Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1916, Page 6

- ¥ [‘HE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSLWATLR VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDI'XOR The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. SEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENT 'u.‘};us OF SUBSCRIPTL 3 ; '3,{,‘:;{;;1; By mal | ter and sounder judgment prevails as to its des- | Dally and Sunday. a +0 896,00 | iny This judgment will be fostered better by a | Daily without Sunday 4.0 | full i e Sts al Wvening and Sunday. .. .00 | fuller comprehension of what the Stars an kivening without Sunday * $:00 | Stripes stands for. It is first of all an emblem of | Sunday Bee only . 2.00 C o £ Dally and Sunday Be three years in advance. $10.00 L end notice of change of address or irregularity in L Helivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. ! REMITTANCE. E emit by draft, express or postal order, Only two- Cent stamps received in payment of small accounts Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern e shange, not ———————————— OFFICES, m, uunrunx South Oma street Council u‘mhqc North Main street. Lincol 26 Little Bullding. Chicago—5818 Peoples Gas Building New York—Room 1106, 286 Fifth avenue. Bt Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce, Washington Fourteenth nrul._.\ w. CORRESPONDENCE, to news and edis Address communications rrHHn forial matter to Omaha Bee, itorfal Department APRIL CIRCULATION 7,808 Daily—-Sunday 52,223 Omaha—"TH *a&.a 2 ‘;s,, Dwight Williams, circulation manager of the Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the for the month of April, 1016, w clrculation 2,228 Sunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. | Bubseribed in my presence and sworn to before me this L ) day of May, 1916 ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie, ! Subscribers leaving the city (emponrily . should have the Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. s s i1 All main lines now lead to Chicago. Branches { iead for St. Louis. 1 Another ten days must pass before the salva- s‘wn of the country can be assured by the nomi L hations. —_—— The set of the sentiment towards Hughes is Bow so strong that the Wilsonites are more than sver alarmed. ! Omaha will be glad to welcome the army back drom Mexico, and doesn't care how soon the boys et home again ; June may have better days than May has pro- ‘ uced, hut a lot of showing will be necessary to * onvince the people. 5| 3 Secretary McAdoo has appealed to “Charlie” Lobeck for help. 1f he gets it, he'll do more than maha has ever done, _? ‘ Italy's year of war is back at the starting hoint. In this respect, Italy does not differ much rom its shooting associates, Two dead by drowning in Lincoln stretches ross bathing resorts a safety first sign large nough for bathers to read. i is Still the increased assessed valuation of Ne- hraska railroads lack a few points of reaching 50 :l r cent of the owners' selling value, St. Louis is painfully backward in coming for- #d with pre-convention gossip. It is presumed I ¢ convention will be held as scheduied, i i i Considerable indignation has been wasted on he river and harbor bill, yet it is not the largest lice of “pork” on the congressional frying pan, 3 i Two trains will be required to carry the Ne- iBraska factionists to the St. Louis convention, he question is, Will one hall hold them after " hey get there? The astonishing prosperity of telegraph com- banies is readily explained. Federation club Swomen are crowding the wires with night letters o high lonesomes at home The democratic viaim that they have accumu- ated all the great surplus in the permanent school und is about on par with Chantecler’s notion that he sun rose only when he crowed. F——— ; One English shipping company pulled down ‘a dividend of 106 per cent on last year's business. Evidently none of the “slackers” complained of Ljin England are attached to that line. L If the oil companies succeed in forcing the state to refund the excess fees now held by the state treasurer, it will leave a lovely hole in the general fund, to be made up by a levy later, The hint of a possible housecleaning of army buildings hereabouts is in line with adequate pre- paredness and safety. Untenanted buildings are A rarity in Omaha and Uncle Sam is the sole offender. Fill up or give up —_— King Ak-Sar-Ben's first night is too rich and pare in histrionic and musical thrills to be missed by any live subject. 1f for any the cause event | must be passed up the unfortunate is doomed to regret for the rest of his days D — Though living within & dosen miles of Dub lin, on the edge of the plaing of Clontarf, old Dick Croker shrewdly avoided mixing in the re cent ruction. The foxy boss put all kinds of trouble bebind him when he shook Tammany and New York Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha " Complied Fram Bee Fiee - ooy X s (B 8 1 I snnual state ¢ Kroa ¥ Farna Pass W ke Jnaha | e 1 . ' . » at AR MOl W arge ol W Bt cotlecion w % duplayed a1 M § B & fow days B Uanrge W Hall, » sty ol the . M, has o a The po ApPee ow b4 Bianoration day parade with Marsbali { a Raphain Cormich and P . Muatyn bu o A 3 Colanel A 1 Dy " s won 1.4 l-A.‘.