Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 22, 1910, Page 6

THE OMAHA “DALLY BEE. e e e FOUNDED BY SDWARD ROSEWATER s ki e o Y vioTon mw.\rm nm—m tt Omaha pu-(omcn second- Entersd elasd matter. TS TERME. OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (n@ludin dey). per week the | ity Bee ¢ ‘% por_week 103 D:hlr ‘one o, " Buualn' 1102 No. M West Tourdsenth Street, N. W. oE o news and o " new o Adressed: Dlflm ait by G L ex stal order ,gm mnmnn Company. I ved in payment of mail | oronal checka: except. on Crnahs o Sas) orn exchanges, not accepted. STA’ NT OF CIRCULATION. Btate_of raska, Douglas Cvun\; g. ek oy . l’u o flll blighing bel the’ actual_um Datly. Morning, mm‘ during the . 1910, was a8 follows: Total . Returned caplo- Net total. . Datly average, ... QUORQ‘ B. 'ruc}wcx. Treasurer. ul(l;?‘nr'grd in my pr‘enco d sworn to ROEERT R, Numry Publie. beoribérs leaving the ity teme orarily_ shopld have The Bee wailed to the Address will be chong: - ten as requested. o R, ] Here's where the ground hog as a weather prophet goes into the discard. — Incidentally the big blizzard up in the Dakotas has not quieted the poli- tics of those two stafes. i [ — Even if you don't feel eq;nl to own- ing an auto as yet, y0u can go and look at them at the Auto_show. The Zelaya book .on the Nicaraguan political and bellicose difficulties ought to be named the “Scrap Book.” Omaha to Philadelphia: Accept sincere sympathy born of sad experi- ence with our own street car strike. The Indfana fracas in which two mu- ‘siclans fought a duel to the death might well be called a fatal ragtime duet. . According: to Omaha’s experience, it is almost as hard to keep our preach- ers as it is to keep our base ball players. The postoffice reports show that Dan Cupid did not allow’the nigher price of valentines to interfere with his trade in mergers. Bdgar Howard's high opinion of Willlam Jennings Bryan, despite his embrasure of c¢ounty option, evidently does not extend to “Brother Charlie.” Just what the ultimate consumers will say, when the findings of the com- mittee now investigating the higher cost of living arrive may resemble an eruption of Vesuvius. ““The way the pulpit looks from the pew” {8 to be discussed in all the churchesd in an eastesn city in the near future, The preachers of that town have boundless nerve. TR 8o little has been heard of Chancel- lor Day recently that one is inclined to ask what has become of him. Oh, please @0 not disturb him. The in- quiry ig prompted dnly by curiosity. i, ST — ~ ‘The goncrete battleship at the mouth of-Manfla harbor would not amount to much in these days, when a twelve- inch shell can go through ten feet of re-enforced concrete with little diffi- culty, —_——— ““If there is to be any hazinz in West Point it must be legalized,” say the au- thorities. That is all right, but if the post mortem proves that it was not legal what good is it golng to do_the victim? % Ex-Governor Vardaman says he will not be a closed Incident just because the Mississippi legislature has turned him down; from which oneé is led to believe that he is to be “‘continued in our next.' ————— Nebraska seems to have several statesmen ‘who say, “I hope it will never be necessary for me to become a candidate for office again,” but who show no disposition to rum far to avoid the necessity. —_— Remeniber that the popullst state platform of two years ago contained a county option plank and that Governor Shallenberger filed as a populist and accepted the populist nomination. Is Gegrge Washington. “First in peace, first in wan, first in the hearts of his countrymen.” In every community I the United States and In its posseshions the twentysec- ond day of February is celebrated and the pralees of the first general-in‘chief and the first president of the United States are sung. The birthday of Washington, who stood more than any contemporary for the eause of liberty without a murmur, And took more un- just and uncalled for abuse from dis- gruntled countrymen than any other, desérves commemoration. George | Washington, the man, ae well a8 the soldler and the president, is a great character in history, ranking high for his patriotism, self-sacrifice and un- selfish devotion to liberty. The people of this country are hard workers and hard players. When it is work, there seems to be nothing too hard to be attempted or to be accom- plished. Americans play hard as well a8 work hard. This has been marked especially in the observance of our holidays, patriotic and religious. But recently a tendency hus been noted to drop mueh of the frivolity, especially with regard to holiflays commemorating national events and to arouse some of the slumbering patriotic fervor in the bosom of every true citizen. | There is plenty for us to be proud of and there are to be plenty of great| deeds accomplished in the future of which we will also have reason to be| proud. Our people need to be taught, however, how to respect, revere and honor those who have done much that the nation may be what it is. One feature.of American life has a detract- ing effect. Our political campaigns are o full of crimination and recrimi- nation that too many people sneer at those who are high In office, thus de- tracting from the respect due