THE BEE: OMAIIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1910.
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OEORGE B. TZ3CHUCK.
Treasurer,
Rub.lbed la my presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day if August, 1910.
M. B. WALKER,
Notary Public.
Subscribers leaving; the city trm
pornrlly ataoald hare ' The Be
mailed to them. Address will be
changed aa often as requested.
That weather man will be given his
. rating a little later.
Likewise in primary elections,
there's many a' slip 'twlxt cup and Up.
"Are all new books trash?'.' asks
the World's Work. No. Occasionally
there Is an exception.
The life of a poor working girl
should be just as valuable to the com
munity as that of a rich brewer.
We are''for Da-blman. World-Herald.
What If It yt turns out that Gov
ernor Shallenberger Is renominated?
Has anyone heard a good word for
the open primary which the late dem
ocratic legislature put over on us?
We pause for reply. .
The auto speeder is no respecter ot
persons In his victims, and the law
should be no respecter of persons In
holding culpable auto drivers respon
Bible.
Prairie fires are bad enough, but
forest fires are worse. Nebraska's
treeless prairies have some advantages
compared wth Idaho's wooded moun
tains.
Mayor Gaynor is pronounced out of
danger barring possible setbacks in
consequence of his wound. Another
triumph for modern medical and surgl
cal methods.
When he hitched up for all those
Chautauqua lectures and old 3etttlerV
picnics Governor Shallenberger' evi
dently overlooked, a few things, that
have since transpired.
A summer visitor out walking at
Newport lost a 160,000 pearl necklace
the other day. Let us be thankful
that no such little diversions excite
the social set hereabouts.
Anyway, Omaha is universally
known, and will continue to he known,
as a live, bustling, busy, growing,
prosperous western city, no matter
what the census may hand out to us.
If the vote for Associate Editor Met
calfe represents Editor Bryan's per
sonal influence with Nebraska demo
crats, a Wool soap picture showing
how it has shrunk would illustrate it
mcst graphically.
If upward of 10,000 republicans
crossed over to the democratic column
in the late primary, it is hardly safe
to predicate on the returns any Judg
ment as to the strength of insurgency
within the rank and file of Nebraska
republicans.
Colonel Roosevelt's Omaha speech
will be on the Panama canal. It Is
too much, however, to expect Mm to
tell us whether the exposition in cele
bratlon of the completion of the cmAl
should be located in New Orleans or
San Francisco. , . . .
If the neu house of representatives
has a democratic majority Champ
Clark will be speaker, but if the re
publicans are In control there will be
half a doren good candidates in the
running, and your "Uncle Joe" Can
non will not be one of them.
"For the cost of a single cruiser we
can have a whole fleet of aeroplanes,"
declares a French official. So can all
the other countries. Even little Swlt
serland, without a semblance of a
coast line, can go into the aeroplane
business Just as high as It wishes.
Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri Is try
ing to transplant his presidential boom
to the east by organizing Folk leagues
tn the New England and middle states.
The MIssourlan has discreetly re
frained from railing It the enemy's
country, but the chances are he will
have to show them Just the salt.
The State Tickets.
The Bee has refrained up to this
time from commenting on the make-up
of the state tickets put In nomination
at the recent primary for the very
good reason that It has not been cer
tain, and Is not yet certain, who will
be the opposing candidates.
On the republican side It is fully
demonstrated that the ticket will be
headed by Chester II. Aldrlch, nomi
nated for governor by a plurality ot
approximately 3,500 out of a total
vote greatly decreased by the defec
tion of the liberal republicans who
went our Into the democratic primary
to vote for Dahlman.
On the democratic side Mayor Dahl
man has a small lead over Governor
Shallenberger. His margin Is so nar
row that a recount or contest may yet
change the result.
If Mr.f Aldrlch Is to be pitted against
Mayor Dahlman the Issue will be
sharply defined between wet and dry
and will have to be fought out on
those lines. If Mr. Aldrich has Gov
ernor Shallenberger as his opponent,
both of them committed to sign a
county option bill if passed by the leg
islature, that Issue will be relegated
more to the respective senatorial and
legislative districts, and the fight for
the gubernatorial office will be waged
around other issues as well.
In either event victory or defeat
for Mr. Aldrich as head of the ticket
must turn on the measure of success
his campaign scores in winning back
the support of the liberal republicans
and in appealing to the democratic
and Independent voters dissatisfied
with the personality or record of the
democratic candidate.
