Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 12, 1916, Page 4

VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY PROP Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier By Mai per year .. 86.00 1 REMITTANCE. Rem 3 tal order. Only2-cent stamp: Eaen 1a ‘pagment of small accounta. Personal checkn maha and eastern exchange, not accepted A e, ol st 1 i OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building Bouth Omaha— 2818 N street. —14 North Main street. ¥ uilding. Room A0/ Fifth avenue. New Bank of Commerce. 26 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE Address communications relating to news and editaris) matter to Omahs Bee Editorial Department. Ao ol Ghabecnges SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Willisms, clrculation manager of The Bee Publishing ‘company, being duly sworn, sayu that the average circulatfon for the month of Beptember, 1916, ‘was 64,607 daifly, and 50,639 Bunday, DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3d day of October, 1616, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers Tnvhl the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. Omabha is surely in the metropolitan class when a $1,000,000 street-widening project can be. pro- posed without softefing the voice to a whisper. What is keeping the soldier boys on the bor- der? Why not let them come home in time to tell their neighbors the real story of Mexico and tell it before the voting? Secretary Baker advises critics to sit on the moon and get a proper view of the administration. Such action would seriously curtail Senator Tom Walsh's output of moonshine. m——— The proposed $80,000,000 stock dividend of the Armours should not be confused with or- dinary corporation melons. It is a high grade tenderloin, 400 per cent thick and oozing juice at every pore. i em— Of course the Nebraska farmer doesn't need protection for his corn and wheat and hogs, bt the Georgia farmer needs it for his cotton and his Angora goats; thut's why our democratic senator © voted that way. / Sam———— Modesty born of rare mountain air doubtless restrains Senator Tom Walsh from claiming the earth for the democrats. His chances of getting ~ the earth are about as good as realizing on his . political predictions. ————— It is kind in the new Japanese premier to be . so considerate of the United States. The only in- ference is that Japan is holding itself back, not “from any fear of us or lack of seli-confidence, but ) neral “board to ?ji::iy the ecight-hour law, attempts of ecither side to work the bluff will not get very far. Unlike the administration, the builder of ‘the Panama canal is not seeking votes. = — " Revocation of auto licenses on conviction of _reckless driving obtains in Missouri, New York ‘and New Jersey. The penalty is considered a moderate deterrent, but falls short of the sooth- ing, meditative influence of a jail sentence. m—— . Every true lover of his country will work for and welcome the time when Columbia can “keep her hat on straight.” The kicks and cuffs . she has endured for three and a half years chal- lenges native gallantry and pieads for republican “relief. : y Wi — Our amiable democratic contemporary ought . to at least look up market quotations it prints ‘before getting into the compariSon of prices. It 3 hasn’t even got the 1916 figures correct, let alone " those for 1912, while it omits the 1913 and 1914 ‘altogether. The fifth German war loan, just closed, brought subscriptions totaling $2,541,000,000, a record of . financial outpouring unsurpassed by enemy na- _ tions. It is evident from this showing that Ger- jnay's strong boxes contain more of the sinews . of war than her opponents calculated, e H — . According to Ambassador Jusserand the Car- | ! ranza government “sequestered” $60,000,000 of 4 ~ French money in two Mexican banks. In plain, [ everyday United States, sequester as practiced in Mexico spells robbery. Diplomatic polite- ness does not wholly conceal the truth. No forward-looking young man wants to join a political party loaded down with dead weights as is the democratic party chained to the control of the southern Bourbons. The young man who wants the country to grow up and wants to grow up with the country will march in the. republi- can procession. - i ¢ p——— " The Hat Check Holdup ' New York World fimh of the checkroom tip into a vested been observed and now we are get- interest 3 2:.""“ on the contractual nature of the in- erest, the rental charged for the right to mulet restaurant and hotel patrons for safeguarding hats and wraps, the presumptive profits, etc, 1 a suit instituted by a hat and coat room lessee t a restaurant corporation for alleged breach _contract, it is gfirflemed by the plaintiff that was to pay $2,500 for the first year and $3,000 the second year for the “privilege” of the mn wash room, and on that basis he 0,000 da es dme us an insight into the over- and the volume of business of this tant. ‘n‘:ty. To reimburse himself for a 0 rental a hat-check lessee must collect 25,000 )-cent tips from guests, and this before he can any profit. There are besides the wages of duc{-room employes to pay and no doubt in- m!::c hn?