‘ I“ ya N " illhs W ood 3 ‘fibln ! THE BEE: T Flag Day and Its Purpose. | Wilson's 14 as Flag day deserves the thoughtful pe American Strange sounds have been heard in Amer- | President | June rusal and careful consideration of every proclamation designating citizen, ica during the last year, and some novel doctrine has been preached. being wrenched from its foundation exists, but its No danger of our country’s | security will be more firmly established if a bet liberty, and that liberty in its best sense contains within itself responsibility, that can not be shirked It implies self-control, a decent regard for the rights and views of others, and of necessity a wil lingness to aid at all times in the proper defense | of free institutions, Unanimity of opinion is not to be expected, but a concert of purpose is pos sible, and to that end all good Americans must And | that end is best represented by the flag of our always direct their hopes and their efforts country Nebraska's Budget for 1915, Let us keep the record straight. The World Herald, al to defend a democratic admin- istration of in its z affairs that has muddled its fi challenges the state nances, if it has done nothing else the compilation made by the state auditor at the close of the legislative session, every item appropriated, propriations for 1915, “all items actual and esti mated,” as $9,169,314,32. For 1913 he gives the total of appropriations as $8,415,077.73, or $750,000 less than was appropriated in 1915, process of levy for the support of the normal schools and which comprises | he gives the total ap By a special deductions, such as subtracting the the State university, the levy for the campus ex tension and new building for the State university, the cash balances and the fees collected by the several state departments, the democrats have re duced the actual figures to a point on which they can pretend they made a saving. The fact mains, though, that the total appropriations made by the legislature of 1915 comprehended the ex penditure of more money than was ever before set aside for a biennium in Nebraska re Rivers and Harbors and “Pork."” The senate has just passed the rivers and har- hors appropriation bill, carrying $43,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is said to be useless expendi- ture. The customary filibuster failed to reduce the amount, and amendments that might have been of service were killed at the last minute, and the bill went through the senate practically as it came from the house. This bill is the subject of more criticism than any of the big appropria- tion measures, as it is supposed to carry the “pork,” a modern euphemism for graft in the form of unnecessary expenditure to aid some mem- ber's political chances. It is decidedly unfortu- nate that so important a part of the work of the government as the maintenance of its waterways should be involved with the scandal that at- taches to the rivers and harbors appropriation, but there is a way in which the situation can be cleared up. Under our form of government a continuing program is not possible, for one con- gress can not take action binding another. It is possible to create a board that shall have charge of the work of improving the waterways of the United States, and which may be able to give to congress definite information as to the necessity of the items that go into the appropriation bill, This board's decision need not be final, but it would be of great value. When the work is taken up systematically, and on a definite campaign, then the “pork” feature will very soon disappear. Kaiser Rides on Tramoar. One of the episodes of the war of interest as a side light on the main event, is that Emperor William of Germany has had his first ride on a street car. Morcover, he paid his fare the same as a private citizen. This may not seem to the American sovereign, who rides daily on the street car, hangs to his strap and takes no credit to himself for doing so. That the Hohenzollern should do so is entirely a different matter properly so leges his subjects enjoy; as emperor, and conse quently the embodiment and personification of the dignity and importance of the German people their genius and their destiny, he is debarred from the simple joys of life, other than he may have in the sacred inner circle of I'here fore, when the kaiser rides on a tramecar, it the nature of the empire taking the trip certainly significant of the leveling effect of the | much and As a man he may long for the privi his home has It is war in Germany, but it will hardly serve as proof of democratization that will endure | | s . | Military and the Law. To show the world that New York's pre paredness carries more substance than a parade 10,000 members of the state National Guard | mobilized on Sheepshead Bay speedway, last | Sunday. All the equipment of active service, from bands to big guns, were hrought togethe | practical work on a war basis, Just as bugles | | were about to blow and the guns pop in sham battle a lone invader panoplied as a nty | | official appeared and read to the officers a tion of the Sunday blue laws, vintage 184 prohibiting Sabbath desecration, The Guards sa | tuted the majesty of the law, and contented then [ selves with noiseless evolutions { — he monumental distingtion of Ja H ‘ aving projected structed ar wwed & transcontinental railroad and guided eve —— aring | laying traps for | methods of the courtiers of Lilliput are outdone | one or two facts that are OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, FAVORITE amusement, these days, with I Laying Traps for Hughes New York Post, A some newspapers and many politicians too clever by half, is spreading snares for Judge Hughes. They are having great fun de vising little tricks to’ catch him [hey try one artful plan after another to “smoke him out As each fails, they bring out another. This one must work. How can he keep silent when have amassed cvidence to show that he is in the pay of the kaiser? How can he refuse to say anything when all the world beside gar- rulous? The latest demand upon him to speak die was made at Oyster Bay In his finest Joseph Surface manner, the colonel declared that “a man who"” at a time like