Automobile Regulation.
Another serious, If not fatal, auto
mobile accident in Omaha Is a re
minder that nothing whatever has
been done by our local authorities to
put a check on reckless auto driving.
It la only fair, however, to tho city
council that it be known that its power
to apply a remedy that would be effec
tive has been questioned, and that it
is doubtful whether any ordinance es
tablishing a general license system,
with forfeiture for violation of the
conditions of license Issue, would hold
water.
Tho trouble is that our late demo
cratic legislature last year enacted a
state law for the registration of motor
vehicles of state-wide scope, contain
ing the following provision:
Cities and towps shall have no power
to pass, enforce or maintain any ordi
nance, rule or regulation requiring- any
owner or operator of a motor vehicle any
license or permit to use the public high
way, or . exclude or prohibit any motor
vehicle whose owner has complied with
this law from the free uaei of such high
ways, and all such ordinances, rules and
regulations now In force are hereby de
clared to be of no. validity or effect; pro
vided that nothing In this act shall be
construed as limiting the power of local
authorities to make, enforce and main
tain an ordinance, rules or regulations,
In addition to., the provisions of this act,
affecting motor vehicles which are
offered for the public for hire. '
The city council has the' right to
pass an ordinance governing public
automobiles offered for hire, and it Is
Just possible it might make regula
tions governing professional chauf
feurs regularly or temporarily em
ployed, but it evidently has no power
to limit the use of automobiles by
their owners or by those to whom
they are entrusted by their owners,
irrespective of t age or competency.
The only opportunity, therefore, to
enforce a remedy lies in arrest of
drivers exceeding the speed limit and
the imposition of severer , penalties
than has been accustomed.
In the interval those interested in
the safeguarding of the automobile
from the odium brought on it by den
ant driving will do well to prepare and
present to the coming legislature an
amendment to the state law establish
lng some reasonable qualifications as
prerequisite to the right to guide an
auto through our crowded city streets
Exoneration of the Vice President.
The complete exoneration of Vice
President Sherman i from even the
slightest suspicion of complicity in the
alleged attempted bribery growing out
of the Oklahoma land frauds should
be accepted as final. It should be ac
cepted all the more readily in view of
the- assertion of Senator Gore, who
dragged Mr. Sherman's name Into the
case, that he himself never placed any
credence in. the charge that the vice
president was interested la the Indian
contracts for legal services.
The unfortunate part of the unwar
ranted and Inexcusable use of Mr
Sherman's name in this connection Is
the undesirable publicity reflecting
upon the integrity of our highest pub
lic officials spread before the people
of foreign countries who are ready to
believe without further inquiry, and
the consequent injury to our good
name as a nation. It Is a sad but true
characteristic of the average person to
let good reports of a public official go
In one ear and out of the other, and to
repeat and exaggerate whatever evil
Is said of them.
In this case It was not a question
of veracity as between Senator Gore
and Vice President Sherman, as hostile
critics have undertaken to make us
believe, because the record and repu
tation of the vice president is at least
several notches higher on the scale
than those of the Oklahoma senator,
but merely the well-known popular dis
position to believe ugly charges about
everybody ot distinction, and to forget
or overlook bis eminent services and
tried Integrity. None but the thought
less or malevolent could find In the
evidence of Senator Gore anything to
Impeach Vice President Sherman. But
the truth must travel in seven-league
boots to overtake a lie, aud even
with this exoneration Mr. Sherman
will suffer in some degree aa the vic
tim of a wanton attack made without
the slightest foundation.
Banki Prepared for Harvest
The western banks expect to be
able to handle the demands of the crop
movement with the ordinary help from
the larger reserve centers, bo what
apprehension has been felt on this
score1 may now be dismissed. A can
vass of the west seems to reflect this
fact. There was much uneasiness for
a while as to the ability of the western
banks to rise to this situation because
of the belief that they were over
loaned, but it seems they were not so
far overloaned as to give cause for
such alarm. Their loans have been
heavy; of that there Is no doubt,1 but
the banks have been able to take care
of all home demands, and today have
a better reserve than they had sixty
days ago.
Of course business has undergone a
general improvement in that time and
this has had its Influence. For sev
eral weeks eastern financiers have
been insisting that the smaller west
ern banks adopt a more conservative
policy with reference to loans and the
effect has not been in vain. The policy
Is decidedly more conservative and this
has tended to reduce the demands for
the present of real estate loans. Not
only Is this true in Nebraska, but In
Kansas, Iowa and Illinois, and In none
more than Kansas, where the extension
of loans, it was felt, had gone too far.
