Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1916, Page 6

'3‘, £ O, PR L] THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. TR VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. i THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. e | Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-elass matter. ] TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. o1 By Carrier By Mail B per T‘o:th. ne-l year th: in .00. nge of addr or irregularity in de- livery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps taken in payment of small accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, mot accepted. OFFICES. Omahe—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2818 N street. Couneil Bluffs—14 North Main street. Little Building. People's Gas Building. oom 808, 286 Fifth avenue. . Loul 508 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—1725 Fourteenth street, CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to news and editorial atter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Willisms, eirculstion manager of The Bee Publishing company, duly sworn, says that the average sirculation for the month of September, 1916, whs 54,601 daily, and 80,630 Sunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subseribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 8d day of October, 1918, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. SubscriVers leaving the city tlmponril-y should save The Bee mailed to them. Ad- & ‘i Come, Mr, Hitchcock, speak up. Tell us if . you're wet or dry. Nothing dry about Nebraska right now, no matter what it may be after November. Se——— Prize wheat at $2 a bushell War’s favorites are the producers and the speculators, —— Democratic habit defies change. Electing the party candidate in October is an unvarying duty. — ‘Don’t worry the weather man, He knows his duty to the winter wheat belt and he is doing it. : —— The usual crop of democratic boomerangs as usual spend their force on democratic heads. " Stmm—— Between open draw tragedies and indicted police chiefs, the life of Chicago's mayor bulks large with worry, 4 E——— ~ The battle between the tunnel borers and the bridge builders promises to get right warm, judging from the start. 1 S —— * It must make the democrats of Nebraska feel proud to see the triumvirate, Hitchcock, Fan- ning and Mullen, perched on the pedestal from which they pushed Mr. Bryan, Emmm——— Shades of Phineas Barnum! In the light of MW flood deluging the postoffice at lis, the showman's standard census of es revision upward, n arine w‘mhn to keep the riyer stays open, which is ve a8 a subsea boat, checking navigation. o eiep—— crowds at two performances render ¢ 's place on the operatic circuit. retailers deserve congratulations on the flat- support of their musical offerings. ! great turnout of people at republican rallies throughout Nebraska measure the deep {nterest in the issues at stake, and clearly ; republican victory in November. o] | emm—ene— the narrowing circle of his power, ¢ needs but look beyond the ' and be comforted. Rouma- vindicates the wisdom of Gre- - Votaries of exact science necessarily are slow, m’ ‘sure when they arrive. The discovery of M enhanced food prices by domestic science emphasizes the studious care and pa- in confirming the suspicions _ The silly sham of pretending to keep alive populist party in Nebraska is being district, where the few popu- they may attach a democrat. It's standard of llv:a in the United ] reduced, that it must be [ if ent prices are to con- not be And that present prices ‘not only to continue, but to D,lP'lh"- we t ‘opinion to prove. The city of g to find a means of ch 1 ted what is known as oseph Hartigan, secretary stic of A an ef and that i}"«‘m 1st of JZnuny e prices of all foodstuffs will be from 15 to per cent higher than now. He favors federal of exports and, if neces: an actual mbargo on foodstuffs, which, inks, may . be found to be “the only possible solution of . the problem.” °* in the problem of the high cost of liv- 2 g S ~ing, the e of foodstuffs is not the only ele- )r::c cannot live by bread nlone.yOne of trangest thmf:din :‘h has accompanied t! ‘government, .won on a promise to mark down prices on everything, is that prices are up on everything, all along the line. ‘have advanced 4 cents: and up on the | during the last four years, but wearing from hats down to ‘shoes has made a _relative advance, Rents have increased nd the price of fuel, coal and wood has everywhere. Medicines, and sick-room ities, bave kept pace with the procession. n than it did to keep alive, and it id to die, or at least to be di prices o? ‘e;:;c:i' e undertaker the advance in prices he democratic c&rfltrol ascended. The - been that the standard with a fixed income of ced. ’ crats are caught here on the two r claim of 1912 that e reduced through tariffs is utterly { are the people being fooled hing being due to foreign war. s are estopped from attributi advances to combinati y act that they claimed that w monopolies were due to (HE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, Engineers