true American man stands erect in the
majesty of true manhood and looks
the world squarely In the eye. He can
D depended upon for fibre and sinew
t body, brain and soul and he ac
knowledges the sovereignity of human
ltT- IIe ls prince in the simplicity
of his manly honor, he can bo de
pended upon for constancy in love and
In patriotism, in prosperity and in ad
verity
Let the foreign nobleman be
uPer,0P ,n ubtlety and finesse, but
tru American woman will con
tlnu t0 Profer to tru American be-
cause be ls a man.
Th local democratic organ has
started Congressman Hlnshaw in the
comlag senatorial race. It ls not ex
erting lUelf, however, to get many
starters on the democratic side of the
fence, where Us editor, who has just
replenished his campaign war cheat by
a 50,000 real estate sale, would much
prefer a clear field.
0n9 of Governor Bhallenberger
gouth 0maha Polio board appointees
defeated for renomlnaUon and an
I
other tied for nomination for the
councli. An official commission with
Governor Shallnbrgr's signature to
lt 1b evidently riewed Tjy Bouth Omaha
democrat mor as a liability than an
AMet.
Federal authority has decided that
a hen is a bird, but here is th Ohio
supreme court declaring that an gg
1 pot au egg when it la bad. although
there is not a grocer in the wide world
who will not sell a "bad one" for an
egg every time he gets a chance.
Strange, Isn't It, that people who
talk th most about crime and vice
being rampant in Omaha should be so
careful to keep their Information to
themselves when a grand Jury is
session waiting to near them.
In
The annual banquet of Iowans in
New York City has just been pulled
off. The time is being fast approached
when an annual Nebraska banquet In
New York each year ill be a possi
bility and a reality.
It la remarked that Major Hemp
hill will need a strong glass to watch
Charleston grow from Richmond but
then a strong glass is not so hard to
find in Richmond.
It is only because the appropriation
bills by custom originate in the house
that our Indian supply depot cannot
be saved first by a spectacular rescue
act in the senate.
Th Panama Wonder,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Jose Domingo de Obaldla dies famous as
Latin-American ruler who waa removed
by death Instead of revolution!
I
Helps to Hit the Treasury.
Chicago Tribune.
Let us be careful not to speak slightingly
of the Japaneae war scare. It serves a
highly useful purpose whenever the neces
sity arises for securing an appropriation for
another battleship.
Rather Hard on the Prophets.
Boston Transcript.
It - now appears that the original esti
mates of the French flood losses have been
greatly exaggerated, - Including enforced
idleness and ether incidentals. This Is
rather hard for th visitation from heaven
theory.
1
Water Power aa National Asset.
Wall Street Journal.
Water power already Installed in this
country would, on a steam basis, figuring
ooal at $2.50 a ton, and operating it ten
hours each working day, - cost $176,000,001)
per annum. At 6 per cent this would equal
capitalisation of $3,600,000,009. As a na
tional asset, what ar our waterfalls
worth T
pome -tainsra worm suppression.
Kansas City Times.
In the current Issue of the Atlantic
Monthly Prof. E. A. Ross accuses news
papers of suppressing news. It hap
pened that on the day of the Issuance
of the magazine a report Was made
publio containing a letter from the
president of the University of Wisconsin,
censuring Prof. Ross for falling to suppress
announcements of the lectures in Madison
of Emma Goldman!
I
Another Home Hal Cry.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Porto RIcans are clamoring for a
system of home rule which shall be more
genuinely representative, declaring that
their Island is entirely peaceful and that
they should have a larger voice In their
own affairs. Such a contention does not
seem unreasonable. At any rate, the ques
tion is one which lt . might, be well for
congress to consider with more car than
lt usually bcapows on th Insular posses
sion of the. ynlted State.
nrWTHICTIIVa IMMIGRATION.
Aa JJbJekt Lesson on the S ob
ject.
Brooklyn Etegle.
Th,, -protest mad to President Taft
gafftst new and more restrictive legisla
tion on immigration, by twenty-five foreign
born editors, oo behalf of the American As
sociation of Foreign Language Newspapers,
had very much the character of an object
lesson. These visitors are most of them
good citizens of the United States. Their
average of scholarship ls probably higher
than that of any equal number of editors
taken from newspapers printed In the Ung
llsh language. Their average of culture Is
aa high. Their average of conscience and of
public spirit is satisfactory. Tet with a
stone wall bar to Immigration, everyone of
them would be outside America today.