With a more stable tone to banking
business and at least an 80 per cent
prop coming on, conditions in the west
are sound and offer no reason what
ever for discouragement in the east,
which is too much given to Jumping
at conclusions as to affairs in the
west.
West Planning Conservation.
Whatever actual influence the con
servation congress of St. Paul is to
wield, governors of western states
propose that the sentiment and poli
cies of their people shall not be over
looked in coming to a concrete basis
of action. They very wisely called a
preliminary congress of their own at
Salt Lake City, where a thorough Inter
change of views might he had as to the
means of reaching an agreement for a
definite program at St. Paul. All the
far western states have been repre
sented by their, chief executives and
representatives of the state and gov
ernor ot Minnesota have been there to
participate in the meeting. "
Most of the conserving of natural
resources is Just now -being done in
the west and by the nature of things
must continue to be, so that it is only
right,. that In any convention ; of this
sort 'the west should have a voice in
determining its ultimate policies to be
pursued. No doubt as 'between some
of the expert conservationists of. the
east and those of the west some sharp
differences of opinion will be de
veloped,. So much the better then that
they eome at a meeting of this char
acter, for out of the weighing and
discussing of views it ought to be pos
sible to reach, in part at. least, some
formula that will be serviceable to the
government in the ultimate shaping of
its policies. "
If the states like California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Utah and possibly
Montana and Nevada can, out of the
Crucible of debate at Salt Lake City,
produce a settled, fixed view which
they may offer at St. Paul as repre.
sentlng that great section, the scene of
so much present and future develop
ment, the work of the congress will
be greatly simplified and facilitated,
but with these states at variance
among themselves the congress might
find Itself Involved in an interminable
contest at the very outset.
A murder mystery has been pro
jected oat of a supposed suicide up In
Antelope county on the strength of an
autopsy conducted by Dr. B. Arthur
Carr. Dr. E. " Arthur Carr is the doc
tor who was rewarded for his dirty
work in the 1908 campaign by appoint
ment by Governor Shallenberger to
the State Board of' Health. Better
get the autopsy verified before going
to the expense of a prosecution.
Russian peasants have been led to
believe that the cholera scourge Is a
visitation of Divine wrath. The same
consolation was offered to the victims
of Mount Pelee'B eruption and the un
fortunates made homeless by the San
Francisco earthquake. The idea of
Divine wrath la attractive to the
Ignorant, but an Almighty who pur
posely afflicts the innocent in order to
punish the sinner is unthinkable.
The railroad spokesmen are still
busy paving the way for the rate in
creases, which were stopped when the
interstate commerce law was enacted.
by giving out poverty interviews in
every possible connection. But the
shipper and the consumer will have
their day la court, and the Interstate
Commerce commission will have the
last word.
A Chicago divorce-seeking couple
succeeded in imposing on the court
with a fake letter, but invited trouble
by making the letter compromise an
innocent third party whose retaliation
now promises to upset the divorce de
cree. The collusive divorcees should
sue their lawyers for malpractice If it
was due to bad legal advice that they
traveled such a poor road.
New York is threatened - with a
strike of stage hands, which, if It
eventuates, may close down all the
theaters. That Is one place where the
public can stand a lockout without
suffering serious or lasting injury.
The real danger la that If the theater
goer has to stay at home awhile he
ma get the habit.
If Emperor William gathers in the
Nobel peace prise next year for pre
venting a war between Servta and
Austria there will be another bond of
union between the kaiser and the
colonel, who was awarded this prlxe
in recognition of his part In bringing
the war between Russia and Japan to
an end. Blessed are the peacemakers.
Nevada Is the only state in the
union that has nonqualified to share
In the appropriation made by congress
for the benefit ot the state militia on
condition that it is maintained on ac
ceptable standards. Nevada Is too
busy grlndtng out divorces and fur
nishing immunity to prlxe fighters to
develop a national guard. -
: i
Our taxpayers thought last year's
taxes, which were 25 per cent above
those of the year before, exceptional,
but it looks as if the current year's
tax burden will be just as heavy. It
is always easy to boost the tax rate,
but mighty hard to pull It down again.
Chaise Sorely Needed.
Washington Herald.