this did not vociferously endorse Americanism, in the sole keeping of Roosevelt, must be against it, That, it was said with chuckles, will surely fetch the judge. But it didn't; and so the merry work of Hughes goes on. The petty we is It would be well for these crafty gentlemen to strive to enlarge their minds so as to grasp fundamental in all this matter. They ought to try to conceive of a man ho 18 not burning with ambition to become president. A consistent theory of Mr. Hughes' bearing, so far, would be that he is disposed neither to seek the ,m-wlrw y-—certainly not by any kind of political artifice—nor to refuse it if the offer of a nomination comes in the way statement that the appropriations made by the | which he has made up his mind would be a call democrats in the legislature of 1915 were the | 0 public duty. It is conceivable that he has Siand b thae hak of dhy' shuis’ haste marked out for himself a course of conduct AR A i | AN R L b uaitor | which, in any event, will leave his judi¢ial dig Smith's records are the best answer to that. In | nity and his personal motives beyond challenge If his party makes a serious and united demand for his services, without any expressed wish on his part—surely without any wire-pulling by him—he will doubtless yield to it. But if Chi cago witnesses a wild scramble in the conven tion, with politicians pulling and hauling and fighting and bargaining, it is quite possible that Mr, Hughes will send the word which Charles Francis Adams sent to the liberal republicans at Cincinnati in 1872: “Take my name out of that galley.” Either way, and whether Judge Hughes de- cides to make a public utterance before the convention or not, it is absurd to suppose that all these “tricking facilities” of politicians and newspapers opposed to him are going to em barrass him or sway his action. People in New York have scen traps laid for Charles Hughes before. Nor can they have forgotten how le smashed the whole lot. In 1906, Hearst and his astute advisers ‘were going to have such a jolly time with the corporation lawyer unversed in the wiles of politics, But the assailants speedily became the assailed, In the language of the Tennessee mountaineer, Hearst was “the mightiest hunter that ever ye see, till thet thar catamount tuk arter me” And again in 1908, some of the smartest heads in the democratic party drew up a set of »uppnsnfl( unanswerable questions which they got poor Mr. Chanler to put to Hughes, Hughes answered every one instanter, and then in turn asked Chanler some questions which that unlucky candidate dared not even attempt to answer to the last day of the campaign. And if any Philistines think that Samson has forgotten how to burst the withes with which they seek to bind kim, they are apt to learn something in the next few weeks very much to their disadvantage. . There are various ways in which Mr, Hughes may let his position be known. He may elect to delay until the republican platform is written The question then might fairly be put to him whether he would be content to stand on it And if the document proves to be that strong affirmation of national belief and duty which it is predicted that it will be, Hughes' acceptance of it would at once put an end to all the sly insinuations about his attitude which are now peddled around. Or, Mr. Hughes may think it right to take some step to let his views be known before the convention meets, He did this in 1908. He then said, in his speech to the Republican club, that whenever it became a duty to speak, "I have no desire to remain si- lent. Nor should I in any event care to pre- serve availability at the expense of candor.” The fact that Hughes is now a judge of the supreme court may justify him in feeling that what he' did as governor he ought not to do now. But one thing is certain: If the time comes, soon or late, when he thinks it incum- bent on him to speak out, it will be found that he has not lost his swingeing stroke. And all the nets and webs which are now being laid to entrap him he will cut away ‘with one sweep of his word \ Nebraska Press Comment Plattsmouth Journal: The old Omaha gang of democrats are going to try to beat way into the legislature this fall. The trouble is the people in Omaha do not take the time to investi their gate the records of their legislative candidates or at least onc-half of the gang would remain at home Tekamah Herald: The Omaha Bee is cer tainly giving sufficient publicity to the wild-cat h.mL\m{ methods practiced by Cashier Elliott of the Farmers' State bank of Decatur, which was recently closed If the state banking law car not be enforced, the public should know the reason why Gering Counier The World-Herald made a non-partisan” appeal for Andy ,Morrissey for supreme judge, because he is a democrat, There appeal for Fawcett, because he a republica That's a game with two sides, but irrespect i politics, Fawcett's the best ma Genoa Leader Edgar Howard sa Da Stephens cannot be heaten for ! t he knows, hecause he tried it once. Edga to beat Hitcheock once on a time, also, i we member rightly, The fights that e scalps next November wusiness men of that ¢ity, and tha A parties f tin the sta W . i [ M . B o MAY 31, 191 | Editor of | compel them to fight for their | itaelf for itself, Call to Arms Platte, Neb, May 29.