“ o fl‘m-l d hod p ‘helps explain the predatory methods fln.-h'-ehfizcr. egarding every guest’s hat his lawful jrey, it is only natural that he should y hmpmel to rqla|nhjl. an:’i what m ords oppressing him and pars r-.tlgfl{h}o-‘avnde him he has his “Perhap ¢ whole there should be el e hat man, lll-«liu agpufl to the case to ect his rights from in- : ;w%m of the -ini- se Jucral oethals at ‘the head of tl&v THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, The Real Wage-Increase Law. The Chicago Tribune makes a telling point that the greatest labor law of America is the re- publican protective tariff built along lines to insure the American working man a job at the best wages paid to any working man jn the world. In 1896 the democrats insisted that the only cure for what then ailed the country under a tariff-for-revenue-only regime was currency in- flation by opeming the mints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The answer of William McKinley was, “Reopen the mills and the mints will take care of themselves.” 'It came to pass that William McKinley was wise in his day and what he said proved true as soon as the republican doctrine of protection was again put into operation. When the Wilson-Underwood democratic tariff law inviting unhindered competition of for- eign cheap-labor-made goods was enacted, its first effect was the same as the last preceding democratic free trade tariff. Factories closed by the hundreds and soup houses opened, and with thousands upon thousands of wage earners it was not a question of being employed for an eight-hour day, but of being employed for any hours whatever. The growing menace of unem- ployment was arrested only by the sudden break of the European war transferring the activities of the foreign mechanic from the workshops to the trenches and making Eurcpe no longer a competitor, but a ready purchaser of all the products we could turn out of possible use in prosecuting the conflict. In other words, the deadly democratic free trade tariff, since its first few months of havoc to American industries, has been held almost completely in abeyance. It re- mains, however, like a sword of Damocles, sus- pended by a single thread, ready to drop and cut down American labor and American industry the moment oceanic trade routes are reopened and shipping transportation freed from war service. The way for our workingmen to promote the cight-hour work day is to get back to the basis »f republican protection so there may be well- paid ‘work for all and enough that no one need work more than eight hours if he does hot want to. B ——— Neutrals and the U-Boats, "The attitude of the United States in treating submersibles as other vessels is founded on rea- son. When the Deutschland came protests were lodged against its presence by representatives of the Entente Allies, who demanded that no rights of harbor be conceded to submarines, either armed or unarmed. This was then disallowed, and the formal protest, made the more important because of the call of an armed submarine at an American port, has just been formally replied to, in which the position of the United States is made plain. To grant what the Entente Allies asked would be to assume an unneutral position. The un- armed submarine is clearly entitled to all the privileges of a merchantman, and so long as the arnied submersible conforms to the rules of naval warfare, it must be admitted to all the rights of a warship. Whether the U-boat performances do or do not conform to the rules is a separate ques- tion, e The United States still relies upon the pledges made by the kaiser as to the methods of conduct- ing submarine warfare and the renewed assur- ances of Germany's determination to respect these pledges indicate willingness to be held responsible for any deviation from them, & Harping on a Single Chord. The democrats sound but a single chord in their present wild scramble for votes, and that chord is a false one. They have given over en- tirely the program adopted at Baltimore and re- affirmed at St. Louis, and place theit only hope on the assertion that their policies have brought prosperity, and their president has kept the coun- try out of war, : The present era of inflated prices is in no sense due to any act on part of the democratic adminis- tration, unless it be that party accept responsi- bility for the hot, dry weather of the summer that resulted in a crop shortage, and for the war in Europe, whence comes the abnormal demand for munitions and army supplies that has sent prices soaring. In this connection it will be well to re- member that the farmers of the United States reduced their plantage acreage and consequent