Newspaper comment concerning Mr.
Bryan's recent defeat In Nebraska has
played out. If Mr. Bryan ever hopes again
to get himself talked about he will have
to get elected to something.
A Thin to Be Reckoned With.
San Francisco Chronlole.
The aviator and the man below with the
gun are likely to cut a flg-ure In future
warfare. No matter how successful sharp
shooters may be In' exploding floating gas
bags and piercing airships,-' venturesome
man will not be deterred from dropping
dynamite on the decks of ship and In
other places where they will inflict damage
on an enemy. The aerial bomb Is a thing
that will have to be reckoned with.
Sanding- the Curve..
Philadelphia Ledger.
Somebody haa Suggested that rubbing
the body with sand will reduce the flesh.
The theory does not seem ".ntenable. Suf
ficient rubbing would not only reduce but
umlnate it, and put a polish on the
bones. Converts to the theory are tilling
their grips with sand a they leave the
shore. They might save space, however,
by adopting sandpaper, which would be
cheap, convenient and equally effective.
Babel of Tongues.
Philadelphia Record.
Esperantlsts are chatting away like
anything In Washington., but French and
German patriots are protesting at the
number of English words that are creep
ing into common use In their languages;
at all the Continental hotels and places
of business more and more English Is
spoken; and in Asia and Africa it Is be
coming common for natives unable to
converse with ch other In indigenous
languages to get along fairly well by
talking English. The universal language
la -making Its way to the front without
the help of Inventors and conventions.
Turning; Barb on Roosevelt.
Springfield Republican.
The attempted murder ot Mayor Gaynor
presented a temptation to certain English
Journals which they were weak enough not
to reslstt Uoes this ,dplprable event, they
Inquire, prove that New Yorkers are un-i
fit to govern' themselves? "Remembering
Roosevelt's Guildhall speech," says the
Westminster Gazette, "we hesitate, to think
of what he will say regarding New York's
capacity for self government."- It was the
assassination qf . the prime minister of
Egypt that moved Mr. Roosevelt to a de
structive criticism of the home rule move
ment among the Inhabitants of the Nile
valley and to his condemnation of the pres
ent British policy In that country. It is
unfortunate, perhaps, for Mr. Roosevelt's
position concerning Egypt that Mayor Gay
nor should have been shot so soon after
khe murder of Boutros Pasha.
AGRICULTURAL. INCOME.
Effect of Turning; the Product, of the
Soli Into Money.
Wall Street Journal.
At last, after a summer of recurring crop
scares, the income period for the farms
of the country has arrived and the labors
of the season are being turned Into money
by the sale of produots of the sotl. Three
nerthwestern markets are now taking
nearly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat a day.
The rate at which farmers are selling grain
and cattle shows a degree of liquidation
which the west especially needs. Soon the
cottoa crop will begin to move on an en
larging scale, into domestic and export
channels, with the effect ot putting the
country In a much better exchange rela
tion than It has enjoyed for several months
past, v
A cereal yield of nearly 6,000,000,000 bushels
and a cotton crop of 11,000,000 or 12.000,000
bales mean a purchasing power' of tremen
dous Import not only to the farmer who
grows these products, but also to the com
mercial world with which the exchange
them, to the Industrial world whose manu
factures are demanded by him, and to the
financial world whose advances have made
production on the existing scale passible The
gross value at the farm of a single year's
crop now ranges from $8,000,000,000 to
19,000,000,000. Much of this will be consumed
on the farm. But If only half of It passes
out into the channels of trade by January
1, 1911, the railroads will have about as
much as they can do to distribute these
vast stores between producers and con
sumers; the volume of merchandising set In
motion thereby will stimulate industry and
the profits of enterprise in all the differing
pursuits will measure the extent to which
farm Income has made It possible to ac
quire new capital resources to enable the
Investment world to lay wider and deeper
its foundations for the future.
Our Birthday Book
Angus 88, 1810.
Melville E. Stone, secretary and general
manager of the Associated Press, was born
August 2, IMS. at Hudson, III. In partner
ship with Victor F. Lawson he established
the Chicago Dally. News and laid the
foundation for its success. lie has been a
frequent visitor to Omaha.
William L. Douglas, the shoe man and
also once governor of Massachusetts, Is
Just 66 years old today. He was born at
Plymouth, and was mentioned for the
democratic nomination for president two
years ago, which ha might have gotten hid
Mr. Bryan not wanted it.