them, and, wherever possible, detracting from their power. But happily this condition does not exist long, nor is’it a deep spirit. In time of war every patriotic American would rise to the defense of his coun- try, and we have sufficient grounds to belfeve that there is plenty of patriot- fsm in times of peace. But while we brag to others about what America can do, whom we can thrash in inter- national war, if necessary,: and how Dbig the United States really is, it would be a good thing to remember that as we judge ourselves at heart we are judged by others. . There is room for an increased respect for our nation’s heroes and thelr heroic achievements, and a greater regard for the men who are doing things now for the advance- ment of the nation and making pos- sible greater achievements in the days yet to com Millionaire vs. Professor. The recent attack by Richard T. Crane, the millionaire head of a big Chicago firm, upon thé teaching pro- fession as being of no use to the mod- ern business world s still the subject of comment. Mr. Crane had to write & book to say that if a $2,000 a year professor is content to teach a young man how to go out and earn a $10,000 salary he s either a hypocrite or is not able to do what he says he can. In every way Mr. Crane attacks the teacher as being a drone and charges that the miilions spent annually on universities, colleges, technical and agricultural schools and law and medi- cal schools are simply ‘‘swallowed up in the most gigantic swindle of the| age."” Those who know the eccentricities of Mr. Crane will not také his out- break too seriously. His whole argu- ment 18 a tirade against the teaching profession for absorbing so much of the nation’s wealth by which to train the youth of the country to do the work of the world, and Mr. Crane has seen to it that his own children have had the best education available. Henry Watterson, in speaking of the strange attitude taken by Millionaire Crane, quotes this bit of homely phil- osophy: ‘‘Some people have got money and hain’t got another thing on God's green earth.” As a business man Mr. Crane is a successful pusher, but as a citizen he is apparently a back-tracker, and socially he 18 a grouch. ——— A Neglected Opportunity. While Americans are making much ado about the “open door” of Man- churia and the ‘fact that our commerce | finds & more difficult market in the| orlent than formerly, we are gullty, as in the old legend, “of forgetting the | best.” We are looking beyond our | own threshold to something, which, after being won, will be comparatively of smaller value as against the coun- tries to the south of us lying under the protection of the Monroe doctrine with the accumulated richées of cen-! turies but partially developed. South America, pur squthern sister in the western hemisphere, is an op- portanity for American enterprise and thrift. At present the nations of Bu- rope have been getting the benefit of the Bouth American market, which amounts annually te $260,000,000. As for hér exports, the United States buys $64,000,000 worth of coffee annually and sells her but $86,000,000 worth of merchandise in return. All the rest of the market has been for the benefit of European trade, and the great wealth of the contlhent has been flowing into the coffers of Buropean merchants, " The great South American continent is just beginning to develop. North a platform dbinding? otory for the fair sex. York custom officlals have been ingtructed to allow all “ladies .Iurlll that port to carry 300 cigar- -tu- each without duty as being part of a negessary toflet equipment. Americans dg not realize the progres- siveness of Latin America. Buenos Ayres has a population of 1,100,000 people and ranks fourth in size among | 20 per cent are girls. THE %0 large, hums with business and Valparaiso 1s a close rival. All of these cities are allve with business activity and have progressed in arts and education to a wonderful extent Our commercial ~ihterests would make a mistake in paying exclusive at- tention to keeping the door open across the Pacific and dlsregarding the whole continent to our southward. Cultivate the trade with Asia by all means, but let us not overlook the other nearer home. Letting in the Light. A plan is on foot to remodel the hall of the house of representatives In the national capital so that it will be opened up to the sunlight and fresh air. The rooms in which the house and senate have both met since the addition of the new wings to the old building have been lighted and venti- lated entirely by artificlal means, and the only sunlight that seeps in. comes through several layers of skylight glass much more ornamental than useful. The ola legislative chambers, which have since been converted, one into the supreme court room and the other into statuary hall, were free from these ob- Jjeetlons and contatned outside win- dows which the rays of the sun might strike and which might be opened on days not too stormy. Whether the statesmanship displayed in congress during the first half century of the republic was superior to what we now | get and whether if so the deterforation may be ascribed to the cold storage air and filtered light on which our law- makers subsist would be good subjects for intercollegiate