Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 14, 1916, Page 6

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SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Willlams, elreulation of The Bee Publishing eompany, being duly sworn, ssys that the average ulation for the m n*h of im«nbvr. 18186, was 64,607 fil!k 50,639 Bunday. this 34 duy of Ottober, 1916, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public, Subscribers leaving the city temporaril thowld have The Bee mailed to them. Ad. dresi will be changed, as often as requi ange Bee, Hecklers of Mr. Hughes get more than they bargain for. Mr. Hitcheock! Are you “wet” or “dry?” Don't dodge the question. —— This district is entitled to “a live one” in con- . gress, The way ta get “a live one” is to elect Benjamin S. Baker. . { m— Weicome to Nebraska, Mr. Hughes! We will reccive and entertain you again, later, as presi- dent 'of the United States. Som——— . Mr. Hughes is handing it out straight from the shoulder. Democrats are now wishing they had not insisted that he break his “silence.” ! ommm—— ( “Democratic pep much in evidence as workers meet."—Headline in local democratic organ. Yes, and it was poured from bottles and drunk out of Néw with, the laurels of the world's series re- throbbing brow of Boston, the peo- more are free to grapple with the minor ‘saving the country.” - nat tion mill is one industry con- stimulated here in Nebragka by our dem- cratic friends, but in this casé they will hardly “deny the business is only temporary. i | e—— ~ With Carranza dollars giving a feeble imita- of life at 2 cents each. in gold it is casy, to why an American foan is esteemed in 1 “y vision of sweetness and 4 heu— a8 sure as the meat packing industry from Buffalo and Cincinnati to Chicago, s cenger finally shift from Chicago to the river, with Omaha, Sioux City and Kan- dividing the honor: D ley Schwab still stands forth as the prince ists. He holds the steel orders of peace r esteem than steel orders of war. The reserve fund Bethichem pulled out of the Il business forms a joyous generator of op- Ep—— to Carrie Nation reared in a Kan- tises to the level of the lady's life. Nothing short of a national nonument with a tomahawk rampant will ade- to her influence In chasing Indian block. The Virginia autoists who came west filled with fear of auto thieves did well to put the ex- ations to a personal test. Had they noted 4 of auto thieving in the east they would have been spared the shock of discovering that western enterprise in that line, annoying though it be, is leagues behind the activities of eastern i} EEEE——— . President Wilson's excoriation of those who raige the sectionalism issue comes right back to himseli, Under his leadership the democratic administration is a flagrantly sectional govern- ~ment run by an oligarchy of southern democrats “who hold. thkir power through the disfranchise- ment of the great mass of the voters in the south. It is doubtful if any man has explained his reasons for supporting’ Mr. Hughes with such clear, convincing logic as characterizes the ~ment of Mrs, Nelson O'Shaughnessy, whose _band was acting American ambassador to Mexico and for some time before the seizure of Mrs. O'Shaughnessy says: “I am for es because with my own eyes | have seen tion of & nation; with my own ears [ igve heard the cries of that bleeding, agonized remnant of what three years ago was the Mexi- ‘can people; 1 have seen, under the auspices of the ral ministration, organized govern- ent destroyed in a sovereign state—whose atest misfortune at this time is to be our neigh- 1'have seen authority destroyed as certainly | if we had taken the machinery of administra- into our physical hands and broken it. And gard to all thie [ have seen installed an or- pized campaign of misrepresentation where the ongs of this sister nation are ‘concerned— herepy the cries of the people have been stifled, ir agopies concealed, their ri{htr—thcir hu- rampled to earth, I have seen the 0d ned, the ministers: of Christ m{._h@ly ‘women defiled. And have scen our citizens, whose i*""- re is as indisputable ag that Hughes and the Hecklers. One of the luminous features of Mr. Hughes’ campaign has been the frank and fearless manner in which he meets the hecklers. Questions asked him are answered in an honest, straightforward manner, and with a force that carries conviction. Mr. Hughes has always been noted for his moral courage, meeting squarely every proposition put up to him, and dealing with it honestly and log- ically. At no point in his public service has he been found shifty or evasive, seeking to hide his purpose behind a mass of words