A wag might say that It ls possible for
country to have too many editors. We
believe that was the view of th late Zaoh
Chandler. There ls soma ground for as
cribing similar opinions to th lata Qeneral
William Tecumsah Sherman, and to the
former President Roosevelt But the brawn
and muscle that go with the brains to
whose demands the editors eater, cannot
be superfluous- In a land of undeveloped
resouroea, ,
We dont want criminals from abroad.
The home supply la sufficient We don't
want lnoapablea. We don't want lunatics.
But the argument that capability Is an Im
migrant's most damning quality, because
of the competition It offers In the labor
market, ls not one to commend Itself to In
telligent legislators.
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Our Birthday Book
Maroa 7. 1810.
Luther Burbank, the flower and fruit
wizard, was born March 7, 18tt, at Lan
caster, llass. Among the other unique
achievements credited to Mr. Burbank la
tha produotion of the white blackberry.
Champ Clark, congressman from Mis
souri and democratic floor leader, la Junt
60. Champ Clatk is a Kentuckian by birth
and does the Chautauqua circuits, and
would like to succeed "Unole Joe" Cannon
as speaker.
Anthony Cornstock, who Is the Society
for the Suppression of Vice in New York,
ls M, and still at lt.
Stephen Win, the Jewish rabbl who Is
attracting great attention In New York,
waa born March 7, 1871. He is a native of
Budapest!.
W. R. Nelson, who owns and edits the
Kansaa City Star, is 69. Ha Is a native of
Fort Wayne, Ind., and founded the paper
all by himself.
David B. Perry, prealdent of Doane col
lege at Crete, Neb., waa born March 7,
1&3S, at Worcester, Mass. He Is a graduato
of Yale and has been with Doane college
as tutor, professor and president since lb7i.
Chester E. Hunter, the grain commission
man. la Just 40. He was born In Illinois
and went into the lumber business on
Puget sound until the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war, In which he served,
and Sirica then has been In the grain busi
ness at Chicago, Qalesburg, Des Molnea
anal Omaha.
George K. Howell of the firm of Mc
Kenale, Howell Cos, offlclng n th
Board of Trad building, was horn March
T. 1M1, He graduated from the law school
of th Iowa Bute university, and has been
In Omaha sine UOC
Dr. J. C. Hammond, physlolan, waa born
March 7. 1HL H a a graduate of Crelgh-
too Medleal ooiUge and limits hla practice
Washington Life
osae XBsereaUaf fhaees
ana CoaAlUona OhsarreA
at ta irattea's OapttoL
Colonel Jarre" Gordon, the sixty-day
senator whose farewell to his associates
the other day Is already embalmed aa a
floral classic, had achieved fame a a
poet long before the laurels of senatorial
statesmanship tickled hla brow. Speci
mens of his bardic music now on the
rounds cause one to wonder why It has
clung so long to the purling brooke and
somnolent bayous of his native state.
Evidently the colonel hitched Pegaaus to
a neighboring post, lest 1U flight to the
highlands would impose too groat a draft
on his strength. Fortunately for pocny
the colonel's farewell started the music
hitherto conned for local consumption
and lured a prosaic world to a feast of
song. How he thrilled the august senators
and submerged the storied urn of Chaun
cey Depew In an avalanche of sobs may
be gathered from these lines:
Wine, wine, wine! Soul-lnsplrlng wine
A ruby gem
From the purple stem
Culled on the beautiful Rhine.
Wine, wine, wine! Wine of those good old
days,
When love was young,
When Fapho sung.
And Olympus rang with thy praise.
With th easy grace of an inspired
bard the colonM turned from wine to
eprlng and atrlkes this seasonable notei
See our beautiful farms when winter is
nvltr.
The forest's In bud the meadows In clover
When the teams pull tne plows me isrmor
Is bringing
His herd to the fields, where musio is
ringing
With carol of birds and humming of bees.
To Aeolian harps that play in the breeie
Where butterflies flit on ungnc, goiuen
wings, .. .
And nature la full of earth's beautiful
things: . . .
With the sun, moon and stars a-shlntng
above
On a beautiful world Ood gave us to love!
Tea. love the rood wor d, love one anotner:
Man loves hla family, his father and mothor
His Bister, and brother, his neighbor and
friend
He begins life with love, loves on to the
end.
Thua did the colonel "put It over" the
senate in copious measure, playing with
heart-chords weary of worldly careu, and
wooing them gently up to the culminating
note, prophetic of the tearful event:
Farewell Is ever a sad word
When loving ones must part.
It fills the heart with grief and pain
And bids the teardrops start.