debate. But, {rre- spect{ve of that, it will do no harm to let the light of day into the halls of congress and remove all cause for the complaint that a congressman's com- mission is the same as a sentence to a dungeon. In Rather Poor Taste, A brief letter published in the last fssue of the Commoner over the name of W. J. Bryan contains the followirg: At Bantlago I visited San Juan Hilk—th part of “Fame's eternal camping ground on which so many reputations were won. T was a little surprised at the diminutive appearance of a neighboring hill (named Kettle hill because of two immense sugar kettles that are rusting to death there) which Colonel Roosevelt charged. I was surprised, 1 say, because it seems Impossi- ble that so much charging could have been done on so small an eminence. It Is now owned by Mr. Tingley, the theosophist, and will be included in the campus of the college. Historfe spots on San Juan are marked by monuments and & colored custodian supplies visitors with souvenirs of the bat- tle fought there. 1 brought away an iron ramrod. It has a history, of course, s all ramrods have, but as no one was in posi- tlon to narrate that history I am trying to Invest it with a breathless interest, as it were, by Imagining that it fell from the rifle of that nameless Spaniard who won renown by falling before the Rough \Riders' unerring aim. Evidently Mr. Bryan will never for- get that he suffered the worst of his three defeats In the year 1900, when Theodore Roosevelt was elected vice president and by virtue of his office succeeded to the White House on the death of President McKinley. What- ever may be the glory of Colonel Roosevelt's achlevements at the battle of San Juan, a man with the inglorious military record of Colonel Bryan should be the last one to throw slurs at any other soldier. Colonel Bryln, made a beautiful picture riding on his| horse at the Omaha exposition and is sald to have been fairly industrious | later as a drillmaster after he had| famillarized himself with the tMtlu.‘ But his regiment bad scarcely been or- dered out of the country before he ten- dered his resignation and left the men who had volunteered, to follow him to finish the perfod of enlistment without him. For a colonel who never even smelled an enemy's powder, much less charged anything but the box office re- ceipts, to attempt to belittle the mili- tary services of those who were really in the fight is, to say the least, in rather poor taste. The supreme court 6f South Caro- lina has knocked out the law giving fathers absolute control over their children. In the first place the law was absurd, for there is not one father in ten who has any ¢ontrol whatever over his children and that law would be broken all to pleces It turns out that of the number of students who “flunk” at the University of Nebraska 80 per cent are boys and If there are more 'boy students then girl students this ratio may not be quite so bad as | it looks, but even at that it is time for the boys to brace up. One good thing about the direet pri- mary law is that we can have no dark- horse candidates. Every man who wants a nomination for office will have to come out from under cover and say so over his own signature at least thirty days before the primary. It i a wonder In the minds of the ordinary citizen whether the attorneys in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy are trylng to get at the facts and the truth in the case or whether they are trying to see which attorney fis the worst muck raker. The Ballinger inquiry sesms to be broad enough. The first witness was from Seat- tie and the second from Porto Rico.— ‘World-Herald Yes, but what's the use? The World-Herald brought in a verdiet of gullty before the first witness was sworn. If the hall of fame at the cities in the western hemisphere.|be glad provided it precludes the pos- [February 22, 1877, at Papillion, Neb. Mr. It |s one of the most enterprising trade centers in the world and teems with abolished the average American will sibility of having to place busi Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas and commerce. Rio Janelro, though wmot|Governor Haskell of Oklahoma the BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, | not around, but 'when he goes into their | has appealed ashington be | & FEBRUARY 1910. 22, PERSONAL NOTES. Witness Glavis' drawl s #aid to be(the most annoying vocaligation that the Tén- nessee cross-examiner went against. It would help some, by way of varlety, It the star gazers would decide the size of the lee crop on the canals of Mars. Gondokoro, - where Colonel Roosevelt Is resting, 18 otherwise chiofly noted as the only place on the map that has four o's In its name. A New York youngster under 21, annéxed three wives during his | career, showed too much speed start. Those who are caught eligible for the belt.. | who at the are not wumer ‘“acoming and agoing.” The boast of the meat rate from the Missourl to the lakes s matched by a boost of local pagsengér rates In Mas: husetts. The Brussels furgeon who operated on King Leopold a few hours before his death has put In a bill of $20000. The & Success, though the patient dled. The street rallway settlement approved by the voters of Cleveland proyides for a straight 