prospective yield of wheat by 400,000,000 bush- els, because of disappointment at prices obtained for the bumper crop of 1915, To what extent did the democratic party influence the farmers in this course? When did the president keep us out of war? His only opportunity to go to war was with Mexico, and what has been our experience there? Does any one suppose the Nebraska boys, now in camp at Llano Grande, feel they have been kept out of war by Mr. Wilson? The president got so close to war with Germany that William Jennings Bryan resigned the portfolio of secretary of state rather than sign a note prepared by the respect of those to whom this service is offered. president, because to send it meant war. This note was afterwards modified. A little later congress threatened to take the control of foreign affairs out of the hands of the president, and only when he pleaded and promised was he spared that humiliation at the hands of his party. Kept us out of war? Twice Mr Wilson has almost stum- bled into the European war, and twice he has started a little war on Mexico, backing out of one, and now seeking some means of exit from the other. His war récord is the most ridiculous of any president who ever sat in the chair, and is enough to make such democrats as Andrew Jack- son and Grover Cleveland turn in their tombs. The democratic campaign has degenerated into one of half-truths and deliberate misrepresenta- tion, their sole hope being to fool the voters by a false cry, Can it be done? When the foster father of all the Standard il companies, at Uncle Sam's behest, tearfully turned members of the family out of doors, each with the harsh command to seek its own fortune, the paternal stock in trade sagged down to $750 a share. The outcasts in a cold unfeeling world hustled as never before. Everybody worked as well as father, As a result the paternal stock is u'p to $2,000, and the going is good. Should Uncle Sam again swing the swatter on the same spot the stock is liable to go out of sight. Auto thieving is more ’hm a joyride adventure. It is nation-wide in scope and shows distinct evidence of organization, efficiency and system. As one division of crooks is broken up in one locality another starts a thieving boom elsewhere. The total extent of the operations must be enor- mous, judging by newspaper reports of local losses. The magnitude of the system and the diffi- | culties of tracing the crooks presents a serious problem to the police departments of all cities. Americans in Foreign Lands St. Louis Globe-Democrat Mr. Wilson, in his latest swing around the circle, advanced the astonishing opinion that Americans had never taken any interest in for- eign trade until his administration began. He seems to forget that the chief argument of democratic speakers and papers for years had been that American exporters were selling goods abroa#l more cheaply than at home. In some cases these were articles for which there was no longer American demand, because they had been displaced by newer inventions, and in other cases they were surplus products. By working {:lants at full capacity the force of employes was ept intact and the unit of cost was lowered. But, with their usual disregard for the details of business, the democrats made a great clamor about our “tariff barons” robbing Americans for the benefit of foreigners. 7 The policy of republican administrations in fostering commerce was unfortunately styled “dollar diplomacy.” The term was distorted into a sinister sense, as though we had abandoned all lofty principles. Mr. Wilson and Mr, Bryan catered to this prejudice in denouncing the six- power Chinese loan, misrepresenting its purpose and probable results and seeking to acquire a reputation for virtue out of a piece of subli mated folly. The present administration has displayed great enthusiasm over American investments in South America, It has very truthfully emphadized the necessity for such investments, if Americans ex- pect to hold their own with Europeans in Latin- American markets. But all the effect of this is destroyed by its attitude to investors in Mexico. They are treated as exploiters and adventurers and they are not protected in the rights guar- anteed under treaties with Mexico. Time after time the president himself has sought to defend his fearfully and wonderfully fashioned Mexican policies by gratuitously misrepresenting these investors. It is a significant fact that the conspicuous leaders in efforts to build up foreign trade favor the election of Mr. Hughes. Mr. Wilson may wonder why this is so, in the face of his captivat- ing rhetoric about foreign trace, but the ex- porters have studied him and his party. The Fake Promoter ‘Brooklyn Eagle’ Richard C. Flower, son of a country clergy- man, graduate of Northwestern university, law- yer, preacher, “healer,” promoter of fake medical companies and of other corporations organized only that their stock might be