and the Adamson Law. The frank admission of Grand Chief Engi- neer Warren S. Stone in his circular letter to the members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and the boast of the World.Herald that Lovett of the Union Pacific is supporting Wilson because of the Adamson law, ought to convince any thinking person of the deception for workers contained in that law. “We do not know just yet what the law means,” writes the grand chief to the engineers, showing that at least the officers of the oldest/and most influen- tial of the railroad brotherhoods realizes the ambiguity and mystification contained in the Adamson law. How its provisions will be con- strued gives the men pause, and the hoilowness of its promise is becoming plain to them. On the other hand, to have the heads of the great railroad systems, like the Union Pacific and the Erie, who went before the president to oppose the plea of the brotherhoods, now come out in support of President Wilson, who handed the gold brick as well as the gold pens to the men, suggests that the roads see in the law some- thing the men are beginning to suspect. As a bit of political bunco, it is hard to beat. Someone Caught in :Trnp, When the democratic board of strategy in- veigled out bf the president that letter express- ing ignorance as to where the “false rumors” originated, they pulled the string to catch some- one in a trap. It is still a question which is trapped, Wilson or Bryan, for if Wilson did not know, he ought to have known, that the refer- ence was not to “false rumors” but to this specific charge made openly by Mr. Bryan agginst Senator Hitchcock during the primary campaign last April: If you will inspect the senator’s record you will find that while he is supporting the president in thedprimary now, when he has no opposition and does not need him, he has opposed the president at critical times, when he was needed; once when he joined Wall street in an attempt to defeat the currency bill and once when he joined the shipping combine in defeating the president’s shipping bill. T believe that the only reason Senator Hitchcock is for the president now is because he desires with the aid of the liquor interests to ride into office ‘on the back of the presi- dent, Which one, then, is trapped? President Wil- son, induced to denounce something as false, | which everyone knows to be true? Or Mr. Bryan in being branded as a disseminator of falsifica- tion? Mr. Bryan may excuse the president on the score of ignorance, but how can the president ex- cuse Senator Hitchcock? Again the Vote Needed to Carry Amendment. A friend in the interior of the state writes to ask: Will you kindly advise me if the explana- tion of the prohibitory amendment in your editorial is right or wronq. I refer to the paragraph immediately following your quo- tation of the law. One of the parties holds »that your interpretation of the law, con- tained in that particular paragraph, is incor- rect, inasmuch as it states that “the majority in favor of the amendment must be not less than 35 per cent of all votes cast.” The section of the constitution quoted in our former editorial seems plain enough to permit anyone to figute it out for himself. This part of the constitution, so far as we “know, has never been up to the supreme court for {nterpretation and the different ways of reading it raise merely a quibble. The reference in the editorial merely goes to this—that the required “35 per cent” would be 35 per cent of the total number of ballots carrying the amendment and marked either for or against the amendment or for some candidate on the ballot. It does not seem probable any court would regard the total number of persons voting at the election—for ex- ample, if the number of nonpartisan judicial bal- lots voted totalled greater. Here in Omaha quitea few women will vote the school board ballot, byt it is not likely their voting or not voting will change the number needed to make the 35 per cent. —— Speaking of Campaign Contributions. The labored efforts of the democrats to make folks believe the democratic campaign is being financed on a popular basis, may be put down as a mere blind, Never before have the demo- cratic medicine-mixers had so much money at their disposal, nor been so lavish in its use though they were also pretty well heeled four years ago. Speaking of four years ago, here are just a few of the campaign contributors listed in the official reports, which have been incorporated in the Congressional Record: Charles R. Crane, retired millionaire. .$40,000 Cleveland H. Dodge, munitions maker 35000 William A. Clark, copper king...... 5000 James W, Gerard, son-in-law of Mar- cus Dale; Jacob H. Wall street banker ........... C. A Sirmldu, sugar magnate. acob Ruppert, millionaire brewer... 10. ames S ?«, Wall street banker.... 