George P. Melklejohn. attorney-at-law,
was bora August 12, 1867, at Weyauwego,
Wis. He served as lieutenant governor of
Nebraska and was assistant secretary of
war under President McKlnley, removing
two years ago from his former home at
i Fullerion to uraana.
I II. C. Roaacker, chief clerk to the car
1 service agent of the Union Pacific railroad,
Is Just SS years old today. He was born In
New York city, and educated In the Omaha
j school. He hr.a been with th. L'nlou
Jtino suite UM.
Around New York
lUpplea en the Current of life
as Bieea la the Ores Amerioa
Metropolis from Bay to Say.
Mining stock ground out of the print shops
of Colorado, purchased by the bale at t
cents a share, with liberal discount tor
cash, and unloaded on the easy marks at
W a share. Is responsible for the sojourn of
William T. Wlntermute. promoter, In the
New Tork Tombs. Wrntermute played the
game with gold-rlm mining stock. Per
sonally , he passed up the common run ot
easy marks, preferring to deal with "well
bred ladles and gentlemen," anxious to get
In on the ground floor. But his vocal as
sociate, an ex-minister named Herman
Warsswlak, chose the members of his old
profession for his beneficence, leading them
from the toll and hardships of poverty to
the golden gates of affluence. None broke
In. The two pals gut the money, and the
victims dropped Into the subcellar. Among
the foreign victims are the Dowager Count
ess of Tsnkervllle of Tunbrldge Wells,
Ens-land, $15,000; Miss Henrietta Elont Tun
brldge Wells, 125,000; Misses Louise, Adele
and Anna Elont, The Hague, eaoh $1,000;
M. Houldey, Durham, England, $2,000; Mars
M. Jacobs, London, $2,000; N. Beatrice
Shaw, London, $2,000; Anna von Merlecke,
Nottingham. $2,000. Wlntermute Is charged
with using the malls to defraud.
Speaking of typographical errors In news
papers, James R. Tanner of New York, a
former printer and newspaper man says:
"Two articles had been prepared for a New
Tork dally, one containing a sermon
preached by an eminent divine, and the
other about the freaks of a mad dog. Un
fortunately, the foreman, when 'making
up' the form, 'mixed' them, producing an
article whloh ran something like this:
" 'The Rev. James Thompson, rector of
St. Andrew's nhurch, preached to a large
concourse of people on Sunday last. This
was his last sermon. In a few weeks he
will bid farewell to his congregation, as
his physicians advise him to cross the At
lantic. He exhorted his brethren and sis
ters, and after offering a devout prayer,
took a whim to cut up some frantlo freaks.
He ran up Timothy street to Johnson, and
down Benefit street to College. At this
stage of the proceedings a couple of boys
seised him, tied a tin kettle to his tall, and
he again started. A great crowd collected,
and for a time there was a grand scene of
noise,' running, and confusion. After some
trouble he was shot by a policeman.' "
John Purroy Mitchell, president of the
Board of Aldermen, now acting mayor of
New York has had a brilliant career In
his short political life. Four years ago his
name was practically unknown outside his
own Immediate circle of friends. At that
time he occupied an unimportant position In
one of the New York City departments. Yet
that was the beginning of his career. No
opportunity has presented Itself to this
man, so young In years, that he has not
grasped and used as a foothold in his climb
to political and civic prominence.
Mr. Mitchell Is only 30 years old, a
nephew of John D. Purroy, a former fire
commlsisoner of the city. After leaving
college he took up the study of law and
graduated from the Columbia Law school.
With his legal training to back him, Mr.
Mitchell entered the corporation counsel's
office, and when Mayor McClellan ordered
an Investigation of Borough . President
Ahearn's office It was young Mitchell who
worked most tirelessly aa commissioner
of accounts. It was this investigation which
launched him on his career.
Mrs. Frances Morgan lives with her hus
band and two daughters on the second floor
ot 969 Broadway, Williamsburg. She Is a
little woman, but . possessed of grit and
muscle, which Eugene Perst can vouch
for.
While the members of the family were
taking an afternoon nap Perst descended
the rear fire escape from the root and
entered the Morgan apartments through a
window. Mrs. Morgan was In a room ad
Joining the kitchen, while the other mem
bers of the family were in the front of
the house. She was awakened by the noise
made by Perst.