3-cent rate for a single ride elght months, If the earnings on this| raté net slx per cent on the company's | capital, the rate is to stdnd. Otherwise & 4-ccit rate, or seven tickets for a quar ter, will be the maximum rate for twenty- five years, “UNCLE JOE'S" PHILOSOPHY, | Spectacie of Speaker Canmon Sailing Through the Storm. Washington Post No matter how the storm may rage about him, no matter how his enemies may de- scribe him, and no matter what fate may be in store for him, “‘Uncle Joe" Cannon Is today and will remain until the end of | Dk life one of the most picturesque and in- | teresting characters in the United States. Assalled by many, including some of his old friends, yet his honesty and fearless- ness have never been questioned. And through the stress of the storm his unfall- ing humor shines forth undaunted, As he walked into one of the Pittaburg hotels before making & speech to the Pitts- burg Chamber of Commerce the other night, he removed the inevitable “big, black Clgar,” which the reporters tell about, crawled “J. Cannon, Illinols,” on the reg- Ister and turned’ to answer the volley of Questions which came pounding at him from all sides, What about the food investigation? How about rivers and harbors? What would he do if the Insurgents beat him? *‘Uncie Joe" calmly hummed a Sunday school hymn. Buppose they were to put him out of busi- ness? At that question his interest quick- enéd, and he replied, aryly: “It they put me out of business in the house, and there are some who think they can, I anf going to fall back on my voice, I used to be something of a singer, you know, and I guess I can draw & fair salary behind the footlights." A fair salary? “Uncle Joe” is too mod- est. He would bécome the highest-priced artist on the stage. They would jJam the theaters to see him, just as now they jam any hall in any city when he is scheduled 88 a speaker:’ The rest of the country may say what they llke about him when he is | i own camp they recelve him with open arms, for his homely philosophy and the e of corivictions win friends even Wwhen his hearers do not agree with him. —— Proofs ‘of ‘Leaderaht " raiicisco Chronicle. President ~Tatt's” inffmation that rumors or flurries tn Wall street will not swerve him from his ‘anniounced policy to investi- gate all trusts s another of several recent proofs that the president {s a real leader. Some time ago it was becoming custo- | mary in some quarters to say that the people had lost confidence In the president. They have not, and those. who sald they had will have to confess that Taft is a stronger executive than they thought. \ Spp—— Troubles of the Government. Boston Transcript. One question after another ~rises In| Washington to test administrative acumen. | | No sooner has the government declded what | |18 whisky than it s confronted with the| question “is & hen & bird?” Upon the solu- | | tion of this question much depends, for birds' esgs are free of duty. An importer to the treasury. to say whether “eggs” at 6 cents a dosen is not contradicted by the placing of “birds’ | eggs” on the free list, An Effective Divorce. 4 Detiver Republican The way In which Wall street struggles through one bear movement after another without in the least affecting the com- mercial condition of the country seems to suggest that a secret divorce must have been fssued somewhere about two years ago. Moving |His Followers, | Sloux City Tribune. i The pronouncement for county option| shows at least that Mr. Bryan has not lost his power to move the people of Nebraska | by his words. Some of them are even moved to anger, Philadelphia Ledger. i Perhaps the Nebraska convict pardoned on the ground that he has invented an air- ship was credited with having done some- | thing toward the uplft. Our Birthday Book February 23, 1910 George Washington, first president of the United States, would be celebrating today it he were still on earth. His birthday date s February 23, 1732 Anson Phelps Stokes, the blg New York cepitalist and philanthropist, was born in trat city February 22, 1888, H. J. Penfold, of the H. J. Penfold Com- pery, dealing in drugs and surgical sup- | plies, was born February 23, 1864, at Lock- | port, New York. Mr. Penfold does a big business also in the nane of Samson, which | covers him as secretary of the Ak-Sar-Ben | crganization, of which he has been one of | the governors trom the very first. Among other distinctions he has also ‘enjoyed being president of the Board of Education and held a colonel's commission on Gov- ernor Sheldon's military staff. Very Rev. Patrick McCarthy; now dear/ Patrick’s church, Jackson, Neb., is 58 years old today. Father McCarthy is a native of Newark, N. Y., and a graduate of 8t. Vincent's collége. He was pastor of St. Philomena’s church for elght years and was one of the best known and popular priests in Omaha. Danfel M. Hildebrand, who used to he with the Burlington road and is now at- tending to real estate affairs, was born February 22, 1880, at Morgantown, 8. C, Coit G. Campbell, of the firm of Campbell West, manufacturicg agents, brokers and commission merchants, located in the old United States Bank bullding, was born briet | Rallroads are getting the ultimate con- | [ terlined in thetr stead. The