sold, is said to have taken in about $1,000,000 from a gullible pub- lic, at the expense of being indicted some 500 times and convicted twice. His sudden death in a Hoboken variety theater on Sunday night was unrecorded for forty-eight hours, He was 73 years old, leaves a widow, and whether he was rich or not remains to be decided. The peculiarity of this career is that it dis- closed ability, energy, persistence that applied to straightforward undertakings would almost cer- tainly have got prompt recognition. Flower, “Dr. Flower,” was one of a type of semi-criminal minds. The term semi-criminal is rightly and deliberately used. Probably he never expected to figure as a criminal, He decided while still young to get as close to the border line of crime as was safe, and never venture beyond. “Grand larceny,” to which he pleaded guilty on his last trial before he began his term at Blackwell's island, is often in this state a constructive offense. If you per- suade another person to invest money in such a way you profit by itdxon may always be accused of grand larceny, and the burden of proof is on you to show justification, That is what happened time and again to Flower. He was a magnetic talker, One widow is said to have trusted him with $500,000 at one time to invest. He rarely failed to find his “suck- ers.” But the end of it all was not happiness, The unfortunate thing is that so many men of Flower’s views of life, of Flower's standard of ethics, “get away with it,” as the colloguial ex- pression goes. That tempts others to try. Law cannot reach and punish all dishonesty. Yt never has. It never will. Why not get rich by the dis- honesty that, for the time being, is not punished? That is an unsgokcn question in many a young man's mind. But the colleges at least should emphasize, indeed they do emphasize, the higher standard. The man who never intentionally does wrnnfi to his neighbor is pretty sure not to go to jail through any accident of law interpretation. And his career, however humble, will be preferable in every way to that of Dr. Richard C. lower. Serving the World ‘Philadelphla Ledger’ “All of this, gentlemen, is in the abstract.” The president’s own comment on his remarks to the Omaha business men concerning “the new age” adequately describes them. He touches upon the concrete in his references to such subjects as export trade and the anti-trust laws, but for the most part he dwells upon his familiar contention that we must “serve the world.” So, of course, must any nation if it is to keep its soul alive. But the vague humanitarianism which embraces all mankind and does not lift a finger for the individ- ual is not likely in the end to serve anyone. One requisite of service is power, and another is the To be told that “the sign of our destiny has at last become as wide as the horizon” is not illumining, To be assured that “American ideals are for the first time to be exhibited upon a world-wide scale, American purposes are going to be tested by the purposes of mankind and not by the purposes of national ambition,” does not reveal the nature of those ideals and purposes. So far as they have been exhibited and tested by the acts of the present administration, they are not such as Amer- icans can take any great pride in. Nor is it true that America is now for the first | time to’have an opportunity to play a great part. | It is a strange misreading of history to speak of it as hitherto “confined and provincial.” There | have been times when our government has eyaded responsibilities, when our geographical position has been made an excuse for an isolation that was | fag from splendid. Our importance as a world power has not always been appreciated. Yet from the first enunciation of the Monroe doctrine Amer- ican policies have profoundly affected the course of human events, By diplomacy or by arms we have made ourselves felt in China, Japan, the Philippines, Samoa, Cuba. Prophecies of a larger mission followed the war with Spain. No doubt the future may transcend the past. But it is dif- ficult to see in the diplomacy of the administration any strengthening of American leadership in in- ternational affairs. If we are to “serve the world” the world must wish us to serve it. The president seems to have aroused more suspicion than con- fidence by his altruistic professions, People and Events A New Jersey woman drove her car through a bunch of holdup bandits and raced five miles for help, although she was wounded by bandit shots. gn former times fainting would have been the proper caper in these circumstances. The new woman is different. Carter Harrison and wife of Chicago are booked for an extensive tour of South America, beginning in December. Quite a boom in tourist business in that direction is evident among globe trotters, who will thus annex a large section of “the good old summer time” under southern skies. / Betting odds on the presidential pennant race, reported from different cities last Saturday, ranged from 2 to 1 on Hughes in New York, {0 to 1 in Pittsburgh, 10 to 7 in Detroit, 3 to 1 in Boston, 8 to 5 in Milwaukee, 10 to 7 in Cleveland and 10 to 7 in San Francisco. Very little Wilson meney is in sight at the odds offered. Where is the democratic sporting blood? M 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. Government is a trust, and the of- ficers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the of people.