Instead of fainting or going into hysterics
Mrs. Morgan reached over and picked up a
large, thick hickory stick. With that under
the covers she awaited developments. She
feigned sleep when Perst crept softly into
the room. He went about the house picking
up trinkets and other things that he could
put in his pocket, and had Just taken Mrs.
Morgan's pocketbook, containing $13, when
she jumped out of bed.
Perst bad his back to Mrs. Morgan, and
she crept up behind hjm and dealt him a
blow that brought him to his knees. He
tried to regain bis feet, but she laid the
stick across bis shoulders and back in such
a manner that he begged for mercy. She
made him stand up and empty his pockets,
and then marched him downstairs into the
bands of a policeman.
HEW CENTER OF PROSPERITY.
Unmistakable Evidence of tho West
ward Trend.
Washington Post.
Has the center of prosperity overtaken
and overlapped the center of population In
Us westward trend T Or is the check to
activity noticeable only In the east ot a
temporary character? Various reasons are
assigned for the falling off In bank clear
ings at New York and other eastern money
centers, .while at the same time Increases
are reported from western and southern
points in sufficient volume to bring the
total above the corresponding dates of last
year. Dismissing the explanations, whloh
do not explain, together with others which
are contradictory, there are ,efi for con
sideration two or three things wblch unde
niably sre among the factors that have
brought about the anomalous result that
depression exists In the east '.n face of in
creasing prosperity west and south.
One of the obvious masons why the east
Is falling behind Is tbe heavy decrease in
exports, which affects the earnlMs- of the
railroads hauling them and the Bunks that
financed .them. While the east last year
was falling hundreds Of millions behind
the high point, - the sc uthern ports were
actually gaining over the previous year. .
The drift of speculation away from the
east has much to do with the decrease in
bank clearings and telegraph business. The
publlo is tired ot the game for one thing,
and then it was found more profitable to
put money in western farm lands and mort
gages than In stocks. Thus, the western
banks are turning their money over at a
rate rarely experienced, while the New
York banks are worrying over the alack de
mand for funds to move the crops, not fully
realising as yet that the crops do not move
that way as of yore.
While the decrease in exports and the
slump In speculation are probably only
temporary, and the east may regain all or
more than It has lost from these two
cause., more doubt attaches to the third
and principal factor in the equation. This
Is the higher cost of living. It cuts into
the east's prosperity both ways, reducing
its buying power and causing a lessening
demand for Us manufactured products. All
that the west has gained from inflated
prices for foodstuffs has come out of the
pockets of the eastern consumers, while
the economies practiced on account of the
high priced necessities hav. ptiralyged
eastern Industrie to a point nut equalled
In recent years.
IAFT WILL STATE POSITION
Executive Preparing; Speech and Let
ter for Campaign Book. ,
WILL NOT ENTER CONTROVERSY
Situation at Present Doe. Not Show
that One RiUtt Mat ot Pro
resslve Lesxlnatlou to Bo
Cited.
BEVERLY, Mass., Ai.f. tl As time goes
on It becomes more and more apparent
that no direct answer will be made hers
to the reports ot a break between Presi
dent Taft and Colonel Roosevelt and the
charged alleged as a foundation for the
rupture.
Although the silence of the last few
days Is still strictly maintained, It Is be
lieved now that President Taft Intends to
make his position clear In the letter he Is
preparing for (the republican campaign
committee hand book and the speech he Is
preparing for the conservation congress at
St Paul. Mr. Taft has been working on
these two documents almost continuously
for the last two days.
The letter and the speech, so far aa
known, will not be controversial. The
president Is said to recognise no situation
cabling for a controversy. Colonel Roose
velt has made no statement In support of
the reported break. There Is nothing
definite upon which the president could
act even It he had a desire to do so.
With tbe Important work that he has In
hand Mr. Taft evidently has concluded that
this Is not the time to enter Into a news
paper controversy with anyone. As to
what his administration has accomplished
In fulfillment of the party platform pledges
and what It Intends to do in the future in
the way of recommendations to congress
President Taft soon will make theve mat
ters clear and It la said he Is willing to
stand or fall by what he has to say.
Keep. Out of State Flht..
As to state fights, and It Is the New
York state fight which Is alleged to have
created a chasm between the president and
the colonel, there Is every reason to be
lieve that Mr. ' Taft will restate what he
has said here many times of late, that
he does not believe It to be the province
of 4he chief executive to Interfere In state
fights and that in dealing With state situa
tions he has confined himself to urging
upon the various leaders the importance
to the party of an honest endeavor to
adjust their differences and an agreement
upon a harmonious program.