tenth, eleventh | Jupunged saving only a few lines, and | gne-halt ot 1 dent extra for a transfer, for a period of | | eherish ships or enmitles. Farewell Address Ohart of the MNation's Iighway Drawn by Washington One Hundred Fourteen Years Ago, ‘The famous “Farewell Address of Wash- ington,” senate on each recurring anniversary, con- tains about 7,000 words. in Claypoole'’s American Dally Advertiser for September 19, 1796, the copy being given by Washington himself to Mr. Claypoole, | accompanted by a note of fnstruction to the copylst who recorded the address in the letter book. According to Historian Sparks | the original draft bears all the marks of labarious revision. | scribed by Mr. Claypoole, ‘“consists of thirty-one pages of quarto letter paper, | sewed together as a book, and with many alterations, as in some places whole para- Braphs are erased and others substituted; optration lnsted only ten minutes and wae | !0 Others, many lines struck out; in others, | sentences and words erased, and others in- {and sixteenth pages are almost entirely the thirty-first page s also effaced.” A fac simile of the first and last pages shows three erasures In the first, @ marginal notation in the last and the top | line expunged. It is addressed “To the | People of the United States—Friends and Fellow Citizens.” A few excerpts follow: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports, In vain Wwould that man ciaim the tribute of patri: otlsm who should labor to subvert these | great pillars of human happiness—these tirmest props of the duties of men and cltizens. The mere politiclan, equally with the plous man, ought to respect and to them, It is of iInfinite moment that you should | properly estimate the fmmense value of | your national union to your collective and Individusl happiness; that you should cher- | Ish cordial, habitual and immovable attach- ment,to it; pocustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching | for its preservation with jealous anxlety; discountenancing whatever may suggest | even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and Indignantly frowning upon the first drawing of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from | the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. Citigens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to con- centrate your affections. The name of | “American," which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exact the Just pride of patriotism, more than any appellations derived from local discrimina- tions. With slight shades of difference you have the same religlon, manners, habits and political principles. You have in a common cause, triumphed together. | There is an opinion in free countries that parties are useful checks upon the adminis- tration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within cer- tain bounds, probably is true, and in go ernments of a monarchial cast patriotism may look with Indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But In those of popular character—in governments purely elective—it is a spirit not to be encouraged From their natural tendency it Is certain there will always be enough of this spirit for every salutary purpose. And there be-’ ing. consistent danger of excess the effort | ought to be by foree of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. — Europe has a set of primary Interests which to us have none or & remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent con- troversies, the causes of which are essen- | tially foreign to our concerns. Hence, there- fore, it must be unwise in-us to implicate ourselves by artificlal ties In the ordinary viclssitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collislons of her friend- ‘The great rule of conduct for us In regard | to forelgn nations s, In extending our com- meretal relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far | as we have already formed engagements, | Tet them be fulfiled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religlon and morality enjoin this con- duct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to glve mankind the mag- nanimous and too novel example of a| people always gulded by an exaited jus- | tice and benevolence. / As an Important source of strength and | security, cherlsh public credit. One method | of preserving it is to use It as sparingly as possible, avolding expense by cultiva- ting peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for dan- ger' frequently prevent much greater dis- bursements to repel Iit; avolding Hkewise the accumulations of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expens but by vigorous exertions In times of peace to discharge the debts which unavoldadle wars may have occaslomed; not ungenerously | throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. 