TIIK BKK: (PJAHA, SATURDAY. DKCKMHKIt JR. MURDER ISJJILL MURDER Xhecdore 'Roosevelt Writes Further of McNamara Cases. SINISTEX CLASS SELFISHNESS Labor Leaders Who lime flnrrrrilrd In Identifying Criminal with Their CuniF Have Done Their Fellorts a Great Wrong. NEW TORK, Dee. 15. Theodore Roose velt has an editorial in the current Issue of the Outlook relating (o the McNamara taiie, entitled "Murder Is Murder." The article rays: "Not only laboring men, but business men, capitalist!, have at times shown the worst form of class consciousness that of sinister and brutal class selfishness in standing by criminals simply because they were of their own class. This lias been done by capitalists in the case of capital ists who have been guilty of braien cor ruption, and by laborers in the case of labor loaders who have been guilty of murderous violence. The two offenses Ft and on a par from the standpoint of damn ne to the community. In Ban Fran cisco in one municipal contest the capi talists who desired to be free from all check on corruption and the labor leaders who desired to ba free from all check on lawless violence struck hands and elected their tioket; and this proved in the end to be a lasting misfortune to San Fran cisco, to the cause of honest business and to the cost of honest labor. I'lea of Monstrous Folly. "Since the startling outcome of the McXamara trial certain apologists of these men have made themselves con spicuous by asserting that these depraved criminals, who have on their s.-arod souls the murder of so many Innocent persons all of them laboring people, by the way are 'victims,' or at worst, 'fanatics,' who should receive sympathy because they were acting in wfist they regarded as a 'war' on behalf of this class. The plea is monstrous in Its folly and its wickedness. It is precisely tlio kind of plea sometimes advanced on behalf of a crooked man of great wealth caught bribing a legislature that ho has to do it to protect his business. We are not here dealing with any of the kinds of offenses Incidental to the sudden and sweeping changes brought about by mcdqrn In dustrial conditions Into which capitalists or labor men are somtimcs drawn with out any very great conscious moral tur pitude on their part. AVe are dealing with crimes as old ns the lawgiving from lnal, with crimes murder and theft that have been prohibited ever since the decalogue was formulated. The murders committed by men like the McNamaras, Hlthough nominally In the interest of or ganized labor, differ not one whit in moral culpability from those committed by the Black Hand, or by any band of mere cutthroats, and are fraught with an Infinitely heavier menace to society. Tet, great though the menace is to the com munity, the menace to the cause of hon est organized labor is still greater, and no duty is more imperatively laid on the leaders of labor than the duty of af firmatively freeing themselves -and their follower's from the taint of responsibility for such criminals and such crimes. Evil Service to Labor. The leaders who by their loud cham pionship of the McNamaras as previously of .Moyer and Haywood have succeeded in Identifying them with the cause of Iaborin the eyes of, the public, have ren dered' an evil service to that cause. Mr. Debs and the extremists of Ills type among the so-called political socialists I say so-called becauee Debs and Ms (ollowrs of the Emma Goldman kind are not socialists at all In any true sense of the word, ' but mere inciters to murder and preachers of applied anarchy and the labor loaders affiliated with thera. have always boasted of the purt they played in the trial of Moyer and Hay wood; and in this case they repeated their familiar tactics, and held mass meetings and scattered broadcast papers and ad dresses In which they furiously denounced the effort to bring wrongdoers to Justice and sought to arouse every evil class In stinct against all who upheld the cause of law or sought to put a stop to assassina tion and murderous violence. It is worth noting that since McNamara confessed his guilt Mr. Moyer, the head of what purports to be a labor organization, is reported In the press as commenting upon it, not by denouncing McNamara for hav ing committed the murder, but by de nouncing him for having confessed it. Such denunciation is significant. Menaces of American People. "Murder is murder, and the foolish sen timentalists of sinister wrongdoers who try to apologise for It as an 'Incident to labor warfare,' are not only morally cul pable, but are enemies of tht American people, and, above all, are enemies of American wage worker. In honorable contrast to these men stand the various' labor