10,000 oger Sullivan (Chicago Gas Co.), .democratic And a lot more of the same kind. It is a reasonable ‘inference that the men who invested in the original promotion of the Wilson administration four years ago are still financially interested in it and honoring requisitions more generously than before. Erme——— Roper's Work a Trifle Coarse, Daniel C. Roper, who is carrying on a dubious organization campaign for the democratic na- tional committee, resigned as fourth assistant postmaster general in order that he might give his peculiar talents full play in his present field. Roper will long be remembered by postal em- ployes, who found their ratings changed, their salaries reduced, and their long service over- looked by a man who was eager to achieve for himself a record, of “efficiency.” The patrons of the postoffice, whose business was disarranged by the tactics adopted by Roper, will keep him in mind for a long time, too. Distributing clerks who are working ten and twelve hours a day in the postoffice, under an eight-hour law, will always hayve a keen appreciation of Mr. Roper's peculiar qualifications. The effort he is now making to line up voters on their religious leanings is in his line, but like his postoffice labors it is a trifle coarse. It shows how des- perate the Wilsonites have become. Speaking for the allies, Viscount Grey says talk of peace has no basis in fact and is a waste of breath. Similar sentiments prevail at Berlin and Vienna. Meanwhile the slaughter goes on and neither side gets far enough away from the bases of twa years ago to call for new maps. Lé’t‘ters of a Politician to His Sono 11. My Dear Jack: I'm glad you took my letter in the spirit I wrote it. I don’t want you to be a mugwamp, or a mollycoddle, or a rail bird. I want you to be for something and against something—for some- body for president, and against somebody for president. I want ybu to take sides, because both sides cannot be right, and I want you to vote right, but to do so you'll have to decide right be- tween whatever appeals and arguments are launched at yot: You say the democratic hecklers are shouting that Hughes ought not to have attacked Wilson and that he should be “constructive” and not de- structive. What- would they have Hughes do? Pass over all the glaring faults of his opponent? Don't they know that Wilson is now in and asking for re-election as a vote of confidence and endorsement of what he has done since he has been president and that the republicans are out and must expose the blunders and broken prom- ises and extravagance and incompetence of the democrats? It’s true that for the republicans this is a novel role, for the reason that this is the first time in more than a quarter of a cen- tury that the democrats have had a candidate seeking re-election on his record. Why, the last time they had a democrat in the White House, they and their candidate repudiated the record he had made and waged their campaign as a party of opposition, But think back a little way, boy, and if you've learned your political history, and ask FATHER IS RIGHT ! yourself a few questions. Didn't the democrats attack Lincoln and Grant and Harrison?' Didn’t they attack McKinley and Roosevelt and Taft? If Hughes is the next president and is renomi- nated won't the democrats attack him and his record? If they do not then all the rules of the political game will be completely reversed in the next four years. Everybody doesn't catch the significance or insignificance of this matter of the party record, I remember in the 1908 campaign one of the most telling cartoons pictured “Taft running on his record” and “Bryan running away from his record.” You see the time-tried rule of judging the future is still by the past. Wilson says: “See what I have done during my first term! That's the guaranty of what I'll do during my second term.” So the republicans come right back with the answer ,“Why, if you had one what you said you'd do, you wouldn't be looking for a second term. You asked for and received votes four years ago on a platform declaration for a single term presidency to which you were specifically pledged and you not only did nothing to make a law limiting the presiden- tial term, but here you are up for a second term in direct violation of that promise.” Of course, for Wilson it will be urged by his friends that they didn't mean it—in fact, that is the only excuse they can offer for passing ug a dozen platform pledges—but here is where they collide with another difficulty. When the demo- crats put out thelr 1912 platform and presented Wilson to the people on it, they were so afraid folks would refuse to believe them that they wrote these words in black and white right in the document: “Our pledges are made to be kept when in office as well as relied upon during the campaign.” es, I've verified that quotation to be certain 1 have it correct, though I'm frank to say I rather doubt that solemn assurance was intended to hold 'em to it. But a lot of people accepted it in good faith. The question is, “Will anyone, after that, take the democratic word for anything? Or, to use a favorite expressian of a distinguished democratic orator, “Who will go bond for these democratic promises this time?” If there is no enforceable bond—nothing but the same word of mouth that has proved worse than worthless —why should anyone trust