To say "goodby" to those we love,
There Is a mournful knell
That echoes through our spirits' halls
And haunts the word, forewell!
The collection of figures now crowding
Statuary hall, the national "Hall of
Fame," la drawing Increasing fir from the
eastern press, coupled with demands for a
sifting of statues or Its abolition. Criticism
verging on mockery Is provoked by the
failure of congress to exercise some super
vision over the contributions of the states,
both in respect to the merits of the person
honored and the artistlo quality of the
statues. "Ther are now forty statues in
place," says th Philadelphia Inquirer,
and the hall la filled so far a niches of
the first rank are concerned. To complete
the 100 statues which will, before many
years, be authorised, will make trouble for
someone. If ther are to be concentric
rows following the are of th room a lot of
the elder statesmen will be In eclipse while
the men from the newer commonwealths
will be In the front rank. This complication
ls sure to caus bitterness and factional
wrangling, but lt is the less to be deplored
because tha hall at present Is not an exem
plification of the sculptor's art, of the ac
complishments of particular states nor of
national glory. As a hall of fame It ls
saaly lacking in perspective as well as in
artistic treatment .
"The latest arrival is a bronse effigy of
the late Senator Harlan of Iowa. He was
a good man, a patriotic legislator and
served his country well; but that he should
have the largest statue in the hall seems
ludicrous. Perhaps lt Is because he Is so
little known that his friends have exhibited
htm as ten feet tall, but lt can hardly be
olalmed that he overtops a lot of other
men whose statues rest near him In mute
sllenoe, unable to express any feelings on
the subject whloh their ghost may feel,
If they ever vinlt the place.
"The effort to ereot a Hall of Fame has
fulled in many ways. Its chief defect is
on the artistic side. So long as each state
can do as lt pleases ther ls certain to be
trouble for some of the conservatives."
There are a few members of the house
who have such an individual way of ad
dressing the chair that it ls not neosssary
that "Uncle Joe" should see th applicant
for recognition, relates the Washington
Times. If the speaker can hear the
"gentleman from New York" or "the
gentleman from Alabama" lt la sufficient.
There Is Representative Fltsgerald of
New York, for instance. Mr. Fitzgerald
takes part in almost every debate, espe
cially If there's a parliamentary question
Involved.
"Mr. Spcak-ah'," begins the Empire state
democrat his voice rising and emphasizing
especially the "ah." Everybody in the gal
lery knows that "Fits" ls going to have
something to say.
"Mr. Speak-kur," thunders Clayton of
Alabama, keeping the sound well down in
his throat.
"Mr. Speaker-r-r," exclaims Representa
tive "Qussle" Gardner, Insurgent of Massa
chusetts, In a peculiar staccato strath. So
snappy ls Mr. Gardner's call for recognition
that he can say the words about three
times a second.
"Or, Mr. 6p-eck-uh," will drawl Champ
Clark, minority leader, "I can't hear any
thing; what is all this about, anyway?"
Directly opposite to the manner in which
Mr. Gardner hurls the words lt requires
a little over a seoond for Mr. Clurk to de
liver himself of the necessary salutation.
Rspresentatlve Keller of Ohio, called Gen
era! Kelfer, or the only living dress-suit
statesman, goea after tho chair In very
much the Clayton style, only more so. Gen
eral Kelfer rather bellows the words In
a deep, sonorous tone that arouses the
house from its lethargy.
Mlader Speagher," exclaims Represen
tative Kustermann of Wisconsin, who has
a German accent and ls proud of lt.
Sluce the speaker knows that voice so
well, lt ls quite convenient at times for him
to have his gaze averted when he Isn't
particular abouwaecognlzlng a certain mem
ber with t pc project at that particular
moment for the speaker can well plead
that he didn't see the menVber.
Representative Nye of Minnesota, brother
of the renowned Bill, ta no slouch when it
comes to drawing comparisons and ap
plause from members of the house. Mr
Nye, In his speech on the postofflce ap
propriation bill, took occasion to allude to
the uouelfUhness and devotion to duty of
George Washington and the days In which
he lived.
"It is true that muckrakers lived In bis
day," said Mr. Nye, "but the roallgners
are gone; they are dust aod there survive
above all such hatred and bitterness that
which Is good. Paul, 1.W0 years ago, an
outcast, spurned by the proud and haughty
Nero, denounced aa visionary, lives today,
and w call our boy Paul, hut we call our
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Bltndtn o tht ctltbraM OLD QOLDEX COITEB
BOOSTING FREIGHT It ATKS.