leaders wbo bavu never asked for more than a fah- trial for the McXa snaras'. wnesjs pnwm has eery heea la rvt Justice-, oarf wfw asm The Christmas Store for the Business Man and Women Rich, handsome Furl to please tha fancy of anr woman! All shades and Jtlnda; tha newest ah a pas; satin lined. Seta $8 tO $40 Credit Warm Clothing for tha practical money-maker! Nobby Hats, warm Over coats and new. splen didly tailored Suits, at $10 tO $25 Credit Come In and get ac quainted with our liberal credit policy, and Bentley's Better Bargains kflf HUNTLEY9 IS. T. KESUBT, Cjr. maud that murder shall be punched when committed In the nominal interest of labor precisely as tinder any other cir cumstances. I believe with all my heart In the American worklngman; 1 believe with all my heart In organised labor, for labor must be organised in order to pro tect and secure its rights; and therefore with all my strength I urge my fellow citizens, the American men and women who earn their livelihood as wage work ers, to see that their leaders stand for honesty, and obedience to the law, and to set their faces like flint against any ef fort to Identify the cause of organised labor, directly or Indirectly, with any movement which in any shape or way benefits by the commission of crime of law-lees and murderous violence." Hines Objects to Questions Asked by Lorimer Committee WASHINGTON, the lS.-Ed ward Hlnes. the millionaire Chicago lumberman, who is said to have helped "put Senator Ixirl mer over" at Springfield, was again a witness before the senate Ixuimer com mittee today, but did not long remain on the stand. Mr. Hlnes had been recalled by the committee's counsel for further questtnn'ng as to Just what happened In a private room of the Union League club In Chicago, March 27, 19(19. Mr. Hlnes was belligerent and when he did not like a question demanded that It be stricken from the record. Hlnes la al leged to have met other men at the club to help raise a supposed $1(0,000 fund to Insure Lorimer's election. Hlnes and Elbrldge llanecy, Larimer's counsel, successfully combatted the com mittees proposed line of inquiry today. The committee's attorneys announced that they would call Mr. Hines a third time. "Manny" Abrahams, the "Bellwether" of tlie Iee O'Neil Browne democrats In the legislature at Springfield also was recalled and cross examined. He admitted that he made up . his mind to vote for Lorimer when he learned that Browne and other democrats were going to do the same. Senator Jones asked If he had received any-money for his vote for Lorimer, and Abrahams said he had not. "Is It true that you held up the ballot ing for a day because you couldn't get enough money?" asked the senator. "Not at all," returned Abrahams. They had a story around that I had been of fered $2,600, but was holding out for $6,000 and delayed the vote for a day on that account. But It was not true." Minority Report on Coal Harbor Charge Scores Conspirators WASHINGTON. Dec. 16. The sudden ending of the Inquiry into the charges that the government had allowed a monopoly of the coal harbor at Controller Bay, Alaska, was roundly scored In the republican minority report of the house committee on Interior department ex penditures filed today. The republicans said that common de cency If not Justice, would have demanded some Investigation to expose those re sponsible for the fabrication of the so called "Dick to Dick" letter, alleged to have been written by Secretary of the Interior Balllngcr to Richard 8. Ryan, the latter supposedly representing the Guggenheim Interests. The minority report , said this expose should have been permitted even If the democratic majority was unwilling, for partisan reasons to "exonerate the secre tary of the Interior and other high offi cials of the unjust charge." "And so the whole fabric of fabrication, suspicion and downright falsehood on which the investigation was based, falls to the ground," says the minority report. It also urged a thorough Inquiry so as to locate the guilty persons and have some punishment meted put to them and "to deter others who may employ false hoods and dupllc'ty in assailing official character." "The action of the majority of the com mittee," It said, "can have but one effect, that of shielding the perpetrator of the libel and throwing protection around who ever through malice Inspired the cowardly attack upon the president." Harmon Declines to Attend Banquet; Bryan Will Be There WASHINGTON, Dec la. Governor Harmon of Ohio has declined an Invita tion to attend the , Jackson day banquet to be held her January i. the 'day on which the national democratic committee meet. Tha governor assigned no reason. W. J. IVyau has accepted an Invitation aid ts csgermwl to apeak at the dinner. 