That the president, ' disregarding local
Issues, Is Mill Intent upon bringing about
a situation in the republican party as
closely allied to harmony as Is possible
under all the circumstances. Is evidenced
by the tact that his campaign committee
letter Is reported to contain a declaration '
that there is no desire on his part, or on
the part of anyone closely identified with
tho administration, to read any person out
of the party.
No Fla-ht with Insurgents.'
This Is taken here to mean that the pres
ident has no fight with the Insurgents, but
Is glad to welcome them as republicans.
During the last session of" congress the
president clearly defined his, position as to
what constituted a ' republican. He held
that all men who were willing to support
measures which clearly were framed In
compliance with pledges in the party plat
form were entitled to be regarded aa mem
bers' or -th. party, no matter what their
position might be as to the house-rules or
the speakership. ,
It Is also said her. tonight that President
Taft will point to the fact that all of the
legislation he has recommended and which
haa been enacted has been in line with
the progressive policy he outlined at the be
ginning of his administration.
So far aa he consistently Can do so, the
president will endeavor to placate all fac
tion, of the party. He believes the party
already la moving ' ahead and he wants
all Its members to "pull at tbe oars."
Representative McKlnley of Illinois,
chairman of the republican congressional
campaign committee, when he was In Bev
erly ten days ago, announced that the con
gressional committee was ready to support
regulars and insurgents alike, the only test
being support of the president and of the
party platform.
Tariff Commission.
As to the tariff, President Taft, It Is be
lieved, will lay chief importance upon the
results that it Is hoped will be accom
plished through the work of the new tariff
commission. The party platform called for
a revision of the tariff on the scientific
principle of difference In the cost of pro
duction here and abroad, with a fair profit
to the producers. 1
It also called for "Immediate revision,"
and the public demanded Immediate revis
ion. In bringing about Immediate revision
It was obviously Impossible to make that
revision scientific. The meana of securing
the needed information was not available
and the time was too short. The president
will point out what he believes to be the
good features of the Payne-Aldrtch act and
will declare that a real solentifio revision,
based on the mass of Information the tariff
commission will collect, will undoubtedly be
had- It the republican party Is kept In
power.
Talks for people
I Here Is a story which proves that
. . . 't wort h m CAnt t rt thA
incurs. ,cu
man who thinks for himself:
WhVn the present manger of the
Union Hardware and Electric company
of Providence, R. I., took charge, he
knew that the common belief among
dealers was that hardware advertising
would not pay. But what others
thought and believed did not Influence
him at all.
He came over from Wanamaker's
New York store, had a thorough
knowledge ot merchandising and
knew from experience what advertis
ing could accompllah. He saw no
more reason why a hardware store
should wait for customers and depend
on chance sales than should a departs
ment store so be applied the Wana
maker idea to the Union Hardware
and Electric company.
He employed a competent man to
handle the advertising, bought enough
space in the newspapers to make a
showing, held sale events, and adver
tised quality and price every day in
the week.
A great deal of the advertising was
Fresh Mined Hard Coal $10.5
Havens-White Coal Co.
1618 Farnam 8t. Omaha, Nob.
Telephones-Douglas 630, Ind. A-1281.
.PERSONAL NOTES.
The fortune left to his grandchildren by
the late John O. Carlisle was fully aa
modest as anyone could have anticipated.
It la thought not to exceed $40,000.
An expansive but noiseless grin stretches
along the firing line of the army. Dignity
had to unbend when a court-martial ac
quitted an offloer of charges ot "conduct
unbecoming an officer." but found hint
guilty of drunkenness. "v.
It is a matter ot Indifference JwhrfY"
the remains of Florence NlghtlngaU
lie In the Abbey or In soms country
churchyard. The work she did Uvea aft
her, and her monument Is In the hearts
of countless millions of the world s suf
ferers whose pillows have been smoothed
and whose burdens of sorrow have been
lightened by her ministrations and those
which she Inspired.
This Is a Johnson year. Not to mention
the polisher of Jeffries, there Is Chief
Johnson of the Chickasaw Indians, who
couldn't remember how his bank account
came to be fattened by 175,000; Hiram John
son, who swept California In ths race tor
the republican nomination for governor,
and the Chicago branch ot ths family
greater In number than the Smiths, ths
Browns or the Jones. Too much Johnson?