—~Henry Clay. benefit the One Year Ago Today in the War, Greek government decined to assist Serbia. Russians continued on the offensive at Dvinsk. Austro-German army took the heights south of Belgrade by storm. Edith Cavel, English nurse, ex- ecuted by Germans in Belgium on charge of aiding British and Bel- gians to escape. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Rev. M. P. Dowling, president of Creighton college and one of the most able and polished orators in the west, will lecture in the opera house on December 8 under the auspices of the Catholic Knights of America, for the benefit of the orphans. The subject will be “The Dignity of the Christian Family.” William Flynn has secured the con- tract to dig the excavation for the new hotel building to be erected on Tenth and Farnam and will begin work as soon as the old buildings which are on the lot can be moved off. i The following gentlemen have been selected as committeemen to manage the Ancient Order of Hibernians’ ball to be held at Cunningham hall: M. Fenton, Thomas Connors, J. J. Con- nolly, J. Phelan, John Price, Ed Pow- ers, John Kerwin, J. M. White, B. McGinn, M. Mc¢Bride, William Mec- Kenna and M. Leahy. The members of the fire depart- ment have received a photograph of what is known as the Bonner drop net. It is used by New York fire- .men and consists of a large circular net bound with a stout rope which acts as a handle and may be grasped by thirty men, thus spreading it out. It is intended to be used in cases o fire where life can be saved only by Jumping and will stand the impact of a body of 2560 pounds falling sev- enty-five feet. Ex-Alderman Furay has gone to his stock ranch near Waterloo to at- tend a sale of thoroughbreds. Pioneers looking for the old mili- tary bridge on Cuming street will be lost now in view of the improvements that have lately been inaugurated, the latest One being the new Saunders brick block, consisting of six elegant stores, This Day in History. 1782—Henry Dodge, first territorial governor of Wisconsin, born at Vin- cennes, Ind. Died at Burlington, Ia., June 19, 1867, *1802-—General Joseph G. Swift was the first graduate of the new United States military academy at West Point. 1844—Mme. Helene Modjeska, one of the most famous actresses of the American stage, born at Cracow, Poland. Died at Bay City, Cal, April 8, 1909, 1860—Peking surrendered to the British and French allies. 1870—General Robert E. Lee, the famous military leader of the confed- eracy, died at Lexington, Va. Born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, Janu- ary 19, 1807, 1876—New constitution of Ne- braska ratified by vote of the people. 1891—A monument commemora- tive of the sixtieth anniversary of the first operation of a steam railway in New Jersey was dedicated near Bor- dentown. 1898—The German emperor and empress departed from Berlin on their visit to Palestine. 1899—FEngland and the United States agreed on a temporary settle- ment of the Alaska boundary dispute. 1906—The shah of Persia opened the first Parliament of Persia. The Day We Celebrate. Judgé W. H. Munger of the federal bench for the district of Nebraska was born October 12, 1845, at Bergen, N. Y. He practced law at Fremont. Neb., and helped make our present state constitution. He received his Judicial appointment from President Cleveland in 1896. Otto Charvat, editor of the Doba Publishing company, is 33. He was born in Bohemia, coming to this coun- try in 1906 from Prague, where he had previously been in newspaper work, Edward F. Dunne, renominated for governor by the democrats of Il- linois, born at Waterville, Conn., sixty- three years ago today. Brigadier General Montgomery M. Macomb, president of the army war college, who retires from the army today, born in Detroit, sixty-four years ago today. John B. Lennon, treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, sixty- seven years ago today. Maurice Donnay, celebrated French dramatic author, born in Paris, fifty- seven years ago today. Chester 1. Long, former United States senator from Kansas, born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, fifty-six years ago today. George W. Cable, noted author of southern stories, born in New Or- leans, seventy-two years ago today. Henry W. Ballantine, new law dean of the University of Illinois, born at Oberlin, O., thirty-six years ago today. Armando Marsans, outfielder of the St. Louis American league base ball team, born in