or cover decep- tion with false logic and elusive promises. The democrats opened their campaign with a shout of “What would you have dane?” This question has, been met head-on by Mr. Hughes, who tells the country plainly and fearlessly what he would have, done and what he expects to do. Contrast this course with the weather-gauge vacillation of our president, whose single-track mind lacks terminal facilities, and who is therefore always doubling back or going off at a tangent. Three years of Wilson's uncertainty’ and lack of determination have well prepared the nation to welcome a man who can reach a decision and stand by his an- nounced determination. The hecklers have un- consicously done a great service for the people of the United States by giving. Mr. Hughes his op- portunity to squarely state his position. Why Not Ask Sénator Hitchcock? Will Roosevelt and Root and Lodge and Bacon and the other Germany baiters be able to reach an agreement with the editor of “The Fatherland?"—World-Herald. Why not ask someone like Senator Hitchcock, who has reached an agreement with the editor of “The Fatherland?” The senator surely knows what must be done to secure “The Fatherland's” favor. It is not so long ago that “The Fatherland” ex- ploited the senator in comnection with a letter signed “Gilbert M. Hitchcock, U. S. S.” which begins: My Dear Viereck: I have received your let- ter calling my attention to certain extracts from your paper, and in reply I am glad to say I have appreciated them and other matters which I have read from time to time in The Fatherland. Is it not the height of imposture for Senator Hitchcock’s paper to propound the sneering ques- tion about “The Fatherland” and its editor, even "while uling"'The Fatherland” favor for the sen- ator's personal political capital? —— “Sectionalism” in the Campaign. President Wilson publicly expresses his cha- grin that the campaign should be marked by a revival of the issue of “sectionalism.” No one wants a “sectionalism” issue in this country, but who is responsible for the revival complained of? When the democrats came into full power in the nation in 1913, the first thing they did was to re- organize the government. President Wilson chose a majority of his cabinet officers from the south. He has two from the one southern state of Texas. In congress, senate and h8use committees were shaken up as never before. In the house, the chair- manship of every important committee save one was awarded to a southern democrat, Caucus rules were adopted which gave the southern oli- garchy absolute control of all legislation, and not a law was passed but was considered with especial reference for its application to souithern interests. In the tariff bill, for example, protgction was taken off the and wheat raised in-Nebraska, but' retained on the cotton and' Angora..wool raised in Georgia, “Pork" was made particularly fat for the south in the extravagant appropriation of public money to build postoffices at country crossroads and to “improve” dry creeks and muddy sloughs, while the Mississippi river bill took a chunk of money to protect planters south of Memphis that astonished even them. And so it goes, all down the line. The democratic party is dominated in all its actlyities by the “solid south,” and openly admits it. The only sure way to end sectionalism will be to elect Hughes, who will be president for the whole United States, and not for that region he'can sce when he looks from the White House across the Potomac. S —— “Wiping Out Wall' Street.” The democratic spellbinders in Nebraska are whooping it up on the Money Devil again, using Wall Street as a punching bag for their on- slaughts, juggling mouth-filling lists of figures with the utmost disregard for facts, apparently relying on the hope that their hearers never read the market reports. The fact that Wall Street has not undergone a recent decline may easily be noted by looking over the daily stock transactions carried on there. That it has money to spare is proved by the sending of $100,000,000 to London in a single week, to be loaned on “call” on Thread- needle street, It would be occasion for marvel if Nebraska bank deposits had not increased tinder existing conditions, No state in the union has furnished more food supplies at higher prices to the warring armies of Europe. No act of ths democratic ad- ministration is responsible for this, but it should not be forgotten that Gilbert M, Hitchcock was one of the démpcratic senators, who fought the president on his reserve bank bill, and voted for it only when whipped into line by the party lash. Another part of the record preserves the