Proposed Bala on Meat Rates from
- Mlaaonrt Hiver.
Bt. Paul Pioneer-Press.
The packers have protested to the Inter
state Commerce commission against the
proposed Increase, but that body has no
authority to act until after the rates ar In
force. This raises anew the discussion of
the suggestion ao often made by the com
mission that It be authorized in investigate
proposed rate changes and decide aa to
their reasonableness before they are put
into effect. Such provision is made In the
bill now pending In congress, but the rail
road influence ls strong against lt Just as
lt has been In former sessions. Tho rail
roads contend that it would be unfair to
grant this power to the commission, aa,
pending the inquiry, they would lose much
revenue In th event of the Increased rates
being sustained by the commission.
The argument ls not wholly convincing in
view of the fact that - the shippers lose
much money, under the present plan, when
the rate are not sustained by the commis
sion. True, the shippers have a recourse
in being permitted to collect the overplus,
but this is usually a long, tedious prooess
and the burden of lt ls borne by the ship
per. The question has been discussed in every
report of th commission for years. The
commission contends that nothing can be
more fallacious than to assume that dam
ages ar In most Instances a remedy for
the extortion of an unreasonable rate.
"Where a given rate haa been In effect for
year," reads one report of the commission,
"a strong presumption of Its reasonable
ness arises and there ls no hardship in giv
ing this commission authority, in its sound
discretion, to require a coirtlnuanoe of that
rat until opportunity haa been offered to
investigate the proposed advance." This
argument fits the present ease. The exist
ing rates have been in effect for a number
of years, and, the contention of the com
mission that they should not be advanced
without an inquiry Into th reasonableness
of the proposed new rat appear wholly
sound.
T le consumer and the small shipper are
the sufferers In all such cases of advanced
rates. The packers promptly will, In the
present case, shift the burden to the con
sumer. If the rate ls declared reasonable,
the consumer will still share the Increase.
If lt ls declared unreasonable, the pack
ers will recover from the railroads for the
excess, but there is no prospect that they
will return any of their recovered money
to the consumers. The notice of the pro
posed advance In freight rates should have
the effeot of spurring congress to amend
tha Interstate Commerce commission law in
accordance with the recommendations of
the president and the demands of the ship
pers and consumers.
I
TAFT'S PATIENCB WITH PHVCHOT
Sentiments of Good Will Expressed
in a Letter.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Every clticen who wants to know the
basic facts regarding the president's con
servation policy and hla personal attitude
toward former Chief Forester Glfford Pln
chot should carefully read th letter which
Mr. Taft addressed to Plnchot last Septem
ber. This missive haa Just been made pub
lic In the proceedings before the Balllnger
Investigating committee. It seems Incredi
ble that any man who desires to reach a
fair conclusion upon a question which Is
engaging so much popular Interest can
read lt without having the Impression
stamped on his mind that tho course of the
executive in this matter has been marked
both by an unswerving purpose to protect
the publio welfare and by the utmost prac
ticable consideration for Plnchot himself.
Its tone throughout ls characterized by
kindly sentiment toward the chief forester,
combined with the fullest appreciation of
hla past servloes In promoting the cause of
conservation. Indeed, Mr. Taft goes so far
as to say, "I should consider it one of the
greatest losses my administration could
sustain if you' were to leave lt" Reiter
ating his firm Intention to do all that can
be done within the law to preserve tha na
tional resources from spoliation the preal
dent patiently points out to his discon
tented subordinate that rinchot's contlnu-
nce In backing up unproved charges and
assailing the secretary of the Interior while
he himself is holding an official position is
most demoralzlng to government discipline
and efficiency. Declaring that he proposes
that Justice shall be done, the chief magls
trate puts his communication tp the for
ester in the form of a request that the har
asslng tactics followed by Plnchot shall
cease, rather than in the form of an Im
perative order.
Whatever the facts may be as to Secre
tary Balllnger's course It is evident that
the president sincerely wished to keep Pln
chot in the publio service. Not until every
resource of logic and reason waa exhausted
in the vain effort to maintain necessary
discipline did he consent to his elimination
from an offlco In which the forester had
persstently attempted to defy his superiors
and to attack Mr. Taft's own veracity and
intelligence in a manner which could no
longer be tolerated.
"The World's BcTt Tabic Water"
rtMiutintlv. their
grocer lor tnem.
MOO
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GINGER
SUC I
POULTRY
SEASONING
PERSONAL NOTES.