Havana, Cuba, twenty- seven years ago today. . Timely Jottings and Reminders. Columbus day. Willlam J. yan is to begin a four-day speecffmaking tour of Colo- rado with an address at Pueblo to- night. Charles E. Hughés begins an in- vasion of Kentucky, concluding his day's itinerary tonight with a speech at Louisville. A notable educational conference is to be held today at Rutgers college, preceding the beginning of a cele- bration of the college's 160th anni- versary. The inauguration of Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen as president of Argentina will take place today at Buenos Ayres. Romulo 8. Naon, ambassador to the United States from Argentina, is to deliver the Columbus day oration today at exercises to be held in Faneuil hall, Boston. Ground is to be broken at Gulfport, Miss., today for the Mississippi cen- tennial exposition, to be heid there next year. Prof. 1. A. Weigle of Yale uni- versity 18 to deliver the historical adddess at today's semi-centennial celebration at Carleton college, North- field, Minn. Brigadier General Montgomery M. Macomb, president of the army war college, is to be placed on the retired list today for age. General Macomb is a native of Detroit and has had a distinguished career of more forty years in the army Nothing in Democracy for Progressives, Omaha, Oct. 11.—To the Editor of The Bee: A concerted effort is being made to convince former progressives that they will come nearer realizing their hopes with the democratic than with their old comrades in the repub- lican party. To this end, we are be- ing reminded that some of the things the democrats have done were advo- cated first by progressives. I shouldn't wonder if this is true. 1 am inclined to think that nearly all, if not all they have done that is good had a progressive origin, Is that a reason for joining the party? Let us see. A genuine progressive thinks na- tionally; he realizes that the state has an important place in our government and he has no idea of interfering with any of the legitimate functions of the state, but when he thinks of this coun- try as oppcesed to or in conjunction with any other country, he doesn't think of Ohio, or Nebraska, or New York, or California; he has in mind a country, not a loosely joined con- federation of states. How is it with the democratic party? Isn't it true that in doing the things the progres- sives stand for they, the democrats, have had to violate the very funda- mental principle upon which their party is founded? Isn’t this funda- mental inability to grasp the idea of a nation at the root of their bungling patchwork preparedness scheme? Doesn't it rise up and confront every man of national vision in the party? Why should a progressive put him- self in a position where every time he does anything sensible he will have to apologize for it because it doesn’t square with his professed beliefs? The two parties, progressives and democratic, are as wide apart as it is possible to get, in theory of govern- ment, whatever they may be in prac- tice. Notwithstanding Mark Hanna and his famous saying, the democratic party has always been the stand-pa party, in theory. It has been the party of stiff adherence to a literal inter- pretation of the constitution the part) that insists upon deciding every ques- tion that comes up by measuring i with a yard stick 150 years old, that is always and continually looking over its shoulder toward the rear. Where is there room in a party like that for a genuine progressive? Personally, the question does. not bother me at all. If I agreed with Wi. son on every internal, social and dom- estic question, I'd still be against his re-election. There's just one questior before the American people today anc that is, shall we approve the shame less abandonment of American right: in Mexico and on the high seas, o shall we place the government in the hands of men who know somethins about government, who will have policy, not a weather vane, and wh will get us back where we can sin America again and hear the Star Spangled Banner played without look- ing round to see if someone is grin- ning. H. W. MORROW. An Unfair Political Situation. Omaha, Oct. 11.—To the Editor of The Bee: In attending the meeting addressed by Vice President Marshali I happened to meet a traveling man from Rochester, N. Y., who has been all over the country from New York to California, and he said there i every indication that we will have a new president on and after the fourth of next March. He said the only place where there is any enthusiasm for Wilson is right in Omaha, while there is a tremendous sentiment for Hughes in New York and other eastern states. He said he had been in Canada this fall and that the people up there mak lots of fun of this country on account of the weak national administration of Wilson. While I am at it, I will say that 1 am a firm believer in giving every man a right to vote that is entitled to