fact that Senator Hitchcock wanted to shut off the exporta- tion of food and other war material to Europe. If he had succeeded the 70-cent wheat of 1914 would probably have been 50-cent wheat by this time. The cold truth is that the democratic party had about as much to do with the present pros. perity of Nebraska as it did with the hot weather of last summer that burned up the wheat in Okla- homa and Kansas and spared the Nebraska crop. —ee Someone who claims to be “a republican for fifty years" has been uncovered by the senator's newspaper sleuth who is going to vote democratic now. That's nothing! Why, Senator Hitchcock, himself, was a republican until he failed to con- nect with an office for which he ran on the repub- lican ticket, after which he discovered that he was a democrat. And while he was recently fighting President Wilson to club him into yiclding more patronage-pie, some of the democrats accused him of being still a republican. Whatever defects may be found in historic art, no one may justly question the masterful power of political art fashioned by local artists, The pictured prospect of 200 jobs held out as a reward for democratic hustlers bids hope flutter its wings and scoot for the foot of the rainbow. Could ancient genius do better and. get away with it? eem— R'eporu from Holland anent the attacks on Duteh shipping clearly indicate that Amsterdam, Volendam and Edam welded together do not fur. nish adequate emphasis for public indignation. THE BEE: OMAH URDAY, Competing With the World. William R. Willcox, Chairman Republican National Committee. President Wilson might well pronounce and adopt the slogan, “America Last and America In- efficient,” which is the antithesis to the expres- sion and desire of Charles E. Hughes, who would have “America First and America Efficient.” The president is still very desirous that American citi- zens—that is, the American laborer and farmer— and as Mr. Hughes recently said, we are all lab- orers in this country—should depart from our | present high: standard of living; should give up our substantial homes; should throw away every luxury and comfort and get down to the level in wages, and what wages will buy, to the average workmen of the world, At Baltimore recently the president said: “My dream is that America will take its place in that ?rcat field"—meaning the world—"in a new spirit; want to see America pitted against the world.” This recalls what he said in his address to the extra session of congress which he called for the purpose of framing and ehacting a new tariff law, in that address he said, “the object of the tariff duties henceforth laid must be effective competi- tion, the whetting of American wits by contest with the wits of the rest of the world.” Now, let us see what this means. It means that our ports must be open to the free admission of competitive products; it means that the wares of Europe, Asia and Africa and the islands of the sea which are made by labor paid from one-tenth of one-half that paid our labor, shall come in here and be placed side by side with our own products which are made by the highest paid labor on earth. Human nature will assert itself and the cheaper products will be bought to the exclusion of the higher priced goods. There is American machinery in-Japan turn- ing out today all kinds of fabrications that come into our markets. In the cotton mills of Japan the males get 20 cents a day; the females from 15 cents to 20 cents, and the children 8 cems}ger day. In their steel foundries, males get 30% cents per day; females, 15% cents per day. In China the highest priced labor does not get more than $3 or 54 per month. These we may call extreme cases, but if we go into South America, or. Europe, or Oceanica, we find that wares are being made for the American market by people, none whom get more than half what is paid hece. Mr. Wilson would have us compete with these people not only in their markets, but in our own. Assuming that the cost of material is practically the same everywhere, yet the difference in the cost of labor, which in some cases is fully 90 per cent of the cost of production, is such that the American workman cannot compete with the workman of other countries unless he gets down to their level in wages and in his standard of living. It is well that the American voters undersiand this question fully, If Mr. Wilson is re-elected there can be no change in the present tariff for at least five years, unless it is a change for the worse, We are even now suffering severely in all parts of the country and there are thousands of men out of employment today, because of thjs desire of the