them now? So, Jack, my boy, don't be disturbed by the fellows who are trying to shield Wilson from attack. . If his record were not so vulnerable, if he had not broken so many sacred promises, if they had confidence in his unassailableness, they would be courting attack, yes, defying the oppo- sition to point out a single place wherein the record of the democratic administration is want- ing, I'm glad you are giving this political situation your serious thought. If you have any other :uellionl on which you will want paternal eluci- ation, don’t hesitate to write to Your affectionate FATHER. Nebraska Political Comment Bloomington Advocate: The coming of Mr. Hughes into the state has thrown consterna- tion into the democratic camp where it was thought the apathy of the republicans would give them thesstate. The remarks of Mr. Hughes were so to the point on every question 'that the republicans have woke| up and will now see that the state gges for Hughes with a large ma- f'ority. Why should it not? This is a repub- ican state and the progressive vote will be for Hughes. It looks like a regular landslide back to the republican part in the state. * Alliance Times: In his frantic efforts to stem the constantly increasing tide ford_]ohn L. Ken- nedy,” Senator Hitchcock is rushirg to the sup- port of Wilson. But this endorsement on the part of Hitchcock and his supporters is rot so much for Wilson as for the senator's benefit, Would he, if he were sincere in his support of Wilson, endorse the president now, in view of the bitter fight he waged a short time ago? If the president's attitude on the federal reserve banks, the shipping bill and other national legisla- tion was wrong then in the mind of Hitchcock, why does he now support him? ' Blue Valley Blade: Will Arthur Mullen be the next governor of Nebraska? We've heard democrats say that Mullen controls the party candidates. We never heard democrats deny this statement. We've heard that the present demo- cratic candidate for governor was “brought out” by friends in Omaha, and Arthur Mullen seems pretty well exercised over Neville's chances. We wonder if, in the advent of democratic success that Neville or Mullen would be governor? Cer- tainly Mullen has demonstrated that he can con- trol the present democratic candidates, The granting of pardons and the granting of bank charters proves this, but we wonder if he will still continue to be governor? Lincoln News: The addresses delivered in Nebraska by Mr, Hughes were of a higher and different order than most of us were led to ex- pect. According to the information that had been spread broadcast the candidate wasn’t making good, that his speeches were critical and not con- structive and that they lacked the fighting spirit that every campaigner must develop in order to be effective. Whether this was the result of some practical psychology that the democrats were able to work on the rest of us or whether it accucately represented what was happening, the fact remains that there was nothing left to be desired in the series of speeches which Ne- braskans were permitted to hear. Mr. Hughes is able to enthuse even the blase metropolitan newspaper men who accompany him on his travels. It may interest Nebraska people to know that these experts say that while Mr. Hughes is sincere the president is insincere, Their judgment is not final, of course, but it is an interesting sidelight on what men whose busi- ness makes them cynical and critical and also brings them into intimate relations with the great of the country think about these two rivals for the presidencg. 1916. Thought Nugget For the Day. Discontent is the want of self-re- liance; it is infirmity of wilk—[(ulph Waldo Emerson. One Year Ago Today in the War. Germans stormed Illuxt on the road to Dvinsk. Germans repulsed by French eighth drive in five days. Franco-Serbians recaptured Veles and threatened Uskub. Austrians claimed repulse of Ital- jans * in prolonged battle around Goeritz, in In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Engine No. 1 has been ordered to its new house on Saunders, immedi- ately north of Cuming. The members of this company are L. E. Cassidy, D. P. Beard, J. P. Conway and M. J. Carter. Secretary Joplin of the Young Men's Christian association has received a letter from Sam Jones, the Georgia revivalist, stating that he will arrive in this city on the evening of Novem- ber 6, and that he will open a two- weeks' revival at the Exposition building. Russell Smith, a Bee printer, who rooms at 1510 Capitol avenue, was awakened by a burglar who was ran- sacking his room. After a severe struggle the burglar escaped without taking anything. Articles of association were filed by H. B. 8t John, George F. Browne, Joe B. Hadfield, J. M. Wolfe and W. E. Hawley for the purpose of platting and placing on the market Jetter's addition to South Omaha. The Ladies’ Musical society tendered a vote of thanks at its last meeting to Max Meyer & Bros. for the free use of their hall during the coming sea- son. A pleasant birthday party was tend- ered to Mrs. John Wuetrick at her home on 8t. Mary’s avenue. Mike Lahy has commenced suit in the district court to recover $500 from the city for damages to property by reason of the change of grade on Jack- son street. This Day in History. 