1t is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should Inspire caution in those intrusted with its adminis- tration, to confine themselves within thelr respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one de- partment to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate | inone and thus create, whatever the form | of government, a real despotism. in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it prob- able that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. T shall carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indul- gence, and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its servics, with an upright zeal, the fauits of incompetent abllities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Although, The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and altar their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till ohanged by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people Is sacredly obligatory upon all. The idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every citizen to obey the established government. And remember especially that for t ficlent management of your common inte: ests, In & country so extensive as ours, & government of as much vigor as s con- Cairpbell was In the drug business, and later in the grocery busiwess with MeCord- Brady company, acd I8 vow president of his present flrm sistent with the perfect security of lib- erty is indispensable. Liberty itself will which fs read in the United States | 1t was first printed | The manuscript, as de- | and | every customer an ! every department careful and service which is th | Democrats on Bryan's County Option Coup Btate Papers That Usually Follow Peerless Leader Blindly. “Doe” Tam: South Omaha Democrat. There will be no county option plank in the democratic state platform in 1910. This conviction can readily be ascertained by the open expressions of the democrats who constitute the backbone of the party. Still Looking for Office. Pllger Herald (dem.). Bryan has spoken at last on the liquor question and he comes out as every other man must do It he expects to be elected to anoffice of natlonal importance, and that is for the abolishment of the liquor traffic, phigh “No Go This Time. Pender Times (dem.), Mr. Bryan has come out for county op- tion, which of course is his own: private opinion. The democratic state convention will not follow him into the prohibition. County option means prohibition—you can’t make anything else out of it. Purpose is to Punish. Beatrice Sun (dem.). Mr. Bryan's announcement in favor of county option contains a suggestion of his purpose to punish the opponents of his ref erendum bill which was slaughtered in the last leglslature. The liquor forces opposed the referendum law because it was consid- ered inimical to thelr Interests, and this was Mr. Bryan's pet measure, Latest and Best. Winside Tribune (dom.). Mr. Bryan has declared for county optfon in Nebraska and says it is time for all po- litical \parties to declare themselves inde- pendent of the llquor interests. Every sa- |1oon keeper and those whom they control will now curse Bryan, but there is another class looking higher than whisky selling { Who rejolce over this, his latest and best | utterance. ¥ : He is Making n Mistake. Humphrey Democrat. Mr. Bryan certainly has a right to his own opinion in this matter, but if he should try to force county option onto the demo- cratic party in this state he will make a mistake, and it would simply lead to the parting of the ways between Mr. Bryan and many true democrats ‘who have stood by him through thick and thin ever since he came before the public eye. Second the Motion. Holbrook Observer (dem.) We belleve that a large majority of the democratic newspapers in the state as well as a majority of the rank and file of the | party are In favor of eliminating the liafior traffic from politically dominating our leg- islative bodies, and fn these lie the strength of Mr. Bryan, mot in a few disgruntled self-constituted party leaders who depend on the lquor interests, rather fthan the good will of the people, for their subsis- tence. The democratic party in other states has been the first of the two old parties to declare for a better regulation of the Nquor interests, and it Is our candid opinion that the atand Mr. Bryan has taken will have a tendency to strengthen rather than weaken the party In Nebraska. Drive Out All Who Disagree. (Alblon Argus (pop.) It 18 with great pleasure that we read in the papers Bryan's stand on county op- tion. He has come out square toed and for all he is worth. Good for Bryan! As go0d, clean & man as he is, it Is natural that he should take this position. We had no doubt ail the time that he would speak when the time came. Some wers Impatient with him for his delay. Some are now very impatient with him, now that he has spoken. So it seems it is hard for him to please everybody. If the party can't stand such & plank as county option it Is time we know it. If it 1s so thoroughly dominated by the saloon element there are a whole lot of us that want to know it now. We want to have a hand along with the Peerless Leader, In driving all the element over into the republican party where they belong. A Jug-Handled Scheme. Holdrege Progress (dem.). Mr. Bryan is moved to take this attl- tude by reason of the pernicious activity of the liquor interests of Nebraska in the field of politics, and certainly no one will complain that Mr. Bryan ls not glving ex- pression to sentiments common to many people over the state irrespective of their views on the liquor question. We doubt, however, If his advocacy of & law such