president and because he seems to have a eference for goods made abroad to those made ere in the United States. When the 30000000 who are now engaged in war, or in the preparation of munitions, go back to peaceful occupations, they will have to accept the lowest wages of a century, even in England and continental Europe. We are now importing more than ever hefore in our lives, even though 30,000,000 men are, for the time being, not producing anything that may come to our ports. We may then well anticipate with anxiety and dread what will be the oytcome when those 30,000,000 men get to making’ wares that we want .and which they will send to us be- cause our markets will be the most profitable ones to be found. : _Almost every other nation’of the earth has 81—0- tective tariffs which preserve their markets. at present is-'very near free trade. That is the u'z(unlon today, and if the American people want to change it they will have an opportum!g to do s0 on the seventh day of next November, b electing Charles E. Hughes president, and wit him a republican and protectionist senate and house of rcpresegtatives. Plight of Refugees. ‘Washington Post: Congress appropriated $300,000 Tast spring for the relief of American refugees from Mexico, but the State department by its interpretation of the measure restricted payments from the fund to bare cost of transportation and subsistence while en route. Through the regular channels border consuls and immigration officials repeatedly di- rected attention to the inadquacy of this relief. Six weeks ago, after consultation with border officials and a thorough investigation of the facts, a spe- cial report on the conditions was sent to Wash- ington and presented directly to President Wilson through one of the Texas senators. Its receipt was acknowledged with an intimation that its recommendations would be considered and pos- sibly adopted. If anything has actually been done in the matter, it has been given no publicity. Under the system in force hundreds of fam- ilies, from grandfathers to babes in arms, arrived at the border half clothed, famished, debilitated as a result of their privations, and frequently actually ill, to find absolutely no provision made for their repatriation. Without the semblance of investigation they were shipped almost at random to points where they believed some distant kin or former acquaintance might help them temporarily. Penniless and fit only for the hospital, they were incontinently shunted off on communities' where their reception was at best uncertain and their ap- Eelrance frequently unwelcome. Some of them ecame immediately dependent on private charity, and the stories of some of the cases cited in the report to the president, were heartrendering. ' For the greater part these people are working folks—clerks, mechanics and farmers—who went into Mexico as pioneers of that new and broader Americanism advocated by Mr. Wilson, when considering other Latin-American nations. They were performing a real service to this country in opening up new fields of enterprise, even though their primary motive was their own ad- vantage. In their necessity they should have been considered wards of this government and treated accordingly. In another way these refugees are entitled to consideration. When attracted to Mexico by an encouraged propaganda and the reports of our consular agents some years ago they had every reason in custom and precedent to expect the protection by this government of their person and property. When this administration substi- tuted for the old policy one of perpetual postpone- ment and warned these people indiscriminately to get out of Mexico it assumed a direct re- sponsibility. If the new policy was endangered by their ‘prutnce in the republic, where some articularly atrocious attacks upon them might orce the issue, it was incumbent on this adminis- tration to see that they were not returned to their native soil under conditions more danggrous to their welfare than those they left behind. With some plausibility the United States can plead the general issue of the right of nations to control their own internal affairs; it may even ad- vance its peace theory as an excuse for not inter- fering to Froteet Americans on foreign soil. But it can offer neither reason nor excuse for its abandonment of American citizens upon our own soil and within its peaceful and proper jurisdiction, Would Cheerfully Pay Much More. ) Nebraska City Press: Senator Hitcheotk neads the democratic “slush fund” being raised h{ the World-Herald with a subseription of $1,000. It is quite likely that the senator would give .d."f" ul‘mon than thl;‘ if he could be assured of as safe returp to the ital next arch. Indications are, however, u‘.'