1521 IC2E STtEET immm pp jQli ; M 1 1 in ..-J Now Books Klrtlnn. 1IF-R ROMAN U)VKn. Hy Kugenla Rrook Fruthingham. L7 Houghton, Mifflin Company l'p. l. This novel tells the story of Anne War ren's winter In Rome. Anne, a beautiful, sensitive and very perceptive American girl, speedily falls In love with a young Italian, not of the nobility, but a gon" man, who passionately woos her. The portrayal ' of (lino Curat ulo, the Italian lover, and of the background of Roman society. Is masterly and convincing, while Dome, herself, the Mistress of the World, has rarely been more Impressively used in fiction. The plot of the story as It develops turns upon the deep chasm which divides the Saxon from the Latin In temperament and ideals. TIIK TfcXICAN. By Dane Coolldge. 3(59 Fp. 11.S5. A. C. McClurg A Co. Another cowboy story, full of action, which pictures strikingly the stirring events of the plains. REDEEMV;n. Rv Mrs. George Sheldon Downs. 315 l'p. $126. U. W. Dillingham Company. x This story deals with the problem of divorce, but the treatment of the prob lem Is along new lines, and the element of romance pervading the story adds to the readers' Interest. MT LAPY OF IWBT. By Randall Parrish. 3M Tp. $1.35. A. C. McClurg A Co. The author has chosen the war of the revolution for the scene of this story, and through the meshes of the net In which the daring and beautiful heroine and the brave and courageous hero are Inextricable bound together, the great struggle for freedom and the seal which inspired the people. Is brought out. TUB FAIR IRISH MAID. 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U3 r tl. Lo Unwoi. ! AWfacd Ctoanany. In tfcss vwtesBM DtfaOy aad hr dearly bi sukjanilna, Niamey Ftsres ar taken 4, at. wwll Imana axnl at heainirsl ewimiearti iar. where are a?t many of tneir- frft KtVXtVtfnXDKH. OK THE ROYAL CHMIK&V. bsr Annua Allra Chapln. Zi fw- (X. tunm tsroiaera. Ton aaaaav acila tha reanantia tola of Un reral efcdidiw uf the king's earn who havres the rlartac aaaa and huary of the pi tented aisrsse atd ef the lereqr Overcoat Sale This season's lat est creations, 4( to. b'2 ins. long plain velvet or convert ible collars some wit!! belts; all col ors. The overcoats are broken lot and gold up to $22.60 on sale Saturday at $14.50 .i 'goose"girrw liu i "lives wliu'the wicked witch. The two children meet In the Magic Forest and plan to wander forth together to see the world, then to return to the contented kingdom, where they will reign as king and queen. THE AITTO-BOYS' CAMP. By James A. Braden. 425 l'p. ft. The Saalf ield . Pub lishing Company. Four likable boys . with a live Inter est Ui motoring, are the heroes of this tale, which will be Interesting to the boy reader. WOODSY NEIGHBORS OF TAN AND TlXKUE. By Charles 1-ee Hryson. 285 Pp. $1.25. Fleming II. Revell Company. Further adventures of Tan and Teckle and their tiny neighbors In field and for est with whom they come In daily contact. TINY HARE AND HIS FRIENDS.- By A. I Sykes. 204 Pp.' $1. Utile. Brown Company. Tiny Hare was a wee baby hare who lived at 'the edge of the wood and who had all sorts of adventures, while his mother was trying to teach him the vari ous things a good little hare should know. He had to learn that red fire will hurt, that . man Is an animal to avoid, that dogs and cats are not proper play mates and that disobedient little hares are sure to be punished. POWER OF HUMAN JAWS 1. Strength Uxertea by Masc-les Molars la Chewing; aa Ordi nary Steak. and A ten-pound bite requires a forty-pound contraction of the human Jaw muscles. That Is because the Jaws are built on the principle of a pair of tongs. The power Is applied near the Joint, while the work Is performed at the opposite extremity of the Jaw levers. Had a mechanical engi neer designed the human frame he would, no doubt, have built the Jaws after the fashion of a nut cracker, with the mus cles placed at the ends of the Jaw levers, and the teeth between these ends and the Joint or fulcrum, so that a powerful bite could be obtained with a very small ex penditure of muscular effort. However, In the physiology of man and all other ianl mai life, for that matter, mechanical ad vantage weighs for little In the presence of other broader considerations. This is why nearly all the principal muscles of the body must be far more powerful than would be necessary were they to act di rectly upon the work. When chewing we have an almost direct application of the power of the muscle as thoy nearly overlie the third molars. There Is a vast difference between chewing and biting. In order to determine the average