—To The Bee: To get world's peace t remove the cause of world Republics and democra only go to war for welf-preservation. With the great- o of respect for the German peo ple and the important factor they have been and now are in the affairs of this govern ment, the democracy of this republic can- not have any good regard for the German empire. There is no more this country than the that has taken the benefits of its ecitizen- ship. The war Europe was started by the Roman Catholic state of Austria foreing its religious domination upon the Greek catholies of Serbiw. Russin could not al- low her Greek eatholic brethren to be crushed by a Romanist. While Russin was mobilizing her army, Germany, already mobilized, made an effort to crush Franee before England and Russia could mobilize Now, mark you, the imperialists of religious, economic and political, have a combination to destroy the rising sentiment of demoeracy in Europe. This sentiment is not alone Europeun; it in eludes the United States and is working fn Mexico, The prime factors in this move ment religion and finance; religion to control the common people mentally and masters and Stebbins Sounds North the we must fi est mensu important facto in German element Europe, are finance comes in to supply and exchange the sinews of war., We now have the combination of religion and finance, the re wult of which Is power, power to perpetuste In this strife between na- made between re- are driven like hogs black and white to- distinetion s The people to the slaughter pen gether. To talk of stopping war and at the same time promoting the causes that make war s like curing a man of delirium tremens by pouring more whiskey into him. A nation-wide prayer by preachers to stop war while the preachers themnelves live off tions, liglons the system that makes war is enough to muke & brass monkey smile. As long as there is contention between good and evil (which is a mere matter of opinion) there will be war, The best remedy for war is for everyone to attend to their own busi- ness and allow other people to attend to their Wilson's and Bryan's peace policy is an- other conundrum—the biggest navy in the world to enforce peace. Make England stop opening mails! Stop Germany from sinking our ships! We have just spent sixty days with 10,000 soldiers in Mexico hunting our for one incorrigible and came home without him. Do we want to increase the army, to increase that experiment? Or, do we want to increase it to shoot the incorrigibles who refuse to join the army anyway? Make this “government of the people, by the people and for the people,’ and the people will take care of the government. Send political acrobats, mountebanks and im- beciles with the mouth organs to the rear. It matters not what may be the result of these pending political conventions, their platforms or nominations; the people have no part in them, but the people can control thelr congressmen, and, through them, trol their government. “This constitution and the laws made by Congress in pursu- ance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land." Do you mind that, you farmers? The average blacksmith and woodehupper has more sense than the average congress- man. Congressmen are sent there by the system, to be movéd around like pawns on # checkerboard in the interests of the - tem. Get wise you farmers and black- smiths and go to congress yourselves, if you have to go on foot. LUCIEN STEBBINS, con Advice for Democrats. York, Neb, May 27.—To the Editor of The Bee: In the World-Herald of May 27 there was an article under the caption, “Advice for Democrats.” That contains some fine misinformation for democrats or others without memory, for a good dem- ocrat and a good memory are generally a long ways apart. Had the writer changed the party name the other way around, he would have said something that could be found in the records, But he said some- thing else. He is proud of e democratic state government which has been put upon an efficiency basis, and accumulated mill- fons of dollars as a rainy day fund,” and sees no reason why they should vote their own party out, “and go back to the re- publican plunderisms of years gone hy." Then he says, “But there were certain men, elected to serve the people ms republicans, who had free access to the public till, and a8 @ consequence some went at it a little too strong and had to serve time. That is & sample of state government under republican rule,” Now Mr. Fellman fell down hard in that statement (or misstatement, which it is) and whether he did it not knowing any better, or with malice dforethought, we will leave to him to decide, for he picks out the few in which those charged with public trust betrayed their friends and then says, “That is u sample of state govern- under republican rule.” While it only the exception to the all people know it as a faet. rare cases ment in rule, Then let us run back a few years and | take a hasty inventory We have not the | space at our command to give all the | data, but just the statements only, which | can be proven by the state's old hooks | When the new settlers in the western part ] of the state were in real need of help, the | state issued warrants to the amount of | about $200,000 to furnish feed and seed le those who otherwise would have suf | fo The cry went up from the ene | mi camp, “Turn the raseals out" f | running the state in debt. So they tur them out and put this efficlency buneh in | and then repeated the dose four time | making ten years of efficiency () govern | ment, during which ti all the state | stitutions except one had trouble with it management snd several had scandals, and | o repeated it Then the powers that be (or that was siled to make suffic t proviston for the maintenance of the clency regime an every department of the state rnment had its defleit and these badge dem sfficlency grew (nto huge amount when “the plundering republican ntrol of atate affai he . 000,000 worth warrants and inpaid Ye e next ten years the part partly ected that finished y T h y wa sok W eop \ and taxes ¥ POPE J posted | SUNNY GEMS. 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