Ask the family rivals.
The "Prettiest Child In America" has been
discovered In Everett Mass., and her name
is Mlllloent Agatlne Oowan. She is T years
old, and has already "received numerous
offers for her services as a model" from
New York artists. Milllcent, It seems, has
already had some experience In posing, and
one account Informs us that since hs
was 3 years of age she haa bean posing for
artists and photographers. At a meeting
held In New York she wae awarded the
title ot the prettiest child In America!
SMILING REMARKS.
He At the concert I noticed you were
sitting between Jack and his fiancee.
She Yes, 'twas a hot night and there's
quite a coolness between them. Baltimore
American. .
Throgglns Five thousand dollars, I know,
seems a high price for us to pay for thai
house, but I didn't get it through any
agency. 1 bought it at first hands.
Mrs. ThrogRlns Yes, and we'll have to
fill it with secondhand furniture. Chicago
Tribune. .
"So you are the applicant for the posi
tion of typewriter T"
"Yes. sir."
"But your hands do not look as If they'd
ever touched a typewriter." 1
"They haven't sir; I learned at a cor
respondence school." Yonkers Utatesman.
Antl If women had the vote the home
would be destroyed.
SuffraglHt Perhaps the home tJf Inebri
ates might be. New York Sun.
"Mr. Grimes," said th rector to the
vestryman, "we had better take up the col
lection before the sermon this morning."
"Indeed?"
"Yes. I'm going to preach on the sub
Jet of economy." Stray Btorle.
After the usual greeting by Mephlsto, the
couple are Ushered to their apartment In
hades.
"I can't see," grumbled the husband,
"that this place is any cooler than any
where else we ever spent the summer."
"Well," argues his wife, "I suppose you
would rather poke off to some mud hole
somewhere where there is no society at
all.-Life.
New York was In sight
Th. ship was entering the harbor.
"Ah, free America!" exclaimed a for
eigner on the deok. "Free America, se land '
where efrybody has an equal ohanoel"
"Going c to locate here?" inquired a
friendly American.
"Ah, yes, I haf ccme over to enrage bx
se oil business." Washington Herald. - ,
WHEN FT ALL STARTED.
- W. D. Nesblt In Life. .
When Adam met Eve he was bashful and
shy. ?
And he stammered and blushed every time
she came nigh.
Till at last he grew bold and began to pay ,
court
(You may put all your trust In this faith
ful report),
Ana np murmured to ner on an evening
"You're the prettiest girl that I ever havi
seen
And that's how that started.
When Eve, with a beautiful blush on hef
face,
Yielded shyly and sweetly to, Adam's em
brace, And put up her Hps for the true lover's
pact
(You may set this all down as an absolute
fact). '
She Inquired, while he breathed the fond
, names on his list;
"Have you said that to all ot the girls you
have kissed?"
And that's how that started.
When Adam asked Eve It she would bo
his bride, -She
looked up and looked down, and she
sighed and she sighed.
And she let him take hold of her Illy
white hand
(This is history Mow, as you must vufJLF
stand).
Then she said, In a voice that was dulcetly
low:
"I must take time to think. 'Tie so sudden,
you know."
And that's how that started.
When they had been married a few years
or so.
Then Adam told Bve: "We're Invited to
nSs
To a dinner and dance with some friend
down in Nod.
(This Is truly . authentlo, although It
sounds odd),
Eve replied with a sad and sorrowful air:
"I can't go. Don't you see, I have nothing
to wear?"
And that's how that started.
who sell things
directed to the women ot Providence,
and they responded every time ex
ploding another fond theory, that
women are not interested in so prosaia
a thing as hardware.
The business ot the Union Hard
ware and Electric company increased
enormously, will continue to increase
under its very live, very wide-awake
manager who goes out after business
Instead of waiting for It who believes
in his goods and makes others bellev
in and want them.
And thus it is that good advertis
ing pays in the hardware business or
any other business when Intelligence,
energy ind honesty are put into it,
and when a persistent policy is pur
sued. There are numerous merchants la
Omaha who could acquire great suc
cess through legitimate, dignified, con
vincing advertising.
The advertising columns of The Bea
are open to you, gentlemen, and Tha
Bee can supply a service of advertising
copy to meet your needs.
Phone Tyler 1000 and a Bee repre
sentative will call on you.
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