vote. . It is unfair that the democratic party can set down at once 133 elec- toral votes that are as, certain for them as that the election will be held. It does not make any difference who the nominee may be for president, he can count on the votes of twelve southern states as absolutely certain. In these twelve states republi- cans are not only allowed to vote, but are even Kkept from nominal ing tickets, and numerous congress- men in giving their biographies in the Congressional Directory state that they were elected with no opposition votes. Some of them only receive 2,000 and 3,000 votes in districts where there are 25,000 and 30,000 voters, if all were alloweéd to vote. They have mostly quit telling in the Congres- sional Directory of the exact votes they receive. It must be that they do not want comparisons made with the districts of the northern states where all can vote who are entitled to the ballot. If the southern states will not allow all men to vote as the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States allows them the right to do, then they should not be allowed to vote for president. Either that amend- ment should be enforced or repealed. It is intolerable and unjust that one party should have the advantage that the democratic party has in every presidential election and I do not see how any fair man, be he democrat or republican, can support a party that allows a condition to exist where sev- eral millions of voters are not allowe: to vote as the constitution gives then the right to do. The mission of the republican party will naver be completed until every legal voter can vote as freely and un trammeled In Mississippi, Louisiana Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina anc Florida, as in Towa and Nebraska. No republican should be fooled int. voting for Wilson, for they will 1 simply helping that much more giving the southern states suprem: control of our national affairs. The liberty doving people who aro: in their might gnd saved this natio from destruction by the same sonth ern states should now arouse then selves and save the nation from pa) inz the disloyal people for the straction of their yroperty in the w he rebellion. o FRANK A. AGNEW. Why Hurhes Gets His Vote. Stamford, Neb, Oct. 11.—To th Editor of The Bee: Here is your bul moose friend once more still folloy ing Teddy and voting the G O} straight. 1 see the inscription on the Wilson buttons is, “Peace with hor or.”” Those are my sentiments, That's the best reason 1 have for ing the republican ticket this What is this government to me, an) way? A representative government” A unfon? An assoctation for mutual benefit and protection. If T becomc a member of your association you guarantee me what? Life, liberty and the peaceful possession of property or the pursuit of happiness. And what pledge do you make me that you wil accord me this? You pledge you life, your fortunes and sacred honor Well, that sounds good if you mea t. Then, if I make a journey into forelgn country, not at war with and I am taken by armed ruffian: wnd stripped and shot, you will lonl \fter my carcass and see that others don’t meet a similar fate and that my tamily isn't subjected to insult. You bet, you say, and 1 belleve you will, but can you always do this and be too proud to fight? 1 am voting for Hughes with the expectation that those countries that have misused members of this asso- ‘jation will pay for every member who has lost his life at their hands wnd for every doilar's worth of prop erty destroyed HEDGES CGLUMBUS. I Joaquin Miller. Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate sald: “Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave admiral, sneak, what shall T say “Why, say, ‘sall on! sail on! sail on! “My men grow mutirous day by day: My men grow ghastly wan and weak. The stout mate thought of home; & spray washed his swarthy cheek. brave admiral, say, ht but seas at dawn?” “Why, hall say at break of day, “Sail on! sail on! sail on! sail on!"" They salled and railsd, &8 winds might blow, Until at last the blanched mate said: “Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas 1s gone k, brave admiral, speak and say'— ;' “Sail on! sall on! eall on!” Now H They safled. They salléd. Then spake the mate: \ \ “Thiy mad sea shows his teeth tonight, He curls his lip, he lles in walt, With lifted teeth, as if to bite! Brave admiral, say but one good word: ‘What shall we do when hope s gon The words leapt llke a leaping sword “Sail on! sail on! sall on! and on! Then pale, and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, night Of all dark nights! And then a speck— A light! a'light! a light! a light! It grew a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of d: He galned a world; he gave that w Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on! Sage Tea Dandy to Darken Hair Look years younger! 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