.?m spite ?ér‘ antic “slush funds” it will be a hard winter emocratic senators and congressmen. OCTOBER 14, urs | 1916. Thought Nugget for tue Day. No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turned when he -rose. —Thomas Moore. One Year Ago Today in the War. Bulgaria officlal® declared war on Serbla. Germans began heavy bombardment of French positions in the west. British recaptured Hohenzollern re- doubt and two other trenches near La Bassee. $ Austro-German forces arrived at Pozarevac, Serbia, ten miles south of the frontier, and advanced south of Belgrade, . In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The original intention of the projectors of the new hotel on the corner of Tenth and Farnam was to erect a building five stories in height, but a number of merchants have re- cently circulated a petition and se- cured $11,000, whicic will be used as a donation to the projectors of the enterprise with which to build a sixth story. Misses Carrle and Nellle Stevens were married at their hcme, 2506 Davenport, the former to H. Kennedy and the latter to W. C. Biackburn. The ceremonies were performed by Rev. J. B. Maxfield and Rev. T. M. House, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn =~ will reside in Denver, while Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy will make their home in Omaha. P. Furlong of Springfleld, 111, has arrived in the city to make arrange- ments for the opening of a large dry goods store¢ here. One of Cheney & Olsen's show windows was broken in by a clothing slgn falling against it The following Knights of Pythias have returned from Hastings, where they have been in attendance upon the sessions of the g#nd Messrs. Shropshire, Willox, Treitschke, Borden, Wiley and French. BE. E French of this city was re-elected grand keeper of records and seals. 8. A. Holland, representing the De- tective Publishing company of Cedar Rapids, is in town making arrange- ments. for a removal of the business to Omaha within a short time. This Day in History. 1781—8ir Edwara Hawke, the British admiral who prevented the French attempt to invade England in the seven years' war, died. Born in 1715, 1806—French victory over the Prussians at Jena, which opened the way for Napoleon’s advance to Berlin, 1839—Engagement of Queen Vie- toria to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was announced. 1863—Combined fleets of England and France passed \nrough the Dar- danelles at the sultan's request, 1870—Pajace of -St. Cloud fired on by the French any burned. 1878—Marquis of Lorne was ap- pointed governor-general of Canada. 1891—Consecration at Boston of Phillips Brooks as Protestant Episco- pal bishop of Massachusetts. 1896—Thomas W. Ferry, former United States senator from Michigan, dled at Grand Haven, Mich. Born at Mackina¢, Mich,, June 1, 1826. 1899—Opening of the Dismal Swamp canal, which was originally surveyed by George Washington. 1902—The decision of The Hague tribunal in Plous Fund case, adverse to Mexico and in favor of the United States, was anmounced. 1906—Pence treaty between Japan and Russla. was signed by the mikado and the czar. 1912—Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the wvreast by John Schrank, a lunatic, at Milwaukee. The Day We Celebrate. ' John G. Willis, one of Omaha's foneers, now retired from active usiness, {s celebrating his seventy- sixth birthday' today. He was born at Chalton, N. Y. and was formerly in the real estate buginess. Milton C. Peters, president of the M. C. Peters Mill company, was born October 14, 1863, at St. Louls. He started the Bemis Bag company in St. Louis in 1880, remaining with the con- cern twenty-three years, fifteen of them as manager of the Bemis Bag company, going into his present busi- ness for himself in 1906. Joseph Merritt, who, with his broth- ers, runs the Merritt drug stores, is Just thirty-five years 'old. 'He was born right here in Umaha, of one of the pioneer families. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president, born at Wytheville, Va., forty-four years ago today. Rt. Rev. Patrick A, McGovern, Catholic bishop of Cheyenne, born in Omaha, forty-four years ago today. Lilllan Gish, ceicbrated motion plcture actress, born at Springfield, O, twenty years ago today. Willlam H. Thompson, United States senator from Kansas, born at Craw. fordsville, Ind., forty-five year§ ago today. lvan M. Olson, infielder of the Brooklyn National league base ball team, born in Kansas City, Mo., thirty- ope years ago today. Jack Britton (Wililam J. Breslin), champion welterweight pugilist of America, born at Clinton, N. Y, thirty-one years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. President Wilson is to address a delegation of Pennsylvania democrats today at Shadow Lawn, his summer home, Charles. E. Hughes begins an inva- sion of Nebraska today, speaking to- night In Lincoln and remaining in that city over Sunday. The manufacturing confectioners of the United States have designated to- day for the first annual national ob- servance of “Candy day." The Elephant Butte dam on the Rio Grande river, the biggest reclamation prcject ever undertaken in the United States, is to dedicated today with no- tab.e ceremanies, The annual national eenvention of | the Daughters of the K.ng is to as- gemble at 8t. Louis today and wili ccntinue its sessions until next Tues. day, A great charity bagaar to raise money for destitute families of im- prisoned Irish patriots is to be opened today in Madison Square garden, New York City, under the auspices of the New York committee of the Irish re- lief fund. Of interest in golf cireles will be the wedding teday at Newburgh, N. Y., of Miss Doris Tiffany, daughter of the fate Mr. and Mrs. Walton C. Tiftany of Newburgh, and Jerome D. Travers, four times amatéur golf champlon of the United States. | first, | of Higgins, Mr. Elijan Allenr said that lodge: |- See Ourseives as Others See Us. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 12.—To the Edi- tor of The Bee: When Congressman Bloan made an address before the Young Men's Christian association, in Aurora, he told about the four rep- resentatives of the railroad men com- pelling the house of representatives to pass the Adamson law that they wanted. Editor Burr of the Aurora Register criticised Sloan for talk.ng politics on such an occasion. Editor Burr teaches a Sunday school class of men, and nearly ev ..y Sunday he gets off some politics, tariff views or popu- lism to the class. Burr joins with the ‘World-Herald In saying those who criticise the democrats are “knockers.”” The demo- crats criticised the republicans dur- ing the sixteen years they were in power to the extent that a weak ma was influenced to kill McKinley, and cartoons and abuse were frightful, but they did not call it “knocking.” It is only “knocking” when it hits the democrats. They say “No one likes a knocker.” Why didn't they say that when they were doing the knocking? Burr, in his paper, opposed the in- crease in railroad men’'s wages a few menths ago, but wh.n Wilson sur renaered to them, Burr did too, and he is now defending the Adamson law. When Wilson's clock str.kes, the democrats and Burr, with the rest of the ‘“near democrats,” step out and say “cuckoo.” - L. B. PETERSON. The Real First Murder in Omaha. Omaha, Oct. 12.—To the Editor of The Bee: In order to keep history straight with reference to the “first murder committed in Omaha,” al- low me a little space to explain the facts: Neither the murder of Higgins nor that committed in Saratoga was the Referring to the cruel murder Baker, . the accused, confessed after sentence of death had been pro- nounced upon him by Judge Lake. That is not so. He made no public con- fession, and he was hanged on the day appointed by the judge, just west of the old capitol. The Saratoga mur- der and lynching occurred just out- side of Omaha, in 1863, as Mr. Allen states, and therefore may be dropped from the gruesome list. The first time that the young ter- ritorial village was compelled to hang its head in shame was on the occasion of a saloon row, when men had been fired by the effects of rum. A dis- pute—you might call it an argument —arose which, in time, developed into a quarrel. One man—a stranger :n the crowd, pulled a dirk knife and dis- emboweled a harmless looker-on, Tom Killian. The murderer. made his es- cape—a very easy matter at the time, and was never found. This was in 1861. Tom Sutton, a first-class officer, was sheriff. Mr. Sutton was succeeded by Mr. Andrew Delone, another cap- able public officer. JOHN RUSH. As to Abstracters’ Charges. Omaha, Oct. 13.