1760—Death of King George II, in whose relgn England became the first country of Europe. Born in'Hanover, October 30, 1683. , 1796—John P. Kennedy, the Ameri- oan secretary of the navy, who wrote a chapter in one of Thackeray's novels, born in Baltimore. Died at Newport, R. I, August 18, 1870, 1800—Thomas Babbington Mac- auley, famous English historian, es- sayist and poet., Died December 28, 1859. 1854—Battle of Balaklava, and famous charge of the Light Brigade. 1868—Rev. Charles Franklin Rob- ertson was consecrated second Episco- pal bishop of Missouri, 1874—Great Britain announced the annexation of the Fiji Islands. 1875—Ewdwin Booth produced for the first time, “Richard 11.” at Daly’s Fifth Avenue theater in New York. 1900—Transvaal formally pro- claimed part of the British empire, 1902—Dr. Woodrow Wilson was in- augurated president of Princeton uni- versity. 1904—General Kuropatkin was ap- pointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army. The Day We Celebrate. John W. Robbins, real estate, in- surance and rentals, is 54 years old today. He was born in Kent, Ind., and is a graduate of Hanover univer- sity. He has been in the real estate business in Omaha since 1886 and has been president of the Omaha Real Estate exchange. Joseph R. Campbell, collector for The Bee, is celebrating his sixty-third birthday. He was born in Pennsyl- vania and was for many years travel- ing solicitor and auditor for The Bee. George W. Johnston, president of the Johnston Electric company, is Just 48 years old. Detroit is his birth~ place. Frank M. Byrne, the present gover- nor of South Dakota, born at Volney, Ia., fifty-eight years ago today. John N. Willys, Toledo automobile manufacturer, born at Canadaigua, N. Y., forty-three years ago today. Right Rev. Thomas J. Garland, bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of Philadelphia, born in Ire- land fifty years ago today. Joe Wood, pitcher of the Boston American league base ball team, born in Kansas City, twenty-seven years ago today. Leslle G. Nunamaker, catcher of the New York American league base ball team, born at Lincoln, Neb, twenty-seven years ago today. Oscar Dugey, utility infielder of the Philadelphia National league base ball team, born at Palestine, Tex., twenty- six years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Af the Mare Island navy yard, the keel is to be laid today for the super- dreadnaught California, which is to be the first battleship of the navy to be propelled by electricity. Bids are to be opened today by the Navy department at Washington for the construction of four battleships and twenty destroyers. Charles E. Hughes is scheduled to speak in Brooklyn tonight, before starting on his final trip westward into Ohio and Indiana. A notable international marriage is to take place in Washington today, when Miss Margaret Preston Draper, who inherited many millions from her father, the late General Willlam F. Draper, becomes the bride of Prince Andre Boncompagni of Rome, Ttaly. Window glass workers are to re- celve a substantial increase in wages when the hand window glass factories throughout the country resume oper- ations today, after the summer shut- down, The semi-annual meeting of the board of bishops of the "Methodist Episcopal church will open in Minne- apolis today and continue through the remainder of the week. Storyette of the Day. “Halloa, Brown,” said Jones. “I saw your wife this morning. By Jove, that new coat of hers must have cost a pot of money. You're doing spe- clally well at present.” “No, not exactly,” replied Brown, moodily. “Fact is, she got it by acci- dent." “By accident!" “How was that?" “Well, old fellow, it was this way: 1 got home rather late the other night. The hall was very dark, but I could just distinguish a figure standing by the chair. I slipped up to her, put my arm around her waist and whis- pered, ‘Mary, give your little boy a kiss.' “But—but,"” stammered Jones, “I thought your wife’s name was Kate?" “It is,” murmured Brown; “that’s how she got the coat.”-—Philadelphia Inquirer, exclaimed Jones. Democrats and Postal Employes. Omaha, Oct. 23.—To the Editor of The Bee: As a sample of the love the democratic party has for the poor la- boring man is clearly shown in the management of the Postoffice de- partment; under the present postmas- ter general. Under his rule thé old mail carriers who had grown old and crippled in the service and had been given collection routes as a reward for years of faithful service were com- pelled to take carriers’ routes or a re- dyction of salary, for the reason that in the opinion of Mr. Roper boys or blind men could collect mail. Again this man-loving democratic Postof- fice department refused to allow the mail clerks of the Omaha postoffice to use gas or electricty to make cof- fee to use with their cold lunches. Under the management of our ex- postmaster of Omaha all departments of the Omaha office were short-hand- ed and clerks over-worked and mail delayed for the reason that the demo- cratic Postoffice department wanted to show to the people of the country how cheap they could run the depart- ment and show a surplus by grinding it out of the men who were doing the work. A. CITIZEN. Keep It Before the Voters. Omabha,. Oct. 22.