strength of the Jaws, Dr. G. 15. Black, president of the Chicago Dental univer sity, sometime ago devised an Instrument of very simple drslgn, but with a name that would put the average Jaw to a se vere test the gnathodynamnineter. With this Instrument ho made 'gnathodyna- mometric tests of the Jaws of 1.000 per sons. They were seiccieu bi rinuum anu probably represent a good average of civilized people. He found that the limit of the bite was not determined by the muscles but by tlie teeth themselves. In nearly every case the patient would cease hi efforts, owing to the fact that his teeth hurt. This would depend largely upon the condition of the peridental mem branes, and uion the habits of tlie pa tlent In accustoming his teeth more or les to chewing hard foods. The average of the 1,000 persons showed 171 pounds for the molar teeth and much less for bicus pids and Incisors. Out of the 1,000 per sons, seventeen developed a force equal to the full registry of the Instrument, which was 275 pounds. In a recent publication Dr. Black has tabulated the records of about fifty per sons who were tested with the gnathody namometer. The list Includes men and women of all classes, from a blacksmith to a Chinese laundryman, and from urvint Klrl to a music teacher. It la natural to picture a butcher as a man with a well-developed and powerful Jaw, but among the patients In the list the butchor showed a power of only 16 pounds with his molars, from which we may Infer that he Is accustomed to se lecting the tender meats for use on his own table. The man with the highest record was a printer, who registered 770 pounds (but any compositor will admit that printers' pi Is tough), while the sec ond honors wenl to a dentist with 240 pounds. Among the women the highest record reached was 1M pounds, while the lowest was forty-five. Strangely enough the school1rl wbo made the latter record was able to register seventy pounds with her Indoors, which might Indicate that she had accustomed her dental mem- branca of the front teeth to harder work by ibUlng a pencil, or something of the sort. At aay rate, she was one of those uofurtunatea wbo "bitw off more then tiimf can chew." In tbla list of record aislne showed aa areraae of 119 pound with the molars end eighty-three with th lnrieors. and fume lee VI poo ads with (tl autlara and fifty aereei with lnrtrw. SdentiflQ morica4t. , I Xmas Shoppers Combination Sets of silk hose and handkerchiefs in fine leather cases, ,Tio Kings, Silk Suspenders, Umbrellas, Tbilet Sets, Traveling Hags and hun dreds of other novelties. See our novel Xmas Hooth something new for Omaha. See our 24 windows filled with beautiful holiday gifts. Great Reductions in Boys9 Suits and Overcoats Our entire stock of Ifoys' and Children's Suits and Overcoats go on sale at once Russian, Sailor Blouse, Norfolk and double breasted knickerbockcr ttyle suits, nil this senson's models. Overcoats in single or double breasted, box or military style, with convertible collar and belted, all this season's models; go on sale at the following prices 93.50 S3. 75 $4.50 $5.00 $6.00 Suits or Overcoats, Suits or Overcoats, now Suits or Overcoats, now Suits or Overcoats, now Suits or Overcoats, now Suits or Overcoats, now $6.S0 $7.S0 S $8.00 $8. SOS $10,001 s BRITONS BAR AMERICAN MEAT Packers Cannot' Bid on Army Con tract Until Suits Arc. Settled. ARMOUR REFUSES TO COMMENT .Nollce nays Bids Will Not lie Con sidered aa Long aa Meat Klnas Are t'nder In.lict meat at Home. LONDON, Dec. 13. The British govern ment has decided to exclude the Ameri can meat packers against whom prosecu tions have been instituted In the United States from tendering for contracts f-r the supply of men I to the British army and navy, pending the settlement of suits. The decision of the government is duo to the opposition of labor and advanced radical members of Parliament to the American trusts. The contracts given out by the war of fice, which has hitherto been seen rod by American firms, are now expected to go to Argentina meat packers. Armoar Declines to Talk. CHICAGO, Dec. 1C J. Ogdon Armour, president of Armour & Co., under In dictment for alleged violation of the Sherman anti-trust act, admitted that the Armour company had been notified that Its bids for British army contracts would not be accepted pending the settlement of suits by the United States government. Mr. Armour, however, declined to In Svcry Member pi tlie fciseMi Is Deeply Interested in This Christmas Offer New Talking Machine actually secures results hitherto possible only in instruments costing $150 and $200 irS ur Great X a j ' f ihJJ rw SpecialXmas Off If" i JsMfAAA Offer WfS S?,JSJ 'Of 