Colonel Roosevelt comes out of th Jungle
with a fins oollecUon of hides. Talos go
with these hide.
nnhhw hnn1a era bounding In the specu
lative market of London and th auckers
are biting as greatly as when Barney
Barnato stringed the bunch.
Lnt week a Maanochusetts centenarian,
who had celohrated another birthday.
credited his longevity to abatlnenoe from
liquor and tobticoo, hut the man who died
In New Hampshire at the age of 110 had
always used tobacco. And there you are. J
William Stotler of Wellington. Kan., edlts
a newspaper when he U not presiding In
the local police court, and the other day
he printed a story that led to a street fight
with a fellow-townsman. After the fight,
TiMca Rtntler summoned himself to court.
pleaded guilty and fined himself tS. Then
he oalled the other man to the har ana
fined him like sum.
Lawmakers of Rhode Island ar discuss
ing a bill restoring capital punishment In
the state. The meaaur ls boosted by the
convict who declares "Meet me In Rhode
Island" Is th parting- salute of members
of the tribe, whenever they leave peniten
tiaries In neighboring states. Th leniency
of th Judicial system Is rated high In tha
Jails and penitentiaries of tha country.
John J. Youngson of Meadvllle, Pa., has
served for forty-seven years as superinten
dent of the water system of the Erie Rail
road company. He eommenoed work as a
lad of 18 years, when the old Atlantio and
Great Weetern was first eompeated. Ho
continue in tho Service of th company,
not because he ls obliged t do so, but be
cause work has become a habit with him
and he can't live happily unless he ls "on
the Job."
' SMILING REMAEKS.
"Just notice how that young actress sip
from her glaas of water! Isn't that funny?
See her throw her head back. Just like
a bird, Isn't ltT"
"Yes. She wants to play th pnnd hen
In the English version of the Rostrand
barnyard drama," Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I understand that there In trouble brew
ing in the Meekton household."
'Yes," answered the woman who knows
all about everybody. 'Xhe unfortunate re
port has gotten abroad that Mr. Meekton
helps his wife write her suffrage te
speeches." Washington Star.
I see that you have been reading po
litical economy."
"A little," answered nenaior norgnom;
"but I had to give It up. I spot ao In
terested I was In danger of neglecting the
appropriations demanded by my con
stituents." Washington Star.
nv.iniu.Wlmt nn earth are you tclllnB
everybody that I said my patient waa de
lirious ?
Go nip I heard you say yourself, doc
tor, she waa light-headed.
Doctor You gump, I meant her hair,
not her brains. Baltimore American.
"Did he give you any hint of his feel
ing toward you?"
"No, he kept me In' the dark the entire
evening." " ' '
"What mor do you expect than that?
When a man keeps a girl in the dark all
the evening his feeling toward her Is
clear." Houston Post.
"Hallo!" exoiamed a London costermon
ger on meeting an acquaintance. "Who
damages did you pet for beln' In that
motor 'bus accident?"
" 'Ravy ones, me boy," waa the reply,
accompanied by a grin. MI got 120 for
myself and f20 for the missus.7
"The misaus! Was she hurt, too?"
"Ye. In course! I 'ad th presence of
mind to fetch hor on over th' 'ead 'fore
we was rescued." Buffalo Commercial.
' CAN YOU TELL I
Minneapolis Tribune.
Can you tell me why a woman.
A a nhA Viurrtea to the door.
Stops to put a llttl powder-en ber
nose? '
Of, course It's only human-
I have heard that said before!
That explains the case entirely, I TU
posel
But whatever is the reason
Anywhere you chance to meet,
Whether In the mirrored parlor
Or upon a crowded stroet
Even though she may bo rushing
To the train, with hurried feet. JV
She will stop
To put some powder
On her noset
You may think she's Interested
In the merchant's window show,
But she's only putting powder on ber
nose!
All these windows are Invested -With
a mirror book, you know.
And the merchant wots wher his per
simmons grows!
At the afternoon reception
You will see each woman try
To pre-empt one set position; . .
If you follow up her eye
You will see a mirror near her
And you know the reason why.
When she puts
A dab of powder
On her nosel
That Is all for I am married
And I dare not criticise'
Or make light of women' weals ot
women's woes!
I'm a husband, worried," harried,
Worn to half my usual sis
And I'm trembling now from blanching
cheeks to toeal
Yet I dare to call attention
To the universal She,
Who before the Powder Puff Is
Bending supplloatlng knee
And I think that you who read this
Will unflinchingly agree
That she needs
A little powder
On her nosel
to diseases of th ear, noe and throat
dog Nero."
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