—To the Editor of! The Bee: I wish you would make it clear to your readers, bear down on it hard and frequently, that in announcing that if elected he will stand for the protection of American lives and property everywhere, Mr. Hughes is not announcing any new or revolutionary doctrine. You prob- ably think that is not necessary, that everybody understands that it s President Wilson who is taking a new stand in announcing the monstrous contrary doctrine. But this is not the case. A troubled republican ap- pealed to me yesterday along that very line. He seemed to be lgnorant of the fact that any 'government worthy of the name has always in the past protected its citizens to the full ex- tent of its ability, and ‘he was worried about Mr. Hughes getting us into war trying a new experiment. There are some democrats who try to make capital in that way, but all intelligent democrats know that Wil- son is treading in a new path and they say it is about time we had a new path. And when you ask them why, they almost invariably come to the statement that men who are ex- ploiting another country must take what they get when a revolution starts. “Exploiting” is always the word. When Mr. Wilson urges men to go into South America to build up trade, as he did before our Commer- cial club, they are the great, keen- witted business men whose duty it is to carry the banner of American trade to the four corners of the earth. But i they take Mr. Wilson's advice and trouble comes in the twinkling of an eye these keen-witted business men become “exploiters’ and are not there- fore entitled to any protection. Will someone please tell us why any business man, English, German, Spanish, French or Dutch, goes to South Amer- ijca or anywhere else? Is it not to make money? That is the sole object, and that {8 why Mr. Wilson urges them to go. The churches and Bible societies do the missionary work, busi- ness men never go as missionaries. 1t's wonderful, though, what a differ- ence it makes whether Mr. Wilson has only to talk or is required to act. He does not hesitate a minute to urge business men to get business in for- eign countries; words are cheap, but protection—that's something else again, it requires .some nerve ‘and effort. Keep it everlastingly before the vot- ers that it is just the A, B, C of gov- ernment affairs for a government to protect its citizens, all in the day's work, a matter, of course, and has ‘never yet gotten this country into trouble or war. It will help, I know, because no part of the American peo- ple wants war or wants anything thaty looks like provocation in the direction of war. If men vote for Wilson's pol- fcy they ought to know that it is a new policy and in line with his ‘too-proud- to-fight” doctrine. And if they vote for Hughes, they ought not to do so with the mistaken fear hanging over them that he has a new chip bal- anced on his shoulder, or any chip at all that hasg't been there since we had a government. H. W. MORROW. Democrats Presume on Popular Igrorance. York; Neb., Oct. 28.—To the Bditor of The Bee: What has become of the last paramount issue of the “high cost of living?" If high prices were a crime under republican rule, but cause for boast under democratic rule, will they tell us what makes the dif- ference or will they permit us to have an opinion of our own. If so, we will say they were playing politics at both ends of the game. Why don't their spellbinders tell what the trend of prices was after the Underwood law went into effect— how the exports fell off and imports increased; how the balance of trade was going against us; how the surplus in the strong box was leaking out; how the gold was leaving the country to pay trade balances, and when panic was in the air, how they flew to that monstrous, vile Aldrich-Vreeland law to help them out of a bad condition; how the factories were clogsing down and men out of work were drifting to the bread lines in the citles. Then they tell us they have made good on every pledge of their plat- form. Now we know the meaning of a democratic platform—it must be read backward, for it means just the reverse of what it says. s/Ask them about the one-term plank, the canal- toll plank, the high-cost-of-living plank, the no-protection plank, the no- free-trade plank, but just tariff enough for revenue only; then look at the great staple products of the north on a free-trade basis with the south left American, } as it was, only sugar was cut 25 per cent, but that has been restored. They passed their law and now they appoint a tariff commission to find out what is needed on that line. Then they passed the wage increase law and now an- other commission to find out what will be right in that case. Ah, say, peo- ple, put the business of