'r $59 ThU beautiful mi- f 4XAVtT VAfJx AVfNWr thine with 24 latest and best 4Pj ( stfB3i L F J r iiaMr nclotilons Included. $7 caBh. j- i itj?f $5 a month. ; eCew v' We are Positive that this Great Value can Never Again be Secured! Make Your Selections Right Away Pay Later NF A !' NEW Talking Machine of latent hornless type, which produces lu every way tho results obtained hereto fore only In Instruments that coat $1&0 or $200, has now been de veloped. Six hundred of these machines will be Hold In Omaha beore Christmas. In an undertaking; of this mag nitude many- additional advant ages aside from the extraordinary low price can be offered to each buyer. Twelve superb records, among them selections like the famous Klgoletto Quartet, and also the Lucia Sextet, for which two rec ords alone many talking-machine ' devotees have bad to pay $13, will be Included with each machine aold. Or buyer's own selection of records will le supplied. This wondurful new talking machine may be purchased on terms of $7 rash and $5 a month until 59 all told bas been paid. No extras. The machine and the records COLUMBIA 1311 Farnam St. ar;.WUiii;i.W,.ll.JiuX..JNMSTi'!llMJIIMM You will never feel contented with your Xmas gift that you purchase for him uuless you first visit this store. Never before has there been such n large assortment of the very newest novelties suitable for men nnl boys exhibited in Omaha Lounging llobes. Hath Ifobes, Smoking Jackets, Neckwear, now , $2.50 $3.50 $4.50 $5.50 $6.50 $7.50 any way dlRcuns the situation or Its ef fect on the discs now being tried here. HITTING THE PENSION ROLL linn the Little Fracas with pnln Served to Fatten the Hosier. The recent report of the commissioner of pensions brings out the startling fact that within thirteen years of the closo of the war with Hpaln, and ploven after j the subsidence of the Philippine Insurrec tion, there are no less than L'3,2N3 invalid snUllcjs of these wars on the pension rolls. In addition to 3.032 dependent moth ers, 5-J fathers, nlno brothers and sis ters, 1,-17 widows, and 321 children. In all. there are 2M!K) pensioners as a re sult of these wars actually a larger number than there were soldiers In the rexultir army at the outbreak of the war with Bp&iii, ond probably 10.000 more than there were troops before Santiago. In addition, there were 8.338 Hpanlsh war claims pending on Juno Do, 11)11. Al ready we have paid out $::4,U2,7.37 In pensions for services against the Spanish and Filipinos, as against a total of $16, 853,024.19 paid for pensions to the war riors of 1812, and $3,2?9.6N.K3 expended in the support of veterans of tha Mexican war during a period of sixty-five years. Now, when It is considered that active hostilities against Hpaln did not last over three months, with only one large battle It would not have been called that In the civil war the sum already expended seems little else than stupendous for the srvlces rendered. Today there are still ,1,039 pensioncdat will bo sent on three days' free trial to any home in the city. So confident are we that the In strument will pleuso even the most critical that we agree to re fund all money paid by any pur ciiaHer who may not In every way be satUt'lod with the Instrument. 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As there were perhaps ten times as many soldiers enlisted in ISTO-IDOO during the war with Mexico, and they wero mostly very young men, wo may confidently look for- ward to paying pensions to at least 15,000 persons fifty-two years hence for services in Cuba and the Philippines. And then the people wonder why the United Btaten must tar them so heavily directly and indirectly. New York Post. Car of Christmas ' ! Gifts Burned Near Great Falls, Mont. HARVK, Mont.. Dec. 15 -Whole com- ' panles of soldiers were annihilated and countless animals, wild and domestic, . perished when a mall car on tha Grest Northern railroad took fire between Hurve and Great Kalis' today. All tlie casualties' were duo - to the progresMve ness of Hants Clans In abandoning the old. reliable reindeer team for the swifter lightning express. 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In this machine the concealed horn Is built separately from the motor, which permits the tone to come forth without any interfer ence. The sound-boards In this machine are carefully selected and so placed as to reproduce a tone absolutely lifelike. Modulating doora have been provided where by the tone volume can be defi nitely regulated and reduced or augumented at will. The price is, as stated, $50; cash or payments of 17 cash and $5 a month. This Includes free the big selection of records stated In the foregoing.