as is contemplated by the Nebraska Anti- | Saloon league will influence to any large tent the postion of the democratic party a Whole. The worst feature of the pro- posed Nebrasks county option bill is that it provides only for the creation -by public vote of antl-swloon territory; it provides for voting out saloons but not for voting them in. ‘This fundamentality is no fault if the measure were represented to be a prohibition bill, &s it is. The bill does not provide tha ”nlv may by popular vote vote saloof ITA vote of “no”" under the wnvmou-.bf m. bill is simply a vote not to create anti-saloon tarritory and in effect is & vote In favor of the continued opers- tion of the Blocum Jaw In that territory. The bill further alms at absolute prohibi- tion, not meaning simply the prohibition of the sale of liquor, but also prohibits the shipment of wet goods In to dry territory, making it Impossible for any person to have in his possession 4 private supply of Wquor. It takes sway, absolutely the right of the individual to use in any manner stimu- lants no matter of what character, We find in such & government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surcst guardian, belleve the democracy of Nebraska might support Mr. Pryan in advocating a law which only increased the size of the vot- A bank which gives to thorough sult of over &2 years of growth and experience. | Our SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS are fire and burglar proof; boxes of vari- ous sizes, from $3.00 per year up. Established in 1857 s Kountze Bros Nationalized in 1853, Charter No. 20) d to that ¢ re- irst National Bankof Omaha Ing unit and gave the county the option of saying whether or not stimulants should be or should not be sold within that terri tory, but the proposed measure Is “queer” legislation and we believe its effects would be disastrous. We bellove we are sensible to the evils of Intemperance as advocates |of the anti-saloon option bill, but a law |18 certainly un-American which offers a man his cholce of two things and then should he make an “improper’ cholce deny him this choice, Mr. Bryan notwithstand- ing. Alas, Poor Edgar! Columbus Telegram (dem.) * What will be the effect of the Bryan doo laration in favor of county option? I am in doubt. There are some leaders who say it has shot th party all to pleces for the present, while other leaders, equally able, say that out of this agitation will come excellent results. This latter class holds the view that the agitation will result in a compromise between the radical optionists and the radical personal liberty fellows, and that in the end they will all unite upon a policy of loyalty to the existing llquor laws, and In favor of thelr strict enforce- ment. 1 hope this view fs well founded In a conference which Mr. Bryan held with some close friends just prior to his depart- ure on his present tour, he was urged to accept such a - liquor platform in leu of his proposed county prohibition policy. He belleved it was his duty,to declare In fa- vor of county option. 1 Kreatly regret that he has made the question a party issue It should not be so0, but it must be so, now hat he has spoken, and at the comipg democratic state convention we shall ke sharp fight to get county prohibitign in the platform. That will create a stranbe situ- atlon for many men who have falthfully followed the great Nebraska leader. 1t will Indeed be a strange situation for me. 1 have never faltered in alleglance to the magnificent man who is today the grand- cst champlon of humanity's cause that the world of any age has known. 1 am not faltering now. My love for my old leader 1s as Intense In this hour as in any day And yet I shall not follow Mr, Bryan Into the ranks of the county optionists BREEZY TRIFLES, e (a dabbler g e éverything)—Do you know, Miss Sweet, that I could hypnotize you #o that in a quarter of an:hour you would throw your arms around my neck? Miss Sweet—That's nothing. I' could hyp- notize you with that effect in two minutes —Boston Transcript. “What was the bride's father's pre: to the happy couple?” “An order on the butcher for twenty- four pounds of sirloin steak."—Chicago Record-Herald. Actor (on the road)—How about the thun- der and storm effects in Act 1117 Provinclal Stage Manager—Oh, that'll be easy. All I'll do i& to hide the’ property | man's pint bottie.~Puck. | pubctn | Mack (an observing stranger)—Why is it | that 80 many of the tman,in Your Town seem to bear a grudge against the ministe | 'Bachelor (a knowing resident)—Why, he's the man who married them.—Chieago News, you good for, anyhow?" “What are you're good for, blame Your eracked ol “hidet—Chicago Tribune. “Miss De Selle has thirty pairs of shoes— one pair to match every costume in her wardrobe.” “I have often wondered why her father "r(* 2-cent suspenders.”—Boston Tran- seript. “But,"” sald Doggett. ' “why don't argue the thing out with your wife?" “Oh!" peplied Meeker, “my wife has very positive views on thaf subject. The mo- ment I opened my mouth she would put her foot down—'" ““The idea! I should think you'd choks Catholle Standard and Times. FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND. Willlam Cullen Bryant. 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