this country in the hands of men who find out first and then act. One spieler says we are sure of the labor vote on account of that law (just as we thought, it was passed for votes) and it ought to bring in the goods on that small fraction of those who labor. But it just as sure ought to lose all the other labor votes. Then hear that false cry, “Wilson kept us out of war.” Where was the war that threatened us, and if so the constitution says that *‘congress alone has the power to declare war’'—or to conclude peace—and he swore to up- hold the constitution. They just pre- sume on either the credulity or the ignorance of the people and it is very small politics to say the least. Yours for Hughes, Fairbanks and Protection. H. F. POPE. Control of Necessaries. Omaha, Oct. 28.—To the Editor of The Bee: The Buropean governments have found it necessary to step in and take control of the price of goods and apparel for the commion people. The heartless speculators in the war- ring countries' were boosting the prices of provisions and wearing ap- parel to a point which meant starva- tion to the people. It is the manifest duty of a government to step in and protect its people, which every Euro- pean government has done. It is high time that our government did the same. A congressional in- vestigation should be made into the cost of living. For instance, we are just advised that the price of shoes have taken another jump. We are reliably advised that every packing firm in the country has its store rooms packed to the roof with hides, specu- lating on the necessities of the people. A government that will not protect its people against such robbers is un- worthy of the name. We are so pleased and contented with being a republic that we will stand for being robbed in a manner that no Euro- pean monarchy would tolerate. ‘Who will be the first to make this move for a congressional investiga~ tion that shall cover everything that enters into the cost of living—food, clothing and fuel? JOHN TEMPLETON. GRINS AND GROANS, Mother—Are you sure, my dear, that your husband really loves you? Young wife—Perfectly sure. He always kisses me after he has brought up the coal.—Baltimore American. Alice—No man will ever dare to trifle with my affections. I have five big brothers, Agnes—They'll trifle with yours sooner than they will with mine. I have five little brothers.—New York Times. no” still you are after money." ‘“Yes; you ses while I don't think that money brings happiness, I'm dead sure that poverty doesn’t—Boston Transcript. Y AM A LAWNER AND ENGAGED 'blEMNRlED—MIMW ? “It is true thpt M| sald the engaged m she is very exacting. you will drinking." , s “Possibly,” sald the engaged man, “but if I don't marry her I shall have to give up eating also.”—New York Times. ichley has money,” 's_best triend, “but If you marry her have to give up smoking and “I say that Southpaw has Portside skin- ned_forty ways.! ‘ “You mean ho is Infinitely his superior, my son," corrected the Boston father. “But “Our pitgher, dac “‘Oh, to be sul Certainly he has him skinned forty ways."—Louisville Courler Journal. Four men were playing whist. One man was constantly criticising his partner; find- ing fault with his play. Presently, after the vietim had thrown away a dlamond on a spade lead, the irascible one blurted out: “Dash it, man, haven't you got a black suit?” “Yes,” mald his partner quietly, “and I'll soon be wearing it at your funeral if you don't shut up."—Boston Transcript. PEACE AND THE PRICE. We've read our Country's History, At least a time or two, We know how came the Flag we Love, The Red, the White, the Blue, And as we turn o'er history's page, We find that we can fight, And, prouder yet, are we to know, ‘We always fought for what was right. Because for Right we stood as one, We made a reputation, That when these rights were tampered with, It meant more than Arbitration. Now we're not safe on land or sea, Even where Old Glory floats American lives were worth more then Than just a bunch of notes. Our prestige now don't count for much; Must we our valor shroud, See trampled In the dust the Flag Of which we are so proud? Are we to smother In our breast The Spirit our grand-dads gave us? Was not that Spirit almost all That made our history famous? And they, llke us, did not want war, It took, and left good men One-armed and crippel, now almost gone, Yet we are proud of them. Then why lay all our Honor down? ‘Why not stand out for right? Must what is left of these gray-haired men Come back agaln and fight? No, we want peace—and honor, too, Tnsults we will repel: We are just as good today as when Our grand-dads rang the bell. So let's go down on history's page As firm as they were then, And hope our course will not make more Of bent and one-armed men. We welcome peace, but we're a race Who's hearts with pride are flowered, To a man, we would rather be “one-armed” and brave Than to be known as a coward. e “two-armed" ~—Buck Davis. S S nees * 1BROOK THE PURE FOOD WHISKEY — -l .S Y. *Thelnspecto \s Back Of Rr—— Every Bottle GROTTE BROTHERS CO. Geaenl Distibators Omaha, Nebraska