—To the Editor of The Bee: Real estate traders are in the best position to judge pro and con the questicn of abstracters’ charges, as they are the intermediaries in trades in different counties in both Nebrask and Iowa, whereas local real estats men operate in their own home cqunty, or town, 80 a few comments may not be out of the way. The bill complained about by Mr. Morrison is high compared with most Nebraska charges, but it is well to re- member_that with. the multitude of Bults” d judgments always beinp spread on the records in such a county as Douglas county, Nebraska, that a search should be paid for at fair prices, and it wculd not be fair tc self to real estate dealers, and that is the length of time it would take to overhaul a title each time there was a transfer or mortgage, and with the | constant change in county officials, the | great loaning companies would con- tinue to demand abstracts from con- cerns who specialized in that sort of | business. Real estate trades don't want | deals “hung up,” and for that reason they would be inclined to hesitate about endorsing any such system which (where it has been tried) in- creases the delays rather than other- wise. Regulation, therefore, appears to me the best plan for both Towa and Nebraska. A TRADER. An Improvement Club Victory. Omaha, Oct. 13.—To the Editor of The Bee: Through the efforts of the | Commercial club and the United Im- provement Clubs of Omaha, the city ‘ouncil has seen its way clear to give us a reduction in electric light rates, and a new street lighting contract which will provide at once hundreds of much needed lights in the outskirts of the city where the small home owner and improvement club mem- bers reside. The improvement clubs have won their fight with the light company, and the attempt of R. B. Howell to start referendum petitions to discredit the work of the improv- ers should be frowned on by all citi- zens and taxpayers who have the wel- fare of this great and growing city at heart. As the secretdry of the United Im- provement Ciubs of Omaha, I can tes- tify that it has been a hard and an up- hill fight. We have won, so let's play fair and drop the electric light con- troversy, and take up subjects of even ‘mportance that are not yet threshed out. sy advice to the consumers of elec- tric light is not to sign the referendum petitions, as it will get us nowhere but into a tangle in the courts for years to come, MATTHEW J. GREEVY. Life Long Democrat Breaks Over. O'Neill, Nah,, Oct. 13 —To the Fdl- tor of The Bee: Having been a demo- erat all my ufe and never having vuted for a republican governor, I thought I would éxplain my reasons for sup- porting Judge Sutton this fall. It is a ten-to-one bet that Nebraska will.go “dry” in the November election and, the democratic party in Nebraska hav- ing gone body and boots into the camp of the liquor interests of the state, it would be an injustice to Neville to elect him governor and his true friends will try to keep him out of a position that will undoubtedly destroy him for- | ever in politics in this state, because | he will be compelled to either repu- diate the promises he is now making the people or the powers in control of his party and organization will make a farce of his administration and com- pletely destroy its efficlency. I lived for some time at North Platte a number of year ago and knew Keith’s father and uncle, from whom he was named, quite well and from what 1 hear he is in every way & bright, well-meaning young man, too bright to be sacrificed in,the manner in which he undoubtedly will be if elected. -1 have lived nearly fifty years in Nebraska and always supported the democrats until now. SHERIDAN SIMMONS. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES Teacher—Robert, how 15 it you have our lesson? It couldn't have been fary hard to learn. please, teacher; it wasn't be- hard to learn, but because it was so easy to forget—Boston Trans- eript. Uncle Ezra—That fellow who stays in that Ilittle round house on the top of the 411l has written u book about Mars. Uncle Eben—I'll bet It's a fake. What d he know about them foreign coun- trien? He ain't been out of town in several years.—~Puck, : O MET A GIRL WORTH A WILLION MET YA MioE UF MY D compare the Omaha charges with thc charges in Washington county, Ne- braska, as the time consumed in searching the records is much less. In Pottawattamie county, at Coun- ¢il Bluffs, a similar bill would be fig- ured at about $5, and in Jowa the ab- stract companies have to maintain ex- pensive record books, which in Ne- braska are maintained by the differ- ent counties, Here there is competi- tion and dealers are allowed all the way from to 25 to 50 per cent by the abstract companies. In Glenwood, Ia., there is only one abstract concern, who have a practical monopoly, but there such a bill would be only $3. Here, then, is an example of a monopoly do- ing work cheaper than it is done un- der competition. T¢ sum up, the abstract business should be regulated by law, but the Torrens system, while in working or- der in some new countries, like west- ern Canada, could only be made to fil in here at enormous expense (ant taxes are high enougn, now). 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